The College New VOL. XXII, No. 15 By i BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936 = Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1936 == PRICE 10 CENTS acme Students Should Ket: On Teacher’s Oath Miss Park Believes Measure Unconstitutional, Likely to Curb Free Speech * LEADS TO HYPOCRISY Goodhart, February: 28.—The teach- ers’ -oath, said Miss:Park in Chapel, is required by. law in twenty-two states, and twenty more states have similar legislation pending. The oath is not particularly dangerous as it stands in the statute books, but it may be used as a handle to curb freedom of speech, radical teaching, etc. It is an issue about which people should be well informed. We should go to the polls to vote against the legisla- tors who pass such measures, for they are. unconstitutional, they are insult- ing in that they apply to teachers only, they are futile and senseless, and worst of all, they encourage. hypocrisy in those- who take the oaths. There have been two movements in the passing of laws requiring an oath from teachers, after the war and again after 1929. In the recent movement, caused probably by hysteria rather than by any definite intention of forcing people to declare for or against the government, the general form of the oath is as follows: “I will uphold the Federal and state Con- stitutions, and will faithfully dis- charge my duties.” In general the laws affect public or state-helped schools, but in ten states they are applied to private schools and colleges and parochial schools. The Hearst papers and patrioteering societies like the American Legion and D. A. R. are openly pushing these bills. Against them are working the Ameri- can Federation of Teachers, the Pro; gressive Education Association, chap- ters of the Organization of University Professors, sections of the National Education. Association ,and many prominent people. Dr. Henry S. Cadbury, formerly Professor at Bryn Mawr and now at Harvard, has discussed with Miss Park in detail the workings of the the Massachusetts law which is as Continued on Page Five Audience Boos, Cheers At Early Comedy Films Goodhart, February 26.—The first of the five programs planned by the Undergraduate Association, in col- laboration with Haverford College, to show the development of different types of films, consisted of fotr early “comedy” films. The first films were made to amuse, and their spirit was free and unre- fined. They developed all sorts of situations, possible and impossible, and used all the sorts of motion of which the camera is capable. The Doctor’s Secret, the first of the films shown, was produced in 1900 by George Méliés. The action concerned a very excitable doctor who placed his helpless and very fat patient in one machine after another. When he had reduced the hapless man’s body to dis- connected pieces, he and his two abject assistants collected the pieces from around the room and put the limbs to- gether. The victim emerged with a much slimmer figure and twice the energy he had exhibited at first. Winsor McCay was not the first man to experiment with the “flippers,” or magic booklets (of outline draw- ings of animals), and to create the animated film cartoons, but his ex- periments went farther than those of, his predecessors. He made Gertie the Dinosaur, the film shown here, in 1909. Gertie was a charming and somewhat wayward creature, but under Winsor McCay’s guidance she waved her legs, drank a lake dry, chewed whole trees quite absent-mindedly and showed that she was a good-hearted if somewhat imposing looking monster. The film was made solely with black-and-white outline drawing, and Gertie was the only figure shown until the end, when McCay mounted her back: and she bore him off, His Bitter Pill, produced by Mack Continued on Page Four Philosophy Club Meeting The Philocophy Club will hold its first meeting in the Common Room at _ eight o’clock on Wednesday evening, March 4. All those who are interested are invited to attend, and any who have May Day rehearsals sched- © uled for that time are requested to come for at least part of the discussion. After a paper on Space and Time by Augusta Arnold, ’38, has been read, there will be a general discussion of__ these ‘problems as treated in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Librarians Must Have __ Initiative, Scholarship Common Room, February 27.—“I would like to look into your minds to find what sort of picture you have of a ‘librarian,” Miss Mabel Williams, of the New York Public Library, said to the undergraduates. Library work is not the dull, dusty work that many of us imagine, nor are librarians merely people who charge books and hand them out over a desk. There are almost as many types of library work as there are types of people. It is absolutely essential to take a year of preparation in a library school before one can get -any sort of a job whatsoever. The first semester of library work will probably be devoted to general courses in cataloguing, ref- erence books, book selection and ad- ministration. During the second semester the student will be allowed to specialize in her own particular field, and on graduating from the school is awarded a B. S. degree in Library Science. Labor Needs Political Party, States Burge Hosiery Worker Warns Group of “Reign of Terror Against Union Workers” QUESTION IS NOT NEW Common Room, February 26.—La- bor needs a Labor Party or there will result right here in the United States a. “Reign of Terror against Union|} Workers.” This was the warning given by Joseph Burge, ex-Communist and present member of the Hosiery Workers’ Union, to the meeting of the Industrial Group. Never before has the need for a political weapon to be wielged by laborers themselves for th own protection been so impera-; tive as it is now. Law, force and the| a ;surpassing contemporary dictionary pressure of the times ‘are all directed against.them; without such a weapon they are all helpless. The question of'a Labor Party is not a new one. grants from England and Germany organized a rudimentary Labor Party, and in the industrial centers of the East they even put up candidates for election. The movement was absorbed, however, by the excitement of Abo-' lition and the Civil War. When peace and financial. stability were re-estab- lished, workers renewed their agita- tions, but they were unable to find concrete expression for their theories and plans. In 1900 the Socialists seemed about to assume the role of a mass Labor Party, yet they too failed. The reason for their failure lay in the peculiar structure of American: capitalism. Where in Europe all workers were down in a cellar with the door closed tight above them so that tRey had to organize and push together if they ever meant to get out, in America the situation was slightly more hopeful. There was a crack in the door that allowed some men to get through if they fought and struck their fellows back. Now the cracks have been mended and American work- ers must do as Europeans did—form a political party or stay in their hole. That the Labor Party must be based on the Trade Unions is agreed by everyone’ except the Union lead- ers. They are either afraid of new policies or top