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VOL. XVI, NO. 18

BRYN MAWR (AND es PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930

 

 

Subject of Tea Dances
Favorably ‘Discussed

A joint. meeting of the Undergradu-
and Self-Government Associations

 

ate
was held at chapel time on ‘Wednesday,
February 12. The first ,
the Undergraduate™ Association
whether there should be a tea-
dance before Varsity Dramatics as well
as before Glee Club.’ The date of the
Varsity production was named as the

estion be-
fore

was

week-end after spring vacation, while
the Glee Club -performance. will be in
May.-A-vote was taken and the mo-
tion for two tea-dances was carried.

Miss Baer was elected to choose and

head a committee for the Varsity Dra-
matics dance, and a faculty reception
committee was agreed upon.

The next question up for discussion

was whether Bryn Mawr should join}

the N. S. F. A. (National Student Fed-
eration of America) this year.

years, although scarcely conscious of
the fact, and that there were certain
definite advantages in it. For instance
by sending a representative to the an-
nual conference we. see the problems
of other colleges and keep in touch
with their movements.

however, such as those dealing with
fraternities and cheating at examina-
tions; do not concern us. On the other
hand at the last conference .in Palo

__AAlto,-our representative; Miss Martin,

was able to make some very valuable
and helpful suggestions to the other
students. After a short discussion a
vote was taken which’ decided that
Bryn-Mawr-was-to join N.S. F. A.
again, ‘but with more spirit and inter-
est than previously shown. The Un-
dergraduate Association Board was
also empowered to bring the. archaic

. book of Undergraduate laws up to

date.

The meeting was then turned over
‘to. the Self-Government Association,
but the questions to be discussed were
not brought to the vote since a quorum
was not present. The executive board
wished to be empowered to clarify the
smoking rule by rewriting it. A ten-

tative vote on the suggestion that the}

rule of no bridge-playing in the smok-
ing rooms on Sundays be changed
seemed to favor the change. The third
question brought: before the meeting

was whether men should be allowed.

in the girls’. rooms unchaperoned on
weekdays. The-.ensuing discussion
centered on two points: that of having
special permission for weekday guests,
and changing the hours slightly for she
convenience of those who are dressing
after athletics. The object of having
special permission on weekdays was
pointed out as giving opportunities of
checking up on the male visitors in the
halls. Miss Thompson suggested that
men be allowed to have tea in the
halls on Saturday and Sunday after-
noons without special permission,. and

~~ ~~orr_ afternoons froni.Monday-to Friday

with permission. No conclusions were
reached on this. subject,.and the meet-
ing was adjourned.

 

Calendar
Thursday: evening, February 20:
The Varsity Players will pre-
sent Sparkin’, by E. F, Conkle.
Friday evening, February 21:
Doctor L. C. Graton, Professor
of Mining Geology at Harvard
University,. will speak on “How
to Behave Like a Human
Being When a Mile and a Half
Below. Ground.” This lecture
will be given under. the aus-
; pices of the Science Club, in:
Goodhart Hall, at a varie” past
—_ eight_o’clock. a
Stonitay, February. 24: The ‘Peint
Club of Philadelphia “will opefi
an exhibit in the old musi¢
room in Wyndham.
Tuesday evening, February 25:
. The French Club will | oem
*  Hernani.

     

Miss’
Perkins said that the college had be-:
longed to this organization for two’

Many of the
‘problems discussed at the conference,

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tas. hard. as she -can.

Education Is Not Offered
~ °On a Silver Platter

 

On Tuesday, February 11, :-Miss
Millicent Carey spoke at chapel in the
Music Room on the complaints and
criticisms of the students which have
been brought to the ‘Dean’s office.
There have been more changed courses
this. year than ever before and this
presents an extremely. interesting prob-
lem since it shows up the student, en-
lightens the administrator by throwing
light on the curriculum needs, and es-
tablishes certain opinions on what ed-
ucational institutions should give. The
first two points need little discussion.
The complaining student often shows
by her criticisms that it is*she whois
lacking, and she is in reality criticizing
herself. Plans are being made by the
Faculty and Student Curriculum Com-

mittees for a complete revision¢of the |:

present curriculum. In many cases the
student complaints that there is too
much to do in short courses, and that
there are too many lectures’ in some
courses are completely justified. The
most common criticisms of the educa-
tional plan are that some of the pro-
fessors are dull, that many courses
contain too much ground work and de-
tail and do not meet the student’s in-
terests, and that present courses are
far_too remote from: life.

