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THE COLLEGE NEWS





VOL. XXVII, No. 16

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Bryn Mawr College, 1940

Trustees of

‘ PRICE 10 CENTS





President Park |
Will Hold Office



Board of Directors, Faculty

Continue Search for New
President .



Goodhart Auditorium, Friday,
February 28.—In a meeting of all

graduates and undergraduates, Mr.
Thomas Broughton, professor of
Latin, and chairman of the Fac-
ulty Committee which has been act-
ing in collaboration with the Board |
of Directors, made the following!
announcement: :

“At the urgent request of the
Board of Directors, Miss Marion E.
Park has consented to remain as
President of Bryn Mawr College
for another year. The Committee
of the Board in collaboration with
the Faculty Committee will con-
tinue the search for a successor to
Miss Park.

“It is difficult for. me to express
the meed of gratitude and apprecia-
tion that I feel is due to Miss Park
for ~her loyalty, good spirit and
sportsmanship in consenting to re-
main as President for another year.
We want to assure her that by her
decision she has placed us héavily
in her debt, and that she is doing
an exceedingly great service to
Bryn Mawr College and to each and

“I wish to express publicly to
you how greatly we of the Faculty
Committee appreciate the sympa-
thetic and whole-hearted way in
which the Committee of the Board
has brought us into full collabora-
tion with them. We wish also to
thank our colleagues on the faculty
and the members of the student
body for generous help in getting
information at our call and for the
truly noble self-restraint that gov-
erns their attitude toward us while

we deal with important and con-
Continued on Page Two



Intermissions
If you want to leave a
Hall or College Dance, you
‘ must sign out as usual and
obtain the necessary permis-
sions.









BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941

MIMI BOAL



Benedict Discusses
Socialization of Child



Goodhart, March 8.—In_ the
fourth lecture of the Anna How-
ard Shaw series, titled Socializing
the Child, Dr. Ruth Benedict con-
trasted the methods of child-rear-
ing in different - societies. Some
methods, she said, train the child
for an adult environment, while
others place him in a _ separate
world until he has attained adult-
hood.

Our own culture, empioying the
latter method, forces the child to

learn to act in ways which he will!
There is a;

later have to unlearn,

complete break between the habits |

which are suitable to childhood and
those which are necessary to adult-
hood. The resulting psychological
disorganization can only be rem-
edied by supplying sufficient secur-
ity during the period of transition.

Some tribes avoid a break be-
tween the play period and, the later
period by conditioning the child to
adult behavior. In our séciety
however the child does not partici-
pate in the life and habits of the
adult community which he must
later join. He is shielded from re-
sponsibility, and from “unpleasant
facts” and is therefore subjected
to what Dr. Benedict termed “the
Santa Claus complex.” Play must
be given up, and responsibility for
which he has developed no patterns
of behavior is motivated only by
a sense of duty.

In the primitive societies where
no qualitative distinction is made

between children and adults, chil-
: Continued on Page Four



Students Visit Bethlehem; Expose Conditions
Causing Strike, Workers’ Resolve to Win



By Agnes Mason, Joan Gross, ’42

We spent Friday night in Beth-
lehem at the home of John Ram-
Say, secretary of the local Steel
Workers Organizing Committee.
We went to the mass meeting at
the Beth-Allen Casino. We know
the Bethlehem strike isn’t settled
yet. The Globe-Times, the only
newspaper, sings the company
tune, while’ A. P. and U. P. dis-
patches are issued from its press
room. But the College News
brings an inside story.
__ Steel workers in the Bethlehem
plants. want collective bargaining.
Black lists, strike breakers and de-

organize, Promising 1 union leaders
have been bought out by offers of
soft jobs and high pay.

~ But not John Ramsay. In Beth-
lehem they ».call him “The Man
Bethlehem Steel Couldn’t Buy.” He
doesn’t have to turn up his collar

His moral conviction is the basis
for his devotion to the union. “I
want to make Bethlehem a better
place to live in,” says Mr. Ramsay.

