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Tuesday To Lecture

Author of The Great Illusion
Is Famous For Advocation

of World. ‘Peace





RECEIVED NOBEL PRIZE



On next Tuesday ,evening the col-
lege is extremely fortunate to be
able to wélcome Sir Norman Angell,

of international co-operation. ’ Sir
Norman will speak in Goodhart Hall
under the auspices of the Under-
graduate Association; his topic has
not yet been announced. . Students
will be admitted free and outsiders
will be charged a nominal sum.

Sir. Norman is an economist of
note whose books are widely known
in this country. He has often been
accused of being an impractical
dreamer because of his theories on
war. Against all opposition he car-
ried on, and in January, 1931, was
knighted by King George because
of this very work for international
peace. In 1933 he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.

Born in England, educated in
France and Switzerland, he later
spent several years of his youth in

America, and therefore is able to]

grasp our point of view and treat
his subjects in a manner both under-
standable and interesting to an
American audience. He has an un-
usual aptitude for answering ques-
tions; his ideal lecture is “a conversa-
tion with the audience.”

Sir Norman has secured for books
dealing with politics and economics
the equal of sales of best sellers in
fiction. The Great Illusion alone has
sold well over a million. copies and
has been translated into twénty-five
languages. The Unseen Assassins,
published in the fall of 1931, out-
lined his theory of the cause of
modern war and proved to be a
strong appeal to the common sense
of mankind.

Mr. Angell’s first lecture tour in
this country was made under the
auspices of the Carnegie Endow-
ment. During the course of that
tour he lectured at most of the
larger American universities and



colleges.

No Serious “T. B. Cases

On Ociober 24, 1935,-194 students
and 110 employes were: X-rayed at
Bryn Mawr College. It gives the De-
partment of Health much ‘pleasure to
announce that in no ¢ase ‘was suf-
ficient evidence of disease found to
require that the individual concerned
should leave college. 2.06 per cent of
the students and 3.63 per cent of the
employes who were X-rayed showed
slight abnormal shadows in the lungs.
In most instances these shadows were
so slight that no definite diagnosis
could be made from them. | The indi-
viduals in question have all been
called to the infirmary, notified as to
the findings and advised to get more
rest. They will be seen at least once
a month, for chest examination and
weighing.' In three months further
X-rays will be made, and there is
hope that the shadows may have de-
creased or disappeared by that time.
The survey has been of the greatest
value in assuring the college that more
than 97 per cent of the students and
96 per cent of the employes are free
from any question of serious disease
and in locating. the few individuals
who need further observation.





Colorful Group Square Dances

Gymnasium, November 15.— The
Square Dances which were given last
year to raise money for the under-
graduate quota of the Fiftieth Anni-
versary Fund were considered so. suc-
cessful that another series is being
held this year for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp. At the

first dance approximately fifty Bryn

Mawr students, most of them clad in
flowing India print dresses or German
costumes, correct even to the hat,
danced to music provided by the in-
defatigable Farra Boys. A_ brave
band of Haverfordians gave a mascu-
line note to the oceasion. One of them
was especially decorative in a German
costume consisting of white wool socks,
shorts and a bright blue linen jacket.
Several professors and their wives,
including Dr. and Mrs. Lattimore, Dr.
Bernheimer and Dr. Ernst Diez,
joined the dancing with enthusiasm.
and skill. The ignorant were in-
structed in complicated steps by Sil-
vine Savage and her husband, both
“‘ontinued on Page Three



Caps, Gowns—Originally Worn for Warmth—

Are Today Mark of

Academic Distinction



The magnificence and the numbers
of the gowns and hoods at the recent
academic procession raised the curi-
osity of the students about the why’s
and wherefore’s of caps and gowns,
particularly those of American uni-
versities. Today the gown has only
two great uses: to add a note of fel-
lowship and pageantry to official cele-
brations and processions, and for
undergraduate raincoats. In mediae-
val times and for centuries afterward
the gown was an enforced mode of
apparel for all scholars. Warm
gowns and hoods were first worn be-
cause mediaeval castles were damp
and drafty, and the first academic
cap was the warm skull cap of the
scholar-monk. By 1321 the Univer-
sity of Coimbra required gowns to be
worn by all “Doctors, Licentiates, and
Bachelors.” In England in the seeond
half of the fourteenth” century,
statutes of certain colleges forbade
excess in dress and prescribed the
wearing of a long gown. In the Lau-
dian days at Oxford it was prescribed
that any tailor who departed from the
authorized design “even by a nail’s
breadth” in making a Aollegiate cos-
tume should be punished by the vice-
chancellor. ‘

European institutions still show
great diversity in their academic
dress, but in 1895 a conference at Co-
lumbia outlined specifications . that
have since been standard for most
Amer‘can universities and colleges.
The . undergraduate gowns’ which
come out like mushrooms in the rain
are modelled after the Oxford schol-

-ar’s gown, made of black serge with

an open front and short open sleeve.

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a long closed sleeve with a slit above
the elbow for the arm. The ends of
the master’s sleeves are square with
an arc of a circle near the bottom.
The doctor’s gown alone may be made
of silk and may have trimmings. It
has an open front faced with bands
of velvet and open round sleeves with
three cross bars of velvet. In all
cases, the color of the gowns must be
black.

Hoods in American colleges and uni-
versities are of the same material as
the gown and are black in color. The
length of the bachelor’s hood is three
feet, of the master’s, three and a half
feet, and of the doctor’s, four feet.
The doctor’s hood alone has panels at
the side, which with the hood itself
are edged in velvet of the color of the

faculty in which the degree is con-)

ferred. The edging of the bachelor’s
hood is two inches in width, of the
r-aster’s, three inches, and of the doc-
tor’s, five inches. At Bryn Mawr the
bachelor’s gown is trimmed with white
fur and the master’s, with white vel-
vet. The hoods are lined with the of-
ficial color or colors of the institution
conferring the degree, this lining to
be charged with a chevron or cheyyons
if there is more than one official color.
Bryn Mawr hoods have yellow linings
crossed with white chevrons. Harvard
hood linings are crimson, Johns Hop-
kins. old gold and black; Princeton,
orange and black. Although it is per-
missable, it is an outworn practice to
wear the hood of. the institution with
which one is officially connected
rather than the one from which the
degree was received. Fellows at Bryn
Mawr wear bachelor’s gone. and





The bachelor’s gown has a long point-

ed sleeve, and thé’ master’s gown has |



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Thursday, November 21: Var-
sity Hockey Game vs. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania at 4 P.M.

