College News, 1942-05-01, Vol. 28, No. 23

              The College Hews
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VOL. XXVIII, No. 23
[ B. M. to be Scene
Of Nursing School
For College Grads
Government Will Sponsor
(School With Private
Institutions
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942
Copyright,   Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr   College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Bryn   Mawr   College   has   been
chosen    by    government    agencies
and several nursing schools as the
site of a Summer School of Nurs-
ing for college graduates. The ses-
sion will run from June 15 to Sep-
tember   13.     In   cooperation   with
the   United   States  Public   Health
Service    program,    Training    for
Nurses   .   .   .   National  Defense,]
the school will act as a preliminary |
step toward increasing the supply!
of  registered  nurses  to  meet  the'
present critical shortage.
The choice of Bryn Mawr result-!
ed from recognition of the work j
done by the Red Cross Nurses'
Training Camp which was held
here last summer. The institu-
tions taking part are The College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Co-
lumbia University, New York;
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more; Lincoln Hospital, New York;
Russel Sage College, Troy, N. Y.;
and  the  University  of  Rochester.
Students at the Summer School
will complete the preclinical work
necessary for the supervised prac-
tice of nursing care in the various
cooperating institutions. By add-
ing to the number of well-qualified
candidates, these schools will be
able to release graduate nurses for
war work. Another advantage of
the summer plan is in the centrali-
zation of teaching which it would
provide.                             ________
Continued on Page Three
Congress Now Lacks
Support From Voter
Miss Stapleton Says
Common Room, April 28.�Miss
Stapleton, speaking for the � Alli-
ance, placed the responsibility for
the failure of the present Congress
on the indifference of the electorate.
Our government is presumably ai
representative one, composed of the
best and most advanced elements in
the country. Congressional opposi-
tion to the President should be a
constructive influence in forming
his policy, not merely a hindrance
to necessary work. The present
Congress hardly answers this de-
scription, and the reason is to be
found in the abdication of the elec-
torate through inertia. A situa-
tion has arisen which is possible
only because large sections of the
voters are indifferent. Congress
cannot be representative when it is
made up of men whom the voters
do not know because of inadequate
information and discussion.
There is danger that this year's
elections will send to Washington
a Congress hostile to the Adminis-
tration. Miss Stapleton emphasized
the fact that Congress should not
give unthinking support to the
President, but a co-operation that
is now absolutely essential. The
future peace must not be made by
men whose policy has been con-
sistently isolationist, and whose
records and public announcements
do not promise a real change in
viewpoint.
Continued on Page Three
Hinchman Split Between Browne, McLeskey;
Browne Wins Brooke Hall Memorial Award
President Park  Reads List
Of Annual Scholarship
Awards
Dry Damsels Crowd
New Bar, Clamoring
For Mild Milk Shakes
Motor Mechanics
The Bryn Mawr Defense
group wishes to clarify the
status of those who have
passed the motor mechanics
course and have received the
Keystone Automobile Club
diploma. These certificates
are equivalent to the Red
Cross Course, with the ex-
ception of 20 hours of driv-
ing training. Any one who
holds the Keystone diploma
may go to her local Red
Cross chapter, complete the
driving hours, and will be
qualified for Red Cross work.
Radnor Holds Dinner
In Honor of Schenck
Specially contributed by Ethel Davis
Radnor, April 23�Miss Taylor's
interesting and reminiscent ac-
count of her associations with Miss
Schenck and the graduate school,
delighted the dinner given by the
Graduate Club in Miss Schenck's
honor. Many of the changes in
the graduate school which were
instituted during the time of Miss
Schenck's administration were
noted by Miss Taylor.
As an expression of their appre-
ciation of Miss Schenck's service
to and interest in the graduate
school and students, the members
of the Graduate Club presented
Miss Schenck with a silver plate.
A special exhibit of photographs,
borrowed for the occasion from the
Continued  on   rage  Two
Knighthood Has Very Peculiar Flowering
In Remarkably Interpreted French Orals
By Mary Virginia More, '43
"There was a knight when
knighthood was in flower," but he
couldn't compare with one on the
French Oral.
