College news, February 10, 1943

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THe COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XXIX, No. 14

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1943 Ps ag 3 bbe

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PRICE 10 CENTS

Trustees of
College, 1943





Niebuhr Outlines |
Preparation for —

Post-War Peace _

Need for Christian Realism

Stressed in Assembly
On Peace

Goodhart Hall, February 8.





In



an Undergraduate assembly .on
Unity in War and Peace Aims, Dr.

Reinhold Niebuhr outlined the ne-



‘100 Per Cent

Pledging 100 per cent, the
maids and porters were the
first on campus to respond
wholeheartedly to the War
Chest Drive. The following
captains were elected to con-
duct the drive in each hall:

Rhoads—Rebecca Henry. ..,

Rockefeller — Eddie Lee
Curry.

Pembroke—Minnie Newton
and Elizabeth Jones.
Merion—Mildred White.
Denbigh—Hilda Green.
Radnor—Grace Turner.







cessity for “Christian Realism” in ' Miss Taylor Elected

the post-war world in order to steer |
; ; ; |
a course between extreme idealism |

and cynical realism. He enumer-

ated the drawbacks of the “world |

To American Council
of Learned Societies



Miss-duily Ross Taylor, Dean of

; mands, but also with the individu-

Miss McBride States
Full Use of Facilities
First Aim of College

Goodhart, Febriary 4.—In the
speech «which opened the second
semester of the 1942-3 year, Miss
McBride said the “best use of re-
sources” is the main problem to be
considered by both College and
Students. For..the- former this
centers around its teaching pow-
ers, while for the student she
stressed the careful selection of a
Major subject. A Major must be
chosen in accordance with war de-

al’s own interest and ability. Miss
McBride quoted from a letter from
Miss Cornelia Meigs in Washing-
ton in which she stated that: ‘no
mind reaches its fullest develop-
ment unless it has been trained in
some of the fields that really be-

Science, Religion

Discussed by



Calendar

Thursday, February 11
Spanish Club Tea. °Com-
mon Room, 4:30.
Viadimir Kazek4vich. What
Makes Russia Fight. Music
Room, 8:00.

Saturday, February 13
Non-Resident Dance. Com-
mon Room, 8:80.

Sunday, February 14
Chapel Service; Dr. Rufus
Jones. Music Room, 7:30.

Monday, February 15
Dr. Erich Frank. Flexner
Lecture, The Existence of
God. Goodhart, 8:30.

Tuesday, February 16
Dr. Leonard A. Maynard.

federation” plans._formed by the | the.Graduate School, has been ap-

idealists and the inadequacies of | pointed by the American Philo-
the “balance of power” proposi- | logical Society to the American
‘Council of Learned Societies. She
|is the first woman ever to receive

Sriaiaad ois
is hana tele utsanc dai eran |such an honor, breaking a 23-year

tions made by the cynical realists.



long to it.”

There is stiH—a—great need for |
women in natural sciencés;~said
Miss McBride, but there are higher |
priorities in the social sciences

Nutrition: -Lecture, IJm-
provement of Nutritional
. Qualityof-Our Food Sup-
ply. Swarthmore, 8:00.















part of the United Nations and)
the integration of these countries, |
such as advocated by Wendell |
Willkie, are, Dr. Niebuhr believes, |
the most hopeful points of —
ure for peace plans.

Dr. Niebuhr placed the leading |
schools of post-war theory into
two main categories; idealism and
The idealists

who propose an international fed-

historical realism.

eration assume that a social con-
tract can be established by an act
of human will and that such a
contract can mean peaceful inter-
national government. This con-
tinuation of the old social contract
theory is historically incorrect be-
cause of its dependence onthe
human will, according to Dr. Nie-

buhr. An act of will can create



an administration, but government

depends on political prestige, which
Continued on Page Four

precedent.

The Council includes delegates
from. most of the learned societies
in the country, except those con-

|cerned with the natural sciences.

Its function is the coordination of
research work and publication in
the humanities, especially in the
fine arts. Miss Taylor has often
dealt . with the organization in
connection with publications for
the Philological Society, of which
she was president last year.

At present the most important
work of the Council is its intensive
language program, Miss Taylor
says. It has imported native ex-
perts in unusual languages and
has introduced courses at various
universities for the purpose of
studying language in relation to the
people and geography of a country.
This program has been particular-
ly successful at Yale. While the in-
structors were established before
the government took control of

part of the University, much train-
Cuntinued on Page Three



Poll Shows Views on Post-War Reconstruction

And Approval of Continued Liberal Education



The continuation of liberal arts
education met the almost unani-
mous approval of the 258 Bryn
Mawr students recently polled by
the News. There was a wide dif-
ference of opinion, however, con-
cerning post-war relations with
both Allied and Axis nations.

Opinion is widely split on the
question of our future relations
with the Axis. nations—some peo-
ple are in favor of “allowing the
Poles and Czechs, etc., to handle the
situation,” while one student stated
that “Hitler should have a life of
dull, obscure imprisonment.” One
suggestion for Japan was that she
be blown to Hell but not back
again, or that the country be left
‘in the hands of the Chinese, from



Faculty Show

On Saturday, February 27;"""
the faculty and staff will
preserit their show, Standing
Room Only, in Goodhart at
8:30, for the benefit of War
Relief. :

Tickets at $1.10 and $1.65°
will be on sale at the Pub-
licity Office on Wednesday.

The following things are
needed for the show — one
deep sea diving outfit, one
medium size moose head, and
one piano player. If anyone
has any of these, please com- 4
municate immediately with
Miss King.











whom the Japanese should take an
example. Views on Italy were less
heated, just “let the Abyssinians,
Albanians and the British handle
it”

The largest numbers of opinions
on these subjects are as follows:

Germany
Eliminate Nazi leaders....... 34
PUIG 4 eh ee de cena 56
MBO TIIGINOND: 65 5 oka res haces 20
MG DUNCMPION§ 6.5 Moos oi eae 59

to a democratic government. 22
to encourage economic and

cultural possibilities ..... 16
Treated as an equal—
after Nazis exterminated... 13
after re-education ......... 4
1 © JGHOUE cise eres . 3
Given fair treatment......... 52
fare BOb OEMs 56s iis 6s 22
WOU BO ns ceo bcc eewen oes 7
TG: AQGIONOY: 6-5 -+ 00:65 viace 40:8 5
OPO soo ic ene e ste 6
A supervised government..... 8

Broken into federated states.. \7

Maintain liberal government.. 4%)

Gradually given complete free-
dom

Voice in government but pre-
vented from harming others 14

Japan
WOME So cc cee sense csies 32
Disarmament ~...'....56-0260 25
Maen... iia es i ae

toward more rational way of

AR cece site bi etanracbieieicmamnlee

as Christians; abolish ~Shin-
Continued or Page Three

also. Their contribution is not a |
remote one, and graduates are in|
great demand in War Agencies. |
More responsibility is thrown on!
the new graduate than would have
been in peace time.

