College news, November 20, 1940

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Kohn Outlines
War’s Meaning

In Modern Life

Counter : Revolution ideals
Of Authoritarianism
Oppose Democracy





Goodhart Auditorium, Friday,
November 15. — “Understanding
Our Time” was the subject of Dr.

Hans Kohn’s address at the second
Undergraduate Assembly. Dr.
Kohn, professor of Modern Euro-
pean History at Smith College, be-
lieves that, while the last war was
one of economic aggression, the
present struggle is much more dan-
gerous because its aim is to de-
stroy democracy and to revert to
authoritatism.

For an understanding of what
this war involves, we must realize
that no “wave of the future” will
carfy the revolution against de-
mgcracy on to a new and better

is the young, superior power which
now has to face the forces of “a
conscious effort to lead mankind
backward to authoritarianism, to
the inequality of men, to the de-
nial of the right of the individual
to use his reason freély.’’
Democracy is the youngest force
in the world today. It was born
in seventeenth-century England,
proclaimed in the French Revolu-
tion, and has found its freest ex-
pression in America. France has
been the battleground of the new
truth and the old, counter-revolu-
tionary dispensation, which has re-
cently triumphed in France’s sur-
render. That this age-old primi-
tive attitude is hailed as a new
faith, “only because it invests _it-
self with achievements of modern
technique, is one of the most sad-
dening symptoms of the time.”
But democracy is not finished.
Britain’s refusal to be defeated

Continued on Page Four

Benefit. to Complete
Workshop Suggested

In discussing the problem of the
Theatre Workshop, Fifi Garbat, ’41,
proposed that a benefit be held to
raise. the money for technical
equipment which is needed to com-
plete the Theatre Worshop. There
is no lighting equipment, no cur-
tains for the stage. Batons are
needed for both the lighting and
the curtains, and a system of pul-
leys is necessary to regulate the
batons.

The minimum cost for this equip-
ment will be five hundred dollars.
At present, a hundred dollars, half
given from the President’s fund
and half by the Players Club is
available. The students will not
be asked for money since they have
already given so much. The only
way to raise the funds is to have a
benefit, for the money from the
_ performance would come in a lump
sum, and work could be started im-
~ mediately.

German Clubs: eer
And Sing ‘Vo ‘Volkslieder’

° . After the ppg Newspaper,

Friday evening, November 15, the
Haverford German Club waltzed
with the Bryn Mawr German Club.
in the Common Room to the oom-
pah rhythm of Strauss three-four.
Later in the evening all sang Volks-
_ lieder, Haverford providing har-

mony, and introducing a few new,
songs. Cider and aoa were |

served. —









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Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 20.—

France Forever Group,
Mrs. Eugene Houdry, Mu-
sic Room, Wyndham, ey
p.m,

Saturday, Nov. 23.—
Denbigh Dance.

Monday, Nov. 25.—
History of Science Lecture,
Miss Lehr, Dalton Hall,
7.30 p. m.
Bundles For Britain and ,
British War Relief Christ-
mas Sale, Deanery.

Tuesday, Nov. 26.—
Current Events, Common
Room, 7.30 p..m,
Entertainment Series Con-
cert, Helen Traubel, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30 p. m.
Bundles For Britain and
British War Relief Christ-
mas Sale, Deanery. ’

Civil Liberty Abuse
Dramatized by Play

os









The Gym, November 15.—The
Living Newspaper, presented joint-
ly by students, maids and porters,
and the Industrial Group, consisted
of a series of scenes illustrating
abuses of civil liberties in this

j country.

The first scene was an action
scene dramatizing extra-legal. dis-
franchisement in the South: the
shadow of the Klan broke up a
meeting of negroes and —-poor
whites. The-effect was achieved
by a lighting technique.

The key scene of the play came
second. Draped on a bar-room ta-
ble, Alice Judson, ’43, as a worker,
spoke of what is happening to our
civil rights. The theme was taken
up by other members of the bar-
room group. As each chimed in,
there took form an outline that
indicated the different fields in
which rights are being lost.

