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“VOL. XLI, NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 115, 1944

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1944



PRICE 10 CENTS





Burns Discusses
Health Situation
‘In United States

Primary Problem is\Lack
Of Care and Supplies,
Says Burns

Goodhart, November 13. In the
fifth of the Anna Howard Shaw
series on Social Security in an Ex-
panding Economy, Dr. Eveline M.
Burns continued her lecture of last
week on Planning for Health Serv-
ices. She explained. why health
conditions in the United States are
unsatisfactory even though this
country has the highest standard
in the world.

Stating that the primary prob-
lém is the inability of income re-
ceivers to purchase medical sup-
plies and care, Mrs. Burns elabor-

‘ated on ways of counteracting this

situation. The method that doctors
now use of charging patients’ ac-
cording to their ability to pay is
unsatisfactory because of the re-
luctance of the public to accept
charity.

Private Insurance

The development of voluntary
private insurance has made great
strides in solving the problem. The
semi-profit making device of pri-
vate insurance companies usually
covers group insurance, offering
protection to certain groups
against specified risks.

In the non-profit private insur-
ance group, the Blue Cross Hospi-

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Undergrad Assembly

To Honor Resistance

Of Foreign Students



ents’ Day, Novemler 17, the Un-
dergraduate Assogiation will pre-
sent Miss Christina Swiniarska,
who will speak on Polish Students
During Wartime, and Miss Yelana
Albana, Yugoslay student.

To observe ‘mr Stud-

A native Pole, Miss Swiniarski
was graduated from Barnard Col-
lege in 1941. At present, she
works for the Polish Information
Service Center and attends Colum-
bia Graduate School. Miss Albana
is at present attending Barnard.

The assembly will commemorate
the 19389 Prague massacre of
Czechoslovak students and teach-
ers by the Nazi Gestapo. All the
free countries of the world partic-
ipate in the observance of this day.

Events following the German
occupation foretold the fate of
Czech educational institutions.
Censorship destroyed freedom of
speech, press. radio, wireless, the-
atre and cinema; schools were
strictly controlled; on intellectual
intercourse with the outside world
was permitted.

Czech universities, visible sym-
bols of the nation’s cultural sov-
ereignty, were the first real vic-
tims of. German brutality.” On|
November 16 and 17, 156 students
were massacred in their beds and
1,200 were taken under conditions
of unbelievable hardship to con-
centration camps, where they were
unmercifully tortured.

Educational institutions in other
parts of the nation received the

Continued on Page 3



Weekly Invasions of Sightseeing Veterans
Stir Anthropological Interest in Students



_ By Patricia Platt °45
Bryn Mawr may not have joined
the ranks of the Seven Wonders of

the World, \but it has become the
object of weekly sight-seeing
tours. For the last three Wednes-

days we have been honored by the
visit of groups of about forty
overseas veterans, many of them
pilots, from a rest.camp at Atlan-
tic City. Aiming at Valley Forge,
they drop in on us, seeing a little
more each week, and _ gradually
raising the campus to its toes.
The first invasion was a bit of
a shock to students of anthropol-
ogy, lounging with a between-hour
cigarette upon the steps of Taylor.
They had just been puzzling about
what became of Neanderthal man
when a more modern version drove
him from Europe. Suddenly, as if
in answer to a prayer, the first
wave of veterans came strolling
through Pem arch, and the anthro-
pologists, not daring to believe
their eyes, fled back to intellectual
safety. There was no cause for
alarm, however, for the veterans
‘only went as far as Senior Row,
about-faced, and meandered. back

to the elongated buses in which

they came.
A week later; while the anthro-
pologists were again wracking

‘their brains, this time about what

had become of Cro-magnon man,
they had yet another shock. By
then Bryn Mawr was. red,
and while not armed with velvet

_ carpet, could at least supply two

guides who showed the soldiers
around campus, and even took
them into some of the halls. ~
The glad word began to get
around, and by the third visit

about .ten eager guides from Pem-
broke assembled and took over.
There ensued a search for some-
thing to drink that led the group
into the Library, Goodhart, and
Rhoads, but unearthed only water.
It seems that the travel-weary
veterans wanted to find the bar.

teries of the Rhoads water-cooler,
but left as thirsty as ever. Back

to heart, opened the hall bookshop,
and produced what _ every ‘ ship-
wrecked mariner hankers for—
dry crackers. The only expedient
left was to dash to the Pem water
cooler, which has_ subsequently
suffered a drought.

To the eyes of some soldiers,
tier-deep in service ribbons, Bryn
Mawr is a little anachronistic. One
took a look around and wanted to
know whether ours was a physical
education college. Another asked
what kind of a business college
this was, while a third, after tak-
ing in the sights, announced the
decision that he would like to be a
professor here. Just returned from
Roumania, one veteran commented
that our attire was strikingly sim-
ilar to that he had just left be-
hind.

In the future. Bryn Mawr plans
to extend further hospitality to its
weekly invaders. So far the vet-
erans have failed to locate the bar
or entice students into crap or
poker games, but they have smok-
ed and shouted in the library, and
added vastly to the scenery. A

plan is afoot to entertain them

jwith tea (something liquid like



coke) in different halls every week.

They were initiated into the mys-|

in Pem, the guides, taking failure |

| with a percentage

Players Club Offers
‘Ladies in Retirement’
) As Winter Production

On Friday and Saturday nights,
December 2 and 38, The Varsity
Players Club and The Haverford
Cap and Bells will present Ladies
in Retirement by Edward Percy

and Reginald Denham. The play
is being directed by Mrs. Wein-
berg who majored in dramatics

at Carnegie Tech, and has_ been
very active in the - Footlights
Club and The Plays and Players
Club of Philadelphia. »

The play, recently so popular
on Broadway, is the story of three
dld sisters, one of whom does
away with her bénefactress. It is
well suited for Bryn Mawr _be-
cause the characters are sharply
defined, with a ratio of six women’s
parts to one man. It is, however,
in the nature of an experiment,
as the characters are old people
in a mystery melodrama. The plot,
full of suspense, depends on the
psychological development of the
elder sister.

