College news, October 14, 1943

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THE COLLEGE NEWS.





VOL. XL, NO, 3

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943

Copyright,
Bryn Mawr

Trustees of
College, 1943

PRICE 10 ) CENTS







Chan to Discuss
The Human Spirit
In Art of Orient

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Lectures on Chinese Cul-
ture are First in Gift

Series of Class of °97

Mr. Wing-Tsit Chan, Professor
of Chinese Culture at--Dartmouth
College, will open a series of lec-
tures on oriental civilization with
five lectures on the theme of “The
Spirit of Man in Chinese Culture.”
(Rhythmic Vitality *in Chinese
‘Art” will be the subject of the
first talk to be given in Goodhart
Hall on October 16 at 8.30.

An Oriental scholar and philos-
opher, Mr. Chan took his bachel-
or’s degree at Lingnan University
and his master’s degree and doc-
torate in philosophy at Harvard.
In 1929 Mr. Chan returned to
Lingnan where he became Dean of
the Faculty’ and was Professor of
Philosophy until 1936. He has held
other positions in Chinese Univer-
sities as Lecturer of Philos-
ophy at National Sun Yat Sen Un-
iversity and Lecturer in Aesthe-
tics at the Institute of Drama in
Canton. .He was also a professor
of Chinese Philosophy and Insti-
tutions, University of Hawaii. Mr.
Chan has been at Dartmouth Col-
lege since 1942.

Chinese Delegate

As the Chinese delegate to many
educational conferences, he at-
tended the World Federation of
Educational Associations Confer-
ence in Geneva and the Far Eas-
tern Higher Educational Confer-
ence in Manila. He was also a
delegate to the Institute of Pacific
Relations Conference and is a
member of the China-Philippines
Committee.

Mr. Chan’s lectures at Bryn
Mawr will be the first in a series
which is the gift of the class of
1897 given to the college last
spring. Lectures on Russia and
Japan are planned for a later
date.

Language Technique
Approved | by Gilman

Common Room, October 12.
Stressing the importance of a
purely oral approach to a lan-
guage and the use of a native
speaker combined with a trained
linguist, Miss Gilman discussed
the new “intensive method” of
teaching languages. Her lecture
was based on the trip she took to
the University of Wisconsin this
summer to study the technique as
it was practiced in the training
of an Army Language and Area
group.

The important features of this
method, she said, are first, that it
is essential to learn to speak a
language before writing it. To do
this, a larger portion of the stud-
ent’s time, eight hours a week in-
stead of three, must be devoted to
the task. The third aspect is the
use of a native “informant” com-
bined with an \experienced teacher
to analyze the sentences of the in-
formant. ee

Miss Gilman’s interest in the
method is its practicability to civ-
ilian teaching. Some of the prin-
ciples have already been applied
to the elementary course in French
here at Bryn Mawr. The most

_-« important. factor, she feels, is the

oral approach to the language. The
number of hours to be devoted to

‘the course should be a compromise

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Wing-Tsit Chan



43 Makes its Mark;
Waves Predominate
In Service Branches

Delving into the whereabouts of
the class of 1943 reveals that they
have not been idle. According to
current tabulation there are seven
WAVES and ohe WAC, a Wash-
ington group, and concentrated
areas of Bryn Mawr in Philadel-
phia and New York. Geographi-
cally they range from Mexico near-
ly to Algiers.

The official Class Baby is Alis-
oun Kuhn, born on July 9th, the
daughter of Sally Jacobs Kuhn.
Other members of the class who

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First College Coundil
(Considers Red (ross
Topics of Assemblies

The Deanery, October 6:

The possibility of a Red Cross
room on campus and suggestions
for War Alliance assemblies were
the main topics of discussion at
the first College Council meeting
of the year.

With the assistance of Shipley,
Baldwin, and Harcum, a Red Cross
room would be established in Good-
\hart for rolling bandages. Objec-
tions raised to such a plan were
the relative usefulness of such
work and whether the enrollment
would: be sufficient to warrant the
necessary arrangements. It was
decided to see how many students
would be interested in bandage
rolling before continuing specific
plans.

A definite hour for the assem-
blies has not been decided. Under
the present system no opportunity
for discussion is afforded. In dis-
cussing topics, Mrs. Manning stat-
ed that some faculty felt that the
subjects of the lectures should
deal more with national problems.

In current event talks the Alli-
ance this year*plans to have under-
graduate and graduate speakers
as well as faculty. Miss Lenore
Blum, graduate representative,
suggested that. the graduate dis-
cussion groups merge with the
undergraduate this year.





Spontaneous Wyndhamite Bucket Brigade
Puts Out Own Soap Barrel Conflagration



By Virginia Belle Reed, °44

Every year there is a fire on
campus, and lest you should have
some uneasy moments about this,
we wish to tell you that this year’s
fire is over; Wyndham had it. We
shall tell you the strange tale of
its appearance and the almost
equally mysterious circumstances
of its disappearance last Wednes-
day night.

