College news, May 15, 1946

THe COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLII, NO. 24

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MAY 15, 1946

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Bryn Mawr College, 1945

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Rationing Asked
By 203 Students
Signing Petition

Committee Will Send

Message to Truman,

Bowles, Anderson

Two-hundred and three students
signed the petition which was cir-
culated inthe halls Tuesday, urg-
ing adoption of food rationing, the
Alliance reports. The petition will
be sent to President Truman, Mr.
Bowles and Mr. Anderson.

The Committee for Relief for
Europe is communicating its ac-
tions to the other colleges which
signified their interest in the Com-
mittee’s program, explained in a
previous letter. Many of these col-
leges have started similar groups

“of their own, and contact is being
extended through them to other
colleges.

The Committee reports that
many. other colleges have initiated
conservation measures in college
dining rooms, as well as working
through their communities in pub-
licizing the conservation drive.

The-recent Seven College Con-
ference endorsed the food program,
as did the March meeting of the
U.S.S.A., which adopted a three-
point program similar to that pro-
posed by thee Bryn Mawr Commit-
tee of rationing, direct allocation
to UNRRA and the appointment
of a Food Coordinator.

Harvard reports that its. initial
contribution of $1000 to buy food
to be sent directly to European
students is being followed up by
$600 weekly, collected through the
American Veterans Committee or-
ganization there. Details are still
being worked on, and as yet no
European distribution agency has
been lined up.



Maids’, Porters’

Musical Show

To Feature Explosive Mystery

by Katrina

“Wiere the Tigris follows the
fair Euphrates” a talent scout
from Hollywood seeks a movie
queen, and is going to recognize
her by an amulet . So goes- the
story of the Maids’ and Porters’
operetta. A lady consul does not
help matters much, nor does Hen-
rietta Whipstitch who sings of ler
“false Romeo (who) broke me ‘up
when he threw me down.” She
later finds her unfaithful Henry,
‘nearly knocking him down in her
excitement. An Englishman is

Leibniz Meeting
Discusses Space,
Political Heritage

Scholars in the immediate vicin-
ity and various professor and stu-
dents of Bryn Mawr attended the
tri-centennial celebration of Leib-
niz’ birth held at the Deanery, Sat-
urday, May 11.

W. H. Sheldon, Professor Emer-
itus of Yale University spoke on
“Teibniz’s Message to Us” and Le-
roy Loemker of Emery University
discussed Leibniz’s Theory of
Judgment. “Leibniz and the Art of
Inventing Algorisms” was the pa-
per read by Paul Schrecker of the
New School of Social Research.
Prof. F. S. C. Northrop of Yale
University explained Leibniz’s
Theory of Space.

The. speakers emphasized the
great influence of Leibniz on Am-
erican political life stating that
Thomas Jefferson had _ probably
based his theory of political equal-
ity on those of Leibniz. Prof.
Schrecker dealt with Leibniz’s
idea of a universal language and a
calculating machine.





Ivy-clad Gym Inspires Schumann
To Compose Medieval Fantasies

By Helen

Mr. Schumann first got the idea
for his medieval dance plays one
sunny afternoon. when he was
walking down Merion green. Look-
ing through the trees, what should
he see before him but the rising
towers and ivy trailing battle-
ments of the gym, rising up before
his eyes in a most medieval man-
ner (despite a pile of hockey sticks
outside the door). He then wrote
the score for “The Sleeping Beau-
ty”, with the picture of the gym
in his mind’s eye as the castle. Fol-
lowing “The Sleeping Beauty”
came three more, one a year, one
for each class.

Each of the dance plays. is a
full-fledged opera with the substi-
tution of dancing for singing as an
interpretation, of his music. They
are written in orchestral form
which has been adapted to the
piano. The fact that the music is
intended for a full orchestra makes
his piano rendition very vivid and
exotic, because he has to use every
effect he can achieve’ to approx-

imate other musical instruments.
In the third act of “Cinderella,”

which is to be given this weekend

_by Miss Petts and her dancing

classes, the three wicked sisters

try on the glass slipper, according
to the story. Mr, Schumann

renphife
een s“with a sardonic chuckle tha story of woods and forest Apirits,

“he indulges -in the most painful |:
dissonances” when the slipper does
not fit. Each of the three sisters
has her own theme, which is pre-
sented in the beginning of the first

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Hale °49

act. These themes are elaborated
to indicate their varied charac-
iters.
contains ‘Cinderella’s theme and
its development in her attitude to-
wards the hard working laborers.
These laborers struggle out of the
castle (gym) door suffering under
their burdens in a most realistic
manner.

