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VOL. XX, No. 24
COLLEGE
'& BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934
fopyyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,
PRICE 10 CENTS
1934
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Pro Arte Quartet
Presents Concert
7 Artistry and Technical Precision
Are Displayed in, Rendering —
Romantic . Music
FAME IS DUE QUARTET
(Especially Contributed by Molly
Atmore Ten Broeck, ’32)
A large and extremely appreciative
audience greeted the Pro Arte Quar-
tet in its first appearance at Bryn
Mawr on Sunday night.. Offering a
' program of scholarly and _ elevated
works, the quartet gave ample evi-
dence of the artistry, preciseness of
technique and_ interpretation for
which they are justly famed.
Sunday~night’s program consisted
of three quartets, which are to be
classed in the Romantic School. The
first of these, the Beethoven F Major,
op. 135, is rarely performed. It is
Beethoven’s last quartet and one of his
last important works. It is typical
of his third period, showing .a decided
-tendency towards the personal, the
enigmatic, the esoteric. As performed
by the Pro Arte Quartet, all these
characteristics were clearly brought
out. The sudden ending of the first
movement; the forcefulness, rhythmic
emphasis, and difficult polyphonic web
of the second movement gave the hear-
er an extraordinary feeling of blind
groping after Beethoven’s actual per-
sonality. The lovely, plaintive melo-
dies of the third movement were most
sympathetically performed. Compar-
able to a Romanza, the music here
seemed mysterious but simple and the
Quartet did marvelous justice to the
delicate beauty of the instrumental
coloring.
As a, whole this Beethoven Quartet
sounded startlingly modern — even
“modernistic.” Paradoxically, the
Chadwick Quartet, No. 5, in D Minor,
gave a feeling of rest and relief.
George Whitfield Chadwick was one
of a group of nineteenth century Bos-
ton composers of whom Arthur Foote
is the most. celebrated, “whose object
was not primarily to create an Ameri-
can School, but to write good music as
they had learned it through classic
and romantic channels.”
Chadwick’s quartet proved to be in
tremendous contrast to the Beethoven
Continued on Page Two
New York Bryn Mawr Club
Lowers Dues fot Alumnae
Of special interest to Seniors living
within a radius of forty miles of New
York is the news that the New York
Bryn Mawr Club has drastically low-
- ered its schedule of dues for resident
s
.
- months’ dues.
* cards
, to answer questions, and to explain
members who are recent Alumnae.
Heretofore, all resident members —
those living within a radius of forty
miles of New York — were charged
$25.00 annually. Now the schedule
has been lowered as follows:
Those out of college less than three
‘years pay annual dues of $10.00.
Those out of college three and four
yearspay annual dues of $15.00.
Those out of college five years pay
annual dues of $20.00.
Thereafter the annual
$25.00.
Seniors joining now may pay $10.00
and will net be billed again for dues
,, until October, 1935. In other words,
-they—will—receive-seventeen—months’.
privileges for the price of twelve
Those who have stop-
ped in at the Club at the Park Lane
Hotel understand why membership. in
the Club is so desirable. Non-resident
dues are still $10.00, and undergradu-
ate, $5.00 annually. Non-resident and
undergraduate members may have all
club privileges except those of voting
and holding office.
All Bryn Mawr students and gradu-
ates are very welcome to drop in at
the Club,whenever they are in New
York. In fairness to,members, guest
t be obtained before using
the privileges. The secretary at the
( desk will be very glad to show visi-
tors around the rooms and the hotel,
dues—are-
\
Principals:in The Gondoliers an:
a
From left to right—Maryallis Morgan, '36; Helen Ripley, °35; Joan iibstinecn. "35
Henrietta Scott, °36; Susan Morse, 735;’Margaret Righter, "34, and Agnes Halsey, °36
Dean Manning Talks |Freshmen Give One-Acts | Arnold Genthe Talks
: eae Before Amused Audience | i.
About Questionnaire on Isadora Duncan
The three one-act plays presented; ~-
; :
Questionnaire’s Value Vitiated,°Y ‘he Freshmen were a bit on the Duncan Dancing Photographs
by Inaccurate Looseness jsadder side of life; there was one, Taken in Effort to Catch
‘ ‘grim and bitter tragedy, one tragedy. . :
of Terminology \that wis ‘not so grim, and a, comedy. | Rhythmic Motion
The authors were, respectively, Vir-'
STATISTICS NOT VALID gina Dorsey, Leigh Steinhardt, and, MOVIES NEGLECT DANCE
Souk in Chapel cu lg News! Mace emery Getnanah™, WM USS assist win tw ptt sth
Questionnaire” last Thursday, Dean we had been led to expect, and the that has its origin in the’ soul,” said
Manning said that there had been acting quite good, considering the) )'™ AS Maa SEAR ON ee:
¢ short time allowed for rehearsals, ora Dumgan in the Deanery on Mon-
production was by no means finishe
the | : :
d | day afternoon. His own ideal, as he
iThe prompting was quite audible and :
on reading it was one of mystification | the scenery prone to collapse at any tographs which he showed, was to por-
many excellent and sage criticisms 0
the questionnaire. Her first feeling ‘expressed it in his talk and in the pho-
shout: the terminology. She wondered | moment. Aside from euch minor de- | tay this rhythm of motion in photo-
resin Ae op Pau nat tails, the plays were enjoyable ang |SeSPms se
y terms in which | produced prolonged cases of hysteria| In spite of his understanding and
to describe college work, and wished | among the audience. artistic work, Miss Duncan was at
that “reasoning power,” a far more’ The first piece to be presented, Miss | first unwilling to have her picture
valuable quality/for any course to de- Dorsey’s Mom, was stark, dreary sor-| taken, for she was camera shy. When
mand, had been included. She ques-' row, with all the characters repressed | it became necessary. for her to have
tioned the, undergraduate idea that and appallingly moronic. The scene! Photograph for a passport, she went
courses in mathematics and science| was a poverty-stricken Maine farm-| to Mr. Genthe and discovered that the
could be described as needing mem-’ house in which drab and-unhappy peo-| Process was easy and the results ex-
ory,” and wondered how “trends”! nje carried rabbits’ feet around their ¢ellent. After that she allowed her-
could possibly be included in Physics. | necks and bemoaned their fate. The self to be photographed not for identi-
Science courses could not be said to ' optimistic mother carried a lantern out | fication but for art.
have too many details, for details are to a rock every night to light home| The first picture of her which Mr.
necessary in illustration of scientific: joy Jost sailor husband, William, who | Genthe showed was simply her face,
principles. She felt that the loose ter-! had not come back from sea after six-| half lost in shadow, that emphasized
minology vitiated the value of the) teen years, and when she was ill, the the pure lines of her forehead, nose,
questionnaire, and criticised the bland gull Dan put it out. She refused to,and mouth. She herself called it “her
assumptions of the editors in making 'jeaye the little farm, because: of her Very soul.” In the next picture she
up the statistics and in ‘writing the! faithfulness to the obviously defunct Was dancing “The Marseillaise” and
editorial, for the questionnaire con-|wijjiam, Faced with the problem of|advancing with upflung arms and
tained a morass of phrases which may | p64 being allowed to perform her serv- head thrown back. Many of the pho-
have meant one thing to some people | ice of love, she stole out into the tographs were not of her, but of danc-
and something quite different to | gark cold night—without her rabbit’s|¢rs who followed her ideals. They
others. : _. |foot—and froze in the snow. Leigh, Were often pictured dancing before the
ad cera oe and — Steinhardt, as Martha, was by far the Sea’ and cutting its horizon with the
[must obviously rest on memory,” : bade ® hae’ non
the same time it must be recognized | committal and disinterested. Miss Mus-, Another group of photographs was
that the efficacy of memorizing depends... was fairly good, but very apt to reniiniscent of Greek sculpture. Mr.
on organizing the material. The stu- ' forget her lines, and Virginia Lautz) Genthe explained that Isadora Duncan
dents who answered the questionnaire | played the mother aswell as could be did not approve of the term “Greek
did-not-seem-to-realize the extent. to | ..nected-under-the-circumstances;,but, dancers” applied to her and her school.
which memory is linked with a capac- yiss Dorsey was too enthusiastic and | She protested’ that her inspiration was
ity for organization and with the abil- | anconvincing as collegiate Bill. What primarily American — the poetry of
ity to point a general tendency and |... most incomprehensible, however, Walt Whitman and her own grand-
to see the relation of the details eae the possibility of anyone’s, even mother’s Irish jigs, and secondarily,
the tendencies. Pee ‘though. aged and convalescent, freez- | the music of Beethoven and Wagner,
In making up the statistics, the j,5 to death in one minute flat. That and the philosophy of Nietzche. Yet
at best actress: she was completely non-|Curves-of their bodies and-draperies- |
Glee Cluby Renders
Operetta Skillfully
Chorus Singing agd Enunciation
Are Unusually Noteworthy
in Gondoliers ~
Beko
RIGHTER WINS PRAISE
(Especially Contributed by D. Havi-
land. Nelson) :
Amateur musical productions usu-
ally call forth sighs and groans from
those who, for one reason or another, '
are forced to attend them, but surely
the Bryn Mawr presentations of Gil-
bert and Sullivan are exceptions, They *
are not only traditional, but success-
ful, and The Gondoliers is. undoubted-
ly one of the brightest feathers in the
Glee Club’s cap. Certainly the audi-
ence felt so—we have seldom seen
one so enthusiastic nor so eager for
encores. The choice of the operetta
was a good stroke; it is seldom given,
and besides attracting many people
who have grown a little tired of the
more hackneyed ones, it gave us one
of our few chances to see it. The.
music is known to be the best that
Sullivan ever wrote, and that is say-
ing something when we consider that
Gilbert and Sullivan are in any of
their operettas a combination that can
do no wrong. :
Very great praise indeed is dué Mr.
