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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933

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COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

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Dr. Chambers Shows /

Continuity of Epic

‘anic Migrations Supplied
Subject for Old English
Epic Poetry



SMALL PART SURVIVES



“There was nothing provincial or
lecal about old English epic poetry,”

‘said Dr. R. W. Chambers, of the Uni-

versity of Loridoh, speaking on Old
English Epic Poetry in Goodhart
Hall, Tuesday evening, October 24.
The four-beat, alliterative metre was
used not only in England, but by the
Germanic peoples all over Europe, as
far as Russia on the east, Africa
on the south, and Greenland. and
North Amerjca on the north~ and
west. The Germanic peoples, too, had
free-trade in subject-matter for their
epic poems, so that we find the early
Enclish epic telling nothing whatso-
evr about England.

The subject- matter of early Eng-
lish, epics may be traced directly to
events taking place in Europe in the
years 300 to 600 A. D., back during
the migrations of the Germanic tribes
at the fall of the Roman Empire. The
spread of a song during this epoch
may be understood from the picture

~in Kinesley’s Hypatia of old Wulf





the Goth, fighting on the streets of
Alexandria and, as he swings his bat-
tle-axe, singing the lay learned from
the Langobards by the Danube shore.
Although we know that there must
have been many such songs as this
of Wulf, we find very few now ex-
tant. One or two were recorded by
Latin chroniclers, but most of the
Romans, who might have been the
means of preserving the songs, refus-
ed (like Julian the Apostate) to find
melody in “this croaking of harsh-
voiced birds,” or, like Sidonius, “shut

_ their ears to the singing of the bar-

barians whose beards were dripping
with rancid butter.”

In the ninth century, Charlemagne
encouraged the collection of Frank-
ish songs, none of which, unfortu-
nately, have come down to us. Later,
Alfred, in England, was_ himself
brought up on Saxon verse and rec-
ommended the same to his nobles for
edifying study. Only a tiny portion
of this Saxon verse has been pre-
served: the Beowulf, a comparative-
ly short epic of some four thousand
lines, which we possess in a West
Saxon translation of the original
Northumbrian; the Lay of Walther
of Aquitaine; the Finnsburgh Lay;
oni Widsith and Deor in the Exeter
Book. The last two are valuable be-
gause they contain a catalogue of

_ epic heroes of the time.





Although the bulk of old English
epic poetry is not extant, it is possible
from references and archaeological
evidence to trace the widespread in-
fluence and continuity of Germanic
epic subject-matter from the fourth
even as far down as the sixteenth
century. brand and Hadruband, for instance,
spread over Denmark,. Norway, Ice-
land, and Greenland; although all
that is to be seen of it now is a small
fragment preserved in the -older
Edda in Copenhagen.

The tale of Ermaneric the Goth,
on the other hand, offers a fair ex-
ample of the continuity of Germanic
epic tradition. Ermaneric was a
fourth century ruler on the borders
of the Roman Empire, a cruel tyrant,
who ordered the wife of a revolting
subject to be torn by wild horses. The
legend of his cruelty grew and grew,

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Current Events

In order to relieve the pres-
sure of the time schedule for
Tuesday evenings Dr. Fenwick
has announced the suspension
of his talks on current events
until the conclusion of the ser-
ies of Shaw Foundation lec-_
tures. He will resume them
on December 5, at the -regular
hour.





At Dedication of Alumnae House



Park ;
Association.

President Emeritus Thomas; and Mrs.

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by courtesy of Philadelphia Public Ledger
From left to right are Mrs. F) Louis Slade, chiirman of the Deanery Committee ;

Herbert L.

Clark, president of the

President
Alumnae



Permanent Codes to

Test Value of NRA



C. L. Heyniger Declares New
Deal Aims at Helping Busi-

ness Govern Itself



CHILD LABOR IS ENDED



“The NRA must ultimately be
judged on the final influence of the
permanent codes passed under it,” de-
clared Mr. L. L. Heyniger, a member
of the Industria] Advisory Board,
who lectured on the National Recov-
ery Administration in Goodhart Hall
lact Wednesday night. The govern-
ment is trying to establish codes of
fair competition, which are defined as
industrial understandings supported
py the government and made _ into
laws. The practices of trade and
‘he demands of labor must both be
taken into account
codes.

A permanent organization is being
developed in Washington to pass upon
and regulate the working of the
codes. It will probably consist of a
Legal Board, a Committee. on Re-
search and Planning, and one Board
each for Capital Goods Industries,
Consumers’ Goods Industries, Service
Goods Industries, and. National Re-
sources Goods Industries.

Since codes are criminal laws, un-
der which a man can be fined $500
per day for offenses that may have
been committed in all innocence, their
provisions -must be carefully weigh-
ed. Up to date 59 codes have been
approved, and 241 have had their
post-hearings. The codes for major
industries, such as iron and _ steel,
were considered first, because they
affected the greatest number

It_is impossible for the Adminis-
tration to pass the codes more rap-
idly, because in the first place, it is
dealing with such difficult questions
as the limiting of capacity and prices,
and the control of production; and in

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Sophomore Elections
President ....Doreen Canaday
Vice-President-Treasurer,

Barbara Cary
Secretary ......Jane Matteson
Sun Mistress....Helen Kellog









in making the?





CALENDAR

Thursday, Nov. 2. Confer-
ence in\ connection with the
‘Shaw lectures. 2 to 4 P. M.
in the Deanery.

Saturday,. Nov. 4. Varsity
hockey game\vs. Merion Crick
et Club. 10.00. A. M.

Monday, Noy.. 6.. Second
Varsity, hockey game vs. Mer-
ion Cricket Club, 4.00 P. M.

Monday, Nov. 6.\ Second of
the Anna Howard Shaw Mem-
orial lectures. Mrs. Dean will
“speak on “The New European
Balance of Power.” Goodhart,
8.20 P. M.

Thursday, Nov. 2. One-act
play—Atalanta in Wimbledon.
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.

Tuesday, Nov. 7. Conference
in connection with the Shaw

lectures. 2 to 4 P.M. in--the-
Deanery.

Wednesday, Nov. 8. Indus-
trial Group Supper. Common

Room, 6.00 P. M.







First French Club Tea ae
Attended by Faculty



The first meeting of the French
Club took place in the Common Room
Thursday, October 26, at half-past |
Miss Gilman, M. and Mme.
Canu, Mlle, Ray, of Baldwin, ‘the
directress of the Club’s annual French
play, and Mlle, Gobert;~the
member of the French department,
were all present. We hope that mem-
bers of the faculty will often give

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new

us the pleasure of having ,them at
our meetings.

It was decided to hold a meeting
every other Wednesday evening at
eight o’clock. On Wednesday, No-
vember 8, Mile. Gobert will speak to
us about her experiences in Egypt
and Africa.) Her talk will be illus-
trated by slides. On the evening of
the twentieth, Caroline Lloyd-Jones
and Clarissa Compton Dryden ate go-
ing to give us a revival of the fifth
act of Hugo’s Hernani, the French
Club play of 1930.

A discussion of dues followed that
of programs. It was voted that any
deficit arising from the play’ would
be filled as usual by an assessment
of the members. The officers, how-



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Miss Thomas Speaks
Over Radio Hook-Up
Affiliated Schools for Workers

Honor Her With Dinner
in New York .





