College News, 1941-10-29, Vol. 28, No. 05

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The College News
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VOL. XVIII, No. 5
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1941
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr  College,   1940
PRICE 10 CENTS
Early Purchasing
Helps B. >1. Dodge
War Price Rises
Priority   Ratings   Held  by
Chemistry Professors
Assure Goods
The establishment of war priori-
ties and the rise in prices has, so
far, affected the college compara-
tively slightly according to Mr.
Foley, superintendent of grounds.
Materials which are essential for
the maintenance of buildings,
power and heating apparatus are
available if a note is included with
the order stating that the material
is necessary and should receive a
priority rating. Orders which can-
not receive priority rating must
wait indefinitely.
Mrs. Jeanes, the college purchas-
ing agent, bought all the linen,
paper towels, and cleaning powders
for the present college year last
spring. It is now impossible to
buy any goods of galvanized or
basic metals for general use. The
first and, until now, the only way
in which these restrictions have
vitally affected ihe college is
through the delay in the laying of
the cable near Denbigh. Although
it is hoped a priority rating can
be obtained for the materials to be
used in the cable, they cannot be
purchased immediately.
The department which will
suffer least from the restrictions
on goods will be the Chemistry De-
partment, where all the professors
have priority ratings. The gov-
ernment requires that all records
of, and bills for, goods with such
a   rating be  kept  for  two years,
Mainland Greek Art
In Mid-Sixth Century
Reviewed by Richter
Tendency Toward Naturalism
Shown in Attic Sculpture
At This Time
separate from all other records and
open to inspection at any time.
The bills which have come in at
present show an average increase
of about five per cent in the cost
of college supplies, but the prices
of some cheaper materials have
risen as much as fifty per cent.
Since all these supplies have been
Continued on  J-age  Five
Goodhart, October 27.�The dat-
ing of Grecian archaeological re-
mains in the second and third
quarters of the sixth century B. C,
Miss Richter pointed out in her
third lecture of the Flexncr series,
is facilitated by the historical back-
ground which has been provided by
Herodotus. We know of the rise
of Lydia, and of the growing Per-
sian menace, which made the Greek
city-states band together.
Athens, at this time, under Solon
and later under Peisistratus was
becoming increasingly wealthy.
Works of this period are found
over a wide area.
The bulk of the sculpture of this
part of time has been found on the
Acropolis. Among the earlier of
these is a goddess, now in Berlin,
It is a compact figure with a stun-
ning inter-relation of volumes. In
the treatment of the face there b
an increase in naturalism over pre-
ceding Attic art. A calf bearer
showing many of the same charac-
teristics is dated .r)6G B. C. and
supplies a fixed point for contem-
porary chronology.
As the century advanced, natur-
alism extended from the molding of
the face to the development of the
figure. The mid-sixth century
Lore, the straight standing youths
in Greek sculpture, when compared
with archaic Apollos of earlier
time, show a new roundness of
arm and thoracic muscles, an easi-
ness of stance, and a vivacity of
expression.
There is a wealth of architec-
tural sculpture from the Acropolis.
Here also the tendency toward un-
conventional, free activity of fig-
ures is apparent. At this time
Athenian pottery was wide-spread
throughout Greece. In it, detail and
the whole composition are superbly
Continued on Page Three
Calendar
Thursday, October 30
Group Leadership Meeting,
Common  Room, 7.30.
Friday, October 31
Spanish Club Tea with
Haverford, Common Room,
4.00.
Saturday, November  1
Hall Dance, Merion.
Hockey    game    against
Swarthmore.
Monday, November 3
Dr. Gisela Richter, Archaic
Art in Greece, Exclusive of
Attica, from about 575 to
5*25, B. C.    Goodhart, 8.30.
Tuesday, November 4
Hockey  game  against  the
Philadelphia   Cricket  Club
Reds.
Current Events. Common
Room, 7.30.
Burning Midnight Oil Overtaxes Power Line;
Denbigh   Lawn   Seems  Geared for Defenst
Duranty to Discuss
Soviets' Next Moves
Former Foreign Correspondent
To Launch Lecture Series
On News Abroad
By Mary Barbara Kauffman, '43
No, they haven't discovered a
gold mine running across Denbigh
lawn. Not yet, at least. And, no,
the vicious-looking holes are not
heffalump traps, and Piglet gradu-
ated last year, anyway. The whole
upheaval is merely another evi-
dence of Bryn Mawr's firm resolve
to follow the modern trend toward
practicality.
They are preparing for the next
emergency. The electric cable run-
ning under the lawn from the
power house and feeding over half
of the buildings on campus has
rebelled. Or, rather, it has died of
old age. It was laid in 1902 and
would be 40 years old next August,
but, unfortunately, it was fated
never to see that day. It just
burned out. And it was so well
buried that no one could get at it
within any reasonable length of
time.
