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THE COLLEGE NEWS.





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)



Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
of Bryn M:wr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., .and
Bryn Mawr College.



The College News is fully “protected by copyright. Nothing that appears
in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the

Editor-in-Chief. ee
| * Editorial Board

Aprit OursLER, *46, Editor-in-Chief
Nancy Mokexouse, °47, Copy .Emmty Evarts, 47, News
Rosina BATESON, °47 BETTINA KLUEPFEL, *48, News
THELMA BALDASSARRE, 747 Mary Lee BLAKELY, ’47
Lanier DuNN, °47

Editorial Staff
MonnleE BELLow, *47
Laura DiMonp, 47
Joan Brack, °47
_ HELEN Hate, 49
' KaTRINA THomas, 49
BARBARA BETTMAN, °49
HELEN ANDERTON 749
HELEN Martin, 49
JupitH Marcus *49



Marcia DEMBow, °47
Louiss GoxiamM, *47
Harriet Warp, *48
DorotHuy Jones, *47
MARIANNE GRAETZER, 748
HELEN GOLDBERG, ’49 _
PRIscILLA BOUGHTON, °49
AuicE WapswortH °49
JEAN E.us, ’49

Sports Photographer
“EuizaBETH Day, ’47 ROSAMOND Kane, 748
| Business Board

' ANN WERNER, 47, Business Manager
ANN Kinossury, '47, Advertising Manager
H CoNnsvELo KuHN, °48 Caror BAKER, 48
’ Nancy Buscw °49 Joan Rossins 749

Mary BETTLESTONE °49 I
Subscription Board
Nancy STRICKLER, ’47 Manager
HELEN GILBERT, *46 v/ ¢) Wancy Kunnarot, *48
Euise Krart, °46 ANNA-STINA ERICSON, *48
BaRBARA YOUNG, *47 Sue KELLEY, *49
SALLY BZAMAN, 749



Subscription, $2.50 Mailing Price, $3.00 |.
Subscriptions may begin at any time

Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Past Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912















Turning Point

The infancy of The Title is over. It is high time for this
two-year-old magazine to grow up, to pull itself to its feet
and take a few steps.. It has reached the turning-point of its
career. The future of The Title will, we feel, be clearly deter-
mined in this. period between the meeting Monday night, and
th appearance of the March issue.

When a college magazine does not succeed in being of

« interest to a large percentage of the undergraduates, the
statement is always made that the contents and policies are
effected by the too-small group of students who make up the
Board.

Unfortunately, the policy of The Title remained unde-
fined for so long that many of its original aims became ob-
secured. When, two years ago, a small group of students
started the new magazine, the first issue was of necessity the
work of a small, tightly-knit organization who planned, exe-

cuted and completed it. It was the wish of these students to
begin the next year with the idea that anyone who was in-
tetrested could and should share i in some way in the develop-
ment of the baby magazine. 3

The original editors lacked experience, particularly the
experience of working with and for a large group of people
with varied tastes and ideas. Because of a lack of good pub-
licity, resulting in a mysterious haze around its inner work-
ings, it seemed as if The Title board was, if unconsciously,
setting itself up as the judgment seat before which only eru-'
dite theses, and products of the hard gem-like flame of gen-
ius would or could be considered.

This misconception seems to have grown into an unfor-
tunate reality. In spite of the efforts made along this line by
the editors, the fact remains that such an idea does exist in
the minds of all undergraduates and this is as fatal as thé re-
ality itself. Regardless of whether the Board considered
Monday night’s suggestions of concrete value, they must

- wake up to the fact that the campus: sist is not satisfied with
the magazine as it now stands.

If The Title continues to ignore popular opinion, a new
" magazine must inevitably result. .It may be that there is
room.for two magazines on campus: a “literary” and a “
resentative” magazine have not the same aims. But they
need not be mutually exclusive aims. Theoretically it is
fectly possible forThe Title to meet both demands. If the

edin this respect the value of nes meeting will not have
lost in the shuffle of controversy.



Current Events



“We have to meet the Russians
‘on their ‘own ground, but most im-
portant we have to realize what
our own commitments and responsi-
bilities are,” said Mrs. Manning in
a discussion. of. Russia andthe
United States.

