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Sino-Japanese
War Reviewed
By 0. Lattimore

Goodhart Hall, April 15.—Mr.
Owen Lattimore, in his lecture on

the future of China, defined Amer-
ica’s stake in a free China as the
establishment of a constructive
peace ‘which has the power to
spread jand strengthen of itself.”
Although the national and terri-
torial integrity of China must be
reaffirmed, Japan must not be de-
stroyed.

A free China means the open-
ing up of markets. Reconstruc-



tion during the war has led to a|'

maximum promotion in China of
the democratic technique. This
development means a trend ‘toward
a constructive economy rather than
toward shrinking markets, compe-
tition, and the low standard of
labor that exists in Japan.
China is no» more immune or
prone to Bolshevism than any other
society. By helping to carry on
: Continued on Page Eight

Mass-Meeting Held
For Inaugurations





Goodhart, Monday, April 15.—
Before a mass-meeting of the col-
lege, the out-going presidents of
college “organizations presented
their reports of the accomplish-
ments of the past year. The newly-
elected presidents were inaugu-
rated; and .the treasurers of the
organizations gave their accounts,
all of which showed healthy- bal-
ances.

Louise Sharp, ’40, President of
Self-Government, reported several
changes in the Constitution, pro-

viding for the incorporation of the

Association’s members in the Ex-
ecutive Board, and changing elec-
tion provisions to make more con-
sideration of the candidates for
president and vice-president. Mary
Paige, ’42, treasurer, reported a
of ,$1562.81; and Virginia
Nichols, ol was inaugurated as
president.
Anne Louise Axon, ’40, President
of the Undergraduate Association,
stressed the tendency toward inno-

_vation in campus activities during

the past year. The new system
of all-college assemblies has been
most helpful in formulatin® and

“expressing opinion on many ques-

tions, especially those of May Day
and the Entertainment Committee.

The combination of all campaigns
“Continued on Page Four



Need for or

_—Student Link Cited

The sain wae meetings of the
Alumnae Council, held this year
at Bryn Mawr, were devoted to the
various activities in which the
Alumnae Association takes part.
The general aim behind these ac-
tivities. is the‘ dove-tailing of the
Alumnae Association and the un-

dergraduate body.

The business session, held on
Friday at the Deanery, was devoted
to the reports of the committees.
Mrs. William .C. Byers, chairman
of the Scholarships and Loan. Fund
Committee, reported the part
the Alumnae Association plays
in awarding 129 named _schol-
arships, regional scholarships and
grants. This year there are 46
regional scholarships, an increase
of five over last year. Money
given from the Alumnae Fund is
also used to supplement the
Rhoads Scholarships, professors’
salaries and the money needed to
run the Deanery.

In the report of the Academic
Committee, it was stated that’ the
committee this year will study the
problem of music as a major field.

The Academic Committee of the
Continued on Page Six

Dr. Vaillant To Give.
Lecture On Mexico





Dr. George Vaillant will give an
illustrated lecture on The Conquest
of Mexico by the Spaniards as
Seen Through Indian Eyes, in the
Common Room on Friday night,
April 19, at 7.30 p. m. This lec-
ture is sponsored by the Depart-
ments of Social Economy and So-

cial Research, and _ Classical
Archeology. Dr. Vaillant is the
associate curator of Mexican

Archeology of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History.



Congratulations!

The News wishes to con-
gratulate Mr. and Mrs. Da-
vid on the birth of a _ son,
Charles Newbold, on April 7,
and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
on the birth of a son, Doug-
las Ross, April 17.











Mysterious Entertainment With Prizes
To be Given Undergraduates and Faculty



By M. Bogatko, ’41°'

On Thursday, April 25, at eight
o’clock, in the Deanery, the under-
graduate body will be presented
with the most unique opportunity
in college history. Faculty and
students will mingle gaily in what
is_known._as-a-game-_party_or-van-
ishing bridge supplemented by di-
vertissement of a deeply mysterious
nature. There just doesn't seem
to be any telling what might hap-

pen. . Besides. bridge, the...games |

that may be indulged in are slap

_ jack, rummy, roulette, jacks and

Chinese checkers.

A particularly strong lure lies in
the door prizes of which there ewill
be twenty,or thirty. _ These prizes
are fabulous. The list is not com-
plete yet, but up to date it includes

such items as a next year’s season ,

ticket for the top balcony of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, a ham, a
series ticket for the Philadelphia
Forum, another ham, a_ potted
plant, another ham, ° and orders,

varying in worth from ten dollars
down, from Best’s, Strawbridge &
Clothier, and many other shops.
And this is by no means the
whole story. There will be per-
formances' by members of the fa-
culty which, it is rumored, will in-
clude.take-offs on undergraduates.
To be auctioned off are two origi-
nal Wyncie King posters. “There
will also be Wyncie King carica-’
tures of Professors Watson and

Sereeno traditions the holder of
the winning number may claim the
prize only if he or she is in attend-
ance at the party. Coffee and
sandwiches will be served toward
the end of the evening.

' The tickets which will be one

dolar may be put on pay day. The



Directors, Faculty
and Alumnae Honor

Miss Park by Dinner |

Philadelphia Museum, April 12.
—The meeting of the Alumnae
Council on campus provided Bryn
Mawr Directors and Alumnae with
the perfect opportunity to honor
President Park by a gala dinner.
To add to-the grandeur of the
night, Mr. Stokes, trustee and di-
rector of Bryn Mawr, arranged for



as a banquet hall.

‘Tribute to the President was of-
fered by Mr., Rhoads, chairman of
the directors’ board and toastmas-
ter for the night, by Mrs. Darrow,
president of the Alumnae Council,
and by Miss Comstock, president
of Radcliffe, Dr. Rufus Jones, of
Haverford, and Mr. Gray, profes-
sor of History at Bryn Mawr. An-
other speaker inserted herself into
the program. Miss Park “felt that

she too had a few words to say
Continued on Page Eight

Student Officials
To Hold Six-College
Conference Saturday

The Six-College Conference being
held this datucday?ett be attend-
ed by delegates from Smith, Vas-
sar, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Rad-
cliffe, and possibly, Barnard.
These delegates are the old and
new officers of the chief student
bodies. The conference will start
early this coming Saturday, fin-
ishing with supper in Rifoads for
the-delegates. —Sunday morning
they will meet for breakfast in the
Deanery. On eka afternoon





Miss Mary Jean McKay will speak
on the National Student Federa-
tion. Enea

»Qbntinued on Page Five



Calendar
Thursday, April 18.—
Dr. Philip. C. Jessup,
America’s Contribution to
World Peace, Peace Assem-
bly, Goodhart, 11.00.
Philosophy Club, Dr, Brand
Blanshard, The Coherence
Theory of ,Truth, Common
Room, 8.00:
Friday, April 19.—
Dr. George Vaillant,
The Conquest of Mexico by
The Spaniards as Seen
Through Indian “ Eyes,
Goodhart, 7.30.
Six-College Conferences.
Saturday, April 20.—
Denbigh Hall Dance.
Six-College Conferences.
Sunday, April 21.—
Dr. Alexander Zabriskie,
Chapel, Music Room, 7.30.
Six-College Conferences.
Monday, April 22.—
Mr. Alwyne, Piano
cital, Goodhart, 8.30.

Re-

e Theodore: * Speriter,.. ||
re Present- State of
Poetry, Deanery, 4.30.

Miss Reid, Current Events,

Common Room, 7.30,

International Relations

Club, Arbitration of the



raffle tickets for the caricature are
twenty-five cents each. The money
is to go towards helping to pay off
the debt on the New Science
Building.



aia Pesaran ste

Altmark Case,. Common
Room, 8.15.

“Wednesday, April 24.—
Dr.- Fleming, » Industrial
Group Supper, Common
Room, 6.30.









the Philadelphia Museum to serve

Dryden which. are.to be raffled. Inj}. seine, April 23.— }

‘the: true Bank Nite, Bingo, and{}

yee Council Holds- Annual
Meetings On F inances, Policies

College iad Mbaiixe
Councils Held Jointly



For the first time in several
years the College and Alumnae
Councils met together. The pur-
pose of this joint meeting was to
give the Alumnae a chance to un-
derstand the College Council by
seeing it in action. The Council
revealed itself by the minutes of
the last meeting and by five min-
ute reports from each of its mem-
bers. The speakers were the old
members of the Council, the newly
elected being allowed to listen and
be silent.

Miss Park, before introducing
the College Council members, ex-
plained that no attempt would be
made to imitate a typical meeting,
for any pre-arranged debate could
only be artificial and would repre-
sent a false picture of the work-
ing organization.

Miss Park told briefly the his-

tory of the Council and its in-
Continued on Page Two

Gala Event Planned
In Honor of Seniors





‘Of&Saturday night, June 1, Bryn
Mawr Will hold its Junior Promen-
ade, one of the largest’ and most
exciting events of the whole year.
The dance will be in honor of the
senior class- and: will-- last from
‘nine until two o’clock in the gym-
nasium. It will open formally at
nine. forty-five with a promenade.
All undergraduate students on
campus at that time are cordially

invited to attend, including gar-|

den party girls and the freshmen
and sophomore members \of the
choir.

The committee is very proud to
say that Alex Bartha of the Steel
Pier in Atlantic City and his band
of twelve men including a vocalist
will supply continuous music.

The order of the evening will be
twelve card dances with one hour
open for exchanging and free cut-
ting although regular cutting
will take place . all evening
after each number. Admission is
three dollars per couple regardless
of how many extra men any one
~irl’ wishes to bring. The commit-
tee is very anxious to have a male
stag line if possible as no girl
stags are to be admitted. Tickets
will be on sale with all dance rep-
resentatives' at the beginning of
next wéek.



