tie aN Ta a ‘from a formal and stilted affair to the rr TTT e Col Vol. XVIII, No. 1 WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931 Price: 10 Cains Hardenbergh, Moore and Little Describe Their Respective Sensations During Freshman Week Upper Classmen Find the Numerous Events as Hectic as the Freshmen Do—But All Agree That It Is a Satisfactory Solution to and Problems. 1935 - ‘FIND THE EXPERIENCE VERY ENLIGHTENING “(Specially contributed by Peggy Little, ’35) Still another Freshnian .Week_ has gone down in the. history\ of Bryn Mawr College. As usual it was a week filled with appointments. Each girl, according to her number, whether it was two or ninety-two, managed to see in the ‘course of the week President Park, Dean Manning, Dr, Wagoner and Dr. Hewson. Beside that she, with her ninety- nine classmates,’ at- fended Various -mectiags.. explaining). self-government, athletics, the Bryn Mawr League, and the Undergaduate Association. All this was new and therefore a pleasure, but for the high- light of the week we might pick out first, President Park’s reception and second, .the :picni¢ and the concert at], Wyndham. In her talk President Park first told us how the reception had changed present informal welcome. No longer is it necessary to invent at break-neck speed a career, nor to explain it in- tremendous. voice, We should be happy. that the “gay nineties” have: ‘and to introduce them to the intrica- _faces in familiar _places, ahd Freshmen ‘with the. “prospect of thousands of in- -relation in. . passed, for now the reception is an affair to look forward to. We settle back in our chairs. We learn about the founding of the college, its history and growth and even. the scandal it once created. For the finishing touch refreshments are served; so ’tis no wonder we go “on our way rejoicing.” Once again refreshments played their part in the form of a picnic at Wynd- ham. There Miss Moore told us about our cuts, and there Miss Gallaudet taught us songs or rather gave us a concert. It was really the concert that proved the cream of the program. In fact we might stop here to raise a loud shout of thanks for the hospitality committee. It had already made its place’ but this was tthe “crowning glory.” We marvelled at the close harmony. We even marvelled at “Sophias Philai’” over which only the week before we had laughed loud and long. _ Needless to say Freshman Week expanded our knowledge greatly. Sun- day night found us full of confidence. Monday we were almost unbearable; but as the-tide rushed in, we wilted. No longer can_a_Greek song phaze us, but, alas! the mushy greetings of long- lost friends!’ (Specially contributed by H. Moore, ’32) Last Wednesday the doors of col- lege were opened to the class of 1938] From early morning until late after- noon Freshmen, some alone and some with families, came to search-the-halls: for misnumbered rooms and unknown roommates. Eight upperclassmen were on the scene te give them sage advice cies of Taylor. All seemed dazed; upperclassmen with the crowds of new terviews. But dinner in Pem helped to straighten things out’ and by 9 o'clock a sufficient calm had settled over college to make possible parties in each hall. After names had been given all around pretzels and ginger ale were consumed to the tune of “Oh, do you know...” or “Have you any .?” By the end of the home’ having found many mutual friends. Thursday morning the rush for in- |} q Calendar __.October 9 or. 10:.Lantern Night. October 10: French Language _ examination at 9:00 A. M. October 11: Musical Service. October 17: Banner Night. ee Saree ee —_ - . th In Taylor Mrs. Man- ning and Miss Park were busy greet- terviews began. ing the Freshmen-and- mapping out There were at a premium because “Freshmen their future courses. mothers with mothers” took. precedénce over those without getting igto the inter- views. It. has been said that many were imported from outlying districts and even a few aunts were used as substitutes. In the gym Miss Petts physical beauty ‘ofthe There, too, the measurements for caps and gonwns were taken. (How. accu- rate they were, I hate to think, be- cause the tape measure was broken and there was much debate. as to whether the inch should be added or subtracted.) In -Goodhart Mr. Will- oughby was discovering the musical talent among the Freshmen. . That instructed “in-the rules and regulations of Self-Government by A. Lee. -On Friday the ‘fast pace of inter- the day was -Chimaxed by the first meet- ing of—the—elassof —’35 at which the teresting, and Dr. -Wagoner were examining the. Freshmen. ‘evening the néwcomers were carefully views and examinations _ continued and}— Miss Donnelly Tells of Sabbatical Year Abroad At Miss Donnelly’s own request this is but a modest* announcement of her return to Bryn Mawr from a sabbatical year abroad. Miss Donnelly spent both summers in England working on eighteenth century literature. She lived: within easy distance of Cam- bridge and those places which were of inestimable value to her work. “But as a holiday from her studies, she spent last winter traveling through the coun- tries on the Mediterranean. Although most travelers such as herself seem to find Kairo and Arabic Egypt most in- Miss Donnelly was en- chanted with the Nubian sands and the dark mountains, which*appear as pyra- mids, of the Upper Nile. Since spring in Greece follows that of Palestine, Miss Donnelly was fortunate in enjoy- ing two springs. -The remainder -of cher—holidayineluded-Constantinople, a. trip into Atistria, and Italy. After completing more work in England this summer, Miss Donnelly has returned in time to enjoy fall, the stason which she considers the most pleasant at Bryn Mawr. Summer School Gives Interesting Contacts Aim to Stimulate . Interest in __Study Rather Than -Give Information: first class chairmai Peggy Little, was installed by Margy Collier, the junior president. This meeting was followed by another at Which Miss Petts spoke on physical education; Dr. Wagoner on the health department, and Margy Col- lier on the athletic association. By Saturday everyone was fairly well settled. All ears were hardened to the noises on Gulf Road, except those at 7 A, M. which so rudely awaken tis. ordinary’ occurences. Upperclassmen CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE Self-Government Greets Freshmen at Reception The annual reception of the Self- Government Association for the coming freshman class took place last Saturday night. President Park,,Dean Manning, Mrs. Collins and Miss’ Har- denbergh, this year’s president of the association, were in the receiving line. Before the evening’s entertainment in the form, of the orchestra arrived, Miss Hardenbergh introduced’ Miss Park and. Mrs..-Collins,. who..spoke to the assembled of Self-Govern- ment, “This is a poor night of a poor week on which to have to give a short, tell- ing speech,’ said Miss Park, who has been conscious of every move on the campus during these first few very hectic days that follow the opening-of ‘college. She said she felt like.a friend of hers who made sonie slight mistake because of a preoccupied mind, and remarked, “Oh, I must be crazy.” “No, Miss,” answered the old family re- tainer, “You ain’t crazy. You're just like me; you’re mind just comes and goes.” The point. has never come, however, when Miss Park has refused point blank to speak at the Self-Gov- ernment reception«because she has a tremendous liking and respect for the association as the personification of the good things in Bryn Mawr, personal independence and responsibility. in- members Interviews had become GREAT PROGRESS SHOWN Specially contributed by - V. Butterworth, 32. ' “Is there a-speaker coming to Dr. Warne’s class? When is it? Can we all come?” These common questions give the college student some idea of how inforniation is sought.and soaked up by.the hundred students at the Bryn. Mawr.Summer..Schéol for. Wom* en Workers in Industry. To under- stafid the schgol, however, one really has to see the groups arguing eagerly as they stream back’ from Current Events at Denbigh to Junch in Pem- broke; to take part in classes, almost always heated discussions to which each girl can contribute concrete ex- perience; to listen to the talk and feel the warm friendliness of the parties that spring up every night all over the two Pembrokes,: where girls from every part of this country and Europe discuss political and social problems till late at night—as late as we, perhaps, but with a realistic grasp that we never compass. ‘ The summer school students are re- cruited by an elaborate of 50 committees all over the country, pick out the leading personalities all our widely differing localities. sian Jews, dressmakers from New York and Philadelphia, who have lived through the reyolution,-and who sing some-of-the-inost beautiful folk music in the world; southern mill whose parents mountaineers; series from Rus- hands were »middle westerners and hundred per cent. Pacific coast— “all these brought together where they gain Americans from the the foremost women industrial groups. are for two months here, from an_-understanding of each. other's at-. titudes and problems. The school aims even more to arouse interest and give a technique for study than to teach specific information. In both it has been eminently successful. Carefully worked out psychological tests show that it is not uncommon for girls to who | Miss Park Opens Forty-seventh Academic Year in Welcoming Returning Professors and 1935 Justification of the Existence of Financial, Situation Liberal Colleges in Today’s Chaotic s Found in the Sense of Values They Offer. THE SERIOUS FACING OF RESPONSIBILITIES URGED In chapel. last Tuesday morning Miss: Park introduced Bryn Mawr's forty-seventh academic. y@ar, _As_well as welcoming the return of three pro- fessors who have been*away. from the campus for a year, Miss .