College News, 1943-03-10, Vol. 29, No. 18

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The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 18
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1943
Copyright, Trustee* of          PRICF   10   CFNTS
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Junior Class Nominates Scribner, Gifford,
Stone, Ellis, for President of the Alliance
NANCY SCRIBNER
Coordination   of   Committees
Important Duty of Office
Of President
The Junior class has nominated
Jesse Stone, Lydia Gifford, Nancy
Scribner, and Mary Ellis as candi-
dates for president of the Alliance.
The   president   of   the   Alliance
must    coordinate    sub-committees,
preside at the  Alliance  Executive I
Board meetings, and is automati-
cally a member of the Undergradu-
ate Council and the College Coun-,
oil.   As the purpose of the Alliance ]
is to initiate and coordinate  War
Activity on  campus, its president.
should be alive to current political
problems.
The college activities of the can-
didates nominated are as follows:;
Jessie Stone
Jessie Stone was a member of
the committee that founded the
War Alliance. She is now the
Publicity Director of the Alliance.
She was a member of the Indus-
trial Group her Freshman and
Sophomore years and its President
during her Junior year.
Jessie was on the Editorial Staff
of the News during her Freshman
and Sophomore years.    She is now
on the Editorial Board.
Lydia  Gifford
In her Freshman year Lydge
was president of her class and is
now the Sophomore representative
to tho Athletic Association. She is
also Secretary - Treasurer of the
War Alliance. She is air-raid war-
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LYDIA GIFFORD
MARY ELLIS
Four Girls Entertain Each Meteorologist,
Learn Latest Jargon While Jitterbugging
By Virginia Belle Reed, '44
Meteorology, it seems, is about
weather. This much we learned
in scattered wisps of conversation
as the Army's embryonic weather-
men were rushed from girl to girl
Saturday night. We discovered in
addition that meteorologists are
nice people who are being sub-
mitted to unbelievable tortures in
the way of training: four years of
higher math in something like
twenty-eight weeks. We shudder
sympathetically.
Supposedly all of the hundred
and fifty taking the course were
. to be entertained, and at least a
quarter of the undergraduates
showed up in the gym in their best
bibs and tuckers. As one came in
the door scarcely a uniform could
be spotted in the seas of women.
� � Someone had unexpectedly given
out weekend leaves and the largest
share of the be/BTTtTbrmed ones had
promptly fled" the vicinity of sub-
urban Philadelphia. To greener
fields, perhaps, but they little
guessed what they were missing.
With the discovery that there were
approximately four girls to every
pie-meteorologist, the dance began
and kept whirling the entire eve-
ning.
Songs from the Freshman Show
took care of the floor show, with
Errol Flynn successful as ever.
The air corps representation was
swelled by the addition of one
civilian and about six French sail-
ors. The general reaction of the
meteorologists was at first amazed
disbelief that there could be so
many girls in one place, and shaded
off to a please satisfaction that
there were.
There seemed to be several jit-
terbugs with dominant personali-
ties, for even the most dignified
Seniors found themselves indulging
in the more violent form of Ameri-
can folk-dancing. If the uniniti-
ated did not realize that the process
of jitterbugging involved using
both hands and happened to be
using only one, her partner help-
fu'ly extended his hand with "Try
this for size;" "Fit the palm" or
even "Mit me." We conclude from
this that we will have to learn�"B
complete new yocabulary if we are
to understand meteorology.
Naturalistic Theory
Refuted in Lecture
Presented by Kohler
Common Room, March 4.�
There is an unnecessary antagon-
ism between science and philoso-
phy, Dr. Wolfgang Kohler, noted
Gestalt Psychologist, pointed out
in his lecture, The Naturalistic In*
| tcidictation of Man. If philoso-
phy would only abate its claims
that man is a supernatural being,
j and if science would taHe a more
catholic and flexible view of na-
ture, he believes their respective
duties could be reconciled.
The clue to such a reconciliation,
Dr. Kohler said, lies in^the struc-
ture of the brain as corresponding
to the structure of the perceived
world, and in the recognition that
there is an ideal of "fittingness"
that controls all natural activity,
human and sub-human.
Dr. Kohler discussed various in-
terpretations of man with particu-
lar reference to the present "era
of gloom." The Agnosticism and
Relativism of today are the out-
come of the old theory of Positiv-
ism, he said. The gloom of the
present he blames on the natural-
istic interpretation of man. This
interpretation argues that man, as
any other natural being, is evolved
from nature, and that the mind of
man is no marvel, but simply a
natural product of evolution.
The theory of evolution has no
effect on the human mind, Dr.
Kohler insisted. It can no more
change the qualities of the human
mind than it can change the laws
of physics and chemistry. The
natural interpretation of man will
"act as a Trojan Horse in our
midst and destroy all ambition in
the younger generation."
Dr. Kohler used an illustrative
dialogue to expound the various
ideas which have been proposed to
solve the serious problem of build-
ing a bridge between man and
nature.
Tappen Makes Plans
As Undergrad Head
Kay Tappen was the last per-
son on campus to hear that she
was the new president of the Un-
dergraduate Association. The
news had scarcely reached her be-
fore she was bombarded with ques-
tions concerning her "policy for
next year.
"I have no platform at all . . .
only the steps," said Kay, not com-
mitting herself to any definite
stand. She continued to say that
she was especially interested in
getting the duties of the Under-
graduate Association clearly de-
fined, and in this connection men-
tioned the new six-head council.
Kay confesses that her highest
personal ambition is "to be able to
sing all day without getting a sore
throat." Known all over the
campus for her second alto voice,
she is particularly remembered for
her rendition as the policeman in
Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of
Penzance, in 1941.
