College news, December 6, 1939

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VOL. XXVI, No. 8

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, Bt

Copyright, Trusteés of
Bryn Mawr College, 1939





Princeton,

B. M. Choirs
Unite Talent



Bach Cantatas Are to be
Led by Willoughby at

Joint Concerts



The Bryn Mawr Choir and the

’
Princeton Chapel Choir will com-

bine to give two concerts this week-

end. The first will be given on
Sunday taro, December 10, at
4.30 in the’Princeton Chapel; and
the second, on Monday evening, De-
cember 11, at 8.30 in Goodhart: Hall.
Several members of the Philadel-
phia Orchestra—will accompany and
play three selections. 2

Ernest Willoughby of Bryn
Mawr’ will “Mlirect both concerts,
since Robert Hufstader, choirmas-
ter and organist of the Princeton
Chapel Choir, has a leave of ab-
‘sence because of illness. Lindsay
Lafford is substituting in Mr. Huf-
stader’s place for this year..

In the Bryn Mawr Choir Janet
Russell is acting as manager, Mary
Newberry as assistant manager,
and Annie Emerson as librarian.
In the Princeton Chapel Choir,
Lindsay Laffoxd is choirmaster and
organist, Robert S. Davidson, assis-
tant organist, and George A. Haas,

choir manager.

\ ‘Continued on Page Two ,



Mail to the Campus

. Included in First

Issue of ‘Lantern’



Mail to the-campus, only slightly
expurgated and abridged, as col-
lected by Bess Lomax and E. Cro-
zier, ’41, is reproduced in the Fall
Issue of THE LANTERN. ._THE LAN-
TERN came out Monday night, and
is available in“the Bookshop. Any-
one buying a copy. and signing in
the Bookshop can get the subse-
quent issues at a reduced rate.

The contents include a burlesque
of Gertrude Stein by Mary Helen
Hardin, ’42, and a satire on Bryn
Mawr life by Anne Kearny, Rhoads
maid. Three stories, four poems
and one article, The Price of Paci-
fism, by Emily Cheney, ’40, com-
plete the issue.

In ‘Time a

Individual Acting Shines

nd the Conways’



By Olivia Kahn, ’41

In several respects J. B. Priestly’s
Time and the Conways might have
been considered a better choice for
the annual three-act play given by
the Players’ Glub than last year’s
Arms and the Man. It includes
more character roles ‘and is as a
whole less, subtle. ‘But it is also so
considerably inferior as a play that
no excellence of acting or: produc-
tion’ could make it a complete
success.

Occasionally, hdOwever, the play
Was extremely convincing andsome
of. the individual performances
were really distinguished, espe-
cially thos®’ of Ann Updegraff,
Eleanor Emery, and Fifi Garbat.
The most refreshing characteriza-
tion of the evening was that of
Carol, the youngest Conway, as
portrayed, by Ann Updegraff. It
was truly unfortunate that she
died before Act II, because she
brightened up the first and last
acts so conspicuously one had more

interest in her further development
than in that of her brothers and
sisters. Eleanor Emery gave her
usual excellent performance, here
in the role of Mrs. Conway. Age
is Miss Emery’s forte, the older
the better. She demonstrated pro-
fessional poise in the first act,

touch, but she showed even’ more
comprehension of character in the
second act which takes place 20
years later.

The central role of the play, Kay
Conway, was.ably taken by Fifi
Garbat. Miss Garbat had little
scope to show her ability in the
first act, but in the second, she
was excellent. The. newspaper
woman she represented became
amazingly real, and although she
can scarcely be said to have domi-
nated the stage she gave the play
a cool dignity that did much to
keep it in balance and effectively
set off the other characters.

Continued on Page Three



Doyle Inaugurates
Science Lectures



Other Professors Inspired To
Tell Club of Private
Research Work ©



Common Room, November 30.—
“Enzymes are biological catalysts,
and as such they speed up biologi-
cal reactions,” said Mr. Doyle in
his lecture on Enzymes and their
Dimensions. This lecture, the first
Science Club lecture this year, in-
augurated the plan to. have g¢the
faculty tell about their private re-
search. It was so well liked that
afterwards several other profes-
sors offered to tell the club about:
theip ‘work,

Enzymes are also called fer-
ments, ands fermentations have
been employed, even though their
make-up was not understood, to
make bread and beverages since
prehistoric times. Enzymes, Mr.
Doyle explained, like all other
catalysts have no effect upon ‘the
quantities of the end products of
a reaction. They control only the
rate at which the reaction will take
place.* Differing from other cata-



Continued on Page Four



‘News’ Invades Village i in Vain Attempt
To Unveil Mysteries ‘of Local Politics



By Joan Gross, °42
Elizabeth Crozier, °41

Know your ¢ommunity. . Be an
intelligent voter. Know your com-
missioner. Get acquainted with
your town committeeman and learn
the political issues of your town.
These, we thought. were noble
ideas. We gidn’t know it would be

_so hard.

