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VOL. XXIX, No. 9

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 —_, Copyright,

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First, Group of
Freshmen Plays
Are Spontaneous



Merion Play is Outstanding
for Careful Direction,
Good. Timing



By Anne Denny, ’43

Theatre Workshop, Friday, No-
vembey 27.—The. first. group of
Freshmen plays given by Rocke-
feller, Rhoads and Merion Halls,
pleasantly surprised many of the
audience by their spontaneity and
by a display of good, though lim-
ited, talent. As Sally Matteson
pointed out in introducing the
plays, their purpose is to expose
the freshman talent, not to put on
a finished performance, and _ this
purpose was accomplished.
. Rock’s play, W. W. Jacobs’, The
Monkey’s Paw was an unfortunate
choice for an experimental play
which must depend more on quick
interpretation than on polish. The
element of superstition and the
emotional tension was too much for
the actors to handle with so little
rehearsal. They had moments of
good interpretation of the lines, but
they failed to build up their cli-
maxes sufficiently, so that many. of
their crises got laughs from the
audiences. Mary Helen Engel, as
the Sergeant Major, did the best
job of controlling her lines, and at
times Marilyn Wellemeyer as Mr.
White conveyed some of the emo-
tion, but the play lacked the timing
and direction necessary to make it
The cast was as fol-

a success.
lows:

Mr. White .. Marilyn’ Wellemeyer
Mrs, WHIM ......5% Diane Dame

Herbert White .. Gloria Waldman
Sergeant Major .. Mary H. Engel
Mr. Samson ... Dory Ann Braman

Shall We Join the Ladies, by J.

Continued on Page Three

Denbigh Triumphs in
Wild Hockey Battle

Two great teams met in violent
combat Sunday and prepared to
Do or Die for the sacred honor of
their respective halls, Merion and
Denbigh. Each was armed with
eleven hockey sticks and the as-
surance that they were superior
and could prove it. In addition,
most of the players on each team
had indulged in the sport once or
twice back in the all-but-forgotten
past, so that. the game resembled
field hockey in some ways. Up and
down they rushed in mad frenzy,
and back and forth across the goals
went the ball in a spirited fashion,
even occasionally going in. The
first goal, in fact, is attributed to
a Merion fullback who helpfully
scored for Denbigh in misguided
enthusiasm.

In addition to the mingled, man-
gled abilities involved in the fierce
struggle, sport blood churned hot
and fast on the side lines. A de-





* cided and noisy cheering section

distracted both teams with amaz-
ingly original cheers. This inspired
Continued on Page Three



Industrial Group
_ Everyone interested in. at-
tending the Industrial Group
Meeting at the Germantown
. A. on December 2
is asked to tell one of the
following people in order
that transportation may be
provided: Grace Weigle, Mer-
ion; Jane Lefiar, Non-Resi-
dent, or Jessie Stone, Non-
Resident. This should be

done as soon as possible.









B.M. Industrial Group
Members to Meet at
YW CA in Phila.

The next meeting of the Indus-
trial Group will be held on Wed-
nesday, December 2 at the German-
town Y. W. C. A., in Philadelphia.
The discussion, on the advisability
of lengthening the work week, will
be led by Miss Irma Spritz.

‘Miss Spritz is the Secretary of

the Organization Committee of her
local. She works in General Elec-
trie which is organized by the
United Eleetrical,-Radio and Ma-
chine Workers of America, CIO.
The industrial workers from the
Y. M. C. A. will.tell about their
own experience with the lengthen-
ed work week.

By holding alternate meetings in

Philadelphia the Industrial Group
is reverting to a practice*of former
years in order to share the wear on
tires. It is also hoped that this ar-
rangement will enable the Bryn
Mawr members to become better
acquainted with the _ industrial
workers from the Y. W.C. A. The
problem of transportation from the
college is not entirely settled. Miss
Fairchild has offered to°take down
as many people as possible in her
car. If the Athletic Association
Station Wagon is not made avail-
able to the rest of the group, the
Paoli Local and the Philadelphia
Transportation Company _ provide
good connections.

Dinner will be served at the Y.
M. C. A., at 6.30.

Workshop Closes Due
To Shortage of Fuel

The Theatre Worshop has _suc-
cumbed to the war regulations on
fuel oil. Just before the Friday
night performance a frantic tele-
phone call informed Miss McBride
that 1) No extra ration will be
available for the workshop, 2)
There must be a reserve of oil to
keep the tanks from corroding
through the winter, 3) The supply
is now down to that reserve.

In accordance with these drastic
facts, the water has been turned
off, the electricity stopped and the
doors firmly locked. As the damp-
ness is moving in as a permanent
guest, the fate of the second group
of Freshmen plays is hanging in
the balance for want of a stage on
next Friday night. - Possible loa
cales for these plays, the Deanery









Calendar
Thursday, November 26
Thanksgiving Holiday.
Pem East Vic. Dance, Com-
mon Room, 9.00-12.00.
Friday, November 27
Freshman Plays, 8.30.
Sunday, November 29
The Reverend Rex Stowers
Clement, Music Room, 7.30.
Tuesday, December 1
Current Events, Common
Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, December 2
, Spanish Club Movie, Music
Room, 8.00.







