_his lecture-recital — ee oe ' VOL. XXI, No. 4 oll ¥. eN@\ BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1934 PRICE 10 CENTS Marriner Discusses Classical Spirit in Haydn and. Mozart Artistry & Craftsmanship. Show Intellectual Features in ° Form and Technique _. HARMONIC REPLACES POLYPHONIC STYLE “We are dealing with the Classical spirit in form and technique. You will recall that the Classical Spirit is embodied in the impersonal, intellec- tual, the abstract, and that its domi- nant features are artistry and crafts- manship,” said Mr. Guy Marriner in Tuesday in the Deanery, the second in a series on piano music of the last three cen- turies. Hadyn, Mozart, and the so- nata form were the other subjects dis- cussed and illustrated during the af- ternoon. Francois Couperin perfected the suite form and with his two contem- poraries, Rameau and Loeillet, domi- nated the French School and its devel- opment of an elegant and ornament- ed harpischord style. Haydn and Mo- zart broke away from the polyphonic and. fugal style of Bach and Handel and initiated the harmonic style. Haydn, born in Austria in 1732, died in Vienna in 1809, and during his long life became a world-wide success. He is called ““Papa” Haydn or the “Fath- er of the Symphony” because he com- posed among his prodigous output 125 symphonies. He recognized the new liberalism in music and believed the music af the future would be far greater than that of the past, and that Music’s possibili- ties were unlimited. His music is gay and spirited and contains Croatian folksongs from his native Slavonic dis- trict, introducing a new note of na- tionalistic music later to be developed Continued on Page Six M. Fiems Demonstrates Techniques of Fencing (Especially contributed by E. Smith, ’87) “Fencing is not easy to learn or to do well,” said M. Joseph Fiems, who has coached this sport for three years at Bryn Mawr, at the Shipley School, and at the Sword Club in Philadel- phia. This stafement was made Thursday, November 1, in the Gym. Before fencing in a way which seemed to belie his words, M. Fiems explained to the audience of undergraduates the use of the foil, épée and sabre. He il- lustrated his definition of the various attacks and parries by giving extreme- ly simple demonstrations with Miss Joan Brill and Miss Lucy Douglas, of the Sword Club. These preliminary expositions were most helpful to those, uninitiated into the art of fencing. M. Fiems and Mr. Robert Agnew, also of the Sword Club, bouted with the épée and the sabre. The latter is very different in technique from épée, as it it consists mostly in slashing.. The épée or duel- ling sword bout is the most spectacular to watch, as the match consists of the best two out of three touches, which may be made anywhere from the head to the foot. Miss Brill, Miss Douglas and Pauline Manship bouted with foils, a weapon used by men and women, and which is like épée in tech- ‘nique. Here at Bryn’ Mawr, daniing has a definite place. Last year, for the first time, Bryn Mawr won the Philadel- “phia Team Championship. Of that . ) team, Marianne Gateson and Maria 4 Coxe have graduated, leaving Pauline Manship, Margot Berolzheimer, Bet- ty Barnard and Eleanor Smith from last year’s squad. Miss Manship, who on the second team as well as Varsity last year, is sure of a po- on the Varsity this year. Julia a it and ‘Huldah Cheek seem the of most promising candidates for Varsity new fencers. The chances of the championship again this - year do not seem very strong because {jet the inexperience of ‘host of the squad. College Calendar Wednesday, November 7. Movie: Zasu Pitts and Will Rogers in Mr. Skitch. Goodhart. 8.00 P. M. Thursday, November 8. Dr. Veltmann. Common Room. 5.00 Pr. i ‘ Conference with Mrs. Dean, Deanery. 8.30 P. M. Saturday, November 10. Var- sity Hockey’ vs. Philadelphia Cricket Club. 10.00 A. Student one-act plays. hart. 8.15 P. M. Sunday, November 11. Violin and Piano Sonata Recital. Dean- ery. 5.00 P. M. Sunday Evening Service con- ducted by Dr. Suter. Music Room. 7.30 P. M. Monday, November 12. Sec- ond team hockey game _ with,’ Blacks. 4.00 P. M. Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean on Europe: Peace or War. Good- hart. 8.30 P. M. Tuesday, November 13. Guy Marriner. Beethoven the Ti- tan; lecture on Tonal Art, the Sonata, Phrases and Character-. istics. Deanery. 5.00 P. M. ood- Dr. Veltmann Explains Fallacies in Complex Atoms Combine Only by Chance But All Combinations May Possibly Occur CONFUSION IN POSSIBLE The Atomists, when confronted with complex material structures, made the mistake of trying “to explain the actual in terms of the possible.” Dr. Veltmann, speaking in the Com- mon Room on Thursday, November 1, began his lecture by pointing out the nature of their problem as well as the. fallacy in their way of solving it. The Atomistic world has no plan or purpose. because the independent atoms come together only by chance. Therefore the ancient Materialists had to find some explanation for such phenomena as the apparently teleolog- ical organization of living beings and their ability to adapt themselves to their environment. They met this problem by stating that every possible arrangement of atoms could take place somewhere and at some time. Chance, together with spatial and tem- poral infinity, was capable of produc- ing anything. The Atomists, when they used this ingenious argument to explain the occurrence of improbable events in nature, did not realize that they were limited by the fundamental concepts of their system. The universe, just because of the two infinite elements of space and time, does not include potentially every possibility of existence. For instance, imagine an infinite space occupied at regular intervals by point particles, and assume that these point particles are moving in one direction at the same rate of speed. Though space and time are infinite, these particles will always hold the same relation to each other. The’ Atomistic world, more complex than this but still lim- ited in its material, cannot exhaust the possibilities of creation by “suc- cessive flurries of Atomistic dusts.” The Atomists confused the concept of an infinite series of possibilities with the concept of absolute possibil- ity. The difference between the two can be illustrated by two number se- quences: four, eight, twelve, and the- prime numbers, one, three, five. Both these series are infinite, but they have no members in common. Neither se- quence has unlimited possibility. Thus even with infinite space and_ time, there still remain limitations in the Atomistie world which prevent the as- sumption of an infinite possibility .of existence. The cosmology of the ancient Ma- terialists is based on the principle of Democritus that like always tends to unite with like. This principle does not imply any law of attraction simi- lar to gravitation, but simply means : Continued. on Page Five One Act Plays’ ‘Gain Praise of Audience 12 Pound Look ‘Well Played; Pitch in Riders to the Sea Tragic, Sustained A. M. GRAVES APPLAUDED No higher praise can possibly be given to the producers™and players that gave ‘Riders to the Sea and The Twelve-Pound Look on November 1 than the attentiveness and applause}: * Medical Aptitude Test The Medical Aptitude. Test, which is one of the normal re- quirements for admission *to a medical school, will.be given De- cember 7, for anyone who plans to enter medical school in the fall of 1935.- Application should be made to Miss Lanman at once. A fee of one dollar will be collected from those who ac- tually take the test. Applica- tion is not binding, and any one who withdraws will not be oblig- ed to pay this fee. of the audience, unless we add the|~ — fact that both plays went over despite a collapse in the stage scenery, a sick cat in the audience, and the apprehen- sive frame of mind with which we greet the rehashing of Messrs. Synge and Barrie, both of whom we were educated to regard as master minds in Freshman English. Beforehand, the question was widespread as_ to whether masterpieces of drama should be sacrificed to the furtherance of am- ateur college dramatics. We bolstered ourselves with college spirit and an absorbing interest in the lesser forms of the drhma;, however, and went. Our attitude was unfortunate: thereby we missed the proper retribution for a hypocritical attitude. The first play, The Twelve-Pound Look, was defi- nitely amusing; the second, Riders to the Sea, was so finished a perform- ance that we were caught up the mood of it to the point where we complete- ly forgot ourselves, Goodhart, and The Players’ Club, which sponsored the two presentations. Barrie’s The Twelve-Pound Look, al- though well done, was not too convinc- ing. In costume, setting, line, and sit- uation it is almost too close to our own mode of living’ to convince us of reality if there is the slightest devia- tion from