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VOL. XXII, No. 11

, BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, "JANUARY 6, 1937

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1937

PRICE 10 CENTS

 

 

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ASS. U. Emphasizes: |
Action Necessary

‘In Avoiding War

 

World Peate Forces Must foi
In Effort ‘Toward Security
For All Nations

STUDENT RESPONSIBLE :
AS INTERNATIONALIST

 

The necessity of all progressive
forees for uniting to preserve peace
and freedom was the keystone for dis-
cussion held during the second na-
tional conference of A. S. U. chapters.
Approximately 300 delegates met: in’
Chicago on December 28, 29 and 30.
Bryn Mawr was represented by Ber-
tha Goldstein, 38, and Agnes Spencer,
39. Round table discussions on such

subjects .as student cooperatives and
anti-war measures as well .as_ ad-
dresses by outside speakers were in-
cluded in. the session.

Th® student’s responsibility as an
internationalist was emphasized when

greetings were extended by Chinese, |
Mexican and Spanish delegates agree- |}

ing with this_—idea. Policies were
established concerning peace -which
recommended uniting with all peace
forces in the world in collective secur-
ity. In addition the Oxford Pledge,
refusing to support any war under-
taken by the government, was. en-
dorsed,

. John -Lewis, unable to appear, sent
in his speech, which stressed the stu-
dents’ close affiliation with the prog-
ress of labor. Jerome Davis, recently
ousted liberal Yale professor, urged

_ that academic freedom be protected

against the inroads of Fascism.

As far as immediate activity is
concerned, it was voted that a mass
‘trip to Washington be planned for
February 19. At this time A. S. U.
members will lobby for the passage of
the American. Youth Act, which is
an enlargement of the National Youth
Act now in effect.

Further aspects of the conference
will be discussed by the delegates at
a meeting of the Bryn Mawr’'chapter.
The stressing of iaben-aiieinte activi-
ties with other organizations, the need
for political education and the open-
ing of a “Spanish drive” on the cam-
pus are some of. the plans being for-
amulated as a result of the conference.

 

 

COLLEGE CALENDAR.

Thursday, January 7.—Inter-
national Club tea. .Mrs.. Mil-
-dred Chapman will speak. Com-
mon Room,:4 p.m.

A. S. U. Meeting. “Common

Dr. Erwin R. Goodenough will
speak on Jewish. Art in. Roman
and Byzantine Times. Music
Room, 8.30 ‘p. m..

Friday,. January 8. — Miss
Woodworth will present a_vic-
trola recital of T. 8S. Eliot’s

. work. Music Room, 5 p. m.

Saturday, January 9.— Phi-
losophy Club meeting. Dr. Kurd.
Goldstein will speak on Cortical...
Function. Music Room, 8.30
p. m.

Sunday, January 10.— Dra-
matic recital of Die Meister-
singer “by Florence’ Fraser.
Deanery, 5 p. m.

Monday, January 11.— Miss
Agnes- Mongan, ’27, will speak
on .Museum Work. Common,
Room, 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 12. — Non-
resident. tea,

' Mr. Karl Anderson will speak
on Currency Stabilization. Com-*
mon Room, 7.30 p.m.

Wednesday, January 13.—In-
dustrial Group supper. Mr.
William Jeanes will:speak on
Workers’ Housing. Common
Room, 6.80 p. m.

Maids’ Dance Gratifies
Rhythm-Loving Audience

 

 

 

 

High Point of Dance Program is
Whittaker’s Tapping

 

Perhaps it was the rainy weather
which limited the number of people
who watched the Maids’ and Porters’
annual dance in the gymnasium on
December 16. Even though the at-
tendance was low, the dancing was as
rhythmic .and complicated as ever.
The music, furnished by Marcell Les-
sing and his orchestra, spurred ‘on
the feet and spirits of both dancers
and spectators. Towards the end of
the evening two lucky number dances
and well applauded exhibitions with
partners were conducted. John Whit-
taker, inimitable and versatile soloist
of Denbigh, performed some of his
delightful tap dances. ‘
“Eleanor Taft, ’39, was in charge of
the dance, assisted by Dorothy Rich-
ardson, ’39.

 

Blind Students Taught Self-Confidence

_ To Surmount Overwhelming Handicaps

 

Overbrook School Curriculum
Includes Manual Training,
Social Service

 

~ Night gives a peculiarly mediaeval
atmosphere to the Blind School. We
step from the warm modernity of the

.. Overbrook bus into the past, walk by
high walls, grilled gates and come.

suddenly to a Spanish palace with the
moon faintly gilding its dome. We
look up. at the dome, down through a
neat, varnished door at an operator
sitting behind’a desk; and up again,
trying to recreate an aura of roman-
ticism—and failing. The present, al-
ways at war with the past, has won.

It leads us victoriously to the opera--

tor, who being blind, waits for us to
speak. She is wonderfully deft, mov-
ing her hands‘ over the plugs-in front
of her with unhesitating skill.
times she reads a book, a thick lens
in her eye, moving a light, letter by
letter, over the large print.

But our missioy is still unfulfilled.
_We are assigned to different -people,
led to different rooms. We may read

Ivanhoe to the boy’s. literature class; |

~one of the boys can ‘see well enough
to read slowly to himself, and he races
as pith evident pride. :

~ We may dictate laboriously from a
book on textiles to a girl who is tak-
ing notes in Braille. She can see, but
is sparing her eyes as much as’ pos-
sible. She clamps a metal plate on
‘thick, paper and punches down
oes \ holes in it with a stylus, writ- |

spe ions a,
* <
4
an Pe Sarena

‘are arranged

Some- j

 

ing iene alien of course, so that when
the paper is turned over it will be
covered with small raised dots. They
in different symbols,
each symbol corresponding either to.
a letter or to a whole word.

