College News, 1943-01-15, Vol. 29, No. 12

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VOL. XXIX, No. 12
News is to Give
Assembly; Evarls
Iseman Will Talk
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Professor Davis
To Give Lecture
On Food Problem
Gym is Redecorated Along Modern Lines;
Holds Open House to Celebrate Its Rebirth
Horwood, Scribner Speak;
College, News Relation
Is Discussed
By Alison Merrill, "45
The    gym    has    been    painted.
Technically, it's robins' egg blue-1 boasts  three  full-sized  badminton
seven days by two electric scrapers
and Joe, the Lantern Man, waxed,
painted, and  waxed  again,  it  now
On Friday, January 15, at 12
noon, the News, sponsored by the
Undergraduate Association, will
present a College Assembly in
Goodhart. Speakers will be Nancy
Evarts, '4-'i, Alice Iseman, '43,
Nancy Scribner, '44, Louise Hor-
wood, '44 Anne Denny, '43, and Ali-
son Merrill, '45. They will discuss
the College as a part of the News,
its   possibilities   and   its   problems.
At the end of the assembly, using
a modified form of the Living
Newspaper technique, the Neirs
will endeavour to present a pic-
ture of its actual functioning.
This will be the first Undergrad-
uate Assembly to be given by the
News. The entire staff will par-
ticipate in the production and pre-
sentation of the assembly.
green.    In the words of a Fresh-
man, "it's dee-vine!"   To the Physi-
courts.    The workmen, after three
solid weeks of work, used their fast
Vocational   Meeting
To be Held Saturday
The first of a series of vocational
conferences will be held' Saturday,
January 16, beginning at 10.30.
The subject will be the opportuni-
ties open to women on newspapers
and magazines.
Mrs. John Laylin, Bryn Mawr,
1935, will speak on magazine jobs
for women, and Miss Joan Wool-
cott of the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin will discuss newspaper
jobs. In the afternoon conferences
with individual students will be
held in Taylor. Anyone interested
may sign up for an appointment on
the Bureau of Recommendations
bulletin board on the second floor
of Taylor.
Special invitations have been
sent to all who signed up as being
especially interested in newspaper
and magazine work, but anyone is
welcome to attend the meetings and
to have individual conferences.
cal Education Department, it's such; remaining energy to carry in the
a thing of beauty that they had j piano, so that it wouldn't scrape
to don their best clothes and an-1 the floor. "They'll cry," Miss Petts
nounce an Open House, with the asserted, "if we get one drop of
lure  of  refreshments.    Says  Miss | water on it."
Petts, "It looked so lovely that we j The Physical Education Depart-
wanted to let everyone see it while \ ment, when they weren't handing
it was still in its prinstine beauty." j out punch and cookies to the rec-
"It hits you in the eye." Gone j ord-breaking crowd, rubbed thejr
are the bars that used to line one ihands in J�y and smiled happily at
wall and cause many a bruise forjeach word of Praise. It inspires
the basketball players. The floor jtht'm� thev sav' in their work-
gleams, the ceiling gleams, and all ] "Couldn't we have the basketball
the lights gleam. The blue-green jteam wash !t every week?" sug-
walls are refreshing and "abso-|Kests Miss Yeager. Inspired, too,
lutely marvelous," after the sad �aie the undergraduates, who want
color which made everyone look asjto d.vl> the *�* curtains a magenta
if they had chicken pox. "Bright j shad(e an(l l)aint mu,als on the
but restful," someone calls them. wa"-
The baseboards and trimmings are j
a shining, emphasizing black.
Even the girders, mottled, ugly,
and too much in evidence, are now
white and clean. The fireman's
pole gleams; the backboards are
painted, the numbers on the score-
board are painted. Everything is!
painted, everything is clean, every-
thing   looks   immeasurably  better.
The floor is the pride and joy.
Always a problem, the floor was
too rough for dancing or too slip-
pery  for  basketball.    Scraped  for
W ilson \k ill Present
Discussion on Joyce
Distinguished Critic
Will Present Lecture
Kenneth Burke, the distin-
guished philosophical literary crit-
ic, will lecture on The Dramatic
and the Lyrical Monday evening.
January 18, at 8.15, in the Music
Room of Goodhart. The lecture is
one of the Elizabeth Sheble Memo-
rial Foundation series.
Mr. Burke, who was at one time
music critic on The Nation, won a
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship j
in 1935. He has written stories,
translations, critical articles, book
reviews. He is a critic who ap-
Contlnued or  Pafte Three .
