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VOL. XXII, No. 21

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936

 

 

 

Biainatic Courses .
Added to Program

For Coming Year

 

Arthur Sprague, Harvard Ph.D.,
Joins English Department
As ‘Associate

OUTDOOR PRODUCTION
DIRECTED BY WYCKOFF

 

Music. Room, April 21. — Before
making known the faculty appoint-
ments for 1986-37, Miss Park an-
nounced the Commencement speaker
in chapel this morning.

The address is to be made this year
by Dr. Alice Hamilton. Dr. Hamilton
is a graduate of the University of
Michigan Medical School, and was
resident at Hull House for a number
of years. From 1911 to 1921 she
worked on a government commission
for the Investigation of Industrial
Poisoning. Beginning in 1919 she
was Professor of Industrial Medicine
at Harvard Medical School, from
which position she retired in 1934.
During 1936 she has been Consultant
on Industrial Poisoning to the De-
partment of Labor.

The four members of the faculty
who have been on leaves of absence
this year will return to the college
next September. Miss Georgianna
Goddard King, Head of the Depart-
ment of History of Art, will teach
again her first year course in this
subject. She will also conduct a
graduate» seminary. Dr. Harold
Wethey will assist Miss King in the
conferences for the first year class,
in addition to carrying on his own
work. — ;

Mrs. A. P. Wheeler returns to the
Department of Mathematics to resume
her work, which has been given by
Mr. Jacobsen this year.

Dr. Herben will also resume his
work, which in his absence has been
éarried on by instructors in the Eng-
lish department. He has _ recently
finished a paper on Armor in Chaucer.
“Miss Robbins, after a year. spent
in England: preparing for publication
a diary concerned with eighteenth
century economics, will return to the
department of history. During her
leave of absence, Miss Robbins com-
pleted plans for a new course in the
department which she herself. will
teach.

Mlle. Soubeiran, of the Department

of French, will go to France next
Continued on Page Four

 

Rules Here Lenient,
Conferees Discover

 

(Especially contributed by Marion
Bridgman, ’36.)

The Conference of the Five Col-
leges, Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke,
Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, was held
this year at Mount Holyoke. Bar-
bara Colbron, Esther Hardenbergh
and Marion Bridgman were the repre-
sentatives from Bryn Mawr. Ques-
tions of academic and social regula-
tions were discussed, and the dele-
gates met members of the faculty at
tea and President Wooley at dinner.
Although many of the problems of the
larger colleges do not pertain to us
because of our small size, these con-
ferences are nevertheless very helpful.

In general Bryn Mawr is more leni-
ent-and_has-less_rules_than the other
colleges.. The students here are al-
lowed to stay out later at night and
there is no differentiation between
week nights and Saturday, nor be-
tween freshmen and upperclassmen.
Our system of unlimited weekends
and a small number of cuts is just
the opposite from that of the mig

colleges,.with unlimited cuts and
Continued on Page Six

 

Self-Gov Elections

The Self-Government Board
takes pleasure in announcing
the election of Eleanore Tobin
and Rachel Brooks as senior
members and of Suzanne Wil-
liams, Virginia Hessing and
Abbie Ingalls as junior members
for next year.

 

 

 

 

Committee Proposed
To Plan Engagements

 

Council Hears That Quota Rules Are
To be Saoly Bete

President’s House, April 15,—Re-
ports on the progress and final plans
for May ‘Day, discussion of a planning
committee for general engagements
next winter, and an explanation of
how appointments of the faculty are
made at Bryn. Mawr occupied the Col-
lege Council at its April meeting.
The May Day news was made public
to the college on Thursday morning in
chapel (see the Director’s Page). Mrs.
Manning reported that from the early
returns on the survey sent to the mem-
bers of the faculty concerning the con-
gestion of reports near the examina-
tion periods, it seemed in most cases
impossible to move the dates for re-
ports back into the semester. Further
discussion was postponed on this ques-
tion until all the returns from the
survey are received.

The proposed committee for plan-
ning engagements for the year, par-
ticularly for planning weekend events
and spacing them between lectures,
should be small, it was suggested.
Frequent meetings were proposed as
often as new engagements or ideas
make it necessary. Mrs. Manning,
Mrs. Collins and Miss Ward would be
on the committee and student mem-
bers would be selected either one from
each hall or each class, or from each
organization, such as the Athletic As-
sociation and Varsity Dramatics.
Other people would be called in when-
ever their advice was necessary.

Eleanor Fabyan reported on the re-

Continued on Page Four

 

 

Art Part of Formal,
Rational Side of Life

 

Function of Artist to Present
Perceptions Which Science *
Cannot Grasp

 

DR. WEISS READS PAPER

 

Common Room, April 15.—Reality
has two sides, explained Dr. Weiss
this evening when speaking to the
Philosophy Club. on Art. and Aes-
thetics. There is the extensive ‘side,
that about which rational propositions
can be made, and there is the inten-
sive side, that at ich one can only
point to expre istence formally.
In the former \field philosophy works,
and within philosophy, aesthetics,
which seeks to unite in its scope all
the principles of art. Art, however,
belongs to the latter division of reali-
ty; it is that which endeavors to
make intelligible the intensive nature
of the experienced, and in such a way
that every other experienced object
can be found within it.

All perception contains as a back-
ground of the articulately known a
unique and unrepeatable intensity of
being that mere science can only
recognize but never know. Even when
lived through and felt, the individual
concreteness peculiar to each sepa-

  
 

Continued on Page Seven

56 ENTER CONTEST,
LISTS REMAIN OPEN

 

 

Fifty-six undergraduates have en-
tered the Time Current Events Con-
test, and the lists will remain open
until the day before the test is given.
Room F in Taylor will be the scene
of action at 11.30 on Saturday morn-|
ing, May 2. Samples of the type of
factual test to ke given will be placed
upon bulletin bdards in the halls and

 

the number of freshman entrants war-
rants it, one prize of $5 will be re-
served for the highest freshman s¢dre.
$25 or $15 will go to the highest scor-
ing paper, and the remainder will be
divided into $5 prizes. In addition,

scores at least 90 per cent wins a,
year’s subscription to Time magazine.
No preparation is n ary.

any non-prize winning paper which}

For},

Historian Requires

Imaginative Power

 

Notestein Comments

t N»\ Ales.
And Uses of the Imfpina ion*

In Composition a

 

CITES VARIED METHODS

 

Goodhart Hall, April 18.—Professor
Wallace Notestein of Yale University,
the Mallory Whiting Webster Memor-
ial Lecturer this year, gave an inter-
esting and psychological interpreta-
tion of the Uses of Imagination in
History. His analysis of the way in
which historians can employ imagina-
tive power in the application of known
facts and his intense advocation of
the use of the imagination, confirm the
fact that Professor Notestein believes
in dynamic not passive history.

An aspect of historical method
Professor Notestein cited is guess-
work in locating oneself in a particu-
lar area. Three doubtful points whose
relationship to one another is to be
found are taken together; at certain
angles they corroborate each other
and give one a fair idea of one’s lo-
cation.

Professor Maitland, of Cambridge
University, who wrote Doomsday
Book and Beyond, uses his excellent
imagination in this way. Many facts
and a projecting mind are necessary
for its basis. For instance, Mr. Mait-
land had ample material on the year
1086 and very little for the early
Anglo-Saxon period. He imagined
situations in the Anglo-Saxon period
by projecting his mind into the dark
past. The points, related to and cor-
roborating each other, convince the
reader of customs and situations of
three hundred years earlier, Mr.
Maitland with his projecting mind and
faculty of interrogation had, as Plato
says, “half the knowledge.”

Advantages in the use of the
imagination can be noted in several
historians. Briiner, a- German his-
torian, wrote in 1870 one famous
article on the origin of the relation
of land to military service, which is
the essential element in feudalism.
The one new relation which he dis-
covered in the midst of old facts is the
test of true scholarship, for readers
wonder why they have not thought of
it before.

Sorel,

who wrote L’Histoire de

Continued on Page Six

 

New Courses for Next Year

Professor Lograsso is giving
a course in Dante in English
Translation for the first time,
which will be open to everyone
and should be of special interest
to the students of literature.

Professor Sprague, who has
recently been appointed to the
English Department, is giving
a new elective course in mod-
ern.English drama, which will
be scheduled at nine o’clock
Mondays and Thursdays. He
is also giving an advanced
course in English Poetry from
Spenser to Donne, which will
naturally include material for-
merly given in other English
courses. This course will be
scheduled at twelve o’clock
Tuesdays and Fridays and at
five Wednesdays.

The following courses are’
scheduled for ‘next year which
are not given in every year, but
which have been’ given before:

History of religions, prob-
ably by Dr. Howard Brinton,
- who gave it in 1934-35.

Greek literature, by Dr. Rhys
Carpenter, as it is being given
this year.—

Playwriting, by Miss Latham
and Mrs. McAneny.

Modern English history, by
Miss Robbins.

This list is by no means ex-
haustive, but the courses are

_ mentioned about which there
has been a certain amount of
doubt. Information about other

courses may be obtained from
the Dean’s office where the proof

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Peete RC ae ea a

Faces at Window Haunt
Gay Rockefeller Dance

 

First Party of Kind is Pronounced
Successful Experiment

 

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April 18.—The chances are that
the inquisitive residents of other halls
peering through, the windows of
Rockefeller soon It y eclipse
their curiosity, for all ninety persons
present at the first hall dance were
obviously very enthusiastic about the
experiment.

Considerable pains had been taken
to decorate the hall attractively with-
out interfering with the limited space.
Accordingly, only floral arrangements
were used. -A buffet supper was
served.

It must be admitted that when,
half an hour after the appointed
time, half of the six piece orchestra
had failed to arrive, the high spirits
of all were a bit shaken. However,
they did come shortly later, explain-
ing that they had thought the dance
to be at the Nurses’ Home of the
Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Infected by the general excitement,
several of the more reluctant mem-
bers of the hall scurried about to
make last-minute arrangements. As
a result, there were thirty-two cou-
ple and eighteen stags: present. The
faculty who served as patrons and
patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs.
Blanchard, Dr. and Mrs. Cameron,
M. Guiton, Miss Richardson and Dr.
and Mrs. Weiss. The extreme success
of the undertaking, the hall feels, is
in large part due to the efforts of the
hall president, Lucy Kimberly, ’37.

