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VOL. XXVIII, No. 13

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1942

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Professors Honored

At Various Meetings
of Learned Societies

Pembroke Fire |
Damages Kitchen,
Servants’ Rooms

Faculty Receive Distinctions,
Read Papers, Participate
In Discussions







B. M. Fire Company, Faculty|
And Porters Struggle
With Flames



The Bryn Mawr faculty was well
represented at the national meet-
ings of learned societies held dur-
ing the Christmas holidays. Many
members; of the faculty read pa-
pers before the societies and re-
ceived high honors and _ distinc- |
tions.

Mr. Wells attended the meetings
of the American Political Science
Association in New York City,
serving on the Nominating Com-
mittee of the Association. Mr.
Wells was also elected a member
of the Board of Editors of the
American Political Science Review.

In the Latin Department, Mr.



Pembroke Hall, January 3rd—

At six forty-five on Saturday eve-

ning Louis, a porter, discovered the

fire which damaged a large part of

the. kitchen, East side servants’
rooms, and part of the roof of
Pembroke Hall. Burning chiefly
inside the walls of the rooms and
between the floors and ceilings, the
fire caused widespread water dam-j;
age, but none of the fourteen ser-
vants in the building was injured.

Louis went to his room before
dinner and was greeted by billows

of smoke e called to Arthur Broughton, Miss Taylor, Miss

and the two men, helped by three |
other porters, fought the fire unti] | Marti, and Mrs. Michels attended
the annual meeting of the Philo-

the Bryn Mawr Fire Company ar-!
rived, eight minutes later; ‘The fire | logical Association in Hartford.

| Miss Taylor was elected President
Serene Se plahy- Shreugh Sree pied PT) the ‘Association for thé comin
on the top floor, three on the third, | &

and one half of the kitchen. Using | i year and Mr. Broughton was elect+
tks -new-—eouipnicnt for the firs she k editor of the transactions of the

Gia the fire compaity, had. the ‘society. During the course of the

flames’ under control in half a, | meeting, Miss Marti presented a
hour.

| paper on Literary Criticism in Me- |
Part of the damage came from,

dieval Commentaries on Lucan.
holes which the firemen had to} Mr. Anderson was present at
make in the partitions and in the}



Continued on Page Six

fons tact The twroblen of ma | SUbstitution of April

flame itself. The problem of ma-
nipulating hoses through the small
hallways made the fighting diffi- |
cult. The men tore back the metal
ceiling of the kitchen and pre-
vented the flames from spreading
to the other side of the room. The
quick action of the college workers,
under Mr: Daugherty, and the sys-
tematic fighting by the department
saved the building from much
greater damage.

Mr. Anderson and Mr. Sprague
arrived in time to pull hoses and
clear tables out of the dining room,
below the kitchen. Torrents of wat-
er poured down through the kitchen
into the dining room, and some ran
down into the show case. Notes
and other valuables were removed

from one student’s room but no
Continued. on Page Six

First Aid

An advanced course in
First Aid will be offered next
semester on Thursday eve-
nings to anyone who has suc-
cessfully—completed_a—stand-
ard Red Cross course. A
standard course with no re-
quirements wil] be given on
Wednesday evenings. Candi-
dates should sign on _ the
paper postea cn the athletic
bulletin toard in Taylor.











Test for Admittance
Commencing in 1942



Bryn Mawr has decided to make
use of the April Scholastic Apti-
tude and Achievement Tests of the
College Entrance Examination
Board, as admission tests for 1942
applicants. This marks a depart-
ure from the four June subject
matter examinations which have
been used in the past.

The Scholastic Aptitude Test
consists of a verbal’ and a mathe-
matical section. The Achievement
Test will be made up of nine sec-
tions: Social -Studies, Biology,
Latin, German, French, Spanish,
Chemistry, Physics and Spatial Re-
lations. Of these, each candidate
will be expected to take three.

This action involves a change in
admission requirements, ‘and rep-
resents a shift from the subject
matter examinations formerly held,
to tests which are designed to
measure ability. in given fields.
They are designed to be taken
without special preparation.

The withdrawal of candidates
for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton,
and the increasing use of Plan D
by women’s college applicants left

too small a group to form a valid
Centinuea on Fage Five





Redecorated College Inn Gladdens Hearts
Of Tea-Minded Students on Return to B. M.



The College Inn presents a reju-
venated tea room. Inn veterans
were quite surprised upon_return-
ing from vacation to find welcome
yellow-cream walls free from pic-

‘tures of lantern night and other

campus scenes. Green, maroon and
cream drapes, topped by matching
green wooden valances, hang at
every window. The walls and
floor have been refinished and
there are shiny birch chairs and
smoothly finished tables with tops

of formica. Leather pads comfort-

able corners.
Workmen started the job Mon-
day after college closed and had

_ almost completed it the Saturday

says.
_ coffee has o with it? Despite}
the suggestive surroundings, no



following New Years.

Our only trouble in getting the
thing done, Miss Davis—-said;—was
that a different type table top had

to be substituted for the original ||,

kind decided upon. The order was
placed during. September, which
accounts for the lack of usual red
tape and priority difficulties.
Although Miss Howe hasn’t the
final bills, Mis Davis reports that
the cost for redecoration was
great. Each girl should feel that
she has a share in the project, she
We wonder what ten cent

martinis will be served.





Nota Bene
Students. should watch the
copy of the examination
schedule posted in Taylor
Hall. Any changes of dates
or rooms will be made only
on that copy.







‘Mountains and Men’
Will be Subject of

Dr. Nicholson Lecture



Author and Scholar Will Give
Talk in Goodhart Friday,
January 16



“Mountains and Men’ will be
the subject of Dr. Marjorie Nicol-
son’s lecture in Goodhart Hall on
Friday, January 16. She will give
“A Study of Changing Tastes in

Stuart and Hanoverian England.”
Dr. Nicolson is a professor of Eng-
lish at Columbia University, and
the first woman ever to be given
full professorship there. Known
as one of the most brilliant women
Scholars ‘in the field of English lit-
erature, she is also famous as a
clever speaker. >

She is the first woman to be
president of the United Chapters
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and the first to be vice-pres‘dent of
the Modern Language Association,
an organization of distinguished
scholars in English_and—Modern
‘anguages. Her field includes
shiefly seventeenth century Eng-

lish, but at Columbia she has been
Continued on Page Five

Dr. Chambers Tells
Of Influenza’s Virus
In Tennent Lecture





Dalton, January 10.— Influenza
As a Problem in Physics was the
strikingly inter-departmental title
of the third Tennent Memorial lec-
ture presented by Dr. Leslie A.
Chambers, associate in biophysics
in the Johnson Foundation at the
University of Pennsylvania. The
name, “influenza,” Dr. Chambers
pointed out, derives from the un-
certainty which has always existed
concerning the cause of the disease:
the Italians finally attributed it to
‘“fnfluence of the stars.”

Recently, due in part to the panic
caused by the 20,000,000 deaths
during the last_ war,
influenza has been well supported.
In 1934. it was discovered that in-

fluenza—was.caused by a_filtrable
Continued on Page Five



Calendar

Thursday, January 15
Hockey banquet, Common
Room. 6.00.

