College News, 1944-03-22, Vol. 30, No. 20

              THE COLLEGE NEWS
vol. XL, NO. 20
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1944
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Brvn   M*wr < oltr, . . 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Fisher Proposes
U.S. Participation^
In Education Aims
United States Must Plan
For Foreign Students
After War
Goodhart, March 21. The most
important obligations of the
United States in Educational Re-
construction, stated Dr. Edgar J.
Fisher, are to support and partic-
ipate in an international education-
al organization and to welcome the
great number of foreign students
who plan to come to this country
after the war.
Assistant Director of the Insti-
tute of International Education,
Dr. Fisher said that an interna-
tional educational agency should
be set up within the framework of
a world-wide political organization
of nations after the war. The
states in this organization would
be on an equal basis. Each would
be represented by an internation-
ally minded personnel which would
present the interests of both pri-
vate and public education. The ad-
ministration, Dr. Fisher continued,
would be democratic and free from
any political pressure.
Countries in need of aid must
not be coerced, but must choose
their own methods and techniques
in education. They should be en-
couraged to teach the economic,
political and moral relationships
among nations. Taught largely by
native personnel, the schools, Dr.
Fisher stated, should emphasize
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Elements in History
Discussed by Parkes
m
Radnor, March 16. "While the
rational elements in human be-
havior have usually been inter-
preted as causes of historical
events", said Mr. Henry Bamford
Parkes in his lecture on "'Irration-
al Elements in History," "the
modern trend is to stress the psy-
chological  factors  involved.
There are three predominant
human irrationalities which have
eaused the present world state,
Mr. Parkes pointed out. They are:
frustration, inability of the indi-
vidual to mature completely, and
finally the "vicious circle" arising
from the fear of the ruling classes
that they will be dominated.
Any frustration leads to the
impulse of aggression, Mr. Parkes
stated. This impulse, when not
openlyAxpressed, often finds an
outlet Jprough the manifestation
of aggression against an object
not the original cause of the frus-
tration. This Mr. Parkes desig-
nated as irrational human behav-
iour, citing the intolerance against
racial minority groups as an out-
standing example.
Many people regress in some
way to an infantile level, Mr.
Parkes noted. The need for a dic-
tator can be compared with the
need of a child for a father, or
father-image. If a child lacks the
security upon which he relies, a
sense of ill and resentment re-
sults. On the other hand, the
simultaneous hostility and obed-
ience felt by a child towards a par-
ent is parallel to a nation's emo-
tion towards a dictator. A thwart-
ed child and a thwarted people re-
act in the same way; neither can
express resentment directly and
both, find another means of ex-
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Wilcox Will Present
Problem of Inflation
At Alliance Assembly
Clair Wilcox, Professor of
Economics at Swarthmore College,
will present the eighth in the ser-
ies of War Alliance assemblies on
current affairs on Wednesday, at-
tempting to answer the question,
Can We Prevent Inflation?
Serving most recently as Direc-
tor of the Material Division of the
OPA in 1942-43, Dr. Wilcox has
a distinctive record of service in
Washington on various economic
committees. Connected with the
NRA, Dr. Wilcox was a member
of the Advisory Council for the
administration, as well as Consult-
ing Economist of the Social Se-
curity Board in 1936.
Economic Expert
Dr. Wilcox also served as eco-
nomic expert for the Temporary
National Economic Council in
1939-40, writing their monograph
on Competition and Monopoly in
American Industry.
Having taken his B. S. and Ph.D.
at the University of Pennsylvania,
Dr. Wilcox received his M. A. at
Ohio State College in 1922, becom-
ing assistant professor of Econ-
omics first at Ohio Wesleyan, then
at Swarthmore. Dr. Wilcox has
held a full professorship at
Swarthmore since 1931.
Once a contributing editor to
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,    Dr.
Wilcox has written books on the
following subjects: economic in-
equality, public control of business,
rate limital and the general prop-
erty tax, and the parole of adults.
He served as secretary of the
State Parole Commission of Penn-
sylvania, 1926-27, and as director
of the National Commission of
Law Observance and Enforcement.
Dr. Theodore Greene
Finds Religious Faith
Intellectually Honest
Concluding that religious be-
lief can be intellectually honest
provided it is used to make up the
deficiencies in our knowledge, Dr.
Theodore M. Greene, McKosh pro-
fessor of philosophy at Princeton,
conducted the first of a series of
discussions on philosophy and re-
ligion.
Calling knowledge and faith
complementary, Dr. Greene ex-
plained their relation to religion.
Knowledge is made up of a com-
bination of observation and inter-
pretation, and an amalgamation
of corporate and individual effort.
