wae’ a COLLEGE _NEws VOL. XXIV, No. 3 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA.; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937 Copyright TRUSTEES OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1937 PRICE 10 CENTS Council Discusses Freshman, Week, Also Final Exams | More Advising Upperclassmen And Entertainment ‘Needed In First Week LENGTHENING COLLEGE YEAR IS SUGGESTED President’s' House, October 14.— The success of this fall’s freshman week and last spring’s Comprehen- sives- formed the two main topics of conversation at the first meeting of the College Couri@il. Discussion fol- lowed supper in Miss Park’s living room, and at about ten o’clock, the members of the Council repaired to the dining..room, where Miss Howe ex- plained the blue prints of the new .dormitory which had just been. de- livered to Miss Park during the day. The undergraduates who had formed the Reception Committee for . freshman week felt that on the whole the four.days’ prégram had been sue- cessful. The, President, Miss. Ward," “and the girls who had stood guard ‘outside their offices all felt that the innovation of having those who live in the vicinity report a day earlier than the others for appointments was a good one. Everyone .agreed that the delays which did occur in the routine of appointments were una- voidable, and that freshmen in future years_should be warned not to make appointments with different people too close together. In the halls, some _ people felt, there should have been more upperclassmen who would not be busy all day, to give advice in between appointments, and to suggest things to do.. On the whole, Priscilla Little, 741 Class Chairman reported, fresh- men had found the time well filled, but she agreed with Sue Williamg¢ that Friday.evening was a rather “dreary spot” and that plans for some sort of entertainment might help’ another year. Miss Petts and Mildred. Bakewell said. that a Sunday morning walk seemed to have been much appreci- ated, and that. the tennis tournaments and hockey practices might be supple- mented by more walks next year. Mrs. Manning brought with her some statistics she had just compiled from the questionnaires given to last year’s seniors just after Comprehen- sives. .Her summary of the results of this questionnaire is published on p.—. Miss Ward Gives Report. On Freshman Statistics Varied Preparation and _ Large Number Distinguish 1941 Music Room, October 14 and 19.— Miss Ward, ‘in reading freshman. sta- tistics, revealed two interesting facts about the class of 1941. “The number of new students amounts to 144, which brings the college enrollment to 423, even greater than the 1929 high mark. These freshmen have been prepared by 99 different schools, a great ad- vantage because of the variation in their ideas and background. The differgnt plans for entrance also make it possible to admit fresh- men with varied preparation. Eight per cent were admitted under plan A, in which examinations in 15 subjects are offered. The majority of the class offered four examinations under plan B. A smaller per cent of the students entered on the basisyof rank in their class, on Regents’ Examinations and which requires no examination and no fulfillment of the required curriculunt. 7 The geographical distribution is split between 23 different states, the District of Columbia and three for- eign countries, but over 50 per cent of the students come from’ the “home quadrangle bounded by New York on the North, Washington*on the South and Paoli on the West.” Among the freshmen are 13 alum- nae daughters. Also significant in this class is. the low average age of 17 years and 10 months. lege no longer requires 20 whits for admission, it takes a year less to pre- pare for examinations. The score of the applicants, Miss Ward explained, is made up of two items; ‘the Scholastic Aptitude test, and the College Board Examinations, which are now reported on a scale of 809 instead of the former scale of 100. According to this method the student’s percentile rate is computed not individually, but in relation to the rates’ of all the other students throughout—the-country- who ‘take the examinations. The Predicted score is ‘worked out from a formula combining the Schol- astic Aptitude test and a straight average-of the College Board Exami- nations. It»represents the student’s probable ability in. college work. It does not pretend, ‘however, to predict a student’s maturity, industry, am- bition or intellectual curiosity, which are in themselves important in college Continued 6n Puge Three Continued on Page Six “O Tempora! O Mores!” Say Alumnae Recalling Cheering Galleries at Hockey “No literary comment so aptly char- acterizes comments gleaned from visit- ing alumnae as the old hackneyed out- burst, “O Tempora! O Mores!” Time was, they say, when hockey games were-played-before-a- cheering gallery; when woman’s suffrage was the prob- lem of the hour and wide-eyed stu- dents planned careérs—though trous- ers never graced the —— female form. Mary Mendonhall Mullin, 96, com- mented that 1937 students “are much more poised and at ease than we were.” She also thought that they were far better prepared for college -“academically than were her “¢ontem- poraries. . The night rules of the 1900’s had their finer points, as described by H Jean Crawford, ’02. Girls who had to spend a night in Philadelphia could stay only at the Christian Associa- tion. . Those who returned after dark on. the Paoli Local were not trusted to the escort of a mere “lantern man.” Instead, the so-called “Black Maria,” a horse-drawn bus, carried late revel- ers back to college. Extras, for the bus was small, sat on the roof, or even had to walk alongside in convict-like lines. j In the age of 1908 “a man was an - event on the campus,” said Dorothy ‘Strauss and Alice Sachs Plaut, both - of that year. It was flattering to hear that they thought the situation was|_ otherwise today. The katie of wom- an suffrage, rather than‘ those of world peace, were fought in conversa- tion. These alumnae were shocked at our ignorance. of the leaders in the struggle for Women’s rights, but ad- mitted that world affairs were out- side the ken of 1908 students. There was.one copy of the New York Times in: all Pembroke West. Dorothea Baldwin McCollester and Yvonne Stoddard Hayes, both gradu- ated in 1913, found three striking in- novations in present day Bryn Mawr: the painting and lighting in Pembroke East; the yellow tunics. of -the var- ‘sity; the braids of the freshmen. They ‘also found the freshman. Lantern Night song a great improvement over the various tunes which were chosen -| yearly by the newcomers in their day, and thought that it was sung better than the Pallas Athene of the Sopho- mores. : Mrs. Hayes, who was the European Scholar of 1913, related with some an- noyance that the sole music facilities, of the college used to consist of four little piano rooms in the basement of Dalton. No instruction was available. Art studies were’ probably not even mentioned in mixed company, and cer- tainly no such thing existed at Bryn Mawr. Music and art were officially frowned on, while languages. ‘and so- cial sciences ranked as the chief ma- jors. all on Page Four on the progressive school experiment |' Since the col- |. ~ COLLEGE CALENDAR - Thursday, October 21.—Doris Humphrey’s dancing class. Gym- nasium, 5.00. Friday October 22.— Senior Party for the Freshmen. Gym- nasium, Monday, October 25,— Third Flexner Lecture. Goodhart, 8.20. Tuesday, October 26.— Lec- ture by Professor The Svedberg. Goodhart, 8.20. Wednesday, October 27.—Lec- ture by Miss Gardiner on Her- edity. Common Room, 8.30. Thursday, October 28.—In- dustrial Group Supper. Com- mon Room, 6.30.’ : Doris Humphrey’s dancing class. Gymnasium, 5.00. Friday, October 29.—Denbigh Dance. Saturday, October 30.—Latin Play. _Goodhart;-8:20. : Monday, November 1.— Fourth. Flexner Lecture. Good- hart, 8.20. Ye, Tuesday, November 2. —Inter- national Club Meeting. Com- mon Room, 4.00. « ‘Wednesday, November 3.