Friday, January 16

Last day of Jectures, first
semester.
Mallory Whiting Webster
Memorial Lecture in His-
tory.. Dr. Marjorie Nicol-
son, Mountains and Men.
Goodhart, 8.00.

Sunday,January-18-

The Reverend Grant Noble.
Music Room, 7.30.

Monday, January 19 ©
Mass Meetine, Alliance,
Goodhart, 12.00.

Saturday, January 31
Midyear examination per-
iod.

Monday, February 2
Vacation.

Tuesday, February 3
First day of lectures, sec-
ond semester.







research in.

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New Coordinated Defense Work
To be Outlined at Mass Meeting



And Nutrition Services
Will be Given



-The following extra - curricular
courses will be offered on the cam-
pus during the second
provided there is sufficient regis-

semester,

tration for them:

I. Health Services — Training:
(1) First Aid, standard and_ad-
vanced, 34 hours; (2) nurses’ aides,
80 hours; family consent needed
for students, 150 hours hospital;
(3) home nursing, 24-30 hours.

(These are standard Red Cross
courses. )

II. Nutrition Services — Train-
ing: (1) nutrition: theory, 20
hours; (2) canteen: practice, 20
hours. (Standard Red Cross
courses. )

III. Social Service — Training:

(1) Planning and management of
children’s centers, 20 hours; (2)
community survey techniques, 10-
12 hours.

The nurses’ aide course is de-
signed to help in the emergency
caused by the increasing demand

'pitals. Nurses’ aides are trained
to take over the less_skilled work
and thus relieve the burden on the
graduate ‘nurses.

As more women go into defense
industries their children will have
to be cared for. The course in
plannirg and management of chil-
dren’s centers should qualify peo-
ple to meet this need. The skills
would also be applicable in day
camps, community centers, or any
other group care for children, The
course will cover material on func-
tions and programs of such centers,
child psychology, physical care and
health education, the layout and
equipment of a. center, games and
crafts.

Volunteers can be trained to help
Continued on Page Five



Hudson to Lecture
On Aspects of Law
For the Shaw Series



Dr. Manley O. Hudson, Bemis
?rofessor of International Law at
che Harvard Law School, will de-
liver a series of lectures on
“Twenty Years’ Development. of
International Law 1919-1939.” The
series, which is to begin on Febru-
|aty 6 and will be given in Good-
hart, is sponsored by the Anna
Howard Shaw Memoria! Founda-
tion. Dr. Hudson is also at present
a judge of the Permanent Court of
Int°rnational Justice and a.member-
of the Permanent- Court of Arbi-
tration.



as follows:

- February 6—The Nature

Scope of International Law.
February 13—The Pacific Settle-

ment of International Disputes.
February 20 — The Legislative

Extension of International Law.
February 27 — The Attempted

and



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Proscription of War.

March 6—The Regional Develop-
-ment of International Law. ‘

March 13—The Future of Inter-
national Organization and Inter-
national Law. :

While he is at Bryn Mawr Dr.
Hudson will conduct a joint Hav-
erford and Bryn Mawr seminar
dealing with economic, political, and
legal problems of post-war recon-
struction.

Courses in Health,. Social |

Training Aims at Services
Now Offering Outlets
For Work



Comprehensive plans for new,

co-ordinated defense courses, drawn

up to meet the country’s needs, will
be laid before the college at a mass
meeting in Goodhart on Monday,
January 19, at 12 o’clock. These
plans were presented and discussed
at a meeting on Sunday of the Al-
liance Executive Committee and
Miss Kraus, Miss Gardiner, Miss
Northrop and Mr. Wells.

The Alliance will also schedule
educational activities, such as.
forums run by students and faculty,
and a series of lectures and discus-
sions on post-war reconstruction.
This series, at the request of the
Alliance, will probably be scheduled
for one evening a week and will be
given by members of the depart-
ments of history, polities and eco-
nomics, and the department of so-
cial economy and social research.
The possibility of placement in vol-
unteer defense jobs this summer



for nurses in military areas with!
a corresponding shortage in hos-|the courses will be outlined in de-

[John J, Foley



“The schedule of the lectures is—



was considered.
At the mass meeting on Monday

tail. Volunteers will be interviewed
to determine particular skills_and
will be delegated to special courses
with the object of usefulness and
filling the needs for direct defense
work. Interviewing, recruiting and
registration will be centered in the
defense room in the west wing of
the Library during the two weeks
of midyears. The regular form for
Civilian Defense Volunteer offices
in this area will probably be used,
and every volunteer will have a
chance to talk with an interviewer
who can advise him or her about
the best use of time and skill.. A
small registration fee may be
charged for each course to pay for
incidental costs,

All courses and other activities
are open to members of the college
community, students, graduates
and undergraduates, the faculty,
and the entire staff of the college
and their families. Neighbors of
the college will also be welcome.

Volunteers can be used now in
the following services: fire-fighting
in college buildings (family con-
sent needed for students), secre-
tarial work and teaching, inter-
viewing, knitting and. sewing,

Continued on Page Six ry



Gave

Much to the College

On January 9th John J. Foley,
‘Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds since 1920, died--

In the twenty-two years of his
superintendence the work and re-
sponsibility of that office have in-
creased enormously. Five new
buildings were added, water and
electrical facilities expanded—and
revamped, and the corps of work-_
men under him consequently~ in-
creased. Mr. Foley himself plan-
ned new work:and repairing, exer-
cising ingenuity and skill inside a
limited budget.

Mr. Foley “knew himself the
work which he gave his men to
carry out.” “His men worked eas-
ily under him,” said Miss Park.
“The college itself was his one
great interest, and he had an affec-
tion for it which few of its other
residents could match.” The col-

lege has lost an established figure,
an excellent man in his profession,
and an old and tried friend.






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| Now We Are Three

! Time, that weekly newsmagazine, may be curt, clear, com- ro oe
}plete; but the bombshell it tossed to. Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Bei a _ Sh
Swarthmore in its issue of last November ,24 was strictly a dud. WIT*S END
Having been informed of the plans for three-college cooperation, | Here She Lies. Where She
it concluded its article, entitled “Quaker Marriage,” with this | Longed to Be
startling innuendo: “Elated by the plan’s ‘progress, President Na-' 5 ar

son (of Swarthmore) observed-that. still greater economy, an + eery ae

i cooperation. might be achieved if the three colleges had a single, My thoughts get more inutterable,
-president; but that ideal was “not likely to be soon realized.”
“Soon” was not the proper adverb.. Accofding to Presitlent | My throat gets sore,
| Park, that ‘ideal’ is nonexistent. Time was, whether intentionally | pepe Liageapeen ss mf
or inadvertantly, misinterpreting President Nason and missing: the; qq . widbiong
real news behind the three-college plan. Here is Nason’s state-|Bryn Mawr in the wintry grippe
ment, as published in the Haverford Review of last fall. “The Of woe,

colleges are homogeneous and yet distinct; they are close together. | Ligh thing that will not slip
These are obvious-advantages. Why not cooperate? Two prin-| 4. ly my friends careening go
ciples must be maintained throughout any such pregram. It is Oy skates or something not so nine?
important that the distinctive character of each college be main- ; They either freeze

ltained, . . . It is also important that any form of cooperation be Or break their knees,

‘equally advantageous to all concerned.” | bury then: in drifts of snow. :
With the announcement, last week, that the Managers and ee never thkws

Directors of all three colleges have confirmed the plan “as definite; gpring’s first snow-drops are their

policy,” the time has come for Bryn Mawr to serutinize and evalu-|

BH hee 3 ¥e,
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For more and more’



eyes.
ate the benefits and implications of this new program.

