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Prelude

A student organization concerning the war situation 1s in the

delicate process of formation.

Its course of action will be deter-

mined.at a large open meeting. The organization, at this moment,
is only an idea—an idea that the campus is ready and willing to
undertake some action in regard to the crisis which is so obviously

pertinent to us.

We tend to ignore the positive value of our possible contribu-
tion to the large field of war-time fact-finding. There is no reason
why the ability in research which we have achieved should be re-
stricted to the formation of purely academic decisions or the organi-

zation of only classroom material.

Understanding and evaluation

of the events, opinions and facts in today’s news cannot be post-

poned,

Student opinion, generally, seems to favor not a partisan or-

ganization, but an unprejudiced

group dedicated to fact-finding.

A campus group can probably function most widely if it is not
predicated upon a printed statement of belief such as the Seven
Points of faculty’s Defense Group. Nor must it demand impar-

tiality of its members.

The organization will be more flexible,

broader, and more inclusive if constituted’ on a fact-finding basis,
with an eye to active research work and a pooling of results in

forum and discussion groups.

The aims of the organization and how it is to be constituted
are to be determined at Hall meetings on Thursday. It is hoped that

_ all clubs will be represented, as rhuch of the work to be done might

be in line with their own, and that all students who feel a need for

such an organization will come.
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MOVIES

ALDINE: Fantasia.

ARCADIA: Andy Hardy’s Pri-
vate Secretary, Mickey Rooney and
Kathryn Grayson.

BOYD: The Great Lie, Bette
Davis, George Brent and Mary
Astor.

FOX: The Road to Zanzibar,
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Doro-
thy Lamour.

KARLTON: The Sea Wolf, Ed-
ward G. Robinson and John Gar-
field.

KEITH’S: Nice Girl?, Deanna
Durbin and Robert Benchley.

STANLEY: That Night in Rio,
Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Car-
men Miranda.

STANTON: The Great Dictator,
Charles Chaplin.

EARLE: Beginning Friday—A
Girl a Guy and a Gob, George
Murphy and Lucille Ball.

Cameron Will Speak
To Philosophy Club



~The Philosophy Club will present

two lectures in the next thrée
weeks. On Thursday, April 17, Mr.
Alister Cameron will speak on
Tragedy in Greek Thought in the
Common Room at 7.30. The
_second lecture will be presented on
Sunday, April 27, in the Common
Room at 3.00. Mr. Martin Foss







WIT’S END

Well we hauled out that sickly
strawberry colored dress, stamped
on it to remove the wrinkles, and
went down to see Gone With the
Wind. Vivien Leigh grovelled in
the dirt munching a desiccated
radish, and screamed hysterically,
“T’ll never be hungry again! I'll
kill, I’ll steal, but I’ll never be
hungry again!” Clark Gable seized
her head between his hands and







| threatened to crack it like a walnut.

We are tiredvof these manifesta-
tions of the animal passions. Any
evening from now on we're staying
home with a good book, packed in
dry ice and munching our own
desiccated radish, We have thrown
the strawberry colored dress into
the ash can for the scavengers,
strangled the cat howling under
our window, and turned on the
radio to:the Singing Lady.. Now
is the time for all good First Year
Philosophy students to join our

little group and decide whether

they’re butterflies dreaming they’re
men or men dreaming they’re but-
terflies, The hoi polloi may gorge
themselves at the Inn but the five
Chinese pleasures are enough for
us.

Students look so different after
vacati up and completely





Opinion

Dorothy Clix Nail-Polish Ads
Inspire Sixteen Love-lorn
Jersey Lads









Dear Editors:

It has recently come to our at-
tention, here at Newman School,
Lakewood, New Jersey, that your
paper is sponsoring a lonely hearts
club. We are sixteen boys very

that the ‘answers to our problems
lie in your hands. Hoping that
your beneficial and excellent club
can do much—in—making~ matches
for us, we remain,

.Heartbrokenly yours, Stephen
Ward, Richard Loebs, J. Bede
Steigerwald, Thomas F. Curley,
Miles O’Brien, J. Robert Maguire,
Harold B._ Robeson, Jr., James
Donovan, Frank A. Brady, Jr.,
Joseph Edgar Morarty, Richard A.
Kelly, 3d, Frederick A. Putonius,
Thomas C. Huring, Edward Mur-
ray, Daniel Riger, Poche Wagues-
puck.



