College News, 1945-02-07, Vol. 31, No. 14

              The college News
VOL. XLI, NO. 14
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 7, 1945
Copyright, Trualr�! of
Bryn Miwr Col e,;>   1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Philosophy Dept
Presents Lecture
ByDorothyWalsh
Dr. Walsh, Smith Professor,
I Discuss "Literature
And Truth"
Dr. Dorothy Walsh, assistant
professor of philosophy at Smith
College, will speak on Literature
and Truth in the Music Room,
Goodhart, Thursday evening at
8:30. This lecture is made possible
through the Theodore and Grace
deLaguna lectureship in philosophy
established last year upon the re-
tirement of Mrs. deLaguna by
friends,  colleagues  and  students.
Dr. Walsh received her A. B. de-
gree from the University of British
Columbia in 1923 and her M. A.
from the University of Toronto in
1924. She was fellow in philoso-
phy at Bryn Mawr from 1925-1926
and received her Ph. D. here. She
studied under Mrs. deLaguna while
she was at Bryn Mawr. She has
written on aesthetics, ethics, met-
aphysics, language and poetry, and
is remembered here as a very vivid
and effective teacher.
The Theodore and Grace deLa-
guna lectureship in philosophy is
designed to permit one or two
sneakers to be selected each year
by the philosophy, department. Dr.
Walsh is the first speaker in this
lectureship.
April Oursler, Designated as'Fallen Woman9
Brings Philosophic Approach to Editorship
BrynlMawr to Give
Party for Wounded
Men at Valley Forge
Through the Red Cross, Bryn
Mawr has been granted the privi-
lege of giving a quiet party on
Saturday, March 3 for the wound-
ed soldiers at Valley Forge Gen-
eral Hospital. Seventy girls have
been asked to volunteer. The party
is sponsored by the Bryn Mawr
Red Cross unit and is supervised
by Patricia Adheson '46 and Nancy
Niles '47.
Transportation will 'be provided
by the Red Cross Motor Corps, and
the volunteers must be ready to
leave Pembroke Arch at 5:30. Each
car will be numbered and each girl
will be allotted to a car. Following
the party, the girl must return to
college in the same car.
Since the girls are 'guests of the
hospital and of the army, they
must abide by their rules. The
most important of these is that
they must not leave the recreation
hall. Otherwise, they are expected
to entertain th wounded with
cards and cheerful talk. A col-
lege octet will provide entertain-
ment and the Red Cross will serve
refreshments. Each girl will be
asked to pay $1.50 to cover the
cost of refreshments and ten lucky
number prizes will be awarded.
A list will be /posted in Taylor
for those interested to sign up. If
more than 70 volunteer those who
have done the least war woric will
be eliminated. Those who sign up
must be certain of attending. This
is not a party for our {pleasure but
for theirs, and no one must go
who is not prepared to accept her
responsibility.
By Alison Merrill '45
April Oursler, recently-elected
editor of the College News, de-
scribes herself as a fallen woman.
She has been falling, she says, ever
since she was a little girl. Elected
on the anniversary of having fall-
en and broken her toe, she reacts
to her greatest fall with the
thought: "I'm going to have to be
neat and systematic." She will,
further, have to heed the words of
her father on the occasion of her
falls: "Coordinate, April, coordin-
ate."
To the editorship, April brings
ample experience, only exceeded by
the size of her feet. Joining the
News in the middle of her Fresh-
man year, and proceeding to the
Editorial Board in her Sophomore
year, she lays claim also to a sum-
mer's experience on' the Swarth-
more Phoenix as a su'b-cub-report-
er in her days of acceleration, .She
has since decelerated and insists
that she has coined the word.
Working last summer as a copy
girl and assistant Letters to the
Editor editor on the Herald Trib-
une, she brought back an amazing
journalistic facility as well as the
idea for Incidentally. Finally, she
has served two years as campus
correspondent for the Herald Trib-
une and two years as Merion's fire
captain, which will fit a girl for
any job.
A philosophy major, April has
the claim to fame of being perhaps
the first philosophy major to edit
the News. The effect of this on our
yellow sheet we hesitate to proph-
esy, but Mr. Nahm's only reply is",
"I hope it doesn't make you any
less a philosopher."
