D. NARAMORE WINS $25

‘ Bryn Mawr voices: +

it from birth groaned jealously. —

lar bills?’

~-Edward-A;-Park;-to- Henry Scatter=}-
* «good, son of Mr. and: Mrs. Alfred G.

 

“announced on May 29.° Miss Park is
try School and Bryn Mawr College.
erford College. : . .

 

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

Chicago —— s Down
Bryn Maw Wheyey
Five Dollar Word, Irrefragability

Goes to Opponents; Syzygy
Fells Seven

 

 

 

Station WFIL, Philadelphia, May
20;—“N.B.C!” roared 17 trained

“Spelling .NBC,” said Mr. Paul
Wing with well-feigned enthusiasm.

“S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G!” shouted
back at him. wt

“Spelling Bee. The Bryn Mawr
College girls ” And we were on
the air.

There were preliminaries, however.
There was an armored bus to take
us in to Strawbridge’s; theré were
sober Philadelphia citizens listening
askance to strains of Songs the Whole
World Should Know, sung by’a bus-
ful of light-hearted collegiate souls;
there was Strawbridge’s, closed for
the night, with a single door bearing
the inscription, “Entrance to WFIL.”

We were wafted upstairs in an ele-
vator and found ourselves in a small
carpeted room full of voices; Univer-
sity of Chicago gir ughing in Chi-
cago, our radio man talking with per-
fect abandon to one a thousand miles
away. And -yet the .world wasn’t in
on this, it was aS private as a tele-
phone, a party telephone, anyway.

‘Placards’ with our names and num-
bers were hung around our necks and
we took our places in order from one
to fifteen, our captain, Dewilda Nara-
more, ’38, and our first mate, Marga-
ret McEwan, ’39, being respectively
first and secend. Mr. Paul Wing, the
spelling master, rehearsed us care-
fully, tested our voices, and read the
rules, At exactly one “minute to ten,
we formed the prescribed semi-circle
around the microphone. We had a
sudden terrifying vision of peo-
ple all over the United States, fid-
dling absent-mindedly with their radio
dials and tuning in on us. We could
see an anticipatory picture of our
Aunt S—— swooning with family
shame as ‘we misspelled the word
“bourgeois.”

Nobody went down in the first
round. Mr. Wing’s “spellometer,” the
signal of defeat, remained unblown,
with a hat. over its four-toned horns.
In the second and third rounds the
ranks began to. thin. “Anise,”
“newel,” “unguents” rolled like bowl-
ing balls among us, and Chicago
gloated in its superior strength. |

At 10.30, the “verbal treasure-chest”’
was opened. Helen Bridgman, blind-
folded, plunged her hand into a blue.
plush box and drew out’ a 35 cent
word. In the meantime, Chicago was
four spellers ahead of us, and nearly
all the treasure words went to. their
team. “Irrefragability” paid five dol-
lars; we who had known how to spell

we

 

With the passing of time, Mr. Wing
became more and more-vicious. “Pas-
sementerie,” “syzygy,” and “coryphee”
weeded out the. last of the amateurs.
Our first mate fell by the, hand of
“fTitillary.” “Dewilda Naramore was
left with one opponent; the word was
“wheyey.” And alas, the $50 first
prize went to Chicago. Miss Nara-
more, grief-stricken, was presented
with $25, Miss McEwan, as second-
prize win with “two crisp five dol-

 

New. Major Pending Approval

The much discussed sociology ma-
jor, unanimously recommended by the
faculty, is now pending final approval
by the’ Board of ‘Directors. If estab-
lished, the major will begin in the
fall of 1938. :
_ Although plans are uncertain, a
number of students are expecting to
work in this field next year. If the
necessary funds for the major cannot
be obtained within the next few years,
any work beyond the present elective
£ourses will have to be postponed.

 

SARA PARK ENGAGED

van Park, daughter ‘of Dr. and Mrs.
Scattergood, of Germantown, Pa., was
a.graduate of the Roland Park Coun-

Mr. Scattergood is a — of Hav-|

 

Young Violinist Gives
Poised Performance

 

H. Cykman’ Retains Handel’s
Power in Prayer from ‘Te Deum’

 

The Deanery,
most child prodigies whose mechanical
capabilities usually outstrip, . their
artistic understanding, Harry Cyk-
man seems to know exactly what he
wants to express with his violin, and
on the whole, achieves his aims with
technical success. In a _ well-known
program of Purcell, Bach, Pugnani,
Mendelssohn, Handel, Paganini and
Saint-Saens, he seemed completely at
his ease and a master of the musical
situation.