‘Beginning with the general or-
ganization of the township, we
found ourselves in the outer office
of Mr.
the Board of Commissioners of
Lower Merion Township. “Could

would wait. "We sat “dawn: Fin-
ally we were ushered into the inner
office. We were uncertain what to

“ask him. Obviously he considered

us about. 14. years of age. We be-
came more uncertain.’ But he“an-
Swered our questions, though he|
kept peering axound behind us to
gee if anyone else was waiting for

__him outside. After—a-little. while;

we .emerged with-;the following
facts. Bryn Mawr is a post office
—nothing more, There is no such

thing as an incorporated town of|

~

Evan James, Secretary of!-

a if -wel:

The administrative
East and West Bryn
Mawr, make up two of the 18 dis-
tricts of Lower Merion Township.

Bryn Mawr.
divisions,

From each district, a commissioner
is eleeted by popular vote to the
Board of Commissioners. The
Treasurer, the influential office of
the Commission, is elected at large.
Of the 13° commissioners, 12 are

Democrat-Republican, the candi-
date on both tickets. We asked Mr.
James where the town committee-
men fitted into the set-up.
he said.
government into polities.”

So we followed this up. ~ Here,
we thought, is where we find out
about the political parties and the
political issues. We called last
night on Mr. Lacy: Gaines in his
cigar. store-beer gardén on Lan-
easter pike. We opened the door.
Peer steins en route to the mouth
| were lswered in amazement.

Beyond t>e.¢icar counter, an
place looked like a cartoon of the
Miedle West General Store. W<
hesitated at the counter as Mr.

Continued on Page Three |



Republican, and the thirteenth is a].

“Oh ”
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“Now you're going from|

aie ine 8

Mrs. Plum Renders
Songs With Feeling



Sympathetically . Interprets
Finnish Melodies, Strauss,
Brahms’ Lieder



Deanery December 3.—Henriette

Bagger Plum’s most enjoyable con-
cert of folksongs and lieder revealed
a natural voice of exceptional clar-
ity, and an enviable control of vol-'
ume. The Finnish folksongs were
especially good, both in expression
and rendition.

Although the ' mezzo - soprano
range is a difficult one, Mrs. Plum
handled her soprano tones with as
much ease as her low contralto
notes. This was particularly no-
ticeable in the Saint-Séens_ selec-
tion, which, however, was not a
happy choice. The aria is uninter-
esting, and offers no chance for
dramatic: expression
thetic interpretation. But, Mrs.
Plum’s other selections proved that
she has this ability.

The German lieder were well in-
terpreted and full of feeling. Mus.
Plum, whose favorite composers are
the lieder writers Brahms and
Richard Strauss, showed that she
understood and loved what she was

the changes of mood and key were
emphasized by the use of a good
legato and by volume contrasts.

Unfortunately, some of the best ef-
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, December 7.—
Mr. Barnes, director of the
Y. M. C. A. in Ardmore, on
Group Leadership, Common
Room, 5p. m.

Friday,...December..8.—Ju-.
nius Bird on Early Man in
South America, Geology Lec-
ture Room, Chemistry .and
Geology Building, 8.30. Slides
will be shown..

Sunday, December 10, —
“Concert with ancient Chinese _
instruments “by. Mr-. Chung
Loh Wei, Deanery, 3.30.

_ Monday, December 11. —
Concert of Cantatas by Bach
‘and Parry, Prineeton and
Bryn Mawr Choirs, Goodhart
‘Hall, 8.30.

Tuesday, December 12. —

“wick, Common Reom, 7.30.
Wednesday, December 13,

—TIndustrial Group Supper,

Common Room, 6.30.





playing» with a wonderfully firm:

and sympa-.

singing. Throughout the program!

__Lurrent_ _Events,._Mr..- Fen-—-}

Director Ouies
Labor: School Aims

Explains Curriculum, Selection
Of Workers and Position
Of Undergraduates



Common Room, December 4.—

Miss Jean Carter, director of the

Hudson Shore Labor School, out-|:

lined the school’s program and the
vole of the college student there,

She explained the method of choos-
ing the workers and their plan of

study.
The aim of the Summer School
isto help workers. understand

themselves in relation to their so-
cial and economic groups. To ac-
complish this aim the school. has
correlated courses in Economics,
English, Dramatics and Science.
Recreation is also included.
The college. undergraduates,
seven in all from various colleges,
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Naturalism Reborn
Says Weiss Article



The promise of American philo-
sophy today lies in the revivifica-
tion of naturalism and idealism,
states Paul Weiss in an article on
The Year in Philosophy appearing
in the December 6 issue of the New
Republic. “As evidence, Mr; Weiss
briefly traces the rise and ‘fall of
logical positivism,: a school of
thought which grew out of. the
post-war despondency and which
was based on the premise that pres-
ent clarity is preferable to ultimate
truth.

