College News, 1942-06-02, Vol. 28, No. 26

              The College IVews
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VOL. XXVIII, No. 26
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE. PA., JUNE 2, 1942
Copyright,  Trutteei  of        PRICF   10   CENTS
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E. STONE GRANTED EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP
Pomeroy Delivers .College Faculty Plan
Diverse and Unusual
Summer Employment
Vigorous Sermon
Al Baccalaureate
Abandoning of Outmoded
Conventions Advised
By Minister
The value of knowing when to
let go of oudated methods or posi-
Tnifl'^itaii IiiiiiilIiI before the grad-
uating class in the Baccalureate
sermon given by the Reverend Viv-
ian T. Pomeroy of the First Par-
ish, Milton, Massachusetts. "The
basis of the dreadful calamity to-
day is the nationalistic system's
human reluctance to relinquish na-
tional or universal ideas or con-
ventions," he said.
The ability to know the right
moment to let go applies in politi-
cal positions where many people,
who have been successful in their
work, refuse to resign it to a
young man. "It is important to
know when you are dead, where a
particular duty or situation is con-
cerned. There are two kinds of
people, those who are too slack to
take hold, and those who are too
stiff to let go." The latter group
are conservatives and it is they
who have hurt institutions instead
of helping them. By holding on to
the belief in a national sovereign-
ty and racial superiority we have
arrived in the present world condi-
tion. The Reverend Pomeroy com-
pared the nationalistic system to
Joseph Conrad's picture of the
blind captain clinging to the wheel.
One should also know when to
let go in/personal relationships.
This anpifes not only to friendship
but parental affection. A parent
should let a child have increasing
independence, for it will bring en-
durance and enjoyment to the child
and incurs no loss of respect or
love for the parent. If parents of
married children knew how to
gracefully retire from the scene,
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Williams, Harz, Sculley, Also Recommended
As Degrees Are Conferred by Miss Park
Despite a busy and difficult year,
many members of the Bryn Mawr
Faculty plan to continue working
during the  summer.
Miss Oppenheimer, of the biology
department, plans to start work on
her Guggenheim Fellowship at the
Cornell Medical School on August
first. Mr. Berry intends to continue
research here.
Mr. Watson will be supervising
a course at Bryn Mawr on sur-
veying, mapping, and photogram-
metry for the United States Office
of Education to train war workers
in mapping projects, military maps,
and aerial photography. He will
be assisted by Miss Wyckoff. Miss
Lehr will teach three or four weeks
of mathematics for this course in
July.
A course will be Riven in analy-
tical chemistry to train analysists
for ordinance work at the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard, by Miss Lan-
man.
Miss Fairchild will stay at Bryn
Mawr and continue the research
on the relation of trade'unions and
social legislature in the past de-
cade, that she started two years
ago on her sabbatical. Miss Kraus
will be executive secretary for the
American Seminar for Refugee
Scholars, Teachers and Artists.
After that she will conduct two
courses at the University of
Washington.
Advanced instruction and re-
search in mechanics will be taught
by Mrs. Geiringer at Brown Uni-
versity Summer School. Mr. Miller
will teach at the Haverford Sum-
mer School and will help in the
war effort as a machinist in the
evenings.
Work on civilian supply in
Washington with the W. P. B. will
claim Miss Northrop. Miss Reid,
of the Politics department, will
also be in Washington doing war
work. Mr. David will attend a
Continued on Pane Six
Umpire Dryden Suffers a Severe Drubbing
For Undue Favoritism to Hardy Scavengers
By Ruth Alice Davis, '44
"Down with the umpire! He
doesn't even know how to count!"
Mr. Dryden suffered a severe drub-
bing when he attempted to keep
score for the, annual faculty-stu-
dent baseball struggle at the Sci-
ence Club Picnic. His version was
15 13 in favor of the "Scaven-
gers."' Mr. Watson, in an attempt
to keep peace in the family, an-
nounced a 14-14 tie as the final
outcome, while an irate spectator
was convinced it was 21-11. Every
time a faculty member came up
to bat, the infield perceptibly
tightened, and the outfield woke
up and spread out, with the right
fielder practically in the nearby
stream�as was necessitated by a
sensational hit by Mr. Berry in
the first inning.
