College news, May 7, 1920

Price, 6 Pence



‘Wal. 6, Po. 26





President Chomas Cables
Bap Dap Greetings
Special cable to the News:

“Greetings from Athens to Athene’s
daughters at Bryn Mawr. May May-
Day be the most perfect of all May-
Days, worthy of the students’ best tra-
ditions and its splendid cause. Profound-
ly disappointed, unable to be present to
applaud your success and be proud of
you as always. Thanks and best wishes
Mre. Skinner and Mr. King.”

PRESIDENT THOMAS.

Grigin of Robin Hood
in Old May Games

The play “Robin Hood” as it is pre-
eented at Bryn Mawr was compiled by
Klizabeth T. Daly, Bryn Mawr, '01, from
eld English plays and ballads. It was
first presented at May Day here in 1906.

The character of Robin Hood is first
‘mentioned in English literature in 1377,
ia “Piers Plowman.” From this fact it
ie supposed that Robin must have lived
@uring the 13th or 14th centuries. Friar
Teck is a generic appellation originating
from the dress of the order, which was
wern tucked about the waist.

The May Day games of Robin Hood
were introduced in the 16th century for
the encouragement of archery and were
maually accompanied by Morris dancing.
As the practice of archery declined the
May games were discontinued and the
@haracters incorporated into the Morris
@ance Maid Marian then became May
Queen and Robin Hood usually acted as
Lord of the May.

The story of Robin Hood has been
preserved chiefly through ballads and
plays. The most important of these bal-
lads is “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode”
printed in 1510. Later the story was dra-
matized; in 1587 by Robert Greene and
im 1597 by Anthony Munday in a play
called the “Downfall of Robert, Earl of
Huntingdon.” It was from these sources
mainly that Miss Daly got the material
for her version.

Lois Kellogg, ’20, college song leader
and undergraduate manager of May Day,
plays the part of Robin Hood; Eliza-
beth Vincent, '23, the May Queen, is
Maid Marian, and Alice .Harrison, ‘20,
retiring president of Self-Government,
King Richard.

The Sd lives’ Tale

@ Plap of fancy and bumor

“A pleasant conceited comedie, played
by the Queenes Maiesties players....to
be sold at the shop over against Saint
Giles his Church without Criplegate” is
the inscription which appeared on the
“Old Wives’ Tale” when it was first
printed in 1595. As a poet and playwright,
its author, George Peele, occupies an im-
portant position among Elizabethan dra-
matists.

The play itself is a phantasia which
combines the charm of the fairytale
with an undercurrent of satire. In form
it is the “tale of a tale,” for an old wife
starts telling her story which her characters
continue and finish themselves.

Thenceforth the stage is filled with a
combination of princes, magicians, dis-
tressed damsels and comic characters
who act a tale of enchantment and humor.

Cornelia Skinner '22 plays the part of
Sacrapant, and also in the case are M. Foot
‘21, president of Undergraduate Associa-
tion, as Huanabango, and F. Martin ‘23,
Freshman President, as one of the Broth-
ers.









Acting: President Catt







Wap Dap to Aid Wrypn Mawr Endowment

Special Article by Acting: President Belen Catt

May day at Bryn Mawr has always, The reason that the very life at Bryn
been an occasion so charming that it Mawr is now at stake is because if we
would be worth while, no matter in what |are unable to raise our present endow-
cause it were given. There is no time|ment it will be an utter impossibility
of year when the campus is more beauti-|that the Bryn Mawr students af the fu-
ful and no occasion when the whole/ture will ever have the source of intel-
student body gives so vivid an impression | lectual inspiration which has been the
of the joy and strength of youth. We en- | special gift of the Bryn Mawr students
ter into the spirit which really was the|of the past. The members of the pre-
essence of Merrie England and we aban-| sent faculty have stood by the college
don ourselves for ae day to the gaiety aaaiiacuahy Not one caaes a a
of the village celebration before the days | faculty left us in the years of stress dur-
of great cities. But this year the Bryn | ing the war who has not since returned.
Mawr May Day has a peculiar import-| But at the present moment if a member
ance and significance in that the cause|of the faculty were to leave. it would be
for which it is given is the preservation | utterly impossible to find his or her equal
of Bryn Mawr as we have known it both |at the salaries which the college can of-
in work and play. 'fer. It is not only impossible to find the