We hope most of all, though, that
we will be assigned to Miss Dinsmore,
with her Seeing Eye dog, Cleo. Cleo
seems still to be in the period of train-
ing, she~dashes- ahead, pulling Miss
Dinsmore after her, forgetting to sit

down before steps, and being gently!

reprimanded by one with unseeing
eyes, who knows by long experience
where the steps will be. We follow
them through the dim cloisters into
the past again, and back to the pres-
ent to a cozy room, with Miss Dins-

mbre on a couch, leaning back against |

the wall, knitting, and Cleo lying
alertly at her feet. Sometimes she
thinks she has dropped.‘a stitch and
hands to the knitting to'us. “It looks
all right,” we say, and give it back
to her. .

“All right? I wasn’t quite sure.”
When the bell. rings she feels the
hands of her -wrist watch for ‘the
time. :

If we turn to the administration of
the Blind School, we find that its pur-
pose is entirely educational. Its cur-
riculum; followed for the most art’
by children who have been blind from
‘birth, extends from kindergarten to
the third year of high school, includ-
ing practical. courses like “maiiual [
training and music. The school also
provides for older people who have be-
come blind through illness. “M- R. mM.

Room, 7.30 p. m. q

|; and greater understanding which they

=| Festival at the Academy of Music in

Field Trips Initiated 3
_ In Social Economics

 

Labor iiss -Class Tours
SKF Ball-Bearing Company,

 

Steel Corporations °
SETTLEMENTS _ VISITED

Field trips, a phrase often heard
in connection with geology courses, ,js
no longer limited in its application,

in several departments. ‘The Social
Economy Department, in particular,
considers field trips necessary as a
definite’ course of activity wherever
books prove insufficient for knowledge
of existing conditions.

Recently; Miss Mildred Fairchild’s
class in Labor Movements visited the
SKF Ball-bearing Company in Phila-
delphia and the Allen-Wood Steel Cor-
poration in Conshohocken in connec-
tion with the study of. factories and
labor conditioris.

iss Hertha Kraus’s class in So-
cial‘ Welfare visited the ‘Heart Hospi-
tal in Philadelphia, the University
Settlement, the Southwark Settlement
and the Eastern Penitentiary. The
students who have gone on these trips
were impressed by the vivid pictures

gathered from this first hand con-
tact with the problems which they are
studying in the class room.

Several’ students in~Mr.
Miller’s | classes

order to compare the culture patterns
of the 12 nationalities that were rep-
resented on the stage. It was dis-
‘covered that: one of the Norwegian
folk dances was imported from Po-
land and that one of the Greek melo-
dies had been carried over into the
Russian folk songs, in this way. illus-
trating the spread and ‘fusion of
various culture patterns.

In connection with the study of
religions, these pupils also attended
services in various churches in the
city. On these. trips, the students
travel: in a social level -with which
some are unfamiliar, and see for
themselves almost as many foreign
traits on this side of the: Atlantic
Ocean as can be found on the other
side.

Mrs. Ilse Forest feels that for

as vital .a subject as education, field
trips are a necessary supplement to
class work. 4 Her students have vis-
ited the Germantown Friends’ School,
Lthe South Philadelphia High School
for Girls, and the Friends’ Central
School... The: value of these visits lies
inthe’ renewal of familiarity with the
methods of teaching in the lower
schools after having lost this contact
for as long as four years.
'-The class in Educational Psycho-
logy has also observed groups of chil-
dren at.the Bryn Mawr School vand
the Bryn Mawr Educational Clinic
being tested for defects and educa-
tional achievement. 7

 

COUNT NEUDEGG GIVES
FIRST SKIING LESSON

 

Gymnasium, January 5.—Cpunt
Walter Neudegg, of Salzburg, met a
large group of. students for the first
of a series‘of ten lessons in skiing
technique which.will be given every
Tuesday night at 9. The lessons are
free, and the athletic department
hopes that everyone interested in ski-
ing will take advantage of them.
Count Neudegg is himself a skiing
expert, and has taught in the Tyrol,
Switzerland and, Italy. When there
is snow he will come on week-ends to
demonstrate and help students in ac-
tual practice, and if there is enough
interest, will organize trips to the
Poconos.

~-

 

Mrs. Chapman, Recipient of Peace
_ Prize, to Speak

Members of the International Re-
lations Club will be the guests of Mrs..
Frederick Manning at tea in the Com-.|
mon Room this Thursday. © Mrs. Mil-|
dred Chapman, the recipient* of the
Peace Scholarship of American Wom-
~fen’s Clubs Overseas, will speak.

 

 

but-is now an essential part. of courses |”

‘| permission.”

Vecaslonel Tea

Miss Agnes Mongan, Research As-
sistant at the Fogg Art Museum at
Cambridge, will speak on Museum
Work:in the Common Room Monday
afternoon, January 11, at 4.45. All
those who are interested are cordially
invited to attend. Tea,will be served
at 4.30. .

 

Spiritual Peace Mark

Basis of Bahai Religion

 

Miss | Root, Journalist, _ Describes
| -Progressive Doctrine

 

Taylor Hall, Room B, December 16.
—Miss Martha Root, journalist and
member of the Bahai religion, outlin
before Mr. Miller’s class in Sotial
Anthropology the major points of the
religious movement started by Baha’-
wllah in Persia about 1868.

