~~~ Vol. XVII; No. 23 WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931 Price: 10 Cents ‘Margaret Shaughnessy Is Winner of the European Fellowship for 1931 Curtis Institute. Described by Dean ' Scholarships Given bad. Ability; -No Degrees and Diplomas Are Conferred. —, an With the advent of commencement, os tempted to consider everything which it brings to an end. And we do not mean the academic year only, but the pleasures of the college season as well. Not the least of these was the Bryn ' Mawr series, and as we look back, we find that the concert by the Curtis Insti- tute-.was one ofthe most enjoyable, and especially interesting as representing the work of .students like ourselves. Dean Spofford some time ago was kind enough to grant us an interview, for we as well as many. others, were anxious to learn of the workings of so great .an institution, We were not a little surprised to find ourselves opposite the Rittenhouse Square; and confronted by four beautiful buildings of white stone. But when we ~had*entered-we-were-taken—even--further aback by the spacious room which - _Sreeted us, to all appearances the liv- ‘ing room of a private home. And there & was not a sound to betray the musician]. at work, although -in-such surroundings, he must be particularly inspired. The appeal of craftsmanship through works of art, also assists the institute in carrying out its expressed purpose, which is} to hand .down the tradition of the -past through contemporary masters and _ to teach students to build on this heritage for the: future. ° The institute was founded in 1924 by Continued on Page Six . Tabane Urges Sins Be Remitted The Baccalaureate service was held on , Sunday evening. “Dr. Johnston, rector of St. John’s Church, ‘Washington, who was the speaker, took.as his text: “Who so sins ye remit they are remitted, and who so sins ye retain they are retained.” Dr. Johnston said that at the risk of sentimentalizing an impression, he cold not help remembering Bryn Mawr as the sweetest, most wholesome and one of the noblest places in the whole land. Dr. Johnston declared that the ideal of life which he was seeking: is one as- oe sociated with the Christian religion. The words of the text, although variously in- terpreted, are not words of mystery; their / meaning is obvious and plain. Christ was no lawgiver; He proclaimed ideals, which He knew could and ought to be worked e out in life. These the Christians crystallized into laws and, for the weak, they are helpful and so legitimate ; they obviate the neces- : sity for search, requiring nothing but obedience. But “roads make wings un- necessary,’ and if they give safety, they give also prison. The present text is the religious au- thority for our “regular confession,” ‘which has been. too much a matter of personal salvation. The Kingdom of Christ heretofore hag been lost in other worldliness. It is for us of the present age -to- find-out~ what salvation means more than the saving ef a soul, for our Bt Ai a Continued on Page Six Varsity Players Elect The committee of the Varsity “The thing that strikes me,” -|woman who ELIZABETH BAER Mrs. Barnes Urges Creation ion By Youth ‘Only Real Equality~ “yf Sexes} Found on‘Stage; Writer Has Less Economic Pressure. Mrs. winner of the best Grace,” 07, Pulitzer Prize for the Margaret Ayer Barnes, novel of the year, “Years of is taking advantage of her presence in the East both to attend her class reunion and to receive the formal award, of her prize in New York. Mrs. Barnes insists that no one was more surprised than she when she was notified that she was a prize-winner, and is inclined to look on. her entire literary career, which has lasted for about four years, with some incredulity. she re- peats, “is that I was very lucky, and got all the breaks at the right time. I really just drifted into writing.’ She told how she began writing short stories for the:pleasure it gave her, and sent one to the Pictorial Review out of idle curiosity. She received a check a few days later and promptly had it framed. Mrs. Barnes has since written ten short stories, three plays and two novels. Mrs. Barnes says that she did not’ do anything important while in Bryn: Mawr, except to major for four years in English which she has always loved. She feels that the greatest value of the English courses of the time was the enormous’ solid bulk reading which they presented to the student. She ob- tained no technical training in writing at college and was left with the feeling that the_creative end was submerged in the critical. Since no impression was given that literature is a: proces- sion, the inference that the last word in literature’ had been written offered no stimulus. A firm foundation of the classics is a virtue but youth should be encouraged, not made to feel young and inadequate. How the young au- thors of today have obtained such a mature point of view is a puzzle to Mrs. Barnes, who has dlways said that she could not have started writing earlier than she did. because -she would not have felt capable. Mrs. Barnes does not think that 4 is trying to manage a house and three sons can adopt regu- lar habits of work. She is a slow writer and makes constant revisions. Often B. A.’s Conferred On 72 In Class of 31 M. A's and Ph. D.’s Also Given At Close of The 46th Academic Year. MR CRAM IS. SPEAKER The commencement exercises of the forty-sixth academic year of Bryn Mawr College held on June 3 combined the distinguished~-work: The speaker, Mr. Ralph Adams Cram, Litt.'D., LL.D., ‘of Boston, chose “The Educational Value of Beauty” as his subject. consulting architect of Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and is the author of many books on architecture, Margaret Shaughnessy, of Framingham, Mass., was awarded the European Fel- iowship. The recipients of degrees and certificates were then read: The recipients of the Bachelor of Arts Degree-are-as-foltows:—_—___—_—__—— Biology Dorothy Wilemina Asher, cum laude with distinction in biology. Enid Appo Cook, cum laude. Margaret Dean Findley, with dis- tinction in biology. Martha Jefferson Taylor, cum laude, with distinction in bioldgy. : Chemistry Carolyn B&illock Beecher. Helen “Louise Snyder, magna cum laude with distinction in chemfstry. Classical Archaeology Kathleen Cone, with distinction Classical Archaeology. Barbara Kirk, cum laude.- Ruth Levy. Caroline Huston Thompson, magna cum laude with distinction-in Classical Archaeology. in Economics Isabel Hamilton Benham, tinction in Economics. Virginia Burdick, cum distinction in Economics. Frances Haswell Robinson, with dis- tinction in Economics. Margaret Shaughnessy, magna cum laude with distinction in Economics. Ethel Picard’Sussman, with distine- tion bi gti sabi Economics and Politics Katherine Wise Bowler. Elizabeth Lawson Cook, cum laude, with distinction in Economics. Anne Beverley George. Dorothy Susan Mead. Celeste Walker Page. English Angelyn Louise Burrows, with dis- tinction in English. Celia Gause Darlington, magna cum laude, with distinction in English. Mary Polk Drake. Bertha Brossman Faust, cum laude, with dis- laude, with Continued on Page Five usual ceremonies and speeches with the | ‘| announcement of the honors awarded for Mr.-Cram--was} -MARGARET SHAUGHNESSY Theresa Helburn, ’ _ Grants Interview Tellsof Her Career Both’ in| College and is in the Theatrical World. Miss Theresa Helburn, '08, of the Theater Guild Board of Managers, is one Sf the most interesting of the alumnae who have returned this year, not only because of her importance on Broadway, but because she- held almost every posi- tion of importance while she was in’ col- lege. In her’senior year, she was on the basketball and hockey’ teams, was on the Lantern Board, ran a somewhat less literary .publication, the’ T’zw’p’ny- \Bob, managed all the .plays which were given, and carried several English courses, all of which involved a great deal of writing. The result was a break- down. She’managed, however, to achieve two prizes in that year; a gold watch in a hunting case for the George W. Child’s essay prize for a composition written to complete. her English major, and a set of Shakespeare which she received ‘as the first holder of the: “Sunny Jim” award for high courage, steadfastness, loyalty and cheerfulness. She was very interested in ew drama at a time when contemporary plays were not allowed on the college library shelves, and scandalized the English de- partment’ by writing her Sophomore es- say on Arthur Wing Pinero. “I had to go into the Philadelphia Library to get any material on him,” she added. As an actress she always played the low come- dian in the Shakespeare plays or took the part of the villain. In Miss Hel- burn's college days, the tradition ‘of the intellectual woman was cherished—one of the symptoms was the Pedants’ Club, which the present Mrs. Barnes founded. “We were more serious in those days. I understand that the younger generation Continued on Page six laboratory schedule next year, afternoons, will