— _ Lecture by Dr. Miller on-Mas- yryk. Goodhart, 8.20. Senior Questionnaire Results-Made Public Many Constructive Criticisms Offered, Only Five Oppose Comprehensives/ BIG MAJORITY FAVORS | SPRING READING PERIOD (Especially contributed by Dean Manning.) . The questionnaire on the final ex- amination which all the members of [the Class of 1937 were urged to fill out contained six questions: The first on the unit of preparation, the second and third on the problem of the read- ing period and the final review, the fourth on thé examination papers themselves, the fifth and sixth invit- ing criticisms favorable or unfavor-, able and asking .for suggestions. Sixty-three out of 84 seniors who took the examinations answered the ques- tionnaire. Of these ‘only five mem- bers of the class expressed themselves as definitely opposed to the plan of the final examination iy the major subject. A number of 6thers, perhaps a half dozen, were se critical of the details of the plan that they would probably vote against the final exami- nation if they were asked to give a yes-or-no, answer. . The. great. major- ity of the class, however, have made criticisms which are thoroughly con- structive and seem to assume that. there should be some form of final examination and that it can be ad- ministered in such a way as to.ac- complish a useful purpose. Of the seniors who were opposed to the final examination as such, one of élass, remarks: “I can’t see that the|© final examinations are of much use. A reasonable amount of work in Continuea on Page Five Notice to Organizations The Planning Committee — wishes to re-explain the pro- cedure of reserving the Common Room for a meeting, and’of ar- ‘ranging for a speaker at- col- ‘lege. The speaker’s name must be submitted to Miss Park for approval first, then the-date of fhe engagement can be settled with Miss MacDonald, Miss Park’s secretary, who keeps the records of all extra-curricular events. The president of the Undergraduate Association » should ‘be notified next, and in - case Miss MacDonald is not,- -available, dates for the use of the Common Room may be ar- ranged with her instead. Miss Barnitz in the office of Public Relations is the person to -see _ ‘about arrangements for. tickets _ and publicity. \cloisters. . them, a very brilliant member of the. Lantern Night, Follows ' Traditional Ceremony Alumnae Throng Cloister Roof To Hear Greek Hymns Favored. this year. by clear skies and_no wind, the freshman class re- ceived its lanterns from the sopho- more class.- The ceremony. followed the traditional form: Seven seniors swung dark-blue lights arches of the cloisters while the sophomores filed in, swinging their scarlet lanterns to the rhythm of their Greek lantern hymn. Seven juniors with green lights then replaced the seniors in the arches as the Class off 1940 filed out, carrying its new lan- terns and. singing aopnies philae paromen. An unusually large crowd watched the ceremony from ‘the roof of the It included most of the alumnae staying at ‘the college for the weekend. Two of them revealed that their class—the Glass of 1924— would have been the first to sing the freshman lantern hymn, but that their Greek words had not proved quite satisfactory and had to be recast in their present form. Except for this, their ritual had been exactly the»same, “only,” as one of them put it, “we didn’t start on time.” After the presentation of the lan- terns, the four classes sang under Pembroke Arch. The freshmen initi- ated their class song—an unusually long one, set to the music of Mozart’s Magic Flute. When the singing was over, as many of the freshmen as could be captured went to the cloisters to pose for photographs for the Year Book. MR. SAUNDERS LENDS BARN TO PICNICKERS (Especially contributid by Mildred Bakewell, ’38.) When the great urge to hike, camp, and picnic struck the world “and Youth Hostels sprang up like mush- rooms over night, the Athletic Asso- ciation pricked up its ears ind start- ed an_ investigation of hiking and hosteling around Bryn Mawr. We were considerably dampened to- dis- cover that the nearest hostel was at Valley Forge, and that the first day’s walk was 16 miles. That, to those of us’ whose walking is done entirely be- tween Taylor, the Library, and the Greek’s, was a blow. We decided that what we really needed was a barn, and Miss Petts and: Sylvia \Evans spent much of their spare time, and some that was not so spare, in a vain search for one. It is surprising how difficult it, is. to find. such. a .common- place thing. Those that-they did find were too remote, or were monopolized by cattle. i Then, out of a hot summer sky, a barn fell into our very laps, so to speak, a barn that far exceeds all other barns, a very paragon of barns. Mr. Lawrence Saunders, the owner, has very kindly Oofferéd it to Bryn Mawr students for picnics, steak fries, eating spinach or anything else. The barn is exactly two “miles north of college, and is at the beginning of a trail through the woods to Valley Forge. There is a loft full of hay, there is running spring water in the barn, and a complete supply of cook-} ing utensils including a -charcoal stove. The Schuylkill river is .a stone’s throw—if you have a strong Continued on Page Two Dr. Aldrich to 5 péak Dr. Donald B. Aldrich, from New York, will speak in chapel this week. He will form a sharp contrast to the fundamentalist speaker of last week, not only. in his ideas, but also in his quiet manner of address. Dr. Ald- rich is ‘coming twice this« au- ber 7. He is well known in New York, and has given courses to many of the Brearley girls on campus, most of, whom have asked to have him here. He also gave the Baccalaureate address at the 1936 Commencement. from the] ing of-drama iti, the course. Panofsky Analyzes Piero di Cosimo’s Work, Character Finds Florentine Interesting Because of His Obsession For Primitive « PAINTER THINKS LINK TO NATURE ESSENTIAL Goodhart, October 18.—In his sec- ond lecture, Mr.: Panofsky described the work and analysed the character of Piero di Cosimo, a Florentine paint- er who was not great, but was par-*’ ticularly interesting because of his obsession for the primitive. This ex- cessive interest was expressed by a series of panels, representing the Vul- .~ can, Prometheus, and Bacchic myths, and the contribution of the three gods toward human development. oe The first painting of the Vulsen series shows a reclining youth being assisted by nymph-like maidens. The youth was thought to be Hylas, but in Piero di Cosimo’s kindly pieture there-is~n on the part-of-the maidens and re* luctance on the part of the youth, whiclk are usually associated with the Hylas myth. More likely, it depicts the first misfortune of the god, Vul- can, who was dropped from Mount Olympus, onto. the island of Lemnos. The nymphs.are something of a prob- lem.. Early Renaissance knowledge of . classical mythology: was drawn from post-classical sources, and Piero di Cosimo had a choice of either apes or sh teas for the upbringing of Vul- can. Boccaccio accepted apes, the al- asin) expression of the fact that man (in primitive form an ape) can- not live without. keeping fire alive. He quotes ‘Vitruvius, whose doctrine is not orthodox but Epicurean, a doc- trihe in terms of spontaneous pro- gress, and agrees with him in think- ing that the beginning of human as- sociation was made with .the discov- ery of fire. Boccaccio believed in “hard” primitivism, a bestial stage és- caped from by technical progress, as opposed to “soft” primitivism which idealizes man’s original condition. conceived of a spontaneous forest fire, the approach of some men and thé flight of others, the beginning of speech and the erection of houses. The classical representative of the philosophy of enlightenment: took this Continued on Page Six Movies Are Innovation For Freshman English Filnis’ to’ “Indicate © Technical And Dramatic Growth iacncn none (Especially contributed by Miss K. Laurence Stapleton and-Miss Bettina Linn.) A new approach to the problems of narrative and dramatic expression will be-made in the Freshman Compo- sition- Course with its first: use: of the moving pictures. Several famous movies will be shown on campus this semester ih connection with the read- grams, arranged with the cooperation of the Museum of\ Modern Art. Film Library, will include.examples of dif- ferent countries and ‘epochs in film- making, and of the work of a few famous producers.and directors. The tpurpose is to, show through‘ a simple study of film technique the important relationships between the movies and other modern forms of communica-~ tion. ‘i : The film, of course, will not be se- lected for their stars, nor to fiJl the screen in Goodhart Hall with ‘“G-men, He-men, and It-women. There will be no Mickey Mouse. The programs will show different screen stories, methods — of film_ ve, and some technical tumn, October 23 and Novem-—traeveropntiitets the use of the mov- ing camera, «cutting, and sound. “Be- sides dramatic films, one.or two docu- ‘mentary films will be shown. All students and members of the | faculty will be welcome in the audi- ' ence for a very small membership fee. Dates and titles will be oe in next week's News. “— € . evidence’ of aiiorousness - He. The pro- ° “\e « breaches of etiquette as we have all committed in the past. ‘that they are willing to leave it to the discretion of the individual how ay Page | Two THE COLLEGE NEWS = THE COLLEGE. NEWS _ (Founded in 1914) Published Noatiiy during the College Year 2 oo durin Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination Weeks of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by preraes Nothing that