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Iu Memoriam

GERTRUDE HOUSTON WOODWARD
Class of 1932
April 21, 1909—March 5, 1934

Bitte, Bitte!
With the advent of the first warm weather the thoughts of the

undergraduates turn as ever to the question of orals and their deathly
toll, and this year brings evidence of their increased depredations

among the seniors. Usually, no students are prevented from graduat-
ing by the orals unless they have actually failed them—usually not
once, but many times. However, this year there is a student who seems
doomed to go down before them without ever having faced them in
actual combat. The case is that of a senior who spent her junior year
in France, and who, through a misunderstanding, did not realize that
she must at least condition the oral to be allowed to take it in the spring
of this year. As the situation stands at present this student who was
allowed to study French at the Sorbonne in recognition of her splendid
work in that subject, is not to be allowed to attempt the German oral
in the spring, thereby automatically losing her degree.

There are two sides to every question and the case of the senior
is no exception. On the side of those who adhere; to the letter of the
rule requiring students to at least attempt the orals before their senior
year are several arguments: First, there is the question of precedent

and iron bound tradition which allows of no exceptions to an enshrined |.

regulation. Secondly, it may be argued that the student should have
acquainted herself with the rulings in connection with the orals before
Thirdly, there is the point that the Dean’s
office did write her to the effect, that she would be required to take the
oral on her return in the fall—a point which must be qualified by the
fact that through incorrect forwarding. the letter did not reach her
until she was on the verge of sailing for the United States in the fall.
In general, the position of those who oppose the granting of an excep-
tion in the present case is that of a defense of precedent and the
immutability of all rules governing the conferring of degrees.

Those who have espoused the cause of the student are asking not
that she be given her diploma without fulfilling all the requirements,
but that she be allowed to attempt to fulfill those requirements: At
present her diploma is being denied her without proof that she is not
sufficiently acquainted with the German language to pass the oral.
To us that constitutes a condition which points to a weakness some-
where in the present rules and regulations of the college. The student
in question has proved by her work in French that she is well grounded
in the fundamentals which govern all languages. She is a language
major, and her record for the year just completed at the Sorbonne was
satisfactory in evéry way judged by the college standards of -merit.

~ Furthermore, she was removed from the campus where a discussion

of the orals and the rules surrounding them constitute regular under-
graduate conversation. A meeting was held during junior year in
which the oral situation was explained, but at that time this student
was in Paris. There were no opportunities at the Sorbonne for a Bryn
Mawr junior to study German, as the obvious reason for her presence
in that institution was to perfect her French. That the explanatory
letter from the administration should have been mislaid for some
months and its arrival delayed to such a time that there was no chance

_..of the student's perfecting her German to the required stage was unfor-

tunate in the extreme, but it cannot be blamed on the student any

-more than on the administration.

The facts of the case have already been reviewed by the college,
and a petition from that studenf that she might ‘be allowed to continue
her German and attempt the oral in the spring’ has been denied. ‘We
have no doubt that the administration gave the matter due considera-
tion, but to them the loss of a degree may not seem as important as

- it does to the struggling undergraduate. We are asking only that the
_ student be allowed to attempt the oral—if she should fail it we would
~ secept, the fact of her not graduating. But, it seems unfair, and
_ hardly in line with the boasted policy of the college that to their good
students go the diplomas, that a student who spent her junior year

abroad in the Sorbonne should be excluded from the final round-up
ee be Geetion v0 the colt aoe bp

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smoke and ashes came flying out. at
me. -Finally I picked my way up
near enough to .poke around among
the remains, and put some papers on
top. But let me tell you all! The
papers burnt and the entire thing
went up in smoke—and there I was
with no fire at all. Was J burnt up
after all that! :
Dearie, I’m afraid I must be off.
I’m reading Mourning Becomes

Electra—a lovely book. —
Oodles of love,

DIVINE RIGHT?

Some trouble with

The kin and kith

In lore and myth

I’ve always had:

The state I’m in—

I’m sure that kin

And kith in sin

-There were, begad.

They’ve always said

That some were wed,

But then I’ve read

That some were not.

When Greek met Greek,

And flesh was weak—

Er—so to speak—

What then, mein Gott?
—Goodness Me.

Clara.



ANTI-SOCIAL
I’ve got a cold
With snivels untold:
I care not a fig
For sprigh.