It is‘a-strange and unfortunate. truth
that certain students cast the job—of
giving ‘themselves an education upon
the college, especially in courses that
have interviews. It is as though they
said to the college, “Well, here I am.
What are you going to do about it?”
This attitude is based on an entirely
mistaken educational philosophy. ° In
the first place alf arguments must be
conducted on the premise that Bryn
Mawr is a _ spetialized college, and
those who come here know.that. The
students. are carefully selected from
among those wanting: to do decent,
thorough, scholarly work at college,
and not to sit around and talk about
life and take courses in’ which, all of
human knowledge -is« ~ synthesized,
Bryn Mawr wants to train people with
a scholarly point of view, ‘and feels
that the best education for a student
lies in the honest, hard-analysis of the
subjects she is taking. With such an
education she:is completely equipped
to do first rate graduate work, and
also best equipped to do other things
since she knows how to think, to use
any materials as tools, and to work
‘The objections
to the dull professors do not seem well-
founded, for the teachers ‘have been
chosen as. best fitted to present the mate-
rial which the student wants. She has
no right to complain because the profes-
sor does not put over this important
material with high-powered salesman-
ship. Because the teacher does: not in-
spire his class, individual student re-
sponsibility does not end. If a“stu-

{dent feels that she is getting nothing

from her education, and. would be bet-
ter doing something else, she is a mis-
fit-and does not belong in college.
That ideal educational quality which
the student is seeking must be supple-
mented by her own. efforts.
Whitehead’ in his “Essay on the Aims
of Education” sums the situation up
very well: “There’is no royal road to
learning through an airy path of—bril-
liant generalizations.”

 

French Club to
Present ‘Hernapi’

 

(Specially contributed)

The Frenth Club of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege announce a centennial reproduction
of the famous premiere of Victor. Hugo’s
Hernapi\on February twenty-fifth in the
auditorium of. Goodhart Hall. .The date
is extremely. well-known in literary _his-
tory as_the-culmination of the romantic

theories proclaimed in Hugo’s Préface de

Cromwell itt 1827.” As such; the’ first
representation of Hernani, on February
25, 183 \ occasioned a storm of comment

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4 liant climaxes,

Prof.’

| Cuids Program

Singular Success

 

Miss Sanzewitch Charms With
‘Symphonic Variations’ of
Franck.

 

{DON JUAN OUTSTANDING

 

On Wednesday; February ‘12, 1930, in

tute Orchestra gave one of the out-
standing concerts of the year. Under
Emil Mlynarski as conductor, the young
musicians showed delightful: warmth of
feeling and exuberant. enthusiasm..From
the sustained beauty of the second move-
ment+of the Brthms to the thrilling free-
dom “of the! Strauss, the players were
sensitive to the peculiar. value oi every
phrase. Remarkable for their oneness in
movement and spirit in the numbers for
orchestra alone, they were equally skil-
ful in combining with solo instruments,
They caught up and developed themes
with fulness and color, and with nice
feeling for the balance between orchestra
and individual artist. ae

‘The peak of a beautiful program was
undoubtedly the Symphonic Variations
of Cesar Franck, the piano part played
by Tatiana de Sanzewitch. From the
first Crisp, clear-cut notes, Miss Sanze-
witch showed herself complete mistress
of-her-instrument and feader of her or-
chestra, which responded to her shades
of feeling as if inspired. The aloof ‘glory
of the piece’ caught the young pianist,
body and spirit, until every’ note was
charged .with rare significance: From
subdued introductions and rising devel-
opments, Miss Sanzewitch swept to bril-
carrying not only the
orchestra, but her entire audience with
yt bate

High as was the level of Miss Sanze-
witch’s work, the rest of the program
certainly did not suffer from comparison
The opening number was-Beethoven’s
Overture . to “Egmont.” The heroic
themes, although fluent, lacked the vigor
of utterance which was to characterize
the rest of the program, and to dominate
the Strauss in- particular.

