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VOL. XXVII, No. 23

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1941

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1940

PRICE 10 CENTS





May Day Problem
Will Be Discussed
At Mass Meeting

Faculty and Undergrads
Will Give Arguments
Pro and Con





The question of Big May Day
comes up again. Whether or not
1942 will be-a May Day year, is
to be decided by ballot on Wednes-
day, May 18. Movies and speeches
will present the case’ before the
campus makes it decision.

A mass méeting for the discus-
sion of Big May Day will be held
by the Undergraduate Association
in Goodhart, Monday, May 12,. at
7.15. Colored movies of the 1936
May Day will be shown directly
afterward. Speakers will present
the different factors and points of
view involved. Mademoiselle Ger-
maine Brée, associate professor of
French, will speak from the fac-
ulty point of view, and as one who
participated as a graduate student
in the last Big May Day. Miss
Mary Meigs, instructor in Eng-
lish, will speak as one who was an
undergraduate in the 1936 May
Day.

Margot Dethier, ’42, chairman of
the Entertainment Committee, will
discuss the effect which. the pre-
sentation -of May Day next year
would have upon other extra-cur-
ricular activities. The point of
view of those who will be seniors
next year will be presented by
Barbara’ Cooley, ’42, and that. of
the other three classes, by Ann
Adams, 743.

Mr. Manning to Talk
On Military Strategy





Dr. Frederick J. Manning, pro-
fessor of history at Swarthmore
College, will speak on The Present
Situation in-the Light of Military
History, under the auspices of
American Defense, Bryn Mawr
College Group, next Sunday eve-
ning, May 11, at 8.45, in the Dean-
ery. Dr. Manning has served in
the United States Army. This
winter he has been giving a course

B. M. and Haverford
Re-Present Pirates

Exhisusted Chorus of Girls
Continues Struggle at
Haverford





Abacadabra-presto chango and.
a half a dozen swaggering pirates
become “blushing buds of eyer-
blooming beauty.” The Glee Club
worked wild magic last week in
providing enough daughters for
General Stanley, Haverford va-
riety. The Pirates of Penzance
number two, given at Haverford,
nearly caused nervous breakdown
among a tired girls’ chorus, buten-
tailed much hilarity.

Restraint at the cues for the
men’s chorus was one of the first
problems encountered by the chang-
lings. But those who had always
been girls soon coached all the legs
to kick in the same direction. The
directors meanwhile coaxed out a
charming falsetto.

A real problem of mixed author-
ity was created by the indignant
coaching of the cast which had al-
ready been through one perform-

ance. Differences. arose.in.the more
Continuea on Page Four



Drive for War Relief
Ends With High Total

Faculty and Directors Give
To Britain, China, Greece





The drive for War Relief con-
ducted during the past few weeks,
by American Defense, Bryn Mawr
College Group finished with a total
of $1,320.25, contributed by mem-
bers of the College Faculty, Staff
and some members of the Board of
Directors. Students were not asked
to give. The three agencies for
which funds were solicited were:
the British War Relief Society, the
United Committee for China Re-
lief and the Greek War Society.
Many members of the College com-
munity had, of course, already
given generously to War Relief be-
fore the drive. The final total in-
cludes the first proceeds from the
sale of snapdragons donated by Mr.
Harry Wells and sold by Miss
Mary Meigs. Dr. Cameron was in
charge of the drive, in which. Miss
Alice Hawkins and many members



and history.

of the Faculty were active.



Need Found in Rock for

Second Telephone;

Rock Installs It, But Faces New Problems



By Nancy Evarts, *43
It seems incredible that for all
these years Rock has been strug-
gling along with only one telephone,
but no one has ever before had the

initiative to suggest the radical
scheme of installing a second one.

Now it has happened. Due to the |
-most intimate conversations can no

longer be held privately. Seniors,
we are told, were particularly

untiring persistency’ of Dora
Thompson, the eighty palpitating
inhabitants of Rock will no longer
have to wait for their turns—at
least not as long as they did be-
fore.

It was Dora who realized the
necessity of taking the great step.
Being a progressive hall president,
she could not leave her post with-
out stopping such flagrant abuse
of both the telephone and would-be
conversationalists. After much
agitation and consultation with
Miss Howe, her efforts culminated
in the installation of a second tele-
phone last spring vacation.

All is not yet peaceful in Rock,
however, for, since nobody had ever
foreseen the necessity of another
telephone, there was no room for
one. The best that could be done
was to put the second oné in

Rock’s one and only telephone booth
on the opposite wall from the older
inhabitant.
Needless to say, this scheme has
its drawbacks. The happiness of
the inmates of Rock at having twice
as many chances as they formerly
did to telephone must be somewhat



cloyed by the thought that their

averse to the idea of two telephones
in close juxtaposition.

The dilemma of the maid when
both telephones ring at once can
only be surmised. There must be
‘some difficulty in deciding, which
one to answer first or whether to
answer both at once. The extra
running up and down stairs in-
volved is also: highly unpopular. —

Probably the person who ap-
proves most of the arrangement is
the freshman in Rock who was call-
ed up on both telephones at the
same time. This situation should
have great possibilities, besides be-
ing an opportunity to save time
and energy by murmuring sweet
nothings into both mouthpieces at
once.







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Calendar

Thursday, May 8
Philosophy Club. Dr. Mar-
tin Foss, of the Haverford
Cooperative Work-
shop, Reason and Intuition.
Common Room. 4.30.
Art Club Tea. Mr. Her-
ben. Illustrations of the
Canterbury Tales and
Chaucer’s England. Com--
mon Room. 8.00.

