College news, October 31, 1945

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THE COLLEGE NEWS









VOL. XLII, NO.%S

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1945

Copyright, Trustees of
Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS







Mrs. Roosevelt
Discusses Gov't.
Jobs for Women

Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
speaking before an assembly of
Bryn Mawr College on “The op-
portunities that are open to wom-
en in this post-war world,,” =



ed the great contributions that
women can make to the achiéye-
ments of the present day and the
future.

“Now we live in a world where
peace is not just something we
wish for but something we must
have in order to continue our civ-
ilization,” said Mrs. Roosevelt.
“We must look fe the kind of work
which we can do to create an. at-
mosphere within which atomic en-
ergy can be put to good purposes.”

International sérvice, both
through private agencies and gov-
ernment positions, offers a wide
area of opportunity to help broad-
en understanding and increase the)
knowledge of one nation about an-
other. Mrs. Roosevelt emphasized
that such instances of bigotry as
unreasoned ideological hatred -of
Russia and Great Britain will aid
greatly in destroying the world
peace which we are now laborious-
ly attempting to create.

The need for greater activity on

_ Continued on page $

‘Toady’ To Relieve
Ephemeral Trend
Of 49 Hall Plays

By. Laura Dimond. ’47

“Where is Toad?”

“I think she’ll be over with Mole
after Lab.” This conversation,
that sounds like.a fugitive from
Winnie the Pooh, is the sort of
thing being tossed around at Pem
West’s rehearsals of Toad of Toad
Hall. The“posters dotted around
the campus weren’t merely dashed
off without a second thought—in-
deed not, Almost all of Pembroke
West was taken into consultation
to decide the color of a mole’s hide,
or is it skin? For conclusions
reached see Library wall outside
Reserve Room.

“~When Sylvia Stallings, director
of the Rhoads play, was asked for



' a tid-bit concerning the coming at-

traction, her only statement for the
press was, “At the end of the play

_ they’re all dead.” And so we have

a joyful performance of The Long
Christmas Dinner to which we may
look forward. Indigestion seems
imminent.

It seems as though death is the
keynote of more than.one of the
coming productions, for, on being
asked when one of the mainstays
of the Pembroke East cast would
appear,on the scene of Our Town,
another flustered actress came
forth with, “I went to tea with her
before I died, but I haven’t seen
her since.” It sounds rather as
though the scripts were crossed.

Now we turn from the divine to

' the ultra-sensational, for Denbigh |

too is immersed on other-worldli-
ness this week while rehearsing for
Will 0’ the Wisp, which, as the
name implies, leans toward the
__ Spiritual. Unlike the expected sil-

A new Fellowship “has been
founded in the honor of a former
Bryn Mawr Associate Professor,
Marcelle Parde, whose heroic con-
duct in the resistance movement of
the war caused her death in a Ger-
man concentration ‘camp. The
Marcelle Parde Teaching Fellow-
ship has been awarded to Nicole
Herrmann, a_ graduate student
here. The story is retold in an ex-
cerpt from a letter written to Miss
McBride by Miss
felt that the college should know
of Marcelle Parde’s courageous
actions,

“Marcelle Parde, who was, first
Assistant, then Associate Profess-
or at Bryn Mawr “from «1919 to
1929, died of starvation last Janu-
ary in the German Concentration
Camp for .Women Political pris-
oners at Ravensbruck.

“The distinguished head of the
great girls’-lycee at Dijon she had
organized among the women of
her faculty and staff a unit of the
resistance movement and had fur-
| nished to the Allied headquarters
preparing the invasion invaluable
information about. the movements
of the Germans in Burgundy.

“In August 1944, her secret code
was discovered by the Gestapo at
the Paris headquarters with which
she communicated and she was ar-
rested together with all her com-
panions but one. This one, Mlle.
Streicher, has revealed the activi-
ties of the unit. Professor Maurice
Parde of the University of Gre-
noble, Mlle. Parde’s brother, has
learned from a survivor of Ravens-
bruck the story of the heroic end
of his sister and her group, not

Mellwain Honors
Gray In Lecture





Goodhart, October 24. “Language
is no mere instrument we control
at will, it controls us” is the basis
of the tendency to preserve the
same names for age-old institu-
tions while these institutions have
been in a constant state of change.

used by ‘Charles H. McIlwain in his
lecture ‘on Unchanged Wames for
Changing Institutions, in memory
of Howard Levi Gray.

Today people are afraid of sur-
rendering their sovereignty in both
the national and_ international
fields. As expressed by Hobbes
and Austin, Dr. MclIlwain pointed
out that sovereignty signifies the
tangible act of delegating complete
power to an individual or group of
individuals who then becomes the
supreme authority, leaving no room
for individual liberty. The Medi-
aeval connotation which lasted
through the eighteenth century
signified “the right to make laws,
not a might.” ‘When the separate
states agreed to the provisions of
the American constitution in estab-

Continued on page 5



Calendar

‘Friday, November 2 .

8:00. Freshman plays
Saturday, November 3

8:00.. Freshman plays
Sunday, November 4 .

7:30. Chapel, Rev. Arthur L.
Kinsolving, Music Room.
Monday, November 5

7:15. Current Events: “La-
bor,” Common Room. | -
Wednesday, November 7.

Schenck, who

This quotation from Maitland was |

Teaching Feliowship Will Honor
Marcelle Parde’s Heroic Action

one of whom has returned.

“They are moving stories for
Mlle. Parde’s Bryn Mawr. friends.
‘Bryn Mawr’ was the password she
gave her companions engaged in
their dangerous missions. The in-
itials ‘B.M’ designated her among
the resistance forces. It will be no
surprise to those of us who knew
her to hear that her courage never
failed and that she sustained hun-
dreds of others whose spirits were
less strong than hers. Her heroic
action has been recognized in
France. The Dijon lycee is now
name Le Lycee Marcelle Parde.
It would seem to me an appro-
priate expression of our affection
and an appropriate tribute to her
if the French Teaching Fellowship
at Bryn Mawr might be called the
Marcelle Parde Teaching Fellow-
ship.”

The above is an extract from a
letter from Miss Schenck to Miss
McBride.

