College News, 1944-11-29, Vol. 31, No. 10

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The college News
VOL. XLI, NO. 10
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1944
Copyright,   rruatcai of
Brrn Mawr ColUa*. 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Mrs. Dean Declares
Collective Security
Essential to Peace
End of War Means Start
Of More Important
Struggle
Goodhart, November 23. Mrs.
Vera Micheles Dean, iri|her speech,
On the Threshold of World Order,
stressed that the end of the war
means only the beginning of the
more important struggle to solve
the problems which caused this
war.
There are two ways of obtaining
security, pointed out Mrs. Dean.
The first is an unaided effort by
the large nations which results
only in an extension of territory.
Each nation will declare that it
needs such and such a colony or is-
land to safeguard its interests,
which procedure will only result in
further war.
The alternative method is one of
collective security, which, Mrs.
Dean emphasized, was not realized
in the League of Nations. There
must be some international organ-
ization that enables continuous con-
sultation about day-to-day affairs,
and this organization must have
at its disposal immediate force.
However, it cannot be expected to
abolish all differences, as perfect
order "exists only in prisons and
cemeteries," but it must seek to
solve these conflicts by peaceful
means. Mrs. Dean declared that
we are now in the feudal period of
international affairs, but as there
are civilized solutions in families
and nations, there must also be
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B.M.-Princeton, Choir
Will Sing in Service
Of Christmas Carols
by Patricia Platt '45
Any night now, on the stage of
,   Goodhart, one may plunge into an
voices, directed by Carl Weinriclfr -atmosphere of dire doings. Ladies
will join the Bryn Mawr Choir
supplemented by part of the Glee
Club in a Christmas Service on
December 10 in Goodhart. The
Reverend Andrew Mutch will
preach.
Bach Cantata
The music will include To Us A
Child Is Born, a Bach cantata sung
by the combined choirs. The men
alone will sing Eccard's Presenta-
tion of Christ in Temple, Buxte-
hude's Zion Hort die Wachter Sin-
gen, and an old French carol, An-
gels O'er the Fields were Flying,
arranged by A. J. Davison.
Solo
For its solo part Bryn Mawr
will do four carols from different
countries. The English one will be
Dreams of Christmas by Hoist;
The French, Spanish and Hungar-
ian, all arranged by K. K. Davis,
will be respectively Now Leave
Your Flocks, Rouse Good Folks,
and Wake, Gentle Shepherd.
Coventry Carol
To end the program the men
and women will give Coventry
Carol arranged by K. K. Davis and
Handel's Then Round About Thy
Starry Throne. There will be an
orchestra prelude  and  postlude.
The men will arrive here early
Sunday to rehearse and will be en-
tertained by the Choir at dinner in
Rhoads preceding the service. On
Sunday, December 5, the same
program will be given at Prince-
ton Chapel Services.
Title" Successfully Carries Out Initial Aims,
Presenting Works of Maturity and Merit
Specially Contributed by
Lucy Hall '45
As fall passes into winter we
have before us another publication
�of the Title. Still in its early in-
fancy this relatively new magazine
presents an exceedingly refreshing
and interesting appearance. The
makeup itself is simple and at-
tractive and the line drawings add
a touch of distinction.
The content is small, but in re-
fusing to pad with pages of second
rate material the editorial board
has kept with its resolution to pre-
sent only work of some merit. The
variety both of the sources of the
material and the different fields of
writing presented give it a broader
outlook than most such magazines
can boast, and certainly add to the
pleasure of reading it as a whole.
To be more specific there are
two sonnets by Sylvia Stallings
that were conceived with a deal of
balance and maturity. They are
indeed a part of the essence of the
Title, for the whole work seems to
show an unself-consciousness of
purpose and an honesty of crafts-
manship that are really amazing
in a college magazine.
To take another example, Patsy
Von Kienbusch's English compo-
sition, Everyman's a Madman,
which won the Sheelah Kilroy
Memorial Scholarship last year, is
a work of criticism which is in
some ways quite extraordinary. It
is a study of Andre Malraux's
works which combines great ob-
jectivity with equal sensitivity.
Man's failure or success to adjust
his    inner   world    to    the   world
around him, and his discovery of
complete fraternity in death are
the themes with which Malraux is
preoccupied. Even to a person who
had read little or nothing of his
work there would perhaps be a
rather striking feeling that here
was a critic who had gone to the
core of the subject and who had
really absorbed and assimilated
the very essence of the books.
The opening poem, His Shield,
by Marianne Moore represents a
contribution from a mature and ex-
cellent artist. It shows cool work-
manship and skilled choice of
words. The theme, to be armored
with insensibility, and free by giv-
ing up what one most wishes to
preserve, is admirably brought
home through the long series of
images of toothed and spiny
beasts.
