HAVE F NEWS VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 5 HAVERFORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1941 2 627 $2.00 A YEAR
Dorian Announces _ Named to Office by Class of '42 Edgar Wind to Give Tryouts for Play Talk on Shakespeare Varsity Club Dance Discussing the topic "Shake- To Be Conducted speare in the Eighteenth Cen tury," Dr. Edgar Wind will For November 21 deliver a special lecture In Union Friday vember 7 at 8:15 in Roberts Hall. Dr. Wind is an interna- Lighting Effects Prospective Freshmen tionally famous recognized au- Will Be Entertained thority s on the relationship To Be Produced between literature and art. On Coming Week-end Now teaching at New York In Unique Manner' University, Dr. Wind in,, also Plans for a Fall Sports deputy director of the War- Primary trouts for the burg Institute in London, and male leads in the fall-produc- Dance on Eriday, November editor of the Institute's Jour- 21, under the sponsorship of nal. • tion of the Cap and Bells' The Departments of English "Margin for will be the Varsity Club were an- and Art are sponsoring this nounced last week by Timothy Lecture jointly. Peat lecturers held Friday afternoon at 3:80 Haworth, chairman of the on aspects of Shakespeare in- in the Union, Edgar Emery, clude the late George Lynam Vice - President, announced. committee: This dance will Kittredge and Dr. Leslie. Hot- touch off a week-end which son. John C. Marsh and ,Emery will be in charge of these tryouts. will include a proposed hockey The tryouts for the feminine game with Bryn Mawr on Saturday Offiters of the Senior Class, who were elected at a meeting in the Common Room Thursday. leads will be held on Thursday afternoon as well as a Vic Dance Quartet Named evening at 8:30 in Goodhart Hall in the Common Room that night. at Bryn Mawr College. The final Freshmen Week-end Planned For Coming Year selection of the cast will be made At the same time, Alan Dorian, at the tryouts on Sunday after- Seniors Choose Poole, Brown, noon at 2:00 in the Union. president of the Varsity Club, Torrence, MacCrate, stated that this coming week-end Olson and O'Connor rin Elections Date Announced would be given over to the enter- _ Kay, Clark Selected The date of presenta.ian has tainment of prospective freshmen definitely been set for December from neighboring prep schools, in The Senior Class named David M. Poole of Summit, N. J., Richard Bauer, president of the their President at a class meeting last Thursday evening in Glee Club, announced Sunday that 12 and 13 .Ns performance will be order to give them a clearer con- the members of the Club's Quartet given at Bryn Mawr. Copies of the ception of Haverford College life. the Common Room. Poole was Captain of Cross-Country in for this year have been chosen. play are on reserve in the Library. A committee has been appointed to his Sophomore and Junior yearii, and has been a class officer John A. Clark and Haskell Tor- "This year the stage crew will assist the visitors, and the group every year that he has been in college. rence are bass and baritone, re- use a new piece of lighting equip- will attend the Guilford game in spectively. ment of the most modern sort— the afternoon, a Vic Dance that Brown Named The tenor positions are to be the only one of its kind in the evening and will spend the night Elected to the office" of Vice President was Richard W. filled by Richard Kay, second, and world," Kenneth Foreman, stage on the campus. Dorian also added manager, stated. The entire light- that there would be a Vic Dance Brown, football player and Vice President of the Chemistry Robert Macerate, first. The quar- tet's first concert is to be at the ing effects will be controlled from following the Swarthmore game on Club. His home la Downingtown, Rotary Club at the end of Novem- a portable switchboard of a very November 16. Pennsylvania. Charles A. Olson, Store Committee Adds ber. small size. Lettermen Get Reduced Rate Jr. was elected Secretary of the First of two concerts at which William Harris, in collaboration Senior Class at the same meeting, with Alan S. FitaGerald, Research The Sports Dance will be held in New Clerk and Nantes the Glee Club as a whole is sched- and Paul It. O'Connor was named Ilew uled to sing is a dual Christmas Associate in Physics and Engineer- the gymnasium from 9 until 1. The Treasurer. The new Secretary Stiles varsity soccer and football men crumb Head concert with Bryn Mawr. On the ing, designed and began construc- comes from New York City, plays thirteenth of December the Bryn tion of this new lighting equipment who are awarded letters