College News, 1940-04-17, Vol. 26, No. 19

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The College News
VOL. X\VI, No. 19
BRYN N*AWR and WAYNE7PA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940             copyright,- Tru,t�e. of      pRfcE 10 CENTS
Sino-Japanese
War Reviewed
By 0. Lai limore
Alumnae Council Holds Annual
Meetings On Finances, Policies
Need for Alumnae
Goodhart Hall, April IS.�Mr.
Owen Lattimore, in his lecture on �<~Stlldeilt   Link   Cited
the future of China, denned Amer-
ica's stake in a free China as the
establishment of a constructive
peace 1'which has the power to
spread and strengthen of itself."
Although the national and terri-
torial integrity of China must be
reaffirmed, Japan must not be de-
stroyed.
A free China means the open-
ing up of markets. Reconstruc-
tion during the war has led to a
maximum promotion in China of
the democratic technique. This
development means a trend toward
a constructive economy rather than
toward shrinking markets, compe-
tition, and the low standard of
labor that exists in Japan.
China is no more immune or
prone to Bolshevism than any other
society. By helping to carry on
Continued on Para Bight
Mass-Meeting Held
For  Inaugurations
Goodhart, Monday, April 15.�
Before a mass-meeting of the col-
lege, the out-going presidents of
college organizations presented
their reports of the accomplish-
ments of the past year. The newly-
elected presidents were inaugu-
rated; and the treasurers of the
organizations gave their accounts,
all of which showed healthy- bal-
ances.
Louise Sharp, '40, President of
Self-Government, reported several
changes in the Constitution, pro-
viding for the incorporation of the
Association's members in the Ex-
ecutive Board, and changing elec-
tion provisions to make more con-
sideration of the candidates for
president and vice-president. Mary
Paige, '42, treasurer, reported a
balance ofJ$1562.81; and Virginia
Nichols, jU, was inaugurated as
president.
Anne Louise Axon, '40, President
of the Undergraduate Association,
stressed the tendency toward inno-
vation in campus activities during
the past year. The new system
of all-college assemblies has been
most helpful in formulating and
expressing opinion on many ques-
tions, especially those of May Day
and the Entertainment Committee.
The combination of all campaigns
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The annual meetings of the
Alumnae Council, held this year
at Bryn Mawr, were devoted" to the
various activities' in which the
Alumnae Association takes part.
The general aim behind these ac-
tivities is the' dove-tailing of the
Alumnae Association and the un-
dergraduate  body.
The business session, held on
Friday at the Deanery, was devoted
to the reports of the committees.
Mrs. William C. Byers, chairman
of the Scholarships and Loan Fund
Committee, reported the part
the Alumnae Association plays
in awarding 129 named schol-
arships, regional scholarships and
grants. This year there are 46
regional scholarships, an increase
of five over last year. Money
given from the Alumnae Fund is
also used to supplement the
Rhoads Scholarships, professors'
salaries and the money needed to
run the Deanery.
In the report of the Academic
Committee, it was stated thatf the
committee this year will study the
problem of music as a major field.
The Academic Committee of the
Continued on Pare Six
Directors, Faculty
and Alumnae Honor
Miss Park by Dinner
Philadelphia Museum, April 12.
�The meeting of the Alumnae
Council on campus provided Bryn
Mawr Directors and Alumnae with
the perfect opportunity to honor
President Park by a gala dinner.
To add to the grandeur of the
night, Mr. Stokes, trustee and di-
rector of Bryn Mawr, arranged for
the Philadelphia Museum to serve
as a banquet hall.
Tribute to the President was of-
fered by Mr.. Rhoads, chairman of
the directors' board and toastmas-
ter for the night, by Mrs. Darrow,
president of the Alumnae Council,
and by Miss Comstock, president
of Radcliffe, Dr. Rufus Jones, of
Haverford, and Mr. Gray, profes-
sor of History at Bryn Mawr. An-
other speaker inserted herself into
the program. Miss Park "felt that
she too had a few words to say
Continued on Pace Eight
Dr. Vaillant To Give,
Lecture On  Mexico
Dr. George Vaillant will give an
illustrated lecture on The Conquest
of Mexico by the Spaniards as
Seen Through Indian Eyes, in the
Common Room on Friday night,
April 19, at 7.30 p. m. This lec-
ture is sponsored by the Depart-
ments of Social Economy and So-
cial Research, and Classical
Archeology. Dr. Vaillant is the
associate curator of Mexican
Archeology of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History.
Congratulations!