A psychology major, Kay spends
much of her time in lab, and is "a
chain smoker in times of great
stress only."
Calendar
Thursday, March 11
Alice Hanson, United
States Employment Serv-
ice Project Group. Com-
mon Room, 7:30 P. M.
Friday, March   12
Undergraduate Association
Movie. Music Room 7:30
P. M.
Professor Chang Shu-(?hi.
Deanery, 4:30 P. M.
Saturday, March 13
Vocational Conference.
Personnel Work, Factory
Work, and Inspection of
Material*. Deanery, 10:30
A. M.
Basketball Game with
Swarthmore. Swarthmore.
Swimming Meet with
Swarthmore. Swarthmore.
Sophomore Carnival. Gym-
nasium, 8:00 P. M.
Monday, March  15
Flexner lecture. Dr. Erich
Frank. Religion and His-
tory.   Goodhart, 8:30 P. M.
Tuesday, March 16
Swimming Meet with Low-
er    Merion    High    School.
Gymnasium, 4:30  P.  M.
Current Events.    Common
Room, 7:30 P. M.
Taylor Compares
Fascist Ideologies
In Alliance Series
Stresses Practice Own Faith;
Urges   Discrimination
Abolishment
Prof. Chang Shu-Chi
Goodhart, March- 10.�To com-
bat Fascist ideologies, we must
practise our own ideologies, chiefly
through the abolition of race pred-
judices, stated Lily Ross Taylor in
her lecture on Fascism: Three
Ideologies, the second of Alliance
war assemblies. Comparing and
contrasting these ideologies. Miss
Taylor, the Dean of the Graduate
School, pointed out the fundamen-
tal principals of the Italian, Ger-
man, and Japanese governments.
"The ideologies of the ^ri-partite
powers, Germany, Italy and Japan,
have much in common," Miss Tay-
lor emphasized. All of them claim
to establish a new order and urge
a "return to the strength and vigor
of the mythical past." Their gov-
ernments are "frankly founded on
revolutions" and they center their
organizations about the figure of
one  leader.
Noting the attitudes of the peo-
ples toward the ideologies. Miss
Taylor said that in Japan they are
accepted "in toto." In Italy they
are rejected now almost "in toto."
To Show Technique
Of Oriental Painting  In Germany, she felt, it is harder
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will  be
dents  Friday
thirty in the Deanery, when Pro-
fessor Chang Shu-Chi will be pre-
sented   at  a
given to Bryn  Mawr stu-    Held by Junior  ClaSS
riday,  March  12, at  four-;                     '  "
The Junior class has nominated
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Pro-
candidates for the vice-presidency
: of   the   Self-Government   Associa-
History of Art Department,
fessor   Chang   demonstrates   Chi-
nese art by making original paint-      _.     .                . ..
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mgs b?fore his audience.
Professor Chang is well v rscd
in Chinese art, for he began study-
ing it as a young boy and is now
recognized as one of China's fore-
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most artists.    He has the deftness i
of   touch   acquired   by   twenty-five
years spent in studying techniques.
lent of the Self-Government Asso-
ciation is to work with the presi-
dent an.l to take her place when
she is absent.    There are no other
jean  Brunn
Jean   is first Junior  member
of
After   carefully   applying   several  the   Self-Government   Association.
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Sophomores, Freshmen Present Nominees
For Secretary and Treasurer of Self-Gov.

Freshmen Nominate Behrens,
Bruchholz, Murray, Potter
For Treasurer
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Marriage
Mary Patricia Murnaghan,
'44, to Lt. John Jay Jackson,
U. S. Army Air Corps.
Engagements
Mary Elizabeth Sica, '43,
to David Dwyer, U. S. A.
Ruth   Faye  Segal,  '44,  to
"Stanley   Finkel,   Ensign,   U.
S. N. R.
The Freshman Class has nomi-
nated Patricia Behrens, Julia Mur-
ray, Elizabeth Potter, and Dorothy
Bruchholz for Treasurer of the
Self-Government Association.
Patricia  Behrens
Pat is Freshman Representative
to the Undergraduate Association
and Secretary of the Freshman
Class. She was on the Stage Crew
for the Freshman Show and is a
member of Jhe News Staff. She is
also a member of the Radio Club.
Julia Murray
Julia was a Class Chairman dur-
ing Freshman Week and is the
Freshman Member of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association. She is in
the Glee Club and the Art Club.
Elizabeth Potter
Libbie was a Class Chairman
and is now Vice-President of her
class. She is a member of the Glee
Club and the French Club and sings
in the Choir.
Dorothy Bruchholz
Dory was Business Manager of
the Freshman Show and is in the
Glee Club.
'45  Nominates for Secretary
Of Self-Gov. Thomas, Beal,
Coleman,  Clark
Nominations for the Secretary
of the Self - Government Associa-
tion were made by the Sophomore
class. They are: Virginia Thomas.
Virginia Beal, Sue Coleman and
Ann Clark.
The duties of the Secretary are
to keep the minutes of the Associ-
ation and of the Advisory Board,
post the notices of the meetings
and attend to the correspondence
of the Association.
Virginia Thomas
Ginny is President of the Sopho-
more class. Last year she was
Treasurer of the class and in
Freshman week was one of the
chairmen. This year is also the
Sophomore representative to the
Undergraduate Association. Ginny
is a member of the Spanish and
Dancing clubs, and is on the com-
mittee for the Sophomore Carni-
val.
Virginia  Beal
Jerry is the Treasurer of Self-
Gov. this year.   Last year she was
the    Hall     Representative    from
Rhoads  and  a  member of  Choir.
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