Bryn Mawr has stood for much in/equal of the present professors at Bryn
American education. It has stood for! Mawr, it is practically imposible to find
something unique in the education of ‘anyone with academic training who would
women. We have been proud of a beauti- | be willing to fill the vacancies. And it is
ful campus and buildings beautiful with-| impossible in justice to ask the present
in and without, proud of our student | faculty to continue to make the sacrifices
body, proud of our high standards for | which they have made, more especially
academic work, proud of our intellectual | jn the last four years, in order to con-
achievement. But the source of Bry” | tinue to teach Bryn Mawr students.
Mawr’s best achievements has been the | We are not asking for endowment as a
body of men and women who at one time | favor to the faculty or even in order to

or another have made up the Bryn Mawr | ;
: : | preserve them fro
faculty and have given the intellectual |? islet m from: hardehigs. Thay do

es , ; ; not need to stay on the Bryn Mawr camp-
distinction and the intellectual inspira- | y ling =

tion which is the core of all our pride jus. They can find other lines of work

When. Bryn Mawr opened. thirty-Gve |“ hich would enble them to live comfort-

years ago the first and most essential | ably and to look forward to real financial
benefit, But if the work of Bryn Mawr

part of the program for the new college!
was that the faculty should be the best | College is to go on, we cannot afford to
that could be brought together for a|!ose the men and women who are the
college of its size and that it should be | source of our intellectual life and who



the equal of the faculties in the men's in-| are deserving of all the recognition we

istitutions. That ideal has been achieved. |‘ can give them

Director of May Bay
is' Mrs. Otis Skinner

Mrs. Otis Skinner, the unanimous
choice of the students as director of the
Bryn Mawr May Day, is herself both act-
ress and playwright, and has besides di-
rected a large number of amateur pro-
ductions.

Mrs. Skinner, who was the former
Maud Durbin, went on the stage under
the tutelage of. Madame Modjeska, with
whom she spent two years, including one
summer on the latter’s California ranch.
From Mme. Modjeska she learned her
Shakespearian roles, among them Juliet
and Ophelia. She played Jessica when
Mme. Modjeska and’ Mr. Skinner were
co-stars in “The Merchant of Venice.”
After Mme. Modjeska returned to Po-
land, Mrs. Skinner joined Mr. Skinner's
company, playing with him chiefly in
Shakespearian plays. They were mar-
ried at the end of the season and after
the birth of her daughter Mrs, Skinner
retired from the stage, appearing only at
intervals since that time. She has play-
ed with Mr. Skinner in the dramatiza-
tion of Robert Louis Stevenson's “Prince
Otto” and in “The Harvesters” of Jules
Richepin, which is played in France un-
der the title of “Le Chemineau.” She last
acted with Mr. Skinner in “The Silent
Voice” in 1915.

For a time actively associated with the
Plays and Players, Mrs. Skinner was the
first president of that organization. In
collaboration with Jules Eckert Good-
man, Mrs. Skinner wrote “Pietro,” Mr.
Skinner’s present play, and its author
of several one-act plays.

Mr. and Mrs. Skinner have lived
Bryn Mawr for the past ten years.

im

Masques Written by
Jonson for Nobility

Che bue and Crp After Cupid

“The Hue and Cry After Cupid” was
written by Ben Jonson in 1608 to cele-
brate the marriage of Sir John Ram-
say, afterward Viscount Haddington, a
favorite of King James I, to Lady Eliza-
beth Ratcliffe.