; ‘ gle ok ar Pi os. | y y raAnL
Bryn Mawr is committeed, officially, only to “joint discifasion| "WoW vopero™™ are thy works, my
* od!

|

iby th Si a ree institutions iti

| by the pre idents of the three institutions before additions to | Am: EOIN Oe

teaching staffs of any of them are made.” This is not equivalent! Cut out on an ingenious plan:

to “joint appointments,” which would involve concessions in stand-|The skull, though thick, is no pro-

ards or policy. Instead, it is designed primarily to increase the: tection,
| Housing a cloverleaf connection



Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office



Yes, But

The Alliance program of Defense Courses is designed to train
students in basic skills essential to defense work, to coordinate and
direct the acquisition of these skills toward needed service.

In this more comprehensive framework, defense courses
should lose the tint of isolation which colored them in the first
They will be directed ‘towards a known need, carefully
Personal interviews will setve to

semester.
chosen on the basis of urgency.
set the student on a longer-range training program which coordi-
nates. skills she has already acquired, her academic training, the
needs of her community.

A summer placement in volunteer services of -all kinds would
be an important supplement to this winter work. Such service
would give the student experience which might add much to her
academic course. It would be a contribution. It would meet, to
some degree, the need “to get out and do something.”

These new courses announced by the Alliance will absorb, to
good cause, much of our time and energy. They are our answer
to the, what can I do, problem. They are, of course, essential now.
But there is a proportion to be kept.
become only an agency for these courses.

Current events meetings, in which students are to join com-
mentary discussion of the news, can be lively and vocal.

The Alhance should netr

The |Professor, particularly from a department of science, is called to

forums should be more than discursive, they should treat the many |S0VeT™Ment service, It 1s difficult to find-an adequate. substitute:

| quality and scope ef courses offered to students of the three col- | ;
Ey EES eee ' ' | “] ner Of avenues of. infection.
Pee. a rly Ar 5S W Fr o str11C- rane
g ondarily, in departments where “the range of instruc-| 4 head is just a happy honeycomb
tion to be covered is great, and the number of interested students | Where viruses roam.
small,” it will be economical for the three colleges to build up,|They do not choose to focus,
between them, one comprehensive department, rather than limiting | You cannot spot their locus,
g | ;
themselves” to essential~courses, -and—maintaining—separate, and guess they've got the wanderlust.
: ™ | And so we must
duplicate, faculty groups. Approach from every angle
The. autonomy of each college remains intact. Only benefits’ The unattractive tangle

can result, if the present agreement is not superseded by more With droppers
That are the stoppers
Of bottles of goo.

ee : Swarth- And what good does it do?—
more, in instituting an art department this year, consulted Mr. Well,.the doctor feels he’s helping

Sloane, informally, and eventually chose as their first professor a
specialist in prints—Bryn Mawr has no instructor in that field.
As President Nasom said, “it would have been folly to disregard ;D?Ps in the eyes and the ears and
the fields of special interest and competence of the unusually’ fine ba ip Done .

: ops in the hair and drops be-
department at Bryn. Mawr.” In other words, if the members of tween the toes!
our art department (who already teach at Haverford) are made! And nobody knows
available to Swarthmore, and their professors can supplement the| Where all the goo goes.
courses we offer, the three colleges will possess an art department | 4"4 i ee eee
of wide scope. fo eee
The plans for cooperation were begun long before the declara- |
tion of war; but war conditions haye shown that cooperation is.
not only beneficial, but for the time being, necessary. When a

drastic commitments,
We can already observe the new policy in action.

Nature all he can.



B.A. Gr

Cisiaint © cael

We can only get a clear picture









controversial problems which pass so rapidly before us now. But if, by three-college cooperation, one competent professor is’ of the Far East when it is not a
Student plans to work on the research program launched by. the enabled to train three groups of students, it is likely that. he will! military objective, said Miss Reid.

faculty group last year ought not to be deserted.
Defense courses, yes, but not at the expense of the other
activities encompassed by the Alliance.



be spared, and the standards of all three colleges will remain intact.| We are ngw under military censor-

So far, the policy: seems progressive, sound, and far-sighted. | Ship, since it is impossible te tell
|the people anything which will not

But the fact that its aims have been misinterpreted is significant. |
It is obvious that Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore are,

reach the enemy.
There are three different objec-

~ tional

Merger Forms Student League of America;
Resolutions Passed with Little Opposition



By Sally Matteson, ’43
If America had declared war two
weeks later, the Convention of Na-
Student Merger Groups
would have been a livelier one;

Throughout the convention, which
witnessed the formation of a Stu-
dent League of America, all the is-
sues boiled down to one; and all the
delegates agreed about that one—
concerted war effort. Brooklyn ora-
tory, which usually gives fire to
plenary sessions, expressed itself in
patriotic flourishes that could
arouse no opposition. Controversy
was limited to trivial points of or-
der and procedure.

In the common aims cited inthe
announcement of the convention,

_. was the statement: “And, although

we are opposed to Communism, we
urge all possible aid to Russia in
her fight against Hitler. We reject,
however, any program of co-opera-
tion with American Communists
toward this end.”—a gesture un-
doubtedly meant to outlaw Commu-
nist support. Usually there is some
infiltration of the latter to these
conventions, but at this time they
were either not present or else

biggest post-war jobs which would
face America would be, ‘‘to deal
with Russia.” The word “deal”
was allowed to acquire rather grim
connotations—and no one dissented.

It was disheartening to see that
when opinions were no_ longer
prominent, discussion tended to be-
come spineless. Stripped of the
emotions aroused by controversy,

statements from students were gen-
eralized, often revealing a lack of
information.

The resolutions drawn up on do-
mestic and foreign policy were as
to be expected. They can be sum-

marized in the words of the pre-;



amble: “The aggressor-Axis powers

must be defeated in a total effort.

This means maximum effort to win
the battles on the front, -produce a
maximum of war materials, and
wholehearted.,support and service
of the civilian population”—with
the added stipulation that “civil
rights must be preserved and ex-
tended up to the point where such
activity is a ‘clear and present
danger to the nation’.”

The only change advocated in



utterly subdued. It seemed to be



universally accepted that one of the



the government’s war policy was
the proposal of, “the establishment

Bae

completely birds of a feather?
Time, perhaps, will tell.
a

all three, small, liberal, and Quaker in background.

But are they



War Increases Need
For Gratluate Nurses



Mounting needs of the Army and
Navy Nurse Corps, the United
States Public Health Service, and
other government services demand
a rapid increase in the number of
graduate nurses, “

‘Young women with one or more”
years of college are likely to be
given preference in entering good
schools of nursing and to advance
|more quickly to positions of respon-
| sibility. Nursing is a career, and
;has more top positions as admin-



istrators, supervisors, and teachers
than it, has women qualified to fill
them. _It-provides-the-collegée grad-
uate with a better average income,
both in hér first year and later

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than does any other occupation. !

