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VOL. XLII, NO. 1 11



ARDMORE” and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, sANUARY ad 1946.

cig? bee Trust ees of
Bry. Miwr College, LS a

PRICE 10 CENTS:







Duties of Dean
To be Shared:
Broughton Head

Until a new Dean of the college
is chosen by the authorities, a two-
dean system will be set up to take



«are of the upper classes after

Mrs. Grant’s departure on*January
is.

Mrs. T. R. S. Broughton, now
Acting Dean of Freshmen and of

Admissions, will also become Act-'

ing Dean of the college. Miss Dor-

othy Nepper will become Assistant

Dean. The duties: of the Dean of

the college will be divided between

them in order to give both time to

maintain their present positions.
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Student Delegates

Will Form Model
Of United Nations

The Intercollegiate United Na-
tions ‘Conference, formerly the
Model League which met two years
ago at Bryn Mawr, will hold an-
other meeting this year at Lafay-
ette College, Easton, Pa., February
8 and 9.

The Conference will follow the
form of a meeting of the General
Assembly of the United Nations
under the United Nations Charter,
and will consist of four delegates
and-an adviser from the various
colleges. This’ year Bryn Mawr
will: represent France, and all those
interested in attending should sign
on the Alliance Bulletin Board.
Since the delegates are assumed to
be government representatives,
they should be acquainted with the



Charter and the positions of: their |

respective countries.

The work of the Conference will |

be divided into four Commissions,
legal, economic, political, and so-
cial. The opening session will take
the form of the Economic and -So-
cial Council, consisting of eighteen
delegates, at which the topic will
be full employment, a _ subject
which the United Nations are ask-
ed to consider, while Friday night
will feature a prominent speaker.
The Legal Commission will be
concerned ‘with the . clarification
and interpretation of certain im-
portant articles in the United Na-
tions’ Charter; the Economic Com-
mission, such subjects as capital
movements and investments, mon-
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‘Art Night’ Plans

Tryouts for Plays



- Tryouts for the plays written by
students on campus and to be'pre-
sented at the “Arts’ Night” per-
formance scheduled for March

__will be held-on Tuesday, February

12th at 8:30 p. m.
Hall. a
In announcing this, Mr. Freder-
ick Thon emphasized the fact that
the tryouts are open to anyone on

in ' Goodhart

campus regardless of experience.

The plays to be produced will be
chosen Thursday from those writ-
ten by the members of Mr. .Thon’s

‘course in Playwriting. Because of



can be produced on Arts Night,
although others may be published.

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Relief Packages
Sent to France
Reach Destination



Packages sent by Bryn Mawr’s
Relief for Europe, to France have
arrived safely at their destination
according to the following letter
from the head of the Maison Fra-
ternelle at Paris.

“Chere mademoiselle,

Les paquets arrivent rapidment
et font la joie de tous ceux aux-
quels ils sont destines. Je garde
ceux qui contiennent des vetements
et les distribue moi-meme d’apres
la taille et la grandeur des -per-
sonnes.

Grace a vous, nous feterons re
belles fetes de Noel.

Pour vous tous, Noel beni et
‘belle et heureuse nouvelle annee,
toute illuminee de l’amour de notre
Pere celeste. Merci a tous ceux qui
aident a soulager nos famillies cet

hiver.
Votre Soeur Dora’”’.

As yet there has not been time
for an answer from either Italy or
Holland.

Although participation in pack-
ing food and clothing has been
good, more help is still needed and
Alliance representatives in »eaeh
hall are now recruiting. additional
packers, Relief for Europe is also
going to begin sending articles
such as hot water bottles in these
packages. A Box will be placed in
Taylor for smaller items like pen-
cils, pens, shoelaces,
blades.

An article in the December
Alumnae Bulletin about the Re-
lief for Europe project has brought
contributions amounting to $120

‘and numerous articles of clothing.

In addition, the Faculty Defense
Group has voted a donation of $75.

Packing will be suspended at the |

beginning of the examination per-
iod, but will be resumed the first
Monday of the second semester.

