‘plot seemed designed to allow them ‘Hitler, while objecting mildly to fire The Col ee ege News VOL. XXII,‘No. 13. BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 936 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1936 =i PRICE 10 CENTS 1939's Class Show Entertains College With Caricatures Management by Different Halls Results in Loose Plot, Many Individual Actors “LOWLY WORM” TAKEN | AS FRESHMAN ANIMAL Goodhart, February 15.—With a melodious plea to the juniors and a satirical wink at the rest of the world, the freshmen raised the cur- tain on 1936 and All That, their ver- sion of the annual class show. The to imitate as many persons and insti- tutions, local and international, as possible. It concerned the trials of the executives in four important na- tions who had all by strange coinci- dence,* married members of the class of 1936 of Bryn Mawr College. Though: the five scenes of the first act were managed by the various halls, the entire production was di- rected by Delia Marshall and Bar- bara Bigelow. Nancy Toll was busi- ness manager of the play and- also did the lighting. The first five scenes showed Hitler, Haile Selassie, Mussolini, Lord Chomondely (Prime Minister of Eng- land) and Mr. Onion, of Onion Isle, separately making their final prepa- rations for a journey to Geneva for the purpose of arranging a war. Four of these five statesmen were married, respectively, to Anne Reese, Barbara Cary, Frances Porcher and Pauline Manship. The well-educated women insisted upon forcing their husbands to benefit by the opportun- ities which they had found at Bryn Mawr; and therefore they undertook to teach them languages, diction, body-mechanics and fire drill tech- nique, besides supervising their lead- ership in the affairs of staté. The energy’ of the well-educated consorts was appreciated in different degrees in different countries. The Germans seemed to take kindly to Frau Reese- drills) The English were shocked, but on the whole, Continued on Page Six trifle elighted college. College Urged to Take May Day in its Stride| Goodhart, February 13.—Mrs. Man- ning announced in chapel that it is the purpose of the college, represented by Miss Park, Mrs. Manning and the Fac- ulty, to “take May Day in its stride.” The rehearsals will’ fit into the regu- | lar class schedule except during the | last week. This is not difficult, except for the laboratory work, if the work on the plays is started in time. The main burden of the organization of May Day is not intended to. rest on the student body, and for this reason outside coaches are brought in to take charge.of the plays. The plays are short and numerous, and since none of them takes an hour to give, no stu- dent should have too much of her time taken up with rehearsals. .No one actor carries a whole play, and the numerous short rehearsals prevent the crowding of rehearsals which often occurs in an ordinary play. After the Easter vacation the at- mosphere. on the campus will prob- ably be unfavorable to _ serious scholarly attempts. It is most im- portant, therefore, that long reports be started and finished, if possible, by Spring Vacation. Weekends will have to be used for rehearsals and for “catching up.” Though it may seem a hardship to have to give up one particular weekend, we will later feel that the experience of working together as a college has meant more to—-us-than-even avery delightful weekend could. We will enjoy the process of cooperating with the whole The midsemester quiz period will be over by Spring Vacation. There will not be more than three con- secutive days of quizzes for any one student, and the period should go smoothly. It should be possible to prepare for the quizzes without any great difficulty. They are not like ex- aminations, and do not need an ex- tensive amount of study. The prob- lems of those few students who have deferred or conditioned examinations will be dealt with individually, It is very important that no group of students, nor any individual, al- low grievances to accumulate. Any complaint or difficulty should be taken to Miss Fabyan or Miss Rose, the undergraduate members of the May Day Committee. How the Wheels Go Round (Editor’s Note. This is the. first of a series of articles on the machin- ery which enables Bryn Mawr to function as a community. It is writ- ten from a purely student point of view from the annual report of the Treasurer and Comptroller, available at the office of the Comptroller.) Until two years ago a small note was attached to the bills which were sent to our parents for tuition stat- ing that the actual cost of educating each student was nearly double the $500° actually charged. This notice has been tactfully omitted recently in deference to the feelings of ear- nest yet hard-pressed parents, - but the fact remains that in 1933-1934 it cost the college $970 per student for academic expenses alone and the fee charged remained at $500. In spite of this fact Bryn Mawr is one of the few leading colleges and universi- ties which has had no operating de- ficit since the peak of the depression. Back of these apparently divergent facts lies a realm little known to the students with which the mysteri- ous word “endowment” is usually associated. This world of college finances is kept running smoothly and efficiently with salaries paid and | meals served promptly by the per- fect teamwork of President Park, Treasurer Seattergood and Comp- troller Hurst. Each disclaims credit for the remarkable fact the Bryn Mawr pays its bills in spite of a topsy-turvy business world, but each admits that “housewifely” economies -have made Bryn Mawr a better housekeeper in these times than- her wealthier brethren. " Financially speaking, the college consists of the plant plus about six million dollars in endowment, or in- vested securities, whose income from dividends and interest pays current expenses and maintains the real es- tate property. No one has ever bothered to evaluate the land on which ‘the college stands, and - since land values have altered greatly since purchase, the college has no intention of selling out. Recently land in this vicinity has sold for $20,000 to $25,000 an acre, so that the six- ty-two acres of campus could be valued at $124,000. Insurance (blanket insurance spread over fourteen com- panies for absolute safety) is carried on “above ground improvements,” which means buildings and contents to the sum of $2,600,000 for 80 per cent of the value. This would bring the total value of the plant, endow- ment, land and buildings to: $10,000,- 000, a trifling sum when compared to the tremendous corporations of the men’s universities. Investment of Endowment The bulk of the endowment, 69.7 per cent is invested in bonds, with mortgages, real estate, stocks and perpetual insurance in successively decreasing amounts. In watching the market for possible investment openings the Treasurer does not seek the chance for a quick sale, but certainty that *he issuing company will be able to pay off the principal when the investment matures. This conforms strictly to the cautious policy of the founder who set forth in his will that the Trustees are “to distribute their investments and to look to the security of the principal invested, rather than to a high rate | Richards declared that his purpose -'tion of its own assumptions, just as ¢ Continued on Page Four ' 1936 MAY QUEEN JANE ALLEYNE LEWIS, ’38 Theorems Are Sought For Modes of Meaning Richards Believes New Rhetoric Must Examine Functions of Individual Words PROBLEM IS ABSTRACT Goodhart, February 17.