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VOL. XXII, No. 14

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE cienbéd as 1936

PRICE 10 CENTS







M r, Alwyne Presents
Pianoforte Recital



Brahms F Minor Sonata. Played
With Gracious Delicacy in
Varied: Program

COMMENTS INTERESTING





(Especially contributed by Elizabeth
Jones, graduate student.)

» Goodhart, February 19.—The first
three of the four groups included in
Mr. Alwyne’s pianoforte recital were
prefaced by welcome explanatory com-

ments from the interpreter. Before
his first. group, which began with the
C Minor Variations of Beethoven, Mr.
Alwyne recalled a few facts regard-
ing the variation form. There are
two large musieal forms which may
be styled “variations,” the first com-
monly called “theme and variations,”
the second of the “‘passacaglia” type.

The Beethoven selection was of the
first type, although 4 propos of the
theme, it was a little surprising
that this should be so, for this theme
is a single sequence of ascending
chords plus a cadence, whereas the
usual theme is a small binary or tern-
ary form, a -songlike structure. Mr.
Alwyne called attention’ to the fact
that the ground figure of the great
passacaglia of the Fourth Symphony
of Brahms is nearly identical . with
this Beethoven theme, except that it
is in a different key (E minor). The
variation form has: not. the-same sort
of intrinsic unity as, for example, the
sonata-allegro, but there was no lack
of coherence of development in the
selection of the evening. The short
sections follow one another with very
pleasing contrasting effects, carried
out in the harmonic idiom known and
, loved as characteristic of all the large
Beethoven pianoforte works.

The Bagatelle, Op. 33, showed
Beethoven in the mood of his most
‘facile writing, and contained some
very charming, and charmingly exe-
cuted effects. The Ecossaisen proved,
as Mr. Alwyne had said, to be a
“slightly sophisticated” version of the
supposedly Celtic original.

Then followed the Sonata in F
Minor, of Brahms, a work we do not
hear often enough, partly because of
the demands it makes on the skill of
the performer. The difficulty of: per-
formance must be evident to all in the



brilliant passages of rapid, wide leaps,

Continued on Page Four

‘Poussin, Lorraine Lecturer Contf# ng
Dr. Walter Friedlander will talk on
The Landscape Painting of Nicholas
Poussin and Claude Lorraine, Their
Drawings and Pictures, in the Dean-
ery, March 1 at 5 o’clock. Dr. Fried-
lander, who until 1935 was at Frei-
burg, Germany, is Visiting Professor
of Fine Arts at New York University
and at the University of Penrisylvania. |
He is one of the foremost connoisseurs |
of the painting and drawing: of
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in |
France and the Netherlands, and: is’
the author of many works on Claude
Lorraine and Nicholas Poussin.



Showing of Movie Films
Arranged by Students



The Undergraduate Association is
planning a series of motion-picture
exhibitions during the spring which
will be open to all students without
charge. The first of these programs
takes place on Wednesday, February
25, at 8 p: m. Students are reminded
that May Day rehearsals and folk
dancing may not be. cut in order to
attend the film showings. If this hap-
pens, it will be necessary to give up
the other programs which are planned.

The movies are individually quite
short and take about half an hour
apiece, so that students may come and
go-quite easily: if they are quiet.. Peo-
ple who have rehearsals in the early
part of the evening are welcome to
come in late. The whole program
will be over by 10.30 p. m.

The movies come to Bryn Mawr

through the cooperation of the Mu-|

seum of Modern Art, which has re-
cently founded a film library and is
collecting samples of motion-picture
art from 1894 to the present. (The

Library was established for the pur-!

pose of collecting and preserving out-
standing motion pictures of all types
and ‘of making them available to col-
leges and museums, thus providing for
the first time a considered study of
the film as. art.)
ranged in groups. each dealing with
some particular kind of subject. This
week’s program’ is concerned with!
comedies.

The Haverford College Film So-!}
ciety is helping with the planning of ;
the series of five programs which is
contemplated and is sharing part of!
the expenses. Students from Haver-
ford are invited to come to see the!
movies. The program consists of!
films covering the period from 1900)
to 1925.



How the Wheels Go Round





(Editor’s Note. This is the second

part of the article on college finances
which was begun in the last issue of
the News.)

Spring time is budget time at Bryn
Mawr. Computed-on a basis of past
income and expenditures with changes
as the times. indicate, an estimate of
the expected income from endowment,
tuition fees, rentals and halls of
residence is carefully estimated by
the Treasurer and Comptroller. This
with a rough budget of expected ex-
penses is worked over by Miss Park,
who then sections off the budget to
each of the committees of the Board
of Directors (Executive, Buildings
and Grounds, etc.), who are respon-
sible for the many branches of the
college. - When these have been re-
turned and any large changes care-
fully investigated and checked, the
entire budget is set before the Fi-
nance Committee of the Board of
Directors. In cases of conflicting
demands on an overworked budget,
it is they who must recommend
which need takes precedence for final
.-adoption by the Directors

In all cases fhe cantthan? path is
followed of drawing up the budget
on the minimum expected inconie and
the maximum expected expenditures,
because once lost a deficit is irre-
trievable. That this long and care-
ful work is worth the trouble can be
seen from a comparison of estimated
inggme and actual income. In one
year the actual income exceeded the

net income by a large margin of|



safety of over 15 per cent.

variable item the actual expenditures
were within a few dollars and even,

tion. This again testifies to the fact’
that Bryn Mawr is.a very good:
housekeeper, who keeps. carefully '
within the bounds of her limited!
income.
Primary Economies

The peak of the depression was not
reached until the academic year’1931-
1932. At that time the college faced
a deficit as did nearly every other
business in the United States. Econo-
mies were in order, and wisely the
college maintained salaries:and wages
at the usual rate as long as possible.
The first drastic reduction in ex-
penses was the cessation of exten-
sion and improvements on the real
estate properties. The maintenance
crew was reduced to the minimum
number necessary to conserve the
campus, but improvements were de-
ferred. The grass, for instance,
was allowed to grow for longer in-
tervals between cuttings to save on
labor wages. But this was not suf-
ficient, because the number of stu-
dents ‘receiving financial aid jumped
from one in every seven students to
one in every three students, and the

ped 5 per cent. As a last resort for
1932-1933 it was necessary to recom-
mend a small cut in salaries, so that



Continued on Page Two

ye ia aia oh eS ce ets Hit 8 eo 8 ee

pe |. (This statement has been. révised

These films are ar-!

