College News, 1942-03-04, Vol. 28, No. 17

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The College Mews
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VOL. XXVIII, No.  17
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4,  1942
Copyright,  Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr   College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS

W.H.Auden Gives
First of Chinese
Benefit Lectures
Noted  Poet Says  Writers
Can Now Go Back to
Proper Jobs
Theatre Workshop, March 1.�
"Now that the war is on, as wri-
ters we can now go back to our
proper job," declared W. H. Au-
den, first speaker in the series for
the benefit of the,Chinese Scholar-
ly
ship Fund.
The Auden group began a liter-
ary movement to%bring art into
contact with life. Since profes-
sional politicians were not taking
the Chinese and Spanish wars ser-
iously, they felt they had to be-
come reportorfal, and to give the
public a social-conscience. Mr.
Auden confessed they all enjoyed
those years very much, feeling
"terribly important." The trouble
was not their subject matter, but
that they were writing news and
not doing it as well as professional
journalists.
Mr. Auden believes the trend of
art is now definitely away from
reportage and political subjects.
"A writer is more apt to do a
Biography of Erasmus during a
war than a White Cliffs of Dover,"
but whatever they write it will be
relevant to contemporary events,
though it may not mention air-
planes or submarines. "I find my-
self interested in finding out what
kind of mind it's possible to fight
a war on," he confessed.
Mr. Auden read from his own
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Activities Committee
Submits Report of
Budget Distribution
Summer   Camp   and   Labor
School Receive Major
Allocations
Report of the Activities Drive
Committee
The money raised by the Activi-
ties Drive this year is being dis-
tributed according to the original
budget:
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp..$1200
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Alfred Barr to Give
1943 Flexner Lecture
Orals
No undergraduate may of-
fer a second examination in
the same language in one
academic year, unless she
can satisfy the chairman of
the Language Examination
Committee and the Dean
that she has made a serious
effort to prepare for the ex-
amination. This rule will
apply to Seniors.
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr., di-
rector of the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, will be the
speaker for the Flexner Lectures
next year. He received his A.B.
and A.M. degrees at Princeton and
studied further at Harvard. He
has been instructor in history of
art at Vassar, assistant in fine arts
and archeology at Princeton, and
since 1929, director of the Museum.
He is also a trustee for the insti-
tute of Modern Art in Boston, and
was one of the editors of Art In
America. Mr. Barr's lectures will
probably be on Aspects of Modern
Art, and it is hoped that exhibits
can be brought to the college and
shown during his say here.
First Aid Maintains Priority in Popularity
As Defense Courses Complete Fourth Week
By Sally Mam-son, '43
After four weeks of the new de-
fense courses, all sorts of people
find themselves equipped to do all
sorts of things. The air raid war-
dens have been whizzed through a
streamlined First Aid course,
pruned down to cover only those
injuries which would be likely to
occur in case of "an incident," as
they call it. Snake bites were
omitted.
Bryn Mawr's noble fire-fighters
brought their stirrup - pump and
bucket brigade technique into play
in a gallant, though somewhat in-
effectual, battle with a bonfire be-
hind the power house. They have
also had proved to them by �Dmc
distressingly convincing movies
that a magnesium bomb is almost
impossible to extinguish.
The people taking the course in
office techniques are seeing a light-
er side of the defense picture. They
are setting up, in theory, a branch
of a Union, Maine, home-made
food concern on Peach Street, in
Wilmington, Delaware. In consid-
ering all the problems which would
face the founder of a new office,
they write reports home to Union,
see that there is enough room
around each desk, and map out the
floor-space so that the routes most
traveled by the office workers will
intersect as little as possible. The
placement of the water-cooler
seems to be a vital factor.
Bed-making and a nice-smile-
for-the-patient are the things peo-
ple learn in Nurses' Aid. Over in
the Bryn Mawr Hospital last week
they practiced giving Mrs. Page a
bed-bath. Mrs .Page is a life-sized
doll minus hands and feet, with
her joints patched with adhesive
plaster. This week the Nurses'
Aiders will work on themselves.
Standard First Aid is the way
most of the people have chosen to
be on the alert. Every Tuesday
and Wednesday night hordes troop
down to the gym, where sometimes,
kneeling in a large circle, they
salaam in a peculiar way to the
mystical refrain, "forward, swing,
release, rest, rest." At other times
they beset Miss Jaeger with para-
doxes: "If you were being chsaed
by a bear and the only way of
escape was by swimming across a
river, but you had just had a large
meal 15 minutes ago, what would
you dp?"   What would you do?
MARY   RAMBO
Athletic Association
Presents Boal, Wells,
Rambo, Hardenbergh
Elections   Will   be   Held   on
Wednesday,   Thursday,
March   11,   12
Nominations for head of the Ath-
letic Association are Mimi -Boal,
Betty Wells, Mary Rambo and
Masie Hardenbergh. The activities
of the candidates, listed in the
order nominated, are as follows:
Mimi Boal
Mimi Boal, a former member of
the class of '42 who is spending this
year in Central America, was last
year Junior member of the Self-
Government Association, vice-presi-
dent of the Athletic Association,
and captain of the swimming team.
She was a member of both the
swimming and badminton teams
for three years.
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Murray to Speak on
Psychology of War
Dr. Henry A. Murray, associate
professor in psychology at Harv-
ard University, will speak at an
Undergraduate Association Assem-
bly on March 9. His subject will
be "The Psychological Aspects of
the World Conflict." Dr. Murray
is doctor of medicine and holds a
doctorate of philosophy in bio-
chemistry from Cambridge Uni-
versity. At present he is not only
associate professor in abnormal
and dynamic psychology.^ but he
also heads the psychological clinic
at Harvard.
