College news, December 6, 1944

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLI, NO. 11

Sayre Will Examine
Diplomatic Problems
And Plans for UNRRA

The Honorable Francis B. Sayre,
diplomatic adviser to the United
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin-
istration, will speak on Plans and
Problems of the UNRRA in, Good-
hart at 7:30, December 8th: The
speech was presented earlier this
year before the Foreign Policy
Association.

Mr. Sayre was graduated from
Williams College, and later taught
there and, at the Harvard Law
School. He served for several
years as an adviser in foreign af-
fairs to the Siamese government,
playing an important part in the
negotiation of several Siamese
treaties with European nations.
He was appointed Assistant Sec-
retary of State by President
Roosevelt in 1938, a position he
held until 1939, when he was ap-
pointed U. S. High Commissioner
jin the Philippines. He escaped
from Corregidor with MacArthur.





_ Jessup and Blaisdell
Discuss Peace Plans,
Relief, Rehabilitation

Goodhart; November 29. Lois
Kellog Jessup (Bryn Mawr 1920)
Service
Committee and Dorothea Cham-
bers Blaisdell (Bryn Mawr 1919)
of the Foreign Economic Adminis-
tration were the speakers at the
first Vocational Conference.

(Mrs: Jessup gave a general res-
ume of the founding and works
of the A. F. S.C. The committee
was formed in 1917 by a large
body of English and American
Quakers who wished to alleviate
the suffering of both allies and en-
emies in Europe. The committee
is not primarily a social service

Continued on page 3

Mr. Soltau Considers
Politics in Near East

Common Room, December 4. The
problem of Arab nationalism was
discussed by Mr. Soltau in a lec-
ture entitled “Politics in the Near
East” in a meeting of the Journal
Club.

Dr. Soltau discussed primarily
Syria and Lebanon, since Egypt
and Iran have achieved legal inde-



' pendence, and Palestine is compli-

cated by the Zionist problem. Syria
and Lebanon are relatively free
cial minorities, although
Lebanon has a minority Christian
population, the Maronites.

The mandate system of the Ver-
sailles peace settlement was a
compromise necessitated by the
conflicting interests of England
and France, and achieved very lit-
tle success, as it was an impractical
idea in a world of self-interested
nations with many national con-
flicts. The central idea was that
a nation given a mandate would
expend its efforts to make the

mandate self-sufficient economical-

ly and to build up a political tradi-
tion which would carry over into
national independence making the

mandate unnecessary, and no com-|

pensation necessary for the man-
datory power. This being obvious-
ly impossible, the French made
little effort to improve the econ-
omic circumstances or the political
institutions of their mandates.

“When the French took over the
is | Cantinuet on page 4

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1944.

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“ Ladies in Retirement



Non-plussed Conductors, Musical Gobs, Add
Note of Hilarity | to Chosr’s Princeton Trip



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By April Oursler °46
When fifty females make a trip,
it’s either for vacation or a hockey

vania Railroad, The Bryn Mawr
Choir, en rgute to Princeton for
last Sunday’s concert, was defin-
itely nonplussed when: the Paoli
local conductor roared disapprov-
ingly, “No hockey team was ever
that big, even with two cheering
sections,” then added belligerent-
‘ly, “And what’s more :you can’t tell
me it’s vacation already!”

Undaunted, the choir with card-
board lunch boxes, academic gowns
and white collars gathered indis-
criminately in their arms, settled
themselves into the Local to find
their “reserved car” already occu-
pied by five men. Three of them,
sailors, welcomed the group with
more than metaphorically open
arms, spending) half the time vari-
ously trying to convince’ the con-
ductor that their bass voices were
merely altos with colds, and that
their sailor suits perfectly combin-
ed the demure darkness of our
gowns with a collar at least striped
in white. The other two were Hav-
erford men.

\Princeton,. finally reached, was
cold. The vibrato in tone which
the audience later remarked on as
being “angelically expressive of
emotion,” was unfortunately due
to thoroughly earthly and prosaic
seizures of shivering. The more
energetic of the choir members,
however, braved the cold, remem-
bering the tales of the time when
Princeton was the proverbial hea-
ven of weekends. A group, taking
themselves on a tour of the cam-
pus, returned to report that they
had found a most interesting road.
A sign at its entrance read “Pri-
vate. Proceed at your own risk.”
They added that a whole detach-



Calendar

Friday, December 8
The Honorable Francis B.
Sayre, Plans and Problems of
the UNRRA, Goodhart, 7:30.
German Christmas Play, Com-
mon Room, 8:00.

