College news, March 22, 1944

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VOL. XL, NO. 20 "

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1944

Copyright, 1 rustees of
Bryn Mawr Calleve, 1944

PRICE 10 CENTS





Fisher Proposes

U.S. Participation

In Education Aims
United States Must Plan

For Foreign Students
‘After War

Goodhart, March 21. The most
important obligations of the
United States in Educational Re-
construction, stated Dr. Edgar J.
Fisher, are to support and partic-
ipate in an international education-
al otganization and to welcome the
great number of foreign students
who plan to come to this country
after the war.

Assistant Director of the Insti-
tute of International Education,
Dr. Fisher said that an interna-
tional educational agency should
be set up within the framework of
a world-wide political organization
of nations after the war. The
states in this organization would
be on an equal basis. Each would
be represented by an internation-
ally minded personnel which would
present the interests of both pri-
vate and public education. The ad-
ministration, Dr. Fisher continued,
would be democratic and free from
any political pressure.

Countries in need of aid must
not be coerced, but must choose
their own methods and techniques
in education. They should be en-
couraged to teach the economic,
political and moral relationships
Cig Taught largely by
native pérsonnel, the schools, Dr.
Fisher stated, should emphasize

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Elements in History
- Discussed by Parkes

go

Radnor, March 16. “While the
rational elements in human _be-
havior have usually been _ inter-
preted as causes of historical
events”, said Mr. Henry Bamford
Parkes in his lecture on “Irration-
al Elements in History,” “the
modern trend is to stress the psy-
ehological factors involved.

There are three predominant
human irrationalities which have
eaused the present world state,
Mr. Parkes pointed out. They are:
frustration, inability of the indi-
vidual to mature completely, and
finally the “vicious circle” arising
from the fear of the ruling classes
that they will be dominated.

Any frustration leads to the
impulse of aggression, Mr. Parkes



stated.. This impulse, when not
penlyg@expressed, often finds an
outlet gh the manifestation
of ag ion against an object

not the original cause of the frus-
tration. This Mr. Parkes desig-
nated as irrational human behav-
jour, citing the intolerance against
racial minority groups as an out-
standing example.

Many people regress in some
way to an infantile level, Mr.
Parkes noted. The need for a dic-
tator can be compared with the
need of a child for a father, or
father-image. If a child lacks the
security upon which he relies, a
sense of ill and resentment re-
sults. On the other hand, the
simultaneous hostility and obed-
ience felt by a child towards a par-
ent is parallel to a nation’s emo-
tion towards a dictator. A thwart-
ed child and a thwarted people re-
act in the same way; neither can
express resentment directly and

‘ both. find another means of ex-

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Wilcox Will Present
Problem of Inflation
At Alliance Assembly



Clair Wilcox, Professor of
Economics at Swarthmore College,
will present the eighth in the ser-
ies of War Alliance assemblies on
current affairs on Wednesday, at-
tempting to answer the question,
Can We Prevent Inflation?

Serving most recently as Direc-
tor of the Material Division of the
OPA. in 1942-48, Dr. Wilcox has
a distinctive record of service in
Washington on various economic
committees. Connected with the,
NRA, Dr. Wilcox was a member
of the Advisory Council for the
administration, as well as Consult-
ing Economist of the Social Se-
curity Board in 1936.

Economic Expert

Dr. Wilcox also served as eco-
nomic expert for the Temporary
National Economic Council in
1939-40, writing their monograph
on Competition and Monopoly in
American Industry.

Having taken his B. S. and Ph.D.
at the University of Pennsylvania,
Dr. Wilcox received his M. A. at
Ohio State College in 1922, becom-
ing assistant professor of Econ-
omics first at Ohio Wesleyan, then
at Swarthmore. Dr. Wilcox has
held a full professorship at
Swarthmore since 1931.

Once a contributing editor to
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dr.
Wilcox has written books on the
following subjects: economic in-
equality, public control of business,
rate limital and the general prop-
erty tax, and the parole of adults.
He served as_ secretary of the
State Parole Commission of Penn-
sylvania, 1926-27, and as director
of the National Commission of
Law Observance and Enforcement.



Dr. Theodore Greene
Finds Religious Faith
Intellectually Honest



Concluding that religious be-
lief can be intellectually honest
provided it is used to make up the
deficiencies in our knowledge, Dr.
Theodore M. Greene, McKosh pro-
fessor of philosophy at Princeton,
conducted the first of a series of
discussions on philosophy and re-
ligion.

Calling knowledge and faith
complementary, Dr. Greene ex-
plained their relation to religion.

nowledge is made up of a com-

bination of observation and inter-
pretation, and an amalgamation
of*corporate and individual effort.
Dr. Greene cited Kant’s. dictum:
“Concepts without precepts are
empty, precepts without concepts
are blind.” To be of value, obser-
vation, awareness of the facts,
must be combined with an inter-
pretation of these facts, but the
interpretation is worthless without
a factual basis.

To be complete, knowledge must
include a combination of the work
of individuals and groups. Pro-
gress in science, for example, can
only be achieved through individ-
ual experimentation, but to be
useful these experiments must be
based on the achievements of oth-
ers. It is impossible for the indi-
vidual scientist to verify all the
discoveries made in the past,
therefore he must take their con-
clusions on trust and proceed on
his own.