Mad Hatter, dear, dear,

My trouble is is is is is is so trou-
blesome that I that that I couldn’t to
say it myself. All at alk Gertrude
willingly said it for me to say to you
so you can _tell can tell me what.to
do:

“If: wean weaned and Nanette spoke
she very in a very in a very ina
very very very pointed and exceptional
withstood. The daughter was simple



CHILD’S PLAY
“CWA ARMY, 30,000 STRONG
‘LOST’ IN SNOW”’—headline.
Come on out, fellas;) We see you!



NEW SPRING CLOTHES ONE-
THIRD OF F—advt.

Look out, lady—yer goin’,
gone!

almost

BRIEFS

+ Well! that nearly Killed me, but what} ~-

minded.”
Had Matter so please help.
Sorrowfully,
Bedraggled Intellect.



A PLAINT
To be sung in February blizzards—
when snow gets in your eyes.

When I awake at. morn

I am left forlorn,

When upon the ground,
Swirling all around
Snow is falling down,
Then try in vain to rift
Passage through the drift.
This will be my plea
When all cuts I lose
Snow gets in my shoes.

Then comes a sunny day,
Snow must melt away,
Puddles soon abound,
Trickling o’er the ground
Mud is trampled down.
Still try in vain to push
Passage through ,the slush,

Taylor is too far.

Still all cuts I’ll lose,

Mud gets in my shoes,
Puss-in-Boots.

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WOMEN OF LETTERS
My dear—

I’ve just had such a time! Simply
awful—I was sitting over in the li-
brary, when suddenly—out of a clear
sky—it came upon me like a wave

FOR THE INTELLECTUALS

Mr. Blank to Speak
Latter Part of Week
Rest of the Deanery

To be Hid in Greenery
Home Team Plays Fine;

Bryn Mawr Backs Shine
Discussion i in Chapel

Of Adam and the Apple

‘i A FAVORITE FISH

| DROWNED IN FORMALDEHYDE

;O woe! but you were lovely, silvered,

| slim,

| Of soulful eye, and streamline fin so

| trim.

| Why, o, my beauty, did you sit that

day,

; That fated day, upon a slimy spray,

! And ever contemplate a little bite

Of hook that dangled shimmering

and white?

O never have I this sad tale’ believed,

How you by shining hook could be
deceived.

Hear! hear! you other dogfish, learn,

That all is not a worm, of such a
turn.





—Dissectress.



From the horizontal point of view
of all Art, I wish to speak my mind.
My mind is not made up because I
have not seen what I wish to speak
about. But it seems a very convenient
time to speak as I have heard that you
are reviewing Four Saints in Three

that the fire needed another log.-So
I dashes up, my dear—you know me,
and seizing the largest—a mere se-

Acts'in this issue of the News. I
do not wish to make myself too plain;
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the spring of senior year.

We fully realize the importance of a rule which makes it impossible
to put off the problem of orals until the last minute. In the end such
a regulation operates to the advantage of the students involved. But,
there are times when even the most beneficial regulation could be abro-
gated to advantage in special eases. In the past students who have
done outstanding work in their departments and who have encountered
unexpected snags at the last moment have been treated with leniency
by the college. Not that the Bryn Mawr diploma has ever graced the
land of one who had not lived up to the letter of graduation require-
ments, or whose friends have not shouted the Battle Hymn of the
Republic at the crucial moment, but the life of good students has been
made more happy by the kindly attitude of the powers—that—be
when the skies were blackest. The powers of the academic council of
the college could be employed to no better purpose in the opinion of
the undergraduates than to allow the student to take her German oral
in the spring in spite of the fact. that she has never taken it before.
No one knows: whether she can pass it or not until she has tried, and if
the student is qualified to pass the examination it seems only intelligent
{o permit her to make the attempt.

