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7 of the American Friends’





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.

ue



“ 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!