” individual. “his friends, hears atecture; ori — a ‘VOL, ESF ‘NO. 10" ~ INDIVIDUALISM Ss a “ENEMY. OF SOVIET ‘Collectivism : Barvaden the Fac opaece——tories;, Homes-and~— . Schools. - ‘SEEK OUR SUPPORT “ReVolution is the animating spirit of Soviet Collectivism; it is the re- ligion of the Russian péople and Lenin is its prophet,”- said Mrs. Jackson Flemming in.a most interesting lecture. given in Goodhart, Thursday, Decem- ber 13. The Russian “collective,” Mrs. Flem-| ming went on to tell us, is the factory. The factories are thought of, not as a huge ‘mass of stone without personality, but as a great person in itself. The workers are made ‘to feel the rhythm of their machines, and to submerge their own personalities into that of the machine. No-one has any in- ,~dividuality, for that is considered: by «the Soviets asthe‘ one thing to be fought against among its members. . When the working hours are over, the collectivist doés not return to his family hearth, for that: would be too He: goes down ifito the club room of- the factory, chats with a concert. ‘Children Eat in Unison ‘Fhe factories are equipped with beautiful nurseries: At feeding time the mother goes down into the nursery, feeds her baby, and comes: back im- mediately. The children are taught from infancy to think nothing but col- lectivism. One child, no matter how young, never sits alone ata table; there are always four. ‘Then one child ‘gets spoons, one bread, etc., until everyone is served, then all eat together—in uni- son, as it were: After lunch all the children take naps and are watched by children of six or seven, not: because it is imperative that they sleep for any reasons of health, but because the older children must become accustomed to taking the responsibility of their col- ‘lective, though it bé nothing more important than a nursery. — If a girl meets a man whom she loves and would like to marry, there are three ways in which she may do so. These ways are all legalized by the state, as the collectivists are very anxious that large families may be ‘Yaised to carry on the work. If the couples are not communists they may be Married ‘by the usual.church service (communists are expelled from the organization if they. ate ‘married by~the church).. Or they..may be married by ‘the civil. service; bat if neither of. these “ways seem convenient, they’ can just live Continued on Page Three Chitistmas Music Forms League’s, Sunday Service The Suriday evening meeting of the Bryn Mawr League was held in the Music Room of Goodhart December 17. The meeting was led by Constance Speer, 730, and consisted of a musical ‘service. Christmas carols were sung by the choir and Mr. Willoughby played’an organ number from Handel’s Christmas oratorio, The Messiah. The program was as follows: Processional, Hymn 45—“O come O come Emmanuel” ..Ancient Plain Song “Choir “The Grasmere Carol” “On Christmas Day” ; Geoffrey Shaw (old English Herefordshire Carol) | arranged by Vaughan Williams Solo by Agnes Howell i ‘Hymn 48—“Come Thou long ex- pected Jesus” ... Tune Stuttgart Prayers , Organ—“Pastorale Symphony” (from Messiah) ... 2... peices . Han Mr. Willoughby Choir—“Good news from Heaven,” Bach; “Bethlehem” Recessional Hymn—“Hark, the Herald ee ee ol eee Ged ees ae 3 Outside Philadelphia As concerts, theaters, movies. and public gatherings are banned this week, and as nekt week we will all “>. Sfar from here, we wd -not-tempt our readers with a catalogue of forbiddery, fruit. Go where the germs are a little scantier! THIRD JEWEL OF GOODHART SERIES String Quartet W With Ailesvon _ Brilliantly Presents" hight Mx Music. ENCORES “ARE. UNUSUAL The New York String - Chipieet: third jewel in the royal diadem of The ’ brilliance last Tuesday evening. Our readers ,are tired of hearing how well the college looked on its red plush seats in its evening dresses,-and with- out’ boxes or. dinner-parties before- hand the society editor soon finds her fund of enthusiastic comment § ex- hausted. Bring in the musical editor then. &|-Unfortunately. she has succumbed to ,the grip ¢pidemic and is long. past caring for sweet sounds. We can only report what impressed the layman. _ As entertainment, the program could not have been better. The four play- ers, who for three years never passed a day without playing together and never in all that time gave a public performance, are examples: of what real devotion to an idea can’ accomp- lish. Brilliance is not uncommon in modern art in any form, but in no art but music, and .in that only rarely, can be found such patient and willing effort. Mr. Alwyne attuned his , play- ing so_well to theirs: that one might almost have thougkt he had shared. in those three years of preparation. , _ We are not used, im the Philadelphia concerts; to hearing encores; and' were agreeably surprised that what followed Schubert was not -Borodin,- but .