College news, October 23, 1946

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VOL. XLIII, NO. 4

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1946

* Copyright ,Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Burch of Tufts
To Give Lecture

On “Universals”

George Bosworth Burch, pro-
fessor of philosophy at Tufts Col-
lege, will give the third of the
de Laguna lectures in Philosophy
on “The Problems of Universals”
in Goodhart on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 30, at 8:15. Mr. Burch’s
choice of subject arises from his
primary interest, the philosophy
of the middle ages.

The de Laguna lectures are
sponsored by a fund which was
raised by the former students of
Theodore A. de Laguna, who
taught ‘philosophy at Bryn Mawr
College from 1907 until his death
Grace A. de
Laguna, professor emeritus, who
retired from teaching several years
ago. Mrs. de Laguna has been
connected with the college since
1907. The two previous de Laguna
philosophy lectures were given by
Professor Dorothy Walsh, of
Smith College, and Professor
Bertram Morris, of Northwestern
University.

Mr. Burch holds a_ doctorate
from Harvard University and has
studied at the Universite de Geneve
and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes in Paris. He has written
on the epistemology of Bernard of
Clairevaux and has translated and
edited “The Steps of Humility, by
St. Bernard, abbot of Clairevaux
(1940). He came to Tufts College
this. year after teaching at the
College of Idaho.

Foreign Delegates
Will Meet at B. M.

A group of fifty foreign. ‘women
delegates from the International
Assembly of Women will be at
Bryn. Mawr Sunday. evening, to
meet: and discuss with members of
the faculty and students connected
with- the United Nations . Council.
Intercultural Committee. | -..

_The. delegates will be. meeting,
during that week-end, in, the Phila-
delphia. Conference on World Is-
sues, sponsored by the United
Nations Council of Philadelphia.
Meetings of the International As-
sembly, which has been held at
South Kortright, New York, have
dealt primarily with world prob-

lems of special interest to women..

The delegates. coming to Bryn
Mawr for the Sunday evening dis-
cussion, which will be held’ at the
Deanery, represent countries - of
western Europe, Africa, the Paci-
fic area, and South America.

Miss Petts’ Corps
Dances in Opera

' The performance Thursday night,
October 24th, at the Academy of
‘Music, will be of more than ordin-
ary interest to Bryn Mawr. Not
only is Mozart’s Abduction from
the Harem a comic opera very
seldom seen, but this production
includes an all-Bryn-Mawr corps

_ de ballet.

Miss Petts, until this year phys-
ical education director at the col-
lege, is now producing dance se-
quenees for the new American
Opera Company’ ~overtoire.~

Bonnie Allen, ’38.

ceniey rlee Hutzler, "45,
“2 ihiaeeiana 46.

~ Catherine Colvin, ’46.

’ Ellen Harriman, ’48. .

‘ Madeline Brown, assistant to
“Miss Petts:

The cocked eyebrow, prominent
hip, and (in some cases) modestly
lowered eyelash with carefully
cultivated blush have appeared like
magic on the Bryn Mawr campus.
Formerly ° these features were
brought out of storage only over
week-ends, and were laid away
again on Monday. mornings, to be
replaced by genezal dissatisfaction,
stringy hair, and glowering looks
at the breakfast table. But with
the advent of “mixed society” on
campus all this has changed. Even
though the men are outnumbered
at the ratio of 150 to 1, every
Bryn “Mama” feels that at last
“life” has become a seven-day af-
fair.

os

And now for a word about our
young swains, our Don Juans, and
their reactions to all of this. The
heroes are four in number; Tom
Mangravite, James Lawless, Rich-
ard Logan, and Eugene Galanter.
Tom explained that he had orig-
inally registered for Haverford,
but had gone away ona long trip,
and on his return had found that
there was no place for him there.
So—Bryn Mawr was the answer.
When asked how he enjoyed his
feminine surroundings he replied:
“Y’m. working so hard, I haven’t
even noticed. the women!” His
schedule consists of English comp,
Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Ge-
ology.

