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VOL. XXI, No. 3 _

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA.,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934

Sopyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE -NEWS, 1934.

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PRICE 10 CENTS -

 

 

| Theory of Atomists
Gives Opportunities
_ for Varied Criticism

ss Bigesis
Peres ;

 

: Dr. Veleiidai Uses Integration
of Infinitesimals as Escape
from Dilemma

 

ELEMENTS ARE RELATED
-AS ENTITIES TO WHOLE

 

The. universe must be made up of
_ Jeast, or smallest, parts or it will re-
duce itself to zeros. The Atomists
were faced with this dilemma, said
Dr. Veltmann, speaking in the Com-
mon Room on Thursday, October 25,
because they did not realize that there
was still a third way to explain nat-
ural phenomena.
The escape from the unhappy al-
ternative which faced the Atomists
lies in the possibility 6f conceiving the
world as an integration of infinitesi-
mals. These infinitesimals are differ-
ential ratios of functional changes.
They correspond neither to atoms nor
to zeros, but. are fluctuations between
being and non-being. Contrary to the
independent atoms, these entities de-
pend on each other. An infinitesimal
divorced from a system, or unrelated
‘to the whole, has absolutely no mean-
ing.
To have the elements of the world
‘relational entities in a systematic
‘whole is a necessary conception when
one considers the defectiveness of the
old material arguments. The Atom-
ists stated that everything which is
complex must be derived from ulti-
mate simples. This statement can only
retain its validity if complexity and
simplicity are absolute and unequi-
vocal attributes of reality. It has
~been proved, however, that these so-
called attributes are relative and can-
not be absolutized. We canot imagine
a maximum complexity of simplicity
any more than a maximum hardness
or softness.

In postulating the existence of emp-
ty spaces, the Atomists not only -ig-
nored the possibility of light and elec-
tro-magnetism, but they transcended
human experience. Their space was
an abstraction of the extension that
was attributed.to material objects.
They had to postulate this void in
order to meet the problem that arose
from their conviction that space was
necessary to motion. This problem

Continued on Page Five

 

Support for Democrats ,
Urged by Mrs. Manning

 

Now is the time to support the Ad-
ministration, if it is to do anything
constructive in the next two years.
The coming election is therefore of
“enormous importance and great fu-
ture significance,” as Dean Manning
said in chapel on Tuesday, October
twenty-third.

News from Washington shows that

the Democratic victory is taken for

 

Vocational Tea : 8

Miss Dorothy Kahn, Director ’
of the Federal Emergency Relief
in Philadelphia, will speak on
College Women in Public Serv-
ice in the Common Room Friday,
November 2, at 4.30. All those
who are intaveated are cordially
invited to attend. Special invi-
tations could be sent only to
those who had signed on the lists
last year. Miss Kahn will speak
informally. Tea will be served
at quarter past four.

 

 

 

Lecture Recital Given
By Mr. Guy Marriner

 

Music Is Emphasized as Means
of Evoking Subconscious
and Intuition

 

CLASSICAL IS ART MUSIC

 

“A knowledge of music will enable
you to interpret your work and your
lives as nothing else in the universe
can do,”.said Guy Marriner, in open-
ing his six week series of lecture-re-
citals on the pianoforte music of the

three preceding centuries in the Dean-.

ery Tuesday afternoon. He went on
to emphasize that “music has always
been a means of arousing human emo-
tions and of evoking without restric-
tions the intuition and the subcon-
scious.”

In other countries throughout the
centuries music has been an intrinsic
part of every man’s daily life. It
brings about a regeneration of the
heart and a desire for sympathetic
communion that are among the noblest
pleasures of life. Music ‘should be
not a recreation, but a Re-creation.

Piano music is the most universal
form of tonal art and its literature is
the largest. Although it lacks much
that other instruments provide, it is
the only essential solo instrument, and
it far surpasses the voice and violin
in range of melody and concurrent
harmonies.

Music changes in form and style
to meet the spiritual and aesthetic
needs. of each generation. At the end
of the 16th.century instrumental dance
music in the suite form was popular.
Even when these became more ab-
stract the rhythm of the dance domi-
nated them. In the early 18th cen-
tury, after thé development of thé
clavichord, the Italian sonata had be-
come a formal structure whose es-
sence was technique. Scarlatti, born
two years before Bach, composed the
best sonatas, which are generally all
in one movement, divided into two
main parts. In the Pastorale and
the Capriccio, the great virtuoso’s
neat, pianistic style and fanciful
freshness can easily be seen.

Classical is that which stands the
test of time, that which is Art music
as opposed to the tuneful music of
the people. One can always tell

——
Calendar a
Thursday, November 1. Dr..
Veltmann. 5.00 P. M. Common
Room.

Thursday, November 1. Play-
ers’ Club presents two one-act
plays: Riders to the Sea and
The Twelve-Pound Look. © 8.20
P. M. Goodhart.

Friday, November 2. Miss
Kahn on College Women in Pub-
lic Service. 4.30 P. M. Com-
mon Room.

Saturday, November 3. Var-
‘stty Hockey Game with. Merion
<Cricket Club. 10.00 A.M.

Sunday, November 4. Sunday
Evening Service conducted by
Bishop Reifsnider. 7.380 P. M.
Music Room.

Monday, November 5. Second
Team Hockey vs. Germantown
Cricket Club: 4,30 P. M.

Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean on
Dictatorship on Trial. 8.20 P. M.
Goodhart.

Tuesday, November 6. Mr.
Guy Marriner. Second Lecture-
Recital. French Music of the
XVIII Century: Papa Haydn,
Mozart, the Gallant Knight;
Lecture on Classicism, the So-
nata Form. 5.00 P. M. Dean-
ery.

Wednesday, November 7, The
House of Rothschild, with
George Arliss. 8.00 P. M. Good-
hart.

 

 

 

Summer School Gives

Stimulating Schedule

 

ba
English, Economics and History
Are the Subjects Featured
Among Courses

 

RECREATION STRESSED

 

(Especially contributed by Eleanor
Fabyan, ’36, and Agnes
» Halsey, ’36)

The Bryn Mawr Summer School is
the parent organization of — several
American. summer schools, which exist
to give to industrial and domestic
workers a better perspective through
which they may deal more effectively
with their problems and responsibili-
ties as members of an industrial com-
munity. In 1921 the aim of the Bryn
Mawr school was stated as follows:

“To offer young women in in-
dustry opportunities to study lib-
eral subjects and to train them-
selves in clear thinking; to stim-
ulate an active and continued in-
terest in the problems of our eco-
nomic order; to develop a desire
for study as a means of under-
standing and of enjoyment of life.

The school is not committed to

any theory or dogma. It is con-

ducted in a spirit of impartial
inquiry, with freedom of discus-
sion and teaching. Thus the stu-
dents should gain a truer in-

Miss Ely’s Speech
Rouses Enthusiasm

 

Personal Contact. Is Necessary
to Official Understanding
of Popular Needs

 

{INERTIA AMONG VOTERS

 

“Friends, I’m used to having a
hand!” declared Miss Gertrude Ely in
mock indignation after the students
assembled in the Music Room of Good-
hart Hall on Thursday morning had
greeted her appearance with the dig-
nified silence customary in* chapel.
Thereupon, the audience, realizing’ it
was participating in a political rally
rather than a religious service, burst
into applause that was more than sat-
isfactory.

Although Miss Ely is the Democrat-’

ic candidate for Pennsylvania State
Senator, she did not mention the Dem-
ocratic plank at all. Instead, she em-
phasized the necessity for people of
all parties to be in personal contact
with their political representatives.
She considers it of equal importance
that the politician maintain contact
with the men and women he is repre-
senting, not only for reasons of state,
but also for caine enjoyment and
education. a

“What a difference having a hand
makes!” said Miss Ely, for by the sort
of applause which welcomes her she
is enabled to know her audiences.
There are other means of identifica-
tion, too. For instance, in the Penn-
sylvania Dutch counties, the first ten
rows of seats are usually unoccupied,
while there is a crowd standing behind
the last row. Colored people crowd
to the front in their eagerness to miss
nothing. Every county has its own
peculiarities, and the experience of
learning these things is ample reward
to a candidate even if he loses his
fight.

