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| ‘THE COLEEGE NEWS
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(Founded in 1914)



Bryn Mawr College.

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Upward and Onward

In the darkness of the past few months we have seen
a great light—the beginning of the second semester, when
our weak fingers would be removed from the beat of that

time-worn “pulse of the campus.”

The time has come to de-

part from the familiar pattern of life on the News. Our Wed-
nesdays’ will no longer be highlighted by mad dashes to the

1:09 to Ardmore (the printing plant).

Our Thursdays will

no longer be spent cowering before the blast of those ines-
capable souls who have spotted the misplaced commas (or

worse).

As we bid farewell to this life of missing copy and. un-
solvable dummies, we find ourselves glancing back at all that
is past: the time we rose up in wrath at the present Oral sys-
tem, only to be accused of basing all arguments on the case/ Locally, there has been a move-
of “Susie Smith,” a personal friend of ours; the hectic saa
of two extras (food and fund); our constant pleas for “the
students” to be more active, more creative; and finally, the
agonized cry of the copy editor, “how can we ever have peace
if we don’t even have an editorial policy on the UN?”

We shall miss it. And as we anticipate an increase. of
our sleeping hours, and a loss of so meof that haggard look,
we wish a good year and the best of luck to the new editor

and her board.



Home For Incurables Expresses
A Need For Volunteer Workers

“We desperately need and would
appreciate vi help that students
can give bySvolunteer work,” was
the answer given Elaine France
*48, Undergraduate Red Cross
chairman, upon inquiring into the
need for workers at the Philadel-
phia Home for Incurables.

At present, the Home is short of
seventy-five nurses with approx-
imately three nurses working on
a twelve-hour shift for twenty-five

“patients. The individual and time
consuming care necessary for pa-
_ tients, ‘some of whom are almost
the help
of additional workers essential.
heh csigaicenlstn , students from
: ithegl Seorics at the Home,



with arthritic patients) a combin-
ation. of that of a Nurse’s Aide
and a Gray Lady. The special care
they learned to give individual pa-
tients eased the nurses’ work.
They. were able, also, to write let-
ters and do other jobs for patients
which the nurses did not have time
to do. The patients especially ap-
preciated talking with the volun-
teers and hearing about their out-
side activities, and the students
were especially impressed by the

5 o'clock.

Current Events

Summarizing the events which
have occurred since the last Current
Events meeting, Miss Robbins
stressed the crucial coal shortage
in England. Caused by the cold-

perienced in years, the shortage
has been aggravated by lower pro-

| duction than in pre-war yeargand

by the amount of coal which has
gone into factories manufacturing
articles for export. The situation
is tremendously complicated, for
unless coal can be put into the fac-
tories the export drive on which
the English economy depends is apt
to come to a complete halt.

In the international field, Miss
Robbins mentioned the continued
trouble in Palestine, which is part
of the larger question of all dis-
placed persons in Europe who re-
fuse to remain there where they
have undergone such terrible ex-
periences. Three-quarters of them
are not Jews and are uninterested
in Palestine, but have no place to
go. In this country, the immigra-
tion quotas for each country which
have riot been filled during the
war would take care of many of
these persons. The people who
would enter would not cause dis-,
turbances since they can come in.
under the care of churches and
other organizations which are able |
to provide bed and board immed- |
iately.

One of the most. important oc-

|currences is the recent decision -of

Judge Pickard in the _ portal-to-
portal pay dispute of Michigan |
pottery workers. In answer to the

of workers for the time spent in
preparing for work and walking
to their jobs, the judge pointed out
that any meritorous suit ought not
to. go back as of June 1946, and
that the time spent: in such minor
actions does not exceed the infin-
itesimal amount of twenty to
forty. minutes daily. After care-
ful investigation of the time situa-
tion at the request of the Supreme
Court, Judge Pickard has only
clarified ‘the issues in a long his-
torical case. He left open the
question of what a fair rate should
be in such jobs as mining where
conditions of getting to and from
the job are more difficult than in
a modern factory, which will have



| Court or by legislation.
| Miss Robbins also pointed out

‘that the Georgia courts have up-

held Thompson as governor so
that Talmadge is no longer in of-
fice, although the case will un-
| doubtedly be appealed.

ment. among several counties to
repeal the Philadelphia wage tax
law. The theory behind it is that
people who do not live within the
city limits should not have to pay
the tax of 1% levied on all wages
and profits earned in Philadelphia.
The suburban residents, however,
benefit from living near the city
for-which the tax provides one-
quarter of the income and enables
it to balance the budget, while
“they forget what would happen
if the city went broke.”

Pamela Wahl Elected

Conférence Delegate

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sending one delegate, as they are
the most active chapters. Swarth-
more was told to elect a member
to go, but post-examination vaca-
tion has intervened; if elections
are not concluded by Thursday,
Bryn Mawr’s alternate delegate,
Priscilla Johnson, will go instead.

A preliminary meeting of Stud-
ent Federalists was held at Bryn
Mawr on Tuesday the fourth, but



cheerfulness ang cordiality with| because of bad wea ~ather
which their he ‘was ‘received. inconveniences, -_ the [averford

y eae “fnterested’t boys. shov<” wer, on
in woking at the Home will be} Thursday when: Pam’: Wahl was
held in the Pembroke West show- | elected, almost t nty Bryn Mawr
case on Thursday, February 13 at eralists at the meet-

Jing. ‘The Fe atagh help finance

est winter which England has ex-

demand of the union for payment!

to be decided by the Supreme]

Illusions and ideals are funny
things. Freshmen bring them when
they arrive, along with A. C. ra-
dios. Sophomores lose them the
way pencils get lost—one here and
a couple theré. They are picked
up gingerly by Juniors, as. one
picks those February Dean’s Office
envelopes up o the mail table. And
Seniors pull them on and off like
mittens in cold weather. And who
is to say which the wiser or ~~
pier?

