College news, March 3, 1948

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VOL. FH, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1948



Davies Explains
BritishProgram
Of Soc. Planning

Cites Beneficial Effects,
Social and Economic,
Of Reforms

Goodhart, March 1. “On the suc-
otherwise of England’s

cess or
planned social economy depends
whether the other impoverished

nations of Europe go communistic
or not,” declared A. Emil Davies
at the third college assembly on
Current Affairs. Mr. Davies, a
member of the British Labor Party
and the Fabian Society, spoke on
“British Labor in Power.”

Mr. Davies went on to explain
the program of the party which
now governs post-war England, “It
is the responsibility of the nation
that all adults have a job,” he stat-
ed. .It is also essential that pro-
duction be increased. To this end
a system of planned economy has
been evolved. To provide for the
best distribution of what is on hand
England has strict rationing. But,
with this coupon system, the aver-
age working family can buy just
what it earns. - As a result, there
is almost no black market and
there has been no rise in prices
since the war.

Social Security, Nationalization

Social security is a vital part of
the Labor program. Family allow-
ances and accident insurance are
nationalized. Unemployment _in-
surance takes laziness and lack of
needed ability into account. The
controversial health scheme and
old age pensions are also part of
this great plan.

Mr. Davies defended Britain’s
nationalization of the war industry
and transportation. He stated that
the coal miners are the most “im-
portant men in England” and have
been “exploited for years.” Mr.
Davies believes that in the same
way power was once taken from the
feudal lords, it must now be taken
from industrial magnates. Britain
can not afford to have our boom
and slump cycle, and only the gov-
ernment will run the risk of ex-

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Intercollegiate Group Discusses
Position Of Artist In Our Society

Specially Contributed by
Sandol Stoddard ’49

On February 27-29, the first Na-
tional Intercollegiate Arts Confer-
ence was held at Vassar College.
The students of Vassar and 400
delegates from as far west as the
University of Michigan and as far
south as Sweetbriar heard seven
distingushed speakers, took part in
panel discussions with famous art-
ists, and argued with each other
far.into the night about the posi-
tion of the creative arts in con-
temporary society. It was an ex-
citing three days, and if none of
us solved the problems we. dis-
cussed, at least we found a com-
mon basis for disagreement.

Supplementing the lectures and
discussions were special exhibits,
among them recent lithographs by
Picasso from the Museum of Mod-



Frank Expresses
Relation of Time
To True Eternity

Goodhart, March 1: “Nobody will
deny that there is time. We are en-
gulfed in the stream of time. But
is there eternity?’ questioned Dr.
Erich Frank, visiting Profesosr of
Philosophy at Bryn Mawr. After
presenting many various ideas of
eternity from something that is
frightening and engulfing to Aris-
totle’s definition that eternity “is
a total which embraces the time

-of the life of each individual,” h«

stated that time may be some kind
of eternity, eternity some kind of
time.

However, the relationship of
time and eternity becomes reversed
when time is measured with num-
bers for time seems to depend on
something else, on some dynamic
presence—matter, which can never
be entirely exhausted by our time
element. Time is a infinite suc-
cession of parts. It passes and be-
comes the past a& soon as it turns
from future into present. Only
what is present to the senses seems

‘real now. Observable time is a

strange phenomena for it exists

but it exists in non-existence.

Where is that time which we can
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Sea Horses, Sambas, Nassoons
Lend Final Touch to ’51’s Night

by Marian Edwards ’50

*Midst the aquatic atmosphere of
fuschia, blue and gold sea horses,
draped fish nets, pink coral and
roped life-savers, Bryn Mawr whirl-
ed, floated, “sambaed” and swung
at the Undergrad dance following
“The Big Leap” on Saturday
night. None who danced to the
rhythm of the Pennmen under the
pink, blue, navy crepe paper
streamers could deny that the
dance, from the receiving line to
the 1:55 a. m. strains of the last
number, more than _ successfully
climaxed ’51’s night.

Tables-for-eight that were placed
around an overly crowded dance
floor, offered a welcome rest to the
over-weary freshmen, to the worn-
out - from --animal - hunting sopho-
mores, to the slow, smooth-num-
bers-only upperclassmen, and’ es-
pecially to the Haverfordians who
“just can’t balance punch and
cookies on the knee.” Moreover,
Chesterfield, not to Be outdone \by
Camels, complimented each table
with a package of cigarettes.





Intermission time hailed the
Nassoons to the bandstand where
with unique drama and effective
oompas, they harmonized on
“Jungle Town,” “Teasin’,” “Foggy
Foggy Dew,” “They Done Scan-
dalized My Name,” “The Castle on
the River’ (even accomplishing
the slushy glide of the “Slide
Trombone”) and a score of others.
Although applause demanded more,
they departed with “Monkey
Doodle Do” and “Shall We Dance,”
either leaving the seated couples
with 1890 barber shop memories or
creating the levee scene of a Dixie
plantation.

More singing pleasantly inter-
rupted dancing when Judy Walker
by demand sang her throaty show
song “We Can’t Give You Any-
thing But. Love, Zozer.” Despite
dampness and weariness, the gay
atmosphere of the “H.M.S. Dis-
gusting” (sign over the entrance)
as well as after-the-ball comments
certainly impressed us that this
Leap Year dance topped previous
dances by far.

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ern Art and Sculpture by David|
Smith on loan from the Willard
Gallery. The Vassar College Or-
chestra gave a concert and the li-
brary presented a special exhibit
tracing the development of the
American Tradition.

F. O. Matthiessen, literary critic
and Professor of English at Har-
vard, who gave the keynote ad-
dress Friday evening, posed the
question which /remained at the
center of interest throughout the
conference: to what degree should
the artist immerse himself in his
medium, creating in terms of his
inner world, and to what degree
must he participate’in society as
a whole and express a social truth?
Mr. Matthiessen himself felt that
even the most “inner” writing
makes some statement about the
nature of the world, that commun-
ication and the expression of ideas
are necessary elements in art. He
emphasized the contrast between
honest writers like Hemingway,
Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams,
and the “official version” of Amer-
ica put out in most of our best-
sellers which leads the world to
think of America as "the Land be-
hind the Gold Curtain.” Both “in-
ner” and “outer” writing are val-
uable; honesty is the important
criterion.

‘Ben Shahn, painter, stated that
the artists must concern himseif
with politics, and must participate
in the affairs of the world, but said
that the ideal was a compromise
between the artist’s self-expression
and the necessity for communica-
tion. Opposed to Mr. Shahn’s
views were John Cage, experiment-

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Susan Kelley has withdrawn
as nominee for president of Self-
Government. She has been re-
placed by Karen Knaplund.





Prineeton Sings

With B. M. Here

One hundred and forty members
of the Bryn Mawr Chorus and the
Princeton Glee Club will partici-
pate in the big concert scheduled
for March 12, at 8:30, in Goodhart.
Organized by the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of the college, the concert
is for the benefit of the Princeton
Third Century Fund as well as for
the Bryn Mawr College Fund/
1946—.

The Bryn Mawr Chorus will first
sing a collection of religious music.
Among the songs are two Adora-
mus Te’s, one by Brahms, the other
by Di Lasso. Byrde’s Looke Downe,
O Lord, Panchenko’s Beatitudes, an
Ave Maria, by Kodaly, are a few
of the others, as well as High
Flight, a work with words by Ma-
gee, the RAF pilot who wrote the
poem High Flight, and with music
by Mr. Goodale, director of the
Bryn Mawr Chorus.

