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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920



SKETCHES IN ALUMNAE MONTHLY



Contributed by President Thomas

A series of articles by President
Thomas on the “Basin of the Mediter-
ranéan” will appear in the Alumnae
Monthly, according to an announcement
made in the November Quarterly. One

article will be devoted to each of the)

small nations bardering the Mediter-
ranean, according to the Quarterly. Miss
Thomas will describe particularly their
attitude toward the League of Nations.
The first article will appear in the Jan-
uary number of the Monthly.

SOPHOMORE PLAY TO BEONE OF
BERNARD SHAW’S COMEDIES

Frances Knox and Eleanor Mathews
_to Take Principal Parts

Hinting that the scene of the play is
to be laid in the East and that it is by
Bernard Shaw, the Sophomore Play
Committee refuses to divulge more. The
performance will take place Friday eve-
ning, November 19th, at 7.45 o’clock.

-The principal parts are taken by F.
Knox and E. Mathews, who are sup-
ported by a large cast. The play is
coached by Dr. Howard Savage, who
coached 1917’s Senior Play, 1919’s Sopho-
more Play and 1922’s Sophomore Play.
E. Vincent is stage manager.

Subordinate committees for the play
have been chosen, which include—
Scenery: D. Meserve, chairman; E.
Rhoads, R. McAneny, H. Humphreys.
Costumes: F. Childs, chairman; J. Rich-
ards, M. Morseman, D. Fitz. Properties:



A. Frazer, chairman; H. Wilson, B.
Worcester, V. Miller. Lights: I. Haupt,
"17; D. Fitz. ;

College Council Meets in Deanery

Business Proves Many-Sided

The first meeting of the College Council,
organized last November, to discuss mat-
ters of general college interest and to treat
of subjects that do not fall under any of
the four associations, was held on Novem-
ber Sth, in the Deanery. President Thomas
presided.

An interpretation of the announcement
made at the Christian Association recep-
tion, “that Freshmen shall not sit on com-
mittees until after their second quiz” was
made. Hereafter Freshman elections to
committees — shall



the semester Freshmen shall be allowed to
sit on committees and do light work.
President Thomas said that the chairman
of the committee should be responsible for
seeing that the work was not too heavy.

It was a sense of the meeting that the
Undergraduate Association and the Grad-
uate Club confer with President Thomas
and Dean Smith on the possibility of a
course in Public Speaking, to be given
Monday evenings from 8.00 to 9.30. This
course would be separate from the Debat-
ing Club. ©

In order to save the students’ time, it
was decided that Miss Applebee and Miss
Adair should draw up new slips covering
all details of the use of the gymnasium.
Students in future will get these slips from
Miss Adair’s office, get President Thomas's
permission if the entertainment is of a new
kind, see Miss Madison about the date, fill
out the slip and leave it with Miss Adair.
The rest of the arrangements will then be
made by the office, and the student may
come back for the signed slip later.

The question of non-resident students
sleeping in the halls of residence was
brought up and passed in the Council.

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take place immediately '
after Thanksgiving, and during the rest of |



READS PLAY INTERESTINGLY

Miss Spinney Does Minor Parts Well
Not so Pleasing in Choruses

Specially Contributed by
Katherine L. Ward, ’21

The rendering of Gilbert Murray’s
translation of the Hippolytus by Miss
Spinney was interesting on _ several
counts—both for what it was and for
what it was not. It is worth noting the
fact that though, as Miss Spinney said,
the play was first presented over 2000
years ago, it was not Euripides’ play
that was given Friday evening—nor even
Gilbert Murray’s. It would have been
hard for Euripides to recognise his own
work, if he had chanced to wander into
the chapel and watch for a while the
recitation that was being given against
that effective background of blue cur-
tains and burning tapers. The charac-
ter of the play had been quite changed
by the translator. It was padded, ampli-
fied, and said in two pretty words what
Euripides said in one fiery word.

