_. rounded Virginia Woolf. meni bE - h e | ollege N , 3 | : VOL. XIX, No. 13 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1933 PRICE 10 CENTS ——— b ! 5 | ba Mrs. Sackville-West COLLEGE CALENDAR || Jitney Players Make | Neus Trace Sophomores Win . S Thurs.—Saks, Fashion Show, | The College News announces : : Speaks in Bryn Mawr)! common Room, 2.00600.” ||F1uge Success.of Drama} tha: ‘competition is now open {| Class Swimming Meet Eminent Novelist Lectures on|| Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence TWO ARE _ DISSIMILAR Thursday night in .Goodhart, Vic- toria Sackville-West* talked, not on James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, as . announced, but on Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. She said that it was through a mistake of her agent that James Joyce had been -put on her lecture list and that she did not intend to read his books for the sole purpose of: rectifying it. , Of the two authors on whom she was to lecture,-Mrs. Sackville-West said, “I have been wondering how possibly to effect a marriage between these two modern geniuses. There have been many definitions of the word ‘genius;’ none worse than ‘an infinite capacity for taking pains;’ ‘leaping before you look’ is a prefer- able definition; but the best is that ‘genius is the power of seeing life with your own individual vision.’ ” These two writers possess genius of the last type; that is the main point in which they are similar, and that also is what makes them an acquired taste—like oysters. Mrs. Sackville- West confessed that she did not like novels, but added that she has not missed one by Virginia Woolf or D. H. Lawrence since acquiring the taste for their styles. Although the genius of each is alike in being individual, their differences are more striking than their similar ties. Some might explain away these divergences on the ground of sex, supposing the masculine brain to be coldly intellectual and the feminine compounded of sensibility and emo- tion. The reverse is true in this case, as Lawrence is emotional and Vir- ginia Woolf restrainedly intellectual. The cause may instead be sought in the environments of the two. Lawrence’ was the son of a col- lier, who spent most of his life un- derground. The great superiority of his mother provided him with a driv- ing power which sent him through the State schools and then to a high school at Nottingham on scholarship. An atmosphere violently contrasting with the grey life of Lawrence sur- Since her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, she grew up in a circle where all the talk was of books, art, and music. “I never knew Lawrence; I wish I had, for: all,that I know of him is hearsay. He could be almost child- ishly gay in his more charming moods. He was a very restless spir- it, constantly moving about as _ if trying’ to find peace in some corner of the world. Lawrence had a tal- ent for uprooting himself, his few belongings, and his wife; but was at (Continued on Page Four) Rules for Freshman Animal The following rules have been agreed to by representatives of the Freshman and Sophomore classes and apply to all members of those classes this week: (1) Animal must be on campus within twenty-four hours preceding the show. bad (2) Animal tune cannot be orig- (3) Two-thirds of the class‘or the entire cast must know the animal song. (4) There must be at least one rehearsal of the animal song before the show. The rehearsal niust take place on campus. (5) Sophomores are permitted to search anywhere except. top-bureau drawers. : (6) Activities by Sophomores stop when the curtain goes’ up on the first act. (7) Sophomores and Freshmen are requested to be moderate and to refrain from physica] violence. | Fri-—Dr. Rhys ‘Carpenter will speak on “When the Greeks Began To Write.” Goodhart, S20 Fs M. Sat.—Freshman Show, Heav- enly ' Bodies. Goodhart, ~8.20' P.M, Bryn Mawr Defeats Cricket Club Team Varsity Wins 41-35 in Close, Hard-Fought Game Against Experienced Team SECOND TEAM WINS, 31-27 The Bryn Mawr Varsity defeated the Philadelphia Cricket Club in a close-fought game by the score of 41- 35. Dunn was high scorer of the game with a total of 25 points, while Collier was next with 22. The game as a whole was well-played, very close throughout, and, as a result, extreme- ly interesting to watch. Throughout the game, the passing of both teams was excellent and fast, Faeth started the game with three beautiful shots and followed them with two The . Philadel- phia team took many chances at first and the baskets neatly made. perfect free-throws. and missed many goals which might | have been made with the chip-shot. | Collier was a bit slow in getting started because of the height of her guard, but came up in second half. to lead the scoring. Faeth and Collier played well together, as usual, while Longacre and Remington in the cen- tral court positions were a deciding factor in the final socre. The guards had rather a hard time against their more experienced for- wards, especially as Kent-was-missing®” from the line-up. Bridgman and Bow- ditch, however, played fairly well to- gether, but the Kent-Bridgman com- bination has proved to be the most advantageous, since Longacre has come back to the center position. The remaining scheduled games should provide excellent competition and plenty of exciting moments. Come to see them! The line-up was as follows: Pr. 0. C. B.. M. J. Crawford ..... Reh visi Collier monn oe, ss Lh cevens Faeth Mi. Ceawiond ... 