appears in it may bd Eseesnted either whally or in part without written permission of the Editor-in-Chie Se in the interest Pa., ane Bryn watt. -— Editor-in-Chief JANET THOM, ’38 “Copy Editor MarGERY C. HARTMAN, ’38 News Editor -ABBIE INGALLS, ’38 Editors ANNE Louise Axon, ’40 Mary R. MEIGs, ’39 ELEANOR BAILENSON, ’39 MARGARET OTIS, .’39 EMILY CHENEY, ’40 ELISABETH POPE, ’40 Mary DIMOcK, ’39 LUCILLE SAUDER, ’39 ‘CATHERINE HEMPHILL, ’39 BARBARA STEEL, ’40 MARGARET Howson, ’38 Isora Tucker, ’40 Business Manage ETHEL HENKLEMAN, Assistants "38 \ ROZANNE PETERS, "40 CaroLINE SHINE, ’39 » BARBARA STEEL, ’40 disediine iiniigr Subscription Manager ALICE Low, ’38 Mary T. RITCHIE, ’39 Graduate Correspondent: VESTA SONNE Music Correspondent: PATRICIA R. ROBINSON, ’39 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.60 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 _ SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office everyone applauds politely after each regular class. in general and all Bryn Mawr students in particular as mannerless boors, . working of the lights, such as occurred at the lecture a week ago. Never- “profound sleep: “Knitting; ‘chewing-gum;-and eating in -elass are also reanoaia ; - wo90,” ‘I believe its source is to be Out Damned Spot If seven erasers with seven erasers should erase for half a year, do you suppose, Miss Terrian said, that they could erase the library books clear? Perhaps they could if eager doodlers, eager underliners, did not hover harpy-like over every new book, every freshly erased book, in short, every virgin. margin with such a psychologically inexplicable horror vacwi. Miss Terrian and her army might as well fight against a horde of locusts. : Innumerable ‘exhortations seem 1 to have no effect: Wild suggestions from students who love to see their own ideas on the importance of passages, and their own devastatingly witty.comments imperishably etched with hard pencils on glossy surfaces, continue to be endited upon the purified pages. -Mere remarks, hastily splashed from damp brains, obliterate the eons’ work of Flexner and Eliot, Nahm and Plato, Weiss and Aristotle, Chew and Byron, Sprague and Shakespeare, Carpenter and Andrews, Linn and Hemingway, Meigs dhd Alcott. Who are they, those loose-wristed, blotterless ink-splotchers, to drool their pens in and out of the well-laid plans of these minds? . News records show that we first erased Volume I. Copy 2, page 137 of Taussig about 45 years ago. ‘Today page 137 was rubbed away. And Taussig the man still writes. We have rapidly calculated on our type- writer, and all figures point to the deplorable fact that in 1997, about two stacks in the library will contain books, and these will be encyclopedias and one Sanskrit dictionary. The New Wing will be empty. Pitiful, isn’t it? :; Next year there will be many more students. The books will be used even more continuously and ‘AMUst NOT BE MARKED EVER AGAIN! + &. o ~ Lecture Manners In the British Universities the undergraduates stamp their feet to show their enthusiasm at the end of a good lecture. In the Sorbonne In the American colleges, where informality is always the keynote, the students leap up when the bell rings, putting on coats and picking up books, regardless of whether the lecturer is still speaking or not. The purpose of this editorial is not to brand all ienteivan students but merely to suggest that a little more attention to the social conven- tionalities at future lectures would not conflict with a tradition of toler- ance and laissez-faire. This is not to say, moreover, that there will not always be certain little minds which will delight in the incongruity of a slide-put upsidedown in a lantern, for instance, or a sudden defect in the theless, we do maintain most stolidly that there is no need to guffaw when a professor makes:a mistake, to walk out of the room before he dismisses a class, or to reeline on the desk, head down, in an attitude of unattractive and distracting procedures. We suggest that it is more polite to maintain throughout every professor’s discourse, an attitude of strict attention, and to move the pen on the page as if taking notes, even if drawing pictures discreetly, or copying Gray’s Elegy over and over. Then, too, the more notes one takes, the more attentive one actually is, the more interesting ene dis- covers one’s classes to be. We have tried it, ourselves, and the effects are startling. On the whole; our professors have beer DP toleran>: ggpsach They show ne she may get out of their courses, but they must feel strongly that he arance of attentiveness on the part of their audience would be aubelashegliy encouraging. “Pitch” comes from “Pine”—possi- bly not the emotion, but the tree un- der -which the activity was practiced. I cannot believe that “Woo” has any- thing to do with courting, but it is a poetic interpretation of the-cry of the ‘screech owl, frequerttly heard at that hour. . PUBLIC OPINION not as- atement or pinion: tole g in this cohen ) Dear Editor: hole reference to your recént in- -verb “to pitch} | The Editewial. Sincerely, : One® of the Enlightened. _ Dear Editor: We consider it, extremely ill ad- in ee eereie) eee Carolina. | EXCERPTS FROM EXILE The Course of Study at Tours The purpose of the courses at Tours is to perfect. us in the French language—written and spoken. The courses are in phonetics, dictation, conversation, explication de texte, and composition. There are weekly lec- tures in literature, history, and art. On ‘our arrival in Tours we were given placement tests to place us in groups of our own level.. Great em- phasis is put on improvement, and every two weeks the groups are changed; thus, for example, you may improve in conversation and, at the end of two weeks, be put in a higher group; while if you have made too up to the rest of the group, you are put in a lower one. The virtue of this syste given work fitted to your ability; but it is somewhat upsetting to the nerv- ous system, when, just as you are get- ting used to one class; you are taken out of it and put in another. , As to what actually goes on in the classes: in phonetics we are taught how to pronounce: types of words which are usually ‘difficult for Ameri- cans, and to put the proper emphasis on words when reading. Dictation consists merely of writing under dic-} tation and then correcting what one has written. It is supposed to be a very good method of teaching spelling and new words. In conversation, we are reading a play and discussing it; however, what one does in this class varies somewhat with the groups; in some, one has, to make short speeches. But the idea is to speak so the pro- fessoy may correct mistakes. ~E xpli- cation “de texte is a type of study pe- culiar to the French. It consists of analyzing a passage about a page long, finding its central idea and show- ing how the author leads up to that idea,;"explaining the images, etc. The difference between this kind of analy- sis and one which we might do in America is that the French take a very small passage and take it up minutely word by word in composition. Each week we read a well known book which is related in some way to the Touraine, and write a composition on it. My professor tells me that people from all over the world come to France to learn its methods of composition. The most important things in French composi- tion are order and conciseness. The French people cannot forget that they are descendants of the -great Des- cartes, and they try to, be as clear as he in their way of exposing a sub- ject. So, before writing your compo- sition, you submit your plan for ap- proval. Throughout all. our courses great emphasis is put on the region in which we are staying—La Touraine—le jardin de la France—The literature lecturer discusses the author whom we are studying that week, who in- variably is a native of Touraine. In history we are studying, that period in which Touraine flourished and in which most of the chateaitx were aes and in the art lecture the details of the chateaux: we Ye to visit the fol- lowing Saturday are‘explained to us. The classes are a lot of fun in themselves, and our professors are ing; so altogether by the time we leave here to start our hard labours at the Sorbonne we should be pretty well versed in’ the French language, and should know thoroughly the coun- try of Touraine and iontributions to posterity. NANCY COOPER WoOoD. vised for members of the News board and the Lantern board to suggest a contest with our brother college in a field of whose nature they know abso- lutely nothing (so they say!). It is not in keeping with the traditions of _| Bryn Mawr College for its most rep- resentative students to embark upon a project before they have become fully acquainted with its principles. “Big League Pitchers.” ee toe SRA ptching| woo” has been received by the