Next, the Princeton Glee Club

‘will sing several classical songs

from the works of Haydn, Bach,
Beethoven and Handel. Bryn Mawr
will follow with four choral hymns
by Holst from the Hindu Rig Veda:
the Hymns to Vena, to the Dawn,
to Varuna and to Agni.

After the intermission, Princeton
will sing a group of folk songs,
among them This Ol’ Hammer, Si-
mon Legree, John Peel and Shen-
andoah.

As a finale, the two choruses will
combine to give Brahms’ Schick-

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



by Jean Ellis, ’49

The good God Leap was watch-
ing over the Class of 1951 when
they took their “Big Leap,” last
Saturday night. Set in the mys-
terious atmosphere of the long-lost
tomb —of King Zozer and~his~ 12
wives (authentically reproduced
down to the last hieroglyphic), the
Big Leap captivated an already en-
thusiastic audience.

From the catchy Dedication Song
to the final successful presentation
of the class animal, a black goat,
51 outdid itself. The unique set-
ting and high quality of the per-
formances more than compensated
for a lack of unity in the show.
The plot was feeble, being the story
of three lady archaeologists who
fell into a tomb on Leap Year
night, found love there and were

Toynbee Returns
To Lead Chapel

On Sunday, March 7, Professo>
Arnold J. Toynbee will return to
Bryn Mawr to conduct the Chapel
service, at 7:30 in Goodhart. Mr.
Toynbee, who will be remembered
by most of Bryn Mawr for his
presentation ofthe Flexner - Lec-
tures last winter, based on his lat-
est work, A Study of History,
agreed to make a return appear-
ance here on the condition that he
should be allowed to lead the
Chapel service. He is currently
at Princeton in the capacity of
Guest Lecturer.

Bryn Mawr even has a personal
connection with historian Toynbee
as evidenced by a letter to the
NEWS from Peggy Rudd, who
graduated last spring. She said,
“T’ve had the time of my life trav-
elling all over England and France
and doing everything from having
tea with the Toynbees to setting



Profesosr Toynbee suggested in a
letter to Miss McBride that he

twould take as his subject next

Sunday “The way the world looks
to a middle class Englishman his



salslied (“Song of Fate’).

age.”



off firecrackers with a Bishop!’’| |"



51 Presents Colossal “Big Leap”
With Fantastic Egyptian Setting

Field, Torrence, and Walker Star In Show;
Excellent Dances And Tuneful Songs
Add To Saturday Gaiety



forced to remain ’til eternity de-
spite continued attempts of Man-
drake, the tomb magician, to free
them before the midnight deadline;
but nevertheless it provided the ne-
cessary background for a good mu-
sical revue!

The highlight of the evening was
the opening scene of the second act,
which followed the traditional sale
of posters made unusually lively by
the witty auctioneer, Pat Bennett.
After King Zozer, played by Sue
Kramer, and his archaeologist
friend, Lindy, adequately portrayed
by Anita Dittmar, had gone off “to
view his scarabs,’’ Zozer’s wives
and slaves took over with a Rock-
ettish kick routine and Judy Walk-
er as Gypsy Rose Lee scored a hit
with the unforgettable “We Can’t
Give You Anything But Love, Zoz-
er.” The Bull Session, in which an
Octet of Slaves gave an accom-
plished rendition of “Egyptian
Woman” and “Come on and Lis-
ten,” was especially entertaining

Continued on Page 5

Calendar

Wednesday, March 3
7:15—Marriage Lecture, Mrs.
Rachel Cox, Common Room.

Thursday, March 4
5:00—German Lecture, Prof.
Arno Schirokauer of Johns
Hopkins, “Wittenberg und
Salzburg”, Music _Room.
8:00—Debate with Swarth-
more, Rhoads Showcase.
Friday, March 5
7:30—Movie, Music Room.
Sunday, March 7 |
8:00—Prof. Arnold Toynbee.|
Goodhart.
Monday, March 8
7:15—Current Events, Miss



Dorothy Nepper, “Spain”,
Common Room.

815—Dr. Amos Wilder, |
“Christian Ethics’, Common)
Room.

Tuesday, March 9
4:30—Hudson Shore Labor
School Tea, Deanery.
8 :30—Marriage Lecture, Mrs.
Stewart Mudd, Common Room.












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The Meaning of Ipso Facto

The fact that every student is “ipso facto” a member of
each of the five big organizations on campus holds a real in-
dividual significance. Membership carries with it both priv-
ilege and responsibility.

At election time this is especially significant. In choos-
ing the college officers for the coming year, the student has
both opportunity and obligation not only to exercise her
present powers of individual initiative and judgment but also
to prepare herself for her ultimate position in the country as
a voter and a citizen.

Filling out a ballot should not be a routine job. Now is

the time for each student to judge each candidate in respect

to her qualifications for ‘the office; what she does not know,
about the candidate she should make her business to find out.
March’s choice is with us in October.

Reawakening

Times of world unrest usually indicate man’s spiritual
unrest and his final realization that his knowledge, which
comes from God, cannot be divorced from a spiritual guid-
ance. The marked increase in student and faculty interest
in religious activities on campus certainly confirms this as-
sumption, and merits our attention.

The Chapel Committee under Betts McClure, grasping
the need for a more active religious life on campus, has of-
fered a program that performs a two-fold function: worship
and thought. The former has been accomplished by the im-
provement in the selection of Chapel speakers this year (as
reflected by Arnold Toynbee’s acceptance to speak only at a
chapel service) and the recently introduced Wednesday
morning chapel service of prayer and meditation, conducted
by students.

The series of weekly religion lectures have given the
student an opportunty to evaluate religious material in order
to obtain a spiritual approch to practical living. The recep-
tion of Dr. Butterfield, Dr. Niebuhr, and Dr. Frank indicates
not only the significant demand for a spiritual stimulus but
also the success of the Chapel Committee in its new program.

Moreover, the campus election of Chapel Head this year
and the planned formal and constitutional organization of a
Chapel Committee points forward to the continuation of this
campus religious activity which has penetrated a heretofore
passive atmosphere.

ie

Current Events

Common Room, March Ist.—In a
discussion of the events of the
week in Czechoslovakia, Dr. Felix
Gilbert emphasized the fact that
the so-called “sudden” change in
that country was not a sudden
coup d’etat at all, but that it was
simply a reflection of the increas-
ing tension between the. Eastern
and Western coalitions produced by
a political situation which had been
developing for some time.

In view of the fact that the news-
papers had termed Czechoslovakia
a Russian satellite as far back as
1946, said Dr. Gilbert, it was some-
what astonishing for them to speak
of this new turn of events as indi-
cating a collapse of “the last bul-
wark of democracy.” Actually,
Czechoslovakia had been distin-
guished from her neighbors in her
political setup ever since the war,
but there had been a definite lim-
itation upon her independence of
action. In 1945, Czechoslovakia
had a government allied with and
recognized. by Russia and the other
powers as well; it maintained a
parliamentary system and freedom
of the press, but since there was
only one real political party, the
National Front, there was little op-
portunity for expression by any op-
position elements, and every oppor-
tunity to further Benes’ Soviet- in-
spired program of socialization.