-Park ex- tended her’ greeting to the incoming class of nineteen thirty-five which numbers exactly one hundred. It “necessary in-times such as these today, President ~Park continued, that Bryn Mawr should justify its opening. Is +a liberal college of any use in the midst of the financial chaos abroad “today? The answer to this question that what the liberal college has to offer becomes “even more useful and more important when civilization is halted.” For this reason. Miss Park urged that ‘each student-should-““shoulder seriously her’ responsibility for the college work this year.” President Park's address in more detail is quoted below: There’ are certain. times=when it is a_pleasure to be allowed to speak for Bryn Mawr and never more so than at the beginning of the year when as an earlier comer I can welcome both the faculty and students who return to an is is to whom in both a mental and physical new. In particular it is a personal as unitedly give to Professor Donnelly, Professor Tennent and Professor Hart, Professor Tennent has lectured and carried on research work as E xchange Professor at the University of Tokyo. Professor Hart has spent thé year as investigator in Charge of the study of changes in American attitudes and in- ‘Chinese Scholar Tells of Purpose in College Speaking of these freshmen who enter Bryn Mawr ‘this fall with a credit average, Miss Park said in chapelUast Tuesday—“and only a hair’s breadth below stands the name of the Chinese scholar of the year, an achievement so remarkable that I must mention it even in advance of the freshman sta- tistics of next week.” It is with this welcome that “Ting” enters Bryn Mawr. “ : Vung-Yuin Ting’s last year of prep- aration for college was spent at the Shipley School, whose principals wrote to the chairman of the, Chinese Schol- arship-eCommittee saying—“We found ‘Ting’ a delightful member of the school household. become very fond of her and* have en- joyed having’ her*here as one of théir group.” And ‘There is little wonder that Ting’s ever pleasant. disposition should have won her her classmates. have The girls have many friends Her smile is bright and cheerful, and her charming... In: athletics. at among always manner team and she was an active supporter of the Glee Club, winning her the nick- name of “Ting-a-ling.” To a scholar, of course, lessons are always of primary importance, and there were very few months at school when Ting was not on the honor roll. _Lold stamping ground and those-others-+- sense we are fresh fields and pastures well as an official welcome which’ we: all three back after their holiday years. terests for. President Hoover's Com-. Shipley Ting was on the’third hockey ‘connection mittee on Social Trends, and Professor Donnelly has prefaced a summer of work ine England on’ her beloved eighteenth century with a sweeping circuit through Egypt and the Near East, Greece and Sicily. Those of us who missed them every day last year rejoice that Bryn Mawr is not begin- ning without them, and venture to say this although they are perhaps sté@l moving through distant sights and- SOUS y ss pagodas. aad yrainids:: doubtedly even now more real to them than our voices pr the committee meet- ings fly open so promptly to engulf them. attd’ classrooms whose doors But even for travellers from Java and Constantinople Bryn Mawr is not And in spite of this-summer’s heat, in “spite | ofthe so bad a place to corhe back to! Japanese—beetle—theoretically chewing his way from Wyndham to Radnor, in- spite of new water pipes laid all over the campts, as you may the which now mark the summer's digging, see by ribbons of infant grass we look fairly green and fairly trim. Setemnnnnasrrs soc HO a OC Oiir Only dishgurement is—alas!—the slashing to a greater width and a straighter line of our quiet piece of the Gulph Road, look of a country lane from—I dare when Washington The college has lost’ a great oak tree which say—the day marched down it till this year. prew behind Denbigh, and in the early mornings the inhabitants of Denbigh and Merion will probably lose a cen- tury of sleep between them,. if I may use the New York Times form of cal- culation which annoynced yesterday that seven hundred years of sleep had- been made up by the people of New York when Eastern Standard Time was reinstated by a_ thirteen-hour night. The college opens with full halls, and in a very.difficult year for many families and many individuals its num- bers are: only slightly lower than last year—nine fewer undergraduates and ten graduates or perhaps not that. We welcome to our upper reaches twenty-five resident fellows and twen- scholars. The five traveling fellows whose appointment you_ap- plauded-in-this hall last March and a fifth, one of the two Helen Schaeffer Huff Fellow~in Physics, have all gone off to. Europe on their various and jin return five foreign scholars from Great. Britain, France, Gérmany, Spain and Poland have reached Bryn Mawr. The second of ty-six mis- sions, CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ~ Musical Service The first of a series of seftvices in with—the—-Bryn-—Mawr League will be held on” Sunday next, October 11, -at 7:45. P.. M. in the Music Room.®* ; The program is as follows: CHOIR: “Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring”’......Bach “Now All the Woods Are Sleeping,” often argues, the association is. irresponsible and CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. Betty Kindleberger, ’33, and Betsy Jack- So Aiea how to tell,” but what she did say CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR Miss. Park referred to herself as an| make as much progress in ability to : Bach onlooker, having nothing actual to do| grasp concepts and express themselves “Of course her strong points WEFE | «where’er You Walk’ scsssssssus Handel with Self-Government; but by no| in eight weeks of the summer school] Mathematics and Science, DE IOS Tae Veer ni” « ssccccaosousscorcegusaeece Mozart Lmeans—a-—peaceful_onlooker,“‘one_who}as. in-a-year-of-high.school._There-—is Brownell said awhen L. talked to_ Net | st ifePhine byes : quotes the past and] one case of.a girl who made three| this morning. “You see she's plan-| ORGAN SOLOS: threatens the future.” In reality Miss| years of high school progress in one| "8 to be ” doctor. A pamphlet of “Prelude in G major” sicsssscdeacseesies Bach Park is very closely connected with| summer here! This is more compre- the Chinese Scholarship Committee] Chorale Prelude, “In Dulci Jubilo,” he asSociation because it is to her} hensible when one realizes that the in- aa pet pS =i fe Mido to] « . oak nts, the inquisi- ‘ study medicine, realizing women | « toy OST ees ini ties reporters and the outraged minor.