College News, 1942-10-14, Vol. 29, No. 03

              The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 3
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1942
Copyright,  Trustees  of        PRICF   10  CFNTS
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Council Discusses
Alliance, Pay Day,
And Conservation
Bed-Making is Successful;
Students May Act as
Bell-Maids
The College Council, meeting for
the first time this year on October
7, considered the various phases of
student help, Pay-day, the Alli-
ance, conservation, and the differ-
ent drives.
It was decided that the students
were taking care of the bed-making
very successfully, and that, later
on, they might be asked to act as
bell-maids and to help in cleaning
the rooms.
The Bookshop will go on a
deposit system after the first pay-
day, and has established a mini-
mum charge. This example may
be followed by the Inn and the
Deanery. The College Inn will now
post and collect its own bills.
The Alliance plans to change
"defense" work to "war" work. As
before, it will sponsor lectures on
war subjects, and will hold prob-
ably two assemblies. Its war
courses will include First Aid, A.
R. P., and Nurses' Aid, with the
co-operation of the Bryn Mawr
Hospital; and Nutrition, Office
Techniques, Switchboard Opera-
tion, Shorthand, and Typing. It
will also sponsor the Farm Unit.
To conserve food, students will
probably be asked to sign up when
they are planning to be away for
the week-end. All lights must be
turned out in unused rooms to save
power and to simplify blackouts.
Drives for the benefit of war re-
lief agencies will not be included
by the League in its Fall Activities
Drive, but will be launched at a
later date.
Rapidly Dwindling Russian Class Bears Up;
Bravely Growing Nearer to Tolstoy Each Day
I. S. S. Conference Held
With Foreign Students
Specially   Contributed   by
Catherine Clement, '43
The International Student Serv-
ice sponsored a conference in
Washington this September that
was record making in the history
of youth conferences in this coun-
try.
The registration on the opening
day seemed a disorderly affair
compared with the subsequent ses-
sions of the Assembly. These were
held in the huge auditorium and
its adjoining rooms in the Depart-
ment of Labor, and the official
government atmosphere added
greatly to the serious character of
the conference. In the eyes of the
foreign representatives even more
prestige and significance were at-
tached to the conference by the
fact that Mrs. Roosevelt several
times invited the foreign delega-
tions to the White House. Fifty-
three nations sent delegates and
observers. As well as a large num-
ber of colleges in the United States.
After the first day the procedure
was more or less the same�round
table discussion in the morning and
afternoon, followed by a plenary
session, and concluded in the eve-
ning by another meeting of the
whole assembly. In most cases im-
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By Alison Merril, '45
Do you know how to speak Rus-
sian? Can you read Tolstoy in
tho; original? Well, neither can
those who have enrolled in Bryn
Mawr's newest course, Elementary
Russian. Twenty-five of them set
out to try, and, just to give you an
idea of what it's like, only ten of
them are still trying. "It's the
alphabet," say those who gave it
up as too much to bear along with
everything else. "Just hearing the
alphabet the first day terrified us."
The course is taught by Mr.
Rene Daudon, a professor of
French at the University of Penn-
sylvania, who has lived in Russia.
His Russian, which, say the be-
ginners, is very nice to listen to, is
slightly tempered with a French
accent. When questioned about the
course, the student's first retort is
always, "You know Mr. Herben is
talking the course?" Mr. Herben,
it seems, wanted to add a Slavic
language to the amazing number
he already knows. Two Freshmen
are still attending the class. One
speaks Russian, but wants to be
able to communicate with her par-
ents on paper.
The language has none of the
characteristics of the Romance
languages, with an entirely differ-
ent alphabet in which one letter
may have three syllables. What
appears exactly like an "m" is
pronounced like a "t." Said Gradu-
ate Student Madge Daly, "I like
it; it's a definite challenge. It will
he useful to a historian since the
Russian field is comparatively un-
explored, and it is obviously useful
in the present emergency." Said
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League Will Launch
The Activities' Drive
For War-Time Needs
The Bryn Mawr League plans to
aunch the Activities Drive this
week. At hall meetings, represen-
iatives will explain the Drive and
the League activities which it sup-
ports. Each student will be per-
sonally canvassed.
This year the activities include
only those sponsored by the League,
and the Varsity Players' produc-
tion. As usual, all soliciting by in-
dependent charities will be avoided
by having one fund. The con-
tributing student will not only help
the League services, but will be ad-
mitted free to all the Varsity plays.