Saturday, December 9
French Christmas Play, Wynd-
ham, 8:30.

Sunday, December 10
Christmas Vesper Service, com-
bined Choirs of Bryn Mawr
College and Princeton Univer-
sity, speaker, Reverend An-
drew Mutch, Goodhart, 7:45.

Wednesday, December 13





Christmas Vacation Begins,
12:45 P. M.
Thursday, December 14
(Main Line Forum.’ Burton K.
Wheeler, Our | T Heritage.
Thursday, Ja :

i _ Christmas tion Ends at

2 P.M. \ {







game, according to the Pennsyl-|.

Metropolitan



ment of Military Governors had
lined the path, waiting silently for
them to proceed.
The Princeton Music Depart-
ment, however, outdid themselves
in the preparation of a magnificent
setting for the program. In addi-
tion to the freezing and inspiring
chapel, a contingent of bona fide
Orchestra\ players
had been imported to accompany
the Bach Cantata. The music was
truly grand, but the players had a
strange habit of appearing in, the
girls’ dressing room (where, inci-
dentally, at least five Bryn Mawr-
ites were asleep just before the
concert, recovering from Satur-
day’s dance) and offering to tell
any female in sight the full work-
ings of an oboe or a flute, and any-
thing else they were given time
to work up to.

The concert over, the Choir, seg-

Continued on Page 4

Weiss’ Proof of God
Lays Stress on Value

Common Room, December 6. Con-
tinuing his talk on Philosophy and
Theology before the Philosophy
Club, Mr. Weiss offered a proof of
God differing from the three
classical proofs in its recognition
of religious experience. The mis-
takes in the traditional arguments
were, he said, the use of wrong
evidence and the fact that the
proofs were dealt with separately.

Considering the theological ar-
gument, Mr. Weiss explained that
the consciousness of the suffering
and tragedy rather than the order
in’ the universe formed the basis
of religion. The recognition of the
negative significance of Man im-
plied a certain recognition of a
higher being.

Reversing the position of the
cosmological argument, Mr. Weiss
continued his proof with the con-
tingency of non-existent things,
i. e. the past, asking: What kind
of a being the past can have. He
declared that tragedy in life re-
sults from a sense of the, loss.of
values, such as love for those who
have died, in, which part of one’s
being is contained. In a sense then,
part of one’s self is lost although
personal existence persists. This
leads one to believe that the val-
ues lost are yet retained.

Combining this part of the proof
with the ontological argument, Mr.
Weiss suggested that God is the



great preserver of values, in whom

the past remains. Through belief
in God and through religious ex-
perience, Man retains his self iden-
oe i GR ieee ney ye
ues.





Christmas Vacation

(Christmas vacation begins at
12:45 P. M. Wednesday, De-
cember 13. The last meal served
in the halls will be lunch on
Wednesday.

- Christmas vacation ends on
Thursday, January 4 at 2 P. M.
Students may return to their
halls the preceding Wednesday
evening. The first meal served
will be breakfast on Thursday
morning.

- Students who are spending
Christmas vacation or part of
| it in Bryn Mawr or its vicinity
and are not staying in their
homes are expected to obtain
approval for their arrange-
ments iti the Dean’s Office.

If students have difficulty get-
ting reservations to correspond
with the opening and closing of
the halls of residence, they are
asked to notify the Dean’s Of-
fice and an arrangement will be
made to provide accommoda-
tions while the halls of resi-
dence are closed.

Lt. Charles G. Bolte
To Talk on Veterans
At Alliance Assembly









Lt. Charles G. Bolte, Chairman
of the American Veterans Com-
mittee, will talk at the next War
Alliance Assembly to be held on
January 10 at 12:30 in Goodhart.
His speech will be on “Servicemen
in War and Peace.”

a series in the Nation entitled The
War Fronts, as well as several ar-
ticles concerning post-war plans.
Earlier in the war, after graduat-
ing from Dartmouth in ’41, he was
with the King’s Royal Rifles, Sev-
enth Armored Division, Eighth
Army. He is at present the edit-
or of the monthly Bulletin, the
publication of the American Vet-
erans Committee. The organiza-
tion was conceived in '48 when
Bolte and several other servicemen
started exchanging letters on the
subject of the attitude of veterans
after the war.

