VOL. XX, No. 24 COLLEGE '& BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934 fopyyright BRYN MAWR NEWS, PRICE 10 CENTS 1934 oem Pro Arte Quartet Presents Concert 7 Artistry and Technical Precision Are Displayed in, Rendering — Romantic . Music FAME IS DUE QUARTET (Especially Contributed by Molly Atmore Ten Broeck, ’32) A large and extremely appreciative audience greeted the Pro Arte Quar- tet in its first appearance at Bryn Mawr on Sunday night.. Offering a ' program of scholarly and _ elevated works, the quartet gave ample evi- dence of the artistry, preciseness of technique and_ interpretation for which they are justly famed. Sunday~night’s program consisted of three quartets, which are to be classed in the Romantic School. The first of these, the Beethoven F Major, op. 135, is rarely performed. It is Beethoven’s last quartet and one of his last important works. It is typical of his third period, showing .a decided -tendency towards the personal, the enigmatic, the esoteric. As performed by the Pro Arte Quartet, all these characteristics were clearly brought out. The sudden ending of the first movement; the forcefulness, rhythmic emphasis, and difficult polyphonic web of the second movement gave the hear- er an extraordinary feeling of blind groping after Beethoven’s actual per- sonality. The lovely, plaintive melo- dies of the third movement were most sympathetically performed. Compar- able to a Romanza, the music here seemed mysterious but simple and the Quartet did marvelous justice to the delicate beauty of the instrumental coloring. As a, whole this Beethoven Quartet sounded startlingly modern — even “modernistic.” Paradoxically, the Chadwick Quartet, No. 5, in D Minor, gave a feeling of rest and relief. George Whitfield Chadwick was one of a group of nineteenth century Bos- ton composers of whom Arthur Foote is the most. celebrated, “whose object was not primarily to create an Ameri- can School, but to write good music as they had learned it through classic and romantic channels.” Chadwick’s quartet proved to be in tremendous contrast to the Beethoven Continued on Page Two New York Bryn Mawr Club Lowers Dues fot Alumnae Of special interest to Seniors living within a radius of forty miles of New York is the news that the New York Bryn Mawr Club has drastically low- - ered its schedule of dues for resident s . - months’ dues. * cards , to answer questions, and to explain members who are recent Alumnae. Heretofore, all resident members — those living within a radius of forty miles of New York — were charged $25.00 annually. Now the schedule has been lowered as follows: Those out of college less than three ‘years pay annual dues of $10.00. Those out of college three and four yearspay annual dues of $15.00. Those out of college five years pay annual dues of $20.00. Thereafter the annual $25.00. Seniors joining now may pay $10.00 and will net be billed again for dues ,, until October, 1935. In other words, -they—will—receive-seventeen—months’. privileges for the price of twelve Those who have stop- ped in at the Club at the Park Lane Hotel understand why membership. in the Club is so desirable. Non-resident dues are still $10.00, and undergradu- ate, $5.00 annually. Non-resident and undergraduate members may have all club privileges except those of voting and holding office. All Bryn Mawr students and gradu- ates are very welcome to drop in at the Club,whenever they are in New York. In fairness to,members, guest t be obtained before using the privileges. The secretary at the ( desk will be very glad to show visi- tors around the rooms and the hotel, dues—are- \ Principals:in The Gondoliers an: a From left to right—Maryallis Morgan, '36; Helen Ripley, °35; Joan iibstinecn. "35 Henrietta Scott, °36; Susan Morse, 735;’Margaret Righter, "34, and Agnes Halsey, °36 Dean Manning Talks |Freshmen Give One-Acts | Arnold Genthe Talks : eae Before Amused Audience | i. About Questionnaire on Isadora Duncan The three one-act plays presented; ~- ; : Questionnaire’s Value Vitiated,°Y ‘he Freshmen were a bit on the Duncan Dancing Photographs by Inaccurate Looseness jsadder side of life; there was one, Taken in Effort to Catch ‘ ‘grim and bitter tragedy, one tragedy. . : of Terminology \that wis ‘not so grim, and a, comedy. | Rhythmic Motion The authors were, respectively, Vir-' STATISTICS NOT VALID gina Dorsey, Leigh Steinhardt, and, MOVIES NEGLECT DANCE Souk in Chapel cu lg News! Mace emery Getnanah™, WM USS assist win tw ptt sth Questionnaire” last Thursday, Dean we had been led to expect, and the that has its origin in the’ soul,” said Manning said that there had been acting quite good, considering the) )'™ AS Maa SEAR ON ee: ¢ short time allowed for rehearsals, ora Dumgan in the Deanery on Mon- production was by no means finishe the | : : d | day afternoon. His own ideal, as he iThe prompting was quite audible and : on reading it was one of mystification | the scenery prone to collapse at any tographs which he showed, was to por- many excellent and sage criticisms 0 the questionnaire. Her first feeling ‘expressed it in his talk and in the pho- shout: the terminology. She wondered | moment. Aside from euch minor de- | tay this rhythm of motion in photo- resin Ae op Pau nat tails, the plays were enjoyable ang |SeSPms se y terms in which | produced prolonged cases of hysteria| In spite of his understanding and to describe college work, and wished | among the audience. artistic work, Miss Duncan was at that “reasoning power,” a far more’ The first piece to be presented, Miss | first unwilling to have her picture valuable quality/for any course to de- Dorsey’s Mom, was stark, dreary sor-| taken, for she was camera shy. When mand, had been included. She ques-' row, with all the characters repressed | it became necessary. for her to have tioned the, undergraduate idea that and appallingly moronic. The scene! Photograph for a passport, she went courses in mathematics and science| was a poverty-stricken Maine farm-| to Mr. Genthe and discovered that the could be described as needing mem-’ house in which drab and-unhappy peo-| Process was easy and the results ex- ory,” and wondered how “trends”! nje carried rabbits’ feet around their ¢ellent. After that she allowed her- could possibly be included in Physics. | necks and bemoaned their fate. The self to be photographed not for identi- Science courses could not be said to ' optimistic mother carried a lantern out | fication but for art. have too many details, for details are to a rock every night to light home| The first picture of her which Mr. necessary in illustration of scientific: joy Jost sailor husband, William, who | Genthe showed was simply her face, principles. She felt that the loose ter-! had not come back from sea after six-| half lost in shadow, that emphasized minology vitiated the value of the) teen years, and when she was ill, the the pure lines of her forehead, nose, questionnaire, and criticised the bland gull Dan put it out. She refused to,and mouth. She herself called it “her assumptions of the editors in making 'jeaye the little farm, because: of her Very soul.” In the next picture she up the statistics and in ‘writing the! faithfulness to the obviously defunct Was dancing “The Marseillaise” and editorial, for the questionnaire con-|wijjiam, Faced with the problem of|advancing with upflung arms and tained a morass of phrases which may | p64 being allowed to perform her serv- head thrown back. Many of the pho- have meant one thing to some people | ice of love, she stole out into the tographs were not of her, but of danc- and something quite different to | gark cold night—without her rabbit’s|¢rs who followed her ideals. They others. : _. |foot—and froze in the snow. Leigh, Were often pictured dancing before the ad cera oe and — Steinhardt, as Martha, was by far the Sea’ and cutting its horizon with the [must obviously rest on memory,” : bade ® hae’ non the same time it must be recognized | committal and disinterested. Miss Mus-, Another group of photographs was that the efficacy of memorizing depends... was fairly good, but very apt to reniiniscent of Greek sculpture. Mr. on organizing the material. The stu- ' forget her lines, and Virginia Lautz) Genthe explained that Isadora Duncan dents who answered the questionnaire | played the mother aswell as could be did not approve of the term “Greek did-not-seem-to-realize the extent. to | ..nected-under-the-circumstances;,but, dancers” applied to her and her school. which memory is linked with a capac- yiss Dorsey was too enthusiastic and | She protested’ that her inspiration was ity for organization and with the abil- | anconvincing as collegiate Bill. What primarily American — the poetry of ity to point a general tendency and |... most incomprehensible, however, Walt Whitman and her own grand- to see the relation of the details eae the possibility of anyone’s, even mother’s Irish jigs, and secondarily, the tendencies. Pee ‘though. aged and convalescent, freez- | the music of Beethoven and Wagner, In making up the statistics, the j,5 to death in one minute flat. That and the philosophy of Nietzche. Yet at best actress: she was completely non-|Curves-of their bodies and-draperies- | Glee Cluby Renders Operetta Skillfully Chorus Singing agd Enunciation Are Unusually Noteworthy in Gondoliers ~ Beko RIGHTER WINS PRAISE (Especially Contributed by D. Havi- land. Nelson) : Amateur musical productions usu- ally call forth sighs and groans from those who, for one reason or another, ' are forced to attend them, but surely the Bryn Mawr presentations of Gil- bert and Sullivan are exceptions, They * are not only traditional, but success- ful, and The Gondoliers is. undoubted- ly one of the brightest feathers in the Glee Club’s cap. Certainly the audi- ence felt so—we have seldom seen one so enthusiastic nor so eager for encores. The choice of the operetta was a good stroke; it is seldom given, and besides attracting many people who have grown a little tired of the more hackneyed ones, it gave us one of our few chances to see it. The. music is known to be the best that Sullivan ever wrote, and that is say- ing something when we consider that Gilbert and Sullivan are in any of their operettas a combination that can do no wrong. : Very great praise indeed is dué Mr. Willoughby and Miss Hopkinson for their training of the chorus. Ngt only was the chorus’ singing excellent; but their enunciation was so clear that we could hear the words of the songs even in the back rows—an achieve- ment even for a professional company, for only too often Gilbert’s wit van- ishes some ten feet beyond the foot- lights. The movement of the chor- uses, too, was unusual; they seemed to take some interest in the proceed- ings, and their action as well as their singing had considerable élan and was beautifully co-ordinated. This was especially evident in the opening of the second act, where the gondoliers go on their various ways with serene disregard of the kings, and in the now famous cachuca, where the dancing of the chorus harmonized remarkably with that of the four dancers. The cachuca was without doubt one of the high spots of the production, and we were both surprised and pleased with the efficient training the quartette re- ceived and the verve with which they performed. Judging from the ap- plause, the verdict of the audience 7 was, “We love it, we love it, we can’t give it up.” Continued on Page Three CALENDAR Thursday, May 17: Informal Recital by the College Dancing Classes. Deanery Garden, 8.15 P.. M. Friday, May 18: Last Day of ' Classes. Saturday, May 19: Third . Concert’ in Series by the Pro Arte String Quartet of Brus- sels. