College News, 1943-09-25, Vol. 30, No. 01

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College News
VOL. XL, No. 1
BRYN MAWR and ARDMORE, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1943        Copjn.ht�����*      PRICE 10 CENTS
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Inauguration and
Alliance Lectures
Mark Year'42-'43
Farming,   Fortune   and
Bonds Test Students'
Interest in War
This is the story of a year, the
week-to-week headlines and the
threads of tangled opinion and the
olive-drab uniforms that were
Bryn Mawr 1942-3. Call it a kal-
eidoscope. This is to let you know,
'47, what you have got yourself
� into.
Miss McBride started it, on
September 30, by telling Bryn
Mawr studnts something they had
never been told before: that there
was an urgent demand for them in
the outside world. We put on our
blue jeans and husked corn, picked
apples, got poison ivy and called
ourselves the Land Army. The
Alliance intensified their war
work, adopted a constitution, and
a new name "The War Alliance."
Inauguration
The Inn had labor troubles,
much of the Faculty left for Wash-
ington, rationing hit the campus,
and Sylvia Brown stole the Fresh-
men's Parade Night song. Bryn
Mawr girls made their own beds,
served in the Deanery, and start-
ed taking Russian. Pomp and
circumstance came on October 29th
with President McBride's inaugur-
ation and the parade of academic
dignitaries and ancient alumnae.
WHAV, the Bryn Mawr-Haverford
radio station, thrived behind the
cloistered walls.
Polls
The NEWS had polls; they re-
vealed that the majority of 288
undergraduates holding jobs dur-
ing the summer had done secre-
tarial and clerical work; they re-
vealed that students favored post-
war planning now and thought ths
Allies would win the war.
Opinion shrieked for more
weekend activity on the campus,
more money for baby-sitting; ar-
gued about cutting out traditions.
Editorials reappeared in the per-
ennial fight for unlimited cuts.
>. The Gym was re-decorated and
Continued on Page Three
Restriction Lifted
On First Semester
Freshmen Activities
The former restriction on Fresh-
men activities during the first
semester has been partially lifted
this year. The administration feels
that the demands of the war have
increased the need for Freshmen
participation. However, all Fresh-
men must report their activities
to Mrs. Broughton's office, before
signing up for them.
In particular, Mrs. Broughton,
Acting Dean of Freshmen, recom-
mended the War Courses, sponsor-
ed by the Alliance, as first semes-
ter opportunities for Freshmen.
All of these courses: First Aid,
typing and shorthand, office tech-
nique, nutrition, and home mechan-
ics, are open to new students, after
consultation with the Dean of
Freshmen and their hall warden.
There are also openings in both
the Bryn Mawr Public School
Children's Center and the Haver-
ford Community Center, under the
same conditions, but Freshmen are
not allowed to take the Nurse's Aid
Course.
May  Hold  Jobs
Freshmen will also be allowed
for the first time, to hold hall jobs,
to work in the library, the offices,
and the Deanery, after an inter-
view with the Bureau of Recom-
mendations and with Mrs. Brough-
ton.
As far as campus activities are
concerned, Freshmen may join any
of the language clubs, and the In-
ternational Relations Club. Al-
though the tryouts for the College
News are not held until February,
the Board welcomes Letters to the
Editor at all times, as well as spe-
cially contributed articles by Fresh-
men, either in the form of reports
on special meetings they may have
attended in Philadelphia, or in
theater, book and concert reviews.
Glee Club, Madrigal Club, and
Choir are also open to Freshmen.
,   Eligible for All Sports
Freshmen may take part in any
and all sports other than their re-
quired ones, and both the first and
second Varsity teams are open to
those who excel in particular
Continued on Page Four
The Vill
Subterranean Tunnel and the New Yorker
Named as Perils for Freshmen in Library
By April Oursler, '45
The library is a labyrinth mass
of professors' offices carefully in-
terspersed with a few books. It
has long been a time-honored tra-
dition that all freshmen are drag-
ged through its mazes, steeped in
a quick dose of Dewey- Decimal
System and the Reserve Room
rules, and registered as function-
ing members of the library. That
was our experience and one by
which we most' certainly did not
learn. So herewith pur personal
guide to the part of the library
Miss Terrien never shows you. If
you carry it with you, pinned close
to your dean's slip, you might find
what you want.
