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College news, February 22, 1939
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 25, No. 13
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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“THE COLLEGE NEWS|
. (Feunded in 1914)
Published
ristmas
and er Ho
Mawr College.
kly. duri ng the C Collesy. Year (excepting durin Thankegivine,
lidays, and during examination wetket
of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn
in the interest
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The Colles: News is fully protected by copyright.
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'+ « News Editor —
. ANNE. LovIsB AXON, '40
Betty LEE BELT, ’41
Doris DANA, ’41
ELIZABETH Dopcp, ’41
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Photographer
Doris TURNER, 39
BARBARA AUCHINCLOsS, ’40
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Mary R. MEIGS, "89
Ass’t News Editor .
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Editors
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Sports Correspondents
. Graduate Correspondent
Business Board
Assistants
Subscription Board
- Manager
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‘Copy Editor
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Music Correspondent
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PETERSON
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Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
“There are so few traditions left at Bryn Mawr that we falter}.
evep as we condemn the hardiest of them, the exclusion of men from
the Freshman Show. In this age
of feminism, a campaign for men’s
rights is to be expected, even, if it has to be conducted by women.
“The rule was made when modesty was still rampant and when
freshmen ‘choruses doubtless wore
bloomers. For. some time it was
rigidly enforced and a ‘mefnber of the class of 1914 was actually
expelled for importing a man in feminine clothing. Since then, there
have been annual attempts of the same ilk, each time with more intri-
eate costumes and more short-lived
hilarity.
There is infinite attraction in this sort of challenge, but the amuse-
ment it provides. is comparatively limited. We see nothing to recom-
‘being broken except inertia.
been conditioned to immodesty by
__mend the- tradition éxcept. its challenge, and nothing to prevent. its|
Bryn Mawr’s masculine population has
seeing several undergraduate gen-
erations sunbathing in the Cloisters, and the average Freshman. Show
is prudery itself compared to this.
We take it for granted that the masculine population wants to
come, however inarticulate it may
forward to seeing a spontaneous
have been in ey past. We look
movement, overthrowing the. time-
consuming objections of self-government, and accomplishing the ‘repeal
of the rule in the space of two days. if it is impossible to cireumivent
the usual red tape, we suggest a special dispensation for this Freshman |
Show. The atternative may be an ugly picket line composed of editors
of the College News.
- swell in the audience and in the gate receipts.
modesty! ‘This achievement of equal rights for men will be the glorious}
finale in our feminist drama.
Fling open the doors; if you do, you will see a
Down with moribund
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Conference to be Held ©
On Bryn Mawr League
Informal ° Sessions Will Feature
Education, Group Work
The Bryn Mawr League is planning | &
an afternoon discussion of its work
in connection with social problems in
an informal conference on March
fourth. For those who have not been
active in the League it hopes to pre-
sent a description. of its activities;
. and for those. who have been. active
_ it will give an opportunity to discuss
their experience with-people who know
it frpm a professional point of view.
By holding two brief general sessions
and smaller discussion groups on three
phases of League work, we hope to
eombine: a broad picture of volunteer
social work with some specific infor-
mation on its actual tasks,
The conference will be fro
- in the aftetnoon until 5.30. At &
half hour general session Miss F
_ 2.30
ee hoa Newbold will speak on the pi
-... tidn-of -volunteers in community work,
Miss Newbold is the local director of
4 _ the Philadelphia Girl Scouts, and was
cutive secre
- delphia.
. The meeting will divide into three
_ discussion groups for an hour and a
—— One will deal with adult educa-
tion and will include discussion of the
Maids’ and Porters’ classes, the. In-
- dustrial
group, and the Americaniza-
ee ee ime chloe
op work with children
Lacodoagene in, the summer
a
Saeanie Community
f
ary of the).
nae ‘Service Bureau in Phila-|~
Center. A third will discuss work
for the blind. In the first two. cases
smaller separate groups are com-
bined under larger sections because
the special elements of each seem
relevant and illuminating to the others
of the same general type. In each
oup one or more speakers will de-
scribe the background and problems
of the people with which the work is
being done ‘and then discuss: with the
students their activity and what new
possibilities it has.
