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“THe COLLEGE NEWS





“VOL. XXVI, No. 17

Copyright,

Bryn Mawr College, 1940

Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS



BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 20, 1940



College Elects
Hutchins as *41
Under Grad Head

“Oh, dear,” said Steve soon after
she was informed that she had
been elected President of Under-
grad, “now I won’t be able to wear
these old sweaters anymore. It
wouldn’t look right.” The. chief
duties of the President of Under-
grad axe.to see that al] the undér-
graduate
smoothly, to act as a member of
the College Council, and to act as a
representative of college activities.

One_ of the--important—aims—of
next year is to make the college
curriculum committee and enter-
tainment committee conscious, and
to keep these organizations effici-
ent_and_ effective... Until this year
it has been the job of the Presi-
dent to go to all the committee
meetings, but with her other duties
this proved too much and the job
has been relayed to the Vice-presi-
dent. The Undergrad Association
takes care of the money collected
for the Activities Drive, the Thea-

_ tre Workshop and similar projects,
and pays the various monitors.
Steve was treasurer of the Associ-
ation her sophomore vear and sec-
retary this year. She says that all

she has done is write other colleges
to the effect that ‘““We-don’t- have a
debate council.” It seems that all
colleges except Bryn Mawr go on
debating tours. When interviewed
Steve had just received her official
Continued on Page Three

Political Poll

The Republican and Demo-
cratic clubs announce a poll
to be held this week to find
out the political affiliations
of students and faculty. The
forms will ask the party ties
of each student, and of their
parents, and also who they
favor for presidential candi-
dates. The object of the poll
is to arouse interest in the
coming election and to try to
see that all students who are
eligible vote next year.



organizations run











By Olivia Kahn, *4
Goodhart, March 16.—It has al-
ways seemed strange that the
maids and porters who sing so
beautifully every Christmas should
content themselves with such sec-

productions.
proven what most of us have sus-
pected, that they. have some of the
ablest_ performers on campus, and
that given the proper script and a
good director they can turn out an
astounding production. The, late
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
provided them with a powerful
springboard but the beauty and
strength of the production last
Saturday night grew out of the co-
operation and talent of those who
adapted it for Bryn Mawr.

To Fifi Garbat, ’41, should go
first mention because it was Miss
Garbat who had sufficient insight
to realize that Porgy was not be-
yond the maids and porters, and
who untiringly rehearsed them for
several months. Partly ‘because of
her direction and partly because of
the skill of the players, Porgy and
Bess achieved dramatic dignity

ond rate material in their stage}
This year they have}.

“Porgy and Bess” gives Maids, Porters

yee! to show Dramatic Skill Virginia Nichol

rarely found on the Bryn Mawr
stage.’ Players’ Club had best look
to its laurels.

The unity and suggestiveness of
the original was firmly caught, es-
pecially in such difficult scenes as
the one in. which Crown comes
back to reclaim Bess, and that in
which she is persuaded to go to
New York by Sporting Life. The
group scenes were effectively han-

dled, both the variegated crowd in|



Catfish row and the more stylized
swaying of hands and bodies in
Serena’s room.
Carl--Smith,--notedfor his -ap-
pearances in the quartet, was a
magnificent Sporting -bife, swag-
gering with complete ease out on
the stage and carrying himself
with professional aplomb. His It
Ain’t Necessarily So won him an
encore, but there were those.in the
audience, myself among them, who
Continued on Page Three



League to Offer
Student Talent, Tea
For Activities Drive



On Sunday afternoon. at 4.30,
March 24, the Bryn Mawr League
will present a musical program in
the Music Room. Tea will be
served at four o’clock. The League
wishes to consider this as their
the Activities
so no admission will be

contribution to
Drive,

follows:
Bach: Suite in D Major.;....... Ensemble
Air
Gavotte
Bounée
Gigue
Gluck: Gavotte from
“Tphiginia in Aulis’......... 4 Sprague
Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu...R. Sprague

Bach: Sonatina from
Cantata Number 106.......... Ensemble
Duet from The Messiah
Louise Allen and A. Updegraff

Handel: Third Flute Sonata..... A. Jacobs

Hayden: ‘
Ouartes, =. 20, Number 4..... Quartet

Aliegro di Molto

Adagio

Minuetto





Lattimore Comments on ‘Lantern’ Issue; _
Poems Interesting, Contents Balanced



‘ By Richmond Lattimore
Assistant Professor of Greek

In the editorial which opens this
issue of The Lantern, the empha-
sis is laid on world affairs. This
is natural; and nobody can object
to the editor’s contention that writ-
ing is a significant mirror of con-
temporary thought, though one
may object to the corollary, so
often implied, that all significant
writing tends to be political. Actu-
ally, this number is well” balanced.
There aré two articles, three seri-
ous stories, two (I hope) stories
that are not serious, four lyrics
and two drawings.

; - Helen Cobb’s . article on collec-
» tive security and ‘Finland — con-
siders an issue which died vio-
lently a few days ago; it is still

interesting as the expression of al

point of view, and it is neatly
': stated. There is no space here to
dispute particular

“Miss Cobb offers none but negative
~Her arguments im-
“ply that our present duty is to do
exactly nothing at all about Eu-
rope until the war is over, and
perhaps then to soa in and build

4 x



contentions;
. granting their truth in this case,

any other positive conclusion is
drawn and the article is the less
trenchant for its appearance of
balking before the final issue.

Bess Lomax on. the American

Youth Congress presents a well-
written, if somewhat _ tendencious,
summary. Her reporting of the
President’s speech shows that it
was objectionable in manner rather
than. in matter; the last para-
graph, on what was done and dis-
covered by the delegates, is the
most interesting, and makes one
wish for more at greater length.
.. Barbara Sage’s story of a Ger-
man refugee teacher in service is
wetl. done, but perhaps overloaded
with exposition for such an ex-
tremely brief sketch. Isota Tuck-
er’s story of a child’s escape from
a house is well conceived and at
Htimes sensitively told; but it is
marred by patches of unnatural

struct the attempted resolution in-
to a child’s simplicity. Joan Gross
tells her story well and easily ex-
cept for what appears: to be an at-



be. cusses on Page Four

charged. . The program will be as

for the future; but neither this nor,

stiffness, which contradict and ob-|}.

