Z-615 . HE COLLEGE NEws VOL. XXV, No. 3 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938 Copyright TRUSTEES OF BRYN. MAWR COLLEGE, 1938 PRICE 10 CENTS Fiasetice Allen Gives First of Shaw Lectures Freedom and Unity Formed Underlying Principle of Constitution LAWS NOT INFALLIBLE -NOR. SELF - EXECUTING | Goodhart, October 24.—Judge Allen in the first of her six lectures en- titled The Historical Development of the Constitutional Powers spoke on the Constitution as an Instrument of Freedom. She pointed out that the underlying purpose of the statute was to form a government capable of giv- - ing liberty and unity to its people, while the economic motive, so often said to be of primary importance was only secondary in the minds of those who framed it. Since many of the provisions are powerless as long as the public re- ’ mains ignorant of them, Judge Allen — urged that everyone read the Consti- tution, understand its original pur- pose and setting. and realizg that it, is neither infallible nor completely self- executing. Because the document alone does not assure that the supreme law of the land is being carried ‘out everywhere, Judge Allen* ‘feels that each generation. must recreate its own freedom. The history of the’ ‘American Revo- lution, Judge Allen pointed out, has been very dramatic with the hard- ships of the pioneers, the endurance of the soldiers and the spirit of free- dom that permeated all classes, arti- sans as well as aristocrats. Out of this struggle came the Constitution which unified America into a nation. Such growth makes the noise of his- tory, the noise, as Victor Hugo says, of ‘wooden sabbots going up and silken slippers coming down the steps of time.” Before leaving Europe, most of the colonists had suffered persecution of some sort ,or another and were de- termined to establish freedom in the new world; here they had been thrown more and more on their own resources, for when the Indians attacked, the colonists had only themselves to rely on. Freedom was in every settler’s blood and was aggravated by Eng- land’s numerous taxes and trade re- strictions. It is therefore unfajr, Judge Allen said, to claim that the framers of “the Constitution, taking part in this same struggle for liberty, were moti- vated primarily by the desire to en- rich their own class. They too sought eer Continued on*Page*Six * NEW SCIENCE BUILDING Miss Park Presents | Freshmen Statistics ' Music Room, October 18 and Oc- tober has devoted two chapel discussions to freshman statistics, emphasizing the fact that the large incoming class has added 25 more students to the college quota. The construction of Rhoads, will allow the continue the. new hall, to which has been progressin’’ steadily since. the building .6f the first hall, Merion, and will continue to increase until 500 students are enrolled. This is the size Miss Park feels is most suitable for a small college.. The completion of Rhoads South has provided room for 84 more students in residence. The college has living quarters sufficient to accommodate 409 students now, and the 389 non-resi- college its expansion, dent students arid six juniors abroad bring the total number .of the stu- Continued on Page Four COLLEGE CALENDAR Friday, October 28.—Two one- act plays to be given by the Players’ Club. Goodhart, 8.30. ~ Saturday, October 29.—Den- birch and Merion Hall dances. Sunday, October 30. — Dr. Helen Flanders’ Dunbar will speak in chapel. Music Room, 1 Oa Tuesday, November 1.—Cur- rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com- mon Room, 7.30. Wednesday, November.2.—In- dustrial Group Supper. Com-’ mon Room, 6.30.” Thursday, November ik exander Gettler to speak on Chemistry in Crime Detection. Goodhart, 8.30. : Saturday, November 5.—Latin Play. Goodhart, 8.30. Square Dance. Gymnasium, 10 p. m. iniensateent Impromptu Reveals Mine Of Talent Amongst Graduate Students Wyndham, October 23.—Alumnae Weekend’s gayest entertainment was International Impromptu, given at the French House by a mixed group of graduates and _ undergraduates. Though it was not entirely impromptu, it had all the freshness of a quick- spur-of-the-moment undertaking . with- out any of its faults; its particular merit was that it revealed the mine talent which has been housed in =e nor like the Fort Knox gold, secure and unattainable. Diverse accomplish- ments were woven into a skit by Mar- garet Otis, 39, who also played the part of Miss Blinks, an effusive alum- na, down at the heel but still enthusi- astic. Miss Blinks “opened the’ perforniiitice by stomping in behind her little greup and explaining to them the sort of}. “thing that the alumnae would ‘Tike: to see. Arsenia Arroyo, the Spanish stu- dent, obligingly~npse to her feet and accompahied by spirited music, swir- ling skirts and castanets, danced a Spanish dance. After she had retired amid tumultuous: applause from the Grazia “Avitable and Gavia Fan, the Italian students, sang blatantly off key and then accused each other of giving the wrong impression of Italian opera. ‘Their conversation was put to a tem- porary halt by the reappearance of Miss Arroyo, who this time combined dancing and singing. Another gentle disagreement arose’ between the Chin- Woo. Miss Ch’en was playing a very interesting Chinese melody on a two- stringed-violin, when Miss Woo. hur- riéd in and wrested the violin away from her... Miss Blinks tactfully inter- vened by“asking the Freneh and Fin- and Anna Hietanen, what they could do. Miss Jacquemond was of a retir- Ling nature, and. Miss_Hietanen, equip- ped with a hammer and what we hope belt, had “to zo on a Geology Field Trip:” For no particular reason, a ‘strange uproar arose after she made this announcement and it was only quieted when a messenger came in and bona fide alumnae, the other Students} 35, ped a telegram into Miss Blinks’ played their parts, each in the peated her country. eras eg ‘ if ee sa ee | er, eo EarOnigen were eon hand. Opening it, she rea — a2 rieicoinubacte on Page d ese students, Agnes Ch’en and Nancy nish ‘students, Solangé. Jacquemond wag a Finnish knife dangling from her |, Lectures Informal ~ At Summer School Union and Non-Union Workers 20.—This year Presidést.Parkm Enrolled Represent Cross Section of Labor (Especially Contributed by Eleanor K, Tost, 89 and Helen J. Cobb, ’40) When Judge Allen said Monday night that the preservation of liberty needs constant education,’ she touched on the purpose of the Summer School. It was founded in 1921 by Pres. M. Carey Thomas and Dean Hilda Smith of Bryn Mawr College “to give a pen and tongue to the Labor Movement.” Because it was not factional, and be- cause of the quality of its leadership, four similar schools dre today serving ‘| workers elsewhere’ in the United States. Yearly about seventy girls go from Bryn Mawr with knowledge which should.make them better mem- bers of their community. The Bryn Mawr students are hand-, picked workers from Y.W.C.A. and union groups east of Denver and north of Atlanta, Ga. This year the four foreign students were from Canada, England and Denmark. Sofie Fricke, the Danish girl is now studying at Pendel Hill near Swarthmore. She may come to the November 2nd meet- Continued on Page Five Expert On Detection’ of Crime Will Speak Alexander Q. Gettler, chief toxicolo- gist for the City of New York, will speak on Chemistry and the Detection of Crime at 8 p. m. on Thursday, No- vember 38, in Goodhart Hall. Mr. Gettler is a world authority on “death under mysterious circumstances” and his lecture, sponsored by the Science Club,. should. interest. lovers~.of-.detee- tive fiction particularly. A~previous a male member of the audience ‘fainted. All deaths in New York City which are not attended by a physiciah are reported to Mr. Gettler’s staff, and whenever the cause baffles routine analysis, he is responsible for dis- covering it. Mr. Crenshaw,, of the themistry department here, says that reports of Mr. Gettler’s activities, particularly in poison cases, appear in the N. Y. Times at least once a week. Mr. Crenshaw, who_heard Mr. Get- tler speak several years ago and recommended that the Science Club ‘arrange this lecture, says that he cites many noted murder cases which his toxicological evidence has solved. Mr. Gettler’s method of determining whether a victim has_ been drowned ih salt or fresh: water jS-uséd all-over ’ Continue@ on Page Five i ~—~Prize-W inner Frances Fox, ’38, won a play- writing competition this sum- -mer at the Breadloaf School in Mfidlebury, Vermont. Herprize- winning play was written” last - year in the Play Writing course - conducted by Mr¥. ‘Herbert Mc- fAneny. cae li F lecture once became so exciting that. ist canenetn aS SR A Srintce Building Opens Amid Series of Lectures to Alumnae ‘Norman L. Bowen Speaks And Geology; Growth of Sciences’ Since - Pre-Dalton Days Traced on Alliance of Chemistry ! FACULTY CONDUCT DISCUSSION GROUPS October 23—On Sunday morning four separate conferences were -held |for the benefit of the alumnae by the |departments of psychology, physics, |mathematics and biology. The topic | discussed was the place of these de- -|partments in the college curriculum. 3. Psychology The Library, October 23.