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THE COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XL, NO. 17

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944



Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1944

PRICE 10 CENTS





Green and Malraux,
‘Younger Generation’
Treated by M. Peyre

» Goodhart, February 28: Entering
what he described as “a notorious-
ly dangerous field,’ M. Henri
Peyre discussed the modern novel
and especially those modern nov-
elists whom he classes as “the
younger generation,” represented
by Julian Green and Malraux.

M. Peyre attributes. three im-
portant,characteristics to the mod-
ern novel—decadence, confusion,
and a bewildering incomprehensi-
bility. Literature has been so oc-
cupied with a search for novelty
that it has lost many of the char-
aeteristics which qualified the nov-
el as a form of art, and it is now
deeadent. Furthermore, there has
been a large output of works of
the novel genre, without any “pre-
dominant current” uniting them.
The bewildering incomprehensibil-
ity of these works is commonly at-
tributed to the fact that we are
watching the “emergency of a new
period,” we are “living in a revolu-
tion.”

However, M. Peyre saw no rea-
son why the “revolution” should
prevent the contemporary age
from becoming a great period in
the development of the novel. The
ehief deterrents to greatness in
the contemporary novel are two:
the great variety and inflexibility
of the novel as a literary genre,
and the impossibility of achieving
perfection in the novel.

M. Peyre believes that it is the

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IRC Meeting Surveys
Near East Problems



Haverford, February 23: “The
Near East” was the subject under
discussion at the fifth joint meet-
ing of the Haverford, Rosemont,
and Bryn Mawr International Re-
lations Clubs. A question period
followed the short speeches pre-
sented by Walter Selagsohn of
Haverford, James Merriman of the
German ASPT, and Joy Fowle of
the Haverford Relief and Recon-
struction Unit.

Palestine is a crucial area, Wal-
ter Seligsohn said, not only be-
cause it lies close to Suez, but be-
cause settlement of its racial prob-
lems may well indicate how the
United Nations will deal with min-
ority questions the world over.
Tracing Palestine’s history under
Syrian, Greek, and Roman domin-
ation, Walter Seligsohn dwelt par-
ticularly on the period since 1918,
during which the question of a
home in Palestine for the Jewish
people has become increasingly
important.

Rivalry between the Latin and

Greek Catholic Churches, as well
as power of the Arab sword, fos-
tered a spread: of the Mohammedan
religion, Mohammedan ethics, ac-
cording to James Merriman, are in-
ferior to those of other peoples.
The Arab order was “despotic at
home, and aggressive abroad;
what’s good is imported, and
what’s typical is imperfect.”
_ Modern Turkey was the subject
of a few extemporaneous remarks
by Joy Fowle of the Relief and Re-
construction Unit. After the war
with Greece in the early twenties,
Turkish diplomats were extreme-
ly clever and won from the League
great concessions. Though minor-
ities were at first ruthlessly sup-
pressed, the Turkish Parliament
‘hag recently become more active,
and the democratic, liberal ele-
ments have come to the fore.

Juniors Offer Wasserman, Gifford,
Fitzgibbons, Malik for Alliance Head





LYDIA GIFFORD

~~

HARJI MALIK

Political Awareness Declared
Important Duty of Office
Of President



The Junior Class has nominated
Marie Wasserman, Lydia Gifford,
Harji Malik, and Ann Fitzgibbons
as candidates for president of the
War Alliance.

The president of the Alliance
must coordinate « sub-committees,
preside at the Alliance Executive
Board meetings, and is automati-
cally a member of the Undergrad-
uate Council and the College
Council. As the purpose of the
Alliance is to initiate and coordin-
ate War Activity on the campus,
its president should be alive to
current political problems.

MARIE WASSERMAN

Marie is the Alliance represen-
tative for Pembroke and_ in
charge of Current Events for the

Alliance. She is on the National
Executive Committee of the
U. S. Student Assembly. A former

member of the International Re-
lations Club, Marie served as a
delegate to the Princeton Confer-
ence in 1942 and to the Johns-
Hopkins Conference in 1943. Last
spring she was also a delegate to
the International Student Serv-
ice. She is a member of the
Spanish Club, and during her
Freshman year she was on the
Editorial Staff of the News.

LYDIA GIFFORD

Lydia is Chairman of War Al-
liance Volunteer Drives, and last
year she was Secretary-Treasurer
of the Alliance. She is Secretary-
General of the Intercollegiate
Model League Assembly. In her
Freshman year she was President
of her class, and the ~ following
year she was Chairman of the
Sophomore Carnival, Sophomore
representative to the Athletic As-
sociation, and on the Activities
Drive for the Bryn Mawr League.

