College News, 1941-11-12, Vol. 28, No. 07

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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1941^;^ t?uium "41  price  10 CENTS
Forum Analyzes Pressure Groups;
Describes Special Interest Lobby
Farm, Industry and Labor
Organizations Outlined
And Evaluated
Common   Room,   November   6.�
The    Farm    Bloc,   manufacturers'|
groups and   Organized   Labor are j
potential or active pressure groups.
This  was  the  theme  of  the  first
Forum of the year.
Rosalind Wright, chairman of
the meeting, emphasized the im-
portance of organized lobbying.
The majority of groups maintain
rffices in Washington, present their
demands and the number of votes
they can rely on, when asking sup-
p it in Congress.
Farm Bloc
In the 1920's the Farm Bloc
showed its influence, said Nancy
Evarts, by effective efforts to al-
leviate conditions due to agricul-
tural depression. Because of the
need for action, the Bloc was bi-
partisan.
After 1924 the Bloc ceased to
function completely as a group, but
three large organizations today
work for the interests of the
farmer: the National Grange, the
Farmers' Educational and Co-op-
erative Union of America, and the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. These were instrumental in
the passage of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act.
Although these groups are now
split on the question of national
policy, united action by the Bloc
is a potential force.
Industry
Business and ftanqe have carried
Continued on Page Vive
The Undergraduate Association
dtres have been set at $3.50 because
of a deficit of $50 with which it
began the fall term. Since the
Association had no money this
fall, it was forced to borrow $50
from the Self-Government Asso-
ciation to pay the Parade Night
hand.
Because certain items, such as
the Forum, undergraduate assem-
blies and the sending of delegates
to intercollegiate conferences, arc
expanding indefinitely, it is impos-
sible to estimate an accurate bud-
get for the coming year.
The   Undergraduate   Board   de-
termined   on   the   amount   of   the
dues from the budget of the  pec
iod   April   19,   1940,   to   April   19,
1941:
RECEIPTS
Balance forward ........$1032.15
Dues    ..................  1501.50
From the college for Pay
Day     Mistresses     and
Monitors   .............    290.00
From     second-hand     caps
and   gowns   ............       90.45
Loan from  Self-Gov......    150.00
From    League   and    Self-
Continued on Page Six
Calendar
Wednesday, November 12
Meeting    of    the    College
Council, College Inn, 6.30.
Thursday, November  13
Group Leadership Lecture,
Common  Room, 7.30.
Saturday, November  15
Dr.   Fieser.     Cancer  Pro-
ducing Hydrocarbons.   Ten-
nent    Memorial     Lecture,
Dalton, Room 208, 8.15.
Tuesday, November 18
Virginia   Cowles.     Behind
tlw     Scenes     in     WUTOpe,
Goodhart, 8.30.
Thursday, November 20
Thanksgiving Vacation.
Foreign Students at Bryn Mawr
Present Assembly on Education
News Correspondent
To Describe Travels
Northrop Indicates
Surplus of Incomes
Should Be Absorbed
Industrial    Group    Stresses
Importance of Emergency
For Labor
Richter Summarizes
Archaic  Creek  Arts
In  Flexner  Lecture
Victory
The Undergraduate Asso-
ciation announces that the
Activities Drive has reached
the goal of $4,400. The
hoard of hall representatives
will meet soon to decide the
allocation of the $1,000 fund
for foreign and domestic re-
lief. The Bryn Mawr
League, the Hudson Shore
Labor School, the Summer
Camp, the Players' Club, and
the Refugee Scholarship
Fund are the other benefici-
aries   of  the   drive.
Goodhart, November 10.�In her
fifth lecture, Miss Richter returned
again to the art of the Greek main-
land, to discuss its development in
the last quarter of the sixth cen-
tury and the first quarter of the
fifth century, B. C. It was during
this period that Persia, having
crushed the great Ionian revolt of
199 B. C, turned westward. Greece
was devastated by wars for over
thirty years before the Persian
forces were turned back, never
again t<> menace western civiliza-
tion.
In Athens, soon after the death
of Peisistratos in 527, a tyrannical
form of government was replaced
by th'e first known democracy. The
victory at Marathon in 490 proved
the strength of the new regime.
Art also did not suffer. A group of
kore from the Acropolis show that
Attic art In the late sixth century
continued on Page Three
Common  Room.  November 5.�
.Miss Northrop, at the year's first
Industrial Group meeting, spoke of
the necessity for intelligent absorp-
tion of the surplus income created
by our shift to war-time economy.
