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VOL. XXVII,. No. 1

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA.,

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1940

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Trustees of
College, 1940







Symbols, Music
Solemnize Ritual

Of Lantern Night

Development of Ceremony
And Traditions Traced
From Early Years



Early in October before academ-

e ics have started in earnest Bryn
Mawr custom appoints a night: of
solemn ceremony. On _ Lantern
night the Sophomores formally
welcome the incoming class. |

Freshmen and Sophomores as-
semble outside the library in prep-
aration for this. symbolic ritual.
The Freshman file in silently, in-
visible in their black academic caps
and gowns. -In the cloisters they
form a huge semi-circle, backs to
the main library. Then the Sopho-
mores enter singing their Greek
hymn and invoking Pallas Athene,;
goddess of wisdom, to “look favor-
ably” -apon them and to grant them
wisdom; make holy the lanterns
they bear, lighting their way and
changing darkness to light. At
first, as a few enter the hymn is
faint, but the voiees~increase and
the music echoes from arch to arch,
from wall to wall, and dancing
specks swing in. The newcomers
form a second circle inside the first.
They stop singing, hand their lan-
terns to the Freshmen in back of
them and flee to an opposite cor-
ner. There they repeat their songs
once. The Freshmen answer: “We
come, oh Goddess, we are lovers of
beauty in just measure, and lovers
of wisdom also.” They file out,
singing their song.

The solemn ceremony is finished,
but-after it a gayer gathering ‘as-
sembles in Pembroke Arch.
four classes form. a square and
each sings its athletic song, class
song and any other it wishes; the
evening is ended with “Thou Gra-

Continued, on ‘Page Two

PIONEERS!

To the class of 1944 this
issue of the News is dedi-
cated. There has never been
anything like it before or
since. Don’t take us too
seriously.



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The |

Entertainment Series

Brings Alec Templeton



’44 Counted Upon for Support
Of Four Entertainments
In College Group



The coming winter ..will see a
croup of glistening entertainments
on Goodhart’s stage. The Enter-
tainment: Series for 1940-41 will

consist of four events as follows:
November 18—Helen Traubel,
Metropolitan soprano.

January 13—Alec Templeton. ~ oN

March 9—Cornelia Otis Skinner.

The fourth event, is to be a
speaker, who will be chosen
campus ‘poll as soon as rossi
and will probably be scheduled f
the end of October. Several speak-
ers have been suggested, among
them Arthur Krock and Anne
O’Hare McCormick, .of the New
York Times, and Raymond Gram
Swing, famous news commentator.

The Entertainment Series is
largely dependent this year upon.
undergraduate support. The three
upper classes have already pledged
their share of subscriptions and
the Entertainment Committee is
counting upon a large measure of
support from the Class of 1944.



Health Insurance

On the bulletin. board in
every hall there is printed a
notice of the Student Health
Reimbursement plan for resi-
dent students. This service
is offered by the Connecticut
General Life Insuranee Co.
for twelve months, from Oc-
tober 1, 1940, to September
80; 1941, “at a. cost of 15
dollars a year.

This policy went into ef-
feet second semester of last
year. Qne hundred sixty-five
students applied and the cost
of medical services refunded
amounted to 2,252.37 dollars,
The largest refund was 428
dollars, and the smallest was
two dollars and 29 cents.

Those students who have
not yet signed applications
can find cards at the Comp-
troller’s Office, and should fill
these out before October 1.











Freshmen Face Future

‘In Angel Robes;

Fearlessly Clad
Meet Crises. Creditably



As thousands surged to and fro
before Miss Ward’s office doing the
endless appointment-filling and in-
terviewing demanded by Freshman
week, a few of their impressions,
trials, and tribulations drifted in-
to the News office to be recorded
for posterity. Arthur the rat
squeaked monotonously Baan Miss
Henderson’s records; ple end-

lessly protested they couldn’t sing
a note—and found they could;
hall floors groaned under the
weight of bags and trunks, while

gruffer rumblings came from Tay-
lor and the gym.

First of all, no one remembered
towels. The angel robes would do,

pov er And Speaking of | afigél robes wé-
cannot forget Pickle’s classic re-

mark, The new angel robes, she} .

¥ says, ‘are more revealing, but less
concealing. Bewildered Freshmen
spent hours extricating themselves
* from a maze of dressing rooms.
Don’t take a red or blue or green
-bathing suit. Remember to turn
left not right and if you. do find
yourself in the German club room
don’t collapse in despair, There is
a way out although you are not
likely to find it. -All this compli-
cated process took an hour per





person and one person showed up
every ten miafites. But on it went:
PMN. . +... > Play hockey?

