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POLLEG
E NEWS
VOL. XXIX, No. 12
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1943
Copyright, Trustees of
Sryn Mawr College, 1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
News is to Give
Assembly; Evarts
Iseman Will Talk
Horwood, Scribner Speak;
‘College, News Relation
Is Discussed
On Friday, January 15, at 12
noon, the News, sponsored by the
Undergraduate Association, will
present a College Assembly in
Goodhart. Speakers will be Nancy
Evarts, ’43, Alice Iseman, ’43,
Nancy Scribner, ’44, Louise Hor-
wood, 44 Anne Denny, ’43, and Ali-
son Merrill, ’45. They will discuss
the College as a part of the News,
its possibilities and its probléms.
At the end of the assembly, using
a modified form of the Living
Newspaper technique, the News
will endeavour to present a pic-
ture of its actual functioning.
This will be the first Undergrad-
uate Assembly to be given by the
News. The entire staff will par-
ticipate in the production and pre-
sentation of the assembly.
Vocational Meeting
To be Held Saturday
The first of a series of vocational
conferences will be held’ Saturday,
January 16, beginning at 10.30.
The subject will be the opportuni-
ties open to women on newspapers
and magazines.
Mrs. John Laylin, Bryn Mawr,
1935; will speak on magazine jobs
for women, and Miss Joan Wool-
cott of the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin will discuss newspaper
jobs. In the afternoon conferences
with individual students will be
held in Taylor. ‘Anyone ‘interested
may sign up for an appointment on
the Bureau of Recommendations
bulletin -board on the second floor
of Taylor.
Special invitations have been
sent to all who signed up as being
especially interested in newspaper
and magazine work, but anyone is
welcome to attend the meetings and
to have individual conferences.
Gym is Redecorated Along Modern Lines;
Holds Open House to Celebrate Its Rebirth
seven days by two electric scrapers
By Alison Merrill, °45 and Joe, the Lantern Man, waxed,
The gym has been painted.} painted, and waxed again, it now
Technically, it’s robins’ egg blue-|boasts three full-sized badminton
green. In the words of a Fresh-|courts. The workmen, after three
man, ‘‘it’s dee-vine!”’ To the Physi- | solid weeks of work, used their last
cal Education Department, it’s such| remaining energy to carry in the
Freshman Show
} The Freshman Class takes
pleasure in announcing the
following elections of direc-
tors and managers of the
Freshman Show. The entire
production will be under the
direction of Patricia Castles. |
Stage Director, Barbara
Professor Davis
To Give Lecture
| On Food Problem
National Research Council :
a thing of beauty that they had_|
to don their best clothes and an-
nounce an Open House, with the
piano, so that it wouldn’t scrape
the floor. »‘They’ll cry,” Miss Petts
jasserted, “if we get one drop of
Dance, Rosalie Scott and
Costumes, Lelia Jackson. i
Rebmann. _ Member to Speak on
Business Manager, Doris Th d
Bruckholz. ursday
Professor Joseph S. Davis will
lure of refreshments. Says Miss | water on it.”
Petts, “It looked so lovely that we | The Physical Education Depart-
wanted to let everyone see it while} ment, when they weren’t handing
it was still in its prinstine beauty.” | out punch and cookies to the reé-
“It hits you in the eye.” Gone!ord-breaking crowd, rubbed their
are the bars that used to line one|hands in joy and smiled happily at
wall and cause many a-bruise for jeach word of praise. It. inspires
the basketball players. The floor|them; they» say, in their work.
gleams, the ceiling gleams, and all|“Couldn’t we have the basketball
the lights gleam. The blue-green | team wash it every week?” sug-
; , . |
walls are refreshing and “abso-|8eSts Miss Yeager. Inspired, too,
llutely marvelous,” after the sad/are the undergraduates, who want
color which made everyone look gs | to dye the grey curtains a magenta
if they had chicken pox. “Bright | Shade and paint murals on the
but restful,” someone calls them.
- speak on Nutrition, Economics and
Public Policy in Goodhart on
Thursday, January 14, at 8.15 p.
'm. This is the first in a series of
lectures on nutrition sponsored by
the Departments of Economics and
Map-Making Course
| Biology of ‘Bryn Mawr and Swarth- |
Sponsored by Army {more Colleges. hvcteinos Davis is
To be Given at B. M, ‘the Director of the Food Research
Institute of Stanford University
: : and a member of the Food and Nu-
socrer :
anaes gags by 'trition Board of the National Re-
soca ond ‘search Council. An outstanding
The Army Map Service of the economist and expert on food sup-
Corps of Engineers is asking the Ply, he is well qualified to speak on
Beverly Shy.
Lights, Janet Kennedy.
Music, Sarah Beckwith.
The baseboards and trimmings are
a shining, emphasizing black.
Even the girders, mottled, ugly,
and too much in evidence, are now
white and clean. The’ fireman’s
pole gleams; the backboards are
painted, the numbers on the score-
board are painted. Everything is
painted, everything is clean, every-
thing looks immeasurably better.
The floor is the pride and joy.
Always a problem, the floor was
too rough for dancing or too slip-
pery for basketball.
Distinguished Critic
Will Present Lecture
Kenneth Burke, the _ distin-
guished. philosophical literary crit-
ic, will lecture on The ‘Dramatic
and the Lyrical Monday evening,
January 18, at 8.15, in the Music
Room of Goodhart.
one of the Elizabeth Sheble Memo-
rial Foundation series.
Mr. Burke, who was at one time
musie critic on The Nation, won a
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
in 1935. He has written stories,
translations, critical articles, book
reviews. He is a critic who ap-
Continued or Page Three,
Fall Issue of the ‘Lantern’ Shows Variety;
Good Writing Provides Interesting Reading
Specially Contributed by
Miss Bettina Linn
The Fall Issue of The Lantern
is good reading, with variety and
some excellent writing. Three
stories, two articles, two poems,
and two pieces of light verse, with
page-end jokes and a drawing,
make up the issue. The worst
thing in it is the light verse, the
most engaging is Catherine Clem-
ent’s admirable account of a sum-
mer spent studying Spanish “com-
mercially, grammatically, histori-
cally, and last and best, musically.”
