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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1935—

COLLEGE

-Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1935







Pro Arté Renders

«~~ Pyeeltent Concerts;



Mr. Alwyne In Franck Quintet
Assists With Splendid Quality,
Ensemble Work



INTERPRETATION SUPERB

Goodhart Hall, Feb. 13,—The dis-
tinguished Pro Arte Quartet of Brus-
sels gave a superb performance of the.
famous Schubert Quartet in D Minor
(“The Death and the Maiden”) as the



‘opening number on the program. This

quartet, regarded as the composer’s
finest in this form, received an exqui-
site and beautifully interpreted rendi-
tion by the artists, who have been
drawing increasing audiences as the
series has progressed:

In their performance of this piece,
the quartet again reveaied those quali-
ties which have made-them justly
world-famous among ghamber music
groups for their perfection of ensem-
ble playing and the finish of their
technique. Their interpretation of
the Schubert piece brought out all

‘ the emotional as well as the exquisite

musical contents of the composition.
The work is great not only for its
beautiful melodic material and techni-
cal treatment but also for the excel-
lent balance among the four move-
ments and among the four instru-
ments. The particularly fine rendi-
tion of the variations of the ‘Death
and the Maiden” movement, the spirit
of the Scherzo, and the glorious Finale
caused the audience to recall the quar-
tet many times at the conclusion of
the piece.

The second number was a modern
work, the Quartet in F Major, of Vit-
torio Rieti, the contemporary Italian.
This piece is dedicated to the Pro
Arte Quartet, which is renowned for
its championing of the cause of the
moderns and the ultramoderns. The
Pro Arte revealed once again their
great ability to render the moderns at
their best in this quartet in the. dia-
tonic scale. The second movement, a
finely written Nocturne for the muted
strings, was particularly outstanding
both from the side musical content
and superb performance.

For the last number the Brahms
quartet in C Minor, op. 51, No. 1, was
substituted for the Stravinsky pieces

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Literary Digest Poll
Gives College Opinion



The semi-final returns of the Col-
lege Peace Poll conducted by The
Literary Digest contain answers by
more than 90,000 students from-115
American colleges and universities.
On the question of entrance into the
League of Nations,—an issue which
has received more attention since
the Senate’s vote against entry into
the World Court, the vote was about
evenly split! 57 colleges voted for
entry, 57 against it, while the vote
in one was tied. 50.17 per cent of
the total vote was cast in favor of
United States entrance, while 49.83
per cent was against it. In most of
the individual colleges the vote was
also fairly evenly divided, but Bryn

.Mawr recorded 114 votes for en-

trance and 52 against it. A sitnilar
poll is being conducted in Great Bri-
tain, and 97.per cent of the votes
already cast advocate the League.
The colleges decided by a vote of
2 to 1 that the United States could
stay out of another war. Bryn
Mawr was less unanimous in its

opinion, since its vote went 84 that

war could be avoided and 83 that
it could ‘not.

By. far the majority, 83.60 per
cent, voted for fighting if the United
States were invaded. Since, how-
ever, the votes were negative by the
same per cent on the question of
bearing arms if the United States
were the invader, we may conclude
that the colleges as a whole are
pacifistically inclined. Bryn Mawr
voted 104 to 55 to bear arms in de-
fense of the United States, while 140
out of 160 votes negatived the policy

’ Continued on) Page Three



A. E. Newton Will Speak on Novels

Mr. A.’ Edward- Newton~is~ coming
to the Deanery on Thursday evening,
February 28, to lecture on The Devel
opment of the English Novel. Mr.
Newton, famous as a raconteur, is
well qualified to Speak on the English
he . has
gained in writing and collecting books.

novel from the knowledge

He owns a library of about 10,000
books, many of which are first editions
of important English works. He is
also known as a frequent contributor
to the Atlantic Monthly and other
current magazines, and as the author
of the very humorous A Tourist in
Spite of Himself, the play, Doctor
Johnson, and The Greatest Book in
the World and Other Papers, This
Book Collecting Game, and End
Papers.



Difficulty, of Giving |
- Big May Day Shown

Mrs. Manning Explains Need
of Making Full Preliminary
Arrangements =,

INFIRMARY FEE RAISED

Goodhart, Feb. 14—Dean Manning
announced in Chapel that the new
plan for the Infirmary, which was out-
lined in last week’s News, is to be put
into operation. ‘This plan provides for
an increase in the Infirmary fee and
a consequent increase in the privileges
of sick students. Mrs. Manning also
announced that we will definitely not
be able to give Big May Day this
year for the benefit of the Million
Dollar Drive, as has been discussed,
because we lack a competent director
to organize it. ‘.

By the new Infirmary plan, studénts
will pay a five-dollar increase in the
fee; for this, they will be able to
spend a week in the Infirmary free ‘of
charge, instead of the four days un-
der the old system, and the charges
after that will *be three dollars a day.
Other charges will be cut down. This







may be considered a sort of health in- |.

surance. In the first diagnosis, Dr.
Sharpless, as experienced and _ well-
known a physician as any in the neigh-
borhood, consults with Dr. Leary. Af-
ter that, a specialist is called in on
the case, and his charges, of course,
are paid by the student The Infirm-
ary fee for this year has been in-
creased by four dollars. The non-resi-
dent students are to pay five dollars
for medical care in the dispensary.
They may also stay in the Infirmary
for a day or a night, if it happens to
be convenient for them.

Often alumnae and students have
resented the Infirmary fee. We must
regard it, first, as health insurance,
providing us» with physicians and
nurses, and second, as the fee of a

Continued on Page Three



College Calendar

Wednesday, February 20. Pro
Arte Quartet Concert. Ameri-
can program. 8.30 P. M. Good-
hart.

Thursday, February 21.
Sheila Kaye-Smith on Pioneer
Women Novelists. 8.20 P. M.
Goodhart.

Friday, February 22. Profes-
sor Alfred C. Lane on The Age
of the Earth. Illustrated by
lantern slides. 8.20 P. M. Music
Room.

Saturday, February 23. Var-
sity Basketball Game vs. Phila-

delphia Cricket Club. 10.00
Freshman Show, National.

‘Recovery Act. 8.20 P. M. Good-
hart.

Sunday, February 24. Sun-
day Evening Services conduct-
ed by Canon Edrp. 7.15 P”M.
Music Room. -

Monday, February 25. Mr.
and Mrs. Jean Piccard on Ex-
periences on a Stratosphere
Flight. 8.80 P. M. Goodhart.
- Thursday, February 28. A.
Edward Newton on The Devel-
opment of the English Novel.
8.30 P. M. Deanery.





Bryn Mawr Dig Given

Sites for - Excavation



Traces: of Early Cilicjan Culture
Found in Mounds ‘at Tarsus

and Kardaduvar



EARLY PERIOD STUDIED



The expedition to Cilicia in. Asia

Minor which is being made by Bryn].

Mawr. College, the Archaeological In-
stitute of America, and Harvard Uni-
versity, has just been granted two
very important through the
courtesy of the Turkish Government
and of Dr. Hamit Subeyr Di-
rector General of Antiquities for. the

sites
Bey,

whole of Turkey. The sites are Tarsus

and Karaduvar, Tarsus was the larg.

ast town in Cilicia in the third. and
second century B. C., and was also
famous at the time of St. Paul in the
first century A. D.; Karaduvar is sup-

posedly the site of ancient Anchiale,
and lies near the sea, not far from
the harbor of Mersina. The Assyrian
King Sennacherib is said to have sei
up in ancient Anchiale a stele com-
memorating his conquest of Cilicia.

It is the hope and intention of the
expedition to carry on work in Cilicia
for some time to come and to make
a thorough study, on the basis of arch-
aeological material, of its culture and
history, with especial emphasis on the
early periods. The early periods are
at present practically unknown, as up
to now no archaeological field work
has been carried on in this region, In
all, observations have been made and
pottery collected on forty-two Cilician
mounds by the expedition.

The mound of Karaduvar lies near
the coast between Tarsus and Mer-
sina. It is about half the length of
the Tarsus mound, but of almost equal
height, and is undoubtedly of great
importance. . It is undisturbed, and
pottery of Mycenean type, both im-

/ported and of local manufacture, has

been found in it.

Soundings were started on ~ the
mound of Dua Tepe, which is at the
southwest corner of the city of Tar-
sus. Dua Tepe is twice as big as any
other mound in the Cilician plain, and
the greater number of the ’ Cilician
mounds are less than one-third its
size. The western end of Dua Tepe
has been cut down to provide a level
space for a modern school building,
and in the cutting it is possible to see
strata which date from Roman to
early prehistoric times. Tarsus, ac-
cording to ancient. records, was the
capital of Cilicia in the second cen-
tury and possibly earlier. To exca-
vate it thoroughly would be an ex-
pensive and prolonged undertaking,
but undoubtedly if there were writ-
ten records and government archives,
they would have been located in
Tarsus.