will be varsity football, and is a star jave- this summer. The new board util- admitted for .76 cents, while the Proving financially successful Mawr Choral Society will combine lin hurler on the Track Team. with the Glee Club at Haverford. izes saturating reactors, a field in price to all others will be $1.50 per O'Connor, who was Class Treas- after its two-week trial, the Cam- Bryn Mawr will be the host, which Mr. FitzGerald has been couple or 61.00 stag. As yet, the urer last year, has his home in pus Crumb has been officially an- working for some years. patrons and patronesses have not however, for a concert on Decem- Milwaukee, Wisconsin:. He has nexed by the Cooperative Store ber 14. Next April, the Haverford been chosen, but it is certain that been a Corporation Scholarship Work Like Relays Association, according to Edgar D. Glee Club will be featured in a all coaches and their wives will be winner in his Sophomore, Junior, concert at Chalfont!-Haddon Hall These reactors appear somewhat present. All guests, will be given and Senior years in college. Bell, chairman. Clark Stiles will in Atlantic City. like transformers and work like re- sleeping accommodations at the Gary Chosen manage the Crumb, and take lays. There are no moving parts houses of the various faculty mem- The members of the newly elect- charge of seeing to all the details. subject to wear, With this type bers. Debaters Hold Meeting of switchboard the operator will ed Executive Committee are James Stiles will operate on a profit- Besides Haworth, who is also F. Gary, of Swarthmore, Pennsyl- be able to provide by finger-tip chairman of the Extensions Com- vania; Edward Flacens, of Lens- sharing basis, which has been To Discuss Proposal control any sort of combination of mittee, the four other members of downe,Pennsylvania; and George T. worked out satisfactorily with the Of Half-Year Course lights as well as being able to fur- the dance committee are Eleazer Warner, whose home is in Kansas association. Students will ibring nish smooth and flickerless fading, Childs, James F. Gary, David The Debate Council met this dimming, and master control. Con- City, Missouri. Gary, star two- the Crumb around every night ex- Poole, and Spencer Stewart. They miler, is Captain of thin year's afternoon at 3:30 in 16 Whitall. struction has been held up due to guarantee that the decorations will Cross-Country Team. Flaccus, a cept Saturday, and it will sell Chief topic of discussion at this priority demands, but it now ap- be more novel than ever and that Soccer player, is Chairman of the sandwiches and cold drinks. meeting was the proposal of a pears that the switchboard will be ample refreshments will be served Customs Committee, as well as half-year credit course in Debat- completed in time for the perform- to quench the thirst of the dancers Bell also stated that the Coop ing, to be sponsored by the College. ance. Captain of Tennis. The third mem- would appoint a new clerk, prob- and the inevitable number of stags. ber of the Executive Committee, It was also announced that plans The stage crew have been reno- Warner, is captain of the Basket- ably a Rhinie, in the near future. for a debate with Swarthmore are vating the rope systems, and de- ball and Baseball teams. He also An increase in business was given being made. The debate is sched- signs for the elaborate sets of "Mar- uled to take place on November 18. plays varsity football. as the reason for this. This will gin for Error'"are under way. The Dean Brown Announces Professor George Mountgomery, Junior members of the stage crew Although no definite plans have bring the total number of clerks to been made, Poole stated that he faculty advisor of the Debate Coun- are William Harris, Edmund Lee, Openings for Students planned to call a meeting of the 33338. cil, was present at the meeting. Russell Lyman, Norman Peterkin, Desiring Part-time Work Executive Committee before the and George Ryrie. Sophomore. end of the week. members are Henry Grey, H. Roy- Dean H. Tetuan Brown, Jr., has Diz of Dean Praises the Students er Smith, and Edgar Thomas. announced several openings for students who wish to obtain jobs Recordings of Organ Music On Their Chivalry and Sweetness this year. Two jobs of driving are To Increase Union Collection By JOHN KR0311 sweet and very chivalrous ("Well, Night/School to Open offered by Mr. R. K. Shober, 604 Development of modern and they haven't tripped me op the Pembroke Road, Bryn Mawr, and classical organ music is shown in a Sad news for those whose trips stairs or thrown ink at me, any- For Students Thursday , down the "last mile" to Dean way"), her only complaint being Mrs. Frank B. Croft, Whitehall, series of phonograph records to be Brown's carpet have of late been Last Monday evening Roy A. Haverford. procured by Warren D. Anderson, cheered by a bright smile from his that they call her Die instead of Dye, director of the Haverford Col- Glee Club Librarian. These rec- "Busty," which she prefers. Her Elevator operators are needed to outer-office rhargee d'affaires is the association with the boys has been lege Night School, called a meet- ords represent renewed progress in information that "Diz" McKinney ing of all students interested in work at the Green Hills Farm, a long-term drive to replace old has lefts Diz, as even the Rhinies one of the most enjoyable features teaching in the Night School Overbrook, on two shifts from 7 Carnegie Endowment discs. The should know, it the incredibly at- of her work. throughout the year. Emphasis was ,3 P.M. to special drive for this year is to fill Has Held Many Jobs laid on the fact that it will be an A.M. to 3 P.M. or from in the present collection. tractively blonde, who's been caus- 11:30 P.M. The job pays $60 the gaps ing a considerable amount of favor- Mrs. McKinney has had a num- excellent opportunity. for those monthly. A job, working at a soda Former President Comfort accept- able comment among frequenters ber of different jobs: newspaper who plan to enter the educational fountain and waiting on tablet two ed in 1940 some Carnegie funds of the Dean's office, cartoonist, model, and private sec- field after college to gain practical or three nights a week in a Brook- available for only part of this retary. After attending Beaver; teaching experience, work. Hands Out Cut Cards line shop, is offered to students To add a Sampson-and-Delilah she went through art school and Registration of all new students with payment of $1.50 nightly. Anderson has posted notices urg- then took a short course in busi- and arrangement of schedules will ing students to avail themselves of note to the situation, however, it's take place on Thursday evening Several jobs in the field of social a fact that this some Mrs. Mc- ness school, at which, she says, "I service are also available. A vol- the records by subscribing at the studied shorthand in an offhand at 7:30. unteer worker and former scout College Library 'where the list of Kinney has been writing this over- subscribers is to be kept. The fee eat cards that are again going the way." is needed to help with a local Boy With the return of Miss Donald- COMMITTEE ENLARGED Scout Troop on Monday evenings is $2.50 a semester and saves the rounds. We can't say how much College fee of $.60 a month for truth there is in the report that son, who's been ill since early Sep- D. Patrick Moore Robinson and from 7:30 to 9 P.M. A full year's tember, Bunty was "fired." Just in Ernest H. Heimlich have been job at the Montgomery School do- one's own radio. For suggestions the Last Straw's business has on the other series to be gathered boomed since Mrs. McKinney was case there are some Rhinies who added to the members of the Vic ing playground work with small first noted at the Dean's elbow don't know her, she can be found Dance Committee, Edgar Bell, boys five affernoons a week from this year, Anderson Is talking to chairman of the committee, an- new subscribers at number six, this year. almost any night at the Last 2:30 to 4:20 is also open, Dean Straw. nounced. Brown stated. Language House, Ard. 9428. She thinks the student! are very PAGE TWO HAVERFORD NEWS Tuesday, October 28, 1941 Haverford News Escort Founded February it, 1009 Rica Brenner's Poets of Our Editor: Coorrs OULAHAN, '42. Time comes out as a supplement Crow's Nest 1 Bushiest Manager: W. C. FALCONER, '42. To the Editor of the NEWS: to her "Ten-Modern Poets" and Managing Editors: "Twelve American Poets Before NEAL ADDOMS, '42. In a letter in last week's NEWS, "If. S. B." 1900." As the author suggests, THEODORE Ltwar.mcm, '42. and "E. H." attempted to defend the Haverford- the book was written in the hope Firmly believing that the key Sports Editor: ROBERT E. MILLER, ian's claim to a share of the Student's Activities that simple articles on poets of to the future of this chaotic world '42. Fee. Although the position described in the be- is not to be found in the scream- Press Egress Manager: JoHN Y. Etuarr, '42. our time make them clearer and • ginning of the letter is reasonable, the writers' more understandable to the aver- ing banners of today's newspap- Annual anineription, payable in advance, $200: 6461c logic seemed to deteriorate