College news, October 4, 1944

THE COLLEGE NEWS





VOL. XLI, NO. 2

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY ,OCTOBER 4, 1944

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1944

PRICE 10 CENTS





Register Now for 3 Hours of War Work



McBride Stresses
Individual Effort
Decisive in Peace

History, Science, Languages
Declared Important
In Peace



Goodhart, Tuesday, September
26. What we, as students of Bryn
Mawr, will do with our education
in the new peace, was the question
which President McBride put be-
fore the college in the opening as-
sembly of the 60th academic year.
“It is the individual effort which I
ask you to examine in relation to
the peace for which our expecta-
tions are so high,” emphasized
Miss McBride, —

We are closer to the peace this
year than ever before, and our de-
cisions in this matter will contrib-
ute a large part of what we bring
to this peace. The possibility of
the coming victory, Miss McBride
noted, is evident in the Freshman
plans for a full college course, dic-
‘tated by their own interests rather
‘than the war. These are the best
conditions imaginable when the in-
dividual has freedom to work and
study according, to his own inter-
ests, and to place his own contribu-
tion.

The marked interest in history
and languages, among upperclass-
men as well as Freshmen, contin-
ued_Miss-McBride, expresses an
attempt to understand different
nationalities and their inter-rela-

Continued on page 4

J. M. Rich Will Speak
On Problem of Food

For Post-war Europe



Feeding Europe will be the sub-
ject of the first War Alliance As-
sembly to be given by Mr. John
M. Rich, Associate Secretary of
the American Friends Service
Committee, on Thursday, Octo-
ber 5, at 12:30.

Taking an active part in the
administration of overseas relief,
in 1948, Mr. Rich travelled through
China and India to learn the ac-
tual problems of relief in the Or-
ient and more recently was in
England where he consulted with
government officials and Quaker
committees.

Previously, Mr. Rich served as
secretary of the activities the
Friends Service Committee were
conducting in Spain during the
civil war and _ visited Spanish
refugees who had fled to North
Africa and France and even the
Latin American countries. In 1938
and 1939, he was in France — and
Spain and the next year went to
Mexico and Cuba in connection
with refugee and relief problems.

Born in London, England, in
1902, John Rich was educated in
America at the Westtown school
and Haverford College. On grad-
uating from Haverford in 1924,
he began journalistic work on the
Evening Public Ledger in Phila-
delphia. After five years as a re-
porter, Mr. Rich joined the public
relations staff of the Bell Tele-
phone Company and in 1936 join-
ed the staff of the American
Friends Service Committee.





Truck Driving, Modelling, Frontier Nursing
Featured in Bryn Mawr’s Summer Jobs



Time and space are not sufficient
to list all Bryn Mawr tastes in
summer jobs, but they range from
truck-driving at an army post by
Biffy Horrax ’46, to modelling, with
all shades of refinement in be-
tween. As a case of contrast,
Louise Walker ’45, returned brown
and peeling from a summer spent
as a life guard, while Susan Oula-
han ’46, now rests her feet after
five weeks of street-walking for
the Washington Star.

The most spectacular job we
have run across was held by Trudy
Lanman ’47. ‘She served as a
courier in the Frontier Nursing
Service in the mountains of Ken-
tucky. Since there are no roads,
the nurses ride horseback, and_it
is a job of the couriers to take
care of the horses. Trudy also
took care’ of mules, cows, and
chickens, besides riding as a mes-
senger between the six outposts,
which lay from ten to fifteen miles
apart. Her experiences include at-
tending a Holiness Faith Meeting
and assisting at a birth, in the pro-
cess of which her role was to hold
the baby.

Others went in for more peace-

ful pursuits. Nina Montgomery
___’45, spent the summer cataloging
incoming bones for the Metropoli-
tan Museum. Nancy Morehouse
’47, was with the Gallup Poll, while
\ Toby Locke ’47, found herself try-
dng to sell books as well as pass
on. their calibre for her customers.
_, Clerically inclined, Sara Berman
471, sorted checks in a bank, and
Kitty Rand ’45, worked in the sub-
scription department of Newsweek.



Beverly Shy ’46, was an advertis-
ing manager in Providence.

Factories and laboratories were
popular. Working on the night
shift in the Test Laboratory at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Nancy
Kraffert ’47, and Nancy Strickler
’47, tested fluxes and aluminum
and magnesium alloys. Since they
had their own car they were un-
affected by the busmen’s strike,
but toted carloads of stranded fel-
low-workers. Julia Murray ’46, and
Toni Boel ’47, also did laboratory
work. The factory jobs show much
originality. Mary Pinch ’47, work-.
ed at a macaroni factory, while
Betsy Day ’47, chose rubber boots
as her field.

Glamor also became profession-
al. Mimi Foster ’47, modelled for
Harper’s Bazaar. Kate Tanner ’47,
also modelled, as did Alison Mer-
rill ’45, when not busy tending the
files or sweeping the floors of the
magazine office where she toiled.

The summer activities of one
Bryn Mawrtyr were adequately
reported in the June 30th issue of
the Herald Tribune. We quote:
“Miss April Oursler sought to im-
press a taxicab driver yesterday
by telling him she worked as a
copy girl for the New York Herald

was not impressed, of course, but
fortunately for’ her™he remem-
bered her chatter, for; one hour

later, he appeared at the Herald

containing $11 and all her identi-
fication cards, which she had left
in his cab.”



