College News, 1941-02-26, Vol. 27, No. 15

              The College News
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VOL. XXVII, No! 15
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941       OgwrHJ!L�* Tggj*�� ?'      PRICE 10 CENTS
Poll of Campus
Shows Approval
Of Land-Lease Bill
Large Number of Students
Show Ignorance of Bill
In   Congress
In an attempt to bring the Lease-
Lend Bill to the attention of the
student body, and to sound out
campus opinion on the war situa-
tion, the following poll was taken:
Are you in favor of the Lease-
Lend Bill?
If yes�is it because�
a.  Want to declare war today?
b.  Believe aid short of war
possible?
c.  Lend-Lease   Bill   makes   it
possible   for   America    to
avoid war?
d.  British victory essential to
world democracy and our
aid vital to British victory?
e.  Aid  to  Britain now  essen-
tial to U. S.?
If no�is it because�
a. Measure leads to war?
Continued on Page Three
KITTY McCLELLAN
Peace-�ouncil Brings
Mayor of 'Time' Staff
To Give Defense Talk
The Peace Council is presenting
a talk by Brandtz Mayor of the
Washington staff of Time Maga-
zine, on Friday evening, February
25, at 8 o'clock in the Common
Room. Coffee will be served at
7.45.
In a recent letter to Helen Resor,
Mr. Mayor said: "Nobody knows
what our military defense problem
is because nobody knows if, or
where, or when we are going to
fight. If we are to engage the en-
emy in the jungles and mountains
of Guatemala, we don't need tanks.
If we are to battle them across the
Texas plains, we don't need skiis.
If Alaska turns from Seward's ice-
box to Roosevelt's hell-hole, we may
find very little use for mechanized
divisions.
"If America wanted an arena
show reminiscent of the ghoulish
exhibition of lions eating Chris-
tians, it can be had by putting A.
A. Berle, Maxine Eccles, Carter
Glass, Jerome Frank, and a couple
of other economists in - a sealed
room with instructions to agree
about our financial future before
they come out."
On the strength of this let^r
Rhoads is having a contest to see
who can come closest to guessing
the physical characteristics of Mr.
Mayor^_
Views of College
Here, Own Ventures
Told by 2 Refugees
By Agnes Mason, '42; Barbara
Cooley, '42
"When I lived in Vienna," said
Mr. Ernst Waldinger, "I always
thought no weather could be worse;
but then I came to Philadelphia."
Mr. Waldinger, a Viennese poet
and socialist, is now a member of
the Friends' Refugee Group in
Haverford. Although he finds the
weather so uncongenial, both he
and Mrs. Hilde Narmorck, also of
Vienna and Haverford, enthused
over the advantages of American
life.
Between the spring of '38, when
she left Vienna, and this fall, when
she arrived in New York, Mrs.
Narmorck has lived successively in
Czechoslovakia, Paris, and Mon-
temban in unoccupied France.
Montembam, before the armistice,
was a village of 38 inhabitants.
Overnight it mushroomed to a pop-
ulation of ten thousand, as Belgian
and French civilians and soldiers
fled before German invaders. Barns
were used for living quarters, "and
one morning," said Mrs. Narmorck,
"I looked in and saw a nursery of
babies sleeping in the manger."
Mrs. Narmorck is attending Mile.
Bree's 17th century French litera-
ture   course,   Miss   Gilman's   19th
century  French   class,  baby   Ger-
man  with  Mrs.  Jessen,  and  Miss
Marti's first year Latin, where she
jwas   delighted   to   hear   one   girl
i compare a story by  Livy with  a
I modern movie.    She  is  impressed
by      the    , relationship      between
i professors   and   students   possible
[under the American system.    She
I finds the educational standards in
[both  schools  and  colleges  equally
high    with    those    abroad.      Ex-
perienced   in   teaching   in   Vienna
and     Paris,    she     is     attending
classes   and    studying    American
methods in preparation for teach-
ing in this country.