The rest of the story antolds as
the dancers play the parts of
peasants, townfolk, and royal cor-
tege out in front of the castle.
The costumes (those that we have
seen as we hung precariously out
of the Merion dining room win-
dow) are charming diaphanous af-
fairs in pale pastel colors. The
lighting ought to be exotic and
exciting judging from the compli-
cated switchboard. nailed to a
nearby maple ‘tree.

There are certain similarities in
each of the four dance plays. Mr.
‘Schumann has included in each an
animal dance. There have been
spiders, birds, and bears. This
time the has written a “mouse
dance” (the mice that turn into
the coachmen, remember?). And
in each he has covered a different
kind of environment. The “Sleep-
ing Beauty” is the story of court

‘e: “The iGold Spinners” is the

“Roderigo” ‘was about the sorrows:
of a village, and “Cinderella” con-
tains all the gaiety and color of
the peasants and townfolk.

The second part of this act}

Thomas ’49

involved and a bomb explodes. In-’

dian: maidens squirm through a
Valse Bagdad. The whole thing
seems to hinge somehow on an
assassin, though he never seems
to appear on stage, and a camera.

“S-pit your words out,” yells
Co-director Ann Chase ’48 from
the back of Goodhart, and then
rushes up to take the part of an
absentee. “Now, look as though
you have just seen a huge choco-
late cake . .. oh, all right; a ham-
burger then.” Ada Klein ’48 of-
fers expert advice from her ex-
perience on the last year’s Fresh-
man show and trots around the
stage placing characters here and
there. Jean Broadfoot tirelessly
pounds the piano, accompanying
the caliph in “I’ll marry a girl, a
Persian pearl, in Mes-o-po-ta-
mi-a.”

Two very attractive profession-
al actors from “The Old Vic,” who

arrived with Miss Ely, offered
helpful suggestions from their
acting experience. “Get her to

open her mouth wide—like Mar-
tha Raye” suggested Sir Richard
Vernon from “Henry the IV Part
I.” The other actor who played
only three parts in last Friday
night’s performance ‘of ‘Part. I,”
the porter, Davy and Lord Mow-
bray, when asked what he thought
of the rehearsal said, “Well, isn’t
it just like them all?” The two
Englishmen also have parts in
“The Critic’ and help make up
the chorus of Theban elders in
“Oedipus.”

The mystery of the camera and
the assassin will be successfully
unravelled on (‘Saturday night to
an audience which will be as: en-
thusiastic as that at “The Old
Vic.”

Foreign Students
Lecture to Scouts

“Do people get engaged in
Puerto Rico like they do in the

1 United States?” “Do Roumanian

girls have dates?” “Is Latin spok-
en in Greece?” These are just a
few of the wide variety of ques-
tions that a number of foreign-
born Bryn Mawr graduates and
undergraduate students have been
called on to answer by the fascin-
ated young ladies of a Girl Scout
Troop in Wynnewood.

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Hans Schumann

Will Leave B. M.

Hans Schumann, musical direct-
or for the dancing classes at Bryn
Mawr for fifteen ears, will leave
the college next. year. ‘He plans
to finish his grand opera, “A Com-
edy in Music.” )

This opera is ‘a rhemorial in mu-
sic to Colonial Philadelphia. The
libretto, in English, is written by
Frances Lynd, Bryn Mawr 43.
The aim of “A Comedy in Music”
is to stress the musicality of the
English language by fitting the
word to the music.

Mr. Schumann composed a cycle
of dance plays, one of which is
presented at Bryn Mawr every
spring. The fantasies, “Sleeping
Beauty,” “Cindereja,’”.. “Raoderigo, ”

_|and “The Gold Spinner,” are to be

‘published in. both- England and
America in the fear future. “Cin-
derella” is: to be presented on the
campus Thursday and Friday of



this week.