Friday, May 9
Midsummer. Night’s Dream
presented by the ‘Players’
Club and the Haverford
Cap and Bells behind Good-
hart..._8.30.——.

Saturday, May 10
Rhoads Hall Dance.

Sunday, May 11
Art Club Tea and Exhibi-
tion of members’ work.
Common Room. 4.30.
Outdoor Chapel in Deanery
Garden. Dr. Leslie Glenn.
7.30.
Mr.

_ 8.45,

Monday, May 12
Spanish Club Tea.
mon Room. 4.30.
Discussion of Big May Day
followed by Movies of the
last Big May Day. Good-
hart, 7.15.

Tuesday, May 13
College Council Meeting.
The President’s House.
6.30.
Current Events. Miss Reid.
Common Room. . 7.30.

Wednesday, May 14

* Riding Club Supper in back
of Rhoads. 6.15. Movies
in Music Room and lecture.
Dirk van Ingén, Horseman-
ship and Tactics. /7.15.

9-1.

Manning. Deanery.

Com-







Related Departments
To Be Co-ordinated



B. M. to Offer Courses in 18th

Century, Science ‘History



Next year/an attempt will be
made to co-ordinate related depart-
ments by presenting two courses,
one in the relation of sciences, a
second in the relation of philoso-
phy, history, economics and Eng-
lish in the Eighteenth Century.

The outline of the history of sci-
ence grew out of the series of his-
tory of science lectures given this
year. Next year it will be offered
as an elective half-unit course. Mr.
Crenshaw will lecture first semester

on the history of ancient and
medieval science. The departments
of biology, chemistry, geology,
mathematics, physics and psychol-
ogy will co-operate in the second
semester, emphasizing the more
modern development in each field.

The course on life and thought
in the eighteenth century will be
given by Mrs. de Laguna, Mrs.
Manning, Miss Northrop and Miss
Stapleton, as a one-unit elective.
These lectures will attempt to
create for the students a picture
of the eighteenth century world.

The co-ordination of these inter-
departmental courses with the stu-
dents’ other work is difficult, said
Mrs. Manning, but it is hoped that
this problem will be better worked
out after the following year.



wibiig wae,
Playwriting

The playwrighting course
will not be given by Miss
Latham next year. Mr.
Chew and Mr. Sprague hope ~
soon to announce a new ap-
pointment.







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_. Outdoor Chapel

| Dr. C. Leslie Glenn, of the
St. John’s Episcopal Church
|| . of Washington, D. C., will
conduct chapel services in the
Deanery Garden, Sunday eve-
| ning at 7.80. Dr. Glenn
preached at Bryn Mawr last
fall-and is also known to all
students who have attended
Northfield conferences.







Broughton, Carpenter
Speak on Near East



German Invasion Parallels
Early Persian Attack



Deanery, Sunday, May 4.—The
Faculty Defense Committee pre-
sented, as their third lecture, dis-
cussions of the geography and
strategy of the Near East. Mr.

Carpenter spoke of the Greek cam-
paign and its possible results, and
Mr. Broughton explained the geog-
raphy of Turkey and the obstacles
the country offers to an invading
army.

Mr. Carpenter pointed out the
parallel between the Persian inva-
sion of Greece in the fourth cen-
tury B. C. and the German inva-
sion of yesterday. Greece has only
three main positions for defense:
the Vale of Tempe, a pass near
Mount Olympus; Thermopylae, a
stronger position to the south; and
the Isthmus of Corinth which pro-
tects the Peloponnesus. The Per-
sians forced Tempe and Thermopy-
lae, which opened the Attic plain;
but never dared to attack the Isth-
mus,

The Germans, however, had no
scruples, said Mr. Carpenter. They
had planes, which hopped the
mountains and made the defense of
small valleys impossible. The her-
oic stands were again made at
Olympus and Thermopylae; but
Corinth was doomed.

Mr. Broughton believes that al-

Constantinople to the Axis, Ana-
tolia, their homeland, might be de-
fended against invasion. Asia
Minor offers two main barriers to
an invading army; the chain of
mountains along the shore of the
Black Sea, and the Tauros chain
which stretches along the southern
coast. Hitler, once past Constan-
tinople, would have to force one of
the two steep passes in the north-
ern chain to gain the plateau; ‘or
could continue along the Mediter-

though the Turks may not deny

‘Forum Group in First Project
Presents Analysis of Convoying



Present _Convoys Unable
To Meet Air Attacks,
Stone Disclosed



Common Room, April 30.—A
Forum Group including all inter-
ested undergraduates has been
formed this spring to take the place
of the dissolved Peace Council. On
Wednesday evening, six students
presented the results of the first
project, an analysis of the convoy
problem.

Convoy Methods Defined

Ellen Stone defined a convoy as
“any protection of merchant ship-
ping in war-time.” She added that
old-type destroyers, such as the
ones we traded to the British, and
modern corvettes are best for con-
voys because they are cheap to op-
erate and because speed is not
necessary... The present method of
convoying is to group the
freighters with explosive cargoes in
the middle and to convoy with three
destroyers, a corvette and an armed
merchant vessel. This group starts
from Halifax with plane escorts
which soon drop back. About two
hundred miles out’ the destroyers
and the corvette drop back leaving
the armed merchant ship to pro-
tect the fleet until more destroyers
and later planes pick them up off
the English coast. The function
of the armed merchantman is to in- -
tercept attacking vessels, giving
the fleet a chance to scatter.