At the original presentation Venus was
pictured as having come to earth from
magnificent towering heights in the dis-
tance, to search for Cupid. He appears
and she is finally persuaded to return on
high, when upbraided by Hymen and
Vulcan.

Masque of Flowers

As the “most sumptuous form of en-
tertainment of the age,” “The Masque of
Flowers” was also presented at a mar-
riage celebration, as the “final solemnity”
at the Earl of Sommerset’s marriage in
1614.

It is attributed to Ben Jonson or to
three gentlemen of Gray’s Inn, and it
was “acted by their fellows.”

There is a slight intimation of the anti-
masque, or comic element, in the duel
between Silenus, the God of Wine, and
Kawasha, the God of Tobacco. This
comic strain developed later, in contrast
to the masque proper, which was of
highly serious and dramatic character.

Mr. Placido de Montoliu, Teacher of
Jacques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics, has com-
posed the dances for the masques, and
trained all the performers

The part of Silenus is taken by Emily
Kimbrough, '21, who was with Margaret
Anglin in the summer of 1915 and sang
in the choruses of “Medea,” “Electra”



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“NEWS” ELECTIONS

Kathleen Johnston ’21 was chosen Man-
aging Editor of the News for 1920-21 at
the annual elections last Monday. Miss
Johnston made the News this year.

Miss Applebee was elected Business Man-
ager. Miss Applebee has been on the News
Board since it was founded in 1915, and
was Business Manager in 1917-1918.

The new board will get out the next issue
and goes into office this week.



Mrs. Skinner

To Mrs, Skinner belongs all the praise
that may come to Bryn Mawr from May
Day. It was her unfailing energy and en-
thusiasm that through the hard weeks of
preparation kept the spirit of Merrie Maie
alive in the college, and co-ordinated the
students into a harmonious working force.
On the part of the whole college we want
to express our appreciation to Mrs. Skinner
and to give her our heartfelt thanks for
her work.

“Evell_.May,Day”

Red riots, threats of a general strike, and
organized labor uprisings are the heralds of
the first of May in the twentieth century.
The impulse that has been common to all
ages and all races to rush out into the coun-
try and celebrate the return of spring, has
been perverted in the over-strained tension
of our modern civilization, and to the great
majority of the world who have never
heard of Chimney Sweeps or Morris
Dancers and never seen a Maypole, the
word May Day means a further demonstra-
tion of the universal unrest of our. troubled
times.

In remote corners of the old world, how-
ever, in country districts of England,
France, and Italy, the peasants still continue
to celebrate the ancient festival, and in se-
cluded spots of America, within the walls
of a few schools and colleges, an attempt is
being made to revive the spontaneity of
old May Day. Bryn Mawr was of the first
in this country to start the movement, and
it is gradually spreading until soon it will
not be vain to hope that when spring comes
round everyone will rush out to wind May-
poles with the zest of simpler, quieter days,
and May Day will become again a people’s
holiday for rustic revelling and not an
anarchists’ labor day.



Behind every great undertaking there
stands a great personality. There is some
one person with the vision and the power
to create, inspiring the many who execute,
in those institutions which have lasted long-
est and accomplished most.

Behind May Day, the Endowment, and
Bryn Mawr stands President Thomas.
She has been so much the guiding and in-
spiring force at Bryn Mawr that to some
people President Thomas is Bryn Mawr.
This idea is, however, a conclusion which
does not do justice to her greater achieve-
ment. We who make up the college would
say, rather, that President Thomas has
made Bryn Mawr a strong, separate entity,
the result of her ideas, something above and
beyond the ideas of any one person,
Through the healthy interaction of vigorous
and progressive and determined aims, the
college personality has become clear cut and
unshakable. It is as outstanding and last-
ing as bronze and will stand as a monument
to the devotion and power of President
Thomas through the years to come.