“IT suppose I’m the first candidate
you’ve ever seen,” continued Miss Ely,
“and so this is a worth-while experi-
ence for you, too.” For it is very,
very important that the voter should
know for whom he is voting. Such
knowledge is especially requisite in
a State like Pennsylvania, where there
is an overwhelming majority of one
party. This party grows fat on its
power (Miss Ely’s opponent weighs
three hundred pounds) and lazily re-
fuses to make an effort toward un-
derstanding its supporters and their
interests even in campaign time. Dur-
ing legislative sessions, as many bills
as possible, whether important or not,
are discarded in the committees in
order to make less work for the
Senate.

This inertia exists in the minority
party also. The few Pennsylvania
Democrats are so hopelessly outnum-
bered, that the most violent action of
which they are capable might seem
useless. A little while ago, there was
only one Democrat in this State for
Now, how-

Dr. Wells Discusses
Good and Bad Sides
of- Modern Germany

 

Nazi Claims of Internal. Peace,
Restoring of Proud Ideals,
Held to be True

ANTI-SEMITIC POLICY,
INJUSTICE CRITICIZED

 

 

There are so many contradictions,
so much good, so much. bad, so many
lofty ideals, so many base practices in
modern Germany that the state of af-
fairs may well be called the Riddle of
the Third Reich, said Dr. Roger H.
Wells in his discussion of conditions in
Germany, delivered last Monday as the
first of the Anna Howard Shaw lec-
ture series on current political and
economic conditions. Dr. Wells’ dis-
cussion was made possible by his par-
ticipation in a trip to Germany last
summer, made by fifty American pro-
fessors under the auspices,of the Ger-
man government, in order to -inspect
the economic situation “with open
eyes, open ears, and open hearts.”

The National Socialists claim that
they have relieved unemployment, cre-
ated internal peace and outward unity,
given back to the German people ideals
and pride in themselves and in their
country, given land to the peasants
and equality and self-respect to the
workers, and, in short, lifted up a
stricken people. Their claims in these
respects are, on the whole, true, but
it is also true that they have adopted
a racial policy which is unscientific in
theory and barbarous in practice, that
they have practically abolished free-
dom of thought, of speech, and of the
press, and that they are still governed :
rather by personal caprice than by
law.

The clues to the riddle of the Third
Reich. lie in the history of the past
fifteen years, in answer to the ques-
tion: why did the system of govern-
ment obtaining from 1918 to 1933 fail?
There are three reasons why it failed:
the first lies in the impact of the de-
pression on Germany, and here it may
be noted that what has happened in
Germany has had its counterpart in
events elsewhere which were caused by
the depression; the second lies in the
inability of the politically inexperienc-
ed German people to deal with the po-
litically complicated system of govern-
ment existing during those years; and
the third reason may be found in the
provisions of the Versailles treaty,
which was a Carthaginian peace for
Germany. Some of the provisions
of the treaty may represent distinct

_ Continued on Page Four

Bishop Reifsnider

For the past two weeks the
Triennial Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
has been in session at Atlantic
City, and clergymen and mis-
sionaries from all over the world
came to it. One of the most out-

 

every eight Republicans.
ever, conditions have slightly improv-
ed, and the opposition shows its con-
sciousness of this improvement by get-

sight into the problems of indus-
try and feel a more vital respon-
sibility for their solution.”

The six weeks’ term is so short that

through one’s inner consciousness mu-
sie that. has been written with the
life-blood of the Masters who heard,

| granted there. But The Literary Di-
gest poll shows a decided swing away

* from the Administration. Nothing is

standing of these clergymen is
the Right Reverend Charles S.

\

-to be gained by defeating the Demo-
crats; the Republicans have no pro-
gram, and lack of support in Congress
would simply tie the President’s hands
and keep the country marking time, or
worse, for two years.

The Administration’s aim reaches

- farther than an immediate return to

_ prosperity, and is based on a desire to

develop constructive, clear thinking

about economics throughout the coun-

} try. |

| The failure of the NRA, as well as
of the Agricultural and Monetary pro-

grams, is more a matter of rumor

than a case of fact.. The Administra-.

tion is suffering from its own excellent
publicity, which caused the citizens,
tremendously interested in what was
going on, to expect immediate recov-

As one who intends to support the
Democratic ticket, Dean Manning be-

ves that the President has brought
iness out of a state of anarchy and

 

tested, rewrote, and polished the mu-
sic of the spheres. In this whirlwind
century of steel it is even harder. for
sensitive’ souls to pierce our material-
ization and release their genius.
Therefore we cannot judge the clas-
sical music of our times, for it must
not only endure the test of time, but
must transmit into music the essence
of the souls of this generation.

The. Classical Era extends from

Bach through Handel, Haydn, Mozart,

to Beethoven. Brahms was a Roman-
tic-classicist. The composers dealt
with in the first three lectures are all
of the classic Era, whose dominating
spirit lies in form, technique, artistry,
craftsmanship, the impersonal and
the abstract.

The important“thing to remember
about Handel is his profound influence
on the English public and the Eng-
lish creative genius in music up to our
own century. His oratorios revolu-

tionized English morals by inspiring.

reverence and awe in place of the
usual obscenity of the day. His _gran-
deur and formality bred a love of
ceremony and a respect for convention
that eventually helped to produce, the

 

 

the required subjects must be few and
closely related. Economics and Eng-
lish are featured and pertinent His-
tory is taught under one or both of
these heads.

Each girl is assigned to a group

|with which she studies throughout the

term. A group includes not more than
twenty girls, an Economics instructor,
a History instructor, an assistant, and
an undergraduate representative.
There are few formal lectures. Near-
ly all classes are conducted as round
table discussions, permitting the in-
structor to emphasize his points with
examples from immediate experience.
This method also gives the students a
chante to benefit from each other’s
problems and solutions.

Music, Art, Dramatics, and Science
are. elective. Last summer, lectures
on the History of Music with piano il-
lustrations were given by a brilliant
young pianist from New Zealand,—
Mr. Guy Marriner (who is now giving
a series of concerts at the Deanery).
The Science instructor set up exhib-

its in Room E, which were, in a mod-}

est Mtpad reminiscent of the Franklin
~ Continued op Page Six

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ting out and working a little harder
than usual for the election.

The proof that her opponents are
busy, Miss Ely thinks, is that she is
being talked about a great deal’ In
popular tap-rooms great cards have
been posted, warning the wary not to
vote for Gertrude Ely because she is
a Prohibitionist! She can do her own
talking as well, however. “Ely for
State Senator” signs are hung in all
possible places. “ One of these signs
had the misfortune to be on the rear
of a truck that was forced to stop by
the side of the road on account of
motor trouble. A witty Republican
lady, driving by, leaned out of her au-
tomobile and called to the truckman,

Continued on Page Four

 

Fencing Match
Mr. Fiems, fencers from ‘Phil-
adelphia and fromthe College
will give an exhj ion .fencing

match on Thi ay, November
1, at 8.00 P. M., i the gymnas-
ium. Everyone is a6 in-

 

vited to attend.

 

 

Reifsnider, D.D., Suffragan
Bishop of Northern Tokyo, who
has been able to arrange to hold
the Chapel Service at Bryn
Mawr on November fourth,

Bishop Reifsnider has spent
most of his life in the service of
the Church in Japan and knows ~~
Japan as do few others who are
not subjects of the Mikado. In
1912 he was made President of
St. Paul’s, University, Tokyo,
and still holds that position, al-
though his chief work now is the
conduct of the great university
at Ikebukuro. He lived through
all the tragic scenes of the
earthquake in 1923 and render-
ed heroic services then and af-
terwards in his earnest appeals
to raise money for rebuilding St.
Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, and for
many other devastated regions.
In 1924 he was consecrated Suf-
fragan Bishop.

Bishop: Reifsnider will talk
next Sunday on The Church’s
Mission in Japan and has agreed
to stay for discussion in the

 

 

Common Room after the Service...