The plants are working at full
capacity in Bethlehem. The men
want to strike while the iron is
hot. Strike placards fill the local
offices, and already unofficial stop-
pages have occurred. The storm
broke in Lackawanna, but all
through the Bethlehem plants men

are ready to walk out. Thursday.

night the union office was receiv-
ing reports that two truck loads
of scabs were on their way from
Lackawanna to Bethlehem,
Friday newspapers: announced

that the strike had been ‘settled. |

But Bethlehem S
that until the S

1 workers say
Workers Or-

ganizing Committee is recognized ||

as their bargaining agent, no set-
tlement will last. The Employees
Representation Plan, which has





MARION CHESTER



CHRIS WAPLES



A. A. Puts Forward
1941-42 Candidates
For-the Presidency



The Athletic Association has
nominated three candidates for
1941-42 President to be voted on
by the college next week. They
are: Mimi Boal, Chris Waples and
Marion Chester.

Mimi Boal

Mimi Boal is a candidate for the
presidency of the Athletic Associa-
tion. She is the vice-president .of
the association this year. She is
captain of the swimming team and
has been on it for three years. She
is treasurer of the badminton team
which she has also been on for
three years. She is the second
Junior member of the Self-Govern-
ment Association and is president
of the Catholic Club.

Chris Waples

Chris Waples is a candidate for
president of the Athletic Associa-
tion. She was Freshman represen-
tative of the Association, has been
on the varsity hockey team three
years, the varsity basketball team
three years, the varsity tennis team
of which she is captain this year,
three years, the varsity swimming
team, Freshman and Sophomore
year, and the baseball team two
years. She is captain of next

ear’s hockey team. Junior year
y' y
Continued on Page Four



Calendar

Thursday, March 6.—
Food for the Small Democ-
racies, Milton Brown, Com-

- mon Room, 7.30 P. M.

Friday, March 7.—
Cornelius Otis Skinner,
Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.

Saturday, March 8.—
Basketball vs. Chestnut
Hill, Gym, 10 A. M.

One Act Plays, Goodhart,
8.30. P. M.

Wyndham Dance, Denbigh —
Dance.

Sunday, March 9.—
Chapel, 7.30 P. M.

Monday, March 10.—
Anna Howard Shaw Lec-
ture, Anthropology and
Some Modern Alarmists,;
Dr. Ruth Benedict, 8.30
P. M.

Tuesday, March 11.—
Basketball vs..William and
Mary, Gym, 4 P. M.
Round Table Discussion,
Common Room, 5 P. M.
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common. Room, 7.30 P. M.
Annual Bridge Party,

Deanery, 2 P. M.
Science Club, How Far are





“business
man’s club, because the workers.
know he won’t stay there long. No-
body can beat John Ramsay, be-
cause he believes in God and the

c.-I. 0. A confirmed Oxford
grouper, he has lectured at church
ga



ings and Geneva conferences.



been acting as a substitute for a
recognized workers’ union,
failed to provide the wages, work-

ing conditions, and fair employ-
rment methods that are essential.

Only a thin thread of union dis-
cipline is keeping the men in the
plants. This thread is taut.

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son, Common Room, 8.15

. Pi M.

Wednesday, March 12.—
“Life asa Fine Art,” Ru-
fus Jones, Roberts Hall,
Haverford, at 8.15 P. M.









the “Stars, Dr... Wil- 7)

Varied Duties Told
For New President
Of the Athletic Ass’n

The president of the Athletic As-
sociation is chairman of the ex-





The
executive board consists of officers
the ;
council meetifigs are held with the

ecutive and council boards.
elected by the four classes;

captains and managers of all teams,
~ Supervision of the various sports

and teams, ideas and plans for

new sports, close cooperation with
the physical education department,

and control of the station wagon
are some of the tasks of the A. A.
president, - Besides this she is the
source of permission for a night at
the barn and the holder of the key
to the gym. The president also is
a representative for the under-
graduate on the College Council



and on the Quota Committee.