MRS. ROOSEVELT - FOLLO



Miss M. Carey Thomas, President-
Emeritus..°of Bryn Mawr College,
speaking over the radio last Tues-
day night from the Affiliated Schools
for Woikers, said ‘The United States
is at last beginning to organize so-
cially. The NRA codes of President
Roosevelt and his advisors are neces-
sary social reforms of great signfi-
cance,” which will give American
men and women workers some hours
of leisure everyday..-No~-one who
has not come, as we have in the Bryn
Mawr. Summer Sehool, in close con-
tact with workers can realize how im-
perative this leisure is.

atte aldo come
from\ all o ed States. One-
half of them are American-born, one-
half are foreign-born; one-half are
unorganzed, and one-half belong to
labor unions. We try to keep. this
same proportion every summer. There
is absolute freedom of discussion and
no propaganda. Whatever may be
destroyed in the future, workers so
educated will \save our schools and
colleges.

In- the, Victorian. 1880’s and 90’s
when girls first began to go to col-
lege, and in 1920\ when American
women first became citizens with
votes, we rejoiced in\ the possibilities
of social betterment brought into our
national life by those\ additions of
many women voters, aS yet —uncor-
rapted politically. But, above all, we
rejoice because we believe that a splen-
did new source of leadership has been
tapped. We now know how to limit,
our ‘population and how to space-our
industrial work so as to do away with
all unemployment, underfeeding, and
starvation. We know how to eliminate
the half-witted and the criminally
minded. We shall then be able to
have a decent heredity, a good edu-
cation, a comfortable home, safe-
guarded by every hygienic advice, and
ample playgrounds for every child
born. We. shall also be able to give
every adult worker limited hours of

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its. Vera Dean. OF



pens
Shaw Lecture Series



Fascism’ Threatens Democracy
Only Where Self-Govern-

ment,,.Never Thrived



WAR EXALTED STATE



“I do not share the pessimism of
those people who think that democera-
cy: cannot survive,” said Mrs. Vera
Micheles Dean, Research Associate of
the Foreign Policy Association,
speaking in Goodhart Hall, Monday
night, October 30, on “Fascism, or
Democracy in Europe?” The places
where democracy has failed are the
places where it was never firmly es-
tabl shed—Italy and Germany. In
Great Britain, France, ahd. the Scan-
dinavian countries, however, democ-
racy still holds out, and that despite
grave economic difficulties. There the
people are not yet ready for violence
and oppression as a means of settling
problems; there they will not aban-
don their traditional inheritance of
individual dignity, nor their willing-
ness to sacrifice voluntarily for the
common good. Unless the economic
crisis becomes far more serious, or
unless the threat of war appears on
the horizon, the danger of Fascism
as a disruptive force in .Europe will
not become supreme.

We are living in an era when most
of us face profound discouragement,
when the salvage from the World
War seems sadly illusory.. Craving
something outside of ourselves in
which to put our faith, we are in
danger of surrendering to the tide of
mass movement, of being stampeded
into acknowledging some new au-
thoritative system, such as Commun-
ism or Fascism supplies. In faée of
the prevalence of this hysteria, it is
important to survey both that which
We are ready to abandon and that
which we hope to achieve.

To.a generation warming its hands
at the dying embers of Victorian
faith in humanity came the. shatter-
‘ing impulse of the World War. 1914
severed the link that might have con-
nected the liberalism of the _nine-
teenth century with that of our own
day. Democracies in a panic went
back to dictatorship; individual lib-
erty was incredibly curtailed for the
common cause; control of economic
activities was taken over to an ex-
tent unprecedented in modern history
by the state. War exalted the state
and diminished the individual. When
peace came, it only served to empha-
size the helplessness of the individ-
ual ‘and his need for assistance from
the state.

The nineteenth century, with the
weapons of science and industry in
its hand, believed wholeheartedly in
unlimited possibilities for. progress.
From the political theories of thé
French Revolution and ‘the economic
theories of the Industria] Revolution
had emerged a system that might be
designated as capitalist democracy,
which drew its driving force from
the middle~ela&s. This middle class

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Player’s Club Presents
“Atalanta in’ Wimbledon”



“Atalanta in Wimbledon,” the first
Player’s Club one-act of this year,
is to be presented on Thursday night,
November 2. [ts appearance marks
a new development in the Club’s pol-
icy for it is’ being produced and en-
tirely presented, not by members of
the Club, but by those who are trying

out for it.. The cast is as follows:

MP ONNG. 6 i. i Gans Doreen Canaday
Dawhk/—- 807 rags ety —Ferry
BIN ik oe es Ce Nora McCurdy
Constable ....... Margaret Simpson
me sai cies. Frederica Bellamy
Oe 3 ok Ga Frances Porcher
Mr. Leonard.......... Mr. Leonard

The Director is Ann Reese. Stage
Manager i is Marjorie Goldwasser, and
the heads of committees are: Light-
ing, Rosella “James; Properties, Dor-
othy Walsh; Costumes, Elizabeth
Bingham; Business Manager, one
Matteson.





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KIRK ON THE DEATH OF THEIR DAUGHTER, FRANCES

JEFFRIES. .



Student Libraries
The most permanent result of a good education is love of reading.
We learn principally through understanding and criticizing ideas. that

are presented to us in books. The teaching of literature is valuable

only when it interests the student in books whose beauty she might by

herself have failed to discern. . In order fully to appreciate a book

written either in this or in ‘a past century,
development of literature and of the literary forms prescribed at the
The formal phrases and verse-

some knowledge of the

time the book was written is necessary.
stanzas of James Shirley, the stylized prose of Pater, the symbolism
of T. S. Eliot are hard for the student to appreciate unless the literary
beliefs, traditions and pioneering movements of each author’s time

have been explained to her. When studying under scholars who are

able to make these explanations, studeuts often do not foresee that
there may come a t'me whet they would like to reread what they are
studying and to have these very explanations at hand. If each student
would own and annotate her own copies of the books she studies, she

would be sure of possessing these notes whenever she might want them.
The founding of her own library while she is in college would, if for
this reason alone, be sufficiently valuable to warrant the expense.

But there-are many other reasons for founding her own library.
If, for instance, she is interested in history, she may start a collection
of historical books, which will provide her with a literary background.
By adopting a poliey of buying consistently through the years the
books that interest her, she will provide herself with a concrete index
to her own development. There is nothing more entertaining than to
glance over the books we liked when somewhat younger ‘and less wise
than now, and neither is anything more flattering to one’s sense of
one’s own intellectual growth. On the other hand, it is to be hoped
that many an alumna at eighty will congratulate herself on having
had the maturity of critical judgment at eighteen teselect a book that
has remained a favorite through the intervening years. There is a
delightful sense of familiarity and satisfaction in entering a room
whose walls are covered with books, discovered, bought, and reread
many times by one’s own self. The sooner we start to buy the better,
because it will undoubtedly prove impossible after college to remember
all the books we began to love there, and, furthermore, books which
particularly interest and please our individual tastes are, by the evil
machinations of an unkind fate, always the ones to go out of print
and become absolutely unpurchasable anywhere.

Books may with a minimum of time and effort be bought either at
the College Book Shop or in the book stores in the village. Both the
Book Shop and the village stores also have lending libraries, whose
facilities for providing us with modern literature should be more widely
used than they now are. It is ridiculous to immerse ourselves while in
college completely in-the literature of the past, only to discover when
we graduate that: modern literature has been developing new move-
ments, new symbols, abandoning or reawakening traditions about which

we know nothing. We will, it is true, have obtained in college the
_ power to base our criticisms on the traditions of the past, but that will

do us little good if we cannot catch up with rapidly progressing mod-|"

ern literature for some thirty years of diligent reading. It is obvious
that we have not time to read many modern books in college, but it
would be an accurate test of our critical powers were we to read what
we could, buy what we thought would prove to last, and see for our-
selves whether it does last. The. people who thought that Matthew

Arnold would last and bought all the first editions: of his books as|_ .
they came_out were no surer of their critical judgment and no prouder|

of its suecess than we may: be of ours-in backing A. E. Hgumnansse
econ elle Sper ms

“TEARFUL TALE
(WITH MORAL)
Oh, students who have felt inclined

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cuts
Draw near and listen to the tale
Of Sophie Ann Joanna. Butts.

