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-Merion’s Freshmen Keep Play Plaque —
Despite Spirited Acting by Pem West



THE COLLEGE NEWS)



Skard Tells of Unity

_first, undernourishment, not star-

“The Norwegian nation

VOL. XL, NO. 7

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943

Bryn Mawr

Copyright, Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS

College, 1943







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“Hyacinth Halvey” Praised!
As Humerous, Unified
Production



By April Oursler, ’46

Goodhart, November 5 and 6:
Merion Hall’s production of Hya-
cinth Halvey, by Lady Gregory,
brought the Freshman play plaque
to Merion for the second consecu-
tive year. According to the com-
mittee, this play combined the
best qualities of characterization,
humor, and unification, although
Pembroke West’s The Six Who
Pass While the Lentils Boil won
the approval of the majority of
the audience.

The outstanding characterization
in Hyacinth: Halvey was the title
role, played by. Mary Helen Bax-
rett, who presented a more mascu-
line suggestion in the portrayal
of the country gawk than did the
male roles of the other plays. The
gestures and the walk of Marcia
Taff as the old-maid housekeeper
were particularly convincing, while
all the cast gave their parts a
feeling of extreme naturalness. On
the whole, the play was exception-
ally well-finished and unified, with
the details worked out thought-
fully and without exaggeration.

In contrast to the more polished
humor of this play, Pembroke
West’s. The Six ‘Who Pass While
the Lentils = had a brilliance

Of Anti-Nazi Norway
~ As Shown by Children

Common Room, November 15

Under the heel of the conqueror,
life for the children of Norway has
radically changed, said Mrs. Aase
Skard, speaking to a group of
students about conditions today in
her'country. Mrs. Skard, a noted
psychologist, is the daughter of
a former Norwegian foreign min-
ister.

Three Factors

There are three primary factors
which have affected the children:

vation, but that ever-present feel-
ing of hunger; and second, inse-
curity. The children never know
when they may come home from
school to find that their father has
been carried off to a concentration
camp, or their house has been req-
uisitioned by the Nazis. But to
counterbalance these forces there
is present quite a different ele-
ment—a new feeling of security.
is now
united,” Norwegians refuse to ‘be
scared. Ninety-nine percent of
the people are anti-Nazi, and they
all join in passive resistance, in-
eluding the smallest children.

Nazi Efforts

Naturally, the Nazis are doing
their best to win over the coming
generation, said Mrs. Skard, so
that “even if they“lose the war,
they will win anyway.” But their
efforts have been singularly inef-
fective, and have indeed worked in
the opposite direction. For in-
stance, the Nazis will specify cer-
tain days on which all school

children must visit the’ Hitler
youth exhibits. The children then
simply do not go to school on those



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Calendar

Saturday, November 13
Merion Hall Dance, 9:00 p. m.

Tuesday, November 16
Current Events,
Room, 7:15 p.m.

Wednesday, November 17

Common

International Students’ Day
Assembly, Goodhart, 10:09
a.m.







and sparkle high in entertainment
value, falling down only in its lack
of a uniform standard of perform-
ance. Elizabeth Dowling’s role as
the Ballad Singer was a master-
piece of good showmanship, com-
bining a feeling for the spirit of
the play and for the audience, with
excellent gestures and timing. The
part of Sir Little Boy, played by
Barbara Ruhin was carried
through with charm in spite of
being slightly uncertain about the
lines. Redda Taylor, replete with
a Lil’ Abner accent, played The
Dreadful Headsman with’ perhaps
more humor than the part was
worth; but was very effective.
The Butterfly showed a _ good
knowledge of pantomime and a
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Mr. Gillet Discusses
Good Neighbor Policy



Spanish House, November 4:
The United States with its mater-
ialism will find a complement in
the aesthetic spirit of South Amer-
ica, said Mr. Gillet in an informal
talk-to-the- Spanish Club on-Thurs-
day. Discussing the Good Neigh-
bor Policy, he pointed out that
though the method of union is dif-
ficult, we both have much to gain
by collaboration.

