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VOL. XLII, NO. 14

ARDMORE ae BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1946

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1945



Barr Discusses.
Purity of Free
Geometric Art

‘Abstraction Movement
Expresses Search
For Purity

“Purity in art has been a driv-
ing force, an obsession, especially
in recent years,” said Mr. Barr in
his lecture, “Art Should be Pure,”
the second in his talks on modern
art.

Beginning with thelatter pant of
the nineteenth century, purism was
pure only by comparison with the
preceding movements, and was ex-
pressed in ascetic mechanical draw-
ing and futurism. In the sense that
Dali and Gauguin escaped from the
world of reality to emphasize de-
sign, they too belong to this school.

The real ancestor of cubism as it

expresses the search for purity was
Cezanne, Mr. Barr pointed out, for
he possessed a feal instinct. for
geometric form and the organiza-
tion of color and design. The search
for a new plastic art which would
eliminate all values of representa-
‘tion, a pure geometric form, was
continued and fully developed by
his three well-known twenticth
‘century successors, Picasso, Mon-
‘drian, and Malevitch.

Between 1906 and 1912, the for-
mer painted a series of nude fig-
ures, each representing a further
step in the breakdown of the sub-
Jject into an abstract design. The
figures became more and more de-
formed, and blended into an over-
all pattern where the horizontal
and vertical lines are dominant. In
the work of the Dutch and Russian
painters there is a movement to-
ward the simplest and most ab-

Continued on Page. 4

Students Analyze
Policies of UNO

In discussing the U.N.O., The
International Relations Clubs of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford reach-
ed the conclusion that an amend-
ment providing for the popular
election of at least one representa-
tive to the Security Council is nec-
essary to test the veto power and
thus begin a battle

titude of the Council at present.

The group, felt that the ideals |

of the U.N.O. are being forgot-
ten as the machinery begins to
function. The United States was
cited as wavering between a choice
of a just or a power policy with
the ultimate decision that their ac-
tion in the General Assembly rep-
resents an attempt to be just while
that in the Security Council has
become purely a stand for power
politics:

So far ‘as Russian action in the
organization is concerned, the
I. R. C.’s general opinion was divid-
ed into two main currents of
thought. One stated that in com-
parison to past steps taken by the
United States and other nations,
the Russian demands for influence
in the Near and Far East are jus-
tified. The other faction objected
on the grounds that the action was

contradictory to the ideals set forth’

in the Charter.

: + objections to the present

“up were that the U.N. 0, char-

“ter is too much like the Articles of

* Confederation and that the organi-

zation seems to be only a “mouth-
piece for individual desires.”



April Oursler, Retiring Editor,
Revels in New Found Freedom

by Emily Evarts °47

es Oursler, late editor of the
News, cannot wait to read this
week’s issue. She claims that she
hasn’t really read the News since
December, 1942. Having existed
on a three-day week for the past
year, April finds herself faced with
four extra days. In addition to
reading the News she plans_ to
spend this time in sleep and in ef-
forts to convince the Philosophy
department that she is majoring in
this subject.

In addition. she can once more
indulge in such extra-curricular ac-
tivities as Chorus. Here, however,
severe difficulty has arisen, due to
her honorary membership in the
News Quartette. The Chorus seems
obsessed by such petty differences
as that between G natural and G
sharp, she complains. Consequent-
ly, at times, she finds that everyone
is out of step but April.

‘Commenting on her release from
the trials of an editor, April be-
moans the fact that her daily haul
of mail has fallen off sharply. “No
more communications from people
who have not received the News
and want it (and those who have
received the News and do not want
it), and no longer the weekly ap-
pearance of the Bakers and Con-
fectioners Journal in my mail box!”

Reveling in her new-found free-
dom, April nevertheless confesses





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Relief Packages

Reach Destination

The Committee for Feeding Eur-
ope has presented complete statis-
ties and figures which show the
amount of contributions and re-
sults for the first three months of
»oncentrated efforts. All expenses
have been met and the organization
gxossesses at present a balance of
somewhat over fourteen hundred
lollars.

Expenditures include eight hun-
lred and twenty-eight dollars for
‘ood; one hundred and ninety-four
‘ollars for vitamins, one hundred
nd forty-three dollars for boxes,
wine, tops, ete., and four hundred
nd sixteen dollars for postage.
‘inally, a loan of twenty-five dol-
ars has been repaid to the Com-
ion Treasury.

Contributions from the campus
lrive amounted to five hundred and
sen dollars from an anonymous do-

Continued on page 3

Arce to Interpret
Mistral’s Poetry

On Thursday, February-21, at
4:15, the Spanish Club will have as
its guest Miss Magda Arce of the
University of Pennsylvania who
will speak on “La Poesia de Gab-
riela Mistral,” the poetess who won
the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1945.