Mr. Cope Receives

Guggenheim Award



Mr. Arthur Cope, professor of
Chemistry, has just received a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his

work on the phenomena of tautom-

'erism—and_ the chemistry of tau-

tomeric systems. In an iiiterview,
Mr. Cope emphasized the element
of chance in chemical work. This
was. modést but misleading as the

;-Gyegenheim,Fellows.are chosen, on.|},
the bagis-of the nature ofthe prob: |

lem_on.which they are working
and their fitness to do their work.

Mr. Coupe has done most of his
experimental work in the field of
tautomerism: at Bryn Mawr, as-
sisted by the graduate students and
the chemistry majors. Next year
he_will take a sabbatical_and_will
visit the laboratories at Harvard,
Columbia, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
the University of California, and
the California Institute of Tech-



nology. ,

1940 Honors
For Graduates

Cited by Schenk

Goodhart Hall, March 28.—Dean
Schenk opened the assembly
the awarding of the fellowships

in the graduate school. She an-
nounced that certain departmental
fellowships would not be awarded
because of the war in Europe.
These were the Anna Ottendorfer
Memorial Research fellowship and
the. Ella Reigel fellowship.

The Helen Schaeffer Huff Me-
morial Scholarship was granted to
Miss Helen Jupnik, a student of
“independence. and ___ originality,”
who received her B. A. at the Uni-



versity of Wisconsin and is a can-

didate for a Ph.D. this year at
the University of Rochester. The
Emmy Neuther Fellowship for re-
search in mathematics was award-
ed to Miss Dorothy Maharam, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a grad-
uate of the Carnegie Institute of
Technology

The Mary E. Garrett- Graduate
European Fellowship, the oldest
in the college, instituted in 1855,
was won by Miss Grace Hennigan.
Miss Hennigan received both her
B. A. and M. A. degrees at Mount
Holyoke College and was a fellow
in history at Bryn Mawr in 1938-9.
The research for her thesis on the
Administration of Chichester in
the Jacobean Islands will be done
at the Huntington library in Cali-
fornia. The Fanny Bullock Work-

man Fellowship was awarded to
Continued on Page Six

H. Resor to State
Peace Council Aims;

Jessup to Speak





At the Peace Day Assembly on
Thursday, April 18, at 11 A. M.,
Philip C. Jessup will speak on
America’s Contribution to Peace.
Mr. Jessup is professor of Inter-
national Law at Columbia.

Helen Resor, president of the.
Peace Council, will introduce Mr.
Jessup. In observing Peace Day
the Council is not indulging in
false optimism, but rather is try-
ing to emphasize the importance of
clarity of thought in the midst of
world chaos.



Players’ Club Elections

The Players Club takes
great pleasure in announcing
the election of Fifi Garbat,
41, as president; of Pennell
Crosby, ’41, as vice-president
and senior member of the
Playreading Committee; of
Jocelyn Fleming, ’42, as busi-
ness manager; of Madge
Daly and Vivi French, both
‘42, as members of the Play-
Teading Committee. The
following members were also |
cleeted:

‘For
land,
Ann
Patsy McKnew
degraff, ’42,
Wright, ’41.°

: Fof lighting :

acting: Peggy . Cope-
742, Natalie Bell, °43,
Ruth Goldberg, °41,
, 43, Ann Up-

and Phyllis

Frances

x ‘higeenee Sah 8 re % iN

For crew work: Freda
Franklin, ’42, Maisie Har-
denberg, ’43, Eleanor Beatty,
43, Edith Vorhaus, ’42, Janet
Reggio, ’43, Barbara Lucas,
‘42, Ruth’ Finger, °42, “and
Katherine” Dewey, 42.

For costumes: Katherine

amilton, ’41, Mary Helen
Hardin, ’42.

For set designing: Eliza-
beth Frazier, °42. ,








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= Miss Park Returns
From Tropical ‘Trip



Travels Through Guaanalen
- Wilds by-Air, -W. ‘ater, Land
On Vacation



President Park has just re-
turned from a three weeks’ trip
in Guatemala, planned for her by
her archaeology friends. She ac-
complished in that time more than
the most enterprising of Cook
tourists ever planned.
_— * sanding at Puerto Barros, there
followed a trip of eight hours up-
ward on a small train puffing its
way precariously along a single
track. Methods of travel are not in

/a very advanced stage. She said
that general predictions seemed to
be that Guatemala,
South American countries, will
skip the automobile era, and
to those of air travel. Besides fly-
ing, Miss Park had-hér share of
river and: lake travel: The-river,
she said, was. at first a bitter disil-
lusionment, with no added tropical
attractions, but she found her

' spontaneous decision was not justi-
fied—for a few bends in the river
revealed an abundance of monkeys,
alligators and tremendous butter-

flies.

Besides the more aesthetic as-
pect of Guatemala, Miss Park was
an eye-witness of its industrial
productivity. She visited banana
and coffee plantations until her. in-
defatigable energy was finally
checked by natural barriers. The
northernmost province where there
are large quantities of chickle and
lumber is an impenetrable jungle.
Unfortunately, many of the most
interesting of the Mayan ruins are
in this part of the country.
Others are at Quiragna, and

these Miss Park was fortunate
enough to see. But it was not
only the remains of past civiliza-
tions that interested her. The In-
dians, by far the largest part of
the population, are a fascinating
race. Intrigued by their costumes,
iss Park brought some back with
‘her.

K. Hamilton Speaks
At Art Club Tea

Common Room, April 14.—Kath-
erine Hamilton, ’41, was. the
speaker at the Art Club tea which
opened the present exhibition of
Rembrandt reproductions. She
noted the unusual relation to mod-
ern psychology to be found in the
artist’s study of man, and the
simplicity with which Rembrandt
treats his subjects.

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n i attributed the mystery of
bYandt’s effects to the fact

that he does not attempt to explain
his subjects, or pretend to know
them: he merely suggests them to
the observer’s own imagination.
Rembrandt’s pictures are felt
rather than. seen, because. they ap-
peal not to the intellect, but to the
emotions. ,

The, tendency to romanticism be-
came more marked in Rembrandt’s
work as he developed; his early
technique is clear and bright, but
the shadows grow thick and dark
in his later style. Gloomy effects
like that in the Man with the Gold
Helmet aid the imagination of the
spectator to concentrate on the
‘glowing, contemplative face.

The soft browns and yellows. of
Rembrandt’s. restricted range of
color help him to suggest the
spiritual as well as’the physical
man, and the infinite universe in
which he is submerged.

Among the pictures reproduced
in the exhibit are the famous Hun-
dred Guilder Print, the Three
Crosses, both etchings; a beautiful
portrait of the artist’s son as a

young boy, reading;~and- two self,

portraits. The exhibit will be on
view for several weeks.

The editor weleomes letters of



like many,

College and Alumnae
Councils Held Jointly

Continued from Page One



creased activity. in recent years.
The turning -point--of -its-:cafreer
came, she said, when food wis
added to the routine of the meet-
ings. Before this innovation, Miss
Park would ask each member if
she had any business to bring up
and each one carefully ‘replied,
“No, Miss Park.” Now the Coun-
cil is a very active discussive body.

The minutes of the last meet-
ing were read and illustrated the
Council’s method of _ referring
problems. to respective organiza-
tions along with the Council’s sug-
gestions. After this came the re-
port of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation by Anne Louise Axon, ’40.
She emphasized the experimental
and cooperative nature of this
year’s activities, pointing to the
Living Newspaper play, the Activi-
ties Drive, and the all-college as-
semblies.

Louise Sharp, *40, reported on
the Self Government Association
and stressed the liberal nature and
the general problems of Bryn
Mawr’s system. Of particular im-
portance at present, according to
the report, is the difficulty of mak-
ing the campus realize that the
rules * are made, enforced, and
changed by the students them-
selves.

Jane G. Royle, representing the
Graduate’ Club, and Rebecca Rob-
bins, ’42, the Non-Residents, told
of their attempts and difficulties in
organizing ‘entertainments and
general activities. Miss Royle an-
nounced gladly that the social fe
of the ‘“puad” had greatly’ /im-
proved and that the record-bfeak-
ing number of 58 couples \ had
turned up for the Radnor dance.

League activities were outlined
by Louise Morley, ’40. Dividing
the field into child welfare work
and adult education,..she told —in
five minutes the accomplishments
of each division. One of the major
problems to bé solved by the
League is coordination; the re-
ligious and vocational conferences
were both held this year with this

in mind.
Helen—Link,—°40,_reported—_the
Athletic Association’s activities

and emphasized the gradual shift
from organized team games to
more individual sports such as
tennis, ice skating, horseback rid-
ing and badminton. She also men-
tioned the beautiful drafts for the
few building which she had been
shown last year for the first and
last time. ly

The seniors, the last of the small
classes, were described by their
president, Marion Gill, ’40. Al-
though they have acted as a group
in the usual things such as rais-
ing money for the theatre work-
shop, they are known chiefly as in-
dividuals.

Emily Cheney, ’40, Ginphasived
the attempt of the News to stir un
campus interest as well were
port speakers. To do thi cture
write-ups have been less stressed
and such features as those on Bryn
Mawr politics have been instituted.
Editorials likewise have broken
away from impartial expositions
and purely campus problems... The
general editorial policy has been
to take definite stands, whether
or no the arguments were always
concluded. Miss Cheney also re-
ported” briefly’ on the Lantern,
whose main effort she designated
as “maintaining a high level of
writing and the interest of the
campus at large.”

Zabriskie To Speak
On Sunday Evening





The Reverend Alexander C. Za-
briskie of the Theological Semi-
nary at Alexandria, Virginia, will
Leenduct the Su evening Chapel
Service on April/21. Mr. Zabris-
kie was here in /the fall and was
‘very enthusiastically received. He
discussed the paradox, “Teach me



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Political Poll Shows
Campus Republican



Suggestions for President of
U. §.—-Include Nichols,

Gracie, E: Roosevelt



The results of the Campus Po-
litical Poll announced by: Dr. Wells
showed that the students are pre-
dominantly Republican, while a

majority of the faculty and staff}:

are New Deal Democrats. In this
poll, in which 70 per cent of the
studénts and 50 per’ cent of. the
faculty took part; there was a
total of 159 Republicans, 97 New
Deal Democrats, 25 Anti-New
Deal Democrats, and 61 people of
other party affiliations. Among
these, five were Socialists and two
Communists.

