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THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, May 16, 1951



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Library Hoarding

The reserve room echoes with loud frustrated whispers:
“T had it reserved!” “Where’s that blasted book?” “It’s due

at twelve—I’ve got to get it done!”

It is the last week of classes; exams start soon. We are
all rushing, and trying to keep pace with stringent schedules.
Nothing is more disheartening than to arrive at the library
promptly on the hour and find that the book you carefully re-
served is missing. “I’m sorry. Volume 463 hasn’t been seen
since nine o’clock this morning. Yes, we’re trying to locate
1t,”’

The student is more than on the verge of losing her tem-
per. “Who could have taken it? Who?” It is hard to imagine
someone deliberately depriving those who have reserved a

book that privilege, and yet that is what happens every day.
Five or six students are forced to go to class unprepared and
must complete the assignment at a time they have set aside
for another subject—all because one girl has taken the book,
card and all, from the library, and has kept it more hours
than it would take a moron to memorize it completely.

The reserve system is intended as an aid to students
and to keep monopolizers’ greedy hands away. The two-hour
limit assures each a share of the books in demand. People
who break the rule are monopolizers and should not be allow-
ed the privilege of further reserving books. The reserve sys-
tem is a fair one, but it can operate only if each student uses
the time she has reserved the book and no more. When work
piles up, as it is bound to do at this time of year, proposed
individual schedules must be respected. The reserve system
should function justly. One cat cannot lap up all the com-
munity milk and come out satiated, while her cohorts, be-
hind in the race, starve.

Loose Ends...

Why, we wonder, is there not flourescent paint on the
hands of the library and Taylor clocks? . . . Coffee served as
regularly in the winter as lemonade is in the spring would be
delightful . .. They would have to reduce the river bank be-
hind Rhoads to a prickly stubble just before exams .. . Three
cheers to Dr. Wells for smiling benignly upon the Charleston,
and to the musicians who serenade the NEWS so faithfully
..- And so as the shadows deepen under the eyes of the stu-
dents, we leave the grotto-light of the blotterless (sob) lib-
Tary...

Cancer Study Probes
Compound Resistance

Continued from Page 1
the chemotherapy of cancer, Dr
Burchenal continued: 1) that you
should know what cancer is, how
an infected cell differs from a
healthy cell, before chemotherapy
is employed; 2) the empirical
method which looks for compounds
that will.work on cancer, and after
that determines why they work

The second is the method Sloan
Kettering uses. For screening com-
pounds at random, most reliance is
placed on the solid tumor program.
A tumor is ifjected into mice and
then the micp are treated. The tu-
mor is measured when the treat-
ment is begun and during its pro-
cess. If untreated, the mice all die
about the same time. The program
shows how much, if any, a com-
pound can increase survival time.
Supplementary tests include: 1)
letting the infected mice go for
eight days after the injection of
the disease so that they can de-
velop a high white count; then see-
ing if the compound causes the
white count to fall; 2) finding out
how the compound works to im-
prove it.

-What the experimental scientist
is interested in is how the com-
pound will affect the human pa-
tient. How can human dosage be
determined? First he tries the
compound on mice, rats, cats and
dogs. If there is no marked dif-
ference inthe reaction, it can be
assumed man’s dosage is the same
as that of a dog. The treatment
is first applied to a very sick pa-
tient about to die and then tried
on cases that might be benefited by

it. Only then can the scientist
discover how valuable the com

There are two compounds now
being used in the treatment of leu-
kemia: amethépterin and cortisone.
Although they produce a definite
survival increase, resistance to
them occurs because of the random
mutation of perhaps a single cell.
“If we could find some way to
counteract resistance,” Dr. Burch-
enal continued, “we would have a
treatment as good as insulin for
diabetes.” There are two possible
explanations for resistance: 1) an
alternate metabolic pathway; 2)
decreased affinity of the erzyme
for amethopterin.

“Our problem is manifold,” he
concluded. New compounds must
be found, old mechanisms perfect-
ed by study of their actions, and
the mechanisms of resistance stud-
ied. “At the present time we are
curing none,” but the lives of a
few are being prolonged. If the
scientists could only keep patients
alive for two years, it would be a
great question whether or not it
would be worth it. The hope which
spurs them on is that sooner or
later someone will find something
a lot better than they have today;
that someday someone will get the
benefits of their present work.



The College swimming poo}
will be opened during exam
week from May 21st through
May 30th at 11:30 to 12:30
every morning and 4 to 5 every
afternoon, for those whe are

not Life Savers.







Defender Of Freedoms
Must Uphold Position
Continued from Page 1

lege.

Two conditions are imposed upon
the individuals who feel respons-
ible in relation to basic freedoms:
1) they must acquire knowledge
sufficient to judge the particular
issue; 2) they must be willing to
take a stand, and learn how to do
so effectively. The ordinary per-
son may ask whether it is worth-
while to take a stand; Miss Mc-



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Bride remarked that “It is danger-| Fraser

Observer

Reprinted from last Spring

There are many ways to do it;
we’ve considered almost all. One
could fiing one’s self headlong on
the Goodhart door or jump into the
mysterious pit in the Catacombs
of the library. Innumerable ways!

