The College © Ws VOL. XIX, No. 20 BRYN MAWR AND: WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933 COLLEGE Copyright BRYN MAWR: NEWS, ——— PRICE 10 CENTS 1933 oT. S. Eliot Compares : Poetry to Still Life| Moderns Lean Away From Free- dom Toward Revival of Old Forms DENIES” OBSCURANTISM “What I have written seems to be very simple and straightforward,” as- serted T. S. Eliot in his lecture on Moderf? Poetry in Goodhart last. Fri- day evening. “Only a few minor things need explanation.” Any preju- dice about his poetry should -bé re- moved, Mr. Eliot stated, for this im- pedes appreciation of it. A poem of his is like a still-life. One can ex- plain its planes and colors but not the feeling produced by it. Although Mr. Eliot remarks of such a poem as his Sweeney Among the Nightin- gales¢-“I-don’t suppose anyone would call that obscure,” yet he admits that it “might almost be said to have no meaning at all.” He is not sure that poetry needs a meaning or that it is even supposed to have one. event, an entirely different meaning is often conveyed from that which the poet puts into his work or even intended to put into it. His commentators amuse and inter- est Mr. Eliot, for they read into his poetry allusions which come as a complete surprise to him. He has read very much-— better explanations of his work than those which he him- self could have done. The Waste| Land has been called a great criti-| cism of society. He himself: terms it merely a “piece of rhythmical grouching” as the result of a per- sonal grouch. Because there was a “fair amount of borrowing” in The Waste Land, Mr. Eliot thought it best to provide the poem with notes. He has regretted his action since, for the notes terrified some people and displeased others who like to work out the allusions themselves. “It is always unwise to claim originality,” he says. Accusations of plagiarism seem to him ridiculous, since often the whole meaning of a part of his poem hinges on the context of a pas- sage from which he has borrowed phrases or lines. Some of T. S. Eliot’s poetry has been styled automatic writing, but he himself fears that it is no better than deliberate. He very definitely works for precision as, for example, in his use of proper names, however irrelevant they may be. These are to give the reader a feeling that, by this sort of symbolic memory, the au- thor is triangulAting the parts of his composition. If the reader knew any more about the names than that they existed, he would. be disturbed and his attention distracted. It has been said that the purpose of poetry is “to*communicate experi- ences.” This, Mr. Eliot thinks, is but a theory. The relationship between experience and poetry is uncertain. In one of his own poems—which he personally dislikes—La Figlia Che Piange, his theme came to him from the description that his friend had given him of an Egyptian design of a weeping girl in the museum at * Milan. He was unable to find the design in the museum. The thought of it, however, lay dormant in his mind until some six or seven months later, when he worked back to the (Continued on Page Three) Train Schedules The Pennsylvania Railroad _has announced the following changes in its Paoli time-table: A. train leaves Bryn Mawr for Philadelphia at 7.21 P. M. instead of 7.15 P. M. A train leaves Broad Street Suburban Station for Bryn Mawr at 11.42 P. M. instead of 11.26. P.M. A train leaves Broad Street Suburban Station at-7.48 A, M., thus connecting with the Quak- er, which arrives ‘from Boston at 7.48 A. M. “So Sleep the Brave” (Class o of 1936 hae to ae Advisors) Kh In, any |. calculably rich deposit of tension, ex- Tennis Season Opens The Varsity tennis team won ita| ed in the Comon: Room, April 24, in first game of the season with the | his first -lecture,» “The Influence of Philadelphia Cricket Club team" "by a'the Russian Ballet ot Modern Art.” score of 4-1. In spite of the heat, “The movement which was responsi- the playing was quite fast and sat-| ble for the ballet was similar to a isfying to the few spectators. the ball and sent it mostly into the} ael Angelo, one can elaim for their | net, thereby losing her first set. to| collaboration, their~synthesis of all Miss Bergen, 5-7, she rallied to win} the arts, their creative organism for | the second set, 7- 5, and finally got| human intensity, an example of enor- into her real stride by winning the | mous importance.” third’ set and the match, 6-2, on hor! Since many lectures would be_re- line-chipping serves and easy, well-| quired to trace the origins of the placed forehands. | ballet, it is necessary to start with Collier, a Varsity player of two) ‘the end of the nineteenth century in| seasons. ago, has returned this ~saeeaaea Russia, when a group of male and and won her first two sets against | female dancers had been trained at Miss Kurbaugh, 7-5, 7-5. Collier is| the expense of the Czar for his and extremely quick on her feet and plays his court’s pleasure for nearly two easily and steadily. She seems to|hundred and fifty years. Imperial | be fitting very easily into the va-| schools took children of nine years eancy left. by Hardenburgh. | of age, trained them for seven years, | Bowditch, Varsity captain, played| ihad them admitted to the stage for, ‘her usual hard-hitting game, win-, ‘fifteen years, and then retired them ning the first set against. Mrs. Earn-| on a pension. The ballet presented: shaw, 7-5. In the second set, how- dance interludes in