College News, 1945-01-17, Vol. 31, No. 13

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COLLEGE JVEWS
VOL. XLI, NO. 13
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1945
Copyright, Trmlrn of
Bryn Mawr ColUf, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Lt. Bolte States
Veterans Desire
Place in Society
______
A V. C. Seeks to Establish
Veterans as Citizens
Of World
Goodhart, January 10. Lt. Charles
G. BoHe, chairman of the Ameri-
can Veterans' Committee, speak-
ing in the Alliance Assembly on
Servicemen in War and Peace, de-
clared that GI Bills and personal
adjustment programs would have
no practical value unless a man
can take his place as a productive
member of society, in a world
where neighboring countries get
along, and foreign policy begins
at home.                                       ,,
Lt. Bolte pointed out that sol-
diers in the present war are not
politically conscious, which fact he
attributed to an inherent isolation-
ist background, the failure of the
army's orientation course, and the
hard physical conditions under
which  the  men  are fighting.    He
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Mr. Helson Lectures
Before Science Club
On "Color and Space'
Dalton,   January   10.
"Color is a visual experience in
which a stimulus affects the eye
and brain of the observer," said
Mr. Harry Helson, while discuss-
ing the "Interactions of color and
space" in the first Science Chub lec-
ture. Last year Mr. Helson dis-
cussed color alone, which he said is
a much less complicated problem
than that of color and space inter-
acting.
Together with space, color pre-
sents some interesting variations.
The traditional view is that color
is the feeling of vision, while space
is the form of vision. The eye re-
ceives an infinity of wave lengths,
and acts as an intergrating    and
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Canteen Class Helps
Prepare College Food
The Nutrition Class of twelve
students, held on campus this fall,
under the auspices of the Bryn
Mawr Red Cross unit, has now
been completed.
Those students who have taken
this course are now doing' canteen
work in the Bryn Mawr kitchens.
They help peel the vegetables, and
also learn how food is prepared in
large quantities. This practical
work on campus is in preparation
for future work in Blood Donor
canteens and hospital kitchens,
Joy Rutland '46 is head of this
canteen group, and Miss Howe and
Miss Bacheller have helped direct
the work on campus.
Fifteen students are already do-
ing volunteer work in the diet kit-
chen of the Bryn Mawr Hospital.
They work in groups of two for
two hour shifts, morning and
night.
Harvard, Bryn Mawr
Combined Glee Clubs
To Present Concert
On February 3, the Harvard Glee
Club will come here to present a
combined concert with Bryn Mawr.
The concert will be directed by G.
W. Woodworth, conductor of the
Harvard Glee Club, and by Bryn
Mawr's conductor, Mrs. L. C. de-
Varon, with Irving Fine, accom-
panying his own compositions. The
program  is:
I
Motet: O Thou The Central Orb,
Orlande Gibbons.
Two Madrigals: A Heta vita,
Tutti venite armati, Gartoldi.
Bacchanale, from La Belle Hel-
ene, Jacques Offenbach.
Magdlein in Walde, Czech Folk
Song, arr. by Antonin  Dvorak.
Chorus from Patience, Arthur
Sullivan, The Harvard  Glee Club.
H.
Motet: Oculos Non Videt, Or-
lande Lassue.
A Madrigal and a Chanson: Res-
velons Nous, Guillaime Dufay; The
Nightingale, Thomas Weelkes.
Ave Maria, Zoltan Kodaly.
Ave Mafia, Gustave Hoist.
Bryn Maiwr Choir
III
Chorus from Cantata 16, for
New Year's Day, J. S. Bach, Lasst
uns jauohzen, lasst uns freuen.
Intermission
rv
Three Choruses from Solomon,
George Frederick. Music, spread
thy voice around; Draw the tear
from hopeless love.
"V
Three Choral Patterns from The
New Yorker, Irving Fine: Allegro
Concertante, .. Pionola .. D'Amore;
Scherzande, Caroline Million; Epi-
logue, Design for October.
VI
Alleluia, Randall Thompson.
The two soloists from Bryn
Mawr for Caroline Million will be
Ann Matlack '47 and Barbara Nu-
gent '48, and Rosamund Kent '45
and Barbara Stix '47 will play the
flute obligato for Handel's May No
Rash Intruder.
