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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

 

THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)

 

Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.

 

 

The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in
it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the

Editor-in-Chief.

 

Editor-in-Chief
BARBARA CARY, ’36
News Editor

Copy Editor
HELEN FISHER, ’37

ANNE MARBURY, 737
Editors
ANNE E. KREMER, ’37

CAROLINE C. BROWN, ’36
ELIZABETH LYLE, ’37

HELEN B. HARVEY, ’37
MARGARET HOUCK, ’37 JANET THOM, ’38 *
Mary H. HUTCHINGS, ’37 Mary PETERS, ’37
: ’ . * Sports Editors
SyLv1a H. EVANS, ’37 Lucy KIMBERLY, ’37

Business Manager

JEAN STERN, ’36
Advertising Manager Subscription Manager
DOREEN CANADAY, ’36 ALICE COHEN, ’36

Assistants
ALICE G. KING, ’37

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_- Gan of the many

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In Memory of

Dr. Emmy Norther

Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr
P.H.D. University of Erlaagen, 1907

Born 1882 Died April 14, 1935

 

Action! Action!

The casual lethargy with which Bryn Mawr undergraduates nomi-
nate and elect candidates for important positions on campus has become
an unwritten tradition. It has become smart to be vague, lazy and
unconcerned about who shall hold the collegiate offices that most
vitally affect our four years of life within these academic walls. Class
meetings are suddenly called, the same old people from the same old
groups are put up; discussion is usually waived and with each succeed-
ing year girls are automatically elected to office without any care or
regard for their talents or abilities to carry out the work of these posi-
tions. As a rule, they discharge their duties reasonably well, and no
one bothers any further about the matter. Life goes on in its usual
unconcerned manner.

The fact that every year eighty-five girls graduate from Bryn
Mawr proves of itself that the majority of students on campus really
enjoy college life and believe that Bryn Mawr is fundamentally sound.
Why this majority shows none of its regard for the college in intelli-
gent election of students, remains a inystery. A few people often hold
many offices apiece, merely because their names are generally known,
when it is obvious that even the most capable people cannot efficiently
divide their energies. There are many capable, often brilliant people,
whose admirable talents are never discovered or utilized during their
four years of college. At the same time, many inefficient people win
elections, who either should not -hold office at all or are not suited by
their abilities for that particulap“office, and they are often the people
who handle the most important undergraduate affairs. There is always
room for fresh talent; there are always people with latent ability of
the highest order who should be put into office. It is time that action
was taken on the part of the student -body and on the part of the
classes to elect the right people for the right offices.

The sophomore class has decided this spring to remedy this poor.
state of affairs and to avoid the usual railroading into office of the
-same old people during class meetings. The class has elected from each

hall two members for a nominating committee who, with the president
of the class, will deliberate and consider all the people in the class in

-order to select the able people for each office. Hall representatives, who

are usually put up because no one particularly dislikes them, were not
necessarily chosen for the committee. Each hall selected those sopho-
mores who, in the opinions of the students themselves, best know the
members of the class and can judge most accurately without regard to
personal friendship the girls best suited for each position. This nomi-
nating committee will then select from. five to ten people for each
position and present them to the class. Further nominations may come,
if desired, from the floor. The class then can hear the soberly consid-
ered report of the committee and elect the three nominees to be pre-
sented to the college for election. This method is designed to bring to
light new and efficient talent, and to. prevent the usual procedure of
continually electing the same old people regardless of their abilities
for the given job. If the experiment succeeds in its purposes in the
sophomore elections this spring, the college may well adopt this system

in every class.

 

Lost Opportunities

We have long wanted to express our views on the attitude of Bryn

~ Mawr students to the attendance at lectures. We have gone to quite a

few in the course of our career in this institution, and we have almost
never failed to note with regret not only the very visible evidence of
the difficulty of completely filling the spacious rows of Goodhart Hall,

_ but more especially, we have commented on the usual scarcity ofsunder-

graduate representatives at many of the events which occur there.
; things which nearly every college emphasizes as a
a its favor is the number and variety of Jecture foundatioris

WITS END|

Let’s pray it’s not feasible

That Bryn Mawr is measable.

Yale staggered afore the wee germ
flaunted,

We must come through, the staunch
undaunted.

 

 

‘MATHEMATICIANS, TO THE
RESCUE!

What’s a hundred times ten thousand?

What’s ten times a hundred thousand?

What’s a thousand times a thousand?

What’s the square root of, a trillion?

What’s three zeros off a billion?

Since the drive I cannot sleep;

It takes all night to count the sheep;

There always are a million! —

 

From what I see

It seems to me

That.people’s minds

Are on all kinds

Of things to eat

And styles in hair

And what to eat and’ where to drink,
Can there be some who really think
Of war?

