College News, 1933-10-25, Vol. 20, No. 03

              The College-News
VOL. XX, No. 3
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1953
�onvlu-M   I1KYN   MAWR
COLLKOK  NEWS,   1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Freshman Class Is
Biggest in 10 Years
Statistics Show Average Age Is
17 Years, Youngest Ever
to Enter B. M.
26 STATES ARE INCLUDED
, In Chapel, October 17 and 19,
Miss Park discu*-ed the statistics of
this year's freshman class.
"There are 124 freshmen, a large
class as all would know who saw the
long horseshoe qf red lanterns on the
Friday of the Lantern ceremony. The
largest class of the last ten years
consisted of 129 students; others re-
cently of 128, 127, and 125. Two
years ago the freshman class was
100; a year ago 111. Nine per cent,
of the freshmen are non-resident,
compared with the 8 per cent, of the
rest of the college, which is non-
resident. Up to last year the aver-
age had been 6 per cent., and the
change seems surprisingly slight, �
far less than one might have expect-
ed. But the problem of arranging'
th� greatest amount of connection
with the college for the non-residents
remains   unchanged.    .    .     ."
The freshmen come from 26 states
and from Germany and Mexico. The
largest contribution is from Penn-
sylvania, which sends 23 per cent,
(about its u�ual number) and New
York, which sends 20 per cent, (about
its usual number). More interesting,
I  think, is the fact that only 43 per
cent, come from an area bounded by
Nnw York City and its suburban
region on the north, Washington on
the south, West Chester on the west,
for this region has sent, in the past,
on the average, 65 per cent. From
New England there are 13 per
("it. (slightly above the average of
12 per cent); Middle West, 16 per
cent, (slightly above the average of
14 per cent.); Far West, 3 per cent,
(slightly under the average of 4 per
c�nt.); South, 10 per cent, (consid-
erably more than the average of 4
per cent).
This is more variation than there
has been for many years, due per-
haps to the greater variety in en-
trance requirements making possible
entrance from schools not usually
preparing for Bryn Mawr, and the
efforts of the college to find scholar-
ship students from the west and
south.
There are a number of new schol-
arships being given this year:
Amy Sussman Steinhart Scholar-
ship for a girl from the Far West;
Louise Hyman Pollak Scholarship for
- erirl from Cincinnati or the Mid-
dle West; four matriculation prizes
put together to reappear as a schol-
rrshin for p girl from the East.
This year's class is the youngest
ever to enter Bryn Mawr; for the
first time since 1922 the average age
has dropped below 18, to 17 years and
II  months.    Thirteen freshmen were
(Continued   on   i �.-! :�,��   Four)
Possible Pay Day Items
Listed for First Month
The first Pay Day will be in the
second week of November and the
Undergraduate Association is pub-
lishing the following list as a warn-
ing to the inexperienced. Figure out
what you have spent and you will
know about what to expect:
Undergraduate Association dues,
$2.00; Self-Government Association
dues, $0.75 or $1.00; "Times" of
"Herald Tribune" to date, 5c daily,
12c Sunday; Bryn Mawr League
pledges, on the blue pledge cards;
Book Shop Bill�for paper, books,
cigarettes, food, etc.; cap and gown,
$7.50 or under; laundry, probably
about $5.00 to date; fines or house
charges, have you been late or had
guests? College News, $2.50; Bryn
Mawr Lantern, $2.00; second-hand
furniture and books; college pillows;
Bates House or Rock, sandwiches;
to the Publications Office for Fans-
low Sportswear or Lantern Night
tickets; Athletic Association supplies
ordered after arrival at. College.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, Oct. 25. Mr. C.
L. Heyniger will speak on "The
National Recovery Administra-
tion."     'Goodha'rt, 8.00  P. M:
Saturday, Oct. 28. Varsity
hockey game vs. Philadelphia
Country Club.    10.00 A. M.
Sunday, Oct. 29. The Rev-
erend Leslie Glenn will speak
in Chapel. Music Room, .7.30
P. M.
Monday, Oct. 30. jjSecond
ham hockey vs. Merion Crick-
et Club.    4.00 P. M.