N ewly Amended
Alliance Articles

Passed by Halls

As a result of the hall meetings
held by the Bryn Mawr Alliance
for Political’ Affairs, last Wednes-
day and Thursday, three constitu-
tional provisions concerning the
procedure for electing secretaries
and committee chairmen have been
changed, each now providing elec-
tion by the board.

Specifically, Article II, Section
B, now reads, “two secretaries will
be elected by the board;’ Article
II, Section E4 now reads, “the
chairman of the International Re-
lations Club will be elected by the
board;” and Article II, Section E5
now reads, “the chairman of the
Industrial Group will be elected by
the board.”

The amended articles originally
provided that the two secretaries
would be appointed by the presi-
dent, and that the out-going chair-
men of the International Relations
Club and the Industrial Group
would appoint their successors.

R: Bone, Williams
Outline and Define
Socialist Program

Common Roon, May 14. The pro-
gram of the Socialist Party for
alleviating lack of economic demo-
cracy, and the difference between
Socialism, Communism, and Lib-
eralism, were outlined by Mr.
Robert Bone and Mr. Oliver
Williams, both connected with
the Socialist Party in Philadelphia.
This was the final lecture in the
series of discussions by Mr. Bone
on Socialism.

“State Control is not the aim of
the Socialist Party’, said Mr. Bone
in explaining social ownership’s
ultimate goal; a fusion of the Co-
operative movement and Trade
Unionism. The pattern for this fus-
ion is to make politics more demo-
cratic, and “to organize producers
and consumers on a more demo-
cratic basis”. He proposed a Three
way board of Directors for all
large industries consisting of pro-
ducers, ¢ consumers and government.
He pointed~out that in this way
the interests of all people will be
represented, and added “the coop-
erative movement represents op-
portunity for: more and more peo-
ple to participate in their own ec-
onomic life.”



Meyer Suggests
Federal System
For World Gov't

U.S. Called Responsible
For the Relegation
Of Military Control

Goodhart, May 9%

“Limited federal. world govern-
ment, with the power to make
laws and apply them,” is absolute-
ly essential to future world peace,
declared Mr. Cord Meyer, Jr. in
the 10th current affairs assembly

‘lon “World War III or World Gov-

ernment.” '

“Diplomacy is merely potential
war,” said Mr. Meyer, “a competi-
tive race for all the elements of
armed power.” The present world,
Mr. Meyer believes, is rapidly arm-
ing itself for the third world war

with such super-destructive wea-
pons as atomic bombs, which the
United States is now producing,
rocket ‘bomps, and bacteriological
warfare. These weapons are so
advantageous to the attacker that
the only effective defense is pre-
ventive war.

Laying responsibility for initi-
ating world governmnent to the
United States, Mr. Meyer assert-
ed that we alone, as possessors of
the largest concentration of power
today, can gain acceptance of the
idea. We must give up our. policy
of seeking “peace through power”
large enough to retaliate even in
the event of an atomic attack, and
relegate the control of military
force to a supernational authority.
Though world government is inev-
itable “in the long run, he explain-
ed, we can today choose between
voluntary establishment now and
later imposition by a supreme
armed power.

Mr. Meyer denied the aiactive
ness of the “collective security”
of the United Nations, since it re-
quires defensive war to stop ag-
gressive war, thereby punishing
those not responsible for the —
crime. A world government, on
the other hand, would make laws,
control armaments and_ enforce
disarmament on separate nations,
and provide compulsory court jur-
isdiction. Democratic operation
would be through a legislative as-
sembly with representation pro-
portional to numbers, — industrial
power and literacy.



Volunteers Selling Food Coupons
Meet Odd Question at Bonwit’s

by Katrina

“Could you please tell me where
the better lingerie are?” asked a
persohable young lady. “No, I’m
sorry, we aren’t the information
booth. We are just selling food
stamps. Wo-won’t you buy one, it
ifaw. “Oh... Bot jut now,
thank you.”