Initial Program from
WHAV Confirms
Hopes for Future



Address by Louise Horwood,
Reading of Saki, Records,
Are Included



Common Room, November 23.—
The first program from the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford radio station was
heard at 7.30 tonight. Louise Hor-
‘wood, ’44, addressing Bryn Mawr
over station WHAV commended
the “pioneer” spirit and the “pipe
dreams” which would soon be ma-
terialized. Bryn Mawr will be the
first. girl’s college to operate its
own radio station. Plans for this
development are in progress.

~ The station” will be on the air
from 7.30 to 9.30 Mondays through
Thursdays. A wire has been run,
through the courtesy of the Bell
Telephone Company, from the Hav-
erford station to the Common
Room. . Louise Horwood expressed
her satisfaction at the support of
the movement. There were 75 Bryn
Mawr girls at the first meeting.

“The Mask,” by Saki, read by
Patricia Berman, was the-opening
event. It was followed at 7.45 by
recordings of Benny Goodman, Di-
nah Shore and Tommy Dorsey.
Despite the rain there was an en-
thusiastic audience at the opening.

The programs for the rest of the
week are as follows:
Tuesday: :

7.30 Spirituals

7.45 Calypso records

8,00 B. B. C: Current Events

8.15 Mystery story

8.30-9.30 Classical Hour
Wednesday:

7.30 Sports Rally

7.45 French records

8.00 Wodehouse

8.30 B. B.C.

8.45 Hawaiian records

9.00 Stiles views the news



being most prominent, are being

considered. |

- 9.15 Interview with. Chinese Stu-
* dents.



Fire Captain, Plasma Squ

ad Show Efficiency

While the Bombs Fall and the Legs Break



This is our inside account of how
the wheels go round when a house
is bombed. The alert that dis-
lodged us all last Monday morning
set off the fireworks for the ever-
ready Casualty Squad at Bryn
Mawr headquarters.

Notice was received that a house
had been hit by a_ hypothetical
bomb. The Casualty Squad ar-
rived at Morton Road, scene of the
tragedy, to find the Fire and Po-
lice Departments already there.

From there on action was swift,
in fact too swift to do more than
outline. Enough to say that Mr.
Parsons, the fire-chief, was found
upstairs with a _ hypothetically
broken leg. Little enough cause to
worry. With unfailing resource-
fulness characteristic of all defense
workers, a traction splint was ap-
eC SS . ues

Some oversensitive workers
might find a touch of brutality in
the use of a screw driver to apply
a traction splint, but people who
have survived First Aid tell us it

can be done. In any event, Mr.
Parsons, acquiescing with com-
mendable meekness, was _ hoisted
down the stairs.

Since it is essential to have every
branch of our service in top form,
however, it is obvious that one
broken leg would never suffice.
Never must we forget the Plasma
Squad. Precisely what their func-
tions are is unknown to us, but if
the reader is interested, the person
to get in’ touch with is the unfor-
tunate female who had to lie at the
foot of the stairs. She was, and
for all we know, may still be bleed-



‘ing. profusely. :



Demi-Tasse May Go,
More Rationing Near
As Supplies Decrease



i
Attempting curtailment of ex-

pense and waste, the college is
planning further food restrictions

and rationing. Bryn Mawr’s quo-



ta for sugar, the first rationed
In the fall, the}

ration board allotted 75 per cent
of the amount used last year at the
same time. Dropping to 60 per
cent, where it now stands, the quo-
ta is expected to change in both di-
rections throughout. the year.

Since October, when coffee sup-
plies were drastically reduced af-
ter-dinner coffee has been served
in the halls only four times each |
week. Owing to an even stricter
coffee ration program, the demi-
tasse will probably be abolished on
campus for the duration. For the
next 70 days the college is allowed
the amount of coffee consumed in
the past 60 days.

Having instituted a meatless day |
each week by ‘voluntary action, |
Bryn Mawr is ready to have more |
restrictions when necessary. Pros-
pects of tea and butter rationing
are imminent. Most companies
make deliveries only once a day,
and ice cream is delivered to resi-
dence halls no oftener than three
times a week.

It is interesting to note that 1,000 |
more meals have been served in the |
halls this October, as compared |
with last October. }

Students who have not yet
turned in their. ration books are
urged to give them to the hall man-
agers as soon as possible.

For greater economy and less
waste, each student planning to be
away for the weekend is requested
to sign by Thursday on the list
posted in her hall.

Class of °46 to Give
Three One-Act Plays
Next Friday Evening

staple, fluctuates.







The Freshmen of Denbigh, Pem
East, and em West will follow the
first. group: of Freshmen _ plays,
given on November 22; by a second
group on November 27th.