West Should Study
Oriental Psychology
Dr.   Haridas   Mazumdar   Finds
Occidental Hegemony Chal-
lenged in East
ARROGANCE STIRS HATE
"The era of the Atlantic is over,"
declared Dr. Haridas Mazumdar, au-
thor of Ghandi the Apostle, in a talk
delivered under the auspices of the
International Relations Club, Tues-
day, October 17. "In the future, at-
tention must be centered on the Pa-
cific, and yet there are not half a doz-
en people in America capable of un-
derstanding the Oriental mind, and
n;)t more than tw Englishmen."
"The phenomenon of cthonocentric-
i;ir>� i. e., the tendency to judge other
pjople's culture and religion by one's
own ethnic standards, is a universal
human quality," Dr. Mazumdar. said,
and "a wholesome one if not carried
to excess. When, however, any group
having a legitimate- pride in its own
culture refuses to grant to other peo-
ple the same right of pride in theirs,
ethnocentricism becomes a menace,
a� in Germany today." In reality,
most of the contrasting customs and
folkways of Eastern and Western
peoples are merely different ways of
obtaining the same objective. The
Westerner, for example, shows resent-
ment by some gesture of violence;
the Oriental inflicts injury on him-
c'f as a protest.
Western people have for the most
part tended to assume an attitude of
exaggerated superiority. This over-
bearing ethnocentricism can be ex-
plained by the publication in 1857 of
Darwin's Origin of [Species; the the-
ory of evolution became a convenient
apology for imperialism. Europeans,
finding their arms successful in every
corner of the globe, looked with scorn
<it the dark-skinned peoples whom
they had conquered. Europe, they
felt, was bringing the benefits of a
more highly developed civilization to
backward lands; - !�y?.l exploitation
was  for the good of the natives.
Although the East, Dr. Mazumdar
maintained, has made a sincere at-
tempt to understand the Western
mind, the West has considered it be-
neath its dignity to learn how the
Orient functions psychologically. The
West understands the East only when
it speaks with cannon; Japan and
Turkey are respected because they
''dve guns and are ready to use them.
The beauty of the Chinese mind and
th? philosophic depths of the Indian
mind are, on the other hand, unap-
preciated by the West.
The really significant international
contacts today are those reaching
across the Pacific, and unless they be-
come more cordial, the outlook for the
future is not very pleasant. Since
the bulk of the world's population
lives in the Orient, the prospect of
India, China, and Japan becoming
military powers constitutes a distinct
threat to Western hegemony. In or-
der to avert catastrophe, Westerners
must attempt to understand the work-
ings of the Eastern mind by a study
of great personalities like Ghandi
and  Rabindranath  Tagore.
Committee Explains
Rules for Cutting
Fairer     System     of     Penalties
Makes It Easier to Clear
Past Records
AUDITORS' CUTS COUNT
International Club
President.. Eleanor Fabya... '36
Secretary.. Sarah Flanders, '35
Treasurer.. Carmen   Duany, '34
(Especially contributed by Joan Hop-
kinson, Chairman of  the Cut
Committe for the College)
The Cut System appears to be one
difficult to understand.' It is ex-
plained every year to the freshmen,
but it is soon forgotten, not only
among the freshmen but especially
among the upperclassmen. The ma-
jority who overcut do so because they
are careless, or do not understand the
rules. Therefore the Cut Committee
feels that it once more must explain
the system. If every student perused
carefully the following rules, or even
copied them, the overcuts would be
greatly lessened.
RULES: Each student is allowed
us many cuts per semester as she has
regular classes per week. This means
as an average about fourteen
tuts per semester. Unit courses give
one three cuts, as they meet three
times a week, and half-unit courses,
meeting twice, give one two cuts.
Fir t and second year science courses,
such as Chemistry and Biology, give-
one five cuts, not seven, as each lab-
oratory hour counts as one-third of
a cut. Two cuts are given for Hy-
giene and one-half a cut for Diction.
Students who are doing Honors
work are allowed unlimited cuts with-
in  reason.
