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a Vy e THE COLLEGE NEWS % Dramatics, Deanery ‘ Discussed in Council Big May Day“in 1936, Smoking in Deanery, Greek Play : Are Debated QUIZZES TO BE LIMITED Deanery, Feb. 20—The most ° im- portant discussion in the February College Council concerned dramatics (Big May. Day and the Greek play) and the use of the Deanery.°* Tentative plans“Wive been made to hold a mass. meeting for the discussion of Big May Day, Tuesday, March 5, After the meeting a vote will be taken in the halls to determine how many students will support and how many students will participate in Big May Day next year, and then the under- graduates can arrange, in consultation with Miss Park and the Faculty, a system of ‘rehearsals that will not in- terfere with academic work. Big May Day will not’be given this spring’, but the decision against its being done this year in no way eliminates its .presen- tation in 1936. It will not, however, have any connection with the Alum- nae Drive in 1936. The National Committee is- backing the Greek play that is planned for this spring, and arrangements are being made to run a special train from New York on the Saturday preceding Com- mencement. This means, that the dress rehearsal will probably have to be held on the Friday or Saturday preceding examinations so that one performance can be held on the Saturday after- noon after examinations, and another on Garden Party afternoon. Mention at the meeting. was made ‘of the misuse.of the Deanery. Smok- ingeat~the larger lectures cannot be allowed in future because there ‘is yractically no way of disposing of MH nted cigarettes. The Council meeting ended with a Slight discussion -of -the: use of’ re- serve books and of the plan to reduce the. number of quizzes.. The difficul- ties of checking on reserve books, and particularly the books on reserve in the Art Sem, have become so annoying to librarians and students alike, that an undergraduate library committee to work with the librarians is being planned. As to quizzes, the policy of the administration has always been to put them.in as short a time as_pos- sible, and to‘permit professors to give or not give quizzes in second year courses. As it is, the objections of faculty members and undergraduates and the fact that it is impossible to schedule all important lectures out- side of the quiz period have reduced the midsemester schedule to three and a half weeks. A further reduction, such as has been proposed by the Un- dergraduate Curriculum Committee, would seem highly advisable. . Bugs at Bryn Mawr An interesting campus phenomenon has occurred :° .. Merion has literally gone bughouse. One of our inveterate nature lovers brought home a cocoon last fall and is now the proud possessor of two hun- dred praying mantises, which she is at present keeping in Dixie Cups and plans to transfer later to a wire cage for display purposes. The insects are in fine condition and, fortunately, for the collector, very few were killed or lost, strayed or stolen in the trap- ping. If the small mantises are prop- erly fed and eared for, they will prob- ss eee most fearsome insects in- captivity. Other plans are afoot in Merion among the ‘hobbyists. Among the other interesting hobbies thgt~° are starting ‘is insecticide-collecting. Mrs. Manning Speaks On Senate Warnings Marks System Has Advantages Since it Permits Accuracy In . Grading RECORD, JIS, EMPHASIZED Goodhart, Feb. 21.—Dean Manning, speaking in Chapel on the system of marks and Senate warnings, said that the object of any system of marking is to give the student an estimate of her success, and to show her. in ‘the clearest and fairest way possible just how she measures: up to‘standards. If a student is definitely below the col- lege requirements, the Senate, a_body consisting of the full professors and those of the faculty who have taught | for a long time, may send her a warn- ing, and impose upon her any penal- ties up to exclusion that it sees fit. The college system of marking has some obvious advantages, particularly because it allows great accuracy on the part of those who give the marks. When the plan of marks on the, High- Ter some general system. general ‘rather than numerical marks, and Dean Manning herself would pre- The cel- lege system of marks assumes that perfection and absolute ignorance are possible and estimates each student’s place between zero and .100:~ What- ever system of marks we might advo- cate it should be based on the sort of subjective tests which are now being given. These examinations. are much fairer than the objective, yes-or-no tests, because they determine what one knows, and how one can “put it across”. In “such examinations organi- zation is the most important factor. If a. student’s* work is unsatisfac- tory, shg will receive a warning from the Senate telling her how and why she -is deficient and what her future course should be. A student must re- ceive more than 60 in half her work, and should be well above 70 in the first two years of her major subject. The second year is especially import- ant, and if a student does well then, she may pull up poor first year marks. Although this policy is hard to. work out, the college tries to give all stu- derits a chance and will sometimes let those who had first picked the wrong major and then changed to