then meet on Monday and in courses already arranged, Schedule Changed It has been decided to make a _ general. so that the First Year Biology _and First Year .Phxsics. sill. meet_on.Monday -andyhuesday and the First Year Chemistry Geology on Thursday and Friday. Biology and Second Year Physics on Thursday and Friday. It is hoped that this general shift will not result in any conflicts change in the and First Year The Second Year Chemistry Tuesday, and the Second Year but if there should be any ¢| scribe the. latter. | Economics Major Leads Class with Average of 89.075, Graduating Magna | Foreign Bryn Mawr <— Interviewed "% "Beaad Between Universities of Europe and America. Contrast CO-EDUCATION FAVORED “Why did you come to Bryn Mawr? Are you glad that you did? ‘How do you find it different from the university you left?” These are the questions that the News has been asking up and down the halls of Radnor. The answers have been illuminating and varied. On one point-alone~-has~unanimity been found. No one is sorry for having come. Molly Allen came |here from the Lon- don School of Economics, in England, more or less by accident. Having heard a good deal about Bryn Mawr’ from a friend who had been here, she applied, rather casually, for a fellowship and promptly _ forgot all.about-.the matter. The announcement of the award came as a _v¢ry pleasant shock. It was celebrated with a bottle of witie. Being in America and at Bryn Mawr she has found on the whole very pleasant. Probably the best way to show the differences between Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics is to de- One myst remember first of all that it is a specialized school and not at all typical of English uni- versities. It has about 2000 students altogether, including graduates, day and evening students, old and young, men and girls. They cdme from about forty different countries (a large number come by the w vay, ¥ Continued on Page Four Prof. Kingsbury Aids Prohibition Research On May 26, Tuesday a week... ago, Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, of the Department of Social Economy, Bryn Mawr College, attended in Washington the first meeting of the Prohibition Bu- reau Advisory Research Council, a’ group formed by the Division of Re- search and Public Information of the Bureau of Prohibition in the Department of Justice. Miss Kingsbury is the only woman member of the council, which is composed of representatives of ten grad- uate schools of American universities. The body will serve under the Federal © Department’ of Justice as an advisor to the Bureau of Prohibition in its own research and investigation, and secondly it. will serve as a body to co-ordinate research by the Bureau and research in American graduate schools. In the words of the Chief of the Division of Research and Public Information, Mr. E._P. San- ford, it will hope to adopt “a standard plan of subjects of research to be fol- lowed in universities.” “A number of studies in one subject carried out in various. localities and ultimately ‘sub- mitted tagthe Bureau for co-ordination and compilation will give a wider horizon and larger background than can be se- cured in any other way: ... It is to be hoped that the Bureau may be able to publish outstanding theses submitted--by----— graduate students as an indication of the Bureau’s appreciation of careful, scholarly work . . . The ytmost ‘academic freedom is to be given directors of re- search and those graduate students who elect to investigate the subjects suggested by the Council. ,No_ special objective is players has_elected_for_the—next year’s board the following Execu- tive Committee. “This committee will, in the fall, select the members of the Advisory Committee. President ............ Betty Young, 1932 Business manager, Polly Barnitz, 1933~ Executive. Committee Member, : Janet Marshall, 1933 Executive Committee Member, . Leta Clews, 1933 she spends froin breakfast-untik diner at- her desk,’ or works after an eve- -ning’s entertainmerit until daylight if things are shaping as she wants them. On other days she does no work at all. Mrs. Barnes believes that women heve a supreme advantage over men in artistic lines because tey are rarely in a position where it is necessary to sacrifice their own standards to 'eco- nomic necessities. A woman who is settled and has financial support or is the Dean’s Office. se difficulties they. should be ‘reported as soon as possible to For the year 1932-33 one change in the morning lecture schedule has already been decided upon and should be noted by all under-classmen. The First Year History and Apprecia- tion of Music is to be moved from Group G to Group E, and will. meet. Mondays, ..Wednesdays..and Thursdays at-eleven. ‘One or two. other changes in the morning lecture schedule are being discussed, and if they are decided upon they will be announced in the fall,.to take effect in 1932-33. Continued on Page Six asked for. It is facta that are wanted.” The meeting in Washington lasted all day. It discussed subjects and_-sfethods a for college research work to discover the social changes resulting from ‘pro- hibition and the consumption of alcohol. Each worker of the Council is to sug- gest more subjects and -methods.~ About thirty . unrepresented universities also have already suggested topics. The work may be done in college departments of Social Economy, psychology, physiology, Continued on Page Six Page 2 THE COLLEGE. NEWS JUNE 2, 1931 —_—__—_—_— SN == — ————— a | Fifteen Years Ago \THE COLLEGE NEWS The high, cost of cutting is a recog- _ (Founded in 1914) nized fact. This year it has been dem- Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, onstrated that the undergraduates |. Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. Copy Editor Susan Nose, 732 Editor-in-Chief Rose Hatrievp; ’32 « Edjtors ‘Leta Crews, ’33 EuizaBetH Jackson, °33 Betry Kinp_eBercer, ’33 Anna A. Finney, 734 Crar& Frances Grant, 734 Sa.ure Jones, 34 Mo iy Nicroxs, ’34 Subscription Manage Yvonne CAMERON, 732 Business Manager Mo.tiy Atmore, 732 . 4 Asistants : ELEANOR YEAKEL, ’33 J. ExvizapeTu HANNAN, "34 ‘ Carouine -BerG, ’33 ~ Masev Meenan, '33° _\( SUBSCRIPTION, $250 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 AT ANY TIME SUBSCRIPTIONS ioe Ninh Entered as second-class’ matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office ae 38 ; Goodbye To 1931. Perhaps the farewell Saltorier to the Seniors must be phrased tritely, but looking back over the years we have known them, we find ourselves not quite competent to express what we feel: We remember them as Sophomores at Lantern Night, we even cat: ish_memories of amicable (?) Freshman Night rows, and the. slightly supercilious air which adorns every Sophomore class when a Freshman hovers in the neighborhood. As Juniors, stepping into the hallowed and somewhat awesome character of upperclassmen, their brows began to show the furrows of new responsibilities, and we wondered at their amazing ability to cope with Majors, Orals, and the Freshmen. But when they became “the Seniors,” the friendship of two years suddenly became something to hold on to. Commencement inevitably draws near; three years ago we thought ’31 and *32 were probably fix-| tures on the campus, but in-an incredibly-short-timewe-have-come to the point where we are telling them goodbye, and séon we'll be joining them as Alumnae ourselves. —At—Commencement-—time—we—trealize_more-_clearly.alL. means.- True, sentiment plays a big role, but why not? It’s college | pretty genuine sentiment, and. the classes -that..are left behind are honestly | regretting the Senior's departure. We have been good friends in the months or the years that we’ve known them, and we hope that the college friendships, proverbially lasting, formed in this time, will go on. At any rate, goodbye and good luck. To The Alumnae. & The annual descent of the Alumnae upon the campus is always a surprise to the Undergraduate—a pleasant and stimulating. one. Those who are engaged in college living are likely to forget that they are also being influenced by college life. The return of Alumnae who have become aware of this contact, and value it so highly that they attempt to recapture it during their reunions, makes. the_undergraduate adopt -a more objective point of view for a moment. Many of the members of the classes holding reunions this year have made names for themselves in larger, more important communities than our,own. Many of the others live less famous lives, but they too are. blessed with mature reflections. All of them are worthy object lessons for the young student who desires to live wisely, and to make her life reflect the lessons college has tried to teach her. The yearly Alumnae reunions help to make the undergrad- uate’s. relation to Bryn Mawr clear, and to give her a foundation upon: which to base her. convictions. Seniors Entertain On Last Class Day According to one of the customs handed down to the seniors, they as- sembled on the senior steps