College News, 1945-05-09, Vol. 31, No. 25

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VOL. XLI, NO. 25         ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945
Copyright, Truitcei of
Bryn Mawr Coll.g.. 194S
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dean Acheson
Will Interpret
Brettoii Woods
The Hon. Dean G. Acheson,
Assistant Secretary of State, will
speak oj* "Bretton Woods" at the
ninth College Assembly on Cur-
rent Affairs on May 11 in Good-
hart.
Dean Acheson was Chairman
of the Bretton Woods Conference
held in the summer of 1944, at
which postwar plans were out-
lined for an international finan-
cial organization consisting of a
stabilization fund and a bank for
reconstruction. Additional ex-
perience as Chairman of The
General Policy Committee to co-
ordinate all United States relief
activities abroad, as Chairman of
the Food Conference at Hot
Springs and as head of the Amer-
ican delegation at the Atlantic
JCity Conference held in 1944, has
made Mr. Acheson an authority
on international affairs of an( ec-,
onomic nature.
A career as statesman began
for Dean Acheson in 1933 when
he interrupted the practice of law
to become Under-Secretary of the
Treasury. Resigning after five
months, he returned to law, but
reentered the Department of
State in 1941 as Assistant Secre-
tary of State, in which capacity
he has continued up to the pres-
ent time.
Miss Mildred B. Northrop, As-
sociate Professor of Economics,
said that Dean Acheson was "one
of the few men who could make
Bretton Woods comprehensible to
the public."
'As You Like It'
Given With Spirit
Of True Comedy
Goodhart, May 4 and 5. S^void.-
ing the two most dangerous pit-
falls of modern productions of
Shakespearean comedies by neithj-
er taking the plays too academical-
ly, nor too lightly, the Varsity
Players, under the direction of
Mrs. Seyril Ruben, succeeded in
presenting As You Like It, with a
spirit in perfect keeping with the
comedy as it was written.
The production, originally sched-
uled to be given outdoors i�iftl id-
summer Night's Dream HWow,
made the rain-caused transition
into Goodhart with ease. Adopt-
ing the Shakespearean customs of
a stage devoid of scenery, and of
scenes melting, as it were, into
each other, the Players' succumbed
to modernity only in the reversal
of the Elizabethan procedure of
casting, having to use women for
all the roles.
Although the opening scenes
were unfortunately slow in pace,
the play quickly assumed its prop-
er timing, proceeding in running
continuity. The lack of any inter-
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WBMC Will Join
13 College System
M. (ih i Ids Discusses
Serious Shortages
Of Europe's Food
Goodhart, May 3. "Unless the
European people get food before
next winter, there will be serious
internal revolts," said Mr. Marquis
Childs, columnist recently return-
ed from Europe, in his lecture on
Hungry Europe. Childs contrast-
ed our "safe, secure island" to the
conditions in England, and Europe,
emphasizing the terrific differ-
ences.
England, Childs pointed out, has
been earnest in feeding its people.
Through a good rationing system,
and the complete dissolution�f pri-
vate interests, the English pepole
have had enough to eat, although
the food is monotonous.
France, however, is almost starv-
ing. Its system of transportation
has completely broken down�loco-
motives have been left where they
were hit�and although there is
still food in some parts of the
country, they have not been able
to transport it to the large indus-
trial cities. There has been a rapid
increase in tubercular diseases, and
also a rapid deterioration of cur-
rency.   The only people who have
V-E Day Announced
In   (follege Assembly
Collins Describes
1945 College Girl
At Women's Club
The Intercollegiate Broadcasting
System will present a program on
the theme ."students united for
peace", Thursday night, May 10.
The I. B. S. represents an associa-
tion of thirteen college radio sta-
tions, including W.B.M.C, which
will be linked up'"fl*r.the first time
over a coastal network in this
broadcast.
Bryn Mawr will be represented
on the program by statements
from Miss Robbins, Miss Taylor,
and Helin Reed on the subject of
the San Francisco Conference.
They will stress campus interest
in peace problems, evinced in such
meetings as Current Events and
War Alliance Assemblies. The pro-
gram will also include a message
from President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia, and from for-
eign students, as well as selections
of international music.