Expenses for the usual three-year
training period are low, and may

be supplemented by scholarships. |

Opportunities for usefulness are
almost unlimited, especially in post-
war reconstruction.all over -the

world. ,
Information can be had at any
time from the Nursing Information
Bureau, 1790 Broadway, New York
City.
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‘of a civilian ministry of supply
with full power io order, purchase,
and..allecate the.output of vital
raw materials.”

The drawing up of the resolu-
tions at this meeting was merely
perfunctory. For the Merger was
just a means to an end: there is a
clear need for a national liberal ac-
tion group, and the function of the
Merger was the establishment of
such a group. ban

The reason for this need was
seen in the “clinic” on defense ac-
tivities in the different colleges: it







would provide the valuable oppor-
tunity to give and receive sugges-
tions, in a “pooling of ideas.”

At Bryn Mawr the Alliance takes
care of.the more separate types of
defense work done in most colleges.
Aside from closer contact with
other colleges, the only change
which the establishment of a chap-
ter of the Student League. of
America on this campus would
bring about would be the chance to
express, with national reinforce-
ment, a stand on labor or govern-

ment policy. — Petes te:

Seen Pleas ntider weec ie erne et Sear mma oe

.tives of propaganda: to maintain
|the internal morale of the nation;
|to weaken the morale of the en-
'emy; and to maintain the good will
jof any allies.

| Germany is in a unique position
in that she can divorce the propa-
ganda of the outside world from
‘her people, but, of course, no de-
|mocracy can function in this way.
|The recent propaganda of Ger-
imany’s- internal collapse might
ihave the effect of the Allies’ slack-
lening their efforts. -

' There is great propaganda value
lin the news of the conference in
|Rio de Janiero. Mr. Fenwick is
accompanying the delegates as an
‘appointee of the Pan-American
Union on behalf of the twenty-one
republics. This conference mech-
anism was agreed upon in case of
emergency at the eighth conference
at Lima in 1938.

Ten of twenty republics have de-
clared war, and ten have not. One
republic, the Argentine, is- very
‘critical, and will not take ‘a stand
of “pre-belligerency. She treats
the United States as a non-bellig-
erent, gives us use of her ports,
and so is officially neutral. It is
asking too much that the Argen-
tine be anti-Axis, Miss Reid said.

The next Current Events will be
the first Tuesday of the new sem-.
ester, when Dr. Sprague will give
a review of current plays in New
York.











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Room F, Taylor, January 5, 6, 7.
—In a series of four lectures,
presented on three successive

nights, air raid wardens of the col-
lege were given a concentrated
course in Civilian Defense. On|
Monday, Mr. Cameron described the
organization for campus defense,
and Mr. Doyle spoke on incendiary
bombs, Mr. Sloane discussed high
explosive bombs and shelters the
next. evening, and the last lecture,
on poison gas, was given Wednes-
day by Mr. Crenshaw.

There are two permanent sec-
tion wardens always on duty on
the campus, said Mr. Cameron.
They are responsible respectively
for the lower campus and for the.
College Inn ‘area. With the night
watchmen, they control the ground
lights; while inside lights are con-
trolled by the hall wardens,

The signal for a general air raid|

including the power house siren,
continuously up and down for five
minutes. The signal will also come
over the telephone to the switch-
board in the business office during
the day, to the air raid wardens’
post in Rhoads on Sundays and to
the hall wardens of Rhoads. during
the night.
The important types of incendi-|
ary bombs, said Mr. Doyle, are
thermite, magnesium and oil
bombs. The purpose.of such bombs
would be either to inflict damage
or to defeat the blackout. Ther-
mite bombs cannot be put out, but}
they penetrate the roof and floors!
of a building, leaving small fires
which are easily extinguished, and
land finally in the cellar.
Magnesium bombs are the cheap-
est kind of incendiary bomb, so that
more of them are used. Sand and
water only increase the burning,
and the resulting fire in the build-
ing rather than the bomb itself
must be controlled. Since the
bombs give off sparks they must be
approached carefully. After either

.of these kinds of bombs has Janded,

there is usually a period of about
two minutes before the fuse ig-
nites the metal.

Both magnesium and. thermite
bombs are small, whereas oil bombs
are large drums of oil. Magnesium
bombs burn with a white flame,
thermite ones with a match-like
flame.

The two kinds of high explosive
bombs, said Mr. Sloane, are general
purpose bombs, which explode soon
after landing, and time bombs,
which. may explode from two to

‘nine hours after striking. Damage

may result from the impact of the
bomb- itself; from the expansion of

gas, at the explosion, the creation}

of a high-pressure area, and, later,
a partial vacuum around the gas;
all of which will cause breakage,
bursting of walls and -windows.
Further damage may result from
the impact of flying fragments of
the bomb itself or of buildings.

A shelter should be designed to
meet all these contingencies, as
well as the possibility of the col-
lapse of a building overhead. The
best kind of shelter is a basement
if it can support such collapse. All

Windows in a shelter__should be

taped from the inside to prevent
the shattering of glass.

Deaths from the effects of poison
gas, said Mr. Crenshaw, are few.
Gases most frequently used either
irritate the lungs or cause burns.
Of: the first, phosgene is the most
effective; and of the second, mus-
tard’ gas and luosite A large
amount of all these © required to
kill one man. To be effective, gas
must be close, and since it remains
near the ground the place of great-
est safety when it is being used is
on the second floor of a building,
or, if in the open, to the windward
of the bomb.

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Diseussed in Lecture

By Dr. Glenn Morrow

'Plato and Democracy |

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Goodhart Hall, January 6.—|
Speaking on “Plato and Democra- |
cy,” Dr. Glenn Morrow, of the |
University of Pennsylvania, main- |
tained that the association of Plato |
with totalitarianism was due in!
part to a cursory or too literal
reading of the philosopher.

Although Plato is caustic on the |
subject of. democracy in the eighth |
and ninth books of the “Republic,”
Dr.. Morrow noted two cautions
that must be observed for a full
understanding of his position. First,

Plato’s attack is directed against |
the peculiar features of ancient |
democracy. No modern democrat |
would hold with the election of !
office holders and judges by lot, |
nor the supremacy of the popular |
assembly. He would agree with!
Plato that it ‘was a misuse of
equality. Second, in the “Laws”.

and the “Statesman,” which, Dr. |
Morrow commented, are more ma- |
ture works, Plato’s attitude toward
democracy becomes more _ favor-
able.

In these works are found four
fundamental doctrines which are
the basis of any “civilized” gov-
ernment. First there is the Rule |
of Law, which is higher than any |
human sovereign, and to which all
officials are responsible. (In _pass=
ing, Dr. Morrow noted that Plato!
had some difficulty with this the-|
ory, because ruling is an art, and
an artist should be above the law.
However, he evaded the conflict by
saying that genuine possessors of
royal sciences are not found among
men.)

