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Copyright, Trustees of
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VOL. XXVI, No. 18

BRYN MAWR ard WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940



Frost names
Self-Expression

As Goal of Life

Goodhart, March 25.—‘“I would
like to make everyone I meet real-
ize that the height of life comes in
moments of expression,-either writ-
ten or oral,’ said Robert Frost
in the last lecture of the College
Entertainment Series. There are
three times, he continued,. when
self expression heightens life: in



binding a bargain, in reconciling |,

a difficulty, and -in justifying a

.-course of action.

An interest in self expression,
said Mr. Frost,;-should-be-aroused
through education. In bringing up
children, emphasis should be placed
on.good poetry as well as on good
prose, although it is difficult to
teach a child set standards by
which to prove that a poem is good
or bad.

Mr. Frost then presented several
tests to which ‘he subjects all
poetry. The first test determines
whether or not the rhywe and
metre fall naturally and spontane-
ously upon the ear. In real poetry
the rhyme word is as inevitable as
the last syllable of a ten syllable
word. For Mr. Frost the form is
important because it adds a certain
zest and challenge to the writing.
“Free verse,” he said, “is like

| playing tennis with the net down.”

Continued on Page Two



College Legislature
Offers Election Plan

March 25.—At the meeting of
the college Legislature, resolutions
were passed concerning the elec-
tions of the presidents and vice-
presidents of the Self-Government
and Undergraduate Associations
and the positions of the Self-Gov-
ernment secretary and treasurer.
Before going into effect these reso-
lutions must be passed by a two-
thirds majority of the college and
approved by the Board of Trustees.

It was felt that with the growth
of the college, the present system
of elaptions is inadequate as well
as confused. Under the proposed
plan, the Junior Class would elect,
at one meeting, four nominees for

each of the offices of Self-Govern-
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ELIZABEHH POPE



SPENCER TO GIVE
DEANERY LECTURES
ON MODERN POETRY

Theodore Spencer, professor of
English at King’s College, Cam-
bridge, and visiting lecturer this
year at Harvard University, will
give a_series of three lectures at

the Deanery starting April 9. The
subject will be The Present State
of Poetry. ZL

Mr. Spencer is a recognizéd au-
thority on modern. literature, par-
ticularly poetry, and as a critic has
had many of his essays included in
contemporary anthologies. Besides
this he is interested in Elizabethan
and early seventeenth century po-
etry, and wrote Death and the Eli-
zabethan Tragedy on this subject.
He has also written poetry of his
own, some of which has appeared
in the New Yorker.

The series of lectures will be
given on April 9, 16 and 23 in the
Deaneryat_4.30_P. M..Subscrip-
tion tickets are five dollars, but
Bryn Mawr undergraduates will be
admitted free of charge.





Elections

Undergraduate Association:
Vice-President, A Stokes.

Peace Council:
President, H. Resor, ’42.
Secretary, M. Gumbart, ’42.









Lack of Funds Caused Sale
of B. M. Community Center



By Elizabeth Crozier, ’41

One of the volunteers coming
into the Bryn Mawr Community
Center on a busy Saturday morn-
ing in 1917 remarked, “Why, the
Community is so thick that you
can’t see the Center!]’ A total of
4367 children, or an average of 100
a day, enjoyed the benefits of the
Community Center.

The Community Center started
in the spring of 1915. It was
definitely a community undertak-
ing with no one group predomi-
nating to the exclusion of any

other, All parts of the town sup-
ported it: Dr. David Wilbur Horn,

a Bryn Mawr citizen, was its first
president, and Miss Hilda Smith,
now Director of the Hudson Shore
Labor School, was its first execu-
tive secretary.

The first site of the’ Commutity
Center was back of the public
school on the Pike down by the
Diner. “Its work for children cov-
ered every conceivable field of ac-
tivity. There were sewing and
cooking classes, a children’s dra-
matic class, a Saturday morning
story hour, games ahd informal



gymnastics, individual violin and
mandolin lessons, and a penny sav-
ings fund. The Community Center
provided a playground before the
township did, and its activities
were afforded wider scope by the
use of the Baldwin School grounds
kindly given by Miss Johnson,
head of the school.

The Community’s work for chil-
dren can be paralleled only by its
work for young people and adults.
Cooking, dressmaking, knitting
and handicraft classes were held.
In 1917, the girls’ dramatic class
presented A Pot of Broth by Yeats,
and The Minuet, by Louis N.’Park-
er. A debating. club for boys met
occasionally, and language classes
in the elements of French, Spanish
and German—a somewhat amaz-
ing thing for the year 1917 in
America—werg conducted for boys
and girls in the seventh and eighth
grades.

The four things of which the
Center might well be proudest are
its Italian Night School, its kin-
dergarten, its school lunches and

its. librarv. The Italian Night
Continued on Page Three

| somed into fame.
“icharge of the -Finland’ Common

‘of the captain.



News Gnashes
Teeth, Bewails

Loss of \Bosses

Cheney

As Edibor Cheney made our little sheet this
year a more vital part of the Col-
lege than it has been for many a
day. How she did it we do not
know, but to carry on her tech-
nique is one of our more burning
desires.

Practically an “unknown” this
time last year (see News, March
15, 19389), .Cheney rapidly blos-
She was half in



Room discussions and was whip-
cracker to promote Senior activity
in interclass swimming and basket-
ball. We regret to state, however,
that as Rhoads fire-captain she

| showed a deplorable temerity every

time the alarm went off. Aside
from her participation in the
above-mentioned noteworthy fields,
Cheney is also a member of the A.
S. U., and of the Varsity basket-
ball squad, though this last, they
tell us, is because she is a friend



Pop

In her career on the News Pop
rose by sheer merit to the enviable
position of copy editor. She is an
ardent member of the A. S. U.,
writes ninety-page Shakespeare
papers, and plays chess to the tune
of “All God’s Chillun Got Shoes.”
On her victrola, however, she plays
only classical music and charms
the savage breasts of her uncouth
neighbors.

Pop wears smart brown felt hats
and knows how to spell all words.
She has, moreover, a quotation for
every hour and..every hour in its
place, : a



‘PENN., TULANE HOLD

EXHIBITION DEBATE



Question of Isolation
Policy for U. S. Argued

Common Room, March 26.—An
exhibition debate on the question
of an isolation policy for the
United States was held by the
teams of Pennsylvania and Tulane
Universities at an open meeting
of the International Relations
Club. “Resolved that the United
States should pursue a policy of
strict military and economic isola-
tion in its foreign policy towards
all nations outside the western
hemisphere who are engaged in
international or civil, conflict.” It
was a non-decision debate, with
one rebuttal, from each side. -

Mr, Trice, of Tulane University,
stated that the neutrality towards
which the United States is aiming
can only be obtained through an
isolationist policy. Basing... his
argument on economic factors, he
said: that. business booms are ulti-
mately.“as—disastrous as depres-
sions, for one inevitably follows
the other. To show statistically
the recent distorted expansion of

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Calendar —-... |

Thursday, March 28.—
.Graduate Fellowships.
Dr. Keppel to speak on
American Philanthropy —
and the Advancement of
Learning, Goodhart at
12.00.

Friday, March 29.—
Spring Vacation begins.

Monday, April 8.—
Spring. Vacation ends.
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EMILY CHENEY



AMERICA IN CHINA
WILL BE DISCUSSED
BY OWEN LATTIMORE

Owen Lattimore, Director of the
Walter Hines Page School of In-
ternational Relations at Johns
Hopkins University, and Editor of
Pacific Affairs, will speak Monday,
April 15 on America’s Stake in a



_|Free China. The lecture is being

presented under the auspices of the
Chinese Scholarship Committee.