Now ‘Sophie was a Freshman once
Who had a-sunny room in Pem—
(Ah, would that. we could hymn her
praise
Instead of wail’ her pore Sat

For two long months the young Miss
Butts
Attended every single class.
She took her scheduled quizzes and
* Showed professors she could pass.

She stood in dread and morta] fear
Of not appearing for each lecture
Until a -wise old Junior said,
Binacbe go; they really don’t expect
yer. ” -

And so misled our Sophie strayed
From out the class-attending:. rut,

She skipped her first and after that
She cut and cut and cut and CUT.

In-one short- month she had consumed
All of her cuts for one semester,

But still she kept it up, although
The monitors began to pester.

To shorten up this sad narration,
Which tends to straggle on, I fear
By Chri-tmas time S. had used more
Than cuts allowed for alt the year.

Now this was all against the laws
That regulate our dear old college,
So Sophie found. herself one day
Ousted from these halls of knowl-
edge. *
For her the happy days were over,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
She went back to her native heath,
Where tears were shed and hands
were wrung.

She died and on her tombstone
marked,
In letters lasting, deep and tall,
Her name and this inscription viz.:
“Twas the most unkindest cut of
all.”
—Marianne.

°



LYRA FOR NIRA

(The busts in Taylor, each clad in
the pristine simplicity of an NRA
button, are discovered playing leap
frog on their pedestals. They sing
through the nose.)

The universe is still replete with
millions unemployed,
And death rays seem to threaten us
from out the solar void,
The pacifists agree t6 all the terms
of future war,
And symbols of our terror rain in
drops from every pore.
We’ve even unanimity re Hitlerite
regimes, om
And as for Gotham’s Sala,
week’s election seems
To just confirm our theories that
chaos is a hoax
And bad times a delusion, one of
life’s still littler jokes.
Pay days ‘promise to be higher in ac-
cordance with the code
And we look to this. uplifting and
agree that is it owed
To our patriotic feelings to strike
while it is hot,
In the van of king-kong labor, all
the logging, lumbering lot.
They’re moving all our ‘bushes from
. Taylor far away a
To the lib mayhap (we’re hoping for
that job-producing day) ;
Labor conquers all this fall
everybody knows
ow there’s no use in looking
ever underneath the ose:
Our marble mouths stop watering
and frolicsomely froth
At. deliberately engaging cooks -
enough to spoil the broth.
And now that this fine nation. starts
to really convalesce, ‘
We'll be no longer idle, and no longer
requiesce!
—Snoop-on-the-Loose.

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THAT 9 O’CLOCK CLASS

‘said the philosophy - “professor. “If
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pk ae. a erMpere a wee
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“Now cofisider the theory of ideas,”

color, fecl, consistency, what would|{

you have?”
“Bryn Mawr apple-sau ed the idiot who. never talks. ~ !

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SONG FOR PLAYWRIGHTS

A child must drown in the water,
A strong man must. let it die,
The public must like his decision:
Oh, Lord, what a poor wreck am I!
Chorus— ‘
Tell me, tell me, a plot for playwrit-
ing,
Oh, tell me.
Stake, it, stake it, stake it or I shall
go mad,
Go mad. .-

A woman must kill a man
By driving a spike through his
head,
If.1 can’t concoct a solution,
‘My soul, my mind; shall be filed,
fled.
—Tom Cat.



What is the typical Bryn Mawr girl?

Princeton says she resembles a
squirrel,

But Penn sticks up for a baby whale

And a large drip she’s scornfully
termed by Yale.

In the Middle-West she’s known as
a snob,

In Eastern schools as a put-up job,

A mechanica] dummy that works like
a clock,

Eighteen hours- without a knock,

Lacking distinctly in any .S. A.,

Pale around the gills, her hair a soft
grey,

‘Dusty from being buried alive

Four jong years in this gruelling
dive,

Fed on philosophy, nourished by
math.,

Seldom if ever immersed in a bath.

In Philly itself it’s not whispered but
hissed

That the Bryn Mawr girl is a social-
ist,

Hiding a bomb beneath her torn
shirt,

True red ardour mixed in with the

- dirt,

But—the fitting end to this cynical
bit—

Whatever she is, y hope et not it.

The Lone Goose.



DAUGHTER GOOSE

Where are you going my pretty lass?
“To degrees.”
And now, my daughter, what do you
~ do?
“Reach A.B.’s.”
Now that you’ve done so, what’s there
to do?
“Teach A.B.’s.”
How came things to this pretty pass?
“By degrees.”
—Wicked Wit.



Tis time for a tender word to our
contributors. Never fear, we shall
always love you passionately, our
winsome wits!
from our inevitable end.
words . . words: .

. Cheero—

THE MAD HATTER.

Yours for



IN PHILADELPHIA

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Theatres

Garrick: Corinne Griffith does
what she should have too much sense
to even approach—appear in Design
For Living. She should be able to
ruin the play quite easily and that is
saying something for her talents.

Broad: Nazimova continues to do
a beautiful piece of acting in Doctor
Monica. a serious play, which is an
\rdeal, but well worth it. It has three
characters and deals with the recon-
struction of a woman’s life after the
unfaithfulness of her husband has
ruine it.

Forrest: Gowns By Roberta, the
Korn-Harbarch musica] that Max
Gordon is producing with Fay Tem-
pleton, Lyda Roberti, Sidney Green-
street and.Tamara, put in over the
week-end for repairs and promises to
be something above the starting
mediocrity.

Academy ‘of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri., Nov.
3, at 2.30 P. M.; Sat., Nov. 4, at
8.20 P. M., and Mon., Nov. 6, at 8.20
P. M. Leopold Stokowski will con-

duct. - Program:

Dvorak. ...“New World” Symphony
ES ra ie .....- Adagio
MPICRNALAL. 6.5052 ee ves Mountains

Wagner-Excerpts from Die Walkure
Philadelphia — Oncheatea. Thurs.,

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Book Review ||-









We'll start the “book column” this
week, since we’ve been very lazy and
not got it into the earlier issues of
the News, with two reviews and. de-
vote the rest of ourstime: to gossip
and forthcoming books. One More
River (Scribner), by the late John
Galsworthy, is the third in the story
of the Charwells, or Cherrells, a fam-
ily connected with ‘the Forsytes. - In
the first volume, Maid In Waiting,
Elizabeth Cherrell, called Dinny, did
a great deal to save her brother from
the consequences of a rash but not
ignoble act of violence. The second
volume, Flowering Wilderness, told
of her disastrous love, which left her
all but brokenhearted. Yet it was
clearly Galsworthy’s duty, as well as
his pleasure, to make Dinny happy
in the end.. She is one of the very
few of his women (some may say the
only one) who, besides being lovable, ’
gives the reader the feeling that he
is in love with her. We all were
meant to be in love with Irene; but—
perhaps becdusé she was not only
Irene, but also “fa concretion of dis-
turbing Beauty impinging upon a
possessive world’”—she had little of
the necessary. dearness. Dinny has
plenty of it. She has vitality. She
is all woman, and not an idea; and
she is one of Mr: Galsworthy’s most
vigorous and complete imaginative
creations. He was right, therefore,
as well as kind, to make her happy
in the end, because such a woman was
bound to attract and to value love.
For all that, her story is made ‘the
vehicle for another manifestation ofi
Galsworthy’s spirit, which all his old
admirers will welcome. We have here
once again something of the enthusi-
asm of the early days: of The Silver
Box, of Justice, of The Country
House, One reason why he wrote this
book was to show what he thought
of the Divorce Court. Only indirect-
ly does he concern himself. with the
law of divorce. It is the practice of
the Court which moves him to some
of his old indignation and pity. - The
account of the case—filling page upon
page with question and answer —
would have gone better in a play than
in a novel; but, with no disrespect
to Bench or Bar, even with a suggest-
ed admission that there was no other
way of doing it, Mr. Galsworthy
shows how clumsy, how unfair, how
cruel, how degrading a thing a Di-
vorce Court trial can—perhaps must
—be. This last book he wrote before
his unfortunate death, is one of his
more excellent, and it has been given
a good reception.