The Good Neighbor Policy, Mr.
Gillet emphasized, is not yet com-
plete. Gradually changing our at-
titude from one of active interven-
tion in Cuba, Santa Domingo, and
Nicaragua, we have repealed the
Platt Amendment and have achiev-
ed a collaboration of intellectuals.
The political results of the last
two or three years have been good,
but, said Mr. Gillet, after the Eu-
ropean peril is over, there will be
some dissension in South America.

Quoting many writers of North
and of South America, Mr. Gillet

rtike Brazil no color line is

Strength and Unity
Displayed in Concert
By von Trapp Family



Specially Contributed by
Sue Coleman, °45

Goodhart, November 9: To the
von Trapp family, the performance
in Goodhart was* “more than a
concert”; it marked the anniver-
sary of their first appearance in
this country when they arrived
four years ago from their “native
mountainous Austria.”

To the listeners, their perform-
ance was infinitely more than a
concert. The Baroness Maria von
Trapp’s sincere, heart - rending
words before the closing “Love
Song” from the Herbrides Islands
expressed the meaning of music,
life and human relationships which
imbued every sound they imparted
to a_ spellbound audience. The
Baroness expressed it so well pri-
marily because she spoke for a

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Racial Discrimination
Condemned by I. R.C.

Common Room, November 3:
“Race is largely a matter of atti-
tude,” said Masamori Kojima of
Haverford, opening the Interna-
tional Relations Club discussion of

racial minorities in the United
States.
Masamori pointed out that

Americans consider certain racial
groups inferior merely because
they have been raised to hold such
a belief. There is discrimination
here against a group such as the
Negroes, while in anpther country
con-
sciously drawn against them,

National Policy
“We should make it a national
policy that there shall be no rac-
ial discrimination,” stated Masa-
mori. There should be a Congress-
ional report, he continued, mak-



Opportunity Knocks

The Honorable Walter Judd
of Minnesota, who is considered
one of the most outstanding
speakers of the country, will
speak at a luncheon to be held
by the United Nations Council
of Philadelphia at 1:30 Satur-
day, November 20 in the ball-
room of the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel.

Mr. Judd’s topic will be
“China and Our Attitude to-
ward China.” The speaker will
be introduced by Earl Harrison
of Philadelphia. The Council
has reserved the entire balcony
of the ballroom for students,
and free tickets are available.
Students desiring tickets should
leave their ‘names on the door
of Miss Robbins’ office.







Moderation Pattern
In Culture of China
Emphasized by Chan



Goodhart, November 3: The
Chinese attitude toward life has
always been one of moderation
stressed Wing-Tsit Chan in a lec-
ture on “China’s Place Between
the East and West,” the last of
his series on the “Spirit of Man in
Chinese Culture.” To the clear-
cut either-or policy of other coun-
tries China has always opposed
its more sagacious policy of both-
and,

The pattern of moderation, he
continued, has never ceased _ to
dominate Chinese culture. :China
stands between the West “and
what the West thinks of as the
East.” The West thinks of the
East as being all one piece, Ac-
tually it is not. It can be divided
into, India and the Far East; and
the Far East, in turn, can be di-
vided into China and Japan. There
is no system, excepting Buddhism,
that cuts across the East as a
whole. But Buddhism, Mr. Chan
stated, should not be considered



ing an official national policy of
non-discrimination. Masamor
also advocates a Federal law out-
lawing the Jim Crow car.

Leila Jackson of Bryn Mawr,
the next speaker, discussed prob-
lems facing the Negro _ soldier.
The Army has sent Negro college
graduates from northern. cities
like Detroit and Chicago into
southern areas where they are
forced into crowded Jim Crow ten-
ement sections. This is hard to
reconcile, Leila pointed out, with



pointed out the prejudices which
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Alliance Establishes
New Red Cross Unit



In cooperation with the Ardmore
Red Cross, the War Alliance is
planning a-surgical dressings unit
to be held two evenings a week
in the May Day Room. The classes
will be only for Bryn Mawr stud-
ents and from 30 to 40 girls will
be néeded to work each. night.