In taking the. soundings at Tar-
sus, the trench on the summit was
sunk in a disturbed area, but the gen-
eral succession of ceramic stules could
nevertheless be determined. For the
first time Arabic material was found.
Part of a villa was uncovered: The
pottery| consisted of thin-walled clay
vessels with impressed designs and
lead-glazed wares. A second trench
was dug at the steepest point on the
side of the hill, and here in a small
but completely undisturbed area a
depth of some 14 meters was reached.
The town of the Greek period found
in this trench produced pottery of the
Cypriote Iron Age, and at the lowest
level red polished ware with white-
filled incision and-black slipped ware,
both strongly reminiscent of the early
and middle Bronze Age of Cyprus,
were discovered. The Mycenean per-
iod was again represented by a single

‘l vase and a fragment of another, this

Continued on Page) Three



Garden Party Decision
The class of 1935 has voted
not to give Garden Party this
‘year. Instead, a tea will be giv-
en in the Deanery, to which the
faculty, parents and friends will
be invited.











Freshman Show Committee

This year’s Freshman Show is to
be a musical comedy, National Recov-
ery Act. Its plot sounds most in-
triguing: the Old Ladies’ Home kid-
nap a young Junior League member
and force her. to procure for'them th.
They.
plan to find the elixir of youth, and
eventually do so, with very amusing
results. ;
The author and director is Huldah
Cheek. The assistant director is Mary

noney for a trip to Florida.

Whalen. The heads of the various
committees are:
Properties: Whalen and Walker.
Lights: Webster.
Costumes: Bryan.

Dancing: ‘Mann.

Song: Shepard.

Construction: Shurcliff.
Publicity: Fales and Bingham.
Posters: Chase. ;



Madame Sikilianos
Tells Plans for Play

- " eeita ya
Her Presentation of Bacchai of

Euripides Is Differentiated ~
by Stressing Chorus





MUSIC WOULD BE MODAL



Deanery, Feb. 14. — Madame Sikili
anos (Bryn Mawr, 1900) spoke to the
students interested in the possibilities
of a college presentation .of The
Bacchai of Euripides, which is being
considered in connection with the Mil-
lion Dollar Drive. Madame Sikilianos
is one of the authorities on Greck
tragedies and has been reviving their
presentation in Greece for many
years. Her special interest lies in
the chorus, which she wants to de-
velop as a protagonist in the drama.
In Greek plays, particularly in their
choruses, she feels that the Platonic
unity of poetry, music, and gymnas-
tics finds expression.

Beginning with a brief summar)
of the traditional presentation of a
Greek play, Madame Sikilianos point
ed out that it is the actors who are
usually emphasized. The chorus has
been a rather mechanical affair, 12 to
15 people divided into two groups, and
has done no acting. The music, if
there has been any, was not connected
either with the thought of the play or
with Greek musical theory. In her
work at Delphi, where she now lives,
Madame Sikilianos has tried to make
the chorus. the “exciting center” of
the play. The traditional conception
of a chorus of 12 to 15 people has only
one source, apparently,—the 12 old
mén' who speak in the Ayamemnon of
Aeschylus, whereas:a large chorus of

Continued on Page Four



New Literary Trends
Stress Subjectivity



Oldér Authors Follow Tradition,
While Modern School Drifts
Away From Realism



WORK LACKS .MEANING

Deanery, Feb. 18 —: Mr. Desmond
MacCarthy, prominent English writ-
er and critic, described the Literary
Climate in England at
Moment as “rather foggy,” like. her
weather, He pointed out that in giv-
ing the “psychological map” of creat-
ive literature for the past 10 or 15
years it is most important to consider
the enormous effects of the war. All
changes in art are caused by changes
in beliefs and: morals, and the disil-



lusionment of young England after”

the peace treaty destroyed their re-
spect for authority in all fields, in-
cluding that of literature. In both
prose and poetry this has resulted in
a drift away from realism to extreme
subjectivity and efforts to “put moods
under the microscope.” The writers
of England in the past decade or so
fall into two groups; older men who

‘had reached their stride before the

war and so are out of touch with the
post-war generation, and the younger
group of authors and poets, repre-
sented by Huxley, Woolf, Eliot, and
Joyce.

Mr. MacCarthy began with a brief

discussion of the older literary men,
Galsworthy, Bennett, Shaw, and
Wells, who have continued since the
war along their old lines. It is not
the methods but the relevance of their
criticism which has changed. Gals-
worthy still presides “like a_ kindly
magistrate” over the social scene, but
he is less at home than formerly. His
calm verdicts on the young are beside
the point, while his irony about the
older generation seems obvious and in-
adequate. His theme,—the philistine,
middle-class backbone of England—is
no longer apropos, sinée this class has
lost its self-confidence.
' Probably Arnold Bennett’s pre-war
novels, Clayhanger. and Old Wives’
Tale, are his best works, but his post-
war stories, Riceyman Steps, Pretty
Lady, and others, also show his excel-
lent literary characteristics. These
books are still as honést and full of
minute details as before, but he illus-
trates post-war emancipation by dis-
cussing sex relations
freedom.

H. G. Wells remained unchanged
by the war. He was a “thermometer
under the public tongue’’ because of
his intense emotional receptivity. It
is this characteristic which has en-

Continued on Page Five



Hygiene Examination Reveals Air Explodes
in Lungs, Cow Is Given Against Small Pox



The hygiene examination this year
produced a great amount of charming-
ly expressed misinformation. Many
things are made clear to us, such as
why old women dye their hair and
wear absurd clothes, how best use may
be made of a cow, and what happens
to oxygen in the body. These are
things we have always wanted to
know, and to have them expressed so
lucidly and attractively pleases us
immensely. For the benefit of all hy-
giene students, past, present and fu-
ture, we publish below a list of defini-
tions and explanations which enable
one to pass the course.

The lungs provide a: place for the
gases to operate. The oxygen we
breathe: passes through the veins, a
complicated network, and eventually
explodes, becoming carbon dioxide.

The lungs are two bags connected
with the body by tubes, the trachea
and the brachea. A relatively simple
organ. . my

The lungs are bag-like structures
within our diaphragms.

Projection is a mental mechanism

devised to avoid something you don’t|.

like. It-is most easily seen in babies
when they push away something’ they
don’t like. -

Projection is when the eggs from
the female ovary are thrown into the



abdominal cavity, from there passed
on to the fallopian tube, and, if fer-
tilized, imbedded at last in the lutein
walls of the uterus.

Regression is deliberately forgetting
things that happened long ago, and
the result is strange phobias.

In adult infantilism the individual
has either grown physically and not
mentally, or when grown up likes to
affect youth,—the kind of thing that
makes old women dye their hair, wear
absurd clothes, etc.

The defense reactions of the body
against injury are:

(a) inflammation

(b) fever

(c) increased production of white
blood cells

(d) bacteria

One is vaccinated against smallpux
by giving one cow.

Menstruation occurs to permit fe-
male ovas to be fertilized by the male
sperm.

The insulin gland which is in the ab-
domen produces insulin.

The pancreatic gland produces in-
sulin. This is roughage. It goes down
through the intestinal track:

The pineal gland produces insulin
which enables men and women to bear

children.

the present.

petaneoaunc asta

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Examination Schedule

We hail with delight the steps taken by the curriculum committee
toward the abolition of scheduled quizzes and toward the consideration
of a reading period, which are announced in last week’s News. Both
the faculty and undergraduate curriculum committees have always
shown great interest in the complaints of the undergraduates ‘which
arise from a maladjustment of work, and we hope that a satisfactory
solution to the problem of scheduled quizzes may be found through the
proposed vote to be taken in each class. We wish to point out that if
scheduled quizzes are abolished in heavy reading courses, it will still
be possible and highly desirable for the faculty’ to impose reading
quizzes at the end of definite sections of the work. In this: way the
class will be required to keep up with the reading, and will have the
satisfaction of feeling at regular intervals that it has finished certain
parts of the course. The continuity of the course will thus become
much clearer,than it is under the present system of arbitrarily imposed
quizzes.

We also wish to bring to the attention of the. curriculum committee
the question of spacing examinations that require an unusual amount
of studying, so that they will not be contiguous. We believe that Minor
History, First Year History of Art, Sophomore English, First Year
Psychology, First Year Economics, and First Year Biology, Geology,
Chemistry and Physies, require more last-minute studying and hasty
attempts to finish the especially heavy reading than the average course,
and we wish that examinations in these courses could be so spaced that
at least one or two days could intervene.

In the last midyear period, History of Art was followed by Biology,
and Sophomore English and Minor History came on successive days.
Since all of the above-mentioned courses are taken by a large propor-
tion of the students, and singe many of them are frequently taken in
conjunction (i. e., Sophomore English and one of the Sciences, plus
Minor History or History of Art), we feel that the burden of the
examination period would be considerably lightened if the examina-
tions in these courses could be rescheduled at wider intervals. It also
seems a pity that for the last two examination periods, the Freshman
English examination has been scheduled for the final day of examina-
tions. No other course is taken universally by an entire class, and we
wish that, if possible, the Freshman class in toto should not have to
stay in college until the very last day. “.