 

Nancy Wilson Plays
With Varied Quality

After Poor First Piece, Shows
Excellent Technique and
Interpretation

 

 

BACH AND TURINA BEST

 

(Especially contributed by Naomi
Coplin, ’38.)

The Deanery, April 19.—The ’cello
recital given by Nancy Wilson was
an unusual combination of a com-
pletely unpromising start and a com-
pletely satisfying ending.

The recital found an unfortunate
beginning in a Sonata in G Major by
Sammartini, a piece that seemed lack-
ing in any depth of meaning, or even
in the requireméht of any particular?
mastery of the instrument.

Nejther did Miss Wilson put any-
thing into’ it (if that was at all pos-
sible) that might have made it a lit-
tle more significant musically. The
Sonata remained colorless, unimpor-
tant, an almost non-existent thing
which left the audience quite unim-
pressed and out of touch with the mu-
sician. Not because of any worship
of the canonized, or any excess rever-
ence for names however great, but
merely in terms of art values, it seems
a pity that this pointless composition
should have been played when there
was available a good deal of really

Continued on Page Hight

MOORISH AND’ SPANISH
DANCES ON SATURDAY

 

 

Of unusual interest to the college
is the announcement of the coming
of Senora Carola, a well-known Span-
ish dancer, who will present a pro-

Unexpected Death
Of Samuel Emlen
Shock to College

Notable Germantown Realtor
. Member of Trustee Board
@since 1929

HEAD OF BUILDINGS,
GROUNDS COMMITTEE

 

 

 

Tlesday, April 21.—The college was
informed by Miss Park of the death
of Samuel Emlen, a member of the
Board of Trustees and a prominent
citizen of Philadelphia, who died as a
result of complications following a re-
cent operation. From the time of his
entrance to the board in 1929 he
showed an active and constructive in-
terest in college problems, especially
those concerning the care of buildings
and grounds. .

Mr, Emlen was born in Germantown
on March 27, 1880, and received his
education at the Germantown Friends’
School. Upon graduation he entered
the foreign trade office of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, but in 1910 left the
company to manage a farm in Rah-
way, New Jersey. In 1919 he entered
the real estate business in German-
town. He was elected to the State
Legislature in 1927 and to the City
Council in 1934, where he was a strong
supporter of economy and reform. In
addition to his interest in public af-
fairs, Mr. Emlen was a. member of
the Society of Friends and took an
active part in Friends’ projects. He
is survived by his widow, Marian
Haines Emlen, Bryn Mawr, ’02; six
children, his father, two brothers and
a sister.

Mr. Emlen became-a member of the
Board of Trustees in May, 1929, and
was immediately made chairman of
the, Committee on Buildings and
Grounds. Combining a_ practical
knowledge of the field of real estate
with sound common sense, he ren-
dered invaluable services- to Bryn
Mawr. He well understood all the
problems which arose in the care of
the buildings and spent many hours
a week at the college straightening
out minor difficulties. He was to
have assumed the supervision of the
construction of the new science build-
ing.

Of. Mr. Emlen Miss Park said:

Continued on Page Four

Mass Meeting is Held

For Peace Promotion

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.Goodhart, April 22.—The decided
support of the majority of the campus
in the promotion of peace was evi-
denced at a well-attended mass meet-
ing held today at twelve o’clock, too
late for a thorough report at this
time. The demonstration, held under
the combined auspices of the Ameri-
can Students Union and the Interna-
tional Relations Club, was led by Miss
Elizabeth Wyckoff, ’36.

The organizations directing the
meeting invited Miss Helen Dorio,
Philadelphia, city secretary of the
American League against War and
Facism, to be the guest speaker. Miss
Eleanor Fabyan, ’36, and Miss Mary
Dimock, ’39, also discussed current
problems relating to the maintenance
of peace. :

The. following professors @xcused —

their classes for the occasion; Dr. Da-
vid, Dr. Max Diez, Miss Donnelly, Dr.
Helson, Dr. Lattimore, Dr. Nahm and

gram of interpretive dancing in Good-}-5 Wethey.

hart Hall on Saturday, April 25.

Dancing in the style of LaArgen-
tina, she will interpret old Moorish
types of Spanish dances, including
one character dance. There will be
thirteen other dances in elaborate cos-
tumes appropriate for the different
interpretations which Senora Carola,
bringing her own accompanist, will
present.

Senora Carola was first taught to
dance by her Spanish mother. | She
attended the Irwin School in Phila-
delphia. Formerly associated with
the Littlefield Ballet, she was pre-
sented last fall to the enthusiastic
youth of Philadelphia in the Academy

During the afternoon a group of
students attended a-zmeeting at Rey-
burn Plaza in Philadelphia. Miss
Sylvia Wright, ’38, spoke in behalf of
the Bryn Mawr chapter of the Ameri-
ean Students Union.

 

Summer School A pplication

Will all those interested in ap-
plying for the position of under-
graduate assistant at the Sum-
mer School please see Eleanor
Fabyan, Pembroke West, Agnes
Halsey, Pembroke, West, or
Margaret Honour, Rockefeller,
‘as soon as possible.

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IN MEMORIAM

Samuel Emlen

Trustee of Bryn Mawr College, 1929-1936
Born March 27, 1880 Died April 20, 1936

 

Mr. Samuel Emlen

The announcement of the sudden death of Mr. Samuel Emlen was
a great shock to all who knew him and particularly to those who knew
‘of his inestimable services to the college. -Not only was he a respected
citizen in Philadelphia and the Society of Friends, but for seven years
he was one of the most able members of the Board of Trustees of the
college. As chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee he
combined a thorough knowledge of every aspect of real estate and
building maintenance with sound practical wisdom, and always he was
generous with his time and diligent for the welfare of the college.

Students in the college who knew him reeall his great good sense,
his quiet sense of humor and his firmness in upholding his views and
maintaining a carefully considered middle course among more impul-
sive points of view. The administration knew him as one of its

 loyalest friends whose sound advice was always dependable and whose

ability in executing one of the most difficult tasks of the-college was
never lacking. ‘With the beginning of another period of building his
services were needed more than ever, and the gap which he leaves
behind will be difficult to fill. It is to trustees such as Mr. Emlen as
much as to faculty and administration that Bryn Mawr owes its
existence, and the loss of one who so ably fulfilled his trust will be
felt throughout the college.

 

Keeping Up With Science

Now that a Philosophy Club has beén organized and successfully
launched, the scientifically-minded students might turn their minds
and energies to forming a Science Club. Theye used to be a Science
Club here at college a few years ago to whith belonged all science
majors and anyone else who was interested. Four or five meetings a
year were held, and each meeting,was addressed by a professor from
one of our departments of science, biology, geology, chemistry, physics
or psychology, about the recent developments in that particular field.
Toward the end of the year there was a general science lecture for the
whole college, sponsored by the Science Club.

Dr. Crenshaw and the others interested in reviving this organiza-
tion feel that it could be run on much the same basis as it was before.
There would probably have to be small dues so that at least the
traveling expenses of the main speaker of the year could be paid. The
lectures given -by the professors here would be sufficiently general in

Aone so that they would be of equal interest to a student of geology
and to one of psychology.

We are living in an age in whieh truly great scientific discoveries
are being made. Recent findings in research laboratories range from
new ways of tracing a murderer to the activities of the neutron. It is
deplorable ‘that in our age of great scientific advances Bryn Mawr
undergraduates, science majors in particular, should know so pitifully
little about them:’A Science Club would furnish us with an opportunity
to keep up with our times. It only remains for some enthusiastic and
energetic undergraduates to cooperate with Dr. Crenshaw in forming
one.

 

We Would Leve to Dance!

At times we have wondered sériously whether Bryn Mawr were
really dance-conscious at all. Two or three formal dances usually take
place in a year, and between those times, any undergraduates who
wish to dance can do nothing more active about it than gaze soulfully at
a silent or disinterested telephone and pray. Now at last there seems
to be a lightening of this horrible state of affairs; two types of dance
are making their debuts this spring—the Senior Dance to be given in
June, and the hall danees, the first of. which took place in Rockefeller

WIT?S END
The Personal Peregrinations ©
of Algernon Swinburne
Stapleton-Smith

or
Lost in a London Fog

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER THE FOURTH
Introducing Mary Anne.

In the quiet, sunny little old sleBpy
town of East Orange, New Jersey, a

was Mary. Anne Linsey- Woolsey, ; and
she was the only daughter of Mrs. and
Mr. ‘Wellington. Linsey-Woolsey. Mr.
Linsey-Woolsey had an excellent posi-
tion. ‘selling cravat patterns. ‘Mrs.
Linsey-Woolsey kept house in their
immaculate little pink Spanish haci-
enda; ‘while little Mary Anne ‘rose in
the ranks of the girl scouts until she
became national ‘chairman of Girl
Scout Cookie Week. One happy year
followed close upon the heels of an-
other. Nothing occurred to spoil the
idyllic serenity of their happy lives,
until, quite sudenly, Mr. Linsey-
Woolsey Went Away.

Mrs. Linsey-Woolsey was desolated,
but little Mary Anne was very brave.

“Never mind, Mummy,” she said,
“very dark cloud has a goKen lin-
ing!”

After a few years, Mrs. Linsey-
Woolsey felt that there were no
longer any ties holding her in Amer-
ica, so they liquidated their shares
of Cravat Patterns, Ltd. (London,
Bombay, New York, Toronto), and

‘journeyed to England to stay with

Great Aunt Agatha Exchequer at Pig-
gitts, . Baxton Thixton, Haggetts,
Woods Hole, Surrey, England. Little
Mary Anne loved it.

“Oh to be in England,” she cried,
“now that the apple blossoms are!”
(To Be Continued)

 

FULFILLMENT

Fired by Mrs. Collins’ light-poem and,

although on the Property Commit-

tee, unable to find Miss Sherman,

We spent Wednesday afternoon sew-

ing tails on ermine.

There we sat when we could have

been getting an awful lot of stuff

done at the Lib,

Sewing meaningless little _tufts_on

King Cole’s bib. :

And when we got through and saw

it all in the cold dawn of reason

we began to doubt

That the May Day spirit was really

so much and to ask ourselves, ‘Any-:

way, what is it all about?”

Thus were we mentally stated.

A few hours later we strolled by
Goodhart, thinking that it would do
us good to be ventilated,

And out on the lawn we saw the whole
cast of St. George and the Dragon
being surrounded by newspaper
men and photographic apparatus.