Proletarian Novel

Is Topic of Torres



Flexner Lecturer Describes
Abusive Social Conditions
Of Latin-Americans



Music Room, March 18.—In the
last of the Flexner lectures, Dr
Arturo Torres- Rioseco described
the Latin American novels-of the
soil and their beginnings.

Literature, Dr. Torres said, has
the same predominant part in Lat-

in American culture that industry
and economics have in North
America. The novelists today are
a great force for social reform. No

longer held to aristocratic and!

bourgeois -subjects they expose the
abuses of the lowest strata of soci-
ety and draw realistic pictures of
the sufferings of Indians, rubber
workers, peasants and plantation
workers, poor fishermen along the
coast, and prostitutes, - jailbirds,
and factory workers in the cities.
Their realism is a far cry from

that of Blest Gana, the “American/}+

Balzac” in the last century, be-
cause they are completely original
and American. Moreover, what
little European influence is found
in Latin American literature today
comes no longer from France but
from~Russia and, ‘Marxism.
- The first stirring*’social novels
caused a sensation.from one end
of America to the other. Santa,
a Mexican story depicting the suf-
ferings of women in prostitution,
was such a one. Many new walks
of life were explored—meat pack-
ing houses, jails and sailors’ homes.

The new field of.-social subjects
was broadened even further, in the
early twentieth century, by~ the
North American menace. The

sight of the United States Paateas
Continued on Page:Six ,

The Cinema!

Movies come to Bryn
Mawr, opening with Crime
and Punishment, presented
by the A.’S. U. in Goodhart,
Thursday night at 8 p. m.
The film is the French ver-
sion, with subtitles, of Dos-
toevsky’s novel. Admission
is 40 cents and may be put on.
payday.











"| Mareh 28, at which Graduate Fel-

Frederick Keppel
To Address College

On Educational Issue



Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, the
president of the Carnegie Cor-

poration, is to be the speaker for
the college assembly Thursday,

lowships are to be.. announced. His
subject is American Philanthropy
and the Advancement of Learning.

The Carnegie Corporation, es-
tablished in 1911, seeks to accom-
plish the advancement of knowl-
edge in the United States by giv-
ing financial aid to various educa-
tional institutions. It supplied
funds to Bryn Mawr for a project
| in the joint teaching of science
which went into effect upon the
opening of the New Science Build-
ing and the remodelling of Dalton.

Dr. Keppel’s speech upon this
|-eeasion is expected to be of par-
| icular interest in connection with
his recent statement made in an
annual report on the Carnegie Cor-
poration of which he has_ been
president since 1923. Dr. Keppel,

Continued on Page Five

A. Howard Unveiled
As Head of League

“] don't knew what my plat-
form will be,” declared Nannie
Howard, new president of the Bryn
Mawr League. “I wasn’t elected
until three o’clock this afternoon.”
Nannie, however, volunteered some
imperishable truths about herself.

She describes herself as looking
“kind of obvious,” set off from the
common herd by “two big eyes
and a mass. of fuzz on top.” In ad-
dition she points out her false
tooth -which swas missing during
the first part of this year. “Tt’s|
nice to have it home again,”
asserted. -

Although Nannie describes her
college career as uninteresting, she
is renowned as a champion of la-
crosse and managed the sophomore
swimming team last year. She
passes this off lightly with “you
know how bad the junior class is
at that ‘kind of thing.”

Nannie intends to devote much of
next year to work with the maids
andthe development of the Better





Self-soy Head
for 1941 to be



Virginia Nichols, president-elect
of Self-Gov., was prepared for all
emergencies by eleven years at the
Brearley School in New York. Her

| college career so far has involved

three years on the Self-Govern-
ment board, the presidency of the-
Peace Council, participation in the
Activities Drive Committee and
Sophomore vice-president. Last
spring -she was awarded the
Jeanne Hislop Memorial Scholar-
ship.

Her childhood seems to have
been an unruffled one, save for an
inopportune attack of measles in
Constantinople at an age when she
was too young to know any better.
She is majoring in biology and
whiles away many a pleasant af-
ternoon over frogs’ legs-in Dalton
and bromides in the New Science
Building. She is a stalwart fencer
and is gently pleased at the pros-
pect of receiving a triple Bryn
Mawr owl for having fought on the
team.

Her roommate is quoted as say-
ing that Ginny is coolly efficient at
double-drowning rescues in Life
saving. Recently she had the mis-
fortune to appear in the Sunday
Times, surrounded by a glamorous
welter of snow and skis, and is still
trying to live it down. She may be
found at any time during the com-
ing spring assembling costumes
for Iolanthe and adding a pleasing
and mellifluous voice to the peers’
chorus.

Reading of Poetry
By Frost Scheduled

A-talk-by-Robert-F rost, the fa-
mous American poet, Monday
night, March 25, is to complete the
Entertainment Series. Winner of
thé Pulitzer prize for poetry in
1924, 1930 and 1937, Mr. Frost is
considered one of the foremost
poets of the day. Among his books
of poetry are A Boy’s Will, North
of Boston, Mountain Interval,
West-running Brook, A. Lone
Striker, A Further Range, and
From Snow to Snow.

Mrs. King of the English De-
partment, when: asked- about Mr.
Frost, said, “Robert Frost has re-
mained a ‘modern poet’ in spite of
all that has happened in the poetic
world since the publication of his
great book, North of Boston. Theo-
ries and ‘schools’ have not touched
his fame, although in the passing
years many of his contemporaries
have been ‘dated’ and forgotten.
Both the symbolist and imagist
schools have washed over him and
left him unchanged in his method
of work and in the opinion of his
readers.

