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The College News

 

 

VOL. XVIII, No. 12

 

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1932

 

Price, 10 Cents

 

 

Dr. Panofsky Speaks
on Medieval Classicism

Denies Antique Culture Died
Out in Middle Ages Persisted
in Different Form

RENAISSANCE ADDS LIFE

Classical Mythology in the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance wag* the
subject on which Dr. Edwin Panofsky
spoke last Wednesday night in the
Common ‘Room of.Goodhart._As Mr.
Warburg said, in his able introduc-
tion, in Germany the concluding argu-
ment on all questions concerning art
is what Dr. Panofsky has to say upon
the subject. In his stimulating lec-
ture the college heard what he had
‘to say on the vulgarization of classi-

 

 

 

- cal art in the Middle Ages and the

Renaissance. . The popular conception
that classical culture and particular-
ly classical art sank in the Middle
Ages and revived in the Renaissance,
is wrong. It persisted particualrly
after Charlemagne, who started a re-
vival of antiquity in almost every cul-
tural field...The form in which it sur-
vived was utterly different from our
present idea of antiquity, which only
came with the Renaissance.

Medieval works of art which do
not invest classical: forms with new
meaning, but. which are meant to be
a visualization of the classical idea
itself, show best its. continuation.
Where the classical is handed down
directly from classical images, it is

called the representational tradition;

where it is évolved as the ‘illustration
of a literary text describing it, the
literary tradition.

The representational’ tradition de-

veloped through astronomical and as- |’

trological pictures. The primitive
orientals identified certain constella-

“—=tfons with mythological heroes andy

divinities, and the Greeks went on
from this to invest.every natural phe-
nomenon with a-mythical meaning.
In the Carolingian Renovation il-
luminators copied the antique mytho-

“logical picture-books which had been

taken from gradual associations and
development of mythological heroes
with astronomy. In the High Middle
Ages classical form and. classical sub-

jects were separated as artists devél-

oped a new and independent manner
of viewing things. They transform-
ed the afitique prototypes, so that they
became unrecognizable and the repre-
sentational tradition of mythological
figures became decomposed. Arabian
types were assimilated, which mearit
an absorption of knowledge which
was classical with respect to subject
and methods, but hidden within non-
classical images, with Arabian names.

The literary tradition is followed in
Medieval representations by planet-

“gods, which were believed to rule and

guide every mans’ life. The Arab-

ians represented those in synoptical

tables called “planet’s-children pic-
(Continued on Pagé”’ Three)

 

Curriculum Committee Members
At a meeting of the Undergradu-
ate Curriculum Committee, February

11, three freshmen were appointed to |.

represent the interests of 1935 on the
Committee—Sarah Flanders, Barbara
Lewis, Nancy Robinson. -

The committee decided that during
the second semester it would try to
collect student opinion about possible
new courses and changes in existing
courses. Anyone with deftnite ideas
on this subject should try to see a
member of the Committee as soon as
possible.

HARRIET MOORE,
Chairman of Curriculum Committee.

 

Business Board Tryouts
THE COLLEGE NEWS an-
nounces annual tryouts for the
Business Board. Two places are
open. The position is remuner-
ative and a useful and enjoyable
experience. Will.those interest-
ed see M. Atmore, 54 Denbigh,
~ any afternoon but Friday, from
1.30 to 2?

 

 

 

L ant hair,

New Entrance Examination
System Planned for B. M.

 

In chapel last ‘Tuesday Miss Park
spoke on the new entrance examina-
tion. system, under which Bryn Mawr
will admit students on either Plan A
or Plan B examinations. The old
Plan, Plan A, requiring an examina-
tion in every subject, served to hold a
certain quantitative standard for en-
trance into college classes.. In 1911
Harvard instituted the New Plan,
which required only one set of exam-
inations covering four subjects, which,
within limits, the students could
choose for themselves. These exam-
inations were accompanied by a’ very

full school record, a detailed state-

ment by the head of the school, and,
of late years, the Scholastic Aptitude
Tests. All of the data thus gained
was correlated and used to form a
picture of the prospective student. In
1919, a large majority of the women’s
colleges went over to this plan. Vas-
sar admitS students under no other
system today, having completely drop-
ped Plan A. Bryn Mawr is the last
college requiring entrance examina-
tions to consent to the New Pian. And
even. now students will be admitted
under ‘both plans. Miss Park point-

ed out the advantage of the Old Plan,

which defined very neatly the amount
of work required-for admission to the
college class. The comprehensive ex-
amination, while more vague in. this
respect, serves above all as a test of
how the student can handle examina-
tions. Although the college is re-
luctant to lose the advantage of the
old system, the modern idea of edu-
cation favors the more comprehensive
and personal system and Bryn Mawr
is falling in with the trend of the
times. .

