4 \ ~The College Ne wot ws i —= ~~ VOL. XI, No. 8 « BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934 Jopyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1934 PRICE 10 CENTS ae M. de Chateaubriand Was Miserable With Brilliant, Witty Wife M. Paul ‘Haxard Describes Love of Power and Remoteness of Romanticist Goodhart, December 10. The theme of M. Paul Hazard’s lec- ture: “La. Femme d’un Grand Homme, Madame de Chateaubriand,” was “He, She, and then He and. She together.” M. Hazard gave us a pic- ture of René and Céleste de Chateau- briand as separate people, who re- mained quite definitely separate all their lives, and finally advised us nev- er to marry a man who was a genius. _ René de Chateaubriand was a Bre- ton nobleman, not quite so tall as he wished to be, but /handsome, with a magnificent constitution and a beau- tiful voice, which he thoroughly en- joyed using, especially to read his own works aloud. He had a remarkable creative intelligence, and a penetrat- ing understanding of people. His ca- pacity for enjoying life was tremen- dous, and so was his foolhardiness. When he went to America, he had himself tied to the mast to watch a storm, and was lowered by pulleys into a sea full of sharks, so that he might not forego any exciting experiences. Chateaubriand a Dissatisfied Lover M. de Chateaubriand was a great lover: of Pauline de Beaumont, of La ‘Comtesse de Mouchine, and of Madame Récamier, whose salon he made his own. He loved power, though he want- ed to be rid of it as soon as it bored him; he loved money; and wasted it prodigiously; he loved politics and the monarchy for which he fought, was wounded, and exiled. So deep was his devotion to it that he could not bear the idea of Louis Philippe’s being king, and left the house of peers for- ever at his accession. With all his enthusiasm, Chateau- briand found that when he had every- thing he hoped for in the world, sud- denly everything turned to dust and Continued on Page Three Principals of Cymbeline Seated, left to right: Letitia Brown, ’37, as‘Cymbeline; Isabel Seltzer, 37, as the Queen. Standing, left to right: Ruth Woodward, ’37, as Posthumous Leonatus; Margaret Veeder, ’36, as Cloten; Sally Park, ’36, as Pisanio; and Edith Rose, ’37, as Iachimo. — Adeline Furness, 735, as Imogen; Romeo and Juliet A Special Performance of Katherine Cornell’s production of Romeo and Juliet is sched- uled for Friday, December 21, at the Martin Beck Theatre, for the Benefit of the David Mannes Music School. Bernheimer Lecture Is Coming Mr. Charles L. Bernheimer is going to give an illustrated lecture on The Search for the Earliest American Civilization on Sunday, December 16, at 5\o’clock in the Deanery. Mr. Bern- heimer has discovered hitherto un- known cliff ruins and dinosaur tracks which the American Museum of Nat- ural History has pronounced the most perfect specimens ever found. “I Calls It Spinach and I Yells for More” Is Rallying Cry of Hungry Horde at Tea “Let’s go over to the Inn for tea and have some spinach,” would seem to be a favorite remark at Bryn Mawr. When we first heard it, we thought it so incongruous that we rushed to the smoking room in high glee to tell of our amusing discovery. And were looked upon with patroniz- ing scorn by all the inhabitants. “Of course—the ,Inn’s spinach is wonder- ful—it makes a grand tea! Haven’t you ever eaten it there?” As a result of this amazing answer, we set out to find out more about the feeding hab- its of the Bryn Mawr undergradu- ate. Naturally, the first place we went was the College Inn. Truly enough, spinach is a favorite dish. Some girls come in quite regularly about four o’clock for their spinach with poached egg. Others, who prefer a bit of variety, choose a vegetable, plat- ter. And with almost everyone, spin- ach is the preferred vegetable for sup- per. For those of us who are not quite such health children, however, the regular tea, consisting of a ham- burger: or frankfurter sandwich, a pecan bun, or toast, and tea or coffee, is the usual thing. We don’t go in for desserts, but make up for our lack of a sweet tooth by consuming coffee -on €very possible occasion. At the Greek’s, or, more formally, the Bryn Mawr Confectionery, quanti- ties of toasted cheese and toasted egg- ‘and-olive sandwiches are consumed nightly, with coca-cola, beer, coffee, and chocolate frosteds as supplements, ‘To those who cannot join the parade, --and must remain at college, large bags -of the same foods are carried by their more fortunate friends. Fudge and fresh fruit sundaes are among the Our preferences in college food are stated loudly and often. Orange juice is the favorite fruit at breakfast: if we are served whole oranges, instead of the juice, we squeeze our own at the table. We definitely don’t like apples, and are only mildly fond of grapes and prunes. In spite of all our reducing diets, we manage to consume almost eight hundred pounds of potatoes and two hundred forty quarts of ice cream a week, besides our daily portion of milk per day, which amounts to something like one hundred seventy-nine quarts. Crackers, too, break down our resist- ance. (It has always been a. fact that it is the people on non-starch diets who eat up all the crackers.) One meal that continues in preferment is that which consists of brown bread, potatoes, and baked beans, although we complain bitterly of the color scheme. — For salad and dessert, lettuce and fruit cup, respectively have first places. Other salads have been tried, but none have had the popularity that is accorded plain lettuce, so that has. been adopted as the constant. ut thirty-two dozen heads of iceberg let- Cad tuce are ordered weeklx.-. For coffee, “cays prefer the after-dinner va- riety to that served at breakfast, even though we have been informed time and time again that they ate the same brand made in the same way. The college bookshop supplies the college with even more food, as well as the very necessary cigarettes, chew- ing gum, tomato juice, et al. Noctur- nal pilgrimages to the hall-bookshops are usual Occurrences; from these we return, laden with edibles and bev- erages to last until the small hours. both Miss Johnson and Mrs. About|} ae o ana Teachers Must Have Psychology, Sympathy Miss Johnson, Mrs. Appel State Development of Initiative Is Basis of Teaching TACT IS AN ESSENTIAL Common Room, December 11. At the vocational tea on teaching, Appel stressed the fact that in modern edu- cation, the teachers should put their greatest effort into, arousing the chil- dren’s interest. The object of teach- ing is to open a child’s mind to new experiences, to induce concentration and observation, and to make the child use his mental resources to the best of his ability. Mrs. Appel spoke first, on the nurs- ery school and its goals. There is the intellectual goal, for which the teaciier must study the individual development of each child and be ready to help at the essential moment. In _ nursery school, a child must learn to explore and to combine the things he has learn- ed. In a modern nursery school, the teacher is‘no longer the center of at- tention; learning is left up to the child’s initiative, tempted by sand- piles, blocks, easels, jungle gyms, and such simple things as packing cases and boards. The school organizes ex- peditions so that the children . may have experiences that they will re- member. Some children do not con- centrate or see the possibilities in their material, and need the teacher to help them. Another goal of the nursery school is emotional growth. The school is usually the child’s first attempt at self-reliance, and must encourage a z Continued on Page Five College Calendar Friday, December 14. Dr. Karl K. Darrow on Waves and Crystals. -Goodhart. 8.20 P. M. Sunday, December 16. Mr. Charles L. Bernheimer on The Search for the Earliest Ameri- can Civilization. Deanery. 