The form of the A.V. C. has pur-
posely been kept tentative. It has
no definite plans as to whether it
will function independently or de-
cide to join forces with the Amer-

ican Legion or the Veterans of
* Continued on Page 4

ag comzriaht, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr Sails e, 1944

Varsity Play, Hampered by Direction,
Shows Individual Skill in Main Parts

Recently, Lt. Bolte has written|



PRICE 10 CENTS





Kate Rand, Jessica Levy, Give
Outstanding Performance
In Melodrama

by April Oursler, '46

The Varsity Players produc-
tion of Ladies in. Retirement was
unusually well equipped for suc-
cess, being endowed with. a‘‘consi-
derable amount of good individual
action, and an exceptional back-
ground of setting and lights. From
the point of view of the students
involved, the evening represented
a notable achievement. But its di- ’
rection was poor, and no college
play saddled with such a lack of
understanding of the necessary

dramatic technique can succeed.

Pace

The problem of pace was
entirely up to the actors them-
selves, and as a consequence the
first act seemed to die with the
death of what had appeared to be
the star, Kate Rand, ’45, in’ the
role of Leonora Fiske. Her vivac-
ity, combined with her “knowledge
of the elements of acting, kept the
play moving, in spite of the fact
that the other characters seemed
completely effaced by’ her _ bril-
liance, so as to give the false im-
pression that she was over-acting.
The main fault in her interpreta-
tion lay in her failure to convey
the feeling of age in either her
movement or voice. It was again
unfortunate that the director did
not take the available opportuni-
ites to’ emphasize Jessica Levy’s
role as Ellen during the first act
in order to give the rest of the
production more of a feeling of
credibility and continuity.

_ Timing

As the first act was carried al-
most entirely by Kate Rand, so the
rest of the play rested on Jessica
Levy’s shoulders. She managed
an overwhelming feeling of tense-
ness in her every movement and
speech, strangely compelling at-
tention without resorting to dra-
matic tricks. A truly extraordin-
ary ability to express emotion
characterized her whole perform-:
ance, and this, combined with an
innate sense of timing was _ res-
ponsible for what intenseness of
mood the play possessed.

Carol McGovern, ’48, played the
role of Louisa with competence of
stage technique, but with too ster-
eotyped an_ interpretation, even
for a melodrama. She did, how-

ever, inject the proper comic relief
Continued on Page 4

left



First Burst of Holiday Mood Invades B. M.
With Dance in-Snow-flaked Decorated Gym



by Patricia Platt, 45

oo

Decked in snow flakes, theeGym
witnessed the first outburst of hol-
iday mood on campus witp. the
college dance on Saturday night.
Lasting longer than any on. record,
the orchestra kept playing until
two A.M. when the. party finally
broke up. Althougs ‘a trimmed
Christmas tree opposite the Gym
door provided a hazard for jitter-
bugs, everything went off remark-
ably smoothly.

The most distinguishing seater

of this year’s dance was the com-
parative scarcity female stags.
However, an appreciative gallery

made up for the 1 “rushing”



of presentable males. The dignity

pongaed =!



lent by this unusual state of af-
fairs was balanced by the orches-
tra’s pace. Almost everyone had
a work-out. Instead of occasion-
al slow numbers, the band warm-
ed up to a series of athletic cre-
scendos with a conga chain and the
polka.

The decoration was simple, but
effective. Large paper’ snow
flakes, of the geometric variety
seen on ‘Goodhart, dotted the
rad s sky-blue walls, while the

e fir tree was hung with red

ve silver balls. Convenient
sigts, bearing the names of the
halls, loomed from below the bal-
cony railing to guide any strays
back to their dates. hments

consisted of punch and cookies.

PORE eg L.A taebedetoahte!









