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We Come of Age

‘It is with satisfaction that the supporters of self-government greet

- the revised set of rules laid down for the college by the elected board

and subject to the approval of the student body. The new rules repre-

. sent a much-needed step in the direction of liberalism, and will do

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had their being only in the fact that they were broken openly and

boarding houses at which students were permitted to stay, and with

and not on those of the college, and no constant threatening on. the

much to strengthen the position of the student jurisdiction. The secret
of the success which any self-government organization can hope to
attain must rest not on the terror which it inspires in the students, but
on the cooperation which it promotes. And cooperation cannot be
propagated by rules whose one distinguishing characteristic is strict-
ness. In the past there have existed several rules at Bryn Mawr which

frequently by all and sundry. These had to do with the hotels and

the places to which we were permitted to go in a spirit of fun and
frolic. The rules limited the establishments of this sort to the dullest
and most moribund spots to be found in the East, and consequently
no one ever considered going to them. Instead we have all been sign-
ing out to the home of a forewarned friend, and then going off gaily
to the ends ofthe earth and whatever hotel pleased our plans and to
whatever den of iniquity pleased our escorts. :

The habit of breaking rules is a very bad one as far as its effects
on the standing of the student body is concerned, and if the new rules
are going to make cooperation possible within the bounds of ordinary
life.they should receive the support of the entire college. The rank!
and file of Bryn Mawr undergraduates would prefer to tell the truth
about their activities, and if they can be encouraged to do so by the
inauguration of a more liberal attitude toward where they spend their
carefree hours it would mark a great advance in the evolution of Bryn
Mawr student government.

There are those who feel that by relaxing the rules and allowing
more freedom to the students they will be subjecting the college to the
criticism of the moralists who consider that no young woman is either
capable or desirous of looking after herself until she has attained the
ripe old age of thirty. To their arguments there can be but one answer
—that the position of the college suffers much more from the flagrant
breaking of impossible rules than it ever could from an open removal
of those rules. Further, if the object of the many books and signing
out paraphernalia is to enable the college authorities to locate a girl
in case of emergency, would it not be more effective if the girl signed
out her actual destination instead of giving the address of a kind and
understanding friend living some hundred miles from the scene of
operations?

Again, if the object of the rules is to protect our manners and
morals, they are seeking to operate jar a field where they have no real
power. The behavior of every student depends on her own standards

part of the powers that be will keep a girl out of trouble if she would
rather be in. What the rules can do is encourage girls to admit where
they are going, and if thither lies trouble, at least the college will
know they are there. We have all been told by our families at one
time or another that they would rather we kept out of the scandal
sheéts, but that if we must misbehave they would rather know about it|
from us than from the public at large. In a sense this same principle
applies to the college, for it likes to think of itself as our foster parent
(at least in the case of those who turn out to be the pride and joy of
the nation). If the authorities know where we intend to stay in New



York, they can reply to the outraged queries of the moralists as to|



_.T0 THE DOGS

And oh the joy of walking a dog!
To feel oneself a minor cog
In the great scheme of nature’s

, creation
However himble éne’s*own menial

station,

As, stopping by every stone and tree
One has amplest opportunity,
To gaze at the birds and admire the

sky,
Till doggie decides it’s time to pass. by

with a cheer

As if ’twere the first. he had seen in
a year,

And thus, intermittently,
and startikg, -

Till the hour’s up angith sme for
the parting, _—_——*

On hot days and. cold a "yg in’ rain
and in snow,

The observer can see the Bryn Mawr
Dog Co.,

Distinctly the opposite from agog,

Walking but cursing the whole race
of dog.

stopping

—Dying Duck.



(Long After Carl Sandburg).

The fog comes
like a little
black pussy cat
_ It creeps softly
and drips on
the boardwalk,
But when I
come hurrying
to Goodhart
I slide
the slippery darkness
and skid
To the gravel
With a thud.
Damn the black pussy cat!
—Tom Cat.



THE LAST LEAF

A turkey sat on the barnyard fence
Whence all but he had fled.

Once brother fowl had filled the pen.
Now all but he were dead.

“Alas,” he cried, “How hard my lot,
I’m left here quite forlorn,

On Thursday others graced the pot,
They’ll be in hash this morn.

On Thursday night_ they were cold
cut, ;
They may be soup tomorrow,
My life is getting in a rut.
’Tis cause enough for sorrow.

Ah, they are gone, the hero dead.
They passed with parsley flying,
But I must wait till Christmas Day,

Then I’ll in state be lying.”
\ —Tom Cat.