5.00 P.M. a ean Christmas Carol Service and ~ address by Bishop Creighton. Goodhart, 7.45 P. M. Monday, December 17. League party, 4.00-6.30 P. M. Common Room. Meeting of International Club and Dr. Gray’s lecture on The New Republic in Spain. Common Room. 8.00 P.M. . ~ Tuesday, December 18. Dr. Miiller on Mexico. Music Room. ° 5.00 P. M. Maid’s Party. Gym. _ Wednesday, December 19. Party in Deanery. Carol sing- ing. - : 4 ” ‘ ” " . sei hs # aie a Varsity Dramatics Censured for Choice of Play and Mediocrity of Performance Directors Receive Praise for Achieving Rapidity of Tempo in. Production of Cymbeline, but Overcutting of Lines = Prevents Emotional Acting 7 x ONE SET INGENIOUSLY USED THROUGHOUT PLAY Goodhart, December 8. The Varsity Dramatics performance of The Tragedy of Cymbeline met with our highest approval in that’ we re- joiced mightily to think that a Shakespearean play was for the first time in our memory to grace the boards of Goodhart. Cymbeline was, to us at any rate, a totally unknown quantity, and we were delighted at the opportunity of seeing a play that is so seldom produced. We cannot but feel, however, now that Cymbeline has come and gone from our lives, that the choice of that particular play was a poor one. It is one of Shakespeare’s last efforts, and while interesting historically for that reason, is nevertheless not worth the trouble of doing for its own peculiar excellences. The mechanics of the play are glaringly obvious, and it is not motivated by the devastating pas- sions that usually in Shakespeare’s plays sweep the action before them. None of the splendor and poetry of line that makes Shakespeare’s earlier plays so well worth the learning is present in Cymbeline, and we think that the time and painstaking effort that were obviously spent on-this pro- duction could have been more profit- ably employed in doing, for instance, Twelfth Night, or A Winters’ Tale. We regret to have to state further that the production of Cymbeline did not even approach the usual level of Varsity Dramatics performances. It is, of course, infinitely more difficult to do a finished performance of a Shakespearean than of a later play, and much may be forgiven the direc- tors-on-the seore that this was their first attempt to work in a medium that requires highly skillful acting and more expert directing than is usu- ally necessary. The main point, how- ever, in which the directors might have been more successful than they Tyrolean Atmosphere Is Rampant at Dance Gym, Wee Hours, December 8-9. There was considerable looking at us at the Christmas dance. We were one of the most charming assem- blages ever seen at a dance in the Gym, and the Gym itself was a sight to behold with sparkling eye even the morning before. If we had spoken to ourselves at the dance, we probably would not have recognized ourselves; our best friends found themselves un- able to remember our names when the cutting had gotten under way. The gymnasium itself was an extraordi- nary sight: spaghetti-like strips con- cealed the baskets, and travel posters and beer mugs and pretzels in silhou- ette disguised the walls and bars. The tables were covered with red and white checked cloths and for center- piece each table had a bottle (a beer, a wine, or a whiskey one, doubtless contributed by the college authorities) with a candle in it. Bryn Mawr set a new tableware fashion’ with the use of glass mugs for the punch. In this provocative atmosphere ac- tion could not have been checked. As it was, the dance became spirited, and then-strenuous, with the.only rest per- iods coming during the entertainment provided by Shorty Atmore (Hay ford, ’84), who induced group ing, even, with a parodygel bank Sign. By the end of everyone was exhausted chances are—everyong humming or laughing self. The scene wa but the dance we there was enoy eryone’s feet side, and en Comparati step into a or tread ¢ A friey were, lay in achieving that fusion be- tween the acting and the play, that absorption of the actresses in their parts, those small shades of expression built up in the lines, which have. so often before given the Varsity plays a professional finish. In one sense the directors are to be congratulated—in another, to be con- demned—for their speeding up of the tempo of the play. Throughout the first three acts, the action was rapid ahd smooth—more so than in any cut Shakespeare play we have ever seen, and we rise to sing” praises of the judgment and feeling for tempo shown there. In the fourth and fifth acts, however, the delight of cutting unnecessary lines and bits of action appears to have run away with the directors, and a confusing résumé of the lines, a bare outline of the plot that we suspect scarcely did it jus- tice, and a lightning-like succession of actors, each apparently bent on de- parting the stage as soon as possible after his arrival thereon, was the de- plorable result. In the fourth act, for no apparent reason a group of soldiers suddenly clambered over the peaks of the moun- tains, clashed, and departed with an expedition that was truly startling; we looked upon the stage and there were soldiers; we looked again upon the stage and the soldiers were no more! And the last scene of the last act seemed to evince an alarming de- sire on the part of the directors that the play, too, should be no more, for seldom have we witnessed a speedier tying up of loose ends in a more ob- vious spirit of “Let’s get it over with quickly.” From an aesthetic and dra- matic point of view, the rapidity with which each actor stepped out, said his little speech of one or two lines, and dropped back into place, was really in- excusable, and we regret that Iachi- mo’s great opportunity for doing an excellent bit of emotional acting should have been so nearly wrested from him by the speed at which the scene was going. A certain lack of judgment was also shown by the directors in bring- ing upon the stage the most hilarious- ly funny stage property we have ever had the good fortune to observe. We never expect to forget the entrance of the head of Cloten, dripping hideous- ly with gore and held aloft with a pleased smile by Guiderius; but, al- though the head stopped the show for a good ten minutes while the audience literally rocked in their seats with mirth, we feel that it was a trifle dis- turbing to the unity of the play. The Continued on Page Four Non-Resident Students Entertain There will be a non-resident tea on Monday, December 16, at four-thirty in the Common Room, to which each non-resident student will bring two guests. Miss Fernon, who is warden of the non-resident students, will pour tea. On Thursday of next week the first non-resident dinng are three year, he stude the: THE COLLEGE NEWS r? 7 Mm ERD Page Two, ° + THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) ’ Published weekly during the College Your (excepting during Thanksgiving, . 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Usually we are never seen in our pretty clothes except when we are taking a final turn about the smoking room before rushing out to the station taxi, or, on our return from a week-end, when we drop all the accessories of civilization at the threshold of the smoking room. Once per first semester we shake the camphor flakes from our finery to outsparkle our sisters on the home field, then, on the occasion of the autumn Varsity play and dance. Life is a dizzy and dissipated whirl: we attend the play and the dance and try to prove that we can be sweet and light-headed young things. Unfortunately, this past week-end’s festivity did not see the usual whole-hearted enthusiasm for the program of play and dance. The “audience at the play was very slim: and what there was of audience at the play did not seem to catch the spirit of The Tragedy of Cymbeline. The explanation of the slight attendance at the play is simple. The Glee Club operettas are sold out every year, so that the explanation is not-one_of financial stress; and frequently lectures in the middle of the college week are better attended, so that there can have been little pressure as to time. We may, be branded unadventurous or low- brow for the admission, but we want to see either a very good play, or an amusing play to start off a festive evening. We feel that for this reason the choice of Cymbeline for Varsity production was unfortunate. Probably the Varsity Players have never, in the history of Bryn Mawr, chosen a play that met with the complete approval of all of the undergraduates. But even the much disparaged presentation of recent Broadway successes at Bryn Mawr has met with more enthusi- astic support than Cymbeline was given. If we want to get, away from doing pieces second-hand from Broadway we still might revive Broad- way successes from, say, fifteen years ago, when we were as yet not going to the theatre ourselves. If we want to do period plays to get the advantages of period costume and scenery to offset the oddity of ryn Mawr playing the male roles, it still seems to us that we need not play only Elizabethan dramas. There