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VOL. XXII, No. 11

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936

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May Day Fame Rests
On Dancing on Green

Vast Undertaking Kini Dhtnantle Full

Support of Students to be
Ready May 8

WAGON PLAY IS NOVELTY
Goodhart, February 5.—“The danc-

ing on the green is what makes May
Day known as the best piece of page-

 

 

-antry in America,” Mrs. Chadwick-

Collins told the students at a mass-
meeting. “It is the great opening
procession and the dancing Which
sound the keynote of May Day, and if
these go well, the stage is then set for
a successful May Day. The perfec-
‘tion of the dancing, however, can be
achieved only by complete codperation
on the part of the student body, for
the dancing must be so perfect, so co-
ordinated as to appear spontaneous,
and this can be obtained only by re-
peated rehearsals.” .

May Day is scheduled for May 8 and
9. This means that the whole work
of May Day, which is.a vast under-
taking, must be completed in twelve
weeks. “Everyone must enter into
May Day with a spirit of cooperation
and a willingness to work, to contrib-
ute rather than to gain individually,
yet there must inevitably be a gain.
May Day is the only opportunity the
college has to work together as a
unit.”

“The plays are not chosen in order
to feature any one person; they are
chosen because they belong to such
an Elizabethan celebration and the
players are chosen to fit the parts.
The tryouts now going on should: not
be a cause for disappointment. If a
students cannot get the part she wants,
she should try out for some other part.
There is some part in the pageant
for every person in college.”

Mrs. Collins announced that despite
the short time left, the students are
not going to be asked*to give up any
part of their spring vacation, as by
that time everyone will need a com-
plete break from the routine of prac-
tices and rehearsals; but they will be
asked.to give up their Saturday morn-
ings, since Alexander Wyckoff, the
professional coach who is coming to
supervise Midsummer Night’s Dream
and two other plays, can be on the

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|Rao Calls Piliesion

Of Culture ‘Unequal

Comnion Room, February 4.—To
‘““westernize” the Orient is impossible,
said Sjt. P. Kodandra Rao, associate
of Mahatma Gandhi, secretary of the
Servants of India Society, and Car-

 

negie Scholar at Yale, in’a talk on

the nature and diffusion of ‘culture.
Civilizations cannot be divided into
racial categories; every cultural ele-
ment begins with an individual and is
meant for the whole world, although
it may not spread and diffuse uni-
formly. °

One of the great social problems of
today is the effect of western civiliza-
tion on eastern. The difficulty in solv-
ing it lies in the common belief that
culture is inescapably bound up with
a race and is not transferable. Be-
cause the western or white civiliza-
tion upholds certain cultural elements,
it regards itself as peculiarly emanci-
pated and unquestionably superior.
The American points with pride to two
of his most cherished institutions, the
freedom of women and democracy, yet
twenty years ago women could not
vote, and in 1800 the only true
democracy was Switzerland. Insti-
tutions arise in time from individuals;
the race to which those individuals
belong is a coincidence. There is no
inseparable union, therefore, of races
and institutions.

The misleading factor which results
in the classifications, “western” and
“eastern” civilizations is the fact that
the diffusion of culture is not uniform.
The cultural elements which diffuse
most widely are those which have an
objective validity, while those which
are most limited have a subjective
validity. Science and mathematics,
without involving the personal feel-
ings of anyone, are universally true.
The fine arts and religion, on the other
hand, are not universal because they
are purely subjective, localized in time
and personality and involving chang-
ing human moods. Thus the fact that
certain cultural traits are limited in
their range does not mean that they
are limited to any one race. A lan-
guage is not the inherent property of
a people; anyone who learns it owns
it. The Darwinian theory is not for
Europeans alone. Genius belongs to
the world and to:all time and is cir-
cumscribed only by external prohibi-
tions and limits... In view of these

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Vigorous Dances, Haunting Songs Feature
Exhibit of Rumanian Folk Arts, Crafts

 

Deanery, February 9.—In a Dean-
ery transformed into a fairyland of
brilliant colored handiwork, Mme.
Anisora Stan presented .an_ exhibit
of Rumanian peasant arts and crafts
and a program of Rumanian folk
songs and dances by the Rumanian
Folk Group of Philadelphia.

Old‘ rugs, tapestries, embroideries,
costumes, woodcarving, dolls in au-
thentic costumes and a few icons from
each of the provinces filled every
available chair, table and bookcase in
the two outer rooms, while the walls
of the palm room were covered with
large and enticing photographs of
Rumania. A chorus of forty people
sang several native songs: the na-
tional anthem, the Bene Ne’am Gas-
sit, the Battle Song of the Rumanian
Republic and several church songs.
The most unusual of the dances was
the Calusarii—a men’s ritual dance

which goes back to Roman times and |

is still danced in the mountains of
Transylvania by men in belled boots,
Phrygian caps and gloriously embroid-
ered waistcoats. The burst of ap-
plause after the brilliant execution
of this intricate and vigorous dance
of heel-toe steps, jumps and lunges
demanded two encores before the danc-
ers were allowed to rest. Two haunt-
ing doinas, or native ballads, were
sung by the Rev. Joan Popovicin, of
Philadelphia, accompanied by low
humming from the chorus. A series
of couple dances of increasing tempo
and intricacy followed by a Rumanian
version of All In. completed the pro-
gram. Fad

The Rumanian Consul-General from

 

program on behalf of the Rumanian
Minister to the United States and
spoke a few words of thanks to Mme.
Stan and the college for this splendid
opportunity to display the beautiful
folk art of his native land. Mme.
Stan in a brief talk described the coun-
try which borders the Black Sea and
the Danube River and whose exten-
sive area embraces” snow-covered
mountains and rolling plains. The
majority of the population is rural
and descends from the Dacian race of
Roman times. Constant invasions
have influenced the strong artistic im-
pulses of the race, and today the pea-
sant art is a blend of east and west,
a harmonization of old forms with a
strong originality in design. The
language is itself Latin in root, but
there have been numerous Slavic ac-
cretions. The peasant’s art has arisen
in answer to his own needs, and uten-
sils of everyday use and costumes are
objects of grace and beauty. The
abundant natural life of the region is
everywhere reflected in the arts, par-
ticularly in the bird and flower designs
of the rugs on exhibition.
Superstition forbids plastic repre-
sentation of the human form, and
therefore the abundant woodcarving
on utensils, trinkets, crosses and way-
side prie-dieux, on the pillars and
gateways of the rural homes, is
primarily decorative ornament of
geometric and natural design. The
highest expression of the peasant’s
art is found in the wooden churches
and the numerous monasteries. Many
of the monasteries were built with

stout. fortress-like walls to ire

New York attended the afternoon’s | refuge in times of invasion. —

Bait

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Noted Madrigal Group

 

Singers Render Various Forms
of Elizabethan, More Modern
Part-Songs

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(Especially contributed by Horace
Alwyne.)

Geodhart, January. 18.—A matinee
concert was given by “The London
Madrigal Group,” consisting of seven
singers and their director, Mr. T. B.
Lawrence. This group is the succes-
sor to the group known as the “Eng-
lish Singers,” now mo longer extant,
although consisting ofan entirely dif-
ferent personnel. The “English Sing-
ers” appeared at Bryn Mawr five
years ago and the present “Madrigal
Group” follows their traditional cus-
tom of singing, seated round a table,

in the charming intimate and unself- |

conscious’ manner of the original
domestic performance of the Madri-
gals of Elizabethan times. In the six-
teenth century it was the custom for
the hostess, supper being finished, to
| bring out the “part-books” and invite
her guests to take part in singing con-
temporary music just as they were,
seated at the table, and the present
singers managed to preserve very
largely the illusion of this same inti-
mate delight in ‘“Home-music,”
though one must of course turn indul-
gent eyes on the “boiled-shirts” of the
male singers. It is rather a pity that
the illusion cannot be still further
preserved by some form of costume
consistent with the times for the men,
though the ladies did manage to pre-
serve some sort of unity with their
‘simple similar dresses of plain green
velvet.