“Robert Frost is always contem-
Continued on Page Five







set

College Calendar |
Thursday, March 21.—
French movie, Crime and
Punishment, presented by the
A. S. U. Goodhart, 8 p. m.
Sunday, March 24.—League
"Musicale, Music Room, 4.30. .}
Monday, March 25.—Voca-
tional tea for seniors, Wini-
fred McCully speaking. Com-
mon Room, 4.30. Entertain-
ment Series, Robert Frost.
Goodhart, 8.30.
Tuesday, March 26 —Cur-
_rent Events, Miss Reid. Com-
mon Room, 7.30. Interna-
tional Club meeting, Penn-
Tulane debate on Isolation







Baby Clinic in Bryn Mawr. |

policy. Common Room, 8.00.












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sa BocaTxKo, °41
B. Cooxery, *42

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No college weekly and few dailies that we know of have com-

pletely solved the elemental proble
a field of material that its readers
would not.
lege events—léctures, dances and
things are already known to most

m of all news publfcations: to find
want.to hear about but otherwise

Grafting a super-journalistic technique on everyday col-

so on——is not the answer, as these
of those interested.

Partly the solution lies in a continual search for both news and

editorial subjects outside the campus which are,

pointed presentation can be made,

or by cleverly

of college interest. Partly also the

sheer fact of change and experimentation is one of the main revitaliz-

ing forces.

If the News went on from year to year in exactly the

same form, both editors and college would get bored with it.
In editorials particularly, a set policy from year to year,—and
sometimes even within one year, is more tiresome than vigorous, for

there are few clearly drawn issues about the college.

This does not

mean that the editors should sit down and detail, in a theoretically

“impartial” way, all possible sides of a question.

The process is rather

one of beating up a question out of the usual cover of inactivity, and
following it until opposing opinions are raised so that something

approaching a clear issue can be drawn.

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Whatever they do, or refuse to do, good luck to the News board

for next year!





In Philadelphia

THEATRES
ERLANGER: Tobacco Road,
with John Barton and Mary Perry.
LOCUST ST.: Margin For Er-

ror, with Doris —. and ss
don Leonard.

MOVIES

ALDINE: George Raft and Joan
Bennett in The House Across the
Bay.

ARCADIA: Remember the Night,
with Fred MacMurray and Bar-
bara Stanwyck.

BOYD: Mickey Rooney in Young
Tom Edison.

EARLE: Gone With the Wind.

FOX: Spencer Tracy and Hedy
Lamarr in I Take This Woman.

KARLTON: The Story of Dr.
Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, with Ed-
ward G. Robinson and Ruth Gor-
don. ‘

KEITH’S: Nosthwotsit. Passion,
with Spencer__Tracy and Robert
Young.

NEWS: The Princess Comes
Across, with Carole Lenoberd and







_. Fred MatMurray. ~

PALACE: De cedwan Melody -
1940, with Eleanor Powell and
Fred Astaire.

STANLEY: Strange Cargo, with’

Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian
Hunter and Peter Lorre.

__ STANTON: -Thomas-—— Mitchell

and Priscilla Lane in Three Cheers
for the Irish.

STUDIO: Peter Lorre in The!

Mae, Who Knew Too Much, and







MAIN LINE MOVIES

ARDMORE: Thursday: Topper
Takes a T?ip, with Constance Ben-
nett and Roland Young. Friday
and Saturday: Ann Sothern in
Congo Maisie. Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday: James Cagney, Pat
O’Brién and George Brent in The
Fighting 69th. Wednesday: Vigil
in the Night, with Carole Lom-

‘|bard and Brian Aherne.

NARBERTH: Thursday: Destry
Rides Again. Friday and Satur-
day: Balalaika.

SEVILLE: Thursday: A Child

ald and Jeffrey Lynn. Friday and
Saturday: Priscilla Lane and
Wayne Morris in Brother Rat and
a Baby. Sunday: Double feature,
Nick Carter, Private Detective and
Escape To Paradise. Monday and
Tuesday: Nelson Eddy and Ilona
Massey in Balalaika. Wednesday:
The Great Victor Herbert, with
Allan Jones, Mary - Martin and
Walter Connolly.

SUBURBAN: Thursday through
Saturday: Rudyard Kipling’s. The}
Light That Failed, with Ronald
Colman and Ida Lupino. Sunday
through Wednesday: Cary Grant
and Rosalind. Russell in Hie oh
| Friday: sind, Se pict

Saturday: The Light That Failed.
Sunday and Monday: Brother Rat
and a Baby. Tuesday and Wednes-
day: Shop Around the Corner,
with James Stewart and-Margaret

Sullavan.

eS |S

Some woodcuts from the marvel-
ous collection of 6, prints and
j drawings roca Jyh the Penn-

Rt



a See

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is Born, with Geraldine Fitzger-|;

WAYNE: Thursday, Friday and.

City Lights

By Rebecca Robbins, "42



In 1937, a Democratic legisla-
tuye passed a Ripper Bill, designed
to tear out completely the Philadel-
phia” Municipal Court... The bill,
to be effective immediately upon
passage,
them-the positions of eleven judges
and the jobs of several hundred

court employees. The’ Municipal
Court has for long comfortable
years been a vital cog in a Repub-
lican patronage machine.

The Pennsylvania Supreme
Court~-(Republican) declared the
bill unconstitutional. At the same
time it threw out the bill for the
Family Court that had been pro-
posed to take over a part of the
functions of the Municipal Court.
But—the act establishing two ex-
tra Common Pleas Courts, designed
to take over the remaining func-
tions of the Municipal Court, was
left unsullied.

Result: Philadelphia retains the
old, corrupt’ Municipal Court, with
its confusion of functions, and has
besides two unnecessary Common
Pleas Courts. These courts are
ridiculously expensive. And who
do you think pays for them?

