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A CREATIVE COLLEGE
Bryn Mawr has rather suddenly
” made the discovery, or suddenly
begun to act upon it, that absorption

is only half of education, that the|_

process is incomplete without a cor-
responding amount of output or
creative effort of some kind. Of
course one always wrote reports,
but. the héart, we fear, was not in
it. Besides there are ways of. ex-
than by
words,, quite as valuable, and quite
as important to an education, how-
ever. general, which are only just
beginning to receive a proper share
of attention, But this year all sorts

-of forms of expression have been

starting up spontaneously, or ac-
quifing a new vitality. The art club,
founded by student initiative, flour-

‘ishes on sandwiches; and with three

separate dramatic organizations pro-
ducing five plays, one of thefn
written by a member of the college,
within two months, we are well on
the, way to developing a department
like the one conducted by Mr.
George Baker at Yale; or the one
at the University of Chicago, where
the students write, produce; and act
their own. plays, designing — the
scenery and putting on the perform-
ances in an up-to-date theatre—be-
longing tothe department. While
as to music, although interest began
several years ago with the founding
of the music department, its impor-
tarice is steadily growing, and while
it is chiefly appreciative, classes in
harmony, and music lessons, pro-
claim the creative impulse. Even ‘in
the writing line, the publication: of
the recent pamphlet shows a néw
energy: ‘In fact, all we need now
is a department of sculpture and
architecture, so that the next gener-

ation-may build its own Goodhart |"! : , :
jindeed admirable; we can imagine

Hall, and carve its own Juno.

 

IL DUCE DICTATES

“Know thyself,” said: Socrates.
Not too easy a job this in these days
of higher education for the female
of the human species. One is often:
appalled at coming face-to-face with
the highly-trained intricacies and
super-educated convolutions of the
college-bred cerebrum. And now
‘we have an aide in this task. "The
great; the only, Mussolini has con-
descendeg
- No longer need we search ourselves :
I} Duce puts us in our place and
Jeaves no trailing shreds of illusion.
“Women are the agreeable or pleas-
ant parentheses of life, and corisid-
ered as such they play a very im-
portant part in man’s kaa
. .» -Women cannot create.

- ‘The power behind the throne? ‘No.
Woman is not that. No’ gr

 
  

animals,” “indeed! Il Dtice goes 6n
he-men: “Flirtations should. be in-
dulged in as frequently as possible
up to the age of forty, then a man
should settle dowm to more ‘stable
amusements, . . . What. more
charming, thrilling than the first
kiss; what brings a more proféund
sigh of ,relief than the last? :
Women are inferior to men. But
then, of course, they are decorative.
Left in their proper relation to man
they are all that is delicious, ador-
able, sensuous. . Women are
to men what men desire them to: be,
agreeable parentheses‘ in busy lives.”

Thus does the Dictator of all Italy
dictate to Woman her trifling place
in the sun. It gives us that cozy,
feminine feeling of being submeérged
in. a Caveman’s personality. ‘Again,
for the first time since the” Victori-
ans, a Lord and Master has dared to
say his say. No longer need we try
to live up to the arduous motto set
by Socrates.. Now, at last after
many years of bondage to the intel-
lectual ideal, we can resume the rap-

‘sturous’ role of ivy clinging to the.

sturdy oak. And, at least, Il Duce|,
deigns .to admit that we are; deco-
rative.

 

WHAT TO WEAR?

The , Spring Clothes matter has
come up on its annual round; the
very first sign of it was evinced as
long ago as the first of February,
when the dogfish brought forth last
summer’s demoded frocks and set
our minds working on our ward-
robe. Far more important than
scheduled quizzes ‘or sixty-page re-
ports now looms the question of
whether blue or green will be the
best color for a new suit, if last

and shall we have tub silks made at
home or buy them on Forty-second
street.

So we sigh sadly and. philoso-
phize: “Life. is just one. worn-out
dress after another.” Why bother
to buy clothes at all when they will

they will really only differ in unes-
sential detail.