In come | s
paring estimated and actual expen-!
ditures, it often occurred that in a|

a few cents of the budget appropria-|

total number of undergraduates drop- ||

Dean States College
Scholarships Policy



|Aid Used for Needy Students
Who Promise Finest Work
for College

ARE





FUNDS -

LIMITED



\by Mrs. Manning because one or two
important points with regard to
| scholarships were omitted in Chapel.)

| Goodhart, February 20.—“It is
‘more necessary than usual at the
present time to explain the @llege
policy with regard to scholarships,”
said Mrs. Manning in Chapel, “be-
cause we are going’ through a period

ings and criticism on the part of
students and parents are more com-
mon than is usually the case. The
last five years have been years of
crisis for scholarship. committees, and
the emergency policy worked out is
not one which could be continued in-
definitely. It was absolutely neces-
sary to enable students already in
college and making definite contribu-
tions to the life of the community,’ to

of adjustment when ‘misunderstand- | '



finish their college courses. The
college would have suffered as much |
as they if the sudden diminution!
which so many people suffered
family income had _ resulted in their;
withdrawing from college. What I
want to outline here, however, is the
more normal policy which our schol-
jarship committees pursue in the at-
tempt to use the funds at their dis-
posal for the benefit. of the college as'
a whole.

“These funds come, some of them
from the regular college budget, some



of them from special legacies or gifts,
the income of which is at the dis-
posal of President Park or of one
or another of the scholarship com-
mittees. Some of them are raised
‘by alumnae in different parts of the
country from year to year. Presi-
dent Park and the Directors have}
‘joyfully accepted gifts made to the
college forthe assistance of needy
! students, whatever wishes have been

jexpressed by the donors as to the
|way in which the choice of those
F ‘tudents: should be made; and when





‘I speak of a scholarship policy for
ithe college I want it clearly under-
stood that in the past we have been
‘only too delighted to extend, adjust,
;amend that policy so as to aid more
| students who need the help’ when-

j ever the funds were available.

“The question which presents _it-
self’ in any »normal year, however, is
‘how -we can use the funds which are
iat our disposal to the best possible
‘advantage. I' believe that every
cholarship committee in the coun-
‘try confronted with this problem
would give approximately the same
| answer. All of us would like to find
; young women (or young men, as the
‘case may be) of high intellectual
‘calibre, great industry, purpose al-
| ready fixed to make use of a college
ieducation as a preparation for a fu-
ture career, who have a real-contri-
bution to make to the life of the
college by their work in undergradu-
ate organizations and their leader-/

Continued on Page Two



: Rehearsal Conflicts

President Park and the May
Day Director have made the fol-
lowing arrangement with the
Faculty whereby the name of
any student who says she has to
leave early for a rehearsal or
that she is- not able to attend
class or laboratory on account
of a rehearsal shall be reported
to the Dean of the College, who
will then notify the May Day
Director at: once, so that any
- misunderstand may be cleared
up. Rehearsals are being
planned at hours which do not
interfere with the routine of the
College. Any student who finds
that ‘there is a conflict between
a class or’a laboratory and a re-
hedrsal: for which she’is posted
should immediately report: the
conflict to the Director of May







"Day. eee



College Calendar

Wednesday, February 26.—
Museum of- Modern Art films
will be shown. Goodhart, 8 p. m.

_ Thursday, February 27.—Vo- |
cational Tea: - aneneeaeat Room,
4.30 p. m.

Friday, February 28.—French
play, Son Mari, presented by
the French Players of New
York. Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.°>A
dance ‘Will follow: the. perform-
ance. ‘Gymnasium, 10 p..m.—2
a. m. ;

Sunday, March 1. ate Walter
Friedlander will speak on The
Landscape Painting of Poussin
and Lorraine. --Deanery, 5 p.m.







American Student Union



Common Room, February 20.—At a
short meeting held for the purpose of
temporary organization, a local chap-
ter of the American Student Union
was started. About. thirty students
and two members of the faculty met
together to choose officers and make
plans for the future. Naomi. Coplin,
’38, was elected temporary chairman
‘of the group, and Mary Riesman, ’39,
was chosen secretary. Twenty-one of
; those present signed up as desiring to
join the Union. . Dr. Weiss and Dr.

" Miller were among those who attend-

‘ed the first meeting. Dr. Kingsbury
and Dr. Fairchild also expressed an
interest in the Union. Another meet-
ing wil! be held this Thursday which
will consider the program of the Union
and the particular plans for action
by the Bryn Mawr group.



Hot Box Fires Delay Weekenders
(Contributed in News Tryouts)

Even the presence of a warden did
not prevent the lateness Sunday eve-
ning of nineteen Bryn Mawr passen-
gers on-the popular 8 o’clock train from
New York. ~ The reason for the delay
was at first obscured by vague reports
from the conductors. Not until the
passengers from the two _ actively
troubled cars trooped into the rest of
the coaches was it discovered that the
commotion was caused by two “hot
boxes” which occasioned more smoke
and excitement than danger.

No Bryn Mawrter was directly dis-
comfited by the accident. Several
limping starts made the possibility of
getting to college on time seem hope-
ful to some, who did not bother to
telegraph. On the other hand, not
only did several apprehensive persons
scurry to the nearest telegraph ser-
vice, bug. gome even wrote reminders
of their excuse in the signing-out
books.



Meeting of Philosophy Club

The newly organized student Phi-
losophy Club has announced its first
meeting for Tuesday, March 4. The
place where the meeting will be held
will be announced later. At a pre-
liminary meeting three students were
elected to a managing committee:
Marjorie Goldwasser, ’36; Elizabeth

Lyle, ’37, and Leigh Stenhardt,
37. -The- club is intended to arouse
interest among the students’ in

the discussion of philosophical prob-

ilems and to interest those taking re-

quired philosophy in larger aspects of
the course.

Members of the faculty will be in-
vited to the first meeting, at which the
paper written by Augusta Arnold, ’38,
on Time in Aristotle will be read. All
who are interested are invited and it
is suggested that reading the short
passages on Time and Space in Ari-
stotle’s Metaphysics will be of assist-
ance for the discussion which will fol-
low the reading of the paper. First-
year students in particular are urged

to come. *e



Wrong Multiplication

In the article on finances of
the college appearing in the last
issue of the News, an error was
_made in computing the approxi-
mate value of the land on which
the. college stands. The figure
should read $1,420,000 instead



Branch . Started’ Here



of $142,000

«

Richards Disproves eI
Doctrines of Usage



Words in Ordinary Discourse
Not Distinct as in-Writing
But Fluid

LECTURE 3RD OF SERIES





Goodhart ’ Hall, February 24.—In
the third ‘of his series of lectures on
the interpretation of prose, Mr. I. A.
Richards, having in his last lecture
come to a definition of .context and
the philosophical problems connected
with it, stated that he would by ap-
plication. of this definition to specific
sentences turn the philosophical prob-
lems to literary ones and attempt to
show the-conftict between the doc-
trine of usage and ‘the inter-inani-
mation. of. words.

Context is granted to be a recur-
rent group of events, bound together
by the causal law, which states that
under géven conditions, of two events,
if one, the cause, happens, the other,
the effect, will also happen. By a spe- -
cial abridgment of context, a word be-
comes a_ substitute for the non-re-
| curring parts of the context. In
other words, it acts in behalf of the
missing part and what it means is
what would complete the meaning.
Literary context is the influence of
words on one another in a passage.
The problems that arise are: what.
do words in a sentence mean and
how do they depend on other words?

