College news, December 5, 1945

THE COLLEGE NEWS:





_ VOL. XLI, Bas 9

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., “WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1945

Consriaht; Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS









Greater r Variety

Needed by Title,
Meigs Declares

Excellence of Stories,
Poems, Essay Praised





Specially Contributed by
Cornelia Meigs.

One thing about a Bryn Mawr
Magazine never changes, that is the
nature of the criticism levelled
against it. There is always the rep-
etition—it is the work of too few
hands—falls into a limited pattern
of style—lacks humor. So it was
when ‘a similar Magazine under an-
other name was presenting the first
poems of Marianne Moore, when it
printed some of the earliest Ima-
gist poems that America saw in the
work of H. D. So it will continue to
be, no matter who comes and goes

‘on.its editorial staff or on its: list

of contributors. What this criti-
cism does is merely to rehearse the
problems which always confront
the editors. If an “enthusiastic few
are left to do all the contributing,
there is a resultant limiting of
style and subject matter. A rather
small net, cast with determination
into the waters of Bryn Mawr will
bring in much excellent criticism
and some good poetry and fiction,
a broader one will increase the pos-
sibilities of poems and stories. But

- only.a very wide one indeed will

pull ‘in: the rarer prize of intellec-
tual humor, of adequate writing
with the lighter touch. Bryn Mawr
is small but its possibilities are
high and the variety of its inter-
ests is very great. All the aims of
The Title would be easily fulfilled
if good intentions by possible con-
tributors, would be turned into per-
formance and the well wishing of
the student and Faculty public
would become whole-hearted sup-
port. :

Individual comment on the con-
tributions to the present number
Yaust necessarily be very brief. In
The Rabbit, the sentences repeated
as a refrain fit into the spirit of
the narrative, yet are occasionally
overstressed. .None the less the
story carries well its unspoken im-
plication of the desperate hardships
of war’and of return from war.
There is vigorous actuality in I
Wanted to Work. Dr. Chambers,
Upstairs is a story which has ac-
complished the difficult task of

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Choir to Sin: Sing
With Princeton

- The Bryn Mawr and Princeton
choruses will sing in a Christmas
Vesper service, held this’ Sunday
at the Princeton chapel and here
in Goodhart the week after, on the
16th. po ae

‘The program is to be a> ne
ene, including a prelude and post-
lude by the orchestra, Bach’s 122nd
cantata and Handel’s Hallelujah
chorus sung by the combined
groups from both colleges, and, fin-
ally, four European carols, pre-



sented by Bryn: Mawr. Dr. Wein-.

rich is to conduct the Princeton
Chorus, while Mrs. de _Varron will
lead Bryn Mawr. ~

Two busses, leaving Pem arch at
11:00, will take the 70 Participating
chorus.





they will sehdateh ‘and lave lufich.
‘The service is to be held at 4:00 in
the afternoon, dinner at 6:00 and
the busses will start back at 8:00.



Krech Discusses
Bombing Effects |

On German People



“Bombings demoralize people in
spite of what the newspapers said
about London,” stated Mr. David
Krech in a lecture discussing his
experiences in making a psycholog-
ical survey of Germany with the
United States Strategic Bombing
Services after V-E Day.

The statistics on German morale
are based on the American defini-
tion of morale, which involves per-
sonal initiative, but to a Nazi high
morale means the complete will-
ingness to obey orders. The ma-
jority of the German people feel
no responsibility for the acts: of
their leaders. If we wish to pre-

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Self- Gov't. Rules
Passed in Halls;
Take Precautions



All but one of the revisions in
the rules which the Self-Govern-
ment Executive Board proposed
last week were passed by a simple
majority of a quorum in each hall.
It is now necessary for students
going to and from the vill after
dark to go in groups of not, less
than two, and in greyps of not
less than four in “direetiéns~ other
than the vill. These provisions are
temporary and are to be changed
back to the original form when the
Executive Board feels that the
emergency is over.

Two permanent revisions were
passed. The first makes it no long-
er necessary to register for an
overnight absence before ten-
thirty. The second requires that a
student who is unable to register
herself send her address to a per-
mission giver instead of to the hall
president or the warden.