This committee was organized
by a group of alumnae in 1918. It
has the two-fold purpose of equip-
ping Chinese women with western
training and of creating at Bryn
Mawr, through Chinese Scholars
and lectures, an interest in China
and a wider understanding of Far
Eastern civilization.

Mr. Lattimore, having spent his
childhood in China and returned in
later years for extensive travel
and research, is an authority on
that’ country, and on American re-
lations in the Far East. His early
books, The Desert Road to Turk-
estan and High Tartary, combine
aptly .the hardships, humors, ~ and
triumphs of travel, with those of
scientific investigation, while his
later ones, Manchuria, Cradle of
Conflict, and The Mongols of Man-
churia, are important studies in
race, culture, and the influence of
these factors on political relations.
His lecture will be of particular
interest.in view of the fact that he
is a brother of Mr. Lattimore of
the Greek Department.



Alumnae meet

~ At Bryn Mawr

On April 12, 18, 14, the Bryn
Mawr Alumnae Association will
hold an Alumnae Council. The
purpose of the Council is to “co-
ordinate Alumnae activities and
further the understanding between
the Alumnae and the College.” In
addition to the regular Alumnae
directors, councillors, and ¢ommit-
tee members there are certain other’
representatives who -change each
year. This year Miss DeLaguna
will represent the Faculty, Doro-



thy Nepper the Graduate Students, ||

Ann Louise Axon the undergradu-
ates, and Ann Toll the class last to

| be. graduated,. An open , meeting

will be held in the Deanery on Fri-
day, April 12, to which all alumnae
in the district are invited. On Sat-
urday afternoon there will be a
meeting at “Longwood” near Wil-
mington, of the Delaware alumnae.
On Saturday evening at Bryn
Mawr there will be a joint supper
and meeting for the Alumnae and
College Councils. This is the first
time ‘since 1934 that the annual
Alumnae. Couneil *has been held at
Bryn Mawr. Representatives: will
attend from all over the country.

| assembly



Poll refleets
Entertainment

Opinions of 285

The entertainment questionnaire
distributed after the recent college



reflected a pronounced
in. the

problems of college entertainment.
It also afforded a fairly concrete
basis upon which a future commit-
tee could develop its functions.
The answers indicated, above all,
a general desire for a share in the
choice of entertainment and for a
more efficient means of controlling

and reassuring interest

: |an overcrowded schedule.

The questionnaires were an-
swered by 285 people, of whom all
but one favored the proposed com-
mittee. Of that number, 233
favored an elected rather than an
appointed committee supporting
the argument that~ the democratic
method promotes the widest in-
terest. 110 students favored elec-
tion by halls, 75 by classes, and
33 by student organizations. 233
voted for a faculty representative
on the committee. —

Student opinion revealed an avid
desire for weekend diversion, with
235 affirmative votes. The opposi-
tion numbered 30, of whom 12
were seen to be inhabitants of
Pembroke West. The majority of
weekend.—supporters. favored- en-
tertainment scheduled on Friday
night and Sunday afternoon.

The Entertainment Series re-
ceived substantial support with a
count of 256 to 29. Dissenting
opinions were based for the most
part on our nearness to Philadel-
phia, the price of the Series ticket,

Continued on Page live

Peggy Squibb Voted
Athletic President





Peggy Squibb, newly elected
head of the Athletic Association,
was graduated from the Putney
School after expert training in the
care and feeding of pigs. At col-
lege she has sustained her love of
the great outdoors and has figured
substantially on the hockey, base-
ball and basketball teams. This
year she was vice-president of the
Athletic Association.

In non-athletic fields, Peggy has
participated modestly, though ef-
fectively, in two French plays and
in The Living Newspaper. A rath-
er sinister aspect of her career is
that she has held a monopoly on
the position of A. S. U. treasurer
for three years. Her roommate
will only hint darkly of possible
secret embezzlements or even of
political graft.

Peggy~is a biology major and
may be seen on almost any after-
noon, together with her room-
mate, passing patiently to and fro
between Dalton and the New
Science-Building. This spring will
find her a shy, though eager, peer
in the chorus of Jolanthe.



Self Government—
The Hall presidents for
next year will be elected the
_ first week after vacation. It.
‘should be remembered that ~
their position is most impor-
tant in relation to Self- Gov-
ernment. They are generally
responsible to the Executive
Board for the conduct of
their halls and are continu-
ally called upon for advice
and information on hall and
campus problems.
_ Louise Suarp, ’40,
President of the Self-Gov-
.. ernment. Association.

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: Peace Council
At ‘its last meeting, the Peace Council faced the question of
whether its program should include aid to domestic organizations or
should only cover war relief. To conceive of the Peace Council as
being concerned solely with war aid is to forget its function and the
responsibilities laid on it by the Activities’ Drive.

The Council was to translate student opinion into some sort of
collective n. The position of the Peace Council is not a passive
one in bors though in appearances it is deceiving. It has the
mechanical job of testing the efficiency of the organizations to which
it sends funds. This job could be still more fully worked out, although
the establishment of a research committee within the Council has gone
far in this direction. j

Besides the mechanical job, the Peace Council is responsible for
alloting its funds according to campus opinion. This year it has felt
that the paramont interest of the students lay in helping war victims,
with especial attention to refugee students. But the Council is not
and must not be bound to this particular field.

Its primary job is to represent campus opinion. » When important
issues are overlooked or when there is still a chaos of independent
prejudices, the Peace Council must act as the coordinating spur. This
year has seen increased activity on the part of all campus organizations
and there is little danger that we will lapse into intellectual ruts.

As a result of the increased activity, the coordinating capacity
of the Peace Council has become active function of this body. To
perform this job the Council must provide a place where a synthesis
Under such
conditions the Council must remain an impartial judge and not take
clear-cut stands until the synthesis has been made as in the question
of war relief.--The Peace Council, however, is not merely a passive
partner in this coordinating process, but is responsible for seeing to it

_ that the campus is roused from its many individual prejudices and is

required to coordinate and follow out the implication of its thought.

The Peace Council, in considering other organizations than those
distributing war relief, is only fulfilling its duties. For the Council to
fulfill these duties adequately requires more cooperation from the clubs
and more recognition from the campus at large. At the moment the
organization is thought of too much as another club and too little as
an expression of public opinion and a synthesis of our thought.



Action
A heartwarming and revealing interest in the problems of college
entertainment was evidenced by the recent student poll: In accordance

“with Bryn Mawr’s traditional ability to face its issues, we suggest that

steps be taken as soon as possible to elect the new committee and its
chairman. 4

If the new entertainment committee is to acquire the stature neces~

sary for concrete and efficient action, it should be treated as a substan-
The chairman should be
votedon by the. entire college so.that the undergraduates may ’ be made

‘more conscious of “the ' committee's importafice.. As indicated in the |,

student poll, the election of the committee should be by halls. This
would establish the most direct contact with student opinion, and
would, at the same time, keep the committee small enough for
efficiency. . It is important above all to arike now while the iron of
campus interest is still hot.



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Bay, with George Raft and Joan
Bennett. :

Arcadia: Raymond Massey and
MOVIES Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Il-









Opinion

Director of Labor School
Expresses Gratitude
For Contribution









The. following letter was re-
ceived by the Treasurer of the Ac-
tivities Drive, from the Director of
the Hudson Shore Labor School:
My dear Miss French:

Thank you very much for the
check for 475.00 dollars, complet-
ing the undegraduate. pledge for
the Summer School. We have also
added Miss Park’s contribution of
200.00 dollars to the undergradu-
ate contribution, at her request.
This makes a total of 1400.00 dol-
lars from your drive this year.