—In the sec- ond of his series of lectures, Mr. I. A. was to formulate a theorem about every mode of meaning which would serve as a basic point of view from which to recognize problems of a new rhetoric, and at the same time to at- tempt to solve these problems of dis- course. At the end of his first lecture Mr. Richards had explained that the study of his new rhetoric; or more specific- ally, the inquiry about how words work, must entail a critical examina- philosophical speculation does. This examination, moreover, must be on a minute scale as well as on a macro- scopic scale; it must investigate the functions of individual words as well as of whole sentences and paragraphs. The student who seeks a theorem on which to base his study of such units of discourse will find much to help him in the old traditional prob- lems. But he will recognize that rhetoricians of the old school regarded discourse as a “battle. of words.” From the newer, more fundamental point of view, persuasion is only one aim of language, and it often poaches on other forms, such as exposition, whose aim is simply to state a view. Some of the best illustrations of. dis-|' pute poaching on exposition are found | in the correspondence columns of re- views and newspapers, where the writer often takesgother men’s words to prove his own contentions. The theorem which is to be funda- mental enough to aid in consideration of this problem (that is, the problem of the rivalries of the different ends of discourse), must of necessity be very abstract and general in the high- est degree. It will have to be ap- plicable to every sort of meaning, but its specific applications should clear up its difficulty. One must start with an abstract, philosophic |, theorem and proceed to its application in literary forms if the meaning of literary forms is to be well under- Two General Problems stood. There will be two general sorts of problems to be considered by means of the theorem to be discovered. The first has already been mentioned: the ‘Continued on Page Five i College Calendar Wednesday, February 19.— Horace Alwyne, F. R. M. C. M., will give a concert in Goodhart Hall. .8.30 p, m. Thursday, February 20.—Eng- lish Conference with I. A. Rich- ards. Rdom F, Taylor Hall. 4.30 p. m. Friday, February 21.—Square Dance in the Gymnasium. 9 p. m. Sunday, February 23.—Louis Untermeyer will speak on A Critic’s Half Holiday. Deanery, 5 p. m. Bryn Mawr Establishes Exchange Scholarships In an effort to compensate for the loss of foreign scholars on the campus, four exchange scholarships have been established, with the co- operation of the Institute of Interna- tional Education. These exchanges are with France, Germany, Italy and Spain, that is, the four countries which furnish the modern languages of the Bryn Mawr curriculum. Under this arrangement, Bryn Mawr gives board, lodging and tuition to the schol- ars from these countries and has the right to ask of them four to five hours of language teaching. The French Department, which experimented this year with the plan, has had a most satisfactory candidate in Mademoiselle Nasse, licenciée of the University of Bordeaux, who has supplemented the oral teaching of the first year French and has made a great contribution to the undergraduate French Club and the ‘group of graduate students in French, with whom she has lived in Radnor Hall. The exchange character of these scholarships is also of immense value, enabling, as it does, a candidate recom- mended by Bryn Mawr to study in each of these four foreign countries. Continued on Page Four News Tryouts The College News is starting tryouts for the Editorial Board this week. Will all those wish- ing to try out please come to the News office on Thursday ‘afternoon at six o’clock? The early tryouts will permit six weeks before all assignments must be in, so that May Day need in no way interfere with busy students wishing to try out.- All freshmen and sopho- mores. regardless of — previous training are urged to come down Le Thursday. : | finalists '}informal atmosphere. Jane Alleyne Lewis Merion Sophomore Will be May Queen Blonde Beauty is Accomplished Violinist, Hopes to Become Designer —_———- WAS REGIONAL SCHOLAR FOR FRESHMAN. YEAR Jane Alleyne Lewis, the only can- didate chosen to compete for the honor by Merion Hall, has been elected May Queen by an overwhelming ‘popular vote. Sixteen undergraduates were select- ed by the various halls. to enter the tryouts for the coveted role. Only. thirteen of them appeared, however, at the first tryout on February 6, when they walked in the Gymnasium to the enthusiastic applause of under- graduates crowding the balcony. From this’ number three girls, Doreen Canaday, ’36, Marian Chapman, ’36, and Jane Lewis, ’38, were told to ap- pear at the next tryout. Those three tried out again on February 10, in costume, to read the part of Maid Marian. Since a May Queen, in addition to being blonde, beautiful and able to act, must also photograph well, pictures of the three were taken in costume February 11 and _ posted the follow- ing day. On February 13 the college cast their_votes and the next day the election of Miss Lewis was announced to the college. No Stage Aspirations Miss Lewis, chosen as May Queen because of her beauty of face and fig- ure and her quality of photographing well, has no desire to act on stage or screen. Extremely modern, she has considered television work; but her real ambition is to become a designer or a violinist. Although she appeared: in dramatic productions at Miss Fine’s School in Princeton, where she prepared for col- lege,her connection with the drama at Bryn Mawr has been limited to a part in the Christmas freshman skit in Pembroke a year ago, and to “blow- ing a whistle in Freshman Show when the lines could not be heard.” This year she joined Glee Club and became a member of the choir. Miss Lewis has always wanted to be a violinist and has studied violin for ten years, both here and for six months in Paris with M. Hewitt. Years ago she had to decide “whether to be a violinist or a normal child,” and chose the latter; but her enthu- siasm has not abated, as she practices regularly and divides her interest be- tween music and designing. She is one of the models most fre- quently in demand for the Art Club here. Her modelling experience dates back to the time when she was “a wee Continued on Page Five Louis Untermeyer Will Speak Here on Sunday ‘Mr. Louis Untermeyer, author and editor, will talk on A Critic’s Half Holiday at the Deanery on Sunday, February 23, at five o’clock. Mr. Untermeyer, now among the first of the American poets, was born in New York on October 1, 1885, and began his career in the jewelry manufacturing business of his fath- er’s and uncle’s firm. He became manager of the chief factory at Newark, New Jersey, but resigned to devote his attention to writing. His first book of poems, The Younger * Quire, was published in 1910. Since then he has published much original work, including poetry and _ fiction, and several anthdlogies of poetry. His latest. book, Poetry—Its Appre- ciation and Enjoyment, appeared in 1934. On Mr. Untermeyer’s last visit to the college, he proved such a success that the Entertainment Committee considered holding his lecture next Sunday in the Auditorium in Good- hart instead of in the Deanery. They decided, however, to have the lecture in the Deanery because of its eam * Page Two # THE COLLEGE NEWS ro THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Published weekly during the College Year mat during Thanikegiving,° Christmas: and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest ot Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The Collége News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Editor-in-Chief BARBARA CARY, ’36 : News Editor Co Editor HELEN FISHER, ’37 ANNE ARBURY, 87 Editors ELIZABETH LYLE, ’37 JANET THOM, ’38 ZANNE WILLIAMS, Sports Editor Sytv1ia H. Evans, ’87 Business Manager Subscription Manager DOREEN CANADAY, '36 ALICE COHEN, ’36 Assistants LOUISE STENGEL, ’37 ETHEL HENKELMAN, AGNES ALLINSON, ’37 MARGARET HOwSON, DEWILDA NARAMORE, ’38 CORDELIA STONE, ’37 ‘SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Post Office CAROLINE C. BROWN, ’36 Mary H. HUTCHINGS, ’37 \ JANE SIMPSON, ’37 38 38 38 Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., IN MEMORIAM Bettina Diez Daughter of Professor and Mrs. Max Diez Born October 3, 1921 Died February 18, 1936 Bigger and Better Zoos The 1939 Freshman Show was undoubtedly an outstanding success in many~ways. There were also one.or two notable defects which pertain in one case to Freshman Shows in general, and in the other case to the present production. One of the most ‘laudable features of the Show this year was the fact that 1939 more nearly succeeded in making its play representative of the whole class than has any other recent Freshman Show. They were able to achieve this end because of the new method of producing the Show which was tried this year in an effort to simplify it. The Class of 1939 produced their show by halls, thus eliminating the necessity for the large scale rehearsals of the whole class which have been characteristic of previous Shows. Nevertheless they were able to put on a performance which had consistency of plot, good®¢songs and some very fine individual acting. The whole play was written, rehearsed and produced after the beginning of the = second semester. There is one virtue to the kind of Freshman Show which has been given in the past which ought to be remembered when the question again comes up as to the sort of play the freshmen should give. Usually by the end of the first semester, the freshmen in the various halls know each other fairly well, but their contact with the other members of their class is still quite limited. If the play is given with each hall having its own separate part, there is very little chance for the people in the different halls to come to know one another more intimately through working together in planning the play, practicing the parts and the choruses and building the scenery. The fault which has been common’ to at least three of the last four Freshman Shows, which, indeed, we hoped that 1939 might avoid, is the choice of the class animal. The seniors began the evil influence three years ago, and with the possible exception of the Class of 1937, the animals which have been chosen have been gi absurd. To try to visualize a class insignia with an amoeba as itS central figure is even more laughable than the concrete manifestations of the Mexican Jumping Bean which, plainly enough, are not seen very frequently about the campus. 