The program on Saturday afternoon
included various forms, such as the
Madrigal, Ballet, Motet and Ayre,
and more modern Part-Song’s and set-
tings. of Folk-Songs. Although, in
conformity with the original manner
of singing, Mr. Lawrence did not
“conduct” the singers, yet his is the
credit for the interpretation and the
exceedingly fine and sensitive unity
of ensemble; and his presence on the
stage, though apparently merely to
give the pitch by a soft chord on the
piano or to make some very brief re-
mark about the composition in hand,
gave to the singers some feeling of a
benign guiding hand and inspiration.
The voices had been chosen by means
of a long and careful weeding-out
process to give just that sense of
blending, lightness and _ buoyancy
needed for this music, and though not
in any sense remarkable as separate
units, yet one felt that the end at-
tained entirely justified the exclusion
of voices of possibly a fuller, richer
texture, with their usual accompani-
ment of a tendency towards a vibrato
which would have been entirely out of
place in music of this nature.

It is difficult to single out particular
items for comment from such a rich
and generous program, though per-
haps one of the most beautiful effects
of the afternoon was reached in R. O.
Morris’ setting of the Sussex folk-
song, “The Cuckoo.” Mr. Morris, a
brother-in-law of Dr. Vaughan-Wil-
liams (who, it will be remembered,
was the visiting lecturer in Music
under the Flexner Foundation at the
college in 1932), is a master of six-
teenth century counterpoint and has
made here a setting of quite ex-
traordinary beauty. That vexed ques-
tion of whether the Cuckoo sings a
major or a minor third, which seems
to crop up inevitably in the news-
papers during the “silly season,” has

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Give Matinee Concert|

VOICES SUITED TO MUSIC},

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College Calendar
Wednesday, February 12-—
Dancing. rehearsals: general,
7,30, 8 p. m.; sword, 8,30, 9 p.
m.; Morris, 9.15 p. m. Gym-

Thursday, February 18 —Mr,
I. A. Richards, the Flexner lec-
turer, will conduct a conference
for students of advanced Eng-

lish and writing courses. Room
F, Taylor Hall, 5 p. m.
Dancing rehearsals: general,

7.380, 8 p. m.; sword, 8.30, 9 p.
m.; special, 9.15 p, m.,) , Gym-
nasium.

Friday, Fubeeney 14—Dane-
ing. rehearsals: general, 12. m.
Gymnasium.

Saturday, February 15—The
class of 1939 will present 1986
and All That. Goodhart Hall,
8.20- p. m.

Monday, February 17—Mr. I.
A. Richards, the Flexner lectur-
er, will speak on The Interpre-
tation of Prose. Goodhart Hall,
8.20 p. m.
weDancing rehearsals:
4 p.m. Gymnasium.

Wednesday, ‘February 19 —
Horace Alwyne, F. R. M. C.
M., will present a pianoforte re-
cital. Goodhart Hall, 8.30 p. m.

general,

 

 

 

 

Mr. Alwyne To Present
Pianoforte Recital

 

On February 19 at 8.30 p. m. in
Goodhart- Hall, Horace Alwyne,
F. R. M. C. M., Director of the De-
partment. of Music, will once again
honor the college with'a pianoforte
recital. If reserved seats are desired,
the favor of a reply is requested to the
Director of Publication, Taylor Hall,
as seats are rapidly being claimed.

The program is as follows:

Beethoven: Thirty-two Variations
in C minor; Bagatelle in E flat, Op.
33, No, 1; Ecossaisen (Scotch tunes).

Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op. 5.
Allegro maestoso. Andante espres-
sivo. Scherzo. Allegro energico.
Intermezzo. Riickblick (Retrospect).
Andante Molto. — Finale. Allegro |
moderato. : |

Liszt-Paganini: Etude No. 2 in E|
flat.

Liszt: Sonnet of Petrarch, No. 104

(from Années de Pelerinage.)

“Warfare I cannot wage, yet know
not peace;

I fear, I hope, I burn, I freeze again;

Mount to the skies, then bow to earth
my face;

Grasp the whole world, yet nothing
can obtain.”

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I. A. Richards Talks
On English Language

 

Study of Rhetoric Should Aim
To Remote Understanding
Of Words

MEANINGS NOT STABLE

Goodhart, February 10.—‘‘My sub-
ject is the English language,” an-
| nounced Mr. I. A. Richards, the Flex-
|ner lecturer for this year, as he be-
gan the first of the series of six lec-
tures which he will give on that same
extensive subject. Yet he did not call
| the field of his investigation-solely by
the title, “the English language”; he
called it also by the name of rhetoric.
Rhetoric is a science which has sunk
into evil days, until it is now com-
prehended under the head of “Fresh-
man Composition,” but it is essentially
a nobler study than this. Since the
purpose of language is communication
and understanding, and since rhetoric
in Mr. Richard’s view is the science
of language, the proper purpose of
rhetoric is the study of the mis-
understanding which prevails and of
its possible remedies.

To be talking of these remedies in
terms which themselves need remedy
for distinct comprehension presents a
difficulty to any lecturer. He cannot,
like Berkeley, ask his listeners to for-
get his words and merely understand
his meaning.. Berkeley was fond of
talking of “bare notions” and ‘“un-
disguised ideas” and of disencumber-
ing them from their “dress” of words,
but without this “dress,” an idea is
virtually nothing. An idea is known
only by its effects and its accompani-
ments, which in turn can be signified
in communication among men only by
words; deprived of words, the thought
is an ineffective abstraction.

The history of the study of rhetoric
‘begins with Aristotle and ends with
| Archbishop Wakeley, who wrote an

 

 

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Van Gogh Painted Love
Of Humanity on Canvas

 

 

 

Deanery, February 6.— “Vincent
van Gogh is able to say more about
the human race, more of love, human
kindness and compassion in a small
canvas than any novelist other than
Dostoievski could in a_ six-hundred
page novel,” declared Irving Stone,
author of Lust for Life, which is
based on the biography of the painter.
I challenge you to despise your fel-

 

Variations on a motive of Bach
(from his Cantata, Weinen, Klagen,'
Sorgen, Zagen, and the Crucifixus of |
the B Minor Mass). This group is
in commemoration of the fiftieth an-
niversary of Liszt’s death.

Strauss-Gieseking: Stdndchen (Sere-
nade).

John Ireland: April.

Medtner: Fairy Tale, Op. 34, No.
2, in E minor.

Rachmaninoff: Two Etudes Tab-
leaux, Op. 33, No..8, in G minor; Op.
33, No, 7, in E flat.

 

Sociology Students Honored

Four graduate and two undergradu-
ate students of Bryn Mawr attended
a dinner given in their honor by the
Philadelphia branch of the American
Association of University Women on
Sunday night, February 9.

The University Club had sent out
questionnaires concerning the inter-
ests and avocations of its members.
The Bryn Mawr students worked out
statistical studies based on the results
of these questionnaires and presented
their findings to the club.