much engrossed in re- forms within their group to pay at- Continued on Page Five - 5 || NEW WORDS DISCUSSED ' plained Richards Lectures On Choice of Words | Approach Criteria. of Choice Through Inter-inanimation Word Theory Goodhart Hall, March 2—Mr. I. A. Richards announced that the sub- ject of his fourth lecture on the Interpretation of Prose would be a Criteria of the Choice of Words. Last week the various kinds of in- ter-inanimation. of - words was ex- in order to show that: a word used in fluid discourse partic- ularly cannot have a fixed meaning. The traditional usage theory, which holds that words can be _ isolated from their context like the parts of a mosaic, is fallacious. Words inter- penetrate in various ways and, when spoken, evoke in the back of the mind nuances of words which have not been uttered. The eepeoah to the criteria of the choice of words must be made through the doctrine of the inter- inanimation of words and the recog- nized interdependence of meaning. College Calendar Webusiais, March 4,—Fash- ion Show. Common Room, 6 p. m. Thursday, March 5.—Confer- ence with I. A. Richards. Room F, Taylor Hall, 4.30 p. m. : Friday, March 6.— Square Dance. Gymnasium,; 8.30 p.m. Sunday, Match . 8.—Dorothy Pilley will Mountaineering. p. m, Monday, March 10.—Fourth of Flexner Lectures by'I. A. Deanery, 5 speak on Alpine: 4} Richards. Goodhart, 8.20 p. m. Nicholas Poussin Was A Great Story-Teller Deanery, March 1.—Dr. Walter Friedlander, formerly of the Univer- sity of Freiburg and at present Visit- ing Professor of Art at Columbia-and the University of Pennsylvania, changed the scheduled subject of his lecture on the Landscape Painting of Claude Lorraine and Nicholas Poussin to Nicholas Poussin As a Story-teller in order to show his audience the painter. By a series of slides he The habit of isolating the meaning of words must be mistrusted. A habit: once formed is difficult to destroy, and the least that we can do is to use; moderation on the subject of the be- havior of words. Particular care should be used in the case of. ab- stract words which we use generally, for example, in digcussions of political principles, of principles of conduct, or in all discussions of art. In such cases there is always a shift of senses with the sentence and context from which they derive. The shifts may be in the minds of those who are talking as well as in the lis- teners. The extent of the shifts in the mean- ing of words, and more important, the plan of these deluding shifts of mean- ing is hidden by the attacked assump- tion (which is_impossible outside tech- nical language) that words have their own proper meanings. The shift is not a breakdown or a flaw of mean- ing, but a growth or at least an evidence of power. Without shifts of meaning, mutual understanding, criticism’ and furtherance of thought would be lost. Language would lose its subtleties and power to. serve. Shifts in discourse should not be resisted but followed. They recur; they have a common pattern which experience helps us to discover. That jing which will enable us to compare, Back in 1850 immi-' a systematic study of shifts of mean- 'reeord and explain words on a scale technique can be made, is a reason- able hope. Even a slight advance in the ability to compare one kind of shift with an analogous kind, would bring into sight a new era of human understanding and thinking. The rigidity of the proper meaning theory impedes this advance. Shifts. of meaning in familiar words often pass unnoticed. The word “book,” for instance, can. be used currently in many senses. A maga- zine or a weekly may be spoken of as a book as well as a bound volume. ; In each of the following sentences the meaning of “book” has shifted: his mind is full- of his book, he is writing a book, his book is being printed, or his book is being bound. The meaning of “book” has shifted and sometimes the meaning is incompati- ble. What will be printed or bound will be different from the set of ideas involved. These shifts pass unnoticed because we are familiar with the situations which make the mutations possible. In time we may learn to handle abstract and semi- technicalized words with the ease of; a simple word like “book.” This possi- bility is the fundamental justifica- tion for advanced verbal education which will lead to a better under- standing of abstract discussions. Words gain force by pulling with them others which are not con- ‘sciously noted in reading. On this ground the theory of the choice of words can be exposed. The reasons given for liking or disliking a word traced the development of Poussin’s style in illustrating mythological tales from the youthful drawings done in Paris to those of his old age which ireturned with new vigor and more massive composition to mythological subjects. Nicholas Poussin was the greatest French painter of the seventeenth century, although he lived most of his Continued on Page Six First A. S. U. Meeting Defines Objectives Social and Political Reforms To be Undertaken Here By Petitioning OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Common Room, February 27.—The recently formed local chapter of the American Student Union had its first meeting tonight for the purpose of electing officers and ratifying its con- stitution. This includes the general program of the national organization, summarized under the four headings, peace, freedom, security and equality. The. local constitution, which outlines these points as well as more specific laws of organization, membership and so forth, was ratified at the meeting and Martha Van Hoesen was elected executive secretary for the chapter. Naomi Coplin, the temporary chair- man, opened the meeting by explain- ing that the American Student Union is a new organization formed early this year at a convention in. Columbus, Ohio, by the amalgamation of a num- ber of student liberal and- radical bodies. The purpose of the associ- ation is the formulating and carrying out of action leading to political and social reform in which all or most of their members believe. For this rea- son the national organization drew up an outline for a general program | which it hopes will be followed by all its local chapters. Its policy includes: opposition to American war prepara- tions, abolition of the R. O. T. C., support of the Oxford pledge, defense of students’ and teachers’ rights against reaction, opposition of trustee domination of education, opposition to Fascism in all its forms, the seeking of extension of federal student aid and adequate social security legisla- tion, extension of universal educa- tional opportunity and abolition of Negro diserimination and segregation. The local chapter intends generally ‘to carry out this program and spe- ‘ cifically to determine its action by a majority vote of the members. All of the members are not expected to agree on every point, but the dissent- ing minority is not expected to oppose the action of their fellow-members ex- cept within the organization. The chapter expects to begin its campaign by bettering such conditions on this campus as they believe need reform- ing. Their action for the furthering - Continued on Page Six : Continued on Page Four lesser known side of the great French pr Spectators Applaud: French Guild Acting Talent of de Vestel’ Proved By .Direction of Company In “Son Mari” GOOD CHOICE OF PLAY’ Goodhart, February 28.