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THE COLLEGE NEWS







THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914



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Made To Order

During the past month there has been a general appeal
for a unifying interest in campus activities, a search for an

outlet for creative instincts. .Many suggestions have been
presented but one ‘made-to-order’ solution has been . over-
looked—the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Drive.

The Drive committee wants to raise money, but has not
insisted on any special means of collection. Just writing a
check or giving a cash donation not only wreaks havoc on an
allowance, but also is unsatisfying as a contribution. Doing
something concrete will make the Drive more real and create
a feeling of belonging to an extensive cooperative effortsSome
students have already taken the initiative by organizing the
sale of coffee in Taylor between morning classes; others have
volunteered to do odd jobs such as returning overnight books
to the Lib, running errands in the Vill, and knitting Christ-
mas gifts. The field is still open, however, and many more
projects are needed.

So looking at the Drive as a campus activity, here is an
opportunity to use our ingenuity—a way to try out our ideas
—-and, incidentally, a means of achieving the Drive’s primary
goal; increasing our professors’ salaries and improving our
college!

Turkey To Turkey |

The fable does not say what class it was the Spartan boy
had to sit through with a studiously blank face and a gnaw-

ing pain inside; apparently, however, he survived the ordeal
without making it too obvious to his professor and classmates
that his flesh was there under protest, while his spirit was
home in bed with a stiff slug of unmixed wine. His friends

were undoubtedly grateful to him for not adding his troubles
to theirs; may we model ourselves on him for
weeks. :

If we have seven papers, three quizzes, and a Christmas

play to get through, let us not increase the atmospheric damp
with tears. If we have half-a-dozen modern-dance classes

before we can get back to the old-fashioned kind we really

enjoy, let us at least be thankful we are not gutdoors in ten-
nis shorts. And if the path from one turkey to the next

seems unbearably long, and paved with an endless mosaic of

. poached eggs and toast, let us, nevertheless, tread it with
stoic indifference and deceptive gaiety. \

the next three

BMT in Fiction
by Katrina Thomas ’49

(Eprtor’s Note: This is the first
of a series of articles to be pub-
lished weekly) :

Before we came to college, any-
way, we had a pre-conceived idea

we leave we will probably go out
under Rock Arch with a model of
the typical Bryn Mawr girl firmly
fixed in our minds, though she may
vary somewhat from the original
image.

I had been warned that she was
blue-stotkinged and horn-rimmed,
but that did not phase me as horn-
rims could be very distinguished
looking (inwardly I bewailed my
20-20 vision) and various colored
very much in

stockings were

style. My conception was consid-

Current Events

November 24. “The border coun-
tries often have an unhappy exist-
ence”, stated Dr. Roger Hewes
Wells, Professor of Political
Science. Speaking on “Patterns of
Change in Eastern Europe”, Dr.
Wells compared the Big Three
countries, Great Britain, the Unit-
ed States, and Russia, to tailors
able to change the pattern of the
cloth of eastern Europe. At Yalta,
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
had decided that the Nazi pattern
must be. changed, and their Declar-
ation on Liberated Europe, drawn
on the principles of the Atlantic
Charter, guaranteed sovereign
rights to the smaller states of
eastern Europe.

“However,” continued Dr. Wells,
“it takes more than a paper con-
stitution to realize democracy”. He
cited as an example our failure to
establish true democracy in Eur-
ope after World War I. Dr. Wells
quoted sections of the newly estab-



erably worse. In her worst form,

the BMT was an incredible spec-
imen of over-developed brains and
an under-developed body. She wore
glasses, to be sure, but they were

steel-rimmed, and her hair was

either straight or frizzily perman-
ented, while her back curved over
the books she perpetually clutch-
ed to her flat bosom. For beauty)
she could only rival Lens, but she.

was a paragon of wisdom. She |

bered, especially she remembered.
She could quote Herodotus from
the Greek or from any other prim-
ary source to prove a point. The
only man who had ever interested
her was Zeno, or Samuel Johnson,
Sir Isaac Newton, or Nebuchad-
nezzer, and she would probably

consider me in the last analysis as
not very beautiful and awfully
dumb. All summer long I hoped
that there would be one or two
other.painted hussies, flibbergib-
bets like myself, with a taste for
strapless evening gowns and an
eye perpetually peeled for an at-
tractive man. I should not have
worried, for even the Dartmouth
authors of For Men Lonely have
found “enough feminine charm
here to repel all fears of hyper-
erudity” and that “although defin-
itely on the sophisticated side, girls
are girls... these are just a little
smarter.”

Cartoonists

There are a number of male au-
thors, who (though they have nev-
er attended Bryn Mawr) have a
clear conception of the BMT, posx
ibly inspired by some alumnae
their acquaintance. Most of us
know James Thurber’s cartoon,
one of those amorphous represen-
tations of the battle between the
sexes, which depicts a “femme fa-
tale” kicking her heels in the liv-
ing-room. She is surrounded by
a circle of entranced gentlemen
while an irate wife speaks to the
knot, of ladies standing in a cor-
ner: “She’s all I know about Bryn
Mawr and she’s all I have to
know.”

In the Pem West smoker is the
Carl Rose cartoon of a scene out-
side the library. Taylor tower rises
in the distance while a multitude
of Bryn Mawr girls, in pants and
long dowdy skirts with even long-
er droopy slips, cluster around a
chicly dressed girl in the fore-
ground. The caption reads:

“The Renaissance of a Rugged
Individual.