Miss McBride stated two reasons
for maintaining work in the hu-
manities. “This war is not solely
technological, it is philosophical.”
The judgments of value given by
the humanities, she said, ‘‘under-
mine or support the progress ofa
civilized world.” In addition to
this, a respect for individual dif-

ferences must be observed, and the
Continued on Page Three

College War Activity



Discussed at Council |





Deanery, February 9.—The, Col- |

Survival of Ancient
Gods in Middle Ages
Discussed by Seznec



History of Art Lecture Room,
February 6.—How and under what
form the gods of antiquity sur-
vived was the subject of M. Jean

| Seznec’s lecture entitled “La Sur-

vivance des Dieux Antiques.”

The ancients did not really under-
stand their gods. Only the poets and
writers tried to grasp their nature.
Three theories arose: one which
conceived gods as human beings,
historical persons whose lives had
been great; another, the cosmic

and Philosophy

Flexner Lecturer



Dr. Erich Frank Describes
Conflict Between Two
Developments _



“In faith the true nature of man
is revealed,” stated Dr. Erich
Frank in his lecture on The Nature
| of Man. This introductory lecture
iof the series in the Flexner lec-.
| tureship entitled Philosophy and
| Religion, paralleled the struggle
| between science and religion with
| the struggle between philosophy
) and religion in man’s search to
| know his true nature.



| As a result of the development
| of science, the attitude of the mod-
ern person is one of detached skep-
ticism. Psychology has proved
that man‘is not master in his own
ego, but is ruled by primitive in-
stincts and natural laws. Yet the
modern man feels if he develops
'his faculties he may overcome na-
ture. He seeks his happiness in
this world rather than the next,
and his concepts are accordingly
irreconcilable with those of re-
| ligion.

Man considers himself superior
to the forces of the universe which
crush him because he is aware that
the universe is crushing him and
‘the universe is not aware. But

man cannot learn his true nature
Continued on Page Five

Kazekevich Will Talk
| About Russia at War









On Thursday evening, February
11, in the Music Room, the War
Alliance will present a talk by Mr.
| Vladimir D. Kazekévich on What



theory, saw them as forces of Na- | Makes Russia Fight.

ture such as the ocean or the sun; |

| Mr. Kazekévich, a white Russian

lege Council discussed the prob-|@nd the third saw them as moral.

lem of required assemblies as a | allegories, representatives of vir-

war measure. The Alliance feels, tue and vice.
that there is not enough under- The Christian Church pres>re |

graduate interest in current prob- | the gods of antiquity becaus2 it
lems, and that therefore there | couldn t do otherwise, said M. Sez-
should be fortnightly or weekly | °°: pir it pire —_
assemblies with compulsory attend- bb ae be in set eee veg
ance to arouse the students’ atten- | Church thought to humble the gods
tion. Since it is always the same . :
group of girls that attend caged sige their descent from mor-

assemblies, the faculty feels that tals. But such a synoptic table
all students should be made to: Served only to entrench them firm-
think about the problems of the , ly

world through some such scheme. | M. Seznec then spoke of them
The Alliance, in conjunction | #8 ¢osmic symbols. He showed a

with the -Faculty. Defense Group, | Carolingian miniature which pic-

is trying to obtain a 100 per cent ' tured the earth to be encircled first

response to the United War Chest by planets, then by an outer circle
Drive from the students. 954 dol-;Of gods. It was enclosed pa ts
lars have already been pledged by sphere of astrologic influence. Man
the Faculty, the maids and porters, Coutnwes: on Fame SNe

by dating them chronologically and



|by birth, is at present lecturing on
|the Soviet Union, which he visited
‘in 1935. He is on the editorial
-taffs of Soviet Russia Today and
Selevce and Society. Mr. Kaze-
| k ‘vich is an economist by profes-
sion. He has lectured in Eco-
nomics at Columbia University and
| has taught Money and Banking at
ithe Wall Street Institute of Fi-
nance. He was a member of the
| staff of a public works investiga-
'tion conducted by the National
Bureau of Economic Research. Mr.
Kazekévich also served on the staff
jof the corporation survey of the
Twentieth Century Fund.

Mr. Kazekévich is a collaborat-
ing author of The Banking Situa-
tion and The Economies of Infla-
tion.







and the groundsmen. It was noted
that the five weeks’ course in Home }

Due to Investigations of
Economics hé@s started and that |

Fortune Hunters,

- Self-Consciousness Rampant at Bryn Mawr







the other defense courses are con-
tinuing.
By Mary Virginia More, ’45
Open House Would some. power the gift
Rhoads will hold its first would give us . .} everyone is
open house Saturday after- |/entitled to his pet yearning, but
noon at 3 o’clock. All stu- | this is one (it must be admitted)
i and thele Srionds cats | celal has never especially oc-
bytes oar beavis wal De Op- ‘eurred to us until quite recently—
portunity for informal danc-

ing, ping-pong, and bridge.
For an experimental few
weeks, Rhoads will be open
Saturdays and Sundays from
2 until 12. Students may
sign out for “Rhoads and
Soda Fountain” until 12:15.



No permission is needed.
From 10:30 P. M. until
12, a student will be at the
front door to let people in.
Rhoads residents are re-
quested not to wear house-
| coats inthe smoking room







| tune, and Miss Mia Fritsch, re-
isearch assistant.
'on the whole surprised when sud-



during these hdtrs.





The Fortune hunters lurked in
‘the Bookshop, asking “What are
you buying?” They explored the
inner reaches of the Library, in-
cluding the Dewey Decimal System
of Classification. They lunched in
the halls. They sat in the smok-
ing rooms, eyeing the students

until a certain refrain began to: sadly, wanting to know where and

haunt our somewhat uneasy mind
. to see ourselves as Fortune

sees us as Fortune sees

a 3.8

Not everyone realized the pres-

ence on campus of Miss Katherine

Hamill, associate editor of For-

Students were

denly accosted with questions such
as: What are your friends doing;
Why? How is the male situation?
ment? What books do you read?

when the long shirt tails origi-
nated. They quizzed professors
from every department concerning
the special and pertinent courses
which have been added to the cur-
riculum. They took an extensive
poll gf student opinion on. yarious
subjects. They investigated the
extra-curricular war activities of
the faculty members and students.

Fortune’s article on Bryn Mawr
will appear in the April issue, with
colored plates by Bernard La
Motte, illustrator of St. Exupery’s
Flight to Arras.



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Un-American?

The News supports the statement that has been circulated on
campus by the War Alliance against the continuation of the Dies
Committee. We, together with the Alliance, oppose the Dies Com-
mittee on the grounds of economy, of its failure to carry out its
official purpose, and because of its disgraceful methods of pro-
cedure.