Nevpes| signed R. Gordon Phellps. A checkup of the name and address has disclosed | o discrepancies that lead the board to ‘suspect the letter is anonymous. How- nr gt a haa gear eo lished; if so. desired, when. and oo om reveals oe: a. many mistakes in dictatiorfs and ,aren’t. that you are always: Our most important work is done helpful and, some of them, very amus- YEARBOOK TO PICTURE COLLEGE LIFE AS WHOLE Cheek 38). will be not only upon the senior class, but also upon the three other classes and upon the campus organizations. Toward this end we are concentrating on the photographic work, and we ex- pect that by the time our book goes to and uncovered the campus. Our aim, in fact, is to have every undergradu- ate and every organization. represent- ed. For this reason the book wil) be unusually large. ) The staff of the yearbook wifl’ wel- come any suggestions from students. For example, we are eager to have camera shots of characteristic groups or of the faculty. These can be hand- ed in, already taken, to the photo- graphic editor, Alice Low, or’the idea submitted to members of the Nucleus Camera Club, who have been kind enough to cooperate with the board. In Rhiladelphia fe “Movies Stanley: Double Wedding,” a com- edy, with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Aldine: The Prisoner of Zenda, a Ruratanian romance, with Ronald Colman. Walnut: Damaged Goods,” a realis- tic drama. with Douglas Walton. Keith’s: Life Begins In College, a collegiate football comedy brightened by the Ritz Brothers. Victoria: Wife, Doctor, and Nurse, a hospital triangle, with Warner Bax- ter and Loretta Young. Boyd: The Awful Truth, a comedy of marriage and divorce, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. ’ Stanton: Over the Goal, a. football romance, with William Hopper. Earle: This Way Please, a musical romance, with Buddy Rogers. Fox: Heidi, the children’s classic, with Shirley Temple. | Europa: Mayerling, with Charles Boyd. Theaters . -Chestnut: Between the Devil, with Jack Buchanan and Evelyn Laye. Forrest: Victoria Regina, Laurence Housman’s historical pageant, with Helen .Hayes. : Erlanger: May Wine, Sigmund Romberg’s operetta with Ilse’ Mar- venga. Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra: Eugene Ormandy conducting: Handel-Elgar: Overture in D Minor; Mozart, Con- certo in D Minor for Piano and Or- chestra (with Beethoven Cadenza); Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, with violin solo by Alexander Hilsberg. Local Movies — Ardmore: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Varsity Show, with Dick Powell. and Fred. Waring;. Saturday, Sunday: and Monday, Stella Dallas, wtih Barbara Stinwyck;~~Tuesday, Dance, Charlie, Dance,* with Stuart Erwin; Wednesday, On Such.a Night, with Grant Richards. Seville: Wednesday and Thursday, Borneo, by Martin Johnson; Friday and Saturday, Charlie Chan on Broad- way, with Warner Oland; Sunday and Monday, The Girl Said No, with the Gilbert and Sullivan Singers; Tues- day and Wednesday, Wild and Woolly, with Jane Withers. Suburban: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, The Girl Said No, with the Gilbert and Sullivan Singers; Sat- urday, Sunday and Monday, Wild and Woolly, with Jane Withers; Tuesday and Wednesday, request perform- ances of pictures not yet chosen. Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday, The Charge ofthe Light Brigadé, with: Errol Flynn; Friday and Saturday, Wild and Woolly, with Jane Withers; Sunday and Monday, Charlie Chan On Broadway, with Warner .Oland; Tues- day and Wednesday, The Girl Said No, with the Gilbert and Sullivan Singers. PSYCHIATRIST IS APPOINTED Dr. Génevieve Stewart has been ap- pointed Attending Psychiatrist to the college. She will keep office hours in Physician’s Office at the Infirmary Wednesday afternoons from 3, to 5.30 p.-m. Any student wishing to consult Dr. Stewart and unable to) come during her office hours, may make a. special —— at. bog Infirmary. , (Especially caneeented by Huldah The emphasis of the 1938 yearbook press we wil have covered, recovered, +] WIT°’S END (Note: In order to avéid literary altercations with Mess’rs Harcourt, Brace and Co. the editor thinks it wise to change the name of Lord Peter, Wimsey in the serial begun last week but one, to Lord Peter W----Y.) The Mystery of the Phantom Rings —Chapter 2. : If any student in Merion had been pressed to rise two hours before break- fast the next morning, she would have observed ‘a- slim figure crawling as- siduously across the damp turf of Merion Green, with reckless disregard for the impeccable pleats in his ‘grey Savile Row trousers. They - were chosen by his man B-- -- - - r as being appropriate for wear in a woman’s college, and were of a medium dark mixture with a discreet fawn-colored _| stripe. Presently: the “blonde young man pulled himself up painfully, removed the powerful magnifying monocle from his right eye, and murmured pettishly: “Pigeons on the grass, alas, on the grass, alas. No-«--no foot- prints I think.”, He met.the Warden\when she left the hall at 9.30-for her morning visit to the Infirmary, and relieved her of her pile of books.. “O Woman,” he murmured, “in our hours of ease----.” “Oh, hush, Lord Peter,” she mur- mured self-consciously. “Have you found anything?” , He shook his primrose-colored head, and fell into step beside her, humming an Elizabethan air in his light, reedy, tenor voice. A ffeshman_ shifted melancholily on her hard Infirmary bed, -and rising on_one elbow, peered out of the window to,catch a view of a slim-shouldered, long-nosed, quiz- zical eye-browed. individual. “You must go meet one of the Eng- lish professors this afternoon” the Warden remarked as they strolled back. to the hall together. “He loves England and he always likes’ to:be in- . formed about literary opinion South of the Humber.” Lord Peter assented graciously, but murmured that he would have to spend the rest of the afternoon rum- maging around in the stacks. “T’m a collector of old manuscripts, y'know,” he murmured, with an apologetic smile, “for the tear is an intellectual thing.” Mr. Saunders Lends Barn to Picnickers Continued from Page One arm—from the barn (no swimming because of chemical plants upstream) and if you go on throwing stones in other directions, you will hit open slopes that should warm the hearts of all those who-rush. to. the campus _hill . at the first snowfall to get in a couple of turns before the snow is all scraped off. The barn may be used any day of the week, and members of the AYHA can spend the night there as the barn is a Youth Hostel. The following rules have been made by the Self-gov- ernment and Athletic Associations in compliance with the regulations of the Youth. Hostel Association. Rules Governing Use of the Barn. I. Absolutely no smoking in the barn. If there is any infringement of this rule, we /shall have to give up the. barn. No smoking in the vicinity of the barn where there is any danger of a grass fire. All cienretios and matches must be extinguished. II. Students may not ine to the ‘barn alone. If planning to return after dusk, they must go in groups of not less than three. : III. In .good weather the charcoal stove must be used outside-of the barn. In bad weather it may be used under the shed behind the barn. The stove must not be uséd inside the barn un- der any circumstances. =] IV. Picnickers must .pay a fee of ao. TT Sains. Waite for the use. of the stove and cooking utensils. Mrs. White lives in the farm: house next to the barn, and has the key to — the chest containing the cooking uten- eae s A map showing the tecidion of the barn is posted on -the athletic bulle- tin board in Taylor. s ~ \ THE COLLEGE NEWS. Blinshsid Dighiies Processes of Mind Conscious - Sub - Gansciciis Link Is Subject for Philosophy Club Discussion ART,,SCIENCE COMPARED Goodhart, October 12.