Then we knew that the May Day spirit
really matters.

For if it hadn’t been for all our sew-
ing and needular energy

King Cole’s ermine would have been
untufted and consequently n. g.

Now, when they read the papers, Aunt
Hattie and Mother and Uncle John
and little Herman

Will see the tails that WE sewed on
King Cole’s ermine!

And we went to bed all glowing and
warm that night, you know how
it is ~

After you’ve bought a marvelous new
coat .or gotten over 80 in an im-
portant quiz,

Realizing at last the great satisfac-
tion anyone can feel ~

By simply being a tiny cog in a per-
fectly enormous wheel.

Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.

little girl was growing up. Her name.

 

In Philadelphia

 

ate Theatres

Garrick: Three Men on a Horse is
now the only play in town, but.it will
probably establish a record by run-
ning fifteen weeks or thereabouts. It
is ‘a fast 4nd funny farce, which is
doing very well in London, too.

Movies
Aldine: These Three, the admir-

ably acted adaptation of Lillian Hell-
man’s drama, The ‘Childrens: Four,
with Merle Oberon and Miriam Hop-
kins. :

Arcadia: Klondike Annie, the lat-
est and dullest of all Mae West crea-
tions. ;

Boyd;, The: Moon’s Our Home, a
pleasant little comedy, which starts
out to be funny, but ends by being
merely pleasant. Henry Fonda and
Margaret Sullavan.

Chestnut: The Great Ziegfeld (or
the great Broadway spectacle, with
William Powell and Myrna Loy),
showing twice a day, at Broadway
prices.

Europa: Three Women, a drama
from the Soviets.

Fox: Captain January, with cute
little Shirley Temple.

Karlton: Revival of The Connecti:
cut Yankee &t King Arthur’s Court,
starring Will Rogers and Myrna Loy.

Keith’s: Rhodes, another British
Imperialism film, starring that old
British Imperialist, Walter Huston.

Stanley: Mr. Deeds Comes to
Town, with Gary Cooper as a back-
country hero invented by Mr. Fred-
erick Hazlitt Brennan, who special-
izes therein. ».

Local Movies

Ardmore: Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Clark Gable in Wife Vs.
Secretary; Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Seville: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Follow the Fleet.

Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, the Dionne Quintuplets in The
Country Doctor.

Other Worlds

Since 1870, when a courageous Vas-
sar graduate applied for admission to
Massachusetts Institute of Techno-
logy asa student of chemistry, that
previously masculine sanctum has
been invaded many times by women.
They study everything from public
health to aeronautical engineering,
architecture, chemistry and biology
being the most popular fields at the
present time.

According to a Technology official,
such intensive scientific training does
not eliminate the Tech woman’s
chances at matrimony. “Some,” he
said, “marry and use their Technology
training to raise a family. In most
cases matrimony was far from their
minds when they enrolled in the insti-
tution.”

 

 

 

 

* *

The. Harvard Crimson, The /Yale
News and The Daily Princetonian are
planning a series of round table dis-
cussions on public problems, in which
undergraduates from the three col-
leges, faculty members and govern-
ment and business leaders will take
part. At the first conference, to be
heid May 8 and 9 at Princeton, mem-
bers of the Cabinet, heads of New Deal
agencies and several prominent bank-
ers will discuss “government and eco-
nomic stability.”

* * *

Five faculty «members of ‘the Uni-
versity of Syracuse at Syracuse, New
York, have formed a committee to-in-
vestigate and plan for a .marriage
course. The institution of a voluntary
course seems likely within the near
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conclusively that the long-considered experiment of hall dances was
well worth undertaking. The dance was informal, gay, inexpensive
and loudly approved by those who attended. Since, even in the stress
of May Day preparations, the first dance of its kind was unusually
popular, surely it augurs well for future hall dances. If each hall gave
two or three tea or supper dances supplementing the regular general

heightened. Both class and hall dances, since they are comparatively
small, lend themselves to simpler and less expensive preparations than
the regular undergraduate dances} consequently, it is more feasible to
institute the custom of giving such dances than to increase the number

 

 

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dances, the weekend gayety of the campus would be considerably in

of general formal dances. We have long needed a solution to the
campus danee——or lack-of-dance——problem, and we feel that a very | ,

Theatre Review

Any play: in which the Lunts have
leading roles is usually -worth seeing;
the combination of the Lunts’ acting ©
rand Robert Sherwood’s playwriting
should denote top entertainment value.
Idiot’s Delight; does not, unfortunately,
fulfill the promise of its perfofmers
and author.,. With something of a

Grand Hotel set-up, with Alfred Lunt |
and Lynn Fontanne giving very ex-
cellent performances indeed and with
a timely topic as its basis, the play
is a strange confusion of lusty humor
cellent performances indeed, and with
interspersed. with pacifisti¢ monologues
which are long-drawn-out and dull.

Since it fails properly to balance
and coordinate the various elements
which poke jt up, Idiot’s Delight is,
as a ole, extremely uneven. The
character who carries the, theme of
the play speaks in such excited and
strange accents that he is difficult to
understand; he becomes merely an an-
noying Jack-in-the-box whose death at
the hands of the Italian marksman is
somewhat of a relief to the audience.
The pacifist theme goes haywire
when the Lunts are on. stage; and
when the Lunts are. not on stage, the
play is.frankly boring. Sherwood’s
conversational tendencies have been
obvious before, as in The Petrified
Forest; but in the latter, the mono-
logues were charming and bearable,
whereas here they frequently fall
quite flat. The first act is particu-
larly noticeable for predominance of
discourse over action.

The action takes place in the cock-
tail lounge of a hotel in the Italian
Alps, just as the whole world pre-
pares for war. Stranded there are
the munitions manufacturer, Achille
Weber; Irene, his mistress; a German
doctor who has discovered a cure for
cancer; Harry Van and six blonde
chorus girls, en route from the Balk-
ans to a theatre in Geneva; a newly
married English couple; Quillory, the
communist-pasificist, and sundry Ital-
ian officers. All finally escape just
before the war, with the exception of
Harry Van and Irene, who have re-
newed an acquaintance begun in Room
709 of the Governor Bryan Hotel in
Omaha, and have decided to perish to-
gether.

Alfred Lunt gives, as always, a de-
lightful performance. He managed to
transform his usually charming speak-
ing yoice into a flat mid-western
twang, eminently suited to the role of
Harry Van. His hoofing with the six
blonde chorines and his throaty rendi-
tion of Pardon My Southern Accent
round out perfectly the characteriza-
tion of a second-rate vaudevillian.

Miss Fontanne, arrayed in a blonde
wig and a Russian accent, provides an
excellent characterization of the fake
Russian refugee who, taxed with the
discrepancies in her various tales of
escape from the Soviets, remarks:
“But I have had se-everal es-capes!”
And, as_usual, when the Lunts are
playing together in a scene, they make
the other actors seem almost amateur-
ish by comparison, so great is the per-
fection of their timing. and the finish
of their acting. The leading charac-
ters are provided with good lines on
the whole, though it struck us as sin-
gularly unfortunate that Miss Fon-
tanne and Mr. Lunt are forced to
sing Onward Christian Soldiers as the
curtain is lowered: that touch may
be considered “good theatre” ih ‘one
sense, but it is certainly not a con-
vineing reflex action in view of the
rest of their characterization.

Francis Compton and Sidney Green-
street give extremely able perform-
ances as the munitions manufacturer
and the German scientist, respectively.
Richard Whorf as the pacificist, Quil-
lory, was less good because less under-
standable.

The Lee Simonson set, which re-
mains the same throughout the play,
isan interesting and attractive one.
Its wide stairway with window at the
foot seemed planned especially for
Miss Fontanne’s several dramatic en-
trances. The deep blue color of the
hotel lounge makes an attractive back-
ground and the lighting is effective
at all times.
diot’s Delight has its many amus-
and entertaining moments, and it
has a cause with which everybody is
in sympathy. The actors are able,

yet it remains an unsatisfactory play,, -

chiefly because its theme is under-

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DIRECTOR'S PAGE --- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Rainy Day Schedules
' Announced in Chapel

 

Mrs. Collins Pleads Attendance
For All Dancing Rehearsals
~” * "From Now On

'Goodhart, April 16.—Announcement

 

of. the progress and preparation for |.

May Day were made by Mrs. Chad-

wick-Collins in chapel this morning.
She announced that the budget is hold-

. ing up well and that nearly $5,000

has been taken in by ticket sales
through the May Day Office alone.
This is ahead of the sale not only for
1932, but even for 1928, and reports
have not yet begun to come in from
the alumnae who are selling tickets
all over the country. Four thousand
dollars have been taken out for rain
insurance for Saturday, and in case
of rain the various plays will be per-
formed in Goodhart Hall and the
Gymnasium. “The decision as: to
where each play was to be given was
agreed upon by the heads of the May
Day organization and the choice was
based on where properties could go
and also on the desire to divide the
music.

Robin Hood, The Deluge and The
Creation, The Masque of Flowers,
with music and The Old Wives’ Tale
will be presented in Goodhart Hall in
case of rain, and the Green (which in-
eludes St. George and the Dragon)
with music, Midsummer’ Night’s
Dream and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
will be given in the Gymnasium, with
a second presentation of Robin Hood
to finish the program there so that
those who choose to see the plays in
the Gymnasium may also see the
crowning of the May Queen. In case
of rain on Friday the program will
be postponed to Monday. Dress re-
hearsals will begin in two weeks and
the schedule for them and for the
general Maypole dancing is as fol-
lows: '
Thursday, April 30: 4.15 p.m. Big
Maypole dancing on the Green, with
band (Friday in case of rain).

Friday, May 1: 6 to 7 p. m.
Maypole dancing on the Green.

Sunday, May 3:-Dress rehearsals
of the Plays. (Monday in case of
rain.)

2-8—Robin Hood.

3-4—The Creation and The Deluge.

4-5—Old Wives’ Tale.

5-6—Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
6-7—Midsummer. Night’s Dream.

Monday, May 4:

8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing
(Tuesday in case of rain, Sunday or
Monday).

2-3—-Maypole dancing.

4-5—St. George and the Dragon
(dress rehearsal).

5-6—The Masque of Flowers (dress
rehearsal).

Tuesday, May 5: a

8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing.

2.30-6 p. m.—All of the Green (not
the procession) with band.