isjmueh to be said for our producing Shakespeare, but, again, we do not want to see one of the dramatist’s poorest plays. We want to see a good play, and we want a play with some popular appeal. So many good plays have been written that it seems to-ws.a pity that we should give one with so little appeal as The Tragedy of Cymbeline. We make these suggestions here because as ordinary undergradu- ates we do not know, nor do we pretend to know as many plays or as much about play production as the Varsity Players. We place full confidence in that organization’s ability to choose and produce plays suited to our histrionic talents and appropriate to the festive occasion which a play and a dance provide. ' We trust that Varsity Dramatics will, this coming spring, choose a play that Bryn Mawr will sincerely want to see. ‘Our Torch Divine’ As the dramatic season at Bryn. Mawr gets under way with a flourish and becomes. the subject of violent discussion in the wee hours of every night, one need that has been occurring to us this many a year now returns to our minds with an ever-new foree. There is a constantly growing interest on campus in the construction of _ ace lighting, and it is the burning desire of a sur- of students to experiment with the possibili- no of art. ake these experiments on the occasion ¢ although even this risk has been enterprising Varsity Dramatics wider opportunity and more safety, if we were the J be marked out and d sets, any amount res of a few inter- Leo out just how i] looked in ed to the applaud- ved in any part of a building}. wires END| CAMOUFLAGE Is this a dance We’ve embarked upon? Or an artistically disguised Marathon —Dying Duck, Calling All Stars) “Just strictly between us You’re cuter than Venus, And what’s more, you've arms.” got It’s enough to put ideas into our head. Like the following: 1. O don’t bear me malice As if you -were Pallas Full armed a priori with fore- ; thought. 2. The infantile Cupid Could not be called stupid— But you’re bigger and brighter, my brute! Now you: try some. We can have a song-fest. VOLGA BOAT SONG We’ve danced, and we've danced ‘Till our feet are sore. Would you have us collapse And roll on the floor? “What’s your name?’ What’s your College and who brought you, please?” Has been screamed in our ears In varying keys. : We’ve pushed and we’ve pulled, We’ve been trod on and led, Our spirits are broken, We’re ready for bed. —Lone Goose. THE BIG PARADE Oh, for the life Of a Bryn Mawr War-den. She meets so many Attractive men. —Lazy Loon. (Can be sung to the tune of Love Will Last: This procedure is not advis- ed, however.) The damsels were shrieking on every side, “May. I cut,” Their look and word their thought belied Truly—but Yonder all over the’ slippery floor Within and out of the dancehall door The raging rabble continued to roar, “May I cut.” “NATURE-LOVER Fresh air? Fresh air? say, not for me, Nor open spaces, sky and sea. I find that all the Great Outdoors Is filled with unattractive bores, And even when quite close to home, Mom Nature thinks to romp and roam, I do not like pets made for laps, Nor pests to rustle during naps, Be Kind to Beasts? I’d rather not, And—pigeons in the gutter?—Gott! GETTING OUT A PAPER “Getting out this paper’s no picnic. “If we print jokes, folks say we are silly. “If we don’t print jokes, they say we are too serious. “If we publish things from other papers, we are said to be lazy. “Tf we publish original matter, they say we lack variety. “If we stay on the job, we ought to be out rustling news! “Tf we are out rustling news, we are not on the job! “If we work on the paper, they say we are neglecting our school work! “Tf we work on our school work, they say we are neglecting the paper! Tf we don’t print contributions, we don’t show proper appreciation! “If we do print contributions, the paper is filled over with junk! “Like as not some fellow will say we swiped this from an exchange. “Or that we swiped this from a re- print. “So we did!” a DOMESTICITY I can open a can There’s a new-popular song (from): | And: boil hot water, | And wash a pan; I’m a model daughter. | Also, fen make soup— | Campbell’s alphabet ; Lemonade for the croup: I’ll be a wife yet. ‘ I learned in college To make compotes, Along with a knowledge Of antidotes. APOSTROPHE TO A * TYPEWRITER O lovely things with stops and caps, You make a:lovely clatter— It rings and crunches, yes, and taps Out lovely printed matter. We herewith suggest a new game for professors: Cherchez la théme! Cheerio— THE MAD HATTER. Theatre Review Life Begins at 8.40 has been so thor- oughly condemned by the great Broad- ‘way critics that it is with some timid- ity we raise our weak voice in its de- fense. Nevertheless, we enjoyed it completely and we openly recommend it to all weary Bryn Mawrters with the price of a ticket or an escort with ithe price of one, who wish to see a good, although not a dazzlingly bril- liant, revue. Everything in the show —the music, humor, dancing, staging —was excellent, and once it was un- der way the show never let down. Probably its biggest defect was that there was too much of a good thing, and the good thing lasted too long. You have probably heaxd and tired of the music long before this, but it is still good music. Yow’re a Builder ‘Upper and Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block are the hits of the show and of the season, but several other hu- j|morous songs and also What Can You \Say in a Love Song? are very pleas- lant. Ray Bolger steals the show, but he does it with such an unassuming air that you love it. His dancing is the ‘prightest spot in our life since Fred | Astaire left our happy hunting ground | for Hollywood. But his antics do not |stop with mere dancing; he _ sings, ‘acts, and smiles beautifully, and as the window dresser going to bed is screamingly funny. Bert Lahr is quieter than usual, but still funny, and in She Loyes Me, a riotous take- off on last season’s success, shows signs of the Bert Lahr we used to know. Frances Williams has less to do than usual, which is just as well, [for more of her might be too much. \Luella Gear is her old self, which ‘should be enough said, but she quite ioutdoes her usual brand of humor in the two skits, My Paramount-Publix- Roxy-Rose and I Couldn’t Hold My Man. The latter takes a few delight- ful pokes at the great appeal to wom- ‘en in recent advertising. The support- ing cast and the juveniles were, on the whole, very good, although not bril- ‘liant. | There were so many good things in ‘Life Begins at 8.40 that it is difficult ‘to pick out the brightest spots. One of the choicer bits: is the Quartet E'ro-# tica, where Rabelais, Boccaccio, de Maupassant, and: Balzac bemoan to music the trite childishness of their works when compared to the modern bedtime story, and in the meantime pay their respects to the movies, the radio, and the pulps. Shoein’ the Mare is an unusual dance number, which adds new interest after the rumba and carioca craze and should appeal to all who happen to like the Weidman danc- ers and to many who do not. Chin Up, about thé Englishman who “must dress” in the face of several suicides to save the family honor, is old stuff, but so well done by Mr. Lahr and his mates that the audience quite forgets the fact. C’Est La Vie, too, is not a new idea, but Messrs. Bolger and Lahr jumble their French and English so enchantingly as the two.suicide-bound- lovers who push the lady into the Seine and go off hand in hand, that again you forget how many times you’ve seen this thing done worse. The pantomimes and tableaux in the opening number in What Can You Say in a Love Song? and A Quiet Eve- ning At Home -should provide col- and its types, should especially de- light all fellow students. The New Deal Ladies should entrance everyone 4 \ \ \ our midst might progress hieratically to grace the boards of a Broad- way theatre, and reflect the glory upon Bryn Mawr that we have long been waiting and hoping to settle upon her. XN .