Miss Arce, like Gabriela Mistral,
comes fom Chile and did her under-.
graduate work there. Now she is
instructing at Penn while working
on her Ph. D. thesis. She has also
taught at Mills, Barnard, and Ste-
phens, besides several colleges in
South America, and has received
many distinctions from South
American, British, and American
governmerts.

Miss Arce, an intimate friend of
Garbiela Mistral, will illustrate her

talk with personal recollections and |[

anecdotes of the artist and her life.
Students and faculty are cordially
invited to attend this lecture,
which will-be held in Radnor Hall.

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a certain nostalgia for nights on the
News. She hastens to add that
there is no fear of her appearance
on Mortlay nights—dreams_ will
suffice.
her door, “Beware the thing, it
sleeps” will not be disregarded by
harassed staff’ members searching
for missing copy.

When a member of the staff fac-
etiously announcéd that the pur-
pose of this article is to “finish off
April,” the ex-editor sighed, “It’s
quite unnecessary. That’s one thing
the News has already done for me.’
The News, however, has not fin-

ished April’s ambitions for a jour-
lt ares)

Lovett To Lecture
On W.S.S.F Effort
To Help Students

The urgent minimum need of
students and professors in war-
stricken lands of Europe and Asia
in 1945-1946 is estimatted. at
$2,000,000. Their problems will be
discussed by Dr. Sidney Lovett,
chairman of the World Student
Service Fund General Committee,
on Tuesday, February 26, in the
Common Room at 8:30.

Dr. Lovett returned to this coun-
try in December from an extended
trip through Europe studying re-
lief needs at firsthand and meeting
with World Student Relief com-
mittees. A graduate of Yale Uni-
versity and the Union Theological
Seminary, Dr. Lovett is continuing
his leave of absence from Yale,
where he has been Chaplain and
Professor of Biblical Literature
since 1983, to travel to American
colleges on behalf of the WISSF.

Through the agency of the
WISSF, American schools and col-
leges participate in World Student
Relief, which works on an inter-
national, interracial, non-sectarian,
and non-political basis for the re-
lief and rehabilitation of students
and professors in Europe and Asia,
and the reconstruction of university
life. Onganizations in
countries join.in this effort.

World Student Relief is sponsor-
ed by the International Students’
Service, the Pax Romana, and the
World Student Christian Associa-
tion. During and afiter the last
war, American studentS and pro-
fessors contributed to relief organ-

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CALENDAR

February 21: Spanish Club Tea,
Radnor, 4:15. United Nations
Council, Common Room, 5:00.
Freshman Show Dress Re-
hearsal, Goodhart, 7:00.

February 22: Vocational Com-
mittee, Emily Kimbrough.
“Creative Writing,’ Common

Maids and Porters perform-
ance. Goodhart, 8:00.

February 23: Basketball with
Beaver College, , Gym, 10:30.
Freshman Show, Goodhart,
8:30. Hall DAees in Rocke-
feller, s and Pembroke.

February 25: Current Events,
Common Room, 7:15. Dr. Al-
fred H. Barr, Jr., “Art Should
Be © Marvelous.” Goodhart,
8:15. *

February 26: Dr. Sidney “Lovett,
World Student Relief, Com-
mon Room, 8:30.







At last the warning on |

Room, 4:30. Freshman Show, }.



Artistry in Films
To be Illustrated
By Movie Series

Specially contributed by
Robin Brooks °46

The Undergraduate Association |’

is planning to present a series of
experimental films from the Mu-
seum of Modern Art Film Library.
The films are being shown in con-
junction with the series of Modern
Art Lectures being ‘given this
month and in March by Alfred H.
Barr, Jr. These films will illus-
trate the marvelous, the intense,
the national in moving pictures as
Mr. Barr’s lectures illustrate them
in the world of painting and sculp-
ture.

The program is as follows:

March 1: The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari (and four short supple-
mentary films).

(March 8: The Fall of the House
of Usher.

March 15: Birth of a Nation.

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Emily Kimbrough
Plans To Discuss
Creative Writing

Creative writing will be the topic
for the first of a series of talks
sponsored by the Vocational Com-
mittee of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation at 5:00 in the Common
Room ‘on Friday, February 22.
Emily Kimbrough, an authoress of
wide experiences, will be the speak-
er.

Miss Kimbrough, co-authoress of
“Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay,” is also known to conoisseurs
of humor as authoress of “We Fol-
lowed Our Hearts to Hollywood”
and “How Dear to My Heart.” She
has written for Marshall Field,
The Ladies Home Journal, and she
has also done free-lance writing
for newspapers, syndicate and ad-
vertising booklets. At the present
time Miss Kimbrough is writing a
movie for Deanna Durbin and is
working on a new book. -

Miss Kimbrough has been asso-'
eighteen “lated with Bryn Mawr in many

ways since her graduation. She
was Publicity-secretary here during
1938 and 39. She has also done
publicity work for Baldwin School.

