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VOL. XLIII, NO. 10
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR,
PA.,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946
Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945
PRICE 10 CENTS
ayie Results
Sent to Faculty
For Discussion
The Undergraduate Board, at
its, meeting Tuesday, made plans
to present the results of the cam-
pus-wide poll on Big May Day to
the faculty at its meting on Wed-
nésday, December 11.
With 79% of the students vot-
ing, 62% were in favor of May
Day, and 38% against. In other
words, 49% of the students ex-
pressing an opinion were in favor
of Big May Day By classes, the
voting went as follows:
Class Pro Con
1947 60% 40%
1948 51% 49%
1949 59% 41%
1950 15% 25%
By presenting the results of the
poll, the Board is suggesting that
Continued on Page 6
S. Shridevi Cites
Broad Toleration
Of Hindu Religion
Common Room, December 4:
“All religions are fundamentally
the same from the point of intel-
‘lectual and moral values, their
differences lie in their method of
worship,” Miss Sripati Shridevi
pointed out in a lecture on the
Hindu Religion. The distinguish |
ing characteristics of, this. religion
are its scriptures And the broad
toleration it allows to its believers
and to other religions.
The Hindu scriptures are divided
into two categories: What is Heard
and What is Remembered, that is,
the divine and the humanly given.
They are written in sections or
Vedas, of which the Vedantes or
last parts, depicting the Way of
Life, are the most important. One
god is mentioned in the scriptures
but popular theology accepts many
gods, and the scriptures allow for
a hierarchy for those who prefer
lives a religious life, he may be-
lieve in any god or gods.
Consequently, ceremony is rela-
tively unimportant; although there
are many temples and priests and
most houses have a special room
or corner for prayer, participation
is dictated. solely by individual in-
¢clinations. They believe in a par-
ticular experience, not intellectual
emotion, which is the response of
aan integrated individual to the
‘Universe, an outward expression
‘of an inward realization.
Hindu philosophy is based on two
principles, Illusion and Action. II-
lusion sees the world as transitory
so that man should not form an
-attachment to life and its pleasures.
On the other hand, Action or
Causation lies at the bottom of
life and is inescapable. The two
principal objections to this philos-
phy, Miss Shridevi pointed out,
are that Illusion destroys morality
‘since everything is impermanent,
while Causation denies the value
-of prayer for God is powerless to
answer it. The strictness of the
‘deterministic theory, however, pur-
poses to develop the Good in Man.
aws of goad...
‘important Bape ‘Of
‘the Hindu religion is its relation to
‘daily life. There are four phases
‘through which the individual can
tebe npnwartial
Mawr.
He RG... pray for -strenmeRy cc
_ May answer prayer, but He*cannot
~Keyers
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Ivy Club Offers Stiff Competition to Bryn Mawr Team
By Nancy Morehouse 747
Having answered a questionnaire
of The Dartmouth as to the social
availability of Bryn Mawr girls in
rather a devil-may-care spfrit, we
find our nonchalance taken to task
in the November 22nd issue of “the
oldest college newspaper in Amer-
ica.”
“Looking at the matter of the
Princeton weekend with a callousea
geo-political point of view,” states
the organ of the Indians, “the time
is ripe to heed the word of Bryn
Mawr’s College News and plant
the seeds of inspiration in the
brains of dateless Dartmouths for!
a hunting ground convenient to
Princeton, N. J.” Looking at this
out of its context, it has_ likely
possibilities; but the sports col-
umns of this sheet seem to indicate
Bryn Mawr is recommended for
-otherwise companion-less spectat-
ors of the Dartmouth-Princeton
game. Feeling as we do that the
true Don Juan should find distance
no deterrent, we would have viewed
any approaching Indians with jaun-
diced eye the week-end of Novem-
ber 23.
Finding ourselves described as
Choirs to Carol
At Xmas Service
Sunday’s vesper services will
feature the traditional reading of
the Christmas story by the Rever-
end Andrew Mutch, minister emer-
itus of the Bryn Mawr Presbyter-
ion Church. The program will con-
sist entirely of carols, sung -by the
Bryn Mawr and Haverford com-
bined choruses.’ Bryn Mawr solo-
ists will be Rose Johnson and El-
len Smith. The program, which
will be held in Goodhart and will
start at eight o’clock, is as follows:
Hymn: Adeste Fideles.
I. Group of, English carols of
different countries.
1. Holly and Ivy, combined
choruses.
2. Wassail Song, combined cho-
ruses.
3. Personent Hodie, combined
choruses. :
Hymn: Silent Night.
II. Group of French and German
Carols.
» 1. Bring a Torch,
choruses.
2. The Miracle of St. Nicholas,
combined choruses.
8. Les Anges dans les Campag-
nes, Haverford.
4. In Dulce Jubilo, Haverford.
III. Group of English Carols.
1. On Christmas Night, Bryn
Down in Lg Forest, Bryn
combined
2.
‘Svelte, Not-so-Gothic’ B.M. Girls
Told to Seek Greener Pastures
eR ities XK Kings, «=
ehoruses.
4, Wassail Song, combined cho-
ruses.
Continued on Page 's
x &,
Hymn: Joy to the. World.
“svelte and not-so-gothic ladies”
dwelling amid “the rolling acres
and stately gothic edifices of Bryn
Mawr,” we see no point to the ad-
monition to “get out of Bryn Mawr,
Pa. in a palpable rush and seek
our greener pastures for yourself
and your date.” It would seem
from this and other comments that
the Dartmouths do not like our
“mountain greenery,” declaring
that “Philly night clubs and enter-
tainment spots would appear to
be the answer” to the shortage of
local amusements. .
“The Bryn Mawr student’s love
of all that is stately, dignified and
intellectual” comes in for some
sarcastic digs via a formal dance
given by the Prince (“Princeton’s
daily tabloid’), “intellectual to the
tune of *$7.20 a couple.” Nonethe-
less, the column features a picture
of a girl we’ve never seen on cam-
pus with a decidedly unintellectual
beam on her face.
Local feminine color (secretary
to the Dartmouth editor) derided
our praise of their green-engraved
stationery and green typewriter
ribbon as “a pretty catty jibe.”
(We only said we liked the color
combination and wished we could
reply in gold). Ye editor, however,
takes-a~more~charitable view: “if
they’d written us in gold ‘we'd un-
doubtedly have spent an afternoon
trying to recover the stuff with a
pen knife.”
CALENDAR
Thursday, December 12
Senator Saba Pacha Habachy,
“Eé¢onomic Problems of .the
Near East,” Goodhart, 12:30.
Mr. Henri Frankfort, “The
Egyptian Way of Life, Truth
as the Law of Existence,”
Deanery, 8:15. ;
Friday, December 13
“Six Characters in Search of
an Author,” Roberts Hall,
Haverford, 8:30.
Saturday, December 14
“Six Characters in Search of
an Author,” Roberts Hall,
-Haverford, 8:30.
Stiinday, December 15
French Club Christmas Play, |
Wyndham, 3:30.
Chapel, Christmas . Service.
Rev. Andrew Mutch, Goodhart,
8:00.
Monday, December 16
Current Events, Common
Room, 7:15.
Henry V. Goodhart, 8:30
Spanish Club Christmas Play,
, 8:30.
ty, Comman. Pace. PR ligt
"Wednesday, December 18
German Club Christmas Play
and Party, Music Room and
Common Room, 8:00.
|By Students’ Vote
.jrequested the committee to draw
‘| do.
Tuesday, December 17 :
ts ‘rorters’ Caroling. - | ARREARS
ummer Camp Christmas Par-
| and ‘acee~-**>=
‘|}ated with full-length. paintings of
Currie, Committee
Will Decide Aims
In response to’ student discus-
sion as to the function of the Cur-
riculum Committeee, the Under-
graduate Association Board has
‘up a definition of aims, to be ap-
proved by the college. Two state-
ments have been drawn up to be
voted between by the students.