‘Mexico’s Glamour

Delights Students

This year two Bryn Mawr stu-
dents, Nanette Emery and Rosalie
Scott, have joined the Smith Col-
lege group spending their Junior
year: in Mexico. From all reports



\it seems to be a great success, as

they have decided that. “south of
the border” is definitely the place

-| to live.

After spending their first month
in Morelia, they moved into an old
mansion in Mexico City, which has

jall the glamour of a palace, with

patios, fountains, and palm trees,
plus eleven baths for the eighteen
girls. But luxury is not the only
pleasant side to life. Apparently
there is much to be said for the
Mexican “senores,” of which there
seems to be no shortage, while
they have met such people as
Robert Stackpole and numerous
Latin movie stars and producers.
On the serious side, they are
both taking private courses with
professors from the University of
Mexico and regular courses, includ-
ing Spanish literature and poetry,
Mexican history and phonetics.
During the vacations they t

| Fairchild,

and razor’|

travel |

Miss Fairchild —
To Leave B. M.
For I. L..O\ Post

Miss Mildred Fairchild will leave
the Sociology Department of Bryn
Mawr on February 14th to serve
with the International Labor Or-
ganization in Montreal. No one
has yet been named to replace Miss
who is also director of
the Graduate Department of So-
cial Economy and Social ‘Research
here.



Miss Fairchild will spend a few
months in preparation for her new
position, after which she will fol-
low the United Nations Organiza-
tion wherever it may decide to put
up its headquarters. She will head
the secretariat controlling condi-
.tions under which women and
children may be employed.

Her office, which is one of the
several chapters of the UNO, gov-
erning food, drugs, and other. mat-
ters of international importance,
will try to regulate the kinds of
jobs, the number of hours, and con-
ditions of health, so that women
and children can work § safely
throughout the world.

This Labor Organization, which
Miss Fairchild is to head, is the
same one started by the League of
Nations after World War I. It has

kept operating in Geneva, but now
has been incorporated into the
UNO.

Four Professors
Return to F aculty



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Four professors from the His-

tory of Art Department and the
science departments, return to
Bryn Mawr with the coming semes-
ter after leave of absence to serve
in war work. .

In History of Art, Mr. Joseph
C. Sloane, associate professor, re-
turns after three years service as
a lieutenant in the naval service in
the Pacific. Mr.
also associate professor, major in
the Marine Cerps Reserve, plans to
institute a new course in Far East-
ern Art next semester. Students
interested may register for this

the rest of the year.

Mr. Walter C. Michels of the
Physics Department and Mr. Don-
ald W. MacKinnon of the Psychol-
ogy Department both return to
Bryn Mawr ‘after being engaged in
secret war work for the past years.
Mr. MacKinnon will resume his
classes in Social Psychology and
the Psychology of Personality.



Engagements

Shirley Goldberg. ’47 to Mar-
vin Goldberg.

to John

Joan LeGrand °49,
Hellyer.

Marion Moise ’47 to Lt. John
Bierwirth.

Barbara Taylor °46, to Lt.
Donald’ Schon.

Miss Kathleen Briner, ward-
en, Rhoads North, to Donald
Mead.

Miss Larhylia Whitmore, war-
den, Denbigh, to Star Wood.

Alexander Soper, |

course in planning. their work for;

‘fuse to accept the charges.

Title’ Editor Clarifies Policies .
Of Magazine in Open Meeting





Conference Held

To Discuss Plans

For U. N. 0. Study):



Representatives from Bryn Mawr
attended a
sponsored by the American Asso-
ciation for the United Nations,

Inc., to discuss plans by which the
United Nations might become a
living reality to college students
for work in the colleges regarding
the United Nations. Students from
eight other colleges attended:
American, Barnard, Columbia, Cor-
nell, New Jersey College for Wom-
en, Rutgers, Smith, and Swarth-
more.

It was decided that the Associa-
tion could offer to college students
three important services: a column
for college publications on United
Nations news, the facilities of the
speakers bureau, and literature on
the -UnitedNations._A-column_ giv-
ing a factual summary of up-to-
date UNO developments will ap-
pear in the College News each
month, Uy

At the conference it was agreed
that such groups as the Interna-
tional Relations Club at Bryn
Mawr should become informed
spearheads of activity becoming
leaders of opinion on campus and
in the community.