SCHOLARLY REFLECTION

After extremely festive Fridays, Sat-
urdays and Sundays,

passes dismally ungregarious
Mondays;



One

Mourning the dear dead Fridays, Sat-)

urdays, and Sundays,
And wondering why there always
have to be Mondays.
—Lone Goose:



STODGY “—OGIES”

I shall not indulge in biology
For I do not care for anatomy.
I’d rather put time on me-ology.
To others I leave the dead-cat-omy.
I cannot abide archeology,
Psychology nor this philosophy.
I don’t care to know of geology,
Of law cases and of will-osophy.
So chanteth the innocent moron
Who longs but for alleviation,
And what is to this place quite
foreign,

where we are and why—‘“Of course, we know,” whereas the only reply | Her studying’s abbreviation.

open to them in the past when a bit of information leaked through |

was “Oh.”

Because we feel that the student body is essentially a law-abiding
group, and because we feel that in the interests of the college the object
of the rules should be to promote cooperation instead of antagonism,

and because we feel that we will not behave as though we are two unless

we are encouraged in that belief by paternalism, we welcome the

change in the rules and hope that the students will realize that to keep
the advantages that they have gained will call for a justification of
the confidence which the new regulations places in their good judgment |
..and intelligence. “



_ If a student is caught drinking at| If a person wished to take every

the University of Colorado, he is forc-| course offered by the University of
to attend Sunday’ Schoo] for a| Wisconsin, it would take him ninety-|-
period of three years. —

nine years to complete his education.

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—Pitter-Patter.



TURNABOUT

The flowers growing on the bars,
The horizontal enes, we mean,
Are not the blooms that other years
Left blushing there alone, unseen;
The buds that deck the farther wall
Present a new and different guise,
A change of garb in austere mood—
To black and white all topped with
ties;
And even handsome doesn’t do ~
As he is wont: he has no drag
With her of:silk and satin clothes,—
Since Bryn Mawr Eve herself goes
—Snoop-on-the-Losse.



To the next bush, which he greets] -

SIGNS OF THE ,TIMES
From a speakeasy:* ‘Paul White-
man’s Orchestra; Harriet Hoctor, and
the Flea Circus.”
*A place for refreshment, now sel-
dom to be found except in out-of-the-
way places.

WHERE TO GO IN PHILA.



“Once you have eaten here you will
never go elsewhere.”

“BEAUTY FOR SALE, Also Bar-
bara Stanwyck.”
men! Line forms to the right. Or
as Mae West would say—“Do I make
myself clear?”



_ Cheero—
—THE: MAD HATTER.



Greek Newspaper Likens
Bryn Mawr to Monastery



Continued from Page One

approach, when you see it open before.
you, such a place as most of the ro-
manticists write about in their uni-
versal Utopias. The mythica! and
fantastic character of the whole place
is given by the character of. the liv-
ing beings who infuse life‘and move-
ment into their incredible colony.
There are about 500 girls, girls but

From a _ restaurant near Penn: |

Pa Bose. :
Step up, gentle | which her admirers never fail to pay -

not in uniform, the prettiest of little’

| IN PHILADELPHIA

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| Chestnut St. Opera House: Cornélia
_ Otis Skinner comes back with an ever-
increasing repertoire of her own orig-
inal character sketches and dramatic
sequences. Mon., Tues.,- Wed., night
and Thurs. matinee and both per-
formances. Saturday, The Loves of
| Charles II. Thurs, night, The Em-
press Eugenie.
Wives of Henry VIII. She has al-
| ways had a charm all her own, .to



; tribute.
Walnut: S. N. Behrman’s new-
world. It is entitled Love Story .and
is the fitst serious play this noted
writer of comedies has ever tackled,
which should be enough to damn it
eternally. Frank Conroy, Leona ,Ho-
garth and Jane Wyatt are the main-
stays. :

69th St. - Playhouse: The stock
company goes on gaily with a farce
about golf and bridge known as Don’t
Wake. the Wife. The cast is more
than one would expect and you can
get your theatre tickets for anything
between 30 and 60 cents.



Philadelphia Orchestra, Friday,
Dec. 8, at 2.30 P. M.; Sat., Dec. 9, at

Friday. night, The

est. play will open its ¢yes to the.

Academy of Music -

American creatures, who play tennis| 8,30 P. M., and Mon., Dec. 11, at 8.30
or cricket, or do rhythmic gymnast-}P, M. Eugene Ormandy will conduct.
ics, or two, three, four together walk' Program:

among the gardens and parks, or sit; Glinka ....“Russian and Ludmilla”
in a corner, in the shade of a tree @| Prokofieff ...... Classical Symphony
century old, or read. A sight not for | Prokofieff.. “Love of Three Oranges”

mortals! Tschaikowsky,
We are dealing with the largest Symphony No. 5 in E Minor
woman’s university in the World, the Movies 7

College of Bryn Mawr in the United | Sianens The te wate Miia: wi

States. But because we are dealing
with a college, not a university, with
the education of the rich girls of the
United States, who stay ten months

in Bryn Mawr, they are taught —
whatever they want. From couking
to higher mathematics, surveys of all
the branches of knowledge in such
a way that young girls or their par-
ents have nothing to do but choose
what they want to study.

