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VOL. XXVIII, No. 11

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941

Bryn Mawr College, 1941
Copyright, Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS





U. S. WAR DECLARATION STIRS CAMPUS



Drastic Naval Losses in Pacifie

Sustained by U. S., Says Sheean



Germans Are Behind — ;
The Japanese “Attack



Goodhart, December 8.—During

the past 36 hours the United States

has suffered its greatest humilia-
tion, said Vincent Sheean, famous
war correspondent, in his lecture
Monday evening. “In 36 hours we
have lost more ships to the Japan-
ese than England has lost during
the entire war,” he said, and de-
scribed the Hawaiian attack as
“the greatest reverse of its kind
in the history of the world.”

This attack has been planned for
weeks. The Japanese attacked in
the German fashion. They struck
everything possible at once. “The
Germans made the plan, and they'll
come into this when they are
ready,” stated Mr. Sheean.

“Although the attack itself has
taken place, the realization of its
significance has not yet reached
the Americhn people.” A few

weeks ago when he was talking

with naval authorities, they stated
that in the event of war, Japan
would “withdraw everything to her
own bases.” f

Experts believed that the East
coast would be bombed last night.

Between September 9, 1940, and
April 22, 1941, the Pan-Siberian
railway was open. During this
time .German planes, better than
any we possess, and thousands of
German technicians went into Ja-
pan.

Japan’s ally, Germany, has been
successful in every venture so far
except in the Rostov campaign
this past week, stated Mr. Sheean.
He is mystified by the dispatch
from Berlin stating that the Ger-
mans have given up the attack on
Moscow for this winter, believing
it may lead to a Russo-German
truce.

Guam, Wake Island, and Mid-
way Island, our stepping stones to
Japan, have all been captured. And
“with our present naval forces in
the Pacific, we are unable to re-
capture them.”

“Tonight,” said Mr. Sheean, “I
hope American bombers are flying
over Tokio, from Vladivostok,
with loads of incendiary bombs.”

Alliance Enlists Many;
New Courses to Add
To Defense Activity

The Alliance hall meetings held
on Monday evening to enlist work-
ers were met with great response.
Eighty per cent of the student
body enrolled immediately for
service on the committees for
Forum, Speakers’ Bureau, Re-
search, and community work.

The declaration of war gives the





Sheean Reemphasizes
Fears in Interview



We rode into North Philadelphia
with Vincent’ Sheean, to help him
catch his train. He did not enlarge
on the facts and indicated figures
which he had presented in’ Good-
hart; but his conversation and
state of mind were even more ser-
ious than we had felt before. He
believes the United States has suf-
fered the greatest defeat it has
known, that our prestige is gone
and that we are on the defensive,
completely.

For one thing, Mr. Sheean was
deeply alarmed by Russia’s failure
to declare war on Japan. He be-
lieved that Stalin may come to
terms with Germany and we may
have to do without the base at
Vladivostok which, he declared, we
must have.

We asked about retaliation on
Japan. He said that-we-ean bomb
Tokio; but that the city burns
every winter, and every winter is
rebuilt — that therefore bombing
Japan is not efficient. He was
more concerned about the possibil-
ities that San Francisco, the Pan-
ama+Canal, and the eastern -sea-
board, were to be bombed that
night; he said that the Roosevelts

Sunday. He admitted, however,
that he» had not spoken to the
President at all. He did not give
any of the sources of his rather
sensational news from Washington.

We liked Mr. Sheean very much.
We are sure that he believes im-
plicitly that the facts and the sit-
uation that he revealed to the au-
dience in Goodhart on Monday

night were true. We admire his
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Health Problems and

Pay Day Discussed
At Council Meeting





The Infirmary—its functions and
relation to college life, and possi-
ble changes in the Pay Day sys-
tem—made up the chief business
of the December meeting of the
Council. A college, Miss Park
said ought to train itself in keep-
ing well; health should be a major
concern of every student.

The most discouraging aspect of
her work at the Infirmary, Dr.
Leary said, is to see that a large
percentage of all illness is a direct
result of students having let them-
selves get run down. There is
nothing glamorous about staying
up all night, nothing interesting
about being run down.

Possible changes in the Pay Day
system ‘were discussed. $15,532
($3,448 in cash) was the total
amount collected from the _ first



~ Alliance’ addéd momentum and

added responsibility. Its board is

considering work on emergency |

measures—among them a course
in occupational therapy for shell-
shock victims. New activities which
the Alliance should sponsor will
arise, and the scope of the com-
mittees now formed has already
been enlarged. Announcements of
immediate innovations will soon
be made. Suggestions of all kinds

will be received by Mary Gumbart,
Denbigh, ‘or by any other members

|Pay Day this year. Such a large
[turnover means that there is likely
to be a great deal of money in
students’ rooms before Pay Day,
and also that the Pay Day mis-
tresses are given too great respon-
sibility. To remedy these prob-
lems, it was suggested that every-
one be required to pay by check;
that the Inn and Deanery send out
their bills separately; that a one

of Pay Day; and that organiza-



<4 of the exekutive board.

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per cent interest be charged to_or- |
ganizations using the convenience.



Calendar.
Thursday, December 11
Arundell Esdaile. The
History of the British Mu-
eum. Goodhart, 8:30 P. M.
Friday, December 12
French Club Christmas

Pageant, Wyndham Music
Room, 8:00 P. M.

German Club Christmas
Pageant, Common Room,
9:00 Foy ;

Saturday, December 13
Margin For Error. -Hav-
erford, Roberts Hall, 8:30
Pom.

‘Sunday, December 14

‘’ Christmas Chapel Service.

} Reverend Andrew Mutch,
Goodhart, 7:45 P. M.

