~ . change. > Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS’ = 2 yg ns Alumnae Comment On the Days of Yore A Return to Beautiful, Good And .True Fires Erstwhile Undergraduates COLLEGE JUST THE SAME Although the Alumnae Weekend was as long ago as Lantern Night, the alumnae’s undeleted impressions have only recently been immortalized in prose in-the December issue of the Alumnae Bulletin. But thanks to the charms of faculty, students, and cam- pus, and frantic efforts on the part of all the three to retain the old spirit and at the same time to reflect a feel- ing of change, the alumnae had a rollicking, fine, darn good time, to use their own words. One (1902) even went so far as to entitle her article Paradise Regained. Opinion through the years could be compared to a graph of the move- ments of the New York Stock Ex- It covers a period of 41 years, with bursts of enthusiasm re- curring like depressions,” and a cer- tain wave of cynicism yisible around 1933. 1933 is still in the ugly duck- “ling stage, half dust, half deity, it is fearful to return to a college, which _might not recognize* it... 1856 is too “old to care. 1937, the happiest of all alumnae, has not yet felt the cold shroud of forgetfulneg$, and being by now a quarter-dgity can be duly superior. Whatever the natures of the alum-, nae before their arrival, they all went home in a thoroughly rosy humor. Everything had been idyllic; one con- fessed that the general effect of the week-end, of Bryn Mawr in fact, was _- renewal of ideals and a restora- on to “faith, the good, the true, and beautiful.” All the undergraduates were good, true, and beautiful except the College News reporter, who appeared slacks (“her hair was faultless, how- ever”) ; and 1896 seemed to think that the seniors’ showed extraordinary re- straint. Instead of bursting into in- credulous guffaws, “not an eyelash || moved when they learned that one or two of us took our degrees in the last century.” In the good old days of Victorian inhibitions there would have been a batting of eyelashes. equal in volume to a sudden flight of part- ridges. Change for the better; not onlyare--we~ good comrades (1896), but we are more natural, less sophisti- cated, and can sing the College Cheer with unselfconscious gusto (1929— another rather natural era of cynic- ism). In spite of changes that have come, presumably with the final emancipa- tion. of woman, sensations remain the same. its peculiarly romantic character, even though it is no longer given on Den- * ; bigh Green; people still brew after-}. noon tea, though we could swear that; the whistling kettle was not inyented before 1933. All kinds of new “puild- ings are popping ‘up, but the Library smells the way it did in 1929... Bryn Mawr is always kept : from: being. any- thing but Bryn Mawr," “because ‘its!’ turnover is so gradual. It may be “po ing forward again to yet another new day,” but the new day is not going to surprise anyone, even if we come back for an Alumnae Weekend in 1978. There is one thing that we think -might-surprise “1929, though. “Pric- tically invisible,” she says, “are the staked-out premises of the new dormi- tory.” Time marches on! M. R. M. Tasty Sandwiches—Refreshments Lunches 35c Dinners 50c-60c We make you feel at home - | Bryn Mawr Confection (next to Seville Theatre Bryn Mawr e2 =~ east : » ‘ —s GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Gancaster Avenue le, Ae ee week thd to take care of your’ parents ce eeetery se Teditge ited ee ae in|’ Lantern Night still preserves| — Joint Christmas Carol _ Service to be Dec. 12 B. M. and Church of Redeemer Will Sing in Goodhart On Sunday, December 12, at 7.45 p. m., in Goddhart Hall, the combined choirs of Bryn Mawr College and the Church of ‘the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, will give a Christmas Carol Service. There aré some 60 members of the Bryn Mawr undergraduate choir, 30 of the’ Church of the’ Redeemer, a mixed choir of men’s and women’s voices, making a total of ninety. Ernest Willoughby, Director of the Bryn Mawr College Choir, and also organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Redeemer, will direct. Recognized as an authority on choral music and its presentation, he has de- veloped these-choirs to a high level artistically and to a very definite mu- sical authority. : The speaker will be