The Bryn Mawr volunteers sat
behind a counter in Bonwit Teller
from 1:15 till 5 on Monday the first
day of the selling of food coupons

for relief. The money is to be used

to buy foods that are high in cal-
oric -value and vitamins and to

sentgita>-7~241.to.. the. starving in

Europe. ‘

Business was slow, mostly due
to the inconspicuous spot where the
coupons were being sold, but with
the addition of a painted sign ex-
plaining what was going on,

Thomas ’49

picked up a little.

A blouse decorated with multi-
colored hearts and “I Love You”
scrawled fancily across drew the
attention of Bonwit Teller buyers.
Ingeniously, the certificate sellers
clipped’ a food coupon to its front
hoping to attract attention to it. .
Shoppers fumbled with their glass-
es, read the inscription, wondered
whether the blouse would go free
with a book of certificates and
passed up both offers.

By the end of the first day, the
volunteers were exhausted from
sittin Is... watchin bil
delphian shoppers and trying to:
answer their innumerable ques- '
tions. In between-times of func-
tioning as’ an information booth,
the volunteers managed to sell





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. Food Conservation Reviewed

This seems an appropriate time to survey all that has
been done both at Bryn Mawr, in Washington, and in the
country as a whole to alleviate, in the words of Secretary
Anderson, “the worst critical period of the famine in lands
overseas.’

The petition circulated i in the halls yesterday supporting
rationing and any other compulsory measures: which the sit-
uation requires will, we hope, be seconded by individuals and
groups throughout the country. The reported rise in public
support of rationing is a good sign that Americans do feel a
sense of responsibility in a world situation demanding, above
all, the leadership of the United States.

The present tendency among officials in Washington to
speak of “averting” famine ,the “possibility” of mass-star-
vation in Europe, seems to us typical American wishful
thinking; the famine and mass-starvation are already there.
It is also unfortunate that those officials who do recognize
that the crisis is a matter of immediate concern frequently
refuse to take a long view of the situation, preferring to let
future incumbents cope with next year’s problem. It should

-be perfectly evident that refusal to take more than mere

temporary measures now will mean far more drastic action

later.
In the meantime it is encouraging to note the spread
of voluntary measures. The Philadelphia Food Drive, be-

ginning, this week, is a hopeful indication of what can be
done through the individual community. The willingness of
Bryn Mawr students to join in that effort by selling food
coupons for the drive is indeed very commendable. Let us
hope that Bryn Mawr will carry, its interest over into the
signing out program, the reports of which have so far been
very discouraging; action is as necessary as words to make
conservation effective.

Other colleges have also begun developing their own
adaptations of the Bryn Mawr program, aided by the infor-
mation of the Committee for Relief for Europe. Harvard’s
plan for sending food directly to the students of European
universities suffering from the famine is an excellent .pro-
posal both in its first purpose of alleviating shortages and
in the coincident value of building up inter-relations between
all student groups in the world.

Though the opportunities for concerted action at Bryn
Mawr end in a few weeks, it is certainly to be hoped that in-

dividual efforts. walkge-c?: ing-the summer, -boththre ="
‘logical organizations and letters to Congressmen. Publiciz-

ing the need for definite action is still a big job in the food
conservation program. “

many of Russia’s

Current Events



The Russian policy of hampering
peace settlements to gain bargain-
ing advantages is slowing up the
whole process of negotiation in
both major and minor points, de-
clared Mrs. Manning in a discus-
sion of the Paris Council of For-
eign Ministers.

Russian policy, she pointed out,
is clearly expansionist, and would

||be antagonistic to any more solid

world organization than the U.N.
as tending to: preserve the status
quo. Britain, on the other hand, is
anxious to retain her present po-
sition until she has re-established
her economy. °

Mrs. Manning emphasized that
exaggerated
claims have been put in to gain

¥{an advantageous bargaining posi-

tion as proved by their claim to
trusteeshipgpver the Italian colon-
ies. Russia’s interest in delaying
peace settlements is partly explain-
ed, Mrs. Manning feels, by her re-
luctance to withdraw occupation
troops from Europe, thereby dim-
inishing her control there and’ in-
creasing demobilization problems
at home.