The Municipal -Court4was cre-
ated in 1918;after a subdued citi-
zen clamor for it. It was given
exclusive jurisdiction over delin-

pulled out from under

quent children, women and ado-|.

lescents,. concurrent legislation on
adoption proceedings, “and small
civil claims.

. The set-up has become extremely
complex. There are five court di-
visions in which the judges - sit
alternately: civil, criminal, ju-
venile, domestic relations and mis-
demeanors. The work, of the
court is supplemented by an ex-
tensive network of departments
and divisions for social workers of
probation cases, for doctors and
psychiatrists, for the compilation
of social statistics, for houses of
detention and even for employment
service—under the head of direct
rehabilitation for the unfortunate,
we suppose. Ideally, the court is
a tool for social welfare’ arid so-
cial justice that should delight a
sociologist. Actually, it is a lounge
for incompetents.

The Family Court was to have
taken over the social-justice func-
tions of the Municipal Court. The
adoptions were to go to the Or-
phans’ Court, where they seemed
to belong; the small claims to the
Common Pleas (remember?) which
already had all the other civil
cases. It was hoped that a Family
Court with a more specific func-
tion, might be more efficient.

The stirring of the muddy wa-
ters that marked «1937--at least
shows consciousness of the prob-
lem—which, we might say brightly
—is the first step towards a cure.
But the concern with the Muni-
cipal Court did not hit what seems
to us the primary problem. Which
is: ‘The Magistrate’s Courts.

There was, in fact, a Magis-
trates” reform bill passed in 1937.
Quixotically, the Supreme Court
ruled out part of it, and left the
other part (sullied). The result
is the alleviation of certain bail-
and-bond abuses. of the type cal-
culated to give joy to a Lincoln
Steffens (of The Shame of —the
Cities fame).

But such reforms are merely

incidental to the real fault in the}:

system: T ‘magistrates, the men
as de over the courts deal-
ing with petty claims and offenses,

the judges through whom the aver-



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- DS ain tunes
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts,

seldom if ever ¢xhibited, are to
be on view until the first of April.
Mr. Bernheimér, of the History of
Art: Department, who has had ac-
cess to the collection says that

| among its items are listed many un-

known works of great masters. The
present exhibit will comprise the
16th to 18th century woodcuts
from Germany, Italy, England,
Perses and the _Nethediands. 2













“WHOOPIE REQUIRED CHAPEL!”



Infirmary and Bells
Make Racket in Lib.

The solemn stillness of the Lib.
was startled at 2.381 p. m. Tues-
day, by an official voice, apparently



announcing “Don’t worry. They’ve

taken her to the infirmary,” then
something further that was swal-
lowed up in the echoing vault. -
At 2.83 p. m. the echoes were
awakened again by a _ persistent,
brazen-tongued bell. One obedient
inmate walked calmly and quietly
to the nearest exit. But the bell
kept on, and on, and there was no
fire. At 38 p.m. Taylor boomed
forth in its usual comforting tones.
And the library bell rudely an-
swered.
Let us close with Hymn number
372:
“The Bells of Hell go Ring-a-ling-
a-ling
For you but not for me «.
We’re going home.

”?



age man will meet “justice,”
not even lawyers.

The Reform Bills that boil forth
every now and then talk nobly
about keeping magistrates out of
politics and about making them
keep their accounts straight. But
they never get to the point of re-
quiring anything more than ig-
norance under an age limit for the
magistracy.

We can’t give any reason for
that; we can’t even imagine any,
because it is citizens’ commissions
that draft the reform bills.

Of course, we can understand
why the party doesn’t demand
some legal ability, and after all,
you can hardly blame them: it’s
hardly fair to give a man who
works like. the devil to get votes,
probably as a ward-leader, only a
2000-dollar a year job—and 5Q00-
dollar jobs are scarce. And
Magistrates are paid 5000 dollars
a year.

It is the quality of the judges
that makes the court, and though
a good set-up can be abused, it
certainly seems a priori to have at
least a good set-up. And thus it
seems to us that the problem of
the Magistrates’ ‘Courts is a prim-
ary problem for Philadelphia. Vy-

are

‘ing with it for top honors is the

secondary -problem of allocation of
judicial functions. At present
there is duplication and confusion:
some functions of the Magistrates’
Court overlap some Municipal
Court functions, which overlap
some Orphans’ Court functions as
well as some Common Pleas func-
tions.

The Orphans’ “Court deals with
the administration of estates, and
has six judges. The





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A PRC eI!

Common.
Pleas Court deals with | civil cases,





Cui A inhi

Miss Helen Reid

The key incident last week, was







the peace of Moscow, important be-
cause it was the end of the Finnish
war and because of its far-reach-
ing implications.

By the peace the Finns lost the
Karelian Isthmus and some terri-
tory on their northeast frontier.
Besides this they were forced to
lease. Hanko to the Russians. By
this acquisition Russia is now able
to control the gulf of Finland. The
peace was hailed in Germany as a
great triumph, for* Russian control
in the north can temporarily allie-
viate her fears'of allied aid to
Scandinavia.

There are two aspects of this re-

{cent development, Miss Reid said,

which have probably been over-
looked by many, but which are
nevertheless important. One is the
delegation from Finland to Russia
for the settlement of a trade
treaty. The implications of this
move cannot yet be foreseen. The
other interesting move was made
by Brazil. She has opened her
immigration quota to the Finns,
providing that they may utilize the
quota unfilled by other countries
for the next five years.

While Finland and Russia con-
fer, Hitler and Mussolini have met

\for a discussion of their respective

situations, present and future, in
the European conflict. The fact
that the meeting was held on Ital-
ian soil, the Brenner Pass, shows

that Hitler seeks what Musso- -

lini perhaps is reluctant to give.
The object of this visit is unknown,
but a prospective Russian, German
and Italian alliance is suggested.