The best story is Liselotte Mez-
gers’ A Happy Birthday. It is a
natural story; it moves firmly and
easily on the current of the girl
Rona’s feeling. It is her story
throughout. All of Her Laughter,
in contrast, carefully developed as
it is, gets lost because it is not con-
tinuously either that girl’s story
or the author’s, but falls between.
The girl-seems to have it, and
then comes a part where the auth-
or is clever at the expense of her
Mid-Years
Changes in the mid-year
examination schedule. will be
noted only on the copy posted
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heroine, and any effect is gone.
The Special Cultivator, by Patri-
cia Brown, is simple and direct. I
do not know whether the Editors
of The Lantern are the judges of
the competition: in which these
stories were selected as “eligible
for the final contest.” Without
having seen any of the others, I
am inclined to respect the judges’
fairness; for certainly they did not
‘select stories all of one kind.
Doris Benn’s Amateur Natural-
ist is written with extraordinary
command of technique. The like-
ness of the naturalist to the donor
in the picture is unsatisfactory, I
think, neither suggestive nor real-
izing any full meaning. The first
part is very good. The poem
Requiem is unsuccessful. Its
meaning comes only from an ac-|.
cumulation of words.
A Pleasant Place is a rambling
article on the corner of the Library
where the cage of books for sale
stands behind the watercooler. Af-
ter a slow beginning there is pleas-
ant reading about odd books in the
ease. The opening Editorial is in-
telligent. It gives an amusing sur-
vey of. past Lantern editorials on
|| Lantern’ editors’ troubles, and then
suggests a cause for all of them.
The Editorial does not berate, ex-
Seraped for |
The lecture is;
peel
! Wilson Will Present
| Discussion on Joyce
Edmund Wilson will speak on
| James Joyce’s Finnegan’s .Wake
‘at the annual Shipley Lecture
sponsored by the Department of
English at Haverford College, Fri-
day, January 15th; at eight-fifteen
P. M.
Mr. Wilson is a noted dramatist,
critic, novelist and poet. He has
been on the staffs of Vanity Fair
and The New Republic and is
the author of the novel Thought
of Daisy and a book of literary
criticisms entitled Avwel’s Castle.
In recent years he has written
several plays including The Triple
Threats, To The Finland Station,
The Boys in the Back Room, and
The Wound-and_the Bow.
The lecture will take place in the
}Common Room of Founders Hall
at Haverford.
Rowley of Princeton
Will Give Art Course
A course on “Art and Culture of
the Far East” is being offered by
the Art Department second semes-
ter. George Rowley, of the De-
partment of ‘Art and .Archeology,
Princeton University, will be the
The course will cover the
lecturer.
art and culture of China, India,
and Japan, with emphasis placed
on Chinese painting.
Mr. Rowley is a former member
of the Bryn Mawr faculty. A dis-
tinguished lecturer, he has taught
at Columbia University, Metropoli-
tan Museum, and Wellesley College.
It is intended that this course com-
plete the art curriculum which has
had no course in oriental art since
the departure of Mr. Soper.
There are no prerequisites and it
may. be attended or audited by any
student or faculty member who is
interested. It is a half-unit course
and the lectures will be given from
four to six on Tuesday. . A confer-
ence hour will be arranged on Fri-
day mornings to fit the students’
schedules.
Seniors
Miss King would like to
see all Seniors who want a
job after graduation. ‘A
schedule of appointments is
posted in the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations’ ~Bulletin.
Board on the. second floor of —
“Taylor. Please sign your
name this week.’ |
—€
‘| hort, or lament; it: calmly surveys:
‘thrown to the winds, and she-
women’s colleges for about 200
volunteers to be trained as “engi-
military
neering aids” for
making.
map
The importance of maps is ob-
vious, in planning and carrying out
any military operation; and in most
cases the maps must be “made to
order” for the particular operation
which the Army has in mind.
At the Army’s plant near Wash-
ington, D. C., thousands of such
special maps are being turned out
as needed: information is compiled
from a huge library of foreign
maps and charts; the preliminary
map is laid out and drafted so as
to show distinctly the objectives of
greatest importance; the rough
draft is gorrected and prepared for
reproduction; the plates are made;
and the finished map is printed.
At every stage of this process
skilled—-workers—are—needed, and
most of them will have to be
women. A _ preliminary training
course is being offered, under the
U. S. Office of Education, for col-
lege women,in the second semester,
which will fit them for positions
in the Army Map Service. at the
end of the college year.
will start at $1800 and there will
be opportunities for advancement.
This training course will require
about 60 hours’ work in all (about
four hours a week, carrying no col-
lege credit) and is intended to give
a general survey of the processes
and_problems of map making. Stu-
dents who have some knowledge of
geology, geography, ‘mathematics,
drafting techniques, or foreign
languages (especially unusual ones)
will find direct uses for these ac-
complishments, but no specific sub-
Continued on Page Three
Salaries |
this subject. He is- the author of
| Wheat and the AAA and numer-
ious other books and articles.
}
| Endicott Discusses
__ Missionary Activity
}
Music Room, January 8. —Dr.
‘James Endicott, former advisor to
| Mme. Chiang-Kaishek, told of the
missionary work now being done in
China for the relief of war casual-
ties. The New Life movement is
‘one of the most active forces in
jthis work, especially in aiding
bombed areas. Dr. Endicott stated
| that nine out of every.ten cities on
!China has been badly hit. The
'New Life movement organizes
| small relief “squads that go to all
{the recently bombed cities. The
need for this help is tremendous.
Moreover desperately needed sup-
plies are now almost unobtainable.
| Dr. Endicott said that he was con-
| vinced of the great value of mis-
|sionary work when he ‘saw the
| amazing courage of the Chinese
|Christians. He intends to return
and carry on his missionary’ work
there very soon.
Supper in the Common Room fol-
|lowed a discussion of the New Life
‘movement. Dr. Endicott stressed
the movement’s concern with the
future health and development of
industry in China. Technicolor
movies were shown to give a pic-
ture of China today. They included
scenes of the rice fields, the bomb-
ing of Chungking, and close-ups of
the Generalissimo and other offi-
cials. Particularly timely were the
shots of work going on in the hos-
pitals, now short of supplies and
equipment.