Tea will be served before Miss

Kimbrough’s talk, and there will be,
|by aggressive

time for questions afterwards.



Soper Explains
Calm Attitude
Found in Japan

‘Occupational Forces
Cited For Excellent
Discipline

_Goodhart, February 19: A_ re-
markable lack of hostile feeling
characterizes the attitude of the
defeated Japanese people toward
the occupational forces in their
homeland, stated Mr. ',Alexander
Soper in a lecture upon his “Im-
pressions of Occupied Japan,” the
sixth War Alliance Assembly of
this year.

The reasons for this unexpected
phenomena, declared Mr. Soper,
are, for our part, the excellent dis-
cipline of our soldiers and, in con-
trast to the arrogance of the Ger-
man conquerors in France, their
friendly, generous attitude, which
arises from pity for the poverty °
and complete wretchedness of the
countryside, where all lies in a
state of neglect, contempt of des-
troying further by looting a people
whose standards are already so
much lower than ours, and a genu-
ine admiration for their fortitude.

The peaceful attitude of the Jap-
anese themselves may be explain-
ed by a state of shock following
the high pitch excitement of past
years, relief that the war is over
and they are free from military
despotism, and the very character
of the race, which, being young, al-
lows for a “complete blacking out
of the past”, as opposed to the
Europeans with their long inherit-
ed prejudices and hatreds.

One particular example of this
general condition was afforded by
the landing of the Marine 5th Am-
phibious Corps, to which Mr. Soper
was attached, at Sasebo, Naval
Base on the southern Japanese
island of Kyushu. There, fear of
last minute resistance and of pro-
longed guerilla warfare was imme-
diately dispelled. Either polite in-
difference or definite friendliness,
including eagerness to learn the
English language, made possible a
fraternization between eastern and
western elements.

Mr. Soper concluded by saying
that at best the relation was super-
ficial and could be easily disturbed
Japanese leaders.



‘“‘Past Perfect’’ Blends Romance,
Skiers and Dreams Into Gay Show

by Mary Lee Blakely ’47

“Past Perfect” rehearsals, with
dim figures puttering about in the
background, have already, even in
this early stage of development,

‘taken on crude but definite shape.

“Ah, to be young again!” is the
perennial cry of Bryn Mawrters
who are still exam-shocked, and the
freshmen seem to have taken these
plaints seriously. “Children” mad-
ly dance about a barren stage with
harassed cries from the manager
to remember the fountain and non-
existent bushes.

Consequently, one is puzzled by
strange remarks concerning nigh!
club curtains, undesired hips in an
Indian dream sequence, which
seems to require the perpendicula:
and horizontal approach, and_ _
loon trees. A young lady wit
bright blue nose and black h .
was wildly waving a bucket of en.
amel around a lonely crooner and

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there seemed to be a jitterbug en-
thusiast in some dim corner of the
auditorium. The heroine, who
seems to have temporarily misplac-
ed her man, has a vivid recollection »,
of her past, and we get a fervent
desire to have shared in romantic
excursions to ski lodges, night
clubs and strolls, in tng park,
What sort of animal will emerge
from such hybrid regions will (we
hope) be disclosed only on the 23rd,
but meanwhile weird rumblings
from a chaotic jumble of backdrops
are faintly reminiscent of the Mes-
ozoic Age. Appealing songs, name-
ly “I Want A Man,” exciting cos-
tumes (the hero seemed temporar-
ily rather out of character in a

black evening dress) and gay scen-

ery. are definitely being coralled

into a profitable evening which

promises fair glory to the class of
1949. :






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Dogma and Practice in Education~

The feeling that there should be more outlets for crea-
tive talent at Bryn Mawr has been very much in evidence
during this last College year. We have written several edit-
orials on the subject hoping to encourage action as well as
consideration. >

Up until pew the stress has been laid to a great extent
upon writing; problems in connection with ‘The Title have
brought this aspect of creative work into prominenee. We
feel that now is the time to focus upon other aspects and to
attempt a summary of what has been said before.

By the series of lectures being given by Mr. Barr, and
by the exhibit in the Common Room, the College has been
impressed again with the fact that the body of artistic work
in the last half century has been experimental—that the
search for expression is the characteristic of our age.

This, then, is the time to bring dogma and practice to-
gether; dogma is not enough in itself. There must be an op-
portunity for expression and for experiment before any ad-
vance can be made. Perhaps the unrest felt by many stud-
ents is due to stagnation: a lake is stagnant, even if it is fed
by many springs, if it has no outlet.

Slowly there have been advances to this end; Arts Night
is the most ambitious example. On a smaller scale, there have
been in the past several attempts along this line. First year
History of Art required a plaster cast made from an original
if simple, piece of sculpture. Several courses have given the
alternative of a critical or creative paper; the department of
Music gives practice as well as theory in many cases. Still,
there is room for expanding; these beginnings have promise
but need to be developed.