“Faith is an attitude of accept-
ance sufficient for action but not
wholly supported by knowledge”,
said Dr. Greene. It must be ac-
cepted that man cannot know ev-
erything and that every action he
makes is irrevocable. The impulse
which leads man to take action

Continueu on Page 4



Message from Chaos Leads Miss Stapleton
To Chaotic Adventures But Satisfying Tea



By April Oursler,’ 46
It all began when Miss Staple-
ton opened her morning mail one
day last week, and found the fol-
lowing epistle:

Our dear Miss Stapleton,

We have learned from reliable sources
(1) that we have the two most confused
minds on campus. We regret this and as
a teacher whose interest lies in the direct-
ing of Young Minds, you should be grief-
stricken (Hic). (2) For that reason, and
also because we have wanted to meet you
since our palmella stage, we thought you
might be interested in joining us in tea.
(3) We will provide the food, and you
will provide the light.

(Signed)
Chaos, Chaos. (4)
P.S. Character recommendations can be
‘had’ on request, but better not request.
(5)
Footnotes: 1; Dean’s Office:
2. We have often wondered what
means.
3, FOr

9117.
4. An amoeba, order Amoebida, Family

Amoebida, genus Amoebida.

5. Same as 1. :
6. Confused, aren’t we?

Miss Stapleton, being a straight-
forward sort of person, went im-
mediately to the root of the mat-
ter, and called the number given
in Footnote 3, asking quite solemn-
ly, as usual, “Is Chaos there?”
Whereupon the maid politely re-
plied, “Just a minute,” and left in
search of the wanted party, re-
turning rather soon to ask for the
spelling of that name. Slowly and
carefully Miss Stapleton spelled it
out: “C-H-A-O-S”; the maid held
a serious consultation with some
mysterious power, answered equal-
ly slowly and carefully, “I'm very

this

further information call B. M.

that name.” However, Miss Sta-
pleton, being a wise and knowing
woman, asked that a note be left
on the mail table reading merely:
“Miss S. called up and asked for
chaos.” As the maid dutifully
read back the message over the
phone. Chaos arrived with a-shriek
to answer the phone herself, ex-
plaining that she hoped there were
no hurt feelings, and would she
please come to tea, in spite of the
confusion.

Matters might have rested there,
except for the fact that the amoe-
bic Chaoses began to quiver in
their boots, and sought refuge in
Miss Gardiner who assured them

and, incidentally, a dean, she
would never desert them in their
hour’ of need. That night Miss
Stapleton ‘again answered the
phofie to be confronted with a
small voice identifying herself as
“the other Chaos,” and asking that
ithe tea be postponed two days as
they felt the need of “two lucid
minds from the Dean’s Office” and
Mrs. Manning and Miss Gardiner
would join them at that later date.

The great day came. Miss Sta-
pleton timidly entered the hall, un-
greeted and unsung, and crept
down the corridors, peering at the
doors, until she found the sign:
“Chaos, Chaos.” Then, as she
said, “Feeling myself called upon

the campus, I entered with the
Chaos and Ancient Knight. I come





that as head of their department,

to enlighten the confused minds of |

Board of Directors

Approve Change

In Self-Gov’t Constitution and Rules





Calendar

Thursday, March 23
Spring Vacation begins.
Tuesday, April 4
Spring Vacation ends.
Deferred Examinations begin.
Wednesday, April 5
Clair Wilcox, Can We Prevent
Inflation? Goodhart, 12:30.
Inauguration of College Of-
ficers, Goodhart, 7:30. .
Saturday, April 8
Deferred Examinations end.
Sunday, April 9
Rev. John R. Hart, Chapel,
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, April 10
Thomas Yakhub, Indian Phil-
osophy. Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, April 11 |
Current Events,
Room, 7:15.
Wednesday, April 12
Thomas Yahkub, Landmarks
of Indian Religion and
Thought, Goodhart, 8:30.
College Council, the Deanery,
6:00.

Common







Dargan Jones Given
Traveling Fellowship
For Medieval Studies



Alice Dargan Jones, Bryn Mawr
fellow in medieval studies, has
been chosen by the faculty to re-
ceive the Fanny Bullock Workman
Fellowship for the coming year.

Miss Jones is writing her thesis
on Classical and Medieval Concep-
tions of the Golden Age. It is prin-
cipally a discussion of how the
Golden Age is described in class-
ical Latin poetry as compared to
what it becomes in medieval liter-
ature. Miss Jones plans to use the
award, ordinarily a foreign fellow-
ship, for further study at Harvard,

Now the Senior Resident in
Radnor, Miss Jones has been the
fellow in medieval studies for two
years. She received her A. B. from
Bryn Mawr in 1941, and her M. A.
from the University of Chicago in
1942. :

Seven Colleges Meet
To Discuss Problems



The theory of Self-Government



and that of cooperative work on,
campus are the most important
topics to be discussed at the Sev-!
en College Conference to be held
‘at Wellesley on March 26th and
27th.

Held yearly by Vassar, Smith,
Radcliffe, Barnard, Swarthmore, |
Wheaton, and Bryn Mawr, the
conference meets to discuss com-|
mon campus problems. Each year
a guest college is invited; this
year’s has not as yet been an-|
nounced. Kay ‘Tappen, Patricia
St. Lawrence, Harji Malik and Vir-
ginia Thomas will represent Bryn
Mawr.

the delegates will meet Miss Wil-
son, Wellesley’s Dean of Students
and-Mrs. Ewing, Dean of Resi-
dence, on Saturday night and on
Sunday they will discuss the pro-
posed agenda informally. This
exchange views is particularly
helpful dwe to the fact that the
seven Middle Atlantic States’ col-
leges taking part are of the same
general type as far as size and or-
~ — Comtinsiéd on Page 4





In the two days of conference} .