Testament of Youth (Macmillan),
by Vera Brittain, is a “must read
item.” .The generation of men and
women, now approaching middle age,
athwart whose lives the \war struck
when love and ambition and direams
were in the bud, will feel the resurg-
ence of an old, bitter pain in reading

- (Continued on Page Four)



Nov. 9, at 8.20 P. M. Leopold Sto-
kowski will conduct a Concert for
Youth.
Movies

Boyd: . Ruth Chatterton and her
hubbie step out in another of their
strange and “not so good” vehicles—
Female, which deals with their fav-
orite problem.

Arcadia: Herbert Marshall is his
charming self in a very mediocre de-
tective tale — The Solitaire Man.

Keith’s: Walls of Gold, plus five
acts of vaudeville. Sally Eilers and
Norman Foster are in the movie and
they are down to their usual form—
very poor.

Europa: The French “answer to
the challenge of Maedchen in Uni-
form — Red Head is its name, al-
though it has flourished previously as
Poile de Carot. -Excellent.

Earle: W. C. Fields, Alison Skip-
worth, and Baby LeRoy all get to-
gether to. make-the world laugh in
Tillie. and Gus. -

Karlton: -& Vina Delmar jstory,
with all the love complicationd that
are possible between Joel McCrea,
Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon. It
goes by the name of Chance At
Heaven and is amusing, though hard-
ly that. ; :

Stanton: One of the dandy col-
lege pictures—College Coach, with

we (Continued on Page Five)














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y

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Page Three





Varsity Beats Phila.

In Hard Fought Game
Philadelphia Country Club
Loszs’2-1; Kent.ard Cary

Shoot Goals

ae
TEAM .WORK IMPROVES



es





The Varsity hockey team defeated
the Philadelphia Country Club team
on Saturday morning, 2-1. Kent tied

the score on a rush from a center! MecNichols

field bully and Cary shot the winning
goal'a few minutes later.

In the first half, the Philadelphia
backs resisted most of Varsity’s at-
tempts to get the ball into the cage,
but failure to score was also due in
many cases to inaccuracy or lack -of
push at the crucial moment. The
Bryn Mawr backs, we are’ glad to
say, were. on their toes again, and,
with Smith, were responsible for
their opponents’ blank score at the
end of the half.

Early in the second half, Brown,
the Country Club left wing, broke
through for the first score of the
game. At this point, Varsity came
to life at last and, taking .a speedy
offense, pushed the ball into the cage
on the first bully. The Philadelphia
team then took the offensive, but were
unable to score in the few remaining
minutes.

The teamwork was, on the whole,
better than usual, but stickwork and
control of the ball, decisive factors

«by

{in any game, ‘will never be even ade-
| quate. without special practice. A
‘little more wrist rather than elbow
iaction would not only cut down the
number of penalties for “sticks,” but
| would also result in better control and
| sbucater’passwork.” ”



. The line-up was as follows:
Phila. Country Club Bryn Mawr

paler 4. isk ere Taggart
Prizer ........ ae Sara Cary
VGOROP vores Ofer srrcts Kent
TOY irelect ass i arr Bennett
PPOWN 5 hs v's 5 oW Gs cok Brown

PEG ARS chats , nasal Jackson
Weetnerit sass. CRE ECR GEE DRE Bright
[des SPOUMIAS VL, Be ise ces Evans
| MOV Oy 5. iccss 2. ee eas Bishop
eg MRS Oe OMNI ae Rothermel
Halfahan-..:... Oo savacees E. Smith

Goals—Phila.. C. C.; Brown, 1.
Bryn Mawr: Kent, 1; Cary, 1.

Substitutions—Phila, C..C.: Mil-
ler for Galey, Britt for Eby, Eby for
L. Douglas. 3

Umpire—C. Morton.

Time of halves—25 minutes,



On Monday afternoon the second
Varsity team defeated the Merion
Cricket Club team, 4-0. Varsity took
the attack throughout, but lost
many chances to score through care-
lessness and weak passes. Although
the Merion backfield stood its ground
fairly well in the face of continual
attack, the forward line was extreme-
ly weak, and, as a result, the Bryn
Mawr goal was forted to lift neither
toe nor stick in defense of her cage
except once in the second half, when

7











A
MATCHLESS
BLEND



she connected with the ball and sent

it out of danger.

tion was evident here also, but there

is also room for stickwork practice.
The line-up was as follows:

Merion Second Bryn Mawr
Omery = i344. he We Stevenson
HANCOCK 6s cs, Y. 1... ...t4arrington
(oo errr Got Gimbel
PEGA OMEL 2 404 teas | eee ere Raynor
CRABO as 1 Wie ees Carter
ea at Tih ayo ees
Dither ee, ee Daniels
BPIMG Cis exe Fig : i ear rer Seltzer
MOCUOY iiss fe eae Jackson
COMIOTU, Nva es Woe Hemphill
WIBMINeTY: 6455s s ae are PEA: Jones

Goals—Merion, 0. Bryn Mawr

Gimbel, 3; Harrington, 1.
Umpires—Miss Morton, Miss Flan-
nery.
Time of halves—25 minutes,



Dr. Chambers Shows
Continuity of Epic



Continued from Page One

until it came to be his own wife, who
had been so killed, and he himself
who had been slain by a kinsman of



the murdered woman. Poéms on this
subject are composed in the eleventh}
century in Iceland and in Greenland, |
as well as in continental Europe; |
as late as 1560, a lay was written in
Northern Germany, linking the au-
thentic historical figure of the fourth
century with his latest literary pro-
totype of the sixteenth.
The.Germanic preference for trag-
ic themes is revealed in the treat-



ment of the Theodoric tradition. The- | sessed him from boyhood, was the re- _

Better, co-opera-},,odoric was an actual Gothic chief-|sult of mental preoccupation with the

tain who ruled in Rome in the fifth! family disgrace of ‘dishonorable re-
century. He was by no means a la- | venge taken on the slayer of his fath-

mentable or in any degree unsuccess-
ful -figure, historically, although~ it
was regrettable that after his death

most of his life-work was undone and

his people driven out of Italy. This
tragic outcome of his career all story-
tellers emphasized, picturing as an
exile and a fugitive, one who had been
in reality a most triumphant mon-
arch.

Although most of the epic tradi-
tions, and all of those above men-
tioned, originated in Central Europe,
we are by: no means to suppose that
the North had _ no great stories “native
to itself. The Swedish King, Hyge-

lacy ‘who died in 520, enables us to

date a series of events of later north-
ern epic lore} including those of the
Bvowulf legend.
is, however, the prime type of old
English epic. Offa was the hero of
the English on the Continent, before
they came to England. He lived in
the fifth or sixth century as King of
the continental Angles; is mentioned
by the two greatest of Danish his-
torians, as well-as in the Beowulf,
and appears in pictorial illustrations
to a thirteenth century manuscript
done by the hand of Matthew Paris.

