College news, November 22, 1944

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VOL. XLI, NO. 9

__ ARDSORE and BRYN MAWE, PA PA., WEDNESDAY,



NOVEMBER 22, 1944

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr Collece, 1944





Burns Presents
Closing Lecture
Of Shaw Series

Development mt of Services *
‘Involves Four Problems
Of Future



Goodhart, November 20. Dr.
Eveline Burns concluded the last
of the Anna Howard Shaw _lec-
tures on Social Security in an
Expanding Economy with the top-
ic of Planning for Human Wel-
fare: The Broader Issues.

Mrs. Burns began. by discuss-
ing some of the important ques-
tions that have arisen in the field
of social security. Within the
next twenty years there will be
a general expansion in income
maintenance and employment
services. Under the next expan-
sion ex-service men women
will have the advantage of intelli-
gent guidance and training in
seeking new employment. Also
the field of housing will see .a
considerable development for low-
er income groups. In addition,
the social worker will come to the
fore to fill an even greater need
because of increasing complexi-
ties requiring technical aide and
adjustment.

“Nations are coming to see
that widespread poverty and ec-
onomic ills are unnecessary in
the present society,” Mrs. Burns

Continued on Page 4

B. M. Sponsors Drive
For Louvain Library



Next week a drive to help re-
store the library of Louvain Uni-
versity in Belgium which has been
destroyed twice by German inva-
sion, is to begin on campus. The
Louvain library: was started in
1627, and by 1914 contained 300,000
books, more than 950 manuscripts
and 350 incunabula, all of which
were arbitrarily destroyed wd the
Germans in 1914.

In 1918 an American committee
was organized under the chairman-
ship of Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University,
and started the drive in which
hundreds of American’ universities,
colleges, and schools contributed
to the restoration of the building
and its library.

In May 1940 the Germans again
invaded Belgium, and again Lou-
vain suffered. The interior of. the
library was gutted by an incendi-
ary bomb, and of its 900,000 vol-
umes, all but 15,000 were destroy-

ed. Only 15 remain of the 8,000

manuscripts. Fire completely de-
stroyed a collection of 3,000 scien-
tifie periodicals, photo-
graphic reproductioys of all the
Coptic manuscripts; and a group
of more than 22 ancient engrav-
ings. The cost of rebuilding the
library is estimated at 8.5 million
Belgian frances. Unfortunately the
15,000 volumes which were saved
and stored in another library were

| later destroyed by allied attacks on

industrial plants and railroad in-
stallations in Louvain.. -

The ‘authorities of the Belgian
Government and Louvain Univer-

- sity plan to provide for the recon-

struction of the building, but in
Continued on Page 4

"|Yugoslay, Pole Speak
On Students in War
At Special Assembly

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Goodhart, November 17. At the
third International Students’ Day
assemblys“the Undergraduate As-
sociation presented Miss Yelana

| Albana, a Yugoslav student now

a senior at Barnard, and Miss
Christina Swiniarska, a_ native
Pole working for the Polish In-
formation Service Center. Their
subjects were the roles which the
Yugoslav and Polish students are
playing in this war.

“They have fulfilled their task’,
Miss Albana declared in describ-
ing the magnificent sacrifices and
accomplishments made by the
Yugoslav university students since
the invasion of their country. The
students themselves, forming: one
seventh of Marshal Tito’s Na-
tional Army of Liberation, caus-
ed incaleuable damage to the
Nazi invaders through — guerilla
tactics and sabotage.

Proof of -the effectiveness of
their work-—was afforded by the
repeated Nazi-held mass execu-
tion of students, she said. After
the five Yugoslav universities
were closéd in April 1941 when
the country’ was invaded, the stu-
dents went underground = and
jgined the partisan army. . The
tWelve years of education in free
government-controlled schools
and the years ‘spent at the uni-
versities. in which their political
interests always paralleled their
academic work, made them valu-
able soldiers. The ‘women stu-
dents, about one third. as numer-
ous as the men, cook for the
army, make small arms, bear
pamphlets and posters_and___act
as messengers, taking an active
part in the underground.

Polish students, too, have taken
part in the defense of their coun-
try, suffering severe hardships,
Miss Swiniarska emphasized.
They aided in the heroic defense
of Warsaw, the peasants joining
the army and the women becom-

ing nurses. Many Polish — stu-
dents joined the Underground,
and are now engaged in secret

Service, using their knowledge of
Continued on Page 4





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PRICE 10 CENTS



Mrs. Dean Will Speak
At College Assembly
On Thanksgiving Day

Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, re-
search director of the Foreign Pol-
icy Association, is to be the speak-
er at a special Thanksgiving Day
assembly. ‘Her topic will be On
the Threshold’ of World Order.
Classes at 12 will be excused for
Mrs. Dean’s address.

Born in Petrograd, Russia, Mrs.
Dean came to the United States in
1919.; She received her A.B. at
Radcliffe in 1925 and her A. M. and
Ph.D. at Yale University. In
1940. she obtained an LL.D. from
Wilson College and from the Uni-
versity of Rochester.





Calendar

Thursday, November 23
Thanksgiving Assembly: Dr.
Vera Micheles Dean. On the
Thresh of World Order.
Goodhaftt, “42:00.

