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VOL. XL, NO. 2

BRYN MAWR and ARDMORE, PA., THURSDAY; OCTOBER 7, 1943 |

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Bryn Mawr College, 1943

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Undergraduate Waitresses Relieve
_ Shortage of Maids at Rockefeller

Changes May Be Made
In Other Halls Before
Christmas



A new system of student wait-
resses was inaugurated on Sep-
tember 28 in Rockefeller Hall as a
result of the shortage of maids.
Although Rockefeller is at pres-
ent the only hall where the sys-
tem is in use Miss Charlotte Howe,
Director of Halls and originator of
the plan, believes that it may have
to be adopted in other halls be-
fore Christmas.

Rockefeller was chosen as the
hall in which to establish the plan
because its labor shortage was
more acute than the other halls.
The fact that it is alarge, unified
hall made it a suitable one in
which the system could be tested.

Voluntary Basis

Five upperclassmen volunteer-
for the work the first two days in
order to meet the emergency... By
Thursday, Doris Barnett, ’44, who
is head of the) student employ-
ment, was directing the work and
the number of waitresses wa.
raised to eight. Although Doris

' is scheduling the waitresses at

present, it is planned that three

' head waitresses, one for each meal

will assume this work,

Student waiting in Rockefeller
is now on the same basis as that
in the Deanery. The positions are
open to all students in the college
and the wage of forty cents an
hour has been established. Head
waitresses. will receive higher
wages. Breakfast is served only

Continued on Page 4

Adelt Explains Delay
Of 1942-43 Yearbook

The 1942-43 issue of the Year-
book, scheduled to be published
last June, will be delivered at the
very latest by the middle of No-
vember, said Carla Adelt, ’43,
when questioned by a NEWS re-
porter. Miss Adelt, head of last
year’s Yearbook Board, explained
that this delay “could be laid at
the door of many: different trou-
bles ranging from war conditions
to inefficiency.”

Last September the large ma-
jority of the Board resigned, and
there was particular difficulty in
obtaining a new Business Man-
ager. Until the Business Manager
could be replaced, no advertise-
ments were solicited, and the
Board was unable to go ahead in
planning the book until the finan-
cial backing could be guaranteed.
When solvency was finally reach-
ed in the winter term, Haverford

Continued on Page 3





Calendar

Friday, October 8
Lecture by Bertrand Russell,
Limitations of Deductive
Logic in Dalton at 8:15.
Saturday, October 9
French Language Exam,
Taylor, 9:00.
Sunday, October 10 4

Andrew Mutch, Music Room,
7:80.

Wednesday, October 13 —
Registration for War Alliance
‘courses, War Alliance Room,
West Wing of the Library.

_ Lecture.by.Wilfrid Fleisher |
in Goodhart at 12:30.



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Marriages

Kathryn Edwards, ’45, to Cp.
Richard W. Wilt, U. S. Army
Air Corps.

Jane Hailey, ’46, to Lt. Monta-
gue Boyd, U. S. Army.

Connie Lazo, ’43, to Lt. Walter
Roy Manny, Jr., U. S. Marine
‘Corps.

Marjorie Porter, ’44, to Sgt.
William Philipp, U. S. Marine
Corps.

Anne Byrd Woods, ’45, to Lt.
George S. Nalle, U. S. Army
Air Force.

Wilhelmina Young, ’46, to Capt.
Kermit Jubert, U. S. Army.

Engagements

Barbara. Coe, ’44, to Engign
George Gofford, USNR.

Mary Ann Donnelly, ’44, to Lt.
Philip F. Eckert, USN.

Thayer Leitch, ’46, to Midship-
man Albert Samuel Cooke,
Jr., USNR.

Nancy Niles, ’47, to Lt. Harry
(Primrose, U. S. Army Air
Force.

Janet Potters, ’47, to Lt. (j. g.)
Thomas. Wood, USNR.

Virginia Belle Reed, ’44, to Lt.
John R, Klopfer, U. ‘S. Army.











Russell to Present
Series of Lectures

On Scientific Method

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Limitations of Deductive Logic
will be the subject of Mr. Bertrand
Russell’s first lecture in a series
entitled Postulates of the Scientific
Method to be given in Dalton at
8:15 on Friday, October 8.

Mr. Russell, former Lecturer
and Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and present Professor
of Philosophy at the Barnes Foun-
dation, Philadelphia, was born in
England in 1872. His first ap-
pearance in the United States was
as temporary Professor and Low-
ell Lecturer at Harvard Univer-
sity in 1914. From 1920 to 1921
Mr. Russell ght philosophy at
the National University of Peking.
On returning to this country he
became a lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, a position which
he held until 1938 when he became
Professor of Philosophy ~at the
University of California. In 1915
Mr. Russell was awarded the
Nicholas Murray Butler Medal,
and in 1984 the Sylvester Medal
of the Royal Society in England.