Friday, vember 22: Voca-
tional talk by Mrs. Lillian Gil-
breth in the Deanery at 8.30

“PM 3

Saturday, November 23: Var--
sity Hockey Game vs. Faculty
(unofficial) at 10 A. M.

Sunday, Novernber 24: Dr.
Rufus M. Jones will conduct the
Sunday evening service. Music
Room at 7.45 P. M.

Monday, November 25: Var-
sity Hockey Game vs. Haver-
ford College Soccer Team at 4
P.M;

Monday, aia 25: Latin

play, The Menaechmi. Good- ~
hart -at.8.P..M. ,
Tuesday,. November 25: Sir

Norman Angell will speak in

Goodhart at 8 P. M.
Wednesday,. November 27:

Thanksgiving Vacation begins





Continued on ‘Sian Four :





at 12.45 P. M.



Longer College Year
Allows For May Day



College Council Asks Self-Gov

To Consider the Publication
of Big Cases 3



ART WORK SHOP NEEDED



Miss Park’s House, November 13.—
May Day plans, the Commencement
Week program and the need for pub-
lic knowledge of certain types of
penalties imposed by Self-Government
were the main topics discussed at the
second meeting of the College Council
held’ this fall. Entertainment and
speakers for the rest of the semester
and the need for a separate art work-
shop also took a prominent part in the
proceedings of the evening. Miss
Park announced that Dr. Rufus M.
Jones, president of the Board of Trus-
tees, has accepted the invitation of
the senior class to give the Baccalau-
reate address.

The undergraduates on the Council
were united in expressing the hope
that there might be some way of
avoiding the great consumption of
“ime . which the making of paper
Jowers caused in the last May Day.
Mrs. Collins suggested that there is
a possibility ef getting some of this
work done by the company from
which the paper is bought.

large parts in plays or who are serv-
ing on very active committees will
do it. The three upper classes voted
last spring in favor of having Big
May Day, but in order to be sure
that the whole college is behind it,
the Council asked the freshman class
president to hold a‘ vote among. the
class of 1939 on this subjec: as soon
as possible.

At both meetings of the Council the

question of the proper way of inform-
ing the undergraduates of the action
taken by Self-Government in cases in-

Continued on Page Two



Vocational Talk

Mrs. Manning is inviting the
seniors and graduate students
who are interested in jobs for
next year to meet Mrs. Lillian
M. Gilbreth on Friday evening
at the Deanery. . Mrs. Gilbreth
is the president of Gilbreth, Inc.,
consulting engineers, and is Pro-
fessor of Management at Purdue
University. She is a graduate
of the University of California
with the degrees of B. Litt. and
M. Litt. In 1915 Brown Uni-
versity conferred on her the de-—

| Administration.

If .some |
work must be done by students, it will| ready Become of widespread national
be planned that those who do not have importance in its service to education
| and the fine arts.

Students Seeking Work



Thirty-two undergraduate. students
are now engaged in work which is
beine financed. by- the: National. Youth

nine aré working for the science de-
partments in Dalton, for the most part
on projects: which — involve heavy
manual labor and not infrequently the
accumulation’ of a good deal of dirt.
Much-needed inventories and classifi-
| cation of supplies and collections are
being produced for the four science de-
partments.

Six students are working i the
language departments, for the most
part as typists or assistants in re-
search. Two students are working in
the education department, one in the
psychology department, one in the
economics department and one on sta-
tistical work in the social economy de-
partment. Four students are work-
ing in the Library in addition to the
students usually employed _ there.
Three students are to act as telephone
operators in Rockefeller basement at
hours when the college operator is not
on duty. Two students are working
in the Alumnae Office for Miss Hawk-
ins, and one student is doing statis-
tical work for the College Registrar.

There is a great variety in the kind
of work which is being done, ranging
from the care. of white mice or the
dusting and sorting of rocks in Dal-
ton to conducting a choir of German
singers. There. is also considerable
range in the amount earned per hour,
which varies in accordance with the
type of work,and the current rates on
the campus. Departments and of-
fices have expressed great satisfac-
tion with the efforts of this new corps
of workers, and in every case the
work done seems to fully conform to
the requirements of the Youth Ad-
ministration that it shall be “socially
useful.”



Poetry Ball and Pageant Arranged

The American Academy of Poets is
presenting a Poetry Ball on Wednes-
day evening, November 20, in the
Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel in New York City. The
ball is being given as part of a drive
to raise funds for an endowment to
reward outstanding people with po-
etical genius in the United States with
one-year fellowships to aid their study
and writing.«.The academy itself is a
comparatively new organization and
this is the first b'g program it has at-
tempted. It was founded in Novem-
ber, 1934, in New ‘York and has al-



The ball promises to be one of the
loveliest given in recent years. Many
prominent debutantes in New York
are helping to plan the festivities.
S‘tores ‘throughout the city are co-
operating with advertising and dis-

Continued on Page Three



Exhibition of Persian Miniatures

An exhibition of twenty Persian
Book Illuminations is now being dis-
played in the Common Room. The
paintings were selected by Dr. Ernst
Diez from the collection of Mr. H.
Kevorkian, of New York, who kindly
gave his consent to have them shown
at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Diez
himself will give an introductory talk
on the’ illuminations on Thursday
afternoon at 4 o’clock.

' The paintings range in date from
the fourteenth century, when the Per-
sian book illuminations, as far as we
know them, began, to the eighteenth
century. Since then book painting has
still Continued, as there are always
more customers for them than origin-
als. The collection contains charac-
teristic examples of most of the im-
portant schools of Iranian book paint-
ng: —-In- the--seleetion Dr. Diez did



gree of Ph. D. Dr. Gilbreth
is one of the two originators of
Gilbreth Motion — and Job
Analysis.

Mrs. Gilbreth may be able to
stay on on Saturday and to talk
individually with seniors about

-their plans for next year. -Ap- _
pointahents should be arranged —
through Mrs. Crenshaw.