Thanksgiving Dinner, 6:30.

Friday, November 24
Undergrad Movie: The Prison-
er of Zenda, Music Room. 7:30.

Sunday, November 26
Chapel, The Reverend William
Sherman Skinner. Music Room,
7:30.

Monday, November 27
Dr. Edgar A. Singer, Jr., Mech-
anism, Vitalism, Naturalism.
‘Music Room, 8:00.

Tuesday, November 28
Catholic Club Discussion. Com-
mon Room, 8:00. “

Wednesday, November 29
Vocational Conference: Post-
war Reconstruction. Common
Room, 7:30.







(Mrs. Dean ‘became an Ansevsits
citizen in 1928. She is a member



of the Research Association, and
also of the Foreign Policy Associ-
ation. Editor of research publica-
tions from 1931-38, Mrs. Dean is



now research director as well as
editor.

A trustee of Vassar and of Rad-
cliffe, Mis. Dean also has written
New Government in Europe, with
J. Buell (1934), and Europe in Re-
treat, published in 1939. She has
contributed to many journals and
is recognized as one of America’s
foremost authorities on the world
situation.



Campus War Chest
Drive Fails to Reach
One Hundred Percent

Nearly all final reports on the
United War Chest campaign on
the campus have—been—announced



by the chairman of the Drive,
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins. On No-
vember 20, the total amount
pledged by the _ entire college

community was $3018.35 as com-
pared with last year’s pledge of
$4066.29. 92% of the campus has
contributed, far short of the hop-
ed-for goal of 100% at this late

date. $1842.25 is the sum _ that
has actually been collected so
far.

Only 94% of the undergradu-
Continued on Page 4



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Sudden Turmoil Sweeps Surprised Campus
As Power House Trouble Creates Black-out



Just as mid-semester crammers
began to settle down to business
on Tuesday night, the lamps grew
suddenly dim, then slowly faded
away, leaving a state of Stygian

‘blackness. Stunned by this unfore-
seen crisis, most inhabitants of the
Bryn Mawr campus spent twenty
desperate minutes in varying
states of paralysis. Announcing its
return by tantalizing flickers, the
illumination returned as gradually
as it had departed, amid scenes of
frantic rejoicing.

Desperate phone calls to the
power house during the black-out
yielded no enlightening~ informa-
tion, but finally several girls from
Denbigh went to investigate the
cause of the disturbance in person.
_ They found a special information
bureau established there, trying
to keep the telephone calfs, under
control. They also found the chief
engineer, who allayed their fears
by explaining that a bearing had
burned out in the turbine, and that
the two reserve engines would be
brought into action shortly.





Adding to the general confusion,
a machine in the deep recesses of
Goodhart started to pound in a
sinister way, frightening the al-
ready. harrassed News staff; while
many of them bravely crept across
the stage searching for the can-
dles from the lanterns kept in the
Goodhart dressing rooms. The
Glee Club blissfully continued to
sing Silent Night throughout. Car-
ols, indeed, appeared to be the typ-
ical campus reaction to emergen-
cies before~Christmas vacation.

Next door, all Rhoads studied in
the corridors where, amazingly,
there still was light. Across cam-
pus, Merionites lit a fire in their
smoking room and chanted Christ-
mas carols, but one poor mortal,
caught in the bath tub, was unable
to open the door and get out. Pem
West was invaded by two white-
faced scientists who had fled from
Dalton, afraid the world was com-
ing to ‘an end. Victims trapped in
the library also seemed shaken,
both by being marooned and by
the hysterical shrieks that re-

President Announces
Penalties for Abuses
Of Library Privileges

oe

Miss McBride has announced
this week, as the result of a seri-
ous lateness of books due at the

Reserve Book Room at nine o’clock'

in the morfiing, a fine of 50 cents4
for a Reserve Room book which is
not returned on time in’ the morn-
ing, as well as a fine of $5.00 and
suspension of Library privileges
for a book which is taken from any
part of the Library unsigned.
These fines will go into effect on
Monday, November 27.

‘Due to the report by Miss Reed,
Librarian, of excessive lateness of
‘books, a record was kept of the
number of books late in the two
week period between October 26
and November 8. For the 11 days

i orded the average number of

students returning books late was
24\a day. These students each had
one or two books out after 9:30 in
the morning.

The total number of students in-
volved was high, 114. The difficul-
ty, Miss McBride points out, is not
therefore localized in any small
group. More than half of these
students, 61, returned a book late

once in the eleven days recorded.
Cantinuer on page 4

Mr. Sprague Speaks
To Shakespeare Club

Deanery, November 14. In a
speech before the Shakespeare
Club of West Philadelphia, Mr.
Sprague, Associate Professor of
English, pointed out the advan-
tages to readers of the compre-
hensiveness of Shakespeare’s
texts.

Attributing the great readabil-
ity.of Shakespeare to the fact
that “there is so much caught up
in the lines—time, place, faces
of characters, particular actions
and gestures’,. Mr. Sprague
touched on the blended qualities
of Shakespeare ‘as poet and dram-
atist. ¥

No one is better qualified to
give such a discussion than Mr.
Sprague, who is author of the re-
cent Shakespeare and the Actors,
described in the fall bulletin of

the Harvard University Press as
Coritinued on page 3





Elections

The Self-Government Associ-
ation takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the following. elec-
tions to the Executive Board:

Susan Oulahan ’46, Secretary.