Richard ‘Logan sadly annnounced
that he had “tried the -men’s col-
leges, even the co-educational
ones,” but they were overcrowd-

‘|ed.. Then (mirabile dictu!) he read

in the paper that Bryn Mawr was
accepting veterans. So here he
is! The women don’t bother him
at all, and he didn’t look too un-
happy over the whole thing. ‘Span-



Alliance Requests
CARE Volunteers

The Alliance feels convinced that
the most economical, convenient,
and reliable way that remains for
sending. vitally-needed foad to
Europe is through the non-profit
organization, CARE (Cooperative
for American Remittances to Eur-
ope). As the CARE service is
only a year old, and, being a non-
profit organization, has only limit-
ed means for publicity. purposes,
many people who .would welcome
this method of sending food abroad
do not know about it. Therefore
the Alliance is asking for volun-
teers to help with the pubiicity
program.

On December 31 of this year,
UNRRA will stop sending food to
thousands of Europeans who, since
the liberation, have been depend-
ing upon those gifts for bare sur-

vival. Europe still needs _ more
food than it can produce. There
is no international organization

ready to take on the work of the
UNRRA.
the United States must play a ma-
jor part in bridging the gap dur-
ing the hard winter to come.
CARE has’ obtained as War Sur-
plus the standard rations prepar-
ed for the army, and can offer,
therefore, for $10, more food than
can possibly. be purchased now for
Chenspips” * ie_.Each CARE pack-
age contains nearly thirty-one

,| pounds of food, of an average val-

ue of over forty tHousand calor-
ies, A RA, Me
Anyone interested in doing this
work should see Betts McClure "48



in Rhoads. See

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‘Our Boys’ Resigned toB. M. Ratio;
Desire Female Football Team

By Helen Anderton “49
‘ish, History, French, and Pavohad:

ogy comprise his courses.

The next Bryn Marsman ques-
tioned was James Lawless, an ex-
sailor. Dressed nattily in a rust-
colored jacket and checked trous-

ers, he debonairely explained on
Taylor steps that a Bryn Mawr
football team was definitely need-
ed. “How could the four of you
make up a team?” he was asked.
“Oh no, not US, the girls. Both
their builds and tactics would
match the Penn football team ‘per-
fectly!” James eventually hopes to
transfer to foreign service school,
but said he might just want to
stay here! The women were a def-
inite attraction, but he announced
that though they “are very studi-
ous, they don’t have enough imag-
ination to ever be anything but
students!”
Continued on Page 3

F —— Plays
To Be Presented
During Week-end

This year’s freshman competition
for the Player’s Club plaque will
offer a wide variety of tone and
subject, varying from the mourn-
ful Irish ,atmosphere of J. M.
Synge’s Riders to the Sea to the
spirited and exuberant “Happy
Journey”. (from Trenton to Cam-
den, New Jersey).

Friday night will include the
Rhoads freshmen, with Thornton
Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha,
directed by Jessica Levy, ’48,
Nancy. Schwartz, ’48, Robin Rau,
60, and, Pat Nichol, ’50; Denbigh’s
The.-Captains and the Kings, di-
rected by Eva Krafft, 47, and: C.
Lovejoy, ’50;..Merion’s Becky
Sharp,,, adapted from Vanity Fair



| by Olive ‘Conway; and directed by

Jane Coddington,. 48, and C. Mc-
Cabe, 750; and A Happy Journey
to Trenton and Camden, offered by
the Non- Residents, and directed by
Geraldine Warburg, ’49.

Saturday Night Pembroke West
will’ offer Riders to the Sea,. di-
rected by Elizabeth Dowling, ’47,
and A. J. Rock, ’50. Pembroke
East will stage Booth Tarkington’s
The Trysting Place, directed by
Clarissa. Platt, ’°49, and P. Appel,
50. Noel Coward’s Ways and
Means will be presented by East
House, directed by Penny Wesson,
49, and G. Williams, ’50. Rocke-
feller plans to give J. M. Barrie’s
A Well Remembered Voice, di-
rected by Carol McGovern, °48,
and Sue Bachner, ’50.



CALENDAR

Thursday, October 24 -

‘Dean Earl Harrison, ‘Impli-
cations of the Nuremberg
Trials,” Goodhart, 12:80.

Friday, October 25
Freshman Hall Plays, Good-
hart, 8:00.

