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NOL -XXVII, No. aan

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1940

PRICE 10 CENTS





Poll of Campus
Shows Approval .

Of Land-Lease Bill



Show Ignorance of Bill
In Congress



In an attempt to bring the Lease-
Lend Bill to the attention of the
student body, and to sound out
campus opinion on the war situa-
tion, the following poll was taken:

Are you in favor of the Lease-
Lend Bill?

If yes—is it because—

a. Want to declare war today?
b. Believe aid short of war |

i possible?

c. Lend-Lease Bill makes it
possible for America to
avoid war?

d. British victory essential to
world democracy and our
aid vital to British victory?

e. Aid to Britain now essen-
tial to U. S.?

If no—is it because— .

a. Measure leads to war?
Continued on Page Three

Peas Coutiall Brings
Mayor of “Time’ Staff
To Give Defense Talk

The Peace Gouncil is presenting
a talk by Brandtz Mayor of the
Washington staff of Time Maga-
zine, on Friday evening, February
25, at 8 o’clock in the Common
Room. Coffee will be served at
7.45.

In a recent letter to Helen Resor,
Mr. Mayor said: ‘“‘Nobody_knows
what our military defense problem
is because nobody knows. if, or
where,-or when we are going to
fight. If we are to engage the en-
emy in the jungles and mountains
of Guatemala, we don’t need tanks.
If we are to battle then across the
Texas plains, we don’t need skiis.
If Alaska turns from Seward’s ice-
box to Roosevelt’s hell-hole, we may
find very little use for mechanized
divisions.

“Tf America wanted an arena
show reminiscent of the .ghoulish
exhibition of lions eating Chris-





tians, it can be had by putting A.|

A. Berle, Maxine Eccles, Carter
Glass, Jerome Frank, and a couple
of other economists in-a sealed
room with instructions to agree
about our financial future before
they come out.”

On the strength of this letg1
Rhoads is having a contest to see
who can come closest to guessing
the physical characteristics of Mr.
Mayor...

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KITTY McCLELLAN



Views of College
Here, Own Ventures
Told by 2 Refugees

By Agnes Mason, ’42; Barbara
* Cooley, °42

“When I lived in Vienna,’ said
Mr. Ernst Waldinger, “I always
thought no weather could be worse;
but then I came to Philadelphia.”
Mr. Waldinger, a Viennese poet
and ‘socialist,-is now a member of
the Friends’ Refugee Group in
Haverford. Although he finds the
weather so uncongenial, both he
and Mrs. Hilde Narmorck, also of
Vienna and Haverford, . enthused
over the advantagés of American |
life.

Between the spring of ’38, when
she left Vienna, and this fall, when
she arrived in New York, Mrs.
Narmorck has. lived successively in
Czechoslovakia, Paris, and Mon-
temban in -unoccupied France.
Montembam, before the armistice,
was a village of 388 inhabitants.
Overnight it mushroomed to a pop-
ulation of ten thousand, as Belgian
and French civilians and soldiers
‘fled before German invaders. Barns
were used for living quarters, “and
one morning,” said Mrs. Narmorck,
“T looked in and saw a nursery of
babies sleeping in the manger.”

Mrs. Narmorck is attending Mlle.
Bree’s 17th century French litera-
ture course, Miss Gilman’s 19th
century French class, baby Ger-
man with Mrs. Jessen, and Miss
Marti’s first year Latin, where she
was delighted to hear one girl
compare a story by Livy with a
modern movie. She is impressed
by the ,relationship between
professors and students possible
under the American system. She
finds the educational standards in
both schools and colleges equally
high with those abroad. Ex-
perienced in teaching in Vienna
and Paris, she. is atténding
classes and studying American
methods in preparation for teach-



Mr. Waldinger hopes to teach
German literature and is getting

the American approach by fre-
Continued on Page Four





Freshman Show Fun Continued in Dances
With Gay Decorations, Prizes and People



By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41

After the freshman Show. last
Saturday night the spirit of merry-
making continued in Pembroke,
Rockefeller and Merion Halls. Al-
together’ there were four dances
going on on campus at the same
time. In Merion the dance was

' distinguished by a record attend-

ance of eighteen stags and twenty-
two couples. The decorations were |



“simple but striking and consisted

mostly of ‘white carnations and
jonquils against the background of
the Merion showcase.

In Rockefeller, it was George
‘Washington’s Birthday with. red,
white and blue balloons and red
and white carnations. There was

a very large stagline, and to liven
up the proceedings there was an
elimination. dance and a lucky
number dance complete with prizes.
Two unattractive youths in mufti
(allegedly from. Penn)-sat around
waiting. to be snatched up by the
eager stagline, but they finally got
discouraged by ‘the lack of enthusi-
asm and left.

“successful artistically than it was
financially. The decorations~ were
all blue and white and were based
upon balloons, crepe paper, and
posters from,.Freshman _ shows,
past and present. There was not
much of a stagline, but there were

~The Pembroke: dance. was _more||





quite a few couples.

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HELEN RESOR



JERRY CATRON



Junior Class Offers
College 4.Candidates
For Self-Government



The Junior class has nominated
Kitty McClellan, Helen Resor, Jan-
et, Dowling, and Jerry Catron to
candidacy for President of the Self-
Government Association. The lists
of ‘their past college activities are

as follows:
‘ Kitty McClellan

Kitty McClellan is a candidate
for president of the Self-Govern-
ment Association. She is Hall
President of Denbigh this year, and
Chairman of the Sub-Freshman
and Student. Guide Committee.
She has done League work at the
Community Center in Haverford
since her Freshman year. She was

a Freshman member of the Ath5]
Continued on Page Two

Calendar
February” 26—
Dr. Frances R. Fussel,
Legal Principles and the
Next Peace, Roberts Hall,
8.16 PF. MM,
February 28—
Brandtz Mayor, National
Defense, Common Room, 8
P. M.
March 1—
German House dance,
buffet supper, 6.30.



