College News, 1944-01-19, Vol. 30, No. 13

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VOL. XL, NO. 13
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944
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Lawrence Urges _
Closer Relations
With Gt. Britain
Talk Accompanied by Films
Showing War Efforts
Of Allies
Goodhart,   January   17�In   the
interest of better Anglo-Ameri-
can relations, Miss Gertrude
Lawrence presented three British
Information Service films to ex-
plain the spirit of our allies�
Great Britain and Russia. In a
short introductory speech, Miss
Lawrence stressed the importance
of having more confidence in our
allies and of ridding ourselves of
prejudices that could cause an-
other war.
Emphazing the horror of this
war, Miss Lawrence said that ef-
ficiency in working together is not
enough to insure a lasting peace.
We must maintain the freedom
for which men are fighting. To
do this, we must think with our
hearts and our heads in order to
realize the sacrifices that other
nations have made and to deter-
mine that such a war will never
happen again.
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Calendar
Saturday, January 22 ���
Examination  Period  Begins.
French Examination for Sen-
iors.
War Films, Music Room, 8:00.
Tuesday, February  1
Examination Period Er.ds.
Wednesday,  February  2
Holiday.
Thursday,  February 3
Work   of   Second    Semester
Begins.
Vocational Conference, Dean-
ery, 7:30.
Saturday,  February 5
War Films, Music Room, 8:00.
Monday,  February  7   �
Henry Peyre, The Legacy of
Proust in  the  Contemporary
Novel, Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, February 8
Gaetano     Salvemini,     Good-
hart, 11:00.
X"
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Displays in Monologues
Poise and Versatility
L Granger Discusses
Inter-racial Problems
Mr. Willoughby Ends
Long Career at B.M.
For Post in Victoria
Ernest Willoughby, Assistant
Professor of Music, has been ask-
ed to take the position of organist
and choirmaster of the Christ
Church Cathedral at Victoria, Brit-
ish Columbia. His departure next
month will mark the end of twen-
ty years in the music department
of the college. In addition to his
regular classes, he has been asso-
ciated with all musical events in-
cluding the operettas. Lantern
Night, and May Day.
In his position as choir director,
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Philadelphia, January 13�"The
increased racial tension in this
country indicates the absolute ne-
cessity for social planning for
better adjustment in the future,"
stated Lester B. Granger, Execu-
tive Secretary of the National
Urban League, in a discussion of
the "Techniques of Inter-racial
Adjustment" at the Philadelphia
local chapter of the American
Association of Social Workers.
Emphasizing the part which so-
cial workers should play in al-
leviating the conditions and ten-
sions of minority groups, Mr.
Granger stressed the great res-
ponsibility of such an undertak-
ing.
The acute racial tension arises,
Mr. Granger pointed out, from
the tradition of exploiting minor-
ity groups as labor, one of the
natural resources. Increased
discussion of democratic ideals,
he said, have developed during
the war and have resulted in new
demands  of  minority  groups.
Migration
Migration of Negroes from ru-
ral to urban districts and from
Southern to Northern cities has
been taking place since World
War I, Mr. Granger pointed out,
and indications show that it will
be a continuous process. The rea-
son for this, he explained, is the
regular drive to better oneself,
to migrate to areas offering em-
ployment  and  less discrimination.
The Zoot-Suiters, continued
Mr. Granger ,are an example of
the extremes to which minority
groups have gone. It ds a revolt
on the part of Italian, Negro,
Polish and Mexican youths against
all adult standards since they,
in America, are denied democracy,
-^^n American towns and cities,
the Urban League Executive Sec-
retary stated, the Negro popula-
tion is a good barometer of the
conditions existing in the gener-
cl community.
War Film Describes
Nazis' Rise to Power
Goodhart, January 14. "The
Nazis Strike," the second of the
series of seven films produced by
the War Department Research
Council for the army, tells the his-
tory of Hitler's rise to power
through successive bold moves,
emphasizing the conquest of Pol-
and, in September, 1939.
The military history of Germany
was reviewed, with the statements
of the ideas of Bismarck in 1863,
of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914, and of
Hitler in 1933, all indicating their
plans for world domination. Hit-
ler's aim is to conquer the entire
world, for which purpose his geo-
politicians have divided the earth
into sections which he plans to
take one by one: first the "heart
land," (central Europe) then the
rest of Europe, Asia, Africa�"the
world island," and finally the
world.