It will be ‘readily admitted that
only the words of highly technicalized
science are wholly independent and
always the same in meaning no mat-
ter how they stand in a _ sentence.
The words of conversational, more
fluid discourse are, on the other
hand, so fluctuating in meaning that
not only are they inconstant, but of-
ten the whole sentence in which co-
operative meanings hang together
may itself be unstable in meaning.
This liability to shift in meaning
applies to all the language functions
of words as well as to their sense,
that is, to one’s feeling about what
one talks or writes about and wishes
to convey, to the confidence that a
remark is sound, and to the effect
one desires to create. The combina-

Continued on Page Five









Horn-Dance to be Given
Here for First Time



The Abbots Bromley Horn-Dance,
to be given at Bryn Mawr for the first
time this year, has a troupe of ten
performers: six dancers, a fool, Maid
Marian (sometimes referred to as a
man-woman, which is a man dressed
as a woman, but looking like a man
dressed as a woman and not like a

woman—a difficult job for the cos-
tame hobby-horse (looking like
a man dressed as a hobby-horse), a

boy with bow and arrow. There are
also a musician with an accordian and
a boy with a triangle.

Each dancer carries reindeer horns
set in a wooden counterfeit skull with
a pole eighteen inches long by which
to hold it. The first three dancers
carry white or cream horns, while the
last three carry blue ones. Each
dancer bears the head in front of him,
holding the handle with his left hand
and the horns with his right. The fool
carries a stick and bladder. The
horse is painted wood, with a heavy
mane.

The dance is an extremely ancient
one, probably having its origin in some
religious festival. The boy’s:bow rep-
resents an: instrument of sacrifice, like
the swords in the Morris dance, and
the skins worn by the six dancers are
also symbolic of the sacrifice. The
horn-dance, different from any other,
was done at the International Confer-
ence in London last summer as a rep-
resentative dance of England.



News Tryouts
There will be a meeting of
all candidates for editorial posi-
tions on the College News in the
News Office on Monday, March
1, at 5.30 p.m. Please bring at
least one completed article.















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The American Student Union

The appearance of a new organization last week on the Bryn Mawr
campus doubtless made little impression on many students. The formation
of a local chapter of the American Student Union, however, is representa:
tive of a new feeling which is animating the thinking young people of
this country.

An understanding of the aims and purposes of the larger organization
is essential in order to. realize the significance of the establishment of a
Bryn Mawr group. The American Student Union is a new organization
which was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in January at a convention attended
by representatives of one hundred twenty-three colleges from all over the
country. It is an alliance of liberal, progressive -and left wing forces
which is independent of all political parties and, indeed, contains many
shades of political opinion within its ranks. The attainment of permanent
peace, the winning of greater economic security, the combating of race
prejudice and the securing of academic freedom are the definite objectives
with which the Union is chiefly concerned. The whole movement is an
‘effort to stir students into action on behalf of these objectives which they
are seeking to realize.

It is very easy to allow the detachment with which we view present

day problems to become complacency and indifference, especially in a group |’

which has as great a degree of economic security as have most Bryn
Mawr students. There is a tendency on the part of many undergraduates
to drift along with the current of everyday thought, partaking in discus-
sion of the trend of present day events and attempting to understand the
arguments for both sides of many of the major issues. Not only~is it
hard to translate these ideas into action, but indeed, the real difficulty
comes in making a positive stand at all. The American Student Union
represents a group of students who have decided to work actively for
certain very clear ends. There. are many people who may disagree with
these ends or with the means adopted to attain them, but by establishing
a branch of its organization at Bryn Mawr the Union is doing a real
service in bringing us face to face with issues on which it is vital that we

5°95 a definite stand.



Deanery Entertainments

The Deanery has proved itself so gyeat a success and has become so
integral a part of our lives on campus that-we often wonder how the
college ever did without it. As an alumnae centre it has kept those who
have left in pleasant and constant touch with the students of the moment.
To the undergraduates it has given-a home on campus in which to enter-
tain their families. But most of all, this year it has brought a number
of most delightful lecturers and entertainments on Sunday afternoons. If
week-ends have become brighter, the thanks must go to the Deanery Com-
mittee. The informal talks by John Mason Brown, Clifton Fadiman and,
last Sunday, by Louis Untermeyer, are now taken for granted as the most
diverting aspect of college life.

This happy state of affairs is, however, not to continue next year
unless something happens in the meantime. Much as we should like to
hope so, entertainers such as the Yale Puppeteers do not come out of the
blue, nor do Irving Stones rush of their own free will and without com-
pensation to entertain us in the Deanery. This year a special gift of an
alumna has made all these possible... Last year the entertainments were
not. so numerous—nor, we venture to say, so diverting! Not only’ were
there fewer events, but tickets had to be purchased for those that did
occur. To the generous alumna who has made this year outstanding in
entertainment, we extend our heartfelt thanks.

——,

Report Rehearsal Conflicts

Every student whose rehearsal
is put at an hour when she has
laboratory must come and report
as follows:

In Mr. Wyckoff’s plays, report
to Betty Lord, for whom mes-
sages may be left in the Publi-
cation: Office, Taylor Hall.

In all other play’, report to
Polly Barnitz in the Publication
Office.







in its fifth week at this theatre.

Fox: The Prisoner of Shark Island,
with Warner Baxter as the heroic
doctor who was arrested for treating
Booth during his flight after the as-
sassination of Lincoln.

Karlton: Next Time We Love, with
Margaret Sullavan and James
Stewart.

Keith’s: The Ghost Goes West, a
charming comedy from Great Britain,
starring Robert Donat. ©
Stanley: Follow the Fleet, the fifth
joint appearance of Ginger Rogers
and Fred Astaire. ,

Stanton: Jackie Cooper’s latest,
Tough Guy,



Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Joe Penner in Collegiate; Friday
and Saturday, Eddie Cantor in Strike
Me Pink; Monday and _ Tuesday,
Gladys Swarthout in Rose of the
Rancho; Wednesday, James Cagney in
Ceiling Zero.
Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Tale of Two Cities.
Seville: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Irene Dunne in The Magnifi-
cent Obsession; Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, A Tale of Two Cities.

Academy of Music
Werner Janssen, conducting. Mo-
zart, Overture The-Magic Flute, Sibe-
lius, Symphony Number One in E
minor; Harris, Prelude and Fugue for
string orchestra; Strauss, Salome’s
Dance; Sibelius, Finlandia.

WIT’S EXD

MAY DAY MURMURINGS
15,000 flowers

We heard that there must be;
“And don’t be too exact,

Each one they’ll never see.”





And so the smoking rooms

Were covered with crepe paper.
The flowers grew so rapidly,

The committee cut a caper.

But, oh, alas, the flowers

Have lead a sorry life.
Some, flimsy, had to be rewound—
The Gym’s complaints were rife!

And we were shocked to see

The Shipley girls enjoying
Their bright and flaming beauty;
Their bouquets were annoying.