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M. Sunday, May 20; Chapel Servicé conducted by Rev. We Brooks “Stabler. Out-of-doors, below Music Watk—(except—it- , case of rain, when it will be held in the Music Room), 7.30 P. M. Monday, May 21: Examina- tions begin. é Thursday, May 24: Main Line Orchestra Concert: Good- hart, 8.20 P. M. Friday, June 1: Examina- tions end. Sunday, June 3: Baccalaure- ate Sermon by the Rev. Donald number voting or the prdportion of | the number voting to the entire class | should have been given. Dean Man-| ning did not feel, however, that the, failure to do this was of. paramount importance, for In her work with the, Curriculum Committee she has found | that opinion is always divided and| that minority votes must be taken into however, that every course is ; to have a certain number of students who are dead wood, who do not like the routine of obtaining guest cards. consideration. It must be remembered, | Continued on Page Four oe was the crowning touch. Miss Hutching’s Simple Folk was very amusing and well acted. The dia- Continued on Page Six Comprehensives _ The faculty has voted in favor of the proposed plan for general senior comprehensives. The date for the first comprehensive examinations is ‘to be determined next fall. , these photographs were of a distinct- ly Greek quality. Some were like the Continued on Page Four Faculty Honored At the University of Dela- ware’s Centenary Exhibition, Dean Schenck received the Cross of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic. .It was pre- sented to her by the French Ambassador. - versity. --Wednesday, June 6: MacKenzie, D.D., Professor of Biblical Theology at the Theo- logical Seminary, Princeton Uni- Goodhart, 8.20 P. M. June 5: Senior 4.00-7:00 P. M. Confer- ring of Degrees. Address by Dr. Karl T: Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolegy, Cambridge, Mass. 11.00 A. M. Tuesday, Garden Party. a a at Be. a aa oe pg te 9 She g a young who suffer from ‘their youth. _ THE COLLEGE NEWS | THE COLLEGE NEWS “~(Founded~-in= 1914) Publisfied weekly during the College Year (excepting during a Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn — College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. pe The College News is “talle protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission,of the Haltor-in-Chiet. Copy Editor... -« DIANA TATE-SMITH, ’35 ELIZABETH LYLE, ’37 HELEN FISHER, ’37 cane Dune "37 PHYLLIS -GOODHART, ’35 EpitH Ross, ’37 FRANCES VANKEUREN, ’35 Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor PRISCILLA Howe, ’35 BARBARA CARY, 736 Business Manager Subscription Manager BARBARA LEWIS, ’35 ° MARGOT BEROLZHEIMER, 735 Pe Réitorte:Chié f GERALDINE RHOADS, ’35 : Editors LETITIA BROWN, ’37 a Assistants DOREEN CANADAY, ’36 LOUISE STEINHART, 31 , SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING P ICE, $3. 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIM eo Post Office 2g Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., God Bless Our Faculty In the face of a dense silence on the part of the undergraduates, the comprehensive system has finally been approved by a faculty which does not yet know whether it has given the undergraduates what they want. The faculty felt, however, that the necessity of facing a compre- hensive examination would lead the undergraduates to choose their courses more intelligently and to take their courses with the idea that they could not be blithely forgotten the day college closed in June. There can be no doubt that the faculty is right in thinking that these results will have to follow; we all know that the comprehensives will necessitate more intelligent work on our part, and much as we hate to admit it, we secretly are pleased that they have been adopted. None of us would come to Bryn Mawr at all if she did not want to do work which could not be scorned by anyone. The comprehensives are undoubtedly going to make more of that sort of work necessary to get a Bryn Mawr degree, but they will also make the Bryn Mawr degree mean just that much more, and we can be all the prouder of it when we get it. It is a little terrifying to face.the thought of taking a comprehensive : the prospeet of remembering everything we have stud- ied in our major work is notsa very pleasing ong: Nevertheless, our years in college have taught us that what must be done is done some- how, even though we feel sure while we are doing it, that if we were to study forty-eight hours in every day, we could not possibly get ll our work finished. Classes.will come up to take the comprehensives complaining bitterly and feeling like martyrs to the cause; they will proceed to pass them, and get. their degrees, and leave college feeling that they have had a well co-ordinated set of courses with which they are thoroughly familiar, and that they have done four years of intel- ligently planned work. All of us, terrified though we may be, must approve of this step forward toward making us do better work which the faculty has wisely taken in our behalf. Sing Hey! We have always wished that.a tradition be started around campus concerning Glee Club ghosts on the Music Walk. Apparitions there could lend pleasure and distinction to Bryn Mawr. And now that spring flowers have bloomed, and lovesick maidens passed the spring- tide of romance, and the fandango remains: an air to be mutilated by the undergraduate public, come home weary from the dance to sing “nitter, pitter, patter” as if it were the Miserere, we are ready to be sentimental about Gilbert and Sullivan. We are usually afraid to voice any opinion about college productions, first, because we doubt that.the undergraduate body accompanied us to the performance, and second, because we are none too sure that those who were with us will concur in our sentiments. This time, however, we feel we cannot be too rash: this year’s Glee Club production was a marked success, and if it were not for the fact that we look back on several Glee Club performances that were equally good and that we look forward to a long succession of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the present tradition of excellence, we could hold it up as a great example of Bryn Mawr’s accomplishments. --As it is, we must say simply that we, and all our sisters, cousins, aunts and other relatives are always delighted to see any Gilbert and Sulli- van production, and that it overjoys us to know that the path to Good- hart has been worn bare by the many feet of the performers in The Gondoliers. “Qur demand for what we might call “wholesale cavorting ‘on Goodhart stage” has been satisfied, and we should like to see more of the same sort of thing. We are anticipating a continued haunting of Goodhart by the large undergraduate companies that work on Glee Club productions, and we know that it will be a merry throng doing a shadowy fandango on the Musi¢ Walk. i L IN PHILADELPHIA ” Theatres Broad: The Wind and the Rain, with Morgan Farley and. Wendy At- kins. A young medical student gets Worth seeing. loose in Edinburgh University and| Forrest: finds a substitute for his home-town for another week. The music is com- sweetheart. It is filled with college s atmosphere and the troubles of the|een polished and brought up to date. Aldine:- The House of Rothschild Mow peared with Irene is, as ever, with us, and, as ever, iiieiene on Page your her biography by a highly persuasive magazine editor. -The resulting ro- mantic adventures provide some of the best moments on the modern stage. The Only Girl. continues pletely unchanged, but the libretto has : wiT's END | “MAY I CUT” Under bacchanalian grapes And spot-lights grow romances, And in between the music’s throb His heart throbs as he dances. But then there comes a dainty peck Upon his well-brushed shoulder: A “May I cut, I’m here again!” _ His face falls like a boulder. The lovely She says, “Thank. you, John,” Is swallowed by the masses, He dons a smile, a frozen smile; His mind whirls with alases. |“You liked our operetta, no? The dance is too divine!” He sighs a tune to the sad bassoon, And murmurs, “Sure, it’s ‘fine.” Ah, puppets, puppets we men are Amid the bumps of rushing; Twigs swept out upon a stream Of endless, endless gushing, —Introspective. GENESIS Summer, where art thou? Green and lazy One, Filled with the pop of tennis balls And the tinkle of ice in lemonade. I yearnsfor thee, Summer! But still, O dream, — do you yet persist With fleeting hints of ‘igitvaias Clad in blue and white? Blue and white, with the rules of the faculty Extracted and dancing boleros To the uneven tune of chalk As it squeaks out assignments and quizes. Ah, Summer, why must you be: born In such pain? —Lazy Lizzie. VIVA! We have sung, we have danced, we have lived! Our hearts, they are drunk with wild tunes. Cachucas tease at our toes; Our sane talk is filled with witch runes ,Of a sunny and beautiful land Where handsome men wear shirts of black, And Il Duce is law, and art is sans flaw, And a gondola serves for a hack. —Contadina. PASTORAL PICTURE On the new-mown lawn in the dark Two cigarettes glow and wane. The damp dew glistens beneath the stars; The music curls through the pane. “You have lovely wee feet, my dearest. Your shoes gleam like white moon- shine— I love you!”—’mid passion, she jitters and wishes The dew would dry up with his line. —The Worldly One. AFTERMATH ° All around Goodhart There lie prostrate forms Dying upon the green sod; And in and out Goodhart A sad spirit mourns Where eighty young feet once trod. The conductor is petrified -All- into stone— The scenery crumbles and molds. There’s silence around; Where there once was sweet sound There is only an echoing moan. They have gone, they have gone! Fare them well on their ride To the land where all singers go; Where they join with the mutes Who play naught but\the lutes That Saint Peter gave m—ah woe! —Chief Mourner. YEAR BOOK REFLECTIONS There are some, we feel, who would, Despite their highly amused roars, Like to take theiy little rifles And shoot all the editors. wt Lone Goose. - FAIL NOT, O LIGHT I’ve been workin’ On my major All the damn day long, I’ve been slowly Growin” sager— Continued on Page Five — Not Out of the Stacks We have been told by some (one jor more) that we are much too unen-| +thusiastie about modern “literature.” | . | Maybe so: “But, my de-ar! You i mustn’t miss the books we just read |this week,—a too, too © marvelous Wodehouse and Sheila Kaye-Smith’s Superstition Corner that makes the ‘|shivers go up and down your back when you remember the Armada.” |. That, in idiomatic form, expresses our finer feelings. (However, we shall take care not to have such. feelings soon again, if you like.) Really, though} we never would dish ithe sour grape to Mr. Wodehouse, es- pecially after Thank You, Jeeves. A little dramatis personae will charac- terize the book: Jeeves (master men- tality), Bertram Wooster (scapegoat, and occasionally the English Gentle- man—after a whisky and soda), Sir Roderick Glossop (a complication), Mr. Stoker (an American, and ergo more of a complication), and Pauline (his daughter, who does most of the plot-tangling). There are a few more characters, fishy people who are likely to be found sitting in bushes on dark nights, and a few essentially sadistic individuals, to lend a goosefleshlike at- mosphere, who try to do horrendous things to Jeeves, Bertie, and Chuffy, P. G.’s favorites. On almost every page one of the characters does some- thing to make his fellow “lift the eye- brow,” if not lift the weapon nearest at hand. Bertie makes a superb Timid Soul, and the whole happy little group lin Thank You, Jeeves, gather around him, or work themselves up into an un- surpassed frenzy, perpetrate unheard- of deeds, and leave ‘everything in col- lapse. Then it is that Jeeves, the incomparable Deus Ex Machina, who provides the Happy Ending, floats in with his accustomed aplomb and sil- ver salver, and leaves the characters to falling on each other’s’ necks. Thank you, Wodehouse, for TJ'hank You, Jeeves. Very good, sir. Sheila Kaye-Smith’s Superstition Corner is another book