Although most of the "rugged"
picnickers piled in cars, seven
deep, there were a few who chose
to walk�hardy souls, in our exam-
weary estimation, to brave a dis-
tance of four miles.
Food was plentiful�hot dogs,
passionate purple punch, and Dixie
cups (on which no one seemed to
be able to find movie stars any
more,   Abbotts   having   adopted   a
new defense policy of bombers in-
stead of Cary Grant, and "the Ma-
rines instead of John Payne).
There was one Rock Math Major
who offered to lick the tops of any
number of cups (even after her
first four Dixies) just to find Alice
Faye. There was the "Great To-
mato Mystery"�six dozen toma-
toes disappeared all to soon, a loss
which could hardly be attributed
to even the hungriest of under-
graduates, and when the punch
jug started to float away down-
stream, a number of people read-
ily volunteered their services to
| plunge in, drink and rescue it.
An energetic game of "movies-
up" followed dinner, MJL*"Berry
still the home-run stOTk even
though he handicapped himself by
playing left handed. The picnic
and the game ended simultaneously
when the cows which had wan-
dered all afternoon in the other
end of the pasture ^reversed their
tactics and slowly but surely
cropped their way toward the
picnickers, threatening to mow
them down right along with the
grass. Addenda to the New York
Yankees: Dr. Gates made the only
home run of the afternoon.
Degrees   Conferred
At Commencement as
126 Are Graduated
ELLEN STONE
Ellen Stone Reveals
A Peripatetic Career
Ellen Stone, a philosophy major,
was unanimously elected by the
faculty. For the first time, the
Department was totally agreed on
their candidate. Miss Park an-
nounced a few years ago, that the
Fellow had been chosen too much
in regard to undergraduate aver-
age rather than with consideration
of her possibilities for future suc-
cess, and that the choice should in-
clude departmental information as
does that of the Hinchman scholar.
The Philosophy Department, in
presenting Miss Stone, stated that
she was an illustration of the kind
of candidate Miss Park had in
mind when she made this announce-
ment.
Mrs. deLaguna and Mr. Weiss,
in recommending the Fellow, men-
tioned her intention to continue
her studies where she could work
to her best advantage. She wa?
offered Vassar's largest scholar-
ship, for 1,000 dollars, and refused
this before she knew of any other
offers. Later, she was awarded
two scholarships for Brown Uni-
versity, one for Yale, and one for
Radcliffe. Characteristically, she
accepted the last, said Mr. Weiss,
for although it was a smaller
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At the 57th Commencement Ex-
ercises of Bryn Mawr College, de-
grees of Bachelor of Arts were
conferred upon 126 Seniors. Miss
Park announced Ellen Stone as the
54th European Fellow. There was
no alternate; Miss Park conferred
the following degrees:
Candidates for Degrees
Bachelor of Arts
BIOLOGY
Alice Myra Dickinson    New Jersey
Margaret Sanderson Oilman
may mi cum Utudt Rhode Island
Catherine Capel Smith New York
Constance Lee Stanton Michigan
Eleanor Christine Waples    Illinois
CHEMISTRY
Louisa Hill Alexander
Pennsylvania
Judith Bregman
cum hiude                     New  York
With   Distinction
Evelyn Ash I lodes
cum laude                Pennsylvania
Lilli Schwenk
magtm cum Utudt        New Jersej
With  Distinctions
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Army, Navy and Girls
Swelter at '43 Prom,
But  Music  is  Hotter
Gymnasium, Saturday, Man SO,
�Dancing on the roof was the |
only solution to the heat problem \
at the Junior Prom. But even the
weather couldn't discourage Herby
Woods who proved even hotter.
The United States Navy, The Brit-
ish Navy, the "Wavy Navy," and
the Army were in greatest promi-
nence. Cutfng was at a minimum
because of the shortage of men,
but the party never dragged ;i
mad dashes were made in the di-
rection of cool air after each dance.