The Board wishes to make it clear
that the danger of the present
emergency must be realized by
each individual, and they strongly
advise that students take precau-

tionary measures as a matter ‘of

their own responsibility. The new
rule which prohibits less than two

students from gding jnto the vill.

after dark is to be interpreted as
meaning a minimum of two, but
students should go in larger groups
whenever possible.

The permanent provisions were
passed almost unanimously and
merely concern technicalities which
led to confusion when they were in
effect. The changes were to make
the rules consistent with present
policies of the Board and the rest
of the rule book.



Calendar

Thursday, December 6
4:44 Rockefeller Hall Tea.
6:00 College Council.

Friday, December 7 — ¥
8:30 “Family Portrait, ” Good-
hart.

Saturday, December 8
8:30 “Family: Portrait,” Good-
hart.

-11:00 Undergrad Dance, Gym.

Monday, December 10
7:15 Current Events, Common
‘Room.

8:00 Spanish Club play.

Tuesday, December 11
8:30 Recital, Horace Alwyne,
/Goodhart.

Faculty Receive
Oral Proposals
Taken from Poll

‘Recommendations concerning the
form of preparation for the orals,
incorporating the results of this
fall’s polls on the subject, were pre-



sented by the student Curriculum

Committee to the faculty commit-
tee at a meeting last week.

These suggestions, representing
what the student committee con-
siders to be the best working ex-
pression of student opinion, were
submitted for discussion by the
two committees. No definite con-
clusion was reached, since the fac-
ulty committee must refer the rec-
ommendations to the whole faculty
for a final decision.

The proposals were, in bare out-
line, as follows:

Will Be Specialist on

Mrs. Grant to Join State Dept.,
Resigns Position as B. M. Dean

Near Eastern Affairs;

Caps Long Study of History and Politics
Of Balkans, Iran, Syria, Palestine

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Mrs. Christina Grant, Dean of
the. College, has just announced her
departure from Bryn Mawr on Feb-
ruary 1, to assume the role of a
specialist in the State Depart-
pment’s Division of Near Eastern
Affairs. Although no permanent
substitute will be named in the im-
mediate future, announcement of
plans for an Acting Dean will be
made after the Board of Directors’
meeting this month.

(Mrs. Grant, who has been Dean
at Bryn Mawr since 1942 “refuses
to say good-bye” to the college. “I

1. That there should be twowiave never enjoyed three years

methods of fulfilling the require-
ment: a. taking the oral; b. taking

two years of a language in college

with grades of merit or above.
2. That beginning language

courses be on a 56-hour a week

basis with more emphasis on speech
and composition.

38. That the oral. be changed in
the following three ways:

a. that there be 8 sections: one
sight, one dictionary, one for com-
prehension only, with questions and
answers in English.

b. that the time-allotment be in-'

creased to 45 minutes per section
with no increase in the length of
the passages.

c. that the general fields for the
oral texts be less technical, with a
less specialized vocabulary, and be
ones with which every college stu-
dent can be expected to 6 familiar.

4. That a section of the forth-
coming faculty rulebook be devoted
to orals, setting forth the rules of
the requirement, and the criteria
for judging the examinations.

Horace Alwyne

To Give Recital

Mr. Horace Alwyne, director of
music at Bryn Mawr, will give a
piano recital Tuesday evening, De-
cember 11, at eight o’clock. in Good-
hart Hail. :

Mr. Alwyne has given recitals
in England, Germany, Austria and
the United States, and has appear-
ed as soloist with such orchestras
as the New York Philharmonie and
the Philadelphia Orchestra, and
with many Seeeeer musi¢e organi-
zations:

The program will range from the
Bach Chromatic Fantasie and Fu-
gue to Medtner’s After Work (from
“Hymns in Praise of Toil’’).
between Mr. Alwyne will play a
group of romantics, Schumann,
Chopin, and Liszt, and works of
two of the modern French compos-
ers, Debussy and Ravel.