| tire of humor. ‘}hopes to be ready to give a college who has followed the meteor career of or and the picturesque for those who And if you do not lit- erally rock in the aisles with laughter at Sound Phenomena, you are too old a hand at this sort of thing to have gone to the show in the first place. Robert Wildhack, as a professor dis- coursing. on the gentle art of snoring our first lady, and too much cannot’ be said for the above-mentioned She Loves Me or A Day at the Brokers, in both of which Bert Lahr rises to his old heights. The show moves at a pace that al- lows no breathing spells and this, com- bined with the fact that most of the show’s appeal lies in its humor, often leaves the audience so confused that the effect of some of the more beau- tifully staged skits is marred. Often these very picturesque scenes are ef- fectively broken with humor, as when at the end of the dance showing the modern: lovers, the young man com- pletely ignores the exotic creature stretched. across his knees by placing his elbow neatly on her abdomen and scowling off into the distance. Little touches like this heighten the key of the show all the way through. The entire performance is kept up to a high standard, and even those skits which have been seen before are so well done that they go over. If you want to sée a revue that you know will be good, if not the best, entertainment, you can do ‘little better some bright evening in New York than go to the Winter Garden and enjoy for yourself what they have to offer. H. F. IN PHILADELPHIA Theatres Broad: We scarcely dare to men- tion it for fear it might not come true after all, but we think (and hope) this is the last week for The Pursuit of Happiness! Chestnut: Dennis King playing a straight role for the first time in a new comedy, Petticoat Fever. Mark Reed has made the life of a telegraph operator in an isolated station in Lab- rador funny; also, we believe, for the first time. Erlanger: An _ hilariously funny farce about prize fighters and milk bottles, The Milky Way, with Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield. Forrest: Eddie Dowling’s new mu- sical, Thumbs Up. Ray Dolley, Clark and McCullough, Hal Leroy, and the Pickens Sisters are also in it. We can’t decide whether we’d rather not see the Pickens Sisters or see Eddie Dowling. Garrick: The Theatre Union’s suc- cess of last season, Stevedore, a highly dramatic account of labor troubles on the New Orleans waterfront. Walnut: Slightly Delirious, the farcical account of love in a “better known” family, is still hanging on. Not very good—in fact, no good. Orchestra Program I CO. Mass in B Minor Leopold Stokowski conducting. Continued on Page Four New Material, Teacher Acquired by Art Club . The Art Club, which meets every Saturday morning from 9.45 to 11.45 in the basement of the gymnasium, has taken on renewed life this year. About sixteen students attend regularly to sketch or to model from college mod- els under the direction of Miss Agnes Yarnall. Miss Yarnall, who has her own studio in Philadelphia and re- cently gave an exhibition of her own sculpture at Baldwin School, has prov- ed to be a sympathetic and a compe- tent instructor. The Club has this year acquired the proper equipment for its work for the first time since it was organized. Members have at their disposal several hundred pounds of modelling clay, eight to ten stands for sculpture and a dozen wire supports for statuettes in addition to the regular materials for-sketching--Most of the members~ of the Art Club are new to the work in clay: in consequence their work is still experimental, although extreme- ly interesting. 'They have tried both the head and the whole human figu: in’ the course of this autumn’s activ ity, but most of the modellers ar¢ now doing statuettes to get the line and balance of the body before try- ing the finer work that must go into the modelling of the head. The Club exhibit in the near future. ~ Ellen Stone, ’36, is president, and Margaret Laird, ’35, is secretary of the Club. ; ¢ e THE COLLEGE NEWS @o All-Philadelphia Team ‘Defeats Varsity, 4-1 Varsity Defensive Game Good, Keeps Score Down Lowest. In Many Years ( FIELD SLOWS UP GAME Bryn Mawr, December 8, The All-Philadelphia hockey team defeated Varsity, 4-1, in numbing weather on a frozen field, which pre- vented the Philadelphia stars from us- ing many of their trick tactics. Although the opponents snapped into an immediate offense, Varsity, playing one of the best games of the season, offered an unusually strong backfield in combination with a de- fensive forward line which prevented any scoring during the first part of - the half. After steady pushing, how- ever, Kitty Wiener, with the able as- sistance of the rest of her forward line, tallied, and, after another march ‘down the field, scored again before the close of the half. In the second half, the Philadelphia team, five of whom are All-Americans, warmed up sufficiently to put its fam- ous passing and goal charging tactics into play and scored two goals. Bryn Mawr then shifted the forward line to a momentary strong offense and broke through with Brown tallying over the prostrate form of Elliott after a mess- up in front of the cage. Shortly af- ter, the whistle blew and Varsity was saved from a complete blanketing, In spite of the fact that All-Phila- delphia was slowed down considerably because of the hard field, the uncer- tainties of a fast ball, and unsure footing, Varsity played a beautiful de- fensive game, which was instrumental, aside from weather conditions, in keeping the Philadelphia team down to the lowest score in many seasons. The line-up was as follows: All-Philadelphia Bryn Mawr MOTORS 6. 065s 60s OES CONGR a Faeth Oty et Wt. Larned WA BNOR i sevcark saan OO coeres Cary M. Howe 2.0.0.0. Js a Bakewell Vanderbeck ..... Woe Brown MEOTtON.., 5... SoM sik. Bridgman MOwnsend ...... Com, wa... Kent UPEDEIN 2.0.5.5 eos eck tees Evans 'PAURBIO > $05 05 To. Jackson |g 2 oe a eee jon 0 eet Sees Gratwick WTOC ee oe Leighton Goals — Wiener, 2; Strebeigh, M. Howe, Brown. Umpires—Mrs. Krumbaar and Miss Morgan. Time of Halves—25 minutes. Mme. de Chateaubriand Acrimonious, Stingy Continued from Page One dead .sea apples when he tasted _ it. Three things kept him from despair and destruction: honor; beauty of nature, of man, and of phrase; and re- ligion, to which he clung because it was beautiful and good, and he wanted it to be true. Chateaubriand thought himself al- ways alone. Spiritually he lived on an island, remote from locked his soul away, and this attitude did not make him an ideal husband. Mme. de Chateaubriand a Great Wit Céleste de la Buisson was also born in Brittany, of the lesser nobility. She had charm, but not beauty, and be- eause she refused to eat and lived on herb tea, she was weak and sickly. She loved to stay home, and avoided social life and ambassadorial gather- ings. were She was very well educated and read incessantly, She saw things as they were, and commented on them with a fine, sarcastic wit. She wrote letters in a graceful, witty style.- Her chief RICHARD STOCKTON Christmas Cards & Wrappings Ribbons GIF.TS 821 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr everyone. He,| faults seem to have been that she was acrimonious and stingy. René de Chateaubriand married Céleste in 1792 mainly because she had money. They weht to Paris, in the midst of the Revolution; he joined the monarchist army and ended by giving French lessons in London. Céleste was imprisoned for over a year and finally went to live at Fougéres, in great poverty. Two Were Miserable Together In 1802, when he had nearly mar- rie ‘English Minister’s daughter, Chateaubriand returned to Céleste for six days.