College News, 1942-03-18, Vol. 28, No. 19

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VOL. XXVIII, No. 19
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942
Copyright,   Trutteea  of       PRICF   10   CENTS
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Basic Difference
In Far East Art
Noted by Rowley
Japanese Energy and Fire?
Chinese   Imagination
Seen in Slides
Alwyne Plans Recital
Successfully Exhibits
Player's High Talents
Intellectual   Understanding
And Mastery of Technique
Are Evident
Specially contributed by
Posy Kent, "45
Theatre Workshop, Sunday, Goodhart Auditorium, March 16.
March 15.�The noticeable contrast;� An enthusiastic audience heard
between Chinese and Japanese art Mr. Alwyne's much anticipated pi-
is derived from the essential differ- j anoforte recital on Monday night,
ence in the underlying concepts, (The prograiTli consisting largely of
said Dr. George Rowley in his dis-1 modern  workS(  was  wen   rounded
cussion of the Pacific Background
Seen Through Painting.
Mr.
slides
and, in almost every case, served
to bring out the performer's talents
Rowley   demonstrated   with i t0 their greatest extent.
that  Japan's  greatest   con-j    The Franck Prelude, Chorale and
tribution to painting is expressed i Fugue may have suffered from its
in the fire, energy and vigor of!position on the program; its de-
battle scenes, and in the portrayal imands on the performer seemed too
of physical action. The greatest i exacting for a first number.
Chinese paintings, on the other' The mood, however, was well
hand, are products of a visionary 'sustained and the thematic material
imagination.
These divergent characteristics
in art reflect the fundamental dif-
ference in the entire attitude of
the two societies, he continued. In
China the democratic spirit
prevailed for over 2000 years
feudal  and
excellently brought out, particu-
larly in the Fugue. Here, as
throughout the evening, it was evi-
dent that Mr. Alwyne possesses a
thorough understanding of the in-
has|tellectual significance of what he
111 plays as well as a mastery of the
Japan, society is
military Samurai are the ruling
class. The Japanese are taught to
live and die for the state, the Chi-
nese for the family; for "when in-
dividual families have learned kind-
the technical side.
In the Chopin group, the
Berceuse was especially well suited
to Mr. Alwyne's ability to play with
deep feeling and yet with a com-
plete absence of sentimentality. The
Calendar
Thursday, March 19
Major Department Meet-
ing: Physics and Mathe-
matics, 5:15, Common
Room.
Saturday, March 21
Basketball with Rosemont,
Gym, 10:00 A. M.
Aquacade,    8:30    P.    M.,
Gym.
Sunday, March 22
H. S. Ede, The National
Gallery of Art, Washing-
ton, D. C. 5:00 P. M.
Deanery.
Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford Choruses and Orches-
tras, Elijah. 8:00 P. M.
Goodhart.
Tuesday, March 24
Major Department Meet-
ing: History, Economics,
Politics, 5": 15 P. M. Com-
mon Room.
Current Events, 7:30 P.
M., Common  Room.
Wednesday, March 25
Major   Department   Meet-
ing:  Psychology and Soci-
ology, 5:15 P. M., Common
Room.
Problems of Post-War Transition
To Be Discussed By Model League
ness the whole nation has learned | powerful brilliance of the Fantasie
continued on Page Four            'in F s^p Minor and the Polonaise
\in A Flat provided an effective con-
trast,  though  here  the  performer
seemed a shade less confident.
The second half of the program
maintained a high standard of ex-
cellence throughout. Mr. Alwyne
seemed particularly at home with
the Grieg variations and success-
the   original  spirit
B. M. and Haverford
Cast for 'Hay Fever'
The 1942 spring production of
the Players' Club, Hay Fever by
Noel Coward, will be given in con-
junction with the Haverford Cap fully retained
and Bells on Friday and Saturday,' of the Norwegian Melody in each
April 24 and 25. To avoid conflicts of its changing appearances. The
with rehearsals of Patience, the Sonata in Una Parte, composed by
play will be given in Roberts Hall Alfred Swann, director of the
both nights.
The play has nine major parts
Music Department at Swarthmore
and    dedicated   to    Mr.    Alwyne,
The choice was made with the help seemed to have been expressly de-
of the director, Mr. Nussbaum-, of signed to suit the player's talents.