The Paris fashions say that
trousers are really coming in; now
there is a thought of interest; if we
could only contemplate the buying
of several pairs of trousers for
summer wardrobe, the matter would
be worth considering. Can you not
see the charming girl graduate with
white satin “collegiates” under her
academic gown? Or the debutante
with slim brocaded legs? How at-
tractive the sporting miss would
look in pleated plus-fours, and the
busines woman in severe blue serge
high- water pants!

 

‘A BETTER IDEA

The Idea of a college as outlined
in. the recent pamphlet seems to us

nothing more soothing than to have
a serf stationed behind our own
chair in the smoking room to light
our cigarettes for us. But there is
one serious aspect that she seems
to. have: overlooked: what will be
the result, ir after-life, of the stu-
dent's’ rapid rise from serfdom to
aristocragy in four short years?
Will she not become so dependent
one else to do the dirty

 

 

to tell us what we are.

  
 

#hat her husband will have to
‘serf himself? She will have
forgotten her own years of servi-
tude after having Tamed ‘the delights
of independence.

Rather we suggest ‘that the ‘last’

the one in which she learns to attend
‘to another’s needs. And who has
more needs than the incoming Fresh-
man? . Young, inexperienced, in-
competent, she is the one who needs
an older person to darn her stock-
ings, pack “her suitcase, run her

 

woman’s unseen oe
vision ar a preieh ie baths. And the effect on the Senior
in his soul, “No woman after Performing these petty duties
hes es ‘to the soul of a man, |for be of utmost value

said to the con-
more virile and

"throng her life. Whatever hard-|_
ships she has to endure, they will

cates, Bee compared. to this. -

current opinion now, is that
he te is far too supe-
or ao his or her hss wily be

to advise flirtations for red-blgaded) =

.|limerick- forms for us.

year’s coat can be made to do ‘ again, |

be so soon out of fashion, and when |.

year instead of the. first should be}

    
 

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The Pillar.
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M. D. Fi OG discovered sina aa
The first, the
Inverted form, is forcible, and exclama-

 

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Dangerous curve—

Don’t count on nerve—
Stop! if your brake’s good or pot.
Fifty have died on this spot. * .

Kindly observe.

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The second is not the usual unrhymed
form; study it. yourself and see ‘what a
complicated construction it has. — -

Lo the poor Indian advances.

So does the :Ofal, in sooth.

Boast if you will, -.. %°'

Mos® people.-fail. «

Ho! for majority rule! ,
' Our’interest in’ clocks was moré than
timely. Now -all--the~—official—-clocks—in
Paris have gone and quit. After forty
‘vears of faithful service they just lay
idown on the job, and won't run for ‘two
-weeks. Of course they explain it by
some conttfact, but it looks pretty Sus-
Picious to us. After what happened to

Taylor, and to .Big Ben? we cannot but

think that there is some conspiracy on
hand, Or perhaps it can all be attributed,
to sun spots. We should hate to think
that the clocks are really malicious.

 

Spurred on by the article on the Sat-
urday Review Literary contest, two’ of
our fost valued contributors have col-
laborated to produce this rare literary
gem. ;

Soliloquy of a High-strung Goldfish.
Although “my ,hide is golden bright,
My heart is black—as black as night.
Forever inthe public eye,

I am allowed no privacy.

The people passing stare at me
Like some strange curiosity.

You cannot know, the pangs I ‘feel,
When dining on a fish-food meal,
Oh, for a steak so juicy brown!
How I would smile as it went down!
When nibbling on a splintery spar:
Oh how I long for caviar!

If on my bowl my nose I bump —
I give a loud marinal grump. _
And when I neck beneath the moon
T_am_abashed_ to see that soon

A gathering hag gathered round,
And I+can hear the merry sound
Of saxophone and loud bassoon
And all the cacophonic tune -
Fills and refills my watery cave :
When privacy is all I crave!

And if I want to blow my nose
My modest heart in misery glows.
But they insult me most of all
When each to each I hear them call,
“Although he boasts a golden hide
He has a heart like ours inside!”

SopHRONISBA and Mosy Dick.

The Balm of. Life.
(need we apologize?) —
Tell us not in hopeful numbers,
Marriage is a pleagant dream.
Funny papers spoil our slumbers—
Can things be the way they seem?

