rs THE COLLLGE NEws Py z VOL. XXIV, No. 1 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1937 BRYN MAWR Copyright TRUSTEES OF === COLLEGE, 1937 PRICE 10 CENTS Doris Humphrey To Conduct Series Of Classes Here _Well-Known. Dancer’s Coming!’ Arranged Through Efforts Of Danicer’ s Club PLANS BEING renin FOR DANCE SYMPOSIUM} | Gesdnge. its second year, the Dancer’s Club has been -fortunate in Beginning arranging for a series of classes to be given. by the well-known modern dancer, Miss Doris Humphrey. - The group meets this Thursday at 4.45. Miss Humphrey. is one of the three leading American dancers, and a lead- ing choreographer of the couptry. She is a member of the faculty. of the Bennington Summer School, now recognized as the center of the modern dance during the summer. John Martin, prominent authority on the dance, says of Miss‘Humphrey’s work in his book, . “America Dancing”; “Her New Trilogy is of epic propor- tions » it is the most important composition yet produced in the American dance.” Her classes here mark a radical change in the dance policy of the college, as previously, only Duncan technique has _ been taught. y The class is an extra-curricular ac- tivity, and a part of the attempt by the Dancer’s Club to bring various types of dancing to the campus. Plans fer a symposium on the dance are already under. way.~ Lectures and demonstrations will constitute part of the club’s ambitious program. Much later in the year,.they will present their work to the college. With the club as its nucleus the Humphrey group has been thrown open to the college at large. An amazing and gratifying number of students have applied. To date, there are forty members. It is hoped that enough students will apply to warrant the formation of two groups,: a be- ginners and an advanced. A fee of fifteen dollars a semester is being charged all members of the group. This sum is necessary to cover the expenses of bringing Miss Humphrey to the college. Once the required quota is passed, there is the possibility of giving dancing scholar- ships to those who otherwise could not join the class. -|some_ difficulties. Self-Government Gives Square Dance Party C. -Sanderson’s Music Enlivens Reception for 1941 Gymnasium, October. 2.—A valiant -| upheaval in the tradition of. Self-Gov- ernment parties occurred Friday night when the gym resounded with mingled strains of rural rhythm and German A medley of dirndls and dungarees swirled around peasant the room to the steps of Pop Goes the Weasel, Comin thrw’ the Rye, the Vir- ginia Reel, and. the more companionate form of Emphasize which seemed to be a rather alarming combination of an Indian war dance and ring-around- a-rosy. The Big Apple was an- nounced, anticipated, awaited, and finally . arrived in a small area in the center of .the floor, bringing with it a savage desire in the uninitiated to master the art of “trucking” and to acquire rhythm at any cost. Misinformation concerning names and. addresses: of orchestras led to It was only after innumerable communications that, the following conversation occurred: “T want to speak to Mr. Christian- son of Chadds Ford.” There is an ominous silence fol- lowed by much clicking on the other end, The operator begins asking per- tinent questions. “Is this Mr. Christianson?” “No, this is Christian Sanderson.” The Bryn Mawftyr: gasps, for she has. overheard the conversation. It continues unabated. “Who’s calling?” “Bryn Mawr.” “Oh, do they want an orchestra?”’ At this point poor Bryn Mawrtyr is, practically frantic. She shrieks “ves” into the mouthpiece and waits. All is well. She is talking to an or- chestra leader. “Can you play for a square danec) to-night?” “To-night!’’ he echoes. “Ves,”’ “Well, I was going to Southern Maryland for the week-end.” There is an awkward pause. “Ah, about the money.”-He-clears-his voice significantly. “I usually get 17 dol- lars.” There is another pause. “But do you suppose I could have 19 if I stayed home for week-end?” Bryn Mawrtyr burbles-vaguely in- to the ’phone, “You can have 20, if you'll only come.” Sympathetic Survey of Freshman Facts | Reveals a Preponderantly Pigtailed *41 This- Year’s: Class Busy Doing “Big Apple” and Wrestling Philosophically From a close observation of those " featherless bipeds, the Freshmen, and from certain revealing self-analyses which they have made, we have been enabled to compile Advanced Statis- tics, or a Sympathetic Survey. We cannot reveal the names of the eleven with predicted scores of ninety and above, but we can say confidently that if they were stood one above the other they would only reach the third floor of Taylor, which proves again the triumph of matter ove d. In general, the FréShmen are tall and fair, or perhaps short and dark, with a preponderance of long hair wound coil-like about their heads. Interestingly enough, Freshmen pig- tails, and some of them have two, could be used as a rope for Taylor bell, extending to.a convenient point somewhere on Senior Steps. But fair coiled hair does not prove Nordic descent. Nobody can be sure (until the Statistics appear) what the percentage of Southerners is, only that._their influence . is..dangre--*5* insidious. Rumor has twenty-six of the Merion freshmen “truck” twenty-four hours a day, and rumor certainly had it right at the Square Dance, where there was a large ring, not of upperclassmen, “shining” ‘with the — of pa covert practice. “Git that at if Aside from having a poorly-hidden yearning for the “Big Apple,” the Freshmen are a questioning lot. Most of their mots or boners, as the case may be, are couched in the interroga- tive, and are curiously philosophical, ranging from, ‘‘Don’t you think phil- osophy -is getting more and more im- partial all the. time?” (a naive search for truth of the class: or lecture variety), to the confidential statement, probably tendered on the other bench where we ‘make our friends, ‘The dean said philosophy would ‘stretch my mind.” Then there is the un- mentionable pun on Aristotle, which we will -not mention. ere is something truly pithy, al- most New Yorkerish, from a written effort entitled Phrases Fraught with Finesse for Freshmen. . Contributed by a member of the class of ’41: “TI forgot sneakers, too. (You can yead in ‘soap,’ ‘socks,’ ‘sun-glasses’ or ‘hockey: sticks’ for ‘sneakers.’) Will you please call Whittaker? My win- dow is stuck.. (This may be warjed to read, ‘my trunk-key got lost,’ or ‘we have no bottle-opener.’)”” From this we gather that some, ‘or * “ofthe Freshmen became involved in inextricable difficulties. No sneakers, no trunks, no hockey-sticks ; Freshman week must -have been. an orgy of lending by the unfortunate few. At the moment, however, we see them well provided. Short and fair, and tall and dark, they pursue their Continued on Page Four ee Parade Night Bonfire COLLEGE CALENDAR Monday, October 11.—Non- resident Tea. Common Room, 4.30. First. Flexner Lecture. Goodhart, 8.20. Friday, October 15.—Lantern Night. Friday, October 15, Sunday, October 17.—Alumnae Weekend. Wednesday, October 19.—In- tertiational Club Tea. Varied Work is Planned By Bryn Mawr League Maids’ Classes, U ion Contacts And Am icanigation Work Among-Interests —_——_— |CARDS NOW DISTRIBUTED (Especially contributed by Mary Whalen, ’38, president of the Bryn -|Mawr League.) ‘The Bryn Mawr League has dis- tributed interest cards to all graduate and undergraduate students and hopes sincerely that it will receive: active’ support in all its objectives. These are: intentionally varied, so that everyone may take a working interest in the league. Although Freshmen are not allowed to parficipate in ex- tra-curricular acthyj until after Thanksgiving} : them to sign, so“sthat we may* know what their interests are. The plans for Sunday : services hive been-largely guided by the results of the questionnaire taken last year, a detailed account of which will appear in the next issue of the News. We hope to appeal to a wide circle of students by inviting ministers of various denominations to come. Alison Raymond, ’38, who is chairman of this branch of the League also prom- ises to make-more attractive the room where the services are held, and she also hopes to get suggestions for new hymns. A box will be placed outside the ‘Music Room-for hymn requests. Those who are interested in the place of women in industry should look to the. Industrial Group and Summer School. Freshman Song Found ‘By Sophomore Sleuths Hockey Field, September #27.