| CONNINUED ON PAGE SIX | doctors are bitterly needed in China.” Gagtiarda” cove oucrccnnn, Schmid ity of the student. body-appeal._In the ‘ And this brings us to. what Ting her-| «golemn Melody” ~......Walford-Davies }end there is no power the President Resign From Board self feels. In answer to my questions] “Finfandia” —scrscecs.cssessvsscerseeeeeers Sibelius of the college can exert except to com-| THe News announces with regret the | She said, “I find I have very little to Prelude de “La, Damoiselle Elue,” plain to the trustees of the college that] resignation from the Editorial Board of| Sav, and many things I do not know Debussy Erneste - Willoughby, Organist and Director of the Choir. ' arena nae ae which has kept the yn - pink Samed a eR EG a “Tile Laat eed circa pie white-te nO ah it an thane THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in: 1914) Published weekly during the College Year (excepting. ducing Theakeiviac, 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. Editor-in-Chief Rose Hatrievp, ’32 Copy Editor Susan Noste, 32 ~ Editors : Leta Crews, °33 Cara Frances Grant, 734 Anna Martin Finpiey, '34 Savile Jones, 34 Mou.ty Nicnots, 34 Business Manager Motty Atmore, '32 Subscription Manager Yvonne CAMERON, 732 Assistants . ELeanor YEAKEL, 733 J. EurzasetH Hannan, 734 Carouine Ber, 33 Masec Meenan, 733 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME a Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office Attention, Freshmen! * Don't be discouraged. We know that for the past weeks your main interests-have been the forming of-your class, the opening of the academic. year, and perhaps a slight curiosity about the_upperclassmen. Upper- “G@assmen on the other hand have béen alritost “exclusively occiipiéd “in cramming for orals, deferreds, and, we blush to admit it, conditioneds. You ‘must find it amazing that the harassed creatures who have usurped the smoking rooms are apparently uninterested in the beginning of an- other academic year and the birth of a new class. Your impression is “away: from~ the _campus.-- THE COLLEGE NEWS -- Letters to the Editor Tue News is not oo for any Opinions expressed in this column. To the Editors of the Cottece News. Dear Ladies: . As an undergraduate in college I used to marvel at the interest the Alumnae displayed for your vehicle of information. True, I could myself en- tertain a very high pitch of enthusiasm for it, but that was different. at the “scen® of the crime”; I knew the people who were taking part; and I was I felt 1t a sort of sacred duty to keep your chronicle as a record of the things which were happening about me. But these others puzzled me. I spent last year away from college, although I’m not yet an alumna, and the reasonableness of this apparently inexplicable phenomenoh began to be clear, Perhaps you might be interested in my own reactions to. the News from a distance, although I had better add that they were stimulated less by criti- cism than by curiosity: In the first place, the every-day re- cording of the goings-on at college gives the expatriat a sense of commu- nion with the principals and their im- mediate audience, whichis; alas; too easily broken with the last view of: 7 ROK Arch. In the second, the. edi- | torials and the letters written about college problems help to. keep one, aware of the spirit of friendly contro- versy which characterizes the best thought, and which is regrettably rare vere are probably right. The arrival ¢ of over a hundred new faces seems less and Jess remarkable to the he .upperclassman as she sees it repeated it yearly. ‘This situation fortunately is confined to a short period. Therefore we ~-want to assure-you all that the-upperclassmen: will, sooner or later, evolve into a tolerable sort of human being who is genuinely glad for the oppor- tunity to be at college again and to make enthusiastic new acquaintances. You Freshmen have been told frequently this summer that you are very smart to be able to enter Bryn Mawr. You have been examined and catalogued by every device known to man. You have been welcomed by Miss Park and the Student Association and given lengthy assignments -by-yourprofessors:”You~have-begynto find responsibilities clutching you. We feel nevertheless that this-has not made. you full-fledged mem- bers of the student body for Public Opinion has not yet acclaimed you. The News hastens to take over this pleasant duty, and in its capacity as the Voice of Public Opinion.to congratulate your infant class and wish you well. | c This Thing Called Infantile \ It-is-net-often that-one has the pleasure, or at least the opportunity to have the entire college at hand over a week-end. Usually the Big, ‘Happy Family is broken up, in a great rush for the 1:08. Now a wee gerni (so they tell us), whose name, by the way, is much too long for it, has come along to keep children from their parents, let us say, and we must be content with only a foster mother.. Sometimes life seems hard, but in this case not unfair as well. For, granted the initial risk of letting us come back on schedule, there is little danger if we sit with our fingers crossed and await the demise of the wicked germ. At any rate, we are not complete prisoners, and Philadelphia, besides being compara- tively safe, is rising to’the occasion with a number of amusements. As for not receiving visits from those who are under suspicion as living in an infected district, one cannot deny the wisdom of the course. If the First. Frost keeps avoiding us, it might be desirable for the college to establish an amusement park, or some such thing. The invet- erate week-enders, not knowing how to work over a week-end, and too proud..to_go.athletic, soon. ecoming- sated with sleep, might otherwise break out into pie-bed making and other forms of the Practical Joke to relieve themselves of the surplus energy. At present, however, we are not too unhappy, and, what really matters, we are teeming with health. Good: for us! ‘The Week-end Book Service, Inc.” , (From, The Publishers’ Weekly, September 26, 1931) “A thriving rental library service and retail beok trade is carried on by this shop whose customers wad ten times as many books as they. make trips to the bookshop. The proprietors, three young women, have built up their business among people who are seldom at home. Miss: McKel- vey, originator of the business, when she found no position waiting for her upon graduation from Bryn Mawr in 1928, created one.. She rented an office and printed lists-of .books. she-hoped would-interest-her-friends-+ Her entire service was conducted by mail,‘and assumed profitable pro- portions by-the first.Christmas after her early fall opening. Caroline Schauffler, Smith, ‘28, soon joined Miss McKelvey, as did Caroline Mason Smith, Bryn Mawr, ’28, who suggested that they i incor- porate and sell stock: a unique feature in a shop that does not maintain a chain of stores. The shop is down a comfortable step or two from the street level. It is long and roomy and light. Leisure is spelled by every chair and bench; shelves .are casually placed, not crowded together; tables are inviting, not in the way; there is no stuffing, no piling. As one comes he.sho _invites ‘ ani “Mawr in-other parts of the world. acceleration of thé pulse when the names of one’s pet friends and profes- sors: are flung across. the_headlines,’ or in-the marriage notices, and the pathos of owrold* friend, Cissy. important is the expansive feeling that here is one paper which the family can’t monopolize (although you might be pleased to know that my great aunt quoted «an article from your paper in a_very learned discussion of. “Condi-}- tions in Russia,’ which she delivered before her literary Ladies’ Aid). Hoping that this research may shed some light on the case @t hand, I am, very sincerely, A PropicAL DAUGHTER. of Bryn ‘We are grateful for this very cheerful letter to Mrs. Manning from Sheema Zeben, be—enjoying—herself—in We at.college like to hear who—seems to Munich. Studentinnienheim, Kaulbachstrasse 49 ae August 3, 1931. ‘Dear Mrs. Manning: Here I am in Munich, and very comfortably and respectably settled. This is-‘the women students’ dormitory and. by far the cleanest, cheapest and most wholesome way of living here. Unfortunately the university is closed for the summer holidays, so that I have been compelled to study pri- vately. For nine hours’ teaching in the week, I pay. These consist of voice, piano, music history and literature of | the late Tomantic period. Four hours a week I devote to language exchange. The rest of the time I practice, study, go around the city. Munich is very beautiful and I love it. Life here is much simpler than in America—fewer conventions, und alles ist doch so gemuetlich. Every one says “Gruss Gott” and if you know a few words like “fabelhaft” or “dunkles Bier” or “sehr gemuetlich” then I think you cannot be unhappy here. I have learned to speak briskly and be very direct about things so that | don’t have to, talk in literary. German construction, and consequently I am ‘never taken for an American: It’s such fun. The first thing I did when I arrived was to buy a map of the city, and I hayen’t been lost since. Last night I was quite excited and pleased to hear Strauss conduct some of his own music. I had been here a week before havy- ing met anyone from home, then sud- denly at Mozart's “Zauberfloete” I ran into Betty Doak and Bobsie Totten. ~ Theyare both aufder—Durchreise-nach+awfully-much-hearing-trom-you: One “eerie move of late typifies the policy of the shop. In follo ing out their plan to go to the customer if he does not come to them, the shop presented a book display at the Tockland County Garden Show. We note with no little gratification this flattering review in The Pub- . lishers’ Weekly, by Ken McCormick, of the Doubleday, Doran Book- shops, Inc., not only because recent alumnae have so distinguished them- ~ selves in business but, more: personally, because Helen McKelvey, i. e., Be nie was ao of the: News in 1928. The News offers ‘its con- roprietors, and reminds present undergraduates that the pcr the , Rome. Gradually I am learning the beau- tiful things of this city. It is simply packed with museums but I ‘find things ‘like the English Gardens and the Isar Strand very lovely, and when one feels lonely, they are better than staring at some Reubens., : I shall write you again before I leave Week-End Book Service, Anc..