College News, 1942-11-18, Vol. 29, No. 08

              The College Mews
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VOL. XXIX, No. 8
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1942
Copyright,   Trustee*  of
Bryn   Mawr   College.   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
History of Near
Eastern Problem
Is Given By Dean
Trend of Islamism in East
To Reinforce Growing
Nationalism
Common Room, November 17.�
Mrs. Grant, speaking for the first
time before the college, discussed
in Current Events the history and
problems of the Near and Middle
East.
Since 19l8 the countries form-
erly composing the Ottoman Em-
pire have been distinguished by
,              two conflicting aspirations.  All de-
^^-^ sire to adapt and use Western poli-
tical and economic techniques, yet
each is determined to shake off the
dominant influence of the Western
nations. This situation is compli-
cated by the revolutions in com-
munications, industry, and agri-
culture that have come about in
this region. As each nation be-
comes more Westernized, the
stronger becomes its desire for in-
dependence from the West.
Mrs. Grant stressed the fact that
this phase of Near Eastern his-
tory is merely the latest in a series
of epochs of interaction between
East and West. With the begin-
ning of the breakdown of the Otto-
man Empire in the early nine-
teenth century, the modern period
began, characterized by two great
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Six Freshman Plays
Are to be Presented
The Freshman Plays this year
will be given on the 20th and 27th
of November at the Theater Work-
shop. The Merion Play, The Prin-
cess Marries the Page, by Edna
St. Vincent Millay is being per-
formed on the 20th. The director
is Betty Dallam, '45, its stage
manager is Estelle Morrison, '45,
and the freshman actors are: Pa-
tricia Turner, Georgiana Wieben-
son, Hannah Kauffman, Dorothy
Craig, Ellen Harriman, April
Oursler and Barbara Williams. As
the title suggests, the play is a
fairy tale of a page who is a spy in
the castle of the lovely princess'
father, and who falls in love with
the princess.
Also on the 20th is Shall We
Join the Ladies?, of J. M. Barrie,
to be given by Rhoads. It is a
light melodrama whose plot is not
to be revealed since it depends
mainly on suspense. Carol Wilder-
muth, '45, is directing, and Mar-
garet Hilgartner, '45, is stage
manager. The actresses are:
Nancy Crawford, who has the lead,
Roxa Lee, Eleanor Stein, Carolyn
Manning, Eveline Hitz, Barbara
Johnstone, Leila Jackson, Edith
Fincke, Lucia King, Dorothy
Bruchholz, Margaret McCewer,
Continued on Page Three
Engaged
Nona Piwowski, '45, to En-
sign   Harvey   Levin,   USNR.
Keo England, '45, to Stew-
art Mittnacht, USNR.
Irma Pines, '44, to Arthur
Briskin.
Anita McCarter, '43, to Lt.
(j. g.)  Carl  Wilbur, USNR.
Ann Deming, '46, to Lewis
Walton, Marine Reserve
Corps.
Barbara Sage, '43, to En-
sign Carl Barns, USNR.
Married
Mimi Wurtzburger, '46, to
Richard Siedman, U. S. Army.
"Hotel Unherse" Stage Crew is Impressed
By Unprecedented Efficiency of Haverford
By Alison Merrill, '45
Out of the cold onto the cold
stillness of the stage comes a colder
Haverford man. "Where are the
lights?" says he. Someone points
off-stage and he exits slowly, say-
ing, "I don't know anything about
lights, you know." We wait for
the explosion. It doesn't come.
Haverford is efficient. "Haverford
is wonderful," says stage manager
and designer Marnie Kirk, '44,
wiping her hands on her plaid
shirt.
The scene is Goodhart's stage;
the time might be somewhere
around midnight or any afternoon;
the setting is a vague conglomer-
ation of blue sky, cardboard boxes
and unpaintcd wooden structures;
the actors are few but efficient.
Julie Turner and Norman Peterkin
are construction managers, Pris-
cilla Stern and Sam Fox are in
charge of lighting. Mary Sax,
Adelaide Burnett, and Estelle Mor-
rison of the weaker sex, and Ernie
Heimleich, Art Belle, and Ed
Thomas of Haverford have for two
Summer Camp Gave
Slum ChildrenHoliday
In Two ft eek Periods
This summer the Bryn Mawr
Camp again provided a vacation
at the seashore for sixty boys and
girls from Philadelphia slums. Lo-
cated in a rented house at Stone
Harbor, New Jersey, the camp was
held for a session lasting through
June and July. It was headed by
an undergraduate chairman, Helen
Eichelberger, '43, and an assistant
chaiiman. A kindergarten worker
and trained nurse were also pres-
ent. They were assisted by stu-
dent volunteers who attended, as
did the children, for two-week
periods.