The sisters will be played by
Jessica Levy ’48 as Ellen Creed,
Carol McGovern ’48, as Louisa
Creed and Martha Gross ’47 as
Emily Creed. Kate Rand ’45 will
take the part of Leonora Fiske;

Lucy .Gilham; John Stone of Al-
bert Feather, and Nanette Emery
’47 of Sister Theresa.

|Campus Cooperates
In War Chest Drive



Tie United War Chest Drive
which include#-contributions from
everyone connected with the col-
lege, is progressing fairly well.
The totals are not yet complete,
as the donations are still coming
into the office of the chairman of
the Drive. The Drive will close on
November 17.

$30.05 has been given thus far
by the Maids and Porters. Rock-
efeller was the first hall in which
the Maids and Porters registered
a 100% contribution, with the
sum of $14.00. From the Main-
tenance Staff, 86% of the pledges
hve been collected, totalling
$42.00.

83% of the Deanery residents
have pledged and paid $54.00 to
the Drive. The graduate students,
of 58, have
given $57.00. 51% of the faculty
have pledged $1001.00, of which
$753.00 has been paid.

From undergraduate students,
$4037.50 has been collected, a 94%
record. This makes a total, up to
date, of $5235.55, which will go to
the United: War Chest.

(lub Plans to Show
Satiric French Film



Rene Clair, known to the Amer-
ican public as director of The
Ghost Goes West, produces the film
A Nous la_ Liberte, which the
French Club is presenting in the
Music Room, on Friday, Novem-
ber 17. ©

The picture is a satiric‘fable of
the liberties not permitted by the
modern world either to its failures
or to its successes. Two men
find out that money and consider-



Continued on page 3

Katharine —Southerland—’48,— of}



Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day fall on No-
vember 23 this year. All stud-
ents are expected to attend
classes, although they will not
have to register as in’ previous
years. Monitoring will proceed
as usual.

Classes at twelve o’clock will
be excused for an assembly ad-
dress by Vera: Michaels Dean
of the Foreign Policy Associa-
tion on The Threshold of World
Order.

Thanksgiving dinner will be
served at 6:30.

Dr. Karo Will Deliver
Illustrated Lecture
With Crete as Topic

The Department of Archaeology
has invited Professor George Karo
to give an informal lecture on
Thursday evening, November 16,
in the Deanery. This talk, entitled
Crete and Mycenae, will begin at
8:15 and will be illustrated by
lantern slides.

Mr. Karo is a very well known









eal circles, particularly in Italy,
Greece, and Germany. He is a
brilliant linguist, and is complete-

|ly at home writing or speaking

five different languages,
Famous as a cosmopolitan gen-

published the best® of the great
works on Mycenae, including such
treatises in English*as An Attic
Cemetery: Excavation in the Kera-
meikos of Athens under Gustav
Oberlander and the Oberlander
Trust, and, in German, Fuehrer
durch Tiryns.

figure_in_internationalarechaeologi-}

tleman and scholar, Mr. Karo has



Junior Class Nominates Candidates
For Secretary of Self-Government

Qulahan, Dame, Ward, Barton
Presented for Office
By Juniors
The.Junior class offers the fol-
lowing candidates for the Office of
Secretary of the Self-Government
Association: Susan Oulahan, Diana
Dame, Jane Ward, and Mary Bar-
ton. The election comes at this”
time due to the fact that the pres-
ent secretary is leaving college.
The duties of the Secretary are
to, keep the minutes of the’ Assoc-
iation and of the Advisory Board,
to post the notices of the meetings,
and to attend to the correspond-
ence of the Association.

Susan Oulahan
‘Susan was the Sophomore rep-
resentative to the Self-Government
Association, and is now its first
Junior member. She is a member
of the Editorial Board of the News
and was assistant. stage manager
of the Denbigh Freshman play her
Freshman year.
Diana Dame
Diana is Junior hall representa-
tive for the Alliance, and is on the
Cut Committee. She has been an
engineer for the Radio Club since
the beginning of her -Sophomore
year.
Jane-Ward
Jane is Features Manager of the
Radio Club, and has been a re-
serve bookroom librarian for two
years, She was one of the stage
crew for her Freshman hall play,
and will be in the German Christ-
mas. play this year. /
Mary Barton
‘Mary has been a permission giv-
er since the middle of her Sopho-
more year. She is hall representa-
tive for Chapel Services. She was
on the hockey squad her Freshman
year, and belongs to the Science
Club.



To weary crammers for mid-
semesters and to those suffering
from the usual week-end martyr
complexes the appearance of steak
at last Sunday’s dinner had. all
the ear-marks of a mirage. To
Miss Bacheller, the College Die-
tician, the steak signified the re-
sult of long and hitherto fruitless
efforts.

Planning all year to shock the
student body out of their favorite



Calendar

Thursday, Nov. 16
Professor George Karo. Crete
and Mycenae, Deanery, 8:15.
Friday, Nov. 17 ©
International Students Assem-
bly, Goodhart, 12:00.
French Club Movie. A Nous
La Liberte, Music Room, 8:00.
Tri-County Concerts Associa-
tion. William Kincaid, Sam-
el Lifschey, Edna Phillips.
adnor High School, 8:30.
Saturday, Nov. 18
Intercollegiate Hockey Try-
outs. Swarthmore, 9:00.
Monday,-. Nov. 20
Shaw Lecture. Dr. Eveline M.
. Burns. Planning for Human
Welfare: The Broader Issues.
Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, November 21
Sigma Xi meeting. Deanery,
8:00.
Wednesday, Nov. 22
Record Concert, Common
Room, 7:30.
Philosophy Club. Mr. Weiss.
Theology and Philosophy, Com-
mon Room, 8:30.
Bible Discussion. John Buch-
anan. Goodhart, 8:00.