that you will know a great deal about by simply be- ing told its locale. It is-an historical novel, set in Sussex, and it deals with the religious conflict that was being waged about the time of the defeat of the Armada (1588). Like all of Sheila Kaye-Smith’s Sussex novels, the background lends an extraordinary charm to the telling of a simple story. Superstition Corner gives us a vivid sense of the living conditions of the time and of their effects on people’s minds and manners. Catherine Alard becomes for us the symbol of a great struggle going on between Protestant- ism, then the ruling religion in Eng- land, and Catholicism, dear to. the hearts of many of the country folk. She is a type of the woman just sin- cere and old-fashioned enough in her ways to be portrayed as a great indi- vidual, a woman born to lead a liberal cause. She clings to the old faith and to the old traditions, to the honor of her family and to truth, thereby op- posing both her family and the com- munity. Heedless, she gallops across the countryside, ‘forgetting her posi- tion as a woman, a daughter, and a Catholic. Superstition Corner would be just a very fine still life picture of six- teenth century England, however, if it were not for the conviction with which Miss Kaye-Smith has written the novel. Fair-mindedness toward the two religions, combined with a sincere analysis of religious belief, makes even our distant generation sympathetic. Book Shop Lists Texts To Be Used Next Year The College Book Shop has publish- ed this list of books for the benefit of the students, so that they may sell books that have been used this year and will be used again next year. The Book Shop will give far better rates than those at Leary’s. From now. on, those who wish may sell the books listed. It might be well to scan the list, for the books not on it will most likely be changed next year. last may be sold to Leary’s, who will come to buy them on Friday, May 25. The books printed here will certainly be used, as the professors of the de- partments have been consulted. _ Biology: Outline of Modern Biology—Plunk- Tett. "Anatomy of the Cat—Reichert & Jennings. ; _ Economies and Politics: Coane. _ ‘These, English: Boswell’s Life of Johnson—Seribnet . Edition. _Pope and Deriet—Ghose Edition. (It is likely new editions of Chau: | cer, Milton and Shakespeare will be | used next year.) Geology: Part I—Physical Geology—Long- worth, Knopf, and*Flint. Part II—Schuchert and Dunbar. Greek: Book VI—Herodotus. First Greek Book—White. Greek Prose Composition—Spieker. Antigone—Sophocles— (Jebb). Apology and Crito—Plato. On the Peace—Demosthenes. Peace, Birds, and the Frogs—Aris- tophanes— (Loeb). Oedipus Tyrannis — Sophocles — (Jebb). History: Europe Since. 1815-—Hazen: Latin: Bucolics—Virgi— (Page/. Odes and Epodes—-Horace—(Sho- rey & Lang). Book I—Livy— (Dennison). Catullus— (Merrill). Cicero, Letters—(Abbot). Menaechmi—Plautus. Mathematics: Plane and Solid Analytic Gunaae —Osgood and Grawstein. Four Place Tables—Huntington. Plane Geometry—Dresden. Calculus—Fine. Introduction to Higher Geometry— Grawstein. Music: Appreciation Album — Surette and Mason. : Music and Art and a Language— Spalding. Theory and Practice of Tone Rela- tions—Goetschius. Physics: A Survey of Physics—Saunders. Psychology: Change. Pro Arte Quastet Presents Concert Continued from Page One and this was very clearly portrayed by the Quartet’s rendition. Much more objective, more melodic, more folklike and static than the Bee- thoven, this music sounded intensely American. At times, a quality sur- prisingly reminiscent of the Dvorak Fifth Symphony led one to wonder whether the composer might have been influenced by Dvorak during the lat- ter’s visit to America. This quality consisted of a use of negro melodies, occasional modern harmonies and a subdued calmness in the instrumenta- tion. Especially notable in the Quar- tet’s performance were the delightful monophonic section of the second movement with ’cello accompaniment pizzicato, and the importance of the melodic interest already mentioned. The music sounded well, because _ it sounded expressly correct for its medium. As a final eRe 2 the Pro Arte Quartet played the~Brahms C Minor Quartet, op. 51, No. 1. This work, published only after the composer had written and discarded twenty other quartets, shows clearly the depth of feeling and the mastery of his med- ium, for which Brahms was striving. Besides the characteristics of Brahms, one finds many reminiscences of Wag- ner, especially in the first and secénd movements. “Uncompromising’” is the term often applied to this quartet. Brahms, in this quartet, is profound, and is personal, but seems to lack the wholesomeness and tender humdan- ity which one usually associates with the Brahms of the symphonies and the Requiem. The Pro Arte Quartet gave full expression to these qualities. Its rendition was notable in this number for the extraordinarily sonorous ef- fects produced. It seemed unbeliey- able that a hall the size of Goodhart could be made to resound and rever- berate as it did. It Was with deep Renee that the audience applauded the perform- ance.. The opportunity of hearing a Quartet of such brilliance is indeed a rare one. Enough thanks cannot be given to Mrs, Elizabeth Sprague Cool- idge and the Quartet for the priceless gift of these concerts. It is hoped that the public will take advantage of - the: invaluable opportunity of attend- iven on Wed- nesday and Saturday nights of this week, The program on Wednesday will consist of Franck, Carpenter and , Debussy, and on Saturday, of Schon-. berg, Harris, and Hindemith. 2 om THE COLLEGE NEWS ~ o Page Three Varsity Tennis Team | ~...Wins- Vassar Match’ Haskell, Faeth, Jackson. Take Contested Singles Games » At Poughkeepsie DIVIDE DOUBLES SETS: On Satuffay afternoon, May 12, Varsity achieved. one of its most; Yearbook Yearbook subscribers are ask- ~ éd to pay for their copies by | - June 1. Cheeks xor--cash- for- $3.50 may be sent to Ruth Ber-~ tolet, Business Manager, in Denbigh. Extra copies are ob- tainable from Harriet Mitchell, Merion, Louise Meneely, Rock. Frances Carter, Pem East. “Terry Smith, Pem West. }ens of sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, ‘conservative observer said that if, all keenly desired objectives, when Vas-; sar’s tennis team was vanquished in a well-played series of matches at Peggy Dannenbaum, Denbigh. erous chances to place shots out of ll insteps were enough to keep the Biol- Poughkeepsie. 4-2, Haskell, playing first singles, started The final score was reach of the Bryn Mawr team. The concluding set was played in better style, and the co-operation was notice- iably improved, especially in the care on her way to a speedy victory, taking |... : with which both strove to keep the the first set 6-2 through excellent | 41) away from Miss Wright a i placement and a strong cross-court Several times she drew her op- onent -out .of position in midgourt'! and then sent a: hard passing shot to; the sidelines, which received well- _ merited applause from the gallery. During the second set Miss Converse, her opponent, changed her tactics} somewhat and, helped by Haskell’s de- parture from her usual standards of | accuracy, managed to prolong the ; Haskell had forced the issue during the entire first set with hard driving fore and back- hand strokes. During the second set, however, she had difficulty in using a driving game, since Miss Converse gave her few opportunities by resort- The third set found Haskell again taking the of-| fensive, getting a secure lead and res- olutely maintaining it to reach a vic- tory that was never in doubt after The match lacked the verve. and excitement one. should have expected, largely because the play was deliberate a t times almost; . ay peepee Pessgs credit | determined effort to keep the game drive. match into a third set. ing to soft shots and lobs. the second game. painstaking. for a most excellent and well-deserved victory, and it is certain that she did her best to keep the match lively as well as close. Betty Faeth, after experiencing some she was at the net. The play was thus kept at the baselines, and the points were thus more the results of opponents’ errors than of spectacular placements. Nevertheless, despite this change in tactics, Nassar mustered sufficient strength and accuracy to emerge victorious, 2-6, 4-6. By far the most exciting match of the day was the first doubles between Miss Converse and Miss Litemaier and Faeth and Haskell. Playing their best game of the season, this pair were victorious after a hard uphill strug- gle, especially when Vassar reached match point twice and was just stop- ped from winning.. Showing fine co- operation, excellent driving and place- ment in the opening set, Bryn Mawr forged ahead to a 6-2 lead, and were apparently not to be stopped. All went well until Varsity led at 4-2, when with victory in sight something hap- pened and before one could realize it, Vassar had won three deuced games and was ahead, 5-4. Haskell made a from going overtime, but ended the set disappointingly by committing one of her few double faults of the day. Playing with skill and care, Bryn Mawr took a 3-0 lead in the final set, only to see the margin dwindle and cessful than her earlier net play. The backhand was particularly useful dur- difficulty in the first set, defeated her opponent, 7-5, 6-1. In the initial set the lead seesawed back and forth, not following service with any regularity. Faeth early attempted a little too much net play and several times was trapped into errors. She settled down to play from the baseline after a time and made only occasional sallies to the net, which were usually more suc- result was never in question after the start of the second set, for Faeth’s ing this part of the match. She was: also placing her forehands nicely, and seldom overshooting the backline. Oc- casional trouble with service spoiled vanish as Vassar rallied to take five games in a row. With Miss Lite- maier serving, Faeth and Haskell set themselves firmly to the task of break- ‘ing the string of losing games and get- ting back in the running. The game was deuced twice; each time Vassar got advantage point and was within one stroke of a victory, which would have tied the whole series. advantage point opportunity was lost by a double fault and the second after a nerve tingling rally, which ended when Haskell put a shot over Miss Converse’s head at the net and out of Miss Litemaier’s reach. crisis was past, Varsity took the game The first After this several early leads and double faults This match was one of the most interesting from the spectators’ point of view, since the playing was fast, accurate, were still quite in evidence. and very close. To Peggy Jackson, playing number three, goes credit for the hardest earn- on the next two points and the tide was definitely turned when Faeth won her service. Varsity then broke through Miss Converse’s serve to lead at 6-5°Bryn Mawr advanced to match point on Haskell’s service, only to be momentarily denied by a deuced game. Match point was again reached and this time Varsity put on the finishing ed victory in the singles. Finding her-'touches to a most closely contested self behind 0-6, 2-5, Jackson pulled| patch by forcing Miss Litemaier into the match out of the fire by a fine show of determination and courage. Peggy was slow getting under way; an error at the net, where she had played with great ability throughout the match. in fact it was only in the nick of time that she found herself and began to play a strong game. Handicapped throughout the match by lack of speed in starting her strokes and in moving about the court, she had to call on all her reserve energy and ability in order to end the match successfully. Somewhat the same things may be said of Eleanor Fabyan’s match with Miss Wright. Victory went to the latter