College News, 1943-11-17, Vol. 30, No. 08

              The college News
VOL. XL, NO. 8
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943
Copyright, Trustee* of
Bryn MawrColU�. 1943
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Foreign Education
In War Described
By Chen, Peterson
Norway's Position as an Ally,
China's Wartime Education
Discussed
Goodhart, November 17. "Nor-
way's War Effort" and "Education
in China" were the topics present-
ed at the International Students'
Day assembly by Mrs. Roy Peter-
son and Lien Ching Chen. "Norway
is our ally in spirit and more than
spirit," Mrs. Peterson said, while
Mr. Chen pointed out the effect
that the war has had on Chinese
education.
"Norway has proved her status
as an ally," emphasized Mrs. Pet-
erson, a Norwegian who has been
in this country for four years.
Against the enemy, Norway main-
tains two fronts: a home front and
a foreign. Inside Norway, 99 per
cent of the population is against
the Nazis. The Quislings who
comprise the remaining one per
cent are not representative Nor-
wegian types. They are mostly
lower class people, Mrs. Peterson
stated, who are chronically dissat-
isfied and who in many instances
have jail records. The United
Home Front is employing every
means possible to resist the Nazis.
The small number of weapons it
has are being saved for the prayed-
for allied invasion. On the for-
eign front are the Free Fighting
Forces of Norway, supported from
London by the Norwegian govern-
ment-in-exile.
Students and professors in Nor-
way have shown a spirit the Nazis
cannot quell, said Mrs. Peterson.
She then outlined the general
scheme of Norwegian education.
There is no illiteracy in Norway.
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College Accepts Plan
Of Undergrad Council
Two measures, proposed by the
Undergraduate Council, were voted
on by the college last week. They
were (1) the right of said council
to propose legislation, (2) the es-
tablishment of a Common Treas-
ury for the funds of the Self-
Government Association, the Un-
dergraduate Association, the War
Alliance, and the Bryn Mawr
League. The returns were (1) 369
in favor, 14 against; (2) 354 in
favor, and 24 against.
The Undergraduate Council, as
it was explained to students at
hall meetings preceding the vot-
ing, is composed of the following
heads of organiaztions: the presi-
dent of the Self-Government As-
sociation, head of the Undergradu-
ate Association, head of the Alli-
ance, president of the Bryn Mawr
League, president of the Athletic
Association and the Editor-in-
Chief of the College News. This
group was first formed last year
in order to obtain more efficiency
in undergraduate activities. It now
feels that to be effective it needs
Don't be Late
Please remember that the
service is slow at the Greek's
and leave ample time. Unless
Ihe number of minor latenesses
from all activities decreases,
steps will be taken. This is a
warning!
The   Executive   Board    of   the
Self-Government Association
Denbigh Hall Shaken to Very Foundations
By Malignant Explosion in Kitchen Region
By  Virginia Belle Reed, '44
At approximately 10:30 Monday
morning, a tremendous upheavel
occurred in Denbigh. It was mag-
nificent, a volcanic eruption which
shook the building to its ancient
foundations.
The best authority states that
the gas stove blew up, shattering
three windows and showering
glass on three maids who never-
theless escaped unharmed. This
was more miraculous as the cook
had just walked away from the
scene of the crime when the black
monster had the bad taste to ex-
plode.
Denbigh's lunch likewise escaped
and found refuge in the garbage
can. Denbigh was glum about the
prospects of a noonday repast, but
all was under control when the
doors opened at 1:00. Lunch ma-
terialized somehow. The mush-
rooms�under-glass�weren't serv-
ed, but new ones were substituted.
The noise frightened large num-
bers in the vicinity, and a few
were still quaking when we talked
to them. A studious group in one
of Denbigh's unique spots, the
"Rabbit Hutch," directly over the
kitchen, dropped Plato and bound-
ed straight up in the air, landing
precisely in the middle of the floor.
Fairchild Appointed
To Advisory Position
Miss Mildred Fairchild, of the
Sociology Department, ha saccept-
ed an appointment from the War
Manpower Commission of the
Philadelphia area to serve as
chairman of a Woman's Advisory
Committee to deal with problems
related to the employment of
women in war industries and es-
sential civilian services. The new
committee will be made up of rep-
resentatives of management, labor
and the public.
