Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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MODEL LEAGUE Geo-Politics JANE ANN MAIER The International Relations Club has pre- viously spent its time attending Model League Assemblies. This year, however, the Model League came to Bryn Mawr. Two hundred delegates arrived in a typical spring blizzard. Pembroke was occupied by a male aimy of some 125 future diplomats- — bud- ding poets, too, they left behind an extraordinary collection of tributes. Discussion dealt with complex, post-war problems: World Trade, Famine, Disease, Dis- placed Populations and Restoration of Order. National feeling ran high — so high that once Turkey and Ireland withdrew, either from a sincere national conviction or an equally sincere desire for lunch.

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PLAYWRITING A small group of boys and girls, serious and silent, sit on the stage of the Theatre Workshop, listening to Mr. John Gassner read one of the students 1 plays. He closes the script and looks sharply at the audience, Now, what was the spine of this play? Let me put it another way, whose play was it? There is a long puzzled pause. I don ' t quite understand, one student answers, but I don ' t think the end is necessary at all. Mr. Gassner turns with a smile, Well, let ' s ask the author ... This class in playwritng is a purely experi- mental group, tearing apart and putting to- gether scripts for the stage and radio, seeing what is valuable and what is waste. All this creative effort culminates at the end of the year in a program of plays presented, with the aid of the Players Club, before the college. ISABEL MARTIN

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DEFENSE COURSES Bloody but Unbowed A year ago, when spring did not bring another offensive, the Alliance was only a gleam in the eye. Last fall, it was little more — a group of people who met hectically in the Deanery over coca-colas (before the shortage had descended) and decided that there was room on campus for a new and large organisation, designed to encourage and express student opinion on politics in general and, in particular, on the problems the incipient war and its ensuing peace would bring. Principles were drawn up, asserting the founders ' conviction that to win the war was not enough, unless in the mobilization of national effort, consideration of the longer-range problems of education, opinion, and criticism was maintained.