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THE COLLEGE NEWS





VOL. XVIII, No. 4

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA.,“°WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1941

Copyright,

Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS

Bryn Mawr College, 1940





A New Red Class
Welcomed to Fold
At Lantern Night

Black Stocking Era Out





Alice Crowder, ’42

The usual impressiveness of Lan- |,

tern Night was enhanced by the

advent of another red class. As
the strange and—haunting melody
and harmony of the traditional
Pallas Athene Thea grew in volume
from the first far-away strains in
the depths of the library, the num- |
ber of bobbing red glows increased '
until it filled the darkness of the |
covered walk. The red lights were ,
weakly coordinated by the aput- |
tering and all _ but _ invisible
gleams of the blue lanterns of
Senior lantern swingers. Like the
manifestation of will-o’-the-wisps
the lights and music seemed, until
the Sophomores assembled around
the pool and the results of 'the “end
of the black stocking era” became
apparent. Visible beneath the lan-
terns were hundreds of legs. The
illusion was broken, not to be re-
stored until the freshmen filed back ;
through/the cloisters. The peak of
the ceremony came in the giving
of lanterns to the Freshmen and
the retreat of the Sophomores ac-
companied by a sound like that of
the flight of a flock of birds.

Long before the Freshman hymn,
which year after year proves its
superiority over the more melodic
Sophomore hymn in its lack of
monotony, began to die away the
crunch of gravel announced the de-
parting guest, a deplorable sign of
lack of consideration.

In the singing in Pembroke Arch
the Sophomores far excelled, par-
ticularly in choice of lyric songs

and in harmony. With the singing
Continued on Page Four







Calendar
Thursday, October 23
International Relations
Club, Common Room, 4.30
Py mi
Friday, October 24
A./A. Talk on. Skiing, Mr.
Von Neudegg, 7.30 P. M.
Square Dance with Haver-
ford, Gym, 8.30 P. M.
Saturday, October 25
Hockey, Univ. of Penna.
Sunday, October 26
Chapel, Dr. Howard Thur-
man.
Monday, October 27
Mary Moon, Vogue Prix
de Paris, Deanery, 4.30
P.M,
Dr. Richter, Attic Art in
the Age of Tyrants, Good-
hart, 8.30 P. M. ‘
Wednesday, October 29
Hockey, Swarthmore.







Islands’ Sculpture
Outlined by Richter

In Flexner Lecture



In the second Flexner lecture,
Dr. Richter described the art of the
Aegean Islands, Asia Minor and
Egypt, and South Italy and Sicily
in the late seventh and early sixth
century, B. C.

Among the islands, Aegina, an
important mercantile center, was
active in the sculptural, field and
her seventh century coins are the
earliest in European Greece. The
great achievement of Thasos is the
collossal Kriophorus of an early
date. Naxos, largest and most
fruitful of the Cyclades, was one
of the first Greek states to experi-
ment in the carving of stone sculp-
ture; the dedications in the sanc-

tuary of Apollo at Delos give us
Continued on Page Three



Bugs Are Bugs, But Bugs Aren't Beetles;

Lepisma Saccharina

Uses Military Tactics



By Sally Matteson, ’43

Femininity is nowhere more blat-
antly revealed than in reactions to
insects. Our indiscriminate hor-
ror of creepy, buzzy things is not
in keeping with the Bryn Mawr
tradition of mature inquiry and
judgment. For there are bugs, and
bugs. Only a few, in fact, are
bugs. A June Bug, for instance,
is actually a May Beetle. Some
aren’t even insects. Spiders, who
give the most ardent feminist a mo-
mentary chill, are more _ nearly
crabs; and the handsome, striped
centipede, which we watched cir-
cling the floor of a certain shower
we know and disappearing quietly
down the drain, is something quite
different.

Appalled at the mass ignorance,
we have started a “Know What
You’re Squealing At” «campaign.
For days we have been chasing,
trapping, and identifying speci-
mens found inside college buildings.
Our discover‘es may be divided
roughly into things that crawl and
things that fly.

Crawling ones are more exciting.
The gun-metal creature of. the

Common Room floor, which has the |

deadly, unerring approach of a
small tank, is Lepisma Saccharina.
He is fond of sugar, followed by a
bit of wall-paper. Wednesday we
pursued a triangular bug down a
Pembroke corridor, and found that
he is called Enschistus Variolarius
and smells. He has an undesirable,
and we hope scarce, relative, Cimex
Lectularius, (Latin, lectus, bed).
Another unpopular crawler, Peri-
planeta Americana (cockroach),



was seen scuttling in the kitchen
of one of the halls—it shall be
nameless. Little red wood-lice
abound. We can only trust that
they are the sole representatives of
their tribe, for Reticulitermes Fla-
vipes (termite), and Pediculus
Capitis, (Latin, caput, capitis,
head), are near lice cousins. Ants
are too common to mention. Bee-
tles are a confusion, but perhaps
the black one in Merion basement
was a Harpalus Pennsylvanicus.
We note, by the way, a distressing
tendency for species to be. called
Pennsylvanicus, and, alas, there is
one small fly whose name is Sapro-
myza Philadelphica!

Flying things are less interest-
ing. Moths are enigmas, since no
two look alike. Then there are
mosquitoes, Anopheles and Culex,
and thousands of Musca Domestica,
but they are dull. Nobody screams
at them. Female terror seems to
be directly proportional to the
length-of-insect-legs, and a “flying
daddy long-legs,” Bittacomorpha
Clavipes,—he who complains:

“My six long legs, all here and

there,

Oppress my. bosom with des-

pair,”—
causes, perhaps, the most actual
fainting.

This is just the beginning of our
research, but the next time your
room-mate stands transfixed before
a centipede, demanding hysterically
that you remove him, just remem-
ber that he is a Sentigera Forceps,
close cousin of Lithobius Erythro-
cephalus and Euphoberiidae Acan-
therpestes, and act accordingly.

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Alumnae Return for Successful Weekend,
Hear Faculty Speak on War Perspective



Representatives of
Many Classes Return



Alumnae weekend brought back

many alumnae, representing a

large number of classes, to the
campus. The college offered them

varied entertainment.

Starting Friday evening with
Lantern Night, the weekend activi-
ties included two plays given by
the Players’ Club—The Twelve
Pound Look and Rosalind—an ad-
dress by Dr. John D. Gordon at
the formal opening of the Rare
Book Room; and a series of four

| lectures by members of the faculty

in the departments of history and
political science entitled Perspec-
tive After Two Years of War.



Election
The Self-Government Asso-
ciation takes pleasure in an-

nouncing the election of
Helen Resor as Vice-Presi-
dent.







