College News, 1943-10-07, Vol. 30, No. 02

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BRYN MAWR and ARDMORE, PA., THURSDAY* OCTOBER 7, 1943
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Miwr College. 1943
PRICE 10 CENTS
Undergraduate Waitresses Relieve
� Shortage of Maids at Rockefeller
Changes  May Be  Made
In Other Halls Before
Christmas
A new system of student wait-
resses was inaugurated on Sep-
tember 28 in Rockefeller Hall as a
result of the shortage of maids.
Although Rockefeller is at pres-
ent the only hall where the sys-
tem is in use Miss Charlotte Howe,
Director of Halls and originator of
the plan, believes that it may have
to be adopted in other halls be-
fore  Christmas.
Rockefeller was chosen as the
hall in which to establish the plan
because its labor shortage was
more acute than the other halls.
The fact that it is a large, unified
hall made it a suitable one in
which the system could be tested.
Voluntary Basis
Five upperclassmen volunteer-
for the work the first two days in
order to meet the emergencyv. By
Thursday, Doris Barnett, '44, who
is head of the student employ-
ment, was directing the work and
the number of waitresses wa.
raised to eight. Although Doris
is scheduling the waitresses at
present, it is planned that three
� head waitresses, one for each meal
will assume this work.
Student waiting in Rockefeller
is now on the same basis as that
in the Deanery. The positions are
open to all students in the college
and the wage of forty cents an
hour has been established. Head
waitresses will receive higher
wages. Breakfast is served only
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Adelt Explains Delay
Of 194243Jearbook
The 1942-43 issue of the Year-
book, scheduled to be published
last June, will be delivered at the
very latest by the middle of No-
vember, said Carla Adelt, '43,
when questioned by a NEWS re-
porter. Miss Adelt, head of last
year's Yearbook Board, explained
that this delay "could be laid at
the door of many different trou-
bles ranging from war conditions
to inefficiency."
Last September the large ma-
jority of the Board resigned, and
there was particular difficulty in
obtaining a new Business Man-
ager. Until the Business Manager
could be replaced, no advertise-
ments were solicited, and the
Board was unable to go ahead in
planning the book until the finan-
cial backing could be guaranteed.
When solvency was finally reach-
ed in the winter term, Haverford
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Marriages
Kathryn  Edwards,   '45,  to   Cp.
Richard W. Wilt, U. S. Army
Air Corps.
Jane Hailey, '46, to Lt. Monta-
gue Boyd, U.  S. Army.
Connie Lazo, '43, to Lt. Walter
Roy Manny, Jr., U. S. Marine
Corps.
Marjorie  Porter,   '44,   to   Sgt.
William Philipp, U. S. Marine
Corps.
Anne  Byrd Woods,   '46, to  Lt.
George S. Nalle, U. S. Army
Air Force.
Wilhelmina Young, '46, to Capt.
Kermit Jubeft,  U.  S.  Army.
Engagements
Barbara Coe, '44, to Engign
George  Gofford,   USNR.
Mary Ann Donnelly, '44, to Lt.
Philip F. Eckert, USN.
Thayer Leitch, '46, to Midship-
man Albert Samuel Cooke,
Jr., USNR.
Nancy Niles, '47, to Lt. Harry
Primrose, U. S. Army Air
Force.
Janet Potters, '47, to Lt. (j. g.)
Thomas Wood, USNR.
Virginia Belle Reed, '44, to Lt.
John R. Klopfer, U. S. Army.
Russell to Present
Series of Lectures
On Scientific Method
Limitations  of  Deductive  Logic
will be the subject of Mr. Bertrand
Russell's first lecture in a series
entitled Postulates of the Scientific
Method to be given in Dalton at
8:15 on Friday, October 8.
Mr. Russell, former Lecturer
and Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and present Professor
of Philosophy at the Barnes Foun-
dation, Philadelphia, was born in
England in 1872. His first ap-
pearance in the United States was
as temporary Professor and Low-
ell Lecturer at Harvard Univer-
sity in 1914. From 1920 to 1921
Mr. Russell taught philosophy at
the National University of Peking.
On returning to this country he
became a lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, a position which
he held until 1938 when he became
Professor of Philosophy at the
University of California. In 1915
Mr. Russell was awarded the
Nicholas Murray Butler Medal,
and in 1934 the Sylvester Medal
of the Royal Society in England.