Then, Miss Spinney’s ruthless cutting
of the translation did away with the im-
pression of Phaedra’s love-sickness as
a cruel and subtle malady, and gave the
“nobility” of her character a salience,
which even the translation did not war-
rant. The barbaric effect of Euripides’
study in Greco-Cretan moeurs was, of
course, quite lost.

The Hippolytus, as thus paraphrased
by Murray and telescoped by Miss Spin-
ney, was nevertheless an_ interesting
thing. Miss Spinney surmounted handi-
caps one would have thought almost in-
superable, in a play presented by only
one person. The smaller character parts,
the huntsman and the nurse were well
characterized. The first scene between
Theseus and his son, was well done, the
shift in persons being so skilfully man-
aged as to leave the attention free to
enjoy her rendering of the lines. In the
choruses the performance was uneven.
The first showed Miss Spinney’s flexible
voice to advantage in the invocation to
Artemis. In others, the result was not
so fortunate. One person gesticulating
alone in the middle of a platform cannot
hope to produce so pleasing an effect as
a full chorus in an elaborate, rhythmic
dance.

SHANTUNG DEBATE NOVEMBER 17



Teams Chosen From Competition

“Resolved: That the Shantung clause
in the Versailles treaty is justifiable,” is
the wording of the question to be de-
bated next Wednesday evening, by two
teams of the Debating Club. The meet-
ing, open to the college, will be held at
8.30 P. M. in the Merion Sitting Room.

The teams, chosen by competitive try-
outs, are: Affirmative, C. Bickley, ’21; ().
Pell, ’22; V. Liddell, ’22. Negative, J.
Flexner, ’21; F. K. Liu, ’22; G. Rhodes,
22. The following alternate teams,
to hold trial debates with the
teams before the open debate, were
chosen: To debate against the affirma-
tive side, A. Domm, '22; R. Beardsley, '23;
L. Affelder, 23; against the negative, M.
Lawrence, '23; E. Kirkpatrick, '23; S.
McDaniel, ‘23.

The club, at a meeting on October
27th, voted to debate the Shantung ques-
tion, rather than the Irish question,
which had been posted.

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_ FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERS



Anne Shiras Is President

At the Freshman elections held last
Wednesday Anne Shiras was made presi-
dent, Elizabeth Howe, vice-president and
treasurer, and Ethel Teft, secretary.

. Miss Shiras is the scholar for the New
England division, and in her Senior year
at Miss Walker’s was head prefect. Miss
Howe was vice-president of heft class in
her Junior year at Shipley, and in her
Senior year was leader of the choir and
of the Mandolin Club. Miss Teft, who

came from Miss Spence’s, was temporary

secretary.

GHOSTS WALK SIDE-BY-SIDE ;
PARTY FOR SOPHOMORES

Seniors Entertain 1923
With Hallowe’en Stunts

Orange lights cast a lurid glow over a
scene of mystic revel at the Hallowe'en
party given by the Seniors to 1923 in
the gymnasium last Saturday night.

From their haunts among the corn,
black-robed spectres spread their arms in
ghostly welcome. Ina far corner a witch
brooded over her cauldron, while above
her owls hooted and black cats arched
their backs in recognition of their
broomstick relative. Dead leaves __rus-
tled and swirled under the rhythmic tread
of the dancers, and overhead golden
balloons bobbed eerily in time to the
swaying shadows.

In dusky corners lurked wandering
spirits of different ilk. One told weird
tales of past and future, and from potent
vessels drew forth the fate of each ques-
tioner. Others presided over the revels,
enticing the adventurous to try their
luck at bobbing apples and warning the
unwary away from the fiery brew. Con-
tests of various sorts held sway. A,
Smith, '23, proved herself the most glut-
tonous cater of pumpkin pie, and K.
Raht, '23, and M. Holt, ’23, showed their
genius at the dance as it is not done.

MERION FALLS BEFORE VARSITY



Game Ends With Final Score 6-1

Rallying in the second half of the game
against the Merion Cricket Club last
Saturday, Varsity was victorious with a
final score of 6-1. In the first half the
offensive of both teams was disorganized
breaking through the defense for only
one goal as against the six scored in the

-second period.

