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BRYN MAWR, PA., ‘WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY ped 1925

. Price 10 Cents

 

 

PLANS FOR STUDENTS’
BUILDING BEING MADE

‘Necessity for’Two Auditoriums is
Hard to Combine With Archi-

tectual Beauty eid

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MISS PARK ADDRESSES ALUMNAE

Two related crises, one recent and un-
-expected’ the other more remote, were
the subject of Presiderit Park’s speech to
the Alumnae of Philadelphia last Monday
during a luncheon at the Bellevue-Strat-
ford.

One day Mrs. Collins, the Director of
Publicity of Bryn Mawr College, got in
touch with the insurance company to de-
termine where films of last May -day
might be stored: She found that though
the college was totally unaware of. it, new
and very stringent fire laws had recently
been passed, which literally forbade not
only the showing of films in either Taylor
Hall or the gymnasium but which also cut
down the seating capacity for all college
functions.

Miss Park suddenly realized that the
college had been doing something which
she always attempted to avoid. She had
_always inveighed against the attitude that
if one were doing anything really wrong,
someone in authority would interfere and
forbid it, and that was the very attitude
that Bryn Mawr had tacitly adopted. Her
decision was that we must have adequate
provisions for student activity in the near
future, but that in the meanwhile there
must be close adherence to regulations at
every point. This results in a warm feel-
ing of righteousness, but a deplorable lack
of hospitality. Even if we could properly
support our Music Department, there
would be no placé in which it could ‘per-
form to the advantage of outsiders. Presi-
dent Comfort, of Haverford, immediately
upon hearing of our predicament, offered
the use of Roberts Hall, which has been
gratefully accepted for the Glee Club per-
formance of “The Pirates of Penzance,”
but there are obvious practical difficulties
in the way of using it for any extended
period of time.

In Taylor Hall it was Motenerly possible
to seat 350, but adherence to the law will
cut that to 290, scarcely more than half the
college. The gymnasium could, formerly
be counted upon to seat 1100, while its
new quota is between 500 and 600. A
device to take care of the movable seats
is being installed. How the problem of

 

 

_ announcing the European Fellowship to

an eager college will be solved is as yét
unknown, Commencement has two solu-
tions—to radically reduce the invitation or
to take the fearful chance of clear weaher

and use the cloisters.

There are two problems in that a small
room for purely college assemblies is
needed, as well as a larger meeting place
where we can properly entertain guests.
The cost of building both is prohibitive,
and having the music room thrown into
the larger auditorium on occasion is im-
practicable, on account of the sloping

efloor of the latter, so the solution seems
to be that offered by Ralph Adams Cram,
and) used effectively by him at Wellesley,
of the architectural gallery, adopted from

the old New England churches, and de-
signed so as to be sa tam when
. not # Nes

: bf the inn latin was unex-
that of the “Music Department

is, Was ever a precarious - one,
is did not cause much excite-
ause the, project was from the

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“shots from guards to centres to forwards,

“Towards the end the playing became wild-

and had great variety, including piano

‘Rachmaninoff ...

realized. Its position, depend-

 

VARSITY DEFEATS BALTIMORE ’
BANTAMS IN BASKETBALL

Good Shooting of Bryn Mawr Forwards
Helps Team to Victory

 

In a basketball game, far more hard-

fought than the score of 45-26 indéeated,
Bryn Mawr succeeded in defeating “the
Baltimore Bantams on Saturday, Febru-
ary 21,

The game was a swift one, with rapid
passing and good clearing on both sides.
Bryn Mawr succeeded in getting out and
sending the ball up the field’ in quick

who threw baskets with almost automatic
ease.

In the beginning Baltimore’ s team
seemed surer than Varsity. Hurling the
ball apparently without care, the invaders
seemed to sense their team’s positions.
Their weakness lay in their shooting,
which was done almost entirely by. one
forward fed by the other.