The Dies Committee has long been condemned for these reasons
by many sections of the American people, who have frequently
differed in their positions on other political issues. For this reason,
we feel that it is unnecessary to elaborate on these points. We will
devote this editorial to the relationship of the Dies Committee to
the Axis and its official and unofficial agents in this country.

Last March Vice-President Wallace said that the “statements
of Mr. Dies . . . might as well come from Goebbels himself as
far as their practical effect is @gncerned. As a matter of fact, the
effect on our morale would be less damaging if Mr, Dies were on
the ‘Hitler payroll.’”? The Federal Communications Commission,
which records and analyzes all broadcasts emanating from Axis
countries, throws further light on this matter. According to reports
of the FCC, Dies “is the most popular American as far as the Rome-
Berlin radios are concerned. In all their quotations from Mr. Dies,
no one has heard a single criticism of him by the Axis radio.”

It is even more illuminating to hear the opinions on the Dies
Committee held by American citizens, who have recently been
indicted by the United States Government for conspiracy to under-
mine the morale of the armed forces, or for being agents of Nazi
Germany. In December, 1939, Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-
American Bund, said of the Dies Committee: “I am in favor of it
to be appointed again and I wish them to get more money.” In
February, 1940, William Dudley Pelley, convicted of sedition last

August, stated:~“I fotinded the Silver Legion in 1933, contiguous |

with the appearance of the so-called New Deal of the Democratic
administration . . . to propagandize exactly the same principles
that Mr, Dies and this committee are engaged in prosecuting right
now. I subscribe . . . so completely . . . (to) the work which
has been done by the Dies Committee . . . that if its work continues
and goes on, the Silver Shirt Legion stops. We have no more use
for it.”

The Axis radio, Fritz Kuhn and William Dudley Pelley are
enthusiastically joined by the Ku Klux Klan, Father Coughlin,
George Sylvester Viereck, Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L. K. Smith
and similar “Americans” in praising the Dies Committee. In addi-
tion, there is on record the curious blind spot that afflicted the Dies
Committee when it came to investigating Viereck, the convicted
Nazi agent, and a long list of more obscure fascists who were
indicted by the government last summer.

After perusing a documented statement issued by the National.

Lawyers’ Guild last week in opposition to the Cox Resolution, we
cannot escape the conclusion that the Dies Committee is, if not in
fact, certainly in effect one of Hitler’s most powerful “secret. weap-
ons.” It is on this basis, particularly, that we urge concerted active
opposition to the bill now before Congress to prolong the existence
of this committee. This is as much a war responsibility as partici-
pation in the War Chest Drive. .

Instead of succumbing to the defeatism which characterizes
the editorials in some: on=thigeissue, we must realize the

necessity of mobilizing even greater forces against the Dies Com-

mittee. The present Congress, as well as others, sooner or later
hear the will of the people...We can help bring that day sooner.

|. COMPULSORY

ASSEMBLIES?



The Alliance has proposed

a periodic, compulsory assembly

for the student body. Speakers from outside and from the faculty |
will discuss topics of current interest.
Undergraduate Mass Meeting at. the beginning.of next week to





Pro |

Compulsory assemblies have been
| proposed to combat the mental
| lethargy that exists on campus
| with respect’ to the war. In ordi-
| nary times we would hesitate long
| before advocating the creation of
| any sort of compulsory behavior.
| Various meetings on topics of
|current interest have failed to
evoke greater voluntary student
response than did assemblies in
pre-crisis days. Further, it is sub-
stantially the same section of the
student body that attends these
events. This is an -unfortunate
situation at any time, but it is es-
pecially so now when the present
and future condition of world hu-
manity is dependent on the atti-
; tude and activity of every person.
| Most of us are vaguely conscious
of the fact that. we bear responsi-
bilities toward ourselves, our coun-
try, and the world, but we are not
certain in which channels to direct
our activities. Also, many of us
have evidently not been sufficiently
stimulated by our environment to
mental or physical action related
to the war.

If it is granted that it is abso-
lutely essential for much greater
numbers of the population to think
and consequently to act upon pres-
ent issues, then we are faced with
the necessity of finding the best
means to this end. Moreover, we
must find this means as soon as
possible. The war began over three
years ago; the situation which led
up to the war existed many years
| before that. Voluntary attendance
at assemblies and other gatherings
to discuss and learn about current
affairs has evidently been an in-
adequate means of stimulating suf-
ficiently widespread interest. This
is certainly an admission of the
existence of a _ serious lack of
thought in that section of the youth
which has enjoyed the fullest-edu-
cational opportunity. It is useless
to bewail their failings. It is also
not the most suitable step at this
time to resolve to start again at
the root of the situation in order

to insure that the next student
Continued on Page Six

Con

The proposal of ‘compulsory as-

student body. The proposal
based on the idea that we are un-
able to realize and obtain by our
own free will something that may
be benefiting to our cultural and
intellectual development.

The advocates of the plan state
that their problem is the students’
failure to show interest in assem-
blies. We grant that the small
audiences at college assemblies are
sufficient evidence that this prob-
lem exists, but compulsion is not
the way to solve the problem.

On the basis of our status as
college students it is assumed that
we. are intelligent individuals. The
present system used with college
assemblies, in which the student is
allowed to decide for herself
whether the lecture will be-of in-
terest and value to her, is based
on this assumption. Compulsory
attendance of assemblies is a di-
rect affront to our abilities as in-
dividuals and implies that the
students are not capable of mak-
ing decisions for themselves. No
person who is accustomed to think
for herself will allow someone else
to dictate her actions and thoughts
for any length of time. The
establishment of suchva plan would
result in a defiance of the assem-
blies, even by those who originally
approved of it. *

There is a solution to the problem
which is no more ideal than that
which has been advanced. It may
be observed that college assemblies
in which stimulating topics are
discussed by well-known lecturers
are well attended. If the students
are assured that the assemblies
are interesting and exciting, which
they promise to be, they will at-
tend without the use of force.
More knowledge of the topic and
the speaker than that given by
the slight and hurried announce-
ments in the halls will be neces-
sary to.create the desire to attend
the lecture.

The crux of the problem is to

make the students want to attend
Continued on Page Six





concerning an issue this large. .

Mawr. It is incompatible with

above all, in war-time.

Inertia
In the War Alliance poll on the Dies Committee ‘a student

expressed herself as disapproving “‘of this sort of action from a
group of college students who, I feel, are unable to judge wisely

<~ Land others like me know too

little about the subject and are unable to give an unprejudiced
answer in black and white as to yes or no. We have enough to do—
'let others deal with matters above our heads.”

