College News, 1943-02-24, Vol. 29, No. 16

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The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 16
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1945
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr  College,   1943
PRICE 10 CENTS

Campus Approves
Planned Assembly
Series This Year
Most Against Compulsory
Attendance; War Talks
Arranged
In the campus poll on the ques-
tion of required assemblies 181
students voted for the plan as pro-
posed, while 188 approved the as-
semblies if attendance were not
required.
Since thsse represented a large
majority of the votes, a series of
assemblies with non-required at-
tendance is being planned by a
joint committee of students and
faculty.
The series will deal generally
with the background and course of
the war. Members of the faculty
and a few people from outside will
be the speakers. Before each lec-
ture a bibliography will be posted
and the books listed will be avail-
able in the Reserve Room.
The assemblies, with the excep-
tion of the first, will be held on
Wednesdays from 12:30 until 1:30
P. M. Classes on those days will
start at 8:30 A. M., and lunch will
be served at 1:30.
The tentative plan for the series
is as follows: March 1�11:00 A.
M.: Causes: Diplomatic and Politi-
cal. Mr. Wright; March 10�12:30
P. M.: Ideology: Fascism in Three
States; April 7�12:30 P. M.: Rus-
sian Communism and American
Democracy: April 14�12:30 P. M.:
Congress and War and Peace Pol-
icy; April 21�12:30 P. M.: Course
Continued on  Tajje Two
Junior Class Nominates Candidates ^men Delight
t      tt      i    r c  irs>                        a   9   College With Fast,
for Head of delf-borernment Ass n EntertainingShow
Individual Talent, Dancing,
Errol Flynn Highlight
Production
Wright Will Discuss
The Causes of War
At Monday Assembly
Dr. Quincy Wright, professor of
International Relations at the
University of Chicago, and author
of A Study of War, will speak on
the political and diplomatic causes
of war at an assembly on Monday,
March 1. His most recent book
A Study of War, is the result of
the research that he has been di-
recting at the University of Chi-
cago since 1926. This study has
included work on over sixty differ-
ent phases of war and internation-
Continued on  Pmu� Five
Erich Frank Treats
Relationship of Time
And Idea of Creation
Juniors Nominate Tappen, Stevens, Hobson
And Lucas for Undergraduate Presidency
GRAHAM HOBSON
Duty  of   Officer   Includes
Coordinating Student
Activities
The Junior class has nominated
Katherine Tappen, Diana Lucas,
Phebe Stevens and Graham Hob-
son as candidates for the presi-
dency of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation.
The president of the Undergrad-
uate Association is the coordinator
of all undergraduate extra-curric-
ular activities. This includes the
following up of the activities of
the clubs, responsibility for the
work of the Sub-Freshmen, the
Entertainment, the Vocational,
the Employment, the Record Li-
brary, New Book Room and Cur-
riculum Committees, and the plan-
ning of social affairs. The presi-
dent is the representative of the
undergraduates in their relations
with the faculty, the administra-
tion, halls, visitors and speakers
on campus. She is head of the
College Council on which are also
Goodhart, February 22. �"The
problem of creation presents the
question of the interrelation of
creation and time," declared Dr.
Erich Frank in his lecture in the
Flexner series, entitled The Prob-
lem of Creation. Dr. Frank pre-
sented the differences between the
Greek and the Christian views on
this problem, and the relation of
the modern thought to them.
The question of whether the
world is eternal introduced the ele-
ment of time into the problem of
creation. The Greek's God was
only an artificer and not a creator,
for he did not create the world out
of nothing, but out of Chaos. To
the Greek the world is eternal, and
by eternal they meant an- ever-
lasting present. The true creation
is that of the Jewish-Christian
tradition � creation by a trans-
cendent, eternal God. To the
Christians eternal meant timeless-
ness, and therefore God is beyond
time.
The nature of time has always
been a problem to philosophy. Ac-
cording to the theory of Augus-
tine, which was adopted by Kant,
time exists only in passing and is
a product of the soul. It is our
Continued on  Page  Two
PATRICIA ST. LAWRENCE
St.    Lawrence,   Chadwick,
Stevens and Brunn
Nominated
DIANA LUCAS
representatives of Self - Govern-
ment, the League, the Athletic As-
sociation, the College News, all
classes, graduates, alumnae and
faeulty.
Continued on  Page Two
Calendar
Saturday,  February 27
Basketball Game with Ur-
sinus.    Gymnasium.
Faculty  Show.    Goodhart,
8:30.
Sunday, February 28
Mrs. Arthur Goodhart.
Certain Aspects of War
Work in England. Dean-
ery, 6:00.
