College News, 1940-11-05, Vol. 27, No. 06

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The College News
VOL. XXVII, No. 6
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1940
Copyright, Truittea/of
Bryn   Mawr  College,' 1940
PRICE 10 CENTS
Students Give
Cheque to Hare
For Ambulance
Program    Features    Music
Of Beethoven, Grieg
And Hindemith
Goodhart Hall, Wednesday, Oc-
tober 30.�The Undergraduate En-
tertainment Committee sponsored
a very successful benefit perform-
ance on behalf of the Bryn Mawr
College Ambulance for Great Bri-
tain. Five artists and a group
from the Academy of Vocal Arts
kindly contributed their services.
Mr. Hare, the head of the British
American Ambulance Corps in
Philadelphia, was present, and
during the course of the evening a
cheque for the amount of 1050 dol-
lars was handed to him, to pay for
the ambulance which will be sent
in the name of Bryn Mawr College.
An extra 300 dollars will be raised
outside the college to pay for the
upkeep. A widely applauded sur-
prise was the announcement of a
second cheque of 1350 dollars, con-
tributed anonymously by a member
of the college faculty and his wife.
This will supply another much-
needed ambulance for Great Bri-
tain.
The musical programme was long
and varied. Hindemith's "There
and Back," a modern comic fan-
tasy, was the most unusual selec-
tion offered. It was presented by
the group from the Academy of
Vocal Arts. The action progressed
from a sneeze to a murder to a
suicide and then reversed from a
suicide to a murder and ended up
with a sneeze. The music had a
rather symmetrical rhythm which
fitted in with the actions of the
characters, but the fantasy lacked
melody, the singing jbeing more in
the nature of a recitative. The
brass instruments predominated
throughout, lending to the surreal-
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Dialogue and Staging
Feature in Latin Play
Dunklee Rollicks With Spirit;
Caricatures, Burly Slaves
Win Audience
By Alice Meigs Crowdcr, '42
Goodhart, November 2. � The
Latin Play, ably directed by Miss
Lake, moved to a swift and ingeni-
ous conclusion with superior cos-
tumes, scenery and properties. The
play had a tendency to drag largely
because of the absence of the usual
Gilbert and Sullivan music and the
inaudibility of the players. The
dialogue in which the usual forced
gutter slang was replaced by allu-
sions to present day interests such
as the campaign and the little man
who wasn't there appealed strongly
to a receptive audience.
The play which was neatly trans-
lated from Plautus into modern
English by Louise Allen and Eliza-
beth Frazier, both '42, gained from
simplification of complicated side
plots and extra characters usually-
Keen in the .traditional production.
The plot chosen turned upon the
necessity of exposing a prodigal
son's misdeeds and extravagances
to his rich father who had returned
unexpectedly from a shipwreck.
The actors accepted this chal-
lenge. Their performances were
good although perhaps unjustly,
the most highly caricature per-
formances were forced into great-
est prominence. Dorcas Dunklee,
'42, as a city slicker, informer, and
hanger on, carried the burden of
sustaining the rollicking spirit of
the play and coordinating its vari-
Fashion Fellowships
Offered  to  Seniors
First College Assembly Seeks
Our Responsibility in Freedom
Speakers Cover Various
Aspects    of    Problem
L. Allen, '1,3, R. Sprague,  'il
ous parts with energy and pre-
cision. She handled a difficult
part with great ingenuity of detail
and Stole the show with her seem-
on the. altar.
The Vost outstanding caricature
was thataf Anne Denny, '43, as a
squeaky voiced, pale old man.
Vivi French\42, as the father, let
the action inl her biggest scenes
drag, but she showed great finesse
in details such as her greeting to
the old man and her side acts
played on the stage steps. The
Bronx accent and absurd gestures
of Rosemary Sprague, '41, the per-
sonal maid of the heroine won
their share of laughs.
The entrance of the burly slaves
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Deanery Concert
Felix VVinternitz will give
a series of three concerts at
the Deanery during the next
two weeks. He will play six
Bach Sonatas for solo violin.
The program on Thursday.
