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VOL. XLVII, NO. 11

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



W.P. Conference
Discusses Policy
Of U.S. in Kast

Problems and Objectives
Important for
Future

Specially contributed
by Betty Goldblatt, °51

When the second Student Con-
ference on United States Affairs
was being planned last Spring, no-
body could have known how ex-
- ceedingly timely it would turn out
to be. From December 6 through
9, 150 seniors from 5i1 colleges and
the Military and Naval Academies
assembled to discuss “The Far
Eastern Policy of the United
States: Problems and Objectives of
the 1950's.”

Because last year’s forerunner
conference showed that the eco-
nomic, political, and strategic fac-
tors in the formation of a foreign
policy cannot. be considered inde-
pendently of one another, this time
we were divided instead according
to geographical areas: Japan and
Korea, China and Formosa, South-
east Asia, and India and Pakistan.
Nancy Blackwood, the other Bryn
Mawr delegate, was on the China
and Formosa panel, and I was on
Japan and Korea. We were im-
pressed with the factual informa-
tion at the fingertips of the other
delegates; with the unmilitaristic
viewpoint of most of the cadets
and midshipmen; with the unani-



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mous awareness that whatever
happened in the Far East in the
near future would greatly deter-
mine the future of our generation.

Experts spoke to us, and served
as chairman of the panels and as
‘advisers; we listened but did not
feel obliged to agree. Because it
was the week of the Atlee-Truman
conference, Philip Jessup, the Am-
bassador-at-large, could not ap-
pear, and instead Dr. Edward
Earle, Chairman of the School of
International Relations at Prince-
ton discussed the economic and po-
litical facts of our Far Eastern
policy; General Alfred Gruenther,
Deputy Chief of Staff, gave us an
estimate of the relative strengths
of the Soviet and United States
military power, on which to base
discussion of strategic aspects of
the area. Dr. John Masland of the
National War College told us about
the apparatus of the State De-
partment for the formation of for-
eign policy; Dr. George Millikan,
consultant to the House Foreign
Affairs Committee discussed the
same problem with relation to Con-
gress; Najeeb Halaby of the E.C.A.
described the function of such au-

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All Source Reading

f

Causes Confusion

Papers Need Only Cigarettes, Quotes

A paper must have a beginning,
a middle and an end. The beginning
and the end can contain the same

material stated in different ways,

but the middle must contain “new”
material. A few quotes will suffice
plus the definitions of the many
unfamiliar words found in the



Nuclear Energy

Progress Shown

To Science Club

On Thursday, January 11, the
Science Club presented a lecture
by Dr. Robert A. Patterson, Assist-
ant Director of the Brookhaven
National Laboratory. Dr. Patter-
son, who did research on X-rays at
Yale, took his Ph.D. there, and was
head of the Department of Physics
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute from 1940-1946, worked as a
staff member at the Radiation Lab-
oratory, Cambridge. The topic of
his lecture in Dalton was “Nuclear
Energy at Brookhaven Labora-
tory.”

Brookhaven Laboratory was
built on the site of Camp Upton,
on Long Island, to satisfy the wish-
es of University scientists for the
production of radioactive mater-
ials by nuclear reactors, which
were too costly and too secret to
be built on every one of the cam-
puses wanting them. A number of
universities banded together to
form “Universities Inc.,” the non-
profit organization which operates
Brookhaven. The laboratory _is
supported by government funds,
and is dedicated to the develop-
ment and utilization of atomic en-
ergy.

-Dr.. Patterson explained what is

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Wootton to Talk
For The Alliance

The next Alliance assembly will
be held on January 19, 1951 at
12:30 p. m. in Goodhart Hall. The
speaker for the assembly will be
Professor Barbara’ Wootton, who
is well-known on both sides of the
Atlantic as a writer and radio
commentator on social legislation.
Her topic of discussion will be
Britain in the World Crisis, in
which she will point out Britain’s
obligations in the world today.