‘Saturday, October 26
Freshman Hall Plays,
hart, 8:00.

Sunday, October 27
Chapel, Rev. Philip S. Jensen,
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, October 28
Current Events,
Room, 7:15.

Wednesday tober 30

. f. Georges
Cohaiea." yndham, 4:30.
De’ Laguna Memorial Lecture,

Dr.’ George Burch, “The prob-
lem of Universals,”’ Music

a

Good-

Common

eter a

Europeans Lack
Long-Range View
Delegate Reports.

By Nancy Morehouse °47

The problem of Germany is
probably the most heatedly dis-
cussed issue among thinking Eur-
opeans today. Its: importance is
not circumscribed by the territor-
ial frontiers of. Germany but it is
at the crux of the future of Eur-
ope.

There is considerable criticism
of American and British occupa-
tion policy, both for too much.en-
couragement of Germany and for
too little. ‘Chief objectors on the
second count are the Dutch, whose
economic future is bound up with
the prosperity of Germany, partic-
ularly of the Ruhr and Rhineland
areas. They are naturally pro-
ponents of German economic un-
ity, a scheme which would lend
support to any movement for po-
litical unity.

Nations other than the Dut

have far less economic interest int

the German future, and are in fact
attempting ito dissociate them-
selves from any such connections.
The tendency toward national
self-sufficiency ,is marked, partic-
ularly in countries where socialist
systems prevail. These countries
are inclined to reject American
policy as not sufficiently harsh.

The bases for this attitude lie in
the political implications of the
nationalism which now seems par-
ticularly rampant in Europe. There
is a tendency to attach special
characteristics and mental traits
to each nationality, and by exten-
sion to ‘brand each member of
that nationality as inevitably pos-
sessed, of those traits.. In the case
of Germany this i is particularly , un-
fortunate in view of the attempts
to democratizé her; for the oecu-
pied countries: are’ inclined to: say
that the German. mentality is. in-
herently aggressive.

The inability (and unwilling-
ness) of a good many people to see
far into the future toward the type
of Europe they would like to. have
is probably a mark of the exhaust-
ing strain of material reconstruc-
tion. But it is also a dangerous
symptom; for Europe is now the
battlegroynd ‘of *two opposing ide-
ologies, both fighting for power.
Neither of these systems is well
adapted to present day Europe,
and unless Europeans can gain
sufficient perspective to see the

outlines of their own Future, they
Continued on Page 4

Undergrad Sets
Limit on Offices
By Point System

The point system presented be-
low was designed by the Under-
graduate Association to limit the
number of offices of individual
students. The highest number of
points permitted each person is 40.

Common treasurer ............ 20 pts.
Undergrad

EE 40 pts
ViG@-DreRidONt oo. c.ccccs, 20 pts.
ee 20 pts.
Ist junior member .......... 15 pts
2nd junior member .......... 12 pts.

1st sophomore member .... 15 pts.

2nd sophomore member.... 12 pts
Self-gov.
WOMANS isk Koliccsnics 40 pts.
Hall presidents ........ ‘ons 20 pts.
Vice-president .......0..0...0.0... 15 pts.
PUN ficiiivisesscrccccsceits 15 pts. .
1st junior member ............ 12 pts.
2nd junior member ........... 12 pts.
1st sophomore member .... 12: pts
2nd sophomore member.... 12 pts
Freshman member ............ 8 pts.
ch League
PMMMOE iicscitrs sincere 40 pts
NN iicsikniinccn 12 pts
Activities Drive Head ...... 5 pts.
DUNG BEHOO! . iis ccecsct., 12 pts
Community Center .......... 10 pts.
We ONE inh 15 pts.
Home for Incurables ... 8 pts
Home Service ................. 5 pts
Valley Forge Heads ... 8 pts
Summer Camp ..............0. 10 pts.
Maids’ Committee ............ 12 pts.
Maids’ & Porters’ Show.... 5 pts
Maids’ Classes .................. 8 pts.
Maids’ Singing .................. 5 pts.
Business manager ........ 10 pts.
Philosophy club president 8 pts.
Art club president ............ 10 pts.
Dance club president ........ 10 pts.
Athletic. Association
Pewstdent. cis ies: Seis niel 40 pts.*
*May also be team captain.
Vice- president 0.0.0.4... 15 pts:
Managers er mee EE 12 pts. ;
Treasurer ............. ee 12 pts.
meet 2 8 pts.
Sophomore member .......... 5 pts:
Punlieity HOA: ici asiccuss 8 pts
Captain (major) .............. 5 pts.
Captain (minor) ............... 3 pts.
Class Officers _
Class presidents ~................ 20 pts.
Vice-president-treasurer .. 10 pts.
Fuplicity Head ooo. iccsiii.. 10 pts.