The importance for Labor of the
present emergency was pointed out
by members of the Industrial
Group of the Germantown Y.
To avoid inflation, prices must be
controlled. A ceiling for wages has
lieen discussed in ('endless. Miss
Northrop said that the .control of
wages would onlattie Labor's hands
By iloing away witli individual
bargaining.
She discussed two methods to
counteract surplus income. The
first consists of a great Increase in
taxation, while the second and
more satisfactory plan is that of
forced saving. Forced saving can
be brought about by an extension
of social security, or by the partial
Continued on  l*;itsa Four
Theater Workshop Equipment Completed;
Players Delighted With New Improvements
By Alice Weil. '43
The Theater Workshop is finally
equipped. A week ago Monday,
curtains and lighting facilities
were installed, and the stage is no
longer just a barren hole in the
wall.
After months of expectation, we
were not disappointed. Not one
inch of the ceiling and sides of the
stage can now be seen from any
part of the auditorium. They are
successfully masked by grey rep
stage draperies, which are an inno-
vation in stage decoration. Their
neutral coloring makes them more
adaptible to lighting than the tan
or brown ones previously used. A
royal blue front curtain is doubly
effective because of a slight blue
tinge in the grey curtains on stage.
The one overworked light on the
stage can at last be relieved. Eight
Birdseye lights, the latest thing in
lighting equipment, have been in-
stalled. These amazing tiny lights
can be changed from spots to floods
merely by the removal of the filter.
Screens will be used instead of
flats. Since they can be used on
both sides, they will simplify set
construction, and furnish another
example of the adaptibility of the
new equipment.
The credit for the installation of
�quipment goes to Mr. Sondheimer
�and Mr. Bowditch of the New
School of Social Research in New
York City, who accomplished the
job in an amazingly short period
of time. It must be admitted that
most of the innovations were
adopted at their suggestion.
The members of the cast of
"Stage Door," who use the stage
for rehearsals, when asked for their
reactions, exhaled tremendous sighs
of relief. In fact, the only dis-
gruntled observers seem to be the
cast of one of the Freshmen plays.
Arriving at their allotted time at
the Workshop that weekend, they
were sent home again minus a re-
hearsal. Even they, however,
seemed to feel it was worth it.
Eighteenth Century
Ideas of Acting
Combined by Garrick
Roberta Hull. Haverford, Novem-
ber 7, 1911. "The eighteenth cen-
tury had two conflicting ideas con
cerning Shakespeare," said Dr.
Edgar Wind, of the Warburg In-
stitute, who has spoken at Haver
lord in other years on the Sistinc
Ceiling and Raphael's School of
AthetiH. "Some u|iheld him as ;i
child of nature, while others in-
sist, -d on the melancholy nobility of
his genius." These two ideas were
united in the actor, David Garrick.
A painting of the infant Shake-
speare between the muses of
Tragedy and Comedy and watched
over by a white robed Nature done
by Romney toward the end of the
century, typifies the attitude of the
child-of-naturc school. They tried
to make him intimate and familiar;
they made pious attempts to paint
him as a rough unshaven peasant.
Mrs. Siddons, brought to fame by
Reynolds' portrait of her as The
Tragic Mime, began a school of act-
ing composed of grandiloquent and
noble gestures and poses. She and
Kemble "anticipated modern ham
acting which relies on posture,
noble diction, and action for all its
effects," said Dr. Wind. This type
of acting had to be supported by
elaborate stage scenery such as
wind blown on the stage to ruffle
the hair. They idolized Shake-
speare until the church felt it
necessary to exhibit a painting of
Continued on  Page Five
Virginia Cowles, European Cor-
respondent for two London news-
papers, will speak November 18, at
8.30 in Goodhart Hall, on her ex-
periences as a roving reporter.
Miss Cowles began her career as
a foreign correspondent during the
Spanish Civil War. She was in the
Sudeten Land at the time of the
Nazi Anschluss, and in Paris the
day it was invaded. She has also
interviewed most of the war lead-
ers including Churchill, Mussolini
and Eden.
The proceeds of the lecture will
go to the Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Self-Gov.  Proposes
Changing Permissions
A mass meeting of the Self-
Government Association was held
Monday evening at 7.15 in the
gymnasium to discuss abolishing
special permission for playing vic-
trolas in private rooms, eating in
the village, parties in other halls,
and the need for a 12.15 special
permission for eating in Philadel-
phia if escorted.