We are most appreciative of .the

interest that the undergraduates
have shown, and I wish there were
some way to thank personally all
the girls who have contributed.

I am enclosing a copy of our
folder for next summer’s school. If
you think some of the girls who
contributed would like to receive
copies, I should be happy to send
them. :

Sincerely,
JEAN CARTER.



Frost Reads Poetry
At Series Lecture



Continuea from Page One

The second..rule for judging
poetry is to-ascertain whether it
is as good in verse as its equival-
ent.in prose. The aim of the poem
must be considered and whether
or not that aim was ultimately
achieved. Finally, said Mr. Frost,
the poem as a whole must con-
stitute a phrase since phrase is the
beginning and end of form.

Mr. Frost concluded by reading
a group of’ his own poems, includ-
ing: The Birches, Mending a
Wall, An Old Man’s Winter Night
and Crossroads. In-addition was
a group of more recently published
poems: A Drumlin Woodcock, De-
partmental, Dives. Dive, The
Bearer of Evil Tidings and Triple
Plate. ©



Boyd: Mickey Rooney in Young
Tom Edison.

Earle: Gone With The Wind.

Fox: Road to Singapore with
Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

Karlton: Strange Cargo with
Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian
Hunter and Peter Lorre. -

Keith’s: The. Grapes of Wrath
with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell.

News: Carole Lombard and
Charles Laughton in White “Wo-
man.

Palace: Northwest Passage with
Spencer Tracy and Robert Young.

Stanley: Errol Flynn, Miriam
Hopkins and Randolph Scott in
Virginia City.

Stanton: My Little Chickadee
with W. C. Fields and Mae West.

Studio: Louise, Charpentier’s
opera with Grace Moore.

THEATRES
Forrest: A Night at the Folies
Bergere, revue. -
Locust St: Clare Boothe’s come-
dy Margin For Error with Doris
Dudley and Sheldon Leonard.

“Suburban

Ardmore: Thursday and Fri-
day: Carole Lombard and Brian
Aherne in Vigil in the Night. Sat-
‘urday: Charlie McCarthy Detec-
tive.

Narberth: Thursday: Hunch-
back of Notre Dame. Friday and
Saturday: That's Right, You're
Wrong. = *.

Seville: Thursday: Allan Jones
and Mary Martin in The Great
Victor Herbert. Friday and Sat-
urday: James Stewart and Mar-
garet Sullavan in Shop Around the
- Suburban:

Thursday, Friday



Aldine: The House Across “ linois.











Calendar ~*
Tuesday, April 9:—

4 Theodore Spencer to lec-
ture on the Present
State of Modern Poetry,
Deanery at 4.30.

Current Events, Miss
. Reid, Common Room,

7.80.

Philosophy Club, Mr.

Weiss to speak, Common

Room, 8.15.

Wednesday, April 1
International Relations
Club Meeting. Common
Room, 7.30.

Thursday, April 11.—
Earl Schenck to lecture
on Polynesia, Tale of
Tahiti, Goodhart, 8.30.

Friday, April 12.—

Square Dance, A. S. U.,

Gym.

April 12 - 14.—
Alumnae Council Week-
end.

Saturday, April 13.—
Informal French Eve-

ning, Wyndham.
Sunday, April 14.—
Art Club Tea, Common

Room, 4.30.

Rev. Donald Aldrich,
Chapel, Music Room,
7.30.

Monday, April 15.—
Owen Lattimore to speak
on America’s Stake in a
Free China, Goodhart,
8.30.

Tuesday, April 16.—
Theodore Spencer, Dean-

ery, 4.30.

Current Events, Miss
Réid, Common Room,
7.30.

Jacques Maritain to
speak on The Philosophy
of St. Thomas Acquinas,
Deanery, 8:15.
Wednesday, April 17.—
Roger Sherman Loomis,
the 1940 Ann Elizabeth
Sheble Lecturer, to
Speak on Arthurian Ro-
mce in Medieval Art,
Goothart, 8.30.





WIT’S END







Copywhoa, or, Spring Cometh
Not, She Said
etaoin shrdlu emfwyp vbgkqj, pB.

The old order changeth, yielding
place to Sue. From Pop to Nuts.
Sure and it is a cold time of year
with the old ones going out and the
new ones coming in with the ink
scarce dry on their fingers.

And what did the Easter Bunny
bring you? If we’re not being too
sudden. For us the Easter Bunny
and Trouble came in like a lion.
Fun’s fun but responsibility’s hell
what with sabotage in the Power-
house, mid-semesters yawning and
stretching in the darkness, and on
our necks the hot breath of baby
chickies and baby duckies.

Qh, to be in April, now that Eng-
land’s here. Sunspots and electric
storms. ,Alarms and excursions.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and To-
morrow. If your name were To-
morrow Brown would it mean you
were going to Florida?

Hark! Hark! the lark at Heaven’s
gate sings,

And Phoebus ’gins to rise.

I tried to get up at 7.30 this morn-
ing too

And found, to my surprise,

That Spring, God bless its sudden-
ness,

Hadn’t come.

Now let’s play Postoffice and I’ll
be Queen of the May. Except that
they’re not having—yes they are,
too—At - least. they always. have
Little May Day. And if you’re
waking, wake me early, wake me
early, Mother dear. But don’t wait
to see if I’m getting up.

Ha, ha! See what we mean
about, the old order changing ?.



Saturday: Cary Grant-and—Rosa-
lind Russell in His Girl Friday.

1 will. provide the informal en-



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Rice Dramatizes New York
In Two on an Island;







Play Proves Unreal
By Olivia Kahn, ’41
Although Elmer Rice is a native:
New Yorker he seems to have a
strange conception of his home.
town. At any rate in Two On an.
Island, produced by the Play-
wrights’ Company, he pictures.
New York as it might:be visualized

by a middle-western farmer who.
had never travelled east of the
Mississippi. Thertheory that Amer-
ica’s biggest city is a hard-boiled
metropolis ridden with loose wo-
men and immoral Bohemians is.
now outmoded and most commenta-
tors agree that it fails to take into.
account the _ perfectly. normal
6,995,000 people living in the city.
This fault would not be important
if it were not for the fact that Mr.
Rice obviously intends his play to
capture the essence of the city.
One might suppose that a young
man and a young woman from out.
of town who have taken rooms at
the -¥--M.-G.-A.-and_Y,._W._C_A,,
respectively, would meet plenty of
nice people of their own age. Even
if, as in Mr.. Rice’s saga, they
were driven to soda-jerking and
modeling as their only means of
livelihood they might run across a
few respectable, and native New
Yorkers. Almost none of the char-
acters in Two On an Island are
natural so that conceivably there

jis some justification for the conclu-

sions drawn by the playwright.
The two most refreshing and in-
spired characters are the visitors
to an art gallery who appear for a
few seconds at the end of the sev-
enth scene, snicker over a risqué
painting, and disappear before Mr.
Rice can damage them.

There is a vague unity to the
play but as a rule the scenes bear
little relation ‘to one another. In
fact, before the play is half over,
one is apt to become rather bored
with the whole idea. Who cares
what happens to Mary and John
anyway? hey are a_ mighty
smug pair by the end of the last
act and it is with condescension
that they decide to stay and battle
it out with New Xork. It is hard
to believe that -York would
have any desire to return the com-
pliment.

The play is well cast and the
actors do the best they can under
the circumstances. Luther Adler
gives the role of the producer its
proper share of world-weariness
and even manages .to bring some

‘dramatic climaxes into one or two

scenes. Betty Field and John Cra-
ven play the young couple nicely
and the other members of the cast
contribute some striking charac-
terizations.

PHILOSOPHY CLUB
TO HEAR MR. WEISS

On Wednesday, April 10, in the
Common Room, Mr. Weiss will ad-
dress the Philosophy Club on The
Nature of God and the World.