The Schumann work. is - the
Kreisleriana, in four. movements..
Chopin’s Baddade in -A-flat and C-



|sharp minor etude will be followed

by the Liszt legend “St. Francis of
Assisi Preaching to the Birds,” to
be played in memory of Dr. How-
ard C. Gray, professor emeritus of
Bryn Mawr.

Mr. Alwyne will ‘ten play the
Liszt Concert etude in F-minor.
After intermission Debussy’s Bal-
lade, Prelude in A-minor, and Re-

In|.

more than I have here,” she said,



Nahm Treats Art
As Communication

In Cultural Field

November 29.



Common Room,

Reading a paper on “Art and Com-)

munication” for the Philosophy
Club, Mr. Nahm emphasized the
power of art as an instrument. to
build a “bridge of cultural under-

of communication across differences
of background.

A common ground for philosophy
of art and archaeology is needed,

he pointed out. The failure of the |

aesthetician and archaeologist to
fully understand art lies partly in
the fact that the former tends to
abstract the art object from its
context in analyzing aesthetic ex-
perience while the archaeologist is
too apt to immerse it in its back-
ground as one specific object and
event among many.

The common ground is found, he
said, in approaching the art ob-
ject as a symbol of the artist’s feel-
ings rather than as an object iso-
lated from culture by the designa-
tion “fine”, or as a particular ob-
ject imbedded in a specific culture.
‘Art.is valuable, Mr. Nahm explain-
ed, because it preserves particular
aspects of a people; and yet it may
be an-instrument of- communica-
tion because it symbolizes the non-
aesthetic factors of experience,

The artist’s feelings objectified
in “generic racial” symbols such as
light, leadership, and combat may

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| standing” and. to. serve.as-a-means.} .



‘nor thought it possible to mate
as~many friends in such a short
time.” She also added that she will
return for a few .comprehensive
conferences, and will set and cor-
rect the comprehensive questions
for her Near Eastern History Sen-

liors this year.

In 1944 Mrs. Grant was on leave
from Bryn Mawr to work in the
Near East section of the State De-
partment’s Division of- Territorial
Studies. Terming that a ‘war-time
research group of specialists who
‘were set-up to service the various
divisions, and doing research for ©
them,” Mrs. Grant said she is one
of the few individual workers to be —
retained now that the larger organ-
ization has been dissolved.

Whereas she.had previously
worked on only one or two coun-
tries, she will ngw be responsible
for the whole Near and Middle
East region, according to the cur-
rent demand for special reports and
analyses of our policy in past
years.

Her whole life has been focus-
sed on preparation for such a po-

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UN C Coordinates
Discussion, Work





The active work of the Bryn -
Mawr chapter of the United Na-
tions Council of Philadelphia start-
ed with a discussion on Tuesday led
by Mrs. Grant on “The Future Sta-
tus of Palestine in the Arab East.”

This organization associated with
the Inter-cultural Committee of the
United Nations Council works to-—
ward strengthening ‘“understand-
ing of the basic human value and
dignity of all races and of funda-
mental civil liberties, as essential
to good national and internation-
al government” as is stated in the
United Nations Charter.

Every Tuesday afternoon at
5:80, meetings are held to discuss
inter-cultural relationships. With a
view towards developing the feel-
ing of personal responsibility in a
world society, these discussions will

{deal with problems which hinder

fundamental anaernta nye be-
tween peoples.
The members of the organiza-
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Characterizations, Humor, . Irony,
Lines Enliven “Family Portrait’’



Despite it: theme Family Por-
trait is not too sober to be_thor-
oughly enjoyable, and many amus-
ing scenes and clever characteriza-
tions relieve the irony. and ey
of many others.

Family complitations are intro-
duced immediately in the form. of
Joseph, Jesus brother, an aggress-
ive, blustering, unpleasant individ-
ual out. for all he can get, who in
no uncertaip. terms proclaims his
disgust that Jesus, the best carpen-
ter of his four brothers, has gone
off to teach when they have an im-

Judah, Jesus youngest brother, a
gawky youth of seventeen, in. the
throes of first love, describes glee-
fully his evening spent with his

fiancee in terms more than slight-_

ly reminjscent of Booth Tarking-
ton: “He allowed us to-talk for five
whole minutes! She looked at me
and I smiled: it was .wonderful!”