Harcum Junior College.   Mr. Nuss-
baum directed the Haverford fall
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Written in the 18th century style
of   Dominico   Scarlatti,   it   had   a
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B. M. Professor Lends to Rare Book Room  ,
His "Treasures of a Badly Bent Bibliophile"
Specially contributed by
Marjory MacLeod, '42
A member of the faculty, who
modestly prefers to remain anony-
mous, has generously contributed a
stimulating collection of books to
all those who feel that the amass-
ing of choice editions is a pastime
of only the very wealthy. This in-
teresting group of books, which is
now on view in the Rare Book
Room, includes fine examples of
Venetian, German, and English
printing as it was developed from
the fifteenth to the nineteenth cen-
tury. Though many of the books
are incomplete, they are, on a
whole, in remarkably good condi-
tion and the fact that the most ex-
pensive of them was only fifteen
dollars should convince aspiring
Bryn Mawr Bibliophiles that�any
handsome and rare editions may
be had for a song, almost, if- you
know where to look for them.
Perhaps the rarest treasure of
the collection is a volume of Lepen
der Heiligen, printed by the fa-
mous Anton Koberger in Nurem-
burg in 1488. Koberger, who
printed proliflcally in Nuremburg
during the last decades of the fif-
teenth century, introduced the first
vernacular    German    type,    the
Schwabacher, into printing there-
by giving tremendous impetus to
the circulation of German books.
The wood-cuts in this edition are
extremely well done and, although
they cannot be attributed to a sin-
gle7' artist, are equal to, if not ac-
tually by, the atelier of Michael
Wolgemuth who was the master of
Albrecht Durer and illustrator of
many of Koberger's books. The
collector purchased this volume at
a second hand book shop in Tren-
ton, N. J., for the incredible sum
i of $13.50. Single pages of this
j book have been known to sell for
$20 each.
Another choice itemAlfifte col-
lection is a beautifully illustrated
La Commedfa, printed^ by Boninus
de Bmiinis at Brescia in 1*4*.
, Other rarities are three classics
from the Aldine Press and an
early German edition of the His-
toria Danica of Saxo Grammiticus
(of Hamlet and Beowulf fame).
An unrecorded fourteenth century
English manuscript of unknown
authorship is also of interest.
The aims and interests of the
exhibition can best be described by
the commentaries of the collector:
"The purpose of this exhibit is
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Crisis in Chem.Lab.
Shows Gates Ready
For Any Emergency
By Anne Denny, '43
Chemistry - Geology Building,
Thursday, March 12. � MHodes'
Flood" swept the organic chemis-
try lab, leaving in its wake a group
of weary but proud moppers draft-
ed from the advanced organic class.
Sam, the janitor, discovering four
inches of water at 7:45 in the
morning, donned his galoshes and
started bailing. He was joined
later by Veronica who perched her-
self on an overturned wastebasket,
and by six hardy students. With
the help of makeshift implements
the crew mopped, shovelled, and
pumped until the flood subsided.
While Mr. Gates, gazing upon
the catastrophe, remarked, "Every
time I wear this suit it rains",
quick-thinking Mrs. Gates jumped
on her bicycle and flew home for a
camera.
The disaster was finally traced
to a vacuum pump which Evie
Hodes had left going all night.
Since a class was out of the ques-
tion the culprit expiated her crime
by taking the heroic crew to the
Inn after it was all over.
Although the day was saved by
two stirrup pumps which are Mr.
Doyle's pride and joy, water was
also removed effectively by nine
sponges, two pails, a coal shovel, a
broom, and a mop. In the midst of
it all, someone suggested that Mr.
Gates give his lecture on "heavy
water". His only answer was,
"Yes, it does get heavy after the
third pail".
Elections
The Athletic Association
and the Alliance take great
pleasure in announcing the
following elections:
President of the Athletic
Association�Mimi Boal.
Chairman of the Alliance
�Betty Nicrosi.
Bornemeier Drafted;
Will Do Research and
Testing in California
On four days' notice, Mr. Borne-
meier, part-time instructor in psy-
chology at Bryn Mawr, is to be sent
to the West Coast on military duty.
One  of  the  few  members  of   the
faculty to be actually drafted, Mr. [
Bornemeier   is   completely   in   the!
dark as to the program of his work, j
He knows only that he will go to
Santa Anna, California, to a new;
training camp, where he will be a
member  of  the   psychological   re-
search and testing division.
In charge of the psychological1
work at Santa Anna, is the experi-
mental psychologist, Mr. Gilford,
under whom Mr. Bornemeier has
worked for some time. Mr. Gil-
ford requested that the War De-
partment send Mr. Bornemeier to
this camp when he was drafted.
In his absence, the psychology
department will redistribute his
classes among the other members
of the department. Mr. Borne-
meier leaves on Wednesday, March
18, for his mysterious duties.