For the two weeks< following
Spring Vacation, the logic classes
will be held by Dr. Geiringer, who
is regarded as one of the world’s
most eminent statisticians. Her
subject will be Probability and all
those ane sh are invited to at-
tend:—-—— oi





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French House Soiree
On April 13-in the French
. House at 8.30 there will be a

Soirée Francaise. Skits,
songs and. recitations .by
French House inhabitants

tertainment. The admission
will be sent to French organ-
izations in need of assist-



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Bartholomew Fair

The Players Club. an-
nounces the” following cast
for the spring «production of
Bartholomew Fair:

l.ittlewit.Anne Ruth Goldberg, ’41
zeal of the hand Busy
Vivi French, ’42
Winwif6iiccc,. Louisa Horton, ’42
Cumtlaiid 400004 Madge Lazo, ’41
COMCE Viiiicik Natalie. Bell, ’43
Waspe .Mary Alice. Sturdevant, ’40
Mm OVERAO iis oe Lucy Claggett, ’43
Edgeworth ....Pennell Crosby, ’41
Mooncalf ....Elizabeth Frazier, ’42
Troubeall ....Peggy Copeland, ’42
Mistress Littlewit. Marion Kirk, °40,
Bristle ...Barbara Auchincloss, 40
Haggise ....Hermione | Frank, ’43
Dame Purecraft
Eleanor -Fribley, ’41
Mistress Overdo.Nancy Evarts, ’42
Grace Wellborn .Patty McKnew, °43
UlMBla iiss Julie Follanshee, ’41
Joan Trash ..Carolyn Garnett, ’40
Knockheim
: Mary Kate Wheeler, *40
AOR ee. -Phyllis White, ’43
* Leatherhead ....Nancy Chase, °43
Dumb Show

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NUTS and BOLTS







The Williams Theatre
By Isabel Martin, ’42

Sometime this spring Williams
College will open its new Theatre
Workshop, which is reported to be
one of the best equipped and most
modern theatres of its size. The
building, together with a mainten-
ance fund, were given by an anony-

mous donor in honor of John
Quincy Adams, a gift which is ap-
preciated particularly by the Dra-
matic Department. In the‘old “op-
era house,” now being used, they
have to struggle to put on decent
production. The stage is small,
there is no offstage space.

The new theatre, built of brick
and marble, houses an auditorium
which seats approximately 480
people. The stage itself is the epi-
tome of convenience. On it have
been riveted wagon tracks for mov-
ing heavy scenery from the scenic
workshop which is off to the right.
In the floor there are scenery drop
slots to facillitate painting, and
traps down to the storage room.
The most novel feature of the
whole theatre is a central control
booth, ‘sunk directly behind the or-
chestra pit. From it every light
in the building can be controlled
by an organ keyboard panel. This
type of control booth is now in use
in the Radio City Music Hall. The
stage manager will also have a
control panel off stage right from
which he will have telephonic con-
nection with the lighting booth and
bell connection all over the theatre.
Besides these and other regular
stage properties, beam lights are
being placed in the middle of the
auditorium ceiling, hidden * from
the audience and accessible by cat-
walks from backstage. In the base-
ment of the theatre there are sev-
eral private dressing rooms, cos-
tume studio and storage rooms,
property rooms and an electrical
studio. The plans also include a
small experimental stage and audi-
torium where playwriting classes
will be held. The musie depart-
ment will be housed there in four
soundproof studios. To top it all,
a projection room is being installed
in the rear of the main auditorium.

Williams has~a small dramatic
department under the direction of
Max Flowers, a Yale Drama grad-
uate.- He now teaches. courses
‘which cover the general ground of
production combined with details
on make-up, lighting, costumery ;
one on playwriting, and another on
the history of the theatre. He also
is in complete charge of play selec-
tion, direction and production. The
staff of this department will un-
doubtedly be expanded when the
new. theatre-is opened. i

The establishment of the Memo-
rial Theatre heralds a widening
dramatic interest around Williams-
town, since it is to be run as a
playhouse in the summer and an
—o base in the winter.
The plan for the theatre and its
management should be a model for
future college workshops, as it has
been arranged with a thought for
the practical as well as the artistic.

Community Center’s
Activities Now Limited



Continued from Page One

School was formed for'a group of
Italians interested in learning Eng-
lish and acquiring the information
necessary for naturalization. It
was started and taught by Haver-
ford College students until Easter
of 1917, when the call for national
service came. It was then taken

‘}over by Bryn Mawr College stu-

dents.
The Community Center’s kinder-

being before there was a kinder-
garten in the Bryn Mawr public
school system.. The same is true
of the Center’s school lunches,
served at minimum cost prices for
the benefit of those children who
iv iy far from the school to
go h at noon. :

Bryn Mawr’s first library grew
from the Community § Center’s
reading room. Books and maga-
zines were collected to form a
nucleus library, supplemented by
a traveling library of 50 chil-
dren’s books from the State Edu-
cation Department. The library
was open every afternoon for the
children, and two nights a week
for adults.

The Community Center from its
earliest days afforded a central
meeting place for organizations
of all kinds. The Lyceum of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church, the Lower Merion Town-
ship Suffrage Society and _ the
“Sons of Italy” all met at the
Center in 1917, and church recep-
tions and entertainments, and the
Bryn Mawr Hospital Fair were
held ‘there in the same year.

In 1918, because its . original
space could no longer accommo-
date its greatly extended ‘activities,
the Center expanded to “The Mile-
stone,” a house at 845 Lancaster
avenue.

In 1920, the Community Center
moved once more, this tim® to the
building behind the Ludington
Library on the Pike. In 1920, the
Bryn Mawr War Memorial Asso-
ciataion was formed, in order to
honor the Bryn Mawr men killed
in the war. Mainly through the
influence of the Community Center,
they planned a living memorial. in-
stead of a stone monument for the
dead, and the present site of the
War Memorial Association -was
bought.

Immediately after the building
had been acquired, the Community
Center moved the library into the
big room on the ground floor, but
this, too, was rapidly outgrown.
So, shortly after, in memory of
his wife Mr. Charles H. Ludington
gave the town its present library,
as he had already done for Ard-



Eating Clubs

In reply to comments that the fi-
nancial plan, suggested by the
Princetonian for cutting down the
costs of the Princeton eating clubs,
was impractical and would not
work, we have discovered that just
such a method is used by the Am-
herst fraternities. The cooperative
buying plan has worked admirably
there. Each house appoints an un-
dergraduate steward whose duty it

department made up of students
from all the houses.

- Credit for the economy of Am-
herst fraternity life, however, bé-
longs chiefly to the Fraternity
Business Management, which is a
centralized organization headed by
a college alumnus. At their own
request, the council supervises all
the financial dealings of the frater-
nities. At the beginning of each
semester the house treasurers pre-

Monthly reports are made to the
board which keeps constant check
on the fraternity income and ex-
tpenditures. This plan, inaugurated
in 1987, has cut expenses down 25
dollars for each man. A working
plan such as this is what the edito-
rial board of the Princetonian had
in mind when’ they launched their

garten begun in 1917 came into}

is to buy food through a stewards| .

sent their operating ° budgets. |-



campaign against the eating clubs.



THE, COLLEGE.NEWS



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Maritain To Explain
Philosophical Views,
Of Thomas Aquinas

Jacques Maritain will lecture in
the Deanery on Tuesday, April 16,
at 8.15 p. m. M. Maritain is a)
noted French philosopher, lecturer,
He recognized
throughout the world as the fore-
most exponent and continuer of the



and author. is

philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

M. Maritain has lectured* on
Thomist philosophy at the Univer-
sities of Louvain, Geneva, Milan,
Heidelberg and Oxford, the Angel-
icum in Rome, the University of
Chicago, the Institute of Medieval
Studiés in Toronto and in many
other centers of learning. He is
also the author of Degrees of
Knowledge, Art and Scholasticism,
and Freedom in the Modern World.