Appius Hadrian, _ belligerently
Roman, plunges onto the scene in
the next act, spies Joseph’s wife
and exclaims, “When you get up
there in the hill country, you cer-
tainly see better legs on the wom-



4:30 Non-Res Tea, 5 SS,
Room





8:00 Faculty Meeting.







‘flét’s dans l’eau will be performed.
Ravel will be represented by Albor-
ada del gracioso and La Vallee des
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The lines in modern lingo make
the story seem closer to this day



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In Appreciation

Bryn Mawr will be sorry : rf see Dean Grant leave us after
only three years of teaching and administrative work during
which her capabilities have become readily apparent: to all.
However, in the present crisis in world affairs it is under-
standable that the State Department should claim her serv-
ices for work in which her expert knowledge is well known.

During her brief stay at Bryn Mawr, Dean Grant’s keen
appreciation of current problems has inspired the students to
a similar interest ; those students who have been privileged to
take her courses can testify to her stimulating awareness of
the. issues at stake. Those of us who have not been so privi-
leged are nevertheless aware of Dean Grant’s capable judg-
ment and ever-vivacious personality.

In her new position Dean Grant’s thorough understand-
ing of Near Eastern politics and history will we know make
a most valuable contribution to American foreign policy in
that area. We wish her all happiness and success in her new
work.

Progress on Orals

This week the News prints the recommendations of the
~ student Curriculum Committee to the faculty in which the
results of the Orals poll are synthesized into a workable plan
of reform. The News feels that these proposals are a trib-
ute to the efficiency and value of such an organization as the|
Curriculum Committee.

‘In the first place the plan proposes an alternative to the |:

standardized method now in. practice for testing reading
knowledge of a language. The standardized form was held
by a majority of the students to be too inflexible to cover the
¢ Variations in individual approaches to a language. If these
reforms are approved by: the faculty a student prepared be-
fore entrance in a language can satisfy the requirement with-
out additional study; while the student beginning a language
at Bryn Mawr can devote all her attention to: ra nad a ba-
sic comprehension of a second language.
The changes recommended within the Oral itself again
~ tend to provide greater flexibility in the testing instrument,
while maintaining the effectiveness of the Oral. The introduc-
. tion of a comprehension passage will embrace those students
a who understand what they read without mentally translating.
* ' The increased time allotment will decrease the pressure,
4 - producing hasty and ill considered choice of words in transla-
tion; more general subjects in the passages will cover the in-
g terests and knowledge of more students. __
a - All in all, the proposals seem to the News to satisfy as|.
ag effectively as possible the criticisms leveled at the oral sys-
- tem. The Curriculum Committee deserves the appreciation
of all students for its excellent work in : issue.

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Mrs. Crenshaw Writes

To Express Protest
Against Editorial





To the Editor:

After your blast of last week,
-may I be permitted a mild counter-
blast? Let me say first, however,
thatI was delighted that you wrote
your editorial about jobs. Our of-
fice often feels that we care much
more about your jobs than you do,
at least until the last two weeks of
your senior year. Your criticisms
were good,and I.should be the last
to deny some of them.

v

You say that our positions are
principally from the eastern area.
They are and probably always will

trying to do better in other parts
of the country. The Seven Wom-
en’s Colleges—so-called—have al-
ready asked colleges in the West,
the South, and the Middle West to
join them in a pool of information
about jobs.

You say that we get few inter-
esting positions for beginners. We
have often made the same com-
plaint ourselves but I am sorry to
tell you that, with the end of the
war, we shall probably get still
fewer. Positions that are not run-
of-the-mill are usually filled from
within an organization or through
a friend or by a fortunate inter-
view. I agree that we ought to do
more to ‘find them.