Garden Party

By the time we get to be Seniors (or even Freshmen, Sophomores,
or Juniors) we begin to feel that we are living examples of the “survival
of the fittest” theory of life. For four long years we preface every
hope and every resohition with an “If I ever eraduate” and toward
the last of those years we fasten our imaginations on the hour when
we will say, “Thank you, Miss Park,” and emerge, a glorified Bryn
Mawr girl. That done, we plan to rush into the arms of our adoring
families and friends. We feel that after looking forward to Com-

mencement for such long years we should have a gala graduation
Garden Party was the occasion designed to celebrate our gradua-
As such it became a tradition, and the one social event of Com-
mencement Week. It is on these grounds that we are sorry to hear
1935’s decision against the giving of any Garden Party at all this
Spring, with the substitution of a Deanery tea on a suger seale than
Garden Party.
We may object to Garden Party because by the pe Senior-to-a-
tree arrangement the groups become stationary and sit by their trees
and never get to see anybody else” We may
‘of modesty—because we do no
and wreaths and stalks of flowers under our trees. But we cannot
forget that Garden Party became the traditional and the éne social
event of Commencement Week, the equivalent of all of the Commence-
ment Week proms, teas, and: garden parties that other colleges have.
It ranked as one of the most beautiful and most pleasant college tradi-
tions. The college itself is lovely in late Spring and Garden Party
was for Seniors, and prospective Seniors, the one party to which they
could invite their families, their outside friends, and their undergradu-

ate acquaintances.

- If we do not want the usual Garden Party, we at the same time
are foregoing a great deal when we change to an indoor tea to which a
limited number of people may be asked. We feel that an informal
Garden Party in Wyndham Gardens, for example, would eliminate the
usual Garden de probiene and give us an outdoor partg« to whieh

tion.



WIT’s END|





THEY,.FOLDED THEIR TENTS

The. Greeks stood on the grassy
green
In most artistic dress.
They stood upon the grassy green
And moved not to express.

The Greek looked baffled at the
Greeks ;
And said, “Move as you feel;”
The Greeks replied with screams. and
shrieks,
- And fled the spot piecemeal,



%
WOMAN EXUDES HATE AND
OUSTS SQUIRREL PETS.
—RHerald Trib.
Lady, pick on something your own
size! A bull, maybe.



A PROTESTATION

Why don’t we d&
The Miracle?

Why can’t we put on
Calvacade? ,

Let’s buy the rights of
Cleopatra!

Then our fortunes would be
made! |

But hear me, oh ye

great white powers,
Can you cease a moment?

I wish to speak.
If I’ve got to be Persian

or Hindoo

or Turkish,

Damn it all,

I’d rather be

Greek.
—Dying Duck.

9

NO MEN ADMITTED
Freshman in the freshman show
Wears what below and what above
her?
Seems to us this year a blow
That the damsel need recover.



AMBITION
Oh I wish that I
Were famous,
Really famous,
Then you’d see

How I’d ‘hold
The English majors
Spellbound in
The Deanery.
—Lazy Loon.



THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
I am not an aesthete,
I am not a modern..
My inner life is not complete, “
For I don’t understand.

This new age is baffling me,
I must be a rebel,

I suspect some perjury
When aesthetes understand.

Patterns, patterns are the style,

In novels and Greek chorus.
What’s a pattern? They but smile,
While I don’t understand.

Woeful, woeful must she be,

Out of her generation,

Who fails, completely fails to see
What her fellows understand.



WHAT NEXT?
“This place ain’t what it used to be,”
A worried student said to me.
“The good old days are gone, alas!
Now all we want to do is pass.
Our clothes are really getting neater,
Each Freshman class is more petiter.
The atmosphere is placid now,—
No campus figures raise a row.
Life’s. pleasant, but we need some
zip,—
Some genii who’ll ‘let ’er rip!’”
‘ —Dissatisfied.



O TEMPORA!

S|How long, O modern novelist,
like the custom of strewing large baskets,

How long will you with pen insist
The modern_love-begotten tot
Is now.no more a Hottentot?



ING POOH TO THE HOI-POLLOI
ein, Stein, Gentleman Joyce,
Pine, pine, raise a sad voice!
You are too obscure for most
Readers of the Saturday Post.



When Greek meets Greek
Say, 9 they speak?



Ah, no; they only gesture

With hands and feet

Irom drape and: pleat *
Of an aesthetic vesture.



Dear Reader, we must be off.
Cheerio—
THE MAD HATTER.



BOOK REVIEW

I read V.. Sackville-West’s Dark
Island because it was new; the next
night I read an old book just because
it was old. An antidote is urgently
required by over three hundred pages
all about people either extraordinarily
dangerous or extraordinarily dull who
spend theimtime in killing each other’s
souls and waiting for an ominous,
charmed disaster which never mate-
rializes. To make matters worse, The
Dark Island is broken into four inco-
herent parts, and these are written in
a manner consciously uneven and art-
fully wise which seems to have been
employed for the sake of the air it
imparts rather than. to convey any
mood or embody any rhythm. : It has
the effect of surveying its - reader
through a lorgnette.

The Dark Island is a ‘lovely name,
and the island of Storn is a lovely,
fantastic place. In her descriptions of

its still pine groves, its secret bays, |'

and its ruddy castle, the author writes
smoothly and beautifully until she
makes the mysterious, cruel enchant-
ment of it credible and even real. She
states that it is the motivating force
of three souls and obviously intends
it as the protagonist of her book. But
in bringing its influence from its own
quiet darkness into the violent lives
of men and women, she fails complete-
ly. .Their passions, which should
spring from Storn and remain sub-
ject to it, blot it out. instead, and
the book degenerates into an ordi-
nary story of human emotion.

It degenerates into less than that,
for, because Storn, which should have
provided the key to every character,
is eclipsed, the emotion becomes eith-
er inexplicable or inconsequential. In
the beginning there is Shirin, a pre-
cocious, provocative girl of sixteen,
with a love of Storn in her heart and
a determination to keep her heart to
herself. Then occurs one of the divi-
sions of the book, and Shirin next
appears ten years older and a gay
divorcee, although still untouched by
life, still keeping her heart to herself
and Storn in it. Since in all this time
she has not seen the island, nor sought
even in one wish to possess it, and
since a great many things have hap-
pened to her, whether they “touched”
her or not, it is difficult to believe that
her love for the island is her whole
soul, Yet when she meets its lord, she
marries him for it; and when he sav-
agely tells her it can only e his, he
“kills” her soul with this one blow.
At this point intervene another ten
years which end with Shirin still on
Storn and apparently exercising all
her faculties in spite of her dead soul.

Her husband, Sir Venn le Breton,
is another lover of Storn. He is
cruel, puerile, wild, and weak. He is
also brave, sensitive, and a poet. That
he could be cruel from love of his is-
land and from sympathy with its own
dark cruelty, is cqmprehensible, but
that he should be cruel in such petty,
vulgar ways is beyond understanding.
Why he faces death without a qualm
in one chapter and then cries for fear
of it in another, is never quite clear,
nor is it clear why he can be almost
simultaneously wise and silly. Mere
fits of temper or varying moods are
inadequate causes. Nevertheless, no
others are revealed.

The Dark Island does not fulfill its
promises. Whenever Shirin, Venn, old
Lady le Breton, or Storn itself, is de-
scribed, it is intimated that danger
is brewing. From page to page, the
explosion of these carefully lighted
bombs seems more and more imminent,
yet they never explode. At the end,
it is true, Venn does murder Shirin’s
only friend, thus “killing her soul’ for
the second time, but this murder is so
commonplace and ugly that it cannot
balance all the dark foreboding, all
the lovely siren menace which heralds
it.. Other elements with potentialities
for fierce action are introduced and
never developed at all. And the whole
book itself does not live up to the
promise of its name. or the spirit of
its dark island. NORD 2 Fs OF



we could invite as many people as we wanted. Wyndham Gardens are
exceptionally beautiful in late Spring, and they have the great advan-
tage of not having any rows of trees to which we can attach our flowers

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‘ IN PHILADELPHIA



Theatres
Broad: Edith Barrett continues ,in
the title role of Mrs. Moonlight, one
of those sentimental, charming plays
for people who like them that way.

Forrest: Mary of Scotland, with
Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale. and
Pauline Frederick, begins its third and
final week. If you don’t know or don’t
cadre that Elizabeth and Mary never
did meet, as they do in the play,
you'll love it.