Ellen Stone declared that the
three most important facts about
the present convoy system are:
that they are using fewer escort
ships than in the first World War,
that they are not using cruisers,
and that convoys are not designed
to meet air attacks.

Losses Numbered .

Barbara Bradley disclosed that
the announced 40 per cent loss of
American goods shipped to Britain
is highly exaggerated. Although
the British won’t announce the
losses which their fleet has sus-
tained, it is known that about. 69

out of every 70 convoys reaches
Continued. on Page Four



Reason and Intuition

The Philosophy Club will
present Dr. Martin Foss, of
the Cooperative Workshop in
Haverford, at 4.30, Thursday
afternoon, in the Common
Room. Dr. Foss, who has
given some lectures at Hav-
erford and Bryn Mawr
classes, will speak on Reason
and Intuition. Everyone is
invited.



Continued on Page Six









Desperate Bathing Situation Distinguishes -
Field Trip; One Reduced to Bureau Drawer



By Barbara Cooley
Put: fifty-five girls, one bewil-
dered professor and two lively
young drivers into.a bus and the
result is chaos. Send them all up

into the Poconos and the result is
the Geology Field Trip.
The biggest trouble with the
Field Trip A. D. 1941 seems to
have been the bath situation. Peo-
ple got desperate. One girl wan-
Ldered into the bathroom of an,

ing around when she heard the
‘door handle being turned. “Who
is it?” she called in her most dul-
cet tones and after a moment of
suspense she was horrified to hear
a man’s voice calling Room Service.
And then there was the girl who





decided the line formed outside the
only shower in Tamaqua was too
long—she took her bath in a bureau
drawer.

But the thing that surprised us
most was the sight of a freshman
calmly knocking on the door across
the hall just before Sunday break-
fast-and murmuring, “Johnny, have
you finished shaving yet?” and we
know she didn’t think our profes-
sor was the poet Dryden. To quote
the Junior Member form Merion:

“T did not see the limestone,

The shale escaped my view;
Pelecypods and orthids—

I missed the fossils too.

But what a lovely sunburn,

A gorgeous golden glow. =—
The Field was a wild success—
Oh, God I loved it so!”






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Aymay Ayday

May Day—the same script, the same costumes, the same ideas
of a time long gone and a time out of mind. We are concerned
now not with the old England, its customs and peace, but with a
burning England; and the threat of a domineering and brutal
civilization.

Is it not our duty at such a time to emphasize the vital ideas
on which a free country is based and to consider the best and most
adequate means of applying them to our present situation? Does

_ May Day, a portrait of Elizabethean England, help us to do this?

Now is the time for Bryn Mawr.to help, not to spend money
and energy on artificial and ephemeral folderol. The importance of
the development of ideas in activities such as the forum group, the
international relations club, the industrial group, and the new war-
time groups is far more important to us now.

The News Board cannot visualize a May Day in 1942.

But if a production such as May Day is so essential to the

the present college group, would it not be more valuable today to
feature something like the legend and history of Philadelphia where



















. On the Other Hand. som



‘Tf.all the energy expended this spring, to crowd the calendar
with events and satiate audiences, were collected into one under-
taking, the result might be Big May Day. The difference lies only
in the equalization of activity. Today the stage crew rushes from
rocky mountains to Titania’s bower, andthe flat, this day-a ruined
castle, the next, becomes the wall of Quince’s house. Sunlight be-
comes moonlight by a hasty flash of gelatins. The sleeping beauty
sleeps very little and her feet are unnaturally calloused for those of
a fairy in a dream. Hammers, lights, flats, and days for produc-
tion are fought over hy conflicting groups. A limited number of
people and amount of equipment must serve all performances.

_ For many of the people, joy in what they do has been replaced by

a deadening consciousness that without their thankless work the
show could not go on.

In the midst of this overlapped activity the majority remain
unmoved. The vitalizing atmosphere created has little penetrating
power. Groups remain small and limited in outlook, hall battles
hall, and class, class. The average student on graduation has not
greatly widened her viewpoint. Intensive education has taught her
techniques which she is- unable to apply in her relations with. other
people, for her association has been with those whose interests and
view points are as specialized and limited as her own. On the other

hand, the person upon whom has fallen the task of maintaining a:

normal amount of ‘extra curricular activity, leaves college equally
unprepared for life outside. She has never known concentration ;

she is master of nothing.
The fault is partly that of the individual and partly that of the

system, Some amount of extra curricular ‘activity is necessary in
“any college in order to introduce balance. The number of people

-hecessary to carry on this activity is not much less for the small
college than it is for the large college—the size of the production
staff of a play and of its cast are the same whether tryouts number
in the tens or hundreds, the size-of a hockey team is standard, the
board of a weekly newspaper is fairly fixed—but the number of



‘maintenance of a student body at Bryn Mawr, and to the unity of |.

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War - - - Pro





Spring has come now. This is the seasonal start of a new

What that year holds for us none of us know now, but now,
we can begin our part of the molding of the next twelve months—
America, having
hesitated, rationalized, and procrastinated disastrously long already,
She must do it effectively, mobilizing all her
resources with utmost speed. England stands alone now—the long
list of the fourteen countries already victimized reverberates to our
It is not an imperialist war be-

It is a war between all free-
Most particularly it is against
the Nazism of Hitler, a system of government politically. and eco-
That is not idealistic bom-
“Today we own Germany, to-
morrow all the world.” So the Hitler Jugend sings in Mein Kampf.
Each step has been completed thus
And Hitler plainly states his goal to be world domination for

year.

and those succeeding, too. And we must. begin.

must enter the war.

shame. For this is our war, too.
tween Great Britain and Germany.
dom-loving people and fascism.

nomically incompatible with democracy.
bast. “The Germans have told us.