The positivists rejected metaphy-
sics, contending that only those as-
sertions were significant which
could be checked by modern science.
Today, however, metaphysicians
such as Whitehead and the modern
Thomistg are powerful despite this
opposition. Its decline is largely a
result of John Dewey’s pragma-
tism, for although Dewey is anti-
metaphysical, his views are more
flexible than those of the positivists.
This general movement is indica-
tive of the progress of philosophy,
Mr. Weiss postulates, as such prog-

‘|vess depends upon, the willingness [j

of the philosopher
first principles.

PROPAGANDA SNARE
REVEALED BY WELLS

to retreat to





Education Endangered
By. Emotional Appeal



Common Room, December 5.—
“Propaganda is the deliberate at-
tempt to influence public opinion
and thus produce certain attitudes
and actions,” declared Roger
Wells, addressing the International
Relations Club in the first of a
series of lectures on propaganda.
Mr. Wells discussed the dissemina-
tion of propaganda, and the way in
which it can be differentiated from
education. a

Propaganda is,spread by means
of the printed word, cartoons, mass
meetings, songs, and whispering
campaigns. Mr. Wells postulated
feur axioms” by ‘which-propagenda
agents may be detected. If a per-
son spreading certain doctrines
seeks to conceal his identity “there
isa strong presumption that what
he’ is’saying is propaganda.”

Secondly, if there is a direct
resort to falsehood, as in the atro-
city stories printed during the war;
we may assume that propaganda ‘is
being employed. The presentation |
of only a part of the truth is Mr.
Wells’ third axiom, and finally the

| stress on. the emotional rather than.







Continued on Page Four
4

A. Cook Aids
Seniors Plan
For Business



Internship Plan Provides
Two Months’ Training +
In Technique



Graduates of eibatte colleges,
filing out every June, usually have
three alternatives in mind: secre?”
tarial school, marriage, or Macy’s.
Alice Rice Cook, director of the
Graduate Center in New York, de-
voted her informal talk with jun-
iors and seniors to descriptions of
possibilities outside these three,
particularly to the experience at-
tainable through a business intern-
ship. ;

Started two years ago, the busi-
ness internship plan is based on
the belief that women college grad+-
uates need an opportunity to ex+
plore arid prove their skills, and. to
acquire that first requirement of
all employers: experience. The
plan provides two weeks’ training
in routine office techniques, coupled
with study and definition of the
exact field and concern in which
the student wishes to take the fol-
lowing two-month internship.

Statistics on the success of past
interns show 85 per cent: of the
last 70 girls now occupying: regu+
lar positions. Final clinching of
the job in every case depends on
the individual’s initiative in prov-
ing herself necessary to the con-
cern training her, or in using the

Continued on Page Four



Assistant Curator
Slated To Discuss
Patagonian Culture_



On Friday night at 8.30, Mr.
Junius Bird, assistant curator. of
the American Museum in New York
will give a lecture on Early Man in
South America in the Geology Lec-
ture room.

Mr. Bird has done extensive re-
search in anthropology. His first
field work was with Captain Bob
Bartlett in Hudson Bay and Green-
land, where he made collections for
the Museum of the American In-
dian in New York. .

In 1932 and 1934 he was sent to

Patagonia by the American Mu-
seum of Natural History.. He ex-
cavated at the most southern tip of
Patagonia, an inhospitable and
primitive section, and' made some
very important discoveries. On his
second trip he was accompanied by
his wife and they worked with very
little equipment, almost entirely
alone.
In Patagonia he traced a contin-
uous series of cultures back to. an
age contemporary with the last gla-
cial period or just after. It is this
phase of his work which he is going
to discuss:

Distribution” Begun
Of Activities Fund

Thirteen hundred and one dollars _
have now been paid out
tivities Drive Fund. e Bryn
Mawr League and the Varsity
Players Club have received the full
amount of their scheduled allot-
ment, 300 dollars and 400 dollars
respectively. The Bryn Mawr Sum-





mer School has received.400-dollars—

out of their 1400 dollars, the Peace
Council‘175 dollars out of 800 dol-
lars.
was spent on the Latin Play and

9.50 dollars on the expenses in- _



curred by the Activities Drive.

/

PRICE 10 CENTS .-

the’ Ke te

Besides -this, 26.51 dollars
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Following up the recent editorial on class discussions, we









made a survey of all first and second year courses, asking students
in each if there was discussion, and if so what type, and how much
it accomplished. As might have been expected, the so-called sur-
vey lacked that indefinable essence of scientific uniformity which
would be nécessary for publication of the results in neat columns.
Three main -groups; however, could be discerned: students in
straight lecture courses and glad of it; those in classes fraught
with argument and pretty bored with it; and those in classes with
occasional oral reports followed by discussion.