Wednesday, May 6:

Big

8-8.40 a. m.—General Maypole
dancing.
2.30—Procession, Queen’s Court,

Big Maypole dances, with band.
Thursday, May 7:
2.30—Dress rehearsal of entire pag-
eant. (Everybody must be dressed in
costume and assembled outside Pem-
broke Arch by 2 p. m.)
Please watch the bulletin boards for
your individual play rehearsals.
Movies of the plays will be taken

: at dress rehearsals and of the pageant

on Friday, May 8.

Miss Grayson, Mrs. von Erffa and
their helpers have been working stead-
ily on the more than 700 costumes
which will be used and these promise
to be not only more authentic and
picturesque, but more varied and more
beautiful: than ever before. As soon
as Miss Grayson has finished the de-
signing and making of the costumes
for each play they will be turned over
to the casts for the finishing touches
under the supervision of Miss Dyer
for her plays and Miss Lord for Mr.
Wyckoff’s plays. Undergraduates are
asked.to-help the Costume Committee
and the casts of the plays whenever
they have time. _

The paper flowers are all finished

_. three weeks ahead of the 1932 sched-
ule and the undergraduates, under

iss Brydy and

   

  

“Miss Frothingham,

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Tumblers’ Costumes __
All tumblers are asked to
make sure that their costumes
fit them. Any one requiring
refitting should report to the
_ Gymnasium,

MEMBERS OF FACULTY
TO WAIT ON QUEEN

 

 

 

 

. Members of the faculty will appear

in the May Day Procession as ladies-
in-waiting and courtiers in. Queen
Elizabeth’s Court. Several other
parts will also be filled by the faculty.
Following is a list of the participants:
* Ladies-in-waiting: Martha Meysen-
burg Diez, Clarissa Compton Dryden,
Harriett Ferguson, Josephine Fisher,
Enid Glen, Agnes Kirsopp Lake, Mar-
guerite Lehr, Elinor Amram Nahm,
Mary Louise Terrien, Mary Willough-
by. : :

Courtiers: Karl Anderson, Richard
Bernheimer, T. Robert S. Broughton,
J. Alister Cameron, Ernst Diez, Max
Diez, Richmond Lattimore, Walter
Michaels, Milton Charles Nahm, Hel-
mut von Erffa, Edward H. Watson.

Faculty who have other parts in
May Day.

Apothecary—Olga Leary.

Playwright—Herbert A. Miller.

Dames with Little Scholars—Ma-
deleine Soubeiran, Edith Lanmian:-:

Morris dancer—Mary Eliot Froth-
ingham.

Villager—Alice Bookstahler Latti-
more.

 

piece of work. The colors, too, are

better than before, as they are sharper.

The 14,000 printed announcements
of May Day have all been sent out,
this also in great part due to the help
of undergraduate volunteers.

One of the greatest contributions
on the part of the students is made
by the understudies in the plays who
have had to learn two parts, some-
times two long ones; but as everyone
will realize, it is imperative that all
large parts be understudied.

All available rooms in the vicinity
of Bryn Mawr have been taken for
the eighth and ninth of May and many
of the Philadelphia hotels have been
almost filled. If any undergraduates
wish to cancel reservations for rooms
in Philadelphia and the Main Line
they are asked to notify the May Day
Office instead of communicating di-
rectly with the inn or hotel, because
over one hundred requests for rooms
have been received which cannot be
filled.

Undergraduates will not be able to
be with their families on Friday or
Saturday morning, May 8 and 9, be-
cause that is the time when they must
be made up. No outsiders will be al-
lowed to sleep in the halls Thursday,
Friday or Saturday nights and no
outsider will even be allowed in the
halls on-Friday and Saturday with-
out a.special card of admission signed
by. the warden of the hall, since all
of the halls will be locked as a pro-
tection against possible robbery and
the maids will admit no one without
a card.

Mrs. Collins concluded by saying:

“When I was thinking last night
what words of exhortation I might say
to you this morning in regard to the
necessity of attendance at the rehear-
sals of the big Maypole dances, I rea-
lized that everything I could think of
saying, I had already said to you.
Later on I happened to be reading in
The New Yorker some lines by Ogden
Nash, so I thought I’d try to para-
phrase them. I give them to you with
apologies to him and also to you:
“So I advise you even at the risk of

being pedantic,

If you must have an Elizabethan May
Day choose one that is probably
fatal but certainly romantic,

Because it is better to have an au-
thentic kind of May Day and be
worked to death or anyway half to
death

Than to have the other kind which is
more fun if not more good and keep
your breath;

One touch of May Day makes the
whole world your kin

And friends will come from near and
far all prepared to grin-—

How unfortunate it would be if thoge
who came to smile should turn dis-

 dainful ~ 4

Finding the Bryn Mawr students did

“not know how to dang and their

- May Day therefore puinful!” .

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MAY DAY CALENDAR

Wednesday, April 22. — General
dancing, 6-7 p. m.; St. George, 8-9.30
p. m. (stage); Old Wives’ Tale:
Scene 12, 1.30-2 p. m. (outdoors if
fine) ; Scene 24, 4-5 p. m. (éutdoors if
fine); Scene 12 and 23 and Harvest-
ers, 5-6 p. m. (outdoors if fine);
Creation, cast singing, 5.30-5.45 p, m.;
Deluge, cast singing, 5.45-6 p. m.

Thursday, April 23.—General danc-
ing, 6-7 p. m.; Morris dancing, 8.30
p. m.; Dargason and Circassian Cir-
cle (for all Morris, sword and special
country dancers), 8.50 p. m.; sword
and special country dancing, . after
Dargason and Circassian Circle; tum-
bling, 5 p. m.; Masque: Primavera
and Cock, 4-5 p. m.; Gypsies, 5-6 p.
m.; Shepherds and Maidens, 8.30
p. m.

Friday, April 24.—Robin- Hood, en-
tire, 3.30-5.30 p. m. (outdoors); Old
Wives’ Tale: Scene 31, 1.30-2 p. m.;
understudies, 8-9 p. m.; Gammer Gur-
ton, cast, 3-5 .p. m.; Midsummer
Night’s Dream, mechanical parts,
7.30-8.30 p. m.; Creation, cast, 8.30-
9 p. m.; Deluge, cast, 9-10.15 p. m.;
Masque, entire, 4-6 p. m. (Gym).

Saturday, April 25.—Robin Hood,
entire, 9 a. m.-1 p. m.; Gammer Gur-
ton, cast, 11 a. m.-1 p. m.; Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream: mechanical parts,
9-11 a. m:; court, 10-11 a. m.; Masque:
North Wind, Primavera, Cock, 4-5 p.
m.; Garden Gods and Flowers, 5-6
p. m.

 

 

Mr. Schumann Composes
New Music for Masque

 

Original Score Lost; No Elizabethan
Tune Suited to Dance

 

Since music for the Masque of
Flowers is not extant, Mr. Hans
Schumann, who has been accompany-
ing the natural dancing classes here
at Bryn Mawr for the past five years,
has written special music for this
coming production of the Masque. - By
doing this he has’ arrived at the per-
fect. solution to producing an old
masque for a modern audience. If
other Elizabethan music than that
originally splayed for the Masque of
Flowers were used, it would certainly
prove to be incongruous, if not ridicu-
lous since the dancers are, after all, of
a modern and not a mediaeval type.
The music would lack the color and
miss the harmony that has been de-
veloped in three centuries of experi-
mentation with technical composition
and instrumentation. Music could
more easily have been written in the
style of Elizabethan dance music, but
in that case the tempo would be for-
mal and slow, not conforming in the
least with the fragile, beautiful move-
ment of the dancers.

Mr. Schumann believes that dance
music must be suited to the dance,
but be at the same time worth while
as music when it is played apart from
the dance. Starting, then, with this
ideal, he has composed the Maser»

the dancing and suiting it to the per-
sonality of the solo and group danc-
ers alike. Each piece has its own leit
motif expressing the personality of
the soloist and is written to fit the
capability of the particular dancer.
Three of Mr. Schumann’s composi-
tions are for the solo dances in the
Masque. That for the North Wind
is strong, with the muscular strength
of the Wind in its phrases. Prima-
vera, slender and blonde, enters to a
lyric, sweetly flowing piece.” The
music for the Cock has a nerygus,
jerky movement fitted to his spirifed
dancing. And, finally, Mr. Schumann
has written a charming gavotte for
Primavera and Cock in duet, light,
but a perfectly formal gavotte in the
old style so that it may be completely
in keeping with the Elizabethan spirit.
The music for the Garden Gods is
rich and dignified, to suit the char-
acter of the group of dancers—six tall
girls—and it is particularly interest-
ing in. its composition, having been
written to one tone of one gong, the
G of the gong. A waltz form was
chosen for the dance of the Flowers,
since'the unifying rhythm of the waltz
gives a swing and a form to dancing
'by large groups.
For the anti-masque Mr. Schumann

 

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| Rehearsal Cut
No May Day rehearsals have ~
been schedulgd for May 2; thus
that weekend is left free for the
German Language Examina-
tion, the Time sn
* Contest and- the rinceton

house parties. |

 

Dress Rehearsals

The dress rehearsal schedule
is arranged .so that all students
can see the May Day plays in
costume. This provides the
only opportunity for undergrad-
uates in any play to see the
other plays.

 

music, making it form the units tor |

has done a perfect accompaniment. |.

 

 

 

 

lites enter to a march, which employs
separate motifs for the two gods, a
lilting strain for the god of tobacco
and a heavy—heady, we should like to

say—refrain for the god of wine.

Mr. Schumann has also done the
music for the Cloister dances that
are separate from the Masque.
They are completely in keeping with
the ‘spirit of the Cloister programme.
He has written a very gay polka for
the Chimney Sweeps, a composition
with a mediaeval Portuguese theme
for the’Gypsy dances, and a German
“laendler” with a gay peasant
atmosphere for the dance of the Shep-
herd and Shepherdesses.

 

 

 

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_ Broadcast on WOR

Tune in over WOR on Friday,
May Ist, from 3.15 to 3.30. Mr.
Otis Skinner will speak on the
Bryn Mag May Day, Emily
Kimbrough” Wrench, ’21, and
Sophie Yarnall Jacobs, ’23, will
give a dialogue and a group of
students under the direction of
Mr. Ernest: Willoughby will sing
May Day songs. The songs
include: “To the Maypole Let.
Us On,” “Now Is the Month of
Maying,” “What Shall He Have
That Killed the Deer?” “Follow,
Follow, Follow Me”; the “Har-
vester’s Song” from The Old
Wives’ Tale; and “Pottell of
Malmsey,” the Gossips’ song
from The Deluge.