-a gratuitous extra rieasure. thrown “in. It was light and charming as encores should ‘be, and brief as it was pleasant. The next encore,: played between.-sec- tions II and III, was even nicer. But (the. musical editor being ill) we can- not name either. -If»-there. was any — Jeet to the program it was that it was all too foamy; music of the salon rather than the concert’hall. We would have liked spares -DaOre. “solid er a “piece -de resistance.” After the ‘last nee. the audience ‘applauded wildly and hopefully for full five minutes. CBut the quartet and Mr. Alwyne would do no more than come in and bow. The program, minus the encores, was as follows: I Schubert, Quartet in A iinor: Op. 29 Tl (a) Borodin i. iss ence . Notturno (b)- Glazounov......o.o:.6:0.6-.» Orientale III Dvorak, Piano Quintet in A Majes: re 81 Movies Proved Injurious “by Debaters So said Miss-Poe and Miss Humphreys, supporting the affirmative in Tuesday’s debate, and the judges, Dr. Smith, Dr. Herben and Miss Lambert, awatded them the victory. The defeated negative was upheld. by Miss Loomis and Miss Sher- ley, who, however, was complimented .on her rebuttal. The affirmative painted in graphic. colors the :moral degeneration dei } sure to result from. contact with the fake, wicked and unintellectual , movie stars on and off the stage. =i; Miss Metrill. announced ffiat next se- mester a-debate would be held with out- Goodhart Series, sparkled with unusual. ‘ The movies should. be done ‘away with. 2 ‘college will weleome one: of the most de- | i Hetard ‘to Speak | Contemporary Poetry Chosen as Subject of French _ Writer.. _ (Specially contributed by Miss Gilman.) lightful, as well as one of the most. dis- tinguished of French scholars and teach- ers, Mr. Paul Hazard, ‘Professor “at the College de France, who ‘will lecture ons “La Poesie contemporaine.” Mr. Hazard’s special field is compara- tive literature, the youngest branch of literary historys and criticism, which. he has himself defined as “l’etfort de. saisir les echanges intellectuels . qui -s’operent entre les: peuples.” italiennes, and --he rapidly became one of the leaders in the field. In 1921, with Mr. Fernand Baldensperger, he founded the Revue de litterature comparee, with its accompanying Bibliotheque, to which scholars from all parts of the world are contributors. Mr. Hazard has often said that for dhe student of comparative. literature the study of books ghould be supplemented by -direct contact with different civiliza- tions. He himself has traveled widely in Germany, England, Italy (which he calls. “ma seconde patrie”),~Spain and South America. In 1923 he was visit- ing professor at Columbia for the sum-, mer session, and this last summer at the University of Chicago, and he is at pres- ent visiting professor at Harvard. Among Mr, Hazard’s nymerous books and articles, the most recent is the de- lightful Vie de Stendhal which appeared last year. He is also joint editor, with Mr. Joseph Bedier, gf the Histoire illustree de la litterature franéaise, which was greeted with enthusiasm~ four years ago. This year the French Academy has awarded him the Grand Prix Broquette- Gonin “pour |’ emSemble de ses oeuvres.” In speaking of his teaching Mr. Hazard once said that if he were to write a book on pedagogy he would include a chapter entitled “De l’influence des eleves sur le professeur.” In his teaching he has add- ed to the qualities of his scholarly work, the charm and vividness of his presenta- tion of his carefully documented material a most lively and generous interest in his students and their work. To foreign students especially his kindness has been unbounded.°: His teaching at the -Uni- versity,-of -Lyons-was interrupted by the war, in which he won the Croix de Guerre, with the citation “Officer.de haute valeur intellectuelle et morale qui a rendu de brillants services.