ci. Fn | Po a - ee Z-615 “ee THE COLLEGE NEWS > No. 16 BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940 Copyri Bryn ht, Trustees of awr College, 1940 PRICE.10 CENTS VOL. XXVI, oC — Rubin Dario Leads Revolt of Modernists Dr. Torres-Rioseco 2 Cites Recent Trends In Latin-American Poetry Music Room, March 11. — Dr. Arturo Torres-Rioseco, in the fifth lecture of the Flexner series, dis- cussed The -Cosmopolitans—Ruben Dario and Modernism. The South American poets moved from a ro- mantic to a cosmopolitan and mod- ernistic trend in. poetry, followed after 1918 by a “post war” period. ‘The variety..of poetic interests re- vealed the artistic expression of the Latin-Americans, for, Dr. Torres- Rioseco said, although material wealth may decay, the countries ‘will never lose the splendid culture inherited from sixteenth and seven- tednth century Spain. Therebellion against romanti- cism which -was started by the young poets in 1882 resulted from a dissatisfaction with the over-exu- berance and tropical nature of the romantic poetry. The pioneers sought new worlds and wanted, above all, to be original. They had for their fundamental aim “art for art’s. sake” and, as their name “‘modernists” suggests, veered away from all traditional forms and con- ‘cepts of poetry. The French, who had long been the “masters of aes- thetic thought in Europe,” were in- fluential, but with a cosmopolitan outlook they also turned to Japan, Scandinavian mythology, Pre - Ra- phaelite England, Chinese symbol- ism, and numerous other foreign eultures, for their inspiration. Ruben Dario, one of the leading figures of the movement, turned + contemporary Spain to the iddle ages, then to Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Whitman, Poe and other sources for his poetic theme. Later, in seeking the meaning of Continued on Page Four Self-Government The Self-Government As- © sociation takes great pleas- ure in announcing the elec- tion of Virginia Nicholls for president next year. Reverend Stewart Leads League Group Man Must Seek to Approach Ideals of Christian Life In Non-Ideal World Common Room, March 9. “Christianity is dangerous,” stated the Reverend Donald Stewart, rec- tor of the First ,Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, North Caro- lina, in an informal talk opening the Bryn Mawr League Confer- ence. A picnic Sunday noon and a chapel service completed the con- ference. Pointing out the idealism of Christianity, Dr. Stewart demon- strategie that we must make an endless compromise between our ideals and the conditions of a non- ideal world. There is danger in taking refuge in the tranquility of the Christian faith. The relation of the church to the community is affected by the nature of man. Man is not spirit alone, but is subject to the needs of the flesh. Within- him there is a continual struggle between the pride of .human knowledge and power, and the fear of economic insecurity. “Rugged individual- ism usually results in ragged in- dividuals,” for society is built on man’s greed for power. The re- sult is always an unequal distri- Continued on Page Six 7 COLLEGE CALENDAR Thursday, March 14. Fannie Ratchford on The Web of Childhood, Deanery, 4.30. Industrial Group Sup- per, Common Room, 6.30. Friday, March 15.—Maids and Porters present Porgy and Bess, Goodhart Hall, - 8.80. Saturday, March. 16. — Basketball with Rosemont, Gym,°10 a. m. Porgy and Bess, Goodhart Hall, 8.30. Dance for the maids and. por- ters in the Common Room af- ter the play. German House supper before and dance af- ter the play. Graduate dance, Gym, 9-1. Sunday, March 17, — Art. Club tea and exhibition of Francis B. Hall, Common Room, 4.30. Chapel, music service, Music Room, 7.30. Monday, March 18.—Flex- ner lecture, Dr. Torres-Rio- seco on Social Trends in the Spanish - American Novel, Music Room, 8 p. m. Tuesday March; 19.—Cur- rent Events, Common Room, 7.30. Science Club, Mr. Pat- terson on Crystal Structure, Room III, Dalton, 8.15. Wednesday, March 20. — _ Biology department movies, biology lecture room, Dalton, 7.45. St. Augustine Fuses Faith With Reason Music Room, March 6.—In his third_lecture, Augustine and_Greek Thought, Mr.* Erich Frank traced the origins of the conflict between faith and reason to the philosophy of Augustine. Faced with the prob- lem of reconciling Greek reason with the mysticism and revelation of the Christian doctrine, Augus- tine passed through many crises before he was able to formulate the philosophy which established kim as the founder of Christian metaphysics. ; After Greek philosophy reached its climax with Plato and Aristotle, the various schools which arose Continued on Page Five Rosetta Stones on Taylor Desks Offer Fragments Rich With Literary Thought By Elizabeth Crozier, ’41 We have been presented with the raw materials of literature on the desks of Taylor where people have given intimations of their souls. These are the basic things. Nothing can be done with any reality or truth without them. And the kind of person that can be drawn from them depends entirely on the kind of expressions put down. Some will be better than others because they contain that ineffable quality that makes litera- ture great-or a phrase unforget- _ table, because it is piercing with ‘thought. Others will remain little more than statements of fact. Many things can be learned by the student of literature from the carvings on the desks in Taylor. For instance, the passing —scefie . and the moods caused by it can be detected by the changes in verse. ‘There jis an aroma of the naive past, an immaturity, in the follow- ing lines of verse, recognizable to the keen eye and mind as written many years ago (even without the _ external evidence : R. H. M. 1925): I’ve found a friend Oh, such a friend I loved him ere I knew him. Compare that then with the sharp |neatness and suspence of this Ger- man verse. The contrast is clear: Heute nur heute - Bin ich so schén .. . (The rest of this was lost because it was not cut deeply enough.) Then there is the attempt to es- tablish: spiritual communion § with the. other incumbents of the same seat. -At one desk, the attempt in- cluded -the whole day. There has spaces have been left for the dif- ferent hours. After eight o’clock K. Hepburn is written. From that one line alone, we learn the vastly| important fact that in the early *twenties classes began at eight in- stead of nine. All these things are interesting as indicative of many things, but}- most provocative and interesting of all are the inscriptions of people’s names. The plain-names and noth- ing more. They form landmarks Continued on Page Three | Ea aA Nae | dialectic. been. written, Who. sits here at, and]. Frank Traces Ideas of Faith, Reason Through Middle Ages Circle of Ph Philosophy Drawn From Anselm, Augustine to Hegel Goodhart, March 12.—‘‘The con- flict between faith and reason was the main stimulus of medieval philosophy and is still raging in one of its most decisive phases to- day,” declared Erich Frank in the last of his series of four lectures. Mr.. Frank traced the development of the faith-reason problem from Augustine to modern philosophy, showing how belief in religion has served to strengthen metaphysical theory. According to Augustine, we be- lieve in order that we may under- stand. The converse.-does_not-hold, although understanding is neces- sary for faith. Anselm, who lived at the end of the 11th century, was the most famous exponent of this idea. His chief concern was an ontological proof of the existence of God, which he based on faith. The philosophy of Abelard was based wholly on reason. Because he attempted to understand faith in a pagan way, comparing the trinity to the conceptions of Plato, his philosophy was resolved into At this time, Mr. Frank Continued on Page Six HEALTH PROBLEM TO BE DISCUSSED BY DR. HAMILTON Dr. Alice- Hamilton will speak on Health in ‘Industry at an indus- trial group supper Thursday night, March 14. Having engaged in an extended survey of industrial pot- sons between the years 1910 and 1921 for the United States Depart- ment of Labor and having been assistant. professor of industrial medicine School, Dr. Hamilton is particu- larly able to speak on this subject. | She is in addition the author\of a book on Jane Addams and several others on industrial conditions. at _Harvard-—-Medical}}- College Entertainment Discussed in Assembly Advisory Committee . Elected by Students Suggested as Cure for ‘a Overlapping of Lectures Goodhart Hall, March 13.