 

NBC Broadcast

The National Broadcasting
Company is giving a nationwide
broadcast of the actual May
Day on May 9th from 2.30 to
3.80. For further details see
the Radio Time-Table, Ss

 

Colored Movies

Colored movies will be taken
of the entire pageant and black
and white ones taken of the
plays as a record of this May
Day.

 

 

 

 

 

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year to finish her thesis, preliminary
reports of which have received an ex-
cellent reception. Her place will be
taken by Mile. Germaine Brée. Mlle.
Brée was French Scholar at Bryn
Mawr in 1981-82, and since “that time

-has been: professor at the Lycée de

Jeunes Filles, Oran, Algeria.

The Department . of Philosophy
Nahm, who will go on a
year’s leave to England, where he
will devote his time to his two par-
ticular interest’s, aesthetics and play-
writing. His place will be taken by
Dr. Veltman, who will teach the sec-
tions of fipst year philosophy ordi-
narily taught by Dr. Nahm. Dr.
Nahm’s second year course in ethics
and his advanced course in aesthetics,
will be taught by Miss Walsh, In-
structor in the department.

Miss Agnes Rogers, professor of
Education, who has been absent on
leave because of illness, has resigned
her position, the resignation to take
effect with the close of the academic
year. Miss Katherine McBride, who
took Miss’ Roger’s courses as a lec-
turer this. year; will have a regular

“Appointment as Associate Professor

for 1936-37. Mrs. Forest will give
the course in Pririciples of Education,
in addition to two seminaries. Mrs.
Madeline Appel, A.B. Vassar, M. A.
Bryn Mawr, will give the course in
child psychology in Miss Forest’s
place.

The place in Bryn Mawr history
of the two professors who retire this
year, must be spoken of at another
time. They are Miss Donnelly, of the
Department of English, and Miss
Kingsbury, of the Department of So-
cial Economy. Miss Donnelly has
been connected with Bryn Mawr for
forty years. During this time she
has taught almost every English
course, given at the college, but in re-
cent years a great part of her time
has been taken by her general respon-
sibility for all undergraduate English
work. No attempt has been made to
Dr. Chew,
however, will take charge of the un-
dergraduate work in the department
next year. “

Arthur Colby Sprague, A. B. and
Ph.D. Harvard, has been appointed
as Associate Professor of English. He
was Instructor in English for five
years at Harvard, and since 1930 has
been Assistant Professor there. Mr.
Sprague’s particular field is the Eliz-
abethan period. He has recently pub-

' lished a work entitled Shakespeare

and the Audience. A new course in
the history and study of drama will
be given by Dr. Sprague. He will
also conduct a seminary in the study
of Spenser.

Mrs. Wyrnicie King hopes to return
for her course in contemporary verse.
Miss Latham will return for her
course in playwriting, bringing as her
assistant Miss Marguerite Loud Mc-
Aneny, A. B. Barnard, 1928. Since
her graduation from college Miss Mc-
Aneny has studied at the Sorbonne
and with Copeau at the Theatre du
Vieux Colombier, done graduate work
at Columbia, been play reader for
Charles Frohman, Inc., and play
reader, casting director and technical
director with Guthrie McClintic. She
comes to Bryn Mawr from the com-
munity theater at Princeton.

A gift to the college makes possible
a course in play production, to be
given during the second semester, not
for credit, by Mr. Wyckoff who is act-
ing as a play coach for May Day.
This course will: probably be in the
hands of the Varsity Players. Mr.
Sprague’s course on the growth of
the drama, Miss Latham’s course in
playwriting, and Mr. Wyckoff’s help
in production, will bring together a
group of students unusually interested
in this work, and well prepared for
it.

Arthur Lindo Patterson has been
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Erratum

In the article concerning the work |.
of the Alumnae Association and
Office which appeared in last week’s
issue of .the News, it was erroneously
stated that the Association is respon-
sible for the maintenance of the
Deanery. This is in no sense true.
The Deanery is generally self-support-
ing, and if the past any deficit. in-
eurred has been met by drawing on
a fund left by Preside ti M. Carey
Thomas for this purpose: In her

‘will Miss Thomas. made secolatan for

an endowment fund for the Deanery.

The Deanery is managed by a spe-
cial committee made up of all the
ahimnae members of the Board of
Trustees and the Directors .of the Col-
lege, including the five Alumnae Di-
rectors, three alumnae who are Di-
‘rectors-at-Jarge of the college, one
alumna: who is a Life Trustee, in ad-
dition to President Park and the
President of the Alumnae Association.
Besides the above committee, whose
chairman has been from the begin-
ning Mrs. Louis F. Slade, there is a
Chairman of the House Committee,
and a Chairman of the Entertainment
Committee. Mrs. James Chadwick-

Manager of the Deanery is responsi-
ble not. to the Alumnae Association,
but to the Deanery Committee.

 

Committee Proposed —
To Plan Engagements

 

Continued from Page One
cent meeting of the quota committee
which reinforced certain rules, In
the future there are to be- ‘NO.
exchanges by students planning”

  
  
 

into another hall must room with the
person who drew her in, and no settle-
ments are to be made out of court.
This spring, Miss Fabyan reported,
the quota requirements have been in;
general successfully maintained.

 

appointed Assistant Professor of
Physics. He is a New Zealander,
educated in Canada at McGill Uni-
versity, where he took his Ph.D. in
1928. After lecturing in physics for
a year at McGill, he became Associ-
ate in the Division of Biophysics at
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research. He has lectured in biophy-
sics and has been a fellow in medical
physics at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and has done research work in
the X-ray analysis of crystals at
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy.

All the wardens.have accepted re-
appointments except Miss Walker, of
Denbigh, who goes to the Ethel
Walker School in a new administra-
tive post, perhaps most closely re-|
sembling the dean of a college, and|
Miss Buchanan, of Wyndham, who
will go to England on her European
Fellowship. In Miss Buchanan’s
place no appointment has been made.
Miss Frances Follin Jones, however,
has been appointed warden of Den-
bigh. Miss Jones is doing graduate
work in the Department of Archeol-
ogy at the present time, and was
offered the Fellowship in Archeology

Collins holds the latter position. The

-} stage.

1

-|Bryn Mawr ‘“‘Nellies”’

Go Up to Princeton

Maverick Addresses Happy Throng
Of Farge Vera

Last Friday evening nine delegates

of th¢ Home Fire Division ‘of Bryn

Mawr hied themselves to Princeton for

a rally of the Veterans of Future

Wars, held in Alexander Hall. The

place was crowded to the top of the
galleries, and the response to any-
thing that was said was wildly en-
thusiastic: the audience shouted,

 

each speaker finished, the entire hall
rose and saluted him. There were two
student speakers: Lewis Gorin, the
founder of the movement, and John
Paul Jones, who was born with the
confidence and ease of an orator, and
whose sentences were spaced for
cheering. He announced the founding
of two hundred new posts.

These two speakers were followed
by Senator Maverick of Texas, who is
going to sponsor the introduction of
a bill asking for immediate payment
of the Future Veterans’ bonus. His
speech was a masterpiece of sense and
nonsense. His more serious points
lwere that college students should
‘think and act on political questions
because his generation seems to have
fallen down on the job, and because
at this age our minds are at their most
unbiased and most clear-thinking
He warned against wolves in
sheep’s clothing, those who frown and
ancestor twisters, who would have us

‘| believe that Thomas Jefferson stood

turn the following year; anyone drawn for the Liberty League.

One of the highlights of the rally
was the presentation of a duck to Mr.
Barnes, the master of ceremonies. In
a former rally he had announced that
in the coming of the Veterans of Fu-
ture Wars manifest destiny had laid
a golden egg. The. duck was chris-
tened “Manifest Destiny” and shut up
in a room off the platform, from which
she escaped several times during the
evening to come waddling out onto the
platform.

After the rally the Bryn Mawr dele-
gates were shown through the offices
of the organization,, They have two
rooms filled with filing cases and two
secretaries working full time. After
this, in the words of the Princetonian,

“And they departed, each man to
his_own COUNT, and some to see the
Nellies ‘home.” -

 

Death of Samuel Emlen
Is Shock to College

Continued from Page One

 

is a tragedy that when the college
starts to build again he should not be
here. He was competent, experienced
and wise. His is indeed an appalling
loss when such qualities are so needed
by the college.”

 

L. Ritter .Non-Res Chairman
Common Room, April 15.—At the
latest non-resident dinner, Lucille Rit-
ter, ’°37, was elected chairman of the

 

for this year. She declined the fel-
lowship, however, in order to accept
the position as warden.

 

non-residents, succeeding Evelyn Han-
sell, ’36.

 

 

 

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Dr. Fenwick Says:

 

( Gleaned from Dr. Fenwick’s Lecture)

Common Room, April 21.—In his
discussion of current events Dr. Fen-
wick emphasized the -confusion of
thought in England resulting from
the failure of her diplomacy in the
League of Nations. England would’
like more than anything in the world
to get away from. Europe and let
her neighbors fight it out for them-
selves, but she has an empire. She
is placed.in an embarrassing position
through the. misleading advice of her
military authorities. Last fall. they
were confideht that Italy ould not |
possibly conquer Ethiopia, gen? of

 

lected to close the Snes sag as tat
would have brought on a war with
Italy. But Italy’s success in Ethiopia

has exceeded all expectations. She
has made rapid progress towards Ad-
dis Ababa and it is probable that the,
city will fall at some time during the
next few weeks. Her advancing army
has been completely cut off from its
base and supplies and munitions have
fallen to it from the clouds. This
new feature in warfare has_ been
made possible by Italy’s great air
force and has, in addition to the bom-
bardment of towns and the use of!
poisonous gases, completely demoral-|
ized the Ethiopian troops. In spite of
Captain Eden’s magnificent speech
before the council of the League, the
French delegate, Paul Boncour, evaded
the issue, in an ambiguous speech, de-
claring that the League had presented ;
the only way out of a European war}
and that that, too, had now failed.

Dr. Fenwick believes that there is an
economic way out which he proposes
to discuss at the next current events |
lecture.