Fountain, Projector
Are to be Installed
As New Conveniences
Alliance to Sponsor
Summer Jobs Which
Aid  Defense  Effort
K
nder the auspices of the Alli-
ance, summer jobs are to be sug-
gested for students who want
either experience or defense work.
The Alliance considers that sum-
mers should now be useful, not
"wasted on a beach". This plan
for finding positions was proposed
as a supplement to the work al-
ready done by the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations. The purpose of the
"sub-bureau" is to find jobs that
will combjne the experience, which
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Plans are being made for the
opening of a soda fountain in the
re-vamped costume room of Good-
hart Hall. Although planned be-
fore the threat of extended black-
outs, such an arrangement will be
especially welcome at this time.
Ice crpam, sundaes, bottled
drinks, and bookshop supplies will
be available at the counter which
will probably be open for an hour
and a half on weekday evenings
and later on weekends. The Bryn
Mawr League will manage the
making and selling of the food,
since the new counter will neces-
sarily curtail the League's sand-
wich sales. There will be tables,
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Delegates  of   24   Colleges
Will Attend Assembly
At  Bryn Mawr
The sixteenth Annual Session of
the Model Assembly of the League
of Nations will be held at Bryn
Mawr College from Sunday, March
29, to Tuesday, March 31. Dele-
gates from twenty-four colleges of
the Middle Atlantic States will par-
ticipate.
The Model League Assembly, in
which each college plays the role
of a different country, is concerned
this year with the problems of the
Period of Transition immediately
following the present war. The
questions which will face the world
when the war ends will be the im-
mediate problems of restoring or-
der, the feeding of starving peoples,
the employment of demobilized ar-
mies, and the general re-establish-
ment of the processes of civilized
life. Since the permanent organi-
zation of peace may grow out of
the temporary machinery set up
during the transition from war to
peace, it is essential that the vic-
torious countries deal with these
problems successfully if a begin-
ning is to be made on a more per-
manent world organization. For
purposes of discussion the Model
Assembly is assuming that the war
has resulted in a victory for the
Allies, and that Great Britain and
the United States are in a controll-
ing position.
Jane Ann Maier, '42, is secretary
general of the Assembly. Rosalind
Wright, '43, is rapporteur of the
first commission and Miss Nor-
throp is faculty advisor to the sec-
ond. About 150 delegates will oc-
cupy rooms in Pembroke and Den-
bigh.
The League has been organized
around seven commissions, which
will deal with:
1.  Reestablishment   and   mainte-
nance of order.
2.  Economic reconstruction.
3.  Reopening of world trade and
communications.
4.  Famine and disease.
5.  Colonial problems.
6.  Refugees and displaced popu-
lations.
7.  Intellectual reconstruction.
The   following   colleges   will   be
represented. Their delegates will
present the problems of the coun-
try assigned to them on each of the
commissions:
Barnard  College   ...........Chile
Beaver College  ..........Norway
Bryn Mawr College.....Australia
Bucknell University  ......Austria
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Miss M. Meigs' Campus Portraits Exhibited;
Telling Caricatures, Taylor Tower, Featured
��      By Sally Matteaon, '43
Taylor Hall has crashed the
world of art. In the exhibit of
Miss Mary Meigs" paintings in the
Rhoads show case the old familiar
shape looms large. Taylor Tower
with Twins, Miss Meigs* first oil,
portrays the artist and her sister
standing in Senior Row in front
of a green Taylor�perhaps El
Greco influence, for he is her favor-
ite artist. Freshman English, Miss
M. Meigs shows an assortment of
students with Taylor and a winged
Pallas Athena  (?) soaring above.
It is in these Bryn Mawr scenes
that Miss Meigs shows her gift for
expressive outline and good-hum-
ored caricature. The twins are in
contrast:   one   soft   with   dreamy
eyes, the other erect and angular.
The Freshmen have in their faces
all degrees of bewilderment, en-
thusiasm, and fatigue.
The outline technique receives its
most masterful treatment in Dr.
and Mrs. Meigs Without Class
Baby. Here contour and modeling
are combined with style i,n a dy-
namic portrait. The Man of God
and Bunthorne as Terry Ferrer are
telling but tolerant satires.
Recently Miss Meigs, deserting
outline, has experimented with a
technique where roundness and
shading have greater emphasis.
The Would-Be Student, her latest
work, while more realistic, lacks
the life of the earlier, rougher
sketches. Miss Meigs likes to ob-*
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