In 1914, M. Maritain became
professor of Philosophy in the In-
stitut Catholique of Paris. At this
time, when Bergsonism was most
in favor, he launched the first seri-
ous criticism of the work of his
former master, in his La Philo-

sophie Bergsonienne. The lecture
on April 16 will be in English.



more—the Ethel Salters Ludington
Memorial Library.

In 1939; because of lack of funds,
the Community Center was deeded
to Lower Merion Township, but
the town is still allowed its own
committee for the library. Even
before it was handed over to the
township, the Center had _ out-
worn some of -its functions. Its
school lunches and _ kindergarten
were taken over in time by the
schools and the need for play-
grounds was met by the township.
But, in spite of these facts, the
great importance and_achieve-
ments of the Community Center
remain. It was responsible for
pointing out the needs of the com-
munity.

Today the Community Center

serves as a central meeting place,
but little more. Business Men’s
Association meets there, the Gar-
den Club, the Woman’s Club, the
American Legion, the Child Health
Center and the Camera Club. The
rest of the Center’s activities, in-
cluding its children’s work, has
been greatly curtailed.
There is now no night school
in- Bryn’ Mawr. Radnor Township
got the W. P, A.-night school ap-
propriation for this district, be-
cause'Merion Township refused to
let. its schools be opened for the
extra -nights.

Lack of ‘funds was responsible
for the sale of the Community
Center. It is thought that the
township is now planning to make
it a more active organization. That
will depend on the Commissioners.



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College Legislature
Offers Election Plan

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ment. and Undergraduate - pregi-
dent. Each set of nominees would
be chosen irrespective of the other
and the same person might be in-
cluded in both lists. .

The nominees should then be an-
nounced and their pictures and fu-
ture duties published in-the News.
The election for the president of
Self-Government would then be
held. If the person elected had
also been nominated for the Under-
graduate position, she would, of
course, be dropped from -that list,
still leaving three nominees, or the
present number. The elections for
the vice-president would follow the
same genefal plan.

To permit the necessary time for
publication of the pictures it was
resolved to advance the nomina-
tions from the first week in March
to the last week in February.

The last resolution passed. was to
the secretary and
treasurer positions on Self-Govern-
ment with the executive board. As
the system is now, the holders of
these positions have no share in
Self-government’s work and yet
are elected by the college at large.
The executive board feéls that an
increase of their present size would
hinder their ability to function di-
rectly and quickly and would de-
stroy the proportion between
classes. For this reason, the secre-
tary’s and treasurer’s jobs would
be handed over. to the first Junior
member and tthe first Sophomore
member respectively instead of
electing the two present officers as
additional members of the board.



Graduate Assembly

The winners of graduate
fellowships will be announc- °
ed at a college assembly,
Thursday, March 28. Dr.
Frederick Keppel, president
of the Carnegie Corporation
will speak on American Phi-
lanthropy and the Advance-
ment of Learning. Twelve







Model League To yy
Held at Geneva, N.Y.

Bryn Mawr Represents Brazil, |
L. Morley to Preside
As President |





On Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, at Hobart College, Geneva,
New York, Bryn Mawr will repre-.
sent Brazil in the Model League of
Nations Assembly. Louise Morley,
40, is to be presideyit of the con-
ference, which will discuss the ba-
sis of a durable peace.

The “Brazilian” delegates are:
Faesch, ’41, Galucci, ’41, Magrath,
’42, Anne Spillers, 40, Trainer, ’41
and Rosenheim, ’40, chairman. An-
nin, ’43, will act as an observer
and liaison officer. Alternates are
Reggio, 43, and Eitington, ’42.. Al-
though no faculty adviser will ac-
company the delegation, Miss Hel-
en Reid, of the Politics. depart-
ment, has been working with the
group here.

Louise Morley confessed that she
had not actually been elected pres-
ident yet. The League will sup-
posedly be dissolved at the first ses-
sion. Non-members, including Bra-
zil and thé United States, will be
invited to enter, and Louise will
then be elected. She will give the
opening address, from a Brazilian
point of view, and will lead all the
plenary sessions. For the rest of
the time she will visit the political,
constitutional, and economic and
social commissions, and try to keep
them working “along the same
lines.”

As‘ an old delegate to the assem-
blies, and.as a student in Geneva
last year, Louise is an expert in
the procedure of international
gatherings. Since the voting must
be unanimous, compromise and co-
operation are necessary. There is
a great opportunity for diplomacy,
especially at the dance on Friday
night.

After vacation, the delegates
and other members of the Interna-
tional Relations Club plan to con-
tinue working on their entry for a
contest sponsored by the Commis-











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Schenck, Former _
Actor, Will Lecture

Here on Polynesia



On April 11, in Goodhart, Earl
Schenck will lecture on Polynesian
customs and culture. The lecture
will be illustrated by a full length
motion picture in technicolor, with
Schenck,
originally an actor of -distinction,
has turned explorer, and scientist
and -has spent 14 yeers in the
South Sea Islands.

Threatened with blindness after
several years on Broadway ana in
Hollywood, Mr. Schenck was fore-
ed to give up his theatrical career.
His reputation followed him to
Honolulu, where he had gone to re-
cuperate, and the Hawaiian Terri-

rect an historical pageant com-
memorating the discovery 4of the
islands by Captain Cook. Mr.
Schenck did this so successfully
that the Bishop Museum in Hono-
lulu engaged him to gather data
on Polynesian customs and culture.
For 14 years he traveled in Samoa,
among the Maoris, in New Zealand,
the Marqueses, Gambiers, the Aus-
trals, and Tuamotu, and he brings
back a comprehensive and fasci-
nating picture of the islands.



English, Conferences
And Comprehensive
Problems Discussed



A nucleus of the student curic-
ulum committee, meeting with Mrs.
Manning and Mr. Chew, raised
problems concerning the English
comprehensive conferences. Also
discussed was the possibility of
comprehensive fields in writing,
modern literature and American
literature.

This year’s English majors have
felt a lack of organization in their
comprehensive conferences and it
was suggested that the topics of
the conference be designated _be-
forehand so that they could be pre-
pared more adequately

The problem next raised was
that of reading in fields in which
the student has had no instruction.
Mr..Chew felt that the list outlin-
ing the general requirements for
the comprehensives is the only
reading list necessary. He thought
that a student should be able to
read on her own, using her judge-
ment and the guidance of the fac-
ulty, whom she is free to consult at
any time.

It was also emphasized that
English majors are encouraged to

take one of their comprehensives

in an allied field, if they wish.

Mr. Chew pointed out that a ma-
jor field in writing would be im-
practicable because of the difficulty
of a final examination in this sub-
ject. A student, may however,
elect as many writing courses as
she desires.

A major field in modern litera-
ture would mean the exclusion of
one of the great fields of English
literature. Furthermore, it is dif-
ficult to treat modern literature
with the same historical perspec-
tive and to decide which phases of
it are to be emphasized.

Although Mr. Chew does not} 4

think that American literature is
as substantial as other fields, he
lists it as a possible candidate for
a comprehensive examination. A
course in it should, however, be
broadened to include not only lit-

erature but also a general study|
“of the development of American

culture.
A» course on “Dante, given in

able half-unit elective. Such a
course has been offered in the past
and can be repeated if there is suf-
ficient demand for it. a
The curriculum committee plans

tween students and professors of
different departments to discuss

problems which might arise.