The poll also showed that the
Seniors tend less to copy their
parents’ party affiliation. Only 16
per cent of the three lower classes
differed in their political party
from that of their parents. Of
the Seniors, 27 per cent had dif-
ferent views. —

Only 29 of the students said
that members of their immediate
family held party or public office.
One of the 318 students who re-
ported that their family held no
office, wrote “None; thank heaven!”

Over 50 per cent of the students
and faculty voted against a presi-
dential third term. Of the re-
mainder, many voted uncondition-
ally for a third term, but others
said that “it depends.”

The question on the choice of
presidential candidate for the next
election found the opinion of the
students and faculty very varied.
For the Democrats (totaling first,
second and third choices), Hull
led Roosevelt by 93 to 88 votes.
Taft won among,the Republicans
with 94 votes to Dewey’s 89. Van-
denburg was a poor third with
42 votes.

Many other candidates received
scattered votes. Favorites among
these were Santa Claus, Hitler,
Stalin, Trotsky, Coughlin and
Lindbergh. Three American
women. were suggested as possible
candidates: Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt, Gracie Allen and Virginia
Nichols. In spite of all these sug-
gestions, several voters could find
no adequate candidate, and merely
wrote their comments. Some said,
“Neither Taft nor Dewey,” or
“Anyone to beat Roosevelt,’ or
“I’m looking for a miracle.” Two
others wanted, “Some dark horse
who would placate business,” or

““A Republican dark horse.” And
one bewildered student wrote,
“God knows!”



Earl Schenck Gives

Polynesian Lecture





\Pusic Room, April 11.—The sub-
gett of the talk given by Earl
chenck was the origin. of the
Tahition people. His lecture was
accompanied by colored movies and
Polynesian music.

Since the Tahitians live mostly
out of doors and share everything
with each other, houses mean little
to them. Since the French domina-
tion, land ownership has been intro-
duced, and only married men can
leave property to their descend-
ants.’ Therefore, nowadays when
-ants.... Therefore, nowadays,-when
are near. 60 they have a great
family feast and get married.

Celebrations afe an art in
Tahiti. Originally the dances told
historical ‘talgs of the Polynesian
people in pantomime, but they are

tionalized. The himenes, or fam-
ily history chants, however, are
kept intact, and sung at big sing-
ing coriventions of people from all
‘the ‘nearby islands. According to
the old chants the first discoverers,
whose very names are remembered,
came from Asia, crossed the ocean
in long canoes, and settled down at
last on the coral islands to the easy
life Which has lulled their once



to hold by letting go.”

high civilization to sleep.

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now much shortened ~and~ conven=

Original Comedy May Win
Stanford Drama Award



The Dramatist’s Alliance of
Stanford Univergity is offering the

inal comedy submitted before May
1, 1940, to the Proctor for Drama
Awards, English Department,
Stanford University, Calif. The
award consists of 200 dollars and
presentation of the play during
the Dramatist’s Assembly at the
University. All the plays must
be original, but there is no. re-
striction on length or comic mood,
Competition is open to all writ-
ers. Miss Lynn Fontanne will be
among the final judges.

Model League Votes
To Strengthen Ties





The Model League Assembly to
which Bryn -Mawr, representing
Brazil, sent a delegation of eight,
was held at Hobart and William
Smith, Colleges, Geneva, N. Y. The
delegations of the twenty-four col-
leges represented were as members
of the community of nations, meet-
ing to draw up plans for a durable
peace. In addition to this serious
pursuit an unusually good time’was
had, particularly. at the dance
Friday night which, wonder of
wonders, was predominantly male.

On the Thursday before vacation
the Brazilian delegates leapt out
of bed to catch the 7.18 train. -One
member forgot her funds, another
judicially overslept.. Even though
there were other delegations aboard
the same train, diplomatic inter-
course somehow yielded to bridge
playing, and only a few persistent
souls exchanged views on federal-
ism, régionalism and other prob-
lems that were to be faced.

On Thursday evening there were
a few short speeches of formal
welcome, then a very enlightening
discussion of recent history by
Vera Micheles Dean, head of the
research staff of the Foreign Pol-
i¢y Association.

The plenary session of the
League Assembly under the presi-
dency of Louise Morley speedily
converted itself into a World Peace
Conference with the aim of draw-
ing up plans for some form of in-
ternational organization leading to
a durable peace. The various dele-

gations, sitting around tables bear- | J

ing the banners of their nation-

pages hurried about the floor trans-
mitting notes; some were explana-
tions of policy, or suggestions of
compromise, others couched invi-
tations to the evening’s dance in
diplomatic terms.

On Saturday afternoon, the final
plenary session met to vote as a

ous day by the three commissions
on constitutional, political and eco-
nomic questions, They adopted a
two-third voting rule in place of
the unanimity requirement which
has hampered so many interna-
tional conventions.

In spite of all the discussion of
federalism,. they decided to
strengthen and improve the exist-
ing organs of international co-
operation, to maintain the League,
the World Court, and the Interna-
tional Labor Office. They advised
the gradual lowering of trade re-
strictions within large economic
areas with the ultimate aim of their
world-wide abolishment, and that
within these regions there should
be a mandatory “most favored na-
tion” treatment.



Come ‘snow in April or |
sleet in May,

Flowers are always in.
season
t xg at
Jeannett’s
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Etherege-Award.for the.best. orig-|-

ality, listened to the speeches while },

whole on the work done the previ~|

Interregional af- ||
\fairs were to be directed by some

Chaos To Disappear
In Sherwood’s s Reign

New Committee + Head
Pictured as the Answer
To a Campus Prayer





Virginia Sherwood fills an im-
portant position for next year as
Head of the Entertainment Com-
mittee. , Rising like a _ phoenix
from the ashes of the past, the
new committee has a complicated
function. It will attempt’ to co-
ordinate campus activities, to plan
the Series: and other entertain-
ments on the basis of campus
opinion, and to create order out
of the present scheduling chaos...
To fulfil its function the commit-
tee has been organized to be ac-
cessible to the clubs, to the faculty
and to the students themselves. If
the proper advantage is taken of
this accessibility, the committee
will undoubtedly succeed. The
time is more than at hand for:
action.

The burden of making the com-
mittee as workable in effect as in’
idea will fall upon Virginia Sher-
wood, who as Head of the com-
mittee and ambassador» of good’
will, will be established as liason
officer between this and that. She
has been prepared for her task
by eleven years at the same schol
and three years at the same col-
lege. She fled from France last
fall practically into the arms of
the entertainment ideologists who
this spring elected her to her
present position and who see in
her and her committee the heav-
enly solution of our entertainment
problems. —



form of World Economic Organiza-
tion and an international bank with
regional units was to be set up.
The: great problems of: peaceful
change and the guarantee of na-
tional security were dealt with by
the political commission to the end
that permanent fact-finding com-
missions should be set up to inves-
tigate and conciliate disputes be-
tween states. The general feeling
was that a good job had been done
in combining a realistic. view of
national policies with the idealism
necessary for considering world
reorganization.

Suggestion !
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He knew what they’d find in
that old cowhide trunk

UNG HEIRS MIGHT BE SURPRISED—but he

knew the fortune that was paid the Hawkinses

when the railroad came through in ’78 and how
they never spent or banked a cent of it.

The old-time country editor was like that. He
knew his county like the back of his hand, from the
secret thoughts of the supervisors to the last thank-
you-marm on a dead-end road.

He knew every man, woman, and child and their
Great-Aunt Nellie who ran off with the lightning-
rod agent. He knew the story of every yellow old
record in the courthouse—and what the boys were
laughing at in the livery stable last Sunday. He
knew what chance the town had of getting that
button factory, and why the parsonage would have
a new tenant soon.

> The people he wrote for were just as much an
open book to him as the news he wrote for them.
He wasn’t being quaint when he put the results of
the school spelldown on page one, or filled five
pages with country correspondence. That was meat
and drink to the folks out on the R.F.D. routes—
far more important than the Boer War or even
silver at 16 to 1—and he knew it.

> That old-time country editor had grasp ...com-
plete, integrated understanding of all the news
of his locality, and the whole of the mind for
which it was written. And his formula, “the nearer
the news, the bigger,” was essentially the formula
of all old-time journalism—in the big cities, as well

as in the county seats.

But when Dewey entered Manila Bay and boys
in bicycle shops began tinkering with the front
énds of buggies, the old order began to pass away.
The great, complex world forced itself into the
affairs and thoughts of easy-going, turn-of-century
America.

Economics, world politics, finance, industrial man-
agement, material resources, labor, social theory—
they all began to matter somehow. They got you
into wars and strikes and hard times. Science be-
gan to matter when diphtheria and t.b-werefound
not to be acts of God. Art began to matter when
your daughter came back from Paris or Peoria call-
ing you a Philistine.

> America’s mind, stretching, pushing out its ho-
rizons, called for more news...more kinds of
news...news from beyond.the railroad: depot. And
the news poured in—from the just-hatched wire
services, from specialists of all kinds, from the
syndicates, the feature writers, the correspondents.

Soon the old one-man grasp was gone. The tor-
rent of news was too great and too swift, its sources
too many and too remote, for any one man to han-
dle and absorb it all.

And if the editor was swamped, the reader was
drowned. In self-defense, he learned to pick his way
about his newspaper, snatching a bit here and a bit
there, mostly according to the ingenuity of. the
headline-writer. Often he missed: news of impor-
tance; often he failed to see-what a series of day-by-
day stories added up to in
the end.

> There was a crying need
for a new experiment in
journalism. A need for some-
body with a national view-
point—free from the pres-
sure of daily and hourly
deadlines—to bring the news
together so that the intelli-
gent reader could get its es-
sentials, grasp them, make
them his ewan.