 

Cornelia Drake ’33 Chosen

 

The final elections for May Queen
took place Tuesday afternoon and re-
sulted in the élection of Cornelia
Drake. Miss Drake is a member of
the Class of 1933 and a resident, of
Merion Hall. Prepared by the Schip-
ley School, she was active in dramat-
ics there and has worked often under

the direction of Mr. King. Plays in
her repertoire include “Twelfth
Night,” “Joan -of Arc,” and _ the

“Green Stocking.” Her only appear-
ance on the Bryn Mawr stage was
in the Freshman Show, where she
had a small singing part. We have
been able to gather the following sta-
tistics on Miss Drake’s physical qual-
ifications for the May Queen; she is
five feet} six inches tall, weights one
hundred and eleven pounds (having
just_ gained ten pounds), is anaemic,
has always been a blonde, and sports
twenty-four inches of the all-import-
Recent..alumnae will. be in-
terested, to know: that Miss Drake is
the sister of Mary Drake, 1931, who
was very active in dramatics here.
The NEWS adds its best wishes and
congratulations to those of the
college.

 

B. M. Basketball Teams Win
Two Victories Over Ursinus

 

On Saturday, February 13, Bryn
Mawr registered a double victory over
Ursinus. The varsity game was
characterized by a good deal of rough

‘playing, and the constant fouls slowed

up the game. Bryn Mawr played an
excellent game during the first quar-
ter, but after that the team seemed
to lose its co-ordination and precision.
The final quarter saw a tired varsity
determinedly defending the lead piled
up in the first period.

The second-team game was a good
deal rougher and correspondingly
more muddled and slipshod. Due to
several players being banished from
the game on fouls, the lineup had to

be shifted, and a somewhat poorly.

played game was the unfortunate re-
sult. It is distinctly unfortunate that
Bryn Mawr teams allow the rough-
ness of their opponents. spoil their
game and reduce basketball to some-
thing of a refined free-for-all.

 

(Continued on Page Four)

May, Queen by College Vote.

 

i Marriage Statistics
Postponed ©

THESNEWS regrets extreme-
ly that ‘it was unable to com-
plete the tabulation of the sta-
tistics on the marriage question-
naire for this issue. Any analy-
sis published this week would

’ necessarily have been an incon-
. clusive statement.

A full analysis of the results
will be printed in the issue of
February 24. A general survey
of the college replies and. de-
tailed comparisons of classes
and hall opinions willbe in-
cluded.

 

 

 

Dr. Lake Discusses

Paul’s Contemporaries

 

Christian Position Paul First
Persecuted Then Upheld
is Explained

EXPERIENCES MYSTICAL

Qp Monday evening Dr. Kirsopp
Lake gave the second of the Flexner
lectures “entitled “Paul’s Contempor-
aries.”” In the Jerusalem which Paul
knew the dominant Jews: were the
Priests and the Saducees, while the
Pharasees, rigid: upholders of the law,
formed the party~to whi¢h Paul.be-
longed. “If: any of us knew what
truth is, there would be a great deal
to say for persecution,” went on Dr.
Lake, “but Paul felt it his duty to
persecute Christians because they
were saying things that he felt to be
untrue. Even today, however, “I think
we feel that there is a great deal to
be said for toleration. The best ‘way
to answer a fool is to let him talk.”
The doubtful. thing which must be
peuplained.nontandingeiiaeBilile..it
what the exact position was that Paul
first persecuted and later v»pheld.

 

 

We are quite sure of two points
of the. position: that Jesus was the
Son of God and that He- would judge
the world on the Day of Judgment
rapidly approaching. After his vision
Paul was persuaded that the Chris-
tians were right.

The question now arises, why were
some of the Christians persecuted
and others not? The twelve apostles
got off very lightly, while Stephen
was stoned. This must have been
the result of some difference in their
teaching and may be connected with
the difference between the liberal!
and the orthodox Jews of the time
in Palestine. Stephen represents the
dispersion, while Peter and the twelve
represent the views of Palestine. Paul
had the thoice of living outside Jerus-
alem or not living at all.

Paul’s...strategy~-as -.a~missionary
was perhaps not the most tactful.
His-first.’step upon reaching a town
was to go to the synagogue, where
he would find a fringe of Greeks won-
dering whether to be persuaded -to
become Jews or not. Paul told them
to join the Church instead and their
place in the future world would ‘be
secure. Consequently, the Synagogue
felt bitter and intensely hated. Paul
for snatching their converts away
from their very door. It was only
the steady policy of Rome under. the
tradition of Augustus that saved him.
, Take, for instance, two places where
!Paul had a great deal of trouble—
Corinth and Rome.

It is difficult in the writings of the

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Editorial Board Tryouts
The annual tryouts for the
Editorial Board of The College
News will begin this week. Four
. people will be taken on as re-
porters. Candidates are asked
to come to the College News
room in Goodhart Hall at 5.30
_on Thursday, February 18, in.
order that the requirements
may be explained. The posi-
tions are open to members of
the Freshman, Sophomore and
_ Junior classes.

 

 

 

 

| thinking. physical self-denial.

Mrs. Barnes Tells Woman
' Author’s Point of View

 

On Thursday, Feb. 11, Margaret
Ayer Barnes, author of “Years of.
Grace” and “Westward Passage,” be-

sides a number of plays and short
stories, told the story of her career
“Behind the Typewriter.” Five years
ago Mrs. Barnes had no idea of writ-
ing. In 1925, during a long period
of convalescence from an automobile
accident in France, she wrote some
short stories as amusement, but still
with no thought of selling them. A
friend suggested trying to sell them
and Mrs. Barnes was frankly surpris-
ed at the outcome. In the five years
since this beginning she has written
ten short stories, three plays, and two
novels, The business end of writing
takes up an unimaginable amount of
time and it is a great deal for the
mother of three children to have ac-
complished.