 

 

   
 

 

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The Golden Rule

Among the blessings which we enjoy at Bryn Mawr is the extreme-

under college jurisdiction. Even with the recent widespread move-
ment for more complete student government in colleges, we can not
help but realize that our system of Self-Government is more completely
under the control of student-elected officers, than the governments of
a great many colleges. Furthermore, there is no doubt that Bryn

Mawr has the most lenient regulations of all the women’s colleges. The}:

Self-Government rules and regulations are intended to provide an
intelligent system for the convenience and safety of the students and
the maintenance of the reputation of the college.

Obviously a college needs some system of rules, whereby its stu-
dents’ activities may be regulated and whereby the college can keep
irack of its students; the second purpose of any college rules regard-
ing conduct must be, to guard the reputation of the college, as well
as the reputation of individual students. These necessary restrictions
are based upon the assumption that the students in college are intelli-
gent enough not only to take care of themselves, but to act in accord-
ance with the rules of the college, Of course, it is impossible to formu-

situation that may confront a student. Any college that is so liberal
as to allow complete student self-government, expects the student to
act intelligently in an unusual situation, so comporting herself that
she not only considers her own personal safety and reputation, but”
realizes the necessity for safeguarding the reputation of the college. |

Since the revision of the Self-Government regulations last year,
our student government organization has worked very efficiently to
accomplish the dual purpose of keeping irreproachable, so far as
our outside critics are concerned, the reputations of both the college
and of the individual student. The board co-operates with the admin- |
istration to accomplish this; but at the same time it acts entirely
independently of the faculty and administration in making its final
decisions. The fairness and logic of the system is obvious: in acting
with the welfare of the college at large before it, the board is accom-
plishing the purpose of any kind of government; in judging students
independently it provides the fairest judgement possible—that of stu-
dents of the same age, who know from experience the problems that
frequently confront other students.

 

The Fur-Lined Shroud

The wintry blasts are with us once again, as, we believe, you will
seareely have failed to notice. The long, bleak stretches of the wintry
days and the even longer and bleaker stretches of the wintry nights,
loom large before our apprehensive eyes. Already our noses, fingers,
toes, and, in fact, practically all of us is beginning to ache at the
thought of the early hours of. those numerous mornings, when a dank
chill settles upon the smoking room, and all that is visible of our
beloved comrades through the frost is a blue hand emerging from a

 

battling bravely with the ice floating above each bent head. We are
at last reconciled to the-perversity of an authority which has decreed
that, even should the temperature fall below zero before Thanksgiving,
no fire-may be lighted in the halls or smoking rooms, and vice versa,
even should the temperature hit 90 in the shade after Thanksgiving,
the fire must go steadily on through the heat waves. But we are not
reconciled to the thought of the ‘chilly suffering which lies before us,

bating it.
This very day we intend to invest in fourteen sets of red flannel

least two sets, should one prove insufficient. We are buying a non- -skid
fountain pen guaranteed not to slip through mittened fingers, a fur-
med case for the feet with a specially constructed ‘stove that heats,

pairs of Dr. Denton’s sleeping suits, and a pair of ear-muffs stuffed
‘appearing in a fur-lined head shroud, somewhat similar to those

Fe eee Ca, as ot ig ee
. r, that all of this may yet prove

’E said they carst the ’eathen hinto

‘Han’ the blarsted ’uns would burn

\is all very well if you are redding the

'bethan stamp of human characteris-
ties, and we use little discretion when

   

 

THE HATHEIST
Whoile Oi was hin the gutter once
A-rollin’, sod with beer,
Oi found ha bookewrote boi ha bloke |
Called Danty Alleghier. ‘

ell

Till the tollin’ hof the heverlatstin’ :
--bell-

O! Tudoabent: when the linkin’ dead
would “wyke han’shout agyne,

han’ the blessed roise han’
shoine.

Han’. that’s hall very well with me;
Oi don’t know has Oi *moind;

Han’ myebe some dye Oi will see
That there his more to foind |

 

&

Than you see hupon this bloody . |
planet, hearth, |

Where there’s seven deadly sins han’ |
grief han’ mirth;

But Oi goes hon drinkin’ hale han’
spirits, till moi nose shoines
red,

Hand Oi’m glad-henough to see me
wye to stagger home to bed.

—Tommy Tippler.

 

MOONBLIGHT DISSONATA

The moon was agog, as she heard
through the fog
The strains of a runic round
That rose through the pall over re Tay:
lor Hall, |
In a whirlpool of chaotic std.
The stars did shiver, the clouds were |
a-quiver
With harmonies not as such,
And even the sun, sleeping after his
run,
Was waked by the lightsome touch |

 

Of girlish voices—not the best
choices—
Trying the wintry airs,
With a lusty shout that spread all
about
Like a fan from those on the
stairs,

The night was perplexed, nay, even
vexed,

When its calm was so shattered by
oise,

But the sun just said, as he slid into!

* bed, |

“Let ’em: be, they have few joys.”

Abie the Astrologer.

 

CALAMITY IN THE CLOISTERS |

They found her, door-mat like, un-
der the: broad expanse of an archaeol-
ogy tome. She was lying on _ the
grass near the bare little fountain
that forms the axis for Lantern
Night. Yes, she-had been rash, Torn
between the ache for a weed and the
vital n@cessity to absorb ancient dig-
gings, she had determined to sit out
on the Lib Terrazza, and absorb in
and puff out all in one breath. It

 

Little Flowers of St. Francis, but bid
women forget that Frailty is our
middle name, according to the Eliza-

'we trust ourselves to the colossi that |
repose opposite the Fioretti. She, of
whom I speak — a decidedly Eliza-
bethan type, staggered out with said
colossus and balanced it precariously |
on her knees, as she sat herself,
daintily on the edge of the ivied wall.
All went well till she came to the
Pediment of Aegina, which she yn-
earthed just two inches past the cen-
ter of the book. She had puffed and
absorbed sufficiently to forget the ex-
istence of the law of gravity, so
whether it was on account of the
marked stony aspect of the pediment,
the oak leaf that alighted on the same,
which our unfortunate timidly took

 

I missing volume.

{We are. too..fond of our. ..primeval

'2. It cost you just. a quarter for the

-8, You. knew you'd learn the language

; On in a single whirl of arms

‘finally get together, the results are

Let you who wade
in .archaeology beware, for we can’t
put up bronze tablets in memory of
every one who takes the last leap:

; Stones,
—Catherine the Coroner.

 

PRINCIPLES OF ARTICULATION
1, Oh, nineteen thirty-five, do. you
recall

The day you rushed downstairs in|

Taylor Hall
To pick your dog-eared copy out

of all
‘ The Diction books? Va

thing,
And then you got your money back
that spring;
’Twas very sad for Samuel Arthur
King,
But very nice for you.

with great ease: |

You soon found out- you did not
drop your g’s,

Instead you dropped your palate, if
you please—

Disturbing thought!

4, Ah, hearken back where memory ;

grows dim:

We do not think your present accent
prim,

Have you forgot the eayly biyd and
wuym?

Or lymph, nymph, humph-ny?

—Voice of Bryn Mawr.

 

TEMPUS FUGIT
The ancient. bell has rung;
The skirts and sweaters flung

Have trundled up to Taylor,

Where Alexander charmras

With marble handsomeness

The vagrants who arrived at Herben’s
door |

Too late, yes, far too late: upon the
stroke of past the eight

Short minutes: Woe,for them, the
poor

; Returning innocents.
bit, they sigh;

| They make the round of marble heads

| And vow to.each: “I will bé prompt,

They shrug a

cated

well Sisters, Mitzi Green; ‘Sidney
cluded, ‘and there is also a new Silly

Symphony.

for the Silly Symphony.

Boyd: Helen Hayes in What Every
Woman Knows, in which the wisely
modest Maggie proves far more clev-
er than her husband ever reckons for. ~
'No one should miss this.

Earle: One Exciting Adventure,
with Binnie Barnes, Neil Hamilton,
and Paul Cavanagh. Eddie Cantor
and Rubinoff are on-the stage, and
we feel that they would be worth wait- —
ing in line to see.

