, Strongest attraction for Princeton,

‘ and exchanges of professors and

_, Petits Canards. The second part
of the program will open with

Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aims and Results Of
‘Week - Ends Shown

Princeton, Annapolis Lead
Field on Receiving
End of Jaunts

 

 

By Agnes Mason, "41

The Bryn Mawr undergraduate
things supremely.
week-end conscious. We take this
to be an established fact. What
then does the intellectually minded
young American woman do with
her week-ends? .That is the ques-
tion which any thinking person
confronted. with. the above -fact
must ask. To gratify this desire
for_knowledge a survey, October 4-
November 6, inclusive, has -been
made,

The Bryn Mawr undergraduate
body seems to favor Princeton and
Annapolis for — week-end visits.
‘Rhoads North and South show the

is above all

while Pem East has a virtual
monopoly on New Haven. The
general attractions of Cambridge
are less, but cannot be ignored.

New York is a very popular
spet. Some go for the museums,
some for the matinees, and some
for other things. Saunders Barn
has housed 11 adventurers this
year, and four Bryn Mawr bi-
cyclists spent a night not long ago
at the Elverson Youth Hostel.

Wyndham has the highest per-
centage of week-end travelers,
with an average of 1.7 week-ends
per person since college opened.
Pem West follows closely with 1.6,
Rhoads North and South with 1.4.
Denbigh and Rockefeller average
1.1 per person, While Bem East
and Merion take less than a week-
end apiece.

SCHENK, SWINDLER
GO TO WASHINGTON

A two-day conference on Thurs-
day and Friday, November 9 and
10, will be held in Washington to
discuss Inter-American. relations in
the field of education. The con-
ference, which was called directly
by Secretary of State Cordell Hull
will be very large, and consist of
five separate groups. Bryn Mawr
will be represented by Dean
Schenk in the Deans’ group, and
Miss Swindler in the editors’, in
her capacity of editor of the Amer-
ican Journal of Archaeology.

Among the topics of discussion
which will probably be discussed
are: curricula of summer schools,

 

 

students.

 

Mlle. Denya to Sing
At Lecture\ Recital

 

Continued from Page One

by Lilli Boulanger, sister of Nadia
Boulanger. The visits of the latter
to Bryn Mawr are remembered
with great pleasure by all who
heard her illustrated lectures on
various aspects of French music.
Mile. Denya’s program will also
include Lully’s Monologue et Deplo-|
ration d’Oriane dans Amadis, two
songs by Rameau, Cesar Franck’s
Panis Angelicus, an Aria from Ma-
non by Massanet, Lamento by Du-
@arc, and Chabriér’s Villanelle des

Chausson’s Au Temps des Lilas.
Following this, Mlle. -Denya will
sing two songs by Fauré, Au Bord

de-U’Eau—and—Mandoline, then a}

piece by Debussy, four Chansons
Grecques and L’Enfant et les Sor-

‘'tileges by Ravel, and finally Air,

oN

Finding Lists

The Publications Office
wishes to announce that
Finding Lists will be ready
by the end of the week. —

~~

Vif by Poulene.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeonveys an almost cinquecento ex-

 

I, rint.

Studies in Iconography:
Humanistic Themes in the Art
Of the Renaissance
By Erwin Panofsky * $3.50
Reviewed by Elizabeth Pope, ’40
Critics and historians of art
sometimes tend to let their studies
fall into two tnhappy categories:
the rhapsodical: given over to per-

 

 

 

sonal opinion and ecstatie re-crea-
tion. of sense-impressions; and the
abstruse: made up of scholarly
technicalities, too obscure to inter-
est the average student. Only very

rarely does_a book appear which
fills a crying general need, which.

citement. of exploration .and new
discovery; which is. meticélous with-
out pedantry, and _ enthusiastic
without gush. Among the greatest
of these belongs Erwin Panofsky’s
Studies In Iconology, originally
presented at Bryn Mawr as the
Flexner Lectures of 1938:

“Iconography,” according to Dr.
Panofsky, “is that branch of the
history of art which concerns itself
with the subject matter or meaning
of works of art, as opposed to their
form.” Within this definition, he
distinguishes three levels of inter-
pretation: primary or natural sub-
ject matter, factual or expressional,
constituting the sphere of artistic
motifs; secondary or conventional
subject matter, the sphere of im-
ages, stories and allegories; and
finally intrinsic meaning or content,
the sphere of symbolical values,
“the basie principles which underlie
the presentation of motifs.”

One of Leonardo’s frescos, for
instance, represents, in the simple,
primary sense, a group of men
seated about a dinner table. In the
secondary or iconographical sense,
it stands for the Last Supper. But
when taken as evidence ot Leonar-
do’s pérsonality, the civilization of
the Renaissance, or the attitude of
a religion, it enters the third fleld
of “iconographical synthesis.”

Applying these principles to the
iconography ofthe Renaissance
Dr. Panofsky discusses the devel-
opment of the concepts of “Father
Time” and “Blind Cupid’; the in-
Juence of Neo-Platonism on Michel-
angelo and Titian; and the inter-
relationship of a cycle of paintings
by Piero di Cosimo. The original-
‘ty and importance of the conclu-
sions he draws in these few sub-
jects alone are enough to prove the
validity and efficacy of his system.

