College news, January 22, 1943

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VOL. XXIX, No. 13°

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Book-of-the-Month Club Makes Selection of [Exposition Given

Miller’s “Origins of American Revolution” By Kenneth Burke
| on Dramatie.Lyric







Choice Announced Friday;

| Miller Admits Feeling Lyric as Scene and Agent,
| Dazed ‘Dramatic as Action
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* Calendar

Friday, January 22
Last day of lectures for
the first semester.

Saturday, January 23
Mid-year examinations be-
gin. French Senior condi-
tion examinations, Taylor
Hall, 9.00.

Tuesday, February 2

Evarts, Iseman Speak on
Different Aspects
Of Problem
Goodhart, 1 '=—Tho
College News gave an Undergrad-

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ae | Discussed
Among its selections for the next |

‘few months, the Book-of-the-Month | “The dramatic is the relation of
Club has chosen The Ovigins of |scene and action, while the lyrie
be Mr is the relation of scene and agent,”
: , said Mr. Kenneth Burke in his lec-
{ture on “The Dramatic and the

January



uate Assembly last Friday morn- |the American Revolution,

15 pala eee | |
ing. The three divisions of ee) | John Chester Miller, assistant pro-
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action were also given. “To convey
a complete idea of the News,” said
Miss Evarts, “we should have to
produce an issue here for you.”
These speeches described the actual
production. Jessie Stone read a
freshman’s unbiased description of
the News office, and Alison Merrill
pictured the Editorial Board at
work. Edith Dent did the same for
the Subscription Board.

Referring to the Editorial policy,
Nancy Evarts emphasized the fact
that the News is primarily the en-
tire College’s medium of expres-

sion. She also stressed the impor- |

tance of such expression in stimu-
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Undergraduate Ass’n
Sponsors War Chest

Drive at Bryn Mawr



Specially contributed by the
Undergraduate Association Board

This Sunday, January 24th,
Philadelphia, opens a drive for the
United War Chest. Every person
in college will be asked to con-
tribute—the faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students, the maids
and porters, and members of the
staff. Give all that you can and
realize the enormous difference this
work makes to people whom the
war has affected directly. We ex-
pect one hundred percent support
and look on this drive as one de-
manding giving which is also giv-
ing up. This is the only drive to
be conducted on the campus this
college year for war relief.

It is unquestionably the most
direct way to support organiza-
tions you want active as never be-
fore. Your money will go. to:

1. Chinese, British, Greek, Rus-
sian, Polish and Dutch War Re-
lief, in the form of mobile kitch-
ens, food, clothing, medical sup-
plies, ambulances and aid to war
prisoners.

2. United .Charities Agencies
which help one out of five persons
dn ‘the Philadélphia Area with
hospital, clinical, nursing, and
many other services.

3. The National U. S. O. Cam-
paign, which will finance YM and
YWCA’s Traveler’s Aid, and USO
Service Clubs. There are 800

Tuesday, February 9
College Council,
dent’s House, 6.30.

Presi-







Dr. Frank to Return
As Flexner Lecturer



The first of six Flexner lectures
on Philosophy and Religion will be
Erich Frank, dis-
tinguished German _ scholar, on
Monday, February 8, at 8:30 in
Goodhart- Auditorium.

Dr. Frank has lectured at Bryn

given by Dr.

Mawr before, during the second
semester of 1939-1940. His lectures
were so popular that they increased
in attendance to the extent that
they had to be moved from the

Mu&Sic Room to Goodhart Auditor-
ium. During his residence on cam-

at Swarthmore the
and from there went.to Harvard,
where he was given a professorship
in the Philosophy Department.

Dr. Frank has written a book
on the relation of Plato to Pytho-
gorean philosophy, which is con-
sidered the fotemost work in the
field, and which is referred to in
histories of philosophy as the out-
standing authority.

In addition to the Flexner lec-

tures he will conduct informal dis- |

cussions on contemporary German
philosophy, particularly in rela-

tion to Jaspers, one of the expo- |

nents of the so-called “Existence
Philosophy.”

Seznec Will Discuss
Gods in Middle Ages

Mr. Jean Seznec, a member. of





Saturday, February 6 at 8:15
o’clock in the Common Room. His
subject will concern the gods of
antiquity as they survived in the
Middle Ages in Europe.

came to Harvard last year, having
taught previously at the Institute
Francaise in Florence. He is also

Etudes in New York City. The



units’ in this country. ie

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pus Dr. Frank also conducted a>“ d :
Seminary on Aristotle. He lectured ; Which contains the whole history of

same _ year, |

A reeognized scholar;Mr:-Seznec*



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the Department of French at Har- | the play included: Florence Senger,
vard, is scheduled to speak on! Emily Tuck, Therese Exton, Lor-



Haverford College, on January
15th. Mr. Wilson, who was com-
mended by Joyce for his review of
the final version of the book, ex-
plained the pattern of the book

with its themes and motives and |

its significance in literature as the
fullest expression of Joyce’s lyrical
genius.

“Joyce believed that the con-
sciousness of one man includes the
potentialities of everything man
has ever been or done,” explained
Mr. Wilson. Joyce presented this
theory in the form of man’s dream
which carries the three themes-—of
sleeping and waking, sinning and
redemption, and dying and resur-
rection.