Hitler has outlined his scheme.
far,
the German people.

If England falls, America remains Hitler’s sole threat.

in this war,
pect to maintain a respectable position in the world.

The English people—the English people who are fighting tooth
and nail, and who may be obliterated but will never be defeated—
So we send them scattered ship-
ments, some forty per cent of which lie on the bottom of the Atlan-

these people are counting on us.

And|
there it is: we are a part of the world and the world is involved
We cannot sit with our faces to the corner if we ex-

Opinion

Adams Credits News Music
Critic With Putting Forth
Best Efforts

To the editor of the College News:

I am writing to offer a word in
defense of the Music Critic. To
publish two such letters as the
News did last week seems to me
unfortunate for everyone con-
cerned, not only for the Music
Critic, but also for the authors of
the létters, since I believe that
neither of them would have meant
their letters to speak. as harshly
as they did when put side by side.

If I understand the function of
the News board correctly, every-
thing that is written is approved
by it before being published. There-
fore, if there is something about
the music criticisms in general that
we do not~like, it would seem ‘to
reflect something. on the policy of
the News as well as on the efforts
of one reporter. The second let-
ter acknowledged this fact.

It was unfortunate, too,









that

tic Ocean, and now we decide to patrol 2,000 miles of the ACIaHEE long article, written by some one

Ocean,

Army and Navy planes and fliers. England is counting on us.
has fought long-and well, little aided, but she may not stand alone
indefinitely,

If England falls, we stand alone. How long and how well
can we fight unaided against a foe growing daily stronger and more
self-assured? A foe who can attack from either ocean and from
scattered points of land. A foe already invading us from within
with subtle and open propaganda.

And it would come to war. No peace of any durance can exist
between the outspoken, free-minded Americans and the domineer-
ing, hard-minded Nazis.
peace with a false smile and a chip on the shoulder,

For this the United States would have to devise an entirely new
economic system, an independent or a subservient system. We
would have to devise it quickly. And perhaps we wouldn’t like it.
Perhaps it is more in our nature to be “good neighbors.” Even so,
we would soon be obviously catering to the fascist governments or
we would jump up sharply against the realization that democracy
and fascism cannot-work hand in hand.

This declaration is faith in America. Not the faith that be-
lieves in America first and only—save America and you save the
world. It is a faith that America is an ‘important part of the world,
and can and will remain so. It is a faith that American life can be
put on a wartime basis—the sheep aroused and the strong properly
led—while in our hearts the principles of democracy are remem-
bered and revered. It is a faith that America, its people and its
government, can do their part in this war and establish freedom
as the rule for the lives of those here, and everywhere else, who
believe in it. ~~ Satty Jacos.





Conse Soa cet ae bv te |

those more reticent in asserting themselves to ‘participate.

system has the tendency to run downhill. Schisms create more

schisms and the last straw finally breaks someone’s back as extra

curricular activity draws on fewer people. -
One solution to the problem is Big May Day. This solution
has certain advantages over the others. Any undertaking which
would involve the whole campus would be tremendously expensive.
The project must: be able to pay for jtself.
strated this ability.

there been a deficit, and that was a small one. In order to pay for

‘any enterprise the size proposed, the audience must be drawn from

all parts of the country. A pageant on the histery of Pennsylvania
would not be likely to draw people from Chicago, There is an-
other objection to such a pageant. It is not unique.

Day belongs to Bryn Mawr alone.

Entrance of the United States in she: war would affect any
large undertaking. In’war time, however, people need a /release
from the pent up energy and anxiety generated by the conflict. T he

production, if given for war relief, would still have its
the realities of the present day.

reputation, because, as a tradition; it would serve to
and alumnae, because »“being-detached , from the

ments in their ‘Proper. perspective, because su



But America must adopt full measures—produce the badly
needed materials in the amazing quantities of which she is capable,
convoy them safely to English ports, double the English navy with
our fine ships and our sailors, complement the R. A. F. with our
She

For a few years, maybe, a distrusting

Such a

May Day has demon-|.
Only once in all the years it has been given has

Such things
have been done before all over the country. The Bryn aor May



other than the usual music critic
should bring down so much re-
proach on one person who has
given her best efforts to writing
up concerts which are not always
as good or as exciting as the one
by Paul Robeson.

I hope that this will not be mis-
understood as a criticism of the
opinions expressed in the two let-
ters. It is not meant that way.
It is meant.rather to express one
opinion that it would have been
better not to have come down so
hard on the music critic, who in-
cidently earned her position by try-
outs which were open to anyone
interested and willing enough to
take the time, thought, and care
which being music critic on the
News involves.

I’m afraid this letter accidentally
coincides with an attempt at music
criticism myself. It really is ac-
cidental, because, the music critic
was unavoidably away, but, if

more than ten undergraduates had
attended the concert-.on Sunday,
someone else would have been
asked: to “write it up.” Now I’d
better stop, having, no doubt, by
now come in for a goodly share of
criticism myself.

ANN ADAMS, ’43.