After the concert there will be
refreshments and a victrola dance
for Harvard and the Bryn Mawr
Choir.
Tickets will be on sale starting
Thursday, January 18, in the Pub-
licity Office in Taylor. The price
for students is 50 cents; other tic-
kets are one dollar.
Hall Presidents Find Rationing Confusing;
Miss Bacheller Explains Problems of Food
By  Harriet Ward '48
To those Bryn Mawrtyrs who
raise skeptical eyebrows at vege-
table dinners, sniff disdainfully at
chow mein, and hide their meal-
time woes in knitting, Miss Bach-
eller, the campus dietician, can of-
fer sufficient explanation but little
solace. In 1945 students will just
have to remain calm/when' they
hear that "boiled roosterT is on
the menu for dinner.
Butter
The meat-versus-butter contro-
versy stood foremost in the dis-
cussion between Miss Bacheller
and the hall presidents last Thurs-
day. It seems that many students
much prefer that the 3840 points
spent for butter each week be di-
verted to items that more nearly
resemble a juicy slice of roast
beef. After weeks of vacation, the
majority are quite accustomed to
margerine anyhow. But accord-
ing to Miss Bacheller this is where
the hitch comes in. Because Bryn
Mawr is an institution, it must
pay a Federal tax if it- serves col-
ored margarine on its tables, and
if it serves cdlored margarine
without paying the tax, it must
pay a heavy fine. White marger-
ine is not very palatable, but the
question is still under considera-
tion.
Shortage
Even if Miss Bacheller did have
an abundance of points to splurge
on meat, Bryn Mawr tables would
still be graced with a preponder-
ance of fish, tongue, and eggs.
Since utility beef was placed on
the ration list in December, and
many other point *ralues were rais-
ed, she has been completely at the
mercy of wholesalers. In fact,
sometimes the wholesalers have
nothing, and the college eats sand-
wiches for Sunday supper.
The    hall    presidents    reported
2 Philosophy Courses
Added to Curriculum
Two new courses are offered for
the second semester, both advanced
electives in philosophy, w*ith a half
unit of credit each.
Mr. Veltman, part-time lecturer
in philosophy will give a course on
Schopenhauer, planned to comple-
ment that in German Idealism
given In the first semester, and
required for majors in philosophy.
A course entitled the Philosophy
of Mind will be conducted by Mr.
Erich Frank, Lecturer in Greek
and new-comer to the Bryn Mawr
faculty this year. The subject in-
cludes the problems of epistemol-
ogy and metaphysics with special
consideration of the philosophy of
history.
Calendar
Thursday, January 18
Orders and Retakes of Sen-
ior pictures for the Yearbook
in the Common Room.
Friday,  January   19
Last  day  of  lectures of  the
first semester.
Saturday, January 20
French examination for Sen-
ior conditions.    Taylor, 9:00.
Monday, January 22 through
Wednesday, January 31
Mid-year Examination period.
Wednesday!  January  24
Entertainment for Servicemen
from  Atlantic City, Common
Room, 4:00.
Friday,  January   26
Philadelphia Branch of the
American Association of Sci-
entific Workers: American
Science and the Good-Neigh-
bor Policy, Christian Associ-
ation Building, Philadelphia,
8:00.
Sunday, January  28
Chapel.     Dr.   Henry  C.   Me-
serve, Music  Room, 7:15.
Thursday, February  1
Work of the second semester
begins,  9:00.
Spanish Club Tea, Common
Room, 4:00-6:00.
Friday, February 2
Non-Resident   Tea,    Common
Room, 4:00.
Saturday, February 3
Harvard-Bryn Mawr Concert,
Goodhart, 8:00.
Sunday,  February 4
Chapel, Dr. Rufus  M. Jones,
Music Room, 7:15.
Monday, February 6
Current     Events,     Common
Room,   7:15.
Wednesday, February  7
College   Council,    President's
House,  6:00.
Science dub, Miss Lehr, Dal-
ton, 8:00.
to the dietician some of the cur-
rent campus grouches along the
food line. Jt seems that only the
German House is enjoying its
breakfast coffee. Miss Bacheller
exploded the theory that left-over
demi-tasse appears on the break-
fast table. No coffee is ever used
again. As for the flavor, the urns
in each hall are checked regular-
ly. For the interest of midnight
crammers existing on caffein en-
ergy, the dietician hinted that it
is possible that coffee and tea may
both be rationed in the near fu-
ture. However, we still would like
to know the German House's sec-
ret.