Swains of Haverford

Offer Oasis of Bliss
And Future Concord



To the Editor of the COLLEGE
NEWS:

Upon the consideration of the
recent article in the Haverfordian
concerning the relationship between
Bryn Mawr girls and Haverford
MEN, a select group of progressive
thinkers at that “insignificant insti-
tution of learning down the road
from Bryn Mawr” wish to promul-
gate a new realm of thought at that
school “across the tracks.”

We admit that many men of
Haverford have failed to live up to
the expectations of Bryn Mawr
“glamour girls.” Could it be that
Haverford men feel too acutely
their insignificant position when
compared with the “‘polish of Har-
vard and the sophistication of
Yale”; or could it be that the
“little men” of Haverford lack the
S. A. to live up to the requirements
of Bry Mawr which are appar-
ently so much higher than those of
Vassar, Smith, or Holyoke? Is it
that the proportion of Haverford
MEN who appreciate Bryn Mawr
at its best is too small to leave
a permanent impression of Bryn-
mawrites? In this case we believe
that the proportion of “grinds” at
other institutions such as Harvard,
Princeton, and Yale is just as great
as it is at Haverford. “Grass on
the other side of the fence seems
greener.” Similarly it seems to us
that the names of the aforemen-
tioned schools have taken on a cer-
tain enchantment due to their in-
accessibility and distance. Some
Bryn Mawr girls have condemned
Haverford as a whole because of
the evidence of a few grinds.
(Some Haverford MEN have con-
demned Bryn Mawr as a hole.)
On the other hand horn rimmed
glasses do not seem to us to én-
hance our dreams of the ideal date
to the counterpart of which Bryn
Mawr seems to be expecting from
Haverford. Moreover our experi-
ence has shown that Haverford
MEN have found it necessary to
discuss the foreign situation. under
the arches, because evidently many
Bryn Mawr girls wish to keep the
conversation on the high intellec-
tual level for which Haverford
MEN are known. We feel sure
‘that most Haverford MEN would
not object to temporarily descend-
ing from their intellectual pedestal
if Bryn Mawr girls will agree to
do likewise.

Have courage, Bryn Mawr, there
is an ever increasing group of us
who are wiping out this stigma on
our name, and who wish to estab-
lish a new tradition which will be
upheld by ourselves and our pos-
terity. We are reminded in clos-



Me

disappointed in love, and we feel}

What, No Orchestra?

The Self Government
Board announces that if a
student has been given late
permission for dancing at
places on the Main Line such
as the Covered Wagon, the
General Wayne, etc. and finds
that there is no orchestra,
she should return to her hall
before 11.30.

C inert Events











Miss Reid

The President said in his press
conference yesterday that Ameri-
can merchant ships must be pro-
tected wherever they go. The
question of convoying in the Red
Sea area was evaded by the Presi-
dent. British victories in Egypt
are not as important as they have
been heralded and Germany is

Suez. Egypt is still technically
neutral. This is the most danger-
ous situation we’ve yet come up
against, as it seems probable that
American ships will be sunk within
the next few weeks.

The dramatic agreement made
last week between the official diplo-
matic representative of Denmark,
Dr. Kauffman, and the United
States Government resulted in the
Danish representative’s” being
called home. The treaty was pur-
ported to be an American military
protective agreement guaranteeing
Denmark sovereignty in Green-
land and giving considerable rights
to the United States for air and
naval bases. Greenland is _psy-
chologically important in the West-
ern Hemisphere as a bridge be-
tween Asia and Europe. Although
the United States is treating Mr.
Kauffman as superior to the Danish
government, from a legal point of
view, basis our rights in Green-
land are nil.

The signing of the Japanese-
Russian pact on Easter Sunday
was another important develop-
ment. The large Japanese
force which has been held on the
frontier bordering Russia can now
be withdrawn, and similarly, Rus-
sia’s flank can be left unprotected.
China stands to lose as a result of
this pact. This may not.be a pro-
Axis movement at all, although
both Russia and Japan have gained
from this pact temporarily, and
the two parts of the world are now
tied much more closely than before.

