College News, 1941-10-08, Vol. 28, No. 02

              College News
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VOL. XXVIII, No. 2
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER r;*!**!    *
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Bryn   Mawr   ColltQt,   1�40     r*'*-c    lu   V^C^lJ
Immediate W*ar Is
Opposed In Poll by
A Slight Majority
Vote of 223 to 187 Splits
Halls, Majors, Classes
On War Issue
b.)
c)
The only unanimous opinion re-
vealed by the poll conducted last
week by the News is the belief that
the Allies are not yet beaten.
Aside from this heartening fact,
the questionnaire indicated a split
in campus opinion. Two hundred
and twenty-three, or about 54.7
per cent of the 410 students polled
were not in favor of declaring war
immediately; 187, or about 45.3
per cent approved aV^claration of
war. The results of the poll are
tabulated below:
1.   Are you  in favor of declaring
war now?   Yes, 187.   No, 223.
If "yes," is it because you be-
lieve:   (Check one or more),
a.)   An Allied victory is es-
sential to world democ-
racy?    123.
An Allied victory is es-
sential to U. S. democ-
racy?   76.
Our    immediate    entry
would be more effective
than an inevitable later
entry?    149.
If  "no," is it because you  be-
lieve:  (Check one or more),
a.)   We can  aid  the  Allies
sufficiently   without  en-
tering the war?        120.
U. S. is not yet materi-
ally prepared to declare
war?    121.
This is not the strategic
moment for the U. S. to
enter the war? 54.
Our aid is not necessary
for an Allied victory? 3.
Allies are already beat-
en; we would be enter-
ing a cause already lost?
0.
War would jeopardize
democracy in U. S.? 26.
Victory of the Allies is
not essential to our wel-
fare?   9.
Victory of the Allies is
not  essential   to   world
welfare?    11.
You    are    against    all
war?   43.
Do you believe aid short of war
is possible?    Yes, 212.    No,
190.
3.   Which of the following do you
feel should most concern you,
as a college student?   (Check
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Red Cross Nursing
Given at Bryn Mawr
3 Months' Practical Training
Shortens Required Course
For Nurses
b.)
c)
e.)
f.)
fir.)
h.)
i.)
This summer a Red Cross
Nurse's training camp had its head-
quarters for twelve weeks on the
Bryn Mawr campus. Established
as a step toward increasing the
nation's supply of well qualified
nurses enabled by superior prep-
aration to participate effectively in
.he health services of National De-
fense, it was modelled on a similar
camp held at Vassar in 1918.
The Red Cross underwrote the
summer's intensified preclinical
course for college graduates in con-
junction with Bryn Mawr and the
Woman's Medical College in order
to speed up the usual three year
course required for nurses. Those
completing the summer course en-
tered accredited nursing schools
this fall.                                � �
The students, among whom were
Helen Sobol and Francis Lewis,
Bryn Mawr, '41, paid a nominal
fee of $100.00 for the summer's
course.
Dr. Dorothy S. White, chairman
>f the executive committee of the
camp summarized in a letter to the
Xews. "It is too soon to evalu-
ate entirely the effect of the work
this summer," she said . . . "but
certain things stand out definitely
. . . First, it was an experiment
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Miss Park Calls
Immediate
On Each Individual To Make
Final Decision About World War
2.
Gassner to Instruct
Playwriting Course
In Theatre Workshop
In about two weeks the Theatre
Workshop will be remodelled.
This will be done under the direc-
tion of Mr. John Gassner, the visit-
ing professor from New York who
will give the playwriting course
this year. The Workshop will be
done in a modern manner, realistic
yet formal, fit for all kinds of
plays.
Mr. Gassner plans to start his
class with simple monologues, work
up to one act plays, and end with
a major production for spring.
These plays will be acted and di-
rected by members of the Players'
Club as well as by the class. To
cooperate effectively, Players' Club
members who are cast for parts in
these original plays will probably
attend some of the classes. A
short play/ has already been writ-
ten by Isabel Martin, '42, and will
?oon be given.
