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THE COLLEGE’ NEWS



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)



Published weekly the College Year (except during Thankesivlnn,
Christmas and Easter alates. and during examination weeks) in the interest
of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore res Company, Ardmore, Fa., and

—Bryn Mawr College.



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in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part

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Editorial Board

ALISON MERRILL, °45, Editor-in-Chief
Mary -Vireinia More, 45, Copy Patricia Piatt, 45, News
APRIL OURSLER, *46 SUSAN OURAHAN, 46, News

Editorial Staff

Naney MorenHouse, *47 PATRICIA BEHRENS, 746
MarGaARET Rupp, °47 LANIER DuNN, °47
THELMA BALDASSARR<, *47 Darst Hyatt, 47
RosaMOND Brooks, *46 MonnNIE BELLow, '47
Marcia DemMBow, *47 Rostna BATESON,’ ’47
Cecitia ROSENBLUM, °47 EmiLy Evarts, ’47
EizaBETH Day, °47 Laura Dimonp, ’47

Sports Cartoons
Carou BALLARD, *45 : CynTuHI1A Haynes, *48

Photographer

HANNAH KAUFMANN, 746

.Business Board
Mica AsHopIAN, '46, Business Manager
Barsara WIiLiiaMs, '46, Advertising Manager
SARAH G. BECKWITH, "46 ANNE Kincssury, ’47
ANN WERNER, °47

Subscription Board
MarGareET Loup, °46, Manager
CHARLOTTE BINGER, °45 EisE KraFt, °46
Lovina BRENDLINGER, °46 ELIZABETH MANNING, °46
BaRBARA COTINS, °47 NANcy STRICKLER, ’47
HELEN GILBERT, °46 BARBARA YOUNG, °47



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.











’ .

G, é r s
nn

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:

Continued on Page 4



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



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