We are grateful to this student for expressing an attitude
which we believe to be prevalent, if generally unvoiced, at Bryn

the democratic way of life, and,

We may have enough to do, getting our

There will be an Alliance |

: i| ship in Room T (third floor
semblies should be opposed by the |

is |

education, but what is the purpose of an education which does not
fit us to live in a society and take part in its government? To
acquiesce in “letting others deal with matters above our heads” is to
resign our responsibility, the responsibility which lies with us. It
lies with us, for we are not “unable to judge wisely.” Surely a
college student is as capable of judgment as are other members of
our democracy, |

In other polls this attitude has been frequently expressed not
only in the flippancy of answers given, but also in specific remarks.
The general opinion is that questions on current national or inter-
national issues are none of our business, that our ideas on the con-
duct of our government are not important. The opinions of every-
one, and, not least, of college students, are important in democracy.
If we feel that we have any right to criticize, we should also feel
the responsibility of expressing constructive opinion. If we do not
feel that there is any such right, as many people seem to, we are
denying the validity of the four freedoms. This is a denial which,
in its statement of “let others deal with the problem,” implies
Fascism. | nae
More generally, the-Bryn Mawr student expresses her attitude
in refusal to attend lectures, to read the newspapers, to do anything
which might indicate that she is capable of active thought on any
current subject. Although our opinions may be in a formative stage,
they. Jeast-equal to those of most.other free.citizens,



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Finger prints —

As it is becoming increas-
ingly necessary for people to
have identification cards, the
College is arranging for the
undergraduate and graduate
students, maids and porters
and general staff to have
their cards fingerprinted.
This will be done by the po-
lice of Lower Merion Town-



of Taylor Hall) on Thursday
and Friday between 9:30
and 4 o’clock. Photographs
will be taken in the Pub-
licity Office on Tuesday and
Wednesday between 10-1,
and 2-4; Thursday and Fri-
day—time to be announced.
Students who have identifi-
cation cards for use at the
U. S. O. will not have to re-
port, as these are sufficient.
A request has been made for
student volunteers to help in
recording the fingerprinting.
Anyone having free time
from Thursday at ‘9:30 till
Friday at 4:00 will please .
notify Mrs. Collins.

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| WAR ALLIANCE

“This column will appear at in-
tervals when the War Alliance
Board has opinions to express con-
cerning both its work and the stu-
dent body.

The War Alliance policy state-
ment on the Dies Committee was
a complete failure as a test of
public opinion. The Alliance ad-
mits that it was not well worded,
and that the form in which it was
presented was bad. The main
trouble lay in the ambiguous way
of stating the opinion. Because
of this it was impossible to judge
whether the students were voting
lapproval or disapproval of the
Dies Committee, the protest, or of
the War Alliance itself.

The poll was intended to regis-
ter public opinion on the discon-
tinuation of the Dies Committee.
It assumed that the students al-
ready. knew the facts about the
issue. __If a majority of the stu-
dents had voted their approval of
the War Alliance stand the state-
ment would have been sent: to con-
gressmen,

&

The poll was a trial balloon.
While not testing campus opinion,
it did prove a lot. In the future,
polls of this kind will be put in
unambiguous form. In the future
the War Alliance plans to hold
debates before a similar poll is
issued. The poll reveals that the
student body is not awake to cur-
rent problems. The most impor-
tant point about this type of poll
is its value to the college in making
the students aware of important
public issues.







Speakers to Discuss
Teaching as Vocation



The subject of the vocational
conference, which will be held next
week, is Teaching. It will take
place in the Deanery at 4:30 on
Thursday, February 18. The
speakers "are Miss McBride and
Mrs, Rustin McIntosh, headmis-
tress of the Brearley School.

Invitations have been sent to all
Seniors and graduate students and
to those who indicated in their
questionnaires that they were in-
terested in teaching. Anyone who
would like to come is invited.



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Try-Outs! “7
Has printer’s ink gottén
into your blood? Ar@ you
an aspiring foreign “corre-

spondent? Journalistically
minded Freshmen and Soph-
omores—come to a meeting
for try-outs for the College
News Thursday afternoon at
5 o'clock in -the Common
Room.








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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three







Miss Fry Discusses
Social Security Plan

In Beveridge Report



Deanery, February 5. — “The
great interest of the Beveridge Re-
port is that it takes in all Social
Security legislation, combining it
into one coherent, logical whole,”

said Miss Margery Fry, formerly !
4 |

principal of Somerville College, |
Oxford, and one time chairman of |
the London Juvenile Court and |
Government Representative of the |
International Penal and Peniten- |
tiary Commission. “It is only a)
scheme so far and is going to have |
a tough passage until it becomes a
law. This report is a sign to the}
world that England is not on its |
death bed. People are becoming |
conscious of their democracy.”



Thé main arguments against the
Beveridge Report, said Miss Fry, |
are that the English will become |
a race of degenerates, since the!
plan “will ‘sap their independ-
ence”; and that thrift will be a
thing of the past. Disproving
these arguments, Miss Fry pointed
out that unemployment itself and
not Social Insurance produces de-
generacy. “America is more clever-
in its Social Security policies than
England,” she continued. “You
have gained national wealth from
the activity of those who were
formerly unemployed, through
WPA and other such work pro-
grams, while England has merely
kept her unemployed alive.” Us-!
ing statistics, Miss Fry showed
that people save more when they

have social security than when
Continued on Page Four ~

Students Urge Move
For Mixed Army Unit

A group of interested students
met on Monday night to form a
committee for the creation of a
mixed army unit of Negroes and
white men on a voluntary basis.
There were representatives from
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Uni-
versity, ‘Temple University, Lin-
coln- University and Swarthmore.
They formed the Committee for a
Mixed Army Unit.

Dr. Barrows Dunham, professor
of philosophy at Temple, started
the discussion by summing up the
reasons for such a proposal. He
said that it would be a step for-
ward for the freedom for which
we are fighting if the segregation
of Negro and white soldiers was
abolished. Such segregation causes
disunity and hinders the war ef-
fort. A mixed army unit, like the
Liberty ship, the Booker T. Wash-
ington, would stand as a symbol
for all those who believe in the
essential equality of man.







An open discussion followed in
which the work of the committee |
was outlined.

The committee elected James L. |
Morgan, of Lincoln University, as
temporary chairman, and Ruth
Segal, of Bryn Mawr, as tempor-
ary secretary. Four sub-commit-
tees were formed and a petition
to the President is being written.
The representatives from Bryn
Mawr were Elizabeth Nicrosi,
Ruth Segal and Boots Szold.



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Poll chasis Views on

Post-War Reconstruction



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Solve the population problem., 15
Given fair treatment ........ 25 |

Peto et -nrnreerers 9
Win CATO sss. cio yi is es 5
WO UD ii vk cae cece ee 8 |
SUDSUGRIEG ise iaseverses 10 |
WING ON0 684 ikea ieee 13 |
Given’ economic aid .......... 11 |
Eliminate government ....... 19 |
Supervise government ....... 8
| Gradual development toward |
democratic government 5 |

; Democratic government ...... a
No outside territory ea 9)
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Italy |

Eliminate Fascism .......... 31 |
Largely left alone eer as 37 |
POUNCE Gila’ even eck 24 |
WISAPINGINOCNE ovis cee eee eas 16 |
POOKOOUGOIION i ok bos ees 35 |
TPORTON TAITIY liaise ces 43

with understanding ........

| Treated as an equal ......... 8 |
less rigidly than others . iG
Restore government as before
INIMIBROIIE Save k ceria ices 4 |
Democratic government,...... 14/|
Constitutional monarchy ..... 6 |
Supervised government ...... 11!