reality of life as we know it. When the tone of a play is mod- ern, as it is in the case of Mr. Barrie’s play, we demand an absolute repro- duction of ourselves and of our sur- roundings on the stage; and the finish- ed excellence that must be found in the presentation of such a play is practically impossible for amateurs to achieve in a limited time and with limited resources for actual settings and costumes. The setting and fhe costumes in The Twelve-Pound Look were very good, but they neither add- ed to nor detracted from the develop- ment of the tone in the presentation. They were authentically and simply modern. No more could have been done to make them familiar and com- monplace (as, indeed, they were meant to be), but familiarity proved not so much contemptible, as uninteresting. Helen Fisher, “as Kate, played her important role with the assurance that the part demanded. Her poise and her facility at inflecting her lines so as to bring out at once her character and the situation succeeded in bring- ing to life the character of Kate, the one role in the play which demands and lends itself to interpretation at all. The interpretation was not com- pletely finished, however; her light, deft touch in the scenes which lent themselves to comedy was superb, but her acting was not sure enough in the serious and protracted conversa- tion with Sir Harry Sims. Sir Harry Sims, as portrayed by Laura Musser, was — as he should have beeri—a kind of idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. “T’]] huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in” was his message as he took his knightly exercise, striding from one end of the stage to the other. ,This excess movement Miss Musser ‘succeeded in keeping up with-}- out any outward sign either of fa- tigue or of self-consciousness. She played Sims as the typed character that Barrie made him. The other play- ers in The Twelve-Pound Look were Continued on Page Six Upperclass Tryout The News wishes to announce that there is a place.open to one Any one wishing to” try out _ should report to the News office on Monday, November 12, at 5.45 P. M. : Bs Junior on the Editorial Board. | Alumnae Association Will Debate Finances Council: Meets This Week-End in Nation-Wide Assemblage at Bryn Mawr DIVERSIONS PLANNED The Council of the Alumnae Asso- ciation of Bryn Mawr College is meeting at Bryn Mawr College on must cover every page in detail. If November 8th, 9th and 10th, when del- egates from all over the United States will ‘be present, to discuss with the executive officers and _ councillors questions pertaining to the finances of the Alumnae Association and schol- arships for the college. In addition to the Alumnae delegates, President Marion Edwards Park, Dean Helen Taft Manning, Dean Eunice Morgan Schenck of the Graduate School, Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York, and Mrs Learned Hand of ‘New York, Directors of the College, will be present. The Council will open on Thursday at half past twelve with a luncheon at the Deanery, Bryn Mawr College, for official members of the Council as guests of Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark, of Haverford, Pa., president of the Alumnae Association, to be followed by a meeting at which Mrs. Clark will welcome the members and ‘open the business session of the Council. The afternoon session will include discus- sion of financial problems, led by Miss Bertha S. Ehlers, of Upper Darby, Pa., treasurer, and Miss Virginia At- more, of Wayne, chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Alum- nae Fund, and a report of the special committee on alumnae relations with the College by Mrs. Robert M. Lewis, Continued on Page Five Mrs. Dean Appraises Dictatorship Policies in Russia and Italy Individual Liberty Subordinated to State Welfare. Standard © of Living Lowes PROLETARIAT, PROPERTY | CLASS RULE NEW.ORDER The peoples of all but a few Euro- pean countries appear to have “ac- cepted dictatorship as the form of gov- ernment best adapted to provide them with political. peace, econ6mic security and fresh spiritual energy,”. stated Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean in her dis- cussioh of Dictatorship on Trial, the second of the lectures given under the Anna Howard Shaw Foundation. The principal argument advanced in favor of dictatorship is that it safeguards the State against the vacillations and delays inherent in parliamentary rule, and enables the government to deal promptly and efficiently with pressing economic problems. Technical prob- lems which cannot be properly under- stood by the electorate are better left to the discretion of a strong, and pre- sumably wise, executive. This is pos- sible because, it is argued, individuals and groups do not resent the assump- tion of dictatorial powers by the gov- ernment. Democracy is attacked for its politi- cal inability to cope ‘with modern prob- lems and for its identification in pop- ular opinion with capitalism. ics declare that democracy has not succeeded in performing the funda- mental task of all countries today— that of ensuring ecOnomic security for all,- while preserving a reasonable measure of liberty for each. Last year it was generally felt that under parliamentary. rule no major re- forms of the existing ‘system could take place, and that only a dictator- ship, armed with final authority and free from responsibility to a popular assembly could cope with the critical situation. American industrialists ar- gued that Fascism, American radicals that Communism, had discovered the only remedy for social crises. Closer acquaintance with both systems has — brought some measure of disillusion- ment, and unquestioning faith has yielded to a growing belief that dic- tatorship, as well as democracy, is on trial. Continued on Page Four New Instructor, Building, Equipment, Funds Desired for History of Art Department As Bryn Mawr reaches the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, we pause to appreciate how much each depart- ment has meant to us, and how much it will mean to our successors in the future. Among the first that we con- sider is the department of History of Art, which shares with the depart- ment of Archaeology the record of giving some of the best graduate work in art in the country. The depart- ment now needs a new instructor, a new btiilding, and a great deal of new equipment. One of the plans for the fiftieth anniversary is to provide funds for _a new building, or wing of the li- brary, for the departments of History of Art and Archaeology. The Art department has grown far faster than the space provided for it; last winter; it had five members and two offices, three members of the depart- ment in one office. This year there are two in each office, and for the latest reomer the department has annexed the housemaid’s closet. The new wing of the library should be exclusively for Art and Archaeology and should have an exhibition room, large lecture rooms and conference rooms. Like the Fogg Museum at Harvard, it ‘should be equipped with adequate space to keep the slides, and ar- rangements for filing, for storing, and for consulting the photographs which are harmed by constant rummaging: The students ought to have a work- room in the building where they could go to practice painting, modelling, and engraving, for which they should have i special instructor and receive cred- Italian primitives, its as for a laboratory course. There they could learn the. technique of the the seventeenth century Dutch masters, and the Im- pressionist school, as these were stud- ied in the major course. They should have a chance to learn ink-painting, an Oriental technique, in which Dr. Ernst Diez is much interested. Dr. Helson would be able and willing to give help to students working on color effects in painting. Especially important and valuable would be the instruction given in architectural and topographical sketching. The new approach to the visible arts: would involve buying many books and photographs, through which the work of art is considered from the side of the maker. eet Besides funds for a building, and the salary of another instructor, the department needs money for fellow- ships and_scholarships,..grgduate and undergraduate. Many people now are advised that the study of. History of Art. is valuable in assuring them a job. These people must be seen through college and through at least a year of graduate work to get an M.A. There is also a tremendous and very evidefit need for scholarships for foreign study. The department of History of Art has grown up from a very small be~ ginning. The study of Art and Archae- ology began in Miss King’s undergrad- uate days. under Professor Richard Norton, the son of Ruskin’s ‘friend, Charles Eliot Norton. Continued on Page Four —— Its crit- ~ “Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS 4 . aitor-dn-Chisf ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS (Pounded in 1914) Published — Fone a College Year (excepting during. Thanksgiving, | ~ Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination w in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. id i 1921 CLPA, The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in e. may bha hh rinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the, or-in-Chief. Copy Editor GERALDINE RHOADS, ’35 DIANA TATE-SMITH, ’35 ‘ Editors ELIZABETH LYLE, ’37 ANNE MArRBURY, ’37 HELEN FisHER, ’37 EpitH Ross, ’37 v PHYLLIS GOODHART, ’35 FRANCES VANKEUREN, ’35 Sports Editor PRISCILLA HoweE, ’35 Business Manager Subscription Manager BARBARA LEWIS, ’35 MARGOT SPRROLEMEINER, 35 Assistant ‘ DOREEN CANADAY, ’36 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter, at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office LETITIAS¢BROWN, ’'37 BARBARA Cary, ’36 ® ow so apt a symbol for its sacred beast as the Bryn Mawr owl. Ay, There’s the Rub There is scarcely a higher institution of learning that has picked Every time we see our owl, our hearts thrill with pride at the thought that our alma mater has outdone herself in fostering and elaborating upon , the American college traditions of night life. Student night. life has ~ always been a matter of so much song and story that we rise to this occasion to tell the glories of our highly-developed nocturnal festivity. and the merry woman (Solitaire Shark). le bas bleu (Girl of the Stacks) Both are obviously nocturnal We are divided into two groups: creatures with great shining eyes, and.a tendency to lethargy in the day time. It is both cruel and unavailing to attempt to awaken them * jn full daylight, so that a study of a Bryn Mawr girl is extremely difficult to make. Only by lying low and quiet until the girls come out at night, can even we, the servants of public.opinion, observe them in their truly natural habitat. After a long wait in the first dark stretches of night, however, a slight rustle of papers and the unearthly sound of shuffling cards greets the watcher. The awakening of the college is an eerie business in itself, but more phenomenal still is thé established fact that it occurs in regular daily cycles, and always begins between 10:00 P. M. and 10:30. Never, however, has any observer been able to determine at what hour approxi- mately the girls’ activity ceases. No investigator has ever outlasted the bustl@ and stir; but several have hazarded the guess that the stu- dents’ activity continues throughout the night, until dawn comes, and blinds them, leaving them to sleep until the next 10:00 P. M. * seribable rustling starts. * Almost on the stroke of ten, as we have said before, this inde- Seores of students creep out. of the stacks and from behind the concealing screens of smoke in the eee sitting rooms. than the average student: The denizens of the stacks have been found to be les& gregarious they bear their sheafs of ‘papers and piles of books to individual rooms and there raise solitary glee to the tune of their touch typewriting. This genus, the Girl from the Stacks, may « be easily identfied by the amateur from the peculiar nocturnal call of the type: it is a series of sixty or more short rapping sounds, the ring of a bell, and a dull thud. The more lively denizen, the merry woman, is gregarious and is comparable to the sheep in her imitative tendencies. She is usually very active at night, and frequently plays such instructive and health- ful games as leap frog or “Give a cheer for our college” as the night waxes and wanes. In her case there is no one typical call by which to recognize the species: suffice it to say, however, that it varies from a short, but high and piercing giggle to the choric rendition of Pallas Athene, entire, and although it is repeated throughout the night, it is not, like the call of the stack species, continuous. Both species have. been found to’ be very intelligent and really cunning. The only worry of investigators concerning them is the fear that the species may over exert itself and consequently become extinet. There is an organization—the Infirmary—which has. taken up the problem and keeps several students in captivity all of the time io try to preserve the race, but the institutional atmosphere seems to disagree with the captives. They either range about all day and all night seeking escape or become low and futile of mind and sleep day and night. Right now, conservationist authorities are trying to remedy the situation by instigating a reform movement among the students them- selves to lessen the risk of extinction. We sincerely hope that the pro- ject turns out to be successful, so that the night life tradition will be perpetuated. Come Out of Your Parlor ~-For years we have beer iiscarding ‘antimacassats’ 2nd dust-collect=} ing what-nots and have been priding ourselves on metal furniture. But strangely enough, we still cling to the most old- fashioned methods of ‘absorbing education. In the far-off, benighted days of Queen Victoria, it was te cus- ‘40m among respectable and God-fearing people to set off one room in their houses as ‘a sanctum sanctorum. No one but the timid parlor- ‘maid entered this room in the daily course of events. and education from our r minds. Even in colleges, where this barbarie ie away with such fetishes. But not quite. we go about a more difficult task and hermetically seal a part ofsour minds i in a chureh-pew atmosphere never disturbed, except on the most The sane twentieth century, everyone firmly believes, has done With our scientific methods, oeceasions. In this heathen fashion we cruelly banish culture a |WaTrs: END THE VERSATILITY oF THE: ART SEM Italian we learn in the Art Sem, The German is taught well there, too os uae And Fren PW uputdance, they have it, But English is scarce, it is true. Ancient Egypt and Primitive Spaniards, And Greece, whose praise we have sung, And even the good Masolino Need Ph.D.’s in foreign tongue. This histories of Renaissance Paint- ing, Of Medieval and Modern Art Are not only courses aesthetic, But are also linguistic at heart, And Spanish comes in with El] Greco; That makes a round four you must learn For Kunstwissenschaft to obtain, dears, With polyglot tongue, else you burn. ' Die Studentin auf Malerie. Dearest Violet, There are things in this life which like me not, as Robert Frost says of the wall. You know Robert Frost of Boston, don’t you? Maybe he was a little too far north for-you. I hope I meet him before he dies. But I may die first, Violet. That is the way with the world. It is very sad to think one works so hard to die. But look, I’m being ungrateful on a Sun- day. How wretched, indeed, though there is-a greyness out like March, only without any hope in it. Taylor looks like a temple of. darkness where fate lowers from the windows, and even the leaves and the grass droop with a flat despondency and the trees look like distraught old women with wisps of hair sticking out. Yes, I ad- mit it’s rather sorrowful. In fact all my spirit, my usual verve, Violet,— all that has crept out. of me and left me contemplating indescribably stupid notes. One page has only these words: ‘Foamy-necked,”’ “. thanes,” and under that, “Grendel’s Dam, the Brine-Wolf.” And all this comes right after Caedmon. Why are Grendel’s Dam, Caedmon, thanes and foamy- necked ‘together. It’s quite inconceiv- able. Caedmon had visions and the other things are Beowulfian. It’s all very unhinging to the mind. Maybe the translators got mixed. Of course, I might have mixed them, but I take very fine notes as a rule. I think, though, I had swallowed my gum in- advertantly, when I was on that page. It’s rather frightening. You think of your esophagus slowly being drawn together and sticking like sealing wax till you become gaunt and spindly and fade to a‘ pale transparency. How morbid! I felt quite faint, you know, sort of as if things were reeling in- side. Well, dearest Vi, the weather’s clearing and I’ve found that “foamy- thane is a child of Abraham, so I necked” refers to Noah’s Ark and a! shall cease my sadness. -You don’t mind, Violet, when; unburden all my black passions, do you? Of course not. j Dees Vi! Introspectively, Your Friend, ; ; MIRANDA. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL I am a modern -Trouvére, I roam and I do not know where; I sing where I will *e When my spirits do spill, |And now they have’ risen so high, . that the hill Is but mole-mound, and I am a giant Who roars all defiant At winds that would shrivel The souls of the poor that do snivel Because, they have so much to do. I tell you I feel free! I can hurl My lessons; the books can curl With age on their shelves Till the elves Come and use them for fire-wood. Much good They will do me, a child Who finds the world small—not wild Enough for one who will seek The song of the ocean, .and a peek Over the rim of the sun; For I’m done with dust Of dead men for the moment... I must Sweep my mind With new air, and find. A small, young rill Happy as I, before winter’s chill Binds us straight and fast © To a long work, at last. The Glad Young Thing. Someone ought to write a collective ' biography of all the dogs that dot the campus. Thre are the Mannnigs’ traditional Jill, and her honorable off- spring, Han, There is Tosh, the wilful and shaggy Scotsman, who leads Merion a mad meander at the end of his lasso. There’s Molly, the noble guardian of Dalton, who in Autumn takes on the tawny shade of the leaves among which she sits, and learns biology with the rest of us. ~She uses the greatest discrimination in choosing the points to which she will listen, and _ then leaves to ruminate upon them among her blessed leaves. You never know: Molly is around until she playfully charges you when you are sprinting | for a class. There is the red setter— habitat-Lib—who comes gliding win- somely around and about the stacks, when you are least expecting canine | attentions, and you wonder whether your zoological treatise on lions has suddenly come to life. There is Miss Ely’s abundant clan of Highlanders, of which we are very fond, especially | the one with the incorrigibly wavy | tail and ears. There is the pair of) Sealyhams, vagrant gypsies that they | are, so seldom clean, but so very inde- pendent. Styx, dog of Midnight, and Nicholas, bounding, enormous and _ irresistible, who has listed to all our literary woes. These, we hope, will be back again to grace the lawns and conferences, and ' with them, their respective owners. This was just a helpfully statistical suggestion for those who have not yet written their long Herben paper. Cheerio, THE MAD HATTER. * practice should have been completely suppressed, learning is locked in ‘the parlor between classes and sessions at the library. of. valuable mental power, and it culture, Quite without thinking about presenting Riders to the Sea, and effort toward opening the parlor of education. This is a waste is a violation of the purpose of it probably, the.Players’ Club, tn}~ — The Twelve-Pound Look, made an They took two plays labeled classics, and instead of using them for-an exhibition of the principles of diction, they acted them with all the life and sympathy |2ation’ is not what Americans have they could give. They worked not for the sake of a perfect produe- tion, but for the sake of something more vital to both players and audience, If all learning could be approached as were these two plays, with-|. . out ceremony, without fear, and could be made a part of life as these were, then the last traces of the partor era Would be eradicated. “Just Shem and Japheth.. And last, but not least, are, because a book is on a required reading list, it is not dead. Required readers could band themselves together for a worthy cause and pri- vately dramatise, read, or illustrate, or somehow enliven the literature prescribed for them. Such a procedure would be pleasant as well as profitable, and the results would be effective and lasting. Now, of course, Shakespeare societies are out of date, but none of us know Lear or Othello so thoroughly or enjoy them so much as the old-fash- ioned people, who met together now and then to recite Shakespeare just for the fun of it. Edueation that cannot be vitalized is not educa- tion at all, and education that we ourselves have had a hand in creating is the truest and best. Play in the Players’ Club, support it, or follow its method in other things, but at all events, open the parlors in your ‘minds, air them out, and live in them. IN PHILADELPHIA Theatres Broad: And-yet again The Pursuit of Happiness! Academy : you have doubtless gathered by now. Thursday evening’s program is. Bou- tique Fantasque, Aurora’s Wedding, and Danube. ne Erlanger: ' Lovel Out the Window, a tender idyl of love’ shyly pursued in Austria by a mysterious individual called a “dental mechanic.” Forrest: A fast musical comedy, Revenge with Music, by Howard Dietz Winninger, Libby Holman, and es Metaxa. Another revue for w York’s dinner parties to be late for. Dorothy Gish has another golden op- portunity to be temperamental throughout three acts. Walnut:. She Loves Me Not is still ; accelerating considerably America’s pa on the carefree years of college e Orchestra Program WG eed as es bc Carmen Alexander Smallens conducting. Movies Aldine: Transatlantic Merry-Go- Round. Continued from last week. Arcadia: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, and Charles Laughton in The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Almost as good as the play, which is saying an awful lot. | Boyd: The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Mac- Donald. A truly super movie. Jean- ette dancing the Merry Widow waltz with Maurice is a romantic moment even in the lives of the spectators. Earle: One Exciting Adventure. Continued from last week. Fox: Gambling, with George M. Cohan. Detective plot from stage play of same name. Karlton: One Night of Gave; tinued from last week. — Locust Street: Little Friend, with Nova Pilbeam, is held over for a sec- ond week. The life of the baffled child comes in for excellent psycholog- |ical treatment. | Stanley: The Gay Divorcee. other centinued engagement of a pop- ular film: ” Stanton: Kansas .City Princess. ;Comedy with Joan Blondell and Glen- da Farrell, Local Movies | Ardmore: Wed., Bing Crosby in ‘She Loves Me Not; Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Chained, with Clark Gable and | Joan Crawford; Mon. and Tues., Rob- ert Young and Madge Evans in Death lon the Diamond; Wed. and Thurs., |Have a Heart, with Jean Parker and James Dunn. | Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Zasu | Pitts and Slim Summerville in Their | Big Moment; Fri. and Sat., There’s ‘Always Tomorrow, with Binnie Barnes and Frank Morgan; Mon. and |Tues., Warner Oland as Charlie Chan |in London; Wed., The Dude Stranger, with George O’Brien and Irene Her- vey. | Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., One |More River, with Diana Wynyard and Colin Clive; Fri. and Sat., Warner Oland in Charlie Chan in London; Mon., Tues., and Wed., Anna May Wong in Chu Chu Chow. Con- High Praise for Miss Robbins’ Brother D. W. Ellsworth, writing on “The Business Outlook” in the current num- ‘ber of The Annalist, says: ., What the President means by ‘atabili- been accustomed to derive from that word. . ... What the President means . is not stabilization of the domes- tic price level. . . Irving Fisher, . in his latest book, Stable Money (Adelphi), practically says.so. Sir Chatles Morgan-Webb, in his recent= book on The Rise and Fall of the Gold | Standard (Macmillan) practically says so. But for a crystal-clear ex- | planation of what this is likely to mean to the future of world trade and hence to internal business conditions | means read what is probably the mosét lucid exposition of world econojmic problems yet published, The Great Depression (Macmillan), by Lionet Robbins, Professor of Economics i the University of London.” Professor Robbins is the brother ‘Dr. Caroline Robbins, Associate in History in Bryn Mawr College. The Russian Ballet, as and Arthur Schwartz, with Charles’ An- | Garrick: Brittle Heaven, in which ~ ie in leading industrial countries, by tT ‘ ® Ye THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three | Varsity Team Loses , Game for First Time Merion Cricket Club Wins 4-2; Germantown vs. 2nd Team Is Tied, 5-5 PLAY LACKS IN DRIVE On Saturday morning, the Varsity hockey team went down to its first defeat of the season, bowing to the Merion Cricket Club, 2-4. Merion had. Bryn Mawr on the de-| : fensive throughout the first half and scored’ three goals on straight drives down the field. Varsity seemed . to lack all its usual punch and co-opera- tion; the passing was short and usu- ally ineffectual; few rushes were made and the backfield rarely tackled until the opponents had the’ball with- in striking distance of the goal. Sev- eral opportunities to score were off- ered on corners, but the free shot- was either missed entirely or easily blocked by the Merion line. Other attempts to score were either way wide of the mark or stopped by the excellent playing of Miss Page, the - great center of the Merion defense, who seemed to. be able to anticipate Varsity’s every move. . Varsity came back with a vengeance in the second half, with Cary leading the attack and scoring the two goals. ’ The defense stiffened up considerably, worked better with the forwards and allowed Merion to score only one more goal. The forwards, however, faded out again, several pretty shots from the wing dribbling across the field only inches from the goal, but with no one there to give them a crack into the cage. Have we only a phantom forward line after all, or is it that the team missed the driving spirit of Kent at center half, for cer- tainly something was sadly lacking in Saturday’s play? The. lineup was as follows: Merion Pos. Bryn Mawr OWNS (6k Bi We basa Gimbel Thayer. ......