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Re-scheduling

It-is-regrettable, in looking back over the’ semester, to
note the failure of the majority of undergraduates to fulfill
their pledges to the U. Vv. A. P. It is also regrettable that
there was little or no response to the Player’s Club plea for
stage hands and that there have been complaints about the
failure to attend nurse’s aid classes. Such a situation would
ordinarily be attributed to an apathetic student body. But
there has been increasing discussion on campus that the fail-
ure to participate in extra-curricular activities, has not been
due to unwillingness or inertia, but to an overwhelming
amount of work that is aggravated by its unequal distribu-
tion. e
Christmas Vacation

Most of us are looking forward to Christmas vacation as
a period in which to write from one to four papers. More-
over, it will provide a reading period to make up assignments
left behind during mid-semesters and the inevitable rush/be-
fore Christmas. In short, it promises to be anything but a
holiday for a great many students who are desperately in
need of a rest. The increasing migrations to the infirmary
and the failure of many to take the week-end of the dance in

their stride, will attest to this need.

-It-may be argued with some justification that the aver-
age, Bryn Mawr undergraduate spends too much time in the
smoking room or that she does not plan her time. However,
under the existing system, even the most conscientious time-
saver finds herself swamped at mid-semesters, and unable to
regain her prospective as she struggles with daily assign-
ments and papers in the short time that is left. Various pro-
posals for re-scheduling were offered last year that would
provide for a more equitable distribution of work and less
strain on the student. We regret that they seem to have
been disregarded when there seems, to be such an apparent
necessity for some sort of a change.

Proposals

The first proposal offered by the News last year, was for
a long fall term that would end examinations before Christ-
mas. It was criticized because of the added strain that would
be imposed on students. The nd plan was for the semes-
ter to begin two weeks cudiae ake usual. After vacation
there should be a ten-day reading period without classes, in
which all studentsecould write their papers and prepare for

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‘examinations. The seniors’ traditional reading period would

take place as usual. Since papers are not usually due as close
to examinations inthe spring, and. since the examination
period is longer, no corresponding reading period would be
necessary then. A third plan has now been proposed which

‘could be put into effect within the existing system. It is sug-
gested that heavier reading lists be assigned earlier in the

year with a decided lessening at the. end of pag semester

_ when papers are due.

With these suggestions, we hope that the isdhesions on
“scheduling will be reontand and that campus — bina

si mati

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INCIDENTALLY





The Christmas;dance may have
‘given Bryn Mawr a_ temporarily
frivolous aspect as gay young
things with hearts fluttered
around with things called men,’
but even in such a scene Bryn
Mawr could not forget its intel-
lectual standard. One couple

moon, momentarily covered ‘with
what the man called a_ rainbow.
The girl, a.science major, was ov-
erheard to say, . “Nonsense, it’s
just an ordinary spectrum”...

Other Science majors, however,
showed efinitely non-scholastic
approgech to their studies of
Chemistry last Monday when a
hall tea threatened to conflict: with
a four hour lab, In true scientific
fashion they went directly to the
heart of the problem, and invited
the whole of the Chem department
to the tea. But the professors
fooled them. They came in shifts
—gleefully exclaiming: that. this
was so nice because they could
‘have their cake and eat it too, and
wasn’t it too bad that the poor
people in lab couldn’t have been
there ...

Required courses have long pre-
sented a problem to the. student
body at large, but an entirely new
viewpoint was expressed by one
Sophomore on the News. A wing-
ed object soared around the Com-
mon Room recently vacated by Mr.
Herben and his Current’ Events.
“A bird!” we screamed, beginning
the usual Superman formula.
Slowly, the Sophomore walked up
to us, completely unfazed by the
proximity of the beast to her hair.
“It’s a bat,” she informed us.
“You took Biology as your re-
‘quired science and you don’t even
ane a mammal when you_ see
one.

I’m going to take Geology!”



WITS \EINC



O chp ie but: once a
year and sometimes even that is
too.much! ‘Would that I could tie
my Philosophy paper in gay red
ribbon and send it to Inferno to
play with Dante. But the ultimate
reality of Xmas is thus indisput-
ably disputed by those who resent
having to stampede in the dark
moaning “Go Rest You Merry Gen-
tlemen” when any dope knows that
there is no rest forythe weary, and
that trying to find a hiding place
down here in which to get Yule
spirit without getting acute per-
itonitis of the conscience is like
eating popcorn through a strain-
er. :

