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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., » WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941

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wropy ph i Trustees of
awr College, 1940

PRICE 10 CENTS





Plan of Year,

Relief, Debated
Ih Council GLOUP — seme tour weeks ag0;-x- per:



3-Term Plan, With Quizzes,
May Eliminate Midyear

Depression



Tuesday, February 18. — The
work of the college year, possible
defense courses-for the summer,
co-ordination of relief activities,
and informal college meetings were
discussed at the College Council.

It is felt that the present sched-
ule of the college year 1s unsatis-
factory: the mid-year examination
period coincides with the flu and
the two-week lecture period before
exams is generally ineffective. In
place of mid-years there might be
two-hour quizzes before Christmas
and before Easter. A reading
period and time for writing papers
might follow Christmas vacation.

One-semester courses and changes
Continued on Page Six





Singing Group

The singing group, com-
bining Haverford and Bryn
Mawr, is at last under way,
and the first meeting, on
Thursday, February 6, was a
huge success. Over 75 mis-
cellaneous’ boys and girls,
faculty and outsiders were
there to bellow Sir Eglamore,
Twanky Dillo, and Jerusalem.
The enthusiasm was unprece-
dented and seemed to please
Mr. Alwyne, Mr. Willoughby,
and Mr. Lafford, co-leaders of
the group.

The next meeting will be on’
Thursday, February 27, in
the Music Room at 8.30 P. M.
There are hopes that it will
attract even more prima dorm
nas, mutes, monotones, and
tenors.





,We outsiders, that is, the rest of
the college and particularly the
Sophomores, can only wonder what
,this means.
‘seeing a flock of Mickey Mouses,
|rainbow-colored fish, and innocent-





| Mystery Shrouds Future Freshman Show;
Musical Fantasy Includes Fish and Fauna



By Sally Jacob, 43 -|

of great influence in the Freshman |

class breathed a sigh of relief and!
said, “All we have to do now is

write it.” She referred,:of course,
to the Freshman Show. A Senior,
of great influence in the college,
retaliated philosophically, “For
that matter, all any of us have to
do is write our exams—the subject
is chosen already.” So now we
have written our exams, and the
Freshmen have written their show.

The usual air of nonchalant mys-
tery envelops the i of 44. Ann
Heyniger, Kay Tappan,
Horwood, and Ruddy Hale are
spoken of with extreme deference
by their colleagues and supporters.
Various members of the class regu-
larly trot down to secluded rooms
in Goodhart. The Theatre Work-
shop is also visited daily.

The Freshman enterprise of 1941
was chosen after the customary
dissention among the rival factions
of the class, It is entitled Fantasia
44. It is not modernistic, it is not |
old-fashioned, it is not a fairy tale.



Perhaps we shall be

eyed little fauns performing on
Goodhart—stage~ while -the-rest~of t
the class sings original words to
the Nutcracker Suite. The only
positive information available to a
member of the class of ’48 is that it
is a musical fantasy. We do know
that Boots Szold appears as an al-
luring torch singer, and that Mary
Ellis, Prissy Rich, and Georgiana
McClay should be convincing
drunkards. The scenery for this
drama is quite impressive. When

‘first installed it took an entire

morning to put up, so the Fresh-
men were greatly disturbed that

| Same afternoon to find it had all
Louise ‘disappeared. The Sophomores were

roundly cursed as old meanies un-
til the discovery was made that a
Self-Gov assembly had necessitated
its removal. Undaunted by this
the Freshmen set it up again, even
though in the process one of the
heroic stage crew was left hanging
on a mainstay. In time she was
rescued, and rehearsals (which all

‘seem to be of the drunk scene—

these young moderns!) have been
more and more numerous and in-
tense. :

So there is going to be a Fresh-
man Show! A spontaneous quote
from one Freshman expresses it:
“Tt’s hot; it’s wonderful; it’s mar-
velous; but we can't give you any
facta,”



Miss Park Shows
Relation to College
Of Self-Government

The following is the Text of President
Park’s Speech at the College Assembly
held on Tuesday, February 11

The Self Government Board has
asked me to speak of the relation
of the college to the Self-Govern-
ment. Association. It is-a funda-
mental relation. However brief I
must be, I trust I can make clear
its importance — importance ‘ to
Bryn Mawr and to you.

Continued on Page Four





Wonderful Wagon Wins

As Notables Attend Gerlareniog Exercises

Wide-Eyed Welcome



By Rely Jacob, °43
At five minutes to five last Wed-
nesday afternoon nine admiring

‘Sophomores helped the President

of our Self-Government Associa-

tion out of a prepossessing vehicle.
Ginny was having some trouble
with the door. About five minutes
after five Ginny was back in the
vehicle with Miss Park, Miss Petts,
Mr. Watson, Mr. Hurst, the Presi-
dent of the undergraduate body,
and their peerless .chauffeur, the

“President of the Athletic Associa-

tion, Past: the welcoming crowd
by Taylor steps—including Miss
Lord, Mr. Sprague, Miss Ward,
and various truants from five
oxclock German classes—they sped.

e Vice-President of Self-Govern-
ment and the Editor of the College
News pursued therhn madly. Back
the Station Wagon roared and
screeched to a stop.

From the driver’s seat stepped
Peggy Squibb, attired in represen-

tative costume. “Wé are gathered
ntl the

here today to

_coming of the Station. Wagon,” she | peo

began. Then, remarking upon the

’ obvious progress that had come|



—

“with the years, she also reminded

us of the greatness of our Great
Athletic Association—which paid
for the Station Wagon... soi

Miss Park was introduced by
Peggy as. “one who, as. you all

_ know, is very interested in girls.”

She reminisced that it had been a

ees «bon er

to own a Station Wagon, and now
the Athletic Association owned
It—and had paid for It.

Mr. Watson followed Miss Park,
and after a few preliminary re-
marks on the geologic uses of the
Station Wagon, told his eager au-
dience how he had not stooped to
graft in purchasing It.

After Mr. Hurst had suggested
that It might be named “Man of
War,” Miss Petts spoke of a new
course instituted for “Juniors and
Seniors who have not completed
their required physical education.” |
They are to drive the Athletic De-
partment around on Sundays -be-
tween one and two o’clock. ’

Steve Hutchins and Ginny
Nichols spoke next, Steve to say
that she was in back of the Station
Wagon to encourage all under-
grad ‘activities, and Ginny to say
that she was in front of It to see
that nobody should by wey chance
drive It. c)

Miss Hatch concluded the after-
noon program with her suggestion
that It be used to pick up~all the
ple whom Miss Ward and Mrs.
Manning wanted to see.

ne sca PRE Pm

‘viduals in it.

j Current Events, Miss Reid, -

Social Structures

Are Subject of Talk
Given by R. Benedict



Goodhart, February 17.—In the
second lecture of the Anna Howard
Shaw series, Human Nature and
Man Made Culture, Dr. Ruth
Benedict described four types of
ground plans on which societies
are structurally organized. She
illustrated how the prevalence of
such a condition as aggressiveness
depended on the success of each
society in apportioning its benefits.