B. M., Haverford and
Swarthmore Continue
Academic Cooperation



In spite of hindrances the co-
operative work between’ Bryn
Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore
continues this year with renewed
vigor, Miss Park announced in her
recent report to the Board of Di-
rectors. There is the usual ex-
change of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr students_and_ the two —col-
leges are using several professors
in common. Moreover, Dr. Jorge
Basadre of the University of San
Marcos in Lima has been assigned
for the year to Swarthmore, Hav-
erford and Bryn Mawr by the Com-
mittee on Cultural Relations with
South America.

Dr. Basadre will give a course
at Swarthmore the first semester
and an advanced course to both
Bryn Mawr and Haverford the sec-
ond. During his stay in the United
States he is writing a history of
Peru, requestéd for the Shotwell

Series of Latin American Histories.

The death of Professor Brooks of
Swarthmore and the inability of
Mr. Mantoux and Mr. Broderson to
accept! the visiting professorships
offered them by Bryn Mawr and
Swarthmore respectively has re-
duced the cooperative work in the
social sciences. -However, Dr.An-
dre Weil, of Haverford and Mr.
Asensio of Haverford and Mr. Bern-
heimer of Bryn Mawr will lecture
at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford.

Miss Park to Attend —
West Coast Meetings





Miss Park is planning a month’s
trip, during which she will address
and attend a series of meetings
on the West Coast.

Leaving for. the West Coast the
first or second of November, Miss
Park will arrive in Los Angeles
the sixth, when her round of
speeches and meetings begins al-
most immediately. As chairman
of the College Entrance Examina-
tion Board, she will speak to the
head-mistresses of the Pacific
Coast November 7. President Park
will spend the seventh and eighth
with this group, attending various
discussions and meetings. From

Continued on Page Five



History and Politics Departments Combine :
In Symposium on War, Present and Future

ROBBINS

Taylor Hall, Room’ D, October
18,—Opening this series of lectures,
Miss Robbins discussed the Jrish
Problem. . She considered the ques-
tions of British naval bases in Ire-
land, of the racial minority. in
Ulster, and of the internal difficul-
ties of any small neutral nation
wishing to become self-sufficient.

By the treaty of 1938, Ireland be-
came little more than an honorary
member of the British Empire. It
has the advantages of freedom
from British immigration laws and
of protection by the British navy,
but owes no obligations to England.

Naval Bases

The naval bases; which had been
ceded to England in 1922, were re-
turned to Ireland in 1988 by the
Chamberlain administration. De
Valera considered their possession
by Ireland essential. The impor-
tance of the bases to England in
securing Atlantic lines and _ in
guarding against possible invasion,
is, Miss Robbins said, obvious; but
their present use would probably
strain Anglo-Irish relations’ by
making Ireland feel she was being
drawn into the war.

Disunity of North and South

Although the Irish constitution
claims all Ireland for the Free
State, the North and South have
not yet united. Since Ulster is
richer than the Irish Free State,
Protestant in religion and still po-
litically bound to England, its in-
habitants do not regard Union with

Southern Ireland favorably,. The
Continued on Page For



First Forum Opens

With Four Speakers



The first student Forum will be
held on Saturday evening, Novem-
ber 7, in the Common Room. Four
speakers will give brief talks on
opinion groups in the four regions
of the United States that affect
our national policy. The _ inter-
ests, organization, and effect of
such groups, along with some idea
as to their history, will be pre-
sented. Following the speeches
there will be an open discussion
in which the speakers will answer
uestions.

_—

MANNING

Taylor Hall, Room G, October
18.—‘Any attempt at a common
legislature of the English speak-
ing nations must be based on a
very flexible agreement,” Mrs.
Manning, of the +»Department of
History, said, speaking on The
Future of the British Empire. One
must realize the disunity and di-
versity of the British Empire be-
fore one can consider any union
of these countries.

At present the British Empire:is
divided into three parts: India,—
really an empire in itself,—Canada
and ‘Australia,—dominions almost
completely: independent,—and_ the
colonies proper.

India
India is strongly tied to Great

Britain. It has. no constitution ‘of
its own. Its conquest coincided
with the humanitarian movement

in England, and thus Englishmen,
loath formerly to let go of it be-
cause they felt that its happiness
depended on education, now con-
tinue to hang on for fear that,
once free, India will return to its
former state. The Indian govern-
ment is more than self-Supporting,
bringing in considerable revenue
to Great Britain and to many in-
dividual Englishmen. The country
has the added value of its stra-~
tegic position in the Eastern Hem-
isphere, and, finally, its fear of
Germany, Russia and Japan makes
it cling to England of itself.
Independence of Dominions
The colonies and dominions, how-
ever, are a different matter. ‘They
may be divided into three kinds:
Relics of an earlier economic sys-
tem, like Jamaica; colonies ac-
quired for strategic reasons, and
colonies acquired for raw mate-
rials: Bad administration — ren-
dered these expensive rather than
profitable in the middle of the 19th
century. The result was a strong
anti-imperialistic movement and
an indifference to actual posses-
sions. Australia and Canada were
settled, not conquered. Originally,
the emigrants were mostly unde-
sirables and England was eager
to be rid of them as completely
as possible. This, added to indif-
ference, and the consequent liberal
grants of self-government, — con-



Continued on Page Four



Miss Henderson Has Had Wide Exberience,
Directed Charley's Aunt and John Garfield



Directing the Varsity Players’
major fall production, Stage Door,
will not be purely a matter of ‘in-
spiration_to-Miss-Mary—Henderson,
instructor of diction, since she has
had_past experience in the profes-

sional theatre. For three years she

directed the Santa Fe Players, in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, presenting
such varied productions as western
melodramas for the fiesta, the per-
ennial Charlie’s Aunt, (“what a
money-maker,” Miss Henderson
said,) Synge’s Irish plays, and The
Road to Rome. i
In 1930 Miss Henderson felt the
need for further range and mizJ
grated to New York. She worked
under Eva Le Gallienne in the low-
price Civic Repertory Theatre, act-
ing, stage-managing, and directing
the apprentice group. She had a





chance to see all sides of directing,
since the plays rotated, and ranged
from Chekov and Ibsen to the mod-
ern _play_Siegfried,by Jean -Girau-
dou, and Miss Le Gallienne’s memo-
rable Alice in Wonderland. She
thus acquired a far fuller experi-
ence than working on Broadway
plays would have given.

Miss Henderson directed some of
the younger actors who have since
made their mark,—Burgess Mere-
dith, Mark Lawrence, Leona Rob-
erts and Helen Walpole who later
appeared on Broadway in Stage
Door, “and John Garfield, then

n as Jules Garfinkle, and won-
erful, Miss Henderson said, in
Awake and Sing. There was only
one thing the matter with him, she
sighed. “He had a hard R. I work-
ed on it. But I saw Out of the Fog
last night, and he has it still.”