in spite of a fine rally on Fab- yan’s part in the second set. Here again slowness in starting strokes, to- gether with trouble in keeping the ball in bounds, resulted in defeat by a 6-2, 7-5 score. The final set was much better and keener than the first one, but errors were a little too num- erous and opportunities sometimes too inadequately used to make the match as interesting as the others had been. The doubles combination of Jackson and Fabyan playing number two was a little too speedily defeated for us to rest easily as we watched Haskell and Faeth in their match. Somehow the former combination didn’t quite click, but no doubt many of the errors -and omissi0 nd * Jack-of experience resulted in a not- DO} nts >. which — gave There’s big news for you in the advertising columns. a a ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee a eee —_ —_ Glee Club Dance Mobbed; Escorts Lost in Crowd Everyone in Bryn-Mavwr plus doz- and just friends, poured into the gym' Saturday night and danced with the, greatest possible fervor until the or- chestra fainted with exhaustion. A the brothers present were laid ‘end to end they would have reached nicely around the track, and that the crushed ogy Department and the Infirmary busy for months. But in spite of such minor catastrophes everyone seemed to be having a glorious time. The dance committee outdid itself and for the first time in months the gym looked inviting, almost baccha- nalian, with great clusters of purple | grapes hanging from the walls and: the orchestra playing from the depths of a small forest. The open back door let in a spring hurricane which kept the floor cool for the unfortunately popular men who had to dance every minute. A stag line, small when compared to the huge crowd there, made life difficult for the girls with strange men for whom to¥provide. No one @ic- ceeded in finding anyone else and doz- ens of girls, after surveying the mob vainly from chair tops, gave their men up for lost and stampeded the good dancers. Although a smaller crowd might have made life simpler, the large one certainly made it excit- ing. ‘Bryn Mawr may have had more dignified dances, but it certainly has never had such a thoroughly good one. Gics Club Windies Liability Company has long been one of our pet insane projects, and to ‘find fulfilled one of our favorite ambi- tions. Miss Lord’s introduction of herself as “that well-connected, unaf- fected nobleman,” and Miss Scott’s reviial of how she tamed the insig- nificant progenitor were high points in the play. Both are blessed with stage presence and a flair for comedy, and the result was in every way high- ly pleasing. Miss-—Stone,~as the Grand Inquisi- tor, was better as a singer than as an actress; her gestures were a, bit 1aonot- onous and she seemed not to know quite what to do with herself on the stage, but her execution of her songs and her Grand Inquisitorial air were so good that one might easily excuse a slight lapse from the high histrionic level of the cast. As the royal pair, Joan Hopkinson and Susan Morse were ornamental, melodious and charming. Miss Morse’s acting, both as “Suite” and as King, was thoroughly competent, and she even surpassed her perférmance in | Patience—a considerable achievement. Miss Hopkinson’s voice was clear and true, and she gave one of the best vocal. performances of the whole cast. Her slightly supercilious air as Cas- silda was precisely in character. We may add that we shall never cease to admire her sang froid in managing her rather unstable crown. “ it_so expertly expressed in-song. has On the whole, both singing and act- ing were far above the average, and’ Mr, Alwyne is to be greatly compli- mented on his direction. One of the most striking things about the produc- _ tion was a sense of continual motion; there was never a_ static moment where the actors merely stood and sang, and both gesture and action were, moreover, smoothly fitted into the whole and eminently appropriate —sure testimony to the skill and care of the director. » From the point of view-of back- stage effort, the production: was one of the best Bryn Mawr has ever put on. The sets were simple and most effect- ive, and the gondola and Xebique were triumphs of the stage-crew’s art. Elizabeth Monroe deserves praise for the smoothness. with which the scene was shifted, as ‘well as for the artistic and graceful designing and execution, of the sets. The costumes, too, added greatly to the whole; their harmony and design made a pleasing mass ef- fect in the chorus scenes, and their picturesqueness gave the necessary atmosphere to the piece. The impression with which we left The Gondoliers was that the whole production was fused. There were no rough edges, but it all ran smoothly and easily, yet with an effect of spon- taneity, showing how, complete had been the co-operati tween princi- pals and chorus, dipector and cast, performers and the/people backstage. BEST’S +» ARDMORE. MONTGOMERY AND ANDERSON AVENUES, ARDMORE, PA. — ARDMORE 4840 Operetta Skillfully Continued from Page One voice and dramatic ability made her | performance memorable. Her execu- tion of the song, “Happy Man,” was so good that it made us wish she had: had more solos, and her appearance in| quartettes, etc., was far more than competent. As a comedienne Miss: Righter is hard to better; she seems! [ to have a genuine enjoyment and ap- preciation of her lines for their own sake, and her Giuseppe was a worthy! } successor to Grosvenor in Patience and Ralph in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Miss Ripley was a little stiff in contrast with Miss Righter, but} 5 since Marco was her first appearance}! in a leading role, this was to be ex-| pected and must be put down to inex- perience. Her singing was thorough- ly competent, if not quite so spon- | taneous as Miss Righter’s. Miss Halsey and Miss Morgan, as the contadine, performed with grace and what we may call bounce, and their voices were well up to the de- mands of their rather exacting parts. Miss Halsey, in particular, shows every sign of being the coming Glee Club star, for her singing and acting were exceptionally good. , Together she and Miss Righter made‘a delight- ful couple, in the best Gilbert and| Q { Sullivan tradition. We have little hope of seeing, on Goodhart stage, a better comedy team than was provided by Miss Lord and Miss Scott as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro. The Duke’s Limited | to lack of previous experience as partners in doubles together. This able failure to co-ordinate at several the oppcnents, eS SS aS SE ee Se ee ee ee ee ee ee v KASS mencement Time. PERSONAL GIFTS FOR COMMENCEMENT We have just returned from a buy- ing trip made especially for Com- f will be shown as fast as we receive them from the importers. -" RICHARD STOCKTON - ’ Bryn Mawr W ASHABLE Our new things | ! | | , , : 6 * b |. , ) j } j 7 EXCLUSIVE perfect solution a CHor town, country, cruise wear— THE SUIT OF COOL, LORRAINE SHIR-O-SHAKKAR Sizes 14s to 20 Multicolor plaids green and white French blue and white navy and white brown and white red and white WITH BEST’S T’S the grandest * little suit — the to the problem of how to look smart and. feel cool when the temperature soars. It’s as tailored as your Spring tailleur—that trim little jacket has a half-belted back with “action back” pleat above and below the waistline, and the skirt fastens all “the way down the front with huge - mother of pearl buttons. And it’s as ‘cool and as tubbable as your Summer -—eottons—the fabric is Best’s exclusive Shir-O-Shakkar, fast-color and pre- shrunk. Sorry, no mail or phone orders. " fa ag RS Bhd ae noise tte RY tall hte ce trogen ie rag Hae a ei? BI St Ri RA 2 Ne pa aly Re ad eo We coekaamters ci i Rig pat “ie Dr. Essenburg Aims , ~----To Educate Moslems Religious _Strife, pet ee ee ee ee a eth ak oe ips gr dai Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS | Dean Manning Talks 7 — Continued from Page One Ignorance, + criticize it, and are quite wise in . giving it up because it discourages Squalor, Are Features of = j, Damascan City The criticism that is reaily. import- sf, ‘\ant comes from the major students in WOMEN ARE REPRESSED | any department. Their opinion of the : ‘minor and major courses in their field Dr. Christina Essenburg, speaking are of great value to the faculty. informally in the Deanery - Tuesday Criticism from the whole student body, afternoon, told about the religious’ however, should not be discouraged, prejudices and degraded condition of but it should be of the right kind. : in D ahs lod 46: ts | There are three valuable kinds of stu- ROR: TR eraeRARCNS WHC 0 Aer dent’ criticism and they should be founding the American School. for made directly to the Dean or through women. there, and urged everyo#e to*the Curriculum Committee. help‘in the work of the school toward! Personal criticism of a course and educating and liberating Mohamme- | criticism of yndividual styles of teach- jing is valuable, although the reaction dan women. age . ; |to any pref sor in his or her first year Damascus, the oldest living city in| of teachi ‘ay be discounted, for it the world, is beautifully situated in: takes move than'& year to. piaity canes the valley ue whe maven erent; SeeRe | for professors to adjust themselves to oasis in the Syrian ‘desert, To the’ sachin in a woman’s college. Criti- Mohammedans it has always been, the| . €. : rae di d it is a huce|°2™. °F ‘the amount of work and of symbol of paradise and If is a AUBEC | +h. difficulty of a course is also valu- commercial center for eastern cara-| able, although students seem to think ;vans. Most of the 200,000 inhabitants | they have too much reading to do if “are Moslems, and only 20 per cent. are lthey ate given a large number of Jews and Christians. - The three re-' ligi k tirel in diff ipages to read. Many of them do not , apart in differ-' alize that judicious skipping is al- ent sections of the city, and the wal twain possible, The Dean is very much of blind religious prejudice are 80); torested in the way courses fit to- strong that the members of one sect; ‘ : | geth ds th b d tim- dare not walk through the section be- gether an regeren tne Hania an : ‘ing of their long reports, and in how longing: to the members :of another. pan long cee ada can do in Damascus is'a man’s city. -All the one semester without feeling that she cafes, stores and restaurants are run |i, overcrowded. The third criticism by men and for men. A woman may jn which the Dean is interested is of not leave the house without the per-|ihe subject matter and the organiza- mission of a male relative, and she tion of courses, and she is always may not even look through one of the anxious to hear what any student has heavily barred windows without being to say in this line.’ veiled. When a baby boy is born) . 2-9 . | te he ae a hg Scag oe ’ pur jhopes of obtaining student opinion in ; by . - “ ee yng is the Curriculum Committee, but there co estos t er she 18 SIX SMC’ has been difficulty in organizing the must wear a veil, and she has no play iCommittee, and in the attempt to make or outdoor life. It is no wonder that +, more representative it has perhaps with such repression the women of | become too large to work out a consist- perpnecus hav e no knowledge of mod- | ont policy. Perhaps a Committee of aaa discoveries and that the A rab | Seniors would be better qualified to race. has declined culturally.’ It is es-' discuss courses than the present Com- pecially in regard to sanitation that | nittee which includes members from Damas cans are ignorant, and because | avery daa: The Seniors would have of their carepseriess about cleanliness, | sh perspective of all their four years’ typhoid and other orvental dineases are | work to aid them in their criticisms, constantly raging in the city. ‘but it is possible that an entirely dif- With the aim of correcting these ferent system of obtaining student evils Dr. Essenburg founded the |oninion is needed, and the Degn would school. A regular high school cur-'like to hear any suggestions as to how riculum of eleven years is offered, in-| i could best be obtained. ‘eluding. intensive training in three languages, Arabic, French, and Eng-| lish, in all of which the graduates alias Genthe Talks able to read, write, and speak fluently. | They study music, literature, and art| as well, and they are particularly bril-! _ liant in Mathematics and Physics. groups in a temple frieze, others. like The school possesses a small library |the Maenads on a vase, while a few The Dean has always centered her on Isadora Duncan Continued from Page One , ‘ About Questionnaire}. Engagements Candee; *83;~to~ Robert-Hilton, «|! _and that.of Anne Lukens, ’35, to |! the Reverend George Edgar |; have been announced. ; lowa, except a very inadequate one. The great dancers alive now, Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey, are not being photographed by the cinema, which, after all, is a. better medium for the recording of rhythmic move- ment than stationary photographs, however carefully made. There is a dance than there is for dancers, now. For the dance is assuming more and more importance. It was Isa- dora Duncan’s. dream to found a school, and in Berlin shé had a school of twenty girls, from whom she chose six to adopt, so that as teachers they might bear the name of Duncan.! Later, in Moscow, the Soviet Govern-; ment permitted her to maintain a school of several hundred pupils, but! political intrigues prevented her suc- | cess. Nevertheless, her influence has spread, and all- over the world now, are teachers and schools that follow| her theories.. There is no actual mon-! ument to Isadora Duncan. Her friends | often asked her what she would like, | and she would laugh and say, “Oh, | perhaps in fifty years there will be a'| monument for me.” A spiritual one: is already established in the increas- | ingly fine work dys by her followers; | whose number constantly increases, | too. Eventually, Mr, Genthe believes, | the perfection of her dream of rhyth- mic co-ordination of body and soul | will come to being in. the form of a} woman more beautiful than anything | before, higher in intelligence and | freer in body. IN PHILADELPHIA | Continued from Page Two Arcadia: .Warner Baxter as the | bachelor-novelist in Such Women Are | Dangerous ig still avoiding the wiles ; of three baby stars in hot. pursuit. | Not very good. | Boyd: Joan Crawford plays Sadie | McKee, a, gir] from the wrong side of the railroad tracks, but one who sim- ply cannot be’kept there. She has not one, but three (!) leading men and \elopes with them all in rapid succes- The engagement of Cecilia |'but we didn’t really care awfully BS time. ‘along beautifully until an old girl greater need for such portrayal of the; | dad, with, Heather Angel and Victor Vacation Rates In a spirit -of co-operation with students, — parents and - .school authorities, the Railroads of the United States and Can- ada are again extending the ‘convenience and econemy of “College Special” round-trips for the school year 1934-1935 between home stations:as a. point sion. She find$ happiness in the end, much what happened ‘to her by that Earle: This Man Is*Mine, with Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy. ‘A young married couple are getting friend appears on the scene, bringing trouble with a capital “T.” Ver ay ; amusing. P 7 of origin and the school stations Europa: The Constant’ Nymph, that serve educational institu- tions. The* “College. Special” fare is one and one-third of ‘one- way fiyst-class fare for the round-trip and liberal stop-overs 4 going and returning have been arranged with the only restric- tion that each single trip shall . not take more than tens days. with Viétoria Hopper and Brian Aherne. Swell movie and even sweller acting. Fox: Change of Heart brings Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell to- gether again in the movie version of Manhattan Love Song. Very good, if you like Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell. Karlton: Glamor, from a story by Edna Ferber, starring Paul. Lukas and Constance Cummings. It is glam- orous at that, and we liked it, but then we would like anything with Paul Lukas in it. Stanley: We’re Not Dressing, a merry musical based on The Admir- able Crichton, with Bing Crosby, Car- ole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Leon Errol and Ethel Merman. Very en- tertaining. and Rudy Vallee in George White’s Scandals; Wed. and Thurs., Jean Muir in As the Earth Turns. Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Al Jol- son, Kay Francis, Dolores Del Rio and Ricardo..Cortez in Wonder Bar; Fri. and Sat., Mystery of Mr. X, with Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Al- len; Mon. and Tues., Victor McLaglen and Reginald ‘Denny in The Lost Patrol; Wed. and, Thurs., Claudette Colbert and Herbert Marshall in Four Stanton: Merry Wives of Reno.| Frightened People. ' Local Movies Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Bar- LIVE in FRENCH Residential) Summer School (co-educational) in the heart of French Canada. Old Coun- try French staff. Only French spoken. Elementary, Inter- mediate, Advanced. Certifi- cate or College Credit. French en- tertainments, sight-seeing, sports, ete. Fee $150, Board and Tuition. June 27—August 1. Write for .cir- cular to Secretary, Residential French Summer School. McGILL UNIVERSITY MONTREAL, CANADA bara Stanwyck in Gambling Lady; Fri., As.the Earth Turns, with Jean Muir; Sat., Richard Arlen in Come On, Marines; Mon. and Tues., Man of Two Worlds, with Francis Lederer and Elissa Landi; Wed., Otto Kru- ger in Crime Doctor. Seville: ~Wed.,. Thurs., and Fri., Bottoms Up, with Spencer Tracy and Pat Paterson; Sat., Murder in Trini- Jory; Mon. and Tues., Jimmy Durante r Pt » | NOW... GET SET - To Telephone Home! You’ve dragged your furniture dround ... and your room is fixed . . . and you're all straight on your schedule and text-books. One contributed by friends and next year a Simmons graduate will teach do- mestic science. Particular emphasis is laid on sanitation, for even ele- mentary rudiments, such as dish wash- ing, must be taught to the girls, and already the effects have been felt in a drive by some graduates to rid the city of mosqnitoes. The school has done much toward breaking down prejudice by the very fact that there is no religious discrim- ination and no attempt to Americanize the girls. Although the school is in the Moslem section, Jewish and Chris-| tian girls come each day, and the, -three sects in playing and working together find that there is no sound basis for religious differences. The pupils are so happy there that they do not want long holidays, because the school is the only place where they can play together. This education is bringing the women an uplifting hap- were like actual statues. One naked torso, with head and arms concealed in shadow, was so sculptural that when shown to the director of the Museum of the Acropolis in Athens, he asked, “But where is that torso? I don’t know it.” This picture was carefully posed, | but, as a rule, Mr. Genthe did not ‘approve of posing for dance photo- igraphs.. - The ‘picture, he believed, should suggest previous movement and movement that will follow. This effect can be obtained only by taking the picture while the dancer is in mo- tion. Unforeseen twists of draperies, waverings of the body, make this task very difficult, but when it is achieved, it portrays a dance, not a pose. When Pavlowa came to Mr. Genthe to be photographed, she said she could hold any position for several seconds. He replied, “Yes, but your draperies can- not,” and so he took the only picture year. It’s the telephone. matters to attend to Family’s advantage: AT THE HEAD OF THE CLASS AND ENJOY First > THE BEST ON THE SHIP sary. Look eee Bhird 7 Fourth » home Make AND PAY NO MORE THAN TOURIST CLASS FARE if you Make Locate the nearest telephone. The Family will want to know its number to call you if neces- more detail and you'll be set for the college Here are some simpl for your own and the in the Directory or ask the Operator for the Station to Station Night Rate to your town. a “date” with the folks to telephone home each week. (At the same time, ask them may reverse the charges.) a list of the telephone piness, which is gaining respect for which exists of Pavlowa in motion, a them and, although in ways it causes| picture of vital strength and powerful a temporary discontent, will lead to'| grace. a future freedom and happiness. This| Pavlowa was also interested in a broadening of interest has led to the | series of motion pictures which=Mr. founding of an international relations |Genthe had taken of Isadora Dunean’s- club, which studies foreign conditions pupils. She wanted to see them, but and problems. It is hoped that in the was so devoted to her work that the future a recreation and health center; only opportunity she could find was -for women can be founded, but at the after midnight while she ate a lunch present time the school has no funds.'of crackers and milk. The movies GO VIA RED STAR. Bes ULL me out on top when you go to Europe on one of these four large, comfortable Red Star liners... For Tourist Class is the top class on the ship. That means ‘you get the finest cabins; the broadest, , ha decks; the best public rooms on the Tourist is top class to Europe | numbers of your home-town friends. Ask “Information” for those you don’t know. You never know when you may i cee ~~ want to call them. Slane ‘And the rest is easy. Just give the Operator the name of the town and the number you want. If you telephone after 8:30 P.M. you . Most of the teachers, are volunteers, graduates of American colleges, who have come over to work for the ex- perience. Many girls are unable to pay their small tuition fees, although they come from educated families. For this reason many American colleges _ fnterested.in this cause will contribute senburg hopes that everyone who is : mali, to rd pe to American she saw were experiments in the cor- dance. Mr. Genthe regretted that the cinema has never developed a tech- nique adapted to this. Its use of close ups breaks the coherence of the dancing, and its more distant views have adopted the school and Dr. Es-|lose the details of line and pattern.| Not only has the cinema no technique, Lit-has*not even attempted seriously to perpetuate the great dances of our rect procedure of portraying the} times. There are no movies of Isadora 4699 wainut St., Phila. Pa. Duncan, nor of Nijinsky, nor of Pav-| “=> aunts St Phew P&S ship —all at low Tourist Class fares. Ramis sailings to Southampton, Havre and Antwerp. Minimum fares —Tourist Class $117.50 One Way, $212 Round Trip; Third Class $82 = One Way, $144.50 Round Trip. $.$. Minnewaska 5S. S. Pennland $.