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VOL. XX, No. 2’

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS

 

 

 

 

College Must Educate
- for Changing World
biiiasies Should Develop Men.

tal Elasticity, President
Park Declares

TOLERANCE IS NEEDE

 

 

 

The following is a continuation of
of Miss Park’s speech at ne opening
of college:

In ‘our corner relative peace and
rising courage seem at the moment
possible; we may cautiously, eye on
barometer, unreef our sails again and
hope to make some headway. That is’
true and heartening and ‘unexpected.
But around and before us _ lie’ the
anxious problems and uncertainties
of the economic, political, and finan-
cial world to which we are’each of us
connected by so many personal
threads. Your father’s business ties
you to them, your. mother’s. purchases,
the. hole that the,bill for. your tuition
makes in the common purse, I am
out of the college office and in Wash-
ington or ‘New York every hour—
the ups and downs of college invest-
ments, the discussion of NRA policy
as applied to college employees, my
weekly afternoon at the county-seat
listening to discussion of this win-
ter’s relief problem—all these take
me there. In the end, and a not re-
mote end, as the world careens and
rights itself’ or sinks, so Bryn Mawr
College will careen, right itself, or
sink. |
“It is not then a time when we can
think of ourselves as a compact, smug
little crowd gathering in this brisk,
blue morning, carried on the momen-

. tum of a social class or a family, or
a distinguished academic past, pretty
sure to be on the winning side in the
future. No such pretty picture. We
don’t even know what the alternative
is: only that. a current not on the
surface, but strong, from deep below,
a force neither entirely understand-
able or controllable, is taking us from
a past in which you, like your moth-
evs and grandmothers have lived,
into a future in which you must live,
make your friends or enemies, earn
your livings, marry, plan the lives of
children, grow. old, but whose eco-

(Continued on Page Two)

 

College Council Reports
Topics of Discussion

 

_ At the first meeting of the College
Council, Wednesday, October 11, the
following matters, among others, were
discussed: The status of transfer
students, Freshman Week, the Col-
lege Inn, and Deanery rules for the
undergraduate body.

It was decided that transfer stu-
dents, whose academic status is not
definite until they have passed their
examinations at the end of a. year at
Bryn Mawr, should be allowed, nev-
ertheless, to enter‘the class to which
they’ belong socially. It was thought
that the classes could arrange to re-
ceive them and formally enroll their
names on the class list.

In regard to Freshman Week, it
was recommended that it be cut short
half a day. That will mean that the
halls will be open at 8 A. M. Thurs-
day instead of 3 P. M. Wednesday
as always before, The first formal
meeting will take place at 8 P. M.
Thursday, but there will be inter-

“a. Miews_-all_day.-Thursday..so-that—no}

« time will be lost for the real business
of Freshman Week. - . :
A new function has been assigned
to the Council, that of acting as a
consulting committee for the College
Book Shop and the Tea Room. It is.
thought that by their advice’ these
two new enterprises may be kept in
close touch with what the college
wants. |
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins reported
that several undergraduates, appar-
ently ignorant of the Deanery rules,
had come in, unaccompanied by alum-
nae, and signed slips. The Deanery
is not an annex of the Inn and tea
cannot be served there, after the first
of this week, when there was open
house for undergraduates.

 

CALENDAR:
Sat, Oct. 21. Opening of the
Deanery. Tea in honor of

President - Emeritus .Thomas.
4.00 to 7.00 P.M.

. $un., Oct. 22, Chapel. -The
Reverend Frank Gavin will pre-
sent the address. Music Room
at 7.30 P. M.-

 

 

 

 

New Policy at College Inn
Appreciated by Students

 

Students may now view with de-
cided joy rather than alarm the atti-
tude of the College Inn. Like so
many institutions, both collegiate and
otherwise, it has suffered or rather
enjoyed some important changes dur-
ing the summer. The college. should
appreciate the fact that it now has
become a part of the ‘campus in every
sense, and the.Tea Room, which, of
course, concerns students most, is be-
ing managed for them.

Club. breakfasts are served for
thirty or forty cents, and students re-.
port that they can enjoy the meal] and
still make their morning class. Serv-

ice is the welcome word. Then there |.

are luncheons and a dinner with both
ynalate and purse appeal. Tea, the
perennial afternoon sport at Bryn
Mawr, is served for a quarter, One’s
tirst glance into the tea room this
fall reveals a new atmosphere of
light and speed. The attitude of the
managers is even more cheering.
They asked for any special sugges-
tions and said that they would do
all they could to get what the stu-
dents want. That deserves three
happy cheers.

The Inn proper has been turned into
apartments, but there are still a few
rooms for: visiting relatives and
friends. All in all, it is quite chang-
ed, but everyone seems to like it.

 

Lantern Ceremony is

Tableau of Beauty

 

Singing is Memorable for Its
Freshness and Full Vib-
rant Quality

 

CLOISTERS AID EFFECT

 

The traditional Lantern Night
zeremonies were held with impressive
solemnity despite the vagaries of
the weather and the casualties inci-
dent to the proverbially unlucky Fri-
day the thirteenth. Nothing can
really mar the serene beauty of the
cloisters thrown into even blacker
right by the flickering, swaying lines
f lanterns. All the audience can do
‘s to peer down from the balcony into
the shadowy depths., and appreciate
the beauty of Lantern Night. For
it is distinctly’ not a performance put
yn for the delectation and subject to
the dogmatic criticism of the watch-
ers, who are busily clutching the ivy
on the upper edge of the balcony and
chattering with cold and martyred
-atience during the lengthy pauses of
the eeremony.