Let us sing “Silent Night’ as we
whirl around the maypole, and
pack all our bad ideas but leave
our clothes to feed the moths dur-
ing the lean season. Let us walk,
not run, to the nearest train when
the glad hour knells, lest cumula-
tive exhaustion leave us as an ad-
dition to the asphalt as time pass-
es us by. But this under all, which
is the bottom; when I yell “Noel”
it will be in the tonsilless tone of
a toiler whose mental and physical
condition is processed ham. In vain
do I plead that I shall never see a
paper lovely as a tree, but would
joyfully sacrifice both, and even
devour them if it could indispose
me sufficiently to produce a_ Six-
day coma.

braved the cold to look at the:



We've been going over our Fresh-
man notes, but we still haven’t
found any index for the identifica- |:
tion of the animals Mr. Herben
leaves behind him...

Fresiman parents are endemi-

cally in a state of anxiety over

their offspring, but the height of
maternal confusion was’ reported
to us today, by a Freshman whose

mother, though properly pleased] js

by the fact that her daughter is
writing letters home, does not
quite understand how one | letter
was written sitting on bells, and
another baby-sitting. She also
warned her daughter that it was
not healthy to sit all day, and re-
minded her to get some exercise.

The problem of headlines in col-
lege newspapers is always a com-
plicated one, but Barnard has pro-

vided us with one which will con-

sole us over ours for ages to

come. A lead story, on the front
pagé, is, headed by -the.. words
“Cha to Hear Coffin. Speak’.

The opening sentence, “‘Not unto
us, O Lord, Not unto us.”’”...
And _incidéntally, the News
board, exploring hungrily in the
Goodhart tea pantry for the re-
mains of Monday’s tea, found a
large hoard of left-over food. One
small detail was however, upset-
ting. In the sugar can was a
large orange tin of Saraka, the
perfect laxative. Tea in Goodhart
always used to be so nice...

Red Esau Requests
Packin g Center Aides



Volunteers for weekly work are
needed by Philadelphia Red Cross
Packing Center. For the past
two years workers in four Cen-
ters in the United States have
been assembling boxes to send to
allied prisoners of war held in
German prison camps. The eleven-
pound packages, containing food,
cigarettes, and soap, arrive in Ger-
many on the average of once a
week.

The first Packing Center was
established in Philadelphia in
January, 1948. Other centers are
in New York, St. Louis, and
Brooklyn. The U. S. government
supplies the contents-of each pack-
age comprising condensed milk,

dried prunes, cheese, canned meat,

sugar, salt, pepper, coffee extract,
caned tuna fish, jam, oleomargar-
ine, Army ration biscuit, candy,
chocolate, soap, vitamins, and liver
paste. The current American
cigarette shortage is partly due to
the fact that cigarettes have an
important place in each package.
The Red Cross pays the factory
overhead and the transportation
costs on ships such as the Grips-
holm in which the boxes are sent.

The Philadelphia Packing Cen-
ter turns out over 14,000 packages
a day at the rate of 45 per min-
ute. About 75 women volunteers
work on tike assembly lines while
both volunteer and hired men sup-
ply the bins from which the arti-
cles are taken.

The plant, situated at 2300
Chestnut street, welcomes visitors
and is anxious to have more part
or whole time workers. The hours
are 9:45-12:45, 1:15-400 five days
a- week, with a men" shift twice a
week.

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Siscstnd -C venll

Common Room, December 4.
“Although our situation in France
is favorable at present, things will
be worse before they are better”,
said Dr, Herben in his discussion
of military strategy in the French
campaign since D-Day., | 4

Dr. Herben described the nature
of the war before noting actual
events and their significance.
“the final-argument of a king”
where in order to impose the vic-
tors’ will on the vanquished, ‘either
armies must be destroyed in’ the
field, or political leaders, must
change their, views. ~

Before the actual landing” ‘was
made in France, no~ authority
would have predicted it. The ‘coun-
try has almost insurmountable
defenses, both-natural arid ‘mater-
ial, all of which were in the hands.
of the Nazis. The United Nations.
had, however, built up unbeliev-
able reserves of’ both men and
supplies in England. Experi-
ments in landing, although unsuc-—
cessful, did not deter Eisenhower
and Montgomery. Armed with
several new gadgets, courage and
determination, the Americans,
English and Canadians made four
landings, three of which. were suc-
cessful.