1939 must have an emblem which has the “lowly worm” as its central figure. The designing of this insignia will take considerable ingenuity, to say the least! / J » Wind Your Watches Preaching the virtue of promptitude to the world at large has never yet had the effect of successfully inculcating the practice of that virtue. What few noble souls have striven to meet others precisely at the appointed time have always been discouraged by the necessity of waiting long past the time for those others to come. Yet notwithstanding this failure of the magnanimous and wise, we intend to raise the plea again, appealing for our cause, however, neither to ethics nor to etiquette, but to pure selfishness. From this moment until May Day is over and done with, ‘the life of every student on the campus will consist of a series of appointments, whether to mass assemblies of country dancers or to exclusive private rehearsals for the leading roles. fidently, requested; in each case it will be more than a matter of courtesy to comply with that request: it will be vitally necessary. The last few puffs of a cigarette, the last hands of bridge, that overlap the hour assigned for practice, seem trivial deductions from the total of such hours, but the total of such last minute delays repeated time after time will not be trivial. It will be an astounding gap ‘in the allotted time, a gap to be filled in with haste and hysteria and with no regard for other. concerns perhaps equally _ important. In other words, the result will be a most distressing muddle. That is one side of the question. There will be times, however, when atonement for tardiness will not be postponed until a final mad rush but will be made then and there where the fault was committed. If someone is half an hour late, then the ‘rehearsal will-be half an hour longer. What- ever was planned for that half-hour will be lost; and when many such losses océur, as they probably will, the consequences will be too serious to dismiss with ; iendleratielaain ‘Consider the German lessons that might’ be done, He. started out with a wife name ‘| As we nurse an injured toe. In each case, promptness will be hopefully, if not con-| Wits END) Henry, surnamed V I I L, Was an egotist indeed; He wouldn’t listen when he was told One wife was.all he should need. Kate, A Spaniard affectionate and mild. But Henry’s devotion turned to-hate For want of a masculine child. When freed from Casnenine by hook and by crook, ° The King married Anne Releve. But soon wife two had her head chopped off For morals not suiting a queen. Next came Jane Seymour, the greatest success Of any he made his bride. A son was born to the happy king, But alas for the queen—she died. Jane was followed by Anne of Cleves. By proxy-her hand was sought. When Henry sighted her homely face, The mine’ Was slightly rae Anne was dispatched - to two large estates. Kate Howard now married Bluebeard. But soon Kate’s head parted ways with her’ neck; Kate wasn’t pure, it appeared. The King’s taste in names was now pretty fixed, So-he married Katherine Parr; And, wonder of wonders, Henry died first; He had gone just one wife too far. The Dormouse. THE OLD, OLD STORY They said we all should try for plays, So I went hopefully. I thought that anything would ‘do— Except to be a tree. I offered myself as Maid Marian, And wore auntie’s long nightgown. But my piebald hair only came to my neck— They swiftly turned me down. So then I tried to be a man, I fancied Robin Hood. My voice, alas! was high and shrill— The effect was not so good. “All right,” I said, “It may well be That comedy’s my forte.” I bandied insults as Gammer G.— They weren’t of the right sort. As Hodge or Bottom, Frolic or Ham, I did not seem to rate. But still I bravely tried again, Suspecting my real fate. But now at last it’s all fixed up, I know what I shall be. They say it’s really rather fun— I’m going to be a tree! (To the tune of “Carefully on Tip- toe Stealing’—with apologies to Gil- bert and Sullivan.) Down a steep and slippery pathway, Skidding gently as we go; Every step with caution feeling, Goodness me, a remedy: “Bake it now, and you will see Improvement instantly.” They say, so it may be. And no matter what the malady, Be it illness, cut or ache, Their diagnosis always is: “Go and let it bake.” If you bump your head in two, There is just one thing to do:. Go and get it baked. —HALF-BAKED. Liked Freshman Show when four freshmen who were on probation surprised everyone, including the directors of the play, by bursting forth from the balcony with the following song: ‘“Flunk; flunk’ | That seems our motto. Flunk, | flunk That seems our song, Flunk, flunk, ‘Our minds must be blotto. We won’t be here very long. Cram,’.cram'. _ It don’t avail us. Cram, cram ’ We are too dumb. Cram, cram The powers assail. us. ‘Calling our intellects numb. « Work, work ° Summa Cum Laude. Work, work We'll graduate. Work, work Though we seem rowdy, We’ll each. marry a potentate! Cheerio, ‘THE MAD HATTER. News of the New York Theatres The current dramatic season, which has been characterized by Mr. William F. McDermott, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “technically admirable and artistically rich” has lately benefited further by the openings of two new light comedies. which show healthy signs of flourishing. We refer to Lynn Riggs’ latest, Russet Mantle and the Theatre Guild’s Call It a Day. Neither of these is distinguished for sharp satire or broad farce as fur- nished by First Lady and Boy Meets Girl, which have hitherto been the most popular comic plays on Broadway. Besides being funny, they are sympa- thetic and have their tender moments. Perhaps this is because they are both written about the young, and most authors seem to hold‘the opinion that there is something intrinsically pitiful in being young. Russet Mantle marks the return to the legitimate stage of John Beal, who appeared lasf* as a’ Princeton senior in She Loves Me Not. He plays a dreamer, poet and tramp, who wanders into the Western ranch of a family of Easterners to get a job as hired man. There he finds under- standing in the person of his employ- er’s daughter, who joins him in his revolt against the moral restrictions of modern society, temporarily upset- ting the composure of the household. This state of affairs does not last long, however, as Mr. Beal soon makes it evident that he has every intention of marrying the girl. Nothing that this play says is supposed to be revo- lutionary; it is a sigh for, perhaps a salute to the unnecessary and amus- ing courage of the young. But the mood is not entirely nostalgic. Mr. Riggs has written an excellent straight comic part in the aunt of the young heroine, who thinks everyone should live in Louisville, Kentucky. Call It a Day was written by Dodie Smith, the English author of Autumn Crocus. In her new comedy she writes about fifteen hours in the life of a very nice family. The only thing that is extraordinary about the action is the fact that on this early spring day by a strange coincidence the thoughts of the three childrén, mother and father unanimously and lightly turn to thoughts of love. Moreover, 'there is nothing extraordinary about the interpretations, first rate though ‘they are, of such actors as Philip