College News, 1943-01-22, Vol. 29, No. 13

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VOL. XXIX, No. 13
BRYN MAWfc and WAYNE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943
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Watkins, Merrill
Describe Efforts
by 'College News'
Evarts,   Iseman   Speak  on
Different    Aspects
Of Problem
Book-of-the-Month Club Makes Selection of Exposition Given
Miller's "Origins of American Revolution"p|"** """V
Goodhart, January 11:�The
College Sews gave an Undergrad-
uate Assembly last Friday morn-
ing. The* three divisions of the
News board were represented.
Nancy Evarts, Editor-in-Chief,
spoke on the aims and functions of
the Sews on campus. Alice Ise-
man, Copy Editor, described some
of the problems confronting the
cx Sews and the possibilities of sur-
mounting them, while Elizabeth
Watkins, of the Editorial Board,
stated the importance of freedom
of the Press in the results accom-
plished by college editorials. Nancy
Scribner outlined the function of
the Sews off-campus, and Louise
Horwood presented a picture of the
activity of the Business Board.
Three speeches on the Sews in
action were also given. "To convey
a complete idea of the Sews," said
Miss Evarts, "we should have to
produce an issue here for you."
These speeches described the actual
production. Jessie Stone read a
freshman's unbiased description of
the Sews office, and Alison Merrill
pictured the Editorial Board at
work. Edith Dent did the same for
the Subscription Board.
Referring to the Editorial policy,
Nancy Evarts emphasized the fact
that the Sews is primarily the en-
tire College's medium of expres-
sion. She also stressed the impor-
tance of such expression in stimu-
Contimted on Page Four
Undergraduate Ass'n
Sponsors War Chest
Drive at Bryn Mawr
Specially contributed by the
Undergraduate Association Board
This Sunday, January 24th,
Philadelphia, opens a drive for the
United War Chest. Every person
in college will be asked to con-
tribute�the faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students, the maids
and porters, and members of the
staff. Give all that you can and
realize the enormous difference this
work makes to people whom the
war has affected directly. We ex-
pect one hundred percent support
and look on this drive as one de-
manding giving which is also giv-
ing up. This is the only drive to
be conducted on the campus this
college year for war relief.
It is unquestionably the most
direct way to support organiza-
tions you want active as never be-
fore.    Your  money will  go to:
1.  Chinese, British, Greek, Rus-
sian, Polish and Dutch War Re-
lief, in the form of mobile kitch-
ens, food, clothing, medical sup-
plies, ambulances and aid to war
prisoners.
2.  United .Charities Agencies
which help one out of five persons
in the Philadelphia Area with
hospital, clinical, nursing, and
many other services.
3.  The National U. S. 0. Cam-
paign, which will finance YM and
YWCA's Traveler's Aid, and USO
Service Clubs. There are 800
units in this country.
Calendar
Friday, January  22
Last day of lectures for
the first semester.
Saturday, January 23
Mid-year examinations' be-
gin. French Senior condi-
tion examinations, Taylor
Hall, 9.00.
Tuesday, February 2
Mid - year examinations
end.
Wednesday, February 3
Vacation.
Thursday, February 4
College    Assembly,    Good-
hart, 9.00.
Second semester classes
begin.
Saturday,  February 6
Jean Seznec,                       ,
Common Room, 8.15.
Monday, February 8
Rheinhold Niebuhr, Col-
lege Assembly, Goodhart,
10.00.
Flexner lecture. Dr. Erich
Frank. Philosophy and
Religion.    Goodhart,  8.30.
Tuesday, February 9
College Council, Presi-
dent's House, 6.30.
Dr. Frank to Return
As Flexner Lecturer
The first of six Flexner lectures
on Philosophy and Religion will be
given by Dr. Erich Frank, dis-
tinguished German scholar, on
Monday, February 8, at 8:30 in
Goodhart Auditorium.
Dr. Frank has lectured at Bryn
Mawr before, during the second
semester of 1939-1940. His lectures
were so popular that they increased
in attendance to the extent that
they had to be moved from the
Music Room to Goodhart Auditor-
ium. During his residence on cam-
pus Dr. Frank also conducted a
Seminary on Aristotle. He lectured
at Swarthmore the same year,
and from there went to Harvard,
where he was given a professorship
in the Philosophy Department.