Senior Elections
The Senior elections for
the present year are as fol-
lows:
President,
Jocelyn Fleming
Vice-President,
Marion Chester
Secretary,
Elizabeth Ken-
Song Mistress,
Mary Brook Hollis
Enrollment, Plans for Year
Announced in Opening
Fall Chapel
��
First of Greek Art
Flexner Lectures To
Be Given by Richter
Dr. Gisela M. Richter will de-
liver the first of the five Flexner
Lectures on The Art of Archaic
Greece against its Historical Back-
ground, in the Auditorium of Good-
hart on Monday, Oct. 13th, at 8.30
P. M. The lecture is titled: The
Ait of Mainland Greece muter the
Aristocrats and under Solon and
Per hinder.
Dr. Richter, curator of Greek and
Roman Art at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York since
1925, has been with the museum
since she first came to the United
States in 1906. Daughter of a
well-known art critic, she studied
at Cambridge University, England,
. pecializing in archaic Greek sculp-
ture, from 1901-1904, and was
British Scholar in Archaeology at
Athens, Greece, in 1904-1905. She
is an honorary member of the So-
ciety for the Promotion of Hellenic
Studies and associate editor of the
American Journal of Archaeology.
Dr. Richter is responsible for
many recent acquisitions of the
Metropolitan Museum's Greek and
Roman section. Well known both
in the United States and abroad,
Dr. Richter is, to quote Mr. Rhys
Carpenter, "an example of the fact
that women make quite as good
archaeologists as men."
Goodhnrt Auditorium, Tuesday,
September 30.�Plans for the col-
lege year, new fellowship appoint-
ments, a large and diverse Fresh-
man enrollment, and two important
gifts to the college were an-
nounced by President Park in her
address at the Chapel which inau-
gurated the fifty-seventh academic
year.
Miss Park reported on the sum-
mer activities on campus: the ses-
sions of the International Rela-
tions Service of the Friends Serv-
ice Committee; and the thirteen
weeks' course of the Red Cross
Nurses' Training Camp. With a
committee representing the Red
Cross, the Woman's Medical Col-
Contlnued on Vage Six
Opinion Groups in U.S.
To Be Considered in
First   College   Forum
Alumnae Redecorate
Rooms for Writing,
For Precious Books
The Old Order Changeth, Giving Place To
Bathtubs, Showers, Sinks and Chromium
By Mary Barbara Kauffman, '43
The  trouble with  Bryn  Mawr's
sanitary facilities is one of dispro-
portion.
Wyndham has approximately one
bath tub for every four persons.
The German House has two for its
12 inmates, but you can't regulate
the water. However, until recently,
there was a part of Denbigh�that
highly civilized hall�which offered
door didn't even lock.
.Miss Thomas once announced in
an assembly that any student who
didn't take three baths a day was
a danger to society. This would
mean that, allowing half an hour
per bath, the bathroom should be
in constant use for 15 hours of the
day, and, if one takes time out for
meals, there shouldn't have been
one   waking   moment   when   that
room was empty.
Whether it ever was empty we
-hall not say.
But. like the old order, the hall's
conditions have changed. Some
even think improved. The bath-
room of Denbigh's "Chicken Coop"
was done over last summer.
The tin, four-footed tubs have
been replaced by porcelain footless
specimens.    The crude, antiquated
one bathtub for ten people, and the* basins have yielded to square ones
of shimmering white. Grey show-
er curtains for three new showers
blend harmoniously with chrom-
ium accessories; the whole is a
masterpiece of functional art.
Public opinion approves, except
for one perfectionist. "There are
not any paper towels," she said.
"And the water's not running.
But," she added a little more gent-
ly, "it's nice to have" good lights."
The Rare Book Room, which
was furnished by a gift of the
Class of 1912, will be open to any-
one during stack hours. At present
the room contains rare books owned
by the library. Later it will also
be used to display borrowed col-
lections. A collection of incuna-
bula is on exhibition now in the
table case and is arranged to show
different kinds of page forms and
types used in the 15th century. In
the cabinet against the wall there
are 16th century books showing
various interesting printers' de-
vices used on title pages.
The old seminar room to the
right of the reading room has been
refurnished by a gift of the Class
of 1907. Its comfortable chairs
and excellent lighting are designed
for anyone writing long papers or
doing other special work.
The New Book Room has two
reserved shelves this year, one on
the "Present Crisis" and the other
on "Recovery of Ideals." The lat-
ter was the outgrowth* of an idea
of Miss Cornelia Meigs arid Mr.