The dreain consists of two lines
of thought. One tells the story of
the dreamer, H. L. Earwicker’s
family, which, like all of Joyce’s
other stories, is the study of family
relations through internal dynam-
ics. The other is the mythology

Continued or Page Three

French Club to Give
18th Century Comedy





The play, le Jeu de l’Amour et
du Hasard, by Marivaux, will be
presented by the French Club on
March 19 in Goodhart Hall. This

will be the first major production
by the French Club for many years.

The play is an eighteenth century |
comedy. The plot centers on a mar- |
riage arranged by parents who are
friends but whose children are un-

acquainted. The couple, in order |}:

to find out if the marriage will ce
one of love or convenience, ex- |
change identities with their ser-!|
vants, each one’s plan unknown to
the other. The result is a series
of humorous and confusing situa-
tions.

The committee which selected

een Pirrung, Nina Garsoian, Fran-,
coise Pleven, and Mimi Boal.

The cast of the play is yet to be
selected. ig





on the staff of the Ecole des Hautes |

lecture is sponsored by the Depart- ||
| ment of French of Bryn Mawr. , .



“Assembly
President McBride will
- speak at a College Assembly
in Goodhart Auditorium
‘Thursday, February 4, f
* 8.45 until 9.30 a. m.

'to find whether it was a dream.’ |

When he does, he plans to cele-
brate the occasion. “Maybe I'll go
to the movies tonight.”

| Because his appointment at
| Bryn Mawr was his first teaching
ione, he says, he spent the first year
and a half of his career here
|learning how to lecture. But he
continued to work with the ideas
|for his book and tried them out on
|the students both’ here and at
| Northwestern University. He
worked with his material so much
that he “practically wrote it down
| with his unconscious mind.”

Bryn Mawr, he dec!ares, is an
\ideal place to write a book, as the
faculty member here has amole
| opportunity for his own work.

Mr. Miller is planning a th-r]
| book on the war years of the revo-
jlution, 1776-1783, but he hastens
.to add that he does not want to be
rushed into another book, as so
many authors are. He feels that
six years is the minimum amount
of time for writing a book of this
type.. Then, only, he says, is the
author really able to.try out his

| ideas.

His present Book-of-the-Month
selection was completed in July,
1942, and he spent about six years
writing it. Its choice as a dividend
would entail less remuneration
than its acceptance as an actual
Book-of-the-Month, but a scholarly
book is more likely to be a dividend
to club members. Exhibiting com-
mendable modesty, Mr. Miller re-
marked that, in any case, the honor
was more than he had any right
to expect.

News board were represented. Mid - year examinations | fessor of American History at, Lyrical,” in the Music Room on
Nancy Evarts, Editor-in-Chief, end. | Bryn Mawr. The book, published | January 18. Mr, Burke based this
spoke on the aims and functions of Wednesday, February 3 ‘by Little, Brown and Company, is | differentiation on observations of
the News on campus. Alice Ise- 5 Vacation. JOHN C. MILLER | Mr. Miller’s second. His first on ae relations and on a. theory
man, Copy Editor, described some — pce ad : : i was Sam Adams, published in 1936. | . a.
of the problems confronting the | Laie i ssembly, Good- : | The judges announced the selection | kt esis en the — bet
«, News and the possibilities of sur- | ae Wilson Lauds Joyce ‘last Friday, but they have not akc sa ard Ng ~ wre
Second semester classes : Besson y 2 Aes y ilem and.definition-of-terms.- Using
mounting them, while Elizabeth begin. As Poet, Dramatist | decided whether the book will be} the dramatic as a basic, Mr. Burke
Watkins, of the Editorial Board, Saturday, February 6 I Fi 9 | presented to members as a Book-| worked out the five words—act,
stated the importance of freedom Jean Seznec, n Finnegan s W Ake of-the-Month or as a dividend. Mr. | scene, agent, agency and purpose.
of the Press in the results accom- Common Room, 8.15. | Miller believes that its choice as a| “These are the basis of human re-
plished by college editorials. Nancy Monday, February 8 “James Joyce is the greatest dividend is more likely. j ations and whatever your philos-
Seribner outlined the function of Rheinhold Niebuhr, Col- poet, the greatest imaginative | ene Peruaner mouped the, author | ophy ge bager ve ae
: lege Assembly, Goodhart dramatist since the great iui the club’s recognition on Fri-jthese five things,” ‘he declared.
the News off-campus, and. Louise 10.00 tas / ee a eerste eases , (day, and Mr. Miller admits that | Materialism stresses scene, ideal-
Horwood presented a picture of the mee eae Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare,” | he hasn’t. felt quite rational since|ism stresses agent, pragmatism
activity of the Business Board. Frank. Philosophy and stated Mr. Edmund ‘Wilson in his | then. In fact, he said, “I am in a) stresses. agency, and mysticism
Three speeches on the News in Religion. Goodhart, 8.30. || lecture on Finnegan's Wake at daze and expect to wake up soon Stresses purpose.

Two great pairs are formed from
these five terms. One pair is the
scene and action. The integration
of these terms, when the quality
of the scene contains the quality
of the action, form the dramatic.
When action exterminates motion,
it is behaviouristic and the dra-
matic is destroyed. The end of
O’Neill’s play, Mourning Becomes
Electra, was cited as an example.