-.-.-. ae ee nn BPOWD cic is ss Ge eo Cary MMDUOPOOCLK : 6i5—ded Ser ccs ee Faeth SUCUG sta Wi es Brown SOY acs cass r. h. .... Bridgman MOR 5c ag wre ad any FV) | Williams ..... ee ee « Perera S, Evans POCnOT Mele. Be De kc ee ks Jackson OUIMIN «3.55, TOR acs Gratwick Rodman .:....3 Brock ea nd Smith Substitutions: ‘Bryn Mawr} Bake- well for Faeth, Faeth for Gimbel. Goals: Merion—Brown, 2; Van- derbeck, 1; Tuttle, 1. Bryn Mawr— Cary, 2. é In a fast-moving, high-scoring sec- ond team hockey game against Ger- mantown Cricket Club II on Monday, the Bryn Mawr Reserves were held to a 5-5 stalemate, The game was hard fought, and there were numerous at- tacks by both sides which gave the sidelines many thrills. German- town brought an improved team to avenge its earlier overwhelming de- feat several weeks ago. They start- ed out vigorously and soon poked a shot past goalie Leighton. Soon af- ter Bryn Mawr rallied when a few minutes later, Jo Taggart sent in a beautiful shot from her position at right wing. The play swung back and forth for the next few moments until Germantown launched an in- spired attack which netted them two points by Dot Sigel and a firm grasp on the lead at half time. Starting with the first minute of the final per- iod the Bryn Mawr combination snapped out of their earlier sluggish- ness and goals by Rosie Bennett and Taggart enabled us to tie the score. Germantown, however, retaliated with a pretty shot by the right inner Ginns and wrested the lead away once more. After much aimless running about, characterized by a noticeable lack of co-operation between the de- fense and the forwards, Hope Gimbel rushed_through-to-put the tying shot | past Lewis. A few minutes later Varsity reserves took the lead on a pretty drive of Bennett’s. This lead was held tenaciously by the rapidly tiring Bryn Mawr defense, as the states pyf ~*~ Segan to descend over the hockey field. But with scarcely 15 seconds of play remain- ing, Kitty- McLean sent a drive into the goal cage despite Leighton’s fran- tic efforts to save it. Before play could be resumed the whistle blew for the end of the game. Line-up aa B. M. II Pes. Ger. C.C. II POMGart 545%. r. w. .: P. C.Garrett Bennett ...... Pile cies R. Ginns GiMmbel? oo os cscs OG iiiccus Chaffee WRMEPTNOTL ove te be ccc ceaccn Sigel Se ne l. w. ..... Cadbury Hemphill ..... ee ait. Brown BUUIG soa cs OO ci McLean aed ee EEE Re a Bryce Scattergood ... r. bo ...0%. Johnson Seltzer ....... l. b. ... Zimmerman Leighton 0.36.5 Ee ree Lewis Subs.: Pitroff for Scattergood. Umpires: Smyth and P. Flannery. Time of halves: 25 minutes. Social Service Work Needs New Traditions “I think the traditions of public service in this country need to be made over,” said Miss Kahn, speaking in the Common Room Friday. Miss Kahn, who has been for the past two years in charge of Philadelphia Emer- gency Relief Work, went on to say that Americans always think of oblig- atory public service in connection with foreign countries, such as England, where it is the obligation of all ‘tions vitally need the Smoking in Library Smoking is not allowed in the Cloister of the Library. The «rule for the upper campus—ap- plies to the Cloister as well. thoughtful citizens. At the present time when the coun- try is full of Emergency Relief or- ganizations which are”"manty—_, ~ cial Workers, and many of which a. under Civjl Service; opportunities in this branch of. work are many and their number will be continually ex- panded. These vast numbers of posi- ability, the training, and the quality of intellect that colleges aim to produce. Only the sort of person who has objectively con- sidered economic principles can fill these jobs. Government positions will in the future be more and more under’ Civil Service. No local social work and very few of such positions are under Civil Service now. Miss Kahn and her staff have been experimenting for some time with examinations which will soon become formal and routine for most of the positions open in So- cial Service. These examinations are both written and oral. Miss Kahn and her colleagues insisted upon a college degree as a prerequisite to these ex- aminations, although the State want- ed them to offer the examinations to anyone who had had even a little col- lege training. In the future some spe- cial college courses may be required for the candidates. Preference is giv- en, in filling vacancies, to college grad- uates who have also had some profes- sional training. The Philadelphia Board has given employment to well- qualified workers who do not live in Philadelphia County or even in Penn- sylvania, for they go on the theory that these relief organizations are na- tional, not local. Very few Bryn Mawr graduates have taken the examina- tions in the past. Miss Kahn hopes that more will do so in the future. y After the workers have passed their . examinations they enter-upon-what is coming to be the probationary period, as Junior Visitors, beginning with sal- aries of $80 to $100 a month. An at- tempt is being made to raise this scale of wages in proportion to the individ- ual candidate’s preparation. A plan “*-~nsing the State employment. agen- “ues as training fields for social work is under consideration, since there is a great deal of interviewing to be © done in these agencies. Each Junior Visitor handles from one hundred to one hundred twenty- five families. The visitor’s primary responsibility is to determine the eligi- bility of each family for relief, to dis- cover other problems the family may have, and to refer’it for the allevia- tion of these problems to other facili- . ties and resources of the community. The workers must get at all sorts of information, such as. the employabil- ity of the various members of the fam- : ilies. Therefore the State’s whole knowledge of a family depends on the | visitor’s estimate of it. There are a great many executive and administrative jobs with: Emergency Relief organizations (about 1,300 in Philadelphia Emer- gency Relief alone), for which college training would prove useful. The de- connected . Ps) cisions that must be made in such ” work require more background .-and imagination than the average clerk possesses. If unemployment insurance or even compulsory registration of un- employed comes into practice, there will be a great increase in the num- ber of visiting jobs open, similar to those in Emergency Relief with simi- lar opportunities for intreviewing and field contacts. If a study of unem- ployment statistics is begun, there will be many openings for research workers. oy ~ Good laste. | “It’s toasted” SOAS Copyright, 1934 The American Tobacco Company The clean center leaves are the mildest leaves—they cost more—they taste better—so of course, Luckies use only |. ( the clean center leaves—the choicest — | Turkish and Domestic tobaccos. i Bi he Se R t ay ‘§) _ dents’ desires. _ THE COLLEGE NEWS Dean Gives Advice — On Organizing Work Trends Emphasized In Studying Rather Than ~ Small Details QUIZZES ARE NECESSARY “Keep your heads clear and take your time when it comes to taking an examination,” said Mrs. Manning, speaking in Chapel on November 1. _An almost unbelievable number of stu- dents who have failed an examination give the excuse that, because they stayed up all night studying, ‘they could not read nor even see the exami- nation paper in the morning. Most of the poor papers that are writ- ten are poor in every part.. They con- sist merely of scattered facts thrown upon the paper and not thought out in advance. As on the entrance examina- tions, if a student has chosen the most difficult questions to cope with, and has understood what she is talk- ing about, she is given credit for her efforts even if her mark is low. It is better to show that one understands one-half or one-third of one’s subject than to discuss the whole field vague- ly and at random. Consequently, the college student must learn how to organize her’ stud- ies. College work differs in speed or tempo from that of the lower grades in school. The object of most good schools, in the lower grades at least, is to give technique, or a firm grasp on certain general principles. If a child has not learned how to write or spell, all sorts of unpleasant surprises await him in his future scholastic work. In college, however, as in fu- ture life, one must “get things togeth- er for one’s self.” The difficulty most students have in reading and in getting over the ground prescribed in their subjects, is not that they do not finish, but that they never even begin. They are so discouraged after one look at their assignments that they do not try to cope with what they can do. “Do what you can,” said | Mrs. Manning, “in the best way for you, and