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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

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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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neighbors just as they do here



...or getting along in Guatemala
Music and Coca-Cola spell friendship among our Latin-American
‘tation of welcome as quickly

Georgia. In many lands around the globe, Coca-Cola has become
the same symbol of friendliness that it is in your own living room.

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