College News, 1942-02-25, Vol. 28, No. 16

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The College News
VOL. XXVIII, No. 16
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1942
Copyright,   Trustees  of
Bryn   Mawr   College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Weiss Delineates
Pacifism Despite
World Militarism
Stresses Ethical Argument
As   Justification   of
His   Opinion
Archaic Committees
Eliminated by Board
Of Undergrad Ass'n
Common Room, Thursday, Fehru-
nry 19.�" 'Pacifism' and 'militar-
ism' are not antagonistic opposites
but more or less facets of the same
thing," said Mr. Weiss, speaking
to the Philosophy Club on Why I
am Pacifist. After sketching -the
limitations of the religious, the
cynical, and the sentimental argu-
ments in support of pacifism, Mr.
Weiss pointed out the greater de-
gree of justification contained in
the ethical argument. According
to the latter view, society is di-
vided in order to work at bringing
about, at the same time, both im-
mediate and longer range changes.
The two functions are almost of
necessity combined in every indi-
vidual, but the militarist, in so far
as he is a militarist, is primarily
concerned with the immediate, the
pacifist with the long range.
�    War Continuous
War, said Mr. Weiss, is merely
I'ontinued  on   Page   Four
With the purpose of eliminating
archaic committees, of bringing the
chairmen of the most vital commit-
tees into the policy-formation, and
of enualizing the responsibilities of
the class representatives, the Un-
dergraduate Association Board at
a meeting, Tuesday February 24,
rearranged the structure of the or-
ganization. The principal changes
made were in the transference of
the duties of the Entertainment,
Usher, and Common Room Com-
mittees to the junior members of
the board and of the Cut to the
Employment Committee.
In the future the first junior
member will be the social chairman
of the campus, arranging college
dances and tea dances, planning
activities for week-ends, managing
the projected social room in Good-
hart and working in close coopera-
tion with the second junior mem-
ber, who will be in charge of sched-
uling and ushering. The manage-
ment of monitors and of the cut
system will become part of the job
of the Employment Chairman, who
now appoints student employees.
The chairman of the Subfresh-
men Committee, the Curriculum
Continued on rage Six
Calendar
Thursday,  February 26
Spanish Club Tea, Mr.
Donald Watt, C o m m o n
Room, 4.00 P. Hi
Modern Dance Recital of
Bryn Mawr, Cheney Col-
lege, University of Penn-
sylvania Groups, Goodhart,
8.30 P. M.
Friday, February 27
Anna Howard Shaw Lec-
ture. Manley 0. Hudson,
The Attempted Proxcri/>-
tioii of II" a r, Goodhart,
8.30 P. M.
Saturday,  February 28
Varsity   Basketball.     Bryn
Mawr     vs.     Swarthmore,
Gymnasium, 10.00 A. M.
Sunday, March  1
W. H. Auden, Readings
From Chinese Poetry, The-
atre Workshop, 4.00 P. M.
Red Army Invades Goodhart Hall;
Sophomores Vanquished by Dove
Pretty Girls, V for Victory, and Air Raid Shelters
Merge With Hitler and Devils in Obscure Symbolism
Matthai, Boal, Rossmassler, Sage Nominated
For  President  of  Self-Government   by  '43
The Junior class has nominated
Frances Matthai, Mimi Boal, Sel-
ma Rossmassler and Barbara Sage
to candidacy for president of the
Self-Government Association.
The president of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association is responsible
for the conduct of the student
body. She must pass judgment on
all cases of violation of the rules
of the|Association and must her-
self, in the more serious cases, es-
tablish contact with the miscreants.
In other cases her contact is
through the ...< mber of the execu-
tive board and the hall presidents
in weekly meetings at which she
presides.
The college activities of the can-
didates, who are listed in the order
nominated, are as follows:
Frances Matthai
Franny Matthai is now secre-
tary of the Self-Government Asso-
ciation of which she was treasurer
in her sophomore year. She is a
member of the Curriculum Commit-
tee, of the Players Club, the Glee
Club and Choir. She has been on
the varsity hockey, basketball, and
tennis teams since her freshman
year. She was secretary of her
Freshman class. She has directed
lighting for several productions
since her Freshman year, when she
was in charge of lighting for the
Continued cr   Pace Three
Book Shop Payment;
Entertainment Debt
Taken Up bv Council
The February meeting of the col-
lege council dealt chiefly with
problems of the Entertainment
Committee and Pay Day. The
$800 deficit incurred at the Dor-
othy Maynor concert has made the
Undergraduate Association feel
that at Bryn Mawr, where thea-
tres and concerts are so available,
and where schedules are apparent-
ly so heavy, there is little demand
for expensive entertainment in
Goodhart. It was recommended
that instead of arranging in ad-
vance an elaborate schedule of
speakers and musicians, the Enter-
tainment Committee plan for
events as they present themselves.
Plans must now be made to clear
the deficit, especially if the other
entertainments arranged for the
year, the Schola Cantorum and
Marian Anderson, are also going
to be financial liabilities.
The new Pay Day, with the Inn
and Book Shop bills omitted, while
relieving the Pay Day mistresses,
has increased the Book Shop's
troubles. 170 students failed to
meet the deadline set for paying
bills. A committee is to be formed
to discuss a solution for this prob-
lem�possibly a student bank, or
some sort of deposit system.