The individual quota is only seven
dollars and fifty cents instead of
the former nine or eleven dollars.
The largest amounts will go to
the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp and
to the Hudson Shore Labor School.
The quota for these is $1200 dol-
lars apiece. This means that most
)f the funds will go towards pro-
viding a vacation at Stone Harbor,
New Jersey, for underprivileged
children in Philadelphia, and to-
wards the labor school in West
Park, New York, for industrial
workers. The balance of the
amount goes to such charities as
War Relief, refugee work, and
community work. The League
Drive will cover not only national
agencies, but also services to the
community.
Since the services of the Drive
are more concentrated this year
and the amount solicited is to be
less, the League hopes that as
many students as possible will give
more than the individual quota.
Junior Elections
The Junior Class takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of Phebe Stevens as
President, Ann Sprague ai
Vlce-President, Mary Ellis as
Secretary, and Nancy Scrib-
ner as Song-Mistn s<.
Seventh Rare  Book
Exhibition Promises
Noteworthy Display
Specially Contributed by
Miss Terrien
Many letters, autographs, first
editions and other works of the
nineteenth century poets comprise
the seventh rare book exhibition.
All items have come from the
private libraries of Professor Sam-
uel C. Chew and Dr. Mary K.
Wcodworth, who have generously
cooperated toward making this a
noteworthy display.
In the correspondence, the most
valuable is a letter written by Lord
Byron to William Baldwin^ dated
November 14, 1813, refusing Bald-
win's request that Byron should
present a petition to Parliament
for the relief of debtors. On view,
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Mapmaking Courses
For Students Given
By Watson and Lehr
The Geology Department is off-
ering a course in Mapmaking, Sur-
veying and Photogrammetry, which
is preparation for a Civil Service
job with either the T. V. A. or
the Air Corps. No prerequisites
are required. The course may not
be used as a required science, but
will be counted towards a geology
major.
The course for Bryn Mawr stu-
dents parallels a course now being
arranged under government spon-
sorship, outside the college. Both
these courses have evolved from an
experimental course given this
summer.
Photogrammetry itself is the re-
duction of an aerial photograph by
mathematical formulae to a prac-
ticable map. It is an essential war
service, since less than ten percent
of the surface of the globe has been
mapped with military accuracy.
There is also the possibility that
after the war the demand for pho-
togrammetrists will increase, since
such operations as bridge-building,
which are now carried out by the
more pedestrian methods of sur-
veying, can be more efficiently done
by photogrammetry.
However, routine surveying is
also taught, since even photogram-
metry involves a control traverse.
A traverse is a broken line run
from control point to control point,
by the aid of a compass, pacing,
and a scale. Pacing is also a spe-
cialized operation, involving much
walking (to set the pace) and
something called quadruple count-
ing.
The course will be given by Mr.
Watson and Miss Lehr at 11 on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, with labs
on Wednesdays and Fridays from
two to five; a full unit of credit
will be given.
Calendar
Thursday, Oc�r*er 15     �
Spanish  Club  Tea.    Com-
mon Room, 4.30 P. M.
Alliance     Mass     Meeting.
Goodhart, 7.15 P. M.
Saturday, October 17
Spanish Oral.    Taylor. 51.00
A.  M.
Denbigh and Merion Dance.
Common Room, 9.00 P. M.
Sunday, October 18
Rev. Sidney Lovett.   Music
Room, 7.30 P. M.
Tuesday,  October 20
Current Events.    Common
Room, 7.30 P. M.
Enlarged Alliance Board Meels;
Adopts Constitution, New Name
Alliance Will Ask Pledges
For Regular Purchase
Of Bpnds
A War Bond and Stamp Drive
will be launched immediately after
the Alliance mass meeting on
Thursday. Pledge cards will, be
distributed to the faculty and stu-
dents to determine the amount they
are willing to invest  monthly.
The sums pledged will be col-
lected the fifth of each month by
the hall representatives, who will
deliver the stamps and bonds at
the same time. These samc^repre-
sentatives will exchange bonds for
stamps. Stamps and Bonds will
be sold at the Bookshop as well.
Ninety per cent of any hall that
subscribes regularly will be eligible
for the Treasury Merit Award, the
Minute Man flag, and if every hall
receives the award, the college' as
a whole will receive it. A graph
will be posted in Taylor to show
the contributions of the various
halls.
The Committee, which is in close
cooperation with the Alliance, has
Beatrice Biberman as its chairman.