Chapel. The Reverend
Cornelius P. Trowbridge.
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, March  1
College    Assembly.       Dr.
Quincy    Wright.       Good-
hart, 11:00 A. M.
Art   Club   Tea.    Common
Room, 4:30.
Flexner lecture. Drt
Erich Frank. Letter and
Spirit.    Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, March 2
,    League     Tea.        Common
Room, 4:30.
Current -Events. Common
Room, 7:30.
Wednesday, March 3
Badminton game with
Swarthmore. M e r i o n
Cricket Club, 4:00.
Th3 Junior class  has  nominatd
Patricia  St.   Lawrence,  Phebe Ste-
i
I vens, Mary Sue Chadwick and Jean
! Brunn as candidates for the presi-
dency of the Self-Government As-
i sociation.        �
The president of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association is responsible
for the conduct of the student
body. She must pass judgment on
all cases of violation of the rules
of the Association and must her-
self, in the more serious cases,
establish contacts with the mis-
creants. In other cases her con-
tact is through the members of the
executive board and the hall presi-
Contlnued on Page Five
By Anne Denny, '43
For Whom the Sirens Scream
combined all the traditional take-
offs, with a fair amount of plot to
present a really amusing and fast-
moving production. Missing from
this year's leg-show was the usual
artificial pauses for the songs;
added were Errol Flynn and Mr.
Herben.
The spy-plot was at times con-
fusing, chiefly due to the fact that
the members^of the spy ring were
scarcely audible in their first scene.
But the thread of coherence was
sufficient to save The Sirens from
the disjointedness of so many for-
mer shows. A few outstanding
comediennes and a bagful of good
tunes with clever lyrics were '46's
trump card*.
Edith Fincke as the Bryn Mawr
version of Mata Hari broke a long-
standing tradition of poor Fresh-
man torch-singing. She played the
| part of the siren with amazing
finesse. The Sirens did not go out
of its way to be risque, but when
the opportunities arose it made the
most of them. The Errol Flynn
song, we predict, will be sung well
: into the future, and the smoking
room scene quips will long be re-
membered.
The usual satire on the Greek's,
and on Haverford were exception-
ally well done. Biffy Horax was
a distinguished Haverford fresh-
man, and the jitterbugs, Connie
Chester and Diana Hamon, stopped
the show. The latter were called
' for an encore on the basis of their
�lead   pan   expressions   and   lubri-
t rl    hips.     The    small    details
h -h made the scene a success,
. u:!i as the take-off on Carrie,
were typical of the thoroughness
with which the show was directed.
The singing of the octet offered
relief from the continually shouted
choruses, which are inevitable
when large groups of non-singers
are included. The Yale songs were
sweetly done, and the introduction
to the auction was very effective.
The dancing was well planned,
but not so well executed. The
limited number of rehearsals is
Lpossibly the answer. The soloists,
on the other hand, were excellent.
Beverly Shy showed remarkable
ability in the power house dance.
Continued on  Page Two
Brown domes Through Again, Though Bored
And Cramped in the Black Hole of Calcutta
who wanted to know how he did
feel read Thurber's The Male Ani-
mal. "Delighted and flattered,"
but not floored by the Freshmen
request, Mr. Herben said, "I got
over being surprised at anything
that   happens   on   the   Bryn   Mawr
Alison Merrill, '45
Sylvia Brown has done it again!
A few technicalities and a few
Freshmen with ropes got in her
way so that she didn't equal her
brilliant coup of the Parade Night
Song, but Brown, 1945, sauntered
in among hordes of hysterical open- campus"fifteen "years' ago'
ing-night Freshmen and walked
off with their animal song, slipping
it out the window to waiting part-
ners in crime. A 7:30 deadline,
which the Sophomores didn't know
about and the Freshmen didn't
know that the Sophomores didn't
know   about,   made  the   effort   all
vain.     For   hours   afterward*^   in   a   room   where   she   �w�
in
while Sophomores thumped her on
the   back   and   Freshmen   cursed,
Sylvia thought the animal was a
snake.
Mr.  Herben did not feel like a
snake.    He suggested that anyone
1946, in a last effort to see, hear,
or smell the Freshman animal,
posted three sacrificing girls near
the backstagg, dressingN-ooms on
Saturday^ night. Ty Walker locked
herself in a cubicle for two swel-
tering* hours. Carol Ballard lurked
behind a cupboard.    Sylvia Brown
tangled up with some sort of ma-
chinery with pipes and levers that
I was dying to pull." Outside
Goodhart, Nancy Sapp, Sophomore
Song Leader, and an ally walked
Continued on Par* *'iv