*.He went back to her for good only after Pauline de Beaumont’s death. He did not love his wife so much as his. liberty; and made the ministry refuse her a passport to Eng- land when he was ambassador there. She annoyed him because she was too clever, because she was nervous and made everyone else nervous. He often asked his friends to dinner in order’ not to have to stay home alone with his wife. If they had had enough money, they could have lived separate- ly and been happy; but since they were poor, they had to live together and be disagreeable. Madame de Chateaubriand was giv- en a great welcome in Rome when her husband was ambassador there. Her salon was cold and stiff and she car: ried on her family warfare in front of strangers. She was ambitious for her husband, and even intrigued for him at court. Chateaubriand was a_ constant source--of worry and pain to his wife. She suffered when. he was sick or absent, and when, as always, he was in love with other women. She was always sef} aside by her hus- band or by herself. Both Were Unhappy in Old Age In later life, Madame de Chateau- briand founded and ran-the Infirmerie Marie Thérése on the Rue de |’Enfer. It was for retired priests and poor noble women. She spent all her time collecting money for it, attending to it, and bossing the people ‘in it. She lavished on it the affection Chateau- briand had not wanted, until she final- ly faded away and died in 1847. Chateaubriand grew old much more unhappily than his wife. His friends were dying around him, his liberty dis- appearing because of physical weak- made him suffer intensely, in spite of his outward gaiety. He died, dramat- ically, a year after his wife. The story makes us wonder who had been hap- pier: she, who loved but was not loved in return; or he, who did not really love at all and felt the disappointment of it. ness, and his dreams fading. All this | Carol Service - A Christmas Carol Service will be held in Goodhart Hall on Sunday, De- cember 16, at.7.45 P. M. The College -|Choir, under the direction of Ernest Willoughby, A.R.C.M., Associate — in Music at the College, will sing English, German and Czech Carols and various arrangements of other well-known Carols... Miss Mary Earp will be,the soloist and will join the Choir in/ se- lections from Handel’s Messiah. n address will be given by The Right Rev, Frank Creighton, D.DS Suffra- gan Bishop of Long Island’ and former Missionary Bishop of Mexico. The service is open to the public. “The program is as follows: From The Messiah : (Handel), Chorus, “And the Glory of the Lord;” Recitative, Aria and Chorus, “O Thou that*tellest good tidings to Zion; English Carols, “Here we come awas- sailing,” -‘‘A Babe in Bethlehem’s Czech Carols, “Now the rarest day” and “Sleep, Baby, Sleep;” Bach, “O Jesu, so sweet;” Vaughn Williams, “On Christmas Night;” Somervell, “The Grasmere Carol;” Shaw, “How far is it to-Bethlehem;” Praetorius, “Today is born Immanuel.” “IT Calls It Spinach and I Yells for More” Continued from Page One Peanut butter, soup, Steero, much tea and chocolate, as well as animal crack- ers and nuts, are among the steady favorites. This fall, many gallons of cider were consumed. There has been a great demand for Cracks, too, this year, and this is attributed to the fact that most of the undergraduates spent the summer in Bar Harbor. At the bookshop, a dozen boxes of Fig Newtons are ordered weekly, mostly for one individual. . Another individual seems to exist entirely on tomato juice. There has been a great run on apples recently. Early in,the fall, the freshmen in Roc took a wild flair for olives, then suddenly stopped buying them. The sardine market has likewise dropped. The only two jars DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken con- secutively (graduation in three years) or three terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance requirements are_ intelli- gence, character and at least two years of college work, including the subjects specified for Grade A Med- ical Schools. Catalogues and applica- tion forms may be obtained from the Dean. : The addition of secretarial train- ing to a college course almost al- ways assures prompt employment —this is the experience of the Placement Departments of the Katharine Gibbs Schools. A Spe- cial Course for College Women begins July 9. 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Among the candies, butterscotch and Hershey bars are still extremely pop- ular, although. “the big swing has been to fudge.” One-cent candies are es- pecially popular among those who are reducing, and salve their consciences by buying only a few. at a time. Lots of liquorice and Tootsie-rolls have been sold. There is a steady demand for chocolate peppermints, menthol cough dr&ps, and Milky Ways. When one considers the amount of chewing ‘gum bought, it is surprising that the whole of Bryn Mawr College does not move to a steady rhythm of guppy-ish jaws. Five dozen boxes of Wrigley’s, P. K.’s, two boxes each of Adams peppermint and spearmint and two boxes of spearmint Beechies have been ordered since the beginning of} the year. Doublemint and spearmint are the most popular flavors. Hand in hand with the chewers go the denizens of the smoking room: their demands. are enormous. Chester- fields are the most popular brand, ten cartons, thirty flat fifties, and twenty round tins being ordered weekly. Camels are a close second,. with the same number of cartons and about twenty-five flat'fifties. It is the round tins of Chesterfields which go “fffft” so charmingly that carry the balance. Of the other brands, Lucky Strikes, Kools, Marlboros, Tarytons, Old Golds, Philip Morris, Spuds_ (cork tip), and Raleighs two or three car- tons are ordered weekly. As long as we can picture the furiously inhaling undergraduates, madly opening and smoking the contents of tins, cartons and packs, faster and faster, until, at KH costs no more to live In the very heart of town—with all the modern comforts and conveniences! The suites (one and two rooms) are large and alry, with Pullman kitchen and bright bath. You will have fo see them to appreciate them. Of course, rentals are not beyond your budget. CHAS. 6, KELLY Managing Director two-or three o’clock in the morning, the college breathes forth into the night its full quota of smoke, we are no longer at a loss to account for the foggy atmosphere that has prevailed of late. Somewhat weakly we récline and consider the results of our investiga- tion. :They leave us a bit aghast, and rather in need of sustenance—thank you, we’d love some . \ Ten years ago a football player’s outfit weighed 22 pounds. Today it averages eight and a half pounds. aememene “THE CHRISTMAS TRAIL” _ by ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. Buy from this book We can supply you with ‘a free copy of this bookful of gifts. Hundreds of presents are illus- trated and. described. Some of this gift merchandise we can show you. All of it may be | ordered through us for delivery’ on any specified date befgre Christmas. / If there is) anything you need from Abercrombie & Fitch and not shown in the gift book, we cam get it for you promptly. Jeanne Betts Shop 30 Bryn Mawr Avenue Bryn Mawr, Pa. | ona Seeeomraenanse —— “=o ee For Students fort and convenience. you came to school this Fall, the between December 10 and ,25. GOING TO SCHOOL Rail Fares Reduced The railroads appreciate the enthusiastic responses of students and faculty to the ‘College Special’’ fares which combine econ- omy with the great advantages of rail travel—safety, speed, com- If you bought one of the reduced fare round-trip tickets when Holiday, be sure to take advantage of this one and one-thitd fare ticket, the purchase date io which has been extended to January 16.. Diagram below shows going and return dates. 8 f RETURNING FROM SCHOOL and Faculty 3 coupon is good returning home When coming back after the Round-trip ticket may be purchased at Home Sta- Return portion of ticket may be used to Hax tion during any one of the pe tion during any one of Cholateins the periods named below: 1934 Dec. 10-25 Dec. 25, 1934—Jan. 16, 1935 Mar. 15-Apr. 23,1935 = Going trip must beg reach school statio date of validatiorg limited to reack same route bot Tickets good regul ” reg} papetche : i! ate THE COLLEGE NEWS lare considered an.extra totich of. ele- gance; flowing silk ties are very chic. “Tan colored stockings with paler spots have been seen with a blue eve- ning gown, but it,is hoped that this quently so cut that the actress could not put very much emotion into the We feel that the main trouble with the production, lay, however, not so much with the acting Years and Years Ago ‘ ‘The Alumnae Menioria of the Phil- astine, November.4, 1898, contained the jnews that Marion E. Park, Bryn Mawr European Fellow, 1898-99, (and a Varsity Play Censured 4 * for Poor Production few lines left to her. League Party : The Bryn Mawr League is giving a Christmas party on Monday, December 17, from Continued from Page Une a actors in that scene are to be highly praised for keeping their composure, although Guiderius is. to blame for nor with the directing, as with the choice of that particular play. It offer- ed little opportunity for the kind of studying at Bryn Mawr. a former editor of the Philistine) , was | four to six-thirty o’clock, in the Common :Room. * The children who went to the Bryn Mawr ;costume will not become universal.” “OQ mill, O mill, I envy thee, Another club raised its ugly head in ’98—the Golf Club, this time. We have a dreary feeling that it did not having continued to wave the head about triumphantly before the fasci- nated gaze of the audience. It might, work in studying