Willoughby and Miss Hopkinson for
their training of the chorus. Ngt only
was the chorus’ singing excellent; but
their enunciation was so clear that
we could hear the words of the songs
even in the back rows—an achieve-
ment even for a professional company,
for only too often Gilbert’s wit van-
ishes some ten feet beyond the foot-
lights. The movement of the chor-
uses, too, was unusual; they seemed
to take some interest in the proceed-
ings, and their action as well as their
singing had considerable élan and
was beautifully co-ordinated. This was
especially evident in the opening of
the second act, where the gondoliers
go on their various ways with serene
disregard of the kings, and in the now
famous cachuca, where the dancing of
the chorus harmonized remarkably
with that of the four dancers. The
cachuca was without doubt one of the
high spots of the production, and we
were both surprised and pleased with
the efficient training the quartette re-
ceived and the verve with which they
performed. Judging from the ap-
plause, the verdict of the audience 7
was, “We love it, we love it, we can’t
give it up.”
Continued on Page Three
CALENDAR
Thursday, May 17: Informal
Recital by the College Dancing
Classes. Deanery Garden, 8.15
P.. M.
Friday, May 18: Last Day
of ' Classes.
Saturday, May 19: Third .
Concert’ in Series by the Pro
Arte String Quartet of Brus-
sels. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Sunday, May 20; Chapel
Servicé conducted by Rev. We
Brooks “Stabler. Out-of-doors,
below Music Watk—(except—it- ,
case of rain, when it will be held
in the Music Room), 7.30 P. M.
Monday, May 21: Examina-
tions begin. é
Thursday, May 24: Main
Line Orchestra Concert: Good-
hart, 8.20 P. M.
Friday, June 1: Examina-
tions end.
Sunday, June 3: Baccalaure-
ate Sermon by the Rev. Donald
number voting or the prdportion of |
the number voting to the entire class |
should have been given. Dean Man-|
ning did not feel, however, that the,
failure to do this was of. paramount
importance, for In her work with the,
Curriculum Committee she has found |
that opinion is always divided and|
that minority votes must be taken into
however, that every course is ;
to have a certain number of students
who are dead wood, who do not like
the routine of obtaining guest cards.
consideration. It must be remembered, |
Continued on Page Four
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was the crowning touch.
Miss Hutching’s Simple Folk was
very amusing and well acted. The dia-
Continued on Page Six
Comprehensives _
The faculty has voted in favor
of the proposed plan for general
senior comprehensives. The
date for the first comprehensive
examinations is ‘to be determined
next fall.
, these photographs were of a distinct-
ly Greek quality. Some were like the
Continued on Page Four
Faculty Honored
At the University of Dela-
ware’s Centenary Exhibition,
Dean Schenck received the Cross
of the Legion of Honor of the
French Republic. .It was pre-
sented to her by the French
Ambassador.
- versity.
--Wednesday, June 6:
MacKenzie, D.D., Professor of
Biblical Theology at the Theo-
logical Seminary, Princeton Uni-
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
June 5: Senior
4.00-7:00 P. M.
Confer-
ring of Degrees. Address by
Dr. Karl T: Compton, President
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technolegy, Cambridge, Mass.
11.00 A. M.
Tuesday,
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God Bless Our Faculty
In the face of a dense silence on the part of the undergraduates,
the comprehensive system has finally been approved by a faculty which
does not yet know whether it has given the undergraduates what they
want. The faculty felt, however, that the necessity of facing a compre-
hensive examination would lead the undergraduates to choose their
courses more intelligently and to take their courses with the idea
that they could not be blithely forgotten the day college closed in June.
There can be no doubt that the faculty is right in thinking that
these results will have to follow; we all know that the comprehensives
will necessitate more intelligent work on our part, and much as we
hate to admit it, we secretly are pleased that they have been adopted.
None of us would come to Bryn Mawr at all if she did not want to
do work which could not be scorned by anyone. The comprehensives
are undoubtedly going to make more of that sort of work necessary to
get a Bryn Mawr degree, but they will also make the Bryn Mawr
degree mean just that much more, and we can be all the prouder of it
when we get it. It is a little terrifying to face.the thought of taking
a comprehensive : the prospeet of remembering everything we have stud-
ied in our major work is notsa very pleasing ong: Nevertheless, our
years in college have taught us that what must be done is done some-
how, even though we feel sure while we are doing it, that if we were
to study forty-eight hours in every day, we could not possibly get ll
our work finished. Classes.will come up to take the comprehensives
complaining bitterly and feeling like martyrs to the cause; they will
proceed to pass them, and get. their degrees, and leave college feeling
that they have had a well co-ordinated set of courses with which they
are thoroughly familiar, and that they have done four years of intel-
ligently planned work. All of us, terrified though we may be, must
approve of this step forward toward making us do better work which
the faculty has wisely taken in our behalf.
Sing Hey!
We have always wished that.a tradition be started around campus
concerning Glee Club ghosts on the Music Walk. Apparitions there
could lend pleasure and distinction to Bryn Mawr. And now that
spring flowers have bloomed, and lovesick maidens passed the spring-
tide of romance, and the fandango remains: an air to be mutilated by
the undergraduate public, come home weary from the dance to sing
“nitter, pitter, patter” as if it were the Miserere, we are ready to be
sentimental about Gilbert and Sullivan. We are usually afraid to
voice any opinion about college productions, first, because we doubt
that.the undergraduate body accompanied us to the performance, and
second, because we are none too sure that those who were with us will
concur in our sentiments.
This time, however, we feel we cannot be too rash: this year’s
Glee Club production was a marked success, and if it were not for the
fact that we look back on several Glee Club performances that were
equally good and that we look forward to a long succession of Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas in the present tradition of excellence, we could
hold it up as a great example of Bryn Mawr’s accomplishments. --As
it is, we must say simply that we, and all our sisters, cousins, aunts
and other relatives are always delighted to see any Gilbert and Sulli-
van production, and that it overjoys us to know that the path to Good-
hart has been worn bare by the many feet of the performers in The
Gondoliers. “Qur demand for what we might call “wholesale cavorting
‘on Goodhart stage” has been satisfied, and we should like to see more
of the same sort of thing. We are anticipating a continued haunting
of Goodhart by the large undergraduate companies that work on Glee
Club productions, and we know that it will be a merry throng doing
a shadowy fandango on the Musi¢ Walk.
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IN PHILADELPHIA
” Theatres
Broad: The Wind and the Rain,
with Morgan Farley and. Wendy At-
kins. A young medical student gets Worth seeing.
loose in Edinburgh University and| Forrest:
finds a substitute for his home-town for another week. The music is com-
sweetheart. It is filled with college s
atmosphere and the troubles of the|een polished and brought up to date.
Aldine:- The House of Rothschild
Mow peared with Irene is, as ever, with us, and, as ever,
iiieiene on Page your
her biography by a highly persuasive
magazine editor. -The resulting ro-
mantic adventures provide some of
the best moments on the modern stage.
The Only Girl. continues
pletely unchanged, but the libretto has :
wiT's END |
“MAY I CUT”
Under bacchanalian grapes
And spot-lights grow romances,
And in between the music’s throb
His heart throbs as he dances.
But then there comes a dainty peck
Upon his well-brushed shoulder:
A “May I cut, I’m here again!”
_ His face falls like a boulder.
The lovely She says, “Thank. you,
John,”
Is swallowed by the masses,
He dons a smile, a frozen smile;
His mind whirls with alases.
|“You liked our operetta, no?
The dance is too divine!”
He sighs a tune to the sad bassoon,
And murmurs, “Sure, it’s ‘fine.”
Ah, puppets, puppets we men are
Amid the bumps of rushing;
Twigs swept out upon a stream
Of endless, endless gushing,
—Introspective.
GENESIS
Summer, where art thou?
Green and lazy One,
Filled with the pop of tennis balls
And the tinkle of ice in lemonade.
I yearnsfor thee, Summer!
But still, O dream, — do you yet
persist
With fleeting hints of ‘igitvaias
Clad in blue and white?
Blue and white, with the rules of the
faculty
Extracted and dancing boleros
To the uneven tune of chalk
As it squeaks out assignments and
quizes.
Ah, Summer, why must you be: born
In such pain?
—Lazy Lizzie.
VIVA!
We have sung, we have danced, we
have lived!
Our hearts, they are drunk with
wild tunes.
Cachucas tease at our toes;
Our sane talk is filled with witch
runes
,Of a sunny and beautiful land
Where handsome men wear shirts of
black,
And Il Duce is law, and art is sans
flaw,
And a gondola serves for a hack.
—Contadina.
PASTORAL PICTURE
On the new-mown lawn in the dark
Two cigarettes glow and wane.
The damp dew glistens beneath the
stars;
The music curls through the pane.
“You have lovely wee feet, my dearest.
Your shoes gleam like white moon-
shine—
I love you!”—’mid passion, she jitters
and wishes
The dew would dry up with his line.
—The Worldly One.
AFTERMATH °
All around Goodhart
There lie prostrate forms
Dying upon the green sod;
And in and out Goodhart
A sad spirit mourns
Where eighty young feet once trod.
The conductor is petrified
-All- into stone—
The scenery crumbles and molds.
There’s silence around;
Where there once was sweet sound
There is only an echoing moan.
They have gone, they have gone!
Fare them well on their ride
To the land where all singers go;
Where they join with the mutes
Who play naught but\the lutes
That Saint Peter gave m—ah woe!
—Chief Mourner.