operas, appeared | ever, she easily outplayed her oppon-; ‘in divertissements at court functions | ent with her fast serves and long| and at parties, and performed grand| powerful forehand drives. With a: | mimes and: danced plays. The girls’ little more accuracy on her back-| always wore big white tarletan hands she should become one of the! skirts, and if the scene were laid in| most formidable members of the| Scotland, for example, they would) team. (Continued on Page Six) Little showed some lack of prac- tice in her game. with Miss West, but; League Arranges Trip her main difficulty was lack of con-| to State Penitentiary | trol. Her form was even better than , that of her opponent, but she served many faults and her drives were ex- tremely wild, so Miss West took the match, 6-0, 6-4. As the season ad- vances, however, she should steady down to make an excellent number four man. : Collier and Faeth seem to work to- gether in tennis as easily as they did in basketball, and won the doubles against ‘Miss Kurbaugh and Miss West, 6-2, 6-2, in quick time. The fact that they had played together in the forward berths on the Varsity basketball team-was a’ distinct ad- vantage to them on the tennis court. The prospects of a good tennis season can be seen from Saturday’s matches. May they keep up the ” work... . > Under the sponsorship of the Bryn! Mawr League, twenty-eight students. visited the new Eastern State Peni- tentiary on April 24. The prison, lo- cated on a hill near: Graterford, is in} sharp contrast to the old- fashioned penal institutions. Mr. Fraser, of the Pennsylvania: Prison Soéiety, and Colonel Thelman, an ex-Warden, conducted the group on a tour of inspection. oners themselves have constructed most of the buildings, which are very modern and well-lighted, with run- ning water in each cell. As a mat- arrived from the old prison in Phil- adelphia, the walls were not yet built and, although the men worked under (Continued on rage Five) ee ‘Russian. Ballet is ee 5: «CLittle Ma me 6 e M caer eee | Synthesis of Arts Dr. Evarts B, Greene wil! speak ‘on “American Horizons Mr. Kirstein Traces Origins in the Days es a. | Pion: Glavin and Chien. Goodhart, 8.15 P.M. 1 roun Sat., May 6: French Oral || tal Background Examination, 9.00 A. M. Bryn Mawr Varsity Tennis DIAGHILEV SET STYLE) sx Team vs. Meri . C., Fe00 | er tong ic aM “The Russian ballet, a movement, | We ' Russian in origin, international in ees It ; ; Bret Pr ae: dee ap | Sonvednenes, has affected profoundly G dh t. 8.00 P WM. - Adiniia- | the life of all the arts in our time. “ $1 00 Reserved seats, || Unfortunately it deposited no Sistine | $1. 25 at Publication Office. |; Chapel, no Parthenon, and what is| geal A ‘brightest of what remains is an_in-| citement and brilliance in the enrich-' With Varsity Victory | ed mind of everyone who saw it,” said | | Mr. Lincoln Kirstein, when he talk- |, |great historical renaissance, and al-| Although Faeth tended to relapse | though none of the artists connected | into her old habit of being afraid of | with it possessed the divinity of Mich- | The pris-. ter of fact, when the prisoners first || | Miss Cannon Discusses Needs i in Social Service Miss Antoinette Cannon, speaking ‘in the Common Room last T hursday }on the opportunities in social service ' work, stressed the need for a mobi- | lization-of; all the forces in the com- | munity to accomplish the purpose of ‘jal service work, to make its meth- sas scientific, and to fill. the actual available jobs in the world today. Just as in medicine the goal of pos- itive health is determined by _ ill- health, and,‘in its gradual. develop- ment, practice was first gained. in highly separate and specific fields— on the battlefield; among the beggar classes, in temples, so in the devel- opment of social science, the many specific fields of social work have been only recently utilized to contribute to a unified science, relating to and not diverging from psychology, psychi- atiry,-eeconomies, and—sociology. The work has become a whole out of these parts, adapting itself to individual needs at the same time it is develop- ing a technical knowledge. There has recently been recognized the need for trained social workers: | consequently, there is less chance now of serving an apprenticeship to the | work, Also, private welfare organi- | zations are becoming a growing prob- |lem. Every situation is a social prob- bans with mental and physical aspects and consequently the best solution | would be the socialization of all so- cial organizations and _ institutions, |e. g., courts and hospitals. Indeed, within recent years, there has been | a Yuch higher degree of organiza- | tion.’ The day of great private foun- | dations is past, and the new social ; worker is interested in community | planning, in welfare organization un- ' der federal, state, and city govern- ‘ ment. So far as present jobs are concern- 'ed, with unemployment, a vast emer- ‘gency relief corps is filled, and fam- | ily welfare agencies are still open. | Few jobs are free in the medical field |and there has been a_ deplorable slump in settlement and recreational | leadership work. The child welfare field is fairly stable, and a hopeful | tendency is noted’ in the tendency to centralize organizations for this pur- | pose. A social worker, trained in | theory and by practice, after com- pleting a regular course, ‘should .be well prepared to direct such commun- | ity planning as. will mobilize social | work, and make it a force in com- | munity life, : eo | | . League Elections President—Josephine ermel, Secretary - Treasurer—Mar- '| jorie Lee: } Chairman Bates House Com- mittee — Margaret Marsh. *— Chairman of Sunday * Serv- : ices—Polly Barnitz. Assistant. Chairman of Sun- day Services—Sarah Flanders. Roth- Dr.Montagu Sees Mind as Poténtial Energy. Materialist Theory of » Mind” Simplifies Universe, Aids Psychologist : DUALISM — IS - REFUTED “How to relate the curious domain of.the psychical to the body,” said Dr. William Pepperell Montagu, speaking in the Music Room, Apri¥ 24, on “The Materialistic Theory of Mind,” “is the most challenging, ex- citing, and momentous question that the philosophical mind can raise.” The great desideratum for the mod- ern materialist is to find something physical and material in character to meet..the demand for explaining the mind better than the atoms. What if the real seat of the mind is, not the atoms of the brain, but the etherie medium in which these atoms are? What if every mental state denotes a specific modification in this med- ium, and our sensations and feelings are forms of invisible potential en- ergy in the brain, into which the ki- netic energy of incoming currents is transformed? From 1850 to about 1915, the ma- terialistic Weltanschauen was strong and flourishing, but now it has fallen on evil days. The new physics of Eddington and Jeans has swung away from the mechanistic outlook to one idealistic and cosmological, while Millikan and the experts on matter, who have seen it “face to face,” are disillusioned about its ade- quacy to explain-the mind. Again we-are reconsidering the old, old problem of the relation of mind and body, a definite and simple question which comes. before every one of us at death. Two types of explanation may be..offered — the materialistic monist regards mind as. inseparable from the body and its. motions, the dualist makes mind a substanttve in its own right. : The . stréngth of materialism in general is its power to verify or re- fute the-facts by observation. and measurement. A materialistic analy- sis supplies a marvelous simplifica- tion of the universe. It achieves what all real science attempts, reduc- ing incommensurable qualities to commensurable quantities, the hetero- geneous to the homogeneous, the dis- continuous to the continuous. *It ex- plains the changes of state in mat- ter and of form in chemical com- pounds on the basis of divorce and remarriage of the molecules. When dealing with the mind, it endeavors to tie up intangible, invisible sensa- tions with good, solid body mdédve- ments, for psychology, thus made ob- jective, can go on. The materialistic monist finds that the mind varies with the body in countless ways, hence he is led to conclude that mind serves only as a body-function. The dualist replies with a caution lest his opponent fall into the “path-~ ological fallacy” of conceiving nature after the pattern of his own inside stuff, and objects that his conclusion is unwarranted from the premise. From this defense reaction, he ad- vances to a more positive stand. He points to certain clear features of mind, that do not fit as mere adjec- tival aspects of atoms in motion, for example, the privacy of mental states, the purposefulgess with which the mind. acts for the future, its meaning-fulness, the unity of ideas in (Continued on Page Three) Special Movie Prices Until otherwise noted, college students will be charged only twenty-five cents, instead: of thirty-five cents, for admission to the Seville Theatre in Bryn Mawr andthe Anthony Wayne Theatre in Wayne. ' Identifica- tion. tickets, which are obtain- able at the Publication Office, |" must be presented to both the cashier and the doorman at the ‘theatre. * Page Two ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS ™~ = THE COLLEGE NEWS Published weekly during the College Year, (excepting during Thanksgiving, ‘Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire. Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. _ y protected by copyright. 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We spend the fall and winter bemoaning the fate that keeps us scurrying from the halls to Taylor while the heavens pour forth their contents, or creeping through the black caverns of the library, or panting miserably in an overheated gymnasium. And we conclude that education is a painful and a useless process, and that we could spend our, time to greater advantage cruising the Mediterranean, or even Park Avenue. But let spring burst upon us, and we undergo a complete change of, heart. We are notoriously unpoetic, and anything but spiritual, but we do feel strangely pleased when we look at the campus with its green grass, maples and Japanese cherry trees, and realize that in one sense it all belongs to us. We can almost, but not quite, forgive the library bushes. It is not such an ordeal to become an intelligent citizen of these our great United States if the process is carried on amid sprout- ing green things and fluffy feathered friends. And also, the world cannot be as close to-the brink of destruction as we are told it is, if Pennsylvania weather, usually so ill-bred, can bloom as it is now bloom- ing. Spring on the campus is not the cause of attacks of spring fever as much as of spells of inordinate optimism. The two ailments are entirely different, although their after effects are practically indis- tinguishable. : The reports that we are assigned in the spring never fill us with the gloom and despair which comes to us with their ancestors of the first--semester. . We put them off cheerily and make no attempt to excuse ourselves, nor do we have to indulge in enforced diversions to keep our minds off that which we should be doing. 