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VOL. XXVIII, No. 19 fas BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1942

PRICE 10 CENTS





Alwyne Plans Recital
Successfully Exhibits
Player’s High Talents

Intellectual Understanding
And Mastery of Téchnique
Are Evident

Basic Difference
In Far East Art
Noted by Rowley

Japanese Energy and Fire!
Chinese Imagination
Seen in Slides

Theatre Workshop, Sunday,
March 15.—The noticeable contrast |
between Chinese and Japanese art! Mr. Alwyne’s much anticipated pi-
is derived from the essential differ-! anoforte recital on Monday night.
ence -in the underlying concepts, The program, consisting largely of
said Dr. George Rowley iin his dis-| modern works, was well rounded
cussion of the Pacific Background ang, in almost every case, served
Seen Through Painting. 'to bring out the performer’s talents

Mr. Rowley demonstrated with!to their greatest extent.
slides that Japan’s greatest con-) The Franck Prelude, Chorale and
tribution to painting is expressed| fugue may have suffered from its
in the fire, energy and vigor of | position on the program; its de-
battle scenes, and in the portrayal) mands on the performer seemed too
of physical action. The greatest! exacting for a first number.
Chinese paintings, on the other’ The mood, however, was well
hand, are products of a visionary | sustained and the thematic material
imagination. excellently brought out, particu-







. » Specially contributed by
Posy Kent, ’45





—An enthusiastic audience heard

Goodhart Auditoriwm, March 16.)

These divergent characteristics
in art reflect the fundamental dif-
ference in the entire attitude of
the two societies, he continued. In
China the democratic spirit has
prevailed for over 2000 years. In
Japan, society is feudal and the
military Samurai are the ruling
class. The Japanese are taught to
live and die for the state, the Chi-
nese for the family; for “when in-

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larly in the Fugue. Here, as
throughout the evening, it was evi-
dent that Mr. Alwyne possesses a
thorough understanding of the in-
tellectual significance of what he
plays as well as.a mastery ‘of the
technical side.

In the Chopin group, the!
Berceuse was especially well suited
to Mr. Alwyne’s ability to play with
deep feeling and yet with a com-

dividual families have learned kind-| plete absence of sentimentality. The
ness the whole nation has learned | powerful brilliance of the Fantasie
Continued on Page Four, ‘in F Sharp Minor and the Polonaise

\in A Flat provided an effective con-
B. M. and Haverford trast, though here the performer
Cast for “Hay Fever’



seemed a shade less confident.

The second half of the program
maintained a high standard of ex-
cellence throughout. Mr. Alwyne
the Players’ Club, Hay Fever by! seemed particularly at home with
Noel Coward, will be given in con-'the Grieg variations and success-
junction with the Haverford Cap fully retained the original spirit
and Bells on Friday and Saturday,'of the Norwegian Melody in each
April 24 and 25. To avoid conflicts of its changing appearances. The
with rehearsals of Patience, the Sonata in Una Parte, composed by
play will be given in Roberts Hall! Alfred Swann, director of . the



The 1942 spring production of



both nights.

The play has nine major parts and dedicated to Mr.
The choice was made with the help'seemed, to have been expressly de-
of the director, Mr. Nussbaum, of 'signed to suit the player’s talents.
Harcum Junior College. Mr. Nuss-| Written in the 18th century style
baum directed the Haverford fall|of Dominico Scarlatti, it had a

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Music Department at Swarthmore
Alwyne,

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B. M. Professor Lends to Rare Book Room ,
His “Treasures of a Badly Bent Bibliophile”



Specially contributed by

Marjory MacLeod, ’42
A member of the faculty, who
modestly prefers to remain anony-
mous, has generously contributed a
stimulating collection of books to
all those who feel that the amass-:
ing of choice editions is a pastime
of only the very wealthy. . This in-
teresting group of books, which is
now on view in the Rare Book
Room,. includes fine examples of
Venetian, German, and English
printing as it-was developed from

the fifteenth to the nineteenth cen-|of $13.50.
tury. Though many of the books | book have been known to sell for

are incomplete, they are, on a! $20 each.