Save Heatedness and Hatred
For Your Best of Friends;
Let Us be Cool



To the editor of the College News:

The proposed columns for indi-
vidual editorial and student opin-
ions could be a great asset to the
News if they were handled prop-
erly. All of us have intellectual
and emotional interests. in the
British cause—either pro or con—

and love to express our views. But
Continued on Page Six

MOVIES

ARCADIA: Men of Boys’ Town,
Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney.

BOYD: That Hamilton Woman,
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
Beginning Thursday, May 15:
Penny Serenade, Irene Dunne and
Cary Grant.

FOX: Beginning Friday: Pot ’o
Gold, James Stewart and Paulette
Goddard.

KARLTON: Road to Zanzibar,
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Doro-
thy Lamour.

KEITH’S: The Great Dictator, .
{Charles Chaplin and Paulette God-.
|dard.

STANLEY: Meet John Doe,
Gary Cooper and Barbara Stan-
wyck.

STANTON: Man-Made Monster, -
Lon Chaney and Lionel Atwill. Be-
ginning Saturday: Wagons Roll at
Night, Humphrey Bogart and Sil-
via.

AL E: That Uncertain Feel-
ing, Merle Oberon and Melvyn












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Ideologies Theme’ of
Sherwood’s War Play

By Mildred McLeskey, ’43

In 1940, at the opening of ‘There
Shall Be No Night,” the Finnish
war was the current crisis. Now,
we have lost that sense of im-
mediacy which keyed this play so
sharply to daily interest. How-
ever, “There Shall Be No Night”
has gained, rather than lost, force
during the intervening year: Each
morning’s headlines — Belgium,
Norway, Holland—have strength-
ened this penetrating indictment of
Nazi philosophy.

The play is essentially a sum-
ming up of different attitudes to-
ward the present world situation—
idealistic pacifism, scientific bru-
tality, youthful stoicism, hopeless
cynicism. All these elements,
representative of modern thought,
are drawn together in the first
scene and continue to react upon
one another until the final curtain.
By centering the action about a
small family circle, the author
produces an exceptionally clear-cut
exposition of these forces involved
in conflict.

Seeing these forces in actual
operation before our eyes, we are
shocked into a greater conscious-
ness of their existence and mean-
ing. We have all read the aims
of the Nazi government many
times, but to actually hear them
baldly stated and to observe the

- various reactions to such ideology
is a valuable stimulus to construc-
tive thinking about the possibilities
of our own present position. The







complete absence of sentimentality |

in presenting the story is an aid
to an objective consideration of
the _ situation. There is no
mawkish dramatization of a sol-
dier’s duty or death but.only the
realization of the final necessity
of force.

The characters in “There Shall
Be No Night” are never mechanical
mouthpieces of ideas, however;
they are definite individuals. Ad-
ditional interest is created by the
fact that each person is_ both
special and ‘universal, a member of
the Valkonen family in Finland
and, at the same time, of any fam-
ily in. any country. Although
Miss Fontanne is the epitome of
graciousness and her scenes with
her son’ magnificent, this is dis-
tinctly Mr. Lunt’s play. From his
first radio speech to his final “‘lec-
ture” in the little school room, he
expresses the dominant motif of
essential optimism, of faith in the
light of the mind, in the power of
man to fight through to a true
knowledge of himself. The true
value of “There Shall be No Night”
lies in the power of its presenta-
tion of contemporary principles and
their effects upon human life in its
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Rock President Harz
Holds Varied Honors



Rock knows an amazing amount
about Eleanor (Mudd) Harz, on
whom have been heaped the Hinch-
man, Eastman Brooke Hall, and
Anna M. Powers scholarships. It
seems that besides being its punc-

tilious president and disciplinary
fire-captain, she is one of its chief
diversions. Her friends had to be
bribed not to divulge certain
secrets, but rumors escaped of
weaknesses for Shirley Temple, ice
cream, Katherine Cornell, comb-
and-tissue-paper bands, and spon-
taneous photography.

Mention East Chop, Martha’s
| Vineyard to Mudd, and she will
lapse into a blissful trance of sum-
mer reminiscences. Now she is in
the midst of a philology paper on
the place-names of the island. This
is typical of the happy mingling of
work and play in her life: she once
slept on wedding cake and dreamed
of Aeneas; in Latin plays she has
played the part of toothless burly
slaves.

No one seems to know when she
writes her Latin. verse or main-
tains her magnificent average, but

in the motto, written in bold type,
over her door: “No Time for
Comedy.”

Mudd is grateful to her new
fame, if for no other reason, be-
cause it gives her a chance to an-
nounce publicly that the name is
.Harzz—not Hartz—but Harzzz. It
is quite admirable, she thinks, that
she should have persevered in the
face of this frustration in name,
for even her own Latin department
hasn’t got it right yet. Mudd, hop-
ing to. do honors..and~-eventually
graduate work in philology, is



| word-conscious anyway, and must
|be particularly pained by this com-
| mon misunderstanding. The Mudd,
a recent acquisition (with the extra



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Honor Received Calmly by
Traveled Navy Junior



Ellen Stone really wasn’t very
excited about winning the Hinch-
man Prize, because she was at
Long Beach, California, during the
earthquake of 733. As a matter of
fact, she confessed that when such
things happen to her she never
seems to have enough time to get
excited; in ’83 she was too busy
picking herself up and falling down
again and in ’41 she was too busy
writing a Logic Paper.