another, finish in five years instead of in the regular four, A student. should pick her major by: the end of her Sopho- more year, but if she makes a mistake, the college does not want to make her drop out without a second chance, In Credit, Credit, Merit, and Pass basis |-the case of a failing student the Sen- was tried, the faculty objected because it did not. give them a chance to show variations and shades of difference in their grades. It is important to re- member that marks are the judgment of one person only, and that conse- quently too much attention may be paid to them. It is probably better, ably grow up into the largest and|therefore, for the student to receive saneniisameatiaal nnenmae * a » WHEN YOU WANT TO MAKE UP AND DON‘T*KNOW HOW... Jin youn buat ate feels that she should either go. to |a different sort of college, or else stay here and be given every opportunity to keep up. If, therefore, the Senate puts a student on probation, it is giv- ing her the opportunity to improve her weaknesses, and it, expects her to take advantage of thfs. Its emphasis is record on the student’s permanent Page Three © rather than on the passing off of con- ditions. : Plot, Dancing Make Good Freshman Show Continued from Page One original costumes’ throughout show. the Ethel Mann produced excellent re- sults as the dance director. The num- ber done by Pru and her aides was clever and the Blue Rhapsody number, which was both ambitious and artistic, presented an effective. whole. The dancing of Miss Mann herself in the Blue Rhapsody was splendid, although the chorus was a bit uncertain, They had every excuse for being so, how- ever, for the dance was extremely dif- ficult. The tango by Miss Whalen and Miss Pittroff in the last scene was very smoothly executed. The songs, written by Helen Shep- ard and Eleanor Shaw were not espe- cially distinguished. Both campaign song's were catchy and amusing, and the love-song at. the end was notable for its lyrie qualities. * National Recovery Act was a good show, thoroughly enjoyed by all. We liked the idea, and we are especially pleased with the. implication. that. the Fountain of Youth enables one to be clairvoyant and to know the popular songs of three years in the future. We liked the .way Miss Lovelace kissed her- hands to her admiring friends; we liked the small episode of Dr. Bushman and Mrs. Whistlebury, the Blue Rhapsody dance, and a_ great number of the lines. In fact, we. liked almost everything about National Re- covery Act, including the amoeba, which: entered to the tune of “Pop Goes The Weasel.” —A. M. snore oe ee, Others may disappoint. I never do. I’m always mild, always fine to taste—because I’m made of fragrant, expensive center leaves, only. Furn your back on top leaves. I do. They’ re raw, bitter, stinging. Turn your back on bottom leaves because these coarse, sandy, grimy bottom leaves don’t belong in your smoke. Before I consider it worthy, every leaf must be a center leaf, . mild, fine-tasting, fragrant. That’s why /’m your best friend. LEAVES...CENTER LEAVES GIVE YOU THE MILDEST SMOKE Teil Beit, wet | Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS = Fi Barth's Age Debated By Dr. Alfred C. Lane Maximum Age Is Placed at Ten Billion Years, Minimum at Two Million Years MINERALS ARE STUDIED Goodhart—Music Room — Feb. 22. —The age of ‘the earth is not known today, but scientists are: working to- ward a determination of its age by studying present geologic activities and calculating with them’ as a’ basis the minimum number of years our Co eketh can have been in existence, de- claved Dr. Alfred C. Lane, professor of geology at Tufts College. He is a famous investigator and writer on the mathematical aspects of geology and is now engaged in the study of geo- logic time. He believes*that the mini- mum age of the earth can be traced back two or three million years, but that it is probably. not older than ten billion years. 2 The methods for determining the ageof the earth can be classed gen- erally as periodic, progressive and paroxysmic, as may the forces at work in shaping the geologic features of the earth. A study of the records of changes due to these forces in con- nection with ‘calculations based on their present activities is the subject of Dr. Lane’s investigation of the age of the earth. The age of the rocks which form the earth may be seen in the sharp teeth of high mountains such as the Grand Tetons. But these mountains are obviously much younger. than the older and more complex -hills in the east, particularly along the New Eng- land coast. To calculate the age of mountains the rate of wearing away must be known; it has been deter- mined in three different regions of the United States. In Stewart. County, Georgia, a gully two hundred feet deep was commenced by a.drip from a barn roof a hundred years ago. At Niagara Falls there are recérds of the wear- ing away of the escarpmént at the approximate rate of five feet per year. The age of the falls can be calculated from the records. Again in Bryce Canyon, Utah, Professor Pack -has studied.the roots of trees on the edge of the cliff as they turn back with the retreat of the escarpment; he has dis- covered that the wall is wearing away at the rate of one foot every fifty years and that since the Niocene age the cliff has retreated one hundred miles; therefore, these canyons are at least twenty-fivé million years old. The periodie method. 