The founder of the new creed was
a Mohammedan, but he rejected the
principles of his own religion to teach
the unity of all beliefs.
promulgated a doctrine of emancipa-
tion for women, universal peace, un-
restricted education and a. great
league of nations.
lowers to believe in all the prophets
from Zoroaster to Mohammed because
by the revelations of all the prophets
the civilization of the world moves
forward. In defense of these prin-
ciples he-spent many years in prison
and was finally executed.

The religious movement continued,

Her beri
attended the Folk|owever, and is led today by his great-

grandson, Shogi Effendi. In America
many converts have been made and
religious committees are established in
all large cities.

 

Self-Gov of Nineties
Troubled by Banjos

 

Chaperones Were “Decidedly” in
-Order for Theatre

 

The chief problems which con-
cerned the Self-Government. Board. in
the “gay nineties’? seemed to be: con-
trol of noise, which included ‘‘much
trouble caused by playing banjos in
quiet hours”: other regulations com-
quiet hours.” Other regulations com-
pelled students to. wear their “hair
hanging only when-securely tied or
braided,” to be otherwise. neatly
dressed, and decreed that “theatre,
etc., in the evening with a man is de-
cidedly to be chaperoned.”’ ,

Teas in the hall had to “be very
carefully chaperoned,” and Broad
Street Station—hardly a spot for mad
cap gaiety—was the only place where
a student might lunch or'dine in town
unchaperoned. As a great concession
it was admitted that “through cour-
tesy to their hostess” students might
be for¢ed to break chaperonage rules,
but this act of leniency is foflowed
closely by this stern
naive sentence: “Going away from
college with the express purpose of
breaking a rule is directly contrary
to the spirit of the association.”

It is in the,question of dress that
the board was really severe with our
simplé sisters of the nineties. “No
fancy dress shall be:worn in the din-
ing room” (discouraging all Tyrolean
suits evidently). And on Sunday
morning “students shall not go off
campus before dinner without hats.”
But what made us feel most sorry for
our regimented forerunners was this
statement: “No men’s clothes, bathing
caps (what is particularly offensive
about a bathing cap?), or bloomers
shall be worn by the students on the
campus or in the public parts of the
halls, at any. time, without being com-
pletely covered.” Athletics, it seems,
must have been a rather muffled up
affair.

A rather surprising rule is this
one: “flowers or branches may not be
taken in large quantities from the
surrounding country without direct
Has the aesthetic sense
of Bryn Mawrters become less keen
in the last thirty years so that the
rule_is_no longer. necessary, or did
this rule combat some particularly
up-and-coming undergraduate who-
had improved the ‘shining hours by

‘Continued on Page’ Three

ie eens

Baha’u’llah |,

He taught his fol-.

if somewhat}.

Dr. Powell Analyses
Perilous. Position
of Supreme Court

 

Its Veto Should be on Grounds
Of Policy, Not Based Literally

On Constitution *

 

CURBING OF COURTS’
POWER IS EXPLAINED

 

Taylor Hall, December 16.—Taking
“Constitutional Problems of Roose-
velt’s Second Term” for his topic, Dr.
Thomas Reed Powell, newly elected
President of the American Political

1/Science Association and Langdell Pro-
fessor of Law at Harvard, addressed’

the politics classes on Wednesday, De-.
cember.16, in’-Room’F;’ Taylor.

“The message from Cambridge,”
said Dr. Powell, “is that the Supreme
Court is in a precarious position, and
will lose all power unless it behaves
as decent people.”

A brief resume of English Consti-
tutional history and its curbing of au-
tocracy led into a discussion of Ameri-
ca’s autocracy—the Supreme Court,
and the branding of “Nine Old Men”
as a “shameful kook.’”’ The only way
to deal with autocracy, Dr. Powell
quoted, is to curb it. Although four
of. the men do not count, the veto of
the Supreme Court, like that of the
English House of Lords, or the Presi-
dent, ought to be a veto on ground of
policy, not because of their own views
on the policy, and not as a literal in-
terpretation of the constitutional
wording.

The present job of the ‘Supreme
Court as regarding its own existence,
is to take such action as to forestall
legislation designed to curb its power.

A review of the decisions of the
past few years explained the present
talk of curbing the court’s power.
Only two major policies were ac-

namely the Gold Clause and the T. V.
A. There were two unanimous dis-
serits, the N. R. A. and the: Farm
Mortgage Act. On the Railway Pen-
sion Act, the Municipal Bankruptcy
Act, The Guffey Coal Act, and the
A. A. A., there were 5-4 or 6-3 vetoes.

Since the election, the court has
been better. Mr. Justice Owen Rob-
‘erts;-on the Working Men’s Compen-
sation Act, came over to the liberals,
and the vote was 4-4, due to Clark’s
illness. It is questionable, said Dr.
Powell,

“sensible idea himself,” or whether
he has been coerced by the election
results. If the latter, Dr. Powell feéls
his liberal attitude will not remain.
Continued on Page Three

Public Affairs School ;
Offers Scholarships

 

 

College Graduates May/ ' Receive
Apprenticeship Training
‘ /

 

Affairs has. announced/that it will
again extend scholarships for Federal
Government interne training to ap-
proximately thirty candidates. Not
only is this program intended to be
useful tar those who’ propose to enter.
public affairs, but jit will be practic-
ally applicable foy business men and‘
teachers of social/sciences.