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Continuea on Page Four



Wartime Map Needs

Stressed by Watson



Geology Lecture Room, Friday,
January 22, 1942.— Announcing
another call from a government
agency, Miss Dorothy Wyckoff and
Mr. Edward Watson of the Ge-
ology Department gave short talks
on the importance of maps in war-
time. Mr. Watson stressed the
great need for maps as a result of
the use of technology in war and
enumerated the map-making agen-
cies which are sending out con-
stant calls for trained women.
Miss Wyckoff explained a proposed





Basketball

The dates for Varsity Bas-
ketball Games are: }

Beaver—Wednesday, Feb- ||
ruary 24, at 4:00.

Ursinus — Saturday, Feb-
ruary 27, at 10:30.

U. of Penn. — Saturday,
March 6, at 10:30 (at. U. of
Pa.

Swarthmore — Saturday,
March 13, at 10:30.
Rosemont — Saturday,

March 20, at 10:30.



B. M. Owls Lose Close

jel basketball team ended in a hair-

;lead long. The Drexel team rushed



training course by the Army Map

Service to be given here. |
|

| their match in great style with an}
| extravagant 25 points to the Drex-

The course, in preparation for
work with the Army Map Service
in June, will be given at Bryn
Mawr only if fifteen Seniors regis-
ter for it.
course is planned to give a general
idea of the types of problems. met |
with in map work. It will prob- |
ably require four or five hours a
week of laboratory and lecture
work. Artistic and critical ability,
and foreign languages are more
necessary than mathematics or
surveying. Although no academic
eredit—will_be given, the proposed
course guarantees a well-paid job!
in June. The work is a compilation
from already existing maps.

The Corps of Engineers of the
Army initiated the course as an
experiment, choosing fifteen or
twenty colleges in the country as
training places. The Engineering
‘Corps will send study material
only if a quota of fifteen will reg-
ister; otherwise the facilities will
be handed-on to another college.

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Bryn Mawr Varsity’s first encoun-

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ter, of the season against the Drex-

breadth’s victory for the visitors,
4s 3-12.
first half with a number of tallies
for

Bryn Mawr dominated the

scored as_ penalties Drexel

But the Owls did not keep that

in at the second half with its
flashy forwards, who kept their
‘opponents busy guarding their
swift overhead passing. Drexel
looked as though it had- six for-
wards on the court, so neat and
accurate was their handling of
the ball.

The navy team’s six baskets
spurred Bryn Mawr to recoup its
losses. - But the Yellows hit their
stride too late, and their rally was
stopped by the whistle blast.
The last two minutes were filled
with rare excitement for the root-
ers of each team. The Drexel team
practically sat on the ball to pre-
vent an attempt for a basket, while
the tenacious Owls almost stran-
gled their opponents trying to get |
it.

Bryn Mawr’s Reserves finished

el second team’s 18. The Reserves |

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on the average of every two min-





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[ Alliterative: Taylor Tower Found Utilitarian;

Architecture Placed in False - Gothic Period



By Hildreth Dunn, ’44

From an architect’s point of
view, the utilitarian value of Taf}
lor Tower centers around its four-
sided clock. Its aesthetic value is
The name is alliterative.
“Four gray walls and Taylor Tow-
er overlook. . .”’ you rhyme it.
Back to its beauties.

quite as a cloud of smoke by day
and a pillar of fire by night, but
always distinctly. It is solid if not
inspiring. Much can be said about
its style, but the fact is that it
is late 19th century Gothic, about

1870-1880; often known.as_ the
false-Gothic or “What, no _ gar-
goyle” period.

Taylor Tower has been the sub-
ject of much thinking since the
crowning weather-vane was firmly
established. In the~early ’30s it
appears that there were plans to
rebuild it. This bit of work would
have been destructive, since it
would have reduced the tower to
the height of other towers and re-
moved its large copper pyramid.
It would have been redesigned to
resemble Pembroke, . . . surely a
brilliant idea. Of course Rhoads
had not yet been built. There
were even bigger plans for. re-

Miss Taylor Elected



To American Council



Continued from Page One
ing is given to the army men sta-
tioned there. The program is also
in force at Michigan and at Penn-
sylvania, where the study concen-
trates on African languages.

The headquarters of the Council
are in Washington. Prominent
among its publications are those
on mediaeval culture. Dr. E. A.
Lowe’s publication of mediaeval
Latin manuscripts is an example
of projects which the Council has
subsidized. Miss Taylor feels that
its most important work is in the
advanced study of languages. The
a program at

Bryn Mawr, however, is unlikely.





It can be’
seen far away in the daytime, not





building Taylor itself, but as the

architectural prints have not yet

been found we can’t elucidate

them. The mere mention of a con- .
necting link between Dalton and

Taylor can convey the scale of this

redesigning.

But this appeared to be another
case where the thought and not
the action was exaNing, for Taylor
Tower was never altered. Lack of
funds was the prime cause; but as
Miss Woodworth said, Some day it
may be respected agi a wedi gt record
of a bad period.



Miss McBride States
Full Use of Facilities

Continued from Page One
student’s mind is most fully de-
veloped when working in its own
particular field.

The military services as well as
war industries demand graduates,
but Miss McBride stressed that a
student should only | leave her
training to get a job if-it-is an
essential one which can be better
filled’ by her than by anyone else.
Otherwise she should aim to finish
her training as rapidly as possible.
Miss McBride said that outside
time should be used as war time,
either in volunteer or apprentice
jobs.

“The College must be flexible,”
said Miss McBride. She mentioned
the innovation of special courses
as war measures, and the plans
for more extensive programs for
regional studies. Also she noted
programs to combine work in lan-



guages and social sciences. “On
the other hand,” Miss McBride
said, “the College must formulate

its purposes and hold to them. de-
spite temporary shifts.”

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THE COLLEGE NEWS







Niebuhr Tells of Need

For Christian Realism

Spanish Club Tea

The Spanish Club will give |:

a tea in. the Common Room, l

| Thursday, February 11, at

He end 4:30-0’clock: ~ There will be

is a combination of force and moral | singing of Spanish and South
authority. History is an interac- | American songs.

‘tion of “destiny and’ will.”



Continued from Page One

and cynical realism.