Edmund Wilson will speak on
James Joyce's Fiuucgan's Wake
iat the annual Shipley Lecture
sponsored by the Department of
English at Haverford College, Fri-
day, January 15th, at eight-fifteen
P. M.
Mr. Wilson is a noted dramatist,
critic, novelist and poet. He has
been on the staffs of Vanity Fair
and The New Republic and is
the author of the novel Thought
of Da,,: i and a book of literary
criticisms entitled Axel's Castle.
In recent years he has written
several plays including The Triple
Threats, To The Finland Station,
The Hoys in the Back Room, and
The Hound awl the Bow. �._
The lecture will take place in the
Common   Room   of   Founders   Hall
at Haverford.
Fall Issue of the 'Lantern' Shows Variety;
Good Writing Provides Interesting Reading
Specially Contributed by
Miss Bettina Linn
The Fall Issue of The Lantern
is good reading, with variety and
some excellent writing. Three
stories, two articles, two poems,
and two pieces of light verse, with
page-end jokes and a drawing,
make up the issue. The worst
thing in it is the light verse, the
most engaging is Catherine Clem-
ent's admirable account of a sum-
mer spent studying Spanish "com-
mercially, grammatically, histori-
cally, and last and best, musically."
The best story is Liselotte Mez-
gers' A Happy Birthday. It is a
natural story; it moves firmly and
easily on the current of the girl
Rona's feeling. It is her story
throughout. All of Her Laughter,
in contrast, carefully developed as
it is, gets lost because it is not con-
tinuously either that girl's story
or the author's, but falls between.
The girl seems to have it, and
then comes a part where the auth-
or is clever at the expense of her
Mid-Years
Changes in the mid-year
examination schedule will be
noted only on the copy posted
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heroine, and any effect is gone.
The Special Cultivator, by Patri-
cia Brown, is simple and direct. I
do not know whether the Editors
of The Lantern are the judges of
the competition in which these
stories were selected as "eligible
for the final contest." Without
having seen any of the others, I
am inclined to respect the judges'
fairness; for certainly they did not
select stories all of one kind.
Doris Benn's Amateur Natural-
ist is written with extraordinary
command of technique. The like-
ness of the naturalist to the donor
in the picture is unsatisfactory, I
think, neither suggestive nor real-
izing any full meaning. The first
part is very good. The poem
Requiem is unsuccessful. Its
meaning comes only from an ac-
cumulation of words.
A Pleasant Place is a rambling
article on the corner of the Library
where the c&ie of books for sale
stands behind the watercooler. Af-
ter a slow beginning there is pleas-
ant reading about odd books in the
case. The opening Editorial is in-
telligent. It gives an amusing sur-
vey of past Lantern editorials on
Lantern editors' troubles, and then
suggests a cause for all of them.
The Editorial does not berate, ex-
hort, or lament; it calmly surveys.
Rowley of Princeton
Will Give Art Course
A course on "Art and Culture of
the Far East" is being offered by
the Art Department second semes-
ter. George Rowley, of the De-
partment of Art and Archeology,
Princeton University, will be the
lecturer. The course will cover the
art and culture of China, India,
and Japan, with emphasis placed
on Chinese painting.
Mr. Rowley is a former member
of the Bryn Mawr faculty. A dis-
tinguished lecturer, he has taught
at Columbia University, Metropoli-
tan Museum, and Wellesley College.
It is intended that this course com-
plete the art curriculum which has
had no course in oriental art since
the departure of Mr. Soper.
There are no prerequisites and it
may be attended or audited by any
student or faculty member who is
interested. It is a half-unit course
and the lectures will be given from
four to six on Tuesday. A confer-
ence hour will be arranged on Fri-
day mornings to fit the students'
schedules.
Seniors
Miss King would like to
see all Seniors who want a
job after graduation. A
schedule of appointments is
posted in the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations' Bulletin
Board on the second floor of
Taylor. Please sign your
name this week.
Freshman Show
The Freshman Class lakes
pleasure in announcing the
following elections of direc-
tors and managers of the
Freshman Show. The entire
production will be under the
direction of Patricia Castles.
Stage Director, Barbara
Rebmann.
Business Manager, Doris
Bruckholz.
Costumes, Lelia Jackson.
Dance, Rosalie Scott and
Beverly Shy.
Lights, Janet Kennedy.
Music, Sarah Beckwith.
Map-Making Course
Sponsored by Army
To be Given at B. M.
Specially Contributed by
Miss Wyckoff
The Army Map Service of the
Corps of Engineers is asking the
women's colleges for about 200
volunteers to be trained as "engi-
neering aids" for military map
making.