November 7, at 8.30 includes
the Sonata in B minor, No. 2
and the Sonata in G minor,
No. 1. On Sunday, NovemV
ber 10, at 5 p. m., he will
play the Sonata in C major,
No. 5 and the Sonata in D
minor, No. 6, and on Wednes-
day, November 13, at 8.30,
the A minor Sonata, No. 3
and the Sonata in D minor,
No. 4.
Bryn Mawr Heads
Attend Conference
To Discuss Problems
Workers, Maids Help
On Living Newspaper
The Living Newspaper play on
civil liberties will be given Novem-
ber 15 at 8.30 in the Gym. Every-
one is invited to participate and a
large audience is desired. There
will be no charge, and only four
rehearsals.
Three scenes will be done by
workers from Germantown. One
scene will be motley, consisting of
a mixture of everybody wlio parti-
cipates. There will be lots of good
songs, sung by the maids and
porters and members of a colored
choir from Germantown, and like
last year there will be a connect-
ing voice.
The Tobe-Coburn School for
Fashion Careers, Rockefeller Cen-
ter, New York, is again offering
Five Fashion Fellowships to mem-
bers of this" year's senior class,
each Fellowship covering a year's
tuition of 700 dollars. The win-
ners in last year's class were from
che University of Indiana, Oberlin,
Wellesley, The University of To-
ledo, and the University of Colo-
rado. Eighty percent of that class
had positions waiting for them at
graduation, and the School is con-
stantly receiving requests for their
graduates that it is unable to fill.
Members of the senior class who
wish to apply must mail registra-
tion blanks and answers to the first
test questions to the School on or
before December 10. One more
set of test questions and a research
project will complete the work.
Announcement of the awards will
be made April 25. Pamphlets con-
taining; complete information, with
registration blanks and test ques-
tions, are available in the office of
the Bureau of Recommendations.
Work Camp Planned
For Draft Objectors
Speaking at Haverford College
Robert English, secretary of the
Young Friends' movement, spoke
of a week-end work camp for boys
and girls which will start on Octo-
ber 25. The Wharton Settlement
House where the work is to take
place is in the heart of the negro
district of Philadelphia, and most
of the work will be allotted to
�leaning up slums in this neighbor-
hood.
The camp starts every Friday at
6 P. M., and lasts until Monday
morning at 7 A. M". This plan is
designed for people who are forced
to work during the week. Time
will be divided between work, dis-
cussion, and study.
Details may be obtained by writ-
ing to Robert English, 1515 Cherry
Street, Philadelphia.
Calendar
Wednesday, Nov. 6.�
Vincent Shean, PertotuU
Vincent Sheean, Personal
m.
Thursday, Nov. 7.�
History of Science (Miss
Gardiner), Dalton Hall,
7.30 p. m.
Felix Winternitz, concert
at Deanery.   8.30 p. m.
Saturday, Nov. 9.�
Rockefeller Hall Dance, 9-
1 p. m.
Sunday, Nov. 10.�
Philosophy   Club   Meeting,
Common Room, 4 p. m.
Chapel,     Rev.    C.    Leslie
Glenn,   Music   Room,  7.30
p. m.
Felix Winternitz, concert
at Deanery.    5 p. m.
Monday, Nov.  11.�
History of Science, Mr.
Crenshaw, Dalton Hall,
7.30.
Tuesday, Nov. 12.�
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common  Room, 7.30 p. m.
Wednesday, Nov: 13.�
Felix   Winternitz,   concert
at Deanery.   8. 30 p. m.
Bryn Mawr was represented at
the five-college conference held at
Wellesley November 1 and 2, by-
Miss Park, Mrs. Manning and Miss
Gardiner. Other colleges sending
delegates were Wellesley, Smith.
V'assar and Mount Holyoke. The
purpose was to learn what other
colleges are doing about entrance
and curriculum requirements, out-
side lecturers and daily work. "It's
for pooling ideas, not deciding
things,"   Mrs. Manning said.
The conference couid find no dif-
ficulties in the present system of
admission to colleges, nor deter-
mine any workable substitution for
the Junior Year abroad.