New Rules Become Effective
Immediately After Spring ¢
Vacation



The...Board.--of--Directorsin- its
meeting on Thursday, March 16,
approved all changes in the Self-

Government Constitution and
rules which were voted upon in
mass meetings as well as_ those

voted upon in hall meetings last
week. The latter included. the
addition of a new article, amend-
ments to four existing articles,
and three’ resolutions. These
changes will become effective im-
mediately after spring vacation.

The addition to the
tion which will become Section
VIII of Articles VI provides for
4 reconsideration of the rules ev-
ery four years by either the legis-
lature or a special committee. It
was passed 369 to 7. A vote of 350
to 80 changed the number of mem-
bers constituting a quorum from
one third to three fifths (Article
VI, Section I).

The Editor of the College News
and the President of the War Al-
liance were voted, 367 to 21, to
become members of the Legisla-
ture. Section VI of the same ar-
ticle was changed to provide for
one week’s notice of a meeting and
forty-eight hours’ notice of the
business to be discussed. A vote
of 374 to 9 passed it. By a vote
of 378 to 4 Section VI of Article
VI was changed to require a sim-
ple majority vote in the presence
of a quorum to assure the validity
of a vote.

Students voted 207 to 160
against keeping the _ resolution
prohibiting permission later than
12:15 on Sunday nights..The res-
olution permitting wearing of ath-
letic costume off campus in direc-
tions other than the village was
passed 361 to 4. The resolutions
permitting the Executive and Ad-
visory Boards to confiscate radios
and victrolas and requiring at.
least two students to go to Saun-
der’s Barn during the day will be
omitted. The votes were 346 to 21
respectively.

Although there was a clear ma-
jority in favor of changing the
figures in Article VIII, Sections 1
and 2 of Article XI from two-
thirds to three-fifths failure of a
sufficient number of members to
vote prevented their ratification.

18th Model Assembly
Sets Up Commissions



The Eighteenth Model Assembly
to be held at Bryn Mawr from
March 30 to April 1 will consist
of the following commissions: Po-
litical, World. Economic Collabor-

| ation, Relief. and Rehabilitation,

and Educational Reconstruction.

|The plan of discussion for each

commission has been outlined by
the conference.
The colleges now planning to
send delegates are: Adelphi, Bar-
nard, Beaver, Brooklyn, Bucknell, ~
University of Buffalo, City Col-
lege of New York, Colgate, Cor-
nell, Haverford, Hunter, Lafayette,
Long Island University, Loyola,
Nazareth, New York University,
Queens, University of Pennsylva-
nia, Princeton, Rosemont, Sarah
Lawrence, Swarthmore, Wilson,
St. Lawrence, and Bryn Mawr.
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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Fost Office







Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912



Responsibility ?

Ever since December there has been a bandage-rolling
unit on campus. 100 people registered with the Alliance at
the beginning of the year, pledging themselves to roll band-
ages one night a week. Since then, no more than five people
have turned up at a time.

Meanwhile, the Alliance has definitely announced that
next year Bryn Mawr will have its own Red Cross Unit, to
organize activities, and to give the students an opportunity
to take Red Cross courses. This will present the college with
a greater opportunity for active participation in the war ef-
fort, for the students to give a minimum of one hour a week
to a truly constructive outside activity. But the Alliance has
presented an almost equal opportunity this year, and less
than 20% of the bandage-rollers were willing to carry out
their responsibility.

Such a deficiency can be easily rationalized._It-can be
said that if students had been made to register for a definite
hour a week confusion and vagueness would have been elim-
inated, that if the activities had been more consistently and
positively publicized by the members of the Alliance, and
more emphasis placed first on attendance, then on the need
for regularity in the work, the campus might have responded
and the project succeeded. But this does not hit at the root
of the matter. re

Two nights a week, from 7:30 to 10:00, there has been
someone in the May Day room in charge of bandage rolling.
Supplies have always been present. Unlike the majority of
the units, Bryn Mawr was given a dispensation not limiting

it to a quota of prepared bandages; the Red Cross declared it-

self willing to supply all.the necessary materials in exchange
for.whatever amount the campus felt capable of preparing.

Admittedly, this year’s system was not perfect. Next
year’s, with the introduction of a Red Cross Unit actually on
campus, will be better organized ; supplies ‘will be easier to
obtain, and there will be a more definite working relation-
ship between Bryn Mawr and the Ardmore unit. But im-
provement in system with only a 20% response from the col-
lege will have no better success. ~

It is up to us to take our responsibility in this matter
seriously and earnestly. One hour a week is a sacrifice of
perhaps seven hands of bridge, or five cigarettes—a rather
small minimum. We are all tired of being asked whether we

~ know there is a war on, but not only is there a war on, there

is a war to be won. Not only are we members of an intellec-
tual community, we are in some measure members of a na-
tional and international community. We were willing to sign
up for a definite activity but not willing to take the resposi-
bility of going ahead with it.