The News wishes to con-
gratulate Mr. and Mrs. Da-
vid on the birth of a son,
Charles Newbold, on April 7,
and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
on the birth of a son, Doug-
las Ross, April 17.
Mysterious Entertainment With Prizes
To be Given Undergraduates and Faculty
Student Officials
To Hold Six-College
Conference Saturday
The Six-College Conference being
held this Saturday/^wlTT be attend-
ed by delegates from Smith, Vas-
sar, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Rad-
cliffe, and possibly, Barnard.
These delegates are the old and
new officers of the chief student
bodies. The conference will start
early this coming Saturday, fin-
ishing with supper in Rrfoads for
the delegates. Sunday morning
they will meet for breakfast in the
Deanery. On Saturday afternoon
Miss Mary Jean McKay will speak
on  the  National   Student   Federa-
College and Alumnae
Councils Held Jointly
For the first time in several
years the College and Alumnae
Councils met together. The pur-
pose of this joint meeting was to
give the Alumnae a chance to un-
derstand the College Council by
seeing it in action. The Council
revealed itself by the minutes of
the last meeting and by five min-
ute reports from each of its mem-
bers. The speakers were the old
members of the Council, the newly
elected being allowed to listen and
be silent
Miss Park, before introducing
the College Council members, ex-
plained that no attempt would be
made to imitate a typical meeting,
for any pre-arranged debate could
only be artificial and would repre-
sent a false picture of the work-
ing organization.
Miss Park told briefly the his-
tory of the Council and its in-
Continued on Pace Two
tion.
vi^Antinued   on   Page   Five
By M. Bogatko, '41
On Thursday, April 25, at eight
o'clock, in the Deanery, the under-
graduate body will be presented
with the most unique opportunity
in college history. Faculty and
students will mingle gaily in what
is known as a game party or van-
ishing bridge supplemented by di-
vertissement of a deeply mysterious
nature. There just doesn't seem
to be any telling what might hap-
pen. Resides bridge, the games
that may be indulged in are slap
jack, rummy, roulette, jacks and
Chinese checkers.
A particularly strong lure lies in
the door prizes of which there will
be twenty.or thirty. These prizes
are fabulous. The list is not com-
plete yet, but up to date it includes
such items as a next year's season
ticket for the top balcony of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, a ham, a
series ticket for the Philadelphia
Forum, another ham, a potted
plant,   another  ham,   and   orders,
varying in worth from ten dollars
down, from Best's, Strawbridge &
Clothier, and many other shops.
And this is by no means the
whole story. There will be per-
formances by members of the fa-
culty which, it is rumored, will in-
clude take-offs on undergraduates.
To be auctioned off are two origi-
nal Wyncie King posters. There
will also be Wyncie King carica-
tures of Professors Watson and
Dryden which ace .to be .raffled. In
the trufr Bank Nite. Bingo, and
Screeno traditions the holder of
the winning number may claim the
prize only if he or she is in attend-*
ance at the party. Coffee and
sandwiches will be served toward
the end of the evening.
The tickets which will be one
dollar may be put on pay day. The-
raffle tickets for the caricature are
twenty-five cents each. The money
is to go towards helping to pay off
the debt on the New Science
Building.
Calendar
Thursday, April 18.�
Dr. Philip C. J e s s u p ,
America's Contribution to
World Peace, Peace Assem-
bly, Goodhart, 11.00.
Philosophy Club, Dr. Brand
Blanshard, The Coherence
Theory of .Truth, Common
Room, 8.00.
Friday, April  19.�
Dr. George Vaillant.
The Conquest of Mexico by
Tlie Spaniards as Seen
Through Indian EyM,
Goodhart. 7.30.
Six-College Conferences.
Saturday, April 20.�
Denbigh Hall Dance.
Six-College Conferences.
Sunday, April  21.�
Dr. Alexander Zabriskie,
Ch*>el, Music Room, 7.30.
Si/*College Conferences.
Monday,  April  22.�
Mr. Alwyne, Piano Re-
cital, Goodhart. 8.30.
Tuesday, April  23.�
Dr. Theodore' Spe'ncPr,
The Present State of
Poetry, Deanery, 4.30.
Miss Reid, Current Events,
Common Room, 7.30.
International Relations
Club, Arbitration of the
Altmark Case, Common
Room, 8.15.
Wednesday, April 24.�
Dr.    Fleming,    Industrial
Group    Supper,    Common
Room,   6.30.
Gala Event Planned
In Honor of Seniors
On\�aturday night, June 1, Bryn
Mawr will hold its Junior Promen-
ade, one of the largest and most
exciting events of the whole year.
