College News, 1942-10-07, Vol. 29, No. 02

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The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 2
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942
' Freshmen's Song ^Shortage-Results in
Gloomy Food Outlook
As Quantity Lessens
Copyright,  Trustees of
Sryn   Mawr  College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Parodied by '45
At Parade Night
Torchless   Juniors   March
With   Sister   Class
To   Fire
The Freshman song was well-
known to the Sophomores by the
time Parade Night actually rolled
around. The only thing that wor-
ried them was whether the Fresh-
men knew that they knew and
had changed the tune. Mr. Her-
man Giersch, leader of the band,
would not yield an inch. He said
he had led the band for thirty-five
years and never told on the Fresh-
men yet.
When the procession really got
under way, a group of Sophomores
who had been hanging around Pern
Arch asking questions, making
speeches about 6.30 A. M. classes
for Freshmen the next day, and
generally being a nuisance, rushed
down and told the ring around the
fire the good news. Apparently, it
all started with Sylvia Brown, '45,
getting the idea of playing Fresh-
man, and it worked. There was
the song to greet the mob, a hun-
dred and fifty-eight strong, that
charged down the hill. One happy
innovation was the Juniors' flares.
They didn't smell of sulphur (vital
war material) and they burned
brightly while they burned; which
was about half way down the hill.
The Freshman song was to the
tune of Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho:
Heigh ho, Heigh ho,
Parading we must go
From Pembroke Arch
We start the march
To meet the foe, Heigh ho.
Oh forty-six
We really know the tricks
We're big and tough
We may get rough
Those sophs we'll fix.
Sophomore parody:
Heigh ho, Heigh ho,
We've got you fooled and so
From Pembroke Arch
We too can march
To meet our foe.
On forty-five
Come on and let's get jive
We've had enough
Of your cheap stuff
You can't survive.
While   fuel   rationing   will   have
ittle effect on the campus, the food
situation is less optimistic.
We will keep warm this winter.
While the Theatre Workshop and
some of the faculty houses ^re
heat d by oil furnaces, the other
build.ngs burn bituminous coal.
As regards food, meat rationing
has not gone into official effect, but
many varieties of meat are diffi-
cult or impossible to obtain. The
prices of pork and beef are the
same as last year, but very little
s available. There is no salmon
on the market, says Miss Batchel-
der, college dietitian, and tuna fish
is 29 dollars a case, in contrast to
the nine to 12 dollars of last year.
Institutions are allowed 75 per
cent the amount of sugar used
last year, and 50 per cent of the
coffee. The local rationing board
has requested students to turn in
sugar ration books, and notices to
that effect will be issued soon.
There is little supply of tea in the
country and no more is coming in.
The Tetley Tea salesman now sells
dehydrated soups.
Prunes and raisins are virtually
o.T the  market,  and  Miss  Batchel-
der has been unable to obtain cur-
rants   for  three   years.     As   time
roes on, it will be more aijd more
difficult to purchase many foods at'
iny price, and the cost of food has
i ;en rapidly.    Fewer college-spon-
orcd   refreshments    insure    more
luney for regular meals, and Miss
latchelder urges that the students
uoperate and avoid  waste  in the
.In ng rooms.
Opportunity Knocks
Juniors and Sophomores!
Any of you who have the
journalistic urge, stop wast-
ing your talents and come to
the News' try-outs in Good-
hart on Thursday, October
8, at 4.30. Free cokes! Free
food! The News will give you
details on further require-
ments. Try-outs will continue
for three weeks. If you are
unable to attend, please no-
tify Nancy Evarts, Merion.
Redbirds Slam Homers in Yanks' Backyard;
Cards Take Series With 4 Out of 5 Games
By Jacqueline 15.ill.ird. '43
The Yankee monopoly is broken.
The hypnotic spell last year's
Champs cast over their World
Series rivals has been shattered
. . . by an infant team, the St.
Louis Cardinals, taking four out of
five  ivaines.
The Cai/dinals' rooters will say
it was National League speed and
pitching over American League
brawn and batting power. Yankee
fans will insist the Cards just got
the breaks. We say it was a St.
Louis brand of enthusiasm tem-
pered with earnestness that rode
the Redbirds to the top.
At the last game onMonday we
couldn't help Bwi^feeTutter confi-
dence in Southworth's men. Let
Rizzuto hit a home run, the Cards
would get back. And so it was,
a ree-saw tilt., i^ied one all in the
fourth by Slaughter's mighty
round-tripper. And again the
Yanks go ahead in their half of
th � fourth, but the Cards tie it in
the sixth.