Originating from Columbia Uni-
versity in New York, this broad-
cast marks a milestone in the de-
velopment of these collegiate radio
systems. Members of the Bryn
Mawr radio club, which has been
offering regular programs Mon-
days through Thursdays, hope that
it will also bring their work more
to the notice of the campus. Plans
are now being made for a series of
such broadcasts next year over na-
tional and international networks.
The program will be heard from
8:00 to 9:00 P>M. at 580 on the
dial. All those outside the campu3
are invited to listen in the base-
ment of Pembroke East.
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heat  or food  are  those  connected
with the U, S., and this situation
makes for hard  feelings   between
the French and the Americans in
France.
In describing Yugoslavia, Greece,
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The new maturity and purpose-
fulness -evident in the colleges was
the keynote of a panel discussion
of "The American College Girl of
1945," sponsored by the Women's
College Club of Princeton. The
meeting was held Monday eve-
ning, May 7, in the elementary
school in Princeton. Speakers in-
cluded Mrs. James Chadwick-
Collins, Mrs. Marquand Forsyth,
Mrs. George Elderkin, Miss Shir-
ley Davis, Mrs. John Fine, Mrs.
Walton Buttenvorth and Mrs.
"Norman Dahl, with Miss Jeanne
Wright presiding.
Mrs. Chadwick Collins empha-
sized the new determination of
today's college girl in her academic
work. There is a definite in-
sistence, she feels, on academic
training and discipline that will
be useful after graduation. This
has shown itself in increasing in-
terest in the social sciences, na-
tural sciences and history within
the curriculum and in current
events, war assemblies and other
war WOttF extra-curricularly.  ,.
This new spirit has had its ef-
fect, too, on the methods of teach-
ing,* Mrs. Collins pointed out.
There is a change in emphasis
from teaching by the professor to
learning by the student. This has
resulted in a reduction of lecture
hours in the curriculum and in
compensating increase in the
amount of individual research
work. The student has welcomed
this as effective discipline for the
mind and good preparation for
work after graduation.
Miss Shirley Davis spoke on the
work of the secondary school ad-
ministrator. The secondary schools,
she pointed out, have improved
their college preparatory work
greatly in recent years, both in
academic matters and in character
building through increasing stu-
dent    responsibility.
Dean   Advocates
Summer School
by Christina Grant
Over the past few years student.;
have taken an increasing interest
in summer school work and have
felt that it was unusally import-
ant to take courses in summer
school in connection with their
work at Bryn Mawr. The faculty
is strongly in favor of their doing
some work for at least part of each
summer, and would accordingly
like to clarify its policy with re-
spect to work done in summer
school.
We feel that it is both useful
and, in some cases, extremely ad-
vantageous for students to supple-
ment their work at Bryn Mawr by
taking summer courses. We would
therefore give them every elfcour-
agement to do so. On the other
hand, we feel that the value of this
kind of work ought not to be mea-
sured in terms of academic credit
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War Alliance
Will Sponsor
Mass  Meeting
On Monday night, May 14th, at
8 o'clock in the Common Room tfie
Alliance will hold a mass meeting
which will be the culmination of
its concentrated program of the
past three weeks to familiarize
the campus with the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals, the Bretton
Woods plan, and the food situa-
tion in Europe. The program
consisted of letters and articles
in the News, a talk by Dr. Wells
on Dumbarton Oaks, and an ' as-
sembly in which Mr. M. W. Childs
spoke on the need for food in
Europe. The final phase will be
another assembly this Friday at
which the Hon. Dean Acheson,
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bndergrads Vote
To Donate \$500
To  Aid Europe
Only two dissenting votes Jre
cast in the hall meetings'held all
over the campus' last Thursday
night to ask the undergraduates',
approval to give five hundred
dollars out of the common treas-
ury funds to send food to Eu-
rope.
The five hundred dollars is to
be sent to the EmergenqfyVAfd of
Pennsylvania to purchase and
send packages of dehydrated food
to Europe according to a , plan
whereby sixteen dollars will ade-
quately feed one person for six
months. The Graduate Club voted
to add one htfndred to the money
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College    Assembly    Has
^uiet, Solemn Aspect
Of Victory
V-E Day, formally announced to
the campus in a college assembly    .^^
Tuesday morning, was a sober and
quiet day at Bryn Mawr.