The hall representatives are Kate
Rand, Pembroke East; Sally Mat-
(I'.-nii and Jean Franklin, Pembroke
West; Jocelyn Kingsbury and Jean-
nette Lepska, Rockefeller; Ruth
Ann Hendrickson and Marian
Thomas, Rhoads; Phebe Stevens
and Kathryn Harriman, Denbigh;
Carol Tietz, Merion; Judy Breg-
nian, Ann Shipway, and Miss Dor-
othy Nepper, Radnor. The Faculty
Defense Group is cooperating in
the drive.
V. L. C. Invades Farms
To Help War Effort
Specially Contributed by
Betty Szold, '44
In the Volunteer Land Corps,
American youth has found a new
way to serve in the war effort. It
aims to satisfy a national need,
the need for labor on the land.
The agricultural labor shortage
throughout the country has become
more and more acute as farmers'
sons have joined the forces or left
home to work in defense plants.
Our work in the Land Corps this
summer was to take their places.
It seemed an impossible thing to
do.    How would a person used to
milk from a bottle get along with
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"War Alliance" Nominates
New Executive Board
Members
Common Room, Monthly, October
/-'.�A greatly expanded Executive
Board of the Alliance met Monday
night to consider a College Mass
Meeting to "Open the Bryn Mawr
War Front." The Board at the
same time adopted a constitution
for the organization whose name
has been amended to the War Alli-
ance.
Present at the meeting were the
Presidents of the Self-Government
Association, the Student Govern-
ment Association, the Senior, Jun-
ior and Sophomore classes, and
the Kditor of the College News,
Together with them and the heads
of the various war drives on cam-
pus, the incumbent Executive
Board effected a reorganization of
the Alliance. The name "War Al-
liance" was adopted because it was
felt that the new name expresses
more clearly the purpose of the
group.
The details of the Mass Meeting
are not to be announced, at the
request of the Executive Board.
One result of the meeting was the
nomination of the following people
for Executive Board positions: for
Secretary-Treasurer, Lydia Gifford
and Louise Bruce; for Chairman of
War Courses, Catherine Clement
and Phoebe Stevens; for Chairman
of Volunteer Drives, Bebe Biber-
man and Jean Franklin; for Chair-
man of War Information, Rosalind
Wright and Jeanette Lepska; for
Chairman of Publicity, Nancy
Scribner and Jessie Stone. These
nominations may be supplemented
by the student body and will finally
be voted upon by the students.
The constitution was discussed
in great detail before adoption.
Particular interest was given to
the portion regarding policy for-
mation. As finally adopted, the
constitution   is  as  follows:
1)   The Bryn Mawr War Alliance
is set up to organize and direct
the activities of the student body
towards winning the war.
2)   The directing body of this
organization shall be an Executive
Board, consisting of:
A)   President
B)   Secretary-Treasurer
C)   Chairman of War Courses
D)   Chairman of Volunteer
Drives
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Boal, Hardenbergh Discover Latin-American
Life, Deplore Correctness of Mexican Men
By Alison Merrill, '45
"Living in a foreign country is
an incomparable experience. You
need to get away from Americans;
they're so self-centered," said
Maisie Hardenbergh. "I'm going
back as soon as I can. In fact, I
want to get a chemical job down
there," said Mimi Boal. These two
members of the class of '43 chalk
up their year with our Latin-Amer-
ican neighbors as "marvelous ex-
perience-.^
Maisie Hardenbergh station-
wagoned down to Mexico in the
summer of 1941 with the Experi-
ment in International Living, and
murmurs about sleeping on the
ground and scratching chiggers
(like mosquitoes, only different).
"They get underneath your skin
and wander around and multiply
and you die for three weeks. Then,
you take a bath." With the Ex-
periment,   "a   mixed   group   domi-
nated by females, as usual," Maisie
spent the summer in Guadalajara
and climbed endless mountains. In
August, completely alone except
for a few � very few � words of
Spanish, she headed for Mexico
City and a boarding house which
proved to be inhabited by an Anti-
American and Pro-Nazi group, to
which she "reacted vt ry well, al-
though the first night was like
Freshman Week, only worse." She
reacted well to everything; that is,
except the bathrooms, where you
had to build your own fire at 7
A. M. to get any hot water, and
the food, to 'which *he had to
"break herself in slowly." During
the winter Maisie took Mexican
History and Spanish Literature at
the University of Mexico, where,
she said, there is no campus life
at  all.     It   was   not  comparable to
Bryn   Mawr   and   the   woman   had
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