4n spring, all we have to do is desert the library and gravitate to the tennis courts, fire- escapes, or to any of the numerous hillsides, there to bask in Nature’s eyes. But in winter, owing to what the geographers describe as “in- clement weather,” the only refuge from the library or the books we have bravely taken out of the stacks and which regard us accusingly from the window-seat, is the bathtub, the closet, or the far corner under the bed. And even a short time spent in such a retreat warps the mind, and dulls the spirit of youth, for which we are chiefly famous. Furthermore, we are willing to accept the eloomiest prophe- cies of the philosophers, economists, psychologists, historians and erities as to the future condition of mankind, and we believe hideous things about the past during the winter simply because_the weather is bad. It seems quite probable that Cesare Borgia ate little children for din- ner and that Richard III strangled the little princes himself, when we sit enveloped in blankets in a half-frozen eondition while the heat refuses to come on, the windows rattle, and the rain drizzles down outside, But let anyone try to convince us that Mary, Queen of Scots, spent her time plotting the death of Good Queen Bess—when it is spring—and we should laugh in his face. It is optimism and a desire to believe the best of the world and of the people in it that comes to us with the advent of spring. We cease to worry about theories of all kinds, and enjoy ourselves. Exams and reports cease to haunt our sleeping and waking hours, and we worry much more about our backhand, approach shots, sunburn, or summer wardrobe. It is no longer possible to throw us into nitiital chaos by dropping a quiz; we either cut and’play tennis, or write a pretty piece of prose and hopg it has some connection with the subject in hand. In other words, when spring comés to the Bryn Mawr campus, we are all inclined to love life and our work, and take neither very seriously. It is not that we forget their importance, or that we really care less about them, it is rather that, after all, it is spring; life obviously goes on, and we might as well go with it. a @ 7 Six prizes, totaling $300) will be its given for the three best contribu- re tions to each anthology.. As _ substi- etiti for manu- se ee seen ene see ltute awards for the poetry anthology scripts to be included in its two an-| the publishers will issue, on a royal- thologies, The American ‘Short Short ty basis, individual volumes of verse Story — 1933 and Modern American by the two most outstanding contrib- Poetry—1933. Short short stories, utors if the winners have enough ‘to be eligible, must be hitherto un- poems of consistent merit. to warrant published, and may not exceed 1,200 such publication. ‘ and may not exceed 32 lines to each July 1, 1933. All manuscripts and poem. There is no restriction on sub-jinquiries should be addressed to Mr. ject matter or presentation other|W. Keene, secretary, in care of the Literary Prizes The Galleon Press: announces than originality of content and force-| Galleon Press, 15 West 24th Street, - |New “York City. | = { +] _for contributions. is | WIT?Ss END SONNET TO SUNBURN The sun once turned a vicious eye on me, es I sat upon the gym, up on the roof, From: shade, and creams, and dark costume aloof, And now he’s laughed him ‘sick with ‘fiendish glee: For.now I’m red and raw with Nat- ure wild, O! would I could put off this May day red, ||And be the genteel girl I always said I’d be—so gentle, meek, and mild. ‘And lily-white like famed Elaine, and docile. But no! I am all over badly freckled, My peeling’ skin has edges sadly -deckled, And when I move I crack like old fossil; Quick! Venus! Salves and lotions to keep handy: I am Untouchable from aping Gandhi. . —Unscrambled Egg. - “some SONG-BOOK FOR A GEOLOGY FIELD-TRIP I ; There’s a long, long trail a-winding to the top of Chestnut Hill, And they say they’ll see a_ lovely view, and possibly they will; But as for me, my breath grows weak, my knees are failing fast: : No peneplanes will comfort me when I shall breathe my last. ‘> II Rock of Ages, cleft by me, Let me hide this pick in thee; By that timely loss I may ’Scape two awful fates today: Ere, worn out or banged, I’ve died, An unintentional suicide, III The bugs crawled in, the bugs crawl- ed out, : The bugs crawled all around about; And all the Middle Devonian bugs Have left in the shale their funny mugs. IV Star light, star bright, Grant the wish I wish tonight; Wish I may, wish I might, Some day find a trilpbite. V O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! The natives peer as we career melodi- ously by. All ears may hear our coming, as with a pious din Of Christmas hymn for April’s whim we enter carolling ini VI The animals went in, six by six, (There’s one more river to ‘eross), The mouse and the archaeopteryx (There’s one more river to cross). One more river— And that one river is Lehigh; There’s one more river to cross. —T lemonopod. TO BE SUNG TO THE MAY POLE To the May pole let us on. I have three corns and one bun-yon. Walk, please, to the lower green, Where your costumes won’t be seen. These rehearsals, who can amend them, Five dollars fine if you don’t attend them, ; i |Round the May pole let us on, Sure, it’s my foot, but just step on. \Coming at you! Come, ‘sweet lass, ‘Come and stumble on the grass, Come and trip me on the greeny. ~- Where no‘lads will e’er be seen, here alway, from the break of day, All those dance’ who cannot pay ($5), “Keep together!” Hey, sweet: lass, Must you kick me as we_pass. —The Sweet Yam Queen. DISMAY DAY Now comes the time for sentimental | Thoughtson_tantrums-tempera-.