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VOL. XVII, NO. 2

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDN@SDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930

RRICE, 10 CENTS





Lantern Night Songs
Again Fill Cloisters

Hymns and.Moonlight Combine
Harmoniously at Annual



Ceremony.



CHARM PROVES LASTING



Lantern Night was held in the Clois-
ters Friday evening, October 10.

The
behind our Lantern Night have given

many years of slow evolution
to it a depth of feeling and a harmony
that_make of it not, only a living but
a serious tradition and a rare exper-
ience for us today. We are so used to
being amused by the thing called Col-
lege Spirit that it is rather startling
to have to acknowledge something be-
side an aesthetic quality in Lantern
Night,
Lantern Night is not a subject for
Its
lies in no tangible feature of its rites

yearly’ dissection. hold upon us
but in the mood it creates; we did not
go to the cloisters last Friday night
to examine the vocal abilities of the
class of 734.
Lantern Night are quite submerged in
the tradition as a whole.

To look for flaws would inevitably
disrupt the mood which the~ strange
black semicircle of figures in the dark-
ness of the cloisters is bound to sug-
gest. Yet, on the other hand, any real
would
most certainly detract from the atmos-

incongruities in arrangement

phere. But «the two classes are always
so carefully initiated into the ceremony
that blunders: due to carelessness are
If the Sopho-
mores, as it happened this year, were

Virtually eliminated.

at first unable to co-ordinate the sing-
ing in the two separate aisles, the fault
That’ the
Freshman hymn seemed richer ‘in in-
than: “Pallas!
concern us any more than the fact that
the rendering of the former was at the
very last tather inartistic.

No more need be said than that
Lantern Night has again given us the

experience of its peculiar and lasting
charm.

was__hardly. — disturbing.

terpretation does not



President Park Explains
Scope of Chapel Services



President Park was_ the speaker at
a general chapel held ‘in Goodhart
Auditorium Thursday morning, Oc-
tober 9, She spoke of the nature of
the chapel services in this coming year
and in past years, urging students to
make attendance .at chapel a_ habit.
Chapel consisted, originally, of a fif-
teen-minute devotional Quaker meet-
ing held-on-the ‘second floor of Taylor
Hall. It was aiid has always been, in
-accordance with Quaker principles, an
entirely voluntary service.

In President- Thomas’ time the
scope of the talks was enlarged; where
there had been only impromptu pray-
ers, everything came to ‘be “disciissed
from politics and education to “tin
cans on campus.” -

Music was introduced into the serv-
ice one fervid Election Day morning
-in President Park’s time by the ‘spon-
taneous singing of “My Country, ’Tis

yof Thee.” Ever since that dramatic
morning hymns have been sung and,
now, occasionally, Mr. Willoughby
arranges an entirely musical service.

At other times we have the oppor-

tunity of hearing various members of

9.

The. several aspects of

Rennie Smith Analyzes _
British Labor Policy



A large number of students crowded
the lecturé room of Wyndham last night
to’ hear Mr. M.P. and
Private Secretary to the Under Secre-

Rennie Smith,

tary of Foreign Affairs, speak inform-
ally on the subject “Can a Labor. Gov-
erhment Economic
Problem?”

hopeful “veg.”

Solve Britain's

Mr. Smith’s answer was a

by candidly admitting that the Labor
Party has not done alt it hoped to do
when. it first came into power. eighteen
months ago; in fact, two -million
workers are unemployed where only
This sit-

has

one was unemployed before.

uation of unemployment ‘been
chronic these last ten years with al-
ways one million and sometimes two
and a half millions of men out of work.

Men are beginning to realize that
this is a new condition in history, not
merely post-war deflation or part of
A need is

felt for new remedies to cure the physi-

the industrial. trade cycle.

cal, mental and moral evils’ of unem-

4

ployment.

Just how similar conditions are in
the United States we cannot say be-
cause of the American optimistic dis-

missal of the unpleasant. In any case

the building of public works in both

countries. has been extended and that
of private works encouraged.