Garrick: We have here an open-
ing, for one week only! Times Have
Changed, Louis Bromfield’s.. adapta-
tion of Edouard . Bourdet’s French
play, with the locale changed to New
England, presents Cecilia Loftus
among others. It is,. we gather, a
Dep ion play, all about the effects
of the economic and social changes
of the last few years on a typical
family. We wouldn’t mind hearing
the last of the Depression, but we fear
that it comes like a gift from Heaven
to the playwrights.

Orchestra
Gliick’s Opera (in French),
Iphigenie in Aulis
Alexander: Smallens conducting.



Movies

Aldine: Leslie Howard in The Scar-
let Pimpernel continues, thanks to
the powers that. be, for a second week.
If you haven’t seen it already, you
will have -heard enough to go in self-
defense, and if you have, nothing will
restrain you from going again!

Arcadia: The movie version of a
swell book, The Lives of a Bengal
Lancer, and not a bad movie version

at that. Gary Cooper and Franchot
Tone are in it.
Boyd: After Office Hours, with.

Constance Bennett and Clark Gable.
We wouldn’t call it anything very spe-
cial. ;

Earle: Ricardo Cortez and Mary

Astor in “I Am a Thief. Same as
above.
Fox: This is the last straw! We

have here Shirley Temple and Lionel
Barrymore in The Little Colonel! The
inimitable Shirley all dressed up in
a soldier’s uniform,_marehing—gal-
lantly before Grandfather’s doting
gaze, is just one too many for us.

Locust: Another very, very swell
movie: George Arliss in The Iron
Duke, based on the: life of Wellington.
The Duchess of Richmond’s ball on
the eve of Waterloo, the battle itself,
and the events that followed are all
dépicted in the most approved man-
ner by an absolutely superb cast, in-
cluding Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ware-
ing, and A. E. Matthews.

Keith’s: David Copperfield, anoth-
er movie that you’ll spend your life
regretting if you don’t get to see it.

Karlton: Enchanted April hits the
movies at last, with Ann Harding
being enchanted. It is the story of a
Romance renewed in southern climes,
beneath the springtime moon of Italy.

Roxy-Mastbaum: Living on Velvet,

{with Kay Francis and George Brent.

Another pot-boiler in our midst.

Stanley: Sweet Music, with Rudy
Vallee, Helen Morgan and Ann
Dvorak. Worth seeing if you like our
beloved Helen Morgan.

Stanton: Jean Parker and Russel
Hardie, in Sequoia. We really can’t
imagine what Sequoia is.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed., Warner Baxter
and Myrna Loy in Broadway Bill;
Thurs. and Fri., The Man Who Re-
claimed His Head, with Joan Bennett,
Lionel Atwill, and Claude Rains; Sat.,
Wallace Beery in The Mighty Bar-
num; Mon. and Tues., Ann Harding
and Robert Montgomery in Biography
ofa Bachelor Girl; Wed., Zane Grey’s

flome. on the Range.

Seville: Wed., Limehouse Blues,
with George Raft and Jean Parker;
Thurs, FT. and Sat., Will Rogers in
County Chairman; Mon: and Tues.,
Behold My Wife, with Sylvia Sidney

and Gene Raymond; Wed. and Thurs.,
“Here Is My Heart, with Bing Crosby

and Kitty Carlisle.

Wayne: Will Rogers in County
Chairman; Thurs., Fri. and Sat., Here
Is My Heart, with Bing Crosby and
Kitty Carlisle; Mon., Tues. and Wed.,
Imitation of Life, with Claudette
Colbert.



Exactly 302 members of the Yale
University (New Haven, Conn.) fac-
ulty in 1934 made contributions to 55
books and 780 articles and_ reports, -
in virtually



every journal in the world.




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Page Three





Noratiata Swamped
by Score of 59-17



Accuracy. of Forward Shots,
Excellent Work of Guards
Are Phenomenal



SECOND TEAM WINS 30-10

Bryn Mawr} Feb. 17.—We ‘have a
basketball team at last!—and not nec-
essarily because Varsity swamped
“Moravian 59-17 on Saurday morning,
but -béecause the first half proved that
Bryn. Mawr Has a team in top: form
for cé-operation and good sound play-
ing. .

The fine work of the guards kept

the play almost entirely in home 'ter-
ritory, and in the first half especially,
the passing and accuracy of the for-
wards was quite phenomenal. The
centers still seem to be a bit ragged
and hardly up to the standard which
» they have maintained fairly steadily
in practice, in particular the passing
to the forwards. This may, however,
«be merely a momentary weakness.in a
team which, if it can keep up the pace,
will certainly show its heels to any
team Rosemont can produce.

The line-up was as foiiows:

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Goals — Moravian: Hinkle, 10;
Pock, 7, Bryn Mawr: “Raeth, 24;
Larned 25.

Unfortunately, the second team

game left us in a far different mood.
The team seemed absolutely unable to
get any passes through or to get any-
where near_a basket. The centers
were fairly consistent in passing to
the forwards, but more often than not
the ball. was thrown out of bounds
because of traveling. Fortunately, the
Moravian team seemed ‘to ‘be in as
much of a daze as we were, and the

Bryn Mawr guards managed to pre-|

vent already erring aim from main-
taining any-lead.-It got so bad in the
third quarter, when the score stood
8-8 for several minutes, that substi-
tutions were sent in at forward in an
attempt to find some combination that
could work together. Finally, Seckel
was taken out of the center and put
in as Maynard’s running mate, and
from then on, the game was ours.
Seckel placed 14 points in the last five
minutes of play—and the gallery col-
lapsed with relief.

The line-up was as follows:

Moravian (30) Bryn Mawr (10)

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Farquiahar ..... SOs cera Seckel
Liebfried -.;..... Pie Little
Wagner s.r li Be acces Evans

Substitutions — Moravian: Moses
for Roberts, Croutharnel for Far-
quahar. Bryn Mawr: Bakewell for

Baker, Jackson for Seckel, Seckel for
Bakewell.

Goals — Moravian:
Hetzel, 8. Bryn Mawr:
14; Seckel, 14; Baker, 2.

Buchecker, 2;
Maynard,



Fencing Meets Are Scheduled

The following is a_ schedule of
Fencing Meets for the year:

Thursday, Feb. 28 — Try-outs for
places on the Bryn Mawr _ Senior
Team.

Monday, March 4—Bryn Mawr Sen-
ior Team vs. Sword Club of Phila., in
the gym at 8.00. ;

Thursday, March. 7--Bryn Mawr
Senior Team vs. Fencers’ Club of New
York. This will be followed by an
exhibition. with sabres and epées. In
the gym at 8.00.

Monday, March 11—Junior Fencing
Championship.

Thursday, March 14—Bryn Mawr
Junior Team vs. Shipley School Sen-
ior Team at Shipley at 3.00. Bryn
Mawr Senior Championship in the
gym at 8.00. This will be the final
meeting of the fencing class for the
year.

It is expected that the College will
give its support to the meet with the
Fencers’ Club of New York by attend-
ing in full force. It is a rare privi-
lege for us to entertain this distin-
guished group, amd, moreover, they
are being. kind enough to pay their
own expenses.



Advertisers in this paper are relia-
ble merchants. “Deal with them. ,

Bryn Mawr. .



Bryn Mawr Club Lowers
Undergraduate Rates



The Bryn Mawr Club of New: York
announces the reduction of undergrad-
uate membership dues from $5.00 to
$2.50. The privilege of joining at this
new low rate has been extended until
October 1, 1935. It is hoped that
many undergraduates will avail them-
selves of this unusual opportunity.
There is no initiation fee.

The privileges of the club include
the use.of the dinirig room, club rooms,
thé bedrooms, the library, the guest,
squash and riding privileges and the
club entertainments. Undergraduate
members are urged to make the club
their meeting place when in New
York. Because the dues are so low,
undergraduate members may extend
guest privileges to other undergradu-
ates only for the use of the club and
dining rooms, but not for the use of
the bedrooms. The Bryn Mawr Club
is included in the college list of places
where undergraduates may stay un-
chaperoned.

For further information apply to
Miss. Diana - Morgan, Pem~ West,
Chairman of the Undergraduate Mem-
bership Committee, or to Mrs. John C.
Juhring, Jr., Chairman of the Mem-
bership Committee of the Bryn Mawr
Club.



Students in Europe

Lead Outdoor Life

Mr. D. B. Watt Outlines Plans!
For Combining Study, Travel
and Camp Life





TOUR TAKES TEN WEEKS



Common Room, Feb, 12—Mr. Don-
ald B. Watt, director of the Experi-
ments in International Living, spoke
recently of his plans for the coming
summer and showed moving pictures
taken in previous summers. Eight or
ten groups of American boys and girls
15 years of age and over will sail on
June 26 next summer to England,
France and Germany for ten weeks
of study, travel and out-door life.
They will live in the houses of young
people of the same age and as far as
possible of the same interests, and
travel with boys and girls of the re-
spective countries. The first month
in France and Germany they will pass
in towns, spending. their mornings
learning from expert language profes-
sors how to speak and think easily in
French and German. For the first
month the afternoons are passed in bi-

cycling about the country and in train- |

ing for the second more strenuous
month.