First, we would like to make clear that we are not holding
forth for class discussions of the smoking-room type: elucidations
of God, life, and love.

in the classroom they tend to become disorganized heckling—fun

These are fine in their natural locale, but

for those who enjoy the sound of their own voices, and boring
for those who do- not... This type of discussion was most often
described by students in first year philosophy, sociology, and
money and banking.

: Second, the existence of oral reports is not necessarily a cure-
all.

the class may simply be in the position of listening to a lecture—

Undoubtedly valuable for the student reporting, the rest of

a lecture, which, by and large, they are no more qualified to

discuss than that ordinarily given by the instrnetor. This seems

to be the result in. second year archeology, ans Marentieneh

“

eentury.

As nearly as it can be defined, the navies addition to the
above two kinds of discussion is that at least a majority of the
students have organized and formulated their own _ideas. on a

restricted topic covered by past lectures, assigned reading, and,

extra reading according to their particular interest in the topic.
This always mean additional work—for which time should be
assigned. In courses dealing with theory, this additional work
is devoted to defining the assumptions behind the theories that
-have been studied, the unstated outcomes to which they must
lead, the exact point at which the contrast between one and an-
other theory is located. In more factual historical courses, addi-
tional study is needed to picture how and why a given body of
material qualifies the easy generalization, what details and hues of
information are necessary to define the topic more accurately.

. The argument that. factual material is not-susceptible-to diseus-} -

sion indicates either inability to do more than memorize, or a
starry-eyed attitude of “I want to be left alone with my Mind’—

in a vacuum. ;

“Fine. idea if it works,” i is the more serious eriticism. Three

hours of discussion a week is an inipossible Utopia, given a 24-

iy, hour..day, . But. that does not mean that. frequent or even ocea-

“sional dise are impractical. “How ‘these’ should be carta.

out depends upon the subject material, the professor, and the size

- of the siiat... Phroe meen meters: ean be outlined : very brief

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herr B.. M. Choirs

To Give Joint Concert



eum eFRg Ws} ponuyueD

The program to che given is as

follows:

Chorale Prelude :
“Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”’

Church Cantata No. 61
‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”
(Come, Redeemer of our race
Johann Sebastian
Motet for Double Chorus

Johann Sebastian Bach

' . “Blessing, glory, wisdom, and thanks’’
Johann Sebastfin Bach

| Sinfonia in B flat
Alle Assai
Andante

Presto

\ Johann. Christian “Bach
Chur. Cantata No. 140

achet auf’’ (Sleepers wake!)

1 Sebastian Bach
Henry Purcell

Johan
Suite for Orchesiia
(Extracts from incidental music
to various plays)
The Gordian Knot Untied
The Virtuous Wife
King Arthur

From Vol. 15 Purcell Society, Edition

Dido and Aeneas
King Arthur
Cantata—‘‘Blest Pair of Sirens”
(At a Solemn Music—Ode by Milton)

Hubert Parry
The concert in. Goodhart Hall at
Stu-
dents are urged to reserve their
seats now, although there will be
The bal-

Bryn Mawr will be formal.

no charge for admission.
cony will be unreserved.

ach



WIT’S END

THERE’S A CONWAY ON THE
RIVER.
Act I
When the ¢urtain rises the stage
is seen to be the same as it was in
Act III. The lights come up and go
down again. They remain out for

the rest of the play. Time has to
be otit of sight as well as out of
mind. There is a wait of five min-
utes before anything whappens. This
is to give the audience a feeling of
suspense and to set the mood of the
pay.

Yak, a dark gypsy girl with sec-
ond sight, enters. She crosses
stage left and after a while crosses,
herself, which puts her on the
wrong side of the stage during the
action which follows the entrance
of her sister Egdam, who immedi-
ately crosses to the window and
starts looking’ out to see how the
other half lives.

Y: Think of it, Egdam.. .









In Philadelphia



E: What, your novel... 7? (She
laughs, harshly and Y. never



speaks to her again.)



ART

Rembrandt
River Valley — school

Peale and Hudson
paintings

Lorac, the Baby of the famille
enters with charm. She _ kisses
everyone all around and then puts
down a box which she has been car-

which have not been on view for
25 years are among the permanent
aquisitions of the Academy of Fine
Arts being shown in the current
special exhibit.

The English etcher, Gerald
Brockhurst, has an exhibition of
his works, reminiscent of the early
Italian, at the Print Club, until

rying. Nala seems to enter, too.

rivers in canoes.
the box again)
rades.
not good enough.

way Nala does things)

L: I want to paint and ride down
(She puts down
Let’s. play cha-
You can’t play, Nala, you’re
N: I don’t mind. (which is the

Act II

January 7.