Wide Range

However, when you say that we
have a small range of positions, let
me say that last year we heard
from schools, colleges, government
agencies, the armed forces, O\'SRD
projects, industries, * laboratories,
social welfare agencies of many
kinds, medical services of .many
kinds, testing bureaus, newspapers,
magazines, publishing houses, ad-
vertising agencies, writers, photog-
raphers, stores, banks, insurance
companies, brokerage firms, market
research organizations, polls, un-
ions, libraries, museums, radio sta-
tions, railroads, travel bureaus, air-
lines, naval architects, foundations,
associations, committees, ration
boards, hotels, miscellaneous busi-
ness firms, summer camps, and
private individuals.

-|econtribute to the atmosphere.

be. However, we are working on!



Spanish Students
Offer Gay Fiesta

Any time now, in the inner
realms of the Spanish House, one
may perceive evidences of prépar-
ation for the gay fiesta which will
be held one week hence. Folk
songs, carols, and palmistry are to
In
addition, a one-act play Las Acei-
tunas (The Olive Tree) by Lope de
Reuda will give would-be Espanoles
plenty of opportunity to air both
their lingual and dramatic ability.

When the curtain rises, all at-
tention. is centered on some olive
trees planted by a man (Ada Klein
’48) and his wife (‘Wendy Franke
46). Marital peace is . thereby
shattered, -for the pair, with due
foresight, engage in violent quar-
rels over the selling price of their
olives which will be ripe twenty
years hence. By no means daunted
they turn to their daughter (Nor-
ma Ulian ’47) and press upon her
many instructions and_ threats.
(Peace appears in the person of a
wise neighbor who offers to buy the
unseen produce at any price and
then makes the observation, “Oh,
dear, what a world this is.”





As for: goncrete vocational ad-
vice, Miss Bowman is ready and
eager to give you all the help she
can. Go to Room H in Taylor, tell
her what you want to do, ask her
for summer and college work to
help toward your future job; if in
doubt, take the tests which she can
give. We have a library with a

.|fair range of vocational informa-

tion. It also includes books which
suggest techniques of choosing, se-
curing, and holding a job.
Advance Offered
You suggested a short course on
these techniques. Most of them are
very simple. Be punctilious about
keeping appointments. Be prompt
about answering letters. .Be polite
to interviewers. Do not expect too
much of your first’ job although
that attitude has its good points as
well as its bad ones. If you need
help, come to Miss Bowman or me.
It is discouraging, I know, to
have a clear idea of the job that
you want and to find the Bureau
without that job on hand. We can
often tell you where to look for it.
Give us your suggestions and we
will do our best to act on them.
Very sincerely yours,
Xonia F. H. Crenshaw





Current Events



A reestablishment of the pre-
Hurley American policy in China
in its support of the Kuomingtang
while pressing strongly for recon-
ciliation with the Communists, was
recommended by Miss McKown in
Current Events.

“American policy in China,” said
Miss McKown, “seems to have gone
through three separate phases.” In
the period. immediately after De-
cember 7th full support without
criticism was given the nationalist
government in China, on the
grounds that Americans’ lack of
knowledge on Chinese problems and
anti-oriental bias would have to be.
overcome,

“By 1948, it was felt increasingly,
by American diplomats that China’
had relinquished the war burden to
the United States after December
7th; criticisms not only of this but
of the totalitarian character of the
Kuomingtang government began to
appear shortly after. At the same
time American correspondents
brought out from Communist
‘China very favorable reports.

Under the ambassadorship of
Clarence Gauss the Americans had
worked against considerable anti-
Communist feeling in the nation-
alist government, for some kind of
agreement between the two groups.
The Stilwell crisis arose over
Chiang Kai-Shek’s refusal to grant
the Communists a significant role
in his government.

The ‘Hurley crisis occurred after
a long series of unsuccessful at-
tempts to unify the opposing fac-
tions under a more liberal form of
government, the second principle
of American Chinese policy of
these years. Hurley’s statement,
Miss McKown said, indicated he
placed most emphasis on the first
principle, support of the Kuoming-
tang government.

Miss McKown feels it advisable
to continue support of the nation-
alist regime since it probably has
more popular approval, but a niore
unified yet equitable distribution of
control is necessary. for ‘China’s.
welfare. Russia’s Manchurian pol-
icy, in which she has substituted
diplomatic means for ideological
pressure to assert her influence,.
was also described by Miss Mc-,
Kown.



