College news, October 15, 1947

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA. OCTOBER 15, 1947

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

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VOL. XLIV, NO. 3

Activities Drive
Of B.M. League |=

Sets $4,000 Goal

Students’ Contributions
Will Help Finance
Social Projects

The annual Activities Drive of
the Bryn Mawr League began
Monday, October 18, and will con-
tinue through October 27. The
proceeds will be used to finance the
varied charitable activities spon-
sored by the League. Contributions
for this drive are on a completely
voluntary basis, but a quota of $4,-
000 must be met.

The League is the only campus
organization for social work. Al-
though running expenses for the
League itself are provided by the
Undergraduate Association, the
proceeds of the drive are urgently
needed to finance the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp for Underprivileged
Children; the Red Cross activities
on campus; the Maids’ and Port-
ers’ Classes, their dance and a
show; and the Hudson
Shore Labor School, originally
founded by M. Carey Thomas. The
success of these projects depends
Jargely on student co-operation in
this drive.

To stimulate competition in
meeting the quota, Edythe La
Grande, 49, Drive Chairman, has
announced that two thermometers
will be posted in Taylor, represent-
ing each hall. One will record to-
tal Drive contributions in the halls,
and the other, the percentage of
gifts per capita. Soliciting for the
Activities Drive will be done
through the hall representatives.
It is hoped that each student will
contribute $7.00.

Students to Lead
Chapel on Sunday

A new precedent may be estab-
dished by the Student Chapel serv-
ice which will be presented on Sun-
day, October 19, in the Music
Room. Although there will be no
‘outside speaker, the regular order
of service will be followed under
the leadership of Cynthia Lovejoy



and Elizabeth McClure.

One student service was held
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Counsellors At Bryn Mawr Camp
Mix Childcare With Cooking

By Jean Ellis, ’49

If you’d care to test your ingen-
uity, want to try your hand at
managing the unexpected, or are
looking for two weeks of work and
fun, then the Bryn Mawr summer
camp seems to be the ideal spot
for you. The camp, which is spon-
sored by the League, is supported
by proceeds from the. Activities
Drive and soda fountain. “Each
summer,” explained Sally Smuck-

BMC Delegates
To Barnard Conf.
Debate on NSA

.The first Seven College Confer-
ence of 1947-1948 including dele-
gates from Barnard, Wellesley,
Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn
Mawr, Radcliffe, and Pembroke
(the guest college) was held on
October 11 at Barnard ‘to discuss
the National Students Associa-
tion (NSA). Representing Bryn
Mawr were Henny Burch, Presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Assoc-
iation, and KarenyKnaplund, Bryn
Mawr’s delegate to the NSA con-
vention in Madison, Wisconsin,
this summer.

First on the agenda was the
question of how to publicize the
NSA on the various campuses and
what procedure to follow in- put-
ting it before the: students for a
vote. Proposals included college
Assemblies at which the purpose
and methods of the NSA would be
explained, informal teas and house
meetings to arouse interest, and
special articles and columns in
college newspapers. Radcliffe plans
such projects as book drives and
correspondence with foreign stud-
ents in order to illustrate the con-
crete advantages of the NSA.

The second point on the agenda
concerned the finances, a question
which is troubling all the colleges.
No real solution to this problem
was found, but mest of the col-
leges plan to take money from Ac-
tivities fees, etc. in order to finance
the sending of delegates to Madi-
son.

It was emphasized at the close
of the conference that NSA will
not enter into politics, but that
minority reports by local campus-
es may be issued if it is felt that
the national organization is acting
contrary to local campus beliefs.





Labor Relations Expert Enters
Ranks of Bryn Mawr Faculty

by Marian Edwards ’50

This fall Bryn Mawr welcomes
to its faculty Miss Florence Pet-
erson, author and expert in labor
relations, as new Director and
Professor of the Department of
Social Economy. Teaching Soci-
ology in the undergrad and gradu-
ate schools, as well as the gradu-

‘ate department for sooial work

training, Miss Peterson is conduct-
ing undergrad classes in labor re-

lations and a graduate seminar, in

labor problems.
' Miss Peterson claims that: her

main interest in government re-

search, which she has carried over
im her courses, is the study of good
employer and employee relations.