Fox: Gambling, with George M.
Cohan.
Karlton: Gur pet four star. movie,

One Night of Love, with Grace Moore,
continues to reveal al | the trials and trib- —
ulations of ldve™lives in operatic
careers,

Locust Street: Little Friend is
much on the order of Madchen in
Uniform, with a 14-year-old girl try-
ing to reconcile her quarreling par-
ents, and almost being forced to tes-
tify in court against her moth-
er, who has been unfaithful. Recom-
mended.

Stanley: The Gay Divorcee, with -
Fred Astaire and Alice Brady, has
provided us with many of our modern
tunes, including the Continental, a
new edition of the Cariocha, Ex-
tremely funny and very fast-moving.

Stanton: Our Daily Bread, one of
the best depression movies, concerns
the difficulties of a destitute young
married couple, who go back to the
land, but discover that Nature is not
so easy to handle. Very good.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Thurs. and Fri., Ann
Harding in The Fountain; Sat., The
Case of the Howling Dog, with War-
ren William and Mary Astor; Mon.,
Tues., and Wed., Bing Crosby in She
Loves Me Not.

Seville: Wed., It Happened One
Night, with Clark Gable and Clau-
dette Colbert; Thurs., Fri. and Sat.,
Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres in Serv-
ant’s Entrance;. Mon. and Tues., The
Girl From Missouri, with Jean Har-
low and Franchot Tone; Wed., Zasu _.
Pitts and. Slim Summerville in Their

 

I will not lie,
So long in bed where warmth does |
ooze
And dulls me till I lose
My will.” And then they count upon |
their fingers ten |
| And find that cuts they have not one
to spare—
Another shrug, a sigh on passing
Deanish Doors,
And then
Return they to their radios for just a|
bit of air.
—She Who Stood and Waited.
Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.

 

IN PHILADELPHIA
Theatres

Broad: The Pursuit of Happiness
is still with us. Apparently, we ap-
prove of the intimate life of our Rev-
olutionary ancestors.

Erlanger: Love! Out the  Win-
dow brings to our astonished gaze
the story of an Hungarian “dental
mechanic” (2?).:who worships from
afar the daughter of a neighbor view-
ed through a window. When they

|The Affairs of Cellini;

Big Moment.

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Con-
stance Bennett and Fredric March in
Fri. and Sat.,
Robert Montgomery in Hide Out;
‘Mon. and Tues., Leslie Howard and
Kay Francis in British Agent; Wed.,
Charlie. Chan in London, with War-
mer Oland.

 

‘Lecture Recital Given
By Mr. Guy Marriner

 

Continued from neers Oné

Victorian era of punctiliousness, prud-
ery, and love of tradition, which killed
the originality of the English musical
genius for a century and a half,
Johann Sebastian Bach, born in
1685, exerted an amazing influence
on music by developing all the forms
of instrumental music in a new and
independent way. His enormous out- >
put in every field was dominated by
the idea of unity and by his own ti-
tanic personality. Bach’s natural cre-
ative principle is the conception of
counterpoint, the “art of combining
melodies,” where every voice is treated
in an independent line. Bach con-

 

really amazing.

Garrick: Sinclair Lewis’ satire on
a Civil War politician, Jayhawker, is |
a searing comment on the ‘sordidness

‘and insincerity of those who turned |

the war to their own profit.
Walnut: She Loves Me Not!
more need be said.
Orchestra Program

No!

Symphony No. 5, E Minor
Leopold Stokowski conducting

 

for some great and fluttery insect, or
the attractions of Mother Earth for]
its offspring we don’t know, but the
intrepid and thoughtless little delver
suddenly plunged into the cloisters,
where she was found, later on, by Dr.

Movies
Aldine: Transatlantic Merry-Go-
Round treats us to a spattering of
melodrama, music, comedy, and lav-
ish production, plus a spattering of
stars from the stage, screen, and radio.

 

Carpenter, who was searching for the

Naney Carroll, Jack Benny, the Bos-

 

of. frostbite. With our individual

 

with cries of joy. We suggest that individual fires in eans be placed
on the desk of each student in Taylor, and that pails of snow be placed
at the entrance to every hall for the immediate remedying of all cases

hot water bottles per girl, our heated arm chairs, and last, but far
from nen our glittering underwear, let us dig in for the winter before
i ts —— us of what little beauty has ‘been settled

fires, our foot-stoves, at least six

PE re eset Finlandia
EEO ere ee Sand |
SRPAWINOEY Becca. The Fire Bird |
Tschaikowsky, |

 

ceives voices over against each other,
jand weaves them into a harmonious
| wihcle obedient to the laws of strict
‘counterpoint.

The fugue is polyphonic and archi-
|tectonie, but displays an astounding
‘inward musical life. Developed ac-
cording to strict counterpoint, its nec-
iessary parts are: subject, answer in
‘a rumber of voices, counter subject,
and stretto or binding of the parts —
together. The fugue is the most elab-
orate musical form, but Bach never
sacrifices poetic beauty for technical
ingenuity.

Bach so far transcended the music
and instruments of his time. that his
music has been transcribed by nearly
all great composers since his time.
Transcriptions that enlarge on the
original are the work of nature, but
it is decadent. and distasteful to popes
larize classical music.

- Bach’s music is both puredir cau
cal and romantic. In the fugues it is
the ideal of pure music, but all his
music expresses poetic plastic ideas —
and emotions, as does all true music.
Bach is architecture in sound and |
must be presented with clarity and

plasticity and yet with a i

 

 

sonemging foc. the earthly inte

Blackmer and Sid Silvers are all in- _

We look with misgiv- —
ings-upon- the-entire-situation, except ~~

   
  
 

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“Smooth as far a

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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| Varsity Hockey Team:
- Routs Rosemont, 6-1

 

Second Downs Merion C. C. 3-0;
Both Games Speedy; Driving;
Teamwork Good

VARSITY YET UNBEATEN

 

 

In spite of the absence of-a number
of first string. players, the Varsity
Hockey team defeated Rosemont in a
decidedly one-sided contest, 6-1.

* Bryn Mawr pounded the opposing
defense throughout the game, whereas
Rosemont scored ifs only goal in one
concentrated attack in the second
half. -In spite of many corners and
numerous fumbles, play on the whole
was fast, the defense backing up the
forwards much better/than in previ-
ous games. The pdssing was fairly

it went, but there
was less concerted effort than usual,
due perhaps to the loss, of so many
regular players.

Cary, though a bit ragged at the
start, led the attack after the first
few minutes of play and scored four
of the six goals. Bridgman, at half,
should be mentioned especially for her
co-operation with the forwards, and
the blocking of several Rosemont at-
tempts to get the ball into Bryn Mawr
territory. The Rosemont backfield,
we think, deserves a lot of credit for
withstanding such a constant. barrage
as well as it did.

So far, the season has progressed
very well, but the most dangerous
threats are yet to come: the Merion
Cricket Club on Saturday and _ the

“ « Goals—Rosemont:

 

Philadelphia Cricket Club before the
big Swarthmore game on November
17, The chances at. the.moment-seem
fairly favorable, for we certainly
have the material and the“coaching,
and should have the results,

Rosemont Bryn -Mawr
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Faryell |). ere a ee Cary
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ES ee, fe Seat Bridgman
Wenger ........ eho oie Kent
PROCHOR Sc 5 6 eRe 4c ES
Monaghan ...... Red. co Seen
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po aaa ents ek aS Smith

Substitutions—Rosemont: Fitzpat-

rick for Schroth.

Farrell, 1. Bryn
Mawr: Cary, 4; Bakewell, 1; Har-
rington, 1.

 

In one of the best second Varsity
games we have seen at Bryn Mawr
in a couple of years, the yellow and
white reserves defeated the .strong
Merion Cricket Club A team,on Mon-
day afternoon. The day was cold and
crisp and somehow the peppy feel-
ing was conveyed to the players. | In-
deed we have yet to see a game which
was more filled with clean, sharp
drives and nice, neat stickwork. Af-
ter some ten minutes of hard and con-
stant attacking of the Merion cage,
the team was rewarded with a one-
point lead when Bennett sent in a
beautiful goal while following up a
shot from the edge of the striking
circle. Bryn Mawr kept on pressing
to increase the advantage, but found
the Merion defense almost impene-
trable. Finally, about two minutes

 

 

Glee Club

----Barbara- Cary, ’36, has been
elected business manager of the
Glee Club to replace J. Matte-
son,' who resigned.. The Glee
Club also announces that it has
decided to give Pirates of Pen-
zance this spring.