'ates here for Tyrolian hats with long

| that such hats with their bearers were

not forget the bias of the undergradp-



feathers; and he therefore chose some
portraits of European diplomats who |
lived at the sumptuous court of Shah |
Abbas in Isfahan and wore similarly |
shaped feathered hats. The ev:dence

admitted to court may, he felt, add to
their ‘dignity on, the Bryn Mawr
campus

Of these. students, |.





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Rowley Outlines Slow Evolution
From Symbolic to Realistic
- Attitude in: Art



LINEAR RHYTHMS VITAL



Deanery, November 17, 18, 19.—
Contrary to the usual opinion of
occidentals that all Chinese art is
unrealistic, George Rowley, -Curator
of Far Eastern Art and Associate
Professor of Art at Princeton, as-
serted that Chinese painting clearly
shows an-evolution from the “arch-
aic and symbolic to a realistic atti-
tude toward experience.” In three
succinct lectures Mr. Rowley sur-
veyed: the “sweep of history” in
Chinese painting, its evolution and
its peculiar racial qualities, and
illustrated his statements with lan-
tern slides. The racial characteristics
which make a painting Chinese are a
direct outgrowth of Chinese thought,
which never developed a science or a
logic, but which developed in painting
an emphasis on the spirit or the inner
content of the object, and created not
an imitative representation of a plas-
tic entity in space, but rather an ideo-
graph in linear rhythms, pervaded
throughout by the very life rhythm
of the universe itself, or the Tao.

Mr. Rowley believes that in study-
ing the art of a. people of any, age
there are two principal elements to
be considered. If art is viewed as a
representation there is an evolution
in the visualisation of art objects from
the archaic silhouette to the final re-
alization of the object. The other ele-
ment is imagination, the essential ele-
ment in any racial art. In China these
racial traits are infinitely more im-
portant than and completely different
from anything we know in western
art. The Chinese had no interest in
representation and cared nothing for
the outward particularities of mani-
festation-of-an- object... His_only care
was for the inner essence. This
emphasis on the content and mean-
ing connected painting with cal-
ligraphy and led to the expression of
art in rhythms drawn by lines and
washes. These rhythms in lines and
washes express no tangible material
reality, but rather create only a sug-
gestion of the reality; the spectator
must complete the work of art.

An Oriental would deny that there
was any such thing as evolution in
art form. But to western connois-
seurs there is in Chinese art a definite
evolution which follows the general
rules of development from primitive

Continued on Page Five



Carnegie Fund Awards
Bryn Mawr $150,000



Revrinted from the New York
Tribune

The Carnegie Corporation of New
York, in the belief that - women’s
colleres in general are underfunded,
voted grants totaling $575,000 yester-
day to Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn
Mawr, Pa.; Smith College, at
Northampton, Mass.; Vassar College,
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Scripps Col-
lege, at Claremont, Calif., and Sweet
Briar College, at Sweet Briar, Va.

These grants, made in the centen-
nial year of Andrew Carnegie’s
birth, are “‘in recognition of the high
quality of the work” of. the institu-
tions, and, according to the announce-
meit, “it is hoped that the grants
will call attention to the desirability
of more generous public support of
educational institutions of this char-
acter.”

Bryn Mawr will receive $150,000
for endowment; Smith, $175,000 for
library development; Vassar, $160,-
000 for library endowment; Scripps,
£40,000 for development of its edu-

“ational pregram, and Sweet Briar,

£50,000 for endowment. During the
last ten years the corporation, great-
est of the philanthropic enterprises
of Andrew Carnegie, has made other
grants aggregating $435,000 to wom-
en’s colleges. _ Among the recipients’
of funds from this sum are Benning-
ton, Mills, Milwaukee-Downer,
Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Wells.

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Hear Music, Not N sileef

Last week there appeared in the News a letter in which fifty-two
undergraduates stated emphatically that they wanted at least one good

radio on the campus. Anyone who has listened to the philharmonic con.

cert over one of the small radios which are permitted in oyr rooms cannot
help feeling that this demand for one good radio for everyone is justified.
If we judge the creative power and beauty of music by the nerve-shatter-
ing noises and provocative fadeouts that murder a Brahms symphony over
our neighbor’s Kadette, the most. horrible visions of chaos and mutiny

arise. But let anyone try to mend matters by going to the Commons Room
to hear harmonious music: she will-find Brahms music on the radio there
a combination of gratings, shrieks and whistles, metallic whispers and
explosive pops that would infuriate a mute. If our music-lover is persistent,
she gives up; and buys a recording. Other entertdinments such as lectures
and speeches are not recorded; and until they are, eager undergraduates
should not be deprived of one of the great means of widening their hori-
zons, or of enjoying themselves before a radio, simply because there is no
adequate instrument. Good radios with enough tubes to counteract the
inadequacies of the powerhouse and the interference of nearby high tension

wires are not so expensive that a pool of two hundred dollars could not

purchase one. The Undergratuate Association cannot undertake.this obli-
gation, but the plan will certainly be supported by the many who realize
this need. The current has been changed to accommodate a fine radio. All
that remains is for those who feel most strongly about the matter to circu’
late among the students and secure their voluntary contributions.



Oh Come All Ye Faithful!

When Bryn Mawr was founded, the trustees made it one of their
primary principles that attendance at chapel services should not be com-
pulsory. They felt that if the students weré permitted to attend on a vol-
untary basis, the religious services would not only be better attended, but
also would be of greater value and significance. For this reason, since the
beginning of the college all attendance at public meetings of any sort,
either religious or otherwise, has been devoid of any compuls.on whatsoever.

Unfortunately this theory has not worked out in fact, since for many
years the Bryn Mawr League and its predecessors have been trying to cope
with the problem of securing audiences of sufficient size to merit bringing
a really good minister here for the Sunday evening services. A year or two
ago the Chapel Committee revised the whole plan of Sunday services and
reduced materially the number held each year in order to try to get better
attendance. Even this change has not brought: about any improvement,
since the whole college was able to muster only enough undergraduates last
Sunday to fill a bare three rows in the Music Room.

It would be a mistake to abandon the services altogether and we are
quite certain that the students would not wish this to happen. We feel
sure that many more undergraduates could attend the services Sunday night
if they would only set aside the time. It only takes about an hour, and
everyone who goes agrees that iy is a worthwhile hour.