7



Collegians Urge Cut Govt.

Expenditures, But Not
In NYA Jobs

By Student Opinion Surveys



of America
Austin, Texas, March 21.—Being

debated in Congress and in commit-
tees. is the President’s economy
budget. American: colleges and
universities, often far removed
from the hustle of national life,
this time have a keen interest in
at least one item: the~ proposed
reduction of the number of Na-
tional Youth Administration jobs.
Although other polls of the Stu-
dent Opinion Surveys of America
have shown: that collegians favor
cuts in governmental expenditures,
in this instance an overwhelming
majority is opposed to the recom-
mended 32 per cent reduction of
NYA positions for college students.
What is even more significant
is that at least 12 per cent—ap-
proximately one-eighth—of the stu-
dents, favor a reduction. Some of
these declared that if the jobs
were given only to students who
were in absolute need of them,
expenses could be cut.
As was perhaps to be expected,
students who now hold these jobs
were emphatically in favor of con-
tinuing the program, a good many
telling the Surveys interviewers
that the number should even be in-
creased. The poll points out, how-
ever, that students who are not
NYA employees are of the same
opinion by almost identical per-

centages. The national tabula-
tions follow.
A* B* Cc*

Approve of reduction... 11% 9% 11%
Disapprove of reduction 71 72 71
Reduce less than 32%.. 3 4 3
Increase number of jobs. 9 13 9
MeOt 6 NOW os ce ccs 6 2 6

(*A—AIll students; B—Those who hold
NYA jobs; C—Those who do not have
NYA jobs.)

NYA workers, who perform hun-
dreds of tasks from floor sweeping
to book writing, earn about $15 a
month. President Roosevelt’s
recommendation calls for an ap-
propriation of 85,000,000 dollars
for the 1940-1941 fiscal year to go
to the National Youth Administra-
tion, 9,500,000 dollars to be spent
on college and graduate aid, the
rest on other projects away from
the campus. This would mean a
college employment of 89,000 per-
sons, as compared with 130,000
this year.

Student Opinion Surveys Reveal Views
On the Reduction of NYA Jobs, and ASU



50% of Collegians Ignorant
Of ASU; 35% Consider
It Communistic



Austin, Texas, March 29.—Only
one-half of U. S. collegians report
that they know about the Ameri-
can Student. Union.

Of those who have heard about
it, 48 per cent have received an

unfavorable impression of the or-
ganization.

At least three out of every ten
in that same group believe that
the A.S.U. is a front for commu-
nism in colleges.

Those are the results of a na-
tion-wide study conducted by the
Student Opinion Surveys of Amer-
ica, scientific polling organization
sponsored by the college press.

Although a majority of those
with opinions exonerates_ the
American Student Union, long un-
der fire for its uproarious conven-
tions and allegéd Red leadership,
this survey reveals that it has un-
doubtedly succeeded in making a
bad name for itself with a large
sector of the student population.
Slightly over 50—per cent_ ofthe
men and women attending -college,
however, declare that they never
heard of the A.S.U. Those who
were acquainted with it were asked
these questions, and they gave the

answers below:

“Are your reactions to this organi-
zation (the A.S.U.) favorable, or un-
favorable?”

PAV OMAD s5 estes vs 52 per cent
UNPAVORABLE ss cccus 48 per cent

“Do you believe that the American

Student Union is a front for com-



munists in colleges?’’

WE Sire e sb cesses cess 35 per cent

WO cy cerita iss yee ecent 65 per cent
POMONA WILL GIVE

PRIZES FOR PLAYS

Pomona College is sponsoring a
one-act.-play contest open to all
college students with fifteen prizes
ranging from fifty dollars down to
a package of stationery valued at
two dollars. Plays must be type-
written, double spaced, and post-
marked no later than April 15.
Any type of one-act play is ac-
ceptable; playing time should
range between twenty-five and
forty-five minutes. ‘The prize-win-
ning plays will be considered by
Robert Taylor for possible adapta-
tion as movie scenarios. All





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AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES

By Dalea Dorothy Clix

Dear Miss Clix: Pity the girl—that’s me!—who goes on a blind
date—and then falls in love! My roommate took me to a fra-
College (near our school) and
I met the captain of the basketball team. Once he started to
hold my hand and then he suddenly said—“any man who had
you for a sister would be lucky.” Oh, Miss Clix, what can I do
‘to make him think of me... not asa sister?

WIN BOY-FRIENDS



>

HEARTSICK



Dear Heartsick: Your
plight is not hopeless. After
all, supposing he wouldn’t
even want you for a sister!
However, you gave me one
very significant clue. Why
did he make that remark
after holding your hand?
How’do your hands look—
like a day laborer’s? Be
honest, now—were your
nails beautifully groomed,
impeccably manicured and
tinted? That isa good,
way to begin climbing out
of the blind date class,
isn’t it?

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Sophomores Defeat
- 43 in Badminton



Monday, March 25,—In the first

interclass badminton tournament

at Bryn Mawr the sophomores won
a 3-2 victory over the freshmen.
The teams of 5 doubles partners
each were chosen from among the
students taking badminton as a re-
quired winter sport. The teams

and scores of their matches follow:

Hardin and Sauerbrun, °42, v. Beatty

and Annin, ’43‘(won by ’42)—15-7, 15-18,
17-15.
‘ Walton and Frazier, '42, v.
Claggett, ’43 (won by ’43)—15-11,
8-15, .

Hunt,

Schweitzer and Reeve,
17-18, 15-7, 15-4.
Cooley and Pyle,
MacAusland, ’43
12-15,
Landwehr and Hollis,
and Adams, *43 (won by

Peace Council Aids
Chinese Students

Foote and
17-18,

Harriet add. Sith, C., 42, ¥v,
’43, (won by °42)—

’42,.v. Bethune and
(won by ’743)—9-15,

42, v. Stimson
742)—15-7, 15-9.





March 19.—100 dollars of the
Peace Council’s reserve fund was
voted to go to Liu Fung Kei, ’22,
head of the Yuet Wah middle
school in Southern China. This
school has. urgent need of funds,
owing to.the addition of a refugee
school and the precarious position
of the regional school itself. Be-
cause of these needs, the Peace
Council altered its original deci-
sion to send the money to the In-
ternational Student Service and
the Far Eastern Student Service
organizations. The remaining 75
dollars of the reserve fund will be
allotted at the next meeting of the
Peace Council. The organizations
to be considefed are: Southern
Tenant Farmer’s Union, United
States Charities, Polish and Turk-
ish Relief funds and the Bryn
Mawr. Hospital.



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Sophomore’s Capture
Interclass Laurels in
Swimming Meet



Tuesday, March 19.—The Class
of 1942 came through the field to
win the Varsity Interclass Swim-
ming Meet by a considerable mar-
The _result was not easily
foreseen, however, and the races

gin.

proved exciting. The ‘form events
were closely contested: Link, ’40,
together with Miller, ’40, repre-
sented the Light Blues: so effec-
tively that 1940 came a close sec-
ond to 1943 with eighteen points
to the freshmen’s nineteen. Those
who turned out from the elegible
non-varsity and from the varsity
squad swam well and loyally for
their respective colors. The non-
varsity swimmers were especially
noticeable for the strong competi-

tion they afforded the varsity.
Results:

1942—33.5.

1943—-19.0.

1940—18.0.

1941—.5, : ’

Forty-Yard Free-Style: 1. Morfoot, ’43;
2. Hardenbergh, ’43; 3. Gamble, ’42; Jones,

43, Time. 25.2,

Forty-Yard Crawl: 1. Gamble, °42; 2,
Morfoot,._.’43; 3. . Bregman, _’42. Time
30.7.