Although the Labor ‘government
feels strongly the need for co-operation
in private industry, it is in no position
to apply its collective principles. The
jargest party in the state, it—still, by
no means, contains a majority of the
members of the House...Commission-
ers of Inquiry have been affpointed,
however, who, after scientific study,
have strongly advocated national or-
ganization of—industry—to— permit na-
tional planning.

It may be argued that suck: organi-
zation or rationalization of industry
can only aggravate the situation by
creating fresh téchnilogical unemploy-
ment. This will unquestionably be

new popular
offset this

crease in. sales’ and ‘in
wants should more than
temporary disadvantage.
With increased production a better
technique of consuniption must be de-
veloped. - Enlarging home markets by
increasing wages, shortening the work-

ing power to impoverished widows are
some national. ways of balancing this
greater productive power.

Leisure ‘is only unemployment plus a
feeling of security. If.there is not
enough work for everyone all the time,
the spare time should be dfvided into
vacation: times with pay. Month holi-
days, old-age, even middle-age, pen-
sions should be the rule and the age

poned.

Just as it will pay to level up living
conditions at home it is only the part
of self-interest to want through the
League of Nations to level them
abroad where British have: lost trade
to. people of longer -hours, child labor
and ‘poorer pay. Some British econo-
mists have suggested, as another aid
to trade,:a high-tariff wall around the
British Commonwealth of Nations in
opposition. to those of the United
States and Europe.

nomically an international unit.

It is for this réason that Russia
should be recognized even if not ap-
proved, as well as for the purpose of
mutual understanding to prevent war.
It.was discovered in.1914 that balance.

He began his speech |

its first effect but the subsequent, in- |

ing day and week, and giving purchas-

of beginning work should be
Better is the abo-|
lition of all tariffs, for Britain is eco-'

Elizabeth Baer: "





a

Bese, \Kirk aie Nien
Elected Senior Officers

oe

Elizabeth Baer, Barbara Kirk, and
Elizabeth Mongan have been elected
officers of the Senior Class for the
coming year.

During her Freshman year Miss
Baer was Vice President of her class
and a,member of the Self-Government
Board. She played on Varsity basket-
ball and class basketball, water polo,
hockey, -swimmiitg, ard tennis.
was .fresident of+ her class in_ her
Sophomore year. During 1929-30 Miss
Baer-was Junior member —of Self-
Government, Manager of Varsity
hockey, Captain of Varsity basketball,
and a member of the Second Varsity
hockey.team. For the present year she
is Vice President of Self-Government
and Captain of Varsity--hockey~ and
Varsity basketball, as well as Presi-
dent of her class.



Miss Mongan, Vice President of the
class, is also’ Senior member of Self-
Government.

Miss Kirk was Class Secretary in
1930, President -of. the Art Club. in
1929-30, and Chairman of the Sopho-
more-Freshman Reception in 1928-29.



Varsity Defeated in

Season’s First Game



Lack of Co-ordination in Forward
Line Offset by Slow Game
of Yellows.



DEFENSIVE WORK’ GOOD



Before a very small gathering of on-
lookers, the Varsity went forth
against the Philadelphia Cricket Club
Yellows for its first game and returned
with a 4-1 defeat. The fact-that we
did not receive a bad beating was due
more to the slow play of the Yellows
than to Varsity’s good playing.

Our forward: line showed a great
lack of unity which may be partly ex-
cused by lack of practice.

On numerous occasions one person
or another would carry the ball down
to the striking circle from which posi-
tion she was utterly incapable of either
carrying it in alone or passing it along.
Unfortunately Allen did not.show up
as well as had been expected, but she
still leoked like the best of the forward
line material. 5

During the first half the Yellows
kept the ball down in the Bryn Mawr
defensive zone a large part of the time)
As a-result the score at half time was
3-0 in their favor. In this period the
brunt of the work was borne mostly
by the backs. Collins, filling in at full,
made several good ‘plays which helped
keep the ball away from the’ goal.