Dr. Greene cited Kant's dictum:
"Concepts without precepts are
empty, precepts without concepts
are blind." To be of value, obser-
vation, awareness of the facts,
must be combined with an inter-
pretation of these facts, but the
interpretation is worthless without
a factual basis.
To be complete, knowledge must
include a combination of the work
of individuals and groups. Pro-
gress in science, for example, can
only be achieved through individ-
ual experimentation, but to be
useful these experiments must be
based on the achievements of oth-
ers. It is impossible for the indi-
vidual scientist to verify all the
discoveries made in the past,
therefore he must take their con-
clusions on trust and proceed on
his own.
"Faith is an attitude of accept-
ance sufficient for action but not
wholly supported by knowledge",
said Dr. Greene. It must be ac-
cepted that man cannot know ev-
erything and that every action he
makes is irrevocable. The impulse
which leads man to    take    action
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Board of Directors Approve Change
In Self-Gov't Constitution and Rules
Message from Chaos Leads Miss Stapleton
To Chaotic Adventures But Satisfying Tea
By April Oursler,' 46
It all began when Miss Staple-
ton opened her morning mail one
day last week, and found the fol-
lowing epistle:
Our dear Miss Stapleton,
We have learned from reliable sources
(1) that we have the two moat confused
minds on campus. We regret this and as
a teacher whose interest lies in the direct-
ing of Young Minds, you should be grief-
stricken (Hie). (2) For that reason, and
also because we have wanted to meet you
since our palmella stage, we thought you
might be interested in joining ui in tea.
(3) We will provide the food, and you
will provide the light.
(Signed)
Chaos, Chaos.  (4)
P.S.  Character  recommendations    can    be
had on  request, but  better not  request.
(')
Footnotes:   1.  Dean's  Office.
2.     We  have often wondered    what     this
means.
3.     For    further    information    call B. M.
9117.
4.      An   amoeba, order  Amocbida,  Family
Amocbida, genus Amoebida.
5.     Same as 1.
6.     Confused, aren't we?
Miss Stapleton, being a straight-
forward sort of person, went im-
mediately to the root of the mat-
ter, and called the number given
in Footnote 3, asking quite solemn-
ly, as usual, "Is Chaos there?"
Whereupon the maid politely re-
plied, "Just a minute," and left in
search of the wanted party, re-
turning rather soon to ask for the
spelling of that name. Slowly and
carefully Miss Stapleton spelled it
out: "C-H-A-O-S"; the maid held
a serious consultation with some
mysterious power, answered equal-
ly slowly and carefully, "I'm vary
sorry, but there is no one here by
that name." However, Miss Sta-
pleton, being a wise and knowing
woman, asked that a note be left
on the mail table reading merely:
"Miss S. called up and asked for
chaos." As the maid dutifully
read back the message over the
phone. Chaos arrived with a shriek
to answer the phone herself, ex-
plaining that she hoped there were
no hurt feelings, and would she
please come to tea, in spite of the
confusion.
Matters might have rested there,
except for the fact that the amoe-
bic   Chaoses   began   to   quiver  in
their boots, and sought refuge in
Miss Gardiner  who assured them
that as head of their department,
and,    incidentally,    a    dean,    she
would never desert them  in their
hour   of   need.    That   night   Miss
Stapleton    again    answered    the
phone   to   be   confronted   with   a
small voice identifying herself as
"the other Chaos," and asking that
the tea be postponed two days as
they felt the heed   of  "two   lucid
minds from the Dean's Office" and
Mrs.  Manning and Miss  Gardiner
would Join them at that later date.
The great day came.    Miss Sta-
pleton timidly entered the hall, un-
greeted    and   unsung,   and   crept
down the corridors, peering at the
doors, until she   found   the   sign:
"Chaos,    Chaos."    Then,    as   she
said,  "Feeling myself called upon
to enlighten the confused minds of
the   campus,   I   entered   with  the
lines from Paradise Lost:"
Chaos and Ancient Knight. I coma
no spy
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Calendar
Thursday,   March   23
Spring   Vacation  begins.
Tuesday, April 4
Spring  Vacation  ends.
Deferred Examinations begin.
Wednesday, April 5
Clair Wilcox, Can We Prevent
Inflation?  Goodhart,  12:30.
Inauguration  of  College  Of-
ficers, Goodhart, 7:30.
Saturday, April 8
Deferred   Examinations   end.
Sunday, April 9
Rev.   John R.  Hart,  Chapel,
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, April 10
Thomas Yakhub, Indian Phil-
osophy.    Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, April 11
Current     Events,      Common
Room, 7:15.
