College News, 1940-05-01, Vol. 26, No. 21

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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940               copyright. TruMm of      price 10 CENTS
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U. S. Can Stop
War In Europe
Asserts   H.   Witt
Speaker Accuses
America   of   Desiring
To Become World Dictator
Rhoada, April 26.�The only way
to end the war is to stop its spread.
said Herbert Witt, Executive Sec-
retary of the A. S. U., in speaking
to the Bryn Mawr chapter. The
United States by herself, he con-
tinued, could establish peace almost
immediately.
If America cuts off her arma-
ment trade with England and an-
nources peace as her motive, all
other neutrals will adopt her pol-
icy. Sw:den,' Belgium, Holland,
the Balkans, Italy and the Soviet
Union would form a ring of neu-
trals around the belligerents. Eng-
land and Germany, forced to fight
each other in a restricted area,
would then be stalemated and the
war would of necessity cease.
While the ensuing peace might
not be permanent, neither would
be '.he peace made at the end of a
continued war if there prevailed
at the peace conference the attitude
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Curtain
The committee in charge
of the production of Iolanthe
has decided that this year
the curtain will rise promptly
at 8.20 albeit to an empty au-
ditorium. The audience is
requested to come on time or
suffer the consequences.
Write and Win Trip On
Clipper, 1200 Dollars
A trip to China on the Clipper
and 1200 dollars in cash are offered
by the China Essay Contest for the
winning   essay   on   Our   Stake   in
the Future of China. The con-
test, open to college students
throughout the country, is designed
to reawaken interest in the Sino-
Japanese conflict which holds, in
the opinion of the sponsors, a more
serious threat to America's destiny
than does the European War.
The essay is not to exceed 1500
words and must be submitted be-
fore June 30, 1940, Contest judges
include Dr. Roy Chapman An-
drews, Dr. James Rowland Angell,
Pearl Buck, Mrs. William Brown
Meloney, Theodore Roosevelt, Dr.
James T. Shotwell, Senator Elbert
D. Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Alex-
ander Woollcott, and Rear Admiral
H. E. Yarnell. The college from
which the winning essay is sub-
mitted will receive 300 dollars for
the purchase of books on Far East-
ern Affairs; and 14,000 dollars will
be divided among the winners of
second, third, fourth and fifth
places. Anyone wishing to enter
the contest should apply to Susie
Ingalls, 9-13 Pembroke West, for
urther details.
Graduates Receive
Additional Awards
/
Goodhart, May 1. � Graduate
Fellowships and Scholarships which
have been awarded since the Grad-
uate Assembly were announced by
Miss Park at May Day chapel
Included in the list were two schoi
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Resurrected Plav Succeeds
By Janet Meyer, '42
The production of Bartholomew
Fair on Tuesday afternoon proved
its resurrection thoroughly justi-
fied, and premature condemnation
unnecessary. The informality of
an outdoor performance did not de-
tract from the interest, and the au-
dience scattered through the dell
was enthusiastic.
The play, although complicated
as to plot, was not as "devoid of
glamour" as Eleanor Emery, '40,
suggested in the Prologue. The ac-
tion centered around Justice Over-
do, but was so presented that it
gave ample opportunity for many
character parts.
The play began with a short I
scene in which the "sweet buds of
gentilitv" sought a moral basis for
their irreligious desire to eat
"pork-like pig" at the country fair.
With the fair as background, there
followed expressions of hilarious
gaiety and the development of the
enormities wh:ch Justice Overdo
found  so irresistible.
Mary Alice Sturdevant, '40, as
Humphrey Waspe, did well with an
unwieldy  part.   As a  contrast  to
this forbidding figure there was
the Tght-hearted, unpuritanical
Win L'ttlewit, played by Marion
Kirk, '40, who effectively threw
moral standards to the winds in
one of the most amusing parts of
the play.