Mary Barton ’46, First Jun-
ior Member. —









sounded in that haven of silence. |:

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|Marked Decrease

In Summer Jobs
Indicated by Poll

Majority Do ‘Volunteer Work,
Take Care of Children,
Go Farming



In the recent poll conducted by

‘Il the Vocational Committee to de-

termine the type and extent of
jobs held by undergraduates last
summer, it was revealed that 254
out of 462 polled held some job, a
marked decrease ‘from last year’s
unrivaled total of,348 out of 391.

87 Freshmen and 82 Sophomores
i Be summer, while only
52 Ju iors and 33 Seniors held
jobs, 20 students worked in. labs,
6 in factories, 19 went farming,
and 62 took care of children, in-
cluding those who were counselors

at camps. 169 girls held various
volunteer jobs; 14 took Red Cross
courses; 24 studied typing or
shorthand. The unprecedented
number of 64 Bryn Mawrtyrs at-
tended summer school. ‘

Most original among the sum-
mer ‘workers were Meredith Mof-
fitt '48, who taught English to
small Venezuelan children at the
American School in Caracas, and
Lindsay Harper ’48, who took care
of the teletype machines for the
Blue Network commentators in
Chicago during the Democratic
and Republican conventions.

Particularly energetic were Julie
Turner ’45, who spent part of her
summer haying and branding on a
ranch in Montana, and Tony Boel
’47, who volunteerd as a cowboy
for ranching and milking cows.
Cathie Clark ’47, ran a restaurant,
bakery, and soda fountain, while
Marilyn Cooper ’47, admitted that
she “worked in a bakery but for
only three weeks as she was dis-
missed for getting sick every week.
It was a cake bakery.” And Anne
Wood ’48, lasted for one week as
a camp cook.

Two Freshmen, Betsy Graf and
Louise Sheldon, studied Spanish at
the University of Mexico, and
Elizabeth Updegraf °45, taught

quantitative analysis at the Uni-

versity of Michigan.

Singer Will Present
Philosophy Lecture



Dr. Edgar A. Singer, the Adam
Seybert professor of moral and in-

tellectual philosophy at the Uni- .

versity of Pennsylvania, will speak
on Mechanism, Vitalism, and Nat-
uralism in the Music Room, “at
eight o’clock on Monday, Novem-
ber 27, under the auspices of the
Philosophy Department.

Dr. Singer was an assistant of
William James in psychology and
his pupil in philosophy. He is a
former president of the American
Philosophic Association, and a
member of the American Philosoph-
ic Society and the American As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Science. He is the author of Mod-
ern Thinkers and Present Prob-
lems, Mind as Behavior,
Advice, and The Contented Life,
as well as numerous articles on
various aspects of psychology,

logic, art and the philosophy of

science,



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.... tered few did so, particularly since the Red Cross was not in-

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Fost Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







Compulsory Military Service

The announcement by the President that he will press
for Congressional adoption of compulsory military service
comes as an encouraging sign to those who feared the conse-
quences of a drastic reduction of the American army. While
compulsory training is regrettable, it is essential if we are to
prevent the recurrence of another war and if we are to take
an A anRCT® part in a world organization.

_It is earnestly hoped that the plans outlined: in the
Dumbarton Oaks conferences will usher in a permanent
peace. The machinery of this organization, however, will be
impotent to prevent a third world war unless it is backed by
adequate military forces. Moreover, a large peacetime army
will be necessary for the occupation of Germany and Japan.

‘No less important than its contribution to world peace,
will be the consequences of military training on the youth of
the country. The President did not outline a specific plan but
it is assumed that there will be a great emphasis on physical |
training. Just such a program would be a tremendous step
forward in the improvement of the general health and dis-
cipline of American youth. :

Compulsory military training in peace time has had no
part in the traditions of American freedom. Outmoded tra-
ditions, however, must be modified to fit existing conditions.
By the maintenance of a large standing army, the United
States will show that it is willing to use force in its determin-
ation to prevent future wars..

War Chest Drive Pe

The United War Chest Drive, according to nearly final
returns, has met with a comparatively weak response from
the undergraduates. The total student “pledge as it now
stands is $696.85, as compared with last year’s contribution
of $1306.79. Explicable in part through the different method
of collecting used this year, the undergraduate contribution,
it is hoped, will be augmented in the remaining days of the
Drive by further pledges from students who feel able to give
more to the United War Chest.

In an effort to dispense with the inconveniences of sev-
eral drives for contributions to various organizations, it was
decided to incorporate all drives into the Activities Drive
usually conducted for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr League.

According to this plan, $1.25 of the $8.75 minimum
pledge was to go to the War Chest, unless a larger amount
was specified. It is obvious from last year’s results that stud-
ents would have given considerably more than the $1.25 if
solicited solely for the War Chest. Ass it was, only a scat-

cluded this year. Such a plan will not be employed next year,
at the recommendation of the President of the League, not
only because it does not provide sufficiently for the War
Chest, but: ‘also because it does not and cannot, coming“at

/|of the drugstores,

B. M. to be Rociaiiead |

in College Anthology

By (Contributions from Gould and Stallings



by Rosina Bateson, ’47
The poems of two Bryn Mawr
undergraduates have been chosen

|| to represent the college in an an-

thology of student verse. ~Select-
ed from all the universities . and
colleges of the United States, the
total contributions. number more
than’a thousand. Only compara-
tively few. of these are published
in the anthology, and it is very
creditable that Bryn Mawr
had two poems included.