These intervals of waiting, slightly
‘ono for the audience, threatened to
break the atmosphere of breathless
suspense several times. And yet the
slimax of .the evening succeeded one
of them: the high moment of the
ceremoriy came when the green lan-
terns at the side started swinging
and the first notes of Sophias broke
the ominous silence. The freshmen
sang particularly well and their
singing was sustained far better than
the sophomores’ as the red line of
lanterns swung through and beyond
the cloisters. The new arrangement
for a group of freshmen to cluster
just outside the exit on either side to
reinforce the singing of the last few
freshmen in line may account to some.

‘| degree for the contrast between the

two classes’ singing in procession. At
best, the sophomores have difficulty
co-ordinating at the start of their
procession into the cloisters, but their
lack of seriousness prevented even
the final singing of Pallas from be-
ing other than weak’ and. uneven.

. This marked difference in the sing-

(Continued on Page Four)

Students and Faculty

Have Close Contacts

|President Park Gives _Chapel

Talk on Four Channels
of Communication

 

‘B. M. SYSTEM IS UNIQUE

 

“Bryn Mawr College prides itself
on the fact that there is direct com-
munication between the Administra-
tion and the students on matters con-
cerning the‘students,” said Miss Park
in’ Chapel last Tuesday morning,
when she talked to the student body
as a whole, but especially to the
freshmen, on “Channels 6fCommun-
ication.” This plan, however, which
provides that the Administration
shall talk directly to the students,
and. they in turn to the Administra-
tion,.through certain formal chan-
nels, while irreproachable in theory,
is often a failure in’ practice. The
President and Dean often get wrong
impressions of student thought and
make wrong opinions which must be
corrected... Moreover, the students
frequently get distorted ideas of the
thought of the Faculty. For this rea-
son it is necessary each year to de-
scribe to the freshmen the formal
channels of communication between
the students and the Faculty in the
hope of eliminating these mistakes.

First, of all, students have a di-
rect point of contact with the Admin-
istration through appointments with
the President and the Dean, who hold
definite, and what they hope are ade-
quate, office hours. Miss Park is in
her office in Taylor from eleven-thir-
ty to twelve-thirty on Wednesday and
Friday mornings, and at home from
three to five Tuesday afternoons. In
case of emergency both Miss Park
snd Mrs. Manning can be quickly
reached.

The wardens of the various halls
are the second channel of communi-
cation. Miss M. Carey Thomas work-
ed out: the present system of wardens
for she realized that a college back-
ground would be of great value to a
warden in helping her meet the prob-
lems which the students would be
likely to bring before her. The war-
dens today are college graduates,
some of whom are doing work in their
field here at Bryn Mawr, or are read-
ers for undergraduate courses. They
are in a position to be useful to every
student, and hold themselves ready
‘or any emergency.

The third channel of communica-
tion is the College Council, which is
a more thorough-going organization
here than elsewhere. It was begun
during the War with the intention
of making it easier for students to
take extra-curricular activities, and
was made permanent when it had
proved its efficiency. It is composed
of representatives of ‘the various un-
dergraduate organizations, and of
such Faculty members as Miss Park,
Mrs. Manning, Miss Petts, and Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins, there being eight-
een in all. The Council has no pow-
er at all; its duty is merely to dis-
cuss frankly and completely any mat-
ter connected with college life, such
as the budget, courses, management
of the halls, and so forth, and to re-
fer it afterward to the person or
persons rightly in charge of it. Be-
cause of the nature of matters dis-
cussed, the Council is often unable
to publish a definite report, but the
topics brought up in each meeting
are usually mentioned in the News.

The fourth channel of communica-

(Continued on Page Four)

 

Bates House

The Bryn Mawr Leagfie is
conducting a drive this week
for the benefit of Bates House,
the seashore home for poor
children, which is run during
the summer by Bryn Mawr un-
dergraduates. Since the main-
tenance_depends entirely on
funds contributed by the stu-
dent body during the college
year, the support of every stu-

 

 

 

dent is earnestly solicited.

 

Jane Addams

Due to the prolonged illness
of Miss Jane Addams, who was
to have delivered the first two
lectures of the Anna Howard
Shaw Memorial “Foundation
series, the chronological order
of the lectures has been rear--

ranged. The new’ order is
printed below: 3
Monday, October 30. Mrs.

Dean will speak on “Fascism
or Democracy i# Europe.”
Monday, November 6. Mrs.
Dean will speak on “The New
European Balance of Power.”
Monday, November 13. Mrs.
Dean and Miss Fairchild will
speak on “The Soviet Union At
the End of the First Five Year
Plan.”
Monday, November 20. Mrs.
Slade will speak on “The Far
East.”
Monday, November 27. Miss

. Addams will speak on “The
Hopes We Inherit.”
Monday, December 4. Miss

Addams will speak on ‘Oppor-
tunities of the New Day.”

All the lectures will be given
in the auditorium of Goodhart
Hall and will begin promptly
at 820: P.M.