~ in 29) Madison Avec: Manish. It yoo bars any instructions € Even more, The Pillar of Salt We know, after an hour’s meditation uninterrupted except by six hall Vic- trolas—at least we presume they are hall Victrolas, we know they are all Victrolas—that there is a Lot to do with the Pillar of Salt. Peace Caravan if one‘were not blessed with the giggles of Becky Wood, and a chance to write up chapel would make us sprout wings and fly. Speaking of taking the air—and hot air at that—have you noticed bits of feathers gracefully moulding the youth- ful face and calling themselves the Empress Eugenie? Well, if you haven’t, try this one on your friends (figuratively speaking, of course): “Oh, say can you see A Eugenie on me?” , —sometimes they just can’t see it or they just can see it, but anyway it is necessary to speak to the waitress in Gernian before they will: stop laughing. i. e., if you didn’t pass the oral last Saturday try —French..-Then—there’s another. to. the effect that—- “Empress Eugenie, Was a meéanie To only cover half, her beanie.” And here’s another toadstool sprouted from that summer heat and moisture, “Ballyhoo.” You may be one of those who can “talk with kings and keep | your virtue’ but-Baltyhoo—wilt throw+/ you—it doesn’t talk. But just remem- ber. that if one copy of the CoLLEGE News were sold for-each-c of Bally- hoo leaving the news¥tand, we'd all retire from Bryn Mawr a far different type of Hot Heiress and the News, in- cidentally; would go with'us. We do hope you've read thus far because this is the type of advertising gag that sells our paper. Lot’s.-WIFE. ° . In Philadelphia Walnut: Leslie Banks in ~~ Ronald Jean’s Lean Harvest. Fresh from ‘an enthusiastic Lofidon showing—deals with Love, Lucre and Life, thereby leaving little to be dealt with. Forrest: Meet My Sister, with Nancy McCord, . Walter Slezah, and. Harry Welsh. A musical sophisticate down from_a_six_months’_run_in- NewYork. Chestnut Street Opera House: The House Beautiful with Mary Phillips and James. Bell. Rather like it sounds. Shubert: Princess Charming sorith Ilse Marvenga and an excellent supporting cast. A new musical romance which promises much, Garrick: Theatre Guild presents Rachel Crother’s light and charming comedy, As Husbands. Go—also down from New York with excellent original cast. ' Broad: Madge Kennedy arid Otto Kruger in Noel Coward’s Private, Lives. A grand comedy and worth even a ride on the Paoli local. Dgh’t miss it—it’s too--swell. Erlanger: Joe Cook in ay musical hit, Fine and Dandy. One of the best of its kind. Coming October 19 . Garrick: Tita Johann and Glenn An- ders. in Tomorrow and Tomorrow— bréught by the Theatre Guild. ,Philip Barrie’s ‘piece de resistance—has its points. Erlanger: Earl Carrell’s latest Vani- ties. Just what you would expect of them-——need we say more? Broad: Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company “from “Shakespeare Memorial Theatre... Will do two weeks of Shakes- peare with their usual competence. Per- formances of The Merry Wives of Wind- sor, A Winter’s. Tate, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, King Henry IV, Part One, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Music Philadelphia Orchestra. kowski, Musical Director. Leopold Sto- First concerts It would be} no trial to write an editorial on the. ‘The Five-Year Plan’ Reviewed _ The Five-Year Plan, the picture which is now playing at the Europa Theatre in Philadelphia, is one of the most in- If you would like to know about Rus- teresting we have seen in years. sia’s great experiment, or if you would. like to™know more than you do, we recommend this picture. It is a really grand epic of, the Soviet Government’s struggle to rebuild the country. Spon- sored by the United States of Soviet it is entirely authentic and and gives the Russia truthful, inside dope which only a privileged few are al- lowed to see. Don’t worry about the language; the explanations are in Eng- lish and do not presuppose a _ thor- ough knowledge of the Five-Year Plan on the part of the audience. It is in- teresting and ‘vital to everyone, and all you Economics and Politics and Sociology students, think how pleased Dr. Smith and Dr. Fenwick and Dr. Hart will be when you display your great fund of knowledge of the subject after you have seen The Five-Year Plant | Medical Opportunities Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 18, the Board of Directors, Bryn Mawr College, will speak next week, at a time to be announced later, on the op- portunities’ for women in medicine. All--who- are—interested--are- cordially invited to hear Dr. Frantz’ in te Com- mon Room in Goodhart: a ofthe season, Friday afternoon, October 9, at 2:30 sharp; Saturday evening, Oc- tober 10, at 8:20; Monday evening, October 12, at 8:20. Program: Excerpts from L’Orfee; Lulli, Ballet Suite; Pur- cell, Trumpet March; Vivaldi, |’Estro Armonica, Concerto Grosso in D minor ; Rameau, overture to tragedy Castor ct Pollux; Handel,--Water Music; Bach, (1) Fugue in G minor, (2) Preludi in E flat minor, (3) Choralvorspiel, “Wir glauben all’ in-einen Gott,” (4) Choral- vorspiel, “Nun komm der Heiden,” (5) Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Coming October 17: Fritz Kreisler at the Academy of Music for one concert in the afternoon. ‘ Academy of Music:. New York. Phil- harmonic Symphony Society will give five concerts: October 26, November 24, December 14, January 25, March 7; Tos- Swell photography. Keith’s: Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days with. Charlotte Greenwood. The “laff king” again. Arcadia: The Squaw War-with War- ner Baxter, .Lupe Velez, Charles Bick- ford and Eleanor* Boardman. Concern- ing the problem of inter-racial’ marriage. -Mastbaum: Ann Harding in Devotiorr with Leslie Howard. The story of a young-English girl who gave everything to fove|and then. met the wife. Earley The “Big Gamble, Boyd. Faust in Manhattan. Stanley: George Arliss as the stormy aristocrat in Alexander Hamilton. The story and political consequences of Ham- ilton’s affair with the lovely Mrs. Rey- nolds. Production stressed over story. Stanton: Loretta Sayers and Jack Holt in Fifty Fathoms Deep. A tempestuous romance ending up at the bottom of the sea. : Karlton: Merely Mary Ann with Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.: Not too interesting—in fact, not at all inter~ esting. Europa: Official Russian Soviet film, The Five-Year Plan. Grand: Vaudeville program headed by George Jessel. Young as You Feel. Movies—Local Seville: Daddy Long Legs with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter; Friday and Saturday, Lowell Sherman and Mae Murray in High Stakes; Monday and with Bill Also Will Rogers in’ i canini, Walter and Kleiber to conduct. Movies Fox: Edmund ‘Lowe in The Spider. , . Psychic solution to murder mystery. istant-in the: Department of. Surgeryjc =~ You don’t know how thrilling it is to re- ceive a letter here. ~ The ‘Germans are very. poor but they are a grand people and | love being with them. You have my best wishes for your own well-being this summer. I hope you are having a happy; - satiatying time. Sincerely, or geagestions I should appreciate a SHEEMA ZEBEN. — ; er eee Tuesday, The Runaround. Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday, The Miracle Woman with Barbara Stan- wyck; Friday and Saturday, Plastered with Bert Wheeler and -Rob- ert Wolsey; Monday and Tuesday, Huckleberry Finn with: Jackie Coogan and Mitzi Green. ‘Ardmore: Wednesday, Bad Girl with Jane Dunn and Sally Eilers; Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Maurice Chevalier in Caught ‘s . al THE COLLEGE NEWS Pages bn Miss Park ome Forty: seventh Academic Year CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE the two Helen Schaeffer Huff Fellows and the special fellow in Social Econ- omy are distinguished. Russian women The -Freshman Class numbers. ex- ful when that civilization is halted. Formal education first began, we all know, «when the facts which the indi- vidual required in -order to keep him- | self afloat became so many and so hard to get at, the ideas became so complex, that he‘needed the help of other in-’ dividuals who knew more than he, of books which represented the contribu- trast to the present seems a calm sea, then certainly it is worth while now when there is a hundred times more need of steady nerves and _ intelligent brains, when the amateur will be not a gallant figure but merely futile and the expert only will be in demand. That the college gives to its best abil- ity an education preparatory to living your co-operation. We come to life when you put out your hand, touch the wire and make the circuit com- plete. In the past the proportion of Bryn Mawr students who have accom- plished that connection with the col- lege and so derived their training is high. I ask seriously this morning —— cone If a new civilization replaces it not by the changes of growth but by a fearful upheaval in which much good must’ inevitably be lost, or if the new age replaces ours only. after a long period of darkness as happened after_ the Roman Empire fell it will be the fault old ciyilization is* disintegrating. actly 100 which will make next week’s| tions of others still toward his prob-| is its justification and pérhaps its only that the number be increased. I ask, | I believe of people like ourselves—rea- work in statistics. easy even when the| lem, later on of scientific apparatus | justification. For its task is not the | that is, that in this critical year you] sonably intelligent, reasonably strong, | mathemaucs must be undertaken py | Which provided a shortcut to the solu-| keeping alive of learning. The endless | #5S4™* the responsibility for your own reasonablly well meaning. And _ the a Latinist. Its upper fifth comes into| tion he needed to reach, That is the} chain of teacher and pupil can still part--which: is: the was part--af our’) monster he double-headed. We can, ‘college with high school records and| line of Bryn Mawr’s descent. That is} transmit what was handed down from | ©O™™0" task. I gaara plans oe I trust,..tace. poverty but out of the the proud words of principals and the kind of help which such colleges; small group to small group in the-mon- since the war the =P responsibil- combination of poverty and fear littlé head-mistresses and with examination] aS Bryn Mawr have attempted to offer| astary schools, if there remain. only ity,” even the shadow of the thing, | develops but more poverty and more the men and women, has made every American. between | fear. If the advance of the arts, of averages aver eighty; and only a hair’s breadth below-stands the name of the Chinese scholar of the year, an achieve- ment so remarkable ‘that I must men- tion it even in an advance edition of the Freshman and Graduate, statistics of next week. The Kreshman. Class, not yet the graduate students, havé passed before me and I can testify to an impression of beauty, intelligence and virtue—to use the words accom- panying a decoration once given to a Bryn Mawr graduate by the Sultan of “Turkey. Beauty will be convenient at May Day, intelligence is always handy in the classroom and virtue will be a comfort to the Executiye Board of the Self-Government Association. Our great and notable loss. of the Fal -ise the iseontinuance” Gt the] Thorne School, ©The headmistress, Miss Frances Browne, has been ap- pointed head of the Lower School of Milton Academy, and the assistant headmistress, Miss Baechle, is Director of the Academic Work at the Wheeler School in Providence. During the year in which T was a student at the* American School in| Athens my great aunt took the ocea= sion to make the then rather difficult ~ journey to Greece and™to pay mera visit, There was, as it happened, in that particular year a -wave of ariti- Russian feeling in Athens which finally swelled’ One afternoon. into a riot in Constitution Square. A mob. broke into_and destroyed one of the news- paper offices, surged toward the palace, “Was driven back and finally fired’ on by the troops and retreated, leaving several of its number and several more innocent bystanders dead on the pave- ment. I had been caught on the out- skirts of the crowd, had run to cover with the rest and turned up an hour later in great excitement mingled with some satisfactidn*at my aunt’s hotel which faced the square. © When ‘1 opened the door she advaticed to inéet me-with*a face of horror and” said, “Marion, I am convinced there a mouse in this room” Now if Prime Minister Macdonald or Finance Minister Bruening or Pres- ident Hoover were here they might conceivably think that .our modest stir of this morning was of a piece with 1S relatively few, who could compass the needed time for quiet training, It is .true that some -experiences of life can be understood only -by going through them, but it is possible for instancé to collect and store away a good deal of. information which may bear on what you must in- eVvitably meet, to learn ways of dealing with simple questions which can be applied to more complex ones, to de- vise ways to act when more than qne quantity in the problem is unknown to you. An illustration of this can be found in the first few lines of the Tes- tament of Beauty—‘“Our stability is but balance and conduct lies in the masterful administration of the unfore- séen.” ae: has Sian cceettie ‘and worth while to make these acquisitions in the past, a past which already in con- Ch! e The Unique HUMIDOR PACKAGE Zip— Bata handful of ‘great:scholars at the core of the-universities. Again with high respect to the. scholarship of the colleges research, the _ acquisition new knowledge, is not their first ob- ject or their most important task. That task is to give their students, to quote President Hopkins, of Dar@mouth, “a perspective on the conditions of life.” Now it is clear that the Bryn Mawr student sometimes makes little or no use of the possibility which the col- lege offers. Skill, information, devel- opment, stand around the cofner but as they don’t come and put themselves in your hands you never’ see them. After 'two, three or four years, change my figure, you may have never of tw tanade-theconnection;-indeed; you inay tell me you are convinced that there has never been any current there. But the apparatus is helpless without ai fifteen and thirty fold his tents like the Arabs and silently steal away, I have often myself been left alone with 1a few. faithful wardens and the ’mon- ster, I am asking you to break off sharply with this habit of mind and to get ready to ‘assumé_ responsibility again. If you lift the calf every day you will find yourself lifting the cow by the time you take your degree and walk out to meet a complicated world. The catastrophe of this moment is | great enough and melodramatic enough to stir the most casual of us.all. 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Hold .down one half with your thumb. Tear off the other half. Simple. Quick. other colleges and _ universities in America, these casual openings of the Zip! That's all. Unique! Wrapped ~ 5 college year at a monient when it is in dust- proof, moisture - proof, : no figure of speech to say that civili- & N a . te zation is rocking or its foundations? > erm-proof Cellophane Clean, protec ed, ~ acm The problems of unemployment, of re- neat, FRESH! —what could be more modern duced production and consumption, of than LUCKIES’ improved Humidor package postponed. disarmament stand actually ¥ tab I as close to each of you as this morn- — so easy to open! Ladies—the LUCKY tab is ing’s perplexities over the choice of your finger nail protection. a course or the arrangenients. for a ~ week-end. The world, and America : with it, is full Of disappointment, of ~~ eK HH HK baffled ;plans, indeed of starvation and ~~ despair. And you study the classics!” Made of the finest tobaccos—The HER \\ SS Br @ ie ge / | Mr. Macdonald and Herr Bruening , Cream of many Crops—LUCKY STRIKE alone and “Mr. Hoover do not ‘as a matter "IT'S TOASTED” Ee of fact say anything like this; we our-| —‘ offers the throat protection of the exclusive ) a solves Se8 Pacea canal ne debtors; ve “TOASTING” Process which includes the use of : ourselves wish to frame some state- ie P 04 ce Cl x= ‘B ment of our position, some apologia for modern Ultra Violet Rays the process that e our apparent aloofness. How can a pels certain biting, harsh irritants naturali liberal college justify itself in the midst present in every tobacco leaf. These expelled A of chaos? not founded to prepare di- ; LUCKY STRIKE! rectly for the useful trades and skills, irritants are not present in your LU = carrying the work of the professional “The ‘re out —so they can't be in!” No wonder = ‘ = t 1 3 a os tie ——_ o— student only through the more elemen LUCKIES are always kind to your throat. : a tary stages, educating a few people, and those slowly, in theory, in proc- bod —s — * a * “eSses” OT THOURNT MIT TMMrOrmnatror WoT -directly applicable to the moment—is coe not the liberal college cut ‘out for the : . seven fat years, not for the seven vears.