The elections in France on the two!
coming Sundays will’ decide whether
the Fascist party is strong enough to
elect Colonel de la Rocque. It does

 

 

z thing has happened.
_/owned a hotel in Florida which be-

‘date from Illinois.

Cardenas as his puppet to take the
place of Portes Gil, and his puppet,

turning against him, had him thrown... -

out. Cardenas is interested in putting
through agricultural and labor re-
forms for the Indians. The Mexican.
Indian, a-lovable and friendly soul,
has been promised land time and
again, but the presidents invariably
end by keeping the land for them-
selves.

In domestic. politics, Hahaavalé has
been gaining strength recently and is
getting more votes in Illinois. His
address to the young Democrats in
Baltimore appealed to their enthus-
iasm and idealism. :

~The. impeachment of Judge Ritter

'by the House and his conviction by

the Senate is only the fourth time in
the history of America that such a
Judge Ritter

came bankrupt. The receivership
was handed over to his one-time part-
ner, Mr. Rankin, who then handed
the money over to Ritter as the pay-
ment of a debt. T enate doubted
that Mr. Rankin owed &ny money to
Judge Ritter and that this transac-
tion really was the payment of a
debt, since Mr. Rankin payed in cash
instead of with a check. ’
The fact that Mr. Borah was
turned down in the State of Illinois
shows that he stands no chance of
running for President, but he won so
many votes down-state that he has
the power to veto any other candi-
Unless he agrees
to cooperate with Landon, it does not
seem likely that any candidate pro-
posed by the State of Illinois will be
acceptable to him. Landon is greatly
hindered by the support of Mr.
iHearst, who represents the worst side
of American politics. Dr. Fenwick
suggested that it might be wise for
Mr. Landon to denounce Mr. Hearst.

 

 

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not seem likely that they will be able
to do so, as their candidate has
neither the strength nor the ability
to be a successful dictator. More-
over, democracy was well established
in France by her revolution.

The exile of Calles from Mexico
terminated a political career begun in
1924 when he came into: power as a
revolutionary, a label that now has
no association with its original mean-
ing. After his political success he
turned conservative, got a big-landed |
estate and became a gentleman of;
leisure surrounded with innumerable
women’ of ill-fame. He selected

 

 

 

 

  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
  

 

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Bryn Mawr College

“+ April 18, 1936
To the Editors of the News: ‘a

Dear Editors: — ge
I was glad to see the News’ last

editorial expressing our deep concern
that the-quality of teaching at Bryn
Mawr may continue “of the same
sharp tenor,” and that our faculty
may not lose the fine scholars and the
“inspiring guidance into the most en-
grossing and difficult aspects of every
subject” which Bryn Maw7 Students
demand. -I -felt, however,. that the
writer dealt too ambiguously with the
departure of . “exceptional teachers,”
and hid the real point of her article
in an unobtrusive mention of those
who “have. left before retirement
although not wishing it'so.” Am I
right in supposing her true complaint
to be that of the refrain. of the cur-
rent Bryn Mawr student song (tune,
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean),
loyal in only too thoughtful a sense,
though of course unprintable, which
says, “All the best teachers - get
fired—”? If so, I wish to second her
opinion most heartily. I feel that the
real anxiety. which members of both
faculty and student body have ex-
pressed on this question merits being
made more clear,
Yours sincerely,
A FELLOW STUDENT.

Editor’s Note: No, Fellow Student,
the editorial which appeared two
weeks ago in the News was not in-
spired by the specific aspect of the
teaching situation which you imply
nor by any particular example of this
situation recently experienced. Neither
have personal feelings of exuberance
or animosity however general among
the readers of News found expres-
sion in its editorial columns. That
editorial was a reflection of the opin-
ion of a large body of the undergradu-
ates who have remarked in their own
and their immediate _predecessors*:.ex-
perience at college a trend away from
the quality of teaching which made
this year’s celebration a genuine cause
for pride.

There was no attack intended, ex-
cept against our own past failure to
make clear what we want in college.
If the students remain stonily silent,
no one in the world can hope to give
them what they want, although when
once their desires are expressed; no
one would oppose them if they
are for their own and the college’s
genuine welfare. The News exists
just for this very purpose—to give
genuine student opinion an oppor-
tunity to be heard accurately and
without the fallacies of rumors.

When undergraduates do have an
opinion or an expression of what they
hope Bryn Mawr to be they should
express it clearly. That editorial was
merely a too-seldom-seen statement
from many students of their view of
what they realize but one aspect of
one of the many problems which Bryn
Mawr must face if she is to continue
to be an outstanding college.

 

A. L. L. to Sponsor Lectures

Pembroke West Show Case, April
16.—At a meeting of the American
Liberty League it was decided that
during the next two weeks several
speakers will be invited to Bryn
Mawr under its auspices. The head
of the Pennsylvania division of the
organization, Mr. Wilbur Morris of
Philadelphia, has consented to offer
suggestions for speakers. At the
same time the twenty-five girls who
already belong: to the chapter will
open a drive for new members.

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The. President—

_ Attended a meeting of the
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ment of celleges and progressive
schools with the. heads of

 

 

 

schools in the East. :

;
Campus Notes

Dr. and Mrs. Smith have booked
their passages for England for. the
seventeenth of June. -They plan to
work at the British Museum in London
during the summer and Dr. Smith ex-
pects to finish his book on the na-
tional movement in India. Mrs.
Smith has published an article in the
Saturday Review which combines a
review’ of the Garden Encyclopedia
with a discussion of the gation in
English literature.

Dr. Fenwick has written an edi-
torial on the Franco-Sdyiet pact in
the treaty of Locarno which appeared
in the American Journal of Interna-
tional Law. Coincident with the edi-
torial he received an invitation from
the Syracuse School of Citizenship
and International Affairs to be pre-
siding judge at a “model world court”
which was to consider the question of
the relation of the Franco-Soviet pact
to the treaty of Locarno: Dr. Fen-
wick said:

“While I was unable to accept the
invitation owing to a prior engage-
ment, I think the student body might
be interested in the plan of holding
a model world court which parallels
in a very interesting way the model
assembly of the League of Nations
recently held at Vassar and attended
by Miss Saire.”

The students will take part in the
model court, one group arguing the
case of France and another the case
of Germany.

Dr. Fenwick was one of the two
speakers at the annual meeting of the
Baltimore branch of the League of

Nations Association that was held on;

the evening of April 17. The subject
of his address was The League of
Nations and the Present Crisis.

Dr. Crenshaw says that the fifth
draft. of the plans for the new sci-
ence building are now completed and
appear. to be perfectly satisfactory.
The building, a basement and two
floors, is divided into two halves, one
being for the Chemistry Department
and one for the Geology Department.
Apparently one of the drawbacks of
Dalton is the fact that acids are apt
to leak. from ‘one floor to the next?
In accordance with the present ar-
rangement, members of the Chemistry
Department will spill acids only upon

ig" Dr.

problem. Space has been reserved for
a retiring room where students can

; take time out to recover from their

experiments.
Miss Koller is editing a new edition
of Spenser’s Variorum through the
Johns Hopkins Press. She is collect-
ing all prevfous glossaries in the light
of new facts and selecting the most’
reasonable interpretation in the case
ofgdoubtful meanings.
Broughton has written an
article on two passages of Cicero re-
ferring to local taxes in Asia, which
is to be published in the American
Journal of Philology.

 

Concours Oratoire

Candidates Chosen

The successful candidates, in the
trials for the Concours Oratoire,
which will be held on May 14, are the
Misses Berthe, ’39, Dolowitz, ’39,
Hutchings, ’37, Monaco, graduate stu-
dent, Rothschild, ’388, Stewart, ’36. On
May 14 each candidate will read two
passages at sight (prose and verse)
and two passages prepared in ad-
vance. The passages to be prepared
are:

Vigny—Servitude et Grandeur mil-
itaires, La Canne de Jone p. 149-50,
STs. nuit; du 27 juillet 1880 . 4... ils
attendaient.”

La Fontaine — Fables III, 16, La

Femme noyée.
Typewritten copies of these passages
may be procured from Mademoiselle
Soubeiran, who will preside over. the
final Concours Oratoire. The books
to be used are on the reserve:shelf.

 

 

CONQUEST OF LISBON
DR. DAVID’S THEME

 

The. Columbia University Press has
just published Dr. Charles Wendell
David’s new book, De Expugnatione
Lyxbonensi (The Conquest of Lisbon).
It is is an edition of the Unique Manu-
seript in Corpus Christi College, Cam-
bridge, with an English translation.
This manuscript is the longest and
most informative source for records
of the activities of the little-known
crusaders among the sea-faring popu-
lations of lower Germany, the low
countries and England. It is a
discription of the expedition of 1147
against the Moors in Lisbon, written
by one of the crusaders in simple, di-
rect ‘tanguage which preserves the
atmosphere of the crusade. The edi-
tion is the most satisfactory one ever
prepared from this manuscript. The

 

other members of the department,

translation retains the flavor of the

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' Sunday, April 26. — Senora
Carola, Spanish dancer, will
give a recital in the Deanery.

 

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Nye-Kvale Act Will
Be Voted Upon Soon

 

 

 

Increased anti-war sentiment among
students, which produced the demon-
stration against war, participated in
by. approximately 500,000 American
students, is at the moment, aiming
particularly for the passage of the
Nye-Kvale bill.

This. bill, drawn up by Senator Nye,
of North Dakota, and Representative
Kvale, of Minnesota, would make
membership to the Reserve Officers
Training Corps, which operates on
200 campuses, optional. These work
rather ambiguously as at 118, learn-
ing drills are required, while on the
remainder of the campuses they are
simply offered. The fact that 100 ad-
ditional units are now in the act of
being established has led to this move
to eliminate conscription.

Specifically, the bill would amend
the National Defense Act of 1916 with
a stipulation that no R. O. T. C. unit
be approved at any school or colleee

 

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isfied the: Secretary of. War that en-

«..ment in such a unit (except in the
ease of essentially military schools)
is elective and not veluntary.”
Spokesmen for the present method
of R. O. -T. C.. administration claim

that the system promotes civic aware-

ness, physical well-being, and charac-
ter education. The opponents of. the
system, they feel, have over-shadowed
the practical aspects of the situation
by their zealousness for an_ ideal
world situation. ad

In return, the advocates of the Nye-
Kvale bill insist that such demands
made of our students is not only dis-
consonant with our national demo-
cratic ideals, but that it makes a

mockery of efforts for peace.
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Historian Requires
Imaginative Power

 

Continued from Page One

la Revolution Francaise, uses the
“sweep” method of writing history.

