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VOL. XXVII, No. 4

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA.,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940

Copyright, Tevetess. os:
Bryn Mawr College,

S40 PRICE 10 ‘CENTS





Littell Talks
On New Deal’s

Defense Program



Division of Lands Official
Reports Successes of
Defense Program



Common Room, Monday, October
21.—In his address on Foreign
Policy and Defense, the Honorable
Norman M. Littell, Assistant At-
torney General in charge of the

Division of Lands, declared that
Mr. Willkie’s charges against the
Administration concerning defense
are erroneous in the extreme, his
“misrepresentations of ‘fact so
gross that on at least two occasions
he himself has been compelled to
retract them.” Mr. Littell stressed
President Roosevelt’s realistic un-
derstanding of America’s interna-
tional relationships. To discharge
the President now “would be like
discharging the captain of a great
ship _in_ mid-ocean. with a» storm
raging, because his contract of em-
ployment happened to expire at
that point.”

Mr. Willkie’s attacks on the Ad-
ministration fér its defense pro-
gram can be proven false, Mr. Lit-
tell said, by the record of rearma-
ment under President Roosevelt.
“In 1932, as the Republican plat-
form of that year said, our army
had been reduced to an irreducible
minimum, and by 1933 we had
dropped from the first to the fourth
ranking naval power in the world.”

By the time of the crisis of May,
1940, the New Deal program had
already resulted in the reconstruc-
tion of the navy up to 395 fighting
ships. These, together with 138
under construction, and 200 more
for which appropriations have been

de, add up to a total of 733
sin ships (as of September,
1940)—the largest navy in the
world.

It has also been charged against
the New Deal, Mr. Littell said,
that money has been spent need-
lessly. Few people realize that a
PWA fleet has been built since
19383—“a total naval force ‘which
is the second largest in the West-
ern Hemisphere, second only to the
U. S. Navy itself.” In addition,

’PWA and WPA money helped to
build army and navy planes, mili-

tary airports, aeronautical labora-
Continued on Page Six



Victory

The Activities Drive was a
success. and the total sum has
finally gone over. the 5000
dollar mark. The . margin
was very close andthe drive
is not one dollar over the
minimum requirement. budget will be printed later,
showing exactly how the
money will be allotted.

The success of the drive
was the result of individual
cooperation and the canvas-
sers’ enthusiasm. The vol-
untary spirit behind the
pledges was .exemplified by
the gifts from the faculty
and graduates who have
more outside pleas and less
responsibility to campus
needs than do the undergrad-
uates.







Swarthmore Offers
Series of 16 Concerts



The department of music of

Swarthmore College has recently

announced a series of 16 concerts
which will be given during the
1940-41 season. Among the musi-
cians to appear on these programs
are Clarjbel Gegenheimer, organ-
ist, Bela Bartok, Hungarian pian-
ist and composer, and Nicolai Med-
tner, Russian pianist and compos-
er. The first of these concerts will
be Sunday evening, October 27, and
will be given by the students of the
college, with the assistance of Mr.
Lafford and Mr. Swan. Fritz Krue-
ger, well known tenor of the Phila-
delphia Opera Company will be
present to sing a group of songs.

The program will include Le-
Clair’s sonata for two violins, a
flute and piano sonata by Loiellet,
Seribin’s Sonata No. 5—Opus 53,
a series of tenor and alto solos,
Cantilena by Rheinberger and a
chorale prelude by Sigrid Karg-
Elert.



Self-Government
Students are reminded that
it is necessary to obtain
Special Permission for eat-
ing in the village until 11.30
whether escorted or not.
11.30 permission to eat any-
where else than in Bryn
Mawr can only, be obtained

if one’ is éscorted. Au
SELF-GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE

BOARD.











‘BMC Freshmen Exhibit
In 3rd Question of

Lurid Imaginations
Self-Gov Examinations



By Virginia Nichols,-’41

The credit of the college, that
delicate and elusive flower, is safe
in the hands of ’44. Their violent
imaginations may conjure up mad-
ness and red death, but unless
thought is one with action, Sire, we
are saved. The thought may. be
father to the deed but it will be a
wise father that. will know its own.
child, if ’44 pver brings discredit
to the college.