—The_ sub- conscious can be controlled and set to work on specific lines, said Dr. Brand Blanshard ‘at a meeting’ of the Phil- osophy Club. Philosophy cannot hope for that independence of voluntary attention and focal consciousness that is enjoyed in art, because for the artist, identities work below the level of explicit thought, and neither by in- terest or by discipline is he adept at recovering them, while the scientist must not only feel identities, but must define them and make them explicit. The control of the sub-conscious can be accomplished through practice and through accumulated knowledge. Practice reduces the attention and effort; the sub-conscious “takes over” and, to quote Rufus Jones, “we learn. to swim in winter and to skate in summer.” - Logical habits, possibly courses in Logic, are valuable in let- ting the sub-conscious work for you. The second means, through accumu- lated knowledge and experience, works well toward the same end, for they can be carried over in the sub-con- scious, when the memory of them has ceased. The influence. which this pro- cess of. accumulation -has is _ best evidenced in criticism, where stand- ards become as it were intrinsic, and do not need to be* rethought out. ‘From the-unconscious stores of mem- ory’ and instinct, intuitive judgment is derived.” The sub-conscious, is divided accord- ing to its- varying degrees of depth. First, there is a mechanism which works near the surface, of which one can become conscious by shifting one’s attention. Second, there is the pro- cess which results in seemingly fully conscious conclusions, but which is based on a sub-conscious process only revealed by some special method like hypnosis. Third is the stratum of | the sub-conscious in which the ma- terials used and the process of infer- ence are hidden. It is the stratum of repressions. Sometimes the pro- cesses-whith come to light in second- ary consciousness are themselves, but symbols of a further process of in- ference beyond reach of anything so far. Prince has stated that in this stratum, .under hypnosis, Civil Serv- ice Examinations can be taken. The effort of the scientist is con- scious, as compared with that of the artist: However, it cannot be thought that seemingly inspired achievements are always purely conscious, because many times the steps are unknown by), which conclusions are reached. Mr. Blanshard cited as an example the fact that Poincaré, suddenly pre- sented with a class of fuschian func- tions, represented the function by the quotient of two series, and . later found this identical with “the func- tions ‘of non-Euclidean geometry. We are-contributing to the char- acter of our sub-conscious whenever we do.anything at all. There are varying degrees of definitenes® in the lines along’ which the conscious can set the sub-conscious to work. With no particular problem in mind, it is possible to relegate to the sub-con- scious the task of starting creative activity into motion. If it does not bring’ a particular problem, jt may leave this undefined, formulating it only in general terms. Before com- mitting a problem to the sub-conscious, it can be specified as-far as possible. This will determine the structure of the’ problem after it has been acted upon by the sub-conscious. It was in this way that Coleridge composed the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, for these poems were derived, by an im- mediate and unconscious process, from | what Coleridge had read. ? For Henry James and Graham Wal- las, the conscious supplied:the scheme and the sub-conscious developed it. For Francis Galton the conscious sup- fragments plied and the sub-con- Delegates Will Attend ’ Labor Union Meetings Industrial Group Also to Hear Philadelphia C. I. O. Head Germantown Y. W.-C. A., October 17.—Plans. to send delegates to va- rious labor-union meetings in the city constituted the: main business of the first Industrial Group meeting. The Bryn Mawr delegation, headed by Martha Van: Hoesen, ’39, were guests of the Germantown organization which collaborates with the college group. Various members of the group will attend union. meetings with workers, and. then report to the group as .a whole the problems they found dis- cussed in the union. A closer and more realistic understanding, it is hoped, will result from this quasi-ac- tive participation. On the other hand, the. girls: who are in, industry hope to comprehend ‘their own~ problems more thoroughly from discussion of those of their companions and fellow- workers. Plans have also been made for the group to visit a number of industrial plants and factories im the vicinity. However, some of the largest plants are refusing admittance to all visitors as a result of labor interference. The next meeting of the Group will be a supper-meeting on Thursday, Qc- tober ‘428, in-the Common Room. At that time, Mr. Eddleman, head of the Philadelphia division of the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization, will discuss its aims and accomplishments. All subsequent meetings will be held, as formerly, on Wednesday evenings. Anyone interested in the work of the Industrial Group or in first-hand in- formation of current labor problems is cordially invited to attend these suppers. scious ordered them. Usually in artistic work, the “agony and blood and sweat” come first in the conscious analysis of the problem; afterwards comes the “ef- fortless tide setting in from below.” “Tl line up 100% with Camels,” says V. F. Gut- endorf, class of 40. “Smoking Camels at mealtimes and afterwards. gives me a mighty swell sense of well-being. Cam- els set me right!” “Camels went ’round the world with me. I’ll bet on them any time,” ’round-the-world re- porter, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, says. “With Camels, steady smoking’s a steady’ pleasure.” v “J have a long record as a Camel smoker—I’ve smoked them for many years,” Bill Tilden states. “Here’s one big point about Cam- els—they’re the cigarette that I've found doesn’t upset my nerves.” COSTLIER TOBACCOS IN A MATCHLESS BLEND... comets are maichies blend of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS—Turkish and Domes- tic. Skillful blending brings out the full flavor of these choice tobaccos. 6 e mms ca Peace Council President At a meeting of the, Peace Council Monday, October 18, Louise Morley, ’40, was .elected president. Comprehensives Are . x Discussed at Council Continued from Page One Many students’ gave useful sugges- tions which the faculty committees will consider, and most of. the specific objections arose from mistakes or lack of preparation which was inevi- table in the first year the plan was tried. Everyone was very interested in the general suggestion of adding a week to the college year. This would be impossible for this year, but might begin next year. A few days might be gained in June by shortening Com- mencement week, and the remainder by beginning earlier in the fall. The only trouble, with this plam is that. it would bring mid-years nearer to the Christmas vacation. Mrs. Manning suggested that these shouldbe a similar questionnaire for the second class, and felt that it was very valu- able, particularly since the questions were framed so as not to expect any particular answer, or to permit an answer of plain yes or no. Miss Walsh was interested in two papers which Mrs. Manning read by philosophy majors. She said that the mistake of the philosophy department was to assign no reading which wasn’t directly discussed in conferences; and that the purpose of the Comprehensive Plan of fostering. original work was somewhat defeated by the fact, that the department gave too much actual tuition. Miss Howe, and Julia Grant will have a meeting soon to try to work out some more liberal system of ex- changing for meals, so that students who: go out for dinner can sign, and guests can be invited in their place. This will merely be an extension. of the present exchange system, and will not.be able to go into effect at lunch when the dining rooms are very Page Three crowded, because students from the French and German houses have their meals in the halls. Mrs. Collins explained that’ the plans for alterations in the Baldwin School’s barn are almost completed, but that at present only 3,000 dollars of the necessary 20,000 dollar. fund has been collected. Because Bryn Mawr will use the building primarily for a workshop and studios, and because Baldwin wants it for a small audi- torium, a partition will be-constructed in the middle so that construction can go on at one end, while rehearsals continue at the other. The seats will be moveable, and a .sort of bleachers will be built to be put at the back of the hall’ when both ‘rooms are thrown together, so that the rear part of the audience will be able to see the stage. , ‘The studios on the second floor will be used by both Baldwin and Bryn Mawr and may not be com- pleted as soon as the ground floor if there is not sufficient money. The plans are now subject to the approval of the fire insurance company. The blueprints for the new dormi- , tory explained the mysterious pegged- out area between Goodhart and the Deanery. They show .a large two- wing building, with the uneven slope providing for a ground floor which will be partly above, and partly under ground. ‘A huge combined smoking room and game room,. soundproof smoking studies for each wing, and a laundry will be on this floor. The first floor will have the main entrance, four small reception rooms and one large “showcase” with dormer win- dows facing the President’s House. The dining room will be on the second floor. There will be single rooms for about three-fourths of the students, and double suites for the others. only bedrooms on the fourth floor will be in a tower. Since this building is built with college funds, Miss Park suggests, it would be appropriate to name it-like the other halls, after a Welsh county. Each wing could have a separate name, or it might be called (for instance) Montgomery, North and South. “Camels go big out our way,” says Charlie Belden, boss of the Pitchfork Ranch, Wyoming. “Cow- boys like that ‘lift’ they get - ‘out of,Camels.” “So many girls at college smokeCamels,” says Mis e- phine O'Neill, co-ed. “) ental work often affects digestion. I find Camels make food seem twice as good.” Copyright, 1987, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N.C. The famous parachute jumper, Joe Crane, says: “I’ve smoked enough Camels to prove that she n't frazzle nerves.” THE CAMEL CARAVAN now on the air. with a full-hour show! Includes ‘Jack Oakie College” ‘and Benny Goodman's “Swing School”! Sixty fast minutes of grand fun and © music. Every Tuesday night at 9:30 pm E.S.T., 8:30 pm C.S.T., 7:30 pm M.S.T., 6:30 pm P.S.T., WABC-CBS. Shree ee me The ~ s a ara / $- i ® “ ey } ae é ee, xii é Page Four | THE COLLEGE NEWS 4 é - 1 att ond > her class at Brearly went | t . 