The only other mishap was a
last-minute telephone call from the
orchestra leader.    He had just no-
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Miss Park Discusses
Concepts of Liberty
In Speech to Seniors
Goodhmt, June f,�Addressing
the 57th graduating class at Bryn
Mawr, President Park turned to-
ward the future and discussed the
nature of character and the kind
of liberty necessary to mend this
war torn world.
This character, which Bryn
Mawr has tried to build by unceas-
ing pressure in academic work, by
allowing freedom and sometimes
inefficiency and disagreement in
student affairs, is necessary to un-
derstand and help the future of
civilization. "Civilization," she as-
serted, "may either end in the
prophesied band or the prophesied
whimper. If it is not to end so it
is becaused thinking has been done
by   the  best   of   your  generation."
"Liberty," Miss Park continued,
"has got to be redefined and re-
constructed." In modern history
there have been three main con-
ceptions of individual liberty "gone
wrong." The first, which the Puri-
tans had, was bigoted. The Puri-
tans set the value of their own in-
dependence high and that of any-
one else low. "They allowed them-"
selves and no one else choice, de-
cision, control, growing space."
The second variety, found in
Hemingway and Oscar Wilde char-
acters. .Miss Park considered to be
a far greater menace today.
"These live their lives regardless
of the common good and unharn-
essed to any common purpose."
Third is the type of liberty that
restricts individual liberties. This
is the basis of American civil
rights, indeed of Self Government
at Bryn Mawr. This conception
seems to be the fairly successful
solution for the homogeneous
group, but, Miss Park stated, "it
fails or is only half effective in^the
heterogeneous group when the in-
dividual patterns which impinge on
each other are too various and too
powerfully drawn."
"To beat the way to conception
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Committees Abplaud
Defense Groups* Help
The American Defense Group
wishes to announce with pleasure
and some pride that the final sum
achieved in its recent war relief
drive is 1697 dollars ai*d 25 cents,
derived from direct contributions
and the sale of benefit movie tick-
ets, flowers and articles d:splayed
at the College Inn and the Book-
shop.- The three letters which fol-
low below are really addressed to
the three hundred contributors who
made up this total. In addition to
the sums mentioned. 21 dollars and
75 cents was allocated to the Red
Cross and about 77 dollars is still
to be turned over to the British
War Relief Society.
Dear Mr. Doyle:
I wish to express deenest grati-
I'ontlnued on  Page  Five
1942 Yearbook Appears Original and Novel
But Lacks Integration of Component Parts
By Lenore O'Boyle. '43
The 1942 Yearbook is apparently
an attempt to achieve something
more original and satisfying than
the standard. It is unfortunate that
it is, on the whole, so unsuccessful.
Several of the ideas are good.
Campus organizations and activi-
ties are usually given little atten-
tion. The same is true of the clubs.
Those things which have special
significance for this year's class,
the defense courses and new aca-
demic experiments like_the Eight-
eenth Century course, are right-
fully singled out for attention.,
Perhaps the most successful fea-;
ture is the section on the'Depart-
ments, with its effective balance of
pictures and frequently amusing
writing.
Unfortunately, the faults are
more striking than the virtues. The
arrangement of the book as a
whole lacks the essential minimum
of  continuity.     In   a commendable
effort to gather together all the
activities which have formerly n
received too little attention, the
editors have given us a variety
which is often bewildering rather
than pleasing. The individual page
arrangement is no better, failing
to achieve coherence or emphasis.
The chief failure lies in the strik-
ingly low quality of the photog-
raphy. -Too high an average of the
Seniors' pictures are poor, and the
snapshots are often too small and
sometime- even faded. Nor do the
Colored pictures come out as well
M they should.
Much of the writing is very good
and very amusing. It may be a
matter  of   personal   preference   as
to how much writing there should . \
be. 5*n this Yearbook there is an
unusually large amount, and par*
hap- it would have been more
effective and better for the indi-
vidual page arrangement to have
put more emphasis or the pictures.
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