The first sign of this notorious
conflagration occurred in the sit-
ting room of the French House.
People were gathered around the
couch poking the pillows experi-
mentally and sniffing the air for
smoke. Franny Parrish announc-
ed that one corner was definitely
warmer than the other, but that
was to be suspected—she’d been
sitting on it for some time. Mean-
while the sniffing increased and an
undeniable evidence of fire (i. e.
smoke) led others out to the hall.
There on a soap-powder barrel
looking exceedingly dramatic and
very, very dangerous, sat a large
pile of briskly burning papers.
Hilly Dunn peered at it with near-
sighted interest and announced
authoritatively, “This doesn’t look
quite natural.”

The hubbub increased, the walls
were being blackened by the blaz-
ing papers, and maids who slept
nearby appeared in various stages
of deshabile to investigate the fur-
or. It was then 11.30.

_ A bucket brigade poured great
quantities of Water from every
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Tryouts

The restrictions against
Freshmen working on the News
have. been lifted, and tryouts
for all Freshmen interested are
being held this Thursday at
1:30 in the News room in Good-
hart.









conceivable vessel in Wyndham,
the fire department, but it seemed
that this magnificent event was
slated to go unnoticed, doomed to
cruel obscurity ... nothing hap-
pened.

The telephone rang. It was
Miss Howe, who was promptly
asked if she were calling about the
fire. She affirmed this wild guess
with “Yes, yes, yes,” and asked if
Mme. Dony had everything under
control. They informed her that oh
yes, indeed she had, and went to
waken her.

Much later the sirens rang. The
inmates of Wyndham smiled with
pleased glee; this was about
THEIR FIRE. But poor Denbigh

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Wright Gives Details
Of Chemistry Career

By Ruth Alice Davis, ’44



“I’m a chemical meeting fan,”
she said, “that is, I like to go and
meet all the chemists!” Miss
Mary Elizabeth Wright, the new-
ly appointed lecturer in Organic
Chemistry, was far more eager to
tell us all about the loot of sam-
ples and gifts she carried away
from chemical meetings than to
give us the details of her life his-
tory. Along with other graduate
students from Bryn Mawr, Miss
Wright acted as an assistant at a
chemical society meeting in At-

“They gave us nylon stockings,

4| perfume, and even a five-dollar
box of vitamin pills,” she said.

“We took the pills to use during
our exams in the fall—maybe
that’s why we passed,”

Miss Wright was graduated
from Barnard College in 1939, and
received her M.A. and Ph.D. at
Bryn Mawr, in ’40 and ’43 respec-

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‘turn out a class of prospective

and somebody must have Phoned | poets, and anyone who asks him

lantic City; in ~thewfaxn- <2 SOND oye



+Bertrand Russell Reviews Principles
Of Interference in Logic of Induction



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Purpose of Poetry
Explained by Auden

By April Oursler, ’46
“The brutal truth about teach-
ing is that the most effective way
to show someone something is to
refuse to show them,” said W. H.
Auden as he attempted to explain
the purpose of his new course
here and the purpose of poetry in
general. “I don’t know what you
are going to get out of the course
—that’s up to you,” he went on to
say. “I’m here to find out some

more about art for myself.”
He certainly does not mean to



whether they should write or not
will receive an unconditional “No”
for an answer. If you are going
to write, he said, you won’t have
to ask someone else’s advice be-
fore starting. Literature courses
are the worst possible. preparation
for a writer, who, though he
should be fully familiar with all
great literary works, should con-
centrate more in college on ob-
taining a working knowledge of
all available fields.

As for the value of writing
poetry, Auden feels that the most
important thing is the fun the poet
himself gets out of it. “History
has shown that art hasn’t made
the world a better place,” he ex-
plained. It can merely reflect the
world to the reader, and Auden
does not feel that poetry can force
the reader to make a decision, and
change the state of affairs. He

Inferiority of Deduction
Stated by Well-Known
Philosopher



Goodhart, October 8.

ciples of inference involved in in-
ductive and probability logic were
examined by Mr. Bertrand Russell,
eminent philosopher and logician,
in his lecture last Friday. Mr. Rus-
sell contrasted the logic of deduc-
tion, which he said consists of little
more than tautologies, with the
logic of induction which argues
from experience. He'demonstrat-

The prin-

_|ed the inferiority of deduction by
defining it as

logic where the
premise is true, the inference is
valid, but the conclusion is only
probable. This lecture on “The
Limitations of Deductive Logic’ is
the first of a series of five which
Mr. Russell will give here on the
“Postulates of Scientific Method.”