Dance Held for Cadets of Army Air Corps;
Haverford Radio Interferences Confuse Airmen
By Alice Iseman, ’43
The Army Air Corps descended
on Bryn Mawr Saturday night, 20
strong. There might have been
more of a gathering to greet the
40-odd Bryn Mawr belles, primed
in their best manner to entertain
the cadets, had not a 24-hour leave
been declared 20 minutes before
the dance was to begin. Doubt-
less, many. thought that the at-
mosphere of Philadelphia or New
York would be more relaxing than
that of a Common Room dance,
but how wrong they were is shown
by the comment of one fervent
cadet: “If they’d known the girls
were so pretty, more than a hun-
dred would have turned up!”
Because of the disproportionate
number of girls, all convention was
-wolves ‘soon’ shed their deceiving
lambs’ clothing and began cutting
in on good dancers, of which there
was an amazing number.
Music was supplied by records.
Everything was going smoothly
until suddenly interference by the
Haverford radio station tempo-
rarily disrupted the dancing and
confused the Air Corps, who could
not quite understand why the loud-
speaker should keep asking “What
do you want us to play now, Bryn
Mawr ?”
Dancing gave way to singing
toward: the end of the evening.
Shrill sopranos and off-key basses
joined’ in the Army Air Corps Song.
Then the cadets sang “Happy is
the day when the airman gets. his
pay,” which apparently turned .out
to be true, judging from the num-
ber of. couples-seen at the: movies
and the Greeks Sunday -wnight,,
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Vacation
A three week mid-winter vacation is unsatisfactory. During
this year’s unusually long Christmas holiday, a few students held
jobs for one or two-week periods.
_and writing papers assigned by professors, who felt that part of
‘this respite should be devoted to academic pursuits.
studied nor worked.
Three weeks is too short a time in which to procure a satis- |
It is difficult to obtain practical experience in special ' to-physies.
factory job.
fields or along other lines of interest in one or two weeks.
Some spent their time reading ;
Others neither
C. aay
Thursday, January 14
Dr. Joseph S. Davis, Nu-
trition, Economics and
| Public Policy, Goodhart,
8.15.
Friday, January 15
College Assembly, Good-
hart, 12.00. The College
News.
Saturday, January 16
German: and Spanish Sen-
ior condition examinations.
| Taylor, 9.00 A. M.
Vocational Conference.
Mrs. John Laylin and Miss
Joan Woolcott. Deanery
10.30 A. M.
Monday, January 18
| Ann Elizabeth Sheble Me-
morial Foundation lecture.
| Kenneth Burke. The Dra-
matic and the Lyrical.
Music Room, 8.15.
My vacation was written and di-
| rected by my mistress, mother, and
guiding star. I took thirty books
home, but only read twenty-nine
because I had to take my great-
grandmother to the movies. New
Year’s Eve was exciting—my first
reading of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire. By Sunday I
had finished all four term themes
so I whipped out my Honors Paper.
I’m leaving second semester.
They offered me fifty dollars a
week to test shoe buttons in Mil-
wee END.
|
|
If the
holiday is to provide relaxation and freedom from books and papers,
extra assignments are unfair.
And now, during the war, it is par-
ticularly inappropriate to spend three weeks in self-indulgence.
If a short vacation is granted, professors do not feel called | the Influence of Freud on Chaucer
upon to assign extra work, and students have the chance for a much
needed rest.
gain experience through jobs or self-appointed projects.
were given, perhaps the term should be completed first, with exams the light of the lantern.
Even three weeks is too long an
coming before the vacation.
Given a holiday of a month or more, students can
If a month
interval between. the term’s work and its examinations.
This forced vacation of three weeks has shown itself to be of
an awkward length.
We need either more or less time if it is to be
productive in either experience or rest.
OPINION
Letter of Frustrated Senior
Inaccurate, Credit System
Is Stated
To .the Editor of the College
News:
The Committee on Transfer
Credit believes that misunder-
standings about the granting of
transfer credit can be cleared up
rapidly if students and faculty
know the authority granted to the
Transfer Committee and under-
stand the general policy ore
by the Committee.
The committee is a icon
tee of the Committee on Cirricu-
lum and was created in 1933 to
grant hour for hour credit for
work done at other institutions.
The policy followed by the commit-
tee in awarding credit is outlined
below: —
-1. The institution at which the
work was taken must be on the list
published by the Offige-of Educa-
tion of the Accredited Higher In-
stitutions whose qhalified gradu-
ates are admitted to Graduate].
Schools of the Association of
American Universities. -
2. The courses taken must cor-
respond to similar courses given at
Bryn Mawr. No credit can be giv-
en for courses in typing, home eco-
nomics, hygiene, etc.
3. The courses taken at other in-'
* stitutions must not repeat work al-
“4
fered for matriculation to college.
4. The amount of credit given is
determined by the statement made
by the other institution as to the
semester hour value of its course.
If the other institution states that !
the course carries three semester |
hours of credit, the equivalent val-
ue in Bryn Mawr_units is 3/8 of a
unit. One’ Bryn Mawr unit is
equal to eight semester hours (see
page 43 of the catalogue).
Since the Committee on Trans-
fer Credit is not empowered to -
grant more than hour; for hour
credit, .and since the Committee
must accept the evaluation made
by the other institution of its own
work, determining the amount of
credit becomes a mathematical cal- '
culation—often a complicated one.
Students should not try to calcu-
late their probable credits but
should consult Mrs. Anderson, the
Recorder of the College, who will
make the m&thematical calculation
for them on the basis of catalogue
statements.
TRANSFER CREDIT COMMITTEE,
JULIA WARD,
MARGARET GILMAN,
Mary S. GARDINER.
MARIAN C. ANDERSON, Acting
Secretary for the Committee.