The main difference between them
lies in whether or not the commit-
tee should have the power to dis-
tinguish between major.and minor
issues and act accordingly, to re-
fuse to act on a request which it
considers impractical or not well
supported by students, and to state
opinion on issues. Each student
will be given mimeographed copies
of both definitions and will be ask-
ed to vote for one before Christ-
mas.
To clarity the meaning of the
two sets of definitions, the Under-
grad board suggests following
through a sample issue according
to the two ways. If a student brings
a request concerning ‘‘the broader
aspects of the curriculum, sched-
ule, and academic regulations” to
the committee, under defiinition
one, the committee may either
consider it a minor change and re-
quest it of the faculty without
submitting it to*the student body
(although it must make the action
known), or may consider it a ma-
jor issue and determine student
opinion by vote. Before taking
such a vote, the committee would
present the facts and its own opin-
ion concerning the issue to the
voters. If students prove to be in
favor of the major change, the
committee must petition for it and
give it full support despite its pre-
vious opinion concerning the issue.
The committee may reject a stu-
dent’s request and must bring it up
then only if a second request is
made supported by at least ten
students. ae
Under definition two, any re-
quest initiated by a student, or by
the Curriculum Committee , itself,
concerning the “broader aspects of
the curriculum, schedule, and aca-
demic regulations” must be voted
on by the students. Before this
vote is taken the committee would
present the facts but not its own
opinion concerning the issue. If a
majority of the students support
the request, the committee must
submit it to the faculty.
Under both definitions, the com-
mittee may keep problems related
to specific departments or individ-
uals, private to those concerned.
Vinaver Cites
New Discovery
Qf Malory Ms.
Goodhart, December 10. Speak-
ing on “A New:Light on Malory,”
Professor Eugene Vinaver of the
University of Manchester explain-
ed that the main interest in the
recently discovered Winchester
manuscript is that it shows how
Malory made a modern book from
mediaeval romances and also clar-
ifies the question of why the Ar-
thurian legends have remained
popular in the English speaking
countries, while they have disap-
peared in the land of their origin,
France. —
The manuscript which was found
in July 1934 by the librarian of
Winchester College not only sheds
a light on Malory’s work, but also
helps to identify the author. Be-
fore this manuscript came to light,
all versions of the Arthurian cycle
had been modeled on the edition
entitled the Morte d’Arthur, pub-
lished by William Caxton in 1485.
This_publication—constituted—a—it-
erary revival of a movement start-
ed by French medieval writers.
“Two theories have been advanc-
ed to explain how it happened that
Malory’s version of the legends
survived,” said Professor Vinaver.
“One that the revival was due to
Malory’s handling of English prose
and the other that Malory gave
the old romances new life because
he reduced the French books into
English; i. e., he shortened them.”
A great deal of obscurity remained,
however. For example, excellence
of style was not unknown in the
Middle Ages nor was an attempt
to condense peculiar to Malory.
Therefore, Malory’s ‘ work must
have had some special feature of
style or narrative technique to
succeed as it did.
The new text of Malory suggests
an answer to this problém, name-
ly that Malory’s work was never
intended to be a single volume,
but a collection of several -works
in which there is no continuity of
narrative. “Through force of cir-
cumstances, Caxton was led to de-
lite the composite character of the
work, and to make one book out of
Malory’s text,” said Professor Vin-
aver. If read as a continuous com-
position, five of the eight romances
continued in the Morte d’Arthur
would have to be eliminated, for
complete contradictions appear
such as “full-fledged knights ap-
pearing before they are born.”
Continued on Page 2
Merion, Denbigh,
Feature Colorful
by Katrina Thomas ’°49
‘Saturday night proved not so
lonely for a\great many Bryn
Mawr girls who rew their blue
jeans into a heap on the closet
floor and whipped out their eve-
ning dresses in order to prance off
to a round of hall dances. On the
arm of local talent, or Penn or
Princeton in the main, they tripped
onto polished dance floors, proving
that most Bryn Mawr girls really
have something other than
mot 62 shope! ).—- ee |
Night-club atmosphere abounded
in Merion with its obscure corners
ais. Pipe dance
floor was minute, unusually decor-
“
flappers and‘ night-club queens.
The candle-lit “smoker” was hung
8
Pem Dances
Settings, Bands
with college banners, and Haver-
ford’s “Salt- Peanut” orchestra
wes adequate music for the small
party.
The “Royal Airs” from Philadel-
phia played in the Denbigh ball-
room, which was decorated with
pink and blue streamers and clus-
ters of balloons suspended from the
ceiling.
The immense ballroom in Pem
was ingeniously made smaller by
the use of green and white stream-
RA: e- pertition bet waeemue*r ike...
a dance. floor and the wide so-
cial track surrounding it. The
well-lighta” ~*~" aaewae stuff-
ed only with pillows as everyone
seemed to be upstairs enjoying the
extremely good music of a five-
piece Negro orchestra.
iw
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Rest I - wo.
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After the blaze of autumn, be-
ore the heavy snow, we live in a
world of suspense and subtlety.
This is the secret and the waiting
season. All is: barrenness now;
there is no subterfuge of leaf and
color ‘to diguise the angularity of
trees éand hills; there are no sub-"
tle dawns, no long, impassioned |*
sunsets. Between ore turkey-feast
and another, while the store win-
dows preen themselves and the
names are checked off the lists, we
remember one holiday, anticipate
another, and, meanwhile, wait.
And since, in this time of nos-
talgia and suspense, we are, as
jnoticed by me and you and any
number of professors, not quite all
there, it seems well for me to stop,
|for a time, holding up my mirror
to our doings and hold it up, in-
stead, to our nostalgic Thanksgiv-
ing past and our’ enchanting
Christmas future.
This time I will speak about
Thanksgiving, but not of the man-
ifest beauties of Thanksgiving din-
ners, the description of wHich, and
of all,such dinners, I must for
want of ability but not of appre-
ciation, leave to Thomas Wolfe
and Charles Dickens. And let me
also leave to others of larger
minds and bolder pens the giving
of thanks for prosperous harvests
and hopes of peace. But let me
give thanks now, as I am able, for
the little courtesies, the dear, the
unexpected.
Thanks _for-the-smells_ of coffee
and bread, for the goodliness of
water; thanks for beds and cocoa
and hot baths. Thanks for the
strident green of winter wheat
seen from a train, reminder of
April and the little grasses still
four months underground. Thanks
Pseudo-Sophistication or Reality?
This year there has been a marked decline of student
participation in extra-curricular activities, notably those
sponsored by the League and the Alliance, whose drive was
held in the fall .
the college, nor does it point to an intelligent or mature at-
itude on the part of the students.
>
ening of pressure
fields the necessity for continued participation on our part is!
still urgent.
Valley Forge Hospital presents one of the most outstanding
cases in which we have an opportunity to do really valuable
work.-. During the last year, the number of patient’ who
need‘all the care and attention that we can give them has|
greatly increased. But to quote a few vital statistics: of sev-
en people who volunteered ‘to teach dancing there on one oc-
easion, only two appeared, while the number of those who
signed up to teach Arts and Crafts has reached the large to-
tal of six. The same thing may be said of the numerous oth-
ers, such as the Blind School, Community Center, work for
CARE.and the UN, and political activities.
The importance of these activities cannot be underes-
tim ted. As members of a community, it is essential that we
develop a sense of community spirit and assume our share of
;. Active co-operation
in ihe foregoing fields should be a proof that we are not liv-
ing in our proverbial ivory tower, whileit can provide neces-
experience for constructive membership 1 in any commun-
the responsibilities which that involves.
