College News, 1941-02-12, Vol. 27, No. 13

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VOL. XXVII, No. 13
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941
Copyright, Trutteei of
Bryn   Mawr  College,   1�40
PRICE 10 CENTS
< ommiiiiilv .Work Conference
Sponsored by Three Colleges
Congressman   Jerry   Vobrhis MlSS Park Concludes
Of California to be     College Assembly Held
Main Speaker
A conference on Community
Work, sponsored by the Bryn
Mawr League, the Haverford Ser-
vice Project, and the Swarthmore
Service Committee, will be held
in Goodhart on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 15. The discussion will cen-
ter on the importance of commun-
ity work at the present time, with
emphasis on the value of work
done in college.
Miss Fairchild will give the key-
note address at the luncheon
which opens the conference in
Rhoads at 12:45. From 2:00 to
3:30 there will be commission
meetings in Goodhart. The com-
mission on adult education will be
led by "Miss Fairchild, and that on
group work in the community by
Miss Kraus. Miss Ambler, head
of the Social Workers of the Main
Line Federation of Churches, will
lead the discussion on case work
in the community, and Miss Jones,
Secretary of the Eastern County
Public Charities Association, will
lead that on social legislation.
Tea will be from 3:45 to 4:15,
followed by the main speaker at
4:30. Congressman Jerry Voorhis
of California, was elected to Con-
gress in 1936, and has been elected
twice since then. He is a graduate
of Yale, and is known for his
work as headmaster of the Voor-
his School for underprivileged
boys. At present a member of the
American Federation of Teachers,
he has had experience in many
kinds of work.
To Discuss Miss Bee
National Defense Forum
As the first talk in the
Forum on National Defense,
the Peace Council is spon-
soring an informal talk by
Miss Helen Arbuthnot of the
British Library of Informa-
tion on How English Women
Are Helping In National De-
fense, in the Common Room
on Friday, February 14, at
4.30.
Goodhart, February 11.�At the
third college assembly, The Case of
Miss Bee was presented by five
members of the Self-Government
Association. The hypothetical mis-
deeds of a hypothetical student
were outlined and discussed from
various angles to explain the con-
crete workings of the Self-Govern-
ment Board. At the conclusion,
Miss Park discussed the relation-
ship of the college to the Self-
Government Association.
Virginia Nichols, '41, President
of the Association, presented the
stark facts of the case. Miss Bee
signed out to the Covered Wagon,
using the initials of a permission-
giver whose permission she had
not asked. It was Sunday night
and she found the Covered Wagon
closed. Nothing daunted, Miss Bee
went to the movies in Philadelphia
without telephoning her change
of address. To cap her record of
crime, Miss Bee returned to college
45 minutes late.
Helen Mclntosh, '41, raised the
questions of the man in the street,
to express the division which may
be felt to exist between the Asso-
ciation and the Board, and to focus
the remarks of the other speakers
towards answering those questions.
The function of the permission-
giver was explained by Edith Vor-
Contlnued on Page Five
Combined faculties
Will Offer Courses
Calendar
Wednesday, Feb. 12.�
Vocational Committee, Isa-
bella Van Meter, Time Inc.,
Common Room, 7.30 P. M.
Peace Council, Helen Ar-
buthnot, Common Room,
4.30 P. M.
Saturday, Feb. 15.�
Basketbal   Game,  Swarth-
more, Gym, 10 A. M.
Bryn  Mawr  League  Con-
ference,   Goodhart   12.45-5
P. M.
Square    Dance,    Gym,    8
P. M.
Sunday, Feb. 16.�              ,
Memorial   services,   Good-
hart, 4 P. M.
Rev. Donald Aldrich, Mu-
sic Room, 7.30 P. M.
Monday, Feb. 17.�
Anne Howard Shaw Series,
Dr.  Ruth Benedict, Good-
hart, 8 P. M.
Tuesday, Feb. 18*---------------
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30 P. M.
Wednesday, Feb. 19.�
The  New  Peace,  Michael
Heilperin, Haverford, 8.15
P. M.
Beginning next fall, a series of
seminars for upperclassmen will
be offered by the combined facul-
ties of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and
Swarthmore colleges. The arrange-
ments will utilize more efficiently
the combined resources of the col-
leges' Political Science and related
departments.
During 1941-42, two undergradu-
ate seminars will be offered, which
will be limited to six upperclass-
men from Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford. In the first semester a
Swarthmore professor, taking the
place of the late Robert C. Brooks,
will hold at Haverford a seminar
in "Democracies and Dictator-
ships." In the second semester Dr.
Frances Reinhold Fussel, of
Swarthmore, will lead a seminar
in "Latin American Relations," at
Bryn Mawr.
Besides undergraduate seminars,
throughout the college year of 1941-
Contlnued on  Pas*  Five
First Shaw Lecture
� Given by R. Benedict
Goodhart, February 10. � Dr.
Ruth Benedict, Anna Howard Shaw
lecturer for 1941 and associate pro-
fessor of Anthropology at Colum-
bia, spoke on the Problems of An-
thropology. This lecture was the
first of a series to be given for six
successive Mondays on Human Na-
ture and Social Institutions. Dr.
Benedict will also conduct seminars
in the social sciences during this
period.
The study of anthropology began
in the nineteenth century when
men, impatient with theological
concepts of a static creation, fol-
lowed Darwin's evolutionary the-
ory and arranged human cultures
Continued 00 Fa�� �x
FIREMEN ATTACK DALTON BLAZE
Fire in Dalton
Attracts  Crowd
And Fire Brigades
Courtesy of 1941 Year Book
Keep U.S. Out of War
Debated at Congress
Of American Youths
Specially contributed
by Evelyn Hodes, '42
Six Bryn Mawr students at-
tended the American Youth Con-
gress in Washington, D. C, on Feb-
ruary 8 and 9. The convention
called by the American Youth Con-
gress, and attended by youth or-
ganizations from the whole na-
tion, discussed primarily keeping
America out of war, and the pres-
ervation of our civil liberties.