For instance, did you know that
"the noble was a perfect chevalier
only when he had chosen a woman
of his opinions?" Or that he was
"no longer a perfect cavalier the
minute he had chosen the women
of his dreams?" We'll let you
think about that one a minute.
Or some of us seemed to feel
that "a noble was only a perfect
knight when he loved a unique and
pure Woman," but our very per-
sonal opinion is that this is mak-
ing things unduly tough for the
male sex. As for the B. M. C.
puritan element�it expressed it-
self in no uncertain terms: "the
nobleman was not a perfect gentle-
man if he had not chosen the lady
of his thoughts."
On further examining the rela-
tions of a knight toward his lady,
we find that it is for her that he
"jolted" in the tournament (cut-
ting a graceful figure no doubt).
With raised eyebrows we learn
that "it is for her that he occupies
sinful places," and for her that
"he busied, his lance poised, the
defiled."
What's more, it has come to our
attention (we hope it didn't to his
lady's) that "he was always offer-
ing his hand as a souvenir." We
also found, thrown in some place,
that he "ran on his hands and
knees" when conquered!"
A few notions about women
were brought to light: "the prog-
ress of woman's role is marked by
the continual development of the
Virgin Culture; on the earth as
well as in the skt she climbs." The
Romans had definite ideas about
her: "the daughter, she was in the
command of her father married in-
to the rule (hand) of her hus-
band." � You, never know, is what
all this goes, to prove.
By Anne Heyniger, '44
In its bright new blue and red
paint, its newly set-up bar and
tables and highly decorative soda-
jerkeresses, the soda fountain
made its successful debut last Mon-
day night.
Most popular request proved to
be for chocolate milk shakes, the
secret of which the managers
learned first hand from a veteran
Baltimore soda jerker. The three
day supply of chocolate syrup was
exhausted in half an hour.
Reports are varied as to the pur-
pose of the ten cent opening night
cover charge: a new mixer, initial
expenses, and a scholarship for the
collector were all suggested.
The actual mechanics of getting
an  ice cream  lump  on to  an  ice
continued   on   1'age   Two
News9 Poll Shows 30%
Holding Summer Jobs
Almost 30 per cent of the 312
undergraduates polled have landed
jobs for the summer. Twenty-six
are Seniors, and many of these in-
dicate that their work is perma-
nent. The following questions
were asked:
What  do   you   plan   to  do   this
summer?    Check answer.
1. War Work?
a.)  Volunteer   (specify   type)
b.)  Remunerative
1. factory  (specify if possi-
ble)
Continued on Papte Five
Calendar
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Friday, May  1
Geology Field Trip.
Chamber   Music   group,
Music Room, 8:00.
Saturday, May 2
German Oral, Taylor,
9:00.
Sunday, May 3
James Cushman, The Pre�-
rut D%y Claims of the
Earl of Ovford to the Au-
thorship of Shakespeare's
Plays, Deanery, 5:00.
Monday, May 4
Marian Anderson Recital,
Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday,  May  5
Current Events, Common
Room,  7:30.
Wednesday, May 6
Tennent Lecture, Dr. Her-
mann "Weyl, Symmetry,
Dalton, 8:15.
MILDRED  McLESKEY
McLeskey Will Work
In Post-War Period;
Browne in Two Fields
This year the Charles S. Hinch-
man Memorial Scholarship was di-
vided between Dorothy Browne
and Mildred McLeskey, recom-
mended respectively by the Mathe-
matics Department and the His-
tory Department. Dorothy
Browne, with an average of 89.83,
was also awarded the Maria L.
Eastman Brooke Hall Scholarship,
which is given automatically to the
member of the Junior class with
the highest average. Her case is
particularly noteworthy since she
came to the College only last year,
and has completed two years' work
in one. Before coming to this
country, she studied at the Chel-
tenham Ladies' College in Eng-
land.