The second fundamental doctrine
is that the nature of the higher
law is reason. This concept of
natural law, Dr. Morrow said, not
only pervades our Declaration of
Independence, but is important in
modern liberal thought. The third
doctrine is that peace, not war, is
the aim of statesmen. Plato, in-
deed, laid a foundation for inter-
national law in his precept that
men should fight with the idea of
ultimate reconciliation in their
minds.

The final doctrine states the
triad of social values toward which
statesmen should aim, namely,
Liberty, Friendship, and Wisdom.
Dr. Morrow compared these to the
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
of the French Revolution, noting
the similarity. Plato presupposes
some equality to safeguard Liber-
ty and Friendship, while the eight-
eenth century presupposes wisdom.

Although these doctrines are not
necessarily democratic, democracy
assumes them.



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“42 Swims to Victory
In ‘Non-Varsity Meet



Thursday, January 8. — The
First Non-Varsity Swimming Meet
was notable on several counts. The
old and tottering seniors, boasting
the largest number of recruits
(nine), placed first with 32.5
points. They were followed by the
Light Blue, who amassed 23.4, the
Reds, with 17.0, and Frances Mat-
thai with four points.

The Free-Style Relay marked
the highlight of the meet. Coming
into the honie stretch, the seniors

Kauffman Describes



managed to cut down the slim lead
of the. sophomores and tie with
them for first. place. Had the
Light Blue won this event, the
seniors would have won the meét

point.

was discovered. Marion Chester
had ho sooner kicked her way half
the length of the pool in the
breast stroke for form, than the
excellence of her kick was noticed
and admired by, the judges. She
was named to the Varsity Squad
on the spot.



by the narrow margin of one}.

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“MICE VACETION? ”

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Harvard’s Expedition

To Seale Andean Peak

Deanery, January 11.—Mountain



climbing is an expression of the
American tradition for overcoming
obstacles both in peace and in war,
Mr. Andrew J. Kauffman said in

his lecture on the Harvard Moun-|
taineering Club 1941 Expedition in|
Peru. Although the club’s attempt,
last summer, on the unclimbed, 19
thousand-foot Andean peak of
Huagoruncho was unsuccessful, a
thorough reconnaissance was es-
tablished which should permit a
future expedition to attain the
summit.

Mr. Kauffman managed _ the
United States’ end of the expedi-
tion, while Mr. William Jenks took
care of transportation in Peru and
made the necessary arrangements
with the enthusiastic Peruvian
government. The group consisted
of seven members, four of whom
concentrated on the more serious
climbing, the others forming the
support party.

The failure to reach the top was
due to incomplete acclimatization
in the excessively high altitude, in-
sufficient reconnaissance and lim-
ited time.

From the start, an attempt up
any of the faces of the mountain
was ruled out since these consisted
of almost sheer, perpendicular ice
walls rising from the base at 14
thousand feet to the summit, five
thousand feet up. The ridges off-
ered the only possibility, but one
by one these proved impossible. The
East ridge, long and highly ex-
posed, necessitated weeks of climb-
ing, with probable failure at the
end.-The_limited_time_excluded_ an
attack from this side. A _ party
sent to view the North ridge, never
before seen by a white man, re-
ported after a difficult 12 hour
journey that it offered no hope of
success. The West ridge, according
to Mr. Jenks who had made a
reconnaissance trip there about a
year previously, was obstructed by
high ice towers. One would have
either to tunnel through these or
cut around them; both possibilities
demanded more time than was
available and afforded a probability
of the towers’ collapsing in the pro-
cess. There remained the South-
east ridge. On this the party had
based its main hope of reaching

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The Student League of America
was the name chosen for the“new

single organization formed on De-
cember 30, 1941, at the Harvard
convention of the National Student
Merger groups. The united group
includes chapters and members of
the groups formerly known as the
Student Defenders of Democracy,
the. Student League for Progessive
Action, the College Division of the
Committee to Defend America and
Democracy’s Volunteers.

The convention studied means
for the student civilian action in
winning the war and plans for
democratic post-war reconstruction.
Among resolutions adopted was a
declaration of intention in setting
up defense councils on the college
campuses to work in close co-opera-
tion -with the office of civilian
defense.

The new organization has a mem-
bership of 5,000 college and high
school students from_145_universi-
ties and secondary schools.



the summit. But, after a_ trip
along it up to approximately 17
thousand feet, it became evident
that the route was- not practical
owing to a gigantic overhanging
ice cornice at the base of the sum-
mit, which promised to collapse at
any moment over the heads of the
climbers.

With every possibility seemingly
exhausted, the party decided to
concentrate on minor unscaled
peaks around Huagoruncho, and
only from the top of these did the
members see that the forbidding
ice towers of the West ridge had
fallen off, and that it offered a
probable route. A further trip to
the base of the ridge confirmed this
theory, but by now the time was
up and the attempt had to be aban-
doned that year.

The expedition, however, was
successful in the establishment of
a thorough reconnaissance of the
mountain, in the geological re-
search accomplished on the glacier,
and in finding what to a mountain-
eer forms the main object of such
an expedition: for, Mr. Kauffman
said, ‘Mountain climbing is, so far
as I know, the only sport whose-
ultimate aim is exclusively devoted
to a search for beauty.”



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The Minimum

Miss Mildred Fairchild,
professor of sociology, has
been named a member of a
committee which will recom-
mend a new minimum wage
for the glove and mitten in-
dustry. The appointment was
made by the Federal Wage
and Hour Division.

A boner in a Philadelphia
paper reported that the com-
mittee would recommend “a
minimum age for the glove
and mitten industry.” Any-
.one who advocates protection
of infant industries see Miss
Fairchild.







GC. Calhoun Discusses
Criticism of Homer



January 8sth—In his
lecture on Through the
Looking Glass, Dr. George Calhoun
of the
censured the “School of Higher
which, he said “Runs
as fast as it ean trying to keep in

Deanery,
Homer

University of California

Criticism”

the same place.”
The school, headed by Gilbert
Murray and Wilamowitz, tries to

prove its theories by minute analy- —
sis of the texts and commentators,
using the suitable facts and care-
fully neglecting the others. They
draw their method to an absurd
extent. They concentrate on detail
and lose sight of the whole.

Higher Criticism, said Dr. Cal-
houn, is fortunately dying out and
to replace it is growing up the
method of studying Homer first, of
finding and appreciating the beau-
ty of the poems, and then, after-
wards, of reading the commenta-
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.. ___ CITY LIGHT'S

With the United States fully in!$1,000,000,000 of war material in
the war for over a month, Philadel-|the process of manufacture.
phia, the “Arsenal of Democracy,”
has made little progress in acceler-
ating the battle for production. So
far the only evidence of change on
the industrial front is the armed
guard which can be seen pacing up
and down before every vital center
of industry. Moves toward the
goal of full, seven-day-a-week, pro-
ductive effort largely take the form
of preparation for future speed-



here is placing new orders hourly,

of 1941 the Quartermaster spent
$427,760,000, a figure approaching
the $565,000,000 outlay for the en-
tire year of 1940.

