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VOL. XX, No. 18

, | BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 21, 1934

 

 

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French Club Gives
Superb Performance

 

Barbier de Seville Unites
Excellence of Acting With
Good Staging:

DIRECTION IS LAUDABLE

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The French Club’s presentation of
Le Barbier de Seville in Goodhart
Hall on Saturday night was a superb
performance in point of action, stag-
ing, direction and unity.. Le Barbier
de Seville is a play of highly typed,

“diverse characterization, and could

therefore easily present the spectacle
of a divided group of individuals, each
pursuing his own part with determi-
nation .and. indifference to the be-
havior of everyone else on the stage.

The French Club’s performance of the |:
ptlay, however, was so well directed |"

and acted that in tvery -sense~the
group worked smoothly and unitedly
together,,so that no one person at any
time seemed better than any other,
although all were excellent in their
rules. As a result, the play had a
degree of -professional~ finish - which
has been seldom reached on the Bryn
Mawr stage.

The director, Mlle. Maud Rey, is
to be congratulated not only on the
unity and changes of tempo she man-
aged to produce, but-on the period
authenticity of the acting. The ac-
tors’ gestures were both completely in
character and done in the classic
French style. The formal bowing; the
combination of every gesture of the
hands with an appropriate and styl-
ized change of the position of the feet,
and the studied, foxmal grouping of
the actors in each scene displayed
Mile. Rey’s accurate knowledge of cor-
rect old French acting. If£ the mark
of a professional play is its skillfull
changes in tempo, this presentation
of Le Barbier de Seville could have
passed muster on almost any profes-
sional stage, for the tempo was rapid
and interesting whenever Bartholo
was on the stage, was slow and deli-
cate in the love scenes, and rose to
heights of accelerated rapidity in the
amusing drunken scene with the Count
and in the scene when the Barber
shaved Barthelo.

(Continued on Page Three)

 

Varsity Wins Game
Against Swarthmor,

 

In their final official games of the
season, the Varsity basketball teams
defeated Swarthmore by the scores
of 29-25 and 34-18.

A tied score at the end of the first
quarter and a Bryn Mawr lead of
only one point at the end of the half,
not only indicate the excitement of
the game, but perhaps show to some
extent the disappointment we felt
that a team which began the season
with such excellent co-ordination,
teamwork, and accuracy, should play
its last game with such evident wild-
ness and lack of unity. The fact that
six personals and three technical fouls
were chalked up against Bryn Mawr
to. Swarthmore’s three personals and
one technical does not indicate any
intentional rough play, but merely
shows Varsity’s lack of control and
actual carelessness of play. Passing
was even more ragged than usual,
especially from the centers to the for-
wards, whose inaccurate shooting did
not help to improve the general mo-
rale of the team. At the end of the
third quarter, the line-up was shifted

~“a bitin the hope that the change|
~would: bring some’ order” into the chaos

and it would seem that the shift ac-
complished its purpose, for a fourth
quarter rally from a score of 25-25
gave Varsity a lead which she man-
aged to maintain until the
whistle.

On the other hand, we must give
most of the credit to the guards, espe-
cially to Bridgman, whose intercep-
tions and excellent defense against
Stubbs really saved the day. Of the

whole team, the guards alone, we

think, have maintained ‘the high

standard which they set at the begin-
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Faculty Decision

Dean Manning. wishes to ‘an-
nounce that the faculty has re-
considered the case mentioned
in week before last’s editofial,
and has agreed to abide by its
original decision. The reason
given is that the student in
question was urged to. take the
German Ora] last fall, and since
she refused to do so, the fac-
ulty does not feel that any ex-
ception can be made in her case.

 

 

final:

 

 

Fencing Team Wins
Phila. Championship
College Team Will Represent

Phila. in Amateur Women’s -
Tournament

 

E. SMITH RATES FIRST

 

On. Thursday, March 15, the’ Bryn
Mawr fencers won the Women’s Team
Championship of the Philadelphia
Division of the Amateur Fencers’
League of America, entitling them to
represent the district. in the National
Tournament. It is the first time in
many years that the college team has
been able to defeat that of the Phila-
delphia Sword Club. In addition to
the team championship, the Bryn
Mawr fencers captured the first. two
places in the meet for individual scor-
ing, Miss Eleanor Smith ranking first
and Miss Marianne Gateson, second.