—In the assembly entitled Time .and | Variety, Barbara Auchincloss, ’40; Virginia Nichols, ’41; Virginia Sherwood, ’41; Pennell Crosby, ’41; and Sheila Gamble,.’42; discussed the general dissatisfaction and problems relating to college enter- -tainment ber of events was not considered BRYN MAWRTERS MARK HIGH SPOTS OF NMU EXCURSION National Maritime Union’s Phil- adelphia local found its weekly: meeting invaded by ten landlubbers | from Bryn Mawr last Monday night. but of capitalistic appearance, were looked on with some suspicion ' at No. 7 South Street, until Kristi Putnam, ’40, flashed a Philadel- phia_C. I. O. Industrial Council membership card. Gathered in a prominent huddle on the front benches of the smoky hall, the Bryn Mawrters were, by acclamation, allowed to ‘listen— without ‘voice or vote.” The main issue of the evening, a problem involving N.M.U. investigation of west coast union strife, left the college representation somewhat lost, until the chairman personally clarified. the situation for them after the meeting. Most impressive feature of the meeting was the strict parliamen- tary procedure, which was not simply imposed by the chairman, but known and followed by the whole membership. Winding up the meeting, the chairman retailed the prize “beef” of the week: Bos’n Johnnie, carrying over 200 pounds and measuring five feet 11 inches, refused a berth with a U. S. Fruit Liner because the one offered was five foot six long and 26 inches wide. Author to Discuss Brontes’ Childhood! Miss Fannie. Ratchford will speak on The Web of Childhood in the Deanery on Thursday at five o’clock. The lecture shows how the game of Branwell’s wooden soldiers grew into Charlotte and Emily Bronte’s dream world out of which. came their novels. The talk) will be illustrated by manuscripts loaned by Mrs. Henry H. Bonnell, of Chestnut Hill. Miss Ratchford is is the librarian of the Wrenn Li- brary of Texas University, and is the author of Legends of Angria and Two Poems by Emily Bronte. Tea will be served at 4.30. Biological “Flicks” - “Phe biology department © will present three moving pic- ture films in the biology lec- ture room, Dalton, next Wed- nesday, March 20. The pic- tures show: Invertebrates of a coral reef, Invertebrates of the Gulf of Maine, and squid. All members of the college community who are. come. .~ Despite. the ae tendance at recent events, the num- The group, mainly A.S.U.| in the | ‘interested are invited to ||» too great. The speakers suggested the institution of a-:small effective entertainment committee. Such a éo- ordinating and advisory group could improve scheduling, and see that the places on the campus are put to better use and that better publicity is arranged for non-Good- hart entertainment. | Virginia Nichols, speaking on the choice of entertainments, sug- |gested that there be a better rep- * resentation of student opinion. She proposed a committee to consist of five members consisting of one sophomore, one junior, two seniors and one graduate student. The | president of the Undergraduate | Association should be on the board, {but should not act as chairman. | This group should bear more re- _ sponsibility than does the présent entertainment committee. Its chief function would lie in its advisory and correlating capacities. As an advisor, it would help to gauge student reaction to speakers and entertainments proposed by any individuals, clubs, or departments. The final decision would not rest with this committee, because of the mechanics of bringing a speaker to the campus and because of the lack of college funds for entertainment. _It would also act to correlate pro- grams of clubs, vocational commit- tees and entertainment series. “The problem is not so much to augment or decrease the present amount of entertainment,” said Virginia Sherwood, in her. discus- sion of the variety and extent in the present program, “but rather to create a balance.” In the past Continued on Page Six Ping-Pong Balls To Help Science: On Tuesday, March 19, there will be a Science Club meeting at 8.15, in Room ITI, Dalton. Mr. Patterson will talk on Crystal Structure. He plans to illustrate his talk with some #«welve dozen ~ ping-pong balls. Mr. © Patterson’s __ special field is X-ray analysis of crystals, but his lecture will cover the more general as- pects of crystal structure. Members of the Science Club are asked to remain after the meeting for elections. Art Club to Exhibit Hall’s Campus Views On Sunday, March 17, the Art Club will hold an exhibition of paintings by Mr. Francis B. Hall. Tea will be served. These pic- tures should be of interest to the college because the content is en- tirely campus views and affairs. Mr. Hall, who has long had.con-" nections with the college, has ~ painted every building on the campus and such events as the May Day procession and Parade Night. One particularly. interest- ing picture represents a night scene of two girls walking through Rock Arch with the Lantern — Mr. Hall held an exhibition in Philadelphia two weeks ago at the Business Men’s Art Club. He is rofessionally a tailor of English triding clothes, but as a hobby, he e a magician and an artist. Page Two ; y¥ ~ THE COLLEGE NEWS S THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) giving, Christmas Pa,, and Bryn Mawr College. Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanks- and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Weyns A. Crowper, ‘42 ExvizaBetH Dopoce, ‘41 a Joan Gross, '42 Outvia Kann, *41 Marcaret Macratu, *42 Photographer Littt SCHWENK, °42 Business Manager Betty WILsoN, *40 IsaBELLA_HANNAN, °41 RutnH Lenr, ‘41 Peccy Squiss, ‘41 N tected b ight. Nothing hat appate ah oes dag BPs e ter whelly, or ag greg without writtei? permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief > EmiLy CHENeY, “40 News Editor Copy Editor Susie INGALLS, *41 E*;zABETH Pope, ‘40, . ‘ Editors . Betty Lee Bett, *41 -TgsaBEL Martin, °42 M. BocatxKo, °41 AGNes Mason, °*42 “ B. Cootry, *42 RutH McGovern, ‘41 ELIzaABETH Crozier, *41 J. Meyer, °42 Sports Correspondent ~ CHRISTINE WAPLES, ‘42 Assistants Mary Moon, *40 Subscription Board Manager RozaNnne Peters, ‘40 HeLen Resor, ‘42 R. Rossins, °42 VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, °41 Dora THompPson, ‘41 Music Correspondent TERRY FERRER, *40 Advertising Manager RutH McGovern, °41 Betty Mariz Jones, *42 MARGUERITE Howanrp, *41 VirciniA NICHOLS, ‘41 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME MAILING PRICE, $3.00 Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office A way With “Requireds — Along side of the valuable criticisms of the required English lit. and philosophy courses which have been offered in the past few weeks, we believe a general revaluation of the required course idea is in order. The system has been backed chiefly on the grounds that it enforces a discipline in important, but often unfamiliar, methods of thought, or that it gives a basic background with which every educated person should be familiar. In passing, we would like to assért the opposing, if unoriginal, argument that neither a method nor a subject matter can be successfully taught a student whose interests lie elsewhere. But the main reason for abolition of the required system lies in the possibilities that. would be opened for a more systematic—and pleasanter—planning of each student's courses. The three units left free (we proposeto keep- Freshmen English) would give play for closer integration of a student’s major with allied courses, and of her specialized work as a whole with the general four-year product. The actual changes involved might run something like this: 1. A preliminary decision as to a general major field would have to be made by each student at the end of her freshman year. This would probably be a good idea anyway, and certainly should offer no great difficulty, or undue restriction, if the freshman had had more of her first year free to explore major possibilities. 