” Mawr ndaaes. came fron England to

the United States in 1902, As head of a

small private school in Devonshire, and

as director of gymnastics in various
Yorkshire schools, the results of her
work had been so marked that her
friends strongly advised her not to in-
terrupt what promised to be an unusu-

ally brilliant career in this new field of

physical education. But her interest in
the development of athletics in America
was so strong that after a short visit one
summer to study the work of the Sar-
gent School, she returned to the United
States the following year to carry on her
work. At that time field hockey for
women was practically unknown in
America, and Miss Applebee spent two
years among the different women’s col-
leges and schools in the Fast, teaching
gymnastics and gradually introducing
hockey among the students. A specially
designed stick was made for her pur-
poses by Spalding, and was soon copied
in England, where this model is still
known as the Applebee hockey stick.

In 1904 Miss Applebee came to Bryn
Mawr to take charge of the out-door
athletics, which at that time were not or-
ganized in connection with the gymnas-
tic classes. Her success with the ath-
letics was so great that in 1906 the gym-
nasium work also was placed under her
department.

So for the past sixteen years Miss
Applebee has been a familiar figure on
the Bryn Mawr Campus. Not only in
athletics, but also in the work of the
Christian Association and the College
News Board, Miss Applebee’s sustained
interest and enthusiasm have been an in-
valuable asset to the College. In 1911,
during the difficult period when the
Christian Union and the League for the
Service of Christ were trying to unite
to form a new organization it was large-
ly due to Miss Applebee’s inspiration
that the plan of joining the two organi-
zations was formulated and_ carried
through. In all her relations with Bryn

Mawr students, past and present, Miss
Applebee has always stood for high

standards in athletics and college activi-
ties, good sportsmanship, and the best
interest of the whole college.



The dancing on the May Day green
has been under the direction of Miss Ap-
plebee, who plays the role of a Watch-
man on the green.

BETTY WEAVER IS “SUNNY JIM”



Honors Go to D. Pitkin and J. Flexner
“Sunny Jim” for 1920, the winner of
the Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial prize,
is Betty M. Weaver, retiring president of
the Athletic Association, Acting Presi-
dent Taft announced in chapel last Fri-
day. The George W. Childs Essay prize
for the best writer in the Senior Class
goes to Doris E. Pitkin, editor-in-chief
cf the Review, with honorable mention
for Alice Harrison, President of the Eng-
lish Club. Jean Flexner, daughter of Dr.
Simon Flexner, wins the Brook Hall
Memorial Scholarship for holding the
bighest average in the Junior class.
The “Sunny Jim” prize is awarded to
“a Senior, preferably in the upper half
of the class in grade, spirited, efficient,
faithful, and an all-around student.”

E. COPE ATHLETIC PRESIDENT

President of the Athletic Association for
the year 1920-1921 is E. Cope ‘21, whose
nomination was made an election at the

meeting last Monday night. K. Woodward
‘21 is Vice-President and H. Rice '23, Sec-
retary. Members of the Athletic Board
are, E. Cecil '21, Senior member; E. An-
derson ‘22, F. Bliss ‘22, and A. Nicoll ‘22,
Tunior members.







Giorie gicecites dated 1416, The

popularity of this character, adopted as

tutelary saint of England under Edward

III, made him well known and his play

consistently performed from such early
time. St. George is still played by mum-
mers on English holidays.

St. George, born in Palestine, rose ‘to

high rank in the military profession un-

der Diocletian: When the emperor mani-.

fested hostility towards Christianity, St.
George remonstrated against the empor-
er’s course of action. He was immediately
arrested, tortured, and put to death. The
pagan element of the dragon episode did
not come into the legend until the sixth
century. The proximity of the saint’s
birth-place to the scene of Perseus’ res-
cue of Andromeda connected the two
tales in the minds of the people.