The other pair is scene and
Continued on Page Fuur

Wooleott and Laylin
Discuss Journalism







Opportunities for women on
'~cwspapers and magazines were
| iseussed atethe Vocational Confer-
enc? held Saturday in the Deanery.
Speakers were Miss Joan Woolcott
of the Philadelphia Evening Bulle-
tin, Mrs. John Laylin of Time Mag-
azine, and Mr. Wells, Professor of
Politics at Bryn Mawr.

A history major at Swarthmore,
Miss Woolcott now writes feature
articles for the woman’s page of
the Bulletin. A general college edu-
cation including subjects such as
history, economics, English and
Government is the best prepara-
tion for a newspaper job, Miss
Woolcott said. Training at schools
of journalism is not accredited by
most big papers, with the excep-
tion of training received at either
the University of Missouri or the
Columbia School of Journalism.
Excellent practical experience

comes from working on a college
Continued on Page Three







Failure of Evening Mail Causes Comment;

New Motto is “All Pick-Up and No Delivery”



By Anne Denny, ’43

“Neither rain nor hail nor sleet
nor snow shall stay...” but the
climate at Bryn Mawr College is
beyond the pale,. even for these
faithful couriers. Whether the icy
blasts of Pembroke Arch or the
quicksands of Senior Row discour-

—but the millennium arrived on
Tuesday, January nineteenth. The
mail did not come through.

“Do you really mean that there
is no mail for anybody in the
whole college?” This awful thought
descénded upon the _pre-exam
gloom. Even the vicarious pleas-







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ure of seeing who gets mail and

aged the mailman, we do not. know)

who gets free mail is denied us
these cold days. We are totally
unpopular. Then the cloud was
considerably cleared by the rumor
that the postmaster just forgot.
After all he remembers the little
girls on the other side of the rail-
road tracks three times a day
every other day in the year.

nineteenth be a significant holi-
day? What is there about this
day, of all days? It seemed per-
fectly normal when we gazed at
the greying sky at nine o'clock in
the morning. “Little~did™we real-
ize that the. one purpose of living
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War Relief Drive

The only drive for war relief on campus this year will be
the United War Chest drive, in which the College, as part of the
Philadelphia area, will participate. To contribute to one drive is
to promote the activity of war relief organizations, U. S. O. and
charity agencies which are essential to the war effort. The drive
should receive the full support of every one on campus.

Such support means more than giving what you can comfort-
ably spare from your monthly allowance. It means some sacrifice
on the part of every student. Often those who are least able to
give are those who give most.
and there should be a proportional one from those who are able to |

To contribute is a sacrifice for them,

give more,

As the slogan says, “You too can fight—by giving.”
in Philadelphia have established a pay-deduction plan.
staff, maids and porters at Bryn Mawr will be asked to help.
contribution from every student is not too much_to ask.

Workers
Faculty,
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Examinations

With the approach of mid-year examinations the college is
about to enter into its usual state of exam hysteria. The cessa-
tion of lectures is the signal for students to stop activities and
concentrate all efforts, interests and thoughts upon the coming or-
deal. This increases nervous tension which not only destroys the
individual’s normal perspective, but prevents her from studying
thoroughly and_expressing herself. clearly on the examination.

-This year the problem will be more serious because of the
shortened exam period. It means more intensive study for rapidly
succeeding tests. There is also the press of papers due immedi-
ately preceding the exam. ala ON conditions which
we must take in our stride. The problem of unfinished reading
assignments is the individual’s own concern, and she should not
make others suffer for her own disorganization of time. Extra-
curricular activities require some students to cram, and this again
is the problem of the individual. This problem itself is caused by
the lack of active participation in college organizations which puts
all the work on the shoulders of the few instead of the many. It
would be more easily solved by a change in campus attitude.

It is extremely necessary that the strained atmosphere be elim-
inated as it is injurious to work, health and stability. We should
attempt to maintain normality by continuing as much as possible our
ordinary activities and interests. In the world at large we are
required to meet crises and carry on our everyday affairs simul-
taneously. Why should we create an artificial situation at college?



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OPINION









war effort. At Bryn Mawr as at
other her colleges « enrollment in Italian
has dropped almost to the vanish-

Study of Italian and German|_
Urged as Need in Wartime



**Equal Rights”

Bill No. 1 on the docket, of wr 78th Congress iSgbatled the
“Equal Rights Amendment.” — It proposes that “men and women
shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place
subject to its jurisdiction.” It is sponsored by the National Women’s
Party, which has been pushing it since 1923. In all this there is
nothing alarming. But a-partial list of the organizations and indi-
viduals who oppose the bill provides the best evidence of how
deceptive smooth-sounding proposals me be. The proposed amend-

|ment is opposed by the American Association of University Women,

the Women’s Trade. Union League, the National Councils of both
Catholic and Jewish women, YWCA leaders, Mrs. Roosevelt, Sec-
retary Frances Perkins, Mary Anderson (head of the Women’s
Bureau of the Department of Labor), and Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt (a veteran in the struggle for women’s suffrage).

This rather imposing list is not in itself a valid argument for
opposing the bill. The first matter to be investigated is the National
Women’s Party, the sponsoring body. The suffrage movement, in
which the Party played an important part, lifted it into a strategic
position in Washington, which it has attempted to use ever since.
While other suffrage organizations folded up when the jolwas
done, the Women’s party cast around for a new war cry. Many. of
the militant suffragists left its ranks at this point, and it began to
acquire the character of a group of well-to-do, ultra-feminist ladies
with a flair for publicity.