¢

/Tribune, The driver,-S;-Leichter, |

Tribune office with her wallet,|:

Activity Heads Urge
Campus Cooperation
In Volunteer Effort

Goodhart, September 28. The
need for a universal effort in vol-
unteer activities at Bryn Mawr
was stressed in an assembly given
by. the Undergraduate Council to
present the new Undergraduate
Volunteer Activities Program.
Harji Malik ’45 presented the pur-
pose of the plan and Chloe Walker
’45 outlined the program. Virginia
Thomas ’45 explained the relation
of the individual to the program
and Lydia Gifford ’45 made a final
plea for all-out cooperation.

Pointing out the Valley Forge
“fiasco” as an example of the
failure of the volunteer effort last
year, Harji Malik, President of the
Undergraduate Association, stated
that “the feeling of responsibility
of each individual to the whole
group, and to herself,” was lack-
ing on the campus. The Under-
graduate Council, she said, real-
ized that there was a need to co-
ordinate for a united effort and
decided to amalgamate all volun-



Continued on Page 4

"44 Wastes No Time
In Using B.A. Degrees
For Jobs, Grad Work

Since the day when the class of
44 graduated only four brief
months have passed—yet there is
hardly a member of ’44 who is not
already occupied, whether in gov-
ernment service, graduate work,
or business.

In uniform are Kay Tappen,
Janet Hoopes, Caro Shugg, Jane
Lefler, and Ellen Ustick, all
Waves, as well as Francoise Ple-
ven who has trained at Smith to
be an Ensign in the French Navy.

In Washington, where a large
percentage of ’44 has crowded in,
Hildreth nn is in Military In-
telligence, and with the Office of
‘Strategic Services are Joan Busch-
man, Anne Heyniger, Honora
Thompson, Emily Tuck and Eliz-
abeth Watkins. Marjorie Alexan-
der, and Florence Senger are re-
search analysts with the War De-
partment, and Lorna Morley is
with the Maritime Commission.
Perhaps the most interesting of
government jobs is held by Louise
Horwood, who is a government
interne in UNRRA, and president
of all other’ government internes.
Marion Neustadt is in training
with the State Department.

Enrolled in medical schools are
Virginia Armstrong, Mary Stuart
Blakely, Mary Sue Chadwick, Ruth

Continued on Page 3 ‘

Elizabeth Calder ’ Dana

Fernald U. S. N.
Barbara Rebmann ’46 to Dr.
E. Osbourne Coates, Jr.
Elizabeth Potter ’46 to





Lt.

‘Margaret Bloomfield °45 to
David Evans Grant U. S. N.
Marjorie Richardson ’46 to

Sgt. John W. Claghorn, Jr., U.
S. Army Air Corps.
- Jane L. Mather ’46 to Dr...
Mahon Myers.

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teer activities under the U.V.A.P.:

Elisha Atkins U.S. M.-C: RT

War Work Registration. Continues
In Red Cross Room in Goodhart Hall





Calendar

Thursday, October 'B
War Alliance Assembly.
Rich, Feeding Europe,
12:80.
Spanish Club Tea, Common Room,
4:30.

Talks to Freshmen.
series. of five, Mra,
Common Room, 7730.

John F,
Goodhart,

Second in a
Broughton.

Saturday, October 7
uates. Taylor, 9:00.

Monday, October 9 =
National Nursing Council for War
Service. Miss White. Deanery, 8:00.
Current Events, Common Room,
Ci

Staff Changes Made
By Returning Faculty
And New War Leaves





The war has again worked
changes in that mobile body, th
faculty. Several members who ha
been doing war service have no
returned to the teaching staff,
while others have been lost to gov-
ernment or war work.

Mr. Helson, Professor of , Psy-
chology, has returned after spend-
ing two years on an N.D.R.C. pro-
ject. Miss Taylor, Professor of

School, is back after a year of
government work, and Dean Grant
is again with the undergraduate
school after six months in the
State Department.

Since last spring, however, sev-
eral faculty members have left for
war service. Miss Henderson of
the English Department has joined
the WAC. Mr. Watson, Professor
of Geology, has left to do govern-
ment work,but expects to return
in six months. Mr. Cameron, Pro-
fessor of Greek, and Mrs. Cameron
of the History Department have
also left to do government work.
Mr. Patterson, Professor of Phys-
ics, is now working for the Navy

and Miss Kraus of the Sociology

Continued on Page 3
\

French examination for Undergrad=

‘Latin and Dean of the Graduate

Alliance, Undergrad, League
And A. A. Offer Varied



Activities
_ Registration for participation
in the’ Undergraduate Activities

Program for war work will con-
tinue tomorrow between 2:30 and
6 P. M. in the Red Cross Room,
(formerly the May Day Room).
The activities offered are the fol-
lowing:

Surgical Dressings: at least two
hours a week in the Red Cross
Room.

Red Cross Unit’s Knitters’ Re-
serve: in addition to another ac-
tivity.

Blood Doning: for the Mobile
Unit in Ardmore, appointments
to be made in November.

Os pital: Recreation Service
(Gfay Ladies): in Philadelphia
and Main Line hospitals. If ap-
plicant is under 21 a second choice
should be indicated. Not open to
Freshmen first semester.
“Nurse’s Aide: placing or train-
ing (four hours a week) in Phil-
adelphia or Main Line hospitafs.
Training not open to Freshmen
first semester. :

First Aid: if there is sufficient
interest.

Home Nursing Instruction: if
there is sufficient interest.