The dance will be in honor of the
senior class and. will last from
nine until two o'clock in the gym-
nasium. It will open formally at
nine forty-five with a promenade.
All undergraduate students on
campus at that time are cordially
invited to attend, including gar-
den party girls and the freshmen
and sophomore members �of the
choir.
The committee is very proud to
say that Alex Bartha of the Steel
Pier in Atlantic City and his band
of twelve men including a vocalist
will supply continuous music.
The order of the evening will be
twelve card dances with one hour
open for exchanging and free cut-
ting although regular cutting
will take place all evening
after each number. Admission is
three dollars per couple regardless
of how many extra men any one
~irl wishes to bring. The commit-
tee is very anxious to have a male
stag line if possible as no girl
stags are to be admitted. Tickets
will be on sale with all dance rep-
resentatives at the beginning of
next week.
1940 Honors
For Graduates
Cited by Schenk
Goodhart Hall, March 28.�Dean
Schenk opened the assembly
the awarding of the fellowships
in the graduate school. She an-
nounced that certain departmental
fellowships would not be awarded
because of the war in Europe.
These were the Anna Ottendorfer
Memorial Research fellowship and
the  Ella  Reigel   fellowship.
The Helen Schaeffer Huff Me-
morial Scholarship was granted to
Miss Helen Jupnik, a student of
"independence and originality,"
who received her B. A. at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and is a can-
didate for a Ph.D. this year at
the University of Rochester. The
Emmy Neuther Fellowship foV re-
search in mathematics was award-
ed to Miss Dorothy Maharam, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a grad-
uate of the Carnegie Institute of
Technology
The Mary E. Garrett Graduate
European Fellowship, the oldest
in the college, instituted in 1855,
was won by Miss Grace Hennigan.
Miss Hennigan received both her
B. A. and M. A. degrees at Mount
Holyoke College and was a fellow
in history at Bryn Mawr in 1938-9.
The research for her thesis on the
Administration of Chiohester in
the Jacobean Islands will be done
at the Huntington library in Cali-
fornia. The Fanny Bullock Work-
man Fellowship was awarded to
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Ban
ipsV.
Mr. Cope Receives
Guggenheim Award
Mr, Arthur Cope, professor of
Chemistry, has just received a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his
work on the pheqomena of tautom-
e.rism and the chemistry of tau-
romeric systems. In an ihTerview,
Mr. Cope emphasized the element
of chance in chemical work. This
was mo<Jest but misleading as the
G^ggenheinvFellows are chosen on I
the basis of the nature of the prob-
lem on which they are working
and their fitness to do their work.
Mr. Coupe has done most of his
experimental work in the field of
tautomerism at Bryn Mawr, as-
sisted by the graduate students and
the chemistry majors. Next year
he will take a sabbatical and will
visit the laboratories at Harvard,
Columbia, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
the University of California, and
the California Institute of Tech-
nology.                '
H.  Resor to State
Peace Council Aims;
Mr. Jessup to Speak
At the Peace Day Assembly on
Thursday, April 18, at 11 A. M.,
Philip C. Jessup will speak on
America's Contribution to Peace.
Mr. Jessup is professor of Inter-
national Law jrt Columbia.
Helen Resor, president of the
Peace Counciu. will introduce Mr.
Jessup. In observing Peace Day
the Council is not indulging in
false optimism, but rather is try-
ing to emphasize the importance of
clarity of thought in the midst of
world  chaos.
Players' Club Elections
The Players Club takes
great pleasure in announcing
the election of Fifi Garbat,
'41, as president; of Pennell
Crosby, '41, as vice-president
and senior member of the
Playreading Committee; of
Jocelyn Fleming, '42, as busi-
ness manager; of Madge
Daly and Vivi French, both
"42, as members of the Play-
reading Committee. The
following members were also
leeted:
�For acting: Peggy Cope-
land. '42. Natalie Bell, '43,
Ann Ruth Goldberg, '41,
Patsy McKnew, '43, Ann Up-
degraff, *42, and Phyllis
Wright^'41.-
Fof^ lighting: Frances
Matthai^-43-.
For crew work: Freda
Franklin. '42, Maisie Har-
denberg, '43, Eleanor Beatty,
'43, Edith Vorhaus. '42, Janet
Reggio, '43. Barbara Lucas,
12. Ruth Finger. '42, and
Katherine Dewey, '42.
For costumes: Katherine
"""Hamilton, '41, Mary Helen
Hardin. '42.
For set designing: Eliza-
beth Frazier, '42.
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