THEATRES
LOCUST ST.:

terton and Barry Thomson.
WALNUT:

tista.

- MOVIES

ALDINE:

Muni,

ARCADIA: Day-Time Wife, a
with Tyrone Power and

‘comedy
Linda Darnell.

BOYD: Greta Garbo and Melvyn
Douglas in the comedy Ninotchka.
with
Akim Tamiroff, John Howard and

FOX: Disputed Passage,

Dorothy Lamour.
KARLTON:
Adolphe Menjou

in The
keeper’s Daughter. :

KEITH’S: Jamaica Inn, an ad-
with Charles

venture. drama,
Laughton and Maureen O’Hara.

NEWS: Claudette Colbert,
Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett and
Joel McCrea in Private Worlds, a

psychological drama.

PALACE: Drums Along The
Mohawk, with Claudette Colbert

and Henry Fonda.

STANLEY: Mr.
Washington,
and Jean Arthur.

STANTON: Anna Neagle and
Edna May Oliver in Nurse Edith

Cavell.

STUDIO: Betrayal of Catherine
The Great, with Annie Vernay and
Also The City, a
documentary film of American ur-

Pierre Villm.

ban life.

SUBURBAN MOVIES

mezzo.
Your Toes.

SEVILLE: Thursday: The Girl
From sRio and Toughdown Army.
. Norma

Friday ‘and ~ Saturday:
Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosa-

lind. Russell in ame. Women. Sun-

















Tries

Dor












- SUBURBAN: Sabaaiibie: and] with Joe McCrea and Brenda
y.| Thursday: The Road To Glory,| Marshall. — ge and Wednes-||
March, Tdonel | day: To Glory, with







Tonight We
Dance; a- comedy with*Ruth Chat-

Mulatto, with Wil-
liam Harrigan and Miriam Bat-

We Are Not Alone,
James Hilton’s story starring Paul

Joan Bennett and
House-

Smith Goes To
with James Stewart

ARDMORE: Wednesday, Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday: Mickey
Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes
In Arms. Sunday, Monday and
‘| Tuesday: Leslie Howard in Inter-
Wednesday: Zorina in On

né| Beery in Thunder Afloat. Sunday

The scene is the same as it was
in Act III except for the ravages
of Time, and the Conways. The
room is quite dark with the light
from three bridge lamps. There is
the same feeling of waiting for
something to happen that there was
at the beginning of Act I.

Finally a newspaper woman en-
ters. We know it is Yak. She
crosses to the window and looks out
at the other half of life. Egdam
enters and their looks cross.

E: Well.

Y: Well what ..
that she is older.)

E: Your last novel.

. (You can see

(She

laughs disagreeably and Y. never
speaks to her again)
Mrs. Yawnoc enters. She has

aged. Her hair is scant and white
and she is quite toothless.

E: You’ve never understood me,
Mother, and now I don’t understand
you. Time is money. Say what
you have to say and get out.

Mrs. Y, sneers with simple dig-
nity. E. goes out, trying not to
darken the door as she does so.
As Mrs. Y. crosses to the window
Nala comes in philosophically: He
is shopworn and imperceptible.

Yak continues to look out of the
window. We feel there must be
something out there.

Act III

The stage is the same as it will
always be now. It is silent except
for the sound of the passing of
time. Mrs. Y. enters and every
one exits, especially Egdam. Nibor
enters and hides behind a sofa.

Naoj enters and hides behind a
sofa. There is one sofa in. the
room.

The action begins. For a de-
tailed account of the action, if you
are interested, see the first act.
Time has changed many things,
but not that. aed



bone and Sigrid Gurie in Rio. Sun-
day: Mysterious Miss X and Two
Bright Boys.. Monday, Tuesday
pand- ‘Wednesday: ‘The End of A
| Day, an outstanding French film.

WAYNE: Wednesday and
| Thursday: Ann Sothern and Fran-

Friday and Saturday: Wallace



Woolsey, Rehrig Win
Dance Scholarships



“The Modern Dance Club
takes great pleasure in an-
nouncing the award of two
scholarships, one given by
the club and the other by
Miss Schindler, director of
the group, to E. C. Woolsey,
’42, and G. Rehrig, ’42.

Cli Cnisils

Mr. Miller

Mr. Miller explained tonight the
impossibility of bringing about the
assimilation of a people by force.
A people retains its identity for
two reasons: The first is the un-
conscious individuality of a-culture
group passed from one generation
to the next. The second is seen
in the intensified will to survive |
when the group is under oppres-
sion. Mr. Miller illustrated his
statements by reference to the his-
tories of the Finns, Poles, Czechs,











40

Chinese, and Jews.

The Finns were dorhinated by
Sweden for 700 years until 1809,
when Russia took Finland to pro-
tect her harbor of St. Petersburg,
the same reason which is now mo-
tivating her attack. Their rule was
relatively liberal, but Finland was
in no way Russianized. Since
1918, when she obtained her free-
dom, her national spirit has be-
come steadily stronger.