McClellan Quiet
About Past Life;

Not to be Bribed



Impartiality Will Keynote
Her Presidency; Loves
Archeology



“T’m not used to this public life,”
protested Kitty McClellan when in-
terviewed just after her. election
as president of the Self Govern-
ment Association. “Besides I’m not

News material, really.” She was

ruthlessly ordered to say something
funny for the benefit of her public.
“But I’m not very funny,” she
said,”—I’d love to tell you the lat-
est joke I heard .*.. but I can’t
remember it.”

A bright idea hit us. “What
school did you go to?” we asked in
breathless anticipation.

“The York Collegiate Institute,
York County Academy — that’ll
take up three lines,’ she added
' thoughtfully.

“Were you head of student gov-
ernment there?” we asked with
Boswellian glee.

“There were: only three girls in
the class,” she said.

Kitty is an ardent archeology
major. Her spare minutes are
spent as hall president, exactly,
she claims, as graphieally illus-
trated in the Case of Miss Bee.

“Would you like to know what I
eat?” she offered helpfully. We
eagerly replied in the affirmative.
“Whatever’s on the Denbigh menu.”

We find the new president in-
Continued on Page Two



New Americans Relate Stories of Escape

In 3000-Words-and-No-Sentences Vocabulary



By Agnes Mason, Barbara Cooley, ’42
You’ve heard the Ballad for
Americans; you’ve read the Decla-
ration of Independence; you re-
member Horace Greeley’s “Go west,
young man, go west.” Put them
all together with a plus sign and
you have the atmosphere at 824
Buck Lane, Haverford, on Sunday,
March 2, when thirty new Ameri-
cans entertained at tea.
“American women -are too busy;
they are never satisfied. Their
husbands’ buttons don’t get sewed
on,” Mr. Gendellin exclaimed.

“When we lived in Germany,”
added his wife, “we had servants
but my husband would not eat if I
did not cook the food.”

“American women grow old be-
fore their time, they are so busy.
Also they are too independent.”
We protested, but the economist
was adamant and alleged that un-
employment conditions would be
greatly alleviated if the American
woman would only stay at home
where she belonged. Tea cups|
crashed to the floor.

“Don’t be frightened. ' It is noth-
ing,” said the one who had been
introduced to us as the Hungarian
baby.

Every few minutes someone
said, “Oh, but you must meet Mr.
Stern,: the president. of..our Baby
Club. Perhaps he will be back
soon.”

At last he came. “Here’s Mr.
Stern,” said Mrs. Mamorck, “he
does not speak English very well.”

we asked.

“First I learned ‘I,’” he said,
“but if I had known you I would
have learned ‘you’ first.”



leross the border.

Land.qut. between them.”



Then gayly he told us with his
3000 words and no sentences the
saga of his life. In Vienna he had
been a poet and had written sev-
eral prose plays which were pro-
duced. He said he was now writ-
ing one about Shakespeare’s con-
flicts with the Puritans and with

his wife.
Mrs. Gelendin whispered, ‘He
was a very eminent man in

Vienna,”

In 1938 he had to leave Austria.
He flew to Czechoslovakia. because
he would not have been allowed to
When the Ger-
mans entered Czechoslovakia, he
went to France and there, after
war was declared in ’39, he, with
every other German or Austrian
male, was thrown into a concen-
tration camp. Last summer he
managed to get out of France by
climbing over the Pyrenees into
Spain.

When the Germans were bomb-
the Paris, Mr. Stern said they
aimed thousands of bombs right at
him, “but I didn’t care. I ran in

“Tt was too funny,” said ii
Mamorck, “I was going to meet
him_in the Paris station to take a
train to the south. The station
was full of people trying to escape
with all their possessions. And then
along. came Stern with a little bag
in one hand and his violin in the
other.” ®
- “That was all I needed,” added
Mr. Stern grinning.

“Tt was very funny. The trains

“Come over some night,” he sug-
gested. “And can you bring a
friend who plays the piano well?
Will she be beautiful?”

_“I am the All-American—baby,”|were~so-crowded Stern had to sit ~~ sie aa

announced Mr. Stern, his eyes on the floor,’ remarked Mrs. ‘

twinkling. “I have 3000 words and , Mamorck. :

no sentence.” “We would like to hear yqu $
“What word did you learn first?” | play,” we said.