Susan Miller, '40, really seemed
to suffer from the sins of the fair-
goers, and expressed herself with
an impressive dabbling of Latin,
adapted from her friend, Horace.
Julie Follansbee, '41, concealing
herself in the garb of Urs'la, a
pig woman, was an enormity in
every sense of the word. Her act-
ing was positively colossal.
Natalie Bell, '43, was coyness
itself, while Madge Daly, '42
swept around the stage alarmingly
and .with professional assurance,
loan Tash, the gingerbread
woman, was played by Caroline
Garnett, '40, and every time she
blossomed forth from behind her
booth, hilarity was increased.
Eleanor  Emery, '40, besides be-
ing a stimulant to the play itself,
was the power behind  its  produc-
tion.  Vivi French, '42, and Pennell
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Burroughs, Kent and Lehr Winners    j
Of Two Major Junior Scholarships
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Winifred Kip Burroughs. Ruth Lehr-and Martha Kent
Average of 88 Wins
Scholarship   Award \
Ruth Lehr with an average ofi
88 00 won the Maria -L. Eastman
Brooke Hall scholarship which is!
awarded to t!ie junior with thei
highest scholastic standing. Miss|
Lehr is a philosophy major, al-j
though she is considering the pos-j
Ability of doing part of her major j
work in mathematics. Having
taken all but three of the courses!
offered, by the philosophy depart- j
ment niis year, Miss Lehr will doj
her honors work under Mr. Weiss.]
AfterVcollrge she may do gradu-j
ate worl\ correlating mathematics
and philosophy. She considers j
chemistry, the field in which she,
lad planned to major for her firsti
two and a half years of college,'
too limited for more advanced
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Workshop to  Open
With Skinner Skits
And Students' Plays
The Cornelia Otis Skinner Thea-.
tie workshop k\\\\ open officially on I
Monday-everting at 8.30. All Bryn!
Mawr students are invited. Missj
Cornelia Otis Skinner will present
a monologue, and there is a possi-!
bility that Otis Skinner will give
a  short speech.
C. Hinchman Award
Given in Two Fields,
Math and Philosophy
The Charles Hinchman scholar-
ship has this year been awarded
to two students, Winifred Kip Bur-
roughs and Martha -Kent. Miss
Burroughs was recommended for
this honor by the Department of
Mathematics, and Miss Kent by the
Department of Philosophy.
As an illustration of Miss Bur-
roughs' ability, her department
ubmitted several assignments done
in the ordinary work which re-
vealed her power to make full use
�'f previously learned techniques in
developing independently given
problems. The department feels
t' at "at this stage Miss Burroughs
has mastered with ease and evident
��njoyment, the methods of quite
diverse  fields   of  mathematics."
Miss Burroughs has taken
Mathematics since freshman year,
and as a junior, is now taking two
advanced courses. Next year, be-
sides doing honors, she will take
the fourth year advanced course in
t e Theory of Functions of a Com-
p'ox Variable. She has not yet
�'(�finitely decided on the subject
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Miss Park Reads List         t
Of Awards,  Prizes At
Annual May Day Chapel
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Goodhart, May I.�At the annual
May Day chapel Miss Park read
the list of scholarships, prizes and
honors received by students this
year. The importance of this im-
pressive list, she declared, lies in
the picture it presents of the work
being done and the belief it ex-
presses in the ability of all brains
to be improved by training.
To Ruth Lehr went the Brooke
Hall Scholarship, awarded to the
junior with the highest average.
The Hinchman Scholarship, given
to the junior who shows the great-
est ability in her major subject
was divided between Winifred Bur-
roughs and Martha Kent.
The Sheelah Kilroy awards were
received by Susie Ingalls, '41, for
the best work in advanced English,
and by Mildred McLeskey for the
best freshman English paper.
Emily Cheney, '40, received the
Jeanne Quistgaard Memorial
Award in Economics. To Ann
Howard was awarded a scholarship
of the Pennsylvania Society of
New England Women. Barbara
Sage, '43, received the Alice Ferree
Hayt  Memorial Award.