Sx ry
ity
j The question of this decline, however, does not signify
- » villing’ spirit which “just doesn’t have the time.” It goes
i tex deeper. thamphot—*>-2- widespread indifference to anything
| . immediately connected with ourselves, the library or the
Be to all activities.~ ~~ 7 Sigel campus.
eed it be said that it is high time that Bryn Mawr dropped
s pseudo-sophistication and became aware of its responsi-
s%
* agker Ps
ties?
N
It is neither flattering to the reputation of
With the cessation of the war, there was a natural slack-
on those engaged i in war omnis but in many , ‘wild feeling of it.
For example, the work with the: Red Cross at
for the feel of horse-chestnuts and
river-stones and the round, warm
heads of children. Thanks for the
moonrise and falling’star, for ani-
mals, their honesty and grace.
Thanks for leaving us some in-
domitable birds, in winter, and a
domesticated fly or two.
‘Thanks, above all, fs people:
for the intricacy of hands, the
curve of foreheads, the cunning
workmanship of ears, the miracle
of eyes. Thanks for the way they
swing their arms and turn their
heads and rub their chins, no two
of them alike. Thanks for the
sound of laughing and the good
And lastly,
; great thanks for that electricity
‘running always between us, that
enemy of loneliness and fear, that
love of one another which merci-
fully hides from us both our frail-
ty and our divinity.
APPRECIATION
The College wishes to thank
all students for their coopera-
tion and especially —the Self-
Government Association for
making arrangements in turning
off lights by twelve o’clock
during the coal shortage.
Vocational Cont’s.
Planned for “47
On the basis of results derived
from the vocational cards filled out
by students earlier this year, the
Vocational Committee is planning
its activities for the coming year
with speakers covering a wide va-
riety of subjects.
To deal with the many phases
of international affairs, post-war
reconstruction and politics, the
Committee is hoping to obtain a
speaker prominent in the person-
nel department of the United Na-
tions. ,For.. those, interested in
magazine work” éreative writ-
ing, and
‘Cu
ent8, conferencés are planned -cov-
ering languages, teaching, and
publishing work. In addition to
Continued on Page 6
The Spectator
radio, \. growing field
ie ieee Brests and tal-
Decline of Enthusiasm
For Creative Work
Criticized
To the: Editor:
It-seems-a pity that the enthusi-.'
astic demand for more frgatiye
work which arose last spring, has
apparently been so short-lived. It
was felt thea that the curriculum
failed to supply suffiicient outlets,
and. extra-curricular activities
should be organized to sete this
deficiency.
Of such schemes, gnly the Jun-
ior Show noticeably materialized.
The drama group was short-lived,
and the Art Workshop, ‘which be-
gan with such promise, has sadly
disintegrated. We feel that this is
particularly disturbing, because of
the definite student committment
involved. The idea was presented’
to the Art Department, which has
been more than co-operative in
giving advice and time, and the
college has paid for an excellent
instructor. Attendance has not
justified this expense. We feel
that there is a responsibility on
the part of those who showed in-
terest to appear at least occasion-
ally at the studio. We deliberate-
ly did not wish to make attend-
ance compulsory, but we feel that
people have abused this freedom.
Unless there is a genuine inter-
est in this recreation, there is no
point in maintaining it. We hope
that this attitude is not indicative
of a general apathy toward oppor-
tunities for ‘creative work. Or
don’t we have any creativity?
Ning Hitchcock, °48
Sylvia Stallings, ’48
Malory Manuscript
Reveals New Detail
Continued from Page 1
Malory’s method of attacking the
medieval romances was such as to
alter the whole architectural pat-
tern, for ‘the essence of the orig-
inal sources was “lack of subordin-
ation to the central theme.” Mal-
ory attempted to “break the fabric
of earlier fiction into smaller
works and to cut the threads of
the original thus giving its pro-
portions to a different kind of ro-
mance.”
Another new detail revealed by
the Winchester manuscript is the
fact that Malory’s inspiration came
not from “the French ‘books” as
has been believed, but from a four-
teenth century English poem which
‘was the source for his first work,
the fifth book of the Caxton edi-
tion. This first work also differs
from the others because it is not
a romance but an epic.
“Now with the aid of the Win-
chester manuscript,” Professor
Vinaver concluded, “we can begin
to discover the miracle of Malory’s
literary genius and great artistry.”
Current Events
f Miss McCown traced the history
of Arab-Jewish relations in Pal-
estine since 1914, in her talk on
December 9.
_ Even before the first World War,
whle Palestine was still a part of
the Ottoman Empire, stated Miss
McCown, there was a growing de-
sire for independence among the
Arab population. In May of 1916 .
a conference .of the French and
English discussed “Greater Syria’,
and decided to divide the area into
French and British controlled areas,
with Palestine set up under a sep-
arate administration.
In 1917, Jewish pressure for a
national homeland resulted in the
issuance of the, Balfour Declara-
tion. In this document, it was was
stated that the British government.
looked with favor on the establish-
ment of a Jewish national state
in Palestine.
Reports of Commissions
The American King-Crane Com-
mission subsequently toured Great-
er Syria, and drew up a report on
its findings, stating that it would
.be undesirable to break up ‘the
area.
In 1920, another British-French
commisison recommended that the
area be divided into separate man-
dates. The scope of these man-
datory governments included all
legislative powers.
The ensuing period of peace last-
ed until 1929, when an Arab out-
break occurred. The Hope-Simp-.
son Report of 1930 blamed this.
disturbance on an excess Jewish
\{mmigration in relation to the ab-
sorptive capacity of Palestine.
A general strike in 1936 ex-
pressed Arab indignation at the in-
creased Jewish immigration. When
a new British commission met, it
recommended the partition of Pal-
estine into an Arab and a Jewish
3tate, but it did not establish any
boundaries. This solution was sub-
sequently rejected as impracticable.
In 1938 there was another ser-
ious Arab rebellion, which was
quelched by the British.
Plan for Independence
The subsequent British “White
Paper”
lishment, after ten years, of an
independent Palestine, with a very
restricted Jewish immigration.
The United States’ interest in
the Palestinian situation was’ neg-
ligible until 1944, when both po.
litical parties publicly opposed the
cessation of Jewish immigration.
An Anglo-American commission
recommended the admission of
100,000 Jews into Palestine as an
emergency measure, but it offered
no long term solution to the prob-
lem.
A further recommendation for
the government of Palestine was
that a bi-national state be estab-
lished on the federal principl®'
Double-Cctet, Stars,of Chorus,
Feature Student
By Betty-Bright Page, °49
The Double-Octet, made up of
the sixteen best voices from the
Bryn Mawr Chorus, is a relatively
new musical group on campus. It
began last year as the Madrigal
Group, but soon changed its name
to avoid confusion with the old
Madrigal Group, which specialized
in chambér music. The present
Octet sings a variety of music,
ranging from,,Elizabethan madri-
gals.to modern pieces like “Dark
Town Strutters’ Ball.”
The Double-Octet, which Mrs.
De Varon hopes will be eventually
directed\.by the students them-
selves, made their highly success-
ful debut
ul debut last.year in Arts Might.
Ts ance SON planning” @
collection of spirituals for this
year’s Art Night although at the
moment they are searching for
students to arrange the music. All
Arrangements
the songs on their program last
year were arranged by students,
an added attraction which they
plan to encourage for their entire
repertoire, oe
The sixteen girls in the Octet
are chosen by tryouts from among
the Chorus members. Besides ac-
tual singing ability they must
“have a capacity to read music
and pick it up quickly, and to sing
with a group. ‘
This year’s members of the Dou-
ble-Octet are: Alto II, Nellie Kef-
fer, 48; Betty Smith, 4-: Ellen
Smith, *49; Nancy Kntii, i Be
Alto I, Kathy Landreth, ’48; Elea-.
NEP™Colwess, 47; Barbara
bentley,
49; Polly Bruch, "48. S° no II,
£7 menr sm “mann,
48; Frannie Binger, {© Marion
John, ’49. Soprano I, Mi:e. Stev-
ens, ’47; Posy Johnson, ’4°. ‘enny
Burch, ’48, and Sally Beas n, ’49,.
recommended the estab- ~*
THE COLLEGE NEWS.