Bacheller Surprises Campus With Steak
As Meat-Procuring Problem Gets Worse

topic of attempting to define the

meat, Miss’ Bacheller weekly
phoned the five wholesale meat
dealers who provide the protein

requirement for 500 females but
only last week did they have a

sufficient amount of beef, and
even then, Miss Bacheller la-
ments, all the steaks were not

filets. Happily, the steak requir-
ed no points, being utility beef, a
fact which will relieve those who
prophecied hash for the next
three weeks.

To Miss Bacheller, with her 22
years of service as a dietician in
schools and colleges, the _ pros-
pects in the food line fo 1945 are
distinctly dubious. Last year was
the most difficult year-from the
point of view of procuring food; -
this fall was worse, and the win-
ter promises to top them all, with
the college allowed fewer points
than ever and the previous re-
serve depleted’ As yet, even tur-
keys cannot be promised to make .
a Thanksgiving of classes and™
labs more ‘bearable.

‘The hungry undergraduate may

look forward to plenty of eggs, to
a preponderance of lamb patties,
veal and utility beef, and-to a dis-
tinct lack of peaches, pears and
pineapples. Since the _ unbeliev-
able sum of 3200 points a week
are spent on butter, no points are
left for beef, in addition to the
fact that ration books turned in

by undergraduates are sadly lack-

ing in points.


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Entered as second class matter at-the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office

Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912

A Second Flaw

Last week came the first indication that the Undergrad-
uate Volunteer Activities Program is not wholly successful,
as a News editorial revealed a lamentable situation in regard
to Farming. This week comes a second and more serious in-
dication. From the attendance figures taken at the Surgical
Dressings unit, it is evident that large numbers of students
are disregarding any registering done in the first flush of
enthusiasm.

151 students registered for Surgical Dressings work. Of
these, 64 actually attended during the month of October,
putting in a total of 153 hours for the month. Broken down
in terms of halls, the figures reveal the non-attendance as an
all-campus ailment. In Merion, 25 girls registered for Sur-
gical Dressings, 10 attended, giving a total of 25 hours, while
in Denbigh 23 registered, 11 attended and 33 hours were put
in. Of the Pembrokes, West had 14 registrants, nine of whom
attended, giving 27 hours of work, and East had 20 volun-
_ teers, with seven of these giving a total of 1114 hours. Of
the two larger halls, 17 of Rhoads’ 36 registrants gave a total
oi 38 hours, and four of Rock’s 18 registrants did seven hours
of work. In Radnor, of the four who signed up two attended,
giving seven hours of work, and in Wyndham seven people
signed up and no one attended. Of the Non-Reses two of the
four’signed up contributed five and a half hours of work.

There cannot be, as in the case of Farming, an explan-
ation offered for thé scant attendance. Hours were arranged
to suit the convenience of the greatest number of the volun-
teers; October is a relatively free month from an academic
point of view. Obviously, it is not merely a case of finding
three hours a week too much time to devote to war work,
since 87 students simply did not appear for the Surgical
Dressings work. -There remains only the supposition that
many of those who registered in the opening days of college
have no intention of fulfilling even partially that pledge.

Throughout the college, a survey is now being made of
the war work done diring one week by each undergraduate.
If the conditions present in Farming and Surgical Dressings
are symptomatic of the state of the coordinated volunteer
program as a whole, it becomes obvious that the high hopes
of the Undergraduate Council in presenting the U. ’V. A. P.
program to the college are far from being realized. The chal-
lenge given to the undergraduates to redeem the half-
attempts of Bryn Mawr at war work in the past two years
is then not being met. Time and opportunities remain where-
by it may be‘met. €an it be done?









Modern Plays

Mr. Sprague presides over a
student committee specially
charged with keeping the li-
brary’s drama shelves complete
and up-to-date. The committee
welcomes suggestions for plays
to be purchased and asks that
ideas be brought to Mary Vir-
ginia More ’45, April Oursler
’46, or Antoinette “Boel ’47.

Smoking

As of today, a room for
smoking and typing is open to
students in the Library. Look
for the door marked Depart-
ment of Education, near the
Non-Res Room—if you can find
that.











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Students Condemn Violations
Of Reserve Book Rules

As Discourteous







Dear Editor:

It is high time that the student
body realize the situation which
exists in regard to reserve books.
Many people séem to have forgot-
ten their obligations to the student
body as a whole; and- infringe-
ments of the library rules have
become an everyday affair.

Often a student carries two or
more reading courses requiring
reserve books. She _ generally
finds it necessary to reserve her
books in advance. What is she

“to do when a book which she has

reserved is not to be found for
several days, nor is there any
record as to its whereabouts?

| It is sheer lack of considera-
tion for one’s fellow students to
keep out an overnight book after
nine” o’tlock or to abscond with
library books and so withdraw
them from general- circulation.
No student has the right to de-
prive another of library facilities
which are essential to her college
progress.

If Bryn Mawr is still an aca-
demic institution and if its center
in academic matters is still the
library, its _xregulations should
be enforced as stringently as_ the
Student Government - enforces
regulations in regard to _ social
matters.

Coyistance Rothschild
Catherine Clark ’47

s coiaaical c vents

Common Room, November 13.