Fresh, Soph, Non- -res. rep. 5 pts.
Alliance ©

. SIRROE EES ity 7! 40 pts.
I Sistoencccisann: 10 pts
Hall. representatives..........-8-pts
Current Events ...............:). 12 pts.
Publicity heads ................ 12 pts
News Liaison .................... 8 pts



Continued on Page 3



A. A. to*Present

Festive Carnival

With Games, Balloons and Food

By Louise

Merion Green will emerge on
Friday as the scene of a gay car-
nival, replete with the best in en-
tertainment. ‘Undaunted by last
week’s rain, the Athletic Associa-
tion .is preparing a colorful fete.
Beneath trees festive with stream-
ers, the raucous voices of barkers
and a cloud of balloons will direct
you to your favorite games. from
three until six. In preparation for
May Day, @Mpey* —Sug-race of--
fers opportunity for practice to all

classes, or, if you prefer, you 1s.)

test your speed
strip teage race.

, Bobbing for apples and other

in a_ potato: or







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games designed. to test your bit-







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ing power will give a touch of
Hallowe’en, while skilled fortune
tellers will probe your future.
Place your bets now, for Gregory
Peck, Boris Karloff, and Kilroy are
among the candidates for the cov-
eted “King of the Bryn
campus”. While you await the out-
come of this contest, you can play
the slot machine ox Pin the Heart
on the Civilian. The \prizes for
rea@hovte, 1 should bean irresist-
ible. attr
liquid of splendid variety will re-
‘vive you, for the A. A. carnival
has prepared for every eventual-



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Historical Sketches

_ By Katrina Thomas, 49

One of the most persistent of
Bryn Mawr’s migraine head-aches
has been the “oral.”

Until 1917 the “orals” were truly
oral, and their purpose was to
refresh the memory of the Senior
before she graduated with the two
languages that she had offered for
entrance. Reading was required
over the summer, and then every
Senior during her last year in col-
lege had four chances to pass these
language examinations. If after
the fourth oral, every girl had
passed, our hobble-skirted prede-
‘cessors whooped with unmaidenly
enthusiasm and rolled their hoops
over Merion Green, singing with
gusto: “Goodbye Orals, we’re glad
to see you go.” And they were
too!

Locked in Taylor

It was an ordeal. The applicant
for the oral examination was
locked into the chapel in “Taylor,
where she sat quivering with the
irest of her classmates until she
‘was called upon to translate. When
she did read, she translated the
foreign language into perfect
English, not only for the rest of
the class but more important for
the stern row of members of the
language department, who determ-
ined whether she passed or not.
With perspiring palms she-Waited
for the results to be announced
before the prison doors were
unbarred.

A typical experience was that of
the class of 1916 when the de-





4

War Mongering is Dangerous

Today the United States is committed to a policy of es-
tablishing an understanding with the Soviet Union and tak-
ing an active part in the construction of a lasting world
Secretary of State Byrnes made this clear in his re-
port to the nation on the Paris Conference. Equally clear
was Mr. Byrnes’ rejection of the current belief that deep-set
‘differences among nations make another war inevitable.

An acceptance of the inevitability of war must not be
allowed to grip the United States. Constantly today we hear
allusions made, even by people whom we respect as intellec-
tual and social leaders, to the “next war’, as if such an event
were a certainty in the near future. Such allusions evidence
an attitude that will maim any positive efforts for peace from
“We will never be able to rid the world of this be-
lief”, stated Mr. Byrnes, “if we ourselves become victims to

peace.

the start.

it’’. ’

That is not to say that we should become complacent and
International affairs are in a serious state,
and the construction of a permanent peace is a long, arduous
We must be realistic and face the existence of
strong American-Russian tensions.
this and adopt the positive concept that states with different
systems of life can exist alongside of each other and reach
a common basis of understanding. Above all, we must achieve;
an understanding ot Seaicesueen as well as an understanding

over-optimistic.

process.

with her.