U







Miss Fry Discusses
Social Security

While an idealistic world federa- |
tion is logically and morally right, |
the historical factor of “destiny” |
is omitted from this theory, Dr.
Niebuhr believes. No such federa-
tion is possible without a “core of there is no such plan-in existence. |
power” built on political prestige. | Miss Fry mentioned the thea

The extreme of historical real- | most important parts of the Bev-
ism is represented by those writers | eridge Report. The first provides |
who plan in terms of “balance of | for children’s allowances. Although |
power.” While idealists under-' there will be no allowance for the
stand the world crisis as a radical | first child, each succeeding one will
situation, hut obscure the fact that | receive a sum equivalent to about
perennial problems exist, realists | two dollars: weekly. Everyone,
fail to perceive the uniqueness of | from millionaires down, will con-
our present situation. | tribute and benefit alike. The |

Though the post-war problems! whole of the health services and |
are vast, the way for peace can be | rehabilitation of unemployed are}
prepared by a genuine United Na-| also included in the plan. Pre- |
tions mutuality and international | ventive treatment is provided for. |
responsibility on their part. But) Third, Sir William Beveridge |
the immense difficulties of even| states that under his report, “There |
this degree of international co-| shall not be a long time of very |
operation were pointed out by the desperate unemployment.” Money |
speaker. Unity will decrease after | well distributed will have a bene-
the war; we have merely been} ficial effect in preventing and alle- |
driven to it now, he said. viating depressions. |

Unity between the dominant na-
tions is difficult because of the dif-
ferences in English and American

Plan'

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Continued from Page Three |







contained the recognition of the|
married



|essential posit of
democracies and between these and| women; and th§provision of fu-| “Leave it to the Chinese”

Russian Communism, although the |neral benefits for all except those |
latter, he says, has achieved more | over 60 “who are supposed to have |
historical realism under Stalin. ‘already made plang.”

The importance of religio-moral | Finances for the plan, she con- |
checks in a world peace plan was| tinued, will include payments by |
stressed by Dr. Niebuhr. Com-| employer, employee, and the state. |
munity prestige represents this | ‘Unemployment and disability are
type of check in the intra-national ! already being paid for unconscious-
society. Here the conscience of | ly,” quoted Miss Fry from the Re-’
those in power is an important! port, “why not make it conscious?”
factor in prestige. Power is not|An immense national loss will be
desired by those with many scru-



diminished, she added, since a
ples, whereas those in power are! “larger distribution of wealth _re-
apt to ease their consciences. Dr. | sults in obliging everyone to buy
Niebuhr would like to see “power! first things first; health, security,
with an uneasy conscience.” and subsistence for all.”





Poll Shows Views on

Post-War Reconstruction



Continued from Page Three

Given economic aid

problem of our
our allies after the war.

—.'; people are of .the opinion that

“Russia is going to be a problem”

and that “we may eventually have

to fight Russia.” The majority of
students are in favor of co-opera-

tion with the Allies, however. A
list follows of all the opinions re-
garding this question.
Russia
UGOWSPATION iii se oe eas
Friendly, but not too close. “ye 23
MUUIOUR Cosy os ee ‘a
THOSG GOAN Catal ©... AS; 20
OMe BIOS co oc Gs 10
Economic coordination ..,.... 2%
Have much to learn from Rus-
SIO Serres Cl. ‘
Don’t let her spread Commu-
PIGM Soa ee oe
UTS (PRNe a a
No anti-Communist feeling... 4
China
Aid in rehabilitation .......,. 62
COOROPRCI 2 bain ee aes 85
Prema BS OGUB) . og civics 35
PN i is iw ks is pass 10
CHORE INIANOR 5 aks coer is 24
Economie coordination ....... 21
NO GxplOmwatIOn: :....74.066 6.5. 15
Can learn from China ....... 6
Cease 4
Bree Ueade fo ee: 4
England
Cpe 73
Friendly, but not more than
with other nations ......... 30
SUrOne Wilinhce oe re 16
Same as before war ..:;...... 19

Greater economic coordination 19



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clear, thé maids’ and porters’ car-
nival given in Taylor basement on
February 4 was a great success.
We were especially attracted by
| the fishing—it was so ingeniously
| arranged! For a five’ cent ticket
| one could catch a very small fish
(minnow,* perhaps), for a ten cent
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| Make them free India ....... 5
| Release colonies”............. 38
L RAMEe BONES cis sbi cc eis 3

| Only constructive criticism.... 4
| Free trade
Federal union
Fourteen people were in favor

of a League with policing, while
| 10 favored merely a League of Na-
| tions, and a League for World
| Peace received two votes in the

| Continued on Page Five



Have tea before an

| Open Fire

| at the
COMMUNITY KITCHEN

Lancaster Avenue

Maybe it was that chocolate cake
Controversies also arose over the | —Maybe it was just that we are
attitude towards | ever susceptible to having our for-

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instance. Then there was the fa-
tally fascinating Bryn Mawr Post
Office.

a letter to anyone in the room, an
additional three cents being col-
lected on delivery! The Bingo
table also attracted a large crowd
composed of maids, porters, and
students. One of the most suc-
cessful prizes was a tremendous
plaster Mickey Mouse. Oh, yes,
we mustn’t forget those fortunes
we had told . . . Mme. Tellemask
and Mme. Cordoba, aided by a
deck‘ of cards, informed us of
many extremely interesting things
concerning our past, present and
future. And issuing forth with
that certain optimistic outlook on
life, we ended with a hot dog an
evening gloriously begun on choco-
late cake.

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| Gods in Middle Ages



WIT *%S EWN D Continued frem Page One
was a microcism within the macro-
Written on the anniversary of the cosm, and the different parts of his
realization that BMC is a i body were subject to and identified
thinking unit | with the ‘planets.

The- gods suffered much interpre-
tation through moral allegéries;
,continued M. Seznec. As Rabelais
teens. Thé war has so affected my | said, the Middle Ages drew from
choice of major that I changed the Metamorphoses all the sacra- |

from chemistry to the literature ments of the Evangel. M. Seznec |

of the last century of the Assyrian. showed a picture of three young |

Empire or who killed King Tut. | girls in a garden, accompanied by |
Strictly off the record, my opinion|® Young man whose dilemma it |
of the faculty is (you had better, W@S to choose among them. These |
d ink) and I might ‘three represented separately vo- |

add anybody who would. give such | !uptuousness (Venus), the active |
life (Juno), the life of contempla- |

a mark. Now, for two free-copies | |
I would tell you what I think about tion (Pallas). |
the room service. Our religion is | But especially

strengthened to such a degree that W&Te the forms under which the |
gods lived. They were divided into |





: : |
I am a Ceramics major and plan '
to boil beans in stage door can-



print this in re

we play “Nocturnal Offbeat” after |

Poll Shows. Views on |

Post-War Reconstruction |

Continued from lage Four

Japanese-American Girl,
Comes to Bryn Mawr as New Sophomore

Recently Interned,



|

séctions “Remarks.” Five people |

voted for internationalism, four | a
| 1943 is already remarkable at
for free trade and two’ for eco- |

nomic union. | Bryn Mawr. It has seen the ad-

The reasons for students want-|mittance of transfers and Fresh-

By Alison Merrill, °45

jing~an~A.B. proved to be many |men at the end of the first semes-

and varied also. One hundred want | tap.
a degree for education’s sake, while |
95 deem it essential in order to get
a job.. Seven want one in order to |
get higher degrees, six for pres-| and a half years at the University
tige, three for self-respect and two

| Her
SARE H RECT Ren SER T eeee fi n shan | ; ;
for their parents sake. Ten stu-/ education was interrupted by the
dents are uncertain as to ‘their |

|
: es | war and the internment of all Jap-
purpose in obtaining the degree. |

There were only three students | 27eS¢-
who opposed liberal arts education, | confined in a camp near Salt Lake
two of these are English majors

| City, Utah.