*

> That somebody turned out to be The Weekly
Newsmagazine. With its advantage of time for re-
flection and discussion, the Newsmagazine made
this task its single-minded purpose. It set out to
do the country editor’s job with a world-wide
scope and on a national scale.

...To take all the week’s news and make the pic-
ture make sense to the average intelligent Amer-
ican. To set it against a fully comprehended back-
ground. To write it vividly, compactly, forcefully
... with full appreciation of the mind for whichit
is intended... with the touch of human under-
standing that brings people and events to moving,
breathing life.

The Newsmagazine is written by experts, but
never for experts. No story in TIME can go gallop-
ing off on a hobby; it must be paced firmly and
smoothly to the brisk stride of the whole magazine,
whether the subject is world affairs or politics, or

business or finance, or medicine, religion, or the |

arts.

> That is why TIME seems to be written by one
man, who knows TIME readers as the old-time coun-
try editor knew the folks in his county. That is
why the average TIME reader starts at the begin-
ning and goes through to the end, feeling that
every line gives him something that he wants and
needs and can use.



This is one of a series of advertisements in :
which the Editors of TIME hope to give College
Students a clearer picture of the world of news-
gathering, news-writing, and news-reading—and
the part TIME plays in helping you to grasp,
measure, and use the history of your lifetime as
you live the story of your life.







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This month Judge McGeehan handed down a decision barring
Bertrand Russell from becoming head of New York City University’s

philosophy department.

Mr. Russell's ability in the field of logic and

mathematics is unquestioned, but his social theories were opposed by a

group of ecclesiastics and politicians.

The result is that undergradu-

ates find themselves being protected; not far off is the next step of
limiting the young innocents to specified ideas and theories, lest they
develop the dangerous power of thinking for themselves. t

Last week a still more glaring incidence of university censorship |

occurred. A columnist on the newspaper of Franklin and Marshall
College in Lancaster, Pa., opposed, in a news story, the administration’s

choice of a commencement speaker.

The reporter and the editor were

summoned before the college president and from now on the paper is
to be subject to the approval of college authorities. ;

In these two cases, and there are many more, the principle of
repression is justified on the grounds that undergraduates are not

trusted with freedom of thought.

in the hot house and fed on a carefullysselected diet.

Instead the student is to be kept
Yet by gradua-

tion day the seniors generally have assumed full responsibility of voting
citizens who must make their decision on facts drawn from newspapers

and books supposedly uncensored.

If the undergraduate is allowed freedom, undoubtedly mistakes

will occur and time will be spent in rectifying errors that might not}

have happened if his thinking had been systematized by experience.
Without previous training in the use of freedom, however, how can
the seniors as citizens approach national problems with anything but
immature and extremely biased attitudes? For a democracy to func-

tion, the freedom of its universities is imperative.

~~



The Sensitive Plant
Undergraduates are apt to think of themselves-.as owners of the
college and to forget two other important groups, the alumnae and

the graduates.

Awareness of the alumnae’s part on the campus has

been increased lately by such meetings as those of last spring and the
joint council meeting last Saturday. Only at the graduate assembly,
however, are we made to realize the part played by the graduates in

campus life.

Most of the time ‘we realize that Radnor exists, but closer coor-

dination is rare.

Work in the League, the political groups, the A. S.

U. and perhaps even the Players’ Club would be of interest to gradu-
ates. Certainly we stand to gain much from their addition. Our own
activities, problems and work have been allowed to crowd out the fact
that the graduate school about equals.the junior. or senior class in size

and is of. major importance to-the college curriculum.
as the larger group to take the initiative.

It is up to us

This might be done by the

voluntary efforts of individuals or by the attempts of clubs to obtain

graduate representatives and to encourage graduate members.
Another possible way of stirring up general interest would be

for the Undergraduate Association to hold an assembly in conjunction

with the graduates.

‘Here the difficulties and possibilities of closer

cooperation could be debated. Such an assembly might at least rouse
the undergraduate from the comfortable idea that they are the sole
group the college serves and give them some perspective of their rela-

tive position on campus.



SUBURBAN.

MOVIES
ARDMORE: Thursday: Dr.
Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, with Ed.
ward G. Robinson. Friday through
Tuesday: Northwest Passage.



Wednesday: 1 Take ‘This Woman, | wi



with Spencer Tracy and Hedy La-
marr .

SEVILLE: Thursday and Fri-
day: Wallace Beery .and Dolores
Del Rio in Man From Dahgta.
Saturday: Music in My Heart,
with Tony Martin _and Rita Hay-|7T

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FORUM

Position of Balkans Highly
Important in Today’s War
~ Says Miller









This new column is for specially
contributed articles on topics sug-
gested by the “news” to some mem-
ber of the faculty or student body.

The. Balkan states are a cultural
unit though divided among nine-
teen varieties of peoples,. with five
religions. Geographically and his-
‘torically Czechoslovakia and Hun-
gary belong to the Balkans, but
they have shared in European civ-
ilization and are generally consid-
ered as outside the Balkans, though
they have many common interests.

Poverty, illiteracy and attach-
ment to their traditions and habi-
tat’ are characteristic of all the
Balkan people. With the exception
of Roumania, most of the land is
mountainous, and the independence
of the mountaineers differentiates
them from peasants who are more
docile and easily exploited. They
have all been conquered but never
assimilated. The Turks converted
many. to Islam but they remained
what they were. The greatest Ser-
bian holiday is in commemoration.
of their bitter defeat by the Turks
at Kossovo in 1389.

This experience in being con-
quered but still surviving is impor-
tant at the present moment: It. is
so characteristic that a recent. ex-
cellent book on the Balkans is en-
titled ‘World Without End” to in-
dicate the persistence of the people.
There is no possibility ‘of a
people with no discontented, poor



Mass-Meeting Held
For Inaugurations



Continued from Page One

in the Activities Drive, also an in-
novation, was completely success-
ful. Christine Waples, ’42, treas:
urer, reported a_ balance of
$1047.50 on hand; and Charlotte
Hutchins, ’41, was inaugurated as
next year’s president. t

Louise Morley, ’40, as head of
the Bryn Mawr League, reported
its activities during the past year,
citing particularly the Camp carry-
over work done with the Main
Line children, the new Better
'Babies’ Clinic work, the Religious
Conference, and the great success
of the maids’ and porters’ Porgy
and Bess. Nancy Howard, %1,
treasurer, showed a_ balance of
$131.29, and was then inaugurated
as next year’s League president.
In the Common, Room, after the
meeting, Elizabeth Kerr, ’42, was
elected secretary..and-treasurer for
next year; and Virginia Mark-
ham and Polly Coan were re-elected
as head and assistant of the Chapel
Committee.

Helen Link, ’40, President of the
Athletic Association, gave its re-
port for the last year, mentioning
particularly the innovation of golf,
ice skating, archery and riding as
credit sports. Peggy Squibb, ’41,
was inaugurated as President of
the Association for 1940-41.



worth. Sunday’ Double feature,
Mexican Spitfire and Saint’s Dou-
ble Trouble. Monday and Tues-

dan in Castle on the Hudson.
SUBURBAN: Thursday:- The
Secret Four, based on Edgar Wal;
lace’s-Four Just Men. Friday and
Saturday: Charlie Chan in Pana-
ma. Sunday and Monday: Laur-
ence Olivier, Vivien. Leigh and
Raymond Massey in Fire Over
England. Tuesday and Wednes-
day: Henry Fonda and Jane Dar-
well in The Grapes of Wrath.
_ WAYNE: Thursday: Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town and It Happened
One Night. Friday and Saturday:
Fred .Astaiz‘é and Eleanor Powell
in Broadway Melody of 1940. Sun-
day and Monday: Freddie Bar-
tholomew in Swiss Family Robin-
son. Tuesday and Wednesday:



day: John Garfield and Ann Sheri-|

Weiss Relates God
With Man, Universe

Mr. Weiss, at the meeting of the
Philosophy Club on Wednesday,



{gave an outline of The Nature of

the World. He showed that the
one principle, in terms of which all
phenomena in the world might be
related, was that of “reaching out.”

Mr. Weiss first spoke of the
value of this fundamental of
“need” in relating the animate

with the inanimate in the world.
When we view things not as iso-
lated entities, but as having con-
cern for other things, we can see
that the inanimate things reach
out and never grasp. Animate
things, on the other hand, grasp
and assimilate and their move-
ments are, consequently, unpredit-
table.

Acting upon this principle, how-
ever, “we find difficulty in ac-
knowledging that God exists.”’ The
question of God and the world
raises immediate difficulties. If
we start with the world, we cannot
get out of it and above it. If we
change our approach and start with
God, “we run the risk of talking
about things ‘beyond the reach of
man.’ ”

Each thing desires other things
in terms of itself. But there is a
significant -sense in which one re-
spects others, recognizes them as
oneself in another guise. In that
sense one wants, not to have others,
but to be one with them. Love
for men is an indispensable condi-
tion in the search for God.



middle class being converted to
Nazi ideology. There are no middle
classes, only . poor, peasants and
herdsmen, and government officials
who take the place of capitalists as
exploiters. The kings of Roumania
and Jugoslavia have much larger
incomes than. the King of England.

Only Roumania has large nat-
ural resources. The others are im-
portant’ for their locations. Rou-
mania, whose government tradition
is one of corruption, is in the most
dangerous position. Through Rou-
mania-by way of’the, Blaek Sea is:
the only approach possible by the
Allies, and Roumania is threatened
by Russia and hated by Hungary.
No one can have any assurance of
the course Roumania will follow.
The Jugoslavs and_ Bulgarians
know that they know how to fight
and they will be difficult to conquer.
The assets of the Balkans are their
mountains and their independent
character. Their liabilities are po-
litical inexperience, inability to
unite, and backwardness. As the
Scandanavian. peninsula has
achieved the highest civilization in
Europe, the Balkan Penisula rep-
resents the most retarded. At this
moment both face the same condi-
tions of invasion. The very retar-
dation may be of peculiar value in
resisting the uncivilized facts of
war.