, ie

But we must go beyond

spondent Seniors waited in anxious
suspense on the Senior steps of
Taylor with their hoops in hand
while two of their classmates were
called back to read the German
oral again. The word, relayed
through Taylor, and brought by a
Sophomore runner that the two
had passed was received joyfully
by the Seniors, and off they flew
after their hoops.

Written Orals Established

However, by 1917 the system
was considered quite unsatisfac-
tory. “Orals Abolished” read the
headline in the News, but this was
misleading. Written orals were
substituted. On the first Saturday
of each college year every under-
graduate had to take a written
exam in the foreign language
which she offered for entrance:
Greek, or French, or German. This
exam had to be taken in every year
of college until it was passed. And
on the second Saturday, every
Junior had to take an exam in the
language which she had not of-
fered for entrance: Greek, or
French, or German, or Spanish.
Those who failed were required to
continue learning the language. If
as a Senior she failed, she was re-
quired to wait for her degree and
to try at the beginning of the fol-



Biologists Observe Phagecytosis;
Experiment on Rats in Summer

By Helen Martin °49

While other Bryn Mawr stud-
ents dropped their work to while
away the summer interim, a few
members of tthe bi@ogy depart-
ment remained at the college to
carry-on research work this sum-
mer. The investigations were con-
ducted by Mr. Berry, and Miss
Gardiner, with Evelyn Haller, a
graduate student, Alice Hedge,

Leyendecker, all of the class of
*46, and Rosemary Gilmartin ’47.
The main project of the research
was an attempt to find a means
of increasing phagocytosis, the en-

: ae ate acteria by white blood
Gen It is the “win...

. Ppuscles which must ultimately

overcome infection, by these means.
Sulfa, icillin and other drugs
merely prevent ‘multiplication of

‘and Ruth

blood.



bacteria so that the white blood

cells can destroy them.

This summer’s research was a
development of Mr. Berry’s obser-
vation that the rate of phagocy-
tosis increased in anaemic people.
Last” year, for her honors. work,
Ruth Leyendecker studied the
method used° in measuring the ac-
tivity, to check its reliability, while

nase eens

rllestad” ‘the process Observed in
anemic ‘humans in rats. The rats
‘were made anemic by periodic
and phagocytosis
was measured in the withdrawn
It_.was.discovered that’ as
anemia increased, “phagocytosis in-

failed a rae the best record |
ut decreased ‘as the rats |for ce try since 1912. 104

blood-letting,

sisavened. »

The summer work of Mr. wage
and Evelyn, and also Alice and

‘Continued on Page 4

lowing college year to pass the
exam.

The new method was tried on the
class of 1918. Sixty-one Seniors
took the exam after ten minutes of
untrammeled oral singing. The
irony of the song to the tune of
“Brighten the Corner Where You
Are” changed to “Writing Orals,
Ha, Ha, Ha!” was shown in the
appalling results of the first writ-
tens. The failures in the first’
Senior French and German “writ-
tens” shattered all known records.
58.16% was the rate of failure in
German, 58.08% in French, and the
nearest approach to this record
'was that of the class of 1916 when
58.22% failed the first orals.

The second exam two months
later was better and only 48.64%
failed the French, and 36.84%

of the Seniors passed after the
third exam, and after the fourth.
everyone gleefully rolled her ate
once more.





Ideas Exchanged
During Weekend
At Labor School

by Alice Wadsworth, ’49

This past weekend a group of |

people were brought together at
the (Hudson Shore Labor School
with a desire to know each other
and their ideas, and except for this
fact, they had little in common.
A majority were college students
from Cornell, Vassar, Wellesley,
Haverford, Bennington, Swarth-
more, Mt. Holyoke, Connecticut
College for Women, and Bryn
Mawr; some represented Trade
Unions in different countries; the
rest were instructors at, or other-
wise connected with, the Hudson
Shore Labor School. The meeting
was the result of an idea which
represented the fundamental prin-
ciple of the school: that by living
and working together, by discuss-
ing subjects of mutual interest,
people can learn from each other.

