College News, 1942-10-29, Vol. 29, No. 05

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The College Njews
VOL. XXIX, No. 5
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942       J&P&&* "SSSSP ,00i,    PRICE 10 CENTS
MISS McBRIDE INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT
Speakers Stress
Place of College
In World at War
President McBride Lauded
By Miss Comstock and
Dr. Aydelotte
The responsibility of colleges
in war time to enter into the
war effort and yet maintain aca-
demic ideals and standards was
stressed by the speakers at the
inauguration of President Mc-
Bride. Miss McBride discussed the
plan of education at Bryn Mawr,
stressing its value for the needs
of the present time. Miss Com-
stock spoke about her experi-
ences and relations with Miss Mc-
Bride when the latter was Dean
of Rad'cliffe. The place of the
college in relation to the affairs
of the rest of the world was dis-
cussed  by  Dr.  Aydelotte.
Miss  McBride
Miss McBride discussed the aims
of Bryn Mawr during the war.
Colleges in the last ten months
have been, like industry, geared to
meet the needs of the time. This
change is necessary, but Miss Mc-
Bride emphasized the fact that is
is equally necessary to train stu-
dents for the more complex task
of envisioning and denning our
purposes in the disorganization of
the post-war world. "Such work
is a part of our educational of-
fensive, and perhaps the most dif-
ficult part."
The understanding needed for
this cannot be built up through any
six or twelve-weeks' course. Miss
McBride asked the question: "Can
we strike the nice balance which
will give us this training without
reducing too much our immediate
effort? The only point of such a
question is to put the problem. It
has one answer, that we must."
Bryn Mawr has always been ac-
tive in the selection of its students,
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Maids Begin Classes
Taught by Students
The Maids' and Porters' Classes,
organized and taught by the Bryn
Mawr undergraduates, will begin
next week. A varied group of
courses will be offered in after-
noon and evening classes, which
will meet two or three times a
week. Besides several new courses,
the Maids' and Porters' Commit-
tee offers this year Achievement
Tests at the end of each course,
the nearest thing to real credit
that the voluntary student teach-
ers can give.
A new idea, the Achievement
Tests attempt to maintain a gen-
eral high school standard in Eng-
lish, French, and Spanish.
Other courses cover a variety
of fields: Current Events and
Speech Training, Negro History,
German, Typing, Shorthand, Sew-
ing, Piano Lessons, Music Appre-
ciation, Folk Dancing, and Sculp-
ture. It has been necessary to
drop a few courses such as- Hy-
giene, which overlaps with the ma-
terial offered in the Defense
Courses. Skills such as mimeo-
graphing, knitting, and the use of
the addressograph are to be taught.
In addition, there will be private
tutoring in the basic principles of
reading,   writing,  and   arithmetic.
Niles Rumely, who is in charge
Continued on Pace Four
Inaugural Ceremony is Performed by Charles Rhoads
After Speeches by Miss Comstock and Dr. Aydelotte
PRESIDENT McBRIDE
Miss Skinner to Give
Costumes to College
Cornelia Otis Skinner and Ro-
land Young will be the guests of
honor in the Theatre Workshop
Saturday, October 31, when Miss
Sk!nner will present costumes from
the collection of Otis Skinner.
Miss Skinner and Mr. Young will
speak on the plays, actors and an-
ecdotes with which these costumes
were associated. Some of them
were used by Howard Pyle for
his paintings of Robin Hood and
King Arthur. One was worn by
Mojeski, and another by Laura
Hope Crews.
Several pieces from the ,collec-
tion have already been donated by
Miss Skinner to Harvard Univer-
sity, but the best costumes and
accessories are being presented to
Bryn Mawr College and the Bald-
win  School.
Miss Skinner's latest book, "Our
Hearts Were Young and Gay," was
written in collaboration with Emily
Kinburigh, and is now running in
the Cosmopolitan. It has been
chosen as the Book of the Month
for December.
Lantern Night
During the Lantern Night
ceremony, members of the
audience are to use the main
door, and not the two side
doors, which will be locked.
This does not apply to Fresh-
men and Sophomores.
Faithful Alumnae, Patriotic As Ever, Return
Over Mid Week to Confuse Undergraduates
By Anne Djnny, '43
Relieving-pressure on railroads,
faithful alumnae changed their re-
union to the mid-week, October
28 and 20, and included the induc-
t'on ceremonies in their program.