Six girls will be sent to the Red
Cross for instruction in_- rolling
the dressings and three of them
will work on each of the nights
inspecting bandages. The first
two or three weeks will be spent
on blood donor bandages and lat-
er the volunteers will roll larger
bandages.”
_ The classes will begin as soon
as tables and benches are set up
in the May Day Room.



the fact that American Negro sol-
diers are very well treated in Liv-
erpool and other English cities.
Such discrepancy, she said, is caus-
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_ Election

The Freshman class takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of the following offic-
ers:

President, Rose Bateson

Vice President, Nancy Bier-
with eae

Sceretary, Mary Foster
Song Mistress, Alison Bar-
bour

The Sophomore class takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of the following offic-
ers:

President, Patricia Behrens

Vice President, Doris Ann
Braman

Secretary, Dorothy Bruchholz

Song Mistress, Margaret Hil-
gartner

Continued on Page 3

Significant Rise
In Summer Jobs

Indicated by Poll

Work in Factories, Farming
Shows Great Increase
Over 1942

In the recent poll held by the
Vocational Office to determine the
type and extent of summer jobs
held by undergraduates last sum-
mer, it was significant that 343
out of the 391 polled held some job
with the Freshmen registering the
unrivalled total of 134. 218 of
these workers held full-time jobs
as opposed to 80 part-time -work-
ers, 118 students, and 52 occasion-
al volunteers.

In comparison with last year’s
results, there were twice as many
students doing factory work in the
summer of 743, and a similar in-
crease in those engaged in farm-
ing. Clerical work, always the
most popular, showed little in-
crease, while seven more people
attended summer school this year
than last.

Among the more interesting of
the summer jobs were Patricia
Kyle’s newspaper column, Advice
to the Lovelorn, and Barbara
Baer’s experimentation in Interna-
tional Living project. Others in-
cluded the college advisor at Bon-
wit Teller, an advertising copy
writer in Providence, and an in-
spector of recording and controll-
ing instruments in a Waterbury
factory, as well as a worker on
soldering and ‘sub - assembly in
Milwaukee.

Last summer’s laboratory work-
ers showed an increase of 14 over
the previous 18, and included
workers in the blood plasma de-
partment of a Chicago laboratory,
a lab technician in the pathology
department of the New York In-
firmary for Women and Children,
as well as many chémical labora-
tory assistants.







Study Without Books, Singing and Monologues
Help Make Versatile Italian Classes Lively



“Eeco la signora Lograsso” is
the phrase that sets the Italian
class under way each morning.
This “ecco” is accompanied by a
wide dramatic gesture out of Tay-
lor window, for Miss Lograsso
maintains that gestures are nec-
essary to make words more em-
phatic. “It makes our Italian look
more like the real thing” supple-
mented one member. A few min-
utes later the class of six repeats
“Sono una_ studentessa a Bryn
Mawr,” and runs through a morn-
ing’s activities beginning with “I
wake up when the alarm clock
sounds. I do not get up because
I am always tired, etc.”

This daily Italian class has made
startling progress. Having studied
for a month without books, it is
completely at home with the spok-)
en word. Extra-class “dialogo’’
are overheard which verge on
lengthy conversations. “Ecco il
uomo” one begins, and they’re off.
In every class'a prepared “mono-
logo” or “dialogo” is given. These
are built around practical or dra-
matic situations such as being lost
in Rome or chancing to see “il re
Vittorio Emmanuele” in a restau-
rant.

This versatile Italian class also

which may be recognized as “Frere









sings . . . namely “Fra Martino”

dong” changed to “din, dan, don.”
Even grammar is occasionally il-
lustrated with excerpts from op-
era.

The class’s activities merely be-
gin in Taylor. It plans to visit a
famous Italian costume display in
Germantown and make a tour of
the Italian restaurants. It has al-
ready had a successful beer party
with Miss Lograsso’s Haverford
students. These soldiers are tak-
ing their course preparatory to
work with the Allied Military Gov-
ernment in Italy.

Although there are only six in
this course of elementary Italian,
they are not difficult to locate.
They are always ready to break
into their adopted tongue, whether
on Taylor steps, at the Inn, or the
village shops. These students are
enthusiastic, one going so far as
to add “ino” to her name tempor-
arily.



League Drive

A surplus of $23.70 over the |
goal of $3800.00 was collected |
in the League Activities Drive }
this year. Denbigh pledged |
10% more than -the amount
asked and Radnor gave $3 more

or “ti, val;~bringing — the
total to $3823.70.



Jacques” with the “ding, dang,