Scenes followed on the Jersey
City infringements of labor rights.
The script for these scenes was
written by the Germantown -work-
ers who belong to the Industrial
Group. The Ann Arbor dismis-
sals, and the legal disfranchise-
ment of the Community minority
were also depicted, in several short
scenes,

The Dies Committee and its ex-
aggerated pomposity was shown up
by means of Virginia Nichols’ dex-
terous eye-brows. Ginny appeared
labeled Dies Committee Man, and
chased Shirley Temple in and out
of curtains.

Variety of Content
‘Will Enliven ‘Lantern’
The fall number of the Lantern

which appears this week is largely
devoted to- fiction and poetry, five





‘stories and five poems, plus an ar-

ticle and a book review. There is
not as much variety of literary
form as the board hopes to see in
future issues, but ample variation
to provide material pleasing to
each reader. It.is hoped that every

| one.on-campus- who is interested,

in creative writing will read this,
issue, and, if they have any sug-

| gestions or criticisms, relay them

to. the editors.

If you wish to subscribe please
give your name to Pat Jones or.
Ellen Stone in Rhoads, or to any
other member of the Lantern board.

Careful, Children!
The students are requested
- t0 be more cautious on the









amount of unused capacity with

| or-the_Newe would be specific cri-
ticisms and-discussions by the class}

campus road. A school is ~ [jt wat agreed that no faculty mem-



Le

Miss Traubel to Sing
In Next Series Event



Metropolitan Soprano Plans
To Include Spiritual,

Romantic Music



The second event of the College
Entertainment Series will be a re-
cital given by Helen Traubel, dra-
matic soprano of the Metropolitan,
on Tuesday, November 26, in Good-
hart Hall.

Miss Traubel was “porn in St.
Louis and pursued her musical
studies there. After making her
debut with the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra, her fame spread
throughout the Middle-West. It is
only since 1939, when she first sang

in New York, however, that she
Continuea on Page Three



Bryn Mawr Group

Attends Conference



Problems of Unused Capacity,
Military Defense and Labor
Discussed at Meeting



‘i

Bryn Mawr as well as General
Motors, J. P. Morgan and the War
Department was represented at the
conference held on Wednesday in
New York by the Academy of Po-
litical Science. The meeting dis-
cussed the defense of the United
States and the speakers included:
Wesley C. Mitchell, professor of
economics, Columbia University;
Professor Edward M. Earle, of
Princeton; Hanson W. Baldwin,
Military and Naval Correspondent
for The New York Times; Rear
Admiral Woodward; Major Gener-
al H. H. Arnold; Frank B. Jewett,
Bell Telephone Laboratories; Leo
Wolman, professor of eoanaenies:
Columbia University; Sumner H.
Slichter, Harvard University; Don-
ald B. Richberg; Donald B. Wood-
ward; Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan
and Co., Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of
General Motors; and the Honor-
able Robert P. Patterson, Assistant
Secretary of War. The Bryn Mawr
undergraduate trio, Eileen Dur-
ning, ’41, Susie Ingalls, ’41, and
Madge Daly, ’42, were joined by an
audience of cigars and briefcases.

The various speakers were sum-
marized in Thursday’s New York
Times but certain generalizations
seem worth repeating. The United
States has at present a large

respect to capital, labor, raw ma-
Continued on Page Four



Criticism of Courses
Discussed by Council



On November 13, the College
Council discussed different methods
of criticizing courses, It was sug-
gested that the individual should
go to the professor and talk over
the course with him or that the
majors should submit reports of
their courses to the Curriculum
Committee. The Council finally de-
cided that a more effective method
than criticism through the Dean

as a whole, and that
siort of the class should be devoted
to a discussion he course.

The Council-also decided to keep
the First’ Aid Course under the
Physical Education Department,
but to give it more publicity. This
question was raised in view of the

{fact that the Bryn Mawr Hospital|“.

is offering a hundred hour coukse

in nursing.
To forestall misunderstandings

‘ber could refuse class cuts for as-
semblies.

to them.

Dr. David Given Joint Appointment

- By Bryn Mawr



Mid-Y ears

The Mid-Year Examina-
tion schedule has been posted.
Any conflict or neécessary
modifications should be —re-
ported immediately to the
Recorder’s Office. Other
changes cannot be made un-
less the request is made in
writing, with the signature
of the professor and each
member of the class approv-
ing another date.