Monday, December 15
Carol Concert by the com
bined choirs of Bryn Mawr

and Haverford, Roberts
Hall, Haverford, 8:30
P.M

Tuesday, December 16

Bryn Mawr Summer Camp _
Christmas Party. Common
Room, 4 to 6 P, M.

Maids’ and Porters’ Car-
olling.
Currents Events, Miss

Reid. Common Room, 7:30
Fy. 21.

Thursday, December 18
Hall Christmas Parties.
Choir Carolling.









had expected such bombings on:

Problems Described
By Past Presidents
Of Self-Government



Goodhart, December 10.— Fifty
years ago, Self-Government was
begun at Bryn Mawr. President
Eliot said to Miss Thomas, then
Dean, “I give you six months be-
fore you will have to close the
doors of Bryn Mawr College.” To-
day at the anniversary assembly,
Kitty McClellan introduced Presi-



dents of Self-Government, who
file explained the problems in her

‘time of the organization which was

to have been the “downfall of the
college.”

Mrs. Richard Fitzgerald, was
President in 1893 “when the atten-
tion of the world, as well as of the
funny papers, was focussed upon
us.” The problem then was to re-
lieve the faculty of disciplinary ac-
tivities while conforming with the
standards of the day.

Mrs. Edward Evans, president
in 1907-08 felt “horribly superior”
at the first intercollegiate Self-
Government conference at Vassar;
installed proctors in Taylor to keep
students quiet in the halls between
class rooms and when cuts were
announced; and controlled cheer-
ing in the dining room.

In 1914 Mrs. Russell Wilson
found noise her chief concern.
A young man who constantly
swooped over Taylor in the newly
invented aeroplane, attractive
Haverford Youth, smoking and the
“Young Temptations” added to her
worries. The latter were young,
unattached professors, against
whom Miss Thomas warned the
studens at the opening assembly.

In 1928-29 Self-Government, un-
der Miss Rosamund Cross, now
head-mistress of Baldwin School,
shook the civilized world by per-
mitting smoking, simplified the
‘rules, allowed athletics after two
o’clock on Sunday and tried to curb

‘sloppy dressing. _
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College Assembles in Goodhart —
To Hear Roosevelt’s War. Speech



Mr. Cameron States
Air Raid Precautions



The college at the request of the
Federal Government has instituted
a system of air raid precautions.
To this has been .added..an. organi-
zation to provide emergency first
aid. The problem of fire fighting
is scheduled to be taken up immedi-
ately.

We print below the statement of
Mr. Alister Cameron, chief air raid
warden of the college, and the in-
structions issued to the college at
the general meeting in Goodhart
on Wednesday at 1.30 P. M.:

“Air-raid precautions’ are being
taken in the college because the
country is at war. In itself the
fact that we are at war is sufficient
justification for an immediate and
thorough establishment of an air-
raid protection system. Our hunches
about strategy or our sensitivity to
unfounded reports should have no
effect on procedure. The college is
now_ready to-deal-with an-air-raid
alarm. The success of our execu-
tion of our emergency plans de-
pends upon the efficiency of our air-
raid wardens and the intelligent
response of the whole college com-
munity to the directions of the
wardens.

The general statement of our ar-
rangements, thus far, follows:

The air raid wardens for the
area of Bryn Mawr College have

been appointed and are as follows:

Senior Air Raid Wardens: Alister
Cameron, Dqnald Wa MacKinnon, Julia
Ward.

Air Raid Wardens: Karl L. Ander-
son, L. Joe Berry, T, R. S. Broughton,
Anne Coogan, Winfield Daugherty,
Alice Hawkins, Dorothy Macdonald,
Bleanor Nahm, Cleta O. Robbins, Jos-
eph C. Sloane, Jr., Arthur C. Sprague,
Edward H. Watson, Dorothy Wyckoff,
Dora Benedict, Patricia Saint Law-
rence.

Air Raid Wardens for the Halls:

Denbigh Hall: 1. Mary Gumbart, 2.
Sally Jacob.

Merion Hall: 1.
Edith Vorhaus.

Pembroke East: 1. Christine Waples,
2. Barbara Bechtold.

Pembroke West: 1. Vivi French, 2.
Frances Matthai,

Radnor Hall: 1. Mabel Long, 2. Rosa-
lie Hoyt.

Rhoads North: 1.
Betty Nicrosi.

Rhoads South: 1. Barbara Cooley, 2.
Josephine Perry. -

Rockefeller Hall: 1. Eleanor Harz, 2.
Katharine MacAusland,

Wyndham: 1. Janet

Laura Schlageter.
The air raid wardens for the halls

Jocelyn Fleming, 2.

Helen Resor, 2.

Dowling, 2.

will work with the regular wardens.

In case of an alarm the signal
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Motionless, Silent
Students Hear News



Faculty, students and graduates
gathered in Goodhart to hear the
President’s war message to Con-
gress. The meeting was silent, mo-
tionless, during the long description
of historical precedent, of the Pres-
idential escort, and during the
speech- itself: Impressive was the
unanimous restraint of the college,
and its quiet reception of the Na-
tional Anthem at the end.

Sunday, the aftermath of the
dance disappeared quickly. As word
of the Pearl Harbor attack spread
through smoking rooms and show-
casés, Army and- Navy escorts of
the previous night left precipitously
for their posts. Far into Monday
morning people sat around radios.
At lunch tables Congress’ decision
blared from. portables.

In smoking rooms crowded with
listeners the silence was broken
only by scattered remarks: “My
brother is in Honolulu.” Then more
silence. But by Monday the inertia
had been translated to a need for
action. There was talk about leav-
ing college; people called up their
families;. rumors circulated, emo-
tion mounted.