New Polls Show
Great Discontent

With Oral System

The recent Curriculum Commit-
tee poll on required foreign lan-
guage examinations was designed
to aid in crystallizing student opin-
ion on how the present orals sys-
tem is fulfilling its purpose of
testing, and. thereby requiring, a
reading knowledge of two modern
languages.

Defiite correlation appeared be-
tween the amount of training, par-
ticularly in high school, of students
and their evaluation of the useful-
ness of their knowledge. Without
dividing the 310 students who an-
swered the poll according to their
present status in regard to Orals,
the following trends of opinion



were found.
Preparation French knowledge useful?
yes .no ?
high school
min, 3 yrs. 163 14 20
college
1 year 3 3 4
college
2 year 2
both 35 3 2
German: knowledge useful?
high school 11 3 2
min. 3 yrs.
college
1 4ear a. 16
college
2 years 9 3 2
both 4
Spanish: knowledge useful?
high school 8 1
(min. 3 yrs.)
college 10 8 1
(1 year)
college 5 2 1
(2 years) ; r
both! 1 2

The majority of both science
and non-science majors agreed
that a reading knowledge of a for-
eign language is essential to a lib-
eral education. About 1/3 of science
and non-science majors consider-
ed the reading ability essential to
academic work.

27% of students answering the
poll believed that, in theory, the
present forms of orals are the best
methods of testing reading ability,
while 73% thought not.

The main criticism, by 36% of
the students ,was on the basis of

the alumnae, should not be discon-

4 were so bad that the children go-

Big May Day Question Raised;
Pros, Cons, of Issue Presented

Problem Becomes Pertinent Due To War’s End
Polls to Determine Student Opinion

Big May Day, long a celebration for which Bryn Mawr
was famous throughout the country and abroad, has not been

held since the spring of 1936.

Imminence of war prevented

its being held in 1940, and since then all talk of May Day’s
rebirth has been postponed until after the emergency.

Miss McBride, when asked for a statement by the News said, “Big
May Day, which from 1920 to 1936, came once every four years, has

now missed more than two college

generations. ‘With the end of the

war we can consider Big May Day again. The question is when we

should consider it. The Board: of

Directors would have) to make the

first decision on the question of Big May Day and the Faculty would
have to consider May Day in the light of academic work of the Col-
lege and particularly the plan of the Senior year.

« “J understand that the Undergraduate Association and the College
News expect to ask an expression of student opinion on the question of

having Big May Day“as early as this year.

The Board of Directors and

the Faculty have not discussed that question but’ would, I know, be in-
terested in the present opinion of the students.”

Because none of the present undergraduates has ever seen a Big
May Day, at least during her Bryn Mawr years, the News at the re-
quest of the Undergraduate Association, has undertaken to present the
issues arising in considering the question of whether or not another

one hould be held this year.

-A history of its development, and a description of the 1986 May
Day are to be found on page 4. Pictures of past festivals appear on
page 3. We shall also endeavor in the following columns to present
the pros and»cons of the issue as fairly'as possible.

We ask tolerance from supporters of both sides of the question, for
we must rely solely on the information available to us from past is-
sues of the News and on the opinions of those members of the faculty

and administration who were present at past May Days.

‘None of the

opinions expressed in either of these columns is necessarily that of the
News. ‘We have merely tried to marshal “the data for each side as com-

pletely and convincingly as possible.

The chief argument in favor of
holding Big May Day this year is
both a‘séntimental and psychologi-
cal one. The tradition of May Day
has a glowing past. The research
the intricacy, the art, and _ the
beauty of a Bryn Mawr Day is lit-
erally known the world over.

Victory May Day

iA tradition zealously carried
out, and as important to the con-
cept of Bryn Mawr as it exists in
the minds of the public as well as

tinued.
Since the beginning of the war-



Continued on Page 2

As “the spectre of May Day
rears its flower-laden head” it
becomes imperative that the seri-
ous implications of holding May
Day at this time be kept under —
consideration by all _ students,
‘whatever their personal inclina-
tions, while the decision is being
made.

Big May Day is the product of
a tremendous amount of effort,
both menial and on a high artistic
plane, deriving almost entirely
from the student body. Though
May Day has been conducted with
the aid of a large amount of pro-

Continued on Page 2



New Chinese Students Recount
Daring Escape from Japanese



by Louise Gorham °47

A story of the struggle for
freedom from the Japanese , was
tord simply and dramatically by
Ellen Tan, ’49, and Ruby Chen, ’48.

Five years ago Ellen: was in
Shanghai in the midst of the fight-
ing around that city. Conditions

ing to the Shanghai-American
school had to have an armed es-
cort to ward off kidnappers. When
life there became too difficult, they
were able to escape with the aid
of the French police and Admiral
Glasford who took them aboard
the President Taft.

Enroute to America they stop-
ped at Nagasaki, where the Japa-
nese, under a veneer of politeness
were planning to take them off
the ship. The enemy decided to de-
lay the capture, however, until the
President Taft arrived at Kobi,
and only the Admiral’s sudden de-
cision to avoid that port saved
them from imprisonment.

Upon arriving in this country,
they rejoined her brother and





however, the cast has never hake

at all surprised by the advent of

one of: its spirits.- It seems as
Continued on Page 2

6:30. ‘College - il, Miss
(McBride’s house.

8:00. Philosophy Club meet-











subject matter, the main com-

plaints being that passages are too

technical or obscure in meaning to
Continued on page 6

‘moved to Washington, D.-C:,;-where-



her) father was working with the
Chinese embassy. He has now re-

Ruby only arrived in the United
States last March, after living for
two years in Free China of the
hinterland. Like Ellen, . she was
forced to leave Shanghai when no
longer able to tolerate life under
Japanese restrictions. With eleven
other women and children, in the
disguise of a family, she made
the fifty-five day trip to the in-
terior, under the moat difficult
conditions.

Their pilgrimage took them
through the fighting zone and an.
area known as No Man’s Land
where the roofs of houses and the
branches of trees stuck out through
a sea of dried mud. Sleeping |
wherever it was safe and eating
whatever they could find, they
walked a great part of the way or
rode in a type of wheelbarrow
piled with luggage which allowed
the occupant only a small square
to sit on, a method of transporta-
tion which, she pointed out, would
be beyond the American imagina-
tion. On —— their destination,
aeiking University until she,
joined her relatives here last



turned to China with T. V. Séong..