The two proposals of Mr. Byrnes
are signs of increasing American
willingness to take leadership in
the Conference, said Mrs. Manning.
The Quadrilateral Treaty to dis-
arm Germany and Japan was, how-
ever, regarded as an expression of
American eagerness to withdraw
rapidly from European settlements.
The proposal of a Peace Confer-
ence attended by all thé U.N. coun-
tries to settle points not agreed on
at the present meeting was re-
jected by Russia.

The central problem at the con-
ference has been the disposition of
Trieste, complicated by its strate-
gic significance as “the southern
anchor of Winston Churchill’s iron
curtain” and the natural outlet
for Hungary and Austria.

Students Give Talks
At Scout Meetings

Continued From. Page 1

(For sevéral months now, various
foreign students have been asked
to give talks before the ‘Wynne-
wood Girl Scouts about their na-
tive countries. The series was be-
gun by Aida Gindy, a graduate
student at Bryn Mawr and a native
of Egypt.

Being very much interested in
all forms of social work, and hav-
ing had charge of three groups of
Girl Reserves in her native coun-
try, Miss Gindy contacted local
Scout leaders and was invited by
them to give a talk to the girls
about Egyptian life. Miss Gindy’s
discussion and those that follow-
ed it, were part of a course in in-
ternational friendship sponsored
by the Scout leaders.



Continuance of Chapel
Urged by Werner
As Essential

To the Editor:

In. view of the editorial in last
week’s News, I feel it would be
valuable to clarify the position of
the Chapel Committee in regards
to the Sunday Evening Services.

The problem of attendance has
naturally been uppermost in our
minds this year. It is obvious that
the service as it now stands does
not meet the needs of the majority
of the campus; the work of the
Committee has» been directed
toward the investigation of this
campus feeling. The Committee
agrees most heartily with the Edi-
torial Board of the News that the
service should be undenomination-
al; it also feels that there should
be more religio-ethical lectures and
increasing opportunity for discus-
sion in groups.

One of the main reasons for pla-
cing the Chapel Committee under
the Undergraduate Association was
to insure the widening of its scope
to include such lectures as those
given recently by Father Coleman,
Dr. Calhoun, etc. We feel these
lectures and discussions to be. very
important; the Sunday Evening
Services, however, are usually fol-
lowed by stimulating and all too
sparsely attended discussions.

It is the carefully studied opin-
ion of the Chapel Committee that
the lectures and discussions, while
valuable in the intellectual ‘sense,
have no spiritual significance and,
therefore, in no way take the place
of the Worship Service.

We would be very interested in
working with members of the Col-
lege Community in compiling a
form of worship which would have
more substance and yet would re-
main undenominational. The most
important function of the Commit-
tee is its representation . of the
Campus Concern.

Sincerely,
Anne Werner

Historical Sketches

by Katrina Thomas ’49

The origin of Undergrad is
shrouded~—in—mystery, although
some claim that it was the second
organization on campus. Absolute-
ly no one knows the date of its
beginning. A “Hand-Book” pub-
lished in 1900 shows that there was
the Undergraduate Association on
campus at that time and that its
aim was “to represent the students
to the President and Faculty.” This
idea is embodied in the present

slogan, “coordination and represen-
tation”, because now it also coor-
dinates all activities on campus
other than the political (Alliance),
the social (League) and the dis-

\ Continued on Page 4



Academic Freedom

The intervention of government administrators who



have taken over six Argentine universities is in direct oppo-
sition to the ideals of a democratic way of life. The privilege
of a professor to teach what he wishes in his own way is a
fundamental part of general education in a free society.
Government control of teaching in universities cannot be tol-
erated without leading to dictatorship and a form of nation-
alistic education against which the United Nations have
fought.

The resignation of professors and the active protests of
students in Argentina against “the subordinating of teach-
ing to a political ideology in the German or Italian manner”
is representative of a group which is willing to fight for what
it knows is right. As long as there are governments which
will attempt education control, peace aims cannot be secure.

| fhis-country has fought for and maintained the traditfOf"or)

freedom in education. If oui 2 do the same, a
fundamental ‘step will have been made towards true chacsinaed
tional cooperation.

