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VOL. XLIV, NO. 24

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1950



Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Penn Physicist
Proposes Basis
Of Bird Flights

Science Club Sponsors
‘Henry Yeagley’s
Lecture

“Now let’s just ease into this
gradually.” Dr. Henry Yeagley,
astro-physicist and Associate Pro-
fessor of Physics at Pennsylvania
State College, is a slender, genial

man who likes to gesture broadly,
particularly when he is discussing
his avocation, A Proposed Physi-
cal Basis of Bird Navigation. His
talk, sponsored by the Science
Club was given last Thursday eve-

ning in the Biology Lecture Room.

in Dalton.

“You may think I’m going a
long way ’round”, he said, “but
you will see the relation of what
I say to bird nagivation.”

“I grew up'in York, Pennsylva-
nia. My father was a horse and
buggy doctor, and I used to take

- it, the horse, to the blacksmith’s to
be shod. I got my early educa-
tion hanging around the black-
smith shop, but’, here he paused
and regarded his audience thought-
fully for a moment, “I won’t go

“A few. yards away from th

“shop was a pigeon coop in which

child I used to wonder how those
a man. kept homing pigeons. As a
fuzzy-wuzzy things, that work
their way out of their shells with
such difficulty, can in four weeks
be on the wing, and in three
months can compete in hundred
mile races. On those evenings I
used to sit and watch the bats
wheeling around the street lamps.
Flying at high speed they would
approach some obstacle—a branch
or a telephone wire, and then sud-
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Dr. Martin Foss
To Give Address

At Bacealaureate

Dr. Martin Foss of the Haver-
ford College philosophy depart-
ment has been chosen by the class
of 1950 as speaker at the Bacca-
laureate Service on Sunday eve-
ning, June fourth. Dr. Foss grew
up and began his work in Berlin
when it was still the artistic and
scientific center of Europe, but he
left at the time of Hitler’s rise to
power. He went to Paris where he
lectured and carried on secret lia-
son work with the German capital.
Later he was persuaded by his wife
to leave France and come to New
York.

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B.M. Innovates
Contest in Skills
Of Horsemanship

The first Bryn Mawr College
Horse Show was held on Tuesday,
May 16 at Mr. Fox’s Stables in
Valley Forge: The show consisted
of three classes in straight horse-
manship, and one jumping class.
The results were as follows: Be-
ginners, Louise Dengler, Beverly
Singer, Norma Bachrach, Zita

Levine; Intermediates, Diana, Poole,}
| Sheila Atkinson, Bertie Dawes;

Advanced, Bess Foulke, Gretchen
Wemmer, Chris MacVeagh, Eula
Harmon; Jumping, Gretchen Wem-
mer, Chris MacVeagh, Eula Har-
mon, Rosemary Spicer. This first
of Bryn Mawr’s horse shows was
a great success, and one which the
Athletic Association hopes to re-
peat in years to come.



The News takes great pleas-
ure in announcing the election
of Frances Shirley as co-make-
up editor.









Bones on Roof Alert Wyndham
For Hunt of Bristling Raccoon

Specially contributed by
Karen Cassard, ’50

As ‘my roommate and I were
preparing, a couple of weeks ago,
to go out and sun ourselves on the
porch roof, which is just outside
our room, we noticed, to our hor-
ror, several very large and very
smelly bones lying about. Being
as how I am so frightfully civic
minded (my wanting to sunbathe
had nothing at all to do. with it, of
course), I volunteered to remove
them, with the invaluable aid of
The Philadelphia Inquirer. That
‘helped a bit but not much, and we
were forced to move several feet
away. Stark tragedy had reared
its ugly head.

The great mystery was how the
bones ever got on the roof in the
first place. They were much too
big to have been brought there by
a cat or a squirrel, the only ani-
mals anyone had ever seen around
here, and although we fully realize
that the percentage of eccentric
people in this locality is unusually

‘ high, we really didn’t think there
were any—even amung the profes-
sors—who were eccentric enough
to want to throw great, half-
gnawed bones onto our roof. We
were, for the first time since the
hygiene exam, stumped, so we did
what we had done then, and for-







got about it, repeating, to our-
selves the unofficial Bryn Mawr
motto: “Ignorance is bliss.”

But more and more bones kept,
appearing, and at last we decided
that we really must do something,
so my roommate and I went to the:
Business Office and told our gory’:
tale. Everyone was most sym-
pathetic,,and we were at last ad-

vised to listen carefully that night;

for any suspicious noises, and then,
if we heard any, to rush boldly
out witi a flashlight and see what
it was.

