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The COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLVI, NO. 1

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1949 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS |



NEWS Reviews

Greater Events

At BM, ’48-49

Eliot, Stassen Spoke;
Campus Constantly
Agitated

°48-"49 at Bryn Mawr consisted

-of the usual mixture of events sig-
-nificant.and--negligible;-new-—and

repetitious. Two grants were made
to-Bryn -Mawr-in-one-year:-a-new
fellowship of $1000 was temporari-
ly established by the Catherwood
Foundation, and a joint grant of
$105,000 was made by the Carnegie
Corporation to Bryn Mawr, Haver-
ford, and Swarthmore for studies
in Russian language, literature,
and history: Now Bryn Mawr can
look forward to a possible Russian
Department and Russian major.
Another addition to the curriculum
was the new Rufus M. Jones Chair
in Philosophy and Religion which

makes possible the course in med-:

iaeval philosophy given in ’49-’50
Two innovations that affected stud
ents immediately were the crea-
tion of the DP Scholarship and the
summer session in Paris which
Bryn. Mawr sponsored over the
summer. ;

Artistic Innovations

- Bryn Mawr’s constant readiness
to, criticize anything that can pos-
sibly be reformed_bore. fruit inthe
fall with the first issue of Counter-
point—a merger of the Haverford
Quarto and the Bryn Mawr Title.
The campus agitated for the im-
portation of concerts to Goodhart,
for worthier criticisms in the
NEWS, for better food and. serv-
ice at the Inn, for more and better
plays, for more college spirit and
class ‘spirit, more music, more art,
more morning assemblies. Campus
concerts were found to be impract-
ical, but a seriés of concerts,
hitherto supported by faculty only,
was opened to students. Actresses
Anonymous sprang to the rescue
of the supposed decline in the
drama. Arts Night was on over
‘whelming refutation of the fallacy
that Bryn Mawr is incapable of, or
not interested in, producing arte.
‘facts. Wednesday-morning assem-
blies were magnificently attended.
‘Only the conservative Inn remain-
ed unmoved at the thought of re
form.

Our reputation rose with Prince-
tion’s explosion of the Bryn Mawr

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by Hanna Holborn, ’5

166 drenched freshmen arrived
at Bryn Mawr last Thursday, and
immediately took over the campus.
This year’s freshman, it was soon
learned, cannot be distingtished
by a timid, lost, and eager ex,
pression. On the contrary, when-
ever you see a neat, sophisticated
girl who knows exactly. where
she’s going, you can immediately
label her as a member of ’53.

Vital statistics on the class
compiled by a spy in Taylor, show
that 16 are alumnae daughters
that 88 were prepared by private
and 60 by public schoolsand that
the class as a whole represents 25
states. and 6 foreign countries.
The class contains the first Jan-
anese student since the war and
the first DP Scholar. Total en-

rollment for this year will be 759
—598 undergraduates and 156
graduates—largest in the history
of the college. Our informant also
cells us, for what it may be worth



Bryn Maur Greets DP Scholar,
Welcomes New Japanese Student

by Elisabeth Nelidow, ’51

“The campus drive held last year]

‘to raise money for a DP student to

by Joan McBride, °52

Michiko Namekata, a _ transfer

come +o Bryn Mawr has resulted;student from Tsuda College in

in the arrival ‘of Ilga Brauers as a
freshman in Rock Hall. Ilga is
Latvian, and arrived in America
two weeks ago from Germany. She
told us with many smiles the. story
of her trip from Bremenhaven,
‘where she took the “General
Bletchford’ ’to New York. There
she was met by Nancy Corkrar,
who went with her to Philadelphia,
and then on to Washington, where
she was met by Dixie Greeley, and

‘with whom she stayed for a few

days before coming * heres, on
Wednesday.
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Tokyo, Japan, the first Japanese
scholar since the beginning of the
war. Michiko’ was
‘scholarship by the Japanese Schol-
arship Committee of the College,
which was founded by a graduate
of Bryn Mawr and ‘has three other
Bryn Mawr Alumnae as members
of its faculty.

Twenty-five other Japanese stu-
dents, who are destined for other
American colleges and universities,
and one who will do graduate work
at Bryn Mawr came with Michiko
on her first trip away from Japan.
They traveled on the President
Cleveland and were in a typhoon
for the first two days of their voy-

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that the most popular profession
among the’ fathers of this year’s
freshmen is that of lawyer, wit)
salesmen ranking second.

The class of ’53 is coming up
against two important innovations
in the curriculum—the social sci-
ence requirement and the new
regulations for language Orals
(perhaps it was the latter which
prompted a heated discussion be-
tween two registering freshmen as
to where they should spend the
junior year abroad).