The extent: to which a society
provides a way by which the in-
dividual can serve his own ad-
vantage and that of the group
at the same time, Dr. Benedict
called synergy. A society with
high synergy, then, implies a close
unity of interest between the in-
dividual and the group.

The synergy of each society in-
fluences the behavior of the indi-
Dr. Benedict chose
a sociological condition common to

all groups—aggression, as illustra-
Continued on Page Six

Calendar

Saturday, February 22.—
Freshman Show, Goodhart,
8.30 P. M. Rock Hall Dance,
Merion Hall Dange,- Pem-
broke Hall Dance, Radnor
Hall Dance, 9.30 - 1 P. M.
Sunday, February 23.—
_Reverend Howard L. Thur-
man, Music Room, 7.30 P., M.
Monday, February 24.—
Anna Howard Shaw Lecture-
ship, Miss Ruth Benedict: In-
dividual Behavior and the So-
cial Order, Goodhart, - 8.30 |
Tuesday, February 25.—



~ Common Room, 7.30-P. M.

Analyses

\Three-College Conference

Commuuity Work



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Social Senisicn ‘Sines
At Colleges Discussed

Saturday, February 15. —. The
three-college conference on com-
munity work held last Saturday
was completely successful. “One
hundred and fourteen students of
Swarthmore, Haverford and Bryn
Mawr, faculty members and visit-
ing speakers swarmed in the
Rhoads show case before luncheon
at which Miss Fairchild made the
keynote address. The number was
augmented when the hosts ad-
journed to Goodhart for commis-
sion meetings. Tea was served in
the Common Room between the dis-
cussions and the speech at 4.30 by
Congressman Voorhis of Cali-
fornia. Individual conferences drew
a variety of well-known speakers
to engage in discussion with stu-
dents of the three colleges. Possi-
bilities of new techniques and addi-
tions to the work’ programs were
found, and discussion dealt with the
relationship of college activities to
the wider fields outside college, in-
cluding social work,.economics and
politics.

Miss Kraus, of Bryn Mawr’s
department of social economy, led
the commission on ‘group work in
the community. She stressed the
importance of group work in its
power to develop leaders as well
as in its value to the members of
the group. The: effectiveness of
group meetings, she said, relies
upon the initiative of the leader

Continued on Page Six





Memorial_ Meeting
Held for Dr, Tennent

Goodhart, February 16. — Dr.
Tennent’s unusual ability as a sci-
entific thinker, as a teacher and as
a friend was described at a meet-
ing held in his memory. The speak-
ers were President Park, Dr. Rob-
ert Ervin Coker (president of the
American Zoological Society and
professor at the University of
North Carolina), Miss Gardiner,
Abbie Ingalls, ’38, and William G.
Hower, former publisher and owner
of the Bryn Mawr Home News.
The meeting was opened by Miss
Rice and her instrumental group
and was closed with Mozart’s Ave
Verum sung by the Bryn Mawr
choir.

Dr. Tennent began his scientific
career by working as a clerk in a
drug store. He studied pharmacy
in the evenings and passed the
Wisconsin state exam with the best
record anyone ever made. In 1900
he graduated from Olivet College
in Michigan and, abandoning the



Jidea of a medical career, obtained

an assistantship in biology at
Johns Hopkin’s University. In
1904 he received his Ph.D. and, “as
a shy young instructor in biology,”
came to Bryn Mawr. For 36 years
he served as lecturer, associate, as-
sociate professor and full pro-
fessor. Along with his heavy
teaching program he carried on
work of his own.” To quote Aten
Miss Park’s speech, “‘he spent many
summers beginning in 1909 at the
Tortugas Marine Biological Labo-

\Pedciet Gain a Sectinity
At Expense of Liberty
Criticized



Saturday, February 15.—The

expressed at the three-college con-

ference by Miss Fairchild, in the
keynote address and by Congress-
man Jerry Voorhis, of California,
in the main speech, is the defense
of American democracy. Seriously
challenged, our democracy needs
the help which trained college men
and women can offer. We must
combat the appeal which the Fas-
cists base on a claim to security at
the expense of liberty. Miss Fair-
child pointed out that by doing com-
munity work we can promote se-
curity in-four ways: through rais-
ing the standard of living, and
helping unemployment,
health, and living conditions,

Mr. Voorhis repeated and empha-
sized these needs. Voluntary ad-
hesion of citizens to government
distinguishes a democracy from a
dictatorship, he said. To awaken
a receptive public opinion to public
welfare is one of the greatest serv-
ices which can be rendered by stu-
dents.

On public health, recreation, re-
lief facilities, and education de-
pends the security of the nation.
Mr. Voorhis outlined types of rec-
reation, especially in his own state
which is “a little different and in
some ways superior to other parts
of the country.” Education shéuld
demonstrate to the individual his
own_hidden_ resources .of creative
ability. In its broadest sense, said
Mr. Voorhis, education’s purpose
is to “help people to learn how to
find joy in life without spending
any money to do it.” Military de-
fense must be balanced by home re-
lief. Relief means the distribu-
tion of the purchasing power. In
effecting this the cooperative move-
ment is important—“I think that if
there is one almost completely con-
structive movement in the world,

it. is the cooperative movement.”
Continued on Page Five

Plans for Red ‘Cross
Work Now Completed

Plans for the Red Cross sewing
have been completed and have been
designed to give anyone who has
even fifteen minutes a day a chance
to work for refugee children or for
war prisoners in German camps.
The League and May Day rooms
in Goodhart have been turned into
a workroom, and Connie Lee Stan-
ton, ’41, who heads the committee,
has asked for volunteer: workers
from all halls. Weekly quotas of
piece work for each hall have been
arranged for the baby bootees,
sacques, and blankets which can be
taken from the hall chairmen and
worked on continually. Bathrobes
and shelter garments for prisoners
are being made in the workrooms,
under the direction of Mxs. Fales,

and will be ready for. anyone-at any
time.







Tryouts



the Station Wagon, and, with only
three attempts, the President of
our Great Athletic Association

started the Magnificent Machine ||

which, thundered off through Pem
Arch, Mr. Watson remarked that
it reminded him of a South Ameri-
can republic with. its first battle-



“Wednesday, February 26.—

—Varsity Basketball. versus

Penn., Gym, 4 P. M. Dr. .
Frances Fussel: Legal Prin-

ciples, Roberts Hall, Haver-

ford, 8.15 P.M. Spanish

Club Party, Rhoads, 7.15

P. M.









ratory. of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington. He worked in Ja-
maica at the Marine Biological
Laboratory of the same Institution
and in Italy at the famous Naples
Station. He spent a year of priva-
tion and danger in the South Pa-
cific on a Carnegie Expedition to
the Torres Strait and Thursday
Continued on Page Three

men and Sophomores will be-
gin next Monday, Fehruary
24. Anyone interested should
come to a meeting in the Com-
mon Room at 4 P.M. If you.
are unable come at this
time, see Susie Ingalls, 9-13,
Pembroke West.













