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VOL. XLI, NO. 8



ARDMORE and BRYN sina PA.,

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1945

' Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS







$3116 Donated
For War Chest

By B. M. College

Needs”.



Bryn Mawr College donated

$3,116.40 to the United War Chest’s

“Victory Campaign for Human
The goal for the 1946
Campaign is $9,700,000 which will
be divided among such organiza-
tions as the USO, both local and
international, United Seamen’s Ser-
vice, National War Fund, Ameri-
‘can Relief for India, and other es-
sential health, relief, youth, .and
‘community services.

Two years ago, a great effort
was made to have the War Chest
supported 100%. by the students,
faculty, and staff of the College.
Last year the same policy was fol-
lowed with extremely successful
results. This year it was decided
that little pressure would be made,

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12 Hockey Teams

To Compete Here
In National Meet

Twelve city hockey teams plan|¢
to be ghests of Bryn Mawr next
weekend when the National Invi-
tation Tournaments will be held
on the playing fields of the college.
‘The hoc s of Philadelphia,
Boston, ° Baltimore, Washington,
and other cities will meet on Sat-
urday and Sunday, and games will
be played both in the morning and
afternoon of each day.

Philadelphia was chosen, accord-
ing to a system of rotation, for
this first National Invitation Tour-
nament since the outbreak of war,
and the use of the college playing
fields was granted upon request.

_ Continued On Page 4
Choruses Combine
For Xmas Concert

The Hallelujah Chorus will be
featured in the largest concert
ever to be given at Bryn Mawr at
the Christmas service in Goodhart,
December 16. With the combina-
tion of the Princeton Choir and the
Bryn Mawr chorus 150 voices will
take part in the program of widely
varied music:

Featured in the program will be
an interesting group of continen-
tal carols by the chorus, including
French, Dutch and Czechoslovak-
ian works, and continental Christ-
mas music by Princeton. Together
the chorus will sing several Bach
chorales, ‘and will close the program
with the Hallelujah Chorus from
the Messiah by Handel.

There will be solos by Kate Mar-
shall, ’46 and Hope Kaufman, °48,



‘and by Eugene Conley, bass, from

“orchestra from Bryn Mawr and
Haverford and friends from the;
Main Line, -conducted by Abe

the preceding Sunday.
afternoon rehearsal, the Princeton

tthe Academy of Vocal A:
They will be accompanied by an

Pepinsky. Dr. Mutch of the Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian church will
lead the service.

This is to be the second concert
by the combined choirs, since Bryn
Mavr is going to sing at Princeton
After an

choir will be entertained at supper
in the halls.





Rudd, Stoddard, Wesson Receive
Recognition in Poetry Anthology



By Lanier Dunn "AT

The poems of three Bryn Mawr instills in precision ‘passion bred of

students have been accepted this |

year by the National Poetry As-
sociation for publication in their
Annual Anthology of College Po-
atry. (Last year Sylvia Stallings
48, was the only Bryn Mawr stud-
nt to have a poem published in the
Anthology, but Sandol Stoddard’s
poem received honorable mention.
This year the poems of Margaret
Rudd ’47, Sandol Stoddard ’48, and
Nancy Bell Wesson ’49, have. been
accepted.

Margaret Rudd’s Poet’s Primer
is a fragile, delicate poem in which
the haunting echoes of the first
few lines form its charm. The idea
that fairy lore furnishes the poet’s
insipration is carried out .in light,
airy villanelle form. The poem has
also been submitted to the Poetry
Society of America, of which she
is a member.

The beauty both of sinaehe and

execution in Sandol- Stoddard’s
Poem can be seen in these two
verses:

“Stars blaze brightest in a moth’s
desire;

his striving wings -

light imuthe dim confusion of the
night

celestial fire.

He who perceives the statue in the
stone
and dares to carve

Library Of Caen~
Asks For Books

An appeal to American univer-
sities for aid in reconstructing the
library of Caen has been sent from

ofessor Horatio Smith of Col-
umbia. The library of the Univer-
sity of Caen was completely de-
stroyed during the war. It had be-
come a cultural center of Norman-
dy -and was the only place where
Norman law was still taught.