In the fields of Art~Literature, and Music there should
be opportunity to show that what we have learned can be ap-
plied. It is true that not every student has the ability to ex-
press herself _as-a-creative artist, but there are many, and
we maintain the majority, who, if given the chance, could
show that fullest appreciation can usually be found in appli-
cation..

We are at college to form the tools, so to, speak, with
which we will work in later life. Even if we as yet have omy
a few, these tools must not become rusted and blunt from
disuse.

_ The scientist shite Laced a laboratory; the student, even
in embryonic stages, must have practice. In a way there is
a waste of knowledge without practice, for that which is fed
with a spoon rarely becomes an integral and absérbing part

of an individual, whereas knowledge gained the” hard: way, |

by dogma tempered with practice, eas remains deep-
meet “e thoroughly learned.



apt"
Feeding Europe Group
- Thanks Donors
Of Sugar

of the student body,



nated their sugar to be included in
our packages for Europe. The
students will continue to pack and
send boxes to Europe for the re-
mainder of the semester and will

appreciate any further donations

of sugar. We are making every
effort to insure the. safe arrival of
our packages. Acknowledgements
are slow in coming, but we have
already had word that several box-
es have been received, and we hope
that these packages: will continue
to reach their destination.

The Committee for Feeding Europe

by Norma Ulian ’47
If art should be modern and if
art should be pure, then we real-
ize that the art of Severini, of Mon-
drian, and of Arp is worthy of m me
d

than a doubtful glance and

spairing shrug. Severini’s “Armor-
ed Train, as a most modern repre-
sentation of a modern invention,
has a definite feeling of power and
speed.
lines of the composition which draw
our eye upward and out of the pic-
ture into an undefined space, as
well as the abstracted forms, in-
tensify our first impression of
lightening force. Yet the color in
this painting weakens it. With its
shades of green ranging from a
yellow-green to a deep, dark blue,
and .with its almost pastel blues,
oranges and rose, the Armored
Train looks, for all its feeling of
speed and power, like a springtime
fanitasy. The work is beautiful, yet
strangely horrifying when we think
that Severini, like the other futur-
ists, worshipped the glory of war
and failed completely to realize or
to portray its ugliness.

The purity of Mondrian’s Com-
rosition with Blue and Yellow is
different from that of Armored
Train. As an art student, and a
faithful attender of Mr. Barr’s lec-
tures, I have come to appreciate
this work as a result of serious ex-
perimentation with lines, with col-
ors, and with the problems of
assymetrical balance. The compo-
sition, is a fine combination of
sharp white, accented by heavy
black lines which enclose two geo-
metrical shapes painted in the
complementary colors, blue and
yellow. It is Wean, and to the un-
taught unbelievably stark, yet it
is pleasing in arrangement. Ac-
cording to Mondrian the artist




The _vertical_and diagonal.



Byfield’ Urges Interest
In Hudson Shore
Labor School

To The Editor:

The general apathy on campus
has caused the majority of the un-

-| dergraduates to pass up an excel-

lent opportunity to learn about one
of the organizations which they
help to support financially. Very
few undergraduates bothered to
come to the tea given for the Hud-
son Shore Labor School last Thurs-
day, and missed two very interest-
ing and stimulating talks about
workers’ education, Miss Smith and
Miss Wood explained the ever-in-
creasing importance of education
for adult workers and the import-
ant role that universities and col-
leges like Bryn Mawr have played
and are going to play in furthering
this type of education.

As an undergraduate assistant
at Hudson Shore last summer, I
soon came to-realize that it was an
experiment that deserves a great
deal of support here on campus not
only in a financial way but in an-
other way as_ well—general and
sincere interest. It is one of the
few examples of democratic living
that is put into practice today in
the United States. Its goal, a more
enlightened and satisfied working
class, is certainly one worth striv-
ing for, and one that every think-
ing undergraduate ought to lend
support to especially in the light
of current events.

I certainly hope that there will
be some people on campus who will
be interested in working as under-
graduate assistants at Hudson
Shore this summer. Perhaps some
of those who have been complain-
ing of Bryn Mawr’s too-academic
atmosphere will Yealize that this
is their chance to meet all kinds of
interesting people and really get
in to the middle of something that
is alive and stimulating.

Sincerely yours—
Betty Byfield.



should not paint those forms and
shapes which arouse personal as-
sociations in the mind of the spec-
tator, but instead should paint
what the purists term “pure re-
ality.’ I can enjoy Mondrian’s
work when it is flashed on a screen
or hung in an exhibition, but it is
very questionable if in my own liv-
ing .room I would prefer his pure
reality to a bourgeois representa-
tion of a “New England Street.”
Pure also are the compositions
of Hans Anp and Kandinsky, whose
paintings, like Mondrian’s, fail to
remind us of the world we know
but instead represent a pure, rath-
er amorphous, reality. Anp’s blobs
have the certain fascination of un-

Continued on Page 4



World Unity Through Education

Student awareness of world problems and their relation

to the college campus was clearly evidenced at the Philadel-
phia forum on “The Place of Education in an Atomic World.”
Such a consciousness and sense of responsibility indicates a
serious endeavor on the part of students to play an effective
part in the creation of international good-will.

