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THE COLLEGE NEWS





VOL. XLI, NO. 15

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, $046

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Brvn Mawr College, 1944

Trustees of

. PRICE 10 CENTS







Students Feel
Present Schedule
Not Satisfactory
Poll Shows 83% Majority

Wants Reading Period;
46%, ‘Quizzes



The Rescheduling Questionnaire,
conducted ;hy, the Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee, was filled
out by 363 students. Particularly
significant is the fact that a defin-
ite majority feel the present sys-
tem of scheduling papers to be un-
satisfactory and favor a reading
period without classes, more fre-
quent quizzes in place of mid-sem-
esters, and completion: of the first
term before Christmas.

Although the decisive nanny
of 83% shows itself in favor of a
reading period without classes
there are numerous suggestions
concerning the scheduling of such
a period.- 55% would place the

~ Yeading period at the end of first’

semester classes; 27% immediate-
ly after Christmas; and 18% be-
fore Christmas.

There are, however, a wealth of
other suggestions, such as placing
the period in the middle of either
the first or the second’ semester.
‘One Senior warns that students

would procrastinate with the pros-1.

pect of such a reading period be-
fore them, another suggested post-
ing an optional reading list, while
a third thinks that only Seniors
would need such a period.

Some feel that there would be
little’ point for science majors to
spend a week without classes un-
less they had extra work, and oth-
ers believe that this would be an
excellent opportunity for labs and
research. Several Juniors suggest
that a paper be due at the end of
the period; while another states
that “the maximum number of pa-

_ pers should be two, agreed on by

major department, one due at end

of period, other before Christmas.”

In response to the fourth ques-
tion, 46% of the campus feel that
the present system of scheduling

Gontinued on Page 3

William Penn’s Books

_ of London, and Penn’s polyglot

Exhibited in Library

Various books from Haverford’s
collection of volumes by or about
William Penn have been borrowed
for the current Bryn Mawr Rare
Book Room exhibit. This exhibit
will continue until after spring va-
eation when it will be replaced by
one of the students’ favorite illus-
trated books. a

The exhibit includes the first
map of the Pennsylvania Colony
(1691), as William Penn imagined
and publicized it, before either he
or his deputies had come to Amer-
ica; a deed and a commission, both
signed ‘by Penn; a memorandum
written and ‘signed by him on the
sale of liberty lands in Pennsyl-
vania; and his “Some accounts of
the, Province of Pennsylvania”
(1681). Also shown are a first
edition of “No Cross, No. Crown”
(1689), which was written while
Penn was a prisoner in the Tower



Bible containing his Proprietary
bookplate..
tribution is its copy of the colored
reproductions. of Violet’ Oakley’s

murals, “The Holy Experiment,” in

the State Capitol.

Bryn Mawr’s only con-





Dr. Robert L. Calhoun
Talks on Role of God.
In Christian Doctrine

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Goodhart, February 12. In the

first of a series of three lectures on

Basic (Christian Doctrine, Dr. Rob-

ert L. Calhoun, Professor of His-
torical Theology at Yale, discussed
God as’ transcendental_and imman-

ent in respect to nature and his-
tory. ‘ In theoretical concept, Dr.

Calhoun said-that God, as one sov-

ereign power and yet-as three in
functional roles, transcends beyond
the individual or any aggregate.

Dr. Calhoun approached the
problem of how God is related to

nature and history through a defin-| |

ition of terms. At one extreme,
nature is that part of man’s envir-

onment which he has not made nor]

is any. part'of; on the other, he said,
nature includes all reality, all that
is and all that is not. Dr. Calhoun,
himself, placed nature somewhat
between the two, by defining it as
including beings and all that they
are capable of experiencing. In

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Literature Discloses,
Potential Not Actual
Truth, Explains Walsh



‘Music Room, February 8. “Art
as art is the disclosure of possi-
bility, not the revelation of actual-
ity, and it has therefore, no essen-
tial. reference to the truth,” de-
clared Miss Dorothy Walsh, assist-
ant professor of philosophy at
Smith College, in a talk on Litera-
ture and Truth, the first in the De-
‘Laguna lectureship.