Self Gov’t Elections

The Self Government Associ-
ation takes pleasure in announc-
ing the following elections:

Vice-President: Mary Jean



Undergrad Elections
The Undergraduate Associa-

tion announces the election of

the following officers:
Vice-President: Mary Cox, ’45.











Hayes, °’45. eng Secretary: Patricia. Behrens,
Secretary: Elizabeth Potter, "46.

46. Treasurer: Cristobel Locke,
Treasurer: Nicole Pleven, "47, *47.













College Not Doing Share
° In Buying War Bonds
Says Snyder



In the typical month of Febru-
ary, only 64% of Bryn Mawr’s.533
students contributed to the War
Savings collection. The total
amount collected was, as usual,
somewhat over $1000 (exactly
$1048.15). But that is no reason
for congratulations, when we re-

“alize that 36% of the campus did

not’buy”even’a’’$0:10~stamp.:

The War Savings agents in every
hall have worked conscientiously
to reach every person and solicit a
contribution, Their function is to
make regular War Savings conven-
ient, and to remind students of
War Savings at least once a
month. They cannot force a per-
son to contribute who-has not al-
ready decided to do so. And, be-
fore you decide to invest regularly
in War Savings, you must have
recognized that it is a primary re-
sponsibility for those sitting on
tthe sidelines of the war to sacrifice
time and money toward winning
the war of arms and winning the
fight against inflation.

One More Stamp

Some of those students who do
not contribute to Bryn Mawr’s
program are doing it elsewhere.
But a great part of the others do
not give because when time for
collection comes, they find they
“just haven’t a cent left—Look, I
have just enough carfare to get
home!” They have not decided to
make war-sacrifice a regular part
of their budgets; they invest if
they “have any left,” after tea,
weekend expenses, and that extra
sweater are paid for. This is not
wartime-thinking, this is “business
as usual!’

Perhaps it is not sufficiently
clear that each individual’s small
contribution or small increase in
contribution definitely matters. An
additional $0.25 from each person
would result in an additional
$125.00 over the whole campus.
$0.25 less from you and everyone
else who is finding it hard to
stretch her allowance means
$125.00 less altogether.

Need for Bonds
I think very few deny the vital

importance of our people’s giving

strong financial support to this
fighting nation and its fighting
men, But it is not so generally
recognized that, preventing infla-

‘ition: and its subsequent agony of

depression is as important to the
soldier and his family and all of
us as our buying a gun for him.
to carry. To keep prices from
skyrocketing is not the job of the
other fellow, or of the man whose
income ‘has. increased since the
war. It is a simple fact that con-
sumers’ goods have decreased in
volume and become inferior in
quality. If we make practically no
effort to cut our pre-war demand
for goods, if we continue to buy
just about what we have been ac-
customed to, we force great price
rises which promise ruin. How
well are we accepting the chal-
lenge to us as free, intelligent di-
rectors of our country’s fate, given
the choice of voluntary present
sacrifice to purchase future well-
being?

In the 11 halls and the Non-
Resident group, those who contrib-
uted in February ranged from 45%
of all who live in the small Span-
ish House through 54% and 55%
of all Non-Residents, of Merion,
and of Rockefeller, through 74%
and 75% of Pembroke East and
Pembroke West, and Rhoads South
to 90% of the ten undergraduates
in Radnor. The total amounts in-
creased—as organization of the
collection im proved— through

Princeton Men hiterested
In Contacting Girls
By Letter

———_——

Princeton, N. J.
March 16, 1944
Dear Friends,

We are writing about a subject
which may be of interest to you.
In tense wartime days the social
affairs of any men’s college are at
a low ebb. House parties, New
York weekends, and some other
means. of. relaxing. have almost. dis-
appeared from the college scene.
However, there are still fellows
left at Old Nassau. Some of us
are pre-medical students, some are
English, Psychology, or History
majors, some are going to be chem-
ists, some are future engineers.

Whatever our futures, at pres-
ent we are interested in writing to,
and perhaps meeting some nice
girls. We are all interested in
different things, and each of us
feels sure that there. is, in your
fair college, at least one girl whose
interests are the same as his own.
For this reason we have organized
and written this letter. We sug-
gest that you reply, giving full
particulars about your interests.
We will try to see that each girl
is contacted by a fellow who is
interested in approximately the
same things she, herself, is inter-
ested in.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

The Forgotten Men of Old Nassau
c/o 24 South West College
Princeton, N. J.



WIT*S END
Sing a-song of Physics,

A pocket full of rho,

Four and twenty Kmoles
Fluxing to and fro.

Don’t forget the farad,

A daraf down below;

Turn the ohm upside down
And then you have a mho.
When the furnace started,

The volts began to flow,

And frantic first-year physicists,
Oh, what we didn’t know!



We dream of charges and the ion
which first from rods of ebonite
came, under the spell of a red flan-
nel rag, to ocillographs, electro-
scopes, and electrostatic machines.
It, the-ion, now lives with all its
brothers and -sisters in the Power
Plant, whence it darts through the
filaments of: our electric light
bulbs. The question now arises:
how do you know the light will
turn on? ‘Since we are on such
unfriendly terms with the ion, we
lie awake and meditate on the
probability of the light’s not turn-
ing on when our alarm clock sum-
mons us at four A. M. to cram.
It’s’ absolutely logical, however,
that when we press the button, the
light must go on, because other-
wise there wouldn’t be any light
to illuminate the page on which
we learn what makes the light go
on.