Forty-Yard Breast-Stroke: 1. Boal, °42;
2:—MeGleHan,—42;—3.—Jones,__’43.__ Time
31.6,

Free-Style Relay: 1. 1942; 2. disquali-
fied. ‘

Diving: 1. Link. °40; 2. Butler, °42; 3,
Reggio, °43.

Side for Form: 1. Link, ’40; 2. Miller,
’40; 3. Coan, 743,

Crawl for Form: 1.-Link, ’40; 2. Wil-
liams, °42; 3, Reggio, ’43.

Breast for. Form: 1; McClellan, °42; 2.

Jonés, ’43; 3. Sayers, °43.



The editor welcomes letters of
constructive criticism.



Non-Res Officers
President — Rebecca Rob-
bins, ’42.
Vice-Pres.— Louise Alex-
ander, 742,

Representative to the
Peace Council— Alice Wil-
liams, ’41.

Representative to Curricu-
lum Committe e—Joanne
Loewe, 742.









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Page Five





ASU Plans to Honor
Aunt Molly Jackson
With Square Dance

On April 12,.the American Stu-
dent Union is holding a square
dance in the. gym in honor of
“Aunt” Molly Jackson, from the
Kentucky coal-mining area. Plans
have been made to invite Haverford
and Swarthmore as well as the
local Pennsylvania Dutch farmers.
There will be a string band, with
at least a fiddle and a guitar, and
possibly entertainment by Whit-
taker and his quartet. In addition
the ASU hopes to round up local
and _ semi-local entertainers to pre-
vent a possible let-up between
dances.

Aunt Molly will sing and call
the dances. She is a Kentucky

‘mountain woman, thirty ‘years a

midwife, an organizer of the Har-
lan Kentucky coal miners. For
some years she has been a traveling
speaker collected-funds to relieve
the sufferings of the women and
children of depressed coal areas.
The Library of Congress Folk Song
Archive contains on records hun-
dreds of Aunt Molly’s songs and
stories. She is to be here several
days before the party, speaking to
Socialogy classes ‘and meetings both
at Bryn Mawr and at other col-
leges.



Art Club Tea

The Art Club will present
an exhibition of prints of the
paintings of Rembrandt, on
Sunday afternoon, April 14,
at 4.30, in the Common Room.
Katherine Hamilton will
speak on the artist. Tea will





be served.





Reverend Aldrich

The Reverend Donald Ald-
rich, D.D., L.H.D., rector of
one of the oldest churches in
New York City, the Church
of the Ascension, will speak
at Chapel Sunday night,
April 14. He has led serv-
ices at Bryn Mawr many
times in the past and was ex-
tremely well liked.







285 Answers Tabulated
In Entertainment Series



° Continued from Page One

and an overcrowded schedule. The

allied opinion .favored a small

Series and there were many sug-

gestions for a college vote or ques-
tionnaire on proposed speakers in
order to stimulate interest and in-
crease student attendance.

One answer read: “I am em-
phatically in favor of continuation
of the Entertainment Series. I de-
pend on it in lieu of trips to Phil-
adelphia or to New York.” An-
other suggested that the Freshmen
be informed of the Series more
efficiently. Many of them, she
maintained, spend their money on
concert or other types of series
tickets before they have been made
aware of the college Series. An-
other student proposed, as a
remedy for repetition, that the
| Series be more adapted ,to the
‘activities and interests of the
clubs. “The trouble is now that
the clubs are sponsoring too many
mediocre speakers. because they

-|cannot afford good ones—and then

they have no time left to go to the
Series. Why not give them, on
the Series, good speakers of the



B. M. League Easter
Musicale. Features

Piano,S inging Solos



By Sarah Mosser, ’41
: Music Room, March 24. — The
annual Bryn Mawr League Musi-
cale was presented on Easter: Sun-
day afternoon. ‘ The singers and
the solo performers on piano and
flute showed marked talent, and
diligent practice on the part of the

excellent ,coordination. The pre-
vailing characteristic of the musi-
cale was a professional ease and
naturalness in both playing and
singing.

The opening number played by



kind they already want?”

On the question of whether or
not the entertainment was suf-
ficently varied, 206 voted in the
affirmative and 70 in the negative.
Only 90 felt’ that the college
schedule was overcrowded. These
figures would seem to indicate that
a good part.of the students have
not much fault to find with either
the quality or quantity of college
entertainment. There were, how-
ever, countless suggestions as to
less “bunching” at quiz time and
more varied types of entertainers
to be. brought to the College.
Leading the field were Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Marian Anderson,
Dorothy Thompson and _ Alec
Templeton. Topical lecturers like
John Gunther, Victor Heiser,
Clarence Streit, Vincent Sheean,
Vera Dean. and Raymond Gram
Swing were frequently mentioned
as speakers who could fill the gaps
in the present setup.











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the strings and two flutes was the

familiar suite in D Major by a
hann Sebastian Bach, well-kno
because of its Air for the G-string.
It was marked by a full tone and
a lively rendering of the rhythmic
passages. Somewhat slower and
simpler was the Sonatina from
Cantata Number 106, also by Bach.
A Haydn quartet closed the pro-
gram. The ensemble’s playing
showed by its artistic interpreta-
tions the splendid guidance of Miss
Helen Rice.

Rosemary Sprague, ’41, in her
two piano. selections, exhibited a
remarkable free and easy tech-
nique. Umaffected, but genuinely
expressive, her playing marke
high point of the afternoon. She
played forceably and -without over-
emphasis. Her pedalling in the
Gavotte from Iphiginia in Aulis by
Gluck, was heavy for the harpsi-
chord quality intended by Brahms
in his: transcription. Chopin’s Fan-
tasie Impromptu was admirably
rendered.

A duet. from Handel’s Messiah,
“And He shall feed His Flock,”
was sung by Ann Updegraff, 742,
and Louise Allen, ’42, whose voices
are similar in quality and volume.
The ‘selection was difficult, but
there was no strain either in pitch
or in phrasing. -They were ably
accompanied by Anne Campbell,
’42, at the piano.

The Third Flute Sonata of Han-
del, played by Athleen Jacobs, *41,
flutist, and Harriet Case, 43,
pianist, was expertly rendered. The
piece offered more opportunity for
variation of tempo and mood than
the flute made use of, but the tech-
nical control was generally good.
The piano accompaniment assumed
the full importance of its part in
the last movement.

Nn



Dr. Roger S. Loomis
To Lecture _on .Art



Dr. Roger Sherman Loomis, pro-
fessor of English at Columbia Uni-
versity and well-known mediae-
valist and archeologist, will speak
in Goodhart on Wednesday, April
17. His lecture, The Arthurian
Legend in Mediaeval Art, will be
amply illustrated with slides of
illuminations, sculpture, architec-
tural details, and tapestry.

Sponsored by the Ann Elizabeth

. Sheble Fund for lecturés on Eng-

lish: Literature and Composition,
Dr. Loomis’ talk should also be of
interest to non-English majors and
to history of art majors. Almost
all. work in the history of mediae-
val art deals with the ecclesiastical
aspects of the subject; secular
mediaeval art is a less familiar
field in which Dr. Loomis is an
authority. :



The editor welcomes letters of
constructive criticism.



News Elections

The \News takes pleasure
in announcing the following
elections to the _ Editorial
Staff: Barbara Bechtold, ’42,
Frances Lynd, ’43, Agnes
Martin, °48, Patricia Mc-
Knew, ’43, Virginia Nichols,
’41, Leonore O’Boyle, ’48, and
Anne Denny, ’43, sports; to
the Business Board: Eliza-
beth Nicrosi, ’48, Marilyn

tion Board: Margaret Short-
lidge, ’41, Grace Weigle, ’43.