The world does not think a great
woman can also ‘be a good mother,
and the sons of great men are prov-
erbially of no account. All of which
Mrs. Barnes says means nothing, be-
cause a child amounts to what he has
in him, and nothing” provides him
with ‘a better background than. to
have his parents doing something of
worth while interest. From the auth-
or’s point of view, an “atmosphere
of pleasant domestic confusion is 'the
very best atmosphere in which to
write.” Nothing can teach one so
much about humanity as the presence
of one’s family, for they are usually
very outspoken. Women, writing dif-
ferently from men, with their keener
eye for feminine detail, find their
most fertile field in the family novel.
In va Room of One’s Own” Virginia
Woolf brings out this point of view,

(Cohtinued on Page Two)

 

..Our Religion Should Be

‘Challenge ‘to Intelligence

 

in chapel last Sunday night the
Rev. Remson Ogilby, President of
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., de-
livered the address on the “Relation
of Intelligence to the Consideration
of Religion.” He has, he declared,
often pointed out to his students how
greatly they differ from the students
of the old. University of Paris; how
different is “The Saturday Evening
Post” from “La Chanson de Roland,”
or Rudolph Valentino from Abelard.
Too many things in our heritage tend
to minimize intelligence, for instance,
the Victorian novel, in which anyone
possessing the least degree of intelli-
gence, like Becky Sharpe, is seen as
a disgreeable character. Today W. J.
Locke is the only -novelist..whose he-
roes are intellectual human beings.
Instead of “Vanity Fair” and _ its
kind, we should read Browning, who
realized that wisdom and goodness
are dependent on each other, and |i
“Hamlet;’-an—intellectual_ man faced
with a problem requiring action.

The gradual elaboration of the
original Bible stories shows how
great an intellectual interest religion
inspired in the ancients. Is our re-
ligion ‘today the same challenge to
the intelligence, or is it merely a
state of acquiesence? When we ar-
gue about religion, have our words
any background of. wisdom, or at least
of learning? This is not meant to
imply that religion should be a cold
examination of facts, but rather that
it should appeal actively to our intel-
ligence and not linger on as a tradi-
tion blindly accepted merely because
it has been passed on to us. Lent
is ridiculous today because in 80°
many years of unquestioning accept-
ance its meaningvhas been forgotten.
What was once a memorial of the
greatest spiritual struggle which any
man has ever undergone, is now de-
graded to a bit of perfunctory, un-
If we
wish to remember the solemn days for
which Lent stands, the best. we can
do is to impose on ourselves some
mental discipline; for “the first, and
great commandment” of Jesus says:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy
with all’ thy heart, and’ with all.
soul, and with all thy mind.” —/

 

Freshman Show Reveals
Phoenix Class Animal

 

With Good Dancing, Music
and Staging

BETTY LORD WAS STAR

The Freshman Show last Saturday
night, dedicated by the Class of 1935,
to their sister Class of 1933, was
called “Wrong Again,” in challenge
to the routed Sophomores who really
were wrong again. The class animal
is a phoenix. It was the passionate
conviction of the snoops on the case
that the animal was an African buf-
falo, known as an emu, but secrecy
and an original tune baffled them and
there was no parody to the animal
song.

As a proper environment for the
phoenix, the Freshman Show chose
the pyramids of Egypt. . The’ plot
centered around an_ expeditionary
force from the Bronx Zoo in search
of a sacred animal supposed to be
hidden in the pyramids. The love in-
terest was sustained by the young
daughter of the leader, who thought
“the patht.wath jtht too beeoutiful”
and her devoted swain who had to
pose as a mummy to make an im-
pression on his lady fair.

The laurels of the performance go
to Miss, Lord, the lisping and lan-
guishing heroine. Her collapsible
parasol was a highlight of the eve-
ning. Out of a rather feeble set of
lines she made a marvélous musical
comedy ingenue. Her mixture of the
comic and the romantic was delight-
ful, and she moved and spoke with
an ease and naturalness which few
of her less experienced fellows show-
ed. Marie Hayes, as Michael, the
hero, was more effective in thé skirts
of her mummy disguise than in her
linen. _jodhpurs. ~- Miss
charm and a certain amount of abil-
ity as an actress, but she is inade-
quate in a masculine role. Betsy Bates
was very near to perfection in the
part of the second man. She danced
well, sang well, and delivered what
japes fell to her role with considerable
eclat. Mildred Smith, Fatima, made
her an excellent side partner, and
their song, “Get On Your Toes,” was

 

 