The stress placed on the humanities at the forum em-
phasizes the role of the liberal arts college in these times.
A knowledge of the social, economic, and political problems
of the past helps the student in the approach to contemporary
problenis and develops in him a broader, less biased outlook
in international affairs. -An appreciation of the world’s ar-
tistic heritage provides a common grougd of understanding
among students of different nationalities.

The destre voiced at the forum for equality of race, creed,
and color on the college campus indicates that students real
ize that international cooperation on a small scale is neces-
sary before there can be true cooperation between nations.



~~

Current Events



“In the light of activities since:
the San Francisco Conference by
Frafico’s regime and by the Span--

.|ish governments in exile, the rein--

statement of a monarchy in Spain.
has become a strong possibility,”

Franco in Spain and Argentina.
Recent press reports from Ma-.

drid explain the desire of the-

Spanish people for “anything bet-

to prevent more bloodshed and suf-
fering and their willingness to ac-.
cept a monarchy as a bridge be-
tween Franco and a truly republi--
can government. ‘Don Juan’s ac-
tivities indicate support from both:
Spain and England.

Miss Nepper pointed out that it.
is impossible to.set up a republic
immediately because of the weak-.
ness of the Spanish Republican
party. This is due to the undis-
tinguished cabinet set up last fall
in Mexico City with Giral as for-
eign minister, to the revival of old.
regional issues with the Basques
and Catalines demanding -recogni-

the .former leaders of the party
who fled when Franco’s_ success.
seemed certain. ‘
“The events of the last two.
weeks concerning Argentina have
brought the situation there to a
head,” Miss Nepper continued. The-
“Blue Book” published-by the Unit=
ed States State Department has
become an important issue in the
coming Argentinian election, since-
Peron’s paper El Laborista claims.
that the choice between Peron and
Braden has boiled down to a desire
for U. S. invasion under the latter
or Argentinian independence under-
Peron. ‘Peron himself has an-
nounced the publication of a “Blue-
and White Book” and has instruct-
ed the Argentine press to ignore
the American publication. The-
United States move has been de-
scribed as giving international iso-
lation to Argentina, but also as a
possibility for Peron’s sweeping-
victory since American interfer-

Library Dis Displays
Tselos Collection

dating from the early 14th century
compose the Rare Book Room’s.
display, an unusual collection lent
by Dr. Tselos of the Art History
Department. Dr. Tselos collected
the miniatures, books, and pages
of-music over a period of years,
and they represent the work of
various countries. Outstanding in
the display is the Book of Hours
j of Utrecht, the ancient collection
of prayers and passages from
Biblical literature for private de-
votional services. The sister manu-
script of Dr. Tselos’ copy is in the
British Museum. On many of the
manuscripts, gold leaf, as well as
regular colors, have been applied to.
the designs and the miniatures of
religious scenes and burnished to:
obtain a bright sheen,

Included also in the collection
are Russian miniatures, a book of
holiday songs, adorned with scenes.
from the life. of ,Christ. This 18th

and is an example of retarded.
Russian Byzantine art.



ELECTIONS
The News takes pleasure in
announcing the election of Ro-
sina Bateson, ’47 as‘ acting Copy
Editor, and Priscilla Boughton,
’49 as Sports Editor,
All communications directed





The student must become a constructive member of -his-com=
munity before he can become a constructive citizen in the



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Denbigh Wabbits
Win Over Ghouls

Gymnasium, February 17. A
Denbigh team plus a stalwart mas-
culine contingent overpowered the
Merion Ghouls 34-20 in the first
inter-hall basketball game of the
‘season. Thanks to the umpire,
Betsy Kaltenthaler, who handled
the job admirably, there were no
broken bones.

During the first half the Ghoul
team held their own, making up in
speed and determination what they
lacked in height and mafe support.
At ‘halftime Merion was _ three
points in the lead.

‘Using their three men as for-
wards, Denbigh forged ahead in the
second half and won by fourteen
points, despite heroic efforts on the
part of the Merion guards, Vera
Tozzer, Alma Ide, and Andy Nys-
trom.

Star player on the whole floor
was Merion’s warden, Marion Kirk

’44, although she hasn’t had a bus- |-

ketball in her hands since she was
captain here two years ago. She
was somewhat hampered, however,
by Bobby Young, the outstanding
feminine member of the Wabbitt
team. :

Blaring forth from the balcony,
Denbigh’s ‘band accompanied ithe
game, and Margaret Shiney played
solos on ger trumpet during the
intermissions, but there were no
answering outbursts from Merion.

