C APR 3 0 1941 HAVERF D NEWS VOLUME 32—NUMBER 24 HAVERFORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941 Z 627 _ $2.00 A YEAR College Prepares for Gala Junior Prom Week-end; Operetta, Tea Dance Highlight Class Pay Program To Sing Bryn Mawr Girls Cricket Match To Play Reynolds' Band To Cooperate Planned to Follow To Provide Music In Production Tree Planting At Prom Friday Pirates of Penzance Afternoon Will End Hundreds of Flowers Will Be Presented With Tea Dance Will Add Color In Roberts Hall In Common Room To Dining Hall For the first time, the Cap and A busy and varied program has Hundreds of flowers will trans- Bells will give an operetta in co- been arranged by the Junior Class form the dining halkinto an arbor- operation with Bryn Mawr College. Day Committee for the Saturday etum on the night of the Junior The performances of Gilbert and following the Junior Prom. Prom. Carnations, woven in the Sullivan's The Pirates of Pen- Tree To Be Planted shape of a huge red H will cover zance" will be presented on the the wall above the fireplace. The evenings of May 1 and S at 8:16 in After lunch the Junior Class will present tr tree to the College ac- dance floor will be illumined indi- Roberts Hall. Refreshments will rectly and spotlights will also be be served at the first performance. cording to custom. The selection of the tree is under the direction of used. Louise Allen 'plays the soprano Mr. Robert J. Johnston, superin- A baseball game with P.M. C. lead of Mabel, and Margot Dithier tendent of grounds. This ceremony Friday afternoon on the home field takes the part of Ruth, the alto will be followed by a cricket mate will initiate the week-end festivi- lead. Robert MaeCrate has the with the General Electric eleven on ties. Dinner will be at 6:00 and tenor lead of Fredrick. The Pirate Cope Field. the dancing will start at 9:30. King will be portrayed by John A. MARY ANN MCCALL The afternoon entertainment will TOMMY REYNOLDS Tommy Reynolds will bring his Clark while Albert Turner is the third band to the Haverford Prom comical Major-General. Richard be climaxed by a tea dance in the Common Room which will last from Pre-Medical Students and this is the one the experts con- Bauer is the Sergeant of Police, sider his best. and David Garmey takes the part Stack to Publish 4 until 6.16. After the dance there To Take Test Thursday of Samuel. will be a special dinner served in Refreshments To Be Served the dining hall, for which guests All students who expect to apply There will be ten program danc- Elaborate Costumes Planned Large Final Issue will he charged seventy-five cents. for entrance to a medical school by es, the first at 10:00 P. m. and the The elaborate costumes are by Evening Features Operetta the fall of 1942 should take the last over at 1:00. The intermis- Van Horn, Philadelphia costumer. Association of American Medical sion will come at 11:30 between the "The Pirates of Penzance," un- Colleges' Aptitude Test that will be The complex stage scenes have Bryn Mawr Lantern der the direction of Liedaay A. Laf- sixth and the seventh dances. Re- been made under the direction of given Thursday. The test is one freshments--sandwiches, cakes, ice Contributes Stories ford, will be presented in Roberts of the normal requirements for Kenneth Foreman. Hall at 8.16 in the evening. Fol- cream and iced coffee — will be The pirate chorus is made np of admission to medical school. served in the garden of the Fillies The Stack, completing its second lowing this there will be an in- The test will be given at 3:40 members of the College Glee Club year of publication, will put out formal Vic dance in the Common Lab during the intermission if the and the parts of the sixteen daugh- P.M. in Mlles Laboratory at which weather permits. If not, the Com- the last issue of the year on Thurs- Room. time practice sheets must be re- ters of the Major-General are tak- mon Room will be available. Punch day. The issue, inclosed in a green There will be dressing room fa- turned. A fee of $1 is required of en by members of the Bryn Mawr cover, will be the largest ever cilities for ladies in Roberta Hall, will be served throughout the eve- each student taking the test, and ning in the Common Room by Doc Glee Club. Lindsay A. Safford, di- printed and will contain a large the Class Day Committee has an- application should be made immedi- rector of the operetta, also directs number of poems and short stories nounced. ately to Dean H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. the musical accompaniment which from varied sources of contribution. William B. Meldrum, Jr., chair- will be provided by several Bryn Two stories are to be reprinted man of the Junior