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‘Smith Wins Study Grant
‘Gathers Data From Mice

$ Harbor, Maine, under a grant of

‘“Miss Dro8ophila” (Drosophila is

_alysis of this. disease aside from

* among the causes of death, the rec-

» 98% at 11 to 12 months.

. her own.
fruit flies presented a variety of

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“Wednesday, March 3, 1954

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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$1200 from the American Cancer

Society. °
Every summer this laboratory
admits twenty-five- outstanding

high school scientists from all over
the’ country. They attend lectures
where they are taught the latest
research techniques,

It is here that Joan was called

the class name of the fruit fly) be-
cause of, her avid defence of the

ANSWERS TO LIBRARY QUIZ

1. Wait until 9:50 and then if
no.one else wants the books, you

overnight.

2.-Go to the main stacks and get
written permission from the. libra-
ian there.

3. Get written permission from
the professor for whose course the
book is on reserve and show it to
the librarian at the main stacks

serve.

4..Go to Miss Agnew or Miss
Geist at once and they will stop
all fines and give you time to look



fruit fly’s place in research as op-
opposed to mice.
Joan spent three months study—
ing the renal disease’in A strain
mice. These particular animals
were known to be very susceptible
to lung tumors a were. being
used in cancer research. However,
they also had a renal disease which
had been’ disregarded before.
There was a need for a gross an-

the lung tumors to determine ex-
actly what effect the renal disease
had on the animal’s death. If it
were impossible to differentiate

ords of the results of tumor trans-
plants in the mice would be inac-
‘curate, ia

In dissecting 192 animals she
discovered that the degeneration
was 68.58% at 8 to 10 months and
It had
been thought previously that the
age for degeneration was 20
months.

Joan’s introduction to research
was quite unusual. As a _ sopho-
more in high school she becanie in-
terested in science and decided to
spend some. time on a project of
Someone told her that

possibilities so she ordéred some.
However,. they came before she
was prepared and she had to rush
over to the library to find out what
to do with them. There, instead of
finding .standard .experiments ‘such
as Mendelian crosses, she discov-

for it before charging you.

5. In the two tower rooms off
the Reserve Room and the Refer-
ence Room.

Concert Program Offers

may take out as many as you need |

who will take the book off re-|

Incongruities Show Epic
Includes Several Poems

* Continued from Page 1

says nothing important, he once
must have been indispensable at
the telling of Telemachus’ story.
If he were, for example, Odysseus
disguised ,there would be a just
reason to attach so much import-
ance to his presence.

This’ ‘brings us to the second
problem, which is the fact that
sometimes Odysseus is transformed
by Athene so as to be unrecogniz-
able, and sometimes is merely al-
tered by time and suffering. In
Book 13 he is transformed ‘into an
emaciated old man and. remains
that way until ‘Book 16. Then it is
necessary for Athene to restore his

«{jreal form so that Telemachus may

recognize his father, Odysseus is
immediately retransformed, how-

Some Additional Works*®ver.

Continued from Page 1 .

ton Glee Club and one of the three
foremost. organists..in the world:

Included in the other. selections
kwhich will be sung by the Bryn
Mawr chorus are “The Vittoria”,
“Ave Maria”, “Gaudent in Caelis”,
Handel’s “Oh, Lovely Peace”, and
William Byrd’s “Sacerdotes”.

The ballet group will present
several numbers, and the Prince-

‘ton Glee Club will sing Brahms’

“Liebeslieder” waltzes, ‘to which
the ballet group will dance,



intricate theories.

Using the school doctor’s X-ray
machine she radiated the flies and
found that the incidence of tumors
increased from 3% to 32%. En-
couraged by these results she gave
colchicine to the flies and subjected
them to 2,000 Roentgen Units,
studying the mitotic rates in the
ventral ganglia of the brain. This
project was interrupted when she
went to Maine,

Joan is planning to work this
summer at the Institute of .Can-
cer- Research in: Philadelphia, do-
ing experiments in chemistry and



ered books elaborating on modern,

cyto-chemistry.

From here on the Odyssey as-
sumes no transformation of Odys-
seus, merely alteration by time and
circumstances. This is strange,
since the poet originally states
that he is using the transformation
idea. This idea is unwieldy, how-
ever, since it necessitates the ap-
pearance of Athene at every trans-
formation. This would tend to ruin



the story,. giving Odysseus too
muc ntage over his oppon-
ents and destroying the suspense.

| Apparently later authors realized
this and switched methods.

The third problem is that there
are two different plans for the re-
moval of the armor from the ban-
quet hall by Odysseus and Tele-



machus. In Book 16 Odysseus +telld
Telemachus to go to the dining hall
and remove the weapons except
some for themselves. He even gives
Telemachus an explanation to pre+
sent to the suitors if they noticé
the digappearance of the weaponsi

ook 18, however, the poet is
apparently unaware of this plan,
for Odysseus and Telemachus re}
move the weapons at night and
none are left for themselves; th¢
suitors never notice the disappear+
ance of the weapons. From this we
ean infer that there was some
other poem ‘in- which the action
proceeded according to the original
plan and that the two stories were
mixed at some point.

From a study of the middle por-
tion of the Odyssey,it-4s logical to
conclude that the poem in its pres-
ent form represents the work of
more than one author and is a
compilation -of . several poems,
Those responsible for this are prob-
ably either the professional recit-

‘ers or the person or persons who

originally put the text into writing,
or a combination of the two.

The poem could have been chang-
ed during the many times it was

recited, ore two poems could have]

unwittinglp been: mixed together.
The original text was, undoubtedly
compiled from the versions of con-
temporary reciters. There were no
written copies of the Odyssey be-
fore the 6th century .B. C. and
these differed from place to place.
We may therefore assume, accord-
ing to Mr. Page, that this section

of the Odyssey is the work of no}

single poet of high quality.





Ewer to Work Towards
New Campus Efficiency
Continued from Page 1

major college office this week. The
fact that she doesn’t live on
campus makes her great interest -
and active participation in college
activities even more impressive.

A’ political science major, the
new Undergrad leader hopes to get
a job connected with the Govern-
ment or in some capacity where
she-can use her degree after..grad-
uation. Beg

Wendy’s hobbies are sports and
painting. She’s taken lessons for
illustration and advertising work,
but since entering Bryn Mawr, her
brush has been devoted to poster
painting.

In answer to why her interest
lay in Undergrad, Wendy said that
it covered a wide range of small
activities plus the college dances
and May Day, etc., in general, the
things that mean Bryn Mawr to
her.

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