promptly at a quarter past one, the last day of classes. It is according to tradition for the European fellow to speak at Taylor, and since it has not been announced, Miss Sullivan proved herself an able candidate for the honor, by regaling the audience. After her polite “Ladies, and Miss Gar- vin” she proceeded to discuss not what college means to her, but what she means to the college. After some fine research, ‘she decided thatthe deed most beneficial to Taylor, .itself, would be to take all the statues and put them together, nak- ing one big bust. ‘ At Dalton Miss Cone had the honor of speaking since according to her own con- fession she has taken more of the same biology than anyone else in college, in _ fact she found herself f majoring | in n_ minor | o} ~~ Biology. After some peculiar disappearances, IMiss Winship came forth from ithe gym properly attired for her position, She justified her costume and various ath- ‘Jetic accessories by enumerating the list, of her accomplishments in that line, as- Pembroke where the’ classes each sang their goodbye songs and Miss Baer made the final parting speech for the seniors. Although théy have already seen Bryn Mawr change with the addition of Good- hart Hall, we hope that they will come back to see it, perhaps entirely different, in the future. Seniors’ Freshmarr English! A number of amusing and enlighten- ig facts came to present Seniors’ Freshman English papers were exhumed and handed back. The following comment on the paper of a certain notorious Senior just goes to show that either she has completely changed or, instead, has fought her way through college equipped only with a colossal bluff. Either view taken should be very encouraging—to undergraduates. : “The whole first part of this report is about worthless as a scholarly piece ‘|of. work, You have simplsseparaphrased and heightened any introduction to Marlowe's plays,’ in a fashion some- thing like Lytton Strachey’s or Mau- rois’, without the authority or skill of these writers. A great many of your statements are highly questionable, although some of your vital is light when thes ee have been unwilling to pay the price of excessive cutting. The cost, a mat- ter of honor and independence, has not been considered lightly. When there was a definite penalty for absence it was expected that the cutting would be less ‘but it is worthy of special note that there has been less this year when students. Even the much-feared at- tractions of spring have not disproved the undergraduates’ ability to regulate ttendance themselves. ‘They have stood firm ‘for faithful. attendance and have justified their promises. In the near future much depends on the professors. A timely reminder to a particular class before and after cut- ting, and’ appropriate reproof of in- dividual. offenders are necessary to strengthen the more general appeals of the Undergraduate Association. * * Yvette Guilbert, well-known French actress and concert/singer, will give a song recital on the night of Garden Party, May 31, in the Cloisters. Usually an old English play is given. Clayton “Hamilton, dramatic critic, says of Madame Guilbert, “There is no-word in. English for that medium of art of which Yvette Guilbert is the Supreme and perfect master. It is not acting, it is not singing, it is not reci- tation, yet it- combines the highest beauties of all three.” . *x* * * As the abolishing of the daisy chain by_ the recent undergraduate vote, an- other foolish commencement. tradition has been changed.’ The even classes, hitherto. forced to—weary—both - them- sing over one by one the songs handed down to them. For 1916 has. voted: that 1918 should not repeat the songs -given them this year. And once broken, a useless custom will not be likely to revive. Curriculum Records... Prove No Overwork The Curriculum Committee distributed blanks to all the students_on.-which they were asked to keep a record of the time they spent on each of their courses each week. The -weeks for which records were kept were February 16th to Febru- ary 23d, March’16th to March 23d, and the two weeks between April 20th and May 4th. An *ttempt was made to dis- tribute them so that-they would cover the mid-semester quiz period as well as the report periods and the times when there was no particular stress or strain in class work. During the first of these weeks, there were a number of quizzes in the courses for which there had been, no midyear exam. In March, there were more scheduled quizzes, and April con- tained, besides the regular academic work, a reasonably large dose of extra- curricular things such as the production of “The Enchanted April,” and fairly’ con- tinuous rehearsing of the “Mikado.” Al- though not: all of the college, by any means, handed in their slips, there is, we consider, a good cross section. In other words, those who have worked twenty hours a week have been just as willing to let us know about it as those who have. put in fifty or more hours of study. According to the original plan, the unit system assumed that there would be spent on each unit 10 hours a week including classes.- Thus, a student tak- ing four units would spend .abouf? forty hours a week on her work. If this is a sound plan, then there is apparently no cause for complaint about overwork, judging from the information the slips have produced. In the week of February Pept students worked an average of 45.5 hour In the week of March 16th, 154 stu- dents worked an average of 48.7 hours. In the week of April 20th, 106 students worked an average of 46.3 hours. In_the week of April 27, 81 students the matter was left entirely to thef 4 class of. 193], the Faculty tea at Wyndham. Commencement Week. Brings Senior Frolic Graduation from.college is nu simple matter. "The end of four outstanding years of one’s lifé must ‘be punctuated in fitting manner. There are many ways in which Seniors have been made, dufing their college life, to feél the has brought new ‘privileges and prestige. passage of time. * Each year Each year tassels-of caps have swung around caqynter clockwise another quarter. The door to the “wide, wide world” does not really begin to swing open, however, until the end of ‘classes in Senior year. This year on the evé of May 14, the last day of classes; the black-gowned, /green- lanterned, stole about the campus, sang sweetly in Greek, planted its’ ‘tree. Next day, at Taylor, at the gymnasium, at: Dalton, at the library, the class re- iterated-its goodbyes. a Last Saturday, after hearty sand- wiches, punch and ice cream at the end of Senior Row, Sophomores ‘and Seniors rose and sang in turn at each other. The océasion was the Sopho- more picnic to the Seniors. Later in the. evening came the Senior ..bonfire. It-was preceded (as are practically all Bryn Mawr events) by a procession. This formed under Pembroke Arch— Seniors, laden down with their own or their neighbors’ unwanted class notes or reports in the middle,.on either side cap-and-gowned Sophomores bearing red lanterns. Singing blatantly con- ceited songs about themselves, the Seniors passed on Taylor steps the Alumnae, who rose and cheered, trav- eled part way down Senior Row, cut. across down over the-hill.to the hockey field. There a-huge,-kerosene-smelling -selves—and-their-audience-on- the -night| bonfire. awaited _them,-After—hurling} of the Senior Bonfire, need no longer | papers at it with more or less success and dancing about it in a very calm fashiop, the Seniors lined up to face the Sophomores on one side of it and conscientiously sang their way cians their songbook, Sunday, May 31, meant goodbye to Faculty and to chapel. In the after- noon the Seniors were entertained by In the ‘evening they went to the Baccalaureate service in Goodhart. Little can be said about the afternoon affair except that the flowers arrived late from the Alumnae luncheon and that despite the fact that-it was held on the porch because of rain, it was a very pleasant tea. It rained again for the Bacca- laureate and the academic procession could not be held outdoors. In stead, it wound, in medieval splendor, about Goodhart. Eight-thirty Monday morning found the’ Senior Class and many others re- hearsing for commencement. The proceedings were much enlivened, it is reported, by the antics of one Molly Gardner, dog. From 4:30 to 6:30 in the afternoon, Seniors and Alumnae. chatted in the Common Room at the Alumnae tea. Dinner at 7 followed at Miss Park’s and included aspic, open fire, and lobster croquettes. A good time, the News is informed on good authority, was had by all. After din- ner, Miss Ely entertained the class at her charming home with conversation, a talk on Woman’s League of Women Voters, beer, and a Welsh rarebit. Yesterday, Tuesday, was the day of garden party. Today,: finally, is the day of commencement itself, ninety- seven (or is it 102?) sheepskins are firmly grasped in ninety-seven (or is it 102?) hands. Goodbyes (most of them) are said, and the Seniors are at last ‘out, out in«the wide, wide