' ] Page Four \ THE COLLEGE NEWS . rece Geology Should Appeal To the Feminine Eye Mr. Collins Finds Girls in Field More Thorough Than Boys (This is the sixth of a series of in- terviews with new members of the faculty.) “If the feminine eye is as sensitive as we should have believed, women would logicallyJbe attracted to geol- ogy,” Mr. R. -Lee Collins, lecturer in geology, said. Not only the rare colors found in mineralogy, but the decorative forms found in fossil re- mains should make them enthusiastic. Mr. Collins’ interest in geology was not evoked visually.’ When he was a boy, the eastern shore of Maryland, where he was reared, seemed “flat and featureless to him.” Perhaps it was this dull sameness which one day pro- voked him to fling a stone to the ground with such violence that it split. In- side was a small petrified animal whose shell-like form had, been im- pressed on the halves of the rock. Mr. Collins’ curiosity led him to dis- cover that this was a Brachiopod. When Mr. Collins entered Johns Hopkins University, he intended to become a chemist. However, the old fascination which geology had for him reasserted itself, and he received his Ph.D. in this subject in 1928. For the last six years he has been at | Johns Hopkins as an instructor in paleontology. Although Mr. Collins’ interest is _ pledged to invertebrate paleontology, it is swinging to the vertebrate prob- lems of the subject. “The general ground plan,” which invertebrates lack, makes modifications clearer in vertebrate study, he finds. Last. summer he studied vertebrate remains in the marine beds of South- ern Maryland. He expects to con- tinue his investigations there under a grant assigned to him by the Geo- logical Society of America. Rhin- oceros teeth, pig, elephant, porpoise and bird remains have already been ’ unearthed, and Mr. Collins hopes that further discoveries will enable him to link these marine deposits with con- tinental beds in the “West. He has already published several monographs on invertebrates and is now writing on vertebrate paleontol- ogy. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Collins finds that girls, once lured into geol- ogy, are more thorough than boys, who often maintain a discouraging “so what?” air. In addition to sin- cere students the Geology Department has an excellent collection of fossil remains. Mr. Collins is attempting to add to its paleontological section. Cultural Olympics Philadelphia, Pa.—“Cultural Olym- pics” for the purpose of discovering and encouraging hidden talent of chil- dren and adults in the fields of art and literature are being inaugurated by the University of Pennsylvania’s school of education. The aim of the “cultural Olympics” is to promote the cultural interests of people and communities. At pres- ent the movement is limited to Phila- Unclaimed Piano Benches The Players’ Club announces that there are several unclaimed piano benches among the bor-: rowed properties. If the own- .ers will claim them they will be returned immediately. Civilization of Mayans Describeq' as_ Brilliant Continued from Pye One which is sculptured, contains 20,000 pieces of cut stone. The use of the dividing medial cornice is common in New Empire buildings, and sculpture, if it appears at all, is always in the upper part. The sculpture often em- ploys as a motif the feathered ser- pent, the symbol of the supreme crea- tor-god. The most important excavations and restorations now being done are at Chicen Itza, also a New Empire city. Since 1924 the Carnegie Insti- tute has been at work there. At this time the restored or partly restored building include: the Principal Tem- ple, dedicated to the feathered ser- pent; the Temple of the Warriors; the Ball-court; the Astronomical Observa- tory; the Vapor Bath; the Palace; and the Court of the 1000 Columns. Of the many buildings the Ball- court is the most interesting. In this court a game resembling basketball was played. The court is enclosed by two long walls, 92 feet apart; high in the center of each wall is placed a stone ring: The object of the game was to. drive a hard rubber ball through one of the rings with the wrist, elbow or hip. The first Euro- pean notice of rubber was in connec- tion with this game at the court of Montezuma in 1519. Another interesting building is that used for vapor baths. Restoration of this, though not complete, is well un- der way. Beyond a central doorway is a small chamber where the bathers rested and whgre vapor was produced by pouring water over heated stones. The Principal Temple, a ‘pyramid and temple built over an earlier simi- lar structure, has brought to light some of the most important monu- ments of the Mayan Civilization. Last summer there was found in an inner chamber the statue of a jaguar, four feet long,three feet high and two feet wide. Its body was painted a brilliant mandarin red and it was spotted with 73 insets of apple-green jade. The eyes were half-spheres of jade and its wide-open mouth displayed a splen- did set of bone teeth. On its back was a turquoise mosaic plaque. It is undoubtedly one of the original jaguar thrones which are pictured in Mayan reliefs, and is the most magnificent specimen ever found in situ in Central America. delphia and its immediate area, but it is hoped that it will eventually be- come a national trend.