On the right side. Nice muscles.
Next.” Gurgle, gurgle. ‘“What’s
your name?” a floating neophyte
gulps. Hand shaking and a half
hour conversation under water.
Next day another half hour con-.
versation. “Oh, you went to Win-
sor. I: met ~the~ most attractive
girl-from Winsor in the ‘swimming
pool. Let me see....” It was the
same girl. .

In Taylor the welcoming com-
mittee vied for the job of watching
Miss Ward’s and Miss Park’s of-
|fices, for there they could really

show “off their skill»-.“Right:: this | ~~

way, please. Miss Ward, ‘this is
« | forgot.’

Outside the picture taking: room
one usher overwhelmed with the
necessity of being friendly asked a
freshman who her S. A. was. The
freshman hadn’t the slightest idea.
She couldn’t read the writing. The
usher undaunted asked her name,
and found her: S. A. girl.

“My first client,” a bulletin
board watcher said, “came prompt-
ly at nine. She said, ‘What shall I

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Main Line Stores

Offer Ample Wares
To Altruistic Frosh



Do you want to buy—for your-

self, the bare necessities, or per-
to heip turn
the wheels of industry? Skirts,
blouses, sweaters, socks and sneak-
ers can be found very cheap at
Kitty McLean’s on the main street
of Bryn Mawr. (The main street
is the only street here). You can
furnish your .room. from Hobson
and Owens, and get records, vitro-
las, and all musical necessities at
Foster and Hammonds, flowers at
Jeanetts or Connelly’s, waste bask-

rets, ete., at Cuff’s Hardware, dée-
|] orations at Stockton’s or Puerta de

Mexico, and beauty at Rene Mar-
cel or Maison Adolphe.
In Ardmore, on Montgomery

| Avenue there is a Best & ‘Co., also

several rather classy dress shops,
which are not fabulously expen-
sive. Strawbridge & Clothier have
an establishment in the same vi-
cinity where you can buy infinite
and various goods, but particularly
chintzes for curtains. Furniture,
material by the yard, and all things
are also available at Wanamaker’s
department. store on Broad and
Chestnut streets in Philadelphia.
At. 16th and Chestnut there is a
Bonwit Teller, and The Blum
Store at 12th and Chestnut caters
to a similar clientele. If you want
more recommendations than this
before the first week of your col-

lege career is over, you are either}

a spendthrift, or just have a mali-
cious nature and are attempting to
thrust. your. parents. into. bank-
ruptcy.

Class of *40 Survey
Suggests.’44 Future





Believing that the Freshmen
might. be interested in knowing
what sort of peopte: they are likely
to: be after four years of Bryn
Mawr, we submit the following in-
formation about their predecessors,
the Seniors who were graduated
last spring. One girl, Marie Wur-
ster, who won the European Fel-

lowship, was graduated summa cum

laude, with an average of 90.47.

She was one of only 28 students|

Continued on Page Four

not studying in the afternoon, is

Variety of Places

And Food Provided
Hungry B. M. Students



Even though they feed us three
square meals a day, there are al-
ways times! when the old 4ppetite
starts gnawing, especiaily in mid-
afternoon and just before bed. The
College Inn, open from 8 a. m. to
7 p. m., serves everything from ice
cream cones and hamburgers, to 85
cent dinners. Beside being so very
close to home, the Inn has added
advantages that there you will al-
ways meet people you know, and
you can charge everything to your
next pay day bill.

Farther away, in the village,
Meth’s, which is open in the eve-
ning, has one of the best soda foun-
tains. It also serves regular meals,
and sells cinnamon buns, ‘cookies,
and all kinds of pastry. The Bryn
Mawr Confectionery, commonly
known as “The Greeks,” is two
doors up from Meth’s.: There, if
you can stand the grimy atmos-
phere, you can enjoy a coke, or,
when’ you’re very wobbly in the
knees from too much ¢ramming,
the Greek’s stand-by, beer.

The best excuse we know of for

Continued on Page Four

Calendar
Saturday, Sept. 28.—
Buffet supper,
ham, 6 p. m.
Sunday, Sept. 29.—
Halls of residence open
to upperclassmen, 8 a. m.
President’s tea for Fresh~-



Wynd-

we
men, Deanery, 4 p. m.
Sunday chapel service,
Rev. Aldrich,- Music

Room, 8 p.-m.

Monday, Sept. 30.—
Registration “of upper-
classmen.

Freshmen tuberculin
tests, Infirmary, 9 a. m.
Self - Government exam, .
Room F, Taylor Hall,
7.30 p. m.