 

 

 

Deanery Will Open as
Alumnae House Oct. 21

 

Alumnae at Last Have Strong-
hold on Bryn Mawr
Campus

 

MISS THOMAS TO RECEIVE

 

President-Emeritus Thomas and
the Deanery Committee will officially
open the Deanery as the Alumnae
House on Saturday afternoon, Octo-
ber twenty-first. In order that the

Deanery may look exactly as the Alum-|}:

nae remember it, Miss Thomas has
presented it to them intact, with all
its paintings and etchings, its furni
ture collected from all parts of th>
world, its entire library, its. hand
some and valuable rugs, and its in.
numerable sets of china. Miss. Tho-
mas has also offered continual and
most helpful suggestions to the com-
mittee in a sincere attempt to make |
the Deanery as attractive and as

well fitted-cut as posible.

The great sitting room on the first
floor, which is a copy of Dorothy Ver-
non’s Gallery in Haddon Hall, Ches-
hire, the large hall, the dining room
and the libraries will be used for col-
lege and alumnae entertaining, offi-
cial and private. The blue study,
where Miss Thomas usually worked,
will be reserved for committee meet-
ings and general conferences. The
other rooms will be for general use.

On the second floor is. Miss Tho-
mas’ own library, a large, comfort-
able,-and extremely beautiful ‘Foom,
covering the entire front of the house
and reached by its own spiral stair-
case. It is to be reserved for Alum-
nae only, and tea will be served there
informally every afternoon. The use
of the bedrooms is confined to grad-
uates, and former graduate and un-
dergraduate students of Bryn Mawr
College. Distinguished guests of the
college will also live at the Deanery.

The presence of an Alumnae House
on the campus will satisfy a long-felt
want, and that this Alumnae House
shot ually be-+hBQR* "seems
almost too good_to be true. The pos-
sibility of staying in such an utter-
ly beautiful place should in itself be
enough to bring crowds of Alumnae
trooping back to Bryn Mawr at the
first opportunity.

 

Social
Marriage
Sylvia Cornish, ’33, to Robert
Allen, of Boston.
Engagements _
Nancy Knapp, ’36, to Benja-
min Belcher, University of Vir-
ginia.
Priscilla Totten,

ex-’34, to
Brown Temple.

 

 

 

8. “Oo

+

 

 

|

Duncan Rediscovered
Secret of Movement

 

Ideal Was Interdependence of
Arts; Dancer Must Try to

my Aid Composer

 

GOAL WAS NATURALNESS "

The followim® is a continuation of
J. Barber’s article.on the dance:

And now for the more specific ques-
tion.of how Isadora’s dancing is dif-
ferent from: that of her imitators.

In the first place it is not “Nat-
ural” dancing. It involves a difficult
and long training, a cutting away of
insignificant gesture, an intellectual
de-intellectualizing. Unfortunately we
must be taught skillfully how to be
natural.

Scc>.i.iy, it is not “Interpretive”
danciug. Isadora was a good Wag-
nerian; the “Birth of Tragedy Out of
the Spirit of Music” wag her Bible
and, unlike Nietzche, she never re-
canted. The ideal for her was a mu-
tual interdependence of the arts.
there is in her theory of thel rela-
tion of music and dancing a sugges-
tion of her pantheistic beliefs: “The
great composer combines the abso-
lute perfection of terrestrial and hu-
man rhythms.” But the’ dancer
should aid the. composer; the ideai
is a mutual improvisation. If that
ig now impossible, at least instead of
the arrogance of “interpretation”
there can be a more fruitful surren- ~
der to the greater personality of the
musician. But symphonic music over-
whelms the single dancer; Beethov-
en’s “men of tone” of the Ninth Sym-~
phony are many, the music of Gluck
is written for the chorus.. Poor Isa-
dora never danced a solo, but always
peopled the stage imaginatively
with the dancers she hoped to train.

But the particular connection of mu-
sic and dancing is based, I believe,
largely upon consideration of. social
convenience; the temporal element is
constant for dancer and audience. But
one might as well dance to a Peysian
carpet.

Thirdly, the dancing iis” .not
“Greek.” The costumes mislead; they
are not Greek, but only the least arbi-
trary, least inhibiting costume. It
| is silly to expect a dancer "to account
for the vagaries of costumes whose

 

| counterpoints very'often have only a

 

| confusing relation to his own move-

ments. Only ,the supreme dancer
could be asked to do that, and then
what would be the advantage, when
western costume has lost its religious
and social significance? Until the re-
crystallization of the symbol] in eos-
tume, the nude alone can be simply
expressive. It is a sad paradox that
although the nude is recognized as
the most significant subject of the
other s, “only the dancer has for-
fan ae should most remember.”

The dancing itself is not °a Greck
derivative, even though Mr. Kirstein

(Continued on vage Four)

 

Sunday Chapel

The Evening Service next Sunday,
October 22, promises to be interest-
ing and well ordered. It will be con-
ducted by the Rev. /Frank Gavin,
Ph.D., Th.D., LL.D.,/of the General
Theological Seminfry in New York
City, who will be in Philadelphia for
the Oxford Movement Centenary. Dr.
Gavin will talk on the Oxford Move-
mentmw* «necial reference to | its
place in the world today°and its at-
titude toward the problems of modern
life. He will briefly discuss itg his-
tory, personalities, and then attempt
to interpret its religious, theological .
and social content.