It all starts when you wander
innocently down into the stacks
and end up in the Rare Book
Room. Catching a glimpse of light
across the had-you dash into the
Periodical room, only to be side-
tracked by The New Yorker and
Time. Pulling yourself together
again, you remember you were
after a book, and brightly recall-
ing your library tour, you head
vaguely towards the West Wing.
After   accidentally   bumping    into
the Education Sem you find your-
self unaccountably in the Quita
Woodward room. The New Book
Room, you gasp happily, thorough-
ly prepared to surrender to the
charms of The Tree That Grew in
Brooklyn or Drivin' Woman. Ten
minutes later you emerge, sadder
and wiser in your realization that
the Woodward room is only a new
room for books.
Some kind person told you that
the very next door on your right
would land you in the West Wing
stacks, so being a literal sort of
being, you take your next right,
and plummet down two flights of
stairs to the basement. Always
looking on the bright side of
things, you remember that you
hadn't read the last few issues of
the- New York Times, and that
somewhere in these subterranean
reaches th�y ~         - ^hf||Mfc**pos-
terity and you.
You  set off gaily, poking your
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Blue  Comet  Diner,   past  Lumber  Yard.
Also: Blue Comet Diner, past Lumber Yard. Limeburner, Optician, next to
Music Store. Nancy Broun, at Jean Belle's. Studio Shop, next to Nancy Brown.
Jake's Hardware Store, diagonally across from Hobson and Owens.
Freshmen Diversion
Seekers Told Where
To Find it by 'News'
Res's  Room,  then losing yourself
in  the  mass  of instrutor's  offices
that loom before you in the dusk.
Continued on Page Four,
The morale-building division of
the College News has dug up the
following information as a guide
to extracurricular frivolity. These
eating-places are all tried and
true, and the list deserves as much
careful perusing as the handbook.
We do not guarantee a cure for all
types of nervous breakdowns, but
the night life in the vicinity of
Philadelphia is not to be underes-
timated.
Local: if you sleep through
breakfast, if you're starved at
four, or if Aunt Jenny shows up
unexpectedly for lunch or dinner,
you'll go to the College Inn. For
more elaborate teas there are,
within walking distance, the Com-
munity Kitchen, the Chatterbox,
and the Bit of a Shop all on Lan-
caser Pike, and the Cottage Inn
on Montgomery^also for lunch or
dinner).
After  Dark
If you must have food before
you go to bed, try Moore's for ice
cream and sandwiches or the
Greek's for beer and hamburgers.
After dark, you can dance at
the Covered Wagon and there are
satisfactory dinners to be had, too.
More drinking than dancing at the
General Wayne and Wynnewood
House in Wynnewood; dinner or!
cocktails at the Manna Bar in
Ardmore. For beer and spaghetti;
see-the Conestoga Mill on County
Line Avenue, for mint juleps, the
King-of-Prussia Inn.
Philadelphia: Before concerts or
in the middle of a shopping spree,'
lunch at Whitman's on Chestnut
Street near 17th, and you may
have your fortune told over tea at
the Russian Inn, on Locust Street.
For dinner you will go to the
Bellevue-Stratford to dance be-
tween courses, to Kugler's after
football games, to Bookbinder's
for seafood, or way down on Chan-
cellor Street to Arthur's for sup-
er steaks in an old English at-
mosphere^JWhen �yoiTve-tried-^these
Village Still Offers
Almost Anything You
Might Need or Want
For the benefit of those of you
who have come totally unpre-
pared for anything, here is a poc-
ket guide to nearby shopping fa-
cilities. Almost everything you
want is in the Vill, and, unless
you're a spendthrift you won't
need to go further than Ardmore
the  first week.