$961.60 in November, $1033.85 in
December to $1152 for January’s
Fourth War Loan. February’s to-
tal fell to $1048.15 and March
would have hit an all-time low at
$843.30 had it not been rescued by
an extraordinary - order for a
$375.00 Bond.

The worth of any contribution
‘to the war effort can be measured
only by asking whether it is the
best we can do, the most we can
give. Well, is it? 7

Mary K. Snyder, Chairman of



War Alliance Bond Committee



; Mr. Pepinsky to Head

Chamber Music Group



A group of chamber music en-
thusiasts is forming this semester
under the direction of Mr. Abe
Pepinsky, who has been appointed
from Haverford College to lead
the orchestra and conduct chamber
music. Starting with a nucleus
of about fifteen people, Mr. Pep-
insky hopes to interest an even
larger number of students in
chamber music. .

The group now meets about
once a week, and is being divided
into trios, quartets, and quintets.
Mr. Flower of the Geology de-
partment is helping Mr. Pepinsky
with these divisions.

Great Masters

Music of the nigh praia
written for them rathef than for
the public, will. be played. The’
purpose of the group, Mr. Pepin-
sky said, is to “try to build up a
love of music through participa-
tion”. Besides those who play
the instruments, anyone who wish-
es may listen at the meetings.

Mr. Pepinsky was born in Gin-,
cinnati and attended the Cincin-
nati College of Music until he
was seventeen. Studying at the
University of Berlin from 1907
to 1911, he took his Ph.D in 19388
at the State University of Iowa
in psycho-physiological acoustics.
This work was done during a sab-
batical leave of absence from the
University of Minnesota, where
Mr. Pepinsky taught from 1913
to 1941. ‘

In 1941 he came to Swarthmore
College to the Bartel Research
Foundation to work on the gov-
ernment project for Watertown
Arsenal. He was next appointed
at Haverford to teach physics to
the meteorologists. At present,
he is teaching the basic engineers
and pre-medical students.

IN PRINT

‘Arrival and Departure’ Shows
Real Attempt at Solving
War Problems



Specially contributed by
Elizabeth Jones, ’46

At first glance, one might say
that Arthur Kgestler’s latest book,
Arrival and Departure, is simply
another war novel dealing with the
uninvited, the disinherited, the
flotsam in the vacuum between
war’s reality and the escape to
peace, and characterized only by
the choice of its people,. «»' |:

But Arrival and Departure, while
retaining the ingredients . of the
war novel, is more than.-that... -It
is‘an honest. attempt on the. part
of the author to reconcile aspects
of the present day world with be-
liefs that defy rationalization, an
attempt to establish a certain sort
of philosophy that will, perhaps,
mitigate the possibility of a second
‘lost generation’. It is a mani-
festation of the revolt against the
Huxleys, the Joyces that emerged
from the last war.

The author presents an interest-
ing assortment of characters:
Peter, the world’s symbol of re-
sistance and heroism, newly ar-
rived in Neutralia; Sonia, psychol-
ogist, a woman who reminded peo-
ple of a “ .<¢. survivor of an ex-
tinct race of Amazon women who
knew the secrets of magic—an ar-
chaic race of giant women—pro-
miscuous and maternal... ”;
Odette, French, completely lost
and not caring,-meeting life armed
with “After all—why not?”; An-
drew, the horribly maimed RAF
pilot; Bernard, the fanatic of the
New Order. The exact identifica-
tion of these people, their coun-
tries, does not matter.

The plot, insofar as it assumes
importance, deals with Peter’s ar-

Continued on Page 3










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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three







Five Years Ago

The College News,
March 15, 1939:

“In its.most recent money-mak-
ing project, the Theatre Workshop
Committee is proud to have hit
upon a pleasing and painless form
of extortion, expected to satisfy
any suppressed show-off complex-
es languishing on the campus.

On Friday night, April 6, an
Amateur Night will be held in
Goodhart, complete with judge,
gong, and prize for the winner.

So far the English Department
has shown the most initiative. Mr.
Sprague, supported by Miss Gar-
bat, ’41, will present Henry Field-
ings’ Tragedy of Tragedies, or the
Life and Death of Tom Thumb the
Great, (L1731), Act III, Scene I.
King Arthur ............... Miss Garbat
MFHOBE Scisccvinucc DOL. eprague

The properties required are one
blue light, one night shirt and one
knight’s shirt (armour)”.

Wednesday

* * * *

“Gymnasium, March 14—Miss
Petts’ dance students, both under-
graduate and alumnae, gave a re-
cital which included a varied range
of numbers. Miss Petts herself
danced Gluck’s Orpheus, a most
difficult piece of music for dancing.
She showed magnificent control of
her body, and the simplicity which
comes of studied restraint”.

* > & 8

“Common Room, March 11—The
Pembroke Dance, besides estab-
lishing a new tradition, provided a
sequel to the Freshman Animal
story.” It was “marred only by
the discovery of the Western Un-
ion boy’s understudy swimming in
the pink punch bowl. . A
soothing reflection, moral and hu-
manitarian, lies in the fact that
the fish survived quite well and
when restored to a cleaned aquar-
ium, swam almost as usual. The
dancers, however, continued to
drink the punch, unchanged. One
of them is now in the Infirmary”.