Particularly delightful was his
interpretation of the Mendelssohn
Concerto. in E minor, which started
off rather weakly, gaining force and
beauty after the cadenza. In this
work he displayed real excellence of
tone as well ral into the char-
acter of the music. This was true
also .of the Handel-Flesch Prayer
from ‘Te Deum’ in which he managed
to retain all the simple power of
Handel at his best. Less fortunate,
perhaps, was the Caprice 24 of Paga-
nini, in which Cykman appeared too
absorbed in technical intricacies—to
achieve musical continuity and finish.

The most striking adverse criticism
to be made of Harry Cykman is
inconsistency. He did not seem able
to remain for any length of time at
his own standard of excellence. This
can; of course, be attributed to his
youth, but judged in the light of the
best professional playing, he was too
erratic to be an excellent performer.
In this recital, he was laboring under
two difficulties—an accompanist who
did not do him justice, and the fact
that his program was so well known,
and has been so well handled by others
within the experience of the audience,
that it was difficult to resist the, temp-
tation of measuring him. with the
great violinists of our time. On the
whole, however, he met these diffi-
culties successfully, and gave a _per-
formance marked by poise, technical
capability and artistic beauty.

P. B. RB,

PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM
TO MEET -IN JUNE

The physics department will con-
duct a symposium from June 14-18,
dealing with, methods of attack on
problems of the solid state. Speakers
will be physicists from academic and
industrial. laboratories. Two papers,
each taking approximately an_ hour,
will be presented each day, and will
be followed by, discussion.

All thé research now being done in
the physics department involves sol-
ids. Mr. Patterson is working on
X-ray of solids and crystal structure,
and Mr. Michels on specific heats and
the electrical and thermal properties
of metals. Funds for the meeting
were -anonymously contributed. The
tentative program follows: .

Monday, June 14

11 A, M.—N. H. Frank, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Theory
of Optical Properties of Metals.

8 P. M.—L. DuBridge, University
of Rochester. Th®ory of the Photo-
electric Effect. .

Tuesday, June 15

11- A. M.—F. Seitz, University of
Rochester and G. E. Company. Phase
Changes in Crystals.

8 P. M.—S. L. Quimby, Columbia
University. The Elastic Constants
and Internal Friction. of Single and
Polycrystalline Solids.

Wednesday, June 16

11 A. M.—K. F. Herzfeld, Catholic
University of America. Some Results
from the Theory of.Crystals.

3 P. M.—B.’E. Warren, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. X-ray
Determination of the Structure of
Liquids and Glass.: °

Thursday, June 17 :

11 A. M.—R. L.,Mooney and H. So-
phie, Newcomb College. The Config-
uration of Anion Groups in Crystals.

3 P. M. wee. F C. Michels, Bryh Mawr
College. Some Contributions of Ac-
commodation . Co-efficient Measure-
Laments, . : =

 

 

Friday, June 18 ~

“tr Ay MJ: Av Becker, Bell Tete-
phone Laboratories. The Evaporation
and Migration of Platinum on r Tung-
ys

8 P .M.—K. B. Blodgett, Craniied
Electric Company. Discussion and
‘Demonstration of Barium Stearate

; | Films.

 

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May 23.—Unlike }

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Radcliffe Degree Goal
Of Alternate Fellow

Leigh Steinhardt of New York
Is Product of Progressive.
Education

 

 

MAJORS IN PHILOSOPHY

Leigh Steinhardt, alternate for the
European Fellowship this year, was
the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholar for 1986-37. She is. doing
honors work in Philosophy and her
average is 90.097. Next year she
plans to start in on a three year
drive for a Ph.D. at Radcliffe, skip-
ping an M.A. degree, with teaching
as a possible future.

To begin with, Miss Steinhardt was
born in New York in 1917, and.though
admittedly a normal child, displayed
abnormal tendencies:through the early
part of her school career. She went
to kindergarten at the. Dalton Pro-
gressive School at the age of four,

 

did two years’ work in one, skipped}

the next year in no time at all, and
entered the fourth grade at five.
Three years passed, still in the con-
fines of the fourth grade, while Miss
Steinhardt struggled for the mastery
of French, a tongue which was later
to boost her to fame. It seemed to be
a case of permanent fixation. When

won a spelling bee, and was rewarded
by a prize of three dollars.. It was
graded, however, according to age,
and being very young, it was her
privilege. to spell prejudice “predu-
dice” and still emerge victorious.

A progressive school tended to make
Miss Steinhardt “nasty and bratty,”
and in 1926 she Was transferred to
the Horace Mann School for Givts,
where she was put back a year be-
cause “she was a year ahead.” For
a time she did nothing but mathema-
tics. Then force of circumstances
sent her to the Chateau Brillantmont
in Lausanne for the ninth grade; as
usual she--was the youngest in the
school and was thereby made acutely
uncomfortable.-

But her experience in Switeerland
won her an Alliance Francaise medal
her senior year at Horace Mann, a
“great, heavy, thing,” given for ex-
cellence in French. She also shared
highest scholastic honors with one
other person, and was Editor-in-Chief
of the school magazine.