. This acute problem, she feels, is

America’s fundamental - domestic
problem, She points out that we
cannot have harmony abroad with-
out harmony at home. Urging
the importance of labor relations
courses she states, “We live in an

industrial age and it is my firm
belief that as students go out from
college as citizens they should
have a knowledge of America’s
greatest domestic problem.”

Miss Peterson obtained her B.A.
at Ohio Wesleyan, and for the fol-
lowing ten years was employed by
a private industry in Ohio as Di-
rector of Personnel Management.
Later she attended the University
of Wisconsin for graduate work,
where she helped write the third

History of Labor.

1930-1934, Miss Peterson was em-
ployed as State Director of the
Wisconsin Unemployment Relief
program. This involved organiz-

as allocating federal and state re-

years in Washington as Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics of the



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‘volume of the monumental book, |

During the depression years of*

ing work and relief projects as well |

lief. “She spent the next eleven}

er, chairman of the camp for this
year, “the Philadelphia, Family So-
ciety sends three groups of 20
children from the ages of*three to
ten to attend the camp for two
weeks each. Then our problem is

| to #et people to serve as counsel-

lors.’’

Judging by this year’s experi-
ence, Sally rates highly among the
requirements for counsellors the
ability to distinguish between
identical twins. (There were three
sets of twins at camp and identify-
ing them was difficult especially
when both twins answered to the
same name!) Next on the list is
being able to answer questions on
any subject from “Have you any
mortal sins on your soul?” to
“Where’s my sweater?” (Success
in finding the sweater, shoes, towel
or pajamas. which were left. any-
where in the house was also im-

portant.)
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Knaplund R Reports

On NSA Session
At U. of Wisconsin

Specially contributed by
Karen Knaplund ’49

In one of the largest and most
representative student gatherings
held. since the American Student
Union disintegrated, 700 delegates
representing 1,100,000 students in
351 universities and colleges, met
August 30 to September 7 on the
University of Wisconsin campus
in Madison to write a constitution
for a non-political National Stud-
ent Association. Bryn Mawr, which
gave its support to the NSA last
spring, sent Karen Knaplund ’49,
as delegate. After a week of in-
tensive work both day and night;
and speeches by famous educators
a constitution which must be rat-
ified within a month for the new
organization was approved.

The aims of the NSA, enumer-
ated in the preamble of the con-
stitution, include: (1) to secure
and maintain academic freedom
and the rights of students; (2)
stimulate the development of dem-
ocratic self-government; (8) fos-
ter better educational standards,
methods and facilities; (4) work
for the improvement of student
social, cultural and physical wel-
fare; and (5) promote internation-
al understanding and aid in secur-
ing for all people equal education-

al rights regardless of sex, religion,
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CALENDAR

Wednesday, October 15
8:00—I.R.C..meeting, “What

~-Now— in Palestine”, Common

Room, Haverford College.

Friday, October 17
4:00—Hockey: Bryn Mawr
38rd vs. Ursinus, here.
8:00—Lantern ‘ Night,
rary Cloisters.
Saturday, October 18
* 9:00 A. M.—French Exams
for Undergraduates, M. A. and
Ph. D. Candidates.

8:00 P.. M.—Reserved for
Lantern Night, in case of rain
Friday.

Sunday, October 19 -
' 7:30 — All - Student Chapel
Service, Music Room.
Monday, October 20
7:15—Current Events: Miss
Northrop, “The Marshall Plan,”
Common Room.
Wednesday, October 21 3
7:30—-League-Alliance meet-
ing for Freshmen, Common
Room.



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‘singing commercial have aroused





Forty-Nine Uses
Gold Rush Theme
In “Big as Life”,

“Big As Life,” the Junior Show;
to be presented by the class of
Forty-nine, will be given October
25 at 8:30 in the auditorium of
Goodhart Hall for the benefit of
the Drive. The theme of “Big As
Life” is the gold rush of ’49. It
presents “a parody on Life” which
is definitely a 1949 addition to the
famous history of the Forty-nin-
ers.

The stage settings for “Big As
Life” are reputed to be as mag-
nificent as the show itself. Re-
hearsals are well under way with
an enthusiastic junior class behind
them. Startling posters and a

the interest of the entire campus.

