| } | ' The College Pr, ‘ Cws ‘ VOL. XIX, No. 3 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,.NOVEMBER 2, 1932 PRICE 10 CENTS Bryn M Out. of 274 Votes, 181 Are for Hoover; | | | Norman Thomas is Next With 54, Outstanding Majority. of Votes on Prohibition Question is Cast for Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment; Minority Favors Enforcement TWO - THIRDS OF COLLEGE REPRESENTED Bryn Mawr College is standing behind the re-election of President | There has been a great deal of bombast flying around the campus Hoover. in which all three parties have made an equal amount of noise. - the results of the straw vote, conducted by the College News, are put into cold black print, the Democratic and Socialistic fervor turns out to be more hot air than actuality. Two hundred and seventy-four ballots were collected, which. represent | over--two-thirds- of--the entire undergraduate body. Hoover received approximately twice as many votes as the other two candi- The Graduate School proved itself to be Socialistic, with one dates together. But when Of these, more vote for Norman Thomas than for Hoover and Roosevelt together. Naturally, very few of these undergraduate votes will be cast in the Presidential elections on November 8th, since the majority of the college are _ under twenty-one years of age; and also because many students are at too great a distance from their homes to be able to go home to vote. How- ever, it is significant that. of the twenty-six undergraduates who do intend to. vote on November 8th, sixteen of them will vote for Hoover, six for Roosevelt, and four for Thomas. Opinion is generally against a “protest vote,’ tion that these elections will have any real influence on the course of our na- tional welfare. The other vote which stands out almost as decisively as Re- publican predominance is that on the ever-present issue of Prohibition; one hundred and thirty-two votes were cast for repeal and only fourteen for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. In counting the votes wayne hope that we have done justicé to the con- victions of those people who, unable to answer a question by yes or no, wrote political essays on their ballots for our edification. Some of them were amusing, if hard to decipher, especially in the case of the student who, instead of checking the party to which she “normally lent her sup- . port,”’ stated that she had never “leant her support to anyone;” and another who said she was voting for Hoover, although she would much rather have ‘Thomas. for President. We.were puz- zled by one undergraduate who.’ put Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her class, and even more so by one who claimed to belong to the Class of 2934. The News, nevertheless, feels that the results of-this straw vote are rep- resentative of the feeling of the great- er part of the college, and feels justi- fied in putting Bryn Mawr on record ’ as backing President Hoover, the Re- publican Party, and the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. American Universities Republican and Wet The Presidential poll recently con- ducted by the Daily Princetonian re- veals the extraordinary strength of the Republican party among forty- seven-_representative American col- leges and universities in thirty-one States. President Hoover led in thirty-one universities, gaining.a margin of more thin 11,000 votes over Governor Roosevelt. 29,289 ballots of the total vote of 58,680 supported President Hoover, while Governor Roosevelt was given 18,212 votes; Norman Thomas, 1470 votes, and William Z. Foster, 715 votes. _ In the East President Hoover was supported by twenty colleges; in the South Governor Roosevelt carried the vote of eleven colleges, while Hoover gained the majority again in nine of the Mid-Western colleges and in the . Far West. While President Hoover led in thirty-one —_universities,. -: Roosevelt swept eleven universities. Five uni- versities, including New York Uni- versity, Columbia, and the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology were strong for Mr. Thomas. , _, (Continued on Page Five) ’ and against the supposi- Dr. Swindler to Edit Archaeology Journal (Reprint From New York Sun) Prof. Mary Swindler, who holds the chair of Greek sculpture and arch- aeology at Bryn Mawr College, has recently been made the first woman to edit the American Journal of Arch- aeology. This is a signal honor, for the magazine ranks first of all the archaeological publications in the country, since it is the organ of the American Institute of Archaeology. _ Dr. Swindler has been outstanding in her profession for years. She has made seven trips to Europe and on five of them studied the tomb. paint- ings of ancient Egypt, the first Amer- ican woman ever