Merivale, Gladys Cooper and thirteen- year-old Jeanne Dante. The most ex- citing thing about the play is the writing, which is so perfect that the of the simple proposition that, as A new touch was added to the Brooks Atkinson says, “the Hiltons begun or even entirely written in that the two, and unless those proportions We are not, therefore, urged to nothing of what we are expected to There is no gain from May Day if we the reserve room books that might be secured, the papers that might be collection of lost fractions of an hour. When there is so much curricular work to do as well as so much making of flowers and learning of parts, one sort of activity is bound to cause neglect of the other unless the time of each day is carefully proportioned between are as carefully kept. promptitude only by the fact that a schedule moving like clockwork would exhibit the consideration and the reasonableness that we should like to contemplate in ourselves. There is the practical motive that without some attempt at regularity and punctuality, do this semester can be accomplished except in a frenzy.. There is also the further motive that whatever is per- formed in a frenzy is usually performed in fever and anxiety, not. pleasure: cannot have fun along with our labor. er ome Ley oe author has made a moving play out, are united by too many ties to’ break loose just because the weather has turned warm.” In Philadelphia ® Movies Aldine: The Lady Consents, in which Ann Harding, who chooses her own stories, appears as a brave and popular little woman gallantly hiding her disappointment in love until her father-in-lasv dies to reunite her with her \iérbert Marshall). Begins Friday. Arcadia: Professionat Soldier, A Graustarkian boy-king (Freddie Bar- tholomew) meets a U. S. Marine (Victor McLaglen) and learns to shoot craps. Boyd: The Petrified Forest, with Bette Davis, and starring Leslie How- ard. The story on a vagrant phi- losopher, who meets a girl in a road- side restaurant and of their encounter with a neurotic gangster, played by Humphrey Bogart. The philosophy is a bit superficial, but Mr. Howard's acting is almost flawless. Earle: Love On a Bet begins Fri- day. Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie | and Helen Broderick star in this ro- mantic comedy. Miss Broderick fur- nishes the humor. Erlanger: Modern Times. Charlie Chaplin at his best. Paulette God- dard plays -her first screen role as the “street-gamin” who befriends the little clown. Fox: The Prisoner of Shark Island, starring Warner Baxter, begins Fri- day. One of the latest in the current flood of biography films, it is the story of an heroic American doctor named Samuel Alexander Mudd. Karlton: Rose Marie, with Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald, an amusing and beautifully produced mu- sical about an opera singer and her Canadian Mountie. It is as amusing, less tuneful and shorter than Naughty Marietta. Miss MacDonald seems a — little more adroit at playing comedy, but even more coy than ever. Keith’s: The Voice of Bugle Ann, taken from MacKinley Kantor’s story and starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan. Stanley: Starting Saturday, Follow the Fleet, the newest singing and dancing film of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Stanton: .The Tough Guy, with Jackie Cooper and RinTinTin, Jr. a Theatres Broad: Danger—Men Working, the murder mystery of Ellery Queen and Lowell Brentano, ends its two-week run here Saturday night. The plot is conventional, though fast-moving, and concerns the -astounding revelations which come to three young authors when they decide to investigate the private life of a bearded neighbor. Fred Stewart, Hal Dawson and Broderick Crawford play the leads. Chestnut: The Postman Always Rings Twice will remain for the addi- tional week as we prophesied-in our last issue. It is a dramatized version of the popular Cain novel, concerning the tragic end of two partners in crime. Richard Barthelmess is the star. Forrest: Tobacco Road, the Georgia “breshwood” drama, continues at this theatre for a second week. Henry Hull, the star of the original company, has returned to his role after an in- terval in Hollywood. Academy of Music Fritz Reiner: conducting. The Or- chestra will play Le Roi David, bf Honegger, a symphonic psalm in three parts. Local Movies Ardmore: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Ronald Colman'in A Tale of Two Cities; Monday and Tuesday, Jean Harlow in Riffraff; Wednesday, Joe Penner in Collegiate. Wayne: Thursday, Alison Skip- worth in Hitchhike Lady; Friday and Saturday, Claudette Colbert in The Bride Comes Home; Sunday and Mon- day, Warner Baxter in King of Bur- lesque; Tuesday and Wednesday, Gene Raymond in Seven Keys to Bald- pate. Seville: Wednesday, Jessie Mat- thews in First a Girl; Thursday, Fri-. day and Saturday, Warner Baxter in King of Burlesque; Sunday and Mon- day, E. E. Horton in Your Unele | Dudley; Tuesday and Wednesday, Claudette Colbert in The Bride Comes Home. THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three DIRECTOR’S PAGE . MAY DAY ANNO UNCEMEN TS Director’s Committees | of Students Announced Mrs. Chadwick-Collins is glad to announce that the central undergrad- uate May Day committees have been appointed.’ The Director’s Advisory Committee, which includes representa- tives from each hall, is as follows: Merion Alice Raynor, 36 Edith Rose, ’37 Denbigh Barbara Cary, ’36 Sylvia Evans, ’37 Pembroke East Gertrude Leighton, ’38 Doreen Canaday, ’36 Pembroke West Julia Grant, ’38 Eleanor Fabyan, ’36 Rockefeller Esther Hardenbergh, ’37 Huldah Cheek, ’38 Wyndham Margaret Otis, ’39 Non-Resident : Evelyn Hansell, ’36 Sara Bevan Park, ’36 ~ Radnor Frances Follin Jones, A. B. The Director’s undergraduate com- mittee on Management is: Merion Helen Ott, ’36 Elizabeth Washburn, 37 Denbigh Pauline Schwable, ’36 Grace Fales, ’36 Pembroke East Eleanore Tobin, ’37 Eleanor Shaw, ’38 Pembroke West -Marion Bridgman, ’36 Eleanor Smith, ’37 Rockefeller Lucy Kimberley, ’37 Barbara Longcope, ’38 Wyndham Lydia Lyman, ’39 Non-Resident Ellen Seattergood, ’36 Radnor Jeannette Elizabeth Le Saulnier, M.A. In addition to the Flower Commit- tee, which was ‘announced last week, other special May Day Committees have been appointed. -The-students who will work with Miss Brady on the Tumblers’ Committee are Esther Mor- ley, ’36, and Elizabeth Webster, ’38. The committee working with Miss Petts on the Masque in the Cloisters is composed of Bonnie Allen, ’38, Alex- andra Grange, ’38, Alice John, ’39, Eleanor Mackenzie, ’88, Ethel Mann, 88, Dewilda Naramore, ’38, Eleanore Tobin, ’37, and Mary Whalen, ’88. The May Day Director is grateful for the interest students are showing in signing up for the technical student committees, and she hopes to announce these committees as soon as she can consult the people who will be in charge of the animals, properties, cos- tumes and music. Cards for Friends Names, Addresses Cards are being sent to the mem- bers of the undergraduate Manage- ment Committee of the May Day Di- rector in all the halls. Will you please fill them out immediately with the names and addresses of your friends who would be interested in coming to May Day, omitting the names of your parents and of alumnae of the college. It is hoped that you will fill out ten to twenty of the cards arid have them ready for collection on March 1, so that the May Day folders may be sent out in plenty of time. Tickets on Sale March 22 Tickets for May Day will be on sale the week of March 22, preceding the Spring Vacation. The prices for May Day tickets are as follows: Adults (one-day tickets; admitting either Friday or Saturday), $3.00. Students, Teachers and Children (one-day tickets; admitting either Fri- day or Saturday), $2.00. (Special rate titkets must be pur- chased in advance through Alumnae Committees.) Tickets for reserved seats on the Grandstand will be: seventy-five cents each; every reserved seat ticket en- titles the bearer to a seat in Good- hart Hall or in the Gfmnasium in case of rain. The prices of the special two-day tickets, admitting -both Fri- _ day and Saturday, and the special - Robin Hood Sara Bevan Park, ’36, has been chosen for the role of Robin Hood... — train rates and schedules for May Day visitors will be announced later. No May Day tickets are returnable. | Tentative Casting of + The casting of the eight May Day ; plays has progressed, and the greater part of the work is done. ylek-cn work was done by