March 2—
Hampton Quartet, Dean-
ery, 5.00 P. M.

Philosophy Club, Dr, Ed-
gar Singer, The Function
of Art, Common Room, 3
P. M.
March 3—
Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict. ;
Anna Howard Shaw Me-
morial. ~~ Socializing the
Child, Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.
~ March 4—

College Assembly, Good-
hart, 10 A. M. Current
; Events. Miss Reid, Com- _

* mon Room, 7.30 P. M.
March 5— ~" som —
— game with Uni-
versity of Penn. 4.00 P. M.
- Dr Benjamin Gerig, The.
Institutional Framework,
_—- Hall, 8.15 P. M.













JANET DOWLING



Duties Performed .
By Self-Government
President Reported

The President of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association is the head of



the executive board which sees that}

the rules of- the Association are
carried out. The President is re-
sponsible for the routine of the
board and shares with the board

responsibility for the judgment

passed on individual cases.

The President must check all
signing in ae and also weekend
slips every‘ week. Meetings with
the hall presidents and with the
executive board must also be he
weekly and all the ‘Miss -.B.’s”
whose cases are serious are seen
by the President of Self-Govern-
ment before presentation to the ex-

ecutive board. She is responsible }

for keeping the Self-Government
Association in touch with the Col-
lege Administration. The College
Council is one of the avenues by

“twhich. this contact is made.

The most serious responsibility
of-the Self-Government President
is that of passing judgment. She!
is the one who always has direct
personal contact with Miss~B, and
reports her case to the board. Miss
B. can herself appear before the
board. The board makes the final
decision, but the case presented by
the President should be in, the
truest possible light.

Scenery, Lyries

Rhymed Dialogue

1 (Star In ‘F antasia’



1944 Reveals ——
Art; Neat Device Seen

| In Dream Theme



' By. Joan Gross, ’42

Goodhart, February 22. — 1944
certainly showed_us how to dream,
Gertrude Lawrence has nothing
on their frustrations; and Kaufman
| has nothing on their production.
|For the Freshman Show was a
| very professional piece of enter-
It did not have to rely
upon the familiarity of its audience
for laughs, or upon the sympathy



tainment.

of its audience for informal stage-
ing. Its lyrics were well sung and
clever; its dialogue was amusing
and easily rhymed. The show was,

advertised), complete with illumi-

agile spotlights, and professienal
make-up. :

The theme of the play centered
around the dream of a glamor-de-
nied Freshman. As a device, the
dream neatly drew a stream of
Bryn. Mawr institutions into the
The Fresh-
man simply falls asleep over the

anatomy of Lobster, and when the
curtain rises on the next scene, she
has plunged into the delightful
realm of “Some Hotspot on the
Great White Way.” The dream
she dreams is full of lobsters, Miss
Petts, the conga, scotch, campus
{notables and men. Undoubtedly
‘the material of Bryn Mawr dreams.

The library scene was a high
send off. The four. Freshmen,
Goodin, Hemphill, Lazo and Tap-
pen, set a lively pace for the epi-
sodes that were to follow. The

bedroom scene was gay and fa-
Continued on Page Four

night-club atmosphere.







ophomores Battle Freshmen Over hie
Desire to Destroy True Motive of Action

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By Barbara Herman, ’43

Last Wednesday, ostensibly for
the purpose of torturing the fresh-
men into revealing the animal, but
in reality urged on by a primitive
desire to wreak havoc and destroy
property, the Sophomores _ in
Rhoads began a four day reign of
terror. :

The first night was the most vio-
lent. One freshman, inspired to
grim retaliation by the state of her
room turned on her radio full
blast, locked her door and disap-
peared. Frantic Rhoadsians were
seen wandering up and down the
halls in all states of undress cry-
ing forlornly, ‘““For God’s sake, won’t
somebody turn off that radio?”

‘while hordes of Freshmen roved

around hooting defiantly.
However, the spirit of battle was
soon exhausted by order of the
Dean, and in the following nights
the now lamb-like Sophomores in-
dulgently settled down to concoct-

| ing—amusing—games-~-for the ex-

pectant Freshmen. Chairs were
spirited out of people’s rooms and

poetic. clues- were.placed_around_to}

help the Freshmen in their search.
Pictures of the Freshmen’s men
were taken and a Mr. Rhoads. Hall
of 1941 contest was held in which
curiously enough the picture that
won first prize was a surrealist
drawing completely incomprehen-
sible to everyone. ie



The last night the dresser draw-
ers were exchanged and one poor
Freshman found the drawer with
all her underwear under a sofa in
the’smoking room. Her problem

became acute since she was unable
to get the drawer back into her
room while her male guest was
there, and she didn’t want to leave
it in the smoking room for the edi-
fication of other visitors.

Friday night in a fit of despera-
tion two Sophomores, at three in
the morning, pulled out ‘their first
year psychology notes and tried to
hypnotize the sleeping Freshman.
The only response they got was “Is
it a chicken?” “Yes.” “Se a
lobster?” -..“‘Yes.”

That the Freshman finally be-
came inured to the whole thing is
proved by the fact that a Yale polo
cap belonging to one: Freshman
rested on the head of M. Carey
Thomas’ statue in the library for
three days before she even discov-

ered ao gone.
In-the other halls the most con-

putting things like oysters and on-
ions in people’s shoes. A model
young Freshman was locked in a
room with several cans of beer,
which significantly or not ‘were
empty when they let her out and a
Sophomore was baptized by the con-
tents of a coco-cola bottle.



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