320 Relief. Packages
Sent To Feed Europe

Continued from page 1

nor, two hundred and four dollars
from an appeal to the alumnae, and
two thousand, three hundred and
eighty dollars from undergradu-
ates, graduate students, faculty
and staff combined.

The committee announces that
three hundred packages have been
sent to France and twenty to Hol-

land by the undergraduates, while
the graduate students, with our
supplies and some given them by
Miss Taylor and Miss Lograsso are
sending packages to Italy.

All the donations have not as
yet een received in European
countries but the following letter,
received from Hamsted, Holland,
gives some indication as to how the
gifts have been accepted:

“I am saving food for my baby
when in April she comes. What a
giant luxury to have milk. We are
so happy to have the good food on
Christmas which I save. I write a
letter to Miss Bryn Mawr and
thank her for the food. People are
so kind in the of
Pennsylvania.”

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NOTICES

The Undergraduate Association
takes. great pleasure in announc-
ing the appointment of Winky Et-
telson as Chairman of the Fresh-
man Handbook Committee.

Diving Instruction

Diving instruction with movies
demonstrating technique later will
be given by the Athletic Depart-
ment every Thursday at 3:45.
Every one is welcome.

Alliance Appointment

The Alliance wishes to announce
the choice of delegates to the two
forthcoming conferences.

Intercoflegiate United Nations
Conference.

Acheson

McGovern

Daudon

Rosenblum, Student Chairman.

Conference on “From U.N. O. to
World Government” Z
Helin Reed.

Frances Parsons.

The turn out for these confer-
ences was much appreciated. And
it is hoped that those who were not
able to go this time will have a
chance next year.

Prizes Presented
To Two Students

Rosina Bateson ’47 and Camilla
Williams ’46 have been awarded
special prizes by the Dante Society
of Cambridge for their original pa-
pers. The Society, ‘which is affili-
ated with Harvard University, for-
mefly included Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow as one of its members.

Rosina Bateson’s paper contain-
ed a poetic treatment of the Paolo
and Francesca incident of Dante’s
Divine Comedy. Her work caught
the atmosphere of the period, and
brought out many of the social cus-
toms. It also made use of sym-
bolism, stressing the significance
of the wind as a uniting and a di-
viding force. Camilla © Williams’
paper developed an original analy-
sis of the role of fear in the Divine
Comedy.

Lovett To Lecture
On Relief Problems

Continued from page 1
izations, which evolved into the In-
ternational Students’ Service, which
during the years of peace, gave
scholarships and other aid through-
out the world. In 1937, American

began sending help to China, and
in 1939 these activities were ex-
tended to Europe. The WSSF was
created by these sponsoring organ-
izations for the war and post-war
period.

During the war, World Student
Relief set up student centers in
China, and distributed food, cloth-
ing, and subsidies to needy and to
displaced students and professors.

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In Atomic World

The world problems of today and
their‘ rélation™ to academic work
and campus activities were treated
in a round-table discussion, “The
Place of Education in an Atomic
World.” Representing Bryn Mawr,
Ann Wood ’48 and Fanita Revici
*48 met with other students from
eleven colleges in Philadelphia and
vicinity in the University of Penn-
sylvania Museum on Saturday.

In discussing today’s trends and
the question as to whether students
are interested in these trends, it
was generally agreed that the in-
terest of college students needs to
be aroused outside of their own
fields and that they do little to
obtain a world outlook. There were
varied opinions as to the aim of
college, including ‘‘a philosophy of
life,” a sense of social responsibil-
ity, and a vocation. Ann Wood
claimed that liberal arts colleges
give one a broad general back-
ground and the experience of get-
ting along with people of other
backgrounds. \All members of the
panel seemed to agree with the
current idea of teaching more of
the humanities.

A cry for-compulsory history and
a suggestion that it be approached
through today’s problems arose:out
of the question as to ‘whether
courses and campus life equip one
for the problems of.today. Ome
student declared that there was a
need of correlation of subjects to
immediate problems, and another
suggested a course in post-war
problems. One claimed that edu-
cation ought to dispense with em-
pirical traditions and direct itself
toward “a brotherhood of man.’ It
was generally agreed that the idea
of racial superiority ought to be
abandoned and that the quota of
races, creeds, and color ought not
to be regulated on campus.

The question as to whether col-
leges stimulate an interest in
world problems was met by~-one
student with a statement that pro-
fessors tend to settle back into a
pattern of merely existing and
teach their students from their own
texts, trying to make them think
as they do.



McDonald Tells
Of War Swimming

Kenneth McDonald, the Ameri-
can Red Cross’s assistant director
of life-saving, spoke to the swim-
ming club last Friday, on the role
of swimming in war.

