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- VOL. XLIV, NO. 1

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., SEPTEMBER 29, 1947



Toynbee’s Visit,

Work for Drive
Marked 1946-47

Hilarious Faculty Show,
~ More Creative Work
Were Highlights

_ The dark green handbooks gave
you the college. The pale blue
handbooks gave you the rules. Now
the NEWS will give you the high-
Nights of one year of college life,
1946-47, so that you will have some
‘idea of what’s really in store for
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1946-47 at Bryn Mawr revolved
bout the “Drive,” more formally
known as the Bryn Mawr College
Fund 1946—, whose June ’48 goal
of two million dollars is to be used
primarily for faculty salaries. Not
onty was the first year’s national
quota of one million dollars passed,
but undergraduates exceeded their
$7500 quota by two thousand dol-
Jars.

To fill their quota, students did
everything from selling apples in
the corridors of Rhoads to inaugu-
rating a Junior Show,,in which
1920 bathing beauties cavorted on
the stage and the audience cheered
as swimmers. splashed down the
aisles of Goodhart, thus beginning
a tradition which will be carried
on late this. October (advt.).

A benefit concert series featured
Mischa Elman, the Paganini quar-
tet, and contralto Carol Brice.
Other proceeds came from campus
productions and novel events, in-
¢luding some spontaneous faculty-
student basketball games marked
by notorious “subway tactics.” In
the spring the wild woman of Bor-
neo and ring-a-duck helped the
Sophomore Carnival net over $400,
while the Faculty’s hilarious show,
“Top Secret,” featured among its
all-star cast glamorous Hallelujah
Bulkhead, sometime head of the
biology department, and philoso-
pher Dr. Nahm in a strawberry
blonde wig as Queen of the May.
“Spring in a Roman Garden,” with

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Solve Problems
At Maids’ Bureau

Freshmen, are you wondering
how to sew ruffles on curtains and
trim windowseat covers? Go to the
Maids’ Bureau for expert help.
There you will find slip-covers,
bedspreads, and curtains, inexpen-
sively made to order.

An ambitious. and well-planned

‘organization, the Maids’ Bureau;

situated in the basement of Tay-
Jor Hall, is open from 3:00 to
5:30 every afternoon. Jeannette
Holland, one of Pembroke’s maids,
is in charge of buying the mate-
rials, so that students may have a

large selection from which to

ehoose. Pearl Edmunds, Taylor’s

‘maid, has the arduous job of secre-

tary. They specialize in sewing, to
order, anything and everything
that students need or desire.
Porters as well as maids work in
the Bureau, also only in their spare
time. Besides making chaircovers,
bedspreads and curtains, they
make, stuff, and cover pillows,
They are expert at caning and ty-
ing springs in recalcitrant chairs.

_ Dresses are made and even design-
ed. Alterations are done quickly

and at low cost.

_ + If you aren’t en familiar terms

with a needle and thread, your so-
Jution is the Maids’ Bureau.



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Shopping Needs

For the benefit of those of you
who have come totally unprepared
for your various needs, here is a
pocket guide to nearby shopping
facilities. “The Vill” itself can
supply almost everything you
want, and unless you’re a spend-
thrift you won’t need to venture
into Philadelphia the first week.

For that extra chair or lamp
that your bare room cries out for,
try Hobson and Owens on Lancas-
ter Pike. For wastebaskets, book-
ends and little knick-knacks to
brighten the place up, go to see
what Richard Stockton has to offer.
If you like a definite Mexican
touch, however, don’t forget to try
the Mexican Shop in nearby Ard-
more,

Mayo and Payne in Bryn Mawr
is excellent for radio repair. They
understand the woes of a D.C. ex-
istence and have converters for
sale. All the latest records are to
be had at Blackstone’s Music Store
—and needles, too.

If it’s clothes you’re worrying
about, in Bryn Mawr itself, Nancy
Brown, the Tres Chie Shoppe,
Joyce Lewis and Martie’s Shop can
all provide you with an assortment
of. skirts,..sweaters, and dresse3
with the New Look! For the ben-
efit of knitters, Dinah Frost sells
wool and knitting accessories and
offers lots of expert advice.

Flowers and Fiction

Then, to get to the more luxuri-
ous things in life, if you’d love to
have some flowers to bloom in your
room, call Jeannett’s in the Vill
or try Connelly’s farther up the
Pike toward Rosemont. For read-
ing matter, Stockton’s runs a lend-
ing library, while The Country
Book Shop, in Bryn Mawr, can sup-
ply you with all the latest fiction
and non-fiction. A little further
away, but just as effective is the
Ardmore Bookshop. And to satisfy
that hungry feeling, don’t overlook
the fresh fruit at Hubb’s grocery
store, and at Gane and Snyder’s
too. ,
You can bank money in the Bryn
Mawr Trust Company, and their

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By Katrina

Bright _and early Thursday
morning, September 26, the Cin-
cinnatians, the Chicagoans and all
those on trains from the West (the
first representatives of the class
of ’51) arrived in time for a break-
fast of honeydew and fried eggs.
But all day long they streamed
in—some informally in cars with
their dresses hung over their arms,
some by train in their fashion
plate calf-length suits and dark
stockings—and all showed evidence
of the higher requirements in this
college boom, for Freshman blun-
ders, a perennial topic of conversa-
tion, were too few and far between.