—The play given’ by the French: Theatre Guild was of necessity not of interest to the many, but to the members of the audi- ence on Friday night it was thorough- ‘ly enjoyable. We do not often have the opportunity here in America of seeing foreign actors play in their native language, and the French Guild players fill this lack admirably. It is, moreover, always agreeable to see professional acting at Bryn Mawr and the French actors appeared to be high quality. The play itself, “Son Mari,” by Paul Géraldy, was an ex- cellent choice from the point of view ‘of clever dialogue and of opportuni- ties for character acting. It must be admitted, however, in all fairness, that the play requires acting of the calibre of these Theatre Guild play- it could not be nearly so effec- tive with actors of less talent and ex- perience. The men of the company gave out- standing performances. Guy de Vestel had a sympathetic part as the eager lover, and he made the most of it, putting into it all his ability, which amounted in this case to real genius. The part of the incredibly dull hus- band was very difficult, but Pierre de Ramey succeeded in making himself understood and pitied in the midst of his own misunderstanding. Lina Martine was a very charming Jacqueline, and her acting improved steadily, till she was at her best in the third act. Her personality and her manner were completely French and different from the more restrained behavior which we are accustomed to seeing on the American stage. She was the most difficult to hear, and some_of_her lines were unfortunately lost. Her réle was a hard one, and she did succeed admirably in convine- ing her audience of the change in her character, which was essential to an Continued on Page Four Neutrality is Subject For Editorial Contest The Foreign Policy Association and The Nation have announced that they are jointly sponsoring an_ editorial contest open to all undergraduates in colleges and universities. The sub- ject of the contest is the timely one of Will Neutrality Keep Us Out of War? The editorial must not be over one thousand words in length and must be accompanied by a statement from the student that it is original and not copied from any source. It must also carry the endorsement of an instruc- tor in the college. Neither the en- dorsement nor the signature are to be on the editorial itself. All papers must be sent to the office of the Stu- dent Secretary, Foreign Policy Asso- ciation, 8 West Fortieth street, New York City, by March 15. Each en- trant must also submit his editorial to the College News on or before that date. The News reserves. the riglit to decide whether or not to publish any of the editorials, but students whose editorials are not printed in the News are not barred from the contest. Manuscripts will be judged by four well-qualified judges, who include the President of the F. P. A., R. L. Bull, and an Editor of The Nation, Freda Kirchwey. Factual background, logic and effectiveness of presentation will be the basis on which the papers will be judged. The winning editorial writer will receive a prize of fifty dol- be awarded twenty-five dollars. There will be five third prizes of a year’s subscription to The Nation and five fourth prizes of a student membership for one academic year in the Foreign Policy Association to each of the re- cipients. The prize winners will be announced in the May issue of The Foreign Policy Bulletin. lars and the second best paper will —.. 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We'd advise you to make your choice early while there is | ee ey Hanna : 3 3 : '- THE COLLEGE NEWS 3 Page Three DIRECTOR’S PAGE - -- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS : . ad © ' Princeton Junction. . 12.17 p.m, 1.17 2D, | eR ln te A ll il ly Property Committee Mey Dey -Colendui Special May Day Train ze" ™* Cae Lie ie Arrives 5p 2.15 p 4 : To Construct Wagons Fr iday, March -6—Rehearsal rriv Bryn Mawr 1.1 p.m, 15 p.m GREEN HILL FARMS ent ree of Gammer Gurton. *Music The May Day Director is happy to May Day is now busying the Prop- Room, 3.30-5.15 p. m. Rehearsal announce that arrangements have Leaves Bryn Mawr 6.45 p.m. 7.45 p.m. City Line and Lancaster Ave. : ‘eee ts Arrives; Overbrook-Philadelphi erty Committee with hammer and saw. of Old Wives’ Tale (comié¢s). ‘been made for a May Day train from|Trenton .........., 7.30p.m. 8.30 p. m. . Caroline. Sherman, who has studied paar yr Deuce Wea ee” Tne” ime. fo Beye Mane an Oita ie ue AO ea oe ae hie theatrical design for two and « helf earsal of Deluge. Music Room, day, May 9. A return ticket will be|Newark ........._| 8.19 p.m. - 9.19 p.m. take care of your parents and 7.30-8.45 p, m.- Rehearsal of || $3.65. The schedule is as follows: Manhattan Transfer. 8.23.p.m. _ 9.23-p. m. friends. wh h years at the School of Industrial Art Creation. .Musie- Room, §.15- Co oe gaa a Se nia worn: 8.36 p.m. 9.36 p.m. riends, whenever they come to ") d ’ ° By ndar¢ ayligh AlN .45 p. m. 9.45 p. m. sar : and studied. stagecraft under Mr. 6.30 p. m. Rehearsal of. St. Leayes : Time Time ee ee 8.45 p.m. (9.45 p.m visit you An A mi * Hudson Terminal.... 11.00 a. m. Return tickets at* this ‘special rate Pennsylvania Station. 11.15 a.m. 2.15.p. m. ; ‘ 1 George. Wyndlam, 8-9.30 p. m. 12 may be procured through either the Manhattan Transfer.. 11.29 a.m. 12.29 p.m. 1 1 Rehearsal of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Music Room; mechan- ics, 8.45-10.380; court, 9.30-10.30 Alexander Wyckoff at the University of Michigan last sumer, is in charge of all the May Day prgperties. L. ELLSWORTH METCALF, Manager. ee ee ee ONE tsi eas 11.33 a. m. 3 p.m, May Day Director or the Pennsylvania 1 | Saar aR 11:42 a.m, .m, | Railroad. bo bo mw bo < ' There will be a great many new p. m. = - gadgets this year, in addition to the Saturday, March 7—Rehears- ‘| stuffed deer (for Robin Hood’s merry al. of; Gammer Gurton. Music men to bring in from the hunt), the Room, 9-10 a. m. Rehearsal of y - ass’s head for Bottom, the gigantic Robin Hood. Wyndham: Act @ balloon grapes for Silenus, the $words for St. George, the Turkish Cham- | pion’s scimitar, the innumerable drink- ing horns, mossy logs, bows and ar- rows, bells and trumpets, wands and quarter staffs, flats of woodland scenes and small accessories that are. still . Stowed away in the prop boxes from the 1932 May Day. The three new plays will require the greatest number of new proper- ties. Gammer Gurton’s Needle, to be done by strolling players, demands “i 4 4a ‘portable scenery, and the two houses| Will be fat and one will be skinny. OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO sa IT S TOASTED (those of Gammer Gurton and Dame The Creator in The Creation and| —_— pment Chat) will be painted on “slapstick” Deus in The Deluge are testing the and will roll up like Venetian blinds. ingenuity of the property committee. The Needle, about which we have ir as The Creator will sit in state during worked up an inordinate curiosity, will iis orcdamn aed + af dh be a giant affair, like the needles used Vereeraty mite Gueene enaes-O . ee ciety 9s | play, in the Tree of Knowledge; and to sew carpets. : ; The largest single properties will be Deus will be sequestered ‘in a cloud. the two wagons for The Deluge and: Both of them are to have gold halos, The Creation, They are to be single-| gold hair and gold beards. The decker affairs, but so arranged 5 Maa Bren - to be stone Heaven and Earth are distinctly | @°°*%®? 