_The course, coyering a full academic
year, will include experience as un-
salaried assistants to Federal Govern-
ment officials;/weekly discussions with
legislators, pyess correspondents, busi-
ness men, and ‘others related to cur-
rently important problems; individual

ate seminars, in government.

-To be gligible, a candidate must have
a bachelor’s degree from a recognized
college | Avhere he achieved a high scho-
lastic Standing. An endorsement. of
candidacy signed by the head of the
last /institution attended should ac-

‘Leom any all applications. These may -
be dbtained from the Scholarship Com-_
mittee, National Institute of Publi¢ ©

  
   
 

airs, 400 Investment Building,

ust be regeived by March 16.:

 

cepted, and these not wholeheartedly, ©

whether Justice Roberts has i
learned something, is capable of a/

The-:National Institute of Public -

supervision, and in some cases gradu- —

ashington, D. C. (All applications |
 
  

 

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THE «COLLEGE ‘NEWS.

 

 

 

 

 

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IN MEMORIAM >
Dr. William Henry Carpenter -

Died
November 25,

 

Ellen

Gray
Died
December 20,

 

Rev. Dr. Edward L. Watson

Died
December 29,

 

Mrs. Otis Skinner
The death of Mrs. Otis Skinner on Christmas Day deprived
the college of a friend who, although she was not officially con-
nected with us, was especially sympathetic with the ideals of Bryn
Mawr and devoted to its well-being. She was in charge of the
May Days of 1920°and 1924, the first Director who had no pre-

vious connection with the college.

Even after 1924 she kept close

the bonds with Bryn Mawr and her advice and encouragement
have been of the most stimulating help to Mrs. Chadwick-Collins.--
‘Mrs. Skinner’s own ideals never fell short of perfection. and

she was not only eager to achieve it in herself, but she was very
appreciative of others who tried to do the same.

Her link with

Bryn Mawr—was-a—spiritual one, but it was closer_by far than
many which exist in actuality. She was a person who never lost
the interest and affection of the many people with whom she had_

been associated.

Those now with the college who knew her will

miss her inspiration far more than can be realized by those to
whom she is familiar only by name.

 

The People’s Choice

Student opinion regarding the required course in English Litera:

ture has been generally dissatisfied for a number of years.

In this

baptismal year of comprehensives, thé entire required course arrange-

ment has become an acute issue.

It is on English Literature that most |

of these arguments have been centered. In this day and age we see no
reason why this should have a prior claim over other survey courses,

such as minor history, ae

politics or minor economics.

We realize

that at one time in the*curri¢ular-history_of the college general English
Literature was the preferred course for a young lady’s eultural back-
ground. Now with a palpable interest in current affairs, a foundation
in the social sciences and history is at least as necessary a requirement

as that i in English Literature.

“The new final examination system has reduced the total amount of
elective work open to, students and has made the burden of required

work more severe.

We suggest, theiéfore, in order to make required

courses more provocative of individual interest that an option be offered

among all the minor’ survey courses. .
permitted among the fequired sciences,
the burden of requireds would be less galling.

Such a choice has always been
As the result of a wider choice
Majors in the humani-

ties would be given a greater chance to investigate the social sciences.
Students could take the English Literature course without the “heavy,

heavy hangs over thy head” attitude.

The English Department could

initiate ghanges, which have long been contemplated, to suit“a smaller,

more interested class.

The faculty curriculum committee. has in the past considered the
problem of required courses, but will not, in this busy ‘year, begin
action. To secure any revision‘in.the present order it is necessary for

___ the student curriculum committee to confer with the faculty and stu-
_ dents may best speed the movement by writing their opinions and pro-

tests for publication in the News’ columns.

 

DIE MEISTERSINGER RECITAL

Sunday, January 10, Florence Fra-
ser, pianist, diseuse and lecturer, will
give a dramatic recital of Wagrier’s
Die Meistersinger-at 5 p.m. in the
Deanery. Miss Fraser has been a pu-

_ pil of Philippe and Yvette Guilbert in
_ Paris. and of Consolo in Florence and
e a apres of the Curtis Institute

of Music and 7 the American Con-
servatory at Fontainebleau. ;

 

Mr. Fenwick’s Return Delayed

Mr.. Fenwick will not: return
to Bryn Mawr. from the Peace
“Conference _at Buenos Aires |
until, January 13.

 

 

 

 

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_| highly presentable.

 

ABROAD AT HOME |

 

Fitzwater, South, Bainbridge and

are™ if noise, continual jabbering,
thick, sluggish flies, and spoiling fish
But if you like to bar-
gain for pieces pf material” in .whole-
sale stores, then Fourth Streét is your
Mecca.

Before you get to numbers 754 and
755, ‘which are your destination, you
must’ pass through two blocks of col-
umned people sandwiched in between
heavily laden push-carts and rickety
wooden stalls which display long
woolen under wear, shoes, stockings,
dead fish and raisins covered with
flies.

oe you proceed further,
crossing - Bainbridge Street, from
which the sounds of a bsotblack echo,
“sit a shine, git a gloss, git it, ya
need it,”

The stalls occupy only the right side
of the street after you turn off San-
som and pass Independence. Square
On the opposite side of the street,
‘much more dignified, dresses are hung
from the second-story windows, flimsy

iiscarfs at one cent apiece bedeck

tables, and young children fight and
play tag because there is more room
here than on the other side,, where
their parents are probably selling Mr.
Heimerdinger a dozen oranges for
eighteen cents, or a couple of fat
pickles that have been sunning ‘quietly
in their briny -solution.