The play of St. George itself is a link
connecting natural drama with the miri-
cle plays and saints’ plays, and an import-
ant factor in the development of the Eng-
lish chronicle play. Under the guilds in
the fourteenth century it took the form of
a procession, half social, half religious,
in which the characters and others passed
through the town to a field or forest,
where the combat took place. As a bid
for popular approval, when religious su-
pervision had been removed, humerous
elements such as the quack doctor and
supporting grotesque characters, were
introduced.

AUTHORITY ON ENGLISH DICTION
DIRECTOR OF PLAYS

As the “man behind the scenes,” the
man who has coached the plays in the
May Day fete, Mr. Samuel Arthur King,
non-resident Lecturer in English Dic-
tion, has been untiring in his efforts to
show the college at its best in this, the
fourth May Day in which he has man-
aged the plays.

Mr. King started his academic work in
this country by lecturing at Johns Hop-
kins University and the University of
California, while at the same time he
gave Shakespearian recitals. In 1902
he was appointed to Bryn Mawr to have
charge of the work in English Diction.

BRYN MAWR WILL SEND 26
DELEGATES TO SILVER BAY

Eleven Juniors, seven Sophomores and
seven Freshmen have been chosen by
the board and membership committee of
the Christian Association to represent
Bryn Mawr at the annual student con-
ference at Silver Bay. Dean Smith has
been invited to be a delegate. The con-
ference this year will be held June 21
to July 1.

The delegates: 1921—C. Bickley (Pres-
ident of the Christian Association), J.
Peyton, M. Taylor, E. Donnelly, K.
Walker, H. Hill, P. Ostroff, J. Lattimer
H. James, M. P. Kirkland, E. Cecil.

.

1922: M. Speer, M. Voorhees, S. Hand,
E. Hobdy, A. Nicoll, P. Smith, S, Kirk-
bride.

1923: A. Clement, A: Smith, D. Me-
serve, H. Dunbar, H. Rice, R. McAneny,
E. Rhoads.

Substitutes (in order of choice): G.
Carson, '23; C. Baird, ’22; D. Klenke, ’21;
E. Philbrick, '23; M. Bradley, ’23.

PUPIL OF DALCROZE AT HEAD OF
MASQUE DANCING

Mr. Placido de Montoliu, who coached
and composed the dances for the mas-
ques, is the only authorized Director of
the Dalcroze system of Eurhythmics in
the United States. He is a graduate of
the Jacques-Dalcroze college of Rhyth-
mic Training in Hellerau, Germany.

President Thomas engaged "Mr. de
Montoliu to come to this country to
teach Eurhythmics at the Phebe Ann
Thorne Model School, at its opening
in the autumn of 1915. He has also had
classes at the college.



gr code, tage ee

‘milkmaids and sweeps, will dance before
Queen Elizabeth and her court today on
the Maypole Green. es

The country dances of the villagers and
the “quality” are dances which were popular
“from court to cottage” in Queen Eliza-
beth’s time, “Sellengers Round” or the
“Beginning of the World” being especially
mentioned as her favourite. Most of the
dances had songs to accompany them, the

words of which were often adapted to the

times. A version of “Hey, Boys, Up Go
We,” is a loyalists’ song against the Rump
Parliament :
“Then come, my brethren, and be glad and
eke rejoice with me;
Lawn sleeves and rochets shall go down
and hey, boys, up go we.”

The twenty-ninth of May, a May dance
was renamed to celebrate the date of the
Restoration, when that day became a holi-
day and took for some time the place of the
first of May. The day is still observed in
England and is called Oak Apple Day, be-
cause Charles, fleeing after the battle of
Worcester, escaped his pursuers by hiding
in an oak tree.

The milkmaids were among the last con-
spicuous celebrators of May Day. Dancing
in groups from house to house, they were
accompanied by a man bearing on his
shoulders a huge pyramid of silver flagons,
cups, and salvers, which was called their
garland.