SENIORS TO HEAR
WINIFRED McCULLY

Miss Winifred McCully, of the
Bureau of Occupations, New York
City, will be at the college on Mon-
day and Tuesday, March 25 and
26. She will interview seniors and
graduate ‘students. and advise them
about positions other than teache
ing. A list of appointments will
be posted on the bulletin board
outside the Dean’s office. .

There will be a tea to meet Miss
McCully at four-thirty on Mon-
day, March 25, in the Common
Room, after which | ‘Miss Bc
will speak.







and in the Court of Oyer and Ter-
miner and of Quarter Sessions
dealing with criminal cases sit
parts of Common Pleas Court,
which has too many judges.




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Hamilton Discusses .
Industrial Diseases



Common Room, March 14.—Cer-
tain trades are classified as dan.
gerous because of the presence of
injurious dusts in the air breathed
by the worker, of poisonous chemi-
cals in the material he works with,
or because of the fatigue produced
by the work he does, said Dr. Alice
Hamilton, speaking to the Indus-
trial Group Thursday night, on In-
dustrial Dts€ases. Dr. Hamilton,
now Medical Consultant of the Na-
tional Bureau of Labor Standards,
and formerly Assistant Professor
of Industrial Medicine at Harvard
Medical School, prefaced her dis-
cussion of specific diseases with a
summary of the aims of the United
States Department of Labor, of
which the bureau is a part... §

The Department of Labor recog-
nizes that it must serve as a model
to state departments. An investi-
gator may take a thorough exam-
ination of an industrial plant and
never discover the causes of the
most serious diseases unless he
knows what to look for. The
method now accepted for_reform-
ing dangerous conditions is not the
removal of the man from the job
at which he may be earning high
wages to a lower wage job less
dangerous for him, but the remov-
al of the condition itself.

Illinois in 1914 and Pennsylva-
nia last year were the first and
last states -respectively to pass
compensation laws requiring that
the employer compensate victims if
the conditions in his plant ‘do not
measure up to certain standards.
The Pennsylvania law has now
been modified to cover only cases of
complete. incapacity.





C. Hutchins Elected
Undergrad President



Continued from Page One

whistle for blowing people off the
grass.

Despite failing three quizzes the
first semester of her freshman
year, Steve is majoring in Math.
Every night as her head touches
her pillow she Says to herself,
“What can a person do with
Math?” and every night. she comes
to the conclusion that she will have
to teach. Steve describes herself
as a “bicyclist enthusiast.” She,
was manager of the baseball team
last year and manager and guard
on the Varsity basketball team this
year. On the hockey field she has
been called “speedy Steve,” and
she also skis.

Maids and Porters
Give ‘Porgy and Bess’





Continuea from Page One

were wistfully hoping ‘for several
more.

From the minute she swept on
stage in a wonderful scarlet satin
dress, Hilda Green’s Bess held the
attention of the audience. At times
she seemed a little unsure of her-
self but her scenes with Crown on
Kittiwah Island and latér with
Porgy were excellent. John Whit-
taker was a gigantic, impressive
Crown, rolling out his deep, rich
voice in such melodic favorites as
Red Headed Woman Can Make a
Train Jump Off the Track. Rich-
ard Blackwell, as Porgy, caught
the feeling of a cripple remarkably
well and held the audience spel]-
bound as he pulled himself across

Ty oh tah eemmenetcm ee Te —-s



“Porgy and Bess’

The maids And porters who
took part in Porgy and Bess
wish to express their sincere
thanks to the Faculty, Stu-
dent body, and others for
flowers, telegrams and other
expressions of “good luck”
received on the nights of the
performances. If the play
was a success, you played a
very important part due to
the exhilarating spirit your
Well-wishes . put us _ into.
Many, many thanks.













the stage to keep the buzzard from
settling over his door.

One of the most delightful per-
formances was that given by Car-
ey Crunkleton as Maria. She
showed — the poise which
marked: Sporting Life’s perform-
ance, and added to it a superb
sense of humor. Pipe facie she
strode through four S.enliven-
ing the spirit of the play, and get-
ting more approving murmurs and
laughs than any of the other’ ac-
tors.

Since it would take far too long
to enumerate all the other mem-
bers of the’cast who were notably
good, suffice it to say that the prin-

Same

Wadsworth, ’41, coached the sing-
ing extremely well and almost all

Summertime, sung by Anne White,

and sets enhanced the production
and the lighting also was well han-
dled. Now that the maids and por-
ters have established their reputa-
tion we expect continued large
scale productions from them.







of the voices were full and clear. |

was particularly lovely. Costumes’.







Go Pe |

| Former Bryn Mawr Student
| Publishes First Novel,
| A Stricken Field

|

| A STRICKEN. FIELD
by Martha Gellhorn



| By Barbara B. Cooley, ’42
“Be careful,” Mary Douglas told



herself, “you’re’ only a working | -

| journalist. It is, better not to see too
' much, if no one will listen to you.”
All the things she could not put in-
to her newspaper articles about the
‘invasion of Czechoslavakia, all the
| things she saw which had meaning
for her but which she knew no one
would listen to, Martha .Gelthorn
has made the basis of this, her first
novel. The thing which troubled
her most was the fate of the Ger-
man Czechoslavakians who had
fought against Germany and so
were exiled from their homes by
| both Germans and Czechs. “I do
not have an address,’ one old man
said. He was sixty-two years old
'and he had always had a home,
and people had said to him on the
Street, ‘Guten morgen, Herr

|



cipals were ably supported. Meg) Brecht,’ as should be said to a man

t

| who owned property and paid taxes
and was always daintily dressed
| and sober. Now he slept in the
Street and knew he was dirty.”
Miss Gellhorn, the Mary Doug-
las of A Stricken Field, went to
Bryn Mawr from 1926 to 1929 and
has since worked for the United
Press in Paris,/the New Republic
and the FERA in the position of
relief investigator at large. From



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| this experience came a book of four
long short Stories, The Trouble
I’ve Seen, which was published in
1936.