The hardened Haverfordians
Took them with lordly airs,

And many Square Dancers returned
With gay boutonniéres.

But still the pile increases,
And still the wonder grows.
We all turn out so easily
A violet or a rose.



Fame cannot come to all of us
Who act in any May Day play.
Some roles have seven lines“Or 80;
They are not very hard to say.
Though humble, such a role has
points—
A minor girl can learn her part
While slipping down the icy walk
Between the Lib and old Goodhart.



We suggest as a test for the color-
blind (or the quick-tempered) : to



Movies

In Philadelphia

Theatres

Broad: Danger--Men Working, the
comic murder mystery, with Broderick
Crawford, Bruce MacFarlane and
Fred Stewart, reopened Monday night
after its sudden withdrawal last week.
Thomas Mitchell, the director, wished
to make some important changes be-

fore the play goes to New York.
Forrest: Tobacco Road continues
into the third week of its ee
oe re ed v York i



Marshall, in The Lady Consents.

who is played by Paul Muni.







fun of the old opera.



Aldine: Ann Harding in her. new-
est “gallant lady” part, with Herbert

Arcadia: Beginning Saturday, Ex-
clusive Story, with Madge Evans,
Stuart Erwin and Franchot Tone.

Boyd: The Story of Louis Pasteur,
an artistic but inaccurate filming of
the life of the great French scientist

Earle: The Bohemian Girl, in which ‘spur
Stan Laurel and Oliver Brady make | strc

have to distinguish, at a glance,
under electric light, between the
light and the darker shades of pink
crepe paper.
Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.



Two-Thirds of Flowers Made
_ Two-thirds of the flowers necessary
for May Day have already been made.
The garlands must now be twisted and
uates should
be spurred on to making more and





.|iron ring around them. They

Current Events.
(Gleaned from Dr. 0 Talk)
‘Wars and rumors of wars in foreign

lands. Did Germany put Japan up

to provoking border quarrels in outer

Mongolia to scare the French from



ratifying their proposed pact with |

Russia? There have been some quite
serious border clashes with Japan.

The French treaty with Russia is a
Pact for Mutua] Assistance, but the
Germans don’t want. the French to
ratify it. The ‘Conservatives in
France who were in favor of it are
now doubtful about it. Now Germany
says, “Let’s get the Japanese to go
in and scare the French.” Did the
Germans buy up the Japanese 4to
provoke those quarrels? The French
say that the pact may seem contra-
dictory to the League of Nations
Covenant and the Treaty of Locarno,
but it. is really a reinforcement of
them. The French will probably
ratify the treaty.

The Germans are complaining of the
are
watching the British rearmament.
The British have made enormous ap-

former. armaments. They are scared
of what might come as a result of the
German rearmament. Germany is

ance. How Mussolini and Hitler will
get along together we don’t know.
We remember Italy walking out on
Germany and Austria in the World
War, which showed that Italy couldn’t
be relied on.

Reactions to the T. V. A. ... It’s
been realized by the Administration
and its opponents as a pyrrhic vic-

propriations and are doubling their |

trying to make an Italo-Austrian alli-|

May Day Musicians

Any student who is “not in a
[| play dnd can play a musical
i]. instrument please sign on the-
| Bulletin Board outside the Pub-
| lication Office. Will the under-
i} graduate who plays the flute ~
|| please be sure and sign up?

-——-

|
|
|

send .them back to college without
| such help: On the other hand, wea
‘are definitely more interested in en
\ing our unrestricted scholarship funds.
ito assist a selected group of students.
‘to do their best work than we are in
| using them to help the maximum
‘number of students of limited means.
to return to Bryn Mawr.

“When I have said this much for
our scholarship policy I want to add
|that the faculty scholarship commit-
i tee and, even more, the alumnae com-
mittees have .made heroic efforts in
recent years to help students who
for one reason or another were not
awarded scholarships, by means of
special grants and loans from the
(student loan fund.- Miss Ward and
1 and all of the alumnae working on
|the problem are most anxious to
| hear of every emergency that arises.
| We do not want any student to leave
| college because of financial need un-









til we have canvassed every possible
jexpedient by which she might be
iable to remain. On the other hand,
‘the scholarship committees urge all
ithose who are thinking of applying
for assistance in one form or an-
other to be sure before they do so
that there is no way in which mem-
bers of their own families can help’
you to finance your college course,
and to remember that it will tax the
resources and ingenuity of all of us
this year, as it did last year, to try



tory, i. e., a deféat like the. South)
in the Civil War. ... “They wore |
themselves out whipping the North.” |
The Government had great aspira-
tions with this project, the darling of |
Socialists . . . to give all those “poor'|
whites” down there the electric lights |
which even the Chinese had blazing

to cover the most pressing emergen-
cies which arise.”



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-| private company constitutional? And

|ship in undergraduate discussions——



all over their land . . . build model the college might meet expenses.
homes... a lot of dams, three or four | Since that time the college has repaid
hundred million dollars worth... give! the full amount of the cuts.for two

the farmers a chance to have subsist- | years, and for the last -year 60 per
ence farms and keep the land from cent of the cut, preferring to curb
eroding away. But the problem was: extensions and improvements on lands
Could the Government indulge in such | and buildings in order to maintain
aspirations, was a, this constitutional adequate salaries for the professors.
co as send Morgan and Morgan, | Academic salaries range from
sociological professors, down there to ¢1800-$2000 &-year for full-time in-
som?
make the valley blossom? But the structors to $5200 for full professors.
Governmeng narrowed down its case In additiog to the latter there are
for presentation to the Supreme Court six special grants of $1000 each for
so that the Supreme Court would not the heads of six departments, These
declare it unconstitutional. The ques-' ,.., given in recognition of those pro-
tion presented was concerned with the feasors’ contributions to the college’s
Wilson dam, which had already been eputation by their scholarship. The

built for war purposes and not under depression unfortunately prevented

NG inspiration. It was: is the the college from extending these
use of the Wilson dam for purposes grants

of producing power together with its,
sale to the consumer over lines of a

Cost of Labor Rises

One of the most significant com-
answer was Parisons in all the accounts of the
college is that of the relative increase
‘in earnings of mechanical labor and
faculty since before the war. Labor
Dean States College has jumped 150-200 per cent in