| - of famine? PN eo The answ€f, of liberal colleges to the. . Your Throat Protection— o ainst betelihog ne ueeathca’ = question since has been something like —_— against A —§ NT SANT this. It‘ is becatise ‘we believe that what the liberal college has to offer, | And Moisture-Proof Cellophane Keeps always useful, always a factor in build- that “‘Toasted’”’ Flavor Ever Fresh ing up and maintaining civilization,| - ; a - : o. ean oa becomes more important and more use- pera dainicns es TUNE IN— The Lucky Strike Dance Orchesera, every Tuesday, Theurs- day and Saturday eve- . ning over N. B.C. net. « * to find work. ——lessly = “some more about. the ‘ Page 4 2 . : | = Junior Month Is Full . of Varied d Experiences “Lectures on Social Problems,’ : Case Work and Field Trips Fill Time. MONTH IS BIG SUCCESS “I’m awfully glad you came,” said Anna Ortu, “because when you aren't - allowed to play on the street it gets pretty ‘monogamous’.” Anna, aged eleven, and her brother, “Joe, aged their father top floor of what live with and the seemed to me a precariously rickety tenement. Their father had. lost his job, through no fault of his own, five twelve, mother on months before my visit and every _.morning since then he had made a dismal round of employment agencies, crushed anew every day by his failure This was, of course, hard for their mother, but inst@ad of trying to lighten the family burden, she..added. to. it-by. perpetually indulg- ing in self-pity. She complained con- stantly that she: didn’t feel well and that Anna didn’t help her enough about the house. And she wouldn't Jet the children play with their friends in the street, because she would be worried while they were gone. I had to try to decide what could be done to make the Ortus a happier and ‘more normal family. I hunted for a -sjob for Mr. Ortu frantically and fruit- I—hecame~great— friends —with joe and Anna—we went together to buy the few clothes that were required ‘by the fresh air camp where they were each going for two weeks and we spent a whole day together at Coney Asland. I learned that Joe was going to be an aviator and that Anna wants to bea social worker. And I heard ‘monogomy” of their existence. That at least is going to be a little relieved this winter, be- , ‘ 7 @ THE COLLEGE NEWS cause Anna is going to take much- children. live in cottages which are made as home-like as possible. Each coveted music lessons and-Joe is going to belong to a boys’ club at-a nearby settlement house. But only half of our days at Junior Month were spent in doing case work. We also heard lectures by authorities on different social problems—immigra- tion, the mental defective, medical social service, juvenile delinquency and crime. Then we went out and saw the institutions .through which the community is attempting to deal with these problems. We visited Ellis Island, the Children’s Hospital for Feeble-Minded on Randall's. Island, the Medical Center and several others, Perhaps . the most interesting field trip we took was that.to the Children’s Court. - Here boys from the ages of nine to sixteen are committed to re- formatories” for offenses which ~somie- times seem ridiculously small, such as playing hookey from school or stealing an apple or two from a_ pushcart— offenses which if committed in a so- called higher stratum of society would ‘be considered childish pranks. I can even imagine. little Joe Ortu, if some outlet for his energies had not been found through case work, varying the dullness of-his life-by leading a daring rdid upon a pushcart! Then we visited two of the reforma- tories to which boys are committed from the Children’s Court. They pre- sented wa*“6orry contrast. One. con- sidered its function that of punishment, not re-education. The guide who con- ducted us about suggestively clanged a huge bunch of keys, unlocked each door and locked it again behind us. _He showed us proudly the cells where, -his--youthful--charges--slept—cage-li! affairs which reminded me of the places where animals are kept on boafs. It did not seem strange :when we heard ‘that this institution is a “veritable pre- paratory school for Sing Sing.” - The other reformatory, or school as it prefers to be called, that we visited was the Children’s Village at Dobbs Ferry, which considers the children committed to it ‘as victims of unfor- tunate circumstances and re-educates _ Chinese Scholar Tells of Purpose in College CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE was this: “I came to this country a year ago and entered the Shipley School. joyed the year there. and I learned I en- many other things besides books that a student must know before coming to college. Before that I went to the McTyeire School in. Shanghai, an American “missionary school for girls. It is considered one of the best schools in Shanghai. There are a few good colleges and universities in China and ait earnest student cain. get a fairly good education if he has the means. One thing I hope to see in China is public* education, but our government pulsory.education. youths are excluded because they can- not pay. their education. This is the first time I am away from China. It is, of course, hard to them to be useful citizens. Here there are no bars or locked doors. The child is studied carefully as an in- dividual and-‘“the underlying causes which led” to“his “difficulties are sought out. Recreation is carefully provided and as-a-reward for good~ behavior boys may even go to the movies in town. At the three times during the year when boys leave the little com- munity, graduation exercises are held, which .many “alumni” return to at- tend. Statistics again show that most of the children who are fortunate enough to be committed here, lead’ normal and successful lives when they return to-theirhomes, sical One of the pleasantest “Ta about Junior Month’ was . being able. to talk over Our Experiences and“ new ideas with the eleven other Juniors fromthe eleven other colleges represented. There were not many. things that we agreed about. But. we were unani- mous in thinking that the people in the “Charity “Organization~Society~ who | 1 had been visited by an inspiration. conceived the idea~ of Junior Month |. leave all my family and friends behind, but, I like being a foreign student be- catise I choose to be one with a defi- nite purpose to get'a better education. |} l-always think about ‘what I am going to take back to China with--mé.— As Americans would ‘not know the real China through’ books,” she continued, “T did not know much about America when I came. I had heard about the West and the pioneers. I had seen pictures of the skyline of New York City. I had read about the life in homes and schools but I found that they only represented a little part of real America. I found myself adapting easily to American life becausé I had never fiad such opportunities before, I am glad to learn how to wash dishes and to sew my curtains. The problem of the food is the hardest thing to get used to. First I have to learn how to at present is not able to have com-}4#8¢ aknife and fork without splashing Many ambitious\.at ‘squeaking. In preparing Chinese food everything is cut in the kitchen. Then many tastes are strange but I have learned to eat most! everything now.” Then, turning to the more serious part of her life in América, Ting con- cluded—“How well I am going to get along with my courses I do not kriow, but I do like science so I am very satisfied wé#th the courses I have this year. Naturally English--will-be..my hardest course, still I shaH..try’) my best. I had. Physics Jast~year~ and want to know more; chemistry is, I know, going to be very exciting and interesting. Mathematics I have not had for three years; I hope I still re- member a few laws and theorems to help me through. China has such a great demand for curative and pre- ventive medicinal care. I come from a family of-doctors and would like to [-make-myself-a-usefut citizen in China. | But above all I am niost grateful for what I am learning here at Bryn Mawr.” : - FT EL OO TE THE ! BRYN MAWR TRUST CO. CAPITAL, $500,000.00 - Does a General Banking Business Allows Interest on Deposits Nene vo — eed ——— —_ Lantern Announces Contest The Lantern announces that it will : hold a contest for the best prose and poetry. to. be--published-in the Lantern during the year, a prize of twenty-five dollars to be. offered for the best in each Further announcements concerning the judges will follow: class. Marriages and