A member of the Choir and



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ANN FITZGIBBONS



MARIE WASSERMAN



Valeur Cites Evidence
To Exonerate French
From Military Failure



Goodhart, Feb. 23: “Frenchmen
realize that the most sacred gift
of a human being is freedom. They
are now fighting for their freedom
and for the great principles of
democracy ... Tomorrow .. . they
will lead the way in translating
those principles into actual condi-
tions”, declared M. Robert Valeur,
chairman of the United Nations’
Information Office in New York,
in a War Assembly talk on French
Resistance and the Democratic
Idea.

Continued on Page 3

\Ginny Thomas Named

New Self-Gov’t: Head

“Hope for the best, expect the
worst, and take what comes”, is



the “philosophy of life” of Ginny]

Thomas, new president of Self-
Government.

Questioned on her policy for

the coming year, Ginny declared

her firm belief in the present
fundamental concepts and princi-
ples of Self-Government. Her
main ambition, she said, is “that
of every member of Self-Govern-
ment: work for changes that will
be satisfactory to all.”

Ginny’s opinion about life in
general is expressed in the words
“everybody should keep a sense of
proportion.” Her personal ambi-
tion is to marry and have ten
children—nine boys and a_ girl.
Kittens, exclamation points, waltz-
es, and Laurence Olivier figure
among her “secret passions”.

In three years Ginny has lived
in Rhoads, Pembroke West and
Radnor. Now a Spanish major,
she spends much of her time in
the carrells, lost in the Golden

Age.»

—

Self-Gov’t Proposes
Practical Revising
For Present System

Specially Contributed by the
Executive and Advisory Boards

Revision of the rules and reso-
lutions of the Self-Government
Association and of some parts of
the Constitution have been. dis-
cussed during the past year by the
Executive and Advisory Boards.
The following proposals are pre-
sented to the whole Association as
the result of these discussions. The

Continued on Page 3

Dr. Alexander H. Frey

To Explain Functions
Of War Labor Board

Dr. Alexander H. Frey, Vice-
Chairman of the Regional War
Labor Board of Philadelphia, will
speak about the National War La-
por Board, its general philosophy,
and how it works at the War Al-
liance assembly on Wednesday,
March 8, at 12:30. Dr. Frey was
to have spoken at an earlier War
Alliance assembly in December.

In recent years Dr. Frey. has
served on several Minimum Wage
Boards. He was chairman of the
board for hotel industry, and of
the committee on jewelry, as well
as a member of the committees
for the rubber industry and for
the .passenger and property motor
carrier industries. He has fre-
quently acted as arbitrator of la-
bor disputes.





Campus Upholds
Old Constitution
At Mass Meeting

Kreiselinan, Here. Franklin

Lay Stress on Principle
In New Plan



Goodhart, February 23: At a
mass meeting of the Self-Govern-
ment Association on Thursday
night, opinion showed itself in fa-
vor of keeping the present consti-
tution rather than adopting a new
one. Voting, which took place in
the halls after the meeting, retain-
ed the old constitution by a mar-
gin of 346 to 98.

The meeting was called to con-
sider three proposals: a suggestion
for a new constitution, a petition
for a vote on extending the smok-
ing privileges, and a petition for a
mass meeting concerning smoking
privileges. The vote on smoking
privileges was postponed to a later
date, although there was some dis-
cussion of the subject.

New Constitution

Mariam Kreiselman, speaking
for the new constitution, pointed
out that the present one has no
causal relation to the student as
an individual, “no underlying prin-
ciple.” It upholds government by
the students, but does not say how
this should be done. Furthermore,
it deals with the moral issue of
compulsion and restricts freedom
of choice. What is needed is a

Continued on Page 3



League Board Nominates Hayes, Lee, Wood
And Binger as Candidates for Presidency





REBECCA WOOD

League President Responsible
For Problems of Various
Committees —



The League Board has nomin-
ated Mary Jean Hayes, Rebecca
Wood, Charlotte Binger, and
Jeanne-Marie Lee for the presi-
dency of the League.



The President of the League is

ws



JEANNE-MARIE LEE



responsible for integrating the
committees of which the League
is composed. She must see that
the problems which arise in the
various committees are discussed
at the Board meetings over which
she presides, and that they are
solved as far as possible. She
must see that the Activities Drive
which supports the League - is
started in the fall.

Mary Jean Hayes

Mary Jean Hayes was Fresh-
man representative to the Self-
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