Although Mary Douglas is a defi-

nel autobiographical character,
[it is Rita, the German refugee,
| who is really the heroine of the
|novel. Her efforts to escape , the
Prague police and to help in un-
derground anti-Nazi work culmi-
nate in the brutal torture scene,
which, is, artistically and emotion-
ally, one of the finest achievements
of the novel.
Miss Gellhorn’s style is clear,
vivid, often emotional, and always
very modern. There are descrip-
tions as. sharp and forceful as an
etching: of the blank/ faces of the
men and women waiting and fear-
ful as to what was to happen to
them; of a quick decay in a hither-
to busy ity. “She remembered it
as a pleasant, bustling street, and
the people on it had always seemed
contented, attending respectably to
their business. But when she had
gone down into the street, and was
walking along the curb-against the
stream of people, she knew it was
another city, and unlike any place
she had ever seen before. The
crowds moved slowly, as if they too
were strangers, uncertain of direc-
tions and having nowhere to go.
She could not find one face to re-
member.”

Mary Douglas once said to her
fellow war correspondents, “I do
not write news like you gents. I
write history.” It is a history of
people—of the unlucky ones, the
ones with no privileges, no pass-
ports, no jobs, no love. It is vital
and troubling for us, who can “just
buy a ticket and take a plane and
leave.”











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Mid-Winter ‘Lantern’

Continued from Page One,



' tempt at symbolism in the descrip-
tion of the dam. Symbolical or not,
the two elements fail to cohere.

Of the lighter efforts, I rather
enjoyed Olivia Kahn’s brief biog-
raphy (agreeably illustrated by
Elisabeth Frazier) and -yet I was
disappointed. A snail in. a.tea-cup
‘should be full of attractive possi-
bilities, only one ‘of which here
materializes. The adventure of
Pinkle the Pixie as told by Fran-
ces Lynd must go down as a fail-
ure, except for those who appreci-
ate the whimsical approach to
whimsey.

All four lyrics are definitely in-
teresting. Martha Kent’s first
poem shows thoughtfulness and
real poetic imagination, but does
not quite come off, not so much
because the thought is incoherent
as because the imagery lacks pre-
cision and strength. Her second,
less ambitious, is a success; it
comes all in a piece, and the free
verse here is no longer loose or
“limp, but firmly turned. Priscilla
Schaff in eight lines creates a dig-
nified picture weakened by flat
phrasing in one or two places.
Hester Corner’s poem may be a
little too long; once or twice it
wanders, or fails to be concrete;
the ‘whole (deliberately) Aacks
color. -But Miss. Corner knows
what she is about; nothing is stale
or forced, and the imagery
mostly incisive, and once stunning.

Finally, there is a drawing by
Alice Crowder, amusing and spir-
ited; some of its significance may
be lost on. me. On the whole, this
is a definitely good number. Not
everything is successful, but there
is little fionsense, and very little
pretentious, stupid, or utterly mis-
guided writing. There is certainly
a place “for the college literary
magazine; I wish The Lantern the
luck it deserves.

is



», * Opinion |







Department of Philosophy
Supports Appointment
of N. Y. Professor

Tothe Editor of the College News:
Members of the college commu-
nity have undoubtedly been read-
ifg the newspaper accounts of the
controversy which has arisen in
New York over‘the appointment of
the distinguished English mathe-
matician arid “ philosopher, Ber-
trand Russell, as professor of phil-
osophy in the College of the City of
New York. The issue involved in
the demand for the revocation of
his’ appointment is so important
and concerns so deeply the students



your readers should know of the
action being taken by members of
the American Philosophical Asso-
ciation and of the earnest support
of this action by us, the teachers of
philosophy at Bryn Mawr.
The following letter, which ex-
plains itself, was sent last week to
the Board -of Higher Education of
New York City, after having been
widely circulated for endorsement
by teachers of philosophy through-
out the country.
GRACE A. DE LAGUNA
PAUL WEISS
“MILTON C. NAHM
D. VELTMAN

“To the Honorable Board of High-
er Education,

College of the City of New York,
“Ladies and Gentlemen:

‘We, members of the American
Philosophical Association and

these vieWs in no way disqualify

and teachers in all. higher institu-
tions of learning, that we think



| teachers of Philosophy in ‘Ameri-| Rosemont Chicas

can educational institutions, regard
| Professor Bertrand Russell
‘of the outstanding philosopKers of

Ss one

jour time, and while not all of us
share his. personal views on theism
and (marriage, we consider that

him from teaching college students.
Indeed, any revocation of his ap-
pointment because of his personal
/ opinions would be a calamitous set-
back to that freedom of thought
and discussion which has been the
basis of ‘democratic education. — It
would lead to the institution of an
inquisition by laymen into all sorts
of personal views on the part of a
prospective teacher instead of the
considered judgment of his profes-
sional colleagues who are better
qualified to. know his: competence.

“College students are not infants
to be protected against all contact
with unorthodox ideas. They are!
very near the age when they begin |
‘to exercise their duties as voting
citizens. They read current peri-
odicals and literature and _ they
, take part in the general life of the
community, so that they are as
familiar with unorthodox ideas as
is the rest of the population. Parti-
cularly is it true that college au-
thorities should not presume to act
in loco parentis to students who
live at home. Nor should a teacher
in a college supported by public
funds be subject to the same tests
as those appropriate for theologic
seminaries or parochial schools. It
would indeed be a tragic reversion
to an outworn past if college teach-!
ers were dismissed because, like
Huxley, they did not accept theism
ot, like George Eliot, they did not
entirely accept the conventional
views as to the marriage relation.
Many estimable citizens have been









Bryn Mawr Record

.. With 25-23 Victory



Saturday, March 15.—After six

undefeated games, the Bryn Mawr

Varsity lost the fast of a glorious
season to Rosemont by the score
of 25-23. Rosemont took the: lead
at the start and for the first time
this winter Bryn Mawr trailed at
the half. Disaster lay for the most
part, not in defective functioning
of the home team, but in
superb shooting of Rosemont’s
forwards.