Inductive Inference

The modern mind wants gener-
alizations from experience, stated
Mr. Russell. Inductive logic,
which revolves around the essen-
tial principle that a multitude of
like instances approach certainty,
formulates its generalities from
particular knowledge. For scien-
tific knowledge or even for daily
existence to continue, he said, the
premises made by inductive logic
about such a multitude of instan-
ces must be accepted even though
they can never be completely prov-
ed. Thus, from experience, one
may justifiably predict that the
sun will rise tomorrow,

Probability Judgments
Mr. Russell objected to the prin-
ciple of inference used in proba-
bility judgments, and as an exam-
ple, pointed out the limitations of
a calculation of probability in a
case of chance. The chance that
a tossed penny will. land “heads-
up” is supposedly fifty-fifty but
Mr. Russell refuted Reichenbach’s.
claim that after a certain point.
the limits of chance continued un-
varied and maintained that the
probability could be accurately
stated after calculations from an

infinite succession of tosses.

Doubtful Judgments
Such a case of probability,
stressed Mr. Russell, must be kept
distinct from one of doubtful judg-
ment, arising from distrust of
either report or fact or individual
impression. Thus, when Reichen- —



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Escapes from War-torn Areas of W orld
Described by Members of Freshman Class



By April Oursler,. "46

Escape from war-torn countries.
is a commonplace in the lives of
several Freshmen this year, who
describe their own departures

from Europe and China Wi a,
vividness and clarity v a-
sizes what one of them “termed

“the general attitude of ignorance
and lack of interest in current his-
‘én the part of the American
student.”

Susan Durgin, daughter of the
assistant naval attache to the
American embassy in Berlin, had
been in Germany for two years
when Hitler marched into Poland
in the fall of 1989. The final or-
der from Washington that all
American women and children
were to evacuate within twenty-

England and France declared war
on Germany. In the rush that fol-
lowed, Susan and her mother
caught the last train leaving for
Denmark. The train, patrolled
constantly by soldiers, was crowd-
ed with the aged and sick, and the
women and children were forced to
carry all their luggage. The
“Kungsholm” carried the Ameri-
cans from Denmark to New York,
detouring past Sweden to Iceland |
in order to avoid submarines,

Ruth Heinsheimer and Eva
Krafft, both of whom also escaped
from German-held territory, tell
much the same story. Eva, who
lived in the Sudetanland, fifteen
minutes’ walk from Germany, de-
scribed the gradual strengthening
of Hitler’s power among the Sude-



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Plug the Leaks

When Mr. Willkie returned from the tour in which he)
discovered that there was but one world he spoke of the
reservoir of good will toward the United States which he
found everywhere he went. But he warned that there were
numerous leaks in this reservoir. One of the foundation
stones on which the structure of international cooperation
is to be built is this great reservoir of good will. To stop
these leaks, therefore, is to help win the war and secure the
peace.

The Oriental Exclusion Act, which has been on our books
for 60 years, is one of the leaks in our Far Eastern reservoir
of good will. Congress is now considering a bill which will
help to plug this leak, a bill to place Chinese immigration on
a quota basis similar to that accorded to European nation-
als. The passage of this bill will permit approximately 105
Chinese to become American citizens.



Last year the United States withdrew its claim to the
privilege of extra-territoriality for American citizens in
China. The repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act will remove
the last official barrier to fraternity between the two peo-
ples.

It is to be noted with regret that the bill does not pro-
pose to abolish the exclusion of Orientals other than Chinese.
However, the wide support won for the present bill was
gained not merely because it proposes to abolish a long-stand-
ing injustice. It has been recognized as but one more weapon
forged by the necessities of the war.

It cannot be doubted that, in time, similar injustices to
other people will, of necessity, also be corrected. This is so
because any system of international cooperation requires
mutual trust and respect. To this end let us maintain and
enlarge those auspicious reservoirs of good will.



Digest Rebuttal

In the last issue of the News there was, in my opinion,
an unnecessarily prejudiced attack on the Reader’s Digest,
charging that the Digest is unobjective in choosing its ar-
ticles, and that it i? more a propaganda sheet than a digest,
since many of the articles are written by the editors them-
selves.

It is true that the seventeen Roving Editors, as well as
all the Associate Editors, “write” many of the articles in the
sense that it is their job to condense articles of from five to
ten thousand words to Digest length, but in so doing they re-
tain the style and meaning of the author, without resorting
to misleading synopsis. In ‘the last issue only four, rather
than six of the articles were written by the staff, and in look-
ing closely at them, I-can find no reason to condemn the mag-
azine for them. The idea that Paul de Kruif, famous for his
scientific books, should be denied the right to write an ar-





CITY LIGHTS

By Jessie Stone ’44
election

for
Mayor of Philadelphia ‘is attract-
ing national attention, and rightly

The campaign

so. The Democrats are trying to
break into an established Republi-
can stronghold through the candi-
dacy of William C. Bullitt.