The sketch which follows it, The
Glory and the Dream by Rosamund
Kent, although smoothly written
lacks somewhat the three dimen-
sional quality and the true which
would have given it vividness.
For the rest' there is a short
story, The Last Harvest by Ellen
Robbin, which manages to be very
real and rather moving, achieving
the maximum result with the min-
imum of means. The excerpt from
Dt. Oppenheimer's book has some
very interesting material but suf-
fers from being out of its proper
context. As for the two remain-
ing poems, they are perhaps not
up to the standard of the others.
On the whole the Title seems to
be carrying out its aims of last
year with a great deal of success.
"Ladies in Retirement" to Feature Corpses,
Murders, Lunatics, in Mid-Victorian Setting
in Retirement, forging along in-
to its last week of rehearsal, gives
all actors plenty of chance to air
any morbid feelings with unbrid-
led relish. Dealing largely with
spinsters, murder, and lunacy, the
cast has to practice hardest on
hysterics voluble enough to suit
the occasion.
Even minus the Victorian bric-
a-brac, the madonna shrine, and
other objects which will adorn
the finished product, an evil aura
already exudes. Sadly warbling
"willow, tit willow", Leonora Fiske
(Kate Rand '45) meets doom in
the form of a bathrobe belt wield-
ed by Ellen Creed (Jessica Levy
'48), who in turn runs amuck of
her blackmailing nephew (John
Stone). Embellishing and prompt-
ing all this are Ellen's two nit-
wit sisters (Martha Gross '47 and
Carol McGovern '48). It seems
that Ellen regards them as her
children (cosy thought!). At pres-
ent stage of development they
wander around with ectoplasmic
telescopes, or fondle equally ether-
eal dead birds.
Friday and Saturday night au-
diences had best prepare to feel
their spines tingle. They will en-
counter corpses in the oven, table-
polishing mania, crooks both pro-
fessional and amateur each work-
ing out their own warped destiny.
If horror can abound when Leon-
ora stages an entrance clutching
a bottle of furniture polish
(which will metamorphosize intp
a vase of flowers by the week-
end), greater things to come can
safely be predicted.
Props, the eternal bugbear of
anxious amateurs, rear their ugly
heads in the form of Victorian
headgear and mountains of drift-
wood, not to mention tombs adapt-
ed to the front parlor. All this
makes excitement for Mrs. Wein-
berg, the director, and her co-
horts. Not that it is probable
that anyone would doze off while
connected with Ladies in Retire-
ment.
trench Club to Give
Annual Nativity Play
The French Mystere de la Na-
tivite, presented annually in Wynd-
ham by the French House and the
French Club, is scheduled for Sat-
urday, December 9 at 8 p. m.
This Nativity is the most ancient
known to exist in the French ver-
nacular. Attributed to the four-
teenth century, before the general
dominance of cyclic thought, it is
composed of a short prologue.fol-
lowed by a series of unconnected
scenes. In contrast to other plays
of the period, no comic elements
are introduced, and the very hum-
an and almost popular adoration of
the eternal Mother and divine
Child is presented free of pedantry
and theology.
The whole is essentially charac-
Common Arguments
For God's Existence
Considered by Weiss
� Common Room, November 22.
"Religion is the art of seeking
God; theology is a rational inquiry
into the nature and existence of
God," declared Mr. Weiss in a talk
on Philosophy and Theology be-
fore the Philosophy Club. Pointing
out the two are not necessarily
connected, Mr. Weiss said that the
aim of theology is to prove the
existence of God by reason. Three
main arguments are traditionally
used.
The first and most popular is
the teleological argument which
holds that the universe has such
a character that it cannot be ex-
plained except by assumption of a
God. Even if this argument were
valid Mr. Weiss declared, it would
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Calendar
Friday, December 1
Varsity    Hockey    Game    with
Drexel.    Hockey Field, 4:00.
Varsity    Players.     Ladies    in
Retirement.    Goodhart, 8:30.
Saturday, December 2
Varsity    Hockey   Game    with
Swarthmore.  Swarthmore, 9:30
a. m.
Rhoads Tea Dance, 4 to 6:30.
Varsity Players, Ladies in Re-
tirement.    Goodhart, 8:30.
College Dance, Gym, 11 to 2.
Monday, December 4
Science Club Lecture: Dr. Max
M. Strumia.  Blood Derivatives
and their Substitutes.   Dalton,
4:00.
Tuesday, December 5
Spanish Club Play.    La Zapa-
tera Prodigiosa.    Gym, 8:30.
