war. e Colle VOL. XX, No. 15 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDA Y, FEBRUARY 238, 1934 COLLEGE N ‘Yoovright BR YN MAWR ws, 1984 PRICE 10 CENTS Vienna Choir Gives Delightful Concert —_—_, ‘Passionless Clarity, Sweetness, Precision and Flexibility Mark Singing DIRECTOR IS ARTIST (Especially Contributed by Mr. Alwyne) On Thursday last a very delightful concert was given by the famous Wie- ner Sangerknaben who have been >making a very extended tour of the United States. This was the last Con- cert of a tour which has included fifty- five cities and taken them from coast to coast. The Choir, which consists of 18 boys of from 10 to 13 years of age,| must surély have aroused much envy in the breasts of countless small boys when it is travels have taken them, not only across the American Continent, but also» through Scandinavia, France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Italy and Greece. The boys, far from being fatigued with their travels (and all their jour- neys in this country have been made in a huge motor coach), expressed themselves as, being only regretful that they had not had thé opportunity to see still mére of America. They may look like some of Raphaels cre- ations when they are on the stage, de- murely attired in their cassocks and surplices, but they are real boys just the same, as anyone would~have dis- covered who happened to see them after the Concert indulging in a snow fight with some of the Freshmen re- turning froma rehearsal for Fresh- man show, or playing every conceiv- able kind of prank while donning their wigs and costumes for the Opera which constituted the second part of the program. The Viennese choir was founded in the same decade which saw the dis- covery of America, and was attached to the Imperial Chapel adjacent to the Royal Residence in Vienna. Since the war the boys have been housed in the Imperial Palace itself. The Choir has a wonderful tradition be- “hind it, having had as members both Haydn and Schubert and, in modern (Continued on Page Three) Miss Park Gives Plans ‘ . \For New Residence Hall In ‘Chapel on Thursday morning, Miss Park discussed plans for a new dormitory for 150 students and for the addition of 100 students to the stu- dent body. This increase in the num- ber of students seems the only possi- ble way to add to the college income the $60,000 needed to make the faculty salaries and the range of subjects of- fered more in keeping with what they should be in a college of the type that Bryn Mawr is. The advantage of a small college would scarcely be lost by the addition of twenty-five more stu- dents to each class. The freshman year is the, point at which this addi- tion would be most marked. The pres- ent freshman class and the present junior class varied in number by as many as twenty-five students on en- trance to college. It would be possi- ble and beneficial to divide the addi- tional twenty-five students among the twenty departments, and would serve to make the small advanced classes more interesting. There is no more room for students | either in “Dalton or in Taylor hall, so any increase in the number of stu- dents would have to be preceded by the erection of the new Science build- ing and of the new Library wings. When these are completed, the mathe- matics classes will move from Taylor into the new Science building and the art and archaeology classes from Taylor and their present Library quarters into the new Library wings. Since the view from Merion Green is too beautiful to be spoiled and the Jand in the hollows is too wet for building construction, the space oppo- site Rockefeller Hall—known as the (Continued on Page Six} News Try-Outs The College News wishes’ to announce the opening of the competition for positions on the Editorial Board for next year. There will be a meeting for those wishing to try out, in the News office, Thursday evening at six o’clock. remembered that their’. Mr. Warburg Shows Art Education Should’ Teach Cooperation of Collectors With Artists IS PUBLIC INSINCERE After coping with>clubwomen and collectors..of. Italian primitives... who still are ever ready with a question about the purpose and meaning of modern art, Mr. Edward M. M. War- burg returned to Bryn Mawr Sun- day afternoon to speak about “The Artist in the World Today.” He dis- cussed the artist’s work from the varying points-of-view of the scholar, the critic, the dealer, and the public, and, in this connection, pointed out the necessity for a system of art edu- cation whereby the better artist might be appreciated by his contemporaries, and not relegated to an attic to starve. The best artists are the most mis- erably treated because they are not enticed: by the public to look down. If an artist be original, he creates something that is non-existent and consequently difficult for the public to grasp without effort. His followers, may, on the other hand, get direct backing from the public, because they make their master’s idea more palat- able. This lack of appreciation, and interest, upon the part of the general public has forced several other lines of defense for the artist: there are, in the first place, dealers who buy the works of art they know they can sell; museums, headed by.-scholars, design- ed to present works of art ‘to~-seri- ous students; and private: collectors. All of these agencies encounter dif- ficulties, however. Most dealers are not situated financially so that they cif be patrons of art: if they are to be patronized by a swank public, they must carry the overhead needed to maintain a swank place with a gal- lery for public exhibition and they must pay for a stream of publicity. The dealer’s opinion is necessarily biased; he must make sales to com- pensate for these expenses. He must sell at least one large and expensive work of art per year, and after that his main consideration is getting an artist to work for him regularly with or on a commission basis or for a set salary. The private collector is likely either to exercise his personal judgment or, with an interest more in preservation than in possession, to assemble a group of collectors to make a collec- tion for the community. ‘In the for- mer case, the collection is frequently an expression of his desire for an ar- tistic element in the larger unit of the home, ahd as such it reflects his likes and dislikes to no further pur- pose. Otherwise these small private collections become merely smal] mus- eum galleries of works of art collected for their quality and exhibited in such a way that there the student may find a laboratory in which to study art. The museum is, of course, the most ambitious organization for the exhi- pition and study of -art:~~it aims to be unbiased so that it may secure. the public’s appreciation and its backing, so that it may exhibit the finest art and at the same time, help the artist out of his economic troubles. The main difficulty museum directors and workers encounter lies in the trus- tees’ proneness to consider mainly the number of people who have been in-|d side the museum doors, and to dis- count the fact that very few of these have come to work or to study. Of course, there is a small group of scholars, who might well have pre- pared the exhibition themselves had (Continued on Page Five) Public Debt to Artist CALENDAR Thurs., March 1. Dean Man- ning will speak in Chapel. Goodhart at 8.40 A. M. Fri., March 2. Class swim- ming meet. .Gym at 4.00 P. M. Sat., Mar. 3. ‘Varsity bas- ketball vs. Mt. Joseph’s. First and second teams. Gym at 10.00 A. M. Sun., March 4, The Rev. John Suter, Jr., will speak in Chapel. Music Room at 7.30 P. M. * Mon., March 5. Mr. Reginald Pole will speak on The Theatre of the Future and the Signposts ‘of Today. Deanery at 5.00 P. M. Mon., March 5. Mr. Horace Alwynne, F.R.M.C.M., will give a piano recital. Goodhart: at 8.20.2. o. Tues., March 6. Summer School meeting. Deanery at 8, PM, Thurs., March 8. Clayton Hamilton will speak on'The Yel- low Jacket. Deanery at 4.30 PM: Faculty Formulates Compreherisives Plan Object of Exams Will be to Test Students’ Ability to Ap- ply Knowledge 60 IS PASSING GRADE The Faculty at a special meeting “n March will probably be discussing a plan for a final examination in the major subject, of which the ens is a brief: outline. I—Nature of the Examination The final examination in the major subject is not to be a test of general information in the’ student’s major field. Its purpose will be to test the student’s intelligence in the discussion of broad questions of development or principle. Although it goes without saying that every: question would re- quire ‘definite and concrete knowledge on certain points, the effort will be made to ensure that the preparation should not consist in the memorizing of too many specific details. The ex- amination would not be on all the work covered by any department but would be limited to certain fields within the subject which have been clearly indi- eated to the student. It might also include questions on work done in al- lied subjects. There would be a wide choice of questions on every paper in order to enable each student -to dis- cuss those aspects of the subject oti which she has concentrated. II—Scheduling and Grading of the Examination The examination will’ be held in the first week of the final examina- tion period and will consist of three three-hour papers, probably set for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. When departments prefer a different type of examination with access to books and formulae, the schedule may be arranged to meet these needs pro- vided that the examination is of ap- proximately the same difficulty as the one given by the departments. The passing mark of the examina- tion will be 60. By failing to pass the examination a student will forfeit her degree for the year, but may pre- sent herself for re-examination. I1I—Preparation for the Examination In order to provide time for ade- quate preparation for the final exami- nation the following changes in the present plan of work. have been sug- gested: The work of the last two years for the A.B. degree is to be separated ds far as credits are concerned from the work of the first two years. The re- quirement for the first two years will be a minimum of 7% units. The course requirement for the last two years (except for honors stu- dents) will be 7 units; the normal ar- rangement for the work of the last two years—4 units in the junior year, 3 units and preparation for the final examination in the senior year. The. requirement for the major and allied sugjects will he 6 units plus ’ (Continued on Page Four) gg Freshman Show Glorifies Bustle Era, Wins Enthusiastic Praise of Uncritical Audience i Producers of Melodious Melodrama Emphasize Local Color— Costuming and Scenery Are True to Period—Plot Is Background of Song and Dance o SOPHOMORES FAIL TO DISCOVER CLASS ANIMAL Last *Saturday evening the 1937 Freshman Show burst upon us in all its glory of bustles and peg-topped trousers, and even the most cynical gphomore would be forced to admit that Never Darken My Door had much to recommend it. Again It has always been our contention that the Freshman Show is-a thing apart in the theatre-unique in that it should be praised for its merits rather than criticized. for its-shortcomings. The one and only object of the freshmen is to amuse—not to afford the audience a glimpse into’ theatrical Utopia—and no one who was present in Goodhart on Saturday could deny that the freshmen were admirably successful in achieving their object- ive. The success which rewarded their efforts is even more remarkable in the light of the facts that they had one show already in rehearsal when the powers-that-be decided otherwise on the subject, and that two members of the cast were forced at the last minute to withdraw. Written by Edith Rose and Letitia Brown; ‘the ‘melodious melodrama”’ concerned the adventures of Little Nell at Bryn Mawr, whither she went at the behest of True Blue Harold, who loved her with: a_ pure flame, cation would do her no harm. To col- lege..she went, with the consent of no one except Harold. ivied walls she fell afoul of one Ma- licious Montague, a “sneak from the Greeks,” who found her father was rich and, would have _ perpetrated dark deeds to get a spot of that cash, if Harold had not been--on- the~spot to rescue Little Nell from the viper, and marry her without further ado. It all came out beautifully in-the end, with Little Nell returning to her