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To a Purpose



The establishment of any system, whether political, economic
or educational, involvés a motivating idea. Every institution, every
custom or traditional mechanism was conceived for a purpose which
it may, for a time, succeed in fulfilling. “Other things being equal,
it would always continue to do so,

It is obvious, however, that other things will not remain equal.
Attitudes and circumstances change. Even the ideas of the systems
themselves as they were conceived are lost in the shuffle. But the
institutions persist. The means continue without the end in mind.

The course in Required Philosophy seems to have undergone,

such a transition. The idea in making Philosophy compulsory
must have been to give it as a background and point of departure
for students in any field. Now, the course does not seem to be
serving this purpose. Our attitude has changed. We are not even
sure whether the original purpose applies today, and, surely, few
of us take the course with that purpose in mind. When it is
taught with attention focused on the growth of fundamental ideas
and the solutiois of recurrent problems of mankind, it-is successful.
But if the original plan was to encourage students to think through
a succession of ideas the present method, when it becomes a mere
survey of chronological events, loses sight of the motive. The
necessity of passing the course becomes of such primary importance
that the subject matter, instead of becoming a useful, working
knowledge, degenerates to miscellaneous facts forgotten after the
exam.

Bryn Mawr, with all its traditions, would do well to review

them in the light of their present significance and of the ideas |

which motivated them.



May Day



Big May Day, with the years, fades further and further from
view even as the movies have faded with the passage of time. And
the students who danced across the: colored screen in Goodhart,
we can no longer adequately imagine to be ourselves. Only the
Seniors have ever known a class which participated in May Day;
that was long ago and now forgotten. The apathy which arises
from the ruins is more enemy of Big May Day-than is logical
argument coricerning ee, al of the present day and their
relation to paper flowers. Imagination only can now reconstruct
what May Day was, and what it could be. Each side conjures up
its own May Day; the correspondence of the images with reality is
difficult to test, for the circumstances have greatly changed since
May Day came up for the four-yearly vote in 1939 and was dis-
cussed with those who-knew it.

Neither_side_can_deseribe-with certainty the relation of May
Day to the present world situation. There have been wars before
intended to end war and to save democracy. For sixteen years we
have been warned against slogans and propaganda, but the effect
as shown in the recent News poll was only to: produce. indecision:

_ The education of the post-war period, intended to vulcanize the
new world, did not do so. :

The opponents of May Day have their slogans. The making

of paper flowers when there is great work to be done for defense |

and progress is taken as the epitome of futility. As a symbol of
futility, it is far excelled in that greater symbol of futility, the
perpetual bridge player, magazine reader, or grind. Paper flowers
may physically be the antithesis of the’‘awareness of reality. Actu-

ally they have a direct ‘relationship to it, for what we learn here is|this particular variety of all-inclusive

not detail, but technique, and the ability to work with others is a

. |/run up at the Manna B-r.



To the Editor of the College News:

} Three years was enough, but
1
|

four years is too much, It seems

as if humorists on the College News

| are really at their wit’s end when
they have to drag the old skeleton
/of Haverford’s social disgraces out
iof the closet and dangle the aged
| skeleton in front of the eyes of a
couple of hundred freshmen.
| Not that the Haverford News
isn’t to blame. Several weeks ago
‘one columnist slipped in several
slurring remarks about the insti-
tution up the Main Line when the
editor wasn’t looking. But -we
, thought the rumor the editor was

‘out with a Bryn Mawr girl at the |



Wit’s End to Yield High
Place to Editorial Unless,
Of Course, We Object



To the Editorial Board:

In connection with the October
fifteenth issue of the News, might
we suggest the promotion of the
editorial entitled “We Had A Rea-
son” to the column reserved for
“Wit’s End.” Unless, of course,
“We Had A Reason” expresses the
personal convictions of the editorial
board, in which case we too, ag
members of the aggregation be-
neath the old green tower bell
against the sky, shall just echo
other people’s opinion.

Sincerely yours,
' BARBARA WALTON, ’42.



—And On

time would gloss over the attack.|!7'9 ihe Editor of the College News:

Evidently it didn’t, and the column- |



i ist

| flower show and barn dance in the
| gymnasium without as much as a
| single telephone call in return—
|vented her wrath on the typewriter
| keys.

One or two facts ought to be
‘cleared up about some of the state-
| ments by. your columnist in ‘Wit’s
| End.” Certainly any moron knows
| passion flourishes in the tropics—
eight members out of last year’s
| graduating class got married dur-
| ing the summer. And as for fight-
|ing every inch of the way to estab-
| lish contact with the outside world,
we think Bryn Mawr ought to seri-
ously consider whether or not the
;outside world wants them. We
‘don’t think you’ll have much trouble
| finding ready hands for those pick-
'axes from the geology lab.

No hard feelings, however.- Just
_to show how compassionate we feel
.for those poor freshmen who may
be forced to commit suicide or
‘even take to the demon liquor,
the *News will pay for all bills
Tell
i Alice to chalk it up to our account.
Or maybe you can persuade that
| dark-skinned excuse for a_ bar-
‘tender to make the drinks on the
house.

THE HAVERFORD NEWS.
*Ed. Note.—Insert Haverford.



Your editorial, ‘We Had A Rea-

evidently suffering from her|son,” conveyed a real message to
‘third or fourth visit to the annual |

me as I read it. For three years
I’ve been wondering why it is that
I am here; now I’ve found one.
Sure, I wanted an education, but
that’s not enough of a reason for
me, I wanted to ‘give. I know that
this can be accomplished by being
a part of a social group instead of
just an aggregation.

But I must come to the point—
it is not only the message I felt,
but also the moving simplicity of
the prose, or rather poetry. I felt
constrained to read it over to my
friends several times, and after
about the fourth time it came upon
me that the only thing that was
lacking was a’ sort of accompani-
ment of soft music. An aesthetic
background was not lacking how-
ever, for there was Taylor Hall
with its green tower against the
night. The word “green” should
be qualified, considering the time of
day. This is the only criticism
which might possibly be offered.

SPENCER BARROLL, ’42.



