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College news, May 15, 1940
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1940-05-15
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 26, No. 23
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol26-no23
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Labor Administration _
Discussed by Fleming
Continued from Page One
1940, when a 40 hour week will be
enforced. Employees must be paid
time and a half for all’ overtime
work, but the act was created in
the hope of spreading employment.
If a business cannot pay the re-
quired wages, a Special Industry
Committee, is created to investi-
gate the matter thoroughly and to|,
recommend a suitable wage. This
has been the case with the textile,
millinery, hosiery, boot and -shoe,
knitted outerwear and knitted un-
derwear industries. Colonel Flem-
ing emphasized the fact that the
act may deal only with those mer-
chants -who are engaged in inter-
state commerce.
There are many eer ren from
the act and these must be decided
by the administrator. All agricul-
tural. workers, seamen, railroad
workers and employees in season-
al industries, such as canning and
packifig, are exceptions from the
“minimum hours provision.
Can-
ning. and packing plants, which
employ seven people or. less, are
exempt—_from—both—-wagés~—and
hours. Those who are subject to
the law must keep accurate rec-
ords for eventually all such firms
will be investigated by the Feder-
al inspectors, of whom there are
now 700. The number is being in-
creased and Colonel Fleming feels
that “1500 will insure adequate
enforcement ‘of the act.
Violations, at this time, are ap-
prehended chiefly through com-
plaints of employees, or of com-
petitors, who are complying with
the laws. The offending employer
fs then required to pay the back
overtime, but wilful violation is
punished with a $10,000 fine for
the first offence and a jail sen-
tence for the second offence. Goods
produced in_violation of the act
may be confiscated and criminal
proceedings..instituted-~ against
those who try to move them.
NUTSand BOLTS
Fancies at Dancies
By Isabel Martin, *42
In the spring, everyone discards
all thought of work, and some of
us get the urge to give a party.
We blossom out in pretty ideas and
not such attractive work clothes
and set about transforming the
world. Most college dance com-
mittees loose a few winks of sleep,
and pick ug a few grey hairs try-
ing to get away from colored lights
and balloons and crepe paper.
The Mt. Holyoke Spring Prom
Committee didn’t seem to be able to
travel very far from their own li-
brary, but nevertheless concocted a
new sort of decoration. They work-
ed. along classical lines, turning the
band stand into a Greek temple,
with a laurel chain frieze. ~They
carried this out along the balcony,
and dropped Doric:columns, every
so often, to give the effect of “in-
side looking out.” The ceiling
masqueraded in criss-cross white
paper to resemble a coffered ceil-
ing, and there was a liberal sprink-
ling of stately Greek statues.
Wheaton and Wellesley and Hav-
erford let their fancies out into
the country, and came back hidden
in nature. Wheaton’s prom was a
International Relations
Club
The International Rela-
tions Club takes pleasure in
announcing the election of the
following:
President:
er, ’41,
Vice-President-Treasurer:
Mary Brown, ’42. :
Secretary: Edith Annin,
"48.
Program Chairman: Ernes-
tine Gallucci, ’41.
Refreshments: Madge
Daly, ’42 and Norma Land-
wehr, *42.
Georgia Train-
|Psychological Effect of Blue - Jeansys ness
During Pre-Examination Muddle Condeianiea
In the Spring our maiden fancy
lightly turns. to thoughts -of what
to wear while studying for exams.
Probably’if everyone realized the
psychological effect of clothing and
its relation to the mental processes,
this word of» reminder wouldn’t.be
necessary, but some of us do get
a teensy bit blue-jeansy and care-
less, don’t we? Of course, you
may be planning to do all your
studying on the roof clad simply
in a pair of shorts, but that is a
defeatist attitude and only results
Bach Festival Offers
Annual Religious Mass
Continued from Page One
Cantata
O Jesus Christ My: Life and Light
‘| Cantata
Come Thou ,Blessed Hour
Cantata
. Christians in This Happy Day
Br; Me
Cantata
Cantata
Take What Thine Is and Go Thy
Way
Suite in B Minor
for Flute and Strings
Cantata
Now Hath Salvation and Strength
Saturday, May. 18th
2.30-P.-M;
Mass in B Minor
Kyrie and Gloria
5 P. M.
Mass in B Minor
Credo to the End
**Scribner’s Commentator”’
Offers Essay Prizes
Scribner’s Commentator is offer-
ing eighteen cash prizes for ar-
ticles written on any subject in a
contest open to all college stu-
The author of. the prize
manuscript will receive a job with} Dr.
Require-
are that the contestants
limit their contributions to 3000
submit them _ before
They should be sent to
654 Mad-
dents.
Scribner’s Commentator.
ments
words and
June 1.
Scribner’s Commentator,
ison Avenue; New York City.
as in pink: pink waite: pink
ceiling, and pink apple blossoms on
peppered with blue-
Haverford called in a dec-
orator and borrowed some rolling
Kentucky scenery for the four
walls. They encased the orchestra,
and the patrons, in paddocks, and
dripped leaves down over the bal-
Wellesley went still further
south, and produced Spanish moss
paper trees,
birds.
cony.
drenched in silver-moonlight.
But Sarah Lawrence won by a
nose with a Glamour Rodeo, at
which you could lasso your man.
It- took place- in the “Bronxvitle
Rockies, about fifteen miles from
New York, as the buzzard flies.”
The Prom Committee announced
that “the last dog would be hung
at 2 o'clock.”
