College News, 1939-10-11, Vol. 26, No. 01

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VOL. XXVI, No. 1
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939
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ASKS HELP OF ALL
The various money-raising cam-
paigns, which have been the bane
of every undergraduate's life for
years, are now to be combined into
one big drive, lasting from Oc-
tober 12th to the 20th. The money
collected, if the drive is a success,
will satisfy all the needs of the
Bryn Mawr League, including the
Camp, the Bryn Mawr Summer
School, the Peace Council, and the
Players' Club. If the required
funds are raised for the latter, the
campus will be able to come free
of charge to Players' Club activi-
JiSf throughout this year.
If the goal of $4500 is reached,
there will be no need of benefits or
Poverty Dinners, and it is well to
remember that, because of the war,
the demand this year for refugee
assistance and Red Cross work will
be greater than ever before. The
Peace Council estimates that at
least five groups will ask for funds.
The success of this whole pro-
ject depends on the co-operation of
every individual on the campus.
If each student contributes $1.50
per Pay Day, it will mean that
the college as" a whole will be freed
from the burden of a steadily in-
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160 Favor Repeal
of Arms Embargo
Bryn Mawr's answers to a Na-
tional College Poll on Neutrality
showed general opposition to the
entrance of this country into the
European war and substantial sup-
port for repeal of the Arms Em-
bargo. In the questions concern-
ing our entrance into the war,
there was an almost unanimous
desire to fight if the United States
proper should be attacked. Under
the other four conditions, however,
there was a slight majority (362
to 359) expressing the desire to
remain out of war.
1.       Under present conditions,
should the United States enter the
European war as an active fighting
force?   Yes 5; No 221.
2.     // Germany is defeated in
the war, do you think the spread
of the totalitarian form of govern-
ment will be prevented? Yes 82;
No 133.
Many stated the answer to this
depended on the wisdom of the final
treaty. One believed that if the
totalitarian form were not com-
pletely stopped such a defeat
would at least be a strong check
and would force such states to take
recognition of the strong position
of the democracies. Another voted
"Wo because in defeating Germany
some of the allies would probably
have governments of a totalitarian
nature before the war ended. An-
other reason given for voting no
was. that there will always be
Caesars.
"3*. Vnder present conitiona,'
should the United States sell mu-
nitions on a cash basis to any bel-
ligerent nations who can call for
the items in their own ships? Ye�
160;  No 59.
Some took a third stand and
said they favored a return to In-
ternational Law.
Ceatlnued en P�*� Four
Campus Alterations
Discussed in Chapel
Faculty Additions Announced
In First Address of Year
By Miss Park
Goodhart Hall, Oct. S.�In the
address opening the 55th academic
year of Bryn Mawr College, Miss
Park announced the changes in the
faculty, the graduate and the un-
dergraduate schools, and discussed
the buildmg-crojects of the Library
wing  and  the  Theatre  Workshop.
This year sees five new appoint-
ments to the faculty and greatly
enlarged graduate and undergradu-
ate schools. Work on the,Library
wing and the Theatre Workshop
have been begun. Another mate-
rial addition to the campus~will ap-
pear in the spring with the flower-
ing of 5,000 narcissus bulbs given
to the college by Margaret vHess de
Graaf, '28. These will be planted
all over the campus and Wyndham,
and may be picked as well as ad-
mired,                         i
Five new appointments to the
faculty have been made, three of
them announced last spring: Mr.
Soper, Associate Professor of His-
tory of Art, Mr. Miller, Assistant
Professor of American History,
and Mr. Oxtoby, Assistant Profes-
sor of Mathematics. Miss Fran-
coise Laurent, Licenciee of the
E c o 1 e Normale Superieure de
Sevres has been appointed as In-
structor in French in the absence
of M. Guiton, who has been called
to service in the French army. The
fifth appointment fs that of Miss
Charlotte Colin as head of the Ger-
man House, to replace Mrs. Frank,
who resigned her position during
the summer.
Beside M. Guiton, other faculty
lembers will be absent during the
I year: Mr. Chew, who is wqrking on
his new book and who will return
for the second semester, and Mr.
Carpenter, who will be professor
in charge^of the Classical School in
Rome for tha year. Miss Park an-
nounced the appointment of Kath-
arine McBridc, A.B. and Ph.D.
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MISS PARK STATES REASON
AS FOREMOST NEED TODAY
REFUGEES AT HOME
Emotional Impetus
Must Be Good Will
German Group: Virginia King, Martha DeWitt, Helen Mclntosh
French Group: Julie Follansbee, Virginia Sherwood
Edinburgh: Helen, Sobol
Itinerant   Faculty
Returns to College
Summer  Travels,  Sabbaticals
Uncurtailed by European
Situation
In spite of the tension across
the Atlantic, quite a number of
the faculty spent part or all of
.heirv summers abroad. Mr. Fen-
wick was directly connected with
eleventh hour work on the part of
the International Peace Campaign.
He went over primarily as eco-
nomic and legal adviser for a con-
ference in Geneva, held Under the
auspices of the Council of Churches
of Christ of the United States; in
addition, he addressed meetings in
London, Paris, Geneva, Stockholm,
and the Hague. During this ex-
tended tour Mr. Fenwick was able
to study the European state, of
mind in some detail, and is elo-
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Katharine McBride Appointed
To Dean's Post at Radcliffe
In her speech at the opening
Chapel, Miss Park announced the
appointment of Kathe'rine McBride,
A-.B. and Ph.D. Bryn Mawr, and
Associate Professor of Education
and Psychology, as Dean of Rad-
cliffe College, the appointment to
take effect in September 1940.