don’t worry about the rest.” The faculty do not usually expect that the work they give out shall be done in detail. Most of the students go over their work too slowly. They must learn to hasten over some para- graphs, asking themselves what the general trend or gist is. They must study with the thought of organiza- tion, of learning general facts and concrete examples to illustrate them, but not with the thought that they must cover every page in detail. if the student cannot get through her work in the time she has set for her- self, she must stop at the end of the time and let the rest of the work go. New Instructor, Building, Equipment, Funds Desired Continued from Page One At the same time, Miss Gwinn (now Mrs. Hodder) set up in the students’ parlor of Merion the Braun photo- graphs illustrating Peter’s Renais- gance as she came to it each year when teaching her Major English course. . The work went on under a single instructor who was always an archaeologist and frequently _indif- .. ferent to the Renaissance. When Miss King came back in the English de- partment, she was allowed to give, al- ternately: Renaissance Painting and Gothic Architecture. When Mr. Carpenter became a member of the faculty, the department was divided, giving him plenty of room for antiquity, and giving Miss King - a chance at the Middle Ages, the Ren- aissance, and all art since then. As __ the work grew, the Demonstrator be-| scribes matters not at all: The Novel gan taking classes to meet the stu- en amen After there had been an excursus on _ Oriental art in the middlé of Sienese'| _ painting, the College found George \ Rowley at Princeton, who undertook to teach Art of the Far East the fol- ) lowing autumn. This was in the teeth 3 protest and laughter at Princeton wa made that Oriental Art could not m has never stopped teaching it. the Department very nearly had|} rygowski as one of its members, but seemed so near the retiring age Harvard, where the declaration | ght to undergraduates. Bryn|| he decided to send instead his|i! | Book Review Lust For Life is a rare book in ithe sense that it actually, is all that it-pretends tobe. That alone is coni- mendable, and peculiarly. satisfying to the reader who resents any superior- ity complex about art and literature that he thinks he detects in the au- ;thor. Irving Stone subtitles his book iThe Novel of Vincent Van Gogh; he states that he based the book on the available information concerning Van Gogh’s life, fitting in suitable dialogue and filling thé. Ae a ae dents that might well have been part of Van Gogh’s life. Lust For Life is a first-rate novel: the characters are interesting and well-developed, the plot is clever, al- most gripping (Van Gogh led an in- teresting life) ; the style is not distin- guished in the sense either that it is highly literary or that it is highly per- sonal, The book is an objective analy- sis of the period of mental growth and | Mrs. Dean Appraises Dictatorship Policies Continued from Page One Three principal _questions..may--be raised in developing the comparison between Fascist and Communist sys- tems, Have these dictatorships proved more successful than democracies in providing their peoples with good gov- ernment? Have they succeeded in solv- ing the economic problems of the mod- ern age? And in accomplishing their ends, have they provided the individ- ual with a fuller opportunity for spir- itual development? The manifestations of Fascism and: Communism are determined by the history, political traditions. and eco- nomic conditions of the countries in which they hold sway. Communism enjoys one distinct advantage over Fascism: in a country whose reser- voirs of natural: resources have as yet been barely explored, the govern- ment may safely promise material artistic apprenticeship of Vincent Van | Gogh. Compared, for example, with | Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a| Young Mam, a novel without direct | biographical basis, it seems primarily | fictional in content, in treatment ex- | traordinarily impersonal, Vincent Van Gogh seems on casual reading to be what is usually called “a well-rounded, three-dimensional char- acter”’—-the “‘red-blooded he-man” of literary jargon. In his emotional de- velopment we have his tender feeling for his brother, Theo, a more gentle, sympathetic and orderly Van Gogh, his difficulties with his family, his first absorbing love and his keen feeling of disappointment and sense of ineffect- uality on his ill-suecess in love. Mean- while, Van Gogh’s mind is also in a state of transition: he is young ‘enough and idealistic enough to aban- don the sordid business of selding pic- tures to wealthy people, for the God- given task of ministering to the poor and the oppressed in one of the worst mining districts in France. He short- ly finds that his ministry is fruitless /and loses his belief in God altogether. | With this loss of all conventional religious feeling, begins his appren- ticeship to art. His striving to obtain ; a medium for expression and his diffi- culties in getting the right line, the right materials and the right colors, occupy the central and most nbeorbing: part of Lust For Life. Even for the} layman in art, the climax of the book | lies in the analysis of Van Gogh in| his maturity, working out his tech- nique in Arles. The fiery Arlesian! sun and the demoniac mistral seem| together to have given Van Gogh a crucible in which to fuse the emo- tional and mental and physical com- | | ponents of his art. His mental agony | |and its expression in his violent physi- | 'eal self-torture, and the emotional pitch of his Maya vision are throw- backs from the high fever of artistic | composition. | This point marks, perhaps, the ‘height of the novel, the height of the; |life that is the biographical basis of 'Lust For Life. It marks, too, the be-| ginning of a more scientific mode of | benefits to the population; but the Fascists must carefully husband the limited resources of a relatively poor country, and can look to no great im- provement in Italy’s economic situa- tion, unless they succeed in obtaining additional territory. Therefore, Com- munism is essentially dynamic, and can speak boldly in the future tense, with the boastfulness and aggressive- ness of boisterous youth. Fascism is also dynamic in quality, but the Fascists can promise no millenium; at best they can merely order their resources so as to assure more equal distribution among the various classes of the population. When the Bolshevists came into power in Russia, Lenin was too acute a student of Russian conditions to be- lieve that Marxist principles, devised for al highly industrialized economy, could be applied in their original form to a country primarily agrarian, He realized that a community of interests had to be created between individualist peasants clamoring for private owner- ‘Ship of land and organized workers “who had nothing to lose but their chains,” government to conciliate the peasants and win their collaboration in the task of building an industrialized socialist state has occasioned many of its diffi- culties since 1927. Fascism represented a reaction on the part of the young generation ‘of 1922 against the defeatism of the So- cialists, the impotence of Italy’s post- war parliament, and the results of the World War. It satisfied the de- means. The failure of the Soviet: classes, but espouses the interests of one or more groups against thé others, In Russia it has, beéme a dictatorship of the proletariat, in.Italy of the prop- ertied classes.~ “~*~ : Above all, Fascism ana Communism are one-party governments, for politi- cal control is vested in the hands of a single party, which alone is legal, and which governs in the name and for the benefit of the people as a whole. The task of governing devolves on a small group selected, not by popular suffrage, but by self-appointment from within the ranks of the party. Both ruling groups assure their self-perpet- uation in power by controlling the po- litical institutions, the press and the right of . association, thus effectively blocking change by peaceful means. Any attempt at their overthrow would necessitate destruction of the entire social fabric—a risk which many of their opponents would hesitate to. take: Dictatorship by the party is dupli- cated by dictatorship within the party. In both Russia and Italy the govern- ing pafty®is a “monolithic” unity, whose members are held together by rigid control from the top. Deviation from the party line formulated by the acknowledged leader—Mussolini or Stalin—is -considered not merely as an intra-party conflict but as treason against the state, We may well ask whether govern- ment under Fascism and Communism constitutes good government—good at least to the extent of being preferable to democracy. The Fascists and Com- munists would reply that repression and coercion are necessary