1] teat ae Varsity Team Score Surprise Victory : Visiting Alumnae Find Soe a a frog : oa : Isabel Foster, Founder “ Over Germantown Cricket Club, 5-1 Campus ‘Lif e Changed later (1922), only five did not go. A Of College News, Dies October 15, Hockey Field.—A small group of alumnae and _ students watched the Varsity hockey team win a surprise victory over the German- town Cricket Club, 5-1. Neither side scored during the first half, but at the opening of the second _period Bryn Mawr, led by Bakewell, who accounted for three of the Bryn Mawr goals, carried the attack to Ger- Lvs mantown, Bakewell received the ball] on a corner from Wyld, and shot it past the goalie into the net. A few minutes later Stokes took the ball near the 50-yard line, outdistanced and out- dodged her opposing backs to put it right between the goalie’s legs for a score. When another determined rush by the Bryn Mawr forwards brought the score to 8-0, the desperate German- town team rallied briefly to make one goal before the Bryn Mawr team once more took over the game. Bakewell and Stokes tallied:the last two goals. The varsity forward line worked to-| gether more smoothly and at the same time showed more determination in rushing the ball in the goal circle than did the second team in last Mon- day’s game. Their shooting ithproved in the second half, and they sent the bail into the corners instead of at the goalie’s pads. Line-up: : BRYN MAwR. GERMANTOWN. Carpenter...... To Wes ce ccdi cee ee ey Ae er A. Parry COM ois arc ne Oe Aen Cox TRAMGWOl!« joes vn cli des so vsesea Olas WIG ie bos ba0cce Wy aaa Perkins Seltwer. 2.05 64. Pisces si Oe MIVGUB ss cece ans 7s Ree er aren Brown MIAPSELL; css sketches A. Lewis Pens assess 1 en Oar ererar re Struck BW GIR. 65 Soho daaas oli see ck Town Leighton iii.6.. 06. cs eens 0. LRWIS Referees: Ferguson, Turman. Second Varsity Defeats Phila. C. C. Blacks, 1-0 M. Kirk of Bryn Mawr Tallies Only Goal in First *Half Oe 11, Hockey Field—The sec- ond varsity hockey team played bet- ter than usual in the first game of the season to defeat the Philadelphia Cricket Club Blacks, 1-0. The single tally was made in the first half by Marian Kirk. Early itt the game the Cricket Club team came close to scoring, when Beck, Bryn Mawr goal, fell down after stop- ping a hard shot, but luckily th bal was driven out of bounds. Bryn Mawr launched two determined attacks on the Philadelphia’ goal which were turned back by their goal-guard, but late in the first half Kirk came in from the wing to put in the winning goal. During the second half the play see-sawed between the 25-yard lines, and neither team seemed able to rush the ball through the opposing defense. Our forwards had little trouble car- rying the ball down the field, but once in the cirele they missed many. oppor- tunitfes to score. Several times they were within a few yards of the goal, '. where a determined rush would have resulted in a score, but they “hung back and allowed the opposing backs to block their attack. Ligon, center half, stood out in an adequate but undistinguished defense. She backed up her teammates depend- ably and showed good judgment in her passes to the forwards. The backs were able to check the opposing for- wards, but often failed to work to- gether to clear the ball out of danger. The line-up: JEANNETTE’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc. Flowers for All Occasions — 823 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr 570 PHILA. C. °C. BRYN MAwr: | GEG) "Carron PW cae Larzelere er eeeer. 5s... Pek ciss Fehr M. Meigs......... fe N Gallagher Or i rs 6k : Hee Reg Diston Hutchings...... hisses ee RO on iaae vs r.h..... Butterworth ADORNS 6 6. oi 83 Seis Bee vc es OOM is on bie ss 6.8 te) Ta nea Emlen Worse cece es Pana eee ae Tilden S. Williams......1. f...... Kenworthy Beck. .::; NRG Gi siisoscvesw Riegel Substitutions: Leighton for Beck, Lazo for Seltzer. Goal: Kirk. Referees: Mrs. Smith and Miss John. Second Team Defeats Merion Reserves, B. + Exhibits Little Vitality eamwork is Negligible October 18.—Bryn Mawr’s Second Hockey Team scored an easy triumph today ‘over the Merion Cricket Club Reserves which ended in a final score of 5-0. ,Although competition was slight, Bryn Mawr could have shown much more interest and vitality, than they did. The teamwork was negli- gible, and some of the time.two mem- GAYLON SHOP 58 East Lancaster Ave. ARDMORE, PA. < FURS ‘DRESSES MILLINERY and ACCESSORIES Complete Line of Junior . Dresses—Woolens & Silks: Attractively priced 5-0 4 $7.95 up A Great Saving on New Fur’ Purchases Restyle or Repair Your Furs at Lowest Rates Ard. 5230 Open Evenings | ma eee RR ager ma a —ecENS ‘ ~ _. FASH a OCTOBER pee Sule Pipe Cea NEW YORK showing of FALL. AND. WINTER for daytime, ‘sport, and gala evenings : MONDAY & TUESDAY —— —— IONS 25th - 26th Continued from Page One . In the parlance of 1913 “a college girl was a class below a society girl,” said Mrs. McCollester. Only five of bers of our team fought over the possession of the bell, while one of the opponents snatched it away from both of them. The backfield was quite powerful offensively, but when it came to defensive attacking the play- ers were slow and hesitant. It is to the credit of the forward line that during most of the game the play took place in front of the goal which Mer- ion was defending. , The score at the end of the first half, in spite -of a collision which temporarily affected our goalie, was 3-0. Two of the goals were made by Edith Lee, the other by Nancy Boyd, both of whom are freshmen. In the second half, Sue Wilson made. one goal, and Lee made the other amid frequent skirmishings in front of the goal. The line-up of the teams was as follows: _ Merion Reserves Bryn Mawr II EB. @erophar.. BR. We oes: K. Kirk M. Rulon-Miller R. I. ......S. Wilson By, CUT IO TE eke ss ee o.0 4808 N. Boyd Crees 6. Eecdhecieihs E. Lee A. Brown .... L. W. .... Hutthings A. Reilly ..... Wy Pe ese os oa King P;-Wood> <5 CH. vs - Mi iio A Read cccee. L.. Be. e506: My Wood M, Gallagher: RB 6 es. Vaux Rothermel ... L. F. .. S. Williams B, Paaler sce. Greer .s N. Beck Substitutions: Bryn Mawr, Taylor for lliams, Norris for Vaux, Lazo for Wood, Chatfield-Taylor for Boyd, Boyd for Wilson, Alexander for Beck. 1913 girl could not possibly come out and also go to college. The picture of Bryn Mawr in the war years is.a pastel version of Vera Brittain’s Oxford. At first, said Laura]. Branson Linville, ’15, undergraduates were “interested,” much as we are in- terested in the Spanish conflict—with the important difference that even at the beginning few people idealized pacifism. In order«tehelp, girls worked on the Bryn Mawr farm and helped can foods at Baldwin School, under the direction of Helen ‘Taft Manning, ’... A very few went abroad to nurse, and Eleanor Dougherty went to dance for the soldiers. When the United States entered, however, the college seethed with pa- triotism which: took the form of early morning group exercises and sings. At 7.30 the students, said Lois K. Jessop, ’20, paraded to Merion Green, two by two, lustily chanting It’s a Long Way to Tipperary and Keep the Home Fires Burning. Forming them< selves in serried ranks, they marnioev- ered a sort of feminised drill under the direction of a retired army officer. A sidelight on post-war feeling (or was it on current convention?) was uncovered in 1919, when students asked Miss Thomas if they might give adance. Her-reply, as quoted by Mrs. Jessop: ‘Absolutely — not. Who knows what the young men may have brought back from the trenches.’ ” The result: in 1920 the dance was finally given as a garden party—“because it was considered more proper than dancing indoors.” . “The moderns,’ alumnae of the ’30’s, made no statements to the press. Perhaps their attitude is epitomized in the unofficial exclamation of Helen Subscribe to The Sun through: MISS PEGGY McEWAN ~ Rockefeller Hall ~~~ Started Paper in 1914 “To Rival The Harvard Crimson” - Miss Isabel Foster, ’15, first editor. and originator of the College News, died on September thirteenth. After leaving Bryn Mawr she attended the Columbia school of journalism. Her ‘first- job was editor, business mana- ger, copy editor and all other posi- tions except type-setter on a small pa- per in Berlin, New Hampshire. _From this paper she went to the Waterbury Republican, where she was night téle- ‘graph editor, later becoming feature editor of the Christian Science Moni- tor and then an editor of the Hart- ford Courant. Before the birth of the News, two papers had flourished on the campus. The Philistine (1895-1903) and later the Tipyn o’bob (1903-1915). Both were humorous magazines which in- cluded the college calendar and‘ occa- sional news articles. In the fall of 1914 Miss Foster went to Miss Thomas and asked permission “to start a col- lege newspaper which would rival the Harvard Crimson.” Miss Thomas gave her consent but added thatthe paper could not live longer than a month. The college, she insisted, was so small that everyone knew every- thing that was going on. But the News prospered. ' .Miss Foster continued to work on the Hartford Courant up until two weeks before her death which was caused by leukemia. Cotton, ’37, as she walked into the library last’ Thursday. night, “My God, they all look as if they were asleep.” i __ THE COLLEGE NEWS } Page Five Mrs. Manning Reports On Senior Questionnaire Continued from Page One senior year. should integrate the work (of the major subject), and in those fields where it does not, the comprehensives turn out to be collec- tions of course examinations instead of integrations.” Another senior, majoring in biology, says: “If I am correct in understanding -the purpose of the final examination to be that of giving the student a broad view of the field as a whole, I think the plan ‘fails. I found that it merely added new details without the necessary generalities.” On the other hand, others in the Biology Department give the apposite opinion. “The com- prehensive system,” says one future M.D., “despite all the difficulties and distress which accompanied it this year, it must be admitted, seems a good system as a means to a. broad though certainly insufficient, general view of the major field. This system in the sciences is of great assis to those continuing in science ind particularly in medicine.” Another member of the class, who majored in Latin, says that her college educa- tion would have been vague and in- complete without- the final examina- tions; they were especially valuable for a person who decided late on her major subject; by the extra reading in the comprehensive unit she had gained an acquaintance and reading knowledge of all the most important Latin authors in the most fmportant periods. ‘Under the old system,” she continues, “I would have had two general courses in literature and a detailed knowledge of: Tacitus ‘and Cicero, which would not have been a vefy adequate Latin education.” She adds that there is a great deal to be gained from working by oneself and by forming opinions in informal dis- cussion with the. particular member of the departmept who has specialized in one or another branch. “It is a more mature way of learning,” she concludes, “than simply taking lec- ture notes, and a way that one ought _ to use in later life independently.” In criticizing the unit of reading and preparation required by the de- partments there are, of course, many comments on the amount of work re- quired, complaints in some depart- ments that too much was required and in other departments that not enough was given. One of the most frequent of the criticisms of the plan as a whole is directed against the lack of uniformity between. .depart- ments. In general, the majority of the class seemed to be strongly in favor of a very regular system of conferences, beginning early in the fall of the senior year or,-as a few recommend, in the junior year, and continuing at least as often as every two weeks throughout the senior year. Individual conferences would seem to be preferred to-group-conferences, al- though too few opinions were ex- pressed on this point to justify any definite generalization. On the difficult problem of the reading period and the review period . 87 of the class expressed themselves definitely as in favor of the reading R. Frost to Speak ~~, Haverford College invites all who are interested to hear Rob- ; ert Frost speak on Poetry and read some of his poems on Mon- day, October 25, at 8.15, in Rob- erts Hall, on the Haverford q | | i | 1 ‘that two or three of the seniors sug- campus. | period at midyears. Many of these stated that it was an excellent time to make a survey of the situation, to plan one’s ‘work for the rest of the year, and to catch up on tasks in which one had fallen behind. On the other hand, many of the 387 also urged strongly the need of a review period or a sécond reading period in the spring, so that in all 52 out of the 63 answering the questionnaire were | in favor of a definite period in’ the spring free from other engagements to .prepare for the final examination. In this connection it should be noted gested having the examination in March or April—as e| phrases. it, “when the weather —is cooler and there is more time.” Shé| adds: “It would be easier for the pro- fessors to make up their usual mid- semester quizzes than (to make up) the ordinary term examinations for underclassmen, along with the com- prehensives.” Another suggestion made by several is that the college year should. be lengthened. One senior was in favor of this change in order to give a full week free be- fore the beginning of the examination period. Another recommends it in order that the scheduling of quizzes, term papers, and examinations ‘shall not come so close together. In commenting on the omission of examinations ‘and the arrangement for special senior quizzes, there. were many and varied criticisms. Some seniors urged that nothing should be studied in the senior year except the major. subject. Others deplored the fact that electives and course work had be subordinated to the prepa- ! ration for the examination.’ One or | two people remarked that it was not; fair that seniors should be exempted from course examinations if the un- derclassmen. took those examinations. One suggestion strongly urged by a number that all reports and course papers should be completed early in the spring—in other words, either be- | fore or at the end of the spring vaca- tion. In answering the question with re-| gard to the examination papers them-; selves, most of the class expressed | satisfaction with those papers, and there seemed to be an almost universal feeling that they were fair and not too difficult. There .was a certain amount of criticism, however, on the score that the questions were too much like the questions on course |. examinations and did very little to encourage -a broader view of the major subject. Peggy Dickson BARBIZON TAILORED SLIPS. .- Seville Theatre CAMPBELL-WILCOX FROCKS. Tasty Sandwiches—Refreshments || Lunches 35c Dinners 50c-60c We make you feel at home | \follows: one of thém|~ LATIN. PLAY CAST The Latin play. this” ear will: be presented on thé evening of October 30 (no charge for admission). The |play is What a Warrior, translated by Alice John, ’39, from the “Miles Gloriosus of Plautus. The cast is as q Artotrogus, a parasite M. K. Wheeler, Pyrgopolinices, the soldier P. Curtis, T. Ferrer, "40 740 "40 Sceledrus, a slave B. Bigelow, ’39 om the soldier’s neigh- Palaestrio, a slave bor E. Matteson, ’40 E. Emery, ’40 Acroteleutium, a courtesan re A. John, ’39 Pleusicl€s, a visitor a | Philocomasium, the soldier’s mistress M. Kirk, ’40 Milphidippa, Acroteleutium’s maid M. A. Sturdevant, cs "40 H. SCHUMANN, PIANIST, GIVES DANCE LECTURES (Especially contributed phine Petts.) Mr. Hans Schumann, of the Mu- sic Department of the University of Pennsylvania and musical director for the dancing classes at Bryn Mawr, by Jose- will lecture at Bryn Mawr this year] f on What to Look for.In Dancing. Mr. Schumann has had wide experience in playing for darfeing in Munich and Vienna, and is a serious student. of the dance, particularly in its relation to music. being translated year. Professor R. G. Schrey, of the Academy of Music, has said of this book: thought direction which.sees the pro- gress of human knowledge and feeling in the re-uniting of science and art with philosophy and religion.” The course is designed to give the student of dancing and the layman interested in the subject, a critical background with which to judge this increasingly discussed field of our contemporary culture. The lectures will be given at five o’clock on Mon- days in the Gymnasium. Everyone is invited to come. 