Editor’s note. The Dean’s office
states that the letter from the
frustrated Senior in the last issue
of the News is inaccurate and that
‘it ibes an n exeaptenal case.
r ie ae ase di
Fee cae Later
CHRISTINA GRANT, Chairman,
waukee. It seems very few people
have had even three weeks of plas-
By the way, I’ve de-
cided April 22 for the wedding. , I
haven’t met the one yet, but things
happen so quickly now, I thought
it best to save time ahead. Before
'T go, I have to write that paper on
or Was He Really a Victim of
Emotional Dementia. All my
sources were on the shelf by the
water cooler, which I discovered by
Do you
think he’ll mind if I write it in lip-
stick on a paper bag—he never
reads them anyway. It’s the leth-
argy of the place.
Registration for
Second Semester
Students who wish _ to
change their courses must
consult Mrs. Grant or Miss
Ward. Upperclassmen should
make an appointment with —
Mrs. Grant; Freshmen with
Miss Ward. Even those stu-
dents who discussed changes
in their courses last spring
or during the first semester
must obtain a slip covering
the change.
All students who do not
sign for an appointment be-
fore January 21 will be reg-
istered as continuing the
same courses for the second
semester.
Students taking Second
Year courses which change
at mid-years, namely, His-
tory, Philosophy, and Psy-
chology, should notify the
Secretary to the Dean which
courses they are electing for
the second semester. Any
student dropping a course at
mid-years because of having
already completed the second
i] semester of the course, should
likewise notify the Secretary
to the Dean. Any student
failing to notify the Dean’s
office of any change of this
nature will be fined one ob)
uit,
An appointment sheet for
upperclassmen is posted out-
side Mrs. Grant’s office; an~
appointment sheet for Fresh-
men outside Miss Ward’s of-
fice. Appointment for upper-
classmen begin on Wednes-
day, January 13; for Fresh-
|
|
~
men on Monday, January 18.
ce Sak a ey eee Re
Speer atest
In Print
Heym’s New Novel, Hostages,
Presents an Exciting Plot,
Weak Characters
Contributed by Lenore
O’Boyle, ’43
The situation of Stephan Heym’s
Hostages promises weil. A group
of five men, imprisoned in one cell
in the Gestapo headquarters at
Prague, await death as hostages.
One of the men, Janoshik is an ac-
tive member of the Czech under-
ground. Two, the actor Prokosch
and young Lobkowitz, are connect-
ed through the actor’s wife. Dr.
Wallerstein is a_ psychiatrist;
Priessinger is the powerful and
unscrupulous director of,the Bo-
hemian-Moravian Coal Syndicate.
Specially
Unfortunately, Mr. Heym is not
strikingly original either as a nov-
elist or a psychologist. The con-
The Seed. Beneath the Snow
Searches Validity in Life
For Individual
Specially Contributed by
b
Lenore O’Boyle, ’43
Mr. Silone’s new book about
Italy, The Seed Beneath the Snow,
is not properly a book about Fas-
For the last few
increasing number of
cism or the war.
years, an
novels have been concerned with
the individual in conflict with the
totalitarian state, and there has
been a tendency to picture the con-
flict in a fairly uniform pattern of
ideologies, of action in concentra-
tion camps and occupied countries:
The present war has had the effect
of simplifying the choice between
right and wrong for the novelist.
clusions of Dr. Wallerstein on the | Those who saw life as a succession
reaction of these men to the cer-
tainty of approaching death and
to each, other in the face of that
certainty, contain nothing that the
reader could not have foreseen
early in the book. As a novelist,
Mr. Heym lacks the ability to cre-
ate-anything more than stock char-
acters.
Janoshik, for example, obviously
is meant to typify and symbolize
the will to resistance of the com-
mon people of Czechoslovakia. He
succeeds only in being the strong,
simple peasant type, with the in-
escapable and inexhaustable na-
tive wit. The way in which this
type has been overworked may be
explained by the legendary inferi-
ority complex of the modern intel-
lectual, but it is a trend somewhat
hard on the modern reader. Again,
the forces of business pacifism fo-
cussed in Preissinger must have a
more complex explanation than
purely personal evil, but that is
the only explanation offered here.
In the particular devices of nar-
rative, the author is no less unih-
spired. There is the illegal radio,
the spy lost in the factory and
mysteriously killed by a machine,
the Gestapo Commissioner and the
heroine torn between fascination
and hatred. These have been used
too many times to convey’any long-
er the desired emotion, and leave
in its stead only the faint but un-
|mistakable odor of trickery.
All of which does not mean that
Hostages is in any way dull. Fast
moving and skillfully plotted, the
novel never fails to hold attention.
Sometimes, as when it centers
around the Gestapo Commissioner
Reinhardt, it comes near to hav-
ing the significance it was meant
to have. Though inadequately de-
veloped, the character of Rein-
hardt suggests that Mr. Heym
of shades of grey have yielded mo-
mentarily to those who see the un-
derlying black and white that re-
veals itself under the impact of
crisis.
It is not that there is any ques-
tion in Mr. Silone’s mind between
right and wrong. It is rather that
he shifts the emphasis fromthe
ordinary man confronted with a
way of collective action that threat-
ens the principles by which he has
often unthinkingly lived, to the in-
dividual in conscious search for a
way of life valid for any time.
The hero of The Seed Beneath
the Snow is an ex-Socialist who
discovers, during comparatively
safe months of hiding, that the
common peasant of Italy contains
in his own life more hope for the
future than any system of govern-
ment, whether of Socialism or Fas-
cism. Weak and vulnerable to
those in ‘power, such men have a
permanence denied to the orators
and party politicians. “A seed of
wheat beneath the snow is a poor
thing; we might. tax it with not
having the value of a bomb or a
pearl.”
Mr. Silone’s answer may not be
the ultimate solution, and his book
‘no more important than, for ex-
ample, The Seventh Cross,but-it_is
a successful attempt to indicate
the more permanent characterist-
ics of the individual- under any
form of government. The author
has, moreover, treated the story
with a sense of humor that should
please even those who prefer their
conflicts in larger outline.
might have written..a_ brilliant
study of the average successful
Nazi official. As it is, he has writ-
ten a book more creditable to his
personal convictions than to his
powers as a novelist.