Canteen Corps Volunteers: to
be placed in Blood Donor Units

and hospital kitchens on comple-
tion of a short course in Nutri- ©
tion on campus and some practical
work in mass feeding.

Blind School at Overbrook.

Haverford Community Center.

Ration Board.

Teaching Maids’ Classes.

Farming.

Student Waiting at the Deanery
and in Rockefeller Hall.

Box Factory in Bryn Mawr;
pay 50c per hour.

Burlap Bag Factory in Devon.

International Resistance Co. in



Philadelphia.



Campus Overthrows Traditional Standards
As"Bedmaking Replaces Academic Pursuits



By April Oursler °46

Progress has reared its . ugly
head at Bryn Mawr. In the short
space of one week our traditional
standards of life have been over-
thrown, and the modern institution
of bed-making has taken their
place:. It was only thirty some
years ago that M. Carey Thomas
declaimed her sincere belief that it
is abysmally below the level of an
intellectual woman to fritter away
her time by indulging in domestic
work.

Only the Seniors can remember
the glorious days of the pre-1942
era, when the undergraduate’s
mind was freed from the sordid-
ness of diurnal rearrangements of

wherein we rest’ our fatigued in-
tellectual selves. It was the cruel,.
ibscene reality of war that elim-
inated the maids that did such
work for us.

The undergraduates rose_ above
such a situation with the true
transcendentalism of mind over



matter. We lived stoically among

the accoutrements of the beds



our unmade beds, comforting our-
selves with the thought that while
the first scholastic monks had only
pallets, in a bare room, we had
bed clothes aplenty with which to
bestrew our abodes.

Even the shock of this week,
which has brought us a clean-up
campaign, complete with fines for
our unmade beds, cannot faze us,
however. After all, we can sleep
under our rugs or sling a hammock
from the bureau to the door and
pray that no one opens the door.
And there’s always the thought
that even now an unmade bed can
contribute to the general welfare,
for the fines will fill the hall treas-
uries, and then the halls will have

plenty of money. for new victrolas

Aside from this, however, there
is the deeper, more meaningful
connotation of it all. We sat up
late last night in our newly neat-
ened rooms, waiting for the ghost
of Miss Thomas, which informed
us that we must not forget that
we are deserting the true intellec-
tual life. :






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APRIL OURSLER, *46

Nancy MoreEHousE, '47
MarGarET Rupp, °47
THELMA BALDASSARR2, 47
ROSAMOND Brooks, *46 ~
Marcia DEMBovw, 747
Cecitia ROSENBLUM, 47
ELizABETH Day, "47

SARAH G. BECKWITH, 46

Joan AUERBACH, 747
CHARLOTTE BINGER, ’45
Lovina BRENDLINGER, *46
BARBARA COTINS, °47

Editorial Board
ALISON MERRILL, °45, Editor-in-Chiet
Mary Vircinia More, 45, Copy Patricia PLATT, *45, News

Editorial Staff

Sports Cartoons
Carox BALLarD, °45 JEAN SMITH, *46
Photographer
HANNAH KAUFMANN, 4g.
Business Board

Mira AsHODIAN, 46, Business Manager
BarBara WIiLuiaMs, °46, Advertising Manager

ANN WERNER, '47

Subscription Board
MarcareT Loup, *46, Manager

SUSAN OULAHAN, 746, News

Patricia BEHRENS, 746
LANIER DuNN, *47
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Rosina BATESON, °47
Emity Evarts, ’47
Laura DIMOND, °47

ANNE KincsBury, 747

HELEN GILBERT, *46
ELIZABETH MANNING, °46
Nancy STRICKLER, ’47
BARBARA YOUNG, °47





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





A Question of Time

After two and a half years of war, students are again
being asked to register for war work.
In the course of that time it cannot be claimed that we

have contributed all the time

and energy that was possible.

It is true that full schedules, extra-curricular activities, and
innate laziness make the commitment to three hours of war
work a week no light undertaking. But it is by no means
impossible, as a reckoning of time spent in the past will show.
If we feel that we have something of value to give to the war

effort, no obstacles need be insurmountable.

the most plausible excuse we

Lack of time is
have to offer for not—helping,

but it is not good enough. When time is carefully organized
and scheduled more activities can be undertaken with less

strain and greater efficiency.

War work, done in a calm,

business-like way, will not blight anybody’s life nor endanger

their academic standing.

This year, it seems especially important that Bryn Mawr

should do its full share. Our

suade us to make up for lost time.

that the end is in sight.

past shortcomings should per-
It should be easier now





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Common Room, Monday, October
2. Giving a summary of Presi-
dent Roosevelts’ most recent speech
concerning the U. S.-Argentina sit-
uation, Miss Nepper outlined the
steps, leading to the formation of
our present policy, after making
it clear that her material was
drawn almost in full from the
American press.

‘Sharp language, a bitter tone,
and an uncompromising attitude
toward Argentina’s Fascist activ-
ities distinguished the President’s
speech,. said Miss Nepper. Mr.
Roosevelt stated that he was deep-
ly concerned about the increasing
development of Fascism in Argen-
tina’s foreign policy, domestic pol-
icy, and in the policy of the press.
He also decried the breaking of
commitments made at Allied con-
ferences.