Tuesday, Oct. 1.—

Opening of the 56th aca-
demic year.
Parade Night, 7.30 p. m.

Saturday, Oct. 5.—

German Oral, 9 a. m.











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Parade Night * ;

Has Lurid Past,

Breeds Conf usion



Tuesday’s_ Free - for - All
Lit by Huge Bonfire,
Opens Year

Parade Night with its boisterous
bouts between freshmen ana soph-
omores is in the offing. With the
aid of their sister class, the sopho-
mores try ‘to learn the words of the
freshmen’s song. A long history
of song-snatching shows more suc-
cess than failure, but-only by dint
of efforts physical as well as men-
tal.

In the primaeval days, Parade
Night was celebrated with artifi-
cial materials. In 1914, the three
upper classes dressed as weird dev-
ils, witches or strange beasts. Ev-
erybody danced in an orgy about a
huge ‘bonfire on the lower hockey
field while “Freshie” was burned in
effigy, In spite of the effective use

of fireworks and a splendid display .

of “Roman candles,” the costumes
weren’t fully appreciated. With
the aid of that old sophomore
stand-by: “T wasn’t in meeting yes-
terday. What was the tune?”, the
sophomores victoriously taunted
freshmen:
Look at them straggling into view
Bawling for home with lange boo-
hoo

* * *
See how they shrink before the red
Falling away in reverent dread

“e * *
Why all these tears
Poor little dears
Oh, they should be in bed

a * *
Your song is weak
Your voices squeak
Oh, 1918, oh, 1918

Roman candles gave way to

torches in 1915, when the band led
freshmen with “valiant Juniors at
their side” to the bonfire. On the

way home, the sophomore blocked
Continued on Page Three



Cut System Explained

By Student Committee



The Cut Committee wishes to
bring the cut system to the careful
attention of the Freshmen,

Each student is allowed as many
cuts as she has regular hours of
recitation per week. This means
an average of about fourteen cuts
per semester. Unit courses give
three cuts, as they meet three times
a week, and half unit course, meet-
ing twice, give two cuts. First
year courses such as Chemistry

‘and Biology, give five cuts, not

seven, as each laboratory counts
as only one-third of a cut. No
cuts are given for. Dictiona and—no
student is allowed to cut this class
without .special permission from
the Dean.

set HS Each SMO
Penalties for overcutting are se-
vere. Any student who overcuts

by one beyond the allowance per-
mitted her, shall have three cuts
deducted from her allowance. for

the_next.semester-and-shall be on
Similarly two -

student.-probation,
overcuts entail six to be deducted,
three overcuts entail nine. dent taking more than four over-
cuts shall-be placed on senate pro-
bation.

be permitted to cut any classes.
The ‘cut allowance for each stu-
dent will appear on her first cut
ard, which are issued every month.
f this does not tally with her own

| calculation, she must report imme

diately to ‘the Dean’s office.

PRICE 10. 4

This means that.during
the following semester she will not

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Records Now Housed
In New Library Wing

During Freshman week, the col-
lection of victrola records, which
‘contains: most of the popular sym-
phonies, arias from the operas, and
some Gilbert and Sullivan and such
lighter music, will be available for
use. Records may be taken out,
like books, from the librarian in
charge of the new Stacks in the li-
brary. They may be played on
your own victrola or on the one in
the Common Room in Goodhart.
All records myst be returned be-
fore Tuesday. After:that time, they
may. only be taken out under new
regulations which will be posted.





Bryn Mawr Seniors.
~ Win Double Honors

In Fashion Contest



Perhaps you have. heard, that
Bryn Mawr is merely a liberal arts
eollege, and that it does not fit its
students for practical living: This
is a gross libel. When you gradu-
ate. from Bryn Mawr you will be
eauipped to make money as well as
to “contribute culturally to your
community.” .The most exciting
examples of the commercial value







Salut

In the midst of Freshman Week’s confusion and excitement
we would like to be ablé@ to extend a ‘soothing and peaceful wel-
come to the. Class of 44. Unfortunately, nothing can be either

soothing or peaceful these days.

A recent article in the Atlantic Monthly condemned the Ameri-
can undergraduaté for his softness and his inclination to retire to

an intellectual ivory tower.
untrue.

The ivory tower is but one form of escapism.

These accusations are harsh but not

Another

is the tendency to shy away from disturbing or disillusioning facts,

and, by admitting an, ignorance.

of politics, to put such matters

aside with a falsely clear conscience.