2. In the light of the student’s expressed interest, she should, with a member of the faculty, plan what elective and allied courses would best fill out her background for major work. Since many freshmen are’ completely unknown to the heads of the departments in which they are interested, the Freshmen English instructors might be best qualified to advise at this point. The aim should be to select a fairly broad background course of study on which to base, or often to choose,-the particular field for specialized major work. 3, It would probably be-necessary to require-each student~to take at least two courses completely outside her major or allied field. Undoubtedly the present three required courses, Science, Philosophy, and English Literature, are of genuine value to many students—and to many who might never have taken them if they had not been required. The student's responsibility to select at least two real electives should not be lost sight of in a general rush toward speciali- zation. In Philadelphia THEATRES ERLANGER: Tobacco Road with John Barton and Mary Perry. FORREST: Katherine Cornell and Francis Lederer in No Time For Comedy. LOCUST: Margin For Error with Doris wt and Sheldon onto ALDINE: The , fi Dr. Ehr- lich’s Magic Bullet with Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, and Otto - Kruger. ARCADIA: Fred Astaire and _ Eleanor Powell in Broadway Mel- ody of 1940. BOYD: Raymond Massey and Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Illi- EARLE: Gone With The Wind, FOX: Grapes of Wrath with — story, Seventeen, with Jackie Coo- per, Betty Field, and Otto Kruger. KEITH’S: Northwest Passage, with Spencer Tracy and Robert Young. NEWS: The Princess Comes Across with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray. PALACE: Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne in Vigil in the Night. STANLEY: Strange Cargo with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter and Peter Lorre. _ STANTON: The Night of Nights with Olympe Bradna, Pat O’Brien and Roland Young. STUDIO: Yvonne Printemps and Pierre Lips in Three ‘SUBURBAN ARDMORE: Thursday: Brother Rat and the Baby, with Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and |Monday: Joan Bennett and Doug- KARLTON: Booth Tarkington’s Opinion News Editorial Overlooks Recent Russian-Nazi Relationship To the Editors of The College News: As a subscriber to the News may I point out something that was torial against aid to Finland, and seems also to have been generally omitted from the campus meetings on that subject? This is the change in Russian-German rela- tions beginning ‘with the Pact of last summer. There may be much more _in- volved in this than Russian aban-}. donment of “collective security.” It is one thing for Russia to aban- don the idea of working’ with the political democracies, England and France. It is another thing for Russia to move towards the side of Nazi Germany, even if only to a limited degree. The future of Russian-German agreements cannot be known now, and any interpretation of their significance must be open-to doubt and uncertainty.. But this Com- munist-Nazi relationship is im- portant in the minds of many cri- tics of Russian foreign policy. Conclusions that avoid.or obscure it seem inadequate and unpérsua- sive to me. The possibility of war between England and Russia has been prop- erly pointed out. Have the people who do not wish to be “linked in any way to the side of England” in this eventuality faced the further possibility,—that they may find themselves indirectly “linked’’ to Germany and hoping for the vic- tory of Nazism over a _ political democracy? BETTINA LINN. las Fairbanks Jr. in Green Hell. Tuesday and Wednesday: Deanna Durbin, Jackie Cooper and Melvyn Douglas in That Certain Age. NARBERTH: Thursday: Rulers—of—the—Sea,-with— Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Lockwood. Friday and Saturday: Shop Around the Corner, with James Stewart and Margaret Sul- lavan. SEVILLE: Thursday, Friday and Saturday: Charles Laughton Jin The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Sunday: Double feature, Private Detective and Beware Spooks. Monday and Tuesday: Joel Mc- Crea and Nancy Kelly in He Mar- ‘ried His Wife. Wednesday: Allan Jones, Mary Martin and Walter Connolly in The Great Victor Her- bert. SUBURBAN: through Wednesday: Victor Herbert. WAYNE: Thursday, Friday and Saturday: The Great Victor Herbert. ART 7 Local Haverford College will hold an exhibition of American artists’ prints over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, in Found- er’s Hall. Harcum Junior College is show- ing, until March 29, the unusual glass painting of Clinton Beagary. He has not given a local one-man show for several years, while he has been experimenting in the tech- ‘nique. Emotional oil paintings of imaginative jungle scenes, also by Beagary, form a large part of the exhibit. *,Treetop People, Adven- Thursday The Great vasses, At the Bryn Mawr Art Center, Haverford and Polo roads, Henry Lindenmeyer’s paintings i“ be seen until March 21. In Philadelphia The current exhibition of the much-talked-of Russian sculptor, Alexander Archipenko, at the Art rather obscured in last week’s: edi~ ture and Tabu, are among the cans lis ov Michels The college wishes to ex- tend its sincere sympathy to Mr. Walter C. Michels on the death of his wife, Lorraine * E. Michels, on March 7. Student Praises Required Course in Philosophy As Stimulating To the Editor of the College News: I should like to defend the Re- quired Philosophy Course as it now exists. Not that I feel that the suggestion made by J. M. B. is without foundation; for there are many students who would like’ this type of course. But, on the other hand, there are many who have benefited or who are benefiting, from the course at present for the ‘very reason that she sees for changing the course. During the controversy over the course in First Year English Liter- ature A. L. A. wrote a letter to the News in which she remarked that there is a certain inherent pleas- ure and satisfaction involved in doing one’s own correlating as be- tween courses. And there are many of us-who prefer to have the professor give a course in whatever way he chooses within the outlines laid down by his de- partment, in order that we may get out of it what we choose. Courses which are intended to cor- relate and think for the student are dangerous. We have come to college to learn to think; our thinking processes, therefore, are not inéapable of discovering and fixing in our minds the connec- tions that there are between his- tory and literature, or the litera- tures of different countries, or be- tween philosophy, science, and politics, or whatever one likes. The relationships remain more firmly fixed in one’s mind when the indi- vidual’s explorative curiosity has sought them out. The Philosophy Department at Bryn Mawr is well-known for the divergent teaching methods of its members. Smoking-room bull ses- sions establish, however, not only these divergencies, but divergen- cies of opinion or feeling obtained by each participant in the course ‘as a result of her background or her intellectual interests as com- pared with those of somebody else. This, if nothing else, proves the value of such a course. The pro- fessor puts into it what he will; the student correlates it with. what- ever other course she takes in her major field or otherwise. A course designed to do the correlation fof the individual would be impossible. We are fortunate in having an educational system which enables us to use our mental powers to whatever slight extent we may be able to, gaining perhaps less grasp in many cases of the infinite con- nections a field like philosophy has with other fields, but knowing at least that we have taught our- selves to utilize the information that we have and that we do not need somebody to do it for us. L. B. M., 740. Alliance, 251 South 18th street, has called forth a good deal of enthusi- asm from-the critics. His forms are graceful and suggestive ab- stractions in many varied materi- als, some tinted, It has been said that his technique combines sculp- ture and painting as one art. His works have a lively quality, that might be called plastic inner