Miss Steinhardt came to college at
16 and is graduating at.20. She be-
gan by majoring in English, but was
converted to Philosophy by the first-
year course her sophomoré year. She
was on the committee of three: run-

ing the Philosophy Club in 1935-36,
was president of it this year, and has
been on The Lantern for two years.

thletically, she is not inclined; she

as avoided as far as possible major
and minor forms of sport. Perhaps
this explains her part as an angel in
The Creation in May Day. She did
not disapprove so much of being an
angel as of May Day in general. It
is more work.than itis worth, she
thinks, and should be worked out like
the Gilbert and Sullivan performance
to take a reasonable amount. of time.
No one could be a better judge than
she of the reasonable length of time
demanded by Glee ~Club- productions;
she was part prompter. in both The
Pirates of Peuzayce and this year’s
Mikado. Too

Another bone of contention among
seniors is Comprehensives. Miss
Steinhardt sees no point in them; she
thinks they ‘should be given directly4
after Easter, so as to give seniors
time to do honors reports and get.
their work. organized. “

 

DR. J.. SUTER. TALKS
IN’ DEANERY GARDEN

“et

The Deanery Garden, May 16.—
“Civilization is based on three uni-
ties: one person, one humanity, and
one God,” stated Dr. John W. ‘Suter
at the annual outdoor chapel held in
the Deanery garden by the Bryn
Mawr League.

One person, such as Florence Night-
ingale or Jane Addams can start a
great mo": methe success of
such a moverient epends upon the

 

  
  

dividual’ concerned.- In addition to
vealizing the importance of his. own
‘personality, the individual must feel
the essential oneness of humanity—the
“brotherhood of man, aside ffom rae
or class distinctions of any so

Above all, the individual must have~a

Of Seniors on

Steady Downpour Saar Speeches

Last Day of Classes

 

May 14.—Steady sali fittingly ac-
companied the speeches and songs of
the seniors’ farewell to the campus
on the Last Day of Classes. The
speakers attacked their special de-
partments. with thoroughly ° formed
opinions, and. the class as a whole
bid the faculty a doleful adieu.

Miss Winifred Safford, the first ora-
tor, spoke in Taylor and of it. She
recalled her experiences there as a
monitor, in which office she ‘heard a
philosophical voice from beneath a
desk talking of a vegetable soul, an-
other voice from the “Black Hole of
Calcutta” invoking beauty of line, a
beard reminiscing scenes in the life
of Lady Godiva; all these and more
she heard daily: It is hard, she
assures “us, to leave these dear accus-
tomed things.

Huddled against the, wall on the
Dalton stairs, Anne Roberts let bit-
terness prevail, noble bitterness born
of suffering. Physics left her with
an “Achilles-tortoise complex,”» and
spots before the eyes. General de-
bility was unavoidable when she found
that her partners in the experiments
thought up the answers faster than
she could copy them down. It result-
ed in a terrible yearning for anything
not physics; -so, ‘she warns,- be sure
what the Dean means when she says,
“Physics?”

Elizabeth Holzworth was more than
bitter, she was vindictive. Let us
quote from her vitriolic words: “I
suppose the most fitting kind of

Mrs. Wootten Favors
Social Economy Major

 

 

“Kept on the Run,” Found Visit
“Passed Like a Flash”

 

With the charm that has won her
so many instantaneous friends, Mrs.
Barbara Wootton, in an_ interview
shortly before her departure, ex-
pressed her regrets that she had not
seen more of the campus, nor become
better acquainted with the students.
Yet “well informed” graduate students
and “attractive” undergraduates “kept
her on the run” and ~~ made
her visit “pass like a flash.”

Her opinion on the then pending
social economy major was most en-
lightening. Being a_socio-economist
herself, she naturally favored the
projects. “But,” she went on, “I am
all for anything that puts reality into
undergraduate economics. The two
must be linked together. Social econ-
omy courses are offered in the under-
gratludte departments in England, ex-
cellently suited for the students, and,
moreover, are taken by a great num-
ber of them.” Mrs. Wootton’s ‘new
book, appearing in the fall, will be
called Lament for Economies-and deals
primarily with this problem of a closer
correlation between economic _—
and actualities.

“And what was your impression of
the ‘so-called Bryn Mawr sloppiness,”
was the next question, getting back to
the inconsequential. “So-called,” was
the emphatic reply. She felt on
the whole that the appearance of
the girls was most attractive. The
college atmosphere, she found, was
similar to that in England, although
possibly younger. College girls abroad
are older whén they enter, and it is a
well-established fact that the boys of
college age abroad are generally more
\mature and stable. The rah-rah spir-
it is not found on their campusés.