Those of us who use such devices pre soft and i ie

To

accept the responsibilities of citizenship is to strengthen one of the

most valuable and necessary principles of democracy.
should be corrected rather than used as an excuse for laziness.

Ignorance

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In defense of higher education we say that college offers a

vigorous ‘mental- training which today is indispensable.

It offers

us balance, clarity of mind and the opportunity to lend strength to
our beliefs and courage to our thinking. Such opportunities should
not be lost, for the problems which confront us cannot easily be

avoided.



In Philadelphia



MOVIES

Aldine;‘at 17th & Chestnut: Dul-
cey, with Ann Sothern, Ian- Hunter
and Roland Young. °

Arcadia, at 16th & Chestnut: No
Time for Comedy, with James
Stewart and Rosalind Russell.

Boyd, at 19th & Chestnut: Strike
Up the Band, with Mickey Rooney
and Judy Garland.

Earle, at 11th & Market: Dr.
Kildare Goes Home, with Lew Ay-
res, Lionel Barrymore and Laraine
Day.

Fox, at 16th & Market: City for
Conquest, with James Cagney and
Ann Sheridan.

Karlton, at Broad & Chestnut:
The Howards of Virginia, with
Cary Grant and Martha Scott.

Keith’s, at 1116 Chestnut: For-
eign Correspondent, with Joel Mc-
Crea, Laraine Day and Herbert

po ees =
News, at 1230 Market: . The
Scarlet Pimpernel, with Leslie

Howard and Merle Oberon.
Palace, at 1214 Market: The Sea

Hawk, with Errol Flynn.
Stanley, at 19th & Market: The

Westerner, with Gary Cooper.

at 16th & Market:
with Clark Gable,

Stanton,
Boom Town,

Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert
‘and Hedy Lamarr.

Studio, at 1632 Market: The
Fight for Life.
THEATRE
Forrest, Walnut between 11th
and 12th: Ed Wynn in Boys and

Girls Togther. Starting Monday, |

The Philadelphia Story, with Kath-



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arine Hepburn.

SUBURBAN

Ardmore: Gold Rush Mateie,
with Ann Sothern.

Seville, in Bryn Mawr: Andy
Hardy Meets Debutante, with
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

Suburban, in Ardmore: Untam-
ed, with Ray Milland and Patricia
Morison. :

Wayne: All This and Heaven
Too, with Bette Davis and Charles
Boyer.



POLL

The College News wants to dis-
cover how much influence those ag-
gressive upperclassmen _ actually
wield. _ The following poll is de-
signed to record what the Fresh-
men of today think about Things.
After the arrival. of their burly
comrades on Monday we predict a
five week free-for-all during which
anything at‘ all may happen.

Weather conditions-permitting, the.

College News will .soon have an
other poll. It may even have sev
eral dozen. which may be taken af
ter every meal with a glass of
absinthe or a shot of heroin



Are you for—
Willkie

Roosevelt

YES No







- The Democrats’
The Republicans

on the fence?







Tear Out and put on door
-—by' Saturday night:





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of a’ Bryn Mawr educatiqn are
Maity Moon and Isota Tucker, 1940.

‘Mary Moon and Isota Tucker, by

winning the first and third prizes
respectively in Vogue’s Prix de
Paris contest, acquired one year’s
employment with the magazine.
There were almost 1000 contest-
ants: from 257 different colleges
throughout the country, but the
Bryn Mawr girls seem to have
reached the financial high.

Moon majored in archeology, but
was rather clothes-minded. She
played a recorder with gusto and
sang like a torch singer. As a
member of the advertising board
of the News, “she was a perfect
whiz.” Tucker was editor of the
Lantern, and a member of the
News board. She wore bangs and
a Southern accent, with glamour
and as winner of the Vanity Fair
prize isin the feature department.



Lantern Night Combines
Songs and Solemn Ritual



Continued from Page One

cious Inspiration.”

Tradition offers many supersti-
tions about the lanterns. Inside
each lantern is an invitation to tea
from Sophomore to Freshman. The
girl whose candle burns the long-
est, and who stays awake to prove
her claim is fated to become hall
president in the next three years.
But the girl who finds wax-drip-
pings on her gown will earn a Ph.
D. degree.