—Psychol- ogy is. by nature. the nucleus of a curriculum in that it is the meeting place not only of the. stiences, but also of the humanities, for it is in psy- chology that the study of matter, life, | mind, and _ society converge. Mr. MacKinnon gave the alumnae this answer to the question of the’ place of the Psychology. Department in the college curriculum. : Psychology as a science is co-exten- sive with all other sciences. Roughly dividing the fields of psychological | t research into Sensation; Perception, Learning, Motivation, Personality ‘and Character, Mr. MacKinnon pointed out that research in Sensation and physics, research in Learning and Motivation with biology, and research in the fields of Personality and Char- acter with the hitial sciences. Students who have taken merely the introductory first year course are at onéé’ aware of its many contacts with their other fields of study. As Continued on Page Two |Player’s Club to Give .° Experimental One-Acts Comedy and Tragedy Present Contrast _in__Atmosphere The Players’ Club will give two one-act plays on Friday, October 28. The plays, The Great Dark, by Totheroh, and The Devil on Stilts, by Ryerson and Clements, have — been chosen both with the idea of present- ing a variety of: problems for the east and production—staffs_ to solve, and with the intention of giving the audience as great as possible a con- trast in atmosphere. Both are mod- ern, but the first is a realistic drama, ‘he second is a comedy, lighter and more urbane. They are being pro- luced as cheaply as possible, since their main purpose is to provide ex- Pp ==———"Wontinued on Page six" Perception is most closely allied with: A ‘et in a small Western mining town; | GOODHART PROGRAM PRECEDES OPENING . Goodhart Hall, October 22.—The New Science Building was. officially’ opened today following a program of speeches which outlined ‘the develop- ment of the sciences at Bryn Mawr. Miss Park, describing the general ex- pansion in this field since the found- ing of the college, was . followed by Miss «Florence. Bascom, professor emeritus of geoJ6gy, and Dr. Louis I’. Fieser, associgte professor of chem- Co at Bryn ‘om 1925 to 1930 and now provesswr of chemistry | at Harvard University. The exact significance of the new, building, and of the whole’ plan for the joint teach- ing of sciences, was pointed out by Norman L. Bowen, Ph.D., distin- guished service professor of petrology at the University of Chicago, in his talk on the Alliance of. Chemistry and Geology. Miss Park showed how the history of scientific expansion here, including present developments; has followed al- most. exactly the principles laid down by the founders. Dr. James &, Rhoads, first president of. the college, in his 1884 report to the Trustees, emphasized the interrelation of the sciences. Joint Teaching Forecast “Chemistry,” said Dr. Rhoads, “which treats of the atomic and mole- cular relations of matter, is the basis of ‘allied sciences.” Physics, which is closely connected with chemistry, is in js turn necessary to the right un- derstanding of mineralogy, geology, and biology. The latter, starting with the commonest principles of ani- mate~—action, soon separates into the great divisions of botany and zoology, and to the: higher developments of human physiology and psychology.” Dr. Joseph Taylor, who gave Bryn > Mawr its original endowment of one million dollars, wanted to build a sci- entific laboratory at the beginning. This was not found possible, and the first-courses in chemistry and biology had to be taught in inadequate labo- ratories in Taylor.- The physics de- partment, started in 1887, was housed inf the small wooden building back of Merion. Agitation for a real laboratory went on, and in-1892 several friends gave the 40 thousand dollars necessary to build Dalton. Three years later Miss At Traditional ‘Freshman Class Receives Blue Lanterns Ceremonial in Cloisters Lantern Night is one of the few col- lege traditions which seems not to change. Buildings continue to rise on every hand; hoops are no longer given away in Senior Row; even the vener- able busts in Taylor have yielded to the seemingly -irresistable force of progress. But ‘still each year, on a Friday night in October, cap-and- | gown-é¢lad sophomores, file into the cloisters swinging lanterns and chant- Si their hymn of praise to Pallas Athena, And still the freshman, after receiving their lamps of learning, march out singing the same “eopias philae paromen. - However, ‘tiacletvs: with visiting has ‘a long and interesting history. In EE os the first entering class rr were sophomores, they decided to give a play for their bewildered freshmen. At the end of the show, with great flourishes and much mirth, the fresh- men were given tiny lanterns, about three or four inches high, to guide them along the tortuous path to learn- ing and, more specifically, to help them through college. The gesture was touched some deep-laid chord of. feel- alumnae’ reveal that -Lanterm, Night: intended..as a joke, -but evidently it} ing in the, freshmen, for the next year we find them repeating the perform- ance for the entering class of ’91. This system of presenting the lan- terns was still in practice when the class of ’98 graduated, but sometime before 1901 the cere ny had been moved outside. The sophomores now walked slowly around the campus, in- toning “Pallas Athena thea”; the freshmen, upon receiving their lan- terns, responded by singing their ‘class song. : The library was built in 1904, but apparently it was several years before anyone realized what a perfect. setting 4 the cléisters would make for-am occa- eee sion like Lantern Night. Eventually, - however, the realization came, and the | ceremony was -again—-changed to fit —— even. better its new rather monastic setting. se eas For some time, the Freshman song was different each year, but at some unknown date it was standardized, and a hymn called “Over the Way to the Sacred Shrine” became the regular re- sponse. The sent “Sophias Philae,” translated from; Pericles funeral ora- Continieedl on Page Three ey, — “Continued on ae © vo ‘a me "Page THE COLLEGE NEWS: be eS ~ THE ‘COLLEGE NEWS. (Founded in 1914) Published weekly duri Mawr College. ‘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 it may be reprinted either wholly og in Editor-in-Chief. . | ; The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in part without written permission of the Bm News Editor ANNE LOUISE AXON, 740 Ass’t News Editor EMILY CHENEY, ’40 DEBORAH H. CALKINS, '40 Susig INGALLS, ’41 a ELIZABETH Pops, ’40 Sports Correspondents BARBARA AUCHINCLOSS, ’40 Editor-in-Chief Mary R. MEIGs, ’39 Editors Graduate Correspondent VESTA HONNE Business Manager Advertising Manager CAROLYN SHINE, ’39 9 DoroTHY AUERBACH, ’40 : Assistants oe LILIAN SBIDLER, ’40 BETTY WILSON, ’40 ° Subscription Manager 3 : ROZANNE PETERS, '’40 Copy Editor’ MARGARET MACG. OTIS, ’39 Ass’t Copy Bditor IsoTA ASHE TUCKER, ’40 OLIVIA KAHN, ’41 ELLEN MATTeson, ’40 PecGy Lou JAFFER, ’41 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 -, SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY MAILING PRICE, $3.00 BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office The Story of Undergraduate “Who is Undergraduate?” She is primarily a perfectly nice and normal girl; she ranges between the ages of 18 and 22, and is clearly marked by: the usual merits and limitations of her sex and age. But this raw material has received rather particular conditioning. Under- graduate has spent a certain number of weeks or months or years at a university where she is almost exclusively occupied with serious con- templation of self. She is surrounded by others of her kind, similarly occupied, and by a smaller group of faculty members whose primary duty is to take a very particular interest in Undergraduate. This is probably the only way of running a university: at the same time it produces a fundamentally artificial state of affairs which Undergraduate is not likely to experience again, and which she is in danger of learning to consider*‘as perfectly normal. She becomes used to dwelling. rather- exclusively upon* herself: or upon such mind- ‘images as: Undergraduate makes a bright remark in class; Undergraduate has Weltschmerz; Undergraduate undergoes martyrdom because the faculty expects her to do some work on her own. As we have said, it is not surprising that Undergraduate should take herself a bit too seriously; still, unless she shows unusual powers of adaptation, the winter after graduation will bring her something in the way of a shock. A Faculty Conduct Discussion Groups @, - Continued from Page One Sl a concrete ‘example of his contentions, Mr. MacKinnon cited the fact that in one typical week four girls came to him for information bearing on their other subjects. A philosophy student, writing an ethics paper came with questions on motivation; a history of art major wanted to know if any- thing had been done about recording the aesthetic judgments of people un- der hypnosis; a girl preparing a questionnaire for a sociology survey to determine the relation of people in a particular hall as a social group, asked advice on how it should be done; “and an English major, writing on De Quincy, wanted to know about the ‘psychological effects of opium. First year psychology as taught at Bryn Mawr is essentially a labora- tory science, and is, Mr. MacKinnon says, one of the most extensive ele- mentary courses in the country. In many colleges it is a one semester course, in still others there are no laboratory periods. One of the most important aspects of the first year Bourse is the training it gives in the Aandling of statistical tools, training useful in many kinds of work. Mr. MacKinnon went,on briefly to describe the plan of study for under- graduate psychology majors and for graduate students, characterizing the ~eoritent “of each course offered them and mentioning its main allies in the other subjects. ; Physics Dalton. Hail-—Mr. Walter- Michels, | w the department of physics, in dis- _eussing the place of ‘physics in the Bryn Mawr curriculum spoke chiefly | of the problems in teaching this sub- | ject to women. The methods used are, “jhe said, peculiar to this college. -Ini | departure from conventional textbook | physics. teaching, which is designed for _engineers, the course has been made The details are omitted where tram lg fondaton Suburban Movies Seville: Tonight and Thursday, Boy Meets Girl, with James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. Friday and Sat- urday: Four’s a Crowd,’with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland. Sat- urday afternoon: Kiddies’ Hallowe’en Party. Sunday: The Affairs of An- nabel, with Jack Oakie and Lucille Ball. Monday and Tuesday: Reforma- tory, with Jack Holt and Bobbie Jor- dan. Ardmore: Tonight, Carefree, with Fred. Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Thursday: Smashing the Rackets, with Chester Morris, Bruce Cabot, Frances Mercer and Rita Johnson. — Friday and Saturday: Valley of the Giants, with Wayne Morris and Alan Hale. Sunday,.. Monday, Tuesday. egnd Wednesday: Four Daughters, with the Lane sisters and John Garfield. Anthony Wayne: Tonight, The Af- fairs of Annabel, with Jack Oakie and Lucille Ball. Thursday, Friday and Saturday: Three Loves Has Nancy, with Robert Montgomery and Janet Gaynor. Sunday, Monday and Tues- day: My Lucky Star, with Sonja Henie. stressed, and the students have pre- ferred it. “When a little girl is so high,” Mr. Michels said, “she is patted on the head for looking nice. A little boy of the same height is patted on the head for doirig something.” This difference in background has made the mechani- cal details of steam engines and gen- erators meaningless to most women | students. The rote details of the _AP- plications of mechanics and electricity are forgotten “by the first of July. It is ‘the faith of the physics department that the experience of applying mathe- matical reasoning to simplified pro- dlems will last when — details are gone. In teaching ‘undergraduates, the needs of several groups must be con- sidered. Those who are interested in| physics are easily dealt with. The needs of those who are taking the WIT?S END DON JUAN (Canto XVII ‘continued) Music hath charms to soothe the sav- age breast, Or: turn a.charming- breast to sav- agery. 'Tis said’ that Alexander used to wrest His broadsword from its sheath, whenever he Listened to battle music; or depressed, Would weep to hear some heavenly harmony, Or sleep. It’s curious that the sweet bard Orpheus Should rhyme so well with® drowsy Morpheus. Music’s like marajuana; you don’t know Exactly what will happen when you take it. You may start playing on the piccolo Or kill your uncle with the garden rake. It Is a bad habit that will always grow, ‘Even if you try like anything to break it. In algebraic language, its effects Depend upon an unknown, known as x. After this long preamble, you can guess That Juan hearing Juan didn’t ‘stay The same. He looked the same but none the less, Changed in the most extraordinary way. e wasn’t wearing military dress Like all the chic dictators of today; He looked as mild and grave as Al- brecht Diirer, Yet the whole audience rose and shouted, “Fuerher!” s Well, (dedries) I may say I don’t know how Juan escaped. What’s more, I don’t much care. No doubt he acknowledged with a graceful bow The plaudits of the crowd. whole affair Is quite beyond me. Juan didn’t allow People to pinch him or to peu his hair, And on returning slept, the ignoramus, So that, awaking, he could say, “I’m famous.” The At Lantern Night, the cloisters, cold as stone, Echoed the mystic question, “Where is Juan?” No one perceived him; he was not alone. Walking in line he held a light, a blue one, And chanted in a haunting baritone Sopheas philae. It was dark (no moo-on). Ah! It was beautiful to hear him yearning Either towards his Lantern Girl or Learning. (to be continued) course as an ally with another course can be; judged from that major. Most -of the class, however, is composed of those who are somewhat interested, or who are taking physics as a required science, having rejected geology for its field trips, chemistry for its smells and biology for its dogfish. It is for the benefit of this lattér group that the course has emphasized the develop- ment of the logical system, rather than its application. The technical details appear in the laboratory and more ad- vanced courses. _ The problems. of the second year course are less happily solved, as yet. Part of the project for joint teaching of the sciences will call for the division of the second year work into smaller divisions. The mathematics student omitting thermodynamics, while the chemistry student could omit mechan- ies. This scheme would greatly in- crease the service of physics“ to the other departments, This arrangement | is still, however, a remote prospect: ” In- speaking of the graduate depart- ment, Mr. Michels ascribed all the pro- blems to the fact. that, “Bryn Mawr is a small college, trying to be a univer- sity.” This attempt continues, with or without funds and -facilities. Where Princeton has 16 graduates in physics, we have eight. The result is that the graduates must’ work extra hard, but theirs is the reward of university training. Too Bryn Mawr Ph.D.’s ices tlid cuits ease sash could have mechanics -and electricity, |, | Nucleus Club Shows Colored Photographs|| Common Room, October 20.—Col- ored photographs taken this summer in the Gaspe. peninsula by members of the club were shown at an open meeting: of the Nucleus Camera Club. Coffee was served to the visitors, and 25.new members joined, In a style unusual for records of summer trips, the pictures were shown for their artistic value with only a necessary minimum of references to time and place, At present color played with a projector. The pictures are in the form of transparencies on slides, Fairchild Bowler, '40, stated that within two or three weeks a new method will appear on -the market for printing color pictures inexpen- sively and well. The beauty that can be recorded with a color film was remarkable in the pictures taken at a bird sanctuary, They were able to come very close to the nests and the pictures show the distinction between the white gulls and the creamy young ones against a dark background of blue sea. The ex- cellence. of composition in these pic- tures: was as impressive as the me- dium. Among miscellaneous pictures was: the library, looking curiously pink in the one snowfall of last winter. PRIVATE OPINION |Dear Girls, I don’t suppose many of you will remember Betsy Binks, ’07 (Stinky Blinks for short), but it was so grand coming back here over. the Wéek-end that I thought I’d write you a little note. Now I think all those delightful French girls in Wyndham Hall. would be interested to know that I headed five women’s committees in France last summer for the extension of women’s property rights. On week- ends, we organized suffrage parades and by the end of the season did we have corns . .. my, my. Then I stayed over through October as a member. of the Central European Unit of the American Women’s Pa- cifist Commission. We disbanded af- ¢er the Munich agreement, in protest against a settlement which we felt too un-American for conscientious ap- proval. If we had had our way bombing planes would be flying over Berlin right now just the way Japan- ese planes are flying over China. And I hope you won’t mind if I seem a little intimate, but I should like every Japanese ‘soldier to know that Betsy Blinks and her friends have adopted the following slogan: From thighs to toes We wear lyle hose. En mardge, my brother, Bert Blinks, Harvard, ’06, is director of the Buzzing Blinks Cotton Industry and if any. of you girls are interested in a good sound investment... Oh, my, I seem to be talking business! What.I really wanted to say was that it was grand working with you all. The campus looks just marvelous now. I spent the night in Rhoads and it was like being in the movies. I .want_to come back real ‘soon. - Yours very truly, STINKY BLINKs, -207. in physics have gone on n into other po- sitions to make an evaluation of their results yet possible. The influence of the relativity theory in the last 30 years has made, physi- cists more critical of their assump- tions. In elementary courses, as the definitions are now set up, the difficul- ties are pointed out. Mr. Michels finds, however, that the concepts of relativity are not disturbing to those who have received no pre-relativity training. ‘Mathematics Dalton Hall.