Poland is a more primitive coun-
try. .It has been partitioned four
times, and although Germany and
Russia have exerted all their pow-
er to exterminate her national
consciousness the Polish spirit has
remained.

The Czechoslovakians have ex-
isted as a national unit ever since
909 when “good King Wenceslas”
ruled Bohemia.- In 1415, the na-
tionalist spirit of the Bohemians
was crystallized by John Huss.
Although Bohemia was defeated in
the Thirty Years’ War and al-
though all efforts were made to
stamp out her nationalism, the
Hussite philosophy persisted. To-
day the Germans are again trying
to kill Czech nationalism. But a
letter from an editor of a Prague
newspaper states that there are
organized groups of Czech patriots
in every village and town. They
watch and report movements of
troops and supplies. Sabotage ex-
ists everywhere and all attempts
at bribery and anti-Semitism have
failed. The 9,000,000 Czechs in
Czechoslovakia and the 2,000,000
outside are all fighting to keep her
spirit alive.

The Jews who have suffered
persecution for 1500 years still ex-
ist as a people. They have a his-
tory of 4000 years behind them and
an unconquerable will to live. The .
Chinese too have’ an ancient cul-
ture and although they have been
conquered often’ they have never
been assimilated and never -will be, _

This will of races ‘to retain their ~°
individual cultures is» the reason
for nationalism, and nationalism is
the curse of, our modern world.
Until there is a separation of po-
litical sovereignty and national
spirit as it exists today we will
have constant recurrences of the
present crisis. Mr. Miller feels
that “the rapidly increasing aware-
ness of this fact is the best prom-
ise that the reorganization of the
world will be such as to give cul-
tural freedom and a workable form
of political organization.”



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_ Juniors, Sophomores
Triumph in Battle
Of Sister Classes

December 4.—In what proved to
be a Field Clacsic, the Dark Blue
conquered a defiant, but weaker,
Light Blue 4-3 on that rolling pla-

teau, the hockey field. While Big
Brute Ferrer, collaborating with
Blond Babe Kirk and ably sup-
ported by Long-Armed-Outreach-
ing Sturdevant and Hit ’Em Hard
Russell, hit the ball back and forth,
the impressive ’40 defense was un-
able to penetrate the solid ’42 de-
fense. The loudly cheering audi-
ence’ (one impartial ‘timekeeper)
saw much impressive swinging’ of
sticks, rapid-fire peppering of legs,
and heard the respective battle
cries above the din of clashing
sticks. How are the mighty fallen!
At the same time a desperate
struggle was being waged between
the ’43 Eleven and the ’41 Seven.
The credit for the hardest hitting
of unfortunately-extended ankles
and feet finally went to the Un-
derdog-Reds with a 2-1 score.
NOTE: Red team increased to its
full quota fought its way to the
championship by defeating the
' Dark Blue 3-1, on the following



day.

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Good Acting Brightens
Priestly Production



Continued from Page One

The other members of the cast
‘ provided substantial support.
in last year’s play, the male parts
were taken by members of the
Haverford Cap and Bells. Edgar
Emery, was especially successful
as Ernest Beavers, the unpleasant
little sneak who worms his way
into the Conway household so that
he can‘sneer at them at the end of
the second act. He had an ex-
tremely unsympathetic part and he
played it with insight and _ relish.
Douglas Baker was an attractive
young Robin, and John Forrest
Charles was convincing as Alan,
although his role demanded less
dramatic ability than the others.

As a whole, the play, directed by
Carl Rapp, was not sufficiently uni-
fied, so that costumes, set and
lighting did not work together har-
moniously. The colors were not
chosen to fit any general..scheme



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_ Continued from Page One
Lacy Gaines detached himself from
the group and walked question-
ingly toward us. Beer steins and
conversation resumed their normal
course,
“Myr. Gaines?” we asked.
” said he,

“You are the Republican town

“Before you,

committeeman,” we said ingratiat-
ingly.

“Not me,” he said. Letdown
Long pause. “That’s my : elder
brother, Mr. eorge Gaines.”

Rapid recovery.

“Could we see him?’”

_“He’s a very elderly man. He
works hard and gets up early in
the morning. He’s a very elderly
man.”

Assuming that Lacy would know
the answers, we quizzed him on our
two topics. We began with. the
political parties in Bryn Mawr.
“There” is no -question™ of -political
parties here,’ he said, dismissing
the query as naive. “It’s all Re-
publican—80 per cent of the votes.”
No vituperation, no animosity,
nothing. Our main discussion point
gone. We were nonplussed.