home and fireside with the class ani-. mal as a present from Harold (who never forgot anything). When she entered the scene. with the animal carefully wrapped in swaddling: clothes, the audience thought for one) ‘terrible moment that she and Harold — had gotten slightly ahead of them- selves, and the unveiling of an innoc- ous green turtle took a great load off everyone’s mind. As is quite obvious, the plot of Never Darken My Door Again was entirely unimportant, and served sim- ply as a framework for the songs and! choruses. The dialogue had its high| moments, especially when the villain was at work, and it wandered far away into the blue occasionally as when, for some reason which is still obscure to us, we were introduced to white, but still felt that a little edu-. Once within the, ‘chorus, | longer need alarm clockse | proaches, bits of stage mechanism that make the Freshman Show a delight to be- hold—Convention and the school of the drama* mean nothing to ’the class of 1937, and they do better than most dramatists to whom it is the law of the prophets. The music was mainly the work of Ruth Woodward, and it with the choruses, belle Seltzer, ‘the performance which has been sad- combined trained by_ Isa- to lend a distinetion to ly lacking in many shows of the past. Miss Woodward showed a versatility in her composition which betrayed an advanced knowledge of her medium, and produced_.in Lovely Lady a waltz in the best tradition; and then turned _to the modern school for her inspira- tion for The Dance of the Cats. The latter was, in our opinion, the high point of the performance, when the five cats appeared on the rail of the orchestra pit, and led by Miss Seltzer, presented us with an impres- sionistie picture of cats playing in the moonlight. It is a long time since such an ambitious bit of dancing has been undertaken by freshmen, and the success with which it was executed is sufficient proof of the ability of Miss Seltzer as a dancer and director. Her four fellow cats. had’ a_ better understanding of rhythm then we knew existed in our midst. We were definitely impressed. The Flora Dora Sextette was in definite contrast to the cat element, needless to say, but it was character- ized by the same excellence, and was a definite pleasure to gaze upon. The men in grey trousers, tail coats and pearl grey-toppers were as fascinated by the very fancy Flora Dora Girls as our fathers were reputed to have been in their day. The bar room which was done in the best tradition, was thoroughly (Continued on Page Seven) Bowery When Will Bryn Mawr Be Officially Snowed-In? week, for the early hours of the morn- ‘ing are no longer rendered hideous by the caterwauling of alarm c¢jécks. There is an excellent reason for this departure from the accustomed; we no jnot a girl in the college who, with true pioneer spirit, does not leap from her warm bed.as the grey dawn ap- in order to peer curiously from the window and determine for herself the burning question of the ages: is the snow at last deep enough a broken Dresden Sheperdess who fell then was heard of no more, Again at the end of the first act it evidently occurred to the authors that | a few more people were necessary on the stage for the rendition of the final chorus, so into the drawing room rushed an unidentified small boy, a'| cook, and a nurse complete with babe in arms.. Having sung the chorus lustily the curtaingfell on them and they were all@wed to remove their make-up and join the audience. Again there were- too” many characters’ on the stage in the second act to suit the plans of the authors, so they introduc- ed a mouse and drove all but the nec- essary two ladies from the scene in terror, and the stage was cleared for ‘action. It is the employment of such Summer School | The faculty, the graduate | school, and the undergraduate body are cordially invited to the Summer School meeting in the Deanery, Tuesday, March 6, at 8PM. > ifor Bryn Mawr off a table to the horror of all and | cially snowed in? to be declared offi- At present we lie unofficially bur- | ied beneath a blanket of -some four feet of snow; the blanket, however, is not all; there still remain the snow drifts to be considered, and the snow drifts are really something to con- sider. Their innocent whiteness, their unrevealed depths, tell us nothing of their contents, and we shudder to think of the missing classmates those depths -are probably concealing. Every morning. fewer and fewer people struggle exhaustedly to the breakfast-table; every evening vacant, darkened rooms speak significantly of the appalling toll the snow is taking; groups of weeping girls, clustered to- gether for warmth, whisper dire tales of a hapless sister disappearing with horrible gurgles into the clutches of the snow as ghe staggered bravely home from Taylor, while her friends | stood helplessly calling messages of cheer and listeried. anxiously for the ever-fainter Teplies. At last, an ominous silence brooded over the inno- cent-seeming snowdrift and & i (Continued on Tage Six) A curious phenomenon has _mani- — /fested itself at Bryn Mawr in the last There is: eeaee *¥- Page ‘Iwo THE COLLEGE NEWS THE COLLEGE’ NEWS (Founded _ in. 1914) _ mune with her from Athos. Already I anticipate the ecstatic moment of ‘psychic communication. 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Vassar girls are now allowed to smoke in the dormitories and with this new ruling the students have assumed the responsibility for any fires which may occur in the halls through careless exercise of ‘the new privilege. The college has recognized the requests of the students that they be allowed to smoke where they like, and it has manifested faith in the reliability of the student body in general by this new and liberal ruling. The question of smoking in the halls has been raised many times but it has never received much atten- in their rooms would be to invite the immediate destruction of: the college by fire. However, Vassar seems to feel that the average student is sufficiently trustworthy to be granted a desirable privilege on the condition that she assume a’ certain for her There is no need to go into the many advantages which smoking in one’s room has for the students. There are many in the smoking rooms due to the noise, and who occasionally feel the need for a cigarette to return the mind-to its normal state. There are many times when cigarettes are a great help to the Christian student, apocryphal as that statement may seem to the Victorians in our midst. On the other hand, there is the pressing danger of fire, and responsibility actions. who cannot study itis a danger which cannot be dismissed with a fervent hope that it will never crop up. However, if the students were granted the privi- lege of smoking in their rooms we feel sure that they would ‘recognize the_responsibility which automatically would become theirs, and we feel that the danger from fire would be much less than-the authorities at present suppose. Where there is smoking under conditions there is the accompanying danger of fire, and if the lone student is more liable to ignite the college than she is when in a group, the smoking rooms would have flamed skyw ard during exam periods in the early hours of the morning long before. this. We realize also that-a-consideration in framing smoking rules any must of necessity be the insurance on the buildings. and the premiums on that insurance. That is a subject which has too’ many ramifications to allow for a discussion at this point. We wish merely to call the attention of the authorities to the fact that Vassar has evidently found some satisfactory means of dealing with the problem, ‘and to suggest that it would not be impossible for Bryn Mawr to investigate the conditions of that solution and follow in the footsteps of our Pough- keepsie fellow institution. Another Language We of Bryn Mawr are endowed with all the culture that a liberal education can give us: before us we have the rainbow prospect of emerging upon a world floundering in ignorance and stupidity. Al- ready we can see ourselves happily disillusioning those poor benighted souls who still believe that the best works in the field of arts and letters are those that command the highest prices, and that, being the best paid, they are, ipso facto, the best. We are ready to replace. all those solid citizens who still read the daily newspaper and the Saturday Evening Post and trust that governments should be:run on material- istic bases by men who are elected to office because of their qualities of leadership and not their intelligence or knowledge. We have pre- pared ourselves to confound the rabble mightily: why, we have all the theories, and trends, and developments at our finger tips. The new world, which will date from our Commencement, will be estab- lished upon an ideal political and economic system. Every man will _have. complete liberty, and will, of course, live unhampered by eco- nomic difficulties : every one will be equal (except, of course, that we, in order to carry out our plans, must live with the luxuries and the opportunities for culture to which we have accustomed ourselves). The future-holds for us a golden age of art and literature: we are fore- armed with the precepts of such eminent critics as Aristotle, Pater, Ruskin, and T. 8. Eliot. That alone is good reason for our fostering a renaissance of all that is at once romantic, classic, and ‘vet new and different in a modern vein. It is a charming prsinect—won't the old folks be surprised? Yet some day one of those stupid people who read the tabloids is going to To what political a ge Wyncie King give up going | ful to me, O Mad Hatter!—and I to MORTAL SHIVER her. Yes? I don’t want my sins Washed white as snow; To a lake of fire I want to go. I want to sit And fry my limbs And let the Eskimos Sing hymns. I want to go To the hindmost lair And be a devil In red underwear. —Bube in the Cold. Youth in Athos. ‘Dear kindred soul of Athos, there is no one who will deny our love- longing. There is a soul mate for you—a ravishing maid instructed in hemming and basting. She is enrap- tured at your amorous expression, and each day-climbs the spire of Tay- lor to look out over the Yandscape to the East to you with prayerful paeans of everlasting love. : it eg: ROOT-I-TOOT-TOOT FORA’ MUTE The drums beat bass THE OLD FASHIONED SALOON |And the drums beat snare If it’s risky to drink whiskey ‘|And the trombones whinny At our harmless modern “speaks,” | 4d the bugles. blare. Think what- care, ill, woe and peril __| And the zithers shiver Lurked for maidens at “the Greeks.” | From high to low— From the big bass tuba To the piccolo. And the tabors rattle And the triangles smash, And the oboes oboe And the cymbals clash, And the triangles tinkle And the catguts whine, | | As they thump their way To.the-final_Fine.~ There the Floradora wore a Pair of insufficient pants And the barmen were alarmin’ With their forward utterance. By the cuspidor, a whore,:a— Rayed in spangles, sang a song: Both her gestures and-her-vestures~ Proved she’d gone most awfully And helping along the tim- wrong. | pani traps ; The last man’s foot in the audience Not each maiden, led astray, then, taps. : Had a Harold true and blue | —Con Expressione. Who. could save her from the favor | Of Malicious Montague. BI BI BLUES —Antisaloon. | Come away to the garden and cut up worms, LENTEN RESOLUTIONS, WHERE- We'll — up lobsters and catch astoderms; BY THE COLLEGE MAY RAISE! ; MONEY FOR THE SUPPORT OF ‘We'll skin ’em and scrape ’em and serve ’em up raw, BATES HOUSE t f 1. Let Miss Park give up her break- | j Along with ‘the bits that eome out o fast t Chapel their maw. en eee es Wel hook little dogfish that swim in : the water, 2 ae sgl give up Fréd-! Phat colibbia wai hae UH 3. Let Mrs. Chadwick-Collins give ocled hauteur. ; And then when we’ve cut ’em up front up the Princeton Glee Club. and up side, 4. Se Herben give up his dress- We'll drown all ourselves in formalde- hyde. 5. ‘Let Dr. Chew give up taking the ied ~ Waveai. Vik Delineator. : 6. Let Nicholas give up his artes milk and graham crackers. | FATE Der Yokel War vocal— Er sang; __.to Freshman Show. | 8. Let Miss Terrien give up ae mailing-list. 9. Let the students give up lettuce: | 10. Let these resolutions be printed | on a broadside and hawked pub-! licly for five cents near the Li-' brary, at the Sign of the Lady: with the Duck, by the Silly Sen-' ior who wrote them. Und ein Gang Kam.