life, which differentiates them from 4more commonly seen modernist ec- centricities. The exhibit will re- main until March 17. irds, in very original drawings an i s, 1810 Walnut street, all this month. Another out-of-the-or-}- dinary March exhibit is called “London Transport.” It consists of British advertising posters by such artists as Dame Laura Knight, Frank Brangwyn, E. McKnight Kaufer, and is on view at the Franklin Institute. Conrad Roland, can be-seen. at}. Cat : 7 Dr. Torres-Rioseco, the Flexner ; lecturer, spoke on Pan-American- ism, its history and the prospects. for its future development. Con- sidering the European conflict, he. believes the necessity for mutual understanding between the United States -and Latin-America is greater than ever. Toward this end, he suggested more intelligent. cultural and economic co-opera- tion, the only basis on which a stable and friendly political rela- tionship can be founded. Dr. Torres-Rioseco outlined some- of the steps which must be taken if Pan-Americanism is to progress. A cultural exchange should be de- veloped. Spanish should be re-- quired in our schools as is English inthe schools of Latin-America, where it is fast replacing French as the language of culture. Inter= American relations should be con- ducted on an equal basis, especially in economic fields where the ten-- dency has been for U. S. industrial concerns to look upon South America as a gold mine to be ex- ploited to its fullest extent, while the republics on the other hand have tended to regard the United States simply as a rich uncle, the source of unlimited loans. He praised the equalitarianism of the. reciprocal trade agreements, which opes -will be so developed as ake the place of South Amer-- ica’s trade with Europe, particu- larly that conducted under the barter system of the Nazis. There are four reasons which ac- count for European trade suc-- cesses in South America: The bar- ter agreements, cheaper produc- tion methods, a better understand- ing of the customer’s psychology, and a willingness to leave South American" politics alone. The United States’ most sipnat fail- ures have been on the last two scores. We must try to produce for the needs of South America in- stead of using it as.a dumping ground for our unwanted sur- plusses, and we must learn the diplomatic approach. The “high- pressure salesman” is a failure when dealing with Latin-Ameri- cans. Our representatives should speak the language and understand the culture of the men with whom they are dealing. Dr. Torres-Rioseco also briefly traced the development of” Pan- Americanism. During the years when the Platt Amendment was in force and marines were sent to protect United States’ interests in Central America, Pan-American- ism was a farce, but with the con- ference at Montevideo the dream of the great South American pa- triot, Simon Bolivar, began to take shape. Dr. Torres-Rioseco called Franklin Roosevelt and Hull the first North American states- men ever to understand Bolivar and, therefore, the sits of Latin- America. - WIT’S END When You Walk Out? (1) Are-yow an entertainment? (a) Who thinks you’re funny? (2) If so, do you go to you? (3) Which day of the week are you? (a) Is it a good time for you? | (4) Do you know any speakers who are still speaking to .& ” you? (5). Are you in favor of a@hair- man, a committee, or the 0.2% of regarded as strictly inconsequen- please write it on a separate piece of paper and don’t even try to. hand it in. You’re being watched. Seal this ballot and chew the gummed portions until you have formed a little committee. Then _[expectorate upon the future. Questionwhere, or, Who Walks In These -ballets will, of course, be. -tial.- If you have anything to add,” a ee _ THE COLLEGE NEWS ta a Page Three Taylor Desks Provide Source for Scholars Continued from Page One and preclude all anonymity. Nor is it pure blatant egotism on the individual’s part that leads her to inscribe her namie on the desks of Taylor. Rather, these are memen- toes of each individual’s shoal of time here, in the great ocean of eternity. Most of. the writers of them have gone on—where, we do not. know, but their names are left with us forever, or at least until the desks are scraped again. There _ are N.. Stevenson; N. Perera; Syl- via Knox (written many times) ; Grant, her desk;*Cynthia Duncan; I. Tucker; R. Knight; and “and St. Patrick took up the ring and the crozier,” which we happen to know is a quotation from a book. ,4 These names are very interesting and very important, in a historical sense. The bricklayer can be seen laying his bricks. But there is another group of inscriptions more fascinating and more challenging to the interpreter of man and the builder-up of literature. Timeless in their eternity, universal in their applicability, though paradoxically the most individual of all, are the ones that indeed reveal the human soul, the intangible mind of the person, her capacity for feeling something and her reaction to her reaction to life. One of these will remain forever tantalizing — the Room E. Fragment: In fact, we suggest it as a subject for a doc- tor’s thesis: “And she came all the way for this And parted at last without a kiss The fair hills of holy Ireland.” And another that has lost its pow- er because of illegibility is one which begins “Who lingers in the morning that at night . . .” And then the strangely preg- nant lecture of that day: They called him Ed He was so dead That’s what he said. It would be difficult in most cases to say that the particular inscrip- tion was forced out. of the writer’s soul by the class she was in, but only the frustrated despair caused by Freshman English could have produced “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” and “The mills of the gods grind slow and exceeding small.” There is something very appeal- ing about the mind that would pro- duce holy sauce, and why Oysters was written on a history of art desk remains inexplicable. _ There is a little-child perverseness in the one word Cant’ written in sprawl- ing letters—or is this a moving soul realizing perhaps with the bit- terness of the first time its limita- tions? And it could only have been a person fascinated with put- ting words together to form an ~ idea—the conscious artist — that wrote “the torn look of spring.” A tolerantly bored attitude which presages the divine sense of humor is evident in: “The darkness of November drench Descends on elementary French.” A quality which should belong to more of ‘the gods and all of men shines through the limerick: “Greek went to Taylor Taylor said Euripides Greek said Eumenides Taylor said Achilles you EASTER VACATION BERMUDA $70 Swarthmore Travel Bureau AIR - RAIL - BUS - HOME Tickets Delivered -been-easy or fully satisfactory, be- ~ Phone Swarthmore 179W BREAKFAST RELAX and CHAT = , at 3 : The Bryn Mawr College Inn LUNCH TEA DINNER J. Petts to Direct School of Dancing The Berkshire School of Danc- ing will open this summer at} Lenox, ‘ Massachusetts, under the direction of Miss Josephine Petts. She will teach dancing and also a special course for teachers. Mr. Hans Schumann will be the Director of Music. Mr. Schumann who has taught at the ‘University of Pennsylvania and who is. known as’ a lecturer, composer, .and con- cert artist, will also give a course in music composition in relation to dancing and a series of lectures on the concerts of the Berkshire Mu- sic Festival. Miss Petts will be assisted by Harriette Lapp, of Agnes Scott College, by Janet Seeley, Bryn Mawr, ’27, assistant professor of Physical Education at William Smith College, and by/ Lydia Ly- man, ’38, of Bryn Mawr. The six weeks’ program of the school open- ing July 8, will include dancing, gymnastics, and swimming, with instruction in riding, piano, French and Germany, if desired, as well as the Teaching Course. 