Campus Notes
Dr. Tennent attended the meeting

| of the National Academy of Science

which was held at the University of
Virginia on November 18. He read a
paper on “The Photo-dynamic Effects
of Vital Dyes on Fertilized Sea
Urehin Eggs.”

Dr. Lattimore did some translations
for a book which was recently pub-
lished by the Century-Appleton Com-
pany. The author is M. T. McClure

and the book is ventitled Early
Philosophers of Greece.
Dr. Fenwick has made two ad-



Undergrad Pledges Total $23,742

The latest news from the Fiftieth
Anniversary fund shows that the
undergraduate quota. is now up to
$23,742. Of this sum $20,412 is the
result of last spring’s drive on the
campus. The remaining $3,330 was
pledged by the freshman elass this
fall. Since” not all of them have
pledged yet, the total will . probably
increase in -the near future. The
Undergraduate Association plans to
sell Charlotte cookies again this year.
The profits will go to the drive.







WHY NOT PLAY GAMES, OR I'LL
TAKE VANILLA!

ant eee “ved breath
ualing heart the progress of thé’
Jasin tennis tournament. Eyery
time a new bracket on the score was
filled in, we sighed for what we feared
would be the’ end of an old-age and
the dawn of a new era, an era when
tennis tournaments were completed.
Doubtless the evil would not stop
there: soon people would even go to
games and cheer the teams. College
spirit would be upon us in full force.
We need not have worried, for the
tournament has come to. a chugging
stop before the next-to-the-last match-
es have been played.

One of the finest things about Bryn
Mawr is its lack of interest in sports.
Few people fly in the face of con-
vention so far as to continue beyond
required sports; and if they do, almost

one or-two shrill cheers go up as Bryn
Mawr makes a goal, the rest of the
college, all peacefully at tea, turn
wondering eyes toward the Gymna-
sium, whence the voices of the few
faithful rooters arise, and ask one
another what in the world can be
going on? This gay and carefree at-
titude toward sport is one of the most
familiar characteristics of Bryn Mawr
undergraduates. . :

We want to thank the freshmen for
not letting us down. We had feared
that they, being new and _ unaccus-
tomed to our habits, might take sports
seriously. We need never have wor-
ried about them—they have quickly

become imbued with true Bryn Mawr

spirit. Never finish a tournament;
don’t go to games—and if you do,
don’t cheer; take walking-for your

creed. Wé should lose all faith in
everything if they were to be dis-
carded.
—Girl of the Eighties.

ak, 2 & a

ALL OUT, WITH EVERYTHING!
(Tune: “There is a Tavern in the

Town.’’)

There was a field trip on the baoks,
on the books,

And off they went (the dirty crooks,
dirty crooks).

The bus went off,
could be,

And left behind a worried three.

Up and down the grass.they wandered,

Into Dalton Hall they sauntered,

Dr. Dryden’s phone for them pro-
cured a car, a car.

From a granite quarry far away, far
away,

They watched their car drive off so

gay, off so gay,

Then sat them down to watch and
hope and pray

The field trip soon would come that
way.

Oh, the dying sun grew deader,

And their leaden hearts grew leader,

As they waited for that vanished field
trip to appear;

The quarry grew more dank and

as cheery as

drear; .

They finally yielded to their fear, to
their fear,

By foot and train and trolley they
went home:

Pneumonia claimed them for its own.
O, the dampness o’er them hovered,
And their numerous ills uncovered,
And they found that punctuality is
none too cheap;
(This admission the result of poetic
necessity alone.)
Oh dig our graves both wide and
deep, wide and deep,
With. granite at our head and feet,
head and feet,
And on our tombs just carve, ‘“Geol-
ogy!
My God! to think we died for thee!”
VENUS MERCENARIA.

‘Public Opitiion

The College News is not responsible







| for opinions expressed in this column.

The Daughters of Mother Merion
Answer:
On Hallowe’en, while Denbigh, » to.



ge from the letter in the News,|

no one comes to’see' them play. As
‘| Professor Jane.’s excellent book, en-

sport when possible, and turn a jaded{*
eye upon those who exercise: these are |
fundamental dicta in the Bryn Mawr|_

sons, not in closets. On Hallowe’en
it was dragged into the open.

Every tradition has its place, and
closetless Merion is the place for the|
triennial big scare. We were scared
—even the perpetrators shivered a bit
at the. awesome nature of their under-
taking—but we weré also amused. In
\fact, we laughed continuously from
half past eleven till half past one.
All seemed to enjoy the ‘seniors’
antics. The most genuinely amused
‘of all, perhaps, was she who, a scant
hour earlier, had worried as to how
she would break the news to the
“prominent junior’s” maternal ances-
tor!

_*Lest our ialeed sisters maintain
that our hilarity was engendered by a
state “bordering on hysteria,” we of-
fer them the subjective reports ‘of a
half a dozen underclassmen, ques-
tioned at random, who testified to its
sincerity. Should they want more ob-
jective evidence, we refer them to

titled “Major Symptoms of Hysteria.”

In. conclusion, one’ freshman suf-
fered gastronomical disturbances. --She
wishes, to ‘become a physician. We
offer her our sympathies. Another
had a severe attack of nostalgia.
Such attacks are notoriously chronic
among freshmen.

‘The continuance of this tradition
rests with the freshmen. If.the mem-
ber of the class who was upset influ-
ences them to drop it, that will be
Snal. We, of course, hope that three
years hence Merion scholars will once
again take their senses of humor from
their rerio wardrobes, brush
them off, Jad indulge them on Hal-
lowe’en, /

M, LV. Bergstein, 36; M. A. Gold-
wassér, 36; M. Lewis, ’87; P. Man-
ship, ’86; H. L. Ott, 86; A. R. Ray-
flor, 36; S. H. Tillinghast, ’36; M. C.
Wylie, ’36.

: ae * *
To the Editor of the College News:

Every tradition has value where it
is appreciated. That the entertain-
ing results of a tradition maintained
for a selected group of persons should
be misinterpreted and inaccurately
exaggerated by another group is a
case for treatment of self-induced
hysteria, not a case against the tra-
dition.