Ellen is what is commonly known
as a “navy junior” which means in
a layman’s language that she went
to twelve public schools and that
her father is somewhere at sea and
her mother is in Honolulu. Inci-
dently she didn’t think it was
worth ten cents a word to cable her
family the glad tidings so she
wrote a letter instead. “Until I
came to college,” she added, “I
didn’t think I’d ever live in one
place for three years.” Her wan-
derings, however, have been strictly
limited to the United States except
for one day spent in Mexico.

But even the greatest minds have
their weaknesses. Ellen’s are
Hygiene (just the mental. part)
and the swimming test which she
passed on her fourth try.

Philosophy is Ellen’s major with
History and Politics running a
close-second inher .affections. She
plans to get a job when she gradu-
ates from college and take gradu-
ate work at an indefinite place
some indefinite time in the future.



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By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43

Sunday evening we went down to
see the rehearsal of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. The voices carry
surprisingly well in the
hollow behind Goodhart. When
we arrived everything was go-
ing smoothly, with a rather mild
and tearful scene of the lovers
played against the very impressive
background of Goodhart. The
calm was soon dissipated by the
flying entrance of Hermia from the
side of the stage, followed, after
a short but noisy fist fight, by the
equally flying exit of Helena from
the other side. Nothing daunted,
the extras sat calmly under a tree,
and Hippolyta perched precariously
on the edge of the balcony. Little
Eddy Davis, who plays the chang-
ling boy, wandered about solemnly,
and finally disappeared under the
weavers’ house. The scene grew
more athletic every minute, until
Puck’s very neat job of strangling
the lovers finally reduced them to
a state of apparent coma.

The dressing room was crowded
with studious Haverford boys,
seemingly unmoved by the screams
that floated in. One unfortunate
weaver in blue and yellow striped‘
tights kept pleading with the cos-
tume girl, “They won’t stay up!”
That tragedy being averted, some-
one asked hopefully if they were



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going to make any of the “big
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to stick around to see their scene.

When we returned to the hollow,
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of an ass’ bray. The fairies danced
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and off with what looks like ex-
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Forum Group Analyzes
Problem of Convoying



Continued from Page One

England safely. At present, the

combined navies of Germany, Italy |:

and Japan exceed the British and
American by 200 vessels. British
shipyards, filled with boats being
repaired are being bombed con-
stantly so that production in Eng-
land is at a standstill.
International Law

Agnes Martin explained the In-
ternational Law on convoys. Con-
stitutionally, the President as
Commander-in-Chief can send our
navy anywhere, but no American
merchant ships can enter areas
which the President. declares to be
war zones. Under international
law no neutral can convey a ship
carrying contraband of war, and
the enemy.can assert the right of
visit, search and seizure on any
neutral_.ship in war Zones. There-
fore, it would be a breach of the
law for us to convoy ships to Bri-
tain. Some believe that we are
not bound by the Hague Conven-
tion because when a covenant is
broken by one party the other par-
ties are not bound to observe it.

Public Opinion

Betty Nicrosi reported on Pub-
lic Opinion. According to the Gal-
lup poll ten days ago, she said, 67
per cent of the country was against
convoys, but three days ago, this
number had decreased to 50 per
cent. Fifty-one per cent of Con-
gress is for convoying and 45 per
cent against it. :

Pro and Con

Catherine Clement discussed the
attitude of important’ individuals
toward convoys. The President
evades the issue and seems to be
searching for a means short of war.
In April he said that “Convoys
mean shooting and shooting means
war” and that he had no inten-
tion of sending convoys to Great
Britain. There are four import-
ant arguments used by those in
favor of convoys: 1), we cannot
allow our goods to be sunk; the
tax-payers wouldn’t like it, and it
would be violating our policy as ex-
pressed_in the Lease-Lend_bill; 2),
the British cannot convoy all
alone.. At present their rate of loss
is three times gréater than that of
production; 3), half measures
won’t work. Together the U. S. and
.Great Britain can defeat Hitler by
keeping the seas open; 4), Repre-
sentative Joseph Baldwin of New
York believes that a convoy extend-
ing halfway will-keep us out of the
war.

There is only one argument used
against. convoys, she concluded,
convoys mean war. ~°

Combined Cast Gives

Pirates at Haverford





Continued from Page One

violent but expressive weeping of
the Pirates and the antics of the
leads.

Acute among.the problems of the
joint production was the dressing
room situation. The gentlemen
“of dark and dismal fate” were
ousted to the “Union” ‘and the
ladies given the dressing rooms.
Friction followed the stage crew’s
insistence on storing materials in
the dressing rooms and shouts of
* femininity echoed not only on the
stage, but also behind it.

All in all, the greatest outcome

of the enterprise was good will and-

“solidarity forever” between the
two colleges. At supper before the
~ Yehearsals and performances, the
singing swung from Haverford
Forever to Come Cheer for Our
College, and Bryn Mawr more than

: held its own at the Junior Prom.





Haverford

Collection speakers at Hav-
erford College will be: Ray-
mond Leslie Buell,..Director
of The Fortune Round
Tables, The Choice Before
Us, on May 6, Robert L. Sim-
kin, A Haverfordian Looks at
China, on May 18 and Doug-
las V. Steere, Some Aspects
of the Problem of Order in
Society, on May: 20. Collec-
tions are held on Tuesdays at



11.80 in Roberts Hall.





