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VOL. XLIII, NO. N \*v

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947

~Copyright Trustees of
Bryn’ Mawr College,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1945



Present System

()f Library Rules
To be Enforced

The Books on Reserve
Must Be Used
In Library

Student complaints concerning
the inerenay carelessness in the
use of reserved books resulted in
a meeting with the Undergradu-.
ate Council and college authorities
to determine whether the existing
library rules were adequate or
whether stricter measures were
called for. The meeting decided
that the present system, if coop-
erated with and enforced, would
fulfill the needs of the college.

The Undergraduate Council has
decided to use student channels
such as the College News and hall
meetings to call attention to the
library rules. The College author-
ities are prepared to enforce these
rules and will continue to publicize
them as they see fit, since the lib-
rary is not under student jurisdic-
tion but merely supported by stud-
ent organizations.

Reserve books are to be used in
the Reading Room unless special
permission is given to take them
elsewhere. If books from the re-
serve shelves are to be taken any-
where else in the library a note on
the slip stating its whereabouts
must be attached so that it may
be located at any time. Books are
not to\be taken from the library
except en signed out for over-
night use.

In a meeting with the college au-
thorities and the Undergraduate
Council it was pointed out that
Bryn Mawr is one of the few col-
leges to have open stack privileges
so that the students may make
their own selection of books they
wish to use. Rather than have
books handed out over a desk by
librarians, which would tause con-
siderable delay in receiving # de-
sired book, and confusion, crowd-
ing and limiting ‘individual rights
where the reserved books are con-
cerned, students must not only co-
operate with the present rules as
they now stand, but must also re-.
alize that the authorities plan to
enforce these rules.

Shorted Breaks
Blacken College

Hamburg Hearth: NEWS Head-
quarters during Current _Emerg-
ency. Tuesday, January 14, 9:30
Py a.

“T fell flat on my back in a coma
thinking I had gone blind,” re-
marked Miss Marietta Taylor when
asked for her reactions to the re-
cent campus blackout.

The lights they glared and then
they flared and then they slowly
died. (imbic!). \

The News was even more upset
when it learned that one (1) gen-
tleman was asleep and/or dead in
the Undergrad Room. Several
more intrepid members ventured
into an adjoining corridor—but to
no avail, under cover of darkness
the body had escaped.

Many of the students did not no-
tice the lights were out; they have
been in the dark all semester any-

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For the information of the in-
terested, the recent misfortune
which plunged the campus into ob-
livion was caused by two breaks
due to a ground. (For further elu-

presentation of original



cidation please see Greek 502 b).

Arts Night To Be
Held March 7th
For BMC Fund

The date for Arts’ Night has
been tentatively set for Friday,
March 7. (In-order to avoid inter-
ference with the Yale “prom” the
following evening, this will be the
only performance). The program
is a summary of creative expres-
sion on campus in all the arts. Par-

ticipating will be: the art group; |

the double octet; the modern dance
group; the orchestra; Varsity
Players; and the playwriting class,
which will provide original scripts.
Each group will operate indepen-
dently and be responsible for its
own part of the program.
dition, a collaborative project may
be experimented with this year,
possibly a “verse drama’ perform-
ed by dancers.

This year the program is at-
tempting to be self-supporting.
The Undergraduate Association has
set the general admission at $.75,
with proceeds to go to the: Alum-
nae Drive after expenses have been
paid. An undergraduate produc-
tion manager has been appointed,

Elizabeth Dowling ’47, to handle‘

publicity, programs, tickets, and
especially to advise on and unify

the program. Louise Belknap ’49,

has been chosen stage manager and

will be in charge of the entire’
performance.

backstage of the
(These two chairmen were select-
ed by Undergrad and the Stage
Guild respectively, with the ap-
proval. of Mr. Thon).

The participants in Arts’ Night
are represented by the heads of
their respective groups, who meet
to organize the evening asa whole.
They include:

Margaret Stephens, double oc-
tet; Ann Field, orchestra; Mary
Elizabeth Mueller, modern dance-
drama; Joan Hitchcock, art; Jean
Swittendick, Varsity Players; Ann
Chase, Alumnae Drive.

One of the important contribu-
tions of Arts’ Night will be the
one-act
Continued on Page 2

Seniors Offered

Fashion Awards

Three fashion _ fellowships,
awarded annually by Tobe-Coburn
School for Fashion Careers, will
be available to college seniors in a
nationwide competition.) The fel-
lowships, valued at $850 each, are
offered to senior women graduat-
ing before August 27 who wish to
train for executive positions in
fashion co-ordination, buying, ad-
vertising, styling, personnel work.