Gym Dept. Plans

Swimming Events





“In this first week of winter
sports, the gym department has
outlined its swimming program
»for the year. The first of two
‘|inter-class meets to determine this
| year’s holder of the Class Cup will
be held on December 11. Class
managers are to be chosen, and
there will be speed, form, and div-
ing events.

_ Variety is offered in the swim-
ming classes themselves: on Mon-
day, there will be swimming to
music,’ while the Tuesday and
Thursday advanced classes will be.
conducted more formally. Students
interested in Life-saving are urged
to join immediately the Red Cross
group which is forming.

A tentative varsity swimming
squad has been chosen, and is post-
ed on Taylor Bulletin Board. Miss
Yaeger emphasizes, however, that
the list is incomplete. All of the
swimmers have not tried out, and
the department expects to add new
names later in the season.

The Varsity schedule for the year
is as follows: Beaver, here, Febru-,
ary 27; Swarthmore, here, March
8; Drexel, there, March 15; Penn-
sylvania, here, March 19.

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Krech Analyses ee
German Morale
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vent the rise of another Nazi state,
“we must first,” said Mr. Krech,
“educate Germany to political re-
sponsibilty.”

By V-E Day, Germany was com-
pletely demoralized, according to
Mr. Krech; while in 1939 only 17%
of the people thought that Ger-
many could not or would not win
the war, 83% of the Germans were
certain just before V-E Day that
their country must lose.

Almost two-thirds of the German
people condemned their political
leaders for the country’s defeat,
said Mr. Krech, while only 6%
blamed the Wehrmacht.

Of the five different methods
used to determine and check the
Germans’ opinion on various sub-
jects, the most important consisted
of the so-called “open-ended” inter-
views with a “sample” of 7000 Ger-
mans and 2200 displaced persons of
all ages. The interviewer built up
a feeling of cordiality with the Ger-
man and then proceeded to ask
standard questions in direct, indi-
rect, and concealed form for two
hours. The length of the interview

hs Siok lifficult.'The- vere
given by the Gemans coincided al-
most perfectly with those obtained



| from the displaced persons,



Committee Urges
Book Suggestions

" Students are. urged, to submit.
suggestions for the



Room committee, in stating its pol-.
icy, emphasized that Library addi-
tions should be based upon the:
preferences of the greatest possible-
number of people.

Books for the Quita Woodward
room are chosen by a college com-.
mittee which has representatives.
from the faculty, the Library staff,.
the graduate students and the un-
dergraduates. It is the commit-
tee’s intention to choose current
books for leisure reading, though.
they do not find it' justifiable to use-
funds for reading material with a.
purely ephemeral value.

The books purchased should be-
of some permanent worth: to the-
Library. The selections made are
based upon suggestions by the com--
mittee members. themselves and!
upon suggestion’ made to the com-.
mittee by individual members of
the college.

Request slips may be left in box--
‘es in the New Book Room and at
the main Loan Desk. Book lists
may also be left with members of”

Stapleton (chairman), Miss Reid,.



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Plot, Magnificent Sets

Fail ‘to Rescue
“Nellie Bly”



By Marcia I. Dembow ’47

... And another musical extra-
vaganza, Nellie Bly, has hung out
its shingle at ‘the Forrest Theatre
for a two week run (or crawl.as the
case may be).

Offering more plot than the us-
ual musical comedy, Nellie Bly is
a story of a young reporter, Mari-

Grant Discusses



lyn Maxwell, who circled the globe
in seventy days as a publicity: trick
for the New York World. In order
to have the adequate ingredients
of musical comedy plot, love and
comedy, Miss Bly is accompanied
by Moore, Gaxton and Miss Ven-

“uta who try to race her around the

world.- As far as Maxwell and

“Gaxton are concerned, the race is

neck and neck from start to finish.