near the end. The age or uninitiated reader. That ers, but rather in those obscure copy, is seer. Subscription, may begin ai any time. Enteied great difference in the relationship between the is, she is not writing for the per- little items you are likely to find INS second-elm mans, at the pOSLACC it Ardmore, Pa. Stack and the College on one hand, and their maga- son .,who is already well ac- anywhere from page six to sixty, we thought you might be enlight- In charge of this issue: T. I'. Coffin zine and the College on the other hand, has not oc- quainted with contemporary curred to them. As far as I know, the Stack has poets and poetry. Her purpose 'fa ened by a few of the more sig- no official connection with the College and receives accomplished through brief biro., nificant fillers we have clipped and Suggestions Sought no support. It is a completely independent publi- , graphical sketches and through \- pastgd in our hat this week. Okayl A FEW WEEKS AGO Robert Miller, in cation. To call it an "out-law" magazine amounts a suggestion of point of view. Okay! Deadline was an hour to demanding a censorship for student publications The book takes up nine more away, and we happened to pick the Sports Jester, asked the students in general. Or, for that matter ,perhaps "M. S. K." or less contemporary American up Tom's paper down at Tenth. and alumni to aid in choosing a nickname and "E. H." want to control College publications and English poets: Stephen Vin- Over in Wilmington the other -- in general. It will be gratifying to know that the cent Benet,. Archibald MacLeish, day, a ten-year-old boy was for Haverford athletic teams. A box was next issue of the College Bulletin was written by Vaehel Linsday; T. S. Eliot, Sara caught coining counterfeit (c-c-c, placed in Founders Hall in which Kirkpatrick & Co., or that Dr. Meldrum cannot Teesdale, W. H. Auden, Stephen boys, it's alliteration?) nickels. sugges- publish his new book on physical chemistry' be- Spender, Elinor Wylie, and Wil- The Fedi say the tad melted hie tions could be dropped, while the alumni cause the Haverfordian has called It an "out-law liam Butler Yeats. The choice toy soldiers and poured the lead were encouraged to mail their ideas. The publication." seems quite adequate, end if we into a plaster of paris mold form- rest was left up to the graduates and under- On the other hand, the Haverfordian, since it read the book in conjunction ed from a geninue coin. does claim to be an official magazine and is de- with her earlier books, we have ' This is Inde•f-a- sad commen- graduates themselves. Response has been pendent upon the individual student's contribution covered the field with a fair tary on contemporary civiliza- — the contribution being compulsory, since you degree of thoroughness. The tion. We have long been aware, almost negligible. have to pay your activities fee—must prove that treatment in each case is sub- of course, that the majority of It is of utmost importance that the it justifies its claims and really enjoys the sup- stantially the same. There is America's crime was commit- nickname which is to be selected for the Port that its editors speak about. biographical sketch of each pm: ted by its youth, but, when our But whatever the fate of the Haverfordian, thor, naturally enough with em- babes raid the nursery for toys College teams be representative of Haver- the Stack should certainly not be affected by it. phasis on his or her poetical to utilize for nefarious purpos- ford as a whole and not merely of a few, By denouncing the Stack, the editors of the Hay- development, and then there is a es, we think it high time to take erfordian are not defending their magazine. It is brief analysis of the author as drastic action. enthusiastic students. That point is obvi- not a question of deciding between two maga- an aesthete and as a craftsman. Linea this trend is checked, ous. Can such a representative name be zines— for, after all, the Stack is entirely inde- Generously sprinkled are quota- there is no telling how it will end. had, however, without a definite increase of pendent—but of deciding whether, in view of. tions from the works of the per- We can visualize ourselves being the record that the Stack has made without any' son in question and from those victimized by con men in knee interest toward the Sports Board's cam- support, the Hiverfordian's claim is justified. If of others. britches, rolled by thugs in romp- paign in the ranks of Haverford-'students it isn't —even then Kirkpatrick and the New I think the book accomplishes ers, and shanghaied by gunmen Yorker (or