At Bryn Mawr the efforts of
those who wish to contribute books,
money or time to the project will
be on a purely voluntary basis.
There will be no door to door so-
liciting. and the fact is stressed







that there must be discrimination

in the choice of books.
Continued On Page 4 ‘

Language Houses
Plan Xmas Fetes

The German, French and Span-
ish language clubs gre planning
their Christmas programs, accord-
ing to tradition, but with new
ideas, added to the past customs.

The Spanish Club will stage a
real fiesta, held in Spanish House
on December 10th, There will be a
short play, “Las Aceitunas” (The
Olive Trees), of Lope de Reuda.
Following, Spanish songs and
dance music are to be afforded,
and refreshments will be — served.
As part of the fiesta spirit, two
fortune tellers and a palmistry ex-
pert will perform their mystic
arts.

“Le Miracle ‘de Theophile” by
Rutebeuf, the French Club play, is
to be performed on December 14th
in Wyndham. The play tells the
story of a well-known medieval
miracle. Refreshments are to be
offered, and calendars and Christ-
mas cards are to be sold for French
relief.







bone
in truth: his own desire.”

Nancy Wesson’s poem, Scene ‘5
about children at play on a May
morning. The poem, the first ‘which
she has ever submitted, is written
.n free verse, beginning: —
“A May morning busy with the
zoorm of bees gossiping with snap-
dragons.” The simple description
of -“small hands. incongruously
adept” and playing marbles, is an
appealing subject.

Continued On. Page 3

Job Poll i
Varied Positions
Held In Summer

In the recent poll conducted by



ithe Voeational_Committee to deter-

mine the type and extent of jobs
held by undergraduates last sum-
mer, it was revealed that 405 out
of 538 polled held some job, either
volunteer or paid.

Of the 244 students who did paid
work 79 were clerks, 54 took care
of children, including those who
were counselors at camp, 18 taught
or tutored, 9 went farming, 5 wait-
ed*on tables, 4 did social welfare
work, 3 worked ‘on newspapers, 8
did editing ang research, and 53
worked in laboratories, stores, hos-
pitals, factories, and libraries. The
other 17 jobs included handpainting
of glassware, string trio in a sum-
mer hotel, lifeguards, work with
the CIO, and work in the Marine
Corps Women’s Reserve.

161 students held various volun-
teer jobs. 126, of whom 57 also did
paid or volunteer work, attended
summer schools and took courses
in business, Red Cross, arts, and
science.

Most interesting among the sum-
mer workers were Helen Boyajian
and Margaret Quinn, who were lab
assistants in the Manhattan Engi-
neering Project, and Barrie Zim-
melman, who worked with the Com-
mittee for Mexican Railroad Work-
ers. Dorothy Bruchholz and Eve-
lyn Hitz interned in the UNRRA,
Barbara Stix was chief copy girl
for the United Press, and Andi
‘Bryne worked in a flower nursery
in Norway.

Mary Austin took a veterinary
course, and Elizabeth Smith learn-
ed how to. fly. :



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Calendar
Thursday, November 29

8:30 Philosophy Club, Mr.
Nahm speaking, Common.|
‘iRoom.

Friday, November 30

7:30 Movie, Music Room.
Saturday, December 1

9 p. m. Denbigh Hall Dance,
Common Room.

Sunday, December 2

7:30 Chapel. Rt. Rev. Stephen
Keeler, Music Room.

Monday, December 3

7:15 Current Events, Miss Mc-
Kown, “China,” Common Room.
Tuesday, December '4

4:00 Philosophy _ Club, __ Dr.
Burke, Common _—,
Wednesday, December 5

12:30 Dean Landis, “The Pal-
estine Problem,” Assembly,
_ Goodhart.

8:15 Benjamin Wright, “Gen-
eral Education in a Free So-
ciety,” Common Room.







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éastern Situation.
To Be Analyzed °
By Dean Landis

Dean Landis of the Harvard Law
Schoo! will analyse the political and
economic situation in the Middle
East next Wednesday, December
5, at a 12:30 assembly in Goodhart.

The speaker has ‘just come back
to this country from the Middle
East, where he held the post of
American Director of Economic
Operations since 1943. He has also
served on the Federal Trade Com-
mission, as chairman of the Secur-
ities Exchange ‘Commission, on
President Roosevelt’s Fact-Finding
Board, and in 1940 was a special
consultant in the war department.

Among Landis’s publications are
The Business of the Supreme









Court, written with Felix Frank-
furter in 1928, Cases of Labor Law,
and The Administrative Process.