to undertake this ambitious work. She has but recent- ly published a book on “A History of Painting” and it is being used by the graduate schools of Yale and Har- vard. “It seems to me,” said Dr. Swin- dler, “that archaeology is one of the best fields open to women today. It is extremely interesting and gratify- ing; it presents wide fields for. fur- ther research. And perhaps, best of all, men welcome and recognize the | ‘authority of women in archaeology, especially jinj the field of classical Greek art. “T think the reason is that women are peculiarly fitted for this kind of work. They do not seem particularly fitted for the actual superintendence of excavation work, but when it comes to drawing, writing, interpreting findings, they are excellent. They are more meticulous than men and they are more willing to take pains with small things. “Here at Bryn Mawr the study of Greek art and sculpture is-especially popular. We have a number of Bryn Mawr girls studying over in Athens and.in other parts of Europe. I would encourage girls to pursue this field, for they will find it highly in- teresting and instructivé. After the proper college training, they can then go to certain places to ¢arry on par- ticular studies in whatever kind of archaeology interest-them most. “There is plenty of opportunity in American archaeology. The surface has just been tapped, but just think what we still have to learn about the cultures of the Indians, the®Mayans and the Aztecs. Every time another tomb is excavated and some ancient pottery and jewels are brought to light we can write another paragraph in the history of these ancient peo-. ples and can to ‘our: own a on something important edge.” President} ! ' ( ! awr Votes Republican BRYN MAWR NEWS STRAW VOTE _ Question Pem. Pem. Den- : Undergraduate For President : East West bigh Rock. Merion Grad. 1933 1934 1935 1936 Total Hoovers ' 34 39 39 39 on ae oo. a ae BY we 2eE MOM ckiiis 6: 10 ee: 4 4 7 . Bee 39 TONE epchcn veins vs 7G + 4Q wn ae 6 t----4 54 Party .Normally Supported: Repeal: .cvsavars avs i ee | ee ae oe ee ee ee PPO ok cei sang 10: 44 6 10 d 4; 4) 10 10 14 45 Socialite: cick ccceeev es os Bd 7 er * 8 9 3 6 21 Fora rrovest Voie... ei: 11 10 26 14 15 io. 13 21 20 76 Against a Protest Vote..... 29 = 334 24 32 30 15 30 43 35 41 149 Voting on November 8...... a 8 3 Rint 17 22 3 : ee 26 National Welfare | oe : depends on elections. ..... ae, TS ee A A ee a a) | eee National. Welfare does-not-— : depend on elections. ...... a. i se Sh TU Um UL. Ue 18th Amendment : Repeal. iscsi ieee 24 37 28 28 15 6 31 28--»-30 38 132 Modiieation—.-.. 13 8 17 19 22. 19 16 21 14 28 79 ae 8 7 10 8 5 ROE 10 11 7 38 Pntereewent os ins cas 2 2 5 1 4 4 + 4 0 6 14 Bourdelle Described pe ecalgartead Dr. Vaughan Williams = ollege Calendar\ as Prominent Sculptor} Wednesday, Nov. 2: Politi || Gives Second Lecture cal meeting in auditorium, 7.30 f ; P. M. Louis Reau Gives Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 3: Banner || Traces Origin of Folk Song to Artist Who Developed a Dr. Vaughan Williams Excited Speech and Dance Structural Style n “The Folk Song,” Goodhart of Plain People Hall. Friday, Nov. 4: Miss Susan FELT VARIED INFLUENCES Contemporary French Sculpture, as the subject chosen by M. Louis Reau tor his last Wednesday’s lecture in the Music Room of Goodhart. M. ikeau, who is the director of the Ga- zette des Beaux-Arts and professor at the Ecole du Louvre, as well as offi- cial lecturer of the Alliance Francaise, spoke under the auspices of the de- partments of French and History of Art. His talk, which was in French, was illustrated with lantern slides. Antoine Bourdelle, said M. Reau, 'represents that generation of sculp- tors which succeeded Rodin. Though less genial than the latter, Bourdelle re-invested sculpture with simplicity, its purpose being, he thought, to en- hance the creations of the architect. Sculpture is the art par excellence of the French, and their creations have been the greatest that the world has. produced since the days of the Greeks. Notre Dame has no equiva- |lent, even in Italy, where after a flare of grandeur in the fifteenth century, a period of decadence again set in. In France development was continu- ous, from the Romanesque and Goth- ic, through Jean Bourgeant in the Renaissance, Versailles in the seven- teenth century, Houdon and de Fal- connet in the eighteenth, Rude, Barye, ‘Carpault, Rodin in the nineteenth, to Bourdelle and Despian of the present day. Bourdelle was born at Montauban, a town between Bordeaux and Toulouse, the artistic capital of that region. Montauban itself was well known for its art in the Middle Ages, and was also the birthplace of Ingres. It was at the nearby cloister of -Moissac that Bourdelle first came into contact with the French sculpture of the Middle Ages, which was to be one of the three zreat influences on his work. Bour- delle wag interested, not so much in the thirteenth century, as in the Ro- manesque art of the earlier period. Having served an apprenticeship in his home town—under Falquiere— Bourdelle set out for Paris, as all young artists do, alas. There his stud- (Continued on Page Four) SOPHOMORE ELECTIONS President: Peggy Little . Vice - President: Florence Cluett. Secretary: Elizabeth Kent. even { : 2 exemplified by Antoine Bourdelle, was-|. Kingsbury will speak on ‘‘Rus- sia.”’ Radnor, at 7.30 P. M. Saturday, Nov. 5: Bryn Mawr Varsity vs. Philadelphia Cricket Club Yellows at 10.00 A. M. Monday, Nov. 7: Bryn Mawr Seconds vs. Main Line Reserves. 3.00 P. M. Political Rally: Ping-Pong Table in Gym to Satisfy Enthusiasts Having remained in obscurity all last year, entirely hidden under May Day costumes, the ping-pong table has again come into its own, and the Ath- letic Association hopes that real in- terest will be taken in this gentle sport. A manager has been appoint- ed—Leta Clews.— and tounnaments have been planned. The manager feels that ping-pong should have a wide appeal; there are many to whom God did not grant an athletic frame. There are also those whom a baseball quite honestly fright- ens. And we must not forget those whose feminine charm is wasted on a hockey field. - While their friends are prancing down the hockey field, they must either sit home on a cushion and grow fat or—play ping-pong. But ping-pong does more than provide safe and stimulating exercise for the feminine, the frail and the muscle- hound. Despite the opinion of tennis authorities, it may, on a small scale, help considerably in per- fecting the tennis stroke. Moreover, it requires cleverness, if not strength. What a boon to the Intellectual! Again, it can be played’ in high heels. Nor is there great need for an ath- ‘letic costume. People -rushing, back from a week-end could, if they desir- ed, go straight to the ping-pong ta- ble. How marvelous if, some day, it were to be placed among the possible Required Sports, or made an alter- nate to Body Mechanics! The manager, however, hopes that ping-pong will not appeal only to a specialized group. She feels sure that the swimmer, making for the pool, will enjoy her plunge far more for having stopped to warm up a minute at the ping-pong table. Let us, then, take this newly-rediscovered sport to our hearts, and make the ping-pong table in the basement of the Gym a common meeting ground for all sorts of people—the short and tall, the weak and strong, the stiff and limber. ec. te HORACE ALWYNE PLAYS “Folk song is a microcosm of all the arts that go to make up the. ar- tistic construction of music,” Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams asserted, in - the second lecture of the Flexner ser- ies. On the’:Nature of Folk Song,” which he delivered Thursday, October 27, in Goodhart Hall. In the course of his address, he traced the origin of folk music from excited. speech and dance, and discussed its inherent lim- itations and advantages. that the modality of folk music has an appeal for modern listeners, the choir sang four English folk tunes und-Mr. Alwyne played three exam- ples of modern modal harmony by De- bussy, Ravel, and Satie. As a summary of his last lecture, Dr. Williams remarked that national music is not all folk song, but folk song is national music in the most un- adulterated form possible, an art in its own right, perfectly adapted to the unsophisticated people who use it. Since emotion is more primitive than thought, it does not seem far-fetched to suppose that primitive song origi- nated before primitive speech, and cer- tainly before the most primitive of instruments. According :to Dr. Williams, song “grew from emotional, excited speech, un idea which seems borne out by the interchangeability of the words for “say” and “sing” in Old German. A folk singer speaks of “telling” not of “singing” a~ballad, and the words and music aré so inextricably mixed in his mind that he cannot hum the tune without the words. Song is an obvious way of giving pattern to words. Before men had written records, ballads served many of the functions of modern newspa- pers and books. Since everything had to be learned orally, to aid his mem- ory, the ballad maker (speaking in the singular for the sake of convenience) would put his story in a metrical fo¥m and, to increase the emotional value, would add musical notes, The first step in the development of the four-line folk tune was prob- ably the use of some Stock phrase at (Continued on Page Four) Resignation | The College News regrets to announce the resignation of Molly Nichols, ’34, from the | editorial staff. To prove