The first goal was scored by M. Tyler, :
[to representative sports.

early in the game after a dribble by E.
Cecil. For the rest of the half neither
forward line was able to break through
the opposing defense for a goal. Miss
Townsend, at center half, and Miss Ma-

| deira, right full-back, blocked the Brown

forwards, while Miss Duncan, left full-
back, starred for Bryn Mawr with her
heady stick work and passing.

At the opening of the second half the
Merion forwards rushed the ball to the
edge of the circle only to be blocked by
E. Donohue, who passed to C. Bickley
for a long dribble ending in a goal by
E. Cecil. The third goal was scored by
C. Bickley after a long run, followed by
a spectacular tally for Merion by Miss
Mutch after a clever get-away at the
25-yard line. Then followed three goals
in quick succession by C. Bickley, M.
Tyler and M. Faries, bringing the total
score to six for Bryn Mawr as against
one for Merion. During this half the
forward line rallied and showed skilfull
team work, evading the powerful Merion
defense time after time. In the back-

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TAGORE TO SPEAK ON MYSTICS



Poet Wrote Verse at Age of Six;

Spent Youth in the Himalayas

“Village Mystics of Bengal” will be
the subject of Rabindranath Tagore’s
lecture Friday evening in Taylor Hall,
under the auspices of the English Club.
Admission is $1.00 for reserved, $1.50 for
unreserved seats, and all proceeds go to
the maintenance of Tagore’s school for
boys at Shantineketan.

The Indian poet is described in a Book-
man article, November 16th, as “a slim
man over six feet in height, with a high
turban and long gray robe that makes him
look still taller, a full brow, deep brown
eyes, a long grayish beard, flowing hair,
and features that remind one of the Christ
as he is seen in De Vinci's pictures.”

“The story of Tagore’s life, as his In-
dian biographer Roy tells us,” reads a re-
view in the Bookman for August 15th, “is
like that of almost every great genius; the
youthful precocity, the unremitting revolt
against alien and established conventions
and institutions, and above all the sudden
birth of an exalted idealism which has
remained with him throughout his life.

“Until Tagore was ten years old, his
father, universally known in India as Great
Sage, left him severely alone, and then, sud-
denly becoming aware of the extraordinary
qualityof the youthful poet’s mind, for
Tagore had been writing verse for four
years, went alone with him to the Hima-
layas to train him in the school of nature.

“In the months spent in the mountains,
Tagore roamed about as he pleased. Here —
he read nearly every important work writ-
ten in Bengali, and also learned Sanscrit,
English, botany and astronomy, besides his
constant production of poetry’ and his
strides in what his biographer calls ‘lessons
in responsibility.’

“After a year spent in London trying to
fathom the intricacies of the English legal
mind, he returned to Bengal, and at the
age of sixteen started in earnest on his
career as poet and writer.”

ENDOWMENT FUND DONORS
COME TO VIEW, COLLEGE

Six hundred Endowment Fund donors
visited the college last Thursday, at the
invitation of President Thomas. The
entire campus was on exhibition for them,
athletic matches were staged for their
benefit, and tea was served at the Dean-
ery. A corps of undergraduates acted as
guides to the points of general interest.

All the athletic fields were given over
Beginning at
4 o'clock was a first-team hockey game
between ’23 and '24 on the first field, and
a second-team game between the Seniors
and Juniors on the second field. On the
upper field was a basket ball match of
teams chosen from the three upper
classes, and apparatus work by the

higher teams, and the tumblers who per-
formed on May Day. On the tennis
courts, first, second and third team play-
ers contested.

Tea was served at the Deanery from
3.30 until 6.30 o'clock. The receiving
line, headed by President Thomas, was
made up of trustees, Endowment Fund
Committee members, faculty and alum-
nae, and included Mrs. Frederick J. Man-
ning (Helen Taft, '15), Mrs. Richard 5S.
Francis, Mrs. F. Louis Slade, and Miss
Gertrude Ely. The tables scattered about
the house and garden were presided
over by faculty members, wardens and

alumnae.