The other members. of the cast; with
the exception of Ali, the guide, were
‘all distinguished by the inadequacy
that marred Miss Ilayes’ characteri-
zation. All the convincing men seem-
ed to have been reserved for the Leg-

jionnaires’ song and drill, but consid-

cring the success of the latter, it is
hard to quarrel with the casting. The
costuming director, Miss Hopkinson,
and Miss Morse, who trained the
chorus, are certainly..to be congratu-
lated, for the striking unifofms and

ing made the scene a climax of stag-
ing. Another high spot was the beau-
tifully posed” Egyptian ~dance—done
by Miss Lukens and Miss Bill. Here
again the staging was.good, and we
are lost-in-admiration of Miss Bill,
who designed the dance—a most im-
pressive, though simple, series of
poses and slow transitions. Though
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German Oral Date

The German oral examination
now scheduled for Saturday,
May 7, will have to be changed
on account of May Day. The
Schedule Committee invites ex-
pression of opinion bythe un- —
dergraduates whether the ex-
amination should be put on
April 30, and the French exami-
nation moved to April 23, or
whether the majority would
prefer the German oral to come
May 14, the Saturday before the
beginning of the collegiate ex-
aminations.

rs. Manning would like
neet with all the students tak-
7, ‘ing the German examination on
Monday, February 22, at 1.30 in
Room F, Taylor, in order to

 

 

 

 

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Performance is Ably Executed

Hayes has~

the best musical event of the evening. °

the mechanical precision of the drill-

y|| discuss the question. —

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Ashes to Ashes

The Bryn Mawr imagination is always most evident in its mascots, but
the Freshman Class in a soaring flight of fancy has added an unexpected

attraction. to the Zoo. The College

ancestry and brilliant prospects as the class animal of 1935.

can now claim a bird of doubtful
The Phoenix

has joined the ranks of the blue grasshopper, the homo sapiens and the bat,
the amoeba rand the other biological curiosities which have found a warm
home in Freshman hearts. Possibly Bryn Mawr has taken the role of the

Blessed Isles in the minds of 1935,

or it may be the ashes from which

_ aspiring Freshmen wish, to arise. ‘The significance of ‘the Phoenix as a
symbol seems to be dubious, but as’a class pet it has poetry and imagination.
We welcome the Phoenix and its backers.

 

By Word of Mouth

“Get back to nature aad relax!”

The great cry of our age, in reaction to the stuffiness of Victorian con-

vention, is: “be natural,”

doubtedly more healthy than an artificial one.
It does not necessarily imply being vulgar,

according to one’s own taste.

and it is a wise cry since-a natural state is un-

Being natural means acting

for vulgarity is not nature’s primitive. state, it is an affectation whose existence

depends solely on somebody's having bad enough taste to affect it.

It has

come to be expected that anyone having the least chance to learn, to form
judgments, and to calculate values, will acquire, if he- has not already in-

herited it, a certain comprehension of good taste.

In one who has got as far

as Bryn Mawr with the obvious purpose of learning, and of profiting thereby,
we experience a disagreeable surprise if we find it lacking. When one
recites in slang on the development of English drama, and swears over Plato

and Aristotle, there is some sense of decency in us that is outraged. If the}

offenders cannot see what a desperate ignorance of good taste they are

exhibiting, can they not see the childish irony of following the long task of |

perfecting our native language, from

little impressed by it as to open their mouths and murder it.

Chaucer to Lyly, and then being so
A little thought

before speaking has always been the better part of wisdom.
In the plainest of their plain words we ask them, out of consideration

for those who take classes seriously, to outgrow slang and swearing.

It is

not funny, and it is not dashing; it is bad manners.

 

In Philadelphia

Garrick—New Theatre Guild pro- |

duction, “The Moon in the Yellow
River,” makes its American bow. Is
a drama dealing with post-revolution-
ary troubles in Irelend—first produc-
ed by the Abbey Players in Dublin.

Broad—Lenore Ulric in “The Social
Register”—a chorus girl and New
York society get somewhat involved.
Amusing, if the situation appeals to
you.

Chestnut — “Zoom” — a comedy-
drama about a young flier who comes
suddenly and unexpectedly into the
~~ public optic—only fair.

Coming
Garrick—Feb. 22—“If Booth Had
Missed”—a play about what might
have_happened if Mr. Booth had not
been a good marksman.
Music—Academy of Music.

The Philadelphia Grand Opera C
presents “Lohengrin,” with Mmes.
Roselle, Van Gordon, Deis, Kendrick,
Carhart, Davis; MM. Marion, Caupo-
lican, Stesehenko, Eddy, Healy, Mah-
ler, Thibault, Cosby, Conductor,
Reiner.
Philadelphia Orchestra — Friday,
Feb. 19, at 2.30 P. M., and Saturday,
Feb. 20, at 8.20 P. M., conductor, Ber-
nadino Molinari. Program:
Bach-Pick-Mangiagalli.Two Desindes
Deems Taylor,
- “Through the Locking Glass”
Beethoven, __
Symphony No. 6 (Pustarel)
Smetana,
Overture, “The Barterel Bride”
Movies
Masthwam—Ted : Lewis, complete
‘| | ie, hat, and cane, heads the vaude-
“Two

kins and Philip Holmes in

_ Kinds of Women.” A Western girl
-— -. ”

 

Thursday, Feb. 18, at 8.00 P. oe?
0:

; on the.screen, Miriam Hop-!

lof charming women and gambling

peti~she the advantage a3 not point-

evil. Rather good aatintalniiank:
Keith’s—“Cock of the Air”
amusing comedy film of the air. Ches-
ter Morris is the lad who loves far
better than he fights, and the girl
whose appeal keeps the entire army
out of the trenches is Billie Dove.
Stanton—Dorothy Mackail in “Safe
in ‘Hell’’—the less said the better.
Karlton—“Arrowsmith,” with Ron-
ald Coleman and Helen. Hayés—one
of the greatest pictures of the year.
Don’t miss it. e
Stanton—“Men- in Her Life” —
Charles Bickford and Lois Moran.
Story of a girl who found it was mad-
ness to love and therefore,tried hat-
ing. She eventually reverts, to love,

—- an

with the aid’ of a retired—racketeer:

Not much.

_Fox—Will Rogers in “Business and
Pleasure” —Rogers as a razor blade
tycoon traveling to Arabia to corner
the razor blade business. Joel Mc-
Crea and Jetta Goudal are in the cast.
Extremely amusing and ieee a
good evening.

Stanley—Clark Gable and Wallace
Beery in “Hell’Divers.” Aviation in
the Navy—filmed during actual ma-
noeuvers in Panama. Excellent fly-
ing, good comedy and plenty of
drama—definitely worth seeing.

Lééal Movies

Ardmore-—Weduasday and Thurs-
day, “Strictly Dishonorable,” with
Paul Lukas and Sidney Fox; Friday,
“False Madonna,” with Kay Francis
and Conway Tearle; Saturday, Bill
-| Boyd in “Suicide Fleet,” with Ginger
Rogers, Robert Armstrong a8
James Gleason.

Seville—Wednesday and Thursday,

Guilty Generation; ;” Saturday, Lew
Ayres in “Heaven on Earth.” ¢ |
Tn ate mecc a and Thursday,

 

“The Rainbow Trail; Friday, “The ||

 

The Pillar
of Salt

 

 

 

Dedication

There is an hour that I would dedi-
cate

To be the play-time of the rambling
roach,

An hour which is by force inviolate

He so outnumbers me when I at-
tack—

The hour romantic genius makes me
choose

To prop up leaden eyelids with one
hand

And with the other supplicate the
Muse—

The darkest, coldest, grimmest hour
of night.

As if i in fruitful answer to my prayer
The armies of the wooden. under-

world *

Without a sound, without . a stir, are
there

Mustered along the .cushions of my
couch.

The best-fed of these aboriginese

(Honor varies directly as their girth)

Sits on my biggest pilolw in well-
stuffed ease,

While lesser, thinner ones go out for
food.

And then there grows a nightmare
in my head,

Of scrambling feet and: avid munch
of crumbs,

Until my shattered nerves force me
to Hed

Wonderirig if roaches climb the legs
of chairs. .

Moaning at the Bar

Dog-fish is dead, he is dead as a door-
nail,

The dwellers in Dalton could all tell
you that.

We knew it,-too, but’ we weren’t in
Dalton,

Weeping and wailing we mourned
with the rest.

Poor little dog-fish! Let’s give him
(her) a funeral,

Gather his pieces and lay on a bier,

Straw him with roses and pour. on the

perfume,

Give him a winding-sheet, straw him
with yew,

Carry him forth to the shore of the
ocean,

Bear him along to the winy-dark deep,
Launch him a-barge and set him a-
floating,
Kindle a flame on the corpse-laden
deck,
And as it rises call all. the fishes,
Let them lament him, his watery
grave, :
as ‘she_.sobbed,
guppy, :
Melting in tears as she looked at his
face,
“Isn't it lovely?
grace!”

Said the garrulous

May God Jend him

 

Se Show Reveals
Phoenix Class Animal

 

(Continued from Page One)

not as well executed as “Get On Your
Toes,” the love-song, “At Last” was
requally-good—muiscally....The chorus |-
was well trained and unusually at-
tractive; the mummy dance was un-.
forgettable. The construction was
done intelligently with simple sets.
The lighting was highly sensational.
One noticed especially the entrance
of the Pharoah and the Egyptian
dance. A criticism of the show is in-
complete without some mention of the
captivating “Flea Museum,” who went
through. her repertoire so.profession-
ally and with so little fuss.

All in all, the Class of 1935 im-
pressed the audience as an able.group
of showmen. Miss Macaulay, the di-
rector, has a fine eye for effective

and has much to be proud of. A few

 

CALENDAR
Mon., Feb. 22—-8.15, Rev. Kir-
sopp! Lake, D. D., “will speak

in Goodhart Hall on “Paul's ;
Successors.”
! Tues. Feb. 23—8.20, Mr. Sam-
uel Arthur King will give a
Boscombe recital in
rer Hall.

 

 

 

 

staging of the school of Ray Goetz, |

Summer School Director
Acknowledges Contribution

 

To the Bryn Mawr Contributors For
the Summer School Scholarships:

It is indeed good news to hear of
the substantial gift. promised by the
members-of-the-College for the Bryn
Mawr Summer School this year. To
reach a total of $1100 seems remark-
able during this period, equalling any-
thing the College has done in past
years.