May Day was the only holiday of» the
chimney sweep boys. The stars, which they
wore on their tunics as they danced through
the town, drew attention_to the fact—that
working always at night, they rarely saw
the light of day. Accompanied by Jack-in-
the Green, a traditional figure whose head
was covered with tufts of green foliage,
they pranced to the drum and piper.

As late as fifty years ago there were few
villages in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire
which did not support their own teams of
Morris men. These dancers often travelled
all over England, some even going to Lon-
don and dancing before taverns and at
fairs.

Morris dancing is said to be a relic of a
primitive religious rite “connected in some
occult way with the fertilization of all livy-
ing things.” A typical dance of this type
is Bean Setting. The Morris is probably
an offshoot of the sword dance of which
the sticks are modern substitutes.

DEAN SMITH IS QUEEN BESS

Hilda Smith, '10, Acting Dean of the
college, takes the part of Queen Eliza-
beth in the court group of the May Day
pageant. Miss Carpenter, Miss Sabin,
Miss Irvin, Mlle. Trotain, and Mlle.
Chalufour are ladies in waiting. Her cour-
tiers are Dr. Crenshaw, Dr. David, Dr.
Derry, Dr. Fenwick, Dr. Gray, and Dr.
Savage. This is the first year in which
members of faculty have taken parts in
May Day.

Miss Smith, who holds the degrees of
A. B. and A. M. from Bryn Mawr, studi-
ed also at the New York School of Phil-
anthropy, and Columbia University. She
organized the Community Center at Bryn
Mawr, directing it from 1916-1919.



NINE DAIES WONDER TO DANCE

William Kempe, the Nine Daies Wonder
Morris man, is represented by Jeannette
Peabody "19, who dances at the St. George
play and on the green. Kempe, a celebrated ‘
comic player known to have acted with
Shakespeare, danced the Morris from Lon-
don to Norwich in nine days, accompanied
by Tom the Piper.

Miss Peabody trained the Morris dancers
who took part in the féte. She has studied
under Cecil Sharp, who collected the old
dances and has tried to revive the custom
of country dancing in England.


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Cornelia Skinner, daughter of Otis Skinner, as ‘“‘SHacrapant”’ Ars. Otis Sinner
the leading part in “The Old Wives’ Tale”’ Director of the Bryn Mawr Map Dap

Elisabeth Wincent Lois Kellogg, “Robin Hood,’ and Chairman of the
“Maid Marian’ and Queen of the May Students’ Map Dap Committee
















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‘rales, Like ‘the general ‘pageant, “the
masque has the dance as its essential
feature; for the pageant, however, the
common people form the background,
while the masque is presented to the no-
bility at the court, who often take part
with the professionals.

As the old tournament became less, se-
rious, the knights dressed up as charac-
ters in chivalric literature. From this
habit developed the court masquerade,
the ancestor of the masque. The influ-
ence of the masquerade was strengthen-
ed by folk mumming, when performers
rode to court on horseback to entertain
royalty with dumb-show and dancing.

Soon crude attempts were made to
stage the masquerade, and in the six-
teenth century songs and speeches were
introduced, interspersed with “daunce
with timbrels” and accompanied by “a
heavenly noyse of all kinde of musick.”
When allegory, symbolism and mythol-
ogy were admitted, the masque proper
began, which reached its height in the
days of King James and Queen Anne.

Under the Stuarts the masque was
recreated by combining literature and
art into dramatic form, largely through
the genius of Ban Jonson. Stage ma-
chinery and decoration were provided
by one of England’s greatest architects,
Inigo Jones,

‘THE PAGEAN OF JEPHTE’ ACTED
FOR FIRST TIME IN AMERICA

“The Pagean of Jephte” or “Jepthte‘s
Daughter,” presented by the alumnae, is
an old English Morality play. Today’s
performance is the first in many cen-
turies, as the manuscript was only recent-
ly discovered by Dr. Carleton Brown,
professor of English Philology, while
doing research work in England. Dr.
Brown was at Bryn Mawr from 1906 to
1917, and is at present at the University
of Minnesota.