3 The Navy Ordnance Department
has placed hundreds of millions in
defense contracts in this area, call-
ing mainly for gun forgings for
|giant battleships, armor, plate, tur-

The Army Quartermaster Depot |§

: Civil Service Offers

Annual Examinations
For Juniors, Seniors



The U. S. Civil Service Commis-
sion has announced examinations
to be held for vacancies ‘in several
Government departments which of-

day by day. In the last six months | ¢,,. positions particularly suitable

to Bryn Mawr graduates. The an-
nual “Junior Professional Assist-
ant’? and “Students Aid” examina-
tion will be open to both juniors
and seniors. Applications must be
filed not later than February 3,
1942. Optional branches included
in the former examination are:
aquatic biology, archives, bacteri-



ups. Improvements that have been
made are far from spectacular.
One manufacturer of important
war equipment reports that he had
been able “to iron out kinks” pro-
gressively since October and that
his plant had increased its output
during the last month. The plant
is already on a seven-day week ba-
sis and cannot increase its employ-

ment until physical expansion of
the factory or its machinery is
realized.

Another large firm moved from
a five to six-day week, but claims
that “maintainance problems” and
lack of skilled labor keep it from
attaining the seven-day goal.

Several firms say that they have
been working at full capacity for
months. :

It is reported that industrialists
and Government men who have
been investigating industrial prog-
ress here both agree that it will be
several months before noticeable
advances can be made.

Philadelphia industry is con-
fronted primarily by three prob-
lems: (1) Under the SPAB allot-
ments of materials have been made
months in advance. New condi-
tions demand new priorities blue-
prints. The danger here is the pos-
sibility of creating a bottleneck for
vital materials if they were allo-
cated to one manufacturer — the
first to speed up production — at
the expense of others. (2) There
is a serious shortage of trained |—
workers. Weeks ana perhans
months must pass before men and
women now being sent to training
centers will be qualified to enter
war industry. (8) Avoidable in-
efficiency and “dual control” have
thrown serious obstacles in the
way of Government war organiza-
tion. (4) One Government man
here a few days ago said: “We
still have a sales job to do, selling
all-out production not only to some
industrialists but actually to some
officials who must organize that
production.” These problems, par-
ticularly the last, obviously, are
not peculiar to Philadelphia.

bines and electrical equipment.

shipyards on the Delaware per-
forming the most tremendous ship-
building feat yet recorded. Ship
construction on the river ranges
from floating fortresses such as
the battleships New Jersey. and
Wisconsin of 45,000 tons each
through new battle cruisers, heavy
cruisers and mine sweepers down
to 50-foot patrol boats for the
Army and 110-foot wooden sub
chasers for the Navy. The inten-
sity of the present ship-building
effort can best be measured by the
fact that where over 30,000 are
working today, 18,000 worked at
the peak of the building effort in
the last war.

Battle-craft of all kinds, tanks,
anti-tank batteries, fragmentation
bombs, fuses, army cars, howitzers,
mortars, service clothing’ and in-
numerable weapons whose techni-
cal names strike no responsive
chord in the average civilian float
off the quays and roll off the
assembly-lines in this area. And
the rate of flow will be accelerated
and accelerated. The list of war-
production plants now located in
Philadelphia and the surrounding
area looks endless, and more are
still coming in.

All of which has raised and con-
tinues to intensify the gravity of
the problem of housing this terrific
influx of workers. And that is an-
other story.

JESSIE STONE, ’44.



Engaged
Mary Alice Blake, ’43, to
Lt. Benjamin S. Blake, Jr.
Carolyn Strauss, ’43, to
. Richard Bloomberg.
Jane McAllen, ’43, to Car-
rol Holt.
Maude Thomas, ’42, to Ed-
ward Katzenbach.
Joan Goodin, ’44, to Robert
Day.
Elizabeth Reeve,
Stanley Bright.
Margaret Hammonds, ’43,
to Robert McCullough.

48, to



No one can definitely state the ee Cand, "St, to er
Sa value of the Philadelphia contracts hk ere ,
(which changes each day). but all ‘ Gisela Bolten, '44, to Dan-
Government agencies agree that lel Bogen.
the figure approximates $5,000,- :
000,000. Married

Jean Wilkinson,
William, Wright.

The progress made in the last *42, to

year rather than last month is a}.





fairer gauge of Philadelphia’s con-



tribution to the battle for produc-
tion.

In the shipyards, from the
world’s largest at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard down to the tiniest,
which used to turn out pleasure
crafts, more than $2,000,000,000
worth of war vessels are under
construction or have been contract-
ed for.

—— The huge Philadelphia Army
a Ordinance District, extending from
‘New York to Georgia, but with
most of the manufacturing center-
ed in and near this city, has about






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household equipment,

a sol degree is required,
with major graduate or under-
graduate study in the field of the
optional subject. Senior or gradu-
ate students may be admitted to
the examinations, and may; upon
attaining eligibility, receive pro-
visional appointment, but cannot
enter.on duty-until evidence of the
successful completion of the re-
quired college course is furnished.

their thirty-fifth birthday.

Political science and _ statistics
may be offered as optional subjects
in the “Student Aid” examination.
Applicants must have completed at
least three years of college study
and must have indicated at the col-

chosen. No applicant may enter
the examination who completed the
third year of college study prior
to May, 1939. Provision is made
for the acceptance of applications
from Junior students who expect
to complete ‘their junior college
year not later than July:1, 1943.
They may also receive provisional
appointment, but they may not en-
ter on duty until evidence of com-
pleting their junior college year.
Student Aid positions pay $1,440
a year. WUsually..employment is

plicants for this position must not

day.

The. Commission has also an-
nounced a need for home econom-
ists. Vacancies existing in the
Rural Electrification Administra-
tion should be of interest to phys-
ics majors. Applicants must have
completed a 4-year college course
including or supplemented by at
‘east 8 semester hours in home eco-



Victory Book Week

The American Red Cross,
U.S.0O., and American Li-
brary Association, are spon-
soring this week (January
12-17) for the collection of
books for the use in U.S.O.
centers and the American
Merchant Marine. Bring
books that are entertaining,
informatiye, or technical, to
the Bookshop, which is act-
ing as Campus Collection
Center.







Foss Traces Lisi
Development of Art -



ology, biology, chemistry, geology, |
State De-|
The end of 1941 saw the great! partment Assistance and statistics. |
\A 4-year ollege course leading to |

For Spanish Club

History of Art Lecture Room,
January.8.—Dr. Martin Foss, from
the Haverford Workshop, in his
lecture on Spanish Art emphasized
the lack of continuous development
in Spanish Art. Great artists
emerge, he said, in spite of its
characteristics rather than because
of them.

The influences of northern Ger-
manic tribes, of southern Arabian
tribes and of Christianity continu-





Applicants must not have passed!

have passed their thirtieth birth- |

'ally affect Spanish art, said Dr.
Foss. From the north it obtained
the darkness and gloom character-
istic of Germanic cathedrals. From
the, south came superstition and
from Christianity, mysticism which
is peculiarly sensual in Spanish
art.

The Spanish incline toward or-

lege or university their intention | namentation in art, he said. Gloom-
of majoring in the optional subject! iness and heaviness characterize

some of their churches, but others
are light, “spider-webs of orna-

iment.”

In painting, Dr. Foss said, there
is always an increasing tendency
toward realism, which results in
uneven development. He illustrated ;

Aronson Points Out
Openings for Women
In Civil Service Jobs



The Deanery, January 8.—Mr.