When the amendment was first proposed, one of. the Women’s
‘Party’s most loyal supporters, Mrs>Gtenover Evans, wrote-in-the
New Republic of September 26, 1923, as follows: “Accepted in per-
fect innocence by most of its advocates, it is being seized by reac-
tionaries to overthrow minimum wage laws, to imperil laws for
protection of motherhood and similar bulwarks for the well-being
of the race.” By this time the only “innocent” supporters of the
bill are outside the ranks of the Women’s Party. This has been
made clear by the lobbyist activities of the Party in State legislatures
against social or labor legislation for women as “restrictive.” They
lobby now with employer groups for the passage of this bill because
they are aware of its anti-labor character.

If this bill were specifically directed against laws that discrimi-
nate against women, such as laws on divorce, ownership of wages,

“+guardianship of estates, and custody of children, it would deserve

the support of all progressive women. But because it is a blanket
‘amendment all the good it might bring would be cancelled out by
the bad. Mothers’ aid, widows’ pensions, and laws to regulate
wages, hours, safety and sanitation for women industrial workers
will be automatically nullified by this amendment. This is why the
i bill is opposed by the women leaders and organizations, cited above.
This is why it should be actively opposed by all alert and advanced
women and men. -The bill is before both houses now. It is now
sponsored by 40 Representatives and 15 Senators. Time is short.
By Jessie Stone, 44.







'OnRoman Civilization







WIT*S END

To sleep, perchance to dream:
But if there were time to sleep
the dreams could go chase them-
selves among the flocks of sheep
we never need to count. And
doesn’t anybody Have some benze-
drine?

Cold weather; our boots stay dry
outside and wet inside, and oh how
dry I am. April is the cruellest
month but November wasn’t so hot,
December comes but once a year
and Spring is still too damn far
away. Heaven should wait!

Years and years we mend’ our
weary way but a chapter in time
still leaves nine. Weary ways and
weary we, this time we'll start a
month ahead. Still we fix our-
selves soup and coffee (did I say.
coffee?) the night before the morn-
ing after. After the bawl is over
the angels begin to sing, but then
it’s only one of those blasted ket-
tles.

Keep the home fires burning.
If you can get the fuel. If not,
try a few freshman papers. Fresh-
| man papers till all wee hours of
the morning, growing not so wee

Music Room, January 14.—Dr.
, E. A. Lowe presented an illustrated

lecture on Roman culture as re-
flected in Latin manuscripts. Us-
ing slides of well-known manus-
scripts, he traced the development
of hand writing in the early years
of Christianity and pointed out
some of the ways in which a manu-
script can be dated and placed by
the abbreviations used, and by its
peculiar characteristics.

In the third, fourth, and fifth
centuries fine books were occasion-
ally copied from inscriptions chis-
eled on stone monuments, and this
is why some early Roman manu-
scripts are written in square cap-
itals. Rustic capitals, modified
from square capitals, also develop-
ed about this time. They are not
so large and the corners tend to
be rounded. One of the manuscripts
shown was a philosophical treatise
found at Herculaneum and: writ-
ten in rustic capitals. The latter
work may have been copied for a
prince or for an aged gentleman,
Dr. Lowe suggested. Rustic cap-
itals were used only for special
work by the end of the sixth cen-
tury. In fact, capital writing of

Dr. E. A. Lowe Speaks

By Miss Taylor

To the Editor of the College News:

In the New York Times of Janu-
_ary 7th the Civil Service Commis-
sion reports urgent need for candi-
dates with a good knowledge of
Italian and German. Meantime the



ished and Students are not only

great lit-
jeatures. but are failing to acquire



tools that are very useful in the

&

ing point. Although the study of
elementary German has been less
seriously affected than was true

‘under the shortsighted policy that
prevailed in the lastwar, there

has been a-great decrease both in|’
beginning German and in the more
advanced work which is needed for

‘command of a difficult language.

Attention has been rightly directed

to the new opportunity for Russian

at Bryn Mawr. We should also be
Continuea -on-Page Four ‘

Tu ee

as hours go by. Mourning. becomes.
Electra. Morning becomes mourn-
ing. Morning does not become us.
Why are fire engines red; fire
engines are fire prevention, pre-
-vention is taking care, take care
or you'll flunk, is my face red!
Wind whistling, smoke thicken-
ing, just a guess in the dark, a
flash in the pan against fire rules,
‘and shall I-put.up my -hajy to-
night? Hair, hair? Ugh, I guess







both kinds ceased to exist for whole
texts about at the close of the fifth
century.

Fine books. were now written in
uncials.. These are less formal and
more rounded characters, distin-
guished especially by the curved
forms of the letters A, D, E, H,
and M. Dr. Lowe showed on the
screen a palimpsest of Cicero’s De
Rerum Republica, written in un-
cial script. Uncial changed for or-
i Continueo on Page Four



A faculty show will be
given sometime in February.
It is still i#\ embryo stage,
but Miss Yéager and Miss
| King, among others, are
working:hard on it. At pres-.
ent, they lack a faculty pi-
ano-player.