 

 

 

before the half ended Hope Gimbel
ran through the last defenses with
some pretty dodging and lodged a
hard drive in the goal. During the
second half, the defense was given
several tests by the Merion forwards,
who attacked numerous times with
great vigor. The defense did splen-
didly, however, and Leighton in the
goal had only two or three stops to
make in the entire game. There was
a noticeable improvement in the co-
operation between the halfbacks and
the. forwards when Bryn Mawr was
on the attack. No longer was there
a great gap between the backs and
forwards and clearing shots from the
opposing backfield were generally in-
tercepted and sent up to the forwards
again. As a result of this fine unity
of play a third goal was netted about
midway in the concluding’ half.

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GIMDGE Ovi ei aes EPI Roberts
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Mempnill  ....vces PT cvaa wee Wood
7 Be ew eae Ae cae Marsh
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GYRUWIOR bec: LBs veces SRCOOY.
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Subs: Pitroff for Bucher.

 

“Not Out of the Stacks

We were almost minded to change

the name and aim of this column. We
had a good deal of success in our wish-
fulfillment program and got to read
Benchley’s From Bed to Worse (or
Comforting Thoughts About the
Bison). The old mania (dearie me,
but we thought we sloughed it off some
time ago) came upon us once more:
we almost persuaded ourselves to re-
name our allotted space, “Behind the
Bookend—or, No Creative Urge.”
, From Bed to Worse is a classic. It
leaves a lump in the throat and a
feeling for the beauty of a Saturday
drizzle with scrubby bushes. It left
us inarticulate:.as we go back over
the first two sentences in this para-
graph, we realize that it isn’t what
we ofiginally intended to say at all.
We meant to be hypercritical and un-
prejudiced. We said to ourselves,
with good intention: ‘Now, now, Zy-
mole Trokey (not our real name. We
are deliberately concealing our iden-
tity) this is the time to cast away all
personal feeling. Bias must to the
winds.” Yes. We remember the high
childish laughter that first warned
our parents of the Benchleyphobia
when we read The Tredsurer’s Report
in our youth. It was a memorable
occasion: more so than the reading
of From Bed to Worse.

If it weren’t for the fact that we
think The Treasurer’s Report incom-
parable (maybe because it was a first |
—and puppy—love), we would be ab-
solutely unrestrained in our praise of
this latest collection of essays. We
shall try herewith to effect a conver-

 

sion: From Bed to Worse is as fun-|
ny as No Poems, has inimitable illus- |
trations by Gluyas Williams, contains

a piece on pigeons (all persons on

campus who are aroused early by .

these feathered friends, please note),

a take-off of The Good Earth, a reve-

lation about the Sistine Frescos (nota
bene: all History of Art people) and
various and sundry essays solving the
Present Situations (if only by provid-
ing poetic escape).| It effc sts a ca-
tharsis of the ‘emotions: your tear
ducts will be emptied from the strain,
and you will be left in a happy, if
flabby and chair-ridden, condition,
Mr. Benchley is one of the better
humorists of our day. It is not for
us to discover that fact, and it would
be the finish of us if we were to de-
clare with fervant personal devotion,
that he is the most onsistently funny
of the lot of writers 6f*trumorous prose
(there would be the Wodehouse fans,

and the clan that read Leacock in the .

days when he wrote Nonsense Novels
and Literary Lapses, and the Thur-
ber converts and the Donald Ogden
Stewart School of behaviorists). We’d
like to, but the waters in that direc-
tion are deep—and not at all still.

 

 

OS ORO RENEE OMRNERREMNREARRDHNERI
ELIZABETH McGRATH
54 E. LANCASTER AVE.
ARDMORE

SPECIALIZING IN

SPORT
HATS
For COLLEGE GIRLS.

3.50

PRICED FROM

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

ce

Gead laste.

‘The world’s finest tobaccos are used in
Luckies—the “Cream of the Grop”—
only the clean center leaves—for the
clean center leaves are the mildest leaves

they cost more —they taste better.

 

 

V Your throat

 

i
~~
  

| Voice of Bryn- Mawr.

‘on the “Mystery of

s

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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October 27, 1934.

To the Editor of-the News:

After reading your recent editorial
the ~° Reserve
Room,” it seems evident that the writ-

»f is ignorant of the rules governing

the reserved books. ' Exceptions to the
posted rules are always made when
good reasons are presented.

In the first place, the student, who
is leaving for the week-end and who
wants to take a book, is, allowed to
take it at 9.30 on Friday evening, pro-
vided there are other copies of the
book available, that the class is small,
and that she can assure the librarian
that such an act does not interfere
with the work of the other students.
~ Secondly, as for the “studious spir-
it” who reads “unwanted supplement-
ary books,” it has been the practice
for the librarian to take said book
from the reserve and to allow the

_ “studious spirit” to take the book in

her own name and thus to remove the
danger of “mould” gathering on the
“incomprehensible” volume.

The third point is well taken. It
has semed to the librarian entirely
unnecessary to have a reserve at all
for the small class. It would seem far
better to allow the “scholar” who “in-
volves herself in a small class of a
higher and deeper nature” to be per-

'+ mitted to take the needed books from

the Stacks in her own name and thus
not be hampered by the two hour time
limit,
for books in more popular demand.
This, however, is a matter for the in-
dividual professor to decide.

As far as the fourth point is con-
cerned, the librarian will not attempt
to judge of the relative “conducive”
merits of the “interior decoration” of
the smoking-room and of the library
reading room as places _for serious
work. Experience has proven that it

. is not wise to allow reserve books gen-

erally to be taken from the building
during the day. However, students
have always been allowed to take. re-
serve books to any part-of the library
building, including the Cloisters, pro-
vided they indicate their location on
the reserve slip. Also, books may be
taken toa student’s room_or to the
Infirmary in case of illness.

Your writer probably does not_real-
ize that each hall is provided with
a library which contains duplicates of
many of the books which are always
put on the reserve. The books may be
used in private rooms or smoking-
rooms when a proper charge has been
left for them.

We agree with the writer that we
shall always have the lawless and the
careless with us. Their actions work
a hardship; not on the librarians, but
on their own classmates. It is. be-
cause of them that rules are neces-
sary.

Finally, it has_been the policy of
this college library to have as few
rules as possible and to permit only
such rules as have for their objective
the greatest good for the greatest
number.

Sincerely yours, 2
~Lots A, REED,
Librarian.

 

Dr. Wells Discusses
Situation in Germany

 

Continued from Page One
advances in humanity, but for the

_ Germans they represent degradation.

The outside world made the conditions
that made the Third Reich possible,
and we may not, therefore, talk too

~-glibly of German guilt, for we are ac-

complices before the fact.

Hitlerism has brought internal

/ peace and outward unity to Germany.

a

 

The Communist street disorders are
a thing of the past, and the Republic,
which, under the old Weimahr, was di-

vided into states whose relation to the| W
central government was unsatisfac-
_ tory, is now divided into administ

ive departments. No more pe poli-

_ ties and states’ rights may impéde the
_ development of the country:

- The referendum vote of August 19th
owed that 85'per cert. of the people

which is absolutely necessary |

 

a planned agricultural program is be-
|ing introduced

|| decline in foreign trade, a larger per-

centage of the people were opposed to
the government, but there is no doubt

that internal péace and outward unity”

are an estaMlished fact. Whether
this peace and unity have been bought
at too high a price remains to be-seen.

National Socialism is imbued with
idealism and a spirit of self-sacrifice.
“Common good comes before individ-
ual good,” or “Genera] welfare before
private gain” is a common maxim, The
people, especially the young people,
have enthusiasm, devotion, faith in the
future and in a new and better state
of German blood on German soil. Nazi-
ism is essentially a Youth Movement,
and the young people have responded
to Hitler’s call. The spirit of self-
sacrifice may be found in all classes,
as was demonstrated in the relief
movement last winter, when seven mil-
lion needy Germans were given assist-
ance. "Too much stress has been laid
in the papers on the barbarous side of
Naziism, for the National Socialist
People’s Welfare Organization can-
not be disregarded. Hitler is now
launching a campaign for the coming
winter against hunger and cold in the
face of even greater difficulties than
existed last year.