PENALTIES: The Cut Commit-
tee felt that- students on Senate or
Student Probation had a hard time
clearing their record because the pen-
alties were too harsh. The penalties,
therefore, have been modified and the
new system of penalization goes into
effect this semester.
1.     A student shall be placed on
Senate Probation if she takes more
.nan four cuts over and above the
allowance made to her. This means
that during the following semester
she will not be permitted to cut any
classes.
2.     Any student who has taken
more than eight cuts over and above
the allowance which has been made
to her, shall have a part or all of
the semester's work cancelled.
.'{. Any student who overcuts by
<:nv beyond the allowance permitted
her shall have three cuts deducted
from her allowance for the next sem-
ester, and shall be on Student Pro-
bation. S'milarly two overcuts en-
tiil nix to be deducted the next
semester, and three overcuts entail
nine. A student who overcuts up to
and including four is on Student Pro-
bation; a student who overcuts be-
yond four is on Senate Probation as
above.
4. Any student who overcuts be-
cause she does not expect to return
to college the following year will be
asked to leave immediately.
All excuses for illness, emergencies,
etc., are obtainable at the Dean's
office.
It makes it very difficult for the
monitors to take the attendance if
students change their seats. There-
fore, students must abide by the seat-
ing plan or they will be counted as
absent. If a student has been in a
wrong seat, or out of the room while
the attendance was taken, she must
report immediately after that class
to the monitor who took the attend-
ance.
There has been some confusion
about auditors and visitors. Auditors
get counted for cuts; visitors do not.
Students should keep a record of
their own cuts each month, so that
their own records may be compared
with the cut cards sent them. By
doing this, and by fully understand-
ing and obeying the above rules, the
students ought not to complain of
confusion. The Cut Committee has
modified the penalization system. In
return it hopes that the number of
overcuts will materially diminish.
Elections
The Senior Class announces
the election of the following
officers:
Sara  Miles�President.
Elizabeth Mackenzie�Vice-
Prcsident.
Lu!a   Bowen�Secretary.
The Junior Class announces
the   election   of   the   following
Officers:
Betty  Faeth�President.
Betty   Lord�Vice:Presiflent.
Elizabeth Monroe�Secretary.
Dr. Broughton Surveys                 �
Asia Minor Landscape
Although many students and facul-
ty members traveled in out-of-the-
way places this summer, Dr. Brough-
ton, of the Latin Department, after
spending two and half months in Tur-
key, can probably claim to have-spent
his vacation in the most remote and
unfrequented region. He surveyed
most of the country west of the Eu-
phrates in order to acquire back-
ground for a study of texts -and doc-
uments relating to the Roman prov-
inces in Asia Minor, and reports that
Turkey is "tremendously interesting
for the wealth of its antiquities and
the recentness of its decision to ab-
sorb western civilization."
The plan of his work, which was
undertaken on a special grant from
the Johns Hopkins Fund for Research
in the Humanities, made it necessary
for him to get some idea of the physi-
cal and climatic characteristics of the
j country; and he found the variety of
I products, the richness of the soil, and
the grandeur of the scenery very
striking. Railroads where possible,
and otherwise trucks were his usual
mode of travel. The latter have be-
come extremely popular in Turky,
and one can go almost anywhere, in
them.
The Turkish people as a whole,
Dr. Broughton says, were friendly
and hospitable; a letter of recommen-
dation obtained from the government
at Angora secured the co-operation
of local authorities. In order to avoid
suspicion, it proved necessary to be
sparing in the use of his camera.
"The central government has a firm
grip on the country," Dr. Broughton
thinks, and "is making rapid head-
way in its program of Wcsterniza-
(Oontlnued  on   Fane  1 lirMl
Miss Thomas Holds
Deanery Reception
Nine  Hundred Attend  Formal
Opening of Alumnae House
on Saturday
CERE.MONY  IMPRESSES
The opening of the Deanery as an
Alumnae H< use last Saturday after-
noon had a significance understood
only by those who know the tradi-
tions of Bryn Mawr. As far as what
actually happened is'concerned, nine
hundred Alumnae went through the
receiving line to greet Miss Thomas,
Miss Park, Mrs. Slade, and Mrs!7
Clark. But even the undergraduates,
who have not had the inestimable ad-
vantage of knowing Miss Thomas,
felt ui ! emotion underlying the re-
turn of the Alumnae to accept the
reward of their work. This official .
recognition by Miss Thomas of the
Alumnae as important to the past
and future of Bryn Mawr contained
not only a tribute for the Alumnae
as a whole, but an individual mean-
ing  for  each  woman  there.