Outside This Room, by Dorothy
Echerman, will be given by Den-
bigh under the direction of Eliza-
beth Mercer, ’45. The story takes
place in Switzerland, centering
around a_ shell-shocked husband
whose wife teaches to help support
him. The actresses are: Betty
Hoffman in the lead, Mary Alice
Woolever, Mary Lou Karcher, Bet-
ty Sheldon, Marguerite Frost, and
Pat Franck. Mary Louise Field,
’45, is the stage manager, Susan
Oulahan the assistant stagemana-
ger, and Gertrude. MacIntosh the
assistant director.

After abandoning one play when
four out of a cast of five dropped
out because of sickness, Pem West
is planning The Constant Lover,
by St. John Hankin. Lynn Haden,
48, is directing. Pat Francke,
Claire Stevens and Sarah Beckwith
are the players, and Julia Murray
is the assistant director. . Working
on lights is Janet Kennedy, on
scenery, costumes and makeup, are
Dorothy Green and Rosalie Scott.

‘On the same evening, Pem East
is giving Booth Tarkington’s
Trysting Place, a farce of involved
love affairs in typical Tarkington
style. Kitty Rand, ’45 is the direc-
tor, Ruth Leyendecker the stage
manager, and Janet Fitch is the
assistant director The parts are
played by Ruth Lester, Katherine
Colvin, Barbara Taylor, Helen
Reed, Ruth Leyendecker, Love



Jungster. and Margaret Loud.

England’s Effort
In Social Service

Discussed by Fry



War Gives New Resolution
To Improve Existent
Liberties



Wyndham, Wednesday, Novem-
ber 18.—“England’s democratic
ideals are higher than ever before,”
maintained Miss Marjorie Fry,
Principal of Somerville College at
Oxford, in her talk on English So-
cial Services in Wartime. With
the loss, or as they say, the “lend-
ing” of their liberties to the gov-
ernment, the English people have
resolved to improve those that re-
main to them. Public Opinion has
concentrated increasingly on edu-
cation, on social work done in shel-
ters and Emergency Centers, and
on the “artistic relief” which has
played an important part in main-
taining morale, asserted Miss Fry.
Public Opinion goes further than
the Law,-and. although there is lit-
tle complaint of hardship, there is
violent objection to inequality,
Black Markets, and profit.

The protection of individual lives

Continued on fage Four

Graduate Club Holds.

Discussion on Africa





Specially Contributed by
M. M. Daly, °42

The second meeting of the Grad-
uate Club symposium on _ world
affairs was held on Wednesday
evening in Radnor. The Graduate
Club symposium was. organized
this year by a committee of’ the
Graduate Club. Margaret Rush,
of the Political Science Depart-
ment,_is chairman of the commit-
tee. This. week’s discussion was
held on the colonial administration
of North Africa, the different pop-
ulation groups, and the probable
effect of the Anglo-American. in-
vasion.

Mr. Vehmann characterized the
French colonial system as extreme-
ly efficient, and as popular among
the native population because~ of~
its laissez-faire policy towards re-
gional administration and cultural
problems.

Ninety-five per cent of the popu-
lation is native. Among the French
settlers the administrative officers
are admired by the natives, but the
French merchants and farmers are
on the whole less popular. The
Jews, by far the cleverest and most
homogeneous race, control most of
the wealth and are poltically the
most powerful group. Feeling is
not favorable towards them, pro-
viding an opening wedge for the
racial discrimination practiced by
the Vichy regime.

Both Mrs. Cameron and Mr.
Veltmann regarded the effect of
the Allied invasion as likely to be
favorable. The army of the col-
onies is loyal to its officers, who
so far have decided to act with the -
United Nations under the com-
mand of Admiral Darlan. ; No
strong impetus can be expected for
Arab nationalism, as it is a force
existing mainly among municipal
student groups, and as the integ-
rity of the French imperium has
been guaranteed by the Americans.



Engaged
F Edna Wickham, ’44,
Lieutenant Charles Schock.

Married
Lucy Holljes, ’46, to Pri-
_vate Melvin Winterhalter, of
the Army Air Corps.

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War

The constitution of the War

ago, has apparently become a dead letter.

Alliance?
Alliance, drawn up a few weeks

It stated that the War

Alliance was “set up to organize and direct the activities of the

student body toward winning the

war.” :

Part of this organization and direction has been established in

the various war courses.

a Chairman of War Inforniation,

But the constitution also provided for

and for the drafting of. “state-

ments of policy on political issues connected with the war effort.”

It was also understood that
speakers, debates, and _ letters” to

the Alliance was to arrange for
Congressmen on current issues.

This constitution ‘was approved by an enlarged executive board.
The News also approved and has supported the War Alliance in
an effort to make the entire campus feel included in its organization.

We now feel that such an effort is useless if the War Alliance

will take no action.
organization.

there have been no letters sent to Congressmen.

cerning itself with consideration

The college cannot participate in an inert
There have been no discussion groups or debates;

Far from con-
of and action on specific issues,

Alliance activity has been concerned only with drives and with war
courses. While these are an integral part of its purpose, they are

not the only part.

\There has been ample opportunity, for example in the issue of
the Anti-Poll Tax Bill, for debates and, more concretely, for letters
to Congressmen. The question of this Bill was apparently entirely
ignored by the Alliance, and an opportunity for expression of policy

on a vital national issue was missed.