Albert Aronson spoke on the “Op-

portunities in Civil Service.”

Mr.
Aronson opened by pointing out

‘that with the full mobilization of

the armed forces and the expansion

of the public services, today women

|



seeking civil service jobs are in a
better position than ever before.
Until very recently the civil
service has made no _ particular
effort to attract the better minds
of our colleges and universities. In
the last decade, however, there has
been a definite change and a civi

service job is no longer synonymous —

with “poverty, anonymity, and obe-

,dience” in a minor clerical job. The
4 . . :
prestige of the commission has

risen in both nation and _ state.
Where in previous years positions
were obtained through the spoils
system, candidates are now selected
almost exclusively for merit.

Nearly all Federal jobs come un-

der the Federal: civil service, Mr.
Aronson said. The more important
positions demand specialized train-
‘ing, but for the recent college
graduate there are junior profes-
sional positions in almost all de-
partments. Mr. Aronson suggested
that openings particularly in the
navy and war departments as well
as in the Office of Production Man-
agement might be expected as a
result of their expansion program.

The examinations for which a
Bryn Mawr graduate would be par-

ticularly adapted are those for a

assistant.

student aid or a junior professional
They both have many

options extending into the fields of

science and arts. Details may be
‘obtained from Mrs. Crenshaw.
Mr. Aronson said that in obtain-

the evolution of Spanish painting | ing civil service jobs as well as in
‘advancement there is some preju-

with slides, beginning with Alfon-
so and continuing through El Gre-



| the greatest Spanish painter, who
| made the entire atmosphere of his



and must have had appropriate ex-
| perience. Graduate study in home
economics (or closely related sub-
ject) may be substituted for part
of the experience.

Application blanks may be ob-
tained in the Bureau of Recommen-
dations. Other examinations are
open to Seniors besides the Junior
Professional Assistant and _ the



dice against women.
co, whose emphasis is on the psy-'

‘chology of the subject, Velasquez, '

during the school vacation periods; | Pictures contribute to their mean- |
when furloughed, appointees may} ing, and finally, Picasso, whose art
return to their college studies. Ap-;i8 abstract and purely ornamental. |

nomics or a closely related science



To date
women have been employed more
for desk work than contact jobs.
But the war will certainly provide
opportunities.



Players’ Club Elections
Pat Brown, °44.
Jean Brunn, ’44.
Ruth Alice Davis,
Ann Heyniger, 744.
Louise Horwood, ’44.
Marion Kirk, ’44.
Sylvia Maynard, ’44.
Lucille Mott, 43.
Ann Robinson, 43.

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“Mountains and Men’
Is Lecture Subject



Continued from Page One
working on the eighteenth century
field as well. Especially interested
in the influence of. science on litera-
ture, she has written several books
on the subject. The Art of De-
scription, The Microscope and
English Imagination, and World in
the Moon are three of her .publica-
tions. She also edited selections
from Shelley and Keats, and selec-
tions from Yennyson.

On the subject of women as
scholars, Dr. Nicholson once re-
marked that it was “easy to be a
scholar and a gentleman, but it is
hard to be a scholar and a lady.”
The trouble is, she says, that
“women have no wives to look af-
ter social contacts and perform
drudgeries for them.”

Dr. Nicolson’s main side interest
has been newspaper writing.
Daughter of the editor of the De-
troit Free Press, she got her first
experienge writing dramatic re-
views for this paper. When her
father later became its Washing-
ton correspondent, she worked in
his office there, and once took com-
plete charge of it for three months.

Her career has been full: After
receiving her B.A., degree from the

Expert Herein Meets
B. M.’s Sports Public
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The following is my own opinion
and not necessarily that of the
Brooklyn Dodgers —

JACQUIE BALLARD.

Transcending the importance of
all baseball trading this winter are
the managerial appointments * in
the two major leagues, Lou Bou-
dreau crashed the headlines (of
the sports sections) early this win-
ter. He will be the youngest club
manager extant in the coming
season. How long he will be ex-
tant is another question, for the
Cleveland Club is notorious for the
chronic displacement of its mana-
gers. Lou is only twenty-four, and
the responsibilities of club strate-
gy may well weigh heavy on his
handsome shoulders.

The newly elected Hans Lobert
can’t be said to be ‘any great im-
provement over the former dentist-
|manager of the Phillies, but the
managership -is a reward to the
red-faced man for his long years
of patient service. The Phillies
have resided in the cellar** a long
time, and it will take more than
| the injection of a sixty-year old
pilot to pull them out of it.

Mel Ott, “the man _ everyone



University of Michigan in 1914, | knows,” is the manager of the New
she taught in Saginaw University, | York Giants, and from the number

and later in Detroit public schools. |of trades he has made he appears

Meanwhile, she obtained her Mas- | t be a crafty man, (and also =
ter’s degree at Michigan and her|Who is quite free with his boss
Doctor’s degree at Yale. She be- money). Mel has lived at the Polo
came an assistant professor at the | Grounds} ever since he was a tefi-

University of Minnesota, and then |er youth of sixteen, and now ev-
at Goucher College, where she also |@tyone except the Flatbush fans§

took graduate work at Johns Hop-
kins University.

In 1926, her winning of the Gug-
genheim Fellowship sent her-—to
Europe for a year of “browsing”
among old letters and pictures. Re-
turning to America, she was ap-
pointed associate professor of Eng-
lish at Smith College, where she
later became a full professor, and

‘then dean until 1941, when she

took her appointment at Columbia.
She has received two honorary de-
grees of Doctors of Letters.

Dr. Nicolson is well known for
her readable essays in monthly
Magazines, such as the Yale Re-
view. Her excellent speaking abil-
ity and her witty discussions have

been evident in the many lectures |.

she has given all over the country.

April Test Will be
Substituted in 1942

Continued from Page One
basis for scaling the results of the
June examination. As a basis for
Harvard, Yale and Princeton
scholarship selection, the Achieve-
ment tests have been successful.
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, fa-
miliar to students now in colleges,
have proved’a reliable test of abil-





ity and “are “highly recommended | ~

by experts.
The-Achievement~tests; like the
subject matter examinations, are
drawn up and graded by the Col-
lege Entrance’Examination Board.
The Board is an _ examination
agency; it has nothing to do with
laying down entrance require-
ments. It is hoped that an’ essay

requirement to. demonstrate a stu-,.

dent’s writing ability will be in-
cluded: in‘the April Tests for an-
other year. :

Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Rad-
cliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley,
Wells, Wheaton have also joined
in use of these April Tests.



Civil Service Exams

Information sheets for
Civil Service examinations,
which -were posted on the
Dean’s bulletin board, have
been moved to the main bul-
letin board in Taylor. Many
positions are open to college
graduates without special
training, but information. on
examinations for positions
requiring training are also
posted.





‘are rooting for Mel’s success.
| * Each major league team needs
|a manager to boss the players on
his team.

**Last, or eighth place in the
\league. ae
|. | The home playing field of the
Giants.

§ Admirers of the Brooklyn Dod-
gers, arch ehemies of the Giants.

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Dr. Chambers Tells |
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|
Continued frém Page One |

virus. Dr. Chambers’ work has at-
tempted to determine the physical
properties of this virus.