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Page Six

Miss Reid Discusses
European Situation





Believes. Future War Events
_ Depend on Developments
In Balkan Peninsula



“In a world of dynamic change
some mechanism will have to be
set up to arbitrate the demands of
nations,” declared Helen Dwight
Reid in a recent interview on pub-
lic affairs. Miss Reid, who has been
taking Mr. Fenwick’s place this
semester, believes that: such an ar-
rangement may be attained. She
bases her optimism on the fact
that the Allies desire “a peace
without victory.”

The Balkans are the critical
point in the present world war,
she pointed out, and would be the
probable location of a second fight-
ing front. The Germans realize
the danger of an eastern battle
line and the achievement of the
Hitler-Mussolini- meeting at the
Brenner pass was probably a prom-
ise from Italy of support in south-
eastern Europe. Standing in the
' way of peace in the Balkans are
Russia’s age-long designs on Bes-
sarabia, the unity and obstinacy of
Rumania in yielding to German
pressure, and Turkey’s question-
able attitude towards: the war.
Turkey seems now to be leaning
towards Russia by permitting the
fortification of the Straits and
manoeuvers sin the Black Sea.

Germany, unable to achieve co-
operation between her Fascist and
Communist allies and unable to at-
tain adequate supplies from Russia
is fighting’ her war alone. Limited
in resources, she~is unwilling to
risk an offensive. Miss Reid be-
lieves, however, that under present
conditions she could carry on war
for several years, provided that
she-is able to maintain a high
morale among her people.

Miss Reid is a graduate of Vas-
sar College. She received her
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in inter-
national law under George Graf-
ton Wilson at Harvard, was a Car-
negie Fellow in International Law
for two years, and is the only
woman to hold the Penfield Travel-
ing Fellowship and_Belles-Lettres
from the University of Pennsyl-
vania. This fellowship afforded
her the advantage of working in
the diplomatic archives in Wash-
ington as well as in many European
capitals.

Miss Reid gave a series of lec-
tures in French before the Acad-
emy of International Law at the
Hague in 1933 and was invited to
return in 1938. Professor of Gov-
ernment and History at the Uni-
“versity of Buffalo until 1939, Miss
Reid is also the author of a book
of importance in her field, Interna-
tional Servitudes in Law and Prac-

tice. '

In addition to her other work she |.

is now helping the International

_ Relations Club prepare for their
participation in the Model League
assembly to be held this week at
Hobart College.









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Common Room, March 26.
“The past week,” said Miss Reid,
“has been one of increased activity
in the European War.” The Brit-
ish have tightened their blockade
against Germany, and several Ger-
Re-
ports of the attack and counter-
attack on Scapa Flow and Sylt are
conflicting, but the damage on both
sides was probabiy. psychological
rather than military. An unusual
procedure was followed when the
first wave of bombers over Sylt
radioed home its position. Cham-
berlain, addressing the House at
the time, immediately conveyed the
news and. probably: staved off a
eabinet crisis. :
Hitler took advantage of the last
cabinet shift in Frattce by march-
ing into AuStria. - The fall of the
Daladier cabinet last. week saw no
similar action on Germany’s part.
The Reynaud government, contain-
ing many members of the Daladier
cabinet, was quickly formedand is
gaining support throughout the
country. Reynaud is his own for-
eign minister and is, for the pres-
ent,-pursuing a policy of caution,
especially towards Italy.
Germany is finding itself in an
embarassing position in regard to
Molotov’s proposed visit to Berlin.
Von Ribbentrop hag made two
trips to Moscow with hitherto no
reciprocal action on the part of
the Soviet government. Further-
more, German pressure on Rou-
mania is being intensified: the
visit of Dr. Karl Clodius, armed
with movies of the Polish invasion,
seems to promise German aggres-
sion in the near future. Germany
is demanding improved exchange
rates, a greater allotment of oil,
and an increase in agricultural
products.

It is probable that in the recent
meeting between Hitler and Mus-
solini, Italy agreed to assist Ger-)
many in forging a ring of neutrals
on the southeastern border, but it
is extremely unlikely that further
aid was promised. The Italian
policy continues to be anti-Rusgian,
as indicated in the Easter message
from the Vatican.

Important events in the Far East
include the Argentine-Japanese
trade treaty, and announcement,
by the new Wang Chin Wei govern-
ment of China, of an “open door’
policy. The Argentine treaty was
concluded by Japan after the fail-
ure of the proposed treaty with the
United States.

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Penn., Tulane Debate.
-U. S. Isolation Policy



Gontinuea from Page One
our production, Mr. Trice pointed
out that steel manufactures in-
creased 6% per cent from October,
1988 to 1939. “Such
artificial: stimulation will end with
After the last
war, to balance consumption with

ctober,
the armistice.”

production, we were forced to loan
18 billion dollars to European
countries ‘so that they could buy
our commodities. They have never
repaid us.

Mr. Trice found a fallacy in the
theory “that you learn from his-
tory that you learn nothing from
history.” Because of the develop-
ments of ‘the last war, a cash and
carry policy ended in an extended
credit system. This, he believed,
could ‘and would be- paralleled in
the present ‘conflict.

The economic distress resulting
from a policy, of isolation has been
overemphasized, Mr. Trice said,
for only 2 per cent of our national
income is from foreign trade.

+ Even this loss could be alleviated

by turning our exports to other
continents: Latin America, Asia
and Africa. Asa final suggestion,
he advocates that this time we
should be: guided by past experi-
ence and stay out of the war.

“International morals demand
that the United States aid the Al-
lies, up to‘the point of going to

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The
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that the
eause is the sole explanation for

assumption

war is false for “we must consider
other factors such as conflicting
ideologies, the growth of national-
ism and the spread of \ propa-
ganda.”

Under the policy of isolation,
continued Mr. Joseph, the Monroe
Doctrine would have to be

abolished if a_ belligerent nation|:

should establish a military base in
the western. hemisphere. The
United States promises in , the
Monroe Doctrine. to preserve the
territorial integrity of nations on
this..continent, making isolationism
an_impossibility.

The Johnson Act allows no loans
to countries. defaulting on world
war debts, and is therefore a
security against a wide credit
system which would be dangerous
for United States -industrialists.
Mr. Joseph favors the present cash
and carry policy, which involves
no dangers of war for the United

States sincé goods are not trans-

ported by American ships.

Mr. Monroe refuted this theory,
maintaining that the cash and
earry policy contains a conflict of
purposes. As long as England
controls the seas she alone is able
to obtain our exports and the im-
plication is that we favor her
cause. It is not possible to main-
tain a neutral attitude when by
act and feeling we: so obviously
support one side.

Supporting this isolation policy,
Mr. Monroe recognized the possi-





bility of true neutrality. The
United States is entirely different
from Europe, with her own culture
and political system, and will not
be dragged down by European
chaos,
a peaceful nation, continue to con-
tribute to humanity’ through
eultural activity, while others’ are
concentrating their’ efforts on bar-
baric enterprises.

Mr. Silvert, of the opposition,
declared that because of our “in-
visible government,” it would be
impossible for the United States
to maintain an isolation policy,
“even if ‘we wanted to.” Our vital
industries depend on foreign trade,
and we have a large amount of
capital.invested in Europeon mar-
kets. The munitions industry
would be limited by an isolation
policy, and the workers in this as
well as in other industries must be
considered.

Mr. Silvert cited figures to show
the importance of our main im-
ports, silk, rubber, and tin. Rub-
ber, for example, comes from the

ay Peninsula and Dutch East
Africa, where 95 per cent of the
world’s rubber supply is produced.

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per cent would pick communism if
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