Mr. Roosevelt stressed his com-
plete agreement with Mr. Church-
ill’s plans for judging neutral
countries after the war, and also
stated that current criticism of
the U.S. Government’s divided
opinion on the Latin-American sit-
uation is unjust, as the govern-
ment’s policy is fully united. It
has stopped bargaining with Ar-
gentina and has taken specific
ae. in Retrying out non-recog-

: mee first really important event
' dn the present meireeaniiion pol-



icy was in September °43 when
Argentina’s Storni wrote to Mr.
Hull explaining that Argentina’s
policy of “prudent neutrality” was
a great aid to hemisphere solidar-
ity. He suggested that in return
we should give Argentina arma-
ments to restore her to a position
of equilibrium in South America
and as a token of our good will.
Mr. Hull’s answer was an un-
equivocal “No,” combined with a
list. of Argentina’s broken com-

Argentina was favorable to Mr.
Hull. Soon Storni was overthrown,
only to make way for increased
totalitarian measures.

In January 1944, Washington
and London made an _unpublicized
demand that Argentina break with
the Axis. Pro-Allied Ramirez was
overthrown, and Fascist tactics
increased when Farrell was in-
stalled.

This past summer, stated Miss
Nepper, Hull pointed an accusing
finger at Argentina, and Argentina

our “imperialistic power.”
This is the situation today, Miss
Nepper said, and emphasized that

the danger from Fascist Argen-
tina and point to her promises of
good behavior, we’re now “All from



, Missouri” and have to be shown.

ny

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mitments since 19386. Reaction in|.

began to prepare for attack from}

although some people minimize,



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Executive Board’s Powers
To Penalize Challenged
By Student









The Executive Board of the
Self-Government Association, by
its announcement that “day cam-
pussing” will now be applied as a
penalty in appropriate cases, has
brought more strongly to my at-
tention the need for a revision of
Section III of the Red Section of
the Rule Book:

“The Executive Board shall have
the power to fix penalties for in-
fractions of rules.”

This actual example of the man-
ner in which the Executive Board
may interpret this rule places
squarely before us the anomaly
of a “democratic” government
which is topheavy in the execu-
tive branch. In all efforts toward
democratic government, the rep-
resentative legislative body has
served as an active check on and
balance of the executive branch.
This, while it slows the executive
system somewhat, serves as a
safeguard against executive ac-
tion contrary to the will of the
people, and ensures protection of
the rights of minorities, who have

Continued on page 3

Letter Explains Urgent Need
For Red Cross Volunteers
In War Work

—_———_—_—.

To the Editor:

paign this week, I would like to
bring to your attention excerpts
from a letter printed in the New
York Times, July 6, 1944:

“TI believe there would be little
need to appeal for workers—on

mation were given to the public as
to how these are used and why
they are needed in such vast quan-
tities.

“Recently I heard an able work-
er on these dressings suggest that
they all ought to be made on ma-
chines. Like many others, she ap-
parently still did not realize that,
due to various shortages, only 19
per cent of dressings required can
be made commercially. How many
know that the army depends on
volunteers workers for 90 per cent
of the dressings it needs?

“Again how many know that
from 100 to 200 gauze sponges
may be needed to dress an abdom-
inal wound? Or that the multiple
wounds from a shell burst—at
least half of the battle wounds are
said to result from shell-bursts?”

The facts in this letter are not
only accurate but shocking in so
far as so few of us know them.
Think of them, and remember
them, and you cannot forget to
register with the U. WY. A. P.

Mary Kay Snyder

Chairman, Red Cross Committee

WHAT TO DO

For further details see notices. on
hall bulletin boards :

CAMPUS JOBS

Baby sitters and Rock waitresses
desperately needed.

Students to help in Library re-
serve room and stacks.

‘Readers for Dorothy Anderson,
| graduate. _student_in_Radnor.__—

Representatives for the College
Board of Mademoiselle.



nursery school also needed (vol-
unteer). .

See Miss Bowman, Room H.
Taylor Hall.



iia

In view of the U. V. A. P. cam-|.

surgical dressings if more infor- :

Playground Assistant (paid) for
the Wharton School one afternoon
a week,, Morning assistants for



Nominations

The Sophomore class has
nominated the following people
for the position of first Sopho-
more member to the Self-Gov-
ernment Board: Rose Bateson,
Nancy Bierwith, Mary Lee
Blakeley, and Margaret Urban.

The position was formerly
held by Nicole Pleven who did
not return to college this year.









WITS END

Time like an ever-rolling stream
bears all my suns away and a
thousand meetings in my sight are
but an evening gone. I must go
down to Room C again, to the
crowded C to die, and all I ask is
the bulletin board and a little sleep
to steer me by. Organization is
th answer to all my ills, and a
little planning can go .a long way
towards Dr. Stewart’s office. If I
get up at three in the morning I
can roll my bandages while I put
on my dressing. :



Life was so peaceful in the war
plant this summer, but the time
has come, the college said, to do
a few little things. I must get out
of myself and into a swing. It is
perfectly possible to read 3800
pages of Victorians in the half
hour~ before I run merrily down
to play hockey for an hour before
I run hungily up to eat dinner for
half an hour before:I run eagerly
over to the reserve room to reserve
a book for tomorrow before I run
down to Goodhart to participate
happily in college activities for an
hour before I run back to my hall
to study for four hours before I
run up to bed before I run down
for good.