YEAR BOOK REFLECTIONS
There are some, we feel, who would,
Despite their highly amused roars,
Like to take theiy little rifles
And shoot all the editors.
wt Lone Goose. -
FAIL NOT, O LIGHT
I’ve been workin’
On my major
All the damn day long,
I’ve been slowly
Growin” sager—
Continued on Page Five —
Not Out of the Stacks
We have been told by some (one
jor more) that we are much too unen-|
+thusiastie about modern “literature.” | .
| Maybe so: “But, my de-ar! You
i mustn’t miss the books we just read
|this week,—a too, too © marvelous
Wodehouse and Sheila Kaye-Smith’s
Superstition Corner that makes the
‘|shivers go up and down your back
when you remember the Armada.” |.
That, in idiomatic form, expresses our
finer feelings. (However, we shall
take care not to have such. feelings
soon again, if you like.)
Really, though} we never would dish
ithe sour grape to Mr. Wodehouse, es-
pecially after Thank You, Jeeves. A
little dramatis personae will charac-
terize the book: Jeeves (master men-
tality), Bertram Wooster (scapegoat,
and occasionally the English Gentle-
man—after a whisky and soda), Sir
Roderick Glossop (a complication),
Mr. Stoker (an American, and ergo
more of a complication), and Pauline
(his daughter, who does most of the
plot-tangling). There are a few more
characters, fishy people who are likely
to be found sitting in bushes on dark
nights, and a few essentially sadistic
individuals, to lend a goosefleshlike at-
mosphere, who try to do horrendous
things to Jeeves, Bertie, and Chuffy,
P. G.’s favorites. On almost every
page one of the characters does some-
thing to make his fellow “lift the eye-
brow,” if not lift the weapon nearest
at hand. Bertie makes a superb Timid
Soul, and the whole happy little group
lin Thank You, Jeeves, gather around
him, or work themselves up into an un-
surpassed frenzy, perpetrate unheard-
of deeds, and leave ‘everything in col-
lapse. Then it is that Jeeves, the
incomparable Deus Ex Machina, who
provides the Happy Ending, floats in
with his accustomed aplomb and sil-
ver salver, and leaves the characters
to falling on each other’s’ necks.
Thank you, Wodehouse, for TJ'hank
You, Jeeves. Very good, sir.
Sheila Kaye-Smith’s Superstition
Corner is another book that you will
know a great deal about by simply be-
ing told its locale. It is-an historical
novel, set in Sussex, and it deals with
the religious conflict that was being
waged about the time of the defeat of
the Armada (1588). Like all of
Sheila Kaye-Smith’s Sussex novels,
the background lends an extraordinary
charm to the telling of a simple story.
Superstition Corner gives us a vivid
sense of the living conditions of the
time and of their effects on people’s
minds and manners. Catherine Alard
becomes for us the symbol of a great
struggle going on between Protestant-
ism, then the ruling religion in Eng-
land, and Catholicism, dear to. the
hearts of many of the country folk.
She is a type of the woman just sin-
cere and old-fashioned enough in her
ways to be portrayed as a great indi-
vidual, a woman born to lead a liberal
cause. She clings to the old faith and
to the old traditions, to the honor of
her family and to truth, thereby op-
posing both her family and the com-
munity. Heedless, she gallops across
the countryside, ‘forgetting her posi-
tion as a woman, a daughter, and a
Catholic.
Superstition Corner would be just
a very fine still life picture of six-
teenth century England, however, if
it were not for the conviction with
which Miss Kaye-Smith has written
the novel. Fair-mindedness toward
the two religions, combined with a
sincere analysis of religious belief,
makes even our distant generation
sympathetic.
Book Shop Lists Texts
To Be Used Next Year
The College Book Shop has publish-
ed this list of books for the benefit of
the students, so that they may sell
books that have been used this year
and will be used again next year. The
Book Shop will give far better rates
than those at Leary’s. From now. on,
those who wish may sell the books
listed. It might be well to scan the
list, for the books not on it will most
likely be changed next year.
last may be sold to Leary’s, who will
come to buy them on Friday, May 25.
The books printed here will certainly
be used, as the professors of the de-
partments have been consulted.
_ Biology:
Outline of Modern Biology—Plunk-
Tett.
"Anatomy of the Cat—Reichert &
Jennings. ;
_ Economies and Politics: Coane.
_ ‘These,
English:
Boswell’s Life of Johnson—Seribnet
. Edition.
_Pope and Deriet—Ghose Edition.
(It is likely new editions of Chau: |
cer, Milton and Shakespeare will be |
used next year.)
Geology:
Part I—Physical Geology—Long-
worth, Knopf, and*Flint.
Part II—Schuchert and Dunbar.
Greek:
Book VI—Herodotus.
First Greek Book—White.
Greek Prose Composition—Spieker.
Antigone—Sophocles— (Jebb).
Apology and Crito—Plato.
On the Peace—Demosthenes.
Peace, Birds, and the Frogs—Aris-
tophanes— (Loeb).
Oedipus Tyrannis — Sophocles —
(Jebb).
History:
Europe Since. 1815-—Hazen:
Latin:
Bucolics—Virgi— (Page/.
Odes and Epodes—-Horace—(Sho-
rey & Lang).
Book I—Livy— (Dennison).
Catullus— (Merrill).
Cicero, Letters—(Abbot).
Menaechmi—Plautus.
Mathematics:
Plane and Solid Analytic Gunaae
—Osgood and Grawstein.
Four Place Tables—Huntington.
Plane Geometry—Dresden.
Calculus—Fine.
Introduction to Higher Geometry—
Grawstein.
Music:
Appreciation Album — Surette and
Mason. :
Music and Art and a Language—
Spalding.
Theory and Practice of Tone Rela-
tions—Goetschius.
Physics:
A Survey of Physics—Saunders.
Psychology: Change.
Pro Arte Quastet
Presents Concert
Continued from Page One
and this was very clearly portrayed
by the Quartet’s rendition.
Much more objective, more melodic,
more folklike and static than the Bee-
thoven, this music sounded intensely
American. At times, a quality sur-
prisingly reminiscent of the Dvorak
Fifth Symphony led one to wonder
whether the composer might have been
influenced by Dvorak during the lat-
ter’s visit to America. This quality
consisted of a use of negro melodies,
occasional modern harmonies and a
subdued calmness in the instrumenta-
tion. Especially notable in the Quar-
tet’s performance were the delightful
monophonic section of the second
movement with ’cello accompaniment
pizzicato, and the importance of the
melodic interest already mentioned.
The music sounded well, because _ it
sounded expressly correct for its
medium.
As a final eRe 2 the Pro Arte
Quartet played the~Brahms C Minor
Quartet, op. 51, No. 1. This work,
published only after the composer had
written and discarded twenty other
quartets, shows clearly the depth of
feeling and the mastery of his med-
ium, for which Brahms was striving.
Besides the characteristics of Brahms,
one finds many reminiscences of Wag-
ner, especially in the first and secénd
movements. “Uncompromising’” is
the term often applied to this quartet.
Brahms, in this quartet, is profound,
and is personal, but seems to lack
the wholesomeness and tender humdan-
ity which one usually associates with
the Brahms of the symphonies and the
Requiem. The Pro Arte Quartet gave
full expression to these qualities. Its
rendition was notable in this number
for the extraordinarily sonorous ef-
fects produced. It seemed unbeliey-
able that a hall the size of Goodhart
could be made to resound and rever-
berate as it did.
It Was with deep Renee that
the audience applauded the perform-
ance.. The opportunity of hearing a
Quartet of such brilliance is indeed a
rare one. Enough thanks cannot be
given to Mrs, Elizabeth Sprague Cool-
idge and the Quartet for the priceless
gift of these concerts. It is hoped
that the public will take advantage of -
the: invaluable opportunity of attend-
iven on Wed-
nesday and Saturday nights of this
week, The program on Wednesday
will consist of Franck, Carpenter and ,
Debussy, and on Saturday, of Schon-.
berg, Harris, and Hindemith.
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Varsity Tennis Team |
~...Wins- Vassar Match’
Haskell, Faeth, Jackson. Take
Contested Singles Games
» At Poughkeepsie
DIVIDE DOUBLES SETS:
On Satuffay afternoon, May 12,
Varsity achieved. one of its most;
Yearbook
Yearbook subscribers are ask-
~ éd to pay for their copies by
| - June 1. Cheeks xor--cash- for-
$3.50 may be sent to Ruth Ber-~
tolet, Business Manager, in
Denbigh. Extra copies are ob-
tainable from
Harriet Mitchell, Merion,
Louise Meneely, Rock.
Frances Carter, Pem East.
“Terry Smith, Pem West.
}ens of sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts,
‘conservative observer said that if, all
keenly desired objectives, when Vas-;
sar’s tennis team was vanquished in
a well-played series of matches at
Peggy Dannenbaum, Denbigh.
erous chances to place shots out of
ll insteps were enough to keep the Biol-
Poughkeepsie.
4-2,
Haskell, playing first singles, started
The final score was
reach of the Bryn Mawr team. The
concluding set was played in better
style, and the co-operation was notice-
iably improved, especially in the care
on her way to a speedy victory, taking |... :
with which both strove to keep the
the first set 6-2 through excellent | 41) away from Miss Wright a i
placement and a strong cross-court
Several times she drew her op-
onent -out .of position in midgourt'!
and then sent a: hard passing shot to;
the sidelines, which received well-
_ merited applause from the gallery.
During the second set Miss Converse,
her opponent, changed her tactics}
somewhat and, helped by Haskell’s de-
parture from her usual standards of |
accuracy, managed to prolong the
; Haskell had
forced the issue during the entire first
set with hard driving fore and back-
hand strokes. During the second set,
however, she had difficulty in using a
driving game, since Miss Converse
gave her few opportunities by resort-
The third
set found Haskell again taking the of-|
fensive, getting a secure lead and res-
olutely maintaining it to reach a vic-
tory that was never in doubt after
The match lacked
the verve. and excitement one. should
have expected, largely because the play
was deliberate a t times almost; .
ay peepee Pessgs credit | determined effort to keep the game
drive.
match into a third set.
ing to soft shots and lobs.
the second game.
painstaking.
for a most excellent and well-deserved
victory, and it is certain that she did
her best to keep the match lively as
well as close.