— : mental, : Reminiscences belated, Of the things we perpetrated, Just a mere twelvemonth agone to the May pole«we went on: oe lFar removed from Sacrapantics, | whom lived or are living in our own All our: routs and rings and roisters, On the gréen and in the .cloisters, Woolly sheep. and.snow-white- oxen, And the needxfor antitoxin ’Gainst the raging red spring fever That was our beauty sleep’s great reaver; Remember flowers real and paper, Decking each fantastic caper, Friars in their burlap cassocks, Stomachs stuffed like outgrown . hassocks, Gartered guys and country wenches, Grouped on grasses, rocks; and benches, Early morning dance .rehearsals, Frantic, rain-enforced dispersals, Clowns“ and rustics cutting antics Props and sets and paraphernalia For a monster Bacchanalia, Braggart soldiers and pious monks, Spangled ladies and reeling drunks; Dramas comic, dramas tragic, All infused with May day magic— But there’s no use to rue or rouge it; Time was swift, and tempus fugit. —Campusnoop. Way Our hairs: are turning to silver from gold. Of course, it may be just he -effect of the general lapse from the géld standard. But now that Be- Kind-to-Animals Week and Be-Kind- to-Boys Week have passed (what! haven’t you noticed?) we’re agitat- ing for the inauguration of a Be- Kind-to-Wit’s-End Week, with the slogan, “Help the MHatter’s fun: every contribution counts!” Cheero— THE MAD HATTER. LETTERS (The News is not responsible for opinions expressed in this column.) To the Editor of the College News: .In your editorial, “Let There Be Light,” I find a certain superficiality of point of view and certain mis- statements of fact which I trust you will not mind my pointing out. The “mystification” induced by the modern novel read in Freshman Eng- lish indicates the difficulty confront- ing anyone who attempts to give un- dergraduates any sort of understand- ing of contemporary literature, let alone to gratify that desire for a “thoroughgoing knowledge of mod- ern literature and‘ literary tenden- cies.” It is quite possibleto—chart present day literagure, but the only person who can understand such a chart is the person who has read the charts of previous. literary periods. The earlier a period the simpler the chart. ~The study of the present per- iod is necessarily more complicated than that of its forerunners, whose work time has sifted and set in per- spective. The work of each period, moreover, is the outgrowth of all that has gone before, and not until the student has some conception of the ebb and flow of literature, the alter- nating periods of conservatism and revolt, of emotionalism “and intellect- ualism, has she any basis on which to consider seriously modern litera- ture. The “educative and cultural” value of a survey of modern litera- ture would therefore be highly ques: | tionable. No student of history, to give an analogy, plunges into the period of the French Revolution, or finds it intelligible, without first studying the ancien regime. It is to lay the necessary. foundation in the study of literature that the present English courses are designed. In addition to the work included within the formal ctrriculam other guidance is given. New Book Room books are carefully selected by a com- mittee. and are intended to make sig- nificant contemporary writing ,avail- able to interested students; the Eng- lish department tries to bring as many outside lecturers on modern. literature as limited funds allow, and encourages undergraduate commit- tees to do likewise. To say that within the curriculum all work in English here ends with the mid-nine- teenth century is absolutely untrue. If the study of contemporary work in Freshman English is to be dis- missed as merely a_ mystification, there remain other courses such as there always have been, treating va- rious aspects of modern literature. Victoria did not die till 1901, and there is-a-course in Victorian poetry-} This ‘course was planned, moreover, to include the work of Hardy, Rob- ert Bridges and Housman, all of (contipuea on Page Five) / - IN PHILADELPHIA - Theatres: ‘Garrick: $25 An Hour, a new comedy dealing with the romantic ad- ventures of a gigolo, with George Metaxa, Olga Baclanova and Jean Arthur. _ We challenge the title — what with being off the gold stand- ard, a cocktail and two dollars. is blue-ribbon pay. = 69th Street Playhouse: The Whole Town’s Talking, the farce made fam- ous by Grant Mitchell. Virginia .Curley and Joe Moran have the leads —and admission is down to $0.50, Movies ” Boyd: Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard, in Secrets, struggle for sev- enty years ‘side by side out on the American frontier. Very sweet and appealing. re Fox: A ‘unique love story and real- ™ dly notable photoplay in Zoo in Buda- . pest, with Gene Raymond and Loret- ta Young. Love and the animals all photographed with great skill. See it by all means. _ Stanton: The eternal wise guy and American Cervantes, Jimmy Cagney,-in Picture—Snatcher.