“spring.




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Not This Year

The time has come when the student may again consider
the possibility of holding Big May Day this year. While the
final decision rests with + ieee of directors, the enter-
prise can not be undertaken without the whole-hearted ap-

proval and backing of the student body. In considering the,

issue we are not questioning the intrinsic value of Big May
Day nor belittling the importance of the tradition. We are
only considering whether the tradition should bé resumed
this year or whether action on this question should be post-
-poned until another year.

The consideration is whether this year is the appropriate
time to resume such an elaborate festival and whether we
are in the mood to do it full justice. In a world not yet re-
covered from the shock of the sudden peace, where the in-
creasing gravity of post-war problems must be faced realis-
tically by every individual, it is doubtful whether time and
effort should be expended on an enterprise which concerns
only Bryn Mawr.

Should the student body center its attention at this time
upon Big May Day rather than continuing its full support of
community and international projects? Specifically the
UVAP program would suffer from the intrusion of this new
interest. Aside from this we have no indication that our ef-
forts will be met with an equal response from. the public.
There are also academic considerations. Students who are
accelerating would have to add an unnecessary burden to
their schedules.

In view_of these considerations we feel that it would be
very p ‘policy to‘hold Big May Day this spring. Now is
the time for Bryn Mawr to help, not to spend money and en-
ergy on artificial and ephemeral folderol . The-News Board
cannot visualize Big May Day in 1946.



Urgent Reform

‘The results of the Curriculum Committee poll on Orals
presented in this week’sNews substantiate the position which
the-News has taken on the urgent need for reform or at least
revision of the existing system of testing knowledge.

“One of the difficulties in'a problem of this kind is sus-
taining student interest and concern throughout the time
that is necessary for such demands to ‘go through official
channels. In this case, the complaint presented in the News
editorial was referred to the Student Curriculum Committee,
which compiled statistics and gathered ‘a large body of stud-
ent, ‘opinion through the poll of two weeks ago. Resolutions
will be presented to the Faculty. Curriculum Committee with-
in a few weeks, after which they will be considered by the
entire faculty. Not until all these formalities are completed
can’ any concrete change be contemplated.

The News feels that. these official arrangements are all
to the good, in thatany change would be out of the question
in their. absence. But the basis for action is still the consid-
ae c hody.;.for this reason we. urge

students to keep the problem in their minds, that the oppor-
2 te y tor further’ action may be seized as. soon. as it arises.



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Current Events



The need for more consideration
and pooling of points of view, as
well as more statements directly
applicable to current problems,
were stated by Mrs. Manning in
Current Events as the most seri-
ous failings of President Truman’s
policy.

Analyzing Truman’s three im-
portant speeches, his message to
Congress and his. speeches on com-
pulsory military training and for-
eign policy. Mrs. Manning noted
that Truman has “labeled himself"
as definitely as would be possible
a New Dealer.” In contrast to
President Roosevelt, Truman has
tried to work more closely with
Congress, but has received singu-
larly few results from his efforts.

The proposals outlined in his
Congressional message, notably
the demand for federal aid to state
unemployment compensation and
the continuation of the FEPC all
met with varying amounts of Con-
gressional disapproval. It seems
probable that Truman’s request for
compulsory military training, judg-
ing by (Congressional reaction, will
meet with a similar fate.

-Truman has showed himself un-
der specific influences for ‘the var-
ious facets of his policy, especially
Byrnes, Marshall, and, in the sud-
den cancellation of Lend-Lease,
Crowley. Byrnes seems to have
dictated most of the ideas on for-
eign affairs and Marshall the ad-
vocacy of compulsory military
training.

The twelve points of foreign
policy outlined in President Tru-
man’s speech on Navy Day are
chiefly notable as vague generali-
ties, giving little indication of our
attitude on specific problems, par-
ticularly the future of Japan. Mrs.
Manning felt that this speech ex-
hibited a definite need for more
specific diplomatic knowledge and
policy i in our dealings with foreign
countries,

May Day Tradition
Unites BM Students

Continued from Page 1

time emergency May Day has been
postponed, but postponed with the
promise of its resumption when
peace came. Victory May Day has
symbolized for everyone connected
with the college the return to a
civilized and cultured world.
Therefore it would seem right to
celebrate not the yet-to-come re-
turn to normalcy, but the com-

‘| ing into existence of the post-war

world, where a great undertaking
devoted simiply to’beauty and art
is conceivable.

Intrinsic to B. M.

Big May Day is furthermore an
intrinsic part of life at Bryn Mawr.
The first one was held. only fifteen
years after the college was found-
ed, and the tradition remained un-
interrupted except by the two wars.

In the light of the Big May Day
traditions many of the smaller
ones acquire sigificance and mean-
ing of which they are otherwise
‘devoid. Without it, even little May
Day loses all importance. ,

Unification _
But far more important than

this is the actual effect of Big May

Day on the undergraduate body.
In the past few years a lack of|;
unification of activity even under
the stress of war work, has been
rightly attributed to the absence
of May Day.

Extra-curricular activity is an
undeniably important part of col-
lege life, providing experience in
community activity and coopera-
tion. It has been proved by ‘past
celebrations that the complete joint
activity | required ' _ by May Day
gives or makes every undergradu-
ate take the opportunity to Pao

a | Continued: om page.6

PaRAHABA?



May Day Ill-Advised
For Spring of 1947

Continued from Page 1

fessional, paid work, it would seem
more appropriately a student, and
therefore a college creation, if
produced largely through student
efforts.

Such an attempt would involve
abandoning all | extra-curricular
activities in which the college now
engages. League, Alliance, and
Red Cross activities such as
Nurses’ Aides, the Overbrook Blind
School and the Haverford Com-
munity Center, and other similar
projects, would of necessity have
to be relinquished, It is reported
that the shortage of nurses in the
Philadelphia area is now more acute
than during the war. The Blind
School and Community Center de-
pend in large measure on the vol-
untary contributions of time and
effort which the Bryn Mawr stu-
dents make. At this time the think-
ing people of all countr#¥s are seri-
ously engaged in the tremendous
task of world reconstruction; it is
felt by many that May Day would
intrude a note of levity not war-
ranted by the current state of
world problems.