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E Pluribus Unum

In less than two weeks, elections begin for the officers in the
Self-Government. Association, Undergraduate Association, Bryn
Mawr League, Athletic Association and Entertainment Committee.
According to the plan suggested last year, photographs and -brief
reports, of the candidates for the four presidencies will appear in
the News issued the Wednesday before the college votes. The pur-
pose of the plan is to eliminate the situation where the voter finds
herself forced to make a choice between unknown quantities. It is
hoped that underclassmen. will do more than transfer their affec-
tions from a nice sounding name to a pretty picture.

On February 26, the News will print pictures of the candidates
for president of the Self-Government and the Undergraduate asso-
ciations. The whole college will vote for theshead of Self-Govern-
ment on the following Monday and for the president of Under-J
grad on Wednesday, The minimum number of candidates for the
Self-Government office will be three. If any or all of these can-
didates are also nominated for the presidency of the Undergraduate
Association; the minimum for this position, will be four. By having
four nominees in this case, one of the candidates could gain the

Self-Government position, which is the first to be decided, and still/-

leave three. candidates for the Undergrad office.

In the News of March 5, pictures and reports will be printed
of candidates for the Bryn Mawr League and The Athletic Associa-
tion. The same minimum of, three candidates applies and also the

_necessity of increasing the minimum to four if any or all candidates
chosen overlap. The Bryn Mawr League and the Athletic Asso-
ciation will be voted on by the college on Monday, March 10,

In the News of March 12, there will be printed reports of the
vice-presidential candidates for both the Undergraduate, and the
Self-Government associations. The college voting will be done the
next week, Candidates for the head of the Entertainment Commit-
tee-and, the secretaries and treasurers of the Self-Government and
Undergraduate association will be reported in the News of March
19 and will be voted on by the college the next week.

The secretaries for the Self-Government and Undergraduate
associations will be nominated by the class of 1943, the treasurers
by the class.of 1944 and all other offices by the class of 1942.



Robert Taylor and Ruth Hussey.
ALDINE: “Fantasia.”

Dr. Frank to Direct
Production in Spring} §

MOVIES

“Cheers for Miss Bi-
William

BOYD:
shop,” Martha Scott,
Gargan.

ARCADIA: “Tall, Dark and
Handsome,” Caesar Romero and
Virginia Gilmore.

FOX: “This Thing Called Love.”
Beginning Friday: “Strawberry
Blonde,” James Cagney and Olivia
de Havilland.

EARLE: “Honeymoon. . for
<“Yhree,” Ann Sheridan and George
~~ Brent. Sapates — “Play

STANTON: “Convoy,” Clive





keiigens for the Dlapen’ Club
spring production were held Tues-
day by Dr. Benno Frank of the
American Academy of Vocal Arts.
Dr,..Frank has. directed Elisabeth
Bergner in As You Like It, and has
worked on the Weimar Festival,
the Hamburg Opera; and the-Salz-|~
, dure Festival. The play he is to
| direct: will be chosen later’ this



Brook. Beginning Saturday: “The
Mad Doctor,” Basil Rathbone, Ei
len’ Drew.

KARLTON: “The Philadelphia

by vociferous announcements that

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Opinion

Food for Thought
To the Editor of the College News *
The Hoover Plan is a greatly
misunderstood attempt to preserve
democracy. «It proposes | to. feed

Finland, Norway, Holland,, Bel-
gium and Central Poland (Where
they do not have adequate domestic
food supplies),
which could in no way be advan-
tageous to Germany. As a prece-
dent there is the acknowledged suc-
cess of Belgian relief work in the
last war.

Following are the agreements
which would be obtained before the
plan could be put into operation:

1. The Germans must agree:

(a) To take none of the do-
mestic produce of the
people to whom relief is
being administered.

To furnish an equivalent
of the food already
taken.

To permit imports from
other parts of Europe.
To permit control of dis-
tribution by the organ-
ization in order to assure
that these guarantees
are carried out.

The British must agree to al-
low ships carrying food to
pass their blockade as long as
the above guarantees are ful-
filled.

The chances for getting German
agreement to this plan are good.
Germany has no desire for the in-
evitable spread of disease in an
undernourished Europe.

The chances are also good for
getting England to agree. The
plan provides that only one ship at
a time is to go to the countries
being fed. If any ship were cap-
tured by Germany, the plan would
cease to operate and the maximum
gain to Germany would be only
three days food supply. This is a
small price to pay.

America should not object to the
plan because the food is to be paid
for by the countries. receiving: it,
out. of their own reserves in this
country and elsewhere. And the
food is to be carried en ships be-
longing to these countries. This is
not a plan for’pure American
charity.

And to mention some more spe-
cific arguments: There are those
who say that by starving the ‘peo-
ples of Europe we can promote
revolution, but it is a weak rebel-
lion that comes from people who
are half starved. There are those
who claim that since these nations
are suffering from German oppres-
sion they will be all the more bit-
ter against it. But it will be all
too easy to convince nations that
they are the victims of American
indifference and the British block-
ade. There are even those who
say that disease in German-occu-
pied territorjef would be a quick
way of wiping out the German
army of occupation. But these
people have lost sight of any civil-
ized objectives which may exist in
this war.

Therefore since some 37 millions
of people need food, since we are in

a position to supply it to them, and
since , the proposed relief work’!
would in no way imperil British
victory, we cannot in good con-
science refuse to listen and to help.
And it is only by expression of
public opinion that this. plan: can:
‘gain power and prestige enough to
work for the necessary agreements
abroad.

“The most effective thing you can
do to prevent famine and disease
in Europe is to express your ap-
proval directly to the Hoover com-







(b)

(c)
(d)

under a system}:

Fairy Tale

The Dance Club, in cooper-
ation with Miss Petts’ danc-
ing classes, is going to pre-
sent “Sleeping Beauty” with
original music by Mr. Hans
}*Schumann in May. Anyene
interested in participating see
Elizabeth Dodge Denbigh



WIT’S END

Fuschia, 44, Or, The
— of Deems Taylor









Flash a Mr. and Mra.
Mawr, United States...

Bryn_
Let’s go to





Dr. Howard Thurman



Dr. Howard Thurman, Dean of
Howard University in Washington,
will conduct chapel services in the
Music Room of Goodhart on Sun-
day evening, February 22, at 7.30.
Dr. Thurman is a distinguished
Negro minister, who has been one
of the outstanding leaders at the
Northfield summer _ conferences.
The choir will sing Palestrina’s
Tenebrae Factae Sunt, and Mr.
Willoughby’s Three-Fold Amen.





Relief Organizations Appeal,
For Cooperation; Any
Work Helpful



To the Editor-of the College News:
Everyone at Bryn Mawr knows
that millions of people in Europe
are destitute; everyone knows,. too,
that the Red Cross,.-British Aid,
Bundles for Britain,—all the for-|.
eign relief agencies operating in
this country, were set up out of our
common willingness to help. Relief
work of this sort is the most tang-
ible help we can give. The Bryn
Mawr Red Cross Workshop, which
is now also cooperating with Brit-
ish Aid, was opened in Goodhart
on January sixth by a handful of
workers. As a result of appeals
sent to undergraduates, to mem-
bers of the community, to women
members of the faculty, to the
maids, the handful has grown to
nearly one hundred. After M.
Guiton’s speech last Tuesday, 70
undergraduates volunteered; al-
ready 25 maids were working, and
groups of women who lived in Bryn
Mawr apartment houses were call-
ing for more and more material.
But we know that there are many
more who are waiting to know
whether they are really needed.
‘We can assure all of you who are
doubtful, those who could spend
only an hour a day*or an afternoon
a week, that there is work to be
done. The Workshop is open every
day except Sunday from two to six,
and Monday, Tuesday and Thurs-
ay evenings from seven-thirty to
; if you cannot spare an after-
noon or an evening you may take
work home with you to do at odd
times.. On Thursday evenings
sonfeone reads aloud (Mr. Sprague
has read twice), and coffee and
sandwiches are served at nine
o’clock.