the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., LL.D., President of the. Union Theological Seminary, New York City. ‘The program is as follows: The Holly and the Ivy. :..Traditional Christmas Day Gustav Holst (A Choral Fantasy on Old Carols) Wassail Song Vaughan Williams Born Today (Five part» Motet) Sweelinck Lo, How-a-Rose E’re Blooming - Preatorius Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby William Byrd (Church of the Redeemer Choir) Sleep Baby Sleep Czech Carol (Bryn Mawr College Choir) Carols for Congregation and Choir: O Come All Ye Faithful Hark the Herald Angels Sing Good Christian Men Rejoice While Shepherds Watched * Their Flocks God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Silent Night, Holy Night The First Nowell eeeeeeer This paper ‘welcomes letters on timely topics of interest. E. 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All groups of children next summer. < Herbert Miller S peaks On “Racial Minorities” Continued from Page One people want_is the language of instruc- tion.” Discrimination against any race or speech.in Russia is prohibited by strictly enforced laws. — The problem is even more serious in central Europe, where geographic racial mixtures predominate. The minority situation of three million Germans in a country of fifteen mill- ion Slavs has evoked difficulties be- tween Germany and Czechoslovakia. The formation of new states is of little avail, merely reversing the po- sition of the exploiters and the ex- ploited. Imperialism is another source of trouble, as it involves the taking over of an alien group by a foreign government. Russia seems to hold the only solution, and even with the gen- ‘eral application of her plan it will be many generations before the prob- lem can finally be solved. bes Phone Bryn Mawr 809 Bryn Mawr Marinello Salon National Bank Building Bryn Mawr, Penn’a PERMANENT WAVING Beauty Craft in all its Branches Varsity*Faculty ‘Hockey Game December 2.—The Varsity-Faculty hockey game cam hardl¥ be called a hockey game, and the faculty team hardly a faculty team—it consisted of six faculty and five. student substi- tutes. The score was 4-0, in favor of the varsity. We need say no more. Guide Book Prepares Yalemen for Gay Life Continued from Page One white-haired boy,” Smith haughtily warns them that if they don’t come across with six green orchids they are heels. It pains us to admit that the Bryn Mawr article is also coyly phrased, and college festivities are unfortu- nately described as “cozy affairs.” Embarrassed for lack of dazzling “proms,” the writer fell back on ecstatic recommendations of the Ar- a tone of worldly-wiseness which the other, more collegiate articles, lack. Most fittingly, therefore, the account of a Bryn Mawr weekend is followed by an article on New York At Night by Sherman Billingsley, the managing director of the Stork Club. This is merely a comprehensive lists of “‘don’ts” for the undergraduate night- cadia and the Barclay thus imparting) Christmas~Party “at the Deanery on Monday, December 13 Supper served at seven Christmas Carols by _ the Maids and Porters, Tap Danc- ing, and a Short Skit by certain members of the Faculty and Ad- ministration, entitled The Marxo Lecture or Mrs. Swinbu Comes to Town, by Miss Lap- rence Stapleton. Roger H. Wells is the stage manager and Wal- ter C. Michels is in charge of the lighting. Admission including’ supper $1.25. After 8.00 p. m. $0.50. For Supper R. S. V. P. to the Deanery before December 11. clubber, a typical one being—“Dont_ make a date with*a girl in the chorus of a night club until you have a ehance to’see her in her streét clothes without make-up.” (How?—Ed.) One or two handy guides to night life, and mileage charts to interesting points complete the little book’s con- tents; and we feel it necessary to add only that the proof reading has been extremely desultory and that the -sys- tem of continuations is so complicated that it leaves us enervated. J.T, CO. Samdal of Stim . _ This low-heeled slpper’ will carry you in comfort through many an evening, of dancing. dyeable white satin-*11% gold kid---+-- so. 1132 1806 Chestrut anh Laat THE VISION... KEE- PING AN EAR TO THE IMPROVES ay: OO determine what is going They are atthe head hobbies. read a good newspaper. improves the vision. 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