Reserve Room Shows Up
the Bryn Mawr
Psychoses, Librarians Are Overburdened
By Elizabeth Watkins, ’44
“Why can’t I take six books out
over night?” asks the Freshman.
‘You can take them all as far as
I’m concerned,’} says the haggard
creature behind a mountain of
books waiting to be returned to
shelves. Such is life and death
‘n the reserve room at exam time.
We often. wonder why they
bother to tell Freshmen the reserve
room system. It is evident that
by the time they are Seniors they
still don’t know the rules. Maybe
rit is their superior position that
allow? Seniors to take books with-
out signing for them and then not
return them until second semester.
Much valuable psychological ma-
terial may be obtained from re-
serve room observations. An ex-
|twovert may be noticed immediately
by her exuberant attack on the
shelf. Sweeping all before her,
she leaves the room with an enor-
mous amount of material obtained
under several aliases. This crea-
ture obviously has no concern about
her. An introvert, however, creeps
in and will only choose a book of
which at least six copies remain
on the shelf. Meekly asking the
girl in charge of the desk if she
may have permission to read the
book, she reserves it for twelve
hours that week and silently with-
draws.
Criminal types lurk in every cor-
ner. The “kidnapper” steals the
‘book and then lets it lie unread on
her fellow-classmate’s opinions of
her desk: The library is undoubt-
edly terrorized by a gang. A stool-
pigeon first takes the book for a
ride as far as the memorial room.
There by underground methods it
is handed on to one,member of the
gang after another. Months later
the book appears on a shelf, usually
the wrong one. If, meanwhile, the
book is declared lost, it is the stool
pigeon who pays—usually twice the
value of the book.
These are obviously only a few
of the «vils of the reserve system.
We, however, are not advocating
its abolition. Its democracy ap- .
peals to us—all for one book and
one book for choo
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By Barbara Gumbel, ’44
Why did the newest addition to
the faculty come to Bryn Mawr?
Because he wanted to get married.
But to explain, it was not a Bryn
Mawr girl he was looking for, gince
the girl was already chosen. It
was that, in Mr. Reder’s own words,
he decided that he should stop be-
ing “a literary bum,” and get him-
self a job. He worked with the
National Board of Economic Re-
search, decided to try teaching, !
|Reder seems to approve of the
applied here and got the job.
He was born in San Francisco
in 1919 and considers his life un-
eventful. He attended the Uni-
versity of California, received a
fellowship at the University of
Chicago, gave up the fellowship to
become assistant in the economics
department there, and finally togk
a fellowship at Columbia Univer-
sity. For a while he intended to
become a lawyer, but on observing
a lawyer-employer in action he de-
cided that it was not for him. It
is here that love and Bryn Mawr
stepped in.
The marriage took place during
the Christmas vacation, and he and |
his red-headed wife are now living
in. Philadelphia. In addition to
teaching, he is still with the Na-
tional Board of Economic Research,
so that he keeps busy.
As to his impressions of Bryn
Mawr, for the first few weeks he
had none, since he was in the throes
of a bad attack of asthma. He saw
Alliance Holds Forum
On War Emotionalism
Common Room, December
1942.—At a meeting of the Alliance
a discussion on the subject of War |
Emotionalism was held. Led by
Betty Nicrosi, Rosalind Wright
and Catherine Clement, the small,
informal group questioned the fact
that a definite campaign of hate
was necessary to win the war and
came to the general agreement
that we need, not a campaign to in-
still hatred, but one to clarify the |
idea of what we are fighting for
and to urge the discussion of post-
war plans.
Betty Nicrosi, in opening the dis-
cussion, mentioned Westbrook Peg-
ler, Dorothy Thompson and Clifton
Fadiman as advocates of brutality,
instrumental in stirring up nation- |
al hatred. She asked if the group
thought that the only way to es-
cape defeat was through cultivat-
ing brutality. It was felt that
fanatic hatred was not needed;
that the instinct for, self-preserva-
tion’ will serve us as well. We
- ghould have instead a positive cam-
paign of educational propaganda.
There has been some anti-Axis
propaganda and we do hate, to
“girls wandering around in slacks
and sweaters, pretty much as I
expected.” Since then he has’ de-
cided that “the girls are normally
pretty and the campus is normally
attractive.’ As a matter of fact,
‘he thinks the Whole college--is
pretty normal, which we like to
take as a compliment. Of course,
the change from co-educational to
non-coeducational, from thousand-
pupil classes to twenty-pupil classes
was rather “startling,” but Mr.
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student-professor relations
smaller college.
How does he like teaching? Well,
it all depends on how tired he is,
or how tired his class is.
WHAT TO DO
Chemists are wanted by the
American Cyanamid Company,
10, ;
Bound Brook, N. J., the Chemical
‘Construction Corporation, Young-
itown, N. Y., and DuPont in Wil-
i'mington, Delaware. The RCA|
: Victor Manufacturing Company is
interested in Mathematics and
|Physics majors and minors for
Time and Motion Study.
The U.S. Civil Service Commis-
sion has announced openings for
instructors in the Army Air Corps
Technical Schools and Naval Avia-
tion Service Schools. Applicants
must have completed one year of
college. They will be given train-
| ing in radio operating or engineer-
ing, airplane mechanics, or.shop
work for from three to six months,
and their appointment will be for
the duration of the war.
| The Sylvania Electric Products
Company is interested in Mathe-
‘matics, Physics and Chemistry
majors to take positions as junior
ilaboratory technicians, test opera-
'tors, and supervisors in their vari-
ous manufacturing plants. A: rep-
| Distinguished Critic
Will Present Lecture
Continued from Page One
proaches literature in terms of
modern philosophical thought. He
departs from the old critical cate-
gories in trying to introduce new
definitions and new approaches,
Mr. Burke’s best known books
are Counter - Statement, Perma-
nance and Change, and The Phil-
osophy of Literary Form. He is a
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frequent contributor to the New }
Republic, Southern Review and
Kenyon Review, and has lectured
at many colleges.