This was all very well, except
that my roommate was going out
and leaving me all alone. Never-
theless, I resolved to be brave, and
after opening the three windows
with screens in them, I sat down
and waited. But the minutes pass-
ed away and became hours, and
still no noises. I began to lose
hope, when suddenly there reach-
ed my ears the unmistakable
sounds of light quick steps on the
roof! I rushed for the flashlight,
and approached the window in
dread, fully expecting to see un-
told horrors.

If you have ever tried looking
through a screen at night with a
very feeble flashlight, you know
how much you can see: the screen.

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Resolutions,Rights
Discussed by NSA
At BM Conference

The delegates to the NSA sub-
regional conference held at Bryn
Mawr on April 29 passed several
resolutions during the course of
the afternoon’s heated discussions
on Student Rights and Responsi-
bilities. Later the regional officers
of NSA reconsidered the resolu-
tions, and decided that they had
been passed by a group not wholly
representative ef NSA, even
though these resolutions were of
a committal nature.

Recently, in a letter to the col-
lege committee, Elmer Brock, Pres-
ident of the Pennsylvania Regional
United States National Students’
Association, said that the resolu-
tions were “not to be considered
as either NSA policy or NSA pro-
nouncements.” That they had been
passed at all was in violation. of
the regional constitution, for fifty
delegates represented not NSA
exclusively, but YPA, the Academic
Freedom Union, Young Republi-
cans, and even non-existent organ-
izations.

The motions dealt with the civil
rights case of students of Lincoln
University in Oxford, Pennsyl-
vania, as well as with various cam-
pus political organizations. The
conference acted without a peti-

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Bryn Mawr Wins
In Softball Game

The softball game played be-
tween Bryn Mawr and Chestnut
Hill on Tuesday, May 16 closed
with a score of 6-5 in Bryn Mawr’s
favor. The game was stretched to
nine innings, because Chestnut Hill
tied Bryn Mawr in the seventh
inning. Our players were: Catcher,
Jackson; Pitcher, Cohen; First
Base, Klin; Second Base, Jo Ras-
kin; Third Base, Tilman; Short-
stop, Hayes; Shortfield, Voorhis;
Rightfield, Cross; Centerfield, Janet
Leeds; Leftfield, Ellen Wells.



The class of 1951 takes great
pleasure in announcing the
election of Annie-Lawrie Fab-
ens as editor and Marilie Wal-
lace as business manager of
next year’s yearbook.









CALENDAR
‘Friday, May 19

Last Day of Lectures.

Class Day, Library, Taylor,
Deanery, Dalton, 1:00 p.m.
Monday, May 22-Friday, June 2

Examination Period.

Sunday, June 4

Memorial Service for Serena
Hand Savage, ’22, President of
the Alumnae Association of
Bryn Mawr College, 1948 to
February 24, 1950, Library
Cloisters, 4:00 p.m.

Baccalaureate Service, Dr.
Martin Foss, Lecturer in Philos-
ophy, Haverford College, Good-
hart, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, June 5

Senior Garden Party, admis-
sion by invitation only, Wynd-
ham Garden, 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6

Commencement Exercises, Dr.
Millicent Carey McIntosh, Dean
of Barnard College, admission
by. invitation only, Goodhart,
11:00 a.m.









Roosevelt, Sforza, Taft, Shaw
Send Advisory Letters to IRC

Specially contributed by
Eva Glassberg, ’52

Since so many students are going

abroad this summer, the Inter-|

national Relations Club thought it
would be a good idea to ask for ad-
vice on what we, American stud-
ents, can do te stimulate efforts
towards a peaceful world. There-
fore, the IRC wrote letters to fif-
teen people, asking for such advice.
Unfortunately, all the responses

Mrs. R. MeIntosh
To Give Address
To Class of 1950

Mrs. Millicent Carey McIntosh,
who received her A.B. from Bryn
Mawr College in 1920, will give the

commencement address, the subject
of which is not now known.

Mrs. McIntosh was born in Balti-
more, Maryland in 1898. After
completing her studies at Bryn
Mawr, she went to Johns Hopkins
University where she received her
Ph.D. in 1926. In 1940 she received
her LLD from Smith College.