Scholarships Policy wage costs, while the highly special-
ized faculty members have increased
their earnings only 70 per cent. This
is but an indication close at hand

leaders, in fact, among their contem- of the trend of the times., It has
poraries along many different lines. also meant certain curious revisals .
If we could find paragons such as in operating expenses at the college.
these needing a certain definite When formerly labor was cheap, the
amount of assistance—approximately , roofs were repaired with tin and
five hundred dollars a year—in order Often. Now, with the cost of labor
to enable them to come from differ-/at present rates almost prohibitive,
ent parts of the country to Bryn it is cheaper in the long run for the
nd stay here for four years,| college to do all the re-roofing in
Ave should probably be realizing the, higher quality and more expensive
ideal which most of us have hazily copper alloy in order to save on the
in the backs of our minds. It is|Trecurring expenses of labor. Before
the ideal toward which President| the war groundsmen received approx-
Conant of Harvard is at present imately $50 a month; now they re-
working, as an important factor in| ceive approximately $125 a month.
university policy. It is not an ideal; This is one of the most cogent rea-
which we are ever likely to see real-/Sons for the fact that May Day has
ized completely, but I mention it be- failed to make appreciable profits
cause it does explain the basis of Since 1914. Wages for servants in
many of the scholarship committees’|the halls has mounted over 100 per
decisions. icent since before the war, and these
“We feel that the best use which are strictly non-living earnings.
can be made of the limited scholar- Funds for Emergencies
ship funds which are at the disposal; . The annual budget does not include
of the faculty scholarship committee|g fund for emergencies, but great
cooperating with the alumnae schol-| jatitude is allowed in the appropria-
arship committees is to help a defi-) tions, Many things which seem to
nite number of good students selected| be emergencies to the students and
from a much larger number of ap-|tenants, such as minor pipe break-
plicants to come to Bryn Mawr or|ages, are in reality mere routine to
the administration and repair staff.

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DIRECTOR’S PAGE

- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS



~Over 100 Varied ‘Parts

Are Yet to be Filled

t
The May Day plays are almost en-
tirely cast, but this means that. only
two hundred “mummers” are chosen.
Everyone in May Day is in costume
and everyone:can join the revels. The
May Day Director will be glad if stu-
dents who want to be in May Day will



—come to the Publication Office in Tay-

lor, so that they may be chosen ac-
cording to their special talents and
their heights, for the special parts.

There are at least one hundred spe-
cial parts remaining to be filled which
do not require much preliminary -re-
hearsal. Tall students are suited to
“walk on” as heralds. There are six
of these “most gorgeously apparelled
in black and gold” who head the page-
ant. And behind them are the Queen’s
archers, also gorgeously apparelled
and stalwart. Behind Queen Eliza-
beth herself are two small pages, in
scarlet costume. Also in the proces-

_-sion are Aides, elaborately dressed,

as befits their official positions, to di-
rect visitors to the plays.

If you are jealous of the attention
bestowed on the oxen, the horses, the
sheep, the goat, or any of the live ani-
mals that add gaiety to the proces-
sion and cause apprehension in the
minds of the people who must lead
them, you should be one of the “fake
animals.” There are trained bears,
accompanied by trainers, a unicorn
and a lion—all of whom speak in Bryn
Mawr accents! And there are hobby
horses who curvet and prance most,
realistically’ under papier maché
molded and decorated to look like the
gaudiest of carousel steeds.

Also are wanted: a devil, who will
look evil in crimson tail and horns;
jugglers; fools; jacks-in-the-green,
who will really “strive to be a tree”;
stilt walkers (and we would suggest
to any student who feels confident that
she can manipulate stilts that this
would be the very best way to be in

. May Day agd see twice as much as

inyone else at the same time!) ; cham-



-No Rehearsals This Weekend

‘There will be no rehearsals
this week-end. Beginning Mon-
day, March 2nd, the regular
schedule of rehearsals will be-
gin. This means scheduled re-
hearsals on Friday afternoons,
Friday evenings and ‘Saturday
morni







| pion bowlers; townsfolk; country folk;
milk maids.

One of the features of May Day has
always been a group of strolling sing-
ers, and this year plans have been
made to organize a group large enough
to do madrigal-singing.

There are also some chances for stu-
dents to be in May Day plays, since
many of the tentative casts that were |
published in the News last week did
not in all cases.include the chorus
parts. Students who can sing should
still apply to’be in the choruses for
the plays, among which are numbered
the Merry Men in Robin Hood, the
Gossips in The Deluge and the Har-
vesters in The Old Wives’ Tale. The
guards in St. George and the Dragon,
who must be very tall in order to wear
the pink and black costumes, have not
been cast, nor have the Greek guards
in the court scenes in Midsummer
Night’s Dream.

There are also a number of parts in
The Masque of Flowers which have
not yet. been filled, including the non-
dancing parts in the anti-masque, the
followers of Silenus and Kawasha.
The anti-masque calls for two Indian
maidens, two Indian braves and two
Indian chiefs, which have not yet been
cast; and Silenus’ followers number
an Elizabethan dandy, three _ bac-
chantes, two wine bearers and two
harvesters.

This listing gives only a partial idea
of the number of parts that are still |
open; but all students, all undergradu-
ates not yet cast, undergraduates on
pro and graduate students who want
to be in May .Day should register at'
the Publication Office” in the near fu-
ture.









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Chivinie -Ringing Will Add
New Note This May Day



A new note will be added to May!
Day this year by the -intreduction. of |
change-ringing, also known as “ring-
ing a peal” rr “pealing a bell.’”’? The
custom is an old English one, highly
appropriate for an Elizabethan fete.
Alice Shurcliff, ’38, who suggested the
innovation, will teach three other
undergraduates the method, and the
four will ring bells at various places
on campus, probably beginning in the
Deanery garden.

The art of scientific change-ringing
is peculiar to England. Although the
actual method of change-ringing ap-;
parently did not develop before the!
middle of the seventeenth century,
there were guilds of bell-ringers much
earlier than that; in the thirteenth
century the “Brethren of the Guild of
Westminster” were appointed to ring
the bells there. Bells of all sorts were
used much more commonly then, to
indicate the hours for special occa-
sions, such as New Year’s Eve, All-!
hallow’s Day and election day. The.
great tower bells were named—often
in h®nor of certain people—and were
baptized with holy water. There were
many superstitions about them, one of
which was that a bell removed from
its original situation took a nightly
trip to revisit its old habitation. In
the seventeenth century, a doctor
ordered the bells to be rung often;
“thereby the aire is purified.” Bells
were rung at curfew, at marriages,
and to indicate the passing of the
dead. Shakespeare mentions them;
and John Bunyan was a famous
change-ringer, until his conscience
forced him to give up what he con-
sidered a wicked pastime.

Different numbers of hand bells can
be used, but here there will probably
be eight. These can be rung in scale
and with variations—there are about
5040 variations. The notes change ac-
cording to a definite system; that is,





a person ringing in third place one
time can ring in second or * fourth the the !

| next, but the progress must be to an
adjacent place. Hand bells were orig-
inally used merely to practice for
tower bells, aud as the swing of tower
bells cannot be changed, the hand bells
likewise never shift more than one
place in each change.

The bells to be used here were made
in England and are carefully tuned.
The tongues can move in only one
plane, first down and then up. On
May Day they will be rung each time
with a light touch for three minutes,
after which they will ring again in
scale and stop.



Members of May Day
Committees Announced



37, Chairman

Jean Cluett, ’37; Helen Cotton, ’37;
Irené Ferrer, ’37; Amelia Forbes,
37; Virginia Hessing, ’388; Kathryn
Jacoby, °37; Margaret Lacy, ’37;
Jeanne Macomber, ’37; Mary Mesier,
38; Maryallis Morgan, ’386; Pauline
Schwable, ’86; Eleanor Shaw, ’38.