Stalin’s speech, delivered on No-
vember 6, the 27th Anniversary
of the Soviet Revolution, was his
most important address of the war
both from our point of view and
that of the Russians, stated Miss
Robbins .at ‘Current Events on
Monday night.

Extremely important is Stalin’s
stand against Japan. Stressing
the fact that Japan, as an aggres-
sive nation, proved more prepared
for war than Great Britain or the
United States, Stalin advocated a
World Security Organization to
preserve peace and prevent further
wars,

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Red Army

Giving a blow by blow descrip-
tion of the operations of the Red
Army during the last war, Stalin
pointed out how it achieved the
“expulsion of German troops from
the Soviet Union, France, Belgium.
and middle Italy,” thus bringing
Germany to the verge of “inevit-
able catagfrophe.”

Stalin paid great tribute to the
industrial workers of Russia, for
their contribution to the tremen-
dous economic victory over Ger-
many, and gave special mention
also to the. heroism of. the .women
and children. Particular tribute
was paid to the farm group which
thas done so much already to re-
store Russian agriculture and is
producing an unceasing supply of
food.

Stalin furthermore attributes a
large amount of credit to the pow-
erful organization of the second
front, which is holding Germany
in a vice. To continue to hold Ger-
many in this vice is to hold the
“key to victory,” said Stalin.

From here he went on to discuss
victory in the light of intertnation-

al politics, We are fighting Fas-
cist ideology, he declared, and the
Hitlerites are suffering a moral
and political defeat as well as a



Continued on Page 4

IN PRINT

Steig’s Drawings Satirize
Phobias and Failings
-« Of Moderns °



by April Oursler 746

So much that is unnecessarily
redundant and uselessly axiomatic
has .béen published in the broad
field of psychological ‘analysis in
the last years that it is both a re-
lief and a shock to run_ into
something like William Steig’s
books: The Lonely Ones, All Em-
barrassed and About People.

Technically, they are collec-
tions of cartoons, but they seem
rather to be the development of a
new form of satirical analysis,
both psychological and __ socioligi-
cal. They ‘tannot be classified
more definitely than as critiques
of man’s mental attitudes, his
pretenses and his hopeless self-
obsession. Drawn with a caustic
economy of line, they are charged
with sarcasm and a kind of deri-
sive understanding. Their frank-
ness and cruelty are frightening.

Although each book limits _ it-
self according to its title, they
could all be called About People.
Titles of pictures such as “My
Troubles are Purely Psychic,”
“I’m Blameless”, “Man Who
Wants to ibe Pitied”, and “Man
‘Being Kidded”, figure along with
drawings of the conscious and.
unconscious states of fear, nerves,
amnesia, hypochondria and embar-
rassment. The drawing are of
recognizable human figures, but
the technique is that of the X-
Ray and the microscope combined,
and the minute details of every
falseness and fault are . brought
out.

Mr. Steig refuses to take any
of these mental \states with the
seriousness their owners and per-

Continued on Page 4

18 Years Ago

> The News of 1926 instituted a
gossip and comment

test, “The Pillar of Salt” and sign-
ed by “Lot’s Wife.” Enthusiasm
in the contest was great, judging
by the variety of names offered:
The Bryn Mawron, All the News
it Gives us Fits to Print, Shall We
Join the Ladies, etc., but interest
may have been stimulated by the
prizes offered: an assortment of
musical instruments (harmonicas,
“sweet patooties,” etc.), a sub-

| scription to The Christian Science
Monitor, and a_ sample. Colgate’s

weekend ‘kit; containing tooth
paste, soap, talcum powder. and
shaving soap (awarded to the girl

who suggested “Bryn Mawron.’”).
* * *

(Peter-piperism, according to a
News editorial, which gets its in-
formation from the New York
Times, is rapidly replacing cross-
word puzzles as the avocation of
the idle. The idea is to devise an
alliterative sentence of not less
than 8 words and not more than
twelve, thus (suggests the News):
“Ghastly girls grinding gruesome
German grammars generate ghost-
ly gloom.”

The .News shudders to think of
the results on the scholarly mind,
and finds little solace in the argu-
ment of an increased vocabulary.
Instead we cross the page and read
an enthusiastic eulogy of St. Fran-
cis—such sweet sorrow soothes our
system, sadly sighing o’er the

spirit of Str Francis (of Assisi.)
* *

Jaeckel, Fifth Aveput, is adver
tising fur coats wnder the slogan
(accompanied by cut): “Sitting out
a dance may be accomplished in
any sort of filmy frock, but sitting
out a little misunderstanding in
some snowbound nook in a fur coat
helps to take the chill off the at-



mosphere,” :

“Colyum’’)
called, as the result of a title con- |



Cinema



Film Version, of ‘Our Hearts”
Lacks Credibility, Continuity
Throughout



By April Oursler °46

Our Hearts Were Young and' Gay
made its debut on campus after a,
tremendous build-up in front of a
capacity, and on the whole enthus-
iastic audience. But for-those ré-
garding it with any sort of critic
eye, the movie did not live up tq
the expectations aroused by the.
book and by the studio publicity.

. It was mainly a lack of credibil-.
ity and continuity that made the-
movie unsatisfactory. To begin.
with, the material is more easily
developed to its fullest potential--
ities in prose than in the pictorial
presentation where it suffers with-
out the delicate satirical touch of
Miss Skinner and Miss Kimbrough..

Somehow, for example, the ac--
tual appearance of the enormous.
white coats in. the movie could
never rival the effectiveness of the.
tall-tale hyperbole of their descrip-.
tion in the book. Nor could Cor-.
nelia’s case of measles have the:
same suspense involved in it im
the movie as in the expert under-.
writing of the book.

