College News, 1943-05-01, Vol. 29, No. 23

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VOL. XXIX, No. 23
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1943
R. Frost States
Meter Must Fit
Essence of Idea
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr College.  1943
PRICE 10 CENTS
Use of Words and Rhyme
Must be Controlled
Says Poet
Goodhart, April 29.�"A poem
should be at least as good as the
equivalent prose, or why should
we have poetry anyway?" said
Robert Frost. He explained that
to him the most instinctive and
basic approach to poetry is "just
through rhyme and meter," plac-
ing this above even the dramatic
and the metaphorical.
Describing his own reaction to
a new book of poems, he told of
his random selection of a stanza to
determine "what the going idea is,
whether it is sacrificed to the
rhyme or the meter." From that
evaluation alone, he claimed, he
can distinguish a bad poet from
a good one.
Weak   rhyme   and   meter  must
never   be   allowed   to   restrict   or
change the idea, for "a poem is the
having of an idea."     Even more
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Summer War Courses
To be Offered at B. M.
Three training courses for war
work will be conducted on the Bryn
Mawr campus this summer. Un-
der the Engineering, Science and
Management War Training divi-
sion of the U. S. Office of Educa-
tion, courses in Analytical Chem-
istry and in Chartography and
Photogrammetry will be given.
The U. S. Public Health Service
will sponsor a summer school of
nursing.
The Analytical Chemistry course,
the third of its kind to be offered
at Bryn Mawr, will run for ten
weeks from June 21 until August
30. Students will do in all four
hundred hours' work, working from
9 to 4 each weekday and from 9
to 12 on Saturdays.
The course is intended to train
analysts for work at the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard or in chemical in-
dustries. A large percentage of
the women employed at the Indus-
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Philosophical Society
Elects Miss Swindler
Miss Mary Hamilton Swindler,
Professor of Classical Archeology,
has been elected to the American
Philosophical Society, the oldest
and most famous scientific society
in America. Among the five hun-
dred members, there are only
about five women.
Membership in the society, since
its foundation in 1743, has in-
cluded the names of the most dis-
tinguished men of science on both
continents. The yearly elections
are limited to fifteen residents of
the United States and three from
foreign countries.
Miss Swindler graduated from
Indiana University, where she was
acting dean for a few summers.
She was awarded an L.L.D. from
that college last year. She re-
ceived her Ph. D. at Bryn Mawr
and has been teaching here since
1911.                                         N
In 1913, her monograph "Cretan
Elements in the Cult and Ritual of
Apollo" was published. In 1929
"Ancient Painting," an authorita-
tive book on ancient art, was also
published. Her attributions on
fifth century red figure vases have
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Officers Represent
Women's Auxiliaries
In Service Assembly
Goodhart, April 27.�The con-
tribution to the war effort of the
women's Reserve Services, and the
particular functions and aim of,
each of these Corps were described
by Major Ruth Cheney Streeter,
Captain Jessie Rice, and Lt. G. T.
Palmer in a college assembly last
Tuesday. Major Streeter and Lt.
Palmer, Bryn Mawr graduates,
spoke for the Marine Corps and
the WAVES and SPARS respect-
ively. Captain Rice represented the
WAACS and discussed their train-
ing and actual part in the war.
The Marines, said Major Street-
er, head of the Marine Corp's
Women Reserve, do not wish to
remove women from other parts of
the war effort, but they feel that
the military services which women
can enter to release men for fight-
ing should have precedence over
studies for post-war reconstruc-
tion. Since the youngest draftees
now rarely have more than two
years of college education, Major
Streeter questioned whether girls
should expect more than two years
in college. She explained the
structure of the Women Marine
Reserve, and the ratio of officers
to the enlisted personnel. Promo-
tion through the ranks is encour-
aged. Marine Aviation, she said,
now wants one half the Reserve
personnel.