Such ignorance of and inac-

tivity-on-cutrent-problems- do not distinguish the War Alliance,
which should be stimulating discussion and’opinion 6n'campus. At
present we cannot say that it is organizing and directing “the ac-
tivities of the student body toward winning the war.”

8



‘

It was the ringing of Taylor bell
exactly on the hour that awakened
me. Suddenly the full terror of
the occasion gripped my soul—we
were invaded! Grabbing my mat-
tress and tossing the contents of
my bureau drawers into my col-
lapsible waste basket, I manned
the battlements. Thank God for
those battlements! Streaming
from the Paoli Local came hordes
of grey-green uniforms, goose-step-
ping with a deadening monotony,
bayonets poised, closer, closer. The
enemy were upon us—we had no
weapons. We could only jump into
the air and cry, “Praise the Lord
and pass the ammunition!”

A crash ‘below told me the green
wagon was successfully barricad-
ing the Rock arch as it had for
years. In the distance, I could
hear Pem girls hurling their byci-

WIT*S EN





score,

All around the campus, first year
Chem students crawled on their
hands and knees, sniffing cautious-
ly—the Gas Squad. Occasionally
one would perform Experiment 32
and hold her breath. Over their
inert bodies stumbled the Photo-
grammetrists. Untangling their
long sticks they obtained the true
altitude and another enemy posi-
tion was located on a reliable map.

Taylor Hall as the center of ac-
tivities was in an uproar. In. the
control room was Mrs. Cameron
demanding the strategy of Napo-
leon while,“Miss Marti claimed only
Aeneas had the true technique.
Wounded were being rushed in and
out of doors by white coated Biolo-
gists. They had been pressed into
service as a volunteer ambulance
corps, for they were the only ones

cles into a pseudo-barbed wire}*who knew how many we are sup-

fence. Between Rock and Taylor.
the Psychology. department were
erecting endless mazes which would
serve not only as tank traps, but
were guaranteed to turn the Nazis
into 99% introverts with a low
self-sufficiency and high submissive



posed to have of each.

Faculty Row was already ablaze,
protecting Rhoads with 4 smoke
screen. The USO sign had been
out for an hour on the home of
Bryn Mawr morale. Faint sounds



of the ripping sheets were the only



INuts and Bolts

| By Jessie Stone, ’44



College néwspapers evidence in-
creasing campus interest and par-
ticipation in the war effort. Al-
though the development of the edi-
torial function of most college pa-
ipers from commenting on local
news to the orientation .of the
campus to affairs of more general
importance has been a gradual one,
it. has progressed far since last
spring. Not only has the change
in attitude influenced interest in
and knowledge of current events,
but it has also stimulated specula-
tion as to immediate social and
political problems.

Most interesting story of the
week is that in the University of
Toronto Varsity. The Board of
Governors of the University last
week ‘banned the admission of
eighteen “friendly aliens recently
released from internment camps
in Canada.”

“Students : affected. are German
nationals, most of them Jewish,”
said the Varsity story, “who were
interned in England early in the
war and were sent out to Canadian
internment camps, from which
they were released on condition
that they pursue their-studies un-
der the sponsorship of Canadian
citizens. All were originally ex-
iles from the Nazi regime and
cases were investigated individual-
ly by British and Canadian govern-
ment agencies before they were
recommended for release.”

The decision was not unanimous,
as the vote for the admission of the
students was a tie, but according
to the by-laws of the Board a tie
results in a négative decision.

Among the heads of colleges of
the. University, reaction was unfa-
vorable. The decision of the Board,
it was argued, was a violation of
the federation agreement between
the colleges and the Corporation
of the University. Reasons influ-
encing the decision were the injus-
tice of admitting foreign-born stu-
dents to a university from which |
Canadian students had been with-
drawn to fight, and the possibility
of placing the aliens in an embar-
rassing position

The Varsity, which itself op-
posed the action of the Board, had
received by last Wednesday many
letters from students attacking the
decision, but none defending it. In
an editorial on November 16th the
paper stated: “It is difficult to find
a logical reason for the unfavor-
able decision . After being
held in Canada for some time, these
students were released under the
sponsorship of Canadian citizens
on condition that they continue
their studies. Those released were
thoroughly examinéd by agents of
the British Home Office and of the
Canadian Government, who satis-
fied themselves as to the absolute
integrity of their anti-Nazi beliefs.
The students were expressly for-
bidden to accept jobs; they are
constitutionally unable to enter the
army; nothing but study is open to
them... Considerable harm has
already been done the University
and the cause of free universities
generally . A prompt rever-
sal of the decision would do much
to dissipate the wave of discour-
agement that is felt over the
campus.”

The reversal, however, has not
yet come. On November 18th the
Varsity published another editorial
systematically refuting the argu-
ments against admitting the stu-
dents because of their German
birth. Its advocacy of their ad-
mission seems worthy of support
as more consistent with the prin-
ciples for which we believe our
selves to be fighting than is the ac-
tion of the Board of Governors.



indication of the Denbigh - Merion
activity—bandage folling.