The Junior Show is being man-
aged by Ann Eberstadt, assisted
by Ann Seidemann, stage manag-
er; Nancy Martin, business man-
ager; Margo Vorys, costume man-
ager; Sally Worthington, in charge
|of properties, and Honey Pope
ia is handling publicity. The
writing committee was headed by
Gale Minton; the song committee
by Sally Loomis.

All profits which are: made from
the $1.20 admission charge will be
given to the undergraduate quota
of the Bryn Mawr College Fund.

Valley Forge
Enjoys Dance

On iWednesday, October
informal dance for soldiers from}
Valley Forge Hospital was givent
in the Common Room. The dance,
sponsored by the Undergraduate

Association and headed by Ann
Eberstadt, ’49, was deemed a suc-
cess, although some of the fifty
men invited never did appear.
After dancing to victrola music
many couples adjourned to the
Rumpus Room for some _ brisk
games of ping-pong. Punch and
cookies were served, and the Soda
Fountain did a ‘booming business.
The several women from the Spec-
ial Services at Valley Forge, who
accompanied the soldiers, said that

8,-an

D1 To Receive
Green Lanterns
In BM Tradition

Pallas Athena Invoked

In Ceremonial
Welcome

The annual Lantern Night cere-
mony will take place on Friday,
October 17, at 8:00 in the Library
Cloisters. “With this ceremony of
dignity and tradition the Sopho-
mores formally welcome the _in-
coming class in what is perhaps
the oldest and most characteristic
of the college’s festivals.

The Freshmen, silent and invis-
ible in their black caps and gowns,
file into the blackness of the clois-
ters and form a circle facing the
west wing of the library. The
Sophomores enter bearing lighted
lanterns. As they walk they sing
a Greek hymn, invoking Pallas
Athena to make holy the lanterns
and to change darkness into light.
They form a second semi-circle,

-|woven into the lines of the first.

Each Sophomore hands her lantern
to the closest Freshman and runs.
The Freshmen answer: ‘‘We come,
O Goddess; we are lovers of beauty
in just measure and lovers of wis-
dom also,” as they file out. The
solemn ceremony is finished, but
following, a gayer gathering as-
sembles under Pembroke Arch.

tions about the lanterns. Inside
each lantern is an invitation to tea
from Sophomore to Freshman. The
girl whose candle burns _ longest

pand who stays awake to prove her

claim, is fated to become hall pres-
ident in one theory, while others
have it she will be the first mem-
ber of her class to marry. Another
tradition which has persisted is
that the girl who finds wax drip-
ping on her gown. will earn her
Ph. D., or according to Bryn Mawr
custom, will graduate Magna Cum
Laude.

“Pallas Athena” was the class
of 1893’s song and was adapted
for Lantern Night in 1901. “So-
phias Philai’? was transposed in
1921 and the music was selected
from a part of the Russian Church
service by A. F. Lyoff. The words
are from Pericles’ funeral oration



the party was greatly appreciated.

by Thucydides.

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Swiss Say Bryn Mawrtyrs
Waste Energy Taking Notes

by Emily Townsend °50

Three seniors, Patricia Hoch-
schild, Barbara Nugent, and Har-
riet Vitkin, were Bryn Mawr’s rep-
resentatives in the Smith Group
at the University of Geneva last
year. The American students,
who “concentrated on social stud-
ies and the active social life,” all
lived in a large Hotel on the new,
or League-of-Nations, side of Gen-
eva, and had their classes at the
University itself, on .the other
side of the Rhone, or at the Insti-
tute Universitaire des Hautes
Etudes Internationales near the
League of Nations building.

The average day at Geneva
started at seven-thirty in the
morning, with a breakfast of
bread-and-butter-and-jam, and cof-
fee liberally laced with milk, “to
hide thé horrible taste,” said Pat
bitterly. Classes lasted from
eight o’clock until seven at night
at the University, which was all
stone and tall pillars, with desks
built up in an ampitheatric ar-



rangement; the caps and bands of
the students provided the only
brightness of color.

Mimeographed copies of all the
lectures which professors were
likely to give (and the wording
changed scarcely at all from year
to year) were sold for most cours-
es at quite profitable prices; when
a Swiss student missed a class, he
either looked up the lecture in one
of these, or copied the notes of
an American girl, which amounted
to almost the same thing. (“They
watched in amazement the profu-
sion of notes we took,” the three
agreed, “but seemed to think it a
waste of energy”). All lectures
were, of course, given in French,

and most of the examinations as

well.