is it the LadierHome Journal?) are its purpose, and I think its pur- in snuggleduckies. A fine world, and Haverford alumni? perfectly free' to publish any magazine they please, pose is a worthwhile one. There men, a fine world! but they must not expect the College to force the is a need of having our liberal students to pay for it. Why all this clamor about culture more spread out instead There's not much encourage- One Year and A Week Ago popular support and about a printed magazine? of concentrated In a chosen few. ment from New York, either. Oyer If the students really,prefer a printed rather than However, I would warn the pro- there, a man's passion for hon- found student of these poets that esty cost- the city fathers exactly NE YEAR AND A WEEK AGO the a mimeographed magazine, I am sure willing to pay for it rather than thethey Stack. will beIt he is wasting his time. There is twenty-five smackeroos and him- O NEWS appeared with a five - column seems to me that the demand for compulsory no profundity in the book. There self an aching pair of feet and a headline across the front page, "Morley In- contribution to the Haverfordian rests on the is merely an interesting aid to vague feeling of frustration. feat that the magazine will not pay for itself when the new explorer. It seems that one, Louis Pos- augurated as President." But the size of sold freely. Why not let each student decide for The prose style is not remark- ner, a letter carrier, was walk- that headline was not warranted by the himself whether he wants to buy a particular able in any one extreme. It has ing his Brooklyn route one day news issue, instead of forcing him to pay an arbitrary slightly more nerve and "jump" last week when he found a nic- value of the story, as the inaugura- sum, whether he likes it or not? than that of the average eco- kel on the sidewalk. Being a nomics textbook, but it could man tion was an event which had required weeks Sincerely yours, of principles, Posner re- hardly be said to have any great ported his find to the superin- of preparation, and which was expected to WOLFGANG FRANZEN, '42 merit in its own right. tendent. The latter, explaining occur on schedule. Indeed the news value of • The effect of the book as a that the coin had not been found To the Editor of the NEWS: whole is not startling. It, in on Federal property, referred the story would have been greater if Morley fairly lively prose style, gives Posner to police headquarters. had not been inaugurated at the appointed Happening to turn over the pages of the forty-five page commentaries on Doubltless baffled at finding NEWS yesterday on my return from the West nine important modern poets; time. The giant headline must therefore be Coast, I find that one of Hitler's American (Mel) the honest man, the chief direct- neither are these remarkable, ed our uncompromising hero to attributed to the importance of the event Helpers among our Alumni is clamoring for you but they should be interesting to come out in an editorial opposing the Univer- the desk lieutenant. The lieuten- to any one and quite valuable to ant hemmed and hawed, noted the itself in Haverford life, and to the many sity of Pemisylyania's recent undergraduate ed- n newcomer in the field. subsequent changes which it heralded. itorial (which demanded that we declare war on find on the police blotter and fin- Germany now). The alumnus does not sign his B.. B. W. ally passed the buck to the dis- Perhaps the first inove by President name. Why hide under the cloak of anonymity? trict detectives' office. There a clerk made out a report in trip- Morley which immediately attracted atten- I do not approve your policy of refraining licate and the matter seemed set- from discussion of such a vital policy, but per- COLLECTION SPEAKERS tion was the initiation of a' growing spirit haps you know campus policies best and I accept tled at last when it was discovered of co-operation with Swarthmore. The re- your silence on the subject, Please do not pre- Friday, October 31: that the nickel had not been found vent me, however, from registering the hope that, E. W. Barnes, Executive Secre- in that precinct but an adjacent newal of the Swarthmore football game was if you ever discuss this subject, you will SUP- tary of the Main Line Y.M.C.A. one. The now weary but resolute the final eagerly awaited event. PORT AND INDORSE the Pennsylvania stand. Tuesday, November 4: I hope we shall hear no more of the weak pacifism Posner thereupon trudged to the In the administration of the College, President Eason of Swartmore: proper station where the offend- which