__It_con- cerns a newspaper photographer. who catches people in their less respect- able moments. Amusing. Europa: Mussolini Speaks.. The venturesome and romantic life of the dictator from childhood‘to the pres- ent. Lowell Thomas acts as _ inter- preter. - Karlton: The White Sister—Hel- en Hayes and Clark Gable continue to love hopelessly amid the most pro- pitious. Italian scenery. Earle: A Lady’s Profession — Impecunious English titles go into. the American speakeasy racket, and are an enormous success. Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and Sari Maritza are excellent. Stanley: Maurice Chevalier and Baby Leroy both wag their lower lips entrancingly in Bedtime Story- Has words and music, and is very+ much fun. Keith’s: The American’ Border patrol glorified in Soldiers of the Storm. Anda great deal of vaude- ville. goes. to complete a worthless exhibition. Locust Street ‘Fheatre: The Phan- tom Broadcast, in which a murder takes place in a broadcasting station, dead men speak, and the audience shudders appropriately. With Ralph Forbes and Gail Patrick. Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs- day, Mae West in She Done’ Him Wrong; Friday, Grand Slam, with Paul Lukas and ‘Loretta Young; Saturday, James Dunn and Sally Eil- ers in Sailor’s Luck; Monday and Tuesday, The Keyhole, with Kay Francis and George Brent; Wednes- day and Thursday, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in What, No Beer! Seville: Wednesday and Thurs- day, 42nd Street, with Warner Bax- ter, Ruby Keeler and Bebe Daniels; Friday, Blondie Johnson, with Joan Blondell and Chester Morris; Satur- day, Girl Missing, with Ben Lyon and, Mary Brian; Monday and Tues- day, Constance Bennett and Joel Mc- Crea in Rockabye; Wednesday and Thursday, John Barrymore in Topaze. a _t Wayne: Wednesday and Thurs- day, Whistling in the Dark, with Ernest Truex and Una~Merkel; Fri- day and Saturday, State Fair, with Will Rogers and Janet Gaynor; Mon- day and Tuesday, Topaze, with John |Barrymore; Wednesday and Thurs- day, Secrets of Madame Blanche, with Lionel Atwill and Irene Dunne. Senior Fencing Finals The College Foils Championship will be fenced in the Gymnasium, hursday evening, May 4, at 8 ovlock. All senior fencers, and the ju&igr champion, and runner-up will compete. Between the bouts, exhi- bitions of the three weapons will be given by different fencers of the Sword Club and the Penn A. C. These will include a bout in foil between Monsieur Fiems, instructor in fenc- ing, and Mr. Shakespeare, of the Sword Club; a bout in epee (the duel- ling sword) between Dr.-Herben and Mr. Agnew, of/the Sword Club; a __ sabre bout between Monsieur Fiems-— and Mr. Kolb, of the Penn A. C. All interested in fencing are cordially invited. & THE -COLLEGE NEWS. Cd Page Three Mrs. Smith Discusses Inflation _in Chapel! Bill Before Congress Provides for Treasury Note Issue, Silver Coinage FACILITATES- LOANS “Inflation,” explained Professor Marion .P» Smith, in chapel. on Mon- day morning, “means any’ method--by which the existing amount of money is increased without increase in avail- able goods and services.” The two methods. of inflation ‘whith are being most considered today are currency inflation, by which more money is made available, and credit inflation, by which it is made easier to get loans on smaller collateral. Both of these methods and some, provisions which are not even, infla- tionary are included in the rider which is attached to the Farm Relief Bill now under -consideration. in the House of Representatives. The bill passed the Senate on last Friday and is expected to pass the House within this week. The rider first provides for an increase in Federal Reserve credit by as much as $3,000,000,000. This measure is not really inflation- ary. The second provision is for an issue of treasury notes to the value of $3,000,000,000. These notes wil] be secured by United States credit and will be used to pay off Government bonds. They are like the greenbacks which were issued during the Civil War. In the third place, it is provided that the gold content of the dollar may be devaluated by as much as 50 per cent. Since only forty cents must now stand back of every dollar, this may be reduced to twenty cents. Finally, the President is given the power to fix at his discretion a ratio between gold and silver to be used in international coinage. In view of this provision the price of silver has risen from nineteen to thirty-five cents an.ounce. All inflationary “measures depend upon the “quantity theory of money,” which is more or less accepted by all economists. According to _ this, “money has no value.except as a means of exchanging goods and serv- ices, so the dollar would only be worth what it could buy at the mo- ment.” So if money remains fixed and more goods are put into the mar- ket, prices must fall, as they have since 1929. The present “desperate proposals to start money up” depend upon keeping the supply of goods constant and increasing the avail- able money. Of the three types of money used today, gold and silver coins, government notes which repre- sent actugl gold in the bank, and Fed- eral Reserve notes, the Federal Re- serve notes are much the most com- mon. The twelve Federal Reserve banks are allowed to issue these notes with a backing of 40 per cent gold and the value of the note in commer- cial paper (usually short term loans). On April 6 there was an average of seventy-three