In Print

“Only the Stars Are Neutral”
Is Entertaining Account

Of War Fronts

“BY Patricia Platt, ’45

“ ‘lig in,-pal, here they come,’
the Colonel yelled.” When bombs
fall on men trapped in trenches—
“only the stars are neutral in. a
fight like this.” Without doubt,
the account reads more like a novel
than a document. Although flip-
pant compared with Berlin Diary,
it has a quality of ingeniousness
that sharpens every. situation.
Food is a major problem to corre-
spondents. The story is not only
one.of war in Europe, but also a













history of the correspondent’s
stomach. It is amazing, genuine, .
likeable; unless ‘the journalistic.

style irritates the reader.

Only the Stars Are Neutral is
powerful both because of its con-
tent and because of its manner of
‘expression. Collier’s correspond-
ent goes from an interview with
Churchill into the thick of the bat-
tle for Moscow, thence to the
height of Rommel’s African cam-
paign. All this is told as auto-
biography, and his comments are
leavened with forceful opinion. At
dinner with Stalin and all the high
Russian officials, Reynolds is so
engrossed by the food that the
menu is printed in full, and thor-
oughly described as well. He
| passes the journalists’ judgment
‘on Molotov. Mr. Reynolds writes:
“They think him cold, ruthless,
and no doubt he is.” “Molotov al-
ways looks as though he is watch-
ing’ someone else suck a lemon.”
Molotov, Reynolds says, looks like
Groucho Marx, and he then re-
veals the interesting fact that Sta-
lin is bowlegged. —- Stalin has
marked religious views: after din-
ner he proposes a toast asking di-
vine guidance for Roosevelt. Mr.
Reynolds revels in episodes like
this, and so may the responsive
reader. A very detailed and psy:
chologically forceful description is
that of the desert bombing. Equally
startling is the flight from Russia
through the stratosphere with the
Litvinovs.

Despite the events covered, the
whole winter of 1941-1942, it is a
layman’s book, written with more
than one éye on popular appeal.
It is somehow reminiscent of an
invigorated Hollywood. Mr. Reyn-
olds is ‘quite frank. In what he
thinks ‘will be his last hour he
cannot refrain from noticing that
the flares remind him of the New
York World’s Fair. The book is
excellent reading. Just step into
wonderland with Mr. Reynolds, the
man with courage, an eye for
every detail, and a tremendous ap-
petite for caviar.



| Air Corps

Students who wish to at-
tend any Saturday evening
dances given in the Common
Room for the cadets of the
Air Corps _ stationed in
Wayne, should see the fol-
lowing:

Denbigh: Kay Tappen,
Mary Patricia Murnaghan.

Pembroke West: Diana
_Lucas, Sally Matteson.
' Pembroke’ East: Kitty

Rand, Hildreth Dunn.
_.... Rockefeller: Jean Brunn,
Anne Burnett. ;
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Fenwick Discusses
War-Time Relations

With Latin America

Goodhart, January: 13.—

~The American people should not
believe that they can substitute a
policy of “continental solidarity”
for the larger task of cooperating
to maintain law and order in the
world at large, Mr. Charles Fen-
wick pointed out in his address on
war-time relations with Latin
America. He emphasized the desire
of the South American countries to
cooperate fully with the United
States in an effort to establish a
world of law and order. He made |
no promise of early victory, but
stressed the need for faith in the
long struggle ahead.

Mr. Fenwick, professor of Polit-
ical Science at Bryn Mawr, is a
member of the Inter-American
juridicial Committee. Returning ,
from Rio de Janiero on a business |
trip, he made a short visit to the
campus. His decision to work for
peace dated as he described it, from
his presence in a Berlin church
the day after Germany’s declara-
tion of war in 1914. Rapidly re- |
viewing the attempts made by the |
United States to avoid participa-
tion in a second world catastrophe,
he laid their failure to our inability
to realize the importance of collec-
tive responsibility and to our naive
belief in a working neutrality.











We can hope to’ develop real and
effective cooperation among. the!
American States only in the frame-
work of a larger world union, a'
universal system of law and order.
There are problems confronting
many of the Latin American states
which cannot possibly be solved by
mere regional federation. A neces- |



sary world system, Mr. Fenwick |
feels, can be established if we have
the faith to believe it can be done.



Speech to be Given
By Reinhold Niebuhr

Mr. Rheinhold Niebuhr, profes-
sor at the Union Theological Sem-
inary, will speak at a College As-
sembly on Monday, February 8th,
at 10.00. Mr. Niebuhr is con-
cerned with all the problems fac-
ing Americans today especially
those confronting young people.
The building of their ideas into,
a constructive yet practical view
is his main interest. He has been
associatéd with the recent Youth
and Religious Movements in N. Y.,
and lectured a few years ago in
Scotland and England on Present
Day Problems in the Church. It
is the quality of being ‘contempor-
ary’, said Mrs. Grant, that makes
him such a dynamic man.and con-
vineing preacher.

At one time he was closely. as-
sociated with the Labor and Paci-
fist Movements, and the Interna-
tionalists, but some two months be: }
fore the war, Mr. Niebuhr changed
his pacifist stand. He is still sym- |
pathetic to its claims but found
that it was impossible to hold
when facing a war of Ideologies.
He does not rely solely on the eimo-
tional force of his arguments, but
thinks that ‘what is worth believ-
ing in, is worth examining. The
subject of Mr. Niebhur’s lecture is
not yet known.