Mr. Willoughby is co-operating |
with Dr. Gavin in choosing hymns by
those associated with*the Movement.
The Processional will be the one by
Vaughn Williams, a favorite of: the
Bryn Mawr Choir, that is to be~used
at the Centenary.

It will surely be a privilege to have
Dr. Gavin at Bryn Mawr, and it will
be interésting to hear him explain
the Oxford Movement and show that
there is more than a little difference
between it and the Oxford Group.
 

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After Ten, What?

In the name of the students of Bryn Mawr, we wish to bear wit-
ness to our due appreciation of the unusual amount of freedom for
sweet girl undergraduates which is permitted-us.- A~perusal of. the
rules and regulations of the Self- Government Association cannot but
bring joy fo the heart of the greatest stickler for justice and fair play.
But we are not controlled by Self-Government rules alone, and there
are minor discrepancies in the system of freedom which harass and
complicate the lives ‘of our ‘long-suffering Hall Presidents. No one
seems to be responsible for these discrepancies; they are petty rules

~ of long standing, which simply exist and must. therefore be enforced.

They cannot be challenged, because their sponsors have concealed
themselves in an ambiguous obsurcity, but we hereby entreat. the afore-
mentioned sponsors to emerge into the open and consider our claims.

Let us consider the case of Undergraduate A, ensconced in the
smoking-room, attempting to recover from the arduous labour of taking
notes, with the.aid of a soothing, if noxious weed. Suddenly there
looms upon the horizon Undergraduate B, staggering home from the
library beneath the college girl’s burden of some thirty or forty
slippery books. In the kindness of her heart, Undergraduate A leaps
from her downy couch and rushes out into the hall to the assistance: of
a friend in distress. But, filled with exuberant sympathy, she has
forgotten to put down her cigarette, and should the Hall President
ehance upon this innocent scene, it would be her painful duty to
impose a fine. We feel that an errant parent happening in, could
hardly be more shocked by the iniquitous sight of smoking in the hall
rather than in the smoking-room; we further feel that the danger
froma fire resulti-e froma chance exeursion_a few feet_outside the
smoking-room door is negligible; and we ask that this practice, while
perhaps discouraged, should not be penalized.

The spectacle of the modern Cinderella, arriving back at her hall
on the stroke of the hour arranged by special permission, is not only
amusing, but somewhat infrequent. I. these days of aged automobiles,
the time required for the jouriiey home cannot be exactly calculated ;
engines have been known to pursue a policy of stopping quite of their
own accord, and of starting only after the most astute persuasion..
Furthermore, traffic has been known to become suddenly tied, and
other minor tragedies to those-about-to-forfeit-five-dollars have seemed
to follow an evening indefatigably. We are not advocating any laxity
in the Special Permission rule, but we do feel that an unavoidable delay

“of a few minutes should not invariably meet with expensive conse-

quences.
Let us consider, finally, the case of Undergraduate © who receives

an enchanting invitation to a glamorous party and finds that she has
exactly nine minutes to make the Paoli Local. Her friends rally round,
phone for taxis, and create.a delightful confusion. She manages to get
dressed, runs down the hall followed by streams of friends bearing her
evening purse, lipstick, and other accessories, and is unable to find
anyone to give her special permission! She flees from the hall in
pandemonium, begging a friends to get permission for her, and is met
upon her return with the anticlimax of a stern reprimand and a sizable
fine. Or, again, she may find herself far, far away from the sacred
precincts of Bryn Mawr with the curfew hour waxing apace, and may
phone, in due obedience to the rules and regulations, only to find that
the hour of the Greeks is upon us and no one is in the hall., In such a
ease, in phoning distractedly from hall to hall, a message for the
Self-Government representative in her hall is not enough. We feel,
and are sure that the struggling parents of the college would agree
with us, that in such exceptional cases permission by proxy should be

et

allowed.
The ‘life of those unfortunate individuals who have the so-called

honour of being elected Hall Presidents could certainly be made much
easier, were we to do them the further honour of supposing that they
are intelligent. _
as is the obviods intention of the Self-Government, if minor regulations
were repealed, and if such petty rules as that of not smoking right

outside the smoking-room were abolished, we are sure that our Hall)

Presidents would be capable of imposing necessary penalties for any
_ disturbanee of the general peace. 3 iia

o ae nen Me

 

  

  

If there were nothing but general laws of all kinds, |

IN PHILADELPHIA
: Theatres

Claire in Biography, with Earle Lari-
more. The uproarious ' tale of a lady
who tried to write her. biography and
discovered that she had to leave parts
of it in the sands of time.

Broad. A cheery opus about =a
family that settles down to wait for
an old lady to die, so they can grab
her fortune. A tragedy for sure with
Edith Barrett—maybe, and entitled
biblically enough Give Us This Day.

Garrick. Fay Bainter, under the
aegis of Al Woods, in‘a comedy. about
a woman who went astray and then
ended up with a fortune from her
evil-doer—if she. could get it. It is

|called Move On, Sister at present,

having graduated from Virtue on
Horseback, and has ‘Ernest Glendin-
ning.