—And On
To the Editor of the College News:
The fine mass confession of
oblivion-and—renasecence which we
received from the members of our
editorial board in the article en-
titled “We Had A Reason” appeals

Continued on Page Five



point of highest efficiency.

technique which is more essential than typing, shorthand, or first
aid when the energies of the nation are to be speeded up to the

Through the interruptions, the fits and starts of political and
diplomatic history, runs the continuous current of civilization, and
of culture; the perfection of the technique of-living. We are being
| equipped to contribute to this current and to guide the future in the
| direction which will most contribute to its progress. If we isolate
lourselves in the details of events without attention to. the. broader
|implications of those events, if we bind ourselves to our generation,
!and become too absorbed in learning practical techniques, we are
' violating the trust placed in us. Such is the argument against those
| who repudiate May Day as an illusion.
| But the argument for May Day cannot end here. The size
_and nature of the undertaking must be justified to those who view
jit with apathy, and who look on the present extra-curricular situa-
tion as sufficient for the accomplishment of the purposes of educa-
tion outlined above. While there are signs of progress in the
| defense courses, the Curriculum Committee and the Forum, the
tendency to concentrate all extra-curricular activity in progressively
| fewer hands becomes more and more manifest, and the new activi-
'ties provide no solution. The defense courses do not educate in
|the techniques. of working with people any more than do academic
icourses. The work of the Curriculum Committee is necessarily, at
ithis stage, carried out by the very few. The Forum must yet prove
‘that it can gain the cooperation of those who are not already
‘engrossed in other extra-curricular activities. One of the points
(about May Day upon which-the imagination must.play with peculjar
force is the extent to which it will curtail activities such as these.
It is not realized that May Day is entirely the student’s production,
to be planned by them. The extent to which May Day will curtail
activities is up to those who produce it.

The assets of leadership trained in former productions, of
scripts, of two thousand dollars’ worth of costumes, the “good will”
of an audience drawn from all over the United States and eager
to see another Big May Day, argue eloquently for the retention of
undertaking.

Atice Crowper, '42.



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City Lights

By Rebecca Robbins





Last week President Roosevelt
ordered » an

Philadelphia water system. For

decades Philadelphians, ‘corrupt
and contented,” have been drink-
ing atid joking. “Chlorine , cogk-
tail” has become a pet tag; Phila-
delphia, inured to the taste and
smell is even rather fond of the

tag. Philadelphians seem content
to go on drinking treated sewage.

But the Federal Government is
acting. The government realizes
that, from the point of view both
of future property values and pres-
ent human health, defense-housing
and factory constuction are a bad
investment in a city with a rotten
system of water-supply and sew-
age disposal. The government also
realizes that the dramatic taking
up of an issue that has beeri’ in-
creasingly rousing discontent,’ fol-
lowed by direct and effective action,
will seriously discredit the long,
carefully-careless Republican rule
of — Philadelphia. (Republicans,
with local elections imminent, are
quaking.)

Roosevelt directed McNutt, Fed-
eral Security Administrator to de-
termine whether the Philadelphia
water system endangers defense
production. This investigation is
to be supervised by William L,
Dill, regional Social Security Ad-
ministrator. Next, an executive
order went to the U. S. Public
Health Service, advising that it
send a sanitary engineer to confer
with local officials on -technical
problems,

The fact that the order for tech-
nical investigation followed on the
heels of the order for general in-
vestigation seems to indicate that
the Social Security “investigation
of whether to investigate” is a
mere gesture. The results are a
foregone conclusion. The technical
inquiry will suggest ways and
means. The suggestion can be
implemented by the clause in the
defense appropriations act provid-
ing for special public works proj-
ects necessary to National Defense.

But it would not be a Philadel-
phia Story if we were to end it
by quoting today’s pat headline:
“Mayor Welcomes U. S. Water
Aid.” It would not be a Philadel-
phia Story unless a purple-faced
Republican spluttered: “I won't
have it! If we let those Federal
Democrats in here we'll lose local
initiative. We’ll lose local auton-
omy. We’ll lose the right to take
care of our own responsibilities.”
The ruddy individualist was El-

wood J. Turner,-.chairman of the

Inter-State Commission for the
Delaware River Basin.
Red-face and furious, the Demo-



crats screamed at Turner: “Mc-
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STANLEY: Honky-Tonk, Gable
and Turner.



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“Twelve-Pound Look,’ |
‘Rosalind’ Presented

By Varsity Players



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Natural Assurance, Variance

Of Pace Shown by Cast
Of Rosalind



By Isabel Martin, °42
Theatre Work Shop, Saturday,
September 18.—Before a large and

audience, the Varsity Players pre-
sented, without benefit of scenery,
two of Sir James Barrie’s most
one-act -plays, The
Twelve Pound Look, and Rosalind.
The latter was much the most suc-

cessful of the two both in-produc-
tion and delivery. The answer ‘for
this is perhaps that Rosalind is a
much more compelling, whimsical
type of play, conducive to the act-
ing of amateur young women,
while The Twelve Pound Look de-
mands a very well developed char-
acter role in the part of Sir Harry.

The Twelve Pound Look focuses
upon the. apparently successful
man who does not meet the quali-
fications of a husband. The main
part of the play deals with the
first wife who deserted him to
become a typist. The closing line
of the play, “Are they expensive
—those machines?” tops the ac-
tion of the play and is the most
enlightening to the audience. The
part of Sir Harry, played by Sil-
via Maynard, ’44, was as well done
as could be expected of a young
girl, but it was not the true Sir
Harry of Barrie’s imagination.
Helen Wade, ’42, took the part
of Lady Sims, and Lynn Haden,
43, that of the typist. The de-
livery picked up considerably after
the first few minutes, but did not |
retain speed or lightness through-
out the play. Small portions of
the dialogue were well delivered,
yet too frequently it slipped back
into the literal dullness of repeated
lines. Lynn Haden was a poised
and gay typist, and Sylvia May-
nard’s rendition of Sir Harry can-
not. be overlooked in as far as it
amused the audience. Helen Wade,
who played the meek wife, rose to
her best heights in the last few
lines.

In contrast to this, Rosalind. was
more evenly successful. The pace
was set by the first speech and
maintained. The dialogue was
fresh and spontaneous; the action
natural and yet expressive. No
motion, no words, no time ,was
wasted, and through it all shone
the charm of the play’s make-be-
lieve. The acting of all three
characters was convincing. Doris
Benn, °48, as Mrs. “Page, was
charming in all the phases of her
character, her change from mother

charming

as_well as in voice tempo and ex-
pression. Kay Tappen, ’44, made
a handsome Charles, rather .more
of an American than an English



boy and not quite twenty-three. |
Dame Quickly was made quaint |
and natural by the acting of Mira!
Eitingon, 742.



Carpenter Receives |

. |
Litt.D. from Rutgers)
i]

Dr. Carpenter received a daawes |
of Litt. D. (Litterarum Doctor) |
from Rutgers University-on -Octo-
ber 11, 1941. sae |

The citation was as follows:

“Intimate companion of the spirit
of classical art, you have revealed
to us-also that spirit, with ‘its-sur-
passing beauty and grace. You
have borne to us the message from
the deathless past of Greece and
Rome, telling us that we, too, from
the materials-of our-invention may
create our own immortal art.