— (ACP) THE BRYN MAWR GIFT SHOP 814 Lancaster Avenue FOR THE UNUSUAL . “Say! I just remembered— it’s the boy friend’s birthday!” “Too late to send him anything now. You better telephone.” ® Rates are reduced on Long Dis- tance calls ALL DAY SUNDAY and after seven every night. —tguee me eet -, “Holiday” Given New and Interesting Slant Continued from Page One this change. The best piece of acting was done by L. Crosby Lewis, Jr., who took the part of Ned, Linda’s brother. He was the only character in the play who had the rare power, not always seen on the professional stage, of never giving the impression that he was act- ing at all. -Every line that he spoke and every movement that he made came spontaneously from within him- self and was unquestionably right. His part, that of a boy with too much money who just missed being. a fine person, might have easily been stereo- typed, unpleasant and dull. But Lewis handled it with imagination, playing especially well a_ difficult drunken scene which balanced precariously be- tween comedy and pathos and might easily have become either farcical or sentimental. As Johnny Case, the leading man, William Clark was likeable enough, but his characterization lacked the self-confidence. and force which it would seem natural for him to have had as a self-made man who put his ideals before convention, money or even love. Edith Rose as Julia, Lin- da’s sister, was at her best during the first two acts, during which her gayety changed to irritability. The feeling of tension which she had to put across in the third act was less successfully sustained. , Tillman Kulp Saylor and Olga Mueller were excellent as Nick and Susan Potter. Saylor, who had some of the funniest lines in the play, talked along quite naturally, making no attempt to strain his part beyond its limits, and was extremely enter- taining at all times. Mary Hinckley Hutchings and Daniel Gledden Santer were smug and stupid as the socially prominent Seton Crams, affording a delightful butt for the witticisms of Linda and the Potters. Amos Patten Leib was deliberately mechanical as Linda’s father, but while his stiff man- ner was in keeping with the part, his speaking voice did not sound real. Of the two sets, the nursery on the top floor was the most impressive and both were successfully designed by Olga Miiller, 37, and executed by Anne Wyld, ’38, and George Norris, Jr., Haverford, ’37. M. O. JEANNETTE’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc. Flowers for All Occasions 823 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr 570 Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes Super‘or Soda Service Music—Dancing fof girls only They'll All be Here Der worry about where to find your friends during the college holidays, and where to meet congenial men and girls...they’ll all be at Pinehurst! You'll find, too, America’s finest golf, on Donald Ross courses with velvet grass greens, ten- nis, riding, fox hunting, polo, shoot- ing, skeet, in our mild and invigorat- ing winter.climate! You'll return sun- tanned, and full of pep and memo- ries of good times ! Pinehurst has planned numerous holiday dances and sports features. Come! For booklet BM and information, call E. C. Mig- nard, Hotel Ambassador, New York—’ Phone Plaza 3-9320—or write General Office, Pinehurst, N.C. | Tine urst paratitla Bh a a ad FROM NEW YORK : Dramatics Important In the Summer School English, Economics and Science Are Offered Students The Deanery, December 8.—At a tea for undergraduates interested in the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Workers, Elizabeth Lyle, ’37, Sylvia Wright, ’38, spoke informally about the school’s purpose, its.present organization and its activities. Last Summer Miss Lyle and Miss Wright ‘were undergraduate assistants at the fifteenth session of. the school held at the college. The purpose of the school, as de- fined by Miss Wright, is to give the students.a pattern into which they may fit the facts which they know. By translating their own experience into terms that aré intercurrent with the whole of knowledge, they learn the extent of their problem, and see its relation to the social and eco- nomic structure. There is a realiza- tion of the common qualities in widely divergent experience, as well as ‘individual clarification of import- ant issues. English, economics and science are the regular courses offered. Classes are one and one-half hours long, sci- ence Yitgetings twice a week, English and economics every day. The Eng- lish course covers the fundamentals of oral and written expression,- pro- viding both instruction and practice in the rules of grammer, spelling and parliamentary procedure. ‘Science’ is a general survey of the fields of geology, biology, chemistry and phy- sics, approached from the common phenomena of everyday life, and re- lated to the fields of history and eco- nomics. The scientific method is. dis- cussed as a tool effective in society as well as in science. The course in economics draws its material from the problems of the students, and at- tempts to explain them in terms of some logical and coherent structure. Dramatics play an important part in the extra-curricular activity of the school. Last summer, in addition to and | Dancers to Give Story of Christ Final rehearsals are now under way for the Dancers’ Club Christmas performance to be given December 12 at 8.30, in the Gym. The perform- ance, in the words of Miss Josephine Petts, director of the dancing, is an attempt to interpret in contemporary terms, the story of the Annunciation and Nativity. Ethel Mann, ’38, is the originator of a number of the dances, and is also in charge of the lighting effects, as- sisted by Dewilda Naramore, ’38, secretary of the club. Mary Whalen, 38, president of the club, is in charge of costumes, and will take the part of the Madonna. Patricia Robinson, 39, heads the Property Committee. The music for the dances which has been especially composed by Mr. Hans Schumann embodies as does the danc- ing the customary Christmas tone, together with the modern influence. several informal entertainments, a Trade Party and an International Peace Festival were given. The Peace Festival, described by Miss Lyle, showed, on a small scale, the tre- mendous force of a group whose di- verse interests have been fused to- gether in. the interests of mutual security and peace. The job of those undergraduates interested in the Summer School, said Miss Wright, is to make its activities and progress known to the college as a whole. In this way the summer and winter student’ groups may be brought more closely together than they are at present. ciel ceaieiadiaiaidadiaaamiaiaeeieaaaiiiiaiie ane ALICIA MARSHALL announces A Christmas Nook of unusual and moderately priced gifts. Your order may be charged to pay day account. 42-44 E. Lancaster Avenue Ardmore, Pa. wscaccaine CORR — —_ It's Parisian! 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