Great Business Need
For Personnel Work,
Declares Mrs. Little

Goodhart May 5. — “In every
type of business, there is someone
needed for personnel work,” Mrs.
Charles Little declared at the Vo-
cational Tea where she spoke on
Opportunities for- Women in Per-
sonnel Work. Personnel work is
working with people in organized
groups. It offers an uncrowded
field but at the same time demands
definite qualifications,

Personnel work brings the dual
responsibility of pleasing the com-
pany which the personnel worker
represents and of fitting the appli-
cant in a situation where he will be
happy. Consequently, a knowledge
of the people with whom the ap-
plicant will work and an ability to
judge the applicant are necessary.
One must be sympathetic and alert
to. people’s. personalities. If an
applicant is misplaced, his whole
future life may be affected.

Voice training said Mrs. Little
is an important tool for interviews,
and typing and shorthand are use-
ful to take quick notes. In this
work—much like that of a doctor’s
—physical endurance is vital. A
course in accounting is often de-
sirable so that one can express
cases in mathematical as well as
social terms. Finally, tolerance
and patience are indispensible—
one is constantly dealing with two
sides: the employers’ and the em-
ployees’.

The_best training for such work
is in department stores where one
can get the employees’ point of
view and _ see_ their problems.
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| Founded by Insidiqus and Greedy Seniors



By Barbara Cooley
By the time you are a Junior,
you forget that getting up before
the sun and singing gaily on an

Two Doubles Matches _
Win Varsity Victory

From Swarthmore





Swarthmore College; April 30.—
The Bryn Mawr Varsity Tennis
Team defeated Swarthmore Col-
lege 3-2 to gain an eleventh hour
victory. Trailing 1-2 at the conclu-
sion of Singles’ play, the Yellow
and White ‘took both Doubles
matches to win.

Waples, ’42, playing 1st Singles,
was in poor form, and lacked con-
trol when extended. Maizie John-
son,- playing very well, won 6-0;
6-1.

At 2nd Singles, Marion Johnson
lost an exciting match to Matthai,
43, who played beautifully; her
game showed good anticipation,
penetrating forehand and _—back-
hand drives, and a forceful net at-
tack.

Fleet, ’43, lost the 8rd Singles
match to Hennie Tomlinson 6-1}
6-1. While she was the more force-
ful player of the two, Fleet was
unable to outsteady her opponent
and win their long rallies.

Matthai and Norton, ’42, defeated
Johnson and. Johnson 17-5; _ 6-1.
They showed good teamwork and
accurate placements, and. above all
they gave their opponents oppor-
tunities to defeat themselves.

Fleet’ and Waples, showing both
control and confidence to hit hard,
had no difficulty defeating Swarth-
more’s 1st Doubles pair, 6-1; 6-2.



most of the requirements independ-
ently.

Personnel work isiuseful not only
as a career but in the experience
one gets from it. ‘Make the per-
sonnel work your vocation,” Mrs.
Little concluded,
perience as avocation.”



Apropos of text-book investiga-
tions someone has quipped—“Many
people are taking up Rugg-beating
these days as an indoor-sport.”

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empty tummy is worse than being
awakened with the sun by giggles
and quavering voices outside the
room of the senior next door. Jun-
iors may swear but at least they
can go back to sleep.

Everyone knows by now that I’m
talking about May Day... I have a
few theories about May Day which
are irrefutable when you have wit-
nessed three of these annual fes-
tivities. From. a detached point
(second floor Rhoads South) my
coolly critical eye surveyed the
scene and I came to the conclusion
that May Day was an invention
of the devil, I mean-the seniors.

‘In the first place, they make
Sophomores wake them up (is that
the true sisterly spirit?) and then
to sustain themselves, they insti-
tuted the tradition of coffee and
sticky buns provided by their hu-
man alarm clocks. While every-
one stands. around gloomily rub-
bing hollow midriffs, these same
seniors gloat down upon them from
Rock Tower. By this time, their
gluttonous souls are ready for more
food and they romp gleefully off
to Miss Parks for another break-
fast.

But now comes the most insidious
part of the whole set-up; after two
such hearty meals they begin to
worry about their figures. Instead
of doing a normal thing like go-|[
ing off into a corner for ten: push-
ups and ten touch-toes, they make
the whole soggy-toast-and-coffee-
fed college dance hectically around
the green with them. --!

And as a final insult, while
everyone else pants wearily on the
grass or frantically clutches at the
nearest tree, they all race madly
toward a little stone sundial push-
ing hoops before them. They say
it-proves that seniors aren’t senile,
but my theory is that it’s just the
second breakfast.



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Henri Peyre Analyzes
Antiquity’s Influence
On French Literature



M. Henri Peyre stressed the im-
portance of antiquity, not only in
past and present French literature,
but also as a gauge for personal
aesthetics ‘and individual inspira-
tion.

In modern times, said M. Peyre,
classical education has been re-
placed by the study of pseudo-sci-
ences, and its lack has been felt.
The classical has been in ‘continu-
ous change and with new genera-
tions gains new interpretations,
and furnishes new inspirations.

There have been few ‘literary
trends which have not been influ-
enced. by the Latin and Greek
antiquities. The main influences
have been in two directions. One,

we find in modern writers’ traces |

of religion and legend. Secondly,
a. living, fecond and violent influ-
ence, marked by immoderation, of-
ten intoxicates followers of the
classical tradition.

The nineteenth and _ twentieth
centuries were most influenced by
antiquity. In the nineteenth cen-
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by a youthful violence and a sen-
sible imagination which associated
itself with nature. In more recent
literature, three themes have .been
dominant: the subconscious has
been produced through classical
symbols; themes imitated from the
classical have entered into social
poetry and propaganda; third, the
classical has found a part in escape
literature.