Afterward, Sonnet by “Sylvia
Stallings ’48, is a tone-poém rea
lying’ on rich words and melodious
phrases to convey the thought.
“The strange sensation of past ex-
perience reborn in the thin space
where dreams have ceased to be”,
is caught again in the fullness of
its significance by a wind, “push-
ing like silk’ against the ocean
wall.”

The workmanship of the ‘poem
is skillful, and the difficult -sonnet
pattern well-adapted. There is a
constant, effective play on the val-
ues of words throughgut. Al-
though as a_ whole the | poem is
pleasing, there is an abundance
of over-done_ similies, which at
times seeny forced. “Foam, like
cream left where the channel
churned,” gives a vivid picture, it
is true, yet somehow “channel
churned” spoils the line, and does
not live up to the excellence of
phrases such as “At dawn the wa-
ter will be steel and still.

The second poem, by Joan
Gould ’47, is an experiment in the
sprung rhythm style., The eternal
aloneness of mankind is depicted
—the thought that there must
forever be a separation between
two souls; that only in death and
birth is there a common bond be-
tween man and man.

Successful both) in medium and
expression, “Loneliness” is pol-
ished and subtle in its phrasing.
“We wait in empty rooms ..
And silence kicked in the corner
rots, dead chunks.” The frustration
in these lines is heightened by

has}

-| out for this.

dertones. Developing the _ idea
further, Miss: Gould portrays the
desperate search which ends’ by
“hands (that) cleave to fingers of
loneliness.” The final. stanza is
resigned;~there is the realization

that we are inevitably “barred
in silent cell rows, hy phantom
hands.”





pW TS — END

Let us’ give thanks : fee ‘every
beastly thing, and while thanks
giving, let us ‘reap the full harvest
of a semester’s weary toil by rais-
ing up a burnt offering of fluriked
quizzes, and prostrate ourselves at
the altar of Mammon. and -= for
plenty of nothmg!

Joyously counting | the baxkave
that might have hatched in fairer
climes, and anywhere but in Dal-
ton, we brood upon the reproduct-
ive power of the amoeba, and won-
der what it would taste like with
cranberry sauce. O, stuff the bif-
ter thought with chestnuts, as we
proclaim that Thanksgiving is
nothing to be thankful for because
if you wish you were thankful but
aren’t it is infinitely worse than
staying in the customary neutral
state. We must make mince meat
of this doubt, and, covering it with
oxygen, make a joyful ex/plosion
that will blend with the holiday
mood, and show the world that we
aren’t just so much pie crust.

Delusions of grandeur seize us,
as slopping through the slush we
leave psychology, assured-that we
are Mr. Roosevelt, and can have
Thanksgiving when we like be-
cause we like—and not now. In
this frame of cerebrum we down
our meager lamb chops and try to
tell ourselves that any early set-
tler would have batted his brains
O tempora! O mores!
‘Like the fly in the bottle we must
buzz until smashed upon the bru-



tal rock of ages!





INCIDENTALLY





Never one to be daunted by cir-
cumstances, the Bryn ‘Mawr un-
dergraduate has faced the cigar-
ette shortage, weekly growing
more acute, with characteristic
adaptability. As the Bookshop’s
Saturday morning delivery of cig-
arettes is practically depleted by
its 12:00 closing time and com-
pletely gone by Tuesday after-
noons, habitual smokers trudge
into the Vill and make the rounds
generally in
vain. What with even Raleighs and
Rameses becoming non- -existent in
the vicinity, pipes have made a
simultaneous appearance in sev-
eral halls. In Merion, a mantle
bearing two pipes and a package
of Prince Edward tobacco bears
the sign “Does your cigarette taste
different lately?” There seems to
be some danger in Pembroke, in-
deed, of the shortage’s leading to
serious repercussions, as two des-
perate souls came forth last night
with large and obviously cheap ci-
gars. The smoking room was im-
mediately emptied and remained so

for the rest of the day.

Superstition, it seems, is a potent
force, even among the so-called
superior intellects. Freshmen are
early warned not to go through
the tunnel under the railroad
tracks’ if a train is going over-
head, or they will flunk their next
exam. The only safeguard is to
clutch a button. Last week, three
‘students returning from the Greeks
laden with food to see them
through ‘a night of studying for a
mid-semester, found a_ freight
train stopped on the tracks. Tak-
ing no chances, they turned, and

walked all the way back to the
bridge at the other end of the Vill
and thence ‘home.