British War Reliefs
Will Hold Xmas Sale

On next Monday and Tuesday, at
the Deanery, the Bryn Mawr
branches of British War Relief and
Bundles For Britain will join
forces in a Christmas Sale. On
sale will be Christmas cards, jewel-
ry, cigarette cases, compacts, play-
ing cards, etc. Chances will be
sold for a handkerchief which be-
longed to Queen Victoria, and. tea
will be served free to everyone who
buys two or more dollars’ worth of
goods. Otherwise it will cost 25
cents. Purchases may be put on
payday. .





Music Group
Plans are being made for
a new musical group consist-
ing of singers and instru-
mentalists from Bryn Mawr
and Haverford. This group
will be open to anyone who
wishes to try out, although
at first it will be small.
Madrigals; cantatas, and mu-
sic not included in the work
of the choir will be sung, for
pleasure only .and not for
concert performance. Mr.
Willoughby, Miss Rice, and
Mr. Lafford will direct the
work. More detailed plans.

will be announced later.







and Pennsylvania

Community Bibl Bibliographical
And Research. Center
Is Being Planned

Charles Wendell David of Bryn
Mawr has been appointed Director
of Libraries at the University of
Pennsylvania. Miss Park joined

Dr. Gates, president of the Univer-
sity, in announcing that Dr. David
will continue his Bryn Mawr pro-
fessorship and that he has also
been made professor of history at
the University of Pennsylvania.

The office, Director of Libraries,
has been created to unify.the work
of the University’s main library
and its numerous departmental li-
braries. Dr. David’s task is of
special importance, however, for it
will include coordinating the Uni-
versity’s resources with the new
plans for the community biblio-
graphical and research center on
the University campus. Dr. Gates
announced that the Carnegie Cor-
poration has granted 20,000 dollars
to finance the new plans for one
year on an experimental basis.

The Union Catalogue Library of
the Philadelphia Metropolitan area
which has a membership of over
150 libraries, has been moved from
the Pennsylvania Historical Socie-
ty to the University of Pennsyl-
vania’s School of Fine Arts in close
proximity to the Pennsylvania li-
brary. The Carnegie fund will be
used toward building around the
Union Catalogue Library a biblio-
graphical and- research center
which would,.in time, be unique in
its scope for the East if not for the
whole country.

Dr. David has been one of the
leaders in the work already done~
in listing the resources of virtually
all public, academic, and special li-
braries in this vicinity, and is
vice-chairman of the committee di-
recting the new plans.—Dr. David’s

schedule for this semester will be
Continued on Page Four







Missing Pajamas Provide Dreary Dilemmas;

Trundling Washers Debunk College Tradition



By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41

Even taking into account the
Bryn Mawr tradition of sloppiness,
laundry plays an important part in
all our lives. We may be untidy
but it’s a clean outdoorsy sort of
untidiness. All right then, we ad-
mit. that a laundry might mean a
lot to us but do we ever ask our-

selves what we might mean to al:

laundry?

There is on campus a small but
beautifully efficient organization
known as Rock Laundry. You’ve
probably seen their little red wag-
on rolling from hall to hall. At
any rate, a small but sincere group

of girls give their personal and in-

terested attention to your-washing
problems. And in the course of
their efforts a host of obscure but
fascinating information is revealed

Asa very small link i in the chain
perhaps I can explain what I mean.
Whenever I look at a certain girl
these days I think “Red Star slips
and Universal (We put the world
to sleep) pajamas.” Or when one
is telling me to be quiet or to get
off the grass or is answering the
question I couldn’t in class, I think
- . yah, yah you’re probably
wearing your Radelle Sylfit bra
today, and your Trushort, lace on
hem, Barbizon slip. That’s all
that’s the matter with you.”
helps a lot to have a little store of



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you’re dealing with other people or
they’re dealing with you.

Then there is the mystery angle,
the identification or that indelible
ink side of the picture. Laundry
slips at times must be extraordi-
narily graphic to linger in the
imagination and connect clothing
with its rightful owner.

“1 laundry bag (dishcloth motif,

unmarked)

1 wash cloth (wet)
1 pink rayon slip (Bakanese 32,
jangled hemline)
1 poison green waist (Debwin,
blouse of the month)”

That’s the kind of thing I ,mean.
As a final touch perhaps we should

just bring in the Rodk laundry can-
vassing song. It Dears a little
thinking about.

| __ “Wash-with us —re

For we'll slip you a slip

And we promise never to tear
or rip ._..