The fact that the college had any
credit was first brought to the at-
tention of ’44 by the Self-Govern-
ment Association in the Examina-
tion of the same name.-. Probing
deep into the subconscious, the
third question asked for a specific
example of bringing discredit Gf
the college. And deep from the
subconscious, with the screams of
inhibitions in their ears, the class
of ’44 wrung their answers. There
were those that stated as discredit-
able what they had always wanted
to do, and then those-that-—stated.
_-what they hoped they would never
have to do. Among the wish

tend a Communist Rally at which
one would be arrested by the po-
lice.” And then the wish to “com-
rmit a murder which if connected

”

bring discredit. ... But on th
other.._hand..-we--have-
thought or trauma. In this cate-
gory we place the fear, of the water,
as expressed in the fear. of being
seen in a low dive.
high placés as connected with the
sliding down of bannisters in pub-
lic places. Or the fear of being
alone as illustrated by aversion to
dancing informally escorted or not.

Perhaps the whole thing should
never have been mentioned. Per-
‘haps the little pitchers have too-
big ears and this was just asking
them to go to the well and break, or
perhaps all the naughty ideas of
’44 are shut up between the blue
covers of a lot of bluebooks and
won’t ever come out except after

time when the sere come out if
they’r re coming.” —





8. 380 p. m.

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with Bryn Mawr might ron th

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Benefit Performance

To Aid Great Britain

Program Will Include Hinde-
muth’s “Hin und Zuruck,”’
Piano and Vocal Solos





Bryn Mawr students will, have
the opportunity to purchase and
send to Great Britain an ambu-
lance bearing the name of the col-
lege by lending their support to.a
benefit performance in Goodhart
Hall, Wednesday, October 30th, at

The benefit program in Good-
hart includes Henriette “Bagger
Plum, the Danish mezzo-soprano,
Horace Alwyne, pianist,-Lea Lu-
boshutz, violinist, with Edith
Braun, pianist. A group from The
Academy of Vocal Arts will pre-
sent Hindemuth’s opera, “Hin und
Zuriisk,” which. was given last sum-
mer at the Berkshire Music Festi-
val.

Sales of tickets have been pro-
gressing off campus.



Theory of Geology
Discussed in First
Lecture on Science



Dalton, October 21.—Miss Wy-
ckoff, speaking on the history of
geology and its theories, opened the
series of lectures on the History of
Science. Each of the eight lectures
forms a background on which the
next lecturer builds and elaborates.
Next week Mr. Dryden will con-
tinue the series with a history of
the theories about earth and their
relation to evolution in‘ general.

“None of the sciences are self-
evident in themselves,’ Miss Wy-
ckoff said. Modern research is in-
terested_in_ their evolution,_and_be-
fore any of the sciences are com-
plete a welding of all is needed.

Geology started with the devel-
opment of a scientific observation
of mineralogy and built up a study
of field relationships. Then came
the formulation of reasonable ex-
planations from these observations
and finally, the checking of these
hypotheses by chemical experi-
ments to form modern geology.

Early observations about the
form of the earth and its place in
the universe were confused with
philosophy and astronomy. Aris-
totle believed that the earth was
composed of four fundamental ele-
ments, earth, air, fire and water.
Pliny later supplied information
and misinformation about~ rocks,
such as the theory that quartz was

Continued on Sage Four



Calendar

Wednesday, Oct. 23.—

Industrial Group Supper,

Common Room, 6.30 p. m.