It is with great pleasure that be- |
cause of your enrichment of our |
cultural heritage I confer upon you
honoris causa the degree of Doctor
of Letters.

ROBERT C, CIOTHIER.”



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‘Bryn Mawr Crashes Headlines in Roaring

Twenties by Abolishing a Ban on Smoking



By Nancy Evarts, ’43

Bryn Mawr has made The New
York Times 335 times in the last
20 years. Although an average of
16.75 items appeared per year, the
distribution varies from eight in
1921 to 31 in 1935, with the num-
ber declining stéadily since then,
until, in 1940 there were only 13.

The subject matter of such items
is, for the most part, routine: May
Day, academic appointments, schol-
arships, Choir and Glee Club pro-
ductions. But there was a golden
age, during the 1920s, when Bryn
Mawr, a pioneer among women’s
let-
ters to the. Times, and at least one

colleges, provoked editorials,



front page article.

The _ sensational achievement |
which landed Bryn Mawr on the}
front pages was the abolition by|
Miss Park; at the request of the
Self-Government Association, of the
rule prohibiting smoking on cam-
pus. The establishment of smoking
rooms in the halls in 1925 lifted a
ban which; had'.been in effect since
1897, but which had, according to
Miss Park, “increasingly failed,”
and begun .“to affect the student
relations to other regulations.”

The Times, in an article on No-



Sculpture of Islands
Outlined by Richter

Continued from Page One
an idea of her importance. Among
these are the Delos Colossus and
the later stupendous sphinx. The
important art of Thera shows the
strength of Eastern influence, Dr.
Richter discussed the theory that
Crete was the birthplace of monu-
mental stone sculpture, pointing to}
East Greece as a more likely orig- |
inator.

The greatness of East Greece |
there can be surmised from what |
little remains of her literature and |
art. Fiercely individual, individual
cities produced brilliant work. At
Miletus is the important temple of |
Branchidae and its oracle. Valu-
able art has been found at Ephesos,
Samos, and Rhodes, bearing wit-
ness to the great and valuable in-
fluence and stimulus of the older
civilization of Egypt.

In the West, South Italy and
Sicily early came into the-Greek
Greek colonies prospered,
and made contributions comparable
to those of East Greege and Greece
proper. Excavations ‘show that the
same styles prevailed™ as -on. the
mainland during this time.

Dr. Richter concluded by showing
works from Olympia, one of the
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vember 24, 1925, cited a poll which
had been taken at the college, in
which, of the 386 undergraduates
voting, 321 approved the abolish-
ment of the rule. It quoted Fran-
ces Jay, the president of Self-Gov.:
“This does not mean that all stu-
dents: are smokers. naire showed that many supporters
of the change were not themselves
smokers, and that in fact less than
one half the student body smokes.”

An editorial the next day refer-
red to this statement, said that the
proportion would probably become
less. “What was once a feat of
defiancé becomes rather —a bore.
The last spark of adventure is
doused in the clandestine cigar-
ette.” It approved of the measure,
however, and praised the govern-
ment at Bryn Mawr as “as nearly
democratic as possible; it is of the
students, by the students and for
the students.”

The effects of the change were
far-reaching. English papers men-
tioned it, but not as a radical idea,
since smoking had long been allow-
ed in English women’s: colleges.
The first one in America to take
such a measure, Bryn Mawr arous-
ed comment and emulation in other
colleges, and was generally ap-
proved. Evidently much in the
minority were objectors like a Mid-
dle Western educator, who Said,
“Nothing has occurred in higher
education that has so shocked our
sense of social decency as the ac-
tion of Bryn Mawr.”

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mission announces an examination

under the title of “Junior Profes-
sional Assistant”? which includes a
number of optional fields. It is in-
tended to promote a career service
in Government professional and sci-
entific fields by enabling graduating
students at colleges to compete for
and enter the service at the junior-
grade level, requiring no experi-
ence, in these fields. The registers
established for Junior Administra-
tive Technicians, Business Ana-
lysts, and--Economists~ from the
Junior Professional Assistant ex-
amination announced early this
year have been used extensively.
In anticipation of continuing heavy
demands the United States Civil
Service Commission has announced
the Junior Professional Assistant
examination in these three fields.
The new examination is announced
to augment,—not to replace,—those
registers.

are in need of these three types of
eligibles. The positions pay $2,000
a year.

It is expected that the annual
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IV ogue’s Mary Moon
'-Will Talk to. Seniors

| Mary Moon, ’40, is coming to
| Bryn Mawr on Monday, October 27,
|to talk to seniors about the Vogue
| Prix-de-Paris contest. She, herself
| won the contest in 1940 and is now
the contest editor.



Two prizes for careers’ with
| Vogue are offered, besides a special
Vanity Fair award, for feature

writing, cash: prizes for the five
best contest articles to be purchased
for publication in Vogue,-and at
least twenty honorable mentions.
Stores, advertising agencies and
publications writé to Vogue in in-
creasing numbers, asking for rec-
ommendations from their dist of
contest entrants, not only winners
and honorable mentions, but others
as well, ‘

Two years ago Mary Moon won
the first prize, and Isota Tucker,
the Vanity Fair award. Last year
Madge Lazo, Elizabeth Rowland
and Mary Alice Lord won honor-
able mentions, and Elizabeth Dodge
had an article accepted for publi-
cation.

The Bureau of Recommendations
has a list of jobs obtained through
the contest since it started in 1935.
| Anyone who likes may come up and
see it.



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will be announced in January 1942,
but without these three fields. Ac-
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cluding college seniors and. gradu-
ate students, who are qualified and
will complete the required special
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‘urged to-make application under
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Page Four
Internal Struggle |
Of Ireland Traced |

Continued from Page One
South, however, feels that Ulster
should give in to the majority.

Modification of both attitudes would
be necessary for a successful union.
Anglo-Irish Relations

The state which the, present
Irish administration plans to cre-
ate, Miss Robbins said, is one with
a primarily agricultural society
and many small factories, which
would be as nearly self-sufficient
as possible. Since Ireland cannot
be entirely. self-sufficient, such a
state could not exist under condi-
tions of political or economic war-
fare. Relations between England
and Ireland are necessary and they

insistence upon independence as
well as of the English passion for
compromise.
American Attitude

America, in her attitude toward
Ireland, said Miss Robbins, must
realize that, without the economic
sacrifices of large nations during
and after the war, small neutral
countries will be unable to exist
independently.

WELLS

Taylor Hall, Room G, Saturday,
October 18.—The question of the
Next Goverment in Germany is
one of the most important prob-
lems’ facing mankind today, Mr.
Wells, »professor of. political sci-
ence, said in the third lecture. If
this problem is to be solved suc-
cessfully, any new government set
up after the war will have to be
constructed from the strongest ele-
ments in the German state, the
army and,the civil service. This
method of reconstruction will not
provide a perfect solution to all
difficulties, but must be a_neces-
sary choice between evil and evil.
It will be an evolutionary, not
a revolutionary process.

