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SEE MODERN STAGING IN NEW YORK
FOR SENIOR REVIVAL



Visit Neighborhood Playhouse

In staging Farquhar’s post-Restoration
comedy, the Senior stage managers, E.
Fuller and G. Woodbury, went to the
Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street,
New York, last week to see the methods
of setting and costuming used there.

The Neighborhood Playhouse is run in
connection with a settlement and pro-
duces modern plays and revivals with
actors drawn from the neighborhood and
scenery and costumes executed by
classes in its own workshops. Several
Spanish and Russian plays, several of
Dunsany’s plays have been produced
there, and last week Mme. Yvette Guil-
bert was playing there with the neighbor-
hood cast in “Guibour,” a revival of a
fourteenth century miracle play, the cos-
tumes and setting for which were strongly
reminiscent of drawings by Boutet de
Monvel.

Ingenious methods of making and dye-
ing costumes to secure the desired color
effects were demonstrated to the Senior
managers as well as the painting of the
scenes, all of which are made at Grand
Street. Properties, among them Greek
vases and statues modelled from news-
papers and paperhangers’ paste, were
brought out and the stage lighting gone
over.

NEW PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
WILL ADVERTISE C. A. ACTIVITIES

The newly appointed Advertisement
Committee of the Christian Association
plans to consult with the chairman of
each of the Christian Association com-
mittees every week. A News reporter
will be informed of activities through this
Advertisement Committee.

Posters for all branches of C. A. work
will be made through this committee.
Special advertising will also be done.

Forceful Vespers Talk by O. Howard

“Did you ever think that it is unfair to
others not to pray?” asked O. Howard ’22
in Vespers last Sunday. “If you pray you
have an entirely different attitude, for in-
stance, toward the person next to you at
the breakfast table.”

“Prayer gives power. I should never
have had the courage to watch an opera-
tion at the hospital last summer if I had
not prayed; you may say that it was de-
termination, but where did that determi-
nation come from? Perhaps you think
that you do not believe in God, but if you
have never prayed you cannot know. Give
God a chance to be your partner and you
will not fail.”

Discuss Sentiment in Poetry

Poetesses, instead of poets, were read
and discussed at the Thursday meeting
of the Reelers and Writhers Club. The
poetry of, Sara Teasdale, Florence Con-
verse and Theodosia Garrison was dis-
cussed. Sentiment and sentimentality
were differentiated and their relative use
in women’s poetry noted.

-lheld after the big one,




fie wane Sal tate, ‘The olf phen Same



|been given up because it seemed an anti-

climax to award the cup at a small meet

do The judges, ap-
pointed by the Athletic Board, will be

ere of the Junior and _ Senior

8. There are three holders of the
apparatus cup now in college—M. Mac-
kenzie '18, A. Stiles ’19, and H. Ferris '20.

1919 SCHOOL OF PSYCHIATRY TO
BE HELD IN SUMMER AT SMITH

[Printed at the request of the Smith
Training School of Psychiatric Social
Work.]

Recognition of the need for psychiatric
social workers, which was the basis of
the founding of the Training School of
Psychiatric Social Work by Smith Col-
lege and the Psychopathic Department of
the Boston State Hospital, under the aus-
pices of the National Committee for Men-
tal Hygiene, has been constantly growing
and is now finding expression in other
schools and courses in several cities.
Chief among these is the second training
course to be held in Northampton this
summer. The 1918 school was purely a
war emergency to train students, as soon
as the necessary specialization permitted,
for work in military hospitals for those
suffering with war neuroses or so-called
“shell-shock.”. The 1919 course, while
primarily designed to meet the needs of
the reconstruction period, is also in a
sense a transitional project in that it
prepares students not only to deal with
the more immediate psychiatric problems
of the aftermath of war, but also with the
ubiquitous neuropath and psychopath of
everyday life.