I looked up—a “bomb was com-
ing! I could see its fins—I was
killed—no, I was alive! Remem-
bering my training as an air-raid|
warden, I hastily prepared to clear
a space of 50 feet in the area where



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OPINION







Senior Considers Traditions
As Unnecessary Expenses

In War Time

To the Editor of the
NEWS:

At the present the following
items are included in the budget
for the Senior class for 1942-’43:

$20.00 May Day
5.00 Flowers
25.00 Tree

This is an infinitesimal fraction
of the national income and even
more infinitesimal is the sum of a
few cents which each senior must
pay for these items. However, it
does not matter how little each in-
dividual pays for an object. What
matters is the fact that all the
small sums add up to an amount
which should be spent for some-
thing that is worthwhile now. I do
not object to paying Senior dues
but I feel that my money should
buy something which will really do
some good.

The Government is very anxious
that people spend money only for
necessities and that they sacrifice
all that they can to buy war bonds.
Spending money for luxuries is un-
necessarily putting money into cir-
culation. The more money that is
in circulation, the harder it is to
stop inflation.

The following is said—in favor
of buying our trees and flowers:
“Many people go to tea too much.
That is the place to cut down and
not on our traditions.” I feel that
we should cut down on everything
that we can possibly control at the
present. We cannot control people
who spend money on tea, but the
class as- a whole can save on con-
sumption. If people go to tea and
also spend money on trees and
flowers there is more consumption
than if they went only to tea.
People seem to think that if they
spend money on tea that means
that they should spend money on
trees, too. If a man were drown-
ing and the lifeguard did not feel
like rescuing him, would you stand
around and say, “If the lifeguard
isn’t going to rescue this man, I
am not either.’’?

The Senior class has decided that
a bonfire ¢an be dispensed with.
This is one,step forward. I should
think that people could see that
other traditions are needed no more
at this time than a bonfire is.

We talk about War Bond drives
and then go on spending money for



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the bomb struck, only to find the
bomb had already done so.

Then I saw we had started our
second front. Across Merion Green
advanced our Commandos; — the
maids and porters, who are adept
at entering any occupied territory
early in the morning. But what
was this motley crew issuing from
the library and cutting off the ac-
tion of the Commandos? It was the
Philosophy Department holding up
a white shirt, we don’t know whose.
They had worked out a _ peace
treaty to end all peace treaties, By
evading every issue with pure di-
alectic, Socratic method they non-
plussed the enemy. Which all goes
to prove: “They also serve who
only stand and wait.” hae







things which we say are preserving
the traditions of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. We should be thinking of the
greater traditions of our country
which our fighting men are trying
to preserve. They are also tradi-
tions of Bryn Mawr and every
other college in a democracy, and
should be more dear to us than
trees or maypole streamers.

Traditions of this sort now are
luxuries not necessities. The Bryn
Mawr campus is not in a flood
area. We are not planting trees
for soil conservation. Trees are
not necessities.

Common sense and not a senti-
mental love of unnecessary tradi-
tion must rule our actions now. I
think that we should take the
money that would be spent for
trees and flowers and buy a $50
War Bond with it.

HARRIET HousTON, ’43.



Bond Drive Committee Lauded
For Handling Difficult
Task Well

To the Editor of the COLLEGE
NEWS:

It was with great interest that
we read your article on the Campus
Bond Drive. The statistics were
quite salient. But we feel that the
story behind the success of the
drive deserves some consideration.
To Beatrice Biberman, whose con-
stant work is highly commendable,
and her numerous assistants in the
individual halls, we feel that a
great deal of credit is due.

The enormous responsibility of
balancing the hall accounts, ar-
ranging for the pledging and_ pro-
curing ‘of the stamps and bonds,
and seeing to it that their distri-
bution was prompt and accurate
fell mainly on Miss Biberman’s
shoulders and she has handled the
job in an extremely efficient and
praiseworthy manner.

We hope that the campus appre-
ciates the fact that there was a lot
of careful management involved in
the Bond Drive and we feel that a
vote of thanks should be offered
Miss Biberman.

Sincerely,



APR A

BeaPvsy,
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Spanish Club

The Spanish Club will pre-
sent Carmen la de Triana in
the Music Room, Wednesday,
December 2, at 8.00 P. M.
A full length movie starring
Imperio Argentina, it is a
modern version of the story
which inspired Bizet’s opera.
Actually photographed in Se-
ville, this film has a com-
pletely new and modern mu-
sical score. Complete Eng-
lish sub-titles translating the
Spanish dialogue are pro-
vided. Admission is free to
Spanish Club members; twen-





ty cents to all others.






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OPINION

Alison Raymond Describes
Her Day as New, Healthy
Member of Waves









This letter was received from
Alison Raymond, ’38, former ward-
en of Pembroke West, now in the
WAVES, and stationed at Mt.
Holyoke.

Dear Friends:

This is the first weekend, there-
fore the first breathing space, and I
feel I have much to tell many of
you, of the life here. Since the
WAVES are, as we are constantly
reminded, the taxpayers property,
every detail seems to interest peo-
ple. Those in uniform say that
they are followed, questioned un-
mercifully, and stared at constant-
ly; because of course, the country
is interested in this new thing that
has been started.