Bill Bullitt, former Ambassador
to France and the Soviet Unidn
and special assistant to the Secre-
tary of the Navy, has for his prin-
cipal opponent the incumbent,
Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel. To
the lustre and savoir faire of Bul-
litt, Barney Samuel counterpoises
an Irwin §. Cobb face, his years
as a Republican ward-heeler, his
period as a member and later
President of the City Council and
his brief, quiet period as Acting
Mayor. Samuel’s chances are ex-
cellent. He’s a Republican, he
hasn’t done anything that mayors
as a rule don’t do and he managed
to come into office just as the war
boom was swinging into high gear.
His campaign against Bullitt con-
sists mainly of thrusts at the ex-
Ambassador for not having really
lived in Philadelphia.

Bullitt’s Career

But several thousand Demo-
crats in Philadelphia have a big-
ger bone to pick with Bullitt. They
are as interested as any other
Democrats in smashing the well-
greased do-nothing Republican
machine. But they. don’t think
Bullitt is the man to do it, nor do
they think that is his aim. They
studied Bullitt’s record as a dip-
lomat and they found, as Secre-
tary of War Stimson put it, that
Bullitt “does not serve: the inter-
ests of his country.” They looked
into his record as a diplomat in
Europe in the immediate pre-war
years and they found that he
threw his weight against the for-

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Chadwick Outlines War-time
Procedure of College Inn

Association
To the Editor of the College News:

The changes that are about to!

take place at the College Inn af-
ford an opportunity to present to
the student body an explanation
which we of the Inn Association
believe is due the students.

The Inn will serve no more din-
ners except on “big weekends” by
reservation. The ration points
put at its disposal by this aciton
will be put into use at tea-time so
hamburgers, frankfurters, etc.,
will once more be available; There
will also be a buffet tea consisting
of previously prepared food
(doughnuts, sticky-buns, etc.), cof-
fee, tea, and coke to which the
students may help themselves. The
buffet breakfasts which have been
served for the past few weeks and
which seem to have met with con-
siderable favor will continue. On
Sundays, no noon dinners will be
served, but there will be a large
breakfast, served until 11.45, and
at tea time Sunday night supper—
buffet style—will be available.

Because of rationing, food-short-
ages, and help difficulties, the Inn
has found these changes most ex-
igent. We realize that there are
numerous disadvantages in mak-
ing them, however, these are only
temporary changes and there are
numerous benefits that the stud-
ent body will reap from them.

I believe the following par-
agraph may clear up the confu-
sion that has rankled in the minds
of many of our undergraduates as
to the exact status of the Inn. In
1913 when the College Inn became
active for the first time, it was
hoped that by the fiftieth anniver-
sary of its | opening the original |



eran fighter pilot, and author of two books on air power,
should be considered ineligible to write Smash the Luftwaffe
and End the War for the Digest, because they happen to be
Roving Editors is absurd. I am also sure that no one could
object to Frederic Sondern’s article on the Egyptians, or J.
P. McEvoy’s “Don’t Shoot Your Sheriff—Teach Him!”

that basis.

The fact that the “lead article’, Eric A. Johnston’s
speech to the London Chamber of Commerce is not, strictly
a re rint, is no reason for the Digest to forbid it-
Mr. Johnston, President of the
American Chamber of Commerce, is surely not to be con-
sidered influenced by the editorial policy of the Reader’s

speaking, a

self the right'to print it.

Digest.

No editor of a‘tthagazine as respectable as The American



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ticle on rheumatism, or that Francis William Drake, a vet-
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Mercury, The Saturday Review of Literature, Colliers, The
Atlantic, The New York Herald Tribune, the New York
Times, or Fortune itself is in the position to be bulldozed by
the Digest into accepting an article of which they do not ap-
prove. All of these publications, selected from the table of
contents within the last six months, are well-known, self-
sufficient, and of a high sense of integrity. The price that
the Reader’s Digest pays for “exclusive reprint privileges”
most certainly would not reduce them to the status of “kept”
magazines.

The average intelligent reader should take an article at
its own value. When a Digest article is unsigned, a second-
ary source is listed. It cannot and must not be assumed that
the articles in the magazine represent any editorial policy.
For every so-called “anti-Soviet” or “anti-Administration”
story there has been a counter-balancing one.

As for the charge that its “Sketches in Black and
White” are fostering an anti-Negro feeling —the obvious
answer is that the writer“has neglected the other humor de-
partments. Everyone from Vermont to Texas has been laugh-|,
ed at in “Life in These United States”—does-this .c.Deipee-|
sent an anti-American editorial policy, instead of a plain or-
dinary American sense of humor?

The Reader’s Digest, the first magazine without adver-
tising to achieve a success represented by a subscription list
of nine million, must have fulfilled a need-of the American
people and.-must have given them what they want. It has
done a splendid job and an American job in fighting both
Communism and Fascism.

debt would be entirely liquidated
and the Inn would be donated to
the college as@a gift of former
students. To achieve this end,
every bit of profit has been ap-
plied toward liquidating the debt
of purchase, altering the building,
or providing new equipment. In
the year 1942-3 more than fifty
per cent of the original debt was
refunded, and the Inn is now on
its way to a most successful fif-
tieth anniversary.