Wednesday, December 6
Summer Camp Christmas Par-
ty, Common Room, 3 to 5.
Bible Discussion Group, Alan
McCrae. Common Room, 8:00.
Main Line Forum. Paul G.
Hoffman. Maximum Employ-
ment in a Free Economy. Rob-
erts Hall. Haverford, 8:15.
Dollar Contribution
Sought for Louvain
The Drive for the Louvain Li-
brary Book Fund is in progress
this week from Monday, November
27 to Friday, December 1. Under
the direction of a committee head-
ed by Harji Malik '45 and Miss
Marguerite Lehr, the Drive asks
one dollar or any other contribu-
tion from each member of the fac-
ulty and  the undergraduate body.
Any books which are purchased
for the Louvain Library with the
money contributed here will bear
a book iplate stating that the book
was contributed by Bryn Mawr
College. It is hoped that through
such contributions the Library may
be rebuilt, as it was after the
Germans destroyed it during World
War I.
The committee, appointed by the
Undergraduate Board, consists of
Judith Bailey '48, Radnor Fresh-
men; Chloe Walker '45, Spanish
House; Nicole Herrmann, Gradu-
ate Students; Jane Manthorne '46,
Merion; Nina Montgomery '45 and
Amorette Bissell '48, Denbigh;
Betsy Schweppe '46, German House;
Jennifer Wedgwood '48 and Jean
Potter '45, Pern East; Emily Ev-
arts '47 and Carol Ballard '46, Pern
West; Ada Klein '48, Amy Camp-
bell '48 and Nan Peiker '48, Rock;
M. L. Blakely '47, Betty Coleman
�48 and Betsy Day '47, Rhoads
North; Nancy Niles '47, Mary Bar-
ton '46 and Lindsay Harper '48,
Rhoads South; Joanne Mott '47,
Wyndham; Emily Evarts '47, Ada
Klein '48, Elizabeth Boudreau '46,
and Mary Virginia More '46, Fac-
ulty.
Test Week Shows
120 Hours Lacking
From UVAP Pledge
Two Halls Exceed Pledges;
Others Fulfill Portion
Of Work
During a test week in Novem-
ber, a survey conducted by the War
Alliance on the response to the
UVAP program revealed 781 hours
of actual work completed as com-
pared with 891 hours pledged. The
survey reached 401 students, with
no report having been received as
yet from the Non-Residents, the
Spanish and French Houses, and
one corridor each in Pembroke
West and Rockefeller.
A hall breakdown shows that
only' two halls exceeded their
pledge, the Radnor Freshm'en with
25 hours worked to 20 pledged, and
Pembroke East, with 106 hours
pledged and 160 worked. German
House pledged 27, worked 34, Pem-
broke West pledged 93, worked 77,
Rhoads South pledged 107, worked
91, Rhoads North pledged 135,
worked 100, Rockefeller pledged
161, worked 87, Denbigh pledged
130, worked 87, and Merion work-
ed 50 out of 112 pledged.
63 of the students approached
did not sign up, and 152 students
failed to do any work. However,
a fair number of hours were con-
tributed in campaign work in the
O'Rourke election, and the remov-
al of this item from the total hours
worked would decrease that figure
considerably.
Excuses ranged from "personal
reasons" to unwillingness owing to
summer defense work, but the em-
phasis was on lack of time. Com-
menting on the program, many
students complained about the
lack of cooperation in such activ-
ities as farming, while others ask-
ed for different arrangements to
relieve the glare and eye-strain in
bandage rolling. One student pro-
tested against the pressure used on
those who really did not have time.
Campus Contributes
$1084.55 in Nov. Drive
$1084.45 was the total amount
contributed by the campus for the
November War Bond Drive. Pern
West gave $209, Pern East, $146,
Rockefeller, $111.85, Rhoads
North, $141.85, Rhoads South,
$103.50, Spanish House, $17.10,
Radnor Freshmen, $1.00, Merion,
$106.35, Denbigh, $163.35, Non
Resident, $43.50, Wyndham, $25.50
and the German House gave $16.
Special Campaign
All the colleges in the country
are now running a special cam-
paign in their bond drives in
which they buy specific units of
war equipment. At Bryn Mawr,
the October and November drives
are purchasing a �% ton field am-
bulance which wHl go overseas
with a Bryn Mawr sticker.
Every month except December
there will be bond drives on the
campus. The actual amounts of
money given so far are adequate
but the percentage of students
contributing is not high. Helen
Reed, '46, Chairman of War Bonds
and Stamps, says "There are more
people who could and should
give."