Among the new arrivals is
Marguerite Nosé,.a girl of Japan-
ese parentage, coming from two

of California in Berkeley.

With her family she was

Praising the treat-

‘ l« ‘ ities ainr © =I { ; oO ' . .
extraordinary | and one a polities major. Because | ment of those in the camps, she ‘given in “such

99

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of the war students have emphasized the cooperation of the
changed their majors from other | Japanese, many of whom had sac-

can girl are nothing new to Mar-
guerite Nosé. Arriving in Bryn
Mawr a week ago after making
the long trip from a town in Utah
where Bryn Mawr was unheard of,

\
she expected the East “would be



every meal.

We will either win or lose this
war with the result of either pros-
perity or utter depression. In this
short space I cannot tell you what
I think about the government, but
it will be.either in the hands of
the lower, middle or upper classes.
I think Germany, Italy and Japan
should be wiped off the face of the

earth; with all due consideration |

of their integrity as individuals.
- Our relations with Russia, China
and England should be friendly,
but not too friendly, for there is
no chance of improvement after
the war unless we have an inter-
national world state.

My life has been seriously af-
fected by the war.- I’m now forced
to take sugar in my coffee and buy
more than one pair of shoes every
four years. I am planning to take
the new course in Reconstruction
of Samoa or Can Antartica Really
be Inhabited. All my friends are
either getting married, getting de-
fense jobs, going to school, or giv-
ing their all. I haven’t read a
book that hasn’t been required for
a course for three years, but I
hope to read Moby Dick soon. My
favorite hymn is “Throw Out the
Lifeline,” and liberal arts educa-
tion should definitely be continued
or how else can one broaden one’s
outlook.

WHAT TO DO

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced that
there is an urgent need for junior
engineers. Women college gradu-
ates with a degree in any field
may qualify for these positions.
See Civil Service announcement
No. 281 posted in Taylor. Engi-
neering draftsmen are also needed
and students will be eligible after
taking a short, tuition-free course
sponsored by the government. See
Civil Service announcement No.
288, also posted.

There is still a great demand
for more college women to take
nursing training and training in
health education.

Chemists are wanted by the Cel-
anese Corporation, the National
Union Radio Corporation, and the
Parker Pen Company. The Bell
Telephone Laboratories need Math-
ematics, Physics, and Chemistry
majors; and the United States
Steel Corporation wants students
who have specialized in Mathe-
matics or Economics.

The Fidelity Union Trust Com-
pany in Trenton is interested in
college graduates who want to go
into the banking field. The Fidel-
ity and Casualty Company of New
York has openings for examiners.

The Radio and Radar Division
of the War Production Board has
announced openings for students,
preferably Economics and Mathe-
matics majors. Applicants should
plan to take the Junior Profes-
sional Assistant examination.

N. W. Ayer and Son, Philadel-
phia, have openings in their pro-
duction: department which provide
a means of learning about adver-
tising. A representative will be
on the campus early in. March to
see students who are interested.





| two big groups dependent. on two | subjects to Latin, English, French, | rificed ‘successful businesses for
' different manners of transmission. | Spanish, History of Art, Philoso-
| There were those who had an orig-' phy, History, Politics, Economics,

| . . !
|inal image for model, and those |
whose source was merely an an- |
| |
|

|

cient text.
Although the Carolingians pre- |

Psychology, and Chemistry.
Twenty-eight girls already have

jobs for this summer, while 129

plan to get them, and 38 do not

served the classical type with great | want jobs at all.

| purity, the Arab copyists of illus-
jtrated Greek and Latin manu- |
|scripts knew no mythology, and |
| Were interested only in the scien- |
| tific context of what they saw.
| They copied Hercules with great
fidelity, but put him in a Turkish |

habit; Perseus was imitated care-

Continued on Page Six

In Print

North Window Shows Sharp
Imagery and Exploration

Of Reality







By Mariam Kreiselman, °44

North Window, a volume of
poetry by Hortense Flexner, a for-
mer student and teacher of modern
poetry at Bryn Mawr, will be pub-
lished on Februarv —

In the poem from which the
book takes its title, Miss Flexner





‘describes a window “landscaped |
iwith frost and zippered fast with
| ice ;

“Where thoughts explore as mice
Reality or a disabled chair.”

In this poem we see some of the
startling imagefy that contributes
to the beauty and success of much
of her work. Rather than music
and ambiguity, Miss Flexner’s
poems manifest sharp impacts,
concentrated pictures of ideas,
such as in Strength of the Orches-
tra:

“They are cracking the stars
Like walftuts.”

Throughout the book the author’s
thoughts do explore reality, but
certainly not as mice. She has
brought life “down to a question
‘and a frown” through a marked
philosophic and scientific point of
| view. She looks on the mechanized
world of the moderns as a place
where man because of his blind-
ness is complacent, where the soul
is often only a “bright nerve”,
where love can be but a formula.
Yet she is aware that there has
been “black chaos in earth’s blood.”
And an ironic sense of humor, as
in the following, prevents her po-
etry from being bitter: in a dream
she saw herself as



“A soul in the traffic of souls
Looking blindly for a trifle that
has escaped me
A dog—my purse—my life.”

Intellectuality is the predomi-
nating tone of the book. It is
with her mind and not with her
blood stream that Miss- Flexner
always looks on life. Even when

do so directly. In Conditional we.
see the theory that if reason were
all that the nationalists claim, we
could dispense with grief and all
of the “soul’s loud talk.” In an-
other poem_she says symbolically

she discusses emotion, she does not’:





Continued on Page Six

One hundred seventy-eight stu-
dents are in agreement with their
family on political subjects, and
74 até*not. One hundred forty-six
are in agreement with their fami-
lies on social problems while 105
are not.

There are many varied opinions
concerning the effect the war will
have on the world—77 people be-
lieve that internationalism will re-
sult, bringing with it an interna-
tional state in Europe with greater
economic coordination. Fifty-four
students think that there will be
a more “socialized rise of the com-
mon man” and a leveling of in-
comes.