We of the Inn Association re-
gret the changes necessary and
we wish to stress their imperman-
ence. Meanwhile we are most anx-
ious for any suggestions that the
student body may offer, and I my-
self will be only too glad to ans-
wer any questions or receive any
constructive criticism.

Mary Sue Chadwick
Undergraduate Representative to
the College Inn Association

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Students Voice Objections
To Arbitrary Enforcement
Of Suggestion

October 11, 19438
To the Editor of the College News:

We feel that there should be an
opportunity for the student body
to voice its opinion concerning the
recent suggestion that all students
visiting army camps must obtain
written permission from home. As
members of the Self-Government
Association,~we have taken this
means to ask why the matter has
not been put to a general vote. We
question whether or not it will de-
feat the very purpose of Self-
Government which in Bryn Mawr
is based upon individual integrity.

Even though we realize that con-
ditions near some army camps are
undesirable, we maintain that Self-
Government responsibility should
not be lessened by these circum-
stances; the rule in question im-
plies that Self-Government -is re-
linquishing responsibility which
seems rightfully theirs. By send-
ing us to Bryn Mawr, our parents
have approved the idea of inde-
pendent responsibility which is
our Self-Government. Thus, the
necessity for permission besides
that obtained from regular per-
mission givers, seems superfluous
and a violation of the trust our
parents and the college have placed
in us.

If we, as a general body, wish
to re-delegate our right of respon-
sibility of action back to our par-
ents, then it could only be demo-
cratic that this should be done by
a vote of all members of the or-
ganization.

Eight Undergraduates



comaial é vents







- —April Oursler, ’46



Common Room, October 12:

The most important military
event of the week, pointed out
Miss Robbins in a Current Events
review of the néws, is the contin-
ued bombing of Germany. This
bombing, which has become more
and more extensive, aims at the
complete destruction of German
military industry.

“This should be the shortest
way of winning the war,” she
cst “though there will be, of

e, other fronts.”

"Ie taly, the Cataline Way and
the Appian Way to Rome are both
open. With the British advancing
northward along the Adriatic, Miss
Robbins said, there may easily de-
velop a three-way drive on Rome,
Also of importance in the Adria-
tic is the capture of the — of
Cherso near Fiume by eral
Tito and his Jugoslay Partisans.

Actual damage may have been

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American Revolution Causes]

Interpreted and Clarified
In Miller’s Book

Specially Contributed by
H. L. Maggs



Mr. Miller’s Origins of the
American Revolution, like his pre-
vious work Sam Adams, is a re-
freshing account of a difficult and
elusive subject: the basic causes
for colonial America’s break with
Great Britain. The actual events
leading up to the Revolution are
historical facts; but Mr. Miller’s
interpretation of these events and
the sources ‘which he has uncov-
ered to prove his interpretation
are, for the most part unique and
highly imaginative.

His initial thesis examines the
economic background of the con-
flict, usually an important part of
the historian’s apparatys. The
laws of navigation and mercantil-
ism he maintains were in many
cases beneficial to the colonies; and
while there were individual cases
of abuse, the colonies themselves
did not until the very eve of the
Revolution regard them as exorbi-
tant. The political background
for revolution takes the narrative
back to the very foundaiton of the
colonies and deals with the meth-
ods of government of the Ameri-
can Colonies as they might affect
their relation to the mother coun-
try.

After a brief survey of the sta-
tus quo of America and Great Brit-
ain on the eve of the Revolution,
Mr. Miller proceeds to show the
development of the spirit of oppo-
sition and conflict between the two
throughout the ten critical years
preceding the outbreak of hostil-
ities. (or the most part this is
the usual approach but Miller’s
analysis of the climaxes of opin-
ion which existed in England and
in the individual colonies is both
discerning and original.

In my opinion he has put his
finger on the pulse of the pre-
revolutionary period; the rise and!
fall of opposition, the use of pro-
paganda to revive popular interest,
the underground surgings of re-
publicanism, and the justifiable be-
wilderment of England at having
reared a monster overseas are
treated thoroughly and authorita-
tively.

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Those of us who have had class-
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of his gift for uncovering unusual
quotations which add greatly. to
the interest of his lectures as well
as of his books. And we at Bryn
Mawr follow with especial keen-
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latest contribution to a year of
Americana.

"43 Makes its Mark;

Waves Predominate
Continued from Page 1

are now housewives are Mary
Mitchell Kester, Dorothy Browne
Schaffer, Anita McCarter Wilbur,
Gloria Ingram Zlinkoff, Mary
Gwynne Carmen Erland, and Kitty
Clement Hull. Mig Jamison has
announced her engagement.
Trading their skirts and sweat-

ers for uniforms, Anne Denny,
Franny Lynd, Eleanor Beatty,
Florence Newman and Caroyl

Tietz have joined the WAVES,
while Barbara Herman chose the
WAC. Lucille Mott now teaches
mathematics and some physics to
the WAVES at the University of

Pennsylvania and Jacquie Simone

has joined the Fighting French.