—In an informal meet- ‘ing with a group of alumnae, Mrs. Anna Pell Wheeler, of the department of mathematics, discussed the place of | mathematies i in the: ‘Bryn.! Mawr. ese = ‘ulum:~ Later "thé alumnae presen stressed the cultural value of the sub- ject to. the average student. Mawr must serve many purposes. Three years of mathematics are re- quired for physics majors, and those majoring in economics, philosophy and other. sciences ‘usually take one or two years. Of those who major in mathematics, some will. go on into ceca ce Page Five photography is most practically dis- The—-mathematics_courses_at ‘Bryn | PUBLIC OP{NION To the Editor’ of the News: In connection with this year’s plans of the politically and socially inter- ested organizations: on the campus, I think the question of relief in Spain is an important one. The campus organ- ~/ izations are too willing to take intellec- tual stands, to pass .resolutions con- demning or endorsing abstractions of foreign policy and political theory. There is need in Spain for concrete and whole-hearted assistance, based on the simplest principle of human char- ity to starving children in both camps. Speaking as one who is a member of none of these organizations, I think this is their chance to improve on last year’s rather ineffective methods of to show that their activities can go be- yond theorizing and investigation into the realm of accomplishment. . The American Friends Service Com- mittee, as everyone knows, administers relief in the form of food, clothing, shelter and medical supplies to non- combatants, especially children, on both sides in Spain. You can be sure that they will distribute our contribu- tions efficiently. They need especially money to transport large donations of surplus food to Spain, and to buy medical supplies for the children’s hospitals they maintain there. We, who are so ready to discuss and take sides, should be ready to help. We should be able to assure the Friends Service Committee of a certain sum of money each month, which they could plan on as part of the maintenance of a hospi- tal or canteen. Last year was.an at- tempt to have a 75 cent donation on every pay day. It did-not work very well, and many resented it, although it was not compulsory. Those who did resent. it or are not interested should not give, but they should take thought and remember that it is not only the members of the A. S. U., the International Relations Club, and the Peace Council who should care about these things. Perhaps it is none of their business which side wins, but it is iter on Hs ae mitigate the sufferings has caused Spanish non-combatants. All those they belongto organizations, shou try to work out a plan for securing a monthly donation. They will be taking no stand but the often neglected one of human kindness. HELEN HAZARD BACON, 740 To the Editor of the College News: As former inmates of the French . House we look with surprise on the misleading article in last week’s News. Those who are responsible for the ex- istence of the French House and those who had any connection with it last year were righteously cane at the inaccuracies. Specifically: First, there were origi- nally 387 applications for admission where there was room for nine. There was no “pressure brought to bear” or “sense of duty” this day and age “martyrdom,” par- ticularly that of roommates, is not to be taken seriously. Third, the kind of freedom made possible by a small group is not “laxness.”’ Whereas late breakfast and lack of specific quiet cause considerable confusion, they are luxuries to be appreciated and not criticized in a house of nine. All other college and self-government rules were in effect. ; The purpose of the French House is to provide a place in which to learn and practice the French language. It served its purpose well last year and by the presence of Mile. Brée as war- den. A complimenta#y article-on the beauties of Wyndham as the new abode of the French House does not undeniable advantages and pleasures. SUSANNE WILSON, ’39 | ELEANOR SHAW, dvi 4 7 “8 hakespeare Ayiidie - 2 Published Katherine Lever, a graduate - student, has had her double ar- ticle, Proverbs and Sententia in Shakespeare’s Plays, published in the Shakespeare Association Bulletin. The first part ap- peared in July and the second in October. collecting relief money for Spain, and. who do wish to give, whether or nt involved. Second, in hours in a hall: of 75 people would © its success again this year is assured © call for any belittling of last year’s: ~eiy - CW THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three eee BOOK REVIEW At Midnight on the 31st of Marth By Josephine Young Case $2.00 According to the notice on the fly- leaf, Walter D. Edmonds’ first reac- tion to At Midnight on the 31st of March was, “A wonderful idea! I wish I had thought of it myself.” This is-an opinion that will probably be echoed by any Bryn Mawrter who has read the poem. Her first feeling is likely ‘to be one of pride that a grad- uate of the college, and its young- est Director, should: have conceived so splendidly original and suggestive a theme. But her second thought is more than likely to be an irritated conviction that .even she. hé€rself could have dled it better, if she had only happened to think of it first. The book is the chronicle of a sin- gle year in the. tiny New. England village of Saugersville. It begins at midnight on the 31st of March, when the electric power suddenly and inex- plicably fails, and the people get up in the morning to find the traffic gone, | the roads gone, the neighboring cities gone and unbroken wilderness strech- ing out on every side of the village. Their differing reactions to the crisis and their way of meeting it form the body of the poem, It was impossible, in so short and generalized a work, that these people should be anything but types. Ex- cept for the warped and malignant figure of old Abe Givets, who is more carefully studied than the rest, they might all be labelled New England Characters: the gentle minister, -the village gossip, the discontented young man who wanted to go to the city, the trodden wife of the village bully. They are as simply and unsubtly pre- sented as qualities in a medieval mor- ality play, which is, by the way, the type of work that At Midnight on the 31st of March most ‘closely re- sembles. Like the medieval writers, Mrs. Case sometimes slightly overstresses — The Directors— The first meeting of the Board of Directors of the College for this year was held at the ye ery on Thursday, October 20, five o’clock; the meeting “was followed by’ dinner at the Dean- ery. - the obvious moral of her poem: that people were much better,and™ happier in the primitive colonial days, without the distractions of radios, tourists, crooners and longings for the city lights. But also, like the medieval writers, she brings a simplicity and directness to her teaching that grace and disarm it. Nothing so extenuat- ing can be said about the form Mrs. Case has chosen for her work. Blank verse was not an altogether happy choice, even for the more ex- alted portions of the book; for the more. trivial sections, it was simply disastrous. It transformed the simple act of turning on the lights into this, “ , , restless hands reached,: for the switch; the bulb As quick and brilliant as a light- ning flash Answered obedient and set forth the scene,” or discovering that the power was dead into this, “No lights answered to the switch his careless hand Turned with a habit that required no thought. But thought flashed on when no lights came. to life. ‘He tried again.” ‘ In other parts of the poem, Mrs. Case proves, and proves generously, that she can write acceptable and even excellent blank verse. But these splendid moments are always either slumping. back into pompous triviali- ties or breaking on the harsh New England dialect, as they do in the description of Abe Givet’s wife: “Her eyes were big as rabbits’ and as soft. She looked a bigger child among her own, As tender, ORG 2.3 And. few thought twice of her except to say, ‘She has no easy life that girl I bet.’ ” pitiful, and ignor- of thing might have been excusable resources of ' prose-insertion, ‘uate avoid it. can classic. to come. i. Me In the eighteenth century, this sort of thing. might have -been excusable; but in the twentieth, “with: all the free verse, and meter-variation at Mrs. Case’s command, it is hard to forgive the way the form drags down the originality of the idea, or escape the conclusion that almost any undergrad- should have known how to But through -all these defects of emphasis and style the theme of. the book rises still strangely arresting and fascinating.. These formal faults pre- vent the poem from being pwhat it might so easily have been: an Ameri- They cannot prevent it from being a deeply suggestive work and a prophecy, perhaps, of classics|,paps a little better than usual; The Church of the ’ Redeemer Bryn Mawr, Pa. Students of the college are cordially invited to the services. ‘Sunday—8 a.m. and 11 a. m. Thursdays and Saints Days— 10 8. Ernest C. Earp, rector. Ernest Willoughby, organist and choirmaster. me Freshman Class Receives Blue Lanterns in Cloisters Continued from Page One “tion, was first sung on Lantern Night by the class of 1924. This year’s Lantern Night had nothing particularly to distinguish it from performances of the last few years, except that a rapid exit of the unusually large ‘freshman class was facilitated by the use of three separate doorways instead of the customary one. The Freshmen’s song was per- while the sophomores sang their longer and hence more difficult hymn in less per- “The Alumnae Came Down—” Complete statistics on the number of alumnae attending the various events of alumnae week-end are not ‘available, but 215 separate alumnae were at the college for at least one meal. These 215 represented 50 of the 53 graduated classes. .As far as Mrs.. Bassett could as- certain, the unrepresented classes were 1890, 1916 and 1933. fect unison. Our only suggestion for improvement is that the withdrawal of the sophomores to their dark corner of the -cloisters might be accomplished rather more quietly—even at the price of a little loss of time; the present heavy-footed, noisy rush breaks the quiet, spell of the rest of the ceremony. 