In addition, said Dr. Gilbert, the
domestic situation in Czechoslo-
vakia has long been developing into
a struggle between the very large
Communist party and the smaller
conservative ones: This was, of
course, the immediate reason be-
hind the recent events. But the
basic reason is in the fact that Rus-
sia must maintain a strong hold
over Czechoslovakia in order to
strengthen her Eastern consolida-
tion, particularly if she withdraws
from Austria and if the consolida-
tion of the West goes through.

Students Investigate
Position Of Arts

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al musician known for his innova-
tions with—percussion and his in-
vention of the “prepared piano,”
and Merce Cunningham, modern
dancer, who has worked with Mr.
Cage. Mr. Cunningham spoke of
the importance of an artist’s per-
sonal conquest of his medium and
stated that it is the dance itself
which should be emphasized, not
the story or idea which it embod-
ies. Mr. Cage said that art is or-
ganization of material, not self-
expression, and that its purpose is
not the communication of facts
about -an individual or society, but
rather the production of a high de-
gree of concentration which unifies
the personality of the performer
and of the observer. Art should bz
“a clean place where a man may
come and find the tranquility of in-
tegration.” *

Similarly opposed to each other
were Irwin Shaw, playwright, and
John Malcolm Brinnin, poet. Mr.
Shaw, treading on somewhat less
controversial ground that Mr. Brin-

centralization of the theatre from
Broadway and for encouragement
of experimental work. He then
mentioned the intimate intercon-
nection of the playwright and his
audience and smiled engagingly as
he said “I hate the audience.” Mr.
Brinnin, on the other hand, pro-
voked violent discussion and crit-
icism, especially from Mr. Mat-
thiessen and Mr. Shahn, when he
carried this one step further and
stated that it is the duty of the
artist to lose himself in his med-
ium and of the audience to be-
come sufficiently educated to fol-
low him.

By the time Dr. Paul Weiss (for-
merly head of the Philosophy de-
partment at Bryn Mawr, now at
Yale) came to the stand Sunday
morning to deliver the summary



speech, controversy among the ar-
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nin, spoke first of the need for de-|

Support Urged for Bill

Aiding D. P.’s

Of Europe

To the Editor:
Miss Gertrude Ely ended her.
talk at last week’s Current Events
with a plea fot the admission of
displaced persons into the USA.
There are still nearly a million
living in DP camps because they
have nowhere to find jobs that will
support them. There are skilled
and unskilled workers and profes-
sionals who could find useful work
here in our country.

The Stratton Bill (H. R. 2910)
would admit 100,000 people annu-
ally for a four-year emergency
period. This totals less than half
the number which was allowed by
our quota System for 1989-1945 but
the war prevented more than a
trickle of immigrants from com-
ing. These displaced persons would
be screened for health,~économic
status etc., ‘according to the usual
immigration procedure. There is
a similar bill now in the Senate
Committee. Write to your Senat-
ors to back it, write to your Con-
gressman to back the House bill—-
HR 2910.

Leila Dean Jackson °48

B. M. Grad in England
Advocates Course

At Stratford
Reading, England
To the Editor:

I hear that March 15 is the clos-
ing date for application to the
Shakespearean Summer School at
Stratford-on-Avon run by Birming-
ham University. I thought, there-
fore, that a brief note from one
who attended the six-weeks course
last summer might help to decide
some of the undecided.

The program was exciting ‘and
varied—including not only “straight
Shakespearean” but lectures in
Elizabethan art, music, manuscript
reading, and social background
given by experts. Needless to say,
living in the Shakespearean coun-
try and travelling to nearby places
of interest was an education in
itself, as was the “international”
atmosphere of the summer school.

I might add, for those who wish
(as I did) to use the summer
course largely as an excuse for a
longer visit to Europe—that not
only did I get a job through the
University contacts when my
money gave out, but I was also sent’
by them to this special course at
Reading. And I find that what
Reading has to offer is so exactly
what I want that I plan to start
work on a Ph.D., next fall!

All this starting from a short
summer course! I do not think
that I need to say how really
“wizard” I consider the Englisi
people and their very much alive
country!

I hope that many other Bryn
Mawr students will make use of
such an opportunity this coming
summer. Sincerely,

Margaret E, Rudi

AE. Davies Defends
Brit. Labor Program

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panding industry when a slump be-
gins,

Mr. Davies explained that “the
labor party would never have had
a majority without the support of
the middle class.” Conservative
England’s change to a_ socialist
form of government was the result
of long years of propaganda.
In conclusion, Mr. Davies gave
an account of how the civil restau-
rant, his own ‘brain-child’, came
into being.



No Cars

- Undergraduate students in
residence are reminded that
they may not have cars at col-
lege.









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Low Asks Reviewers
To Criticize Plays
Constructively

To the Editor:

The job of the critic is to criti-
cize, not to give,.evasive descrip-
tions. Evasion is hardly creditable.
to the NEWS; hitting below the belt.
with insidious little slams even less.
so. “For what the play was worth”
insinuates very little worth. Yet
why? No reasons are given. The
reviewer’s impression is that “The
author is insufficiently versed in the
lot of sharecroppers.” This partic-
ular play deals with Southern
Maryland sharecroppers. Does the
reviewer know any?

I was brought up and have spent.
about a third of my life on a. farm °
in Southern Maryland. It is Ho re-
sort. We have sharecroppers on.
our farm, next door, across the riv-
er, and all about us. I know these
people. How much more versed in
their lot can one be than to have
lived with them?

Actually, it is my guess that this.
statement was to cover up some-
thing much more profound that ex-
ists in the attitude of many stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr—a backward
and narrow-minded approach to the
most obvious facts of life. In my
play, a semi-conscious incest does
exist. Therefore, the most often
repeated comment was that it was.
sordid and pornographic. Did the
critic subscribe to this objection
and neglect to mention it? Why?
Because she basically was aware
that calling this play pornographic
would shéck those who realize the
necessity for the aesthetic removal
of moral values for the sake of
art? Even the movie censors real-
ize that if a criminal meets an un-
happy fate, crime is a proper sub-
ject for art.

This play was a true story of a
life that I know. There are many
faults, none of which were unfa-
miliarity with the subject. The
worth of a play is another matter.
Playwrights have always written
for audiences, to entertain them,
not to lecture or preach to them.
Worth in a play is not generally
found in the calibre or the complex
ideas contained in it, but rather in
its ability to hold an audience. A
well-developed story is more inter-
esting to an average audience than
all the philosophical ideas in the
world. Audiences are not intellec-
tual, but emotional. Bryn Mawr
audiences are neither. They are a
large part snobs, prudes and preju-
diced pretenders. Yet, even in the
discussion after the play these peo-
ple admitted that the play held
their emotional and intellectual in-
terest. Let the critic be more ex-
plicit about what was lacking in
the “worth” of the play. I shall
contitlue to write for people. Mean-
while, I should be delighted to re-
ceive all available constructive crit-
icism. The NEWS editorial sup-
ports the advancement of creative
endeavor on campus, yet the indi-
vidual critic always seems inclined
to.condemn_rather than encourage.

Sincerely,
Marjorie Low, ’50.



Incidentally

There is considerable wonder
about the campus as, to the location
of the Pool Room, announced at.
lunch this week as the meeting-
place for the Red Cross swimming
instructions. We feel that such a
room could hardly provide the
healthy, all-girl atmosphere requi-
site for such a course.

That blacked-out explosion on
Saturday night was not, as during
the Junior Show, the Ardmore po-
lice firing a blank offstage, but a
real chemical concoction: phosphor-
ous and KC104. We have it on
good authority that the Chemistry
Department was sitting on the edge /



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svuniors Name Seideman, Kelley,
Hackney, N. Martin for Self-Gov.