On crossing the. slightly wider
South Street, a huge sign catches
your eye—BATHS—and ‘you look in-

the man scratching. his beard as he

JB | sits on the rear of a dump-=truck; the

oily woman who is quibbling over a
piece of rhubarb; thé discontented
man who must fit a second-hand shoe
over a large and sore bunion.

In the midst of this melee appear
two sources of. refuge—Stapler’s at
No. 754, and rival L. Myerson’s across
the street at No,’755. They are deal-
ers in silk and wool cloth, beautiful
prints:at almost any price you want
to pay. At Myerson’s you can get
silk or wool challis, print or plain, for
fifty cents per yard.

Real silk prints start at a dollar a
yard. They are in soft ‘shades and
Of course there
are more expensive ones which vary
accordingly in quality, Wool material

in plaid or plain material, also cheap
in price.
Mr. Myerson (if it was he) will

three or four dresses. In that case
ask him politely if you may look
around. He’ll look puzzled for a min-
ute, maybe thinks. you'll steal_some-
thing, but tell him you’re going to
write. up his place in a college news-
paper and he beams proudly—‘Sure,
look around all you want!”

In Philadelphia

 

 

Theatres

Forrest: The D’Oyly Carte Com-
pany. Thursday;~The—Mikado; Fri-
day, Yeomen of the Guard; Saturday,
matinee and evening, Jolanthe; Mon-
day, The Gondoliers; Tuesday, Iolan-
the; Wednesday, The Mikpdo; Thurs-
day,-Cox and Box. _-

Chestnut Street Opera eiuies End
of Summer, with Ina Claire and Os-
good Perkins.

Erlanger Theatre: Dead End.

Locust Street Theatre: It Can’t
Happen Here (WPA project).

_ Movies

Aldine: Beloved Enemy, with Brian
Aherne and Merle Oberon, one of the
better movies. It is the story of an
unhappy love affair between a Sinn
Feiner and an English lady.

Boyd: After the ‘Thin~Man, with
William Powell and Myrna Loy, is a
disappointment after. the manner of
all sequels, but nevertheless good en-
tertainment.

Fox: College Holiday, with, Mary
Boland, Burns and Allen. :

Karlton: Stowaway, with Shirley
Temple.

Keith’s: “Gold ‘Diggers of 1987, with

- | Dick Powell and Joan Blondell.

Palace: The Garden of Allah, with
Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer,
reviewed in a previous issue of tlhe
News.

Stanley:

One in. a” Million,’ with

, Sonja saa the: menepmaine: cham-

pion.’ i ae ¢

 

Fourth Streets: sound ‘like the .forbid-.
|den part. of. Philadelphia. And’so they | ‘

stinctively at the people-around you;”

for skirts or dresses:can be obtained.

probably. try to sell you enough for |.

| RECENT: ENGAGEMENTS |

 

The following engagements . -have
been. announced:
Madge N. Haas, ’37; to
Christopher -S: Donner.
Louisa Bright, ’38, to

William Henry Peace. ~ %
Josephine B. Ham, ’37, to

‘Henry Franklin ‘Irwin.

 

FACULTY AT LARGE

 

 

 

Kd

r Miss Lake of the Department of
Latin attended meetings of the Bi
cal Association in New York at which
occasion Mr. Cadbury, formerly of.
the Biblical. Literature Department
at, Bryn Mawr, was a speaker.

Mr. Tennent-of the Department of
Biology attended scientific meetings
and conferences at Atlantic City;
presided at. the ‘opening session in
Embryology for the American So-
ciety of Zoologists; and was elected
president of the American Society of
Naturalists.

Mr. Anderson ‘of the’ Départment
of Economics went to a dinner in
Cambridge in honor of Dr. Fy; W.
Taussig, whose seventy-seventh birth-
day was celebrated. Explorations in
Economics,°a volume of essays writ-
ten by Dr. Taussig’s students, was
presented to him. Among the essays
was one-of~ Mr. Anderson’s entitled
Tariff Protection and Increasing Re-
turns. . f

Mr. Blanchard of ‘the- Department
of Biology gave a paper at the Ameri-
can Society of Zoologists at Atlantic
City, on certain aspects of the adrenal
cortical function.

Mr. .Broughton of the Department
‘of Latin attended a meeting of the
Philological Association, where he
read. a paper entitled Was Sallust
Fair to Cicero? He says he was.

Mr. -Weiss of the Philosophy De-
partment read a paper, The Ideal
Life, at a meeting of the American
Philosophical - Association in Cam-
bridge. Mrs. De Laguna and Miss
Walsh. attended the meeting.

Mr. Michaels and Mr. Patterson of
the Physics Department went to an
American Physical Society meeting in
Atlantic City.

Miss Kollers.and Miss Woodworth
of the Department of English went
to a meeting of the Modern Language
Association at Richmond and Wil-
liamsburg.

Mr. Hedlund of the Department of
Mathematics attended a meeting of
the American Mathematical Society
at Duke University, Durham.

Mr. Lattimore, of the Department
of Greek attended a meeting of the
Philological Association in Chicago.

Miss Schenek will have a semi-sab-
batical leaye in the second semester
of this year. She is sailing in Feb-
ruary for France, where she _ will
work at the Bibliotheque Natignale in
Paris. : The academic wok rill be
taken over by Miss ‘Taylor and Miss
Sonne will act as head of Radnor
Hall.