: | Another choice item,
tion and the fact that the most ex- lection is a beautiful}y illustrated | .

pensive of them. was only fifteen | La Commed& printe

whole, in remarkably good condi-

“dollars should convince aspiring | de
Bryn Mawr Bibliophiles thatamany , Other, rarities are three classics

handsome and rare editions may
be had for a song, almost, .if. you
know where to look for them:
Perhaps the rarest treasure of
the collection is a volume of Leben
der Heiligen, printed by the fa-
mous Anton Koberger in Nurem-
burg in 1488. Koberger, who
printed prolifically in Nuremburg

\ during the last decades of the fif-

teenth century, introduced the first
| vernacular German typ, the

‘ Schwabacher, into printing there-
by giving tremendous impetus to
the circulation of German books.
The wood-cuts in this edition are
extremely well done and, although
they cannot be attributed to a sin-
glé artist, are equal to, if not ac-
tually by, the atelier of Michael
Wolgemuth who was the master of
Albrecht Durer and illustrator of
many of Koberger’s books. The
collector purchased this volume at
a second hand book shop in Tren-
ton, N. J., for the incredible sum
Single pages of this



col-

by Boninus
Minis at Brescia in 164%

from the Aldine Press and an
early German edition of the His-
toria Danica of Saxo Grammiticus
(of ‘Hamlet and Beowulf~fame)..
An unrecorded fourteenth century
English manuscript of unknown
authorship is also of interest. .
The aims and interests of the
exhibition can best be described by
the commentaries of the collector:
- “The purpose of this exhibit is
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Calendar

Thursday, March 19
Major Department Meet-
ing: Physics’ and Mathe-
‘matics, 5:15, Common
Room.

Saturday, March 21
Basketball with Rosemont,
Gym, 10:00 A. M.
Aquacade, 8:30 P. M.,
Gym.

Sunday, March 22

H. S. Ede, The National
Gallery of Art, Washing-
ton, 2 C -G08 FF, M,
Deanery.
Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford Choruses and Orches-
tras, Elijah. 8:00 P. M.
Goodhart.

Tuesday, March 24
Major Department Meet-

ing: History, Economics,
Politics, 5:15 P. M. Com-
mon Room.

Current Events, 7:30 P.
M., Common. Room.

Wednesday, March 25

Major Department Meet-
ing: Psychology and Soci-
ology, 5:15 P. M., Common
Room.

Crisis in Chem. Lab.
Shows Gates Ready
For Any Emergency









By Anne Denny, ’43

Chemistry - Geology Building,
Thursday, March 12..— ‘Hodes’
Flood” swept the organic chemis-
try lab, leaving in its wake a group
of weary but proud moppers draft-
ed from the advanced organic class.
Sam, the janitor, discovering four
inches of water at 7:45 in the
morning, donned his galoshes and
started bailing. He was joined
later by Veronica who perched her-
self on an overturned wastebasket,
and by six hardy students. With
the help of makeshift implements
the crew mopped, shovelled, and
pumped until the flood subsided.

While Mr. Gates, gazing upon
the catastrophe, remarked, “Every
time I wear this suit it rains’,
quick-thinking Mrs. Gates jumped
on her bicycle and flew home for a
camera.

The disaster was finally traced

to a vacuum pump which Evie}

Hodes’ had left going all night.
Since a class was out of the ques-
tion the culprit expiated her crime
by taking the heroic crew to the
Inn after it was all over.

Although the day was saved by
two stirrup pumps which are Mr.
Doyle’s pride and joy, water was
also removed effectively by nine
sponges, two pails, a coal shovel, a
broom, and a mop. In the midst of
it all, someone suggested that Mr.
Gates give his lecture on ‘“theavy
water”. His only answer —was,
“Yes, it does get heavy after the
third pail”.



Alliance to Sponsor —
Summer Jobs Which
Aid Defense Effort

bnder the .auspices. of the Alli-
ance, summer jobs are to be sug-
gested for students who want
either experience or defense work.
The Alliance considers that sum-



'mers~:should~now* be-—useful,..not.

“wasted on a beach”, This plan
for finding positions’ was proposed
as a supplement to the work al-

‘ready done by the Bureau of Rec-

ommendations. The purpose of the

“sub-bureau” is to find jobs that}

will combine the experience, which
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To Be Discussed

Elections

The Athletic Association
and the Alliance take great
pleasure in announcing the
following elections:

President of the Athletic
Association—Mimi Boal.

Chairman of the Alliance
—Betty Nicrosi.









Bornemeier Drafted;
Will Do Research and
Testing in California



On four days’ notice, Mr. Borne-
meier, part-time instructor in psy-
chology at Bryn Mawr, is to be sent
to the West Coast on military duty.
One of the few members of the
faculty to be actually drafted, Mr.