Varsity Players
Plan To Present
“Family Portrait”



The Varsity Players, together

| with Haverford’s Cap and Bells,

will present Family Portrait . by
William J. Cohen and _ Leonore
Coffee on December 7 and 8- at
8:30 o’clock in Goodhart Auditor-
ium. Family Portrait was one of
the most popular plays on Broad-
way in 1938, where it was directed
by Margaret Webster with Judith
Anderson in the leading role.
Family Portra‘t portrays the life
of the family of Jesus, but though
Jesus is the central figure He does
not_appear. It is a timeless story
of what could be any carpenter’s
family, and Jesus is considered only
in relation to His place in the fam-
ily and as a carpenter. ;
“Mrs. Courtleigh (Kitty Mine-
hart), a member of the German-
town Theatre Guild, is directing
the play. The cast is as follows:
Mary, Pat Frank ’46; Mary Clio-
phas, Katherine Colvin ’46; Naomi,
Nan Peiker ’48; Reba, Mary Ellin
Berlin '48; Mary Magdalene, Bar-
bara Nugent ’48; Selima, Georgie
Wiebenson ’46; Anna, Ann Greene
’46; Woman at the Well, Pat Hoch-
child °'48; Hepzibah, Betty Lilly
’47; Beulah, Janine Landeau ’48;
Judah, John Jackson; Joseph, Rob-
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Manning Urges
Strong Defense
To Keep Peace

Goodhart, November 20. “We
must have men with skills. which
have been so carefully taught over
1 long period of time that they
cannot forget them,” stated Fred-
erick Manning in his talk urging
military conscription, “Men versus
Bombs”.

Although complete destruction



is still a difficult business, such

instruments as the atomic bomb,
raday-and radio, and the proximity
fuse all increase the effectiveness
of familiar weapons to such a de-
gree as to make it imperative that
we devote a greater part of our
energy than ever before to mili-
tary preparedness.

There is for any weapon an area
of probable error, and persistent
reattacks with monotonous regular-
ity are necessary to counter-act
the unavoidable inaccuracy. Conse-
quently great numbers of highly
trained.men—are necessary —to—in-

Continued On Page 3

Liberal Education
Will Be Discussed
By Dr. B. Wright

Benjamin F. Wright, Associate
Professor of Government at Har-
vard University and a member of
the Harvard Report Committee,
will speak on “General Education
in a Free Society” in the Common
Room on Wednesday, December 5
at eight o’clock. .

The general contention of the
report is that a nation should sup-
ply a more liberal education in its
schools, secondary as well as pri-
mary. The committee believes that
the lack of training in the liberal
arts must be remedied in order to
provide a well rounded primary
education and the necessary basis
for a higher education.

The talk is sponsored by the
Curriculum Committee which is
not taking a stand either in favor



or disfavor of the Report. General —

discussion will follow the presen-
tation of the views of the Harvard
committee, but the meeting is
limited to the college community.





First Veteran Returns to Study
After Two Years With Marines



By Nancy Morehouse ’47

Maing back feels quite different,
but wonderful to Elizabeth Sumner
’46;,, Bryn Mawr’s first veteran re-
turning to the student body. Eliz-
abeth served two years in the Ma-
rines, and is now back finishing her
work as a History major with a
minor in German.

Elizabeth took her boot training
at Camp Lejeune and from there
went to a six weeks’ course
Control Tower School. in Atlanta.
She then was sent to Cherry Point,
N. C. where -she worked in “clear-
ance,” which she described as “the
control of air traffic.” This involv-
ed receiving and entering on a
flight schedule the flight plans of
every plane leaving the field—its
estimated times of depa and
return, the pilot, the Ie stination,
and other necessary information.

‘More elaborate plans were nec-

at’

essary in the case of cross-country
flights, she explained, the pilot be-
ing required to-file his flight plans
in person. This information was
sent. to Air Traffic Control in
Washington which relayed it’ to
the field to which the plane was
travelling. .On the return trip the
process worked in reverse. The
arrival’ and departure .of every
plane was checked by constant su-
pervision of the field from the con-
trol tower. '—

The whole experience, Elizabeth

good time” and a chance to meet
many very different kinds of peo-
ple. Though the mass-production
of Marine food did not endear it to
her, she was privileged in having
more civilian hours by being “a
“shift worker” which eliminated



the 6 ‘o’clock bugle for her.





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