HERBERT A. MILLER,
Professor of Social Economy.



Consequences of German War
Moves Into Scandinavia

Weighed by'Gray



English statesmen declare that
the German occupation of Norway
is a strategic blunder comparable
lwith Napoleon’s occupation of
Spain. Without doubt, it is the
most important event of the War
since the conquest of Poland. What,
then, are its seeming advantages
and disadvantages from the /Ger-
man point of view?

To take the latter first. The
step is reminiscent of the German
passage through Belgium in the
last war.” Now as then the action
was definitely planned; for, what-
ever justification may be sought in
the English laying of mines in
Norwegian territorial | waters
(Churchill tells how reluctantly his
government did this), the scope of
the German preparation \and- the
phraseology of the justifying docu-
ment reveal antecedent German

..-{planning,... The immedjate effect: on



nation.









WIT’S END

Let’s Get Out of This Firetrap

If Spring comes, can we be far
behind? Thanks, we are a little far
behind in our work. And you, Lily,
are you happy, too?

Children dear, was it yesterday?

Quizzes behind us, vacation in



front.:.)'«

And now is life worth living,
say,

Vacation behind, exams in
front?

Thirty days hath September...
And April and March seem to have
quite a lot of days, too. With all
different numbers on them: -One’s
the first, and one’s the second, and
then your crew develops scurvy
and you have to learn how to eat
oranges.

Spring cometh not uncalled-for.
Although why anybody should
have called for this one, goodness
knows. Nor does goodness know,
I’ll warrant, where it will all end.

Goodnight. °



the conscience of the neutral world
is likewise the same as in 1914—
indignation at the flouting of the
independence and neutrality of a
small and comparatively helpless
The German justification
is that Germany had incontrovert-
able evidence that the Allies were
themselves preparing to make a
landing in Scandinavia. The world
will await somewhat skeptically
the publication of this evidence,
now promised.

A second disadvantage is the
difficulty of maintaining a far-
flung line of defense. Narvik, for
instance, has..proved too isolated
to..be defensible. Many soldiers
will have to be withdrawn from
Germany, but it is possible that
abundant man-power permits of
this. If Germany is pressed to
maintain communications she may
have to demand the use of the rail-
ways of Sweden and then _ risk
bringing that nation into war
against her.

Are there advantages compen-
sating to these risks? There are
at least two, if the occupation of
Norway can be maintained. One
is the securing of the supply of
Swedish iron ore and the diversion
to Germany of timber and other
produce. The other is the possi-
bility of using Norwegian ports as
bases for submarine and air at-
tacks on England and her fleet.
Although the first German an-
nouncement disclaimed such an
aim “so long as not forced through
acts of England or France,” it is
now said that the English attack
has freed Germany from her prom-
ise.

While, therefore, the disadvan-
tages to Germany of the occupa-
tion are largely moral, the mate-
rial advantages may be not incon-
siderable if the operation proves
successful. Is it likely sp to prove?
To effect an extensive landing of
Allied troops in a Norwegian port
is a hazardous task. Narvik does
not offer a satisfactory gateway to
the south. To dispossess the Ger-
mans generally there must be an

‘leffective blockade both by sea and

by air. Two hundred German air-
planes are:said to be landing 400
troops a day, while others bring
supplies. A test of the efficacy of
sea power is being made before
our eyes. Hitherto sea power has
been effective under\ circumstances
like these, though threatened in
the last war by the submarine. To-
day it has to reckon with aircraft,
both transport and bombing. It is
possible that a decisive moment in
naval history is at hand.

Howarp L. Gray,

Professor of History.



Play Postponed

The Players’ Club produc-
tion of Bartholomew Fair
has been postponed tenta-
tively until the afternoon of
April 31.








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af Spencer Believes
Modern Poets Need
A New Social Unity

Deanery, April 16.—In modern
American poetry, the shepherd’s
pipe is right beside the barbaric
yawk,” said Mr. Theodore Spencer,
in the second of his three lectures
on The Present State of Poetry.
These two elements, continued Mr.
Spencer, are’ combined in_ the
poetry of Walt Whitman, whose
influence is still dominating. our
poets.

Whitman’s poetry is essentially
democratic and natively American,
because in an exciting, exhilirating
manner he does away with all dis-
tinctions. The great difficulty
with American poetry today is Ahat
each poet is an indivfthaalist writ-
ing for a comparatively uncritical
audience that does not consider
poetry an integral part of its life.

The common aim of poets today,
said Mr. Spencer, should be to
-find a. new social unity which





_ would be satisfactory, both intel-

‘Lee Masters in his Spoon River

lectually and spiritually. Edgar
\iee Mat has aimed at a national

--unity through the symbol of one

community, and in’ U.S.]., Muriel
Ruckeiser adopted a similar
. method. Carl Sandburg’s The
People, Yes is the most ambitious
effort of our time to represent the
people as a whole, but it lacks
unity, because the ‘poet has substi-
tuted local color for moral values.

Mr. Spencer believes that any
ambitious poem must be a reflec-
. tion of national feeling, but that
it will be successful only if the in-
dividual problem comes first. ~The
natural tendency of American
‘ poetry seems to be lyrical and per-
‘ sonal; the poems of Whitman which
we remember most are those like
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock-
ing.” Archibald MacLeish has
‘ worked in this tradition, but he
doesn’t stop. with lyrics, he wants
also to be a poet of the people.
‘Though he is sentimental and lacks
the feeling for the dramatic which
is necessary to a poem like, The
Conquistador, he has had an un-
deniable_ influence on our poetry.
.Edna St. Vincent Millay is a wholly
lyric and personal poet, but it is a
_lyricism of second-hand expres-
sions of second-hand emotions. Her
poetry is vague and unfocussed; it
cannot stand up, as all good poetry
must, under intellectual analysis.
Mr. Spencer suggested six stand-
ards as a criterion for judging
modern poetry: competent crafts-
manship, a conviction of genuine
experience, a certainty that every
word has been chosen carefully,
an individual rhythm, an intellec-
tual and emotional discussion of
the question, and something more
than the poet’s immediate response
to his experience. Edwin Arling-
ton Robinson and Robert Frost are
serious craftsmen who have each

expressed some aspect of American.

individualism. Robinson’s _ rela-
tionship toward the younger poets
is that of a grandmother—he is
admired, but is not very helpful.
From Frost, poets may learn the
value of a precise image expressed
in precise language and of a con-
centration of one’s talents.

There are two younger poets
who seem to Mr. Spencer to pos-
sess these requirements of good
poetry. Both John Crowe Ran-
som and Wallace Stevens have
written in an individual idiom. Mr.
Ransom’s poetry is purely lyrical,
but he is .a master of metrical
counterpoint—the rhythm of speech
always comes out above the metre.
He uses both his brain and emo-
tion, ‘and sometimes as in The
Equilibrists an unexpected phrase,
an. intellectual or verbal surprise
becomes the essence of the poem.
Wallace Stevens is less intellectual,
more dependent on verbal impres-
sions. His success is due to a fan-
ciful_originality .and—a-—surprising
juxta-position of words and ideas.



The editor welcomes letters of

constructive criticism.



Alwyne to Present
Recital in Goodhart

Mr. Horace Alwyne, Director of
the Music Department, will give a
pianoforte recital in Goodhart,
Monday, April 22, at 8:30.° The
program will be as follows:

Bach: Fantasia in C minor
Haydn: Andante con Variazioni in

F minor
Chopin-Liszt: 6 Chants polonais
Debussy: Poissons d’or

Des pas sur la neige
Feux d’artifice
Ravel:- Sonatine
Modéré
Mouvement de Menuet
Animé ;
Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Ex-
hibition.





T. Spencer Suggests
17th Century Works
As Model for Today

Theodore Spencer gave the first
of his three lectures on The Pres-
ent State of Poetry sponsored by a
committee. of friends which in-
cludes Miss Gertrude Ely, Mrs.
George Roberts and Mrs. Kenneth
Day. He said that today poetry
is the most unpopular of the arts.
“The reading of Eliot and Yeats
is not a social act because they
lack snob appeal.”

The cause of this situation, Mr.
Spencer believes, is that poetry,
particularly modern poetry, is not
sufficiently remote from everyday
experiences. The most vigorous
poetry was written in the seven-
teenth century and modern poetry
should try to recreate their fusion
of imagination, reality, and emo-
tional intensity.

Before 1910 poetry was over-
shadowed by prose. Even after the
technical reforms of the second
decade of the ‘twentieth century,
poetry still seemed inevitably to
revert to “beautiful language.”

It was the Imagists who revolted

against this “rancid romanticism.”
Observation of concrete detail and
experiences of daily life were the
characteristic features of the
poetry of Ezra Pound and Ford
Mattox Ford. This movement away
from superficiality lasted four or
five years.
* Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats were
representatives of the next period.
Eliot found his pattern in the
tradition of ancient Christianity
and used it in Family Reunion
which, though written with the new
ideals, is somewhat obscure. Ash-
Wednesday shows his efforts to-
ward simple style, but is over-
weighted with abstractions. |

Joyce faced the same artistic
problem froma different angle.



‘He looked at the world from a su-

pernatural point of view (Finni-
gan’s Wake) while Yeats and Eliot

were interested in the more per-

sonal, human _ outlook. His
symbol is the individual—the es-
sential reality.

By 1920 the poetry of Yeats
seemed to be “thinning out.” Al-
ready an acknowledged master of
lyrics, he now seemed to be hiding
behind a veil of private mysticism.
However, this proved to be only a
stage in his development which
gave added powgr to his later work.
In The Vision in Sailing to
Byzantium; one of his~best poems,
he turns to the country of intellect
and pure art, from which he can
look back on the sensuous world.