Prominent among the returning
hrong was 1925, Miss McBride's
class. The usual amazement at
the new plumbing and the free
life of "this generation of stu-
dents," was pushed into the back-
ground by the excitement over the
.�oremonies.
The alumnae have developed a
motherly attitude toward the pres-
ent undergraduates, as though this
new college were an offspring of
an older, sterner variety. "Spoon
fed, that's what you are," said a
member of the class of 'US, "taking
oials freshman year�no college
boards!" Others merely confused
the present students by bursting
into their rooms and claiming,
"This is my room. We had the
desk over there where the light
comes in and we didn't hang our
laundry in the study." Evidently
pot all the alumnae felt that we
wcie disintegrating. One kindly
ledy of Bryn Mawr's youth con-
fided that she found "a spirit of
starry-eyed earnestness" that was
missing for many years.
The class of '42 was much in
demand among the Seniors. "Is it
true that you can't get laundry
done  in   Washington,   and   that   it
takes three-quarters of an hour to
go one block on a trolley?" was
find at them from all sides. Jerry
Cation, '42, advised the Seniors to
prepare themselves to be greeted
as returning alumnae by nothing
but "Hello, what are you doing?"
Despite incessant questioning,
the alumnae were glad to come
back and marvel over the renewed
singing spirit, or shake their heads
at sophisticated freshmen. All
were anxious to meet the new ad-
ministration, and all fell on former
classmates to talk over old  times.
Noted Scholars,
Students Attend
Many College Heads
March in Procession
Ooodhart, October � �� � Miss
Katharine .Elizabeth McBride was
naugurated as fourth President of
Bryn MawcA'ollege by Mr. Charles
J. Rhoads today at :! P. M. The
speakers were Miss Ada Louise
Comstock, President of Radcliffe
College, and Dr. Frank Aydelotte,
President Emeritus of Swarthmore
College and Director of the In-
stitute of Advanced Learning at
Princeton.
Mr. Rhoads formally conrirnied
Miss McBride's election:
"Katharine  Elizabeth   McBride:
"Pursuant to the authority
granted by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to the Directors of
Bryn Mawr College and on their
behalf I have the honor and pleas-
ure to confirm formally your elec-
tion to the Presidency of Bryn
Mawr College and to confer upon
you all the rights, authority and
responsibilities pertaining- to that
high office, and again speaking for
the Directors of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege I pledge you our wholehearted
support in the task and opportun-
ity of helping the younger genera-
tion to solve the  problems of the
world of today and tomorrow."
Guests in the academic proces-
sion were Dean Harriet Allyn of
Mount Holyoke College; Dean
Frances Blanshard of Swarthmore
College: President Katherine Blunt
of Connecticut College for Women;
President Everett Case of Colgate
University; Miss Margaret Conrad
of Columbia University; Dr. Ed-
Continued on  l'age Three
Mrs. Collins Speaks
To U.S.O. Volunteers
Play-School Course
Martha E. Prendergast,
Associate Director of the
Philadelphia Council of Girl
Scouts, will conduct three
sessions on "Occupational
Skills and Play for Children
of School Age." These are
being presented by the Ca-
rola Woerishoffer Depart-
ment of Sociology, in coop-
eration with the Alliance and
the Bryn Mawr League.
Singing, Games, Dancing,
and Simple Crafts will be
discussed. The first session
will be held November 2,
from 4.30 to 6.30, on the
stage in Goodhart Hall. All
interested students and vol-
unteers are cordially invited.
Common Room, October 27.�
Speaking to students volunteering
for U. S. O. work, Mrs. Chadwick-
Collins stressed the importance of
U. S. O. headquarters in keeping
up morale. "You are participat-
ing in the War effort to give, and
not to get."
Ann Byrd Woods, chairman of
U. S. 0. work, read the advice and
rules for all girls attending these
dances. "Remember always that
you come to parties at the club
not primarily to have a good time
yourself, but to give' a good time
to the men.
"You girls are the hostesses,
the men your guests. See to it
that every one of them has a.pleas-
ant time while he is at the club.
The man who is the best looking,
the best dancer, the best talker
oftm is not the man who needs
most what our club has to offer.
The man who seems shy or unre-
sponsive, who dances poorly or
won't dance at all, came to the
club because he wanted some-
thing.   .   .   .
"We wish ti> Impress on you that
you are not doing these men a fa-
vor by helping to entertain them.
On the contrary, it is you who are
privileged by being allowed to at-
tend  parties for the  Service men.