Costume Committee

Elizabeth Bryan, ’38, Chairman

Nancy Angell, ’38; Ruth Atkiss,
36; Rose Baldwin, ’37; Elizabeth
Bingham, ’36; Alice Chase, ’88; Alice
Cohen, ’386; Bertha Cohen, ’39; Bar-
bara Colbron, ’37; Jeannette Cole-
grove, 36; Marian Diehl, ’39; Martha
Eaton, 789; Mary-Louise Eddy, ’37;
Anne Ferguson, °39; Frances Fox,
38; Evelyn Hansell, 86; Margaret
Harvey, ’39; Mary Elizabeth Hem-
sath,.’36; Ethel Huebner, ’37; Selma
Ingber; 87; Emily Johnson, —’37;
Beirne Jones, ’387; Virginia Jussen,
37; Lucy Kimberly, ’37; Ruth Levi,
37; Mary Lewis, ’37; Pauline Man-
ship, ’86; Anne L. Roberts, ’37; Wini-
fred Safford, ’37; Isabelle Seltzer,
37; Henrietta Varbalow, ’37; Mary
Walker, ’88; Julia Watkins, ’39;
Alys V. Welsh, ’39; Susanna Wilson,
38; Amelia Wright, ’37.

Property Committee

Lois Marean,

Olga Muller, 37, Chairman
Elizabeth Aiken, ’389; Marcia An-
derson, 38; Virginia Baker, ’38;

| Meigs,



Katherine Bingham, °38; Frances
Bourne, ’39; Helen Bridgman, ’39;
Rachel Brooks, ’37; Doreen Canaday,
36; Barbara Cary, ’36; Alice Chase,
38; Gretchen Collie, ’38; Caroline
duPont, ’38; Helen Fisher, ’37; Anne
Goodman, ’38; Mary Graves, ’38;
Esther Hardenbergh, ’37; Margery
Hartman, °38; Dorothy Hood, ’37;
Margaret Jackson, ’37; Laura Jen-
nings, ’39; Anne Keay, ’38; Mary
Elizabeth Lloyd, ’37; Elizabeth Lyle,
37; Anne Marbury, ’87; Mary Meigs,
39; Sarah Meigs, ’39; Ellen Newton,
’38;Margaret Otis, ’89; Helen Ott,
’36; Janet Phelps, ’87;. Jeanne Quist-
gaard, °38; Elizabeth Reed, ’37;
Dorothy Rothschild, ’88g Mary Sands,
88; Alice Seckel, 38; Isabelle Selt-
zer, °36; Dorothea Seelye, ’38; Jane
Simpson, ’37; Louise Stengel, ’37;
Ellen Stone, ’86; Janet Thom, ’38;
Margaret Veeder, ’36; Virginia
Walker, ’37; Suzanne Williams, ’38;
Jeanne Winternitz, °36; Mary G.
Wood, ’39; Sylvia Wright, 88; Anne
Wyld, ’38.
_ Animal Committee

Ellen Seattergood, ’36, Chairman

Agnes Allinson, ’37; Margaretta
Belin, ’39; Frederica Bellamy, ’36;
Jane Braucher, ’39; Eloise Chadwick-
Collins, ’89; Jean Cluett, ’87; Betty
Lou Davis, ’37; Amelia Forbes, ’37;
Marian Gamble, ’37; Margaret Har-
vey, ’39; Phyllis Hasse, ’88; Cath-
erine Hemphill, 39; Joan Howson,
38; Abbie Ingalls, ’38; Cornelia
Kellogg, ’39; Jean Lamson, ’37;
Margaret C. Martin, ’39; Mary
39; Sarah Meigs, ’39; Char-
lotte Peirce, ’87; Oatherine Sanders,
38; Eleanor Sayre, ’38; Frances
Schaeffer, ’38; Betty Stainton, ’37;
Leigh Steinhardt, ’36; Cordelia Stone,
37; Marie Swift, ’86; Olivia Taylor,
38; Adele Thibault, °39; Alys V.
Welsh, ’39; Dorothea Wilder, ’37;
Ann B. Wright, ’36.



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Mr. Alwyne Presents
. Pianoforte Recital



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and full chords in the first and last
movements and in the Scherzo. Some
of the quietest parts, however, as,
for example, the brief contrapuntal
ones of the last movement, present
almost equal difficulty of execution and
perhaps greater problems of interpre-
tation. The slow movement and its

’ little echo in ‘the added movement,

the Retrospect, were adequately
characterized by Mr. Alwyne as con-
taining some of Brahms’ most “gra-
cious inspiration.” The simplicity of
construction of the earlier parts of

‘the slow movement, before the great

remarkable.
elementary

is
only

reached,
reveals

coda. is
Analysis

_ chords, chromatically altered occasion-

ally, changing position; but the love-
liness of the progressions is almost
indescribable. There is no lingering
over these passages, however, or they
become over-expressive, and maudlin.
If any one feels that there was not
quite enough lingering, this is the an-
swer. In the first and last movements
and in the coda of the second, there is
certainly present the Brahms of the
great passages of the symphonies.
These parts are full of sweep and big-
ness, rhythmically, and at the. same
time they are rhythmically subtle and
intricate, in both respects foreshadow-
ing the symphonies. As in the sym-
phonies, also, there is brilliancy of
thematic transformation and develop-
ment, beautifully instanced in the
treatment of the very opening figure
of the sonata and the related “second
subject” 0f the movement. It is, of
course, the nineteenth century pre-
dilection for change of key which
makes possible some of this treatment,
and which contributes greatly to the
sensuous richness 6f the whole com-
position.

The same sensuous character ap-
pears in a less happy guise in the sec-
ond selection of the Liszt group which
followed the intermission of Mr. Al-
wyne’s program. Mr. Alwyne had
anticipated a hard reception for Liszt,
and reminded the audience that this
year of commemoration of Liszt’s
death is time to recall the contribu-
tions which music owes to this great
figure of its history. He alluded to
the extending of the scope of music
which Liszt effected. Specifically
this extension was twofold—in the
field of instrumental technique and ‘in
the development of chromatic har-
mony.

The first piece in the group was the
Paganini transcription, better suited
to the taste of contemporary audi-
ences, being simpler, and of saner dia-
tonic construction, than the second.
It was interesting, as Mr. Alwyne
had pointed out, for its perfect suit-
ability to the instrument for which
it was transcribed, although based
on a composition for another instru-
ment which makes wholly different de-
mands for execution. The second
selection of the Liszt group was the
Sonnet of Petrarch, No. 104, a com-
position full of progressions from
chromatic alteration, seeming to in-
tend to say too much, and actually to
say nothing.

