College News, 1940-10-09, Vol. 27, No. 02

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VOL. XXVII, No. 2
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940
Copyright, Truitees of
Bryn   Mawr  College,   1940
.PRICE 10 CENTS
Activity Fund Needs 5500 Dollars
To Cover Bryn Mawr Projects
Refugee Fund Adds to Sum
Every Student Asked
To   Aid  Drive
The Activities Drive will begin
Monday and last until Thursday
night. Repeating the experiment
of last year, campus organizations
will pool their demands for funds
and    attack    the    undergraduates
once instead of heckling them with
separate drives carried on through-
out the whole year.
The goal to be reached this year
is 5500 dollars. This lump sum
will satisfy all the needs of the
Bryn Mawr League (including the
Bryn Mawr Camp and the Bryn
Mawr Summer School), the Peace
Council, the Players' Club and the
Refugee Student Fund. To raise
#this amount every student will be
asked to give 11 dollars (amount-
CorMnuea on Pare Two
Vogue is Presenting
Prix de Paris Again
To Aspiring Seniors
This year Vogue is offering its
Sixth Prix de Paris to any.member
of the graduating class of 1941 in
a United States College or Uni-
versity which grants a recognized
A. B. or B. S. degree. The prizes
include two careers with Vogue, a
special Vanity Fair award for fea-
ture writing and cash prizes for
the five best contest theses�to be
purchased for publication in
Vogue.
Each entrant must fill out an
entrance blank to be mailed im-
mediately, or later with the an-
swers to the first quiz. The con-
test will consist of two parts, first
a series of four quizzes to be an-
swered by all entrants; second, a
thesis which only those entrants
who receive passing marks on the
four quizzes are eligible to submit.
Papers will be graded on these
points: Clear and vivid writing,
originality of ideas, fashion knowl-
edge derived from a study of
Vogue, and general information.
The judges of the contest will be
the Editors of Vogue. Their deci-
sion will be final. The winners of
the Prix de Paris will be an-
nounced on or about June 1, 1941.
Entry blanks may be 'obtained
from  Madge Lazo, Rhoads South.
Nichols and Hutchins
Discuss Labor School
Virginia Nichols and Charlotte
Hutchjns spent this summer as-
sisting the staff of the Hudson
Shore  Labor  School.     The school.
once located on the Bryn Mawr
campus, has been, for twenty years,
offering courses to woman workers.
But the school is not an academic
one. Its entire emphasis is in
breaking down the barriers of
prejudice, in gathering and ap-
plying information, in stimulating
clear thinking and in making de-
mocracy meaningful.
The prevalent spirit of the
school was a spontaneous sense of
co-operation, of practical demo-
cratic living. The workers were
drawn from all over the country
and from Canada as well. Many
industries, many opinions, many
religions and races. were repre-
sented. Experience and back-
ground varied; ages ranged from
twenty to thirty years. Some of
the girls had never gone to high
school. One attended law school
at night. On the whole, about 50
per cent were union members, and
50 per cent were members of
Y. W. C. A.'s.
Science, English, economics,
journalism and public speaking
were taught, all by means of dis-
continued on Page Six
Miss Rice Continues
Work With Quartet
Miss Helen Rice, warden of
Rhoads Hall in '38-'40, has returned
this year to direct the string
quartets which she organized two
years ago. She will be at college
each week from Sunday till Tues-
day, and will be staying in room
24, Rockefeller. Last Sunday at
ten-thirty Miss Rice and five stu-
dents played in Goodhart for the
fust time this year. These infor-
mal Sunday morning concerts will
be continued all winter.
On Mondays and Tuesdays Miss
Rice will have practice groups for
players of varying ability. The
most outstanding addition to the
group this year is Judith Stephen,
an English graduate student, who
plays the oboe. The ensemble will
play on Saturday night of the
Alumnae Week-end.
Calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 9.�
Miss Fehrer, Wyndham,
7.30 p. m.
International        Relations
Club, Common Room, 7.30
p. m.
Saturday, Oct.  12.�
French Oral, 9.00 a. m.
Sunday, Oct.  13.�
Rev. Erdman Harris, Mu-
sic Room, 7.30 p. m.
Monday, Oct.  14.�
Willkie Rally: Oren Root,
Jr., Samuel Ewing, Vir-
ginia Sherwood, '41, Good-
hart, 8.00 p. m.
Tuesday, Oct. 1,5.�
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30 p. m.