Offa’s history is peculiarly Eng-
lish. He is the type of dull lad who
suddenly proves himself a hero be-

fore the eyes of an astonished world.

An apparent muscular inactivity and |

slowness of speech, which had pos-

The story of Offa |



er by his two brothers-in-law to-
gether. To wipe out this ignominy,
Offa, on.a sudden, burst into speech
and sent forth a challenge to meet
two of his country’s enemies at once.
In the threefold fight, staged on an
island in midstream, Offa came off
victorious,.and from then on his ca-
reer was one of triumph.

The: interesting feature of the Offa
story is that the first English his-
torical’ documents, genealogies of the
seventh century, traced the Mercian
Kings in direct line back to this same
Offa; and the Wessex Kings, through
Alfred’s marriage considered as their
ancestor, this “best of all mankind
between the seas,’

At the close of the lecture, Dr.
Chambers showed a series of lantern
slides, including ‘pages from the’
Chronicle, with the genealogy tracing
back to Offa; from the Exeter book;
from the thirteenth century manu-
script with Matthew Paris’ illustra-
tions of the Offa story; and -from
Saxo Grammaticus’ ‘Danish History.
Spec'mens of armour of the period
proved that early Saxon warriors
were clad in something more substan-
tial than “the primitive integrity of
liberal principle.” The statue of
Theodorie at Innsbruck, the Sigurd
legend inscribed on a church door in

Norway, and the three burial mounds
at Upsala, one of them of the King
in Beowulf, closed the series of slides.













IT TAKES HEALTHY NERVES.

AT BILLIARDS!

ERICH HAGENLOCHER, twice 18.2 balk-line billiard

champion of the world. Healthy nerves have

carried him through stern international com-

petition to many titles. Mr. Hagenlocher says:

“For successful billiard play, watch your

nerves! I’ve smoked Camels for years. They
are milder. They never upset my

nervous system.”

Copyright. 1933,

TO RUN 308

TALKING IT OVER calls for more Camels,
Steady smoking reveals the true qual-
ity of a cigarette. Camels keep right
on tasting mild, rich and cool...
no matter how many you smoke.

Penge

*T know of no sport,” says Erich Hag-

enlocher, “that places a

on the nerves than tournament bil-
liards. The slightest inaccuracy can
ruin an important run. One simple
rule for success is, ‘Watch your nerves!’
I have smoked Camels for years. I like
Because they are
milder, they never upset my nervous

their taste better.

B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company



greater strain tt

in other popular cigarettes.



system, and believe me, I smoke plenty.”

wre He

at at

There 7s a difference between Camel’s
costlier tobaccos and the tobaccos used

You’ll

notice the difference in taste and in_
mildness — and Camels never - jangle
your nerves. You can prove this your-
self. Begin today!




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°35, Shows Originality
Rules Deemed Unnecessary for

Overly Conscientious
- Bluestockings





BOARD REGULATES DARK



The college is due to acquire an
eminently proper reputation as the
abode of law-abiding freshmen who |.
can réel off to the casual inquirer
all the places for informal dancing
and all the Philadelphia shops for
after-theatre refreshment, if one
may judge from the results of the
freshman Self-Government examina-
tions. Not one was failed in the ex-
amination and an amazing knowledge
of minute details from the little blue
books was displayed therein.

The Executive Board of the Asso-
ciation is practically hailed as King
Canute in ‘its regulation of such
things as light and dark and the turn
of the seasons. For the benefit of
forgetful upperclassmen we would
cite some of the subtler points of
_ Bryn Mawr sunset tables. “Dark,”
we note, is a mysterious term that
should strike terror to the least of
us because of its inexplicable nature.
“Dark ‘is after 6.30 except in sea-
sons when its stays light longer. Then
the hour is decided upon by the Ex-
ecutive Board.” “Dark is after 6.30
in the winter and later as arranged
by the Association in the spring.”
“Dark is 6.30-in the winter; it is.of-
ficially changed when it is light
later.’ “Dark is considered after
6.30 until advised that it is consid-
ered at some other hour.” In other
words, “Dark is ‘after 6.30 except
when it isn’t dark at 6.30 when ‘dark’
is when it is dark.” To sum up these
technicalities: ‘Dark is at 6.30 un-
less it isn’t, and then it is some other
time.’

Now that that is decided upon,
thoughtful inquiry proceeds to find
out what one may do in the dark. We
find that there are innumerable pos-
sibilities. “Two students may go
alone to the movies in the village un-
der the tracks;” one may “motor af-
ter dark with Special Permission . or
in a taxi within a mile of college or
in a recognized Philadelphia taxi.”
Also, “A party of three students is
necessary when walking through the
lanes of Bryn Mawr alone,” and a
“student may motor with her par-
ents in a taxi within a mile of the col-
lege or a taxi in Philadelphia or with
Special Permission with someone
else.’ It all sounds very chummy
and inviting.

And after this gay night life there
are still the delights of “reaching
and disturbing” the warden to ask
for a time extension farther into the
night. “A student after going to an
evening éritertainment in Philadel-
phia who is unescorted may stop for
a sandwich only at Child’s, etc.,” and
then ensue the following intricacies:
“Tf unavoidably detained from _ re-
turning to college by 10.30 I should
phone Miss Walsh, my warden, by
her private number, explain the cir-
cumstances, and subsequently enter
my house, let in by Miss Walsh.” We
are just a big, happy family, it would
appear, with the wardens sitting up
late for us in their rocking chairs.

There are some few other niceties
about campus behavior, also, that we
are learning from the lips of chil-
dren. Regarding those clothes no
nice girl wears we find that “Over-
alls, ete., may not be any place but
in the halls.” And for those who are
given to indulgence in the noxious
* weed, we hasten to explain that
“Lower campus is the ground which
is at a lower elevation than the cam-
pus on which are the college buiid.
ings.”

After ate numerous helpful hints
the freshmen expressed their opin-
ions regarding the rules they so as-

PHILIP HARRISON STORE
BRYN MAWR, PA.
Gotham Gold Stripe
Silk Hosiery, $1.00
Best Quality Shoes

in Mawr

NEXT-DOOR FO THE MOVIES

Lending Library













_was_as fair in mind as.
p>nance:

tutely discussed. Much constructive
criticism was offered. One freshman

“I don’t consider the system
illogical or unnecessary except I
don’t see why uncles may-not be re-
ceived as freely as fathers.” And
another prophet in our country de-
clares, with a sob for our erring age :
“The rules are unnecessary only to

students who study all the time or

who are unduly conscientious. The

others all seem to need them.”

“We hope that the Self-Government
Association will draw up additional
codes of rules to do justice to all our
brothers, and our cousins and our
uncles, not to mention us, the unduly
conscientious bluesto¢king, mentally
repressed by the mention of such
baleful regulations as not being able
to go to the library before 6 A. M.
without Special Permission.



Permanent Codes to
Test Value of NRA



Continued from Page Gne

the second place, the industries have
turned over. to it the problems which
they have never been able to solve,

-and-are-asking to~have~ solutions: of

them written into their codes. Fur-
thermore, not all the industries are
0 organizcd that they can easily be
placed under a code: many of them,
such as the powder-puff makers, the
toothpick, drinking straw, and bird-
cage makers, the goldfish growers,
eastern and western,:the oyster shell
crushers, and the pickle packers, seem
to require innumerable separate
codes.