—Er schlumpht Und war off-bumpt! —One of the Wanton, Boys. BRIGHT SAYING “Mama, mama, What is drama?” (And mama said:) “A little bit ghostly, | And phantom-life mostly, | Psychology ghastly, ‘And spirit-worlds lastly— | All ever inutile, | And characters futile, |All slightly immoral, | With lines scarcely floral. | And when, dearie me, , When cultured you be, Dear Mad Hatter— ‘ You will have a deep pash One day one of my friends smug- |For the symbols that clash.” gled a journalistic sheet into our se- | (Said the child, aged 2:) lect and cloistered group. In it I saw |‘ « ! an account of your beautiful college io ee and ever since I have been perishing ; 2 for love of those pretty female crea- piaiclicaidle lie tures that gambol about the green- sward and float lilylike upon the lit- tle lakes of Bryn Mawr. Will you not choose one of the love- ly maidens devoted to Pallas Athene and whisper my love to her in her prenuptial chamber? I shall com- IRONY | It’s really a shame * That the show was so tame With costumes and jokes of the purest: It managed to mock Much more than to shock The gate-crashing caricaturist. —Curses. The idea recommends itself that we should institute smoking in our rooms and burn up the college as soon as possible. Cheeyo, THE MAD HATTER. artist or writer do we think is really good?. Well, if the truth be told, we don’t think any of them is really very good. And the man won't understand us because he is-all for the Democrats; democracy, and the Daily News, while we are thinking about Plato’s Republic and the Poettes. If ever we are to accomplish anything we must establish some contact between ourselves and those, whom we should be able to direct intelligently. We are, indeed, impartial in our views, but Our academic tolerance becomes an intolerance when through indifference or laziness we do not trouble ourselves to supplement theory with fact. The reason for our lack lies partly in the inevitably inadequate organization of courses for formal study, but we cannot rest blameless so long as we bring so little intelligent interest and observation to our social studies that we cannot contribute as much fresh material to discussion as the uneducated man of the street. We must Jearn to live with the rest of the world, and we must learn to speak their language, even at the risk of appearing pnacademic, not to say uncultured. Letters ( The News is ae vaboonsibte tee opinions expressed in this column.) February 19, 1933. To the Editor of The College News: In regard to the editorial in last week’s issue, entitled “Sodom and Go- morrah,” we have an opinion to ex- press, which is more to the point »now than the refutation of several of your generalizations. Your suggestion that “Bryn Mawr have a compulsory .ex- amination over the style and content of the Bible, to be administered at some point in the Freshman or Sopho- more years” is impracticable and un- wise. In the first place there is cer- tainly no time durjng the two. years mentioned which gd be used for the necessary prep¥ration, nor is there time for .a course to be given to those who failed it. Diction, body mechan- ics, hygiene, sports, and extra-cur- ricular activities, to say nothing of courses, fill these two years to the brim. We heartily agree that “the Bible is the major source for most of the literature, art, and philosophy of our” Western Civilization,” but instruction in its style and contents belongs to the Sunday Schools and preparatory schools, not to, the college. Besides these places it does have a place in the culture, or at least exists in the libraries of more than ten per cent. of the homes we come from. Your statement that: “the Bible is a closed book to ninety per cent. of the un- dergraduate body” is erroneous, For the entire student body is required to take first year philosophy, and those who you say derive satisfaction from being “unlike the stupid and bour- geois” or “unlike the religious element on campus” in seareely knowing what the tnside of the Bible looks like, most assuredly become aware of its great- ness and. its place in the culture of civilization. Moreover, the Bible is used as much as any encyclopedia for such courses as History of Art; History of Prints; Archaeology; English Litera- ture, ete. Those who appreciate and know the Bible are at an advantage. ‘| Let those who do not, look after them- selves!) There are a number of Bibles on campus; Biblical Literature ‘scheduled for those who desire a more scholarly knowledge of it. Your idea does not seem feasible for lack of time, nor suitable to the non-sectarian stand which Bryn Mawr has always. taken. upon promulgating it and if you suc- ceed in convincing the administration that it is a good idea, may we sug- gest that the proposed required course |in Bible become a required course in World Religion, in which Buddhism, Confuscianism, the Koran and the Bible are all considered. An appre- ciation of all the old humanities might be the means of better understanding our present humanity and help to- ward world peace. Sincerely yours, ESTHER JANE PARSONS, Merion Hall. IN PHILADELPHIA Theatres Erlanger: Rollo Peters and Mabel Taliaferro in the whimsical travesty —Autumn Crocus. The play depends for its appeal on the charm of the actors and this particular cast lacks that little item completely. Broad: Last year’s successful com- edy, Goodbye Again, with Conrad Na- gel and Lora Baxter. A very amus- ing thing about a reformed lecturer and the past that caught up with him when he least expected it. Coming—March 5 Garrick: A revival of the Chinese work—The Yellow Jacket—with Mr. and Mrs. Coburn in the stellar.roles. Is something not quite like anything else to be seenvon the stage and very di-- verting. Absolutely no blood and thun- der, but a great deal of charm. Erlanger: The farce about “one of those dancers” and-her three ille-. gitimate children, who are very’ dif- ferent and very funny. It is entitled Three In One and has Jacqueline Lo- gan, the film star, and numerous others of the same ilk. Would be good with a good cast, but as it is—? Academy of Music But if you insist there is also a course in * Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri. after- — noon, March 2, at 2.30 P. M., and Sat. evening, March 38, at 8.30 P.M. Jose (Continued on Page Hight) Freestyle ‘Boost Bryn Mawr bravely. THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three _Class Swimming Meet' Is Hotly Contested Record Is_ Broken; Time for Backstroke Tied; Sophomores Win DANIELS PLACES FIRST On Friday afternoon, the Sopho- mores swept into the lead with, 30 points to their.predit in the first inter- class swimming meet of the. season. 1934 took second place with 23 points and 1 65 third with 12. The 40-yard back stroke, the most exciting of the events, was. run off in two heats.. In the first, Mitchell led Porcher at the turn, but faded out to lose by a few inches to her steadier opponent. In the second heat, Woodward came in first. by a length to win third place in the event: Porcher’s time, 32.1 seconds, equalled the college record. In the 80-yard freestyle, Daniels had the lead all the way to break the college record of 60 seconds by clock- ing 59 flat. Van Vechten took second _and.Waldemeyer-third-place-in-a-close struggle for the lead on the turn. In the side stroke for form, Bill took first place with an easy stroke and 22.5 points in her favor. The event was very close and the form shown by those who placed varied only slightly. Hemphill took second honors with 22.5 points, and Porcher tied with Bishop for third place with 21 points. Mitchell led the field in the crawl for form, with Whiting and Bill taking second and third places, re- spectively. Stokes nosed out Wylie, last year’s winner of the 40-yard freestyle, with a time of 27 seconds in a fast finish with her rival close on her heels. The diving, always awaited with great impatience, did not prove to be quite so spectacular as usual be- cause of a poor board. Daniels, as usual, led with a total of 40.6 points, but Stokes, who has been improving all year, gave her a close run with 38.2 points, beating her on the run- ning front, and was only one point be- hind Daniels’ half gaynor with her one- and-a-half on the difficulty dive. Most of the diving practice has been on the Baldwin School board in prepa- ration for the Swarthmore meet, where we hope to see Bryn Mawr make an excellent showing. The relay, always the climax of ‘the meet, went to 1936, with 1934 and 1937 taking second and third places. Daniels led the meet for individual | points with 45.6 points, with Stokes a close second with 43.2 points. Next Friday, the second interclass meet takes place when class and in- dividual honors will be awarded and the Varsity will be chosen for the Swarthmore meet at Swarthmore on March 16. The events were as follows: 40-Yard Back Stroke — Porcher, 1st; Mitchell, 2nd; Woodward, 3rd. 80-yard Freestyle — Daniels, 1st; Van Vechten, 2nd; Waldemeyer, 3rd. 40-Yard Freestyle — Stokes, 1st; Wylie, 2nd; Meneely, 8rd. Crawl for Form—Mitchell, ing, Bill. Side Stroke for Form—Bill, ssid hill, Porcher and Bishop. Diving — Daniels, Stokes, Walde- meyer. Relay — 1936 (Wylie, Bridgman, Whiting, Cohen), 1934 (Daniels, Me- Whit- neely, Mitchell, ..Landreth), 1937 (Duncan, Gimbel, Jackson, Wood- ward). Totals—1934, 30; 1936, 23; 1985, 12; 1987, 2. Those taking part in the meet were: 1934—Bishop, Brown, H.; Daniels, Mitchell, Meneely, Landreth. 1935—Waldemeyer, Faeth, Bucher, Hemphill, Munroe, Bill,. Lord, Mc- Curdy. 1936—A. Van Vechten, Porcher, Co- hen, Wylie, Stokes, Whiting, Bridg- man. 1937—Evans, Duncan, Woodward, Jackson, Jacoby, ‘Seltzer, Kimberly, Fulton, Gimbel. ue Voting in student elections has be- come compulsory at Temple Univer- sity. The new system was inaugurat- ed at the beginning of the’second sem- ester and a vote from each student as- sured by preventing him from com- pleting registration until he had cast his ballot—(N, S. F. A.) . ADS Vienna Choir Gives Continued from Page One times, Felix Mottl, famous conductor of Bayreuth fame, and Clemens Kraus, conductor formerly in Frank- fort and now in Viehina, who was also guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra a few seasons ago. The first part of last Thursday’s program was devoted to contrapuntal Church Music of the 16th Century, in- cluding Motets by representative com- posers of the Italian, Netherland and German Schools. Of these the Motet, O Rex gloriae,by Palestrina (for some obscure reason Latinized into ‘‘Prae- nestinus” on the Program) was per- haps the best sung. The quality of the Soprano Voices was good, having that pure passionless clarity and sweetness which always reminds one héw immeasurbly superior — boys’ voices are to women’s for this type of music, but the Alto voices were dis- tinetly not so pleasing, having on oc- casion a rather harsh effect and par- ticularly when, as seemed to be rather too often the case, they were appar- ently being forced in the forte pass- ages. There was also occasionally, a lack of clearness in the weaving of parts in the middle voices which may however have been partly due to the acoustic properties of the Hall, as I am told that this was not so apparent to listeners when the choir sang over the radio a day or two later. As an encore an arrangement for solo voice and accompanying chorus of Mozart’s exquisite little solo-song, “Schlafe mein Prinzchen,” was given with irresistible charm and finish. The solo voice was of beautiful quality and a high C was. reached with ap- ~ Delightful” Concert choral arrangement é by Leichthal of “Heilige —Naeht,””- the... well-known. which contained some very interesting and unusual chordal progressions, having a flavor of the old tenth and eleventh century Organum in modern guise as to tonality. The second part of the Program was a performance by the entire Choir | in costume of an amusing little comic Opera Die Opersnprobe, by Lortzing, the nineteenth century German com- same thing is true of the arrange- which was given as an encore, al- though here the excellent effect of the slight anticipation of the second beat of the measure, common to the real | Viennese waltz interpretation, and the wonderful rhythmic swing, maintain- ed throughout, gave the piece the ef- ‘fect of real orchestral playing. An- other delicious arrangement of an old Viennese tune, “Meine Mutter war poser of the better known opera, The ‘eine Wienerin,” by Grube, given as Emperor and the Carpenter (which;®" encore, was one ‘of the most de- sounds rather “Alice’”-y, but isn’t!). | lightful successes of the evening. The music of this work is charming, if ; undistinguished, and was delightfully | sung; but the outstanding feature of | the performance was the extraordi- nary. aplomb and easefulness of the youthful actors which had a quite pro- fessional touch without the usual con-: comitant ‘of objectionable precocity which one might have been led to ex- pect from players of such a tender age. The Lortzing*dpera was substi- tuted at the last moment for Der Apotheker, of ,Haydn, owing to the sudden development of a severe cold’ by the youngster .cast for: the leading role. The last. part..of..the-program-—eon- tained three very pleasing choral | songs by modern German: composers, Stehet auf! by Rosenberger; Wiegen-. lied, by Burkhart, and Nun will der Lenz uns grussen, and a delightful: arrangement of a Waltz from Johann Strauss’ comic opera, Die Feedermaus. In these, owing to the more harmonic | style and music, the lack of clarity | noticeable in the first part of the pro-' gram was entirely absent and they were sung with great freshness and) charm, although a tendency towards explosive accentuation was at: times a little disconcerting and detracted year. Family’s advantage: First i- Locate sary. id i Third » F aah > And the rest is easy. of about 40 per cent! > pete. 7mE BELL T TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA 4 at =f and your room is fixed . straight on your schedule and text-books. One more detail and you'll be set for the college the name of the town and the number you want. If you telephone after 8:30 P. 