world.” Ruth Page Dances in Cloisters Ruth Page, the premiere danseuse of the Metropolitan-Opera; gave’® con- cert in the Cloister Garden, Tuesday evening, June 2. We are sorry to be unable to print a review of the per- formance, but the News is forced to go to press before that time. Miss Page is said to delight her audi- ence by her versatility in a variety of “suring us that her enthusiasm—would take her’ far from 4 physical training course. Miss Lord's most chetously true story at the library would tend to prove that at least one student in college had been - jn the library more than once-in spite of “wv the difficulties that beset such a feat. In _ fact if some people obeyed the little sign which - she exhibited. (Silerse—Keep Out) pag more people would be very nice “The. analysis of ‘ka plays is rot good because you never state clearly what you are trying to show. I gather that you feel Marlowe’s own personal- ity is reflected in the characters, but you give no clear proof of this. Your approach is vague; your quotations are not well used; the criticism of “the separate plays is badly proportioned. “Your style is shockingly bad; your sentences are appalling; your use of hyperbole and sentimental generaliza- worked an average of 44.6 hours. General average be work per week: 46.3 aria oo + 4 tion makes even your good Criticism seem padded and ugeless.- The’ paper has no structure or proportion, You show no knowledge of punctuation, and you. disregard every principle of unity and coherence.” N. B. The paper, we are sorry to say, was flunked. to “The Flapper and the Quarterback,” and from “Romantic Etude” to “St. Louis Blues.” The originiality of her interpretations is thought to be outdone only by an imagination which matches her technique. Those who have seen her are im- pressed by her grace, beauty and engag- ing stage personality. She has had a career of amazing success, despite her B. M. Fellow Wins French Trip Miss Susannah P. Edmonson, fellow in Romiance Languages at Bryn Mawr College in 1930-31, and 1931-32, has been awarded a trip to France for a prize-winning essay on the influence of French culture in the modern world. Three such trips were offered, the win- ners to sail on the Ile de France, June 1, under the ‘auspices of the American Committee on International Colonies and Overseas Exposition, as guests of the French Government. The other winners were James Névins Hyde, of Yale; and Mrs. Sarah Rickard, of Winthrop Col- lege, S. C. Miss Edmonson plans to spend all of her summer in Paris, with the excep- tion of a month in August, studying in the Bibliotheque National, under M. Paut Hazarf. She is working on her doc- | tor’s paper, which is to be-on: “Le Sen= timent de 14 Mer en la Litterature Fran- caise avant Chateaubriand.” During Au- - gust she will work in Spain with the University’ of Liverpool summer school, as she is allying Spanish to her work- in French. She intends to return in Sep- tember to resume her work here. Miss Edmonson comes from Montgom- ery, Ala. She graduated from Randolph Macon. Women’s College in 1929, Phi Beta Kappa, and with honors, having spent her junior year in France with the University of Delaware foreign study group. She received her M. A. in 1930, at the University of Wisconsin, after a year of teaching there, and has since being doing ‘graduate work here. Her essay had as its subject: French Influ- ences in Civil and Cultural Life - in America. It was — purely historical, limited’ to 1500 words, due March’ 1, and announced~as. the first prize May 1. Miss Edmonson declared_herself-highly pleased Bryn Mawr’s graduate school, and in- tends to. finish -her-graduate -work~ here. as By All Means Say It As you probably know, it’s the tradi- tion for the Lord High Executioner to make a little list of his own of people and things life would be pleasanter with- out to supplement the one supplied by Gilbert and Sullivan. In fact it’s one of the things which makes Koko’s part so much to be envied. We recall our parents wheeling us in a baby car- riage to the Mikado when it was given in the gym about five’ years ago—pre- sumably to imbue us_with_an—insanede- sire for a college education—and all we remember of it was the fact that Taylor Tower was put on the list. We liked that. This year Koko didn’t have time to state his own personal grievances and we think they deserve public attention. All those who in backgammon are in- ‘cessantly imbedded, I’ve got ’em on the list They never would be missed. All those who say, “My dear, I flunked,” and come out with high credit, I’ve got ’em on the list, etc. All those who think Bryn Mawr Girls are a lot of- greasy grinds, And by shunning College” women thus display their prewar minds; All devotees of chewing gum who pop it in the lib; * Those who claim they’ve washed the tub, but the ring reveals the fib; Those who smugly leave for week-ends in the middle of the week; The girls in beach pajamas whose figures make us shriek. But it really doesn’t matter whom you put upon the list! Thorne School Gives Play | The Phebe Anna Thorne School pre- sented “The Spirit of the Fountain,” a Moorish play, and a program of danees in Goodhart Hall-Monday eve- ning; June-t.--Fhe play Was. written’ by two of the students with the help of an instructor and finally planned by the entire cast, in which Eloise Chad- wick-Collins appeared as a guard. It was based on Washington Irving’s “Legend of the Three Beautiful Prin- cesses.” In the dances which fol- with the facilities and atmosphere of - ions, ranging from “‘Japartese Print” |/owed, Monna,-de--Montolit- appeared as the soloist, finishing with an excel- lent Spanish tango. The program was followed by.a reception for the Seniors’ parents and friends. : 7 America; she has been premiere dan- seuse--of -several -opera companies and ballets, has toured the Orient, and danced in, Russia, the only. American ever with the Diaghileff Ballet. Bryn Mawr is, youth. She studied in the Pavlowa~Bal- let, and travéled with them’ in South| | very fortunate to obtain. her services in honor: of the bacco d Class. _...__. Louise. Snyder-will-attendthe_Allegany. | | _ June 2, 1931 Seniors and Faculty Reveal Summer Plans Dorothy Asher has a scholarship’ in physiological chemistry in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. ‘Elisabeth Baer does not know what she will do. Carol Beecher is tutoring this summer and looking for a job for next winter. Virgina Burdick will work in New ’ York next winter. Anne Cole ‘is teaching summer school this summer. Elizabeth Cook is going to John’s Hop- kins next falk Enid Cook has no definite plans for the near -future. Celia Darlington is going abroad with four other Bryn Mawr girls and motor through’ Europe in Frances Frenaye’s car. Marie Dixon is going to Europe. Bertha Faust does not know what she |. will do. ms segs Mary Frothingham has a position as assistant secretary at the Windsor School, Boston. Louise Howland will go abroad. : Miriam Humrichouse does not know where she will be. Barbara Kirk is going to study sculp- | ture. Elisabeth Mongan does not kngw. _ Alwine Moore will attend the London School of Economics. : Margaret Nuckols is not sure what she will do. i Elizabeth Overton hopes to go to Europe. ‘ Dorothy Pizor does not know what she will do. Margaret Shaughnessy will Radcliffe next year. Virgima Smith is. going to Hawaii & attend this summer. Next year she will work in| a bank. School of Natural History, Allegany -~-Street’ Park, New. York State; this“ sum= mer. Next winter she will enter John’s Hopkins. 2a Ethel Sussman. will be in Atlantic City this summer. and looking for a posi- tion. i Frances Tatnall does not know. what she will do. - Martha Taylor will go. absoad- this summer. Eleanor Totten will, go abroad this summer and expects to teach Latin next winter. Marian .Turner intends to’ take a busi-_ ness course and get a job. Ruth Unangst will return here with a scholarship in philosophy. Blanche Worthington is not sure what she will ‘do. Isabel Benham hopes to- get a job in New. York. for the coming summer and winter. . Kathleen Cone is spending this summer at North Cape, and will probably study in New York next winter. Elisabeth Doak does not really know what she is going to do, but hopes to go abroad this summer. — Mary Drake has no idea at all for the near future. Ethel Dyer is looking for a job on the stage, and maybe will go abroad in the “meanwhile. Elisabeth Gow is going home to|— Butte,. Montana for the summer; and is to be married in September, when she will take up her future abode in Hender- son, North Carolina. Julia Harris is going south for a sum- | mer on an Alabama cotton plantation. NéXt winter she is going to work in her father’s office in the Senate, and take courses at the Red Cross Building in Washington. Mary Joy Johnson ‘is going to South France with Sydney Sullivan for the summer and hopes to find a job that will keep her abroad next winter. Ann-Marie. Kennedy is dividifig her ____‘ summer _between-Omaha,--Nebraska,—and buying a trousseau in New York, where she will live after her marriage in Sep- tember. ~ Gertrude Macatee is marrying Mr. Randolph Butler in June and departing for Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mignon Sherley is spending half her summer in Kentucky and half in Canada. |. — graduate work here in English next winter. ; Caroline Thompson is going this sum- mer to ‘the Geneva School of ‘Inter- national Studies on a scholarship of the Students’ International Union. Next winter she will be in Washington, D. C. Lois Thurston is taking her choice next summer of California, a Wyoming ranch, Europe, or breeding dogs. In the winter ee to travel somewhere. ; Evalyn Waples does not really know what she is doing but hopes to get a job for the summer and to get married next winter. Dorothy Wright is studying “art this summer in Chester Springs, and next winter she is studying illustrating at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. - Margaret .McKelv¥ -is spending the summer in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and is studying in New York next winter with Kathleen Cone. Coming back next year: Bachofer, Hobart, Bell, Winship. ) ee Marion Batley will be in Philadelphia this summer and hopes to find a job next winter. Angelyn Burrows has a tutoring posi- tion for the summer but nothing for next winter yet. Clarisse Dubreuil will be in Cuba for some time. Margaret-Findley will be at home this “summer, but wants a biology laboratory job for next winter. : Anne Beverly George will come out in Richmond next fall. Jane Low is going to.France this sum- mer with Frances Frenaye. She will be a graduate student here next winter. Sylvia “Markley will be back as a graduate student next year. Mary Oakford is uncertain what she will do. Frances Robinson is going to Europe. Virginia Shryock does not know what shew Esther Thomas is spending thd sum- mer-at~-Cape Cod: She will teach in the Lower School of the Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, next winter.’ : Mary Webster will be in Europe for awhile. ~ Sheema Zeben has a fellowship for Germany next winter. Ruth Levy is uncertain what she will do. ‘ , Faculty Plans. Dr. Huff will be at home in Bryn Mawr this summer. Dr, Barnes is uncertain... because_ his interest in his position for next year in- terferes with any definite plans. Dr. Chew will be in this country. Dr. Guillet will be on his farm in New Jersey. GAG GG EGE SHE « picture actor. - “THE COLLEGE Dr. and Mrs. Dietz will be at home here this summer. Dr. Canu will be in France.” Dr. Dorothea Smith will be in New Hampshire for the summer. Dr. Gardiner will be here until July, when she will leave for Europe. Dr. Cadbury will be at the Summer ‘School at Pendal Wallingford Hill, and the Institute of International Relations, at Haverford and Back Log Camp at different parts of the summer. Dr. Watson will be working on the stuff he got from Mexico. Miss Blake will be in Vermont. Miss Fairman will be here. Miss Marti intends to go to Switzer- land. Miss Sweeney will be in Lawrence for the summer and early next fall she: will leave for Spain. to spend. the winter. Miss Brady will be in Cincinnati. Miss Seeley and Miss Petts are going to the Elizabeth Duncan School in Salte- burg, Austria, to study dancing. Dr. Orr and Mr. Carlson will be at Woods ‘Hole for the summer. Miss Grant will be at the Mid-West Hockey Camp. Dr. Gray is spending this summer in America to work on his book on Parlia- mentary Government in England in the -fifteenth_century.- Miss Robbins is traveling abroad this summer, ending up in London to work on her paper in Clarendon. Miss King is starting at Bremen and going through Germany, watching both landscape and museums. She is going to Baroque, to galleries in Prague, Buda- pest and Vienna. In Italy she will stay with Mrs. Gilesy-who is making a learned study of Sard literature. Finally she is coming through ¥rance”’ to Cherbourg, visiting the cathedrals on the way with a special interest in the windows. +—_Miss—Kirk—isgoing—abroad with her sister to travel in France and settle some- where—in.Switzerland—to—work»--She—is taking a year’s leave from her Greek classés at Bryn Mawr, and she has turned the Kirk School over to Miss Mary Brewster Thompson, who has been as- sistant-principal for four years. Indian remains in New Mexico, or go abroad to Germany and Oxford. (The News regrets that these statistics are incomplete.) NITTE -~ Expert Hair Cutting BRYN MAWR 1721 “ERANCES ROBINSON-DUFF the great teacher. In admiration.” —David Belasco. Collaborator with Andre Bacque,.of the Comedie Francaise, Paris, in coaching roles and stage direction. ing and places speaking voice. Technical training in all branches of dramatic expression, attaining the power. of the modern school of acting. Applicable to the actor, singer, public speaker and moving Corrects stuttering. : Announces Summer Session at 235 EAST 62nd STREET, NEW YORK CITY Telephone: Rhinelander 4,7900 Teaches diaphragmatic breath- PPDOPDPPDD>D, ——— Hanson anoAsunanoPracesarfiareusn Avene. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Intensive Summer Courses. dN Commercial bjects MRS. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS DRESSES_ = 566 MoNTGOMERY AVENUE “BRYN MAWR, PA. ~*~ A’ Pleasant Walk from the College with an Object : in View - ON THE ROLLICKING WAY ” Tr’ a fan factory —the rollicking; frolicking Tourist third cabin on IMM liners. Any kin t of merriment made to order on a moment's notice! Peals of laughter a specialty. Not to mention alively crowd, cosyaccommodations and food that’s simply grand! In 1930 the rec- ord number of 60,522 passengers traveled “IMM Tourist!” , $105 up Delightful Tourist third cabin accommoda- — tions on such famous liners as Majestic, world’s largest ship, Olympic, Homeric, Bel- Dr. Nahm is either going to dig for News. = Athletic Awards for. Year Are Announced The Athletic Association submits the following report for the year 1930-31: Blazer awards, 1931—College In- signid: Baer, Frothingham, Totten. Class Benham, Hobart, Tatnall, H., Thompson, Waples. Class Blazer: Cone, Findley. 1932—College Blazer: McCully, Watts. Class Blazer: Engle, Field, Franchot, Graton, Mitchell, Reinhardt, Sanborn, Stonifigton. 1932—Class Insignia: Bernheimer, Engle, Hardenbergh, Paxson, Ralston, Woods, J., Woods, M., Woodward. 1933-+Class. Blazer: Bronson, Col- lins, Harriman, Le Saulnier, . Leidy, Longacre;~-Parker, Ullom, Torrance, Wood. Class Insignia: Bowditch, Collier, Colliris, Jackson, Longacre, Reming- ‘ton. 1934—-Class Blazer: Bishop, Daniels, Jarrett. ‘ Senior Awards. H. S.- Adams, class blazer. : Asher, class, blazer. Baer, class blazer and insignia, col- lege blazer and insignia. : Insignia: Thomas * Benham, class blazer and insignia. Blanchard, class blazer and insignia. Burrows, class blazer and insignia. Cone, class blazer. Dixon, class blazer. Doak, class blazer. Findley, class: blazer. Frothingham, class blazer and in- signia, college blazer and insignia. Hobart, class blazer and insignia. Humphreys, class blazer. Tatnall, class blazer and insignia. E. S. Thomas, class blazer and in- signia: ee ee a a H. Thomas, class blazer and insignia. Thompson, class blazer ‘and insignia. * Thurston, class blazer. Tott€n, class- blazer and insignia, —— ee ee oe oo _ Moore, class blazer and insignia. - \ Page 8 college blazer and insignia. Turner, class blazer. Waples, class blazer and insignia. Varsity Teams. Hockey: 1. w., Sanborn; 1. i, Moore; c., Remington; r. i, Longacre; r. w., Totten, E.; 1. h.,. Woodward; @ h,, Collier; r, h., Ullom; |. f., Baer, (capt.); Rothermel; g., Thomas, E. Subs with letters, Collins, Harriman. Basketball: c., Baer, (capt.); s. ¢., Remington;.f., Totten, E.; Collier; g., Moore; McCully. Subs: Engle, Long- acre. ‘Tennis: Haskell, Hardenbergh, (capt.); Collier, Bowditch, Allen. Swimming: Daniels, Totten, P.,, Mitchell, M., Jarrett, Torrance, Bern- heimer, Jackson, Bowditch, Bickell,’ Frothingham, (capt.) Sub: Landreth. Fencing: Brice, Cone, Engle, Swiftj (capt.); Watts, Young, — Archery: Paxson, Graton, Bishop. Signed, M. FrotHincHam,— Pres. (capt.); Foley, Nautical Boy Flunks Not all, the weird answers to quiz questions are made by college or high school students. . Somewhere in .the navy a- bluejacket is still drawing $36 monthly as a second- class seaman, instead of the $54 given one of first-class rating, as a result of a poor grade-on an examination. he took recently. — Here are some of his definitions of nautical terms the Navy Press Relations Bureau made public: Capstan—the commanding officer. Gaff—ship small talk. Scupper—a utensil used for drinking; hence the expression a scupper of coffee. Hatch—a_box .where eggs are. kept. Halyafds—a nautical name for impish- Bea a Tiller—officer in’ charge of the payroll, sometimes called the paying teller. ‘1 Tack—to handle the boat diplomati- cally. Sextant—one who officiates at funerals at sea. —N. Y. Times.