Russian international policy, in
Mrs. Manning’s opinion, is a re-
expression of Russia’s historic
aims particularly in respect to an
outlet in the Baltic and Black seas.
Mrs. Manning cited the view that
Russia is still pressing the aims
of international communism, but
believes that the pursuit of non-
ideological gains takes precedence
in present Russian policy.

Contrasting with the American,
Russian leaders are enabled to pur-
sue the policy established relative-
ly uninfluenced by popular opinion
which supports but does not con-
trol the government. The Russians
are in no position and have no de-

but are using the fluid state of af-
fairs as an opportunity to press for
and frequently obtain their aims by
a clever strategy of bargaining.
The United States, on the other
hand, presents the opposite picture.
The government is very much con-

‘| trolled by popular opinion which,

at the same time, has failed to
show the government its willing-
ness to support a constructive pro-
gram of international action. The
United States, Mrs. Manning point-
ed out, is the only nation in a posi-
tion to bargain effectively with
Russia and put a check on her most
nationalistic desires, yet we have

| denied the responsibilities both po-

litical and military which that po-
sition entails.

Donations Asked
In Clothing Drive

Bryn (Mawr .College students
have been asked to aid the victims
of World War II by supporting the
Victory Clothing Collection for
overseas relief, a drive which runs
till the end of this month.

The Alliance, with the approval | *
of the Undergraduate Council has
decided that the most sensible way
for Bryn Mawr to contribute is
through the college Relief for Eu-
rope organization. It is hoped that
increased incentive of the current
nation-wide drive will increase
clothing donations for campus
overseas boxes.

The. national goal is one hun-
dred million serviceable, used gar-
ments in addition to shoes and bed-
ding. The urgency of the need for





‘| still insufficiently clad.”

such clothing is illustrated by the
fact that although the-drive last
spring clothed ‘about 25,000,000
ppbnleeutat each one who received
an American garment—a dozen are

Policy Of Magazine -
Clarified By Editor

Continued from Page 1

senting every group, or every
grade of writing. “I should hate to
think that Bryn Mawr wouldn’t
support a good literary magazine,”
she added.

Membership on the hoadil of The
Title is open to anyone with the
necessary qualifications, “prefer-
ence being given to people who
have shown a sustained interest in
writing for the magazine,” ex-
plained the editor. Tryouts will be
held in the spring and the fall.

The editors admitted that the
mechanism for stimulating interest
in the magazine has not been ade-
quate. Several constructive sug-
gestions were offered, among them
-} that they _givemore. to



their activities and requirements.





sire to precipitate armed conflict,’ °

In Gibennirtate

Roxa Emmons Lee Peakes, . for-
merly a member of the class of
1946, died in Winter Haven, Flor-
ida, on December 28, 1945. The
News has received the following
letter from Roxa Lee’s mother:

“T enclose a death notice of my
daughter. Roxa Lee Peakes, who
was a member of the class of 1946.
She left college a year ago last
fall to marry Edmund Peakes,
March 11, 1945. On December 28,
1945, a son was born who is doing
well but Roxa, after an uncompli-
cated easy delivery inthe hospital
here, died of a’ post partem hem-
orrhage, quite inexplicably.. Her
husband was in Guam at the time
and is now on his way home on
emergency leave.

“I can see no way of getting this
tragic news to her many college
friends and mine but to make sure
the notice will appear in your next
issue,

Truly yours,
Mary M. Street.”

Freshman Show

The Freshman class takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election of
the following Freshman Show of-
ficers:

Chairman, Nancy Bell Wesson.

Stage Manager, Ann Seideman.

Business Mgr., Lilian Streeter.

‘Music, Patsy English.

Dancing, Sally Loomis.

Costumes, \Helen Hale.

iExams

Students are reminded that all
changes in the examination sched-
ules will be made on the lists post-
ed on the Taylor bulletin board.
Students are responsible for check-
ing their schedules with these lists
themselves.