The weekend began officially at
8:00 on Friday night, with a talk
by Mr. Stephen Vladeck, Research
Director, District 15 of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists.
The subject was “The What and
Why of Trade Unions.” . This first
talk and subsequent discussion ac-
complished much that was hoped
for, since students with textbook
knowledge and workers with the
knowledge of experience discussed
the problem from varied points of
view.

The Satuxday discussion was
devoted entirely to the subject of
prejudices, first from the stand-
point of “Trade Unions and Their
Minority Group Members,” and,
more personally, in a class and
discussion led by Mr. John Cas-
well Smith, Jr. on “Understanding
Our Prejudices.” Too much intel-
lectualism received a cold response,
and everyday terms were substi-
tuted for the words “interaction,”
“manifestatéons,” “ramifications,”
and the like. Through the simple
medium of talking and thinking
like people with a mutual prob-
lem, the book-like quality of the
discussion was forgotten. In the
discussion period Saturday night,
practical application of the prob-
lems and solutions discussed that
day were suggested, along with
ways to make it work on individ-
ual campuses and_ in. individual
unions.

Opinion

Delayed Orals’ Marks
Rated Strain
For Seniors

To the Editor:

Every senior who must take an
oral this fall-realizes that a great
deal depends on the result. A
failure certainly means that she
will not be granted her degree this
June, and cannot receive it until
next June. A failure may mean a
considerable change in her future,
especially if she had planned to
enter graduate school.

For this reason, it seems unfair
to ask thesé seniors to wait any
longer than necessary: before the
results are announced., The mini-
mum time to date has been two
days—from Saturday to Monday.
It is improbable that this. period
could ever be shortened. A wait
of four days, however, is inexpli-
cable and cruel, in view of the
extra strain placed on these stu-
dents. If a shorter waiting
had_not.been shown f

éd time would not be so wear-
ing. If the announcement of the
ts. cannot. *-~ I ae ee in
ays, at least some indication
should be given of the expected
waiting pene for oer of the
orals.

Marian Holland,

"AT.

Current Events

“A good many mistakes have
been made by the Labor Govern-
ment, but a great deal of progress
has also been made,” stated Miss
Caroline Robbins, in a talk on vari-
ous aspects of the socialist: govern-
iment. in Britain. “The whole com-
‘plexion of things is different.”

One of the strongest impressions
that Miss Robbins received on her
recent visit to England was of “the
feebleness of the opposition” being
put up by the Tories in Parliament
to the various policies of the Labor
Party. Even on the subject of
finance, which was expected to be
a Tory strong point, the addresses
have been weak, although there
has been ample opportunity for
criticism. One of the reasons for
this is the fact that during the war
the Tory government itself insti-
tuted many™ policies of a rather
socialistic nature, and this makes
criticism difficult.

The Labor party, on the ser
hand, has already formulated ex-
tensive plans for the next election.
Their plan for the socialization of
England will take 15 years to
carry to completion, but the gov-
ernment is trying to proceed as
rapidly as possible in case their
hopes for reelection fail.

The present government is at-
tempting to preserve the personal
liberties of the populace, but some
infringements have of course been
made. A huge number of acts
have -been rushed through Parlia-

ment in a very short time, and-it
Continued on Page 3

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Specially Contributed

Ten o’clock; the bell rings and
there is a great closing of books
and putting on of coats. We trot
home across the paths. Taylor
tips his copper-green wizard’s hat
and the faces on the lamp-globes
shine down with patronizing grins.
The windows of the halls stream
light brashly and somehow com-
fortingly. Now must begin the
long ceremony of getting to bed.
Immediately upon entering the
hall, it becomes imperative to
smoke ‘a cigarette, or play a hand
of bridge, or read a piece of a
newspaper, or make a telephone
call, or buy something at the book-
shop, or do anything else equally
unnecessary but pleasurable.

