College News, 1940-12-18, Vol. 27, No. 11

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College News
VOL. XXVII, No. 11
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940
Copyright, Trueteei of
Bryn   M�wr College.   1940
PRICE 10 CENTS
Series Offers
Alec Templeton
On January 13th
Pianist - Composer, Satirist
To Present Parodies
And to Improvise
Alec Templeton, blind pianist and
composer, will be presented by the
College Entertainment Committee
on Monday, January 13, at 8.30 in
Goodhart Hall.
Besides being; a concert pianist,
Mr. Templeton is a composer, im-
proviser, and musical satirist as
well. Many of his improvisations
are composed on the spur of the
moment when members of the audi-
ence suggest three or four titles
with which to work. Mr. Temple-
ton then weaves these different
melodies together in such a way
that the result is musically perfect,
while at the same time each sepa-
rate tune remains entirely recog-
nizable.
Mr. Templeton has appeared as
guest soloist with the Detroit, Chi-
cago, Grand Rapids, Kansas City,
and Pittsburgh symphony orches-
tras. Mr. Templeton is dlso pre-
sented on the radio program Alec
Templeton Time.
Relief Work Sewing
To Start January 6
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The Undergraduate and League
Room in Goodhart is to be used
as a work room for Red Cross
and British Aid sewing, to be open
on Monday and Wednesday after-
noons, from three to five; on
Thursday evening from seven-thir-
ty to ten, and on Friday morning
from nine to twelve. Those in
charge will be there this week, but
work will begin officially on Janu-
ary 6 after the vacation. So far,
garments have been going over-
seas steadily, and are being sent
to England, Finland and Greece.
Immediate need of voluntary work-
ers it great
Anyone who has an offer of help,
a question or a suggestion, is asked
to communicate with Miss Cor-
nelia Meigs, Library, first floor.
Vocational Lecture
Mrs. Gladys P. Berenguer
will speak on Opportunities
for Women in the Federal
Civil Service in the Common
Room at 7:30 on January 9.
Mrs. Berenguer is a member
of the Examining Division
of the United States Civil
Service Commission.
D. Niefield Outlines
CIO Stand on Labor
And National Defense
Common Room, December 16.�
David Neifield, of the Philadel-
phia Retail and Wholesale Em-
ployees' Union, spoke on the C. I. 0.
position on Labor and National De-
fense as it was keynoted at the At-
lantic City Convention. The meet-
ing was sponsored by the A. S. U.
Mr. Neifield reviewed the resolu-
tions of the convention which cov-
ered the following problems: La-
bor's determination to protect its
rights as the nation embarks on a
program of national defense, la-
bor's endorsement of democratic
principles, and its plans for a cam-
paign to organize unorganized
workers in such plants as Ford and
Bethlehem Steel.
In its stand on national defense,
the C. I. 0. declared itself fully
prepared to discharge our obliga-
tions to the defense of this coun-
try but holds that any defeat of
labor's civil rights, or any retreat
from the standards gained by labor
in recent years is equivalent to a
defeat of national defense. To
labor, a program of national de-
fense includes social security, Mr.
Neifield said, and if the social
needs of the people are overlooked,
it becomes a program of profiteer-
ing and repression of rights.
Mr. Neifield outlined John L.
Lewis' criticism of the present de-
fense program, in which Lewis
stated that the nation had shifted
to a war economy administrated by
representatives of corporate indus-
try and finance. Lewis held that
unless "sound economic measures
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Maids and Porters
Hold Gayest Dance
The Maids' and Porters' annual
dance, held last Friday night, was
honored by the second appearance,
anywhere, of Tommy Shjppen's
band, called The Fifteen Dreamers.
Whittaker, Denbigh's porter and
leader of the porters' quartet, also
plays the bull-fiddle in this local
orchestra, whose music is de-
scribed as "magnificently hot,''
The dance was acclaimed as the
best ever held. The gym was deco-
rated with blue and yellow stream-
ers and the floor was superb. Only
one incident marred the festivities
�the end of a streamer got un-
fastened and fell to the floor. A
girl on the balcony above nobly
seized the other end and began to
wind it up, only to discover that
someone below was reeling in his
end in an equally frantic fashion.