Professor Wootton is a woman
of many enterprises. She is Pro-
fessor at London University as
Chairman of the Department of
Social ‘Sciences, Governor of the
British Broadcasting Corporation,
and Member of Royal Commission
on the Press. She is also the au-
chor of many books—Freedom Un-
der Planning seems to be the most
popular in the United States.

It is also interesting to note that
she was visiting Professor at Bryn
Mawr College in 1987, and at Bar-
nard and Columbia University in
New York in 1949. She knows the
United States well for she has lec-
tured here before. All students are
urged to attend what promises to
be a:most intéresting lecture in the
light of the international situation



today. ~

uote. A thesaurus and a diction-
-y (if you are not adept at defin-
1g) are sufficient references for
ay paper. A few philosophic
yvords of wisdom derived from
‘other’s warnings are an asset,
or the professor will assume the
_ student has a mature mind. For
example: “The student has a mat-
ure mind.” A student is one who
learns. From this it can be deduct-
ed that all students have wisdom;
i.e. are wise. A student has a “ma-
ture mind.” Mature is derived
from the Latin “maturus” which
means ripe. Ripe fruit is spicy.
Therefore, a mature mind is spicy.
In that case, a student is spicy.
However, the student cannot in-
ject spice into a paper for he can-
not assume the professor has the
same sort of spice that he possess.
Professors do not always have the
same sort of knowledge as stu-
dents. From this, it is evident that
students cannot please professors.
Students are spicer than profess-
ors, and therefore smarter. A per-
son who is less smart cannot com
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ole °. 2 97

Infinite Classes
Theory Revealed

se : Oe oe
By Mathematician

At the meeting of the Bryn
Mawr Chapted of Sigma Xi, held
in Park on Tuesday evening, Jan-
‘uary 16, Dr. Lindley J. Burton, As-
‘sistant Professor of Mathematics
‘at Bryn Mawr, discussed “Infinite
| Classes.” After remarking that
‘there are class divisions. in all
fields of study, Mr. Burton began
his discussion of mathematical
classifications.

There is a one-one correspond-
ence between the two classes A
and B_ if to each element of A
there corresponds exactly one ele-
ment of B, and if to each element
of B therecorresponds exactly one
element of A. If A is equivalent
to A, the correspondence is refiex-
ive; if A is equivalent to B. and
therefore B is equivalent to A,
the correspondence is symmetric;
and if A is equivalent to B, B is
equivalent to C, and therefore A is
equivalent to C, the correspond-
ence is transitive.

- A cardinal number is associated
with each class in such a way that
two cardinal numbers are the same
if and only if the two classes are
equivalent. A finite class is never
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CALENDAR

Thursday, January 18

Friday, January 19

' The vast majority of semester
papers will be read for, written,
and typed Various smokers,
7:00 p. m. to 7:00 a. m.
Friday, January 19

Third in the series of Alliance
Assemblies, Barbara Wootton,
“Britain and the World Crisis”,
Goodhart, 12:30 p. m.

‘Last day of lectures of semes-
ter one.

Sunday, January 21

Bryn Mawr Music Club Con-
‘eert, Gotham Brass Ensemble,
the Deanery, 5:00 p. m.







NSA Distributes
Discount Cards
To BMC Students

Specially contributed
by Ronnie Gottlieb, ’53

The National Student Associa-
tion Student Discount.- Service
Cards soon will be sold to Bryn
Mawr students for five cents
apiece. All money collected will
go tovthe D. P. scholarship fund.

These cards were ordered from
the NSA by the Undergraduate
Council to serve a dual purpose.
They are to be used as Bryn
Mawr student identification cards,
for instance, in theatres: and: ho-
‘tels, and they are, at the same
time, to obtain nation-wide dis-
counts on student purchases in all
NSIA contracted stores.



In the near future, individual
catalogues listing these stores
will be distributed to cardholders.
Thus, not only will card holders
obtain benefits for which the Penn-
sylvania NSA has arranged in
this area, but while visiting in any
city or college community any
place in America, they may con-
tinue to buy more economically.
For instance, if you live in New
York, you can use your card in
stores there during all vacations;
while you..are.here, the Philadel-
phia stores are open to you.