Mr. Russell has had a long and
prolific writing career. Since 1910
he has averaged almost a publica-
tion a year. His main topics are
social conditions, philosophy, and
science.                       ,
One Hundred and Ninety Females Succeed
In Keeping Parade Night Song Dark Secret
Calendar
Friday, October 8
Lecture by Bertrand Russell,
Limitations     of      Deductive
Logic in Dalton at 8:15.
Saturday, October 9
French   Language  Exam,
Taylor, 9:00.
Sunday, October 10   i
Chapel Services by Res�re.iJ
Andrew Mutch, Mjisic Room,
7:30.
Wednesday, October 13
Registration for War Alliance
courses, War Alliance Room,
West Wing of the  Library.
Lecture  by  Wilfrid  Fleisher
in Goodhart at 12:30.
By Patricia Behrens, '46
"Forty-seven,   Forty-seven,   we've
a long way to go
As we reach out destination
All our loyalties will grow
As we sing this Parade Night
Our hopes rise high and far
That our song will still be a secret
From   the   Sophomores   of   Bryn
Mawr."
Proudly singing these words to
the tune of "Tipperary" a com-
pletely victorious class of Fresh-
men marched behind the Bryn
Mawr Fire Company's Band Wed-
nesday night. Swarming down
the hill, the largest class Bryn
Mawr has yet seen had little trou-
ble breaking through the Sopho-
more Circle. Although lacking the
traditional torches carried by the
Junior class, Parade Night missed
none of the spirit or rivalry of the
past.
"I was just completely worn
out," explained one Sophomore.
"I'd looked through so many draw-
ers, I was doing it in my sleep,
and still we hadn't found even a
hint of either their words or their
tune."
The only group of Sophomores
to even think they had found the
song was sadly disappointed. Hav-
ing heard Freshmen .humming
"Loch Lommond," they excitedly
announced to their classmates that
it mua%be the Freshmen's tune. It
turned out to be the new Fresh-
man lyric song.
Having no Sylvia Brown to baf-
fle the Freshmen, the Sophomores
tried sending members of their
"laaa^into different halls for din-
ner. Most of these found they
could not get well enough ac-
quainted during the course of one
meal to even approach the subject
of the song.
"I ate and ate," reported one
scout, "and drank coffee and smok-
ed cigarettes till I almost had
stomach   ulcers,   but   not   one of
them would let out a peep about
the song."
Her face daubed with calamine
lotion, one Sophomore even tried-)
saying she was a Freshman who
had been in the Infirmary and had
not heardthe song. Her luck was
no better than anyone elses.
Thus   it   was   the    Sophomores
conceded the victory to the Fresh-
men with the following answering
song:
"Although we may be older we are
not very smart
You had our number   right   from
the very start
'46's  sad fate  was to  learn your
song too late
We didn't get it though we wish-
ed we could
'47 you're good.
"The thing that amazes me," ex-
claimed Alison Barbour, Freshman
song leader, "is that one hundred
and ninety females could keep a
secret!"
Effect of War on College Stressed
In Opening Address by Miss McBride
President Announces
New Faculty Changes
New faculty appointments were
announced by Miss McBride in her
opening day address. These ap-
pointments are to replace members
of the teaching staff who are on
leave of absence for the duration.
Mrs. Manning is acting as Dean
of the Graduate School in Miss
Taylor's absence; Mrs. Broughton
is acting as dean of Freshmen
and Director of Admissions for
Miss Ward. Substitute appoint-
ments in the faculty are: Dr. Josh-
ua Hubbard, who has come from
Wesleyan as Lecturer in Econom-
ics and Dr. Dony, who will return
as Lecturer in French. In Biol-
ogy Dr. Elizabeth Green is part
time instructor and Dr. Elizabeth
Patterson is full time demonstra-
tor. In Greek Miss Lang will
be part - time instructor in Dr.
Lattimore's absence and in Latin
Dr. Rousseau Flower will teach
Advanced Paleontology and the
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War Alliance Begins
Training Volunteers
On Wednesday, October 13, un-
dergraduates will be able to reg-
ister in the War Alliance Room
for extra-curricular courses de-
signed to train people for vari-
ous civilian war jobs. Whether
each course will be given depends
on the number of people registered
for it, and those who register
must attend regularly, stated Ann
Fitzgibbons, '45, Chairman of
war courses.