The plot is drawn directly from the
story in the Book of Judges, where Jephte,
one. of the Judges of Israel, vows to
give as a thank-offering for victory, the
first person who comes to meet him on
his return from battle; similar plots are
found in the fairy-tales of many coun-
tries. The play has never been printed,
and is therefore known only to a few of
Dr. Brown’s friends.

The play has been coached by Miss
Elizabeth Daly, ’01, the manager of the
last May Day.

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”
PRESENTED IN SHORTENED FORM

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as it
is being produced this afternoon, is a
shortened version of the original play,
combining the fairy scenes, the play at
court, and the take-off on Pyramus and
Thisbe. It is the only play which has
been repeated in every May Day.

The parts of the fairies in Titania’s
train are taken by children from the
Model School, which was opened in the
autumn of 1915 as a part of the graduate
Department of Education.

Betty Weaver, '20, who plays the part
of the comedian, Snout, received the
“Sunny Jim” prize this year, and is the
retiring President of the Athletic Associ-
ation.



MAY QUEEN DAUGHTER OF HEAD

OF ROCKEFELER FOUNDATION.

Miss Elizabeth Vincent, '23, who is
Queen of the May today, and “Maid Mar-
ian” in “Robin Hood,” is the daughter of
President George E. Vincent of Rocke-
feller foundation, Miss Vincent is the first
Freshman to be crowned May Queen in
the history of the college. She had a large
part in the writing and production of
1023's Freshman show.

| " Significan icant as a spring festival | of all
wena May. Day goes tek to the rst
oO

May Day goes back to the rustic
“| merrymaking of Queen Flizabeth’s Eng-
land and to an origin in pagan mythol-
ogy.

The custom of bringing home May-
blooms arose from a conception that
a branch of May was a symbolical repre-
sentation of the genius of vegetation and
fertility. The gods and spirits of ancient
times had their habitation in the trees,
and these gods had the power to make
the crops grow and the herds multiply.
It was therefore natural for an ignorant
peasantry to believe that the same power
and influence existed in the cut branches
of the trees.

The custom of bringing home a May
pole probably originated in this ancient
tree worship. Often a pole was planted
before each house or carried from door
to door to give every household its
share of blessing. In some districts of
England the May pole became an all-
year-round institution, holding equal
rank in the village square with the par-
ish church and the parish stocks, and was
redecorated each year with fresh gar-
lands.

Observance of the first of May as a
floral festival, and the rite of choosing
2 May Queen, date back to the Roman
Floralia, or May games in honor of the
goddess Flora.

Protest against the May merry-mak-
ing was entered by the Puritans of the
seventeenth century, and John Stubbes
in his “Anatomy of Abuses,” calls the
May-poles “those stinckyng idols—about
which the people leape and daunce, as
the heathen did.” As a national English
testival May Day waned in popularity,
but in many remote villages the old cere-
monies linger on, and rustics still con-
tinue to “usher in the May.” In Hert-
fordshire and other country districts,
school children to this day form proces-
sions to choose a Lord and Lady of the
May, and go about begging money “for
the May.”

A custom prevails in Scotland of go-
ing out on the hills to bathe the face
in the early May morning dew. Pepys
records in his diary that “my wife hath
learned that May-dew is the only thing
to wash the face with.”

In central Europe the eve of May
Day is synonymous with Walpurgis
Night, when peasants believe that
witches ride through the air on broom-
sticks, and so fasten May-blooms over
their doors as a protection against witch-
craft. Bohemians lay hawthorne on the
thresholds of cow-huts to catch the
witches on the thorns. Swedish peas-
ants burn fires on mountain-tops as a
relic of witch-burning times, and as a
symbol of burning the last traces of win-
ter. Southern Europeans still set up
May-poles. The French plant the “mai”
before the house of a person they wish
to honor. In Italy the custom of “sing-
ing the May” has given rise to a dra-
matic development, the “Maggio,” where
peasants dramatize and act out old popu-
lar stories.

