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The College Mews



VOL. XLVIII, NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 20 CENTS



Atomic Energy
Possible Power

Limited Capital, U235,
Retard Release
;" Of Energy

‘ Henry D. Smyth, the third lec-
turer in the Crenshaw series
spoke Monday night, November
12, on the subject, “The Nucleus
as a Possible Source of Power.”
Dr. Michels introduced Dr. Smyth,
who is past chairman of the phy-
sics department at Princeton, and
is now,a member of the Atomic
Energy Commission. Mr. Smyth
discussed and _ illustrated with
slides the nuclear reactor which
is now used to convert mass into
energy.

Scientists, ever since Einstein
revealed his formula of E=MC2,
have had an interest in convert-
ing mass into energy. One pound
of pure uranium equeals in energy
180,000 pounds of coal. But this
uranium must be extracted from
its ore, which is far from pure.
About one pound of ore is equal
to thirty-seven pounds of coal in
energy content. It is necessary
to go through an isotope process
to extract the uranium from the
ore. U-235 is the only uranium
isotope possible for this use.

The initial discovery from which
this energy-from-mass process is
based is as follows: When a neu-
tron is absorbed by the U-235
atom, the atom is broken up and
a fission is produced which in
turn produces the energy. More
neutrons are also produced by
this breaking.. Thus there is mul-
tiplication “generation by genera-
tion” at a very rapid rate. Other
materials are also produced by
these neutrons. Plutonium is
made by passing these neutrons,
produced by the U-285, through

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Alliance Assembly
To Hear Whipple

The Alliance will present Clay-
ton E. Whipple, Chief of the Food
and Natural Resources Projects
Staff, at its second assembly at
12:30 on Monday, November 19 in
Goodhart auditorium.

Mr. Whipple joined the Techni-
cal Cooperation Administration in
October 1950 after working on
grass roots rural improvement
programs as adviser to the gov-
ernments of several countries in
the Balkans and the Near East for
thirteen years. These programs
accomplished on a small scale with
limited funds what Point Four is
now doing on a large scale.

The speaker was born in Perry,
New York in 1903. He received his
B. S. and M. S. degrees from Cor-
nell University and taught in the
Graduate School of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. He was a
member of the Appointments and
Assignments Board and a Foreign
Service Examiner.





Expert Reveals

In the Nucleus

4 Colleges Salute
Hockey’s Infusion
By Miss Applebee

by Emmy Cadwalader, °53



The Hockey Weekend, honoring
the fiftieth anniversary of the in-
troduction of hockey into this
country by Miss Constance M. K.
Applebee, began on Saturday, Nov.
10, with a buffet lunch in Radnor
Hall for all the players, officials
and committees, who worked to
make this celebration possible.
After lunch the various teams,
Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and Wel-
lesley, three of the colleges where
Miss Applebee had taught, the
Bryn Mawr Varsities, and Alum-
nae, gathered in the gym to line
up for the parade down to the
hockey fields. They made a very
impressive sight as they marched
onto the fields, dressed in their
college colors and firmly holding
sticks and equipment, amid the
cheers of one of the largest
groups of spectators that has ever
appeared on the Bryn Mawr fields.
Each team stopped in front of

Miss Applebee, and sang their |”

college song and then joined the
watchers on the hill.
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Crenshaw Lecture
To Stress Geology

M. K. Hubbert, geo-physicist
and chief geological consultant to
the Shell Oil CCompany in Hous-
ton, Texas, will give the final lec-
ture of the 1951-52 Crenshaw
series at 8:30 in Goodhart Audi-
torium, Monday, November nine-
teenth. Dr. Hubbert will outline, as
an excellent wind-up for the series,
excellent wind-up: for the series,
the extent and the positions of
the world’s sources of energy. A
specialist in many fields, Dr. Hub-
bert has made his greatest con-
tribution in the introduction of
quantative concepts into Geology,
developing scale models whereby
geological facts can be studied.

His other interests include
studies in structural geology,
studies of fluid flow through por-
ous media, studies of electrical,
magnetic, and gravitational pro-
spectings, and studies in mineral
economy and the evaluation of the
industrial complex. With this
varied field of interest, Dr. Huod-
bert has held several different
positions on such important pro-
jects as the U.S. Geological Sur-
vey and the National Research
Council, and during the war he
held the position of Senior An-
lyst of World Mineral Resources
on the Board of Economic War-
fare. Also he taught geology at
the University of Chicago, and
Geo-Physics at Columbia. In view
of Dr. Hubbert’s wide experience
and interest, this final lecture
promises to be very interesting.





McBride Speaks

On Advantageous
Cooperative Plan

Three College Cooperation was
the subject of Miss McBride’s
speech at Collection at Roberts
Hall, Haverford, on Thursday, No-
vember 8.

“T shall begin by talking of the
Haverford man,” began Miss Mc-

Bride, “about whom we think we|§

know more than we do. We al-
ways think we know the Haver-
ford man. If someone breaks in-
to a residence on campus, we say
‘That’s not Haverford’, If some-
one fires a cannon, ‘That’s Hav-
erford’. If someone destroys val-
uable property, we say, ‘That’s
not Haverford’. If someone leaves
a bed in Pembroke Arch with a
student tied to it, ‘That’s Haver-
ford’’.