6f measuring geologic time can be simply illustrated with the annual rings of trees, which have been used to date cliff dwelling ruins in New Mexico and Mesa Verde. Many rocks: have similar complicated bandings where the smaller lines may represent annual rings and the larger bands periodic fluctuations over many years. In the chalk. cliffs of England where black flints alternate with the white rock, the silica deposits may be due to colder water currents which would give this periodic cyclic effect. Along the Baltic coast of Germany there are great areas of sand ridges which form each at the rate of one every thirty-five years, and by follow- ing these inland the total time neces- sary for these to have formed can be computed. In the field of radioactive minerals we may have a method of determining geologic time which is independent of the fluctuations of climate, These ra- dioactive minerals explode atoms and slowly disintegrate. But each of the different elements disintegrates at a different rate and the rate is meas- ured by the half-life of the element. It is known from the number of atomic flashes per second that a deposit of uranium will be half gone in four and a half billion years, that in the next stage two of the elements, UX and UZ, will be half gone in 23.8 days and 6.7 hours, respectively, that the half life of ionium, the next stage, is 110,000 years, and that of radium 1,580 years, while the derivations of radium disin- tegrate even faster into lead, where the radioactivity is gone. “®< Radioactive material discolors mica in the same way that it does a pho- tograph, leaving not a round spot but ‘a number of rings. There are also, generally speaking, four different kinds of uranium which come down to four different leads. If one could join the right uranium to its lead, and knowing the rate of radium decay and > Congratulations The College News. wishes to congratulate Dr, and Mrs. Ru- dolph Kirk on the birth of a daughter, Susanne Brooke. that the faster the disintegration is, the further the atoms are thrown in ex- ploding, and therefore the bigger the rings on the mica are, one could calcu- late accurately on this basis the age of the minerals. From the comparison of different effects of alpha rays on a photographic plate, one can calculate by the rings that the material is at least 870 million years old. From the fact that ‘thelium is given off in uran- ium disintegration only when the rate of exploding is high, one can discover from cases of small helium residue the age of the material’ The oldest rock known has been analyzed by such methods and discovered to be about 1800 million years old. The springs in Yellowstone Park have been found to be radioactive, and the mounds which they build up are more or less radioactive depending on their ages. The bottom layers of the Terraces were only very slightly ra- dioactive. From these facts Dr. Lane calculated that 15,000 years-had pass- ed since the glacial period. He check- ed his calculations by measuring tem- peratures in the descent of a 5,200 foot mine shaft, where he found that the lower temperatures seemed to be ad- justed to a surface temperature of freezing, while above 3,000 feet there seemed to be a wave down from the surface indicating higher surface tem- peratures. Knowing the rate at which heat- waves move through the earth, he was able to prove the accuracy of the date he had obtained for the termi- nation of the glacial period. The age ‘of the layer of granite which underlies all the continents can determined from the veins which are formed by the oozing out of sub- terranean gases. From the knowledge of the layer of viscous lava underly- ing the earth’s crust and also from he \the fact that most earthquakes come from a depth of less than fifty miles, the theory has been suggested by two eminent geologists that strains accum- ulated at a depth of more than 200 miles may cause mountains to rise. Works by Americans End Pro Arte Series Continued from Page One s+ Stanley Smith, is dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge. It is not so original a work as may have been desired, for in many ways it recalls the Dvorak quartet performed earlier in the series, but it is nevertheless a very neat and pleas- ant composition. The negro spirit has been carefully suffused throughout to give an extremely enjoyable melodic effect, which the artists brought out to its best advantage in a fine rendi- tion, The Quartet in C Major, No. 1 (1933), by Walter Piston, was per- haps the most interesting piece on the program. The instruments were nice- ly balaneed, as was the three move- ment structure of the whole, with the smoothly melodic adagio in contrast with the vivacious first movement and the vigorous third: movement. ~The careful composition and the beauties of the work received a_ superlative performance by the Pro Arte group, while the feeling of the adagio was exquisitely rendered. Four pieces by Louis Griinberg, dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet, concluded the regular program. These were a highly interesting and enter- taining display of expert musician- ship, which held perhaps more charm for the musicians in the audience than for the average listeners.. The Pro Arte ensemble played these short pieces with excellent technique, fine feeling and spirit, particularly in the many surprises of the brief finale, allegro giocoso, In response to continued applause, a composition by Mrs. Elidbeth dience, was played. It proved that Mrs. Coolidge’s-sympathetic patronage of the art comes from a profound un- derstanding based on successfully cop- ing with its: problems as seen in her very excellent composition. Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendetvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes, ‘ Super‘or Soda Service - hd Music—Dancing for_girls only > Sprague Coolidge, who was in the au- | California Discours Give Topic Subjects Perfect Knowledge of French, Research, Literary Study Mark Speeches PRIZE WINNER REPRINTED Students who are interested in the concours oratoire (see College News of February 13) may be interested to know what topics were used for..dis- cours at the University of California. The subjects chosen by the five run- ners-up included: “Le Cid” de-Cor- neille, Frangois de Curel, Mon roman favori “Adolphe”, La Corse, and La portée ou signification historique dela "*Comédie humaine”... Each discours lasted about a quarter of an hour and all of them showed individual re- search, a fine appreciation of litera- ture and a_ perfect . knowledge of French. The prize-winning’ discours: was that of Miss Charlotte Cerf, on Adolphe. The discours, which was over nine hundred words long, cannot be re- printed entire, for lack of space. The following are excerpts from the speech: 4 “Nous avons vu, que le propre d’une oeuvre tragique est de nous offrir une représentation de la vie humaine dans toute sa plénitude et dans toute sa complexité. En _ effet, nous nous soucions peu en lisant cette oeuvre, que l’action se passe en Fologne au début du 19e siécle, qu’Adolphe soit un fils de famille, et Ellénore une femme plutot mire . . ce ne sont pas 1a les éléments essentiels du romain, et auteur, comme je vous lai déja indiqué, l’a trés bien compris. Ce qui importe, c’est l’analyse de la situation et des caractéres. Ici, c’est la nature humaine qui nous est présentée, non d’une fagon particuliére, mais dans sa portée universelle. Le but de l’inter- prétation de la vie ici, n’est’ point obscurci par la prédominance, de traits exceptionnels et accidentels. Tels que Yauteur nous les donne, la sitg@ation est de tout temps, les personnages sont de toutes les époques; l’oeuvre, dans son sens le plus profond, est ]’éternelle et humaine tragédie de lincompati- bilité fondamentale des émotions de homme et de la femme qui s’aiment.” Miss Cerf went on to show that Adolphe; although it-is a great analy- sis. of human emotions, is not the product of long years of practice. “Car Benjamin Constant était un “homme politique qui occupa ‘une. place im- portante dans le parti liberal sous la Réstauration: . .et Adolphe est son unique roman.” The second point the speaker made was that Adolphe is essentially an autobiographical novel; and in connection with this she con- sidered the problem of the identity of Ellénore—-whether She was patterned after Mme, de Stael or Mme. de Char- riére or Mme. Lindsey. The discours concluded with Miss Cerf’s reasons for choosing Adolphe to speak about. “De nos jours, il n’est plus‘difficile de reconnaitre que ce livre est le véritable chef d’oeuvre du roman d’analyse, et une des sources essen- tielles, non seulement d’une phase du romantisme, mais encore de_ toute notre littérature d’aujourd’hui. Car je ne veux pas penser, je ne puis pas penser que ce.cri du coeur soit tout simplement une manifestation de plus de la soudaine découverte du “Moi” RICHARD STOCKTON GIFTS GREEN HILL FARMS | City. Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder that we would like to take care of your parents and triends, whenever they come to |! visit you. L. E. METCALF, ' Manager. romantique. Au romantisme.de Con- | stant se méle un intellectualisme qui n’est point. de cette souche. Ce qu’il y a de personnel dans cette oeuvre a été faconné par le génie de l’auteur} participer en quelque sorte a: pour l’université dont se revélent tous les grands sentiments humains, ‘traduits | en littérature, de tout temps.” Women Write Novels . With Natural Talent Continued from Page One modeled after Richardson. The rank and file were distinctly inferior, but were nevertheless widely read through the agency of circulating libraries, which are the bane of English auth- ors to this day. It remained for°a woman, Fannie Burney, to take the novel out of the artificial and sentimental rut into which it had fallen and to instil new life into it. Her education was good | and she knew a great many intellec- | tual people. She was an excellent | observerY had a good understanding of people, and, above all, sense of humor, Her best known novel is Evelina. She got around the diffi-| culties of the letter writing style most | admirably. In later years she fell too much under the influence of Dr. John- son and her work became practically unreadable. She influenced Jane Aus- ten. greatly and this may perhaps be called her greatest contribution. The novel took another turn about this time when there arose a tremen- dous demand for stories of the roman-; tic and picturesque type. Women led in this attempt to recreate history | which had heretofore been thought un-: couth and barbarous. Clara Reéve’s Old English Baron is typical of these | historical novels. ent of this school was Mrs. cliffe, who wrote a series of “shockers” which thrilled her generation. They were harmless and entertaining and were immensely popular. Some peo- ple thought them harmful and started to write novels with a moral purpose. The “Blue Stockings” were such a group. Their leader was Mary Woll- stencraft, a great exponent of women’s rights. The reformers wrote in a very dull style and did not succeed in driv- ing out the more exciting “shockers.” Jane Austen led the novel The greatest expon- hated artificiality above all things, and | did not allow herself the use of any-, thing uncommon to heighten her stor- | ies. She went straight to life for her themés and never wrote about things, with which she was not familiar. Thus | we get an absolute sense of reality.. called Her achievements have been LIVE in FRENCH Residential Summer School (co-educational) in the heart of French Canada. Old Country French staff. Only French spoken. Elementary, ~ Interme ediate, Advanced. Cor- t'ficate or College Credit. French entertainments, s:ght- steing, sports, etc. Fee $150, Board and Tuition. June 27-Aug. 1. Write for cir- cular to Secretary, Residen- tial French Summer School. McGILL UNIVERSITY MONTREAL, CANADA had a keen | Rad-: back | again to the paths of reality.+, She! “six masterpieces in miniature.” She | painted the lives only of particular ~ classes of country people. | The canvas. was widened by such people as Mrs. Gaskell and George Eliot. The former is interesting for iher writing about labor conditions and industrial life, while the latter was the first to write about country folk with | sympathy and understanding. | The Brontés are not pioneers be- cause they blazed no new trails and have had few followers. Charlotte had ithe greatest talent, but Anne, who is often disparaged, is- thought by some to be very great. Emily, who wrote in @ more concentrated st¥le, was que brilliant. ;The next turn which the novel took was along introspective lines. It be- gan to be concerned with things of the mind. The psychological school of Freud threw new light on the work- a of the human mind. This concen- trated peoples’ minds on the question | of what others were thinking about. | Ohe of the first people to try to ex- [press this in writing was Dorothy ‘Richardson. She described the life of a girl from the-inside and made a study of her, mind. It.is hard, how- jever, to see what Miriam’s mind is, for it is so overlaid with details. May |Sinclair saw this idea and took it. ‘over and made it better technically. ‘The most notable writer in this field | now is, of course, Virginia Woolf. | Hers are stories of the mind and ‘events as seen through the mind of the ‘central character. This gives us an | intimate approach to the character. The novel has gone as far as it can go. What else is there for it to show ‘us? Whatever development is reveal- ‘ed we may be sure that- women: will have a part in realizing it. Cairo, Egypt.—Protesting the ex- tension of the law course from four to five years§ students at Egyptian University here refused to attend classes. The strike began with the first year* law students who were sus- pended for two weeks and told that if they did not return to classes at the end of this time, they would be expel- led automatically. All other law, med- ical and arts students thén joined in the strike and a settlement has not yet been. reached. | Ht costs no more to live In | #@ the very heart ef town—with | Eff all the modern comforts and ‘A conveniences! The suites (one and two rooms) are large and airy, with Pullman kitchen and bright bath. You will have to see them. to appreciate them. rentals are Of course, not beyond your budget. ? CHAS. C. KELLY Managing Director eeeasesoninena ae a — goodbye to all that! @ Call 100 miles for 60 cents by . Night Rate. (Station to Station Have you ever been too busy to write home? Have you ever wracked ‘your brains for some- thing worth writing about? It need never happen again! Tele- phone instead and let the family do the talking. It saves time, costs — ' little and exactly fills the bill! — Day Rate; for 50 cents by Evening Rate; for 35 cents by an oA calls—3-minute connections.) Company of Penns ylvania ‘2 . THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five Mrs. Piccard Relates Story. of Air Flight ‘ -Continued from Page One the earliest balloon models. In 1783, Moptgolfier built the world’s first bal- loon and ascended with it into the air. Although it was satisfactory for his little’ excursions, it was nevertheless very imperfect. It lacked a valve to control the inflation of the bag, and the sole means of managing the de- gree of altitude was by throwing bal- last over the side of the,cage. More- over, the balloon was enclosed in a net, to which the gondola was attached. In altitude flying, the extra weigt, of the net is a: hindrance; its ropes are easily torn by the expansion of the bag; and they are apt to break away from the cage if this is subjected to any strong pressure. August Piccard, the brother and fellow-worker of Dr. Jean Piccard, planned a balloon on entirely different principles. He hung his cabinet on the lower catenary of the balloon it- self. A valve was built-on the top of . the bag and