Mr. McDonald, an ex-marine of-
ficer, had the following tale to tell:
sixty men were asked to volunteer
for a secret mission, from which
they were told there could be no re-
turn. After a thirty-days leave, the
candidates went through an inten-
sive training course, learning _to
swim fifteen miles a day under
every kind of weather condition.

Next, they boarded submarines
and when near their destination,
they were released from the hatch-
es onto the open sea. At first
swimming on the surface and then
under water, equipped with com-
passes, oxygen masks, swim fins
and explosive, they approached
their objectives—Japanese cargo
ships. The bombs were secured un-
der these vessels, leaving the men
fifteen minutes to escape before
they exploded. The remaining prob-
lem was to find the submarine
again, a few did, were sent out
again, never returned.

Mr. McDonald went on to talk
of the therapeutic uses of swim-
ming. He explained that since the
limbs are easily supported in water,
exercise in a pool has been of
great importance in curing cases
of semi-paralysis and amputation,
since the legs and arms can then
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Clark Will Serve

With Quaker Aid

by Jean Ellis °49

Miss Eunice Waters Clark, as-
sistant warden of Wyndham and
part-time instructor in French, left
Bryn Mawr at the end of the first
semester to serve with ‘Secours
Quaker. After a short training
period, she will sail for France
where she will remain for eighteen
months.

The purpose of Secours Quaker
is explained by the American
Friends Service Committee in this
way: “We feel the need to bring
food, clothing, and shelter to those
in distress, but far more important
than even such vital material as-
sistance is the opportunity to share
the burden of suffering of another,
to help him recover his sense of
self-interest and integrity, and to
restore a faith in love andggood
will through a practical demonstra-
tion of thuman sympathy and
brotherhood.”

Miss Clark has been interested
in Secours Quaker for some time,
but it was not until last summer,
when with the help of Dr. Kraus
of Bryn Mawr’s department of So-
cial Economy she secured a position
with UNRRA, that she had any
practical experience in work such
as Secours Quaker is doing. Dur-
ing the first semesiter, Miss Clark
has been helping ‘at the French
Desk of the American Friends Ser-
vice Committee in Philadelphia and
has been taking a course in the de-
partment of Social Economy in
preparation for her work overseas.

“There are about 275 workers in
seven delegations working in

‘ France,” Miss Clark said. “Of these

there are only about 20 Americans.
Their number is limited since a
lange amount of food and clothing
is sent by the United States and in
order to preserve the international
character of the work. Each dele-
gation disitributes some food and
clothing to those in greatest need
and, in addition, undertakes jobs
peculiar to its own district,” Miss
Clark continued. “The group in
Caen thas specialized in transpor-
tation with a fleet of five English
trucks, while an important task in
Le Havre has been the feeding of
tubercular cases and undernourish-
ed school children. The four cen-
ters in the south of France, those
at Marseilles, Toulouse, Montaban,
and Perignan, have been distribut-
ing food to school children and ad-
olescents. These groups have also
been important in giving emerg-
ency relief to refugees beginning
with those from Spain in 1939,

“At Paris where the central of-
fice is located, inquiries about trac-
ing people are handled. This group
also concentrates on visiting the
overcrowded Paris prisons and tak-
ing food and clothing to those
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The Title announces a contest
open to all undergraduates for a
detailed plan of a college magazine.
The contest will be judged by an
independent committee with a prize
of $25 for the best plan submitted;
the Title will use suggestions which
are offered, and hopes to introduce
the winning plan into the maga-
zine by next fall.

Plans should be made in com-
plete. detail, including publisher,
name, method of making the mag-
azine representative, manner of
selecting the board, sources and
varieties of material, bases. for
judging the material ‘submitted
publicity and finances, and all ele-
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gram. The deadline for submission
of plans is May 10; groups of stud-
ents as well as individuals may
prepare a single plan. Plans should
be sent to Patsy von Kienbusch.

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posed of Philip A. Livingston, the
present publisher of the Title; Ali-
son Merrill, former editor of the
Coflege News, and now employed
at the Herald-Tribune; and Mr.
Frederick Thon, instructor in Eng-
lish. The Title emphasizes that
this is an independent contest un-
der its sponsorship. The contest
is designed to give constructive
formulation to recent criticism, and
give the students a chance to pre-
sent a definite program of reor-
ganization.

Barr Traces Purism
In Recent Art Forms

Continued from page 1

stract figures where reality, unlike
natural forms, remains constant.
Both emphasize the use of primary
colors, while Mondrian turns to the
right angle and rectangle, and
Malevitch to the square, circle and
cross as being absolutely beautiful
per se.

An accompanying element in the
movement for geometric expres-
sion is constructivism to which the
intersection of two planes is of par-
amount importance. This tri-di-
mensional work reached its high-
est peak in the metal and glass
creations of Gabo.