Dr. Frank has written a book
on the relation of Plato to Pytho-
gorean philosophy, which is con-
sidered the foremost work in the
field, and which is referred to in
histories of philosophy as the out-
standing authority.
In addition to the Flexner lec-
tures he will conduct informal dis-
cussions on contemporary German
philosophy, particularly in rela-
tion to Jaspers, one of the expo-
nents of the so-called "Existence
Philosophy."
Choice Announced Friday;
Miller Admits Feeling
Dazed
JOHN   C.  MILLER
Wilson Lauds Joyce
As Poet, Dramatist
In Finnegan's Wake
"James Joyce is the greatest
poet, the greatest imaginative
dramatist since the great poets�
Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare,"
stated Mr. Edmund Wilson in his
lecture on Finnegan's Wake at
Haverford College, on January
15th. Mr. Wilson, who was com-
mended by Joyce for his review of
the final version of the book, ex-
plained the pattern of the book
with its themes and motives and
its significance in literature as the
fullest expression of Joyce's lyrical
genius.
"Joyce believed that the con-
sciousness of one man includes the
potentialities of everything man
has ever been or done," explained
Mr. Wilson. Joyce presented this
theory in the form of man's dream
which carries the three themes of
sleeping and waking, sinning and
redemption, and dying and resur-
rection.
The dream consists of two lines
of thought. One tells the story of
the dreamer, H. L. Earwicker's
family, which, like all of Joyce's
other stories, is the study of family
relations through internal dynam-
ics. The other is the mythology
which contains the whole history of
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Seznec Will Discuss
Gods in Middle Ages
Mr. Jean Seznec, a member of
the Department of French at Har-
vard, is scheduled to speak on
Saturday, February 6 at 8:15
o'clock in the Common Room. His
subject will concern the gods of
antiquity as they survived in the
Middle Ages in  Europe.
A recognized scholar,' Mr. Seznec
came to Harvard last year, having
taught previously at the Institute
Francaise in Florence. He is also
on the staff of the Ecole des Hautet
Etudes in New York City. The
lecture is sponsored by the Depart-
ment of French of Bryn Mawr.
French Club to Give
18th Century Comedy
The play, le Jeu de I'Amour et
du Hasard, by Marivaux, will be
presented by the French Club on
March 19 in Goodhart Hall. This
will be the first major production
by the French Club for many yeafrs.
The play is an eighteenth century
comedy. The plot centers on a mar-
riage arranged by parents who are
friends but whose children are un-
acquainted. The couple, in order
to find out if the marriage will lje
one of love or convenience, ex-
change identities with their ser-
vants, each one's plan unknown to
the other. The result is a series
of humorous and confusing situa-
tions.
The committee which selected
the play included: Florence Senger,
Emily Tuck, Therese Exton, Lor-
een Pirrung, Nina Garsoian, Fran-
coise Pleven, and Mimi Boal.
The cast of the play is yet to be
selected.
Among its selections for the next
few months, the Book-of-the-Month
Club has chosen The Origins of
the American Revolution, by Mr.
John Chester Miller, assistant pro-
fessor of American History' at
Bryn Mawr. The book, published
by Little, Brown and Company, is
Mr. Miller's second. His first one
was Sow Adams, published in 1936.
The judges announced the selection
last Friday, but they have not yet
decided whether the book will be
presented to members as a Book-
of-the-Month or as a dividend. Mr.
Miller believes that its choice as a
dividend is more likely.
The publisher notified the author
of the club's recognition on Fri-
day, and Mr. Miller admits that
he hasn't felt quite rational since
then. In fact, he said, "I am in a
daze and expect to wake up soon
to find whether it was a dream."
When he does, he plans to cele-
brate the occasion. "Maybe I'll go
to the movies tonight."
Because his appointment at
Bryn Mawr was his first teaching
one, he says, he spent the first year
and a half of his career here
learning how to lecture. But he
continued to work with the ideas
for his book and tried them out on
the students both here and at
Northwestern University. He
worked with his material so much
that he "practically wrote it down
with his unconscious mind."