Mrs. Chad- ck-Collins, the May Day_ Director, | leanor Fabyan, President of the Undergraduate Association, and Edith | Rose, President of Players’ They estimate that about two hun- | dred students have tried out for parts | since the elimination tryouts started | on Monday, February 10. This new method of casting for May Day was adopted because it was felt from the start that a perfectly impar- tial method of casting must be used, and because it was necessary to save as much time as possible. The stu- dents have had the double advantage of having a preliminary casting com- mittee made up of three people who know the students and who know something of the dramatic talent in the college, and a find casting com- mittee with Mr. Wyckoff and Miss Dyer, who do not know the students and who cannot have any preconceived ideas of the dramatic talent here. The method has proved impartial | and effective. Comparison of separate decisions reached by the three mem- bers of the preliminary casting com- mittee showed their choice to be unanimous, except in one case where the committee soon reached an agree-| ment. At the final tryouts on Satur- day and Sunday, before the final cast- ing committee, the judgments of the preliminary casting committee were) found to coincide in every case but one with that of the two professional coaches. Tentative casts have been made up for the plays, and Sally Park, ’36, is definitely cast for Robin Hood and Jane Lewis, ’38, the May Queen, for, Maid¢ Marian in Robin Hood. Ger-| trude Leighton, ’38, has been definitely cast as Sacrapant and Huldah Cheek, 88, as Erestus in The Old Wives’ Tale. The tentative casts for the plays follow: g Robin Hood Little John, Frances Porcher, ’36; Robin Hood, Sally Park, ’36; Will Scarlet, Doreen Canaday, 36; Friar) Tuck, Anne Reese, ’36 (understudy, | Fanny Hoxton, ’38); Maid Marian,| Jane Lewis, ’38; Alan-a-Dale, Dor- othea Wilder, ’37; Sir Stephen of Trent, Edith Anderson, ’36; Bishop of | Hereford, Mary Hinckley ‘Hutchings, 87; Fair Ellen, not yet cast; Fair Ellen’s Father, Anne Toll, ’39; Prince! John, Sylvia Wright, 38; Fitzwater,' Lucy Kimberley, ’37~ King Richard, | Frederica Bellamy, ’36; Sheriff of Nottingham, Fanny Hoxton, ’38; Sir Richard of the Lea, Jean Cluett, ’37; Sir. Henry. of the Lea, Madge Haas, ’37. Robin Hood’s Merry Men will in- clude: R. Bennett, ’36; H. Bridgman, 89; A. Brown, ’86; A. Chase, ’38; J. Grant, ’38; M. Harvey, ’39; E. Hard- enbergh, ’37; J. Horsburgh, ’36; E. Smith, ’°37; M. Swift, ’36; D. Peck, 89; E. Shaw, ’38; A. Roberts, ’387; A: Raymond, ’88; M. Van Hoesen, ’39; J: Matteson, ’36, R.‘ Stoddard, ’39; B. Merchant, ’36; C. Peirce, ’37; M. Bakewell, ’38, and S. Evans, ’37. Midsummer Night’s Dream _ Quince, Winifred Safford, ’37; Flute, Margaret Veeder, ’36; Starve- ling, Virginia Jussen, ’37;° Svug, Doris Turner, ’36; Snout, not yet cast; Bottom, Elizabeth Washburn, "37; Titania, Isabelle Seltzer, 37; Oberon, Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, ’88; Puck, Madelyn Brown, ’36; Greek Guards, not yet cast; Theseus, Nancy Angell, °’38; Hippolyta, Elizabeth Lyle, 37; Lysander, Rose G. Bald- win, ’37; Hermia, Gordon Grosvenor, 39; Demetrius, Elizabeth Terry, 36; Helena, Caroline de Lancey Cowl, "39; Philostrate, Dorothea Seelye, ’38. Saint George and the Dragon Captain Slasher, Doris Hastings, °39; King Alfred, Alicia Stewart, ’36 Plays is Announced. The pre-| Club. (if not in The Creation) ; His Queen, ' not yet cast; King Cole, Margaret McEwan, ’39; King William; Edith: Fairchild, ’86; Saint George, not yet cast; Giant Blunderbore, Laura Mus- ser, 37; Little Jack, Louisa Bright, ' 37, or Laura Jennings, ’39; Turkish | | Champion, Mary Riesman, ’39; Dra- 'gon, Louise’ Dickey, ’37; Doctor, | Esther Abbie Ingalls, ’38; Guards, |not. yet cast. Masque of Flowers Speaking parts: Invierno? Eleanor Sayre, 38; Sile- inus, Helen Fisher, °387; Kawasha, | Lydia Lyman, ’39. The Old Wives’ Tale Antie, Frolic and Fantastic, Vir- ginia Lautz, ’87; Margaret Halstead, |’36, and Delia Marshall, 39; Clunch, ‘Anne Erwin Ferguson, ’39; Madge, Esther Basse, 386; First Brother and Continvied on Page Hight May Day Committees Discussed at Council Students Without Merits May Have Minor Parts. Needing Little Preparation President’s House, February 12.— At the first meeting of the College Council since early in December, the plans for May Day were discussed at length. There was also quite a detailed review of the whole question |. lof undergraduate’ reports and papers. Plans for entertainments in the. fu- ture and the matter of signing in at first and last classes before and lafter vacations were also mentioned. | The progress made in the plans for |Big May Day was reported by, Mrs. Chadwick-Collins. The tryouts for the plays have been remarkably well- jattended and over 250 have been |heard. There has been great enthu- siasm evident and the amount of act- ing ability which has been demon- jstrated has been quite remarkable. | The enunciation, however, has been disappointing except in the case of| the seniors. For outdoor speaking the importance of clear enunciation to the -in the vicinity. ‘cannot be too strongly emphasized. The Director of May Day plans to| have two special undergraduate com-| 'mittees to assist her, each of which | | will have two representatives from | each hall, as well as a non-resident ‘member. There will be an executive, committee whose function will. be to report any specific difficulties in any part of work for May Day, as well as to discuss more general problems as they arise. The second commit- | tee will be concerned with the man- jagement of the drive to secure the names of people to whom May Day} | bublicity ‘should be sent. This com- ; mittee will also secure people to help | with the addressing and stamping of | these circulars, and to assist in other | special tasks in preparation for May |Day. In addition to:the two com | | mittees mentioned, there are volun-| teer committees for Properties, Cos-! itumes, Music and Animals. They | | will be chosen from the lists of those! | who have signed up. There will be ja representative from the Property and Costume Committees attached to each play. The Animal Committee will search the countryside to secure the many animals which are needed, in addition to superintending their care while on the campus. Mrs. Col- lins reported that she had secured four white oxen for the pageamt for ‘the first time in the history of May Day. Miss Park and Mrs. Manning brought up the problem of the parts which people without their merits can take. As a general rule they may not take parts which require a regular amount of rehearsing over a long period of time. There are and which require very little prac- tice. The strolling villagers, stilt walkers, the bears and their. trainers and the hobby horses all contribute greatly to the atmosphere of May Day. Such parts can be filled by persons not allowed to take heavy parts, or by those who prefer to have small ones. Mrs. Manning stated that it probably would be pos- sible to give a regular pgrt to a ‘student who had her merits for the last semester, but who still did not have all her merits. many small parts which are pleasant| . Mrs. Collins asked. the undergradu- ' ate members of the council to report students: that there . was absolutely no possibility of accom- modating parents in the Deanery for May Day as all the rooms were reserved months ago. She reported that there is almost no room _avail- able in many of the inns and hotels It will be one of the tasks of the management commit- tee to secure a list of available rooms which students may secure for their parents that. weekend. Miss Park stressed the fact that absolutely no one but studgnts themselves will be allowed. to stay in the halls during the week of May Day. All the rules about allowing mothers or sisters or alumnae to stay overnight in the halls are not in effect for this event, because having any outside guests in the hall only adds to the confusion and disorder of thé May Day prep- arations. The discussion of the problem of reports and papers centered around two distinct but nevertheless related points. The first question was the date on- which papers are due. The second dealt with the number, scope and type of papers assigned. Mrs. Manning felt that the system of re-' quiring that papers are due the day of the examination in the course was not very satisfactory. It meant that many students spent a large part of the examination period writing