Members Control Co-op,
Socialism Differs

: In Method
To the Editor:

I was interested in the account
in the College News for May -1st,.
1946, of a talk by Mr. Robert Bone.
who reportedly stated that the.
Socialist Party intends to obtain
its objectives through unions and
the cooperative movement. As a

it made clear, if this has not al-
ready been done, that Socialism
and ‘Cooperation, while they may
have the same objective of bene-
fit to the general public, neverthe-
less employ diametrically opposite:
methods.

Cooperation is, in effect, a cap-
italist system democratically op-

form of shares owned by individ-
ual members of a cooperative...
Savings left after payment of op-
erating expenses, including inter--
est on capital at a fixed moderate:
rate, taxes, business reserves, etc...
are returned to patrons. in propor-.
tion to their purchases. Member-.

race, creed, politics or sex (except—
ing individuals inimical to the
number of shares owned). Thus,.
responsibility and control are vest--
ed‘in the individual members, not

and success of a cooperative ven-
ture depends upon the initiative-
and intelligent insight of the mem-
bership.

‘Retail consumer cooperatives
band together to operate their:
wholesale regional
and the system can and does reach.
back further into the fields ‘of pro-
cessing or manufacture, and the
ownership and production of raw
materials. The same democratic
capitalist system prevails at each

Continued on Page 3

Petry, Berry Tell
(Of Health Work

Common Room, May 8. Job op~
portunities in the field of public:
health work, nursing as well as.
education, are plentiful, according:
to Captain Lucile Petry R. N.,.
Chief of the Division of Nursing,-
United States Public Health Ser-
vice, who spoke here at a confer--
ence on “Public Health and Nu-
trition” sponsored by the Voca--.
tional Committee of the Under-.
graduate Association. Mr. L. Joe.

workers in all phases of the field
of nutrition because the selective
service examinations during the.
war showed that one third of the.
men examined were malnourished..

The public healthsnurse assists
in the prevention of disease by pro-
moting health through education
and gives and supervises nursing-
care in homes, schools, and indus-.
try. She does ‘administrative and
supervisory work in federal set--
tlements such as the Children’s
Bureau. The trend now is toward
having consultants in broad, gen--
eralized fields, but there are some-
opportunities for specialists.

The educational requirements in--
clude graduation from a nursing-
school plus specialization in pub-
lic health work. A college degree.
is an asset in being considered for
promotion. :

Preparation for nutritional work
depends on the particular field of
work chosen, but a medical degree
with specialization in nutrition is
most helpful. Jobs are open for:
dieticians, “agricultural workers
such as plant breeders, food pro-
cessing research workers, educa-
ors," Organic chemists, bacteriolo-
gists, and persons interested in al-.
lergies and nutritional genetics.
Opportunities for research assis-
tants with only a. B.A. are good.



member of the latter I should like -

erated. Capital is furnished in the.

ship is open to all regardless of

in an overall socialist authority, _

distributors,

Berry emphasized the need for-






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Princeton Showers B. M. Chorus
With Vocal and Social Weekend

by Barbara Bettman ’49

Singing with Princeton was an
interesting experience. It was def-
initely a vocal weekend, though
for many of the girls it was quite
social also, and for almost every-
one it was very wet most of the
time. The travel situation was most
unusual and extremely involved.
Two buses left Bryn Mawr (half
an hour late) Saturday morning,
followed by “the oral people” an
hour later.

After a “delicious” lunch of so-
called chicken a la king (the king
is dead, long live the king), the
chorus rehearsed for four hours,
spending most of the time making
wrong entrances. Mr. Weinrich, di-
rector of the Princeton chorus,
does not believe in directing his
choruses during a performance.

At this point the chorus had
supper with Princeton, though af-
ter lunch many of the members
chose to seek another—any other—
place in which to dine. Some of
the girls stayed at Princeton, hav-
ing optimistically reserved. rooms
in advance. Their optimism proved
to be well-founded, as almost ev-
eryone who stayed saw Princeton
night life in some form. “Will too
much beer hurt my voice?” seemed
to be the universal question, though
lack of sleep was a close second.
It rained slightly (a euphemism)
hampering activities, especially
those of a couple who had gone
canoeing.