She

English Singers to‘Open
Music Department Concerts



The. Music Department of Bryn
Mawr +College takes pleasure “in an-
nouncing its. series of concerts for the
season 1930-1931..« The series will con-
sist of four concerts of a very varied
character, the programs ranging from
Elizabethan Music to the present day.

Wednesday, October 29, 1930, -at
8:20 o'clock; “The English Singers:’
of London: F lora Marin, Nellie Carson,
Lilian Berger, Norman Stone, Norman
Notley, Cuthbert Kelly. :

The English Singers have made un-

| precedentedly successful tours in Ger-

many, Holland, Austria, .Czecho-Slo-
vakia and the United States and Cana-
da, besides their native country, and
this season are booked to give fifty
concerts in China, Japan, the East In-
dies, Ceylon, Burma, India and Egypt.
Their programs are made up.of Mo-
téts,.. Madrigals, Ballets;
from the Golden Age of Elizabethan
poetry and music and Folk-§ongs ar-
ranged by such consummate adapters
as Vaughan Williams. The Singers,
seated around a table, follow the tradi-
tional custom of Elizabethan times,
when part-singing was a genial after-
dinner rite. Mr. Olin Downes. in
the New York Times said:.“A Concert
by the English Singers is for a listener
a unique and unforgettable experience,
a contact with beauty that is rare and
haunting in interpretation, that in
their particular kind are unparalleled
on the American concert stage.” This
rich -collecion..of_ Elizabethan musical
literature has but lately been made
available through the researches of
Canon Edmund Fellowes St.
George's Chapel, Windsor.

Thursday, December 4, .1930, at
8:20 o’clock—The Philadelphia Cham-
ber String Simfonietta, “C6nducted by
Fabien Sevitzky, and” Madame Maria
Koussevitzky, Soprano; Horace Al-
wyne, Pianist.

of

The change in date, from December-8
to December 4, should be ‘noted.
Owing, to the very marked success
of this organization at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege during the season just congluded
the College feels that its ‘re-engage-
ment for the coming season will be a
source of pleasure to the subscribers
to this series.
son of two of the Bryn Mawr students
as co-4rtists with the Simfonietta has
helped to create a very delightful feel-
ing of artistic relationship between the
College and this unique ensemble com-
bination. Composed of eighteen mem-
bers of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the
Simfonietta was founded in 1925 by
Fabien Sevitzky who is its conductor.
Mr, Sevitzky has brought his organiza-
tion to a high pitch 6f artistic excel-
lence and is doing a. great-service to
the cause of music by presenting to the
public much ‘of the beautiful literature
for String Orchestra -which would
otherwise remait unheard, as well as
the more familiar classical masterpieces
written fer this-group of instrument.
Before coming to. the United States
Madame Koussev#tzky: was one of the
principal soloists in the State Opera
in Warsaw, the Russian State Opera in
Baku and the Opera in Mexico City.
Besides giving many -recitals she has
appeared as soloist with the Warsaw
Philharmonic, and in the United States
with the New York Philharmonic, the

Boston Symphony afid Detroit Sym-

phony Orchestra, and with the League

of Composers in New York. Madame
Koussevitzky will sing a group of
songs by Max Mayer, who is recog-
nized by European critics as one of the
greatest song-writers of the present
day. These songs of his Master have
been specially arranged with string ae-
companiment by Horace Alwyne for
Madame Koussevitzky and the Sim-

Canzonets:

The appearance last sea-

M. Paul Hazard Begins
French Poetry Series



Flexner Lecturer Siow. How
Classicism Hampered Rise
of French Poetry.



HUGO RECREATES VERSE



(Specially contributed. by -L,
and E. Frederick, holders of the Hazard
Scholarships.)

The third of the Mary Flexner Foun-
dation lecturers, M. Paul Hazard, began
his-series of lectures om “La Poesie Fran-
caise de 1815-1914” Tuesday, October 7,
at 8:30 P. M. in the gymnasium.