The children ranged from three
to nine years of age. Their back-
grounds were varied and nation-
alities ranged from Irish to Fili-
pino. Swimming and playing in
the sand were the main diversions
of the day. After supper, group
games such as red-light were
played. Crafts were also taught�
Continues on Tag* Four
Pembroke Defeated
In Hockey Conflict
By Mary Virginia More, '45
Sunday dawned fair, bright, and
bursting with elation. It was to
witness a mighty conflict, for it
was decreed that Pembroke and
Rhoads should this day match col-
ors on the hockey field.
At two-thirty (or thereabouts),
the appointed hour, down trooped
the Pembroke cohorts, decked in
brave red, and down trooped that
of Rhoads, singing the following
words to the tune of "The Road To
Mandalay:"
Oh, the Rhoads will conquer Pern
Sad, there is no hope for them,
Although they strive to keep alive,
Their honor to defend.
For although our number's great
We can all cooperate
To triumph with all our umph,
And   send   poor   Pembroke  to   its
fate!
(These words should be marked.
They carry great significance in
the light of future events.)
The lineups formed and faced
each other. What surprises did
not ensue! For facing a hardened
Varsity player would be that girl
who never before had laid hand to
stick, having turned up for the
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weeks been doing the dirty work
for the joint production of Philip
Barry's Hotel Universe, to be given
in Goodhart on December 5 and 6.
Hotel Universe, the Stage Crew
says, "is really a challenge," not
just another Stage Door or Gilbert
and Sullivan. It is a new play and
the stage crew is trying to support
it by giving it the set and lighting
t deserves, an impressionistic set
which will carry out in concrete
form what the play says. Says
Designer Kirk, "It's an experiment
in stylized setting."
"We're doing fine," is the gen-
eral consensus. The stalwart stage
crew expects to meet the deadline
easily, barring great mishaps or
priorities   on   paint.
"We're very patriotic," they
boast, pounding old, bent nails into
shape before our eyes, "We've only
bought one little pound bag of
nails." Patriotic they are, saving
every piece of scrap metal for the
Scrap Metal Drive and building
everything in their one set them-
selves.
Reality  of Imagery
Asserted by Salinas
At Spanish Club Tea
Common Room, November 12.�
Speaking at the Spanish- Club Tea,
Mr. Pedro Salinas asserted that
there is more reality in imagery
than in fact. In order to prove
this, he analyzed an Eclogue of
Garcilaso de la Vega, a sixteenth
century poet, and showed how the
poet formed two different charac-
ters from  his two states of mind.
He was an hombre universal,
noted for the grace and humane
quality of his poetry, said Mr. Sa-
linas. The greatest influence on
his life and works was an unfor-
tunate love affair with a certain
lady of the Portuguese Court, Isa-
bella. She disdained him and mar-
ried another, embittering the repu-
diated Garcilaso. Later, he receiv-
ed the news of her death while he
was away at war.
In the Eclogue analyzed by Mr.
Salinas, Garcilaso presents two
shepherds soliloquizing on their un-
fulfilled love. The first shepherd is
bitter and resentful towards the
shepherdess who has spurned him.
The second, who has just learned
of the death of his lady, forgets
her faults and glorifies the quali-
ties he loved in her.
The shepherd imagery makes the
contrast of the two states of mind
of the poet more real and vivid
than if he had merely described
them, maintained Mr. Salinas.
Calendar
Friday, November 20
Freshman   Plays,   Theatre
Workshop,   7.30.
Sunday, November 22
The    Reverend    Howard
Thurman,     Music     Room,
7.30.
Monday, November 23
Mr.    Anderson,    Informal
discussion on Washington's
Wartime, effort, tea, Com-
mon' Room,- 4.00.
Tuesday, November 24
Current Events, 7.30.
Wednesday, November 25
Spanish    Club    Tertulia,
Radnor, 7.15.
German Club Tea, German
House, 4.00.
Thursday, November 26
Vic Dance, Pembroke East,
9.00 -12.00.
College Assembly Held in Honor
Of International Students9 Day
Student Conference Held;
Extension of Draft
Discussed
The International Student Serv-
ice held a conference in Washing-
ton last weekend to discuss College
Students in wartime. The focus
of attention was on the War Man
Power Board and how its regula-
tions will affect colleges. The I.
S. S. was chiefly interested in the
tremendous effect the draft of 18
and 19-year-old boys will have on
enrollment and to what extent this
will curtail the colleges. A number
of institutions will be forced to
close, but perhaps this could be
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Catholic Club Meets;
Church and Fascism
Subject of Lecture
The Catholic Club's first meeting
of the year was held at a tea given
in Wyndham on Sunday, November
15. Miss Lograsso presented an
informal lecture on Catholicism
and the War. She stated the posi-
tion and attitude of the Roman
Catholic Church in relation to Fas-
cism.