Wash with us

And you'll have no regrets

We are the laundry that never

forgets.”

Third Ambulance
A third ambulance has |~
been given from Bryn Mawr
for British Civilian relief



“ber of the faculty and his
family.





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Living Newspaper

The Living Newspaper presented on Friday was not a success.
It failed to make its point, it failed to entertain, and it realized few
of the opportunities which are afforded by a new and exciting
dramatic technique.

Living Newspapers are productions, and the theme of any.
dramatic production is lost if it is not clearly stated, thought-pro-
voking and sustained. Spontaneity and the spirit of cooperation
provide no license for confusing an audience. The end of the Liv-
ing Newspaper technique is not social service, it is rather to com-
municate a point by graphifying facts through the medium of
human action.

The subject of Friday’s Newspaper, Civil Liberties, is a diffi-
cult one. It falls easy prey to banalities. The presentation did not
accept the basic challenges to the problem; why Civil Liberties are
being attacked was not once indicated, how this attack is often
justified was not even illustrated. The audience was submitted to
a few verbal and out-worn lectures and a series of loosely jointed
charades by way of illustration.

The Living Newspaper. affords a most exciting and potential
field for dramatization. It provides opportunity for experimental
staging, and concise expression of ideas, It seems a technique
especially suited to the capabilities of college students. For this
reason we hope to see it carried further on campus, and we feel
that-with ingenuity-and—a_few-carefully-composed_ scripts it can_be
made entertaining, informative and stimulating.



Conferences

Exam week leads us up again to the same old stone wall.
Why, oh, why, we say, as we have said each exam week, have we
not been able to make our subjects a part of us? :

Those who take lab and discussion courses groan less than the
majority, who sit through three lectures a week in four courses.
The explanation for this is that we clarify our own thoughts and
are stimulated to further ‘thinking only when we have to apply
what we have absorbed.

Straight lecture courses, demanding only papers._and exams,
do not help us assimilate and apply our knowledge from week to
week. Those students who take second year and advanced courses
- often wish they had more opportunity to enlarge upon the lecture
material, to impress its significance upon their minds, and to evalu-
ate it in terms of their own interests and past knowledge.

To help solve this problem-we suggest an honors -system, not
as extra work, but as part of everybody’s regular schedule. In this
plan conferences could be used more extensively for a discussion of
class and extra work. To do this, the number of lectures might be
reduced from three a week to two, with conferences and inde-
pendent work for the third hour. The class_could_be-divided-into}





groups, and jin these groups each student would present individual

work for group discussion. The total amount of work would cover

- the necessary material of a course, and each student would have

something more individual and worthwhile when the couree ended.

Discussion and the sharing of ideas would stimulate interest beyond

the requirements, and.mass absorption would in a ‘Sense be cone
‘away with. a

MOVIES
- ARDMORE: Thursday, Duley,
Ann Sothern. Friday to Monday,
_ Strike Up the Band, Mickey Rooney
. and Judy Garland. Tuesday to
ee:. Captain Caution, Ai

male cab



tor Mature and Louise Platt.
EGYPTIAN: Thursday to Fri-
day, Brigham Young, Tyrone Pow-
er and Linda Darnell. Saturday
to Monday, Strike Up the Band.
Wednesday to Thursday, Kit Car-

OPEN FORUM



Counselman Favors Aid

Pared down to eight inches, these

are my reasons for belief that all
possible material aid should be sent
to Great Britain in the interests of
American defense. :
_ 1. Our defense program calls for
a two ocean navy; this means dou-
bling our present naval strength.
All of which takes time, a mini-
mum of six years according to re-
cent estimates. Now the British
Fleet defends us in the Atlantic,
enforcing the Monroe Doctrine,
giving us this time. Should Eng-
land fall, we would be faced with
the combined forces of Germany,
Italy, Japan, plus the remainder of
the British and French ships.

2. In the event of a German vic-
tory, our export trade would be
seriously affected by the loss of
European markets, by—

(a) Germany working with slave
labor at a minimum wage, thus be-
ing able to offer bargain rates.