In the last period the poets face
the same problem, but reach still

RELAX and CHAT
at the |

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Breakfast Lunch



Government Conference



Continued from Page One

Undergraduate interest in Self-
Government and the financing of
undergraduat® associations and
charity drives have been offered by
several colleges as subjects for
discussion. Also suggested was
the planning of events and their
publicity through’ chapels, mass
meetings, and bulletin boards. The
structure, function, and activities
of peace and political groups will
be discussed, as well as such sub-
jects as freshman - orientation,
refugee students, and college pub-
lications.

‘

cd F anks

Miss Reid
Common Room, Goodhart, Tues-
day, April 16.—Germany’s aim in
attacking Scandinavia was two-
fold. She wished, first, to gain











strategic positions, and, second, to

intimidate the remaining neutral)

nations. into complete passivity.
But the neutrals now see that Ger-
man policy leaves them no hope.
Their attitude has, therefore, stiff-
ened. Neither has Germany gained
much/stkategically. She holds Nar-
vik, but England is blockading it,
and the shipments of iron ore from
Sweden will not proceed.

What will be the effect of this
new aggression upon other coun-
tries? Iceland has declared her in-
dependence of Denmark. Her tie
with Denmark has long been only
a personal one, through King Haa-
kon, and she has been practically
autonomous for years. Greenland,
however, is another question. Four
hundred and fifty miles from the
United States, on the direct Berlin-
New York route, she is a perfect
territory in which to establish an
air-base. In the first World War,
when we bought the Danish West
Indies to save them from German
occupation, we renounced all claims
to Greenland; but German power
there would bea serious menace to
us.

Italy has ,been doing some sabre
rattling lately. She has a good
bargaining technique, and may be
building up to a compromise with
the Allies. She may, however, want
war—for the sake of the Jugo-Slav
coast, or for Egypt, which she has
long coveted.

Spain is another danger spot. It
is rumored that Franco has been
under pressure to repay his Ger-
man obligations by allowing the es-
tablishment of German air bases
within Spain.



another solution. Characteristic

jectivity and democratic “ feeling.
At the present time Day-Lewis is
|\fading in importance, while Auden
is becoming labored in an effort to
gain Simplicity. Spender’s treat-
ment. is ‘sometimes unreal while
Dylan Thomas’ poetry has the “at-
mosphere of a hothouse.” Mac
Neice alone has a natural colloquial
style. :

In conclusion, Mr. Spencer ad-+
mitted’ it was uncertain whether
“the ‘dilemma of English poetry”
was due to its. degeneration or
whether to its being in a formative
state gathering force for a pxomis-
ing future. ..

The effects of the second world
war cannot be_ seen yet, but, Mr.
Spencer believes, “the tragedy may
be too universal for poetry.”



Dinner

Tea

Six Colleges Hold. Self |

of these young poets is theif ob-|



| Opinion

Changes in Rules Suggested
To Promote Stricter
Law Observation









To the Editor of the College News:

We believe that in the last four
years the Self Government Asso-
ciation has ceased to be an effective
organ. During this time we have
seen many instances of the follow-
ing infringements, most of which
have gone unpunished and punish-
ments, when inflicted, have been so
mild as to be useless and ridicu-
lous:

‘1. Exits and entrances after
10.30 through windows in
Rhoads, the fire door in
Pembroke, the fire escapes
in Merion.

2. Deliberately incorrect sign-
4. ing-out.
8. Smoking in the rooms—not
only an infringement of the
rules, but a fire hazard.

4. Walking to the village and

going to classes in trousers.

5. Smoking in the Main Line

Station.

We suggest the following cor-
rections:

Anonymous reporting of in-
fringements. Every student as a
member of the Self Government
Association has the responsibility
for the enforcement of its rules. In
the matter of signing out, then,
permission-givers are unnecessary.

The student should be allowed
to exercise her own judgment as
to where to go after 10.30 p. m.,
Restrictions on time will be ac-
cording to type of place, not
specific place. For example:

2.00 for dancing where there is
an orchestra. i
12.15 Main Line, escorted.
11.80 Main Line, unescorted.
Since we believe that we will be
better able to live by these rules,
penalties for their infringement
should be accordingly more severe.
Since the scholastic policy of



the college is one which encour-






BADMINTON MEETS
A GREAT SUCCESS

The Bryn Mawr badminton
squad has batted its way this year
from an insignificant past to var-
sity fame. In 1939 the team-played
and lost one match to Swarthmore;
in 1940 Bryn Mawr defeated three
college teams and lost pnly to the
experienced Merion C. C. sextet.

The members of the Varsity are
chosen from their positions on the
Ladder. The three singles berths
were usually filled by Martin, ’42
(capbain), Matthai, ’43, and Boal,
’42, respectively. First doubles:
Resor, ’42;-Thompson, ’41 (Thomp-
son is second on the Ladder). Sec-
ond doubles: Perry, ’42; Gumbart,
42; Murphy, ’42; Perkins, ’42, -al-



| though a member of the team, was

out of college.

Harriet Martin
gratulated for garnering two
championships at the Eastern
Women’s Intercollegiate Badmin-
ton Tournament, recently held in
New York City. Martin won the
singles title: and, paired with
Thompson, the women’s doubles.
As this was the first year of the
women’s tournament, the list of
entrants Was small. However, as
each player represented a differ-
ent college, the chances are good
that the tournament will be larger
next year.

is to be con-



Michelangelo Lecture

‘ Edgar Wind, editor of the Jour-
nal of the Warburg Library, will
give a lecture on The Sistine Ceil-
ing by Michelangelo—A New In-
terpretation, tomorrow’ evening,
April 18, at 8.15, at the Haverford
Union. Mr. Wind’s interpretation
is based on the startling discovery
of Michelangelo’s source.



ages independent judgment, we,
therefore, feel that it is only ¢on-
sistent to extend this policy to in-
clude all phases of the students’
conduct while in residence.
Sincerely yours,
BARBARA GROBEN, ’40,
SALLY Norris, ’40,
DoroTHY Voicr?, ’40,
Betty WILSON, ’40.














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Alumnae Council Meets
On Bryn Mawr Campus



Continued from Page One
Alumnae Association, which works
to some degree as a link between
the Association and the student
body, takes a problem which seems
of interest to the students, studies
it, and reports on it at the annial
meeting of the Association in the
spring. . The recommendations of
the Association on the problem are

then sent to the college, and the
collegé may or may’ not act upon

Miss Marjorie Thompson, editor
of the Alumnae Bulletin, described
such recent innovations as the sig-
nificant articles on college activi-
ties, which help to link the inter-
ests-of the faculty, alumnae and
undergraduates. These articles
are published as another means of
keeping the alumnae close to col-
lege interests. a

Graduates and) Alumnae

In the special: report for the
Committee on Graduate Members,
Miss Schenck said that the gradu-
ate students, who are interested
members of the Alumnae Asso-
iation, want to establish, with
the help of the alumnae, a fund
for ¢ndowed fellowships and schol-
ips. The fellowships are now
- by college funds.

Dr. Mary L. James, chairman
of the Committee on Health and
Physical Education, presented the
question proposed for study by the

physical survey of an arbitrary
group of undergraduates to fur-
ther the science of “psycho-so-
matic” medicine, the study of the
relationship of physical ailments
and emotional causes.

The meeting on Sunday morning
at the Deanery was devoted to
the reports of the District »Coun-
cillors, which pointed out the
problems of particular districts.
The main activities of the Coun-
cillors consist in finding scholar-
ship girls and in keeping alumnae
in contact with each other and
with the college. The reports of
the Councillors emphasized the
same point which was brought out
in the discussion following the talk
of Dr. Lee, the Senior Alumnae
Director, the previous afternoon—
that the alumnae directors, to un-
derstand college problems as they
actually exist, must come in more
direct contact with the campus,
either through their presence here
or through speakers acting as
traveling representatives of the
campus.

Phases of the College

At the Saturday meeting of the
Council and the Delaware Alum-
nae at the home of Mrs. Pierre S.
duPont in Kennett Square, Phases
of the College were presented in
talks by Anne C. Toll, ’39; Anne
Louise Axon, 40; Dean Schenck,
Miss Frederica deLaguna a
Dr. Mary Alden Morgan Lée,
Senior Alumnae Director.

Anne C. Toll, reporting on the
present activities of last year’s
graduating class, suggested that a
course in typing would be a valu-
‘able addition to the Bryn Mawr
curriculum.

In presenting The U ndergradu-
ate Point of View Regarding. the
Alumnae Association, Anne Louise
Axon said that her assumed
premise was that the “Alumnae
Association exists primarily to

help the college” and that the
present undergraduate generation
was made “acutely conscious of
the generosity of the alumnae”
which made possible the recent
“building boom” on campus and

EL ES

|Orchestra. Lost in Snowdrifts; Strauss
Waltzes Hold Guests; No Refunds Asked





The A.S.U. had announced a
square dance for Friday for the
benefit of its peace fund. Posters
wefe up, Haverford was tipped off,
and a two-piece orchestra complete
with Caller had been engaged. No
one could have predicted the snow.
No one could be blamed when the
orchestra got lost in the snow.
The Bryn Mawr girls sat, be-
ginghamed, in the gym and told
snow-covered Haverford boys one
by one, that the cloakroom was
downstairs. They collected 25 cents
apiece from the ones that couldn’t
slip by,..wdhich they promised to
refund in full if the orchestra
failed to show up. Search parties
scoured Rhoadsy and telephoned
around, inquiring after people with
instruments. The Bryn Mawr girls
told each other stories about bliz-
zards and St. Bernard dogs, and
finally a victrola was produced and
everybody started to waltz to
Strauss.

By the, time the waltzing had
reached {ts full momentum, an ur-
ban looking gentleman accompanied
by a bewildered lad with a suit-
case, entered the gym, stamped
hesitatingly at the doormat, finally
approached someone and said with
a trace of contempt, “Is this EDI-
FICE Bryn Mawr College?”

“Cloakroom downstairs,” the girl
said, in’ confirmation.