Actually, April's status as a
philosophy major is distinctly
shaky, since she entered college as
a   chemistry   major,   and   quickly
French Club to Have
Movie, Gourou Lecture
The French Club will present the
film A Nous la Liberte in the Mu-
sic Room of Goodhart on Friday,
February 9 at 8 P. M. The show-
ing of this Rene Clair comedy was
originally scheduled for the first
semester but had to be postponed
on account of projector-trouble. M.
Clair is known in this country as
the director of The Ghost Goes
West.
M. Gourou
On Wednesday, February 14, the
French Club invites members and
all others interested to hear M.
Pierre Gourou, graduate of the
Sorbonne and professor of Geog-
raphy at the University of Brus-
sels, speak (in French) on some
present day actualities. Mr.
Gourou is in this country tempor-
arily, serving on a French Gov-
ernment colonial mission. His lec-
ture will*be given in the Common
Room at 7:30 P. M.
Rescheduling
Recommendations made to
the faculty Curriculum Com-
mittee will be based on the
answers to the questionnaires
distributed tonight. Complete
and immediate replies will en-
able the committee to take im-
mediate action.
changed to biology after mid-
semesters. With mid-years she be-
came an English major and stead-
fastly remained one until last
year's Shakespeare paper. "So far,"
April comments, "I'm safe in phil-
osophy." She complains, however,
that Mr. Nahm thinks she is a
Sophomore and Mr. Weiss forgets
that she is a philosophy major, for
which we could hardly blame him.
Experiencing distinct feeling of
fright, the new editor plans to
continue in the News such editor-
ials as that on dramatic activities
in an effort to campaign for more
life on the campus and for more
constructive activity. She prom-
ises to fight on for rescheduling
and to inject more humor into th*
weekly journalistic effort, mean-
while injecting vitamins into her-
self to ward off constantly recur-
ring ailments.
Undergrad Elections�
For '45-'46 Officers
lo Start Next Week
fst Semester Work
Surveyed by McBride
At Special Assembly
The election of officers for the
chief undergraduate positions for
the year 1945-46 will start next
week to continue until spring vaca-
tion. The following procedure for
the voting has been planned:
After nominations a description
of the duties of the offices will
appear in the News, along with
pictures of the candidates and
brief write-ups of their college ac-
tivities. Students should attempt
to know the candidates before vot-
ing takes place. The following
week elections will take place in
the halls directly after lunch. Vot-
ing will be by ballot, and all un-
dergraduates will be required to
sign their names as they cast their
votes. rJon-resident students are
urged to be at the college for
lunch on days when elections occur.
If any candidate receives 15
more votes than the sum of ail the
other votes cast, she is elected. If
no candidate gets this plurality,
revoting will be held the next day
between the two or three highest
candidates. In this case, the winner
must have 20 more votes than the
runner*up.
Schedule of Nominations
Feb. 15�Nomination for Presi-
dent of Self-Gov. (by Junior Clasp)
Feb. 19�Nomination for Presi-
dent of Undergrad. (by Junior
Class)
Feb. 22�Nomination far Presi-
dent of League (by League Board).
Nomination for Secy, of League,
(by League Board).
Feb. 26�Nomination for Presi-
dent of Alliance, (by Alliance
Board and Junior Class)
March 1�Nomination for Presi-
dent of Athletic Assooiation. (by
A. A. Board)*"                          �
March 5-^Nomination for Com-
mon Treasurer, (by Sophomore
Class).
March 6�Nomination for Vice-
Pres. of Self-Gov. (by Junior
Class)
Nomination for Secy, of' Self-
Gov. (by Sophomore Class)
Nomination for 1st Sophomore
Member of Self-Gov. (by Fresh-
man Class)
March 12�Nomination for Vice-
Pres. of Undergrad. (by Junior
Class).
March 13�Nomination for Secy,
of Undergrad. (by Sophomore
Class)
Conttnutd 0U t�ii   I
Goodhart, February 1. Speaking
in a special assembly on the open-
ing day of the second semester,
Miss McBride pointed to this sem-
ester as a time for a new recogni-
tion of one's obligations as a stud-
ent during war. She spoke also of
changes in faculty membership, of
extra-curricular activities, and of
the academic picture of the first
semester.