‘ The German groups make the pas-
sage to Europé via: the Hamburg-
American Line, the English via an
English line and the French groups
go.on French boats. ° Everyone’ goes
third class. Mr. Watt showed pictures
of the German group singing folk-
songs with the German sailors and
making up for lack of deck space by
swimming, dancing and playing three-
deep tag. This is the favorite game of
both high school and college groups.
On the boat everyone does language
exercises and discusses practical liv-
ing in the country he is to visit. The
German group spends three weeks in
Hildsheim, ‘Backnang and Freiburg,
three towns chosen for the beauty of
the surrounding country-side. Then
with their German friends, they make
a week’s bicycle trip to Oberammer-
gau and Munich, staying at the Stu-
dents’ Inns. The German government,
by keeping up these inns, still en-
ables poor students to do the tradi-
tional amount of traveling in their
native country. Then they make a
trip down the Danube in folding boats,
resembling Eskimo kayaks, swimming
and picnicking along the way. They
spend the nights in quaint old Aus-
trian inns three or four hundred years
old. The last three;weeks are passed
hiking in the Austrian Alps with boys
and girls from Vienna. The trip cul-
minates with a long climb high into
the mountains. In Austria, a famous
group of village folk-dancers give the
Americans lessons in their art.

’ The French groups do much more
camping for there are no student inns
in France. After a few days in Paris,
they go to Bourges near Geneva.
They make their camping trip on bi-
cyles along the Loire valley in the
beautiful chateau country. They sleep
in pup-tents, wash in rivers and at

town pumps, and eat picnic fashion.



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Art Exhibits
Durifig the next semester a

series of art exhibits will be

held in the Common. Room. |

From now. until March 1, thére |

will be on exhibit a collection of

paintings by Janice Thompson.
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During the whole of the second month,
only five nights are spent in hotels.
Naturally only a minimum amount of
equipment can be carried. This is not
a sight-seeing trip, but oc¢asionally ja
visit is made to a chateau or a ca-
thedral.’ Camping in France is real-
ly very easy, said Mr. Watt., This
trip, tod, culminates in a motiitain
climb—a 3-day trip up a 13,000-foot
mountain to the southeast of Grenoble.
Not everyone gets up pagt the 8,000-
foot cabin, but last summer }2> peo-
ple, including one girl, made the top,
A two-day bicycle ride follows, over
one of the highest passes in France.
The second day is a continuous coast
right into Grenoble.

There will be two groups in Eng-
land next year. The northern.one will
have York as a base and will bicycle
along the Roman wall and hike ‘in
Scotland. The southern one will ride
in Cornwall and hike in Wales,

Each group of fifteen will be direct-
ed by one woman and one man* Quali-
fications for inclusion will include a
year’s study of German or French or
its equivalent in special study. The
cost is $400 for those under 19 years
of age and $450 for those over 19.
About: $50 for spending money is
necessary. .



Bryn Mawr Dig Given

Sites for Excavation i



Continued from Page One

time the neck of a stirrup vase, but
there was more sub-Mycenean pottery
than at other sites. Hittite polished
ware was also found in great quan-
tity. B:

Among other finds should be men-
tioned fragments of Roman _ lamps
and terra cottas; pyramidal stamp
seals of clay, dating probably from
the ninth or eighth century; part of
a primitive idol of clay; and stone
weights engraved with geometrical de-
signs and many artifacts of stone.
Jewelry was represented by a piece of
a marble bracelet and a single bronze
earring. Mention should also be mad
of rows of giant pithoi which suggest
analogies with the storerooms of Cre-
tan palaces.

The size of the mound at Tarsus,
the history of Tarsus in Hittite times,
and its importance during the Ro-
man epoch, point to a site of unusual
interest and importance, the thorough
investigation of which would do much
to recover the early history of the reg-
ion. The excavation of Dua Tepe at
Tarsus would undoubtedly add’ definite
knowledge of the connection between
Cilicia and the Aegean, and Cilicia
and the Hittite country to the north.
How much light’it would throw upon
the Achaean problem it’ is difficult to
say, but it is not at all improbable
that if there was a settlement of
Mycenaean traders at Tarsus itself,
they had a quarter of their own just
as the Assyrian merchants are known
to have had in many towns in Asia
Minor. The results of the excavation
of the site of Tarsus and that of
Karaduvar promise to be both inter-
esting and important.













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Miss Park Makes Busy: Tour

Miss Park has met and addressed
innumerable .schools and innumerable
alummae in her successful Western
tour. She had held countless private
interviews and spoken’ on subjects
ranging from a lecture on the Ameri-
can Dilemma to a talk on the found-

‘ling of Bryn Mawr and the College’s

new ventures in the fields of Science,
Archaeology and Art...

Presiderft: Park spent the first part
of this month in Los Angeles ‘and
Santa Barbara. It is a great relief°to
stay-at-home Bryn Mawr to know that
while she was in Los Angeles, Miss
Park mixed some pleasure with much
business and visited the Huntingdon
Library and Galleries, old Mexican
Los Angeles, the California Institute
of Technology and the University of
California and had two: evenings free.

The most recent news, that of her

successful stay in Denver, gives an

idea of how her time is occupied.
While there she attended a tea, a
Cactus Club dinner, and spoke at a
Social Service luncheon on The Col-
lege and Training for Leisure and
hefore the -American’ Association of
University Women on The Girl Looks
at Her ‘Edication.

Traveling East from Denver, Miss
Park’s itinerary is as follows: Okla-
homa City (February 14), Kansas
City (February 16), Omaha (Febru-
ary 19), Minneapolis (February 23),
Chicago (February 26), Louisville
(February 27), and St. Louis (Febru-
ary 28).



Difficulty of Giving
Big May Day Shown



Continued from Page One

Chinese physician, whom you pay as
long as you. keep well. -The Chinese
physician pays you if you get sick, but
that method will not be applied in
the Infirmary. The Infirmary has a
definite place in college life. By it,
contagion is kept down. Dr. Leary is
willing, too, to have tired students
come to the Infirmary for a rest, pro-
vided that the Infirmary is not over-
crowded with really sick people.

Mrs. Manning said that the idea of
having Big May Day this year instead
of next, for the Alumnae Drive, came
as no surprise to her: she herself had
thought of it three weeks ago. She
thinks it is impossible this year. Big
May Day is not hard to give, but it
must have an organized unity to make
it a success. For this reason, there
must be one director. Last time, there
were two directors, and May Day was
not so well-organized. No one who has
been suggested as director for this
year has had experience enough to or-
ganize it. If a good director were to
appear, Mrs. Manning would be per-
fectly willing for us to go ahead and
have Big May Day, but as it is, it is
impossible.

In 1904, the undergraduates decid-
ed to run Big May Day themselves.
They did the casting, and did not have
an outside director. Finally they had
to get an outside divector, who recast
everyone, and changed everything.
Every director for Big May Day has
to be a perfectionist. Mrs. Manning’
has already been thinking of next
year’s May Day in terms of organiza-
tion; the plans must be got under
weigh this spring.. She would never





be willing to recommend Big May. Day
tothe directors of the college, who
always give an amount of money. to
start it, unless it would be a well-or-
ganized event.

Mrs. Manning thinks it would be de-
lightful if Varsity Dramatics would
give something which would interest
the alumnae and not involve so many
people and so much time as Big May
Day. Some alumnae want a Greek
play, some would prefer an Eliza-
bethan drama, some may want a mod-
ern play. If we are really interested
in this plan of giving something’ for
the Million Dollar Drive, we should
give our backing to the project. How-

ever, we must complete arrangements -
for it ®y the end of February, and ©

rehearsals must be spread over the
time allowed, so that there will be no
rush at the end.



Literary Digest Poll
Gives College Opinion



Continued from Page One

of fighting if we were the invader.

The college -students. favored. by
a vote of 90.78 per cent government
control of armament and munition
industries. Universal conscription
was advocated by an 81.98 per cent
vote. -They voiced their opposition
to the national policy of* maintain-
ing an air and navy force second to
none as a means of insuring us
against being involved in another
great war by a vote of 59,025 to
33,870. Bryn Mawr voted 153 to
15 in favor of government control
of munitions, 109 to 55 for universal
conscription, and opposed -a large air
and navy force by a vote of 187 to
30.

The, percentage of ballots returned
is already higher than in the re-
turns of any past Literary Digest
poll, and the volume indicates that
American undengraduates are think-
ing seriously and universally about
the course of current events. The
college editors of Minnesota, Chicago,
Texas, and Princeton Universities
have been especially active in arous-
ing undergraduate opinion on these
questions. Michigan and Harvard
have made the largest return of bal-
lots to date.







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not beyond your budget.