Mr. Wells of the Department of
Economics was chairman of the
round table discussion on Dictator-
ship and Constitutionalism in Eu-
ropean Countries at the annual meet-
ing of the American Political Sciences
Association in Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Diez of the “Depart-
ment of German attended a meeting
of the Modern Language: Association
in Richmond. ~ pee

Miss Robbins of the’ tating Depart:
ment. read a paper ata meeting of
‘the American. History. Aqupctation: in
‘Providence. >

‘Mr. Muller of ‘the History of Art
Department attended a meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America
at Chicago. He is now completing a
paper on The Chronology of Greek
Sculpture, 400 B. C. t9 40 B. C. and
is beginning a-study on the Orient
and Mediterranean Area in Ancient
Art. Mr. Muller also published a pa-
per entitled “Beginnings of Monumen-
tal Sculpture in Greece in the inant
politan Muséum Series. —

Miss Taylor of the Depertinent of
Latin attended meetings of the
American Philological Association,
the Archaeological Institute of Amet-

wey

fica and the Linguistic Society of

/America in Chicago. She is a mem-
ber of the Executive’ Committee of
the American Philological Associa-
tion! :

i Miss Fairchild of: the Social ener
omy Department. read>.a- paper en-

 

titled The Oceupitionat Status of

 

“Herbert

 

 

Current Events

Common, Room, January 5.—The
néw Soviet Constitution marks Rus-

 

‘lsia’s entrarite into’ a community of
liberal and progressive ‘nations and

may even mark the beginning of..a
new era, stated Mr. Miller in dis-
cussing The New Russian Constitu-
tion. Coming at a time when democ-
racy is «shrinking in the world, it
demonstrates that a goal of demo-
cratic ideals can-lead a nation to
establish a solid economic system.

|, The Russians’ proclaim ‘their con-

stitution as the most democratic in
the world. It is, however, one of three

legal documents which have governed

the Russians since the Revolution. No
radical changes exist in it, its im-
portance lies in the fact that it pro-—
vides a definite program and law for
state control of production. This was
‘not true of the others.

The most: outstanding part of the
constitution is its declaration of rights
for citizens. Work is considered the
duty of every able person and is guar-
anteed to the people. The unusual
provision which appears in no other
constitution is the right of all workers.
to have vacations, leisuretime and so-
cial security.

Men and women are treated with |
absolute equality in the union as are

the 180 national groups and langu- ~

ages. There is free, compulsory edu- .
cation for everyone in his own lan-
guage and every able student is sent
to a higher institution on a _ state
scholarship.

A guarantee of freedom of speech,
press, assemblage, mass meetings,
street procession and demonstration is
extended to the citizens, and in addi-
tion, all materials necessary to exer-
cise these rights are placed at their
disposal. Freedom of conscience and
religious worship is also an innovation
and no religious or anti-religious
propaganda will be restricted.

A universal secret ballot is now

placed in operation without regard for
the previous political position of the
voters. - By this movement the Soviet
Union recognizes that it is so firmly
established that no minority can over-
throw it.. Furthermore, Stalin and
his policies are firmly established in
the hearts of the people, sixty per cent
of whom are under thirty years of
age.
' There are eleven federated social
republics with a status much like that
of our own states; The Supreme
Council consists of two houses, one
composed of representatives from each
republic and the other by representa-
tives selected on a ratio of one to every
300,000 people. The council meets
twice a year and can, according to"
the one amendment, declare war if an
allied nation is attacked by another
power. ;

 

Local Movies _
Seville; ursday, Everything Is
Thunder, with Constance Bennett and
Dofglas Montgomery; Friday and
Saturday, Can This Be Dixie, with _
Jahe Withers and Slim Summerville;

   

[Sanday and Monday, A Woman Re-

béls, with Katharine~-Hepburn.and
Marshall; Tuesday and
Wednesday, Valiant Is the Word for
Carrie, with Gladys George; Thurs-
day, Wedding Present, with Joan Ben-
nett.

Wayne: Thursday and Friday, A
Woman Rebels, with Katharine Hep-
burn and. Herbert Marshall; Satur-
day,’Our Relations, with Laurel and

‘Hardy; Sunday, Monday and Tues-

day, Theodora Goes Wild, with Irene
Dunne; Wednesday, Love in Exile,
with Clive Brooks; Thursday, Love on
the Run, with Joan Crawford, Clark
Gable and Franchot Tone.

_Ardmore: Thursday, Friday —
Saturday, Love on the Run, with Joan
Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot
Tone; Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
Three Men on a Horse; .with Frank -
McHugh; Wednesday, Polo Joe, ‘with,
Joe E. Brown; Thursday, Born to
Dance, with Eleanor Powell. ~

 

; SRE ET :

Women in Soviet Russia at a meeting
of the American: Sociological Bociety
in Chicago.

Mr. Gillet of the Department of
Spanish attended a meeting of the
Modern- Language > Asso¢iation of
America’ and read a paper on The
Present Status of. Studies on Spanish
Sixteenth Cory Drama.

 
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Ancient Incunabula |

Repose in Library

 

New ‘Book Room is Receptive

_ To Currents of Interest;
Distribution Wide

 

BOOK SHOP AIDS DRIVE

 

(Excerpts. from the January: issue
-of the Alumnae Bulletin.)

Although Bryn Mawr’s library is
small, it has among its shelves some
rare and expensive incunabula which
are books printed before the year fif-
teen hundred and one. Oldest and
most rare. of these is a quarto volume
which is attributed..to- Zainer, Ulm,
1470-1478, although the -printer’s
name, the place and date are missing.
This volume contains works of Al-
bertus Magnus, John ‘Gerson and
Cardinal Bonaventure.