Academically, the amount of time
and effort necessary in the pro-
duction of May Day would of ne-
cessity seriously curtail the time
contributed to academic work, or,
alternatively, radically lower. the
academic standards which Bryn
Mawr sets for itself. Big May Day
has not been -presented since the
comprehensive system was intro-
duced at Bryn Mawr in 1987. It
has been empha that the de-
cision to hold Big May Day would
in no way alter. the requirements
or time which comprehensive prep-
aration demands; no dispensation
would be granted seniors who
transferred their efforts to prep-
aration for May Day. ,

Big May Day has always been
a time when Bryn Mawr has fig-
ured in the national limelight of
cultural activities. Pictures and
articles appear in newspapers
through the country and abroad.
It is held that the presentation of
May Day at this time would give
to the purposes of the college a
character of superficiality which
would be undesirable.

Practical arrangements of accom-
modations and transportation al-
ways figure largely in preparation
for May Day. Critical transporta-
tion problems have not yet ceased
to exist, and the special trains that
customarily run directly to Bryn
Mawr from New York, Boston,
Washington and Chicago would
probably not be possible. Philadel-
phia is still over-crowded as a re-
sult of the war emergency.

NOTICES

Elections

The News takes pleasure in the
announcement of the election of
Bettina Kluepfel 48 as News Edi-
tor, and Mary Lee Blakeley ’47 and
Lanier Dunn ’47 as members of the
News Board,

The United Nations Council
takes pleasure in the announcement
of Jane Coddington ’48 as _presi-
dent.

Freshman Chairman

The Class of ’49 takes pleasure
in the anouncement of Jerry War-
burg as this week’s chairman. The
News regrets ‘that’ due to opera-
tional difficulties it has been un-
able to run the pictures of . the
chairmen while they were actually
in office.

~~

College Inn
. The College Committee | take
pleasure in announcing the appoint-
ment of Elizabeth Dowling ’47 as
undergraduate - “representative to
the committee. All complaints or



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“For College Weekends
Open Common Room” @

Srs. Suggest
To the, Editors:

We suggest that the Common
Room be kept open until 2 a. m.
on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
night. Although the institution of
this system would require the
maintenance of a porter for those
nights, we feel that the following
considerations justify such a step.

There is no place on campus
where we can invite our friends in
to sit around and talk, play the
piano, listen to records and the ra-
dio, and dance. At home when we
go out on dates, we go to a show,
or some place to dance, but a lot
of the fun is in having friends in
afterwards. Here a date consists °
in going out to some crowded noisy
place where yeu can’t dance, and
where you can hardly hear what
your date is saying. There is no
place at“all in the Vill where you
can dance, and the places in Philly
are so crowded that dancing is a
fancy name for being’ shoved
around.

Lots of girls are having friends
down for weekends this year. We
don’t know how others feel about
it, but we find it a little awkward
to expect our friends to take us.
out every night considering the
fact that we invited them down,
and that they have. to spend quite
a~-bit-of-money for travelling and
for their rooms. It seems to us
that there should be some place on
campus where we can entertain
our friends, and not expect them
to do all the entertaining.

Having the Common Room open
on ‘weekend nights would mean
that we would have a place to bring
our friends where we could have
the kind of fun we have in our own
homes.

‘R. Patricia Turner ’46 °
Georgie Wiebenson °46
M. C. Corner ’46

°49 Hall Plays Show
Trend To Ephemeral

Continued from Page 1

though the floor of Denbigh’s.
smoking room squeaks violently,
and so the entrance of one partic-
ular ghost is always accompanied
by great commotion. Nobody would
be surprised if the play were in the
smoking room then, but the actual
performance is to be at the Skinner
Workshop—almost another world
at that.

Merion, doing Coming Through
the Rye, called a rehearsal for “all
pantomime children and_ ecto-
plasms” the other day, which
sounds like a carry-over from’ any
one of the previously discussed
plays. It seem& that the setting
for this show includes one door
through which people go to be’
born. Many who have left through .
the same door have since returned —
to the pre-social state on the stage,
a remarkable feat at that.

The Valiant, being done by Rock,
promises a sombre performance if
its rehearsals offer a good indica-
tion of what is to come. The story
of a’man sentenced to die, who is
allowed the unusual privilege of
being allowed to sit with the war-

en and the chaplain for twenty .
migutes before his execution is
sch

ed. (He doesn’t seem over-

joyed at the opportunity, for he .
grumpily says, “In my cell I could. .
smoke.” This, again, sounds like -
a rehearsal of circumstances as the
Bryn Mawe smoking ‘room knows
it. 4
“Tt’s ° ‘appibbus”: was the. a,
comment to be gleaned fiom’ Eliza;

beth Dowling in regard to ». the Low. “ pre et

Building, ‘Non-Res “production , of :
Sie da’ ‘Cape, which she is. direct,

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Draw The Wagon
Bearing the Maypole









| The Greene

5 Rings of Dancers
Circling the Maypole
, . And the Queen’s Court

Open May Pageant



Morris Dancers
One of the Specialties
Performed on the Green
By Highly-Trained
B. M. Undergraduates



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“Among the pastimes on

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36 Big May Day
Pageanitry,

Plays,
Beauty Described

Dancing, Acting, Singing
Of Spring Festival
Reviewed



The 1936 Big May Day repre-
geted the culmination of the whole
Bryn Mawr tradition of pageantry.

“In that issue “of the College News

Christopher Morley contributed an
article which seems to us best to
describe the spectacle as a whole.

Quoting the program he says,
the
Greene the tumblers perform cer-
tain pretty feats of agility’...
turnings and castings springs,
gambauds, somersaults, caprettings
and flights”.

Authentic Fun *

Continuing in ~his~ own descrip
tion he says, “Bryn Mawr’s May

y is indeed what the Oxford
colleges call a- gaudy (a rejoicing),
and true to her Minerva instinct,
learning has kept pace with fun.
In these 36 years she has gathered
a unique library of source-material
on Elizabethan pageantry, music,
folk dance, and the mystery plays.
Costumes have been sedulously
reproduced from old prints, and
when unblemished milk-white oxen
proved scarce (to draw the great
Maypole to the Greene) they found
some by broadcasting... If the Man
from Stratford dropped in at
Bryn Mawr on the afternoons of
May 8 and 9, 1936, he would see the
May Queen crowned; Elizabeth
herself present in the person of
some distinguished alumna; and
then the players separating for
their various doings.

