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THE COLLEGE NEWS



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“THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)
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Published weekly dun. the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas-and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and
Bryn Mawr College.

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office

Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912





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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

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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!”



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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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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. _

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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-



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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.
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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





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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.
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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.

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Another type of cooperative
movement is in evidence at. Tor-
onto, where. a, campus cooperative
residence for students of, every
race ,creed and nation is entering

its eighth year of successful _



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