Smith Course Begins in July

The 1919 Training School in Social Re-
construction is organized on much the
same general principles as the 1918
school, but with at least two additional
units, medical social service and commu-
nity work, with possibly a third branch
in child welfare. The curriculum includes
base courses in psychology and sociology
required of all students, and specialized
courses in social psychiatry, social medi-
cine, and community organization, elected
according to the individual interests of
the students. The course comprises two
months’ academic training in theory dur-
ing July and August at Smith College,
with an intervening period during July
and August at Smith College, with an in-
tervening period of nine months’ practical
field work, followed by two months of
additional advanced theory at Smith Col-
lege during July and August, 1920. In-
quiries about the 1919 training school
should be addressed to its director, Dr.
F. Stuart Chapin, of Smith College, North-
ampton, Massachusetts.

Will Give Course in Boston

The School for Social Workers in Bos-
ton has added to its curriculum a course
of ten lectures by Miss Mary C. Jarrett,
Chief of Social Service of the Boston
Psychopathic Hospital, Director of the
1918 Summer School and Associate Di-
rector of the 1919 School. The lectures,
on psychiatric social work, are supple-
mented by clinics at the Psychopathic
Hospital.

Course in New York

In response to a request from social
workers in New York City the New York
School of Philanthropy has announced
the opening of a Department of Mental
Hygiene. Dr. Bernard Glueck, formerly
Director of the Psychiatric Clinic of Sing
Sing prison, now a member of the staff
of the school, will conduct a course of lec-
tures in the fundamentals of Mental Hy-
giene accompanied by clinical observa-
tion of eases. There will also be confer-
ences for the discussion of metal aspects
of social case-work problems met with in



md yok will be: amended peo i ican people
albeit s “nyheter fated
Opera House.” But she added that there







could be no doubt about their enthusiasm

for the League of Nations. —
Ex-President Taft, outlining the princi-

ples of the League of Nations for which

‘he has been fighting for three years, pre-

sented the practical side and refuted ar-
guments brought against the league, said
Dean Taft.. President Wilson’s argument
was that America should assume any re-
sponsibility rather than give up the ideals
for which she entered the war.

HARVARD BOLSHEVIKS THWARTED
IN LITERARY ATTEMPT



New Magazine Comes Out Against Them

Anticipating the project of a group of
undergraduate Bolsheviks to start a mag-
azine at Harvard, an anti-Bolshevik fac-
tion has rushed into print a magazine
holding the “reds” up to satire. The new
publication appears in a bright red cover
under the name “The Harvard Maga-
zine,’ which they have stolen from the
Bolsheviks and copyrighted.

The editors solicit “all MSS, rejected
by Crimson, Lampoon, and Advocate,”
announcing: “Our literary contributions
are free from cramping form and gram-
mar. Our ideas are new. You will like
them. They are within the mental reach
of all of you”

One of the political articles reads: “O
youths, too long ignorant, but long sus-
picious and conscious of many miscar-
riages of justice lurking in the shadows
and noisome dens of University Hall, you
have not ceased to battle for that pearl of
proletariat privilege, liberty of speech.

“Here, where the names of Bliot and
Emerson lend to the air an atmosphere
antipathetic to all forms of constraint, I,
an human being, live condemned to a life-
long torture of incessant stimulation to
lunatic leapings. From dawn to dusk I
may not engage in aught but soul-soiling
drudgery presidentially prescribed.”



FATHER OF C. TAUSSIG SAILS
TO JOIN PEACE CONFERENCE
Dr. Frank W. Taussig, father of C.
Taussig ‘19, sailed for France last
Monday on the transport Great
Northern. As chairman of the Tariff
Commission, Dr. Taussig will assist
Mr. B. M. Baruch in making out the
commercial treaties for the world
connected with the treaty of peace.
Dr. Taussig is on leave of absence
from Harvard, where he holds the
chair of Professor of Economics.







the experience of the workers. Admit-
tance to the course is limited to those
actually engaged in social case-work.