Roosevelt Rally, .Conven-
» tion Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 24.—
~~~Main Line Forum, Histor-
}\. ic Elections of the Past, by

John G.. Herndon, 8.00 p. m.
Friday, Oct. 25.—

French open ‘house, Wynd-

ham, 8.00 p. m.
Sunday, Oct. 27.—

Chapel Service; Dr. Rufus

» Jones, Music. Room, _ 7.30
p. m.
Monday, Oct. 28.—
- History. of Science, “De-

velopment of Historical
Geology,” Mr. L. Dryden,
Dalton, 7.30 p. m.
Republican Rally, Norris-
town, Pa.
Tuesday, Oct. 29.— _

Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30 p. m.





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The New Library Wing Opened .

Formally on hlscemian Weekend

Alumnae Have Conferences

With Art, Archaeology
Departments



On Saturday morning of Alum-
nae Week-end, the art and archae-
ology departments welcomed the
alumnae to the new wing of the
Mr.

representing the ar-

library. Miss Swindler and
Carpenter,
chaeology department, outlined the
development of the department at
Mr. Sloane and Mr.
Soper, representing the. history of
art the
changes which the new wing and

Bryn Mawr.

department, explained
its equipment bring into the art
courses.

Miss Swindler discussed briefly
the history ofthe archaeology de-
partment. It was fortunate in the
encouragement it received from the
start, and in the well-known schol-
ars who were its professors. In
1896, Richard Norton became the
first professor. He was succeeded
by Joseph Clark Hoppen; who sent
the first scholar to.Athens and be-
gan the collection of antiquities.

At first there were only two
s, Greek and Italian Art. In

1926-27 honors work was introduc-
ed in the department. A course in
American archaeology was given in
1928, was dropped during the de-
pression, and is. being given again
this year by Miss de Laguna. Ori-
ental archaeology was introduced
in 1930. At present the depart-
ment offers the most comprehensive
work of any institute in the
country, and the results of this

work can be seen in the importance
Continued on Page Four

French Club Plans
Plays; Open House

course





The French Club announces a
new policy beginning this year.
The Club wishes to go beyond the
mere mechanics of speaking the
language and discuss France and
the’French heritage. Besides the
usual informal meetings during
the year, a French Open House is
planned for Friday, October 25th,
and two Christmas plays will be
presented. Outside speakers who
can give a view. of France today
and its problems will be invited to
speak to all undergraduates inter-
ested.

Director of N. Y. Museum
And Rhys Carpenter
Give Lectures

On Sdturday and Sunday after-
Mr.
Henry Taylor, director of the Met-
ropolitan Museum, and Mr. Rhys

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noon’ respectively, Francis

Carpenter of the Bryn Mawr ar-
chaeology department spoke in
Goodhart to the alumnae and mem-
bers of the college. Mr. Taylor gave
the address for the official opening
of the Quita Woodward Wing of
the library. Mr.

cribed ‘fa scholar’s year in Rome”

Carpenter des-

and reported on his recent archae-

ological discoveries, with photo-
graphic illustrations and ptoofs of
his conclusions.

Mr.,Carpenter’s work led to the
identification of a statue as Polycle-
of the subject of the

Belvedere Torso, and the establish-

itus’ Medea,

ment of Virgil as the subject of a
series of portrait bysts. If Virgil,
and not the Greek poet Menander,
is the original inspiration for these
heads, Mr. Carpenter. believes that .
Horace and Propertius are the men
who accompany~ Virgil in a relief
on the facade of the Villa Medici.
The-central figure inthe _relief
group closely resembles the poet of.
the portrait heads. Mr. Carpenter
pointed out that the relief, part of
an altar commemorating Augustus,
must include Virgil. Consequently
Virgil, not Menander, must. be the
poet portrayed in the relief and in
the busts.

The famous Belvedere Torso,
usually thought to represent Herc-
ules, Mr. Carpenter demonstrated
by slides and by graphic posing, to
be actually a Marsyas playing the
flute in a contest with Apollo. The
figure of MarsYas was part of a
group by Appolonius. Apollo, the
other important figure, Mr. Car-
penter found only ten feet away

from Marsyas in the Vatican, in
Continued on Page Three



Attention, Willkieites!
A county-wide Republican:
demonstration will be held at |
Norristown, next Monday
night, October 28. Congress-
man Allen, a Democrat for
Willkie, will speak, and there
will _be five great. parades
converging at Norristown.
- Buses will. leave . Pembroke
arch for all who want to go.













Unsuspecting Bryn Mawr Senior Swipes
Four Hundred Bucks’ Worth of Sparklers



Blas

By Isabel Martin, ’42 yes
Did you know. that.an_unsuspec-

ting jewel thief resides’ on our

campus? She is as surprised as
you are.

Nivvy- Alston went to .Philadel-
phia Saturday to fetch her ailing
alarm clock. A small jade pin had

also been left for repair in the

|same jewelry shop. While her clock

and pin were being wrapped, she
admired the lovely diamond
watches in the cases. The pro-
enjoying her aeige -en-
thusiasm, trotted out some/of his
more expensive pieces. Among
them were several diamond brace-
lets. After a most delightful half
hour, she thanked the shop-keeper
and brought her belongings home.
She arrived back in Bryn Mawr
about mid-afternoon and did not
discover until after five o’clock that

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the envelope she had been carrying
eontained three’ diamond bracelets.
Police, arrests, trials flashed in her
mind. Horrified she ran to the
phone and calledthe store. Fortu-
nately it was still open, and the
understanding proprietor assured
her he would call for them that
night.

Nivvy entrusted"her loot to Miss
Hawks and went out to dinner.
When she returned at ten-thirty,
the diamonds. were. still on the
premises. Miss Hawks frantically
called the lax proprietor. He ex-
plained calmly that his car was

‘sick and he ome not srt. there ‘to-

a

night.

And to whom it may concern.—
safe-crackers or frantic detectives
—four hundred dollars worth of
diamonds still reside os the Pem-
broke safe: ”

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