Miss Park also announced that
the Anna Howard Shaw Lectures
would be given next year in the
field of Anthropology, by Dr. Ruth
Benedict, of Columbia. Dr. Bene-
dict will work with the under-
graduates besides conducting a
joint Psychology and Anthropology
seminar.
Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate
Scholarship Announcements
for   1940-41
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'VI-- l.irships held at Bryn Mawr
"ClleR". But Not in the Award
of the College
PENNSYLVANIA   STATE
SCHOLARSHIP
Ltonore Hankw of Philadelphia (junior).
Prepared hy the Philadelphia High School
for Girls. Prance* Marion Simpson Scholar
I'Ur-4'l. Pennsylvania State Scholar I'iJ7
40.
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Calendar
Friday,  May  3.�
Iolanthe,    Goodhart    Audi-
.torium, 8 20.
Saturday, May 4.�
German Oral, Taylor Hall,
9.
Merion tea-cjajice.
Iolanthe,   Goodhart   Audi-
torium, 8.20.
Spring Dance, Gymnasium.
Sunday, May 5.�
Joint Exhibit of Art and
Camera Clubs, and tea,
Common Room, 4.30.
Chapel, the Reverend Erd-
man Harris, Music Room,
7.30.
Monday, May 6.�
Opening of the Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Workshop,
8.30.
Tuesday, May 7.�
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30.
Dr. Herbert Heaton, Web-"
ster  History  Lecturer, on
Clio in Overalls, Goodhart
Auditorium, 8.30.
Wednesday, May 8.�
Industrial   Group   Supper,
Common Room, 6.30.
Professors  Dryden and  Watson Raffled
As Mixed Crowd Roars at Raucous Party
By Ann Ellicott, '42
The Deanery, Ajrrit 25. � On
Thursday evening the Deanery re-
sounded with the happy social
noises of a large group of people
participating vigorously in the
Vanishing Bridge Party for the
benefit of the New Science Build-
ing Fund. The bridge itself, sup-
plemented by Chinese checkers,
slap-jack and a mild form of rou-
lette, lasted until ten o'clock, when
the numbers were drawn by Mr.
Chew for the various and impos-
ing array of door prizes.
The first numbers drawn were
exchanged for Mr. Wyncie King's
portraits of the two paragons of
the Geology department, Mr. Wat-
son and Mr. Dryden. Alison
Stokes, '41, received Mr. Watson
amid a roar of applause, and Polly
Williams, '42, carried off Mr. Dry-
den in triumph. Mr. Herben be-
came the proud possessor of a
corsage certificate from Jeannett's,
which he patriotically raffled oft*
later in the evening. Fate pre-
sented a ham to Doris Dana, '41.
Eloise Chadwick-Colliirs received
a   season   ticket   for   next   year's
Philadelphia Orchestra. Certifi-
cates for orders on various stores
were won by Helen Link, '40; Bar-
bara Auchincloss, '40; Sheila Cud-
ahy, '42, and Marcella Heron, '42.
One number was called and re-
mained unclaimed during a long,
anxious moment, until a soft voice
in the audience said, "Look in your
pocket, Sam." Looking into his
pocket, Mr. Chew found that he
was entitled to two jars of jam.
After the tumult of the draw-
ing had subsided, the. select group
of campus intellectuals took the
Btand for Contributums Please,
and were immediately baffled by
the question, "What is the propor-
tion of men to women professors
on campus?" Mr. Weiss immedi-
ately answered "Too much," but
was ruled down, the exact answer
being 3:2. Mrs. Manning acquitted
herself well, affixing proper last
names to four out of six students'
nicknames, but Mr. Nahm was
forced to drop his role of an-
nouncer an3~assist the experts in
enumerating five out of seven ways
in which a batter can get to first
base. The demand to list several
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