All of the would-be brilliant effects
of the Bach variations, third in the
Liszt group, seemed likewise barren,
even completely frigid; but there was
one touch in the piece which is genu-
inely musical, namely, the introduc-
tion “of the chorale from the cantata
wherein the ground of the variations
is found. This passage is satisfyingly
simple, and it was very sympathetic-
ally interpreted by Mr. Alwyne. Even
the chorale theme, however, is
changed into a pompous and empty

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Mrs. Richards to Lecture
Mrs. I. A. Richards, ‘who
writes under the name of Doro-
‘thy Pilley, will speak in the
Deanery on March 8 at 5 p. m.
en Alpine Mountaineering. The
“talk will ‘be illustrated . by
lantern slides, and it promises
to be very interesting, judging

by her book, Climbing Days.







thing before the variations are con-
cluded. It was this composition which
illustrated the passacaglia type of
variation. It is not a true passacag-
lia, since it is largely homophonic, but
it is constructed, section by section,
over the repeated theme from the Can-
tata and the Crucifictus, as is the case
in that ancient form.

._ The last group was piayed without
introductory comment. The simple
Gieseking Serenade, arranged by
Strauss, was a relief after the tumults
of Liszt.
interesting of these five romantic com-
positions, April, of John Ireland.
The harmonic idiom of this piece is
more familiar to us in this country
from the song accompaniments of John
Alden Carpenter. It is very success-
fully used here.

After the Medtner Fairy ‘Tale and
the two Rachmaninoff “Etudes,” the
audience indicated their appreciation
with much applause. Mr. Alwyne
played’ one encore, the little Valse
Oublié of Liszt, and then another, a
classical minuet. The lightness of the
rhythm and the certainty of the
eighteenth century modulatory struc-
ture left us both gay and satisfied
after the diversities of the program.



Richards Reviews Work
- Done by English Majors



Room F, Taylor Hall, February 20.
—In the conference conducted by I. A.
Richards for students majoring in

‘English, Mr. Richards discussed the

work which students had prepared
after their last’ conference and com-
mented upon the extreme diversity of
opinion displayed therein.

‘The two passages which Mr. Rich-
ards had given out at the first con-
ference were chosen from Herbert
Read’s English Prose Style, in which
the author demonstrates the differ-
ence between what he calls ‘“decora-
tive” and ‘“‘illuminative’ metaphors.
The first passage he considered a deco-
rative metaphor and therefore worth-
less. He believed that by translating
the paragraph into direct English he
could preserve the meaning and elimi-
nate the vagueness.



It was followed by the most |

Budgeting Results in
Avoidance of Deficit



Continued from Page Two

vided for by an increase of the bud-
get. To allow also for unexpected
items, the estimates on maintenance
are drawn up on a basis of five
years so that when the time comes
for new piping in a building, the
budget is prepared to carry the ex-
pense. Again-in a case such as this,
it is cheaper to install brass pipes
at longer intervals than iron pipes
often, in order to save on_labor.
Practically all maintenance repairs,
including’ many which increase the
value of the _ buildings, are not
charged to current operating ex-
penses.' But special permanent im-
provements are separately accounted
for. Thus when electricity was in-
stalled in all the buildings it was
considered a permanent improvement
enhancing the total value of the
property. The fluctuating cost. of
food is taken care of in a more than
ample appropriation of income. In
recent months the cost of uncooked
provisions alone has risen two to
three cents a day per student. Even
this did not catch the budget makers
unawares, for this rise in cost had
been foreseen and the college is still
within its food budget allowance.

Each Hall Separate

Each hall of residence is main-
tained ‘separately. Each hall is
charged for its own materials and
repairs as any hotel or apartment
house would-be. The power -house,
although a separate unit of the col-
lege, presents a difficult problem be-
cause it is an integral part of both
the academic and the residential life
| of the campus. The total cost of
|the power house is sectioned off to
each of the buildings on the campus
on a basis of the estimated electric
‘current and heat used. The Library
juses the most heat and light and
the cost of this as well as that of
Taylor’s, Dalton’s and the Psychol-
ogy Laboratory’s heat and light, is
a part of the academic expenses of
the college. Each residence -hall is
charged with its “share of the heat
and light as a part of its own run-
ning expenses. Repairs and new
furnishings in each hall are a part
of that hall’s expenses. General
service, which includes cost of mail







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- Lecture at Swarthmore
Mr. I. A. Richards is to give

»~a public lecture on- Friday eve-
ning, March 6, at Swarthmore
in the Friends’ Meeting House. .
His subject will be Modern
Poetry. Visitors from Bryn
Mawr will be especially | wel-
comed.

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distribution, the Director of Hall’s
salary, a portion of the Superin-
tendent’s salary, and, indirectly, of
the dietician’s salary, is also divided
among the hals on a basis of the
size of the hall. Insurance, too, is
paid from the income of board and
rentals of each hall to cover itself
and contents. Merion and Beénbigh,
because of their age, are naturally
the most expensive halls to maintain
on a_ cost-per-student basis, while
their income is less per student.
Water and sewer rentals are two
big items in the expenses of every
hall.
Water Meters Changed

An interesting economy was made
recently in the cost of water. There
used to be a meter in every hall—
twenty-one meters'in all. The water
charges were greater for the first
100,000 gallons than for those there-
after. In 1931 two meters were in-
stalled to cover the entire campus
instead of the many separate meters.
The cost of water has since dropped
from $8,122 a year to $4,698, saving
$3,424 a year. The cost of the alter-
ation has since been paid for en-
tirely -in three years, and all sav-
ings henceforth are an economy for
the budget.

An _ interesting fact has just come
to light on the endowment of the
college funds in relation to those of
other universities. The amount of
invested securities for each student

here at Bryn Mawr is $12,000. At
Harvard the average is $16,000 in-
vested money earning an _ education:
for each student. At Haverford the
sum is even larger. Thus, although
the gifts which enable,us to go to
college séem large, and did to re-
porters from . Fortune, they are a
third less than those at two widely
separated men’s colleges.
Two Large Debts

Although the college operates with-
out deficits, there;are two large out-
standing debts: the one for the pur-
chase of Wyndham of $288,000, and

peo

tthe one for the construction of Good-

hart, which amounts to $125,000. In
addition there is a debt of $68,000
for deficits of previous years, and
certain improvements in the. past.
The college must pay interest on
these debts each-year, which amounts
to about $20,000. This means that
$20,000 must be taken from the an-
nual budget as carrying charges on
the debts.

The Alumnae Association pledged
itself to raise the money for Wynd-:
ham at-the time of its purchase and
this is one. of the objectives of the
Million Dollar Drive still in progress.
The debt on Goodhart Hall is being
annually reduced by the continued
generous gifts of Mr. Goodhart and
members of his family. In the mean-
time any profits which the college
may make are used to help pay the
debts.





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Richards Disproves
Doctrines of ‘Usage

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- tions and cooperations of the lan-
guage -furctions within a sentence
make the rigid cataloguing of a word

isolated from its context unprofitable,
thereby denying the validity of the
doctrine of usage which states that
there is a definite good or right use
for every word and that the literary
value of a word depends on its use.
The main objection to the doctrine
of usage, which is the invention and
legacy of the eighteenth century, is
that it blots out the inter-inanimation
of words and supposes them to pos-;
_ Sess sense aS men possess names and
to carry meanings in sentences re-
gardless of their neighboring words.