After dinner there might be a
speech, “by any big-shot who hap-
pened to be around town,” said
Harriet, among them Andre Mau-
rois; or everyone might go off to
the movies to see the most pas-

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The Foreign Students

This year Bryn Mawr has foreign students from all parts
of the world who have come to live among us, to study with
us, and to know us. All the time our way of life is being un-
folded to them, to be contrasted with that which they have
left behind. Our individual characteristics become for them
national characteristics. They compare us with their native
people, favorably: or unfavorably, according to their various
backgrounds. And, having certain moral and_ intellectual
standards already inculcated in them, they cannot help but
see us with prejudiced eyes.

Few of us realize that even if we are unable to transfer
to the Sorbonne, to Geneva or Zurich, or Mexico, we have a
chance to know the foreign students at Bryn Mawr. We do
not have to live abroad in order to get to know a foreign peo-
ple. True, we cannot understand them as completely as when
they. are in their own surroundings, and we miss the temper,
the feeling of the nation, but “here in our own backyard” we
can get to know the kind of people with whom we are striving
to build peace.

We welcome the ‘foreign students to Bryn Mawr and hope
that they are as happy to be here as our transfer students
are to be abroad. We hope that they will take an active part
in Bryn Mawr’s organizations, plays and social activities,
that they will go to our night-clubs, to our football games, to
cur theatres and concerts so that they can appraise us and
take back with them a clear and whole picture, and a happy
memory of American life.

~The Wright School

The purchase of the Wright School is of great signifi-
cance to Bryn Mawr. Besides offering numerous possibilities
for expansion, the additional space it provides will do much
in relieving the strain-on-present_ strained facilities. -The
gymnasium can be used very soon, but the question of what
to do with the rest of the building has not yet been decided.

This property could be used for such important pur-

poses as more classrooms, additional graduate student space,
another Common Room, perhaps faculty apartments, and

even a men’s dormitory on gala college weekends. However,
as far as the use of this building for fe quarters is con-
- cerned, we hope no undergraduates will: ive there even tem-
porarily. gone

In spite of the increasing demand for college entrance,
we feel that Bryn Mawr should remain the small college that
it is, with its undergraduate body housed on the immediate
campus. Part of the value of the college consists in the very
tact that it is both small and compact. The purchase of the
? Wright School should not be considered an occasion for ex-

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become’_bones

Last Nighters

Medea Superbly Acted;
~ Production Effects
Are Elaborate

by Barbara Bettman ’49

The Locust’s current” production
is exactly as advertiSed—“Medea”,
freely adapted from the “Medea”
of Euripides, by Robinson Jeffers.
No production expense has- been
spared: there is a superb and really
Grecian set, extraordinary s yund
effects, a fancy curtain, and og
erable elaborate costumes. =|
haps the feeling for the Greek
drama is gone, but perhaps again
it is unfair to overlook the Amer-
ican desire for the most for, the
money. !

“Medea” is, of course, a one-
woman’ play, and Judith Anderson
has been destined for the role. Her
presence is as commanding as it
always is, and she fully satisfies
the Jeffers conception of Medea.
No actress can do more, and Miss
Anderson fully deserved her bra-
voes. Florence Reed as the nurse
is equally superb, in a much small-
er part, and her horror at the tra-
gedy is brilliantly sustained. The
,sense of tragedy is impending dur-
ing the entire play and the de-
nouement is a real emotional drain
on the audience. The fact that it
is not Greek tragedy seemed in-
cidental to most of the playgoers.

Far from Euripedes

Jeffers and Gielgud have respec-
tively written and directed a “Med-
ea” which is far, and yet not far
enough, from the Euripidean play.
Had it been thoroughly modern-
ized, with no translation remnants,
it might have been plausible, but
this play is part ancient Greek,
part seventeenth century, and part
modern

Cypris to the Greek was assur-
edly not the “Goddess who makes
girls fall in love”; nor would any
self-respecting Greek have an-
nounced, in the best slang of World
War II, “This is it!” On the other
hand, neither modern nor Greek
could identify, “’Tis no matter
now,” delivered by Mr. Gielgud in
his best Shakespearean manner.
There are other unpleasantnesses,
such as“... your mouth twitch-
es,” and an uncomfortably elabor-
ate set of. metaphors arranged
about the Greek use of the word
“dog” as invective—a word which
conveys no force to a modern au-
dience. It seems strange that
Jeffers would choose such a speci-
fic word to translate accurately’
when he has departed from the
most beautiful of the original lines.
Nor can the argument of “Well,
they’re in Greek” be held valid:
there are a number of excellent
and accurate translations, in both

| prose and verse.