“The Bryn Mawr Sophomore who
rect Assessories on the Campus.”

While Mr. Thurber has pictured
a rugged individualist and labeled
her with Bryn Mawr, Mr. Rose has
the plodding Bryn Mawr students
staring wide-eyed at the individu-
alistic swan in their midst. The
writers are no more in accord tha



lished peace treaty with Bulgaria
to show the emphasis placed on
human rights and the fundamenta!
freedoms.

At present, there is no joint ac-
tion in the Allied Control Commis-
sion to help solve the problem of
how to stabilize spheres of influ-
ence in times of transition until
something permanent can be set-
tled.

In closing, Dr. Wells stated that
propaganda can lead to economic
warfare, which in turn can lead
to actual warfare. For this rea-

outlined, underlined, and remem-/.on he believes that President Tru-

man is right in wishing to continue
our shipments to Russia.

Debaters Desire

Cheering Cohorts

The Debate Club has an active
and ambitious season ahead, with
25 to 30 debates scheduled as well
as several conferences. In recent
debates the two-year-old club has
conquered Rosemont and Villanova
and lost, in a second Villanova bat-
tle, by only one point... The 16
members, headed by Pam Stillman,
feel that a larger audience would
inspire them to even greater tri-
umphs, so come. and cheer at the
next debates, on December 3rd and
4th.

Subjects so far have been the
Taft-Hartley Bill and Civil Liber-
ties; at the next debate the pros
and cons of World Federation will
be discussed.

Hin desinse: ~

‘Professional Attitude’’
Urged by Students
For Drive

To the Editor:

In view of last year’s successful
approach to” the’ Alumnae Drive,
it is disappointing to note the lack
of consideration in this year’s ef-
fort.

The negligible publicity of the
New York Theatre Benefit, for ex-
ample, is indicative of the ineffic-
iency in the administration of the
program. Little mention was made
in the New York papers of this
project, which seems to have been
undertaken without adequate prep-
aration. Invitations to the Decem-
ber first performance of Antony
and Cleopatra were mailed scarce-
ly, a month ago, and tickets were
not received, in some cases, before
last week. This lack of foresight
would seem detrimental to the suc-
cess of the Drive which depends
upon the good-will and cooperation
of the friends of the college.

Since the Drive is of fundamen-
tal importance to the college, we
believe it advisable to adopt a
more professional attitude in the
direction of its activities.

Maxine Gordon ’49
Eleanor T. Rubsam ’49

Ushenko’s Theory~
Limits Perspective
Continued from Page 1

one aspect from another; 8) the
number of alternative aspects is
limited. The nature of the object
restricts the number of aspects.
Therefore the problem essential-

ly involves the nature of the ob-
ject itself. Dr. Ushenko interprets
it as being a “formal” nature which
enables one to correlate the as-
pects of it. The.object then is not
actual but potential. The perspect-
ive is a fusion of the fact and the
interpretation.

Dr. Ushenko concluded his lec-
ture by quoting Grace de Laguna
—that all knowledge is in some
perspective; the directed focusing
determines the dynamic perspe¢t-
ive. The object is more than the
aspect; it remains an inexhaust--
ible potentiality, and behind the
actual representation of perspect-
ive aspects there are potentialities
which condition the final aspect.





by Catherine Merritt ’51

Develop your muscles and your

maternal instinct simultaneously

and spend an afternoon at the
Haverford Community Center. The
muscles get their workout under
the heading of transportation to
and from the Center, which is con-

‘siderably off the beaten track, in
Haverford. Unless you are a hiking
devotee, procure a bicycle by fair
means or foul. Invariably the tires
will be flat and you’ll spend a few
frantic moments trying to force
a little air in the tire with arm
muscles which are, in most cases,
rather flabby, if you have been ne-
glecting your daily dozen face.
After this chore is accomplished,
take to the road, and on the first
hill you will feel that your legs
too have a few flabby muscles. You
will feel them more the next day.

The Center is a brown house set
in a field on a small side road. On
our first visit we arrived early, and
since the children were still at
school, set out to brighten: up a
corner of the bare main roomi
However, cutting pictures from the
children’s books was not a rapid
process, as we constantly became



these, cartoonists.

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engrossed in the always moralistic,

Muscles or Maternal Instincts:
Gain Either at Community Center

never dull stories therein contain-
ed.

The first arrivals brought terror
to our hearts. Panic was calmed
by .a kind suggestion from the lady
in charge that we should read to
the children.- So, while we all eyed
each other furtively, we read, and
tried to act, and expressed great
enthusiasm over The Bunny with
the Magic Nose. Our audience was
fascinated for only a_ limited.
length of time, and it was obvious
that a little strenuous exercise in
the \ working-off-of-steam depart-
| ment was in order. We started in
on our store of games: London
Bridge, Puss in the Corner, Mus-
ical Chairs. When these had been
played to the end of their partic-
ular fascination, we appealed to one
of the older children, and from
then on all our problems were solv-
ed. We proceeded to have the time
of our lives playing games that
really had great potentialities.
They were even fun playing them
the way we did, with rules that
made very little sense. Five o’clock
came much too soon.

Maybe we’re not doing too well
keeping peace in our world. Why
not try your hand at keeping the
peace among these children for
two hours? A