There is also an early Legenda Au-

rea, printed in 1488, which probably
retains its original binding. ’
- Durandus Rationale,.-once the prop-
erty of the Franciscan Convent in
Fiesole, was printed in 1494, whereas
the library copy of Theophrastus, our
only Greek. incunabulum, was issued
from the press of the celebrated Aldus
in ;Venice, 1497.

Excessively: rare is
folio, and there are some specimens
of English printing, including a Beau-
mont and Fletcher folio.

“The advantages of showing these
books to the students at large, as well

the . Plautus |

 

Page Three -

 

 

 

as to the public, are obvious, and it is
supposed that, when the new wing of
the library is built, some space will
be set asidefor the display of these
typographical treasures.
* 2 ok

Since the establishment of the New
Book Room by Miss Donnelly in 1912
it has shown an extraordinary recep-
tiveness to néw currents of interest.
Among the first books purchased were
Galsworthy’s Inn of —Franquility,
Romain Rolland’s Jean Cristophe, and
some novels of Conrad, as well as the

Memoirs of Jean Mistral and’ Wag-.

ner’s Briefe an Mathilde Wessendank.
After 1919 the distribution was con-
siderably widened to include as much
science and poetry and plays as: the
novels.

The policy of the New Book Room
now is to acquire the most significant
recent books, exclusive of those pur-
chased by the individual departments,
and to keep a representative collec-
tion on the shelves for reading in
leisure time.

* * *

It is. interesting to note that art
books and poetry are having the best
sale in the College Book Shop. Among
the more popular are the German art
books, even though the text is in Ger-
man. .

As a-result of the increased in-
come the debt incurred by the Coop-
erative Society, which was assumed
by the new Shop, has béen paid off.
Three hundred dollars have ‘been
given to the Million Dollar Drive, and
a five-hundred dollar scholarship was
presented by the Shop in 1935-36.

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as

Dr. Powell Analyses
State of Supreme Court

 

Continued from Page One

Many -administration bills are due
for judicial review. The fate of the
Wagner Labor Act, the Social Secur-
ity Acts, Holding Company and Stock
Exchange ..Acts-all-await their fate.
It is impossible to state their consti-
tutionality, there aré~novelties in all
this legislation.

There ean be no constitutional
amendment enlarging. the power of
Congress, until the Child Labor Act
is ratified. Nor can Congress, pre-
scribe an orthodox judicial theory for
the court. State legislation gives way
before national and if the Supreme
Court says New York will have no
Minimum Wage Law, that decision
stands until the Court changes its
mind, which. it rarely does. Possibly
Congress could override a judicial
veto, but the Suprenie Court could
interpre¢_this new amendment as be-
fore. .

Self-Gov of Nineties
Troubled by. Banjos

 

Continued from Page One

setting up a retail flower business?

Smoking: when it-first became pre-
valant was a major college problem.
After many pageg of pros and cons
(mostly cons), it was decided/'that it
could not be permitted. since it. was
“practically_very—disagreeable,” filled
the corridors with smoke (cigarettes
‘were apparently powerful in those
days) and gave. the college a “bad
name.”

In the midst of all these puritanical

laws, we came across’ this rule, which
surprised, amazed, and caused us to

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Bryn Mawr 570

 

 

 

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Breakfast Lunch

 

wonder sadly where it had gotten lost

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Miss King to Lecture.
Miss Georgiana G. King, head
of the History of Art Depart-_
ment, will return in February to
give four lectures in the course
on Italian painting. oe

 

 

 

Lin the course of the years: “Students ~
must hot>serve wine in any form: to
guests and also students may not
drink’ wine :together—except in the
single case of two room-mates.”* =.

 

Knit That Brooks
Set

Full Instructions and
Material at

ALICIA MARS

INC,
42 E. Lancaster Avenue
Ardmore, Pa.

Can be made for |

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about $3.50

 

 

 

 

MEET YOUR FRIENDS

at .
he Bryn Mawr College Tea Room
for a
_ SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION
Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P. M.

Tea Dinner

For Special Parties, Call Bryn Mawr 386

 

 

 

 

 

BARONIAL .DINING at the famous Winter”
Place Tavern in Boston. Theodore Roosevelt,
Enrico Caruso, Heriry Cabot Lodge—all knew
and praised its famous fare. Here Camels reign

PROLONGED mental
effort tightens nerves—
clamps down on the flow
of the digestive fluids.
Camels restore and in-
crease this necessary flow
—give you a cheery
“lift.” So light up a Camel
for digestion’s sake!

Z

TUNE IN!
CAMEL CARAVAN WITH

WALTE *KEEFE ~
. TED HUSING

i GLEN GRAY AND THE

CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA
Tuesday and Thursday—9 p.m.

E.S.T., 8 p.m. C.S.T., 9:30 p.m.

M.S.T., 8:30 p.m. P.S.T.—over

WABC - Columbia Network

Camels acts to

gestive fluids.

Modern scientific research, based on
Pavlov’s great work on digestion, defi-

supreme. Nick Stuhl, maitre d’hétel for over
41 years, says: “Camels have the gift of making,
food more enjoyable. Camels are the most -
popular cigarette at the Winter Place Tavern.”

The nervousness induced by our mod-
ern life often affects digestion. The
mental effort—the physical rush—the
worry and tension—all slow down the
flow ef the digestive fluids. Smoking ©

natural.and necessary flow of the di-

restore and increase the

Smoking Camels a Pleasant Way to Promote Digestion

nitely confirms the fact that Camels
encourage good digestion in this
pleasant way. As you enjoy Camel’s
superb mildness—a mildness that is .
never flat or tiresome—you feel
cheered and comforted. And experi-
ence a delightful “lift.” Camels set

you right! Enjoy them as much as you

like. Camels do not tire your taste or
frazzle your nerves.

we

Copyright, 1936, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem. N. C.