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Wilson Lauds Joyce
As Poet, Dramatist



Continued from Page One .
the world. It is this that really
expressed Joyce’s theory of the
consciousness.

The two leading themes:are that

dof the masculine and feminine, and !

the “two. boys.. The masculine : is
Earwicker and the feminine is the
river Liffy which is identified with
all the women in Earwicker’s life,
but mainly with his wife and
daughter. The river starts as a
cloud and represents his daugh-
ter Isabel in its early stages.
At a mature stage it is the wife
Anna. The entity of the river as
a theme is known as Anna Livia
Plurabelle.

The two boys are Earwicker’s



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Erratum : :
Discuss Journalism

The News omitted to men- |



tion in its report on the
painting of the Gymnasium
last week the work of Mr.
Kraushimel and Mr. Domi-
nick, who were responsible
for much of the painting.

Continued from Page One
newspaper, or being a college corre-
“spondent for a big newspaper. The
ideal way to get experience, Miss
| Woolcott said, used to be to get a
' job on a small paper. Although this
| is still a good method, it is easier
today to get placed on a métropoli-
tan journal without this prelimin-
ary work. —

The tendency to day is toward
increased specialization in news-
paper work. Most fields that are
open to men are closed to women.
Only in the feature-writing field do
women outnumber men. Women,
said Miss Woolcott, can perform





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Benedict Discusses
Culture Assimilation

In Post-War Period

“The assimilation of cultural dif-
ferences after the war presents as
great a problem for America as for ;
any other country,” said Dr. Ruth
Fulton Benedict in an informal dis-







a great contribution to the war

}cussion held Sunday afternoon at; here. They write about day-nurs-

twin sons, Jerry and Shaun, who | the home of Miss Mildred Fair- | eries, rationing, collecting salvage,
are identified with various charac- | child and Miss Susan Kingsbury. 'and other stories about the war

ters. Earwicker himself is at times }
identified with one and then the}

other. Jerry is called Shem and

represents the outlaw, the devil, in |
other words the bullied one. Shaun |
represents the less_ intellectual, |

more successful man and appears

the person of St. Michael and the |

like forces.

The whole book is not yet clearly | cated c

understood by anyone, Mr. Wilson
declared. The best way to ap-
proach the° story is to read the
great poets. Joyce is similar to
these poets in that he presents

sounds and character through
language and images.
In Finnegan’s Wake, Joyce|

| wished to show the phases .of the

sleeping consciousness and, since
the ideas of such a consciousness
are distorted, Joyce used a dis-
torted language. He strove for the
molten language of Shakespeare,
using the technique of the great
poets and the device of portman-

| teau words, two words combined

into one. It is through the use of
onomatopoeia and rhythm that the
effect of the dreamer’s heavy
breathing and snoring is achieved
and sustained through the whole
book. Every line of the book has
several meanings, for the rhythm,
sound and sense of each word con-
vey different connotations.

A recording of Joyce reading the
famous Anna Livia Plurabelle
chapter was played. Then Mr.
Wilson read the last pages of the
book. He called them the greatest
thing in the literature of our time.

Second Term Offers

New Elective Courses





There are many new elective
courses to be given second semes-
ter. President McBride’s course,
Child Psychology, has not yet been
scheduled, but it is a free elective
in the field of education.. Dean
Grant will give her course in His-
tory, The Near and Middle East,

which covers from the founding of
the Ottoman Empire to the West-
ernization' of the Near East.

A second year Philosophy course,
Recent Philosophy, will be offered
by Mrs. DeLaguna and Mr. Weiss.
This will meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 11 a. m., and on
Wednesday at 2 p. m. Mr. Velt-
man will give an advanced course
in Metaphysics, which will follow
Mr. Weiss’s Man and Society, and
will meet at the same hours. It
will deal with the central meta-
physical problems, and is open to
students who have taken German
Idealism, with the permission of
the Dean’s office.



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America has. long thougnt its that touch the lives of housewives.

standards the height of culture, | She said that men drafted into
and although we have made great | the army are not being replaced by
progress within the past ten years,’ women to any great degree. Copy
an even more humble, cooperative girls are somewhat in demand, also
| attitude must be developed. Amer- district and court reporters, al-
jica’s Latin and South American® though not many women have yet
policies have been..strained until filled these positions.

| recently when, in spite of deep- | Newspaper work today is defi-
ral differences, we have} nitely .. stabilized, Miss —Wooleott

achieved 9 measure of success in| said, Reporters are inclined to
; -, ; ~ “ .

our Pan-American relations. “We! stay with the same newspaper.

have shqwn a willingness to con-! There are fewer “purges” and re-

sider and put through. projects re-
| quested by and. benefiting our
| neighbors of the Southern Hemis-

organization by publishers. The
Newspapermen’s Union guarantees
job stabilization in contracts. An
eight hour day. is provided for,
with time and one-half pay for
overtime.

Mrs... Laylin, who majored in
history at Bryn Mawr and works
in the research department of
Time, spoke about the work that
is open to women on magazines.
There are six thousand magazines
in the country, Mrs. Laylin said.
Many of these, such as the Histori-
cal Review, cover special fields and
require more specialization than a
college education offers. Young

people who want to show their in-
Continued on Page Four



| phere.”

| “Asia’s cultural differences will |
| be much more difficult to assimilate |
than Europe’s,” continued Miss |
Benedict. “Are we going to be flex-
\ible enough to understand the |
broad meaning of democracy?” |
China, although essentially demo-
| cratic, has had no experience with |
the techniques .we consider funda-
mental, stated Miss Benedict. India
will present an even more difficult
problem than China. Representing
a broader point of view, Europe
| will create less difficulties than
Asia in post-war cultural relations.