controlled by a rope run- ning down through the. balloon into the gondola. In order that it might not There was much danger in prepar- ing for the ascent. The valve rope stretching down through the balloon might becorhe entangled half way, and then the gas would have to be let out again, as half way up in the ‘balloon was a height equivalent to that of a seven story building. The bag might become unevenly inflated. The infla- tion was guided by a system of rais- ing and lowering flags, and at each lowering of the flags the men holding the inflation ropes walked forward a specified length; then inspectors: walk-’ ed all around the bag to see that the ropes were even. Another ‘danger was that when the hydrogen collected in the top. of the | balloon, which was to be only 1-6 full, the empty material below might be sucked together or up toward the top. As this had occurred in previous bal- loons, Dr. Piccard had iyvented for his bag an appendix much larger than usual held by a steel ring and stopped by a cover easily unfastened by a long rope. Mrs. Piccard held the rope dur- ing’ the inflation and, when the order was. giver, pulled it and let air rush in to fill the lower part of the bag. The hydrogen and oxygen of the in- rushing. air did not unite in a fire, be injured in inflation or in taking off,,)since they were not in the propir pro- this. balloon. was. anchored to the ground by a most elaborate system, of ropes going to the posts, which could be released only from the balloon it- self. -To do this was. Mrs. Piccard’s job; she perched on top of the gon- dola, and simply exploded each rope with two inches of TNT and an elec- tric motor to set it off. portions. The metal gondola of» the balloon was curiously painted; the upper hemisphere was white and the lower black. This coloring was to regulate the temperature inside and to keep the heads of the occupants cold while their feet should be warm, for the black absorbed heat from the earth, while MILLIONS MORE ~FOR FINER TOBACCOS ’ Camels are made from finer, MORE EXPENSIVE the white reflected back ‘the heat from the sun. To regulate the breathin: quality of the air inside the gondola, tanks of oxygen were carried, but only in their inner casings, as no weight | not absolutely necessary’ was allowed on the ship. Various chemicals were exposed to absorb the carbon dioxide and the organic compounds resulting from human breathing, while other chemicals were used to dry the air. Of the instruments in the gondola, those for measuring the intensity and frequency of cosmig rays’ were most important, as the investigation of these rays, rather than any altitude record, was the purpose of the Piccard flight. Dr. Milliken, of California, had constructed an ionization chamber for discovering the intensity of the cosmiic rays, and this was installed in the gondalo, but it was of use only in the case of the harder rays. The Bartow Research Foundation provided guide counters designed by Dr. Swan, which were most helpful, Each of these con- sisted of a tube, a wire, and two elec- trodes. When a cosmic ray entered the tube, it ionizéd the gases ,there, producing an _ electric current. Al- though the current was feeble, it could be magnified by radio tubes and made to almost anything at all. The Pic- JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER. SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammet 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA. Phone 570 -cards made it*turn the hands of a clock... Each ray moved the hands for- ward one second; at the end of ever: thirty actual seconds, the clock wa. photographed, Thus the frequency of the rays was determined. By these counters vertical and horizontal rays and rays at angles of 60 degrees and 30 degrees were recorded. The bal- loon itself was rotated in the air bya propellor so that rays in all quarters of the compass as well might be stud- ied. It.was found that in the strath- osphere horizontal rays are very com- parable to vertical, and there are 50 per cent; as many horizontal as verti- cal rays. Thése discoveries reveal the effect of earth’s magnetic field on the cosmic ray. Outside the gondola hung a baro- gram to register the altitude of the flight. It was sealed up and could not be unsealed on landing except in the presence of respectable witnesses to testify that the seals were unbroken until that minute and that therefore the records had not been tampered P.) Luncheon 40c ~50c - 75¢ Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 ‘conducted experiments | proven that genius .is possessed by | wits as often as by boys. BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM vith ‘during the fight. An‘ electric hermometer also /hung outside dnd registered minus 49% degrees’ Ceriti- grade in the strathosphere. < Rabbits’ feet may be the pet good luck pieces of most football players, but Eddie Rolen, sophomore basket- ball forward of the Michigan State College five, trusts his fate to a bed caster. Rolen carried a bed -caster throughout high school as a good luck omen, and he still retained it when he became a member of the Spartan squad. “When: he enters a gante he always hands the caster to Edward Kemp, student manager,’ for. safe- keeping. Very few are allowed to handle it because of fear the special charm it is supposed to’ hold escape. will Prof. Paul A. Witty, of Northwest- ern University (Evanston, IIl.), has which have ——_— Dinner 85c - $1.25 Meals a la carte and table d’hote Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P.M. Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED Miss Sarah Davis, Manager “WHEN ‘BLUE?’ spells come on or I’m tired and jittery from a busy day; I. turn to Camels. In no time after smoking a Camel, fatigue slips away. I have the energy ‘ to face the next task. And what a delightful flavor Camels have! I never seem to tire of them.” (Signed) ELIZABETH CAGNEY,’35 “STUDIES ARE HARDER than they used to be,” says Bissett, ’35. “Competition in all outside activities is keener. I’m studying law myself—insurance law. The prospect of combing over old case histories at night— reading up on dry precedents and decisions — is pretty heavy going—especially as I’m tired to begin with! But Camels help me through. If I feel too tired to con- centrate, I sit back and light a Camel. Soon I feel re- freshed. I can renew my studies with fresh energy. As— TOBACCOS — Turkish and Domestic — than any other popular brand.” (Signed) Ro OREYNOLDS: TOBACCO COMPANY Winston-Salem; North Carolina oe Copyright, 1935 R. J. Reynolds Tob. Co. ~ TUNE IN ON THE CAMEL CARAVAN Featuring WALTER O'KEEFE + ANNETTE HANSHAW 10:00p.m. E.S.T. 9:00p.m. C.S.T. ANNETTE HANSHAW Camels taste so grand, I smoke a lot. But I have never had Camels bother my nerves.” (Signed) WILLIAM F. BISSETT, '35 HIT SHOW OF THE AIR! GLEN GRAY’S CASA LOMA TUESDAY 8 :00p.m. M.S.T. 7:00p.m. P.S.T. 9:00p.m. E.S.T. 8:00 p.m. .C.S.T. “THERE ARE PLENTY of times when Iget tired. Then I smoke a Camel. For I have ORCHESTRA THURSDAY always noticed that Camels help a lot in easing the strain and renewing my ‘pep.’ I smoke Camels a lot. They taste so good, and never affect my nerves.”” (Signed) 9 :30p.m. M.S.T. 8:30p.m. P.S.T. OVER COAST-TO-COAST WABC-COLUMBIA NETWORK . ER GET ON YOUR NERVES! | E. H. PARKER, Chief Pilot Eastern Air Lines Lg Page Six ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS Te \ Years and Years Ago ‘ We have sadly neglected the Phil- istine’s literary side in our attempt to view Bryn Mawr through his eyes, when it was young and unsophisti- cated. Love stories were very much a la mode back in nineteen hundred. The tender passion seems to have disap- peared of late, if not from our lives, at least from our publications. —>— corsinitiiens eypyeaptenaatagene”, WP -—— oi EN { i have been shaken long enough over the fire of learning, they burst into nice fluffy kernels which—to complete the simile—are eaten up as soon as we go out into the world... ... If you try to swallow anothet person’s ideal in addition to your own, you are very likely to choke yourself and die.” “Choice epigrams fall from the lips of the characters like pearls, similes ; Undeveloped ideals, and when. these off with a thousand apologies to Poe, and a few appropriate verses such as “Quel abimo, quel abimo tu _ in onores!” — A. de -Musset, and “O, she has fallen into a pit of ink”— Much Adb About Nothing. This story is a very gory- affair,*full of mad ha-has and exclamation points. “Mis- ery is manifold,” it begins. . “The world is shrouded in a pall of liquid blackness. Blackness hovers over Tay- ed: “Father, what is Bryn Mawr? oi “Bryn Mawr, my gon,” replied Mr. Holliday, removing his spectacles, ‘is an institution for the enlightenment of young womén where they make tea every afternoon.” : t THEATRE REVIEW Continted from Page Two i sti e falls weeping about the stage and does little else.:One feels no especial sympathy for her; one cannot, not’ knowing -her;--In-the scenes on the hotel veranda, with her guests, she is remote, cold, unenchanting. The fault is in part that of the play-* wright; her dialogue is poor, and her lines lack force. Yet Miss Fontanne should be. able to inject some real ¢mo- tion into the part; even her facial ex- 4 “Through Fire and Water” de- and figures of speech adorn their|lor tower and obscures the insignifi- deft touches an observing, clever, yet pressions are meaningless. It cannot di scribes the typical heroine furbishing most trivial: communication,” as thi cant gables of the Infirmary.” The| kindly man. be that Miss Fontanne is unsuited to herself up for the typical young man. Philistine critic puts it. She ends her | heroine has ‘a fearful monomania. “I| Alfred Lunt, as Stefan, gives us|tragedy; witness her superb perform- Petes tinea oa a << Bh) rie Rip eo 0s et “Half an hour later a card bearing the name of Mr. J. Hartley Harrison __was lying on the study table and the mirror reflected a délicate oval face, made even prettier than usual by its slightly, conscious expressions and a red rose in the soft dark hair.” The slightly conscious expression was probably what got him. In 1935, we bend our efforts toward looking as un- conscious as possible, especially when expecting callers. They were very frank about ‘their interests then. Etiquette for the Elite advises the Timid. Freshman thus. — “In punctuating the sentence you give, ‘I saw a young man yesterday crossing the campus,’ I think I should make a dash after the young man.” Their attitude was pretty similar to-our own in regard to pictures of campus life by people who have never lived it. They.criticize severely an Elsie Dinsmorish sort of lady who wrote a book about Smith