Three teams entered the meet, one
from Bryn Mawr, one from the Sword
Club, and a composite team, made up
from Bryn Mawr and Shipley School.
The college team consisted of Miss
Gateson, Miss Smith, and Miss Man-
ship. Gateson captained the team and
took all her matches but one, despite
the handicap of an injured left wrist
that forced her to fence right-handed,
as she has not done for two years.
Smith won every one of her bouts,
her fine form and dexterity showing
up beautifully in open competition.
Manship lost her first two bouts, but
recovered her usual skill in time to
win the last four with comparative
ease.

Miss Brill, Miss Lane, and: Miss
MacDermott fenced on the Sword
Club team. Brill, like Gateson, lost
only one bout, but ranked third in the
individual placing, because she had
eleven touches against her as oppos-
ed to ten against Gateson. Lane, of
the Sword Club, ranked fourth in in-
dividual placing, and MacDermott,
sixth.

On the composite team fenced Miss
Coxe and Miss Berolzheimer, from
the College, and Miss Garthwaite,
from Shipley School. Coxe won the
only bout which this team had to their
credit.

Mr. Agnew and Mr. Shakspere
judged the meet. The following are
the official results:

Team

Bryn Mawr College:
and 40 touches against.

Sword Club: 11 victories, and 58
touches against.

Composite team:
touches against. .
Individual

Miss Smith (B. M. C.):
ies, and 10 touches against.

-Miss- Gateson- (B.-M. C.):
‘tories, and ii touches | against,

Miss Brill (S. C.): 5 victories, and
15 touches against.

Miss Lane (S. C.):
and 17 touches against.

Miss Manship (B. M. C.):
tories, and 19 touches against.

Miss MacDermott (S. C.):
tories, and 26 touches against.

Miss Coxe (C, T.): 1 victory, and
28 touches against.

Miss Berolzheimer (C. T.): 0 vic-
tories, and 30 touches against.

Miss Garthwaite (C. T.): 0 vic-
tories, and 30 touches against.

15 victories,

1 victory, and 88

_6 victor-

4 victories,
4 vic-

2 vic-

5 vie~ \
_ | She took her Ph.D. degree at the Uni-
versity of Vienna, 1930, was assistant.

 

Miss Park Announces)
Graduate Fellowships

 

A
Single European Scholar Nathed
Instead of Five—Dr. Noether
‘Given. Tribute."

Bw

CUM LAUDE LIST READ

 

 

Speaking in chapel on Friday,
Marck 16, Miss Park stressed the fact
that courses and degrees form only
the framework of a college. Over-
emphasis «upon them leads to dry-
ness. To present such a framework
as a representative picture of col-
lege is incorrect. This skeleton or pat-
tern must be rounded out and hu-
manized by other kinds of discipline
and learning. Clashes of mind, disci-

| plines of the body, the senses and the

will, also play their part in forming
the woman who is ready to deal with
abstract questions and practical de-
vices alike.

On such an occasion as the an-
nouncement of European and gradu-
ate fellowships, everything but the
framework of Bryn Mawr College
must necessarily be excluded and in-
telligence must be dwelt upon to the
exclusion of other qualities, which are
taken for granted.

The first graduate European Fel-
lowships were presented in the first
six years of the college. The Fanny
Bullock Workman Fellowship was
founded by the will of Mrs.. Work-
man, at both Radcliffe and Bryn
Mawr, for purposes of travel. Mrs.
Workman was one of the most ro-
mantic of Victorian women. She was
a mountain-climber and a scientist, as
well as being’ profoundly interested in
education. This fellowship, which is
of the value of $1,000, has been
awarded seven times. The Mary Eliz-
abeth Garrett. European Fellowship,
of the value of $?,000, awarded annu-
ally for excellence in scholarship, has
been held 40 times in different depart-
ments.

The Fanny Bullock Workman Fel-
low for 1934-35 is Maude M. Frame,
of Philadelphia. Miss Frame _ took
her A.B. at the University of Penn-
sylvania in 1927. She was a reader
in Philosophy and a Graduate Stu-
dent at Bryn Mawr College, 1928-30,
1931-34, and a Scholar in Philosophy,
1930-31. She has chosen the subject
for her thesis from the departments
of both Philosophy and History of
Art. Her subject is the conception
of space and its relationship in Ital-
lian Rennaissance Painters.