Danger In Revenge

Any discussion of “the next Ger-
man government” naturally pre-
supposes two assumptions, Mr.
Wells declared. 1. Hitler is going
to lose the war. 2. A strong in-
ternational order on a basis con-
ducive to a secure peace will be
set up after the war. There are
three major alternatives as_ to
Germany’s place in this new order.
Mr. Wells mentioned first the
voices of revenge, “which do not
‘augur well for the security of the
new peace.” Dismemberment is

of future dissension.
8-Point Program

The Atlantic 8-point program,
the second alternative, harks back
to the mistakes of 1918 in demand-
ing disarmament of aggressors be-
fore other nations. This presup-
poses an unilateral defeat on Ger-
man soil with the natural sequel
of a new German government
raised up under allied auspices.
Such a move is not practicable
and usually has disastrous effects.

Stern, Just Peace Terms

Mr. Wells emphasized the third
plan of rehabilitation as having
much greater possibilities of suc-
cess. In this scheme, the war
must go on until it is apparent
to the German people and to the
High Command that the Third
Reich cannot win. The Allies must
formulate .stern but just peace
terms to which the maximum prop-
aganda is given. Seized territory
should be evacuated. The new
German government which _ will
then be formed’ must exclude ar-
dentNazis and the émigrés. It
cannot rely on the broken ranks
of the workers or of the Catholics.
It must be built around the stable
and somewhat democratic forces
of the ‘army and civil service—
forces which were unfortunately
excluded from the Weimar gov-
ernment.

Territorial Adjustments

In post-war settlements maxi-
mum.security should be provided
everywhere and a common front
erected. to meet aggression by
united force. Territorial adjust-

| sharpness

Rural Scenes Form
Subject Matter of
Art Club Lithographs

By Sally Matteson, 43

Common Room, October 19.—The
Art Club’s first exhibition of the
year was a series of lithographs by
Ella Fillmore Lillie. True lithog-
raphy is the technique of printing
from a stone which has been mark-
ed with a wax crayon. The re-
sulting prints have the clear-cut
lines of etchings, but can achieve
more homogeneous surfaces. It is
almost a lost art, and Miss Lillie
has had to work -out her own
method. Unlike most lithographers
she draws directly on the stone
without copying from a previous
drawing.

Born near Burlington, Vermont,
Miss Lillie uses rural New England
scenery for. her. subject-matter.
She has a gift for making archi-
tecture blend in with a landscape.
Some of her most charming scenes
are Maine fishing villages, and cov-
ered bridges and sugar houses in
Vermont.

Many of her prints have the
of photographs. In
Ploughing, the clouds are realistic,
and all the details of the horse’s
harness are shown. Other pictures
such as The Old Mackintosh, are
primarily design.

The seasons and the hour of the
day are important to Miss Lillie.
They are made clear in all her pic-
tures. Perhaps her most pleasing
and undoubtedly her best known



for houses and for expressing spe-
cial times of the year and day are
combined with-great success. Al-
though she specifies nothing, she
has made it almost certain, from
the droop of the roofs, from. the
bleak elms, from the few, icy stars,
that it is about six o’clock on a late
November evening. There is the
same keen sense of atmosphere in
some of her other prints.



A New Red Class
Welcomed to Fold

Continued from Page One

of the college song, the group broke
up, but Lantern Night was not yet
over for the Freshmen who eagerly
searched their gowns for wax drip-
pings, the prophecy of future aca-
demic success. Late into the night
lanterns burned in dark windows,
vieing for their owners claim to
the European Fellowship, which be-
longs to her whose lantern is the
last to go out.

Lantern Nights differ from each
other merely in the change of col-
ors and in the degree of perfection
with which the ceremony is repro-
duced. The singing this year was
remarkably accurate. Any imper-
fection, the uneven swing of the}
Freshmen lanterns, the slight un-
evenness of timing, merely added
to the charm of the whole.





ments should, of course, not re-
ward the aggressor, Mr. Wells
said, but some changes must be
made in the name of fairness.
Certain concessions of territory in
the West will have to be made
and Germany should effect some
kind of even exchange with Po-
land, Certainly Danzig and the
Polish Corridor should not be re-
turned to their 1939 status. Ade-
quate protection should be given
to the German civil population in
the, Sudetenland if the German
army ‘is evacuated from certain
areas.

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With a bulb or a posey.
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Professor Manning



Continued from Page One
cluded: the independence of the do-
minions and increased their loy-
alty to a mother country which
treated them with such respect.

Empire Will Not Dissolve

Although in 1900 the English
imperialistic spirit revived through
fear of other European nations,
England has never been able to
re-establish its former power over
its empire. Consequently, any at-
tempt at a strong central govern-
ment at present would fail. How-
ever, the empire will not dissolve
now, because of the dominions’
fear of totalitarianism and their
inability to defend themselves
without the aid of the British
navy.

Flexible Agreement Is Best

Therefore, the best unity of the
English speaking nations would be
an agreement on fundamentals—
on. foreign policy and_ defense.
Since these are most common be-
tween Great Britain. and _ the
United States, we should be large-
ly responsible for the form of the
agreement. Thus, not only would
a central government be unneces-
sary, but also the agreement should
be extremely flexible to allow ex-
pression to all other countries in-
cluded. “Otherwise,” Mrs. Man-
ning concluded, “it will last only
so long as we keep the world with-
in the range of our battleships and
of our flying fortresses.”



FENWICK

Taylor, Room G, October 18.—
In the fourth lecture Mr. Fenwick,
of the department of political sci-
ence, made an answer to the ques-
tion: “Can we isolate the western
hemisphere?”

Pan-American Relationships

This problem, of course, hinges
entirely on Pan-American_solidar-
ity, and the history of that rela-
tionship, Mr. Fenwick pointed out,
has been none too glorious. In
1904 the friction between the con-
tinents was brought to the danger
point by Theodore Roosevelt’s doc-
trine of international police power.
Wilson, however, was greatly ad-
mired by the South Americas. His
idealism led most of them to join
the League. But our backing out
was such a genuine disillusion-
ment that in the 1920’s Pan-Amer-
ican relations returned to their
“normal,” strained condition. The
Monroe Doctrine was defined as
our doctrine, for us to administer,
for us to interpret, and its chief
clause became commercial exploi-
tation.