The teachers number 100, those
‘who have undertaken to teach these
500 girls, that is—but why quibble?
—they are women! Because—no male
may enter Bryn Mawr as no female
foot may enter Athos. With one ex-
ception! Witly the exception of the
“Prenuptian Chambers.”
are, in other words, in the central
building several rooms, “parlours,”
into which at their request with the
permission of the parents, and of the
administration, the young charges of
Bryn Mawr may receive the visits of
gentlemen — who, nevertheless, in
most cases—there is scarcely an excep-
tion with the high approval of the
family—are chosen to unite their lives
with the charges of Bryn Mawr whom
they visit. Once a week such visits
are arranged, which, nevertheless,
cannot be stretched beyond a half
hour. The unhappy-happy inhabi-
tants of the paradise of Bryn Mawr
have no-more than half an hour a
week to exchange oaths of. eternal
faith and love with their chosen
mates. The austerely limited charac-
ter of the visitors and the significance
of the visits give to the rooms of
Bryn Mawr where these visits take
place the characterizing name: ‘“Pre-
nuptial chambers!”

LETTERS

(The News is not responsible for
opinions expressed in this column.)
To the Editor of the College News:

In saying I will not tolerate such
a criticism of “Heartbreak House” as
was printed in the last number of the
News, I am voicing the opinion of
many other people in the college.
C ty in criticism turns the reader
nh indignation against the critic rath-
er than against the piece criticized.

“Without go6d breeding truth is
disapproved.” Of course, personal
opinion must enter into criticism, but
it should be expressed with some de-
gree of courtesy. Moreover, in such
a.statement as the opening sentence,
there is room for questioning the
truth of it. I believe some of our



short of the ideal than did this pro-
duction of “Heartbreak House.” We
should prefer to be told the endeav-
ors of the Hedgerow group; we
should rather be guided to their par-
tial successes than be stunned by
the over-emphasis of their failures.’



EVELYN THOMPSON, ’35.

a year and three years in syccession, | A i¢

For they |

own attempts have fallen further’

Claude Rains. A movie which one
should see only on very sedate occa-
sions because it has terrible.effects on
the nerves and leads one to doubt one-
All about a man which no one
could see—at least not all of him all
of the time. Very ‘swell.

Karlton: Richard Dix goes dra-
matic and gloomy on us in Day of

_ Earle: Constance Bennett and Gil-
bert Roland add more proof to the
movie Maxim that spies inevitably
fall in love and tell each other all
they know and catch it all around for
the sake of the tender passion. This
is not much better than its predeces-
sors and is called appropriately After
Tonight.

Boyd: Paul Muni does another dis-
tinguished piece of work in The
World Changes. The story follows a
man through this charming world
from his youth to his old age, and
the end finds him a bitter, disappoint-
ed individual. Excellent. 0

Europa: Sergei Hisenstein’s Mexi-
can masterpiece, Thunder Over Mex-
ico, in which he pleads his communis-
tic cause with fervor, and in which
appears some of the best of all mod-
ern photography. And also a great
deal of blood and gore. See it.

Stanley: The Four Marx Broth-
ers are back in Duck Soup, which in-
volves a mythical kingdom, a revolu-
tion and Groucho as dictator. Per-
sonally we think they are very damp,
but they have their public among
many better minds than ours. S

Aldine: Charles Laughton and his
five visible wives go on being funny
and also romantic in The Private Life
of Henry the VIII. Mr. Laughton
creates a portrait of the monarch that

have existed in our minds since
Freshman English.

Keith’s: Lillian Harvey and John
Boles in My Lips Betray. It’s one
|of those musica] romances and a little
on the moth-eaten side.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed., Thurs., Fri., and

Sat., Footlight Parade, with Dick
Powell, Ruby Keeler, and James Cag-
ney. Mon. and Tues., Maurice Che-
valier and
To Love. ed. and Thurs., Jack Holt
in The Wrecker. Fri. and Sat., My
Lips Betray, with John Boles and Lil-
lian Harvey. Mon. and Tues., Tar-
zan, The Fearless, with Buster
Crabbe. _Wed. and Thurs., Jimmy and
Sally, with James Dunn and Claire
Trevor.
Wayne. Wed. and Thurs., Brief
Moment, with Carole Lombard. ~ Fri.
and Sat., Night Flight, with Lionel
Barrymore, Helen Hayes and John
Barrymore. Mon. and Tues., Too
Much Harmony, with Bing Crosby.



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There’s something in the adver-
tisements this week. Read them.



Reckoning, and it is pretty terrible. .

answered a lot of questions which.

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