Sorel finds similarities of patterns
_ in different historical fields which are
related to each other.

Lecky, writing
in the eighteenth century, uses the
same imaginative method in a more
limited’ way. He picks out causes
within one country during one cen-
tury which have not been previously.
noticed and relates them to each other.

The contemporary historian, Rosto-
vtzeff, has one of. the greatest his-
torical imaginations. From traces of
archaeological objects he has been
able to. imagine a trade route in a
location where no one had considered
its existence. His imagination works
more vividly when he has actual docu-
mentation or evidence before his eyes.

Examples of historians who use

“unimaginative historical methods are,

first, George Macaulay Trevelyan,
whose imagination\is purely pictorial.
He depicts vivid scenes by assembling
details in order to\form a_ whole.
When he uses imaginative insight, he
is neither constructive,\ creative nor
relating. A second unimaginative
historian is Thomas Carlyle, whose
French Revolution is difficult to esti-
mate. -His commentary on Crom-
well’s letters shows little of the deeper
understanding of the Civil War period.
He superimposed his own preconcep-
tions of Civil War figures on the
period

S. R. Gardiner, who writes of the
Stuart period, has no imaginative
power. He deals only with the exact
order of events and omits the trends;
but personalizations and _ intellectual
developments are often the most im-
portant and interesting part of his-
tory. Gardiner, judging the seven-
teenth century with Victorian stand-
ards, misrepresents its history.

George Macaulay and John Fiske
have more style than imagination.
The suspense, gusto and ordered ar-
rangements make their books good
reading.

Historians are often criticized for
being over-imaginative. Francis Hack-
ett’s Life of Henry VIII is a pains-
taking verification of facts. Because
he did not. know enough facts, his. at-
tempt to give an imaginative sweep
of all Europe was ‘unsuccessful.
Bacon remarked “that it needed
weights to keep it from flying!”
Rostovtzeff goes beyond facts, but of-
fers his theories for discussion by
other scholars.

The necessary conditions for the
use of the imagination are a profound
knowledge of facts and the realiza-
tion of new slants for non-dogmatic
discussion. The imagination is inap-
propriate in dealing with chronological
history and in character analysis un-
less there are sufficient material such

as those which Pepys and Napoleon,

left the world. Nor is the imagina-
tion very helpful for narrative. Its
main value lies in social and eco-
nomic history and in investigating
the customs of people where there is
usually ample information.

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_ “A.A. Election.

The Athletic Association takes
pleasure in .announcing the
election of A. J. Clark, ’39, as
secretary for the coming year.

 

 

 

The imagination working without
facts can sometimes be truer to the
past than historical facts. This ap-
plies particularly to writings contem-
porary with the author.

The yarious stages of the imagina-
tion are not definitive. The loose, un-
guarded reverie stage is the first of
the process. Hobbes in his analysis
of the imagination notes this. wander-
ing ofthe mind in fancy. It is a pas-
sive state in which rare contiguities
come together. Mozart, when he was
in a happy frame of mind, noticed
that ideas: swarmed easily through
his mind. The imaginations. of both
Wordsworth and Bacon were most in-
spired during relaxation and quiet
reverie. It is during this time that
one draws from the treasure house
of the subconscious mind.

There are many half-way steps be-
tween the dream stage and the direct-
ing stage of the imagination. In the
latter we are not dreaming; we are
seeking to an end. Mozart, during
this time of constructive directing
force, found that the pleasant ideas
which he had retained from reverie
would join one another in ordered
succession. Counterpoint would fall
into place and eventually he could
mentally formulate an entire compo-
sition. In this more controlled state
of the imagination new connections
and associations arise from the sub-
conscious. The imagination fits into

,a\ whole, it assimilates energy and

finds unity beneath dissimilarities.

The main problem of the historian
is the subconscious mind. In apply-
ing the imagination to history, the
reverie stage comes after the collec-
tion of materials in which the his-
torian uses pure reasoned thought. If,
in the course of gathering data, he
should come ‘to a closed door, the best
remedy is for him to forget the sub-
ject entirely. The passive imagination
will continue to work and will sud-
denly suggest a new source.

The historian must soak himself in
his materials, but he must lay aside
his cards when he begins to write.
Bedéause the .subconscious can never
be rushed, time is absolutely neces-
sary. During the course of writing
there must be moments of reverie from
which forces eventually proceed and
project the mind to activity. Of this
second directing stage we know very
little. In Sorel and Maitland we
can see the directing forces at work,
but they are indescribable and often
unimaginative.

To learn to use the imagination we
must develop the little which we have
left over from youth. Historians
would be better off if they would con-
sider themselves artists, not drudges.
No one busy doing many different
things will have time for imaginative
reconstruction. Leisure, quiet and in-
tense interest of necessity stimulate
the imagination. Emotional experi-
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restricted number of night leaves.
Bryn Mawr’s particular subject for
discussion was the question of cutting
classes’ before and after vacations.
Each college except Bryn Mawr has
a system whereby classes may be cut
before vacation, although usually ac-
companied by a severe limitation of

either cuts‘or leaves. Vassar hopes
next year-to introduce a new system
with unlimited cuts and leaves for
juniors and seniors. They would,
however, be restricted to taking not
more than four extra days at vaca-
tion. ;

The most striking part of the con-
ference is the similarity. between the
main problems af each college in such
things. as quiet hours, library rules
and social regulations. It is interest-
ing to compare the way with which
these are dealt with at the other col-
leges and to try to improve our own
methods.

The New England colleges have re-
quired’ chapel varying from once a
week at Smith to twice a week and
once on Sunday at Mount Holyoke.
Vassar occasionally has a required
general assembly. 4:

The American Student Union has
become quite active at Smith and Vas-
sar, and though at present it tends
toward radicalism, they are trying to
make it more liberal. The under-
graduates do not feel that it is very
effective as yet, but they believe it
could be made into an organization of
value.

 

Group Visits French Congress

Dean Schenck, Professor Gilman
and Professor Soubeiran attended the
Sixiéme Congrés de Langue Frangaise
et de Littérature held at the French
Institute in New York April 16, 17
and 18. This is a joint project of the
French learned societies in the United
States under the auspices of the Al-
liance Francaise. Dean Schenck has
been a member of the organizing com-

mittee. The Congress heard papers
by distinguished - scholars from
France, Switzerland, Canada and

America and closed with a banquet at
the Hotel Plaza at which were pres-
ent the French, the Belgian and the
Swiss ambassadors,

PHILADELPHIA PLANS
. NEW PEACE CAMPAIGN

United States Senator James Pinck-
ney Pope, of Idaho,’ will be a speaker
at the noonday luncheon of the all-day
peace conference of the Emergency
Peace Campaign, Thursday, April 23,
at the Bénjamin Franklin Hotel.
Senator Pope is a member of the Sen-
ate Munitions Investigations Commit-
tee and is the Senate’s leading peace
advocate.

Other speakers at the luncheon will
include George Lansbury, member of
the British Parliament, S. Davis Wil-
son, Mayor of Philadelphia, and Kirby
Page, nationally known peace leader.

The morning session of the all-day
conference will begin at 10 a. m. and
last until noon. This session will be
taken up with a panel discussion on
What to do about war, and will be
presided. over by Dr. Jesse Holmes, of
Swarthmore College.

The afternoon session will be de-
voted to the discussion, ‘‘How to keep
the United States out of War,” and
the presiding officer will be Dr. Karl
W. H. Scholz, of the University of
Pennsylvania.

Kirby Page will be the. presiding
officer at a peace mass-meeting to be
held in the Academy of Music the eve-
ing of April 28. In .addition to Mr.
Page the speakers will include Mr.
Lansbury and Kathleen Norris, novel-
ist.

With a proclamation by Mayor Wil-
son, “Peace Week’ will be observed
in Philadelphia the week beginning
Sunday, April 19, when many clergy-
men will devote their sermons to the
subject of peace and the effort to keep
the United States out of war.

At 9.45 p. m. Tuesday, April 21,
just prior to the speech of Mrs. Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt in Washington open-
ing the nation-wide Emergency Peace
Campaign, Mayor Wilson in Independ-
ence Hall, Philadelphia, will sound
several notes of “peace” on the Lib-
erty Bell. And as the Mayor taps the
bell an airplane bearing a large replica
of the bell in electric lights will circle
above Independence Hall.

An impressive ceremony will be en-
acted Wednesday, April 22, when
Mayor Wilson will receive homing
pigeons bearing messages of peace to
Philadelphia. These pigeons will be
released at 10 a. m. by Mrs. Roosevelt
from the steps of the national capitol
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French Summer School .
To Hold Usual Sessign

Students will once more be afforded
the opportunity of “living in French”
at the residential French Summer
School held annually at McGill Uni-

versity. Inaugurated some fifteen
years ago, this intensive five weeks’
course has proved one of the most
efficient and enjoyable means of ac-
quiring a good working knowledge of
the French language. Students pledge
themselves to speak nothing but French
every. day except Sunday, when ‘the
mother tongue may be taken out for
an airing. The Director of the school,
Professor René du Roure, has the col-
laboration of an augmented staff of
French professors; graduates of lead-
ing universities.of Europe. Special
classes in teaching methods, phonetics
and subjects suited to the needs of
the summer school are included in the
curriculum. Provision is made for ele-
mentary, intermediate and advanced
students. Certificates are awarded
and arrangements may be made to
obtain college credits. Graduate stu-
dents may work towards the degree
of M. A.

However, it has been found that
the success of the course results not
so much from the actual classes fol-
lowed as from the “living in French.”
Students find themselves in a thor-
oughly French atmosphere which com-
bines the best traditions of Old. and
New France—they not only speak
French with supervised conversation
groups at meal times and in leisure
hours to stimulate their efforts, but
they read French newspapers and
magazines, attend French theatres,
cinemas and church services and are
brought into contact with the cultural
and social life of Montreal. Sports
are available for the athletically in-
clined and sightseeing exclursions are
arranged.

In short, the school offers a. holiday
which is both pleasant and profitable.
The announcement may be obtained
on application to Residential French
Summer School, McGill University,
Montreal.