Wednesday,  April 12
Thomas   Yahkub,   Landmarks
of   Indian    Religion    and
Thought, Goodhart, 8:30.
College Council, the Deanery,
6:00.
Dargan Jones Given
Traveling Fellowship
For Medieval Studies
Alice Dargan Jones, Bryn Mawr
fellow in medieval studies, has
been chosen by the faculty to re-
ceive the Fanny Bullock Workman
Fellowship  for   the  coming  year.
Miss Jones is writing her thesis
on Classical and Medieval Concep-
tions of the Golden Age. It is prin-
cipally a discussion of how the
Golden Age is described in class-
ical Latin poetry as compared to
what it becomes in medieval liter-
ature. Miss Jones plans to use the
award, ordinarily a foreign fellow-
ship, for further study at Harvard.
Now the Senior Resident in
Radnor, Miss Jones has been the
fellow in medieval studies for two
years. She received her A. B. from
Bryn Mawr in 1941, and her M. A.
from the University of Chicago in
1942.
Seven Colleges Meet
To Discuss Problems
The theory of Self-Government
and that of cooperative work on
campus are the most important
topics to be discussed at the Sev-
en College Conference to be held
at Wellesley on March 26th and
27th.
Held yearly by Vassar,    Smith,
Radcliffe,    Barnard,    Swarthmore,1
Wheaton, and    Bryn    Mawr,   the
conference meets  to discuss com-|
mon campus problems.   Each year
a guest college    is   invited;    this
year's  has not   as   yet   been   an-|
nounced.    Kay    Tappen,    Patricia
St. Lawrence, Harji Malik and Vir-
ginia Thomas will represent Bryn(
Mawr.
In the two days of conference
the delegates will meet Miss Wil-
son, Wellesley's Dean of Students
and Mrs. Ewing, Dean of Resi-
dence, on Saturday night and on
Sunday they will discuss the pro-
posed agenda informally. This
exchange of views is particularly
helpful due to the fact that the
seven Middle Atlantic States' col-
leges taking part are of the same
general type as far as sire and or-
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New Rules Become Effective
Immediately After Spring .
Vacation
The Board of Directors in its
meeting on Thursday, March 16,
approved all changes in the Self-
Goverrrment Constitution and
rules which were voted upon in
mass meetings as well as those
voted upon in hall meetings last
week. The latter included the
addition of a new article, amend-
ments to four existing articles,
and three resolutions. These
changes will become effective im-
mediately  after spring  vacation.
The addition to the Constitu-
tion which will become Section
VIII of Articles VI provides for
a reconsideration of the rules ev-
ery four years by either the legis-
lature or a special committee. It
was passed 369 to 7. A vote of 350
to 30 changed the number of mem-
bers constituting a quorum from
one third to three fifths (Article
VI, Section I).
The Editor of the College News
and the President of the War Al-
liance were voted, 367 to 21, to
became members of the Legisla-
tuie. Section VI of the same ar-
ticle was changed to provide for
one week's notice of a meeting and
forty-eight hours' notice of the
business to be discussed. A vote
of 374 to 9 passed it. By a vote
of 378 to 4 Section VI of Article
VI was changed to require a sim-
ple majority vote in the presence
of a quorum to assure the validity
of a vote.
Students voted 207 to 160
against keeping the resolution
prohibiting permission later than
12:15 on Sunday nights. The res-
olution permitting wearing of ath-
letic costume off campus in direc-
tions other than the village was
passed 361 to 4. The resolutions
permitting the Executive and Ad-
visory Boards to confiscate radios
and victrolas and requiring at
least two students to go to Saun-
der's Barn during the day will be
omitted. The votes were 346 to 21
respectively.
Although there was a clear ma-
jority in favor of changing the
figures in Article VIII, Sections 1
and 2 of Article XI from two-
thirds to three-fifths failure of a
sufficient number of members to
vote prevented  their ratification.
18th Model Assembly
Sets Up Commissions
The Eighteenth Model Assembly
to be held at Bryn Mawr from
March 30 to April 1 will consist
of the following commissions: Po-
litical, World Economic Collabor-
ation, Relief and Rehabilitation,
and Educational Reconstruction.
The plan of discussion for each
commission has been outlined by
the conference.
The colleges now planning to
send delegates are: Adelphi, Bar-
nard, Beaver, Brooklyn, Bucknell,
University of Buffalo, City Col-
lege of New York, Colgate, Cor-
nell, Haverford, Hunter, Lafayette,
Long Island University, Loyola,
Nazareth, New York University,
Queens, University of Pennsylva-
nia, Princeton, Rosemont, Sarah
Lawrence, Swarthmore, Wilson,
St. Lawrence, and Bryn Mawr.
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