—The Class of 1940 retrenched its defeat of last yea? by capturing the freshman Parade Night song. Gathered around the bonfire on the hockey field, they chanted a tell-tale parody at the Class |of 741, who were escorted down from Pembroke Arch by their sister class and the Bryn. Mawr Firemen’s Band. The freshman song, to the tune of The Caissons Go Rolling Along, is as follows: “From the east, from the west, north and south and all the rest, We have come ‘to develop our minds. Rut we’ve lost all our wits, and we're suffering from fits of a hundred and forty-four kinds. “But .the year will come nineteen hundred forty-one, When we'll no- longer be at sea. Then we’ll all crow, and say we told you so— When we’ve climbed io the top of the tree.” The sophomores discovered the song by the same.ruse used by the Class of 39 ast year. One of their number pretended to be a freshman. The result: Continued on Page Three CUT COMMITTEE CALLS ATTENTION TO RULES (Especially contributed by Eleanor Taft, ’39, chairman of the Cut Com- mittee.) : The Cut Committee feels that while ‘explaining the’ cut system to the Freshmen, it should bring it again to the attention of the whole college. The rules are the same as last year with the exception ofthe new diction ruling. ...No..student..may_cut..diction without special permission from the dean, ‘and no cut allowance is ‘given. Each student is allowed as many cuts per semester as she has regular hours of recitation per week. This The fo ---kapes, te §_.an, pverage of fourteen cuts make contacts this year with” SMe eiccstee. Unit courses give fiiree of the important unions, and to have members of the student body go with union girls to union meetings. These will be reported by the individuals who attended, and discussed by the whole group. Supper is served be- Continued on Page Three cuts, as they meet three times a week, and half. unit-courses-meeting—twice;|— give two cuts, First and second year science courses, such as chemistry and biology, give five cuts as each labo- ratory hour counts as one-third of a Continued on Page Three ~ Miss Park Opens College Year With Unusual Optimism ei Additions Justified in College’s Aim to Serve Ametican Institutions CHANGES IN FACULTY REHEARSED: IN CHAPEL Goodhart, ‘September Park assumed her position as the offi- cial opener of the fifty-third. academic year of the.College with an admit- ytedly. rare optimism. “No speech this morning,” put, can be dull. It must reflect the almost universal stir and change on the campus, .the increased current turned on at all switches, the break- ing through of old limits, the advance in many directions at once.” A rehearsal of the recent develop- ments in the physical aspect of the ampus finds the sctence building peer- ing over its green fence, and the new dormitory “spreading over the slope southwest of the Deanery in a “mazeé of pegs and string.” The hall will be ready to hold: 113 ‘students by Sep- tember, 1938. , Although the addition of the Quita Woodward wing’ to the library has been postponed until” the ‘residence: hall-is under way and per- haps until we acquire 100,000 dollars, there has been a significant contribu- tion to that same house of learning. “You have probably all seen,” said Miss Park, “that across. the front of the library has been cut this summer the inscription promigg@@¥o President Thomas at the cefemonies of the Fif- tieth Anniversary, connecting forever her great’ name with: the treasure house of books which she thought of as the heart of the college.” ' Alofie with Mr. Nahm and Mr. Wat- son, who return from leaves of ab- sence,xycomes a new Assistant Profes- sor of Biology, William Lewis Doyle, Ph.D., of Jéhns Hopkins University and General Educational Board Fellow at Cambridge University in 1935-36 and at the Carlsberg Laboratory, Co- penhageh, in 1936-37. Mr. W. Cabell Greet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English at Barnard, replaces Samuel Arthur King as non-resident lecturer in English Diction, and Professor Henry Bradford Smith, reinforcing Continued on Page Four News Reel Documents a ._ Opening Week Events Grinding Cameras Interrupt Life On Bryn Mawr Campus The activities of the first week, and the drama of the return of the classes to Bryn Mawr, were immortalized in celluloid this year, when Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer made a record of two days’ incidents last week for Hearst-Metre tone News. . This sequence, symboliz- ing the reopening of schools and col- leges all over the country, will be released in the vicinity of New York and Philadelphia Friday, October 8. Two seniors reported their sensa- tions to us somewhat as follows: En- terin e Pembroke dining-room we found oprselves compelled to look nat- ural, arid walk to our seats in a blaze of glorious light. Only sevep maids tripped on the wires, only one senior got any lunch. The candid camera continued .to catch life as it wasn’t, forcing us to take down our curtains hung with much pains freshman year, and to be photographed’ putting them down from the attic and two girls im- ing neither right, nor left, to carry books across the room, and the same books, arranged differently, back again. We. todk..dowr -ths->teteam for close-ups. | walking, playing hockey, measuring refractions were interrupted by, “Hold it please,” and a long tjme later, “O. K.” aon 28.—Miss she said, “however: feebly . era Br; Mawr was. the only college pho- up: Strange trunks” were™ brought ported to pack and then unpack, look- - and put them up once more, this’ ‘time All day long,. girls, -taking ore = eed Page Two wos { : . ' Y ‘ THE COLLEGE NEWS [ THE COLLEGE NEWS” (Founded in 1914) ~ Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn =, Mawr College. The College News is full > €Yfiay be’reprinted either if Daltey-in-cehet A a .. Editor-in-Chief. : JANET. THOM, ’38 .News Editor ABBIE INGALLS, ’388 . Editors ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40 ELEANOR BAILENSON, ’39 EMILY. CHENEY, ’40 Mary DIMMOCK,: ’39 CATHERINE HEMPHILL, ’39 BARBARA STEEL, 740 MARGARET Howson, ’38 IsoTa TucKER, ’40 Business Manager ETHEL HENKLEMAN, ’38 Assistants protected by copy ieht.. Nothing that appears in wang or in part without written permission of the eye Copy Editor MarGeErRY C. HARTMAN, 38 Mary R. Meics, ’39 MARGARET OTIS, '39 .ELISABETH PoPks,.’40 LUCILLE SAUDER, ’39 8 ALICE Low, ’38 CAROLINE SHINE, ’39 ROZANNE PETERS, '40 BARBARA STEEL, ’40 Subscription Manager Mary T. RITCHIE, ’39 Graduate Correspondent: VESTA SONNE | Music Correspondent: PATRICIA R. ROBINSON, ’39 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING. PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office IN MEMORIAM _Mademoiselle Madeleine Soubeiran Associate Professor of French Died in Montpellier, France, on July 7, 1937, after a long illness To the Class of 1941 As the editorial column of the News comes to your notice for the first and perhaps the last time, we feel that we should say,some words especially for you, even if there is nothing to say but i reiterate - welcome. This is a word and a sentiment which has been expressed to your ears many times in the last two weeks, and we are fully aware of its repetition. We warn you, however, that now is probably the last time you will hear it. 7 For two weeks you have been the- object. of the whole attention, first of the admittistration and undergraduate welgoming committees then of the entire three upper classes. Now the situation is reversed. You as Freshmen were the’ center of undergraduate attention—but now we are no longer preoccupied with your aggregate appearance, and expect. general interest to shift back to ourselves, as upper classmen. This. is,.of course; because as a class your personality will not.be defined for some time, and you are already, in a general sense, absorbed into the college community. From now on you should expect to find us more gradually interested in’ you as individuals. Undoubtedly the hest way to get along with a particular social group is to conform, that is, to-imitate the habits of the others. This may be a disconeerting piece of advice from members of what you have been led to visualize as anenlightened society. But a college is at the same time one of the most ‘rigidly organized and the most. entirely unrestricted kinds of living groups known. Therefore, it takes a cer- tain amount of observation and experience to adjust oneself to its aims, and at the same time to benefit from.its variety. We do not mean, of course, that we desire you to imitate our manners, or to subseribe to our ideas, but to understand the traditional,conventions which we have found the most convenient basis for successful college life. To become a part of the college as a whole is to be sociqlly adjusted. To conform to its intellectual purposes cap be an even greater thing. - Miss Park pointed out, one year, in welcoming the entering class that modern colleges have been criticized for the rigidity of their educa-| tional policies, inherited from the medieval universities. eg been | said that liberal arts institutions are not in touch with thedifé of their students. Nevertheless, at college, as Miss Park emphasized; pee. a certain combination of things is offered, a certain set of possibilities surround a student which offer a chance so valuable that one success is worth the risk of a hundred failures. The student may. begin to ee .. to become “. . . in a world full of what is unreal and second