In any kind of volunteer work,
nothing is done unless individuals
choose to do it; they find and rec-
ognize their responsibilities. As al-
ways there is a choice to be made
between needs, and we are present-
ing this work as one very pressing
need.

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE AUXILIARY.

K



The shelf in the Quita Wood-
ward Room devoted to books on
the War is labelled “Present Crisis
Reserve.”



for the Small Democracies, will
distributed. This committee ]
be grateful if you:cam help to in-
screase the necessary volume of pub-
lic opinion favoring the plan.
ALICE CLAY JUDSON, ’43.

_Spa stale. Sp peaking. .

. “Wednesday . evening
in the Rhoads show case at
7.45-there--will_be—a_meeting: :



Will Conduct Chapel,

press. .. p eahaes e

Pitter patter, little feet, aren’t
the little Freshmen sweet? Even
now going to press as we are, feet,
‘as we have said, are going to and
fro,.But—busily.....Some--wear A’s, :
;Some wear B’s, some wear C’s, and
| some only get their merits.

.. + Deems Taylor may be many
things, but is he melodic. . .
| .»« Flash! Yesterday i ge
la lot of people, formerly ot of
|other people, went to. class.
' Query. ;
| But these are hard times. Man
‘and boy, we’ve seen many a Fresh-
man come ...and Show... and
| go, Grave times indeed, Fother-
ingay, and who is,to say who will
go from here to Innisfree? Here
we go round the prickly pear, we
‘looked again—he wasn’t there, he
Iwasn’t there again to see—Oh,
dear, I wish that man were me.
The end... the end of the begin-
ning . . the beginning of the end

. of what?

“This here now show is a some-
time thing. And a woman goes
from. man to man although seldom
in a taxi because we’re not some
of the people who have any of the
money some of the time.

So—F lash! and Bryn Mawrchids
to the Class of ’44, and a merry
Deems Taylor to you all. .





National Conference
Of Education Ass’n
To bein. Philadelphia

The National Conference of the
Progressive Education Association
will be held at the Hotel Benjamin
Franklin and the Hotel Adelphia
on February 19 to 22. Among the
nany outstanding speakers are
Genevieve Tabouis, formerly editor
of L’Oeuvre who, on February 19,
will speak on Lessons for American
Democracy in the Collapse of
France and Frank Aydelotte of the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, who will discuss on the
same day Education and World
Peace.

At the New Education Fellow-
ship Luncheon on February 20,
Reinhold Schairer, head of the De-
partment of International Rela-
tions and Studies, University of
London, formerly Director of the
German Universities’ Central Office
for Student Self-help and Welfare
is scheduled to speak on Europe’s
Challenge to American Youth. In
the evening, Lewis Mumford will
talk on Faith for Living in Amer-
ica, and David Lilienthal, director
of the Tennessee Valley Authority
will discuss Prospects for Amer-
ican Democracy.

Robert Sherwood has been in-
vited to speak at the New Educa-
tion Fellowship luncheon on the
following day. Other important
speakers on that day will be Vera
Micheles, Dean of of the Foreign
Policy Association and Pearl Buck,
who will speak on The Education of
Men and Women for Each Other.
In_ addition there will be talks by
Roberta Fansler, a Bryn Mawr
graduate, of the Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art and Margaret Mead \
of the Museum of Natural History
whose subject will be An Anthro-



\pologigt Looks At America,

_ Registration for all sessions is
‘$1. 00 for full time undergraduate
and graduate students. Luncheon





proval of that paradoxical humani-
tarianism which believes that civ-

of all people on campus who
are interested in speaking
Spanish. Guatemalan movies _
will be shown, and Mr. Gillet
and Miss Dabs dndifiehse be







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Memorial Meeting
Held for Dr. Tennent

Continued from Page One
Island. In 1922-23 he was at the
“’nperial University Laboratory at
Masuki, Japan; and during his
next sabbatical year, 1930-31, he
taught at the Keio University at
Tokyo.”

His contributions to science were
great. Dr, Coker illustrated how
“in so many cases Tennent clev-
erly designed and ably executed
just the right sort of experiment
or inquiry.” He made important
discoveries in the study of chromo-
somes, the interchange of material
between nucleus and _ cytoplasm,
the influence of the chemical com-
position of the egg (with Miss Gar-
diner) and problems of photo-
dynamics, :

At Bryn Mawr, along with his
scholarly work, he found time to
serve on almost every faculty com-
mittee. He was one of those who
drew up the Plan of Government
“on which the college has operated
for the past quarter of a century.”
He served many years both as a
member and as chairman of. the
Appointment. Committee of the
faculty. His plan for the Co-op-
erative Teaching of the Science,
drawn up in 1935, pleased the Car-
negie Corporation so much that it
made a grant to the college of
150,000 dollars. From the begin-
ning Dr. Tennent was director of
the faculty working in accordance
with that plan. As Miss Park
said, “he gave his time for all these
activities as though his hours were
empty otherwise,”

All the speakers emphasized Dr.
Tennent’s dispassionate judgment
and his kindness\and rightness of
opinion.. Dr. Coker advised the
young: biologist “to familiarize
himself with Tennent’s general
plan of work and to try to
absorb some of that great energy
and nice balance and also some of
the modesty and spirit of dindli-
ness and generosity to others that
always marked him.” His great
energy was further revealed in a
story told. by Miss Gardiner. Dr.
Tennent had left his work, guarded
in the most fire-proof earthquake-
proof building in Yokohama, for
a well-earned rest in China. During
his absence an earthquake occurred
and he discovered on his return
that his entire equipment, data and
research of many years had been
“destroyed. Despite such a calamity
the regathered and published much
of this material. His only com-
ment was “I should not complain,
it might have been so much worse.”

As Miss Gardiner said, Dr. Ten-
nent “leaves to the college and his
department the tradition of pa-
tience, of industry, of liberality
and of justice, a heritage we gladly
accept and of which we shall ever
be proud.”

His sly: wit sympathy and
patience won his students. Miss
Ingalls told how he would come
into the laboratory when students
and instruments were out of humor.
Ten minutes on the tool and one
hour with the student. as to. the
broad: plan of embryology would
set the Idboratory in working order
again. He delighted his students
and colleagues with tales of Japan
and the Tortugas and the many
other lands he had visited. Above
all, he was a person “to whom one
would turn for advice” not only on
college work but on all fields, and
one whose council was always pro-
found and sympathetic. :

Dr. Tennent was known not only
to the college, but also to the Bryn
Mawr community. Mr. Hower de-
scribed how Dr. Tennent would,
whenever possible, pass the time
of day with the townsmen he knew.





and how much interest he as in
local affairs.