Mr. Heyniger described the making
of the automob’le code. . There are
32,000 automobile dealers in the Unit-
ed States. They met by States and
chose representatives to send to the
convention at Chicago, where a ten-
tative code was formulated. , It was
sent to Washington to be analyzed
and approved, and then the represen-
tatives were summoned to Washing-
ton for a preliminary hearing, before
the Deputy-Commissioner of the di-
vision under which automobiles are
placed, and the deputies of the Re-
search and Planning, Legal, Consum-
ers’, Labor, and Industrial Advisory
Boards. The deputies from the Le-
~al, and Research and Planning
Boards watch over all the data and
the legal aspects of the code; the Con-
«umers’ deputy watches over price
stabilization, the Labor deputy over
the provisions for working hours and
days, child labor, safety, and ‘collect-
ive bargaining, the Industrial depu-
ty over the regulations affecting in-
dustry.

After 12 days, there is a public
hearing, over which the Deputy-Com-
missioner again presides, and at
which deputies from all the Boards
are present. Everyone who wants to
attend has a chance to speak, and the
deputies report the results to their
Boards, who must approve the code
before it is submitted to General
Johnson. The code is then given a
post-hearing, where it is rewritten
and revised, and is finally sent to
General Johnson and _ President
Roosevelt. Ten days after they sign
it, it becomes a law.

The NRA has already had other
permanent results of its work besides
the processing and passing of 59
codes. Wages are being increased,
commonly 55 to 100 peg cent., but in
the South up to 450 per. cent., for
the 7 cents per hour wage tormerly

alent there has been raised to

98 and 25 cents. four million men
atl gone back to work since the first
of the year. Child labor has been abol-
ished, for the age limit has been rais-
to. sixteen for most industries, and

KITTY McLEAN

The Sportswoman’s Shop

Just the place to find cor-
rect sport Clothes for col-
lege, or that “important
_ Week-end.”

in__counte- |

to eighteen in.the case of dangerous
occupations. Sweatshops are on their
way_out..
cut from between 70 and 60 to around
40 hours per week. Most important
of. all at this time, people are con-
vinced that there is activity in Wash-
ington.

If the American people. will co-op-
erate, there can be no doubt of the
success of the NRA. It will not be a
governmental octopus, for its chief
aim is that business should govern
itself. :
mand governmental support: \and. to
force the government to suppress old
evils, but the most important feature
of the Néw Deal is that industry is
reforming itself.

There is no need for alarm about
labor; it has new opportunities, but
‘so has industry. It is no less patri-
otic and hard-headed than industry,
and is not, as many people believe,
in the saddle in Washington, for 51
per cent. of the NRA workers are
from Industry, while only 49 per
cent. are from Labor. The NRA is
willing to be judged on the final in-
fluence of its permanent codes, but it
sannot be expected to work miracles.
Itis—easierto—kil] a man _than_ to
find him a-job, and everyone knows
that it took sixty million men, with
the latest equipment, four years to
kill nine million men in the World
War. Yet the country expects Gen-
eral Johnson to put nine million men
back to work in 132 days.



First French Club Tea
Attended by Faculty



(Continued from Page One}

aver, hope to be able to raise enough
money during the year to make an
assesgment unnecessary.._After this
it was decided that club members
nly would be eligible for parts in
the play, since the club alone is re-
sponsible for the production. The
secretary announced that anyone
wishing to become a member should
see Olivia Jarrett, 42 Rockefeller, or
Myra Little, 70 Pem. East. The reg-
ular dues of seventy-five cents a sem-
ester will be put on the first payday
of each term. , us

Finally all members were asked
for suggestions about programs for
regular meetings, extra lectures, or
plays that could be used this year in
February. Since there was no fur-
ther business to be brought before the
meeting it was adjourned. The offi-
cers wish to extend their thanks to
Miss Gilman, Mlle. Gobert, and M.
Canu for suggestions regarding meet-
ings in the future. If our active
are as resourceful as our honorary
members we should have a most in-
teresting time of it.



It pays to advertise; it pays to
read advertising.





CECELIA’S YARN
SHOP

Seville Arcade

BRYN MAWR .-

PA.











GREEN HILL FARMS

City Line and Lancaster Ave.
Overbrook-Philadelphia

A reminder that we would like to
take care of your parents and
friends, whenever they come to
visit you.

L. E. METCALF,
Manager.























KAY RICCI

_epntinuing to make hats for

the individual personality

| has moved to



Working hours have: been |_

| since.

Industry will ‘continue to de- |»



Book Reviews



(Continued.

this chronicle of events 1900-1925.
This is what war was, this anguish of
separation, this futility, this ‘sub-
mergence of all that was young and
brave and ingenuous in the muck of
war. All who were mature in 1914
have put a clamp on memory ever
Miss Brittain has torn the
hasps away, and released the emotion
of a youth which lived in the chaos
of a shattered world. It is a tragic
book .she has written, tragic in its
portrayal of the waste and incidence
of war, tragic in its admission of the
fearful beauty which, so long as the

from...Page Two).

| conflict wages, inheres in the sacri-

fices which war compels. It is a nar-

ative to strike horror to the soul of

the pacifist not alone. because of the
suffering it depicts, but as much be-
cause of Miss Brittain’s testimony to
the spirit which makes war possible.
Like ‘Storm Jameson’s recent No
Time Ivike the Present, an autobi-
ography closely paralleling it in gen-
eral character, it should do more

than a hundred impersonal tracts to-

bring the youth of today to a, reali-
zation-of what, their immediate prede-
cessors endured, ison steel their
resolution that through no trick of

fate will they be \forced to lay down

their lives and careers as did those
who went before them. We think we
may be safe in saying\ that Miss Brit-
tain’s autobiography can be called
women’s first “Goodbye to all- that,”
which got Mr. Robert Graves into
much hot water with the British Press
when it first came out. The Press
said that war wasn’t like that and
Mr. Graves was not a loyal\ British
subject to misinform the people who
would read it.

We are sure that you will be vleas-



ed with Mrs. Dorothy Parker’s new

volume of -short stories and sketches,
After Such Pleasures—which. comes
| out this week; she is one ‘of our fav-
orites along with Mr. Ogden. Nash,

whose..new. book. of--verse,-Happy -
Days, is now permanently on our bed-
side table. The illustrations by Sog-
low are very amusing. We understand

Soglow is to-have his famous “King
Series” done in the movies by Walt
Disney.

Gertrude Stein’s book all about
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography
of Alice B, Toklas, is also.a “must
read item,” if only to learn more
about her friends who make up the
writing generation of today in Eu-
rope. Ernest Hemingway, on finish-
ing the book, was heard to say, “A
stitch in time saves Stein.” We sus-
pect Mr. Ogden Nash will probably
sue, ° 3

People who have been fortunate in
seeing Satlor, Beware! or who have
not seen this’ very amusing play in
New York, will be able to buy it in
book form late this week. Worth
having.

Kay Boyle will have her new novel
published Nov. 2. The title is Gen-
tlemen,J Address Y ou Privately—the
story of Munday, the musician, and
Ayton, the sailor, both, we believes,
homosexual. She will be remembered
for her lovely novel, Year Before
Last.

Admirers of James Joyce will be.
able, late in November, to read his
Ulysses in a complete, unabridged
edition, with a new introduction by
Mr. Joyce. The ban has, at last, been
lifted on this masterpiece of the 20th
century. Andre Gide’s autobiogra-
phy is to be published next month in
an edition limited to 700 copies, we ad-
vise your securing it. :

a . —Alastar.





v \



“

NOW...GET SET
To Telephone Home!

You’ve dragged your furniture around...

and your room is fixed .

.'. and \you’re all

straight on your schedule and text-books. One
more detail and you'll be set for the college

year.

