¥ be > SBRY a i SERN a eas : Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS * = x “THE COLLEGE NEWS > « (Founded in 1914) 4 of’ Mawr College. Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, . Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during exqamination weeks) in the interest Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Editor-in-Chief. The College News is fully protected by copyright. it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Nothing that appears in News Editor LILLIAN SEIDLER, 40 Subscription Manager © { ROZANNE PETERS, 740 Editor-in-Chief Mary R. MEIGs, ’39 ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40 . MARGARET MacG. OTIs, ’89 Ass’t News Editor Ass’t Copy Editor EMILY CHENEY, ’40 ys IsoTa A. TUCKER, ’40 P Editors DEBORAH H. CALKINS, ’40 ELLEN MATTESON, ’40 x Mary Dimock, ’39 ELIZABETH POPE, ’40 CATHERINE D. HEMPHILL, ’39 ‘ LUCILLE SAUDER, ’39 Business Manager Advertising Manager CAROLYN SHINE, ’39 DorRoTHY AUERBACH, ’40 Assistants BETTY WILSON, 740 Copy Editor BARBARA STEELE,'’40 Graduate Correspondent VESTA SONNE SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY , MAILING PRICE, $3.00 BEGIN AT ANY TIME : Entered as second-class matter * that forced us to be healthy. * “and Walter Abe at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office ¥ time. more hours.of exercise for credit. afternoon hockey player limping to who has ever run the length of a hockey field knows how tiring it is, and we cannot imagine being fresh it is that people practice in the hall corridors, even, after playing goal- guard. Everybody likes-the modern dance so much, however, that they prefer complete exhaustion to not taking it at all, and the real value of exercise is thus destroyed. By itself, however, modern dancing is as beneficial as any form of athletics, pose of giving credit for exercise is health, and since modern d is exercise, by a logical process, credit should be given for modern daneing. The Department of Physical Education can no longer be deterred by its experimental aspect; the class has become too big and Its members say that even if Miss Humphrey too firmly established. does not return next year, they will continue somehow. with or without Miss Hutphrey, we think that an hour of dancing ckey, folk dancing, or any of the other It is unfortunate that the modern dancers should count with an hour of major or minor sports. should have had to exercise double _of such official encouragement. 7 Doris Humphrey for Credit We have always thought that the purpose of compulsory athletics at Bryn Mawr was to send the circulation\coursing through us until we got to be juniors, and then to let us wind down gradually to the} adult athletic norm. As freshmen and sophomores, we cheerfully toiled on the hockey fields and tennis courts, and were thankful for a rule We were also thankful because there were innumerable ways of being healthy and getting credit at the same The only definite'specification was the number of hours a-week ; the exercise ranged from walking, to fencing, which fencers claim to ‘be the most complete exercise in the realm of sport, The beauty of this arrangement was upset by the coming of Miss Doris Humphrey; an event of unprecedented importance. we heard the low beginnings of discontent from enthusiastic modern dancers who danced four hours a weekfor love, and took two or three A common sight was the Thursday In October the gym at five o’clock, Anybody for the backward fall, or whatever even Duncanism. Since the pur- cing If they- do, time this year because of the lack In Philadelphia Movies Boyd: The Girl of the Golden West, from the famous Western play about the girl ranch owner and the outlaw, with Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Fox: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, } a considerably altered -version of the childhood classic, with Shirley” Tem- — le. v 4 Erlanger: In Old Chicago, the life and loves of the pioneer O’Learys, with Alice Brady, Tyron Power, and Don Ameche. . y, Aldine: The. Divorce of Lady X,.an} > English comedy featuring Merle Ober- on-and Laurence Olivier. Stanley: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney’s Technicolor in- terpretation of the Grimm fairy tale. Stanton; The First Hundred Years, a minor comedy. about divorce, with Robert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce. Beginning Saturday: Walking Down Broadway, a romance, with Claire Trevor and Michael Whalen. - Earle: Love, Honor and Behave, a ‘story about the troubles of a good) loser, with Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane. Beginning Friday: Dangerous To Know, a melodrama, with Akim - Tamiroff and Gail Patrick. Europa: Dawn Over. Ireland, the first all-Irish film produced in Kil- - larney,; with Brian Sullivan. Arcadia: The Big Broadcast of 1938, a comedy with muSic, starring —W. C.. Fields, Martha Raye, and Kir- , Wiagene, Beginning Friday: a On Trial, a medodrama about a wroinaai lawyer, with Frieda Inescourt Brngieg Up Baby, the ad- S WET — eer ventures of Katharine Hepburn as a temperamental ‘heiress, and Cary Grant as an earnest scientist. Karlton: Sally, Irene, and Mary, a musical comedy with Fred Allen. Be- ginning Friday: The Westtahd Case, a mystery, with Preston Foster and Carol Hughes. — Theater. Locust Street: Room Service, a com- edy about the problem of producing a play on a shoestring, with Roy Rob- erts. Forrest: Yes, My Darling Daugh« ter, in‘its fourth and final week; with Lucile Watson, ace * Chesthut? Beginning Abtil 4> Henry IV, Part I, with Maurice Evans, Music Philadelphia . Orchestra: Aa Ormandy conducting—Ravel Memorial Concert: “Le Tombeau de Couperin”; Piano Concerto in G, (Eugene List, Soloist); “Rhapsodie Espagnole” ; “La Valse;” “Alborado del Gracioso;” Bo- lero, . Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs- day: Radio City Revels, with Bob Burns; Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday... Sn Oa eric March; Tuesday, Penitentiary, with Walter Connelly and John How- ard; Wednesday: A Yank at Ozford, with Robert Taylor. Suburban: Wednesday through Sat- urday: Happy Landing, with Sonja Henie;~ Sunday through — Saturday: The Life and Loves of Beethoven, with Harold Bauer. — Wayne: Wednesdays I Met a) Love - WIT’S EN D SPRING, 1938 NIHILIST SPRING SONG There are birds about us singin’, To the soft wind notes a-flingin’, From each nest domestic wingin’, In their ways to us are bringin’— The ‘all too lurid look of —— A young man stands before our win- , dow, You may wonder what he kin do, Wondering, too, we watched spring love ; Throw nickels at the room above. When open window breathes the moan Of recorded saxophone— When happiness creeps up the hill And voice assumes a lilting trill— On with program, out with knife, We despise the merry life. When we see each opening flower We sink into.a sour hour. Now that lilacs are in bloom, There are no lilacs in our room, But vast unmitigated gloom: Nearer to exams are we— Nearer than we wish to be. While yet the gruesome mid-semester Banishes our spring fiesta. When we see this spritely gushin’ How we love the soulful Russian, On his steppe so sadly sittin’ Readin’ what the stars have written. His is not to educate Or ’twixt two doctrines vacillate, But polishing his scimitar He sees our lives for what they are. Go your way upon the earth Joyous over each year’s birth. But like the Russian we will live— One timeless blob of negative. FRAILTY There’s a scientific affinity Between spring predicted for 1.43, And the yellow buds on the hawthorn tree, And a human mountain Around the fountain, And discardings of wintry modesty. We’re aghast at nature’s weak admis- sion Of the truth of a human-made tradi- tion, The arbitrarily placed position Of spring’s renascence. This base obeissance Shows that nature’s a sycophant, not a magician. By a neat little trick of necromancy The coming of spring is no longer chancy, Nature’s prompt, and we humans fol>) low our fancy. The fountain’s not running, | But even more stunning, Dr. Chew’s forgotten his button-hole pansy. Again, with Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett; Thursday through Saturday: Happy Landing, with Sonja Henie; Sunday —through—-Tuesday:— quin, with Joan Crawford; Wednes- day: Love Is a Headache, with Gladys George and Franchot Tone. Seville: Wednesday: Hollywood Ho- tel, with Benny Goodman and Dick 1 Bowell; sThursday :) Love Is? a Head- Il ache, with Gladys George and Fran- chot Tone; Friday and Saturday: Paradise for Three, with Florence Rice and Frank Morgan; Sunday and Monday: You're a Sweetheart, with Alice Faye. Lecturer Discusses _ Philosophy of India Continued from Page One a pentecostal flame, dissolving the ego.” This force is turned back to the depths from which it: came and rises again from there, enriched by a consciousness of the high and dow ‘poles it-has visited. : Because there is such a strong oscil- lation between the opposite poles of intellectual abstrattion and animal ‘| sensuousness taking place in “the in- nermost feelings of their life,” the people of India hdve never needed to] realize it in their history. Thus Mr. Spiegelberg feels that equanimity rather than resignation is the keynote of India. .Jacross a verse by one of your parents , P A all obvious in the verse. Manne-|- Resignation The College News announces with regret the resignation of Mary Dimock, ’89, from the edi- torial board. i « © BOOK REVIEW Cap and Gown, Second Series, L. C. Page and Co., 1897. This little volume bound in dull dun cloth and hidden on one of the back shelves of the library, is inter- "abi for a number of reasons, First, ecause of the frontispiece which shows a college girl complete with choker, switch,.Cap, and Gown, play- ing listlessly on a banjo. Second, be- cause you may at any moment come which they gave to the college maga- zine in a moment.of literary excite- ment. And third, because the content is, in the light of our modern eyes, strange, and at times overwhelmingly obscure, The-explanatory preface of the sec- ond series by Frederic ‘Lawrence Knowles explains that these verses were selected from college periodicals] and grouped together under the com- prehensive headings of Love and Sen- timent, Comedy, College and Campus, Nature, and In Serious Mood. In re- gard to collegiate poetry he says, “Light, graceful, humorous, sparkling —this it should be for the most; seri- ous sometimes, it is true—for young men and women are at heart by no) means frivolous, but touching the note. of grief, if at all, almost as though by accident.” Analysis of. this crjteria on third reading would indicate that there is no sorrow in the souls of the authors. ight, grace, humor and sparkle are But deeper emotions are there for those who seek, the cry of a brave young heart, a pre- Huxley heart, weeping amid a vale of tears: “Joy that shines through sorrow’s sadness, Sorrow mingling joy with. gladness.” Love and Sentiment is treated sym- bolically, almost every poem contain- ing lone rose, two eyes, three tresses and varying numbers of kisses. Smith and Vassar students average between four and five, Mount Holyoke seven