Above: Hackney, Martin, Kelley; below: Seideman

The Junior Class has presented
the following nominees for Presi-
dent of the Self-Government As-
sociation:

Ann Seideman

Ann has been the second
Sophomore member of Self-Gov-
ernment, and is now Secretary of
Self-Government. She is a member
of the Stage Guild, is a member

of the editorial board of the Title,'

and is co-head of the Merion Clean-
ing Agency.
Susan Kelley
Sue was Vice-President of her
class in her freshman year and
acted as first Sophomore: repre-
sentative to Undergrad. She is
now Common Treasurer.



Allie Lou Hackney
Allie is the first Junior mem-
ber of Self-Government, —Vice-
President of the Stage Guild, Sub-

' scription Manager of the NEWS,

Secretary of the Junior Class, and
Secretary of the Science Club.

Nancy Martin

Nancy was the Freshman Rep-
resentative to Undergrad, and
during her Sophomore year was
Vice-President of her class, Rep-
resentative to the Alliance, and
Chairman of the Student Employ-
ment Committee. She is Chairman
of the Undergraduate Drive for the
Bryn Mawr Fund and Chairman of
the Vocational Committee.



Lund, Worthington, Pope, Bentley
Nominated For Athletic Assoc.

Above: Pope, Worthington; below, Lund;
not shown: Bentley (alt.)

The nominees of the Junior
Class for next year’s President of
A. A. are:

Zoe Lund

Rusty is the Junior member of
the A. A., the Junior hall repre-
sentative of Pembroke East and a
member of the Stage Guild. This
year she became co-head of the

|mittee of the Junior class.
, was delegate to the 1948 Outing
| Club Conference, and helped initi-



Rusty

ate campus interest in skiing. She

/is a member of the hockey and bad-

minton varsity squads.
Sally Worthington
Sally is the Vice-President of the

A. A. and was Secretary of the As-

Merion Cleaning Agency and a sociation last year. She served as
member of the nominating com-|a member of the nominating com-



Self-Gov. Stresses
Responsibility,
Individual! Effort

Every undergraduate in the col-
lege is a member oi Student Gov-
ernment, and its policies, regula-
tions and administration are jorm-
ed and directed by students. its
uniqueness lies in the lack of fac-
ulty supervision and the total re-
sponsibility assumed by undergrad-
uates.

This government operates
through the permission-givers, a
large group of students appointed
by hall presidents on the basis of
individual responsibility; they sign
students out and aid the hall presi-
dents in carrying out: hall reguia-
tions. The actual administration oi
the organization rests with the Ad-
visory Board, consisting of Hall
presidents and the Executive
Board, which decides whether cor-
rective action shali be taken in spe-
cific cases, interprets the rules and
guides policy for the campus as a
whole.

The president of Student Govern-
ment conducts the meetings of the
Advisory Board and the Executive
Board. She is a member of the
Undergraduate’ and the College

| Councils. She has the power to use

any means which she sees fit to
make the rules known to the asso-
ciation. It is her duty to call to-
gether and preside over any meet-
ings of the Association.

The Advisory Board turns in the
signing-out sheets and reports to
‘the president any offenses which
have occurred during the week. She
interviews the students concerned
and makes a full investigation of
each case in order that the Execu-
tive Board may make a fair judg-
ment of the situation. Any deci-
sion is made only with the agree-
ment of every member of the
Board, and each case must be re-
considered if an appeal is made.

Majority Decision

The Student Government Asso-
ciation was founded in 1892 on the
principle that undergraduates were
capable of directing their own be-
havior. Intelligent, adult behavior
and submission to majority deci-
sion have been characteristic of the
organization since its formation.

Campus Activities,
Events Discussed

By Two Councils

The Undergraduate Council and
College Council were formed in or-
der to co-ordinate all campus ac-
tivities and to discuss any prob-
lems which might arise in the un-
dergraduate body:

The Undergraduate Council is
composed of the heads of the six
associations: Self-Government, Un-
dergrad, League, Alliance, AA and
NHWS, with the secretary of Un-





mittee of the Junior class and
Chairman of-Propsfor.the Junior
Show, as well as a delegate to the
1948 Outing Club Conference.
Sally also took charge of ordering
class blazers and is a member of
the swimming and basketball var-
sity squads.
Honey Pope

Honey was the Sophomore Rep-|
resentative to the A. A. She is a.
member of the Chapel Committee
and the head of the Poster Bureau.
In her Freshman year she entered
the Stage Guild, and is now the
assistant head of the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp.

Barbara Bentley (alternate)

Ba was a Freshman class Chair-
man and Freshman Representative
to the A. A. She directed the
Freshman Hall Play for Pem East,
and was one of the rotating Fresh-
man Song-mistresses. She was on
the hockey, basketball and baseball
varsities ,and is now spending. her
Junior year at the Sorbonne.



The nominees of the Junior Class
for next ‘year’s President of Un-
dergrad are:

Margo Vorys

Margo ran the Sophomore Car-
nival last year and is currently
President of the Junior class.
Margo attended the Intercollegiate
Conference on Government last
year and is attending this year.
She was Costume Manager for the
Junior Show.

Nancy Martin

Nancy was Freshman represen-
tative to Undergrad, Vice-President
of the Sophomore class, Sophomore
representative to the Alliance and
Chairman of the Student Employ-
ment Committee last year. This
year she is Chairman of the Under-
grad Drive for the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Fund, Chairman of the Vo-
cational Committee and the Junior
Prom, and was Business Manager
of the Junior Show.

Ann Eberstadt

Ann is First Junior Member of
Undergrad, Business Manager of
the Varsity Players and was Di-
rector. of the Junior Show. She
has also participated in many Var-
sity Players’ productions.

Karen Knaplund

Having served as second Junior
member of Undergrad, Karen is
now Undergrad Secretary. In her
Sophomore year she was on the
Chapel Committee, and chairman of
costumes for the Sophomore Car-
nival. She is on the Title board
and helped with the Freshman
Handbook. She attended the NSA
Conference in Madison last sum-
mer. She is NSA representative on
campus and Secretary of the Penn-
sylvania region of NSA. Karen
read at Blind School Freshman and
Sophomore years, and was in Stage
Guild Freshman year.



dergrad acting as secretary. This
meets at least once a week to dis-
cuss any problems which have aris-
en and to ‘talk on college affairs.
The council has no power of deci-
sion except as each president takes’
action for. her particular associa-
tion; it is mainly a discussion and
advisory group. Each month it
presents through its chairman, the
president of Undergrad, a proposed
agenda for College Council.

College Council meets once a
month to discuss undergraduate
events with representatives . from
the college. These include Miss
McBride, Miss Nepper, Mrs. Sut-
ton, Miss Howe, Miss Clayton, the
four class presidents and the presi-
dents of the afore-named six asso-
ciations- The group talk over any
questions concerning both the col-
lege authorities and the undergrad-
uates with the president of Under-
grad acting as its president, in con-
junction with Miss McBride.





’49 Lists Vorys, Martin, Eberstadt,
Knaplund For Undergrad Pres.



Above: Martin, Knaplund, Eberstadt; below: Vorys, Minton

Undergrad Is Contact
Between Students,
Administration

The work of the Undergrad pres-
ident is time-consuming and irreg-
ular, but she has to call meetings
of her Board-and_the-Undergradu-
ate Council once a week. She at-
tends press conference with the
NEWS editor, a graduate represen-
tative, a faculty representative,
Miss Howe, Mrs. Sutton, and Miss
Mcbride once a week, and once a
monih she goes to College Council.