The second half of the lecture
was devoted to purism in the free
form, as distinguished from the
planned’ geometric form. This style
is also an escape from actual rep-
resentation, but it’is characterized
by two important trends, the line
or scribble of Kandinsky ‘and the
blot of Anp. There is no definite
plan to the work, for it is rudimen-
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Formal dances are being planned
by Denbigh, Pembroke, Rockefeller,
and Rhoads halls, to take place af-
ter the Freshman Show on Febru-
ary 28, from 10:30 to 1:00.

Pembroke East and West are in-
viting Merion, Radnor and Low
Buildings to their dance, which will
be held in Pembroke. Music will be
supplied by the Debonairs, and the
of Washington’s
birthday will be carried out in the
decorations. ‘Sue Inches ’48, and
Margy Baish ’48, are in charge.

Rhoads and Denbigh, whose joint
dance will be held in Rhoads, will
also have as its theme Washing-
ton’s birthday. The Sylvanians
will provide the music, and tickets
may be obtained from Joan. Zim-
merman ’48, and Ellen ’ Shepherd
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Rockefeller’s dining room is the
location of their hall’s dance.
George Young will provide the mu-
sic, and the decorations will follow
the Night Club scene of the Fresh-
man Show. Ann Dudley ’47 is sell-
ing the tickets at $2.75 for couples
and $1.75 for stags.

theme George

N. Ulian Interprets
Modern Art Exhibit

Continued from Page 3

controllable ink-spots. In his: Con-
figuration they are artistically, al-
though haplaZardly arranged. The
white forms are blocks of wood
glued to the thin wooden back-
ground, while the black ones are
painted to contrast with the white
and to prevent the composition
from fading into the exhibition
wall. Quite frightening is the ghost
like blob in the upper right-hand
corner of the Configuration, with
its oval eyes seeming to warn that
this is art and not a child-psychol-
ogy exercise. Automatic Drawing,
the other Arp in the Common Room
is more appealing. The free, curv-
ing, carelessly graceful lines com-
bined with the amoe¢ba-like shapes
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We are hoping to show UH. G.
Wells’ The Shape of Things to
Come, on March 23, although the
date is as yet indefinite.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, ithe
first in the series, is a German film,
produced in 1919 by Decla-Bioscop
and directed by Robert Wiene, Wer-
ner Krauss and Conrad Veidt are
It reflects the
whole trend of the modern. move-

the principal actors.

ment in the arts, especially in the
theatre, as it has developed in Ger-

many. It was first acclaimed and

has remained famous, primarily for
its settings. They derive from ex-
pressionist paintings, through the
settings of expressionist plays and
particularly of Der Sturm group,
on view in Berlin at that time.
These settings of painted canvas
and hangings and shadows suggest
an atmosphere of menace and mad-
ness, which they are intended to
express. The actors in make-up
and movement alike succeed in har-
monizing with this atmosphere of
unreality.

The story, which concerns a som-
nambulist, a murder and other
strange and fantastic events, is
told by a, man, who is evidently in-
sane. (His story is a mere hallucin-
ation and the distorted landscape
and dwellings are therefore seen as
appropriate to express the unreal-
ity of his vision of the world.

This film is an effective comple-
menit to Mr. Barr’s lecture on Feb-
ruary 25, entitled Art Should Be
Marvelous, where the special em-
phasis will be on visual poetry of
enigma and fantasy.

This series should be of partic-
ular interest to History of Art and
Drama students, and we are hop-
ing that many others outside of
these fields will also attend. Pro-
gram notes will be distributed at
the door. These films will be shown
in the Music Room, at 7:30, admis-
sion 25 cents.



Maids, Porters

Frolic At Party

by Helen Martin ’49

“The Five Keys” of ‘“‘The Cot-
tonpickers” made the’ music, and
Valentine decorations hung from
the walls of the gym last Saturday
night at the Annual Maids and
Porters’ Dance, which was attend- |
ed by over two hundred guests.
Red and white crepe paper stream-
ers ‘were twisted and stretched
across the ramps above the danc-
ers, and -white-edged valentines
decorated the walls, to make the
dance a holiday affair. From sweat-
ers and skirts, costume ranged to
formal dresses.

A sprinkling of uniforms brought
variety to the stag line, but civilian
wear was strikingly predominant,
as compared to the-dances during
the war. The-mood of the dance
was exuberant, another indication
of the return to a peace-time ex-
istence.

Those still in the service, several
of whom had been enlisted to carry
chairs by the students managing
the dance, remarked when the “de-
tail” had ben completed that some
Bryn Mawrtyrs would certainly
make good master sergeants.

The rhythm of The Five Keys
encouraged the dancers to display
their talents in forms which varied
from jitterbugging to waltzing,
and which even combined the two. .
Students who helped to serve re-
freshments were treated by one
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