- . Plein d’en= train et anime d’un sefitiment du-devoir tres eleve, s’ést a maintes reprises offert spontanement pour accomplir des mis- sions dangereuses en‘premieré ligne.” At the close of the war he was appointed to the Sorbonne where, his class rooms were filled to overflowing with enthusiastic students. In 1925 he »was called to the College de France—the highest honor which can come to a French professor. Contemporaty literature is one of Mr. Hazard’s great™interests, and the subject of his lecture,.“‘La-Poesie contemporaine,” can hardly fail to attract the Bryn Mawr audience for whom poetry, it:seems, has always a, special appeal. Erudite’ Speeches. at Math Club Meeting The: Math Club held its second meet- ing .of the year on Thursday afternoon in the May Day room. Ruth Kitchen spoke on Congruence and Juliet Gar- rett spoke on the Tri-Section of the Angle and the Duplication of the Cube}. The _members who are privileged to hear. and understand these discussions are all past or present members of the major math class. After the talks tea was served, followed by discussion. The meetings’ are supposed to take at the. first one. . The. officers of. the On. Tuesday erectingy, January 8, the] ’} His “thesis was’ on} La Revolution’ francaise et les Lettres| place once a month. Dr. Widder spoke}: TVARSITY DRAMATICS Cl CHOOSES -POOR PLAY, BUT ACTS WELL | Mire Muber i xerurne™ Dhan. Gopal ‘Miikerji, who thrilled Bryn Mawr. undergrad- uates last year by telling them how, ‘TSythey could learn the secret of true .Tepose, is coming again on the tenth «of January, and ‘will speak in the Music Room in the after- - ‘noon at 4, Mr. Mukerji not only knows and- understands his own country, but he has lived here long ‘enough to enter into the spirit, of ours anéto speak its language with compelling force. He will probably say’ something about the modern problems ‘of: India, on which he is an authority. Aynong his well- known books are Caste and Out- 1° cast, and: My Brother’s Face. Miss Peek Offers a More Aloof Criticism of Play | Two opinions are always more. inter- esting than one, particularly when .one is an undergraduate opinion and the other from the bosom of the faculty. We know each other too well; and even the glam- orous footlights cannot give the iMu- | sion necessary for netic cmd arama and lack of prejudice. Miss Peek con- sented to play the part of the aloof dra- matic critic; and, strangely enough, aloofness and familiarity have arrived at nearly: the same conclusions. (Specially Contributed by K. Peek, '99) Mr. Halcott Glover’s comedy, Bellairs, presented by Varsity Dramatics, proved to be scarcely a. fair criterion. of the skill of the playwright, nor of the ability of the Bryn Mawr players. We feel that Mr, Glover ought to adopt Mr. Bernard Shaw’s policy of refusing to allow his plays to be« performed. under. circum- stances which necessitate cutting. Bellairs, essentially a sophisticated, breezy comedy of the private life of an English artist who, in spite of himself, is hunted down in his “retirement” by family résponsi- bilities, had to be shorn of: most ‘of its sophistication and_ breeziness before “it could suitably grace the Bryn ‘Mawr boards. The actors, in © consequence, | found themSelves left with a somewhat flat, thoroughly mediocre piece on their hands. Most of its raison d’ctre had been censored, and it responded only feebly to their very excellent efforts to carry it. é Miss Rieser-as Bellairs himself gave on the whole a convincing interpretation of the harassed artist.She was. thoroughly in character throughout her performance, “temperamental, ” quixotic, and all the rest of” it. She kept up the tempo-of-the scenés easily and they pivoted around her as they were meant to do. There was not, perhaps, enough contrast in her play- ing, and her gestures, excellent at first, tended fo become stereotyped and repeti- tious. She made the mistake of failing to give Bellairs the full benefit of his few expansive, genial moments; his cynicism was tinged alternately with youthful and senile malice, never with seasoned sophistication. Miss Learned’s Betty Barclay fell somewhere’ between the pert, pretty barmaid, and the sharp slavey. She played the part without real emphasis, -but with