Although some classes considered
the subject of America’s entrance
into the war, there was a general
lack of co-ordinated discussion, A
meeting on Tuesday evening for the
planning of air raid precautions
was the first step taken by the col-
lege as a whole in the direction of
united action on the war emer-

gency.



May Day Defeated

Fifty-five per cent of the
undergraduates—.voted last
Thursday not to give a Big
May Day in 1942. Forty-six
per cent voted in favor of the
1942 production. Most halls
were fairly evenly divided
with the margin against May
Day. Rhoads showed a much
greater percentage con,
Rockerfeller pro. There will
be no May Day this spring,
the president of the Under-
graduate Association an-
nounced.











Faculty Voices Back to

Work Sentiments;

Remembers College Reaction to Last War



Faculty reactions were super-
ficially scanned after the first two
days since the outbreak of the war.
The opinion most often expressed
was that students should not allow
their emotions to obscure the im-
portance of what at present may
appear to be unimportant — their
academic work.

Mrs. Manning

The war will not immediately
affect the college, Mrs. Manning
explained. It will take some time
before facts are tested in Washing-
ton and regulations put into effect
here. “People had better work
very hard and get their minds off
of it,” she said.

Miss Gardiner _
Miss Gardiner was a a4
Bryn Mawr at the time th

United States declared war on

Germany in 1917. War was de-
clared, however, at the beginning
of spring vacation so that when
students returned a week later
there was nothing comparable to
the situation here Sunday and
Monday. There were then only
six weeks remaining in the college
year, so that despite talk of insti-
tuting preparedness courses imme-
diately, little: was actually. done
until the’ following fall. Miss
Gardiner remembers particularly
that thére was always an Ameri-
can flag flying from Taylor and
“We sang the Star Spangled Ban-
ner every time we turned around.”
Miss Thomas in chapel continually
stressed the importance of trained
minds in the next generation and
Purged students to remain at col-
lege rather than follow their first
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“ To Yale-ISS Conference
On Americas



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the students of the world look at
the future in-concrete terms. This
past week-end at the Political
Union at Yale University the In-
ternational Student Service con-
vened a group of students and ex-
perts from all over the Western
Hemisphere to consider “The Role
of the University in Hemisphere
Solidarity.”

The purpose of this conference

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What Sureties?

There aren’t many sure things left.

History is subtle; it plays

with the same cards, but the deal is different, and there is no one
who can say what will lie ahead. There is no one who can be right

about the meaning of the past.

No one who could point to the

course of the war; it has no prescribed direction.

After the radio told us about the Japanese invasion, after the
banner heads told us about the losses, after the President’s voice
rang through Goodhart, after Sheean made us visualize defeat, was
there anything left to think? Is there anything sure?

The sudden unity of purpose; that’s sure.

That came as fer-

vently and spontaneously to Bryn Mawr as it came to the Nation.
And the growing determination, that is sure.

We have learned since Sunday, that it’s important to keep in
step, to move efficiently in our own paths, to stick to clear, feasible
goals, to work hard at the immediate problem.

We have learned:

The need for teamwork, endurance, patience,
The need for long-range thinking, for calm, for decision.
The need for training ourselves here and now in science,
social leadership, of training for freedom.
We have been fighting for the facts throughout the last few

days.

They haven’t been plentiful.

But through the midnight

broadcasts, the air-raid drills, the incredible drama of real war,

there are these sureties:

We know what we’re after.

We know that we'll win.

We know our immediate task.



Mr. Cameron States
Air-Raid Precautions



Continued from Page One
will be_a prolonged blowing of the
power house whistle.

Every person in the college com-
munity must follow immediately
the instructions of the air ra
warden in whose area she finds her-
self at the moment of the warning.

General Instructions for Night
Warnings ,

All persons, in- the residence
halls will take a blanket, turn out
their lights, shut their doors and
proceed to the place of shelter in
the hall designated by the air raid
warden,

Persons in other buildings will
proceed to the place of shelter

designated by their air raid
wardens.

General Instructions for Day
Warnings

1. For Taylor and Dalton:

Students from Pembroke, Merion
and Denbigh will proceed immedi-
ately to the places of shelter in
their own halls.

Faculty, staff, non-resident stu-
dents, and students from Rocke-
feller, Radnor, Rhoads and Wynd-
ham will proceed immediately to
shelter in the basement of the Li-

2. For the Chemistry-Geology

Building, the Library and the Gym-

nasium:



Problems Described
By Past Presidents



Continued from Page One

Barbara Colbron, president in
36-87, said Self-Government was
practically the same then as now.
Her board got “sick and tired of
the triangle between Miss Park’s,
the Deanery and the Power House,
and extended the smoking area to
Taylor steps...

Miss Park who concluded the
Assembly stressed her belief in
Self-Government as a self-educat-
ing agent and in its power to shape
our attitudes toward civilized soci-
ety. She defined college as “a
place where ‘young individuals are
coaxed, driven, argued or: allured
into a state of maturity.” Bryn
Mawr’s objective has always been
preparedness-for..the future and _/|
Miss Park believes “no one can
meet the future better than young
women who have not only been
taught, but who have taught them-
selves.”



All persons will proceed at once
to the shelters in these buildings.

3. For Goodhart:

All persons will proceed immedi-
ately to the place of shelter in
Rhoads.