Perhaps the best way to give an
idea of the life is to describe a day
to you, for the days are all alike
pretty much.

The Bell rings while it‘is coal
black outdoors still. (I may. also
say_that.the winter coldsets—in
early at Holyoke. And did I tell
you that the ensigns are at Holy-
oke and the V9’s and lieutenant
junior grades are at Smith). A
ringing voice, (I haven’t yet dis-
covered whose) bellows down the
corridor, “All hands on deck.” Be-
fore you know it everyone is up
and bustling. Before breakfast,
rooms must be “policed.” Picture
for yourselves, a tiny room, bare
floor, one table, no chairs or bur-
eaus, two cast iron double beds. In
this congested space are four peo-
ple dressing, clambering up _ to
make beds, sweeping (twice daily)
and all are chattering with the
cold. At a bell we go to “forma-
. tion” on “the double,” that is form
platoons and go down to breakfast.
Meals are served cafeteria style.
Instead of plates, the trays have
sections. It is very neat. We also
que up to dispose of our trays, af-
terwards “back on the double’’ to
collect our books, then we “form”
again outdoors. By this time it is
beginning to be light—quite light
by now. We get drilled a little,
get orders of the day and at 8:00
march off to our first class. Classes
are given partly by WAVES and
partly by men. We have two hours
a day of Naval Administration
which is deadly so far: Bureaus in
Washington, who appoints what
office, etc., etc., but I think it im-
proves later; Navy personnel,
which teaches customs, ranks,
whom to salute, etc.; Naval History
(from B.C. to 1942) and a course

on ships and Aircraft which is fas-,

cinating. The system is that they
can at any time give tests on the
lecture they are about to give, the
idea being that you read ahead.

Between classes we “form” al-
ways into platoons. The last two
hours before lunch are drill on a
field a mile away, or “athletics”
which are designed to make us
beautiful for our uniforms. Very
strenuous but good fun. Some of
the more buxom 40 to 50 year olds
are a bit appalled by it but every-
one looks rosy and wonderful.

We get through classes at 5:30
and have an hour of liberty. The
whole place falls into the drug-
store for a coke!.The evening is
just study and early bed.

As for how you feel—at first it
seems awfully affected to call beds
“bunks,” floors “decks,’’ ete., but

you get to think nothing of it—|:

same with marching. It’s a very
_ easy adjustment, I think, and quite
the quickest way to make you re-
alize you are’a part of a large and
rigid and venerable organization.
Funny feeling, at first, to line up



WOOLWORTH’S 5 and 10

ARDMORE







Denbigh Triumphs in
Wild Hockey Battle

Continued from Page One

body was at the outset of hostili-
ties quite prejudiced, as it was
composed solely of Denbigh’s in-
mates, but gradually a rival con-
tingent was built up which piped
“Merion, Merion, Merion” at ten-
second intervals.

Frightened, no doubt, by the un-
expected shock of finding a fierce-
looking male guarding the Denbigh
goal, Merion was unable to score
in spite of several opportunities.
Denbigh retired with a victory of
3-0, and. with several of its non-
athletic participants painfully wish-
ing .for a hospital in which to
quietly lick their wounds and re-
eover their health and dignity.
Merion Line-Up Denbigh Line-Up



RW Teitz RW Stevens

RI Sawyer RI Tappen

C Heyl C Fulton

LI Horn LI Hemphill

LW Rutland LW Hall; Reed

RH Carmen RH St. Lawrence

CH Franck CH Franck

LH Caesar LH Licht

RF Oursler RF Nelson

LF Towles__. LF Hoopes

G Hoisington G Harrison
__Weymouth*

“* Johns Hopkins’ contribution!
Substitute for Denbigh, Reed.



‘Swarthmore Beats
Owls in Close Defeat



Swarthmore, November 13. — A
{howling wind and blinding sun were
contributing causes of the close de-
feat, 3-2, of the Owls by Swarth-
more’s Varsity. It was a _ hard-
hitting game, the ball flying fre-



| quently from one end of the field
to the other.



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;and be silent all the time, not sit
until given permission, be inspect-
ed, not speak to an officer or pass
him on the path without saying,
“By your leave sir,’ but you soon
get accustomed to it.

The girls in this" group seem to
be primarily from the south and
west. I-have found only two oth-
ers from Philadelphia, none from
Connecticut, though I dare say
there are more. We don’t get a
chance to mix around much, be-
cause of the platoon and roommate
combinations and no free time.

Mt. Holyoke girls are very
thrilled to have us and are very
sweet to us. They serenaded us
last night. Jt was lovely, ¢°. *

We don’t get uniforms for three
weeks so we're awfully hodge-
‘podge. We’re getting shots in the
arm till we are reeling, but, oh,
how healthy we will be. Like all
service people we long for mail but
rarely will have a chance to an-
swer it, I think.

ALISON RAYMOND.