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Page T bree
“Six Characters”
| Cast Announced
The cast for the Haverford Cap
' and Bells’ and the Varsity Play-
ers’-production of “Six Characters
in Search of an Author” is as fol-
lows:
Father—John A. Stone, ’48.
Son—Edmund K. Faltemayer, ’49.
Mother—Thalia Argyropoulo, ’49.
Daughter—Susan Feldman, ’49.
Director—William Bishop, ’50.
_ Leading Man—Don Kindler, ’48.
Prompter—R. B. Robertson, ’48.
Doorkeeper—Gordon Baldwin, ’50.
Property Man—John Acton, ’50.
Stage Hand—James C. Buckley,
"49,
Juvenile—Theodore Eastman, ’50.
Madame Page — Christel Kappes,
"48, ’
Leading Lady—Ann Eberstadt,
749,
Ingenue—Priscilla Gross, °48.
Actress—M. E. Mueller, 49.
Actress—Gale Minton, ’49.
Boy—Gladney Oakley.
Little Girl—Janet Hetzel.
Prompter—Henry Levinson, ’48.
Stage Manager— Dave Buttrick,
48, a
Universities In Native Lands
Described by Foreign Students
Specially Contributed by
“Fila Harju
(Continued from: November 20)
Many good maxims have nowa-
_.. days become old-fashioned, but
hardly ever has any argument
sounded as antiquated to me as
did Kipling’s phrase on the incom-
patibility of East and West. These
thoughts occurred to me when I
sat opposite our Indian fellow-
graduate listening to her vivid de-
scription of modern India. I heard
of the innumerable problems, which
at the present moment occupy not
fia only the minds of Indian people
| themselves, but also those of al-
most every thinking individual all
around the world. More clearly
than ever I felt that the superficial
differences that exist betweeri na-
\ tionalities are insignificant and
beside the point when compared
with the great similarities that tie
us all together. But beside these
universal thoughts their busy
worldly brothers kept on revolv-
ing in my mind reminding me of
the beauty of her sari, her excep-
tionally fluent English and many
other personal details, until the
' ‘ discussion took the turn that as
some people claim it always takes
with journalists, and this is what
I learned:
“My native province is C. P.,
that is Central Province, which is
one of the eleven Anglo-Indian
provinces. As to the scenery it
is a district that you might call
mountainous. We call it hilly. It
is widely known for its orange-
trees and you b4ve really missed
something if you have not tasted
their fruit. Oh, these oranges!
They are delicious, big and sweet.
I was the President of a Women’s
College in Napur, which is the
capital of the province.
It was a residential college and
the.campus, 80 acres wide was sit-
uated on a most beautiful hill just
outside the town. The 250 under-
graduates of whom only 100 were
residential students, were of all
castes and creeds and they stayed
at the college for four years study-
ing for their B. A. The language
of teaching was English as it is
in all colleges in Anglo-India. I
was teaching philosophy, and I am
going to take up the same job’when
I return to my country: after one
year’s stay here at Bryn Mawr.”
warm ‘arid sensitive atniospiies—_-
* India to that serene and s
f=. > Pegged “Scandinavi_ °~ 7 =
. be made easily. On the door
which I knocked next, the familiar
flag with its blue and white cross
,
¢
It is quite a long skip from the |
on red background showed me that
this door leads to the room of our
Norwegian second year graduate,
Grace Werring, one of the musi-
cians of the hall, Unfortunately
her mandolin’ is at the. moment
dumb; it would have been delight-
ful to hear a couple of Norwegian
folk-songs. Ne
“What was my life like in Nor-
way? Well, I got my red cap and
my black cap as any other Nor-
wegian student.” (To make this
mysterious sentence understand-
able let me explain this Scandinav-
ian symbolism of caps. To a Nor-
wegian student they symbolize two
things: red one the end of the days
of irresponsibility and discipline,
and the black one the start of aca-
demic freedom and—responsibility,
which fact may explain the black
color.) “I studied at the Univer-
sity of my hometown Oslo and
enjoyed this academic freedom—
which is. really considerable in
Scandinavia—until Germans closed
the university in ’43. The days of
passive resistance followed, and I
want to avail myself of this op-
portunity to tell you that we were
so glad to be able to fight on the
side of the Allies, even though it
was often extremely difficult in
those circumstances. It was really
a pleasure to come to the States
after all those cheerless years and
to see the Manhattan skyline
which indeed is nowadays better
known in Norway than, the ruins
of Akropolis. Why I am especial-
ly glad to spend these post-war
years in the States is that I am
here right in the focus of great
events and can follow the develop-
ment. of the international situation
closely which is best possible train-
ing for my future position. I am
Continued on Page 4
What To Do
All seniors and graduate stu-
dents who want to teach next
year, please register with the Bu-
reau of Recommendations before
the Christmas vacation. Positions
are beginning to come in and there
will probably be more during the
holidays.
For appointments to register,
sign on the sheet posted outside
Room H, Taylor Hall.
The Vocational Committee has
elf-pos-
at
selected-a wide. ",. of topics
and speakers for the programme
the coming=n"*" «7 or,
announcements of the first speak-
er whom we have invited for Jan-
ih
Po
BRYN MAWR BLOOMER GIRLS
Historical
Despité long black ‘stockings and
cumbersome skirts with knee
length bloomers beneath, athletics
played a notably more important
part in college life during the first
forty years of Bryn Mawr’s exist-
ence than they do at present. One
whole page of the News was de-
voted each week to sports, both
intercollegiate and inter-hall com-
petitions. And in 1916 Bryn Mawr
held five out of the fourteen pos-
sible track records for women.
That same year, the first min-
utes were recorded of the Athletic
Association, which had been estab-
lished in 1891. These reveal the
considerable part that the associa-
tion played in the up-keep of the
fields. Dues were used to pay for
hoses, chicken wire, paint, the
water bill and the students for
work in cutting, reseeding, rolling,
levelling, cindering, raking leaves,
painting, manuring fields, weeding
and sweeping the tennis courts at
a rate of 25 cents an hour.
On the question of zegulations,
the association ruled out stimu-
lants. (There was evidence that
aromatic spirits were taken before
swimming and water polo meets.)
They also rejected tight one-piece
bathing suits, or suits without
sleeves, and bloomers as an alter-
native to skirts.
In 1917 swimming was first re-
quired for graduation, and every
New Stage Guild
Requirements Set
A completely revised system of
membership has been adopted by
the Stage Guild to replace the or-
iginal requirement of work on two
productions, regarded as too in-
flexible.
According to the new plan, ad-
mission to the Guild will depend
largely on the recommendation of
the Stage Manager for each pro-
duction, and will be decided by the
Stage Manager in conjunction with
the officers. The list of members
would then be posted after every
change. It is felt that this system
would provide for those who had
spent much on and acquired a fair
from one production alone.
The members of the Guild have
been redivided into four classes:
apprentices, those who have done
a certain amount of stage work;
journeymen, those who have ac-
quired some technical knowledge;
craftsmen, those who have suffici-
ent knowledge to act as crew
heads and may then qualify as
stage mnaagers; master craftsmen,
those who have been stage manag-
ers and are therefore qualified to
act as advisors, especially on
Freshman Show.
It is hoped that the new plan
will provide more immediate rec-
ognition of work done on the
stage. Special emphasis is placed
on the fact that promotion within
the Guild is promptly granted, and
for work on any production. The
MGuild—nor~ *-~ yd’
hopes to increase that number to
include all those who might be
illing and interested workers.
re
y
.
amount. of technical knowledge |
non;m@ibc®: -> always welesmed |-*.