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The’ 4 ees q F) | | | | | One of the most marked characteris- tics of the entire performance was the excellent precision and flexibility of the singing, which enabled the Direc- tor, Herr Hans von Urbanek, to con- trol every effect. of dynamics or tempo with the slightest movement of a fin- ger or a look, and the very apparent ‘eagerness and enthusiasm of each boy to give of his utmost as a young art- ist. The fine musicianship of the Di- rector both in his conducting and in his ac€ompaniments showed him to be an artist of the highest attainments and the unremitting patience and de- _votion to detail, necessary to bring ap -group-of-boys to stich a point of per- | fection, cannot be too highly praised. The concert began with the Star-| Spangled Banner and ended ment-of the Beautiful Blre Danube, with } English and ie densa of +the-word “Dixie” sent-the audience into gales of laughter. ' Gleanings The McGill Daily, student publica- tion of McGill University in Mon- treal, comments that 1,500,000 grad- uates were turned out by American colleges and universities in 1933, only 15 per cent. of which have so far suc- ceeded in finding jobs, and goes on to show how Canada puts out college graduates in the ratio of one in one thousand, while its neighbor to the south graduates twenty. The Canad- ian editor is slightly skeptical con- cerning extreme liberality of Ameri- can education, and suggests that the more conservative view on education on his side of the line is perhaps the safer course.—(N. S. F. A.) Iowa. State College is offering a “Summer School on Wheels” for four weeks next July. 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Why do we not use the Har- _vard plan of taking comprehensives _ in May, with the opportunity of taking Meets with Faculty Faculty Answers Objections to Plan for Comprehensive Examinations CRITICISMS ARE WEAK Although the proposed comprehen- sive system has been under considera- tion. of the undergraduates for three ‘months, informed opinion about the the joint meeting of the Faculty and Undergraduate Curriculum Commit- tees, opportunity was offered to the undergraduates to present their objec- tions and offer suggestions for im- provement of the plan. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the joint discussion is that the undergraduate arguments against the plan are not serious and that constructive sug- gestions’for alteration are wanting. Those’ who have been doubtful about certain points of the plan or who have formed unsound. ideas as to its-general intent may be interested to read the following questions asked |: by their Curriculum Committee rep- resentatives and answered by the fac- ulty: Q. Would not the plan result in segregation of classes, with only freshmen and sophomores in first year courses? ; A. There is no basis for the segre- gation theory; it is hoped that upper- ‘¢lassmen may continue to take first year courses under the comprehensive system. ‘-The final examination. for seniors in elective and allied courses analysis, more important than _ex- ~--Comprehensives Plan For Scholarship: Students aminations and cannot be sacrificed 5 | | ie to them. Continued from Page One | ‘Speaking in Chapel last Wednesday Q. Would it be possible to allow|tne final examination. The require-/0n requirements for scholarships, access to notes and books for those | ment for the major subject will be 3 Dean Manning emphasized the point taking comprehensives in the Science ‘to 4 units plus the final examination, | that no one who needed financial help department? Neier . , {leaving a possible 3 units for allied to remain in college should be deter- A. The idea has been discussed | work One Advanced course would Ted from asking for it because the col- and the science department may Blve | still be a part of the major require- lege funds set aside for that purpose two of the three examinations on this |, ent’.and the minimum requirement :are limited. The college believes, basis. The attempts will always obi f)- second Year work would there-| however, that many people are in a to give a sensible, reasonable, and in- fore be reduced to one unit. slightly better financial condition this teresting examination, with the ob-| mp. midyear examination period |Ye4r than last year, and is, accord- ject of summing up the work, not! i be. reserved as a reading period ingly, making an innovation in its re- of baffling the student by surprise ¢,). seniors. _|quirements of applicants, For the first questions. Perhaps an original prob-: Wi intiatliwe Will nol be aahodule q! time, financial references. are asked . it ;for, and each applicant must be pre- lem might be set, not only in the sci-|, ~ ‘Ad 4 Sores Dutta be-ar- ence department, but in others, which! - eee J y 'pared to give information of an exact kind concerning her family’s yearly each student could work out as she | Tanged wid ? ence . ene _ thought best. ‘courses. Seniors will also be excuse The comprehensives : ~~ ue aga ‘budget. should be examinations which could /{7°™ ©x@minations in Wrrst and roca No appeal has been made‘ to the Be Taced Without to Bisel anxiety jond Year and Elective courses agegand Fomor oa Tha ae ‘es a on the part of faculty or student; and | their work ‘during’ the — has F r aie tai i * rs "hie which would afterwards give a teak: Died Aiestntatary, When ABAEGtOrY | the Atiee io ae? os on in h ing of security: concerning the work |™2Y require them to take the regular yd ; eee sin underta ed the done ahd the khowledde’ gained tu the Course examinations. Provisions for ay os. ere € new science testing the knowledge and. progress Building, and since the college does ee aig d th tamales ‘of seniors in these courses is made as "Ot wish to make a large general ap- ps aed for tiaitante, ‘ast we exami_| follows: STS , pre owe wou ot ci in nation. which would integrate the dif- | Tf the course is = we Major or Bl Financial aap ak salina sahad ferent courses given? ,lied subjects, yee A . ny pe for because Bryn Mawr is nie onl A. The undergraduates underesti- | mcluded bil ay er SSR RNION Feollege that i not done so in the mate the ingenuity of the faculty; yet the Major subject. past, and it has. been found difficult |the mathematics department seems to| A long paper in each semester may ‘¢, aay student to estimate how her be conscious of need for further inte- be substituted for the course examina- | necds compare with thosé of other gration of courses and contemplates , tion. In scheduling these veer in-| students and difficult for the college assigning reading to that end. structors should take into account that ‘to compare ‘the varying needs ‘from Q. Will the faculty, blinded by en-'the student’s time during the mid-4,, answers of students. and their thusiasm, pile on an_ exorbitant Year examination period is left FICE Savailios. amount of work? ‘for general reading in the fields in’. A. Any undue enthusiasm in the; Which she‘is preparing for the final | faculty will be restrained by the com-/¢*@mination in the major subject, and prehensive system, itself, which wil] that-the end of the second semester is not allow them time to overwork their. also devoted to this examination, students. There will be no separate: Two extra quizzes may be set for This new policy, however, does not mean that the college wishes to with- hold help from people who need it. In a college as small as Bryn Mawr, will be avoided by setting an extra quiz or a long paper and basing the; thought better to have the more ex- courses, one during the last week of mark on such substitutions. The stu- | perienced teachers on the faculty pre- leetures in the first semester, and one dent will, on the other hand, not be pare their major group for the com- in the second week of the spring ex- able, as now,.to drop her major course | prehensive; in the. senior year; and the general| the professors of reading reports and like ‘the scheduled quizzes, be one- | quizzes, thus giving the latter time hour papers; they shall test the stu- tendency will be to push required work into the first two years, leaving the last two free for major and allied courses. It has been suggested that an exception be made to the general plan for requireds in the case.of phil- osophy, which might be left until jun- ior year. That exception would leave only three required courses for the first two years and thus the schedule of these two years would mot be cram- med with requireds as’ some people seem to think. There has never been any intention of making rigid rules concerning the required or first year courses. body of tutors because it has been S¢niors in the First and Second Year making contributions, academic or instructors will relieve 2mination period. These quizzes shall, to devote to major students, dent’s knowledge of the ground cov- é i : -d b he scheduled iz and a re WUt the pian. go’ inte Sree OShween the schepuicd quiz a ments that students are developing or Summer: School-Students Are | (Especially Contributed by Esther Smith, Chairman of the Summer School Committee) Most of the undergraduates know there is such a thing as the Summer School. It is however so different from any educational movement we have experienced that it can be said safely that very few of us have a con- crete idea of what really goes on at Summer School. We-know .that thirteen years ago President-Emeritus Thomas, while riding on a camel in the Sahara des- ert, had a vision of the campus open in the summer with industrial work- ers enjoying its beauty. We also know that there is a Bryn Mawr grad- uate, named Hilda W. Smith, at the head of Summer School—but here in the majority of cases our concrete ideas stop. have indeed been to Summer School meetings and heard Miss Smith and former Summer School students talk, but they are, unfortunately, in tlie minority. Every summer one undergraduate is chosen to go to Summer School to help by doing odd jobs; and it is a most fascinating and thrilling experi- ence to watch what goes on on the campus. All day long on the open- ing date the students arrive from every point of the compass. They en- ter looking scared and shy—many different nationalities—no two _ politi- cal views identical—extent of previ- ous education varying greatly — as heterogenous a mass as could be im- agined, yet with similar-desires. The the worst possible: disaster is to lose|0Ne big desire that binds them all to- good students or students who are £¢ether is the thirst for knowledge. Dealing with such a mixed crowd in otherwise, ‘to the college. Scholarships | #¢ademic classes would be impossible, are usually given to the brilliant stu-|COMSequently a very different dents, but they are also distributed|™ore effective form of education is _ with regard to financial need and not |US€4, that of discussion. necessarily on the basis of numerical|#?