0; 2. cc, Longacre euseie Fs. S. C. ....Remington Donahue ..i... hi Gy ane Bowditch WtOn 6 ik. L. G. ....Bridgman Score—P. C.'C.: Crawford, 10; Dunn, 25. B. M.: Collier, 22; Faeth, 19. Referee—Miss Perkins. The second varsity defeated the Philadelphia. Cricket Club _ second team by the close score of 31-27. Only once in the third quarter, when Anne VanVechten was lost because of a strained knee, did the visitors get a slight lead on the Bryn Mawr team, and that was soon lost. : Throughout the first half, both teams had many chances to tally, but were either entirely inaccurate or else seriously hampered by the. guards. VanVechten’s close guarding kept E!- liott to one lone basket in the first half. McCormick was often wide of the rim, and took far too many chances on long shots. Baker had a -pood -guard, but- managed~-to~ make many pretty shots. | In the second half, Raynor wag sub- stituted for McCormick and therefore the passes were much quicker and there was less bunching beneath the basket. Raynor should have more confidence, however, because she is (Coatinued on Page Three) Resignation The College News regrets to announce the resignation of Leta Clews, ’33, from the Edi- torial Board. | have ever seen in that hall. for positions on the Editorial Board. Juniors, Sophomores, | and Freshmen are urged to try out.. Those wishing to compete should see Sallie Jones, Pem West. 8-12, .any day in the week. | Murder in the Red Barn is Well! Presented; Entre-Acts ° Are Hilarious DIRECTING IS PERFECT) | Last. Tuesday evening the Jitney | Players presented in Goodhart Hall their famous melodrama of the 1840 period, Murder in the Red Barn. The | Bryn Mawr audience received it with the greatest enthusiasm which we College to Test Methods of Progressive Schools In chapel February 21 President Park announced that Bryn Mawr has decided to co-operate with the pro- It was, | | Sressive schools in an experiment of ee part of the a that! to test definitely the adequacy of pro- the villain should be hissed and the | pressive methods in preparation for héroine applauded, but there. was | college. During a five-year period nothing that compelled the eapamtd beginning in 1935, a small quota of to writhe in their seats with almost | = 7 t : ok di painful hilarity or to encore the en-| * cn ee nah ade ia . tre-act selections time after time. It| "ty entrance requirements will be was really a_ tremendonsly sincere | admitted from a selected list of sec- and spontaneous enthusiasm that! ondary, schools. swept the group, and for this the; Bryn Mawr, Miss Park said, has credit may go to the excellent direc- | Seog bined: pubisind sith i tion and talented performances of | ibieonets + Seow mie aac. ° the production. | type of student it has attracted, and, The play itself was a gem of its | like most of the Eastern colleges, per- kind, typical of the melodrama of| haps because of an antipathy for the its day, but with just enough novelty “lunatic of of plot to keep up the interest of the | : ; | schools, and a natural tendenc }. audience in that part of it. The fact | aban ea Ravnen’ dendsney to £0 that our heroine did hot come outon low trodden paths, has hitherto kept the top of the heap in this life, but | aloof from radical innovations in the rather found her reward in heaven! policy of admission. fringe’”’ progressive | FRESHMEN Wiley Breaks College Record for Yard Craw! Event; locks 24.4 Seconds WIN RELAY The Class swimming meet came to an. exciting climax on .Eriday after- noon with the sophomores winning Wiley, ’36, in her first meet, broke a college record of many years’ standing when she clocked 24.4 seconds in the forty-yard crawl, .4 seconds less than the previous record of 24.8. Waldemeyer, ’35, came in first in the 20-yard dash in 13.2 seconds, with Bronson, ’33, in the-second place, ana Taylor, ’35,.and Whiting, ’36, tying for third place. Torrance, ’33, took first place in'the side-stroke for form with the freshmen representatives, VanVechten and M. Goldwasser, tak- ing second and third places, respect- ively. Meneely, ’34, won the crawl for form with 25 points, but B. Gold- wasser came in a close second with 24.5 points. Wiley was the highlight of the 40-yard crawl, winning by 2.2 seconds over her nearest rival, Bron- son, °33. As was to be expected, Daniels, 734, won the diving with a total of 39.65 points. Her running front was average and she lost to by one point. The frankly | Messimer, ’35, in the jack and tied after a most brutal and hair-raising | progressive schools have, however,| With Butler, ’34, for the back dive. murder, was in itself.a welcome! been impatient for a long time with! change. The same might have been the refusal of the colleges to allow said for the character of the vindic- | them to experiment ,in their upper tive gypsy whose daughter had been! grates, and a number of them have, wronged by the dastardly William,) recently, united to win a hearing. and who in order to complete his; At a special meeting of represen- novel revenge stood by and even abet-! tatives from various colleges, the ted William in his vile designs on the] schools pointed out that they could, innocent young daughter of the land-: if allowed to follow out their own lord: watched and aided in William’, |ideas in secondary education, send fall, deep and irretrievable, into the even better students to college than lowest depths of crime; told fortunes! the excellent ones they have sent in that enticed the innocent victim for | the past. This argument proved so William; provided_subtle_and—viru-} convincing that-a_number-of-colleges lent poisons at the proper moment; | agreed to co-operate with the schools and witnessed our heroine’s innocent | for a five-year period beginning in murder of her child—all, all with a| 1935 and fi t students prepared noble purpose of revenge in his heart,! as_ the irortsiv schools. believe as he called heaven to witness. they should Be prepared. The plans The staging was hardly a great! for instruction were to be submitted success. The Jitney Players are, of | for approval to a joint committee of course, famous for their outdoor pro-| school and college authorities, on } ductions, given in the summer on a' which Miss Park serves as the only | small stage in their own truck. The! woman, and with the Princeton Di- equipment they carry with them is) rector of Admissions, the sole repre- very compact, for they must carry sentative of the extreme right wing. all the necessities for their complete | Harvard, Yale and Princeton refus- repertory in one comparatively small| ed to. agree to these proposals, but truck. Hence the scenery, which! fiye women’s colleges have accepted might well have filled a smaller stage,’ with the reservations that they will was inadequate for the large expanse! require all candidates to take the of the stage in Goodhart. Its crude-j Scholastic Aptitude Test, -that every ness was in a way part of its charm,| gir] will be admitted: on the basis of and since it was intentional, can only | her school records, that only a defi- be criticize by the individual as it| nite quota of experimental students’. appeals to him. Personally we were} be permitted to enter, and that the sur rised at the effectiveness of the! number of schools included in the stmfeer produced in those scenes! plan be limited to twenty: Because which depended on atmosphere, and) of the small size of the freshman we were not at all disturbed by the deficiencies, even of the gibbet which collapsed as the curtain was falling on the final tableau. The direction, we have said, was,the great triumph of the play proper (for nothing could be said to approach the entre-act divertisse- ments), and by direction we mean the handling of the typed characters so as to give to them all of the conviction that they had for the generation that first applauded them, and yet to make them supremely comic to the present audience. They. could easily have: been overplayed. It was the fine re- straint of the director, we believe, (Continued on. Page Six) Fashion Show On Wednesday, March 2, Saks Fifth Avenue will hold a fashion show of spring clothes - in the Common Room at 3 o’clock. ~The clothes will be modeled by undergraduates, and orders will be taken for ‘immediate delivery. The- top price on all models is to be $25. class, the Bryn Mawr quota is likely to be very small. Although neither the names of the schools undertaking the experiment nor the plans for. instruction have- been definitely settled, the proposals of the schools interested seem to tend toward either an emphasis on the in- dividual, or an elimination of the barriers between related courses. The experiment, President Park thinks, may or may not prove a success. It seems to offer the student little preparation for the hard _ steady attach undue importance to the stu- dent’s momentary interest. If, how- ever, the freshmen admitted from the progressive schools prove unusually desirable college students, the experi- ment may be far-reaching in its ef- fect on even the most coriservative schools. nificance may be diminshed‘ by the possibility that before the plan goes into effect, the decrease in the num- ber of students who are financially greater elasticityyin the whole sys- -work-done in college,-and-seems to} On the other hand, its sig-| able to attend college may compel a} tem of college*entrance requirements. Her half-gaynor,’ however,. was ex- cellent and gave her 16.15 points, to lead Waldemeyer by more than five points in the final score. The meet came to a thrilling close with the freshmen winning the relay in 59.4 seconds. (Continued on Page Four) French Club to Present Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme On Friday, March 17, at 8.20, the French—C€lub—will present Le Bour- geois Gentilhomme in Goodhart Hall. This play is one of Molieres’s most hilarious comedies, satirizing the so- cial climbing “of a “nouveau-riche.” The pivot of action and the unity of interest center in the vanity of Mon- sieur Jourdain, who strives to imi- tate his social superiors. ° The play was written at the com-... mand of Louis XIV, who wanted merely a framework for the Turkish ceremony, which burlesqued an em- bassy of Turks to the French court. This ballet-aspect was of more im- portance in the opinion of the court than the comedy, but Moliere so modified the material which he was given, that the Turkish ceremony be- comes the climax to Monsieur Jour- dain’s vanity. The French Club is using the orig- inal music written for the ballet by Jean-Baptiste Lulli. A modern adaptation of the“tsual classic stage set will be used. In -the classic setting the entrances are from the back of the stage, but in this mod ern set, the entrances are from the side. There will be three.steps, the width of the stage, leading up to a ‘platform, on which most of the action will take place. The roles are as follows Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois, Olivia‘ Jarrett Madame Jourdain, sa femme, . Anita Fouilhoux Lucile, fille de M. Jourdain, Alettia Avery -Cleente;-amoureux de -Lueile, Betsy Pillsbury Dorimene, marquise...... Jane Fields Dorante, aimant de Dorimene, . Caroline Lloyd-Jones Nicole, servante de M. Jourdain, Lee Mandell. Covielle, valet de Cleonte, Catherine Bill Maitre de musique..Margaret Tylea Maitre d’armes....... --Marie Hayes Maitre a danser...... Mary Skeats © Maitre de Philosophie. Alicia Stewart Mademoiselle Rey is directing the - play, as she hag done so competently for the last three years. “ |