Y oe oe

“The French Club will present
Les-Perles_de la Couronne, a-mov-
ie with and by Sacha Guitry on
Saturday, March 18.”

* * * *

“Emily Cheney, new editor-in-
chief of the College News, has had
litle previous experience. As far
as she can remember, she has held
no elective office, ever.

Emily is an obscure and incom-
plete girl. She has no eyelashes
or middle name, and still lacks
three front teeth.

Her blue jeans, which best dis-
tinguish Emily, are, however,
among the most elderly and spec-
tacular on campus... .”

ee: os

“March 15—Asked to comment
this morning on the dismember-
ment of Czecho-Slovakia, Caroline
Robbins, associate professor of
history, stated her belief that it
was an inevitable result of the
Munich Pact.

‘The chief interest of the situa-
tion to me’, said Miss Robbins,
‘lies in the developments in Po-
land’. With anti-Nazi feeling al-
ready growing, the arrival of Ger-
many on a new Polish frontier
may bring matters between the
two to a crisis”.





Swarthmore Downs |
B.M. Swimming Team



Gymnasium, March 17. Winning
six out of nine events, the Swarth-
more swimming team defeated the
Owls 48-36 in the last meet before
vacation.

Coming in a third of the pool
ahead of anyone else, Ty Walker,
’45, swam the 40-yard backstroke
in 28 seconds, as well as winning
the 40-yard freestyle for speed.
The only other winner for the Owls
was Betsy Manning, ’46, whose
side stroke form was judged the
best.

In the other form events, Bryn
Mawr placed second and third, but
in diving the honors were carried

Alliance Elections

The War Alliance takes plea-
sure in announcing the follow-
ing elections:

Mary Kay Snyder, ’46, will
head the new Red Cross Unit
which is to be set up on campus
after spring vacation.

The board for the coming
year will include:

Secretary: Barbara Zimmer-
man, 46,

Current Events: Marie Was-
serman, 745,

Chairman, War Bonds and
Stamps: Helen Reed, ’46.

Head of Volunteer Drives:
Alison Barbour, ’47.

‘Publicity: Dorothy Bruchholz,
"46.

U. S. O.: Martha Gross, ’47.







away by Cobb and Taylor of
Swarthmore. The maroon team
also won both relays, as well as
the 40-yard breast stroke for
speed. In the latter event and also
in the medley relay, Swarthmore’s
Randall swam three-quarters of
the pool under water and surfaced

Post War Education

Explained by Fisher

Continued from Page 1

history, literature and the human-
ities as well as the exact sciences
in order that students may be able

S urcrent 2 vents.



to win first place,

New Koestler Book
Reviewed by Student

Continued from Page 2

rival, his attempt to rejoin the
fight, the long wait during which
his money gives out, the fact that
Sonia finds him. He falls in love
meets
through Sonia, and upon her unan-
nounced departure he has a com-
Sonia,
brings
about his cure by psycho-analysis,
showing him that his endurance in
the face of torture, his so-called
heroism is due solely to forgotten
childhood influences, that it springs
from an unsuspected craving for
martyrdom. With his subsequent
cure and decision to go to Amer-
ica, with Sonia’s departure, Peter
finds’ himself faced with a choice
—whether to take the visa and join
Odette in America, or to go back
It is this problem
that Koestler has attempted to

with ‘Odette, whom he

plete mental breakdown.
who has taken him in,

to the fight.

Solve.

The conflict between the appar-
ent final wisdom of psychology
and Sonia’s rational explanation of
the feeling that he must continue
the battle to keep faith with him-

“to interpret the times.” The most
valuable contribution the average
citizen can make to international
education, he pointed out, is to ed-
ucate himself to take his place in
a decent world.

The war, continued Dr. Fisher,
has almost, devastated education in
Europe and the Far East. The
Nazis have made a conscious effort
to suppress secondary schools and
institutions of higher learning in
the conquered countries to prevent
the training of leaders. In Ger-
many education serves purely po-
litical ends and there is no free-
dom.

Education in the United States
has been severely altered by the
war and the resources of Russia
and England have been heavily
taxed. The United States is the
one nation in a position to offer
students of foreign nations the
educational opportunities they
have been denied in the past few
years. We are obligated, Dr. Fish-
er feels, to welcome these students
and help them to orient themselves
to life in this country.

The first types of foreign stud-
ents likely to come, he continued,
are “short-term trainees,” sent—by
their governments:~to be trained
in reconstruction work, and those
who want short. training in the
professions. In addition, there will
be the usual exchange of foreign

Common Room, March 21—Dis-
cussing the background of recent
developments in Argentina, Mrs.
Zimmelman, a_ resident of that
country until one month ago, des-
cribed its government as _ never
having been a representative one.

Argentina is only an American
country geographically, Mrs. Zim-
melman declared; in all other res-
pects it is Latin-European. The
leaders have been undemocratic,
and the state dominated by three
powerful groups. The Church,
which looks to Spain for guidance,
is not divorced from’ the state;
the military group, which former-
ly received 40% of the national
budget is now. receiving a much
larger percentage; the privileged
class maintains the status of a
landed aristocracy. It is to the
interest of these groups to pre-
vent the industrialization of the
country and any rise of the peon-
age.

The German influence has been
strong since World War I, Mrs.
Zimmelman said. Many Argen-
tine military students, educated in
Germany, returned with German
military methods.