Applications for the Summer School
are coming in every week from every
part of the country. These workers
are almost all of them unemployed
and are therefore looking forward to
the eight weeks at Bryn Mawr as a
great opportunity this year. The
school term will give them not only

eight weeks, together with regtilar
meals and health supervision, but will
also offer an opportunity to study
such questions as Unemployment and
Social Control—questions which are
closely related to their daily lives as
industrial workers.

We hope that many of the under-
graduates will plan to visit the school
this summer and become acquainted
with these workers from industry.
They would, I know, send their sin-
cere thanks with ours to all those
who have contributed so generously
to the scholarship fund, which makes
it possible for workers to attend the
school.

Very sincerely yoiir's,
BILvA W. SMITH,
Director.

°

a

News df the New York Theatres

Sir Harry Lauder, a famous spe-
cialist in ‘farewell tours, is to make
his fourth in America this fall.

“Adam Had Two Sons,” which ran
for one fitful and unhappy week in
Philadelphia, lasted exactly three
days in New York—the aidience at
these performances consisted. largely
of outraged critics and free custom-
ers. The production was not a suc-
cessi

 

The new -Ziegfeld musical, “Hot-
Cha,” will open in New York March
1. The piece_is_by-Hellinger;-Brown
and Henderson, and is said to have
an outstanding score. The cast in-
cludes Bert Lahr, Buddy Rogers (who
has deserted the “silver screen” for
the great white way), Marjorie
White, Lynne Overman and Veloz
and Yolanda.

Greta Garbo’s next picture will be
“Grand Hotel,” in which she will play
Grusinskaia. John Barrymore is to
have the role of von Gaigern, Lionel
Barrymore that .of Kringelein, Joan
Crawford that of Flammchen, Wal-
lace Beery that of Prysing, and Lew-
is Stone that of the doctor. Edmund
Goulding is to direct and Vicki Baum
herself will supervise the adaptation.

 

more Freshman Shows of this water
will break the hoary tradition of the
NEWS eritics, who have felt that on
this occasion they could be vituperat-
ive. We are forced to despite tradi-
tion and=our“ownr bad disposition to
congratulate them.
Director—Barbara Macaulay.
Business Manager+-Barbara Lewis.
Musie and Lyrics—Denton, Macau-

lay, Bates, Douglas, Swab.
GAST-
Crowley, an American naturalist
Cary ae
Betty, his daughter......Betty Lord

Michael, his assistant..Marie Hayes
Percy, expedition camera man,
Betsy Bates
Ali, chief guide... .-. Lucy Dougals
Captain of the Legionnaires,
Susan Morse
Wepiae 3 ee Mildred Smith
Members of the Expedition—Che-
ney, Ripley, Howe.
-=Guides — Cross, Hawks, Hupfel,
Monk Wlorrison.
Egyptian ‘Dancers — Bill, Lakens,
Cook, Eaton, Nicoll, Perry, Tobin.
Soldiers—Blythe,. Briggs, Bucher,
Chamberlayne, Fairbanks, Holloway,
Horn, Kent, B. Little, P. Little, Me-
Cormick, McCurdy, -McEldowney,

|| Meirs, Robinson, Simpson, van Keu-
: ren, ven Vechten.

DIRECTION
Dancing Coach—Betsy Bates.
Drill Coach—Susan_ Morse.
-Construction—Catherine Bill.
Lighting—Diana Tate-Smith.
Costumes—Jane Hopkinson.
Properties—Peggy Little.

eM.

 

relief from: ecoriomic pressure for;

Mrs. Barnes

 

(Continued from Page One)

from which the woman writes. The
world has been made by men; the
woman emerges from the tkitehen. or
the parlor and makes her comment on
his handiwork. Sarah Teasdale
knew this when she named her book
of woman’s poems, “The Answering’
Voice.”

A great book always seems so com-
plete that it is hard to realize the
work and correction that has been put
into it. A novel is one of two types:
of character, or’ of situation. When
the novel has suggested itself in the
form of a character or a plot, the
author has to decide between speak-
ing from the mind of one. person,
changing from one person to another,
or with a God-like insight knowing the
minds of all. Finally, the author
must» write from his experience, or
from his’ conclusions drawn from
others’ experiences. Henry James de-
fines experience as all impressions,
demands that authors should write
from experience only, and says, “try
to be one of the people on whom
nothing is lost.” A book must show
some conclusion about life, or throw
light on some moral value. Moral
values have become a matter of taste,
and today it is daring to believe in
the cardinal virtues. Perhaps, how-
ever, it is worth while to have this
daring when one realizes, as Henry
James says again, that the quality of
a book is the quality of the mind of
its writer.