In the sixtéenth century, the in-
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osophy Club interpretated Plato’s
style as in‘ itself a symbol of the
four-fold line. There are three
kinds of imagery ir the dialogues:
obvious imagery, hidden imagery
and the image of the dialectic. The
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C. Sullivan’s Program
Widely Varied; Songs
Warmly Interpreted



Specially Contributed by
Ann Adams, ’43
Deanery, Sunday, May 4.—Miss
Constance Sullivan, Bryn Mawr,

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1930, presented in her recital a

\.hrogram of songs which‘was widely

varied, and sung with warmth of
feeling and interpretation. Miss
Sullivan’s outstanding character-
istics are her complete poise and

‘ gimplicity, combined with her un-

derstanding..of the mood of her
songs.

’ The first group of songs, sung
in English, opened with Take O
Take Those Lips Away by Dr.
Wilson. The light and humorous
When Daisies Pied, by Dr. Arne,
followed. Willow, Willow, a tra-
ditional air which Desdemona sing's
before she dies, was sung with
feeling and more depth of volume
than was apparent in the first two
songs. Haydn’s She Never Told
Her Love was followed by the more
familiar Who Is Sylvia by Schu-
bert. In this last song of the first
group, the full power of Miss
Sullivan’s voice was realized.

The German group consisted of
songs by Schumann and Brahms.
The sympathetic interpretation of
Brahms was particularly lovely. In
Schumann’s Der Nussbaum the
tone on the lower notes was full
and resonant.

The third and last group opened
with Chausson’s Le Temps~ des
Lilas, a French song in the mood
of the dying spring which it de-
picts. This was followed by a
gayer song of Debussy, Voici que
le Printemps. Another Debussy
song La Chevelure was in a somber
it Aap - 8 was well created by.
Miss Sullivan. She sang Nana a
Spanish lullaby by De Falla with
tenderness and an .exceptionally
lovely soft tone. The accompani-
ments, played by Paul Meyer, were
in close sympathy with the songs.



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OPINION

Continued from Page Two



let’s not print our heated argu-
ments. (After all, why have a best
friend or a room of one’s own if
they can’t be used for blowing off
steam!) There’s enough emotional
propaganda like that Dartmouth
student’s letter—and dogmatically
factional opinion around campus
without making it any more obvi-
ous.

What we need is more cool, con-
cise statements, backed by coherent
fatts, such as Nancy Ellicott’s
article. Present issues must be
clafified, not confused by arousing
fresh emotions. The intelligent ma-
jority should be encouraged to back
its aid to Britain with definite,
well-planned action. The “loyal
opposition” could profit by realiz-
ing that its chief contribution lies
not. in hindering the* adopted. poli-
cies but in doing its utmost to free
us from bitterness. and narrow-
mindedness. Varied ideas must be
tolerated, even encouraged. But
it’s still true that “United we
stand, divided we fall.” So let’s
use these new columns for propos-
ing action based on adequate evi-
dence and expressing opinions
without heatedness





and hatred.

Planets Suggested by Freneh Oral Takers
As Fitting Harbor in Storm or Shipwreck



The French Orals, on the sub-
ject of David Copperfield’s Dora,
revealed the following: “‘we con-
sider her as a shipwreck in a por-
the
need to swim or feeling the need
to hook on to neighboring plants.”

trait without experiencing

i
Or else “we contemplate her as a

shipwreck in a picture without con-
sidering the necessity of existing.”

“Aux plantes voisines”. became
anything from “nearby shores” to
the “neighboring , planets.” One



[Ilustrated Lecture
On Horses Scheduled

Captain Dirk van Ingen, horse-
man and authority on horses, will
lecture and show pictures Wednes-
day, May 14, in the Common Room,
following a picnic supper behind
Rhoads.

Captain van Ingen, who is an ex-
perienced rider and one of the
countries’ authorities on breeding,
training and horsemanship, will
speak about form and style in rid-
ing. He will also lecture on differ-
ent breeds ahd combinations of
breeds, giving a general and useful
resumé of the subject. His pic-
tures are of horses and horsemen
all over the world—at the Olym-
pics, European and English hunts
and numerous. American and Eu-
ropean shows.

Captain van Ingen is now
affiliated with the Boots and Saddle
Club of New York. He has ridden
and shown horses for many years
in the United States and abroad,
and has made an interesting and
intense study of the subject.

The lecture will be preceded by
a picnic supper to which everyone



passage was. variously interpreted
(1) sheltering
themselvés under nearby shrubs”;
(2), “without feeling the need to
die and without hiding ourselves in
the (3)
“without feeling the need to pérch

as “shipwrecks

neighboring planets”;

on a plant.”

One student, from “les étres
vivants sont des enigmes danger-
euses,” deduced the cynical state-
ment, “in real life living persons
are dangerous enemies.” “Qui ont

donné une. certaine orientation

nouvelle,” was translated as “those
giving a certain oriental news”;
“au point. de vue. . .-nettement
empiriste,” as “from the point of
view of the neat empiricist.” A
Latin major, no doubt, was the one
who translated “trés” as “three.”

Broughton, Carpenter
Speak on Near East



Continued from Page One
ranean coast and there attack the
But
if Turkey does not chime in with
the Axis, if England holds Iraq and
help is given at the vital mountain
strongholds, the defense of Turkey
is possible.

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Perhaps we as a college may never is cordially invited and at which
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‘ing of each other’s positions and|sonally. Both the picnic and the
idevotion to the best interests of our |lecture are being sponsored by the
|country. Athletic Association, and there will
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