4” € Serpent 1s to have the F | guise of an angel, as he did tradition- separate. Each’ wagon is to have a|® ge", did traditio banner with the crest and contat-arme sg Pegs “se sydd ... f the guild that originally gave the eee ; seca gl , * 78 ' specialized problems. The “rib colored Mlay on Corpus Christi day. : ee : The Deluge wagon will have scaf-, red,” from which Eve is created, will : have to be obtained and painted, and folding for a boat, and when Noah : ‘ and his family start to build the Ark|® Tree 9f Knowledge (with fruit hang- : ; ing from its branches) will have to all they will have to do is to hang on the scaffolding by hinges all the dif- be constructed. In one of the later divent alead oavda with | anihale Chester productions of The Creation already painted on them. The animals stage directions provided for a! Tree ‘i cnmalons are-of-exactly-fifty-varie- of Knowledge with all varieties of : : : Continued on Page Four ties. | The rainbow that appears at the close of The Deluge is to be a gadget.\, that, with cranking, will shoot out a multi-colored arch and fold it up again like an accordion. The doves that Noah sends -out to test the state of , the waters, will be on sticks and one; | II, 9-10 a. m.; entire, 10-11 a. m. Rehearsal of Creation. Music Room, 10-11 a.m: Rehearsal of Deluge. Music Room, 11-12. Rehearsal of Old Wives’ Tale. Wyndham, 11-1. Rehearsal of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mu- sic ‘Room: mechanics, 12-1 p. m.; court, 12.30-1 p. m. 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John, °39; Margaret Lippincott, °37; *Eleanor Mackenzie, ’38; Mary Moon, ’39; Paquerette Nasse, Licenciee; Patricia Robin- son, ’39; Virginia Sale, ’36; Lucille Sauder, 39; Sally Todd, ’36; Laura Thomson, ’37; Mary Whalen, ’38. Shepherds: Alexandra Grange, '38; Eleanor Mackenzie, °38. Shepherdesses: Bonnie Allen, ’38; Alexandra Grange, °38; Elizabeth Converse Huebner, A.*B.; Dewilda Naramore, 38; Laura Thom- *, son, '37; Sally Todd, ’36; Mary Whalen, 738; “ Anne Whiting, 36. Gypsies: Helen Adler, 738; Alethea Avery, 36; Eleanor Benditt, ’39; Elizabeth Corey, 39; Emily Doak, ’39; Alexandra Grange, '38; Dor- othy Grant, ’38; Frances Heins, 39; Eliza-: beth Converse Huebner; A. B.; Alice John, 39; Margaret Lippincott, *37; Lydia Lyman, °30; Eleanor Mackenzie, ’38; Mary Moon, "39; Paquerette Nasse, Licenciee; Hadassah Posy, A. B.; Constance Renninger, 739; Virginia Sale, ’36; Lucille Sauder, ’39; Laura Thomson, 37; Eleanore Tobin, ’37; Mary. Whalen, ’38; Margaret Winternitz, °38; Mary Wood, ’39. Chimney Sweeps: Helen Adler, ’38; Bonnie Allen, ’38; Eleanor Benditt, ’39; Beth Busser, M. A.; Elizabeth Corey, ’39; Emily Doak, ’39; Dorothy Grant, ’38; Elizabeth Converse Hueb- ner, A. B.; Alice John, 39; Lydia Lyman, 39; Ethel Mann, ’38; Mary Moon, ’39; De- wilda Naramore, ’38; Paquerette Nasse, Licen- ciee; Constance Renninger, 39; Lucille Sauder, 39; Eleanore Tobin, ’37; Mary Whalen, °38; Margaret Winternitz, ’38; Mary Wood, 739. Sword Dancers E. Bates, ’36; B. Duncan, ’37; M. L. Eddy, 37; M. Evans, ’38; S. Evans, 737; E. Sigler, 37; L. Spafford, ’36; C. Stone, 737. Morris Dancers A. Arnold, ’38; V. Baker, ’38; M. Belin, 39; M. Bergstein, ’36;- R. Brooks, ’37; J. Car- penter, ’38; J. Clark, °39; G. Fales, ’38;° V. Ferry, ’39; E. Hansell, ’36; C. Hemphill, ’39; L. Herron, ’39; M. Jackson, ’37; K. Jacoby, 37; B. Longcope, ’38; B. Noel, 738; J. Quist- .gaard, '38; L. Rice, ’36; A. Seckel, °38; C. Solter, '39; E. Vall-Spinosa, ’37; C, Wyckoff, *37: A, Wyld, ’38; C. Yarnelle, ’39. Tumblers S. B. H. Ballard, ’°39; M. Bridgman, ’36; A. Clement, ’39; E. Coburn, 739; E, L. Davis, 37. A, C. Dill, "38; L. Jy Fulton, 37; Bich, Garner, ’38; P. E. Hasse, °38; D. R. Heyl, 139: M. C. Honour, '36; F. L. Leonard, 738; A. F. Low, °’38; M. McEwan, '39; M. R. Meigs, 39; S. T. Meigs, °39; E. H. Morley, 236: L. Myers, '38; A. M. Orr, ’39; A. M. Reynolds, ’38; F. P. Scott, '38; E, A. Simons, 136: E.-K; Taft, 39; A. €. Temple,.’39; E. F. Webster, °38; M. C. Whitmer, 739; N.C. Wood, ’°39; V. Woodward, ’36. Heralds’, Beefeaters’ Lists. Are Complete The May Day special characters, Heralds, Beefeaters, Queen’s Archers, mounted pages and pages have been tentatively chosen. The list is pub- lished below: Special Characters Stilt Walkers: Elizabeth Bryan, ‘38; Kath- ryn Docker, '36; Alice Raynor, 736. Fools and Devils: Frances Bourne, 739; Mary Dimock, '39; Anne Keay, '38; Amy Pemberton Martin, ’39; Gertrude Righter, ’38. Bell-ringers: Virginia Hessing, '38; Flora Louise Lewis, °38; Alice Shurcliff, ’38; Eliza- beth Simeon, ’38. Bear and Trainer: Dorothy Garretson, Elsie LeFevre, ’38. Hobby Horses: Anne Stainton; '37. Jack-in-the-Green: Jeanne Winternitz, Magician: Doris Russell, ’38. Musical Instruments: Naomi Coplin (’Cello in Creation), ’38; Mary Meiser (’Cello), ’38. Heralds Eleanor Fabyan, ’36; Josephine Heiskell, 36; Jean Holzworth, ’36; Jane Martin, Graduate; Margaret Martin, °39; Mary Meyer, "ars Elizabeth Welbourn, '38; Suzanne Wilson, 739; ’36—playing trumpet. Beefeaters Elizabeth Aiken, '39; Margaret Commiskey, 39; Virginia Dorsey, ‘37; Marjorie Goldwas- ser, °36; Mary Elizabeth Hemsath, ’36; Myrtle Niccolls, 739; Catherine Sanders, ’38; Agnes Spencer, ’39; Marie-Louise VanVechten, Grad- uate. 38; Denise Debry, °39; Betty "36. Queen’s Archers Katherine Barnard, ’37; Mary D. Cox, °39; Marian Diehl, '39; Nancy Foss, '38; Sophie Hemphill, °37; Mary Livingston, °37; Jean Morrill, °39; Virginia Pfeil, 39; Carey Shine, ’39. — oa Mounted Pages Mildred Broughton, ’39; Jean Lamson, '37; Sophie Morris, °39; Florence Stinson, ’38; Josephine Taggart, 36. . Pages Elizabeth S. Ballard, '37; Elizabeth Bingay, 137; Sara Bright, '36; Elizabeth Harrington, 36; Abigail Temple, '39; Sara Tillinghast, °36. Additional Parts Are Announced for Plays The following is a new tentative list in the various plays and the masque: _.. . Saint George: King Alfred, Edith Fairchild, Queen, Marian Chapman, '36 °39; Saint George, * $6; King| . Fy Robin Hood: Fair Ellen, (not yet cast); Sir Richard of the Lea (not yet cast); Merry Gray, ’38; L. Steinhardt, ’37; D. Walsh, ’36. . Deluge: Head Gossip, Margaret Lacy, ’37, Gossips, B. Bock, ’36; H. Cotton, ’37; M. Eaton, ’39; L. Pottberg, ’39; A. Thibault, ’39. Gammer Gurton’s Needle: Doll (not yet cast). : : Old’ Wives’ Tale: First and Second Brother, Suzanne Williams, °’38,, and Mary Beirne Jones, °37; Venelia, Elizabeth Jane Simpson, 37; Furies (not yet cast); Delia, Mary Walk- er, ’38; Sexton, Mary Flanders, '37; Head in the Well, Elizabeth Hope Wickersham, ’36; Harvesters, E. Bissell, ’39; A. Cohen, ’36; C. Corson, ’38; B.: Greenwald, ’36; H. Grif- fith, °39; D. Hood, '’37; E. Huebner, ’37; A. Kremer, ’37; E, Johnson, ’37; R. Levi, ’37; J. Phelps, ’37; ‘D. Rothschild, "38; E. Scatter- good, ’36; J. Smith, ’39; H. Varbalow, ’37;) V. Walker,, 37; J. Watkins, ’39; F. Wig- gin, ’39. : Masque ‘of. Flowers: Followers of Silenus, I. Ferrer, °37; J. Farrar, 38; J. Harned, ’39; M. E. Lloyd, ’37; D. Richardson, '39; E. Schenck, °39. Followers of Kawasha, Mar- garet C. Bell, ’37; Dorothy Carlson, ’39; Vir- ginia Crow, °39; Maria de Benneville, °39; Janet Diehl, ’37; Jean Flach, 37; Lucille Faw- cett, °37; Mary Louise Grayes, 38; Bertha Hollander, 736. : Midsummer Night’s Dream: Snout, Barbara Bigelow, ’39; Greek Guards, Josephine Lane, 30, and Anne Marbury, °37; Court, B. Mer- chant, °36; M. Stark, ’37; S. Watson, 38. Song: Agnes Halsey, ’36. Property Committee : To Construct Wagons Continued from Page Three vegetables and fruits tied on the} branches with different colored rib- bons, and this is the arrangement that will probably be followed for May Day. Stage directions from other late English productions of the. play indicate that Adam and Eve played in white leather tights in the part of the play that- precedes “the fall White leather, common enough then, is so expensive and so difficult to get now that the costuming problem is still to be solved. It has been. proposed, however, that the leaves on the fig tree be chartreuse in color. ‘ New properties for Midsummer Night’s Dream will include devices for the mechanics, outdoing even those that Bottom suggests in his lines, The Moon will be fastened on a shepherd’s crook and notched so that it gradually slips down in the course of the per- formance. Quince is to have a nine- foot scroll, Snout is to be supplied with a tinker’s stove and Starveling is to have a carpenter’s cap. The pageant itself will be more glit- tering than ever. New properties for it will be an additional supply of swords to add dash to the courtiers’ costumes and new crdwn jewels. The crown jewels and Queen Elizabeth’s new crown will be made and studded with gumdrops. : By May 8 and 9 the entire campus will be transformed. Not only will the old May Day banners be un- furled on the tops of the college build- ing, but the information and refresh- ment booths will be topped with thatched roofs, a decoration which was omitted in 1932 for reasons of econ- omy. Finish the Flowers! The announcement that appeared in last week’s News to the effect that we have made two-thirds of the neces- sary flowers speaks well for our in- dustry and we heartily congratulate ourselves for it. But let us not get puffed up and stop working with the idea that we have finished our job. In the first place, there is still the other third ‘to be finished; and when that is done there are innumerable leaves to be made. Miss Brady wishes to have all the flowers and leaves finished by Spring Vacation so that the committee can wind them on the May- pole ‘streamers and have all this work out of the way before time is taken up by extra rehearsals. Use of Fencing Room Students are urgently requested not to use the fencing room for purposes of dressing and undressing. The fencers are asked not to roll back thé canvas on which the flowers are laid, as the flowers will be ruined if they are piled up and squashed in this way. Men, J. Braucher, 39; A.‘ Forbes, ’37; H./ Property Committee ue Students on the property com- mittee are requested to sign on the list posted on the May Day Bulletin Board, indicating what free hours they have to do con- struction or painting. There is also a special list on the Board of the animals to be painted on the Ark, and students interest- ed in painting are requested to sign their names beside the ani- mals they particularly want to do. Hopeful Conjurers Please Sign Up ‘ Miss Brady asks all students who are interested in doing conjuring tricks for. May Day to sign up “on the May Day bulletin board. looked up the sort of tricks done by conjurers of the Elizabethan period and found the stunts were usually rather, simple, such as stuffing a yel- low handkerchief into one side of one’s hand and pulling a white one from the other. Some of the conjurers will be a part of the tumblers’ group and do their tricks in connection with them, while others will merely mill about through the crowds. Spectators Applaud _ French Guild Acting Continued from Page One understanding of the part. Miss Audrey Barlow was most popu- lar with the audience, but she dis- played less talent than the other mem- bers of the company, nor was her acting, charming though. it was, en- tirely in keeping with her part. Pos- sibly this is due to the fact that Giséle as a character was created more than ten years ago when the “modern girl” was very different, superficially, at least, from her counterpart of today. As a stage personality, however, Miss Barlow was quite delightful. The part of the mother is a difficult one, for there is danger lest its com- edy overshadow the more important character of Jacqueline. Miss Mor- ganstern played it with a proper sense of its value and she gave an ex- cellent performance. The honors must go to Monsieur de Vestel as actor, director and designer. There is little fault to be found with him, Like that of Mademoiselle Mar- tine, the style of his acting is essen- tially foreign, but it is excellent judged by any standards. The presen- tation -at Bryn Mawr should prove the value of his attempt to bring to America some examples of the modern French theatre as it can be seen in Paris—an attempt in which he is so ably supported by his company, in- cluding those who played minor roles in “Son Mari,” Bulent Haydar, as Francois, and Olivia Jarrett, Bryn Mawr ’34, who played Leontine and is technical director of the plays. The Guild plans to open again in New York, where they have already given “La Huitiéme Femme de Barbe- Bleu.” They have something new to offer—something worthwhile and well done. Bryn Mawr will certainly wish them well. M. H. H. First A. S. U. Meeting Defines Objectives Continued from Page One of this purpose will probably take the form of petitions. The Bryn Mawr chapter expects to act in close co- operation with the rest of the Union and will send at least one delegate to the national convention every year. She is to be elected by the chapter, and her transportation will be paid for out of the dues of the organiza- tion, which amount to twenty-five cents a semester per person. In addition to its student member- ship the chapter will elect one fac- ulty advisor each year; Dr. Paul Weiss was chosen for the remainder faye spy A shoe youll love for’ your tailored clothes this Spring,.... You'll like the. price, too. ‘| which will occur in the second week Elizabeth Wyckoff; Rockefeller, Elea- She}. ‘afternoon, when an undergraduate of this semester: The officers’ will be elected each year in the last week of April, and the plan of action will be determined at the first fall meeting, of October. Besides the Executive Secretary, the officers include a Sec- retary-Treasurer and an_ executive committee composed of these officers and one member from each hall and one non-resident member. Naomi Cop- lin has been elected Secretary-Treas- urer, and the hall representatives are as follows: Denbigh, Agnes