Student: Politicians
Racing to Organize;
Pins Swamp Campus



By Patricia Behrens 46

Trying to steal a march on the
more numerous but far less articu-
late Republicans, the Democratic
elements oOn.campus as well as
wearing buttons, are organizing
themselves for very promising ac-
tivities. ‘Republican buttons are
also beginning to appear, however,
and a Republican Club is in the
offing. The Republicans will hold
a preliminary meeting next week
under the leadership of Miriam
‘Pottle ’46 and April Oursler ’46,

(One group of Democrats, led by
Helen Poland ’47, started planning
this summer for a Roosevelt Club.
They are, at the moment, putting
most of their energy into attempts.
to get well-known Democratic
speakers to come to the college,
and into the distribution of but-
tons.

Marie Wasserman 45 met with
a representative of the Indepen-
dent Voters for Roosevelt League
and made plans with her for stud-
ent participation in the activities.
of this group. This evening eight
undergraduates went into Phila-
delphia to help distribute pamph-
lets before the Sumner Welles.
speech at the United Nations Win
the Peace Rally. The Democrats
are also planning to canvass for
O’Rourke, the Democratic candi-
date for Delaware County Repre-
sentative to Congress. On election
day, they will send volunteers to
help watch the polls.

Supporters of the Political Ac-
tion Committee, led by Joan Vit-
kin ’47, intend to send volunteers
to work in the P. A. C. office doing



Continued on Page 4





INCIDENTALLY





The Philosophy of Birds
Muffled screams of confusion_is-
suing from Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’
office Monday afternoon brought
the Esthetics class from across the
hall to the rescue, The cause of
the disturbance, a frightened swal-
low, was discovered near the ceil-
ing, flying gently back and forth
in search of the window. Mr.
Nahm, arriving in search of his
class, explained to the would-be
bird rescuers, that empirically
speaking, a towel was necessary to
remove a bird. But on more phil-
osophical grounds, he added in deep
and grave tones, one had no ethical
right to do anything to a bird, be-
cause if one’s action proved harm-
ful, one could not make the nec-
essary, ethically required apology.
Philosophy 302a returned to its
classroom, while the bird contin-
ued its own empirical search for a
window.
The Romaunce of the Rose

Fire broke out in Merion last
Sunday night, as.a cigarette lay
burning merrily in the smoking
room--waste-basket. _The-fire’ war-
den, buried under a thick copy of
Chaucer in the same smoking
room, claims she had a cold.in her
head. At any rate, the choking
fumes of the fire made no impres-
sion.on her. Eventually a Fresh-
man tapped on her shoulder and
told her that the draperies..were
about to catch fire, and asked if
she could ring the alarm. With the
calm, thoughtful assurance of one
in full command of herself in a
crisis, the fire warden walked
straight to the mantel-piece where
a teapot of roses reposed, and
| holding the blossoms gracefully in|
one hand, poured the water onto
the conflagration with the other.
The roses are now wilting in the
empty teapot, but her discarded
copy of the Romaunce of the Rose
is about to be enshrined beneath
the fire bell. No student of Chau-
cer can fail to rise to an emerg-





ency. Thank you, Mr. Herben...
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Thick-Skinned

Tuberculin tests, given last Mon-
day, produced many bleeding arms
and swollen spots.’ But one uniden-
tified girl on the steps of Taylor
confided to us that her experience
was’ unique. The alcohol was
spread over the arm, the needle
jabbed in; slowly the plunger on
the hypodermic moved down, push-
ing in the tuberculin solution. But
a minute later Miss Slavin was
still wiping her glasses, while the
needle dangled in the girl’s arm.
It seems the unidentified injectee
had steeled herself so well for the
prick that the liquid had spattered
out, unable to make its way
through what Miss Slavin termed
an inductile epidermis. The last
thing the girl remembers about
the affair was the reapproach of
the needle, and Miss Slavin’s earn-
gst plea to relax.
Swedish Love-words

Miss ‘Constance Brickett, in-
structor in the English department
last year, left for Sweden this
week, to marry on her arrival
there. Having waited two years
for passage over to her fiance,
Axel Bruzilius, Miss Brickett sail-
ed from New Orleans on an oil
tanker after five days’ notice—the
only woman, as well as the only
passenger on the craft. Aside
from the fact that her wedding
dress had still to be bought after
her departure for New Orleans,
and that her trunks were still en
route to college when she left,
Miss Brickett is entirely prepared
for her married life in Sweden.
Although Mr. Bruzilius speaks ex-
cellent English, she found a friend

to_tutor_her in- Swedish. She re-——_~

turned from her first lesson con-
jugating with great pride the mag-
nificent Swedish verb which she
believed meant “to love.” Only
after writing it to her fiance, did
she learn that she had said in-
stead, “I look like a fool, you Mol
like a fool, we eed like fools ...




THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three





New ‘Title’ to Uphold

Campus Creative Art



The Title, campus literary mag-
azine published for the first time
last spring, is continuing in 1944-
45 with a plan for three issues a
year.

The idea for a magazine, begun
by a group of last year’s Fresh-
-men, arose from the accusation of
the previous magazine—The Lan-
tern—that creative talent was non-
existent at Bryn Mawr.

The first issue carried out the
policy of including contributions
from all groups connected with the
“college, in contrast to purely un-
dergraduate work. The type of
material used ran the gamut from
the humorous to the_serious and
experimental in both poetry and
the short story. W. H. Auden,
British poet and professor at Bryn
Mawr and Swarthmore, contibut-
ed a dedicatory and previously un-
published poem.