The Mary E. Garrett European Fel-
lowship is to be held next year by
Emma Hope Broome, A.B., Mount
Holyoke College, 1927; M.A., Bryn
Mawr College, 1932; Scholar in Latin,
Bryn Mawr College, 1931-32; Holder
of Fellowship in Biblical Literature
from Bryn Mawr College, 1932-33
(fellowship used at the University of
Chicago), and Fellow in Biblical Lit-
erature, Bryn Mawr College, 1933+34.
Miss Broome, also, has studied in’ two
departments—Latin and Biblical Lit-
erature. She can contribute to her
study a knowledge of the Roman Em-
pire and an unusual background in
the Syriac and in the Semitic lan-
guages. She will work under Profes-
sor Burkitt, at Cambridge, where she
will investigate the sources of Peshit-
ta, the accepted translation of all
branches of the Syriac-speaking
church.

Only one European scholar, instead
of the five usually admitted, will enter
Bryn Mawr College next year. Olga

| Taussky, of Czechoslovakia, has..been.

selected. Miss Taussky studied at
the Universities of Ziirich and Vienna.

in the Department of Mathematics,
University of Gottingen, 1931-32, and
is now collaborating in the publica-
tion of the edition of Hilbert’s works.

Miss Taussky was chosen with the
aid of Dr. Emmy Noether. Dr. Noe-
ther, who is the greatest woman math-
ematician in Europe or America,.is
now resident at the college and will
be here next year. To afford oppor-
tunities for the very advanced study
offered by Dr. Noether, an additional

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trip through the window!

 

 

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News Elections
The Editorial Board of the
College News announces the fol-
lowing elections for the coming
year: . ,
Editor-in- ~Cheif — Geraldine
’ Rhoads.
; Copy Editor — Diana Tate-
' Smith.
The following new members
were added to the board: Allin-
son, L. Brown, Fisher, Goodhart,

 

 

Lyle, Marbury and Rose.

Mr. Hopkinson Talks
on Art Appreciation

 

 

Thursday afternoon in the Com-
mon Room an. attentive audience
was given by Mr. Charles Hopkin-
son, famous portrait painter, an ac-
count of what passes through the
mind of an artist when he looks at a
picture.

The layman, if able to perceive
things taken from the visible world in
a painting, enjoys the picture for the
associations roused by it; the artist
improves upon that habit of mind by
enjoying a painting for the associa-
tion, but also for a great deal more,
for composition, form and color. It
is these latter constituents of a pic-
ture that he has in mind when creat-
ing his own work and it is to them
that he looks for the intrinsic value
of _a work of art.

The composition of a picture should
be. enjoyed in the same manner as
music, as something not connected
with the visible world; or again, in
the same manner as architecture, an
art appreciated for the abstract ele-
ments of direction of planes, thrust
and prqportion. -The feeling of form
in space, the three dimensional aspect
of a picture should be produced in
the simplest-way possible. The sense
of depth which the artist strives for
is not the depth of a mirrored image,
out the space relation of a world cre-
ated by the artist himself; and if the
distortions are consistent, the picture

‘will exist in its own world, far more

interesting than the visible world.
The painter thus starts off with his
own concept of reality and uses only
material objects, such as trees, figures
and_ terrain, as points for the eye to
(Continued on. Page Four)

 

Bryn Mawr Swimmers

Conquer Swarthmore

 

Backstroke .Record is Broken
With 31.4 in First Meet
Off-Campus

DIVING IS EXCELLENT

At three-thirty on Friday after-
noon, the Varsity swimming team,
accompanied by a sizable cheering sec-
tion, wended its way grimly over the
hills to Swarthmore for its first off-

 

 

campus meet. At six o’clock the bus —

loaded with its hilarious crew sped
homeward after winning a most excit-
ing meet, 49-35.

Varsity, in carrying off six of the
nine events and in breaking the col-
lege record for the 400-yard back
stroke event in a strange and com-
paratively slow pool, confirmed the
opinion that it is one of the. best
teams we have had in many a season.