A. R. Raynor, ’36; S. H. Tilling-
hast, ’36; Helen Ott,.’36; Margaret
Wylie, ’36; M. Bergstein, ’36; L.
Thompson, 739; C. J. Richards, 739;
J. Quistgaard, ’88; A. C. Temple, ’39;
D. R. Peck, ’89; M. Howson, ’38;
M. E. Hemsath, ’36.

In Philadelphia

Broad: Opened last Monday, Boy
Meets Girl, with James MacColl and
Joyce Arling. Apparently’ a_ boy
meets a girl with repercussions that
rock Hollywood—which shouldn’t be
hard. Robert Sherwood’s melodrama,
The Petrified Forrest, is coming to
this theatre November 25, minus Les-
lie Howard, but plus Glenn Hunter.
Unlike most melodramas, the play
takes a good deal of acting, because it
depends for its credibility on talk.
Given the proper cast, it should be
the hit that it was in New York,

Chestnut: A new farce by John
Murray and Helen Boretz called Room
Service, starring John Litel, of Ceil-
ing Zero. The scene is laid in a New
York hotel, and the action is fast and
furious. :

Erlanger: Fly Away Home, which
opened Tuesday, is a comedy about
liberal and active children who inter-
fere in their mother’s divorce prob-
lems. Featuring Donald Brian and
Ann Deighton.

Forrest: Anything Goes opened
here Monday night, with Victor Moore
and William Gaxton, of the original
New York cast. Incidentally, it also
brings a very amusing quartet to sing
between acts, which gives the audi-
ence no time to sit back and make re-
marks,

Garrick: First Lady, starring Jane
Cowl, remains at this fheatre for the
oot of the week. THfis is considered
the most caustic of Mk. George Kauf-
man’s plays: to date tand is written
with the collaboration\ of Katherine
Dayton, a writer on ‘staff of the}
Saturday Evening Post. Beginning
ext Monday night, a second cast will

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of nal continu-







Movies
‘Arcadia: _ Hands Across the Table.

Ce oae Mnanicurist con;

tinue to convulse the ~ Philadelphia
audiences for the third week. Fred
MacMurray and Carole Lombard bear
the leading roles.

Aldine: Red Salute. This comedy
‘makes the mistake of trying to have
a political significance.
Hearst viewing the Mexican Coim-
munists with a snicker instead of the
customary alarm.

Boyd: Peter Ibbetson, a story of .

dreams and love, told in transparent
photography.

Europa: The, Blue Light, an éxéel-
lent and beautiful photoplay laid in
the Italian Dolomites.

Earle: Personal Maid, with Mar-

garet Lindsay and Anita Louise—the .

tale of a servant so efficient: that she
raises her employers from a humble
existence in a small apartment to an
important place in the society world.
Starting Friday at this theatre, Re-
member Last Night,
Arnold and Constance Cummings.

Fox: Will Rogers in In Old Ken-
tucky, a comedy

~Karlton: A Feather in Her Hat.

Keith’s: I Found Stella Parish,
with Kay Francis as an even more
heroic mother, giving up everything
for her little girl.

Palace: Hecht and MacArthur’s
Barbary Coast still running. ~

Stanley: Mutiny on the Bounty,
with Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
and Charles Laughton in the show,
which has been universally hailed as
one of the screen’s best melodramas
to date.

Stanton: - Sylvia Sydney looking
very unattractive as the unfortunate
sweetheart of a desperado in Mary
Burns, Fugitive.

Victoria: More gangsters, this
time ably led by Paul Muni, in Dr.
Socrates.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Thursday and Friday,
Shipmates Forever, with Dick Powell
and Ruby Keeler; Saturday, Wallace
Beery in O’Shaugnessy’s Boy}; Mon-
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, Broad-
way Melody of 1936, with Eleanor
Powell and Jack Benny.

Seville: Thursday, Clive Brook in
Dressed to Thrill; Friday and Satur-
day, Jane Withers in This Is the Life;
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Joan
Crawford in I Live My Life; Wednes-
day, The Dark Angel, with Merle
Oberon.

Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Joan Crawford in I Live My
Life; Sunday and Monday, Merle
Oberon in The Dark Angel. Tuesday

and Wednesday, Preston Foster in

The Last Days of Pompeii.



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Allows For May Day

Continued from Page One



volving a serious breach of the regu-
lations of the association was delib-
erated upon at length. It was felt
that the one annual meeting a year
at which the total list ofpunishments
imposed and fines collected was read
was not sufficient to bring home to the
general body of students the fact that
the Executive Board of the associ-
ation works constantly throughout the
year on matters involving violations
of the rules. Many suggestions were
made which pertained to the best
means of publicizing important actions
taken by the board. Miss Bridgman
was asked to discuss with the Execu-
tive Board .the proposal that an an-
nouncement be posted on the Self-
Government bulletin board following
the decision in an important case.
The notice would take the form of
minutes of the meeting of the board
and would simply state the offense and
the penalty imposed. .No names would
be given, of course. It was also pro-
posed that some similar notice be
placed in the College News.
Commencement is to be held this

year on Monday; and, in accordance .

with this new plan, it will be neces-
sary to have the examination period.
shortened to ten days in order that
time’ may be left after the final ex-
aminations on ‘Wednesday for the pro-
gram to be printed. Becatise of the

observance of Big May Day this year,

five days have been added to the scc-
hes semester. .





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- Mrs, Manning announced that the trus-
_tees and: directors had egiven their

consent to the increased academic
year. Miss Park told the Council

of her efforts to secure a Com-
mencement spé@aker.

She asked Sec-
retary of State Cordell Hull early
in the fall, but unfortunately he
replied .that he could not commit
himself to a definite engagement so

early. She has_since written to Mr.

Mackenzie King, Premier of Canada,
but féars that the same answer. will
come from him also. Mr. Rhoads, of
the Board of Trustees, has suggested
Mr, Vincent Massey, former United
States Minister to Canada, in the
event that Mr. King finds it impos-
sible to attend.

The great need for some sort of
separate workshop for art students
and for all others interested in crafts
work has been talked over by Miss
Park and Mrs. Collins. Both of them
feel that some place should be found
where such projects could be housed.
It ought.to be in a separate. building
of its own where large ‘and ample
space could be available and where
facilities for art work of all kinds
could be located. The May Day Room
in Goodhart was suggested as a pos-
sible place, since it no longer is need-
ed as the central office for the organi-
zation of Big May Day.