 

Book Review

“Mary’s Neck,” by Booth Tarking-
ton, (Dowbleday, Doran).
“Muary’s Neck’ adds another set
tals. Ananias Prinsh Sweetmus and
Zebias Flick, natives of Mary’s Neck,
Maine; Eddie Bullfinch and Madame
Parka, of the summer cottagers, seize
at once their place in dur hearts be-
side Monsieur Beaucair, Penrod, and
Gentle Julia. The story is as epi-
sodic and as lacking in form. and
|logic as a summer vacation in Maine
imust be. If it’s plot has the three
parts required of all plots, a_begin-
ning, a middle, and an end, they -are
simply April, September, and the
months between. Each chapter is a
short story in itself, with ‘its own
suspense and climax. The whole is
a group of New Engtand portraits
as delightful as Tarkington has ever
done.

The Massey family, from the
neighborly Middle West, made_ their
first encounter with the close-lipped
New Englander of Mary’s Neck, and
the equally close self-sufficiency of the
summer colony. They were resisted
most efficiently by Zebias Flick, who
was afraid even to cough lest he com-
mit himself.to something. Ananias
Prinsh Sweetmus,. who was named
after the wrong Ananias, and whose
other two names were most compro-
mising to shout across the garden, tol-
erated them, even encouraged them.

 

’pinion” why “animals and children
and women” always took to him. The
| deepest inroads into society were
feuds by gay Clarissa Massey, and
| her sister, Enid, who always had in-
itellectual interests, whether it was
| the modern. art_colony,.or. Dr._Gil-
merding, student of the ways of the
Ogilluway tribe. Among their ad-

 

‘|mirers is Mme. Famietta Parka, the

Croatan Prima-donna, the outrage of
the, colony, with her purple and
orange kimono, and her six white
dogs. Enid’s backgammon partner,
Eddie Bullfinch, with whom she got.
along best when they were not on
speaking terms; mechanic, breaker. of
antiques,..subject.to fits of despond-

sympathetic portrait in the book, a
rich mixture of humor and pathos.
‘The situations “¢reated™
characters are as living and as hilari-
ous as Penrod’s stage appearance in
the janitor’s overalls.

C.F. G.

 

Dr. Holland Reads Monograph
Dr. Leicester Bodine Holland, pro-
‘fessor at the University of Pennsyl-

‘}vania, read a paper on “Mantic Mech-

anism at Delphi,” to students of
Archaeology and Latin on Monday

= afternoon. Dr. Holland previously
|read the monograph at the December

meeting of the American Archaeolog-

ical Society at Richmond. Virginia.

 

of portraits to Tarkington’s immor- -

Anyone would do as long as he al- |
lowed Ananias to “spress his own

ency and frankness, he is the most~

‘with’ these

or Ween

   
 

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Dr. Panofsky Speaks
on Medieval Classicism

 

(Continued from Page One) *

tures,” which were actually used for
determining thétufuréiticil:, -and
profession of every new born child.
Northern realism began to group
these tables into family scenes, which
came to be a kind of genre picture,
which exhibit imagination and humor,
and have gotten away entirely from
the classical in everything but subject
matter. At this point a Protorenais-
sance begins as the artists realize
that they cannot represent classical
- deities inthe unclassical manner of
the usual late medieval illustrations.
They go back to Carolingian manu-
scripts for classical prototypes taken
from ‘antique monuments.

The same development takes place
in non-astronomical and astrological
' illustrations where the paucity of the
representative tradition necessitated
the illustration of all the myths from
the texts. The development of the

 

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of this literary tradition.

These developments, said Dr. Pan-
ofsky, show that “whenever Caroling-
ian art interpreted a mythological
subject in its genuine classical form,

the types thus resumed either sink
into, oblivion or degenerate during the
following centuries so as to become
unrecognizable and completely assimi-
lated to Romanesque and Gothic con-
ceptions; they are supplanted by non-
classical types either deriving from
the: East or freely invented on the
basis of a more textual tradition, and
as late as the second half of the fif-
tenth century the classical types are
reinstated thanks: to the imitation of
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sions, and as a result their ‘artists

were able to portray religious pas-
sions but not the human emotions.
Durer is the happy ending to this
whole development in that he brings
back to life the. sensual, passionate
description of the real pagan Ovid.
The Renaissance reunited what in
the Middle Ages was classic form de-
nuded of its original meaning, and
classical meaning denuded of its orig-
inal form, and brought back the two
human qualities of beauty and the
animal emotion, adding active physi-
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masterly dissertation, “the reintegra-
tion of antique mythology during the
Renaissance was not merely a human-
istic occurence, but the rediscovery of
vital forces, long latent, and which
were now to become active impulses

in modern life.”
CAROLINE T. BEIG.

 

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Dr. Lake Discusses —
Paul’s Contemporaries

 

 

(Continued from Page Qne).

Saints to distinguish between the act-
ual experience and the explanation
of it. In the Epistle to the Romans
Paul describes what he felt himself.

He had been oppressed by a sense of
separation and guilt and when he
had become a Christian this had dis-
appeared. He explained the fact by
saying that he had had a mystical and
spiritual union with the Lord Jesus.
‘he experience is not unique; the ex-
planation is different but cognate.
Me people have the feeling that
* the more they look at life the more
it seems to be just a mass of sepa-
rate things. These people wish they
could turn around and find some uni-
ty, some place where the things seem
to meet. And with the worker, his
work is almost always outside him-
self: until he comes to some point
where they merge and he and his
work are one. There is a parallel
mysticism of the artist, the lover and
the saint. In all cases it is hard but
neceSsary to distinguish between the
actual experience and the personal
emotion which is always connected

with the explanation of the experi-

ence. Such mystical experiences do
not leave you calm; if they do not
give rise to emotion they are not real.
It is the belief that you can reverse
the process and have the emotion be-
fore the experience that has held
back progress.

