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VOL. XLII, NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1946

Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Alliance, League
Redefine Roles,
Shift Activities

Red Cross to League,
Industrial Group

Joins Alliance

‘Changes in the eonstitutions of
the Bryn Mawr League, the Alli-
ance, and the Undergraduate As-
sociation will be submitted to the
College for approval by vote in the
Halls on, Thursday. night at 10:00.
The Alliance constitution will be
voted on in its entirety and its
name will be changed since it has
become a peacetime organization
of a political and economic char-
acter. je

Since, in addition, the League has
developed into an economic and
social organization and the Under-
graduate Association covers the
more general activities on campus,
changes have been made to coor-
dinate more closely the work of
each organization. Consequently
the specific constitutional changes
which have been made are the
transference of the Red Cross from
the Alliance to the League, the
Industrial Group from the League
to the Alliance, and the Chapel
Committee from the League to the
Undergraduate Association.

Seven Colleges

To Meet at B.M.

‘Delegates from Barnard, Bryn
Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe,
Smith, Wellesley, Vassar and the
guest college, Duke University,
will attend the annual Seven Col-
lege Conference to be held at Bryn
Mawr on April 27 and 28.

The conference is made up of
the incoming and outgoing presi-
dents of the two campus organiza-
tions corresponding to Selif-Gov-|
ernment and the Undergraduate
Association. The position of host
college rotates among the perman-
ent members, while each year a
different college is invited

meeting is held annually to
discuss various problems of stud-
ents in these colleges. This year
the topics are the honor system as
it affects Student Government and
academic work, and the purpose of
college education for women.

Mrs. Broughton will entertain
the Conference’s members for din-
ner at the Deanery Saturday eve-
ning after which the group will

Barnes, Scott Tell
Russian Policies .

To UNC Meeting

Philadelphia, April 17:

The bases of Russian foreign
policy were explained by Mr. John
Scott, central European corres-
pondent of Time, and Mr, Joseph
Barnes, foreign editor of the New
York Herald-Tribune at a meeting
sponsored by- the United Nations
Council of Philadelphia in the Aca-
demy of Music.

“We should adopt a similar stan-
dard of judging Russian policies
and our policies,” said: Mr. Scott,
urging formulation of a positive
American foreign policy to meet
the Russian on equal grounds. Ba-
sic to Russia’s policy is a desire
for security, compounded of a na-
tural distrust of foreigners, a his-
tory of diplomatic and military
setbacks, and bitter memories of
European, anti-revolutionary inter-
vention after the last war.

Turning to Germany, Mr. Scott
pointed out that it is a laboratory
for the social systems of Russia,
the United States, and Great Bri-
tain. During the invasion of Ger-
many the easy-going methods of
the Americans and the discipline
of the British compared favorab
in German minds to the senganf
wreaked ‘by Russian combat trodps.
In the last six months, however,
the Russian system has shown a
greater peace-time effectiveness in
reconstruction than has British so-

talist democracy, accounting for

the recent leftward swing in Eur-
ope. :

Mr. Barnes stressed the threat
Continued On Page 4

Camus to Speak
For French Club

A talented young French auth-
or, Albert Camus, will lead a dis-
cussion for the French club mem-
bers and guests at Wyndham on
Thursday, April 25. 2

Throughout the war M. Camus
edited an underground paper called
“Combat”. Two of his plays have
been produced in Paris, and his
first novel, “L’Etranger,” has been
tranlated into English recently. At
present, he is working on a new
book.

He has been speaking to young,
audiences on the east coast, and
the same evening as his discussion
here, he will lecture at the Penn-
sylvania University Museum on



meet in the Common Room.

“La Crise de 1Homme.”



‘George Washington Slept Here’
Features Woes of Country Life

By Louise Gorham. ’47

- “When George Washington slept
here - - -” anything might have
happened, but nothing equal to the
hurly-burly rampant in the Var-
sity Players’-Cap and Bells’ forth-
coming production. Among the

ing for water, and thunder storms
galore, is heard the plaintive cry,
“A horse just walked into the kit-
‘chen,” while it seems that a cow
is trying to drive off in the car.
But the joys and sorrows of life
in the country under very primi-

to the players’ mill, though sup-
pressed exasperation escapes oc-
easionally in such sidelines as “can

oh!” The gaiety and confusion
were increased by temporary sub-
stitutions in the cast so that a tall
dark man was apt to appear on the
stage, addressed as “Miss Wilcox,”
while epidemics of absent minded-
ness led to the characters switch-
ing names at ‘will. ‘The evanescent
touch was added by the comings
and goings of an individual known
as “Doug,” a one man stage crew,
who struggled simultaneously with
lighting, curtains, and sound ef-
fects, which he pointed out is a
one man job (Plutocrat).