Lantern Night underwent
changes and developments before
all details were as they are now.
In 1886 Dr. E. Washburn wrote a
song to the tune of “The Lone Fish
Ball,” alluding to “the only lan-
tern in Bryn Mawr.” Romanti¢
imagination seized upon the idea
of presenting lanterns to Fresh-
‘men. After an impromptu skit, the
Sophomores: quizzed the Freshmen,
testing their right to receive their
lanterns, and satisfied, presented
them. By 1897, the size of this af-
‘ternoon “eritertainmentvhad grown
to a play, “As You Like It.”. Giv-
ing lanterns in the afternoon was
ludicrous, and the time was set at
night. Gradually the tone of the
ceremony changed from the farsi-
cal;
for good luck became .written
songs, varying from year to year.
“Pallas Athene Thea” was the
class of 1893’s songs and -was
adapted for Lantern Night in 1901.
‘After discarding “Over the Way to
the Sacred Shrine” (1908) /as un-
inspiring, “Sophias ‘Philai’” was
transposed by K. Ward, ’21 and H.
Hill, ’21 from Pericles’ funeral ora-
tion by Thucydides and music was
selected from a part of the Russian
service by A. F. Lyoff.



the commonplace oral wishes |. '



















Hints To Freshmen . : IT’S END
In Search of Long wit:

Lost School Friend}, 25 YOU A. FRESHMAN, or,
For those who are still hunting ber Putra meek

to find the lairs of familiar faces, ,

here isa list of 1944 and their halls} Come on now, please. Just one

and rooms. Non-resident are. at|™ore blank to fill out before you go

college this week, so we have in- to bed. We must warn’ you, how-
cluded their temporary campus|°Ve?, that anything you say will
address! be used against you.

Denbigh | (1) If you take four courses the
Mary- Armstrong. ...... 5- 9 | first year, how few. can you take
Ruck Blattner .........: 63 | the second year?

Mise Cowen sss 85 (2) Are you for Coolidge, Hoo-
Miriam Ervin ......:..% 5- 9 | ver or Landon? ;
Barbara Haas .......... 43, 7 (3) How many minutes can you
Mary Hempnill ........<. 55- 9 | float without having to shift from
MOLY BUte oh hha 56- 8 |one foot to the other?-”

Me@rian LOPBN .5 6.66 As: 56- 8 (4) Did you pass your college
Ginny Lovell. cic ese 33 boards?

Lannie Morley ....4..;; 10- 4 (5) Do you know how to get
Pat Murnaghan ........ 88 from Goodhart to Taylor?

ADNG POtGl oki cece 10-14 (6) Do you know where Good-
Pat. St, Laurence 3:1... 83- 4 | hart is?

Anne. Sprague iiscccceves 83- 4 (7) Does Goodhart know?

KOY -TODDEN-.cicccscece 55- 9 (8) How many tacks have you

‘Merion put in your wall?

Dodie Benedict.......... 7 (9) Have you 100-watt or 150-
OG WO i csin tae sheds 68-72 | watt bulbs in your lamps? (Don’t
Gertie Caesar ......+0+: 5 answer that one either.)
Anne-Caner..:..... sa 04 If you can answer any of these
Dorcas Dunklee «:.4... 24 questions you have probably been
‘Nallio Wintel oi. ciscra 65A-B|to Vassar. If you have even read
Marian Estabrook ...... 63A-B|them, you probably should have
Katharine Franck ...... 7 gone to Wellesley. Here are some
Beth Garrison. «ic... 42A-Bl| hints which, if you had .a high
Nina. Garsoian ....iseus a1 scholastic aptitude mark, you will
Joan Googin i.e cece: 46 disregard:

Anne .Heyniger ....:.<.. . (A) Don’t walk’ out of a room
PANEL FLOODER 5666 uc dros o's 2 when an upperclassman walks in
Priscilla Rich >s6eccssees 50 unless you think there is a chance
Peggy Puckerman....... 68-72 |of her speaking to you.

Pembroke East 2—BRYN MAWR
THERE BARGE. ooo seco e cs 4- 6 (B) Don’t’ believe anyone who
Sophie Barriey ......... 48-50 |Says she remembers your name. ~
Dorothy Berry ......... 408 (C) Don’t lose your Dean’s slip
Dorothy Brown ........- 44-46 |unless it has Math and German
Kitty) Burch ..:..5. <0. 5 on it.

Gr Bees c.f icici 28 (D) Put all your Valuables in
Peblise Cassidy ....:... 14-16 |Our drawer.

Shisley Crisd:
Gloria Erickson ........ 24- 6 Oh, shoes on feet,

Isabel) Fraser ....i.06... 62 Oh beautiful with shoes.
Graham Hobson .:...... 31 Oh boots.

Lots Mason’ .5.5...6055 22 (And stockings. More than
Jessie Kauffmann ..”... 58-60 | We’ve seen in a month of Sundays.)
Mil ined Junsthan |. ..<° 35 Whose the skirts and whose the
Marie Urjendecker ..... 39-41 |Sweaters now,—

Lily dabowlte. .5.-...<.: 25 On what girls. Oh boy!