Perhaps the picture as a whole:
would have been more effective if:
the audience had not had such a.
thorough knowldege of the book:
itself. Yet even those incidents
specially written for the film were
so unreal as to fail to achieve even
the level of good farce. It was
charming to imagine with the girls
in the book the horrors of being:
locked out on the tower of Notre
Dame; but we cannot accept. the
premise, of its actually happening
even though to find it truly comic.

As for the innocent purse-
snatching which began and ended
their trip, it was so artificially
contrived, and so irapossible in its
recurrence, that it took away from
the more natural humor surround-.
ing it.

Lack of continuity was in a large:

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WITS END

O to be erudite while the soil
erodes, and winter nestles down
upon the eggs to hatch the viper
brood of quisling quizzes!

They asked me how I knew that
I was turning blue, andI of
course replied that Chaucer had
just swallowed my tapeworm, and
that in 1215 Napoleon peeled a
banana down in, the bullrushes to
escape the advances of Beatrice,
hydrochloric acid, and senile psy-
choses. I clamped the lid that
shut my trap, then, spitting out a
gum drop to please the eskimos,
I ran around the corridor with
Plato who had me ina
grip, and we crashed and thrashed
until it was evident that it was,
better to do the whole thing quiet-
ly, and sit playing tit-tat-toe un-
til the bell rang.

Slowly dumping the waste pa-



discovered that * chemical equa-
tions cannot be equations because
they obviously do not equal any-
thing, which is why my soul is
immortal and the rest of me is in
its present state. In this I find
the heartening desolation that has
beset pure minds ever since I
rdrowned in the freshman « swim-
ming test. That perpetual moan-
ing at the bars is but the swal-
lows swallowing the bitter pill be-
fore turning over a_ new leaf.
Alas, that, too, wobbles and the
woolley rhinosceros stampeding
in premordial time is also gone



_| with the tornado!

scissor -

per basket into a blue book, I°*

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LLEGE NEWS

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Page Three











‘- INCIDENTALLY





Pickpockets Shouldn’t Take Biology

The First Year Biology class
watched attentively the other day
as Miss Gardiner, obviously reach-
ing a climax in her lecture, lifted
the cover off a glass dish on the
desk. She stood looking at it in
complete silence for a while, then
calmly began searching amon the
papers and ‘books beside it on the
desk, and finally after - feeling
quietly in her pockets, turned’ to
the class with an _ unperturbed
smile and said: “I fear there is an
earthworm at large in the room”

—and continued to feel hopefully’

into the recesses of her jacket poc-
kets.
Study in Obsession

The election may be over, but the
effects of the campaign linger on,
at least in the minds of the Psy-
chology Department. Mr. Helson,
lecturing on the desirability of ob-
taining emotional happiness in the
present, emphasized the fact that
there was no point in dreaming of
it in the future “as, for instance,
when Roosevelt is no. longer Pres-
jident.” Again, proving that neu-
rologists are not equipped to test
mental standards accurately, Mr.
Helson demolished the nerve ‘spec-
ialists’ methods by remarking that
it required no intelligence to ans-
wer the question “Who is Presi-



Bryn Mawr Defeats -
Rosemont Team 1-0



Bryn Mawr, November 14. Play-
ing a ‘completely offensive game,
-the Bryn Mawr hockey team se-
-eured a 1-0 victory over Rosemont.
Backed up by an invulnerable. de-
fense, the forward: line: bore ‘the’
brunt of the match, —

In the first five minutes of play,
Marge Richardson ’46, moved in to
score the Owls’ only goal, follow-
ed’ by forty-five minutes of unin-
spiring free hits, corners, roll-ins,
and billies.. Almost the entire
game was fought around the Rose-
mont circle. ..

Alice Hedge ’46, and Ellen Cary
"47, did a superb job of carrying
the ball within shooting distance
of the Rosemont goal, and it was
not their fault that the Owls did
not win by a larger margin. The
rose team played a purely defen-
sive game, crowding into the circle
when’ their goal was threatened,
and never getting a shot at the
Owls’ goal.

Less inhibited about piling up.a
respectable score, the Bryn Mawr
Reserve team trounced the Rose-
mont J. V.’s 10-0.’ Betsy Day .’47,
was responsible for half the goals,
while Posy Kent ’45, as substitute.
left wing, scored twice, and Helen
Poland .’47, Hope Kaufmann "48,
and Winnie Cadbury ’48, boasted a.
goal apiece. Not only the for-
wards, but the entire Green team

played a united and effective game
of hockey. :



fd (750 on your dial)

Undergrad Assembly
Will Honor Students

Continued. from page 1

same fate as Prague. A year after
the attack on the universities, the
Germans completed their work by
destroying all higher intellectual
life.

Even the secondary schools could
not escape the Germans. The few
that are left are rigidly controlled.
Reports from the country show
that persecutions _ still go on
methodically.

American participation in the
commemoration of this event is
directed by the American Youth
for a Free World. This organiza-
tion was formed in 1942 to corre-
late the endeavors of all American
Youth organizations and those of}
other countries.

dent?” no matter how long you j
had had amnesia.
Star Spangled Banter a
Even more bitter was the song
raised in mournful tones by the
Rock Freshmen last Wednesday
morning. Constituting a revision
of the Star Spangled Banner, the
words rang out: “The radio’s red
blare, the Democrats leaping in
air, gave proof through the night
that Roosevelt was still there.”

Penn: Defeats Owls.
In Saturday’s Game



Bryn Mawr, November 11. Bryn
Mawr’s hockey team, in their third
game of the season, suffered a 3-1
defeat at the hands of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania team.