Mr.   Waldinger  hopes   to  teach
German literature  and  is getting
the   American   approach   by   fre-
ContInued on rune Four
HELEN RESOR
Scenery, Lyrics
Rhymed Dialogue
Star In Tantasia'
�
1944 Reveals Professional
Art; Neat Device Seen
In Dream Theme
Duties Performed
By Self-Government
President Reported
JERRY CATRON
Junior Class Offers
College 4 Candidates
For Self'Government
The Junior class has nominated
Kitty McClellan, Helen Resor, Jan-
et, Dowling, and Jerry Cation to
candidacy for President of the Self-
Government Association. The lists
of their past college activities are
as follows:     ________________'
1 Kitty McClellan
Kitty McClellan is a candidate
for president of the Self-Govern-
ment Association. She is Hall
President of Denbigh this year, and
Chairman of the Sub-Freshman
and Student Guide Committee.
She has done League work at the
Community Center in Haverford
since her Freshman year. She was
a Freshman member of the Ath
Continued on Page Two
By Joan Gross, '42
Goodhart, February 22. � 1944
certainly showed, .us how to dream.
Gertrude Lawrence has nothing
on their frustrations, and Kaufman
has nothing on their production.
For the Freshman Show was a
very professional piece of enter-
tainment. It did not have to rely
upon the familiarity of its audience
The President of the Self-Gov- for lau�hs' or uPon the sympathy
eminent Association is the head of of its aud>ence for informal stage-
the executive board which sees that,ing' Its 'J^* were wel1 sun* and
the rules of the Association are iclever: its dialoK"e was amusing
carried out. The President is re- jand easily rhymed. The show was,
sponsible for the routine of the' in fact, a real extravaganza (as
board and shares with the board j advertised), complete with illumi-
responsibility for the judgment- ^ backdrop> rhumba choruses>
passed on  individual cases.                  ..          ... , .          ,        .     .    ^-
The   President   must   check   all|ag,le  �P���K�>ts,  and  profess.eflaT
make-up.
signing put slips and also weekend
slips every*week.    Meetings  with
The theme of the play centered
the hall presidents and with the around the dream of a glamor-de-
executive board must also be he^ nied Freshman. As a device, the
weekly   and   all   the   "Miss   B.'s"
whose cases are serious are seen
by the President of Self-Govern-
ment before presentation to the ex-
ecutive board. She is responsible
for keeping the Self-Government
Association in touch with the Col-
lege Administration. The College
Council is one of the avenues by
which this contact is made.
The  most  serious  responsibility
dream neatly drew a stream of
Bryn Mawr institutions into the
night-club atmosphere. The Fresh-
man simply falls asleep over the
anatomy of Lobster, and when the
curtain rises on the next scene, she
has plunged into the delightful
realm of "Some Hotspot on the
Great White Way." The dream
she dreams is full of lobsters, Miss
of the  Self-Government  President | Petts>  ihe  conga(  scotch,  campus
is that of passing judgment.    She j notables   and   men.     Undoubtedly
is the one who always has direct |the material of Bryn Mawr dreams.
personal contact with Miss B. and
reports her case to the board. Miss
B. can herself appear before the
board.    The board makes the final
decision, but the case presented by
the   President   should   be   in   the
truest possible light.
The library scene was a high
send off. The four Freshmen,
Goodin, Hemphill, Lazo and Tap-
pen, set a lively pace for the epi-
sodes that were to follow. The
bedroom  scene   was  gay   and   fa-
CiiiiiiimwiI   on   Pa�e   Four
Freshman Show Fun Continued in Dances
With Gay Decorations, Prizes and People
By Marguerite Bogatko, '41
After the /Freshman Show last
Saturday night the spirit of merry-
making continued in Pembroke,
Rockefeller and Merion Halls. Al-
together there- were four dances
going on on campus at the same
time. In Merion the dance was
distinguished by a record attend-
ance of eighteen stags and twenty-
two couples. The decorations were
simple but striking and consisted
mostly of white carnations and
jonquils against the background of
the Merion showcase.