Walnut. We are treated to the
strange spectacle of Blanche Yurka
singing a song standing on her head
in Spring and Autumn, a comedy
about.a prima donna,

Coming

Forrest: On Saturday, October
21, the new Jerome Kern-Otto Har-
bach musical, Gowns By Roberta,
will come into town with Lyda Ro-
berti, Tamara, Sidney Greenstreet
and others. Sounds a bit garbled,
but who knows. :

Broad: On Monday, October 23,
the one and only Nazimova will bring
her latest vehicle here for the first
time—Doctor Monica is an adapta-
tion from the Polish and should be
excellent.

Walnut: Florence Reed will open
a new.play by Doty Hobart, entitled
Thoroughbred. Beyond the fact that
we are devoted to Miss Reed there

oo

.seems to be little to take us to the

opening on Monday, the 23d.
Garrick: Rowland Stebbin’s pro-
duction of the classic, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, with Otis Skinner, Queenie
Smith and a host of stars, including
—we hope—the Litchfield hounds.

Academy of Music

Fri., Oct. 20,.at 2.80: P. M.; Sat.,
October 21, at 8.20 P. M. Leopold
Stokowski will conduct.

Program:

Wagner,

Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Brahms...Symphony No. 3, F Minor
Sessions,

Music from The Black Maskers
WAVE! bea Rapsodie Espagnole

(See Franklin. Society advertise-
ment for information regarding tick-
ets.)

Movies

Europa: The classic melodrama,
Les Deux Ovrphelines, with the very
good cast of Yvette Guilbert, Renee
Saint-Cyr, and Gabriel ‘Gabrio. An
excellent production.

‘Stanley: Our own Maurice Che-
valier and Ann Dvorak in The Way
To Love, a typical Chevalier story.

Boyd: Irene Dunne goes crashing
through the opposition to happiness
in Ann Vickers, helped along her va-
rious paths by Conrad Nagel, Bruce
Cabot, Edna may ee, and Walter
Huston.

Stanton: The film ‘made in Green-
land with Rod La Rocque and Ernst
Udet—S O S Iceberg — the chance
for a really great picture thrown
away and the cast is not so good.

Karlton:* We have the picture of
what happens to pretty girls who
work in the beauty’ shop of Hedda
Hopper. May’ Robson, Alice Brady,
Madge Evans, Otto Kruger, and Una
Merkel go far to make Beauty For
Sale amusing.
ea Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed., Thurs., Fri. and
Sat., Wallace Beery and Marie Dress-
ler in Tugboat Annie. Mon. ard
Tucs., Lee Tracy in Turn Back the
Clock. .Wed.-and ‘Thurs., Katherine
Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
in Morning Glory.

Seville: Thurs., Fri. and Sat.,
Paddy, The Next Best Thing, with
Janet,Gaynor and Warner Baxter.
Mon. and Tues., Midnight
Clive Brook, George Raft, and Alison
Skipworth. Wed. and Thurs., Dou-
ble Harness, with Ann Harding and
William Powell.

Wayne: Thurs. and Fri., Strang-
ers Return, with Lionel Barrymore,
Miriam Hopkins, and Franchot Tone.
Sat, The Last Trail, with George
O’Brien and El Brendel. Mon. and

 

Harding and. Willam P with Ann

Chestnut Street Opera House. Ina].

lub, with.

 

College Must Educate
for Changing World

~ Continued from Page One

 

nomics or political conditions, whose
government, religion, philosophy are
now behind a bank of fog which
doesn’t yet lift—out of your sight,
but also out of the sight of all ex-
perts or prophets.

This is the shift in our problem.
For many years Bryn Mawr College
has set out to prepare its students
to live in an America whose ways we
knew, whose slow progress toward
liberalism we could calculate. Bryn
Mawr College must now prepare you,
or rather you must -prepare. your-.
selves, from the teachers, the books,
the laboratory apparatus, which we
can’ put at your disposal, to meet
something as yet not developed,
something about which we know orily |
that it will be different from any-
thing of which up. to now we have
had ‘experience. We can, that .is, no
longer educate directly, nor turn out
a-definite kind of young woman. for

an exactly definite place.

How does one educate another per-
son, how does one educate oneself
for change, for unknown demands, for
indefinite responsibilities?’ And we
have, I think, all come to believe that
this change you are to meet -wil]l be
abrupt—final;. it will not. be a turn
or twist to find our way back to old
habits of life, old comfortable ruts
of thought and theory. If, for in-
stance, democratic government in
America is to continue, its machin-
ery must not be revised and revamp-
ed, but largely scrapped,- and a new
apparatus, adapted to this period,
worked out, Without charts or proph-
ets we are dependent on seamanship;
to drop figures and come to prose,
on the careful and accurate use of
an intellectual training.

You must get the largest possible
amount of that training during the
next one, two, three or four years
that remain of your forma] education.
Throw away the old charts and close
your ears to the medicine man.

What is education for a change?
I think I know some things which
must be included in it.

First of all,—I have often said be-
fore that education must include,
and I hoped at Bryn Mawr did in-
clude, information definite and pre-
sented in such a form that it could

‘be got at quickly,—finger-end facts.

In the face of what is before you, a
method of testing facts is as neces-
sary as the facts themselves. Much
of what is now in the store-houses
of so-called educated people is out of
date or partisan, collected to defend
emotional convictions. It all needs a
sieve, and much of it can’t be used
again. The students of this year néed

training in the establishing of proof,

in the estimating and measuring of
probabilities, in the desire and abil-

as they correct others. The teachers
of this year must make sure the stu-
dents know methods of using. and
testing facts. “In general that should
mean more discussion and less mono-
logue in the classroom and out of
the classroom. You have two handi-
caps. Neither women nor Americans
like discussion, but I beg you to be
less ready to be idle or docile listen-
ers. I wish that outside the class-
rooms a debating club might crystal-
lize the discussion habit, but no de-
bating club will succeed except in an
atmosphere of continual private dis-
cussion.