The Carnegie Endowment has¥
already worked out plans for
twelve regional meetings of the
International Relations Clubs
throughout the country. Thirty-
six Middle Atlantic colleges are to
participate in a three-day model
United Nations meeting at Lafay-
ette College in March with each
college representing. one of the
United Nations.

Similar model meetings of UNO
can be organized as a special cam-
pus activity or as an inter-college
forum. Plans are being considered
for a Summer Institute preferably
at or near the site of UNO where
students may ‘study the actual
functioning of UNO, attend meet-
ings and see and hear internation-

student conference,



al personalities as they shape UNO
policy.

Limited Representation
Of ‘Title’ Criticized
By Students

Common Room, January 14. “The
purpose of The Title is to publish
the best quality of writing, both
critical and ereative, on the cam-
pus,” stated the-editor, Patsy von
Kienbusch '47, at an open meeting
held in responsé to current criti-
cism, that The Title is not a rep-
resentative college magazine. -

In this meeting the editors tried
to show that some of the criticism
was unfounded, and that they felt
that the majority of the rest did
not pertain to The Title in view of
its stated purpose. The Title board
however will act on certain sugges:
tions raised at the meeting.

As Chairman of the Undergrad-
uate Council, Patricia Behrens °46
reported the various student crit-
icisms which had caused the editors
to call this meeting. Many people
have felt that The Title is too re-
stricted in its scope and only rep-
resents “the work of a clique.”
Others have objected to the maga-
zine as being “too highbrow.”

In answer to this last the editors
explained that “the aim’ of The

Title is to publish “good writing.”

They emphasized that the m
zine has literary, but not caotale A
standards. They stated that they
welcome contributions on any sub-
ject from anyone on campus. . In.
reply to the criticism that The
Title contains no humor, the editors
pointed out that they had made w
specific appeal for such material.

Accused of having limiting stan-
dards, the editors described their
method of selecting material. A
contribution is judged on the basis
of the excellence of the writing.

The fundamental problem of
whether The Title should continue
to maintain its high standards or
cater to the less serious demands
of the campus reading public: was
also raised. —

In answer to the question that
they strive for a more universal
appeal, Miss Stapleton, faculty ad-
visor of The Title, stated that the
function of a good literary maga-
zine is to represent “only the best,”
and not to concentrate on repre-

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Phoney Excuses Irk Operators
As ‘News’ Stupidity Baffles Bell



by April Oursler, ’46

The-only way to tell your family
you're still alive is to call them col-
lect and say hello, even if they re-
es. - But
only the other day we saw a, girl
writing home to her parents, and
not even asking for money. In view.
of this, the News presents a sum-
mary of the phone strike at Bryn
Mawr.

“Personal privacy suffered a blow
when the phone company. began
questioning our reputations. It
seems one girl’s husband, having
just docked at San Francisco,,nat-
urally ‘wanted to phone her. But
the only urgent emergency he could
think of was that she-was‘going to
the hospital that day sto have a
baby, The operator wanted to know
was it so. (No.)





-around- Mexico to~such~ places as

Acapulco, where Nanette has just



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Marriage
Elizabeth Jones_ hf to Amos
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~Self-Gov. was disrupted Monday
night. when two girls were signed

out only 2 minutes before they re- |

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me,

turned. By actual figures it took
one hour to reach any permission
giver, and 35 minutes to relay the
\message to their hall.

But it wasn’t till Tuesday night
when one of our own local opera- .
tors embezzled thirty cents from a
‘News reporter that we lost faith.
No nickel came back after a busy
signal, so our reporter spent a
dime to ask for the nickel. The
phone spat back the dime, and the
operator said nothing about the
nickel.

Again she tried. This time there
was just stony silence. No dime.

Irate, she deposited her last coin,
a quarter, feeling that the re-
sulting loud bong might rouse the
operator. It did. “What are you
doing?” the voice with the smile -



‘Again the story was- repeated,
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