Betty Faeth, after experiencing some
she was at the net. The play was
thus kept at the baselines, and the
points were thus more the results of
opponents’ errors than of spectacular
placements. Nevertheless, despite this
change in tactics, Nassar mustered
sufficient strength and accuracy to
emerge victorious, 2-6, 4-6.
By far the most exciting match of
the day was the first doubles between
Miss Converse and Miss Litemaier
and Faeth and Haskell. Playing their
best game of the season, this pair were
victorious after a hard uphill strug-
gle, especially when Vassar reached
match point twice and was just stop-
ped from winning.. Showing fine co-
operation, excellent driving and place-
ment in the opening set, Bryn Mawr
forged ahead to a 6-2 lead, and were
apparently not to be stopped. All went
well until Varsity led at 4-2, when
with victory in sight something hap-
pened and before one could realize it,
Vassar had won three deuced games
and was ahead, 5-4. Haskell made a
from going overtime, but ended the
set disappointingly by committing one
of her few double faults of the day.
Playing with skill and care, Bryn
Mawr took a 3-0 lead in the final set,
only to see the margin dwindle and
cessful than her earlier net play. The
backhand was particularly useful dur-
difficulty in the first set, defeated her
opponent, 7-5, 6-1. In the initial set
the lead seesawed back and forth, not
following service with any regularity.
Faeth early attempted a little too
much net play and several times was
trapped into errors. She settled down
to play from the baseline after a time
and made only occasional sallies to
the net, which were usually more suc-
result was never in question after
the start of the second set, for Faeth’s
ing this part of the match. She was:
also placing her forehands nicely, and
seldom overshooting the backline. Oc-
casional trouble with service spoiled
vanish as Vassar rallied to take five
games in a row. With Miss Lite-
maier serving, Faeth and Haskell set
themselves firmly to the task of break-
‘ing the string of losing games and get-
ting back in the running. The game
was deuced twice; each time Vassar
got advantage point and was within
one stroke of a victory, which would
have tied the whole series.
advantage point opportunity was lost
by a double fault and the second after
a nerve tingling rally, which ended
when Haskell put a shot over Miss
Converse’s head at the net and out of
Miss Litemaier’s reach.
crisis was past, Varsity took the game
The first
After this
several early leads and double faults
This
match was one of the most interesting
from the spectators’ point of view,
since the playing was fast, accurate,
were still quite in evidence.
and very close.
To Peggy Jackson, playing number
three, goes credit for the hardest earn-
on the next two points and the tide
was definitely turned when Faeth won
her service. Varsity then broke
through Miss Converse’s serve to lead
at 6-5°Bryn Mawr advanced to match
point on Haskell’s service, only to be
momentarily denied by a deuced game.
Match point was again reached and
this time Varsity put on the finishing
ed victory in the singles. Finding her-'touches to a most closely contested
self behind 0-6, 2-5, Jackson pulled| patch by forcing Miss Litemaier into
the match out of the fire by a fine
show of determination and courage.
Peggy was slow getting under way;
an error at the net, where she had
played with great ability throughout
the match.
in fact it was only in the nick of
time that she found herself and began
to play a strong game. Handicapped
throughout the match by lack of speed
in starting her strokes and in moving
about the court, she had to call on
all her reserve energy and ability in
order to end the match successfully.
Somewhat the same things may be
said of Eleanor Fabyan’s match with
Miss Wright. Victory went to the
latter in spite of a fine rally on Fab-
yan’s part in the second set. Here
again slowness in starting strokes, to-
gether with trouble in keeping the
ball in bounds, resulted in defeat by
a 6-2, 7-5 score. The final set was
much better and keener than the first
one, but errors were a little too num-
erous and opportunities sometimes too
inadequately used to make the match
as interesting as the others had been.
The doubles combination of Jackson
and Fabyan playing number two was
a little too speedily defeated for us
to rest easily as we watched Haskell
and Faeth in their match. Somehow
the former combination didn’t quite
click, but no doubt many of the errors
-and omissi0 nd
* Jack-of experience resulted in a not-
DO} nts >. which — gave
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Escorts Lost in Crowd
Everyone in Bryn-Mavwr plus doz-
and just friends, poured into the gym'
Saturday night and danced with the,
greatest possible fervor until the or-
chestra fainted with exhaustion. A
the brothers present were laid ‘end to
end they would have reached nicely
around the track, and that the crushed
ogy Department and the Infirmary
busy for months. But in spite of such
minor catastrophes everyone seemed
to be having a glorious time.
The dance committee outdid itself
and for the first time in months the
gym looked inviting, almost baccha-
nalian, with great clusters of purple |
grapes hanging from the walls and:
the orchestra playing from the depths
of a small forest. The open back door
let in a spring hurricane which kept
the floor cool for the unfortunately
popular men who had to dance every
minute.
A stag line, small when compared
to the huge crowd there, made life
difficult for the girls with strange men
for whom to¥provide. No one @ic-
ceeded in finding anyone else and doz-
ens of girls, after surveying the mob
vainly from chair tops, gave their
men up for lost and stampeded the
good dancers. Although a smaller
crowd might have made life simpler,
the large one certainly made it excit-
ing. ‘Bryn Mawr may have had more
dignified dances, but it certainly has
never had such a thoroughly good
one.
Gics Club Windies
Liability Company has long been one
of our pet insane projects, and to ‘find
fulfilled one of our favorite ambi-
tions. Miss Lord’s introduction of
herself as “that well-connected, unaf-
fected nobleman,” and Miss Scott’s
reviial of how she tamed the insig-
nificant progenitor were high points
in the play. Both are blessed with
stage presence and a flair for comedy,
and the result was in every way high-
ly pleasing.
Miss-—Stone,~as the Grand Inquisi-
tor, was better as a singer than as an
actress; her gestures were a, bit 1aonot-
onous and she seemed not to know
quite what to do with herself on the
stage, but her execution of her songs
and her Grand Inquisitorial air were
so good that one might easily excuse a
slight lapse from the high histrionic
level of the cast.
As the royal pair, Joan Hopkinson
and Susan Morse were ornamental,
melodious and charming. Miss Morse’s
acting, both as “Suite” and as King,
was thoroughly competent, and she
even surpassed her perférmance in
| Patience—a considerable achievement.
Miss Hopkinson’s voice was clear and
true, and she gave one of the best
vocal. performances of the whole cast.
Her slightly supercilious air as Cas-
silda was precisely in character. We
may add that we shall never cease
to admire her sang froid in managing
her rather unstable crown.
“
it_so expertly expressed in-song. has
On the whole, both singing and act-
ing were far above the average, and’
Mr, Alwyne is to be greatly compli-
mented on his direction. One of the
most striking things about the produc- _
tion was a sense of continual motion;
there was never a_ static moment
where the actors merely stood and
sang, and both gesture and action
were, moreover, smoothly fitted into
the whole and eminently appropriate
—sure testimony to the skill and care
of the director. »
From the point of view-of back-
stage effort, the production: was one of
the best Bryn Mawr has ever put on.
The sets were simple and most effect-
ive, and the gondola and Xebique
were triumphs of the stage-crew’s art.
Elizabeth Monroe deserves praise for
the smoothness. with which the scene
was shifted, as ‘well as for the artistic
and graceful designing and execution,
of the sets. The costumes, too, added
greatly to the whole; their harmony
and design made a pleasing mass ef-
fect in the chorus scenes, and their
picturesqueness gave the necessary
atmosphere to the piece.
The impression with which we left
The Gondoliers was that the whole
production was fused. There were no
rough edges, but it all ran smoothly
and easily, yet with an effect of spon-
taneity, showing how, complete had
been the co-operati tween princi-
pals and chorus, dipector and cast,
performers and the/people backstage.
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voice and dramatic ability made her |
performance memorable. Her execu-
tion of the song, “Happy Man,” was
so good that it made us wish she had:
had more solos, and her appearance in|
quartettes, etc., was far more than
competent. As a comedienne Miss:
Righter is hard to better; she seems! [
to have a genuine enjoyment and ap-
preciation of her lines for their own
sake, and her Giuseppe was a worthy! }
successor to Grosvenor in Patience and
Ralph in The Knight of the Burning
Pestle. Miss Ripley was a little stiff
in contrast with Miss Righter, but} 5
since Marco was her first appearance}!
in a leading role, this was to be ex-|
pected and must be put down to inex-
perience. Her singing was thorough-
ly competent, if not quite so spon- |
taneous as Miss Righter’s.
Miss Halsey and Miss Morgan, as
the contadine, performed with grace
and what we may call bounce, and
their voices were well up to the de-
mands of their rather exacting parts.
Miss Halsey, in particular, shows
every sign of being the coming Glee
Club star, for her singing and acting
were exceptionally good. , Together
she and Miss Righter made‘a delight-
ful couple, in the best Gilbert and| Q
{
Sullivan tradition.
We have little hope of seeing, on
Goodhart stage, a better comedy team
than was provided by Miss Lord and
Miss Scott as the Duke and Duchess
of Plaza-Toro. The Duke’s Limited |
to lack of previous experience as
partners in doubles together. This
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THE COLLEGE NEWS |
Dean Manning Talks
7 —
Continued from Page One
Ignorance, + criticize it, and are quite wise in
. giving it up because it discourages
Squalor, Are Features of = j,
Damascan City The criticism that is reaily. import-
sf, ‘\ant comes from the major students in
WOMEN ARE REPRESSED | any department. Their opinion of the
: ‘minor and major courses in their field
Dr. Christina Essenburg, speaking are of great value to the faculty.
informally in the Deanery - Tuesday Criticism from the whole student body,
afternoon, told about the religious’ however, should not be discouraged,
prejudices and degraded condition of but it should be of the right kind.