Post War Isolationism

In the 1920’s and ’30’s isolation-
ism had firm hold in U. S. A. All
the neutrality acts of that period
proposed to keep us out of all war,
but there was no action taken to
prevent war. _A tendency to “legis-
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New Plays

Anyone having suggestions
as to new plays that should
be owned by the college li-
brary should submit them to
Jerry Catron, ’42, Merion,
Mary Ellis, ’44, Rockefeller,
Vivi French, ’42, Pembroke
West.







people,” deadened our sensibilities
to right and wrong. No one could
really say who, was an aggressor.
A robber might be a “have not.”
Along with this isolationism came
a desire to cultivate South America
as a preserve of our own, but we
were chagrined to find that con-
tinent so independent.
Monroe Doctrine Revised

Conciliation was necessary, and
in 1983 at Montevideo, the inter-
vention clause of the Monroe Doc-

more years of careful dealing with
the* Latin American temperament,
the Doctrine was embodied in a
mutual, if rather thin, treaty. At
Lima in 1938 the machinery for
calling other conferences was es-
tablished, and the next year in
Panama and in 1940 at Havana
international conferences were as-
sembled in two days.
South American Neutrality

There are still misunderstand-
ings on both sides. One thing.we
must realize is that the South
American desire for neutrality is
caused not by any sympathy for
the Nazis, but by economic neces-
sity. In order to exist, South
American countries must trade
with Europe, no matter what kind
of a Europe. Then, too, we dis-
miss Vargas as a dictator, but
there are no purges, and few as-
sassinations in Brazil. A source
of social friction has been time.
The South American way of keep-
ing appointments is upsetting to
the nervously punctual North
American.

United States’ Reputation

But their impression of us is
far less favorable. Our business
speculators have been notoriously
shifty. Then there is the great
problem of movies. The popula-
tion, at least 70 per cent of which
is illiterate, swarm to see Holly-
wood’s conceptions of North Amer-
ican college and married life. Mr.

WHAT ARE YOU
YOUR

trine was abandoned. After three |

Nuts and Bolts

By Isabel Martin, ’42



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|
|



| Almost every, college newspaper,
iwithin the last few weeks, -has
iprinted an editorial stating its
position in the pro and con dilem-
ma which is assailing this country
today. The majority of these edi-
torials pointed toward war as im-
mediate and inevitable. Many
jagreed that Hitler should be stop-

| ped soon and by drastic means.
| Both the editorial boards of the

| Daily Princetonian and the ‘Crim-
ison supported the policy of inter-
'ventionism. The Princetonian said,
i“We urge isolationists to examine
i their own consciences, to ask them-
'selves as democratic citizens if it
were not better for democracy for
| them to yield as we have yielded.”
The Crimson also maintains this
'policy. Both these papers were
| anti-war last* year.

| The most startling data of all
pees from the poll made of
|Princeton’s Freshman class; eigh-
\ty-two percent were willing to
ifight abroad; eighty-nine percent
| thought defeat of Hitler more im-
!portant than staying out of war;
| thirty-six percent advocated imme-
|diate entry into the conflict.

| The Yale News seemed almost a
| lone voice when it opposed Prince-
|ton’s advice to isolationists in say-
ing that it does not follow that as
the administration goes, so should
the people go in order to preserve
unity within the country. ‘Unity
is not a condition into which the
nation is to be shamed,” the edito-
rial stated, “nor is it the automatic
result of a national crisis. Great
issues beget great differences; a
crisis brings not: peace, but a



| sword.”



Fenwick urges that we censor our
film export to South America, not
for their morals, but because of
the unspeakable picture of Ameri-
can life they tend to give.



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The Bryn Mawr Outing Club
which has existed for a year with-
in the pages of the Freshman
Handbook, has been unearthed by
the recent. action of the Executive
Board of the Athletic Association.
Groups now need only to form
themselves,- reserve the station
wagon for the period of the trip
through Betty Wells in Merion,
find someone who will act as chauf-
feur-chaperone, and set forth for
camping and, later on, skiing in
the Poconos, the nearer Pennsyl-
vania Hills, or more distant destin-
ations. The members of such groups
will divide the cost of their trip.
This will include the cost of gaso-
line and of station wagon rental.
This arrangement was adopted as
a temporary measure to exist until
a demand of those actively inter-
ested in outing club work leads to
the formation of an organized club.
Such a club might become affiliated
with the Intercollegiate Outing
Club Association, a connection
which would entitle members to
use the shelters of other colleges
in the vicinity of Mt. Greylock and
Mt. Moselauke and to join members
of other college outing clubs on
camping and skiing. week-ends in
the mountains. The club might, on’
the other hand, ally with the Ap-
palachian Mountain Club, which
has shelters in Pennsylvania.



Glee Club
The Glee club takes pleas-
ure in announcing the elec-
tion of Portia Miller, ’43, as
president.









‘“ontinued from Page Two
to us chiefly by the simplicity of its
language, graciously designed, no
doubt, to carry it to the level of
the laity.
liturgical quality in the intermit-
“We are here,
aren’t we” and “We had a reason,
didn’t we.” We feel that nothing
could be added except a_ possible

There was a stirring

tent refrains of

“Ora pro nobis” in conclusion.

We are particularly fond of the
symbols of redemption in this col-
old

green bell tower against the night

lective autobiography — the

sky—and the construction of a com-
panion out of what once was a face.
We like to think that such a feat
as the latter may one day jolt us,
as well as our editors, into the
remembrance that the whole
equal to more than the sum of its
parts—although we confess that,
unlike our editors, we had no idea
of proving the same, as entering
Freshmen.

Our profoundest sympathy was
aroused by the account of their
oblivion to our college under the
stress of quizzes, unlimited week-
ends, and bigger things like Lan-
tern Night, and we were overjoyed
to hear of their, recovery through
a penetrating glance at Taylor Bell
tower. The uniqueness of this
whole emotional experience cer-
ak calls for a sequel, in which
they elucidate a little on just what
they were remembering at the end
there. We look forward to it with
pleasure and suspense.

L. D. A: 742.

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Continued from Page One

Los “Angeles she will journey to
Pasadena and up the coast to Se-
attle. As well as addressing Reed
College in Portland, Miss Park
plans to speak to girls attending4
various schools in these cities, who
are coming East to College. She
is also scheduled to speak to the
Women’s University Club in Seat-
tle.

On her way home she will stop
in Denver,™Colorado, for ‘a few
days, arriving here the fourth or
fifth of December.

Miss Park will preside at the
College Entrance Board meetings
which will be held in New York
the 28th and 29th of this month.



And on the Other Hand
To the Editor of the College News:

I have heard that there was con-
siderable discussion over the edi-
torial in last week’s News entitled
“We Had A Reason.” I-wish to
say that I think it is an exception-
ally good analysis and accusation
of an attitude that partially ex-
ists—an attitude of taking educa-
tion and college life for granted
and of giving nothing in return.” I
agree firmly with the editorial’s
conception of each student as an
important part of Bryn Mawr and

the responsibility as well as privi- |
It seems | |

lege entailed in that role.
to me that now especially, in the
fall of 1941, it cannot hurt anyone
to be reminded that there are good
reasons for being at college and
that they are worth remembering
often.
Sincerely,
CATHERINE CLEMENT.