Well, we thought, we still have
another point. ‘What are the poli-
issues around town?” Mr,
Lacy Gaines didn’t understand.
“ ‘Political issues’? No question of
that. All Republican. We. /back
James’s policy.” ;

We pounced on this. Now we
were getting somewhere. /“That’s
what we want. What is his policy?”

“Oh-h-h,” said Lay, rocking’ on
his heels. “Opposed “to ‘all this
spending,” and he waved his arm
around the room vaguely.

We pinned him down on this. He
volunteered the classic example of
a domestic worker, who would
rather “stay at home all day for
ten dollars a week federal relief
than work for her living. I offered
her three dollars a day.”

“Six days a week,” we asked
quickly.

“No,” said /Lacy.
week.”

Deciding not to quibble, we went
on to the /question of the Negro
vote. “You can’t depend on them,”
he said.

“Buy ’em out?” we ventured. He
nodded his head.

“Do ‘they vote mostly Republi-
can?” Ave asked.

“Yes,” said Lacy ‘Gaines. “Eighty
per cent.”



and the costumes often threatened
to/ clash with the set. Moreover,
at several dramatic moments the
lighting was not timed accurately,
fonsequently diverting the atten-.
tion of the audience from the ac-
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scoreless tie. It was a fast game,
especially strongly contested in/the
last quarter, but despite four/ All-
American players, the Yellows were
unable to break through for/a goal.
They were played out frém their
recent Cleveland trip where they
competed: in the national games.

In the game a@ainst the. ydlows
Nanette Beck outdid herself. Again
and again the Yellows gained the
striking circles only to find them-
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Mrs. Plum Renders
Songs With Feeling



Continued from Page One
fects were marred by the accom-
panist,- Mildred Kolb Schulze, who
often played too loudly, and with-
out expression.

Mrs. Plum is Danish. ‘She came
to America at an early age, but re-
turned to Copenhagen to study
singing with a leading member of
the Royal Opera. Since then, she
has sung with distinguished orches-
tras in London, Berlin, Copenhagen
and the Hague. Mrs. Plum re-
turned to thé United States about a
year ago, and has appeared with
the N. B, C. and Manhattan Sym-
phony orchestras. A concert at the
White House and a tour in Deems

Taylor’s The King’s Henchman
bring a varied career to date.
PROGRAM
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Ich sende einen Gruss....... Schumann
In meiner Heimat...... Richard Trunk
Ruhe, meine Seele............. Strauss
POR ROIO Ns Gi as dae be ekae Strauss
“Amour, viens aider’’..... Saint-Saens
Aria from ‘Samson and Delilah’’

Kornmods glansen ....,. Lange-Muller
Der fiyver saa mange Fugle..Anderson
Aah, farvel og var velsignet.Rosenfeld

GOR VOIMENGY ceciicscnisess Merikanto
She Never Told Her Love...... Haydn
To One Unknown........... Carpenter
OL ea ire ar ey Ee eRe eee: Ronald } -
O, Men from the Fields....... Hughes
Time Was When I in
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live and work with the workers, go



o their classes, help with drama-

tics, recreation, office work, library
work and household chores.

The workers. are chosen to -rep-
resent geographical sections, in-
cluding foreign countries,- and the
various types of industries. Last
year there were represented for
the first time thrée industries which

almost exclusively composed
of male workers, the United Mine
Workers, the United Steel Work-
ers and the Transport Workers. In
these industries women are em-
ployed in rouge factories, in lift-
ing steel discs, and in driving
trucks.

Miss Carter stated that she could
find no relation between the stu-
dent’s progress: at school and her
formal educational background,
which varies from tKe school’s mini-
mum requirement of sixth grade
or its equivalent, to a complete
high-school training. Progress is
defined as the realization by the
student of her problem and of her
own. lack of knowledge.

The Hudson Shore Labor School
not only utilizes its facilities for
the workers’ course, but also lends
them for trade union conferences,
a Y. M. C. A. convention and a
work-camp for college students and
The funds resulting
furnish one-fourth of the school’s
income.

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Caps and Bells Club
And Varsity Players
Plan ‘Ghost Train’

The Cap and Bells Club, with the
assistance of the Varsity Players of
Bryn Mawr, will present The Ghost
Train in Roberts Hall, Haverford



Rosemary Sprague, °41, will vplay
Julia Price, feminine lead in Arnold
Ridley’s ‘“‘mystery melodrama.”
The other roles played by Bryn
Mawr are Elsie Winthrop: Isabel
HGaud, "41,,Peggy Murdock: Geral-
dine, ; Rehrig, "42, Miss Bourne:
Eleano\ Fribley, ’41. Haverford
players are Rex King as Teddie

Richard Winthrop; Richard J. Pot-
ter as Saul Hodgkin, David Cool
idge as Charles Murdock, Albert E.
Turner, III, as Herbert Price, Da-
vid A. Winder as John Sterling,
and John C..Marsh as Jackson.
Tickets may be dGbtained from
Jocelyn Fleming, Merion. There
will be a “vic” dance in Founders
Hall after Friday’s - performance;
after Saturday’s, a reception in the
Union, whére refreshments will be
served. The audience is invited to
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Wei Exhibits Hobby:
Old Chinese Music

Under the auspices of the Chi-
nese Scholarship Committee, Mr.
Chung Loh Wei will exhibit and
play some ancient Chinese instru-
ments in the’ Deanery at 3.30 on
Sunday December 10.
These have
practically extinct.



afternoon,
instruments become
They are simi-
lar to those seen carved on very
old Chinese

Wei has a position in Washington

gravestones. Mr,

‘ and plays these instruménts as a
hobby.