5 completely’ Varsity Hockey Team _Ties’ Merion Club, 3-3 Bryn Mawr Leads Opponents Until Fast Second Half | On Saturday, October 22, the Bryn Mawr Varsity. Hockey Team tied the ‘Merion Cricket Club Team, 3-3. Bryn Mawr kept control in the first half, scoring three goals. The for- ward: line played good fast “hockey andthe defense was also very efficient 1th H. Resor, ’42, breaking up many - plays. In‘the second half Merion made all three of her points. The outstand- ing player was B. Strobhar who scored in spite of the valiant defense of N.. Beck, ’40, the Bryn Mawr goal. The teams were: BRYN MAWR MERION Smith Ho. 6. rR es : Kirk>: Strobhar ...... “ig Weadock OOOO kis iee OG cei Stokes MBIDUR ales he, ee eee Lee MU ko ev oe Lee ee ara Howard ~ Harding :...... Poh Waples ee ss Os sia Ligon MOUS 6 ceca os eee Marshall EORD. cigs Bo ei Resor BREE 54s Ves RT uc ee Norris BING! 65. Cia ves Qe. eee Beck Umpires: Krumbhar, Turman. Goals: Merion—Strobhar, 2, Wil- bur,“ 1. Bryn Mawr—Weadock, 1; Stokes, 1; Lee, 1 Patronize our advertisers. Professor Leuba’s new book GOD OR MAN? e— WINETTE COSMETICS THEY’RE DIFFERENT THEY’RE BETTER BECAUSE THEY’RE PURE NANCY SIOUSSAT 37 Pembroke East Representative on Campus Register. “This book is a bold stride in the direction of clarity and straightfor- wardness in thinking upon matters that are fundamerital today.”—Christian “Professor Leuba’s most recent’ volume is one which no student of contemporary society can afford to neglect,”—Aldous Huxley. 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Bascom ‘closed her’ history of], oa “ must be their first obligation. _ pansion into the four scientific fields originally outlined by Mr. Rhoads was now accomplished. “Dalton has been used for 45 years now,” said Miss Park, “and it has had hard wear.” Despite |overcrowd- ing, inconvenience, and obsplete equip- ment, the departments Have grown yearly and offered more\a more courses in advanced work.\ The plan recently evolved by the faculty for the joint teaching of sciehces in- creased the need for better facilities. Alumnae Raised Fund When the general expansion of the college was planned in 1931, and the Fiftieth Anniversary drive. launched in 1935, the alumnae and the Directors agreed that replacement of Dalton By 1936, the alumnae, under the chaiy- manship of Caroline McCormick Slade, had succeeded in raising one million dollars. 332 thousand dollars went to the new science building; the Carnegie grant of 150 thousand dol- lars made possible the joint teaching of the sciences; and an anonymous gift of 25 thousand dollars was used to establish Bryn Mawr’s first re- search appointment, that of David Hilt Tennent in biology. 180 thousand dollars have been set aside for the new library wing. Since the facilities for biology, physics, and mathematics had still not been improved, in 1938 the com- mittee decided on a complete rebuild- ing of Dalton. A bequest from Sophie Boucher, ’03, which was added to by gifts of the Directors and others, sup- plied the necessary 53 thousand dol- lars. With the invaluable assistance of Francis J. Stokes, the faculty of the three departments drew plans for the rebuilding and, during the sum- mer, accomplished much of the actual construction work. History of Geology Department - In introducing Miss Florence Bas- com, Miss Park noted that the pro- fessor emeritus of geology was not only the founder of her department, but also the first woman to receive a doctorate from Johns Hopkins. audience, many of them alumnae who ‘had known Miss Bascom, applauded loudly as she rose to speak. ‘When geology was introduced, said Miss Bascom, there were 300 students at Bryn Mawr. Nine of them regis- tered for the three hour elective geology course. Since that time 12 women have become _ professional geologists following their work here. Five are now professors or instruc- tors at leading colleges; two are ac- tive research ists of the crystal- ine rocks; two are paleontologist (in me case of. worldwide reputation) ; me, Margaret Cameron Cobb, Ph.D., 1922, is a petrolium geologist in in- dustry; and finally, two are as yet free lances, destined, Miss Bascom da _lieves, for professional honers. ~"Geology Graduates Prominent Ida Helen Ogilvie, who took her A.B. in.1900 and was ready for a doctorate in 1903, stands out among the early graduate students. She was _tihe founder of the geology department 3 Barnard College and author of “~gome ten’ scientific. papers. and re- views. Julia Anna Gardner, A.B., 1905, was the first distinguished pa- leontologist produced by Bryn Mawr. In 1921, Miss Dorothy Wyckoff, now assistant professor of geology, received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr in the department of Latin and Greek. _ She had taken first year geology—as " her required scienge. However, in 1922 she returned as graduate stu- dent in geology and chemistry, and in 1928 received her M.A. in geology, -and. in-1932 her Ph.D. Throughout | this period; Miss Wyckoff continued her work in art and the. classics.. g geology at Bryn Mawr by’ ‘describing some of Ahe vicissitudes that hindered field word in her day. . , These seem to a re mainly on the. fact that “while trespassers are not field-geologists, field-geologists are trespassers.” Record in Dalton The The ‘speaker on the chemistry de- partment was Dr. Louis F. Fieser, of Harvard University. Dr. Fieser studied at Harvard under Dr. Elmer P. Kohler, who was in charge of or-. ganic chemistry at Bryn Mawr for twenty years until he went to Har- vard in 1912. “The record of accomplishment. in. Dalton,” said Dr. Fieser, “is ‘a good omen for the future. Few colleges of’ the same or greater size have con- tributed as much to chemical research as Bryn Mawr.” He attributed this success to the “university spirit and stimulating atmosphere” which at- tracted brilliant younger men to seek appointments here. Several of them have now gone to other colleges or to industrial jobs. All have made sig- nificant achievements in research. Out of 112 research papers which have come from the chemistry de- partment at Bryn Mawr, one-third have been written by Mr. Kohler, who died last spring. He was known throughout the country for his teach- ing methods as well as for research. Dr. Fieser noted the fact that he was also one of therfew faculty members who dared to put up a shadow of oppo- sition to Miss Thomas. Dr. Fieser reported that when asked to discuss the appointment of a new professor of chemistry, Mr. Kohler, then an instructor, told Miss Thomas that he considered himself fitted for the position. He added that if some one else were appointed whom he con- sidered his ‘superior in ability, he would co-operate gladly. If, however “I do not consider him my equal, you will have my resignation.” Mr. Kohler was appointed. Geo-Chemical Field Discussed Dr. Norman L. Bowen of the Uni- versity of Chicago was selected by the geology and chemistry departments to speak on the importance of joint tedching of sciences, and in particu- lar on the Alliance of Chemistry and Geology. e Although ‘most people consider chemistry an experimental, and ge- olegy a natural science, both had a utilitarian beginning in the attempts ‘of early man to use fire to extract metal ores from rock. The history of chemistry until very recently has been a. series of discoveries of new ele- /ments present. in the materials found on the earth: Since then, the dis: tinction between laboratory science as opposed to natural science has wid- ened, but the ultimate materials on which both work are the same, and experimental chemistry is important in checking the theories evolved by field geology. Chemistry ~ Tests Field Cticatles In support of this contention Dr. Bowen cited several examples. Ge- ologists haye long studied the flows of lava—from voleanoesand their crystallization into various minerals and rocks. High temperature chem- istry throws important light on the forces at work in the consolidation of rock from these molten lavas. Fluo- rine, chlorine and other gases present in lavas are known to be responsible for. voleanic. eruptions. . tions can best be studied by use of the principles of high temperature and high pressure chemistry. The lava’ which comes out from voleanoes js “a mere trickle” com- pared with the great magma reservoirs within the earth, which are continu- ally consolidating into rock. Geolo- gists have studied these “roots of the mountains” where they are exposed by erosion and haye found notable differences between .these rocks and those formed from lavas cooling rap- idly at the earth’s surface. When consolidation takes place within the earth, gases remain in the magma until crystallization is almost com- pleted. _ These phenomena can _ be studied more exactly through labo- ratory experiments with very complex solutions under moderate temperature and pressure conditions. ~ mentioned xock- weathering. swhich-is in ‘direction, they are never still. These. erup-. ‘As “a third ‘example Dr.. Bowen} y= ? Thanks to Undergraduates Mr. Rhoads, the chairman of the Board of Directors, and Miss Park wish to thank the undergraduates who did _ so much to make the exercises con- nected with the opening of the Chemistry-Geology Building and Rhoads pleasant for the _ guests of the college. The col- lege is especially in ‘debt to the students of Rhoads South who went to other halls for their meals, in. order to leave the large room at the Deanery free for the alumnae, to the ushers at Goodhart, and to the guides in the two science buildings and ~~Rhoads. A International Impromptu Reveals Mine of Talent Continued from Page One news that May Ch@w, ’39, was going to do her Sword Dance. Miss Chow entered dressed in a flaming red tunic and trousers, and danced unaccompanied by any music. The movement of the Sword Dance is abrupt in the sense that it is divided into short: fluid movements, but, though the whirling swords may change their It is most unusual to see a dance which is made more effective by the absence of music. : S The ppruots, composed of members of the French and German Clubs, were attractively livély. The German Club’s pleasantest contribution was