dollars backing each one hundred dollars in Federal Re- serve notes and at present there is sixty-two dollars and seventy cents. This means that there is an excess coverage@f 22.7 per cent and, as Sen- ator Glass pointed out last Friday in opposition to the present bill, not only three billions but four billions of fiat money could be issued within the present gold coverage. He. failed to mention, however, that it wag im- possible for the banks to seture the necessary commercial. paper to cover an issue. “At this moment there is ample Aacility in the country to ex- tend credit, but the confidence of the banks is gone, and there have, been so many failures that strong banks hesitate to make loans to companies. At this: moment credit inflation is “fantastic.” : We aré-used to checks as“a form of credit and in fact use forty, dol- lars of checks for every one dollar of currency, but we cannot get ‘used to the idea of not having gold back of it all. Mrs. Smith did not go into bi-metallism because, as she ex- plained, it is a complete ‘lecture in ‘itself. The trouble with people now is “that they are so unimaginative that they suppose they have to have -gold. Index numbers are all that is necessary, but the publie wants some-| thing that it can bite.” ° Compares \Dr. Montagu Sees Mind T. S. Eliot | 3 Poetry to Still Life as Potential Energy \ (Continued from Page One) | » (Continued from Page One) dds verbal echo of his friend’s words, and |it, above all, its power of “duration,” wrote the poem. Perhaps, he thinks, | as Bergson named it. | the impression made on him by the| - The claim that the mind can -have lull before a thunder-storm or by the) jn jt the past in the present, that ominous calm of a London dinner- | one configuration party when an air-raid was expected, | preceding, demands some explanation found expression in Sweeney Among | from the atomistic materialist. It the Nightingales (written in 1917). proves impossible for the latter to re- _7In regard to_, versification, Mr.| fute these objections of the dualist, Eliot says: ‘The tendency today is| yet the dualist’s victory is-unsatisfac- away from freedom, towards a newer | tory, for his theory is sterile, and form or a revival of older forms.” | people prefer the good praetical re- Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, | sults of materialism, though not true. and Gerard Hopkins, the “three best! The great desideratum for the ra: modern English poets,”, have especial-' terjalist, who recognizes the weak- ly influenced ‘versification in recent! nesses of atomic monism, yet wishes years. “What more influences peo-| ple is versification rather than mat-|to find. something, physical and ma- ter.” It was as long ago as 1917) terial, which will meet the demand that T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to-| for explaining the mind better than gether decided that free verse had) the atoms. Suppose he looks to the gone too far and that something|component of the material world must be done about it. This “some-| other Ahan the atoms, the ether in thing” resulted in “Mr. Eliot’s qua-| which the atoms are, what we may trains about Sweeney, modeled on| call the field. Perhaps mind congists Theophile Gautier’s style. really of a series of ane aca, The verse of Wilfred Owen, a war | paratively permanent modifications poet, and that of the Jesuit. priest,|in the field, and every mental state Gerard Hopkins; have played an es-|is a form of potential energy. into pecially important role in the new); which kinetic energies of incoming modern metaphorical system. Hop-| nerve currents are transformed. kins’ poetry has only become popular in England during the last two or three years, for Robert Bridges, the late poet-laureate and the owner of Hopkins’ manuscripts, refused to let| jn the medium, field, or ether. Each them be published. Mr. Eliot read! sensory impact leaves such a form a passage from Hopkins’ The Leaden) jn the brain, and so there grows up Echo and the Golden Echo. These) an increasingly rich, deep, and com- lines illustrated the fact that, in| plicated hierarchy: of strains, which ae eas : Hopkins case, inventing new forms! accounts for the layers of sensations was very different from merely cast-! jn the mind. ins’ | | ing off old ones. Hopkins’ most ex | Potential energy is the only physi- treme work has some of the elements, ,. ; : . , ste | cal fand material thing that comes up of Gertrude Stein’s manner or of ie ; hat we know mind’and conscious- sige | to w Joyce’s latest work. The psychologist ; will, to answer thé dualist’s objections, is The brain is a species of energy- trap, retaining infinitesimal parts of incoming currents of kinetic energy, which are caught as a form of strain iness to be. “There are not very many contem-' however, wish to reverse the physic- porary poets who much interest me,”' jst’s definition of kinetic ‘and poten- says Mr. Eliot. He admits the beau-| tial energy, for to the latter, whose ty. of Yeats’ poetry, especially his| interest is.in external manifestations, Memorial, Poems and The Tower.