Explaining that this statement

had been challenged by contem-

porary writers, Miss Walsh re-
attacked the main problem, “In
what sense may a work of litera-

ture be said to be true?”.The term.

“creative literature” was restrict-
ed for purposes of the discussion to
the drama, the novel, and poetry.
The use of “truth” in the sense of
correspondence to something exist-
ing independently. outside the
work was also implied in this con-
nection.

With this Shethntniey, the speak-
er stated the case for philosophy

Continued on Page 3



Calendar

Thursday, Feb. 15

Assembly by Philip .J. Jaffe,
The Facts on China, Goodhart,
4 12:30.

Spanish Club Tea,
Room, 4:00-6:00.
Friday, Feb...16
Swimming Meet with Peni,
Bryn Mawr Gym, 4:15.
Freshman Show dress rehears-
al, Goodhart.

Common

Saturday, Feb. 17 N
Freshman Show, dooghash
8:00. é meg

ese haga and Rhoads dance,
ads.
re dance, Rockefeller.
Sunday, Feb. 18
Chapel, The Reverend Alexan-
, der €. Zabriskie; Music .Room,
7:30...
Monday, Feb. 19
Current Events,
Room, 7:15.
Lecture by Robert L. Calhoun,
(Music Room, 8:00.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Vocational’ Conference,
-mon Room, 4:30.
Sigma Xi lecture by Professor
G. W..Beadle, Dalton, 8:00. 7 ,
Wednesday, Feb. 21 em
Badminton match with Rose-
mont, at Rosemont, 4:00.. *

Common

epee

‘idea*-of the freshman show, “Tart

‘tations were rudely shattered by

\kets for that last Lucky Strike,

|er.



Mass Sing, Music Room, 7:30.









Lanter. DUNN °47 helps the patient, HELEN REED *46 to
drink her water, in the Nurses’ Aide course being given to Bryn
Mawr students.



Freshman Show With Intellectuals, Marines
‘Promises’ ‘an Intriguing Plot for ‘Tart Art’



° By Rosina Bateson, ’47
Emily Evarts, °47
“Art for heart’s sake,” as far as

can be gathered in this early stage
ofits development, is. the basic

Art.” Amidst a setting of several

busts (Dante? Caesar?) and exotic}:

depictions of the background, the
freshmen are weaving what prom-
ises to be an intriguing plot con-
cerning the intellectual soul and—
a marine.

Dim figures puttered around in
the rehearsal background while a
good-looking chorus sang a ditty
about “baby blue moustaches.” In
the farthest corner of Goodhart an-
other group seemed to be practic-
ing a tip-toe stretch. Seeing this
from a distance one could but mur-
mur, “Ah, but a man’s reach should
exceed a grasp,” etc. These medi-

a-booming voice: “QUIET! mum-
ble, mumble, mumble!”

In the hush that followed, strains
of “gaudeamus igitur” introduced
a bevy of undulating arms, legs,
etc. In the midst of this, a large
iron rail was solemnly swung by’
invisible pulleys up and down be-
hind the dancers, Whether, it was
an intended accompaniment, or
merely an industrious stage hand
exploring the occult regions of the
stage, must be left until the 17th
to discover. Could the class animal
have something to do with a tra-
peze? (In a museum? oh well - ).

In the foyer of Goodhart a re-
hearsal of “The Cigarette, Song”
was in progress, with lyrics that

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made everyone grope in their poc-

while some of the dances were be-
ing rehearsed in the Rhoads smok-
Never has the ilicsoaz muscle
had such a workout. The freshmen





seemed capable of assuming al-

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most any kind of pose, or repose.
Great havoc was caused by the
weird rumblings of the tired vic-
trola, which just couldn’t go on
without being wound.