¢ all based on the workers’ own marks. Both scholarships and grants |PTOblems, and they contribute from are given on the evidence of depart- | their personal: experiences. Each of and The classes from the six undergraduates (five Some undergraduates - effect? A. If the comprehensive system is approved by the faculty — and the first full faculty meeting to discuss it will be held.in the first week of March the end of the semester. The reading or other preparation recommended for the final examina- tion will be outlined in printed lists, or syllabi, which ought to be avail-| ‘improving along certain lines or are|°ther colleges) belong to respective contributing in any way to the col-|UNits, as the classes are called, each (of which deals with a different prob- lege. : [lem (such as Trade Unions, govern- If any student is in doubt about ment). It is certainly first hand in- —it will go into effect for the present @ble for students after the beginning applying for aid, she is asked to con- sophomore class. Yet even if it is passed in its- present form, provision will be made for change in detail as such change becgmes necessary. The system will not be rigid and the de- partments will be allowed to vary it to a certain extent for their own par- [XS Q. Will not the shift from fiftven to fifteen and a half units required be a hardship for the person who has fail- | ed or had to drop courses because of | sickness? A. The opposite state of affairs prevails under the fifteen point sys- tem. Students pile up so large a number of units by senior year that ‘they have to take very. few units then. Q. Will not the requirement of five points in the major field lead to over-specialization? A. The minimum number of units to be required of each student in her major course is still undecided. Three and one-half, four and one-half with ‘the unit for comprehensive reading, unlike the advanced courses or hon- ors, will broaden the major field; and the unit assigned for reading will be used to solidify and integrate knowl- edge of the major subject. Q. ~ What effect will the compre- hensiye system have on honors work? ticular needs. In concluding the discussion, Miss Park said, “Individualism will be en- couraged by the new plan, but also a firmer basis will be supplied. The student will, it is hoped, gain a power of combining and organizing which has heretofore been conspicuously lacking.” An astonishing reflection of the jingoistic teaching in American ele- mentary schools is found in the re- port of a test given 370 American school children in a survey being -made by two professors at Teachers’ College,, Columbia University, Fifty- eight per cent. thought that most for- eigners are less intelligent than Amer- icans. More than a third saw danger of the United States being attacked by some other country within a year. About half believed that the United States should not lead in attempts to reduce armies and navies; half held. that all American soldiers and sailors A.. Honors work will be kept fairly are well behaved. One-third held that separate ‘from comprehensive read- | the greatest honor would be to wear ing; but it may be included in the comprehensive examinations, perhaps by means of special questions or pa- pers set for honors students. Q. Is it not rather hard to have to | stand or fall on the results of one set of examinations without the benefit of supplementary marks on reports A. Few people in the major work sumed that a student should know enough about her major subject to be able to pass an examination in it. = egular course examinations later if the comprehensive marks are unsatis- The Bryn Mawr ener: into! It is“ as=}~ |the uniform of the army or navy. Forty-six per cent. believed every boy should have army training, and seven- ty-one per cent, thought that every park should have a cannon or a mili- | tary statue to glorify past wars and heroes. The same; children—aged 10 to 15—had no knowledge concerning the “agencies for world peace. A third thought the Kellogg peace pact manufactured breakfast food. ——(N;-8.-F A; “The quicker students get into poli- ties the better,” declared Mayor Fio- rello H. LaGuardia, of New York, in a recent interview with a Prince- tonian reporter. ‘Professional poli- ticians are keeping a large part of students out of politics when they are just the ones we need. They should take a more active. part, furnish a supply of energy, and progres- of the junior year and which will be sult the Dean, -and if it .is possible given to all students in the spring that she may be able to pay for her- of the junior -year-at-conferences held Self, she is_asked_not-to-apply fora by the departments. Conferences for scholarship but to tell the Degen that seniors will be scheduled by all depart- she may need money. There is a ments, to be held during the first two Summer emergency fund planned to weeks of the college year. take care of students who find they Individual, or group conferences need to apply after the regular schol- with seniors will also be scheduled by arships and grants have been awarded. departments at regular intervals dur- ing the year, but stress should be laid Cut System Is Explained ‘on the fact that students are them- | = For Students’ Benefit selves responsible for the reading. . IV—Regulations Governing the Work (Especially Contributed of Honors Students Students who are candidates for the degree with distinction will in gen- ; eral ‘be required to take six COUTSCS ' ings last semester, the Cut Commit- in the junior and senior years and tO | tee feela that again it must explain devote at least a quarter of their time ' the-rules of the Cit-syaten, Ik isu in the senior year to special honors- work on selected topics. ' . | Such Students will not receive the degree with distinction unless they re- ceive the grade of 80 or above in the final examination in the major sub- ject: A certain number of questions rela- by Joan Hopkinson, Chairman of the Cut Committee) Because of repeated misunderstand- detailed forth every year in the News and explained to the Freshmen, Jun- ‘iors and even Seniors continue to over- cut with abandon. For the most part, those who overcut last semester did so | because they were under a delusion /as to the number allowed them. Very tive to the special fields studied in hon-| ; ‘ vt Pepa bem ‘bean 4 ve com-/1°™ the Committee feels, deliberately prehensive papers for honors students, | Vereut. Therefore ‘onee again the but long written: reports may be ac. | more important of the rules are here- cecnteds toy. dasesealite ‘ha opementing | Oe set down. Will all those whose adequately the results of the honors} mores ae Bee pene. teen Tee work. Where such a report is consid- | /°lowing by heart? ered an adequate summation of the. 1. A student is allowed «as many work in one field of study it may even | Cuts per semester as she has classes | be accepted in place of one of the three per week. This means all the classes hour papers in the final examination. Tégistered on the schedule and in the Dean’s Office. People who “never go to the mov-| 2. First and second year Science ies” are helping break attendance rec-' courses give one five cuts, not seven. ords everywhere for “Little Women,”, 3, Hygiene gives two cuts and~Dic- the sweetest, most beautiful story/tion one. ever filmed. The east, which includes 4 Katharine Hepburn, Bryn Mawr Col- lege graduate, gives an excellent per- formance of Louisa May Alcott’s’ im- mortal story. of the lives of four New England girls and their mother in Civil War times. It is at the Egyp- tian Theatre in Cynwyd four days, ending this Saturday. Extra classes in any subject, imposed by the Professor, do not give an extra cut. For example, a certain week, but in. the Deans’ Office and on the schedule it is listed as meeting only three times a week. Therefore it gives one only three cuts. 5. Psychology gives one only three cuts, ‘in spite of its laboratory*hours. We hope all the misunderstandings will cease, if the above points are ob- served. The Dean’s Office or the Chairman of the Cut Committee will be glad to answer any further ques- Planned as a training medium for a new kind of politician whose creed .will be intelligent public leadership, a new course in classical humanities has been instituted at the University a marvel that, although the system is. | ' 1 ‘formation in the true sense. Besides these classes there are two | workshops—the social science and the 1 1 | i | | | | science workshop. In the former the students make charts which help vis- ualize .whatever problem they are working on. In the science workshop ;simple exhibits and chemical experi- ments are set up, showing at a glance |why water, for instance, is H:O! |. Athletics is another favorite activ- j i ity. Archaeology class meets four times a|' the floor. They teach tennis and swimming and help with baseball. At the beginning of the summer the air is full of currents of hostil- ity. ~ Soon, however, the students learn to listen to the point of view of others and a real spirit of tolerance is devel- oped. The girls that leave are brav- er and, we hope, happier. It seems all around the best of ex- periments. Here are these workers in industry so eager for more education that they take a chance on losing their jobs—their means of livelihood—just to come to Bryn Mawr. It must be worth it and it is, because present at Summer School is a cross section of industry, girls chosen who will go back to their friends and tell them what they have learned, who will spread what knowledge they have acquired. It is made an even more valuable ex- perience because of Miss Smith, who was dean under President Thomas, and of whom President Park has said, “Bryn Mawr. has justified itself, if only in producing ‘Jane’ Smith!” THE CHATTERBOX TEAROOM LUNCHEONS — DINNERS | - AFTERNOON TEAS 25¢ | Katharine Hepburn This Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday _ Bala-Cynwyd Here the undergraduates have — & cette THE COLLEGE NEWS \- Page Five : ‘Margaret Ayer Barnes Recalls Writing Career Development of Technique in Short Stories and Novels is Discussed. TRANSITION IMPORTANT Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, speak- ing in the Deanery, Monday, Febru- ary 26, directed a sort of symposium for the members of the college inter- ested in writing. She told how she started to write and indicated the va- rious stages in her development of the technique of the short story, the play, and the novel. : Mrs. Barnes did no! start writing until seven years ago, when she broke her back and was confined for a year in a plaster cast. It was then .that she wrote some short stories and was encouraged to publish them by friends. She took the manuscripts to Helen Walker, of the Pictorial Re- view. They were accepted, much to her surprise, and that. of her family, who were so astounded that they made her have the check photograph- ed before she cashed it. For some time thereafter she tried sending her stories to magazines with some suc- cess, when finally she procured an agent for her material. ‘es ing the plot in’ spite of--any -precon- ceived plan the writer may have had. Mrs. Barnes” found playwriting very valuable as discipline, because the form of a play is so stylized. In plays, as in short stories, there is no elbow room in which the writer can make many mistakes, but the author must mainly exercise his pwers of emphasis and suppression té/cut out all irrelevancies. The corrett use of emphasis and suppression, along with the ability to make transitions are the first things for the beginner to learn. Edward*Warburg Shows. Public Debt. to Artist Continued from Page One they not been occupied with other things—but Mr. Warburg estimates that there are no more than ‘thirty such men in New York City. And there is a class of business men who are open to suggestion and influence, who may really do something to fur- ther art education — provided, of i. that the plans are ‘easy to realize. The third group of museum visitors is composed of collectors of wealth and social position who must be neither discouraged nor antagon- ized: they are the patrons of art, as they are also the patrons of let- ters and medicine. The rest of the muscum goers be- ;long to the masses, three millions Having taken up writing seriously|0f whom came to the Museum of she decided to’ develop her technique| Modern Art to see Whistler’s “Moth- in’ writing dialogue in fiction by |**: ” The famous painting. had, been dramatizing Edith Wharton’s Age of Put in the exhibit so that the art stu- Innocence. of the play she sent it toa playwright-| friend of hers. suddenly received a telegram: cabled Wharton for rights. the other two acts.” play, and. then peddled it around the Write forties and fifties of New York until | |many to come see it, and more ;clamor that it should go on ‘the road. | People want to come to art galleries. Katherine Cornell took it over. She started writing Years of Grace, her first novel, in Statler hotel bed- rooms she occupied while her were on tour. The novel, Mrs. Barnes declared, is not autobiographical, ex- cept in so far as the characters in it| | artist. are the kind she knew in ‘her early years. She says that she cannot imag- ine actually putting real people into books because they are so unwieldy that they cannot be adapted to the action conceived in the author’s mind. | While the author is in the process of writing, the characters grow and take on a life of their own, thereby mold- She finished the | plays | © | times sincere, too often insincere. |should be propagandized so that the After writing the first act | de nt might see that it did not com- pare with some of Whistler’s other} Three days later she| works, much less with thany of the | “Have| paintings by other less famous paint- But an account of the amount) ers. of -insurance upon Mother influenced to cult of America” They come in a certain mood—some- Art public may appreciate-andhelp the By a har eh method of analy- CECELIA’ S YARN SHOP Seville Arcade BRYN MAWR oe PA. OOO a a” it demanded by | ‘the Louvre leaked out, and “the great | -sis-we-should.