College News, 1943-02-10, Vol. 29, No. 14

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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945
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Niebuhr Outlines
Preparation for
Post-War Peace
Need for Christian Realism
Stressed in Assembly
On Peace
Goodhart Hall, February ft.�In
. an Undergraduate assembly on
Unity in War and Peace Aims, Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr outlined the ne-
cessity for "Christian Realism" in
the post-war world in order to steer
a course between extreme idealism
and cynical realism. He enumer-
ated the drawbacks of the "world
federation" plans- formed by the
idealists and the inadequacies of
the "balance of power" proposi-
tions made by the cynical realists.
International responsibility on the
part of the United Nations and
the integration of these countries,
such as advocated by Wendell
Willkie, are, Dr. Niebuhr believes,
the most hopeful points of depart-
ure for peace plans.
Dr. Niebuhr placed the leading
schools of post-war theory into
two main categories; idealism and
historical realism. The idealists
who propose an international fed-
eration assume that a social con-
tract can be established by an act
of human will and that such a
contract can mean peaceful inter-
national government. This con-
tinuation of the old social contract
theory is historically incorrect be-
cause of its dependence on the
human will, according to Dr. Nie-
buhr. An act of will can create
an administration, but government
depends on political prestige, which
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100 Per Cent
Pledging 100 per cent, the
maids and porters were the
first on campus to respond
wholeheartedly to the War
Chest Drive. The following
captains were elected to con-
duct the drive in each hall:
Rhoads�Rebecca Henry.
Rockefeller � Eddie Lee
Curry.
Pembroke�Minnie Newton
and Elizabeth Jones.
Merion�Mildred White.
Denbigh�Hilda Green.
Radnor�Grace Turner.
Miss Taylor Elected
To American Council
of Learned Societies
Miss Lily Ross Taylor, Dean of
the. Graduate School, has been ap-
pointed by the American Philo-"
logical Society to the American
Council of Learned Societies. She
is the first woman ever to receive
such an honor, breaking a 23-year
precedent
The Council includes delegates
from most of the learned societies
in the country, except those con-
cerned with the natural sciences.
Its function is the coordination of
research work and publication in
the humanities, especially in the
fine arts. Miss Taylor has often
dealt with the organization in
connection with publications for
the Philological Society, of which
she was president last year.
At present the most important
work of the Council is its intensive
language program, Miss Taylor
says. It has imported native ex-
perts in unusual languages and
has introduced courses at various
universities for the purpose of
studying language in relation to the
people and geography of a country.
This program has been particular-
ly successful at Yale. While the in-
structors were established before
the government took control of
part of the University, much train-
Cuntlnued on race Three
Poll Shows Views on Post-War Reconstruction
And Approval of Continued Liberal Education
The continuation of liberal arts
education met the almost unani-
mous approval of the 258 Bryn
Mawr students recently polled by
the News. There was a wide dif-
ference of opinion, however, can-
cerning post-war relations with
both Allied and Axis nations.
Opinion is widely split on the
question of our future relations
with the Axis nations�some peo-
ple are in favor of "allowing the
Poles and Czechs, etc., to handle the
situation," while one student stated
that "Hitler should have a life of
dull, obscure imprisonment." One
suggestion for Japan was that she
be blown to Hell but not back
again, or that the country be left
in the hands of the Chinese, from
Faculty Show
On Saturday, February 2?,
the faculty and staff will
present their show, Standing
Room Only, in Goodhart at
8:30, for the benefit of War
Relief.
Tickets at $1.10 and $1.65
will be on sale at the Pub-
licity   Office  on   Wednesday.
The following things are
needed for the show � one
deep sea diving outfit, one
medium size moose head, and
one piano player. If anyone
has any of these, please com-
municate immediately with
Miss King.
whom the Japanese should take an
example. Views on Italy were less
heated, just "let the Abyssinians,
Albanians and the British handle
it."