Oral Change

One of the recommendations
made by the student curriculum
committee to the faculty commit-
tee concerning changes in the pres-
ent oral system. Effective with the

| coming examination for conditioned

Seniors, the time limit for each of
the three sections has been length-
ened from half an hour to forty-
five minutes, making the total
length of the examinations two and
a quarter hours.
League

The Sophomore class takes pleas-
ure in the announcement of Rosa-
mond Kahe as their representative
to the Bryn Mawr League.
ew Magazine
The Undergraduate Association
ivéd a complimentary and
introdictgry subscription to Junior
Bazaar. Since all students are ipso
facto members of the association
the magazine will be kept in the
library Periodical Room.




Phony Excuses
Irk Operators

Continued from Page 1
and again there was silence, until

the unmistakably sound of the
whole thirty-five cents could be
heard disappearing into the depths
of the machinue, Then the opera-
tor spoke for the last time: “You
couldn’t have been that stupid.
No further statement could be
extracted from» the telephone com-
pany before the News went to
press.

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“Calendar

Saturday, January 19

9:00 a. m. German, Spanish,
Italian orals for conditioned
Seniors, Room G.

German language examinations
for M. A.’s and Ph. D.’s.

Sunday, January 20

7:30 Chapel services, Rev. W.
Norman Pettinger, Music
Room.

Monday, January 21
7:15 Current waved Common
“Room. i -











yon seca —

"Opinion

‘ Angry Students Decry
Intellectual Snobbery
_At ‘Title’ Meeting.

To the Editor:

We went to the meeting called
for those interested in the future
of the Title. A spirit of intellec-
tual snobbery and intolerance pre-
vailed which shocked and angered
those who attended with no pur-.
pose other than to advance con-
structive suggestions.

We thought that the T:tle edit-
ors honestly wanted opinion. They
merely advanced a defense of their
activities and policies. We went in
a friendly mood genuinely inter-

‘ested in the welfare of the maga-

zine, because we felt that Bryn
Mawr should have a good maga-
zine, and also. that a good maga-
zine can be representative.

We consider ourselves represen-
tative undergraduates, but our
tastes do not run to the stream of
stylized subconsciousness always
filled with strong bits of other au- °
thors. We too like literature and
good literature, even if our criteria

.do not conform to those of the

Board of the Title.

‘Since we think that as college
students we are reasonably intelli-
gent, we believe that anything rep-
resentative is not necessarily non-
literary or banal. The two points
of view are not incompatible.

We would like to have a maga-
zine on campus to which everyone
would feel free to contribute, re-
gardless-of-her style—a magazine
whieh within a systematic frame-
work would maintain a high stan-
dard in all fieds.

We like our Joyce and Eliot in
the original, not tainted by the
pseudo-intelligentsia. We also be-
lieve that we can be proud of what
undergraduates can produce. It is
not necessary to varnish the’ pro-
duct with a deliberately obscure
style which often fails to congeal
the lack of contents.

Is a new magazine necessary ?

Dory ‘Smith 46
Marion Wheeler °46
Lucretia Duncan 46

Although we did not attend the
meeting, we contributed to the
writing of the above letter and
agree with the opinions expressed
In it:

Hoyt Sherman ’47
Corky Pickens ’47
Amy Campbell ’48
Jean Pearson 49
Gale Minton *49
Toni Morris ’49
Jean Ellis "49

Radio Program |

WBMC—Bryn Mawr
WHAV—Haverford
WSNR—Swarthmore
Wednesday, January 15
8:00-9:00—Clasical Hour, WBMC
9:00-9:30—Piano Concert WBMC
9:30-10:00—WHAV
10:00-10:30—-WHAV
10:30-11:00—Popular Music
WHAV

Thursday, January 16
-8:00-9:00—Classical Hour
“" WHAV.
9:00-10:00—Swarthmore WSRN..
10:00-10: 05—Campus News
WBMC
10:00-10:30—Drama, WBMC.
10:30-11:00—Popular Music
WBMC.
Monday, January 20
8:00-9:00—Classical Hour
WBMC.
9:00-9:30—Interview, WBMC. °
. 9:30-10:00—Haverfored Band
WHAV.
10:00-10:30—WHAV. —
10:30-11:00—-WHAYV. @
Tuesday, January 21

8:00-9:00—Classical Hour

9:00-10:00—-WSNR.