17th Century
A good deal of the play, as a
matter of fact, suffers from Mr.
Gielgud’s—and apparently Mr. Jef-




é derson is Lady
Macbeth all over again, down to
exact similitudes of gesture, not-
ably one point at which she fren-
ziedly rubs her arms, wishing to
upon the shore
(something which did not occur to
Euripides). This gesture does more
than remind one of her pitiful
handwringing of five years back:
“What! will these hands ne’er be
clean?”

Mr. Jeffers’ play has entirely
done away with the Greek chorus
and has instead substituted three
Corinthian women. Grace Mills,
as the First Woman mostly supplies
the function of the Leader of th¢
Chorus, and is dignified and thrill-
ing in .the role. The two other

women are best left unnamed. The
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‘More Spiritual, Less Formal Service
Could Solve Problem
Of B. M. Chapel

To the Editor:

Of all the criticism currently to
be heard on the subject of Chapel,
the most frequent is. that it should
be held in a more appropriate
place. Certainly this is true: the
Music Room cannot be transformed
into a place for formal worship
simply by hiding the blackboard.
It~is not so ugly, though, and not
so uncomfortable that it could not
be a place of worship if the service
were changed to suit the place.

The Music Room is not, I think,
the real obstacle. The service it-
self does not fit the needs of the
college. Chapel, as it exists, is not
satisfactory for anyone, least of
all the congregation. Those stu-
dents who enjoy a formal service
go to church on Sunday morning.
They will not go to a formal serv-
ice again on Sunday evening, espe-
cially one held in so incongrous a
place. The people who don’t go to
church in the morning will, for the
same reasons, not go to chapel in
the evening.

Worship Service

The need is, I think, for a serv-
ice without the formality of a
church service. My proposition is
that we change the service into a
service for worship, that we sub-
tract from the intellectual element
and add to the spiritual. Instead
ofa service centered around the
minister and his sermon, I suggest
that chapel|be led by a member of
the Chapel Committee and that it
consist of music, both by choir and

congregation, prayers said by all,
the reading of a passage of the
Bible, and five minutes or so of
quiet. Such a service would give

-to all the very necessary sense of

spiritual relaxation -which we so
much need to counteract the intel-
lectual feverishness of our week-
day lives.
“Speakers

I realize that the great objection
to this plan is that it deprives us
of so many excellent speakers; it
need not. The same men could
come under different — and more
favorable—circumstances. Ae it
is, they must speak within the tra-
ditional limits of the sermon; they.
are tired, having spoken to anoth-
er congregation that morning;
they have, often, a long trip home
ahead of them. The discussions
are limited by weariness and lack
of time and our reticence when
confronted with a man in robes
who has just given a sermon. Why
not have these speakers come dur-
ing the week, when they have more
time and will, surely, have larger
audiences? Why not have them
give talks rather than sermons, so
that they will be freer to speak
and we to question? Such talks
and discussions would fit in with
the lectures given by members ef
other faiths and they would supply
the intellectual half of our relig-
ious life as chapel would the pure-
ly spiritual.

Most sincerely,
Geraldine A. Warburg. :



K. Knaplund Reports
On Stud. Association

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political beliefs, or economic cir-
cumstances. These aims will be
pursued on the national, regional
and campus level through such ac-
tivities as-collecting and dissem-
inating information and statistics,
working out student tours and cul-
tural exchanges, and bringing stud-
ents together to discuss and plan
projects for the improvement of
education in all phases.

The knottiest problem concern-
ed racial discrimination, especial-
ly as applied by Southern white
colleges. The final compromise
solution—reached in a dramatic
session hich climaxed
three days—of ulent committee
and panel discussions, Southern
white and Negro caucuses—pro-

vided that NSA “will take action
‘on national, regional, and campus

level through the corresponding
organization of NSA to implement
its stated principles, with regard
to the legal limitations involved.”