Sketches
By Katrina Thomas, 49
Freshman had to learn “how to
it, in case of fire, or other emer-
gency.” Apparatus in the gym in-
cluded ropes hung from the ceil-
ing, rings, parallel bars and
horses.
Two years later tennis was in-
troduced as a major sport. The
exercise required for all classes
was four organized sports periods
in spring and fall, three in winter.
In 1925 the system was relaxed,
requiring four periods of physical
training for Freshmen and Sopho-
mores, but Juniors and Seniors
could substitute four hours of vig-
orous walking. The brisk walking
later degenerated into games of
bridge, supported by the argument
that cards exercised the hands,
taught keenness, accuracy, speed,
a sense of co-operation, and team-
work,
The Evening Bulletin in 1922
published an article entitled “Fin-
est Girl Athletes in Country. De-
veloped at Bryn Mawr College.”
The article mentioned the popular-
ity of water-polo, the apparatus in
the Gym, and up-and-coming fenc-
ing. “Anothér game,” declares the
Bulletin, “more or less popular is
Bad Minton. This is somewhat of
a cross between tennis, darts and
volley ball.”
During the first twenty years of
the college, water polo was about
the most popular sport. It was
introduced by Miss. Thomas when
there were few sports, and despite
objections to its strenuousness,
survived until the early 30’s.
Throughout the years the
amount of clothes worn by Bryn
Mawr athletes has declined with
the interest in sports. The black
stockings which were worn for in-
side as well as outside sports, lat-
er became any dark color and were
finally abolished. The long Turk-
ish trousers worn by the class of
95 became shorter and shorter till
they were replaced in the 20’s by
“zipknicks” (tights) and finally by
tunics and today’s brief shorts.
Senue
ones
come down a rope, if not to climb.
Prizes for Plays “
For any persons interested in
dramatic writing, regardless of
training or experience, the Drama-
tists’ Alliance of Stanford Univer-
sity is offering four awards in its
twelfth annual competition. A
prize will be awarded to the best
contribution in each of four groups
and, in addition, the most produce-
able of the plays will be staged in
the summer of 1947 during the
-| Dramatists’ Assembly in Palo Alto,
California.
Serious plays of full length gin
either prose or verse may compete
for the Stevens award of one hun-
dred dollars; the Etherege award
of one hundred dollars will go to
the writer of the best full length
comedy submitted. The Alden
award of fifty dollars is offered for
brief plays of one act or in two
short unified scenes. The Gray
award of seventy-five dollars will
be made for dramatic criticism con-
cerning stage, cinema, or radio
written in lucid, vigorous style.
Privileges extended to the con-
tributors include recommendation
of worthy plays (whether prize-
winning or not) to producing and
publishing agencies; the prepara-
tion of double critiques by persons
trained in theatre work, for a nom-
inal fee beyond the fee for regis-
tration; rating of items contribut-
ed in the annual Bulletin, sent to
libraries and interested groups
throughout the country.
The final date of the competition
is February 15, 1947. Communica-
tions and inquiries for registration
forms should be addressed to Dra-
matists’ Alliance, Box 200 Z, Stan-
ford University, California.
Pirandello’s Play
Questions Reality
Pirandello, sometimes called “a
cerebral dramatist” and “the dra-
matist of relativity,” was born in
Sicily in 1847 and won the Nobel
Prize in 1934; he received his doc-
torate in philosophy from the Uni-
versity of Bonn and, a_ personal
fact of great influence on his work,
he lived for seventeen years with
an insane wife. He wrote both
stories and plays, turning to the
theatre late in his career but win-
ning there unusual attention by his
daring innovations and questioning
spirit. In all his plays his char-
acters are motivated by obscure
subconscious impulses which they
seek, often vainly, to explain; his
plots develop obscurely or explo-
sively with little apparent struc-
ture; and the tormenting question
“What is real? What can we truly
know?” is the recurrent theme
which culminates in Six Charac-
ters in Search of an Author where
the half-realized creations of an
author’s imagination have more
compelling validity than any ac-
tual existence.
The play, in barest outline, tells
of a tragedy which strikes down a
family. The Father has lost the
love of the Mother, whom he sets
free to go away with her lover.
Their:.Son remains with him but
grows up lonely and embittered.
Meanwhile, the Mother has three
more children, an older Daughter,
a Boy, and a Little Girl. The
wife’s lover, the father of the chil-
dren, dies-and leaves them penni-
less. They return to the city
climactic moment the Father
meets his Step-Daughter in a shop
run by an evil Madame Page. Fi-
-|nally the Little Girl is drowned,
the Boy shg@hmchi=--elf,.and. the—
Father ends the play with -the
enact their scenes had thought, but
reality itself.
where the Father lives, and at one ~
Stanford U. Offers
sy
Ay
Pas LAS this is no. pre” Ariat
tense, as the actors watching them
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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B.M. Camp Yields Progress, Fun;
Counselors Plan
The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp,
sponsored by Undergrad, was open
for six weeks at Cape May, New
Jersey this past summer. The
camp is attended by underprivileg-
ed children from the Philadelphia
area recommended by The Family
Society. Children from four to
nine years old are selected by case
workers who feel that they need to
rest, gain weight, and in some cases
to be removed from a difficult fam-
ily situation for a while. Each
child is sent for two weeks, with
all of his expenses paid by the
Undergrad fund and the profits
from The Soda Fountain.
This year the camp was directed
by Nancy Coward ’47, assisted by
Betsy Kaltenthaler ’47. Seventeen
undergraduate volunteers acted as
-eounselors for two weeks at a time.
A nurse and a dietician were an
important part of the staff, hand-
ling the difficult problems of health
and feeding.
The daily program at the camp
included swimming in the ocean,
organized games, crafts and sing-
ing. Once a week the camp went
to the boardwalk as a special treat,
and had ice cream cones to top it
off. The counselors were working
to improve the habits and manners
of the children as well as to build
them physically. A report was
made on the experiences of each
child during his stay at the camp
which was sent to The Family So-
ciety.
The results of the two weeks at
camp, as reported by The Family
Society for each ‘child, were re-
warding to the counselors. All of
the reports showed a gain in weight
and health. Some parents noted
Industrial League
To Hold Sessions
The Student Lassie for Indus-
trial Democracy will hold a con-
ference in New York City on Fri-
day, December 27, which will be
open to all college students who
‘ are interested in stimulating in-
creased democracy in our political,
economic, and cultural life through
education. A fee of $1.00 for mem-
bers and $1.50 for non-members
will entitle the student to attend
all sessions of the conference.
The first sesison will be held at
the Rand School of Social Science
and will begin at 10 A. M. This}
session will be devoted to a dis-
cussion of “A Program for Per-
manent Prosperity.” The speak-
ers will be Wallace. J. Campbell,
Assistant Secretary of the Coop-
erative League of the U.S.A,,
Harry W. Laidler, author and Ex-
ecutive Director of the League for}
Industrial Democracy, and Aaron
Levenstein, of the Research Insti-
tute of America.
will be followed by a panel discus-
sion led by college students.
The afternoon discussion will be-
gin at 2 P. M., with addresses on
“What to Do with the Mines,” by
Mark Starr, President of the
L. I, D., and other speakers, The
evening session will be held at
Freedom House, and the subject
of that discussion will be “The
Basis of World Cooperation.” Nor-
man Thomas, Chairman of the Post
War World Council; Harris Woll-
ford, founder and former President
of the Student Federalists, and
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, prominent
Negro educator, will be amiong the
speakers. The evening - meeting
_ will be co-sfonsored with the Unit-
ed States Student Assembly, the
es Student Federalists, and the youth
“section of the Na Large cecanar
will be held on pranirid morning
at 7 League headquarters.
The addresses.
} tion:
Yuletide Party
that the children were easier to
handle, and had improved in their
eating habits and manners.