City LIGHT'S
By Jessie Stone, ’44
The next time you pass the Au-
tocar Company in Ardmore you
may feel slightly puffed up ‘with
local pride, knowing as you will
then that the “tank-busters” with
75-millimeter guns made right
there were an'important factor in
the reversals suffered by Rommel’s
Afrika Korps. And when you com-
pare Philadelphia’s theatre season
unfavorably with New York’s jre-
member. that_Philadelphia_ has’ 2.3
percent of the country’s population
and is doing 7 percent of the war
production work. i‘ \
Add to this the fact that in the
entire country only 2 percent of the
war production plants have been
awarded the “E” for excellence;
but in the Philadelphia area 7.6 per-
cent (46) of the war plants won this
official distinction. Of course,
Philadelphia didn’t do all this from
scratch. The city has always been
an industrial center and further-
more many of the industries, such
as the machine tool, were able to be
converted to war work quickly and
cheaply, without needing complete
overhauling or replacement. In
addition the skilled labor supply in
this area is comparatively plenti-
ful and stable.
On the production front, without
knowing detailed data (military
secrets, of course), it may be said
that Philadelphia during 1942 gen-
erally lived up to and in some cases
exceeded its minimum responsibili-
ties. This is not to say that there
are not problems. There are ter-
rific ones, but they are not peculiar
Continued on Page Four
Marriages
Barbara Sincoff,
Daniel Burnside.
Marie Ann Smith, 48, to
Raul Vasquez.
"45 «to
Edna Wickham, ’44, to
Charles Schock, Lt. U. S.
Army.
Marie Leyendecker, ’44, to
William Cashell, Lt. U. S.
Marines.
Harriet Case, ’48, to Mer-
ritt Starr.
resentative will come to the camp- |
us to interview applicants. Please |
let the Bureau of Recommenda- |
tions know if you are interested. |
Map-Making Course
Sponsored: by Army
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Continued from Page One
jects are required as prerequisites. |
The course is“open to seniors
;and graduate students. It will be
igiven, for a minimum of 15 stu-
| dents, by the Geology Department,
with Miss Wyckoff in charge, at
hours to be arranged. A general
imeeting for all who are interested
|will be announced some time next
week.
lind Wright, ’43, was a dele-
Sylvia Choate, ’45, to
Alexander Harvey Whitman,
Ensign U. S. N. R.
Miriam Ervin, ’44,- to
Frederick Clark, U. S. Army.
Anita McCarter, ’43, to
eCarl Wilbur, Ensign U. S.
N. R.
Mary Hackett, ’45, to How-
ard Shaw.
Ardmore
Rene -- Marcel
French Hairdresser
853 Lancaster Avenue
Bryn. Mawr
Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr 2060
END TABLES
“Lone Ensign at Cape May, Alison Raymond,
Finds Excitement
in Movies, Dive-Bombing
By Mary Virginia More, °45
It was on December 16 that
Mount Holyoke graduated its bevy
of WAVES, among them Alison
Raymond, former student and war-
; den at Bryn Mawr College. Ensign
Raymond recalls nothing about this
red-letter day except that she felt
very Rockette-ish in the line of
march. In fact, the whole occasion
seems to have been rather blotted
out by the memory of the ensuing
six days’ leave, during which the
Ensign confesses to having had a
“gay” time in New York.
Christmas Eve her orders took
her to Cape May, New Jersey,
where she was immediately handed
three days’ leave. She is now. sta-
tioned at Cape May, and not only
is she there, but she is the only
WAVE there. (More are expected
soon.)
She sits in her office and devises
tasks for the four yeomen who are
at her command. The work con-
sists in organizing a training pro-
gram so that the men can try for
their rating.
In her spare time Ensign Ray-
MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Tasty Sandwiches
Refreshments
Lunches Dinner
mond boards about two miles from
ithe base, with a family. Soon she
| will be living with ten WAVES.
| Her spare time begins at four-
| thirty P. M. and ends at eight A. M.
The only place of entertainment in
the town is a movie theatre, since
officers aren’t allowed in the bowl-
ing alley. , Of the 130 officers and
2000 enli¢ted men at Cape May,
| we might’ here recall to attention
that Ensign Raymond is the only
‘WAVE, which means that she is
the only woman at the officers’
Continued on Page’ Four
Bonds
- A thousand dollars was
collected last month. in the
War Bond Drive. This sum,
added to the 850 dollars from
the previous month, makes
a total: of 1850 dollars. |
SE A SN NT EASES WME
DINAH FROST
Beehive and Ayr Scotch
Wools
Lovely Colors and Textures
in Domestic. Wools
Eaton’s Personalized Stationery
* Time to send Valentines
Overseas
calls.
expand our
*
WAR
IS ON THE
WIRES!
In our advertising, we ask the public
to make no unnecessary telephone
calls—especially Long Distance calls to
centers of war activity—and to keep
all calls as brief as possible.
Here are the reasons for this request:
1. War is crowding telephone lines
with a tremendous volume of
We cannot obtain materials to
copper, aluminum, nickel, steel,
tin and rubber are needed for
fighting equipment.
*
For the duration, please keep your use
of telephone lines to the minimum.
War Calls Must Go Through!
facilities because
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RIE oc tiran-an idea. *
some extent, ‘The question of what | gute ent trom and ofcialy | RAG RUGS
hate without personal application, ° 9 oes se ei LAMPS )
! War Alliance at the Inter tHE BELL ‘TELEPHONE COMPANY
whether we can hate an idea and
not a people... The group came to’,
no definite conclusjgn on this point, !
but agreed that wéhate war, and
national Students Sefvice
and International Relations
Clubs conferences which she
_attended.,
Hobson and Owens
Lancaster Avenue
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OF PENNSYLVANIA
Snatith 'o-sercemteg™ et
} Erratum
The last issue of the News
i! failed to report that Rosa-
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ena Seman’ § <
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the word vaccination is derived
‘However there is a dearth of con-
T.7*® COLLECE NEWS
Page Four
Paoli Photographer Catches Dread Disease
At Wedding and Menaces Philadelphia Area
CITY LIGHTS
. By Hildreth Dunn, ’44
It all started at a wedding in
Lancaster . . not a Mennonite
but an Amish wedding, which was
held in a small village in Lancas-
ter County. A photographer from |
Coatesville was bidden to the feast, |
and it was from him that the par-
ticulars of this unusual ceremony
were to come. While there, how-
ever, he received something unique
aniong wedding gifts. He never de-
developed his pictures, (unfortun-
ly), for the small-pox intervened.