Unemployment has decreased from

six million in January, 1933, to two}

million, four hundred thousand in Au-
gust, 1934. Part of the decrease was
due to a natural revival of internal
trade, but mainly to the public works
program. Old roads and houses are
being repaired, new roads and houses
are being built. There is a Voluntary
Labor Service, corresponding to our
Civilian Conservation Corps, whicli
does reforestation and road-building.
The Labor Service is voluntary for the
rank. and file between the ages of 17
and 25, but is compulsory for Uni-
versity students. It does not train for
war, as is commonly believed, but does
train the young people in the prin-
ciples of Naziism, and it attempts
to raise the standard of physique. All
the unmarried young people have been
discharged from their ‘positions. in
business and industry, and put to
work in the Labor Service. Their po-
sitions are filled by married older peo-
ple, and pressure has been put on the
employers to hire more workers and
to discharge no one, ‘In the case of
a husband and wife both being em-
ployed, the woman is discharged, and
in order to encourage marriages, State
loans are made to newly-married cou-
ples. Twenty-five per cent. of the
loan is cancelled for each child born.
The tax on automobiles has been abol-
ished, and other taxes have been re-
duced. Part of the net profits of any
business are exempted from taxation
if it is used to replace the plants and
machinery.

Two criticisms may be made of the
employment statistics, First, they are
not computed on a pre-Hitler basis,
because the 930,000 people in the Re-
lief works are listed as employed, al-
though they receive only 25 pfennigs
a day. The Jews and Pacifists who
lost their jobs in the Revolution are
not listed as unemployed if they have
pensions or incomes. Furthermore,
the total volume of wages has not in-
creased, and the wage level has in-
creased only slightly, while prices have

risen through inflation, so that real

wages are generally lower than before
the Revolution.

A more important criticisni may be
raised that the unemployment decrease
may not be permanent. The recovery
program has been largely financed on
credit, dependent on an industrial ré-
vival, but an‘industrial revival is‘im-
possible in a country whose domestic
prices are rising, whose raw mate-
rials are imported, and which is fac-
ed with the problem of tariffs and
Jewish boycotts. The’floating debt is
becoming unmanageable, and a col-
lapse has been predicted in the next
three months, but a collapse is impos-
sible unless Hitler is assassinated.
Germany an live as a self-contained
economic unit, but it must be on a
lower standard of living. The public
ks program’ must be maintained

ermanently, but not at its present
extent,

It is true that the peasant is more
secure in his land holdings than for-
merly and is being protected against
eviction for debt. Stress is being laid
on the independent small farmer, and

to make German agri-
( But the divi-

 

red the power fraudulently ‘and elect-'tyaditional sparkling press agent, she

—_

gained more equality and respect, but | days in the history of National Social-
the trade unions have been destroyed, | ism.
and the labor organizations which): Although Germany._is _rearming,
have been set up are no more-6 solu-| German militarism is no worse than
tion of the labor problem than are other militarisms. The Germans say
the United States company unions.!that they do not want war, but that
There is a good deal of latent radical- they expect it. The worst part of the
ism, and employers complain that em~' situation is that the will to peace is
ployees are more difficult to deal with failing in°Europe. But just as Ger-
in the labor organizations than they many and her allies were not solely
were in the old trade unions. responsible for the World War, so
The more unfavorable aspects of | Germany will not be solely responsible
National Socialism may now be con-| for any new war that may arise.
sidered. The injustice of the Anti-| py Wells concluded by saying that
Semitic policy cannot be explained yp. giq not ask for blind approval of
away, although there is no doubt that | tne Nazis, but for sympathetic and in-
there was a troublesome Jewish prob- |telligent understanding of the strug-

lem in Germany. The Jews in Ger-| gle of a great nation to find itself.
nany are not physically tortured, but | | /

they suffer real mental anguish.) /
Young men and women of names that, ‘News of the New York Theatres
‘were great in the 19th century are; We rejoice to read that in the eyes
now all outcasts. Jewish bankers, in-| of better critics than we Sean
dustrialists, and business’ men are!Q’Casey’s Within the Gates is the
better off than doctors, lawyers, and) masterpiece of the New Theatre. For
teachers, and’ thé Jews are better tol-! once, the blasé. and @isilusioned re-
erated in cities like Berlin than in| viewers are united in their joy over
the country districts. The fact that! finding a play that is “brave and beau-
some Jews are coming back to Berlin |tiful and stirring,” that satisfies their
does not mean that the official policy | dreams of a “many-voiced drama that
is changing, but that many Germans: “would plunge deeper and soar higher
who are loyal.to the new regime are’ than nervous realism and employ
unsympathetic with this racial policy.) singing and dancing as handmaids of
The Christian Church has been at- the stage.” Within the Gates lectures
tacked because. it has been strongly, the audience in no uncertain terms;
opposed to the Jewish oppression, and jt fights fear and hypocrisy in sneer-
because many Germans feel that the ing sarcasms; but it is not the play

 

 

 

Church is objectionable because of of a disappointed cynic. Basically,|
its Jewish origin. Some people want Mr, O’Casey enjoys all the fun and}
a German religion, and some want to| glory. of living, and to such an extent
retain Christianity with a conception | |that he has no time and very bitter
of Christ as a Nordic type and not as. words for people who do not enjoy it
a humble Nazarene. Some people be-}to9, He looks upon life with an ar-
lieve that Christ was not a Jew, but dent love that has not been equalled
an Aryan, and want to exclude from since the time of the Elizabethans,
any religious positions anyone who is and when he has gotten through ex-
of non-Aryan descent or is married to hibiting life to the audience, no trivial

 

a non-Aryan. ‘realism will ever satisfy them again.

On the Protestant side, the unity of Not since the days of the dearly be-|
the new church has been wrecked by joyved Once in a Lifetime has Holly-
rebellion and schism. The Catholics! y6oq been held up for its full share of
feel that non-political Catholic socie-' »idicule. But this year we have with us
ties are being persecuted and that/, gatirical opus by Lawrence Riley,
loyal Catholics are being arrested entitled Personal Appearance, which
and imprisoned. The Nazi officials do |; is not far from following in the foot-
not want a fight with Rome until af-) steps of its immortal predecessor. At
ter the Sahr plebiscite next January, first glance, the plot appears’ to be
for the Sahr is a Catholic region.\ rather thin. The wife of the president
For years the German Protestants ‘of Super Pictures, Inc., is an egotisti-
have wanted to unite the Lutheran | ea] lady in the best Hollywod tradi-
and Calvinist faiths into one German tion, who looks upon life and finds it
church. Outward unity was wacom eihetl pas be composed of obedient satellites.
last year, but no agreement could be! ghe comes a cropper in her expecta-
reached on questions of method, policy, | ‘tions, however, when, in the midst of
or belief. When the Christians seiz-', personal appearance tour with the

ed Ludwig Miiller~as~Bishop, the| pecomes stranded on an Eastern Penn-
Protestant congregation rebelled, and | svivania farm. It could not be other-
now an open schism exists. Hitler | wise but’ that she should fall violent-

has said that the state would not in-! jy in love with the unsophisticated, in-
terfere in Church matters, but the | expefienced, and gangling farmer’s

state has intervened in behalf of the son, but albeit the idea is a trifle over-
Christians and the Reichsbishop. The done, the ensuing complications are
Protestants are driven to holding’ amusing in the extreme.

church services in which detailed ac- |

f th k that is
counts of the church struggle are giv-'! vee Seng oh the: Wee ova

f 2 the st 1 guaranteed to make the whole college
en, for no news of the struggle maY | wish ty ceud Git Ww eoadvins: ienicht

one pial Menges sil ta bs ‘was Noel Coward’s Conversation
Freedom of thought and “kultur’’| We are getting rather tired of