The Summer Camp Committee
feels that the season was a suc-
cessful one. The only crises which
occurred were a case of mumps on
the opening day, and a solid week
of rain. These difficulties weath-
ered, everything went smoothly,
although something unusual was
going on all the time. The coun-
selors feel that the experience was
very valuable to them. They admit
that they left exhausted, but the
fun they had more than compen-
sated for that. The annual Christ-
mas party given for the children
who went to the camp will be held
on December 17. The counselors
are anxious to see how much the
children have changed and how
well the two weeks of their influ-
ence has lasted.
League Sponsors
Week-End Camps
By Gloria White, ’48
An opportunity to do practical
work in making democracy live is
offered by the Volunteer Week-
End Work Camps which are spon-
sored on campus by the League.
Students from schools and colleges
in this area may spend from Fri-
day evening until Sunday after-
noon in Philadelphia on a project
“to repair houses so as to empha-
size--tg tenants and landlords
the peed for adequate houses.”
The workers are divided up into
teams, usually a boy and a girl,
and they paint, plaster, hang wall
paper, or do whatever odd jobs are
needed. Although it is the first
time that most of the workers
have done work of this sort, some-
how they manage to get more
paint and plaster on the walls than
on themselves. Before the day is
over, drab, dingy rooms are trans-
formed into places that look as if
human beings could live in them
again.
All is not work at these camps,
however, for in the evenings there
is dancing, weaving, ping-pong
and listening to records. Sunday
morning offers the choice of a col-
ored church in the neighborhood or
a Quaker meeting, and both are
very interesting. | |
Anyone who would like to go on
one of these Work Week-Ends
should see Ellen Cary, ’47, or Hel-
en Poland, ’47.
Swimming Squad
Formulates Plans
The swimming squad for the
coming season which will be com-
posed of seven old and nine new
members, is planning meets with
Swarthmore, Penn, Drexel, and
Beaver. ‘The girls who are back
on the squad this year are Carol
Baker, Ann Dudley Edwards,
Kathy Geib, Darst Hyatt, Hoyt
Sherman, Liz. Willgfd, and Sally
Worthington. The new members,
most of whom are freshmen, are
Cathy Clark, Shiela Eaton, Pat
Edwards, Lucia Ewing, Jeanette
Hersey, June Moyer, Harriet
Rodes, Edie Rotch, and Gwynne
Williams.
The team officers are Ann Edw-
ards, captain; Liz Willard, manag-
er, and Janet Yeager, coach. Prac-
tices for the squads will be Mon-
day, Tuesday, and Thursday after-
noons, at 5 P. M. A diving squad,
consisting of Barbara Bunce and
Ellen Cary, who are old members,
and Sheila Eaton, Lucia Ewing,
and Edie Rotch, has also been se-
lected. A series of inter-class
meets with individual and class
cups as prizes are being planned
in addition to the inter-college
meets. The class cup has been
won by 1947 every year since it
came to Bryn Mawr, but the Class
of ’50 expects to give them strong
competition this year.
By Nancy Morehouse °47
When a smooth and suave voice
swoops out over the air waves to
inform us that “This is station
WCAU, Philadelphia,” -we have
never hitherto paused to wonder
what goes on behind it. And some-
how, when we look at our radio,
we would be very unlikely to as-
sociate it with “Control of Atomic
“Energy.” mm
For four Bryn Mawr students
these two different strands of ex-
istence merged last Friday when
the WCAU program “Opinion,
Please” asked the college to send
four undergraduates to discuss the
issue of the Atomic Bomb. What
had been a somewhat detached con-
cern with international affairs sud-
denly assumed the proportions of
a personal atomic explosion for the
four involved—Rosemary Gilmar-
tin ’47, Helen Burch ’47, Priscilla
Johnson ’50, and Nancy Morehouse
°AT,
After several hectic hours ran-
sacking the periodical room, and
an evening session over coke bot-
tles, we presented ourselves at the
WCAU building in Philadelphia
prepared, in the words of the
(happily for her) anonymous
writer of Alliance announcements,
“as experts on atomic energy.” Be-
Undeterred by Lack of Chairs,
Haverford Adds Bass to Chorus
By Louise Ervin ’49
Music Room: any Thursday eve-
ning of late: The coolly confident
Bryn Mawr choristers, eager if un-
certain voices from Haverford, and
chairs at a ratio of two to three
people: these are the ingredients
for a Christmas concert rehearsal.
Not in the least unnerved by the
chair problem, the Haverfords
prove their stamina and sing lust-
ily while standing on one:foot eacn
in the corners of, an overstrained
music room, Mo tary pauses in
the singing are punctuated by
“Maam?”s, as the bass and tenor
sections fire questions at Mrs. De
Varon.
Pronunciation and enunciation
provide the greatest pitfalls. Mrs.
de Varon begs to hear “that word
in the fourth measure’”’; Haver-
ford’s cooperation is remarkable,
and in the next round this word
rings out from the bass register
to the exclusion of all else. But
when it comes to the pronunciation
By Helen
and Louise
Dear Mother,
I‘have abandoned the History of
Art department (forget the shoe
box), and am now torn between
the Physics and Latin depart-
merits, Dalton’ and the West Wing.
In Physics, we have such; Fun!
There is the divine element of
chance in my dealings with Mr.
Michels; sometimes in illustrating
the properties of matter and dens-
ity, he throws a ping-pong ball,
other times it is a leaden weight
of fearful impact. It’s my duty to
enter into the Spirit of Things,
catching these missiles as he
throws them around in demonstra-
And in the gloom we play
around with mirrors and_ light
beams, this gives us an excellent
opportunity to attend to our’ coif-
fures in preparation for the next
class! Mr. Michels is a man of
understanding. ©
Wa. “tina ee ui xine ran
-| Mrs. Michels Michels’ wife.
Her department is overwhelming-
ly attractive. There is precision |
Lure of ‘‘Venerable Literature’’
Contrasted with Flying Weights
Hale, ’49,
Ervin, ’49
in her class, too, translation I
mean. It’s very important to be
accurate, being careful not to
translate “cave canem,” “look out
I’m going to sing.” Precision is
the thing with this family: we sit
precisely in the same seat every
day in Latin, and yet I never can
guess when or why I shall be call-
ed upon to translate, except that I
can usually depend on getting the
passage I haven’t prepared, and
never the passage I have devel-
oped a true understanding of the
night before! The only thing in
such a case is a well-timed ques-
tion of interesting content and
friend.
So you see, I am torn between
these two departments, The Forces
of the Universe, and the Lure Of
An Ancient and Venerable Litera-
ture (Read Horace and Ovid).
~ Tell me what you think. I want
F_-4~Q., ts “Little
Piysix for Christmas.
Your loving,
\ Daughter
of “St. Nicholas” complete serious-
ness prevails, while a qualified
Haverford Frenchman ‘demon-
strates: “Saint Nee-co-la!”, and an
approximation of this sound is
droned out in lifeless monotones.
Some may say that these rehear-
sals are disorganized, but Haver-
ford really gets in the spirit with
“Drink, come fill us a bowl of the
best!” Appropriately, this is the
signal for an intermission. Much
to the distress of the home team,
smoke immediately spirals upward
from the male section of the choir.
After hasty consultation, the “reg-
ulation concerning smoking in the
music room” is communicated to
Haverford; then surprise, and even
awe, as they stride to the window
and cigarettes are hurled upon the
turf below with an air of the dra-
matic worthy of the severest cig-
arette shortage...
Back to song. A moment of
tenseness results from a shortage
of music; then Barbara Bettmann’s
‘quick thinking and noble efforts
earn her the proud title “Queen of
Haverford”. Relative calm pre-
vails, and the rest of the allotted
hour passes somehow. An interval
of uncertainty, while Haverford
lingers, still segregated; then they
decide against fraternization, for
tonight at least, and depart.