re- ports and papers instead of prepar- ing for their examinations. Per- haps it would be better to have all papers due on the last day of lec- tures. The granting of extensions which run into the examination pe- riod proper should not be allowed, LLL 5 ATE Mrs. ‘Manning felt, since this coallt not remove the primary difficulty. With the consent of the Dean and the instructor involved, extensions might be given in the future to the first day of the second semester, or to Commencement Day, although in the former case it was to be hoped that it coyld be avoided, because the student needs a vacation between the end of Midyears and the beginning of the second-term. This: plan is tentative of course, as the ques- tion must be decided by the Faculty. Miss Park asked whether there were too many reports required of the students. The general feeling seemed to. be that reports were very. valuable and that as a rule the pro- fessors. worked out a_ satisfactory arrangement with their classes with regard to the nature of the report and the time when it was due. Sev- eral were of the opinion that papers frequently came back without ade- quate critical. analysis, and some- times even without a mark or com- ment of any sort. The whole effect of the work. is lost if the student has no way of telling how well she has handled her material or whether the style was satisfactory. A suggestion that students be al- lowed to cut their last class before vacation was brought up. It was not discussed in detail, but was left for the next meeting. Miss Park did point out, however, that Bryn Mawr has not allowed this type of cutting because the college year is so short that it is necessary to have all the students in attendance regularly dur- ing the, entire time in which lectures are scheduled. BESTS —_enenereeeee™m™ ARDMORE MONTGOMERY & ANDERSON AVES., ARDMORE, PA. Ardmore 4840 Easy Parking This Spring it’s smart to wear MANNISH FELTS To SET OFF YOUR FEMININE COSTUMES this season’s fashions. f Nate your cue from the Gibson Girl who is exercising such a pronounced influence over Set off your ee charms with a masculine hat on top of/your curls. Wear the Gibson Girl’s own sailor, or a becoming version of the homberg borrowed from our young men of 1936. Best’s presents these two important hats tailored in felts to go with your soft tailleurs or your tweeds. Grey, navy, brown, or black. Sizes 21 to 22¥. "Page Four A THE COLLEGE NEWS D. B. Watt Describes International Living Organizes Groups of Students In Ten-Week Tours of One Foreign Land PURPOSE ONE OF PEACE Goodhart, February 13.—Donald B. Watt described to an_ interested group his Experiments: in Interna- tional Living: Since 1932 he has or- ganized groups of.young people, gath- ered from all over the United’ States, some of college age and some young- er, for ten-week trips in Germany, France, England:or Spain. Mr. Watt makes these experiments to allow young people of this country to get ato know well some European country. His undertaking is definitely one of peace. ATf you fight with the people you disagree with, you don’t get very far.” It is important for Europe and America to know and respect each other. Mr. Watt feels that his under- taking is a step in this direction and -caléeulates that if the number of peo- ple who go on his trips increases at the rate in which it is now growing, at the end of ten years he will have taken 10,600 people! The actual trips, which Mr. Watt illustrated with excellent colored mo- tion pictures, put special emphasis on the learning of the language of the foreign country. The groups sail to- gether third class, a comfortable and cheap way. They divide into smaller groups in each country, and spend the first month in some attractive small town. Each person lives in a private house, preferably one with people his own age. A special effort is made to ‘give everyone concerned a good time, since, if pleasant conditions are cre- ated and congenial people are brought together, it is likely, at least, that the people will like each other. Perhaps one-quarter to one-third of those on the trips return feeling that they have made real friends. The rest feel that they know one country well and like it. All have had an interesting and delightful summer. The idea is being developed in Europe also. Last sum- mer one group came to America. This year one French, two German and one, and maybe two, English groups will visit here. : The movies, taken this last summer, helped to show the good times the groups had, and the beautiful scenery and interesting places they saw. Sev- eral Bryn Mawr students figured in them, among them Catherine Bill, ’35, and Delia Marshall, ’39. Ellen Scat- tergood also went on the trip to Ger- many and Austria in 1933. stay for eight. weeks only, and. will| Archaeology Scholar Honored concentrate on music. This group will) Miss Sara Anderson, of Royersford, hear the operas in Munich and Salz-; pa., holder of the Skinner Fellowship | burg, twenty-three in all. The other|jn Art 4nd Archaeology from. Mount German group will stay in Freiburg,! Holyoke College, and of a Graduate and will make the theatre the center; Scholarship in the Department of of its language study. Then they will! Classical proceed to Austria: Two groups will|Mawr College, has been asked to go go to England and France, respec-|on the joint Bryn Mawr-Fogg Mu- tively, and end up’ with three weeks seum-Archaeological Institute expedi- each in Geneva. There they will | tion to Tarsus. in Cilicia, directed by study the workings of the League and! Hetty Goldman. will be able to put on a model League Assembly when they return. o Students Write Short Criticisms for Richards Bryn Mawr Establishes Exchange Scholarships Continued from Page One | France was particularly generous this Taylor Hall, February 13.—I. A.| year and granted one of the highly Richards began his conference with ; sought after scholarships, furnishing students in advanced English and board, lodgirig and tuition in Paris to writing courses, by having each stu-| Catherine Robinson, ’20, a candidate’ dent read and write out a brief com-! for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy parison and contrast of two prose pas-'in the Bryn Mawr French Depart- sages. He asked each one to hand: ment, and one of the posts as As- in another criticism of the same pas-| sistante d’Anglais in a French Lycée sage ina few days. Mr. Richards, with the privilege of time and oppor- stressed the point that the first swift} tunity for study to Catherine Bill, ’35, critieal attempt is a feeling. stage inja French honor student of last year. which opinions are not yet clear and, - Such chances to study in France, completely formed. The second ecrit-;Germany, Italy and Spain, precious ical opinion is a considered. one in| as they are, should not. be thought of, which the contradictions. of the first; however, as restoring the happy con- fleeting grasp become more evident! ditions which prevailed when the and “a: detected lack of harmony | Rubel fellowship of $1500, the Work- makes the need for mediation.” The|man fellowship of $1500 and the Ot- question is: Is'a writer to write for|tendorfer fellowship of $1200 were the first perusal or for reflection over | available each year to students of the a period? Graduate School. The larger stipends Afte¥ the experiment Mr. Richards, | fered by these foundations and the illustrating from an ordinary passage | greater freedom in their use were of written by Matthew Arnold, showed | inestimable value to your scholars. how easy an access pedantry has to| The Rubel fellowship has been with- : ‘drawn. During the past five years words and sentences which are ana-| : [the Workman fellowship has been lyzed in detail, and, more important, | : the prejudice that words have a fixed|@Warded four times, and the Otten- Neither the meaning settled by usage. Mr. Rich. Corer only Aa Abi ie . ards read a criticism of Arnold’s pas-| Wo ge v0 ae ne at pre ries sage written by a grammatical pedant. ' dorfer fellowship-ean awarded this The critic, who was. particularly con.