Northrop Points Out
The Inconsistencies
In Willkie's Speeches
Failure   to   Offer^   Substitute
For New Deal Program
Is Attacked
Common- Room, October 7.� In
her talk on The rtew Deal and
Business, Miss Northrop declared
that Mr. Willkie could be attacked
for la*k of content in his speeches,
inconsistencies in his attack on the
New Deal, and failure to offer a
substitute program. Taking sev-
eral of Mr. Willkie's campaign
speeches in turn, Miss Northrop
analysed the candidate's stated at-
titudes toward business, agricul-
ture, labor, and defense.
The Los Angeles speech was de-
voted mainly to the problems of
taxation. Though no worse than
those of previous administrations,
the New Deal tax structure, said
Miss Northrop, is, confused, is
made up of different tax laws, and
Continued on Pace Three
President Park Emphasizes Need
For Faith in the Civilized Life
Willkie Rally Promises
Oren Root and Noise
The   Bryn,  Mawr  Willkie   Club
wishes to announce a rally to be
held in Goodhart Hall, on Monday,
October 14. The rally will be re-
plete with everything anyone could
ask for. At approximately 7.40 a
torchlight parade will wend its
noisy way around the campus with
the able assistance of Haverford
and of the famed Bryn Mawr band,
which has enhanced countless Pa-
rade Nights and May Days. The
procession will wind up in Good-
hart Auditorium.
At eight the rally will convene
officially with three speakers, Oren
Root, Jr., founder of the Willkie
for president movement, Samuel
Ewing, vice-president of the Young
Republican Club of Pennsylvania,
and Virginia-Sherwood, '41. After
the speeches the floor will be
thrown open for questions. It is
hoped that Bryn Mawr undergrad-
uates will turn out in droves. Will-
kieites will hear their beliefs and
opinions clarified and enlarged up-
on. Rooseveltians will be given
the opportunity to ask questions or
throw old tomatoes if they choose.
Whether you plan to cheer or boo,
come and join in the fracas.
Translations Become Weird and Wordy
As the German Oral Rolls Around Again
*
By Agnes Martin, '43
As it is now technically autumn,
everything from the weather to
the intellect should be cool and
keen. But autumn has seemingly
not yet come into her own on the
Bryn Mawr Campus, for, last Sat-
urday when the German Oral was
taken,-there were distinct traces of
the lazy, stupefying days and ways
of summer. The deteriorating ef-
fect of these traces is clearly evi-
dent in the following translations
of various passages on the Oral.
For example, the feather episode:
"By chance, he noticed on the
skin of a new born a feather which,
according to the division of the
groups, had to come from a fowl or
an eel. He attempted to deter-
mine by hand from books the origin
of the feather." However, "it
could not be determined certainly
about what there was concerned in
this case for a feather."
Or a description of that insect
pest:      ____
"The second highest confirmation
is full of importance, that^here
are small speaking insects which
may be found in the higher at-
mosphere between 500 and some-
times 2500 miles, and even pos-
sess small wings," "only one small
wing," according to some interpre-
tations. They are "inexpressibly
small injects (length not over 3-to
4 mm.") "and to be sure, such as
these fly only around in rings."
But "the_fixation is difficult that
the insects are separated in banks
or one-celled clouds."
Or finally, general discrepancies:
"Only at ai height of 5000 mfles
does one find true organic matter."
But there seem to be exceptions:
"Grasshoppers are found from
1000 to 1500 meters high." "We
ourselves are, at a height of 5000
meters, regular organic matter."
And then there are the "birds and
insects which populate the lower
layers of the aft as spontaneous
Continued on Pace Fir*
Faculty to Present
Series of Lectures
On Science History
The History of Science will be
the topic for a series of eight lec-
tures beginning October 21. This
experiment in the coordination of
the sciences is being sponsored
jointly by the Curriculum Commit-
tee and the Science Club. If the
meetings are successful, the series
may become the basis for an elec-
tive course in next year's curricu-
lum.
The faculty members of the
various science departments are
enthusiastic about the experiment
and have worked out a plan where-
by the talks will follow a very
definite order proceeding from the
inorganic to the organic to the
abstract sciences. The lectures
will be held at 7.30 p. m. in the
minor biology room on the second
floor of Dalto'n and will be fol-
lowed by informal discussion.