The Nazis' bid for world su-
premacy began in Germany. They
softened their enemies in advance
by means of propaganda to divide,
confuse and terrorize. France, Bel-
gium and England became ac-
quainted with National Socialism,
as they watched its working and
were besieged with its propaganda.
At home Germany was preparing
for war by rationing of food, and
absolute control of all German life
by the Nazi party, enforced by
means of secret police and concen-
tration camps. They built a tre-
mendous army of highly trained
officers in defiance of the Versailles
Treaty.
The first step in Germany's con-
quest was the fortification of
the Rhineland in which they built
the famous Seigfried Line. The
next move came on March 12, 1938,
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By Alison Merrill, '45
Cornelia Otis Skinner presented
five of the monologues which she
has made famous on the American
stage at Haverford last Wednes-
day night. Playing to *n audience
which filled the aisles and the or-
chestra pit of Roberts Hall, Miss
Skinner admirably mastered the
difficulty of remaining in charac-
ter and in complete control during
the prolonged bursts of uproarious
laughter which followed her every
third sentence.
It bespeaks her years of exper-
ience and her magnificent stage
presence that, without the support
of scenery and other actors or any
actual stage business, she could
carry through her characteriza-
tions, never giving evidence of any
discomfort nor communicating any
to her audience. By virtue of her
own charm and personal appeal
and by virtue of the careful struc-
ture of her monologues, as well as
her ability as an actress, she over-
came the dangers that are inher-
ent in the monologue as a drama-
tic form.
"Times Square"
Most interesting from the point
of view of displaying the range of
Miss Skinner's talent was the
monologue titled "Times Square,"
presumably a section of Broadway
at the theatre hour. Using a long,
red chiffon scarf as the only stage
property, she presented a series
of lightning-quick changes and
contrasts in character study. She
progressed from an old Italian
woman peddling chewing gum to
a Brooklyn "babe", a bored social-
ite whose chauffeur had not yet
appeared, an appealing ingenue, a
southern doll who thinks New
York is "cute", a woman whose
husband is near death, a sailor's
pickup, a drug addict, returning
finally to the peddler softly mut-
tering Italian. Making the changes
externally by a turn at one end of
the stage and a twist of her scarf,
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Henri Peyre as Flexner Lecturer �
Will Analyze Modern French Novel
Yale Professor to Review
Works of Proust, Gide
In Talks
Commissioned
A recent cable received from
Rabat, Morocco, states that
Mademoiselle Germaine Bree
has been commissioned a cap-
tain in the Free French Forces,
having been transferred from
the Rochambean Ambulance
Unit to the job as Head of the
Bureau des interpretes�liaison,
armee de l'air, with tWe rank of
captain.
Salvemini to Outline
Problems of Italians
In February Lecture
Gaetano Salvemini, a distin-
guished Italian liberal, will pre-
sent the fifth in the series of
War Alliances assemblies on cur-
rent affairs on February 8. His
lecture will concern Italy from
the Italian point of view.
A noted historian Mr. Salvemini
was for many years professor of
modern history in various Ital-
ian universities; at the Univers-
ity of Messina from 1901 to 1908,
the University of Pisa 1910-16,
the University of Florence 1916-
25. He was also a member of the
Italian cabinet from 1919 to 1921.
He left Italy in 1926 for political
reasons, and in September 1929
he was deprived of his Italian cit-
izenship, and his property was
confiscated.
Mr. Salvemini has never been
allied with any of the Italian re-
actionary groups, Fascist or Mon-
archist, here or abroad but is an
unwavering advocate of true de-
mocracy, a liberal idealist. In
1932 he settled in the United
States and recently became an
American citizen. A visiting pro-
fessor at Harvard in 1930 and at
Yale in 1932, he has been the
Lauro de Boss lecturer of the His-
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Blue Paint, Black Eyes of Freshman Hazing
Ended by College Council Recommendations
By April Oursler, '46
No longer will there be suicide
leaps from the beams of Goodhart
stage, no longer will doors be un-
hinged and no more black eyes will
brighten the horizon. Freshman
hazing has undergone a radical
change as a result of the new ad-
ministration ruling. It is fitting
then that we write the obituary of
the past days of hazing, the days
of the battle of paint and fists in
Goodhart, and the history of haz-
ing in recent years.