The largest numbers of opinions
on these subjects are as follows:
Germany
Eliminate Nazi leaders.......34
Police   ...................... 56
Disarmament...............20
Re-education   ................  59
to a democratic government. 22
to   encourage   economic   and
cultural possibilities   .....  16
Treated as an equal�
after Nazis exterminated... 13
after re-education  .........    4
in a league................    8
Given fair treatment......... 52
fair but firm..............22
very firm   .................    7
no leniency  ...............    5
crushed    ..................    6
A supervised government.....    8
Broken into federated states..   J
Maintain liberal government..    4'
Gradually given complete free-
dom    .....................    4
Voice in  government but pre-
vented from harming others 14
Japan
Policing   ....,..'..............32
Disarmament   ...............25
Re-education    ...........'� � � � 35
toward more rational way of
life...................��2
aspChristians;  abolish � Shin-
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Miss McBride States
Full Use of Facilities
First Aim of College
Goodhart, February 4.�In the
speech which opened the second
semester of the 1942-3 year, Miss
McBride said the "best use of re-
sources" is the main problem to be
considered by both College and
Students. For the former this
centers around its teaching pow-
ers, while for the student she
stressed the careful selection of a
Major subject. A Major must be
chosen in accordance with war de-
mands, but also with the individu-
al's own interest and ability. Miss
McBride quote I from a letter from
Miss Cornelia Meigs in Washing-
ton in which she stated that: "no
mind reaches its fullest develop-
ment unless it has been trained in
some of the fields that really be-
Jong to it."
There is strlr-a great need for
women in natural science's, said
Miss McBride, but there are higher
priorities in the social sciences
also. Their contribution is not a
remote one, and graduates are in
great demand in War Agencies.
More responsibility is thvown on
the new graduate than would have
been in peace time.
Miss McBride stated two reasons
for maintaining work in the hu-
manities. "This war is not solely
technological, it is philosophical."
The judgments of value given by
the humanities, she said, "under-
mine or support the progress of a
civilized world." In addition to
this, a respect for individual dif-
ferences must be observed, and the
Continued on  Paise Three
Seience, Religion and Philosophy
Discussed by Flexner Lecturer
Calendar
Thursday, February 11
Spanish  Club  Tea. "Com-
mon Room, 4:80.
Vladimir Kazek.'vich. What
Maket Russia Fight, Music
Room, 8:00.
Saturday,  February  13
Non-Resident Dance. Com-
mon   Room,  8:30.
Sunday, February 14
Chapel Service; Dr. Rufus
Jones.   Music  Room, 7:30.
Monday, February  15
Dr. Erich Frank.   Flexner
Lecture, The Existence of
God.   Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, February 16
Dr. Leonard A. Maynard.
Nutrition Lecture, Im-
provement of Nutritional
. Quality of Our Food Sup-
lily.   Swarthmore, 8:00.
College War Activity
Discussed at Council
Deanery, February I).�The\ Col-
lege Council discussed the prob-
lem of required assemblies as a
war measure. The Alliance feels
that there is not enough under-
graduate interest in current prob-
lems, and that therefore there
should be fortnightly or weekly
assemblies with compulsory attend-
ance to arouse the students' atten-
tion. Since it is always the same
group of girls that attend such
assemblies, the faculty feels that
all students should be made to
think about the problems of the
world through   some such scheme.
The Alliance, in conjunction
with the Faculty Defense Group,
is trying to obtain a 100 per cent
response to the United War Chest
Drive from the students. 954 dol-
lars have already been pledged by
the Faculty, the maids and porters,
and the groundsmen. It was noted
that the five weeks' course in Home
Economics h�s started and that
the other defense courses are con-
tinuing.
j Survival of Ancient
Gods in Middle Ages
Discussed by Seznec,
History   of   Art   Lecture   Room, i
February II.�How and under what
form   the  gods  of  antiquity   sur- j
vived was the subject of M. Jean
Seznec's lecture entitled "La Sur-
vivance des Dieux Antiques."
The ancients did not really under-
stand their gods. Only the poets and
writers tried to grasp their nature.
Three  theories  arose:   one  which
conceive?!   gods   as   human   beings,
historical persons whose lives had
been   great;   another,   the   cosmic
theory, saw them as forces of na-;
ture such as the ocean or the sun; I
and the thir I saw th^m as moral j
allegories, representatives of vir-1
tue and vice.