Mr. Russell has had a long and
prolific writing career. Since 1910
he has averaged almost a publica-
tion a year. His main topics are
social conditions, philosophy, and

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One Hundred and Ninety Females Succeed
In Keeping Parade Night Song Dark Secret



By Patricia Behrens, 46

“Forty-seven, Forty-seven,
along way to-go

As we reach out destination

All our loyalties will grow

As we sing this Parade Night

Our hopes rise high and far

That our song will still be a secret

From the Sophomores of Bryn
Mawr.”

Proudly singing these words to
the tune of “Tipperary” a com-
pletely victorious class of Fresh-
men marched behind the Bryn
Mawr Fire Company’s Band Wed-
nesday night. Swarming down
the hill, the largest class Bryn
Mawr has yet seen had little trou-
ble breaking through the Sopho-
more Circle. Although lacking the
traditional torches carried by the
Junior class, Parade Night missed
none of the spirit or rivalry of the
past.

“I was just completely worn
out,” explained one Sophomore.
“I’d looked through so many draw-
ers, I was doing it in my sleep,
and still we hadn’t found even a

hint of either their words or their
” :

we’ve

The only group of Sophomores
to even think they had found the
song was sadly disappointed. Hav-
ing. heard Freshmen , humming
“Loch Lommond,” they “excitedly
announced to their classmates that
it musigbe the Freshmen’s tune. It
turned out to be the new Fresh-
man lyric song.

‘Having no Sylvia Brown to baf-
fle the Freshmen, the Sophomores
tried sending members of their
Clasaain to, different. halls for din-
Most of these found they
ce not get “well enough ac-
quainted during the course of one
‘meal to even approach the subject
of the song.

“T ate and ate,” reported one

|| scout, “and drank-coffee and smok-

till I almost had
but not one of

ed cigarettes
stomach ulcers,

them would ‘let out a peep about
the song.”

Her face daubed with calamine
lotion, one Sophomore even tried)
saying she was a Freshman who
had been in the Infirmary and had
not heardthe song. Her luck was
no better than anyone elses.

Thus it was the Sophomores
conceded the victory to the Fresh-
men with the following answering
song:

“Although we may be older we are
not very smart

You had our number right from
the very start

’46’s sad fate was to learn your

song too late



We didn’t get it though we wish-
ed we could
’47 you’re good.

“The thing that amazes me,” ex-
claimed Alison Barbour, Freshman
song leader, “is that one hundred
and ninety females could keep a
secret!”



Notice!

The Hygiene examination
will be held in Taylor Hall on
Saturday, October 16, 11-12:30.
All members of the Class of
1946 are required to take the
examination at this time, as
are all members of the Classes
of 1944 and 1945 who have not
yet met the Hygiene require-
ment. u

- Students expecting to take the
French or Spanish examina-
tions this autumn are request-
ed to sign on the lists posted
on the bulletin: hoard outside
the Office of the Dean. Students
intending to offer other lan-
guages than French, German,
or Spanish in fulfillment of the
language examination require-
ment should make sure that
they have so registered. with
the Office of the Dean.











Effect of War on College Stressed

In Opening Address by Miss McBride



President. Announces
New Faculty Changes



New faculty appointments: were
announced by Miss McBride in her
opening day address. These ap-
pointments are to replace members
of the teaching staff who are on
leave of absence for the duration.

Mrs. Manning is acting as Dean
of the Graduate School in Miss
Taylor’s absence; Mrs. Broughton
is acting as dean of Freshmen
and Director of Admissions for
Miss Ward. Substitute appoint-
ments in the faculty are: Dr. Josh-
ua Hubbard, who has come from
Wesleyan as Lecturer in Econom-
ics and Dr. Dony, who will return
as Lecturer in French. In Biol-
ogy Dr. Elizabeth Green is part
time instructor and Dr. Elizabeth
Patterson.is full time demonstra-
tor. In Greek Miss Lang will
be part-time instructor in Dr.
Lattimore’s absence and in Latin
Dr. Rousseau Flower will teach
Advanced Paleontology and the

Continued on Page 3

War Alliance Begins
Training Volunteers



On Wednesday, October 13, un-
dergraduates will be-able to reg-
ister in the War Alliance Room
for extra-curricular courses de-
signed to train people for vari-
ous civilian war jobs. Whether
each course will be given depends
on the number of people registered
for it, and those who register
must attend regularly, stated Ann
Fitzgibbons, ’45, Chairman of
war courses.

Five separate classes will be
sponsored under the American
Red Cross. The standard Red

Cross course in First Aid requires
20 hours for completion. The
classes will last for two hours
and will be given on Tuesday
nights in the gymnasium. This
class will begin in several weeks.
The Advanced First Aid class,
also a regular Red Cross course,
Continued on Page 4





As Example President
Cites Education And
Action, New United



Impressive statistics concerning
both professors and_ students
which demonstrated that “educa-
tion and action have been brought
together by the war in a more
striking way than before” were
the keynote .of Miss McBride’s
speech to the college on the open-
ing of its 59th year.