~ LUNCHEON, TEA, DINNER Open Sundays CHATTER-ON TEA HOUSE ( 918 Old Lancaster Road Telephone; Bryn Mawr 1185 GUEST*ROOMS MEHL @& LATTA, Inc. LUMBER, COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS ROSEMONT, PA. —$—$—$ — : SAAD DA AEE ADE DADE EEE ELAM} ABE EEA BBE EDBED ELE AERA AAA “COLLEGE INN AND TEA ROOM SERVICE 8 A. M. TO 7:30 P. M. Daily and Sunday — A LA CARTE BREAKFAST LUNCHEON, AFTERNOON TEA AND DINNER A LA CARTE AND. TABLE D’HOTE PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT — ——_—— ur Suil skirt, an example of color contrasts highly Fairfield | This suit shows the smart combination of plain jack- San | Page 4 THE COLLEGE NEWS JUNE 2, 1931 Saaeieemenail Foreign Bryn Mawr Y Grads Interviewed} Continued from Page One from India) and from all classes of society. The college is practically of the Strand, It is nonresidential; most of its students live in. Bloomsbury. The work is far more independent than it is here ; no lectures are compulsory; there is hardly any assigned work; examinations are on large fields of work and come only every two years or so. When they do come they are an ordeal; one may have ten ‘papers of three hours each in one week. The tutorial system is largcly used. As for extracurricular activities there are athletics and the activities of the Students’ Union, an organization some- thing like our Undergraduate Associa- tion. There are tennis and netball and swimming in town and things like track and hockey outside the city. The Stu- dents’ Union’ holds dances, gets speakers every Wednesday, holds debates and a spirited Mock Parliament. Student branches of the political parties are an active part of student life. Altogether there is far more interest in politics than- there is here. Martha Bohme. Martha Friedal Bohme is from Ger- many. ~ There she~studied—in--Munich, Vienna and Cologne. She applied to the German Government for an exchange scholarship to the United States because she wished to study business administra- tion and industrial management in this country. She first heard of Bryn Mawr when she heard that it had accepted her. She likes both the College and America immensely and will gladly stay if the quota permits. Life is a great deal easier here and the people are much less pessi- mistic and reserved than in Germany, _._.more..clfildlike.-Here—at— college excel=} a lent books are available and there is a chance’ to visit big concerns regularly. “Phese- things “arid freedom from domestic detail facilitate study immensely. The American College and the German university are very different. In the German university there is no dormitory life. One is entirely on one’s own. There are no restrictions on cutting classes and there are no assignments. German uni- versities are coeducational also. Students come from the gymnasia at about 20 and, if they are .to teach, study until they are about 25. A far greater proportion of students do graduate work in Gérmany than in America. Although there are no State scholarships for the gymnasia, large :numbers go to them.__They are much cheaper than the American Junior College and there is free tuition for the very. poor. The Socialists and Com- munists give scholarships to their t papi also. Flora Hurst. Flora Hurst was here last = year and will be here next as 1esearch assistant to Professor Kingsbury, in the Social Economy Department. She .comes from the University of British Columbia, which is situated, so she says, on the “most beautiful site for a College in America.” “Here at Bryn Mawr,” said Miss Hurst, “T have*leakned that I must be practical. I have developed an ideal of living and working such that I feel now I could _ go almost anywhere if it was to do a piece of work of social value. Working in the Social Economy department has taught me the impossibility of living in splendid isolation. And living in the United States has given me an apprecia- For BOOKS GO TO SESSLER’S "1310 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIOUS SUMMER MEANS -—A PROSPEROUS FALL AN __Intensive_ Business and Secretarial — “Courses for the College Trained” Day and Eveni Classes Graduates Placed NITED STATE Secretarial School Thirtieth Year 527 Fifth Ave., at 44th St., N. Y. C. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Professional School for Women School Monday, June 22 Saturday, August 1, 1931 The Academic -Year for 1931-32 ae Monday, September 28, 1931 HENR’ THERTON FROST, Dicer 3) Cnoncn Sr oper. Mass. At | Square vad ,contrasts of luxury and . squalor, ithe pleasant dormitory life, all are new tion of its accomplishments and its aspira- tions and an understanding :of :what the different parts of the country. stand: for.” -Miss Hurst came to Bryn Mawr’ to do.’ scholarly piedk of academic work and for a change. She found very little real difference in the people-of*East and West, but much in their manner of life. She missed the informality, the outdoor life, the idealism, the experiment of the West. The Wniversity of British Columbia is small for a State university, having ‘only about 1700 students. Many of these, both men and women, live at home and com- mute by bus. There are no dormitories, but some are planned. There are a few fraternity and sorority houses. Work, although nothing like as.free as in Eu- rope, is more independent than in Bryn Mawr. One may cut one-eighth of one’s classes and there is more opportunity to organize one’s. own work than there is here. ‘Perhaps the most pleasing thing ‘about the college is its nearness to both city and real country. Diederika Liesvald. Diederika Liesvald came here from the University of Amsterdam, in Holland; because her major is English and she wanted to come to an English-speaking country. The award of a Bryn Mawr fellowship brought her to Fo id and to Bryn Mawr. “Yes, 1-likebeing-here- very.- much,” Miss Liesvald said.. Bryn Mawr because of its dignity and its stress on work is one of the most European of American Colleges...For this reason it is probably the one most easy for Europeans to adjust themselves to. Even at Bryn Mawr, however, America seems very dif- ferent from Europe. The country, the trees and ‘birds are different. The great the large-distances,-the--embryonic..condition |... of socialism, the high quality of the food, = In Holland there is no difference between undergraduate and.graduate..student.All university students do specialized, inde- pendent work. There are no- seminars, classes are cut freely, and one- decides with one’s professor when to have an ex- amination. The students are altogether more independent and more mature than they are in this country. The-first two years at the American College are com- parablé to the last two years of the gym- nasia, the preparatory schools in which studies are general, not specialized. In “Holland one lives a simpler life than in “America. One has less social contacts, not so many meaningless ones. Students at the universities.dress simply and_more uniformly than _we-do—here; they practically never wear elaborate eve- ning dress as we do for Goodhart, or very shabby clothes as we do on the campus. One’s contact with men and girls is pretty well confined to people in one’s own department, for there is no dormi- tory life. If one is not wealthy, one has ‘practically no social life. There NEW YORK WIGMAN SCHOOL OF THE DANCE Under MARY WIGMAN'S supervi- sion... Courses for dancers, ama- teurs, teachers, in authentic Wigman method. Starts Oct. Ist... Reser- vation. now.. Write for curriculum: 113 WEST 57th’ ST. NEW YORK.” Learn Languages This Summer / T he Berlitz Conversational Method, used by skilled native eachers, assures satisfactory re- _| Paris “and Nancy. “Since. th to Bryn Mawr. try. very much. are, however, music and theatres and all the attractions of a big town. Education is not a general thing.. Holland’s biggest university has only 1700 students. The University of Amsterdam has no campus. work house. and more dignified than those here. There are few foreign studentg.and these are mostly from Dutch colonies in -South Africa. A number of ple are trying, however, to get an exchange office for foreign students. Marthe Miskolczy. Marthe Miskolezy (Mrs. Ernest Mis- kolezy ) came to Bryn Mawr to-do work in its industrial department. Coming from thy University of Budapest, in Hungafy, she finds Bryn Mawr “en- tirely different.” There one attends the gymnasium up to the age of eighteen and then the university. The professors at the universities are far more important than they are here. There are less of them and they are more experienced. Some professors ta achieve their posi- tions have served a twelve-year assist- anceship without pay. Since the war Hungary has been very poor, but the younger students still travel about some- what from one university. to another, especially in Hungary. There are Gov- ernment fellowships also to send students to other countries. s Mrs. Miskolezy has. enjoyed, she said, being over here very much. After keep- ing house and holding a number of re- sponsible positions