At the beginning of her term of
othce, in conjunction with her vice-
president, the president. appoints
all Committee heads, with the ex-
ception of the Curriculum and
Chapel Committees. These ap-
pointees head the Vocational Com-
mittee, the Employment . Bureau,
the Library Committee and the
Furniture Sales, among others.

Every undergraduate is automat-
ically a member of the Undergrad-
uate Association. The executive
authority of this association is
vested in a Board, consisting of the
president and seven members. The
legislative authority is vested in
the Association as a whole, except
in extraordinary cases, when a rep-
resentative Legislature may be
called by the president.

One of the main purposes of Un-
dergrad is to serve as a channel of
contact between the student body
and the members of the admini-
stration, faculty and Alumnae; and
in this capacity it informs both
parties of the opinions and the re-
actions of the other:

The Association also serves as a
co-ordinating element in campus
activities. It closely supervises all
scheduling and organizes campus
entertainment, such as week-ends,
movies and dances. Parade Night,
Lantern Night and May Day ar-
rangements are also initiated by
Undergrad in conjunction with the
class presidents.

All clubs not under the League,
A. A., or Alliance, are under. the
auspices of Undergrad. Their fi-
nances are administered by the
Common Treasurer, who also ad-
ministers those of the Association.
The budget is provided by student
dues.



Errata

The following mistakes were
made in last week’s NEWS arti-
cle about the Undergraduate
voting system:

There is no vice-president of
the League.

The College also elects the
first sophomore members. to
Self-Government and _ Under-
grad.








Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS



League Names Corcoran, Pope,
Knaplund, Mahieu For President



Back row: Platt (alt.), Mahieu; next row: Corcoran, Pope;
Seated: Knaplund

The nominees of the Junior
Class for next year’s President of
the League are:

Ann Corcoran

This year Ann is in charge of
the sale of coffee in Taylor for the
Drive. She also read at Blind
School Freshman and Sophomore
years and was Prompter for the
Junior Show.

Honey Pope

Honey is assistant head of the
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp. She
was Sophomore representative to
the A. A. and is a member of the
Chapel Committee. She is head of
the Poster Bureau. She entered
Stage Guild her Freshman year.

Karen Knaplund

Having served as second Junior
member of Undergrad, Karen is
now Undergrad Secretary. In her
Sophomore year she was on the
Chapel Committee and Chairman
of Costumes for the Sophomore
Carnival. She is on the Title
board and helped with the Fresh-

man Handbook. She attended the
NSA Conference in Madison last
summer. She is NSA Represen-
tative on campus and Secretary of
the Pennsylvania region of NSA.
Karen read at the Blind School
Freshman and Sophomore years,
and was in Stage Guild Freshman
year.

Lucile Mahieu

Lucile, who transferred to Bryn
Mawr last year, was Secretary and
now Chairman of the Red Cross
unit here. She is a member of the
League Board, and of the United
World Federalists. Lucile has also
participated in several plays on
campus.

Clarissa Platt (alternate)

Clarissa is Class Basketball
Manager and has been an Alliance
hall-_representative. Clarissa is
in Stage Guild and was in charge
of Arts and Crafts for the Sopho-
more Carnival. She took part in
the Junior Show.





BMT in Fiction

Specially contributed by
Katrina Thomas ’49

(Continued from last week)

As a sophomore Jane thinks
“Romeo and Juliet the most beau-
tiful thing” and she prefers learn-
ing lines of it by heart to “gram-
mar and irrelevant facts that didn’t
interest her.” And finally we see
her as a sophomore marshal at
Commencement for the class of
°96; her father wants her to return
home. She sits through the exer-
cises, hot and yawning and recol-
lecting verses of Keats and Words-
worth and thinking that “she was
going out into a world where, she
was-quite certain, nothing would
ever seem as irresistibly funny as
everything did at Bryn Mawr.”
(Jane is right. The world is not
so irresistibly funny, and in a weak
moment she marries another man
because she is sore at Andre who
has won the prix de Rome and so
goes to Italy rather than rushing
home to marry her). Years later
when Jane is a grandmother,: her
friend Agnes’ daughter, “little
Agnes” is going to Bryn Mawr and
majoring in Biology and Physics.
Marion Park is now president of
the college. For Jane it is “incred-
ible to think that Marion, with
whom they had so often sat upon
the Bryn Mawr window-seat, could
have become a privileged person
like Miss Thomas . . . Miss Thom-
as, who had always seemed to them
not quite of this world of every
. day.” :
Although somewhat sentimental-



What To Do

For Next Year:

Dumbarton Oaks Research Lib-
rary, Washington. Assistant, be-
ginning next summer. Good typ-
ing necessary; knowledge of lan-
guages desirable; if shorthand, so
much the better. Collections most-
ly mediaeval.

Girls’ Latin School, Chicago.
Teacher of science and social stud-
ies in the middle school. Science
major. $2000 for a beginner.

Brearley School, New York. Lab-
oratory assistant and _ student
teacher. Biology major. $1200.

Scarsdale Public Schools, near
New York. Unpaid apprentices.
Good training. Schools keep num-
bers in classes down to twenty-five
or_thirty.

* * *

(See Miss Bates)

For the Summer

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,
Boston. Hospital at $120-$140 a
month for students who have had
Nurses Aide training. Also Ward



ized, Jane Ward is a little more hu-
man and less caricatured than the
other Bryn Mawr heroines. in fic-
tion, and is therefore a truer rep-
resentation of the BMT. We main-
tain that we really are a pretty
average group of educated Amer-
icans with Veronas and Polly Ful-
tons and Carolines and Mrs. A. L.
Guthries in our midst. We hope
that we- shall not get into the
scrapes that they did and have
profited more from our four years
that they seemed to have. Although
it is-only too probable that we will
not.





League Directs
Social Services

Responsibility for social services
on campus is in the hands of the
Bryn Mawr League. The League
Board, which integrates the various
functions of the organization, is
composed of qa president, a secre-
tary, representatives of the fresh-
men, sophomores, non-residents and
graduate students, a publicity di-
rector and the chairmen and assist-
ant chairmen of various commit-
tees.

One of the chief activities of the
League is running a summer
camp on the Jersey short for un-
derprivileged Philadelphia children.
Three groups of campers come for
two weeks each. It also arranges
to have Bryn Mawr students read
to the blind at the school in Over-
brook. Other services the League
performs in the local community in-
clude sending girls to work as vol-
unteers at the Haverford Commun-
ity Centet and the Home for Incur-
ables..

The League is in charge of all
Red Cross activities on campus.
This includes dancing and arts and

crafts work at Valley Forge Gen- |

eral Hospital. The organization
also sends an undergraduate each
summer to work at the Hudson
Shore Labor School. There are also
student-worker week-ends at Hud-
son Shore in the fall and spring.

Also under the League is the
very active Maids’ and Porters’
Committee, which arranges for the
Maids’ and Porters’ classes, their
annual play and dance, and their
Christmas caroling.

The League runs the Soda Foun-
tain in Goodhart, 70 per cent of
whose profits go to the summer
camp. It also sends girls to the
Week-end Work Camps, sponsored
by the Friends’ Service Committee.

The League receives financial
support for its various activities
from its annual drive for funds
held each fall.