Discussing the proposed pro-
gram of the Woman's Advisory
Committee, Miss Fairchild stated
that the first problem to be attack-
ed in the Philadelphia area by the
War Manpower Commission would
need to be that of adjusting shifts
and providing services for women
with families to enable married
women to work and to manage
their households at the same time.
English Program
The British and Russian gov-
ernments have done much to fa-
cilitate the handling of these
double responsibilities. Four-hour
shifts, instead of eight-hour shifts,
neighborhood employment, and
counselling services to advise
women have been tried out extens-
ively in England. Day-care centers
for children after school, recrea-
tional programs, and a wide range
of shopping services also have,
helped English women to play a
large part in the productive life
of their country in total war.
American women have not begun
to carry the responsibilities in the
war that British and Russian
women are carrying. To date,
their services have not been called
for upon so extensive a scale.
In Philadelphia today, however,
employment is decreasing stead-
ily through the withdrawal of men
from the labor market. The em-
ployment of women is not increas-
ing rapidly enough to make good
the loss. A labor shortage of a
serious nature is developing. The
appointment of a Women's Advis-
ory Committee is an effort to
bring the woman's point of view
to bear upon the problem.
It, too, was quivering with sur-
prise and alarm.
Heads appeared out of every
window on that side of the build-
ing, all peering and speculating
about causes. Bombs? Earth-
quakes? Those who could see the
kitchen informed the less fortun-
ate that there was jagged glass
standing in the ex-windows and
that the cook was running around
in circles with a rolling pin.
Whence came the authoritative re-
port that a beautiful battle was
raging in the kitchen and that var-
ious objects were being heaved
through the windows. Whereupon
a hardy soul ventured down the
fire escape to peer in, at a goodly
distance from the line of fire, but
nothing was gleaned of the nature
of the disaster. Lewis, the por-
ter, when questioned would only
roll his eyes heavenward and mut-
ter wisely that "Everything blew
up".
Undoubtedly it was sabotage,
striking at a most vital spot�and
before lunch!    It's  inhuman.
Eminent Shakesperean Authority,
Granville-Barker to Speak Tuesday
Internal Race Riots
Hinder I). S. Efforts,
Says I. R. C. Speaker
Johns Hopkins University, No
vember 12 and 13�"Like mountain
ranges in other countries, race
barriers have made of America
two peoples", said Lester Granger,
Executive Secretary of the Nation-
al Urban League, addressing a
plenary session of the Interna-
tional Relations Club Conference
in Baltimore. The race riots in
war centers which began last
April have shocked a formerly in-
different public into the realization
that not only are we fighting in
Europe and Asia, but we are also
fighting an internal war in which
a black army is pitted against a
white.
There are "many elements in
both camps who would rather see
their army victorious within the
United States than see Hitler and
Hirohito defeated," Mr. Granger
said. The methods tried in the
past months to put an end to this
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Calendar
Thursday,  November  18
College Council, President's
House, 6:30.
Archaeological Meeting, Com-
mon Room, 8:15.
Friday,  November 19
Haverford Square Dance in
Gymnasium, 8:30.
Monday, November 22
Non-Resident Tea, Common
Room, 4:00.
Tuesday, November 23
Mr. Granville-Barker, The
Craft and Art of Shakes-
peare,  Goodhart, 8:16.
Colleges Plan to Give
National Scholarships
To Incoming Freshmen
The Seven College .Conference
has announced a plan for National
Scholarships to be awarded to in-
coming Freshmen who wish to at-
tend Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar,
or Wellesley College}. This is the
first action the colleges have tak-
en together in an effort to make
each campus a "better proving-
ground for a democratic citizen-
ship".
The plan is patterned after Har-
vard's National Scholarship plan
which has been discontinued until
after the war. Bryn Mawr will
use money from the Peabody
Scholarship fund to finance its
three scholarships next year. The
colleges are working towards an
ultimate goal of 84 scholarships
to be awarded each year.
Announced by Dean Virginia
C. Gildersleeve of Barnard, the
plan will provide for a greater
representation of students from
states which ordinarily do not send
a large number of students to
these colleges. The plan will en-
able young women of exceptional
intellectual promise to come to
the colleges without regard to
financial circumstances. The sti-
pend is sufficiently large, if neces-
sary,  to meet all of the students
Producer, Actor, Playwright
To Talk of Shakespeare's
Craft and Art
Students' Behavior Over Beer at Greeks'
Hasn't Changed in 25 Yrs., Authority Says
Mr. Granville-Barker, producer,
actor, and playwright, will lecture
upon "The Craft and Art of
Shakespeare" in Goodhart at 8:15
P. M., Tuesday, November 23rd.
Visiting professor at Yale and
Harvard, 1940-1941, he is one of
the foremost Shakespearean crit-
ics of the present time.