Directly affected by the war
through the absence this year of
about a quarter of its faculty and
teaching staff, Bryn Mawr’s grad-
uate and undergraduate enroll-
ment has also undergone changes,
In view of the demand for trained
women, there are many fewer
graduates than in former times,
while “in the undergraduate

Continued on Page 3

Fleisher to Discuss
Our War With Japan



Wilfrid Fleisher, well-known au-
thor of “Volcanic Isle” will discuss
“Our War with Japan” at the first
of a series of Assemblies on Cur-
rent Affairs.
special writer for the New York
Herald Tribune, and Time Maga-
zine, as well as a news commenta-
tor for WMAL.

Mr. Fleisher was in Sweden in
the summer of 1939 when the Eu-
ropean war broke out and covered
northern Europe for the New York
Herald Tribune, leaving Sweden
for Japan on the last trip of the
Kungsolm. His stay in Japan,
however, was brief as Japanese
censorship soon made it imposs-

ible for him to send news to Amer-_

ica. Fleisher, returning on the
evacuee ship “President Coolidge,”
was thus evacuated from both the
European and Asiatic theatres of
war.

Mr. Fleisher, ‘thous born in
Philadelphia, has spent most of his
life abroad. He was raised in
Paris, educated at Charterhouse in
England, and joined the staff of

Continued on Page 4



Celebrated Actress from China Recounts
Harrowing Escape from Captured Hong Kong



By Patricia Berhens, °46

“J have only lived in Denbigh a
week and already it seems like
home,” says Yung Wang, noted
Chinese actress here as a special
student to study English ~~

Yung. Wang was in Hong Kong
at the time the Japanese captured
it from the British in 1941. Be-
cause of her wide fame, the Jap-
anese wanted to force the young
actress to do propaganda work
against the white man. They let
it be known that an important
place was reserved for her in their
new Asiatic regime.

Only by hiding in a filthy tene-
ment until she was as dirty as the
most disreputable beggar did Yung
Wang escaped from the hands of
the Japanese.
days she went without washing
her face. Her hair was matted
and tangled.

In this condition, she was able

to escape to the mainland in a fish-

ing boat. Before it had gone far
on its trip, the boat was stopped
by a Japanese patrol, but the
Japanese paid little attention to

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Yung Wang. They were much more
interested in another girl whose
disguise Was more superficial. She
had rubbed dirt on her face and
hands, but they discovered that un-
der her sleeve her arm was clean
and smooth. Eventually persuaded
that the party was starving and
going to the mainland only in the
hope of finding food, the Japs al-
lowed them to pass.

_ When her escape was finally
completed, Yung Wang went to
the Chinese government in Chung-
king. She had served it from
1937 to 1939 when she had toured
the battlefronts with a dramatic
troupe. They had lived on army
rations in army huts, accepting no
pay. Any place, any audience
edthey were ready
to stage a play. If Japanese planes
and bombs interrupted the per-
formance, it was continued as soon
as possible. The troupe was so
successsful it was sent into Malaya
and Indo-China to raise funds for

the Nationalist army. A total of -

over thirteen million Chinese dol-
lars was collected.

Mr. Fleisher is now :

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We have gleaned many facts of
vast interest about undergraduate

summer jobs. Some of the work
was for the government and ex-
ceedingly secret—needless to say
these facts we did not glean at all.
However we pay tribute to the
countless nurses aids; we give you
typical examples of some varieties
of the summer’s labors; we teil
you of some that were incredibly
different ...

A large number worked in
chemistry and physics laborator-
ies, several adding the aspect of
danger to increase the interest.
In a research lab for medicines
and drugs Marge Richardson, ’46,
worked with very dangerous acid
compounds, which could be fatal
if inhaled. This, aided by numer-

burgh steel mill. She Was exposed
to Polish, Greek and Yugoslavian
spoken by everyone within hear-
ing distance, but she suffered prin-
cipally from garlic.

Barbara Hull, ’44, worked for an
M.I.T. professor who was doing
research for an oil pipeline and
refining concern. :It ws all gov-
ernment work,and exceedingly sec-
ret, and here lay the danger in
this job. Said Bobbie, it was so in-
teresting that “I tried to find out
more about it, and they almost set
the F.B.I. on me.”