Our drive south in July to open
up the peninsula was unsuccessful
until our air force was finally able
to smash a hole in enemy . lines.
Then concern turned to the south
where an immense German army
in Italy threatened. An American
force, however, landed in the south
and. drove parallel to the
River up to meet the
driving forces

The greatest problem now fac-
ing us is that of transport. In our
present position on the Rhine we
are far from our source of sup-
plies. The coming of winter, stif-
fened resistance, lack of any over-
land transport system,
‘fact that we. are six to
months ahead of schedule, add to
our disadvantage.

But the situation is more than
a deadlock. We have decreased
the submarine and robot menace
considerably and are on the road
to a break through the Siegfried
Line. _

: Rae eRe ore
Nuts and Bolts
At the University of Toronto an

editorial debate rages over public
versus private control of universi-
ties. The advocates of public con-
trol cited the numerous abuses
of irresponsible private ownership.
They felt state control would abol-



eastward



ish racial and religious discrimina-
in admission requirements, ane
would not interfere with intellec- —

tion

tual speculation and academic free-
dom, and would make the individ-

ual good also the common good by -

keeping students in close contact
with their government. Their op-
ponents, while admitting the de-
fects of private control, feared
standardization of education, de-
spite the avowal that the state
would not “censor” académic con-
tent or ‘individual initiative.
s ¢
It is interesting to see that Bar-



earnestly_believe, that if some changes were made in the col-

urge the eurriculum committee to consider the problem. We

lege calendar or. in the distribution of work within the pres-
ent system, the strain now imposed on students would be
greatly relieved. Perhaps then, much of the energy that is
now being wasted on worry ‘and cramming, could be diverted
into different channels and theré would be a new stimulus in.
extra-curricular activities and amore venuine effort to fulfill





the U. Vv. ‘AF. pledges. |

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nard recently held a celebration of °
the anniversary of the publication

of Milton’s Areopagitica. That’s
our idea of a Cultural Community.
* * *

Barnard also has formed an Inf®
terfaith group where students of
all creeds meet to hear lectures by
ministers, priests, and rabbis, and
to read material about every faith.

i * * *

Another type of cooperative
movement is in evidence at. Tor-
onto, where. a, campus cooperative
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Christmas Cheer Will Relax Bryn Mawrtyrs
As Traditional Hall Celebrations Take Place



by Betsy Day,:’47
Christmas dinner with all
traditions of hearty — repasts,
Christmas trees, and decorated
dining rooms, will come again on
Tuesday night. For this’ occasion,
the hard-working grind, the last

its

_minute packer, and the smoking-

*“xoom “occupant, will have to desert
“their haunts for’ a few minutes to

don a long dress and catch a pre-
view of the Xmas spirit.

However the traditions

. Christmas dinner vary from hall

to hall. ‘ Denbigh. is greeted by a

, King, queen and page clad in er-
i mine-like rabbits’
' tity of these-regents is kept a see-

fur. The iden-

ret until’ the very night. The Ger-
man -Ho ‘makes merry with’ a





pitcher. dihot cider, while ‘the
French e gives. each other
presents. 7 Rock all classes co-

operate to-entertain with a Christ-



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**‘Ladies in Retirement”

Continued fr page 1

into the second act. The role of
Emily, done by Martha Gross, ’47,
had a little more variety of ex-
pression, but somehow . seemed
thoroughly unreal, perhaps _be-
cause at times it was so overplay-
ed as to seem farcical. Both these
roles, however, were more than
adequately done, ending the play
on the proper note. John Stone
of Haverford, and Katherine
Southerland, ’48, in the respective
roles of Albert and Lucy, did not



have the ability necessary to sus-}

tain their frequent scénes alone

together.

The play as a. whole did not
achieve the audience success au-
gured for it by the individual act-
ing, the setting, or indeed the in-
trinsic worth of the play _ itself,
largely because the mood of the
evening was not one receptive to
a horror play. It did not achieve
its possible critical success because
of the unimaginative directing
which so often bogged it down,
‘leaving the stage empty for a to-
tal of eight times during the even-
ing, and completely omitting to
set the pace and mood which it is
not the actors’ entire job to pro-

‘ duced,

*“worth while.