And incidentally, the Chemistry
department went through a minor
furor this week as they succumbed
to the current campus fear of epi-
demic. ‘The janitor in Park Hall,
three faculty members reported to
their students, had Scarlet Fever.
The chemists fled their labs, re-
ported the case, found the janitor
suffering from a mild case of hives.





is no longer the chief aim of

realized.
It is completely possible

method of solicitation for the War Chest.
94% of the undergraduates have contributed, a 100% pledge

Although only

the Drive. More important is

the fact that Bryn Mawr should and can contribute a great-
er amount:to a drive as vital as that of the War Chest. That
such a relatively-small contribution to a national drive will
doubtless reflect on the reputation of the College should be

for students to pledge money

now which may be paid any time before next May. This fact,

such an early date, succeed in ‘incorporating all drives dntoyin. conjunction with the generally poor showing of the under-
one,



More can be done, however, than simply lamenting the



graduate pledge, it is hoped will cause some students to give
or to make a further gift to the United War Chest.

curt syllables and monotonous un-

"| rected at Franco’s removal

‘to define, Miss’



6 sa ts

Speaking on Spain Today. in
Monday’s Current Events, Miss
Nepper pointed out that actually
news from Spain is scanty and
heavily censored. The facts seem
to indicate that Franco is entirely
sympathetic to Fascism and is
lending every possible aid to Hit-
ler despite his speech on Novem-
ber 10.

Subversive movements in Spain
today would not seem to be di-
but
have taken the form of sabotage,
strikes and’ revolts at shipping
and industrial centers. The most
dramatic of these resistances
was the Loyalist seizure of sea-
ports on the day of’ the African
invasion in-the belief that Spain
would be the next invaded. : When
these hopes were not realized the
Loyalists relinquished their hold.

A committee oz these, revolu-
tionists recently set forth’ a six
point program promising'to break
off all relations with Axis, pow-
ers, to accept the Atlantic Char-
ter and revise the economic sys-
tem, as well as purge the army
of Fascists,’ release Loyalists
from concentration,, camps, re-
store personal liberties and hold
a free election for a constituent
assembly. oe

Today the attitude of the great
powers towards Spain is difficult
Nepper pointed
out. England and the United
States seem to have given their
support to the Franco govern-
ment and are sending help and
supplies. France has been diplo-
matically correct but is in a diffi-
cult position since she received
guerrilla support from Spanish
communists on her border. Rus-
sia, on the other hand, has taken
a direct stand against Franco’s~
government.

Inside Spain herself there is
much disorganized revolt stem-
ming from various factions. The
most important of these groups
are the last official government,
the Spanish Committee for Lib-
eration, and the Spanish Nation-
al Union. It is becoming in-
creasingly difficult to distinguish
between these groups since Re-
publicans, communists, and social-
ists are intermingled.

—Today, Miss Nepper said, it is
difficult to prophecy a future for.
Spain, but there are several in-
teresting possibilities; Franco
may be supported and allowed to
continue as ruler, there may be a
temporary establishment of a
constitutional monarchy, a revo-
lutionary swing to the left, or a
reestablishment of the old Demo- .
eratic Republic.



Jessup, Baisdell Give
hirst Vocational, Talk



Post-war reconstruction will be
the subject of thefirst Vocational
Conference to be held in the Com-
mon Room November 29 at 7:30.

Lois Kellogg Jessup, Bryn Mawr
20, a member of the American
Friends’ Service Committee and
Dorothea Chambers Baisdell, Bryn
Mawr ’19, will speak on “Foreign
Relief and Rehabilitation.”

Four other meetings have been
scheduled tentatively by the com-
mittee, one to be held in early Jan-
uary, another’ in February, the
third before spring vacation and
the last in April. ,

The subjects for these confer-
ences were chosen with regard to
the interests expressed by students
on the Vocational Committee cards.
They will concern teaching; men-
tal testing, occupational therapy
and psychology clinics; the Arts
and possibly a lecture on women’s



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4-es in their halls, stop hoarding



_ Waste Paper

Last month’s waste paper
drive yielded only 400 pounds
of paper from the entire cam-
pus; an amount which might
be--expected from each hall.
Students are requested to find
the waste paper collection box-

their newspapers and Cosmopol-
itans, and turn in all available
paper.

Niles, Hedge Chosen
For Intercollegiate
Second Hockey Team









Swarthmore, November 18., Com-
peting with ten other colleges ,in
the Intercollegiate Hockey Tryouts

on Saturday, Bryn Mawr placed”

two players on the reserve team,
Alice ,Hedge 46, as left half, and
Nancy Niles.’47, as left full. Ellen
Cary ’47, was chosen as a forward
on the substitute team.

Penn’s entire forward line made
the Intercollegiate Team, as well
as their right half, Betsy Crothers,
who was elected captain. Drexel,
Beaver, Ursinus, Swarthmore, and
Temple each placed one player on
the chosen eleven, while the ma-
jority of positions on the second
team fell to Beaver.