The experiences of the colleges
in the five- and six-day week
differed. Our week is divided into
live classdays, and as a result
Wednesday afternoon is overloaded
with classes that would otherwise
meet on Saturday. Vassar, which
also has wly a five day week, di-
vides the extra day's sessions be-
tween Tuesday, Thursday and Fri-
day afternoons.
Wellesley has not eliminated the
sixth day, but has proportioned
classes between all six. In Smith
the six-day week has worked well
since everyone, including faculty
and advanced students, has two out
of the six days free.
When the language require-
ments were discussed, the delegates
vacillated between having none at
all, or two as at Bryn Mawr. All
agreed that the requirement should
be finished quickly so that the stu-
dent will be able to use the lan-
guages in her work.
Goodhart Auditorium, Monday,
November ith. � Responsibility in
Freedom was the subject of the
Student Assembly held this morn-
ing. Mary Meigs, '39, Instructor in
English, Louise Morley, '40, secre-
tary of the International Student
Service, Susie Ingalls, '41, Virginia
Nichols, '41, Catherine McClellan,
'42, and Margaret Shortlidge, '41,
were the speakers.
Charlotte Hutchins, '41, presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation, introduced the speakers,
explaining that the purpose of the
assembly was to challenge the au-
dience to consider for themselves
the meaning of democracy, freedom
and responsibility. We are, both
faculty and undergraduates, part
of an academic experiment. Miss
Meigs declared. In college we are
being trained under the best scien-
tific conditions, but "unlike real
guinea pigs, who can only transmit
their superior qualities to poster-
ity, we have a conscious responsi-
bility." We are an i/wspecialised
class and make our judgments
"with no commitments." It is our
duty to keep our freedom of choice.
As we listen and acclaim truth
Where we hear it, we must not cftn-
vince ourselves that defeat of one
party means that truth will be lost.
Freedom of expression, and an
individual's responsibility under it,
were discussed by Susie Ingalls,
'41, Editor of the College News.
In wartime this freedom is threat-
ened by censorship, and we must
realize that its denial is dangerous.
We must work not only to preserve
freedom of expression, but to fulfill
our responsibility to it by main-
taining intact our liberty of draw-
ing conclusions from the material
which it offers us.
Virginia Nichols, '41, president
of Self-Government, examined fur-
ther the relationships between re-
sponsibility and freedom. To know
responsibility, we must truly evalu-
ate privilege. We must cease to
accept its existence casually, and
must beware of thinking that it is
an inheritance of inalienable rights.
�Privilege confers responsibility,
and "assists us to translate abso-
lute freedom into terms of a free-
dom which does not interfere with
the freedom of others." As the
balance between right and privi-
lege is struck, responsibility is cre-
ated and cannot be denied.
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Bryn Mawr Varsity Downed 3-0 in Fast
Game With Beaver; B. M. Second Victorious
Thursday, October 31.�Beaver's
Varsity topped Bryn Mawr at 3-0
in the fastest game Bryn Mawr
has had this year. The visitors
fielded and controlled the ball so
well and had such a determined
spirit that there was no beaming
them. Bryn Mawr took the offen-
sive many times and flew around
the field with a great deal of en-
ergy, but their usual team work
could not be seen under fire from
the superior Beaver team. All
through the game Beaver had the
upper hand and the three goals
were made by the team as a whole
as well as by the forwards' pre-
cise shooting ability.
Bryn Mawr                  Beaver
Weadock....   R. W........Kichl
Jones........R. I......Williston
Stokes^.*,.�  CU-F,   ..*...Worrel
Ma'tthai...... I. I. .....:. Searle
Howard..... L. W......Weaver
Perkins......R. H.........Price
Waples...... C. H.  ... Hopkinsop
Schweitzer___   L. H.......Alleii
Resor.......   R.   B.......Harris
Fulton......    L.   B......Stewart
Denny........   G...........Hill
Thursday, October 31.�The Bryn
Mawr Second Team blacked out
the Beaver Reserves with a 6-0
score. Bryn Mawr's forward line
took the lead early in the game and
made excellent triangle passes down
the length of the field, the goals
being made by four different play-
ers. Beaver retaliated with a few
spectacular single spurts, but the
star players were not backed up by
the team, so that the score was
completely one-sided for Bryn
Mawr.
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