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Madame Sikilianos
Tells Plans for Play



Continued from Page One

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50 to 100 must have been used in the
early days of the drama, At the sec-
ond Delphic festival, in 1930, Madame
Sikilianos directed the production of
The Suppliants, using a chorus of 50
divided into groups of five. There is
a great field for further development
of such choruses, she feels.

Although there are several plays
which have great choral .possibilities,
the selection of the tragedy Bryn
Mawr might give was determined by
the fact that Madame Sikiliatims uses
costumes made from hand-woven ma-
terials, and the only such costumes
available are those used by her last
June at Smith, where the Senior class
gave The Bacchai before their par-
ents and friends at graduation. This
play is, of course, an intense tragedy,
but Madame Sikilianos’ pointed out
that the Asiatic pay alae followers
of Dionysius, do relieve and lighten
the tragic mood.

= There are various interpretations of

a Greek chorus, Madame Sikilianos.
pointed out. With five groups of 10
each, the leaders of each group may
speak separately or-in unison, and the
groups themselves may speak alter-
nately or all together. Emphasizing
the meaning of the words by singing
and dancing is an important function
of the chorus, and Madame Sikilianos
thinks that within the scope of the.
whole chorus individual interpretation
is necessary. In the early Greek
vases, she said, no two people make
precisely the same gestures, nor
should they in a play. There is a
particular opportunity for interpreta-
tive .dancing in The Bacchai, since
lyric and tragic movements alike are
necessary. In determining such move-
ments. Madame Sikilianos is guided by
the figures on Greek vases, The choice
of chorus leaders should be left to
experience,.. Madame Skilianos said,
and if The Bacchai were given, she
would try to find those whose impulses
showed that’ they naturally led.

The problem of music in a Greek
play is very important. The choruses
must not follow an orchestra, but
must lead themselves. Madame Sikili-
anos uses the Byzantine music of the
Greek Orthodox Church, since it is the
only extant working system of modal
music. It is not known whether this
is Oriental or native Greek music, but
it developed as written music during
the Christian period. Modes, she ex-
plained, are a sort of scale, every
mode having a different set of inter-
vals. There are definite modes for
various emotions, and in the Greek
system one can jump from mode. to
mode as the feeling changes.
particular advantage of | Byzantine
music is that it follows the word ac-
cent, and Madame _ Sikilianos — thinks
that while this is primarily applicable
to Greek, the meaning of an English
word is also beautifully brought out
when so treated. It is this accenting
along with the changes in modes which
makes Greek music so appropriate for
Greek plays.

If The Bacchai weresgiven this year,
the participants would have to be pre-
pared to spend 5 hours a week re-
hearsing, and also to stay over for
rehearsals during the first week-end of
Spring. Vacation. No particular ex-
perience is singing or dancing would



be necessary for members of — the
chorus.
New York City Invaded
Mid-year week-end, New York

City suffered an invasion by Bryn
Mawr. It appears that wherever
one went there, one met campus ac-
quaintances. They looked a _ bit
different; to be sure, what with
dresses instead of sweaters ..and
skirts, waved hair, and noses slight-
ly less shiny; but they were, never-
theless and unmistakably, Bryn
Mawr students out to “do” New
York. A check-up of the signing-
out books revealed that about ninety
of us departed from a snowy campus
for the icy streets of New York. Of
these a large majority was from
Pembroke, with Rockefeller students
being a close second. Wyndham did
its part, contributing nine. Not so
many came from Denbigh and Mer-
ion. The Monday night trains were
filled with Bryn Mawr girls, riding
wearily back to college, looking a
little the worse for wear, and plan-

ming to recuperate sufficiently to be
: ready for the next excursion.

‘convene





i



Campus N otes



Dr. Weiss addressed the Swarth-
more Philosophy Club last Thursday
on the question, “What Am I?”



Miss Anna Janney De Armond,
‘Graduate Scholar in English at Bryn
Mawr, has been appointed Instructor
in English at the Women’s College of
the University of Delaware for next
year.



Mme. Maud Rey has been appoint-
ed Director of Dramatic Activities at
the Middlebury Summer School. She
will also give two courses. there:
“French Dramatics for Schools and
Colleges” and “Correlation of Subjects
with French as a Center.”



Low Rates Offered
by Moscow School

9



A special low rate with many in-
ducements .for American - students,
teachers and’ thdse interested in
higher education and sociological sub-
jects, has recently been announced
by the Moscow Summer School, to
in the Soviet. Union from
July 16th to August 25th. The en-
tire trip may be taken for from
$366 to $380.

During the. summer of 1935 the
Moscow University will offer a vari-
ety of courses. Instruction is in the
English language, by an _ all-Soviet
faeulty of professors and specialists.
From time to time the School is ad-
dressed by prominent Soviet leaders.

The State University of Moscow
certifies academic credit to those
foreign students meeting the require-
ments of the university and complet-
ing a course of study in its Anglo-
American Section. The following
courses are offered this coming sum-
mer, the session beginning on July
19th in Moscow:

Arts in the U.S. .S. R.

Literature of Russia and the Sov-
iet Union. :

Principles of the Collective and
Socialist Society.

Justice and the Correctional Policy
of the Soviet Union.

Organization of Public Health and
Socialized Medicine.

Survey of Education in the U. S.
S. R.

Science and Technique in the U. S.
S. RB:

Survey and _ Psychological. Re-
search,

History of the Soviet Union.

Economic Policy and Geography of
the U. 8. §. KB.

Philosophy of Dialectical Material-
ism.

One** Advanced Russian for Foreigners

(Language).

In addition to the Study Courses
in Moscow, the student will have his
choice of six tours, visiting the prin-
cipal cities. The tours, which are
included as part. of the Summer
School work, have been specially or-
ganized. They include journeys on
the Volga, to the Crimea district and
the Black Sea ports, the Caucasus
and the new industrial center of the
Kharkov Section, also to Odessa and
Kiev. ;

Accommodations offered to visitors
attending the Summer Session are of
the dormitory type. These quarters
are designed for students who wish
to approximate in their livingycon-
ditions the life of the typical Soviet
students. The Russian students are

acquainted with the Americans and
there

among them.
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THEATRE REVIEW



(Especially contributed by E. M.
Terry)

ed at the Walnut, February 11, is
not a bridge game, but a game of
wits, very sparkling wits. To Noel
Taylor, its author, we offer congratu-
lations, since it is his first: play. Other-
wise, he would be more skilled in
building a firmer foundation for his
plot:and characters.

The tale deals with the ‘mistress
problem:” to admit it, to be ashamed
of it, or to be happy with it? Leda
"played well by *Edith King, whose
underclothes were rather remarkable
for their absence), the mistress of Al-
fred Rouff, suddenly finds their happy
and financially secure home invaded
by her young daughter, Juniper
(Helen Brooks), who for years had
been hidden in Paris. Alfred (Jay
Fassett, whose facial expressions are
on a par with Harpo Marx) knows
nothing of Juniper’s existence. After
the preliminary shock, he is willing to
have her stay with them for the short
while she will be in New York, Both
Leda and Alfred are embarrassed and
ashamed to have Juniper know their

{true relationship, but a girl of eight-

een, who has written her first novel
about that very ‘subject, is not one to
be feazed by the situation. And out
of the blue, Alfred’s son, Peter (en-
chantingly played by the author him-
self), suddenly and casually arrives
to look over his parent rather as a
curious specimen. He bluntly declares
that he knows that Leda is his father’s
mistress, and completely shames the
poor lady.

These four independent people take
up their abode together temporarily.
A startling development occurs within
eight hours, to wit—Peter and Juni-
per fall violently in love. Sadly enough
the rather improper position. of their
parents weighs on their minds, in
spite of their professed callousness to
all life, no matter how raw. They
decide to imitate the pattern of life
that Alfred and Leda find so charm-
ing, in order to show their fond par-
ents the error of their ways. Peter
and Juniper plan to be caught in very
compromising circumstances by their
parents. The results of this plot, the
only one in the play, are clever and
quite amusing.

We will toss to. Noel Taylor his. few
well-earned bouquets. Seldom have
we had the pleasure of enjoying such
frothy and frilly humor; the lines
fairly float, so light and’ so airy are
they. The audience was highly amus-
ed throughout the entire play. The
acting was well-done, with the empha-
sis on being natural. Both the lines
and the acting carry over this very
light comedy:

Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor’s action
and structure are of the flimsiest and
most superficial. He has employed
optical illusions of nervous pacing, en-
trances and exits, running up and
down stairs for action, and of rapid,
sure-fire line for plot. He did have a
theme, dragged in to end the play, but
it is, quite frankly, “much ado about
nothing.”

Cross Ruff is just the play to see,
if you are jaded and sated. To laugh
unrestrainedly. and to’succumb to the
author-actor’s great personal charm
are worthwhile diversions. Incident-
ly Cross Ruff might get.to Broadway
and remain a week or more, so see it
here and enjoy the first laugh.