 

 

Voice of Bryn Mawr

 

The Editor-of the College News:

I trust you will not think me un-
sympathetic with the object of the
mass meeting held last Friday if I
venture to suggest that it dealt with
the problem of peace in a singularly
ineffective way. We have little to gain
in discussing what we as individuals
shall or shall not:do in the event that
a war breaks out, while neglecting to
give our attention to the ways and
means by which the war might be
avoided, What would we think of the
people of a community if, in the pres-

‘ence of a typhoid epidemic, they: met
ito discuss how they might avoid the

consequences of the epidemic and gave
no thought to the causes of the pol-
lution of their drinking water from
‘which the epidemic arose?

Nothing seems to me less worthy of
intelligent people than to send out ap-
peals for peace and disarmament with
no indication of the practical meas-
ures which our legislators might take
to offset the forces making for war.
No word was said as to the possible
recognition by the United States of
a collective responsibility with other
nations for the maintenance of the

 

I thought that I had learned to walk;
I thought that I had learned to talk i
But from Miss Petts and Mr. King |
I learn I never learned a thing.

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Publicity!

The other day an_ enthusiastic
Alumna gave a Haverford Graduate, |
her son, three of the fiftieth anniver-|
sary seals to send out as he thought
best. The following is an exerpt of
a letter received by the aforemention-
ed Graduate’s classmate, telling in|
rather typical style just what became}
of the seals: “. . . I wish you would,
tell your mother that I have disposed |
of the three Bryn Mawr for President!
or 1,000,000 for: Bryn Mawr stickers
in a manner which I believe is de-
serving of special recommendation of
Dean Gauss, or maybe he’s at Prince-
ton—and I never bothered with any
Princeton for President stickers that I
can remember. Of course I may have,
but—wait—yes—No! — I remember
now—Those were for the Green Hill
Farms Pope Factory University Insti-
toot of Technology.

“Well—the first I disposed of by
placing on the derriere of a letter. to
Philadelphia. That, I admit, was
rather crass and uneventful. In fact
I might say I hadn’t really got going.

“The second is now on its way to
Chartres to see Pleasants—That is
unless some Frog and mind you I
think a Frog would do anything has
steamed it off the envelope to give to
his kid for Lent on the ninth of Ther-
midor or something.

.“And the third—Ah—the third. It
reposes in the secret Archives of the
Bankers’ Trust Co.—The inspiration
was not my own—none other than a
Yale man’s. No one less than a Yale
man could have accomplished it. You
see, we had an account with some real
estate bonds known as the Bryn Mawr
Beach Building Corp. Bonds. (I’ve nev-
er been to Bryn Mawr Beach—prob-
ably down near the hockey field—I re-
member it was rather muddy there.)
So—with the approbation, if not/the
written approval of the officer in
charge, we have placed the sticker on
the page in the investment folder cov-
ering these bonds. There, jin due
course, it will probably be received by
the Senior Investment Committee of
the Board of Directors—I think I de-
serve to dance around the Maypole
next year, donchu? .. ,”

Cheerio—

 

general peace. No word was seid as
to the participation by the United
States jn a system of codperative de-
fense to replace the present depend-
ence of each nation upon its own army
and navy for its national defense. No
word was said even of the assumption
by the United States of an obligation
to consult with other nations in a
time of crisis such as the present one.
The meeting dealt merely with symp-

:toms, and very confused symptoms at

that, and not with causes. Once a
war has broken out, all experience in-
dicates that resolutions of non-partici-
pation will be swept aside by a high
tide of national passion; there will be
no alternative but to take part in it,
Our sole hope is to prevent the war
from coming about; and I submit that
it can be prevented, not by resolutions
of non-participation, but by support-
ing a policy of codperation by the
United States with other countries in
constructive measures to remove the
causes of war and to act in unity to
preserve the peace.

Student opinion as to the folly of
war Should indeed be made vocal; but
it will be more effective if it is. con-
structive and offers practical guidance
to our legislators. /It is of little help
to the President and to members of
Congress to be told that the student
body of the country wants peace; they
themselves want it quite as much. But
it would be of very great help to them
to know that student opinidn would
support them against the isolationists
in adopting a policy of codperation
with other nations in concrete meas-
ures to promote peace.

C. G. FENWICK.

 

We feel that Dr. Fenwick’s criti-
cism of the recent peace rally is a
justified one. We do think, however;
that it might be of interest to many
people to know that some __ positive
measures were undertaken in order to
express to legislators in Washington
concrete proposals to which we hoped
they would give consideration. The
views of the students were expressed
in telegrams sent to the President,
and to Pennsylvania’s two Senators.
They were worded as follows:

“We, the students of Bryn Mawr
College, will back any government
measures to promote international
peace, but we do not believe that in-
crease of armaments, manoeuvers of
the navy in the Pacific this summer,

 

THE MAD HATTER.

compulsory R. O. T. C., and similar

 