Spencer; Merion, Jeanne Quistgaard;, Pembroke West,. Sylvia Wright; Pembroke East, nor Taft; Wyndham, Doris Hastings. New Hors d’Oeuvre Discovered A new variation of the “when a man bites, a dog” theme was played in the biology laboratory on Friday swallowed a jellyfish which had long been immersed in a formaldehyde so- lution. The student who thus enlarged the definition of “news” had been dared to her deed by the lure of a ten-dollar bet, rashly made by an unwary class- mate. Ten cents’ admission was charged for interested spectators, and two dollars was thus collected. After she had swallowed her tempting hors d’oeuvre, which she said “slid down just like an oyster,” the winner of the bet gayly went her way about campus until she was called frantic- ally by authorities and ordered to the| Infirmary. There she was given large | and forceful quantities of ipecac.: After a sojourn of an hour and half | the undismayed patient was dismissed t and was able to go to the dance in the, Gymnasium that night. The jellyfish; was not; and Miss Gardiner threat-; ened to charge the swallower nine dol- lars and ninety-nine cents for its de- struction in spite of the fact that the Infirmary had called the laboratory to say, “We have your jellyfish.” We are now eagerly awaiting the day; when a jellyfish swallows a student. College Dance Attended By Feminine Gentleman| | | Grace Fales, ’88, provided consid-! erable interest and excitement at the! dance following the French play when| she appeared dressed as a gentleman, completevin tails and white vest. The | only hitch was that she had had to} resort to a black tie as none of her} friends and acquaintances who had furnished the component parts of the costume seemed to possess a white one. At first the fair young gentleman confined his attentions to his feminine |. friends, but later he was seen danc-} ing with members of the opposite sex, | much to the amusement of everyone witnessing the unusual sight of two suits of tails walzing around the dance floor together. The dance was a great success and was attended by about seventy-five couples and twenty feminine stags. Music was furnished by Herb Woods and his seven-piece orchestra. The Gymnasium, decorated by the dance committee, had winter sports as its dominant motif. : The committee in charge consisted SRE SS ARISES SHOWI Sindee pg Cootawen SPRING FASHIONS FOR COLLEGE, TOWN AND CRUISE WEAR March 9th and 10th COLLEGE INN BRYN MAWR, PA. Time of Richards’ Lecture I. A. ‘Richards’ lecture on Modern Poetry will take place at 8.15 p. m. on March 6. in Clothier Hall, Swarthmore Col- lege. of “Dorothea Wilder, ’37, chairman; Cordelia Stone, ’87, treasurer; Mary Hinckley Hutchings, 87; Eleanor Smith, ’37; Esther Hardenbergh, ’37, and Virginia Baker, ’388. Dr. and Mrs. Nahm, Dr. and Mrs. Anderson and Dean Schenck were patrons and patronesses: Other faculty present in- cluded Dr. Wethey, Dr. Watson, M. Guiton, Mr. von Erffa and Mlle. Sou- béiran. Audience Boos, Cheers At Early Comedy Films Continued from Page One Sennett for Triangle-Keystone in 1916, was a most diverting satire on the then very popular wild-west film. Throughout: this exciting melodrama the audience, composed of Bryn Mawr students and professors and Haver- ford students, alternately booed or cheered as the villain or the hero tri- umphed. Mark Swain, who played the hero, played afterwards with Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush and other films. There were four characters in the film shown here; Jim, the sheriff, was the noble:souled but obese and slightly middle-aged hero. He loved with selfless devotion “sun-kissed Nell, a prairie flower.” Nell, however, did couraged her virtuous son. After Dan had shown his true colors by robbing the mails, Jim resigned from his office as sheriff, for he could not persecute Nell’s sweetheart. When Dan took Nell to “a hell-hole,” she saw him for what he really was, and therefore turned to the ever-faithful Jim. The Freshman, produced by Pathé in 1925, showed Harold Lloyd playing the part of a simple country boy try- ing to be popular during his first year at college. Harold Lamb’s horn- rimmed spectacles and unsophisticat- ed airs made him the campus joke; but Harold, happy in the smiles of Peggy, “the sort of girl your mother must have been,” was blissfully un- aware of this until just ‘before the big football game with Union State. He was sent in to play by the despair- ing coach in the last five minutes of the game, and after committing some hair-raising mistakes he did manage to make a touchdown in the last five seconds of play. Gestalt Psychologist Lectures Dr. Max Wertheimer, formerly pro- fessor of Psychology at the Univer- sity of Frankfort and at present at the University in Exile in New York, gave two lectures on The Psychology of Thinking and the Gestalt Investi- gations of Logic in the Deanery on Friday evening and Saturday after-— noon. The lectures were attended by the department faculties of Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wertheimer is the founder of Gestalt movement in psychology. & NG OF ae Py See ee THE COLLEGE NEWS essnaiies + ~~ { Page Five Seded Students Should Act On Teacher’s Oath Continued from Page One well drawn up as any, and has a pro- viso, added subsequent to the public hearing, which stated that the oath was not to interfere with free speech or public discussion. The law makes the institution, not the individual, re- sponsible for any failure to sign, and the State’s Attorney of Massachusetts will enforce it by refusing state aid to those public institutions reporting teachers who have not signed and by annulling the charters of similar private institutions. Professor Ma- ther of Harvard refused to take the oath on the grounds that it implies a curtailing of free speech, and is, therefore, unconstitutional. Dr. Cad- bury, however, felt that an unre- served signature was impossible, and was ready to resign if the state did not aceede to the request of ‘himself and other Friends that their signa- tures and reservations be filed to- gether as one document. The state decided to allow the reservations to be directly attached to their signa- tures. Protests against such legisla- tion. are not enough; people must go to the polls, as they did for women’s suffrage, and vote against the men who pass these laws, If such a law were passed in Eu- rope, where education is often con- sciously turned into propaganda, it would catch everyone one way or the other; either a man would obey or he would leave. The law has not yet this effect here. It is not so much an at- tempt to see how a-man stands as it is to find grounds for calling institu- tions radical, to be able to threaten suppression. These laws should be opposed because they are uncontitu- tional and therefore conducive to the overthrow of the government they are meant to maintain; they are insulting since they apply only to teachers and not to other equally important inflp- ences on the young, such as the radio, parents and church; they are sense- less, since if people are going to work against the government, no mere oath will stop them; and, in Miss Park’s opinion, they are hypocritical: people take