The first half continued to be under the
control of the Bantams, Then,.with a
quick leap, G, Leewitz, ’26, intercepted the
ball and gave Varsity the snortn to
use the almost machine-like pass sfp the
field ending in the inevitable basket, One
remarkable goal -was shot from the side
by Miss Bliss, on whose unerring eye and
swift throwing Baltimore’s entire scoring
depended. ‘

In the second half Bryn Mawr had the
ball from the first toss-up in spite of the
renewed efforts of Baltimore. J. Huddles-
ton, ’28, guard, was remarkably good, us-
ing her head and passing intelligently.

er, both sides apparently exhausted.
up:

Baltimore—Miss Bliss*¥**####*##** Miss
Cottman, Miss Santos, Miss Poe,” Miss
Mackubin, Miss Marshall.

Varsity—C. Remak, ’25****###8enseenes
F, Jay, "200eever* S, McAdoo, ‘26, S.
Walker, ’27, G. Leewitz, ’26, J. Huddles-
ton, ’28.

MR. ALWYNE AND MR. SASLAWSKY
GIVE PIANO AND VOCAL RECITAL

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Russian Folk Songs And Modern Piano

Pieces in Fine Program

 

Horace Alwyne, pianist, and Boris
Saslawsky, baritone, gave the third concert
of the séri¢s under the auspices of the
Music Department on Monday evening,
February 16, ‘in “Taylor Hall,

The program was unusually interesting

Pieces by Chopin, Ravel and other mod-
ern composers, songs by living Russian
‘musicians’ by Schubert and Brahms, as
well as. folk songs of Big and Little Rus-
sia. The whole program. was. splendidly.
performed.’ Mr. Saslawsky proved hjm-
self not only a singer with a beautiful
voice and fine skill, but an excellent
musicians, by Schubert and Brahms, as
audience demanded encores of the “Volga
Boat Song,” the delightful folk song about
the old woman who “got tired,” and an
encore after the last group of songs. . Mr.
Alwyne played as an encore at the end

The program was as follows:
.“I Am Nota Prophet”
Tschaikowsky ......The Pilgrim’s Song
Liapounow ..... en eee ....Night Song
Moussorgsky ........ The Child’s Prayer
Gretohaninoff ......... ..a+1.The Steppe
Mr. Saslawsky

Chopin—Berceuse

sorgsky.

‘sent both sides of current questions.

sown memories of prairie schooners and

acters, the lady lion-hunter and her poker-

of the program, a Russian dance of Mous-| The plot was handled with consummate

 

comraever on PACE 2

MISS DONNELLY ARRANGES TOUR
OF CURTIS PUBLISHING PLANT

 

Staff Explains Policy and Cost .of Space
in Saturday Evening Post, Etc.

 

Through the kindness of Miss Donnelly
and Miss Neill and Mr, Lorimer, of the
Curgis Rublishing Co, staff, the nvajor
English class and the editorial boards
of Thin Lantern and Turk News were
shown through the offices of the Curtis
Pulflishing Co, on Thursday afternoon.
750,000. capies_of ~The Satur-
The

type is set from perforated manuscript by a

Thers, some

day Evening Post are turned out daily.

pneumatic device, tons of paper are me-
chanically unrolled, stamped, ‘cut, slid ‘into
ready to-mail as- The Saturday Evening
Post. The plant has a_ personnel’ of
3500 who, arranged in shifts, get some 19
and 6-10 hours’ work out of the day. For
their convenience there are huge dining
roofs in an upper story of the building
looking out over the bridges and house-
tops. :

One page of advertising for one week
in The Saturday Evening Post costs $7000.
At that the manufacturer is getting his fame
cheap at the price.

Miss Neill, who was a Bryn Mawr girl,
said that in policy the Post aimed to pre-
Mr.
Lorimer, the editor, personally ‘directs
about one-third of the literary matter of
each issue. For instance, feeling that the
younger generation’ needed some sense of
the olden days and the pioneers, he per-
suaded Emerson Hough to contribute his
frontiers, which resulted in “The Covered
Wagon” -and- “North of 36.”

The ‘Saturday Evening Post is an
American institution and its position, ac-
cording to the analysis for 1924, is largely
due to the personal editorship of Mr.
George Horace Lorimer.