Pennsylvania School for Social Service

Another interesting and important
course is that offered by the Pennsylvania
School for Social Service. Beginning in
February, the school provides six months’
training in social psychiatry and medical
social service as a graduate course for
students who have had an adequate
foundation in college or professional
work.

These schools and courses all demon-
strate the need for highly trained special-
ized workers competent to deal with the
intricate problems created in any envi-
ronment involving a psychopath. And
aside from the alleviative function, the
far more vital object of prevention can
be accomplished only by those so trained
in the technique of this new aspect of the
old problem of social maladjustment.

Marie von H. Byers,
Smith 1916.
President of the Alumne Association of



the Smith Training School.



i Andereen, Gila on Forward Line
Varsity water-polo material, “judged”
from the first practice, held last week,



. i EB. Lanier,



captain, already a strong player on last
year’s sub-varsity, has brought up her
game immensely. Her quickness and ac-
curacy combined to score numerous
E. Anderson '21, a fast center-forward,
bids fair to be a good player, after.more
experience. A. Thorndike '19 put up her
usual reliable defence at goal. Two full-
backs, M. Ballou '20 and D. Hall '19 have
improved and played a steady game. A.
Nicoll ’22 is a promising halfback.

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NEW PLAY, “MOLIERE,”
RUNNING IN PHILADELPHIA

“Moliére,” a play by Philip Moeller,

_| which opened in Philadelphia last week,

is concerned with the latter part of the
life of the father of French drama. The
play supplements an ever-lengthening list
of plays having celebrities for their lead-
ing figures, a series including “Madame
Sand,” “Disraeli” and “Alexander Hamil-
ton.”

“The play is in three acts, the scene of
the first and third showing the study of
Moliére, in his theatre at the Palais Royal,
Paris, toward the end of the actor-
dramatist’s career. The second discloses
the apartment of Madame de Montespan
in the Louvre."" Henry Miller will play
Moliére; Blanche Bates, the fascinating
mistress of the King; Holbrook Blinn,
Louis XIV; and Estelle Winwood, Ar-
mande Bejart, Moliére’s fickle young
wife.

“The story begins with Moliére’s first
suspicion of Armande’s infidelity; con-
tinues through the tempestuous scene of
the display of the love of Madame de
Montespan for Moliére, which turns to
bitter hatred and concludes with the pass-
ing from the world’s stage of its great
dramatist, during the fourth performance
of his satirical play, ‘The Imaginary In-
valid.’”

Beside the four famous stars who ap-
pear in this play under the direction of
Henry Miller, there is a notable company
which includes Forrest Robinson, Sidney
Herbert, Alice Gale, Paul Doucet and
Frederick Roland.—Public Ledger.

ALUMNA NOTES
Dorothy Shipley ’17 is sailing for
France this month to do reconstruction
work.

Margaret Corwin '12 has given up her
work as assistant superintendent of the
Woman’s Division of the U. S. Employ-
ment Service in Connecticut to go over-
seas with a Y. M. C. A. canteen unit.
Miss Corwin, who was the executive sec-
retary of the Women’s Committee of Con-
necticut State EE of Defence, was
loaned to the U. S. Employment Service
by the council to pera in the organiza-
tion of the women’s work in Connecti-
cut’s tremendous war program. Since
the armistice Miss Corwin has demobil-
ized the war workers and has developed
the women’s division in a peace time pro-
gram,

Georgette Moses ‘16, secretary of the
Committee on Vocational Scholarships at
Henry Street Settlement, is also organiz-
ing girls’ clubs under the War Camp
Community Service.

Marjery Brown ex-'16 has resigned as
instructor of English at Stephens College
and is taking a course under the National
Catholic War Council in Social Service
and Clinics preparatory to going over-
seas.

Esther Pugh ‘15 sailed recently for
France as reconstruction aide in Therapy.
She is to work in the same hospital as
Susan Nichols ‘15.

Helen Butterfield ‘18 is Assistant Com-
putor in the valuation department of the
New York Centra! Railroad Company.