The afternoon. will close with a tea,
at which représentatives of each sec-
tion will, summarize. their meetings
and dis¢uss their results. A full list
Meanwhile, the League invites. sugges~
tions from students on specific ques-
tions they would like to have brought
up at the conference,
In Philadelphia
Movies
Arcadia: Tempest (Orage), French
Triangle drama, with ‘Charles Boyer,
Michele’ Morgan.
Fox: The Three “Musketeers, musi-
eal comedy with Don Ameche, Ritz
Keith’s: Gunga Din, adventure in
India, with Cary Grant, Victor Me-
Laughlin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- News: Viva Villa, with Wallace
Beery as the Mexican outlaw, Leo
Carillo, Fay Wray. sy
Stanley: Honolulu, musical comedy-
romance, with ar Powell, Robert
Young.
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of speakers will be issued next week.
Sremeees.-
anti-war
Pieces with ‘Clark Gable, Norma
Shearer.
WIT*S END.
DON JUAN
ACanto XVIII continued)
was feeling debonair. and mel-
low,
And strolled through Taylor, pre-
fatory to -
Visiting classes, when the sight of
yellow
Cards on each door transfixed his
eyes like glue, ,
He rudely stared, and then a voicu
said, “Hello,”
Touching his trembling
“They’ve all got flu.”
“Who, Miss Lagoon?” asked “”
limp as_chiton.,
“Lavender, Woodwind, Fisher, ou.
beh, Guiton.”
ears,
wept, s
And through his tears he sang 4
little song,
“OQ baleful, beastly, bad disease tha:
crept
Behemoth-like among the busy
throng,
Striking them innocently. while they
slept,
Impartially, the weak and e’en the
strong,
Afflicting them with temperature ‘not
paltery,
Mourn now, on tabret, dulcimer, and
psaltery!
How are the mighty fallen! Right and
left,
They leave us pining tor belovéd| ;
class
Where once we listened: all enrapt
V4 Bereft,
We wander to the library en masse.
And now the lizard lounges in the
cleft,
The turtle’s voice is heard upon the
grass,
But spring returning fills our hearts
with gall ’n
Wormwood, for still the mightiest are
fallén.”
|He ceased, and_looked_ at her- with) thus. although- philosophy is in one
glad surprise,
At Miss Lagoon, I mean to say, for
she
Was there. He said, “Can I believe
my eyes,
It’s you.” ’-“Yes,” Miss Lagoon
said, “it was me
Before.” Said Juan, “Wouldn’t it be
nice
To have some coffee at the Dean-
ery?
But. first Pll have to sing a glad: ca-
denza
Because you haven’t got the influenza.
Sad is the lot of them who sore were
stricken,
Who had to swallow draughts of
argyrol,
But praiséd be the ones that didn’t
sicken,
Lagoon and Munch, Anderson,
Woodrow, Koll-
-Er, and the host that’s still alive and
kickin’,
Hoist up a fax of victory ‘on the
pole,
sanna
America or the Star-Spangled Ban-
~ner.”
_ (To be continued) —
Stanton: My in is a Criminal,
melodrama with Alan Baxter, Jac-
‘queline- Wells.
Chestnut: The Philadelphia Story,
with: Katharine- Hepburn, Van Hefflin.
Forrest: The Women, Clare Booth’s
comedy with cast of 40 women.
Erlan, Golden Boy, Clifford
Odets’ drama with Phillip Holmes,
Betty Furness.
Walnut: Boirookete Federal The-
ater Project.
Suburban Movies
Waynie:: Thursday, Friday, Satur-
day, Dawn Patrol, with Errol Flynn,
Basil Rathbone and David Niven.