Election Schedule

Elections for the presidents of
the Undergraduate organiza-
tions have been scheduled for
the following days. Voting will
take place immediately after
lunch on these days:

_ Self. - Government, Thursday,
March 4.

Undergrad, Monday, March 8.

League, Tuesday, March 9.

Athletic Association, Wednes-
day, March 10.

Alliance, Thursday,’ March 11.









Helpers, $.50-$.60 an hour.

Reuel Estill and Company, New
York. (Professional agency for
raising money). Temporary posi-
tions for good typists.

Germantown Hospital. No labor-
atory positions this year but will
take typists. &

St. Louis Public Library. Assist-
ants, '$100-$170 a month.

New York Public Library. As-
sistants, $140-$170.

Philadelphia Free Library. For
residents of Philadelphia only. As-
sistants, about $110.

H. J. Heinz Company. Labora-
tory work on tomato products.
Main plant in Pittsburgh, branches
in growing areas, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Iowa, etc. $125 a month.

Bureau of Standards, Naval Ord-
nance and Naval Research Labora-
tories. Temporary positions for
student aides. About $200 a month.
Open to juniors in Chemistry,
Mathematics and Physics. Appli-
cations must be in by March 9th.
Blanks in Room H.

* * *

The American Youth Hostels has
made definite plans for the sum-
mer. Booklet in Room H.\Tours in
this country and in others. Cost,
$95 to $650.



Macatee, Jane Ellis, Johnson,
Jean Ellis Named For Alliance



Top: Jean Ellis, Jane Ellis, Johnson; below: Macatee

The nominees of the Junior Class
for next year’s President of the
Alliance_are:

Jane Macatee

Jane entered in 1944, distinguish-
ed herself by broadcasting in
French for the Radio Club in her
Freshman year. She spent her
Sophomore year in Turkey and
last summer in Palestine. She is
Rock’s hall representative to the
Alliance, an active member of the
Student Federalists and was on the
Freshman. Handbook Committee.

Jane Ellis

Rhoads’ Ellis was Secretary of
her class last year, is on the Vo-
cational Committee and is a mem-
ber of the Spanish Club. She also
worked with the F.E.P.C. in Phila-
delphia.

Priscilla Johnson
Pris, who is a Sophomore at

present, has been President of the
Student Federalists for two years,
a member of the Alliance Board for
two years and was first Freshman
representative to Undergrad last
year. Pris is also a member of
S.D.A., I.R.C., and Debate Club.
Jean Ellis

Rock’s Ellis was Secretary of
the Bryn Mawr delegation to the
Intercollegiate Conference on Gov-
ernment last year, and took charge
of organizing campus aid for the
state elections. In her Freshman
year, she wrote bi-weekly news-
casts for the Radio Club. A mem-
ber of the NEWS. staff since
Freshman year, Jean is now a
member of the Board. She is Busi-
ness Manager of the Junior Prom
and on the business staff of the
Junior Songbook. She was also
Chairman of the Rock Hall Dance
this year.



Prof. Gates Wins
Chemistry Grant

Dr. Marshall de Motte Gates,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
has just received a new grant from
the Research Corporation to help
him with his research, as well as a
renewal of his former grant. The
Research Corporation which has
awarded him these two grants is a
non-profit organization which sup-

ports research by giving grants
and aid to individual people in or-
der that they may carry on their
own specific research. Not award-
ed on a regular or yearly basis,
these grants._make possible _re-
search which could not otherwise
be afforded.

Morphine Derivatives

Dr. Gates’ new grant will be used
for study in the field of substances
related to morphine. The renewal
of the former grant will be used in
a theoretical study of certain or-
ganic reactions which have no
specific practical significance.

hhe money given by the Corpor-
ationu will pay the salaries of as-
sistants and provide chemicals and
lab equipment. Most of this re-
search work is carried out in the
summer; last summer Dr. Gates
had three or four assistants to
help him, and he expects another
three or four this year. Some of
the graduate students are now
working on these two problems.
Dr. Gates hopes to have a full-time
research assistant next year.

Alliance Includes
Political Groups

The purpose of the Bryn Mawr
Alliance is to initiate and co-ordi-
nate all activity on campus in con-
nection with current events and po-
litical action. In carrying out its
aim, it co-operates with the faculty,
the College Council and the Under-
graduate Council:

Under the Alliance come two re-
lief agencies: WSSF, which is cur-
rently conducting a drive on cam-
pus, and CARE. The Alliance also
includes the International Relations
Club; the Industrial Group, which
works with labor unions; Current
Events, and Alliance Assemblies.
Under.it comes also the SDA and
the ISO (Internation Students’ Or-
ganization).

On the Alliance Board are repre-
sentatives from the above organi-

members, two representatives from



each hall (one of whom is a fresh-
man), a graduate representative, a
News liason, and a Non-Res mem-
ber.

WIT’S END

Strange contrast to useless chaos
is the eternal drip, drip of water
in subterranean caverns—we sad-
ly massage the knots on our skull
after an encounter with organ
pipes. Today we distracted C. B.
Luce from world affairs by shoot-
ing missiles at the populace, and
chairs stalking by with missing sea
horses waved to the spring flowers



taken from hats of those attending.

zations, as well as two publicity.



ate agen




THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Sports

Bryn Mawr retained an undefeat-

ed swimming record by two major
victories in the last two weeks, the
first over Chestnut Hill, on Febru-
ary 19, the second over the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania on the follow-
ing Thursday.
“ The varsity score of the Chest-
nut Hill game was 41-16 and the
junior varsity swimmers won, 42-
12. Ellen Bacon,
Rotch, ’50, took first and second
place in the 40-yard free-style;
Sheila Eaton, ’50, and Chris Acker-
son, ’51, outswam Chestnut Hill for
the first and second honors in the
40-yard back-stroke, Bryn Mawr
won the free-style and medley re-
lays; the Bryn Mawr pool record of
41.8 for the medley relay was es-
tablished, breaking the old record
of 44.2. Nickie Owens, ’51, won the
diving with Lucia Ewing placing
second,

The J-V swimmers won the free-
style, the back craw] and took first
and second in the diving to defeat
Chestnut Hill’s J-V, 42-12.

B. M. Swamps Penn

Penn had the short end of a 40-17
score in the Thursday meet, and
their J-V was beaten, 28-26, by
‘Bryn Mawr. Betty Dempwolf, ’50,
broke our pool record of 31.6 in the
breast-stroke by swimming the 40
yards in 30.7. The medley relay
also broke our previous pool rec-
ord. Bryn Mawr took first in every
varsity event of the Penn meet.
Edie Rotch, ’51, won first and
Kathy Geib, ’49, second in the free-
style and Sheila Eaton, ’50, won
the back stroke. Nickie Owens, ’51,
the sole varsity diver for Bryn
Mawr in the meet, gave a beauti-
ful exhibition of diving form and
won the diving event over two ex-
cellent Penn divers. Winners of
the J-V freestyle and back crawl
were Ann Anthony, ’51, and Mary
Lou Thomas, ’50, of Bryn Mawr.
Penn won the breast-stroke, with
June Moyer, 50, of Bryn Mawr,
second, the medley relay and the
diving. Alderfer, ’51, and Warren,
751, placed second and third in div-
ing.

Chestnut Hill Defeated

Bryn Mawr defeated Chestnut
Hill in badminton on Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 24. The score of the varsity
and second teams were 5-0 and 5-0.