No Males

’b1 includes a pair of twins but
no male students that we have
seen; girls from China to the West
Indies; the socialite who breathed
ecstatically: “What, no classes on
Saturday! You mean I can leave
after biology on Friday afternoon.
Boy, wait till Jack hears that!”,
and the. intellectual who thought
Spinoza “simply fascinating read-
ing.” In the infirmary meeting,
one perturbed voice piped up:
“Please, are we allowed to study
while we are in the infirmary?”

Once again the Vill is being in-
vaded. Soap dishes and waste

CALENDAR
Monday, September 29
9:00—Open House at Soda
Fountain, Goodhart.
Tuesday, September 30
8:45 A. M.—Opening Assem-
bly of 63rd Academic Year,
Miss McBride, Goodhart
Hall.

9:30 A. M.—Classes begin.

8:00 P. M.—Parade Night.
Wednesday, October 1

5:30—Freshman meeting with

Mr.. Thon for diction, Good-
hart Hall.
Saturday, October 1 :
8:30—Freshman Dance with
Haverford, Gymnasium.
Sunday, October 5
7:30—Chapel service, Rev. H.
Lewis Cutler, of the Swarth-



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‘‘New Look,’’ Brawn and Brains
Well Represented t in Class of ’51

Thomas, "49

paper baskets are becoming as
scarce as hen’s teeth, but Hobson’s
seems to be well-fortified still with
easy chairs for those who arrived
too late for what one Freshman
elegantly calls, “the rummage sale
over in Wyndham.”

The wattage rule seems to have
most of them baffled. “I can’t have
more than 60 watts in my lamp!
I’ll go blind!” said one propensive
studier. Another, either uninform-
ed or an igforamus, went down to
the book shop and asked Mrs.
Nahm if she couldn’t please buy a
double socket.

The place hardest to find seems
to be the gym. In directing one
lost Freshman, I was asked just
“how much” of a physical it was.
“I’ve already had three or four,”
she explained. Later on asking
four shivering angel-robed victims
sitting on a bench whether they
were waiting in anticipation, one
with her teeth chattering answer-
ed: “Waiting, but not in anticipa-
tion.”

Freshman Week has been cold.
Although the zinnias are happily
blooming in front of Denbigh and
the trees are still heavily green,
the annual Faculty Tea held in
Wyndham Garden of orange ice in
ginger ale was chilly enough to
congeal any Freshman who...was
not already frozen with fright at
meeting the professors.

But the class of ’51 is all too
bright. Not one has asked me yet
if I’m a Freshman, too!

Roaring Bonfire
Will be Climax
(Of ParadeNight

Fréshmen, Sophomores
To Struggle Fiercely
Around Fire

Daytime on Tuesday, September
30, may be listed as the opening
of the 68rd academic year, but the
year cannot be considered offieially
open until 8 o’clock that night,
when Parade Night begins.
Parade Night and the two or
three days preceding it are the be-
ginning of the year’s traditional
Freshman-Sophomore rivalry, this
particular brand of rivalry finding
its source in a song.

A song is selected by the Jun-
iors, sister class of the Freshmen,
to which the Freshmen add orig-
inal words, which are kept com-
pletely secret. Freshmen have
been known to swallow pieces of
paper on which appear the words
of the songs, and are often found
singing complete arias from “Car-
men” in the shower in order to
throw the Sophomore off the trail.
However, the Sophomores are like
the Marines—no holds barred—
and will stoop to any treachery in
order to conquer. Beware, espe-
cially, Freshmen, the confused girl
who comes up to you with: “I
wasn’t at the meeting yesterday.
What is the tune?”

Parade Night begins for the
Freshmen at Pembroke Arch; the
Sophomores are already on the
hockey field dancing around a huge
bonfire.

Led by the famous Fireman’s
Band, and guided by Junior-borne
torches, the Freshmen march
through the night singing their
song until suddenly they are roll-
ing and scrambling madly down
the hill towards the Sophomore-
surrounded fire. The Sophomores
are singing, at this point, a quick-
ly-written parody to what they
hope is the Freshman tune. The
band crashes louder and _ louder,
the fire gets hotter and hotter, and
the ring is broken.

Harmony again reigns, nnorarng
as everyone gathers to sing college
‘and class songs in Pembroke Arch,
and hall parties given by the
Sophomores for the Freshmen fol-
low immediately after.

Parade Night represents the
repetition of a tradition with a
long history of song snatchings
and rough-house. In the primeval
days it was celebrated with artifi-

cial materials and a violence un-
known today. In 1914 the three
upper classes dressed as weird dev-
ils, -witehes-.and.strange— beasts.
Everyone danced around the huge
bonfire on the lower hockey field
while “Froshie” was burned in ef-

figy.





You’ve learned when regular
meals are served. Now, listen and
learn how you can refresh your-
self when the next meal is hours
away, and hunger prohibits all co-
herent thought.

The League has provided the
perfect answer to \your appetite
and to the budget of the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp, Be —
for the open house at the
Fountain tonight from 9:30 until
10:30. Join the dash to the second
floor of Goodhart for ice cream,



Goodhart Soda Fountain Plans
Elaborate Open House Tonight

milk shakes, coke, grilled sand-
wiches, hot dogs and ee
(market willing!).

If, by some misfortune, you
can’t come tonight, remember that
the Soda Fountain is open every |
Sunday through Friday, from 9:30
until 10:30. And if you’ve always

had a suppressed desire to fry
hamburgers and scoop ice cream,

*'|sign up on your hall bulletin board

‘or consult Dotty Sloan,
Sally Worthington, 49.

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