Finally we go upstairs and
laboriously get undressed. Then
begins the ritual of the so-called
snack. The corridors become alive
with people and milk, people and
soup, people and cocoa, people
with matches, and people seeking
to borrow. matches, people, in
a word, with the fixed look
of nocturnal appetite. And so we
cook and eat, and eat and talk.
Everything slows down to a gentle
tempo of tired animality because
we know ourselves to be much too
tired to work any more, to be, in
fact, so tired that it is impossible
to go to bed.

For now we must have a bath.
We forget first the towel and then
the soap. We talk to the other
bathers in long drowned. sentences
of great solemnity and wit. And
then, so tired and foolish are we,
that we must comb our hair four
different ways, clean our shoes, and.
poke at the accumulated clutter of
papers and clothes upon desks and
chairs, until finally we troop down-
stairs for one last cigarette and
the fit of laughter which invariably
seems to overcome everyone in the
smoker at ‘intervals from_ ten-

~ thirty. to .three-o’clock. i ale
and the receding sounds o a

doors shutting and the clocks tick-
ing...Tke =" cat aa little, the:
silence begins o hum and sing,
and the mice, who have so patient-

ly awaited our going, now scam-
per and flip in the tea-pantriés with



cheerful unconcern.


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Widely Varied Ai

ims, Interests

Shown by Foreign Undergrads

“ By Katrina Thomas °49

The number_of _foreign Students
enrolled in Bryn “Mav this year
is one of the largest in the col-
lege’s history, comprising 10 per
cent of the entering students. De-
spite the number of foreign stud-
ents here, as individuals they nev-
er cease to interest us.

Nineteen years old, Suetze Li
came to America two years ago.
She lived in Shanghai until it was
occupied and then moved ‘to Hong
Kong. Three months later Peart
Harbor occurred, and with the sub-
sequent collapse of Hong Kong, the
family moved once again to the
war capital, Chungking. During
her two and one-half years there,
Suetze had a tutor because most
of the schools were extinct. All
the good schools and universities,
being located on the coast of
Chjna, were immediately occupied
by the Japanese. They moved in-
land as best they could, the stud-
ents carrying the equipment on
their hacks, but they lacked books,
and teachers, and were bombed.
When Suetze had a chance to come
to America, she did, entering the
Baldwin School. She wants to re-
turn to China before she gradu-
ates. “After six years,” she says,
“T’ll be a foreigner there myself.”
She hopes to get her A. B. from
Bryn Mawr in science because
“that is what they need most in
China.”

Signe Ihlen-claims that it is very
usual for Norwegians to want to
come to America. “American col-
leges are supposed to be of the
best,” she says, and so she arrived
six weeks ago on a boat with 100
other students, mostly boys. Signe
did not have the idea of coming to
America until last February even
though her father had attended the
University of Massachusetts. “A
sort of America fever was going
on at home,” she claims. A Jun-
ior, Signe ‘wants to learn lan-
guages and to major in Politics.
Although she wants to return to
Norway this summer, she would
like to stay in America for a few
years after graduation and get a
political job, preferably with the
UN.

Theresa Lobo is of Spanish birth,
although she has not been there
for ten years. With the introduc-





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where they live now. Someday
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better their living conditions.
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hensive Romance language major
here, Theresa will probably major
in French or Italian.

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Players Oley ois icin 15 pts.
Vice-president ................ 10 pts.
WO es 5 pts.

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The first half was a particular-
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Se eens 10 pts. |forward line shows promise of

Industrial group ................ 10 pts, | more success in future games. A

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Radio Club president ........ 15 pts. | Rogers right half McConnell
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Chief engineer ................ 8 pts, |Kaltenthaler right full Burton

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Girls Very Studious
Bryn Mawrsmen Find

Continued from Page 1

The last of the male ilk to be
interviewed was Eugene Galan-
ter, referred to Bryn Mawr by
Dean Brinkman of Swarthmore.
Gene is very happy here ,and hopes
to stay for four years—‘unless
Watson keeps giving drop quizzes
in which case I’ll be here five!”
A sudden. gleam appeared in his
“T simply LOVE all the tra-
ditions around here. Lantern Night
was lovely, especially all those
Sophomores tramping across the
grass!” Gene is taking Composi-
tion, French, Geology, and Phil-
osophy.