"Miss McBride is a distinguished
scholar, collaborator with the late
Dr. Theodore Weisenburg of the
Medical Faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania in two standard
books on Aphasia and on Adult In-
telligence," said Miss Park. "She
will go nextyear to one of the most
interesting academic positions a
woman can hold and I think I speak
for us all in saying we are in a
confused state of pride, confidence,
good wishes and tears."
Miss McBride expects that her
new position will offer great oppor-
tunity for continuance of her work
in educational psychology. Al-
though she does not actively ar-
range the college curriculum, since
all the courses given are provided
by Harvard University, she is in
charge of placing students in their
classes. She will be free to give
attention to problems of individual
students. Radcliffe is anxious that
she also carry on her independent
investigation of brain alterations
and injuries due to accidents, which
she has been doing at the Union
Hospital in  Philadelphia.     ,
Radcliffe h*as an enrollment of
about 760 students, almost half of
whom are non-resident. This,
added to the already interesting at-
mosphere of Cambridge, gives the
college a university flavor. But in
spite of the many attractions which
Radcliff* offers, Miss McBride in-
tends to return often to Bryn Mawr
as a devoted alumna.
Crisis   Interrupts
Junior Year Abroad
Refugee Students Jam Liners
In Last Minute Evacuation
Of Americans
By Virginia Sherwood, '41
The refugees at Bryn Mawr seem
to fall, roughly, into two cate-
gories. There are those whose
summer vacations were brought to
a somewhat precipitous and nerve-
wracking end: they were trailed by
U-boats, lived in ther life-jackets,
slept in palm lounges, or almost
took the Athenia. Then there are
those who were obliged to cut short
a year of study,and either squeeze
themselves into whatever available
boat space could be procured for
them, or sit disconsolately upon
these shores, watching their boat
steam off towards Europe.
The problem confronting the di-
rectors of the German Foreign
Study Group was merely to liqui-
date all plans and cancel all pas-
sages. Virginia King and Martha
DeWitt never sailed, but Helen Mc-
lntosh was already in England,
and had to arrange her own pas-
sage back. Helen Sobol, who had
intended to go to the University
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WELCOMERS FADE
AS 164 FRESHMEN
HIT BRYN MAWR
Freshman Week this year turned
out far better for the freshmen
than for the Welcoming Commit-
tee. The committee was off to a
bad start as early as Tuesday
night when two seniors, mournfully
descending from the train were
greeted by the taxi-driver, "Ship-
ley?" There and then they realized
that preserving their dignity would
be a losing game. On Thursday
the freshmen, 166 strong arrived.
The committee turned pale.
It was soon to be seen that this
was an extraordinary class. They
didn't make the usual errors, and
Mr. Steele was chagrined when he
learned that two studentay^jltel-
ready mastered Arthur JBr rat.
In honor of this occasion, �t was
decided that the freshmen could
go to a square dance with Haver-
ford freshmen instead of with their
Student Advisers, a definite sign of
freshman precocity.
The upperclassmen tried a policy
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Goodhart Hall, October 3�In
her opening address of the college
year, President Park stressed the
importance of the method of rea-
son in approaching world problems
today. Through the study and
practice of this method, said Miss
Park, we can add our strength to
that of the active defenders of
civilization and face both the real-
ity of our campus world and an
outside world engulfed in war.
"Reason," Miss Park pointed
out, "is an advanced process to
which the human being turns with
effort, often not forwarded by the
impulse of emotion." A kind of
rood will is essential to reason
when it is used in arbitration be-
tween disagreeing powers or indi-
viduals. Should this good will pro-
vide the rational method with an
emotional impetus; should it rise
"to a passion for justice and
mercy; it can add shrewdness to
our initiative and boldness to our
attack, can perhaps beyond all ex-
pectation, forward the use of that
rarely used, so effective human
tool, the method of reason."
Hatred and fear, on the other
hand, are the emotions which for-
ward the use of force. Force is
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60 \b orkers Attend
New Summer School
About 60 students attended the
Bryn Mawr Summer School during
its first year at West Park, N. Y.
Most of the girls were American
born, but a Swedish leather work-
er and two English workers
attended. All three contributed
information about the labor con-
ditions in their own countries.
The campus consists of two
private estates, one belonging to
Miss Hilda Smith, former Dean of
Bryn Mawr, and another estate a
short way from it. Unfortunately,
the intervening property belongs to
a conservative landowner who
forbade the students to cross his
land, compelling them to skirt his
property in going from one half
of the campus to the other. He
also placed anti-labor posters on
his estate for those brave enough
to attempt to cross it. The resi-
dents of the surrounding com-
munity were also wary of the
school, but the workers won them
over by inviting them to an open
house party, and by explaining
their ideas and the purposes of the
school in a "living newspaper"
play.
The principal courses in the cur-
riculum were English, economics,
and the sciences. The economics
professors we�e all college instruc-
tors, among them Miss Mildred
Fairchild from Bryn Mawr. The
English teachers, however, had
previously taught in high schools.
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COLLEGE   CAXENDAR
Saturday, October 19. �
Undergraduate and M.A.
French Language Examina-
tions.
Sunday, October IS.�Rev-
erend T. Guthrie Speers,
Chapel, Music  Room, 7.30.
Tuesday, October 17.�Cur-
rent Events, Mr. Fenwick,
Common   Room,  7.30.
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