The Owl backs played an excel-
lent defensive game and Darst
‘Hyatt ’47 executed more than one
seemingly impossible save, at one
point batting the ball down with
her hand. Penn, however, had an
unbeatable forward line combina-
tion.. Their passing was superior;
they made each stroke count, never
wasting them in what they might
hope would be tricky plays.

Nancy Niles ’47 did the only
scoring for the Owls. In the open-
ing minutes of the first half, with
both sides bunched around Penn’s
goal, she drove the ball through
almost from the edge of the circle.
But the Owls did not hold their
,advantage for long. By the half,
Fernley, the maroon team’s center
half, had tied the score. In the
second period, Penn was in con-
trol, scoring two more goals before
the final. whistle.

The Owls were up against four
Intercollegiate All-Star players on
Penn’s team, two of whom, McKin-
ney and Gager,. contributed mater-
ially to Penn’s victory.

The Reserves, trailing Penn’s
second team, were unable to re-



coup .their losses and_ finished
their game with a 2-1 loss.

Penn First Team. Bryn Mawr
McKinney LW Cary
McPhillimy LI Gifford
Fernley CF Foster
Gager RI Walker
Boyd RW Richardson
Hess LH Hedge
Craemer CH.: Niles
Crothers RH. « Bagley
Mink LB. , Rebmann
Burton RB’ Kalthenthaler
Sargent G Hyatt

Reserves

Cunningham, M LW Horn
Lovman — LI - Turner
Hough CF Gilmartin
McConnell RI Poland
Eby RW Kaufmann
‘Miller LH Bierwirth
Brey CH Cadbury
Peele RH Young
Quittner LB Frank
Bishop RB Manning
Page G Cushing



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10:00 International Students

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10:15 Popular Music
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8:30 Classical Hour

9:30 News Analysis

9:55 Haverford Activities
10:00 Popular, Music

Monday, Nov. 20

8:30 Classical Hour

9:30 Humor?

9:55 Haverford News

10:00 Popular Music

Tuesday, Nov. 21

8:30 Classical Hour

9:30 Something Special

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10:00 Popular Music
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8:15 Main Line Forum

9:15 Classical Hour

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Spanish Club Chooses
Play by Garcia Lorca
For Xmas Production



The Spanish Club will present
La Zapatera Prodigiosa by Garcia
Lerca as its Christmas Play, on
Tuesday, December 5th in the
gym. Miss Nepper will direct the
production, and the costumes will
be designed by Mr. Zulueta.

Chloe Walker, ’45, plays the
part of the shoemaker and Mar-
guerite Frost ’46;.is Zapatera.
Mickey Malaret ’46, portrayse a
child, the only person in the‘en-
tire play who receives any ki
ness from Zapatera. The Alcalde
is acted by Amanda Eggert, ’45
and Lois Post, ’45, is Don Mirlo, a
wealthy old man of the village.

Lograsso Prophecies
Effect of ASTP Plan



“Whether we like it or not, the
Area and Language project of the
ASTP will have left its impact on
foreign language teaching in the
United States”, declared Miss An-
geline Lograsso, professor of
Italian at Bryn Mawr, in a* talk
before the twenty-sixth Annual
Convention of the Delaware State
Educational Association, The pro-
gram, she felt, has destroyed the
myth that Americans can not or
need not speak foreign languages,
and has firmly established the im-
portance of a speaking as well
as.a reading knowledge.

Stresses Culture

Miss Lograsso stressed under-
standing of the culture, history,
and geography of the people stud-
ied as a factor ‘in giving language
courses real vitality and purpose.
She approved the elimination of
text books for the first few weeks
of the course. She also suggested
laboratory periods for languages
similar to those in the science
courses, as well as either a sum-

mer or Junior year at college
spent abroad. In the hands ® of
competent instructors, she _ felt,

such work will be of the highest
academic level. and worth.

Club Plans to Show
Satiric French Film

~~ Continued from Page 1
ation do not deserve to be procur-
ed at the price of the abandon-
ment these imply of all liberty.
Although the events contribute in
imposing on the actors their con-
ception of life, one knows _ that
each has formed for himself a
philosophy after his od a ex-
perience.

Pantomime

Pantomine a la Chaplin is fea-
tured. Rene Clair shows him-
self able to put over the éternal
demand of man who wants .to
have the right to dream of the
impossible rather than to act on
the feasible.

A faultless technique, scenes ad-
mirably photographed, well got-
ten-up, and sustained by pointedly
appropriate music (that of George
Auric) make this picture an ex-
cellent example of pure motion
picture art.

_ | subsidiz



Engagements

Barbara: Rubin °47 to Pfe.
Howard Burnstein, AUS.





Burns Discusses
Health Situation

Continued from page 1

talization Plan is among the most
prominent. This plan now has an
enrollment of 17,000,000. Offering
hospital benefits under certain, con-
ditions, this means is important,
but’ not all-inclusive. Also-includ-
ed in the non-profit private insur-
ance group is the Farm Security
Administration, which is partly
by the Federal Govern-
nent. Uluder this plan, farmers
pay regulation sums to the associ-
ation in return for provision for
certain medical services.

Limitations

Among the objections to com-
pulsory public insurance is the re-
striction to specified population
groups and the limitation to cer-
tain illnesses. In the Wagner-
Murray-Dingle Bill,- for example,
there is no provision for tubercu-



losis, mental illness, or dental
care. A comprehensive compul-
sory insurance could be all-inclus-
ive, however, as the new health
program in Great Britain shows.
Providing public medical care in
the armed services may result in a
spread of such services in the
post-war period.

satisfaction is the failure to de-
velop and apply already known
and accepted measures of health
control, said Mrs. Burns. Although
methods of malaria, plague and
tuberculosis control are known,
they are not applied in many cases.
The need for health education is
partly responsible for this, but
even with this education there is
a question as to whether public
apathy and financial disability are
not great enough to make applica-
tion difficult.