in Hungary, she finds the irresponsibility of dormitory life de- lightfully restful. She is. highly _ im- pressed by the brilliance of the other graduate students. She thinks that it is a pity that there is. so little contact of foreign fellows and undergraduates:- Odette Thireau “Odette Thireau_ comes. frofp. France. where she attended the Universities of utime, ten | | years ago, ‘when she first saw an an-| nouncement-of the -Bryn’Mawr féllow-— ships she has had the idea of coming Her major_is chemis- She likes being. here, she says, The French universities are very dif- ferent from the American woman’s college. In France one goes to the colleges or lyceés' up to the age of eighteen, then to a technical school. or a part of a university. The University It has only one old-building, formerly 4 The professors are all older. of Paris is in five sections, Literature and Languages,: Science, Law (which includes the study of Economics and Politics), Medicine, and Pharmacy. There ‘one spends two or three years to. get-a degree and two or three years more to get a:doctor’s degree. One’ is absolutely independent: One need not go to classes. Laboratory work, how- ever, ntust be done. Most students live at home or at boarding houses, Out- side of Paris there are, in addition, special boarding places for students of different nationalities built by *their countries. The rooms in them are ex- changeable; for example, a Frenchman may exchange his room in the French house for the room of an American in the American house. Much of the student fighting that goes on in Paris is taken part in by the students of law. Many of them ‘are rich and royalist, dull, noisy and highly unpopular. At one time there was a small group of Fascists in the univer- sity but this group has died out. Some students ‘still feel very bitter against the Germans. Feeling against theyEng- lish and Americans was high when the rate of exchange was very unfavorable to France.. Many of them came to live cheaply in France. Mildred Osterhout Flora Hurst and Mildred Osterhout ‘yare scarcely foreigners for they come from_no: farther than Canada, where they studied at the University of Brit- ish Columbia. If they are foreign at all it is not so much because they live north of us as because they live very far west. The contrast between their point of view and the point of-view-of the Europeans was very interesting, Where the Europeans, coming from | town universities, found us .countrified, | they find us stuffy and suburban. -They miss. the wildness andthe spaciousness: of the west: tem is “practically unknown. in Europe, rat the - University of British Columbia the only reason for awlack of dormi- tories is that there have not been time and money..enough to build them. In the. European university, cuts “may be freely taken but at the University. of British Columbia cuts are only slightly freer than at Bryn Mawr. -Both the ‘European university and the Univer- sity of British Columbia, however, are co-educational and both are poorer than Bryn Mawr.: ‘SUMMER BOARDING _ on BRYN MAWR COLLEGE CAMPUS Reservations are now being made at LOW BUILDINGS Rooms and Board Per Week with Use of Bath; Private Bath Extra SOIR hai ci caiiiei unions $20.00 per week © Connecting Bedroom and Sitting’ Room .... 24.00 “ “ Suites for Two Persons .........4..cccccsccscees 40.00 “ “ and’ up Quiet ts Cool 2 — Restful EDITH EYRE, Manager, Telephone: _Beyn nme 1739 . ‘Hmitory life of Bryn Mawr. has found’ very different from West. While the dormitory_sys~ Miss Osterhout, like Miss Hurst, is working in the social economy depart- ment. She came here, after six years of teaching, “for a ‘change and. for background.” “Being a progressive,” she says, “I wanted to discover the value of the past on which the future is built.” her Being at Radnor has given “an appreciation of the varying approachés to a realization of life”’ In Radnor and in her contact with colleges she has. visited she has found European culture. and “an international atmos- phere.” She likes immensely the dor- East she Whére the West is free and experi- mented the East is bound by tradition and “set in its ways.” The extremes of wealth and poverty: here in the East, Miss Osterhout finds “appatting. The rigid stratification of Eastern so- ciety is new to-her. Life here is-more formal: and less spontaneous; more dignified Fand gracious than’ in the West. The people are more reserved but they also have more superficial social contacts, In the West it is pos- sible to be closer to’ people and to nature and there is “a deeper searching into life’s values than in the East.” Miss Osterhout, as did every other stu-° dent interviewed,. thought. co-education preferable to the system of separate colleges for men and women. She commented on the fact ‘that being at Bryn Mawr has made‘her more int ested in Europe. On the west coast people are more interested in the Far East. BRYN MAWR 494 _ JOHN J. MeDEVITT. _ PRINTING _Shop:_ ROSEMONT P, 6. Address: Bryn Mawr, Pa. _JEANNETT’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop Phone, Bryn Mawr 570 823 Lancaster Avenue FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW NEW YORK. Case System—Three-Year Course CO-EDUCAT IONAL College Degree or Two Years of College Work with Good Grades Required Transcript of Record Necessary in Cases , MORNING, EARLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING CLASSES WRITE FOR CATALOGUE CHARLES P. 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SPECIALLY attractive op- portunities for the youn’, woman with college placate and The thirty months course, pro- viding, an intensive and varied experience through the case study method, leads to the degree of BACHELOR OF NURSING Present student body includes sraduates of leading colleges. Two or more years of approved college work required for admission. A few scholarships available for students with advanced quali- The educational facilities of ‘Yale. wae 1145. Lancaster Avenue — LANGUAGES Established. 1878 Branches Throughout the World 226 South 15th Street Elrae Building PHILADELPHIA, PA. Telephone: Pennypacker 4267 B BRITT SD "WELLESLEY | University are open to qualified’ SCHOOL OF ao students. For catalog and information address: THE DEAN The SCHOOL of NURSING of YALE UNIVERSITY | CONNECTICUT, ~~~ * NEW scpaviaeicl 4 Sn we . Bs JUNE 2, 1931 y \. THE COLLEGE NEWS Page 5 Alumnae Luncheon Is Great Success Theatre Is Topic of After- Dinner Speeches by Well- Known Alumnae. MISS PARK IS SPEAKER The Gymnasium Saturday was the scene of the’ Alumnae Luncheon, which Miss . Theresa . Helburn, manager of the Theatre Guild; _ Margaret Ayres Barnes, '07, author of the Pulitzer -Prizewinner, “Years of Grace”; Mrs. -Conger and Miss Ethel Chouteau Dyer, '31, spoke, The general topic of the speeches was the theatre, frorh the point of view of the producer, the novelist, the layman and the undergraduate actress and producer. Theresa"Helburn, ’08 Although Miss Helburn declared that she had not come back to talk about. the theatre, but for reunion, and with the sneaking hope of some tennis, she related a number of amusing anec- dotes.and- incidents of the profession, and discussed several of the problems which face the. theatre today. One of the most grave dangers. is connected with sending companies on tour. It is interesting to find out the varied fand_ individual reactions of audiences in different. cities, especially in those where the New York press comments have not reached them, but the. legitimate theatre by expanding at 08, Mrs. thus is taking money. away from the} motion picture industry, and it is almost impossible to get road booking. | The censorship problem has not abated, but has increaged since th ——“encroachment of the *movies.’ Where- as the theatre used to be the prime amusement interest, it is now only second~or- third. It is not” possible to wipe it out, but a certain field can and must be kept. for its own. The pictures are produced for the masses, and standardized down to the mass ‘mind; consequently, censorship is necessary. The theatre, on the other hand, is growing smaller, ‘and there will soon be two kinds: The adjunct to the motion picture, as publicity, and the theatre for the intelligent. Most successful plays are now of sonie merit, but the .