| Year. As the author of the article on cerned with Arnold’s use of certain| the History Department in the Febru- ary Bulletin stated, only one Euro- words, was “wrong both in fact and! j theory.” : . ‘pean award has been made steadily He thought that he knew, hetnnghand what eye like “shade,” | through the years, the Mary Elizabeth for instance, must do. The critic was| Garrett European fellowship of $1000, filled with convictions of what certain | Voted anne ally by the trustees; and words shodld. mean and thought a the establishment of the new fellow- word-eould-do only one thing rightly, | Ships for study abroad is one of the “Otherwise,” he wrote “it perpetrates | pressing needs of the Graduate School. ill usage.” His mistake in theory lies| mise in the fact that he ascribed before- Tuition Fees Pay Only hand a small number of meanings to| Hal a word. Mr. Richards explained that! . Co ev a_word takes on meaning from its| Pitas Continued from Page One context where it is dependent upon a o¢ interest.” The list of holdings of “field of forces.” Matthew Arnold | the college is an impressive docu- did not choose his words for their’ ment whose contents would make the technical meaning. He was familiar | Federal Reserve holdings in gold with the connotations of words which | seem none too safe. Recently the are expressive because of their many | average return on investmenta has meanings and adjuncts. decreased from 5.07 per cent to 4.3 Archaeology from Bryn The German pictures showed the sights of Garmisch and Munich and the walking trip taken by the group through part of the Bavarian Alps. The second part of the summer was spent in Austria, where the group took a “Falg” (folding) boat trip down the Danube. This is, according to reports, most enjoyable, since the current sweeps the boats along and leaves the passengers free to sing German songs, dodge steamboats, etc. In France the group spent its month at Besancon, a charming little town in the foothills of the Jura Moun- tains. Five mornings a week were spent in learning the language, under the tutelage of a French woman. The afternoons and weekends were de- voted to bicycle trips, swimming and other pleasant pastimes. These are also pursued in Germany. A week’s trip was made into Brittany, where peasant costumes and the ways. of tuna fishing were observed. In England the trips are conducted on a slightly different plan. Less time is spent in one place. This last summer the group bicycled through Exmoor and Devon. They had picnic oe they stayed in youth hostels, which are now very plentiful in England, and also very good. The group of college age plans to spend two weeks at Oxford next year, then one week on a bicycle trip, in the: west, ending with a walking trip through Scotland and the Hebrides. There will be two different groups in Germany next summer. One will Meet your friends at the The Rendezvous of the College Girls » “> lunches nearly every day. As a rule, The early eighteenth century panic over language is similar to the ef- forts of Arnold’s pedantic critic who’ thought the Oxford dictionary insuf- ficiently critical. Great literary men feared that the English language was becoming one not worth writing. They felt that it must be regularized, and attempted a regimentation of the meaning of words. Their dictionaries gave none of the basic foundation of words which our modern ones contain and which enable us to study the in- teraction of words. * John Locke, in his Essay on Edu- cation, states that “languages are not made by rules or act, but by accident, the common usage of the people.” He says that there is no other guide in choosing words and sentences except memory. Mr. Richards disagrees with Locke’s view; words are not chosen in speech by memory or rote. We have a skill in choosing words from the past. “The use of speech is as walking.” Mr. Richards by these various ex- amples emphasized the fact that ever since rhetoric began the dominant ob- session has always been that “usage is the sole mistress of speech.” The forces which affect a word as it stands in its context have never been taken into account. MAWR BRYN Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c Meals a la carte MEALS TEA ROOM Daily and Sunday 8.30 A, M. to 7.30 P. M. oa Afternoon Teas SRIDGE, DEWNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED VED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED per cent, because the large holdings in high interest-rate Liberty and other government bonds are being called in steadily, and the safe ave- nues open to investment at the pres- ent time are constantly yielding less interest. Many of the securities date from 1912 and after, and the large number of investments made between 1920 and 1927 explain why the en- dowment funds have stood up as well as they have during the depression. Until, however, money becomes so cheap that the average return is three and a half per cent or less, the college will still be able to keep its doors ajar. There are 128 “funds” each re- quiring separate bookkeeping and each kept apart from the others, varying in size from $50 to $792,- 905.45. The bulk of the funds, about five and a half millions, are for general purposes and the income from these plus the income from the fees goes into the annual budget. With the two of them, ends just meet. The remaining funds are in- vested for especially designated pur- poses outside of the annual operating expenses. The two largest items in this group are the $310,000 for graduate and undergraduate - schol- ‘|arships, of which the undergraduates have a lion’s share, and the $126,000 COLLEGE INN Dinner 85c - $1.25 } and table d’hote | Miss Sarah Davis, Manager i Fi reer 2 * Cae ee ae : ert Le é Fe ee 2 A Fae i ee ae A edhe dill eral . Helen Grayson Helen Grayson, Bryn Mawr, 1926, will be the costumer for Big May, }\ay. She received her trainin at the American Laboratory Theatre and- de- signed and executed the cos- tumes for their final produc- tions: Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Cocteau’s Antigone and Boeuf sur le Toit; later produced and costumed Poliziano’s Orfeo at the Casa Italiana of Columbia University and Ben Jonson’s Masque, Oberon, for special subscription’ performances; opened her own workshop on 61 street three years ago where she designs and executes mod- ern clothes and period cos- tumes; besides costumes for song or dance recitals she has -done from one to all the cos- tyumes in the Broadway produc- tions of Little Ol’ Boy, Dods- worth, Wife Insurance, Jay- hawker and Gather Ye Rose- buds. for memorials, prizes and_ lectures. Although these figures seem large on paper,. the income. from them is really thoroughly inadequate for their purposes. There is a crying need for a rotating research fund, and pensions are at present miser- ably small and inadequate. The special Library endowment fund is unbelievably low, $27,787.81, whose total annual income is one-fifteenth of the absolute minimum on which the Library can continue to grow at all. For this reason from $13,000- $15,000 each year must be taken from the general income to keep the Li- brary running and the necessary new books on the shelves. College Strictly Non-Profit Aside from the fact that the col- lege is a strictly non-profit organi- zation there are other reasons why there is set aside no sinking fund ‘which most businesses maintain to offset depreciation and to prepare for any sudden decrease in values. In the first place there has never been a time when values in every- thing which the college owns have fallen irretrievably at the same time. But more important is the fact that much-of the endowment is unrestricted as to principal so that if such an everit should ever occur those funds could be used for the emergency. If a sinking fund were established, the annual amount avail- able for meeting expenses would be noticeably reduced, and in a college such as Bryn Mawr, the annual in- come is of the greatest importance. The college itself pays no taxes, ex- cept on the small amounts of prop- erty which it rents to outsiders. For this reason the College Inn is not a part of the college, but is a sepa- rate organization because the college cannot be interested in a _ business that is likely to make a profit. As a matter of fact, the Inn meets its ex- penses exactly without appreciable profit. In 1935 the total net income of the inn was $287.81. The income from the endowment is in itself insufficient to meet the difference between the tuition fees charged and the actual cost of run- ning the college. Fortunately, the halls of residence and, to a frac- tional degree, the other real estate of the college, such as the faculty and. apartment houses, make _ suffi- cient money over expenses of opera- tion. to keep the. balance favorable. At the end of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1935,.an abbreviated account of