GREEN HILL FARMS
City Line and Lancaster Ave.
Overbrook-Philadelphia _

A reminder. that we would like to
take care of your parents and
triends, whenever they come to
visit you.



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Manager.





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Pro Arte Renders
Excellent Concert



Continued from Page One

tation of the work was splendid, with
the ‘details of execution excellently
brought out in a very fine perform-
ance.
thusiastically at the conclusion of the

as encores the Minuet and thé'Finale
from.Mozdrt’s Hunt Quartet.



Mr. Alwyne Assists Quartet
In the Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger of Monday, February 18, Mr.
Samuel L. Laciar praised the Sunday

and also commended Mr. Alwyne’s
sensitive co-operation with the -quar-
tet. Mr. Laciar’s article is given
below:

An unustally fine program, superb-
ly played, was given by the Pra Arte
Quartet in Goodhart Hall of Bryn
Mawr College yesterday afternoon,
the event being the ninth of a series
of ten concerts by this organization
presented to the college by the Li-

rary of Congress, “Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Foundation.”

tet are Alphonse Onnou and Laurent
Halleux, violins; Germain Prévost,
viola, and Robert Maas, violoncello.
They were assisted in the Cesar
Franck quintet for piano and strings
by Horace Alwyne, head of the de-
partment of music of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege.

The opening number was the Borodin
quartet in D major, No. 2, one of the
most significant string quartets by
any Russian composer. It was given
a splendid performance by the Pro
Arte group, especially the beautiful
Nocturne, in which all the poetry of
the movement was well brought .out,
the individual members of the quar-
tet showing a beautiful tone quality
and their usual highly developed en-
semble.

The Cesar Franck quintet was sec-
ond on the program, and in its per-
formance Mr. Alwyne showed himself |
to be an exceedingly fine chamber-)
music player. The very difficult and |
elaborate piano part, which is fre-|
quently allowed to overbalance the |
other parts, was played with beau-|
tiful restraint, admirable interpreta- |
tion and_fine tone and Mr. Alwyne |
fitted into the ensemble of the Pro!
Arte Quartet as though he had play- |
ed with them for months. The slow |

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regular program that they received |

concert of the Pro Arte Quartet as|
the finest performance of the series, '

The members of the Pro Arte Quar- |

movement was especially well played,

g/and in the reading throughout, great

care was’ taken’ with the repeated
|themes of the earlier movements, as
{the quintet is one of the most elab-
musie in
iwhich the cyclic form is used. The
iplayers received a great ovation at
ithe close, being recalled to the stage

The audience applauded so en-!.ome half a dozen times. |

The finest playing of the afternoon
and of the series was done in the De-
|bussy quartet in G minor, which clos-
‘ed the concert. The Pro Arte organi-
zation has ‘always been famous for
the magnificent reading which they
give this work, which has been said
to come closer to a realization of the
icomposer’s intention than-that of any
‘other chamber-music group.

Yesterday afternoon’s performance
amply justified this assertion. At no
time during the series of concerts at
Bryn Mawr has the ensemble of the
quartet reached such a degree of per-
{fection as was attained in all four
| movements of this, the-most important
(contribution to the literature of the
‘string quartet ever made by any
| French composer» The detail of the
'first movement was brought out in an
| amazingly fine manner and the whim:
‘sical scherzo with its varied changes
of mood was just as well done.
| The height of the concert, however,
| was attained in the magnificent slow
‘movement, which was performed with
hall the delicate pathos that the music
jcontains with a tone of marvelous
beauty and’ a finish to the ensemble
‘that even the Pro Arte has rarely
‘reached in these concerts.’ The com-
position is practically constructed
upon variants of one theme, that
‘which appears at the opening of the
‘first movement, and this feature
was stressed in. the performance. In
many ways it was the most thoroughly
satisfying concert given in the series
‘and the quartet was warmly applaud-
‘ed at the close.

So vociferous was the applause at
the close that the quartet played as
an encore, the “Concerto L’Estro
Armonica,” of Vivaldi, the number
originally scheduled for the first num-
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Page Five



Geology Professor Will Speak
Dr. Alfred C. Lane, professor of
geology at Tufts College, w 1] speak on
The Aye of the, Earth this Friday,
February 22, at 8.20 in the Music
Room of Goodhart. Dr. Lane is Chair-
man of the Committee on Determina-
tion of Geologic Time of the National
Research Council, and.is one of the
greatest authorities in the world on
this subject. His lecture at Bryn
Mawr will be ‘a_ so-called “popular”
one, and comprehensible to the most
uninformed geological layman.



New Literary Trends
Stress Subjectivity

Continued from Page One

abled him to give such vivid pictures
of pre-war socety. His strength lies
in his being an ordinary man with a
zest for improving the world. He has
never been so much inteérested in life
as in trying to alter it, and this is the
spirit of his post-war work. The post-
war generation has no longer any in-
terest. in Utopias, although his pre-
war appeals aroused great enthusi-
asm. Wells’s scientific fantasias are
his best works. He could make the
fantastic seem actual as few others
have done, and he has a great gift for
“rapid caricature.”

Bernard Shaw is more _ respected
‘than Wells by the young because he
kept his head better during the war.
He maintained the opinion that Eng-
land was not fighting to save her skin,
an opinion with which men later
agreed. Some of Shaw’s best work



iq change or development. -in _his|
method. His efforts to strip the ro-
nanee from war and love no longer
caught the attention of a generation
which had done this same stripping
nore ruthlessly than he.

The difference between these older
authdrs and younger literary men is
understandable if one remembers the
disillusioning effects of the Great War
on the youth of England. France was
lesS dissatisfied, since she had accom-
plished her end, but England had
been keyed up by appeals to her cru-
sading ideals, so that she really: felt
she was fighting to end war. The
Versailles treaty saw her committed
to the support of many of the things
she had fought the war against, a
fact which destroyed the respect for
authority in those young enough to
have accepted the crusading war-time
appeals. The | post-war’ generation
had had enough of idealism, and moral]
indignation. Consequently the fiction
they preferred is acrid, brilliant,
vapid,—like themselves, dwells on the
pleasures of the senses and implies in-
tellectual dissatisfaction. Huxley,
Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf are the
authors Mr. MacCarthy discussed in
this connection.

Aldous Huxley was tWe first author
to record the modes of feeling and
thinking characteristic of his genera-
tion, and to diagnose- the diseases of
modern self-consciousness. One of his
most striking characteristics is his
wide range of references to science,
history, art, philosophy, ete. Yet
though his references are rich, his

was done in this period, but it shows



focus is limited. -A second point is the
discord in his work which, result frou
his temperament, Although he is in-
tellectually fastidious and -sceptie; tefh-+
peramentally he shows violent pref-
erences.. In his. writing ‘ Huxley
shares the preoccupations of his times,
particularly in sex attractions, but his
studies deal only with falsifications of
emotion or with promiscuity.

D. H. Lawrerice gives a fuller in-.
terpretation of his generation, and his
death is a loss to literature. He is
really more of a prophet than an art-
ist; he valued earnestness more than
truth, and was therefore often the vic-
tim of his own passionate eloquence.
His aim was for closer contact with
life and other men, and _ he © raged
against conventions which thwarted
this. For him, therefore, physical
union was the central experience in
life, from which came hope and prom-
ise. Although his doctrine of the
“natural man” is unacceptable in
practice, his criticism of life is effect-
ive. v

Mr. MacCarthy ‘discussed. James
Joyce very. briefly, since he is import-
ant in technique rather than in ideas.
He.attempts:to bring the sub-conscious
as little changed as possible into ordi-
nary experience, and. in doing so has

made some “hopeless linguistic experi- |

ments.”

Virginia Woolf is one of the most
interesting of the modern authors be-
cause she has turned her attention to
the treatment of the commonplace.
She has a delicate and precise style,
and excels in describing the individ-



ual bubbles, or auras, in which char-

me

acters move. She does not create| This treatment of poetry started with

characters as former novelists have

the French symbolists.

done, but traces.streams of conscious | Mr. MacCarthy prophesied that this

ness-by~means~ of ~mionologuss.” “This
method is sometimes dangerous in that
it is often difficult to tell in whose
mind one is,

The two chief characteristics of
modern writing are its extreme sub-
jectivity and its trust in the sub-con-

scious by which a deeper union than

usual between the individual and the
world is achieved. Poetry is the first
literary form to reveal such changes,
and the new poetry is often unaccém-
modating in subject and rhythm:
These are important symptoms of
what has been observed in prose, since
this obscurity is due to the poet’s at-
tempt to appeal directly to the stb-
conscious rather than to reason. The
meaning in poetry is only there to
keep the reader’s intellect quiet while

the poem does its work upon _ him.

lh ne acalm _lt l







inovement would soon fade away, for
after all the mind requires some
meaning in its poetry. Modern poetry
gains: from being quoted, but*the quo-
tations in their context have no mean-
ing. This sort of writing precludes
poems of any length. The logic of ig-
noring the sense in a poem is like that
of the cubists, who say. that if the
subject of a work of art is unimport-
ant, it does not matter if you cannot
find any subject or sense in it at all.
It is impossible to defy the outside
world. Mr. MacCarthy predicts that
the direction of literature in the next
10 years will be through intense sub-
jectivity to communism.