 

which it has, and the great wealth of able and distinguished people who
come each year to/speak to the students in lectures sponsored by the
various foundations. Bryn Mawr’is particularly fortunate in the fact
‘that although the foundations and appropriations for this purpose are
not nearly so numerous as we would wish, those which we do have are
wisely designated so that speakers in many fields of activity come here
to lecture to us. Many Alumnae with whom we have spoken have
mentioned to us that their recollections of famous lectures are among
their most keen and delightful memories of their college careers.
Doubtless the case will be the same with us, or rather with those of us
who take the trouble to go to lectures. We admit, of course, that prob-
ably no one would care to go to all the talks given. in Goodhart and
the Deanery, and we know for certain that no-one could possibly have
the time for them, but nevertheless we do feel that there is ample cause
to believe that student attendance could be better on many occasions.
The essential interest is not lacking, we feel sure, and all that is neces-
sary is that we should bestir ourselves. The effort is worthwhile because
it is through outside lecturers and speakers that our contacts with
other colleges and schools, other trends and ideas, and other places

  

 

and people are renewed and refreshed.

   

measures are conducive to peace. We
feel. that at this moment of interna-
tional crisis such militaristic pro-
grams misrepresent to Europe and the
Orient the strong desire for peace
which. we _ believe exists ‘in this
country.”—Eds.

 

IN PHILADELPHIA

 

Theatre

The Mask and Wig Club of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania will present
Drums Fortissimo, their song-and-
dance production for this year, at the
Garrick on April 20th. It opens Sat-
urday to continue throughaut the fol-
lowing week.

 

Orchestra Program
Haydn. .Symphony No, 6 in G Major,
The Surprise Symphony
Schubert.Symphony No. 8 in B Minor,
The Unfinished Symphony
Debussy... Nocturnes—Nuages, Fetes
Stravinsky....Suite from Petrouchka

 

Movies

Aldine: Brewster’s Millions, a Brit-
ish Gaumont production, is/a light,
fast-moving account of the adventures
of a delightful playboy, who is forced
to spend 500,000 dollars in half.a year
in order to win 6,000,000 dollars more.

Arcadia: Ruggles/of Red Gap has
been so popular that it is being held
over for another week.

Boyd: By this time Naughty Mari-
etta has received high praise and fav-
orable criticism from almost all cor-
ners. It seerns very probable that Nel-
son Eddy will become one of the fore-
most national matinee-idols. Jeanette
MacDonald is not: forced to strain her
voice in this Victor Herbert operetta,
and she gives one of her best perform-
ances.

Farle: Hugh Herbert, Glenda
Farrell, Joan Blondell and Grant
Mitchell take the leading role’ in

Traveling Saleslady.

Europa: The Blue Light is a for-
eign film based on an old legend of
the Dolomites. The photography is
spectacular and extremely artistic.

Fox:
ton in The Iron Duke: It is, of course,
the story of the duke’s triumph over
Napoleon. This is not a particularly
scintillating cinema and Mr. Arliss is
Mr. Arliss, as ever, but on the whole it
serves as good entertainment.

Karlton: One New York Niglit is
a mixture of mystery and romance,
which is not particularly well mixed.

ably keep the thing moving along.
Conrad Nagel has a part too.

Keith’s: Private Worlds, the psy-
chopathic romance, with Claudette
Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea,
Helen Vinson and Joan Bennett, has
moved from the Boyd and continues
here.

Stanley: W. C. Fields is the real
star of Mississippi, even though Bing
Crosby does his crooning to perfection.

Stanton: Warren William, Mar-
garet Lindsay and Allen Jenkins have
the principal parts in The Case of the
Curious Bride. ie

 

On Friday the following will arrive:
At the Arcadia, Let’s Live Tonight,
with Lilian Harvey and Tullio Carmi-
nati; at the Earle, Hold ’Em Yale,
featuring Buster Crabbe and Patricia
Ellis; at the Fox, Alice Faye, Jimmy
Dunn, Lyda Roberti and many others
in George White’s Scandals; at the
Karlton, Laddie, with John Beal and
Gloria Stuart; and at the Stanley, Al
Jolson and Ruby Keeler in Go Into
Your Dance.

 

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday, Charles
Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap;
Thursday, The Whole Town’s Talk-
ing, featuring Edward G. Robinson;
Friday and Saturday, Helen Hayes
and Robert Montgomery in ‘Vanessa,
with Lewis Stone, May Robson and
Otto Kruger; Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Maurice Chevalier in
Folies Bergére.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Mar-
shall in Molnar’s The Good Fairy;
Friday-.and Saturday, The Man of
Aran; Monday/ and Tuesday, My

pura.
Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Jan Kiepura/in My Heart Is Calling;
Friday and/ Saturday, Dickens’ Mys-
tery of Edwin Drood, with Claude
Raines;. Monday and Tuesday, Leslie
Howard

  

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George Arliss plays Welling- -

Franchot Tone and Una Merkel prob- —

Heart Is Calling, starring Jan Kie- -

and Merle Oberon in The