One. of the most interesting jobs
was Louise Horwood’s, 44, who
worked for the Massachusetts’ Tu-
berculosis League, which included
traveling all over the state study-
ing tubercular cases for the Tuber-

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Senate Bottleneck

There are pending in the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee five resolutions dealing with post-war cooperative or-
ganization. The resolutions have in common the desire to
see the United States become an active participant in such
an organization. With the exception of the Fulbright resol-
ution, all have been in committee six months or more.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has thus far
given numerous evasive reasons for its indefinite delay. To
introduce an amendment on post-war collaboration, said
Chairman Tom Connally,-would—‘“‘provoke_ ill-considered de-
bate in the Senate.” Another senator “doubts that it should
be brought up at this time.” The House, on September 21,
safely debated and passed the Fulbright resolution, with an
overwhelming endorsement of 360 to 29. «As passed by the
House, the Fulbright plan favors “the creation of appropriate
international machinery with power adequate to establish
and to maintain a just and lasting peace, among the nations
of the world, and as favoring participation by the United
States therein through its constitutional processes.”

Some of the members of the sub-committee have object-
ed to the Fulbright proposal, saying a clearer, more detailed
resolution is needed. Representative Fulbright himself
points to the limitations of the plan: “I have no illusions that
the Aesolution is the panacea for our afflictions. It expresses
what I believe the people of this country desire as the funda-
mental principle for our conduct towards the other nations
of the world. It is simply the first small step in the process
of building a policy which I hope may have better results
than that which we have allowed in the past.”

Admittedly not a final or indeed a finished resolution for
post-war collaboration, the Fulbright plan lays the basis for
further implementation of a program for international co-
operation. Various polls of American opinion, as well as the
House vote on this resolution indicate that the public is in
favor of cooperation with other countries. The Senate also
will respond to the public will when articulate.



Plasma and Politics

Within a few days the War Alliance will again call for |
donors to help build up the blood bank through the Ardmore |
branch of the Red Cross. There will be only one day set aside |
foreBryn Mawr donors. The News joins the War Alliance in |
urging you to make that day a | record- breaker for the a
more Red Cross.

We want here to call attention to a practice of the Amer-
ican Red Cross which is diminishing the effectiveness of its
vital work and thus impeding the success of the entire war

effort. The Red Cross accepts blood from both Negro ‘and |

white donors. The Red Cross puts this blood in separate
banks. The blood from the bank built up by Negro donors
is used exclusively for Negro soldiers,

‘The Red Cross does this in spite of the fact that science





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culosis Rehabilitation Survey. In

all it took about eleven and a half

weeks, which included long reports
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ous explosions, we were told, can
be highly. stimulating. Alison
Merrill, ’45, on the other hand,
was a “flame cutter” in a Pitts-





Reader’s Digest

Recently all undergraduates have received offers of
“Special Reduced Rates for Students” from the Reader’s
Digest. It seems to me then a most appropriate time to in-
vestigate this most widely circulated and popular publication.
The Reader’s Digest has the largest reading public of any
magazine in America—nine million subscribers and probably
over fifteen million readers in all.

The Reader’s Digest purports to be a digest of “articles
of lasting interest.” Its articles are presumably objectively
chosen and of varying political views. To most readers who
have neither time, money or interest to read the thousands
of magazines that flood the news-stands, the idea appears to
be a good one. But before evaluating the worth of this pub-
lication it must be decided if it is indeed a digest.

In the October issue eight of its articles were written
by the Digest’s editorial staff. In the last six issues none of
its leading articles have been reprints. Its so-called sixteen
“Roving” Editors have produced the greater part of these.
Thus its pretense that the magazine is a digest of note-
worthy articles warrants strict examination.

In-an-artiele on Reader’s Digest, Fortune Magazine, in
its November 1936 issue wrote: “It not only pays generous
fees to 35 magazines for exclusive reprint privileges but even
supplies certain of the magazines gratis with original articles
which Reader’s Digest proceeds to condense and reprint . .
And again, “No secret is the fact that in the case of more
than one struggling magazine the Digest payments have
come to make the difference between red and black ink.

The danger of the Reader’s Digest is that under the
guise of objectivity it reprints articles, like Max Eastman’s
anti-Russian one in the July issue, which represent its own
editorial policy. That policy has been consistently anti-Sov-
iet and anti-Administration, while its “Studies in Black and
White” tend always to make the Negro an object of amuse-
ment. The Reader’s Digest should either be the digest its
title announces or come out from behind its deceitful mask.

—MAnkie WassERMAN °46



has proved that there is absolutely no difference between
Negro and white plasma. This practice has three injurious
consequences. First, it places an organization with enor-
mous prestige in ‘the position of perpetuating a scientific
falsehood, a falsehood, moreover, which is closely related to
the despicable race theories promulgated by the enemy of
our country. Secondly, it prevents the blood bank from
reaching its full potential size, since some Negroes boycott
the Red Cross as a result of this practice. We think the

Negroes who do this are pursuing a mistaken path in obtain-.

ing their rightful objective. They are obviously harming a





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larger cause with which their own interests are indissolubly |
bound. Thirdly, this practice of the Red. Cross provides |
further grist for the poison mills of our enemy who are try-.
ing to persuade the American Negro that he would be free |
‘from discriminatory practices in an Axis world. Every |
one who is well aware.of,Nazi race theories will try to find

| comfort in the belief that the Negroes, too, will emphatically

reject this pernicious propaganda. The best weapon against
this enemy line is, of course, the cessation of practices which
strengthen the power of the lie.