“THE PLAYERS” GIVE COMEDIES
IN WYNDHAM MUSIC ROOM

 

“The Rehearsal, ’ and “The Reluctant
Lion” by A. Shires, Well Done

“The Players,” a group of undergrad-
uates interested in acting, producing and
writing plays, presented on Friday and
Saturday evenings, February 20 and 21,
a one-act comedy, “The Reluctant Lion,”
by Anne gShiras, ’25, and a Restoration
comedy, “The Rehearsal,” by George
Villiers. *

The choice of di plays for perform-
ance shows the policy of “The Players,”
who wish to produce plays interesting
and valuable to the actor and producer
even if not popularly successful, and to the
college author a chance to see his own
work on a stage. Miss Shiras’ play of
the poet who was a poker-player but not
a lion, and his advice to a charming young
man-—“in radiators,” was clever and amus-
ing, in Spite of several rather trite char-

 

fiend husband and their dinner guests.

skill and the lines'were always witty.

“The Rehearsal” was presented. with
remarkable zest and humor and a delight-
ful appreciation of the play, imaginative
and almost scholarly in its capture of the
spirit of the period. The “grand manner”.
was too often, lacking, but a fortnight of
preparation could not Be expected to de-

Pr As an undergraduate,

STRATIVE CHANGE

 

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Miss Park Announces Resignation
of Dean Bontecou, Who Will be
Succeeded by Mrs. Manning

NEW DEAN HELD OFFICE BEFORE

 

 

Miss Eleanor Bontecou has. handed in
her resignation as dean of the collége. She
will be succeeded next fall by Mrs. Helen
Taft Manning, ’15, daughter’
‘Justice Taft.” Speaking -at the Alumnae
luncheon on January 31,.President Park
made the following announcement:

“One great change in the college next
year will come when Miss Bontecou
leaves the Dean’s office. She came to
Bryn Mawr at the urgent request: of the
college in 1922, the year of President
Thomas’ retirement, -to fill.the unexpired
term of Miss Hilda W. Smith after three
years of onerous and valuable work for
the college she leaves at the end of the
year and enters on graduate work at. Rad-
cliffe ‘which follows the line of her special
interest.

“The office of the Sinn has never been
so complicated nor have its interests ever
been so varied as now. This) development
of the office will certainly continue and
increase, Dean.Bontecou has carried the
laborious and often monotonous duties
steadily and spiritedly. She has contribu-
ted to a high degree the intelligence, jus-
tice and generosity witch are the founda-
tions of an executive position,

“The loss to me is a great one personally.

Our association has naturally been Close
and intimate and I have fousad her loyalty,
her responsibility ‘and her interest unfail-
ing. ‘The college will miss an able execu-
tive and a wise counsellor.”
‘' Mrs. Manning and her husband, Fred-
erick’ J. Manning, who leaves Yale this
year to’ become associate professor of
History at Swarthmore, will move to
Bryn Mawr ‘early in the autumn, The
family, which now includes two children,
will ‘occupy a house on the Bryn: Mawr
campus.

As Helen Taft, she won the first ma-
triculation scholarship from Pennsylvania
and the Southern States when-she entered
in 1908. While she was in college her

States, and at the end of her sophomore
year she’ went to Washington to help her
mother entertain at the White House.
Returning to Bryn Mawr in 1913 she
took her degree “magna cum laude” in 1915,
specializing in history, economics and
politics. In the fall gf 1915 she entered
the graduate. department of history at
Yale and the following June was awarded
her M.A. From 1917 to 1919 she was
dean of the college, and acted as presi-
dent in the absence of President Thomas
in 1919-20.
Mrs. Manning
was active in student affairs. -She or-
ganized the debating club.and was editor
of the Lantern. She was also a member
of the advisory board of the self-govern-

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father was elected President of the United

ment association and the vice president -

of the Christian Association. A brilliant

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The editorial board of the News
takes pleasure in announcing-that those

who have entered the competition from
1928ate, E. Amran, .C. Asplund, J.
Fesler, M. Fowler, M. Haley, L. Hol-
lander, H. McKelvey, J. Morganstern,
C. Rose, M. Saunders, M. Salinger.
From 1927 they <2 are M. ae V.
Newbold.

 

 

 

 

 

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