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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 |





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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- |
| |
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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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