Engagements - With the return of Bryn Mawr stu- dents in the fall, a number of announce- ments usually occur. This year there seems to be quite a few. Marriages Margaret Waring to Henry Evans. They live in Haverford and Mrs. Evans attends Bryn Mawr as. a non-resident student, : Hester Fay to Robert Baily. Mary Pinkering Walker to William Sirsma. Ann-Marie Kennedy to James Howe. Gertrude Macatee to Randolph Power. They are living in’ South America. Engagements Alice Porter Yarnelle to Robert Hartha. Mary Coss to Francis Cook. Ethel Sussman ‘to Dick Barrman, of Buffalo; Yale, ’27. BRYN MAWR 494 JOHN J. McDEVITT PRINTING Shop: 1145 Lancaster Avenue ROSEMONT P. O. Address: Bryn Mawr, Pa. MRS, JOHN- KENDRICK BANGS - _ DRESSES 566 MONTGOMERY AVENUE BRYN MAWR, PA. A Pleasant Walk from the College with an Object in: View = je) ) SS) Se) Se) Se) Se) Se) ee) Sn) SO) DY —- ord Simon Consulted me \e, 4. “I can give you a little information about how English The New York Times A New: York Times London Correspondent, on Vaca- statesmen regard The New York Times. “You will remember the Simon report on India. The report was the work of a commission of all three parties which had been investigating the Indian problem for. about three years. Unrest grew in India—all wondered what would happen when the Simon report was released. Natur- ally it was a secret to be guarded as only a State secret: “Yet before the report was published, Sir John Simon, leader of the commission, called the correspondents of The New York Times to the House of Commons. “We did not know what was expected of us, “He took us to a little retiring room into which they . bring. members of the House of Commons when they die or are stricken in the House, but the purpose of his calling for us was to corisult with The New York Times as to the best method of achieving accurate publicity for the Simon report. % o Times carried tion at Times Square, Related the Incident as Follows: “IT believe it was an honor unprecedented in British politics for the head of a royal ‘commission to consult with an American newspaper on a matter of. publicity. “You must realize that all reports of the royal com- ¢ missions are first the property of the House of Commons which appoints the commission. leased before the House of Commons has seen them, and yet what Sir John Simon and members of the commission did was first to talk with The Times representatives of the work of the commission, then to make an arrangement whereby the full text of the Simon report would be mailed ‘to New York in advance of publication in England so that The New York Times might have ¢ a chance to publish “it fully-and~accurately. “It was a dangerous procedure in a way, and yet I think it justified the risk Sir John Simon was taking because the morning the Simon report was released The New York four or. five columns ot it. The Same. World Reputation for Accuracy Is One Ree Why cee Seely Consult the News in ni Eke New York Gimes — mm. Never can they be re- Se ee ee ee % ae ¢ TG. COLLEGE “NEWS , Page 5 Miss Park Opens Forty- seventh Academic Year CONTINED FROM PAGE THREE an air of confusion and. panic. _ Neither the actual situation nor the widely- spread emotional fog in which the situation is developing can be dealt with any longer by individuals alone. They represent the faithful but futile thumb trying to plug the hole in the dyke. Our only hope is, surely, to join every force which can be made to work for a common end, to assemble all these forces in a common plan, to rebuild and to build new, nationally and internationally,'as fast as may be or as slow as may be but together, each responsible for his own part and for, good will-and generosity toward the rest. _I have asked the students of the col- lege to shoulder seriously their respon- sibility for the college work this year. Don't think by this I mean the acqui- sition’ of 99.1 instead of 98.9 or 71.3 instead, 71.2. You and I too have perhags said too much about such hair- line differences. I do mean that I hope you will make for yourselves high: personal and college’ standards which you will not allow to be broken down by the drag of overwork imposed you believe, by the faculty, or by the disin- ‘tegration ofbroken..work’ imposed I believe by yourselves, and that you may keep to those standards without flagging, that you will throw your- selves vigorously into what is good in the work of the college and do your part in criticism, but also in suggestiqn and cure for what is faulty. I ask you to be serious without any alarm lest I. should wake up and find you prigs. Seriousness lies back of good “mental work, but it also lies back of good mental play. richer-minded and more vigorous, -a more--telling person.._It- isthe soil+in which the interesting person grows. I don’t need to urge any one who has her goal in sight to work with seriousness toward it. That is the advantage of the student preparing définitely” for’ one of the and of the professional sé hools them- “selves. SH€- moves” in™a-straight~and undeflectable line toward her aim. But for those’-of us who came to Bryn Mawr partly to find out what we wanted the case is harder. We must * provide the straw as well as make the bricks. But the emergency outside our walls will make: us I think sharper- witted and more than all-responsibility is in itself creative, driving one on into new plans and new ends. Now and again it leads the ordinary person un- endowed for the so-called creative arts to accomplish what the genius does, It makes for a The Same Pen 2 Ways Cavan for Desk Notice to Students and Gift Buyers Pocket Pen For a limited time only PARKER DEALERS will give FREE with the purchase of a Parker Duofold Pen or Desk Base Parker’s New Pen Taper to change over any Parker from a Pocket Pen to a Desk Pen and vice versa, in 5 seconds. Makes every Parker like two pens for the price of one. On the go, the owner has a Pocket Pen. On arrival at home or office, taper converts it to a slender Desk Pen. Thus every Parker - Pen owner or buyer has half a Desk Set. All he needs to com- rofessions’} Change in Athletic Awards As the class Blazer has now become a part of the regulation athletic equip- ment, a striped bar will take its place in the list of awards. =§ The point system is as follows: I. Major and minor sports for 1931- 32. a. Major: Hockey, Basketball, Swim- ‘ming, and Tennis. b. Minor: Lacrosse, Archery,. Fenc- ing and Baseball. II. Ratings, and awarding of points: .Points First Varsity Major Sport... 500 First Varsity Major Sport, sub...... 475 Second Varsity Major Sport............ 400 Second Varsity Major Sport, sub.. 375 RESIN MINOT. SOL tis cciisccccacesvesisssss 375 Varsity Minor Sport; sub... 350 First Clags Team (sports with two CMOE RENNIN) cicccs haskell cacieinteg 350 First Class Team, sub (sports with two. class teams))..........susi 325 BOCOMG CIRGR 2d ORIN sccssccccasssntssasanns 275 Second Class Team, sub..........0- 250 Class Team (sports with’ one class BEDI) ac iiicecdbississcesisceveacsicceesacssscionites 275 ClBSbe FF OI, SUD. isaNeeesicisesscsrctiinnin 200 Varsity Manage’, Major Sport...... 100 Varsity Manager, Minor Sport...... 50 Members of the Varsity squad not making any team get first team points. Ill. Insignia: 1000° points, Stripe; 2000... points,...Class_ Insignia; 4000 points, College Blazer; 5000 points, College Insignia, IV. Rules governing points: a. An individual may receive points for each sport only once during the year, to make out of an old situation, a well- | worn problem, a new situation, a fresh In_intelligent_brains_it-is*the- solution. mother. of invention. To the most self distrustful who practice responsi- bility soniething may come which will help her to that union of independence and dependence which makes up, I believe, the happiest and most satisfy- ing human life. I. ‘ended Freshmatr “WwW eek-and- nade t935 Hardenbergh, Moore, Little Describe Their Sensations CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE had given up vying with each other in naming Freshmen. They knew every one (except those they did not: know). However, to brighten up the morning all Freshmen had to take the English placement test. To the amazement of all it was discovered that scarcely a member of the class had ever tasted a pear or knew what constituted a mist. That afternoon the procession to Philly began. Curtains and rugs appeared in formerly bare rooms. Truck loads of furniture arrived and the halls were lined with half-unpacked trunks. In the evening, despite spas- modic. rainstorms, there was a picnic in Wyndham at which a few remarks were made about Undergrad. This was followed by singing. The Fresh- men were introduced to Sophias and they seemed to like it, judging from the_ demands for encores. They also