Or one could turn in one’s paper.
But this is the coward’s way out.
Our paper is not illustrated; it
contains no meticulous diagrams;
it consists mainly of typographical
errors. 'We are sorry; we have
done our best. We spent at least
50 hours reading for our paper
and at least ten years writing it.
We are old and worn and haggard.
Our professor believes we have
dropped the course. He is mistak-
en. It has fallen on us. :

The Library detests us. We are
being followed by a private inves-
tigator. We admit we inadvertent-
ly crushed an aspirin between the
leaves of one book, but we swear
that we did not cut out the frontis-
piece. We repeat, our paper has
no illustrations:

Then today we saw them, both
of them. One is sturdy and grey
and hangs from the big tree in
front of the library. The other is
delicate and white and sways se-
ductively in ‘the wind. It hangs
from the cherry tree at the side of
the library. They are nooses.

‘We were happy when we saw
them. No, we do not mean to be
morbid. ‘We feel they represent a
kindred: spirit. Somewhere there
is someone who understands. Poss-
ibly, oh possibly, there is someone
else who ‘thas not passed in her
paper. Please.

It sits on the floor of our room
and we loathe it. It is like a hoagy
—it permeates the atmosphere and
the longer it stays, the more we
hate it. We should pass it in. .

There are so many ways to do
it. One could fling one’s self head-
long on the Goodhart door or
jump into the mysterious pit in
the catacombs of the library. In-
numerable ways...

PGi 8.

SPORTS

Bryn Mawr played four varsity
sports this spring, tennis, lacrosse,
softball, and golf, the latter hav-
ing its first year of intercollegiate
play. Top praise goes to both
the JV and the varsity tennis
teams and their captain, Nancy
Blackwood, for winning all their
matches against Rosemont, Ur-
sinus, Temple, Penn, and Swarth-
more. Varsity lacrosse, captained
by Tuck Howell, won two and lost
two of its games while the second
team also came out evenly, win-
ning one and losing one. The
softball team, led by Mary Klein,
has lost to Penn and Chestnut
Hill but won its most recent game
against Drexel, 17-6, with the help
of Phoebe Harvey’s strike-out
pitching. The new golf team,
made up of Mary McGrath, Bunny
Dean, Nat McCuaig, Betsy. Re-
penning, and Anne Martin, has
beaten Swarthmore but lost to
Penn. Congratulations to this
new team for their enthusiasm
and growing skill.











Tsuda College for Women,
the Japanese sister college of
B.M.C., needs books. When
Leary’s comes to buy books,
put your unsold ones in the box
in the bookshop.







ous to wait.” It is not numbers
alone that will matter; a combina-
tion of competence and integrity
must be attached to the person
about to take a stand.

Jam Angstadt, ’62 to Robert



Schrecker on Freedom
Links Specific, Universal

Continued from Page 1

specifications of the universal
Freedom. Particular freedoms are
inevitably associated with the pri-
mordial needs and aspirations of
human beings. The different prov-
inces of civilization and’ the speci-
fic freedoms related to them are
based on these aspirations. How-
ever, aspirations are bound to con-
flict, and thus, in any positive civ-
ilization, some freedoms must be
subordinate to others. If there
existed a rationally ordered hier-
archy of freedoms, it would be an
easy task to discover whether or
not a particular civilization were
a good one. However, no such
standard exists.

The most that can be hoped for
in the attainment of a dynamical
balance in which no one freedom is
allowed to reach a state of hyper-
trophy such that’ other freedoms
are completely atrophied. If
enough aspirations are frustrated
long enough, revolutions result.
(Such revolutions may take place
in the individual as well as within
civilizations). The specific’ free-
doms are so dramatically interre-
lated with the overall concept of
freedom that such state of frustra-
tion eventually impairs even the
particular freedom which happens
to be in the ascendency. The ideal
to be attained is one in which all
freedoms are compossible. Since
every man has a right to civiliza-
tion, punitive sanctions (i. e. ex-
clusive' from civilization) should
only be employed to the extent
necessary to preserve it. An inter-
national power is needed to rule
out totalitarian regimes and to
maintain an international Bill of
Rights. This end is especially the
task of ethics and the philosophy
of history.

Talent, Papism Found
Incompatible In Novel

Continued from Page 1

Catholics”, like Therese Desquey-
roux’s ‘husband, for instance, are
the characters who totally fail to
win our sympathy renders Maur-
iac’s Catholocism suspect.

Bernanos writes from a similar
point of view, but with a more ex-
aggerated interest in the omni-
presence of Evil. He develops the
evil side of his characters to such
an extent that it appears to be his
only concern. He depicts these
sinners as possessed by a devilish
energy, which, though it leads
them to commit acts of violence,
appears more commendable to him
than the passivity of the majority
of men. In treating saintly char-
acters he concentrates upon their
preliminary doubts and spiritual
struggles or upon the excesses in
their faith which lead them to un-
orthodoxy. In contrast to the
Catholic belief, his “(Nouvelle His-
toire de Mouchette” ends with the
clear implication that the girl who
has committed suicide will be sav-
ed in the after life.

From all of this M. Collignon
concluded that there are good
Catholics and there are good nov-
elists, but that the twain rarely,
if ever, meet. The qualities which
make Mauriac and Bernanos good
novelists are precisely those which
endanger their positions as Cath-
olics, while it is a fact that auth-
or like Bourget, Bazin, and Bor-
deaux, who write completely unor-
thodox novels are bad _ novelists.
And the paradox of the “good
Catholic novel” remains unsolved.



The Bryn Mawr College
Theatre announces with pleas-
ure the selection of Shakes-
peare’s “Othello” as the first
production of the fall 1951 sea-
son. Mr. Frederick Thon will }

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