Dr. Murray's career includes as
much study of bio-chemistry as of
psychology. For two years he in-
terned in surgery and later made
research studies in physiology, bio-
chemistry, and embryology. He
worked under Alfred Cohn at the
Rockefeller Institute and under
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Matthai Elected;
Matteson, Sage
Revote Thurs.
Bryn   Mawr   League,   A.   A.
Elections   to  be   Held
Next    Week
Faculty Committee
Approves Three Year
Acceleration Program
Committee,      Major      Dep'j
Must  Agree  to   Plans
Of Individuals
The Curriculum Committee, in a
meeting on February 23, 1942,
passed on plans for an accelerated
college program.
The committee recommended to
the faculty that certain students
for whom an accelerated program
is important be allowed to complete
the work for the B.A. degree in
less than four years. All plans for
such acceleration will have to be
approved in advance by the Com-
mittee on Curriculum, the student's
major department, the department
in which the summer work is to be
done. Acceleration is expected to
be carried out at special summer
sessions (longer than the usual
summer school) at approved uni-
versities.
Miss Ward presented a report on
her study of the problems of an ac-
celerated program. She has met
interested students of the Junior
and Sophomore Classes. Freshmen
will be interviewed shortly. Many
of the students were advised to
pursue more profitable alternatives.
Some of the students have serious
reasons for acceleration such as
entrance to medical school, gradu-
ate school and defense positions.
Frances Matthai was elected
president of the Self-Govcrnment
Association in the revote held on
March 3. The revote was between
Frances Matthai and Barbara
Sage.
On Thursday, March 5. there will
be revoting between Sally Matte-
son and Barbara Sage for president
of the Undergraduate Association.
Elections for president of the
j Bryn Mawr League will be held on
i March 9 and 10, and Athletic Asso-
jciation elections are scheduled for
] March 11 and 12.
In order to win in the first vote,
j the  candidate  must  poll  20   more
votes  than  the  sum  of  the  votes
polled by other candidates.
Matthai Will Move on
Cat Feet Among the
Signing - Out   Books
"Oh, I'm going to be bad,
Frances." They walked right up
and said it without a qualm, filing
by in masses, for the new presi-
dent of the Self-Government Asso-
ciation, Frances Matthai, is small.
Her friends in reassurance now
designate her as THE DICTATOR.
And will there be firing lines at
dawn? And will they build Jeru-
salem in England's green and
pleasant land? "It won't be that ob-
vious," says Frannie. "You'll just
wake up and someone will be gone."
Another redskin. The Lavender
shirts will do the trick. The Bryn
Mawr Gestapo will move-silently
among the signing out books.
Lavendar for Bryn Mawr�the in-
tellectual touch.
And platform. "It's just steps,"
she said, "and no platform at all."
... "I think something has to be
done she went on meditatively, "but
I don't know what something is."
Calendar
Friday, March 6
Anna Howard Shaw Lec-
ture. Manley O. Hudson,
The Regional Development
o f International Law,
Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.
Monday, March 9
Undergraduate Assembly.
Dr. Henry A. Murray, The
Psychological Aspects of
World Conflict. Goodhart.
Forum on Education. Miss
R o b b i n s , Miss Taylor,
Sheila Gamble, Mary Gum-
bart. Common Room, 8.00
P. M.
Thursday, March 12
Frank A. Arnold, Radio in
War Time, Deanery, 8.00
P. M.
Potential  Fifth  Columnists  See  Processes
For Making Supposedly Non-Existent Tires
By Barbara Hull, '44
Making tires is not a simple pro-
cedure. We realize this after per-
sonally inspecting the Lee tire fac-
tory in Conshohocken. In spite of
the fact that production is being
curtailed, they are making tires
for military and essential defense
purposes. We were able to follow
the entire process from the piles
of crude rubber to the last paint
job on the Lee trade mark.
s We waited anxiously in a huge
room filled with busily clicking
comptometers and typewriters,
wondering whether war production
would scare the authorities into
thinking that we were fifth col-
umnists in disguise. Finally we
were introduced to "Frank," who
led us past racks of unmolded
tires to a large room containing
bales of crude rubber. These were
about two feet long and a foot
square, grey in color. Here he
began his lecture, trying to keep
it as untechnical as possible. He
had apparently decided that we
were not science majors. Even so,
with the noise of the factory and
the unfamiliar terms, we required
repeated explanations, after which
Frank  often  replied,) "Sure, clear
as  mud,"  to  our  nods  of  under-
standing.
We watched the crude rubber
come out of the "hot box," broken
down into smaller pieces ready to
be loaded with sulphur and other ,
materials into wagons which were
weighed to determine whether the
correct amounts were present. Our
guide explained that the ingredi-
ents were varied for the different
stocks. An exact temperature of
278 degrees was maintained in the
squeezing machine by means of
refrigeration. This steady heat
and pressure reduced the raw ma-
terials to a bubbly, uneven sheet
of black dough-like texture. A
cocoa smell was identified as car-
bon.
From a complicated system of
belts and pulleys, wer which the
rubber was run, Frank pulled a
sample to illustrate that this was
now being "cracked" to complete
blending. The impure molten mass
was then forced through a machine
on a conveyor belt, coming out in
uniform strips, which were weigh-
ed and shot up to the fourth floor.
Things here became a bit hazy
and there were so many pressing
and cutting machines making
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