Strife is real, strife is earnest,
In these homes of wedded bliss.

“Struck, the other cheek thou turnest,”’ ’|°
aoe was .elected by the association

Was not said of scenes like this.

Jeff is long, and Mutt is fleeting,
And our hearts have sadly bled.

Krazy Kat with bricks is beating
Little Ignatz on the head.

Father has his nightly. battle,
In the bivouac of life.
They are like dumb-driven cattle,
All — heroes of the strife.
Trust no lait. howe’er pleasant ;
‘Rosie’s. ‘Beau is pretty dumb;
Harold Teen won’t buy:a sirebent:
‘ Hairbreadth Harry chews his gum. |

‘Lives of these men all remind’ us;
Marriage isn’t so sublime—

We may leave some dents penied us,
On the sia pins of time.

 

 

 

 

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agccetN PHILADELPHIA

‘ . ‘Theatres.

| Broad+-George Jessel in The Jazz
Singer. ; i ae ;

Adelphi—The Crown ‘Princes Basil

‘Sidney and Mary Ellis. in old _ style
romantic tragedye
Chestnut—Greenwich Village Follies.
Lyric—My Maryland. Tuneful ro-
|inance of the Civil War. ;
_Shubert—Vagabonid King. -Lots of

Adelphi—Pygmalion. Opens April 4.
Theatre Guild production.
Adelphi—Loose Ankles.
4. Comedy of, the gigolos.
Movies.
_Aldine—Old Tronsides, _
Beautiful ships in a-dull picture.
Stanley—Corinne Griffith in Lady in
Ermine.
Arcadia—Flesh -and the Devil’ with
John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
Palace—Clara Bow.'in It.
Victoria—The Third Degree.
‘Stamton—Tell it to the Marines.
Chaney in an amusing picture.
Fox—John Gilbert in Count of Monte
Cristo.

Opens April

Lon

Coming.
Stanley—Sorrows of Satan.
March 14.
Arcadia—John Barrymore
Juan with Vitaphone.:
Stanton—Wallace Beery in Casey at
the Bat.

Opens |

 

; ORCHESTRA PROGRAM

The Philadelphia: Orchestra will play
the following program on Friday after-
noon, March 11, and Saturday evening,
March 12, and also on Monday evening,
March 44: erry | aa 8

-! Stéenhammar—Midwinter.

Peterson-Berger—Symphony No. °
(Lapland).

Atterberg—Symphony No. 4, in G
‘minor (composed on Swedish National
Melodies).

Alfven—Midsommarvaka. .

Shall We Support Chapel
For Rest of the Year?
(Specially contributed by Beatrice Pit-
ney, °27:)
Attendance at chapel has reached an
ebb which even for Bryn Mawr is low.
This raises a problem that has been
raised several times in-the past few. years.’

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| The C. A. Board feels no desire to deal

in general platitudes on the subject.
Neither does it wish to resort to any
artificial methods of boosting chapel: or
to the impressement of unwilling students
en route from the lib.

The board does, however, think that
the situation would be improved if a few
of the facts of the case were laid before
the members of the association.

The facts are as follows:

(1) The question as to whether Sune)
should be abolished or not has been voted
on by, the members of C. A. several
times in the last few years. Each year
an almost unanimous vote has been cast
in favor of it continuing it.

(2) In accordance with the wishes of
the association as expressed in this vote
chapel speakers were last summer invited
for this year. . ‘

' (3) The committee which pe the

and js therefore representative of the de-
sires of the association.

(4) The speakers were chosen with
the greatest possible thought and care.

(5) Only a small proportion of the
people who supported chapel in theory
are supporting it in practice. They are
assuming none of the responsibility which
they voted to have the association carry.

(6) Whatever the association may de-
cide this spring as to the future fate of
chapel the fact remains that ministers
have ‘already been = an the rest
of this semester. .

(7) So slight an | sietation at chapel
naturally means a gesture of extreme
rudeness to the speaker. Posibly, too, the
good name of the college is not meee
thereby.

The Board’s Conclusions.