Sing Me a Song of Social Significance,
Or There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding
By Marguerite Bogatko, '41
Twenty years ago this very pre-
Christmas week, a fancy dress
dance in Pembroke was crowning
the annual Bryn Mawr Christmas
revels. The Varsity hocky team
crushed Baltimore in an 11-2 vic-
tory and the "Reeling and Writh-
ing" club was being addressed by
Robert Frost
Leonardo Terrone was lifting the
gentle art of fencing from "a de-
teriorated and jerky exercise" to a
thing of grace and poetry over in
the gym. In the New Book Room
Hugh "Wftlpole's latest novel, The
Captives and Edith Wharton's Age
of Innocence had just been put on
the shelves and down in the Bryn
Mawr theatre Blanche Sweet was
appearing in Unpardonable Sin, to
be followed by Beatrice Joy in
Invisible Divorce.
For the first time in college his-
tory the question of limiting week-
ends was being raised and people
were saying that one of the nice
things about Bryn Mawr used to
be that it was free from "petty
rules and restrictions" and that
there was scope for "self-determin-
ism on the part of every student."
All of which makes one think it's
a pretty small world dfter all.
Two members of the class of 1924
were preparing for a Freshman-
Senior Tea.
First Freshman: How many lem-
ons shall we get?
Second Freshman: How many
seniors are there"?
Calendar
Thursday, Dec. 19.�
Christmas parties and
Carol singing.
Friday, Dec. 20.�
Monday, Jan. (>.�
Guess what?
Tuesday, Jan. 7.�
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7:30.
Thursday, Jan. 9.�
Mrs. Berenguer, Opportu-
nities for Women in the
Federal Civil Service,
Common Room, 7:30.
Monday, Jan. 13.�
Alec Templeton, Goodhart,
8:30.
Tuesday, Jan. 14.�-
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7:30.
Fine Concert Given
By Bryn Mawr with
Haverford Glee Club
Goodhart, December 15.�The an-
nual Christmas service was pre-
sented this year by the combined
choirs and instrumentalists of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford, conducted by
Ernest Willoughby� The sermon
was delivered by the Reverend Ern-
est C. Earp of the Church of the
Redeemer in Bryn Mawr.
The choirs exhibited excellent co-
ordination and unity of tone, par-
ticularly in the Lo How a Rose
E'er Blooming of Praetorius and
Hush my dear, lie still and slumber
arranged by Martin Shaw. The
selections from Bach's Christmas
Oratorio lacked articulation of the
different parts although on the
whole the singing displayed skill
and spirit.
The instrumentalists of the two
colleges, who have been coached
during the past few weeks by Miss
Helen Rice showed promise of be-
coming a well-integrated group. It
is to be hoped that such a combined
orchestra will become a permanent
fixture of the two colleges.
Goodhart Opened on Week-End
Nights; Approve 5-Day Schedule
Impending Problems
Of Inflation Control
Considered by Hardy
Common Room, December 13.�
In his talk on War-Time Control
of Prices, Charte* 0. Hardy, of the
Brookings Institute, discussed the
problems involved in price control
when economic war production has
reached a point of full plant ca-
pacity, and employment, and when
prices have begun to rise as a re-
sult of scarcity of resources or bot-
tlenecks in production. Mr. Hardy
also commented on opinions current
in Washington concerning the na-
ture of recent economic trends, and
the tendency of influential econ-
omists to describe this trend as a
period of secular stagnation rather
than a cyclical depression.
CorMnuea on Pmse Two
French Nativity Play
Generally Acclaimed
Delightful Tradition
By Alice Crowder, '42
Against trellised pines the an-
nual French Christmas pageant
was charmingly enacted in Wynd-
ham Music Room, Friday night.
Its success lay in its achievement of
the note of simplicity for which the
informal relation of cast and audi-
ence, and the lack of sophistication
in the play itself were an excellent
medium; its small failures lay in
the unevenness of acting, costuming
and pronunciation.
The stylized simplicity and sin-
cerity in acting required for such
a type of drama was caught and
maintained by Louise Classen, '42,
as the Virgin, who set the pace of

the play. The other members of
the cast varied from this interpre-
tation. Vivi French, '42, as the
central figure, King Herod, and
Janet Dowling, '42, as Joseph, out-
did themselves in trying to present
realistic characterizations. In do-
ing so, although their .attempts
were entirely successful, the con-
tinuity of the simple tone was
broken. The shepherds, Judy Breg-
man, '42, and Betty Marie Jones,]
'42, and to some extent the three
wise men, Mimi Boal, '42, Virginia
Erickson, '41, and Lorean-Adele
Pirrung, '43, perhaps erred in the
other direction in making their
characterizations little more than
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Christmas Vacation
Proves Work Period
For Many of Faculty
Christmas Vacation for most
minds on the campus means a
period of rest and pleasant decay,
but not for certain members of
the faculty who, during the com-
ing holiday, will preside over and
contribute to many meetings of
research societies.