In the Vill, Nancy Brown sells
dresses that might be just what
you wanted for that special occa-
sion. Yarn for the sweater you'll
be knitting in off hours comes
from Dinah Frosts's. If your radio
needs repair or you'd like to buy a
record, try Cuff's or Foster Ham-
mond's. Chairs for your room you
can get at Hobson and Owen's and
the essential sidelines of decorat-
ing may be obtained from Jake's
or Hamill's hardware stores. For
beauty's sake, Rene- Marcel or
Maison Adolphe will buck up your
morale with excellent permanents
and Jeannette's will supply you
with flowers.    Gifts from Richard
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nose first into a-room with a car-
pet of playing cards, and ashtraySjlyou,-tHay  fall  back  on   Stouffer's
Broad Street, or Michaud's, or
Jimmy Duffy's, both on Walnut
near 15th.
Continued on Page Four
Calendar
Tuesday, Sept. 28
Registration of Students. De-
ferred, conditioned and audi-
tors' exams begin. Advanced
standing exams in Spanish
and Italian, Room D, Taylor.
9:00 A. M.
Freshman Picnic at Saunder's
Barn, 11:30 A. M. .
Current Events lecture by
Mrs. Grant in the Common
Room, 7:30 P. M.
Self-Government Meeting in
the Gym at 8:00 P.M.
Wednesday, Sept 29
Work by 59th Academic Year
begins.    Assembly in    Good-
hart, 9:00 A. M.
Saturday, Oct. 2nd
German exam for undergrad-
uates, Ph.D. and M.A. candi-
dates, Taylor, 9:00 A. M.
Deferred, conditioned and
auditors exam auditors' ex-
ams end.
Parade Night to
Celebrate Annual
Bonfire Ceremony
Torchlights Will Flicker
To Mark Traditional
Procession
Wednesday the 29th will not
only mark that great day known
as the first day of classes but it
will be also � and surpassingly�
Parade Night.
Parade Night is a night of riv-
alry, with Freshmen and Sopho-
mores at each other's throat. Con-
tention finds its source in a song
�not a mere song, but one that
embodies the spirit of violent tra-
dition.
The tradition is this: a song is
selected by the Freshmen, the sole
object being to prevent the Soph-
omores from "happening" to dis-
cover tune of said song.
The Sophomores are a devious
lot, and will stoop to vile tricks.
Beware, Freshmen, beware espec-
ially the gently confused girl who
comes up to you with: "I wasn't
at the meeting yesterday. What
is the tune?" There are other
methods, too, and more subtle.
Bonfire
Historically, Parade Night cen-
ters in a bonfire. Led by the Fire-
man's band blaring forth the sac-
red tune, lit by Junior-born torch-
es, the Freshmen triumphantly
march through the night until sud-
denly they are rolling and scramb-
ling madly down a hill towards a
huge fire, surrounded by a deter-
mined ring of Sophomores. The
band crashes louder and louder.
The fire gets hotter and hotter as
the ring is broken.
Excitement is pitched high to
the last. For not till the Fresh-
men reach the bonfire do they
know whether success is theirs. If
the Sophomores have been too
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Lantern Night Ritual
May be Changed Due
To Lantern Shortage
According to ancient custom, on
the third Friday in October the
Sophomores will welcome the
Freshmen with gifts of lanterns,
to the accompaniment of Greek
hymns in the darkened cloisters of
the Library. This year the prob-
lem of the shortage of lanterns
threatens to change the tradition-
al Lantern Night ceremony. Since
the factory which manufactures
the lanterns has been converted to
war work, there will be no new
lanterns available.
Approximately 80 green lan-
terns have been collected from
last year's seniors and other alum-
nae, leaving the majority of the
210 freshmen without their tra-
ditional gift.
Preservation of Tradition
Katherine Tappen, head of Un-
dergrad, feels that "the actual
symbol of the giving of the lan-
terns should be preserved." There
is a tentative hope that the fac-
tory may be able to change the
glass in old lanterns to the green
of the incoming class. If this fails,
lanterns of other colors may be
used in the ceremony, with only
the green ones lighted to give the
effect of the swinging* lanterns. In
either case the upperclassmen will
be asked to contribute their Ian-
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