Waples, 42, seriousiy hampered
by an injured shoulder, was re-
placed by Squibb, ’41, in the sec-
ond half. The veteran skill of
Ligon, ’40, and Norris, ’40, now
appreciably augmented and stabil-
ized, decisively
mont’s lead, and the tide might
have been turned if the Varsity
forwards had made more of the
numerous free throws proffered.
The Varsity guards played a con-

tinuously. effective game.
BRYN MAWR ROSEMONT

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Substitutions
iryn Mawr: Squibb, f.
Rosemont: Giltinan, f.
Points Scored
Bryn Mawr: Ligon, 8; ‘Norris, 11;
Squibb, 4.
Rosemont: Reilly, 16; Goglia, 5; Reeves,

2% Giltipan, 2



divorced according to the laws of
New York State, and there is no
reason for dismissing any teacher
on that ground.”

All of her events.

threatened RoseX.



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Varsity Loses Meet
To Penn Swimmers |



Tuesday, March 12.—The Var-

sity swimmers fought desperately
hard to win over the University of
Pennsylvania, but lost 41-42 in the
opponent’s_pool.._The meet was a
breath-taker as first one team and
then the other led by narrow mar-
gins. Link, ’40, captured first in
As a matter of
record, in the four years of her
Varsity swimming, Link has gar-
nered 23 out of* 28 possible firsts
and the rest have been seconds for
a total of 129 points out of 140.
Fifty-Yard Free-Style: 1. Evans; 2. Da
ger; 3, Paige, ’42. Time 29:00,
Fifty-Yard Breast-Stroke; 1. 42;
2. Allison ; McClellan, °42.
Fifty-Yard Back Crawl: 1.
ble, ’42; 3. Woodward.
Medley Relay: L;
Paige. Time 49:6,
Free-Style Relay: 1.
Rambo, Reggio, Gamble.
Crawl Form: 1. Link,
37 Williams, °42.

Boal,

Time 40:7,
Allison; Gam
Time 36:2.

Penn; 2. Gamble, Boal,

Penn; 22:
lime 56:6.
"40; 2. Barney;

Paige,

. Link; 2. ‘Garvin;

- Karchen;



3. Crazer
» McQlellan, °42,

Divmyg: 1. Link, °40—44.3.° ,2. Butler,
2—-43.9, 3. Cleaver—32.1,

Seconds Nose Out

Rosemont. Reserves

~





Saturday, March 16.—The Sec-
ond Team said goodbye to the 1940
season by beating the undefeated
Rosemont Reserves with a seore of
14-12. The score belies the speed
of the game, for the ball moved
smoothly .and quickly. Neither
team had many chances to shoot
and Rosemont let many of them
slip by, although they made nearly
every try count.





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Keppel to Address
College on Education

Continued from Page One
a Bachelor of Arts, twice a doc-
tor of letters, and six times a doc-
tor of law said that an index of
the confusion in education today
is the plethora of current degrees,



that many of the diplomas award-

ed by our institutions of higher
learning today “may mean liter-
ally nothing.” At this time Dr.
Keppel said, “All over the coun-
try, teaching and other vacancies
are being filled by degrees, not by
men and women, the appointing
bodies accepting the diploma as a
substitute for the tiresome process



of really finding out something as
to -the professional and personal
qualifications of the individual hu-
man __being®”’ This
raised a storm of comment among
educators.

statement



Omniscient Mr. Livingstone re-
ports 14 literary magazines in this
vicinity named The Lantern.

pln

Reading of Poetry:
By Frost Scheduled



Continued from Page One

porary. Even those ‘moderns’ who

insist on form and the ‘oblique ap-
proach’ admit in the case of so
gifted and genuine a writer as
Frost that the poet is superior to



the theorist, and that the poetry



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stands alone. With him clarity in-
cluded intuition and realism, the
‘better seeing’ that is‘always the

mark of the true poet.”



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They also Serve who only
- Stand and Wait

FE THE WEEK BEFORE NEW YEAR’S, 1940, Istanbul
was quiet as Wall Street on a Sunday.

Robert Canuti, the AP’s English-educated Turkish
correspondent, hadn’t had a first-class story for
almost three months—not since the Turko-British
treaty handed the Kremlin a short and snappy
answer.

> But while man was dozing, Nature woke. Be-
neath the surface of ancient Asia Minor, subter-
ranean ledges lost their age-long balance, slipped
and skidded sideways.

The first totals of homeless, dead, and injured—
usually exaggerated in such disasters—were not ex-
aggerated this time. Pictures that came by “slow
camel” added to the terrible tale. It was the biggest
earthquake story since Yokohama.

And Robert Canuti, his months of waiting ended,
had it on the wires to the western world before it
was known in the streets of Istanbul. At once, the
machinery of international relief began to whir,
and help was on the way.

» Most people think of Press Association men as
daring young acrobats of the newspaper world,
always somersaulting from one hot story to another
... now in Tokio, next in Singapore—now in Buch-
arest, soon at Brussels.

But the complete, the almost miraculous, world-
coverage jof the great Press Services comes from

-men who mostly stand and wait. Correspondents

like Robert Canuti in the quieter capitals—and the
thousands 6f “stringers,” in the world’s little towns
and villages, so-called because they paste their infre-
quent dispatches into a string and measure their
payment by the inch.

Men like these form the nerve ends of the wire
services—indispensable divisions of journalism’s
army of 300,000 men.

> The development of these world-wide Press Serv-

-, ices, accurate, unbiased, and unsubsidized, is an’

American achievement. It is an outstanding exam-
ple of American organizing genius—and it has all
happened within the lifetime of most news-readers
now living. More than that, the Press Services are
the standard bearers, throughout the world, of the
20th century American tradition of accuracy and
fair play in news-reporting. Something new under
the sun. :

> It wasn’t until the 1890s that the dream of the
modern Associated Press began to take form. A few
courageous pioneers—Victor Lawson, Frank B.
Noyes, Melville Stone, and Adolph Ochs—worked
zealously for it, and in time press associations began
pointing eager fingers at the map of the world and ©
putting new correspondents wherever a fat dot
showed an important city.