During the morning each of the

eleven colleges played three
matches, the Owls trying « out
against Penn, Stradsburg, sand
Temple. Fifteen minutes gave the

ydilow team time to even up the
3-1 score of the Penn game a week
ago. It was Bryn Mawr’s excel-
lent teamwork and not the _ spec-
tacular playing of a few members
which gave the yellow team their
2-0 victory. Stradsburg bowed 1-0
before the Owls, and all four judg-
€s came over to watch Bryn Mawr
hold Temple 0-0 in the last match.
‘Five-of the Bryn Mawr team,
Margery Richardson ’46, Ellen
Cary ’47, Elizabeth Bagley ’48,
Nancy Niles ’47, and Alice Hedge
*46, were chosen to try out again
in the afternoon. From approxim-
ately fifty different players who
gave an exhibition of superb indi-
vidual hockey, the judges, Maude
Charp, Frances Newcomb, Virginia
Allen, and Vera Egner, picked the
first and second teams and substi-
tutes.
First Intercollegiate Team
RW Boyd, Penn

RI Gager, Penn

CF Fernley, Penn

LI. McPhillimy, Penn
LW McKinney, Penn
RH Crothers, Penn
CH MacMillan, Drexel
LH. Roberts, Beaver
RF Bradway, Ursinus
~ LF Fitts, Swarthmore

G Gordon, Temple
Second Intercollegiate Team
RW Gold, Beaver

RI Scott, Beaver

CF Beers, Temple

LI Pepper, Beaver

LW Moffett, Beaver’

RH Alexander, Wilson
CR Kaye, Swarthmore
LH Hedge, Bryn Mawr
RF Burton, Penn ,
LF Niles, Bryn Mawr

G Nesbitt, Ursinus
Substitutes
Forwards: Cary, Bryn Mawr;
Walker, Swarthmore; Chambers,
Temple.
Defense: Putnam, Temple; Ho-



Physics Lecturer Confesses Years Spent

1

Among Insane - as Preparation for Teaching



By. Darst Hyatt °47

Mr. leuis R. Green, Lecturpr in
Physics, spent the first seven years
of his life in the Georgia State
Hospital for the Insane and the
following eight years in the Har-
risburg Hospital for the Insane.
In fact, only one other member of
his family besides himself is not
in an insane asylum now. After
stating this »wather surprising fact,
Mr. Green confessed that his father

‘was a psychiatrist.
A

“Life was very peaceful in the
insane asylum,” asserts Mr. Green.
More than once, however, he was
chased by one of the inmates.
“They were usually rather. con-
fused about who their -relatives
were,” he explained, “and when I
was a little boy, they “would mis-
take me for some son or nephew.
That wasn’t particularly satisfac-
tory as. far as Iswas-concerned, so
I’d light out and run.”

(IMr.-Green went on -to say that
the Green family’s cook waxed
quite violent once in a while. “In-
deed,” he said, “you could hear her
a quarter of a mile away.” And
the man who shined the floors
would tell you proudly that he
owned the world.

Since Mr. Green has left the in-|

sane asylum, he has lived in nine
institutions and taught at five or

six more; which include nine years|

at Princeton where he secured his
Ph. D.
While he was teaching at Swarth-

ence of. presenting differential
equations to a class of twenty-five
Chinese students. Entering the
class for the first time, Mr. Green
bowed, whereupon all twenty-five
of the Chinese rose and bowed also.

teaching the Chinamen.

had done them.

cises.

suade the class to move ahead.

boys until this year.
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Except for a girl or two who
found her way into some of his
classes, Mr. Green has taught only
“There is

between
teaching boys and girls,” he said,
“except that a boy who does badly
does nothing at all, whereas a poor
girl will try to do a little -some-

For the past three years Mr.
Green has taught astronomy at
Haverford where he is Assistant
Professor. Deeply absorbed in this
subject, he is working at the mo-

ment on the astronomical physical
problem of. calculating the proba-
bility of the transition from free
| to bound states for a doubly ioniz-
more, Mr. Green had the experi- |

Mr. Green found one difficulty in} Mr, Sprague Speaks
After as- i

signing a set of problems, he dis-
covered that no one in the class
Demanding “an
explanation, he found that every
student had carefully started to do
every problem in the book and no
‘one had reached the assigned exer-
To leave out anything was
so painful to their Chinese thor-
oughness, that Mr. Green had to
resort to numerous ruses to per-

To Shakespeare Club

Continued from, page 1

a book “essential to any student,
actor or Shakespeare lover for
the full understanding of the
plays.” In . addition to its’ own
appreciation. of this “history of
Shakespearean stage _ business”,
the bulletin quotes the following
criticisms gleaned from national
papers: :

“No where else can one find ‘in
such profusion answers to ques-
tions which inevitably arise, not
only when one of the great plays
is to be staged but when a care-
ful reader tries to visualize an
action.”—Joseph Wood Krutch in
the Nation. :

“In this book Professor Sprague
lives ‘up to his reputation as a
careful, discriminating scholar

. The history is lightened
with much. amusing, anecdotage
which, ‘however, is introduced. not
merely to entertain the reader
but because. it has its signifi-
cance.” Christian Science Moni-
tor.

“Shakespeare and the Actors is
a learned but never dull volume
on the business of the actors,



Women Voters Plan
Discussion Program

The six Eastern Counties of the
Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters are cooperating in present-
ing a program on the Dumbarton
Oaks Proposals at a public meeting
in the Ballroom of the Bellevue-
Stratford on Tuesday afternoon,
November 28 at two o’clock. All
interested students are urged to
attend.

Three speakers will participate
in the program. The discussion will
be opened by Miss Anna Lord
Strauss, President of the National
League of Women Voters. Dr.
Isaiah Bowman, President of Johns
Hopkins University, will speak on
the terms of the Dumbarton Oaks
Proposals. Dr. Bowman is Special
Adviser to the State Department
and attended the Dumbarton Oaks
conferences. The legislative and

‘constitutional aspects of the pro-

posed international organization
will be discussed by the Honorable
Joseph H. Ball, Senator from Min-
nesota.