So they have set up a temporary
cable�the thing which the poles
on Denbigh lawn are now support-
ing�while they dig down to re-
move the old one. But that is only
the beginning. Defense has made
additional complications. The whole
intricate system of priorities is in-
volved. Bryn Mawr has been
cheerfully told that ft may not
have a new copper cable for 17
months.      In   the   meantime,   the
temporary affair will become one
of our traditions.
The Business Office has frantic-
ally investigated all the complica-
tions of priorities and finds that
perhaps we could have a new cable
a few months sooner under the
priority heading of Repairs for the
Property and Equipment of Schools
and Colleges. But whatever we do,
we seem to be totally unable to con-
vince the government that enlight-
ening the minds of young ladies is
a more important form of defense
than copper cables.
As a result, Bryn Mawr has
sworn "never again." From now
on the new cable�when it comes�
will always be accessible. We shall
be able to have it checked at will:
a manhole is being built, a form of
subterranean room, through which
the cable will run�visible and
more or less tangible. And so the
next time�well, there just won't
be any next time.
And it is merely for this prac-
tical, utilitarian reason that Den-
bigh lawn is being mutilated. Any
rumors of the Archaeology De-
partment looking for a lost civili-
zation, of Self Government trying
by this method to trap students re-
turning after permissible hours,
and of the college's extending its
defense courses to training in
trench warfare, are totally untrue.
Walter Duranty, who is at pres-
ent Special Correspondent of the
North American Newspaper Alli-
ance, is scheduled to speak in
Goodhart on November I on "What
Will  Russia Do?"
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Foreign Correspondents, Mr. Du-
ranty was for several years Aids
COW Correspondent for tile New
York Times. He is best known
as ;m author for "I Write as I
Please," which preceded hi,s two
novels, "One Life, One Kopek" and
�The Gold Train."
Walter Duranty was instrumen-
ts] in bringing about the recopni-
tion of the Soviet Union by the
United States in 1933. He brought
Maxim Litvinov, first Soviet envoy
to Washington, and took our first
ambassador to Moscow. Duranty
is spoken of by Alexander Wool-
COtt as the one man "who could
nake a purposeless hour at some
sidewalk cafe so memorably de-
lightful."
The lecture is the first of a
series of three sponsored by the
House Committee of the Bryn
Mawr Hospital in an effort to raise
urgently needed funds for expan-
sion of the hospital. Virginia
Cowles and Vinoent Sheean am
the  next speakers  in the series.
Students to Discuss
Educational Systems
of Europe and U. S.
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Relationship of National Life
To Education to be Topic
Of Assembly
Foreign students, graduate and
undergraduate, will participate in
a college assembly on the subject,
Education in other Nations, Tues-
day, November 4. Heading the
central committee planning the as-
sembly is Ruth Fiesel. '42.
A key speech will attempt to out-
line the principle factors in edu-
cation, the variation in the treat-
ment of these factors in the differ-
ent countries, and their relation to
the cultural and social life of the
nations concerned. Afterwards a
round table discussion will be con-
ducted by representatives of Eng-
land, France, and the Low Coun-
tries, Germany, Turkey, and
Greece, China and India. Canada,
and South America. Topics dis-
cussed will include extra-curricu-
lar activities, academic standards,
and the stress laid on certain types
of courses. Preparatory schools as
well as colleges and universities
Continued on Page Five
Maids Now Offered
Popular New Classes
Several innovations in the Maid's
Classes became apparent at the tea
last week, where plans for the year
were discussed. Two new courses,
Hygiene and Sewing, are being of-
fered because of popular demand.
Dr. Leary will give two lectures
in Hygiene, and there is a possi-
bility that a Red Cross nurse will
teach Home Nursing. Sewing will
be under the supervision of Mrs.
Fales.
The knitting clinic is another
novelty. The names of student
helpers who will pick up stitches
in an emergency are posted in every
hall.
Graduate students are taking a
larger part in the classes than ever
before. Adelaide Cromwell, Smith,
'40, who will lead Negro History
discussions, has written her mas-
ter's thesis on that subject.
Typing, Piano Lessons, Poetry,
Diction, French, German, Current
Events, Gym, Bookkeeping, will all
be given again. Classes will meet
once a week in Taylor.