 

 

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‘fansa . . july 9
Deutschland july 16
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sidering study abroad there are also ““The Guide Book
for Study in Europe” and “Summer Courses Abroad’,
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Art Part of Formal: ;
3 Rational Side of Life

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rate moment of this background can-
not be preserved unless it is preserved
by art. For art, by the use of media
which make possible the continuance
in some form of the vividness of ac-
tual intuition, retains the content that
the clearest of memories must lose.
Yet mere reproduction of an experi-
enced depth of reality is not the pur-
pose of art; its aim is. likewise a
revelation of other depths to come.

The artist foregoes much rich va-
riety in order to fix one aspect of what
he has: enjoyed in a permanent form.
Within this form,’ however, he in-
cludes as variants even that which his
life has missed, because the intensity,
the _adumbrated portion of being
which it is his task to portray, is to
him a question asking after the na-
ture of other ‘adumbrateds, and he
can answer this question only by
clarifying the meaning of that very
adumbrated which aroused it. He
must involve in that which he is ex-
pressing more than its own individual
character, for he can never penetrate
sufficiently to the inmost being of any-
. thing to express that and that alone.

Beginning with the relativized and
repeatable sensuous, the sole guide to
the intensity of experience, he at-
tempts to transmute it into a symbol
of the absolutely unique and essential
reality beneath it; but he cannot find
such a complete and private idiosyn-
crasy. He atones for his failure by
trying to answer what the intensive

 

being to which he can attain demands
—its relation to other adumbrateds,
inasmuch as it is still a universal.

The sensuous object which is used
to express the adumbrated need not
belong to any particular artistic me-.
dium. Any material that can be
manipulated ‘so that its symbolic
values are transformed” is satisfac-
tory material for the artist. In order
to perform such manipulation, how-
ever, he must be a master of craft
and technique, which are the leading
principles ‘of art.

Not only are the leading principles
of art integrated into the process of
attainment; they are embodied in the
attained result as well. If the result
stood alone, it would be inferred, ‘not
made, ‘and art is a making. In this
way art does imitate nature, ‘for it
reproduces nature’s rhythm on a
smaller scale. The: artist is a more
clever worker than: ‘nature, who is
blind, ‘but -he can produce only sym-
bolical things, while nature makes
reality. Even by means of his sym-
bols, however, he can improve on na-
ture, for he can unite past and future
in the present.

If one art object cannot completely
supplement another so that the extent
of reality as a whole is known, aes-
thetics, which is art generalized and
geparated from the limitations of con-
crete existence, can nevertheless com-
pass the whole which art can possi-
bly. reveal. The main problem of aes-
thetics if considered in this light, is
to understand the expressive powers
of the different media which art em-
ploys. These fall into two basic
classes—the spatial and the temporal.

The spatial arts, such as architecture,
present a single object which em-
bodies at once the accumulative. sig-
nificance of the steps by which it was
achieved. The temporal arts, such as
music, on the other hand, present a
series of .elements whose ° accumula-
tive effect is present only in a
retentive mind. There must be a way
of bridging the gap between the two,
a way of presenting a spatial art so
that its meaning will be apprehended
by the succession of its parts and of
spatially presenting a temporal art
so that its accumulative effect will
not be lost.

Before the answer to this problem
can be discovered, a means must be
found to transmute the - different
forms of spatial art into one aygother
and likewise with the fotms of tem-
poral art. It is not to be inferred
from this that each art form is de-
nied to have a function and a flavor
of its own, but there is to be in-
ferred a possibility that the meaning
which one expresses may be expressed
again in another, ‘not by duplication,
but by readjustment of the new me-
dium. A knowledge of the capacities
of each medium is therefore neces-
sary, an understanding of the varia-
tions possible’ in’ each. Only when
this is possessed can the investig&tion
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April 22.—Speeches by Joseph Tay-
lor, ’°36, Professor Richard M. Fulton
and Raymond Wilson, assistant direc-
tor of the Peace Division of the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee, com-
pose the program for the peace
demonstration held at Haverford Col-
lege at ‘11 o’clock today. Munitions,
neutrality legislation and the aboli-
tion of compulsory military service
are the specific issues concerned.

 

by which one medium can reproduce
the significance of another. That
such a formula is not impossible is
demonstrated by modern. ‘logicians,
who have at least fore-shadowed the
way to an understanding of how all
the different kinds of speech and ar-
guments which men use could be re-
duced'to one another. If by 4 similar
method, a principle for transmuting
arts of a single class into each other

might be found, by such a method ‘

still, some principle for bridging the
spatial and temporal classes. them-
selves might be possible of discovery,
some aesthetic formula defining the
whole field of art. But without the
discipline of logic, nothing like this
can be attained.

 

 

 

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Ids Peace Program! PRE. COLLEGE GUIDANCE

| CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

 

Representatives of thirteen women’s
colleges, including Bryn Mawr, will
attend a Pre-College’ Guidance Con-
ference in advisory capacities on April
23, 24, 25 and 26. The conference is
being held at the New Jersey College
for Women in New Brunswick, N. J.
’ The purpose of the conference is to
give preparatory hool students a

i foretaste of college life and an oppor-

tunity to talk personally with, college
women and professional advisors.
The girls live in the dormitories
have their meals in the college com-
mons. They follow a regular college
program, attending classes, labora-

 

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digestion — actually slow up the
flow of the digestive fluids.

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its proper course, through restor-
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Continued from Page One

wonderful music for the ’cello—the
sonatas of Brahms, for example, or
the suites of Bach.

The next two groups showed an
astonishing improvement both in Miss
Wilson’s technique and interpretation,
and in the ‘sympathetic atmosphere
created between the audience and the
artist. Though the music varied from
the lyrical to the technically exciting,
through Fauré and Debussy arid Cas-
sad6, the quality of the playing was
constant. Here'was a warmth of tone,
a fineness of phrasing and a sensitive
interpretation, plus a very superior
technique, all of which seemed
strangely lacking in the earlier num-
bers. There was something particu-
larly good in the “Gendi. Saint a
Minuit,” a rather impressionistic piece
by Turina. Though there were diffi-
cult passages which might ordinarily
have demanded notice and special
praise, in this all technique and
mechanics of the music were dissolved
and disappeared in the wholeness and
actuality of the composition. _

The first of the encores was a piece
not known to the reviewer, lovely and

 

joygiving in its lyrical content and
in the fine lyricism of the perfom-
ance.
the best\thing on the program, was
the Adagto in A minor, from an organ
toccata of Bach. Here, for the first
time that afternoon, was music that
could undoubtedly be called great.
Miss Wilson was able to give an
understanding and sympathetic per-
formance that showed a more serious
talent in every aspect of musicianship
than had been apparent from any of
the other music. A young voice said,
in the silence before the Adagio,
“Will it be very long?”; and, after-
ward, more than one person Wished
fervently that it had been. One felt
that, indeed, this was the real begin-
ning of the recital, and that if it con-
tinued just a little while longer we
would come to the Beethoven and
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BOOK REVIEWS

In Gaudy Night Dorothy Sayers has
written another of those detective
stories which are described as “clas-
sic’ and “out of the ordinary.” It is
undoubtedly one of the better run of
mystery tales, but its excellence lies
in certain definite elements within its
structure. The setting and local color
are extremely interesting and have an

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undeniable authenticity. Miss Sayers
endows Oxford with a new women’s
college, named rather dubiously after
the Countess of Shrewsbury. New
traditions are invented and old ones
of Oxford itself are respected. The
atmosphere of the place lends the
necessary strength to the author’s con-
viction that the restrictions of concen-
trated academic life are bound to bring
to light the potential abnormalities as
well as the worst characteristics of
women, who are meant to lead more
feminine lives. The mystery plot, re-
markable for the fact that scarcely
a drop of blood is shed throughout its
evolution, is well conceived,

Thé love story is: distinctly uncon-
vincing and for that reason the actual
end of the book is something of a dis-
appointment. Readers of Dorothy
Sayers are familiar with the chief
characters and it is a relief to have
them safely betrothed at last, but it
much be said that the main interest
does not center around them. This
is the difficulty of an ambitious detec-
tive story which aims at higher things
than solving a» clue-strewn crime.
The attention must be divided between
the various themes, and the degree
of interest cannot be satisfactory to
all readers. In Gaudy Night one’s in-
terest is held through the skillful

delicate treatment of an unusual mys-
tery. ‘There are many characters that
|one would like to see developed more,
| but there are almost as many that are
delightfully drawn. These three ele-
| ments more than repay the reading
of the book. M. H.-H.

 

"(Impassioned Pygmies, by Keith
Winter.)
. For a great many years now, writ-
ers have pelted readers with novels
describing modern super-civilized peo-
ple; the novels have been serious and
ponderous or flippant and cynical, but
in: most cases they have been of no
great consequence. It is a relief,
therefore, to find that Keith Winter,
in Impassioned Pygmies, has attacked
the subject from a new angle and has
produced a charmingly .written and
well-balanced satire in which charac-
terization’ and narrative style are far
above the average. A group of people
—among whom two characters, E. L.
Marius and Andrew Jordan, are
obviously derived from D. H. Law-
rence and Noel Coward—are confront-
ed with a man who is intellectually
honest; the results are sometimes
amusing, more often disastrous, but
always interesting.

E. L. Marius is the genius of his

 

| ill-asserted

 

handling of the surroundings and the| generation who has been constantly
eated in his search for solitude and ~

ace by his equally compelling desire
for companionship. Consequently he
is pursued by a group of disciples,
literary poseurs who compete jealously
for his favor while he lives and write
biographies of."him after his death.
To*the island in the Mediterranean
where he lives with his wife and his
‘camp - followers, come
Andrew Jordan, the Boy Playwright,
the Fenwicks, a young English couple,
and Saul, Marius’ son. In almost
every ‘case the impact of Saul upon
the other characters changes them so
radically that. they can neither re-
assume their erstwhile poses nor gain
genuine integrity. Saul Marius him-
self is a charming and brilliant: per-
son, whose effect on the others is
neither intentional nor desired by him-
self, but an involuntary result of his
character.

The style of Impassioned Pygmies is
both excellent and elastic. In ex-
cerpts from the diaries and biograph-
ies of Marius’ pursuers, in Andrew
Jordan’s conversations, in the de-
scriptions of Jordan’s hangover,
Helga’s speeches and Saul’s thoughts,
the style is invariably right for its
subject matter. :

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