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. And, dear Hatter, let her be faith- WIT'S END| Published weekly during the College Year ‘(excepting during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. QNALS om nee tsTasunt || Ati, 192) CPA Less Aesoan - The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or Ba part witheut written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Editor-in-Chief SALLIE JONES, "34 News Editor J. EvizapetH HANNAN, ‘34 Copy Editot Nancy Hart, °34 Sports Editor SALLY Howe, °35 Editors EvizABETH MACKENZIE, ‘34 GERALDINE Ruoaps, ‘35 FRANCES. PORCHER, '36 CONSTANCE RoBINsoNn, °34 FRANCES VAN KEUREN, °35 Diana Tate-SMITH, °35 Subscription Manager Business Manager Dorotuy KaLBAcn, "34 BARBARA LEwis, °35 * Assistant MarGareT BEROLZHEIMER, ‘35 DoreEN CaNnabay, °36 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN /AT ANY TIME ‘in connection with Bryn Mawr, _ tion because of the inevitable reply that to allow the students to smoke . ask us a straightforward question about our views. -party do we belong? We are disdainful and impartisan. What kind of "gia ae ive like ? We wax storm nd ia cree What} Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office 9 : Will Bryn Mawr Burn? During the past week Vassar not only dedicated a new gymnasium, but also took another step in the direction of removing the paternalisti¢ supervision which has been maintained over its students. 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)