the income for that year looked something like this: $215,000 tuition and laboratory. $105,069 income from the halls of residence. : $263,818 all the income for that year other than student. fees, hail incomes and rentals. Miscellaneous sources of income such as rental on faculty houses, refunds on amounts advanced and sundry small items including .a mysterious entry “rental on Low Building site ... $1” brought the grand total to $624,798.36. Teaching and academic salaries alone account for $331,185 of the college’s expenses, or almost 55 per cent of the total expenses. Non-academic salaries, pensions, fel- lows and scholars account for an added $111,000, leaving only $160,- 000 for the myriad expenses of the community and the college outside- of the halls of residence. . These last include everything from the Library and all the laboratories, maintenance of all the academic buildings and the grounds, the Itiftrmary, ete.,. to tuning pianos in Goodhart, fire hy- drant rental, water damage in Dal- ton, safety guards for the machinery in the power -.house,’ telephone charges, postage on the college cal- endars, insurance on the vines and shrubbery, etc. There.is no end to the variety of the small items which must be covered:.in the annual bud- get, and every item must have a separateentry~ in the books of» the Comptroller and the Business Man- ager. Division of Costs In the books of the Comptroller the cost of teaching is divided between the graduates and the undergraduates on a basis of teaching hours. At pres- ent the undergraduates are charged with about 70 per cent of the teach- ing costs on this basis. In general the expense of the college is divided into academic and non-academic ex- penses. To the latter are charged the costs of operating the halls and of other activities which do not directly affect the teaching. All services used by both the academic and the non- academic part of the college commun- ity, such as heat, light and water, are prorated .to academic and non-aca- demic expenses. * The cost of main- tenance of the grounds is’ thus divided between the two, the halls of residence paying the larger share since they occupy the larger share of the campus. Similarly the administra- tive non-teaching salaries such as those of the President, the Comptroll- er, the Business Manager and their staffs are divided into academic and non-academic expenses on a_ 60-40 basis. Other small items, such as of- fice and telephone expenses, are di- vided between the two sections of the college expenses on a prorata basis. (Next week the second part of this article on the college finances, deal- ing primarily with the budget and “housewifely’” economies, will be pub- lished.) — Ne ll — ll ht tl aN AN Tal A I A A AP JEANNETTE’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop 823 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr 570 ses i i Soft Dull Leether Steen 4 ae Semi-Annual A SPECIAL GROUP Were $10.50 to $14.00 Claflin — 1606 Chestnut © Sale including Street, - Afternoon and Evening Models REDUCED TO $"7 90 Three Styles Are Shown “4 + THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five Jane Alleyne Lewis Will be May Queen Continued from Page One Fisting thing with curls” and sat for a number of ‘portraits in Paris. She tells an amusing anecdote about a man who approached her at the Ballet Russe last fall and asked to be allowed to take motion pictures of her. Mistak- ing him for a professional photograph- er and hesitating to involve the nanie “Bryn Mawr” in any publicity ,en- terprise, she declined, only to find that he helped select models for Wana- maker’s; he promised to call her up about it—“but he never called.” Miss Lewis has pale blonde hair reaching far’ below her waist and usually wears it in a coronet. She employs no special rinses, not even lemon juice, to emphasize its natural color; and for a shampoo she uses her favorite complexion soap. She never wears heavy make-up, and uses no facial creams or eye cosmetics; as for nail polish, “Coral is my limit.” Five feet five and one-half inches tall and weighing 127 pounds, she is ex- cellently. proportioned. A member of the sophomore class, Miss Lewis held an Alumnae Regional Scholarship last year. She hadal- ways planned to come to Bryn Mawr,} and with the exception of a year spent at Mlle. Fontaine’s School in Cannes, she studied at Miss Fine’s School in Princeton, where she lives, in prepara- tion for entrance. She expects to ma- jor in archaeology. Miss Lewis’ favorite sport is swim- ming; she was.on che Varsity.Swim- ming Team last year “because I swam breaststroke.” She was also a member of her class hockey team. She is now a resident of Merion Hall. During her freshman year she lived in Wyndhan, where she held the position of fire chief. Archaeology Students Offered Scholarships The Department of Classical Archaeology will have in its award for the year 1936-37 the Mary Paul Col- lins Scholarship for Foreign Women of the value of $1000 and will, in ad- dition, offer three special resident scholarships to promising candidates in the field. These, together with the regular. departmental fellowship and scholarships, would furnish to the de- partment a specially picked group of students for a project which is an- nounced as follows on the posters sent to colleves and universities: “In the hope of evoking from a more intimate collaboration of teachers and students new and publishable material in an important and fruitful field of research, the department during 1936- 37 will converge its seminaries and graduate courses upon the single topic of Early Greek Civilization. Dr. Car- penter will deal with the tribal mi- grations and epichoric alphabets; Dz. Swindler will study the vases of the geometric and early orientalizing periods; Dr. Miiller will trace the in- fluence of the adjacent oriental civi- lizations upon Greek architecture and ferences. will focus. upon. specifie op- portunities for research in the’ proto- archaic period.” In reference to the foreign scholar, the announcement states that she “will be encouraged to pursue research. in any field of Mediterranean ‘archac- ology of the pre-Christian period, in which’ she may be espetially equipped or qualif-4..-™ g/pitior, she may par- ticipate ‘“xr-une or more of the Re- search Seminaries. . . . Within the option of the department, the success- ful candidate may be required to as- sist other graduate students in re- search in fields in which she is ex- ceptionally qualified.” . This scholarship, named again this year in memory of Mrs. Henry Hill Collins, and awarded again in a spe- cific field, is the only one that has sur- vived of the five $1000 scholarships for foreign women which the Bryn Mawr Graduate School awarded for so many years and valued so highly. The award for the cufrent year was made in the Department of Biology, the holder being’ Miss Hedda Norden- skiéld. Theorems Are Sought For Modes of Meaning Continued from Page One poaching of other ends on the function of exposition. The second kind of problem is more difficult and funda- mental. It can be formulated in various ways: What is the connec- tion between “events” in the mind and the other events which they are of? How. are. these .events. thought of? What is the relation between a name and what it names? _In the search for a theorem by means of which to ap- proach these problems, one begins by a consideration of the so-called simple responses, : Man is a thing responsive to other things in a particularly complex way. This is illustrated by a comparison of man’s simple response to’ changes in temperature with those of a mechan- ical device such as a thermometer. The response of a thermometer to a change in temperature is not in- fluenced by its previous experience of other changes, while in man such a response is inevitably influenced by other conditions present simultane- ously with the stimulus in the past. Thus one could never have a perfectly simple response by a man. The near- est approach, a response to a perfectly new stimulus, would be recognized or classified by man in the light of his experience of earlier stimuli, as a “new kind of pain” for example. The basis of its meaning for him would lie in the past. Psychologists recognize sensations, defined as perfectly simple things, or data, as non-existent. In their place one finds perceptions which take what one experiences through the senses as “a thing of a sort.” In perception man has also the process, which is ell Al