(b) Germany putting business
on a barter basis, buying South
American goods, for instance, but
requiring the money that pays for
them to be spent in Germany itself.
Or bartering on a straight basis:

. {so much iron for so much rubber.

(c) Germany then being able to
exercise control over our imports,
depriving our factories ‘of essential
raw materials: rubber, tin, drugs,
silk, cork.

If this happens, as a nation we
lose the right to buy and sell free-
ly. We endanger our National de-
fense. We lower our standard of
living. :

Our former hopes of a localized
European War have been shattered
by events of the past year. But
perhaps we can stay the pace of
totalitarian conquest, by aiding
Britain and China, by realizing
that they are our last and very
slim chance of peace at home.

DorRoTHY COUNSELMAN, 741.



Lehr States Pacifist View

The group of pacifists for which
I speak advocate all possible hu-
manitarian and constructive aid to
Europe, but oppose military assist-
ance because we believe that war
is intrinsically wrong. In support
of our arguments we~ could offer
sociological, economical and _ politi-
cal facts just as true as those the
other side-can muster. But ulti-
mately we rest our case on the
ethical question. Bombs cannot
destroy. They do kill ideas. They
do kill innocent people. No moral
justification for this is possible.

We hold further that violence of
any sort is self-defeating when its
end is idealistic. Means are re-
flected in their achievement. More-
over, in a way possible to no ex-
ternal force, man harms his‘ spir-
itual self in resorting to violence.
The participants in a war find it
psychologically impossible to make
a just peace.

We are appalled by the intoler-
rance, persecution, and propaganda
spreading over this country. We
ask that the people of America
strive to think sanely and humane-|.
ly, not succumb to the distorting
influence of war hysteria, and re-
member that once we give up dem-
ocratic principles in our actions,

|American Democracy Depends

On Our Keeping Out of
“War in Europe

Today the people of the United
States. are unanimously agreed on
one principle; we all believe that
American democracy must be pre-
served and we are all working to-
wards that objective. Some of us
are convinced that American de-

moecracy cannot survive if Great
Britain loses the war in Europe.
This group says that England is
our first line of defense and that
she must be saved, by methods
short of war if possible, but by our
entrance into the war if necessary.
Others of us believe that American
democracy cannot survive if the
United States enters the: war
abroad.

We who feel this way do not look
complacently at the prospects of a
Hitler victory in Europe. We do
not minimize the probable effects
of such a victory on the position
of the United ;States as the only
democracy left in the world, nor do
we ignore the economic repercus-
sions which such a victory will
probably entail. We realize the
possibility of German economic
domination in South America and
the -fact that political domination
may follow. But, in spite of all
these things, we believe that the
entrance of the United States into
the European war would be even
more dangerous to American de-
mocracy than a Hitler victory. ’

In the first place, we do not be-
lieve that the war against Hitler
will be easy to win. We think, as
do most military experts, that the
continent of Europe will have to
be invaded and conquered by the
Allies if Hitler is to be defeated.
Three thousand miles from our
home base, landing troops on’ en-
emy soil, and fighting the Hitler
war machine, we consider a for-
midable task. Indeed, we think de-
feat conceivable, but at any rate,
we could only hope for victory af-
ter a very great expenditure of
wealth and manpower. Meanwhile,



Europe will be laid in ruins, a
large part of the population anni-
hilated by war and starvation, and |
any salutary form of government
organization will be non-existent.

At home, the war will be in-
creasing our already large national
debt, and inflation will probably
ensue. The prospects of foreign.
trade with a poverty stricken and,
perhaps, anarchical Europe will be,
very dark. The economic repercus-
sions which we will suffer from
such a war may indeed be worse
than those following a German vic-
tory. They will be equally bad and
the very fascist tendencies against |
which we will have been fighting
may spring-up from within in spite
of ourselves.

We who want the United States
to keep out of war believe in main-
taining and increasing democracy
at home by such reorganization of
our economic system that na-
tional welfare may contribute to
political democracy. We believe in
helping the people of Europe in
every humanitarian and construct-
ive way we can. We believe in co-
operating with South America for
our mutual welfare and protection.
We think it worth considering that
Hitler’s position_in—a—devastated





rwe have lost democracy.