Mrs, Collins was anxious that care
should be taken not to fill the program
too greatly with entertainments and

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She ‘agreed, however, that
speakers and entertainment
must be planned for the rest of the

winter now that the Fiftieth Anni-
versary celebration is,over. The per-
formances ‘of, The afar ae
Swan: fill tkeweek-ends in December,
but January and February are quite
free. In speaking of The Messiah,
Mrs. Collins stated that as the result
of an anonymous gift to the college
covering the greater part of the ex-
penses, it will not be necessary to
charge admission to the performance
in Goodhart, which will’ be given
Tuesday, December 17. The regula-
tion of the number of guests who may
be asked is quite difficult. The pre--
sident of the Glee Club feels that all
parents of members of the club and
also a few close friends should be in-
vited, and Mrs, Collins felt that this
is only fair. The undergraduate and
graduate students will be asked as
well as the faculty. This leaves room
for only about three hundred outside
guests. ~~

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\The gaities lasted for two hours,
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v

The Poetry Ball is presented under the auspices of the Academy
of American Poets, a newly formed organization, whose purpose is to
reward great livitig poetical genius in the United States by the award of
annual fellowships. and to discover and foster such talent wherever it is

found.

Leonidoff, Radio City’s genius, will produce a fascinating pageant
—‘Great Loves in Poetry”; scenery and decorations will be by Vertes of
Paris Opera Ball fame; Howard Chandler Christie, McClelland Barclay

and other renowned artists have likewise contributed their talent to sets

or decorations.

And yet, with all its artistry, the ball should please those who like
a party. Music will be by Joe Moss. The Yale Glee Club will do some
special songs. Everyone attending should have a remarkably good time.

Tickets may be purchased from Miss Fanshawe at the Waldorf-
Astoria, or from the office of the Director of Publications, Taylor Hall, |
Tickets include supper and pageant and are $10. To
undergraduates, however, a special price of $5 will be made.

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Caaveiiee Difeate. Bryn Mawr Backs Repulse Swarthmore Caps, Gowns Originally © not an eyelash’of the dancer escaped

Varsity Hockey, 1:0



Inaccurate Shootitig In Circle
Causes First Garnet Win
In Six Years

BACKS PLAY GOOD GAME

Bryn Many, November 16.—For the





first time in s*x yetirs the hockey vaY-|

sity bowed dowrf to Swarthmore to the
tune of 1-0. The Swarthmore delega-
tion of onlookers left in triumph after
a badly ‘played game on a. slippery},
field. Prominent among the specta-

tors were a group of Haverford stu-|°

dents who cheered loudly for Bryn
Mawr.

At the o ening whistle Bevis Mawr
lost its heal fram excitement and be-
gan the game ‘with a foul, which
seemed to be a bad omen. Rallying,
however, the backs picked up Swarth-
more’s free hit and Taggart carried

to make sticks as she centered it. For
several minutes following this the
serimmage was around the 50-yard
‘line. Bryn Mawr then managed to
take the ball. back to Swarthmore’s
striking circle, but the forwards could
not approach the goal. In their tense-
ness they missed their chance for clean
hits from the edge of the circle and
were immediately surrounded by the
backs. There was so.much muddling
in front of the goal that it. was impos-
sible to get the ball through: » For
the next ten minutes the ‘ball ‘was in
and around the Swarthmore stfiking
circle, with the attacking forwards
frantically trying to score and the de-

fending backs effectively blocking)...

them. In that time eight corners were
called on Swarthmore, but Bryn Mawr
‘failed to cachh the proverbial, goal on
every corner.. Swarthmore _ finally
_took the ball out of’ the ‘confusion
“around the goal and by a series of

There was some excitement in the
Bryn Mawr sstriking circle, but
Swarthmore was unable to score, even
though two corners were called on
Bryn Mawr. The ball then returned
to Swarthmore’s end of the field and
there was more scrambling around the
goal, which resulted only in two more
corners for Swarthmore. A close call
came when the Swarthmore left wing
carried the ball down the field past
all the Bryn Mawr backs and into the
striking circle. She shot, but missed,
and the ball rolled outside. From a
bully on the 25-yard line the Swarth-
more forwards took the ball into the
circle again. The left inner shot and
E. Smith came out and kicked the ball,
which would have rolled outside.
Quick as a flash the right inner picked
it up and flicked the ball past Smith
into. the goal before she had time to
get back into position. The whistle
blew for half-time with Swarthmore
the only scorer.

The second half began with a rush
toward the Swarthmore goal. In the
striking circle Bakewell had a nice
chance to shoot, but was off-side.
During most of the half the ball was
in the Swarthmore striking circle, but
the Bryn Mawr forwards could not
seore. There seemed to be-a-jinx on
the ball. No clean hits occurred,
merely a great deal of fanning and
topping the ball. The forwards
seemed to have no push, as_ they
passed futilely to no one in particu-
lar and did not follow up their shots.
They seemed tired and nervous and
missed chance after chance to score.
The Swarthmore backs were crowded
in front of the goal so that it was
almost impossible to get through
them unless a hard, clean hit was
made as soon as the ball entered the
circle. At one point Bryn Mawr
nearly managed to score. Cary shot
and the goalie stopped the ball. Cary,
rushing it, retrieved it near the goal-
post, but her flick rolled outside. At

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the final whistle the score stood 1-0
in favor of Swarthmore.

Bryn Mawr seemed to’ go to’ pieces
in the face of the Swarthmore attack.
The forwards were taut and nervous
and had no control of ‘the ball/in the
striking circle. They could carry the
ball down the field nicely, but lost

their heads after. passing the 25-yard
line. Their hits were messy and were
not followed up properly... They had
no fight and missed chances to score
by not rushing their shots. Taggart
made some nice runs; but she waited
too long to center, so that her ‘half-
back almost invariably blocked her
drives. Hasse passed nicely in the
field, but was ineffective in the circle.
Even Cary, the mainstay of the line,
was unable to do anything with the
ball when she got it. Bakewell
Showed none of her usual shooting
ability, although she and C. Brown
exhibited some pretty passwork.
Brown,, who had little. chance to do
anything spectacular; played“ a hard,
steady game and fed her inners nicely.
The Swarthmore backs stopped the
Bryn Mawr attack, but they were not
distinguished for their clearing shots.
Although they kept the ball away
from the goal, they were not success-
ful in getting out of the circle. The

ball because of the impregnable wall
across the goal formed by the backs.
The Swarthmore forwards had little
to do, since the ball was in their
striking circle most of the time. They
showed nice passwork when they were
given the chance. The Bryn Mawr
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day, although they had much more
work in the first half than in the sec-
ond. Their shots were clean and hard;
they backed up their forwards and
gave real opposition to the opposing
team. Martin was outstanding for
her beautiful long hits and Bridgman

‘played one of the best games she has

played all season. L. Bright was. a
dependable last defense between the
Swarthmore forward line and the
goal, Only once or twice did she fail
to stop forwards who had broken away

from the other guards.