Mrs. McIntosh is one of the few
people, who have successfully man-
aged both an academic and a
domestic career. She is married to
Dr. Rustin McIntosh, and the
mother of five children, and at the
same time has held many high
positions. From 1922 to 1923 she
taught at Rosemary Hall, and then,
from 1926 to 1929, was an instruc-
tor in English here at Bryn Mawr.
From 1929 to 1930, she was an As-
sistant in English and Acting Dean
here. Headmistress of the Brear-
ley School in New York from 1930
to 1947, she then became Dean of
Barnard College, Columbia Uni-
versity, and still holds this posi-
tion.

Mrs. McIntosh is the niece of
former President M. Carey
Thomas.



‘have not yet come through, and
| we are able to publish only four
letters. We have not yet heard from
Nehru, Pope Pius, Trygve Lie, Al-
bert Einstein, Robert Schuman,
Franco, or Marshall Tito. Both
Winston Churchill and Clement At-
lee wrote that they received too
many such requests and had made
it a policy to answer none; Senator
Vandenberg was unable to ans-
wer because of his illness; and
President. Truman sent us several
speeches pertaining to internation-
al relations, none of which, how-
ever, contained a direct answer ‘to
the question we had asked. How-
ever, we did receive the following
answers:

From Eleanor Roosevelt:

The most important thing that
American students can do is to
learn what their own democracy
means and live it in whatever cir-
cumstances they find themselves.
At the present time there is a
struggle going on in the world for
the minds of men and if democracy
is to win against communism it
must be because democracy proves
that it is a growing, living faith,
demonstrating its faith through
action. This can be done by stud-
ents in schools,-in their homes and
wherever they travel. It requires a
crusading spirit and a determina-
tion to fight for peace throughout
our daily lives as we fought to win
the war.
From Count Carlo Sforza:

The idea of a European unity,
which until recently was consider-
ed by many people as a Utopia, is
now gaining ground as the actual
reality of a not too distant future.
But just as Rome was not built in
a day, we can likewise assume that
a goal so far-reaching as this one
will not be achieved in one breath.
What is — after all — even a per
iod of ten years, when history is
being made? It was only under
Dictatorship that we have wit-
nesses -(sic.) improvised pseudo-



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Descartes’ Anniversary Marked
By Exhibit in Rare Book Room

In conjunction with the tercen-
tenary celebration of Descartes’
death, the Rare Book Room has
on exhibit many first editions and

related volumes on Rene Descartes
‘!from the collection of Professor

Paul Schrecker.

Of the portraits of the French
philosopher and mathematician,
one was engraved “dans le gout du

|erayon” by Saverien 1763, another

shows him as a young man; the
original is in the Museum of Toul-
ouse.

One picture, of which this is the
only copy recorded, shows Des-
cartes at his writing desk, quill
in hand, two globes on the floor
beside him, a skeleton on the wali,
geometric instruments scattered on
the desk, and the sun streaming
through the window.

Included in the display are cop-
ies of Les Principes de la Philoso-
phie, Paris, 1659, opened to the
illustration of the vortices, and
the catalog of the Descartes ex-
hibition arranged by the Biblio-
theque Nationale of Paris to cele-
brate the tercentenary of the Dis-
cours de la Methode, in 1987.
Pasted on the frontispiece to the
catalog is a postage stamp with
the portrait of Deseartes after
Franz Hals, issued by the French
government on the same occasion.

The stamp, however, was soon
withdrawn because. of the scandal-
ous misprint: (Discours sur in-
stead of de la Methode).

A first edition of the Lettres
de M. Descartes in three volumes
his portrait after life drawn and
engraved by his friend, the math-
ematician van Schoten, the Latin
translation of “Passiones Animae”
which appeared simultaneously
with the French original in the
year of Descartes’ death comprise
much of the rest of the display.

In the corner glass cupboard
works of Descartes’ ‘contempor-
aries and followers may be seen.
Here is the first edition of Leib-
niz’ early writings, and also the
first of his many articles on Des-
cartes. One can see a copy of
Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes,
a satire on the snobbish Cartes-
ianism of bourgeois women pub-
lished in 1672. The works of Louis
de la Forge, and Arnold Geulincx
of Pierre Daniel Huet, Bishop of
Soissons, of Johann Clauberg, the
first German Cartesian, may also
be examined.

Last, in the same case are the
Opera Postumae of Spinoza, and
a great copy, in T. Taylor’s Eng-
lish translation of Malebranche’s
Search After Truth.



‘Cogito ergo sum?’