The enterprise shown by the
founders of the magazine war-
rants the support of the campus,
not only in subscriptions but also
in contributions. The deadline for
the first issue is November. Mater-
ial should be sent to Patsy von
Kienbusch, Nancy Kraffert, Tony
Boel, all in Pem East, or to Rose
Bateson in Pem West.

Student Challenges
Power of Self-Gov’t

Continued from Page 2

, too often little or no representa-

tion in the executive branch of
the government.
The present rule provides for

no such check and could allow the
Executive Board almost unbridled
license. ' While the legislative
body of Self Government has pow-
er to make rules, it cannot fix pen-
alties for infractions of these
rules. This power is completely
in-the-hands of the Executive
Board. While this Board repre-
sents the majority of students,
too often it is an apathetic ma-
jority, unlikely to be stirred by
the announcement of any poten-
tial penalty short of thumbscrews
and the rack. While “day cam-
pussing” hardly comes within the
category of physical torture, still
Ahe entirely unexpected manner
in which it has been sprung on
the. student body is hardly an en-
couraging omen for the future. If

this precedent is allowed to stand,’

rule-breakérs may expect soon to

be subjected to withdrawal of
smoking privilege, .privation of
dessert, Coventry and _ other

forms of psychical and physical
solitary confinement.

I propose therefore that as
soon as possible a mass meeting
be called to discuss the advisa-
bility of fixing by legislative ac-
tion limits to the amount and kind
of penalties which the Executive
Board may impose, and at the
same time of specifying for what
offenses. Such legislation would
retain most of the advantages of
the present system, in allowing
to the Executive Board a certain
discretionary leeway, as in the
U. S. Penal Code; but it would
I am sure, give more voice to the
as. yet unorganized minorities,
and remove any potentiality of
corporal or other barbarous pun-
ishment.

Elizabeth Boudreau, °45







Vocational Committee

‘Doris Emerson ’46 has been
appointed head of the Voca-
tional Committee of the Un-
dergraduate Association for
~1944-45. She replaces Leila
Jackson ’46 who has joined the
Waves.







°44. Wastes No Time
In Using B. A. Degrees

Continued from page 1
Alice Davis and Jane Smith. Sarah
Davis is at law school, and Vir-
ginia Grace, Jeanette Lepska and
(Miriam Taleisnik are studying at

Yale, Frances Parrish at Stam-
ford, and Gladys Whitridge at
Columbia. Back at Bryn Mawr,

w+ Margaret Spencer is doing gradu-

ate work in archaeology.

Others are engaged in research
for private firms or university lab-
oratories. Among these are Ger-
trude Caesar, Katherine Franck
and Beth Garrison, Jean* Hoopes,
Barbara Nicholson, Rosalyn Ra-
vitch, Patricia St. Lawrence, Pen-
elope Smith, Lilias Swift and Mar-
guerite Van Nest.

Staff Changes Made
By Returning Faculty

Continued from Page 1

Department is with the UNNRA
for six months.

The first academic leave of ab-
sence in several years has been
granted to’ Mr. Carpenter, who
will give the Sather Lectures at
the University of California next
year.

The list of new members of the
faculty and teaching staff includes
Daniel Davidson, Assistant Profes-
sor of Anthropology at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, who will be
a part time lecturer of Anthropol-
ogy. The Biology Department has
added to its staff as a_ lecturer,
Daniel Harris, previously a Re-
search Associate at the University
of Pennsylvania. Rolf Altschul,
who lis been teaching fellow and
Instructor at Harvard, will tecture
in Chemistry.

‘Mildred Tonge Brown is now a
part time English Instructor. She
was formerly a member of the
English Department of Sophie
‘Newcomb College and was later at
Wellesley. Selim Ezban, who had
been‘an Instructor in French at
Yale and was the Sterling Fellow
there last year, will be a lecturer
in the French Department.

The Geology Department has
two new additions. Lincoln Stew-
art, lecturer, has been a member
of the faculty at Sacramento Jun-
ior College, Montana School of
Mines, University of California at
Los Angeles, and Arizona State
Teachers College. Eugene Richard-
son will be an instructor in Geol-
ogy.

Erich Frank, lecturer in Greek,
is’ Research Associate in Philoso-
phy at Harvard. Roger Soltau,
part time Lecturer, and Beatrice

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country or comparatively “old
hands” the foreign-born members
of the Freshman class all seem to
agree on one point—that America
is an extraordinarily friendly
country and that Bryn Mawr is a
wonderful place.

Evelyn van Westerborg, citizen
of the Netherlands, arrived in this
country, she remembers, the day
before the World’s Fair closed. She
knew no English, had never seen a
Negro, and never in her wildest
dreams had imagined anything
quite like the Wrigley sign on
Times Square.

Scout

An ardent Girl Scout in The
Hague, she immediately became
one in New York. She and her
brother, who is at Brooklyn Tech,
soon began to speak nothing but
English. Now they both wish to
become American citizens, and
Evelyn looks forward to a career
in architecture.

Indra Kirpalani left India for
the first time in her life last May,
when she came to New York after
spending seven days in England.
She started learning English when
she was four years old and later
attended a British convent in New
Delhi. Before she left home she
had heard of Wellesley, but im-
mediately upon seeing Bryn Mawr,
“fell in love with it.” She is look-
ing forward to her years here and
beyond to the time when she can
go back to India.

Years in U.S.

Marianne Graetzer of Breslau
and Helene Graf of Le Vesinet
have both been in this country sev-
eral years. Marianne arrived in
1940 and went to live on a farm in
Michigan where the only available
school was in a one-room building
and she and her two brothers were
there in a total enrollment of
eleven.