: in D ahs lod 46: ts | There are three valuable kinds of stu-
ROR: TR eraeRARCNS WHC 0 Aer dent’ criticism and they should be
founding the American School. for made directly to the Dean or through
women. there, and urged everyo#e to*the Curriculum Committee.
help‘in the work of the school toward! Personal criticism of a course and
educating and liberating Mohamme- | criticism of yndividual styles of teach-
jing is valuable, although the reaction
dan women.
age . ; |to any pref sor in his or her first year
Damascus, the oldest living city in| of teachi ‘ay be discounted, for it
the world, is beautifully situated in: takes move than'& year to. piaity canes
the valley ue whe maven erent; SeeRe | for professors to adjust themselves to
oasis in the Syrian ‘desert, To the’ sachin in a woman’s college. Criti-
Mohammedans it has always been, the| . €. :
rae di d it is a huce|°2™. °F ‘the amount of work and of
symbol of paradise and If is a AUBEC | +h. difficulty of a course is also valu-
commercial center for eastern cara-| able, although students seem to think
;vans. Most of the 200,000 inhabitants | they have too much reading to do if
“are Moslems, and only 20 per cent. are lthey ate given a large number of
Jews and Christians. - The three re-'
ligi k tirel in diff ipages to read. Many of them do not
, apart in differ-' alize that judicious skipping is al-
ent sections of the city, and the wal twain possible, The Dean is very much
of blind religious prejudice are 80); torested in the way courses fit to-
strong that the members of one sect; ‘
: | geth ds th b d tim-
dare not walk through the section be- gether an regeren tne Hania an
: ‘ing of their long reports, and in how
longing: to the members :of another. pan long cee ada can do in
Damascus is'a man’s city. -All the one semester without feeling that she
cafes, stores and restaurants are run |i, overcrowded. The third criticism
by men and for men. A woman may jn which the Dean is interested is of
not leave the house without the per-|ihe subject matter and the organiza-
mission of a male relative, and she tion of courses, and she is always
may not even look through one of the anxious to hear what any student has
heavily barred windows without being to say in this line.’
veiled. When a baby boy is born)
. 2-9 . |
te he ae a hg Scag oe ’ pur jhopes of obtaining student opinion in
; by . - “ ee yng is the Curriculum Committee, but there
co estos t er she 18 SIX SMC’ has been difficulty in organizing the
must wear a veil, and she has no play iCommittee, and in the attempt to make
or outdoor life. It is no wonder that +, more representative it has perhaps
with such repression the women of | become too large to work out a consist-
perpnecus hav e no knowledge of mod- | ont policy. Perhaps a Committee of
aaa discoveries and that the A rab | Seniors would be better qualified to
race. has declined culturally.’ It is es-' discuss courses than the present Com-
pecially in regard to sanitation that | nittee which includes members from
Damas cans are ignorant, and because | avery daa: The Seniors would have
of their carepseriess about cleanliness, | sh perspective of all their four years’
typhoid and other orvental dineases are | work to aid them in their criticisms,
constantly raging in the city. ‘but it is possible that an entirely dif-
With the aim of correcting these ferent system of obtaining student
evils Dr. Essenburg founded the |oninion is needed, and the Degn would
school. A regular high school cur-'like to hear any suggestions as to how
riculum of eleven years is offered, in-| i could best be obtained.
‘eluding. intensive training in three
languages, Arabic, French, and Eng-|
lish, in all of which the graduates alias Genthe Talks
able to read, write, and speak fluently. |
They study music, literature, and art|
as well, and they are particularly bril-! _
liant in Mathematics and Physics. groups in a temple frieze, others. like
The school possesses a small library |the Maenads on a vase, while a few
The Dean has always centered her
on Isadora Duncan
Continued from Page One ,
‘ About Questionnaire}.
Engagements
Candee; *83;~to~ Robert-Hilton, «|!
_and that.of Anne Lukens, ’35, to |!
the Reverend George Edgar |;
have been announced. ;
lowa, except a very inadequate one.
The great dancers alive now, Ruth
St. Denis and Doris Humphrey, are
not being photographed by the cinema,
which, after all, is a. better medium
for the recording of rhythmic move-
ment than stationary photographs,
however carefully made. There is a
dance than there is for dancers, now.
For the dance is assuming more
and more importance. It was Isa-
dora Duncan’s. dream to found a
school, and in Berlin shé had a school
of twenty girls, from whom she chose
six to adopt, so that as teachers they
might bear the name of Duncan.!
Later, in Moscow, the Soviet Govern-;
ment permitted her to maintain a
school of several hundred pupils, but!
political intrigues prevented her suc- |
cess. Nevertheless, her influence has
spread, and all- over the world now,
are teachers and schools that follow|
her theories.. There is no actual mon-!
ument to Isadora Duncan. Her friends |
often asked her what she would like, |
and she would laugh and say, “Oh, |
perhaps in fifty years there will be a'|
monument for me.” A spiritual one:
is already established in the increas- |
ingly fine work dys by her followers; |
whose number constantly increases, |
too. Eventually, Mr, Genthe believes, |
the perfection of her dream of rhyth-
mic co-ordination of body and soul |
will come to being in. the form of a}
woman more beautiful than anything |
before, higher in intelligence and |
freer in body.
IN PHILADELPHIA |
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Arcadia: .Warner Baxter as the |
bachelor-novelist in Such Women Are |
Dangerous ig still avoiding the wiles ;
of three baby stars in hot. pursuit. |
Not very good. |
Boyd: Joan Crawford plays Sadie |
McKee, a, gir] from the wrong side of
the railroad tracks, but one who sim-
ply cannot be’kept there. She has not
one, but three (!) leading men and
\elopes with them all in rapid succes-
The engagement of Cecilia |'but we didn’t really care awfully
BS
time.
‘along beautifully until an old girl
greater need for such portrayal of the;
| dad, with, Heather Angel and Victor
Vacation Rates
In a spirit -of co-operation
with students, — parents and -
.school authorities, the Railroads
of the United States and Can-
ada are again extending the
‘convenience and econemy of
“College Special” round-trips
for the school year 1934-1935
between home stations:as a. point
sion. She find$ happiness in the end,
much what happened ‘to her by that
Earle: This Man Is*Mine, with
Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy. ‘A
young married couple are getting
friend appears on the scene, bringing
trouble with a capital “T.” Ver ay ;
amusing. P 7 of origin and the school stations
Europa: The Constant’ Nymph, that serve educational institu-
tions. The* “College. Special”
fare is one and one-third of ‘one-
way fiyst-class fare for the
round-trip and liberal stop-overs 4
going and returning have been
arranged with the only restric-
tion that each single trip shall .
not take more than tens days.
with Viétoria Hopper and Brian
Aherne. Swell movie and even sweller
acting.
Fox: Change of Heart brings
Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell to-
gether again in the movie version of
Manhattan Love Song. Very good, if
you like Janet Gaynor and Charlie
Farrell.
Karlton: Glamor, from a story by
Edna Ferber, starring Paul. Lukas
and Constance Cummings. It is glam-
orous at that, and we liked it, but
then we would like anything with
Paul Lukas in it.
Stanley: We’re Not Dressing, a
merry musical based on The Admir-
able Crichton, with Bing Crosby, Car-
ole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Leon
Errol and Ethel Merman. Very en-
tertaining.
and Rudy Vallee in George White’s
Scandals; Wed. and Thurs., Jean
Muir in As the Earth Turns.
Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Al Jol-
son, Kay Francis, Dolores Del Rio
and Ricardo..Cortez in Wonder Bar;
Fri. and Sat., Mystery of Mr. X, with
Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Al-
len; Mon. and Tues., Victor McLaglen
and Reginald ‘Denny in The Lost
Patrol; Wed. and, Thurs., Claudette
Colbert and Herbert Marshall in Four
Stanton: Merry Wives of Reno.| Frightened People. '
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Bar-
LIVE in FRENCH
Residential) Summer School
(co-educational) in the heart
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bara Stanwyck in Gambling Lady;
Fri., As.the Earth Turns, with Jean
Muir; Sat., Richard Arlen in Come
On, Marines; Mon. and Tues., Man
of Two Worlds, with Francis Lederer
and Elissa Landi; Wed., Otto Kru-
ger in Crime Doctor.
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straight on your schedule and text-books. One
contributed by friends and next year
a Simmons graduate will teach do-
mestic science. Particular emphasis
is laid on sanitation, for even ele-
mentary rudiments, such as dish wash-
ing, must be taught to the girls, and
already the effects have been felt in a
drive by some graduates to rid the
city of mosqnitoes.
The school has done much toward
breaking down prejudice by the very
fact that there is no religious discrim-
ination and no attempt to Americanize
the girls. Although the school is in
the Moslem section, Jewish and Chris-|
tian girls come each day, and the,
-three sects in playing and working
together find that there is no sound
basis for religious differences. The
pupils are so happy there that they
do not want long holidays, because
the school is the only place where they
can play together. This education is
bringing the women an uplifting hap-
were like actual statues. One naked
torso, with head and arms concealed
in shadow, was so sculptural that
when shown to the director of the
Museum of the Acropolis in Athens,
he asked, “But where is that torso? I
don’t know it.”
This picture was carefully posed,
| but, as a rule, Mr. Genthe did not
‘approve of posing for dance photo-
igraphs.. - The ‘picture, he believed,
should suggest previous movement and
movement that will follow. This effect
can be obtained only by taking the
picture while the dancer is in mo-
tion. Unforeseen twists of draperies,
waverings of the body, make this task
very difficult, but when it is achieved,
it portrays a dance, not a pose. When
Pavlowa came to Mr. Genthe to be
photographed, she said she could hold
any position for several seconds. He
replied, “Yes, but your draperies can-
not,” and so he took the only picture
year.