Marge Porter... 24- 6 (OH, Mummy, when are you go- |
Ginny Belle Reed ....... 14-16 |ing to buy me some new clothes?)
PUTO INE. 5 (tis 5508s 69

Shippy Shipway ...-..' 16-20 Frannie Brown ........ 209
Aro Shugy ............ 58-60 Phyllis Gates «i. u..... 309
Phebe Stevens ......... 48-50 Marriette Chesnutt ..... 217
Jane-Smith 2.50. .650s0% 33 Beate Bu. 308
Jane . Turley. :..6....+00% 10-12 Frances Imbrie.......... 210
Mary Voigt ...........; 18-20 Alicea Judacve ..<:7.,.; 110A-B
Lucy Wilson ........... 39-41 Nannie Mitchell ........ 305
.Gladys. Whitridge ...... 19 Patricia Newcombe ....211A-B
Fifi Woodward ......... 64 Barbara Nicholson ..... 312

Pembroke West Bt GRRE oc vc css 818
Alice Abell ©. ..i5. 5535. 63- 7 Nancy Scribner ....... 211A-B
Mitzi Alexander ....... 72- 4 Rosalyn Shulman ...... 117
‘Bobby: Blo@k wevecce ces cs 15 Priscilla’ Stern .....%. . 109
Grace Cutting «......... 62- 6 Jean Wagner .........+. 110A-B
Chie. PORNO ccs ce eecs 71 Rosalind Wright ....... 107
Barbara Gimbel ........ 28 |Rockefeller
TiWCIG. FIO@dGe 3... oe tres 8-12 Mary Stuart Blakely ... 1
Legike Forwood 2.3... 63- 7 Jean Benn: ... oS, 45
AllGG: LOINe 56 6s ches as 54 Mary Sue Chadwick .... 6
Louise Warner Lewis ...25- 9 Meare C00. orcs cis Al1-A
TAN THORP ons cevigecs 4- 6 Ruth Copper .....6s eck 31
PHANG TOME Liss ices 4 Tommie Wavis ....... cs 37
Elaine Mackenzie ....... 16-20 Grace Dole... sess 24
Antoinette Michel ...... 5 Stockton Edmunds ..... 53
Rosalyn Ravitch .......76 Therese-Dxton 777757777 4
Bien Bend ..6 65 cscs 6 Bate FAG scien 64 ~
GOBMO BONS 2o sic sicaes 22- 6 Marjorie Flood ........ 41A-B
Jacky Torney: ...,..:..- 72- 4 Ethelda Gladstone ..... 40-A
Hilen- Ustiok— 33.34.35 8-12 Helen: Goldman - 5.00.4. 33
Free V6 es 62- 6 Jane Hickman. ...< 8633 12
Pepper Williams ....... 16-20 Pe@ey Unter 6 oesic esse A1-B

Rhoads North Frannie Johnson ....... 15
Joan. Buschmann ....... 61 pe 8h, eee 3
Ann Coulson ..:...:%.. 162A-B;} Jeanette Leprka ........ 36
Ei Ge ee : Sylvia Maynard ....... 29
Mary Anne Danally ....63A-B Audrey McCarter ...... 41A-B
Mary GloSsbrenner .....- 61A-B Dottie Mosiman- ........ 37-A
Ruddy Hale. >... 162A-B Frannie Parrish ........ 66
Tammie Hovey ......... 264 _, Dorgthy Rodgers ........ 7
Peggy Hutcheson ....... 167 TOG OAL. ois via ss os es 34
Yvette Laneres ........ 38A-B —
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Jocelyn Plough ........ 159A-B|| urday afternoon to be meas-

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Bryn Mawr Sports
Offer Health, Bruises

Sports at Bryn Mawr are en-
joyed and endured. In the fall,
hockey is the center of attention.
Games range from exciting

matches with the Philadelphia
Tuesday League to the Saturday
morning intra Bryn Mawr in free-
for-all. The battles are fought by
hockey addicts who execute perfect
left hand lunges and overhead
scoops and, at a different time, by
exercise fiends, natural or forced,
who fumble over the field. During
freshman week. the field is open to
both kinds of players.

Tennis is a sideline of required
sports in the fall. Upperclassmen
are divided into three classes and
squad A will receive ‘special in-
struction from Mr. White of the
Merion Cricket Club. During the

coming week anyone interested will
‘have a ehance to'try out for the
squad; varsity tryouts are sched-
_ uled two weeks away.