hand, a fal and inv hand person, a person who has ceased to: repeat, a person who, however feebly, creates something.” _. The tradition of the college has convinced most of us that the best "way to take advantage of its various aspects, is to assimilate the experi- ence of those who have gone before. That is why we don’t think we are merely being smug in saying: “Be like us.” Or : The old campus just doesn’t look the same any more with such a huge, great, big, old, brown, black, red and golden haired, blue, brown, grey and black-eyed, red and pink cheeked Freshman class. Yow’ ve __no idea what-a difference it. makes to have so many happy, cheery, new, red and pink cheeked faces around. The old eee er we said that: before). bs Anyway, we just can’t wait to say WwW inne: Walooie: WELCOME to this new, jolly, cheery, brown, black, red and gold haired, ete., , Fresh- man class. Welcome! - pase: ‘ _And as for the new science building with the roof that's going ae — ni te Seach Ps eee Goodhart and the Deanery, and as for the new library wing | -which is also going to be between Goodhart and the Deanery—the old} __. eampus just doesn’t look the same any more. And as for the new barn| which we are sharing with the Baldwin School—we regret to say that = IWIT?S END Twelve freshmen hung out of the third floor windows of Merion Hall regarding -open-mouthed . the black Bentley (?) with an excessively long hood which had just spurted into the’ drive. A slim long-nosed man _ with primrose-colored hair and dressed in impeccable gray was debouching from the front seat. He was whistling gay- ly under his breath a hunting song of the reign of Henry VI which had been in the Wimsey family for generations. “That must be Lord Peter,” they murmured, “Self-Gov. sent for him to investigate the matter of the phantom rings on the bath tubs in the third- floor john. -Two..minutes later the slim long- nosed man was being ushered into the warden’s presence by a taciturn maid. “Oh Lord Peter,” she - murmured, ‘‘Won’t you take this chair?” “For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the phantom rings,’’ murmured the noble- man in a light tenor voice. She suggested going outside-and_sit- ting on Merion Green but Peter made a deprecating gesture and they, clesed the glass doors discreetly. \ There was a_ perceptible: flutter in the ranks of sprawling females when the slim primrose-thatched shoulders followed the warden to the coffee table after dinner. “T hope you don’t.mind a littl healthy undergraduate idolatry,” mur- mured the warden. “Your reputation has preceded you.” “Enter rumour painted full of lies, murmured Lord Peter, peevishly, “and don’t put sugar in my coffee.” (To be-continued) ” In Philadelphia “Movies ~ Aldine: Dead End, a drama of the New York slums, with Sylvia Sydney and Joel McCrea. Arcadia: The Good Earth, Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. Boyd: The Life of Emile Zola, a biography of the great French novel- ist, with Paul Muni. Earle: Jt’s All Yours, with Made- line Carroll and Francis Lederer: Etropa: The Golem, a fantastic drama, with Harry Bauer. Fox: Life Begins at College, a com-= edy, with the Ritz Brothers. Karlton: Lost Horizon, with Ronald Colman. with Keith’s: Wife, Doctor, and Nurse, with Warner Baxter. and Loretta Young. Stanley: Big City, another romance in the slums, with Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer. Stanton: Back In Civilization, with Pat O’Brien and Joan Blondell. Theatres Erlanger: Tobacco Road, with John Barton. Beginning Monday: The Passing of the Third Floor Back, with Walter Hampden. Chestnut: Leaning on Lefty, a com- fedy, with Charlotte Greenwood. Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Broadway Mel- ody of 1938» with Robert Taylor and Eleanor Powell;~Sunday and Monday, Confession, with Kay Francis; Tues- day, Talent Scout, with Donald Woods. Wayne: Wednesday, King Solomon’s Mines, with Paul Robeson; © Thurs- day and Friday, Between Twa Wom- en, with Maureen O’Sullivan and Franchot Tone; Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Love Under Fire, with Don Ameche and. Loretta ‘Young; Tuesday and Wednesday, Manhattan Melodrama, with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and William Powell. Seville: Wednesday, Michael O’Hal- loran, with Wynné Gibson and War- ren Hull; Thursday, King Solomon’s Mines, with Paul. Robeson;.. Friday. with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and William Powell; Tuesday, You Can’t Have Everything, with Alice Faye afid Don Ameche; with The Jones Family. Suburban: Wednesday, Thursday jand Friday: Wee Willie Winkie, with} Shirley Temple; Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, Love Under | Fire, with Loretta Young and. Don Ameche; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Charlie Chan on Broadway, _ doesn’t make any change on the-old campus ; but still; Welcome. with Warner Oland. CURRENT EVENTS EXERPTS FROM EXILE and’ Saturday, Manhattan Melodrama; Sunday, Monday and, Wednesday and Thursday, Hot Water, -¢ The President has found his 4at- tempt to reform the Supreme Court difficult sliding. His appointment of Hugo L. Black was intended to place a liberal justice on the bench, but the recent papers have shown what a storm has fallen upon the Capitol as a result. ‘ Also figuring on the -front page. is the Spanish Conflict. It seems that the civil war just about borders on an international conflict, with many French, British, American, Italian and German volunteers in Franco’s ranks and with the Russians support- ing Valencia. : A patrol was established around the Spanish Coast, but a new apparition appeared in the form of pirate sub- marines’ which busied themselves in sinking vessels bound for’ Valencia. Britain immediately called a confer- ence at Nyon where Mussolini, after some hesitation, was represented. It seemed that the magic word was spoken, for no cases of piracy have appeared since the conference, But a neW shadow has darkened the horizon. An Italian high official has announced his intention of send- ing a few battalions to Spain to end the conflict. .If this happens, France will open her borders to volunteers and supplies bound for Valencia. The result would most probably be a major European war. No one is really anxious for war, however, Mussolini visited Hitler for the second time, and_ international circles are asking will the Rome-Ber- lin axis hold? But evidently no other country intends to turn around that axis; The other» great feature on the front page is Japan’s aggression in the Far East. As far as the attitude of the United States is concerned, Sec- retary Hay’s note in 1898 established the policy of an Open Door in China. Japan quietly waited until the World War got under way, and then brought forth 21 demands which were aimed at political control of China. Upon the. protest of the United States, the fifth section of these de- mands was modified. But in the un- fortunate Lansing-Ishii Treaty, Sec- retary Lansing admitted that-Japan had certain interests in China be- cause.of her proximity. Japan’s next step was to get control of Shantung. After the World War, Secretary Hughes prevented Great Britain from renewing her alliance with Japan, and the Washington Conference was called ‘which resulted in the Nine Power Treaty. This compact stated that the sovereignty, independence and administrative integrity of China must be respected; that there should be no interference in China’s govern- ment; and that if there is any doubt as to the interpretation of these points, there should be free and open discus- sion by all the nations concerned. Once more Japan took advantage of a world crisis when the depression } struck, when she. proceeded to annex Manchuria, rename it .Manchukuo, and set up a puppet emperor. this time Secretary Stimson declared the United States would not recog- nize annexations contrary to standing treaties. In 1933 Jehol and Chahar went the way of Manchuria, and now that Europe is so 400i néerned over Spain and the United States is worried about neutrality, Japan’s armies once more stand at the gates of China, this time in open though undeclared war- fare. The Japanese, in flagrant vio- lation of international law, are bom- barding open towns and non-com- batant sections for the purpose of intimidating the Chinese and forcing a surrender. Pacifists are clamoring for the United States to apply the Neutrality Act, but this act will decidedly favor Japan and allow the crime against China to spread. However, the United States as an advisory member of the O~-* i geetetmegaiyethree, has ap- proved t “the condemnation of Japan’s methods of warfare. England is considering boycotts against Japan and the American. Federation of Labor has voted in favor of this measure. It remains to be seen how much progress can be ‘made in bringing Japan to her senses | through the boyeott. At. Le groupe Delawah has now learned from a great variety of sources: (books, lectures, conversation), that among the French, Tourraine is gen- erally supposed to be an indolent and peaceful country whose soothing semi- tropical climate invites repose and calm; C’est la jardin de la France! I find that the accumulated effects of the ‘most hectic of New York week- ends are negligible as compared to any weekday in Tours. To illustrate: ‘I am awakened at 8 by ‘the sudden impact of tray on stomach. This sounds decadent but I think you will eventually understand why breakfast in bed is more of g necessity than a luxury. I take brea t as calmly as possible, g¢ generally trying to read a book at the same time. In future years I will be able to tell, when I read which books by the kind of jam that is spilt on, them. At 8.45 the mad dash to the Institut through storm and wind begins. This is as much as your life is worth. I think the .trucks of Tours have a friendly rivalry to see how many bicyclists they can smash by swoop- ing suddenly around corners. The. trolley technique is to come up silently and swiftly from behind. As an ap- propriate undercurrent to all this ex- citement,. the streets are unevenly paved with small, nubby cobble-stones so that bicycling is a constant jangle. jangle jangle bang, fatal to delicate American. nerves. The Institut consists of two floors of rooms named after famous people who lived in the Tourraine. Dr. Hock- ing and his flock of secretaries have ‘their headquarters on the first floor and the 50 odd members of the group spend a large part of the day track- ing these secretaries down and finding out what they are meant to do next. This is an exhausting and almost heart-breaking form of exercise, $0 some prefer -to decipher the notices posted on’ the bulletin-board. The general conversation centered around any secretary is pure French, but as the radius widens the French gradu- | ally blends into pure English. The general atmosphere is one of mutual misunderstanding which- at an early hour in the morning verges on cold hatred. Once the zero hour has passed by, life is suddenly brightened by the ap- pearance of.a dynamic, double-jointed, Gothic-gestured Monsieur who infuses the digest of dictées with a dramatic quality, and runs through the whole gamut, A to Z, daily when he reads Britannicus. late to lunch, with emotions wrung dry, ill-equipped to battle with the strain of conducting a -conveYsation,in French during the ensuing meal. licious food, my household invariably organizes a game of billiards immedi- ately after coffee. The object of this variation of the usual game is to knock balls into holes of different importance without” knocking _ down two spindly pegs, which are in the cen- ter of the board. The nervous ten- sion of this is terrific, but nothing compared to that of the enormous games of pounce which are ‘celebrated in the evenings. These last until all hours of the night and reduce Amer- cans to a sort, of imbecilic, drunken condition, but any French child comes out unscathed. On every side, there movies and a pdtissier to every block. To play terinis one bicycles any num- iber of kilometres to the Pare des Sports, and after having rested suf- ficiently to start playing generally dis- covers that it is time to go home. The movies begin at 9.15-and last until 12.15, which is quite in» keeping with the endurance of the natives, but, as I have pointed out before, hard on Americans. The first week was the. most difficult, . but since then we have gradually be- come trained and acquired an energy ‘and stamina almost equal to that of, the feebler inhabitants of the city. While some achieve this by eating and drinking large quantities of local chocolate. (which is excellent) .and others by silent, philosophic=medita-; . tion, as a whole we are confident that” 9 we shall beable to continue om the upward trend and possibly look back _ on Tours as a deliciously quiet “Tittle - spot. However, K still feel that we shall never enjoy that serisation of j calm content as we do our présent state of excitement. _ - Ewes MARGARET OTIS, . The class finally leaves, - As an antidote to the. plentiful and de- - is tennis, chcteins THE COLLEGE NEWS > Page Three Miss Ward Outlines Curriculum Changes Diction Requirements and Data On Course Cards and Dean’s Office Given N.Y.A. WORK RESTRICTED Goodhart Hall, September 28.— With a reminder of the five dollar finé for course-slip changes, Miss Ward began a list of announcements concerning the’ routine of classes, courses, and conflicts. The Dean’s office has been reorganized due to the absence of: Mrs. Manning, now on sabbatical leave. Her work has been divided between Miss Josephine M. Fisher, who is assisting Mr. David with mediaeval and modern European history, Miss Dorothy Walsh, who is interviewing the three upper classes about their studies, and Miss Ward, herself, who is interviewing freshmen and who has taken over the regular duties of the office. All students must go to the divisions and conference sections to which they have been as- signed. Any conflicts Should be_re- ported at once to the Dean’s office. Certain corrections were made in the catalogue, principally that so- ciology is now offered as a major. Also continental history from six- teenth to the eighteenth century and civilization of the ancient world are not being given this year. Students may make any changes necessitated by these corrections without charge pro- viding they do so immediately. A new diction course has been ar- ranged under Dr. William Cabell Greet. It is required for all fresh- men and transfer students yho have not already taken a course in this subject. There are two divisions, three to four and four to five on the first threé Fridays ‘in October. .No cuts may be taken without special peér- mission. The N. Y. A. work at 50 cents an Freneh Club Elections ~ The Frenche Club takes great pleasure in announcing the élec- tion of Boone Staples, ’38, president, and Dorothy Grant, 38, secretary-treasurer. N. Y. A. WILL CONTINUE TO AID POOR STUDENTS Washington, D. C.—College stu- dents continue to be among the re- cipients of Federal benefits along with farmers, the unemployed, the aged, the blind and other groups that are on the receiving end of Federal aid. Of counse, the cash that goes to college students is not as much as ~~ which goes to the tillers of the soil and the needy unemployed but, at that, the young people do pretty well for themselves. Twenty million dollars,” the amount the National Youth Administration is this year paying to students, is a long way from small change. The students perform specified services’ at the schools and colleges and in return receive funds from the N. ¥.cA, Slightly over $10,000,000 will go to college students and the remainder to high school boys .and girls. This $10,000,000, if paid out in the form of scholarships, would provide $500 apiece for 20,000 college students. However, being. distributed, as it will be, in amounts of about $15 a month, this sum will help pay the bills of around 75,000 young men and women during the current academic ‘year. a hour will continue this year but a greater restriction has been put on the students who may apply. A de- tailed form musé be filled out by her parents stating the exact amount of money needed and must be further vouched. for by the college. When send- ing in your application, indicate the job you want. The work begins next week. Cut Committee Falls : Attention to Rules Continued from Page One cut. Students who are doing Honours wérk Two cuts are given for hygiene. are allowed unlimited cuts. within reason. The following penalties -arg-inflicted on those who overcut. (1) .A student shall be placed on Senate Probation if she takes more than four cuts above the allowance made to her: This means that during the following semester she will not be permitted to cut any classes. (2) Any student who has taken more than ten cuts above the allow- ance which has been made to her, shall have a part or all of the sem- ester’s work cancelled. (3) Any student whio overcuts by one the allowance ‘permitted her shall have three cuts deducted from her al- lowance for the next semester, and shall be on Student Probation. Simi- larly two..overeuts entail six to be deducted the next semester, and three overcuts entail nine. A student who overcuts up to and including four is on Student Probation; a student who overcuts beyond four is ‘on Senate Probation as above. (4) Any student who overcuts be- cause she does not expect to return to college the following year will be’ asked to leave immediately. All excuses for illness or emergen- cies are obtainable from the Infirmary or the Dean’s Office. Auditors get gounted | for cuts; visitors do not. — . Students are advised to keep .a record ‘their own cuts, to be com- pared ‘incase of error with the cut records of the Dean’s Office. Unless this is done no corrections will be made after the cuts are recorded. at the end of the month. Any error must be reported within three days. The cut allowance for each student will appear on her first cut-card. If this does not tally with her own calculation she must report immedi- ately to the Dean’s Office. weeks and their INTERNATIONAL CLUB MEETS Common Room, September -29.