Insufficiency

The insufficiency of medical care
and supplies in many regions offers
a third—major—problem. In rural
districts there is a decided lack.of
physicians and hospitals. Among
the obstacles to equal distribution
are licensing laws and desire of
physicians to practice where there
is a wider range and better facili-
ties.

Advancing knowledge and tech-
nique calls for reorganization of
health services. This, then, is the
last of the major problems. A
careful coordination of different in-
stitutions is one method suggest-
ed for improving the situation. In
order to assure em health
service, the general practitioner
must have services available. There
is a great social waste because of
the period of waiting which young
doctors must undergo before their
practices start functioning.



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Puerta De Mexico

/ Margaret. Paul
'69 St. James Place, Ardmore
Lots of
Christmas Presents |
from

50¢ to $5.00





The second major source of dis- |’







WHAT TO DO |

Probably fewer companies will
be recruiting this year for next
year’s' jobs. Don’t miss:the oppor-
tunity of seeing those who come.

Curtiss Wright Corporation:
Wants. students who can draw, :
photographers, economists, and P

majors) in science and mathemat-
ics. Betty Wells, Bryn Mawr
1943, of the petacinel department,
is coming for interviews Puesday,
November 31. Please make ap-
pointments through the Bureau of
Recommendations. See hall bulle-
tin boards for further details.

International Business Machines:
Would like to talk to Seniors and
graduate students about positions
in the Systems Service department
—training dffice staffs in the use
of IBM machines—mostly for gov-
ernment agencies and high prior-
ity industries. The work is varied
and interesting and the positions
are-permanent. Anyone interested
please notify the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations.

Regent Stocking Repair Service:
Campus agent wanted. 20 per cent*
commission. See Miss Bowman,
Room H, Taylor Hall.



Colleges Will Contend
Hockey Championship



The Intercollegiate hockey try-

outs are scheduled for Saturday,
November 18 ‘at Swarthmore,
9:00 A. M. -The intercollegiate

teams will be chosen from the var-
sities of ten collegess Bryn Mawr,
Swarthmore, Rosemont, Penn, Wil-
son, Chestnut Hill, Drexel, Tem-
ple, Beaver, and Ursinus.

In last year’s tournament, one
Bryn Mawr player, Betsy Kalten-
thaler ’47, was chosen as a substi-
tute, while Penn and Ursinus filled
up the majority. of positions on the
first team.

Bryn Mawr will be represented
iby Lydia Gifford, Ellen Cary, Mimi
Foster, Chloe Walker, Margery
Richardson, Alice Hedge, Nancy
Niles, Elizabeth Bagley, Betsy
Kaltenthaler, Barbara Rebmann,
Darst Hyatt, Julie Turner, and
Nancy Bierwirth.



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LLEGE NEWS





Frestimen Dance in Gayly Decorated Gym
While Upperclassmen Kibitz from Balcony



By Marcia Dembow ’47

“Veni, ‘vidi, whoopee!” might

well be the war al on the respect-
ive campuses
ea

Freshman
rid 4 poset ds night in the

Villanova, a

; ate Freshman bitte which has
become traditional, commenced in
the all-too-usual Manner with a
Paul Jones and continued with a
number of interesting sets enabl-
ing everyone to become acquainted.
The most successful device con-
sisted of each girl removing one
of her shoes and placing it in the
middle of the floor with other va-
rieties of punips and sandals for
the eager men to Yuentify. The re-

sult was a Cinderellaish affair,

with each boy trying to fit the shoe
over his lady’s metatarsal. Some
ambitious youths gathered up arm-
fuls, and had to spend the evening
trying to ‘dispose of them. Others
gave up, ‘and tossed the © slipper
onto the balcony, thereby enliven-
, ing the evening for the large gal-
lery of - upperclassmen.

' \& broom dance and a multiplica-
tion dance also helped the evening
along. The former compelled the
couple left holding two brooms to
execute an exhibition dance. Mean-
while, staglines, both male and
female, accumulated.

The gym was cleverly decorat-
ed by. Jocelyn Kingsbury ’45, who
painted murals of the Bryn Mawr
girl throughout the decades from
1898 to 1948. These seven pictures,

B. M., Haverford Join
In}jWeekly Discussion





To stimulate interest in the Bi-
ble, several Bryn Mawr _ under-
graduates have joined with Hav-
erford students in an _ informal
discussion group. which meets
each Wednesday night in the
Common Rooim at 8:30.

Outside Speakers

On alternating weeks outside
speakers address the group. The
remaining time is devoted to a
discussion of a chapter of the Bi-
ble. At present the Gospel ac-
cording to St. Mark is the subject.

The next two. speakers are John
Buchanan, chief accountant for
the Philadelphia Bulletin who will
speak on How Much Am I Worth?
and Dr. Alan McCrae, president
of Faith Theological Seminary.
Dr. McCrea’s topic is Spiritual
Honesty.

Chartered Club

Catherine Clarke ’47, Amy
Campbell ’48 and Lewis Coffin of
Haverford initiated the movement.
Plans are underway to make the
discussion group a chartered club.








MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Tasty Sandwiches
Refreshments
Lunches - Dinner





Pavertora and |





i done in black and
ricated of white
and covered the

yellow, were fab-
wrapping paper,
walls up to the

| balcony.
Robin Beboks ’46, headed the
committee that organized the

dance, and procured records, and
refreshments consisting of apple
cider and doughnuts.