A second necessity is ready per-
sonal adjustment to other people, so
that you can effectively work with
them, though they may be totally dif-
ferent from yourselves. Whatever
final cosmos comes out of this chaos
will come, I believe, from the creative
power, not of the indivdual, but of
the group. Unless one can work as
a member of a group then he is likely
to be negligible. To be a member of
‘ group on the intellectual side means
a power to criticize objectively and to
subject one’s ideas to criticism, to
follow intelligently where one cannot
lead—and few can. . The individual
must be independent and tolerant;
those two virtues I have often beg-
ged you to strive for. As a member
of a group you must add to independ-
ence and tolerance willingness to sac-
rifice in non-essentials. And this
generation must relearn loyalty to
an idea, for what is made‘ out of

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Campus Notes.

 

Classes in Elementary German this
year are using a new grammar by
Dr. and Mrs. Diez. Instead of the
fairy tales and nursery rhymes cus-
‘tomarily found in: beginners’ text-
books, they will read articles on a
variety of technical subjects. Stu-
dents should thus find it much easier
to acquire a broad vocabulary and
feading knowledge of the language.

 

Dr, Cadbury received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Letters at the
Haverford Centenary Celebration last
Saturday. The citation named him
as a “recognized authority on the
exegesis and interpretation of the
New Testament. Christopher Morley .
and Cecil K. Drinker were the other
two recipients of special awards.
President. Park was one of forty-six
college presidents. who marched in the
academic procession.

 

The staff of the Department of
Physical Education was widely scat-
tered this summer. Miss Petts re-
turned to the Duncan School of Danc-
ing in Salzburg for her fourth sum-
mer. She taught and danced in some
of. the performances. Miss Grant
went motorcycling through England.
Illness interfered with her plans for
attending the Yorkshire Hockey
Camp. Miss Brady remained in this -
country and played tennis at the Wi-
nona Tennis Camp in Maine.

 

Now this small community should
and does offer good rehearsals for
this. - I wish our groups might be
more varied, that we might devise
projects large and small in which fac-
ulty, alumnae, employees worked with
graduates and undergraduates to
some common end. Miss Addams, who
comes this.month to the college, has
an experience unequalled in America
in the ways of working with large
and small groups made up of totally
unlike inalvidbas I hope that as
you listen and talk_with her you will °
come to see how that has been pos-
sible.

If elasticity is the correct opposite
of rigidity, then elasticity is the third
quality in which Bryn Mawr should
at this moment ‘train its students.
Long ago a wise young cousin said
to me, “If you think a thing can only ©
be done in one way, that is a sign
you ought never to do it that way
again.” In my old Swiss Baedecker’
there are eleven numbered ways set
down to walk from Zermatt into Italy,
although the eleventh is up the Mat-
terhorn on the Swiss side and down
on the Italian! Probably there are
eleven ways to reach each political,
economic or religious objective in the

ity to correct themselves as quickly}|value of which we shall find . our-

selves believing. If one fails, an un-
prejudiced and quick-moving mind
can turn to a second, can combine,
readjust. and move on. Now the col-
lege I believe has gained greatly in
doing away with its own rigidity in
these recent years. The changes in
entrance requirements, in the curric-
ulum, the variety of form in which
work is presented, the easier relation
with schools show we: can with good
grace urge elasticity on you. You
on your side should first accept va-
riety, not as an unpleasant surprise,
but as part of a lesson which you will
at once put to practice. You can even
demand it and be listened to! Fixed
ideas, again sectional, national, racial
prejudices, crystallized likes and dis-
likes, will make you fumble in meet-
ing this new world. No dull. mis-
takes can be made. Everything must
be seen with fresh eyes; no opinions
must be impervious to reasoning; any
habit must be subject to change.

And lastly, fearlessness and per-
sistence are the matrix in which such
adaptability, such power to work
with other people, such ability to test
the truth are imbedded. For them
too there can be a kind of training,
self-administered largely. They can
develop where, they are not inborn.
And they are so clearly demanded
that they need no more words.

In some such way as this you can
begin today education for a quick
change, not education for a slowly
changing or an established order.
And if you are far-seeing and wise
you may have a hand in it for more

 

than yourself.  - es
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Page Five

 

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Varsity Wins Game
With Main Line, 3-
Team ‘Displays Improvement on

Offensive; Backfield Acts
as Solid Unit

WORK IS GOOD

 

 

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On Saturday morning the Bryn
Mawr hockey team defeated the Main
Line Club by a Score of 3-2. Carey
_ shot the winning goal after John, of
the Main Line Team, had tied the
score in the early part of the second
half. Lam

Although faced by a speedier’ and
more experienced team, Varsity play-
ed very well in its first game and
showed a great improvement in of-
_ fensive play. The forwards, although
slower than their opponents, pressed
the attack at all times and seemed
to be playing less individually than
usual. A little more practice. in
shooting .and. stick work should make
them dangerous to any of their more
stubborn opponents.