All those especially interested in
music or Chinese culture are in-
vited, but general invitations have
not been sent out because of the
small capacity of the Deanery.



Doyle Inau gurates
Science Lectures



Continued from Page One
lysts, however, each enzyme cata-
lyzes a unique reaction.

Mr. Doyle spoke of two types of
‘enzyme reactions. The hydrolytic
reaction, or adding water to a sub-
stance like protein in the presence
of the enzyme, results in a split of
the: protein atom into two parts.
Inthe oxidative reaction oxygen
or ‘hydrogen is transferred from
one compound to another.

The work Mr. Doyle himself is
doing with enzymes deals with the
physiological side of their action.
Two major difficulties must be over-
come here. General volumes of
reactions are about 100,000 times
too large for dealing with single
cells, and. the cells themselves are
so small that there ‘is as yet no
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experience and techniques in con-



fronting oth®r employers.
Discussing particular business
internships, Miss. Cook showed the
wide field now open in research, a
term covering everything from
what used to be called “hack-work”’

cal study. . Trade magazines are
now one of the most promising
fields, since direct use is made of
specialized material, of the type
learned in college, in combination
with writing ability.

Miss Cook enumerated assign-
ments in research and actual writ-
ing given to interns on Printer’s
Ink, Cue, and the Institute for
Propaganda Analysis ‘magazine.
Students have also. been placed
with some 50 other concerns of
widely varying types, including
Bloomingdale’s, E. W. Axe Co, (in-
vestments), the Folk Art .Center,
and Survey Graphic.

In discussion of the exact point
of departure from college to busi-
ness, Miss Cook expressed unlim-
ited fatth«in the liberal arts educa-
tion and exasperation. with the
common argument, ‘‘College doesn’t
teach us anything practical.”
Stated Miss Cook, “I want to start
a campaign for people to apply
on their own the material taught
them.”

Among steps that can be taken,
Miss Cook urged careful selection
of extra-curricular activities, ex-
perience in summer jobs, and dis-
cussion with professors, visiting
speakers, and business men of the
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Shoot B. M. Dance to Bang-Up Success



By Isabel Martin, °42

Hollywood’s latest glamor boy
didn’t put a damper on the male
population that swept over the cam-
pus on December 2, so most of Bryn
Mawr put away their horn-rimmed
glasses, shook out their best dresses,
and returned to the outside world
again.

The in. the
gym was a great success’ socially

dance rejuvenated
and financially. Twice the number
of people that the dance committee
expected turned up, and altogether
they seemed’ one of the most con-
genial groups ever at a big college

dance. The stag line, which
veached © record-breaking —propor-
tions took over witha: fervor posi-

tively frightening and yet weleome
to the escorted dancers. The crowd
seemed to erijoy waltzing most, and
Frankie Day and his orchestra
“swung out” with ten minute waltz
medleys all through the evening.
But ‘those who enjoyed them-
selves so much were unaware of the
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and hold up the Pinocchio posters
at the moment when they showed
signs of weakening. Only a few
hours before the dance began three
of them fell off the wall, and two
girls ran frantically ‘around, pull-
ing nails out of the gym walls to
tack them up again. The posters,
done by Bert Graves from Haver-
ford Community Center, showed
Pinocchio, in amusing episodes
taken from the recent Walt Disney
movie. The gym was covered by a
tent of green and orange streamers,
making it practically impossible
for balcony observers to enjoy the
dance. -Laurel branches hid the
bars behind the stag line, and col-
ored balloons lightened the win-
dows. The only trouble was that
there weren’t quite enough hours
between eleven and two,

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| ‘Revealed by Wells

Continued from } Page One
the rational appeal.

In conclusion Mr. Wells spoke of
the difficulties of distinguishing
propaganda from education. Edu-
cation ought to have three aings,
first to develop well-rounded, ‘in-
dependent thinkers, second, to sup-
ply the whole truth, if available,
about any problem, and finally, to
use a rational rather than an emo-
tional appeal. A good teacher, ac-
cording to Mr. Wells, should: steer
a middle course between too. strong
convictions and the complete lack
of which leads to futility.



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