In Hockey Struggle |
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) Against Germantown



Bryn Mawr, October 19.—A|

hard-fought battle was staged on|
the hockey field this afternoon in |

which the Germantown Cricket
Club was behind in score only once |
and finally took the game, 4-2.

The opponent’s All-American
right inner made all four goals
‘and distinguished herself with
beautifully consistent receiving
and passing. The first goal was
made by the Owls. After a cor-
ner, Frannie Matthai received
Connie Lazo’s pass and shot. the |
goal, and the team’s hopes were |
\directed towards winning another |
| game,

But they didn’t reckon on Par-
ry, the opposing right inner, ‘who |
then made three consecutive goals.
and, after a come-back by ‘Bryn
Mawr, one more. With the score
3-1, the fighting Bryn Mawr team
itook the ball down the field, and,
receiving a pass from her right
wing, Lydia Gifford hit the ball
into the goal.







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Page Six

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Fame and Fortune Beset Yearbook Editor;
Cooley. Karns. National Name as Copy-Boy





By Alice Crowder, ’42

With her picture on the cover | pick out the society people and |
of Quill, with articles about her | have them photographed.

in the World Telegram, the Gan-

neteer, Editor and Publishers, and | was a

the Editors’ Auxiliary, and a story
in the Ladies’ Home Journal which

she says might just as well be

about her, Barbara Cooley, ’42, has
become something of a national

figure. Fame, came to her not.

overnight, but through the work

of two months, six days a week,
and a minimum of eight hours a
day, as copy boy of the Albany
Knickerbocker News.

The story of her success’ begins
last spring vacation. Cooley was
looking for a newspaper job. She
tried Troy, Schenectady, Pough-|
keepsie, Glens Falls, Saratoga and
Albany.._Among: other newspapers
she approached the Albany Knick-
erbocker News. No, they had no
room for her. “Frankly, we never }
hire girls if we can help it,” said
the managing editor. “I don’t. see
that a boy can do anything a girl
can’t do,’”’ was the rejoinder.

In the middle of July the tele-
phone rang. Was this the girl
who said that a girl could do any-
thing a boy could do? It was.
Copy boys were needed and Cooley
Zot a job.

While one of the Knickerbocker
copy boys is fifty-five, a girl copy
boy is a rare thing. The Knick-
erbocker had never had one. It
did not quite know what to do with
the new acquisition. It was, how-
ever, the general opinion that Coo-
ley was a sheltered little girl and
should be kept as such. A sudden
moratorium fell on swearing.

The Knickerbocker did, however,
know what a copy boy should do.
The novice was immediately set
to work. Her first day she was

‘sorting the mail, buying coffee for
the editorial board at, the Greek ,

‘for a week did obituaries.

|Isent to the races at Saratoga to!

It was
a pouring rainy day, -but -there
certain satisfaction in
slushing around with a little press

pass. Her ordinary jobs were

restaurant next door, meeting bus-
jes and trains to get €opy sent from
‘other places; there wasya daily

‘trip to the City Hall for vital sta-
‘tistics—births, deaths, marriages; |
she edited the radio column, pasted
up stock market quotations, and

“I took an awful beating,’ was
Cooley’s summary:of the experi-
ence. When the thirty people in
the editorial dpeartment, among
which were only four .women—a
society editor, editor of the Wom-
an’s Page, one night editor, and
a reporter in the State office build-

Gistton Requests ‘Aid
For French Captives



In a talk to the French Club,

M. Guiton* made an appeal for

help in sending packages to the
French prisoners in Germany. We

must begin now, he said, in order
to have these packages arrive in
time for Christmas.

Most of the prisoners now in
Germany were.captured, not in bat-
tle, but because they happened to
be on the wrong side of the line
when the Armistice was signed.
They were taken to Germany and
distributed all over the country in
{small work camps. From reports,
ithe Germans seem to be feeding
these men subsistance rations, but
that is all.

These prisoners have been given
the privilege of sending package
tickets to people in France and here
in America, and may receive one
package on every ticket. Charit-
able organizations in America do
not’ have enough money to send
packages for all the tickets they
have received. These men, M. Gui-



ing—were . not. teasing her, they
were campaigning against women | °
on newspapers. “All the old guys!
told me very seriously every other
day that I was crazy to go into
the newspaper business,” she said.
“They told me it wasn’t crusading
any more, it was just commercial
—except for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch.

shoulders. She returns to the rela-
tive obscurity of Rhoads, to Blake
and Burns and Shakespeare, and
to the Yearbook, of which she is
editor, without a backward glance
upon the summer’s glory. She

Fame sits lightly on Cooley’s|

ton said, are the hope of France
in the future and they have not
given up their faith in us.

Because of the Activities Drive,
there will .be no campaign on
campus to raise money for the
French prisoners, but anyone in-
terested is urged to see some mem-
ber of the French Club.



does, however, seriously consider
the future. She wants to be a
“lee man” on a newspaper when
she graduates; ‘‘That’s what you
do when you look around and then
telephone what you see to the re-
write men,” she explained.





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Erratum
Last, Tuesday the. Bryn’
Mawr Varsity played the
Yellow’s first team, not the
second team, as incorrectly
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CITY LIGHTS

Continued from Page Two

Clure Henchman!,” in So. E. Penn-
sylvania the vilest of epithets. (In
spite of the fact, of course, that in
trial after trial outraged S. E.
Pennsylvania juries acquit Mc-
Clure, Chester Gounty’s boss.) The
Democrats in their furious elo-
quence, threw out the further ran-
dom accusation that the annual
city budget provided $30,000 for
the purchase of “foreign” bottled
water for City Hall offices. Today,
as the Mayor welcomed expansively
City Controller Robert C. White
quietly announced that, if city offi-
cials wish to drink bottled distilled
water, they must henceforth pay
for it themselves.

Wonderful thing, this. National
Defense.:.... .







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VonNeudegg to Talk
Next Week on Skiing

Walter von Neudegg will give a
talk on skiing Friday, October 24,

at 7.30 P. M. in the Common Room.
His wide experience in skiing am-
ply qualifies him to lecture on the
subject. Certified as an instructor
at the Hannes Schneider School, he
later conducted his own school
above Innesbriick. Von Neudegg
holds the Tyrolean Red Eagle as
winner of the Grand Slalom at
Innesbriick in 1936, He placed first
in the Feuerstein race in the Bren-
ner Pass, Italy. In 1935 he held
the championship for the Akaden-
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