It is, an undisputed fact that
Picasso cannot be fathomed com-
pletely at a first view, and analo-
gously we. have concluded that

“Tart Art” too, interesting and

promising as it already seems, will
have to be seen as a whole to be
really appreciated.

Forsdyke Discusses
Museum in Wartime



Music Room, February 10. Meas-

ures taken for the protection of
the treasures of.the British Mus-
eum in wartime were explained by
Sir John Forsdyke in a lecture il-
lustrated by slides. Comparative-
ly speaking, said Sir John, the
bomb damage,~ aside from that
caused by incendiaries, was not \too
great.
» Hoses had béen installed and
many well-trained guards were on
hand to detect and ‘extinguish fires
caused by bombs. (Many packing
cases~ had been purchased before
the war in which numerous books,
statuary, manuscripts and textiles
were boxed, and stored in under-
ground railways, tunnels and stone
quarries.

Oil bombs and incendiaries caus-
ed the most damage, setting fire
to the books. One bomb alone
caused the loss of 150,000 volumes,

and in the last great raid on Lon-
don over one-fourth of the reading
stacks were burned out. It is doubt-
ful whether many of these volumes
can be replaced.

*4-| course, 30 meet on



51 Bryn Mawr Undergrads Start Training
Under New 10- Hour Plan For Nurse’s Aides

New Program Includes Total

Of 114Students Working
As Nurses’ Aides



The new college plan for the in-
crease in the training of Nurses’
Aides on campus went into effect
last week. The primary theoret-
ical. classes were begun on Febru-
ary 5, with an enrollment of 51
students.

The size of the enrollment has
necessitated the’ division of the
theoretical classes on campus into
two groups. Of the 51. taking the
Monday and
Tuesday afternoons from 1:30 to
5 P. M. and 21 on Wednesday and
Thursday: afternoons.

Both groups also meet at the
Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia
on Saturdays during the February
period. Practical training will be

‘| given during March at Presbyter-

ian, Temple University, and Phita>——

delphia General hospitals..

Meanwhile 22 Bryn Mawr stud-
ents are already working in Phila-
delphia area hospitals, and 14 stud-
ents will complete a less intensive
six-hour-a-week course in a few
weeks. No college credit is given
for this course.

In addition a new six-hour-a-
week course is being organized by
Mary K. Snyder ’45, chairman’ of
the college Red Cross Unit, and
‘Anne Borum ’46, head of the .col-
lege Nurses’ Aide group. To date 24
students.are enrolled in this course.
They will be trained at Bryn Mawr
Hospital.

As the first eastern college to
schedule such training for stu-
dents, Bryn Mawr has made a not-
able contribution to the conduct of
college work in these times as
well as to the war effort in gener-
al. This was emphasized in a re-
cent statement issued by the fac-
ulty committee on Nurses’ Aides,
which read in part:
~ “It is in order that academic
work which is done at Bryn. Mawr
shall contiriue to be done well
that the Faculty recognized the
absolute necessity of making a
time allowance for other work
necessary for the war. To faculty
and students alike this action is a
reaffirmation rather than a denial
of the need for holding firmly to
high intellectual standards in time
of war.”

Mr. Jaffe Will Speak

On China, U.S. in Peace



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Mr. Philip Jaffe,editor of Amer-
asia, will address the first College
assembly of this semester on
Thursday, February 15, at 12:30.
Mr. Jaffe will speak on. “The Facts
of China,” dealing with the im-=

portance of China in the peace and

particularly of China’s relations
with the United States in the post-
war. world.

Although he has not been in
China since 1937, Mr. Jaffe is one
of the few authorities on the com-
munistic situation there at this
time. He has written a book on
the. conditions which he” observed
while on his trips and on what he
has compiled from information
that has been ‘released. The ten-
tative title of the book is New
Frontiers in. Asia, and it will be
published'in the spring.

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