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
shows that smoking a Camel,
“both with and without the’ |
accompaniment of food, re-
stores and increases the nat-
ural secretion ofthe digestive
fluids. The importance of this
extra secretion in facilitat-
ing good digestion is a mat-
ter of common knowledge.

“I smoke Camels for digesgion’s sake,” says Miss Kim-

mey. “They encourage

COSTLIER
OBACCOS!

bee Camels are mare
EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS —Turkish and
onestic ~ than any other popular brand.

from finer, MORE

 

igestion in a pleasant way.”
  

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

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Rockefeller Christmas
Has Mediaeval Aspect]

Denbigh Yule Lok Smokes Up Hall,
Pem and Merion Give’ Skits
The four different halls varied the
general plan of the annual Christmas
parties, Rockefeller and Denbigh, pro-
ducing ‘pageants, while Merion and
Pembroke had skits given by the
freshmen.
Rockefeller’s pageant was the most
elaborate. Members of the hall spent
days before painting shields and pre-
paring the hall for a mediaeval
scene in an English castle. The char-
acters in the pageant were Lucy Kim-
berly as lord of the castle, Peggy Mc-
Ewan -as lady of the castle, Hulda
Cheek as the nephew of the lord of

 

the castle and the villain who had
stolen Lois Marean, the “fair lady,”
from her husband, Alice King. The |
Christmas spirit irons out the prob-
lems of the characters. As faculty
guests there were Mr. and Mrs.
Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, Mr.
Sprague and Miss Fairchild. Irené
Ferrer was toastmistress. .
Denbigh also had a pageant, pages
to carry in the Yule Log (which
smoked the whole hall up) and the
punch. Josephine Ham was the king
and Amelia Forbes the queen. The
faculty guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson and
Miss Lake, who when called upon by
the toastmistress, Margaret Lacy, . to
translate the Greek inscription. over
the mantelpiece startled everyone by

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rendering it into ‘Latin. During din-

 

ner the Juniors gave a skit and a spe-
cial group sang Christmas carols:
Merion swung in the other direction
and simplified the party by not asking
the faculty guests to make speeches.
The freshmen gave a skit called
“Valiant Is the Word. for Harry,”
and: about ten people sang Christmas
carols, The guests from among the

faculty were Mr. and Mrs.. Manning,

Mrs. Diez, Mr. Watson, Mr. Bern-
heimer, Mrs. Woodrow and Miss Van
Hook.

Pembroke struck a mean. Mary

Dimock; toastmistress, introduced the |

guestsfrom_the faculty, who were Mr:
and Mrs. Dryden, Mr. Herben. and
Miss Robbins and Mr..and Mrs. Chew.
After dinner the freshmen gave a skit
on the etd of .“‘The —- Before

Ch
rigstma : :

 

.DR. GOODENOUGH WILL

TALK ON JEWISH ART

Thursday, January 7, Dr. Erwin R.
Goodenough, Professor of History of
Religion and Fellow of Jonathan. Ed-
wards College at Yale University,
will lecture in the Music. Room on
Jewish Art in Roman and Byzantine
Times. He is particularly interested
in the painted, Jewish synagogue re-
cently discovered in Dura. His lec-
ture will be illustrated by lantern
slides.

 

Meet your friends at the

“Bryn Mawr Confectionery
(Next to Seville Theater Bldg.)
The Rendezvous of the College Girls

Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes
Superior Soda Service

 

 

Music—Dancing for girls only

 

 

VARSITY IS BARRED

FROM CLASS MEETS

 

According to the new program ar-
ranged for. the varsity swimming
squad, it will take part in three or
possibly four outside meets, and will
not be permitted to swim in the inter-
class contests. In the past these class
meets have really been competitions
between members of the varsity squad,
and swimmers who were not quite

-|good enough to make the squad had

little chance of success. It is hoped
that-the new plan will allow members
of the other groups to enjoy swim-
ming in competition in the class meets.

Members of the, varsity squad are
coming out regularly and folding
routine training with enthusiasm.
The first meet will be an informal
affair with Baldwin at their pool on
February 19 at 3 p. m.. The only
other certain date is the-Swarthmore
meet on March 12 at Swarthmore, but
there will probably be competitions
with the University of Pennsylvania
and Mount St. Joseph.

BRYN MAWRTERS’ USE -
OF FREEDOM ADMIRED

 

(This is the tenth of a series of in-
terviews with new members of the
faculty.) ¢

Despite her intimate. iinbwisiie of
at least two vastly different colleges,
Wheaton and’ Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr
was quite unexpected . to. Elizabeth
Cook, instructor in Italian. “The won-
derful freedom” here, and our dis-
creet use of it, seem to Miss Cook to
be _peculiar_to _the-Bryn Mawr
atmosphere. While this campus ease,
especially where it concerns contacts
between students and professors, is
rather like that of her own college,
Wheaton, Bryn Mawrters have more
varied backgrounds than are to. be
found among her fellow collegians and
are therefore more stimulating to each
other than Wheaton undergraduates.

After her graduation in 1932 Miss
Cook spent a year. at the University
of Florence. Returning to America,
she received her M. A. from Radcliffe

 

tin 1984.

At Bryn Mawr Miss Cook

is doing research on sources common
to English and Italian liferature, par-
ticularly as they are reflected in the.
English romantic poets.

 

 
    

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