Then there is fencing for those
who prefer individual sports. There
are usually three or four meets
with other colleges and in the past
three years the Women’s Junior
Foil of the Philadelphia division of
the A.F.L.A. has been held at Bryn
Mawr College. It is possible for
the Bryn Mawr fencers to fence in
A.F.L.A. meets if they join the or-
ganization. Fencing equipment can
be bought second hand reduced.

Dancing is the subject of many
heated discussions at Bryn Mawr.
The result is a wide choice for
those taking this as their required
sport—the modern dance club, folk
dancing and Miss Petts’ dancing.





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Offers Special Prices to Students
853 LANCASTER AVENUE

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'| Parade Night Tradition

the stairways, forcing freshmen to

Includes Song Robbery



Continued from Page One

go to Pembroke Arch by way of
Rockefeller.

The next year a dictaphone, de-
tective work and bluff discovered
1920’s song. Benjamin, the porter
in Pembroke, who had done some
work for Burns’ Detective Agency,
discovered a dictaphone -concealed
in the Freshman Chairman’s room.
All in the spirit of the thing he
later—helped_search the gym for
But
force followed craft when sepho-

any: more dratted: machines.

mores and seniors beseiged. the

freshmen meeting in the gym.

719, ‘was flushed from a

hot air flue by an indignant jani-
tress. That night the freshmen
sang with “distinct swing and spir-
it”; even after the sophomores’ de-
risive parody: “Sniff, Sniff, Sniff.”

1925° used’ mass confusion as a
means of obtaining their parody.
They turned off the lights in the
gym during a freshman song. meet-
ing and snitched the words from
the resulting mess. The _ sopho-
mores the next year. outdid them-
selves by getting the words three
times.

Since the beginning of Lantern
Night the sophomores have the bet-
ter record of wins. 1924 was the
first even class to keep its Parade
Song, the third time it had been
kept in history. But to date the
odds and evens run neck and neck
an equal number of sophomores as-
saults repulsed.

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AMBULANCE

Miss Applebee, wio introduced
hockey to this country, has started
a fund to nd ambulance to
any of the am-
bulance drivers are former hockey
players, and the ambulance sent
will bear a plate saying it is the
gift of the Women Hockey Players
of America.

Will you be one of ‘those who will
help? Many colleges and schools
all over America have already con-
tributed, and if everyone helps, no
matter how small the contribution
two ambulances may. be sent. .

Bring or send your contributions
to Miss Ethel Grant at the Gym-
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Headlines on the Amusement

“Brigham Young, Frontiers-

man,” Gary Cooper, “The West-
erner,”’ “The Howards of Vir-
ginia” make this an American His-
tery Week in the , Philadelphia
movie houses. National defense
seems to be making. producers and
movie-goers nation-conscious,
“The Howards” is playing at the
Karlton, at Broad and Chestnut.
That is to say, Cary Grant is two
blocks south, then two blocks west,
of the 16th Street Suburban Sta-
tion. Warning—go~ south before
you go west or you'll get mixed in

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|a confusing idea of City Hall.

At the Stanley, at 19th and Mar-
ket, “The Westerner” is playing.
“Brigham Young” is coming. to

the Arcadia on Chestnut Street.
“Foreign Correspondent,”. “The
Sea Hawk,” and a revival of
“Scarlet Pimpernel” carry out the
theme of the ‘bold and dashing
hero,

The Pare Lorentx - directed
“Fight for Life,” produced by the
U. S. Film Service, is being shown
at the Studio, at 16th and Mar-
ket.

Next Monday begins the return
engagement — for one week — of
“The Philadelphia Story,”’ with

Katharine Hepburn. The theatre
Continued on Page Four



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I iabenislons and Trials

Of 1944 Are Recorded |

Continued from Page One
do for mother; she’s feeling sick!’ ”’
The halls buzzed with activity.
A freshman maddened by™~ the
whole prospect before her rushed
wildly into one of them “Whatle I

do, whatle I an gt
“Have you regis a

“What's that, What’s that?”
“You just go over to Taylor.”
‘“‘Where’s that?

“It’s that building over there.” |









1940 Seniors Pictured
For Benefit of 1944

Continued from. Page One
of all the 3300 A. B.’s of Bryn
Mawr who ever received this honor.
Nine studepts, with averages above
graduated magna cum
nd 21 were cum laude. In
of this obvious hard work,
all but five of the Seniors said that
if they had it to do again, they
would choose Bryn Mawr a second





Where's that?’ | time.