The usage doctrine can be inter-
preted and applied in a seemingly in-
nocuous way. It may state that one
learns to use words by response to
others’ use of them or that general |
conformity is necessary for general
communication. But because of its
apparent innocence and obviousness, |
it becomes the more dangerous. The!
senses of words in a discourse are
not fixed factors; they can be ar-
rived at only by guesswork based on
the careful consideration of the mul-'
tiplicity of meaning of words and
their inter-dependence within the
sentence.

To consider in more detail the
problem of the doctrine of usage and



the inter-inanimation of words, one



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| must go back to the definition of liter-

ary context: the influence of words
upon one another in a passage. The
difficulty which arises in writing but
which does not concern the speaker
is the separation of words. That
words are arbitrarily given definite
beginnings and ends results.in great-
er independence of words in written
form than in spoken.

In strong contrast to this scientific
rigidity is the fluid, conversational
discourse. Strangely enough, the
prestige of the strict, expository dis-
course is so great that its conception
is often. used as.a-norm whereby to
criticize fluid discourse. This critis
cal theory is as valid as the belief
that water is a defective form of
ice. The behavior of words in fluid
discourse is, in fact, unpredictable,
and often a whole sentence may be
unstable in meaning.

In scientific prose anything said
about a triangle does not fundamen-
tally change the meaning which the
listener immediately attaches to the
word. In conversational discourse,
however, meaning applies not only to
the sense of the words, but to all
their language functions, feeling,
confidence, and effect. At the begin-
n'ng of a sentence in conversational
discourse what certain words do in





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that sentence is indeterminate. In|
speech, intonation aids the under-!
standing of their use, but in writing |
intonation -must be replaced.

The fact that the inter-dependence |
of words within ‘a contéxt has so im-
portant an effect upon their mean-;
ing calls attention to the different
kinds of inter-inanimation. One type
includes the familiar expressive or
symbolic words, or onomatopoeia,
which, according to the popular view,
imitate what they mean. They are
groups of words which have. sonie-
thing in. common in meaning and
sound, such as slush, slide, slither.
This linkage of words of peculiar
sound and meaning. in a group is
called a morpheme. Words do not,
however, share .a meaning because
they contain the same sound, as
pear, pare, pair.

The existence of the morpheme
leads to the fallacious argument that
some words in virtue of their sound
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words which share their morpheme

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“back up” other. words.

From this “backing up” arises an-
other kind of inter-inanimation, the
connectior of words leading to words
of similar. sound, but which have no

morpheme, as, for example, blare and’:

scare. The force of one word may
come from others, not only by infer-

ence from similar sounding words,

but also from those which in part
share its meaning.



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From Cecil Pennyfeather’s column
in the Philadelphia Record February
24: “What is the name of the heiress
student at’ Bryn Mawr who has a por-
trait of Hitler and the swastika hang-
ing in her boudoir on, the campus?”

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Go ahead and sleep. A CCNY pro-
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more. (—ACP)

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at Colby College in Maine.(—ACP)
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Untermeyer Amuses
Audience With Poems



Are Mother Goose Jingles |

for Modern Child



EXHIBITS OWN GROWTH



The Deanery, February 23.—‘‘The
title of my lecture is an invention of,
my secretary and I have no idea what



‘bodied an idea, an excellent example
|of the faults of youth, according to

Mr. Untermeyer. It was, he said,

losé. ‘This early poem has been trans-
lated into different languages with the
result. that the poet has ceased to
like it. '

The second stage of Mr. Unter-
meyer’s writing, his maturity, was
illustrated by a poem about: Nature,
with no. moral. and. no_ «meaning.

it means,” said Mr. Louis Untermeyer! A product of the gutters of New

as he began his talk, The Critic’s Half |

Holiday. He illustrated with read'ngs
fromhis poetry the change that'‘has:
come -into his writing since he first
began; and he read three poems, the

York, he bought land in the Adiron-
dacks and set about to satisfy his
ambition to be an agrarian. He
actually became a farmer. The dif-
ference is subtle: the agrarian be-

first a product of his youth sixty-five lieves that some time he may some-

years ago, the second the fruit of his
maturity fifteen years ago, and the
third the result of his present state of,
as he termed it, decay.

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He concluded

how: make money out of his land, the
fer-ner has no illusions, This intimacy
wth the soil led to more poems about
Na‘ure, which he had begun to write

with parodies of contemporary poets. | while commuting between New York
The first poem was didactic and em-.and Newark, where he worked in a Untermeyer, lay in its use of sig-

| i} on Thursday, February 27, in
| Raper relevant ‘in his youth than now. |

Parodies of Contemporary Poets; I.s theme was a curious prayer for |
doubt and for the heart to fight and |



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jewelry factory. Gradually he canie
to real'ze that Nature is too big and
| that the poet is limited to the details
in his writing.

With this in mind he approached '

his present state of “decay.” His third
poem illustrated the theory of poetry
that he has evolved, that a. great
poem needs a great subject, a great
emotion. Poets are chary of great
emotions and have never dared to
write about the greatest emotion . of
them all, the tender feeling of the
hungry epicure. Mr. Untermeyer has
taken it upon his shoulders to supply
that lack and to write an epic of food.
* The secret of its charm, confided Mr.





nificant detail and the perfect ad- |
jective that managed to be differ-
ent from the adjectives of other |

artists. Exar4ples of this memor-!
able description cy 4 “plain-
spoken turnips, honest beets,” ‘the
lavish motherliness of milk,” “the

deep reserve of artichokes,” “mush-
rooms whose taste is texture,” even
“the eternal compromise of hash.”
Mr. Untermeyer then read several
poems ‘from his book, Collected ?aro-
dies, which he had considered calling
Parodies Regained until.his editor ob-
jected that a book had already been
published by that name. In this book,
distressed by the decreasing popular-
ity. of Mother Goose rhymes among
the younger generation of today; ‘he
attempted to re-write the jingles as
famous modern poets would have done |
them. *
The first parody was Masefield’s |
version of Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, |
written in. his vigorous early style,
with its unexpected lapses into the
pastoral. The next was in the style
of MacLeish with his characteristic







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use of rhyme, half-assonance, half-
dissonance (instead of love ... dove,
love, glovers, and what of it) and of
a curious length of line. The subject
was appropriately This Little Pig
Went to Market. The third and only
truly vicious parody was.Little Boy
Blue as Edna_ St. Vincent Millay
would have done it in her best Fatal
Interview manner... Mr.. Untermeyer
then brought down the house with the
glorification of home, the kiddies and

| mother in The Old Woman in the Shoe

by the one and only Edgar Guest.

Mr..Untermeyer ended his lecture
with a love-song to his farm, a poem
expressing essentially deep things in
a light tone, entitled: Last Words Be-
fore Winter.”
















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