When  Kurowski   got  his   sights
on Buffing's second pitch in the
ninth no one could doubt that the
new World Champions had been
born. Whitey had been aiming
for the left field stands all after-
noon.
Not enough praise can be given
the twenty-three-year-old rookie
right-hander, Johnny Beazley, who
never faltered _when his team-
mates' support might have been
less faulty. He showed magnificent
control in his second Series start,
h:s second victory.
Sidelights on the final game:
The Cards beat their opponents
at their own game, hitting two
homers to the Yankees' one. And.
needless to say, the greatest thrill
of all is the Cardinal theme song,
"We beat them in their own back-
yard."
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Our   nomination   for   the^most
Valuable Player of the Year award
is  Terry Buford   Moore, (sparkling
Redbird  center  fielder.   1
. A
Mrs.  Joe   DiMaggio  sat  a   few
Continued on Pajra Six
Marriages
Elizabeth Berryman, '43,
to  George  Puckhafer.
Gisela Bolton, '44, to Lt.
Daniel   Hogan,  USNR.
June Hahn, '44, to Robert
Whitehill.
Margaret Hammonds", '43,
to Ensign Robert McCul-
lough, USCG.
Sally Jacob, '43, to Ensign
Craig Kuhn, USNR.
Jessie Kauffmann, '44, to
Lt, Henry L. Hoskinson,
USN.
Betty Kramer, '42, to Stu-
art Brown, Aviation Cadet,
USA.
Virginia Lovell, '44, to Lt.
John M. Nelson, USNR.
Jane McAllen, '43, to Carol
M. Holt, USN.
Cynthia Nichol, '43, to
Royal   Zuckerman.
Lloyd Pierce, '43, to En-
sign Malcolm K. Smith,
USNR.
Carolyn Strauss, '43, to
Richard A.  Bloomberg.
Ann Updegraff, '42, to Lt.
Frank Allen, USA.
Marian Wallace, '45, to Lt.
Edward Stanard, USA.
Engagements
Mary Gwynn Carman, '43,
to Quentin  E.  Erlandson.
Miriam Ervin, '44, to Fred-
crick   Clark.
Lila Labowitz, '44, to Har-
vey Satenstein.
Miriam Wurtsberger, '46,
to Richard Seidman.
Alliance Board Plans
Intensive War Work
In Coming Semester
Demand for College Graduates
Stressed by President MeBride
Trained   Personnel   Found
Vital   to   Effective �
War Effort
Senior Elections
The class of 1943 take
pleasure in announcing the
election of Harriet Case as
President, Catherine Clement
as Vice-President and Treas-           Qoodhart,   September   SO.�Col-
urer,   and    Mary    Elizabeth        lege graduates are in  urgent de-
Sica as Secretary.                          mand, said President MeBride, ad-
^ dressing the students and faculty
^               I      r T?         I                  assembled for the opening day of
Several  Of taCUlty         -college.    The stiff training college
Leave   TOr Different       B'ves is directed at the intellectual
-r<               �11          11        L   v'Kor an<' accuracy without which
i ypes oj War Work 0U1. war effort must ^ a fanure.
There are certain jobs to be done
which must be done. The respon-
sibility for these jobs lies largely
in  the training which this college
In addition to the changes in the
Administrative Staff of the college, I
there  have been several  new  fac-
ulty appointments.  Many members i and others of like purpose have to
of   the   faulty   are  now   actively | offer, continued  Miss MeBride, as
she   stressed   the    principle   that
trained minds are paramountly es-
The Alliance Executive Board
met on Monday, October 5, and
mapped out a comprehensive plan
for intensified war work for the
year. Several details remain to
be arranged, but the Alliance has
already set aside Thursday and
Friday of this week for registra-
tion for war courses. As its head-
quarters the Alliance has taken
over the former Defense Room in
the West Wing of the Library.
The Alliance urges everyone who
p'.a%s to register for a war course
to attend regularly and to regard
attendance as a war responsibility.
The Executive Board stresses the
_pecial importance of the Nurses'
Aid and the Industrial Training
courses, since they answer an im-
nrdiate and specific nerd. Regis-
tration will take place in the Al-
l'ance Room on Thursday, Octo-
ber 8, from 8.30 A. M. to 5 P. M.,
ind on Friday, October 9, from
3.30 A. M. until 2 P. M. There will
be a registration fee.
The fo'lowing courses are being
offered:
First Aid (to be given only in
first semester).....Miss Yeager
Advanced  First  Aid   (only
first semester).....Miss Yeager
Nurses' Aid. .Bryn Mawr Hospital
Industrial   Training   (eight
hours a week)...In Philadelphia
Office Techniques.. .Mrs. Anderson
Nutrition   ...........Mrs. Towey
Community  Service.. .Miss  Kraus
The  Industrial Training  course,
which is given  in Philadelphia by
the  Government, involves  learning
Continued on PaRe Three
engaged "in full-time or part-time
war work.