The importance of maps is ob-
vious, in planning and carrying out
any military operation; and in most
cases the maps must be "made to
order" for the particular operation
which the Army has in mind.
At the Army's plant near Wash-
ington, D. C, thousands of such
special maps are being turned out
as needed: information is compiled
from a huge library of foreign
maps and charts; the preliminary
map is laid out and drafted so as
to show distinctly the objectives of
greatest importance; the rough
draft is corrected and prepared for
reproduction; the plates are made;
and the finished map is printed.
At every stage of this process
skilled workers are needed, and
most of them will have to be
women. A preliminary training
course is being offered, under the
U. S. Office of Education, for col-
lege women in the second semester,
which will fit them for positions
in the Army Map Service at the
end of the college year. Salaries
will start at $1800 and there will
be opportunities for advancement.
This training course will require
about 60 hours' work in all (about
four hours a week, carrying no col-
lege credit) and is intended to give
a general survey of the processes
and problems of map making. Stu-
dents who have some knowledge of
geology, geography, mathematics,
drafting techniques, or foreign
languages (especially unusual ones)
will find direct uses for these ac-
complishments, but no specific sub-
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National Research Council
Member to Speak on
Thursday
Professor Joseph S. Davis will
speak on Nutrition, Economics and
Public Policy in Goodhart on
Thursday, January 14, at 8.15 p.
m. This is the first in a series of
lectures on nutrition sponsored by
the Departments of Economics and
Biology of Bryn Mawr and Swarth-
more Colleges. Professor Davis is
the Director of the Food Research
Institute of Stanford University
and a member of the Food and Nu-
trition Board of the National Re-
M'anh Council. An outstanding
economist and expert on food sup-
ply, he is well qualified to speak on
this subject. He is the author of
Wheat and the AAA and numer-
ous other books and  articles.
Endicott Discusses
Missionary Activity
Music Room, January S. � Dr.
James Endicott, former advisor to
Mmc (hiang-Kaishek, told of the
missionary work now being done in
China for the relief of war casual-
t les.    The  New  Life  movement   is
| one  of   the   most   active   forces   in
jthis work, especially in aiding
bombed areas. Dr. Endicott stated
that nine out of every ten cities on
! China has been badly hit. The
New Life movement organizes
small  relief squads that go  to all
I the recently bombed cities. The
need for this help is tremendous.
Moreover desperately needed sup-
plies are now almost unobtainable.
Dr. Endicott said that he was con-
! vinced of the great value of mis-
sionary work when he saw the
amazing   courage   of   the   Chinese
! Christians.     He intends to  return
j and carry on his missionary work
I there very soon.
Supper in the Common Room fol-
lowed a discussion of the New Life
movement.     Dr.   Endicott  stressed
' the movement's concern with the
future health and development of
industry in China. Technicolor
movies were shown to give a pic-
] ture of China today. They included
1 scenes of the rice fields, the bomb-
ing of Chungking, and close-ups of
the Generalissimo and other offi-
cials. Particularly timely were the
shots of work going on in the hos-
pitals, now short of supplies and
equipment.
Dance Held for Cadets of Army Air Corps;
Haverford Radio Interferences Confuse Airmen
By Alice Iseman, '43
The Army Air Corps descended
on Bryn Mawr Saturday night, 20
strong. There might have been
more of a gathering to greet the
40-odd Bryn Mawr belles, primed
in their best manner to entertain
the cadets, had not a 24-hour leave
Ijeen declared 20 minutes before
the dance was to begin. Doubt-
less, many thought that the at-
mosphere of Philadelphia or New
York would be more relaxing than
that of a Common Room dance,
but how wrong they were is shown
by the comment of one fervent
cadet: "If they'd known the girls
were so pretty, more than a hun-
dred would have turned up!"
Because of the disproportionate
number of girls, all convention was
thrown to the winds, and she-
wolves   soon  shed  their deceiving
lambs' clothing and began cutting
in on good dancers, of which there
was an amazing number.
Music was supplied by records.
Everything was going smoothly
until suddenly interference by the
Haverford radio station tempo-
rarily disrupted the dancing and
confused the Air Corps, who could
not quite understand why the loud-
speaker should keep asking "What
do you want us to play now, Bryn
Mawr?"
Dancing gave way to singing
toward the end of the evening.
Shrill sopranos and off-key basses
joined in the Army Air Corps Song.
Then the cadets sang "Happy is
the day when the airman gets his
pay," which apparently turned out
to be true, judging from the num-
ber of couples seen at the movies
and the Greeks Sunday  night.