    

| Piece.
are regulated. “Kultur’’ is under a'
bureau, which organizes radio speech- |
es, lectures, and propaganda, The |
National Ministry Office for Popular |
Enlightenment and Propaganda pub-
lishes each month a list of suggested |
books, whose:. titles. includes Mein'
Kampf, Our Sahr.Land Without Fu-|
ture, and Land Without Children.
Some questions may still be debated if,
they are related to ways and means or}
if’the debate is held within the party.
Academic freedom in ‘the Social Sci-'
ences is restricted, and the scope
education, is narrowed. The individual
is being taught and developed for the
good of the state. The press is so
strictly censored that the public re-
lies for its news on rumors and on
the foreign press. Many educated
Germans declare that they know only
what they read in the London papers.
The fact that Germany is still gov-
erned by personal caprice rather than
by law was demonstrated in the sup-
pression of the Roehn revolt on June
30, 1934. June 30 was nothing less
than a modern Saint Bartholomew’ s
Day, and there is no knowing how
many people were slain. Some of them
were shot because they knew too much
about the burning of the Reichstadt,
but it is generally agreed that there
were serious differences in the parties.
In September there was growing talk
of the need for a second revolution,’
and it was rumored that at the burial
of Mrs. Ernst, a ‘Storm Trooper had

 

s, |tried to shoot Hitler. This offers a

| may have inferred by now, is not 80

a vides an evening’s light and highly

|saying that Noel Coward’s latest play
|is not so good as Private Lives: we
| Suspect that never again will the mood
;of the theatre and the genius of a
playwright be just right for another
such piece of perfect, sophisticated,
and mannered drawing room comedy.
We might just as well give up hope,
‘and accept what comes from the pen
of Mr. Coward with thanks and fond
;memories. Conversation Piece, as you

good as—need we go on? But it pro-

amusing entertainment, especially for
those who pride themselves on their
ability to understand dialogue, a good
half of which is in French. The su-
perbly vivacious and finished acting
of Yvonne Printemps, and the beauty
of the theme song, “I Follow My Se-
cret. Heart,” are worth seeing and
hearing for themselves alone, but, in
addition, the theme and plot of the
play are intrinsically funny. The set-
ting is Brighton in 1811, and the cos-
tuming is a revelation of the beauty
of the period’s clothes. Yvonne Prin-
temps plays the part of a young
French girl who is picked up in a
Paris cafe by an Englishman and
brought to Brighton, purely as a busi-
ness proposition, in order to marry
her off to a rich duke.. In Brighton,
however, she displays a disturbing
tendency to make friends with mis-
tresses instead of with the nobility,

: in which she invites

s to §

   

 

 

 

Fencing
Pauline -Manship, ’36, has been
appointed fencing manager for .
1934-35. °

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recommend is The First Legion, a
drama of Jesuit life.
this play lies in the variety of its
characterizations, and the most widely
divérse and dubious audiences have
been completely captivated by it. It
has a serenity and repose which is
foreign, to put it mildly, to the Broad-
way stage, and anyone who is not bor-
ed -by the simple things of life, will
be deeply interested in the peaceful
and yet complicated lives of these sim-
ple priests. The main point of dis-
sension occurs over a miracle which
is discovered to have been false, .and
over the question of whether its false-
ness shall be concealed or announced
to the public. One of the priests loses
his faith in God when this discovery
is made, but recovers it finally when
a real miracle actually is performed.
This is not, as we have previously

‘hinted, a highly exciting play, but is

worth seeing for the sake of the -at-
mosphere and characterization,

 

Miss Ely’s Speech
Rouses Enthusiasm

 

Continued from Page One

“Look here, your trouble’s not in the
‘front; it’s in the rear!”

Miss Ely does not mind being talk-
ed about, but she doés object to being
misunderstood. Recently a gentleman
who is an outstanding citizen in his
town refused to be introduced to her
“because she’ was a politician.” Of
course, she is a politician, but all these
are not alike. This man, without in-

'quiring “about her at all, took it for

granted that anyone running for office
was/striving for private gain and
fame. Such unqualified disapproval
of politicians is worse than party in-
ertia. Outstanding citizens, and all
citizens, should make an effort to dis-
cover if candidates are self-seeking
as is commonly supposed, or if some

of them are moved by~an interest in

general welfare and in the re-vitaliz-
ing of politics.

Thus, understanding of each other’s
aims and needs is necessary for the
candidate and for the voter. Knowl-
edge of a wide range of people is nec-
essary for fullness of private life as
well. People living in a narrow group
miss the general tendencies and spirit
of their time and remain undeveloped.
Other men beyond one’s own small cir-
cle should be met with friendly tol-
erance and curiosity. “Friends” is
more than a politician’s way of ad-
dressing his audience. It symbolizes
a warm interest and arouses sym-
pathy in return. An old Italian la-

borer once asked Miss Ely if she had.

heard how President Roosevelt began
a speech on the radio. “He began,”
elucidated the old man, with a broad,
satisfied smile, “he began, ‘Friends.’ ”

“So, Friends,” concluded Miss Ely.
“Will you please remember what I
came here to ask and almost forgot
about? Please vote for me!”

 

THE PANTS PROBLEM
OR
WHERE CAN WE HIDE?

 

 

Taylor clock: excellent view of moon,
but accommodations crowded.

Taylor loft: large and barren, with
bookish atmosphere.

Taylor basement: if you don’t mind

Joe.

Library towers: if you don’t mind
bats. Oo

Stacks: complete solitude.

Carola ‘Woerishoeffer Room: - also
complete solitude.

The Catacombs under Rock: if you

won’t get wrapped around the
pipes.

May Day Room: »apiano for rau-
cous gatherings.

Self-Gov. Room: bearding the lion in
his den.

Dressing rooms and scenery loft in
Goodhart: dangerous (?), un-
less agile. ,

Dalton Zoo (5th. floor) :

mind guinea pigs and rabbits.

Rock Show Case: can be both heard
and seen.

Pem Show Cases: ean be seen but

not heard.

| Merion Show Case: can be heard but

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THE COLLEGE NEWS."

Page Five

 

 

~ Dr. Veltmann Criticizes
Whole of Atomic Theory

 

“Continued from Page One

has now ceased to exist because two
theories have been worked’ out that
can explain motion without the aliena-
tion of a world continuum.

The first is Kant’s theory of dynam-
. ic matter. He said that matter was
composed of infinitesimal centers sur-
rounded by fields of force. It occupies
space by intensity rather than bulk,
_ and is penetrable according to the con-
centration of material properties. A
field of force manifests itself in grav-
itation, inertia, or electro-magnetism.
Matter identified with these fields of
force is dynamic and not static like
the atoms. It occupies an extensive
area of unbroken substrata and
changes according to the laws of
nature. ‘

Relativity, second theory, ex-
plains nature ini four dimensions. The
universe is composed of events that
have spatial and temporal extension.
Because of the four dimensions, these
events never get in each other’s way.
‘ In such a system, change and motion
are only characteristics which events
have in relation to one another. That

is to say, change and motion are in-|ne

ternal features embedded in unchange-
able phenomena. When this four di-
mensional event-continuum is conceiv-
ed, the necessity of empty space is
eliminated.