admirable composure and with charming,moments. Miss Perk- kins as Dorothy Bellairs looked de- lightful and acted delightfully. She was thoroughly convincing as , she voiced her romantic aspiration to take to the open road with her young vaga- bond, Giovanni, who, as played by Miss Thomas, made such an aspiration quite understandable. Miss Thomas with her truly Latin ardour and lucid common sense made the right contrast with the cold-blooded, muddled-headed: English about her. —- Miss Drake gave perhaps the most finished piece of acting of the evening. Her® Diaria Martin was .amusing, spir- ited and well-accented. It was a pleas- ly Didepcemtine: : at *+~hion ine Spite of Goad ice. and Staging. TWO CRITICS AGREE Bellairs, a play by Halcott Glover, was given in Goodhart Hall on Saturday ftight by. the Varsity Dramatics. Be- cause it was the first undergraduate pro- duction in Goodhart Hall, because it had enjoyed the benefits of professional ‘coaching, and because of ‘the amount of work that las, been put into it, we went -with high hopes. We came away dis- appointed. ‘ Goodhart, 4s always, looked lovely; so did the. ushers, an unusually numerous bevy of beauties ; so did the program, which seeméd to contain, in one capacity or another, half the -people.in college; so, finally, when the curtain went up, did - the stage. The scenery committee had worked wonders, Varsity Dramatics has been clamoring for a stage where they could have adequate scenery, and they proved themselves in that respect worthy of it. The scene painters had worked day and night since Thursday, and the effect was charming. : “The first two-acts- were laid-in-a-gar= den, with a-red brick cottage atthe back, a blue sky which was cheerful if un- English, trees peeping aver the high walls and pleasant garden chairs. The walls were decked with vines—our own col- lege vines, looking even better on red brick than they do on gray stone. : So we waited eagerly ror the play to begin. An attractive young girl was say- ing nasty things to her father, the old Continued on Page Three . Religion Defaults Quest for Spiritual Welfare Is Both Important and Exciting. Only about twelve stugénts -had sufficient erfergy to attend pel Fri- day morning, December 14. The sub- ject. which Mrs. Manning chose was very apropos. She discussed the real need of Bryn Mawr and other colleges for religious life and why colleges were accused of not taking care of that side of the students’ life. Religion goes by default rather than by direct under- mining of beliefs with which~youth starts-out; A great_deal: of. this is lost because they thimk there are so many more exciting things gging-on in col-—— lege, “Young people dite a terrible mistake,” Mrs. Manning thinks, “in thus regarding other things as more exciting ‘than the consideration of the ultimate good, toward which they can look forward.” - There is nothing more exciting than that quest. Students.are really interested but they have too little opportunity to see things through. It might be a good idea, M¥s. Man- ning suggested, if each member. of the faculty..could speak during the. year about this subject. . Rut they could not on account of the societies. Per- haps it is for the best that they cannot, for we are often disappointed when we hear some one explain their views. Mrs. Manhing illustrated this:by Mr. Watson’s lecture on’ Behaviorism.- After he had brought forward an ex- cellent idea, he went on to give grue- some details about married life, also he defined happiness, “Happiness is an ‘absorption in activity. This idea cer- tainly. shows no great new creative effort. It is an animal idéa of satisfac- tion and absorption in what you are doing at the moment. “Spiritual welfare is really preferable to bodily comfort.” The greatest diffi- culty is the question of time. That is all the more reason why we should take all the opportunities we have be- 2 . ,Angels Sing” ..... om eaptetanche: _side speakers. The audience was smaller | club are: Agnes Hannay, president; cause the more we think about these : Benpiliction ~ ‘than usnal, aa et aa lengthy |‘C. Peckham, vice president, and R.| 8f¢ t have her on the stage. is things the more interesting they be- “Adeste Fideles” sick-list, ‘Kitchen, secretary. Continued on Page ie ote i * ey eRe Bnet eiiiin di ccand sali merematee incite