M. Hazard opened his lecture by re-
calling, that although many efforts had
been made to revive poetry in France
during the second half of the eighteenth
century, by 1815 poetry was no longer
alive. However, in the eighteenth cen-
tury..there had. been. Rousseau, who, al-
though he wrote in prose, created a
rhythm closely allied to that of true
poetry. He invested with this new

and God. Chateaubriand, also, attempted
to recreate poetry. M. Hazard charac-
terized the Memoires d’Outre Tombe as
“une vaste symphonie avec des orchestra-
tions infinies.” These attempts, however

ard “pointed out, poetry is the result of
continued effort, without which true
poetry could not establish itself at this
time. M. Hazard advanced as reasons
for the sterility of French poetry (1) the
naturally analytical Frénch mind of
which Voltaire is the epitome, (2) the
psychological attitude which considered
poetry a literary form ‘ratherthan a per-
sonal expression, (3) the rigid adher-
ence to the French classical rules which,
under the influence of a _ too perfect
model, destroyed all feeling for poetry
as an art, (4) the historical environment
which. demanded stultified occasional
poetry.

The secorid ‘part of M. Hazard’s. lec-

poetry toward 1820 with the appearance
of .Lamartine. who. also struggled with
the pseudo-classical rules prevalent dur-
ing’ his youth. With the awakening of
genuine emotion in the-soul of Lamar-
tine, there was a subsequent awakening
of French poetry. In the expression of
his personal feelings he embodied the as-
pirations of the French public of his time.
This is.evidenced by the amazing popu-

larity of. his Meditations Poetiques”
(1820).
To these new lyric utterances was

added a new literary technique, with: the
appearance in 1822 of the first works of
Victor seine Les _ et sinwsnas Di-
verses.
he takes the Poets verse, nthe it,
breaks it up, separates it from mere me-
chanical and moulds it with re-
markable dexterity ; in short, he recreates
French verse. In spite of the’ remnants
of the classical vocabulary ‘still to be
found in Hugo's early work, a powerful
lyricism pervades -the whole. With the
fuller development of Hugo's — talent,
1828-1829, French poetry has not only
been resuscitated but has already. become

rime,

vigorous.



League Pledges.

The Bryn Mawr League would like
to call to the attention of its members
the fact that..during the’ coming week
pledge-cards will be distributed. The

about eight dollars per person, but
those who can give more are urged to
do so, as there are some who.cannot
afford this sum. The amount pledged
may be ~paid at any time during the

ments to be Sones ‘on each — Day.

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the faculty speak’ on their own or on
other subjects. ‘“Dean Manning and
I,” President Park added, “like the op-
portunity df airing our own views and
judgments.”.. The chapel meeting
gives us an excellent, almost indis-
pensable chance to discuss intéresting
and educational spatters; it is in fact
~~ a. forum for us: all.





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of power cannot prevent war. In this
modern society isolation has been
found equally impossible. It is to that
co-operative society of countries, the
League of Nations, that we must look
for economic co-operation. It is to
Premier MacDonald that much of the
credit ‘must be given for the support.of:
the League.



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Rotherme! and Collier were relentless

in their efforts to stop the Yellows. }

Collier was the only Varsity player
who really covered her opponent and
it was undoubtedly her playing which
kept Philadelphia from rolling up a
much greater score. Her passing was
more diversified and it was only to-

er

Continued on Page Three

Yfonietta.

Horace Alwyne, Directgr-of the De-
‘partment of Music of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, studied under Max Mayer in Eng-
land and Michael von Zadora in Ber-
lin. A graduate with distinction and
Gold Medallist of the Royal Manchest



ter College of Music, he has appeared

Cont



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of money at ‘this time only iadea the
year, and for this reason it hopes that
its members will be as generous as
possible. The League depends on
these subscriptions for all its work,
including its contributions to Bates
House and to all other. organizations in
which Bryn Mawr has a particular in-

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rhythm the lyrics themes of nature, love |

beautiful, were abortive,fer,-as“M.~ Haz- wast

ture described the renas@ence of- French’

year, or may be divided into install-/

average amount subscribed is usually .