For example, by a process of. in-
duction and reasoning as fascinat-
ing to read as a detective-story, he
determines that the di, Cosimo
group is not an unrelated series of
isolated panels, as has been as-
sumed, but a coherent account of
the early history of man, reflecting
the philosophy of the time and the
peculiar. personal beliefs of the ar-
tist. Even more important is his
proof that Neo-Platonism  influ-
enced the design of both the Medici
tomb and the first monument plan-
ned for Pope Julius. According to
Dr. Panofsky’s reconstruction of
the ofiginatplan, the tomb was to
have ‘been built in three levels, the
first ornamented with the famous
bound slaves,.symbolizing the ani-
mal passions; the second containing
the Moses and three other figures,
representing the active and contem-

Marinatos Speaks
On Minoan Beliefs,
Thermopylae Digs

 

Common Room, November 4.—
“Crete is the classic land of the
cave-cult,® stated Dr.  Spiridion
Marinatos, in his lecture on Cretan
Cults. and Minoan Survivals in Re-
ligion. The cave-cult is one of the

most persistent motives in religious
mystery, lasting through all the
changes of time, civilization, and
religion, from the beginning of Cre-
tan civilization in 3000 B. C, to 6
A. D., im the Roman ‘times.

The cave-cult originated either in
the belief that the suprenig goddexs
dwelt in the center of the earth, o
in superstitions concerning the s
lactites and stalagmites found, in
most of the caves. Since the Cre-
tans knew no scientific explanations’
for such forms, they believéd therh
to be miraculous, perhaps living
things turned to stone.

The legend of the god born in
the cave is found in many religions,
including even Christianity. Rhe:

ra,,the Persian god, was born and
worshipped in a cave. St. Luke, the
most learned of the Gospel writers,
tells-of Christ’s birth ina cave
near Bethlehem.

Digs at Thermopylae

Deanery, November 5.—In his
second lecture, on the Recent Exca-
vations at Thermopylae, Dr. Marin-
atos described his findings and said
that they corroborated the account
of the three-day battle found in
Herodotus. Remains of the Phocian
wall, which supplemented the natu-
ral defenses of the steep cliffs, have
been uncovered,. and arrowheads
have been excavated on the prom-
ontory of Colonnus, -where the
Greeks made their last desperate
stand.
The excavations were made nec-
essary by changes in the land for-
mation. Since the date of the battle,
the sea has been pushed back, and
the whole pass gradually covered
by a layer of stone 15 feet thick,
beneath whick one strikes water.

 

borne by a laughing and-a-weeping
angel. The whole was’ intended to
depict the three levels of Neo-Pla-
tonic existence: the reason and
spirit dominating the instincts. In
the sphere of pure art criticism,
this revelation of the artist’s origi-
nal intention should be important
in leading to a proper evaluation
of the character and nature of the
surviving figures, especially the
slaves.

Such discoveries as these do not
only prove the author’s contention
that “the identification and analysis
of iconography is’ not a discipline
subservient to the interpretation of
the works of art themselves, but is
an integral part of the process.”
They also justify these particular
studies and explain their fascina-
tion.

 

   
   
  

 

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Poll. Favors Discussion

Of Off-Campus Issues

 

By Student Opinion Surveys of
“ America '

Austin, *Texas, November 8.—
Nearly two-thirds of «he students
who read more than 850 college and
university newspapers believe that
their publications should not limit
their editorial comment to campus
problems, but should also take up
matters of national and interna-
tional importance.

This is the result of a national
poll just taken by the Student
Opinion: Surveys of America, the
college newspaper’s public opinion

the. same way as the Gallup polls.
The College News is a cooperating

terviews at.Bryn Mawr.

Readers of university’ papers
such as the Minnesota Daily or the
Michigan Daily are almost unani-
mous in their belief that editorial
stands should not be limited. But

o not carry wire news of world
happenings and campus problems
are more intimately felt, student
bodies-in some instances voted to
keep the editorial page strictly to
their own affairs:
Section-by-section reports to the
question, “Should college news-
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to campus problems, or should they
discuss national and international
questions also?” are, in percent-

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Child Welfare Project
Receives Gift of $600

The department of Social:
Economy: has received a gift
of 600 dollars from the

‘Obaerlander Trust Fund for
a special project of the de;
partment. This gift, td-
gether with the help of the
National Coordinating Com-
mittee for Aid to German
Refugees, will pay for the
salary of Dr. Gustav Tugen-
dreich, research associate in
the. Social Economy depart-
ment at Bryn Mawr. Dr.
Tugendreich, an internation-
ally-known child health au-
thority, is working on a sur-
~vey of child welfare services
in Montgomery County.

 

 

 

 

Wyndham to Hold

Annual ‘Concours’

 

Continued from Page One
for the “Concours Oratoire” -itself,
at which the jury will consist of
three outside judges. :

4. Students wishing to take part
in the competition shall give their
names to Mademoiselle Brée before
November 13. A written copy of,
the discours as the competitor
proposes to deliver it shall be
handed to Mademoiselle-Brée on the
day of the concours préliminaire.

The subject chosen for the dis-
cours this year is “Racine.”

Many students, it is hoped, will
take this chance of speaking in
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