Shorthand, First Aid
Auto Mechanics Draw
231 Eager Applicants
Defense courses offered this fall
have been greeted with great en-
thusiasm. Ninety-eight students
have entered auto  mechanics elas-
es meeting Monday and Wednes-
day  afternoons  at  two  and  three
and Tuesday and Thursday eve-
nings at eight and nine o'clock. A
list of divisions is posted on the
American Defense bulletin board
in Taylor. Any confliets should be
reported to Betty Nicrosi in
Rhoads North.
The two first aid groups number
seventy-six. Five students are en-
rolled in the advanced sections.
These, classes meet from 7.20 until
9.20 Tuesday and Wednesday eve-
nings.
Thirty students are taking typ-
Cont limed  on   PagC   Six
Faculty Defense
Croup Requests
Neutrality Repeal
Changes Made in Principles;
Winter Plans Formed
At Meeting
At a meeting on Wednesday,
October 22, the Faculty Defense
Group of Bryn Mawr College sent
the following telegram to Pennsyl-
vania Senators and the Chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee: "We, the Defense
Group of Bryn Mawr College, urge
the immediate repeal pf the Neu-
trality Act." The motion to send
this telegram was made from the
floor, passed unanimously, and
signed by fifty members. At the
same time a change was made in
the principles of th^ftfAAi/.ntion
which           read  -.i-^^^fffr
1.    The threat of world-domftilon by
the Axis powers uniter the leader-
ship of Germany constitute! a
grave danger to the United States.
2.    The continued military resistance
nf Qreat Britain and her allies is
our first line of defense against
i his danger.
i. Support of Oreaf Britain, china.
Russia  and of even  other center
ill   resistance  to the   Axis  powers Is
an essential par! of American de-
fense policy.
i    Tin- inn.....Hate* need la for complete
mobilisation of American Industry
in order to achieve the maximum
output of armaments and other
supplies necessary to Qreal Britain
for the successful prosecution of
the war
5. In this effort it is the duly of every
American citizen to contribute his
skill and energy i" the success of
the    whole    program,    voluntarily
taking pan  in the activities where
lie   can    in    his   own   Judgment    In-
most   useful, if he is not   engaged
in  military  or  Industrial  service.
The   failed   Stales cannot   evade  a
full  shaii-  of iis|.....sihility  for the
successful outcome of the war. We
therefore believe that the Govern-
ment should abandon its non-bel-
ligerency.
Protection  of the  political freedom
and   economic   security  of all  our
Continued on Page s.\
Spanish Club Dance
The Spanish Club has in-
vited the Haverford Spanish
Club to a dance in the Com-
mon Room on October 31,
from nine until one. The
victrola will furnish the mu-
sic and the Spanish faculty
the chaperones. The dance
will be formal.
Both Pembrokes Kill Rhoads "Timelessly";
Varsity, Cripples, Incompetents Compete
By Alice Crowder, '42
�Kast is East and West is West
and we the twain shall beat,"
a Rhoads cheering section, twenty
strong, roared out as Rhoads Sen-
iors, brandishing hockey sticks,
dashed down the hockey field in
pursuit of Pembroke Seniors in an
unscheduled game Saturday after-
noon. Had the timekeeper not lost
track of time, Rhoads might have
produced at least a tie, but as it
was, the game ended 2-1 in favor
of   Pembroke.
Lack of preparation had not
brought the defeat. Rhoads stay-
ed up partially into Friday night
making up cheers to foil the foe,
composing a victory song, and prac-
ticing by the light of incandescent
lamps with ash trays for balls
But superior esprit des corps could
not compensate for the three Var-
sity half backs which Pembroke
brought to the game. "It para-
lyzes me just to look at her," a
Rhoads wing said, turning her back
on the opposing half back.
A real pass from Effie Woolsey
to Barbara Cooley made the Rhoads
goal possible. Pembroke, on the
other hand, specialized in spec-
tacular    one    man,    field    length
dribbles ending in disaster out of
bounds. Margy Perkins, Varsity
left half back, playing right inner,
saved the day, however, by twice
in the second half pushing the ball
through the extensive goalie ap-
paratus. The tendency of the
game, particularly in the first half,
to be played in the territory of
Rhoads defence was perhaps ex-
plained by the fact that Chris
Waples, Varsity center half, guard-
ed the Pembroke defence as center
half, left half, and left full back.
Considering that three of the
Rhoads players had never played
before, that few except Varsity
players had played hockey since
school days, and that no one ex-
cept these same players had ex-
ercised since sophomore year, the
general neatness of the game was
remarkable.
Morale was as high as the num-
ber of casualties while ivory tow-
ered intellectual and week-ending
socialite staggered down the field.
In moments of stress it was re-
newed by the yells of the Rhoads
cheering section, which, with Ruth
Fiesel as leader, was the main ac-
tor of the little drama. "Yay, ray.
Continued on Tat* Six