Five separate classes will be
sponsored under the American
Red Cross. The standard Red
Cross course in First Aid requires
20 hours for completion. The
classes will last for two hours
and will be given on Tuesday
nights in the gymnasium. This
class will begin in several weeks.
The Advanced First Aid class,
also a regular Red Cross course,
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As   Example   President
Cites Education And
Action, New United
Impressive statistics concerning
both professors and students
which demonstrated that "educa-
tion and action have been brought
together by the war in a more
striking way than before" were
the keynote . of Miss McBride's
speech to the college on the open-
ing of its 59th year.
Directly affected by the war
through the absence this year of
about a quarter of its faculty and
teaching staff, Bryn Mawr's grad-
uate and undergraduate enroll-
ment has also undergone changes.
In view of the demand for trained
women, there are many fewer
graduates than in former times,
while "in the undergraduate
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Fleisher to Discuss
Our War With Japan
Wilfrid Fleisher, well-known au-
thor of "Volcanic Isle" will discuss
"Our War with Japan" at the first
of a series of Assemblies on Cur-
rent Affairs. Mr. Fleisher is now
special writer for the New York
Herald Tribune, and Time Maga-
zine, as well as a news commenta-
tor for WMAL.
Mr. Fleisher was in Sweden in
the summer of 1939 when the Eu-
ropean war broke out and covered
northern Europe for the New York
Herald Tribune, leaving Sweden
for Japan on the last trip of the
Kungsolm. His stay in Japan,
however, was brief as Japanese
censorship soon made it imposs-
ible for him to send news to Amer-
ica. Fleisher, returning on the
evacuee ship "President Coolidge,"
was thus evacuated from both the
European and Asiatic theatres of
war.
Mr. Fleisher, though born in
Philadelphia, has spent most of his
life abroad. He was raised in
Paris, educated at Charterhouse in
England, and joined the staff of
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Notice!
The Hygiene examination
will be held in Taylor Hall on
Saturday, October 16, 11-12:30.
All members of the Class of
1946 are required to take the
examination at this time, as
are all members of the Classes
of 1944 and 1945 who have not
yet met the Hygiene require-
ment.
Students expecting to take the
French or Spanish examina-
tions this autumn are request-
ed to sign on the lists posted
on the bulletin hoard outside
the Office of the Dean. Students
intending to offer other lan-
guages than French, German,
or Spanish in fulfillment of the
language examination require-
ment should make sure that
they have so registered with
the Office of the Dean.
Celebrated Actress from China Recounts
Harrowing Escape from Captured Hong Kong
By Patricia Berhens, '46
"I have only lived in Denbigh a
week and already it seems like
home," says Yung Wang, noted
Chinese actress here as a special
student  to  study  English.
Yung Wang was in Hong Kong
at the time the Japanese captured
it from the British in 1941. Be-
cause of her wide fame, the Jap-
anese wanted to force the young
actress to do propaganda work
against the white man. They let
it be known that an important
place was reserved for her in their
new Asiatic regime.
Only by hiding in a filthy tene-
ment until she was as dirty as the
most disreputable beggar did Yung
Wang escaped from the hands of
the Japanese. For
days she went without washing
her face. Her hair was matted
and tangled.
In this condition, she was able
to escape to the mainland in a fish-
ing boat. Before it had gone far
on its trip, the boat was stopped
by a Japanese patrol, but the
Japanese  paid  little  attention   to
Yung Wang. They were much more
interested in another girl whose
disguise was more superficial. She
had rubbed dirt on her face and
hands, but they discovered that un-
der her sleeve her arm was clean
and smooth. Eventually persuaded
that the party was starving and
going to the mainland only in the
hope of finding food, the Japs al-
lowed them to pass.
When her escape was finally
completed, Yung Wang went to
the Chinese government in Chung-
king. She had served it from
1937 to 1939 when she had toured
the battlefronts with a dramatic
troupe. They had lived on army
rations in army huts, accepting no
pay. Any place any audience
t*vefrfS*ftve coi*^I ^ &�?&#&& ��they were ready
to stage a play. If Japanese planes
and bombs interrupted the per-
formance, it was continued as soon
as possible. The troupe was so
successsful it was sent into Malaya
and Indo-China to raise funds for
the Nationalist army. A total of
over thirteen million Chinese dol-
lars was collected.