SEVILLE: Thursday, Haunted
Honeymoon, Robert Montgomery
‘and Constance Cummings. Friday |:
to Saturday, Dr. Kildare Goes
Home, Lew Ayres’ and Laraine
Day. v

WAYNE: Thursday to Satur-
day, Boom Town, Clark. Gable,
Claudette Celbert; Spencer Tracy
and Hedy LaMarr.

SUBURBAN: Thi
Great McGinty, Brian

The
and

Akim Tamiroff. veiaay and. Sat-
urday, The Mystery Sea





pre Set lene ae

Henry Wilcoxen.

oan



Europe may nat be entirely a for-
tuitous one, and that when it comes
to the question of trade, we, our
national. resources preserved,’ ‘our |}
manpower and labor forces intact,
may be in a better position to bar-
gain than the dictator. We think
that American democracy is in a
very dangerous position today, but
we believe that it has a far better
chance of survival if the United
Btatee remains at peace, ;
Sincerely,
- sane MASON.

Winsen’ 8 nb in ‘the. defense





|program is in a pursuit plane. -

Judson Speaks —
On U. S. Defense
And Foreign War

Friday, November 15.—Mr. Clay
Judson, a member of the America

First Committee, described the ac-
tivities of this organization. The
committee .was organized in Sep-
tember to express the views of the
American people who believe that
democracy can best be preserved by
building up our defenses and keep-
ing out of war.

The America First Committee
represents the many Americans
who want to stay out of war, but
who have not the funds to be as
vocal as the William Allen White
Committee. Mr. Judson explained
that they believe in building an
impregnable national defense; that
no foreign power nor group of
powers can successfully invade a
prepared America; that sending
our ships, planes and materials of
war to a belligerent overseas dan-
gerously weakens national defense
at home and threatens to involve
America in war abroad; and that
American democracy can only be
preserved by keeping out of the
European war.

The committee wishes to coun-
teract the panic and emotional
drive towards war which has be-
come so pronounced during the
past six months. Mr, Judson be-
lieves that there were four steps
which decisively altered American
opinion. The first was the Amend-
ment of the Neutrality Law in
1939, the second was the phrase:
“All aid to Britain short of war,”
the third—fifty battleships traded
by our Government for naval bases,
and the last—‘All aid to Britain
whatever the risks.”

Mr. Judson stated that the best
military authorities believe that
the present conscription program
plans for far too large an army.
an army of 600,000 men, well
trained and well-equipped would
defend our country adequately and
more efficiently than a huge army
of men who have been trained with
sticks for guns and diagrams for
tanks.

WIT’S END

FREE, WHITE, AND TERRI-
BLY TIRED

Are You responsible? Do you
put all your responsibilities in one
basket? What’s the basket made
of? Are you responsible for that
too? If so, why aren’t you more
ashamed of yourself?

We, for one, have heard entirely
too much of this business of re-









sponsibility and responsibility of |

business. Now, take, for example,
the stuff of which dreams are
made. Of what are responsibilities
made? Sugar and spice and every-
thing not nice, that’s what.

Now, take responsibility in free-
dom of the press, then take free-
dom of speech, write in, and we
won’t have to write this column
any more. And that is but one. ex-
ample of accepting your responsi-
bilities. Someday we’re going to
read two of those books on the
reading list, for which we have al-
ready been held responsible on two
quizzes. This is the sort of daily
responsibility which we all too of-

iten disregard, don’t we? That is,

until after those nassy ole marks
come in when it is Too Late.

Now, nobody-else ean think about.

this for you and we wish to heav-

ens you'd think about it for us.

Heavens, in fact, to Betsy.
In '76 the sky was wed,

_ And -thunder wumbled overhead
And bad, naughty old King

George couldn’t sleep in his bed;

And you know who I am.

Why didn’t you ever take the.
trouble to find out who wrote this .

column anyway. If you do know
who we are couldn’t: you help us
get home? We’re-lost and not re-

-|sponsible for our actions.







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B. M. Varsity Defeats
Unbeaten Penn Team;

Backs Supporting Well



Bryn ae November 18.—The
Varsity brought the University of
Pennsylvania’s winning streak to a
close by winning 2-1. The game

“Was. not as evenly matched as the
score indicates, for Bryn Mawr was
continually hammering at the
Pennsylvania goal. The Varsity
played as a unit and showed itself
superior in speed, passing, and
stick - work, Pennsylvania for-
wards provided many’ anxious mo-
ments during the last half, but
they were halted by the steady and
dependable clearing of the ball by
the Bryn Mawr backfield.