With the aid of magnificent. set-
tings the audience is carried around
the world from the Hoboken Ferry
east to London, Paris, Russia and
Arabia. When the cast is thorough-
ty exhausted from travelling by
Survey History of Western Europe.
plot is taken over by a clever pup-
pet.show that makes the last lap
from Hong Kong to the States.
Nellie Bly finishes as the winner by
the generosity of Gaxton:

As the completely befuddled
Phineas Fogarty, Victor Moore
lives the part completely oblivious
to the poor assistance he receives
from Gaxton. Marilyn Maxwell
acts well, but doesn’t sing well.
The sparkle and vivacity of the
show are completely contributed
by Lublov Roudenko, refuge of the
ballet.

If the show is-to-be remembered
at all, it will not be for the music
or the execution of it, but rather
for the extravagant settings and
the eccentricities of Moore.

It is very rare that the success
or failure of a show is admitted by
the producers, but Eddie Cantor
lost no time in expressing to’ the
audience that the show was “rough
around the edges.” He begged for
leniency explaining’ that it wasn’t
the principle of the thing, “but the
interest.” _





Palestine Issues



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Goodhart, Dec. 4: “It would be|
impossible to force a Zionist state |
on a community in Palestine that
was still populated by a majority |
.f Arabs,” said Mrs. Grant, dis-
cussing “The Future Place of Pal-
estine in the Arab East” for the
United Nations Council in the Com-

mon Room. ww,



The modern problem arises, Mrs. |

Grant explained, from the develop- |
ments of the last 25 years, when
the dissolution of the Turkish Em-
pire necessitated a redistribution |
of political power in the Near East.
In 1918 the population of Palestine
was 90% Arab, the remaining 10%
beingly largely Sephardic Jews who
had—lived_there.‘for_generations.
During the war the MacMahon-
Hussein pledge recognized the
Arab aspirations for independence,
while at the same time Arab and
Jewish leaders were agree of the
necessity of a Jewish home.

The Balfour declaration, Mrs.
Grant emphasized, did wot contain
many of the points now read into
it. by. Zionist. leaders. It guaran-
teed protection to the interests of
non-Jewish groups in Palestine, |
that is, the Arabs; and the provi-
sions for Jews were to be granted
only if they did not prejudice the
position of Jews elsewhere, i. e.,
the-other Arab countries.

The possibilities of ab i-national
country were revealed by the years
of peace between 1920 and 1928
when Jewish enterprise introduced
new agricultural and_ industrial
techniques, immensely improving
the economic conditions of the
country. The present population
difficulties became pressing when
the immigration of Jews rose from
5,000 per year in the early: 1920s
to 61,000 in 1936, producing a state
of unrest and hostility among the
Arabs. The Arab League contends
that Jewish political ambitions are
fascistic, and demands that the

western democracies put a curb on
their expansion.









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Prizes, Subsidies



Two new opportunities have been
opened for recognition in literary
fields. Simon and ‘Shuster has writ-
ten to the English department de-
scribing “the Venture Press, which
is the imprint under which Simon
and Shuster publishes the work of
talented young, that is, previously
unpublished writers.”

Encouraging all inquiries from
those interested in writing novels,
the publishers also des¢ribed their
fund to “subsidize writers under 38
years of age.” Applications may
be made for the Young Author’s
Plan by writing directly to Simon
and Schuster.

Tomorrow Magazine will spon-
sor a $1500 prize contest to all of-
ficially enrolled college students.
The best short story and the best
article will receive a prize of $500,
while the second prize in both cat-
egories will be $250.

Choice of subject is left entire-
ly up to the contestant. The con-
test ends May 1, 1946 and the prize
winning manuscripts will be pub-
lished in the December issue of
Tomorrow.

Manuscripts, ranging from 2500
to 5000 words should be mailed to
College Contest, Tomorrow, 11 East
44th Street, New York 17, N. Y.
The notation, Entry for College
Contest, along with the name and
address of the contestantmust-ap-

, pear on the envelope and first page

of each manuscript. Return post-
age must also be included.

NOTICES

Chapel
There will be no Chapel services
held on Sunday, December 9, but
a large special Christmas Vesper
Service with Princeton will be held
in’ Goodhart on December 16.

I. R. C.

There will be a meeting of the
International Relations Club on
(December 6 at 7:30 p. m. in the
Commons Room. Mr.-Payrot- will
speak on Argentina.





