 

Committees

Lists have been posted on the
bulletin board outside the Pub-
lication Office. Students inter-
ested in working on committees,
‘other than the Director’s Com-
. mittee or the committees of Miss
Petts, Miss Brady or Miss
Grant, are asked to sign there.
Please don’t sign on any list un-
less you are able and willing to

7, eve extra time to the work.

 

 

Director’s Announcements
The News will publish on
page three of every issue com-
plete news and official an-
. nouncements of May’ Day
activities. Director’s announce-
ments and schedules for re-
hearsals and dancing will be
published here regularly. Keep
this page of your News and
keep posted on everything to
do with May Day.

 

 

 

 

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low-men after looking at one of his
canvasses.”’

Van Gogh was almost the first
painter to show that in nature nothing
is ever still. He penetrated beneath
the surface stillness to find the uni-
versal rhythm into which all things
slowly pour and from which all pour
back. When he painted an apple, he
wanted to portray the seeds inside,
pushing toward their fruition; when
he painted a grape, he tried to show
the juice surging up beneath the skin,
and when he painted a man, he wanted
to give the feeling of the millions of
years of striving, suffering and loving
that went to make him what he was.

The strange whorling cypresses and
suns in van Gogh’s paintings and the
unnatural juxtaposition of sun and
moon are attempts to show that noth-
ing is dead in nature, to give the feel-
ing of motion and rhythm. This move-
ment or rhythm is not objective—or it
ceases to be when our subjective eyes
perceive it.

About three months ago a group of
van Gogh’s canvasses arrived in New
York aboard the S. S. Rotterdam.
They were met by three police squads
and were valued at one million dollars.
During his life, van Gogh made only
one hundred dollars by his painting.
People are wont to label his life as
tragic, yet it was in reality a glorious
one. Although he knew loneliness,
starvation and privation, although
only one critic had the audacity to
like his work while he lived, and al-
though he died at the age of thirty-
seven, completely worn out, yet he had
said all he wanted ‘to say and painted
all that he wanted to paint. That in
itself is enough for any one man.

 

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They’ re Off!

May Day isionly twelve weeks away! Yet in that short space of time

we are planning to organize,” ‘rehearse
has the. reputation of being the’ best

and .carryjout a huge pageant which
thing of its kind in America, The

responsibility for living up to this. reputation rests squarely on every single

Bryn Mawr student.

We are fortunate in having an enthusiastic and thor-

oughly experienced: director in Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, with: whom we have,
come. to feel almost anything ‘is possible... _Nevertheless, as..she_herself. has’
indicated, ‘in the last analysis the success of May. Day rests ‘not on _ the, ability,

of any one person. or group of people,. but on the zeal and-energy with}

which each individual. student takes. her part in ‘whatever aspect of Mar

Day is her -partitular ‘responsibility.

‘The great gain which comes to the ‘college from the May Day program
is the opportunity it affords the whole college to work together as a unit.
The Director and the coaches of the plays, Mr. Wyckoff and Miss Dyer, the
Director of the Green and the various committees will do the planning and
give the orders; but it is up to the vast majority of those who are working
for May Day to await orders and to carry them out as cheerfully and

adequately as. possible.
subordinated to the whole.

The will and desires of individuals must be

The importance of the dancing on the Green cannot be stressed too

In order to make this absolutely perfect, it will be necessary to
have an almost infinite number of rehearsals.

Every single student takes

part in the dancing, regardless of othér work she may do for May Day.
General folk dancing starts this week, and everyone of us is required to
attend at least twice a week Get started promptly and-go regularly without

grudging!

With the cooperation and assistance of ‘the whole student body, May

Day: -can be the success in 1936 that it
we have the talent, and we have the
great pageant. ’ Now let’s do it!

was in 1932. We have the director,
desire to. continue to put on a really

 

Post the Grades: —

 

Pro

There have been:numerous opinions
about the practice of posting marks
at the end of each semester. It seems
to us that the most general objections
are that there is too much curiosity
among the students concérning the
marks of their friends and classmates,
and that the embarrassment or pride
resulting from the fact that everyone
in college is able to see one’s marks
often attaches too much importance to
the numerical grade as such.

That this condition may exist we
do not deny. Nevertheless, it seems to

’ us that the trouble does not lie in the

system of posting marks, but in the
general attitude on the part of the
students towards their own grades and
those of others. We have noticed that
most students know very nearly every
grade in their particular classes after
midsemester quizzes. It is all very
well to argue that oneis not forced
to tell quiz marks, but it is often more
embarrassing to refuse to talk about
them than to tell them to the world
at large. At examination time those
who have seen low marks for them-
selves are usually too thoughtful to
mention the painful subject in the
presence of the persons concerned.
‘Moreover, if anyone has a genuine
desire to ‘see how she stands in a class
in comparison with any other stu-
dent, it is quite possible now to find
out without seeming too curious or

_ asking any embarrassing questions.

This opportunity is especially valuable

to freshmen who want to know how}

their own methods of work compare |

   

1 lence on sen! ML grea matters, The

This last consideration, combined
with the fact that the curiosity of the
individual students is not les
even when marks are given oyt se-
cretly, convinces us that the fresent
system is the best possible one. Be-
sides being the most efficient method,
it is the most adult way of treating
the whole question. It is part of the
process of growing to learn to take’
one’s academic successes and short-
comings with equanimity.

Con

Now that the frenzy of examina-
tions has come and gone and the
halls and the Library are once more
comparatively calm and quiet, our
embittered minds can think of only
one custom more barbarous than the
taking of examinations, and that is
the manner in which the fatal news
is received.- The undignified -scerfies
which take place semi-annually in
front of Miss. Gaviller’s office lead
one ‘to question the value of a col-
lege education. The procedure brings
out the worst in every one, and’ the
tongues of gossip spread the news
with Such speed that often the fail-
ures and. the high credits have -been
publicized. over the -entire campus
long before the recipients themselves
are aware of the facts. -For two
weeks the smoking rooms are nests
of heated discussion. of everyone’s
marks, and we venture to suggest
that the faculty sitting rooms are
doubtless the same. Such behavior
is certainly disgraceful, and at best
undignified. —

Speed in the “returns” is desirable
and any delay should be avoided,
but*not ‘at the expense of decent si-

 

lby the. penny postcard method—if
| you want your grades you must send:

an addressed postcard to the regis-
trar.
not work with the hall mail tables
here at Bryn Mawr; but a variation
of this would solve the problem of
speed and privacy. If each profes-

'|sor were to place the name of the

person and the grade on a slip of
‘paper in a sealed envelope and were
to post these slips.in campus mail
en route to the registrar’s office, the
news would reach its double destin-
ation without the. noisomeée publicity
of the posting board. Of course, this
places a severe’ strain upon the time

|| of. professors with large. classes,. but
jwe beg them to give up an extra

hour or two to assist the campus to
maintain its usual dignity. We recog-

|nize that many people find the post-

ing of nittrks valuable because they
can learn their’ relative’ standing in
the class. «In: order ‘to»-meet this
difficulty, we suggest that the marks| .
of éach ‘class be posted’in order: and
without individual names, of course,
outside the door of the professor’s
office.

| WEE "Ss END
"What is wrong with the Bryn Mawr
Renascence of Rugged Individualism?

Refer to the picture which appeared
in the New Yorker, Jan. 25, 1936, and

 

 

 

the girl in the town ensemble is the

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'.The following letters were received
on. the campus recently from a far
western. lover of the Great Outdoors.
The excerpts which we print below.
show his intentions toward “Bryn
Mawr University’: we think they
speak for themselves! .