But the evening was more’ than
It showed the col-
lege that there was some true,
though untrained, dramatic tal-

pent on-campus; as well as a real

‘degree of knowledge

and | tech-

“nique in the production of back-

ground, both in lighting and set.
With another director, the: play
might have had the success it re-
ally deserved.

for.

mas pageant containing: a caroling
chorus and the usual Bible charac-
ters.
' Perhaps the most, original
Christmas«celebration is that held
by the Non-Reses...They have a
Christmas party and give each
other suggestive knockers point-
ing out one another’s characteris-
tics. For example, one squeaky-
‘voiced student was last year pre-
sented with a bottle of gargle. The
Christmas dinner in Radnor is
lield on Moriday night and the
grads instead of the faculty make
the speeches.

The plans for this year seem. to
follow the usual traditional lines
with the Sophomores decorating,
the Freshmen entertaining and the
Faculty as speech-making guests.
Of course difficulties are not lack-
ing. Rhoads who had gala ideas
for a window banked with red can-
dles found that they could have
no candles whatsoever, while other
halls are wondering whether the
trees and greens will be obtainable
as early as December 12.

Jessup and Blaisdell
Discuss Relief Plans

Continued from Page 1

organization; but rather, it is bas-
ed on spiritual and religious aid.
From their work during and after
the last war, Friends’ Centers have
grown up in Paris, Berlin, Geneva,
Vienna, and other European cities.

Since Nazi oppression began in
1930, the Friends have been active
in relief work and have been help-
ing refugees in Lisbon, Vienna,
‘Spain, North Africa, Greece (aid-
ing U. N. R. R. A.), Italy, China,
and India. _

‘Mrs. Blaisdell had permission td
speak only on the F. E. ‘A. This
particular field during the war has
to do with things rather than peo-
ple. Their particular problem is
what material to give men and
where to find it.._There were three
jobs handed over to the F. E. A.:
(1) The most important and essen-
tial was that of Lend-Leafe to the
Allies; (2) The minimum supply
of goods to neutral countries; and
(3) Keeping the enemy from get-
ting essential materials from the
neutrals.

Mrs. Blaisdell said“ that there
would be need for a large staff, of
trained personnel to carry out the
participation of the U. S. (through
F. E. A.) in the operations of the
United Nations Relief and Reha-
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3-3 In Hockey Match



Swarthmore, December 2. The
final hockey match -of the season
ended in a 3-3 tie between Bryn
Mawr and Swarthmore, a repeti-
tion of last year’s score. A tem-
perature in the twenties, afield as
hard as rock and white with frost,
and a lack of practice due to two
weeks of rain were not conducive
to a brilliant game, particularly as
far as the Owls were concerned.

At the end of the first half the
score stood 2-1 in favor of Bryn
Mawr, after Lydge Gifford ’45, and
Mimi Fostér 47, had tallied for
the Owls.’ In the second half,
however, ‘the maroon forward line.
played a powerful offensive game,
resulting in ‘some furious scrim-
mages in front of the Bryn Mawr
goal. After one such scrimmage,

score.

A penalty bully was, called when
the Bryn Mawr goalie, Darst Hyatt
47, caught the ball between her
knees and refused to let go. Forced
to bully with the opposing center
forward five yards in front of the
goal, Darst cleared and the score
remained a tie.

In the last five minutes Swarth-
more scored again, but the yellow
team made a magnificent comeback
when Lydge Gifford shot the ball
into the Swarthmore goal in the
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Mr. Soltau Considers
Politics jn Near East

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mandate of Syria and Lebanon,

- they established in each nation a

high commissioner, supported by a
large civil staff. This organiza-
tion was expected to’ cooperate

-with the native departmental au-

thorities, but. friction frequently
developed, ‘often interrupting the
government. This situation was
complicated further by the French
government’s ‘custom of sending
very inferior officials to Lebanon
and Syria.

The chief contribution of the
French has been in education. They
have carried their native tradition
of an excellent educational system
to the mandate, but in one respect

this has tended to be a disadvan-|

tage, as the emphasis on France
has tended to denationalize the
Lebanese and Syrian youth. —
Thé Arab future of these prov-
inces is complicated by British
declarations of independence on
their behalf and evident French
unwillingness to give up the man-
dates. Out of the confusion of
the last twenty years have arisen
two salient facts—that Arab na-
tionalism is a force which cannot
be ignored, and that the mandate
system established in the French
mandates has been unsueccessful.