and differentiating lines and emotions that constitutes the true value of putting on a Shakespear- Thou grindest on so steadily, I grind on, too, but woe is me, I can’t grind on eternally.” Camp last summer at Avalon are coming, and are to give an entertainment for the students. we feel, have been possible to have |oan play. : pad peas be mors s hoc Thee sill be-Carcl stneiaa at- . omitted the dripping gore, ‘or, at D. T-S . condadgieroeiadth terwards. All students are cor- The Collegiate Review ‘ * \the others. The Philistine, however, ‘ e Collegiate Kevie least, to have kept it partly concealed from the audience. Miss Furness and Miss Woodward, as the young husband and wife, Imo- ‘gen and Posthumous, were fairly good, although not inspired, in their parts. They both delivered their lines’ with a certain degree of oratory and without much differentiation, but Miss Furness injected a nice amount of emotion into the scene with what she supposes to be the dead body of ; her husband. Miss Rose, as Iachimo, ‘§ did by far the best bit of acting in : the play, and was not at all hampered by the necessity of playing a rather difficult and unpleasant role. The one really moving bit of emotion in the play was her convincing grief in the 4 last scene over the mischief she had * caused, and she is all the more to be : congratulated that she kept her head and played it slowly against a’ very rapid tempo. ' Miss Brown, as Cymbeline, strug- gled with a part that had obviously been so cut as to be almost: purely mechanical, but she completely missed her one opportunity to play an emo- tional scene over the loss of her daugh- ter. Her acting was wooden and imma- ture, and entirely unworthy of Miss -Brown’s usual talented performances. Miss Seltzer, as the Queen, however, portrayed a regal and powerful wom- an, with a majesty of bearing and speech that was truly excellent; but her flitting and weaving through the ghost scene were a pseudo-aesthetic feature that might well Have been | | dially invited, and those who | may be planning to work as vol- unteers, next summer at the Camp are particularly urged to come. A five-day school week with no Sat- lurday classes is being petitioned for ‘by University of Georgia undergrad- ‘uates, The Harvard University graduate school of business administration has opened a course which is designed to jtrain students for “brain truster” ; ‘- jeareers, Hygeia—Your father 1s a doctor, you ‘say. Why not give him your Bi- Despite the fact that beer 18 avail- ology Lab. book in tree calf with jable on the University of ‘ Inots eT “Compliments of the Author” pus, soft drinks are sold in quantities letters on the title page? nine times as great as the amount of attic + aus.gorey to say I cad beer consumed by students. on the think of no way°for you to utilize mapsarey. teenie : : are your gymnasium suit as a Christmas| Columbia University has buildings gift, ° jand grounds valued. at $55,000,000, 1902—If you know the “Hall Rules” | While Harvard University is worth by heart, have them frame a ta Spano $185,000,000 and Yale Univer- ish oak, with a gold mat, and you will a about $10,000,000, havé a dainty present for any one at | The University of Montana has sd naan: iclassroom that covers approximately 1,600 acres—it’s the forestry school’s “She had some spots upon her floor, | boratory in Pate Canyon. ee University gridiron All green and brown and blue; | Notre Dame : Acodl one. shen Macking, one. wen ‘teams won 105 games, lost 12, and tied pees |5 while Knute Rockne was their coach. r ‘5 | The 1936 Olympics will see basket- The other one was glue. rthall admitted as a contesting sport, Fashion Notes ‘give us-a prett vice | With 18 or 20 teams expected to enter 8 peer 2 tive competition for the world’s cham- ture of the well-dressed student Whit~| tanshtp : ty-seven years ago. ‘Tam o’shanters | are not mentioned here, though. They | An aggregate of more than $30,000,- must not be forgotten for they figure | 00° a year in scholarships is doled out very largely in the sketches ‘by 125 colleges and universities in the CHAU |e. adorn the Philistine. ae States. “No woman considers herself well} dressed without a wired bow in her} hair. More than two strings are need- | welcomed its appearance with digni- fied words of praise. Indeed the Phil- istine, we hate to inform our read- ers, has. become very literary. - By 1898, it has turned into a magazine with a conventional magazine cover, dark green and slightly Greek in in- IN PHILADELPHIA Continued from Page Two *4 Movies ‘ Aldine:. Kid Millions, with Eddie Cantor, plus a new iidcay thous com-|G4F* & edy, continues. until Saturday, when spiration. The tone of the contents Douglas Fairbanks in The Private|i8 Subdued, even repressed. The Phil- Life of Don Juan begins. We foresee |1stine, in_brief, is just another scho- that great opportunity will arise for lastic publication. Doug’s singular facility at exiting We find the explanation for this in from second floor windows to the town '|an editorial in the issue for November a mile away in a single leap. \18: “The Philistine has created quite Arcadia: « Anna Stein and Fredric |? stir this fall and his helpless, flat March in We Live Again, which is | little self has been sat upon by a dig- : haat wee | nified committee and by the whole Un- still a dramatization of Tolstoi’e Res-' v urrection, is popping up again. We |dergraduate Association. The result didn’t think much of it the first time.|i8 that a board of two censors has o, .,, (been elected, which is to take the place Boyd: Anne of Green Gables, with | of Miss Thomas in suppressing any ge agg Haga oS 0. \ objectionable articles in all undergrad- your cousin who is interested in litera- ture. in red; the kiddies—we were afraid of this. re SS a it! oo ee a a ee allowed to be objectionable ‘and : ‘ lif it took advantage of its rights). It hon and Guy Kibbee. Aline McMahon, appears that the whole Philistine en a ni a8 ges gs prong j board of editors had resigned and had 8 Fea Roonson with Wuaien La . ‘been unanimously re-elected. Speaking ee Song, yn “AY©-\'trom a purely impersonal point of After Bittersweet, we wouldn’t miss). ibvelyn Laye: view, we would say that there was as Seas, daa ekead Welk ate coe eee fo She precede la Garbo, is turning up at last. ee Philistine as there is in one of the we spent a fruitless week-end search- Acila shepane i igi Hi acies aa ing for it in all the devious byways of ieee Coen eee ns ce ails abies Pa Philadelphia. . of its periodic waves of reformation Steiley ‘at that time. Father Brown, Detective, | Oo : with Walter Connolly and Paul Lakag,| Cl*eraistinctions were very import- Freshmen were, it seems, and based on the novel by G.' K. Ckes- vant then, y ~-'a meek and humble tribe, constantly i eliminated. terton. A village priest runs into|” . : 'Y Jed to one bow. The more voluminous | 4 Miss Veeder, playing the part of the |some little difficulty with a notorious |"eProved and held = check by their |and bristling bows are the more sought | a —Queeh’s son, Cloten, acted the part of |gem thief, who invades the peace and Ia gah There is no mention of up-|after, Those of home manufacture | = a conceited youth filled with airs and mannerisms, with a true flair for com- edy and a ridiculousness that was never overdone. Miss Park, however, as Pisanio, played even the emotional quiet of the typical English village and finds it not quite so typical as he had hoped. Stanton: bage Patch. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab- Another. movie that ap- per-classmen being terrified by- fresh- imen, yet we have known this to hap- pen in our time. Perhaps we are be- ‘coming decadent. | «The athletic field has been turned are most. worn. . Surely every ingeni- | ous girl should be able to collect one: from among the various odds and ends that invariably frequent a top bureau drawer. “The balcony style of hair-dressing Christmas Gifts FS scene in which'she refuses to kill Imo-|pears to be doing a regular Garboish|into the skating pond, the gravel Sweaters Blouses gen with an over-emphasis of the bur-|migration around the town. |paths are paved with unstable board-|is much seen. Rolls, lady-locks and Gloves Scarfs lesque, which, while amusing, was not walks, the Seniors wear gloves to lec-|bows are the most popular forms. : in keeping with the character as writ- Local Movies tures. In short, winter: is upon us.”