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VOL. XX, No. 15

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDA

Y, FEBRUARY 238, 1934

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Freshman Show Glorifies Bustle Era, Wins
Enthusiastic Praise of Uncritical Audience

 

 

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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

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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:

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