If out of doors on the campus
and not within easy reach of shel-
ter, lie flat on the ground and
don’t look up.”

was to bring together informally
students and professors to discuss
as equals this problem of vital in-
terest. On Saturday a Panel Dis-
cussion concerning the economic,
political, social, and cultural as-
pects of the subject opened the con-
ference with four experts holding
the floor. Our own Dr. Fenwick
provided'the pep and color: he pro-

| voked the liveliest of discussions by

saying regional solidarity is short-
sighted.. The welfare of both
Americas depends on Europe and
Asia as well as on each other. Mr.
Hubert Herring, author of the
best-seller “The Good Neighbors,”
spoke at dinner on the difficulties
in_ attaining a harmony _of_inter-
American cultural relations: the
difference in language, the dissimi-
larities of the so-called romantic
Latin-American and the _hard-
headed North American, the pres-
ence or absence of too much polite-
ness, and the deep cleavage in the
inherited Anglo-Saxon and Iberian
psychologies, besides the different
views of government. ~ However,
“American Solidarity is an imperi-
ous necessity.”

The main work was ‘done in
three commissions on Sunday
morning. The first commission
considered Latin American Studies
in U. S. Curricula and concluded

‘eriteriag of ‘a conference are stimu-



that the basic study needed was|
Spanish or Portuguese. Many col-
leges already were found to have
ample courses for the proposed, |
practical inter-departmental major |
in cultural Latin-American studies.
This major would cost.little to set
up as many courses could shift
emphasis to include Latin-Ameri-
can problems, e. g. Sociology, Trade
Relations, etc. Correlation is the
keynote.

In Commission II, U. S. Stu-
dents in Latin America was the
subject. The personal contact was
considered invaluable for students
of both hemispheres as those stu-
dents of today. will bgthe leaders
in educatiegf, di y, trade, and
so forth tomorrow.

The exchange students in both
continents were considered in Com-
mission III. The attitude of the
student was considered most im-
portant; he should not go only for
fun but in order to study what is
most valuable for himself and his
country.

Looking on at the conference a
fellow delegate remarked,. “Every
author of the secondary sources



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There are lots of people, and
they’re all different. We watched
them lately, when we weren’t filling
sandbags, and we think you ought
to know just what they’re like.

First, Type A. She said: "a
knew it all along.” Shé wanted to
talk some more, but she remem-
bered that she had a book reserved
and started for the library.

Then, Type B. She said: “Oh?”
and ran for the phone booth. .Her
mother said, “This will all be set-
tled soon, dear. Drink Ovaltine.”

Then, Type C. She said:
“Johnny’s in danger.” And she ran
to the Western Union office, knit-
ting all the way.

Then, Type D. She said that
Yucatan was staying neutral;~and
stood transfixed, quivering like an
antenna, while the smoking room
ignored her.

Then, thank goodness, Type E.
She said: “This is serious, but I’m
going to bed.” She set her alarm
at 770 kilocycles and turned off the
light. And she only woke up every
hour, on the hour.



we use in Latin-America relations '
courses is here!” Professors Mun-
ro of Princeton, Inman of Penn-;
sylvania, Bemis of Yale were pres-
ent. One of the most encouraging
aspects of the conference was the
large number of students from
Latin America, who spoke with as
much frankness as the North
American collegian.

As Louise Morley, Bryn Mawr,
1940, and Secretary of the I.S.S.,
said in her concluding speech, the

lus of speech, realism of approach,
and constructiveness of suggestion.
This conference more than ade-
quately fulfilled these conditions.
It was well-organized and earnest;
prepared individuals who had
something vital to say collaborated
smoothly.

CONSTANCE ATHERTON MURPHY—

1942.



Nuts and Bolts

By Isabel Martin, ’42





Bill of Rights

Smith publications
running afoul of the authorities.
The Tatler, a literary publication,
was recently suspended because of
a story on a maid when there was

the threat of a labor shortage.
Now, from an _ unofficial source,
comes this tale of newspaper woe.

have been

Associated News,,..popularly called
Sean,-was running a campaign
against two campus secret societies.
The room of the president of one
of these organizations was raided
by two reporters, not acting on
authority. After a fruitless search,
the latter spied a huge chest the
size of-a de sk. Believing this
contained The Dope, they quick-
wittedly tied a fire rope around
it, and with the aid of two porters,
they dropped it out the third story
window. Finding the needed ma-
terial, they copied and returned it.
But before they could replace the
chest they were discovered and re-
ported. The Administration hand-
ed down a decision that the two
reporters must be expelled from

Scan must not print anything con-
concerning the societies. Claiming
the right of freedom of the press,
the editor of the paper went be-
fore a Conference Committee
where the decision was in part
revoked. The newspaper promised
not to print information illegally
obtained or any information con-
cerning the societies which had not
been previously approved by the
authorities. On their part, the
authorities agreed to consider the
irregular action of the reporters as
in the realm of personal misde-
meanor and unconnected with the| is



It seems that. the Smith College

the staff of “the -paper-and--that|-



newspaper. All is once more se-
rene on the Smith front but behind
that front there is the threat of
administrative limitation of the
college press.

ALICE ISEMAN, ’43.



A mob riot of 1,500, with shouts
of, “Let’s go to Tokyo,” “To Hell
with Hirohito,’”’ was Yale’s reaction
to the declaration of war. Prince-
ton met the news with a “Victory
Bonfire.” A ‘“‘war-body” at Dart-
mouth, “The Dartmouth Expedition
for Tokyo,” was quickly organized.

Out and out belligerency, with a
fierce jubilation in it, was the tone
of the Monday newspapers of the
three colleges. The editorial in
The Dartmouth expressed relief—
the final release from the hypo-
crisy; “all-out aid short of war;”
a release from worry about
“Wheelers” and “Lindberghs.” It
is a. relief, to be able to-say: to
Fascists: “You had best try your
best to kill us, because whenever
the time comes for us to do it, we
shall certainly try to kill you, here
and in all ‘lands, at any time, and
by any possible means.”
“Princeton Presents United
Front as United States Faces Total
War” streamed across the top of
the Princetonian. But it must be a
disciplined unity, rational patriot-
ism.

