College News, 1945-01-10, Vol. 31, No. 12

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THE COLLEGE NEWS
VOL. XLI, NO. 12
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945
Copyright, Truateei of
Bryn M�wr College. Mil
PRICE 10 CENTS
Bryn Mawr Choir,
Harvard Glee Club
Will Give Concert
Harvard Singers Won Fame
For Artistic Rendition
Of Classics
Committee Presents
Some Minor Changes
For Period of Exams,
The Harvard-Bryn Mawr concert
to be held in Goodhart on Febru-
ary 3, will ^tmtinue the tradition
instituted with last year's joint
concert in June. The Harvard
Glee Club, represented by some 35
voices, will combine with the Bryn^
Mawr Choir for the main concert
of the year.
The Harvard Glee Club has long
been recognized in the music world
for its beautiful singing of good
�choral music. Founded in 1911, a
time when college musical organ-
izations concerned themselves with
banjos, mandolins, and sentimental
music, the club has always main-
tained high standards by singing
only music of artistic value. Un-
der the direction of Dr. Archibald
T. Davison, it established its rep-
utation through the rendition of
major works, such as Bach's "B
Minor Mass" and Brahms' "Re-
quiem", and minor works, such as
Mozart canons and Palestrina's
^�Addramus Te".
Fame
The fame of the club spread to
Europe where seven members made
a tour in the summer of 1921.
Singing ancient and modern music
in cathedrals and concert halls,
they   were  everywhere   acclaimed.
�eir moving performance before
he tomb of the Unknown Soldier
is Paris is renowned.
Today, despite the war, the Har-
vard Glee Club under the direction
of Professor A. Wallace Wood-
worth, has continued to grow in
importance and influence. Known
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The student Curriculum Com-
mittee has announced the follow-
ing regulations in order to relieve
the end-of-term congestion. There
are merely two details on the me-
chanics side of the Curriculum
Committee's  schedule.
The regulations have required
that all term papers be submitted
by the time of the last scheduled
class; only in special cases and
with official authorization is a later
date permitted. This is an effort
to protect the mid-year period for
examination purposes,, as well as
to guard against undue postpone-
ment of term work. This year,
wherever possible, a final date for
papers has been set as Monday,
January 15. This still allows the
normal two weekends after return
to college, but frees the last week
of classes for course material, pre-
liminary to the examination per-
iod.
In the mid-year period, no ex-
aminations have been set for the
first Saturday, allowing a free
weekend between last classes and
the first day of examinations. In-
stead, a schedule of small class
examinations is set on Wednes-
day, January 31.
Papers Monopolize Bryn Mawr Vacations
As a Few Hardy Souls Venture into Jobs
"Experiment" Contest
Offers Poetry Prize
To any undergraduate with
leanings toward poetry, the an-
nouncement of a prize contest by
the magazine Experiment should
be of interest. Experiment offers
a prize of $25.00 for the best un-
published poem submitted by Feb-
ruary 1, 1945. The winning poem
Continued on Page 3
Thirtieth Year of College News Publication
Shows Editors that No News is '.Good News
In the otherwise utilitarian hab-
itat of the would-be journalists
who comprise the staff of the Col-
lege News, the only concession to
decoration is a bronze plaque in-
scribed as follows: "This tablet is
given �by the Class of 1915 in
memory of Isabel Foster, A. B.
1915, First Editor ^f the College
News". To the alert editorial
mind, it occurred that we, un-
aware, have been ignoring our
thirtieth anniversary, so, belated-
ly, we turn to the maiden endeav-
ors in the field of misprints and
misspellings.
Organized in the summer of
1914, published first on September
30, on the opening day of the thir-
tieth academic year, the News
was sent to press by three Sen-
iors, two Juniors, a business man-
ager, and a faculty advisor and
we wonder how they ever did it.
Evidently they had their troubles,
for they advertised weekly for re-
porters and music or theatre critics,
holding office hours daily for , all
comers in something known as
the Christian Association Room.
Business troubles were numerous,
since undergraduates began by
buying one copy of the News for
a. corridor, andaiace. tf�e price-w^s- -torialized "When-wiUr (he college
one dollar less. This state of af- learn to take exams sensibly"?
fairs did not persist long, how- We can only reply that in thirty
ever, for a few months later    the   years we haven't.