His assistant from Paoli was simi- |
larly smitten, and the Main Line |
became acutely aware that small-
pox was spreading south.
Information concerning the na-
ture of small-pox. may be secured |
from a variety of fields. Literary |
sources, says Dr. Leary, include
Henry Esmond and Bleak House,
with their accounts of ravaged
beauties. Historical sources reveal
that milkmaids never caught it,
but their hands’ bore traces of its
sears. . It took a scientist; Jenner,
to reach the right conclusion about
immunity after cow-pox. And then
from the Latin for cow
tributions from the field of Art,
and the Black Plague seems to}
have been preferred as a subject
for paintings.
And after information comes |
vaccination. The reaction is imme- |
diate.. The vision of altered fea- |
tures, once conjured up, is incred- |
ibly effective. Lest this fill the|
Dispensary with an anxious legion, |
Dr. Leary and the Board of Health |
decide that all previous kgatins
tions would be valid for five years.
Continued from Page Thre’
Dr. Leary further says that en-|to Philadelphia. ae |
trance into Bryn Mawr, ipso facto,| It’s rather difficult to get an’
means a new certificate of immun-| overall picture of Philadelphia’s|
ity, so the infirmary vaccinated | behavior in other phases of the war |
mainly faculty and staff. drive, but there are indications here |
and there. One newspaper built up |
And lastly, among bits of inci-
dental information there are notes
on first symptoms . . . -quite
startling all in all: a cold or chills
and a temperature which may
slide from 99 to 104 degrees.
by meat and butter distributors. |
That such dishonesty is existent |
there can be no doubt (our own |
butcher was caught up in it), but!
how w-de spread it is-can not be |
- ‘determined. Before Secretary)
Lone Ensign at Cape | Wickard’s speech there was prob-
May Finds Excitement ?”!Y the general hoarding by a
sma!l number of short-sighted peo- |
. Continued from Page Three DG, but aftcrward people definitely |
han ; lyesumed their normal buying hab- |
So, what with the movies and | its. The local newspapers were at!
all, her time is well taken up. Inj first very stupid about the who!e |
addition, she makes sandwiches for | thing, working on the business-as- |
the U. S. O. one night a week, and usual principles of “anything for a|
on another night she rolls bandages-.Scoop.” For example, the morning |
for the Red Cross. ,after the announcement of the new |
Ensign Raymond has dived in qa|Yrationing program the Philadel- |
dive bomber while a guest on a phia Record came out with head- |
submarine - patroling expedition. | lines screaming about the big rush,
She hopes soon to go out on a sub- | evidently without having given any
marine chaser. | thought at all to the role of news-
After a long display of discre- Papers in the war effort. It appar-
tion regarding the Navy, she finally jently realized its error, for the
broke down and-admitted-that—be- | next day it changed its tune com-
ing an Ensign was “marvelous.” — | pletely, pointing with—disdain_to
' stantially the same as its own the
Engagements day before.
Patricia Castles, °46, to The dim-out has been postponed
David Atchison, Ensign U. S. for sometime this month and it
N. R. Continued on Pagé Six
Gray Bayton.
Ann Lee, ’46, to Douglas
Jones.
Mary Blanche Mitchell,
’43, to William Charles Kes-
ter.
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ANNA’S BEAUTY SHOP
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\the Inquirer’s story which was sub- |,
Frances Imbrie, ’44; to S. im |
YOU don’t have a
one - track mind.
Cramming for Exams?
Cram at The Inn!
SEER
a colonel
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cigarette
IN THE ARMY
they say:
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“ JUGHEAD” for the Army mule
“CHICKENS” for the eagle insignia of
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
OPINION
Possibility of Reading Period |
With Accelezation is Given
By Junior
To the Editor of the College News:
Since the problem of accelera-
tion has become so prominent, the
question of inaugurating reading
periods at Bryn Mawr seem to
have been forgotten. One of the
main objections to the system is
that it would lengthen the academ-
ic year at a time when it is expe-
dient to shorten it. Radcliffe Col-
lege has proved this se ieieiatid in-
valid.
Movies
In Philadelphia
Mastbaum — Yankee Doo-
dle Dandy. James Cagney,
Joan Leslie.
Earle—When Jonny Comes
Marching Home.
talny and All Girl Orchestra.
Aldine — Life Begins at
Eight Thirty. Monty Wool-
ley, Ida Lupino.
,Boyd — The Black Swan.
Tyrone Power,, Maureen O’-
Hara.
Fox — Stand By For Ac-
tion. Robert Taylor, Brian
Donlevy, Charles Laughton.
Stanley—Road To Moroc-
co. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope,
Phil Spi-
'] Joe Graham, 1, Night Witchiann. Has Birthday;
Campus Honors His Years at Bryn Mawr
Socks, fur
100 dollar war bond were the pres-
lined mittens, and a
ents that Joe Graham, night watch-
man, received from the campus in
honor of his entrance into his sev-
The gifts were pre-
Frances Matthai
at the Pembroke Christmas dinner.
entieth year.
sented to Joe by
He was congratulated by Miss Mc-
Bride,
more
who asserted that Joe knew
about night iife at Bryn
Mawr than anyone clse.
Joe has been in this country ever
since 1890, and at Bryn Mawr since
1908, a a period or 34 years. The
campus has grown since his ar-
rival, Joe says. He remembers the
time when there was no Infirmary,
no Science Building, no Goodhart,
and no Rhoads. “But the girls
haven’t changed much,” Joe adds.
‘You can change your personality,
but not your habits. Girls are girls
Start Narcissus Bulbs
”
no matter what age they are.
The
contributed to Joe’s gift, making
it possible to give him the bond
as well as the mittens and socks.
A crisis nearly occurred the day
it was to be presented. The bank
said that it wouldn’t be ready until
| the next day; but when it was ex-
plained that the occasion demanded
it immediately, special permission
was granted to come to the bank
after closing hours. And the day
was rescued.
whole college community
Boost your morale, buy a
new dress!