Chief among the spokesmen for
peace, was Congressman Vito
Marcantorio, who addressed six
thousand young people; and urged
strong, unified resistence to the
pending Lend-Lease Bill. Passage
of this bill, he stated, would inevit-
ably result in war for America.
The Congress also emphasized
the necessity for guarding civil lib-
erties. Speakers for organizations
like National Intercollegiate Chris-'
tian council; C. I. O., Southern
Continued on pace Six
College Conference
Draws Up Proposals
For Defense Program
Magnificent Work Done by
Janitors and Firemen
In Building
by Elizabeth Crazier, '41
On Thursday, January 23, a pro-
fessor and his wife went to Atlan-
tic City for a little excitement.
When they got back, Dalton was
in flames.
The clocks in Dalton stopped at
6.05. Helen Jupnik, Huff Fel-
low in Physics, and Anne Louise
Axon were working in labs at op-
posite ends of the basement�be-
hind closed doors. The wires were
shorted, which made the doorbell
ring. Helen Jupnik listened for
awhile, opened the lab door, saw
the fire, broke the fire box, got
Rosalie Hoyt from the first floor,
and then went to Denbigh to put in
the call, "which was answered
promptly and efficiently," said Miss
Gardiner, "by the Bryn Mawr Fire
Company and the Merion Fire
Company of Ardmore."
In the meantime, Anne Louise
kept hearing the bell, finally opened
the door, saw the smoke was so
thick that it was impossible to get
through, and went out the window
on the Pembroke side.
The fire started in the basement
in the physics department, and got
little beyond the first floor. Jean
Continued on Page Five
Last Thursday Miss Park and
Mr. MacKinnon attended a confer-
ence in Washington of the defense
committees of American colleges
and universities. The meeting was
sponsord by the National Com-
mittee on Education and Defense,
and attended, Mr. MacKinnon esti-
mated, by about five hundred col-
lege and university representatives.
Among the speakers at the general
session were Paul McNutt, of the
Federal Security Agency, who dis-
cussed the relation of civilian mor-
als to colleges, and Brigadier Gen-
eral Hershey, Executive Officer of
Guiton Gives Picture
Of War in  France
/
Cortlnued on Pa*e Two
Goodhart Common Room, Tues-
day, February 11.�M. Jean Gui-
ton, professor of French, who re-
cently returned from France, spoke
on his experience with the French
army and as a liaison officer with
a British division at the front, in'
Belgium, and at Dunkerque.
After a few months of "com-
fortable war" and training at a
liaison school in Abbeville, M.
Guiton was assigned to a British
division at Lille. Defenses were
erected as best they could be in the
face of bitter cold and a dearth of
supplies.
Continued on Pace Six
Henderson Finds Winter Issue of 'Lantern'
Provocative, Rewarding, and Full of Variety
Dr. Tennent
Services will be held at
four o'clock on Sunday, Feb-
ruary 16, in Goodhart Hall,
in memory of David Hilt
Tennent, Research Professor
of biology. Brief addresses
in appreciation of the work
of Professor Tennant as
a scholar, teacher and
member of the community
will be made by Miss
Park; Robert Ervin Coker,
President of the American
Society, of Zoologists and
Kenan professor of zoology
at the University of North
Carolina; Miss Gardiner, as-
sociate professor of biology;
and Surgeons of Columbia
University and former stu-
dent of Mr. Tennent; and
William G. Hower, former
owner and publisher of the
Bryn Mawr Home News.
Specially contributed
by Miai Henderson
Perhaps   the   first   impulse   of
other readers of The Lantern is^ttf
glance first at the table of cohtents.
j It is a sound impulse, and in refer-
ence to the Winter Number, a re-
warding one. This issue is not
made  by  staff production.    With
\ the exception of Hester Corner and
Frances Lewis, the editorial board
is at rest.   This is a good sign. It
I means the editor herself is on the
job.
To assume that there is not
enough material to fill four1 num-
bers of The Lantern in a college
of some 600 undergraduates, is edi-
torial defeatism. This has seem-
ingly been the assumption of edi-
Itorial boards in the past.    It may
! be that the standard was too rigid,
having an eye on exchange only; or
;v*-�
Abbie   Ingalls,   '38,   student
at- the College of Physicians�� it may have been lack of foresight
| in developing new writers.   What-
ever   the   reason,   this   year   The
Lantern is alive and varied in its
| contents.
This variety of material in the
! Winter Number is one of its more
winning   qualities.     Its   contribu-
tors range from the class of 1907
to 1944. Dean Schenck showed
that she could resist the cult of
TShffW 1n^l907 and turn a neat
triolet on the subject. And Dean
Manning's extra-curricular read-
ing must have been doughty stuff
if, as Olivia Kahn says in her fair-
enough editorial, the young writers'
style is the influence of "the liter-
ary genre they are following."
Already in 1907 and 1926*; Cor-
nelia Meigs and Bettina Linn were
top-notchers in fiction. Take an-
other look at Miss Meig's incisive
writing in Pugnacious Pride, and
note as well Miss Um!s owl-like
observation of Alumnae Week-End
in Three on the Campus. Was it
really 1907 and 1926? It might be
1941.                                         -
And this year of grace gives us
a story, Drawn from Life by Syl-
via Maynard, 1944, which for at-
mosphere and motivation seems as
good a freshman tale as I have
read for some time. There is a
particular pleasure in the
emergence of Miss Maynard be-
cause she is a freshman. There
Continued on Pace Biz