News took over Merion for a ban-
quet of roast beef and yellow and
white ice cream for its forty "heel-
ers".    Ah, for the good old days!
Though different in size and in
print, the College News of 1914-
15 was little different from the
College News of 1944-45 in con-
tent. It recorded a furious battle
over cuts; it editorialized over
the lethargic attitude of the stu-
dents, the poor attendance at
chapel; it receded complaints for
careless proofr ig; it encour-
aged students to do their bit .for
the Red Cross on campus.
However, it gave a notably larg-
er amount of space to sports, of
which football was a favorite in-
terclass game and to the amaz-
ingly active Christian Association,
to debating societies, and to alum-
nae and faculty notes. It publish-
ed lost and found notices for two
cents a word, and it waxed hys-
terical over "pink tea quizzes", its
name for examinations all held
then in the Reading Room of the
Library, where you were given a
pink slip and you searched for a
pink desk on which was your par-
ticular exam.
And in January, the News edi-
by Nancy Morehouse, '47
The academic life seems to have
cojtJBmed the existence of virtual-
ly all Bryn Mawrtyrs, who offer a
resigned but firm countenance to
visionary papers stacked up before
them.
Careful research revealed that
only three students' available for
comment had done, anything dur-
ing the vacation productive of
"money income" as the economists
blithely say, though there are
probably a few others in this hap-
py group who ducked in their holes
as we passed. Marguerite Nose,
'45, who also spent her vacation in
Bryn Mawr at Bcttws-y-Coed Cot-
tage, whiled away her happier mo-
ments ringing up the cash regis-
ter at Meth's.
Freshmen
Among the Freshmen, who seem
to have made the best record, Car-
ol Baker worked in a florist's dur-
ing the rush week before Christ-
mas. Asked for her impressions,
she said they consisted of pricked
fingers, a dislike of gardenias ow-
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Doda Conrad, Singer
Of Wide Reputation
Gives Recital at B. M.
Music Room, January 9. Dou:i
Conrad, Polish Basso of European
and American repatation, and now
lieutenant in the United States
Army, today gave the song recital
which he is scheduled to give at
Times Hall, N. Y., on January 18.
Accompanied by Paul Nordoff,
Lt. Conrad, in his varied and in-
teresting program, sang songs by
Poulenc, Strawinsky, Schumann
Ravel, Nordoff, and Chopin.
Lt. Conrad, who Volunteered for
army service three years ago, wa3
wounded this summer while par-
ticipating in the' liberation of
southern France. Evacuated, he
has been recuperating from his leg
rnjjury at Rhoads General Hospi-
tal in Utica, N. Y. and is now en
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B. M. Library Exhibits
H. Peirce's Collection
The Misses Margaret and Mary
Peirce have lent a cartoon collec-
tion which belonged to their father
for ah exhibition now being held
in the Rare Book Room. Mr. Har-
old Peirce was a collector of note.
Some of hjs rare editions were
seen in a 1943 exhibition here
when his Kelmscott Press Chaucer
and his Doves Press Bible and the
output of other famous presses
were shown.
The present exhibition consists
of English and American cartoons,
the work of some of the foremost
masters of caricature of the 18th
and 19th centuries�among others
that of George Cruikshank, James
Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson.
Some of the subjects treated are
the naval rivalry between France
and England, the life of Napoleon,
the decline of Napoleonic power,
the division of Europe at the Con-
gress of Vienna, the "O.P." riots
at John KjT*'i%W-tbeatre�Covent
Garden�in 1809, religious car-
toons, and American cartoons on
incidents in the War of 1812.
Students who wish to change
their courses must consult Mrs.
Grant or Mrs. Broughton. Up-
perclassmen should make an ap-
pointment with Mrs. Grant;
Freshmen with Mrs. Brough-
ton. Even those students who
discussed changes in their
courses last spring or during
the first semester must obtain a
slip covering the change.
All students who do not sign
for an appointment before Jan-,
uary 25 will be registered as
continuing the same courses for
the second semester.
Students taking second year
courses which change at mid-
years, namely, History, Philos-
ophy and Psychology, should
notify the Secretary to the Dean
which courses they are electing
for the second semester. Any
student dropping a course at
mid-years, because of having
already completed the second
semester of the course, should
likewise notify the Secretary to
the Dean. Any student failing
to notify the Dean's office of
changes of this nature will be
fined   one dollar.