|When there is a tightly braided knot Belts Socks Stockings ten. She, too, shows a flair for com-| Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Helen Cracker-and-jam feasts in Radnor|at the neck and an irregular parting Jackets 2 edy and burlesque that wWeahope to see _ utilized in another play ‘as’ soon as possible. The conception of the, scenery is very highly to be prai We know ed, and the use of lighting, as in the prison scene, to change the set is an idea which we believe Bryn Mawr has never tried before, and which we hope will be frequently adopted. The re- Hayes in What Every Woman Knows; Fri., Age of Innocence, with Irene Dunne and John Boles; Sat., Ran- dolph Scott in Wagon Wheels; Mon. and Tues., Dolores Del Rio in Madame Sat., One Night of Love, with Grace Moore; Mon. and Tues., Gambling, with George M. Cohan; Wed. and Thurs., 365. Nights in Hollywood, with and fudge parties in Pembroke con- tinued to warm the inner woman, in spite of the blizzards of ’98. The col- lege was then suffering from ants. “The ants have gained politeness, and came readily to the sluggards, glad of The Philistine suggests Christmas gifts for those who have been deprived of imagination by excessive toil. Boadicea—A series of sight papers tastefully bound in white and gold for in front the style is called “The In- tellectual Coiffure,” and is more cop- ied than admired. “The masculine form of dress is much affected. Tailor gowns are very / / The Sportswoman’s Shop/ Bryn Mawr, Pa. / | .. KittyMcLean / / ; of nothing that could haye been bet-| Du Barry. popular for evening wear; waistcoats : ter than\ghe ingenious choice of the| Seville: Wed and Thurs., Adolphe |*"Y, chance for doing good, and propa- Z a ‘ * ; ; : i ; ” 7 q one set in which every scene was play-| Menjou in The Human Side; Fri. and gating the cause of industry. HOME FOR THE James Dunn and Alice Faye. Wayne:. Wed., Jackie «Cooper in Peck’s Bad Boy; Thurs., Fri. and Sat., The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Mon. and Tues., Lady Is Willing, with Leslie Howard and Binnie Barnes; Wed. and Thurs., Constance Bennett in Outcast Lady. turn to the idea of using the same set a throughout the play, as was the cus- tom in Shakespeare’s time, was most \jinteresting, and we thought the ar-" rangement of that particular set to be adaptable to everything from court to mountain scenes-was very well thought out. The costuming was uniformly good, and in cases such as Miss Selt- zer’s, Furness’ and Woodward’s, dresses and tunic, really beautiful. The play as a whole has the merit of offering parts for a large number of people, although the parts were fre- Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes, Superior Soda Service Music—Dancing for girls only CHRISTMA fy HOLIDAY ! 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T STETSON LI AT S Christmas Book Shop, 2nd Floor Foyer The right books for just _about-evéry one — they are all » J a i CJ ie w a a La ii es i J i] LJ e * td] Ss i a a Ss a J i i] Bs we * J 8 a 8 © fe B i] a ee s a 5 eee e in attendance to give you correc > a J * * a io s a a * * Ss Vd] ] w id a » . im a * = = * Ss = J = * : For service or information merely call or telephone. BRYN MAWR 440 : BRYN MAWR, PA. Bryn Maw?Avenue and Pennsylvania Railroad i information about them. . she Children’s Own Gift Shop, 3rd Floor Foyer | what a lot of things there are for the new baby, and year old, and little buddy, and the kindergarteners! Re ; The best there is in transportation SERVING THE NATION FOR 95 YEARS‘ RAILWAY | EXPRESS | NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE i wlarged Gift Departments tment (Lower Main Floor) and Handker- oor, have overflowed their. year-around ing an inspiring gift-seekers’ paradise. — é wa & CLOTHIER 7 | rdmore | * ih i Oh Bio ys cme Os Ge a aan Be Ai THE COLLEGE NEWS rs — Teachers Must Have Psychology, Sympathy Continued from Page One healthy independence of adults. The children are taught to overcome their difficulties by themselves and not to de- mand too much separate attention. The social goal is still an experiment in nursery schools. There is one p!il- osophy which says that children are little animals and should be allowed to be physically aggressive. The cther philosophy says that the ° nursery school has a great opportunity to teach co-operation and consideration to hil- dren at a very early age. Children must be handled as _ peo- ple. The preparation for teaching in a nursery school demands, beside sym- pathy and understanding, without sen- timentality, a knowledge of the phil- osophy’ of education, of child psychol- ogy, of arts and crafts, diet, and gym- nasium, It. also needs tact, in order to handle not only the child, but his family. Courses in nursery school teaching are given at Temple, Cc lum- bia, the Merrill Palmer School in De- troit, and elsewhere. Miss Johnson pointed out that the essential thing to remember when starting to teach is that one’s center of interest should suddenly be, mot one’s self, but other people. A téach- er must be interested in co-opérating with young people and releasing their powers. She must watch/for every spark of interest shown And catch it, and she must know how to arouse it. A teacher must, ‘have the abil- ity to work hard and not be discour- aged, which is the occupational. dis- ease of teaching. She must teach something’ which is’ of. value either now or in the future, or both. It has been found that sound teach- ing within departments in a school is essential. daily with a good scholar is inspiring to students of any age. The good teacher should be trained and also have sufficient imagination not to block her students’ powers, nor make their work too easy: School children have a right to difficulties, to extra work if they are advanced, and to the discussion of .abstract and controversial prob- lems. r Preparation for teaching in a sec- ondary school should be Alevoted to specialization in one of preferably more fields, but with /some interest taken in the fact that,one-is going to teach. It is a mistitke to. go into teaching with abSolutely no knowledge of psychdlogy or education. During ithe first year of teaching, a college graduate Mas to learn to be a leader, companion, and teacher to students not yéry much younger than herself. In order to help the new teacher ad- just herself, and to give her the neces- Ysary knowledge of psycholoy, she is made an apprentice, and can _ both watch experienced teachers and teach herself without having the full respon- sibility of the course. : Medicine and engineering are the most popular of. the courses chosen by Brown University (Providence, R. I.) freshmen. The experience of meeting ‘erford’ pond. Voice of Bryn Mawr To the Editor of the News: With winter bursting upon us just after we have: flunked the third suc- cessive period of sports, we are seized with a vreatdesire to exercise at all sports that are not required. And there is now excellent skating at Hav- But this means. prep- arations for a walk, at least twenty minutes to reach the pond, battling ‘while on the ice with all of Haverford in great red sweaters on sharp and speedy skates, who mercilessly. sweep aside anything so paltry as a feeble Bryn Mawr girl trying to stand on her two sagging ankles, and then a long and ‘cold walk back to the halls. All this takes so long and ig so much bother that many of ‘dS“who would really like to skate and get a bit of the exercise that our Gym department is continually harping on, cannot spend so long away from the library and the smoking room. We, the skat- ers of Bryn Mawr, petition, therefore, for the right and the rink to skate on at our own time and with ourselves. The two hockey fields, the two sets of three tennis courts, and even the fac- ulty court behind Merion offer plenty JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammer 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA. Phone 570 of room for skating, if the authorities of the college would just permit the Fire Department free play on any onc of them. It may be argued that flood- ing and freezing a tennis court ruins the ground, but why then does. Ship- ley.School freeze its. excellent courts late each winter? If the cost of freez- ing is too much to be carried by the Athletic Association, each skater could pay the nominal sum of five or ten cents for the right to use the rink. But what we do want and feel justi- fied in requesting is a frozen rink on campus, which Will be available to all who