The Christian Church pies r c I
the   gods   of   antiquity   beer,.:;'   it
couldn't do otherwise, said M. Sez-
; nee.    History,  morals,  everything
I was bound up in mythology.    The
Church thought to humble the gods
j by dating them chronologically and
i showing  their  descent   from   mor-
' tals.    But  such  a  synoptic  table
' served only to entrench them firm-
M.  Seznec  then  spoke of them
| as cosmic symbols.     He showed  a
j Carolingian  miniature  which  pic-
; tured the earth to be encircled first
by planets, then by an outer circle
of  gods.     It   was   enclosed   in   a
sphere of astrologic influence. Man
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Dr. Erich Frank Describes
Conflict Between Two
Developments
"In faith the true nature of man
is revealed," stated Dr. Erich
Frank in his lecture on The Suture
of Man. This introductory lecture
of the series in the Flexner lee-.
tureahip entitled Philosophy and
Religion, paralleled the struggle
between science and religion with
the struggle between philosophy
and religion in man's search to
know his true nature.
As a result of the development
of science, the attitude of the mod-
ern person is one of detached skep-
ticism. Psychology has proved
that man is not master in his own
ego, but is ruled by primitive in-
stincts and natural laws. Yet the
modern man feels if he develops
his faculties he may overcome na-
ture. He seeks his happiness in
this world rather than the next,
and his concepts are accordingly
irreconcilable with those of re-
ligion.
Man considers himself superior
to the forces of the universe which
crush him because he is aware that
the universe is crushing him and
the universe is not aware. But
man cannot learn his true nature
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Kazekevich Will Talk
About Russia at War
On Thursday evening, February
11, in the Music Room, the War
Alliance will present a talk by Mr.
Vladimir D. Kazekevich on What
Makes Russia Fight.
Mr. Kazekevich, a white Russian
by birth, is at present lecturing on
the Soviet Union, which he visited
in 1935. He is on the editorial
�faffs of Soviet Russia Today and
-'re <��� a nil Society. Mr. Kaze-
k'vich is an economist by profes-
sion. He has lectured in Eco-
nomics at Columbia University and
has taught Money and Banking at
the Wall Street Institute of Fi-
nance. He was a member of the
staff of a public works investiga-
tion conducted by the National
Bureau of Economic Research. Mr.
Kazekevich also served on the staff
of the corporation survey of the
Twentieth Century Fund.
Mr. Kazekevich is a collaborat-
ing author of The Banking Situa-
tion and The Economics of Infla-
tion.
Open House
Rhoads will hold its first
open house Saturday after-
noon at 3 o'clock. All stu-
dents and their friends are
welcome. There will be op-
portunity for informal danc-
ing, ping-pong, and bridge.
For an experimental few
weeks, Rhoads will be open
Saturdays and Sundays from
2 until 12. Students may
sign out for "Rhoads and
Soda Fountain" until 12:15.
No permission is needed.
From 10:30 P. M. until
12, a student will be at the
front door to let people in.
Rhoads residents are re-
quested not to wear house-
coats in the smoking room
during these hours.
Due to Investigations of Fortune Hunters,
Self-Consciousness Rampant at Bryn Mawr
By Mary Virginia More, '45
Would    some    power   the    gift
would give us  .   .   .; everyone is
j entitled to his pet yearning, but
this is one (it must be admitted)
; which has never especially oc-
curred to us until quite recently�
| until a certain refrain began to
haunt our somewhat uneasy mind
! . . . to see ourselves as Fortune
sees us ... as Fortune sees
us .  .  .
Not everyone realized the pres-
ence on campus of Miss Katherine
Ilamill.   associate   editor   of   For-
' tune,  and  Miss  Mia  Fritsch,  re-
! search assistant. Students were
on the whole surprised when sud-
denly accosted with questions such
as: What are your friends doing;
Why? How is the male situation?
Wfiat do you do for entertain-
ment?    What books do you read?
The Fortune hunters lurked in
the Bookshop, asking "What are
you buying?" They explored the
inner reaches of the Library, in-
cluding the Dewey Decimal System
of Classification. They lunched in
the halls. They sat in the smok-
ing rooms, eyeing the students
sadly, wanting to know where and
when the long shirt tails origi-
nated. They quizzed professors
from every department concerning
the special and pertinent courses
which have been added to the cur-
riculum. They took an extensive
poll of student opinion on various
subjects. They investigated the
extra-curricular war activities of
the faculty members and students.
Fortune's article on Bryn Mawr
will appear in the April issue, with
colored plates by Bernard La
Motte, illustrator of St. Exupery's
Flight to Arras.
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