-get-.a- more accurate juggment of what modern works of art-should-and_awvill last... The scholar, like the artist, must be idealistic: he must look not merely for workman- ship, but for that spark of genius which will make a work stand apart from contemporary pieces, adequate but dull, and last for future genera- tions, as genius has lasted and been handed down to us from previous generations. Thus alone can the scholar foster art. By no means whatever can he affect the emotional opinion of the public. Fortunes are spent on “works of art,” but little of the money helps the good artist to bring into existence really good art. This state of affairs must be brought to the attention of the class that has money, but so aften lack culture. The pupose of art ed- ucation,,then, must be to establish a class that. is not dependent upon per- sonal opinion alone, but can also rec- ognize the opinion of the scholar, and acquire a vision of real art—art of good workmanship combined with the genius that makes it grefit. FIFTEEN YEARS. AGO Everyone may now heave‘ a great sigh of relief upon hearing that in 'February of 1919 the period of pro- digious Red-Cross knitting was brought to a_ close,—that period of seventeen months in which, accord- ing to the New Yorker e timates, helmets d out. flers, and wiistlets | turn: were the Red Cross “stack ncedles” more of knitting, for | issued ordets to as hrernieY” JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. N.S. T.-Grammer $23 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR PA Mrs. Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes, Superior. Soda Service Music-—-Dancing for girls onlv some 10,000,000 swe aters, socks, muf- | This means that virtual- | | ily every man in the army must have received at least one article knit by | “the tireless fingers of the. women | | who chose this way of aiding to win |the war.” We will soon hear no )> | At | {i Luncheon 40c - 50c - 7 | | soon as the wool supply was exhaust- | enly Peter, to wander about the cam- ed. We wonder what it must have ' |.pus these days he would undoubtedly © felt. to have been one of those sweat-' meet many relatives. At classes, in ers which was apparently ordered to ‘the village, and, above all, at dinner go through life minus one sleeve or he could not fail to recognize his lit- a back. With the end of knitting, | tle sister, telling her even from afar however, the War work was not over, | | off by: her fuzzy wig and “glorious for comfort-kits were given out to! | emancipation from the conventional be filled. ‘hook and eye. It was apparently in February of | “Whether, by temperament or by this same year that the News start- | physique, she is an athlete par excel- ed its now traditional policy of com- | lence, and loves to dress ini character, ing out on Wednesday instead of on} refusing: to abandon even at dinner Thursday. All the previous readers | the costume of her kind, Especially of this &lumin will be delighted to | does she cling to the kindly gym shoe, learn that the Junk Committee, men- delighting in the soft scuffling sound tioned before, made $3.08 by selling | it makes in Taylor and along the vil- 670 pounds of newspaper, rubber and lage asphalt. Of all-articles of dress, scrap-paper, which huge sum is @!| however, a_ battle-scarred middy- part of their yearly contribution of | blouse is the favorite, though now ser- $20 to the Chinese Scholarship at St. | 'iously rivalled by the T-shirt for eve- Hilda’s School in Wuchang, China. | ‘ning wear. (No, the items in this paragraph are| “Jt may be that Slovenly Peter dur- not in the slightest degree connected ing his recent years in the army has with each other.) Signaler Thomas | been forced to depart somewhat from Skeyhill at a tea given in his honor! the ways of his youth. If so he will by the History Club recalled the ver- | probably be grateful to his little sis-, dict pronounced on Bryn Mawr by |ter for keeping up the family tradi- Colonét Roosevelt. Skeyhill had en- tions.” gaged in a. discussion. of the colleges ; for women with Roosevelt on a train, and upon asking him which one he Distinctive Sportswear Stetson Hats for Women considered the greatest, Roosevelt re- ARDMORE plied, “Why, Bryn Mawr, of course.” | The foll-wing roprinted editorial |) will doubtless be of interest to tho e who rememb-r the great “Bryn Maw: ae me seed } scandal” of last year in regard to dress on-camjus, Note c specially the Fe similarities in the sentim nts exprcss- ‘GREEN HILL FARMS ee in this to tho-e expressed last City Line and Lancaster Ave. & | year, Overbrook-Philadelphia “Were our childhood friend, Slov- we — A reminder that we would like to PHILIP HARRISON STORE r | take care of your ‘arents and bRYN MAWR. PA | friends, whenever they come to visit you. Cothany Cold Strip: ? Silk Hosiery, $1.00 \ , Bist Quality Shoes L: B.. METCALF, in Bryn Mam Manager. NEXT DOOR FO THE MOVIES _ j | a a ee SR we a a 2 CRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM 5c Dinner 85c - Meals a la carte and table d’hote Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, phi PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED | MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS | THE PUBLICAHS INVITED Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 Miss’ Sarah Davis, $1.25 Daily and Manager YOU CAN SMOKE THEM STEADILY. NEVER GET ON YOUR NERVES HOW GOOD THEY TASTE! BECAUSE THEY NEVER TIRE YOUR TASTE ! Me he ch Raabe A EE ES nth a adi = Litas a « we Page Six THE COLLEGE NEWS sagioil Team Wins __- Over Drexel, 49-15 BOOK REVIEW Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis (This book was obtained from the Bookshop) Pass Work Needs Inipeotement; Faeth and Boyd Score 28 In First Half the structural formula of an authen- tie Ga Greek tragedy, but satirically | | transposed into the mediocrity of mod- ern life and ambitions. The hero, Myron Weagle, is a small-town New Englander, dominated by an ambition to such an extent that it fills and controls his entire life; just at the glorious moment when this ambition SECOND TEAM ERRATIC On Saturday “morning Bryn. ‘sips defeated Drexel basketball teams, 49- 15 and 52-7. During the first quarter, the Drexel forwards found opportunities to try their skill at shooting, as the guards kept the ball constantly in mid or in -the forward court. Faeth and Boyd, however, ran up a score of 28 points in the first half against Drex- el’s 6, but were slowed down consider- ably in the second half when the guards got on to their system of pass-| ing. | The centers had the strongest op-| ponents, especially during the first half, when the toss in was used, as_ it is almost impossible to work out a definite defense for this type of play. In the jsecond half, although Jones got the tip-off fairly consistently, | Larned’s opponent got the ball completely ruins the realization. The | obvious with Mr, Lewis’ hotel-keeper. + the American Hotel at Black Thread | Center, Connecticut. 'a ne’er-do-well, and Myron became | boyhood. He learned the business al times on the top thrdugh her| 2 poetic dream of the perfect hotel,|by the employment of the novel con- | fire,” and we discovered from the but- sted | which grew and grew as he heard and clever footwork. On the whole, passing was better than usual, but ig still much too slow On Saturday comes the Mount St. , Joseph team with its fast passes and | “clever handling of the ball, and Bryn! ‘Mawr will probably be on the defense | more than usual, unless height or some other factor enters in. This is one of our better and more eeting| games, so we hope everyone will come | out to see it. The line-up was as follows:. other itinerant guests ‘brother, Ora, His younger | dream of his coming glory. is fully realized; fate intervenes and | | ing Work of Art, as of reading many of Mr. Lewis’ books, is the feeling, ' \“What’s the use of living anyway?” | ible, since it is difficult to imagine | just what ¢ mandolin player would | have to offer that she hasn’t. Per- | When Will Bryn Mawr Be | Mr. Lewis” ‘peculiar technique of im- ‘parting to the reader the feeling, of ‘restlessness and boredom; which his | characters, are enduring by describing Mr. Sinclaie Lewis’ latest novel, | countless small and sordid details, is | ex-husband ‘of the ex-mistress is. ex- Work of Art, is a tragedy embodying | 4%a1n the predominant characteristic | cellent in the role of one who finds | jof his style, but he occasionally makes | surprisingly clever generalities about people as a whole, which are often irrelevant but very pleasant as a re- lief to the suffocating pettiness of the monotonous atmospheres he loves ito create—D. T. S. No More Ladies In Mr. A. O. Thomas’s new comedy, 'No More Ladies, now playing at the | mediocrity of modern life is rendered | |Booth Theatre, we are treated to an| | grandmother Townsend; who shrank | bitterest | | ‘intimate glimpse of what happens | from neither strong drink, satire, by the fact that: this dominat- | ‘in the “smart set”? when a desire to language nor the facts of life, with | ing ambition of Myron’s is to be an take pleasure where it can be found | energy and the determination to star-' ‘invades the masculine heart and car- Myron was born to the hotel busi- ries the action outside the confining | delivered a long speech on the -vir-' ness, for his mother and father kept walls of the home and into the marts | tues of libertines, which was too com- 'of love for sale. The comedy con- His father was; cerns a bright young thing of the! got the idea that she approved highly present Southampton vintage, who -the-man~ofthe-family~in~ his~small+}decides-to-put~her-hand in that ofa; daughter in the arms of the South-' charming rake in order to indulge in! nev | from the ground up, and developed ia variation on their usual activities|ments to “My God! | vention of marriage. They have no istories of famous hotels and perfect | | hopes for the permanency of such an} retiring to bed at three after a party | ‘service from traveling salesmen and | arrangement, but they are at least. -at the country club had been to wake | ‘prepared to try anything once. He, also had an ambition; | promises to call her “darling” only | of the May. It seemed to us at times | he wanted to be a poet; but Ora’s| when under extreme and sincere emo- | that Miss Watson was getting slight-" ‘methods of attaining his end con- ‘tional stress and strain, and with | ily ahead of herself as she would un- |sisted of convincing his family that | | that assurance they begin life as one. 