Prom Commit- Mawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford from the Bryn Mawr Lantern, a Lowering of Draft Age to 18 Would Affect tee, has announced that the records students together with professional similar student publication. Mr. heard in the dining hall this last musicians. Rene Blanc-Roos has contributed All Except Two Haverford Undergraduates week will be given away in a lot- Bauer Is Optimistic three poems. Thomas Gibb has tery during the dance. For this contributed a short story. Miss By DANIEL E. DAVIS, JR. reason guests are asked to sign "The operetta," Richard Baser, Doris Coffin and Miss Barbara their names to their tickets before assistant director, stated, "prom- HsueIEoIal undergraduates are Influencing the Army to seek a Overton, the librarians, have also vitally affected by the operation of reduced minimum age is the fact presenting them at the door. ises to be excellent. The rehearsals written poems for the Wee. during the past several weeks have A translation made by Arnold the draft now, and even more will that the ten-year reserve period, Patrons Listed be affected by proposed changes in following the year of active enlist- been much better than previously Satterthwait of the Spanish poem, The patrons and patronesses of expected at this time." "Flor Pagans" by Emique de Mesa, the law. At present twelve stud- ment, would leave men, ranging up the dance are: President and Mrs. will lend color to the issue. Robert eats face induction into the army to forty-five subject for reserve Felix Morley, Dean H. Tatnall The advance sale of tickets has been unusually large. The admis- Cryan, ex-'43, has written three by July 1. duty. Men, approaching that age Brown, Jr., Dr. and Mm. W. W. poems which will be published. Proposal of a new draft regis- are of little worth to the Army as Comfort, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Mel- sion price for others than under- tration on October 16 would find soldiers, officers feel. Many Army graduates will be $1. Following chior, Dr. and Mrs. John A. Flight, 123 Haverford students subject to experts believe that training a man Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Meldrum. the last presentation an informal Lunt is Presented call under present regulations. 72 over thirty is a waste of time and dance will be held which will con- Seniors are twenty-one years or money. Tickets for the Prom may be ob- clude the Junior Prom week-end. tained from William B. Meldrum, With Haskins Award older, while 38 Juniors and 1.2 Throwing the draft open to boys Sophomores would be eligible for of eighteen would supply the young Jr., Knox Brown, James F. Gary, For Mediaeval Studies Timothy P. Haworth, and T. Canby Paper on Process the draft. The Freshmen with only boys Army officers want now in ad- Jones. Professor William E. Lunt re- one member twenty-one by that dition to relieving older men of the Developed by Davis ceived the Haskins medal Saturday date would be comparatively un- necessity of service, actively and at the final session of the sixteenth affected. in a reserve capacity. Sutton to Deliver Wins Competition annual meeting of the Mediaeval Lowering the draft minimum age Plans for conscientious objectors to 18 would place all of Haverford's include erection of work camps, Paper in Washington Competing with the best techni- Society of Aoserita. The Haskins medal, awarded an- student body, save two Freshmen, where they will serve a year in- cians from nine other colleges, under compulsion to register for stead of in the Army. Camps will Professor Richard M. Sutton will Hunt Davis took first place in the nually for a distinguished work in visit Washington this week-end to the field of mediaeval studies by military service by next October 16, have a resident phyeiciah and the annual student convention of the date of last year's registration. :Arne food standards will apply to give a paper on "Instruments for American Institute of Electrical an American or Canadian scho- lar, was presented by Professor Seeking to avoid deferments to these camps as to the Army and Confocal Conical' to the American Engineers with his paper on "An students, the draft date for the Navy . Hours and type of work at Mathematical Society of George Original Method of Measuring Jeremiah D. S. Ford, of Harvard, Washington University. president of the academy. coming year will probably be ad- the camps will be decided by the Stress in Beams." vaned to June, July, August, or project superintendent and the As a representative o f the The meeting, which was held The award to Professor Lunt was for his book, published in 1939, some other date prior to the fall government agency in charge.