High spot of the concert Sun-
day afternoon was Mr. Weinrich’s
donning of his shoes, coyly hidden
behind the organ. The mass was
followed by what will probably be
henceforth referred to as the Great
Princeton Downpour—one way, at
least, to get one’s money’s worth
out of the academic gown. Two bus-
es left at five-thirty, leaving be-

Drexel Smears

B.M. in Baseball

Bryn Mawr, May 9th. “Pleasant-
ly smeared” goes down as the of-
ficial comment on Thursday’s var-
sity baseball game. Drexel 15, Bryn
Mawr 7 is recorded in the score-
book.

Hardball, Bryn Mawr’s usual
forte and the alleged despair of
Drexel, was played during the first
half of the game in which Drexel
lead by seven runs; during the
next half, playing softball, Bryn
Mawr managed to catch up as the
team scored four runs to their op-
ponent’s five.

Joanne Mott ’47, Captain and
Shortstop caught several difficult
fly balls, while Carolyn Seamans
47 pitched very well. ,

The Drexel team showed great
accuracy in fielding and excellent
catching.





hind not over twelve people, while
the third bus, scheduled to depart
at 9:30, simply never arrived, and
the trip ended by train for those
individuals who had wished to pro-
long their stay at Princeton.

The general expression of opin-
ion was that “everytime we got
inside it stopped raining”, but Girl-
ish ‘Ardor Will Not be Dampened,
and the proverbial good time was
had by all.

Knowledge of Co-ops
Advocated by Alumna
Continued From Page 2

level of organization, control al-
ways resting with the constituent
membership, and ultimately with
the individual members of the re-
tail businesses at the base.

Bryn Mawrtyrs can observe the
operation of a basic unit of con-
sumer cooperation in the Main
Line Cooperative in Bryn Mawr
village. In a growing’ number of
American colleges and universi-
ties’ students are gaining knowl-
edge of the movement on the one
hand through the operation of co-
operatives supplying their own
consumption needs — books, sup-
plies, dry-cleaning and other serv-
ices, housing, réecreation—and on
the other hand through the inclu-
sion of the study of cooperative
principles in the economics courses
of the institution.

In _the Philadelphia area co-
operators are running a growing
number of food stores, a funeral
“co-op”, an optical “co-op” (1218
Chestnut Street) and a play “co-
op”. At nearby Moorestown a
housing cooperative is organized
and ready to build as soon as ma-
terials become available.

Official spokesman for the Amer-
ican Cooperative movement is the
Cooperative League, U. S. A. with
offices ,in Chicago, New York and
Washington. The constituent re-
gional office for this area is the
Eastern ‘Cooperative League at—44
West 148rd Street, New York City.
30. They supply informative lit-
erature, speakers: and organiza-
tional advice and guidance, though
service may sometimes be slow due
to pressure of demand.

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Vanderbilt Clinic of the Presby-
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Camp Counselors needed for ar-
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ket Research Division. Training
on the job.
See Miss Bowman, Room H
Taylor Hall

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International Business Machines
will send a,representative to the
college if seniors are interested in
their Systems Service program.
IBM trains a group of women in
the summer and these women then
teach office staffs of government
bureaus, industrial companies,
banks, etc. $150 a month begin-
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See Mrs. Crenshaw, third floor

Taylor Hall

NOW.

Typing Rate. The standard price
for a double spaced page is 15
cents plus_two cents foreach ear-
bon,

Proxy Parents, New York. The
Bureau of Recommendations will
ask Miss Drury to come to the
college if there are students who
would like to see her about nurs-
ery governess jobs for the sum-
mer. Notify Miss Bowman by
Friday the seventeenth if you are
interested.

If you apply to a newspaper,
magazine or a publishing house
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Friday, May 17

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Saturday, May 18

Science Club picnic, 12:30.
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Historical Sketches.
Continued From, Page 2

¥ipline (Self-Gov.).

The oldest records of meetings
are found in a musty little note-
book called “President’s Book I”
which dates from 1910. At that
time the committees under the
association were Music, founded in
1897 for arranging concerts at the
college; the Rush-Night commit-
tee which was abolished that year
when Rush-Night was superseded
by Parade Night; the Lost and
Found; Conference Committee for
intercourse ~between the students
and alumnae, gg? Bulletin Board
committee, one to take charge of
the May Day .costume room, the
Student’s Council and the Petitions
committee.