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11 inehman Memorial Award Won by Blakely;
Jean E. Hoopes Receives Brooke Hall Prize
Miss  McBride  Reads  List
Of Annual Scholarship
Awards
Sir Gerald Campbell
To be Park Lecturer
Sir Gerald Campbell, G. C. M.
G., the British Minister and Spe-
cial Assistant to the British Am-
bassador in Washington, will be
the first speaker under the lecture-
ship given by the college in honor
of Miss Tark.�The subject of his
talk to be given on May 10 will be:
Facts, Fantasies, and Wishful
Thinking for the Future.
Sir Gerald has been in the Brit-
ish Foreign Office for many years.
He was formerly the Director-
General of the British Information
Service in New York. He has also
been the High Commissioner for
the United Kingdom in Canada,
the Consul-General in New York,
San Francisco, and Philadelphia.
Prior to jobs in North America,
he worked in Addis. Ababa as con-
sul, and as vice-consul in Venice,
the Belgian Congo, and Rio de
Janeiro.
Sir Gerald has received honor-
ary degrees, LL. D., and D. C. L.,
from many colleges and universi-
ties here in the United States, and
in Canada.                      _
MARY  STUART  BLAKELY
Manning  Emphasizes
Role of 'Human Heart'
In Military Strategy
Goodhart, April 22.�The com-
mon soldier and the total war
civilian, armed and unarmed,
were the subjects of Dr. Man-
ning's lecture, the fourth in the
series of war assemblies. Discuss-
ing some Military Aspects of the
War, Dr. Frederick J. Manning,
professor of History at Swarth-
nore College, stated that "strategy
must be based on a fluid and
changing method of tactics" and
that these tactics must recognize
the "all-importance of the human
heart."
Dr. Manning named the ele-
mentary vocabulary of the mili-
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JEAN HOOPES
Students of Biology
And Physics Honored
By Academic Awards
The scholarships giving the
greatest academic honors to mem-
bers of the Junior Class, the
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
and the Charles S. Hinchman
Memorial Scholarships have been
awarded to Jean Hoopes and
Mary Stuart  Blakely.
Jean Hoopes has been awarded
not only the Brooke Hall Scholar-
ship, but also the Elizabeth S.
Shippen Scholarship for distinc-
tion in Science and the Trustees
Scholarship. Prepared by the
Philadelphia High School for
Girls, Jean entered college with
the class of 1945 on the Trustees
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The awarding of the annual
scholarships was announced by
Miss McBride in the May Day
Assembly. The Charles S. Hinch-
man Memorial Scholarship given
each year to the student who
shows the greatest ability in her
major field, was received by Mary
Stuart Blakely, a biology major.
Mary Stuart was prepared by the
Lincoln Central High School in
Binghamton,   New   York.
Jean Hoopes was awarded the
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship which is
given to the members of the Junior
class with the highest average. She
also won the Elizabeth S. Shippen
Scholarship for excellence of work
in a science and a Trustees' Schol-
arship. Jean is a physics major
and was prepared by the Philadel-
phia High School for Girls.
The Sheelah Kilroy Memorial
Scholarship, awarded for excell-
ence of work in second year of ad-
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Hansen Will Consider
Post - War Economics
The eminent economist, Alvin H.
Hansen, will discuss Economic
Problems of the Post-War World
in the fifth of a series of alliance
war assemblies on Wednesday,
May 5, at 12:30. The Lucius N.
Littauer professor of Political
Economy at Harvard University,
Dr. Hansen is especially noted for
his work on the monetary theory.