The NSA Student Discount Ser-
vice is the substitute for the old
NSA Purchase Card _ system,
which had certain features objec-
tionable to Bryn Mawr, and many
other schools. It exists as anoth-
er example of students working
together on a national level to im-
prove their conditions. NSA in
the preamble to its constitution
states its desire “to guarantee to
all people, because of their inher-
ent dignity as individuals, equal
rights and possibilities for prim-
ary, secondary, and higher educa-
tion, regardless of sex, race, relig-

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Dean’s Eye View
Tallies Torments

According to Mrs. Marshall,
there are three ways to take an
examination. Speaking at the
Wednesday morning assembly on
January 10, she said that students
may (1) study, take the exam nat-
urally, and leave; (2) join the
“They Must See How I Suffer”
school, characterized by dirty hair,
no lipstick, and gloom; (8). join the
“Gaily I Shall Rise Above It”
school. This last group will be
recognized by three battle cries:
“Who wants to play bridge?” “I
haven’t opened a book!” “Anybody
for the movies?” Students wishing
to join these last two groups had
better do 30 before exam time, be-
cause they take up a good deal of
one’s time.

(More seriously, Mrs. Marshall
recommended that students decide
on the main point of the profes-
sors’ courses before they go into
the exam rooms. Once there, they
should read the questions with ex-
treme care, and ration the time.
She also suggested fresh air, food,
and most important, sleep, as a
panacea for exam worries.





Vining Tutors
Crown Prince
In Democracy

Defeated Japan Needs
Manufactures
Market

Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, '23,
spoke in the Dorothy Vernon Room
of the Deanery on January ninth.
Mrs. Vining, a member of the
Board of Directors of the college,
had just returned from a four year
job tutoring the Crown Prince of
Japan.

First Mrs. Vining anticipated our
questions and teld how she got the
job, following a visit to Japan by
the American Educational Mission.
The Emperor had asked Dr. Stod-
dard for an American tutor for the
Crown Prince, and suggested that
it be a woman (the specified age of
fifty was ignored by the mission)
who was a Christian but not a fan-
atic, and who spoke no Japanese.
In making this request the Emper-
or broke tradition, for the Crown
Prince’s education had always been:
in the hands of a group of cham-
berlains. Mrs. Vining was then
working for the Friends’ Service
Committee, and planning to write a
book, and agreed to take the job
only if she were sought out. Of the:
names suggested, however, hers:
was one of the two sent to the Jap-
anese, who were to make the final
decision. The military occupation
was at first doubtful, but Mrs. Vin-
ing insists that. the Emperor.was
sincere in his desire for the Crown
Prince to learn English and West-
ern customs.

This brought her to the question:
“What do you think of the Crown
Prince?” “He is a very nice boy,”
she assured us. When she first met
him, he was not quite thirteen,
little, chubby, and childish. He has
since grown slender, very poised,
and charming. “His mind is matur-
ing delightfully” and he is “intel-
lectually honest.” He doesn’t pre-
tend to understand anything that
is not clear to him, which was a
great help when he learned English
by the all-English method. His in-
terests, chiefly in marine biology,
have widened to include archaeol-
ogy and history, languages, and
poetry, as well as athletics.

At first Mrs. Vining had an hour
of private lessons each week, but
this was extended to three regular
hours and informal meetings. One
hour, devoted to English, was chap-
eroned at first, but the Prince made
greater progress after the chamb-
erlains left. During another hour
the Prince, and later a few friends,
went to Mrs. Vining’s house to
study and have tea. Mrs. Vining
also taught the Prince’s class at
the Peers School, which is now
like any private school except that
the children of the Imperial Family
still attend it.

The Crown Prince was at his
best with other boys, she said, and
got along well with them. For the
first time in history, when they
were staying at a mountain resort,
he spent a night in the home of a
friend with none of his retinue ex-
cept a bodyguard. At other times





they went on picnics with boys
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