Also arriving at Bryn Mawr this
week are ten German women who
will’ be here as special students to
participate in a new cultural ex.
change program. ‘Other colleges
involved in this program are Chi-
cago, Duke, Harvard, Michigan,
and Syracuse. Two of the ten
women. coming to Bryn Mawr will
stay in the Graduate Center, two
more in undergraduate halls, and
the rest in private homes near’ the
campus. They will take part in
various undergraduate and -grad-
uate courses, as well as in a sem-
nar in American Institutions to be
given by Dr. Wells and Dr. Kraus
“aculty advisors for the group.



CALENDAR
Saturday, October 1 a"
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Sunday, October 2 :

3:00 p. m. Faculty Baseball
Game, Hockey Field.

7:30 p: m. Chapel Service,
Music Room, Goodhart.

9:00 p. m. Miss McBride’s Re-
ception for Freshmen, Deanery.
Monday, October 3 .

4:30 p. m., Pienic on the
Hockey Field.

Opening Assembly, cana
8:45 a. m.

Tuesday, October 4

First Day of Classes.

ad Shops Fill
Freshman Needs

However carefully you may have
planned all your needs at college,
there are still some things which
cannot be bought before your ar-
rival, so here is a brief guide to
the nearby shopping district.

For the curtains, bedspreads,
and pillows that you will probably
need to decorate your room,
Strawbridge and Clothier in Ard-
more, and Hobson and Owens in
Bryn Mawr may have what you
want. There are several hardware
stores in Bryn Mawr, so at the
Suburban or Jake’s hardware
stores you can get things like
soapdishes and flashlights.

If the clothes you brought with
you just don’t seem to be what
you need, try the Tres Chic
Shoppe, Joyce Lewis, or Miss Noi-
rot’s, all in the village, for skirts,
sweaters, and blouses. For those
who are knitting fiends, Dinah
Frost’s has everything you could
possibly need in the way of wool,

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| meeting yesterday.

>3. Will Reveal
Secret Melody
At Parade Night

Firemen Will Escort
Freshmen Vietims
To Flames

The first question that is raised
in the minds of the Sophomores
its, “Can--the- Freshmen keep a
secret?” The class of ’53 will first
be put to the test on Tuesday,
October 4. The confusion of the
first day of classes will be cli-
maxed that night by a primitive
and incomprehensible orgy known
as Parade Night.

During the preceding week the
efforte of the Freshmen, ~ under
their temporary song mistress, are
concentrated on composing lyrics
to a melody which must be hid-
den from the Sophomores. The
choice of tunes is rather limited
to “Boola, Boola’, “Beer Barrel
Polka”, “Farmer in the Dell”, and
one or two others, which makes
’53’s task more difficult.

Beware of Sophomores

The Sophomores are a devious
lot and will stoop to vile tricks.
Beware, Freshmen, beware espe-
cially the confused girl who comes
up to you with: “I wasn’t at the
What is the
tune?” There are other methods,
too, and far more subtle, such as
hiding under beds and in closets,
or donning innocent and lost ex-
pressions as they attend Freshman
song meetings.

The Firemen’s Band arrives in
all its glory and leads the Fresh-
men, singing their tune, from Pem
Arch to the hockey field, where
Sophomores are war-dancing
around a vicious bonfire, singing
their conception of the notorious
tune. To the blaring accompani-
ment of the firemen, who seem to
be needed on such an occasion, the
Freshmen charge, roll, and somer-
sault down the hill toward the
flames to break the line of the
Sophomores.

Afterwards, harmony is tem-
porarily restored, and the surviv-
ors from both classes adjourn to
their halls for songs and refresh-
ments.

NOTE TO PARENTS: Leave
before this fatal day, or suffer the
agony of watching your daughter
splinter and burn -before your very



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by Elizabeth Nelidow, °51

_Now.. thatthe freshmen—-have
learned all the Do’s and Don’ts ‘of
the Self-Gov. rules, they might be
interested in knowing what ha
local law of the land was ity’
years ago; had my beer Aig
ox abel

pea a shall not: qr

men, exceptitig members’ 0: heir
own families (this excluded _cou-

jsins, who, it was decided, did not

belong to the family) in _ their
studies without the presence of a
chaperon.” “Students shall not go,
in the evening, either to places of
entertainment, or on the trains,
without a chaperon.” There is a
mysterious exception to this uni-
versal chaperon law, however.
“Students unchaperoned shall not
lunch or dine with men in town.
Broad Street Station is excepted.”

Chaperons and Wine In Rooms
Vanish From Bryn Mawr Rules

lar rule were thinking’ is open to
conjecture. Men in trains must
be watched“—men in Broad Street
Station don’t need to be watched.
The possibilities of this line of
thinking are endlesss.

pre-occupation of Self-Gov in 1903.

on the campus or in the public
part of the halls, at any time,

of clothes.
the sake of love. It certainly
couldn’t be for the sake of com-
fort.

Discrimination against men
seems to have been rampant, but
there was one “unwritten rule”
that most unfortunately, not only
has become written, but also had
the exception removed. “The As-









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