Park and Nason Cite
Views on Education





Continued from Page One

leges. Our society might be richer
if we acted, not as two homo-
geneous groups, but as individuals.

Women’s colleges should not at-
tempt to emulate men’s in every
respect, for the course of life after
college will be different in each
case. A professional woman needs
to be prepared for a more difficult
struggle than that which faces pro-
fessional men. A woman who mar-
ries needs to be prepared to en-
counter interferences with her
unified, individual life, and she
must be given intellectual tech-
niques which will allow her to ac-
quire interests readily after she
has solved the immediate problems
of bringing up a family.

Besides academic training, the
college should provide a girl with
responsibility and freedom so that
she will develop through her own
experience and the “arrested de-
velopment of the B.A.” will be less
possible.

Dr. Nason emphasized two points
in his speech: the advantages of



kiewicz, “The day of judgment is
already on its way across the wil-
derness; and when it is here, all
God’s world will be amazed.”

Suh
W. H. L.
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ing of the words of Henryk Sien-|

getting uncomfortably close to the,

Expedition to West
| Led by F. de Laguna
| :

Walled Hill, Site of Habitation

| Of Ancient Sinagua Indians,
To be.Excavated





Miss de Laguna is organizing an
"expedition, sponsored by the Mu-
| seum of Northern Arizona and by
Bryn Mawr College, to excavate
Walled Hill, a Sinagua site near
Flagstaff, Arizona... Among’ the
‘party will be Miss de Laguna, Mr.
Sydney Connor, teacher of art at
Girard College in Philadelphia ,and
a Student associate for several sea-
sons at the Museum of Northern
Arizona, and six or eight Bryn
Mawr students. Catherine McClel-
lan, ’42, Alice Geier, -’41, Mary
Coan, ’41, Margaret Foote, ’43,



Catherine Coleman, ’42, and Mary
Reed, ’42 are tentative members of
the expedition. The excavation will
be begun in the middle or later part
of June and will continue for eight
weeks.

Walled Hill, a steep fortified hill
with two masonry pueblos near its
foot, is-the site of habitation of the
ancient Sinagua people, dating
from about 1050 to 1800 A. D. It
is hoped that by proper excavation
of this hill, houses and forts can be
uncovered, supplying some material
for the early Sinaguan history.
Earlier excavations, made near
Sunset Crater, belong to a period
prior to 700 A. D.

The expedition will pitch camp
at the foot of Walled Hill and look
for early Sinagua pit houses. But
if this exploration is disappoint-
ing, they will excavate the forts
and pueblos at Walled Hill. At the
same time, they will attempt to lo-
cate and map as many of the num-
erous sites as possible.

The members of the expedition
will also attend the Hopi Crafts-
man, a fair for Indians, and the
Hopi Snake Dance. They may
visit other Indian sites in the
Southwest.



co-operation between colleges and
the problem of accomplishing the
real end of a liberal education.

It is desirable, he said, that Hav-
erford, Swarthmore ‘and Bryn
Mawr co-operate further next year.
As evidence of the success of the
effort he cited the presentation of
Our Town at Swarthmore. He sug-
gested the establishment of a
periodical which would combine
contributions from the three col-
leges, and a more extensive ex-
change of instructors. This ex-
change would mean greater econ-
omy, variety for students and
professors, and intellectual stimu-
lation.

A liberal education should both
discipline the mind and produce a
comprehensive point of view. Dis-
ciplined minds are achieved at both
Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, but
it is doubtful whether the gradu-
ates have a comprehensive attitude.
There is no common language be-
tween a Chemist and an Economist.
Comprehensiveness might be at-
tained, since the elective system
and survey courses both seem to
have failed, either by the require-
ment of certain courses or by the
devotion of the student’s time to
only one-subject; with which many
aspects might be correlated. -The
system of required courses applied
in general to all students has not
been effective, and the second idea
is still very new. It would in-
volve a change in the departmental
attitude of most professors.



Princeton to Waltz

The German Club of Bryn
Mawr is inviting the Prince-
ton German Club to a waltz-
ing party on Saturday, April
19. The dance will begin at
seven in the Common Room
and will be open to all Ger-
man‘ Club members.









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