Illusion.
Seville: Puareday, Stage Door, with
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers.
Friday, Slave Ship, with Mickey Roo-
ney. Saturday, Swing Sister, Swing,
day, Kentucky, with Richard Greene
and Loretta Young. Tuesday, "Phe
Good Fairy, with Margaret Sullavan
3 “Sinburben ‘Thursday, |
and’ Frank Morgan.
Kentucky,
Then Juan lifted up his voice and.
Then intersperse with heavenly ho-
Sunday, Newsboys Home, with Jackie:
}Cooper:—Monday.and Tuesday, Grand »azor——blades,—two—revolvers—and—ay *
with Ernest Truex. Sunday and Mon-)
Mr. yaa > S peak
“Mr. Weiss will make “Jumbled
.. Remarks ‘on God;the State and’
Man,” atthe. New York Bryn
‘Mawr Club on Friday evening,
February 24. Buffet supper, at
6.30 p, m., in the clubrooms at
The Barclay, will precede the
lecture. »
a am — 7 SS
Required Subjects
(This article is the first in a peries
of interviews in which we hope to
show why certain subjects are re-
quired in the college curriculum,)
Interview with Mrs. De Laguna,
head of the Department of Philosophy,
In general, gaid Mrs, De Laguna,
|the purpose of required subjects is to
initiate young people into the cylture
time. This culture may be
into the great fields of his-
art. and philosophy.
of literature, are required in second-
ary schools; but this is not true of
philosophy. Thus, if philosophy were
not required at college one of the
great fields of human learning would
be left untouched. :
But, to be more specific, while the
student a¢cepts required English with-
out question, he feels that a required
philosophy course needs justification.
First year philosophy is, in fact,
optional in many universities. This
justification, thinks Mrs. De Laguna,
lies in the fact that philosophy oecu-
bpies a central and connecting position
ix human knowledge; it is closely re-
lated with such different subjects as
science, history, art and religion.
At Bryn Mawr, a historical survey
of philosophy is given because the
history pf thought is an integral part
of the whole history of culture. The
great thinkers have not only influenced
the course of: philosophy; they have
provided ideals for science, theory for
art and politics. It is impossible to
undexstand the doctrines of the Christ-
ian church without a knowledge of the
history of philosophical thought.
sense a specialized study, it has vital
connections,
Thus far Mrs. De Laguna had
shown the importance of philosophy
as a factor in the culture of the mod-
ern world. But, she said, there is
another aspect of the study of philoso-
phy, more important, ultimately, than
the first.
Every one of us harbors beliefs and
makes use of ideas of which he is un-
aware. Some of these beliefs and
ideas are fundamental, essential to
sane living and valid thinking; some
of them are mere traditional preju-
dice. It is the business of philosophy
to make us aware of these uncon-
scious beliefs and ideas in order that
we may examine them, It is only by
learning to think philosophically that
we become self-conscious and pen
critical.
M. O.
RADNOR COOK HELD
FOR PETTY LARCENY
Main Line thanbek and rove of a
eollege scaridal rose momentarily last
week when Lower Merion police re-
vealed the arrest for larceny of Wal-
(ter Selman, Radnor’ cook: Owing to
th¢%uspicions of pawnbrokers, he was
aricsted in Philadelphia while at-
tempting to pawn two bureau clocks,
which were later found to belong to
Hope Wickersham, ’36, and Jean
Holzworth, '36, both graduate students
living in Radnor. “ i
Following his arrest and confession
to Captain William Shaffer of the
Lower Merion Detective Bureau, a
miscellaneous collection of articles
which have been missed by students
within the last few years were found
in his rooms at Radnor and in Phila-
delphia, These varied from jewelry
and a valuable knitted robe imported
from Germany, down to name-taped
towels: - Also found were several
leather-covered lead ball..