New organizations to come un-
der the association between then
and 1920 have been the Debating
Society, the Student’s Building
committee, Auditing committee,
Trophy Club, Red Cross Commit-
tee, and the Point committee—the
first permanent Curriculum Com-
mittee was established in 1923.

In 1900 Undergrad made plans
for the.first May Day, the purpose
of which was to raise funds for
the students’ building. Since then
big and little May Days have been
run by the association and their
end was accomplished in 1928 when
Goodhart was completed, but, at
the wish of the students, May
Day became traditional.

The problem of “cuts” is nearly
‘as old as the college. Up till 1914
every unexcused cut was penalized
by a reduction of grade. A battle
ensued which awarded the students
8 unexcused cuts. Agitation con-
tinued and in 1915 regulations for
cutting were put into the hands of
Undergrad. Excessive cutting was
warned and the student put into
the hands of the Senate. Since then
a limit of 14 cuts, free cuts and
finally “unlimited” cuts have been
tried. Even in ’28 Bryn Mawr was
still unique in having the regula-
tion of cuts in the hands of the
students. /

A general lack of college spirit
and low standards in academic

\, Best represented at the faculty-
student baseball game on Sunday
was the Science department, boast-
ing the talents of Mr. and’ Mrs.
Gates, Mr. Berry-and-“Mr. Green.
Each team was a heterogeneous
mixture of faculty and _ students
(were the faculty afraid of risk-
ing the baseball title of last
week?) and the equilibrium shifted
early in the game in the direction
of Jo Mott’s team, which soundly
defeated Mr. Berry’s Eager Beav-
ers 16-8, in spite of this captain’s
“outstanding work on the mound.”
A growing crowd actively watched
the game, and systematically “rat-
tled the pitchers,” Carol Seamans
and Mr. Berry. Each team picked
up players between innings, and a
spectator was induced to take off
his army tie, loosen his collar and
serve as “ump.”

The game’s most dramatic epi-
sode occurred when Mr. Thon, af-
ter hitting a dubious two-bagger,
‘dashed around the baselines, pick-
ing up second base with one foot
as he flew past. There followed a
game of tag betwéen second and
third; Mr. Thon rushed back to
slide safely to second again. The



work pervaded the campus in 1920.
In turbulent mass meetings, the
possibility of having classes on
Saturday and quizzes on Monday
was considered, in order to keep
students on campus. The propo-
sition was rejected because only
one-fifth of the college took the
appalling number of over four
weekends a semester.

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ball came too, but always man-
aged to be dropped or overthrown,
and so Mr. Thon picked himself up
to try for third once more. This
time he disarmed the opposition
with an astonishing triple-roll and
slide, and took advantage of their
surprise to run safely home. He
paid for his victory a few moments
later, however, in a collision with
an imported, immovable catcher,
and Mr. Broughton arrived to take
his place. Stars of the game were
acclaimed Mr. and Mrs. Gates, who
amassed several hits, and the
game’s single official home run,
Babe Ruth variety.

Following the faculty game,
Pem and Merion played their first
inter-hall game. Fortified, and out-
numbered, by their Wyndham co-
horts, the Pem players gained a
nine-point advantage over a stun-
ned Ghoul team. Merion was. un-
able to overcome the ead, and
the .game ended, under threat of
rain, with the score standing 16-6
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NOTICES

Students who are arranging
meetings are asked to _ schedule
them on the, calendar posted.on
the Taylor bulletin board.

Cancer Drive

The League announces that a
total of $50 was received in the
Cancer Drive held last week.

Graduate Elections

The Graduate Club takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election of
Aida Gindy as President for next
year. Louise Price was elected sen-
ior president.

Spanish Club Elections
The Spanish Club takes pleasure
in announcing the election of Nor-
ma Ulian, ’47, as President, Teckie
Wurlitzer, ’48, as Social Chairman,
and Barbara Ziegler, ’48, as Treas-
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WHAT TO DO |
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