In Baltimore, at the Archaeo-
logical Institute of America, from
the department of classical archae-
ology, Miss Swindler will speak on
"The Goddess in Upraised Arms,"
and Mr. Carpenter will speak on
"A Statue of Medea in the Poly-
platan Manner" and, later, on
"The School in Rome." Hetty
Goldman, a graduate student, will
read a paper on "The Origin of
the Greek Hermes."
In Chicago at the Political Sci-
ence Association convening from
December 27-30, Mr. Wells, pro-
fessor of political science, will
speak on "The Future of Local
Government in Rural America."
Mr. Broughton, professor of Latin,
will preside over the Romaic his-
tory section of the Historical As-
sociation meeting in New York,
December 28.
In Boston at the meeting of the
Modem Language Association,
Miss Lograsso, associate professor
of Italian, will speak on "Pierro
Maroucelli," and at the same meet-
ing, on December 26, Miss Cohn,
instructor in German, will speak
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Maids and Porters
Carol for Campus
The Maids and Porters' Glete
Club followed their usual route
on Tuesday night singing Christ-
mas carols. First they went to
the Infirmary at 8:30. After that
came tangerines at Wyndham,
chocolate at Miss Park's, coffee at
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, candy at
Rhoads, handkerchiefs at Rocke-
feller, nuts at Pembroke, apples
at Denbigh, oranges at Radnor,
and the finish at Merion with hot
chocolate and sandwiches. The
quartet sang, and the Glee Club
sang many new spirituals, includ-
ing: Mary Had a Baby, Glory to
the Newborn King, and Peter, Go
Ring Dem Bells.
A new precedent was established
as the Glee Club broke its itiner-
ary to sing for the poor, over-
worked News board in Goodhart.
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Station Wagon is Bought
By Athletic Assn.; Rush
For Its Use Begun
Use of Goodhart on week-ends,
a full five-day schedule, and a sta-
tion wagon were the new projects
discussed  by  the  College  Council.
From now on, the Common Room
arid the^May Day Room will_be
open to undergraduates until 12
p. m., on week-ends. This new plan
will fill the frequently expressed �
desire for some place to go other
than movies or a dance floor, and
the newly-repaired Capehart and
radio should act as powerful draw-
ing cards. Cooking on the -gas
ranges will also be possible.
The suggestion of a six-day week
with classes on Saturday has been
carefully considered this fall by the
faculty. The arguments in favor
of such a system would be the relief
of Wednesday tension and a better
distribution of classes with regard
to conflicts and overcrowded days.
The faculty turned down the six-
day plan in favor of a revision of
the present schedule so as to make
full use of the five-day week. The
new schedule will be posted some-
time during the second semester
and will go into effect next year.
The main group of classes will
come on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday mornings.    The  other  se-
ContInued on Paire Three
Peace Council Plans
To Aid Many Causes
The Peace Council has proposed
its budget for the year. It asks the
campus to remember that many of
the services the Peace Council pro-
poses to sponsor are maintained al-
most exclusively by colleges and are
the kind of services which tend to be
ignored in war-time. Students who
have criticisms or objections are
asked to sign a paper posted on
each hall bulletin board for the
purpose. The budget must be re-
vised if 20 per cent of the campus
disapproves.
The proposed allocations are as
follows: International Student
Service, 150 dollars; Far Eastern
Student Service, 100 dollars; (a *"
pamphlet describing these organi-
zations more fully is posted on the
Peace Council Bulletin Board);
China School, run by a Bryn Mawr
graduate, 100 dollars; Friends
Service League, 200 dollars; Red
Cross, 25 dollars. Allotments to
special groups are: English Ambu-
lance Fund, 150 dollars; Philadel-
phia Community Chest, 25 dollars;
Allied Jewish Appeal, 25 dollar*;
and to the Committee bringing
Spanish refugees to Mexico, 25
dollars. Finances are needed to
transport nationalist refugees in
France who .have been permitted
by the Vichy governmont to sail
from France to Mexico, which will
accept them.
Dr. Fenwick
During February and
March there will be a six
weeks' recess of the Inter-
American Neutrality Com-
mittee, of which Dr. Fenwick
is the United States repre-
sentative. It is possible that
during this leave of absence
he will be able to return to
Bryn Mawr and give a lec-
ture on Latin-American re-
lations and the work that he
is doing.
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