- Selman, aged 37, has been employed
by thé college for 16 years. “He was
arraigned and held for 3000 dollars
bail last Wednesday night, February
15,:and will appear before a grand
jury in Norristown sometime in. the
near future.
with. Loretta Young, Friday to Thurs-
day, The ere: * Cee.
IN THE BOOKSHOP
_ LENDING LIBRARY
Grandma Called It Carnal, by. Bertha
Damon.
The casual reader of Bertha Dam-
Qn’ Sy, childhood reminiscences is con-
scious of nothing but sheer. delight in
“the indomitable figure of Grandma
Griswold.- She had to support herself,
her daughter, and her two small
grandchildren-°on an ‘insignificant
penbion of twenty-seven. dollars a
monthy. She had to live in 4 little
New England village, aptly named
North Stonefield, where 9 woman wag
expected to-be a drudge and a gossip,
an ignoramus and a cooky In the face
of all this, Grandma Griswold refused
to gossip, refused to cook, refused to
drudge, and refused to install modern
conveniences. She. insisted on living
a life patterned as closely as possible
on that designed by Thoreau, Ruskin,
Kant and Saint Paul.
It is this last fact that. makes
Grandma Called It Carnal interesting
to other than casual readers, The
sociologist’ or the eritic of Thoreau
and Ruskin’s thought will find in it the
record of an earnest and whole-heart-
ed effort to make that thought actual
and significant, to base an entire life
upon it. Bertha Damon’s biography
shows almost cruelly the tragic flaws.
in it: the “leisure” based on the hard
work of every other member of the
family, the “picturesqueness” won by —
inconvenience .and back-breaking la-
bor, the “frugality” that meant the
absence of cooked food and fire in
the bedrooms, Against. all this, she
sets her grandmother’s serenity, her
keen awareness of beauty and the in-
tegration of her spirit. In this one
particular case, the achievement seems
to have been worth the sacrifice.
BM. FP.
CURRENT EVENTS
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick.)
President Roosevelt has left on an-
other fishing trip, after his statement
about the sale of airplanes to France.
Airplane factories are now experi-
menting and preparing for quantity
production in an emergency. The
President said that he would impose
no more taxes on big business, and
that he would balance the budget: if
Congress would say what items of ex-
pense to omit. He is watching man-
oeuvers in the Carribbean where the
fleet. is practicing to defend the
Panama Canal and the East Coast:
The Brazilian Foreign Minister this
week visited Washington. He stated
that Brazil is an ally of the United
States. Mr. Fenwick described Bra-
zil as facing the twofold problem of
Nazi propaganda and a large export-
able surplus of coffee. Germany will
buy the coffee in return for Brazil’s
purchase of German agricultural ma-
chinery. These barter agreements,
\however, are contrary| to the Hull
trade policy.
Mr. Fenwick then turned to Spain
and the question of whether Franco’s
demands for unconditional surrender
will be met. We can only hope that
moderation underlies Franco’s state-
ment that he will punish common law
crimes,
In the Far East, said Mr. Fenwick,
Japan prepares to attack Russia _ if
Germany should go to war. A war
with Russia and the occupation of
Siberia would give Japan an excuse
to withdraw from China. It would
also rid Japan of Vladivostok, the air-
plane base which causes Japan. ex-
treme uneasiness.
Mr. Fenwick concluded with a dis-
cussion of the problem facing the
College of Cardinals in the election
of a new Pope. Will he be an Italian, ©
German, Austrian,-Frenchman, Eng-
lishman or Canadian? Will he be a
liberal, interested primarily in jus-
tice, -liberty and -social reform?, Or
will be be a conservative, placing law
and order -ieadari a The obvious an-
tion of thas slenaaie: pe it ‘will “a
interesting to see who will provide
the happy medium.
In Memoriam
Mrs. N. P. Schenck, mother of
Eunice Morgan” Schenck. Died
Saturday, February 18.
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