Bryn Mawr, ho declares, is an
ideal place to write a book, as the
faculty member here has an tie
opportunity for his own wo-k.
Mr. Miller is planning a th'.rJ
book on the war years of the revo-
lution, 1776-1783, but he hastens
to add that he does not want to be
rushed into another book, as so
many authors are. He feels that
six years is the minimum amount
of time for writing a book of this
type. Then, only, he says, is the
author really able to try out his
ideas.
His present Book-of-the-Month
selection was completed in July,
1942, and he spent about six years
writing it. Its choice as a dividend
would entail less remuneration
than its acceptance as an actual
Book-of-the-Month. but a scholarly
book is more likely to be a dividend
to club members. Exhibiting com-
mendable modesty, Mr. Miller re-
marked that, in any case, the honor
was more than he had any right
to expect.
onDraniatie,Lvrie
Lyric as Scene and Agent,
Dramatic as Action
Discussed
"The dramatic ia the relation of
scene and action, while the lyric
is the relation of scene and agent."
said Mr. Kenneth Burke in his lec-
ture on "The Dramatic and the
Lyrical," in the Music Room on
January 18. Mr. Burke based this
differentiation on observations of
human relations and on a theory
of action.
The first part of the lecture de-
scribed his approach to the prob-
lem and definition of terms. Using
the dramatic as a basic, Mr. Burke
worked out the five words�act.
Kene, agent, agency and purpose.
"These are the basis of human re-
lations and whatever your philos-
ophy is, you will have to handle
these five things," he declared.
Materialism stresses scene, ideal-
ism stresses agent, pragmatism
stresses agency, and mysticism
stresses purpose.
Two great pairs are formed from
these five terms. One pair is the
scene and action. The integration
of these terms, when the quality
of the scene contains the quality
of the action, form the dramatic.
When action exterminates motion,
it is behaviouristic and the dra-
matic is destroyed. The end of
O'Neill's play, Mourning Becomes
Electro, was cited as an example.
The   other   pair   is   scene   and
Continued  on   Pane   Fmii
Woolcott and Laylin
Discuss   Journalism
Opportunities for women on
��( w papers and magazines were
i cussed afrthe Vocational Confer-
ence held Saturday in the Deanery.
Speakers were Miss Joan Woolcott
of the Philadelphia Evening Bulle-
tin, Mrs. John Laylin of Time Mag-
azine, and Mr. Wells, Professor of
Politics at Bryn Mawr.
A history major at Swarthmore,
Miss Woolcott now writes feature
articles for the woman's page of
the Bulletin. A general college edu-
cation including subjects such as
history, economics, English and
Government is the best prepara-
tion for a newspaper job, Miss
Woolcott said. Training at schools
of journalism is not accredited by
most big papers, with the excep-
tion of training received at either
the University of Missouri or the
Columbia School of Journalism.
Excellent practical experience
comes from working on a college
Continued on Pace Three
'Assembly
President McBride will
speak at a College Assembly
in Goodhart Auditorium
Thursday, February 4, from
8.45 until 9.30 a. m.
Failure of Evening Mail Causes Comment;
New Motto is "All Pick-Up and No Delivery"
By Anne Denny, '43
"Neither rain nor hail nor sleet
nor snow shall stay..." but the
climate at Bryn Mawr College is
beyond the pale, even for these
faithful couriers. Whether the icy
blasts of Pembroke Arch or the
quicksands of Senior Row discour-
aged the mailman, we do not know
�but the millennium arrived on
Tuesday, January nineteenth. The
mail did not come through.
"Do you really mean that there
is no mail for anybody in the
whole college?" This awful thought
descended upon the pre-exam
gloom. Even the vicarious pleas-
ure of seeing who gets mail snd
who gets free mail is denied us
these cold days. We are totally
unpopular. Then the cloud was
considerably cleared by the rumor
that the postmaster just forgot.
After all he remembers the little
girls on the other side of the rail-
road tracks three times a day
every other day in the year.
Why, we ask, should January
nineteenth be a significant holi-
day? What is there about this
day, of all days? It seemed per-
fectly normal when we gazed at
the greying sky at nine o'clock in
the mo"rning. E!ttte~d1<t we real-
ize that the one purpose of living
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