The role of the undergraduate
body in the face of the crisis was
the major concern of the editorials
in these ‘issues. “Keep cool,” “Be
calm,” “Maintain order.” These
were felt to be the immediate du-
ties. The diligent continuance of
college work “is more valuable than
an hysterical enlistment.” “Strong
loyalty is just, but equal to event

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On Sunday when it began, Phila-
delphia had an air-raid shelter. On
Monday Philadelphia had no air-
raid shelter—we gave it back to
Pittsburgh (on urgent request).
They had lent it to us for Defense
Week. On Tuesday came the news
that a full anti-aircraft regiment
is on its way to Philadelphia. It
is expected to total approximately
1,500 men.

Furthermore, Mayor Samuel who
has just been appointed defense co-
ordinator for the Philadelphia
Metropolitan area plans to discuss
with the Philadelphia Transporta-
tion Company the use of the sub-
ways by civilians in the event of
air raids.

Philadelphians were quiet when
and after the news came—they
read the papers and kept quiet and
1,500 people crowded into the City
Hall office of Deputy Chief Air
Raid Warden all day Monday to
volunteer as air raid wardens and
watchers. In the last three months
the service had only been able to
get 3,000 people.

The Philadelphia Defense Coun-
cil chose Paul B. Hartenstein to fill
the vacancy created by the recent
resignation of Dr. Hubley Owen.
Mr. Hortenstein’s valet will soon be
out of a job, for the last we heard
he was Japanese.

City Council ordered an _ addi-
tional $500,000 appropriated to the
1942 budget for civilian protective
services.

Every fire station in Philadel-
phia has become an air raid alarm
center. Fire engine sirens are to
sound the alarms. To eliminate
confusion ambulance sirens are SI-
lenced.

All Federal hownctee in the city,
including the F.B.I., Department of
Justice, U. S. Attorney’s Office and
the secret service are now on a
24-hour basis.

State Defense machiner also
moving at an. acce ated
State police were Aispatched to

guard highways and bridges and to
assist industrial police in protect-
ing railroads. and utilities. All
private aircraft was ordered
grounded .at the State’s 170 air-
ports.

Meanwhile factory workers and
management pledged to exceed their
production quotas. At Baldwin Lo-
comotive Works the first sixty-ton
tank, “regarded by military experts
as the most deadly of tanks” came

off the assembly-line and was

turned over to the government. The
Navy Yard adopted war-time secur-
ity, anti-sabotage measures as the
work-pace stepped up a new
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‘Stage Door’ Given.
By Varsity Players
and Haverford Club

Heyniger, Dowling, Warren
Perform Most mad





By Nancy Evarts;.243

Friday and Saturday evenings
the Varsity Players’ Club, in con-
junction with the Haverford Cap
and Bells, presented Stage Door.
Although the play seemed flat with
little build-up of suspense, the pro-
duction was appropriately cast and
effectively staged. Many individ-
ual characterizations were’ out-
standing. ‘

There was a discrepancy be-
tween the two performances. The
one on Friday night was more uni-
formly satisfactory than the sec-
ond one. On both nights the co-
ordination of a large cast consist-
ing of many small parts, the as;
surance of the actors and somie
completely convincing portrayals
were remarkable.

Anne Heyniger made the charac-
ter of Terry Randall understand-
able and human. The naturalness
of her acting, even in the emotional
scenes, was the most unifying ele-
ment of the play. Mrs. Orcutt, a
difficult part, was also played with
absolute competency and finish by
Janet Dowling; these two perform-
ances were sustained and consis-
tently effective.

The other girls’ parts were done
with understanding, especially
those of Bernice, Judith and -Su-
san. Carla Adelt as Judith and
Nancy Scribner as Susan seemed
to: act with more spontaneity and
conviction than the others. Judith’s
witty, but it is entirely to Carla’s
credit that every one was-delivered
with punch. Louise Allen gave an
original and varied portrayal of
Jean Maitland, and Vivi French
handled intelligently, though hard-
ly brilliantly, a role in which she
seemed miscast.

The boys, on the whole, were less
successful than the girls. Dick
Warren as Keith Burgess was the
most convincing. David Winder
seemed too mannered, not forceful
enough, in his portrayal of Kings-
ley.

The parts of Mattie and Frank
were played amusingly, with com-
plete naturalness, by Pearl Ed-
munds and Louis White.

The chief fault of the produc-
tion, which was expert in lighting,
staging, and direction was perhaps
that of the play itself. The lines
were not always lively and many
of the scenes seemed unnecessarily
repetitious. The ambition, the aim
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[Dancing Angels of Plaque in Dean’s Office

Present Varied Mystery and Amusement



By Alice Crowder, ’42

“They always ask that,’ mur-
mured Miss Donaldson typing
busily through the murmur. ‘The
students who come to sit and wait
always. ask what it is and why is
it here.”

The mystery plaque of the dean’s
office is a common-place to Miss
Hatch and Miss Donaldson who
type .and telephone on_ through
generations of ‘curious students
gazing and questioning and labori-

ously translating the Latin: Hie:

est panis vivus qui de caelo des-
endit.

“Painfully these students go
through the inscription scrolled be-
neath the feet of angels in relief
who dance lightly into a distance
two inches away. ‘No two get the
same result,” sighed Miss Hatch.