An appointment sheet for up-
perclassmen is posted outside
Mrs. Grant's office; an appoint-
ment sheet for freshmen, out-
side Mrs. Broughton's office.
Appointments for upperclass-
men begin on Thursday, Janu-
ary .11; for Freshmen on Mon-
day, January 15.
Christina Grant
Dean of the College
Mrs. Vera M. Dean
To Discuss Russia
As Park Lecturer
A. Borum Commends
B. M. Nurses Aides
The Nurses' Aide group on cam-
pus has been working steadily this
fall with encouraging results.
Twenty students are taking the
course at the Bryn Mawr Hospital,
and ^sjjyenteen already - trained
Aides are working here and in
Philadelphia.
Ann Elizabeth Borum, head of
the Bryn Mawr College Nurses'
Aides, commended the concentrat-
ed effort and hard work which has
been shownyBythe students taking
the course at the Bryn Mawr Hos-
pital. "We have been very pleas-
ed," she said, "with these people
who are carrying a full college
course and at the same time are
becoming much needed Nurses'
Aides. Many of them have devot-
ed as much as eight to ten hours
a week to the work, and already
five have completed the course in
an extremely short time: Anne
Biddle, Mary Conroy, Elizabeth
Corkran, Gwendolyn Lee�e, and
Marilyn Raab."
The seventeen previously train-
ed Aides have been giving satis-
factory and dependable work, three
in Philadelphia and fourteen at the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. They av-
eraged three hours a week in Oc-
tober, although many gave more
time. Anne Orlov worked nine-
teen hours, Sibyl Straub eighteen
and one-half, and Julia Murray
eighteen.     L.
Due to the tremendous need for
Nurses' Aides and the successful
results of the work done "thitf 1MI,
another course, open to. Freshmen,
may be given if enough people wish
to take it.
Foreign Policy Bulletin Editor
And Recent Speaker Here
Born in Russia
The Undergraduate Association
will present Mrs. Vera Micheles
Dean as the special lecturer for
the Marion Edwards "Park Lecture
Fund. Mrs. Dean will speak in
�^Goodhart, Monday night, January
15, and her topic will be Russia.
4         Park Fund
The/money for The Marion Ed-
wards Park Lecture Fund was col-
lected by the undergraduates as a
farewell present to Miss Park. She
preferred to have this money used
to establish a special lecture fund
in her name. In 1943 Sir Gerald
Campbell was the first speaker un-
der this fund.
Mrs. Dean has already talked at
Bryn Mawr once this year when
she spoke On The Threshold of
World Order at the special Thanks-
giving Day assembly. Born- in
Petrograd, Russia, she came to this
country in 1919. Mrs. Dean re-
ceived her B. A. degree at Rad-
cliffe in 1925, her M. A. in 1926 at
Yale University, and her Ph. D.
two years later. She has also re-
ceived honorary degrees from Wil-
son, Smith, New Jersey College
for Women, and the University of
Rochester.
Author
As an author and lecturer, Mrs.
Dean is well known, for she has
talked, to many schools, colleges
and public groups. She has also
written New Government in Eur-
ope, with J. Buell (1934), and
Europe in Retreat, published in
1939. She has contributed to many
journals and writes weekly articles
for the Foreign Policy Bulletin.
A member of both The Foreign
Policy Association, and The Re-
search Association, Mrs. Dean is
now research director as well as
editor.
Mrs. Dean became an American
citizen in 1928, and is a trustee of
Radcliffe and Vassar. She served
as a special consultant to the Of-
fice of Foreign Relief and Rehabil-
itation Operations, and was on
Director General Herbert Leh-
man's personal staff at the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration conference in At-
lantic City a year ago.
Board of Directors
Elects Park, Aldrich
Miss McBride has announced
1 two additions to the Board of Dir-
ectors of the College, Miss Park
and Mrs. Talbert Aldrich. They
will join the Board at its next
meeting here in March.
Miss Park will attend -the -meet-
ings in her capacity as President
Emeritus, not serving as one of
the directors. The college is for-
tunate in that the Board meetings
will bring Mj'ss Park tjo Bryn Mawr
four times a year.
Elected as a Director at   large,
Mr*. Talbert Aldrich of Boston is
an alumna of the class    of    1905,
and has served  as alumnae disc-
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