The gentleman looked inside: at
the waltzing couples and then said,
“Did you. engage—an orchestra?”
and he introduced the lad with
himy who was struggling undér]
the weight of what turned out to
be an accordian. All the searching
parties were recalled and someone
put the Strauss records behind the
piano. w

The gentleman called. Virginia
Reels, Pop Goes the Weasel and the
Little Brown Jug. Bess Lomax,
’41, and Ann Robins, ’40, provided
a guitar accompaniment to the
spirited accordion, and _ people
started opening windows and con-
suming’ grapejuice. It did turn out |
to a square dance, after all. |

Whitaker and the Quartet ar-
rived through the snow and sang
Stop That Band and Them There
Eyes, and It Ain’t Necessarily So.
When Carl got started at the piano,
Whitaker sang A Red Headed
Woman and as Carl ‘said, “went
into his dance.” Whitaker called
it “a bit o’ soft-shoe,” and was en-
thusiastically applauded.

The final proof of the party’s
success was that several boys who
had crashed paid ~as_ they left.
And we only had to eat five of the
remaining doughnuts. We sold
the rest in. Rhoads and Denbigh.



the resulting expansion of the col-|
lege.

Dean Schenck. reported -on The
Graduate School. She spoke of the
rotating joint research plan, and
the proposed undertaking of Dr.
Torres-Rioseco and Miss Meigs to
effect the translation and publica-
tion of South American novels for
distribution in North America. She
also discussed the activities of the
graduates and of the European
Fellows.

Activities of the Faculty

In her talk on The Faculty, Miss
deLaguna spoke of the new Science
Club for faculty and graduate stu-
dents in the science departments.
Informal laboratory teas have
been introduced and have made
the laboratories “centers of social
intellectual life.”

The Club also plans for informal
meetings between the science de-
partments. The first of these
meetings was held in February in
the Deanery, where Miss Jane
Oppenheimer discussed the studies
the Dalton biologists are making
on the central nervous systems of
the salamander and fish embryos.

The plans for Anthropology
next year include the Anna How-
ard Shaw Lectures, which will be
given by Dr. Ruth Benedict, of



Columbia University. Dr. Bene-
dict, during her six weeks’ stay
here, will give a half a dozen
public lectures, meet the under-
graduate class in Anthropology,
and take charge of a pila hf
seminar on The Individual and
Society. This seminar will be
led jointly by Miss deLaguna and
Mr. MacKinnon, and the Mary
Paul Collins Scholarship for a
foreign woman and two special
scholarships in Sociology and An-
thropology are to be awarded to
students who wish to participate
in the seminar. A_ special re-
search project in some topic cov-
ered by the main field of the semi-
nar will also be offered.

An Undergraduate course in
American Archaeology has been
decided upon for next year, al-
though the money for it is still to
be raised. After such a course
as preliminary training, a selected
group of students would go next
summer to Flagstaff, Arizona, for
a dig, with the help of the Mu-
seum of Northern Arizona. The
site of the excavation would be
an unexplored ruin called Grape-
vine, presumably inhabited about
1300-1400 A. D. by a group of
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Dr. F. Keppel Speaks
At Graduate Assembly

Cont‘nued from Page One

Miss Grazia Avitabile, of Rome,
Italy, A..B. Smith College 1937
and M. A. 1988. She has been
scholar and part-time instructor at
Bryn Mawr during the last two
and, according to Dean
sehen shown an_ almost
alarming capacity for work.

A complete list of the awards
includes 16 resident fellows, 30
resident scholars, 9 special schol-
ars and 4 traveling fellowships.
The students will come to Bryn
Mawr next fall from 18 states and
4 foreign countries.

' When the awards had been made

Dr. Frederick Keppel addressed
the assembly. His subject was
The Relationship Between En-
dowed Foundations and the Ad-
vancement of Learning, appropri-
ate because of the recent award
of 150,000 dollars to Bryn Mawr
College by the Carnegie Corpora-
tion.

The earliest endowed institutions
were in the time of Ptolemy, while
the first in Europe was the Cath-
olic Church. In the beginning or-
ganizations were dedicated to the
relief of suffering. Encourage-
ment to research was a later de-
velopment.

The first substantial foundation

in America, Dr. Keppel said, was
the Simthsonian Institute. Recent
years have seen a startling growth
in the movement. In the last fif-
teen. years Yale, Harvard, Chi-
cago and Columbia have _ seen
their collective endowments in-
crease from less than 20 to more
than 80 million dollars.
In the 1920’s funds were given
to colleges to be distributed at
their own discretion, but more re-
cently the grants have been for
special research. However, Dr.
Keppel believes there are indica-
tions that we will return to the
former system by which the in-
stitution receiving the grant de-
termines for itself the best use
for the funds. The result might
be that over-stimulation in certain
fields could be checked.

To date endowed institutions in
America are: in a fortunate posi-
tion. They have more funds at
their disposal than similar organi-4
zations in other countries have, or
have had at any time. “This,”
Dr. Keppel said, “is quantitatively
impressive, but qualitatively not
proven.” These sometimes unre-
warding grants are widely circu-



Dead End Kids Are
Queens for a Night



On Friday night, in the midst

tive blizzard, 14 undergraduates
found themselves guésts at the

Park: Clad in dignified evening
clothes, they trooped, starry-eyed,
into the Art Museum and tried to
keep their glass slippers from
pinching their feet.

Milling graciously into the XVI
Century Florentine Room (com-
mandeered for the dispensation of
cocktails), our girls found them-
selves in a fabulous welter, of frag-
mentary tables and Priceless Old
China. In silent awe they gazed
at the 300-odd distinguished guests
and wished that they had learned
to do a court curtsy or something.

Presently they flowed along un-
obtrusively with, the glittering
company to gaze with incredulous
eyes, upon the dim interior of an
Egyptian pyramid. They saw a
vast and fantastic. room, bounded
on three’ sides by a balcony filled
with tables and cut down the mid-
dle by a magnificent marble stair-
case; they saw a stupendous statue
built ‘along the line of the Empire
State Building and poised grace-
fully, if precariously, upon one
toe.

After partaking of an ambrosial
dinner and _ listening to the
speeches, the little group floated
once more down staircases and
through echoing corridors and at
approximately the stroke of twelve
were whisked back to college in
their ice-covered coaches. As they
faced once more the sordid reality
of their halls and leafed drearily
through signing-out books, the
glamor of fairyland faded slowly
and irrevocably from their sight.
Shivering slightly, they found that
their ball gowns had turned back
into rags.



lated. They are used to encour-
age retired scholars, refugees, and
to steer people into insufficiently
explored fields. There are also
grants to non-institutionalized per-
sons.

Relations between the endowed
institutions and the advancement
of learning become strained only
hander one condition—when, learn-
ing does not advance. This con-
dition results from the encourage-
ment of mediocrity—but, Dr. Kep-
pel concluded, one brilliant suc-
cess wipes out the unintentional
sins of all the rest.







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girls in school here. Yet people

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for sculpture for my allegorical figure called “Womanhood”,
and the newspapers say I am the most “promising” sculptress
of any college woman today. I love my work, of course, and
spend a great deal of time with my hands dipped in modeling
clay, but oh, Miss Clix, the men just pass me by for the other

I do to make nice men notice me? WONDERING

he:

WIN. BOY-FRIENDS

say I am attractive. What can



Dear Wondering: 1 havea
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effort on sculpture that
you-spend practically none
at all “sculpturing” your
own physical charm. How
much time do you put into
makeup? Into an attractive
hair-do? Yes, and do your
fingernails shout to the
world you’ve been working
in clay? That’s the place to
start! Have immaculately
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trous, smartly colored —
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may become. putty. in your
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G. Avitabile Reveals
Past, Future Plans

Grazia Avitabile, winner of the
Fanny Bullock Workman Fellow-
ship, summed up her private life in

a few poignant words: “I eat, I;

sleep, and I take showers occa-
sionally.”» Naively asked: whether
it was true she did a “startling
amount. of studying,’ as -Dean
Schenk said, she replied, “If that’s
the opinion of the authorities, I
think it’s fine.”

Miss Avitabile is chiefly known
to the undergraduates in three di-
vergent capacities: as manager of
the Italian table, as substitute
warden of Rock, and as instructor
of the course in Baby Italian. Her
propagandizing for the supremacy
of Rock as a hall was unconcealed.
“Rockefeller Hall is an ideal hall,”
she said—“but, for the information
of Miss Howe, it’s always cold, no



Gay Faculty Speakers at Fellowship Dinner,
“In-Between Courses” Calendar Skitted



“That was ‘really something!”
exclaimed a Grad student fervently
when asked about the Fellowship
Dinner held at Rhoads on March
28. Grazia. Avitabile and Grace
Henningan* were the guests of
honor, and several of talented fa-
culty members were present? Ques-
tions by the earthy interviewer
concerning the menu were gently
repulsed, but the list and sub-
stance of the speeches was. relayed
in detail and with delight, show-
ing a commendable tendency to-
wards mind over matter.

The programs for the evening
were psuedo college calendars ers
the list of speeches headed “In-Be-
tween Courses” and titles which
corresponded to registered college

courses.

Dorothy Nepper, toastmistress,
interpreting from the catalogue,
announced the lectures with paro-
dies on the various courses. No-
table-among the evening speakers
was Miss Robbins who offered a
piece of research work on The Mi-|
gration of Birds in Flight in which
she ably discussed our different
types of migratory birds. In the
first category entitled “Faculty
Birds in Flight” special importance
was given to the Gray Bird. The

Visiting Lecturer Birds, the Rad- ¥,

noy Birds, and the Fenwick Bird,

ich was wisely given a sub-di-
Vision all to itself, completed her
treatise, which was applauded with
deep appreciation. .



matter how successfully one stuffs
oneself into the fireplace, and we

could use a bell that. merely. tin-5
kles.” As for .the Baby Italian
class, “it is a fine upstanding class,
but it doesn’t wear itself out with
work.”