The following faculty were ab-
sent last year, and will remain
away during 1942-43: Mr. Fen-
wick, Professor of Political Sci-
ence, is now serving on the Inter-1
American Juridicial Committee in
Brazil. Mr. Michels, Associate
Professor of Physics, is on govern-
ment service in Washington. Mr.
.-'oper, Associate Professor of His-
tory of Art, is a Captain in the
Marines. Mr. Anderson, Associate
Professor of Economics, is Econo-
mist in the Office of Price Adminis-
tration.    He returns to Bryn Mawr
sential for victory in the war and
in the peace.
The jobs to be done are of many
different kinds, Miss MeBride
added. The problem of choosing a
field of work is as difficult as ever.
The reason for this is that knowl-
edge and skill must be brought to
bear where they are most needed.
Individual abilities and interests
have to be recognized, as a person
who will be highly productive on
one job will fail on another.
This does not mean that we
should coddle ourselves as we did
before the war in the extent to
which we tried to adjust the work
to the individual. We must plan
our work in relation  to our own
once a week to give his course in   interosts  and  pui.pose  0nly  in  as
.dvanced   economics.     Mr.   Reder,^ far  as   to  guarantee  the  highest
Record Library
The record library in the
West Wing has everything
from Gershwin to Shostak
vitch. There are over a thou-
sand records, which may be
taken out. Membership fee
is a dollar.
Instructor in�Economics,  will sub-
stitute for Mr. And.rson.
The. e members of the faculty
are on partial or full leave of ab-
sence for the year: Miss Frederica
de Laguna, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, is a Lieutenant (j.
g.) in the WAVES. Miss de La-
guna's course in Anthropology will
be given by Dr. Mary Butler Lewis.
The course in American Archae-
ology is omitted this year. Mr.
Doyle, Assistant Professor of Bi-
ology, is conducting vital defense
research under the National De-
fense Research Committee. His
work is being g:ven by Professor
Laurence Irving and Dr. Robert K.
Enders, of the Biology Department
Continued on raue Four
efficiency.
Efficiency is of supreme value to
the war effort, said Miss MeBride.
It is important to know how to
analyze a problem, how to organize
material for its presentation, and
how to check the conclusions to be
drawn in its solution. This is the
type of training which college
gives.
Bryn Mawr is not following some
of the colleges who have this year
introduced a prescribed course for
the Freshman year: English,
American History, Mathematics,
and Physics or Chemistry. Such a
prescribed course neglects the ex-
istence of individual abilities.
The demand for trained minds
is not being met. We have the
skill  for  it, and the equipment.
This is the end of an active sum-
Coutlnuea on  Pagt Three.
Tradition Overturned as Undergraduates
In Radnor Get Queer Looks But No Keys
By Elizabeth Boudreau, '45
This is a year of overturned tra-
ditions, at Bryn Mawr and every-
where else. Bedmaking by the
students is only symptomatic of
this disturbance, but the entire col-
lege has been tearing its hair, and
wondering what the world is com-
ing to, at the mere mention of un-
dergraduates living in Radnor,
sacrosanct to brains.
Since the authorities are evi-
dently somewhat chary of allowing
unhardened Freshmen to come in
contact too abruptly with the acme
of Bryn Mawr's rarefaction, only
transfers are at present living in
Radnor; three Juniors, Marian
Neustadt, Honora Thompson, and
^Mrs. Harriet Thon, a hearer, and
four Sophomores, Barbara Sincoff,
Barbara Buchanan, Mary Wood,
and the Misses Parke and Me-
Bride�Nancy and Maragrete, re-
spectively. Mrs. Thon also func-
tions   as   the   Warden of   Under-
graduates in Radnor.
However, despite their having an
undergraduate warden, Radnor's
minority is disciplined. Unlike
graduate students, they have no
keys�that is, officially. But�and
I quote an eminent, if recent grad
�"it's very easy."
In spite of this seemingly idyl-
lic state of affairs, all these for-
gotten women are waiting, with
bated breath, for eight undergrad-
uates to flunk out, get married, or
be drafted. One or two is not
enough, because they must all move
at the same time; one or two can-
not be left alone in Radnor, a prey
to the Radnorian dissensions caused
by the insistence of the more fri-
volous elements on playing Strauss
waltzes, instead of confining them-
selves to Htndemith and Stravinski.
Besides, as one of the oppressed
minority put it, "You get awfully
queer looks when you say you live
in Radnor."