So much for “our boys” on cam-
pus. Bryn Mawr girls can be
heard furtively sighing under their
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is difficult for the people to keep
up with the many new regulations.
Interpretation of the acts is in the
hands of the various ministers, and
there .is_no recourse to the courts.
This is one of the greatest in-
fringements upon personal liberty.

As to the actual make-up of the
Labor Party, it includes a left and
a right wing. The present govern-
ment takes the middle road, lean-
ing more to the right than the left.
Its object is to finish the socializa-
ktion as rapidly and with as much
efficiency as possible. The left
wing, the social democrats, want
strict socialism withno exceptions
made, and are much more inclined

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Student Drive Committee

The National Committee of the
Alumnae Drive for Faculty Sal-
aries takes pleasure in announcing
the appointment of Ann Chase, ’48,
as Undergraduate Chairman of
the following Drive committee:

Anna-Stina Ericson, ’48

Nancy Martin, '49¢,

Judith Adams, ’49

Margery Shaw, ’50

Sue Kelly, ’49

Teresa Mathias, ’48

Helen Burch, ’48

Kay Gregory, ’48

Mimi Coates, ’49

Elizabeth McClure, ’48

Nelly Keffer, ’48

Joan Broadfoot, ’49

Sue Henderson, ’49

Hope Kaufman, 748

Harriet Rhodes, ’50

Grace Werring, Grad. Student

Lucia Rogers, ’48.

Elections

Junior Class: Page Hart, Presi-
dent; Jean Switendick, Vice Presi-
dent; Jane Ellis, Secretary; Betty
Coleman, Songmistress.

The Alliance: Lucille Lewis, ’48,
Secretary; Tally Argyropoulo, ’49,
Publicity Head.

The Title

The Editorial board of the Title
invites everyone, especially Fresh-
men, to contribute to the Fall is-
sue. Material of all types will be
welcomed; stories, poems, light or
serious essays. New members of

staff will be chosen from
among the contributors to this
issue,_Materia]l may be sent to any
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Song-mistress (fresh, :
BOD) = capetesesssiissscisenesss 8 pts.

Direc. of Freshman Show 16 pts.

Stage manager ................... 12 pts.
Class hall representative. 5 pts.
College News
Editor-in-chief ................. 40 pts.
CORT BOO raririrscscesistssscstis 25 pts.
Make-up editors ................ 20 pts.
BPOTtS OGILOR .......5...06..00008 20 pts.
Maitorial board .......:...%...... 20 pts.
BIGICOPIML GORE oo... srcecccisncss 15 pts.
Business manager ............ 20 pts.
Advertising manager ...... 15 pts.
Business board .................. 10 pts.
Subscription manager ...... 10 pts.
Subscription board ............ 3 pts.
Chorus
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Vice-president .................... 15 pts.
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MRONMPAME FicGiesscsstuseteitinns 10 pts.
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are likely to end up mere append-
ages of the capitalistic or the com-
munistic system.

The-Germans are the. victims of
this state of mind. Neighboring
peoples, who cannot yet see them
as other than actual or potential
enemies, view with horror the
prospect of Germans sharing pro-
portionately with their import-
ance in the future prosperity of
Europe. No concept of Europe in
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Maggie, who remained for half or;

the summer, consisted of duplicat-
ing the process in still another
species; mice were similarly test-
ed, and in addition, the difference
in resistance to disease, mouse ty-
phoid in this case, between anemic
and normal mice was observed.

But a practical means of achiev-
ing the effect of anemia upon



Germany’s future may lead to a
bankruptcy of European life and
individual thought. The obliga-
tion of doing some serious think-
ing about the future lies as much
with Europeans as it does with
Americans and Russians.

’

phagocytosis was necessary, and
this problem occupied Ruth ‘Leyen-
She. tested
‘various chemicals to find one which
\would have -the same effect as
anemia.

decker this summer.

As to the general success of the

summer’s work in this field, Mr.
Berry termed the results as defin-
itely hopeful. No sweeping claims
can be made of the immediate
practical value of their findings
but the theory has been proved and
the. biologists hope to find better
ehemicals to effectively prevent
infection by artificial “ifcrease of



phagocytosis.