At present he is particularly con-
cerned with using public spending
Flashing Red and White
Give Unexpected
Lights, Blackouts,
Quirks to WHAV Efforts
By Virginia Belle Reed, '44
In the beginning all was chaos
with the embryonic radio station
WHAV. President Morley's blan-
kets draped the studio walls, and
the unexpected made hectic the
lives of the radio club. The walls
are now beaver-board, but the un-
expected remains with them con-
stantly. The record changer is
faced as often as not with the in-
surmountable task of playing the
"Blue Danube" as already an-
nounced, with nothing on hand but
"You Are My Sunshine" or some-
thing equally incongruous. Little
events such as tuning in "Lum and
Abner" in the midst of a heavy
French Orals Give Weird View of Chaldea
As Students Blithely Interpret Geography
By Mary Virginia More, '45
We, never able to resist our in-
tellectual curiosity, have again
turned to the Orals to acquire
knowledge. It is now our pleasure
to impart what we have learned
to those of you who were not so
fortunate as to be able to get at
the original source. In hopes that
the following information will
help you better to understand con-
ditions "over there," we take you
to Chaldea.
Chaldea is a dry place. There,
"scarcely has one some short
showers" and "hardly are there
any short waves." The sky�and
this is quite lovely�the sky has
an "untouchable" serenity. Taking
these facts .into consideration, it
is  lucky  that  as  the  Nile  is  to
Egypt so are the Tigris and
Euphrates to Chaldea. You may
be asking yourselves what this
particular relation of the Nile to
Egypt is. The Nile, by its "indi-
gestible particles," "renews eter-
nal life" in Egypt's fields. The
Nile "is of the same origin as the
Euphrates and the Tigre," and
thus it is closely apropos to men-
tion it here in connection with
Chaldea. They (the Chaldeans)
also have a few short streams
filled at the change of the seasons.
L'hiver (we skip I'ete, because
we find it means "it has been"),
brings the winds. Soufflent-ils du
sud (i. e., "if they suffocate from
the south") they (the winds)
quickly lose their humidity from
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drama, and misplaced sound ef-
fects due to the squeaky studio
door keep the members apoplectic.
Once the tuning gadget was pulled
out a yard instead of the usual
quarter of an inch and the rest of
the evening was spent in frenzied
efforts to get it back so they could
start to broadcast.
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Nevertheless, the radio club as-
serts smugly that it has achieved
quite a professional atmosphere,
with red and white lights to signal
in the studio when WHAV is on or
off the air. Minor catastrophes
such as new engineers with nerv-
001 enthusiasm dotting the red and
white lights back and forth in syn-*
copated rhythm can, however, be
interpreted as anything at all by ,
bewildered announcers.
On a certain spectacular night
last week one of the announcers
failed to show up at the station,
necessitating an ad-lib program,
and some of the records went awry, j
calling for more ad-libs. The |
strain was beginning to tell, but
things were still progressing when
the blackout signal was heard.
This was rather terrifying as no
one knew how to announce a black-
out. A Haverford man rose to the
occasion, however, and produced a
beautiful speech to the effect that
WHAV would remain on the air
during the blackout, stating it in
terms of comforting certainty.
They promptly went off the air.
The main electricity switch had
been pulled, and the studio was
plunged into abysmal darkness
to their boundless astonishment.
The unexpected had won again.
as a means to handle the prublem
<;f the business cycle and full em-
ployment. Since the excessive
boom or excessive stagnation which
he wishes to prevent in the post-
war world have their roots in pre-
sent fiscal policies, he is partic-
ularly concerned with these now.
Dr. Hansen has been a member
of numerous economic committees.
He was director of research and
secretary of the Committee of In-
quiry on National Policy in Inter-
national Economic Relations in
1933-1934, and was economic ad-
visor to the Prairie Provinces be-
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Notice on Entertain-
ment for Service Men
The chief centers enter-
taining service men have es-
tablished definite rules for
the volunteers who help in
their programs. Certain of
the more important rules are
common to the U. S. O., the
Stage Door Canteen, and
Miss Ely's Club. <These are
as follows:
1.  Volunteers work for
definite  hours.
2.  They must report to
the hostess in charge on their
arrival.
3.  They may not leave
during the period in which
they are on duty.
4.  They may not leave
with service men.
All students will observe
the rules established by these
organizations. New rules
will be reported for the stu-
dents' information if they
are introduced.
Katharine E. McBride.
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