4 Oh, what a Calamachus!” But probably the most moving and penetrating of all the inscrip-) tions in its very long suffering is the imprecation, “How long, O Lord?” The idea of time was very frequently expressed, each time with a_ different manifestation. The Rhoads telephone booth offers: “Time staggers on And so do I I won’t stagger quite as long as time “Ss But Til try.” which someone else a entitled Who Cares? “God, I am tired of higher edu- cation in this squeaky seat” prob- ably epitomises Taylor in all its manifestations. Nor ‘is all the boredom on one side. On a pro- fessor’s-desk there is:‘what appears to be a game of aughts-and- crosses in full swing. However, this may be too bold an interpreta- tion of these symbols. The text- book considers this in the light of neolithic pot inscriptions, perhaps parallelled by the meanders brought by the Danubian peoples circa the protogeometric period. This is not nor cannot hope to be an exhaustive study of all the in- scriptions in Taylor. We feel that the task should be placed in more competent hands. Nor has the task cause of the fragmentary state of many of the remains. Bad and unscientific restoration of the desks in Taylor has deleted many things which would serve not only as time-markers, but also as: clues to the literary values of the age. The student must consider the problem of the names: Are they truly the famous people we have mentioned er was it the fifth or sixth king of Crete or Michael Ire- land? Who wrote Hepburn’s name on that desk anyway? Remember Your Family and Friends with Special Plants, Bouquets and Corsages for Easter JEANNETTE’S Dr. Torres - Rioseco g| Loses Y ankee Dislike Backs Pan-American Policy Of Free Intercourse In Trade, Culture Dr. Arturo Torres-Rioseco, the Flexner Lecturer for 1940, has been inthe United States almost constantly since his college days. In an interview to the News he ad- mitted that he had a ‘preconceived unfavorable impression of this country when he went north as an instructor at Williams College. Brought up in the South American tradition, he came to the college with an inbred disapproval of Yan- kee ways. Twenty years of con- tact. with the people of North America have destroyed this illu- sion. Williams was partially re- sponsible, but Dr. Torres-Rioseco said that his education was ob- tained equally from outside read- ing and associations. In his youth, Dr. Torres-Rioseco said, he would have scoffed at the idea of adopting the role of pro- | moter of Pan-American. relations, and yet in recent years he has held many posts which have furth- ered an inter-American good neigh- bor policy. From Williams he passed into the middle west, receiv- ing his doctorate at the University of Minnesota, where he afterwards became professor of romance lan- res. As a professor at the University of California, Columbia University and then as Flexner Lecturer at Bryn Mawr he has taught the literature of South America. : Dr. Torres-Rioseco has not lim- ited his activities to the academic world. As a director of the Insti- tuto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana and as president of the Comisién de Intercambio y Cooperaci6n he and several other professors of Latin-American af- fairs have encouraged cultural in- tercourse between the two conti- nents. The Instituto was created two years ago, at which time it met in Mexico City. Its supporters hope, by suggesting methods of teaching Latin-American affairs and- by the exchange of students, to be able to foster interest in the United States. Besides this, Dr. Torres is a member of the Mexican Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Hispanic Society of America, and representative in the United States of the Association for Intellectual Co-operation of the Chilean government. When asked the best way to pro- mote friendly relations between the two continents, Dr. Torres-Rioseco took a firm stand. He said this could be done on a cultural basis rt to the G.” '- « . and now are Foundation, Miss Youn find resourceful, well- paid Katharine Gibbs secreta- ries from Singapore to Seattle as well as in no less glamorous stay-at-home jobs. _ @ Special Course for College omen opens in New York and Boston, September 24. @ OPTIONAL AT NEW YORE SCHOOL ONLY—same course may be started July 8, prepar- ing for early placement. - Ask College Course Secretary ~~“ for “RESULTS,” a booklet of placement information, and illustrated catalog. BOSTON . 90 Mailborough St. NEW YORE. .. 230 Park Ave. KATHARNG GIBBS Active Christianity The Reverend Donald Stewart, rector of the First Presbyterian Church of Chapel.Hill, N. C., spoke in chapel on “the Christian com- promise.” The. only -way to over- as it exists today is by honest re- exposure of ourselves to the im- pacts which our civilization entails. The Christian is forced to com- promise without being rigorously idealistic or completely acquie- pecent to the status quo. Orthodoxy emphasizes the rational too much without reaching those depths of the Christian religion. The Reverend Stewart pointed out that Christianity entered the world as a “sacrament of disturb- ance” and that Christ both shocked and convinced the age and culture in which He lived. His contempo- raries discerned in Him that which would make it impossible for hu- man, passions ‘to continue’ un- -bridled and undisciplined. far sooner than on a political one. However, he was warm in his sup- port of Roosevelt and his Pan- American good neighbor policy. He commended the President’s and Mr. Hull’s interest in South Amer- ican cultural - advancement, aside from their commercial arrange- *|ments. He pointed out as an_ex- ample of their diplomacy the posi- tion they took in the Mexican oil situation, adding that Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude would have been quite different. But there are numerous _hin- drances to close political and eco- nomic relations between the two continents. South America fears and rightly so, Dr. Torres-Rioseco says, that numefous commercial agreements would result in North America’s absorption of her “good neighbor.” Consequently, more emphasis should be laid on the cul- tural aspect. In the last year the state department has promoted this idea and for three years’ the University of California has been Urged by Stewart} come the anemia of Christianity- German Melodrama Followed by Wild Wearing Waltzing By Margaret Magrath, ’42 Last Friday night the aesthetic calrti of the Music Room was shat- tered by bursts of applause. Emil and his detectives held the Bryn Mawr and Haverford audience spellbound as they tracked.the rob- ber in his sinister black. bowler through the streets of Berlin. The German dialogue jangled harshly on some ears but occasional Eng- lish titles and the liyely expressive faces of the actors put the story across. At the end the little town of Neustadt turned out with brass band and cheers to welcome the re- turning heroes and the audience was left with a comfortable glow that carried over to the waltzing party which followed in the Com- mon Room. There the lights were dim and the floor crowded with . couples swinging to the Strauss waltzes which the victrola poured forth. For a while the battle was fierce, and the timid and wise fled to the edges of the room to avoid being winged or trodden by more ener- getic souls. Then punch and cook- ies in the May Day Room began to exert their attraction and the steady stream which headed up- stairs, mopping their brows and murmuring “water, water,” eased the strain upon the dance floor. The waltzes were perhaps more popular with Bryn Mawr than Haverford because an occasional, manly voice was heard pitifully begging for something else, something slow. The general feeling, however, was that many more parties of this in- formal kind should be given. negotiating a system of student exchange. In this way, Dr. Tor- res-Rioseco explained, misunder- standings which exist among the people of both continents may be removed — misunderstandings due to mutual ignorance of each other’s culture. oan Thirst and the need for refreshment recognize no season. The pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola isa year ’round | answer to thirst that every- body welcomes. It leaves you "with an after-sense of complete refreshment. PAUSE THAT REFRESHES , Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by THE PHILADELPHIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. oo 4 ie ae a a a i a RA EER AS PE RRR ARE eR TIE AIRE I | "4 gel | | ae aritaaa' aah rei aan & or Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Maids, Grads, Deutch| Plan