Miss Benedict stressed the im-
portance of patience in dealing with
countries whose cultures differ
from ours. Forcing sudden rises in
standards will not work, she con-
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lished several books. Her most re-
cent works, Race: Science and Pol-
itics, and Patterns of Culture, have
been widely acclaimed.

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lecture on Nutfition, Economics,
and Policy, Dr. Joseph Davis dis-
cussed the problems of nutrition
in relation to war time _ supplies
and ‘heeds.

The consumer, said Dr. Davis,
buys according to his wants and not
his needs. In war time, government
direction of atrition actually
has raised the Tensaras of British
health. While the British have re-

‘Tauced their diet, Dr. Davis

asserted, they have directed the
preference of people away from
food with the least nutrients.
“While their want for food is not

; satisfied, their negds for nutrients

are,” states Dr. Davis.

In this country we are also better
nourished than formerly. The nu-
trition expert has injected vitamin
A into oleomargarine when we
can’t have butter, and the social
scientist has helped to begin a
nutritional campaign to show that
substitutes can keep us_ healthy.
It is his job to bring harmony be-
tween what the consumer demands
and what, according to standards
determined by the natural scientist,
he must have.

One job, Dr. Davis said, still
faces us. This is one solution of
the problem of “freedom from
want,” one of the seven freedoms
of the Atlantic Charter. It will, he
said, take all the knowledge of the
biologist and economist to do this,
but much can be done to aid the
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OPINION

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aware of the fact that excellent
opportunities for training in Ital-
ian and German are not fully used.
Sincerely yours,
LILy Ross TAYLOR.



Plea for Grass Preservation
Advanced by Two Anxious
Students —

To the Editor of the College News:



Does the thought of spring ap-
peal to you these dark days? Pic-

ture the smooth expanses of green



that the lawns, now so pale, should,

ideally, present when the days of |

warm sun arrive.

Let’s put thought into immediate
action. Must we have muddy paths
crisscrossing the lawns and mak-
ing triangles out of every square
corner? Should it be necessary to
have ropes and poles as an eye-
sore until the very week of gradua-
tion? There seems to be an erron-
eous impression that brown, worn
grooves in January will be mirac-
ulously transformed into smooth,
green lawn when the calendar says
May. It’s not true; every Spring
two months are spent in coaxing
new grass to fill the brown places
in order that \they will look nice
for the last week of college.

Let’s use the ounce of prevention
now. Even if the ground is frozen,
each foot wears off the helpless and
downtrodden blades. But far worse
is it when rainy weather makes the
earth soft and muddy and tramp-
ing feet create a chain of caverns.
When it grows cold, these are
frozen in hard ruts, and what was
once a lawn begins to resemble a
ploughed field. This cannot be
cured merely by walking on it
again when the ground has thawed.

This year there will not be the



Dr. E. A. Lowe Speaks

On Roman Civilization





Continued from Page Three |
dinary use into the half-uncial
script, which was a mixture of)
miniscular and majescular letters. |

The sixth century, the beginning |
of the Middle Ages, found classical |
elements on the wane. All of!
Europe suffered from Barbarian |
invasions. There was a great |
dearth of manuscripts everywhere |
except in Ireland. There, the pre-,

‘we can reap the fruits of our labors



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“We) are not a}
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closed corporation,” she said. “You |

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Continue
lating opinion.

all contribute to the News through |
your activities and ideas.”
Alice Iseman explained the dif- |
ficulties of the Editorial Board in |
taking a stand either on political |
She said
that “uncertainty as to campus re-
action” was an important problem |
of the News. Another difficulty
arises over the News’ function.
Should it be to instruct or to en- |
tertain?
Elizabeth Watkins spoke on the
importance of freedom of the Press
in college. With this freedom, the |

issues or on local ones.

News can support campaigns and |
promote various projects. Nancy
Scribner emphasized the relation
which the News establishes between |
Bryn Mawr and the off - campus
readers. In addition to being sent |
to other colleges and to alumnae, |
the News goes to the Office of ‘War |
Information, the Executive Office |
of the President and the Library |
of Congress. Miss Scribner stressed |
the fact that outside organizations
are interested in the currents of |
thought on campus. |



|
|
numerous gardeners to work over |
the exhausted ground and plant |
new seed.

The campus is not so large that |
walking on the sidewalk will cause |
one to lose precious minutes. Let’s |
try to overcome the psychological
barrier of a square corner. More-
over, the slight increase in exercise
will put new life into brains worn
out with intellectual exertion.

We realize that these arguments
are used every year in April when
spring is obviously on the way;
they produce excellent results
which are only..enjoyed by the
classes entering the following fall.
Let’s make the effort now so that

as soon as the first signs of spring
arrive. Then the grass can keep up
with all the rest of the greenery
on campus. It will be lovely not
only during the one-week of Com-
mencement, but during all Spring
when we can enjoy it.
M. HARDENBERGH, ’43,

F. MATTHAI, ’43,



Failure of Evening
Mail Causes Comment



Continued from Page One

‘the ability to

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WHAT TO DO

The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has announced ‘oppor-
tunities for graduate study in in-
dustrial economics.