the fa- miliar oral song, “I Can’t Do It All By Myself,” rendered into the German tongue. The German Club is always full of good spirits, and lederhosen, and with two accordions and a violin, they outdid themselves. The French Club sans native costume, resorted to caps and gowns, and bounced about in a cheerful Breton folk-dance, sing- ing and holding on to their caps as they bounced. The reaction of the alumnae and faculty who crowded the room even to the window-sills was very enthusiastic. We hope that: the Internationals will be inspired to give another impromptu performance some time in the future, especially for the benefit of the under- graduates who were shooed into the background -on Saturday hight: M.R.M. part a chemical process and which is of primary importance in geologic study. The products of erosion form chemical compounds, are carried to the sea by.streams where they are precipitated. Many of these com- pounds, such as limestone, silicates, and calcium phosphates are of great economic importance. Chemistry and geology in co-operation can add greatly to the data on how and where they are precipitated. In conclusion, Dr. Bowen pointed out that any grouping of sciences would be valuable since all are in- terrelated. Students under the new téaching~plan will become aware of this and will acquire “a scientific out- look” which Dr. Bowen believes more valuable: than too early specialized training. Science has done enough pure fact-finding for the present; it now needs’ students, -who~can~-apply | the facts and principles of the differ- ent fields to problems. specific .“borderline” oe) FANSLOW “Tailored Clothes” Stetson Hats for Women Braemar Sweaters Bas ees ee gr = ir : ee Shak Se aie Special prices for students ‘Bryn Mawr 2025 MAISON. ADOLPHE F aak aa Stylist * New and Individual Coiffeurs ——— e » son Uilesiies Ave Se Ea cee ee 1 ee Miss Park Presents Freshman Statistics Continued from Page One dent body up to 454. In two years, if 25 extra students are added each year, the 500 limit will be reached. 47 per cent of the freshman class come from “a large rectangular area bounded by New York on the north, Washington on the south, and: Paoli on the west.” ‘Six members of the class come from other countries. One is English and the other five are Americans who have been residing abroad, in Germany, Italy, Brazil and Mexico. There is an unusual num- ber of transfer students coming to Bryn Mawr from. such ‘colleges and universities as Smith, Connecticut, Swarthmore, Wheaton, Texas; Goucher, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Wells and George Washington. Approximately half of the fathers of thd freshman class are in business, half are professional. 35 per cent of the freshmen have. college-trained fathers and mothers, 47 per cent have’ only one parent who has received col- lege education, and 18 per cent come from families in which neither parent attended college. -Fifteen are daugh- ters of Bryn Mawr graduates. The average age of the class of 1942 is seventeen years and_ ten months. This is a new low. In the years ‘from 1922 to 1927 the fresh- man class was approximately eigh- teen years and three months old. Last year the average had dropped to sev- enteen. years and eleven’ months. Eighteen entering students are still under seventeen years of age. Miss Park observed that the pro- portion of public school students is greater this year than ever before. In the past Bryn Mawr has had a higher ratio of girls trained in priv- ate schools than any other leading woman’s college. This year only 72 per cent of the freshman class come from private schools, in contrast to last year’s 80 per cent. “President Neilson, of Smith College, says that public school students are the worst and the best. We have the good group,” Miss Park asserted. ~ Most of the freshmen entered Bryn Mawr by taking college board exami- nations. Plan D, which admits students. in the upper seventh ‘of their high ‘school classes to college without entrance examinations, 12 per cent attended schools in the ‘progessive education plan. Miss. Park ended her address with a few words about the expected aver- ages of the class of 1942. This average can be predicted only for those who *have- taken college board examinations. 25 freshmen are ex- pected to have a cum laude average, and eight are expected to receive marks of 90 or over. Three per cent entered on|. ssl MISS HAWES CHANGES U.S.A. DRESS FASHIONS . “Fashion is spinach. I say. to hell with it.”’ This sounds a bit like radical ‘exhibitionism to anyone who knows nothing about Elizabeth Hawes, a new American dress designer, but ore can- not read her book Fashion is Spinach witheut realizing that it is carefully aimed at the fashion racket which, for. . years, has obliterated the most impor- tant factor of clothes: style. Further- more, her projectile is shot from thir- teen years of first-hand association with every angle of dress designing, ranging from Paris couturiéres’ to Seventh Avenue wholesalers. After graduating from Vassar in 1925 with a definite interest in eco- nomics and clothes, Miss Hawes scraped together enough money to land her in Paris. She arrived sans money, sans job, sans everything ex- pay her trip to Paris. She arrived sans cept a few influential friends. At the end of two years of work- ing as sketcher for a copying holse, fashion reporter and stylist, she came to this conclusion: “The entire French legend is built up on a few designers who design for a small group of a few hundred or possibly a few thou- sand women who are chic.” This was all very well for France where -no- body cared particularly what the French peasant. women wore, but American designing, in which she was primarily interested, could not afford to be exclusive in the face of mass production. 'Miss Hawes came back to America destined to prove that beautiful clothes could be born in New York City with- out. benefit of French parentage. As she and her shop became famous, Miss Hawes began to undermine the most glaring inhibitions of the American ‘trade of dress designing, namely that: “Beautiful clothes change regularly every six months,” and that. “All American women can have beautiful clothes.” The first of these dogmas was established to keep business booming and the second is completely incorrect, according to Miss Hawes, because American women think that in ‘“fash- ion,” which is changing every few weeks, they are finding “style” which takes almost seven years to change. It is style towards which Elizabeth Hawes is steering American design- ers, and will eventually steer manu- facturers and wholesalers. Her in- fluence is bound to be great because, it-is based-on- the fundamentally sound theory that style is a combination of quality, comfort, and functionalism. ALBRECHT’S FLOWERS ~ ARDMORE, PA. 12 Lancaster Avenue Tel. 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Ld it. ‘SANFORD’S 17% See THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five CURRENT EVENTS (Gleaned from Dr. Gray)- There are three trends noticeable in contemporary European affairs which it is impossible to accept with resignation, airplane. The second is the loss of personal rights in many countries: the denial of the principles of free- dom of speech, freedom of action, and racial tolerance. The third is the refusal of political rights to the. op- ponents of the existing’ government. All three conditions have been brought about largely by military machines set up to remedy political abuses. Germany, for instance, felt after 1919 that she was in an. intoler- able position. Before the war she had dominated. Europe; after it, she had lost her prestige and much of her territory. It was inevitable that she should try to regain her political leadership and to expand economically in the agricultural regions of the Danube. As a result, Hitler has placed Germany in much the same position that she held in 1914, but on a much sounder basis, unhampered by an. alliance with an unstable Austrian empire. In the future, Germany, with the United States and Russia, will prob- ably be one of the three great conti- nental powers of the world. Great Britain and Japan will be almost as powerful, but hampered by their re- stricted home territory. France will probably have less influence than Ger- many and is likely to be included with such powers as Italy and Poland. Faculty Conduct ' Discussion Groups Continued frdm Page Two ~ graduate research and college teach- , strongly emphasized. _ ing, while others must be trained to teach in secondary schools. Fortu- nately an emphasis upon’ the founda- tions is best suited to the needs of all these groups. ‘In discussing the value of mathe- matics in other fields an alumna of the class of ’26, who is now a lawyer, said that familiarity with the mathematical method of approach had been exceedingly valuable to her in organizing the material of her cases. Most law schools approve his- tory as preparation in college, with- out realizing the value of mathéema- tical training. The needs of secondary schools for better trained mathematicians was One alumna, now a tutor, urged the return to the old special Bryn Mawr examinations in this field. She was told that many of the problems taken from them are included in the new Alpha, Beta and |« Gamma examinations for college en- trance. The erroneous ideas that many students have of important con- cepts, such as infinity, show a serious fault in their earlier education. The cure for this must be found in teach- ers with a thorough training in higher mathematics, all the more im- portant because they are to introduce the first fundamentals. Since the mathematics