January 13, 193v.
Dear Sir:

Although you are interested in edu-
cation, unless. you are concerned with
conservation, . propogation, hunting
and fishing, this will scarcely amuse
you. Due to the consideration and
interest displayed by the’ few schools
I have written regarding this course,
I plan in this fashion to usurp. the
time of busy folks in presenting my
idea.

It is a course quickly justified as
being vocational, avocational and rec-
reational. Last spring at my Prin-
cipal’s request, I prepared a course of
study for “Manly Arts” as we chose
to call it. It comprised the following
arts: tying flies, making rods, lures,
leaders and nets. Dealt with propo-
gation and conservation of fish and
game, handling of rifles, pistols and
shotguns, ete.

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January 15, 1936.

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Dear Sir:

Regarding my letter of January
13th: You no doubt had a number of
chuckles. I’m afraid I have to admit
at the time I_wrote I thot your school
co-educational. Upon retiring I had
misgivings which I confirmed next
morning.

Now on second thought it would be
a very praiseworthy enterprize. Of
all the hunting and fishing trips Mrs.
J. and I have had ruined simply be-
cause someone’s wife was at home and
would have the axe out for the be-
lated. husband, or she came along and
all wished she’d remained at-home the
way she was taking the fun out of
things. Speaking terms, dinner clubs,
bridge cluhs.say nothing about the
homes, have been broken. because of
an unsympathetic wife. Excuse me
but. I find it hard to stay on the.funny
side of the joke that is on me—be-
cause these things are truths!
* * * * *

During a hunting and fishing sea-
son. I am told many times—“You
lucky Stiff—I wish my wife liked this
sport.” Some stay home and. take it,
to avoid the agony involved. There
is a worry to the lady that doesn’t
understand; say nothing of the senti-
mentalist hen Sed

You no doubt have rifle clubs, pos-
sibly skeet and trap eile thst
is fine—but do all the girls get some
training in handling a gun. * * *
Fishing, as it goes, with annual vaca-
tions, if at no other time, ‘should be

mone thd. tolerated by the

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see if you can make a perfect score.|
For list of what might have been in-
‘cluded see. page 2 of this issue.
'The picture has one, great virtue—

most intelligent-looking of the group.’

     
   
  

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Voting for May: Queen _

Pictures: of the. May Queen
candidates will be posted on
the bulletin board outside the
Publication Office on Wednes-
day or Thursday. Ballot boxes
will be placed in Taylor under-
neath the pictures, where vot-
ing will take place on Thursday
from 1.30.to 2.30 p. m.

 

 

 

disciple of one of the most noble rec-
reations.

As your instructors are all likely
ladies—I’m out as any sort of a can-
didate, but I’m certain you would find
some lady interested in.these things.
She wouldn’t need to. be. champion
flycaster or trapshooter.. If - they
know.the form, procedure and general
knowledge of.the two sports they could
“study up” and. learn more and put
it over nicely—Might offer Mrs. J.

Sincerely,
a

Dolly left ‘college one ‘weekend: with-
out signing out. Her. friends knew
that.she was being rushed by Donald,

-| David, Douglas, Dennis and. Duncan.

These gentlemen went to Yale, Har-
vard, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cor-
nell. From the following clues, the

Self-Gov. board found out where Dolly

went and which college each boy went
to, Can you?

1. The Yale man, opposed to frater-
nities, never joined one.

2.'It cost Dolly more than $5.00 for
her. railroad, ticket.

3. The Cornell.man had known ‘Dun-
can, and the Haryard man at Choate.
_4..The man dating Dolly that week-
end had gotten his letter for crew last
year.

5.. David’s foothall, team; had. lost
to Princeton last fall (1935).

6. Duncan was president of his fra-.
ternity.
7..Donald- had never. heen west of
the Connecticut River.

8. To get to New York Douglas
would -have to drive practically all
day.

9. Dolly had met the boy she was
going with.at a dance in New York.

10. David had flunked out at Mid-
years and was on his way home.

11. Donald and Douglas had been
roommates at school.

Answer on Page 6.

* * *

The following plaintive note was re-
ceived recently from an undergradu-
ate: “In an-age ‘when science has
made this possible, what. a lot of. time
and money I’ve wasted,on Bryn
Mawr!” To.the note was attached
the following bill:

“For Culture

Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.

In Philadelphia.

Broad: Danger, Men Working, a
murder mystery, opened a two-week
engagement Monday night. Ellery
Queen and Lowell Brentano are the
authors, and Hal Dawson and Brode-
rick Crawford, son of Helen Broderick,
are the principles. They play the part
of three authors writing a murder
mystery whose search for material
proves far from fruitless.

Chestnut: The Postman Always
Rings Twice. A surprisingly success-
ful adaptation for the stage of James
Cain’s novel. It concludes its engage-
ment at this theatre this week, accord-
ing to the bookings, but the New York
box office declares that it may remain
in Philadelphia for one more week be-
fore going to New York. Richard
Barthelmess plays the tragic part of
Frank Chambers, a murderer.

Forrest: . Opens tomorrow night.
The road company of Tobacco Road
comes to this theatre with Henry Hull
in his original role. The play, which
opened in New York in December,
1988, is still running there.

Garrick: Walter Hampden starts
his farewell tour in Cyrano de Berge-
rac. The play will be seen here all
this week. Mr. Hampden’s motives
for discarding Rostand’s play from his
repertoire are not clearly understood,
but it is a pity. He is much better
as Cyrano, for example, than as Ham-
let. -

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Tryouts
Any person who cannot be
- present at the tryouts for Rob-
- tn Hood and. St. George and
the Dragon on Sunday and-

oo: or Mrs. Chadwiek-Collins

 

 

 

 

\ tor.

- Monday must tell Eleanor Fa- dy

Academy of Music: Friday and Sat-
urday, Bernardino Molinari, conduc-
Wolf-Ferrari Overture, The  Se-
cret of Suzanne, Pizzetti, Concerto for
Piano and Orchestra; Emerson
Whithorne, Symphonic Poem, The
Dream Pedlar; Straus, Don Juan;
Pazanini, Moto Perpetuo.

Movies. * ieee

Aldine; The Ghost Goes West, an
excellent and exceedingly amusing
@omedy written’ by Robert Sherwood,
directed by: Rene Clair, : produced .by
Alexander Korda, and. played, by .Rob-
ert Donat as the Ghost, Jean Parker,
Eugene Pallette and. others.

Arcadia: First a ‘Girl, a. British.
rhusical film with Jessie Matthews’ as
a female who impersonates a female
impersonator. Begins Saturday.

» Boyd: The Petrified Forest, with

slie Howard and Bette Davis. The
play ‘seems to have suffered very lit-
tle from its adaptation to the screen
beyond the unimportant metamorpho-
sis of the American Legion into: the
Black Hawk Vigilantes.

‘Earle: $1,000 a Minute, with Roger
Pryor and Leila Hyams. A _ story
which came out in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post about a Year ago; concerns
a young hero who manages to spend
the requisite amount in the stipulated
time, with difficulty.

Erlanger: Modern Times, with
Charlie Chaplin, written and produced
by Charles Chaplin. It is not a po-
litical satire as some had hoped and
others feared, but a. typical and per-
fect Chaplin comedy.

Europa: The Informer, with Victor
McLaglen, Margot Grahame and
Heather Angel. A story of the time.
of the Black and Tan Rebellion.