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In Print

Treveryan, Story of Veryan,
Lerryn, Oswald and Bethel
Needs: Nazi Bomb

By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43

On page 232 of Angela du Mau-
rier’s Treveryan, our heroine goes
“to the little mirror that hung over
the mantlepiece and peered at her-
self. She started to giggle.. Mad,
mad, mad, at last!”

This revelation comes as theecli-
max to a long series of trials. The
action of the story takes place in
Cornwall, centering around Bethel,
Veryan, and Lerryn Treveryan.
Three more delightful characters
it would be hard to find. Neglected
by their parents, Veryan decides
at an early age that they’re like
kennel dogs, an observation that
causes Bethel some alarm, but
gives the reader something to brood
over.

A beautiful girl, Bethel soon}
falls in love with Oswald. As long
as Oswald is kissing her with what
the author fondly terms “reverent
passion,” the future looks rosy, but
next_it_is_discovered-that-the-fam-
ily is tainted with hereditary in-
sanity. After that, the “conversa-
tion was embarrassingly and hor-
ribly strained,” as well it might be.
Needless to say, Bethel decides to
cut the love out of her heart like a
cancerous growth.







Lerryn follows. Ted Truscott,
the farm hand, exposes “a very |
hirsute chest.”’ Says Bethel: “Ler- |
ryn, tell me if I’m wrong, did I,
hear you call Ted Truscott dar-!
ling?” Here Lerryn, is admitted |
into the secret, and life naturally |
becomes a hideous nightmare for
her as well.

Veryan marries. - Bethel tells his |
wife in no uncertain terms that
she has made a grim mistake. |
Veryan says to Bethel: “I tried to
take her in my arms, to kiss her

”?



“Well?”

“She started to scream.”

Again the day passed in an ex-
tremely unpleasant atmosphere.

Bethel, ordered out of the house,
goes to a little hut in the woods. |
There she decides that her time has
come, so she shoots Veryan. At
the., trial, Lerryn confesses all:
“My father was a homicidal ma-
niac, you see.”

A woman at the back of the court
screamed and had to be carried out.

At this point comes the disclos-
ure that Bethel is not a Treveryan
after all, and therefore not insane.
However, as her mother and father
were first cousins, the author feels
that it is perhaps just as well that
she never married. Lerryn, on the

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Continued from Page One
M. Barrie, gave Rhoads an excel-
lent vehicle for talented character
interpretation. On the whole, the
play did not show evenness and the
conversation sometimes dragged,
but Nancy .Crawford as the Host
held the play together by her’sensi-
tive interpretation of the part and
her finish of delivery. Dory Bruck-
holz played the pompous Mr. Preen
with real ability at caricature,
while Dolphin, the butler, played
by Caroline Manning, was consis-
tently in character and miraculous-
ly straight-faced throughout the
performance. Lucia King as Mrs.
Isit was very effective in hinting
at the guilt of that character in the
murder of the Host’s brother. The
suspense of the story was well sus-
tained, and the unsolved ending
left the audience with the proper

curiosity. The Cast was as fol-
lows: ;

MAORU Cie Nancy. Crawford
PREC 246, 0: Dorothy Bruckholz
MYR, PYG) . 2.4655 Mary Barton
Lady Wrath:6....6.:., Roxa Lee
Mis, BING 63. «s Eleanor Stein
DOIN. 6 cers, Caroline Manning
Vaile eerie Evelin Hitz
Gourlay. Barbara Johnstone
NPB, VOUG 5 is ce Leila Jackson
LaGv JOne cos ces Edith -Fincke
Miee Be ee os Lucia King
Meld 66 vias: Margaret McEwen

Captain Jennings .. Elizabeth Hor
Captain Jennings
Elizabeth Horrax

Nancy Mitchell

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Sir Joseph

Merion’s of The
Princess Marries the Page, by Ed-
na St. Vincent Millay was more

performance

than,.a display of promising talent
and it was definitely successful
with the audience. - Georgie Wieb-
enson carried the comedy with fin-
nesse, although her impulsiveness
became at times monotonous. The
dashing page was enthusiastically
played by Barbara Williams. Pat
Turner’s caricature as the King
was well done. While the play was

edy was cleverly done and an effec-
tive directing job by Betty Dallam,
’45, was evident. She managed to
introduce details of expression and
business to liven the play and add
to its caricature. The cast was as

follows:
Princess ... Georgiana Wiebenson
Pate es Barbara Williams
| gh) gaieenrepey Arne Pat Turner
| Chancellor’.... Hannah Kaufman
Ellen Harriman
Goole, @aererenr ete April Oursler

Dorothy Craig





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other hand, ends her days as a!

“poor old nun, bereft of her
senses.” The old estate is sold to
an American with “a low, common
voice,” and Miss du Maurier can
only hope that a kindly Nazi bomb
will bury all in oblivion.