An optimistic note was express-,
ed by Mr. Titon’s direction, “whién
the ‘whistle blows, be sure’ to wait
for laughs,” of which the play



I say damn? Well no, I better say

promises to provide quite a few.

cial democracy or American capi- |.



Art Flourishes .
At Otis Skinner
Workshop Again

Paint and pastels are once more
in use in the long vacant Art Stu-
dio in the Otis Skinner Memorial
Workshop, where a newly-formed
Art Group. is holding regular
meetings, and where, next year,
the History of Art Department
plans to hold a regular laboratory
in connection with its first year
course.

In respons@ to the demand for
more opportunity for creative ex-
pression on campus, the Studio,
under the auspices of the Art
Group, is open on “Tuesday and
Wednesday afternoons and all day
Saturday to any student who wish-
es to come and try her hand in
such mediums as_ water-color,
brush and ink, poster paint and
clay. Materials are provided free,
and members of the Group take
turns at posing.

Mr. Morris Blackburn, a Phila-
delphia artist, is present on Tues-
day and Wednesday to give sugges-
tions and instructions to those who
wish it. Mr. Blackburn has studied
abroad and has taught at the Phil-
adelphia Museum for several years,

Initial funds for this project
were provided by the Art Depart-
ment and by the old Art Club,
which has been amalgamated with
the new Art Group. This organi-
zation is completely independent
and is headed by Joan Hitchcock
"48,

Next year the Art Department
is planning to make use of the
Studio in conjunction with the lec-
tures and conferences that form
the basis of the first year survey
course. By doing simple projects
in different artistic mediums, the
members of the class, through their
own efforts, will become aware of
the practical elements involved in
problems which they have studied
in a more theoretical context.

. Since this work in the Studio

will be part of the curriculum of

the course, emphasis will not be
Continued On Page 4

Michels Awarded
Legion of Merit

President Truman has presented
the Legion of Merit to Walter C.
Michels, Bryn Mawr physics pro-
fessor, and former Commander in
the United States Naval Reserve.
Professor Michels served as head
of the Operational Research Group,
Navy Mine Warfare Section, from
June 1944 to June 1945, and con-
tributed many services in connec-
tion with the Aerial Mining War-
fare Program. ;

The citation, presented with the
medal, said that: “Dicharging the
responsibilities of his vital assign-
ment skillfully and with expert ad-
ministrative ability, Commander
Michels rendered gallant service in
the extensive planning and logis-
tics phases of a major effort in
connection with the mining of
Japanese home waters.”

Professor Michels also acted as
project manager for the Bureau
of Ordinance ,and travelled in the
Pacific Ocean areas where he did
liaison work in, co-ordinating plans
between theatres of operations and
the Navy Department.



ENGAGEMENTS
(Rosamond Mary Kent ’45 ‘to
“Arthur Colby Sprague.

Shirley Ann Seubert °47 to
Dr. John Barkley Chewning.



Sixteen Colleges

Support Measure
On Famine Relief

_An almost unanimous response
in support of its food program has
been recdived by the Intercollegi-
ate Committee on the Food Crisis,
composed of Swarthmore,’ Haver-
ford, and Bryn Mawr, in reply to
its telegram’ to 16 colleges in the
East urging larger food allocations
and rationing.