Miss Park read at the rae of
the meeting resolutions passed by
the irectors, the alumnae

and the: faculty, expressing their

it and admiration for Dr. Ten-
: t and their sympathy with his,
fa ily.

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Opinion

Letter From England Paints

‘GOK _.. at Croydon
During Air Raids









Bitterly Rectory,
Bitterly, near Ludlow,
Shropshire, England,
December 11, 1940.

To. the Students.of.Bryn-_Mawr-Col-
‘ lege:

Soon after the last war, I ap-
pealed to your predecessors to help
the starving children of a Hun-
garian professor, who had got into
political trouble. The answer was
immediate and generous, and in-
cluded one thousand dollars. In
consequence we were able to save
two little boys and their brave
mother, and my husband was able
to find a post in England for the
father. The boys are now grown
up and the younger is a student at
the University of London. I did
not, however, use the whole amount
sent, and when I offered to return
the balance, I was told to expend
it as I thought fit. I have been
able in consequence to help on more
than one occasion. But there was
still a balance, for money goes far
over here, and so I have just sent
the residue (thirty pounds) to the
Women’s Voluntary Services (W.
V. S.) at Ludlow in the name of
the Students of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, for the purchase of perambu-
lators for babies sent here from
Coventry. This was such an im-
mediate need that the lengthy time
needed to get help from the Lord
Mayor, or the Red Cross, made the
W. V. S. superintendent most wor-
ried..:I am sure I have done the
right thing, and I want you to know
how the generosity of the Bryn
Mawr girls has been fruitful. I
must just add (without at all ask-
ing for it) that if you should like
to-do as your predecessors did I
put myself at your disposal, and I
shall no doubt often be able to help
on the spur of the moment which
these big organizations cannot do.

‘You will all like some first-hand
account of experience in the hot-
test part. I flew over from Switz-
erland last May, where we had rea-
son to expect German invasion any
day. I intended to go back immedi-
ately, for my husband insisted on
remaining in Switzerland, but it
was impossible as the Germans
broke through and France crumpled
up. My youngest daughter Mar-
ion, a Bryn Mawr woman, and her
husband, Monsieur Canu, formerly
professor at Bryn Mawr, are iso-
lated in Paris, and we cannot hear
from them or write to them.

For the first few days at Croy-

den nothing very particular took|

place. We used to run down to the
shelter at the end of the garden
when the sirens sounded, but it was
seldom for more than half an hour.
But one day when I was looking out
of the window I saw several four-
engine bombers, the first I had
seen. I seized, my little grandson
and darted for the shelter. In a
moment, bombers, fighters, both

up high over our heads, and there
was the crash of high explosives
aimed at the airdrome, but miss-
ing it and catching candy factory

tema oeHimber. of little cottages

nearby. It was the first big attack
on Croydon and, though from a mili-
tary point of view a failure, caused
a fearful loss of life and property to
poor people, some of whom we knew

a4

German and!English, were mixed|

Friends’ Committee
Works for Adoption
OF French Children

As part + of their program of civ-
ilian rélief “in “Wnoecupied France,
the’ American Friends’ Service
Committee is tpying to get some of
the children adopted. Two of the
cases are: André Mireille Vincent,
aged nine, one of three children
whose father was killed, and whose
mother is unemployed; and Vitiflio
Philoméne, aged 12, also. one of
three children, whose father is a
prisoner of war and whose mother



pecting a child,

Ten dollars a month adopts a
child. It has been suggested that
a group of students might cooper-
ate to help. Thosé who are inter-
ested can get additional informa-
tion from Mlle. Breé.

Copies of the latest Bulletin on
Relief in France, published by the
American Friends Service Com-
mittee, have been posted on all the
hall bulletin boards.



well. After that we used to carry
the children down to the shelter
every night before the regular night
bombing began, and we all slept in
the shelter, three grown-ups and
two children for three months. And
you must not think we were either
uncomfortable. or miserable. My
daughter had very cozily fitted up
our shelter, and though ~ packed
tight, we slept as I should not have
thought possible. Indeed, I, being
a light sleeper, was usually the
only one to wake up when the
bombs hissed past and burst with
a tremendous crash. I always got
up and went out to see if our house
had been hit, but so far, it has
escaped, though once we had an in-
cendiary bomb in my daughter’s
bedroom. We put out the fire with
sand in a few minutes, and went
back to our shelter, to sleep, as,we
thought, peacefully. At two A’M.
the Air Warden woke us up and
told us we had to clear out at once
and__softly, as—a—land-mine had
fallen unexploded a few (ho
down. Kind patients of my daugh-
ter’s took us in and we slept on the
kitchen floor for two nights. But
some of our neighbors, with small
children, wandered long before they
could find shelter. When the land-
mine exploded, just as the navy
men were taking it away, no one
was killed, for the men threw them-
selves on the ground, and the whole
neighborhood had. been evacuated.
While we were with our friends
.a raider came low, machine-gun-
ning,but did not hit us. I am glad
to say he was brought down.
One day, while we were at din-
ner, we heard qa bomb coming
straight for us. With great cool-
ness, the children carried out their
drill, throwing ‘themselves flat on
the floor with their hands over
their ears. I must confess I forgot
all rules, and stood staring. The
bomb passed and fell about thirty
yard from our house, wrecking a



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Slur and Injustice
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To the Editor of. the College News:
In regard to the new examina-
ti@d. rules, I wie’ ~=aress @ re-
sentment which I feel is not
peculiar to myself. In the first
case, a request to the Undergradu-
ates to remedy the disorder of last
year’s examinations would have
been met with efficiency and good-
will, There are at least three or-
ganizations by which such an
appeal could have been handled—



garage and making a big crater.
This was only one of daily experi-
ences.

The children all over the coun-
try are as cool as cucumbers and
there is no exaggeration in the
Punch picture which represents the
family standing on their Anderson
shelter and watching the operations
in the sky. The dog-fights ‘how-
ever, were so high up that though
we could hear all right, and see the
shells bursting and sometimes the
“sky-writing,”’ we could only catch
the glint of the wings as _ they
caught the sun’s rays.

At last we thought it right to re-
move the children and so I am now
here in a friend’s rectory. It seems
like a dream, we had got so used
to the hubbub!

Now God bless you all and keep
the Nazis long and far away from
Bryn Mawr. This, and a Merry
Christmas to you all from

Yours very sincerely, _
GRACE. CHISHOLM YOUNG.

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any one of them furthering the
spirit of democratic responsibility
among the students. It seems a
part of self-government to ensure
orderly conduct, and there is no
reason to presuppose we should re-
fuse to follow such a fn
from the faculty. | es

In the second case, if” #ii is | “ques-
tion of faculty standards and cheat-
ing, why not tell us so? This is
a subject which concerns us, The
college standards can be main-
tained without penalizing the body
of honorable students who assume
when they sign their freshman

statement, that it covers their col- -

lege career on the honor system.
Self-government does not want re-
sponsibility for the integrity of
the degree. But strict proctor sys-
tems take this responsibility from
the. girl, where it belongs.