: - Artful

“The Old Wives’ Tale, The
Mask of Flowers, The History of

“ Continued on page. 5

Complete History
Of Big May Day
Impartially Given



In the year 1900 a group of Bryn
Mawr Seniors met in the home of
Elizabeth Walker Andrews (93),
to discuss*ways and means of rais-
ing funds for a students’ building.
It was Mrs. Andrews who first rec-
ognized the possibility of trans-
forming the campus into an Eliza-
bethan village and suggested that
the college give an old English May
Day.

This suggestion was enthusias-
tically accepted by the student
body and in order not to interrupt
the regular academic routine all
agreed not to take any cuts. The
alumnae took charge of costumes,
properties, rehearsals and finan-
cial arrangements, so that the un-
dergraduates could devote their
time to rehearsals.

Production

Six weeks of intensive work fol-
lowed, under Mrs. Andrews’ direc-
tion. She revived the peasant sports
and dances. of sixteenth century
England, after painstaking re-
search into the period.

Costumes and Elizabethian music
were worked up and the procession
formed on the grounds of Wynd-
ham, marshalled by two heralds

' from each class. Then marching

through Pembroke Arch to begin
the festivities, they opened de
Mawr's first May Day.

2 ee

In 1906 six months of prepara-
tions were devoted to the pageant,









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Tue May QUEEN, Maid Marion, is borne in on a litter carried by

-y,h faculty’ men,







in the newly-completed Cloisters.
The Elizabethan banner flying
from the towers also ‘date from
that year.

The pageants of 1910 and 1914)
were directed by Elizabeth Daly,
701, who dramatized the life of
Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest,
making the adaptation from plays
written by Anthony Munday in
1597 and Robert Green in 1587.

Cornelia Otis Skinner made her
debut inthe 1910 May Day as Moth
in Midsummer Night’s Dream, and
appeared again in 1920 as Sacra-
pant in The Old Wives’ Tale. With
her began the tradition of using
an alumna, successful in dramat-
ics, inthe role of Queen Elizabeth.

War :
In 1918 the War interfered with
the usual performance which was
erefore given in 1920. This fete
s the first occasion in which the
faculty took part; it was directed,
as was also the next, by Mrs. Otis
Skinner, mother of the actress, to
whom in great part the present
magnitude and beauty of the pa-
geant is due.
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins,
Applebee and Mr. King, who

Miss
has

been directing plays at Bryn Mawr

since 1906, managed the presenta-
tion of 1928. This festival coin-
cided with the completion of Good-
hart and also introduced Katherine
Hepburn as an actress in the role
of Pandora in The Woman in the
Moon.

1932

In 1932 Elizabethan tents were
erected to serve as headquarters
for refreshments, and genuine
thatched roofs were provided by an
old Irishman who lived near the
campus. Five big movie companies
were on the scene to make sound
recordings of the events, For the
first time selected parts of the fes-
tival were seen all over the coun-
try and helped to verify the state-
ment that a Bryn Mawr Big May
Day is “one of the few really beau-
tiful spectacles in America.”

The 1936 pageant,. termed by:
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins “the best of
all, and requiring the least time”,
was more under the management
of alumnae and outside directors
than any of the previous ones. The
students, thus relieved-of much
the executive work were required
to spend less time on n this sania
tion. ie



Students Will Get

Former Lanterns



°

The Undergraduate Association
anounced last night that lanterns
will be returned on Mayday this
year to all those who gave them up
during the war. Due to the prior-

ities on metal of the last four years,
students and alumnae were asked to
turn in their lanterns.so that the
tradition of Lantern Night could
be continued during the shortage.

No Metal

Although metal is still scarce,
the priorities have been lifted and
the Charles Gerlach Co., which has
made lanterns for the college al-
most since the tradition began, is
again able to produce them. In for-
mer years each class had a lantern
specially designed for it, but prac-
tice has been reduced to the class
color for the glass. The lanterns of
every Freshman class are the gift
of the Sophomores, as the profits
from the Freshman shows have
traditionally gone toward paying
for the new lanterns.

Survey

Letters will be sent to all alum-
nae of the classes of 1943, 1944 and
1945, and a survey will be taken
among the undergraduates in order
to find ‘out how many would like
theirs returned. The Freshmen this
year have been asked to turn in
tHeir lanterns before Friday as. all
lanterns have to be returned to the
factory for renovation. This has
been necessitated by the wear and
tear of several Lantern Nights,
and therefore people cannot expect
to get their same lanterns back.

Strays

Everyone is asked to collect any
stray ones found on the campus.
The following people have been

appointed to collect- them in each
hall: Rhoads—Margaret Urban and
Elizabeth Coleman; Rockefeller—
Carolyn King; Pembroke West—
Cristobel Locke; Pembroke East—
Nancy Kraffert; Denbigh—Kate
-Panrier;~~Merion—Lois—Reichard;,
Radnor—Ada Klein; Wyndham—
Marilyn Wellmeyer; Non-Residents
}-Fean-Albert.--—-~ ~~

MAY DAY TIME

Big May Day is produced on two
days of one of the first weekends
in May: Friday and Saturday, or
in case of rain, Saturday and Mon-
day.

Work. begins for the planning and
executive committee in late Novem-
ber. Casting does not begin until
after the midyear period, and ac-
tual rehearsals do not begin until
March 1,

The amount of time spent by
each individual depends on _ their
contribution to the page&ant. Re-
hearsals for major parts, though
requiring more work, are limited
in a manner similar to the Fresh-
man Hall plays. Underclassmen
dancing on the green rehearse dur-
ing their regular sports periods
until the last two weeks when in-
tensive rehearsals go into effect.

In addition to this, time must be
devoted to the making of paper
flowers, the mailing of announce-
ments, etc.

Varied Programs
Planned By Clubs

For This Season



A large program of club activi-
ties has been prepared to, meet all
varieties of student interest. These
activities cover the entire year and
vary from artistic work to scien-
tific lectures.