to eight and Yale, Trinity and Harvard an_.unlimited collection. However, Bryn Mawr usually substitutes death instead or the “Town where man can have his fling, Can drink the dregs of—everything.” The cynical spirit of humor is not lacking in all this light, grace and sparkle, It usually comes from an acid-tipped masculine pen and takes the form of a pun, “deadly weapon,” However, it is advisable to omit these sections since more up-to-date versions can be found in the Log or the Prince- ton Tiger. A psychologist will find many sub- jects for study, as for instance .a young Williams man who-summed up an acute frustration in 10 short lines: Our. Wrongs ‘When girls are only babies, Their mammas quite insist - That they by us— Against our wills— Be kissed—kissed—kissed. ‘But when these girls Are sweet eighteen, Their mammas say we sha’n’t, And though we’d like to “We can’t—cah’t—can't. In this unconscious outpouring wel find the germs of modern disillusion. Perhaps this very. poem fathered Sweeney Agonistes or the same Among the Nightingales, It is also important to remember that it might be your own uncle eAl- bert in the throes of this frustration or your own aunt Angela “drinking the dregs of—everything.” The signs of the future lie buried in the past, the college poet of yesterday is the chaperone of today, With this in mind we advise you to go to these poems and study them toward.a bet- ter understandifig of that earlier gen- eration. How otherwise can we, who! write of telegraph wires and noth- ingness sympathize with those souls who spent their college days: ~ “Quaffikg -port and sherry, Jolly roaring blades, Making yay and merry With the giddy maids’? - . Besides, if Spain goes on blowing any good sherry anymore, anyway. / : I. A. < - | hoops. Kiss them, E | itself up, rio one will be able-to buy} PUBLIC OPINION To the Editor of The News: The freshman class seems to object to the tradition of handing down ion, the objections are that the tra- dition. is ‘“sentimental,” “repulsive,” nauseating,” that it “hurts feelings,” makes for competition and false mod- esty,’”’-and finally, that it is “futile.” Of all people, why should the fresh- men take up this question with such vehemence—when they have never been subjected to hoops. seem in a position to feel other than questioningly on the subject. Let them wait. Selah. Contrariwise, they do object. They object to sentimentality. Why? Some people even like “Music, when soft voices die,—” or “What-was he doing, the great god Pan?” Probably the people who like these are rare, but is there not a certain virtue in rarity. (Hmm). Hoops (dearie) are neither “repul- sive’. or “nauseating”; they merely round, wooden things, while the abstract traditien is materially in- -nocuous. — Perhaps this tradition may hurt somebody’s feelings. Sissies. What reasoning person is going to let a pleasant custom “ruin her life’! Shouldn’t one, by the time one is in college, have developed a sense of hu- mor, and a self-respect at least equal to this mild occasion? . And if not, why not? “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be mas- ter—that’s all.” are. As gleaned from Public Opin-~ “proves nothing about the relationship ~ _| between the people involved,” that “it They hardly . ‘Possibly hoops prove nothing about ; — relationships. Possibly they were never meant to. “I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “but_it isn’t so no how.” “Contrariwise,’’ continued Tweedle- dee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so it would be; but as it isn’t, it aint. That’s logic.” As for the competitive aspects, com- petition may be a good thing. Look at the Italian baby race. And what if it does induce “false modesty”—false modesty is better than none. — But why, after all these excellent arguments, does the freshman say that hoops are futile?) They seem, suffic- iently to cause a number of Ends; but why end the Ends so brutally? The attributes applied to the tradi- tion are self contradictory. There- fore they cannot inhere in the tradi- tion. If not in the tradition, then they must be divided among the stu- dents. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our hoops but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (Signed) FouR MEMBERS OF THE UPPER CLASSES To the Editors of The College News: We want to preserve hoops, but. it seems to us that some other method would be better for passing them on to the underclassmen. We suggest that the seniors carry a single hoop merely to roll on May Day morning. The seniors can then pass on this hoop and their other possessions between May Day and commencement. This would do away with the ostentation of preference or neglect... We would in this way preserve the friendly tradi- tion without its accompanying evils.” Mary Woop, ’39, Oe LY R¥LERS 39, * The Euitor of The News: While I agree with you that. the present system of giving hoops on Lit- tle May Day may cause much unnec- essary anguish, I think it would be a crime to destroy them! They may be sentimental but surely this is a de- lightful form of sentimentality. What can compare with a “Hepburn Hoop,” or a hoop dating from 189—? Would ‘you wantonly condemn these to the flames? Why not solve the problem by letting’ each senior roll one hoop on May Day and then at a later and less public time give her collection to A SENIOR. ' Patronize our advertisers. League Election .. The Bryn Mawr League takes great pleasure in announcing | -the-- election of -Martha Van Hoesen, ’38, as president. — u .the maembers.of +h~.-* —yehengagad-cior a] eS ql ant %, %