The Pennsylvania League of
Women Voters has stressed the
importance of this meeting. At
Dumbarton Oaks the leaders of the
United Nations laid the framework
of a post-war peace plan; but Sec-
retary Hull and other officials have
indicated that they can strive no
further toward the formation of a
strong, democratig, international
organization until they know what
the American people will support.
They want to know whether Amer-
ican citizens believe that their

| country should join a United Na-
tions organization now, whether



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cents.
further details.

Bankers Trust Company, New
‘York: Simple clerical positions for
the Christmas vacation. No exper-
ience necessary. $24 for a 40-hour
week. See hall bulletin boards for

Application must be made im-
mediately through the Bureau of
in order that
positions may be held for Bryn

Shop-talk Tea at the New York
Bryn Mawr Club, Tuesday, Novem-
ber 28, Pent House, Hotel Barclay,
at 4:00 o’clock. Alumnae from
various professions will be there
All Bryn
Mawr undergraduates invited. 35
See hall bulletin boards for

those telling moves, gestures ‘and
expressions which clinch the
meaning of the line and make you
remember both it and them.”
—George Freedly in The Morning
Telegraph.
“Professor
ium on the

Sprague’s
staid traditions
imposing, and probably
It is a perfect mine of
tion; it brings the Folger Library
to anybody’s ‘bookshelves in = an

of prompt copies and annotated
editions.” Margaret
the N. Y. Herald Tribune.

“All in all, there is probably no
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N. Y. Alumnae Invite
Students to Attend
~ First Shop-Talk Tea

A new departure in the line of
alumnae club activities has, been
announced by the Bryn Mawr Club
of New York.
series of Shop-Talk Teas to inform

It ‘offers’ a winter

graduates and undergraduates of
the immediate possibilitity in New
York career fields.

The first tea, to be held Tues-
day, November 28 from five to
seven at the Bryn Mawr Club
rooms in the Hotel Barclay, will
include representatives from the
theatre, personnel work, radio,
law, teaching, finance, magazines
in the fashion and fiction groups,
the OWI, the book industry and
other fields. The meeting will be
entirely informal to give everyone
a chance to meet people who in-
terest them most, and to ask ques-
tions about job prospects, post-war
plans in New York businesses, the
education and skills now being re-
quired and questions concerning

salary ranges.
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Ancient Cretean Art .
Discussed by G. Karo



““A passion for movement stands
out in all phases of ancient Minoan
art,” declared Dr. George Karo in
his slide-illustrated lecture, Crete
and Mycenae.

‘An- easy urge to render nature
as they saw it led Cretean artists
to produce a dynamic and free art,
ke said. . Egyptian and Oriental in-
fluences appear but never predom-
inate. Nothing of painstaking
naturalism as we know it is found.

(Freedom and movment appear
repeatedly in seals, frescoes, vases,
and statuary. Creteans, however,
were also capable of producing
elaborate, painstaking, and stylized
work, shown in some of their
jewelry.

‘Dr. Karo compared Cretean art
to two streams; one restless, one
static, flowing side by side. In some
works these elements merge; in
others they remain independent.

The two streams have merged
in architecture. Designers adhered
invariably to straight walls and
square corners in their rooms, but
the outside appearance and inter.
nal details are varied and dynamic.

The passion for movement and
nature explains the lack of “to-
morrow” in Cretean art, said the
speaker. When movement of na-
ture ceased, .the art ceased with it.

Women Voters Plan
Discussion Program

Continued from page 3

’ they would be willing to have this

organization use some United
States military force against* ag-
gressors, and whether they believe
it should have the power to solve
future problems concerning trade,
transportation, and raw materials.

A short time ago Mr. Stettinius,
of the State Department, in a prec-
edent breaking action called in
representatives of ninety-six civic
organizations. He set forth and
explained the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals, asking that these organ-
izations use all facilities to get
“full study and discussion by the
people” of the proposed plan. The
National League of Women Vot-

ers, a non-partisan organization]

established in 1920 to encourage
the participation of intelligent and
informed citizens in the shaping
and directing of public opinion on
vital issues, was among the org n-
izations called in. In regard to the

- purpose of the present campaign of

the League, Miss Strauss has stat-
ed that it is essential for American

citizens not only to “give their

support to peace in the abstract

“and to the general proposal for a

United Nations” but also “to think
about and express their opinions
on specific next steps.”



First Shop-Talk Tea

Planned by Alumnae —
Continued pee Page 3 ;

The Club invites all undergradu-
ates who can attend to do so, giv-
ing advance notice to the Bryn
Mawr Club, Hotel Barclay, 11
East 48th Street. The second Shop

Talk Tea is scheduled for Tuesday,

December 19, i a

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Lectureship

Friends, colleagues, and stu-
dents of Mr. and Mrs. De La-
guna have established a De
Laguna’ lectureship in philoso-
phy, he first lecture in the
series will be given in March
by Miss Dorothy Walsh, former
instructor of philosophy h re,
and now. a member of the phil-
osophy. department at Smith
College.