We hope that everyone, while giving blood, will express
opposition to this practice to officials at the Red Cross*head-
quarters in Ardmore. In addition, we urge everyone to write
letters of-protest to the National Office of the American Red

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Common Room, October 5:

“The most important single fact
in Belgian- American postwar
planning is that Belgium, ofall
thé European countries, has the
most to offer in her past as far as
post-war reconstruction goes, due
to the use of the remainders of the
World War relief fund for the ex-
change of students,” stated Mad-
ame Dony, speaking on the sub-
ject “Belgian American Coopera-
in Post-War Planning To-





day.”

After the last war, the remain-
ing relief money was put into fund
to pay for the exchange of Belgian
and American students. Ower six
hundred Belgian students came to
this country. About four hundred
and fifty Americans went to Bel-
gium to study.

American Education

As the Belgians sent here, were
the country’s most promising stu-
dents, many of the key men in
Belgian affairs today have studied
in the United Statés. They have
a keen understanding of and sym-
pathy for American ways, pointed
out Madame Dony. Among these
former students are J. A. Goris,
commissioner of education, and
Paul Van Zeeland, former Belgian
prime minister.

Today both men are working on
Belgian-American post-war plan-
ning. Mr. Van Zeeland heads the
Belgian Information. Center in
New York, whose purpose it is to
bring information about Belgium
within reach of Amerigans. Mr.

Goris edits News from Belgium,
issued by the Information Center.



WITS END.

We have been sitting around
a bridge table for four days now
and have finally arrived at a plan
for world peace and order. Our
plan is based on lots of freedom
and more than one world for ev-
erybody. The purpose of our plan
is to do away with bureaucracy,



” laristocracy and autopsy.

Our first freedom is freedom
from want of privacy. Everybody





should have a chance to be with
somebody some of the time but not
everybody should be with every-
body all of the time. This does not
allow for greater economic inde-
pendence or geographic culture. By
dividing all countries into tetra-
gons this can almost be accom-
plished.

Our ties with Europe are too
close to be severed, therefore our
plan provides for American par-
ticipation in European plans, for
prevention of American participa-
tion in European plans. We of
course will share everything with
everybody. - After we have been
given control of the land, sea, and
air, everybody else can have the
rest. This is only fair to Russia
and England who have helped us.
so much in the winning of the war.
We must not forget China but
probably will.

We have developed a foreign
policy but then all policy is for-
(eign to us. A League of Nations ,
| will be avoided by having a world
‘union of all nations—the U. S. re-
| taining the right not to belong.
| Moreover, we must ally ourselves
|with™~our allies in this union—
|guarding the rest of the world
| with our land arm, air arm, sea
arm and yardarm.

The problem of feeding the
world, including returned soldiers
and former defense ‘workers, we
admit is a problem. This we solve
by not allowing the government
to spend a cent on them and there-
by saving a lot of money. Only
by entrenching and retrenching



shall we progress in our retro-
gression.






























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Tomatoes and Scholastic Research Work
Occupy Faculty Members During Summer

The hoe and the printed page
‘seem to have claimed the greater
part of the faculty’s interest this
summer, with the majority of the
professors at work on books, ar-
ticles and research work in their
particular fields. Victory gardens,
however, played an extremely im-
portant part as extra-curricular
activities.

The .Faculty’s enthusiasm in
“the good earth” ranged from Mrs.
Manning’s assertion that she could
have won a prize for the number
of tomatoes on each of her plants
to Mr. Patterson’s reply that “no
he didn’t have a garden, but he be-
lieved his wife had kept one.” “A
dozen gardens were planned, but
only eleven actually raised be-
cause, as Mr. Carpenter explained,
the woodchucks “fortunately” ate
his early in June. Mr. Broughton’s
garden, conforming to the “year
of tomatoes” was acknowledged by
his colleagues to be a phenomenal
success, while Mr. Nahm explain-
ed his in terms of the fact that it
took him one week to trench his
asparagus.

Academic Side

Returning to the more academic
side of the summer, the faculty of
the language departments were
unusually active. Mr. Muller
wrote a History of Mesopotam-
ian Art” for the Dictionary of Arts
in addition to several articles on
archaeological problems. Work-
ing for the better understanding
of war and post-war problems,
Miss Lograsso: translated from
Italian to English, doing confiden-
tial work for the Office of Stra-
tegic Services, as well as finishing
her article on “Byron and Italy.”
Mr. Gillet worked on the third vol-
ume of his magnum opus on Bar-
tolome de Torres Naharro, the
first volume of which will be pub-
lished this year. Miss Nepper fin-
ished her thesis on Sarmiento,
while Dr. Dietz gathered material
for his two new courses here.