College, in which a freshman. discourses to ‘a friend as follows: “Your idea of col- lege, then, is that it resembles a huge corn popper into which we throw our’ criticism with a ‘touch of .the college spirit so conspicuous years ago:—“It may be argued that Smith and Bryn Mawr are very different, and that the picture Miss Fuller gives us may_per- fectly well be true of that.college. In- deed we do know there is a difference, and we cannot help feeling that there is about our college an atmosphere of muon greater dignity and earnest- ness.” We. hope Smith took that in, and digeated it properly. The Philistine was much more leni- ent in reviewing the Bacillus of Beauty, another novel of campus life, laid at Barnard this time. The tale treats of an ugly undergraduate, who becomes with the aid of a bacillus, administered by the biology profes- sor, the most beautiful woman in the world. The ladies of 1900 apparently preferred excitement to humdrum moral value. Everyone imitated all her favorite writers with great enthusiasm thirty- five years ago. “With apologies to somebody or other” precedes a good quarter of the Philistine’s stories, plays and poems. The Crime starts never was a happy girl,” she says. “My baptismal name is. Heliodora. My family name I suppress, though, alas, they have doubtless changed it. Why should they totter under the disgrace of bearing my title—mine!—since I languish in a padded cell in the asy- lum of the Criminal Insane?” She was in a: bad way when she first got into college. “I entered—ha! ha!— yes, I entered, but in what a fearful bodily ‘and mental condition! My forehead pale, my eyes sunken so as to be almost invisible, my shoulders bent like those-of:an octogenarian, I entered these gloomy halls. . My melancholy | eyes drove the professor to the verge of lunacy, my dome-like brown and sunken cheeks gave me a look of feverish intellectuality.” And so on to the horrid close. Rollo at the Fudge Party is much more cheerful: “Rollo,” said Mr. Hol- liday, one fine morning, “brush your hat and get a clean pocket handker- chief. I am going to take you to Bryn Mawr.” Rollo did as he was bid and. when they were seated in the train he ask- a fine portrayal of a rather pathetic animal. One feels the same sympa- thy for him that one would for a wounded beast, poignant, yet not in the least human. In the first scene of the third act, his reactions are those of a suffering infant or dog, ir- remediable and aching. As he enters playing his accordion, the audience, -|knowihg what is in store for him, is moved by a pity that is akin to hor- ror. This scene, rising to the point of his committing suicide, is’ com- pletely his. It is Miss Fontanne ,.whose charac- terization falters throughout. . She seems unsure, out of sympathy with the character she portrays. Obvious- ly Linda Valaine is.supposed to be an extremely attractive woman; we see that.through the attitude of the other characters. Yet nothing she does warrants the near-reverence that she is accorded, Forced to wear a red wig, spectacles (and unbecoming sports dressés, ‘the actress walks apathetically through her role, with little or no personality. In the scene with Stefan, which should be hers, ance in Elizabeth the Queen. . There seems ‘to be no obvious or adequate &xplanation for the actress’s failure . to make something of her role. Point Valaine as a whole is feeble and unconvincing. Badly managed scenes and generally poor dialogue, except in the case of Mortimer Quinn, make it lack reality.. There are sev- eral elements in it that are .to be found in many previous Coward plays: Mrs. Birling, the oppressing mother, illustrates on a minor scale the theme of The Vortex; the novelist is the same type of character as those in Design for Living; the screaming young Englishwomen have frequently run across a Coward stage. We wish Mr. Coward would cling to the type of ~play in which he excels,—the light sophisticated comedy. We “wish the Lunts would find a better play where Miss Fontanne could charm us by her voice and gestures once again, and where Mr. Lunt could be a human be- ing. As it is, Point Valaine is un- worthy of Mr. Coward and a waste of time for the Lunts, as well as for the audience. A. M. —— The selection, buying and preparation of the right kinds of, Turkish tobaccos for making Chesterfield Cigarettes is a business in itself . Ww? have buyers in all the to- bacco markets of Turkey and Greece, including Xanthi, Cavalla, Smyrna and Samsoun. MEY Fh a ~~. And at Smyrna Chesterfield has built the most modern to- bacco plant in the Near East. Here the spicy, aromatic Turkish leaf is sorted and graded under the eyes of our oWn tobacco men. | Then it is put away to age in its own climate for two years or more to make it milder and better-tasting. | When you blend and cross-blend the right kinds of aromatic Turkish tobacco with mild ripe home-grown — ff tobaccos as we do in Chesterfield | you have... the cigarette that’s milder _the cigarette that tastes better ” Handling Turkish sahecce li in the Liggett & Myers modern factory at Smyrna, Turkey. iin. 4 fo q MONDAY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY ; ANDRE a LUCREZIA LILY oeeettiiers Pe: “ BORI PONS —40 PIECE ORCHESTRA ' KOSTELANETZ ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS 9 P. M. (£. s. T.) —COLUMBIA NETWORK /