Dean Grant Leaves ly p W k
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sition. She spent much of her early |
youth travelling, and lived in the |
Near East from 1930 to 1934 doing
research for a book and learning
colloquial Arabic. .

An authority on the subject of
the Near East, she is the author of
two books and four articles on the
historical and political aspects of
Iran, Syria, Palestine and the Bal-
kans. .As Associate Professor of
History here she has taught Near
and Middle East History” and the
Survey History of Western Europe.



Volunteers from Bryn Mawr are
helping the Citizen’s Council on
City Plan for their UVAP work.
The aim of the organization is the
improvement of the recreational
and health facilities in the South
Philadelphia area.

This area* needs new housing,
better street - cleaning, nearer
schools, safe streets, public park4
and playgrounds, but is without the
adequate knowledge and funds to
obtain these improvements. The
council hopes to obtain legislation
for the district

Although Bryn Mawr volunteers
are doing merely statistical and or-
| ganizational work-at the present
| time, they are an active part of the
council. The immediate task of
be recognized and understood by/ this group is to coordinate schools
all men regardless: of ‘culture since! and organizations which will- send

they may be connected with a uni- delegates to a meeting ip January.



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Theme of Dance
‘City at Midnight’

“The City at Midnight” will be



‘ the theme of the Undergraduate

Christmas dance to be given in the
gymnasium on Saturday, December
7, from 10:30 to 2:00. The dance
will follow the production of Fam-
Hy Portrait in Goodhart by the
Bryn Mawr Players Club and the
Haverford Cap and Bells Club.
Tall skyscrapers will be silhou-
etted against the walls of the gym,
while falling snow will create a
winter atmosphere, “The Debon-

‘nairs” ‘will provide the music for

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the dance, and a vocalist will be
featured.

Tickets for the Christmas Dance
may be obtained from Undergradu-
ate representatives in each hall.
The price is $2.50 for a couple and
$1.50 for a stag. Dance Chairman
is Kate Tanner ’47. Elizabeth Kal-
tenthaler ’47, and Barbara John-



Meigs Recommends
Title Broaden-Scope

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showing convincingly the relation
between two men totaHy unlike and
also the change in viewpoint of the
narrator, awakened by the tragedy
of his friend’s death,

The two shorter poems, Mist
Moods and Summer Night, con-
trasting in their form and the ap-
propriate movement of their
rhythm, are alike appealing in their
outlook, one broad as the sky, one
finely focussed. Robin Kelly and
The Giant, weakened a little by too
closely-packed a final verse has,
nevertheless, a fine ballad swing,
the hold stride of fabulous adven-
ture. The Paolo and Francesca,
with high promise in the defiance
of its first lines, sustains vast
promise of drama and of penetrat-
ing characterization to the. last
stanza. The verse scene, with ‘its
apparently unpaterned cadence of















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Adequate discussion of the finely

discriminating paper on Virginia

Woolf would not be possible here.
Certainly one of the excellent mis-
sions of The Title is to bring crit-
ical writing of this sort beyond the
doors of its immediate class room.
In the review of Essay on Rime,
Karl Shapiro’s ideas on a. new po-
etry are presented, critically view-
ed and appraised. It may be a
matter of personal opinion, but it
seems that this discussion of a new
development in poetry, a discussion
written by those of the generation
who are. to be the largest. readers
and makers of poetry in a new age,
quickens one not only to interest
but to excitement.





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tions do their UVAP work by work-
ing in the office of the United Na-
tions Council in Philadelphia. The
Council plans to allow girls to
show slides and explain racial prob-
lems to public schools in this vicin-
A forum is being evolved for







discussion of various racial prob-
lems with other colleges. These
debates held in the Natural History
Museum will be led by the Hon.
Owen J. Roberts, ex-justice of the
Supreme Court ,who is the present
chairman of the Council in Phila-
delphia. 8

The officers of the- Bryn Mawr
chapter are: Jane Coddington "48,
chairman; Ann Wood ’48, secre-
tary-treasurer, and Joan Brest ’48,
head of the discussion group.





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