The Nati®nal Advisory Commit-
tee for Aeronautics, Langley Fteld,
Hampton, Virginia,.*has openings
in various positions that ‘require
absorb -knowledge
limited, training, such as
work, laboratory ap-
prentice work, operating duplicat-
ing machines and telephones, as
well as typing and stenography.

with

McCann-Erickson is planning t6
have a training program for col-

'lege’graduates who want a career

in advertising. Students are em-
ployed for twenty dollars a week.

'They work as office girls, and in

the performance of their various

| duties and in the courses they take,
‘learn about the different depart-

ments of the company. They will
then work into a higher position
in one of the departments.

The William Becker Studios, In-
corporated, in New York, are look-
ing for models for fashion photo-
graphs.



Exposition Given
By Kenneth Burke

Continued trom Page One
agent. Their relation is the prin-
ciple of the lyric. There is only
movement in the lyric in that there
is transcendence of imagery. The
lyric has attitude which is incipi-
ent action. The example which was
given was Wordsworth’s poem,
Evening on Calais Beach, in here
the octave builds up the scene of



| the divine with imagery, then the

sestet introduces the girl, the
agent who becomes divine without
moving.

Mr. Burke then applied the

theory to the world outside of lit-
erature. In the world at large it
is the relationship of act and state.
It is an act if the properties of
a role are used. A state exists when
the properties are not used. If the
king performs his duties asa
ruler, it is an act of kingship. It
is a state of kingship if the king is
only a figurehead. In history, a
new form always comes in when-
ever an act becomes the state.



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Continued from Page Thre

porting on the house organs pub-
lished by big industrial companies.

azine work, the writing and the
editing. The writers and _ the
editors of Time collaborate, Mrs.
Laylin said. Time is a _ source
and interpreter of international
news. All material from the out-
side is carefully considered and
rewritten
standard and a un*form style may
be maintained. Although experts
are not necessary in the research
jobs, Time demands general intelli-
gence and alertness.

Time is an example of group
journalism. There is collaboration
between. men’ and women. The
women find “threads out of which
the story is written, and the men
do the actual writing.” These
women research workers also check
a story for mistakes after it is
written. They must be painstak-
ing, for any one of Time’s million
readers may catch the smallest er-
ror,._-Only._three_or four women
are reporters on Time and these
are usually specialists, such as the
sports and medical writers.

Mr. Wells discussed job oppor-
tunities in the O. W. I. and in
government publications. Oppor-
tunities offered in journalism by
the Federal Government include
the positions of reader-coder (clip-
ping pertinent newspaper clippings
for the O. W. I.), editorial assist-
ants, for which English majors
with a junior professional rating
can qualify, propaganda analysts,
assistant translating editor, assist-
ant news editor, for which experi-
ence is necessary. The Federal
Government also publishes over
150 periodicals, some of which are
working on post-war problems.
There is some chance for employ-
ment on these, Mr. Wells stated.

dividuality will find that there are |
opportunities for independent re- |

There are two element/}in mag: |

in order that. a high |

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Try-Outs

News try-outs for the edi-
|| torial staff will be held for
| Freshmen and Sophomores
the first week of second se- ,
mester. Remember that Miss |
Woolecott stressed the impor-
tance of having been on a
college newspaper for a jour-

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nalistic career.
| POR.

Alliance Will Sponsor

|
Course in Personnel





' The Alliance is sponsoring an
| extra-curricular lecture series on
| Personnel Management, to be given
|in the second semester especially
|for juniors and seniors who have
‘taken psychology, labor movements
| or industrial organization. All in-
| terested upperclassmen are eligible

| to attend.

| Personnel experts from private
| industry, and from the United
| States Employment Service will co-
operate with Miss Fairchild and
| Mr. Wells in presenting the lec-
/tures, which will probably take
| place on Thursday evenings.

The lectures will be on such
topics as the nature of personnel
work; the place of the personnel
| worker in industry and in govern-
|ment; job analysis; classification;
time and motion studies. They will
explain the United States Employ-
ment Service, its functions and its
testing and interviewing techni-
ques; they will discuss women in
the labor market, the actual proc-
ess of collective bargaining, occu-
pational disease, and_ industrial
efficiency.





Erratum

The News last week erro-
neously reported that the
course on Art and Culture of
the Far East would be given
on Tuesday afternoons. It
will be given from four to
six on Thursdays.







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vious century had seen numerous for eight hours and forty-two and
monasteries come into existence.|a half minutes of the day would
These became high seats of learn-|be deprived us, and that as we
ing. Manuscripts of the Bible, of stumbled into the hall at five-fifty
theological and _ liturgical -works | we would be met with such deso-
had been brought into the country | lation.
during the fifth and sixth centuries; Information gleaned from a
through Gaul. These were pre-| maid in Rhoads who got it first
-served and copied in Ireland, and | hand from a mailman tells us that
thence were made available to all) the post office hasn’t had time to
of Europe by Irish ea ac [aart it yet. So cheer up girls.
Certain almost temperamental | This is war.
characteristics and curious abbre- |
viations distinguish Irish manu-'
scripts from those of other parts,
of Europe. |
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