elle6lcn «allege N cws WELLESLEY, MASS. , DECEMBER 3, 1942 Senate Chang~s Verse Speaking College Adopts Graham Troupe '45 Permissions Choir Program New RJules For To Dance Here Three Dramatic Dances To Changes Are Suggested The Welle ley Verse Speaking Early DimQut Depict Love and Pride Choir will give its Christmas pro­ Fire Drill Rules By The college last Monday came In gram in the Chapel tomorrow, In Original Works under th.e new dim-out regulations Jeanne Hammond December 4, at 4:40 p.m. under Modern dramatic dance at its . imposed on this area by the army. fullest will be presented by Mar­ At a meeting of the Senate Mon­ the direction of Miss Cecile de day evening, November 30, it was This is not an air raid precaution. tha Graham and her Dance Com­ Banke. The children of Hu nne­ voted that the Senate, on behalf It is for the purpose of diminish­ pany in Alumnae Hall Monday, De­ well Elementa1·y School will join cember 7, at 8 :30 p. m . in the third of the College, would extend its ing sky-glow so t hat our ships will sympathy to the families of those with the Choir in presenting a program brought to campus by the not be silhouetted against the sky members of the student body who program of pieces varying from Wellesley Concert Series. and thus be easy targets for U­ The program will consist of lost their lives in Satm·day's fire. Welch Dutch, and Czech carols to The <:-enate also gave the Presi­ boats. three dramatic dances: Every Gaelic Runes, and French and Smll is a Circus, El Penitente, and dent of College Government and A test thi summer showed that Latin ti·anslations. Certain elec­ Letter to the Wor ld. the Dean of the College the power the sky was not sufficiently dark to approve or disapprove a gift tions will represent the 16th, 17th, E very Soul is a Circus presents until the dim-out was carried as the idea that in the soul of everv from the Clas es of '45 and '46 in and 18th centuries, and in addi­ memory of their classmate whose fal' west as Worcester. woman is the desire to have ~ tion the1·e will be a few Bible lives were lost in the fire. These last few days have been leading part on the stage of life. readings. Martha Graham It is performed as a circus, with Fire Chief's Report con idered as a trial period. Ad­ a ringmaster and various per­ Jeanne Hammond '43 Fire Mi s Ruth Child, of the English justments will doubtless hav.e to formers. Chief, read a report from Kath­ Composition Department, is the Mr. Smith Announces A shorter, religious dance is El erine Sprunt '42, last year's Fire be made with regard to curtains in Choir' fir. t faculty member. When Pe11itente, the story of Christ on Chief. Suggestions included in some cases. Ultimately, no source Air Raid Procedure asked how he liked her class twice the Cross, with the two Mary this report were : of light must escape to the out­ During Examinations a week with the seventeen sopho­ side. mourning. 1. Maid and member of the L etter to the World, the third mon~ s who are her Choir com­ The intensity of lamps outdoors Mr. Lawrence Smith, Chief Air faculty should be required to at­ compo ·ition, is based on the life panion , he answered, "I really on campus will have to be de­ Raid Warden, and Miss Lucy Wil­ tend fire drills. of Emily Dickinson. Presenting it '!1j oy it, and very, very much! I've creased even more than has al­ 2. Students should be required son, Dean of Students, have issued a a legend, the dancers represent always wanted to do something ready been done. Walking in groups to use vertical outside fire es­ directions as to procedure if an not people but thoughts, and act capes in outside drills. mu ·ical, and now I'm a 'dark, dark' rather than singly after dark is . more important than ever. air raid alert occurs when stu­ out Miss Dickinson's life as seen 2. There hould be more odd­ voic in the Choir." Miss Child through hel' imagination. Emily There is nothing in the dim-out dents are in examinations. hour drill . added, "Of cour e, every one else Dickinson' development is shown in the Choi1' ha an excellent regulations whi-c h prohibits the If the alert is a practice, only 4. The · method of nominat ing from a joyous young girl, through mu ical ea r . I don't, so I just ui:;e of flashlights. Mr. Wilfred P. the Fil'e Chief should be changed the power house whistle will blow; tragic. love and resignation to the Hooper, Superintendent of Build­ to enlarge