— The International Club held a short meeting to reorganize the club and to elect officers for this year. A new constitution, drawn up by ex-presi- dent Eleanor Kellogg Taft, ’39, and Louise Morley, ’40, was accepted without change. The results of the elections were as follows; president, Louise Morley, ”40; ™vice-president- treasurer, Bertha Raugh Cohen, .’39; secretary, Joy Rosenheim, ’40. The central topic of the fall program will be the war in the Far East. Varied Work is Planned - By Bryn Mawr League Continued from Page One fore these meetings each month in the Common Room,-and we hope that even those who do not wish to enter the discussion will come and listen. This committee has many other plans which, will be announced in the course of the year. Closely allied to this is the Summer School. This endeavor which was be- gun by President Thomas in 1921 was the’ first co-operative venture im workers’ edtreation between groups of industrial workers and *a women’s college.’ The students come for six chief interests are usually economics, public speaking and English. There is always an undergraduate representative .at..the, school. The chairman, of this eommit- tee is Sylvia Wright, ’38. The Maids’ Committee takes charge of classes for the maids in such activ- ities as knitting, sewing, dramatics and music. Last year they gave a mystery play, The Cat and the Canary, which was enthusiastically received, and We hope to follow with another success. At the moment however, we plead for volunteers_to& teach knitting and sewing, so please come to our aid, and speak.to Barbara Steel, ’40. This year Geniann Parker, ’40, is going to resume the maids’ vesper service, and volunteers are needed for this work F reshman ‘S. ong F owt Continued from Page One “From the east, from the west, ‘north and south we are the best! Oh. the Sophomores: will . always pre- vail, From, the east, from the west cotton states and all the rest, We will make all- those ‘freshmen hearts quail. “Though your numbers are stfrong, we'll be stronger all along, So sing out our praises loud and cleaar—NINETEEN FORTY! When you put it to the test, The blue is always best, and the Sophomores will always prevail.” also. Very little need be said here-about ported in the News very soon. Those interested can help in teaching the children or supporting the project during the year by selling sand- wiches ‘and attending the square dances. ~~ Blind school needs no explanation. Signing ~up indicates willingness ‘to read to the blind at the-Overbrook School. _ Christie. Solter, ’39, and Mary Macomber, ’40, are in charge. Haverford Community Center is a school for the poor children of the area, and we assist at their. play hours. This is a good experience for anyone and not at all limited to those who anticipate a teaching career. Americanization means teaching foreigners to speak English. We send students twice a week, and they do not need previous teaching experience in order to participate. We are going to outline the work more definitely this year in order to make it more beneficial for both teachers and for- eigners. The interest cards wil help the chairmen of various branches to focus and yours make their work more effective. sss. —————— wing School 4 SENSATIONAL 1937 “SWING” — BEN NY GOODMAN | - AND HIS SWING. BAND — NIGHT \ — with the famous Goodman Trio and » Quartette going to town! Carrying on the summer course in“‘Swing-ology”’ as taught by that inimitable master, Benny Goodman. Try to keep your feet still when the Goodman quar- tette gets “in the groove.” ] 7 AMEL — by cOakie College | PAINLESS EDUCATION WITH : “PREZ” JACK OAKIE 8TH HELM | Assisted every week wood cast including: “STU” ERWIN RAYMOND HATTON WILLIAM AUSTIN Hear that educator of educators — ‘Honest Jack” Oakie gag the highlights of college life. an all-star Holly- Copyright, 1937. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina y TUESDAY _ 9:30 pm E. ci 8:30 pm C.S.T., 7:30 pm M.S.T., 6:30 pm P.S.T. over WABC and Coast- caiipiis Columbia Network. A “MATCHLESS BLEND _ of finer, More Expensive Tobaecos, Turkish and Domestic | | ‘ x Sontag alley By Sophomore Sleuths — ‘the summer camp, for it will be re-’ eg - more quickly on their groups, and SO. Page Four ~. THE COLLEGE NEWS © Bryn Mawr Attracts Vacationing Faculty e Paris Exposition Draws Many; ' Papers, Museums, Travel Occupy Others CHEW TAMES CHIPMUNK Bryn Mawr was represented by its faculty in a large and widely-scat- teyxed number of places this summer. Statistics have not yet been completed, but it is thought that one of the most popular places was what Mr. Charles Fenwick called “that delightful and healthful summer resort known as Bryn Mawr.” While there, Mr. Fen- wick worked on a manuscript collec- tion of cases on constitutional law. Also in Bryn Mawr, Mr. Broughton, of the Latin department, worked on a Study of the Economics of Asia Minor under the Roman Empire. Miss Elizabeth Ufford worked in Bryn. Mawr on her dissertation, spend- ing the remainder of her vacation in the Pocono Mountains. Mr. Samuel Chew, of the English Department, spent the summer in Bryn Mawr, en- larging his house and reading. the proof of The Crescent and The Rose, to be published by the Oxford Univer- sity Press in November. Mr. Chew also edited an anthology of Tennyson, _ which _Doubleday..Doran—will—publish _ this winter; in‘his opinion, however, his most important achievement was successfully taming a_loeal chipmunk. .« The Paris Exposition attracted many of the faculty. Miss Wood- worth, who attended, also traveled in England. Mr. Jean Guiton visited the Exposition and the Bibliothéque Na- tionale, and spent the remainder of ‘ the summer reading, sailing, and camping, with his confreres. Miss Margaret Gilman, in France for the summer, collected material on Beaude- laire. Mrs. Frank, also of the:French department,..hadProverbes en.Ruines published and was an editor of the publication committee of the Modern ' Language Association. Mlle. Ger- maine Brée spent three weeks in France after teaching at the Middle- bury Summer School. - - The Exposition also attracted Mr. Valentin Muller, who included it in his travels in. France, Belgium, Holland and — northern Europe. Mr. Ernst Diez finished a work on the civiliza- tion of Iran which will be published as—one-of--a~series of college text- books o?ancient civilizations. Mr. Diez also studied baroque architecture in upper Italy. Mr. Harold Wethey, of the History of Art Department, visited the Neth- erlands, Belgium, and Paris, and studied Tintoretto paintings in Venice. . Miss Katrina Van Hook, traveling with the family of an art critic of the New York Times, visited museums in the southwestern and Pacific states. Others who vacationed in America were Mr. and Mrs. Karl Anderson, who spent time in Ottawa, New Hamp- shire, .and- Iowa. . Mr. Anderson worked on a paper on the Australian tariff. Mr. Arthur: Colby Sprague continued research in thé Harvard li- brary on a forthcoming Shakespear- | ian work. Mr. Gillet, of the Spanish department, attended a meeting of the Committee on Research Activities of the Modern Langtage Assocfation of America in New York. Miss Lehr spent the summer in her new house in Maine, and Miss Koller worked in the Huntington Library in Calfiornia. Mr. Mackinnon’ spent some time in Harvard where he at- “tended a meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, read a my paper on the Dynamics of Humor, and taught summer school. In September, Mr. Mackinnon attended a meeting of rainy Survey of Freshmen Shows Many Braids “Continued from Page One serene way from library to laboratory (and, by the way, count ten before wounding their sensitive feelings by ribald allusions to “lib” and. “lab”). One feels that Whittaker has pre- sented each with a free bottle-opener and a skeleton trunk-key, so self- possessed are they. But whatever one does not know about them, one does know that’ they must not be offended, because their strength, besides lying in yet uncharted places, obviously lies in numbers, and anybody can _ see what a difference that might make. M. R. M. sia was studied by Miss. Fairchild from a sociological point of view. Miss Kraus led an institute in Chattanooga on Problems of Public Welfare. Miss Lanmin, of the.Department of Chemistry, spent her summer in Mex- ico°and Maine. Mr. Crenshaw also spent some time in Mexico, as_ well as in Bryn Mawy.. He collaborated with Miss Edith Sollers on a paper on disassociation processes, which will be published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Chem- ical Society. Miss Walsh spent a month at her horhe in Dublin, and did research work for the British Museum for two months. “Miss Lake, having finished reading College Board Examinations, visited her. home in England. She spent a week in Rome and later col- lected material for a paper on Relig- ious Development during the second Punic war. The highlight of Miss Taylor’s vacation was a cruise to Ber- muda and Quebec—the rest was spent in Bryn Mawr, where, she says, “it wadyery hot.” Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Wells mo- tored with their daughters for six weeks in the British Isles during the early. part of the summer. Mr. Wells has just completed an article, The Fi- nancial Relations of Church and State in Germany, 1919-1937. He also signed a contfact with the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. to write a book on American local government. The Diezes (M. and. M..M.) spent seven weeks in Germany, visited “nu- merous friends, uncles and aunts, con- ferred with aba aie of the Junior Year in Munich and the Munich Sum- mer School Courses, took a double dose of Wagner-Festspiele in Munich and Bayreuth, and devoted a considerable time -to a forthcoming opus on the poetic language of Richard Wagner. AS AMERICA’S: FAST and smoothness. STARTING PEN Whether for class or “lab” or “dorm,’’ Waterman’s “offers students an edge of advantage. It starts fast, saves time and effort. That’s because of Waterman’s famous Super Point of 14-K Gold, tipped with ifidium. 80 separate operations and-hand polishing under a magnifying glass give it outstanding speed Match a Waterman’s against any other pen. See how much faster it starts. Size for size and price for price, Waterman’s Ink-Vue Pens also hold more ink, 1941 Makes Many Faux Pas in Self-Gov. Quiz Show Mixture of Tact And Confusion Boners Boners in this year’s’ Self-Govern- ment Examinations. for Freshmen were chiefly confined to the answers of four questions, 8, 11, 12, and 14, according to Suzanne Williams, 38 | the President of the Self-Government Association. was caused by Number 11: “What is the jurisdiction of Self-Government?” The greatest confusion Among the various answers: “Self- Government has jurisdiction over the entire student’s body,”—“The jurisdic- tion of Self-Government is the entire college except for the faculty,”—“‘Self- Government has established laws only to safeguard the girl in| the case Wf emergency,”—‘“The jurisdiction of Self-Government is that the President can suggest to the President- of the College the expulsion of a student any time she sees fit.”—“The jurisdiction of Self-Government is to call meet- ings.” Number 14—Mrs. Collins’s address —proved *to».be another stumbling- block. One student answered in- ap- parent surprise, “I never heard of Mrs. Collins.” Another merely wrote tactfully, “I’ll look it up right away.” Number 8 was a series of questions on_late-permission;~-It-seems that two o’clock permission may be obtained, according to one student, for “informal dances on approved public dance- floors,” and ‘for dancing at places listed in books (something, gardens, etc.”’) One girl, however, thinks that the two o’clock permission should be extended, “for traffic in Philadelphia is fairly heavy and it takes pretty long to get cars brought around from the parking-lots.”” If you are delayed, another girl says, you should telephone your warden, “in the first place be- cause courtesy requires it, and in the second place, because the rules require it.”’ .And when you do get back ‘‘you must record the gnanner of locomotion, etc.” Another student, describing per- mission for neighborhood dances, de- fined the “vicinity” as “Princeton and Wainwright.” In answer to Number 12—-“In what ways do you consider the system of rules illogical or unnecessary ?’’—one student answered that she found them very _fair—and— lenient, but why couldn’t we have double’ sockets? Another student cannot see whySun- day should be an exception to. 12.15 permission. . “However,” she adds, “I do not object.” si WATERMAN'S SCORES ee = dim Camera Club Elnasiiaas The #amera Club’ wishes to announce the election. of. the following officers: President, Doris Grey Turner, ’39; vice- president, Catherine Hemphill, 39; +secretary-treasurer, Fair- child Bowler, ’40. President Park Opens College Year 1937-1938 2 a Continued from Page One the Department of Philosophy, comes from the. University of Pennsylvania to give the major course in Logic. During the first semester, Richard Salomon, University of Berlin 1906-14 and Hamburg University 1914-33, will give a course in Russian history of the 19th.and 20th centuries. From France comes. news of. the death of Madeleine Soubeiran, Agre- gée de 1’Université, University of Paris, 1927, Associate in French at Bryn Mawr 1929-35 and Associate Professor, 1935-37. Of Mademoiselle Soubeiran Miss Park said, “She- was as her students know a gifted scholar and wonderfully effective teacher. She was as much at home it‘art and music and modern literature as in her own field of 16th Century French Litera; ture, gay, brilliant, full of sensitive- ness and life.” Miss Park here announced various activities of graduate and undergradu- ate students, some studying in other institutions, some coming here from other colleges and universities. Be- sides the 14 Bryn Mawr resident fel- lows and the 28 graduate scholars, cial scholarships to study here. Most noticeable among undergraduate ac- tivities is the first Italian venture which has sent three students to Flor- ence. The functioning of the French and German houses has made an opening for the influx of undergraduates. With the use of the new residence hall next year 25 more may be added, so that, by plain arithmetic, with an equal growth each year, by 1940 the population of resident undergraduates may increase from 400 to 500. As soon as the necessary fund of 20,000 dollars has been raised the Col- lege will acquire in the Mrs. ‘Otis Skinner Theatre Workshop not only a small theatre but studios for the Art Club which will be “adequate, con- venient and permanent.” “Now faculty, graduates and un- dergraduates of Bryn Mawr in this annus mirabilis, slightly inconyeni- enced inhabitants of Paradise-in-the- there are five-students who hold spe-} Evidently not ~ Mrs. Manning nor Mrs. de Laguna making, who are we?” nor Mr. Weiss,-all of whom are so- journing on sabbatical leave. In their stead we find. Miss Ward as acting dean and Miss’ Walsh as her assist- ant, and as Mrs. Manning departs, Miss Schenck, Dean of the Graduate School, returns to find this tribute in scribed on the wall of Radnor’s dining room: : The windows in, this dining room were enlarged and enriched atectohonour= of . Eunice phe a Schenck of the Class of 1907, A.B. and Ph.D. of Bryn Mawr College, Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur, Professor of French and First Dean of. the Graduate School to commemorate the con- tribution made by her scholar- ship and affection to the life of this college and to mark the be- ginning of her twenty-fifth year of teaching, 1937. In speaking of the plan of the Final Examination first attempted last year Miss Park said, “I thought myself— from the vantage point of neither giving nor taking the examinations— that the whole college was jacked up, that faculty and students found them- selves thinking in fresher and wider ways on subjects which had seemed familiar or limited.” Meanwhile the Department of Social Economy and ¥en Research an- nounces an undergraduate major in Sociology; the Graduate School makes a beginnjng in the new requirements leading to the Master of Arts degree, and Mr. Tennent, who is primarily re- sponsible for it, assumes his position as*director of the plan for the joint tenchhia of the sciences. “But what of all this?” What is the justification for all this develop- ment? The hope was, according to Miss Park, “that the leng-time pur- pose of the college in the period of its history which it was entering might crystallize into some service to Amer- ican institutions, the self-governing in- stitutigns which we like to think may be if they are not now a high mark in the tide of: civilization.” - As for the ‘individual student, “Un- less the teaching of this year makes the whole of the students’ own mind turn, it is useless, sounding brass. ... The passage to the world of the sober and practiced thinker is no light journey.” Tasty Sandwiches—Refreshments Lunches’ 35c Dinners 50c-60c We make you feel at home Bryn Mawr Confectionery Co. (next to Seville Theatre) Bryn Mawr “YOUR LAUNDRY’S . 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Ladislaus Bus-Fekete, in- sufficiently. possessed as he is by a succession of political, pseudo-philo- sophical and social opinions, finally | ——lieeemnelals amaiistnnsestitcsibmas Forward at Once .