The first movement of the Brahms
Double Concerto, ‘intellectual and intri-
cate in character, was difficult:-to handle.
_The violin themes of Miss Poska and
Mr. Machula too often were lost against
the orchestra, and the effect, while flow-
ing and thoughtful, was lacking in con-
viction. In the Andante :and Vivace,
however; thé orchestra reached’ the
height which it was to maintain there-
after. Less complex in. structure, these
movements were also shorter and easier

Continued on Page Three

 

Start Now!
The L. C. Page Publishing Compatiy
has just -announced a contest which
should be of great interest to Bryn Mawr
people. They plan to publish, in 1930,
a book entitled. The College Girl of
America, the text of which: is to consist
of articlés written by students of Rock-
ford, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley,
‘Radcliffe, Simmons, Barnard, Vassar,
Goucher; and Bryg’ Mawr.” These ar-
ticles are to be a3, ee on “the ‘college,
its history, traditions, ideals, and their
exemplification in the kind of el it is
graduating today.”

A contest is to be held in each college,
and the writer of the best article, which
is to be chosen within the college and
then submitted to the publishers, will
receive a prize of fifty dollars. ‘The judg-
ing committee at Bryn Mawr is to con-
sist of Miss Carey, as a representative
of the English Department; Dr. Vir-
ginia Kneeland Frantz, Alumnae Direc-
tor, as a member of the governing board
of the college, and Erna Rice, ’30, Edi-
tor of the College News. The winning
-manuseript must have—been—selected__by
April first, at the latest, so those who
are interested in entering the competi-
tion aré advised to start thinking about
their articles.
right of awarding no prize, and of sub-
mitting*-none of the articles to L.~C.
Page. and.. ny if, in their opinion,

  

 

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Mrs, . Manning Biclaieas

Tuition Rise :

 

“My main object is calling you to-
gether this morning,” began Mrs.
Manning in chapel on Thursday, “was
to announce that in December the Di-
rectors had voted that the fee for
undergraduate tuition be raised one
hundred dollars and the fee for gradu-
ate tuition: be raised fifty dollars.”
Mrs. Manning said that this anounce-
ment was one that might be made al-
most as a matter of routine, since we
are gradually becoming accustomed to
the increased cost of’ living, It has
been the general policy of the college
in any financial crisis to ask for sup-
port from the Alumnae and the friends
of the college outside or else to, bor-
row money. Only when the annual
budget of the college has proven too
small, and when the inevitable rise in
prices has made it necessary, have the
fees increased. This year, however,
the announcement of the increase in
the tuition fee marks’an important de-
velopment in. the financial policy of the
college which every student here ought
to understand.

The step has been taken after a
serious reconsideration of the whole
problem by Miss Park and the Direc-
tors. Comparison has shown that the
cost—of—teaching it” Bryn Mawr is
higher than in the other women’s col-
Jegés=It ~is“apparently impossible to
meet the gap between’ tuition fees and
teaching expenses solely by increase
in endowment,’ There-are_a—number
of reasens why the cost -of-education
at Bryn Mawr must be higher than at
the other colleges. First of all,. ex-
pénsive arrangements have been made
for taking care of students, such as the
system of dining. in separate halls;
then, as a small college we maintain
departments—Music and Art, for ‘ex-
ample—which are ordinarily omitted
in the curriculum of colleges. of this

‘| size; finally, on the whole, Bryn Mawr

is a residential suburb and thus a very
expensive place in which to _ live.
However, very obviously these factors

Continued on Page Four

 

Players to Present

Conkle’s ‘Sparkin’

 

“Sparkin’,” a‘one-act ‘play, by E. P.
Conkle; will be given by the Bryn Mawr
Players in Ggodhart Hall, Thursday
evening, February 20, at 9:30 o'clock.
The play “is one of a seriés. which Mr.
Conkle calls “Crick Bottom Plays—
Sketches of Mid-Weitern., Life.” “The
author,” says. Barrett Clark,-in his pre-
face to the collection of plays, ‘‘based his
work ‘entirely upon the life he knew.
Until he was nineteen -he had not trav-
elledsmore than twenty-two miles from
his home, a typical town in Nebraska.

“Tt is perhaps: unnecessary to say that
not all the people in Nebraska and its
neighboring States are like these he de-
picts in his plays. Hi¢ interest reverts
to the tillers of the-soil who drive teams

of horses and-not trattors. They came
from Tlinois’ and Indiana, some even
from Virginia and North Carolina.