One of a committee of three,
Mrs. de Laguna helped: produce a
report on the teaching of philos-
ophy in wartime for the U. S. Of-
fice of Education. Mr. Wells serv-
ed as Panel Chairman for the Reg-
ional War Labor Board in Phila-
delphia and will continue this. work



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during the winter on a part time
basis. Mr. Weiss read papers at
the Les Entretiens de Pontigny
Conference at Mt. Holyoke, and at
the Science, Philosophy and Relig-
ion Conference in New York.
Among the faculty who went
afield to study were Mr. Chew and
Miss Robbins who did research
work at the Huntington Library,

California. Miss Robbins, working }

on Algeron Sidney, said that the
summer was “pure pleasure” in
comparison with preparation for
her course in Social and Economic
History. Miss Gilman took an in-
tensive course in Thai (Siamese)
at the University of Wisconsin and
also visited language courses in
the Army Area Program.

President Announces
New Faculty Changes
Continued from Page 1
second semester First Year Geol-

ogy in the absence of Miss Wyc-
koff.

In the English Department Miss
Constance Brickett has been ap-
pointed as instructor to replace
Miss Linn. Miss Mignon Was ap-
pointed instructor last spring.
Mrs. James Riely and Mrs. Ken-
neth Gemmill are appointed as

may not use the Deanery ex-
cept in the case of Seniors dur-
ing the second semester. Under-
graduates may come to the
Deanery only as guests of their
parents, faculty, or alumnae,
Seniors in the second semester
may not bring other undergrad-
uates to the Deanery.

The House Committee wishes
to draw the attention of the
Undergraduates to the follow-
ing rule:

That no student is permitted
to wear shorts, slacks, or pa-
jamas on the first floor of the
Deanery, and the Manager of

the Deanery has been asked to
enforce this rule.







part-time instructors. Mr. W. H
Auden will give a course in poetry
and Dr. H. Wallach, also from
Swarthmore, will give the course
in Experimental Psychology. Miss
Henle, in turn, will give a course
in Social Psychology at Swarth-
more, and Miss Gardiner and Miss
Oppenheimer will teach Embryol-
ogy at Haverford.

From the Department of Soci-
olegy at Pennsylvania comes Dr.
R.H. Abrams to give a new course
in the Family, and Dr..J. P. Shaloo
who will teach First Year Sociol-
ogy. Dr. A. I, Hallowell will again
take the course in Anthropology
this year, however, giving Ethnol-
ogy as the first year course. Dr.
Senn will again teach the course

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made of the findings.
purposes of the study was to’ sur-
vey groups of draftees rejected
because of T.B. They are young
and anxious to work but must be
checked continually to keep the
disease from spreading. The work
involved visiting sanitariums and
talking with patients to find their
interests in order to plan for their
rehabilitation. The job itself was
invaluable experience for post-
war rehabilitation which Louise
intends to make -her career.

But undoubtedly the most uni-
que of all summer jobs held by
undergraduates this summer was
that of Marie ,Wasserman, ’46,
who worked as a farm hand in a
migratory labor camp in the Shen-
andoah Valley.: Equipped with one
pair of blue jeans, a cotton dress
and a blanket she worked for six
weeks posing as a penniless labor-
er. Giving the need for farm la-
bor as her principal reason, she
was nevertheless also interested in
the subject from the social angle:
why should there be a camp such
as that in the richest valley in
Virginia, and what was it really
like? “In good times those peo-
ple are existing; in poor times
they starve.” The people them-
selves are a most fascinating part
of her story. ‘Most are not ambiti-
ous, they work terribly hard, are
unbelievably poor—have no con-
ception of wealth or education.
They work ten to eleven hours a
day. But the most amazing thing
of all is their overwhelming gen-
erosity.” She went on to tell of
how, themselves miserably poor, |=
they tried to ‘provide for her be-|=
cause they thought her poorer|=
than they. “It makes you feel
people are pretty wonderful.”

Oné of the.

men were hired as photographers
for the winter dance and other
Christmas activities. One of them
had no film in his camera at the
time the pictures were taken, and
the other was using an unfamiliar
camera, ruining his pictures with
wrong exposure. It was only with
the help of Caroyl Tietz, ’48, who
volunteered as class photographer
that those campus pictures. that
were replaceable, were finally tak-
en and the negative ready for the
engraver by May.

A week later the pictures reach-
ed the plant, Miss Adelt received
notice from them saying that due
to the war. situation, the proofs
would not be ready for at least
ninety days. As a result the ma-
terial did: not reach the printer un-
til the early part of September
and he promptly notified the
Board that because of priorities
the. Yearbook would have to wait
its turn, although he hoped to have
it printed by the middle of Octo-
ber.

Miss Adelt stressed the fact
that everyone who had ordered
and paid for last year’s Yearbook
would definitely receive one next
month.



