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VOL. XLH, NO. 20

ARDMORE .and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 17, 1946

Copyright Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS

1945



Three Colleges
FormCommittee
On Food Crisis

Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
Swarthmore Plan
Campaign

Bryn Mawr, Haverford and
Swarthmore have formed an_ in-
tercollegiate committee for con-
tacting other colleges to initiate
food conservation programs and to
urge national measures in the food
crisis.

The group is recommending that

__a national food coordinator be ap-

pointed to handle contacts between
the different agencies responsible
for procurement and distribution
of food, and that supplies be chan-
neled directly to relief organiza-
tions, without passing through the
civilian market. Several members
of the committee expect to see high
government officials in Washing-
ton next week.

A telegram is being sent by the
committee to the chairmen of the
appropriate organizations in other
colleges both on the Eastern Coast

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Fraenkel to Give
Lecture on Math.

Dr. ‘Adolph Fraenkel, former
Rector of the Hebrew University

in Jerusalem, will speak on The

Foundations of Mathematies in the
Bryn Mawr Common Room at 4:30
on April 24. Dr. Fraenkel, who ‘is
speaking under the auspices of the
Mathematics and Philosophy de-
partments of Bryn Mawr, Haver-
ford, Swarthmore and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, will discuss
the Hebrew University at Haver-
ford. at 8:30 on April 24.

Dr. Fraenkel has been a profes-
sor of mathematics at the Hebrew
University and is the author of
Einleitung in Die Mengentehre, a
work on the foundations. of logic
and matheamtics which has already
gone through three editions.



Model Congress
Teaches Politics

To B. dents

A model congress held in Har-
risburg during spring vacation
gave students of Pennsylvania
collegés “a chance to really con-
duct a congress, and to see how
the problems arise and are met
by. congressmen,’ reported Joan
Vitkin, ‘one of ten Bryn Mawr
students who attended the confer-
ence. For the first time since the
war, the Intercollegiate Confer-
ence on Government. renewed its
annual meetings, each of a differ-
ent type, to acquaint students with
the workings of government and
legislature.

The session, to which all inter:
ested students of the Pennsylvania
colleges were invited, lasted from
the 28th to the 31st of March at
the headquarters, in the Penn
Harris Hotel, and was patterned
exactly after the national Con-
gress, with elections for Speaker,
lobbying, and voting upon the bills
introduced by the delegates of each
college. On.one day, committee
meetings were held, and the bills
presented andu.djscussed on the
floor. The following day, congress
went into plenary session, and the
bills were passed or rejected. Par-
ties and political activities filled
the evenings, and the conclusion of
the session was celebrated by a
dance on Saturday night.

In the most dramatic episode of
the session, the congress passed
by a very slight margin a closely
contested bill -initiated by Shirley
Wood and Betsy Fenstermacher of
Bryn Mawr which proposed that
the atomic bomb be turned over to
an_ international committee on
atomic control. Among the other
bills passed was the Annual Wage
Bill, proposed by another Bryn
Mawr delegate.

The Bryn Mawr “congressmen”
returned with enthusiastic reports
of the congress’s success in attain-
ing the aims of the conference,
and’ calling attention to the fact
that. the delegation is unlimited,
they urge a larger delegation for
next year.



Diverse Activities Consume Time

Of B. M. Residents Over Holiday

by Judy Marcus, ’49

The road to the bridge table is
paved with good intentions, ac-
cording to many of the staunch
souls who remained at Bryn Mawr
during the Spring vacation to
catch up on their work. The girl
who wasn’t a bridge enthusiast
had to resign herself to social ob-
scurity, unless she chose to take
part in one of the chess games
that continually went on in Rock
during the twelve, day holiday.

Bridge and chess were just two
of the many activities that occu-
pied the time of the girls who
spent their vacations at college.
‘One psychology major reports that
she had a pleasant time analyzing
the personality of the girl who
lived in the room she was occupy-
ing. Others found pastimes of a
less scholastic nature. A girl who
remained at college to write a
paper said, “We started out with
firm resolutions . . . and then we
went to the movies.” One .of the
chief complaints of the temporary
Rock residents ‘was that the pic-
tures on the Main Line don’t
change often enough.

The first few days of the vaca-



tion the girls spent hours wander-
ing through the corridors looking
for people they knew, and every
vaguely familiar individual was
greeted as a bosom buddy. Getting
accustomed to the new surround-
ings also took quite a while. One
girl vows she will be eternally
grateful to the owner of the room

in which she stayed for leaving

messages like “The stocking

‘stretchers are sizenine,” and “The

alarm clock works pretty well if
you wind it regularly,” scattered in
appropriate places about the room.

Some of the most amusing in-
cidents of the vacation occurred
when the girls staying in Rock ran
afoul of that hall’s rather unique
plumbing system. After starting
to fill a tub for a bath, one’ of
the inexperienced lasses wandered
off to speak to a friend for a mo-
ment. Upon her return she could
not remember in which of, the

many bathaaane— ~ha had left the
water running. After a frantic
search, she only managed to lo-
cate it just in time to avert the
incipient flood.

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Bryn Mawr Chorus Rehearsal



Music Room, Gooprart. Mrs. de Varon leads Chorus in prep-
aration for Yale Concert of April 13.