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piness, which is gaining respect for which exists of Pavlowa in motion, a
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a temporary discontent, will lead to'| grace.
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founding of an international relations |Genthe had taken of Isadora Dunean’s-
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and problems. It is hoped that in the was so devoted to her work that the
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-for women can be founded, but at the after midnight while she ate a lunch
present time the school has no funds.'of crackers and milk. The movies
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Page Five
| Voice of BrynMawr
Maxine
Editor of the College News—
_ As one of the’ ancients I enjoyed
your accounts in the May 2 News of
the olden days, quite regardless of the
fact that atmospheres lived ‘through |
can apparently never be reproduced.
Two things I”want to correct. One,
the first May Day was in 1900,- not
1902. You will find photographs by
Sue Dewees, 1900, of various groups,
including shepherds in modest smocks,
played by Billy Cram and others in
1900, then seniors. During the War
there was one lapse of six years in-
stead of four, which may have thrown
your calculations out by two years.
Regarding Maxine, page 5, it should
be stated that her name was not Rug-
gles, but Wragley. She sprang from
the brain of a group: of students in
the Horace class in the fall of 1899.
They were of the class of 1901—three
juniors—and may prefer to be unnam-
ed. Maxine was born for the particu-
lar benefit of one, Robert Somerville
Radford—assistant to Dr. Lodge, the
professor of Latin—who was conduct-
ing the Poets section of the Minor
Latin Course. Dr. Radford could pro-
nounce no R—whether in. English or
_Latin—but delighted nevertheless in
reading us with due expression Jong
passages of “Hahwis” — knowh to
others as Horace. Miss “Wagley”
was repeately called on in class de-
‘/room was completely spurious.
spite assurancé from the office—from
Dr. Lodge who had a sense of humor
that Maxine’s registration in the class
lived in Denbigh with: her inventors,
had large trunks ordered down for
the Thanksgiving holiday, was an ac-
tive participator in many college ac-
tivities such as swimming contests and
other events for which we registered
on. bulletin board lists. In 1901 she
was fittingly cremated in the senior
bonfire—but rose like the phoenix. We
of 1903 thought it- best, inasmuch as
we had entered together to leave “to-
gether as well, but a second senior
bonfire cremation was. still unavail- |
ing for, as alumnaé, we of 1903 con-
tinued to hear reports of her acttvi-
ties after we had gone out from the
college. I can vouch for the fact that
she was a serious student at least. in
her early days and that her examina-
tion paper in Latin Poets must have
been a creditable one, a fact never
before divulged.
Sincerely yours,
Luiwa B. LANGE, 1903.
Department of Bacteriology,
Johns Hopkins University School of
Hygiene and Public Health.
Education has ceased to be a “hand-
maiden of politicians, devoted to prop-
aganda functions,” according to Dr.
James R. Angell, of Yale University.
Emily Marshal, a University of Mis-
souri student, has maintained a’ per-
fect score in 30 matches of the uni-
versity co-ed rifle team.
She |
Women’s College Council
Pays. Visit.to Bryn Mawr
nae Council paid a hurried ‘visit to
Bryn Mawr this past week-end. The
Committee, appointed several years
ago by the heads of Barnard, Bryn
Maw, Mount - Holyoke, Radcliffe,
Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley,.. has
been doing remarkably fine work to
further interest in womén’s education.
The. seven women on the committee,
working under the Publicity Director,
Mrs. Maude White Stewart, and or-
ganizing sub-committees, constitute a
‘kind of publicity staff for not only
the seven women’s colleges belonging
to the Council, but also for all colleges
offering educational opportunities to
women. They have succeeded in cir-
culating much information regarding
women’s education, and by doing so,
have done much to balance the inter-
est in men’s and women’s education.
No one, of course, now denies women
the right to be educated, but there still
remains a disproportionate interest in
and support of men’s colleges as com-
pared with women ’s, colleges.
It was for the duat purpose of mak-
ing the aims of the Council. better
known to Bryn Mawr and of visiting
Bryn Mawr for their own gratification
that the committee stayed here Friday
afternoon through Saturday morning;
during that time they saw the Glee
Club production, of The Gondoliers and
met some of the faculty! and students
informally. Mrs. William Franklin
The Seven Women’s Colleges Alum-’
& aonectipaeatamnaaie
French Club
The French ‘Club: takes plea’s-
ure in announcing the election
of the following officers for next
year:
President—E. Thompson.
Secretary-Treasurer — M.
Hutchings.
Eastman, of Radcliffe, acted as chair-
man of the meeting, Mrs. George En-
dicott represented ‘Barnard; Mrs.
Learned Hand, Bryn Mawr; Mrs, Wal-
ter Hodges Gilpatric, Mount Holyoke;
and Mrs. Rudolph Zinsser, Smith.
Unfortunately, the representatives of
Vassar and Wellesley were unable to
be here.
Wit’s End
Continued from Page Two
Hear my Senior song.
I have taken to sleepwalking
In the wee, wee night,
And I’ve been a long a-talking
Of things recondite.
Then the awful, awful even
Came when, jailed as ill,
I began insomniac heavin’
And leapt the window sill,
Came a-ringin’ at the doorbell
Of my Bryn Mawr home,
Sent the warden rushin’ pell-mell
From her pleasure dome.
Life is hard and life is earnest,
I’m with compreheksives torn,
Tomorrow, tomorrow the light
burnest—
O Gabriel, blow your horn!
—College Lifer.
Healthy, wealthy and wise?
O why can brighties
Never don _ nighties!
—Snoop-on-the-loose.
Dearie me, I would be a gondolier
for the rest of my days if it weren’t
for the fact that in my youth I. had
a terrible experience with a canoe, I
like tea, but I must say I am not a
fiend for water. Well, my friends,
I leave you with feelings of plea-ea-
sure!
Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.
Gleanings
Irvine. Warburton, University »of
Southern ’ California’s all-American
grid star, has been rejected for a role
in a football picture because he
“doesn’t look like” a football player.
Dr. Knight Dunlap, professor of
psychology at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, is doing special research on. the
problem of just why babies suck their
thumbs.
One group of 102 Haverford (Pa.)
College students has senz to President
Roosevelt and:Senator David A. Reed
a petition announci ing their refusal to
“fight in any war.’
— it takes good things to make
good things.
—the mild ripe tobaccos we
buy for Chesterfield mean milder
. better taste.
—the way they are made
means Chesterfields burn right
and smoke cool. _
—it means that down where
that
they grow tobacco folks know
mild ripe tobaccos are
bought for Chesterfields.
And because Chesterfields are
made of the right kinds of to-
bacco, it is a milder cigarette,
a cigarette that tastes better.
There is no substitute for mild,
ripe tobacco.
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"Mrs. Dohan Speaks
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_ in taking care of archeological speci-
“mens. The biggest advantage offered
Sergcexecaee
Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Srne LORAIN TA ome A Teel ct netsaas
~
~ On Work in-Museums
Few Salaried Positions Exist But’
Apprenticeships Are Eas- |
ily Obtained
righ ; |
NEED. PHOTOGRAPHERS,
Mrs. Dohan, of the University of |
Pennsylvania Museum, speaking Tues-
day afternoon in the Common Room
on “Opportunities for Work in Mus-
eums,” saw little chance of getting a
paying position for one who has not
had a great deal of previous experi-
ence in museum work. Mrs. Dohan’s
experience has been mainly in her own
museum, which is “informal,” and es-
sentially an historical rather than a
fine arts museum. It was started by
amateurs, and contains collections of
all sorts of things, not specializing in.
any one kind. At this time, like many |
other museums, it is in great finan-
cial need; consequently, it offers little |
opportunity for those who need a pay-|
ing position immediately after leaving |
college.
At present, there are three Bryn
Mawr graduates working at the Uni-
versity of Peffnsylvania Museum, one
of whom is Ruth Levy. Miss Levy has
an especial talent for working with
her hands: for mending broken vases,
piecing together bits of broken pot-'
tery, and putting fragments of bronze |
back on ancient vases. She has done
a great deal of this type of work, from
which much can be learned. Mrs. Do-
han emphasized the fact that a large
amount of work done in museums is
pure housekeeping, such as seeing that
vases do not get broken, keeping cata-
logues in order and up-to-date, discov-
ering mistakes that your predecessors
have made, and cleaning bronzes. In
the cleaning of bronzes, a knowledge
of chemistry is required in order to
know what type of cleanser can be
used on different kinds of bronzes.
In spite of the lack of paying posi-
tions in museums, there is much work
to be done by girls who wish to serve
an apprenticeship without pay. If one
is interested in the work itself, will-
ing to take the chance and to spend
much time, there is plenty of work
by museum work is the opportunity of
learning from objects themselves, af-
ter learning about them from books.
It is difficult, at first, to adjust one-
self to studying genuine articles, but:
the University of Pennsylvania Mus-
eum offers a valuable opportunity of
doing real work on real things, and
especially ‘of rediscovering..and_cata-
loguing old pieces.
Museum work gives one the chance
to publish articles, if one has talent
and gets into the habit of looking at
things and thinking about them. There
are also opportunities for scientific
work. Museum work is difficult at
first for those who are used to a long
academic vacation:, the vacations are
from a month to six weeks, and the
daily hours are from nine-thirty until
five o’clock. In answer to a question
as to whether there is any hope for
those who have not done any gradu-
ate work and are faced with the im-
mediate necessity for a paying job,|'
Mrs. Dohan said that there is very
little. Only a few museums offered
such positions several years ago, and
there is even less chance now.