The One Year Course at the
Tobe-Coburn School, for which the
Fellowships. cover full tuition, em-
phasizes actual contact with the
industry through lectures by lead-
ing fashion figures; visits to man-
ufacturers, department _ stores,
fashion shows, museums; and pe-
riodic working experience in stores
and other fashion organizations.

Winners of previous Fashion Fel-

lowships now hold- such varied po-
sitions as associate editor of a jun-
ior fashion magazine, promotion
director of a textile corporation,
and sub-deb director for a depart-
ment, store.

Registration blanks for the
Fashion Fellowship competition

“oSigptgday- be obtained fram,Mis< P~ts*

in Boom H, Taylor, or from the
Fashion fellowship Secretary of
the Tobe-Coburn School at One
West 57th Street, New York 19.
Registration must be made before
January 31.

In ad-7

Vivid Technique

-|Of Robert Shaw

Inspires Chorus
by Helen Anderton ’49

It would be almost impossible to
write an adequate account of Mr.
Robert Shaw, director of the Col-
legiate Chorus, and the evening he
devoted to the direction of the
Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr choruses. Despite his youth
he is unquestionably one of the fin-
est musicians of our day. If one
were to see him just conduct, and
listen attentively to the results he
brings, there would be enough
grounds for this statement. But
when one is given the opportunity
Pfo watch him impart his under-
standing of music to those he is
directing, then one.can fully real-
ize his remarkable gifts. He point-
ed out, during the course of the
evening, that when a person sings
| he is not merely emitting a series
of sounds, he is enjoying a unique
,experience, in that every note
sounded is an experience in itself.
| Surely the truth of his words hits
' home, for as soon as he said it the
_effectiveness-of-the- chorus increas-
'ed tremendously. It was almost as



|if each member were giving every
‘sound the special consideration Mr.
'Shaw deemed worthy.

Exactly how does Robert Shaw
‘achieve his results? In the first
place he is such a dynamic figure
that one’s attention is never al-
lowed to stray very far. He is the
type of person that commands at-
tention, and gets it. He can make
a hilariously funny joke, and the

;next instant become so intense in
Continued on Page 3

Carol McGovern

Reports on Conf.

Carol McGovern 748, Bryn Mawr’s
delegate, was among the five hun-
dred students representing three

United States who assembled at
the University of Chicago on De-
ecember 28-30 to form the general
plan for a National Student Or-
ganization The idea for such an
organization was formed by the
American delegates who attended
the Prague Conference of Students,
which in turn formed an Interna-
tional Union of Students (IUS).

Stressing the importance of in-
ternational co-operation among
students, the basic aims of the
NSO will be the promotion of stud-
ent government in colleges, inter-
national exchange and travel, and
the. granting of student scholar-
ship aid.

The Chicago Conference set up
a National Continuations Commit-
tee (NCC) which would, on the
suggestions of the conference, pro-
mote the general aims of the NSO
and draft a constitution. This con-
stitution will be voted on in the
June Constitutional Convention.

The delegates, first meeting in a
mass plenary session, divided into

féur panels. Carol attended the
Continued on Page 3



CALENDAR
Friday, January 17
Undergrad Record Concert,
Common Room, 8:00.
Sunday, January'19 3.
~ Chapel.” Rev. Robert: H.:G
Music Room,-7:°° 5 ye
Monday, January 20
Current Events,
Room, 7:15. a
Wednesday, January 22

Common

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junable to come to America. She

Princeton Wins
Military Training
Debate Wtih B. M.

- The Bryn Mawr Debating Club
held its first debate on Thursday
evening, January 9th, in the Com-

mon Room. The debate, Resolved:
The United States Shall Have Per-
manent Peacetime Militaty Train-

ing, was with Princeton Univer-
sity. Jean Ford and Nancy
Schwartz made up the Bryn Mawr
team which took the affirmative
side of the question. Geoffry War-
ren and Al Rothwell spoke for the
negative side. It was interesting
to note that both members of the
Princeton team wore discharge
buttons.

Jean Ford opened the debate,
stating the case for the affirma-
tive. She said that the U. N. did
not offer enough security for peace,
as it had no provisien for an inter-
national peace force. The affirma-
tive side felt that a volunteer army
is an insufficient protection.