It was February, 1941. Blue
paint swirled down from Goodhart
rafters, Sophomore after Sopho-
more was allegedly swung off the
stage to land in a frenzy of upper-
classmen, and the battle royal,
otherwise known as the rehearsal
of '44's Freshman Show, was un-
derway.                      ,_ -
Since the law then stood that
Sophomores were not allowed on
the stage, myriad squatting figures
nonplussed the Freshmen as they
gazed into the beams directly over,
but definitely not on the stage. The
stairs to the rafters were barri-
caded, Sophomores were forced to
jump to the stage, and there was
the little question of the buckets
of water that turned out to be blue
pain, giving one daybed, one coat
and the half-finished scenery a
slightly aquamarine hue.
Having achieved this new height
of violence, Freshman hazing
grew steadily in atrocity, reaching
its culmination with the introduc-
tion of dogfish livers lifted from
the Biology Lab., and casually in-
serted in Freshman slippers and
mittens. One misguided soul de-
cided they were nothing but slight-
ly old bananas, and disposed of
them in her own way.
Two Freshmen, feeling their idi-
osyncrasies of careful dress in this
unfashionable campus about to be
laid bare by the cruel Sophomores,
packed their best clothes up in
suitcases, one carefully stored in
the attic, the other chained to the
washstand with a bicycle lock.
Their fears were evidently justi-
fied, for one less provident, and
equally well-dAssed Freshman re-
turned from rehearsal one day to
find all her clothes neatly stored
in her closet, the door locked and
the key gone. A wily lass, she
stealthily unhinged the door, trans-
ferred the clothes to a "fellow-
Freshmans"' closet, and said
nothing, merely appearing hourly
in a new costume before the amaz-
ed Sophomores.
Henri Peyre, the Mary Flexner
lecturer for 1944, will present a
series of six lectures on the con-
temporary French novel beginning
February 7. M. Peyre, docteur
des lettres, is at present Sterling
professor of French in Yale Uni-
versity. His lectures will be giv-
en in Goodhart every Monday
night at 8:30 for six weeks start-
ing February 7, and continuing
through March 13. The lectures
will  be in  English.
In addition to the lecture ser-
ies, M. Peyre will conduct a sem-
inar on Thursdays from 4 until 6
for graduate students and ad-
vanced undergraduates in the
French department. He will take
part in the advanced French nov-
el course and will hold office hours
for students.
The subjects for the Flexner
lectures are as follows:
February   7�The    Legacy     of
Proust in the Contemporary Novel.
February 14�From Andre Gide
(0  Francois Mauriac.
February 21�Tradition and Ex-
periment: Romains, Martin du
Gard,  Celine.
February 28�The Younger
Generation: Julian Green and
Malraux.
March 6�The Epic Novel: Jean
Giono.
March 13�Saint Exupery.
M. Peyre was born in Paris in
1901, and he studied for his de-
crees there. His American ca-
reer started at Bryn Mawr as a
member of the French Depart-
ment from 1925 to 1928. He then
went to Yale, where he has re-
mained except for an interval at
the University of Cairo in Egypt.
In 1938 he became Sterling Pro-
fessor at Yale and received his
degree of A. M. from that uni-
versity in  1939.
M. Peyre has written many
books on French classicism. His
most recent works are L'influence
des Literature antique sur la lit-
erature Francaise moderne, pub-
lished in 1941, and Le classicisme
Francaise, published in 1942. His
book, Shelley et La France, was
printed in Cairo ip 1935. A num-
ber of volumes of classical plays
have been  edited by M. Peyre.
Novels on Reserve
For Peyre Lectures
In preparation for the Flexner
Lecture series to be given this
year by Henri Peyre on the mod-
ern French novel, a selection of
novels- has been put. on reserve in
the Quita Woodward Room in the
Library. The novels are those
that M. Peyre intends to discuss
in his lectures, and he has recom-
mended that they be read in ad-
vance. The reserve, which in-
cludes translations of fhe novela,
is to be used in the Library.
The  selection  is as follows:
DuGard    ... The   Thibaults,   La
Consultation
Giono  . . . Un de Baumugnes
Gide ... La Porte Etroite
Malraux    ... La   Condition   Hu-
maine,    Man's    Fate,    Man's
Hope
Mauriac . . . Le Noeudde Viperes,
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