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Exhibit Shows Group
Of American Artists



Common Room, November 17.—
The Art Club’s first exhibition this
year consists of reproductions of
the works of sixteen contemporary
American painters. Outstanding
among those are Grant Wood,
Thomas Benton, whose familiar
portrait of his mother hangs over
the Common Room mantel; Peter
Hurd and Robert Brackman.

The pictures which occasioned
the most comment were Maurice
Stern’s Inez, a water-color portrait
in soft greens and browns; George
Schreiber’s ghostly Mississippi
Moon, John Wharf’s Beachcombers,
which reminded some people of the
Tempest scene in David Copper-
field; John Costigan’s water color
of his children, Fishermen Three,
and the»gelden-brown Toilers at
Sunset, by Millard Sheets. Copies
of George Schreiber’s work and
Peter Hurd’s Water Hole were
both sold at the tea.

Most of these “Gelatone” repro-
ductions, which were obtained from
the Associated American Artists,
Inc., of New York, are approved
by the artists themselves, and are
supposed to be almost indistin-
guishable from the originals.



The NEws is glad to print any
letter and can publish it without
the writer’s signature, providing
that the editor is told who the
writer is. No newspaper can pub-
lish letters from unknown sources.
We have savéd an anonymous let-
ter received Tuesday and will print
it as soon as the writer reveals his
or her identity to the editor. With-
holding this letter does not imply
we agree or disagree with the opin-
ion expressed.





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Elections
The College Choir takes
great pleasure in announc-
ing the election of the fol-
lowing committee to direct
its plans for the ‘coming
year: Maragret Shortlidge,
’41, chairman; Annie Emer-
son, ’41; .Margot Dethier,
42; Joan Motley, ’42; Chris-
tine Waples, ’42; Ann Ad-
ams, 43; Mary Rambo, ’43;

Joan Goodman, 744.







Helen Traubel to Give

Second Series Concert



Continued trom Page One

has given many recitals and has

been enthusiastically acclaimed by

the best music critics.

The program is as follows:
Gottes’ Macht und Versehung
Wonne der Wehmut
Ich liebe Dich!

Beethoven
. 'Elsa’s Traum, from Lohengrin
Wagner

Aufenthalt

Wiegenlied (Wie sich der Aue-

gelein)

Seligkeit

Schubert
Ruhe meine Seele
Ca-Celie
Richard Strauss
Intermission
Elegie Rachmaninoff
Song without Words (Duet in
A flat) Mendelssohn
Mr. Bos
Voi lo sapete, from “Cavelleria
Rusticana” Maseagni

Deep River

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

ASpirituals arranged by H. T. Bur-

f leigh)

Sea Shell Carl Engel

A Memory Blair. Fairchild

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

MeNair Ilgenfritz

MOO MANIA |
HITS GAMBLE

&

5.

6.





has had the distinction,
unique among Bryn Mawr alum-
nae, of escorting her cow, Laneway
Lancewood Diana, to the New Eng-
land Ayrshire Milking Derby last
month. Laneway Lancewood Di-
ana is three years and _ nine
months old. During the seventy-
two hours of competition she pro-
duced 176.7 lbs., of °4.19% milk,
7.3959 Ibs. fat, swamping all con-
testants to win a 150 dollar prize.



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Bio-Chemical History

Traced by Dr, Doyle



Dalton, Monday, November 18—
In the fifth lecture of the History
of Science Series Mr. Doyle of the
biology department traced the de-
velopment of bio-chemistry and its
origins. As Mr. Doyle stated, ‘not
only nature but intellectuals seem
to abhor a vacuum, and early
scientists filled in the gaps in their
knowledge of living things with
sprites and demons. Theophrastus
wrote of digestion as the alchemist
who lives in the stomach, cooking
and sending the good food through-
out the body and the bad food out.

Boyle, in his The Sceptical Chem-
ist, was the first to approach the
study of life from the experimental
angle. He noticed that an animal
and a candle when placed in a
closed jar consumed oxygen simi-
larly and died or went out. A few
more advances were made during
the seventeenth century, but an-
other side-track branched off to the
theory that mechanics alone con-
trolled the body. Descartes was
one of the chief proponents of this
idea.