$. Minnetonka S. S. Westernland 22,000 gross tons _16,500 gross tons | See your local agent. His services are free RED STAR LINE Zi |. International Mercantile Marine Co. _can take advantage of of about 40 per cent! wich. the low Night Rates on Station to’Station calls. These mean a saving | \ "THE RELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA 4 _ THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five | Voice of BrynMawr Maxine Editor of the College News— _ As one of the’ ancients I enjoyed your accounts in the May 2 News of the olden days, quite regardless of the fact that atmospheres lived ‘through | can apparently never be reproduced. Two things I”want to correct. One, the first May Day was in 1900,- not 1902. You will find photographs by Sue Dewees, 1900, of various groups, including shepherds in modest smocks, played by Billy Cram and others in 1900, then seniors. During the War there was one lapse of six years in- stead of four, which may have thrown your calculations out by two years. Regarding Maxine, page 5, it should be stated that her name was not Rug- gles, but Wragley. She sprang from the brain of a group: of students in the Horace class in the fall of 1899. They were of the class of 1901—three juniors—and may prefer to be unnam- ed. Maxine was born for the particu- lar benefit of one, Robert Somerville Radford—assistant to Dr. Lodge, the professor of Latin—who was conduct- ing the Poets section of the Minor Latin Course. Dr. Radford could pro- nounce no R—whether in. English or _Latin—but delighted nevertheless in reading us with due expression Jong passages of “Hahwis” — knowh to others as Horace. Miss “Wagley” was repeately called on in class de- ‘/room was completely spurious. spite assurancé from the office—from Dr. Lodge who had a sense of humor that Maxine’s registration in the class lived in Denbigh with: her inventors, had large trunks ordered down for the Thanksgiving holiday, was an ac- tive participator in many college ac- tivities such as swimming contests and other events for which we registered on. bulletin board lists. In 1901 she was fittingly cremated in the senior bonfire—but rose like the phoenix. We of 1903 thought it- best, inasmuch as we had entered together to leave “to- gether as well, but a second senior bonfire cremation was. still unavail- | ing for, as alumnaé, we of 1903 con- tinued to hear reports of her acttvi- ties after we had gone out from the college. I can vouch for the fact that she was a serious student at least. in her early days and that her examina- tion paper in Latin Poets must have been a creditable one, a fact never before divulged. Sincerely yours, Luiwa B. LANGE, 1903. Department of Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Education has ceased to be a “hand- maiden of politicians, devoted to prop- aganda functions,” according to Dr. James R. Angell, of Yale University. Emily Marshal, a University of Mis- souri student, has maintained a’ per- fect score in 30 matches of the uni- versity co-ed rifle team. She | Women’s College Council Pays. Visit.to Bryn Mawr nae Council paid a hurried ‘visit to Bryn Mawr this past week-end. The Committee, appointed several years ago by the heads of Barnard, Bryn Maw, Mount - Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley,.. has been doing remarkably fine work to further interest in womén’s education. The. seven women on the committee, working under the Publicity Director, Mrs. Maude White Stewart, and or- ganizing sub-committees, constitute a ‘kind of publicity staff for not only the seven women’s colleges belonging to the Council, but also for all colleges offering educational opportunities to women. They have succeeded in cir- culating much information regarding women’s education, and by doing so, have done much to balance the inter- est in men’s and women’s education. No one, of course, now denies women the right to be educated, but there still remains a disproportionate interest in and support of men’s colleges as com- pared with women ’s, colleges. It was for the duat purpose of mak- ing the aims of the Council. better known to Bryn Mawr and of visiting Bryn Mawr for their own gratification that the committee stayed here Friday afternoon through Saturday morning; during that time they saw the Glee Club production, of The Gondoliers and met some of the faculty! and students informally. Mrs. William Franklin The Seven Women’s Colleges Alum-’ & aonectipaeatamnaaie French Club The French ‘Club: takes plea’s- ure in announcing the election of the following officers for next year: President—E. Thompson. Secretary-Treasurer — M. Hutchings. Eastman, of Radcliffe, acted as chair- man of the meeting, Mrs. George En- dicott represented ‘Barnard; Mrs. Learned Hand, Bryn Mawr; Mrs, Wal- ter Hodges Gilpatric, Mount Holyoke; and Mrs. Rudolph Zinsser, Smith. Unfortunately, the representatives of Vassar and Wellesley were unable to be here. Wit’s End Continued from Page Two Hear my Senior song. I have taken to sleepwalking In the wee, wee night, And I’ve been a long a-talking Of things recondite. Then the awful, awful even Came when, jailed as ill, I began insomniac heavin’ And leapt the window sill, Came a-ringin’ at the doorbell Of my Bryn Mawr home, Sent the warden rushin’ pell-mell From her pleasure dome. Life is hard and life is earnest, I’m with compreheksives torn, Tomorrow, tomorrow the light burnest— O Gabriel, blow your horn! —College Lifer. Healthy, wealthy and wise? O why can brighties Never don _ nighties! —Snoop-on-the-loose. Dearie me, I would be a gondolier for the rest of my days if it weren’t for the fact that in my youth I. had a terrible experience with a canoe, I like tea, but I must say I am not a fiend for water. Well, my friends, I leave you with feelings of plea-ea- sure! Cheerio, THE MAD HATTER. Gleanings Irvine. Warburton, University »of Southern ’ California’s all-American grid star, has been rejected for a role in a football picture because he “doesn’t look like” a football player. Dr. Knight Dunlap, professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, is doing special research on. the problem of just why babies suck their thumbs. One group of 102 Haverford (Pa.) College students has senz to President Roosevelt and:Senator David A. Reed a petition announci ing their refusal to “fight in any war.’ — it takes good things to make good things. —the mild ripe tobaccos we buy for Chesterfield mean milder . better taste. —the way they are made means Chesterfields burn right and smoke cool. _ —it means that down where that they grow tobacco folks know mild ripe tobaccos are bought for Chesterfields. And because Chesterfields are made of the right kinds of to- bacco, it is a milder cigarette, a cigarette that tastes better. There is no substitute for mild, ripe tobacco. i 2 oo aoa es ear "Mrs. Dohan Speaks wes _ in taking care of archeological speci- “mens. The biggest advantage offered Sergcexecaee Page Six THE COLLEGE NEWS Srne LORAIN TA ome A Teel ct netsaas ~ ~ On Work in-Museums Few Salaried Positions Exist But’ Apprenticeships Are Eas- | ily Obtained righ ; | NEED. PHOTOGRAPHERS, Mrs. Dohan, of the University of | Pennsylvania Museum, speaking Tues- day afternoon in the Common Room on “Opportunities for Work in Mus- eums,” saw little chance of getting a paying position for one who has not had a great deal of previous experi- ence in museum work. Mrs. Dohan’s experience has been mainly in her own museum, which is “informal,” and es- sentially an historical rather than a fine arts museum. It was started by amateurs, and contains collections of all sorts of things, not specializing in. any one kind. At this time, like many | other museums, it is in great finan- cial need; consequently, it offers little | opportunity for those who need a pay-| ing position immediately after leaving | college. At present, there are three Bryn Mawr graduates working at the Uni- versity of Peffnsylvania Museum, one of whom is Ruth Levy. Miss Levy has an especial talent for working with her hands: for mending broken vases, piecing together bits of broken pot-' tery, and putting fragments of bronze | back on ancient vases. She has done a great deal of this type of work, from which much can be learned. Mrs. Do- han emphasized the fact that a large amount of work done in museums is pure housekeeping, such as seeing that vases do not get broken, keeping cata- logues in order and up-to-date, discov- ering mistakes that your predecessors have made, and cleaning bronzes. In the cleaning of bronzes, a knowledge of chemistry is required in order to know what type of cleanser can be used on different kinds of bronzes. In spite of the lack of paying posi- tions in museums, there is much work to be done by girls who wish to serve an apprenticeship without pay. If one is interested in the work itself, will- ing to take the chance and to spend much time, there is plenty of work by museum work is the opportunity of learning from objects themselves, af- ter learning about them from books. It is difficult, at first, to adjust one- self to studying genuine articles, but: the University of Pennsylvania Mus- eum offers a valuable opportunity of doing real work on real things, and especially ‘of rediscovering..and_cata- loguing old pieces. Museum work gives one the chance to publish articles, if one has talent and gets into the habit of looking at things and thinking about them. There are also opportunities for scientific work. Museum work is difficult at first for those who are used to a long academic vacation:, the vacations are from a month to six weeks, and the daily hours are from nine-thirty until five o’clock. In answer to a question as to whether there is any hope for those who have not done any gradu- ate work and are faced with the im- mediate necessity for a paying job,|' Mrs. Dohan said that there is very little. Only a few museums offered such positions several years ago, and there is even less chance now. Mrs. Dohan expressed little belief —_— — — — CECELIA’S YARN SHOP Seville Arcade BRYN MAWR .- PA. ——— -—_— —_— —_— —_ { nacateail i UURULEAUGUEAOUCOUUOURUAEOEOUOGSUOAOUOUCHCONEROOOUOOOED Afternoon Tea 25c Cinnamon Toast Toasted Date Muffins Tea Biscuits Buttered Toast and Marmalade ‘ Coffee, Fea, Hot Chocolate Cake or Ice Cream (Chocolate or Butterscotch Sauce over Ice Cream) Waffles and Coffee Bt hes delphia, but that has been withdrawn in accordance with the new civic pol- ‘brought back. has become extremely valuable, that ithough it may not be permanent, in the value of training gained in the Dozent.type of ‘service, where school’ children ‘visit museums and are told about. the various exhibits. The chil- dren take and memorize many notes, but the knowledge gained is, of neces- sity, superficial. .Very. few people who have started in this way ever work up to museum positions, as there is not much chance for intelligent work in such training. Also, as pay: ing positions are extremely scarce now, it is difficult to get a part-time job to enable one to continue studying while gaining experience in actual work. .The University of Pennsylva- nia Museum used to receive fifty thou- sand dollars from the city of Phila- icy of economy. Now expeditions are financed through gifts, and the mus- eum staff must install, photograph, and catalogue the specimens which are There is a new type of work which led by Scribners; 1934. of drawing reproductions of speci-| mens. For anyone who possesses the ‘ability to draw well and very accur-| iately, this work is profitable, since | every line that it appears to have there are not enough artists interest- | becn considered a virtue. In this book, ed in it to accompany all the expedi-| tions. In.order to qualify for such a|at obscurity—no impressionistic spell- position, one should have special train- | ing in “drawing on a scholarly basis.” | A knowledge of photography is also | very valuable in museum work. There | have been recent experiments in this | line, attempting to get rid of the high | lights in photographs of specimens. If one is an expert photographer or painter of bronze or of clay specimens, | a paying position is available, al-/ Quite a bit of children’s museum: work is done at the University of | Pennsylvania Museum: Children pay to come and make Egyptian sandals, Indian homes, igloos, and other repro- ductions of that type. A children’s sherd-collecting club is now being formed. Reproductions of Greek and Roman homes are made and sent to various schools for exhibition. A knowledge of photography, while it does not lead to work as a curator, is not to be despised by the scholar. It is advisable for anyone who is in- terested in trying to get into museum work in any capacity possible. A col- lege education is a mere preliminary: the practical knowledge is gained in apprenticeship. _Anyone who