A school in Detroit was the next
step. She is now becoming an
American citizen, with her interest
centered on research chemistry and
modern languages. If she goes
back to Europe to live it will be to
England, where she spent a year
on her way to the United States,

‘Helene, resident of France al-
though her citizenship is Swiss,
above all is anxious to return home
and take any necessary part in
the reconstruction of her country.
She too has liked Bryn Mawr from
the moment she laid eyes on it and
hopes to make the most of her time
here.



M eetings

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on the bulletin board in Taylor
at least twenty-four hours be-
for the time of the meeting. Any
meeting not posted on the bul-
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Squad Still Tentative



Out of a medley of ball-chasing,
stick-swinging athletes, in blue
and green with a dash of red here
and there, has emerged a - very
tentativé/ and incomplete varsity
hockey. squad, subject to sudden
and violent revision:

Bagley
Beckwith
Bierwith
Cadbury
Cary
Chester

E, Coleman
S. Coleman
Cushing
Day
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Frank
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Maclure
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Current Events has undergone
a revamping of its program and
its organization this year in a
move to guarantee a weekly talk
and discussion, as well as to stim-
ulate interest in the news.

With its regular time now chang-
ed from Tuesday nights to Mon-
day nights, the weekly Current
Events is under the direction of
the War Alliance Assembly Com-
mittee, with Marie Wasserman 745
as general director. A small board
of faculty advisers, consisting of
Mrs. Manning, Miss Robbins and
Miss Nepper, with occasional help
from Miss Stapleton, has the re-
sponsibility of arranging for a
weekly informative talk. Regular
sessions will be supplemented by
occasional talks on the part of
celebri and specialists on var-
ious time}Jy subjects.

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years came the substitution of
student for faculty control and the
the attempt to make the meeting
more of a discussion than former-
ly.

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that attendance will be as regular
as possible and will include gradu-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS





U. S. Peace Problems
Will be Forum Topic
In Haverford Series



The Main Line Forum, organiz-
ed to give students and,members
of the community an opportunity
to study the problems of peace,
will begin in mid-October. Held
at Haverford College, ‘the first
series of lectures and discussions
will concern American problems.
Two more series dealing with Eu-
ropean and paramount Asiatic
problems will follow early in
1945.

The American series will con-
sist of evening programs with
forty minute addresses and twen-
ty. minutes devoted to discussion.
The following speakers have been
secured for the different topics:

Our Christian Heritage.

The Reverend Father Robert I.
Gannon, S. J., President Fordham
University, New York.

Rufus M. Jones, D. D., Profes-
sor Emeritus, Haverford College.

Our Liberal Heritage

The Honorable Burton K.
Wheeler, United States Senator
from Montana,

Problems of Youth

The Honorable Curtis Bok,
President Judge, Court of Com-
mon Pleas VI, Philadelphia.

Modern Democracy at Work

The Honorable Christian A.
Herter, Republican Member of
Congress, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Honorable Howard J. Mc-
Murray, Democratic Member of
Congress, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A Free Economy

The Honorable Thurman Ar-
nold, Judge of the-United States
Court of Appeals.

Joseph N. Pew, Jr., Vice Presi-
dent Sun Qil Company.
Labor in a Free Economy

Robert J. Watt, International
Representative of the American
Federation of Labor.

Maximum Employment in a
Free Eeonomy
Paul G. Hoffman, President

Studebaker Corporation.

Community Planning

Guy Greer, Editorial Staff of
Fortune Magazine, New York,
formerly with the Federal Hous-
ing Administration and with the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, Washington, D.
C.

The Forum was organized by
Haverford College with the help
of churches, schools, labor, and
civic groups of the Main Line. In-
stitutions will be invited to select
students to participate. On ac-
count of limited space in Roberts
Hall, admission will be by ticket
only, but tickets will be distribut-
ed to interested groups and per-
sons without charge.

Hockey Schedule Set;
Squad Still Tentative

Continued from Page 3

Rebmann
Richardson
‘ Rogers
; Turner
Walker
Young

The inter-collegiate games are
scheduled as follows:
Sat., Oct. 21—Ursinus
Fri., Oct. 27—Beaver
Sat., Nov. 11—Penn
Tues., Nov. 14—Rosemont
Fri.,, Dec. 1—Drexel

Met by Counselors

Hectic Life, Problems in Child Psychology

at B. M. Summer Camp



pat by Rosina Bateson °47

Robin Brooks °46

“Out of the mouths of babes”
springs this philosophical conver-
sation:

Place: Bryn Mawr Summer
Camp.

Time: Rest Hour.

Those present: two harrassed

counselors and twenty sleeping
children.
Wee small voice in _ corner:

“But I tell you, he’s the same col-
or we are!”
Clarence: “No! You’re wrong.
God’s brown.” ’
Wee small voice: “What!”
Clarence: ‘He’s. that color.”
(Points to mahogany-stained
woodwork.)
The rest of this discussion is
lost to history, as the other 18
children began their usual refrain
of “Teacher, can we go to the
beach now?’? The motley pro-
cession of striped sweaters and
white trunks was soon on_ its
way.
'To°the uninitiated reader, this
is a segment of a day at the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp. For the



Activity Heads Urge
Campus Cooperation

Continued from page 1

“But we must all realize,’ Harji
said, “that the success of the pro-
gram depends on the participation
in it of every member.”