Combining a wide knowledge of
the theatre with literature and
scholarship, Mr. Granville-Barker
tries to present in his Prefaces t*
Shakespeare the values of Shakes-
pearean plays in terms of imagin-
ary productions that would have
satisfied the author. In his attempt
to bridge the gap between litera-
ture and the stage, he made revo-
lutionary productions of Twelfth
Night, Winter's Tale, and A Mid-
summer Night's Dream in 1912-
1914, productions still widely dis-j
cussed.
Background
Born in London in 1877, he be-
gan acting at the age of 14, later
playing Marchbanks in the first
public performance of Candida. At
23, he became associated with the
London Stage Society and four
years later shared in the manage-
ment of the Court Theatre, an
English repertory company. In
association with J. E. Vedrenne,
he produced the plays of Shaw,
Galsworthy, Haikin, Barrie and
his own. The theatre also popu-
larized Greek drama in Gilbert
Murray's translations.
The efforts of the Stage Society
and Court Theatre marked a new
era in the history of drama, one
that was to have a profound influ-
ence upon the British and Amer-
ican theatre. Restricted by con-
vention and the interference of the'
censor, they nevertheless introduc-
ed the English public to "the
drama of ideas", striving in their
productions to attain truth rather
than mere theatrical effect.
Mr. Granville-Barker is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature,
and was director of the British In-
stitute of the University of Paris
from 1937 to 1939. His best
.; known plays are The Voysey In-
heritance, 1905, Waste, 1907, and
The Madras House, 1910.
By Alison Merrill, '45
The Greeks, almost as tradition-
ally Bryn .Mawr as blue jeans or
Parade Night, has had 25 years
of Bryn Mawr girls leaning their
elbows on its synthetic marble
tables and imbibing cokes or beer.
Considering its monopoly on "eat-
ing in the village until 11:30" per-
missions, we decided an investiga-
tion would be in order.
Mike, who has been there as long
as the Greeks' has, proved
extremely cooperative, although
his free moments for an interview
are few and far-between, since the
Greeks' has a continuous influx of
customers, ranging from truck
drivers for their morning coffee.
Main Line shoppers for their after-
noon coke, and college students
for their nightly beer.
Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Harcum,
and the armed forces from Haver-
ford and Villanova make up the
majority of the evening customers.
Depending on how good the movie
is, 15 to 75 Bryn Mawr girls come
in each night. Mike reported that
more girls have come in in the last
two years, although not nearly so
many as ten years ago^
"Can you tell Bryn Mawr girls
from others?" we asked.
"Oh, yes!"
"How?"
"They're quiet. They're not
mischievous, never cause any trou-
ble. They don't mix much." What
seemed to impress Mike most about
Bryn Mawr girls was that they are
honest. They call attention to
items missing on their checks and
show their integrity in various
other w�ys. Bryn Mawr girls are
the only customers allowed charge
accounts.
As well as being able to differ-
entiate Bryn Mawr girls from
others, Mike said he could tell
Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors,
and Seniors apart. Upperclass stu-
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Registration
Students are reminded that
they should register at their
last class before and their first
class after Thanksgiving vaca-
tion.
War Bond Drive Nets
$961.60 in November
A total of $961.60 was collected
in the War Bond Drive for Novem-
ber, announced Mary Katherine
Snyder, chairman of the drive.
Rockefeller turned in the largest
amount, $149.50.
The amounts collected in other
halls were: Merion, $36.75, Den-
bigh, $115.60, Pern East, $116.80,
Pern West, $184.25, Rhoads North,
$68, Rhoads South, $143.75, Rad-
nor Freshman, $32.95r~Wyndham,
$22.10, German House, $17.50,
Spanish House, $9, Non-Res,
$126.50. One non-res bought a
$75 bond, bringing the total to
$182.25.
Regular collections for each
monthly drive will be made on the
first Monday and-Tuesday of each
month. Students are urged to
buy War Stamps in the Bookshop
between collections. It is hoped
that a goal of $1,000 will be reach-
ed in future drives.