Varsity Players

In cooperation with the Cap -and
Bells Club of Haverford the- Var-
sity Players will present J. B.
Priestley’s They Came to a City on
December 7 and 8.-If Mr. Thon’s
class in“Play Writing produces any
successful plays.it is hoped that
they can be performed in _ the
spring.

French Club

The French Club, which will fol-
low its opening tea last week with
teas each month throughout the
year, has prepared a program of
French songs for next month, The
club hopes to obtain a French movie
later in the year and’ is planning
Christmas packages and knitting
for France. The traditional Christ-
mas play will be held in December.

Spanish Club

The Spanish Club is presenting
Mr. Helmer of Norristown in a pro-
gram of lute-playing on November
5. Its plans also include Spanish
Dances by Senorita Novoa of Vas-
sar College, talks by Senor Sa-
linas and Father McCarthy of Vil-

the public. The club_is contemplat-
ing turning its annual Christmas
play into a Spanish fiesta.
Gérman Club

' The German Club will begin its
lctivities with a tea on October 31.
This will be followed later in the
season by speeches in English and
the traditional Christmas play.
Modern Dance Club

Classes in modern |dance under
Malvena Taiz will begin next week,
with three separate sessions devot-
ed to beginners’ technique, advanc-
ed_technique, and original produc-
tions by ‘the advanced group only.
The club hopes to introduce a cul-
tural arts production in the spring
in cooperation with the Orchestra,
the Art Club, and _ the - Varsity
Players.

Bryn Mawr Dance Club
The Cinderella dance sequence
to be given in the spring will be the





Continued on page 6



B. M. Summer Camp Provides
Rigorous Training for Counsellors



os

There are many students at
Bryn Mawr, who, despite their ma-
ture years and infinite wisdom,
may wonder why their parents are
easily irritated seemingly without
reason. This question can be solved,
in two weeks; at the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp in Stone Harbor,
N. J.

Twenty children, ranging from
four to eight years of age, start
off their fortnight vacation with
a ferry ride to Camden, where
they take a train and then a bus
to Stone Harbor. The excitement is
intense. By the time the boys have

‘| finished inspecting the engine room,

the ten girls have taken over the
boat to play house.

The first night is always. the
hardest. Home seems pretty far
away, and as-soon as one child
breaks down the rest give way. to
much Weeping and. wailing. By the
next morning it is a- different
story. The children begin to look
around and enjoy.themselves, One
brave soul climbs to the top of the

Not until the second week do
the children begin to lose the





drawn look they~ had-when they

jungle-gym another starts to swing: =

By Rosina Bateson, °47

arrived, but then every day makes
a difference. Their faces look
round, their hair shines despite the
sand treatments they inflict upon
each other, and they are tanned.
There are no more I-don’t-want-my
cereal, we-always-have-hot-dogs
at-home arguments. Bowl after
bowl of rice-crispies vanishes, and
only the counsellors turn green at
the sound of Snap, crackle, pop.

The two weeks race by, and the
bus draws up before the camp. The
children, dressed in their Sunday
best, buttons. popping and their
arms filled with countless shells,
pebbles, odd bits of flotsam and
jetsam and the things they have
made with gluey fingers in crafts
crowd in. Noses are counted; one
is missing. Eddie has decided that
he,wants two more. weeks and has
climbed a tree.

All good Rings must come to
an end, and as the bus disappears,
the counsellors left behind forget
the moments when they would have
liked to shake the little dears until

ly to the empty camp to await the
arrival of the next group, three



long days away.

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LAST
NICHTERS



Masterful :Spy .Movie
Achieves Heights
Of Suspense.



By Dembow and Dimond
' It’s really a pleasure to see a
picture that is not only good, but
authentic, and not the figment of

*» some author’s feeble imagination.

“The House on 92nd Street,” play-
ing at the Fox Theatre, reveals
the secret of process 97, the atomic
bomb.

The story itself hovers around
the intricate mechanism of Hoo-
ver’s bureau. The role of an
F. B. I. agent is played by William
Eythe, who is ‘trained in Hamburg,
Germany by the Nazis who are
‘under the delusion that» he is work-
ing with them. Eythe joins the
Gestapo group operating on 92nd
Street and establishes direct com-
munications. between the States
_and Germany via the F. B. I. (un-
beknownst to Jerry). Through the
contacts Eythe establishes,
F. B. I. is able to close in on a ven-
omous ring of fifth columnists op-
erating under the auspices of the
notorious Mr. Christopher (address
unknown) . The picture ends on a

_ note almost_as explosive as its_sub-.

ject.

_ Notable is the unparalleled sus-
pense which is’achieved as the cul-
mination of eerie events. We par-
ticularly focus our attention on the
path of a pair of black patent
leather shoes which travel all over
New work City. Signe Hasse, as
the harried Mata Hari turns in a
convincing performance. (Cleverly
done are the reliefs that alleviated
the tension. Our favorite is the
memory giant who can play four-
teen games of chess at one time
but can’t remember who has called
him a day ago... ! Fasa, fasa, fasa.



Mrs. Roosevelt

Discusses Jobs

Continued from Page 1
the part of women through regular
political channels was illustrated
by Mrs. Roosevelt with the small
number of women who have made
successful professions of political

work. She stressed practical ex-

perience as one of the important

criterfa of success in this field, and
urged women to participate in the
political work of their parties as
an expression of their public inter-
est. q

(Civil service positions and career
appointments in the government
are offering wider opportunity for
women. Mrs. Roosevelt particu-
larly stressed the work of women
economists and women lawyers in
this respect. “You will get.a great

- reward for any kind of work you

do in social service,” she said, em-
phasizing the value in broadened
outlook and practical aid in solving
social problems.

‘The real need is still for a great-

er understanding of the needs and

actions of people; the development

of general interests can be great-

ly aided by a desire for an under-
_standing of other human beings.

Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that “peo-

ple are the most important study
‘ you can possibly undertake.”

the | *



Behrman’s Play Offers
Perennial Theme
In New Story



by Nancy Morehouse, ’47

Dunnigan’s Daughter, a “new
comedy” by S. M. Behrman, offers
a new. representation of the old
theme of materialism vs. idealism
in a manner which in its opening
test in Princeton, seems slated for
at least moderate success,

The standard of materialism is
upheld by the most accomplished

actor in the play, Dennis King, in|

his role as Clay Rainier, wealthy
mining magnate living in splendor
near one of the sources of his
wealth, a Mexican mine. The op-
posing forces center principally in

Rainier’s wife, Ferne, and in a’

young diplomat, Jim Bayard.

The principal areas of conflict
ar@three. Ferne, who is the daugh-
f a poor political hack sent to
where he committed suicide,
has hitherto subjected her person-
ality to a large extent to the domi-
neering wishes of her husband, to
whom marriage is but another
field for the exercise of his per-
sonal supremacy. Ferne’s own
idealism, deriving from the ideal-
ism of her social class, comes, in
the play, into basic conflict with
the stark materialism of Clay.

Second “area of the controversy |

derives from Clay’s role as the ma-
terialistic businessman. The mine,
which supplies work for a few
hundred villagers, requires for
operation the diversion of the local
water supply from the irrigation
systems of 15,000 peasants, des-
troying their livelihood. Bayard’s
idealism revolts against this, but
the problem is whether his ideal-
ism will be strong enough to lead
the peasants in offering concrete
resistance in the face of Rainier’s
greater personal power and
strength of character.

Third area of controversy is in
the allegiance of Rainier’s daugh-
ter, Zelda, whose paternally in-
stilled materialism has been chal-
lenged by the idealism of her step-
mother Ferne. Zelda can choose
between adoption of a thorough-
going idealistic life in marriage to
Bayard and support of her step-
mother against her father, or she
can subdue herself to her father’s
ends.

Continued on page 6

Holiday Petition
Sent To Faculty

The Dean’s Office announces
that the petition regarding Thanks-
giving vacation which. was circu-
lated among the students last week
has been referred to the Schedules
Committee for consideration.

The petition requested that the
one day vacation which is given at
Thanksgiving be transferred from
Thursday «November 22 to Friday,
November 23. 402 signatures were
obtained for the petition.

The Schedules Committee, which



is headed by Dean Grant, will con- ;

sider the petition, and refer it to
the faculty for discussion and the |
final decision.

Mcllwain Honors.
Gray-In Lecture

Continued from Page 1°
lishing -a—centralized Government

they did not feel that they. had re-
ounced all rights. Dr. McelIlwain
feels that this change in meaning
is a dangerous one. _

The effect of men losing their
lives for unchanged names is found
in. the treason ‘statute of Edward
III. Death was the penalty for
“Compassare ou Imaginare” the
king’s death and necessitated the
inclusion in later English law and
the American Constitution, of two
witnesses for each overt act in or-
der to safeguard the accused; ex-
plained Dr. Mellwain.

Dr. MclIlwain cited ds further
examples of this habit, the conno-
tations attached to such words as
Empire, Dominion, and Common-
wealth. Until the modern period,
Empire signified a realm independ-
ent of the Holy Roman Empire and
not the suppression of other peo-
ples. In 1649, in England, Domin-
ion was a feudal term including all
the possessions of-a prince. (At
that time, however, in the absence
of a king it came to mean the
possessions of the People as a
whole, while Commonwealth, once
the ordinary word for kingdom,
became a state without a king.



May Day Pageantry
Described by News

Continued from page 4

Robin Hood. and Maid Marian, and
Gammer Gurton’s Needle, théy
are among the proved favorites, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, of
course; and this year there are to
be two Wagon Plays, The Creation
and The Deluge whieh haven't
been publicly acted before,

“And beside those lamprey tum- |
blers there are sword and Morris
dancers on the Green; bowling,
jugling, bell ringers, madrigals,
strolling motleys and mountebanks.



| conjurors, fools, witches,

I don’t know of any other “pro-
' ject” that brings together a whole
| college body, past and present, in
| such unity of zeal. It is as intri-
jcate, as artfully put together, as
an Elizabethan sonnet or the
acrostics they loved.”

Bands, trumpeters, heralds, sere-



naders, and itinerant singers and
bell ringers provided the music. In|
addition to the scheduled plays,
the tampus was dotted with jug-
glers, tumblers, a human bear,
Queen Elizabeth and her court,
fairies
and milkmaids.

The animal cast of May Day in-
cluded not only the white oxen who
carried the Maypole in the proces-
sion to its place on the “Greene”,
but also 2 falcons, 2 fighting cocks,
horses: ,a goat, 3 lambs and 8 dogs.

Maypoling

Another article in the same is-

sue of the News describes the
“milliag group of May Day revel-
lers having paid homage to Maid
Marion, their queen” who was
carried in on a faculty-born litter
strolling off on the Greene, sing-
ing.

At the end of the song, order
had suddenly imposed itself. “For
a moment the lines and circles are
completely still; then, with ap-
parent abandon (which never is
allowed to disrupt the perfect
symmetry of the groups), the dan-
cers swing into action, whirling,
skipping, whirling again. The tra-
ditional preface to May Day, in
which the whole college takes part,



Halloween Dance
Given For “49ers



By Dorothy Jones °47

The Bryn Mawr Freshmen were
exposed en masse on Saturday
night to all the charms that Hav-
erford has to offer. To the strains
of all the latest tunes they tripped
the light fantastic with the local
Don Juans and learned just what
it is that distinguishes a Haverford
man from all others.

One Freshman was a bit taken
back when she asked her partner
in a conversational way what class
he was in and learned that he was
in the “Fifth Form.” Another was
still more surprised to find that
her partner was representing Low-
er Merion High. Less easily dis-
guised were the many Valley Forge
Military Academy boys who-fotind
their way to the dance.

The baleony was heavily laden
with. curious upperclassmen . who
gradually\drifted down to the side-
lines and thence on to the dance
floor to demonstrate to the Fresh-
men the delicate art of girl-cutting.
This procedure kept the floor com-
mittee on their: toes as it foreed
them to run interference for the
timid Freshmen.

There were the usual number of
ardent jitterbugs who revived
themselves periodically with dough-
nuts and cider, arid the only person
who didn’t dance all evening. was
the skeleton (courtesy of Miss
Petts) who-decorated—one—end—of
the gym.