Mrs. Dohan expressed little belief
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delphia, but that has been withdrawn
in accordance with the new civic pol-
‘brought back.
has become extremely valuable, that
ithough it may not be permanent,
in the value of training gained in the
Dozent.type of ‘service, where school’
children ‘visit museums and are told
about. the various exhibits. The chil-
dren take and memorize many notes,
but the knowledge gained is, of neces-
sity, superficial. .Very. few people
who have started in this way ever
work up to museum positions, as there
is not much chance for intelligent
work in such training. Also, as pay:
ing positions are extremely scarce
now, it is difficult to get a part-time
job to enable one to continue studying
while gaining experience in actual
work. .The University of Pennsylva-
nia Museum used to receive fifty thou-
sand dollars from the city of Phila-
icy of economy. Now expeditions are
financed through gifts, and the mus-
eum staff must install, photograph,
and catalogue the specimens which are
There is a new type of work which
led by Scribners; 1934.
of drawing reproductions of speci-|
mens. For anyone who possesses the
‘ability to draw well and very accur-|
iately, this work is profitable, since | every line that it appears to have
there are not enough artists interest- | becn considered a virtue. In this book,
ed in it to accompany all the expedi-|
tions. In.order to qualify for such a|at obscurity—no impressionistic spell-
position, one should have special train- |
ing in “drawing on a scholarly basis.” |
A knowledge of photography is also |
very valuable in museum work. There |
have been recent experiments in this |
line, attempting to get rid of the high |
lights in photographs of specimens. If
one is an expert photographer or
painter of bronze or of clay specimens, |
a paying position is available, al-/
Quite a bit of children’s museum:
work is done at the University of |
Pennsylvania Museum: Children pay
to come and make Egyptian sandals,
Indian homes, igloos, and other repro-
ductions of that type. A children’s
sherd-collecting club is now being
formed. Reproductions of Greek and
Roman homes are made and sent to
various schools for exhibition.
A knowledge of photography, while
it does not lead to work as a curator,
is not to be despised by the scholar.
It is advisable for anyone who is in-
terested in trying to get into museum
work in any capacity possible. A col-
lege education is a mere preliminary:
the practical knowledge is gained in
apprenticeship. _Anyone who is sure
that she wishes to make museum work
her career would do well to canvass
|modern verse, this same fault is so
iwords and significant phrases.
required in each museum, discovering
a certain type that is definitely need-
ed, and then becoming an expert in
that line.
that she had run down her own mus-
eum because at present it is out of
funds, because its collections are var-
ied, and many are broken. However,
she believes firmly in its type, since
nowhere else is such experience in
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handling pottery to be gained, except
on an expedition. There is plenty of
material to: be published and will be
for many years to come; publication
is, however, mainly done’by graduate
students. The Museum Bulletin is for
members of the staff only, and the
more scholarly Museum Journal is not
to be published this year. The pic-
ture of museum work is not, at pres-
ent, a cheerful one. Nevertheless, peo-
ple who are interested are urged to try
to get work in a museum during June
and September, where they can write,
bibliography, and collect and catalogue
specimens. In this way a great deal
of practical experience can be gained.
Book Reviews
t
Crows, by David McCord. Publish-
Crows, a slim volume of poetry by
David McCord, has as its principal
fault its incomprehensibility. In some
obviously the aim and inspiration of
however, there is no studied attempt
ing, no flagrant disobedience of punc-
tuation rules,sno tangling of words
into perplexing knots. Yet under-
neath this simple appearance there
is a complexity that cannot be- unrav-:
eled. The clear phrases do not unite
into clear sentences, And these sen-
tences follow each other without any
apparent connection of thought, so
that in the end the whole poems, in
spite of their conventional forms, and
the clarity of the separate atoms
within these forms, are insoluble mys-
teries.
A mystery is always irritating, ar.d
particularly so if it promises to re-
veal riches if only explained. ‘hese
poems are irritating in just that way
because they never fulfill the promise
of their lovely sound, their lively
All of
them, of course, are not completely
obscure, but the less abstruse they
are, the less beautiful, the more pro-
saic.they become. Mr. McCord’s fore-
word in verse is comprehensible, but
it is written so haltingly that an
enigma would be preferable. That at
least. has possibilities.
There are a few poems which are
both beautiful and understandable.
Crows, which gives its name to the
insight keenly expressed. Presbytc-
riaom Plowing is restrained in form as
the Puritanical farmer whose words it
is, but it has a depth of emotion under-
lying its simplicity and giving it
beauty, just as inscrutability underlies
the simplicity of so many of the other
poems and destroys their beauty.
There is a whole section of the book
dedicated “To A Child,” and this is
necessarily clear—not in thought, for
there is no thought, but in imagery.
The Tiger Lily is described just as a
child would see it, with appreciation of
its color and feeling, but no reflections
about its meaning or its purpose.
Here, and in his recondite poems 4s
well, Mr. McCord uses severely plain
expressions to create his images. If
he means “green,” he says simply
that, and does not add. “very” or
“bright ;’#Mvet still he makes his color
very bright by concentrating all its
brillance in one word instead of
spreading it thinly over several. By
equal concentration in phrases he cap-
tures whole landscapes, as he com-|
presses the sky, the sun, and the
water into “the blue flame of the sea.”
In startling opposition to this metic-
ulous handling of words, he frequently
coins words: that jar the mind and
tongue horribly. Thug, seeking a
rhyme for. ‘“wishfulness,” he says
“fishfulness.” Sometimes his words
are acceptable, but he spoils them by
using them in false rhymes like
“snarl” and “laurel.” These tech-
nical errors, together with the dull-
ness to which his thought often de-
scends when evident, and the dark-
ness which envelops it the greater
part of the time, prevents Crows from
being even a satisfying book. And
it is all the less satisfying because
of the hints it holds of latent signifi-
cance and beauty.—E. D. L.
Freshmen Give One-Acts
Before Amused Audience
Continued from Page One
logue was unusually realistic, especial-
ly in the extremely natural conversa-
tion where the mother, played by the
author, tries to persuade the daughter,
played by Jane Simpson, to marry
her wealthy suitor and reject the
struggling young author. Some of the
lines were surprisingly good and were
spoken well and not melodramatical-
ly. Miss Cotton, in her short appear-
ance as the-rich Stephen, and Miss
Harvey, as the poor boy who wins
Isabelle’s hand, were quite adequate.
the city, firiding out the types of work!whole volume, has passages of aa Miss Steinhardt’s tragedy, And
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CET,
Even Love, was the best of the ‘three
in its sustained excellence of dialogue, __
its soundness of plot, and in its cen-
tral theme, based on a poem by the
author. However in spite of its ex-
cellence, we couldn’t. quite see why
everybody was so upset. The two
parts, that of the young medical stu-
dent, John Weston, and his poetess
fiancée, Margaret Lester, were taken
by Letitia Brown and Dorothea Wild-
er, who sustained the parts well, al-
though Miss Brown showed a slight
tendency to overact at times. The
fear that he was being unfair to Mar-
garet in marrying her, his ideas after
reading the poem, and his reaction to
the disclosure that his fiancée was
the poetess were well shown by Miss
Brown. The poem itself was equal to
the most important part it held in the
play, and the whole play’ was above
the average of Freshman dramas,
Although the audience spent an hi-
larious hour, we fear that they were
not completely able to grasp the full
purport intended by the authors of
the tragedies: they howled with glee
at the most unhappy points of the
plays, and seemed generally unsympa-
thetic with the characters’ plights.
However, they enjoyed themselves to
the utmost, and, if they were not cap-
able of differentiating between the
moments for tears and laughter, we
must forgive them; they pia a very
good time. All things considered, it
was a very successful evening, and we
hope that the custom of putting on the
Freshman one-act plays will continue.
A. M.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
: Page Seven
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Twenty Years Ago : warded to the News. We offer, very |rible scene under ‘that clear, yellow| was marvelous, They had bread,
Although in 1914 Bryn Mawr—had Fencing | humbly,.a.translation—-from—theyo0n: The shells were bursting with a|meat, vegetables, brandy, cheese,
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the reputation in Europe of being Elinor Smith, “87, tas been French:
. “the best-known female college in our |}
generation,” from Cincinnati, in our
own college-conscious land, came to
the President of the Undergradudte
Association the following curt mis-
sive’
Students of Bryn Mawr College:
Gentlemen:
What about a college song book? °
We, in our position, would have
written back:
Ladies:
What about a College News?
The News, in the early days, ap-
parently had a motherly attitude,
which encouraged little. confidences,
very much on the Fairfax-Dix line.
“Conscientious But. Perplexed” con-
fesses her difficulties to the ever-sym-
pathetic Board. “I stand on the
horns of a dilemma. Last week the
fire bell rang for a drill at 10.30 P. M.
(this was a decidedly archaic note). I
leaped out of ‘bed and slipped on a
coat and hockey skirt and slippers.
Can» you imagine-my consternation
‘when I was ordered out on to the
Campus? I was an aide in the Fire
Department, but I was also a bare-
legged member of Self-Government.”
Another happy, rosy, undergradu-
ate, brimful of exuberance and the
Pollyanna spirit, criticizes the News
for calling éxaminations a fearful or-
deal, because, to her, it seems that
examinations are the healthiest time
of year. ‘Never are we so well fed
—five meals a day and tea in the af-
ternoon. Never do we take so much
voluntary exercise. . - Most of us
go to bed at a reasonable hour.” We
think that this should be framed in
gold and hung on every student’s wall,
at examination time. Then when our
eyes are bleared with history, we ean
raise them and realize with a deep
quiet satisfaction that we have never
been so well fed.