The board proposed that Sec-
tion 12, B. 2, which reads, "Special
permission to play a victrola in
private rooms may he given at the
discretion of the Hall President,"
be incorporated with .'! of B, Sec
tion 12, to read: "Students may
have radios and rictrolas in their
rooms provided that they cannot
be heard outside of the rooms dur-
ing quiet hours." It was also pro-
posed that special permissions be
eliminated for parties in other
halls and for eating in the village
until  11.30.
A new regulation, allowing stu-
dents to obtain special permission
until 12.15 for eating in Philadel-
phia if escorted, was  proposed.
There will he voting on these
resolutions Thursday evening at
hall  meetings.
Aims    and    Achievements
Of   Foreign   Schools
Are   Evaluated
Goodhart, November 11.�Knowl-
edge creates a responsibility both
in those who impart it and in those
who receive it. This was the chief
conclusion of the college assembly
on education, presented by Bryn
Mawr foreign students. The eight
speakers, each from a different
country, were representatives of a
larger group, which for the last
two weeks has been discussing in-
ternational educational problems.
Refugee  Tradition
As chairman of the assembly,
Mme. Dony. warden of Wyndham,
explained that America, with the
recent influx of scholars from all
over the world, has Inherited the
"refugee tradition" and become the
center of learning. Refugees feel
responsible for the high standards
of this tradition.
European  Unawareness
Most of the speakers felt that
the intellectuals of their countries
had been unaware of the impending
catastrophe in Europe and of its
effects upon free education. In
Germany, Ruth Fiesel said, the in-
tellectuals, the faculties of uni-
versity's, if they had been fully
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Arthur Menken Will
. Speak November 24
Mr! Arthur Menken, Paramount
News and March of Time pho
tographer, will speak on The Bot-
tle for the Pacific Monday, No-
vember 24, in Goodhart Hall, at
8.30   P.   M.
Mr. Menken has covered the
Spanish Civil War, the capture of
Nanking, the Russian invasion of
Finland, for these organizations,
and was at Dover during the at-
tempted invasions in September of
1040.
The lecture is under the spon-
sorship of the College Entertain-
ment Committee.
Learning Shines at Radnor. 120-Watt Strong.
And Standard of Living is Well Above Par
By Janet Meyer. '42
The graduate students live at
Radnor and they do lire. When the
question is studied rationally, the
conclusion that they are human is
not <i;tficult to reach. There are
two girls within their ranks who
have only reached the delicate age
of nineteen. The average for the
whole group is between twenty and
twenty-one. Why, they might be
you�or "me�or just anybody. They
spend their idle hours at the mov-
ies, buried in mystery stories (just
like those in the Pern East!1 smok-
ing-room), and play bridged This
game of bridge is a vital part of
their lives. They play "inspira-
tional," "chop-suey," or "vile"
bridge, as the occasion demands.
So do we. I can stretch that
graduate - undergraduate analogy-
even further. Dinner conversation?
It's not the "will the Russians win"
type at all.
However, there are certain im-
portant differences between the
two. Sloppiness and unwashed hair
are more characteristic of the un-
dergraduates, Radnor believes.
To the indecisive undergraduate
there is certain general information
which must be divulged. Entering
graduate   school   does    not   neces-
sarily imply that you are doomed
to he an old maid. Don't wince,
but these sage authorities claim
that the modern B.A. is equivalent
to the high-school certificate so far
as employment possibilities are'
concerned. Furthermore, as an un-
dergraduate, little specialized
knowledge is acquired, and mere
intellectual curiosity should inspire
more work than a flimsy B.A. re-
quires. However, it is a fallacy to
believe that the biologist necessar-
ily wants to end in a test-tube, the
geologist in an anti-cline, and the
sociologist in a slum. Graduate
students just want jobs�and not
behind a counter.
As to the idea of cementing
graduate-undergraduate relations,
they approve. They believe that
the work on this week's assembly
shows the fruits of co-operation,
and would encourage further work
along these lines. But establishing
friendly relationships is all they
aim at.
A conclusion is now in order:
the light of true learning indeed
shines at Radnor�with a hundred
and twenty watt bulb; but only for
[ about six hours of the day, they
claim. Any other idea is a mis-
conception.