Gala Week-End The week end of March 15 will be one of widespread entertain- ment. On both Friday and Satur- day nights there will be perform- ances of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The production, which has been directed by Fifi Garbat, 41, is the most ambitious that has ever been presented by the..maids and porters. Tickets are seventy- five cents and‘one dollar. After the Saturday night performance, there will be a dance given for the cast in the Common Room. On March 16, the gym, cleverly disguised by a St. Patrick’s Day motif, will be the scene of a pro- gram dance to be given by the graduate students. The dance will last from nine to one and there will be no cutting. On the committee in charge of the proceedings are Muriel. Albigese, LaVerne Loch- moeller, and Dorothea Peirs, with Jane Bellows in charge of the dec- orations. es The German House, on the same Saturday evening, will give a sup- per followed later in the evening by a dance. This party is to be very exclusive with “just enough men” and the music will consist of waltzes, waltzes and waltzes. Recent Poetry Trends Cited in Latin America Continued from Page One the new world, ‘Dario dealt with contemporary issues as well as purely poetic themes. In the ca- pacity of a civic bard he wrote Salutation of the Optimist and -a song, To Roosevelt. In his poetry Dario revealed the three dominant characteristics of modernistic poetry: native sensi- bility, a similarity in artistic forms, and a growing consciousness of ra- cial values. Chocano, one of his WAN T E D Campus style leaders to show Fifth Avenue product. N. Y. 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Your Travel Agent has full details. Ask also about Student Quarters at minimum r..te. same ideas, but also had an inter- est in the universal theme, a predi- lection for the magnificent. Dr. Torres-Rioseco quoted him saying, “Walt Whitman has the north, but I have the south.” Calling himself the “poet of America,” his subjects extended from the days of the con- quest to the present. Other modernists were two Mex- icans, Nervo, who had in his poetry a..tvague tone of Mexican pla- teaus,” and Gonzalez Martinez, who wrote Wring the Neck of the Swan. In this poem, Mexican in its simplicity and yet unexpected subtlety, the swan as a symbol is replaced by the owl, .“interpreting the mystery of night.” After the World War, the mod- ernistic and cosmopolitan influences in poetry subsided, and there arose a “literary anarchy”® in’ which every poet represented his own school. In the period of this “post war” poetry, Pablo Neruda ap- peared as one of the leading poets of the Spanish language. In such poems as the Residence on Earth, he produced a melodious effect by a combination of endless repetitions and unbridled imagination. Women, always important in the life of Spanish countries, have re- vealed their literary capabilities during this period. Gabriela Mis- tral made her poetry a mirror for her intense and tragic life, while the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou, the poet laureate of South Ameri- ca, was permeated with a “healthy paganism” and a supreme interest in love. Alfonsina Storni in such poems as Running Water had an almost classic perfection. followers, laid emphasis on the. Kent Discusses Arts Relation to World, In Philosophy Club March 7. “There aré two main functions in Common Room, |the field of aesthetics, contempla- tion and action,” declared Martha Kent, ’41, in her paper on the Metaphysics of the Artist, which she. read to members of the Phil- osophy Club. Miss Kent discussed the problem of the artist’s rela- tion to the world about him and also dealt with the problem of practical and fine art as_ pro- pounded by John Dewey. The artist stands between im- manent mysticism and pantheism: while in the act: of creating he identifies himself with ‘the object. Completely occupied with this world, he has no need of strong religious convictions, but allows all his‘ immediate emotions to run their course even when they cause him pain. ‘ With selective intensity, he mag- him, as dispassionately as a scien- tist. This quality is not to be found in all men, and thus to some extent the artist is born and not made. “Here Miss Kent’s views differ from those held by Dewey, who-be- lieves that the distinction between the artist and other men is purely artificial. All human activity is classified as art by Dewey and the only difference between the ar- tist, the scientist, and the philoso- pher are their modes of expression. 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Naturally the work of art will meet popular approval when the thought behind it is familiar, and therefore paintings dealing with religious subjects were most widely appreciated when the power of the church was at its peak. Unfortu- nately, the genius who gees ahead of his period runs the risk of being ignored by the public of his own time, and thus William Blake and Vincent Van Gogh did not re- ceive the recognition due them un- til years after their deaths. Art is not necessarily relatéd to the period in which it originates, but should have a ‘message for peoples of all times and countries. *Art, moreover, should suggest more than it portrays. As evi- dence for this Miss Kent turned to a portrait by Romney which ap- pears superficial to our eyes today because its author put in the work all he felt or knew about his sub- ject. Miss -Kent then referred to the “infinite magnitude” of Teon- ardo da Vinci who has provided nifies. the objects he observes about}/spiration for later centuries be- achievement.” The subject matter of the artis may be ugly, Miss Kent observed, but it will be acceptable to the ob- server if the artist has commented upon it, in this way suggesting a context. In a _ natural object beauty implies the approximation of an ideal, differing here from ethics in that the ethical ideal must have intrinsic moral value. cause he aimed at a “goal at Bryn Mawr Seconds Lose to Hoopsters From Beaver 20-18 Monday, March 11. — Bryn Mawvr’s. second basketball team lost to Beaver in a close game which ended with a 20-18 score. At one point the almost equal teams locked themselves in a stalemate. The tendency of both sides toward defense instead of offense made this equality more agonizing than spectacular. From the beginning both teams fought hard and furiously, but neither had the accuracy to break through the clinging guards and score neatly, Passes fell short and openings were few. Beaver’s more successful guard-to-forward pass- ing and_ occasional long-range shooting by Lewis gave them their two-point advantage. Even a great many changes of Bryn Mawr play- ers failed to pull the game out of its slump and our second team just couldn’t “hit its stride.” BRYN MAWR BEAVER CCE laa ae rer at : Ae RR EW Reinhardt Hardenbergh ...... Sas Sree Koehler OO a 6k ce he Toa iA we ae Lewis POIlOD! ssc c ieee es Eee PERN Castle, A. PIGMINE nk. ee Beer ay Castle, T. TIGCHAGT cock kee eG ae Wieland Substitutions Bryn Mawr: Bechtold, f.; Finger, f.; Jacob, g.; Auchincloss, g. Points-Scored Bryn Mawr: Martin, 7; Hardenbergh, 8; Matthai, 3. Beaver: Lewis, 14; Koehler, 6. The editor welcomes. letters of constructive criticism. WHICH ONE, PLEASE? We have no telephone calls wrappéd up on our shelves all ready to deliver. Each call you make must be “made to order for immediate delivery”. Yet we can connect you to any one of 20 MILLION telephones in the United States in an average time of 1.4 minutes! The Bell ' Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, y f THE COLLEGE NEWS NUTS and BOLTS - BACH AND HANDEL Student: Jobs By Isabel Martin, ’42 Getting through college is a big financial problem for a great many students. In the large universities and in most men’s colleges, stu- dent employment bureaus have been established to make it possible for the poorer student to pay his necessary college expenses. The directors of universities welcome these ageneies, since they cut down the scholarship demand and enable more-students to attend college. The amount paid out by these agencies and the amount earned by students through other campus jébs astounds the undergraduate_/who flies through college