The question now is, continued Dr.
Lake, how do you get this mystical
experience? Not by saying “Go to—
I will be a-mystic.” This gets you
only the fraudulent kind of mystie-

teHing whether a person is prophet

 

ism. The real experience comes to
people when they are not looking for
it. It is like walking beside a wall
whose door will sometimes open to
you. The door may not stay open,
but you will never forget that it has
been.

St. Paul’s sense or separation-and! 2%

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guilt disappeared with his conversion.
It is generally the experience of the
saint, not of the sinner, to be con-
scious of sin. And here we come to
the difficulty in doing something the
law forbids and being found out. The
cure is better laws. The meaning of
vice is doing something that is bad
for you and we are all eternally vi-
cious. Sin is seeing the good and
choosing the evil. Nearly all of
Paul’s generation had a sense of in-
adequacy which produced a theology
which the next generation interpret-
ed differently.

There have always been people who
felt that they are inspired and they
have’ never been tolerated. Even
though the exigtgnce of spirits is de-
nied by the modern psychologist, the
experience of the inspiration itself is
not denied. The pathological crimi-
nal is accounted as a throwback whose
individual life in repeating the his-
tory of the race has been arrested in
its development. “You cannot experi-
ence. bad inspiration biologically and
good—theologically,” Dr. Lake con-
cluded. We have in us the seeds of
the future as well as of the past. and
society cannot tolerate the future
either. Reason is our only guide for

or a fool and reason is not infallible.
There. is very little driving power to
reason and very: little steering power
to inspiration; life is again the nice

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rium. We must test the prophets past
and present by this guide.

 

B. M. Basketball Teams Win
Two Victories Over Ursinus

 

(Continued from Page One)
wk tvy score — Bryn*- Mawr; “24;
Ursinus, 33. The lineup:

Bryn Mawr Ist Ursinus 1st

Strickler ..... forward....... Collier |
Francis ...... forward........ Boyd
Wismer ....jump center... Longacre
‘Wheatley ...side center.. Remington
p80 re PUREE 5 saikcca Moore
Pfahler -....... BURR. 66. is McCully

Substitutions—Ursinus: Grove for
Pfahler.

Second-teams score — Bryn Mawr,
40; Ursinus, 20. The lineup:
Ursinus Ist . Bryn Mawr Ast

WEE fic cases Torward......5. Grim
McCormick ...forward........ Kehs
Ralston .. . Jump center..... Farrel
Bngle 6 cies ‘Side center. .... Swartz
WOCKOON. 6.55065 guard..... Anderkuk
pS Pee guard... 645... Paxton

Substitutions: Bryn Mawr—Miers

for Faith, Faith for McCormick, En-
gle for McCormick, Kent for Ralston,
Collins for Engle, Bishop for Kent.
Ursinus—Kehs for Grim, Fluke for
Kehs, Rothendurger for warts, Tits
for Paxton.

 

Bernard Shaw’s “Too True To Be
Good” is now in rehearsal—Hope Wil-
liams and Beatrice Lillie are dividing
the honors. La Lillie occupies her
spare time appearing as a headliner
at the Palace.

 

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Japanese Policy in Manchuria
“The Japanese policy in Manchuria
has‘ been largely copied after our pol-
icy in Latin America,” said Mr. Rob-
ert Gray Taylor, in “Some Reflec-
tions on the Oriental Situation,” de-
livered on Tuesday, February 9, in

member of the Executive Committee
and first chairman of the Joint Com-
mittee on Race Relations of the two
Philadelphia Yearly Meetings of
Friends. :

Mr. Taylor pointed out further that
the discrimination of the United
States against Japanese immigration
has been a main cause of disagree-
ment between the United States and
Japan. “The absurdity of our posi-
tion is evident when it is realized that
fewer Japanese would come in under
the quota system than come in under
the arrangement now in effect.

Mr. Taylor included in his recom-
mendations for the situation the

| Chinese territory by the nations of the
“world. He suggests that Japan, China

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Regularly, or whenever you like, give Mother

Tonight, for instance, pay them a “voice visit.”

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Spring and
Sports —

So Near at Hand

Come to Pinehurst, N. C. for Easter.
Spring has already teed off in Amer-
ica’s Headquarters for Golf and the

country is at its loveliest.

Pinehurst is so conveniently located
that you waste none of your vacation
in_travelitig. ‘You can leave N. Y.
- night and golf next morning in
Pinehurst. The cost of railroad fares
is less. Hotel rates, too, have been
greatly reduced. so that your visit will
, $7.00 per day and
up, American plan at Carolina Hotel
and New Holly Inn.

Nationally important tournaments are —
scheduled for the latter part of March
tennis, trap-|
shooting, races, horse-show, archety,

and April—for golf,

gymkhana events.

For reservations or booklet address
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