By the time an emperor with a withered arm
unleashed the hounds of war in 1914, U. S. Press
Services had spun their webs around the globe. AP’s
now seasgned network was being kept on its mettle
bya thet eeaaneamigiealtoe an independent service
called United Press, fathered in 1907 by E. W.
Scripps.

Due chiefly to the vision of these pioneers, the
U. S., in less than half‘a century, has shed its news
provincialism. Today. . . let a flood sweep down the
Yangtze, a strike begin in

‘Melbourne, a regiment revolt

in Addis Ababa, and in a
matter of minutes: or hours
the teletypes in the U.S. be-
gin to chatter.

> FLASH—calls the foreign ca-
ble, and begins gasping out
its own curt, staccato lan-
guage ...SMORNING FRENCH
CRUISER AIR-BOMBED IN ENG-
LISH CHANNEL. “Flash,” calls
the New York operator.
“French cruiser bombed.” A

x as

rewrite man works frantically, and soon the fingers
of another operator start the electric current flow-
ing. Operators in Philadelphia, Chicago, and al-
most a score of other U. S. cities stand up crying
“Flash.” Ina few seconds, every cranny of the U. S.
will have the news. c

From 50,000 news sources all over the globe, this
river of news flows day and night. For while Amer-
ica sleeps, one half the world is wide-awake, busy
getting into’and out of trouble, busy making that
vivid, perishable stuff called news. F

> To every self-respecting mewspaper, Press Asso-
ciation news is the breath of life. A paper pays for
as much of it as it can afford and use. A country
weekly can have as little as $18 worth a week, a
metropolitan daily as much a$ $2,500. But whether
a paper gets “pony” or multiple wire service, it
counts its Press Association service as perhaps its
most valuable asset. s

> Press Association news is just as indispensable to
The Weekly Newsmagazine as to a daily newspaper.
To be sure, TIME has its own special correspondents,
too—its own force of 500 news-scouts—its own
check-and-query system.

But the stories from the daring acrobats and the
quiet watchers of the Press Associations supply a !
basic pattern of the world’s news... the vital pat-
tern, which in the Newsmagazine becomes the con- .
tinuing narrative history of our times, followed
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Novelists Concern
Flexner Lecturer



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‘bing large amounts of land bebién: |

ing to Spanish-speaking countries |

inspired a fear, not only of con-|

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quest but of spiritual domination, |

which was voiced by many novel-
ists.

Latin American literature was
more enriched in ideas than in
form in the early 20th century,
when realism was more valued
than style. The whole tropical for-
est, with its trees that talk and
move as though with magic life, its
painful leeches, and its swamps
bs fever and insanity breed,

first opened to the novelist
weal, in this century, white men
penetrated the forest in‘ search of

lived in the jungles for centuries
were enslaved by the white men to
work the trees, or hunted down and
killed, unless they drank the juice
of the rubber tree and killed them-
selves first.

In The Vortex, José Eustacio
Rivera describes, the horrors of the
exploitation of rubber trees and
rubber workers. One of the char-
acters says, “Iam a rubber worker,
I have been a rubber worker, and
what my hand has done to trees,
it can also do to men.” He tells a

prisoner that the jailor who tor-|.

tures him is not as cruel as the
forest avenging its lacerations.
Azuela’s The Underdogs, dealing
with a revolutionary leader who is
finally killed by a rival. band, is
not Marxian although it covers so-
cial and political questions. It is

rather against the Mexican revolu-
tion.

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American novels, like The Upris-
ing and The Red City written by
avowed radicals. These too tell of
the failure of socialist revolts and

’' the assassination’ of rebel “leaders

and give no solution to the chaotic
confusion.
In Peru the largest tictoe’' in the

population is the four million In-
dians, but through the conquest,
the colonial era, and the republic
they have been oppressed and tor-
tured, Among the rubber workers
a complete Indian tribe was anni-
hilated in the bloodiest massacre of
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forgot the novel was for aesthetic
purposes, and thought only of the
actual abuses perpetuated by white
concerns and the sufferings of their
victims.

Pity for the Indians, love of the
soil and hate of the capitalist are
the guiding interests of Latin
American writers of novels of the
soil. They disregard grammar
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‘Deanery, March 14.—The dream

'| world of the Brontés and its devel-

opment into their novels was de-
scribed in a talk by Miss Fannie
Ratchford, librarian of the Wrenn
Library of the University of Texas.
Miss Ratchford’s research in vari-
ous libraries disclosed the existence
of a large number of isolated man-
uscripts written by the Bronté chil-
dren. Their importance was over-
looked until Miss Ratchford dis-
covered that they were serial. sto-
ries explained and connected -by a
single motif, originating in games
played with Branwell’s toy sol-
diers.

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by: Branwell Bronté, provided the
clue to the. literary game. The
“young men” were the soldiers,
first endowed with human person-
alities, later associated with the
children themselves. ‘Under the in-



fluence of the Arabian Nights, the

chief heroes among the soldiers
settled in an imaginary land. Here
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tain Tree (Charlotte) began writ-
ing books of toy soldier propor-
tions, in microscopic handwriting.
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on Blackwood’s magazine, and _ re-
ferred to the people and places of
the new dream world;

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The Silver Cup, includes a sketch
of a disagreeable family, the origi-
nal of the Reed family in Jane
Eyre.

Later, inspired by Scott and By-
ron, Charlotte invented a new. set
of characters. These. were “resus-
citated or made alive” at will, to
participate in an endless..series of
romances. Zenobria_ Elrington,
one of the most “immortal” char-
acters, was the prototype of
Rochester’s mad wife in Jane Eyre.
And in the imaginary society of
“Angria”’ originated the story of
Villette.

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