with no great financial care. For instance, in Williams College last year 400 stu- dents earned 68 thousand dollars in 676 jobs on campus, represent- ing 99 different ways of earning money. Undergraduates there, as well as at other colleges, also work over the summer to’help make ends meet in the winter. In the summer + member not, Lord, Purcell; Come | both ’42, will sing solos from Han> CHAPEL FEATURES The Choir on Sunday next will give the following program: Re- dearest Lord, Bach; Nune. Dimittis, Tallis; O bone Jesu and Cruci- fixus,, Palestrina; and Look down, O Lord, Byrde. Louise Allen and Ann Updegraff, del’s Messiah, and Mendelssohn’s Praise thou the Lord willbe sung by five members of the Choir. Miss Helen. Rice, -Athleen Jacobs, and Harriet Case’ will be heard in a trio for violin, flute and piano and will play the Andante from the E flat Sonata of Bach. ; coHege expenses through agencies. A manager of’a laundry or food agency’ can earn. anywhere. from 900 to.1000 dollars a year, while a salesman of one agency may earn anywhere from 40 to 200 dollars a year by salary and commissions. According to a poll .taken at Swarthmore, a coeducational col- lege, students are financed chiefly by parents, scholarships, and sum- Page Five Varsity Basketball : Overcomes Beaver Ligon and Squibb Skyrocket Score as Opponents Fail - To Block Passes Monday, March 11.—The Var- sity pulled out of a preliminary slump to win against Beaver Col- lege, 47-25. Beaver’s game was marked by an incredible number of fouls, by frequent shooting and by less accurate passing than Bryn Mawr has: heretofore encountered. The Varsity found it hard at first to adjust to their tactics and were not sure of.each other’s positions. However, Bryn Mawr led 2-16 at the start of the second half and with, sharp shooting both Ligon, 40, and Squibb, ’41, sent the score skyward. Our passes were good and: the forwards noticeably quick to tackle back on their guards. With the Rosemont College game looming ahead as the last stepping stone to an undefeated season,. it is a comfortable feeling to know that although the Beaver game was lacking in vitality, it provides firm footing for_the last leap to -grew Frank Discusses Greek And Christian Thought Continued from Pare ay) skeptical of visibl¥ phe- nomena and became primarily in- terested in the human soul. Its firmness, calmness,’ and serenity became their ultimate aim. The growth of mystic cults met the general demand for salvation and agnosticism attempted to reconcile mysticism with the rationalism of early Greek philosophy. Mr. Frank pointed out that- men who had come within the Greek or Ro- man orbit were thus prepared for the Christian faith. - Augustine himself passed through all the phases of Greek philosophy before finding peace in the Christian doc- trine. For Augustine, the principle of reason sufficed so long as_ this world existed as the sole object of understanding. When-~ man could no longer find the ultimate aim of life in this world, then rea- son, “thrown back on its own re- sources,” led, of necessity, to a skeptical despair ‘of attaining any solution. ; To the early philosophers, God the Christian faith. “The human mind, when transgressing the lim- its of reality, needs a practical faith upon which to base its pre- suppositions.” To Augustine faith prevails over reason, but reason is: indispensable to faith. Although Augustine accepted the truth of Greek rational thinking, he infused into it a new conscious- ness of the form of reality. Also the idea of creation out of noth- ingness as opposed to Plato’s idea of creation out of chaos necessi- tates a new concept of the soul. Augustine conceived the soul or ego as a Christian one elucidated by reason. Since the individual soul springs from the creative will .of God, its essence remains an in- comprehensible mystery to Augus- tine. : The Augustinian conception of personality is correlative to the conception of moral will. The evil in man does not result from his ~ body but from his will: he is free to make his own decisions. Free- dom of will is a serious danger to man, but it is at the same time the presupposition of his personality. Augustine’s conceptions of time and history were entirely new and are listed among the. greatest is ‘ victory! was easily understood through rea-| achievements of philosophy.: He of ’38, about half the Williams men|mer jobs. Here stydent-managed BRYN MAWR BEAVER | Son. But as soon as He is placed| held that the past and the future who worked reported that alto- projects are comparatively unim- Ligon teerereyaey , DERE rar ne Patten beyond this world we cannot know] exist solely in the consciousness of gether they earned almost 26 thou-} portant. Six students- reported that Squibb trite poise yetisten | atm: Augustine found his answer} the ego. ~The history- of -individ- sand ‘dollars. The college bureau} they were financially independent, | Martin (c.) ....... tierce. “arin | to this problemi in the teachings] ual life in which everything is new ‘ found that the total earning power) the money being obtained from’jobs| Meyer ....... Pine sepag Hill | of St. Paul: “We are always con-| and never before created -is there- t) of the student body for a whole} outside college. The summer earn- Bryn Saws: Uaon, 34: Norris, 9; | fident for we walk by faith and|fore fraught with metaphysical year was more than 100 thousand|ings for girls average 125 dollars | Squibb, 14. not by sight.” We can believe in| meaning. In the first attempt at a dollars. Besides this money earned, Williams college gave almost 55 thousand dollars in scholarships, endowment loans and annual gifts. In a larger university, such as Princeton, about_one third of the student body earns part of their LLL La! THEY’RE OFF! Streaking down the mile-long icy trough of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run at Lake Placid, N. Y. with “Bucky” Wells driving. Fifteen breath-taking turns to go. Fifteen chances to taste the supreme thrills of speed. But in smoking it’s different, very , different. “It’s slow burning that makes a cigarette tick with me,” ' “Bucky” Wells says. And he means what he says, because slow-burn- ing Camels have been his cigarette for ten years. per person, though one girl re- ported clearing 700 dollars running’) a beach stand. For men, the aver- age summer wage is 140 dollars, obtained by working as anything from a ditchdigger to a ship’s pur- ser. Beaver: Patten, 4; Williston, 21, es women’s colleges, the demand for financial aid is so much less than in men’s that tne employment bureau is a rare thing. In most women’s colleges there is a self- Continued on Page Six FOR THE THRILLS EXTRA MILDONESS EXTRA COOLNESS AND EXTRAS IN SMOKING — EXTRA FLAVOR the love of God only if we act in accordance with it. In this doctrine of a faith which works through love alone, Augus- tine found the metaphysical basis of reason. For him the task. of reason was to élucidate and clarify general philosophy of history, he maintained that the real subject of history was mankind and the comprehension of it as a_ unity. The ultimate aim of history is the realization of the kingdom of God on earth. come «ee CAMEL AND EXTRA SMOKING—I PICK THE SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE aa F you want to know how it feels to go 80 miles an hour on a racing bob-sled, “Bucky” Wells of Keene Valley, N. Y. can tell you. He’s done it plenty of times. He likes those. speed-thrills on a racing bob. But when it comes to cigarettes, “Bucky” Wells is on the slow side...the slow-burning side. That means Camels! “I’ve smoked Camels for years, and I know they burn slower,” “Bucky” says. “There’s cool comfort in a Camel. Mild- ness — more flavor. And — slow burning means extra smoking. Yes, penny for penny, Camels are the best cigarette buy. ‘I’d walk a mile for a Camel!’” Why would anybody feel that way about his cigarette? Try a Camel and see. Camels are a matchless blend of costlier tobaccos...slow-burning. They give more pleasure per puff, more puffs per pack. SS In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slower than the average of % the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested—slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus “ONE-TWO-BOB! ONE-TWO-BOB!” And, as the crew bobs, “Bucky” picks up speed ...60—70—80 miles an hour, driving high on the glassy wall of ice as he swings the quarter-ton steel sled around the curve. But in the field of cigarettes, this daring speedster gives the laurels to the quality of ‘slow burning that he finds in Camels. You can tell by their mild, mellow taste that Camels burn cooler, slower~and scientists have confirmed this. (See panel, right.) suppress Aristotle’s metaphysics, Page Six % THE COLLEGE NEWS betel” l de in Philosophy Outlined ~~ | _From Anselm to Hegel Continued from Page One said, philosophy was no longer en- gaged in a search for truth, and faith was forced to take refuge in mysticism. The founder of medie- val mysticism was St. Bernard, who opposed the doctrine of Abel- ard. St. Bernard united Chris- tianity and made no distinction be- tween faith and reason or soul and. body. After St. Bernard, men were no longer inclinéd to search for truth in reality, but at the turn of the 13th century Aristotle’s philosophy of nature was rediscovered andjing public movies. On ae Ps cw ASU Hots Blections Plan Public Movies ‘At the regular meeting of the American Student Union on March 7, plans for the spring Peace Drive were passed and elections were held. The Peace Drive plans in- clude a Living Newspaper play to be given on April 12, with Barbara Atchincloss, ’40, as Chairman. All those interested in taking part should notify her. On April 27, there will be a square dance in the gym, with Aunt’ Molly Jackson of Kentucky calling the numbers. The ASU also adopted the plan of giv- either the position of reason re-estab-| March 21 or 28, the French version lished. The church attempted to but was forced to incorporate them into the church dogma. Thomas Aquinas synthesized. the Christian doctrines with the works of Aris- totle, but his synthesis was not| comparable to that reached by Au- of Crime and Punishment will be given in Goodhart. The results of the election of of- ficers for next year were E. Cro- zier, ’41, Chairman; L. Schwenk, ’41, Secretary; M. Squibb, ’41, Treasurer; Committees: Member- ship, B. Lomax, ’41; Publicity, J. gustine. He’ separated philosophy from faith and therefore failed to solve the Augustinian problem of, transforming “traditional philoso-| phy to comply with Christian con- science.” Later’ philosophers objected to this interpretgtion and again em- phasized the primacy of will. Mor- ality was for them concerned with the will, not the intellect. The scientists of the 17th century went back to Plato and Pythagoras, mak- ing mathematics rather than for- mal logic the basis of their work. This trend was echoed in the work of Descartes, who dealt with the ego of the abstract mathematician cut off from the objective world. Kant’s ideas are closer to those of Augustine, for he holds that pure reason becomes merely dialetical when it transgresses nature. His follower, Hegel, interpreted faith through reason and thus, accord- ing to Mr. Frank, is guilty of in- tellectual dishonesty. ay ) 4] Gis . NE RICHARD STOCKTON EASTER GIFTS BOOKS NOVELTIES Follansbee, ’41; Education, H. So- bol, ’41; Labor, R. Robbins, '42; Legislation, E. Durning, ’41; and Peace, V. Nichols, ’41. Undergraduates Earn Expenses and Tuition Continued from Page Five help house in which girls may do their own work and thus deduct a small sum from their board and tuition. The student wage earnings total the most in the midwestern and western universities. Over the whole country, 47 percent of. the students work to pay all or part of their college expenses. YALE UNIVERSITY School of Nursing A Profession for the College Woman An intensive and basic ex- perience in the various branches of nursing is off- ered during the thirty-two months’ “course “which leads to the degree of MASTER OF NURSING A Bachelor’s degree in arts, science or philosophy from a college of approved standing is required for ad- mission. % For catalogue and information address THE DEAN YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING New Haven, Connecticut DY HOW To feminine.” AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: The instructor who teaches Poetry 3-A at our college is a wondegfally handsome young bachelor with a divine Harvard accént, who’expresses beautiful thoughts. I’ve fallen in love with him—but though I sit in the front row, he doesn’t even seem toé*know I’m in the room. My par- ents, who are wealthy but provincial, taught me never to use cosmetics, yet—in class today !—My Poet said: “Only through artifice is the merely female transmuted into the ravishingly WIN BOY-FRIENDS IN A DILEMMA Dear “In a Dilemma’’: If your parents are wealthy they probably hate being provincial, or they wouldn’t. have sent you to college. My guess is that if you can snaffle a-perfectly good Harvard poet they’ll be proud to show off their new son-in-law to the neighbors. They'll forgive you the cosmetics. Don’t forget that poets are ex- tremely susceptible to beautiful hands — the Swinburne influence. So, transmute! — make your fingernails ravishing. AND Now, Dear, Xf COLUMN CAREFULLY! _ AND HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN-DO ABOUT BEAUTIFUL NAILS To have those | ee lovely fingernails that men admire— tint-your nails *. with the amazing new nail polish, DURA-GLOsS, that millions of women have switched to in recent months! No .wonder—DURA- GLOss is different! . It flows on with - bri + mecevated lustre that lasts far longer without and chipping! Have the most beautiful = nails in the world! At any cos- metic counter, buy DURA-GLOSS, 10 cents a bottle! t Assembly Suggests Entertainment Board Continuea from Page One there has been pronounced over- lapping of lectures and little op- portunity to focus demand for topi- cal speakers. For instance, the college often overlooks, and the small clubs cannot afford, well- known and timely lecturers such as Alfred Duff Cooper and Vincent Sheean. Miss Sherwood also pointed out the failure of the campus to realize the problems of an entertainment series. To pay a well-known artist like Menuhin, every seat in Good- hart would have to be sold and all tickets priced at two dollars. A series can offer famous enter- tainers at a reduced rate, but must include less renowned talent. Pennell Crosby argued the ne- cessity of a more thoughtful sched- ule. - “We all waste time,” she said, “and I certainly hope we will Display at College Inn Tuesday, March 19th _ Spring Suits—Coats Cotton Dresses & Play. Suits for Your Vacation G2. KITTY McLEAN ’ Bryn Mawr continue to do so.” De Sees 5 Still, the gen- eral feeling of oppression and the crowding of the calendar could be lessened. The rise of..clubs has added to this confusion. ‘She sug- gested that the time of day could be adjusted to the particular sub- ject. With intelligent planning, special- ized lectures on different subjects might well be given simultaneously. She suggested that . week-ends could be “resurrected,” since more Bryn Mawr girls spend week-ends right here than is generally ad- Sheila Gamble advised the fur- ther exploitation of places on cam- pus such as the Theatre Workshop and the Deanery. She emphasized the value of an appropriate set- ting and the use of the proposed committee to determine the allot- ment of places. In the open discussion follow- ing the speeches, the question was raised as to the possibility of plan- sen ore oe a . Rev. Donald Stewart .. Continued from Page One bution of wealth. Christianity must overcome the element of greed by emphasizing man’s spiritual capacities. Indi- vidual order alone can result in an ordered society. We must con- tinually strive to emphasize the Godlike in us and to free ourselves from the limitations of nature. There is no absolute Christianity, but we must try to approach it in ‘every decision of life. oe prices instead of a series. The importance of co-operation between clubs was emphasized. The plausi- bility of a campus vote on the choice of subjects and speakers was also discussed. This and re- lated questions are to be put be- fore the campus in the form of a ning a few formal events at high questionnaire. 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