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At the same meeting elections were held: Marion Greenbaum, graduate student, chairman; Joy Rosenheim, FRANCYS Gowns and Dresses } } } \ 17 East Lancaster Avenue ARDMORE, PA. Breakfast Lunch MEET YOUR F RIENDS. at The Bryn Mawr College Tea Room | for a fo SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P. M. For Special Parties, Call Bryn Mawr 386 40, secretary ; Martha Van Hoesen, "39, treasurer. Other elections to the executive board. were: el Mann, 38, Speakers’ Committee; Agnes Spencer, ’39, Literature Committee, and Mary Dimock, ’39, as News repre- sentative. Alice Fergusen;~graduate student, gave a brief talk on the A. S.. U. chapter at,Oberlin College, where the educational theme has been predom- inant -and very successful. | E. Foster Hammonds, Inc.,) 829 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr ‘ Phono Records — Radio | “CORRECT SPORT CLOTHES” Inviting Freshman. 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EVENTS (Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick) Stocks took a spectacular nose-dive ‘this week, and though there seems no reason to believe that we face another 1929 crisis, confidehce counts for much in stabilizing prices, Winthrop Aldrich, of the Chase National ‘Bank, attributes the present ' fall largely to government inter- ference. The governnient™ insists upon publicity of accounts and re- quires that companies buying up their own stock to keep the market steady pay the profits, if made in the firstT six months, back to the company. An- other: alleged cause for the fall is said to be reassuring government statements. Such announcements al- ways cause owners to doubt the se- curity of their investments. Foreign investors buy a _ large amount of American stock when their own markets are down, and sell when they go up. Huge sums which ¢an- not be checkéd. because they. are bought through New York offices, are spent in this way, artificially stimu- lating _and depressing’ our market. ~ Roosevelt proposed 4 tariff on foreign buying, but businessmen prefer to have a quanity rather than a quality * ‘market. In his tenth “fireside chat,” the President presented two ideas for the improvement. of business: A Wage EE ¢ & and Hour bill which was: passed by the Senate this summer, but blocked") Democrats in the House. Money paid in wages gets into circulation more quickly than profits of business men, who often’ leave money uninvested. When labor has more buying power, production, is increased and more people: are employed. Big business objects to this theory on the ground that companies need profits as re- serves. The second plan was curtailment of farm production. A big crop makes prices drop and decreases the farmer’s buying power. Roosevelt advocates a stale granary, called by his oppo- nents. economic «starvation. The farmer should, he thinks, have as much right to lessen production when ris- market is glutted as’ the’ manu- turer. ' Be'gium has agreed to call the Nine-Power Conference, which , will be ‘held on. October 30 in Brussels, where we. shall be represented by .Norman. Davis and Stanley Horn- beck. Whether England would sup- port an economic boycott of Japan is not known. The Liberals are urging ‘the governii@ft to intervene,’ in spite of the Conservatives’ fear of Chinese Communism. Mussolini has agreed to withdraw 5,000 men from Spain if England, France, Russia and the United States will do the same. ' This-would be easy for Italy fighting in units, but almost impossible for the Loyalist supporters who are scattered across the Spanish front. This week France threatened the Italian dictator if he did not with- draw his troops, but he called their hluff and did nothing. Our advertisers are reliable mer- by the Republicans and Southern |, » Migs Ward Gives Report On Freshman Statistics Continued from Page One studying. Neither can the formula include the school records or recom- mendations which lead to a certain amount of guesswork in the compila- tion of the final figures. When the score is checked every year, it is found that the majority of cases show a deviation of not more than three points. There are, course, isolated cases which. differ even as much as 20 points either above or below the predicted score, showing that the figures are by no ‘means in- fallible. Although they are kept on file in the Dean’s office they are never held for or against a student, but are maintained -merely for purposes of educational studies. Of the entering class, 47 have an average of 80 or over in their pre- dicted scores, 12 of these having 90 or over. In the Scholastic Aptitude 25 had A. i Twenty-eight freshmen entered with three or more foreign languages, four with four languages and one with five. Seventeen entered with advanced mathematics. Twenty-five graduated first in their classes at school, although the list cannot be complete because some schools fail to report that fact. The incomplete list is as follows: Wynch- wood, Miss Sayward’s, Seiler, Hagley, Horace Mann, Dalton Academy, Kemper Hall, Girls’ Latin in Chicago, Derby Academy, Buckingham, Ger- mantown High School, Foxcroft, Rose- mary Hall, Miss Harris’ Florida School, St. Timothy’s, Pennsgrove High School, Lowville Academy, Nightingale-Bamford, Westlake, Mid- dletown, Ethel Walker, Colegio Puer- torrigueno de Ninas, P. R., St. Jo- chants—deal with them. every part Chesterfields stand ace high. It’s a cinch they’ve got what smok- ers like. You'll you'll enjoy that Chesterfield taste. ia WV ith smokers in of the country find them milder... Remeron SE eeeEEEEE seph’s Academy, St. Margaret’s. of. : Panofsky Discusses Florentine Painter ° Continued from Page One point of view, and the artists of the time depicted it. Piero di Cosimo’s second picture is closely related to the first, for the subject of it is also a Vulean story. Here Vulcan is shown as the arch- horseshoe at an anvil. Aeolus, the god of wind, who was thought of as Vul- can’s partner in business, since fire and wind are both suitable to a blacksmith’s work, appears ‘ seated with his wineskins. In the center is a primitive building made of unsquared tree-trunks. A sleeping youth and an ideal social group of man,’ woman and child has a connection with Vul- can’s personality; the dawn of a new day symbolizing the dawn of a new civilization. of Two. Promethean panels are pést- scripts to the Vulcan series. In the same way the imagination of*the artist is céntered in the awakening of hu- manity, but now civilization- has sur- passed the primitive: and the techno- logical phase of man’s evolution is completed. The third group of panels depicts a phase of human history which pre- ceded Vulcan’s teaching, the age of stone versus the age of metal, where the ruling principle is unfamiliarity with fire. The mutual destruction of the Hunting Scene gives way to con- structive aetivity and the subsiding of proto-human passions in the sec- ond and third panels. Strange _half- beasts still appear, but Lucretius had a theory that such animals really ex- isted. At ahy rate, all the pictures were probably conceived together and craftsman and. teacher, hammering a|. were executed for the same person, so that one comprehensive cycle would be formed. — mf Since Bacchus. also was a civilizing influence, Piero di Cosimo depicted his cpntributions in other paintings. In one“of these we see Silenus, has fallen off his donkey in an at- tempt to get honey from a hornet’s nest; in the second, the meeting of Silenus with Bacchus and his cor. tége. The artist has interpreted Ovid’s scenario in a highly personal manner, though Michaelangelo was later to sense trag¢dy in di Cosimo’s representation. In particular, he uses the paysage moralisé, where peaceful scenery is contrasted to harsh, or, abstractly, pastoral civilization to the crudeness of primitive life. To Piero di Cosimo civilization meant happiness as long as man kept in contact with nature. This is an unusual attitude, but it explains hi$ life ‘as well asta all. He_hated to interfere’with ‘nature; he was en- amoured of her subtleties and despised the companionship of human beings. His philosophy is atavistic, .he does not idealize but realizes the first stages of the world. Mr. Panofsky in summarizing stated that we are con- fronted here with the subconscious recollection of a primitive who- hap- pened to. live in a civilized world. RICHARD STOCKTON Bryn Mawr GIFTS Sporting Books and Prints “necverecucemanenee ae .. Ace of them all Jor MILDNESS and TASTE Get your last minute football predictions and scores from EDDIE DOOLEY with PAUL DOUGLAS _ Thursdays and Saturdays \,, Columbia Network ee Copyright 1937, LiccrTr & Mygrs Topacco Co, % who - e A 4 q