is so unrealistic in this hour and which did "Larger Aspects of the Swarth- the creation of the Acedemic Council has so much damage to Haverford's reputation in the ing jit was finally assigned to the last -war. more-Haverford Game." custody of the property clerk— been the outstanding advance. Including Perhaps an immediate declaration of war is Friday, November 7: after another report had been three members of the faculty as represent- not the best policy at the moment; such a decision Reverend J. Gillespie Arm- made out. The way it stands now, is mostly a military matter and with less cost of strong, Rector, St. Mary's if no one claims it in the mean- atives of the social sciences, physicia sci- suffering, life, and treasure the WAR in which Episcopal Church, Ardmore. time, Posner can collect the nic- ences and the humanities, and the two we are already fast engaged. Our Navy is rov- kel in six months. Tuesday, November 11: • deans, the Council forms an effective group ing the broad Atlantic with orders to shoot on Mr. A. W. Gottschall, Southern In the mood we find ourselves sight any German warship. Our enormous indus- Area Director of the National right now, we bet the d - is coin for the discussion of current problems and trial plant Is slowly concentrating its giant power Conference of Christians and is plugged anyhow. It's a toe- on making the weapons to destroy the internation- ing for the formulation of new policy. Jews: "Americans Do. Belong fight, Posner, a losing fight! al plunderers of Germany and Japan. Is this any- Together." Things aren't exactly looking Tuesday morning Collection programs, thing but war? up across the water, either. In improvements in the College plant itself, In ouch circumstances, when we are so active- London the other day a man clad and an increase in the number of students ly engaged on such a deadly struggle, to cry in a German uniform strolled "peace" seems both nonsense in its meaning and COLLEGE CALENDAR about the city, unmolested, for come to mind instantly when reviewing the treacherous in its intent It is better to see the several hours, Jeoking over Scot- year. Some of these changes were inevit- undergraduates of Pennsylvania urging action Thursday, October 30: land Yard and peering through FASTER than to have them oppose our nation's Professor Frederick Palmer fences at Buckingham Palace. It able; while others reflect a general trend settled policy in such a critical struggle as the speaks at 10:30 in Roberts Hall is beside the point, it seems to us, which has not yet ceased. war in which we are now engaged. on "The Demonstration Lecture, to explain that the man was a Sincerely, (The Art of Exposition)." film actor engaged for an anti- Deserving of special mention are the KENNETH B. WALTON, '22 Saturday, November 1: Nazi film. What does seem per- recent appointments to the faculty. The "Carnival of Flanders" in Rob- tinent, however, is the implied partment as a permanent office. The broad- new men have taken their places quietly, erta Hall at 8:15. Vic Dance comment on Britain's Home De- casting of Herbert after. fense. "V for Victory," boys, "V yet they brought a new viewpoint to the -Hoover's Commencement for Victory!" address was a furthez step in this direction. Tuesday, November 4: teaching staff and have given i)ew vigor to Professor Edward D. Snyder Only one item cheered no up. their courses. Many other events, too, have helped to speaks at 10:30 in Roberts Hall We can't improve on the report- spread the name of Haverford during the on "Style." er's straightforward prose, so we President Morley came to Haverford quote: past year, and will continue to do so in a Thursday, November 6: with a firm belief in the high quality of edu- Frank Donadio, gate - keeper way befitting the institution. Professor William E. Lunt lec- for the Staten Island Ferry, cation offered here, and he at once set out tures at 10:80 in Roberta Hall slammed his gates in the face Thus, at the end of one year, many ac- on"How to Write the Historical of commuter William Walsh. to make the advantages of the College Essay." Walsh stepped into a nearby known to the educational world and general complishments of the new administration have found favor, and the College commun- Friday, November 7: bakery, purchased a lemon mer- public. The natural result of this policy Special Lecture by Doctor Ed- ingue pie while the ferry made ity looks forward to future changes of equal gar Wind at 8:15 in Roberts the round trip and was first In was the creation of the new publicity de- Hall. line at Donadio's gates on his value. return. E. R. E.