Russell To Present

Series Of Lectures

Continued from Page 1

He published German Social
Democracy in 1896. During this
early period he also wrote on prin-
ciples of ‘mathematics and of phil-
osophy . In 1917 Principles of So-
cial Reconstruction appeared, in
1918 Mysticism and Logic and
Roads to Freedom. In_ political
and eonomic fields Mr. Russell has
published works on _ bolshevism,
China, and industrial civilization.

Mr. Russell’s interests include
education and social problems. In

Marriage and Morals in 1929, The
Conquest of Happiness in 1930
and Eduation and the Social Or-
der—in-1932.-His most recent—writ-
ings are Power: A New Social
Analysis, 1988, and An Inquiry
into Meaning and Truth, 1940.

Other lectures in Mr. Russell’s
series are: Probable Inference in
Practice; Physics and Knowledge;
Perception and Casualty; and In-
duction and Analogy.



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President Stresses
The Effect Of War

Continued from Page |1

school,” stated Miss McBride, “we
have been hard pressed to find
place for students we should or-
dinarily accept.” The new Fresh-
man class is the largest in Bryn
Mawr’s history, and members are
from widely distributed geograph-
ical areas.

Many fields of knowledge—and
some of these previously unfore-
seen—have been vital to the war.
The importance of breadth and not
restriction in education has been
demonstrated in many ways.”

“Despite the inevitable impres-
sions from brief training courses
and the need for action,” Miss
McBride continued, “a knowledge
of the past is being shown as es-
sential°as ever for judgment and
planning for the future, especially
where the history and political
economy of peoples are as inex-
tricably linked to the weight they
throw on one side or the other in
this war.”

Freshmen

Speaking of education at the
present as a miracle not to be re-
fused, Miss McBride remarked
upon how fortunate students were
to be able to continue at Bryn
Mawr.

Information concerning the
Freshman class was given by
Miss McBride. 1947 shows signs
of being very scientifically inclin-
ed. Slightly less than half of its

fathers are professional men, just
business men,

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Committee

Any suggestions or criticisms
concerning courses should be
made to the various depart-
ments through the Curriculum
Committee. The representatives
of the different major depart-
ments, who will present their
specific. problems to the Com-
mittee as a whole, are listed
below:

Chemistry—Ruth Alice Davis,

’44, Chairman.

Biology—Penelope Smith, ’44

Secretary.
Classical Archaeology—Mar-
garet Spencer, 44.
Classics—Edith Schmidt, ’44,
Economics and Politics—Lor-
na Morley, ’44.

English—Patricia Brown, ’44.

French—Emily Tuck, ’45.

Geology—Katharine Lutz, °45

German—Caro Shugg, ’44.

History—Anne Heyniger, ’44.

History of Art—Tobe elected.

Mathematics—Francoise Ple-

ven, ’45.

Music—Sue Coleman, °45.

Philosophy—Jean Potter, ’45.

Physics—Lilias Swift, ’44.

(Psychology—To be elected.

Sociology—Phyllis Cates, ’44.

Spanish—To be elected.

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War Alliance Begins

Training Volunteers
Continued from Page 1
will be given in the second semes-
ter.

Training for Nurses’ Aides will
also be given by the Red Cross.
This will require four hours a
week plus three weekends at Bryn
Mawr Hospital. Weekend work
entails eight hours on Saturday or
Sunday. The.hours remaining from
the required 15 are to be com-
pleted in a hospital, probably at
home during vacation. Freshmen
are not permitted to train for
Nurses’ Aide work.

The Red Cross course in Nutri-
tion covers the theory and prac-
tice of canteen work. This course
is not open to Freshmen. The last
class sponsored by the Red Cross
is in Home Nursing, a course to
train people for the care of sick
persons at home.

The War Alliance in conjunction
with the Intercepter Command jn
Philadelphia is providing the op-
portunity for students to train in
the various jobs needed for air-
plane spotting. This work is car-
ried on in four-hour shifts.

Business Courses

The Fleisher Vocational School,
a free municipal trade school in
Philadelphia, is’ offering the use of
its facilities every afternoon but
Friday. There are opportunities
to learn short-hand and typewrit-
ing as well as to learn how to run
calculating machines. Students
can also learn how to work ma-
chines such as the drill-press and
the lathe. These classes require
eight hours a week, which can be
covered in two afternoons. Fresh-
men will not be permitted to
study at the Fleisher School.

The War Alliance is also trying
to arrange for classes in short-
hand and typing to be given in
Bryn Mawr as was done last year.
These classes, if arranged, will be
held- for one hour a week. The
charge for the entire course will
be approximately $3.00.