In the eyes of the undergraduates,
who have found in the college the tra-
dition of intelligent foresight, schol-
arship, and loyalty which is their
heritage from Miss Thomas, it is ap-
parent that those women who had
the good fortune to actually know her
must have left college inspired with
the love of Bryn Mawr which she
herself felt. Miss Thomas' gift to
them of her own house is a symbol
of their partnership in her love and
work for Bryn Mawr. Any under-
graduate who talked or listened to
the Alumnae soon realized the inten-
sity ojj their gratitude for the gift
and the pride which they felt in hav-
ing "MOT deemed worthy of it. Miss
Thomas could have chosen no way of
symbolizing this partnership which
would have given greater pleasure or
satisfaction to the Alumnae than the
gift of the Deanery. The under-
graduates, who were honored to be
told by Miss Thomas, when they as-
sembled to cheer her, that she misses
knowing them and their ideas more
than she misses any other aspect of
her college work, feel proud to re-
ceive so glorious and so fittingly re-
warded a tradition of working for
Bryn Mawr.
Behemoths Loom Large in Freshman Class,
Although Percentage of Smokers Is High
The first few weeks of college the
freshmen are supposedly seen and not
heard. Meanwhile the Dean, the
President, Dr. Wagoner, Mr. Wil-
loughby, Miss Petts and all the up-
perclassmen are searching warily for
evidences of mental sanity and physi-
cal soundness among their numbers.
The class of 1987 has proved really
impressive, from the seven, who, ac-
cording to infirWary reports, are over
fiyc feet ten, to the average freshman,
who towers exactly 65.7 inches.
Eleven are overweight, seventeen are
underweight, but in general they are
Amazons to please the physical edu-
cation department. More postures
are listed as very good than very poor,
and more are classed as good than
poor, while the majority are, as ever,
fair in this respect.
And, what is nearer to our hearts,
we are assured that we shall rest in
peace this year. The freshmen are
excellent sleepers; the majority of
them sleep seven to nine hours per
night and a great many, eight to ten.
Only two�we hope they don't live
along a corridor that is Grand Cen-
tral Station for frequenters of the
last Paoli local from town � suffer
from insomnia.
After that long night's rest, break-
fast table conversations promise to
progress quite happily as regards the
perennial subject of operations. For
only twenty-two freshmen are in full
possession of their tonsils, and only
two of all one hundred twenty-fqur
have dental cavities in need of repair.
The percentage of smokers among
the entering class is higner than us-
ual: Seventy-four freshmen smoke,
the majority of them approximately
one to six cigaretes daily.
No freshmen were rejected on ac-
count of ill health, and the report of*
the freshman medical examinations,
held the first two weeks of college by
Dr. Wagoner, seems to promise gen-
eral good health among the members
of that class. In view of this report
and the fact that this year the col-
lege suffers no initial handicap of a
nearby infantile epidemic, the pros-
pect is decidedly encouraging.
The statistics of the freshman
physical examinations, especially con-
tributed by Miss Josephine Petts,
follow;
From the point of view of their
backs and feet the freshman class is
above average. That is to say that
their posture is potentially good. It
is to be hoped that this year they will
learn something of the theory of
movement which is, at the moment*
their weak point.
Three freshmen were excused by
Dr. Wagoner from taking th-e swim-
ming test. Three were unable to pass
it, but only one of these is an abso-
lute beginner.
The distribution of the freshmen
in their sports this fall as as fol-
lows:
9   Required Elective Total
Hockey   *......43
Tennis   .......47
Dancing  ......23
Fencing   ......7
Swimming   ...  5
Riding   .......2
6	49
12	52
12	35
1	8
2	7
, ,	2
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