In Rockefeller, it was George
Washington's Birthday with red,
white and blue balloons and red
and white carnations.    There was
a very large stagline, and to liven
up the proceedings there was an
elimination   dance   and    a   lucky
number dance complete with prizes.
Two unattractive youths in mufti
i (allegedly from Penn) sat around
| waiting to be snatched up by the
i eager stagline, but they finally got
discouraged by the lack of enthusi-
asm and left.
The Pembroke dance was more
successful artistically than it was
financially. The decorations were
all blue and white and were based
upon balloons, crepe paper, and
posters from . Freshman shows,
past and present. There was not
much of a stagline, but there were
quite a few couples.
Calendar
February  26�
Dr.    Frances    R.    Fussel,
Legal  Principles   and   the
Next Peace, Roberts Hall,
8.15 P. M.
February 28�
Brandtz Mayor, National
Defense, Common Room, 8
P. M.
March 1�
German    House    dance,
buffet supper, 6.30.
March 2�
Hampton Quartet, Dean-
ery, 5.00 P. M.
Philosophy Club, Dr. Ed-
gar Singer, The Function
of Art, Common Room, 3
P. M.
March 3��
Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict.
Anna Howard Shaw Me-
morial. Socializing the
Child, Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.
March 4�                        '
College Assembly, Good-
hart, 10 A. M. Current
Events. Miss Reid, Com-
mon Room, 7.30 P. M.
March 5�
Basketball game with Uni-
versity of Penn. 4.00 P. M.
Dr. Benjamin Gerig, The
Institutional Framework,
Roberts  Hall,  8.15  P.   M.
Sophomores Battle Freshmen Over Animal;
\    Desire to Destroy True Motive of Action
By Barbara Herman, '43
Last Wednesday, ostensibly for
the purpose of torturing the fresh-
men into revealing the animal, but
in reality urged on by a primitive
desire to wreak havoc and destroy
property, the Sophomores in
Rhoads began a four day reign of
terror.
The first night was the most vio-
lent. One freshman, inspired to
grim retaliation by the state of her
room turned on her radio full
blast, locked her door and disap-
peared. Frantic Rhoadsians were
seen wandering up and down the
halls in all states of undress cry-
ing forlornly, "For God's sake, won't
somebody turn off that radio?"
while hordes of Freshmen roved
around hooting defiantly.
However, the spirit of battle was
soon exhausted by order of the
Dean, and in the following nights
the now lamb-like Sophomores in-
dulgently settled down to concoct-
ing amusing games for the ex-
pectant Freshmen. Chairs were
spirited out of people's rooms and
poetic clues were placed around to
help the Freshmen in their search.
Pictures of the Freshmen's men
were taken and a Mr. Rhoads Hall
of 1941 contest was held in which
curiously enough the picture that
won first prize was a surrealist
drawing completely incomprehen-
sible to everyone.:.
The last night the dresser draw-
ers were exchanged and one poor
Freshman found the drawer with
all her underwear under a sofa in
the'smoking room.     Her  problem
became acute since she was unable
to get the drawer back into her
room while her male guest was
there, and she didn't want to leave
it in the smoking room for the edi-
fication of other visitors.
Friday night in a fit of despera-
tion two Sophomores, at three in
the morning, pulled out their first
year psychology notes and tried to
hypnotize the sleeping Freshman.
The only response they got was "Is
it a chicken?" "Yes." "Is it a
lobster?"    "Yes."
That the Freshman finally be-
came inured to the whole thing is
proved by the fact that a Yale polo
cap belonging to one Freshman
rested on the head of M. Carey
Thomas' statue in the library for
three days before she even discov-
ered it was gone.
Intne other halls the most con-
spicuous forms of heckling were
putting things like oysters and on-
ions in people's shoes. A model
young Freshman was locked in a
room with several cans of beer,
which significantly or not were
empty when they let her out and a
Sophomore was baptized by the con-
tents of a coco-cola bottle.

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