College News, 1941-03-19, Vol. 27, No. 18

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VOL. XXVII, No. 18
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941          affiffiwr Voiffit? foo    PR*CE 10 CENTS
President Park
Gives  Talk   On
Educational   Aim
Curriculum Board �
^Suggests A Revision
In Schedule of Work
Education    Must    Prepare
Women for Problems
Of Today
Academy of Music, March 17.�
In an address at the presentation
of the Philadelphia Award to
Marian Anderson, Miss Park dis-
cussed one of the fundamental pur-
poses of education for women.
"Education should prepare the
young human being for civilized
living," and one way to do this, said
Miss Park, is by an eight year
period of formal learning.
The increased complexity of mod-
ern society necessitates something
more than the hit or miss educa-
tion given to girls a hundred years
ago. In 1941 we find that we are
unable "to answer successfully the
major routine problems of civilized
living," and it is for this that the
younger generation must be train-
ed. Girls, as well as men, will be
faced with baffling problems in the
years to come. High school and
college education must give them
reliable preparation.
A girl must learn "a certain set
of facts and a certain set of tech-
niques because she is going to be
her children's mother," and she
must also learn a set of facts and
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The New Schedule
Friday afternoon classes
have been adopted for next
year because:
Cooperation with Haver-
ford and Swarthmore make it
necessary for our classes to
meet every other day, follow-
ing their system.
Saturday classes, which are
alternative to Friday after-
noons, were discussed, and
finally rejected by the fac-
ulty.
The Curriculum bulletin
board in Taylor, presents de-
tails.
Common Room, March IS.�At
the open forum on curriculum held
by the student Curriculum Com-
mittee, both faculty and students
discussed .,the problems of Thanks-
giving, long papers, mid-years, and
quizzes. To help solve the last
three problems, the committee pre-
sented a new schedule for the year.
Feeling that mid-years make an
1 unnatural break in the year, that
they invariably occur at the time
of the most illness, and that the
two-week period of mid-years
might better be devoted to inde-
pendent work, the committee has
laid out a plan whereby mid-years
are replaced by a two-week read-
ing period at the end of February.
Under this plan there would be a
week of quizzes before each vaca-
tion, and three hour finals in June.
The reading period would be a time
when students could write papers,
upperclassmen could do extra work
in   their   major  fields,   and   there
| would be more conferences and
seminars with the faculty.
One of the chief objections to
this plan, that a first semester
course would have no final exami-
nation, Mrs. Manning thought
could be settled by having one year
courses the norm, and one semester
courses followed in the next term
by another similar one. The prob-
lem that the final examination
would be too comprehensive could
be resolved by having the student
responsible for only general knowl-
edge of the first half year's work.
Other objections made were that,
unchecked, the reading period
might become a "glorified vaca-
tion," and that if, as the commit-
tee proposed, faculty checked up
on the students during that time,
the conferences might become too
much like oral examinations.
About Thanksgiving the commit-
tee, expressing what is generally
felt to be the undergraduates' opin-
ion, proposed that either it should
be made a vacation, or all students
should stay at college. The fran-
tic coming and going was thought
to be more demoralizing than a
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Hedgerow Repertory Theatre is Organized
As Leading Co-Operative Actors' Community
The Hedgerow Theatre was
started in 1923, when Jasper
Deeter rebelled against Broadway
methods and gave up a promising
career to start what has since be-
come the foremost repertory thea-
tre in America. The last Eighteen
years at the theatre have been the
story of a dictator overthrowing
himself.
The theatre began in the old
community center in Media. The
first summer, Mr. Deeter brought
friends down from New York on
week-ends to give plays with the
valley people. Gradually he es-
tablished a permanent company of
resident actors, but all the man-
aging and directing was in his
hands. During the last five years
Mr. Deeter has worked just as
hard giving authority to other
members of the company as he
worked in the beginning directing
them.
A board of twelve now chooses
the plays, and takes turns directing
and casting them. There are now
twenty-seven resident members
who are all supported wholly by
the box office returns. They live
in a large house near the theatre
and do all the house work as well
as the more menial stage tasks.
Most  of them  have  been   at  the
Hedgerow at least five years. They
operate in much the same way as
a Brook Farm, with box office re-
turns being used first for stage
equipment, royalties and costumes,
then for food�"sometimes we're
reduced to eating turnip greens,"
one member of the cast said." The
personal needs and pleasure of the
players are paid for if there is
any money left If one of the
company wants to go to New York
for a week-end, he looks in the
treasury; if there's enough money,
he goes, if there isn't he thinks of
a cheaper amusement.