Current Events

Continued from Page 2

military one. Attributing this to
Soviet patriotism and th®unity of
the Allies, Stalin cited the Teheran
Conference and Dumbarton Oaks
as clear indication of the’ stable

front of the United Nations
against Germany. "
Optimistic

The tone of Stalin’s speech is
very optimistic, Miss Robbins
stated, and offers a striking con-
trast to Hitler’s most recent talk,
in which fhe blamed everything
that is wrong with Europe on the
decadence. of democracy, and ex-
hibited a deadly determination to
fight to the last ditch. Especially
significant, noted Miss Robbins, is
the fact that Hitler’s address, two
days late to start with, was deliv-
ered by Heinrich Himmler, and
that the Fuehrer himself has not
spoken in person since July 20.

Steig Books Satirize
Man’s Mental States

Continued from Page 2

petuators demand, and only those
not too closely allied with your
own personality alone inspire real
laughter. The others hurt. Their
only saving grace lies in the
strange understanding which
Steig is able to give them—the
only sympathy evident anywhere
in the three books.

And the criticisms implied in
every line of his drawings are
valid ones for comfort. They are
the graphic proof of the overwork-
ed saying that a sense of humor
is the sense of proportion neces-
sary for the cure of most of men’s
difficulties arising from too much
introspection.

Genius

Mr. Steig is truly a genius. But
it is not’in art that he is great.
Rather, it is from his understand-
ing of people and his unquenched
passion for truth and: honesty
even in the smallest detail of life
that he derives his real magnifi-
cence. None of his readers can
fail to be both destroyed and _ re-
created by his work.



‘Inter-American Affairs

Schenck, Nahm Talk
In Philadelphia, Dony
Speaks at Princeton



* This week,,three members of
the Bryn Mawr faculty—Miss
Schenck, Madame Dony and Mr.
Nahm—have —travelled to points
beyond the campus to give lectures.

With unpublished material of
Gustav Flaubert as the main item
of interest, Miss Schenck address-
ed the French group of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania Interna-
tional House tonight on My Last
Trip to Normandy. The material,
discovered on Miss Schenck’s- trip
to Normandy: in 1987, will ‘be pub-
lished along with other material
in her book.

Mr. Nahm will speak this Thurs-

day morning at the Conference on
concern-
Racial Origins of Inter-American
Culture. The conference, spon-
sored by the University of Penn-
sylvania and the Coordinator of
Inter-American Affairs, is being
held on. Thursday and Friday at
the University Museum. The Inter-
American culture. will be treated
from a_ sociological, historical,
anthropological, artistic and phil-
osophie point of view. Mr. Nahm
will act as chairman of a group of
three professor's who will discuss
the Philosophical Aspects of Inter-
American Culture.
. Madame Francoise Dony, In-
structor in French, spoke on The
Plight of European Youth on Mon-
day evening at the United Nations
Center. in Princeton. The. meeting
was held under the auspices of the
Belgian Government Information
Center. —

Madame Dony summarized the
European educational system, es-
pecially as it Appears: in Belgium.
The elementary and _ secondary
schools are state institutions, while
in Belgium the universities are
equally divided between private
and state support. One of the
private universities, the Free Uni-
versity of Brussels, where Madame
Dony held a professorship, was the
first to be closed by the Germans.

The material damage and de-
struction of the educational system
in Belgium has been very great,
Madame Dony said, particularly in
the effect of low food supplies on
the children. In spite of libera-
tion, the situation is expected to
become worse for the time being.
The first efforts to help will be
taken by UNRRA as a state ag-
ency, with the assistance 6f the

F}



1)
Blood: Donating
Nancy Scott, ’47, in charge
of blood donating for the Red
(C¥oss, announces that 100 stud-

ents gave their blood last week
at the Ardmore Red Cross.







Film ‘Our Hearts’’

Lacking in Continuity
Continued trom Page:

degree responsible\ for the im-

In the book
the art of humorous prose caffied

proWability of it all.

one over the great gaps between
the main incidents. In the movie
one could only be confused by the
seemingly unregulated jumps _ in
scene and situation.

Obviously it is impossible to ex-
pect a high literary or dramatic
standard from what is only a piece
of escapist entertainment. As such
it was good, and provided an aee-
quately pleasant evening. It was
only that. we had heard so much
about it, and had been led to ex-
pect the usual sparkle of the auth-
ors’ sense of humor. Or perhaps
it was just because we had been
told about the faithful reproduc-
tions of Bryn Mawr which had to
be cut out of the film before we
We admit we laughed, but

we could have laughed harder.

saw it.



Belgian section of the National
War Fund.

Post-war educational ancien in
Europe is expected to include sev-
eral exchange plans. In the past,
the Belgian-American Foundation
has taken charge of the exchange
of 600 students.





Ardmore 5833
JOSEPH’S
HAIR DRESSING



Memorial Book Gift
Donated to Library



ial gift of books has been given to
the library in the name of Mar-
garet Prussing Le Vino, an ac-
the

volumes are

tress, by her friends and by
class. of 1911. The
collected plays of thaj/time, with
acting editions of earlier plays, in-

cluding many of | Shakespeare’s.

Bound in brown leather, the set

of twenty books contains many

fine engraved illustrations of ac-
tors and actresses.

’ Portraits

Among the portraits of some of
the more famous. players are
those of Mr. Kean, as Hamlet, and
again as Sir Giles Overreach, in
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by
Massinger.

Actors

Another welltkindwn actor, Mr.
| Cooke, is shown as the villainous
Richard III. Charles Kemble, in
the role of Romeo, takes on a
completely different character
when portrayed as Faulconbridge
in Shakespeare’s King John. Mrs.
Siddons, one of the greatest wo-
men actresses, is seen as Queen
Catharine, in Henry VIII.

The books will be kept in the
Rare Book Room, as they are of
value to collectors as well as of
great use and interest to students.







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‘tation of welcome as quickly

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