Line-up:

BRYN MAWR SWARTHMORE ~
PAM OT GS 5 is aca’ BOW tio ae Lapham
Hasse......"..... oe era ae Stubbs* |
CO. ee oe a eee Dana
Bakewell. .....-. Pda sire 94 Jackson
Beare, Cok. OMe is ws ..Newkirk
Bridgman..... ee ae . ..Harvey
MOM. isices CeO oss Passmore
NSS SCAT, GUNA BONEN Mims
ee i OT ss Patterson
Bright, Lies c:-ew ele De-- ayes ores Warren
BniGhy Wii ica Re ee cov i ve Wolcott

*Goals.

Substitute — Swarthmore: Leeper

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Latin Play Given In English
Next Monday evening several enter-
prising Latin scholars are presenting

a Latin play, The Menaechmi, by,
Plautus, in Goodhart at 8 P. M. The|

play is being given in English and is
under the direction of Dr. Agnes K.
Lake. Margaret Lacy is in charge of
the staging. The proceeds from ad-
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First Day at the Ballet ©

The impressions of the Saturday
afternoon performance of the Ballet.
Russe which we are about to set down
are those of novices... We speak it
accordance with no, standard except
our own often irratignal _ liking.
Therefore, if we offend the conven-
tions of ballet criticism, our fault is
ignorance, not intention. shee
Perhaps because it. was the first
dance on the program, the ballet, ‘‘Les
Femmes de Bonne Humeur,” seemed
the newest and strangest to us of all.
Across a bright Italian setting whirled
tiny figures (we were high in the
balcony). dressed -in.-.hoop skirts or
silken breeches of a most Parisian
elegance, That these figures ~ were
Theix
gestures were so exact, so patterned
and formal, their. antics so fantastic
and vet nonchalant, that: they migh’
have been puppets, if puppets could
move with fairy grace and lightness,
The.apparently minute scale of their
bodies was emphasized by the minute
detail of their movement. Even in
the swiftest pirouette, not a .finger,

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from perfect control or forgot its own
‘subtle gesture. __ “Les Femmes’ de
‘Bonne .Humeur” was: a_ dollhouse
‘come alive. If everyone has not seen:
“Scheherazade,” at least everyone has
‘heard about it! The gorgeous color, .
the..wild abandon,.the Arabian Nighis
atmosphere perfectly realized, all ‘this
is understood with the name of the
‘ballet. . Yet it cannot be understood
too well. The breath-taking combi-
nation of colors in the scenery and
¢ostimes would sound appalling in a
maiter-of-fac: listing; on the stage
it is magic, On seeing it, we expected.
the dancers; intoxicated with the
lisplendor, to leap-into a swift, eddy-
‘ing whirl which would not cease untt]
they could dance no longer. Instead,
ithey contented themselves at first with
forming patterns against their back-
ground by gentle movements and
‘poses. Only when the black slaves

ere let into the harem did the ecstasy
ang madness begin. The-slaves were
horribly beautiful, and their death
when the Sultan returned was hor-
ribly beautiful also. In the whole
‘ballet an element of barbaric cruelty
mingled with the richness and the
loveliness as it shia dn mingles in the
East.

“Le Beau Danube” after “Schehera-
zade” was, to our way of thinking,
dull and conventional. The setting
jwas brown and cream, the costumes
‘were. brown and _= cream. Even
Strauss’ beautiful waltz was brown
‘and cream compared to the “Schehera-
zade ‘ Suite.” We could not look at
this dancing without seeing behind
it. the, Oriental pageant which had
‘held the stage before it. So we re-
‘member the whole afternoon—‘Les
Femmes de Bonne Humeur,” “Sche-
herazade,” and’ after that—nothing
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Chinese Artist Seeks _
Essence In Abstract



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to archaic to classic to realistic styles.
In the Han period of the fifth and
sixth centuries appears the archaic
and the simple symbolic art ‘form.
In the Tang period—the seventh to the
tenth centuries of the Christian era—
the classic form emerges with its pure
and perfect but cold ideal. With the
Sung dynasty. there comes a diversity
of the ideal and an elegance and grace
that contrasts with the preceding

grandeur, combined with a tendency

away from the simple concept to a’
more involyed one. With the Mens
golian conquest of the fourteenth cen-
tury, a realism enters for the first
time. With the Ming dynasty comes
a Yenaissance of pure Chinese ele-
gance and. delicacy. The

state of realism in, attitude.
Sung Important Era
The Sung. was perhaps the most
Chinese of all the periods of painting.



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dynasty brings Chinese art to its final |
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other to an introspection. In North:
Sung of- the thirteenth century there |
arises the former in an investigation
of principles, an assimilation aid!
weighing of the past and-a reaching
toward a new philosophy.

‘is the source of that unique contribu-

tion to the understanding of even the
lowest forms of nature that distin-
guish Chinese painting. It is not an
identification of the self with nature

Every-| as in India,-but rather an effacing of

thing is organized and systematized.!all the particular differences in ma-

The great philosophic leadér of
thought at this time was Cht Tsi,
whose synthesis of’the three doctrines
of Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tse
but one aspect of the shift from inner
to outer. manifestations.