“high-brow” films are-only-a gesture, and do not play i the small towns. : The motion pictures cannot touch ideas or satire, it is “just the human love story that counts.” In. the “Theatre of Ideas and Free Thought” it is to be hoped'that politics will come back, and that musical satire and burlesque will occupy a higher place ‘than they do now. As to the possibility of acting as an art, there is not now much of an art of acting. The audience is not.so interested in that as it is in the projection of. personality, and the type of casting developed is bad for acting as an-art.. Ethel Dyer, ’31 Miss’ Dyer spokt next’ on the work in dramatics which the College has been doing in the past four years, and declared that it may be marked dis- tinctly off from the old by the posses- sion of Goodhart, which allows for bigger and more audiences, and for more ambitious undertakings. She also paid tribute to Barrett Clarke, who gave ‘for ex- plish because of the necessity for com- pression. She prefers the novel of a life, and has about twenty-five favorite books of this type which she rereads constantly in order to improve her own technique in the novel. Tolstoy’s “War..and Peace,” Bennett’s “Old Wive's Tale” and Henry James’ works are included in this group of favorites. Mrs. ‘Barnes is'a great admirer of Er- nest Hemingway and considers Willa Cather the best writer in America to- day. : Mrs. Barnes laid emphasis on the luck she “has had and on the encour- agement lrer husband and three+sons’ “have given her. When reporters were clamoring for a statement after the award had -been announced, her hus- band suggested’ that she say, in the words’ of Rear-Admiral Byrd after reaching the South Pole, “I could not considers it a harder thing to accom- | =THE GOLLEGE NEWS have done this without my men.” a oh Dr. Johnston Urges Sin Bé Remitted Continued from Page One condition is not the result of an. individ- ual, but of corporate conduct. Our busi- ness then, is to remove corporate sins, which have résulted. Virtue is impossible in some places, in parts of our city life, for example. Brotherhood also is impossible “if there is always in the foreground an appeal to force.” Disease and “injustice are: also sins, as is poverty, where it retards de- velopment and narrows. Ignorance and prejudice, too, are corrupting and blight- ing. And so we, who have received in- tellectual and spiritual baptism here, have a duty ;-we must be-co-redeemers of the world; we must go out and remove these evils. We must go out into slums, into schools and colleges, into State, into dark places, to China, if we will, to Europe, bringing comfort, and to the vast spaces of Amierica driving out our “superficial sentimentality.’ to remit or retain sins. The. service was, as usual, a very im- pressive one. The academic procession was distinguished by many_— different tokens of leartiing in varied styles and colors. The choir is to be ‘wales upon the selection and finished execution of a chorale from the cantata, “Jesu nahm zu sich die Zwolfe’ and “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” from the Brahms’ “Requiem,” ~and ~~ Palestrina’s © “Gloria Patri.” It was under the direction of Mr. Willoughby, who also conducted the or- chestra, which; besides accompanying the singing, “provided a_very. fine _preludé to. ‘the -service- with. its interpretation” Of ay Prelude .by* Liadow, a Handel Minuet “Cirom “Berenice” ~and-a~ Bach—Sara-}- bande. Interview From: Miss Kingbury on Council Continued from Page One politics, economics and so on. Such sub- jects as the effect of prohibition and alcohol on amusements, juvenile delinq- uency, crime, et cetera, will probably be studied. The Council has no time limit to its work. It will probably hold only afew meetings through the year. It is not, as the News incorrectly stated in its last issue, a council to do research, but rather one to co-ordinate and perhaps supervise it. The other colleges and universities besides Bryn Mawr represented on the Council are- Harvard, Columbia, Prince- ton, the University of Michigan, Louisi- ana State University, Western Reserve University, Stanford -University, the University of Pennsylvania and _ the University of California. bac Haverford ‘Pharmacy HENRY W. PRESS, P. D. Prescriptions, Drugs, Gifts Phone: Ardmore 122 PROMPT DELIVERY ‘SERVICE Haverford, Pa. ci \—)—)—) =) =) =) THE BRYN MAWR TRUST CO. CAPITAL, $500,000.00 Does a General Banking Business Allows Interest on Deposits on ain en ne aap eee em mn ene am eon am Phone Ardmore 328 Prompt Delivery HELEN S. BROWN 6 ARDMORE ARCADE * ARDMORE, PA. LANG'S CANDIES Bon-Bons Chocolates Finest Assortment Salted Nuts Candy Novelties * ere The HAT CORNER __7012. West Garret Road 1 Block West of 69th St. Terminal Hats Draped to the Head “Gage” Hats—Large Head Sizes FOR NEARLY dee i: ércise. We wished to know what becomes of the students after they leave the school. Theif training is for the purpose of equipping them for the professional field. Dean Spofford said that last year cight students were accepted for the Philadel- phia Orchestra. Many go into opera, and many others’ achieve success in their re- spective fields. “The school has taught . them practice as well as theory. In addi- CoLLEGE WOMEN for half a century have chosen our intensive course in secretarial training. Interesting , positions secured for graduates of the course. Individual instruction. Moderate tuition. Booklet. THE C. F. YOUNG SCHOOL for Secretarial Training 24 Sidney Place, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. KKK" EE KEKE KEKKK EKEEKEKEKE Allen “A” Hosiery scence ne eerste er JUNE 2, 1931 — nen Interview with Miss Helburn Continued from Page, One .is very frivolous.” But the gleam in she said it. After Miss Helburn’s. graduation, she studied at Harvard for awhile, although she had not completely recovered from the effects of the breakdown. Later she started doing work, in drama and poetry, but discovered that it was too easy. Im- mediately she cut it out and began writ- ing plays. -In 1919 she began her con- nection with the embryonic Guild, on what she expected to be a temporary job, in what was supposed to be an advisory capacity. A crisis came in the managing end, and Miss Helburn rushed into the breach. She has _ held her commanding position: ever since, and has written no more plays, although orfe which she finished the day before taking with Alice Brady as the star. Miss Helburn, although unfamiliar with the dramatic work which has “been done at Bryn: Mawr, finds. the greatest value of college dramatics in the fact that they create intelligent audiences who are capable of appreciating the technical problems of the stage. Interest in the drama_must _be_stimulated,.because. the} movies have done so much to close the theaters of the-small towns to legitimate productions, For this reason the majority of people are losing contact with the stage and an aristocracy of the theater is grow- ing up. Miss Helburn believes that New York is the greatest producing center im’ the world.- Much of the‘stimu= lation which the drama feels there she attributes , to the fact that the large for- eign eleiment in the audiences take the European: attitude toward. the theater,—in which because it is a part of their edu- cation and a. part of their lives, they are interested because “T would be willing to have the theater and the. movies wiped oft completely for a generation. People would inevitably come to the art of drama again, and it would gain .more vitality by the rest.” Miss Helburn has, by the energy and intelligence which she brings to every- Miss Helburn’s eye was a giveaway as Theater” the Guild job has since been produced y the mental content. | thing she does and says, done much to give vitality to the theater again. R. 2 Student Newspaper Statistics New York, N. Y.—Thirty-eight uni- | versities in the United States are served by daily papers, issued and controlled by students.. Sixty colleges have papers which are issued twice or three times a week, while more than four hundred are served by weeklies, sccording to a recent survey. Nop The thirty-eight college dailies claim a circulation of one. hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and seventeen or ° an average of four thousand eight hun- dred copies each, but this means little as two have circulations of less than a thousand, and one: distributes as many as fifteen thousand. The dailies are pub- lished mainly at institutions having large enrollments, although “three colleges maintaining dailies have less than two thousand students. The only girls’ col- lege to be served by a daily is Radcliffe. In the East the general size is from four to eight pages, while in the Mid- West and West the average number of. pages is greater. Many of the dailies use some kind of wire service, even though it be only a pony service. On the other hand, there.are—rhany “dailies which “devote “their columns solely to campus affairs. , Practically every daily, as is true of the less frequently issued college publications, affords some financial compensation to | one or more members of the staff. In general the compensation of the dailies takes the form of salaries, Steamship Tickets all ships of altlines, to alt ports, in all classes. Conducted Tours énuaan very best tours ofered, also . student tours at economical rates. | Independent Tours arranged to suit individual . su quirements: Itineraries mitted without obligation. Representative on Campus: MISS MARGARET TYLER Merion Hall Bryn Mawr ~ thrift. ONE.OF NEW YORK’S © SMART RESIDENCES" FOR WOMEN For a day or a month you'll find The Allerton.a delightfuland convenient home. 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