 

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‘Walnut—Pickevick. Ouaine and J
charming. om
Garrick—Lucky, New musical ’gom-]}
dy, :
Coming.
Shubert—Great Temptations, ~ Opens
March 2 i
Chestnut—Hi it the: . Deck. Opens
March 28: Lew. Fields’ musical comedy.

Last _ week. |:

in Don

In this. importai nt matter the board is fs
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philosophy of fi fe, or a code “of ethics.
The board, of course, recognizes that no
sitigle chapel speaker, and ingléed no
single person ¢an sum up: all of at
But it does feel that most of the ch

. speakers can contribute ‘something, at

least to those’ who are not entirely sat-
isfied to remain static, aid can start them.
thinking along, lines ich without such
stimulus they would not follow.

In other words, chapel is one expres-

sion of the kind of thing in which girls -

by becoming members of C. A. have °

their. interest.
The argument “hat instead of going

in Latin, dy in History of Art bviously
beside the point since there is no-clear_
reason why that particular hour should |
be set aside for study .rather than one
earlier, in. the day or week.

Ag | have said, the question of the
fate of chapel for next year can be voted
upon this spring. The board at present
merely asks the support of the C. A.
members for the rest of the year...

 

Habima Players Here -
The Habima Players, the Hebrew the-
atrical ensemble, will give a repertoire of
plays at the Garden Theatre, Eighth
street near Race, for the entire week of

March 7. On Monday and Tuesday they ©

will hd the famous play, “The Dyb-
buk;” on Wednesday, “Jacob’s Dream;”
on “Thursday, “The Golemy” on Friday,
they will repeat “Jacob’s Dream;” on
Saturday matinee, “The Golem,” and on
Saturday evening, “The Dybbuk.”

We reprint the following from The
Philadelphia Public Ledger :

Recently at the Metropolitan Opera
House, in. Philadelphia, the Habima was
given: possibly the greatest ovation ever
accorded a Jewish theatre company
there. The play presented was “The
Golem,” by L. Levick. Hundreds were
turned away and curtain after curtain
call interrupted the action.

The Moscow Theatre Habima came
into being “during . the early period of*
the. revolution of: 1907. Its first per-
formance took place on a tiny stage,
before an’ audience of one hundred per-
sons in a little private house on one of
the narrow cross streets of Moscow.
Today it is known in all the capitals of
Europe.

Czarist. persecution became so severe
in 1913 that the Habima could not ap-
pear in public. The Habima had an-
other period of trouble, however, when
the Soviets decided that performances
given in a language not understood by:
the-masses are prejudicial, The greatest
intellectuals in Russia sprang in the de-
fense of the Habima and overcame this
objection. s

TWO ARE CHOSEN

Dorothea Shipley, ’25, and Agnes Mon-
gan, ’27, have been accepted as graduate
students to work under the’ direction of
Prof. Clarence Kennedy, of Smith Col-
lege, in Italy and France next winter.

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|The group will meet in Florence Septem-

ber 1 and study art under his personal
instruction. December 1 they will go to’
Paris and study there under the best
masters at the Louvre and the Sorbonne.

ince the group is very small and care-
fully selected jt is a great honor for
Bryn Mawr to have two representatives.

 

Nine Deans Graduate.

The January issue of the Bryn Mawr
Bulletin, devoted to the Academic Com-
mittee’s report on the Graduate School, is
especially interesting. After outlining

nad

.| to chapel a girl must do Mon ay’s lesson.

the history and functions of the school ,

the report goes on to give data on the
members of the school before and after
‘graduation. Ten hundred and eighty-
eight students, chiefly foreign, have at-
tended it since its foundation. About
half of these have’ become teachers after
receiving their degrees; nine of them are.
now deans. Their average salaries ap-
pear to be about $2000 to $2500.

*s

Dr. Chew Asks Another. ©

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Mawr. as an artist in settling questions,
has transferred his talents to Vanity.
Fair. He has sent in, and had accepted,
two hundred questions to the “Ask Me
Another” Contest. It is said:that a mem-
ber of the department of English was
‘able to answer correctly twenty-five of -
them. ae sr

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