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Halls Announce
Casts Of Plays

The casts of the Freshman Hall
Plays to be presented on Novem-
ber 2 and 3 in*the Skinner Work-
shop are as follows:

TOAD OF TOAD HALL







Pembroke West
WHAGBON) i ooscissceons cases: Honey Pope
EE Cis diners Penny Wesson
PU seca hcosnsass) Betty B. Page
Alfred, the Horse :...Lillian Streeter
ee Scie Judy Adams
Badger .............. Geraldine Warburg
sccicsioserisanssasn Leslie Weel
Assorted Chorus of Stoats and

Ferrets

OUR TOWN (3rd Act)
Pembroke East

I rcasesesssiscs: Sue Henderson
Stage Manager ............ Rusty Lund
DM, GINO 5... si Clarissa Platt
Mrs. Webb ............ Vera Blansfield
Simon Stimson. ........ Ann Eberstadt
Mrs. Soames. 0.0.0.0... Enid Shapiro
Joe Stoddard ”......... Sally McIntyre
j Sam | ee Gerry Kartiganer
Mr. We 0.0... Nancy Martin

George Gibbs ............... Andi Bryne

Howie Newson ..Edythe La Grande

Constable Warren ..Marion Harvey

Joe Cromwell .............. Dudley Hill

TI, MI igonsakiscesecueesss Andrea Bell

The Dead ........ Ally Lou Hackney,
Elaine Kolker, Barbara Singer,
Nancy Turner.

WILL O’ THE WISP
Denbigh

Ceolsay Woman ........ Ruth Crane
Will O’ the Wisp ........ Sally Loomis

yee ee oe Helen Goldberg
The Maid ............... Anne Corcoran
THE LONG CHRISTMAS
DINNER—Rhoads
BOOM Scope Virginia Brooke
Mother Bayard ........ Beverly Levin
| ee eee Helen Anderton

Cousin Brandon ......Y. Spiegelberg

artes Sey Grace Dillingham
Genevieve ................06: Ellen Smith
Nurse ....... WIP Ans Maes Lois Sherman
beanord Gui... Diantha Lawrence
Emengarde ................ Phyllis Bolton
ee Mary Jane Hodges
Bucie WF 235.52).53% Cynthia Hinsdale
Roderick If .......... Frances Edwards
THE VALIANT
Rockefeller
Father Daly *...7°.000005: Jean Pearson
Warden Holt — 3545-55: Lou Furey
The Goaler ............ Catherine Gibe
The Matron ............ Diane Kuszagh
oN ete Claude Valabregue
Git ck Ea Patricia Ransom |
COMING THROUGH THE RYE
Merion
Tee Vekee ..nciacd: Judy Marcus
ME os ec cdvevissss, Sheila Tatnell
PROG isissiccs ces Joan Gale
WE ees scctia Joan Legrand
Miss Quickly.............. Lynn Tickle
ME och ss s5ssssesessans Helen Hale
Ralph Hastings ....Joan Sunderland
PORE .. 26cihiianel Natalie Collins

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Muy Day Tradition
Unites BM Students

Continued from Page 2

ticipate in this important tien of
non-academic life.
Publicity

The publicity value of May Day
is also one that cannot be over-
looked. Bryn Mawr is one of. the
few colleges that abstains complete-
ly from ordinary publicity. Even
with Big May Day publicity is only
an incjdental by-product.

But it is an important by-prod-
uct. Through the influence of past
May Days Bryn .Mawr has been
brought dramatically to the minds
of many people unacquainted with
it academically. Many of
great drives for funds and endow-

ments have gained their greatest
impetus from May Day.

our

Objections .
Many of the-objections ‘raised

by those opposed to having May
Day this year can be answered.
Objection: We have no right to
expend so much time on such an
activity this year.

Without denying the importance
of war-work and_ reconstruction
work at this time, it should be
pointed out that the time devoted
to May Day is traditionally up to
the individual student. Those who



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Threefold Conflict
In Behrman’s Play

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Precipitator and crystallizer: of
conflicting points of view is the
Mexican artist Miguel Riachi, ably
portrayed by Glen Anders, who
combines fiery personal idealism



peasant
discontent’ with receiving patron-
age from Rainier and falling in love
with Ferne. The acting in general
with the exception of Dennis King,
lacks polish, and the play suffers
particularly from the weakness of
Jim Bayard (Arthur Franz) as an
actor.

Though the play: na not present
total victory to either side, it does
assert conclusively ‘the view that
a sincere mixture of materialism
and idealism. is not to be had.

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Polls Show Students
Desire Oral Changes

Continued from Page 1
permit intelligible translation into
English. 21% thought the time al-
lotment fogorals too short.
May students believed that test-

ing comprehension of the foreign
language was more important than
requiring well-written English
translation, and the suggestion
that questions on passages: be sub-
stituted for translation was given
by over three-quarters of these
students.

Suggestions on improving vari-
ous methods of preparing for an
examination on knowledge of a for-
eign language ranged from _ re-
quiring sufficient secondary school
training to pass an examination
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Fall Innovations

In Club Programs

Continued from page 4
culmination of the Bryn Mawr Col--
lege Dance Club’s activities. Mem-
bership is limited to 25, with two
hours practice required each week.
Art Club
The Art Club hopes to cooperate
with the Bryn Mawr Art Center in
establishing ‘art classes three
nights a week. More people inter-
ested in poster painting are need-
ed, and the club hopes to discover
new poster talent through the post-
ers for Freshman Hall Plays.
Science Club
Lectures each month largely by

members of the faculty are the

principal activity of the Science
Club, which also hopes to organize
trips to the Zoo and the Franklin
Institute,



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take on major parts in the plays
naturally. spend more. time.--The
dancing on the green rehéarsals
are fitted in by substituting them
for all winter and spring term
sports. The amount of time _ ex-
pended depends entirely on the
size and nature of the type of May
Day the undergraduates should
decide to give.

Objection: We have no right to
expend so much money on so friv-
ilous an enterprise at this time.
Never has there been a deficit on
May Day. Tickets, sold at $3.50
apiece pay the cost of the produc-
tion. And the Board of Directors
will never permit the holding’ of
(May Day if and when they consider
it a financial risk.







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