Instruction Research

1943 has already made its mark.
Bille Williams, after serving as a
grease-monkey at. the Academy of
Aeronautics in New York, now in-
structs Navy students in the in-
strument panel for four-motored
Navy Patrol Bombers: She will
soon qualify as flight engineer in
any four-motored plane, and is the
only female’ among twenty in-
structors and a hundred and fifty
students. Bebe Biberman, after
starting in June as a copy girl,
now holds the position of junior
editor of the Associated Press in
Philadelphia. Doing research and
script-writing for the Harmon
Foundation in New York is Ginny
\Dzung.

'1943’s Washington contingent
includes Maisie Hardenbergh, Alice
Iseman, Franny Matthai, Mary
Cox, and Sooky Zuckerman,

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W yndhamite Brigade
Puts Out Own Fire

Continued from Page 1

did not know this. Alas, they had
already turned it into an air raid
drill, thus alienating the affections
of most of the Denbighites who
thought, mistakenly, that they
were immune to this sort of thing
at twelve o’clock at night.

French House. residents all em-
the great presence of
mind displayed ih .thjs almost-dire
emergency. There was, it seems,
absolutely no hysteria. There was
also no order, nor any one in
charge. This, they explain, was
because they did not yet have a
fire’ captain. They just stood
around and discussed the situation
wisely.

Much, much later the fire en-
gines came—or so it is rumored.
Those who claim they saw them
insist they were green and that
they whisked around Pembroke
and Rockefeller in their earnest
search for the late fire, then went
sadly home.

Wright Gives Details
Of Chemistry Career

Continued from Page 1

tively. While working for her
M.A., Miss Wright assisted Mr.
Crenshaw in physical chemistry;
and in ’41-’42 was the fellow in
Chemistry. She was also presi-
dent of the Graduate Club while
she was at Bryn Mawr.

In April, ’42, she went to Col-
umbia, to be Dr. A. C. Cope’s re-

search assistant. Commenting
on her work, Miss Wright said, “I
helped instruct seven budding
young male chemists, most of
whom were my seniors in age.
Quite a. job!”

Present Work

Miss Wright at present is work-
ing on a research problem in aro-
matic chemistry. When asked to
be more specific as to the nature
ofthe problem, she said, “Tell
them it deals mainly with big ring
compounds!”

Bryn Mawr, in Miss Wright’s
opinion, profits greatly by having
a graduate school; it not only of-
fers opportunity for further edu-
cation to those who wish to contin-
ue, but also helps to raise the
standard of the undergraduate
school,

When asked what some of her
other interests are, she said, mu-
sic, of course, and the theatre, but
shyly added that her main inter-
est is now in the Navy.



studying Chinese and made the
highest record of six hundred and
ninety-six girls at the summer
session. Still living the academic
life also are Barbara Kaufman,
Barbara Baer, Eleanor Edwards,
and (Lenore O’Boyle. Nursing
school has claimed Mary Rambo,
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' Donald Stautfer relegates to a
critic these three roles; spectator
with a personal response, inter-
preter, and judge. Since lack of
knowledge prevents us from hav-
ing all but one of these attributes,
we shall confine our review of
Othello to expressing a few sub-
jective impressions.

Our reaction to Margaret Web-
ster’s’ production is conditioned
by preconceptions derived from an
unscholarly reading of the drama.
The first discrepancy between the
character as we imagined him and
the. portrayal on the stage is the
personality of Iago. Jose Ferrer,
as, that arch-villain, divests Iago
of some of his archness by being
more clownish than demoniac. Iago
appears, therefore, more normal-
ly human, thus more complex, than
an antagonist who is only undilut-
ed evil. Since we like to think Iago
cold, powerful, and imposing, Jose
Ferrer’s technique makes him more
interesting as an actor, but less
forceful as the instrument of im-
pending doom.

Paul Robeson’s performance con-
sists of a kind of skill that erases
most of our foregone conclusions
concerning the character of Oth-
ello. The volume, tone, intensity,
and control of his voice are mag-
nificent. Not graceful but strong
is his acting. His behavior changes

from that of a conquering general,

stable and competent, to the prim-
itive reaction to Iago’s schemes,
the complete surrender to the emo-
tion of overpowering jelousy. We
doubt that Paul Robeson could
portray the esthenic, highly-pitch-
ed Othello that is suggested by
some of the lines, the reaction to
the truth at the end, and the delib-
erative rather than passionate
strangling of Desdemona. But
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throughout and as plausible, we
think, as the: other. It is the mu-
sic of his verbal interpretation
that is almost hypnotic.