The early Materialists made their
greatest mistake when they assumed
that boundless and infinite meant one
and the same thing. Space was un-

 

 

bounded, they aed: because it “sald tact E if its true nature is understood. |
only be bounded by more space; ‘and /In ‘the first place, it should never~be
so on ad infinitum. They went on |confused .with the.greatest-number-of

to claim that space was infinite, ‘be- things, and in the second place, it can-

cause they thought of it as Euclidian'not be made up of independent ele-
rather than three dimensional in char-| ments. Infinity is the character of a
acter. A Euclidian-figure is a flat sur-|class, the elements of which have two
face and has a zero curvature, while| important characteristics: one, they
a two dimensional figure is spherical | are different internally, and two, they
and has a positive curvature. If one|are mutually dependent. Integral
imagines the surface of a sphere from numbers, for example, are infinite. If
a two dimensional view,:it is quite; you remove one number the series be-
easy to see how the Atomists made'comes meaningless because the ele-
their mistake. The spherical surfaee ments are all relative to each other.
seems unbounded and yet. the sphere | Also a line has an infinite number of
itself is finite in magnitude. Since points, but they are all interdepend-
the Materialistic philosophers were ‘ent.
not acquainted with the third dimen-| The essential thing to remember in
sion, they did not realize that space discussing infinity is that the whole
could be unbounded and yet finite. ‘|must precede the parts. If you start
This4mistaken conception of space! with the finite: you can never reach
was sontewhat justified, but the argu-(the infinite. For instance, it is im-
ments with which the Atomists tried to | | possible to start combining points into
prove ‘infinity were extremely. falla-'a line and achieve infinity because
cious. They tried to prove the infinite!another point can always be added.
extension of space on the basis of fi-!On the other hand, by: starting with
nite spatial measurements or boun- an infinite whole the finite parts be-
daries. They thought of finite parts come intelligible.
as the logical antithesis to an infinite
whole. This means that the reality
of space contradicts its ultimate na-
ture because the parts and the whole
are incompatible. In the same man-
r, they proved the infinity of mat-
ter by the aggregation of unrelated
atoms, each finite in magnitude. But
the number of atoms can never be infi-
\ite beause another atom can always
be added. Such a conception of mat-
ter is essentially incomplete because
a totality has been established which
ean never be reached.
Infnity is not an impossible con-

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Dr. Volta! s eanslitine criticism
concerned the Atomists’ idea of per-
eeption:
first to draw the line between. the
real and apparent qualities. The real
qualities later came to bé called the
primary qualities, They were the
original mathematical qualities that
The apparent or
secondary qualities were sensory.
Atoms, of course, only had the pri-
mary qualities and were therefore im-
perceptible.

When the Atomists came-to explain
perception in terms of these qualities
they soon created a paradox. Atoms,
imperceptible in themselves, could be
presented as perceptible models to the
mind, Sensations,were caused by the
local distribution and movement of the
atoms. In this way perception was
reduced tamechanics. In spite of this,
the Materialists said that sense im-
pressions were essentially subjective.
Sensations could not be real because
no two people perceived alike. The
idea of relativity never occurred to
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Movie Review
_ bittle Friend 1s the story of a sen-

entl homelife, is driven to attempt
suicide. .This bald statement might
lead one to believe that Little Friend
is another bad imitation of Maedchen
in Uniform or of Poil de Carrotte.
The title sounds sentimental and the
ballyhoo about fourteen-year-old Nova
Pilbeam, who plays the title role, has
been of the most misleading sort. She
has been styled “the glamorous new
screen personality,” which immediate-
ly evokes visions of a youthful imita-
tion of Marlene Dietrich,, complete
with false eyelashes and langorous
gazes in interminable close-ups. Littlé

.Friend is not, however, a bad imita-

tion, nor is its heroine either a young
Marlene Dietrich or an older Shirley
Temple. The film is a_ beautifully
written and directed study of divorce
and of how it affects a child, and its
heroine is a remarkable actress.

It is the emotional life of Felicity,
as played by Nova Pilbeam, that
forms the theme of Little Friend. - Al-
most all the action is seen through her
eyes, and is important only in so far
as it affects her mind and heart. Sym-
bolism throughout is freely and inter-
estingly employed to bring us closer
to her inner existence. Felicity is the
only child of well-to-do parents; she
lives in a beautiful house in London,
and has tNe most lavishly appointed
room that it has ever been our pleas-
ure to see. Everything a little girl
could want or need is hers:—goldfish,
a puppy, a scooter, specially built fur-
niture, a long evening dress with a
velvet cape. Her life is mapped out
for her along the most wholesome and
edifying lines, as the hour-by-hour
chart drawn up by her governess
shows. She is, however, not only lone-
ly and bored with piano, elocution les-
sons, and carefully supervised walks
in the park, but she is also acutely
unhappy. Her mother, so beautiful

that she reminds Felicity of the nymph

in the poem that she is learning,
quarrels constantly with her father.
Felicity cannot help seeing that the
continual domestic excitement is con-
nected with her mother’s friendship

= child; who, because of an ‘un-)

 

for Mr. Hilliard, the handsome actor,
who makes such a point of calling her,

Felicity, his little friend..From_the.

head of the stairs, when she is sup-
posed to be asleep, Felicity hears the
quarrel rage and understands far
more of it than her parents realize.
She wants desperately to help them,
wants them to explain things to her,
take her into their confidence. They,
on their side; reassure her with state-
ments that ring false in her ears, so
that she is driven back on herself. She
is quite alone with her poor, confused
knowledge that something is horribly
wrong and that no one will give her
a chance to try her hand at settirig it
right, ,

There is not a single stock type in the
film. Margaret Kennedy and Christo-
pher Isherwood, who adapted Ernst
Lothar’s‘novel for the screen, preserv-
ed his characters with unusual fidel-
ity. Little Friend is another mile-
stone in British-Gammont Produc-
tion’s progréss. It is the result of in-
telligence on the part of adapters,
director, and photographers—and of
a talent that almost amounts to gen-
ius on the part of Nova Pilbeam.

F. C. V. K.

 

Summer School Gives
Stimulating Schedule

 

Continued from Page One

Institute and Fels Planetarium. In
the gym basement there were classes
in charcoal drawing, and here the
backdrops for the dramatic produc-
tions were made, using a very ef-

 

fective type of poster work. Dra-
matics were in charge of an ‘instructor

from. the- oe The-

atre.

Emphasis also has been placed in
the school program onthe need for a
well-rounded plan of recreation and
systematic work in the health depart-
ment. This includes instruction and
practice in tennis, swimming, baseball
and other field games; also folk danc-
ing, gymnastics, and the more unin-
teresting routine of frequent medical
and physical examinations, to keep
check on individual progress toward
better health. In these activities the
undergraduate representatives from
leading women’s colleges, including
Vassar,.Smith, Mt. Holyoke, and
Goucher, as well as Bryn Mawr, take
an active part. Such activities lead
to a better enjoyment of leisure and
to a more intelligent understanding of
an individual and social health pro-
gram.

The students are recruited from all
parts of the United States, and this
summer there were six foreign stu-
dents, representing England, Sweden,
Holland, and Germany. There is a
great advantage in this diversity of
origin, for in discussion, local, section-
al, and national differences are
brought out and understood with sym-
pathy.

Girls who seem _to be natural lead-
ers are sought out by regional com-
mittees. They attend winter classes,
and those who show: the most interest
and intelligence are chosen in the
spring to come to Summer School.

Many of these must sacrifice their

 

 

 

 

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jobs in order to come.
thirteen out of the one hundred and

time jobs to which they were sure they
could return.’ It is significant that so
many women in the past have had
the foresight to be bold, and that these
students are willing to risk« losing
their jobs, and to give up two months’
pay. They are eager to learn and to
fill every available minute with study.
It is most unfortunate that due to in-
sufficient funds the school has in the
last| two years been restricted to a
term of six weeks. Until 1932 the
term was eight weeks, which was
found, to be long enough in which to
accomplish a_ significant. amount. of
work. It takes a few weeks for the
girls to become accustomed to academ-
ic life, and more than three weeks are
then needed to draw the work together
to a satisfactory conclusion.

The reason for this curtailment is
lack of funds. Money is raised for
the school vy regional committees of
Bryn Mawr Alumnae and Summer
School Alumnae. It is also raised

THE ROOSEVELT

WALNUT ST. at 23rd
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

 

 

 

 

It costs no more to live in the
very heart of town—with all the
modern comforts and conveni-
ences! The suites (one and two
rooms) are large and airy, with
Pullman kitchen and_ bright
bath. You will have to see
them to appreciate them.

Of course, rentals are not be-
yond your budget.

CHAS. C. KELLY

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

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In 1982" only

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through subscriptions and benefits,

and to a great extent by, the Bryn ~

Mawr undergraduates here on campus, ~~}

It is one of our greatest interests, and
as an experiment in workers’ educa-

tion deserves interested and unflag- ~

ging support. Those who give to the
work for the Bryn Mawr Summer
School this year will be supporting a

movement which is at the same time

providing relief of the body, stimulus
of mind, and definite progfess toward
clear thinking in a complex economic
system.

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