The assembly, opening with the
singing of a hymn, was held in
Goodhart at 8:45 a. m. to enable
the student body to hear the broad-
casts of the speeches of the heads
of the Allied nations. After the
"Cherubic Hymn", sung by the
Choir, Miss McBride, in a brief
speech, expressed the feeling of the
majority of people on campus.
"We cannot help but feel joyful
at the completion of this pafT of
the war," she said, "but we must
remember that this is not the end.
Not only is there still much suffer-
ing left in Europe, but we still
have' a war ahead of us to be
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A radio on Goodhart stage
brought Mr. Truman's speech to
the assembled college. Immediate-
ly afterwards the power-house sir-
en joined those of the village in
proclaiming V-E Day, and Taylor
bell was rung by Patricia Behrens
and Dorothy Bruchholz.
Those who did not attend the as-
sembly were gathered in groups
around radios in the. various smok-
ing-rooms. Except for outbursts
in the halls during the siren-blow-
ing, the undergraduates remained
in a fairly subdued state through-
out the day.
Various representative groups
when questioned attributed this to.
several causes. Many felt that the
Pacific war involved so much fu-
ture hardship that this was no time
for- celebration. Others expressed
the feeling that armistice rumors,
rife during last week's Glee Club
concert, as well as on Monday, had
dulled the edge of the news and
removed much of the spontaneity
of reaction.
Still others felt that there was
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Rare Book Room Offers Array
Of Familiar Children's Classics
Calendar
Thursday. May 10
4:30    Badminton Tea, Common
Room.
9:00   Sleeping Beauty, dance-
play, in front of the Gym.
Friday, May 11
12:30   Dean   Acheson,   Bretton
Woods, Assembly, Goodhart.
4:30-6.00    Non-Resident    Tea.
Common Room.
9:00   Sleeping Beauty, in front
of the Gym.                       ^i
Saturday, May 12
Science Club picnic.
Fullerton Club Meeting, Dean-
ery, morning and afternoon.
7:30 Movie, Common Room.
Sunday.^May 13
7:30   Rev. Philip Jensen, Cha-
pel, Music Room.
Monday, May 14
7:30   Current Events.
8:00   Mass Meeting, Goodhart.
Wednesday, May 16
8:00   Science Club lecture. Dr.
Harris.
by  Rosina  Bateson  '47
All work-worn, academically-
dazed undergraduates should be re-
quired to take time off to see the
student-contributed exhibit of chil-
dren's books now in the Rare Book
Room. No massive tomes, diction-
aries, encyclopedias, or theories
written by some scholars about
some other scholars gre'et the
bleared eyes. Instead, an array of
old favorites, opened aft inviting
places, jogs the memory back to
the peaceful days of Alice in Won-
derland or Through the Looking
Glass sans Mr. Auden's interpreta-
tion.
There are, roughly, about one
hundred and twenty-five books on
display, yet even with so many dif-
ferent authors represented, almost
every book looks familiar. The il-
lustrations in the collection include
the delightful Tenniel etchings of
a first edition of Through the
Looking Glass, loaned by Susan
Oulahan '46, and such favorites as
Kate Greenaway, Boutet de Movel,
and Gustav Dore. There is a del-
icacy about their work which is a
far cry from the bold, vivid illus-
trations found in children's book3
today, which seems to take away a
little of. the -imaginative mystery
that surrounded the almost ether-
eal-characters of Kate Greenaway's
day. There are also examples of
some of the hand-painted illustra-
tions dating from before the inven-
tion of the color process in printing
and coming from the collections of
Margaret Spencer '44, and Joseph-
ine Burroughs, of the graduate
school. *
Several editions of Thackeray's
books for children, published under
the pseudonym of M. A. Titmarse,
lent by Amoret Bissell '48, and
early American children's story
dated from 1827-1860 are also on
exhibit. Patricia Cowles '47 has
contributed a book, Chinese Child-
ren, specially illustrated for her by
a famous Persian miniature paint-
er. One of the most beautifully
bound books in the collection, it has
a cover of black and gold brocade.
There could be pages written
about the exhibition, which must
be seen to be really appreciated. It
is the kind of collection through
which one could browse happily for
hours, thumbing pages having
a familiarity which produce an ef-
fect like Alice's diminishing care,
making you feel very small, and
very, very carefree.
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