A second major problem was
whether the NSA should join the
International Union of Students
(IUiS), whose recent convention
at Prague was distinguished by
the number, of pro-Communist del-
egates. The convention decided
that “although there are funda-
mental differences between the
NSA and the IUS,” it would ask
to join the IUS but only on an
educational, non-political level,
since the American students are
still “desirous of whole-hearted
and fullest cooperation with stud-
ents throughout the world.”

Attempts of political or semi-
political student groups to. gain
representation were side-stepped
when the delegates denied organi-
zations such as the AYD and Stud-
ents for Democratic Action voting
and advisory rights at future con-
ventions. Only officially consti-
tuted student bodies may join
NSA.

Other decisions included: to shun

political groups and political ac-'

tion; to sponsor the World Stud-

ent Service Fund and the ISS; to.
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| Bargaining”





F. Peterson Heads .
Social Econ. Dept.

Continued from "Page 1
Industrial Relations Divison of* the
Department. of Labor. This in-
volved research work on govern-
ment reports on labor management. _
disputes and-trade unions.

She spent the past year on her
latest book, Survey of Labor Econ-
‘comics, which came off the press
last spring. This book has been
adopted by some sixty colleges and
universities as a textbook for la-
bor economics. Among her other
works are Handbook of Labor Re-
lations, a compilation of rules and
procedures from union _ constitu-
tions and by-laws, American Labor
Unions, what they are and how
they function, and “Careers in La-
bor Relations,” a pamphlet used
for vocational guidance by» ‘high
schools and by the ‘War Depart-
ment. Her latest article, ‘““Man-
agement Efficiency and Collective
is published in the
October issue of ‘Cornell Univer-
sity’s Industrial and Labor Rela-
tions Review.

At Bryn Mawr Miss Peterson
says she finds a welcome change:
from government and Washington.
life. Though it is rather premature
to establish aims for the Depart-
ment, Miss Peterson expresses her
desire to further the aim previous-
ly established by giving students
a broad knowledge and understand-

ing of social and economic’ prob=
lems.

Chapel Will Present
All-Student Service

Continued from Page 1 -
last year in which the chorus and
congregation sat together and
joined in all.the singing. Scrip-
ture reading was done by students.
At that time jit was complained
that the reading was inaudible and
that the service was too informal
for frequent repetition. The Chap-
el Committee has attempted to
carry out suggested improvements
in this year’s service. If it is liked
by the student body, more will be.

presented during the year.
The head of the Chapel Commit-
tee asks that those who attend.

r eeeaecde, har
™*



THE COLLEGE NEWS



Bryn Maur Hospitality Allows —
Princeton To Eke Out 4-3 Win _

by Cecelia Maccabe ’50

Strange things happened on the
afternoon of Friday, October 10,
when Bryn Mawr met the Cap and
Gown Club of Princeton in an
eventful game of hockey. The
final: score was 4-3, due only to
the hospitality of Bryn Mawr.

Surprises started -when ~ the
Princeton “team”: appeared in red
Bryn Mawr bloomers and tunics;
the uproar began when one of
BM’s noble opponents seemed | to
be having trouble keeping his
bloomers up. Confusion was in-
creased by the Bryn Mawr cheer-
ing section, where one courtesy
cheer began: “Three cheers for the

Princeton Junior High.” The
strange and indescribable sounds
uttered by a bugle at certain

points in the game could be inter-



K. Knaplund Reports
On Stud. Association
Continued from Page 2

UNESCO
(this seat was later granted); and
to adopt a student Bill of Rights.

The national organization is di-

tional Commission for

vided into 26 geographic regions |

which have elected officers. Secre-
tary of the ‘Pennsylvania region is
Karen Knaplund. National officers
include William ‘Welsh, Berea Col-
lege, Ky., president; Ralph Dungan,
St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia,
vice president in charge of nation-
al affairs; Janis Tremper, Rock-
ford College, Ill., secretary; and
Leeland Jones, University of Buf-
falo, treasurer. Madison, Wiscon-
sin was chosen national headquar-
ters for the new organization.