We think of Desdemona as beau-
tiful and unworldly. Rather than
that, Uta, Hagen is pretty and in-
sipid, definitely inferior to the oth-
er ‘actors and to the staging.
James Monks, as Cassio, is dyna-
mic, suave, and convincing because
of awareness of the contrast be-
tween himself and Othello. Jack
Manning: made his debut “as the
young man with the new cigarette
case in Junior Miss. He would
have been better as a junior miss
than as Roderigo. Emilia, on the
other hand, as played by Margaret
Webster’s substitute, infused a
minor role with so much humor,
restraint, and compassion as to
give it major importance,

With regard to the production
as a whole, we are. somewhat He-
gelian; somewhat Aristotelian.
Othello did not impress us as ma-
jesty and triumphant world rea-
son. Nor did it produce and es-
cape from will through catharsis,
as do Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo
and Juliet. This failure on our
part to react with complete aes-
thetic satisfaction is due, perhaps,
to the fact that Othello, although
his tragic flaw is beautifully ex-
-pressed by Paul Robeson, is not
sufficiently motivated by Mr. Fer-
rer’s interpretation of Iago.

Othello remains great tragedy,
however, because of Othello’s con-
sciousness at the end, becuase of
Iago’s snarling silence, because
the violence is overcome by Othel-
lo’s return of rationality.











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-Calendar

Friday, October 15
Bertrand Russell,
Inference in Practice,
hart Hall} 8:15.

Saturday, October 16
Spanish Examinations, Tay-
lor Hall, 9:00.

Hygiene Examination, Taylor
Hall, 11:00.

Sunday, October 17
Reverend Kinsolving,
Room, 7:30.

Tuesday, October 19
Current Events talk by Miss
Henle, Common Room, 7:30.
Bertrand Russell, Physics and
Knowledge, Goodhart Hall,
8:15.

Wednesday, October 20
Wing-Tsit Chan, Rhythmic
Vitalities in Chinese Art,
Goodhart Hall, 8.30.

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Freshmen Describe

Escapes from Europe
Continued from Page 1

ten Germans before the invasion.
The beginning of all the trouble,
she said, was in 1988, before the
Munich pact. On May first, Czech-
oslavakian Labor Day, the Sudetan
Germans held pro-Hitler demon-
strations in the streets; three
weeks later, Nazi-minded children
in the government-owned private
school which Eva attended went on
strike, and martial law took over
Sudetenland. Hitler sent large
funeral wreaths for two Nazi
students killed in the riots, while
Czech students were excluded from
all schools. It was then that Eva
and her brother were sent to
Prague, where their parents joined
them after Hitler’s ultimatum to
the Czech troops.

Switzerland

Sibyl Straub, who left Graubu-
enden, Switzerland, in March, 1941,
laughingly belittled our fuel-oil
worries. “During the last of our
stay in Switzerland,” she said,
“our house never reached a tefh-
perature above forty degrees. We
had no coal, and in spite of our
-woolen socks, ski suits and blan-
kets, the only way to stay alive
was to dance, and playing the vio-
lin with fingers that cold is almost
impossible.

Peking

In contrast to the hectic difficul-
ties of the European evacuation,
Margaret Krenz stressed the quiet
tenseness of Americans in Peking,
the day after Pearl Harbor. The
Japanese had occupied the city
since 1936, so that there was no

violence necessary on December

seventh.







on, .
Purpose of Poetry
Explained by Auden

Continued from Page 1



pointed out that “Art is a mirror

where you can see what you are,
and what you could be,” but the
average person, instead of being
inspired to great improvements
responds laconically, “Well,
nice to know I’m a worm,” and is
content with the truth of the
poetry’s reflection.

Commenting on poets in gen-
eral, Mr. Auden explained that he

it’s

i} thought interviews were extreme-

ly bad for them. “Why people
should feel that men who write al-
ways have something of great im-
port to say is“incomprehensible to
me,” he said, explaining that one
interviews explorers to the North
Pole, or men just returned from
the Italian campaign, but not a
man who is merely carrying on the
daily business of life. “Most
poets,” he concluded, “are bad
characters, vain and selfish, “and
interviews merely encourage
them”, and so saying, he excused
himself, and left the room.



China

Education in wartime China was
a problem, and it was not until
March, 1942, that Margaret ob-
tained a pass permitting her to
leave the quarter for her teach-
er’s House once a week. Officially,
the school was closed, and the
Chinese were forbidden to study,
but Margaret and other American
girls established a grapevine sys-
tem, evading the Japanese who
followed them every time they left
the diplomatic quarter, and man-
aging to give their Chinese friends
their lessons. Julia Ling also
found her education a problem.
Troops stopped all students on
their way to school, and it was
only because she lived in the
Shanghai International Settlement
that she was able to attend at all.

Although all six of these stud-
ents were unanimous in their ap-
proval of Bryn Mawr in general,
all condemned our attitude toward
the war.- “What you see in news-
reels is only half of what is hap-
pening,” explained Susan Durgin.
“If. only this country, which has
been spared so much, can realize
the horrors of war for the other
countries, then POREERE 5 we may
hope for peace.”