Their quaint and sometimes rich” idio-
matic speech, like their religion and their
philosophy, have now almost disappeared.
They ‘didn’t read much,’ Mr. Conkle
tells-me,‘but-they-were wise. And they
have now been relegated to the past,
along with their coal-oil lamps, their
spring buckboards, and their homespun
clothes. Their daughters and sons are
ashamed of them. I’ve known and loved
these people and have thought them
werth recording, They shouldn't be
doomed to the great oblivion that is to
engulf the rest of us’.”
The cast is ‘as follows:
Granny Painsberry,

Ethel Chisuteatt Dyer, ‘3!
Lessie Hanna Janet Marshall; ’33
Susan Hanna..... Margaret Reinhardt, 32
Orry Sparks.......... Catherine Reiser, ’31

“Mary Polk” Drake,

It has béen found necessary
the price of admission to 35 cents in
order to cover expenses. Varsity. Play-
ers=ar€ anxious that the charge should

31, is directing.

        

 

Players haye not covered expenses.

to raise}

Freshman Show es

Reveals Talent

 

hesion, But Single Acts
Good.

| ANIMAL: IN SMALL PART

 

1933 offered to 1931 and others
liberal entertainment in the form of
their “Palpitating Pinafores.” Fresh-
man show was presented with avowed
humility, but it scorned tradition and
ignored the- unfortunate animal until
the bitterend. Further, the show was
not a continuous palpitation as the
name implied; it was a series of “skits”
and “specialties,” each giving evidence
of careful organization within itself,
but not assisting the unity of the show

animal. The faults ofthe show were
perhaps advantages ‘in view of enter-
tainment; the fact that the animal was
thrust aside, gave opportunity for
greater variation in material; the fact
that the show was broken up into nu-
merous unrelated parts, allowed better
exploitation of talent. Skits are dan-
gerous devices because they are ‘de-

these be too much for the audience,

+as—they—inevitably—are-in-amateur~—at=
tempts, the action drags heavily. The“

modern revue has lessened these dan-
gers By the use of the chorus; the
Freshman show. eked out what- might
have been othérwise flat lines with
clever, and .well-drilled songs and
dances, in evident emulation of the
professional stage. If the progress
was-at times slow and pointless, it was
counteracted partially by the happy in-
sertion of choruses. Specialties are
apt to cheapen a performance,sand, al-
though they were pleasant interludes
and served as fillers-in, they might
have been better introduced into the
action itself. The show could not rely
on spectacle for its effect; the skits
made no particular artistic demands
upon their background, but: one scenic
achievement was produced—the im-
pressive (though translucent) wall of
Pembroke (or was it Rockefeller?);
the costumes of the choruses were
effectively designed, but otherwise
costuming was a negligible factor. .As
a production, ‘“Palpitating Pinafores”
was, carried through with smoothness
and assurancé, despite the lack of co-
hesion in its parts.

The curtain song was woettiy of
note because the words could actually
be heard, and laughter could therefore
be genuine. As to the palpitation of
the pinafores, it was confined to the
opening chorus—ah original creation of
33; the pinafores themselves were
white ruffled affairs on blue checked
dresses cut low in the back, and_|it
was their movement to the syncopated
song that stimulated the unwieldly
show into motion—if not into palpita-
tion; One Trégretted that the opm

Continued ‘on Page Three

Organ Is Missed in
Musical Service

 

 

of -the
in the

The Sunday—evening—service
Bryn Mawr League was _ held
Music Room of Goodhart Hall, Febru-
ary 16. The meeting was~led by Con-
stance Speer, ‘30.

Due to the temporary indisposition of
the organ, the musical service was neces- .
sarily bereft of Mr. -Wittoaghby’s usually
much-enjoyed numbers.

The program given-by the choir was
as follows: :
Ave Marie Brahms

“Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus
técum, Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et
benedictus fructus tui, Jesus.

Sancta Maria, ora pro .nobis.”

Sanctus and Benedictus  Tschaikowsky

ventris

“Holy holy, holy, Lord God of
Hosts, Heaven‘and earth are full of.
Thy gtory: Glory be to Thee O Lord

most high.” “Blessed is He that com-

Jiterary_qualities| none of the manuscripts “submitted tobe “as—smallas—possible,_but-so—far—the|—eth-in-the-name-of the ‘Lord: ~~ Hosanna

‘|. them

in the oxo

 

Series of Skits Devoid of Co-'

as a whole, and quite forgetting the .

pendent-on-their-witticisms, anid should

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