Fox: Every Saturday Night; with
Spring Byington. Billed as a/presen-
tation of the problems of an old-fash-
poned mother with modern children.

~ Carlton: Strike Me Pink. Eddie
Cantor’s newest opus, in which he
plays an amusement park operator.

Keith’s: Voice of Bugle Ann, adapt-
ed from the story of a hunting dog.
The principle actors are Lionel Barry-
more, Maureen O’Sullivan and Eric
Linden,

Palace: The Magnificent Obsession,
with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.
This’ is a not very interesting drama,
and Charles Butterworth does little to
help. :

Stanley: Beginning Saturday, Next
Time We Love, with Margaret Sulla-
van, James Stewart and Ray Milland.
Critics say that the hackneyed plot
cannot be saved by the honest per-
formances of the cast.

Stanton: King of the Damned, with
Conrad Veidt and Helen Vinson, has
failed to thrill any of its reviewers so

far. It begins at this theatre Satur-
day.

3 Local Movies

Ardmore: Thursday and Friday,

Claudette Colbert in The Bride Comes
Home. Saturday, Miss Pacific Fleet,
with Joan Blondell. Monday and
Tuesday, Bette Davis in Dangerous.
Wednesday, Frank Buck in Fang and
Claw.

‘Wayne: Thursday, Lily Pons in I
Dream Too Much. Friday and Satur-
day, Myrna Loy in Whipsaw. Sunday
and Monday, Jessie Matthews in First
a Girl. Tuesday, Spanish Cape Mys-
tery. Wednesday, Hitchhike Lady.

Seville: Thursday, Millions in the
Air, with John Howard. Friday. and
Saturday, Lily Pons in I Dream Too
Much. Sunday and Monday, Rochelle
Hudson in Show Them No Mercy.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Jessie Mat-
thews in First a Girl.

 

(What’s wrong with the NEw

YORKER?)
1—No baggy ski pants.
2—No white choir costumes.
’8—No caps and gowns.
4—No India print dresses.
5—No bare feet.
6—No Tyrolean hats, or any type
of worn out chapeaux.
7—No heavy ski shoes.

"8—No capes slung over the shoul-
der or round pocketbooks: or even
linoleum skirts.

9—No dogs or squirrels.

10—Not enough pants.

11—Too many stockings.

12—Not enough 50 cent perma-
nents.

18—Needs one good intelligent chin.

14—No shorts. .

15—No winter straw hats.
-16—Needs a certain obese type as
well as a certain scrawniness. ~~
-17—No knitting bags.

.18—Not enough bow legs.
-19—Wheré are the men? i. e. the

— sepententetives frecn te sown tecnlt.

 

 
 
      

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

DIRECTOR’S PAGE ---

 

MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

 

Mr. Alexander W yckoff

Teaches in the Department
of Drama at Carnegie Institute
‘of Technology, at the Manhat-_
tan Theatre Colony: and at the
. Pennsylvania Museum School of
Industrial Art; has been ¢on-
nected with coaching and direc-
tion in the , Cincinnati Art
Theatre, Memphis Little Thea-
tre, Rensselaer Polytechnic Cen-
tenntal, the Manhattan Reper-

tory Theatre Company, _the
“Michigan Repertory —PIGers :

and Yorktown Sesquicentennial.
Is a member’ of Council, Na-
tional Theatre Conference; and
was most /highly recommended
for the May Day by Mrs. Otis
Skinney and Mr. John Mason
Brown.

 

 

 

Anthiouncements From

The May Day Director

 

The May Day Director is sorry that
she was unable to arrange to have
the flowers made off campus by the
manufacturer from whom the paper
is purchased. The cost is prohibitive.
However, she is happy to announce
that Miss Brady has consented to take
charge of the making of the flowers,
assisted by Miss Frothingham, and
that the whole process of making the
flowers has been greatly simplified.
Also a new kind of paper ribbon in
the shades needed for the green is
now being manufactured so that the
number of flowers needed will not be
so large as in 1982. Only those who
have seen the color effect obtained by
the use of the flowers can appreciate
how greatly they add to the beautiful
effect of May Day. Special hall teas
and inter-hall teas in the Common
Room will be planned in order to
make the work pleasant and to get
people together, which to the May
Day Director is one of the invaluable
features of the big May Day.

Miss Brady has formed the Flower
Committee as follows:

From Denbigh, Antoinette Brown
and Sylvia Evans.

From Merion, Esther Bassoe and
Margaret Howson.

From Pembroke East,
Wyckoff and Anne Reese.

From Pembroke West, Frederica
Bellamy and Mildred Bakewell.

From Rockefeller, Lucy Kimberly
and Esther Hardenbergh.

Non-resident, Lucille Ritter.

From Wyndham, Lydia Lyman.

From Radnor, Beth Busser.

The May Day Director hopes that
everyone will fill in immediately the
cards which will be distributed in the
halls. Ten thousand announcements
are to be sent out to interested peo-
ple. There is a list of five thousand
names already to whom the folders in
color announcing and describing May
Day are to be sent. If each student
will send in names of from ten to
twenty people, not parents or alumnae,
who might be interested, the list will
be complete. Please return the cards
to the Publication Office, Taylor Hall,
by March first.

Elizabeth

 

Choose Your Parts;

Here Are the Plays:

 

Tryouts for parts in May Day plays
have already” begun this week; and
on Sunday, February 17, both Mr.
Wyckoff and Miss Dyer, who are
coaching the plays, will be on campus
from 11.30 A. M. on throughout the
day, when tryouts for Robin Hood
will take place. Final decisions on all
castings are made by Miss Dyer and
Mr. Wyckoff. This year two wagon
plays, The Deluge and The Creation,

~~ and Gammer Gurton’s Needle, acted

by strolling players, will be given for
the first time at a Bryn Mawr May
Day. Available parts are summarized
below. >
Robin Hood

Robin Hood, in a version written by
Elizabeth T. Daly, 1901, is given at
the foot of Senior Row by the Sun
Dial, and has a cast of two women
and thirty-four men, _ including
twenty merrymen....The main parts
‘are: . Little John, who is large
and lusty;
Searlet,
touch of whimsy; Tuck, a fat and jolly

* friar, able to chant; Marian, the May

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not a villain, but more. of a foil to.

Nottingham, an interlocutor, a sup-

Robin Hood, the hero;
a character part with a

Queen; Alan-a-Dale, a languishing
youth in love—a singing part; Prince
John, the brother of King Richard—

Robin Hood than.any other character
in this version; Fitzwater, a very old
man; King Richard, large, noble, with
a good resonant voice; the Sheriff of

porting role, and Sir Henry of the
Lea, a very impulsive man. Robin
Hood and Maid Marian ride horses in
the procession; in the play the Bishop,
Fair Ellen and Fair Ellen’s father,
Sir Richard of the Lea, ride. “This
excellent play hath manie choyce songs
and much wit.”

Old. Wives’ Tale

The Old Wives’ Tale—“A tale an
hour long is with an hour’s sleep’”—is
played in the. First Hollow, by. the
well. It has many straight Eliza-
bethan characteristics: play within a
play structure, a large cast, folk-lore
background and rustic. humor. Fan-
tastic, Frolic and Antic, thre®slightly
built youths who are lost in the woods,
meet Clunch, a smith, and Madge, his
wife, who starts a story including:
Delia, the heroine; Eumenidea, the
hero; Sacrapant, an enchanter whose
handsome, youthful appearance
changes in the end to that of an old,
wizened man; Venelia, the maddened
betrothed of Erestus, a young man,
bit with Sacrapant’s old and wizened
features, who also changes at the end;
three furies with long red hair; a
church warden; a sexton; two broth-
ers; a “Head in the Well”; two fid-
dlers; seven men and seven women
harvesters who sing.

Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream,
played in the Brook Hollow, is given
in a cut version which retains the

Miss Josephine Petts

Miss Marna V. Brady’

Miss Ethel M. Grant
IN CHARGE OF PLAYs:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
The Deluge
The. Creation
Mr. Alexander Wyckoff
Robin Hood
St. George and the Dragon
The Old Wives’ Tale
Miss Chouteau Dyer, 1931
The Masque of Flowers
Miss Josephine Petts

IN CHARGE OF MUSIC:
Mr. Ernest Willoughby
ASSISTING IN SONGS:

ARE
LESS ACID

 

 

Pyramus and Thisby scenes almost
complete. The court men and women |
have straight parts. The roles of;
Quince, Flute, Starveling, Snug, |
Snout and Bottom require a flair for
melodrama. Oberon is the only fairy
role taken by an undergraduate, as
children. play the parts of Titania and
others.

St. George and the Dragon
St. George and the Dragon, an
ancient mummers’ play, played on|
Merion Green, has mainly - straight
parts;__St: George, _a—_brave, bold
knight; Captain Slasher, a roaring)
gentleman; Giant Blunderbore and |

 

Little Jack, who play together; the
Turkish Champion, a colorful figure, |
and the Dragon, a fine part, although |
one which conceals the player’s iden-|
tity pretty thoroughly! |
Masque of Flowers |

The Masque of Flowers, played in|
the Cloister of the Library, features!
natural dancing and masque and anti-;
masque as in the Elizabethan mancie|
form popular at the turn of the |
century (1600). The parts in the |
Masque are: North Wind, who!
dances; Invierno (Winter), who must |
be able to “bluster”; Primavera |
(Spring), who dances; Gallus, the!
cook, who dances; two Garden Gods
and Six Flowers, who have separate |
Continued on Page Six

 

|
In Charge of May Day |
DIRECTOR: |
Mrs. James Chadwick-Collins, 1905!
IN CHARGE OF THE GREEN:
|
|

 

Chouteau Dyer, A. B. 1931

Dream in 1928 May Day;
played with Varsity Players in
1929-30 and 1930-31; President
of Varsity Players 1930-31;
played with a stock company
in Falmouth during summer
vacations from college; in 1931-
32 played in Little Theatres of
the® Middle West and coached;
helped in May Day on Mid-
summer Night’s Dream, As
You Like It and the Masque of
Flowers; in 1932-34 studied in
England with R.A.D.A.; 1934
played with a Shakespearean
company; in 1934-35 worked
with Merrily We Roll Along on
Broadway; in the spring of
1935 did drama work at the
Brearley School, New York; in
the summer played at the Red
Barn in Locust Valley and is
now playing in .Pride and
Prejudice.

 

 

 

 

 

Played in Midsummer Night’s _ ||

 
 
 
 

"LUCKIES’

, Miss Laura M. Richardson, 1929
EN! CHARGE OF PROPERTIES:
| Miss Chouteau Dyer, 1931
_ASSISTANTS TO THE DIRECTOR:
', Miss Evelyn Page, 1923
Miss Ellenor Morris, 1928 .

Miss Betty Lord, 19385

MAY DAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
President Park
Dean- Manning
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins
Miss Petts :
Mr. Willoughby
Edith Rose
Eleanor Fabyan
| Frances Jones

 

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of rich, ripe-bodied tobacco

Over a period of years, certain basic_, acid-alkaline balance, with consequent

advances have been made in the selec-

tion and treatment of cigarette tobaccos
- for Lucky Strike Cigarettes.

They include preliminary analyses
of ‘the tobacco selected; use of center
leaves; the higher heat treatment of
tobacco (“‘ Toasting”); consideration of

definite improvement in flavor; and
controlled uniformity in the finished

All these combine to produce a su-
perior cigarette—a modern cigarette,
a cigarette made of rich, ripe- bodied
‘tobaccos—A Light Smoke.

Four White Oxen Are
Ready For May Day

Four white oxen have been pro-
cured for May Day!

In the 1932.May Day, there were
two white oxen bearing the Maypole
in procession. Four brown ones were
available in 1928, but the acquisition
of four white oxen is.a triumph for
the 1986 May Day.

The’ two pairs come from the bor-
der of Virginia and Maryland. They
have not. yet been personally in-
spected; but they will be examined |
by Mis§ Evelyn Page, Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins’ assistant, who will go
down to see them‘as soon as she
arrives.

 
  
  
      
     

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_THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Fellowes Lectures
On Elizabethan Music

Famous Authority Illustrates
Talk With Songs to Lute

Accompaniment

PERIOD ‘RICH IN WORKS

(Especially contributed by Laura
Richardson, ’29.)

Goodhart, January 16.—Dr.. Ed-
mund Horace Fellowes, Canon of St.
. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, gave
a lecture on Elizabethan music, a sub-
ject on which he is the undisputed au-
thority. He’ is also‘ the author of
many books on the music of that
period and the editor of the most
comprehensive collection of madrigals.

Dr. Fellowes illustrated his talk
.with victrola records and by playing
and singing examples of various types
of madrigals‘and ayres with piano or
lute accompaniment. The first part
of the lecture included a survey of
the background and history of the
madrigal period. At the close of the
sixteenth century England was the
leading musical nation of Europe, with
at least six top-rank polyphonic com-
posers: William Byrd, greatest of all
English musicians, versatile in all
branches of music; Thomas Morley,
the theorist and leader of the madri-
gal school; John Wilbye, the stylist;
Thomas Weelkes, the harmonist, and
John Dowland, the great song writer.
Orlando Gibbons was younger than
the others, but already was writing
fine music. 9

It is impossible to wah the madri-
.gal form from a musical point of view.
The madrigal is simply an inclusive
name used for secular songs in com-
bined voices. Among the examples
played was “The Silver Swan,” of
Gibbons, simple and unique, but not
so typical as Farmer’s “Fair Phyllis
I Saw Sitting All Alone.” Here the
phrases are passed back and forth in
different parts, and the melodic inter-
est is not in a single voice as in mod-
ern part songs. Another character-
istic feature of madrigal writing in
this song is the pictorial suggestion—
a foreshadowing of modern program
music. The song’opens with a solo
suggesting the title, then other voices
enter. Later the contour of the
melody bears out the text when the
‘Jover “wanders up and down.” Dr.
Fellowes gave further examples of
this pictorial device, pointing out that
it became grotesque except in the
hands of an artist, but that at its best
it was a means to beautiful music.

Two other characteristics of madri-
gals are the supple and _ flexible
rhythm and the tonality. There is a
great deal of syncopation, and the ac-
centuation follows the words of the
lyric rather than an arbitrary beat.
The tonality is characterized by the
flat seventh in the harmonic progres-
sion I, VII, I, V, I.

The second part of the lecture was
devoted to the Art Songs, a subject
neglected by most historians. We

 

 

 

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great lieder writers, but Dowland
wrote genuine art songs. This form
is by definition a solo with accom-
paniment written by the composer to
go with that song as opposed to the
troubadour song and folk song.
It is melodic rather than harmonic.
The accompaniment incorporated into
the song becomes at times even more
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important than the melody itself, as
in the 'dureh componiert style of the
nineteenth century German  com-
posers.