Courses in “Use of Leisure” will be
offered next year at Whitman College
(Walla Walla, Wash.).

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space left for our campaign speeches.
we have an entirely new system.

order.
most inspiring colors we could find.

and Saturday,

of the prices too,

and let us try.

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announces
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If we made all the apoiogies we would like to, there wouldn’t be any

We are all through with manufacturers
whose goods seem to be wholly mythical, and whose ideas of color and size
We have designed a new set of spring models,
and we've acquired a staff of experienced dressmakers to. make them to
All our sweaters are handknit in Shetland yarn from the newest and
But what we really started out to say
is that we have an iron-bound, money-back, two-week guarantee.

With fear and trembling we are coming to the College Inn on Friday
February 22nd and 23rd.
you might just give a glance at the things.
flannel suit we’re particularly proud of, and some very nice pastel tweeds.
not to mention a genuine camel’s hair hand-knitted sweater.
but we're proudest of the guarantee;
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So we have to begin by saying that

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We have a gabardine and gray

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““LIFE IN COLLEGE is a busy one,” says John Cow-
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toward dramatics, and spend every minute possible
studying the drama and playwriting, in addition to the
work required by my general course. On top of that, I

have a job that takes up three nights a week. So you
; ‘can see my time is pretty full. I get tired... feel ‘blue’
ogi ieee sometimes when my energy is at a low ebb. Then a

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taking the load off my shoul-
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smoke all I want and still
keep my nerves healthy
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Star of Chicago Black Hawks

“WHEN | WENT TO
COLLEGE, I switched to
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. Glee Club. Cast Chosen
The cast for the Glee Club perforim-
ance of, The Pirates of Penzance has
--peen-announced,.and.is ag follows:

PaPOte BADR ica bios Helen Ripley

PROGOMICK flee sacs Susan Morse
Major General .......... Betty Lord
Sergeant OF Poee cc es Sara Park
Samuels e566 vee Doreen Canaday
eee ares Agnes Halsey
CO ER eer eee Helen Shepard
BO eee rcs es Maryallis Morgan
ne Lois Marean

Isabel to...be chosen (no singing part)
Substitutes for the above parts will
be chosen later.



: “Culture”

A few findings resulting from in-
telligence, -culture, and _ general
knowledge tests given to thousands
of students are: :

30% of all seniors in -six colleges
ranked below the average freshman
in the general culture tests.

Average college sophomores know
the meaning of 55 out of 100 com-
monly used words. Two more years
of exposure enabled the same stu-
dent to recognize 62 in 100.

Average intelligence of seniors in
four high schools was above that of
all college sophomore candidates for
an education degree.

The group responsible for this
disilltsioning investigation points to
the credit system as one of the rea-
sons for uneducation of college stu-

dents.



Advertisers in this paper are relia-
ble merchants. Deal with them.



’ THEATRE REVIEW

Tallulah Bankhead and Rain have
moved on td) New York, after eight
triumphant days“in Philadelphia. To
say “Tallulah Bankhead and Rain”
seems to be putting it oddly, in view
of the fact that Rain is, in its own
right, one of the classics of the Amer-
ican stage. After seeing the play,
however, we realized very clearly that
Tallulah Bankhead makes Rain, not
Rain Tallulah Bankhead. If one were
to read the play, in bald, cold print,
completely uninfluenced by the magic
of the theatre, it might ~ conceivably
seem a pretty crude piece of work.
It is definitely dated: the audiences’
laughter at dramatic moments showed
this all too well. The play jerks. The
stage devices:—Sadie’s victrola and
the falling rain—are admirable, but
credit for them goes to Somerset
Maugham, who wrote the original
story, rather than to the playwrights.
The story had remarkable theatrical
possibilities. It was expanded by the
playwrights in a workmanlike and
adequate but not in an inspired man-
ner,

Rain always has been memorable
because of the actress who plays its
leading role. Jeanne Eagels” first
transformed Maugham’s Sadie
Thompson into a powerfully . tragic
figure. Tallulah Bankhead follows in
the same tradition. She is no more
the fat-calved, coarse woman of the
original story than Jeanne Eagels
was. Her Sadie is no cheap harlot,
but a thin, intense girl with beauti-
ful hair and.a soul full of fire and
passion. Miss Bankhead never seems



ingly husky Southern voice that. pre-
vents her from completely realizing
Sadie’s-vulgarity. In spite of~ her
flaunting walk, her traditionally bril-
liant clothes, and her alarming. vo-
cabulary, Miss Bankhead’s Sadie im-
presses one more as a nice girl try-
ing to seem bad than as the slattern-
ly and common woman of the original
Maugham story. In her long white
dressing gown in the second act, she
seems almost ethereal.

In comparison to Sadie, Davidson
is despicable. This: is not altogether
as it should be. ‘One could feel very
sorry for Davidson. He could be both
moving and tragic. Herbert’ Ranson,
who plays the role in the current pro-
duction, never manages to seem more
than pedantic. Sadie gains by vary-
ing from the original Maugham con-
ception. The Reverend Davidson, on
the contrary, would have been better
if he had been more like Maugham’s
idea of the tall, cadaverous, fiery-eyed
missionary with full, sensual lips. Mr.
Ranson seems to have no more passion
in him than oné of the bags of sand,
placed off stage to catch the seven
thousand gallons of water, which daily
simulate the rain. When he is finally
overcome and enters Sadie’s chamber
with evil intent, the whole audienge
laughs and cheers. This would seem
to indicate that Mr. Ranson’s acting
did not sweep them off their , feet.
Walter Huston, who played opposite

Joan Crawford in the last movie of|

Rain, was a much more attractive and
powerful Davidson.

Jack McKee as Sergeant O’Hara,
Sadie’s honest though sentimental ma-





Intropodi, as the Doctor’s’ wife, is
downright disturbing. The play-
wrights have given her nothing to do
but sit around and make negative
speeches. She is a completely unnec-
essary appendage, and her continual
inactivity and neutrality are vaguely
annoying. The assorted natives, wan-
dering silently in and out, filled us
with the same sense of uneasiness.
The sympathetic Doctor and the philo-
sophic Trader-landlord are fairly well
played. The Trader’s’ native wife is
convincingly fat and jolly. The only
person, neverthelessp who, it seems to
us, even _approgches Tallulah Bank-
head in acting ability, is Ethel Wil-
son, who makes forbidding Mrs. Al-
fred Davidson a very human and pa-
thetic figure. Like Miss Bankhead she
has a beautiful voice. It is regret-
table that the rest of the cast is so
noticeably and strangely weak,- al-

‘though, of course, Miss Bankhead is

all the better by contrast.

A mention of the rain itself should
not be neglected. It was very. con-
vincing and actually sounded rainy. It
had a helpful way of backing up the
characters. Whenever there was a
particularly tense moment, or when
someone felt the need of saying “My
God,” and becoming loudly emotional,
down would come the rain in floods.
After two hours of it, one is definitely
rid of any desire to cruise the South
Seas. : :

Neither the locale, nor the subject
of Rain is pleasant. The play might
very well be summed up and passed
over as a dreary representation of
conventionally unleashed passion in a



really low. Perhaps it is her enchant- | rine, adds nothing to the play. Ethel | conventionally gfim setting, — if it .

were not for Tallulah Bankhead.
There we begin all over again. Rain

without Tallulah Bankhead is a good |

melodrama built. around an interest-

ing idea. With her, it is, for the spec-

tator, an unforgettable experience.
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» A New Slant on Gertrude Stein

A new and super-scientific expla-
nation of the enigmatic Gertrude
Stein, who has been touring the col-
leges giving undergraduates a repe-
titive and somewhat chaotic explana-
tion of her “poetry,” is now advanced
by the staid Journal of the American
Medical Association.

Despite the fact that “A rose is a
rose is a rose’”’ to La Stein, it is only
“‘da-da-ism” to Prof. Langdon Brown,
of the University of Cambridge, who
writes in the current issue of the
Journal.

Prof. Brown groups Miss Stein with
D. H. Lagwrence and T. S. Eliot in an
explanation of “modernism and even
da-da-ism in the recent output of many
modern writers.”

Prof. Brown conceives “That the
writings of D, H. ‘Lawrence begin
with an angry reaction against the in-
tellect and end up in literary move-
ments which produce what is called
baby talk.” He asserts, moreover, that
such writing communicates little to
anyone who does not possess the key.
-The inspiration wells up from the un-
consciousness, or at least the ‘sub-
consciousness.

“Milton,” the good scholar cried,
“thou shouldst be living at this hour.
England hath need of thee.”

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