The unseating of the Ramirez
government, she pointed out, was
accomplished by a military group
of eight colonels who feared the
growing popularity and strength
of the president, formerly a _fig-
urehead. He had maintained Ar-
gentine neutrality for expediency.

Elements in History
Discussed by Parkes

Continued from Page 1

pression. In the case of the nation,
minority groups bear the brunt of
“accumulated aggressiveness.”
The third point Mr. Parkes
stressed was the influence of the
psychological attitude of-the rul-
ing classes and the ruling individ-
uals. The individual who is irra-
tionally insecure may normally at-
tempt to achieve security through
submission or“ domination.







-|the nature and worth of. values in

}fighting for, and even why they

self, the study of the effects of
torture on Peter, symbolizing all
of Europe, the final decision and
departure are an attempt to solve

a world where “.,. men fight with
equal fervor,on either side .. .”.

In Atrival and Departure, Koest-
ler has perhaps, not succeeded com-

and American students.

Committees in London’ and

Cairo are already meeting to dis-
cuss sending foreign students to
the United States.
nations making plans are Poland,
Norway,
countries.

Among those

China and the Balkan



pletely in solving the question of
aigeneration stripped completely
of all illusions about what they are

are fighting, but the reader feels
that Koestler shows great prom-
ise as a writer, a philosopher, and
as a possible spokesman for a gen-

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Dr. Green Discusses
Novel by Col. Mancilla

Spanish House, March 16. Speak-
ing before the Spanish Club, Dr.
Otis Green, Professor of Spanish
at.the University of Pennsylvania,
discussed Colonel Mancilla’s Ex-
curcion a los Indios Ranqueles, a
well-known work in South Ameri-
can literature.



The author was an important
19th century military and, political
figure, and also the nephew of
Manuel Rosas, the Gaucho tyrant
of -Argentina, said Dr. Green,
Unsympathetic to his uncle’s
views, Mancilla helped to bring
about his downfall, to elect Sar-
miento to the presidency, and to
put down revolts.

Mancilla’s book deals with the
warlike Ranqueles, an Indian tribe
which lived on the edge of the
pampas, and their skirmishes
with the Argentine government.
This tribe was descended from the
Arucanos, celebrated by Ercillia
in the greatest epic poem in South
American literature. Dr. Green
compared Excurcion a los Indios
Ranqueles in style and content to
The Oregon Trail by Francis Park-
man which holds a similar place in
North American literature. De-
picting Indian tribal customs, the
book reflects the greatness of the
personality of the Mancilla, and
gives eyidence of his romantic de-
votion to liberty, his psychological
understanding and his humor,



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nounces the election of the fol-
lowing officers:

President: Kate Rand, ’45,

Vice - President: Katherine
Colvin, ’46.

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- Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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- Pem Rejoices; Warden, Watchman Struggle

As Lone Possum Causes Rock Pandemonium



by Patricia Behrens, ’46
Like the Martian invaders, one
lone possum caused a night of
pandemonium ‘in Rock. It struck
at midnight, leaving Rock hyster-
ical over its crambooks. Crouch-
ing terrible on a second floor win-

scurrying in terror. One braver
inhabitant kept quoting in an au-

Nature Book that possums. are
marsupials and carry their young
Others gave up all
pretense of being brave and sat
screaming in their nightgowns.
Well-meant but ineffective: help
came in the forms of the warden
and Joe the watchman. The war-
den appeared with a laundry bag
and flashlight, looking far more
ready for a snipe hunt than any-
thing else. Joe explained how, by
letting it curl its tail around your
finger, one can easily make a pos-
sum play possum.
Hearing the noise, Pem stuck
its collective head out the window,
forming a cheerful section for the
possum. “Oh, the poor thing”,
they chanted in chorus, “Oh, the

18th Model Assembly

Sets up Commissions
Continued from Page 1

One delegate from every college
will be on each commission.

The Political Commission will
contrast the Wilsonian conception
of international organization with
the “concert of powers” concep-
tions.

The two main items of discus-
sion for the Commission on World
Economic Collaboration will be
the problems of economic national-
ism vs. international economic col-
laboration and of international ar-
rangements to maintain the world
economy in an operating condi-
tion.

The Commission on Relief and
Rehabilitation will consider the
objections, problems, and organiz-
ation of international relief and
rehabilitation with stress on the
work of the present UNRRA.

In close connection with this,
on Educational
Reconstruction will consider the
vital role of education in the post-
war world, and especially the
problem of restoring educational
facilities in the devastated coun-
tries.

Message from Chaos
Results in Tea Party

Continued from Page |

With purpose to explore or to dis-
turb your realm,

following this with Ben Jonson’s

immortal words:

“Light, I salute thee, but with
wounded nerves.”

‘From there, the tea went on to
a very unchaotic success. And as
Miss Gardiner said, “If all chaos
were like this, I say, let chaos
reign on the Bryn Mawr campus.
Never have I had such food.”



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poor thing.” Feeling that his
great moment was over, the pos-
sum left, bowing to his audience.
“Oh, the poor thing”, chanted
Pem ad nauseum. “Yeah”, Rock
was bitter. “The poor thing has
fangs and is omniverous!”

| WHAT TO DO

Baldwin School Apprentices. Op-
portunity for graduates interested
in teaching English, mathematics,
science, French, Latin, Lower
School(. English or Social Studies).
Living expenses and tuition for one
graduate course at Bryn Mawr.
Also openings for graduates inter-
ested in personnel work such as
heads of residence units. Salary
$1500. ;

Curtiss-Wright, Caldwell, New,
Jersey. Openings for majors in
mathematics or physics, or those
with special interest in science and
mechanics for work at the Propel-
ler Proving. Ground.