CLEARANCE SALE
| To smell up your room ,
Evening and Day Dresses
$5, $10, $15
£49.95
I think the task of sivendines
classes, preparing assignments,
and writing papers simultaneous-
si
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tave Six
Unprecedented Number of Squirrels Upset
Calculations As to the Arrival of Spring
By Alice Iseman, ’43
I am confused, pewiidered, and |
unhappy. I admit I had difficulty
with Minor Biology, but my mother |
told me long before I ever thought
of Bryn Mawr, that spring was the |
time when a young man’s fancy
and that all the flora and’
fauna migrated to Miami Beach |
in winter. (Before the air corps
moved in, of course.) Well, then,
will someone please tell me what
all those squirrels are doing around |
here right now smack in the middle |
of January? Everywhere I look
I see those merry little rodents
chasing one another up and down
trees with the gay abandon of May.
It disturbs me. In fact it jolts me
so far out of my midwinter lethar-
gy that it has come to the point
where I am beginning to smell ap-'
ple blossoms and new grass.
What are they thinking of?—!
playing tag at this time of year?
Do they want to get frost bitten?
Don’t they know that their only!
CITY LIGHTS
Continved-ftrom Pare Four”
seems as though*we haven’t had a
blackout for years. -But:then the |
ied
of
Sprague?
sustenance is. Dr.
After all, he can’t take
the responsibility for all the squir-
source
rels that are trying their level best
to liven up this dark and gloomy
campus.
Gone are the days when I could
hum Jingle Bells under my breath
and drcam cosily of a White
Christmas. The squirrels have me
‘calling “Come lasses and lads” all
over brown Merion Green. Drat
the beasts!
‘Cuts, Entertainment
Discussed by Council
Future entertainments, unlimit-
cuts, and Alliance activities
| were the main topics discussed at
the monthly meeting of the Col-
lege Council held on December 14.
'The meeting heard reports by the
Alliance, -League, Entertainment
Committee, Undergraduate Curric-
ulum Committee and the Alumnae
Association.
The Entertainment Committee
‘raised the question of using Rhoads
smoking room for “week-end enter-
tainment. It was felt that the
war is hitting home in ther and/| Plan should be tried for several
more poignant ways. Gold stars Week-ends. The possibility of an
have begun to appear in neighbor- | assembly to be given in the spring
hood windows and the newspapers |in which the WAACS, WAVES
'and WAFS will be represented was
carry more frequently the lists of
local men who’ve been wounded,
killed or taken prisoner. |
But on New Year’s Eve Phila-
delphia almost. forgot about the
~war except for the noisy toasts to
Victory, and*went on the biggest
spree in many a year. The scene
was a different one, though. On
the one hand crowds of unescorted
girls, on the other mobs of service-
men. If there’d been an air-raid
from 11.30 to 12.380 you couldn’t
have heard the sirens ‘for the horns.
| considered.
The report of the Undergradu-
ate Curriculum Committee pre-
sented. the problem of unlimitéd
cuts. The Faculty Curriculum
Committee expressed the opinion
FOR YOUR FAMILY
FOR YOUR GUESTS
THE’ DEANERY
_ Entertain Your Friends
at Lunch, Tea, or Dinner
-YHE COLLEGE NEWS
Small-Pox
Students may have vacci-
nations for small-pox in the
infirmary for the cost of one
dollar.
that it would be impossible to have
both unlimited cuts and unlimited
week-ends without harming’ stu-
dents’ work and health.
The Alliance announced that
Nurses Aides will begin their work
next semester if satisfactory ar-
rangements for instruction can be
The Faculty Defense Com-
mittee will start a drive on. the
24th of January for the Commun-
ity War Chest.
The successful work done at the
Children’s Center was reported by
the League. Fifteen students work
vegularly as assistants and will re-
ceive certificates at the end of the
year. A difficulty is presented in
the conflict of this work with that
of the Haverford Community Cen-
ter:
The Alumnae were gratified that
made.
ithe students have appreciated their
gifts of the new writing room and
improvements, in the May Day
oom,
the cottage tea house
new management
luncheon, tea, dinner
student charge accounts
Start the New Year right
and
thank-you notes.
catch up on_ those
CRANE’S STATIONERY
at
Richard Stockton
Bryn Mawr
Students Became Salesgirls, Governesses
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Bryn Mawr’s”’ unusually — long
Christmas vacation gave several |
students the opportunity to hold|
jobs during the three-week holiday. |
Department stores, a florist shop, a|
New York hospital, and Proxy Par-
ents were"all graced for one or |
two-week periods by the presence
of Bryn Mawr’s vacationing stu- |
dents.
Selling handkerchiefs under the)
Eagle in Wanamakevr’s is “all right,
hard on: your feet, but lucrative,”
reports Lanny Morley. And adds|
that she never wants to do it again.
Cash registers proved baffling.
After ringing up five dollars for a
§5 cent handkerchief, Lanny was |
sent to ec'dasses for instruction in
the intricacies of these machines. |
Jody Bushman, working in an In- |
dianapo‘is florist shop, was
dollars short her second day. Fur- |
ther investigation proved, however, |
that another clerk had deposited
that amount safely, failing to. re-
cord the transfer. “I’ve never been |
so tired of flowers in my life,” says |
Jody. “And I forgot to collect. my |
pay until January, so the Victory |
tax consumed most of it.” |
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| wanting
| store.
Francoise Pleven and Niles Ru-
mely, through Proxy Parents in
New York, took care of three chil-
dren from 10 until 6 daily for two
weeks. As an assistant in the
research division of the Pathology
lab of the Willard Parker Hospital,
Ann Bullowa spent two weeks.
Ronnie Ravitch interviewed: people
credit. in a New York
The jewelry department of
the-Blum store in Philadelphia was
Nona Piwosky’s headquarters for
| the working hours of a week. The
general consensus indicates that
long vacations are conducive to jobs
which could not be held during
sho:ter periods of time.
The Editor welcomes letters of
| constructive criticism.
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College news, January 15, 1943
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