In many cases the new rule was
not enforced, leaving the proced-
ure as it was before. This seems
to indicate that its aim is simply
to reduce disturbances infiltrated
by thoughtless students into the
old system, If this is the case, I
see no reason for this rule, which
implies a slur and injustice to the
student body. I feel that under-
graduates can. be responsible for

the orderliness of examinations,

and that the faculty rule should
be withdrawn.
MARTHA CRYER KENT, 741.

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_ Miss Park’s Address

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At Assembly Printed

Continued from Page One



Any residence college has a spe-
cial piece of work to do. Taylor,
Dalton, the Library, the Fridays
to Mondays’ of each ‘week don’t
teach you ali you learn here. On
working days in your classrooms
and laboratories you make your-
self more informed, I hope, more
skillful in ‘techniques, a_ better
thinker, but the residence halls and
your .so-called “free time” in the
evenings and week-ends take \a
large part in the teaching. Herp
actually a harder lesson is set-be-
fore you; how to remain an inte-
grated individual with your own
flavor, your own morale, and at the
same time to be a working part of
something else larger, different, im-
personal — Bryn Mawr College.
Living en masse is no simple prob-
lem. It would be simpler if the
college policy had been to ham-
mer you by various means into the
same patterns, make you goose
step, respond to the same slogans,
simplify your purposes into uni-
formity. These things we don’t do.
We like a richer, more varied pat-
tern,—to change the figure, an or-

‘ chestra made up of different in-

struments, not a group all blaring
away on cornets. The blue-prints
for this non-classroom, non-bookish
education are in your hands. But
the greater complication makes the
more risky experiment, the more
risky experiment makes more head
work for you. ‘Since 1892 Bryn
Mawr has given the student bedy
the problem of how to live week in
and week out with people of differ-
ent personal habits, different tastes
and different principles. The educa-
tion it gives is up the alley of every
one.of you. The academic half

_“may—I hope it won’t—in a sense

go unused. But this half will be
back of the way you manage your
children, live with your husband,
get on with your neighbors, run
your schools and hospitals and your
city’s business—wherever, in short,
you leave the locked room of your
individual life, and that will be
pretty often.

But the blue-print of your com-
munity education does not stop at
the college campus.
ond part of}it too, connected di-
rectly with us and with you, on
the surface to devise a way of liv-
ing which will keep Bryn Mawr in
good odor before the world, make it
respected in a conservative suburb
of a conservative city, keep its good
name and reputation. And* back
of this, below it, around it, and far
more important than all this out-
side reputation—to give Bryn
Mawr self-respect and satisfaction
and belief in its own ways of civ-
ilized living.

‘All student organizations, but the
Self Government Association in
particular, are responsible for these
two parts of the plan for the col-
lege community.
make the patterns, you change
them, you improve them, or you
weaken them—always you. And
your power to-give yourself_a poor
or a good training, to benefit(or to
damage the college is real. ‘It~is
not apparent authority dangled be-
fore your eyes and snatched away
because the college or the faculty
or the president is frightened; for
fifty years it has been wholly yours.

‘But you must constantly and sob-

erly realize what goes with a final
power such as this given by the

There is' a sec=

You, its members, |

Swarthmore Seconds

Foil B. M. Reserves

The Swarthmore Second Basket-
ball Team defeated the Bryn Mawr
Second Team by a score of 18-10
Bryn Mawr snapped into a quicker.
game than last week but failed to)



customed to zone-guarding. The
play was hard but the superiority
of the visitors was marked.

BRYN MAWR SWARTHMORE
Matthai—2 Rittman—7
Mason—8 Smith—7_.
Kirk-Brun Broomall—4
Murnaghan Brearley (captain)
Fleming-Chester Kuhn

Lazo Brewster



you to rectify your mistakes, to
pick up your slack; what you re-
fuse to do, the precautions you
don’t take, the string you don’t tie
goes undone. You are expected to
do important and ticklish thinking:
show to live sensibly: because you
are doing in these a years a
fairly hard professiéfial job; how
to live intelligently because you are
not children; how to live thought-
fully because you. have other peo-
ple’s reputations to look out for;
how to live democratically because
you are Americans. Your Boards
look after details and routines for
you; but the agreement with the
Trustees of the college which hangs
outside my office was not made with
them. The signers of that agree-
ment are the student body, ‘every
Senior, Junior, Sophomore and
Freshman; to you, the undergradu-
ate students of Bryn Mawr, not to
a, committee of themselves, not to
the President, the Dean, not to the
Faculty, the Trustees handed over
one of the great powers of the col-
lege. -

I beg you to be serious and re-
sponsible citizens and law makers
in a real experiment in govern-

‘News Board Should Enjoy Distinction It Has
Achieved,’ Says Mr. Sander of Key Company



By Marguerite Bogatko, 41

At last the editor of the College}

News and her esteemed staff mem-
pets have received the recognition
“wnich so long has been their un-



correct’ its unfortunate inaccur-| SPoken due., It wasn’t a professor
acies. The close guarding of the who discovered their impoykance,

et : Presxlent
Swarthmore team succéssfully foil- ta oecnage ty aang are
ed our Reserves who are more ac- ‘eheur-—2te,—¢—took—the Pasa:

Company of 102 Fulton JStreet,
New York City, to give us words



BRYN MAWR BATTLES
SWARTHMORE FOR TIE



Those who hoped to see an excit-
ing basketball game between the
Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Var-
sity teams were not disappointed.
Leading 16-11 at the end of the
half, Bryn Mawr’s lead was,..cut
down in the third and then evened
in the last three minutes of play.
The final score stood 24-24. In the
first half Swarthmore’s forwards
were held down by the outstanding
play of the Yellow and White
guards whose system of ‘“zone-
guarding” broke up their passes
and shots close to the basket. Bryn
Mawr forwards coping with the
system of “person to _ person”
guarding were able to work their
passes through Swarthmore and
scored.

However, Bryn Mawr fell to
pieces in the third quarter. The
team fumbled the ball, passed in-
accurately and moved _ slowly.
Swarthmore shot for the basket
again and again. - Bryn Mawr still
led 24-20, and for a time Swarth-
more’s forwards were unlucky, nar-
rowly missing at least ten shots.
Tomlinson’s two beautiful long
shots which tied the score were not
undeserved, and Bryn Mawr was
thankful that the final score was

ment. If you should ever fail it} No worse.

: : BRYN MAWR SWARTHMORE
will be a small but a genuine break- Hardenburgh—6 bis ks on
down in the American plan for} Squibb—8 Borleau—6

. ore Waples—10 La Porte
fusing individual and general re- Hutchins (captain) Driver (captain)
oz syeue t. s a
sponsibilities. Dethier j. Pike













With relaxing
-music...pause and

of love and ericouragement,

“Start right now to enjoy the
distinction you have achieved!”
Mr. Sander of. Marlboro came right
out._and said in his long and friend-
ly letter, and then he popped the
big question:

“Don’t you agree with us that it
+is-only—fitting that you and your
staff should wear keys that would
symbolize’ your success in this
work? In later years a key of this
type will help ‘you to recall with

| pride, the work, the contacts and

the experiences of your career in
this important extra-curricular ac-
tivity. It will serve as an easy way
for your friends to realize that you
amounted to something in college.”
I hope that everybody is paying at-
tention to that last remrak: We,
-of the College News are really
amounting to something all the
time whether. anyone realizes it or
not, even if we have to have keys
to prove it to skeptical friends.

pany is to be believed, we are go-
ing to be able to rest on the laurels
of our achievement for some years
to come.