Seniors—Please register with the
Bureau of Recommendations im-
mediately. We need to have your
records ready when interviewers,
who come to the college, ask for
them.

Summer Work. Register now in
Room H.

Community Service Society of
New York. Volunteers for family
service offices. Maintenance schol-
arships for juniors. $100 for
graduates.

Girl Scouts, Allegheny County,
Pa. Openings in the summer camp
staff: Unit leaders, Program Spec-
ialist, Unit assistant, Waterfront
Head.

Maids and Porters
Plan Show for April

A one-act musical comedy called
“Gems, Gowns and Gals” will be
presented by the maids and por-
ters on Friday night, April 21. The
story, adapted from _ Charles
George, combines music and_ro-
mance in a funny and clever plot.

In spite of the war, three men
will take prominent parts, bring-
ing the ratio of the cast up to one
made and two females. These nine
principal characters will be sup-
ported by a large singing and
dancing chorus.

The show is to be produced un-
der The Maids and Porters Com-
mittee and will be directed by Pat
Acheson, ’46, Sue Coleman, ’45,
and Martha Gross, ’47.







Nuts and Bolts

Bryn Mawr is not the only col-
lege showing unusual interest in
its student organizations this
year. At Haverford recently the
Honor System was upheld by an
overwhelming vote of the Students’
Association. The Students’ Assoc-
jation thereby rejected the propos-
al for implementing individual
honor to prevent cheating.

At Vassar, a joint Student-Fac-
ulty Committee meeting consider-
ed re-writing the students’ con-
stitution, because the honor sys-
tem, as existing, seems no longer
adequate. “The committee agreed
that. in re-writing the constitution,
the legislative assembly should be
made smaller, so that discussion
and action could be initiated more
effectively, and that the executive
council should exercise executive
powers.”

An editorial in the Miscellany
News states that the main focus
of the newly-elected undergradu-





ate officers “will be on the redefin-
ition of the organization and func-
tion of Student’s Association.” A
revision of the honor system and
a more active participation in com-
munity activities are urged.

Mount Holyoke also has held
meetings as a result of campus
agitation and interest in the col-
lege government. The Mount Hol-
yoke News editorial of February
4 states: “Widespread interest has
been shown this year in the ques-
tion of student government. This
is a good sign, a healthy sign.” The
community is “trying to rejuven-
ate our system while such interest
is alive.”

Temple, on the other hand, finds
that active interest in student
government is still found only
among minorities. In an editorial
of March 16 the Temple Univers-
ity News states: “It is a sad com-
mentary on the interest of the
students in their student govern-
ment that only one group was
concerned enough to go to the
trouble of finding sponsors and
getting together a slate of candi-
dates. If the people are not in-
terested in government, one group
can easily get control of it.”



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Seven Colleges Meet

To Discuss Problems
Continued from Page 1

ganization are concerned. NSFA
deals with the same problems, on
the scale of the larger universi-
ties.

Both Vassar and Barnard will
have interesting reports to give on
their experiments in cooperative
work since they have already tak-
en over a’ large amount of house
work,

Intellectual Honesty
Maintained in Religion

Continued from Page 1
cannot be made up entirely of
knowledge since man’s knowledge
is incomplete, therefore the deficit
must be made up in faith. .It is
this type of faith, used to cover
the difference between man’s
knowledge and omniscience, which
is intellectually honest.

Dr. Greene feels that much of
modern religion is not intellectual-
ly honest. Religion, he explained,
is made up of three elements:
cult, creed, and conduct. Cult
represents the ritual attached to
any religion, creed, the theology,
and conduct is the way the indi-
vidual acts in accordance with the
principles of the religion. Dr.
Greene feels that today there is
too much emphasis on the cult and
conduct aspects, while the modern
church tends to relegate the creed
to an inferior position.





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Rosemont Six Wins _
In Basketball Game

Gymnasium, March 18. Fighting
to the end against a superior Rose-
mont six, the varsity basketball
team went down. 41-25 in the final
game of the season. Combining,
lightning pass-work with superb
shooting, the rose team handed the
Owls their only decisive defeat this.
year.

Starting out with two beautiful '
long shots by Jean Brunn, ’44,
Bryn Mawr was only one point be- —
hind at half time. In the third
quarter, however, Rosemont put in,
eleven baskets, only one of them a.
free shot. Guarded too closely to.
shoot with accuracy, the yellow
forwards tried in vain to catch up
and lost the match by 16 points.



Rosemont Forward

Outstanding among Rosemont’s.
high-scoring. forwards was Pat.
Collins, a little Freshman, who
celebrated her birthday by making
one surprising long-shot after an-
other. Said the umpire, “I’ve nev-
er seen shots going in from all
over the floor as they are today.”

Second Team

The green team reciprocated by
wiping up the Rosemont reserves
30-14. The combination of Sue
Horn, ’46, Agnes Nelms, ’46, and
Sally Hundley, ’47, proved very ef-
fective, Aggie scoring fifteen
points in all, and Sue making five
free shots out of six.



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