Erich Frank Discusses
Religion and Science



Continued trom rage One
through theoretical reasoning be-
cause he is simultaneously the sub-
ject and object of his thinking. He
must rise above reality in order to
see himself objectively. It is in
moments of inevitability, such as
death, that he sees his true limi-
tations and dependence on an ob-
jective force. He realizes that his
fate is controlled by the exigencies
of history and the circumstances
of the situation into which he is
born.

It is only by accepting these
limits and contending with them
that man matures and grows, that
he recognizes his dependence on
a higher power. He sees his rela-

‘tion to a Truth which transcends

him, and this realization is re-
ligion. Religion is quite apart
from the truths of science and they
will not clash, for the truths of
science serve as a background to
those of religion. Man must un-
derstand the essence and not the
accidental connotations of religious
truth. Therefore, religion imposes
the task of interpretation upon
the philosopher.





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| which they had “worked hard” for
'more than twenty years in this
;country. Most of the boys have
| volunteered for the Army and are
| now seeing active service. “Every-
| one,” said Marguerite, “is working
hard to make the camp go.” They
haul their own coal, mend fences,
and do other jobs for themselves
so that the ordinary laborers may
be used elsewhere. There is “no

mumbling.” The Japanese-Ameri-
cans feel that it ‘“couldn’t be
helped.” They are all happy and

“very busy.”
College and the typical Ameri-

It
i isn’t, she finds., People are just as

so different, so glamorous.”

; friendly, particularly the girls on

‘campus. Marguerite commented



on the “many, nice-looking girls
| on the campus,” and admired the
| traditions of Bryn Mawr, though
{the prospect of two orals worried
| her. The academic work at Bryn
; Mawr impresses her, in that it is
a concentrated
| form.”

| Enrolled as a Sophomore, Mar-
| guerite plans to major in Sociology
|'and use it to help in post-war
‘reconstruction in Japan, where she
feels she can be of greatest value
because of her knowledge of the
jlanguage. The need, says Mar-
guerite, who is herself an Ameri-
can citizen, for reconstruction and
re-education there will be great.

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Survival of Ancient

Gods in Middle Ages

Continued from Page Five

ully, but since they knew nothing
about Medusa ‘and her snakes they
mistook the head which Perseus
carried in his hand for that of a
bearded demon. Later, when the
Arabs invaded Sicily and Spain,
the occident. got. back its-gods;-ori-
entalized.
arose when in 1250 A. D. Michael
Seott, who was to have great influ-
ence over fourteenth century Italy,
classified the gods and their at-
tributes, using for source a com-
bination of an Arab magic book
and a Babylonian translation. The
ancient classical gods (as_ seen
through Arabic eyes) acquired
some of the attributes of the gods
of ancient Babylon..

Again, these representations of
the gods differ."from those whose
sources were merely ancient texts.
Gods were fabricated after descrip-
tions. There was a twelfth cen-



tury London manuscript which de- |

scribed minutely. all the -particu-
lars of the different gods.- This
manuscript left its mark on minia-
tures, sculptures, tapestries, and
influenced poets such as Petrarch
and Chaucer.

M. Seznee showed the havoc
which one word ill-read or ill-
translated could play. Hercules’
lion skin in time became a real
lion. The harpies in hell became
harps. Andromeda was mistaken
for a dromedary.

M. Seznec came to Harvard last
year, and is associate professor of
French there. Previously he taught
at the Institute Francaise in Flor-
ence. He is also on the staff of
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in
New York City.

7

Even greater confusion |



| JN PRINT



ee ;
| Continued from Page Five

| that only the ignorant know fear;
|and it is only they that have a
| “vague emotional affinity.”

| . Most-poets with a similar view

iof life, with the view ‘that God |

| might _be thinking about-the-world,
'“But perhaps this is the wrong

approach” (as she says in The
‘Querry), seek some escape. They
| go to past beauty or to the beauty
, that has not come into existence.
|Miss Flexner, however, is neither
' Michael Rabartes nor Stephen De-
'dalus. She seeks no escape. She
ifaces death, as she does life, and
‘ realizes, in Belief, that the bee
| dies within a few weeks, still un-
| satiated, “believing that flowers
{are eternal.” She considers God
'a genius, although she considers
|God only imaginatively, to have
| thought of death as the neat solu-
| tion to the-problem. of life.

Method and Sound Seed exem-
| plify her ideas of a postive nature.
| Their theme is that with a cosmic
view, not admitting the limitations
| of intelligence, we have.seen only
|“chips of perfection.” We should
put ignorance aside, let “beauty
be mislaid’”; we should deal with
the one permanent thing,

“And learn—not of the planets in
their stations

But of the fruit-fly in its genera-
tions.”

In summary, we have found

artistically expressed, and
lectually sound volume

one interested in the melody and
harmony of thought.



North Window to be a stimulating,
intel-
which |
should prove to be of value to any- |

THE COLLEGE NEWS

: COMPULSORY



ASSEMBLIES? _



Civil Service



Pro

Continued from Page Two

| generation will rise more readily
{and maturely to. its responsibili-
ties. The most important point is
the shortness of the time that is
left to us in which to deal with
lthe material at hand.

Therefore, we believe that we
must be exposed in a way that is
inescapable, to interesting, infor-
mative discussion of subjects which
will enable us to meet more intelli-
gently the problems that are daily
arising and that will crop up with
increasing frequency in the future.
' It has been said that we will
| approach such talks with partially,
| if not completely, closed minds sim-
| ply because our attendance is com-
| pulsory. It is to be remembered
| that we do not advocate compul-
'sion by the college administration,
‘but by the students themselves
through a vote. Although this is
not a strictly true parallel, no one
will deny that much is learned
from daily course lectures, to which
attendance is compulsory. Perhaps
a better parallel is presented by
required courses. Despite a little
rebellion against them, it is gen-

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gals
To come to the aid of a
| party.
| Send a Valentine—and he'll
| be thine

|
| If you buy it from

RICHARD STOCKTON







|



Miss Padgett of the United
States Civil Service Commis-
sion will be at the College
Thursday afternoon through
Saturday morning to give
students the latest informa-
tion about jobs with the Civil
Service. Interviews will
start at 2 o’clock Thursday
afternoon in the office of the
Bureau of Recommendations
on the second floor o{ Taylor.
A schedule of appointments
is posted on the bulletin
board outside this office, and
students are asked to come
with groups of those inter-
ested in the same thing.

Con

Continued from Page Two

the assembly without antagonizing |

them. The conflict which will arise |

over the enforcement of attendance |

will destroy the entire value of
the lectures.

B-b:-Ws;44-—--+



erally agreed that philosophy, for
example, is worht while.

We are not sure that compul-
sory assemblies will awaken the
extensive war consciousness that
is needed. We do know that this
educational, stimulative medium
has not yet been tried.

Wehave not intended to create |
the impression that all stands or
falls with ‘Bryn Mawr.. Fortu-
nately this is not true, nor is it
true of any such microscopic unit
in the world. But then, the whole
is the sum of its parts.

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