until a new and better social order is established, in which all individuals will regard work as a social service, and the ma- chinery of the state will become un- necessary and will gradually “wither away.” Although the machinery shows no signs of withering away either in Russia or Italy, the use of coercion is defended by Fascists and Communists on the ground that their ends can be achieved only by the use of force, and that the end justifies the We must immediately ask what ends and by whom determined? It is answered that these dictatorships endeavor to solve modern economic problems by so organizing national economy as to assure a more equal distribution of goods, terminate the class struggle and prevent the para- dox of want in the midst of plenty. Has Fascism or commun solved these problems? The Soviet govern- scale attempt in the world to estab- lish planned economy, but Soviet plan- mand of the middle class for social | ning is not a harmonious process un- order and stability, and today the|der which each plan sweeps to its Fascists regard the preservation of appointed goal without hitch or delay. social order in post-war Italy as one|The concentration of production in the of their outstanding achievements. heavy instead of the light industries Both Fascism and Communism are!explains the apparent paradox that, |more than merely a political or eco-| while the Soviet authorities report nomic system; they ere an all-embrac-|constant industrial progress, the pop- ing philosophy, a v.ay of life.. Both ulation continues to ‘have the characteristics of fanatical shortage of many necessities of life. religious movements: unquestioning experience a The program of agricultural collect- acceptance of a doctrine, intolerance jvization inaugurated in 1928 did not of all other political faiths, and a de-'take into account the facts that the sire to gain converts by persuasion if | production of agricultural machinery possible, by force if necessary. The} and manufactured goods would be in- | dogmatic character of Fascism and sufficient to meet the demands of the interpretation on Mr. Stone’s part: ,Communism is the principal source of | peasants, and that the transportation jthe last tragic chapters ! ’ i i . : . . : Gogh’s life are in a sense parts of a ‘weaknesses: it maintains unity in the| | east study. All of the painter’s Strength has been dissipated, and he _lives on as a type of highly-strung artist. His months*‘in the insane asy- | ‘lum leave him dormant artistically for | ‘long peridds, raging at his impotence | and at the realization that he has no! | control at all over his epileptic seiz- | , ures. am | | The first part of: the book is inter- ‘artist, the last of it is fascinating for its study of an artist who is become ‘a man of the most earthbound sort. _Whether the whole of Lust For Life }is true in the sense that Van Gogh ‘really lived the life Mr. Stone de- of Vincent Van Gogh is excellent read- i ing. f G. E. R. | | / GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia reminder that we would like to ranks of the party, but it may also| pave the way for a severe reaction. Both philosophies conceive of the state as totalitarian and- all-embrac- ing. All human activities and inter-|, ests are brought under the control of the state, which in reality is controlled by a single political party. Individual liberty is subordinated to the inter- . j ' ests of the state, and if conflicts arise, | |esting for its portrait of a man as an’ the individuals or groups opposing the | | | state must be destroyed. The dicta- torship in both countries does not ar- bitrate between various groups and Afternoon Tea 25c Cinnamon Toast Toasted Date Muffins Tea Biscuits Buttered Toast and Marmalade Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate Cake or Ice Cream (Chocolate or Butterscotch Sauce over Ice Cream) Waffles and Coffee 25c THE CHATTERBOX TEAROOM a ment has inaugurated the first large- Planned economy has not yet creat- ed economic equality nor. materially improved the standard of living. A new social hierarchy, with Soviet of- ficials and factory workers at the top, peasants and intellectuals at the bot- tom has arisen. The standard of liv- ing has fallen, for, although money wages have risen, real wages have de- creased because of the depreciation of the currency and the rise in the cost ‘of food. ; : Fascism, unlike Communism, recog- nizes private initiative, in industry, trade and agriculture, but it demands that private initiative shall serve the interests of the state. It insists that all conflicts between capital and labor shall be adjusted by peaceful means: strikes and lockouts are prohibited, and the workers can form no inde- pendent trade unions, the employers no independent trade associations. The Fascist government has tried to de- crease Italy’s dependence on import- ing such indispensable products as wheat and coal, and to expand the ex- port industries. But the increase in home-produced wheat and coal has not kept pace with the increase in the pop- ulation and in the demands of expand- ed industry. The-revaluing of the lira in 1927 at a point too high for the po- tentialities of Italian economy offset what gains had been made. Fascists and Communists say that these economic hardships are offset by the new spiritual atmosphere and in- spiration which Fascism and Com- munism afford. Both philosophies pro- pound the belief. that the individual finds his best fulfillment in subordina- tion to the aims and interests of socie- ty as a whole, for the life of the in- dividual is brief, but the life of the state is eternal. If the individual de- sires more liberty than this concep- tion affords, the Fascists and Com- munists say that the interests of the masses are more important than those of the individual, that the masses are little concerned with abstract emo- tions or liberties, but demand a mini- mum of collective experience. The poet, the musician, the painter, and even the scientist, must voice not indi- vidual reactions, but mass emotions. i. ee ae ’ STETSON HATS” fot Tues i he Stetson designers have created new fall ’ styles, of unusual distinction for college girls —smart, youthful models — includ- ing sports hats in Stetson felt, priced as low as $5 — the “Topster’ beret in flan- nel or Doondale cheviot $3. All bats and berets in your exact bead size STETSON 1224 Chestnut Street of, Van their strength and one of their great system had broken down. birthday or other anni- beau geste When it’s somebody’s versary, greetings by telephone are often cher- ished more than a gift. Use the telephone to show you have not forgotten. After all, that’s. the test of true friendship. ; \ mth THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five Alumnae Association Will Debate Finances | ~ “Continued from Page One — of New Haven, Conn. There will-be a hockey match at four o’clock to which the Council members are invited. Tea will be served at the president’s house, where the official members of the Council will have the opportunity to meet members of the Faculty and instructing staff. In the evening Miss ” Elizabeth Y. Maguire, of 3813 Spruce street, Philadelphia, chairman of the Scholarships and Loan Fund Commit- tee, will entertain the district coun- cillors at dinner, followed by a con- ference on scholarships, while~other members: of the Council will be en- tertained at dinner in Wyndham At/%, hajlf-past eight o’clock the Council members are invited to attend a con- ‘ference of students and faculty under the auspices of the Department of Pol- itics led by Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean of the Foreign Policy Association, co- author of New Governments in Eu- rope, Visiting Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College under the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Foundation. On Friday morning the Council will visit classes and laboratories ynder the guidance of a committee ot ac ty and students. Luncheon ‘at the Deanery as guests of Mrs.. Howard Phipps, of New York City, Council- lor for District II, will follow. The afternoon session will be given over to reports from the district council- lors and chairmen of standing com- mittees. In the evening President Park will speak on the college at al dinner to be given at the Acorn Club. _ On Saturday-morning--various -as- pects of the College will-be discussed. “The Undergraduate Point of View” will be presented by Miss Polly Bar-| nitz, of Bryn Mawr, member of the} Class of 1934 and Miss Peggy Little, | of Boston, member of the Class of | 1985. Miss Dorothy Burwash, of On-| tario, Canada, resident fellow in his- tory, will speak on the Graduate} School. Mrs. Robert W. Claiborne, of New York City, senior Alumnae Di- rector, will speak on the Board of Di-| . rectors and Dean Helen Taft Man- ning, Professor Marion’ Parris Smith and Professor