Campus Committee
Urges Participation
In Sixth Bond Drive

The Sixth War Loan Drive, from
November 20 to December 16,
aims to raise fourteen billion dol-
lars, of. which the quota for the
Bryn Mawr area which includes
the College is $612,300.

The campus War Bond Drive

Miss Schenck, and Mrs. Michels,
has established an information and
subscription desk in Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins’ . office at which bond
orders will be taken from nine to
one o’clock Monday through Fri-
day.

The undergraduate contribution
to the Sixth War Loan will be the
regular November purchase of
bonds and stamps, which has al-
ready been made this week. It is
hoped that many will be able to
buy extra bonds and stamps dur-
ing the Drive, and will register the
purchases, if. made elsewhere, in
Mrs. Collins’ office, since a report
is to be made on the purchases of
the"College as a whole.

Any of the College who wish to
“Buy a Pond for Wyndham” and
give it to the College for the re-
duction of the Wyndham debt is

asked to see Mrs. Collins for de-
tails.



Yugoslav, Pole, Speak
On Students in War

Continued from Page 1

.the German language ‘and their

technical training to transmit
messages and to print pamphlets,

On entering the country the
Nazis: closed all the schools and
universities except the technical
and business ones, declared Miss
Swiniarska. The students were
so persecuted that many left the
country with the army, some go-
ing to Persia, about 500 traveling
through France to England, : and
approximately 2000 going to
Switzerland to study law, medi-
cine, science, and architecture.
Thousands of students and fight-
ing men were deported to Siberia
when Russia invaded the country,
she added, and some students are
studying in schools they organiz-
ed within German concentration
camps.



Committee, composed of Mr. Wells, |



Campus War Chest
Drive Misses Mark

Continued from Page 1
ates have contributed, pledging
$696.85, which is a lower figure
than “was estimated at first and
much below last year’s pledge of
$1306.79. “Of the graduate — stu-

dents,: 95% have pledged $165.70.)

Pledging a 100% contribution
are the Maids and Porters, with
a sum of $98.30. and the Mainten-
ance staff, with a $61.00 contribu-
tion. Also in the 100% column
are the Library staff with a total
of $57.50, and _ the Deanery,
pledging a amount of $57.00.

To date, only 87% of the fac-
ulty have contributed, a total of
$1667.00. Of the office personnel,
92% have contributed - $125.00,

| while 95% of the Hall Managers

and the Infirmary staff have con-
tributed $90.00:

Dr. Burns Presents
Last Shaw Lecture

Continued from page 1

stated. However, these developing
social services will give rise to a
number. of problems of readjust-
ment. The first of these is the
problem of compatibility of these
developments with other import-
ant. social institutions, mainly the
family and, individual ? initiative.
In terms of the family, there is
a removal of certain responsibil-
ities of education, feeding and
health that previously were “nat-
ural” to it. Concerning individ-
ual initiative, Mrs. Burns pointed
out that social security does not
destroy, but rather encourages it
because the people are guaran-
teed that occasional interruptions
in employment will not cause’ a
complete setback and that some
of the disadvantages of private
enterprise will be minimized.
The second question arising
out of the development of social

services is the ability of society |:

to afford these new services. Mrs.
Burns believes that “what will be
spent is a question of choice, not
ability.”

Whether we should worry
about these rising developments
in terms of the centralization of
government, was Mrs. Burns’
third question. There is concern
over this because of the magni-
tude of voluntary welfare groups
involved. The reasons for the
centralization are financial, tech-
nological and functional, and the
value of judgment.

The fourth problem is the res-
ponsibility. that the development

throws on the individual. The
question is do we have a_ suffi-
ciently intelligent electorate to

assume these responSibilities. The
development of social services
calls for a changed attitude of
the people toward ‘the govern-
ment, Mrs. Burns said. We must
think of the government as our

.| instrument and our servant.





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Paper by Weiss

Mr. Weiss was one of the
seven American philosophers
invited to contr#6Wt€* papers at
the first Inter-American Con-
gress of Philosophy, held at
Port au Prince, Haiti, on Sep-
mer 27, 1944. Dr. Weiss’
aper, Our Knowledge of Right
and Wrong, was read by the|
president of the conference,
since Dr. Weiss was not pres-
ent. The paper was also trans-
lated into French and broadcast
shortwave.

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President Announces
Fines on Late Books

Continued from page 1

At the other extreme were stud-
ents who had books late more than
half of the days recorded. One
student, for example had late books
10 out of 11 days, while three stu-
dents had late books eight days,
one student had late books seven
days and seven students, six days.

‘After some discussion “of the
problem at the College Council on
November 8, it was generally
agreed that steps should be taken
to bring about a great reduction
in this condition.

B. M. Sponsors Drive’
For Louvain Library

Continued from Page 1

this country the “souvain Library
Book Fund, Inc.,” has recently been:
started with the purpose of restor-
ing the library, and it is to this
organization that the Bryn Mawr
students wish to contribute in the

name of the college. ;

The contributions will be donat-

Ped, contrary to usual procedure,

as a spontaneous movement, separ-
ate from the League drive. In
aiding professors and students
whose library has been destroyed
and work disrupted, Bryn Mawr
students probably share in the
feelings of universities and col-
leges all over the world in wish-
ing to lend their support to\ the
side of democracy and culture.





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