Born, unromantically enough,
in Yonkers, Miss Avitabile. has
lived most of her life in Italy. In
1936 she entered Smith as an-un-
dergraduate. She lived, in her sen-
ior year, across from Dean Nichol-
son, who made the famous remark
that “the light never went off in
Miss Avitabile’s window.”

“Miss Nicholson’s light never
went off before mine either,” thé
new fellow asserted. “The only
difference was that her shades



were pulled down and _ mine
weren’t.”

Miss Avitabile ig going to work} be called a romanticist.

: |
next summer at Harvard Univer-
sity and next winter at the Uni-
versity of Michigan on her thesis,

The Romanticism of Vincenzo
Monti. This information was
given in partial answer to the

question which, she claims, every
undergraduate, as she opens. the
Rock door at night, asks her,
“What did yoy get and where are
you going?” Obligingly,Miss Avi-
tabile added some details of the
subject of her study. Monti, who
lived in. the latter part of the
eighteenth century and the begin-
ning of the nineteenth, is a liter-
ary figure marking the transition
from a period of great political
and literary decadence to one. of
great activity in these fields. Her
task is to prove that Monti, usu-
ally termed a classicist, can really





Miss Hennigan Says

She’s Not the Type

The first thing Grace Hennigan
asked about



said when she was
winning the Mary E. Garrett
Graduate European Fellowship
was that it was a complete sur-
prise té-her.~**You-see; I’m not the
type to win fellowships.” Whether
or not she is the type, she is very
pleased about it, especially since
illness has kept her from her work
most of this semester.

She is a little confused about
where her home is. Originally she
came from Boston, has lived in
Forest Hills, Long Island, for, the
last ten years, but as her parents
now live in Arizona, she concluded:
that the only address she could
give was Bryn Mawr College. She
graduated from. Mt. Holyoke ih
19386, and was asked to stay as

Page Seven
ment. For the next two years
she divided her time between

the History Department and her
own work and.as a result did not
get her M.A. till 1938. Then she
came to Bryn Mawr.

Irish history is her field, “much
to everyone’s amazement,” particu-

larly Ireland during the Jacobjzesame -

period. She denies emphatically
that she was influenced by her
name, despite what her friends say;
her study of English history led
her into it. . Next year, since she
cannot go to the Record Library
in London as she wished, she plans
to visit the Huntingdon - Library
in Pasedena, where there are some
documents she can use, the Yale

‘| Library in New Haven, and ,the

Congressional Library in Wash-
ington. “A man named Chi-
chester,’”” whom we discovered later
to be a deputy lieutenant in Ireland
from 1605 to 1616, will engage
most of her attention.

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Page Eight _ .

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- THE COLLEGE NEWS





_ Contemplative Life.

As Christian Dogma|



Deanery, April 16.—“The prbb-
lem and contemplation is one of

declared Jacques Maritain, Profes-
sor of philosophy at the Institute
Catholique of Paris, in a. lecture
sponsored by the French Depart-'
ment. M. Maritain discussed the
Eastern and Western attitudes to-
wards this problem and showed in
what respect the advent of Chris-
tianity has changed its signifi-
cance. .

The\greatest woe of western civ-
ilization, according to M. Maritan
is the rejection of contemplation
and the dethronement of wisdom.
America is represented as a coun-
try proud of its pragmatism. M.
Maritan, nevertheless, believes that

contemplative life here, since our
activism fesults from hidden con-
templative aspirations.

“Action and contemplation may
be considered as transitive and im-
manent activity,” stated M. Mari-
tain. Transitive activity in this
sense is that which one being exer-
cises on another wherein the agent
depends upon the patient. The
agent is seeking his own good,
hence the egotism of the activity.

The agent of an immanent activ-
ity, however, has the possibilities
of perfection within himself, and is
above time. -The Greeks, who also
believed in the superiority of the
immanent activity, believed the in-
telligence to be superior. to the act
of will, and therefore they realized
that contemplation in itself was
higher than action. Unfortunately,
this belief led them to the miscon-
ception that man lives for the sake
of a few individuals. Politicians
were conceived by them to be in-
ferior to philosophers, and manual
labor was held in contempt.

With the coming of Christianity
this idea was changed. St. Thomas
Aquinas affirmed that although in-
telligence is superior to will, it is
better fo love that which is supe-
rior to the mind, as the concept of
God, than to attempt to know it.
Christianity also changed the no-
tion of contemplation, preferring
the contemplation of the saints to
that of the philosophers. This ac-
tion was not to be reduced to tran-
sitive action but was designed to
be useful to.men. And, contempla-
tion was no longer relegated to the
chosen few.

Contemplation is’ a supernatural
function, beyond the energies of
human nature in its ontological
meaning it may be found in eras
and countries which are not Chris-
tian, and in this respect was rea-



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Alumnae, Faculty, Board
Honor President Park



Continued from Page One

about President Park.”

Miss Comstock, the first speaker
of the dinner, reviewed briefly the
problems facing the presidents of
women’s colleges from 1920-1940."
Before 1920, Miss Comstock said,
those working for women’s educa-
tion were inspired by a missionary
spirit and strove to establish the
right of women’s colleges to exist.
Presidents since~~-1920, however,
have had to tackle the problem of
proving that women’s education is
worthwhile as well as_ possible.
This task has meant facing “not
opposition and antagonism as much
as indifference and inertia.” Miss
Park’s “broad vision and strength
of a detached idealistic perceptive
mind,” said Miss Comstock, “de-
scribes the needs of the last 20
years.”

Miss Park’s contribution, to the
public welfare and projects for so-
cial service were the points of her
administration especially praised
by Dr. Rufus Jones. He mentioned
her service as trustee of the Com-
munity Fund of Philadelphia and
vicinity and as a member ofthe
Emergency Relations Board and of
the National Reemployment Serv-
ice. of Montgomery County. Her
work for the Citizens’ Committee
and the Examining Board for em-
ployment in the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Public Assistance were
also commended. “President Park’s



lized by the sages of ancient
Greece and followers of the Indian
religion. In striving for this con-
templation by formulas and other
artificial means, the Eastern phil-
osophers are really exhibiting a
subtle pragmatism.
“Anti-mytical tendencies are
generated by fear,” said M. Mari-
tain. “Books of spirituality in the
hands of weak people are judged
to be dangerous, but if these anti-
mystical tendencies were systema-
tized, Christianity would be re-
duced to a mere moral system.”
All men are called to the perfec-
tion of love, continued Dr. Mari-
tain, but this love can not be at-
tained without mystical insight.
Each man is called to contempla-
tion if only in a remote manner,
but this is not esoteric or limited
to specialists.

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Stake of U. S. in China

Continued from Page One
the Wattwhich destroys the factors

administration,” ‘conciuded Dr.
Jones, “has been one of those
things which has been exactly the
way it ought to be.”

Mr. Gray, speaking for the Bryn
Mawr faculty, praised Miss Park’s
good craftsmanship, tactfulness
and direction. The first he defined
as being a combination of medieval
and modern methods to achieve
“an intense and speedy craftsman-
ship, with close attention to de-
tails.” Tact, continued Dr. Gray,
has been paramount all through
Miss Park’s régime and rests in
her ability to adapt herself to an-
other’s point of view. The third
characteristic arises from the im-
portance of graduate school and
the duel function required of the
faculty at Bryn Mawr.

Using as an excuse the ticket
admitting “Miss Park to the din-
ner given in honor of President
Park,” Miss Park resolved to say
a few words about her official self.
She emphasized her aim as presi-
dent “to keep ground and atmos-
phere clear so that other voices
may be heard.” Frequently, Miss
Park admitted, non-interference
has been difficult for her to main-
tain; but no praise can be more
pleasing, she says, than to have
ideas’ “borne of many minds” put
into effect by the community action



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United States enables Japan to
create those conditions which: lead
to Bolshevism.

Japan, because of its combina-
tion of a double standard, is one of
the most inefficient countries in the
world. Side by side with a twen-
tieth century standard of indus-
trial output, there exists a peasant
population living according to fif-
teenth century standards.

With its peasant population un-

able to consume the country’s in-
dustrial products, these products
must be sold to other countries, or,
if necessary, dumped on the. out-
side market. ‘

The westernization of China be-
gan about 100 years ago. The real
modernization of China, which is
not to be measured in terms of ma-
terial achievements but in the ac-
quisition of a new outlook, was
carried on underground.

Though these underground forces
may have burst up anyway, Mr.
Lattimore said, the onslaught of
Japan from the west broke the
surface and these qualities were
brought to light. Outward mani-
festations of these forces prior to.
the war—increasing political abil-
ity and economic stability, with a
growth in the fundamental heavy
industries which create the modern
technique—pointed to the begin-
ning of a new unity in China. Ja-
pan attacked when she did, said
Mr. Lattimore, to prevent the unity



of the whole college.














in China resisting revolution, the

claimed her purpose was, to unify
China, -
{ The war has continued the proc-
ess of unification of China and its

coagulation into a connected whole.
The capture of such industrial
points as Shanghai and Hankow,
instead of wrecking China, as
many Americans thought it would,
caused the-- Chinese industrial
plants -to be moved away from
their’ false environment. in the
treaty ports to their functional en-
vironment in the hinterland.
Together with the readjustment
of industries, the necessity of deal-
ing under emergency conditions ,
with large populations whose tra-
ditions and associations with the
western world have been upset by
the war reveals the situation in
China to be not a struggle between

Ghina resisting nationally a for-
eign invader.

In so far as much of the popula-
tion is refugee and there is a lack
of trained men, reconstruction in
the form of cooperatives has led
to the maximum promotion of the
democratic technique. This devel-
opment is the more important, in
view of the fact that in Japan the
stress of war has led to an increase
in hard dictatorial methods. The
democratic technique is quite dif-
ferent from democratic institutions
as such, but it is the growth of
the democratic approach which cre-
ates the democratic institutions. If
China emerges from the war free,
it will go farther toward the. at-





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