'doubtedly have gone to an oe if they wish, they may rig up a he was their intellectual superior and'In less time than it takes to tell; grave had she consumed as much al- |} coches buoy between Taylor and uuld do no disagreeable work, so’ they become two again, or even three, | cohol, cigarette smoke, and uttered | penne hall and pull in their students int he had ample time to lie and/if you count the night club mandolin (as many slyly licentious remarks all | 4, pest they can, or else they may at , |player, who constitutes. directors’ | The main portion of the novel in mnectan for the wandering consort. Officially Snowed- In? haps the answer is to be found in the s things which she has that the mando- jlin player lacks, but, that is for you | |to decide. Mr. Rex O’Malley as the Continued: trowi. ‘Page Orie. ' friends perforce abandoned her to her fate and returned, bereaved, to their |cheerless halls. Still the college goes heartiessly on; himself in danger of being compro- | plays and Bryn Mawr must go on. for- j mised by all the women present at the |¢Vver, through fires, and heat, and ex- ‘same moment. His light banter and |@minations, and blizzards, and it would, humorous persiflage out-Southamp- | Seem that the faculty, the brave and toned Southampton from start'to fin- | hardy faculty, will be the last to no-' ‘ish, and, but for the fact that he tice our absence when we are all dead | could not remember what’ went on 27d gone into the snow. during the evening he spent with | Therefore, for the benefit of our Miss Weston, he was never found. ‘buried sisters, who are undoubtedly 'wanting in any sense. |piling up cuts while they sojourn be- : : neath, the unofficial blanket of the aise Lae WOR Pisyed: te ‘blizzard, we wish to suggest that | classes should henceforth be held un- ‘der the snow. If our classmates can- not come to their classes, let their classes go to them. We will take our courage in our hands, students and faculty. together, and leap blithely into the snowdrifts, bearing the torch of inated for us to understand, but we kndiolédite to Shona who ‘went Hravely forth into the snow in quest of it and | wandered from the path.on_f rozen, but unwilling, feet... We will tunnel our | way from drift to drift, while our pro- | fessors strive to* break the physical ‘path as they have so long striven to break the mental one, and we will ‘hold our classes wherever we find two -or three gathered together perishing for lack of knowledge. If the faculty should by any strange \chance find this plan unfeasible, eith- ier of two courses is open to them: strong tle everyone, including herself. She of them. When she found her grand- ampton Terror, she confined her com- The ship’s on ‘ler that her last instructions, before | her up early as she was to be Queen | i her life as she did in the time of the | last declare the anxiously-awaited : play. | verdict that Bryn Mawr is officially a Drexel Bryn Mawr | devoted to the story of Myron’s prog: | Unfortunately for the peace of | isnowed in and thus save what few ee ee Sa Boyd | lress after he grew up, from job to! mind of the wife, who is played with | 'B. M. League Plans Camp | young lives will survive this sorry Rite Bo, ee eee Fa eth Job in one hotel after another, each | great charm by Miss Ruth Weston, | to Replace Bates House day. Sloe ies hay oo es Tata job more responsible than the last |love has fluttered in on the summer | | ee ee Lavheal !and each teaching him a-different side | breezes, and she finds her heart | | (Especially contributed by Marga-: Miss Park Gives Plans Bee eo Kent | | of the hotel business. When he be-; thumping loudly at the thoughts of ret Marsh, Chairman of the Commit- | For New Residence Hall ee eee ee i Bridgman} °2™° the New York Manager of one | anyone enjoying the charms of her tee for the Bryn Mawr Camp.) ¢ | Sihatitntians .' Yivexel: Anglada| lof America’s greatest hotel chains, |lawful playmate (Mr. Melvyn Doug: ; The Bryn Mawr Camp is to enter | Continued from Page One for Saylor, P. Brooks for Koch. Bryn Mawr: McCormick for Faeth, Faeth} for McCormick. Scores—Drexel: P. Brooks, 12; H.; Brooks, 3. Bryn Mawr: Faeth, 24; McCormick, 2. Referees — Miss Smith Perkins. and Miss The second team game was, as the score indicates, almost a complete, walk-away for Bryn Mawr. The first half was a succession of baskets tried | and made with monotonous regularity, Baker scoring 26 points and McCor- mick, 12, while Kuch scored the only basket for the opponents. In the second half, however, the team seemed to lose interest and the play was decidedly messy and ex- tremely erratic. Even the guards re- laxed and permitted their forwards to make a basket. Evidently encour- aged, they managed to score three more points before the game ended. In the second half, the Taggart-Bak- er combination was tried out, but did not seem to be as successful as the old partnership. The line-up was-as follows: Drexel Bryn Mawr Se Poa er Te Bese Baker Me kk l. f, ....MeCormick ARO. sie Coot acees es Meirs Jackson ........s. c. ....Rothermel Oe ee 1, oo as Bishop ere |e eee Jarrett Substitutions — Drexel: Pearce for Riggs, Kuch for Walsh, Tiffany for Pearce. Bryn Mawr: McOormick, Taggart Washburn for Bishop. Scores—Drexel: Riggs, 1; Kuch, 6. Bryn Mawr: McCormick, 14; Baker, 30; Taggart, 8. Baker for for* Baker, A system of referring all proposed legislation to a committee before it can. be put to a vote has been insti- “tuted by ‘the Student-Faculty Con- gress at Bucknell. The reason given for the action is that “the members of the Congress were wont to spring motions, and, after a brief discussion, ask for a vote on the question,” and that “ften these motions were either unworthy of Congressional considera- tion or so poorly worded that confus- ion on the floor resulted.” —(N. S. F. A.)- Boyd, 23; 8 Geet. ow go stupidly and blindly on ng, and ihe married a girl from Black Thread , Center, but neither his wife nor-their json ever distracted Myron’s primary ‘attention from his work. Ora had ‘also come to New York and was mak- |ing a shady living as a ghost writer, 'and requiring considerable financial | assistance from Myron. | Through the years Myron’s ideal | of his Perfect Hotel had grown larger |and more perfect, until at last, in | 1926, he- found himself in a position to realize it. He built the Ideal Week- ‘end Resort Hotel, with sound-proof radio lounges, sun parlors, winter and summer sports, and a trained corps of expertly-drilled servants; all the de- tails were calculatedly perfect. The hotel opened in 1927 with every: room filled. The New England Brass In- dustries Convention, the press, and many prominent guests were assem- bled to start it off with a flourish, and the opening dinner dance was most auspicious. At three o’clock that morning, a notorious murder occur- red in one of the bedrooms, and every tabloid in the country featured the hotel as the Murder Tavern. Instead of bowing to fate in the approved manner of a Greek hero, Myron made the modern mistake of trying to recoup his fortunes. He failed to save the hotel, was given poorer and poorer jobs throughout the .country, dnd ended by trying to start the Ideal Tourist €amp in partner- ship with his son. The modern and mediocre aspect of Myron is that his Ideal changed as his luck broke, be- coming lower and lower until the reader is left with the uncomfortable suspicion that Myron, sometime man- ager of the country’s greatest ho- tels, the Poet-Seer of The Perfect Hotel, was quite content with plan- ning his. perfect/ Mid-Western tourist camp. Ora, however, had struck sud- den success with a play and having for years tried every scheme to avoid working towards his ambition, was highly successful. The bitter irony of this book leaves the reader feeling very uncomfortable. Mr. Lewis seems to be declaring that even if modern people are sufficiently visionary and sensitive to have an ideal and to work towards it, they have not the courage and the nobility to recognize and admit defeat. In- sink unconsciously to left in the end famous, wealthy, and las—but recently saved from the dan- | gers of Hollywood). Being a woman of action she immediately composes a most extraordinary house party, composed of the mandolin player, an indigént English lord, now married to one of Mr. Douglas’ ex-mistresses, theex-husbandof that ex-mistress, ; and herself — ndt to, mention her grandmother, who is a most remark- able example of the older generation who has kept pace with the times— being at times slightly in advance of them. Needless to say, Mr. Douglas is a bit confused at the whole busi- ness and very annoyed when it comes out that the present Lady Moulton addressed him as Petty Wetty when their passion was at a white heat in the dim past. To complete his an- noyance Miss Weston stays out hap- pily beyond ‘the time when all faith- ful’ wives should be in bed and picks as her companion in crime the ex- husband of the ex-mistress. This manifestation of independence and women’s rights so upsets Mr. Douglas that he regains his senses, feels once more the lure of the home, and ex- periences a wild desire to call Miss Weston “darling,” which he does with a success that graphically illustrates the inherent weakmindedness of all women. “The play is more or less a celebra- tion of the return of the era of joy and good feeling inaugurated under Mr. Roosevelt, and as such it admir- ably fulfills its destiny. There is nothing either sincere or significant about it, but it is amusing and ab- sorbing in the manner of all plays, which mean little or nothing to any- one, not even the actors. Having been treated in the theatre for the past few years to moving protests against the injustices and cruelties of life, it isa great relief to laugh heart- ily at the antics of the overbred mem- bers of society who strugle laborious- ly to lack all manners, morals, a merit. Mr. Douglas as the young man who values his reputation as a wrecker of commandments and a dan- gerous character more than he does his life, is suave, abandoned, sulky, foiled, and passionate in the correct order and with the correct enthusi- asm, It is not difficult to imagine the effects of his company, as he affects carefully all the characteristics of a whirlwind lover, even toward the grandmother of his wife. ;upon its first season in June and Ely Meadows—has been chosen in pref- | July of this year. It replaces,our old | grence to the lot opposite Pembroke arrangement, kfiown as Bates House, | East as the best location for the new and is to be different in many re- ‘hall. The hall is to be built in three spects. It is to become a place where | |sections, each section containing its Bryn Mawr undergraduates can get|own small dining room. There is to constructive training .in working with | be a single kitchen. Many more ‘pub- children and learn how to keep ther ‘lie rooms are provided than in the amused, what to do with intractable | other halls, which were constructed at ones, and so on. As formerly, there la time when rooms for general use will be a trained head-worker, who! were not considered necessary. The will have first responsibility and the | students’ rooms, in response to a gen- workers will get their training under ‘eral demand, are to be almost entire- her direction. The house we are ‘ly single. There will be innumerable planning to use for the camp is i: | ‘bathrooms. Avalon, N. J. It is directly on the 2 | Wyndham is to be converted into a beach, with a recreation center for | President’s house so the sixteen girls the children at our very door, a lo‘a-|now housed there will move into the tion ideal for the “teachers,” as well! new hall. In addition five or six girls as for the children. | will move from each of the other halls We are being forced, naturally |so that the maids can be better ac- enough, to cut in half the number cf | commodated in the halls than they children we are able to take. This | are at present. means twenty will come in each bi-| The new building will be placed di- weekly group, and these we have de- | agonally on the lot. It is hoped that cided to choose only from Philadel- |; about fifty more feet from the gar- phia now that the camp is a purely |den in the rear of the Ely field can Bryn Mawr institution. Even though ibe purchased so that the building-can we are taking only twenty in each |be surrounded by a small grass-plot. group, we still have a financial gap | ‘Since the college owns the property to fill. Cotbeds, blankets, towels and | | from Rockefeller to Dalton, applica- similar supplies must be bought and | ‘tion will be made to Lower Merion the committee would greatly appre-' ‘Township to convert the road into a ciate information as to the possibility private one, where an impressive en- of borrowing or purchasing any of | trance gate is to be built. these supplies second-hand. As the | situation now stands, we have in our coffers “$1,551. By the first of June we will need $550 more. Not more than $150 can be raised by the sale of sandwiches, and, in addition, an indefinite sum on the puppet show we are giving in the Deanery garden this spring. The Bryn Mawr Camp belongs to the undergraduates, and, although the alumnae help as they feel able, it is really outside their provinee. -The Camp must, in- the final analysis, depend. on undergrad- uate support. Catherine Bill and I will be glad to give anyone who may be interested more information about the work we hope to do. | ‘ Seven Ohio State University stu- dents were suspended recently for refusing to take military training. They will be automatically reinstat- ed when they agree to conform to the military training rule, according to the University authorities. Which. re- calls the recent incident at the Uni- versity of Minnesota where one stu- dent, objecting on _ conscientious grounds, was excused from military training. —(N.