EVENING SNACKS
at
THE GREEKS
For Garden Party Flowers
Jeannett’s
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In Peace and Joy
in bad sunburn and worse amnesia.
Certainly, all of us who read
Vogue and College Bazaar realize
that there are loads of ways to
make-.a girl more attractive and
popular and more interesting, too.
The whole thing is'to drag all her
bad features out into the open ‘and
then try to laugh them off. Let her
be amusing about it and the whole
stagline (if she can get herself
to where a stagline is) will be at
her feet. And she isn’t the only
one. It can happen to anyone any-
where. It can even happen to you.
Why don’t you (as they say) get
a bunch of cute diamond_ physics
problems and hang them from that
unruly lock of hair that just won’t
stay out of your eyes? Why don’t
you get gay with your glasses and
paint. them to match your text-
books? Why ‘don’t you buy your-
self a few lengths of white ging-
ham and make your own wedding
dress? “The reason that you don’t
is because you don’t care enough
Dr. Frank Denies We
Learn From History
Speaking before the Philosophy
Club, Wednesday evening, Dr. Er-
ich Frank, denied that we can
learn anything from history. We
cannot even know it.
Frank indicated that the
events of history were
rences, acting from within. In
this sense real history is subjec-
tive, and not discernable by any-
body. An example of a real_his-
torical event is faith.
The discussion that followed Dr.
Frank’s talk brought out that ac-
a ae a to this view no progress
can be mapped for the future. In
his talk, Dr. Frank said that man
can do nothing about his history
since there is a. preestablished or-
der controlling all events. Nietz-
che, who believed in the power of
man to affect history, was com-
pared unfavorably to St. Augus-!
tine.
the first genuine philosopher of
history.
“, ... and now, Miss G., a
report to the Foundation. . ..
Youu find resourceful, well-
paid Katharine Gibbs secreta-
ries from Singapore to Seattle
as well as in no less glamorous
stay-at-home jobs.”
-@ Special Course for College :
Women opens in New York
and Boston, September 24.
e OPTIONAL—AT NEW YORE
SCHOOL ONLY—same course
may be started July 8. prepar-
ing for early placement.
Ask College Course Secretary
for “‘RESULTS.”’ a booklet of
placement information, and
illustrated catalog.
BOSTON . 90 Marlborough St.
‘NEW YORE... 230 Park Ave.
oecur-|the instruction is successful,
For Dr. Frank, Augustine is!
jeasnataes GIBBS’
and, my dears, fashion is one’ of
those things you’ve really got to
care about before it'll do anything
for you.
Just lately there has arisen on
campus a brand new idea about
clothes. It didn’t take much money.
It just took a big ‘pair of scissors,
and lots of patience and courage.
You see, they took down their cur-
tains and made dresses~ out of
them. Whenever you see a friend
clad in a horrible chintz skirt, you
may be sure that she is wearing
that extra pair of curtains that
she couldn’t bear to hang at her
windows. At first the serious prob-
lem arose of what to do about the
denuded windows. All sorts of
suggestions were smade—old rugs,
old bedspreads, and old dresser
scarves were all offered to bridge
the gap. Finally someone hit on
the perfect, one might almost say
the natural, solution. “Give my
old dresses to the Bryn Mawr
League?” we heard her say, “No,
thank—you!:—I’m- making” myself—a
new: pair of curtains.”
Miss Riggs Will Help
| Biology Department
The Biology Department has an-
nounced that next year Miss May-
nard Riggs will-help the First and
Second Year Biology students with
the technique of scientific drawing.
Miss Riggs has spent two years at
the American Excavations in Tar-
sus doing scientific drawing and
photography, and is considered one
of the finést workers in that field.
She plans to give a few general
lectures to the students at the be-
ginning of the year, and individual
instruction from then on for those
who need or want help. It will not
hopes that enough interest will be
aroused to make one practical. - If
there
is a possibility that it may be ap-
plied to other fields of science.
eran SALON NATE
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be a course, but the department!
Secretary’s Protest
Causes Rift in I.S.S.
Continued from Page One
Fund, a non-political organization
whose relief funds were to be dis-
tributed by the I. S. S: in Geneva.
The I. S. S., they claimed, refused
to investigate charges of discrimi-
nation by the Geneva office, and
cabled the Fund’s money to Geneva
in violation of the decision of the
Executive Committee of the E.S.S.
F.
Dr. Eagleton maintains that the
I. S. S. here and in Geneva is not
concerned with aiding the political
aspirations of either side of the
present* war but will continue to
be non-partisan. The best proof of
this, he says, is that Germany,
France and England permit the I.
S. S. to work for rerugees inside
all three countries.
Dr. Glenn idee:
Religion and Europe
Deanery Garden, May 12, — The
Reverend Leslie C. Glenn, of
‘Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass-
achusetts, spoke at the first out-
door- Chapel of the year. Dr.
Glenn discussed the religious sig-
nificance of conditions’ in the
world today. He said that we
should “glory in tribulation,’ for
it is through suffering that we
can attain hope—hope-for atime
in which “there shall be no night.”
He discussed the European sit-
uation in the light of Robert E.
Sherwood’s play, There Shall be
No Night.
put his work on man’s forehead,”
and he will know how to avoid
the disaster and horror which ex-
ists in the world today.
If the European situation seems
remote, Dr. Glenn said that we
had only to comprehend the social
conditions portrayed by Steinbeck,
in The Grapes of Wrath, to real-
ize that misery also abounds in
America. We _ should remember
that “His truth is marching on,”
and is leading us to a better and
and more peaceful. world.
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feeling that completely
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