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Fry Discssett English |
Social Services in War |



Continued from Page One |
and welfare, particularly those of |

the children, is stressed in wartime
England, Miss Fry said.
of wide-spread organizations which |

In spite

do provide many with better food |
than they have ever had, most of |
the children are seriously under- |
With the care devoted |
to child feeding, there is increased |
The teach- |

ing profession is now frozen. The |

nourished.
emphasis on education.

enormous effort to keep up primary
education has come with the reali-
zation of its importance, and with
the rising resolution that privilege |
shall count for less in the post-war |
social structure. |

Miss Fry said that. social work |
is widely extended since everyone
has come to realize that, with less
to share, it must be shared ae
evenly. The under-privileged are
often served before newly manv- |
factured goods are put on sale.
There are relief centers for the |
poor and homeless after bombings,
and planning agencies for the
eventual reestablishment of their
small businesses.

The “artistic relief” is an ex-
tremely important factor which is
concerned with sending orchestras,
ballets, and quartets to badly
bombed communities. After raids
there is a tremendous demand for

W omen in the Factory

Last week Miss King at-
tended a panel discussion on
Women in the Factory at a
conference of the American
Management Association in
New York. Some of the
points discussed were the tre-
mendous need for skilled and
the diffi-
culty of reaching wives and
mothers and convincing them
that they, are urgently want-
ed, the necessity of providing
good day nurseries and not
mere dumping grounds for
the children of mothers who
could be working. They also
talked about the question of
the best use of women, what
jobs they can do well and
which ones should be left to
men, what abilities women
have that should be consid-
ered in assigning jobs, ways
of discovering these abilities,
the real usefulness of the
physically handicapped, train-
ing of uffskilled women, and
hours~ of -work-and-—rates—of
pay as compared with those
of men.

A complete report of this
conference is posted on the
bulletin board of the Bureau
of Recommendations on the
second floor of. Taylor.

unskilled women,



classical music and art, and there



is a service to send out these trav-
elling concerts. Miss Fry said that
the work of these Social Service
branches is indicative of the grow- |.
ing sentiment that “the Good
Things shall continue to be more
evenly distributed.”



Miss Colbron Leaves

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next Saturday to join the WAACS. ||
She will go to Des Moines, Iowa,
for her basic training course. That
will last for four weeks, after
which time Miss Colbron hopes to |!
get__into__Officers’ Training, at-
tached to the Signal Corps. oe

Miss Colbron denies that she was
in any way influenced in her choice
by the difference:in WAAC and
WAVE uniforms. When the op-
portunity to join the WAACs with
two friends came along, Miss Col-
bron decided to take it. “Comes

But if anyone had told
me three weeks ago that I’d be
joining the WAACs, I would have
said she was crazy.”

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Bryn Mawr Student
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Bryn Mawr Colinne is one of 60
colleges and. universities in the
East invited to send delegates to
the Middle Atlantic Section, Model
Assembly of the League of Na-
tions, when it meets March 18-20,
at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.

Last to survive of three similar
sections which once drew delegates
from colleges throughout the coun-
try, the Middle Atlantic Section
meets this year for the first time
not as a League of Nations but sy]
a conference of the United Na-
tions.

In charge is Dr. Michael A. Heil-|
perin, associate professor of eco-
nomics on the Hamilton faculty.

Each college or university par-
ticipating will be asked to repre-
sent one of the United Nations and
to assign a student delegate to each
of five commissions. The commis-
sions will concern themselves with
wartime collaboration ofthe
United Nations in non-military
fields, structure and power of a
new world order, international pro-
tection of human rights, economic

integration of the worid, and main- |
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WHAT T0 DO |

Positions open for next year:
Chemists with the York Ice Ma- |
chinery Corporation, York,: Penn- |
sylvania, and with the Basic Mag- |
nesium, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada. |
Industrial Research with the |
Armstrong Cork Company,



Lan- |
caster, Pennsylvania (the company |
will send a representative to the!

campus for interviews if anyone is’

interested). ‘ |

Those wanting further details |
of these positions, please see the |

Bureau of Recommendations,

The’ U. S. Civil Service Commis- |
sion has asked help from the col-|
lege in recruiting women for 11!
different positions. All Civil Serv-'
ice notices are posted on the bulle- |
tin board on the first floor of Tay-|
lor, just inside the North door.

Other positions which we were |
asked to fill immediately included |
those for two secretaries with sci- |
entific background; one engineer-
ing assistant, paid training sup-

plied; a hospital technician; two |
chemists. |
The Signal-.Corps- Laboratory

wants students of any major as
candidates for basic training in
radio.

General Motors has openings for
Chemistry, Mathematics, and
Physics majors as well as for sec-



Haverford.

Community Center

The Athletic Association
has suggested: that any stu-
dents interested in coaching
experience in basketball,
baseball or any other sport,
may gain valuable training
at the Haverford Community
Center. Groups of boys or
of girls need direction in
various sports at the Com-
munity Center, as many lead-
ers have been unable to con-
tinue» this year. The time
asked from each _ student
would be one hour a week
any afternoon or evening.

Both the Department of
Physical Education and the
Athletic Association strongly
urge any students interested
in physical education, pos-
sibly for the war health pro-
gram, to use this opportunity
to gain experience. They
wish to emphasize that di-
rection ‘of such groups as
those at the Center is the
groundwork for future coach-
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in the halls for students in-
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