Miss Lograsso explained the
great variance in attitude shown
by the direct statements against
Fascism by the American bishops
and the petition for the Spanish
people to follow Franco, issued by
the Spanish bishops. It must be
remembered that the Spanish bish-
ops were under the rule of a dicta-
torial government, while the Amer-
Continued on   ra^r   Four
Talks on Indian Freedom,
Student Cooperation
Are Given
Goodhart, November 17. � At
the International Students' Day
Assembly Jessie Stone, '44, told of
the need for cooperation among
students of all lands on the basis of
common. auti-.fascist aims. Dr.
Chandra Sekhar", speaking for the
students of India, made a plea for
India's liberation. He said that it
"should give a moral basis to our
war aims." To demonstrate the
necessity of Indian freedom he
cited the lot of the colleges in In-
dia.
Dr. Chandra Sekhar protested
against the present ignorance of
and discrimination against India.
Indian students want the same
freedom and rights that we have.
At present sixteen colleges in In-
dia are closed because 8000 stu-
dents and teachers are in jail, and
they are there because they want
freedom. Those students are the
ones whe "must be the future
leaders."
Churchill's statement at Man-
chester that the Atlantic Charter
did not apply to India is the cause
of "a new wave of bitterness," for
now the Indian sees no chance of
freedom under any ruler. Dr.
Chandra Sekhar illustrated this
feeling by quoting Ghandi's state-
ment as to what he would do if
Bombay were bombed by the Nazis.
Ghandi would do nothing�for in
aiding the Germans he would only
be changing German Imperialism
for British Imperialism.
The attitude of the Indians to-
ward the British is one of confu-
Continued or. Paite Three
English Majors Frantically Search College
For Elusive Ghouls and Virgins on Reserve
By Jessie Stone, '44
Some weeks ago senior English
majors were searching the college
for a book, reportedly on reserve.
The book was called The Contrast
Between the Influence of the Cult
of the Virgin on Medieval Archi-
tecture and the Influence of the
Druids on the Barbaric Architec-
ture of Western Wales, author un-
known. It has not yet been found.
But it has neither the colorful his-
tory nor the importance of the lat-
est book alleged to be on the Eng-
lish Comprehensive Reading Re-
serve. This last is a four volume
tome called The Influence of the
Gothic Ghouls on the Vestigial
Remnants of Romanticism in the
Late Nineteenth Century, by Ar-
thur E. Dunge, and hereafter to be
referred to as "The Vestigial Rem-
nants."
The Vestigial Remnants was
originally supposed to have been
put on reserve by Mr. Herben. Ac-
cording to her garbled tale, Bill
Williams was the last to see it on
reserve. And Carla Adelt is rush-
ing around madly looking for the
third volume. When the English
majors became a little worried
about the continued absence of the
book they asked Mrs. Flower for
her opinion on the matter. She re-
marked that it was in Dr. Chew's
field, the Gothic, and that he would
probably be able to enlighten them.
When they finally saw Dr. Chew
in Romantics Comprehensive Con-
ference, he had to confess that he
hadn't read it. He ventured the
thought that it must be a Doctoral
Thesis and said further that he
could see how it could very well be
worked up into an interesting pa-
per. Finally, Dr. Chew referred
his bewildered class to Miss Wood-
worth.
It is now a question of which
will be found first, Miss Wood-
worth or The Vestigial Remnants.
Every English major has to have
the entire Vestigial Remnants read
by Christmas.
It is currently rumored that
Miss Terrien suggested looking in
the Catalogue for The Vestigial
Remnants. Some seniors feel im-
pelled to order it through Miss
Reed.
An eminent senior English ma-
jor interviewed on the subject of
The Vestigial Remnants was mov-
ed to verbosity. She said: "This
treatment of library property is
scandalous. It should be punished
by a life expulsion from the stacks.
If they (the four volumes) don't
turn up soon, we will personally
conduct a search of Radnor. The
only other copy is to be found in
the Huntingdon Library in Califor-
nia. It is rumored that Mr. Her-
ben is specifically including a ques-
tion on The Influence of the Gothic
Ghouls on the Vestigial Remnants
of Romanticism in the Late Nine-
teenth Century in comprehensives.
No English major writ be gradu-
ated without summarizing the
whole four volumes."
Relief to Baby-Sitters
The Bureau of Recommen-
dations is sorry about the
dissatisfaction among the ba-
by-sitters and is having a
meeting this week to cleaq
up the matter.
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