is sure that she wishes to make museum work her career would do well to canvass |modern verse, this same fault is so iwords and significant phrases. required in each museum, discovering a certain type that is definitely need- ed, and then becoming an expert in that line. that she had run down her own mus- eum because at present it is out of funds, because its collections are var- ied, and many are broken. However, she believes firmly in its type, since nowhere else is such experience in Go your own way on your own ships TO EUROPE LLEGE men and women are dis- covering that there is something new in Tourist Class on America’s new liners, the Manhattan and Washington. You'll find broad, sunny decks ‘high up in the ship; darge and beautiful public rooms; modern, well ventilated cabins; tiled swimming pool; air-conditioned dining salon. The Manbuttan and Washington, the world’s fastest cabin liners. With their ‘running mates, the President Harding and President Roosevelt, they offer weekly service to Cobh, Plymouth, Havre and Hamburg. TOURIST CLASS _ - $204 Gp Round Tip __ “Sailings between June 11 to July 9 rates See your local agent, His services ave free. tial] > | ES — Mrs. Dohan concluded by saying | handling pottery to be gained, except on an expedition. There is plenty of material to: be published and will be for many years to come; publication is, however, mainly done’by graduate students. The Museum Bulletin is for members of the staff only, and the more scholarly Museum Journal is not to be published this year. The pic- ture of museum work is not, at pres- ent, a cheerful one. Nevertheless, peo- ple who are interested are urged to try to get work in a museum during June and September, where they can write, bibliography, and collect and catalogue specimens. In this way a great deal of practical experience can be gained. Book Reviews t Crows, by David McCord. Publish- Crows, a slim volume of poetry by David McCord, has as its principal fault its incomprehensibility. In some obviously the aim and inspiration of however, there is no studied attempt ing, no flagrant disobedience of punc- tuation rules,sno tangling of words into perplexing knots. Yet under- neath this simple appearance there is a complexity that cannot be- unrav-: eled. The clear phrases do not unite into clear sentences, And these sen- tences follow each other without any apparent connection of thought, so that in the end the whole poems, in spite of their conventional forms, and the clarity of the separate atoms within these forms, are insoluble mys- teries. A mystery is always irritating, ar.d particularly so if it promises to re- veal riches if only explained. ‘hese poems are irritating in just that way because they never fulfill the promise of their lovely sound, their lively All of them, of course, are not completely obscure, but the less abstruse they are, the less beautiful, the more pro- saic.they become. Mr. McCord’s fore- word in verse is comprehensible, but it is written so haltingly that an enigma would be preferable. That at least. has possibilities. There are a few poems which are both beautiful and understandable. Crows, which gives its name to the insight keenly expressed. Presbytc- riaom Plowing is restrained in form as the Puritanical farmer whose words it is, but it has a depth of emotion under- lying its simplicity and giving it beauty, just as inscrutability underlies the simplicity of so many of the other poems and destroys their beauty. There is a whole section of the book dedicated “To A Child,” and this is necessarily clear—not in thought, for there is no thought, but in imagery. The Tiger Lily is described just as a child would see it, with appreciation of its color and feeling, but no reflections about its meaning or its purpose. Here, and in his recondite poems 4s well, Mr. McCord uses severely plain expressions to create his images. If he means “green,” he says simply that, and does not add. “very” or “bright ;’#Mvet still he makes his color very bright by concentrating all its brillance in one word instead of spreading it thinly over several. By equal concentration in phrases he cap- tures whole landscapes, as he com-| presses the sky, the sun, and the water into “the blue flame of the sea.” In startling opposition to this metic- ulous handling of words, he frequently coins words: that jar the mind and tongue horribly. Thug, seeking a rhyme for. ‘“wishfulness,” he says “fishfulness.” Sometimes his words are acceptable, but he spoils them by using them in false rhymes like “snarl” and “laurel.” These tech- nical errors, together with the dull- ness to which his thought often de- scends when evident, and the dark- ness which envelops it the greater part of the time, prevents Crows from being even a satisfying book. And it is all the less satisfying because of the hints it holds of latent signifi- cance and beauty.—E. D. L. Freshmen Give One-Acts Before Amused Audience Continued from Page One logue was unusually realistic, especial- ly in the extremely natural conversa- tion where the mother, played by the author, tries to persuade the daughter, played by Jane Simpson, to marry her wealthy suitor and reject the struggling young author. Some of the lines were surprisingly good and were spoken well and not melodramatical- ly. Miss Cotton, in her short appear- ance as the-rich Stephen, and Miss Harvey, as the poor boy who wins Isabelle’s hand, were quite adequate. the city, firiding out the types of work!whole volume, has passages of aa Miss Steinhardt’s tragedy, And oc -- —_—— return for students, faculties and $] 13 «ap One Way : Going and Return dates— GOING TO SCHOOL { An Invitation for You To Travel by Railroad When you return next Fall— assuring you comfort with speed, your convenience with safety At “College Special” Fares “SAVING YOU ONE-THIRD The Railroads of the United States and Canada are continuing re- cuced round-trip fares three times a year from home to school and staffs of educational institutions. RETURNING FROM SCHOOL e Round-trip tickets may be purchased at Home Sta- tion during Return portion of ticket may be used to Home Sta- any one of the periods named below: Dec. 25, 1934-Jan. 10,1933 | ......... Mar. 15-Apr. 17, 1933 eo tions during any one of Christmas Spring Close the periods named below: 1934 1935 1935 Aug. 25-Oct. 5, 1934 Dec. 10-25 Mar. 9-Apr. 15 May 15-June 30 ; Mar. 9—Apr. 15 May 15-June 30 May 15-June 30 within ten days. regular Pullman charges. Going trip must begin on date ticket is purchased—limited to reach school station within ten days. Return trip must begin on date of validation of ticket by rail- road agent at school station—limited to reach home station Tickets good over same route both ways. Stop-overs will be allowed in each direction. Tickets good in coaches, also in Pullman cars, upon payment of Baggage will be checked under the usual regulations. No certificate or other form of identification necessary. e - _ TRAVEL BY TRAIN. | | ' CET, Even Love, was the best of the ‘three in its sustained excellence of dialogue, __ its soundness of plot, and in its cen- tral theme, based on a poem by the author. However in spite of its ex- cellence, we couldn’t. quite see why everybody was so upset. The two parts, that of the young medical stu- dent, John Weston, and his poetess fiancée, Margaret Lester, were taken by Letitia Brown and Dorothea Wild- er, who sustained the parts well, al- though Miss Brown showed a slight tendency to overact at times. The fear that he was being unfair to Mar- garet in marrying her, his ideas after reading the poem, and his reaction to the disclosure that his fiancée was the poetess were well shown by Miss Brown. The poem itself was equal to the most important part it held in the play, and the whole play’ was above the average of Freshman dramas, Although the audience spent an hi- larious hour, we fear that they were not completely able to grasp the full purport intended by the authors of the tragedies: they howled with glee at the most unhappy points of the plays, and seemed generally unsympa- thetic with the characters’ plights. However, they enjoyed themselves to the utmost, and, if they were not cap- able of differentiating between the moments for tears and laughter, we must forgive them; they pia a very good time. All things considered, it was a very successful evening, and we hope that the custom of putting on the Freshman one-act plays will continue. A. M. Advertisers in this paper are reli- able merchants. Deal with them. LIPS THAT TOUCH THE RED, RED WINE Wy SPARKLE WITH UCEN LONG new FAVORED WIN 2 | If you have looked upon the wine when it is red—imagine its glowing color transferred to - your lips! Lucien Lelong with his Lipstick 21 pays your lips the loveliest compliment they've ever had—gives them ‘the color and “bouquet” of real wine in his own lipsticks that are famous for their smoothness. Select Port, Burgundy or any other favorite—at a Dollar! Visit Lucien Lelong's Lipstick Bar in your favorite shop. THE COLLEGE NEWS : Page Seven ‘ Twenty Years Ago : warded to the News. We offer, very |rible scene under ‘that clear, yellow| was marvelous, They had bread, Although in 1914 Bryn Mawr—had Fencing | humbly,.a.translation—-from—theyo0n: The shells were bursting with a|meat, vegetables, brandy, cheese, e ° ; . ; the reputation in Europe of being Elinor Smith, “87, tas been French: . “the best-known female college in our |} generation,” from Cincinnati, in our own college-conscious land, came to the President of the Undergradudte Association the following curt mis- sive’ Students of Bryn Mawr College: Gentlemen: What about a college song book? ° We, in our position, would have written back: Ladies: What about a College News? The News, in the early days, ap- parently had a motherly attitude, which encouraged little. confidences, very much on the Fairfax-Dix line. “Conscientious But. Perplexed” con- fesses her difficulties to the ever-sym- pathetic Board. “I stand on the horns of a dilemma. Last week the fire bell rang for a drill at 10.30 P. M. (this was a decidedly archaic note). I leaped out of ‘bed and slipped on a coat and hockey skirt and slippers. Can» you imagine-my consternation ‘when I was ordered out on to the Campus? I was an aide in the Fire Department, but I was also a bare- legged member of Self-Government.” Another happy, rosy, undergradu- ate, brimful of exuberance and the Pollyanna spirit, criticizes the News for calling éxaminations a fearful or- deal, because, to her, it seems that examinations are the healthiest time of year. ‘Never are we so well fed —five meals a day and tea in the af- ternoon. Never do we take so much voluntary exercise. . - Most of us go to bed at a reasonable hour.” We think that this should be framed in gold and hung on every student’s wall, at examination time. Then when our eyes are bleared with history, we ean raise them and realize with a deep quiet satisfaction that we have never been so well fed. From the very first, the News was in the public eye. The New York Post hailed it with fulsome praise; “It has appeared weekly since the col- lege opened, and is both useful and’ PHILIP HARRISON STORE BRYN MAWR, PA. Gotham Gold Stripe Silk Hosiery, $1.00 Best Quality Shoes in Bryn Mawr NEXT DOOR TO THE MOVIES elected Fencing Manager for 1934-35. successful. It is a four-page sheet beginning with a calendar of the week’s events. It has given short and well-written accounts of the different events in the college; each weele-there is an editorial on some miatter of col- lege interest; under the heading, Alumnae Notes, brief items of inter- est in regard to the Alumnae are giv- en, and the newspaper has’ proved useful in giving a clear accqunt of changes in the students’ organiza- tions.” Thank you, gentlemen; we will keep on trying to make good. The Library received a more wel- come tribute from John Russell Hayes (in the Public