the oath and make secret quali- fications to themselves. It puts the country’s welfare in a poor and dan- gerous situation when men must make secret mental reservations to the most binding form there is, their written word. Labor Needs Political Party, States Continued from Page One Burge tention to the larger and more -press- ing needs felt by each individual work- er. John Lewis is struggling to con- vert the American Federation of Labor from craft to industrial union- ism,: but he does not seem to realizé that a party is a corollary of his pur- pose—a greater number of workers in a smaller number of divisions pull- ing together to promote their whole class. Even industrialized; unions can- not gain any concessions from employ- | ers unless they have some influence i in| government also. Again and again /| this fact has been proven in textile | less discussion and to be a handle for | and steel strikes, when the workers were forced to submit because they could not counteract the political monopoly of their opponents. Wheth- er steel is organized on a traft or an industrial basis does not matter so long as the organizations cannot hold legal meetings in steel towns, so long as they must come together in terror as they do now in Pennsylvania .min- ing districts. Newspapers a few years ago were full of notices about outrages com- mitted on Communists, on Reds, or on somé member of a minority political or religious group. Today’ men be- longing to conservative majority parties like the Democrats or Repub- licans are being subjected to violence and abuse because they presume to further the interests of the American Federation of Labor. Only recently such a man was tarred and feathered in Tampa, Florida—a large, supposed- ly well-governed, civilized city. Be- yond the Rockies few Union meetings are held openly, for there is a covert, but nevertheless overpowering, Reign of Terror exercised against them there. Just as Hitler and Mussolini Phone, Bryn Mawr 829 MOSSEAU OPTICIANS 610 LANCASTER AVE. BRYN MAWR, PA. issued propaganda against the Reds, i but reg Wistruck at Univn workers, so in this country politicians and newspapers like the Hearst syndicate are crying, “Red! Red!” while they aim at the Federation of Labor. To combat the parliamentary manoeuvres of these reactionaries there is no method but the forming of a counter political party. Without it there will soon be a Reign of Terror on this side of the Rockies likewise. Another vital question ‘is this: how long will the nine Justices of the Supreme Court have arbitrary power to invalidate acts made by a Congress responding to the demands of.the people? In spite of Roosevelt’s | rebuffs at the hands of these nine men, he has not seriously attacked their position. Neither he nor the Republicans will mention this. prob- | lem in the ensuing election, yet it is the most important of all the prob- lems involved. Until one or the other it*will be no use for Labor to support these parties. Labor must create its own party and put its own questions before the country. MELON PINK HAZE BLUE $6.95 TWO-PIECE DRESSES AQUA CORAL FRANCES O’CONNELL LANCASTER: PIKE of the major parties dares to oppose Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 the authority of the Supreme Court! ee SUITS PASTEL TWEED $11.50 KITTY McLEAN Bryn Mawr, Pa. BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM Dinner 85c - $1.25 Meals a la carte and table d’hote Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. Afternoon Teas BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS THE PUBLIC IS INVITED Miss Sarah Davis, Manager bs THE FAMOUS GOLD COAST DINING ROOM (above) at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Here the fragrant, delicate smoke of Camels rises while Erik, famous maitre d'hétel, watches alertly over all to see that THERE’S AN OLD COLLEGE SAYING that it’s a great life if you don’t weaken! The demands on time and strength are endless. Digestive upsets are a frequent result! So smoke Camels for the sakeofgood digestion. Copyright, 1936, R. J. Reynolds Tob. Co., Winston-Salem, N. O, FOR DIGESTION’S SAKE — smoke Camels Smoking Camel Cigarettes Aids in Assuring Natural Digestive Action TUNE IN! Orchestra Columbia Network. “Hurry—hurry—hurry” seems to be the order of the day. People get caught in the lockstep of modern life. Tension finds thé weak. spot, so often—digestion. Smoking Camels improves digestion... wards off the consequences of hurried, nervous living. Camels gently stimu- late digestive action. They promote the feeling of well-being and good cheer so necessary to the proper as- similation of food. In a word, Camels set you right! And, in smoking Camels for diges- tion’s sake, you may enter a whole new world of smoking pleasure. no wish goes unsatisfied. “So many of our guests smoke Camels,” Erik says, “for they have found that choice tobaccos add to the pleasure of the meal. Camels are tremen- dously popular—a leading favorite here.” Camel Caravan with Walter O’Keefe, Deane Janis, Ted Husing, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Tuesday and Thursday — 9p.m.E’S:.T.,8p.m.C.S.T., .9:30 p.m. M. S, T., 8:30 p.m. P. S.T.— over WABC- Fowler Talways Camels COST MAIL GOES THROUGH! It’s often a struggle for F. B. 1392, Maine. run with me,” he says, “but gestion— natural processes — and cer- tainly have a great flavor!” po] -7Voloie} Camets are made from finer, on Star Route No. “It’s eat-and- top off with Camels, a real are good for di- help along the LIER MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS —Turkish and Domestic — than any other popular brand. HARD HITTER. Jane Sharp, tennis champion, plays a smashing game that carries her to the limits of exhaus tion—often makes digestion Camels,” food taste better—helps me to digest my meal. And Camels taste grand!” problem. “Smoking she says, “makes Page Six § THE COLLEGE NEWS Nicholas Poussin Was A Great Story-Teller Continued from Page One life in Rome, where he died in 1665. After his death the academicians studied his great and ponderous com- positions with energy and today he is primarily known as a moralist and a rationalist painter. “But his power of imagination and richness of inven- tive power is best- observed in the sketches and drawings rather than in the large pictures. His religious com- positions tend to be dry and overfull of construction, but as a narrator of mythological stories and poetic tales he executed some of his most beauti- ful work. sculptor, Bernini, who in Paris in 1665 looked attentively at a collection of Poussin’s work and cried:” ‘What a great story teller and narrator of “heroic deeds.’ ” Dr. Friedlander brought. here for his lecture reproductions of many sketches and drawings which are prac- tically unknown. Among them were slides of the so-called Marino draw- ings, mentioned by a contemporary and long believed lost. They are the only works of Poussin’s youth before he went to Rome, and were created in Paris in 1620 for the Italian poet, Marino, who',befriended the. young artist and gave him the money. to go to’ Rome, the goal. of Poussin’s desire. These illustrations of the Metamor- phoses of Ovid show at what an early age Poussin’s imagination was filled with the classic tales which he used as subjects time and time again. The drawings are very heavily inked and closely composed for illustration and in this way differ from the master’s usual drawing style. In his first Rome period Poussin executed numerous drawings and paintings of the Metamorphoses, In It. was the great Italian | one of the most beautiful» he united all the tales of human beings turned into flowers in one large composition, The Kingdom of Flowers. The Perseus and Andromeda shows one of the most typical inventions of Poussin, with its graceful group of naiads at one side of the main group, Perseus stooping to wash his hands of Medusa’s blood while Victory be- hind him plucks a leaf from a palm tree. On the left another graceful group adds to the decoration as well as to the literary sense. This type of composition was particularly fa- vored by Poussin as a narrator. Current Events Continued. from Page Two and the Minister of the Navy a vice- admiral. The Army and Navy are re- sponsible to no one but the Emperor himself, and lately the Japanese capi- talists have been trying to put the brakes on the army, claiming that the vast expenditures of the campaign in Manchuria have: not been repaid by increased trade. The recent “coup” was a movement brought about by dis- affected elements in the Army and was designed to free the Emperor from certain “baneful influences’ which surrounded him. A small detachment of soldiers assassinated several of the high officials who were known to be re- straining military expenditures. .The rebels then seized one of the public buildings and held it as a fortress, while they bargained for peace. They agreed to surrender if the Emperor would dismiss the “liberal” and appoint army officers in their places. The question has_ been: would the military get into complete control? Now is the time, the militar- ists hold, for Japan to push her con- quest of China and strike at Russia before the Soviets grow in strength. officials’ However, though it is too soon to tell, it looks as if this were only a passing eruption which will not have such disastrous results. Richards Lectures On Choice of Words | Continued from Page One can be better applied to the doctrine of usage than to new words. At present the English language is growing more than at any other time since the Elizabethan era. The ‘complaints of authorities against new words throw light on current theories of language which are concerned with whether a word is good or bad. The complaints against new scientific words which have been taken over for general use are that they are awkward, too long, difficult to pronounce, or com- pressed descriptions, rather than plain labels. The prejudice against these words is sometimes ‘so strong that even the lexicographers succumb. | The indispensable words “introver- sion” and “extraversion” are not present in the small Oxford Diction- ary in the Jungian senses. The doctrine of usage makes the conduct. of language a branch of manners, as _ some _lexicographers would have it. It is the “join a club” idea in the use of language, that is, the entering into a select com- pany of correct users of the language in which any deviation from their particular custom is considered in- correct. This social control of. pro- nunciation is vigorous and extensive, for it is applicable throughout the whole field of language, to pronunci- ation and to all divergencies of mean- ing which the new rhetoric must question. Snobistic, “club spirit” con- trol was useful to the whole com- munity in the past while now it is useful ,ofly to “members of. the club.” The tise of verbal differences as weapons in the class war dates from the middle of the 17 century. . Be- cause of the new stratification of so- ciety, the early 18 century began to notice how niceties of expression or certain intonations constituted the dif- ference between master and valet. Grammaticians were obsessed with the idea of correctness. But the 18 cen- tury showed the worthier side of the “club spirit” .for it gave a reliable idea of the culture of the age. Now when the depth of culture is no longer indicated by speech, and edu- cation is no longer of a piece, the powers :of rule of the “club. spirit” are over-extended. . Length may be the merit of a word, particularly with scientific words in which tl meaning is often complex. The answér to the complaint that words like ‘‘introver- sion” are descriptions, not labels, is affirmative if familiar words are ac- cepted as labels. Words like “mind” and “thought” are considered neat and concise, while a world like “psychol- ogy” is considered cumbrous and un- couth. The question arises: is the complaint against the calling of the word . “psychology” or against. its usage? Some derivative uses are ob- jectionable because. they are am- biguous. Typical vagaries are appar- ent in the title “Shakespeare’s Psy- chology.” Does this mean Shakes- peare’s theory of mind, the assump- tions which Shakespeare unconsciously makes, or inferences derived from Shakespeare’s own mind? Such an extensive use of a word endangers discourse and brings discredit on him who employs a word in this way. The cumbrousness of a word may be the taint of its association with unhappy uses. This 4s often the case with new words. The word “colorful”’ has been taboo in many places since 1890. It is considered hybrid and vul- gar. We do not say “soundful,’’:or “lightful”’; therefore thege is no ex- cuse for using “colorful.” Yet there are other well-established hybrids, for example, “Beautiful” or “graceful,” which involve the same strain as “colorful.” Other objections to the word are drawn from analogies which, if pursued, expose the fact that words are “backed up” by the words about which one is thinking. The objection raised that. “color- ful” is vulgar is one often made against new words. The objectors prefer to think that those who use it are vulgar. The word must be popular in order to be successful and the objectors consider anything which is popular, vulgar. A new word cannot be judged without thinking of the usage required from it. The utilities of a word like “colorful” often have ironical implications attached to them in the same way in which the phrase “means well” has. To call a prose style or a dramatic pro- duction colorful is to damn it with faint praise. The straight use of “colorful” to describe a thing as full of color involves with this straight primary quality a secondary or ob- lique quality which gives the word a peculiar subtlety. This mixture of qualities and the danger of confusion are the sources of the distaste for the word. If used in straight mean- ing, the ironical implications suggest a lack of discrimination in the user. “Colorful” has here been taken as a type word. Its peculiar temporary and local problems, if pursued, would lead eventually to-the general prob- lems of how a language works and also to most of the problems of aesthetics. It is a long step to the aesthetics of language; yet this dis- cussion of the reason for the choice of words can become an introduction to all aesthetics—to a knowledge of what words mean in our lives. I —— | i $ $ Re © gpk >