wish to snatch a bit of exercise at any odd hour of the day. Signatures: STERN R. WooDWARD HAWKS COLBRON KREMER WYLIE “ MAREAN MORSE HIRSHBURG CRENSHAW LANE CHAMBERLYNE NOBLE M. LEWIS EDDY R, BALDWIN CARY S. HEMPHILL Page Five SIMS SANDERS CANADAY GOLDWASSER SIMPSON A. GRAVES FISHER ol; BROWN DUNCAN E. ROSE A poll of the class of 1919 of the New York University school of com- merce, accounts and finance, revealed that the average member voted for Hoover in 1928 and 1932, but that they will vote for Roosevelt in 1936. GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder that we would like to take care of your parents and friends, whenever they come ‘to visit you. L. E. METCALF, Manager. = -e BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c Dinner -85c - $1.25 Meals a la carte and table d’hote Dail? and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 Miss Sarah Davis, Manager BUSINESS GIRL. Eve Mil- ler, New York department- store executive, says: “I smoke Camels because I appreciate mildness and delicacy of flavor. And Camels give mea ‘lif? . when my energy is low— and never upset my nerves.” LEAF-TOBACCO EXPERTS AGREE: Al Camels are made from MANNING SMITH, ’35 — Student of Journalism. Newspaper work calls for the active type of person with plenty of natural, vibrant energy, as Manning Smith, journal- ism ‘student, well knows. He says: “You’ve got to be a hustler in the newspaper game! There’s lots of ‘leg work’ and head work, too—and both use.up plenty of energy. When I’m feeling kind of ‘low’ generally, I smoke a Camel, and the right words come to me more easily. I can think faster. When I smoke steadily during long sessions at my typewriter, Camels never jangle my nerves.” finer, More Expensive Tobaccos —Turkish and Domestic — than any other popular brand. /! You are invited to tune in on THE NEW CAMEL CARAVAN featuring WALTER O’KEEFE « ANNETTE HANSHAW GLEN GRAY’S CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA vv TED HUSING 10 \) >. M. zg; 9:00 P.M 9:00 P.M. C.S.1 TUESDAY ) 8:00 P.M. M.S.1 7:00 P.M. P.S.T. OVER COAST-TO-COAS’ ‘CAMEL’S COS : N| Copyright, 1934, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company “> Page Stx THE: COLLEGE NEWS _ = = Physical -Exams Reveal Freshmen Smoke Little The Freshmen, when they entered collegé this fall, were, on the average, .48 inches shorter and 2.04 pounds heavier than the members of the pres- ent Sophomore class as Freshmen. It would seem that the progress of the species has not been in the past year very rapid, either in a vertical or in a lateral direction. The average height of the class of 1938 is 65.27 in.; that of the class of 1937, in Septem- ber, 1933, was 65.7 inches. The aver- age Freshman, this year weighed 127.54 pounds; last year she weighed 125.5 pounds. Only nine of the pres- ent Freshmen were decidedly over- weight and thirteen underweight. The members of both classeg are then of a very appreciable size and of surprising height. Women. have al- ways been fat enough, but they have not always been so tall. Of the 117 Freshmen, 6 received the rating of A in their physical examina- tions. Ninety-five were rated A—, 13 were in B class, and 3 received C rat- ing. Seventeen of the 117 are puritanical and smoke less than one cigarette a day. Thirteen smoke from one to five tigarettes per’ diem, twenty-four from 6-10 of the filthy weeds, and 9 from 11 to 20—a very expensive pastiime, we would suppose. One hardy soul smokes more than 20 every day. We picture her half visible in a cicudy smoking room corner puffing away on her tin of Camels as Alice’s Caterpil- lar did on his hookah. “The funniest thing that we have seen in the United States was a col- lege newspaper reporter at Emory College,” says John Gripps, a member of the Oxford University debating team now touring the United States. Student Experiments Mark ° ; . Work in Psychology The advanced Experimental - Pay: chology course ‘at Bryn Mawr is car- rying on some-very interesting experi- ments this year. Each of the three members of the class is working at her own individual problem and using her classmates as her subjects. , Eleanor Cheney, ’35, is investigat- ing the effect of low degrees of illum- ination on the perception of various types of geometric forms. These geo- metric forms are illuminated for short periods of time, one-tenth of a second, and after each illumination the sub- ject tries to dravy, what she has seen, until she finally féproduces the cor- rect figure. The errors made are clas- sified and studied, and thus the accur- acy of vision under certain conditions is tested, as well as the way in which forms change under these conditions. Sometimes the most amazing results are obtained, for the subject often draws forms that are not there at all. Marian Chapman, ’36, is ‘trying to find out if the chief types of skin. sen- sation have different chronaxies. A chronaxie, it appears for the benefit of all the ignorant, is the least time necessary to excite an organ when twice the amount of current necessary to excite the organ at all is used. It also appears that this is a very new field, and that the human body can feel a current of one-thousandth of an ampere in one-ten thousandth of a second, which quite increases our ap- preciation of our sensitivities. Marjorie Goldwasser, ’386, is work- ing on a very mysterious subject which cannot be revealed because that might ruin her subjects, but which seems to be an investigation of certain changes in the skin which follow various types of stimulation. We are completely fas- cinated at the idea of this and can scarcely wait for the end of the ex- periment and its results. 3 Freshmen Attend Exhibition A most interesting experiment was conducted recently in Mrs, Kirk’s sec- tion of: the Freshman English course. In an attempt to correlate the pur- poses of Modern Literature and Mod- ern Art, the Freshmen read Art criti- cisms by John Livingston Lowes and Gertrude Stein, and were then sent to the Cézanne exhibition at the Fair- mount Museum of Art. The basic idea underlying both mod- ern writing and modern painting was found to be the same. Both arts have departed from the tradition of repre- senting objects as they actually are, and are trying.to reveal to te reader or spectator what the artist sees in the object. 4 Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—That the fac- ulty of Vassar College is more radical than its students was revealed here recently in a poll conducted by the Vassar Political Association. Results from the poll indicated that 12 per cent. of the faculty considered them- selves radicals, while only 9 per cent. of the seniors, 5 per cent. of the fresh- men, and 8 per cent. of the juniors and sophomores included themselves in that group. A 19338 survey of 531 leading col- leges and universities disclosed that 315 of them maintained employment offices of some sort for their gradu- ates. Of the 400,000 enrolled in these institutions at the time the survey was made, 16,298 students were placed as teachers and 5,692 in other occupa- tions. Last year 30,757 students borrowed $3,418,000. from loan funds maintain- ed in 581 colleges and universities. Freedom of the collegiate press means nothing to Senator Huey. Long, when the freedom of Huey Long is called into question. Issuing a state- ment upon his recent censorship of the Louisiana State paper, Huey said, “This is my university and I’ll throw anybody out who utters a word against it. There’ll be a new editor of that paper tomorrow if they print any- thing against Huey Long.” ~— Madison, Wis. — That college and university presidents and student newspaper editors are in the majority supporters of President Roosevelt and the New Deal was proven.by the over- whelming “vote of confidence” given Democratic leaders and policies in .a poll of 200 -editors and presidents made here by the Associated Collegi- ate Press and Céllegiate Digest. _.This year approximately 33,000 stu- dents will receive some $6,000,000 in scholarships, while a smaller group will receive nearly a million in gradu- ate fellowships. The favorite bit of reminiscence. for a Minnesota professor-concerned his early days, when hé once ended a lec- ture by asking for questions from the students. There was no response, so he waited, growing more and more nervous. Finally he offered a cigaret to the first one asking an intelligent question. Another long silence. 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