Recreation Room
To be Furnished
Within the next few’ weeks,
possibly before Christmas, campus
entertainment facilities will be
highlighted by the addition of a
Recreation Room in Goodhart,
sponsored by Undergrad. <
The Recreation Room, formerly
known as the May Day Room, is
being planned especially for the
use of girls and their dates, as
well as “hen parties.” It will be
‘open every night until 2:00 A. M.
(providing a watchman can be
found¥.and is conveniently close
to the Soda Fountain which will
also stay open later. Among the
attractions and amusements which
will. be..offered. are ngyiges? -7™-
fortable chairs and couches, «cards
¢ and a juke box for those
who like to dance.
eS One: peers tributions: face
card t s will be. _ gratefully ac-
Four Bryn Mawr Students Talk
|\On Atomic Energy over WCAU
ing slightly discombobulated at the
thought of speaking to an invisible
audience, our first thought when
we emerged from the elevator was
wonder at the source of energy sup-
plying .the gleaming, flawlessly
waxed floors of the building,
After seating us around a table
in the center of which stood the
center of all existence for 15 min-
utes between 5:15 and 5:80, the
mike, we were tested by a number
of anonymous gentlemen to see
whose voice boomed and whose
whispered. (That mystic entity,
the radio personality, emerged in
a startling manner on Saturday
when a congratulatory faculty
member told us we had “a photo-
genic radio voice.’’)
We were preceded on the pro-
gram by the voices of two gentle-
men emerging from New York,
both authorities on atomic energy,
and then the show was on. To
those who are thinking of a radio
career we can only say, “put your
hands behind your back so you
can’t see them shaking, and _ it’s
easy as rolling off a log.”
Alliance Angles
The United Nations Council in
Philadelphia is asking for volun-
teers from Bryn Mawr to do a va-
riety of jobs which will provide a
valuable experience for those who
undertake them. The Council is
divided into several committees,
each of which'carries on a differ-
ent kind of work directed toward
educating the people at large on
the subject of the United Nations.
Two of the most interesting com-
mittees are those on visual edu-
cation and on block parties. ‘The
Visual Education Committee wants
volunteers to help run movie pro-
jectors and lead discussions in such
groups as Rotary clubs, students,
etc. The Block Party Committee
want volunteers to help organize
block parties in Philadelphth at
which all the families in a block
are brought together to get to
know each other and learn. to work
together.
These jobs, which do not require
any kind of experience, offer stud-
ents a chance to do active work to
increase understanding of the UN
and to learn a/ great deal in the
process.
Foreign Graduates
Discuss Home Lands
Continued from Page 3
namely going to enter diplomatic
service as soon as I return to my
country.”
Now only the most difficult. part
of my task was left and I walked
to the room of my Finnish friend,
Armi Rautio, feeling almost as if
I were going to interview. myself.
All the things we thought looked
so ridiculous on paper, and. after a
couple of hours’ desperate at-
tempts this is what we decided:
Hometown: Helsinki, a usual
small. town University: that of
Helsinki, a usual Scandinavian uni-
versity with its academic freedom
which in this case is symbolized
by a white. cap. Hobbies: Anglo-
Saxon, shopping, music. - The.ob-
ject of my dreams: California.
What about Finland?—It-is too
cold a place to think of in winter.
And finally, now that you know
all of us, come and talk to us. We
didn’t come here to live in seelu-
sion or as a small foreign group.
.We came to learn to know Amer-
ica and Americans and the. great-
‘er number of you. we. meet, the .
better. And you had better
foreigners, for after a couple of
months we’ll probably be altogeth-
er Americanized. So, go. ahead!
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OLLEGE NEWS
Fees Five
Martin Analyzes
/Empirical World
In Logical Terms
Specially contributed by
Rosamond Kent Sprague
- Dalton, December 9. Mr. Richard
Martin of the department of Phil-
_ osophy spoke Monday evening on
“Mathematical Concepts of the Ma-
terial World” under the joint spon-
sorship of the Science and Philos-
ophy Clubs. There are three main-
stays in which exact thought might
be applied to the empirical world.
The first is Whitehead’s notion
of extensive abstraction, a method
of defining geometrical ideas which
proves extremely powerful in that
it presupposes the whole of logic
and mathematics. The second is
that of theoretical semantics, which
emphasizes such problems as the
nature of logical truth.
The third theory, which was se-
lected by the speaker fér most
careful interpretation, is a logis-
tical analysis of empirical concepts.
For the purposes of this analysis,
the only concepts to be considered
are those which are part of our
actual experience, as for instance
the part-whole relation . Thus the
concept of a class is everywhere
replaced by that of a concrete ob-
ject.
Furthermore, our universe, in-
stead of being a universal class
composed of all possible members,
becomes the logical sum of all en-
tities which are parts of them-
selves. The extension of such a
world-view begins to run counter
to common-sense notion when such
a topic as that of spatial contig-
uity is considered. Two tangent
circles, for instance, have no part
in common.
It also demands a further theory,
called the theory of ancestrals, to |
demonstrate that a transition from
one entity to another is always
possible in a finite number of steps.
Although a logical theory which
replaces’ the classes by concrete
objects may seem to be only a re-
interpretation of modern logic, it
actually proves powerful
when applied to the physical world.
more
Summer Abroad
Open to Students
Raymond Wattles, of the Ex-
periment in International Living
of Putney, Vermont, visited Bryn
Mawr on Monday, December 9, to
give information about the oppor-
tunity offered to college students
to work. as counsellors in chil-
drens’ camps in France next sum-
mer. Last summer, the French
government placed 70,000 children
in camps and the’Experiment sent
a small exploratory group which
proved so valuable that they plan
to send one hundred or more peo-
ple this year.
Offers Varied Experience
The units of camp, counselors
will sail for France between the
3rd and 15th of June, and will re-
turn between the 7th and 15th of
September. As the camp period is
only two to three months, there
will be an opportunity to live in
French homes and to go sightsee-
ing. Those who go will pay their
own. expenses which will range
from $450 to $550; there will be no
paid workers.
Qualifications are fluency in
French conversation and _ experi-
ence in handling children. Those
with experience in teaching nature
study, handicrafts, sports, and
swimyiing are especially needed.
The working day will be from
twelve. to fourteen hours, and
those who went last year say that
the work is hard and _ conditions
uncomfortable, but that the satis-
faction of having accomplished a
needed job and the opportunity to
live in a foreign land compensated
for the difficulties.
Contributions Needed
Organizations wishing to aid in
this work can raise funds to help
purchase equipment since the
French government provides only
the barest. necessities.
“a
and First Aid supplies, clothing,
and craft supplies may be sent di-
rectly to Putney, Vermont, or giv-
en to one of the counsellors.
Those seriously interested in this
project should write to the Experi-
ment in International Living, Put-
ney, Vermont, for additional in-
formation.
YOU’LL NEED
A NEW FORMAL
FOR THAT
Christmas Dance
There are
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one
COLLEGE INN
rg Give You” a
for that Christmas Shopping
AT THE
Contribu- |
tions of athletic equipment, health |
Language Houses
Entertain at Xmas;
Present Nativities
The French, Spanish, and Ger-
man Clubs have extensive plans
towards their Christmas celebra-
tions. Each group is imbued with
international spirit complete with
carols, festive dancing, and native
dramatic presentations.
French Play
The French Club\will give a
nativity play at Wyhdham, Fri-
day, at eight o’clock. The cast is
as follows:
Joseph—Claude Valabreque
Mary—Althea Riggs
Herod—Katharine Harper
Three Kings— Doreen Hurwitz,
Sue Henderson, Pat Apell
Three Angels — Harriett Rhodes,
Edythe le Grande, Pat Ripley
Weel
There will be refreshments and
caroling after the play.
Mexican Fiesta
The Spanish Club has planned
an elaborate Mexican fiesta.
Everyone is invited (whether she
speak Spanish or not) to watch
the jota, the bamba, and the raspa
(Spanish and Mexican dances) and
to join in the Pinata ceremony.