Miss Wyckoff will give the first
talk Monday, October 21, on%he
origins, of field geology. On Oc-
tober .28, Mr. Dryden will present
the geological evidences of evolu-
tion. Miss Gardner will speak
about genetics on November 7, Mr.
Crenshaw about early chemistry
on November 11 and Mr.* Doyle
Continued on Pace Two
Proceeds of  Benefit
To Aid Great Britain
A Bryn Mawr benefit on a large
scale will be held on October 30.
The proceeds will purchase a Brit-
ish ambulance unit, to bear the
name of the college. The substance
of the benefit is as yet but a mys-
terious shadow. It does promise,
however, to contain attractions of
a musical nature.
The benefit will be held in ac-
cordance with the plans of the
British - American Ambulance
Corps. These have already been
met by the overwhelming enthusi-
asm of many American schools and
colleges who wish to help fill this
critical need~of the British nation.
Students Must Understand
Democratic Methods
Clearly
Goodhart Auditorium, October 1.
President Park, in her address at
the opening Chapel of the fifty-
sixth academic year of Bryn Mawr
College, spoke of the necessity of
maintaining, in these times, our
belief in the civilized life. Practi-
cal action must be taken: we must
"act quickly to prevent such civil-
ization as we now have from dis-
appearing at the hands of the to-
talitarian group of states"; but we
must, with equal determination,
"sharpen our minds to work over,
to strengthen and to broaden our
only road to our only end�the
processes of democracy."
We have returned to a college
improved in facilities and in op-
portunity, but we cannot stand
apart from the events which have
brought our country to the edge of
war. To those for whom the civil-
ized life is an ideal, democracy of-
fers only a procedure which will
bring about "a certain desired and
desirable kind of life" for our-
selves and others. The totalitarian
states also employ processes, but to
a different end�an  end  which  is
Continued   on   Pace  Five
Undergraduate Board
Stresses Point Rule
The Undergraduate Association
Board feels that the function of
its Point Committee is a necessary
one and should be explained at the
beginning of the college year.
Under the point system, approved
by the college, no student may
hold offices exceeding forty points.
No exceptions will be allowed
this year although a few have been
made in the past. By such rigidity
in the rule, undergraduates will be
able to avoid embarrassing situa-
tions arising from a misunderstand-
ing of the system. Ill health and
inefficient work brought on by too
many activities will also be
avoided. The chart showing the
number of points for each office
may be found in the Freshmen
Handbook.
Freshman Horde Descends on Bryn Mawr;
Quickly Develops Precocious Individuals
Class Elections
The senior class" takes
great pleasure in announcing
the following elections:
Helen Mclntosh, president;
Ann Harrington, vice-presi-
dent and treasurer; Babs
Black, secretary.
By A. M. Ellicott, '42
Last week a verdant freshman
approached a member of the wel-
coming committee, and asked with
deference and humility where she
could find some seniors. The wel-
comer answered with customary
upper-class frankness, "I'm terribly
sorry, but there aren't any. They
have all graduated." She was
quite right. And in their place, a
horde of newcomers has descended
upon the campus and has an-
nounced that they are the class of
1944.
They arrived en masse on Thurs-
day, looking much too frivolous to
be Bryn Mawr students. One
wandered dreamily into a smoking
room the first evening and asked,
"Do you think I can really get
along without sex until Thanks-
giving?" Another was overheard
to remark to a companion, "Do you
see all those naked seniors? Vogue
says that you must wear knee-
length socks.'.'
Some, however, were ready to
learn. One, standing in Rhoads'
main hall, carefully inquired the
direction,    and    the    distance,    to
Rhoads North. Another was
found quietly putting herself to
bed one night by flashlight. She
thought it was against regulations
to keep lights burning after ten-
thirty.
Some freshmen are showing a
tendency toward pernicious pol-
itical practices. One stationed her
young and very engaging brother
at the door of the Dean's office,
primed with a pocketful of Willkie
buttons, which he thrust upon all
comers. A Roosevelt partisan re-
fuses to debate the issues; she
flourishes a Landon badge instead,
as the most subtle form of devas-
tation she can think of.
Ginny Nichols has made a pro-
found impression on the fresh-
men. One was indignant when her
Hall President asked her if she
was signing out correctly. "Sure,"
she said, "That braided dame gave
me permission."
On the whole the freshmen have
absorbed the Bryn Mawr philoso-
phy remarkably well. One, hit the
crux of them all. "Shall we," she
said, "be only casual, or should we
be really messy?"