The idea for a big spring enter-
tainment has collapsed more or less
through lack of support from the
Players' Club and the Glee Club.
A late start and vagueness of ma-
Conlinuecl on Page Three
By Nancy Evarts, '43
Goodhart. February ,.'/.� 1945
accented Lore, Fret and Cheers
heavily on the last syllable. For
the Freshman Show, with Hitler
for a villain, an air-raid shelter
'for the first scene and a dove for
the class animal, was timely, and
moved swiftly at a noticeably mili-
tary pace as a victorious red army
invaded Goodhart. But the audi-
ence, bouncing happily to the pi'p-
py songs and dance routines, was
a little worried about who was who
and what was what, arvway??
Agile (lancing and vigorous sinn-
ing, competentNiirection and elabo-
rate productionV'ould not entirely
compensate for the lack of coher-
ence in the show. The dialogue
was flat. There was no discernible
plot; instead there was a series of
unrelated incidents, climaxed by
the totally irrelevant appearance
of Hitler and six devils on the
Bryn Mawr campus (.1' 1946. Such
startling lack  of unity  must  have
Music Needs Thought
Says Mile. Boulanger,
Renowned Conductor
New Colored Slides
Discussed by Sloane
In Art Club Lecture
SELMA ROSSMASSLER
Library, February '.I. � Mr.
Sloane, at the request of the Art
Club, showed some of the colored
slides which the Art Department
has acquired in the last two years.
Paintings were chosen from among,
the works of a few masters of the
centuries from the 13th to the
present.
Mr. Sloane commented briefly
upon the 20 slides shown, stating
the century, the artist, and the
subject or title of each painting*
designating styles and the particu-
lar characteristics of the artist.
He stated that colored slides are a
recent form of enjoyment> fof only
in the last few years has color
photography become accurate. An
association called the Colored
Slides Cooperative is responsible
f6r these slides. Its \y�rk has been
confined to pictures in American
Continued on Page Five
Goodhart,   Music   Room,   Febru-
ary Si.�Mademoiselle Nadia Bou-
langer   did   more   than   speak   on
"Some Aspects of Twentieth  Cen-1
tury   French   Music."     Sparkling j
with enthusiasm and charming ex-
pression,  she  set  the  audience  o"
the edges of their chairs with her!
ideas on the philosophical implica-
tions of the art.    "We must think)
about   music,"   she   said;   "'Word
without thoughts never to heaven
go'  is  a  saying especially  applic-j
able to music."
As Mr. Alwyne pointed out in
introducing the speaker, no one is
more capable of speaking about |
contemporary French composers.
Mile. Boulanger was the head of
the composition department of the
�cole Normale in Paris and of the
Conservatoire in Fontainbleau, and
was made a Chevalier of the Le-
gion d'Honneur for her contribu-
tion to French culture. In Ameri-
ca she has taught and sponsored
the fiour foremost contemporary
composers, Aaron Copeland, Roy
Harris, Walter Piston, and Roger
Fessions.
In her lecture, she did not simply
account for influences and trends
nor did she speak much of the
well-known composers. The spirit
of the modern French react;on
against the nineteenth century,
and of the yet unknown artists
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I made Aristotle turn over in his
I grave, and the audience can hardly
I be  blamed  for its  bewilderment.
The songs and dances, not the
story or dialogue, were particularly
memorable, especially in the first
act, where Lydia Gifford, Louise
Brace, Jerry Real and Francois�
Pleven proved a melodious quartet
;of bridge-players, and" where the
martial precision of the Grand
High Army almost stopped the
show. That there was little era-
i phasis on dialogue is perhaps all to
the good in a Freshman show; but
j the audience roared at the inter-
pretation of pseudo-air-raid in-
structions and was delighted at the
prospect of Jackie Wilson's becom-
ing a hat-check girl at the Nassau
Tavern.                          _.
All of which distinguishes a show
already distinguished by the vital-
ity and excellent direction of its
complicated dances. Especially ef-
fective were those of the Army and
the one contrasting the movements
of the Devils and the Pretty Girls
in the second act. Another high
point was the costumes, especially
those of the Pretty Girls, who made
the last act an effective spectacle.
Characterization was at a mini-
mum. Jean Franklin, as Hitler,
exhibited a magnificent goose step,
while Pat PlatOfas Miss Lanman,
and Mary Louise Field, as Made-
moiselle Bree, gave a very good
impression of the originals. These
were the only successful faculty
imitations. Alice Macdonald as the
Junior Class baby was effectively
reminiscent of Shirley Temple.
Credit for coordinating the va-
ried elements of such a show as
this, and for infusing into it the
vitality which put jt over, goes to
Edith Dent, the director. But
hardly less can be given to Kitty
Rand for the dancing, to Rusty
Hendrickson for the costumes, to
Mary Hackett for the elaborate
and effective scenery, and to Kath-
erirre Morse for the music.
Alliance Forum Will
Speak on Education
On March i�th an Alliance Fo
rum will be held en education. Un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs. De-
Laguna the speakers will discuss
the function of a college, stressing
what it can do in war hut also
hrinping in long range planning.
Miss Stapleton, Miss Taylor, Mary
Gumbart) '42, and Sheila Gamble,
'42, will speak. The Forum will
meet at S P. M. in the Commor
Roorr..
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