Because the theatre does not be-
lieve in the star system, the actor
who plays Hamlet one night, may
be moving scenery the next, and
playing a comedy bit part the next.
Maurice Minnick, who plays Bill
Walker in Major Barbara, once
heard, as he walked onto the stage
in the first act, a voice from the
first row whisper loudly, "There's
the man who parked our car."
The repertory includes 144 plays
of which about twenty-five to thirty
are played a year. These plays are
by ninety-four different authors
and thirty-three have had their
world premiers and eleven others
their American premiers at the
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Calendar
March 20.�
Mabel Williams, Oppor-
tunities for Women in Li-
brary    Work,   Common
Room, 4.30 P. M.----�-------
Forum on Housing, Com-
mon Room, 8.30 P. M.
March 21 and 22�
Mercury Theatre Produc-
tion, Julius Caesar, Cloth-
ier Memorial Hall, Swarth-
more College, 7.30 P. M.
March 22.�
Aquacade, Gym, 8.15 P. M.
March 23.�
Music    Service,    Goodhart
Hall, 8 P. M.
Dr. Winifred Cullis, Eng-
.   land  Organized  for   War,
Deanery, 4.30.
March 25.�
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30 P. M.
March 26.�
Phyllis Bentley, In Eng-
land Now, Roberts Hall,
Haverford College, 8.15
P. M.
New Official Reveals
Turmoil of Past Life,
and Wandering Major
Alice Crowder, the new Vice-
President of the Under-Graduate
Association, comes from Winnetka,
Illinois. She went to a progressive
school there, and learned all about
the cow who started the Chicago
fire.
Seemingly so well prepared for
modern life, Al came to Bryn Mawr
and emptied a vase of water out
her window while Miss Woodworth
was passing below. Freshman year
she worried about water and Wood-
worth and windows; the rest of the
time she has been worrying about
her major. Politics is wonderful
and history is wonderful and Eng-
lish is wonderful and biology is
wonderful.
Al finally decided on history.
But, "I long for the dogfish and the
cat. Especially the cat," says
Alice.
After almost being a biology
major, Al hurt Miss Gardiner's
feelings by spelling "planaria" in-
correctly in a News writeup. She
wrote Miss Gardiner to apologize
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Dr. Cullis to Talk on
Organization of War
Sunday afternoon, March 23,
President Park will give a tea in
the Deanery for Dr. Winifred
Cullis who is to speak on "England
Organized for War."
Contact was made with Miss
Cullis, who has been in the Far
East on a mission for the British
government, through Major Cum-
mins of the British Library ot New
York. Miss Cullis is on her way
back to England, but, on the invi-
tation of the American Association
of University Women, she will re-
main in �he United States until
May 6, when she will speak in Cin-
cinnati at the biennial meeting of
che Association.. She was past
president of the International Fed-
eration of University Women as
well of the British Federation of
University Women. Miss Cullis is
professor of physiology at the Uni-
versity of London and lecturer at
the London School of Medicine for
Women. Besides being chairman
of the Educational Committee of
the English-Speaking Union and
of the Education Panel of the
British Film Institute, Dr. Cullis
was for five years chairman of the
Adult Education Committee of the
British Broadcasting Company.
Classes Choose New Nominees;
Elections To Be Held Next Week
Entertainment,  Undergrad
And Self-Gov Offices
Described
Elections will be held next week
for the secretary and treasurer of
the Undergraduate Association,
secretary and treasurer of the Self-
Government Association, and head
of the Entertainment Committee.
The duties of these various offices
are as follows:
Chairman of the Entertainment
Committee
The chairman of the Entertain-
ment Committee works with a
group of hall representatives. The
committee is in charge of schedul-
ing entertainment events and next
year may start a Speakers' Bureau
to co-ordinate lectures. It will de-
cide whether or not there will be
an entertainment series. The
utilization of the week-end in con-
junction with the full five day
academic schedule will next year
double the present activities of the
committee.