Inauguration Held

On Taylor Steps

The traditional inauguration cer-
emony for the five major associa-
tions_of the college -was held Thurs-
day, April 11 with many, though
minor, changes. For the first time
it occurred on the Senior steps of
Taylor instead of on Goodhart
stage, the out-going officers plac-
ing their caps upon the heads of
their

them with the gavels of their or-

successors and _ presenting

ganizations.
Pat Behrens, as president of. the

‘Undergraduate Association, stress-

ed the activity of the Undergradu-
ate Council made up of the heads
of the five major associations: Self-
Government, Undergrad, Alliance,
League, and Athletic Association,

and the editor of the College News,
who meet regularly as equals to
discuss campus problems and to
act as a coordinating body of cam-
pus activities.

The retiring officers dispensed
with the customary reports of the
annual activities of the organiza-
tions. These reports, which the
students are urged to read, can
be foundin the Quita ay ener
Room of the library.

Zaremba Recital

To Benefit Relief

A piano recital by Sylvia Zar-
emba, soloist with the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,
will be given in Goodhart on
April 29, for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr College Committee for
Relief for Europe.

Miss ' Zaremba, at the age of
fourteen, has been a soloist with
prominent orchestras all over the
country for seven years. She was
only seven when she made her first.
appearance with a symphony orch-
estra, playing a Mozart concerto
with the Women’s Symphony Orch-
estra
debut at Town Hall at the age o
ten, led the “New York Times” ip
comment, “she has an exquisite
talent.”

Miss Zaremba. has also sq foie
with the Philadelphia Orchdstra,
the Cleveland Orchestra, and the
New Haven Symphony Orchestra,
and in.1944 appeared with Artur
Rodzinski at Carnegie Hall over
a nation-wide radio hook/up. Since
1940 she has been a pupji of Mme.
Isabelle Vengerova at /the Curtis



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Haverford, B. M.
Cast Spring Play

Varsity Players’ and
last big production of this year
will be “George (Washington Slept
Here” by George Kaufman and
Moss Hart to be given in conjunc-
tion with Cap and Bells of Haver-
ford in Roberts Hall, Haverford,
April 26 and 27 at 8:15.

Mr. Frederic Thon of the Bryn
Mawr faculty is directing the
play. Mr. Thon, who graduated
from Harvard and receiyed his
M.F..A. from the department of
Drama at Yale University, has
served. as a writer and actor with
Theatre (Collective in New York
City. Former director. of Exper-
imental Production at Ohio Uni-
versity and of the Summer session
of the School of Acting of the
Pasadena Playhouse, Mr. Thon was
unable to decide between the two
finalists for the feminine lead in
“George Washington Slept Here.”
Therefore Katherine (Colvin ’46
will play Friday night and Geor-
giana Wiebenson ’46 will take ths
part on Saturday night.

Other members of the cast hei

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Concert Reveals








Spirit, Variation
In Presentation

Effective Direction
Fine Feeling
by Helen Anderton °49

Goodhart Hall, April 13. A most
interesting and enjoyable concert
was presented here tonight by the
members of the Bryn Mawr Chor-
us and the Yale Glee Club. If in
past years, there has ever existed
any doubt as to the merits of Bryn
Mawr’s singing, those doubts must
have been dispelled tonight, for
Bryn Mawr proved well able to
hold its own beside one of the
country’s leading singing groups.

The concert opened with Two
Palms by Schutz, which revealed
the fine intonation and excellent
diction displayed by the two groups
singing together.

The Yale Glee Club then Seng,
Schubert’s Omnipotence,
German Minnelieder, and a part/

ist, Richard Edwards, révealed a
voice of good quatity/ which at
times was spoiled by Seing forced.
It was for this reagon that some
of his notes did not come out to
their best effect,/The Minnelieder,
arranged-by Marshall Bartholo-
mew, Yale’s gonductor, were light
and melodiops, and sung with ap-
propriate’
this group, Alas, To Whom Dare
I Compl4in? was also arranged for
solo afd chorus. Clive Dill’s -voice
had An amazingly rich tone, sup-
pleyhented by the Glee Club in the
baékground. And Now ’Tis Time to
, from the Peasants’ Cantata,
was given a vigorous rendition,
with good sustained effects in the
necessary Places.

The Bryn Mawr Chorus then
sang O Vos Omnes, by Vittoria,
and We Hasten To Thee from
Bach’s Cantata 78. In the first, not

|only was the intonation good, but

the ‘different parts came out with

-|great clarity, The Bach could have

fallen quite flat. In this case it did
not. The melody was displayed, to
its utmost, as was the energetic

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which consisted mainly of
homeless Westers. leaving
tgoth-brushes behind and running
iAto the fact ‘that sharing a roof,
1 crust, or a cigarette with their
friends is all right, but a tooth-
brush is ever sacred.

Not really undaunted by their
temporary dehousing, the — far-
sighted inhabitants of Pembroke
West left notes in almost every
room, hoping for a response from
Yale. Evidently Yale teaches them
to write, and even Emily Post
would. have commended the bread
and butter letters: although some,
it- must. be admitted, had—a-touch
of the ironic.

Ii answer to the query “How

was the candy ?” found in an elab- |.

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by Alice Wadsworth, ’49

orate guest book left by a certain
hospitable freshmen, one youth had
said “haven’t-found it”; his more
enterprising room-mate however,
simply remarked “Fine!” ‘The way
to. a man’s heart, ete.; In another
case the food problem seemed to
have been adequately solved, when
obvious clues indicated that the
men had enjoyed a hearty break-
fast of ‘wheat-hearts.”

Perhaps the most tender senti-
ment, one which could well be
quoted in famous letters of the
world, was found by an archaeol-
ogy major, who had left her sched-
ule on the desk. The text is as fol-
lows: Jam

“If I never ever get to meet
you,’ have a wonderful life, and
may you someday be the mother

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