Ledger) : “Serenity and peace and sunny dream Have laid their blessing on these graceful towers, — And airs august from old-world Ox- ford seem To breathe among these courts and cloistered bowers.” Pinafore was presented in the Gymnasium in the spring of 1915. The sisters and the cousins and the aunts sang gaily, even though handicapped by pompadours and those almost in- describable white sack-like dresses that resembled nightgowns. M. Cons, a former professor. in the French Department, during the war wrote letters from the trenches to his wife, some of which she for- “The night of November 26, ” wrote M. Cons, “I was present at a scene of inexpressible grandeur and “strange- ness. There was a beautiful mogn and the air carried sound admirably. From our trenches, in the front line, we heard ¢alls, cries, and..orders in the German trench. .Toward eleven o’clock our neighbors and friends of the ‘active regiments began to salute each other by cries of joy (a great Russian victory had just been an- nounced); and suddenly on all the French lines, thousands and_ thou- sands of ardent young voices burst into the Marseillaise, heard perfectly by the Germans—who answered by little cries of derision which sounded very petty. They were beginning to. sing their Wacht am Rhein when our batteries of 75, mingling their imperi- ous voices with the concert and firing on the Boches’ trenches, imposed si- lence upon them. Our men kept on singing. It was a joyful and_a ‘ter- ese gy rg Ann eee eaepemalgaionect ears eee a on?” GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder that we would like to take cate of your parents and friends, whenever they come to visit you. L. E. METCALF, Manager. Meet your friends at the Bryn, Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes; Superior.Soda Service Music—Dancing for girls only ee ee ee COTTON DRESSES Seersucker-Pique SKIRTS Pique-Basketweave s KITTY McLEAN The Sportswoman’s Shop Bryn Mawr, Pa. 3 ll al School of Nursing of Yale University A Profession for the College Woman The thirty months’ course, pro- viding an intensive and varied ex- perience through the case study -method, leads to the degree of MASTER OF NURSING A Bachelor’s. degree in art, sci- ence or philosophy from a college of approved standing is required for admission. A few scholarships avail- able’ for students with advanced qualifications. For catalog and information address: THE DEAN YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING New Haven Connecticut flash and everywhere, standing on the trenches, on the plain, at the edge of the wood, were those silhouettes of heroic children singing the Marseil- laise and punctuating each stanza with a salvo of rifle shots; but the terrible booming of the cannon was the most sublime motif of the orchestra. Such impressions are never forgotten.” The trenches were more than just ditches from which to shoot. F¥xes were built in them and theymen passed happy moments there. ““Imagine men On an average of about forty years old, gathered in a hole underground, around a fire, cooking potatoes in the ashes, and listening enraptured to fairy stories (yes,efairy stories) told sausages, sardines, coffee and tea in abundance. In fact, although the so}; diers slept on wet straw and considered a bed in the straw of a barn as the greatest of luxuries, they were a sur- prisingly healthy lot. To wash even their hands, they had to go through a communication trench to a_ well which was bombarded from time to time by the Germans. They were as happy as schoolboys on vacation when they got to the cantonments, where they could take warm showers and wash their clothes. A _ pretty little gray cat was the companion of M. Cons’ squad in the trenches. It ate the left-over scraps of food and when the cannon thundered, it shook its them by their corporal.” The food|ears tike a little donkey. — =) BRYN MAWR.COLLEGE INN , | \ TEA ROOM Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c ne aw Dinner 85c - $1.25 Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. | Meals a la carte and table d’hote | | Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 Miss Sarah Davis, Manager Ds na f “1896 Where is Indian Lake? About 150 miles from Al- Ques. Ans. bany in a real wilderness. Ques. Can you drive to it? Ans. To the lower end of the Lake; not to the Camp. Ques. What do the Campers live in? Ans. Mostly in tents very com- fortably equipped. There are two cottages. BACK LOG CAMP A camp for adults ana families Sabael P. O. New York | On Indian Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains QUESTIONNAIRE See CAROLINE C. BROWN, DENBIGH 1934 Ques. - Who goes to the Camp? Ans. People like yourself. Single | men and women; whole families. Ques. Who runs the Camp? Ans. A large family of Philadel- phia Quakers, college graduates. Ques. What sort of a life does the Camp offer? Ans. Terribly — to the sort | who never come; fascinating to those who love the woods. Ques. Is the food good? Ans. Absolutely. al a al a a a ae tn i i tl te a i i a i a i i ai a a TRY ca SMOKE ALL You WANT. AND CAMELS WON’T AMELS COSTLIER TOBACCOS NEVER YOU CAN SMOKE THEM STEADILY. GET ON YOUR NERVES ® 8 PRETO AE BECAUSE THEY NEVER TIRE YOUR TASTE ! ened Oe Ey ae Page Eight ~ THE COLLEGE NEWS Bryn Mawr Burns ~~" To the present staid and sober stu- dents of Bryn Mawr, nothing really | exciting like fires in Denbigh ever seems to happen. Our years on the campus have never yet given us an opportunity to reveal the feminine heroism which we are sure lies buried within us, nor an opportunity to he- come intimately acquainted with dash- ‘ing fire chiefs risking life and limb to save our Sophomore English re- ports and asking no reward but a fetching smile. Life in Bryn Mawr, however, was not always thus. There was once a time, as we gleaned from jpouring through Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’ scrap book of the Bigger and Better Bryn Mawr events, when four hundred stu- dents worked heroically at saving re- ports, gold fish, and their pet socks from fire and flame and a great deal of Packs. all of which came pouring out of “Denbrigh” Hall in the middle of dne terrifically exciting night. Sev- enty-two girls rushed to safety, in good order but scant attire, according to the Evening Telegraph of March 17, 1902, but were soon rallied by some 300 others who arrived with fire apparatus in hand and “began their glorious battle with. the flames.” We only wish that we could do something to become fit news for such headlines as the following: “BRYN MAWR GIRLS FIGHT:.COLLEGE FIRE Four Hundred Students Work Hero- ically to Save Buildings at ccomenecas «erence —————_ DENBRIGH HALL DESTROYED Lamp Overturned by a Falling Screen Starts Blaze in Closed Room That Threatened the Whole Institution AID SENT FROM PHILADELPHIA ‘Handsonie Limestone Structure With Its Contents Worth At Least a Quarter Million—Chief Baxter Directed Work’ The headlines themselves are mere- ly a foretaste of the better moments of the article: “Denbrigh Hall, one of the newest and largest dormitory buildings at: Bryn Mawr College, was: totally de- stroyed by fire last night. Only the personal bravery and quick judgment of Miss Tibolt, in whose room the fire started, saved the 71 other young women housed in the building from injury or death. “A fire brigade of 400 young women quickly formed and gave battle to the flames. Nothing whatever was saved from Denbrigh Hall, the young fire fighters giving all of their attention to the adjoining buildings. “The fire originated in the rooms of Miss Tibolt, which was located about the centre of the main corridor. Miss Tibolt had stepped across the hallway, leaving’ a lighted lamp on her study table. “The screen standing before her open window was blown over by the breeze and fell with a crash on the lighted lamp. The table cover caught fire and, fed by paper and other in- flammable stuff, the flames spread to the carpet and curtains. and-soon the entire room was a mass of seething ; flamés. .“Miss Tibolt returned after a few minutes, and on seeing the blaze in- stantly closed the door and shouted ‘Fire!’ 4 “She roused her nearest —room- mates. From room to room and from floor. to floor the brave girls ran, shouting at the top of their lungs the cries of warning. “The shouts of the terrorized stu- dents in Denbrigh Hall soon roused those sleeping’in the other dormitories, as well as the large corps of instruc- tors. “There was no panic, and messen- gers were dispatched tp Ardmore, Narberth, Villanova and other nearby places for assistance. “Appeals were sent to Chief Baxter, of the Philadelphia Fire Department, Mayor Ashbridge and Director Eng- lish, and word was soon received that two engine companies and a _ truck would soon arrive. Sei “The 72 girls who escaped in good order from Denbrigh Hall, some in scant attire, were soon joined by over 300 others, who formed in squads and with the fire apparatus at hand began their glorious battle with the flames. “The drizzling rain suddenly be- came a perfect downpour, and the young women saw in’it an omen of good. They barred the doors in the lower floors of Denbrigh Hall to shut off the draughts and opened the way for the volunteer firemen, who were already heard beating down the great, important point to every sm Yes, Luckies are always in all kind to your throat. wide macadam drives leading up to the college campus. The girls helped unreel the first line of hose that was: limbered on the ground, and four of the quickest and the bravest rushed into the heart of the fire with the pipe. No attempt. was made to save any of the girls’ effects, and all energies were bent upon the fire itself. “The supply of water proved abun- dant, and the steady downpour of rain seemed to grow in volume as the minutes passed. All danger of fall- ing walls, all fear of singed tresses and all. regard for personal appear- ances were cast aside, and a fight to a finish with the fire was on.’ The breaking glass, shattered by the in- tense heat, cpened draughts on all sides of the building. Thus the flamed flames grew im fierceness and mounted high, piercing the roof and lighting the sky like a beacon. “Step by step the brave: girls were forced back from the burning hall, only to rush forward with renewed courage and energy when a slight shift of the wind or a crash of tim- ber would scatter the blaze and afford them an instant’s vantage. “Time and time again they were driven away, and just as often as they broke ground a foot they dashed back a yard and were actually right up against the blazing building when the veterans from Philadelphia arrived. “The professional fire-fighters drove the young women from their posts of danger and took active charge of the conflagration. The young women turned in as volunteers and under the direction.,.of._the-_Philadelphia ~ -fire chiefs ran lines of pipes from the water supply to the hall and ina hun- dred ways rendered instant and valu- able aid to the firemen. Dangerous walls were battered down, and be- fore each fall the girls would strug- gle to places of safety through the mud and debris. “Chief Baxter arrived in person soon after midnight and, guided by a dozen girls, soon located the scene of greatest danger, and, placing the fe- male volunteers: where they could play water upon Merion Hall, saved that ° handsome structure.” The ‘Newest Thing in Hairdressing, MACHINELESS PERMANENTS = Specialty of MAISON ADOLPHE French Hairdressers 853 Lancaster Avenue »Bryn Mawr 2060 Phone 570 PF JEANNETT’S j BRYN: MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammer _ 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA -Luckies do not dry out e put together. , center oS v “Tt’s toasted” Sar San eNeees = ess aeaeee : = —— ~ V Luckies are all-ways kind to your throat ° Only the Center Leaves— these are the Mildest Leaves L Copyright, 1984, The American Tobacco Company.