Samuel Claggett Chew will represent the Faculty. This| meeting marks the formal adjourn- ent of the Council. Various forms of entertainment | have been planned for the members | of the Council who. will remain at) Bryn Mawr over the week-end. Thej unveiling of the Anna Howard Shaw: Memorial Tablet in the Library Clois-| ters will take place at three o’clock on Saturday, when President-emeri- | tus M:- Carey Thomas will speak. The |{ Bryn Mawr Players will present. in- formal plays in the evening in Good-|| hart Hall. On Sunday afternoon there will be a piano and violin sonata Phone 570 JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammer 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA. recital by Miss’ Maisie Chance and Mr. Arthur Bennett Lipkin under the auspices of- the Entertainment..Com- mittee of the Deanery and at half past seven in the Music Room of Goodhart Hall, there will be a re- ligious service conducted by the Rev- erend John W. Suter, Jr., D.D., Rec- tor of the Church of the Epiphany, New York City. Dr. Veltmann Explains Atomistic Fallacies Continued from Page One that different entities interact in so far as they are the same. Moreover, action can only take place through di- rect physical contacts such as blows or pressure. Because the Atomists de- nied that any action could take place at a distance, the possibility of an im- material power was definitely ruled out of their system. The genesis of the material world has two interpretations, The first, at- tributed to Democritus and Leucippus, Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 Meals a la carte and table d’hote Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED begins with the assumption that atoms ‘falling at random in space occur in They move toward the center accord- ing to their various weights. As the larger atoms work their way in, they strike the smaller atoms on the side and drive them out. This action pro- duces lateral motions that cause vor- tices. The continued activity of these whirling masses of atoms creates many worlds. The division of the ele- ments arises from the sifting of the atoms in layers according to the prin- ciple that like combines with like. The earth, composed’ of heavy coarse atoms, occupies the center and is sur- rounded by water. The two outer lay- ers are first air and then fire. The second interpretation of .the genesis is probably the invention of Epicurus and Lucretius. A modifica- tion of the original system was thought necessary because of Aris- totle’s devastating criticism of vor- tices. He pointed out that if space had no resistance, the heavy and light atoms would fall: at the same rate of TEA ROOM Dinner 85c - $1.25 8 Miss Sarah Davis, Manager masses: and tend--to—draw~together- speed. Epicurus agreed with Aris- totle and tried to remedy the situation by revising the 6ld idea of Democritus, Unfortunately, in his efforts to cor- rect one mistake, he contradicted the most fundamental principle of~ the Atomistic system. Epicurus decided that the genesis of the universe started with a rain of atoms in space. The first lateral mo- tion was caused by an inexplicable deviation of one of the atoms. Such an action could only be explained by the existence of a free will.. Thus an element of arbitrariness was introduc- ed into nature. This interpretation, ignoring the necessity of cause and - allowing something to come out of nothing, was entirely incompatible with the mechanistic world view. THE ROOSEVELT WALNUT ST. at 23rd PHILADELPHIA, PA. ees — It costs no more to live in the very heart of town—with all the modern comforts and conveni- encés! The suites (one‘and two rooms) are large and airy, with Pullman kitchen and _ bright bath. 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Lady Sims, played the 2 THE COLLEGE NEWS fe One Act a Gain “aan _._Praise_of Audience Continued from Page Une Amelia Wright, as languishing and clinging lady to perfection, and Amelia Forbes, in the role of the But- ler, said her few lines in the most diverting and established tradition of Sterling Holloway. ‘ Our praise for the direction of The Twelve-Pound Look goés to Mary Hinckley Hutchings. The stage han- € dling.was nice, the interpretations: of the four characters were adroitly managed so as:to gain a contrast in effect. The production of Riders to the Sea was the highpoint of the evening. Costumes, setting, acting and direc- tion were much more than adequate: in each case, the producers and play- ers used to the full the opportunities for heightening and sustaining the tone of the play. The contrast of col- ors in set and costumes were handled effectively to set the tone of the piece from the outset. All of the players were exceedingly well cast: all of the women had lyric voices suited to the temper of the piece and Bartley’s voice was lyric, but just enough deep- er to provide realism without destroy-. ing the unity of this musical effect. Maurya, played by Alice’ Mary Graves, was realistically done. Miss ‘Graves did the best piece of acting in the play: her accent was convincingly Irish, her manner was that of an old and broken woman, and she conveyed the tragic import of her lines with admirable success. Both of the daughters, Kathleen and Nora, done by Sophie Hemphill and Edith Rose, were played with the right degree of pathos; even more commendable is the fact that both actresses showed ence of mind, and continued the ac- | tion; when the peat-loft began falling about them. A Bartley, was excellent: as the living Bartley, she showed an amazing com- mand of Irish dialect; as the corpse, she filled her entire audience with the proper degree of terror. The real test of the direction came in the last scene, when the entire cast 4 was on the stage, and when the audi- ence was so keyed up to the tragic ‘|pitch of the play that the slightest mistake would have precipitated gales of laughter. Yet the keening, which’ so easily might have been made ri- diculous, was touching and eerie. The men and women were grouped on the stage so as not to impede the action and so as to form a beautiful tableau. And Maurya’s prayer was done with the necessary simplicity, yet intensity of. feeling. The curtain came down before a tense and silent audience that took several minutes to get out of the mood that had been so well created by the play. Certainly, a great meas- ure of praise is deserved by Edith, Rose, who directed Riders to the Sea. , Credit for the. sets of both plays must go to Olga Mueller, who used the flats so that the same general background could be used for both plays, with a shift only in properties and pieces of furniture. G.° Ee R: Allinson, _as | ptimes, alternating with Marriner Discusses Music Continued froin Page One by Liszt. His chief interest was in the symphony and the string quartet, | ‘but his 35 piano sonatas, although sur- passed technically by his contempor- ary, Clementi, reveal sprightly wit and humor, exquisite fin- ish, and refreshing melody. The sonata is similar to the sym- phony in structure.. The first and most important of its three or four movements is divided into three main sections: the exposition, the develop- ment, and the restatement or recapit- ulation, added to which i is a-coda, The second movement is usually a slow, song-like piece with two themes; It can be written in the same form as the first movement.or in the episodical form, consisting of a statement, con- trast, and restatement. The third movement is a minuet,’ with a con- trasting trio added, while the fourth movement is a rondo whosé principal theme must be heard at least three contrasting episodes and a final entry of the main theme. For its unity it depends on de- velopment and harmonic inter-rela- tions of a single theme. “of Haydir and’ Mozart: . three he began learning music, at five a flowing: Mozart, born in 1756 in Salzburg, was the world’s greatest _prodigy.¥ At he composed his first composition, a minuet, and was playing in public, while at seven he began the tours of Europe that ruined his health and | caused his early death at the age of 35. At 14 he composed like an adult. In Vienna he led a terrible existence, beset with every possible difficulty, and ignored by a public who adored Haydn and Gluck. Haydn, however, recogniz- ed genius and his gréat knowledge of the art of composition. But with his masterly composition Mozart preserv- ed a Raphael-like serenity, beauty, and refinement, as well as pure harmony and delight in his composition. Mozart surpasses Haydn in his pi- ano sonatas, and is the founder of the classic concerts and a daring experi- menter in chromatic effects. He rev- elled in the sheer beauty of melody, in whose spontaneity and charm an Ital- ian influence can be seen. Mozart’s music is difficult to play becausé of Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) 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