Undergraduates interested in
assisting at the Children Centers,
such as the one in Bryn Mawr,



will be given classes in the neces-

Problems of Relief
Cited by Mrs. Grant

Common Room, September 28:



The tremendous difficulties faced |

by the Allied Military Government
in the Near East were stressed by
Mrs. Grant in her Current Events
lecture given during Freshman
Weék. Mrs. Grant has _ spen
much of the summer in Washing:
ton, and brings a great deal of in
formation on the progress the
State Department is) making in
planning for the long relief and
rehabilitation period. Not only
are there enormous problems with-
in the military administration it-
self, such as necessity for agree-
ment between the governments at
home and in the field, but also in
the political and economic prob-
lems of the territory to be govern
ed.

American Control

The Office of Foreign Economic
Coordination is now the supreme
American control of relief and re-
habilitation, working under the
State Department. It consists of
two divisions, but both sit on a
common council: one is comprised
of the President, the Secretaries
of State and Treasury, and the
chiefs-of-staff through the Army
and Navy Departments, to direct
policy; the other is composed of
the Office of Economic Warfare,
the Office of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation Operations, and
Lend Lease, to work out specific
problems. The new United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin-
istration works parallel, having
especially close liaison with
OFFRO. All four relief agencies
are most active in rehabilitation in
the western part of the Near East,
but the Anglo-American Middle
East Supply Center is also very
important,

Military Problems

When the army reoccupies terri-
tory, Mrs. Grant stated, it is im-
mediately faced with three jobs:
first, that of the military—protec-
tion; second, the economic—broad
relief and renewal of public serv-
ices, and here complex questions
of rationing arise, when mixed
racial and religious groups are
present; third, the setting-up of
machinery for provisional govern-
ment, which is most complicated
of all, for the change from mili-
tary to civilian government is ex-
tremely difficult. The military
must be careful never to set pre-
cedents through action or prom-
ises, which cannot be carried out
by the new civilian administration.
If the territory has been a man-



sary techniques if the demand is
large enough.

The series of four lectures in
air-raid precautions, given last
year for air raid wardens and
their substitutes, will be given
again if there is a need for them.







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9:00 Classical Hour

10:00 Soap Opera

10:15 Short Stories -

10:30 Oral Spanish

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date, it must remain a mandate un-
til international law recognizes it
otherwise, that is, until a new
peace treaty is signed.

Other elements complicate the
Near Eastern situation. There is
present a rapidly growing nation-
alism; under-industrialization and
other economic problems lead to
acute inferiority complex. We
must remember, said Mrs.’ Grant,
that these peoples have been in
“leading strings” politically, econ-
omically, educationally, and they
still need protection.

When the question was raised
of retaining fascist or doubtful in-
dividuals in responsible positions,
Mrs. Grant stated that it is often
extremely difficult to distinguish
between fascists and non-fascists.
However, for the sake of expedi-
ency, it is necessary to take risks,
and even dubious individuals must
be used in relatively unstrategic
positions.









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Fleisher To Discuss
Our War With Japan

Continued from Page 1
the “Japan Advertiser,” the Amer-
ican daily paper’in Tokyo, at the
age of 18. The following year he
was correspondent for the “Ad-
vertiser” and the “New York
World” with the American Expe-
ditionary Forces at _ Vladivostok
where he obtained the first com-
plete story of the death of the
Czar and -his family.

The next few years Fleisher
wrote for a variety of newspapers
including the “New York Times”
and the “Associated Press,” re-
returning to Japan in 1923 to be-
come editor of the “Advertiser”
and “New York Time” correspon-
dent. Mr. Fleisher obtained the
first exclusive story of the signing
of the Axis pact between Germany
and Japan in November 1936 and
telephoned to the “New York Her-
ald Tribune” to avoid the Japanese
censorship, thus inaugurating the
Tribune’s overseas telephone serv-
ice.

Mr. Fleisher will be in the Pem-
broke East showcase for an open
discussion after lunch on Wednes-
day, October 18. All students and
faculty are invited to participate.

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Clippers Needed

The War Alliance would like
six volunteers to help the Busi-
ness Office clip ration books.
and do other jobs connected
with college rationing. All
students who are interested will
please contact Ann Fitzgibbons
’45, Rockefeller or Jessie Stone
’44, Rhoads South.







| Student Waitresses

Serve Tables In Rock

Continued from Page 1
by Rockefeller students in order
to maintain efficiency.

Besides the waitresses, there
are two other girls whose duty it
is to see that the tables are sup-
plied with milk and water and
also assist with the trays. The
new system has dispensed with a
great deal of the formality of the
former «service by maids.



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War calls, vital for victory, must go through
PROMPTLY. But they can’t if telephone lines are

needlessly congested. Do

your. part in speeding

essential calls by. following these suggestions:

f.

Make only URGENT Long Distance
calls to war centers like Washington,

Chicago and _ Detroit.

2.

When you DO useé,.Long Distance,
give the operator the number of the

distant telephone, if you can.

Keep all your Long Distance calls AS
BRIEF AS POSSIBLE.

3. Try to avoid calling between the hours
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