In South Sung of- the thirteenth
century there was, on the other hand,
enphasis -on introspection. Here
soi Buddhism was the predominat-

© doctrine; it taught that Buddha
was the inmost reality of the individ-
‘ual as of the universe. Thoughts
were turned inward, for only by medi-
tation could the inner nature of
things be found. This esoteric belief
in inner illumination found shoe
symbolic expression in the figure of!
Tharma hermit.
Nature Is Absolute

In this South Sung doctrine is the
clearest expression of the attitude



art. There is absolute harmonization

terial manifestation in the abstraction
of the essence. Hence arises the racial
quality of Chinese’ paintin® ail tare
unique understanding and expression
of nature.
Figure Painting Religious

The first dated paintings in Chinese
art are the reliefs on the recently dis-
covered Wu tombs of the Han dynasty
ef the second century. The inspira-
tion of Confucian doctrine led to its
representation in historical episodes,
and the“second source of inspiration,
Taoism, made for thé first time artis-
tic use of the folk material of the
masses. Even in these archaic works

the quality of rhythm which carries unified rhythm of — great



the three sources of Buddhism, Con-
fucianism and Taoism he found a fund

of symbolic material in their prin-'

ciples.

With the classic painters there is a
different realization of the figures,
Religion begins to be humanized, and
plastic form emerges. Impersonal
types are created from simple con-
cepts according to classic law and
order. A grandeur appealing to the
intellect appears in the big, solid,
voluminous forms of Wu Tao Tze
the greatest figure pa‘nter of China.
He created great wall frescoes using
powerful brush strokes. H2 was the
first to use pure brush stroke, by
which the suggestion of plasticity and
chiaroscuro are secured in subtle
graduations of line.

Complex Sung Symbolism _
Sung work shows a great change

|from the simplicity and the strictly

swirling

through all Chinese painting is as curves involving the whole painting

|pure and abstract as nature itself. which mark Tang style.

A complex-

In these early Han reliefs can also | ity of drapery_movements and a clear
be detected the origin of the delicate!

brush work which distinguishes all

of Buddhism with its wealth of gods

differentiation of many rhythms is a
s‘riking element of Sung figure paint-





ing? Art is still ideal, but there is
greater diversity. - Different brush
| strokes are used for each type of man
|and animal, and there is a new re-
latedness between the figures that
arise directly out of the change’ "in
thought of the era. The parts were
bound and interrelated by a flowing
composition; a finer handling. of depth
and of spacing.

South Sung painting finds a whole
new source of subject matter in the
great Bodi tharma hérmit. teachers.

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Chinese Artist Seeks
Essence In Abstract



Continued from Page Five

The Chan doctrine of inner illumina-
tion is symbolized esoterically in the
state of Wu. A new symbolism is in-
troduced which suppresses details and
insists on the inner. content and life
rhythm. Colors are abandoned and

‘monochrome tones” of ink and brush

alone are the means of subtle repre-
sentation.

The coming of Mongol realism
brought the folklore of the. people
again as subject matter in demons,
magicians and’ immortals. A new
realism in ‘head, drapery, plasticity |
and portrait indicates ‘the change to
a more visual approach to representa-
tion.

Elegance and refinement mark the
Ming retérn to true Chinese subtlety.
New brush strokes become stylized; a
new complexity delights in detail and
refinements of secular life. Surface
values are important and delightful
pastel colors are adopted. Here in
Ming work all the previous artistic
means are combined with rhythm and
lyrical freedom to attain new sensuous
qualities and a play of surface values
that indicate the culmination of
realism in the figure style.

_ Bird, Flower Themes Important
In the painting of bird and flower

is seen most clearly the Chinese atti-
tude toward the lower forms of life.
There is a world of difference in Chi-
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design.” With the Chinese it is the
content, the inner meaning that is of
primary importance. This goes back
to the Chinese idea of nature. To
paint a bird or a flower for the Chi-
nese is to remove oneself engj
one’s subjectivity and to ertter into the
ultimate reality, the life of rhythm,
and the absolute of the natural world.
In a world of nature completely out
of oneself one communes with nature,
and ‘does not, as with us, interpret
nature to one’s self. The Chinese
artist watches the actual life of a bird
or flower and expresses the essence of
|the whole’ life. ©

It is not until ‘the Sung period that
these flower and bird themes become
important, when great frescoes were
abandoned for small album pieces. An
icqgnography of birds and flowers arose
from natural association: winter was
the plum, the peony was summer, the
chrysanthemum was autumn. This
literary concept, too, is peculiarly
Chinese in its emphasis on content.
In Sung work there is only a sugges-
tion of background, which was not
developed into a realistic setting until
the Ming period. Some of the most
beautiful of the Sung bird and flower
paintings show for the first time the
movement of the subject or wind-
blown effects. In the South Sung
work the conception of the bird or
flower was enlarged and related to
the suggested landscape. In the pic-
ture of a crane—the symbol of the
solitary soul—the rhythm in the leg
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essential furriness is alone selected

and is ‘repeated in the furriness of the
foliage background.

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Bre"mso the most interesting phase of
development in the technique of land-
scape painting toward a realistie
visualization.
been no pure landscape: six. leaves
and a stalk would naively symbolize
in silhouette a landscape setting for
figures. Light and shade slowly came
into expression in the archaic style
until in the Tang dynasty depth in
landscape was discovered. The Tang,
in contrast to philosophic attitude
toward landscape of the Sung, had
been purely poetic in- its appreciation

grandeur in the simplest generalized
concepts.
landscape, had used different graded
tints shaded into one another to ex-
press the modelling of rocks and
mountan and to bring out the three
levels of depth which he recognized.
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**-~th and South Sung periods’

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of nature and had expressed nature’s|_

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for every type. of tree or rock were |

crystallized and landscape became a
symphonic composition and organiza-
tion of the multiple parts.

The middle distance now, as well
as the foreground and far distance,
acquires _its_.own,.motives. A :Jand-
scape scroll becomes a composition
with a moving focus, flowing in time,
of principal and secondary motives
repeated and varied as in great music.

The introspection of the South
Sung created a landscape art in which
a small aspect of nature with fewer
élements ‘tended to carry the mind of
the spectator.off into the void, from
the known to the unknown. Form was
obliterated to express the Chan ideas,
and monochrome ‘tonal wash super-
ceded pure brush stroke. Immeasur-
able distances are suggested by sim-
ple: contrasts in ink values.

Final Steps In Realism
Throughout the painting of the
Mongol supremacy there runs a new
realism, a tendency away from the
abstract, and in landscape a new space
and depth. Old traditions are com-
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the emphasis on sensuous surface
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hundreds of indications of. the last
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