Obligations'
Referring to study now as both
a hardship and a privilege, Miss
McBride asserted that "it is essen-
tial work which must be carried on
and which can be carried on only
by those who are able." The coun-
try will be short, Miss McBride
said, in all fields of knowledge as
a result of the war, and our edu-
cation will help men see the im-
portance of returning to college
after the- war. Further, we will
have a background for an under-
standing of problems after the
war and the possibility for action.
Changes
To the faculty, the second sem-
ester brings back Mr. Watson of
the Geology Department after six
months in Montana and Miss Kraus
to the Department of Sociology
after work with UNRRA. Mr.
Carpenter will leave during the
second semester to give a series of
lectures at the University of Cal-
ifornia. His . place will be taken
by Mr. Post of Haverford.
Activities
The past semester, Miss McBride
announced, had fewer academic
casualties than last year, partly
due to the new plan for attend-
ance at classes. A survey of extra-
curricular activities indicates few
of us working at the top of our
abilities. The situation now calls
for help from those who have so
far held back.
Dr. Thomasllto Spe^k
On'Way of St. James'

The well-known literary histor-
ian, Dr. Henry Thomas, Keeper of
Printed Books at the British Mu-
seum, will speak under the aus-
pices of the Spanish Club in the
Common Room on Saturday after-
noon, February 10 at 4:15.
This talk, called the Way of St.
James, will be illustrated with
slides and based in part on the
book of that name written by Geor-
gianna Goddard King, former head
of the Bryn Mawr Art Depart-
ment. This subject concerns the
pilgrimage of St. James from
France to Spain.
Dr. Thomas, an ^expert on six-
teenth century Spanish printing,
is .the author of Spanish Romances
of Chivalry and of the Short Cata-
logue of Sixteenth Century Span-
ish Books. His lecture Saturday
will be given in English and is open
to everyone. Tea will be served in
the Common Room at 3:45.
Harvard Concert
With Bryn Mawr
Notably Executed
Enthusiasm, Delicacy Combine
To Set High Standard
Of Singing
This, year's Harvard-Bryn Mawr
concert, the second in the college's
history, was characterized by a re-
markably high standard of execu-
tion with both vigorous enthusiasm
and sensitive delicacy.
Although the program ranged in
period from 1400 to 1945, both the
joint renditions and the separate
college selections were performed
with an almost perfect tonal blend.
The musical rapport evident dur-
ing the whole evening was notable
particularly in view of the fact
that the colleges had had less than
two hours of rehearsal before_the
concert.
The performance of Irving
Fine's clever choral -patterns from
The New Yorker, probably the
most striking part of the program,
is an indication of the alertness of
choral direction, but above all of
the live spirit which characterizes
both choirs.
Bryn Mawr's performance of the
two modern Ave Maria's was nota-
ble for its full round tone and ex-
quisite expressiveness. The Dufay
chanson and the Welkes madrigal
deserve special mention as exam-
ples of smooth blend and acute
sense of tempo.
Harvard's group of madrigals
were presented with colloquial
charm. The diction of the Bac-
ohanale and the Patience choruses
was unusually clear and the imagi-
native interpretation of the Sulli-
can selections was striking in con-
trast to the "usual hackneyed per-
formances of such music.
Powerful intensity and brilliance
in- -the dramatic cut-offs charac-
terized the rendition of Handel's
Draw the Tear from Hopeless
T�ove. A truly expressive delivery
of the magnificent Thompson Alle-
luia closed the concert oh the per-
fect note.                            , ..
Engagements
Roberta   Arrowsmith    '47     to
Louis V. Mills.
Annette   Elizabeth   Peters  '47
'47 to Ranulf W. Gras.
Forsdyke Will Speak
~~7 On British Museum
Sir John Forsdyke, "one of the
foremost archaeologists of Britain
and Director and Principal Librar-
ian of the British Museum since
1939, will speak Saturday evening
at 8:00 in the Music Room on The
British  Museum in  War.
Sir John, graduate of Keble Col-
lege, Oxford, began working with
the British Museum in 1907. Editor
of the Journal of Hellenic Studies
from 1912 to 1923, he became a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquary
ies of London-and of the Lib
Association, and, later, Honoral
Secretary of the Hellenic Social
From 1932 to 1936, he was Keeper
of the Greek and Roman Antiqui-
ties in the British Museum.
His written work has beten es-
pecially concentrated in thi field
of Mycenean pottery, although he
is also author of the firslAolume
of the British MuseuWcataloffue
on prehistoric pg*t^ry
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