In the first event, the 80-yard free
style, Swarthmore led over the first
three laps, ka the last turn, Dan-
iels and VanVechten made a final

spurt to take first- and second places,

respectively, with Heathcote, of
Swarthmore, coming in third.

Woodward took an immediate lead
in-the, 40-yard—back-stroke—event- to
break Duncan’s record made in the
interclass meet by clocking 31.4 sec-
onds, with Huntington taking second
and Porther third place.

In the medley relay, Bryn Mawr
was behind in the side and breast
strokes, but Hemphill took the lead
on the trudgeon, and Wylie kept it in
the crawl to win the event in 54.2
seconds.

Whiting was the favorite in the
craw! for form, but met keen competi-
tion from Keyes, of Swarthmore, who
took second place, and was only .5
of a point behind with a total of 22
out of a possible thirty.

In the breast stroke event, the field
was pretty well bunched on the first

lap, but Waldemeyer made a beauti-
ful turn to take the lead down the

lyst lap and first place in 32.2 sec-
onds.
(Continued on Page Three)

 

Haverford Foils Bryn Mawr in Tag Game;
Basketball Enlivened by Hurdles_and Songs

 

On Monday afternoon, March 19,
Bryn Mawr’s Varsity went down to
its second defeat of the season in a
hard-fought game with Haverford
College’s basketball team* After a
false start which netted Varsity an
uncounted two points because of the
Haverford desire for forwards to play
against forwards, the game got un-
der way. Bryn Mawr started off with
Boyd scoring a nice shot amid roars
from Haverford’s supporters. Flac-
cus countered with a long shot, pre-
ceded by a game of tag with his
guard, ‘who viewed his success from
a sitting position on the floor, Odd
as it may seem, soon after these ini-
tial efforts, Bryn Mawr committed
the first foul, when Larned attempt-
ed to hurdle her opponent as the best
way to get around him.

Haverford kept right on Varsity’s
heels, both literally and actually, as
the score mounted little by little until
at quarter time it stood at 10-8 in
favor of Bryn Mawr. A flock of
substiutes came in for both sides and
the battle continued. The Scarlet and
Black tried some fancy shots and
passes, some.of which.fell_into.Var--
sity’s hands, others in the basket; and
one hada miraculous escape from a
Wher half+
time came. Bryn Mawr was on the
long end of a 15-14 score.

The Haverford cohorts indulged in
several cheers and songs, one or two
of which we recognized as having
been heard in these parts before. The
rendition of ‘Come Cheer For Our
College” was especially gallant, we
thought.

With the men’s rules in force, we
expected to see a general roughhouse,
for we had heard something about
Haverford’s new underhand system of
passing and it sounded quite sinister,

 

yet all went well, although it cannot
be denied that the Scarlet and Black
shooters showed Varsity several tricks
which may be useful against the Fac-
ulty. During this quarter Varsity
showed some hesitancy about using
the privilege of bouncing the ball in-
definitely. Meirs at center did avail
herself of the chance to try‘for the
basket, but unfortunately she met
with no success. She made up for it
with good play at center, in spite
of a momentary protest at the small
size of her opponent at the start of
the second half. Bridgman did good
work at guard during this period, but
we wondered that she didn’t grow dizzy
trying to keep her eye on her elusive
opponent. Altogether we must admit
that the third quarter was not a
great success from the point of view
of the Bryn Mawr score. A paltry
two points was the sole product of
eight minutes of frenzied activity dur-
ing which Haverford rang up thir-
teen points to bring the total to 27-17.

In the final period the game re-
verted to girls’ rules. This did not
phase the Haverfordians very much,

for;-although~ Varsity put in several ~

baskets, the Scarlet torWatas non-
chalantly pushed in a couple of shots

with what seemed almost infinite-ease;—

while missing quite a few more in
much the same style. The Haverford
lead proved, nevertheless, to be insur-
mountable and the game ended with
the score, 31-26. The game was not
a complete loss. Although Varsity
did meet its second defeat, several
valtiable pointers were\ picked which

will undoubtedly be stored up for use .
against’ the Faculty. So, as we say:

farewell to Haverford’s victorious
team, we close in the same breath with
a warning to our next opponents.
May the Faculty beware!

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