Both the helpfulness and the tact
of the Marlboro Company are to be
highly complimented. They are
not afraid to face a fact but they
do it with supreme delicacy.

“Some colleges which can afford
it distribute such keys at their ex-
pense. But if your college is un-
able to do so, it certainly does not
indieate that your success at your
college is any less.worthy of recog-
nition. ... But there is a simple
way out for you. The staff can
purchase its own keys.”

Speak for Miss Ingalls or the
rest of the staff I cannot, but.I do
want to say this on my own behalf,
“Thank you, Mr. Sander, thank you
very much. u have given me a

ie for re

What is more, if the Marlboro com-|

Van Meter Explains
Time’s Organization,
Openings for Women



Deanery, February 12.—Under™

the sponsorship of the Vocational
Committee, . + Mies. faxhallg

Van .

Meter, advertising editor and head ,

of the Letters Bureau of Time,
Inc., spoke to those interested in
newspaper and magazine work.
There are three general divisions
in Time .magazine: advertising,
circulation, and editorial. The edi-
torial secretary, commonly known
as the “subscriber’s friend,’ has
the important job of acting as an
interpreter between the subscriber
and the editor.

Copy on Time magazine is a
joint job in which at least three
people take part. The managing
editor judges when the time is ripe
for a story, the writer or assistant
editor judges what point the story
should make and the area it should
cover, and the researcher, who is
usually a woman, has.to check on
all the facts and make’ them co-
herent for the writer.

The competition for openings on
Time is very keen. There are Ho
prerequisites but Miss Van Meter
stressed the importance of varied
business experience. Work on a
country newspaper is. considered
especially valuable, even more so
than a diploma from a school .of
journalism. y

In computing the opportunities
for women in this field Miss Van
Meter estimated that they had to
be 48 per cent smarter and work
148 per cent harder to get the same
pay and position as men.



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I have never before possessed. And
if I ever lay my hands on a dollar
ninety-eight again you can ‘expect
to hear from me.”



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H. Arbuthnot Speaks
On English Women’s
Effort for Defense ‘

Common. Roém, February 14.—
On Friday afternoon Miss Helen



Arbuthnot, recently arrived from |
explained how “women |

England,
there are helping for defense.
the tremendous

ganization is inevitable.
and. demands, distribution — and_\
transportation systems are (‘com-

pletely upset. While men are being |

drafted and. trained, the bulk of |
the’ reorganization falls to the |
women,

English women are organized in |
different ways. Their greatest

In|
adjustment re-}
quired by war a period of disor- |
Prices |





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| faculty member, or student.
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people including the driver.
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| explgined that this direction must
(be efficient, for negotiations must
be rapid, and no contributions can
| be wasted. For this latter purpose

|Registers have been established

| which sift out the highly trained

contribution is, of course, in in-| technicians and see that every vol-

dustry.
Ausiliary Air Force, Royal Naval |
Service, and Ausiliary Territorial |
Service have been gradually ab- |
‘sorbed into the army and navy.
Two other groups are the Nursing |
Service, started in the last war, |
and the Land Army, in. which!
women are put on farms to learn
- agriculture. But the organization
widest in its scope is the Women’s
Voluntary Service, which, incor-
porating many smaller groups, con-
tains three-quarters of a million
members. It is the “W. V. S.”
which manages evacuations, tempo-
rary schooling, canteens, clinics,
air raid police, and all social work.

England is divided into 12 re-|
' gions, each capable of becoming a
separate unit if the central gov-
ernment should collapse. For each
of these sections there is a W. V. S.
commissioner who directs the work
of that district. Miss Arbuthnot

“But also the Women’s ‘unteer is put to work.

All ‘English women have wanted
ito “do something,” and in 1938, as
|a means of putting wishes into ac-
‘tion, a National Service Handbook
was circulated which told how the
‘individual could best be of service.
‘Now, when volunteers are asked
for, as in thé evacuation of Dun-
kirk, many times the number
needed offer their help. They do
not ask reward, or honor, or uni-
form. Although the government;

‘said Miss Arbuthnot, has had to be-
come comparatively centralized, a |







| ways.
|
|

‘College Work Act ctivities
Cited in

Continued from Page One



Relief of the suffering in the world
means “helping your next door
neighbor whom you probably won’t
forget and the person in the next
block whom you probably will for-
get.”

In

Voorhis classed letters to your con-

answer to a question, Mr.

gressman_as “a burden but. an ex-
cellent practice and a very basic
expression... of democracy.” The
Youth Congress was also in ques-
tion and was proved to be incap-
able of effectiveness because it in-
cludes members whose philosophy
differs from ours and because it

constructive aims. :

Miss Fairchild’s address express-
ed these same principles in show-
ing the especial responsibilities of
college students who constitute a
privileged group. Her figures on
our national sécurity present a
challenge to those who will act in
community work in thése specific



Commissions |.

ha been apt to forget its original,

While Fireworha Rain From Sooty Chimney

Miss Terrien Remains Cool as a Cucumber



By Frances Lynd, °43

Not to be outdone by Dalton, the
-Library last Wednesday had its
own display of fireworks; Miss
Terrien, sitting atthe loan desk,
saw the cloisters beautifully lit up
and sparks raining down from the
sky. A very excited student dash-
ed down yelling, “Fire, Fire!’ But
Miss Terrien remained calm. | The
first. thing she though. of, she said,
was that there was no danger be-
eause the roofs are all slate and
the walls all stone. Someone had
already called the. Fire Company
and the powér ‘house.

By the time she got upstairs, a
great mob of girls was crowding
around, and William, the. parter,
was about to heave a bucket of
water in the fireplace. But the
sparks were coming from the soot



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Terrien was afraid that if water|

got up there the hot stone might
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Conference Analyzes |
College League W ork|

Continued from Page One



in co-operating with the members |
in their program planning. There
are important advantages to be

realized in working together for \idyone

the welfare of a unit and in shar- |
ing a socializing experience. Just,
as important is the recognition and |
encouragement of leadership which
group work sponsors. Potential
leaders, beneficial_.recreation .and
socialized individuals are the pro-

ducts of successful group work.
There are two types of adult
eduéation, it was pointed out at the
conference section on that subject.
Miss Fairchild was the speaker |
|



and. Virginia Nichols;*~’41,- the
leader. One type is with workers,
who are best taught by discussions 2
which begin with some concept wo
ready understood. The other ¥
with refugees who may have even
more academic learning than the |
undergraduates who teach them, |

but who want practice in speak-
ing English and a knowledge of |
American customs,
# The maids and porters at Bryn!
Mawr show great enthusiasm in |
their twenty classes: musical lan-
guages, typing, poetry, mathe-
matics, and Negro history, a class ,
of 40. Haverford’s classes for jani- |
tors have branched into students’)
work in the community. |
The workers who come to the

discussion of the Bryn Mawr In-}
dustrial group, and who’ attend

the Hudson Shote- Labor School,

are anxious to learn social and eco-
nomic systems with which they
come in contact. The students at
the Labor School are chosen from
the Y. W. C. A. groups because of
manifest ability in leadership. It
has been found that upon their re-
turn, their position in the groups
from which they came rises.