Geoffry Warren began the argu-
ment for’ the negative side, empha-
sizing thatthe plan was “perma-
nent” and not just for. a-ten-year
emergency period. The Princeton
team felt that a regular army of
500,000 would be adequate to man
our bases. Our present army has
800,000 -men. The negative side
advocated a government financed
scientific program with technical
training in the,school systems to
| provide security in the present
type of scientific warfare, and to
be a good training for peace.

The next speaker for the affirm-
ative was Nancy Schwartz, who
called attention to the danger of
political action outside of the
U. N. She said that the United
States needed a larger’ military
force to command the respect of
the other nations, and also so that
it should not be helpless should
the U. N. break down. Peacetime
conscription would not cause dis-

Toynbee to Give

Flexner Lecture

Series in 1947

Lectures Will Describe
Clashes Between
Civilizations

Professor Arnold J. Toynbee,
author of A Study of History, will
present the Mary Flexner Lectures
in 1947. The six Jectures, which
will begin February 10, will later
be published in further volumes of
the Study of History. The series
is entitled “Encounters Between
Civilizations.”

“Professor Arnold Toynbee,”
writes Mrs. Manning, “is a unique,
even a lonely figure in the histor-
ical world today.. If the Survey
of International Affairs beginning
in 1920 and coming down to 1938
were his only contribution to
scholarship he would rank as one
of the half dozen really great
scholars of contemporary history,
the greatest probably because of
the breadth. of his knowledge. and
the penetration of his historical
judgments... If he had written only
the Study of History, he would
stand almost alone among living
historians in having attempted to
discover a pattern in human affairs
which can explain and illuminate
the development of all civilizations
since the first recorded events on
the banks of the Nile and the Eu-
phrates.”

“His fundamental thesis in ex-
plaining the origin and develop-
ment of civilizations—the principle
which he has labelled Challenge-
and-Response—is remarkably sim-
ple and concrete. That there must
be an equilibrium between the dif-
ficulties facing a community of
human beings and their equipment
in physical strength and mastered
techniques before there can be



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by Emily Townsend 50

Soona Sehicki Kili, a junior now
living in Low Buildings, arrived in
New York from Turkey in the mid-
dle of December. The fifteen-day
voyage was rough and stormy: “We
slept in the crew’s hammocks; they
swung around all night, and the
smell of the cafeteria was most
unpleasant to me as I lay there be-
ing sick. Mediterranean storms
‘are not much fun.”

On board were thirty Egyptian
and Turkish Students, bound for
American universities; their fam-
ilies had saved and sacrifieed for
years to pay for an American ed-
ucation. The rate of exchange is
4infavorable, (three Turkish dol-
lars to one ‘American dollar), and
only a small proportion of the stu-
dents who dream of coming to the
United States ever get here. Soona
herself has wanted to come for
‘eight years, since she was first jn
high school. “We look to the Unit-
ed States as our model now, in th
way we used to look toward France.
An American education will be of
great benefit for anyone who
hess to help Turkey.”
=oSeena plans to help .Tuxkes hv
Majorihg in politics, and taking
when her education is completed,
she will go back and share it with
those of her countrymen who were







‘Last Day of Lectures.





Student Arrives From Turkey
To Complete Study of Politics

she would like an assistant-pro-
fessorship in international law at
the University of Istanbul (“I think
we respect professors more than
you do,” said Soona with a smile);
to enter the diplomatic service,
where she can use her knowledge
of ‘German, French, and English;
or to take an active part in Tur-
kish politics, on which she is clear-
ly much better-informed than the
average Bryn Mawr student about
our own. '

Soona’s room in Low Buildings
is tastefully decorated with mosaic
vases, excellent pictures of Istan-
bul, the Bosphorus, and the Amer-
ican college she attended in Tur-
“key; and hand-made cloths. She
was moved by the reception she
got on arrival: “The students did
not look at me like a stranger be-
cause I come from Turkey; they
are interested in what I say, and
they ask me intelligent questions.
I find the whole Bryn Mawr at-
mosphere so intellectual I am al-
most afraid to talk at all, but
everyone is so helpful that I’ am
much happier than I thought I
could be. Your country is so friend-
ly, and all is. so big here. Tall.
Sidings; long. ‘tréins)
raries; I want to use big adjecti °
for everything: Tork eee .
agficultural nation, you know, and

we are so small compared with you.
But we are growing more modern



has three future careers in mind:

every day.”