Little progress, however, carried
over to the beginning of the eight-
eenth century. De la Mettrie, doc-
tor in the court of Frederick the
Great, soundly concluded that body
motion was based on reflex nervous
reactions. His good observations,
unfortunately, were confused by
his love of the practical joke. When
his book, Man, A Machine, came
out many books were published to
refute it,-among the most impor-
tant being Man, More than a Ma-
chine, by. de la Mettrie himself.
From 1750 to 1780 Priestley and
Lavoisier worked somewhat cooper-
atively on the oxidation problem
which Boyle had introduced. They
eventually discovered that breath-
ing was a form of slow combustion,
thereby giving rise to the thought
of the conservation of energy.

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organic compounds had been known

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the end of the eighteenth century
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was recognized. Scientists then
found that’ organic compounds
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In 1822, for instance, it was dis-
covered that formic acid could be
produced hy means other than dis-
tilling ants. The possibilities of

‘the contributions of chemistry to

biology were more fully realized
when Wohler, in 1832, synthesized
urea from inorganic substances.
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completely the field of bio-chemis-

try. Throughout the century scien-

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phenomena. When, in the twenti-
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try achieved a firm foundation.

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Dr. C. W. David ied.
Penn Library , Director



Continued from Page One

unchanged. Second semester, how-
ever, he will have to give up one
of his courses here to have time for
his new position at the University

of Pennsylvania...The appointment
is a’ great tribute to the work he
has already done for the Commu-
-nity library plan. It is also a sig-
nificant step for Bryn Mawr in its

Dr. Hans Kohn Speaks
To Undergrad Assembly

‘Continued from Page One





program of cooperation between
colleges..to announce a joint ap-
pointment with the University of
Pennsylvania.
has withstood the authoritarian
strategy of terror and confusion.
“Three months of real and con-
scious democracy in England have
proven the immense vitality and
efficiency of democracy.” We can
now hope, said Mr. Kohn, that the
new true revolution will be accom-
plished in a victorious England.
The United States is free from
the counter-revolutionary tradi-
tions of Europe; it does not*need
to fear the fatal inertia which
dictatorships utilize so well. It can
prove, as England has, that effi-
ciency and vitality are not authori-

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United States Defense
Discussed at Meeting



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terials and machinery. For this
reason the speakers urged that the
production of. consumer’g#goods be

unchecked and that the demand for

war-materials be superimposed on
the existing demand until the sur-
plus capacity is absorbed.

Coordination of government pur-
chasing agencies under a _ single

,| head was urged. The dangers of

inflation were revealed through in-
creased bank credit and _ prices



tarian monopolies. Germany’s
claim to supreme efficiency is based,
not on the efforts of Hitler, but on
a national gift for organization.
America, however, was long fa-
mous as the world’s most efficient
nation.

The claim to greater vitality, to
greater manpower, made by the
counter-revolution, is equally un-
founded. Fraternity is still a vig-
orous democratic force. (“Given
the courageous leadershi of the
Anglo-Saxon democracies,” the
Chinese, the followers f the In-
dian National Congress, and tens
of millions of men all over the
world would cooperate with Eng-
land, the Dominions, and the United
States in defense.

Dr Kohn was born and educated
in Czechoslovakia, fought in the

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war, and was captured and im-
prisoned for nearly five years in
Asiatic Russia, where he ‘witnessed
the Revolution and the Civil War.
Dr. Kohn is an author and a Gug-
genheim Fellow.

productivity. Revision of taxation
is thought necessary to procure
more equitable and greater results.
Mr. Slichter suggested a National
Fiscal Advisory Committee.

The majority of the speakers be-
lieve’ a longer working day neces-
sary. According to Mr. Sloan, a
six-day week would increase output
20 percent. Professor Slichter
agreed with Mr. Sloan as did Mr.
Richberg. Mr. Woodward speak-
ing on French conditions was ultra-
conservative in his view point to-
wards labor.

The military aspects of the de-
fense revealed the great value of
United States acquisition of naval
bases on British Islands in the At-
lantic. Mr. Baldwin pointed out
that it will be 18 months before we
have a single complete unit of
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