Miss Ambler, director of the
Main Line Federation of Churches,
spoke to the commission on Case
work in the community.
phasized the importance of the vol-
unteer worker in aiding the pro-
fessional worker, and outlined the
necessity for a comprehensive
knowledge of many fields in the
practice of case work technique.
Haverford, under the direction of
the Federation of Churches, does
volunteer work for those families
who are unable to pay for their
services. Wood chopping is the
most important of the jobs. At
Swarthmore, three girls are mak-
ing a vocational survey of the
community, which will be sub-
mitted to the League of Women
Voters. Bryn Mawr girls read
aloud at the blind school in Over-
brook, three nights a week. They
‘also -assist doctors at the Better
Babies’ Clinic in Bryn Mawr.

The discussion group on sodcial
legislation was led by. Miss Mary
Hobson Jones, Eastern County Sec-
retary of the Public Charities As-
sociation, who spoke on the history
of welfare legislation, particularly
on that of Pennsylvania. The
breakdown of the Elizabethan poor
laws finally was begun with the

entrance of Federal aid into social |

welfare. The fundamental prin-
ciples set up in the sixteenth cen-
tury were local responsibility. for
the poor of’a-given. district, a relief
rate below the minimum wage
level and the distribution of relief
through workhouses and _ poor-
houses alone. By the Social
Security Act the states are~re-
quired to measure up to certain
minimum standards in
merit Federal aid. Other improve-

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‘of the group at the same time.”

| similarities.

She em- |

R. Benedict Discusses
Ground Plans of Society



Continued from Page One

tion. Aggression has been observed
to exist in proportion to the syn-
ergy of the social order. “Societies

Y ~sxression is conspicu-
ous,” Dr. Benedict said, “are
societies: where the individual can
serve his own advantage and that

Thus the ground plan of society
rather than any theory of human
nature, race or. environment can
explain behavior response.

The four plans which Dr. Bene-
dict described were, first, the
Atomistic society, like that of the
Greenland Eskimos. In such a
society, the individual is completely
untied, no restrictions of govern-
ment or morals are placed -upon
him, he takes part in no group
enterprise. The second plan of
society, called Segmented Homo-
logous organization, is exemplified
by the Australian tribes who live
within kin groups. These kin
groups are all set up on the same
pattern of organization and: are
bound together on the basis of their

The third structural pattern of
society is that of specialized
groups. In organizations of this
type, separate groups undertake
specialized functions and exchange
services, and recognize their mu-
tual dependence. The basis of such
a society is what. we know as the
division of labor. In the fourth,
or Heirarchal ground plan, each
individual is responsible to a fam-
ily unit, which, in turn is governed
by the king’s court. The basis of
this society is that the all-impor-
tant ties were kept between the
‘ center of the circle (the individual)
‘and the last ring or. highest
society.
| Every corporate society makes
some provisions for synergy. In
Homologous Segmented societies,
the-individual isa part of his kin
group, and often the synergy of
‘such groups is very high. Many
families live in a large house and
are fed and clothed as a group};-all
men of one generation may be
jcalled brothers. The individual is
most often related to the group in
,terms of positive activity such as
iproduction, rarely in a negative
isense—as for protection against
| warring neighbors. Further: pro-
visions for synergy may extend

_—.





ments in social legislation have | q

been in the uniform civil service
‘laws and parole systems, the Phila-
delphia housing projects, and the
Public Charities Association. Dis-
cussion covered the, problems of

economic inequality, the respective | §

merits of vocational and cultural
training, and social work as a pro-
fession. z

The commission on work camp
technique was headed by Mr.
‘Miller, of the American Friends’
‘Service Committee, and Johnny
‘Buttrick, of ;Haverford. “Muscu-
‘lar Christianity” is the job of the
{work camps. The combination
of work and reasoning gives power
‘and direction to the undertaking.
| The Experiment ‘in International
Living is a work camp stressing
,international ‘problems, and laying
more emphasis on play and thought
in the camp than do the Friends’



On March 22, the Bryn Mawr
sea serpents are planning-— an
aquacade rivalling that of a cer-
tain well-knoWneMign — _--stab=
lishment. The show is to be quite
similar to that large-scale perform-
ance at the World’s Fair, with the
one ommission of the woman-in-
the-bird-cage-scene. There is to be
tandem swimming, figures, and
rhythmic performaricés” “of “side-
stroke, breast-stroke, elementary
back-stroke, crawl, and ,trudgeon.

‘The practice has been energetic for

many weeks and all is going
smoothly except for the breast-
stroke swimmers whose first en-
thusiasm resulted in later discof-
bobulation. The piéce de résistence
of the show will be the spotlight
effects and a grand finale with fire-
works. |



beyond these kin groups to large
tribe activities like ceremonies or
hunts. Aggressiveness in such so-
cieties is not evident, for it is to
no one’s advantage.

The third type of society, that
of specialized groups, is similar to
our society insofar as it is based
on division of labor. But are self-

compatible with group interests?
Should the services of one group
find no takers, class struggle
arises.
that no class war has ever been
known to exist in any primitive
society.

In an heirarchal plan of society,
synergy may be high if the ad-
vantage of the king is identified
with that of his subjects. Should
the king use his power against the

ergy would exist.
power in. heirarchal societies have
been accompanied by rampant ag-
gressiveness.

That man is everywhere alike is
true, Dr. Benedict said, in that he
has adapted himself to his environ-
ment by learned behavior, rather
than by physical adaptations. But
every society works out: its own
organization, and man, adapts dif-
ferent solutions to his problem. In
this sense, the statement that man
is everywhere different is valid.



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Plan of Year, Relief
Discussed by Council



Continued from Page One
by faculty and students are the
chief problems to be solved if mid-
years are to be eliminated.

The Curriculum Committee may
consider the’value of mid-years and
the length of the college year at an
open meeting in March. . The prob-

lem may also be discussed by the
Seven-College Conference in April.



phernalia,” informal college meet-
ings were proposed. Such meetings
would provide a channel for stu-
dent discussion of current college
issues,

Better organization of the relief
work on campus was ‘suggested.
Virginia Markham, ’42, is now gen-
eral chairman of relief work, and
an article will appear in the next
issue of the News describing the
present war relief. activity. A com-
mittee for co-ordination and an in-
formation service, under a chair-
man, were suggested for next year.
Miss Fairchild and Miss Kraus
are working on plans for summer
courses to train social workers.
There is a need for well-trained
workers in Poland, Belgium, and
other war-stricken countries to sup-
plement the forces of the Friends’
|Service Committee. Under Mr.
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being prepared for science courses
in connection with defense. '

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