GRADUATES GIVE “NICE WANTON”

Coached by Mrs. Otis Skinner, the play
presented by the graduate students, “The
Nice Wanton,” is one of the best of the
Elizabethan period for continuity and
completeness. It is a “Preaty Interlude,”
licensed to the printer in 1560, but prob-
ably written before this date.

The theme of the play is pointedly
brought out by the pious son who quotes
from “Ecclesiasticus“ for the edification
of the audience, the warning of Solomon,
“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”

Margaret Knapp who takes the part
of Master Iniquity had a prominent part
in dramatics at Cornell. Muriel Barker,
the wayward son, and Mary Price, the
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Ishmael. Delilah. Barnabas.
Zantippe. Eulalia.
Jadge. Wordly Shame.
Iniquitie.

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of the buildings, designed by Steward-
son and Cope, is Jacobean Gothic. The
grounds were laid out by Olmstead

| Brothers, who made the plans of Central |

Park.

The site of the college was discovered
by Dr. Taylor one day while he was
taking a walk. As he stood on the crest

ing meadows and woodlands, he exclaim-
ed, “This is an ideal place for a woman’s
college.” From that time, he bent all his
energies towards the erection of the
buildings, making daily visits from his
home to the grounds to superintend
their construction. Taylor Hall, the cen-
ter building on the campus, was named
after the founder.

It was completed in 1897 and combined
a library, laboratory, class rooms, and
professors’ offices.

Merion Called Cottage No. |.

Merion Hall, the building north of Tay-
lor and facing the green, was the first
dormitory put up and was then called
“Cottage No. 1.” The original plans were
modified because of the expense, but by
1885, “Cottage No. 1” was finished, its
total cost being $66,725. The first grad-
uate from Bryn Mawr, the one member
in the Class of 1888, the twenty-four
members of the Class of 1889, and all the
instructors, among them Dr. Scott, pro-
fessor of Mathematics, lived in this hall.

The Owl Gate, main entrance to the
college for pedestrians, is formed by the
central tower of Rockefeller Hall, the
newest of the halls of residence. Rocke-
feller, which adjoins Pembroke West, is
the gift of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, and
was opened in April, 1904. A central pow-
er house built the same year was part of
Mr. Rockefeller’s gift, and furnishes heat,
electric light, and hot water for the col-
lege buildings.

With the gateway tower joining Pem-
broke East and West, Mr. Cope and Mr.
Stewardson, according to an article by
President Thomas, created the first of
the beautiful college entrance towers in
America. The grey stones are built into
the wall of the buildings in a particularly
artistic way, many of them laid in by
the architects themselves.

The Library, a Jacobean Gothic build-
ing of the period of 1630, forms three
sides of a closed quadrangle. The main
reading room of the library was modeled
according to President Thomas’ suggestion,
after the dining hall of Wadham College,
Oxford, presenting the exterior aspect of
an English college chapel.

CORNELIA SKINNER PREPARING
FOR CAREER ON THE STAGE
Cornelia Otis Skinner who takes the
part of Sacrapant in the “Old Wives’
Tale” today. is the daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Otis Skinner.

Starting her stage experience at the
age of ten, when she played “Puck” in
the “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Miss
Skinner has taken part in many amateur
theatricals. With Mr. George Tryler’s
company, she played on the professional
stage last summer in two productions. “A
Young Man’s Fancy” and “Made for
Money.” She will continue her training
in Paris next year, under an actor at the
Comedie Francaise.

During her two years in college, Miss
Skinner has been prominent in college
dramatics, in 1919 taking the title part
in Barrie's “Rosalind,” In “Rosemary,” 19-
22’s Sophomore play, Miss Skinner took
the part of Sir Jasper Thorndike, which
Otis Skinner had played some years be-
fore with Maude Adams and Ethel Bar-

rymore.



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