NEWS TRYOUTS

Tryouts for the Editorial
Staff of the News are open to
all classes.: Come to the ‘meet-
ing in the News room, Good-
hart; on Thursday, October 16,
at 4:30 o’clock.





preted almost any way. We have
our own ideas about that, natural-
ly.

In the first quarter, Bryn Mawr
stepped right in, hamfered only
slightlysby its caps and gowns, to
make a goal in the first few min-
utes. The Bryn Mawr goalie
seemed bored. She ignored Prince-
ton completely$during this quarter,
and spent her time chatting with
two small boys.. After the first
goal Princeton took the upper hand.
Their four goals may have come
more easily because they had ua
few extra men. Even the referees
were confused when, after playing
one quarter without any goalie,
Princeton suddenly sprouted four.
The referees also had_ trouble
calling fouls on the Princeton men,
who unfailingly retorted “techni.
cal rule.”



We take our hats off to the gal-
j\lantry of the Princeton team in
| the last quarter, or was it a mis-
| take? The goalie himself hit one
. ball into the Princeton goal, and
| simply steod aside and watched as
the second one rolled slowly in.
It really looked like a put-up job.
We do remember, however, that

Cap and Gown kept the score at
Aé3, in their favor.

The
fusion.

game ended in total con-

No one seemed to know
exactly when it was over, so it
stopped gradually. Our last im-
pressiom is of the Princeton team
being split into two factions, each
cheering loudly, and in opposition,
for Bryn Mawr. We’re much oblig-
ed.







THE

PLACE TO COME
FOR DISTINCTIVE
GREETING CARDS

IS

Richard Stockton’s
BRYN MAWR







| government.





Current Events

Commen Room, October 13: Dr.
Felix Gilbert, in his talk on “The
Political Situation in Italy,” dis-
cussed the support given to the
present parliamentary system by
political parties and by the Italian
people.

x 7 ‘ -| ; : |
Except. for the Communists, po | Genevois holiday L’Escalade. Then

litical parties in Italy wield little
influence, Dr. Gilbert explained.
Six months ago the Communist
policy was co-operation with other
parties but in the last three or
four months the gap between Com-
munists and Christian Democrats
has widened. Although involved
in sabotage, politics, the Commu-
nists have not turned to direct and
more dangerous action. Right-wing
parties observe a toleration policy

\in their fear that the Communists

control of the
Former Fascists co-
operate with the Christian Demo-
crats.

In general, the Italian people
feel that though they may have
been worse off under the Fascists
they had a better time. Financial
aid, unless it comes soon, will
not prevent the discontented ma-
jority from voting against the par-
liamentary system, in the spring
elections.

The farmers alone have profited
since the war, continued Dr. Gil-
bert. This has created a breach
between rural and city populations.
Civil servants and all those on fix-
ed salaries suffer from inflation.
Italy’s two million unemployed
have found no redress under the
present government. Each year
laborers and domestic - servants

might take over

_

Active Geneva Life

Is Gay, Interesting

Continued from Page 1
sionate scenes cut off to give way
advertisement for Swiss
The Saturday night balls
were the big events of the week,

tO. an

watches.
especially the one built-around the}

the streets would be filled with
mediaeval knights and ladies, or
soldiers with halberd8S and battle-
axes, to commemorate the famous
incident when the House of Savoy
poured boiling soup out of the roy-
al Marmites onto the heads of the
ferocious enemies scaling the walls;
in honor of this exploit, chocolate
marmites, small but delicious, are
sold all over Geneva.

The private telephones, the iron
balconies outside each’ room, the
minimum of baths, the food chez
Landolt, the nuns and the dogs
riding bicycles in the streets; these
were spoken of long by three Bryn
Mawr seniors who seemed to find
life in Geneva gay and good.



swarm into Switzerland to earn
$25 a month.

Italy under a parliamentary gov-
ernment presents a great contrast
to the Fascist Italy of 1933. Peo-
ple can talk freely. In the book-
shops are quantities of recent lit-
erature, translations of English,
Spanish, American, Russian and
German works that have been for-
bidden for the last 20 years. The
main interest of the people is in
politics. Newspapers and period-
icals follow closely all parliamen-

Page Three



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19, Pem_ West-Rock.
Oct. 26, Denbigh-Merion.