Telegrams were sent to Antioch,
Barnard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Har-
vard, Hunter, Mount Holyoke, Ob-
erlin, Princeton, Radcliffe, Sarah
Lawrence, Smith, Vassar, Wheaton,
Wellesley ‘and. Yale, asking support
of a delegation from Bryn Mawr
planning to go to Washington to
recommend increased allocations to
UNRRA and the adoption of ra-.
tioning. Since former President
Hoover’s speech, and President
Truman’s alfocation of 40% of the

Continued on Page 2

Recital Proceeds
To Go for Relief

The program of the piano re-
cital to be given by Sylvia Zarem-
ba, fourteen-year-old soloist with
the New York Philharmonic Sym-
phony Orchestra, on April 29, in
Goodhart, has been announced as
follows:

Organ Prelude and Fugue, A minor
Bach-Liszt
Sonata, op. 13, C minor Beethoven

Grave: Allegro di molto e con

brio

Adagio Cantabile

Allegro

Intermission
Ballade, A flat major Chopin
Chopin

Nocturne, F major
tude, C-minor, op. 25, no. 12
Chopin
Etude de concert, F minor Liszt
Etude de concert, D flat major
Liszt
The Blue Danube Waltz
Strauss-Schulz-Euler
The proceeds of the concert will
be used by the Committee for Re-
lief for Europe. Members of the
community attending the recital
are urged to bring canned goods.
However, because of the quantity
o& cans previously collected from
the college, Bryn Mawr students
are. asked to donate, instead, small,
non-perishable items, such Fy
candy. —



Sigerist Outlines
Socialistic Plan
In‘Health Work

Medicine Considered
As Public Charity

By Russians

Goodhart, April 17. “The protec-
tion of health in Russia is social-
ism applied to this particular
field,” stated Dr. Henry E. Siger-
ist, Director of the Institute of the
History of Medicine at Johns
Hopkins University, at the ninth
Alliance Assembly. To improve
health in America, our task is “to
create the social organization
which our technology requires.”

The basic idea of the Russian
system is that medical services
and the means to protect health
are not sold to the people. “They
are a public charity to which
everyone thas a_ constitutional
right,” according to Dr. Sigerist.
The entire setup is an attempt to
apply science to the production,
distribution, and use of new medi-
cal devices.

“Today we look at medicine as
a social science,” “Said Dr. Siger-
ist; the four major tasks of medi-
cine today are promotion of
health, prevention of disease, res-
toration of health, and -rehabilita-
tion of former patients. In Russia,
the emphasis is on the prevention
of disease. The distinction be-
tween preventive and curative
medicine has been erased almost
completely.

Education is the basis of all
health work in the U.S.S.R. “In
Russia health education has a very
good résponse because it goes hand
in hand with education for citizen-
ship.” Physical culture, and rec-
reation and rest facilities with
medical supervision are provided.
Sanitation and industrial hygiene
are stressed.

Health work in ‘Russia is plan-
ned by all the people for a period
of time, such as the duration of one
five-year plan, but at the end of
every year the degree of success
or failure is determined, and the
necessary changes are made.

‘Execution of the plans depends
on the centralized direction of de-
centralized activity. The highest
policy-forming body in the admin-
istration is the People’s Ministry
of Health Protection, which is re-

Continued on Page 3



B. M. Summer Camp Counselors
Mix Fun and Child Psychology

by Mary Lee Blakely, ’47

As most Bryn Mawrters rather
proudly profess themselves to be
baffied by “activities” on campus,
here are some of the salient facts
about such an enterprise as. the
Summer Camp.

A timid inquiry as to what one
“did” at summer camp brought
forth such a torrent of replies from
all quarters that a book on the
subject could scarcely cope with
all Johnny’s cute sayings or what
that bad little Peggy thought was
so funny. =. -;, :

This summer Nancy»Coward 747
has secured a house in Cape..May
one and a half blocks from_the
beach. The camp will be run in

three sessions with twenty child-
ren of mixed sexes and of angelic
ér diabolic characters. Nancy
stresses the need for more coun-



selors at these two week ateniony,

reminiscing about the fun she had
last year where she met new Bryn
Mawrters as well as learned “simp-
ly amazing” things about children
as a whole. “Asyone interested in
Psychology, Sociology or marriage
should at least inquire into the
summer camp” said Nancy, as she

‘endeavored to explain the case his-

tory system the camp works on.
Social workers from Philadel-
phia claim that Bryn Mawr’s ¢amp
is one of their favorites because
the children get so much individual
attention. The counselors. spend
hours. going. over__the.. children’s
past histories and make an effort
to help them with ‘this in view.
_ The children gain approximately
five-pounds in the two weeks they

play in the sun and the counselors

leave with sand in their hair, a

sizzling tan and “quite a new out- ©



look on life.”



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