the nomi nating com­ don't sing in th .! piece called bells in academic buildings will not final joy in expression through mittee. According t o the pre ent 'Chimes.'" ings and Ground , is trying to be sounded. Examinations will con­ creative poetry, which i her rule, the faculty advisor and re~ This hristma progrnm of the have white edges painted on curbs Letter to the World. and teps, but he is limited by the tinue as usual, and there will be no tiring Fire Chief make the nomina­ Choir is becomi·ng a Wellesley Tickets for the Concert are sti1l tions. tradition. As a development in a supply of labor and difficulties in­ . evacuation from one building to available at the Wellesley Concert Senate accepted the report in rather unexplored field, it has volved in getting the right kind of another. Wardens, messengers, and Series office in Billings. There are paint. members of first aid squads will toto. It was voted that the mem­ aroused world-wide interest. Part still excellent seats at $2.20, and a bcl's of the faculty, through the of last year Miss deBanke toured remain at examinations. Since, few left at $1.65. Dean of the College, a·nd the maids. Canada, SI eakin_g- and answerino­ Lt . .iComdr. McAfee Will however, all other procedure will through the Heads of Houses b~ inquiries about the Choir. Fifteen be as usual, any warden who is Speech Training Vital requested to attend fire drills. ' alumnae who were in the Choir Lead c;1apel Service going to proctor an examination The fourth suggestion requires are now teaching choral verse c:;hould have an alternate as sub- For Post-War Work in an amendment to the by-law , and speaking. Dorothy Kerr '43, will Lt.-Comdr. McAfee will 1-ead titute at that time. Peace Reconstruction play the organ for the recital to­ chapel Saturday, December 5, dur­ If the alert is not a practice, in the pl'Oceedure for making this The Speech Department is one morrow. addition to the power house anangement will be undertaken. ing her brief return to the Welles­ of the departments in the coHege Miss Hammond suggested that Last week the Choir gave a pro­ whistle the in ide bells will be ley campus. She is speaking at the rung in the 7-7-7 signal, and the which has perhaps least felt the at the rope drill demonstration gram at Dr. Merrill's church in impact of the war, at least to any request of the War Committee to usual procedure will be carried held every fall for freshmen and Newton, and Tuesday it presented immediately noticeable extent. ?1ark the anniversary of our enti·y out: Students will leave the ex­ a nation-wide broadcast over El•ection has remained about the mto the war. Her topic will be (Continued on Page 9, Col. 5) W AC. amination rooms and proceed to same in the various courses, and "Wellesley at War in Relation to safe areas, · returning to the ex­ no new courses definitely tagged the World at War". amination when the "all clear" is "war'' have been offered. Old-Fashioned Christmas ·Comes Chapel wil1 begin at 8 a. m. By sounded. Extra time, amounting to But it is felt in the department error this change was not given in the time lost from the examination not only that students will gain the current College Bulletin. plus fifteen minutes, will be al­ from Speech courses things of en­ Lt.-Comdr. McAfee is coming to lowed by each proctor. during and unchanging value in To Campus With C. A. Gift Bazaar Wellesley after speaking at the war as well as peace, but that dinner meeting of the New Eng­ On December Afternoon among the courses is at least one With everyone nostalgically to their own line, a special exhibit land Association of Colleges and Wellesley Will Dance of particufar significance and "dreaming of a white Christmas" from Lanz, Salzburg. Though Lanz Secondary Schools at the Hote1 worth for the war and especially (in the melting tones of Bing to you may signify appliqued Statler at 6 :30 p. m. Friday. Gov­ Simplicity will be the keynote for the post-war world. Crosby) and wondering wildly ernor Leverett Saltonstall and when Wellesleyites and their guests The course in Public Speaking what to give to the man in her hearts and flowers and suits with Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of gather at Alumnae Hall Satur­ it is felt, should offer the best life, C.A.'s Christmas Bazaar ilver buttons, the Lanz articles the Congressional Libra1·y will also day afternoon from 3 to 5 :45 p.m.