Chloe Walker, President of the
Athletic Association, outlined the
new volunteer plan. The next step,
she said, will be for all students to
register for at least three hours
a week and the final step will be
to see to it that the program is
fulfilled. The volunteer plan, Chloe
asserted, is new and unified as
never before and there will be an,
opportunity to step up the mo-
mentum and get something done.
She urged everyone to use her free
Saturday mornings ‘for volunteer
activities.

In order to achieve a united co-
operative spirit, Virginia Thomas,
President of the Self-Government
‘Association, said that “there must
be a very strong individual aware-
ness of that goal we are working
for.” The “one-sided atmosphere”,
of which so.many complain, she
continued, “can be dispelled by
those same students themselves, if
only they will acquire a more stim-
ulated and active enthusiasm.”

‘Realization of what we owe to
ourselves,” she said, “to the hall,
and to the campus and its life will
give us a conscious awareness of
our responsibility to further com-
munity and world activities
through the unified effort of all in-
dividuals,—and as individuals we
must accept this responsibility.”

In a final appeal to the students
to overcome lethargy and make a
united effort, Lydia Gifford, Pres-
ident of the War Alliance, pointed
out that the job of our generation

the peace.
er theoretical or practical, which
Wwe can get now,” she said, ‘will
stand us in good stead for assum-
ing our responsibility in that dif-
ficult period.” The U.V.A.P., she
concluded, desperately needs the
help of everyone on campus.

will be to maintain and preserve
“Any training, wheth- |:

past 19 years three groups of un-
derprivileged children have come
up from Philadelphia for a two
weeks vacation at Stone Harbor,
N. J. The camp is run by a group
of students who are interested in
their problems.
Since the family life of the
children is often lacking in care
and understanding, the counselors
try to fill in the gap during the
brief time the children are there.
Sunshine, food and exercise are
thrown in for good measure.
Swimming and crafts and “yard
guard” make up the main évents
of a day. Even in two weeks
there is eften a noticeable change
in both their health and temper-
ments.
Needless to say, experience
gained on both sides.
selors have full charge
children, but there is a_ trained
nurse to supervise the children’s
health. Minor cuts and scratches

~

is
The coun-
of the

are all in the day’s work, and
some groups even require night
shifts to prevent accidents. The
story goes that one little boy,

named after a famous Southern
general, was sadly removing his
sheets preparatory to taking them
to the laundry. “Say, teacher’,
remarked Clarence, who was sit-
ting nearby watching intently,
“Why do you call him the Gener-
al? MacArthur would never have
done that!”

McBride Lays Stress
On Individual Effort

- Continued from Pare 1

tionships. There is no study of
greater importance, and we are
capable of developing that under-
standing to a high degree. And
if our high expectations of the
peace really mean to us willing-
ness, to work, we will not cease to
exercise this understanding either
at home or abroad.

Opportunities ‘in science will be
important and necessary after the
war, not to be shunned by conser-
vatism, or fear that science is only
for those who can devote their
lives to it.

We can not maintain these ex-
pectations for the peace unless we
think of our individual places in
it, and our future study here is the
part that prepares us to take this
place as educated persons. Miss
McBride urged all students to de-
vote themselves seriously to this
decision, and to make their educa-
tion count more heavily than ever
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Staff Changes Made
By Returning Faculty

Continued from Page 3

Blane, Instructor, have been added
to the History Department. Dimi-
tris Tselos, lecturer in History of
Art, has been Assistant Professor
at New York University. Isabel
S. Stearns, who was an Assistant
Professor in Philosophy at Smith,
will be an Associate Professor in
Philosophy.

Mr. Green, Lecturer in Physics,
is on leave of absence from Hav-
erford where he is Assistant Pro-
fessor. The Political Science De-
partment is enlarged by the addi-
tion of Melanie Staerk, part time
lecturer, who was a member of
the faculty—political science—at
Rosemont College, and Bryce
(Wood, part time lecturer, who is
Assistant Professor of Political
Science at Swarthmore. David
McClelland will be part time: lec-
turer in Psychology. He is on
leave from Wesleyan University
where he is Instructor and he is
also working with the A.P:S.C.
Also in the Psychology Depart-
ment, Hughbert Hamilton, who is
Associate Professor of Psychology
at Temple University, will be Lec-
turer for the first semester of
‘Comparative Psychology.

Eveline Burns, Lecturer, and
Ann Shyne, Instructor, will be with
the Social Economy Department.



Radio Club Will Begin
Broadcasting Shortly



‘Official opening exercises for
this year will be presented next
Monday evening at 8:30 by WBMC
and WHAYV, the Bryn Mawr and
Haverford radio stations. The
Bryn Mawr Radio Club will intro-
duce its opening program with a
brief speech by its president, Mar-
garet Browder ’45, and the presi-
dent of the Haverford radio club
will address the Haverford audi-
ence.

The Radio, Club reminds its lis-
teners ‘that it is operating on 570
kilocycles. The transmissional dif-
ficulties which presented them-
selves last year have been cleared
up, and WBMC can now be heard
clearly anywhere on campus.

The Monday night program will
include a broadcast by Bill Willar,
the producer of Stories of People
on last year’s programs. over
WHAYV, and now an announcer
with Station WIP in Philadelphia.

This year ‘the Radio Club is
planning a series of programs de-
signed to tie up all the various
extra-curricular activities of the
college. Each club or organization
will present its own broadcast ex-
plaining its purpose and activities,
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