The backfield should be especially
complimented on its finé work. More
than any other part of the team, the
batkfield impresses one as playing
as a solid unit and it is to the backs
that we owe, in large part, the suc-
cessful outcome of the game. How-
ever, even if Varsity had come out
on the short end of the score, the
improvement both in spirit and in
actual play would be sufficient to give
us encouragement as: to the type of
athletics which we can expect to wit-
ness this season.

Given more co-operation and accur-
acy in passing, we will have a team
to be proud of. Student support and
interest can be an important factor.
Let’s have a few more spectators on
the sidelines!

The line-up was as follows:

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On Monday afternoon, Varsity
Second team defeated the Philadel-
vhia Country Club Second Team by
the score of 3-1. ’

Varsity outstripped her faster and
leverer opponent by sheer weight

the forwards were inclined to depart
from their set positions. and thus add-
ed to the general confusion. The
passing was, we were glad to -note,
much better than usual, while the
teamwork between Ballard and Gim-
bel resulted in Ballard’s making all
three goals for Bryn Mawr.

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Things keep roaring along in the
dear old town so fast. that we can’t
keep our: noses more than fairly even
with the water. This year is appar-
ently the Golden Harvest of Broad-
way and the. producers wauld seem

sto be In Pursuit of Happiness As
PThousands Cheer and the world is

with them after all these years.

The great hit of the week was The
Pursuit of Happiness, which deals
with the numerous joys and uses of
“bundling’’—the Puritan convention
observed with the consent of the
Lord, which allowed young wooers to
take themselves off to bed on cold
winter nights, thus saving fuel, time,
and trouble. The custom was to take
a Bible along on these occasions and,
above all, to read it, thus making
everything on the up and up. In it
is another: European contribution
to the matinee idol worshippers’ ros-
ter; Tonio Selwart is, the young Hes-
sian who is beguiled by Peggy Conk-
lin agg jhustled right into the midst
of bundling, while the Revolution
goes on quite successfully without
him. He is one of Katherine Cor-
nell’s finds of the summer and slated
to give Francis Lederer a good deal
of stage door competition. He won’t
have the advantage, however, of Noel
Coward’s. patronage.

There are still many more produc-
tions to come and if they keep on the
good citizens are going to need a
slightly pied piper to lead some of
the less worthy out of town. We
hereby suggest that if any seductive
piping is needed that they enlist the
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ury, who will undoubtedly be out of
a job by that time. The School For
Husbands adapted from Moliére’s
‘L’Ecole des Maris, will have a try,
at some of the business, and with Os-
good Perkins and June Walker at the
head of the faculty the ‘school should
run nicely—especially during labora-
tory periods. Eleanor Eckstein, who
is but a few short months gone from
these ivied walls, is the assistant
stage manager for the piece.

William Gaxton, Lois Moran, and
Victor Moore will bring their admin-
istration back into office-on Satur-
day when the sequel to Of Thee 1
Sing gpens its house to inspection by
the public. The animal goes by the
pet name of Let ’Em Eat Cake; and
comes from the fertile pens of George
Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. It
should be geod, but we distrust se-
quels and if it begins where the
other left off we will be most .defi-
nitely displeased. The sight of Miss
Moran installed in a big bed with her
offspring, while the entire White
House went slightly berserk around
her, did not appeal to our sense of
humor, which is only too glad to let
future generations take care of them-
selves.

The Guild is stirred to feverish
activity and hopes to have four plays
going at once before too long. They
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or, apply to
Miss Eleanor O’Kane, Radnor Hall

pushed by the allowed number of
standees; The School For Husbands
is theirs, and the two coming are the
new Maxwell Anderson biographical
dramas, Mary, Queen of Scots, with
Helen Hayes as_ the’ slightly dis-
traught but enthusiastic monarch,
and Philip Merivale as one of the
iad distractions, and the second is

e O’Neill deep blanket of crepe,
Days Without End, which will have
Earle Larimore in the role of a Cath-
olic priest. Philip Moeller, who has
done the O’Neill masterpieces before,
will direct it and the premiere is
promised for December. And so it
goes, with evgryone possessing a play
rushing it out into the ‘sunshine be-
fore the rain, Herr Hitler, Aimee
Semple McPherson, Machine Gun Kelas
ly, Mayor O’Brien, or the-big bad
wolf gets hold of them. “

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with at Ohio University. Four band
members will play reveille from the
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Duncan Rediscovered

Secret of Movement :

 

Continued from Page One

in one of his delightful lectures last
spring said rather summarily, and I
hope I do not misquote him, “Dun-
can’s attempt\to revive the dance of
the Greeks fgiled.”” As we have seen,
a “revival” fvould have been incom-
prehensible fo Isadgra. She rediscov-
ered in her ‘genitis the secret of nat-
ural movément} which was known to
the Greeks, and to all great artists,
for that matter; “nowhere was" the
exact feeling and knowledge which
the ancient Greeks had for form bet-
ter expressed.” Ste — rationalized
consciously after the fact of her. gen-
ius; her ideas were form fore
Winckelman and the tat Mus-
eum; her early photographs show the
same classic co-ordination under the
fairy’s costume as later under the
tunic. She did wish to reinstate the
dance in its Greek place in the drama,
education and religion; she did not
wish to copy. She fulfilled the task
set the dancer by her philosophy to
find the “movement corresponding to
the form,” and she put her discovery
to educational uses, as well as to her
own.