department _is_limited_to-three-members,-there-are}. few fields in which much advanced: work can. be done... Next year, -how- ever, a course in statistics-is planned, since this training is bécoming in- -——-“ereasimgly valuable to job seekers. - Co-operation of the mathematics departments among the ‘neighboring colleges has increased with automobil- ing. Princeton, the “mathematical center of the universe” is within easy distance for hearing important papers in an afternoon. The mathematical journal clubs of Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania meet to- gether with that of Bryn Mawr _ sev- orn times a yea: x, Biology. A Seixas eee “Miss “itary “Gardiner, in n speaking} —_s The first ig the military ‘abuse of such fine inventions as the ‘ing to take the time to study an entire Skills in Reading Miss McBride: will speak in the Common Room on Skills in Reading, on Thursday, October 27, at 8.30. She will speak espe- cially to the freshmen, but any- ‘body else who is interested is invited to come. < ; Expert on Detection Of Crime Will Speak Continued from Page One the world, and he has devised a way to .discover elusive causes, such as suffocation by ether which has since evaporated. Mr, Gettler is professor at Wash- ington Square College of New York University of toxicology and patho- logical chemistry, which is the chem- istry of organisms under abnormal conditions. He is also advising toxi- cologist for ‘many important hospitals, has received a silver medal from the American Medical , Association, and probably holds a record for autopsies attended. to the alumnae at the biology con- ference, described the present con- tent of minor and major biology courses, with especial reference to Mr. Tennent’s plan for the joint teaching of the sciences. The first year course; which must be adapted to the needs both of stu- dents who wish to go on in biology and of those for whom it is serving as ,a required science, is taught ac- cording to the plan first suggested many year ago by Dr. Edmund Wil- son. Instead of beginning with the study of a complex dnimal like the frog, “‘which is,” said Miss Gardiner, “more or less like themselves,’ the course begins immediately with the observation “of the less-well known unicellular organisms, and_ proceeds logically through more and more com- plicated fornis to such highly de- veloped creatures as the rabbit. In second year and advanced courses, the advantages of study at a small college become more and more evident. The biology major receives instruction at some time from every member of the department: she learns to know them well and has an op- portunity to become familiar with the research work which they are doing. In all courses, but especially in the first year course where it is not so evident, great emphasis is laid on the relations of biology to other sci- ences, Biology and psychology, bi- ology and chemistry, biology and phy- sics, biology paleontology—in the bor- der-line fields between these groups of sciences there is more and more op- portunity for research and investiga- tion. The sciences, after having diverged from the one all-inclusive science” of Aristotle’s day to become the highly specialized fields which they were until recently; and still are to some extent, are again con- verging in an attempt to correlate their separate stores of knowledge, and to explain the many phenomena which seem properly to belong to no particular field. Mr. Tennent’s plan will among other things, make it easier for advanced students to investigate those parts of other sciences which seem most applicable to the work in which they are engaged, without hav- course. SEN 1 See RAI } GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Avenue Ardmore 3600 A reminder that we would like ‘to take care of your parents and friends, whenever they come to visit you. A For reservations: C. GEORGE CRONECKER Eos ae ee new ¢ ag %, ES ay Peal . ‘| — Breakfast Lunch ‘MEET ates FRIENDS The Siva Mawr College Tea Room for a SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION Hours of Service: 7, 30 A. M. =F. 30 P. M. For Special Parties, Call Bryn Mawr 386 v tj Tea Dinner Informal At Summer School Lectures Continued from Page One ing of the Industrial group. The girls represented an excellent cross- “section of industry. Among them were gar- ment, textile, steel, automobile, candy, cosmetics, paper-box, and’ button work- Domestic workers, large mass- production plants, sniall factories, A. F of L., C. I. O., and non-union labor were all represented. ; Informality, give and take, and serious purpose were the key-notes of the classes. Faculty as well as stu- dents were there to learn. The faculty gave the academic knowledge; and the students contributed their actual ex- periences. The faculty were mostly professors from eastern colleges, but their method of teaching at the Sum- mer School was not lecturing but stim- ulating and directing class discussions in line with the general program. The girls were so absorbed in ‘their work this summer—their Economics and English, their Science and Dramatics, their library and workshop—that the residents of Bryn Mawr were scarcely conscious of the existence of the school. The six undergraduate assistants from five colleges lived in Denbigh with the students. They taught swim- ming and tennis, arranged picnics and trips, took care of the cooperative store, the mimeographing and chauf-} feuring. They went to classes, talked informally, danced the Virginia Reel on the hockey field or lay under the trees to listen to the new victrola and Miss Park’s records. Tea at four every afternoon on the lawn near Den- bigh refreshed everyone after sports and gave new life to the discussions which always followed in the Deanery Garden or the Cloisters. Undergradu- ates and students in working and playing together learned of the others’ unfamiliar world and its pleasures and problems. The work in Dramatics was the most coordinating and cooperative in the program. Students, faculty and staff, John Henry the Merion porter, drew on all their resources in the production of the two plays. In the first, a his- tory of the Fair Labor Standards Act, material from the Economics and English classes was worked up by the students themselves in Dramatics class. On the last night, though rain drove them from the Cloisters to the Gym, the work of the summer seemed finished and unified in the dramatic history and development of the Sum- mer School, We Tomorrow. Each mem- ber went out to become a more impor- tant and wiser member of her group— to develope and use constructively the method of study and thought she had learned at the Summer School. ers. te THEATRE REVIEW Philadelphia is about to be host to one of the highlights of New York’s 1937-1938 season, The Cradle Will Rock. This musical production, writ- ten and composed by Marc Blitzstein, was ,produced under the auspices of the Mercury Theatre,’ and has en- joyed a profitable run on the Broad- way stage. The play, performed without. scen- ery, revolves about the figure of Mr. Blitzstein, who clarifies what is hap- pening on the stage for the benefit of the audience and simultaneously sup- plies musical aceompaniment on ‘his piano. The other members of the cast stand in rows towards the back of the stage, motionless, except when they are actually performing. The Cradle Will Rock is primarily union- propaganda. It does not pre- tend to be anything else. The setting is Steeltown, and all .the characters have some definite relation to labor, such as Mister Mister, the big boss, and his family, Missis Mister, Junior Mister, and Sister Mister. In addi- tion are the gold-digging minister, the parasitic artists, the corrupt college professor, the street- walkers and various other personalities, including, of course, the worker. This young man is distinguished from the other people portrayed by his integrity and true democratic feeling. The general idea of the thing is that he is the prophet heralding the triumph of labor. The Cradle Will. Rock may be too class-conscious for part of its audi- ence. Still, it deserves a good deal of credit for the force and vigor with which it is presented and for the dex- rterity with which Mr. Blitzstein handles his. material. The Junior’s Going to Honolulu scene is really pretty funny no matter how you vote. The heir of his family fortune, a plump and_ elaborately repulsive youth, sits on the edge of the stage with his equally repellent sister. To the accompaniment of Junior’s guitar they sing in praise of Honolulu, whither Junior is bound for love and adventure, and, secondarily, to take care of papa’s business. Junior is the stock example of one type of rich man’s son, and carries through his characterization to the last degree. The drug store scene is written in a different mood and shows the strug- gle of the lower middle classes. It is above all a superb bit of drama built—around four vivid_characters; Phone, Bryn Mawr 252 We Deliver Charge accounts Vases of all kinds CONNELLY’S The Main Line Florists 1226 Lancaster Avenue Rosemont-Bryn Mawr, Pa. —— the boxes of Crane FOXY, EH? Gone to earth at RICHARD STOCKTONS’ among ’s newest stationery, where the keenest hunter can find the best collection of smart letter-paper in Bryn Mawr. 6 (R. R. BRANCH OFFICE: AVE.) ME.* *Phone BRYN=MAWR 440°» BRYN MAWR, PA. HAVERFORD, PA. 