ee ‘of steel, The College ec ws s VOL. XIX, No. 11 7 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933 COLLEGE Copyright BRYN MAWR NEWS, PRICE 10 CENTS 1933 Dr. Beebe Lectures on Deep-Sea Fish Pictures Phosphorescent Fish Living Beyond Reach of Light Rays DESCENDED 2200 FEET In discussing their respective flights above and below the earth’s surface, Piccard in a.free balloon 10.3 miles up, where, the pressure is one- tenth of an atmdsphere, and Beebe in a bathysphere, down undersea where the pressure is eighty atmospheres, the two explorers laughingly con- trasted the absence of angels above to the absence of mermaids below. How- ever, Dr. William Beebe, lecturing in Goodhart Hall, January 19, said that he had seen twenty-seven submarine sights, all alive, and all stranger by far than those of Alice in Wonder- land. Submarine life has been the last. field of investigation, despite the in- teresting. fact that human blood is just like salt water in its constitu- ents, only three times as fresh. With diving bells and diving suits the’ greatest depth Dr. Beebe attained was only sixty feet, and the very greatest diving record for a human being is a 525-foot dive of one moment’s dura- tion in a fresh water lake in Ger-| many. Contrasted with a possible 200-foot depth attainable in a diving suit, and a 400-foot ‘evel in a sub- marine, we have Beebe’s descent 2200 feet below sea level in his bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda last Sep- tember. The pvathysphere, as it stands im- proved after difficult experiences in uncoiling the thirty-seven turns of wire is an ultramarine blue sphere four and one-half feet in diameter, weighing two tons out of water. It has quartz windows to with- ‘ stand a pressure of 5,000 tons on the sphere-—fourteen tons on each win- dow alone, and a general pressure of nine hundred ninety-six pounds per square inch. The temperature inside is kept at aboyt seventy. degrees, while outside it is down to fifty-two degrees, and the=oxygen supply is regulated by chemical apparatus pro- ducing exactly two liters of oxygen per minute, and containing absorbents for the moisture and carbon dioxide given off. At ‘seven hundred feet, all daylight vanishes, the infra red rays being ab- sorbed first; at eight hundred feet only a dirty white line remains on the spectrum, and at seventeen hun- dred feet there is no spectrum at all and the only lights are. the luminous organs of many of the fish, which shine with one hundred per cent. cold light as compared with the three per cent. of pure light with which the or- dinary electric bulbs shines. Look- ing at these luminous fish, Dr. Beebe pointed out, was like looking at the planets, especially in the case of a six-foot fish with red and blue glob- ules on its tentacles and a line of portholes on the side of its body. The naturalist illustrated his talk with slides of fish drawn by his art- ists in color from specimens brought up by trawling and kept in refrig- eration for’ observation, with moving pictures of his dives, and of deep sea fish, and with animated cartoons Showing the life and development of some of the fish at too great a depth> to. be actuall¢ photographed. He showed drawings of small vari- colored crustaceans, of brown and (Centinued on Page Four) Liberal Club There was a meeting of the Liberal Club Tuesday- night. The meeting decided to suggest to the college the plan. of forfn- ing a non-partisan political so- ciety “to replace the Liberal Club. The first speaker of the ' second semester will be a tech- nocrat. : | Four of the cast of Murder in the Red Barn, to be done here in February’ They are here seen singing “Come, Birdie, Come,” by the Jitney Players. one of the entre-act divertissments. “Come, Birdie, Come’’ COLLEGE CALENDAR Thursday, January 26—Vo- cational Tea at 5.00 P. M. Miss Eleanor A. Bliss, Bryn Mawr 21, will speak on Laboratory Work and Scientific Research. Friday, January 27 — Last ~ day of lectures. Friday, January 27—At 4.00 P. M., basketball, Bryn Mawr 1st and 2nd teams vs. Drexel Institute 1st and 2nd teams. Monday, January 30 — Mid- year examinations begin. Friday, February 10 — Mid- year examinations end. Tuesday, February 14—Sev- ond semester begins. College Radio Program Include World Figures A nationwide broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company chain will carry the speeches of Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. Wm. B. Munro, and Mr. Henry M. Robinson to the four corners of the United States on the evening of January 23, when the combined colleges of Southern Cali- fornia present a program in the in- terest of public opinion. The session, which will be.centered in the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, will present’ the student’s point of view when H. Rawlins Overton, pres- ident ‘of the associated students of the University [ot Redlands, speaks on “The American Student and His Relation to WorldjProblems.” The sponsoring body of student body pfesidents from the eleven col- leges and universities of Southerr California is offering the program in order to stimulate an objective in. terest in the big issues of current events and world interests. They say, “The sole motive of the student body leaders of the Southern California Colleges and Universities in present- ing this program as well as the pro- gram of last year, has been to arouse ‘an intelligent interest in world af- fairs with the hope that such inter- est will wok ast into rational pub- HHre- ay ated “Epinrne : Dr. Albert Einstein, who arrived in Southern California on January 9, is visiting the California Institute of Technology and the surrounding edu- cational centers through the generos- ity.of the Oberlaender Trust of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, which exists for the promotion of cultural: relations~ between the Ger- man-speaking peoples and the people of the United States of America. Dr. Einstein, who has always: addressed his American audiences in German, may speak in English for the, first time, although it is not definitely (Continued on Page Four) even Stel } ® ° Changes in Squad Result of Basketball Practice No new entries but several changes ! are the results of the Varsity bas- ketball practice last week. On Fri- day, Faeth’s co-operation with Col- lier, high scoring, gave her a considerable lead on Baker, whose passing was ‘hurried and her shooting often wide of the basket. ly and even Collier was inclined to Everyone played wild- “travel” on her shots. After trying out several combina- tions, Miss Grant finally discovered one which proved to be the most suc- cessful of the afternoon. _The team was as follows: Collier—right forward. Faeth—left forward. Kent—center. Remington—side-center. Jackson—right guard. Bridgman—le€t guard. Although Kent is one of the best guards on the squad, she should, if the new tip-off rules are adopted, make an excellent center, an import- ant post, and one for which candi- dates are sadly lacking, due to Long- acre’s continued absence. The second team, we also notice, is beginning to assume definite form. Meirs and Baker so far have formed the most successful combination in the forward positions, with Daniels, Raynor,and Simons close Btkthd them. Horsburgh has a slight advantage over Monroe for the center position, while James, although small, is ex- tremely quick on her feet and is giv- ing Collins a close race at side-cen- ter. Bowditch is as usual playing a steady game at guard, but Bishop sine keeps too far away _from her forward, leaving her to drop back di- rectly under the basket to feceive a pass from the center for an easy bank-shot. This week will probably be the final chance for team tryouts, so watch the next News for a ‘complete and offi- “eink ists 0f-the=Varsity