“About cooperative plans more
generally,” Miss McBride went
on “most of the cooperative plans
for colleges began in the ’thirties.
The financial picture forced col-
leges to consider the advantages
of cooperation. Types of coop-
eration range from the extensive
ones being carried on at Clare-
mont, California, to the slighter
cooperation between Amherst and
Mount Holyoke.

erford, and Bryn Mawr is in the
middle category. It does not in-
volve legal commitments, nor loss
of autonomy for any of the three
colleges. This plan serves various

purposes. Small colleges like
ours. need a greater range. We
can take advantage of each

other’s curriculum. Library co-
operation is also important. There
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CALENDAR
Wednesday, November 14
7:15 p.m. Marriage Lecture,
the Ely Room. (not the Common
Room!)
Private School Teachers’ As-

sociation meeting: all day and
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Mary Jo Shelley, head of the
Women’s Air Force, will tell
the College about the entirely
new concept of women in the
armed services on Monday eve-
ning, November 26, at 8:15 p.m.
in .Goodhart .auditorium. ..She
will discuss all the women’s
services, not just the air force,
although some of the changes
which would most interest col-
lege women have been made in
that branch of the service.

Miss Shelley was in the
WAVES during the war and
went to Bennington as Dean
afterwards. There will be cof-
fee and a discussion group in
the Common Room after her
speech.

This speech will be of great
interest to everyone, job-hunt-
ing or otherwise, because of the
increasing importance of the
women’s services in the present
world situation. Please come!







“The plan of Swarthmore, Hav-:

Scull Property Gift Climaxes

Ceremonies for

Miss Applebee

b.M.C., Wellesley, Vassar, Holyoke, Pay Tribute
To Founder of American Hockey
At Deanery Dinner



lege life, especially in May Day,

=~ |the Christian Associaion, and the



CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE



The dinner in the Deanery on
Saturday night given in honor of
Miss Applebee for the Bryn Mawr,
Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, and Vas-
sar hockey teams and the Bryn
Mawr alumnae culminated in a
series of speeches expressing ap-
preciation for Miss Applebee’s
great contribution not only to
physical education for women in
the United States but also for her
active interest in Bryn Mawr col-

Needed: One Rug

In Rumpus Room

The Rumpus Room in Goodhart
Hall is being redecorated by the
board of the Undergraduate Coun-
cil. They have put up new curtains
and have recovered the furniture.
Also, the council is trying to pro-
mote the installation of a televi-
sion set there.

A rug is badly needed; however,
they are entirely too expensive to
buy. Anyone whose parents have
an old rug at home which is not in
use, or anyone who knows of such
a rug should contact Alice Mit-
chel], president of Undergrad. The
board would greatly appreciate
such an effort.



||the hockey games
'|Sunday, in which the four colleges



a College News.

Miss McBride opened the eve-
ning by saying that the dinner and
Saturday and

where Miss Applebee had _ first
started working participated, were
in celebration of Miss Applebee’s
fiftieth anniversary of instituting

3\/and coaching hockey in the United

States. She read a letter from the
National Recreation Association
that praised Miss Applebee’s long
service in promoting athletics for
women.

President McBride then intro-
duced Laurie Perkins who appear-
ed dressed in a hockey outfit of
years ago. The first part of her
speech was in the form of a report
from the Bryn Mawr Athletic As-
sociation which was making great
strides in establishing Athletic
Scholarships and an Athletic De-
partment at Bryn Mawr. Laurie
then turned to the more serious
part of the evening and explained
how Janie Stone, last year’s pres-
ident of the A. A., had conceived
this weekend and that many
thanks were due Miss Applebee
for coming. As an expression of
these thanks she presented Miss
Applebee with a silver bow] from
the four colleges.

The next three speakers were
the captains of the visiting teams.
Ellen Kattwinkle of Mt. Holyoke
reminded her audience that fifty
years ago Miss Applebee added
the striking circle to the sewing
and cooking circles and thanked
her for her contribution not only
to Mt. Holyoke but to recreation in
general. Barbara Scarlet from
Vassar also thanked Miss Apple-
bee for all she had done and told
of how Miss Applebee met Vas-
sar’s ‘Miss Ballantine at Harvard
Summer School and how from that

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C. Applebee’s Spirit, Shredded Wheat,
Helped Nourish Newborn NEWS Board

by Claire Robinson, ’54

“President Thomas at last
agreed to let us have swimming

suits with bloomers instead of
skirts, but she said that they ab-
solutely had to have a sash round
the waist!” This was a major
victory, for when Miss Constance
M. K. Applebee first came to Bryn
Mawr to teach Physical Educa-
tion, in 1901, college athletes of
the day wore corduroy skirts al-
most touching the ground, as well
as flannel bloomers, This was
the usual gym costume, but for
swimming, voluminous stockings
as well as head-to-toe suits were
the rule.





Physical Education was by no
means the well-organized system
known. today — the standardized
game of basketball was in its in-
fancy as far as rules were con-.
cerned, and each college had its
own regulations. “Miss .Thomas.
had to oversee each basketball
rule that the Gym Department laid
down,” said Miss Applebee, “for
she believed in the physical health
of women as well as the mental
stimulation she so much advocat-
ed. She never bothered with,
‘Did we win-’ It was always, ‘Did
we play a good game?’”

Miss Thomas wanted the: aca--
demic standards of the college to

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! News Party, Rock, Nov. 30, 10 p.m.