The sub-freshmen are by far the
most avid of the translators, Miss
Hatch adjured. And no matter
what the product of the violent
mental gymnastics to which they
put themselves — whether nearer
living bread descending from
heaven or vivid pans descending
from the ceiling—there follows a
fit of hysterical giggling. Through
giggles faintly comes the gasp of a
small question. ‘‘Why is it in the
dean’s office?” How easy it would
be to snap out, “I don’t know,”
which is the expected answer to
such a question and which is cer-
tainly what Mary Poppins, the en-
igma of omniscience, would have
answered. But Miss Hatch and
Miss Donaldson have a certain
‘pride ih the Thing beneath which
they work day after day. Besides,
they are so inured to the oft re-
peated formula that the end of it,
the answer, rolls off the lips with-

German Club Offers
Traditional Pageant





The traditional Christmas pag-:

eant of the German Club will be
presented on Friday, December 12,
at nine P. M., in the Common
Room. There will be German
Christmas carol singing and re-
freshments at an open house in the
German House after the play.
Harriet Case will appear in the
play as Mary, Margaret Magrath
as Joseph; Laura Schlageter, Elise
Cowan and Barbara Coe as Shep-
herds; Mary Lang, Mary Arm-
strong and Esterlee Hutzler asthe
Kings; and Penelope Smith as the
Angel Gabriel. ‘é



toward more polished and coordi-
nated college plays. Stage Door
was effective, but unevenly so.







out effort while their minds are oc-
cupied with numbers, names and
addresses.

The plaque once hung on the
walls of the chapel. There are
many difficult implications of the
simple answer. “Why was the
chapel in the dean’s office?”—more
giggles. It is really all quite nor-
mal. The old chapel, which served
some of the uses of the Goodhart
Auditorium before Goodhart was
erected, once extended from the

‘south epd of the second floor to the

corridor adjacent to the dean’s of-
fice. It extended, too, through the
present second floor ceiling to the
third floor where now large tomes
collect the dust of ages. A gallery
in these upper regions held the
overflow of the lower when the col-
lege increased in size.

The plaque was not the only ob-
jet d’art in the chapel. Much more
conspicuous in the old days were
the Della Robbia_ singing boys
above a platform approximately
where Miss Park’s office is now.
And hanging over them was Savan-
arola—looking very cross. Now,
with the golden toothed Athena in
the Library, the dean’s office an-
gels are the survivors of a ghostly
race of academic plaster Greek
gods and goddesses which once
peopled Taylor and the Library.
But now that angels. have so fallen
from a_ high. place among. the
great, Miss Hatch made the part-
ing remark: “That’s like one of
those things they put in the daily
newspapers— you know, so many
bushels of wheat are grown—just
to fill up the space.”

‘Mademoiselle’ Holds
Short Story Contest





Mademoiselle is sponsoring a
short story contest open to: any-
body under thirty. The small
number of regulations for the con-
test is unusual. The stories may
be on any subject, not longer than
4000 words, and any number may
be submitted by one person. They
should be sent to Mademoiselle
with a stamped, self-addressed en-
velope by February first, 1942.
Five prizes will be awarded, one of
500 dollars, one of 250 dollars, and
three of 50 dollars each. “Winning
stories will be published in Made-
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Dr. Cole aie
The Nervous Impulse

In Tennent Lecture



Dalton, December 6 :— “Yes, but
what makes it go?” All the re-
search that has been done on the
functioning of a nerve fiber, Dr.
Kenneth Cole said, has not yet
been able to answer this question.
Dr. Cole, associate professor of
physiologyfat the College of Phy-
sicians and-Surgeons at Columbia,
has spent part of the last two or
three years working toward a solu-
tion of this problem.

The Nerve Impulse was an ap-
propriate topic for the second of
the Tennent Memorial Lectures,
which are sponsored by the Com-
mittee on the Coordination of the
Teaching of the Natural Sciences,
for, as Dr. Cole pointed out, it in-
volves’ physical, chemical, biologi-
cal, as well as mathematical and
psychological phenomena.

The presence of nerves and their
transmission of stimuli have been
recognized for centuries, and many
theories have been evolved ,about
them. It was thought for a long
time that a nervous impulse was
carried by a liquid flowing in the
nerves. Later, until someone looked
at the cut end of a nerve in the
dark, a beam of light was held re-
sponsible. Nerves were the last
stronghold of the ‘“imponderable
spirits.” It was not until 1850,
when Helmholtz accurately mea-
sured the velocity of nerve trans-
mission and found it to be 70 miles
per hour, that research in this field
was put-on-a.scientific basis.

In 1910 Bernstein proposed the
significant hypothesis that the
transmission of a stimulus was
based upon the difference in elec-
tric potential between the inside
and outside of a nerve cell,. result-
ing from the semi-permiability of
the cell-membrane.

With a few modifications, scien-

tists accept this theory today. A
stimulus passing through a nerve
changes the character of the cell
membrane in such a way that its
permiability is increased, and an
outward flow of ions result. Since
the loss of impermiability produces
a loss in electric potential the
nerve is incapable of transmitting
stimuli until after a period of re-
covery. Mr, Cole has evolved a
“Venetian blind” or “flip-flop”
model, which, he says, “has come
in for unfriéndly comment,” to il-
lustrate the way the period of re-
covery follows the nerve impulse.
“Only a nerve works better,” he
said.

ion, cathode ray, ossilograph, the
study of nerve impulse has been
put on a more. quantitative basis.
Dr. Cole has been working with
the nerves of squid, which are par-
ticularly large. When one elec-
trode of a circuit is pushed up into
the center of a squid nerve and a
current is passed through the
nerve membrane, both the resist-

membrane may be measured, and
also the capacity—the stacking up
of ions which can not pass through
on one side of the membrane. When
the nerve is then stimulated, it is
seen that the resistance is lowered,
indicating that the ion-permiable
part of the membrane becomes still
more permiable, whereas the ca-
pacity remains unchanged.

Semi-mathematical graphs may
fe made of these electrical rela-
tions, but many inexplicable phe-
nomena persist to show, Dr. Cole
said, that this field of research has
been scarcely opened.