Yet this we know: nothing. can
be more painful than a fractured
illusion. And the extremes of il-
lusion, especially illusion about
knowledge, are perennial and high-
ly uncomfortable. First we are
convinced that we know. We walk
the tight rope of conceit so deftly,
we feel ourselves brave to dispute
with Plato, we can easily write as
symbolically and more obscurely
than Auden or Eliot. And sudden-
ly the tight rope wobbles, we



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Oninion
Needy French Students
Sent Money’ Food

| By B. M.

Graduates and undergraduates
_joined this past month in a com-
'mon purpose—the desire to help
fellow students across the seas. A
‘letter from Camilla Hoy, a former
Bryn Mawr student now studying
at the Sorbonne, stirred girls from
various corners of the campus into
co-operative .action. Camilla’s de-
/ scription of the Foyer Internation-
al, where 1,900 students eat, and
which she terms “probably the
best of all” student restaurants,
will make many of us thoughtful
when we sit down to one of our
three meals or numerous between-
meal snacks. “We get two meals
a day, lunch and dinner.
consists ‘of: thin soup, potatoes,
one vegetable, a tiny amount of
some poor imitation of Spam, or
some such meat, 100 grams of
bread, and a spoonful of jam. The
potatoes and vegetables are usual-
ly ground up and mixed with water
to make them go further... I
can assure you that this diet leaves
you perpetually hungry ... And
think that there are many students
who cannot afford even the two
meals a day at the student restau-
rants—much less the very neces-
sary supplements allowed by the
ration card.”

Perhaps there were some among
us who felt that, by this time of
the year, they had given enough
to drives and collections. But any-
one who tried, even in imagination,
to taste a meal of the kind pic-
tured by Camilla, must have been
willing to contribute to her appeal
for food stuff—especially fruits,
sweets, and fats, which are so con-
spicuously lacking in the list
above. Incidentally, Camilla did
not ask for food for immediate
consumption, but for such rare
things as might fetch a good price
at a bazaar to be held at the Sor-
bonne in March; the proceeds are
to go to needy French students.
“.,. the original investment,” Ca-
milla wrote, “will be multiplied
many times before it comes into
the hands of the students.”

Radnor Hall, to whose president,
Aida- Gindy, the letter was ad-
dressed, was the first to get busy.
Between them, the fifty-three
graduate students filled and sent
five large boxes (the maximum
weight of 11 pounds was reached
in nearly all cases).) Then, thanks
to an idea of Alison Barbour’s, the
undergraduates were approached,
and their response was very grati-

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other S. F. members will follow
from the sidelines the’ progress
toward unity made by world-gov- |

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‘weave ‘and thrash and _ tumble.

Then surveying with contrite eye
the card catalogues, the footnoted
secondary sources, the cautious hy-
potheses of scholars, we throw up
our hands in foolish despair, howl-
ing that everything worth think-
ing has been thought, everything
worth saying has been said, and
there is indeed nothing new under
the sun. .

But our place is neither on the
tightrope nor in-the dust, if we
are to understand at all the nature
of higher learning. For we had

learnt to knock at doors and be —

given handouts of information; we
had stuck out our hands and had
them crammed with facts; we had
passed our Mts and had shiny lit-
tle ideas and phrases ‘tossed into
them. In short, we had asked
“How much is two and two?” and
been answered, “Four.” Now, ask-
ing the same question, we are told,
“It has not been ascertained yet.
But there has been a good deal
of research done lately by eminent
... ete.” Which answer, reduced
in length and euphemism, says
only, “Count. Figure it out for
yourself. And, having reached a
conclusion, consider that your
premises may “have been false to
begin with.”

No, the time for asking answer-
able questions is past, irretrievably
and, perhaps, fortunately. Let us
now ask questions large and vari-
ous as clouds, as_ perpetual, as
many-shaped. Let us not require
our professors to be ticker-tapes;
let them be doormen, who open the
doors and indicate the elevators.
The only answers to the unanswer-
ables are inside and upstairs. The
doormen, if they have the mind
and, above all, the heart to do so,
can open doors, run elevators, and
point out the heap of answers dim-
ly shining within, but the treasure
hunt is ours.

Radcliffe Offers:
Training Program

Radcliffe College is offering sev-
eral, scholarships to students en-
rolling in the Management Train-
ing Program, a ten months’ course
of study conducted by Radcliffe,
providing a basic training for
young women intending to work
in personnel departments, as well
as for those who seek positions in
other branches of administration.

The program includes about



-}seven months of class instruction

given by members of the Faculty
of the Graduate School of Business
Administration, Harvard Univer-
sity, and others. Carefully select-
ed full-time apprentice work in
business, government and other
organizations occupies about three
months,

Graduates of the program are
now occupying administrative. po-
sitions in business and industry,

government offices, educational es-_

tablishments and social service in-
stitutions. The program will start
on August 25, 1947, and end on
about June 5, 1948. Tuition is
$550; enrollment is open to a lim-
ited number of college graduates.
Further information can be obtain-
ed from Mr. T. North Whitehead,
Management Training Program,
Radcliffe College, Cambridge 38,
Massachusetts.

NOTICES

ARTS NIGHT DATE
The date for Arts Night has been
set for Saturday, March 8 at 8:00
p. m. General admission will be
$.75 with no reserved seats. Pro-
a S eoumertee to the oat

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