Chew, and contains such books as
those on the life of Christ and on
Father Damian.
Carrels have now been placed
on the second of the three floors of
the West Wing stacks.
The members of last year's group
for research and forums on cur-
rent problems have been constituted
a guiding committee for the pres-
entation of at least six open for-
ums this winter.
The forums will raise questions
as to the implications of current
events, and will emphasize the
changes occurring now. It is im-
portant, the committee feels, to dis-
cuss these changes and to develop
an inquiring attitude. It has no
unified, partisan policy, but wishes
to do revealing and thorough re-
search on all problems considered.
At some of the forums outside
speakers will be presented. At
others, undergraduates will discuss
the interpretation and potentiali-
ties of the present situation or
will present special topics. Each-
forum will be open afterwards for�
comments and questions from the
floor.
The members of the committee
are: Vivi French, Ellen Stone,
Nancy Ellicott, Rosalind Wright,
Helen Resor, Louise Lewis, and,
ex officio, Joan Gross. There will
be opportunity for the election of
additional members during the
year.  '"
The first forum, which will be
presented near the end of October,
will deal with the different kinds
of opinion groups in the United
States. There will be later ones on
the changing government of the
United States, inflation, labor, and
governments of the South Amer-
ican republics.
President Declares Herself
Ready to Ask End
Of Neutrality
Goodhnrt Auditorium, Tuesday.
September JO.�President Marion
Edwards Park, in a speech mark-
ing the opening of the fifty-seventh
academic year, called upon each
individual to make a final decision
about the present World War. The
necessity for immediate decision
is greater than the advantages of
the noncommittal "openminded-
ness" to which we have clung for
too long, she said; and declared "I
for one am ready to. ask that the
government should abandon its
non-belligenerency, whether by ab-
rogating the Neutrality Act, break-
ing off diplomatic relations with
Germany, or declaring war."
Distaste for a final decision has
been an index of our thought for
twenty years, said Miss Park. The
older generation lost its self-con-
fidence when it saw failure follow
the first World War; the younger
generation, granted a new freedom,
has not met its opportunity with
assurance and responsibility. In
the face of the world conflict we
have hesitated, counting our rea-
sons for postponing the choice.
Hatred of war, deep uncertainty
as to what the outcome of this war
can be, recognition of democratic
failings in England and Russia,
and the knowledge that we have
still to perfect democracy at home
�these have been our reasons for
delay. But, Miss Park insisted,
"beside them in their evident truth
and reality is this morning a
stronger truth and reality still." It
is our responsibility "to protect
fundamental freedoms, threatened
in Europe, threatened only less di-
rectly and less immediately in this
hemisphere."                                   ,
With final decision, we must ac-
cept change, less prosperous times,
sharp demands upon our energies.
Completion of our college educa-
tion will give us skills more valu-
able than knitting. And increased
democratic thinking and practice
will fit us to work for the new
world   which  we hope for.
Calendar
October 7
International Relations
Club   tea,   Common   Room,
4.30   P.   M. ,
October 8
French Club .tea, Wynd-
ham, 4.30 P. M.
October 9
College Council. President's
House, 6.30 P.  M.
October  11
French Oral, 9-10.30 A. M.
October 13
Flexner lecture, Dr. Gisela
M. A. Richter, The Art of
Mainland Greece under tlte
Aristocrats and under So-
lon and Periander, Good-
hart, 8.30 P. M.
Honorary   Degree
Given Miss Swindler
By Indiana University
Miss Mary H. Swindler, of the
department of archaeology, was
awarded the degree of Doctor of
Law last June by the University
of Indiana, where she delivered the
C mmencement Address.
The degree of L.L.D. is always
an honorary one, and, a rare thing
in itself, is all the more so when
it is awarded to a woman by a co-
educational university. Miss Swin-
dler took her bachelor's and mas-
ter's degree at the University <>t'
Indiana  in   1905 and   190t>.
Among the factors-which led to
her receiving the award are her
book on Ancirn* Pointing, publish-
ed in 1929. and her work for the
American Journal of Archaeology,
of which she has been the editor-
in-chief during the-past ten years.
"But what impressed me most,"
she remarked, "was that I had to
deliver the Commencement Address
in a stadium with eight thousand
people, and that thirteen hundred
students received degrees."