Bryn Mawr swims here against
Beaver on Thursday, at 4:00, and
is entering a full team in the inter-
collegiate meet on Saturday at the
University of Pennsylvania. The
diving will take place at the wom-
en’s pool, at 12:30, and the swim-
ming events are scheduled at 2:00
P. M., in the men’s pool. Support-
ers are urged to attend both the
Beaver meet and the Intercollegi-
ate Meet.

In last Wednesday’s Amateur
Fencing League of America meet,
women’s individuals, Ann Chown-
ing, ’50, placed third.

Other coming events include:
basketball versus Ursinus, in the
gym, at 9:30 A. M., on March 6;
badminton versus Drexel, away, on
March 8; J-V badminton versus
Drexel, away, on March 9.



Undergraduate Constitution

The Constitution of the Un-
dergraduate Association, revis-
ed by the Executive Board, was
amended and passed by the rep-
resentative Legislature, Tues-
day, February 24.





51, and Edie’

51 Takes ‘“‘Big Leap”
Into Egyptian Tomb

Continued from Page 1

because most of the audience had
been “Bullsessioners” themselves.
Mousie Wallace, as Neverwhistle
Elp, effectively executed push-ups
in her role as the forgotten foot-
ball hero searching for someone to
listen to the story of “his game in
3,000.” Notable also were the rep-
resentatives of various college
“elevens” bearing pennants for
Male, Minceton, Mmherst and Hav-
erford. Marvard’s man: stole: the
thunder for the scene, however,
with his meek request for milk.

Perhaps the best of the many hit
songs in the show was the delight-
ful and clever “Bryn Mawr Girls’
Song.” Mary Cluett and Caroline
Taggart, suitably attired in the
Bryn Mawrters Cap and Gown and
riding a tandem bicycle, surpassed
even “Robin Hood” and “Ball of
Fire” with this new addition to the
roster of Freshman show songs.
The scene reached a fitting climax
with the completely ridiculous and
extremely funny “University of
Egypt Football Song,” which incor-
porated the themes of the Prince-
ton and Cornell songs in its cheers
for “N-I-L-E.”

Praise for Torrence

Special praise goes to Katchy
Torrence, whose performance as
Mandrake was sufficiently restrain-
ed so as to emphasize the true com-
ic quality of her role. Memorable
are the Follow the Leader routine
by Katchy and another of the ar-
chaeologists, humorously acted by
Sally _Howells;—_her——re-entrance
from the wrong side of the stage
and her final zoncoction of a sure
potion to free the prisoners in the
tomb even though her faith in “Duz
does everything” proved unfound-
ed. The duet sung by Katchy and
Sally was one of the high points
in the show for not only were the
lyrics of “We Could Read Such In-
tellectual %ooks Together” master-
fully composed, but the execution
also was skillful.

The first act of the “Big Leap”
was weak in comparison to the
heights reached by the succeeding
episodes. A fortuitous beginning
from every point of view — sets,
lighting and especially the clever
unwrapping of the Mummies fol-
lowed by Zozer’s Harvard-initiated
song—was marred by the insertion
of a drunkard’s scene. Neverthe-
less, Ann Hinman and Ellie Mi-
chaelsen, as the Drunks, came

through with convincing interpre-

tations of difficult roles.

To Pam Field goes credit for
preventing, in two instances, by her
charming soprano voice, what
might otherwise have been unfor-
tunate contrasts. The lovers’ duet
with Molly Frothingham, the Head
Slave, which was diametrically op-
posed in mood to the preceding
“Sarcophagus Boogie” and the in-
terlude of “Just Blue,” following
the hilarity of the football scene
could have been termed superflu-







Red Cross Drive

Begins Tomorrow

Bryn Mawr’s annual Red Cross
Drive begins tomorrow, March 4,
with its slogan “It’s Red Cross
Time.” Our college unit ,which is
headed by Lucile Mahieu ’49, hopes
to get 100% support; representa-
tives in each hall will contact each
student personally. The National
Drive began Monday.

It is hardly necessary to explain
the Red Cross—in either peace or
wartimes. Fund raising for 1948
will concentrate on three major
programs: Disaster Preparedness
and Relief, on both a national and
an international scale; a program
for aid to the Armed Forces and
still - hospitaliezd veterans. The
third program is a new National
Blood Program, which will provide
blood and blood derivatives, with-
out charge, to patients, physicians
and hospitals throughout the coun-
try, by means of permanent cen-
ters and mobile units.

Hall representatives are as fol-
lows: Denbigh, J. Vorys, Berman;
Merion, Tozzer; Rhoads, Torrence,
Horner, Henry; Rock, Austin, Rob-
bins, Sexton; East House, Donaho;
Pem East and Wyndham, Mahieu,
Chambers; Radnor, Crawford, Cra-
mer, Condit.

I. C. G. Delegates

Plan Conference

The Intercollegiate Conference
on Government will be held this
year on the week-end of April 8,
in Philadelphia. A model state
legislature last year at Harrisburg,
the conference this year will be
modelled on the model conventions
to be held here in June. Almost
every college in the state will send
a delegation of 15 to 25 members,
making a total of 900 or 1,000. The
Bryn Mawr delegation is still open.

This will be the third time the
Intercollegiate Conference on Gov-
ernment has sponsored a model na-

tional-_political_convention; earlier
Continued on Page 6



ous, had not Pam’s singing saved
them.

Nickie Owens and her dancers
deserve enthusiastic applause for
the artistic and stylized dances.
Equal plaudits go to Eritha Von

der Goltz and the Song Committee

for the generally excellent calibre
of the music in the “Big Leap” and
to Jeanne Richmond and Shirley
Silveus for a good job of. accom-
panying. Alys Farnsworth was re-
sponsible for the genuine Egyptian
costumes and Misa Smith for the
outstanding sets and staging of the
show.

And finally congratulations and
a blue ribbon to Cynnie Schwartz
and the Class of ’51 for a really
colossal Freshman Show which liv-
ed up to and then far surpassed

| any expectations!



Time and Eternity

Compared by Frank

Continued from Page 1

measure and compare if the fu-
ture is not yet and the past is no
more and even the present cannot
be grasped?

After stating the problem of
time: “Nobody is able to experi-
ence the first beginning’of His own
existence. It recedes the more he
tries to approach it. It cannot be
observed by others”, Dr. Frank
discussed both the religious and
scientific views of the problem of
creation. The idea of creation has
always been considered a mystery
of faith, neither proved nor dis-
proved by reason and science; how-
ever, the idea of creation seems to
be the only rational way to explain
the existence of the world and of
a self capable of understanding and
of attaining truth and freedom.

Free Creative Will

He explained that although man
may doubt the creative powers of
God, he doesn’t doubt this power
within himself; the possibility of
such a free, creative will presents
exactly the same intellectual dif-
ficulty as the possibility of the cre-
ation of the world, for by a free
will we mean the power to take
the initiative, to begin a new series
of causes in this world. For the
historian and the psychologist this
beginning is only one phase in the
natural processes of the world
which are continually repeated.

But in an act of creative freedom

and will, he explains, we tear our-
selves away from the cycle of the
monotonous and repeating past and
step into the new present. In a cre-
ative moment, a new form of life
begins in time .. . called History.

“History”, continues Dr. Frank,
“is the succession of such unique
moments when a new present, a
new truth comes into existence and
makes what had been before ir-
revocable past”. Such a moment
is a real, an eternal present which
brings the continuous flux of time
to a standstill; it is incommensury
able with observable time and is
not an atom of time but rather an
atom of eternity.”