Her plans for future visits to Amer-
ica are indefinite. But after.a week of
“contemplation on a farm in Connecti-
cut” she is returning to» England to
plan her next trip to’ the United
States. ?

 

INTERCLASS PICNIC HELD

Wyndham, May 26.—The Senior-
Sophomore Picnic was held in Wynd-
ham Hall because of the rain. It was
notable that while the entire .conver-
sation centered on comprehensive
grades, nobody told her own marks or
dared ask those of anyone else.

 

of all humanity, and to whom: he is
responsible~ for his~ actions. —Such~a-
feeling, Dr. Suter believes, draws na-
tions more closely together, whereas
the worship of various dictators pre-
vénts them from realizing the oneness
of humanity. © Therefore, only by ob-
’| serving these three unities can we

 

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solve the problems of civilization.

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sénse of one God, who is the Fathert—

a speech for a gymnasium would be
a pep talk; but never let it be said
that I promoted this den of iniquity.”
In Body Mechanics she learned three
useful words “Don’t. walk, walk.” In ..
tennis she learned to love the yellow ~
flag forbidding use of the courts, in
swimming to avoid the uncandid cam-
eraman from Fortune who-tried to
snap her on her maiden voyage into
the pool.

When May Day came she was de-
moted from folk dancing to sewing
costumes in the cellar while others
danced on the Green. Now as others
file in to graduate she fears she will
be “Running up the line in a bath- .
ing suit, with a hockey stick in one
hand and a tennis racquet in the other,
making up three seasons at once.”

“My friends,” the fourth speaker,
Elizabeth Ann Stainton, began, “the
Library is a dear, hallowed place, a
place of sweet affinity.” She entered
it just once her freshman year, after
that “Cook’s” tour on which all fresh-
men are taken, and therein wrote a
poem, a lovély thing called Storm!!!
Reading it in a_ bell-like voice,
she gave the whole a new -signifi-
cance (aided by interpolations by Mrs.
King) :

“There gleefully scratches a spark or
two

From lightening’s steel eneased side.”

: (Note: You don’t say!)

“The wise’ old man is hidden. now;

He always knows where it is safe to .
stay.
But the gay young stars, still pranc-
ing about,
Have most of their brightness washed
away.”
(Note: I don’t blame them—this

would wash away almost anything.
It leaves me limp.)

Miss Stainton’s’ relations with the
Library “from that time on were
slight.’ “It is,” she affirms, “a place
you must take or leave alone, There
is no middle way.”

Under Pembroke Arch Lucy Kim-
berly presented the emblems of the
senior class to Blanca Noel, junior ’
president. The crown, which may
serve as a- lampshade, and keeps
the rain off on such occasions as
Parade Night; the sceptre (alias
spoon), “something of ourselves”; the
sword to fight the good _fight- were
handed over with a word of goodbye
for their former owners. The cere-
mony closed with the singing of class
and college songs.

 

Ground-Breaking Marks
Start of New Building

 

Science , Department Members
Assist President Park
a Sn)

Sunday, May 31.—Considering her-
self as the representative of past
presidents, faculty, and alumnae, Miss
Park broke the ground for the new

Jscience building with a gilded shovel,

and marked the. beginning of construc-
tion work financed by the Fiftieth
Anniversary’ Fund. She then intro-”'
duced ten people prho were especially
coriverned in the project and instru-
mental in raising money for the Drive.
_ Among these was Mr. Charles J.
Rhoads, president of the Board of Di-
rectors and active worker for the new
science
tude due to Miss- Park, the alumnae
and the students, for aid in realizing
the plans. Elizabeth Bent Clark, ’95, -
who was president of the Alumnae
Association in the two years that the
drive was at its peak, and Ida Lauer
Darrow, ’21, the present president,
also turned their shovelfuls.

As “the.father of the new building,” .

- | Mr. David Tennent, head of the Biol-

ogy Department, led the professorial
diggers. He was followed” by Mr.
James Crenshaw and Mr. Lincoln Dry-
den who dug in the name of the Chem-
istry and Geology Departments which
will be housed in the new building.
The fourth representative of the sci-
ences was Mr. Walter Michels, of the
Physies Department.

F Be OF RAZ fh manned the
shovel next on behalf of the under-

jors backing her “to give strength to
her arm.” Marian Hubbell, president
of the Graduate Club, represented the
graduate science students, and Mr.
Sydney Martin dug his share of earth :
as the official architect of the new

 

building. 7 ‘ i sod

 

 

lans, Who spoke of the grati-». °

L praduates,-with-the-senior-seience-ma--———