The size of the influenza unit |
has long been in debate. Ultra
centrifuges have been perfected,
which, revolving 70,000 times a sec-
ond, exert a force 300,000 times |
greater than gravity which throws
suspended particles out of solution. |
The speed with which the particles |
fall out depends upon their size.!
Using ultra-violet light, photo-'
graphs have been taken to record
the changes in concentrations as
the suspension is thrown out. But’
even with the most modern meth-!
ods, two different. readings were!
obtained for the size of the, influ-'
enza virus. The cultures obtained |
from the lungs of infected mice!
contained particles far larger than |
those coming from the allantoic
fluid of a chick embryo. |

This discrepancy disconcerted |
scientists considerably, until, em-|
barrassingly enough, it was dis-|
covered that lung cultures from
perfectly normal mice yielded par-|
ticles corresponding in all physical |
properties with those in cultures
from infected mice.
izing it, experimenters had been
dealing with mitochondria, minute
structures ‘to be found in all nor-
mal tissue. Influenza virus from,
allantoic fluid added to the mito-|
chondria, disappeared. This pointed
to the important conclusion that
the partidfes from the lungs of in-
fected mice, originally thought to
be a large type of influenza virus,
were actually mitochondria which
had absorbed-the .infectious units.

With the electron microscope sci-
entists have ‘tried in vain to dis-
cover- any distinguishing features
in the shape of influenza particles.
There is much evidence, however,
to indicate that they are compli-

Without real-



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acidic. The addition of protamine,
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is being used now as a satisfactory
vaccine. It is probable, Dr. Cham-
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the disease will be found before the
exact .method of its attack is
known. He aay

More and more diseases, notably
cancer, are being attributéd to
aberrant proteins. An explanation
of one virulent action will explain
many others. But today, a great
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Chambers credits Mr. Patterson of
the physics department with the
suggestion, “Perhaps God is a pro-
tein molecule.” :

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of the requirements for naturaliza-
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Page Six THE COLLEGE NEWS







Each year members and contri-
butors within the Dramatists’ Alli-
ance vote for the best play of the
time (seen in -performance — or
read), the best critic, the greatest
service rendered American drama.
In 1941, pronounced majorities
made Emlyn William’s The Corn
is Green the best play; Brooks At-

[ng of contributors and General |

Dramatists’ Alliance
, Announces Contest | discussed and presented and gen-
Continued from Page One In Dramatic Writing eral problems of theatre are can-

damage was done there. | vassed.

After an hour and a half, the D : ij f f a The Alliance does not act as an
ramatists’ Alliance of Stanfor agency, but the winning plays and

University offers a seventh annual Bee winning second honors are

Professors Honored
At Various Meetings

Flames Are Fought
On College Campus

| public at which winning plays are

,





Continued*trom Page One |
several meetings of the Economics |

Association in New York and took
part in a round-table discussion on



workers succeeded in putting the

Two men were

Post-War Commercial Policy. In
the History department, Mr. David

attended the meeting of the Ameri-
can Historical Society in Chicago.
Mr. Faris and Miss Fairchild rep-
resented Bryn Mawr at the annual
meeting of the American Sociolog-
ical Society in New York. Miss
Fairchild was also very busy with
her work on the State Advisory
Council “f Unemployment Compen-
sation of Pennsylvania.

The meeting of the Modern Lan-
guage Association attracted many
faculty members to Indianapolis,
the German, English, and French
departments being well represent-
ed. Four Bryn Mawr _ professors
read papers: Miss Bree on Proust,
Les Plaisirs et les Jours - Etude de
Style, Miss Gilman on and Emerson, Miss Koller on The
Practical Influence of the “Ars
Moriendi” Literature on Elizabeth-
an Conduct and Mr. Kahn on Some
Modern and Medieval Ideas in the
Later Middle Ages.

In the Philosophy Department,
Mrs. De Laguna, Mr. Nahm and
Mr. Weiss attended the meeting of
the Eastern Division of the Ameri-
ean Philosophical Association at
Vassar college. Mrs. De Laguna,
who is retiring President of the or-
ganization, spoke on Cultural Rela-

tivism in Science. The new Presi- |



fire out completely.
stationed in the hall for’ the night
to watch for further out breaks.
At seven the next morning, work
started in cleaning up the charred |
mass filling the ‘kitchen, and stu- |
dents missed no meals on the fire’s
account.

Eight employees had to be mov-

ed to other halls, or to improvised |
Plays;
Two men |}

quarters in Pembroke.
slept in the maids’ dining room for
over a week. No damage figures

can be estimated until the rebuild- ,

ing is begun. The causes are still
a mystery to the investigators.



ing the session, Mr. Weiss took
part in a Symposium on The Rela-
tion of the Sign to the Thing Sig-
nified,

Miss De Laguna_ represented
Bryn Mawr at a meeting of the
Anthropological Association, held
at Andover. Miss De Laguna spoke

and Ethnology of the Northeastern

Section of North America.
Mr. MacKinnon attended

meetings of the Topological Psy-

chologists at Duke University and

presided over a discussion of Tech- '

niques. for the Training of Leaders
in a Democracy.
resented Bryn Mawr at the annual

meeting of the. Geological Society



131, 1942.

ithe Etherege Award for
| fifty dollars and pres

radio is the Alden Award for Short |
the Gray Award for Dra-|
|matie Criticism is seventy-five dol- |
‘lars and publication in the periodi- | | which was produced over the Ca-
inadian networks in July,. will ap-
All materials ‘submitted should | pear in Margaret. Mayorga’s Best |
| One-Act Plays of 1941.

3 tached.
charged for
correspondence;
| costs

the |

Mr. Dryden rep- !

series of competitions in dramatic | recommended to such production
| writing, closing date to be March | channels as Samuel French, Na-
Prizes of one hundred | tional Broadcasting Company, Me-

dollars in cash and first production | tro Goldwyn Mayer, and Pasadena

‘are offered as the Maxwell Ander- |

omedy;

eals of the Alliance.

be legibly typed and securely bound
in strong covers; they must be ac-

;companied by, self-addressed re-

turn cover with correct postage at-
A fee of one dollar is
expenses of annual
filing, express
to judges, and production
centers, etc. Prizes are presented
in August during the Assembly

Week of Dramatists, annual meet-
at a Symposium on Architecture |

ation on |



Playhouse.

dorf and Mitchell’s No Boots in
Bed;
1941, Until Charlot Comes Home
by Rachel Reynolds, of Vancouver,

Contests are open to all writers

| of English, regardless of age, posi-
‘tion, or previous training and oc-

cupation. For full details of reg-
istration for the competitions, in-

formation upon the publications of
the association, and possible -mem-
bership, address. Proctor for Dra-
ma Awards, English Department,

Stanford University, California.





SOMETHING NEW
HAS BEEN ADDED!



at.

Plays already pub-
‘son Award for Verse Drama and| lished under the French imprint
| are Nussbaum’s A Parting at Ims-

the Alden Award play of

kinson of the New York Times the
best critic; the greatest service
done for American drama the pro-
duction of There Shall Be No
Night.



Mass Meeting is to
Outline Defense Work

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