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10:30 German

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9:00 Classical Hour
10:00 Soap Opera.
* 10:15 Stories of People *
10:30 Spanish

WEDNESDAY:

8:30 Dr. Duncan Spaeth
9:00 Spanish Music
9:30 Popular Music
10:00 -Faculty Experts
10:30. French

THURSDAY:

8:30 Haverford Sports

8:45 Anything Goes

9:00 Invitation to the Waltz

10:00 “Death at Fredericks-
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WIT*S END

If your little boy sets fire to the
house, wrap everything in blankets
and toss gently out the windows.
Thus many a back is broken ’ere
the twig is bent. Successful mar-
riage is also reduced to a formula
—every man is a potential prince
charming (see lecture notes for
1941, °42, ’48). If you finally
marry the man with pink petals
your children will either be black
or white guinea pigs depending on
whether your eyes are blue or not.
After reading many a song my
mother never taught me, we reach
the end of the book only to dis-
cover that the in-law problem nev-
er enters. Thus all A.B. candi-
dates are let loose still harboring
that primitive instinct of kill or
be killed.

Now we reach the duller sections
of circulatory, respiratory, and
otherwise gory sections, From
this we gather that the blood rises
in the east and sets in the west.
Also, if you scratch your lung,
pleurisy may develop and all un-
dergraduates are susceptible to
tuberculosis every two years. You
will discover that the average col-
lege menu contains adequate (not
synonymous with sufficient) calor-
ies, vitamins, fats, etc. If by now
you_show signs of pop eyes, weak
knees, and sagging jowls, either
your large intestine is strangling
the thyroid gland or you had three
o’clock permission last night. The
amount of daily exercise, hours for
sleep and Saturday baths neces-
sary for hygienic living is highly
irrelevant.



;

City Lights

Continued from Page 2



mation of a Collective Security
system. They found his role in the
fall of Paris a bit shady. And
they don’t trust him because they
remember his praise for Petain
and Vichy when he returned to the
United States.

So these Democrats formed an
Independent Voters League, nom-
inated an obscure man called Jules
C. Abercaugh for Mayor and called
on the citizenry of Philadelphia to
vote for Abercaugh for Mayor and
the straight Democratic ticket for
other offices. The Republicans,
who are unaccustomed to political

|campaigns which are fought over

serious issues, are a little bewil-
dered by this development. The
Independent Voters League is ful-
ly cognizant of the fact that the
effect of its work will be to split
the’ Democratic vote and insure
the election of Samuels. However,
they consider the prime impera-
tive of the moment to be the de-
feat of Bullitt.

This Independent Voters League
isn’t so concerned about what im-
mediate effect Bullitt’s views
might have on life in Philadel-
phia, should he be elected. They
know that the Democratic Party is
not homogeneous. They consider
Bullitt to be a leading representa-
tive of that wing of the Demo-
cratic party whose views on for-
eign policy are not in accord with
the Roosevelt position of strong





international cooperation with all
anti-fascist countries. They know
that if Bullitt should become Ma-
yor of Philadelphia he would be
one of the most influential persons



Russell Lectures on
Logic of Induction

Continued from Page 1



bach, holding that statistics along
with the rest of knowledge were
only probably true, used as illus-
tration the fact that the consider-
ed dead figuring in a mortality
rate might not be actually dead,
he was confusing a judgment
about probability with a doubtful
judgment. The probabilities about
which premises are made, such as
that of the penny’s landing
“heads-up” half the time, said Mr.
Russell, must not be confused with
the probabilities existent among
premises due to incomplete mem-
ory or data.



Current Events
Continued from Page 2



light, but the attack.on the Ger-
man’s Tirpitz by a midget sub-
marine in a Norwegian fiord is of
consequence for other’ reasons,

“This attack,” claims Miss Rob-
bins, “shows that a new and suc-
cessful type of midget submarine
has been developed by the British.
The Japs had one, which didn’t
seem to work. This one wor

Turning to foreign political af-
fairs, Miss Robbins lauded the
Swedes for letting down all barri-
ers against Jews fleeing from the
Germans in Denmark.



in the Democratic Party in Penn-
Sylvania. The prospect of his us-
ing the mayoralty as a stepping
stone to the governorship or even
the president are too far in the
future to be significant now. But
the coming nominating convention
of the Democratic Party is nearer:
and very crucial. Pennsylvania.
will have the second largest dele-.
gation in the country, New York
having the largest. The New York.
Democratic Party is under the-
sway of Jim Farley who, as is well
known, is no longer a Roosevelt.
man. The Independent Voters
League fears that the combina-
tion of a Bullitt-led Pennsylvania.
delegation and a Farley-led New:
York delegation will swamp those:
Democrats who support Roosevelt.
policies and may result in a Pres-
idential nomination that bodes no.
good for the future of internation-
al cooperation.

At this distance from Philadel-
phia it looks as though neither
Bullitt nor Abercaugh will sway
Philadelphia from the Grand Old
Party. Barney Samuel, who in his
youth was a cog in this great. ef-
forward to much the same busi-
ness as usual.







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