were taught some of the other college songs, which they learned very quickly. Sunday morning there was an un- precented exodus to church and in the afternoon — there was a reception at Miss. Park’s for Freshmen only.._( For further information see a Freshman.) At chapel in the evening Marj Field gave an explanation of the work of the league... This was thé “last day~in which the Freshmen held the center. of the stage. Early Monday morning the deluge of upperclassmen:began. I am afraid that ’35 was left to its own devices during the fond greetings of long-separated friends. However, they were not totally grueling test vof thelr knowledge of the Self-Gevernment rules. Chapel Hee, Tuesday morning officially a full-fledged member of Bryn Mawr. Freshman Week as a whole was ‘teas in *Goodhart every. afternoon, ting acquainted and thoroughly settled before the beginning of classes. The only criticism of it which is at all widespread is-that it is about two days too long. Some of the extra time this year. was taken up by. having informal by hockey tryouts, and by holding the first Lantern Night practice on Mon- day. The only way in which I can see that Freshman Week might be shortened would be to ask the Fresh- men. who live nearby to see the Dean some day before Freshman Week or to make a greater use of Sunday. I have also heard murmurs among. the Freshmen.that they have had no work to do during the first week of classes. I am sure that the professors in the first-vear courses could be persuaded to give definite assignments at the first meeting of their classes, because most Freshmen are ready to begin work after six days of waiting. Although these are matters of minor importance I think their. correction wéuld. add to the value of Freshman Week. (Specially contributed by A. Lee Hardenberg, °32) Freshman Week from the Classmen’s point of view, about which I believe I was asked to write, is a very pleasant and profitable five days. For once they can enjoy college without a postponed or future assign- ment hanging like a Damocles’ sword upper- €CUROPA SECOND AND LASi WEEK THE TALK IN. ENGLISH YEAR PLAN , i St oni RN a nels that evening they were put thréugh a} See eae ae Russian Rebuilding Itself very successful as far as concerns oa ae ae ' Philip. 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It may be all very well to think we can converse pleas- antly about mutual friends or the weather. - But no, our right-hand neighbor wants to know if we can please find her a book that she can study on Body Mechanics so that she may pass an advanced standing exam- ination in it, -and our left-hand one wants us to please tell her her division in German because the Dean forgot to put it on the slip. Then, of course, we know the contents of every course given, the life history and good and bad qualities of every professor, and the proper course for each separate in- dividual to take. Yes, we really learn a lot about our college, both from the things we feel it our bounden duty to find out about and from the things quoted,to us out of the handbook. Pleasant as Freshiian Week is, T am afraid a continuous one all year would completely unfit us for anything. else. . We might really come to look on our- selves as walking encyclopedias. But luckily it takes no longer than until Tuesday morning for us to come down to earth with a.jolt and find ourselves being quite disgraced in a minor course by bearing the brunt of the pro- fessor’s first day’s jocosity and un- merely ‘because we are these same upperclassmen. Only hope that the Freshmen them- _ selves do not find their week too long and I do not believe that the majority of them do, unless somehow they fin- ish all their interviews and~ hang -all their curtains the first day which would really be a little difficult. At any rate to us who come: back early, it-is-an-epjoyable-and unique. week in. our college careers. to meet Miss Smith and hear more about summer school at Miss Thomas’ reception, - Students signing on, the “summer school”. section of the league card will be invited to meet summer school students and other péople con- nected with the school,. from time to to time during the year. . Sophomores Get Freshman Song at Parade Night Tuesday night, September 29, saw the Freshmen and Sophomores merrily upholding — the tradition of Parade Night: For days the Freshmen had been hiding from prying Sophomores the tune of their Parade Night ‘song. At the last: hour 1934, following the merest. suggesting of a ‘hint, wrote their parody. tothe tune—of~‘“Good- night, Ladies.” | Under a bright moon in a clear sky 1934 danced around the huge bonfire on the tennis court. When ‘the class of 1935 marched over the brow of the hill, accompanied by the band, and lit by red torches carried by the Juniors, lo and.behold, the band was lustily playing ‘Goodnight, Ladies”! The Freshmen broke through the re- ‘sisting ring of Sophomores and, form- ing an inner ring around the fire,.sang their song, written by Barbara Lewis. Try to beat us, Try to beat us, The whole college will have a chance. " SERVICE.8.A..M,.TO-7:30-P.-M: Daily and Sunday Try to beat us, With futile strategy. We've looked under every bed, every bed, every bed, Where if you-had used your -head You would surely be. And the triumphant ‘Sophomores answered back with their parody: So long Freshmen, You're all wrong, Freshmen, You've lost your song, Freshmen, To 1934. 35's a grand old class, grand old class, grand old class, But '35 cannot surpass The class of 734, Self-Government Reception CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE thereby entirely usurp the powers of Self-Government. -There- was a time when Miss Park was a far more effect- ive member of the association ‘when she marched at the head of its indig- to Miss house and spoke as its President. nation meetings Thomas’ At times the ways of Self-Govern- ment may seem clumsy but the impor- The HAT CORNER 7012 West Garret Road 1 Block West of 69th St. Terminal Hats Draped to the Head “Gage” Hats—Large Head Sizes Allen “A” Hosiery Kéee Ka sli ” ; ; i COLLEGE INN AND TEA ROOM tant factor is that they are the ways of the ‘student body. Miss Park,’ there- fore, comes to the receptiongnot only willingly, but feeling that the proce- dures of Self-Government are worthy of much attention and that the associa- tion is one upon which all Bryn Mawr students should “congratulate them- selves. Following Miss Park’s address, Mrs. Collins told a few things about big May Day which is being celebrated for the eighth time this year. In nipeteen hundred Mrs. Andrews, who was rais- ing money for an Alumnae fund, real- ized that Bryn Mawr was the perfect setting for an Elizabethan May Day. Since then it has been given six times, becoming much more elaborate though no more authentic after nineteen twenty, In spite of the plays, the her- alds and the oxen drawing ‘the May pole, to’ Mrs. Collins the dancing on the green ori which everyone takes part is the highlight of May Day. “There is lots of hard work connected with it, too,” said Mrs. Collins, “but there is nothing like the aesthetic satisfac- tion”one gets from taking part in some- thing very beautiful.” “Standing here holding out May. Day as a welcome “to the freshmen,” con- cluded Mrs. Collins, “I should like to say in the terms once addressed by an old Dorsetshire man to myself, ‘ *Appy ‘unting, Milady, d ‘ope the fox gives you a good run; and if me knees and me ‘ands were as young as me ’eart I’d be ’unting with you’.” 0. Cc. WOODWORTH, Cosmetician Telephone: Bryn Mawr 809 Bryn Mawr Marinello Salon 841% LANCASTER AVENUE (Second Floor) BRYN MAWR, PA. Open Tuesday and Friday Eves. 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Summer School Gives Interesting Contacts CONTINUED FROM ‘PAGE ONE GUEST ROOMS ‘PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT my struction, as well as the material, is cf PPPPDPPPPPDOD DDS the best in the country. Teachers are wt. stat rT so--eager--for-a~chance~to” work” here y” aye that many are turned away, even after they have offered to come without-the school’s substantial salary. Fhe faculty is the pick of teachers who are interested in social problems and pro- gressive education. Further, follow- up studies give a picture of the girls going back to their home cemmunities, spreading théeir new interests among their ald followers, going, to night] . school, organizing classes, becoming interested in politics. After all, a democracy presupposes education’ and. intelligent interest on the part of the majority of its citizens. By the majority’s will it must fall or rise. President Park, in her opening . speech to the college, called this a critical period in our:civilization. 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