B. M. Camp Counselors
Give Christmas Party

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Common Room, Dec. 6. The an-
nual Christmas party for the child-
ren who attended the Bryn Mawr
camp this summer was held this
afternoon. All the children who at-
tended camp were asked, and were
met in Philadelphia by some of
the counselors to be brought out
to college.

Dr. Tselos played the role of
Santa Claus, and his young son
was the “assistant.” There were
presents for everyone, and a
Christmas tree with all the trim-
mings. ‘

After playing games, the child-
ren ate cakes, cookies and ice
cream. When they had had their
fill, and the camp songs had been
sung, they departed for home, the
strains of “Good Night to Little
Cho-Cho” echoing from the raft-
ers of the Common Room.

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New Athletic Association Clubroom in Gym
To Provide-Hospitality for Visiting Teams



by Bettina Kluepfel ’°48

An old store room in the base-
ment of the gym will soon be .con-
verted into an attractive A. A.
room. The transformation will
provide a long-lacking place of en-
tertainment for various visiting
teams.

The chief difficulty in renovating
the store room lay in covering as
many of the numerous pipes as
possible. Although the room is
now merely painted space,: the
Committee, Miss Petts, Ty Wal-
ker °45, and Alice Hedge ’46, have
made plans for curtaining new
¢lear glass windows, providing a
rug, stuffed chairs, and even a
radio-victrola. In time a kitchen-
ette may be added, and Miss Petts
says that the A. A. will have their
own dishes.

When the college took in a hun-
dred extra students, a new infirm-
ary was built, a new science build-
ing put up, and an addition to the
library completed, but the begin-
ning of the war “curtailed any
plans for the gym. This year, the
swimming team cast aside their
old terry-cloth bathrobes, only to



Choir Meets Gobs

On Princeton Jaunt
Continued from page 1
regated from Princeton by a din-
ing room shortage, gulped hot
coffee and dinner, and ran for the
train. Taking a busman’s holiday,
they sang their throats hoarse to
the amazement of those returning
from New York at the end of an
obviously essential week-end. But
it remained for another conductor
to put the finishing touches on the
excursion. Staring in amazement
at the fifty singing females he evi-
ently felt called on to exhibit his
talents. Whereupon he _ walked
slowly up and down the aisle pro-
jecting his false teeth, both uppers
and lowers, out of his mouth and
spinning them on the end of his
tongue. Unfortunately, the Choir
did not look sufficiently impressed.
so he retired to the end of the car,
and delivered the words of his inner
soul. “Aw, go-on an’ sing! Sing
‘Hark the Herald Angels.’ It’s
beautiful, and I can’t live without
beauty.” The choir, avoiding the

teeth, began to sing.





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ones to be had, so the money went
to the A. A. room.

“T feel that Bryn Mawr has not
shown enough hospitality to other
teams,” stated Miss Petts, but she
hopes that with an attractive room
to receive the visiting teams, the
situation will be remedied. ,

Lt. Charles Bolte
To Talk on Veterans

Continued from page 1

Foreign Wars. Bolte is a member
of the temporary executive com-
mittee of six honorably discharged
veterans, with ‘headquarters in
New York.

The preliminary statement of in-
tentions drawn up by the commit-
tee makes clear that though the

veterans are looking forward to

living a normal civilian life after
the war, they realize that “military
victoy does not automatically bring
peace, jobs, or freedom. To guar-
antee our interests, we must work
for what we want.” "To accomplish
this, the discharged mean to take
action to insure aid for vet-
erans, during demobilization, jobs,
through gocial security, the free-
doms, disarmament of the aggres-
sor nations, and continued unified
action of the United Nations.
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with the clearly stated, yet flexible,
aims of the organization...

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* Christmas Gifts

This Friday th Maids and
Porters are aitaie a in the
basement of Taylor for.a sale
of Christmas presents. heen
range from stuffed animals to
frivolous aprons and handker-
chief cases. The sale will con-
tinue through Saturday and on
to Monday if the articles hold
out.





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A choir of maids and porters
will serenade the campus with
Christmas carols, negro spirituals
and old favorites on request, Mon-
day night, December llth. Al
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