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Defense Industry’s
Labor Problems Are |
Discussed by Hanson



Common Room, December 3:—
The criticism directed against la-
bor and the attempt to place the
entire responsibility for stoppages
in production on labor are not jus-
tified by fact, said Alice Hanson,
at the Industrial Group Meeting in
the Common Room, December 3.

Discussing the attempts to regu-
late strikes now on foot in Con-
gress, Miss Hanson said that we
are in for some regulation of
strikes. _She pointed out, however,
that in the last few years more
strikes were settled by peaceful
mediation than ever before. She
described most of the Congressmen
urging anti-strike legislation as “a
group of people headed mainly by
Southern Senators, who have been
consistently --anti-labor, and who
are now hiding behind the cloak of
defense interest—dressed up in the
American flag.” Miss Hanson
said that even if Lewis had never
called the strike in the captive
mines they would have raised “a
hullabaloo on some pretext.”

The other side of the picture,
said Miss Hanson, is too often ne-
glected. A number of employers,
notably Vultee, Bethlehem, and
Kearny, refused to bargain with
labor. In most cases labor’s de-
mands are not unreasonable. Prof-
it figures in industries basic to de-
fense are “simply astounding” said
Miss Hanson. In steel, shipyards
and automobiles, 75% increase in
profits of this year over last is a
low figure.

Labor’s increase this year over
last is approximately 10%, said
Miss Hanson, and this is “not near-
ly enough to keep up with the an-
ticipated rising cost of living.”
Labor is not ready to defend juris-
dictional strikes, said Miss Han-
son, :

Strikes are used by labor only as
a last resort. If the right to strike
were taken away from labor, said
Miss Hanson, labor would have no
power to enforce its demands.
When labor demands are called
Red demands (as they are particu-
larly in emergency periods) labor
has lost its “power to struggle on
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Japanese Question

Discussed by D. Hall

Haverford, Thursday, December
4:—A make-shift round table dis-
cussion by the International Rela-
tions Clubs of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford on the imminent danger
of a Japanese war replaced a
scheduledJecture--by Mr. Duncan
Hall on The _ British. Common-
wealth in the Present Crisis,
Thursday. Mr. Hall, arriving late,
emphasized the strategic impor-
tance of Singapore in the Far-
Eastern conflict.



Informed on Far-Eastern rela-
tions, Mr. Hall called Singapore
“the front door of Australia.” The
concentration of British, Austral-
ian, and Dutch ships--and troops
there makes this area virtually
impenetrable.

In view of this barfier, with the
possibility of a coalition of Great
Britain, Russia, the United States
and Holland against her, Mr. Hall
feels that Japan’s position is not to
be envied.

Mr. Hall implied that United
States aid was needed to keep the
Far-Eastern bases safe from a
Japanese offensive. If Japan were
to wedge her way to Siam, she
would be able to prey on British
shipping and thus seriously threat-
en the communications of the Brit-
ish Empire south of Cairo.

The round table discussion
brought: out two factors which fa-
vor an immediate declaration of
war by the United States on Ja-
pan. Japan is steadily increasing
her navy with both Japanese and
German ships. Thus, a postponed
war would strengthen her. Actual
participation in war, moreover,
would boost the morale of this



country and unite defence efforts.

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Christmas Pageant



The French Club will present Le |
Mystére de la Nativité, the. tradi- |

tional Christmas play, on Friday,
December 12, in the Wyndham Mu-
sic Room at 8 P. M. The cast is:

PYOlgUe <2 cies cc Prudence Wellman
Epilogue ........ Prudence Wellman
MOMBDIN Gh5 6005 0 908 hice - Janet Dowling
I hea aa ga oe pk AS Emily Tuck
Daret WANSGL isis sie taes Edna Sculley
Second Angel ........ Anne Heffinger
Third Angel ............ Louise Allen
First Shepherd .......... Viola Moore

Second Shepherd ... Florence Spencer
Third Shepherd
Elizabeth Marie Jones
Spokesman of the People
Barbara Bechtold

WOM) vis tdi kid Lorraine Pirrung
MEOPOMIO! 664 eb she icine Toni Michel
PUTCO MOD 6 isc ce os < Patricia Delaney
PAOTOG Vib is isiesanenss Therese Exton
DEOMOONOO 8s ii si eea drake Mary Ellis
OG MOMDO Gesci cs cee Spencer Barroll
Piret onignt oo ..: : Natalie Saltsman

Second Knight .. Mary Stuart Blakely

PIPOCUO? Fic dicctecvuns Janet Dowling
CPMUUNIIGE ais cba 3.000156 Sally Alexander
MOGHEIY 606k xcs ccs Natalie Saltsman



Maids Acquire Work

~ And Recreation Room



A combined work and sittting
room has been provided for the
maids in the basement of Taylor.
The room was formerly used as a
recreation room for the maids but
had to be abandoned because of
dampness. Now Mr. Stokes has
had the floor repaired so that it
will remain dry througheut the
winter.

The maids. have donated money
to rent three sewing machines, and
Miss Terrien has lent books from
the. Library that can be taken out
according to Library regulations.

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Field-Trippers Analyze Invisible Landscape;
Péa-Soup Atmosphere Obscures Full Moon



By Alice Weil, ’43

‘Nature was unkind to the un-
dergraduate, since the pea-soup at-
mosphere last week obscured at
least the scenic aspects of a full
moon,

But on Thursday, the fog affect-
ed the more serious side of our
academic existence. In a true Lon-
don fashion, its impenetrability
detained Mr. Duncan Hall, speaker
for the International Relations
Clubs of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr, in Media. The result: 7:30
—no Mr. Hall. With the celerity
of a quick-change artist, and the
continuity of Wit’s End, a planned
speech on “The British Common-
wealth in the Present Crisis,’
evolved into a round-table discus-
sion on Japan. As the United
States was about to decide on
whether or not to go to war, Mr.
Hall miraculously appeared, With-
out further ceremony, the discus-
sion was transformed into an im-
promptu speech by Mr. Hall on
Australian-Japanese conditions.