No one will doubt that there are
such creative moments in life when
a new eternal truth comes into the
world, and all things become new
when eternity enters time. Such
a moment gives a real meaning and
significance to our life and History.
Eternity doesn’t begin after our
death but it is always present; it is
going on all the time, here. \Con-
cluding, he pointed out, “There is
no-time if there is no present, but
only eternity is really present.
Therefore, time and eternity are
both one and the same.”









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| Position Of Arts

Continued from Page 2

tists had become sufficiently vio-
lent to produce a definite air of,
tension in the auditorium. As a
result, Dr. Weiss’s suggestion that
every man is an artist and all his
products are art was not very

kindly received. He went on to

say that the artist is not a separ-
ate being, but a part of society,

and as such accepts the stabilized
ene both. ideological and
mechanical, of his contemporaries,
giving them new meaning by vir-
tue of his particular vision and en-
ergy. The artist, said Mr. Weiss,
is a spear-head into the future, he
ventures forward in one special
dimension, which is his own med-
ium. The concentration which we
give to any form of art, whether
it be cooking or listening to a sym-
phony, is rewarding in various de-
grees, depending upon the amount
of concentration and the kind of
value which is embodied by the
particular art.
Problem of Communication

Mr. Weiss’s speech was followed
by the last and most intense of
many intense discussion periods.
As the artists and students chalJ-
lenged each other’s views in these
discussions, it became evident that
the pfroblem which we all faced
was, truly, that of communication.
For the same essential vision was
expressed time and again in such
apparently conflicting terms—that
the result was ambiguity, misun-
derstanding, and battle. One point
was certainly proved by the con-
ference as a whole: that this kind
'of encounter and conflict is crea-
tive, that the struggle of the art-
ist to make himself heard in the
world today is analogous to the
struggle of each individual to ex-
press himself. It is to be hoped
that this, the first conference of
its kind, which so much more than
fulfilled its purpose, will encourage
other similar ventures.





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I, C. G. To Convene
In Phila., April 8

Continued from Page 5
such meetings have been held in

1936 and 1940 in Harrisburg. Last
year the group met as a model
state legislature at the state cap-
itol. It has met annually since
1934, except during the war. The
chairmen of the Republican and
Democratic national committees
have been invited to attend the
opening session and to outline their
respective party programs for the
student delegates.

From each school one or more
delegates will serve on each of the
12 committees for writing the plat-
form. Planks, determined ahead of
time in delegation meetings, will
be introduced and differences iron-
ed out in committees. These planks,
as passed by the committees, will
be reported out on the floor the
next day and upon their adoption
by all the delegates will constitute
the platform of the convention as
a whole.

Following the adoption of the
platform, the convention will nom-
inate presidential and vice-presi-
dential candidates. tion, however, will be held at the
opening session—that for chairman
of the convention. The model con-
vention will follow the lead of the
national, even to having a key-note
speech given by a national political
figure.

Members of last year’s delega-
tion guarantee a strenuous week-
end with lots of fun at the regional
“dress-rehearsal,”’ on March 9, as
well as the convention itself, Ev-
eryone interested is cordially invit-
ed to attend the meeting this
Thursday, at 4:30, in the Economic
Seminary, or to get further infor-
mation from Margaret Baish, Pem
East, if unable to attend the meet-

ing.

Photo Competition
Announces Rules

Kappa Alpha Mu, national col-
legiate honorary fraternity of pho-
to journalism has announced its
third annual Collegiate Photogra-
phy Exhibition. The grand prize
includes a trip to New York, seven
working weeks with the magazine
Science Illustrated (at a salary of
$50.00 per week), and promise of a
job if the photographer proves ac-
‘ceptable.

Entries will be accepted in five
tlasses until April 30, 1948. First-
place awards will be made for the
best pictures in the News, Pictor-
jal-Feature, Fashion, Sports and
Industrial classes; the grand prize
will be awarded to the best of these
five winners.

Students may enter up to ten
prints with no more than five en-
tries in any one division. Prints
may be 5 by 7, or larger, but must
be mounted on standard 16 by 20
board. There is no entry fee, but
pictures must be sent prepaid and
will be returned express collect.
Entry blanks and contest rules may
be obtained by writing to W. J.
Bell, 18 Walter Williams Hall, Uni-
versity of Missouri, Columbia, Mis-
souri.



Reid Hall Offers.

Summer In Paris

Reid Hall in Paris, which in Sep-
tember, 1947, re-opened for the first
time since the war, announces that
it will be ready to welcome for long
or short stays American college
women and their friends during the
summer of 1948. It serves not only
as a residence but as a center of
information for university women
and students in Paris. The Smith
Group at the Sorbonne this winter,
which includes two Bryn Mawr
girls from the class of 49, Barbara
Bentley and Molli Morris, is living

here.

Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, is
conveniently located near all points
of interest. The 18th century house
was’ the hunting lodge of the Duc
de Chevreuse. . The property was
given by the late Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid in 1928 to be a center for uni-
versity women and. to promote
Franco-American friendship and
understanding. The Board of Di-
rectors includes Miss Virginia C.
Gildersleeve, Dean Emeritus of
Barnard College, and Mrs. Ada
Constock Notestein, formerly Pres-
ident of Radcliffe College.

Reservations are already being
made for the summer. Anyone
wishing to stay in Reid Hall should
write as soon as possible to Miss
Dorothy F. Leet, President, Reid
Hall, 4 due de Chevreuse, Paris VI.

A. A. Pres. Holds

Intermediary Role

The President of the Athletic As-
sociation, along with the A: A.
Board, acts as an intermediate be-
tween the students and the depart-
ment of Physical Edueation. It is
her job to co-ordinate and super*
vise A. A. activities already in ex-
istence and to initiate any new ac-
tivities desired by the students. She
is specifically responsible for co-
ordinating varsity, class and hall
activities, for planning week-end
activities and for awards. She pre-
sides over all meetings of the A. A.

The A. A. has recently inaug-
urated a system whereby a repre-
sentative from each hall also at-
tends the Board meetings. It is
hoped that this system will foster a
greater campus-wide
athletic activity.





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Tea at Deanery

‘The Deanery wishes to add that |

the 35 cent cost for tea will be on

a purely cash basis. The Deanery

will be open daily from 4 to 5 for

students with guests from outside
the College.

Dr. Chew’s Book Available

A Literary History of England,
for which Dr. Samuel Chew has
written the sections on the 19th
century to the present, is available
at the Bookshop for $7.50. The
book is published by Appleton-Cen-
tury-Crofts.



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Arthur Colby Sprague has been
appointed to the faculty of the
Harvard Summer School for the
1948 summer term. He will teach
a Shakespeare course.

Handbook Editor

The Undergraduate Association
takes pleasure in announcing the
appointment of Betty Mutch as
Editor of the 1948-1949 Handbook. |

‘Notices at Meals

Students are reminded that all
notices to be announced at meals
are to be written on file cards. A
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Student Govt. Clinic

Thete will be a meeting of all
those interested in working on the
Student Government Clinic on
Thursday, at 5:30, in the Rhoads
showcase.

UWF Elections

The United World Federalists
announce the election of Katherine
Harrington, ’50, as present, and
Marjorie Shaw, ’50, as secretary.

League Appointments

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pointments of Betty-Bright Page,
"49, as head of the Maids’ and
Porters’ Committee and Mary Lut-
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