Among the Seniors, History and

“What building? Where? I don’t! English were the favorite majors,
see any building,’ and the poor;|and French and sociology were sec-
girl tore off like greased lightning |ond. Requireds were generally un-

without another word leaving a
stream of appointment sheets be-
hind her.

One hall president expressed the
conviction that the freshmen were,
however, generally calm and col-
lected in spite of it all and that

they knew more than the upper-| course.
As one girl and her|lergic to German and; had to take
mother climbed laboriously up one |

classmen.,

flight of Rhoads stairs ‘then two,
then three, the exhausted mother
was heard to remark, ‘Aren’t
there any—elevators in Rhoads? I
knew you should have gone to Vas-
sar.” Then there was the hall
president who shouted heartily at
upperclassmen on the way to the
hockey field, “Goodbye, you ath-
letic people,” only to find that her
greeting was directed to a puzzled
father leaving the hall tea.

On the campus a mother rushed
distractedly up to an unidentified
freshman, “I know you don’t know
my daughter. You couldn’t possi-
bly know her. But have you seen
her?”

Freshmen gathered in smoking

rooms were asked why they came}

to Bryn Mawr. Few had even the
remotest idea. They were so sur-
prised they got in that they just
came, they said. One admitted
shyly that she visited college in
May and “the classes were all sit-
ting on the lawn.”





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Oil Permanent Waves, $3.50 up
3 Beauty Aids -- $1.00
All work done by expert operators

859 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Tel. Bryn Mawe 905














Tasty Sandwiches, Refreshments

“THE GREEKS”

Bryn Mawr Confectionery Co.

Lancaster Avenue



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popular, but most who took the
required philosophy course, or
Sophomore. Lit., enjoyed them.
The majority -of~Seniors -passed
their orals and hygiene the first
time. Second quizzes were taken
by about ten students in each
One delicate girl was “al-

the oral five times.”

Getting jobs was the immediate
object of most Seniors. Several
wanted to teach, and others are
going to continue their studying. |
One went to medical school, and '
one to law school. But marriage
is still the potential idea for most.

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Bryn Mawr
~ Freshmen!

You can buy
Abercrombie @& Fitch

Women’s Sportswear
Right here in Bryn, Mawr

Drop in and look’ at our fa-
mous active and spectator
sports dresses . . . our glori-
ously colored sweaters .. .
our tweed skirts and_ suits
and coats . . . and other
typical A. & F. apparel and

accessories.

Jeanne Betts
30 Bryn Mawr Avenue

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Tweed Skirts

Blouses Jackets

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Chapel
The Reverend’ Donald Al-
drich, D.D., L.H.D., rector of
one of the oldest churches in
New York City, the Church
of the Ascension, will speak
at Freshman Chapel Sunday\
night. He has led services |
at Bryn Mawr many times in
the past and has: been ex-
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Continued from Page Three

is the Forrest, on Walnut east ‘of
12th. For your geography, Wal-
nut is one block south of Chestnut.
Monday will be the last day for
the Second International Sculp-
ture Exhibit, held this year at the
Philadelphia’ Art Museum, on the
Parkway.



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French Haindreisers

Specialists in Permanent Waves
invite the patronage of
The Class of 1944
and offer ‘special rates for
students

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Phone 2025 Bryn Mawr



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Continued from Page One

tea. Your cravings will be satis-
fied at the College Inn or the Cot-
tage Tea Room, across from Bald-
win’s School on Montgomery Pike.
Or in the vill, there are the Chat-
terbox, and the Community Kitch-
en. For a more elaborate tea, try
the Bit of a Shop, farther down on
Lancaster Pike, They specialize in
large quantities of dainty tea sand-
wiches, and rich ‘chocolate cake.

When you are in Philadelphia,
shopping in the very heart of the
city you can stop for lunch at the
Dairy Grill in the basement of
Wanamaker’s. Or, if you up near
17th or 18th street, at Bonwit Tell-
er’s, or seeing a movie at the Al-
dine or the Boyd, the Colonnade,
at 1616 Walnut street, offers you

very good food, particularly salads

and sandwiches, in a modern self-
service cafeteria. Then, there is



always Whitman’s Tearoom, be-
tween 16th and 17th on Chestnut
street.

For dinner, before the theater or
a concert, you can eat from red
checkered tables clothes, in a quiet
Bohemian atmosphere at the Rus-
sian Inn, 1233 Locust street. For
good food without any particular
atmosphere try Stouffer’s, between
15th and 16th on Chestnut, or Kug-
ler’s on 15th street. The Arcadia
is also good for coquetalz and din-
ner.



men by a designing upperclassman
was this:.“Be sure to get ski boots.
They make a divine noise in the
Library.”







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