The art song began almost by ac-
cident. One school of composers con-
sidered the overlapping of words of the
madrigal too elaborate because it ob-
scured the words and made repression
of separate parts. necessary for the
general effect. Freer self-expression
was made possible by putting the mel-
ody at the top and letting the three
other voices. support it with simple
harmonieg, This form was called the
“ayre.” Occasionally an instrumental.
form of accompaniment was _ substi-
tuted for the three supporting voices
by viols or by the lute. Soon these
voices were dispensed with entirely,
and the accepted form of the art song
became a melody with lute accom-
paniment.

Dowland was the outstanding com-
poser in this form and his late works
forecast the nineteenth century com-
posers with their dramatic effects and
instrumental interludes. Byrd, who
never set songs to the lute, left fifty
songs with‘string quartet aecompani-
ment. Thomas Campion, who set his
own lyrics to music, was an amateur
musician in the best sense. By voca-
tion a doctor,’ he strove for beauty
in music because of the pleasure it
gave him. This, rather than concen-
tration on perfection of performance,
was characteristic of the Elizabethans.

 

May Day Fame Rests
On Dancing on Green

 

Continued from Page One

campus only Monday, Tuesday and
Friday afternoons and evenings and
Saturday mornings. Basketball and
swimming are to be given up so that
the time ordinarily devoted to them
can be given over to folk dancing.

On May 8 and 9 the entire campus
will be enclosed and even the faculty

sion. The great procession with
which the action of May Day begins
forms between Rockefeller and Wynd-
ham and on the road past the College
Inn. “A mounted herald opens the
procession, followed by heralds, Queen
Elizabeth and her court, the white
oxen with their flower laden Maypole,
followed by all the players and all the
dancers.”

A grandstand reaching to the third
floor_of Taylor is erected overlooking
Merion Green, and from this even one
mistake in the dancing on the part of
one student can be seen. In fact, the
danging is so important in Mrs. Col-

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lins’ opinion that she might suggest
that people with leading’roles in plays
be obliged to give them up if pe do
not attend rehearsals.

Mrs. Collins said that every Bn
Day needs to have some changes from
preceding May Days, and this year the
strolling players and the wagon play,

both features of Elizabethan drama,

have been added. Robin Hood, Mid-
summer Night’s Dream, the -Old
Wives’ Tale, St. George and the
Dragon and the Masque of Flowers
are plays already chosen. Players’
Club have helped with the choice of
the plays already chosen and with the
plays yet to be chosen, but it is not a
“Players’ Club party.” “It is the May

Day of the students now at Bryn|

Mawr.”

Mrs. Collins ended by saying: “I
am not asking for your codperation,
because it was your wish to have May
Day, but I pledge you my enthusiastic
support, my experience and my con-
fidence in you to help you create as
beautiful and successful a May Day
this year as we had in 1932.” —

 

Point System Changed
For Big May Day Year

The board of the Athletic Associ-
ation has decided that special provi-
sion shall be made in the point
system for Big May Day year and
that managers shall be given more
points than those awarded previously.
The board also introduced the idea
of ‘having assistant managers under
Varsity managers.

It was felt that one of the weak-
nesses of the point system was that
no special provision had been made
for the Big May Day year. Those
who played in fall or winter sports
got their points as usual in that
year, while those who would in the
normal course of events play on
the spring teams got no points at
all because the spring sports did
not feature on the schedule in May
Day year. This did not seem quite
fair. On the other hand, it did not
seem right to make a rule arbitrarily
handing out points to those who
probably would have been on the
team. Therefore the board decided
to insert a clause which would leave
it up to the judgment of the Ath-
letic Association in cases where a
girl seems to deserve an emblem or
blazer, but has not actually enough
points for it. This rule would also
take care of people whose cases were
doubtful for other reasons than Big
May Day.

It was felt, too, that the number
of points given to managers was not

 

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the amount of work done: points
given to a Varsity manager were
raised from 100 to 3800, hdaiieor a
class manager, from seventy-itve to
200; the manager of a minor sport
will get fifty points.
at present are lacrosse and fencing.

The board thought it would be an
improvement to have assistant man-
agers to work under the Varsity
manag These assistants would
come from any class othtr.than the
senior, as they would in all proba-
bility ‘work up to ne managers.

 

Richards, Rostovtzeff

 

Goodhart, February 7.—Miss Park
discussed in Chapel the way in which
the Flexner lecturer, Mr. I. A. Rich-
ards, will treat his subject, the Inter-
pretation of Prose,‘and announced the
plans the Latin Department has made
to. celebrate the Bimillenium Hora-
tianum.

The Flexner lecturer is always

chosen to add to the work of a special
department. A faculty as small as
that of Bryn Mawr obviously cannot
cover all the different fields. This
year Mr. Richards comes to supple-
ment the English Department. His
field is on the borderline between Eng-
lish and philosophy. The lectures
will therefore be particularly valuable
not only to the English students, but
also to those interested in psychology
and philosophy, and to the students of
any foreign literature.
Mr. Richards has worked over the
effect of words on the writer and his
readers. The outcome of his study
is the movement of Basic English.
Mr. Richards has concluded that a
vocabulary of about 200,000 words can
be adequate, and his methods are being
used now in China and Russia to teach
usable. English. *
The study of the uses of words—
how the author shuts off connotations
from words, which is as important as
adding connotations to them, and
similar fields, have so far been applied
by Mr. Richards only to poetry. At
Bryn Mawr he will begin his new field,
the study of the art of prose.

The Latin Department had planned
at first to omit any celebration of the
Bimillenium Horatianum, because of
the crowded. spring schedule. They
now plan, however, to have the dis-

The minor sports !"

Announced in Chapel

tinguished Russian scholar, Professor
Michael Rostovtzeff, of Yale, come to
the college in*March. He is the
authority on ancient history, and will
talk on Horace’s Position in the Au-
~— Age.

 

I. A. Richards Talks
On English Language

Continuéd from Page One

 

article on that subject for an Encyclo-
pedia in 1818. In all that time no one
dealt with the basic problem of mis-
understanding through words. What
“was done instead is: best summarized
in an aphorism composed by Wakeley: .
“Woman is an irrational animal
which pokes the fire from the top.”
Actually it was not woman, but Wake-
ley himself and all his predecessors
in the study, who were poking the fire
from the top, They paid no attention
to the bottom where the trouble lay.
In the introduction to his essay, Wake-
ley did indeed confess that fio satis-
factory development seemed traceable
in rhetoric from age to age, that the
fault lay in the shallow conception -
held of it, and that*it ought not to
be taken as an art of speech, but
rather as the art. As soon as he be-
gan the main essay, however, he for-
got these principles entirely and de-
voted himself to the production of an
annotated collection of prudential
rules for the best ‘sort of discourse.
He taught nothing new or profound
after all, for all that he said had been
discovered long before by common
sense.

In the traditional treatment of
rhetoric which Wakeley epitomized,
there was an attempt to define the
large, mascroscopic, obvious aspects of
the science, while all detail was rele-
gated to discussion: under the sub-
ordinate heading of “style.” With-
out a knowledge of the detail, the
microscopic elements, however, no
exhaustive knowledge of the larger
scale is possible. To study the effi-
ciency of language, the old topics of
rhetoric must be renounced—not per-

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manently, but with a view to return-
ing to them with a new technique.