Nov. 2, Rhoads-Winner, P. W.,
Rock.
Nov. 16, Finals

Oct.







NOTICES

Inn Representatives
‘Miread Peake, °49, and Ellen
Sexton, ’50 have been appointed
to the College Inn Committee by
the Undergrad Board, in conjunc-
tion with President McBride and.
Miss Howe, *

B. M. Engagement Calendars

1948 Bryn Mawr College En-
gagement Calendars, featuring a
new picture of the campus for each
month, go on sale in the Bookshop
next week at $1.00 each. All pro-
ceeds go to the Drive.

What To Do
Seniors and Graduate Students:
Look on the hall bulletin boards for
the announcements of the Junior
Professional Assistant examina-
tions of the Civil Service.







tary discussions.

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OR
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Medea Well Acted;

_ Elaborate Production

Continued from Page 2
chorus has been done away with
presumably because it hampers the
“modernity” of the play; it has
incidentally taken with it some of
the most beautiful thoughts and
language in literature. And the
grace and rhythm of the Greek
play have in part disappeared with
it: the slow-paced path toward fate
which the chorus serves to point
out and emphasize.

The character of Medea is open
to debate. Medea was, it is true,
a barbarian woman, but not so
much so that she did not become
an emotionless stoic, after having
made up her mind about her dread-
ful course of action. Judith An-
derson’s Medea emotes without
pause in the same manner before
and after her great decision. A
method of expressing great emo-
tion by drawing in a rush of breath
through her teeth is neither ap-
pealing nor effective, especially
after incredible repetition. On the
other hand, an actress is free to

interpret a role as shegSees it; and
Judith Anderson was |

assuredly
Medea for most of the audience.

And still, the production is su-
perior. The. lighting effects are
as noteworthy as Ben Edwards’
excellent set, and there is a cer-
tain grandeur in everyone connect-
ed with the action of the play. For
those who are not familar with the
Euripides. “version” it will be an
extremely moving tragedy; for
those who are it may be a new
and more satisfactory conception.
But is is a play well worth seeing,
however fully one may feel that he
can accept it.





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BRYN MAWR

|B. M. Participates

In Radio Forum

In the WCAU broadcast, Opin-
ion Please, on October 10th, Han-
nah Holborn, ’50, and Priscilla
Johnson, ’50, of Bryn Mawr, joined
with Warren Simmons, ’48, and
James Leventhal, ’49, of Princeton,
to discuss the United Nations.
After a brief panel they concluded
that the U. N. must have more
strength and that.its purposes and
ideals must be brought more pow-
erfully before the .world at large
The use of motion pictures was
suggested in this regard.

The speakers agreed that unan-
imity among the nations is most
imperative. Miss Holborn asserted
that peace treaties must be con-
cluded so that the U. N. will not
function in an atmosphere of war.







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Rate High on Twin-Distinguishing

Continued from Page 1

The dietitian was not able to ar-
rive until two weeks after the
camp began this summer; so de-
spite valiant efforts tHe meals
were somewhat strange and im-
promptu. (After this, Sally mum-
bled something about tomato oat-
meal loaf, but what she meant is
still a mystery.) _

Other difficulties included trying
to clean up without any water,
so they. worked out a magnificent
schedule for washing every other
hour. (The* problem was how to
get water for emergency cleaning
up in the intervening hour!)



“Everyone says she had a good
time though,” Sally concluded,
“and lots want to come back next
year. But the camp really needs
everyone’s co-operation. Money
can be given to the Activities
Drive, clothes. are welcome and any
sort of game or toy; and everyone
is invited to come to camp and see
for herself just why the counsel-
lors want to return.”



Marriage
Mrs. Joanne Loewe Coates to
Mr. Percy L. Neel.



Elections

Secretary of the Undergrad-
uate Association: Karen Knap-
lund, 49.

Chairman of the Undergrad-
uate Commitee for the Drive:
Nancy Martin, ’49.

Second Junior Member of Un-
dergrad: Sue Henderson.

Junior .. Officers: President,
Margo Vorys; Vice-President,
Andrea Bell; Secretary, Ally
Lou Hackney; Song Mistress,
Edythe La Grande.

Sophomore Officers: President,
Polly » Porter; Vice-President,
Nina Cave; Secretary, Katherine
Harrington; Song Mistress, A.