Secretary  of the  Undergraduate
Association
The secretary of the Undergrad-
uate Association keeps the minutes
and the records of that organiza-
tion. She takes care of all corre-
spondence, is chairman of the un-
dergraduate Point Committee, and
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erience   of  Candidates
In Previous Offices
Reviewed
Propaganda Methods
And Trade Relations
Stressed by Lozada
Common Room, March 16.�In
December and January, Senor En-
rique de Lozada, professor of Po-
litical Science at Williams College,
returned to South America for the
first time in two and a half years.
"The most important changes I no-
ticed," he said were a tremendous
rise in Anti-Semitic feeling, which
had been practically non-existent
before, and an increasing self-con-
sciousness of their economic prob-
lems in relation to the large powers
of the world.
The anti-semitic attitude, Senor
de Lozada explained, was most
prevalent in Bolivia because the
biggest influx of Jews is concen-
trated there. Because they have
had no previous agricultural train-
ing they congregate in the cities
setting up small businesses. This
not only creates serious problems
of housing and increases compe-
tition, but it overbalances the eco-
nomic structure which is dependent
on exports because these shop-
keepers consume but create noth-
ing exportable.
Three years ago only the oblig-
archial families whose position de-
pended on the concept of blood su-
periority were interested in Nazi-
ism; all other leaders were vio-
lently opposed. Today through the
anti-semitic temper of the middle
class merchants all groups are
drifting toward fascist concepts.
By this method of hatred, Nazi-
ism is penetrating to the masses.
Continued on Pare Six
Beau Geste
In addition to the pins and
lapel buttons now on sale in
the Bookshop for the Greek
War Relief, a doll, donated
by Elaine Pulakos, will be
raffled off on May Day. It
is a handsome man doll, a
Greek soldier. Come and try
your luck.
The nomination of candidates for
five college offices was completed on
Monday, March 17. As candidates
for chairman of the Entertain-
ment Committee, 1942, nominated
Margot Dethier, Sheila Gamble,
Agnes Mason and Mary Brooks
Hollis.
The sophomores put up Caroline
Culp, Barbara Sage, Betty Wells
and Selma Rossmassler for secre-
tary of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion and Teresita Sparre, Mildred
McLeskey, Florence Kelton and
Frances Matthiai for secretary of
the   Self-Government   Association.
As candidates for teasurer of the
Undergraduate Association, the
class of 1944 nominated Louise
Horwood, Dora Benedict, Mary
Ellis arid Ann Heyniger; for
treasurer of the Self-Government
Association, Jean Brunn, Diana
Lucas, Mary Stewart Blakely and
Lois Mason.
Margot  Dethier
Margot Dethier was on the enter-
tainment committee this year and
was also second Junior member of
the Undergraduate Association. As
such she was chairman of the
Dance Committee. She is also on
the Freshman Guide Committee.
For three years she has been in the
choir, and she has had leads in the
Gondoliers, Iolanthe, and this year
will have one in the Pirates of
Penzance. She was song mistress
for her class Freshman and Jun-
ior years. She has been on the
basketball squad three years and
is this year on the varsity team, as
well as being manager of the
squad.
Sheila Gamble
Shelia Gamble was one of the
group which arranged the founding
of the Entertainment Committee
last spring. She has been on the
swimming team Freshman and
Sophomore years and the sec-
ond semester of this year. She
spent the first semester of her
Junior year at Radcliff College.
Continued on Pace Four
Wyncie King's Work
Highlights Exhibition
An exhibit of contemporary car-
toons was presented at the Art
Club tea on Sunday, March 16.
General opinion acclaimed Garrett
Price's domestic scene from the
New Yorker ("Hannah, you give
Mr!* Jorgeson right back to
Helen!"), and the familiarly styled
drawings of Wyncie King. In ad-
dition to light cartoons, subjects
such as the spider web meshes of a
ticker tape vary Mr. King's con-
tributions.
The exhibit of original drawings
was obtained from a group of car-
toonists in New York City, headed
by Milt Groth.
Fred Balk's two-handle saw (one
forester to another: "Am I keeping
you awake?"), is typical device-
humor, while Baron Davis' "Did
anyone ever tell you, Mr. Mul-
vaney, that you look just like Lin-
coln" is more than a cartoon. With
its effective handling of contrast,
its atmosphere is Lincolnesque
down to the eyes of the bloodhound.
Milton Caniff's popular Terry
of the Pirates gets his innings in,
too, as do the pudgy characters of
Dr. Seuss, and the Thurberish
beings of Colin Allen.