From the very first, the News was
in the public eye. The New York
Post hailed it with fulsome praise;
“It has appeared weekly since the col-
lege opened, and is both useful and’
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elected Fencing Manager for
1934-35.
successful. It is a four-page sheet
beginning with a calendar of the
week’s events. It has given short and
well-written accounts of the different
events in the college; each weele-there
is an editorial on some miatter of col-
lege interest; under the heading,
Alumnae Notes, brief items of inter-
est in regard to the Alumnae are giv-
en, and the newspaper has’ proved
useful in giving a clear accqunt of
changes in the students’ organiza-
tions.” Thank you, gentlemen; we
will keep on trying to make good.
The Library received a more wel-
come tribute from John Russell Hayes
(in the Public Ledger) :
“Serenity and peace and sunny dream
Have laid their blessing on these
graceful towers, —
And airs august from old-world Ox-
ford seem
To breathe among these courts and
cloistered bowers.”
Pinafore was presented in the
Gymnasium in the spring of 1915. The
sisters and the cousins and the aunts
sang gaily, even though handicapped
by pompadours and those almost in-
describable white sack-like dresses
that resembled nightgowns.
M. Cons, a former professor. in
the French Department, during the
war wrote letters from the trenches
to his wife, some of which she for-
“The night of November 26, ” wrote
M. Cons, “I was present at a scene of
inexpressible grandeur and “strange-
ness. There was a beautiful mogn
and the air carried sound admirably.
From our trenches, in the front line,
we heard ¢alls, cries, and..orders in
the German trench. .Toward eleven
o’clock our neighbors and friends of
the ‘active regiments began to salute
each other by cries of joy (a great
Russian victory had just been an-
nounced); and suddenly on all the
French lines, thousands and_ thou-
sands of ardent young voices burst
into the Marseillaise, heard perfectly
by the Germans—who answered by
little cries of derision which sounded
very petty. They were beginning to.
sing their Wacht am Rhein when our
batteries of 75, mingling their imperi-
ous voices with the concert and firing
on the Boches’ trenches, imposed si-
lence upon them. Our men kept on
singing. It was a joyful and_a ‘ter-
ese gy rg Ann eee eaepemalgaionect ears eee a
on?”
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flash and everywhere, standing on the
trenches, on the plain, at the edge
of the wood, were those silhouettes of
heroic children singing the Marseil-
laise and punctuating each stanza with
a salvo of rifle shots; but the terrible
booming of the cannon was the most
sublime motif of the orchestra. Such
impressions are never forgotten.”
The trenches were more than just
ditches from which to shoot. F¥xes
were built in them and theymen passed
happy moments there. ““Imagine men
On an average of about forty years
old, gathered in a hole underground,
around a fire, cooking potatoes in the
ashes, and listening enraptured to
fairy stories (yes,efairy stories) told
sausages, sardines, coffee and tea in
abundance. In fact, although the so};
diers slept on wet straw and considered
a bed in the straw of a barn as the
greatest of luxuries, they were a sur-
prisingly healthy lot. To wash even
their hands, they had to go through
a communication trench to a_ well
which was bombarded from time to
time by the Germans. They were as
happy as schoolboys on vacation when
they got to the cantonments, where
they could take warm showers and
wash their clothes. A _ pretty little
gray cat was the companion of M.
Cons’ squad in the trenches. It ate
the left-over scraps of food and when
the cannon thundered, it shook its
them by their corporal.” The food|ears tike a little donkey.
— =)
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Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 Miss Sarah Davis, Manager Ds na
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Where is Indian Lake?
About 150 miles from Al-
Ques.
Ans.
bany in a real wilderness.
Ques. Can you drive to it?
Ans. To the lower end of the
Lake; not to the Camp.
Ques. What do the Campers live
in?
Ans. Mostly in tents very com-
fortably equipped.
There are
two cottages.
BACK LOG CAMP
A camp for adults ana families
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On Indian Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains
QUESTIONNAIRE
See CAROLINE C. BROWN, DENBIGH
1934
Ques. - Who goes to the Camp?
Ans. People like yourself. Single |
men and women; whole families.
Ques. Who runs the Camp?
Ans. A large family of Philadel-
phia Quakers, college graduates.
Ques. What sort of a life does
the Camp offer?
Ans. Terribly — to the sort |
who never come; fascinating to
those who love the woods.
Ques. Is the food good?
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Bryn Mawr Burns ~~"
To the present staid and sober stu-
dents of Bryn Mawr, nothing really |
exciting like fires in Denbigh ever
seems to happen. Our years on the
campus have never yet given us an
opportunity to reveal the feminine
heroism which we are sure lies buried
within us, nor an opportunity to he-
come intimately acquainted with dash-
‘ing fire chiefs risking life and limb
to save our Sophomore English re-
ports and asking no reward but a
fetching smile.
Life in Bryn Mawr, however, was
not always thus. There was once a
time, as we gleaned from jpouring
through Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’ scrap
book of the Bigger and Better Bryn
Mawr events, when four hundred stu-
dents worked heroically at saving re-
ports, gold fish, and their pet socks
from fire and flame and a great deal
of Packs. all of which came pouring
out of “Denbrigh” Hall in the middle
of dne terrifically exciting night. Sev-
enty-two girls rushed to safety, in
good order but scant attire, according
to the Evening Telegraph of March
17, 1902, but were soon rallied by
some 300 others who arrived with fire
apparatus in hand and “began their
glorious battle with. the flames.”
We only wish that we could do
something to become fit news for
such headlines as the following:
“BRYN MAWR GIRLS
FIGHT:.COLLEGE FIRE
Four Hundred Students Work Hero-
ically to Save Buildings
at ccomenecas «erence
—————_
DENBRIGH HALL DESTROYED
Lamp Overturned by a Falling Screen
Starts Blaze in Closed Room That
Threatened the Whole
Institution
AID SENT FROM
PHILADELPHIA
‘Handsonie Limestone Structure With
Its Contents Worth At Least a
Quarter Million—Chief
Baxter Directed Work’
The headlines themselves are mere-
ly a foretaste of the better moments
of the article:
“Denbrigh Hall, one of the newest
and largest dormitory buildings at:
Bryn Mawr College, was: totally de-
stroyed by fire last night. Only the
personal bravery and quick judgment
of Miss Tibolt, in whose room the fire
started, saved the 71 other young
women housed in the building from
injury or death.
“A fire brigade of 400 young women
quickly formed and gave battle to the
flames. Nothing whatever was saved
from Denbrigh Hall, the young fire
fighters giving all of their attention
to the adjoining buildings.
“The fire originated in the rooms of
Miss Tibolt, which was located about
the centre of the main corridor. Miss
Tibolt had stepped across the hallway,
leaving’ a lighted lamp on her study
table.
“The screen standing before her
open window was blown over by the
breeze and fell with a crash on the
lighted lamp. The table cover caught
fire and, fed by paper and other in-
flammable stuff, the flames spread to
the carpet and curtains. and-soon the
entire room was a mass of seething
; flamés.
.“Miss Tibolt returned after a few
minutes, and on seeing the blaze in-
stantly closed the door and shouted
‘Fire!’ 4
“She roused her nearest —room-
mates. From room to room and from
floor. to floor the brave girls ran,
shouting at the top of their lungs the
cries of warning.
“The shouts of the terrorized stu-
dents in Denbrigh Hall soon roused
those sleeping’in the other dormitories,
as well as the large corps of instruc-
tors.
“There was no panic, and messen-
gers were dispatched tp Ardmore,
Narberth, Villanova and other nearby
places for assistance.
“Appeals were sent to Chief Baxter,
of the Philadelphia Fire Department,
Mayor Ashbridge and Director Eng-
lish, and word was soon received that
two engine companies and a _ truck
would soon arrive. Sei
“The 72 girls who escaped in good
order from Denbrigh Hall, some in
scant attire, were soon joined by over
300 others, who formed in squads and
with the fire apparatus at hand began
their glorious battle with the flames.
“The drizzling rain suddenly be-
came a perfect downpour, and the
young women saw in’it an omen of
good. They barred the doors in the
lower floors of Denbrigh Hall to shut
off the draughts and opened the way
for the volunteer firemen, who were
already heard beating down the great,
important point to every sm
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wide macadam drives leading up to
the college campus. The girls helped
unreel the first line of hose that was:
limbered on the ground, and four of
the quickest and the bravest rushed
into the heart of the fire with the pipe.
No attempt. was made to save any of
the girls’ effects, and all energies were
bent upon the fire itself.
“The supply of water proved abun-
dant, and the steady downpour of
rain seemed to grow in volume as the
minutes passed. All danger of fall-
ing walls, all fear of singed tresses
and all. regard for personal appear-
ances were cast aside, and a fight to a
finish with the fire was on.’ The
breaking glass, shattered by the in-
tense heat, cpened draughts on all
sides of the building. Thus the flamed
flames grew im fierceness and mounted
high, piercing the roof and lighting
the sky like a beacon.
“Step by step the brave: girls were
forced back from the burning hall,
only to rush forward with renewed
courage and energy when a slight
shift of the wind or a crash of tim-
ber would scatter the blaze and afford
them an instant’s vantage.
“Time and time again they were
driven away, and just as often as they
broke ground a foot they dashed back
a yard and were actually right up
against the blazing building when the
veterans from Philadelphia arrived.
“The professional fire-fighters drove
the young women from their posts of
danger and took active charge of the
conflagration. The young women
turned in as volunteers and under the
direction.,.of._the-_Philadelphia ~ -fire
chiefs ran lines of pipes from the
water supply to the hall and ina hun-
dred ways rendered instant and valu-
able aid to the firemen. Dangerous
walls were battered down, and be-
fore each fall the girls would strug-
gle to places of safety through the
mud and debris.
“Chief Baxter arrived in person
soon after midnight and, guided by a
dozen girls, soon located the scene of
greatest danger, and, placing the fe-
male volunteers: where they could play
water upon Merion Hall, saved that °
handsome structure.”
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