This true movement is embodied in
the technique which Miss Cooper
teaches us, these are the primary
movements from which “evolves the
dance in ever-varying, natural, un-
ending sequence” which Isadora de-
voted her life to finding. But the
crucial question is, how do we know
that this technique is good, these
movements fundamental? Because in
the first place, and rather remotely
for us, the critics agreed that Isadora
was a great dancer. Secondly, the
physiologists agree in finding the
technique scientifically correct, — but

 

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that is a long story, for which 1
must refer you to Miss Petts and
her texts. » Thirdly, and perhaps. most
persuasively, this simple co-ordina-
ion of movements-is the constant ele-
nent of all great figure arts (anu
Me can tell an artist by~his nudes) ;
the identity is seen in the Victor)
of Samothrace, any Giotto figure, in
Pollainolo, Cranach, Tanagra figur-
ines, Degas bronze dancing giils.
\nd we must remember that Rodin
‘ound in Isadora’s pupils his perfect
models, and that his greatest draw-
ings are after her. - Fourthly, it is
a constant element in all great danc-

herself ‘the willing form in  move-
ment, There is only the natural em:
phasisof-economy~and control, more
elective than accencs that slash space
and jerk: “one movement that has
210wn slowly out of a reserve is
worth many thousands that hav.
struggled and cut each -other off.’
There is, for example, the emphasis
of muscular control within the torso
che rhythm of movement irradiating
from the center of direction, the em-
phasis of large curve upon small and
of the dancer’s varying relation ta
.the space she fills. To this type of
emphasis we can all beinitiate ob-

ing, oriental and occidental; but it| servers, but in the ballet. we -dre left

is not recorded in the technique of
period gesture of the ballet. - Fifth-
ly, there is the great succegs of this
technique with children, those at the
Salzburg schoo] for example, who
are, to put it mildly, ravishing. And
finally it. “feels right” when for an
instant a humble pupils suggests the
proper. co-ordination. So, if it is
Greek, it is so only as of a kindred
excellence. é

These simple and true movements
are the basis of the formal content
of the Duncan dancing, which is so
often overlooked. The dancing is crit-
cized as “uniform,” ‘without ac-
cent,” because the acecnt of classic
art is subtle. Classic art is an art
of adequate relations’ that need no
added, conscious stress. With Isa-

dora there is neither the accent of
premature effort nor of bored opu-
lence, for the dancer is not strug-

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admiring cold gyrations, while the
dancer exceeds our vocabulary.

I do not think we can exaggeratc
our good fortune in having Miss
Cooper with us. The technique of the
dancing has not been chorographic-
ally notated and Miss Cooper. is one
of the few who recreate Isadora’s
dances with. brilliant: sympathy and
without perversion. But the neutral
technique she gives us is to be used.
We can express with it what we will;
though that will be difficult, for we
are denuded by it of kant gesture,
‘and so the use to which we put it
will be a record of our responsive-
ness. Of course, the genius hag in-
sight, but all of us can contribute a
little, even if it is only our variation
of a style, perhaps only half-remem-
bered, that is particularly under-

 

standable to us as crystallized by a
more vital personality; Cranach, Pol-

lainolo, for actual examples. But it

 

 

 

-she-Imows, all she is able, and in

. beauty:

with the aid of Esther Smith,

 

 

need not be -that. Each dances _ all
this way perhaps we will find co-op-
eratively an American dance with a
new symbolism. With this technique
I believe that we shall-have better
luck than will Mr. Kirstein with an
American ballet.

 

Lantern Ceremony is‘
Tableau of Beauty

 

Continued from Page One

ing and a few minor difficulties of
a purely mechanical nature did not:
materially detract from the cere-
mony.’ Pictorially, the event was a
series of tableaux of. remarkable
The: first dim grouping 0/
black-clad freshmen on the grass, the
procession of swinging red lanterns,
the swift flight of the sophomores to
the corner for their last rendition of
Pallas Athene, and the departure of
the freshmen, a chain of black shad-
ows beyond the elusive candle light,
created an illusion of mysterious
loveliness. The singing. remains me-
morable to the audience for its fresh-
ness and for the full, vibrant qual-
ity attained in. the shading... To Mr. ;
Willoughby, who directed the music,
34,

 

and Helen Ripley, ’35, and whose

 tianspositions of the two hymns were

used, is duwé@ our praise and appreci-
ation for one more Lantern Night of
traditional beauty ard solemnity.

 

Students and Faculty
Have Close Contacts

 

Continued from Page One

tion is-the Chapels held in. Goodhart.
Although’ to-many these meetings
may seem to be somewhat one-sided,
in that the student body is unable
to voice its opinions, it gives the Ad-
ministration an opportunity of start-
ing a discussion, and of handing out
on a wholesale scale the opinions of
the President or the Dean. © Then
there is nothing to prevent the stu-
dents from discussing these matters
in meetings of their own, and. of
handing them back to the Adminis-
tration through any of the above-
mentioned channels.

“The chief value of these Chap-
els is to make, it possible for the stu-
dents to get at first hand whatever
Miss Park and Mrs. Manning wish
to .set before them, and to allow the
students to come to an understanding
of their ways, their ideas, and their
methods of carrying out these ideas.’

 

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