It’s the telephone. Here are some simple

matters to attend to for your own and the

-Family’s advantage:

First

- Locate

the nearest telephone.

The Family will want to know
its number to call you if neces-

sary.

Second »

Look in the Directory or ask
the Operator for the Station to

Station Night Rate to your

Third

‘fiome town.

> Make a “date” with the folks

to telephone home each week.

(At the same time, ask them

Fourth»

if you may reverse the charges.)

Make a list of the telephone
nunibers
friends.

those you don’t know.

of your home-town
Ask “Information” for

You

never know when you may

want to call them.

And the rest is easy.

Just give the Operator

~ the name of the town and the number you
want. If you telephone after 8: 30: ‘P. M. you
can take advantage oft the low Night Rates on
Station to ‘Station calls. These mean a saving

of about 40 = cent!

#




4

_ Chapel,

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five







Mrs. Manning Urges
Thought for Peace
Machinery to Leseen Friction i in

“Tnternational Affairs-is
Required

AMERICA MUST HELP







“The daily ,question facing ll
Americans is, ‘What can any of us do
to build for the future peace of the
world?’”’ said Dean Manning, in
Tuesday, October 24. The
present kaleidoscopic movements in
Europe are rapidly leading away
from any possibility of concerted ac-
tion toward Disarmament, and the
reason for speakin this topic at
present is that America must be
warned of the part which she definite-
ly. must not play, if .she takes any
stand at all.

Two years ago, during those years
of want, misery, and starvation which
marked the climax of the Depres-
sion, there was real hope that the
peoples of the world might, through
their present sacrifice, arrive at a
solution of the problems of the-fu-
ture,—might reach better internation-
al relations, and make an attempt to
avoid war. It seemed as if all psy-
chological and physiological factors
were on the side of the pacifists, for
no nation could possibly contemplate
going to war soon again after having
seen and experienced the chaos and
upheaval caused by the World War.
Just when these facts seemed to have
settled the matter for the moment
at least, Japan and China went to
war, proving to the world that unless
a definite stand is taken immediately
by the leading nations, they will find





themselves repeating the grim events
of 1914-1918.

‘The United States is not in a very
auspicious position to Help in the
present cricis, because she has caus-
ed trouble at every conference which
she has attended in Europe since the
?eace Conference at the end of the
War. She has lost her moral pres-
tige in the way of intellectual guid-
ance and superiority which she will
be unable to regain for many years
to come. This loss is not due to any
individual responsibility, but to the
constant conflict in this country, and
to the total lack of agreement as to
our foreign policy. Wilson had a
definite foreign policy, and some of
our troubles in Europe today can be
traced to the fact that this country
did not back Wilson in his policy.
This undoubtedly cost us our position
of leadership.. Since Wilson’s admin-
istration we have just taken ‘a su-
perior poin view or else have re-
fused to accept responsibility of any
kind.

Ameriea is going to take ‘an im-
portant part from now on. She must
not threaten to takes sides, in order
to ‘throw the balance of power one
way or the other, for this is a dan-
gerous~plan-to--pursue;—when--a -na-
tion has not the force necessary for
such an actionn—which is' the case
with* the United States at present.
“There is only one thing to do, to
go on working in our own minds, and
through our own organization to-
ward some machinery which might
operate to lessen friction in Interna-
tional affairs,” an organization, of
course, on the order of the League.
These steps, though weak, are the
only possible ones forward, and may
help more later than they do at pres-
ent. Our “material, potential posi-
tion” is a strong one, but “can we






use it for the benefit of the world)

at large?”
Dean Manning feels that we can-
not be faeed -by -angther- World ‘War

for at least twenty-five years after |

the signing of the Peace Treaty. This

opinion.-is-not based on. any knowl- |

edge of the strategem of war, but
on the fact that the psychological
confidence necessary for war is lack-
ing, and economic and financial credit
is shaky. Nations are more aware
of the difficulties of waging war than
they were before 1914. “The great-
est safeguard *for Peace, however, is
none of the above, but is the fear of
internal Communist revolutions which
would undoubtedly break out in many
nations at the first declaration of
War.”



Miss Thomas Speaks
Over Radio Hook-Up



(Continued from Page One)
daily work and opportunities for
more intellectual development
throughout life. The new psychology
is teaching us how to select boys and
girls of genius, personality and im-
agination. We shall then be able to
give our embryo leaders the best con-
ditions. of .development,..which- is all
that they need.

It seems too much to hope ‘that our
generation can put through this glor-
ious program. We have too many
Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian
inhibitions. But we at least can take
now the first steps by giving support
to President Roosevelt’s codes and

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his other, remedial legislation.
Through them we can at once give
the younger generation a fairer deal
-than_ever before. < .

Miss Hilda Smith, former head of
the Affiliated Schools for Workers,
spoke after Miss Thomas,



IN PHILADELPHIA



(Continued from Page Two)

Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Joan
O’Brien. Goes a long way toward
proving that a little collegé is a dan-
gerous thing. Hokum.

Chestnut: The long-heralded Din-
ner At Eight, with its galaxy of all
the available stars, chief among
whom from the point of performance

4 is none other than Jean Harlow.

Stanley: _The Warne. Brothers
continue to do land-office business
with Footlight Parade, in which Jim-
my Cagney sings and dances, as do
Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Joan
Blondell. The type is steadily de-



teriorating. and we’ll--soon -be back

where we were before 42nd Street.

Local Movies ‘

Ardmore: - Wed. - and Ther, BE
Loved A Woman, with Edward G.
Robinson and Kay Francis. Fri. and
Sat., Lionel Barrymore in One Man’s
Journey. Mon. and Tues., Bureau of
Missing Persons, with Bette Davis
and Lewis Stone. Wed, and Thurs.,
Claudette Colbert in Torch Singer,
with Ricardo Cortez and Baby Le-
Roy.

Seville: .Thurs., Fri. and Sat.}
Charlie Chan’s Greatest‘ Case, with
Warner Oland. Mon. and Tues., Her
Bodyguard, with Wynne Gibson and
Edmund Lowe. Wed. and Thurs.,
Ann Carvers Profession, with Gene
Raymond and Fay Wray.

Wayne: ~-Wed.,: Thurs., Fri., and
Sat., Doctor Bull, with Will Rogers.
Mon. and Tues., Turn Back.the Clock,
with Lee Tracy. Wed. and Thurs.,
Bittersweet, with Anna Neagle and
Fernand Graavey.

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Mrs.. Vera Dean Opens

Shiaw Lecture Serizs



Continued from Page One

indulged itself in a ruthless and sen-
timental full-blooded optimism, which
could reconcile the c-uelties of the
factory system with the much-looked-
for ideal of a future “federation of
the world.”

Clashes betwcen the middle. class,
entrenched in the seats of the mighty,

and. the rising proletariat occurred | «
in the nineteenth. century, but were |

not taken seriously as involving ulti-|

mate issues. As long as differences!
could be aired andga common agree-;

‘ment about.the objectives of society,
arrived at rationally in Parliament!
and in the Pre3s, democracy was
holding its own. It prospered in Brit-
‘ain, France, and Scandinavia, coun-:'
tries where the government was not |
complex, nor the issues too confused;
‘where the population. was homogene-
ous, and willing in time of crisis’ to
unite for the welfare of the State; |
where economic conditions were fair-
ly adequate and there was no sharp
differentiation between the classes.
Democracy was successful’ in those
eountries in presupposing the réadi-
ness of the majority to give the mi-
nority a hearing, and the readiness
of the minority to accept the policy
determined by the majority in power.