Compensation
As for those militant nutrition
experts, who denounce the number
of "all-white dinners" and "over-
starchy meals," Miss Bacheller
pointed out that what is missing in
one meal is compensated for in an-
other that day.
In fact, anyone who has ever
struggled over an obstinate check-
book will wonder how Miss Bach-
eller manages at all. People who
labor under the illusion that the
points from their books are gaily
torn out and tossed into the waste-
basket are quite wrong. All the
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God, Man and Jesus
Topic of Theologist
In Series of Talks
A series of three lectures on re-
ligion are to be given at the col-
lege in February by Robert Lotw-
ry Calhoun, Professor of Histori-
cal Theology at Yale University.
Discussing Basic Christian Doc-
trines, Dr. Calhoun will deal spec-
ifically with God, Man, and Jesus.
As "a result of the success of the
three separate lectures last year
on the general subject of religion,
the college has asked Dr. Calhoun
to give this series of informal talks
to be accompanied by discussion.
They will take place on successive
Monday nights, February 12, 19,
and 26, at 8:00.
An authority on the history of
philosophy and theology, Dr. Cal-
houn has written articles on sub-
jects pertaining to religious real-
ism, the meaning of the humani-
ties, and religion in the modern
world. He received his undergrad-
uate training at,Carleton College
and his graduate training chiefly
at Yale. After two years of teach-
ing at Carleton, he became a mem-
ber of the Yale faculty in 1923.
Dean Discusses   *
Russia as Power
For Future World
Russia's Attitude Determined
By Geographic, Economic
Position
"It is essential to understand the
Russians in terms of their own his-
tory," declared Mrs. Vera Micheles
Dean, in a discussion of Russia at
a world power, for the Marion Ed-
ward Park Lecture Fund. Russia's
attitude, Mrs. Dean feels, is large-
ly determined by her geopraphic -
position and her economic develop-
ment.
Sea  Route
Russia is an immense continent
whose interests geographically
range from Europe to Asia. She
is virtually land-locked, for all her
openings to the sea are controlled
by another, usually hostile, power.
Russian relations with the outside
world before 1917 were a long
series of attempts to gain some
relatively unrestricted opening to
the sea routes of the world.
This history of conflict contejb-y
utes to a rather contradictory ku^
sian attitude towards the outside
world. First, the Russians feel an
eager curiosity about conditions
outside their borders; but when
this interest reaches a certain
height of participation in foreign
affairs, the Russians are suddenly
seized with a fear of European
hostility to their country, and they
retire again into their isolated
state. This revulsion has always
been accentuated by the Russians'
feeling of inferiority about their
i lack of industrial development.
Industry
Russia's economic situation has
been the second great problem in
her development. She has been con-
sidered as a semi-colonial state, an
agricultural nation whose great
production of raw materials would
make her a ready market for
western industrial products. Her
industry has been confined, until
recently, to railroads and public
utilities, plus a few firms produc-
ing minor civilian goods. However,
all of this industry was financed by
foreign capital, owing to the fear
prevalent among Russian land-
owners that any sizeable proletar-
iat would endanger their economic
control of the country. Russian
fear of foreign economic domina-
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Proverbial Stork in Foster Parent Guise
Presents Denbigh, Pembroke with Children
by Rosina Bateson '47
The possibilities of becoming t
parent, or rather a foster parent,
have been pressing heavily upor
Pembroke and Denbigh. The uni-
versal question of "will it be a boy
or a girl?" has caused many heat-
ed arguments, with the additional
problem of whether "it" would bt
three or thirteen; French, Italian,
Spanish or English.
Choice Made
The proverbial stork, in the
guise of the foster parents plan
for War Children, has now pro-
duced the hoped-for results: Pem-
broke West boasts a fourteen year
old  English boy,  Pembroke    East
an Italian   boy   of   twelve   years,
while Denbigh has a thirteen year I
old girl.
The duties of a foster parent are
tactfully implied in a letter from
Pern West's Patrick Le Brun:
"some of the children have been
very lucky this month. The boy
next to me is adopted by an artist
and she has sent him a big box of
crayons, a box of paints, some
drawing pencils, and a book to
draw on, together   with   a    book
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