' Another old superstition must be re-

nounced likewise; that is, the idea that
usage is the final guide of language,
that every word as it is used con-
stantly in.the same sense has neces-
sarily one constant meaning: If this
were the“¢asé, a° discourse would be
built of -words: as a wall: is: built of
bricks, solid; and discrete. Words are
not like bricks; they. mind their
neighbors. Bags Nc

In themselves, meanings are noth-
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possible in a word only in connection
with other words. Every |word af
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biology; it is in fact a branch of
biology, although a branch that is as
yet not far developed. Meaning is
like the growth of a plant, where form
and substance are one and inseparable,
where every part is subordinated to
the whole, not to the mere word in
black and white nor to the vague
mental idea. Meaning cannot be ex-
plained by the association theory,
which treats a word as a symbol co-
incident with its idea only through
experience and then after this ex-
perience identifies language with
thought. The symbol and idea are
naturally united as the parts:.of a
plant are united, yet they are not
identical, just as the shape and con-
stituents of a plant are not identi-
cal. -To anyone who ,considers the
question for. the first time, how-
ever, the association theory is inevit-
ably the first answer which occurs.

It is easy to say that a certain word,
for ‘example, “cat,” has significance
because at a time when-it’Wwas heard,
a cat was present to“the eye, and that
ever since the two have been con-
joined in the mind, so that the pres-
ence of the one recalls the other. The

| objection at once arises that some cats

are so unlike that no image of one
could serve for another, and therefore
the sound which stood for the image of
one could not stand for the other as
well. Furthermore, some people claim
that they think without mental images.
Yet such images, being copiéd from
objective reality, do seem to have more
meaning than any other intellectual
sign or concept; the difficulty is that
they are too limited in their meaning

 

grow dim and are replaced by an idea
or notion of the type instead: of the
particular thing. Neither images nor
notions clustered around a word, how-
ever,’ can explain what makes the
word mean its particular meaning.
If sufficiently reconstructed, the theory
of association may find a proper place
in a revised rhetoric, but alone it does
not explain the problem. which is
fundamental. It simply changes the
question from “What makes the word
mean?” to “What makes the images
mean?”

The answer to this inquiry cannot
therefore be given by any theory
which adopts the idea that meaning
consists in the reviving of impressions,
It is moxgatey” eratine, that, the
obsession With™.:magery"'winen has
haunted all inquiries into how words
work be quite cast aside. If pur-
sued; the obsession leads critics to
such absurdities as the observations
made in 1760 by Lord Kames conecern-
ing two lines from Shakespeare’s
Henry V. When Henry, disguised as
a subordinate officer, says that if the
king should let -himself be ransomed
in the coming battle, he would never
trust his word again, a private soldier
replies: “You may as well go about
to turn the sun to ice with fanning in
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cock’s feather, not to mention the
beauty of the object, completes the
image.” One would be at a loss to
understand the metaphor unless one
knew what sort of a feather was in-
volved. As a matter of fact, the lines
are not meant to convey a picture of
a feather waving before the sun, and
the precision of “peacock’s feather” is
important not for its assistance in
visualization, but for the connotation
of idle vanity which it implies. The
private soldier is saying: “What does
your displeasure, however you may
pride yourself with it, matter to a
king?”

Although associationism carried to
such an extent is ridiculous, the spirit
of rational explanation which lies ‘be-
hind the theory cannot be disregarded.
It is the first step towards a scientific
study of communication. Even while
the obsession with images was lead-
ing men like Lord Kames to extremes
of ‘folly, a man like David Hartley,
whom Coleridge deeply admired, was
coming face to face with the essen-
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he wrote, “to explain words to the
bottom by words, perhaps impossi-
ble.” He wanted to begin with the
simplest qualities of meaning and,
then proceed te the complexities which
alone appear on first investigation and
which had inspired previous: rhetori-
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ties and polite maxims that polished
the surface of the subject without ex-
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these men, Hartley did not poke the
fire from the top; he looked for the
bottom of the matter, and his failure
to find an, explanation resulted from
his failure to find the bottom. What
he expressed as his purpose, however,
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London Madrigal Group
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provided Mr. Morris with an unique
motive for contrapuntal use. As a
matter of fact the notes of the bird
alter with the season of the year, and
it has been noted that the call varies
from a whole tone, towards the end
of April, to almost a major sixth at
the end of June, during the month of
May varying between a major and a
minor third: Mr. Morris has put these
two latter intervals into simultaneous

‘juxtaposition in the different voices,

thus creating an effect of quite in-
describable beauty. This setting was
sung with an etheral effect and beauty
of tone which was entrancing. |
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abounds were so faultlessly overcome
as to seem non-existent and the ap-
parent effortless enjoyment of the
singers in their music communicated
itself spontaneously to their hearers.
It is difficult to give a strong feeling
of variety in a program of-purely con-
certed voca] music, and possibly the
choice of program and its somewhat
excessive length might have been im-
proved by some omissions and the in-
clusion of a few more songs for varied
voice combinations, though it would be
difficult to say which items one would
have been willing to forego.

 

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Here Are the Plays

Continyed from Page Three
ensemble’ dances. In the anti-masque
are ‘Kawasha, king of the pipe, and
Silenus, king of the bowl, with their

 

|followers disputing the pleasures of

tobacco and wine respectively. Silenus,
in purple and grape leaves, must be
able to stagger and requires nine fol-
lowers, costumed as bacchants, who
must do likewise; Kawasha has eight
followers in Indian garb.

Gammer Gurton’s Needle, which is
to be given for the first time here by
strolling players, contains a great deal
of vaudeville. It will be acted on the
steps of the Library and in the Dean-
ery garden. The characters are:
Diccon, the Bedlem (just released
from the hospital for the insane),
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for one slapstick scene after the other;
Gammer Gurton, a fussing woman,
a good comic part, and Dame Chat,
who keeps the alehouse, a_ sensible,
rough-and-ready sort of woman.

The Creation, which is also. being
given for the first time and is one of
the wagon plays, -consists mainly of ;
straight parts: the prolocutor, God
the Father; the Angel and the Holy
Ghost. Man, Woman and the Serpent
are human and more comic.

-The other wagon play, the Chester
Deluge, not new to Bryn Mawr, con-
tains much more humor and character-
ization than The Creation. The parts

by students:’ heralds in gold and
black and. white, two small pages in
red suits with white - ruffs,- the
Queen’s archers, a number of tall and
well-built Beefeaters, several Hobby
Horses, Stilt Walkers, Strolling Sing-
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Answer to Conundrum on Page 2
Dolly went to Cornell with Doug-
las. 3
David went to Yale,
Dennis went to Princeton.
Duncan: went to Dartmouth.
Donald went to Harvard.
EXPLANATION:
Clue 4. Dartmouth has no crew—

 

are: Deus, impressive, with a resonant
voice; Noah, a nobleman, but hen-
pecked; Noah’s wife, a _ talkative
woman with a mind of her own; the |
three sons, Ham, Japhet and Shem and
their wives, supporting roles, allowing |
the same sort of characterization as
Noah and his wife; and the Gossips,
worldly women, who must sing.
. Dances

Special dances on’ the green include
Morris dancers and the fools who lead
the Morris dancers, sword dancers,
country dancers and tumblers (the
more the merrier). Special dances in
the cloister (natural dancing) include
such things as dances for shepherds
and shepherdesses, gypsies and chim-
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ergo, Dolly didn’t go to Dartmouth.

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ties. Ergo, Duncan isn’t a Princeton
man.

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Clue 8. Douglas went to either
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ferentiation between eastern . and
western civilizations is superficial and
false. The east cannot be “western-
ized” because all cultural’ elements
belong to the ‘world, not to a single
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