The political institutions of de-
mocracy are, however, ill advised to
cope with modern problems. In time
of economic crisis, parliamentary de-
bate seems inefficient and slow in
working, and liberty of the press is
but cold comfort to the man whose
only desire is liberty to work. The
individual] professes himself only too
willing .to leave the technical complex-
ities of government to the State in
‘return for the economic security
which he believes the State should
provide for him.

The attack on the capitalist’ de-
mocracy has been most violent in the
states which lack a democratic tradi-
tion, notably Germany and Italy. Both
these countries were thoroughly dis-

| illusioned as ‘an outcome of the World
| War. Italy had failed .to acquire the
| .if.tean tcrritory, which she, believed
| ossential-for her future expansion,
‘and consideied herself to have gained
| vnly a “Pyrrhic victory.” Germany,
; who had been inordinately proud of
' her military prowess, was forced to
| etiespt a humiliating peace, which she
‘felt gave her idolized Army a treach-
!e.ous stab in the back. The newly-
‘ormed Weimar Republic. found. the
ecountiy not behind it—it was indeed
a republic with no- republicans.”
Italy, as. well as Gcormany,.felt the
nzed of some strong-handed. central-
ized authority, and Fascism was the
medium chosen, rather than the Com-
munism. which had worked so cuc-
‘e-sfully in Russia.

The appearance ot Fascism in Ger-
maiy. and Italy constituted a reac-
ton against Communism as well as
a revolution against liberalism and
dcmocracy.. That Germany chose
Fa. cism before Communism was due
to the strong middle class element
resent in its population, and not to
be found in-Russia. That the middle
class does not tend to join the Com-
nunist party, even when reduced to
che ranks of the ‘proletariat, is what
Marx’s--system never took properly
into account. ._Communistic disregard
of personal property and of family.
ties is utterly repugnant to the av-
erage middle-class man, who will,
rathcr, like Hans Fallada’s hero, in
“Little Man—What Now?” at low-
est ebb become a Nazi than a Com-
munist. The Nazis were not slow to
recognize .and exploit this repug-
nance of the middle class‘ to Com-
munistic idea~; Fascism sought to
provide a new faith in life, to con-
rast with the agnosticism. of the lib-
eral state, and the materialism of
the: Communistic philosophy.

“The people must have gods,” said
Voltaire; “if these do not exist, they
must be created.” Fascism has en-
deavored to supply a people with
gods. It conceives the State as a
mystical entity, to whom the individ-
ual should surrender his will, as his
forefather once did to the medieval

















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Catholic Church. It champions the
home and family, and purity of mor-
als; ‘it emphasiz3s military prowess

-nz and child bearing as the more do-
mestic virtues of woman. It has a
powerful appeal to the younger gen-
eration, many of whom it turns to
zood account. It takés the youths,
who have finished at the University,
who are suffering from restlessness
and -intellectual unemployment, and
satisfics their craving for action by
having them exercise their lungs and
muscles, if not their intellect; ° in
training-camps. It takes charge of
the education of ‘the young; it -insu-
lates youth’s contacts with the out-
3ide world; it inoculates its own doc-
trines at an early age. The danger
from Fascism will appear if it em-
barks on territorial expansion, if its
youth, trained on the parade-ground
and unexperienced in the. horrors of
modern warfare, comes to consider
the dangers of the battlefield as more
inspiring and attractive than inactive
peace,

The twentieth century has witness-
el a transition from individualism
to collectivism, which is most strik-
ingly apparent in Germany. Grave
dangers are implicit in this drift to-
ward mats-action. Mob emotion. will
condone violence; mob thinking will
always find its lowest level. Masses
of people in Central Europe are dan-
gerously half-educated; they choose
their leaders emotionally, not ration-
ally; for oratory and personal mag-
netism, not for ability or integrity.
Hitler is the type of the mass-leader,
like Mussolini considering himself
“a man of destiny,’ who will guide
his country to brilliant fortune.

In the Fascist philosophy, the
State absorbs the individual — he
lives, moves, and has his being only
through the State. The Nazis pro-
claim the common welfare before
that of the individual. Mussolini de-
clares that everything matters with¢
in the State and nothing outside.
Fascism prescribes for the indjvidval



a role of discipline and acquiéscence;
it glorifies a great national tradition |

Roi Partridge’s Etchings
Head Exhibit Series



The exhibition of. etchings by Roi
Partridge, which is on show in the
east corridor of the library, until No-
vember 8, is the first of a series of
exhibitions to be held throughout the
year in connection with the course in
the history of prints. Through the
kindness of friends of the college and
the assistance of certain art dealers,
it will be possible to show at Bryn
Mawr original works by such great
masters as Durer, Piranesi, and
Whistler... Exhibitions of the earlier
artists: will. alternate with prints by
ecntemporary American and English
etchers, and groups of the very per-
fect. Boston Museum facsimiles of rare
early prints, that exist only in few, if



--of Imperial Rome, of the simple
virtues of the German people. — It
considers democracy an anachronism;
it sees sovereignty resident in socie-
ty organized as a State. It selects

\its governing few from the ranks of

the Fascist party, and not by popu-
lar suffrage. All opposition it ruth-
lessly suppresses; it issues its own
official, colored Press; it plans to
overthrow large industries in favor
of small, which will serve the State.

Its economic policy is undoubted-
ly its most vulnerable point, for, in
réality, it favors big. industry—Fas-
cist syndicates, and prevents the
workers ever achieving economic
equality by peaceful means. It may
so far have preserved outward so-
cial peace, but it has not adequate
standards within. In a word, Fascism
tends to freeze the economic status
quo. In Italy, still predominantly
agricultural, this is less noticeable
than in Germany, where one fears
the Nazis have failed to provide for
the ambitions of the “little man.’ It
is, however, too early as yet to pass

judgment on Germany’s economic pro-

gram.

' Next Monday night, Mrs. Dean will
discuss the effect of Fascism on po-
litical alignments in Europe in the
“New .European Balance of Power.”







Engagement

The engagement of Marjorie
Elizabeth._Lee, ’34,toJohn..H.
Foster, of Haverford, was an-
nounced Monday, October 30.



not unique, impressions, and are not
obtainable in the original. It is only
fair to note in behalf of those who
are interested in obtaining prints for
themselves, and of the dealers
through whose generous co-operation
many of the shows are being obtain-
ed, that these prints are for sale,
many at.surprisingly low. prices and
often at a discount to students.

Mr. Partridge, whose~ étchings
grace ‘the cases between the office
doors of the history and economics
departments on the second floor of
the library, is head of the art depart-
ment at. Mills College, California.
Born near Seattle, he went to New
York and Paris for his training as
an etcher, and in: Lace From Paris
and Dancing Waters he gives us his
image of Notre Dame and the Port
Neuf. Perhaps no better description
of Mr. Partridge’s: work can be giv-
en than the ‘following, written by
Mrs. Charles: Whitmore for the Print
Corner Exhibition:

“Brought up in the stately North-
west, where towering virgin firs are
still occasionally silhouetted: against
mountains that rise a sheer ten thou-
sand feet and more above the Yast,
quiet flow of the Columbia or the
reaches of the Sound, living now in
the brilliant. light and abrupt con-
trasts of California, he has devoted
his craft to the peaks and trees of
the Pacific Slope. His very style has
something of their stern power. He
tends to largeness of dimensions and
conception, full-length portraits of
tree or peak (the exhibition contains
three of Mt. Rainier), the whole
cirque of a glacier, the far sweep of
an aisle of trees. His drawing is
vigorous and severely truthful, al-
most abrupt; his handling of the cop-
per usually simplified to a few clear-
ly distinguished bitings, his flawless
printing usually divested of veiling
tones.”





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