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He’sa good man to know. iN BRYN MAWRRAME - ee Resignations The College News regrets to announce the resignation of ‘Polly Hager, °41, and Isota Tucker, ’40, from the Editorial Board. ‘ka Evening Service ~ The’ speaker at the service on Sun- day will be Dr. Helen Flanders Dun- bar, graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Columbia ‘University, ‘Union Theo- logical Seminary, Yale School of Medicine. The Anthem by the Choir is: “Re- joice in the Lord Alway” Henry Purcell (1658-1695). Miss Helen Rice will again assist at the service, and will play as pre- ludes, “Larghetto’—Handel (1685- 1759), and Aria, “When Thou Art Near”—J. S. Bach (from the Anna Magdalena Clavier Book). A group of Organ and Violin solos will follow the address. Organ: “A Carol” by G. O’Connor- Morris. “Minuet” by Jonathan Bat- tishall (1738-1801). Violin: “Adagio” — Corelli (1653- 1713). Aria from the Suite in D Major—Bach. the drug store ‘proprieter, his little boy and an old, bewildered Swedish . couple. The mask of satire is dropped here and one feels that futility and despair are the real emotions behind the entire production. The feeble plot which strings the skits together is by no means original. All the upright citizens of Steeltown have been brought to night court: on what is obviously a mischarge. While they are waiting for their attorneys | to come and have them released, their individual characters are revealed to the'audience. The final scene, as one might expect, brings in the title song and allows us a peep into the murky future of high finance. ~ rere is no denying that this part of the pro- duction has strong emotional appeal, although the propaganda seems to be spread somewhat too thick. All in all, The Cradle Will Rock must be taken witfiva grain of salt. For those who are strongly pro-labor the whole play will be fascinating. Others will enjoy Blitzstein’s bitter humor, and will be.-impressed with the effective simplicity of the piece as a whole. O. K. 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The writ of habeas corpus was granted, and no one allowed to be convicted of trea- gon ‘without his own confession or a statement by two witnesses in court. The Bill of Rights, though not: in- cluded in the first draft, was passed _ immediately afterwards and provided ‘ still further freedom of ‘thought, ete: The writers of the Constitution, however, still saw the dangers of a. monarchy arising from the unrest. of the American populace” as well’as from stronger foreign nations. Many knew from actual experience how weak and ineffectual the government was under the Articles of Confederation when the executive position consisted of the heads of all the colonies, when the states alone could tax and when Congress had no power over domestic commerce. The framers, therefore, wished to organize a government into a strong efficient unit. According to Judge Allen, the fact that Congress was granted certain powers (which seemed to benefit the ruling classes the most) made possi- ble the unification of an exception- play. ) Attention! ‘ Members of the Players’ Club have requested that those who wish to present the participants in the fall plays with flowers of*any sort, give the money in- stead to the Theatre Workshop Fund. A box for such contri- butions will be placed in a con- spicuous place in the lobby of Goodhart on the night:.of the BRITISH PEACE WORKERS ACT IN LATE WAR CRISIS nd M of at of of of government. clearest possible example of historical, retribution and: a clear justification From Frontier News Service London.—Led by George Lansbury, .P., Chairmaneof the War Resisters’ International; a deputation from the Peace Pledge Union, British section the W. R. IL. left a manifesto. at the house of the Prime Minister and the British Foreign Office, at the crucial point of the war crisis in late September, which makes clear the at- titude of many British pacifists. Peace Pledge Union is an organization The at least 117,000 members. The manifesto asserted: '“The sponsors of the Peace Pledge Union “reaffirm their conviction that nothing can justify a resort to war. Thé last great war slaughtered mil- lions and maimed tens of millions. Its results appear in the present crisis. The last war settled nothing. other would slaughter hundreds .of millions and still’ settle nothing. “We condemn and reject the use An- violence for any purpose by any The present crisis is the pacifist policy. Blame undoubtedly attaches to Germany at the moment, but neither this country nor any other great power ‘is less to blame for the present situation. “We believe that we have no moral = ally large tract of land, the growth of free trade within the country’s boundaries, domestic peace through- out, foreign security and wide spread liberty. That the Constitution has its faults its original framers, even, admit. hope for perfection. e It grew out of compromise and could not Its fundamen-, tal principles—freedom and unity— Judge Allen claims to be still neces- sary today; though their. application right to demand _ concessions from Czechoslovakia without being ready to make real sacrifices ourselves. We therefore urge that our Government should at once invite the representa- tives of all the nations to meet in con- »} ference with the immediate object of revising existing treaties. Such a conference can succeed only if the Government of this country goes into it prepared to regard the question of colonial possessions and our own eco- nomic policy as open to drastic re- may_have been forced to be extended to meet new conditions. Judge Allen urged that the faults lie not in the documents so much as in ourselves. The Constitution, pro- vides for cases to be tried in the courts and the latter fulfill their du- ties. But, Judge Allen explained, the courts can only try those cases which appear before them and cannot. see that the supreme law of the land is everywhere understood. It should be the duty of every pub- lic officer to know that the Bill of Rights-is part of the supreme law and. to enforce it as such. Almost everyone understands the red and green lights of the traffic system but few, meaning of the “green light for civil rights.” The Bill of Rights was put Judge Allen said, know the} vision.” At the same-time, Canon Charles into the Constitution not because of the quarrel with England, but as a stumbling block to future tyrants. Judge Allen concluded by saying that liberty charter,but-must-be- recreated by_each generation.” Whether or not we have freedom and to what extent rests with ourselves. is not “paved into a _ SE Radios WM. G. CUFF and CO. Records 855 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr 823 Victrolas HENRY B. Estimates Given Mawr 758 Wh! 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Miss Rice. and her. newly organized orchestra group will play a musical interlude between the plays. we ie ee ee IE. Raven,.Rev. Henry Carter, George Lansbury, Professor G. H. C.: Mac- gregor, Professor C. H. Dodd, J. Mid- dleton Murry,.and Canon Stuart D. Morris, all-.distinguished figures in British religious, educational, politi- eal, and anti-war activities, addres a congress of Christian Pacifists published a message from the confer- ence which was unanimously adopted. “The present situation,” declares the statement of the conference, “proves DISCONTENTED GERMANS From Frontier News Service Berlin as- sessment is taken out of our mouths to support ostentation and extrava- gance,” : The display of, the Imperial Crown and two scepters, taken from Vienna, 142-year-old insignia of the Holy Ro- man Empire, effectively symbolized ¢ The policy required would involve ex- amination of grievances and a just re- vision of treaties and boundaries, readiness to submit our own‘ colonial claims to drastic revision} and eco- nomie” reconstruction’ so as to raise the standard of life everywhere. The congress appeals to the churches to affirm that war is a flagrant denial of the Gospel of Christ and of their own witness, to. refuse to take part in war, and to follow the way of the Cross in continuous prayer. with faith and hope.” Jeannette’s Flower Shop 823 Lancaster Ave. that a lasting settlement of disputes on the basis of military victory is im-| possible; yet mankind seems unable to meet it except by methods demon- strably futile and repugnant to the common conscience. ,. A fresh start in international affairs must be sought even in these moments of crisis. . . Bryn Mawr, Pa. Let us “Say It With Flowers” for you. Style arrangement, quality, freshness and_ service guaranteed. Phone B. M. 570 |the transfer of Austria’s gold to Ber- lin when the “incorporation” was made. : Reports on the outside about the German people’s féar of war, are ab-' solutely true./ There is not a ‘small fraction of the enthusiasm. for~war which was manifest here before 1914. The air-raid precautions which affect every hamlet, have not so much whipped up war lust as war dislike. The maneuvers held just before the. Munich pact were not pleasant’ for the farmers, whose horses often were - required, at the time of harvest. The standard of living, already shrunk pitiablyfrom war preparations, is cer- tain to go far lower in war itself, and everyone knows it. | ee | “HAIR UP?_ . I say it will all blow over by. Christmas.” This was the an- swer the other day of Miss Elizabeth Hawes f dress designer A small collection of Hawes clothes is now at the shop of | JEANNE BETTS RITE tig job and,when you a * a Bryn Mawr, C-™, ‘ Ssh ita lg 8 228 gai rm ate Penna. ~~ — rrp “ ‘Copyright 1938, Liccett & eens | ! 4 ___ It takes good things to make a good product. That’s why we use-the-best— ingredients a cigarette can have— mild ripe tobaccos and pure ciga- rette paper—to make Chesterfield _the cigarette that smokers say is — milder and better-tasting. MYERS Topacco Co. 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