‘Problems of Post-War Transition

By Model League

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Delegates of 24 Colleges

| Will Attend Assembly
| -. At..Bryn Mawr

The sixteenth Annual Session of
the Model Assembly of the League
|of Nations will be held at Bryn
| Mawr College from Sunday, March
'29, to Tuesday, March 31. Dele-
gates from twenty-four colleges of
the Middle Atlantic States will par-
ticipate. ,

The Model League Assembly, in
which, each college plays the role .
of a different country, is concerned
ithis year with the problems of the
‘Period of Transition immediately
following the present war. The
questions which will face the world
when the war ends will be the im-
jmediate problems of restoring or-
| der, the feeding of starving peoples,
the employment of demobilized ar-







Bornemeier is completely in the | mies, and the general re-establish-
dark as to the program of his work. | ment of the processes of civilized

iia (cows Gul that he We tolure Since the permanent organi-
fe ee new {zation of peace may grow out of
a, mornia, tO a ithe temporary machinery set up

training camp, where he will be a during the transition from war to
member of the psychological re- peace, it is essential that the vic-
search and testing division. : torious countries deal with these

In charge of the psychological | ).ohlems successfully if a begin-
work at Santa Anna, is the experi- ning is to be made on a more per-

mental psychologist, Mr. Gilford,
under. whom. Mr. Bornemeier has
worked for some time. Mr. Gil-
ford requested that the War De-
partment send Mr. Bornemeier to
this camp when he was drafted.

In his absence, the psychology
department will redistribute his
classes among the other members
of the department. Mr. Borne-
meier leaves on Wednesday, March
18, for his mysterious duties.



Fountain, Projector
- Are to be Installed
As New Conveniences



Plans are being made for the
opening of a soda fountain in the
re-vamped costume room of Good-
hart Hall. Although planned be-
fore the threat of extended black-
outs, such an arrangement will be
especially welcome at this time.

Ice cream, sundaes, bottled
drinks, and bookshop supplies will
be available at the counter which
will probably be open for an hour
and a half on weekday evenings
and later on weekends. The Bryn
Mawr League will manage the
making and selling of the food,
since the new counter will neces-
sarily curtail the League’s sand-
wich sales. There will be tables,

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manent world organization. For
purposes of. discussion the Model
Assembly is assuming that the war
has resulted in a victory for the
Allies, and that Great Britain and
the United States are in a controll-
ing position.

Jane Ann Maier, ’42, is secretary
general of the Assembly. Rosalind
Wright, ’48, is rapporteur of the
first commission and Miss Nor-
throp is faculty advisor to the sec-
ond. About 150 delegates will oc-
cupy rooms in Pembroke and Den-
bigh.

The League has been organized
around seven commissions, which
will deal with:

1. Reestablishment and mainte-

nance of order.

2. Economic reconstruction.

3. Reopening of world trade and

communications.

4, Famine and disease.

5. Colonial problems.

6. Refugees and displaced popu-

lations.

7. Intellectual reconstruction.

The following colleges will be
represented. Their delegates will
present the problems of the coun-

try assigned to them on each,of the
commissions:

Barnard. Collewe <........3.. Chile
Beaver College .......... Norway
Bryn Mawr College ..... Australia
Bucknell University ...... Austria



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Miss M. Meigs’ Campus

~ Telling Caricatures,

Portraits Exhibited; _
Taylor Tower, Featured



By. Sally. Matteson,.’43

Taylor Hall has crashed the
world of art. In the exhibit of
Miss Mary Meigs’ paintings in the
Rhoads“show case the old familiar
shape looms large. Taylor Tower
with Twins, Miss Meigs’ first oil,
portrays the artist and her sister
standing in Senior Row in front
‘of a green Taylor—perhaps El
Greco influence, for he is her favor-
ite artist. Freshman English, Miss

'M. Meigs shows an assortment of
students with Taylor and a winged
Pallas Athena (?) soaring above.
It is in these Bryn Mawr scenes
that Miss Meigs shows her gift for
expressive outline and good-hum-
ored caricature. The twins are in
contrast: one soft with dreamy





eyes, the other_erect and angular.
The Freshmen have in their faces
all degrees of bewilderment, en-
thusiasm, and fatigue.

The outline technique receives its
most masterful treatment in Dr... °
and Mrs. Meigs Without Class
Baby. Here contour and modeling
are combined with style in a dy-
namic portrait. The Man of God
and Bunthorne as Terry Ferrer are
telling but tolerant satires.
.Recently....Miss...Meigs, deserting
outline, has experimented. with a
technique where roundness and
shading have greater emphasis. ~
The Would-Be Student, her latest
work, while more realistic, lacks
i'the-life of . the - earlier;_rougher.
sketches. Miss Meigs likes to ob--

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