Miss Browne has already com-
pleted two advanced courses in
mathematics, which places her con-
siderably in advance of the ordi-
nary student as far as preparation
,              Continued   on   Page  Two
Qoodhatt, May 1. � Miss Park
announced the awarding of the an-
nual scholarships at the May Day
Assembly. The Charles S. Hinch-
man Memorial Scholarship, given
each year to the student who shows
the greatest ability in her major
field, was divided between Dorothy
Browne, of Riverdale, New York,
whose major is mathematics, and
Mildred McLeskey, of Columbus,
Ohio, majoring in history. Miss
McLeskey was prepared by the Co-
umbus  School  for Girls.
Dorothy Browne also won the
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship, awarded to
the member of the Junior Class
with the highest average, as well
as one-half of the Mary Anna
Longstreth Memorial Scholarship^
Miss Browne was prepared in Chel- *
tenham, England.
The Sheelah Kilroy Memorial
Scholarship in English went to
Barbara Herman, for the best work
in Second Year or Advanced Eng-
lish. Miss Herman was prepared
by the West Orange High School.
The award for the Required Eng-
lish Composition Course was given
to Jean Potter, of Birmingham,
Michigan, as well as the James E.
Rhoads Memorial Sophomore Schol-
arship.
Mary Barbara Kauffman, pre-
pared by Rosemary Hall in Green-
wich, Connecticut, was awarded
the Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholar-
ship in Foreign Languages, for ex-
cellence of work in a foreign lan-
guage; the Elizabeth S. Shippen
Scholarship in Science was won by
1 Miriam Gollub, prepared by the
Simon Gratz High School in Phila-
delphia.
The Elizabeth Gillespie Scholar-
ship in American History went to
Nancy Evarts, of Cambridge, Mass.
Miss Evarts was prepared by Buck-
ingham School in Cambridge.
Mary Gumbart, '42, received the
Jeanne Quistgaard Memorial
Award in Economics.
Continued on rate Four
Wild Excitement Accompanies Rehearsals
While Blithe Voices Practice for 'Patience'
By Elizabeth Watkins, '44
There is a mass of moving legs
crossing back and forth in every
direction, clashing into one anoth-
er, twining around some foreign
object. There are shouts, screams,
curses! Mr. Alwyne raps sharply
on his music desk, Mr. Willoughby
bangs chord after chord. Finally
there is quiet. The Haverford
"dragoons" return to their places
to attempt another simple about-
face. Perhaps a little martial at-
mosphere would do the trick. Ah,
that's it! Strong masculine hands
suddenly grasp flashing swords
and twist with mighty fervor, the
hockey sticks and "bil!vs." Enter
the Major brandishing a heavy
warlike tool ... a green parasol.
Blithe voices are heard in the di-
rection of the switch-board and
soon twenty doleful maidens tread
a heavy, measure down three ele-
vated planks. The object of their
attention is the young man in the
light blue shirt and suspenders.
They cast "love-sick" glances on
him, as they hastily gulp down the
last scrap of ice cream from the
Dixie cups. With Mr. Alwyne as
chaperon,   conversation   hesitantly
starts. It progresses slowly be-
cause the speaker is undecided
whether "a's" should have a Kan-
sas or Cockney accent.
Time passes and at last the girls
are tenderly clutched by the "dra-
goons."
"Don't tell me I have to teach
Haverford this, too!" Mr. Alwyne
mutters as he glances at the ten
foot space between embracer and
embraeee. The space is narrowed
�"Relax!" Mr. Alwyne shouts,
then hastily regrets it.
The knots are tangled and un-
tangled as the action sweeps on to
the grand finale. Then the Chorus
(�(lines galloping on the stage with
kicking heels and swishing skirts.
Led by Runthorne they break into
a mad whirl, with a pseudo can-
can and the Grapevine twist plus
a touch of the Rhumba and Ring-
around-the-Rosy. The gallant duke,
colonel, major and solicitor join
the merry group in a minuet with
do-ci-do's as the curtain closes over
the panting figures with red faces
and bruised hips. It is not yet
over. For some inexplicable rea-
son Bunthorne resides outside the
Continued on 1'age Six
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