| potential appears merely: a corollary Through his cantos, Yeats affected | of kinetic, whereas, to the former, ki- Archibald - MacLeish’s generation! neti¢ seems the potentiality of what “and,” adds Mr. Eliot, “I hope, my-|is really actual, though to outsiders self.” Young poets are now going] it is nothing but motion. At any back to earlier English and Scottish| rate, the conception which the mate- poetry—that of Skelton and Dunbar,! rialist here proposes is materialistic for example. and quantitative, and explains mind Mr. Eliot’s ilustrative reading in-| as it is actually found to,be from_in- cluded a poem of Ezra, Pound’s, in| direct behaviorist study and also which Pound analyzes himself and | from introspection. his life in: England. Of his own; : sano | - ee read mmeeney| Because of their general disregard mong the Nightingales, Gerontion,|o¢ a1] rules and because of their parts two and five of Ash Wednes- ‘general attitude toward upperclass- day, the first and second parts oft ai » +h ’ : ‘ } e Freshmen at Was “The Triumphal March” a. a ashington from the College are deprived for 2 “First Difficulty” of the Difficulties |tne privileges of et anlage. - of A Statesman, five | short poems |brary from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. and of concerned with the study and rela- having any kind of date from 5 P.M. tionship of human beings and small | to 7 P-a—N, a. 8 AD domestic animals, and a passage from | the Fragment of an Agon in Swee-| ney Agonistes. For these poems he: admitted borrowing material from! The Education of Henry Adams, the, Sermons of Donne and of Launcelot | Andrews, from Shakespeare’s Meas- | ure For Measure and Pericles, the} PHILIP HARRISON STORE BRYN MAWR, PA. 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Neverthe- | ess, this new Eastern State Peniten- tidry is a tremendous , improvement over the old-fashioned penitentiaries, where the inmates are,locked up at least half the day. into a silly green frog, which hopped quite clumsily across the stage, to the huge delight of the youngsters. “Snow White” “was quite in the spirit if not in the letter.of the favorite fairy tale.” Advertisers in this paper are relia- ble merchants. Deal with them. Read the advertisements! $< omething to Vay « vol fied saying somelleing A friend of CHESTERFIELD writes us of a salesman who had “something to say”’: “I dropped into a little tobacco shop, and when I asked for a pack of Chest- erfields the man smiled and told me I was the seventh customer without a break to ask for Chesterfields. ‘Smoker after smoker,’ he said, ‘tells me that Chesterfields click ...I*sell five times as many Chesterfields as I did a while back.’” Yes, there’s something to say about Chest- erfields and it takes just six words to say it—“They’re mild and yet they satisfy.” Wherever you buy Chesterfields,youget them just as fresh as if you came by our factory door ' S Page Six THE. COLI EGE NEWS Russian; Ballet is Synthesis of Arts (Continued trom Page One) stretch ‘a plaid ribbon across their breasts. ‘It had become,' through many years, a highly stylized, almost rit- ualized ceremony. The plots might ‘be taken from classical Roman or Greék mythologies, even from Racine; later Gautier wrote romantic stories fot it, and the German archeological discoveries in Egypt inspired a ballet called “The Daughter. of Pharoah.” At the end of tne nineteenth century, the ballet had almost petrified into a superb technical instruzaent which repeated itself in all its essentials for fifty years. Russia was not the only place .where’~ there - were ballets; France had her Academie Nationale de la Musique et de la Danse since 1643. But Russia from France and Italy had created a. kind of style which was neither too formal or too elegant on the one hand, nor too acrobatic on the other, a style of dancing admirable suited to be used, if done rightly, for the expression of dramatic ideas. The arts of painting, which natur- ally influenced the settings of the ballets, ‘were divided into two big | Diaghilev, categories. There were the Russian yr Slavic nationalists, who wished to heritance from Byzantium, and the school of Russians who had been to Pais om Munich or had studied in i‘lorence. These men stylized Rus- sian painting in: an academy of competent story-telling. The revolu- tion of Delacroix, or Courbet, reached Russia only. through Germany. In music, Western Europe knew Rus- sia only by Tchaikovsky and by Ru- venstein. At the end of the century, “rance, if a blur of impressionism, and: England following as close as possible after France, were totally unprepared for the astonishment which they were to receive in the form of the Russian Ballet. About this time Sergéi Pavlovitch an aristocrat.from St. Petersburg, visited Paris and saw the exhibitions of the _Impressidnists Monet, Picasso, Gaugin and Van Gogh. He brought a number of these works back. to. Russia, and amazed the academic artists. Then he sent Russian art to Paris, and Leon Bakst, a young Jew, who had become at- tached to Daighlev’s group, designed the. installation. Bakst was a great luminary in the constellation of the ballet, an oriental, with an amazing eye for what is most effective on the ; stage, and a passion for Greece and revive, or to perpetuate, the style of} the ikon; the traditional Russian” in- Persia. Diaghilev also organized’ a series of five evenings of historic mu- sic, during which he played Russian pieces, whose composers were - prob- ubly not even names to these Parisian music lovers. Diaghilev’s next inva- sion of Paris took the form of the opera. Finally, the only thing which he had not shown the Western world was the ballet: It is quite impossi- ble for us to imagine the surprise that the Parisians got .at that first per- formance, because we are all fami- liar with .““modern music,” such