- The following communication was received by the News: “Dear Sir: “On 9/17/37 we ‘ordered 1 Rhys-carpenter; the easthetic basis of greek art. "On 9/22/37 ‘we reordered. We now ask that without du- PUBLIC OPINION To the Editor of the College News: I know that - financially speaking BOOK REVIEW Let Your Mind Alone, by James Thurber, Harper and Bros. Most humorous books, that is the kind~that are composed of a number of comie articles; get pretty tiresome publicity is extremely important to any college. I have been told that Big May Day invariably ups the ap- ..and his movie shorts are rare and after the first 20 or 30 pages, and the articles themselves are usually best appreciated when read at inter- vals in magazines. Robert Benchley, for example, is very funny and pleas- ant to read when he writes the weekly theatrical criticism in the New Yorker, wonderful comedy; but there is noth- ing as dull as his humor collected in a book in the. form of unleavened| lumps, sans subject, sans application, sans sense, sans anything. James Thurber is probably the only living funny man who can 4write a_ book, without a plot, which will induce a reader to continue for any length of time, and come away from it in a good humor. Not only do his readers come away ina good humor, they come away in a sprightly humor, imitating Thurber in their conversation. Thurber’s art, or shall we say style, has been described by many critics as profound and philosophical, according to the writer of the blurb inside the Mr. Amoeba Expert Joins Biology Department Year Doyle Studied Last At Carlsberg Foundation Early training in cytology, and later study of. biochemistry peculiarly fit Mr. William Doyle, assistant pro- fessor-elect of biology, to help carry jacket of Let Your Mind Alone, over,- his work is supposed to have “swept intellectual America.” out at Bryn Mawr the new plan for coordinated teaching of the sciences. Mr. Doyle received his Ph.D. at plications for entrance the following year, but I feel that the type of pub- licity. which the college has. recently been using can not help it financially and may prove detrimental in the end. By this I mean the movies for the newsreel made here and the pictures of undergraduates which have been in several of the Philadelphia papers. 1A tO familiarize the name Bryn Mawr to But what is pictorial Bryn Mawr doing filled’ with undergraduates peering through The only gain from. this a wide number of people. hoops for fun, eating lunch self-con- sciously, pseudo sunning in attractive It is the life of the “college girl” advertised in every New York store: “She loves her plaid dress‘ with swing skirt,” -ete. All very 1937, but just alittle beneath the dignity of Bryn Mawr. In - publicizing ourselves in May Day we are showing an excellent, finished production. This recent pub- licity is the result of the photog- postures, etc.? exhausts his immature little comedy in the triteness of picturesque sentimen- tality. Elissa. Landi (as Countess Ka- tinka), the daughter of an Hungarian count and occasional prime minister, is the only nimble character in the dully fore she necessarily appears over-re- sponsive, despite the attractiveness of her cunning rages or girlish sweeps. realized hodge-podge. There- It is at once obvious to all but the naively slow characters that she is in love with Jean, Jean is to all intents an automan. But not to all purposes, for he must develop political aspirations. and tal- ents which appear uncontrollable un- til they are suddenly and entirely de- serted forthe very Hungarian ro- mance, This might be endurable and even pleasant in its would-be Molnar-touch- es. However, while blankness is cor- rect for a valet it is entirely contra- MEET = FRIENDS plicating, you forward the book and send us a bill or cancel the order and report to us at oT, with reason of your inability to supply. her’‘father’s valet. “THE BAKER & TAYLOR Co.” dictory when found in the statesman and exasperating in the lover. Vin- | cent Price (of Victoria. Regina fame), playing Jean, realizes this even less than does Mr. Ladislats Bus-Fekete. The Countess Mariassy, Katinka’s... mother, is another too” tranquil of action -for the theatre. Her mind, susceptible to romance, gush and _lit- tle else is delightfully translated by Hilda Spong. In addition to the actors who form a_ slightly animate background for Miss Landi’s winsomeness, thére is an appropriately ‘well-bred and even elab- orate setting. M..C. H. Johns Hopkins University in 1934 for his study of -the cytology of — the amoeba. The following year, as Gen- eral Education Board Fellow, he studied cell physiology at, Cambridge under Professors Needham and James Griiy. Last year Mr. Doyle: was engaged in micro-chemical research especially on the study of micro-enzymes, at the Carlsberg Laboratorium in Copen- hagen. This city is rapidly becoming a scientific center, and the Carlsberg Foundation there supports two insti- tutions, the Carlsberg Laboratorium and a eancer research station. An increasing number of Americans; Mr. Doyle said, go to the laboratorium to learn the new micro-technique, called the “Linderstrom Lang and. -Holter Technique,” Mr. Doyle found the Danish people exceedingly cordial. Almost every- one in Copenhagen speaks at least three languages, and all are so eager to speak English that his only diffi- culty, he said, was in learning Danish. - At Bryn Mawr Mr. Doyle plans to carry on research in the application of micro-chemistry to cell physiology. He will give his courses both from the cytological and biochemical point of view. seems odd, because in our mind he appears. to-have-more~literary~ gifts than philosophical, more the virtues of a columnist than of a rationalist. His most important gifts are an ear for phrases and cadences and a ca- pacity for detecting the absurdities of thinking in logical sequences. His method of -ridicule is reductio ad ab- surdum. Thus, he uses the conven- tional circumlocutions of contempor- ary speech in exposing the irrational aberrations on which conventional be- havior is founded. Incongruity lies in the simplicity of the so-called com- mon-sense idiom as it describes the complexities of “common-sense” action and thought. But Thurber’s sophisti- cation does not imply a dislike of this kind of action and thought. On the contrary, he enlivens ingenious trite- ness by over-emphasis, implying that his*own kind of stubborn, passive hu- mor lies behind the irrational conser- vati®® habits of the ordinary male mind. In fact,;he glories in the irra- tionality, convervatism, and maleness of his own prejudices. He is fond of expounding his reasons for hating women, and _ all their -non-masculine habits, as well as parties, snobs, and literary people. Sometimes he uses the simple technique of pretending to write seriously on some subject.and saying nothing but what is supremely ; significant for its lack of import. This system, of course, is out and out satire on the usual treatment of the subject. Such an article is the one on Thur- ber’s associations which D. H. Law- rence, a take-off of many autobiogra- ‘phers’ accounts of their relations with - the literary and social gibt, In such a manner Thurber obviously glories in the fact that he considers himself a little man... This persistent mannerism becomes at times almost as irritating as those of so many other writers who make it plain that they consider Themselves great. Thurber’s particular . affectation often takes the form of an elaborate pretense at not being able.to under- stand scientific explanations, particu- larly psychological, and most particu- larly when intended for the popular intelligence. He usually affects to be- lieve that such works reveal psycho- logical peculiarities on the part of the authors, and that they would not have been scientists or psychologists if they had not. had some abnormal mental quirk. This suggests speculation as to whether Thurber would have been a comic writer if he had been born Smith or Robinson, and if an inferior- ity complex resulting in over-compen- sation had not impelled him~to take rapher’s--search~for--a—‘good- camera face.” It reminds me-of movie pre- views advertising ‘“cuddy co-eds.” SENIOR. ~The Biv Mawr Calge Tea Room for a . ‘SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P. M. Breakfast . Lunch ~ Tea For Special Parties, Call Bryn Mawr 386 Lantern Opens Prize Competition The Lantern announces a competi- tion for the-best short story, the best poem, and the best satire for each of which a five dollar prize will be pre- sented. Contributions must be type- written and must be handed to’a mem- ‘ber of the Lantern Board or put-in Room 23, Pembroke West, before Oc- tober the twenty-fifth. i The competi- {tion is open to everyone except mem- bers of the Lantern Board. Dinner Engagements Peggy Schwarz, ’40, to Edwin Stern, Jr. Doris Hastings, ’39, ard Darnell. to How- JEANNETTE’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc. Flowers for All Occasions 823 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr 570 VINCENT LOPEZ JOINS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Swing has been a campus institu- tion for some two odd years, but this fall it will invade an Eastern lecture hall for the first time, cloaked in the] scholarly robes of university curri- culum. New York, University has added to its faculty’ Vincent Lopez, popular baton-slinger who titles his brand of dansapation, “sophisticated swing.” Professor Lopez begins his lectures on popular music next month, and his band will lay it in the groove at the University Chapel in No- vember. In a similar vein the CBS Satur- day Night Swing Club will go educa- tidnal. ‘In addition to the regular jam-sessions, vocalists, instrumen- talists, et al., heard previously, the ‘Paul Douglas show will inélude ‘lec- tures by arrangers and well-known CLASSICAL soloists and conductors. Yascha Heifetz and Leopold Stokow- sky are said to be slated for early appearances, NEW YORK’S MOST EXCLUSIVE HOTEL RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN .~. and the most interesting! PROBLEM « SOLVER When you have a date with someone Exclusive because of its loca- tion and selected clientele... Interesting because of its See cultural , environment. Home - of Literary, Drama and College Clubs:.. Music and Art Studios ... Recitals and Lectures daily. out of town and you find that you can’t keep it—make new plans —by fele- phone—and keep everybody happy. Glee Club Elections The Glee Club announces the resignation of Helen Shepherd, 38, and the election of Huldah Cheek, ’38, as president. Get in the habit of using Long Dis- be up an attitude of excessive normality. Swimming Pool... Squash. 5 Thurber excels. in_his_ mastery of | , tance. The cost is small especiall his own particular plaintive, unself- Courts... Sun Deck ... Gym- — h i a ld ' conscious prose. At moments he also ; Libr after 7 P. M. eac nig and a av™ : 2 eae CeSs...: rar oe ; @ bd ’ t , writes more. sincerely, and by dwelling GREEN HILL FARMS naan satiacs : . vs ia on. the inconsistencies of personality : dia pe : 700 rooms each with a radio. Sunday when rates are reduced. in plainer ptose, sometimes achieves Shy. ane ane See a i | aa = u an intensity in-his descriptions which | \ reminder that we'wo _ scan nailed nie tue eae ARI ail suggests the fevered’ precision of a jo take..care-of your parents aia iia to ae» ~ characterization by H. H. Munro. His and friends, whenever they ees description of his French landlady is to visit you. such a sketch. Ini fact, it is probably aes cee hate ’ he same artistic sense’ of proportfon L. ELLSWORTH METCALF and restraint which makes. his purely Manager ‘comic writing sturdy enough to ap- | pear in book form. p oe - ~~ Page ‘Six THE COLLEGE NEWS s | i BOOK REVIEW a Collected Poems, by James Joyge, The _ Viking. Press. / James Joyce’s poems, which were mostly written in his young manhood, are now published in one volume for the first time. It would even be easy to believe that they were written in his adolescence, for their whole tone is as frail asthe inspiration of first love. The beauty of -girlhood and love are the principal subjects, with a sprinkling of nature pieces all. of which, with the possible exception of the beauty of girlhood, seem to be the sort of subjects on which a typical young man might write poetry. In some cases the book’s contents are so reminiscent of such youthful poetry te that they seem’ to be invested with a - nostalgic quality which is itself poetic in effect. This would not be the case, of course, without their craftmanship, and their occasional startling original- ity of image. The emotional or psychological quality of the poetry is hard to con- vey-—probably béeause although much of it is written in the vocative, as if addressed to a particular person, it nevertheless seems far removed from the scene of the original emotion. One of the particular talents it reveals is for an exactitude of phraseology, which also’ contributes to the “emo- tion recollected in tranquility” effect. Despite Joyce’s peculiar use of words, |' these verses are in the traditional mode. There is no modern intrusion of up to date devotion to reality and documentation; and the vocabulary of the lover is so sold that its terms seem more symbolic than accurate. In the same way, naturé imagery is used in symbolie sense, as well as to evoke mood. This removal from reality without loss of intensity gives a some- what mytserious emotional effect—like that of hearing an almost inaudible voice—such as is considered typically Trish. Pomes Penyeach, the second divi- sion, are more varied, less traditional, and more interesting than those of the first section. In them Joyce perfects his technique of emotional transition, a sort of skipping from impression to climax, with breaks in the thread of Marriage The marriage of Miss-Gladys Leuba-to Mr. Richard Bernheim- er has been announced. Resignation The editorial board of The — College News regrets very much to announce the resignation of Jean Mor 39. This.may be derived from his experience in playwriting or in his understanding of his contemporary drama. The theory that the mental energy required to understand a poem as a factor in its emotional impact, may account for the greater effective- ness of the last part of the book. The interest of the -poet through- out is not, however, primarily in sense but rather in rhythm, rhyme and asso- nence. . His ear is extremely sensitive and his rhymes and phrase lengths are excellent for their clarity and variability. The following lines are from A Flower Given to My Daugh- ter: sense. & “Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave | Whole soul is sere and paler Than time’s wan wave.” Senior: Elections The class of 1938 takes. pleas- ure in announcing the following elections: President, Mary Sands; vice-president and treas- urer, G. Alison Raymond; -sec- ‘ retary, Alice Chase; song mis- tress, Helen Shepherd: THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN 864 Lancaster Avenue Bryn’ Mawr Phone B. M. 860 ° Enjoy your walk to the “pike” and eat at THE CHATTERBOX Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr — —> g pe e YOUR LAUNDRY HOME AND RETURN WEEKLY by nation-wide Railway Express. Swift, safe, sure. Enjoyed by thousands in hundreds of colleges, at low economical cost. Remember, prompt pick-up and delivery, always without extra charge, in all cities and principal towns. For immediate and college-year service, phone the nearest office of Railway Express. BRYN MAWR AVENUE, BRYN.MAWR, PA. 4 “ ’PHONE-B2¥N’ MA WR “440 é — BRANCH OFFICE: HAVERFORD, PA: (R.°R. AVE.) "PHONE ARDMORE 561 eeeeneURcLAer German Orals Bring Usual Crop of Boners Imagination Takes Precedence Over Exactitude in Exams : f With each year’s Oral, examination we become increasingly conscious of the obtuseness of the German lan- guage and particularly of the difficul- ties it presents to Bryn Mawr stu- dénts.’ Making up for a lack of wh- ‘derstanding by an excess of imagina- tive interpretation, they have ‘again produced ingenious boners. Striving toward a better interna- tional understanding, one optimist writes: “As I have seen a skyscraper and ence rode on a subway in New York, I believe that the United States has hit the nail on the head.” The seemingly simple phrase, Das Fleisch muss reifen, brought forth: “The flesh must travel.” “The enjoy- ment of meat in the festive position is higher than in the fresh state.” “Butchering requires a refrigeration ‘of 0 degrees in a dark cell.” “The cold preservation of meat is, if it man- ages to stay in sick bed not a longer time than six weeks, relatively simple, then already retard a cooling off of 0 degrees the process of decomposition stiff in the cell.” “Otherwise it is on the contrary with far over seas move- ment.” “Chilled very. deeply.” “Crowds of potassium or sodium ni- trate.” Das Amulett likewise inspired “Gre- cian amylon signifies a particular spot cian tended in olden time, an artist rStarkemehl, with every kind of paste- ware set forth, which found various usefulness to the physician. The Latin development ‘“amulmetum” means: Nourishment of wheaten starch. This substance was looked upon more like our camolile-tea than (Allheilmittel). —The starch was immediately devel- oped into abstraction and finally sig- nified Amulett—already .a foreign word — ——a— — —....” Bringing a new and _ surrealistic trend. to.the time-honored field of lexicography, this crop of _ papers offered the following translations to- ward a revised’ (and perhaps much needed) dictionary: Wolkenkratzer— airplane, vulcanic crater, crowd. of people, crater of clouds, cloudburst, folk mixture, cloud formation. What, on the island Chiog where the physi- he eA, uccert. & “Y ¢ | Copyright 1937, Liccerr & Myzrs Topacco Co. say) piegpurennnenens ens TOBACCO CO % \ 1 might be standing right next to the most attrac- tive person you ever met, but you don’t know it until you are introduced... until you get acquainted. ‘And you don’t know how much \ pleasure a cigarette can give until some- \ body offers you a Chesterfield. ' Certainly this is true: Chesterfields | are refreshingly milder... they've . got a taste that smokers like.