To the budding geologists, or



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a writing table.

The maids meet here officially on
Wednesdays and Thursdays but
the room is open at all times.

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the fog presented a more hopeless
obstacle. The usual Thursday af-
ternoon Field Trippers left Pem
Arch in bright sunshine which
lasted exactly until'they arrived at
the Valley Forge Observation
Tower. There Mr. Watson sud-
denly found himself faced with the
difficult problem of pointing out
topographic features on an invisi-
ble landscape. What happened to
the Octoraro phyllite?

The Last Straw: the junior who
said she couldn’t take her required
sport on Thursday because she was
unable to find the gym. *









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Certified Blood Donors

Dr. Leary has arranged
with the Bryn Mawr Hos-
pital that blood donors certi-
fied by her should go there
Wednesday, December 17.

Combined Choirs To

Give Song Service









A Christmas song service will be
given in Goodhart Hall, this Sun-
day, December 14, at 7.30, by the
combined choirs of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford, under the direction of
Mr. Willoughby. The program will
include the following:

“Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy
ee ee Besancon Carol
“Hush My Dear, Lie Still and

Slumber” ....Arr. Martin Shaw
Solo—Mary Rambo, ’43
“The Wassail Carol”

Warren D. Anderson
“Fanfare for Christmas Day”
Martin Shaw

“Born Today” (Five part Motet)

J. P. Sweelinck
“Fantasia on Christmas Carols”
Vaughan. Williams
Solo—Richard Bauer, ’42
Vaughan Williams, composer of
the “Fantasia on Christmas
Carols,” was the Flexner Lecturer
in music in October and November
of 19382.
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Miss Reid

Turkey’s statement of neutrality
is ominous, stated Miss Reid, since
| Turkey has usually followed Rus-
sia’s policies. Stalin has called a
meeting with his commisars for to-
morrow. Russia’s stand is ex-
tremely important. to the United
States. Territory there is valu-
able for bases from which to launch
air attacks on Japan.







“A day or two will see a breach
with the axis as a whole,” said
Miss Reid. There are hints that in
his speech tonight the President
will stress the “axis pattern of the
present war.”

The constitutional effects and
the international aspects brought
about by the war, as well as the
belligerent rights of the United
States now that we are actively
engaged in the conflict, were dis-
cussed.

“China’s_ declaration
against Japan, Germany, and Italy
is .very interesting,” said Miss
Reid. It points to a war united on
a world-wide basis.

of war]

As Dance W hirls Through Happy Confusion,
Penn Musical Magic Makes Fifth Disappear



By Anne Denny, ’43
The Gymnasium, Saturday, De-
cember 6. — Telescoping twelve
dances into a short two hours, the

versity of Pennsylvania worked
wonders. with time on Saturday
night. iP

At first, all ran smoothly: each
dance was of normal length, the

ting moderate. Then faster and
faster Time closed in, and each
dance grew shorter and shorter,
the music faster and faster, until

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Varsity Club Orchestra of the Uni-|

floor not too crowded, and the cut-|

suddenly the fifth dance disap-
peared. The chairman of the Dance,|
Committee, having looked forward |
;to the fifth dance, indignantly de-
manded its restoration, and to make
up for this omission the orchestra |
leader presented her with two sev- |
enth dances. Then he solved the;
thc shortage problem by announc-
jing every other dance and leaving |
the participants in a complete state
of confusion.

Through it all, the faculty
amused themselves with an unpre-|
cedented game of cards, which
looked suspiciously like “old maid.”

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Problems of Health
Disctissed at Council



Continued from. Page Gue
tions must not be allowed to make
unexpected charges.

The district around Bryn Mawr
is interested in.our defense courses.
The Ardmore Red Cross has asked
to-have the nutrition course re-
peated for the community. They
admire our auto mechanics _in-
structors, and would like to use
our kitchens.



Faculty Emphasizes
Importance of Work



Continued from Page One
impulses to volunteer their serviges
in the emergency. Dr Gray of the
history department enlisted imme-
diately. Other faculty members
enlisted in the fall.

Mr. Miller

Mr. Miller said that it was of su-
preme importance that the United
States obtain Vladivostok as an air
base. Vladivostok is only seven
hundred miles from Japan: while
the closest United States owned
base is Dutch Harbor,in the Aleu-
tian islands which is out of the
range of small. bombers.

In Class

In classes professors calm the
tension. “There is a rumor,” said
Mr. Sprague. “The rumor is ret
Hitler is in the dean’s office arid i
you have a .copy.of Mein Kampf
you can take it up there and have
it autographed. —And that’s just
as true as all the other rumors
you hear.”

“We must all concentrate on the
English renaissance,” declared Mr.
Herben.



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ford, Temple, Rosemont, and
Swarthmore, was held Thursday,
December 4, at Haverford under
the auspices of the Haverford In-
ternational Relations Club.

Despite the guessing ability of
Rebecca Robbins who accurately
approximated the population of
Moscow: at 4 million, Bryn Mawr
achieved a poor fifth, with thirty- |



(eight points compared to eighty-
| eight for the winning Temple.

Ivory tower tendencies, however,
need not be feared for the ques-
tions were rather particular. The
respective ages of Hitler and |
Chamberlain, and the full name of
Winston Churchill might stop any
authority on international affairs.

Temple has won twice and Hav-
erford once. To retire the plaque
a team must win three years in
succession,

Miss Reid of Bryn Mawr, Mr.
Herndon of Haverford, and J.
Morton Pennock of Swarthmore,
served as judges.





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