Haverford’s Spanish Club will be
in attendance. Everyone will sing
carols and eat heartily. The date
set for all this is the afternoon of
December 16th.
German Club
The German Club will circulate
between the Music Room and the
cember 18th, at eight o’clock. They
will present a traditional nativity
play. R
Mary—Sally Beaman.
Angels — Ellen Harriman, Posy
Johnson, Henny Burch
Haverford again will be present
| There will be carols and refresh-
ments at the party which will take
place after the play, and will be in
Shepherds—Lucille Mahieu, Leslie |
Common Room on Wednesday, De- |
Patricia Hochschild ’48, who is |
taking her junior year at the Uni-
versity of Geneva with the Smith |
College group, has written that
she will attend an ISS Conference
at Combloux during her Christmas
vacation. Her particular work
will be in a commission where she
will discuss with representatives
from other countries, ‘‘The Place
of the University in Society.” The
purpose of the entire conference is
to study the various aspects of
the university. She comments that
her: particular phase of the work
should be interesting because, as
she says, “there are so many dif-
ferences between the status of the
universities at home and here in
Europe.”
In order to fill the niiislenmeaie
for documentation made by the
| ISS, she has requested statistical
information about Bryn Mawr.
| This data will include information
about » entrance requirements,
| scholarships, student government
and its relations with the faculty,
and the many extra-curricular ac-
tivities, including radio and news-
paper. work that are typical of the
college.
Pat observes in her letter that
Bryn Mawr is “widely-known” and
has “a big name and a better rep-
utation.” “When I give my intel-
lectual origins as Bryn Mawr, I
don’t even have to spell it for
them.” This should be a help in
making the “intelligent impres-
sion” which she feels is necessary
to eradicate the unflattering pre-
tations which she feels are
existent in Europe
concerning
| craziest
American ‘universities. |
aspect of Pat’s life in Genera. She
adds in the same letter:
—_—s-
For the Student “Body” if
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Editor’s note: This is only one’
Junior in Geneva This Year
To Represent B. M. at ISS Conf.
“Seven subjects gives one the
feeling of getting no-
where at a terrific rate... I keep
threé calendars. One for the books
I have to read ... One is a sched-
ule of my classes . .. The last is 4 .
my social life, the most observed
and the most enjoyable .... Some-
one calls up to ask us out. We de-
cline, saying there is a book we
must read before tomorrow, since
we’ve had it out of the library a
‘month, and it’s due back and the
least we can do is look at the chap-
ter headings. To which the voice
replies—‘But no’ one’ here ever
works.’ And in these cases we think
We should do as the Europeans
do.”
(From other sources we have
learned of _ Miss Hochschild’s at-
tendance at a masked ball).
Shridevi Interprets
Aspects of Hinduism
Continued from Page 1
and should progress toward a more
perfect life: that of the student,
bachelor or maid; the household-
er or home maker; and the forest
dweller whose life is a prepara-
tion for the highest stage, that of
the ascetic. The latter lives a life
separated from the world, but must
continually strive toward the Good
either through the way of Action,
Devotion or Knowledge. Thus re-
ligien is a vital factor in the life
of every Hindu, and the nation as
a whole is more attached to relig-
ion and philosophy than the peo-
ples of the West.
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THE COLLEGE ‘NEWS
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‘Bryn Mawr Bazaar
The Bryn Mawr College Fund
1946—is opening the Bryn Mawr
Bazaar, featuring the sale of gifts-
in-kind given to the Fund, at the
Philadelphia Headquarters of the
Fund on the eighth floor of Wan-
amakers, Chestnut Street front.
Beginning December 9, the shop is
to be open from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
‘ College Calendars
The Bryn Mawr College Fund
1946 — announces that proceeds
made from the sale of the college
Engagement Calendars will be con-
tributed to the student quota for
the Fund. |
Henry V
A benefit performance of Henry
V, with Laurence Olivier, will be
shown in Goodhart Hall December
16, for the benefit of the Alumnae
Fund. Roland Young, Robert
Montgomery, and Elliott Nugent
will make personal appearances at
this performance. Tickets are pric-
ed at $4.80, and are obtainable in
the Deanery.
Correction
In the report of Mr. Gianturco’s
talk on “Benedetto Croce as a Lit-
erary Critic” in last week’s News
the French critic Sainte-Beuve was
incorrectly reported as “St. Boeuf.”
Freshman Elections
Emily Townsend, Secretary.
Mary Lou Thomas, Song-Mis-
tress.
Polly Porter, Representative to
Self-Government.
Priscilla Johnson, Representative
to Undergrad.
Sheila Eaton, Representative to
the Athletic Association.
Katherine Harper, Riepresenta-:
tive to the League.
More Life Saving Courses
Anyone interested in senior life
saving?» Another course can be
given after Xmas, if enough people
are interested. It will be given on
a different night or afternoon from
the time it is being given now.
An Instructors’ Course will be
given if at least ten people are in-
terested, also after Xmas. Stud-
ents taking this course must be
nineteen, must have taken senior
life saving within the last three
years, and must have some specific
desire to teach life saving next
summer or next fall. Those inter-
ested must give their names to
Miss Yeager by Monday, December
16.
" TO GIVE EXTRA
INSPIRATION
FOR YOUR
Long Paper
There’s Nothing
Like a Bite
at the
HAMBURG
HEARTH
t
W. P. Remington
Urges Spiritual
Road to Peace
Music Room, Decembér 8. “Man
has made a wilderness of his
world,” said the Rt. Rev. William
P. Remington, Suffragan Bishop of
Pennsylvania, in his talk in Chap-
el. “Because we have lacked good
sty apaiag A continued Bishop Rem-
ington, “some people by their
greed and selfishness acquire too
much, while others starve.’
Basing his sermon on the fa-
mous passage in Isaiah 40:8-8, he
showed that the straight highway
for the Lord, the road leading to
righteousness and __ prosperity,
could not be attained as long as
power-hungry people deterred its
preparation. The answer to the
problem, he said, is in revelation
rather than in revolution.
To build a_ straight road, the
Bishop continued, we must put
first things first, must realize that
life has more to it than the ma-
terial. The purpose of religion is
“to, permeate the commonplace
with spiritual value.” This idea
is in accord with the philosophy
that the only ultimate reality is
the meaning we put into things.
Remington, can we “prepare a
highway for our God” and can the
crooked be made straight.
Ir, =
sawed}
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Bryn Mawr 1515
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Continued from Page 1
the faculty consider what academic
changes, if any, would be made if
Big May Day were to be held in
the near future. Undergrad is not
making a decisive request for Big
May Day next year since the above
majority did not seem large enough
for such action.
The Board hopes then to bring
the faculty opinion before the stud-
ents, and, (with the faculty con-
sent, have anew poll next fall, Al-
though it is not the students them-
Forty;Nse Percent Favor Big May Day;
Faculty Will Discuss Results of Poll
selves, but the Board of Directors,
who make the final decision, stud-
ent opinion undoubtedly holds .some
weight. As was-brought out in the
Mass Meeting held on November
25, a Big May Day for this year
would be unadvisable for two rea-
First, the Alumnae Drive
is just getting underway and it is
difficult to do justice to two large
projects at once. Finally, the fac-
sons.
Talks on Vocations
| Scheduled 2nd Term
Continued from Page 2
these larger topics there will be
two smaller conferences on law
and the opportunities for women
in department store work.
The conferences will be ex-
tremely valuable for upper class-
men who will be seeking jobs in
the near future, and for lower
classmen who are uncertain about
their major. The Committee
strongly urges attendance at the
conferences for those who are in-
terested, as well as at the discus-
ulty has not yet considered May | sion periods which will follow. An-
Day in light of the Comprehens- |
‘ives.
'nouncements will be sent to those
who signified interest in the sub-
a ijects planned.
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of the Silver Blades
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