The undergraduates have no desire to assail the academic suprem-
acy of the Gods of the Mountain in matters of this sort. They feel
merely that the student in question should be given a chance to lose
her degree instead of having it taken from her by a rule of which she.
was, through extraordinary circumstances, not aware. The seniors
would accept any dispensation in her “favor 4in-the-light of a fully
justified exception, and would not regard it as creating a precedent or
in any way lowering the barriers surrounding the territory of the
orals. Exceptions have been made in the past, and to the student body,
the case of the French speaking senior to-whom the privilege of express-
ing herself through the additional medium of German is denied, con-
stitutes a case worthy of exceptional treatmeft. We are not asking
that any ‘of the graduation requirements be dispensed with in the
present case. We are asking only that the student be given a fighting
chance to graduate instead of having her hands firmly bound behind
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IN PHILADELPHIA



“Theatres
Broad: . Conrad Nagel and Laura
Baxter in the very funny farce about
a well-behaved lecturer whose badly-
behaved past caught up with him in
Cleveland—Goodbye Again, Is the best
of the week’s offerings.

Garrick: Mr. and Mrs. Coburn
come back to us in The Yellow Jacket.
The charming, but slightly sleep-in-
ducing pseudo-Chinese whatnot.

Erlanger: The three illegitimate
sons of “one of .those. dancers” all
turn out to be like their respective
fathers (who were very different) and
we have Three in One. With Jacque-
‘line Logan and King Calder it goes
along very well.

Coming—March 12
Broad: Alexander Woollcott and

$ccore Kaufman’s joint brain child—
—Confined

The Dark Tower. Jessie Royce Lan-
dis and Alexander Clark have the
leads, and, as they had nothing to do
with the moderate success of this
‘melodrama in New York, we will
make no promises. ,

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Music—Academy of Music

Ballet Russe. Wed. afternoon,
March 7, at 2.45 P. M., and Thurs.
evening, March 8, at 8.30 P, M. Wed.
program will be ‘“Petrouschka,”
“Carnaval,” “Le Beau Danube” and
others. Thurs. program will be “Les
Sylphides,” “Les Presages” — and
“Prince Igor.”

John Charles Thomas will give a
concert on Wednesday evening, March
1; at 8:20: PP: °-M.

Philadelphia Orchestra. Friday af-
ternoon, March 9, at 2.30 P. M.; Sat-
urday evening, March 10, at 8.30
P. M., and Monday evening, March
12, at 8.30 P. M. Leopold Stokowksi
will conduct, and Yehudi Menuhin
will be the violin soloist. Program:

Beethoven....Leonore Overture No. 3
Beethoven,
Violin Concerto in D Major
Bach,
Fugue in G Minor (The' Smaller)
BOCK : 46546 Prelude in E Flat Minor
Bach,

Brandenburg Concerto, No, 2, in F
for solo Flute, Oboe, Trumpet,
Violin and Orchestra.



Movies

Stanley: Clark Gable and Clau-
dette Colbert continue to bill and coo
on the way to Florida on a transcon-
tinental bus—-Jt Happened One Night
—is very funny and gives one hope
for the future of Mr. Gable’s sense of
humor.

Aldine: Anna Sten in Nana, the
“millions of dollars movie,” which is
supposed to be based in some obscure
fashion on Zola’s novel. Not a very
good movie and we thought Miss Sten
less. than her advertising manager
would have us believe as to charm,
ete.

Arcadia: The entire population of
Hollywood continues to have Dinner
At Eight at popular prices. Has been
seen by nearly everyone six times, so
comment seems unnecessary.

Boyd: Ruth Chatterton finds the
state of marriage as difficult as she
usually does in Journal of a Crime,
with Adolphe Menjou. Isn’t there any
character besides that of a jealous
wife that this woman knows how to
portray?

Earle: Along with vaudeville we
have Wheeler and Woolsey in Hips,
Hips, Hooray, which is all about noth-
ing in particular except those two fun-
ny boys. We can’t bear them, but
maybe you can,

Europa: The same movie seems
destined to last_us all season—Forgot-
ten Men goes on showing us the ter-
rible side of the war, which for many
years was suppressed. Seems a lit-
tle superfluous to show them to the
people—might have a special showing
for the government.

Fox: On the stage, “The First Lit-
tle Show” and in the film Devil Tiger
himself looking obligingly at the cam-
era in the epic of man against the
elements and animals. Worse - than
most.

Karlton: Mae Robson as the mis-
erly old lady who loves money and
her son and is dreadful about them
both until she finds that’ You Can’t
Buy Everything. Points’ a doubtful
moral and is not all it should be.

Stanton: Lionel Barrymore and
Fay Bainter in This Side of Heaven,
a mediocre movie, which goes to prove
that the haste with which Mr. Barry-
more is turning out his starring ve-

hicles. is making for waste. ©



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