-S.-F.-A.)— The Catalogue, published’ by the Oklahoma A. & M. College, lists a course, “Nut Culture,” with this ex- planation, “study of pecans, walnuts, etc., not maniacs.’ Students in an English class “at Oklahoma A. & M. College are .fined one cent every time they misspell a word. The fund derived from this source is used to pay for an annual enauet of the class.—(N. S. F. A.) An announcement on a_ bulletin board at Drake University reads: “Come up some time—any time—to the Christian Endeavor Society meet- ing.” A survey in an eastern university showed that 60 per cent. of the stu- nee recent report ‘submitted in pro-| test by Wisconsin Teachers states that ‘Miss Weston as Sip wits is almost State Charwomen are paid a higher| dents sleep through at least three , teachers —(N. § Pe A.) \ \ THE COLLEGE NEWS y Page Seven Freshiinan Show Wins Enthusiastic Comments Continued from Page One bawdy, and we know of one member of the audience who definitely enjoy- ed himself. , As to the cast—it was on the whole excellent, and understood’ the spirit of the play and stayed in it through- out. Winifred Safford was a perfect heroine from the time the curtain rose to surprise her engaged in sing- cheery than it does today. They set a standard of behavior which makes the conduct of their modern proto- types look definitely shabby. The scene in the Greeks was by far the best scene in the play, probably because there were more people on the stage, and it was kept alive by the casual movements of the men at the bar. Betty Stainton availed her- self of the setting to deliver from the bottom of her heart a mournful torch song to the effect that There Ain’t No Good in Men, and by the time she ~ ing hymns in quite the flattest voice; finished we were fairly well persuaded heard ‘since Lantern Night, to the! to her point of view. final moment when she gazed up into the handsome’ countenance of True Blue Harold (Helen Harvey) and be- gan to make plans for the future. Harold combined for us all the ster- ling qualities of the man who not only eats Wheaties every morning for breakfast, and uses Life Buoy Soap religiously, but who sees his dentist not twice, but three times a year. Miss Harvey recalled Tom Mix and our childhood days when she burst into the Greeks and snatched Little Nell from the brink of destruction as though it were all in a day’s work. Letitia. Brown wore her. black.frock coat and twirled her mustache in the manner of the best erlemy of women and civilization in general. As Mali- cious Montague she set the tone for, leered | through a window in the first act and| Elizabeth Washburn uttered a laugh which made it look| Wright, as the parents of- Little Nell,'a great desire to forget it-all, Together with; were all that Louisa M. Aleott and her performance when she bad for Little Nell. Miss Stainton also deserves a great deal of credit for the lyrics to the songs which she composed, and into which she: managed to inject a cer- tain amount of sense. Modern lyric- ists might. copy her to their profit. The casual inhabitant of thé Greeks who appealed to us most was the very innocous alcoholic created by Eliza- beth Davis, but the other bar flies were very much at home with their feet on the brass rail. We may say that the ease with which the most upstanding members of the class of 1987 were converted into gentlemen of..lowcharacter.alarmedus_a_ bit. They were a little too good. As for those who took the parts of the more genteel] members of. the group created by the authors, they were -on the whole very satisfactory. and Amelia from the Greeks” she made that cele-|The mother was such a perfect help- | brated establishment look far more mate that we z % screaming at times, But the urgé pass- ed off fortunately. The dear Bryn Mawr girls were that will express our feelings on the subject of the personalities which flit- ted about in high shoes through our hallowed halls in the dim, dark days. Helen Taft (M. Lee Powell) appear- ed before our startled eyes and sang a touching ditty to the effect that she wanted to marry Freddy and he want- ed to marry her, and did it with spirit, to say the least. Her rendition of the ballad deserves great praise as she was called into the play at the last moment and had never rehearsed with the cast before the big moment. Elizabeth Lyle created a Marion Park, who had as good a disposition then as she has now, although she hardly commanded the instant atten- tion ofthe students in meetings which is hers today. One feature of: the scene in Taylor Hall which attracted us was Miss Seltzer’s €ance—done in high-buttoned shoes, above the tops | of which gleamed the bare legs of :the modern intellectuals: In general, then, the cast perform- ed its duties well and moved: about competently. within. the limits. set by the authors. There were times when the stage was on the verge of a lin- gering death, speeches were delivered from behind pillars, posts, and dur- | |ing exits out back doors, charming—there isn’t any other word in dirty white ducks and grimy sweat shirts, we can only say. that they did their work well, and the gods will re- ward them in the future if the world does not at the moment. Edith Rose directed the play as a unit, and’ she gave it a certain spirit and atmosphere which contributed materially to its success. Helen Fisher shouldered the thankless job of stage manager, and the speed with which the sets -were changed was evidence of her efficiency. Not once did the curtain rise on a stage hand in. a compromising posi- tion and that is a tribute to. Miss’ Fisher and her assistants, Olga Muller was head of the com- mittee on construction, and she built an excellent set for the scene in the Greeks, and utilized the brown cyc to create a very effective interior for the home of the heroine. The scen- ery had a certain vitality about it, which helped to make up for the fact that Varsity Dramat’s best paint buck- et held the glue which was responsi- ble for a connection here and there. ° Mary Harwood seems to us to have done the most difficult work of all with the greatest degree of success.! She was in charge of costumes, and no one could deny: that the play was costumed effectively and more or less in period, which is more than can be said for any Freshman Show we have ever seen. Every effort was made to, and the| put the characters on the stage look- actors were occasionally overcome by | ing like what they were supposed to but represent, and there was no doubt in these were minor points in the per- jour minds as to what we were looking | the gentlemen: known as the “sneaks|her school would have us think them. formance. jat, as there has’ been#in past years. As for. those members of the class ‘The costumes, which were rented, were ' were on the verge of ; who-spent the week before the show intelligently chosen;) and those which i ed the were made were intelligently made. Than that we know of ponte more 10 say —— Lucille Faweett; besides being a drunken lady in the Greeks, provided the properties and at the crucial mo- ment her efficiency stood the test. When the time came True Blue Har- old had his revolver with which to shoot Malicious Montague, and the Herald Tribune was in Little Nell’s house when the time came for her father to read of the death of that same Montague. Lights were done by Letitia Brown, and were welt handled. She did not give way to the impressionistic frenzy which has driven some freshman light chairman to stage the entire show. in complete darkness, and we were duly thankful. Each of these chairmen had their committees, which worked well and honestly, and we can only say that the time will come, when the world is communistic, that they will be glad they had the experj- ence. Sophie Hemphill and Margaret Jackson, as heads of publicity and of business, managed to collect a good- ly audience for the performance, and they must have heaved a sigh of re- lief when they found by the end of the first act that they had not deceiv- public when they persuaded them that they could not afford: to ‘miss Never Darken My Door Again. The class of 1937 distinguished itself honorably, and in addition kept its little, green turtle all to itself. Merits may.come and go, but if the Fresh- man Show is any indication, the class of 1937 will go on forever.—S. J. © 1934, Liocerr & Mysrs Tobacco Co. hesterfield —the cigarette that’s MILDER =the cigarette that TASTES BETTER better. 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There will not be a performance on Wednesday evening. ‘ -. March 7. John Charles Thomas, i nesday evening at 8.30 P. M. Movies - Aldine: The “alluring,” “world- ly,” “sophisticated,” etc., Anna Sten bursts into our midst in the much pub- licized Nana; It is the story, of a lady of the streets who had pretty much her own way with the male ele- ment after a hard life to begin with. A period production of the Zola novel. Keith’s: James Dunn and Claire Trevor in Hold That’ Girl. type of movie that has made Mr. Dunn loved by so many and loathed by us. Very harmless. ae Earle. Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey in their new madhouse mov- ie—Hips; Hips, Hooray. Some peo- ple evidently think these two are a scream as they crack aged puns, and It’s the ’ ] admire the legs of their chorus girls, but why they think so is beyond us. Karlton; May Robson in You Can’t Buy Everything — meaning Happi- ness. She has Lewis Stone to help her in this sentimental animal that reduces one to tears while having a fairly good time watching the life story of a kindly lady. Stanley: A very amusing tale about a runaway heiress and a tough news- paper man on a transcontinental bus, It Happened One Night. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert play their roles well enough to make this. very good entertainment indeed. Stanton: Joan Blondell in I’ve Got Your Number, the story about the girl - with - the - voice - like-a- smile. Glenda Farrell communicates with departed spirits by tapping the wires.. Not very good. Boyd: The Cat. and the Fiddle, with Ramon Navarro~-and-Jdeanette Macdonald. The musical story of the love and enmity of two musicians. Was better as Jerome Kern’s operetta that was well done on Broadway. Europa: We continue to be sub- jected to a very horrifying war film— Forgotten Men. The films of the coun- tries that participated in the conflict. Local Movies Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., By Candlelight, with Elissa Landi and Paul Lukas. Fri. and. Sat., Flying Down To Rio, with Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire and Gene Raymond. Mon. and Tues., Convention City, with Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou. Wed. and Thurs., Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Design For Living. Seville: Wed.,_Joan.__Crawford, Clark Gable. and Franchot Tone in Dancing Lady. Thurs. and Fri., Lone Cowboy, with Jackie Cooper and Lila Lee. Sat., Sleepers East, with Pres- ton Foster and Wynne Gibson. Mon. and Tues., White Woman, with Carol Lombard and Charles-Laughton. Wed. and Thurs., Goodbye; Love, ‘with Charlie Ruggles and Vera Teasdale. Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Women in His Life; with Otto Kruger. Fri. and Sat., The House on 56th Street, with Kay Francis and Ricardo Cor- tez. 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