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VOL. XX, No. 13

BRYN MAWR AND WAYWE,PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934

COLLEGE

Sopyright BRYN
NEWS, 1933

MAWR



famed

pices” 6f the Court Orchestra of Vi-

‘allowed to choose their sciences free-

PRICE 10 CENTS



Viennese Choir Boys
to Sing in Goodhart



Organization Founded in 1498
Is Famous for Quality
of Performances



MEMBERSHIP IS HONOR



Goodhart Hall will weleome the Vi-
enna Choir Boys on February 22.
This is the second journey of this
the Wiener
Saengerknaben, across the seas.
deed, it was not until quite recently
that the organization conceded to an
increasing demand that they appear

jin public concerts. Now their tours
are of such’ length as to include
nearly every country in Europe, where
the unique quality of their perform-
ances are unanimously acclaimed. Not
long ago they sang at the Vatican in
Rome, where Pope Pius awarded
them with an inscribed parchment eu-
logizing their voices as “flute-like and
sweet as those of Angels’ in heaven.”

The Vienna Choir Boys are mem-
bers of a musical hierarchy that was
founded in 1498 by the imperial de-
cree of Emperor Maximilian, when a
group of boy singers were ordered to
sing a daily mass under the..aus-

organization,
In-

enna. For ‘hearly five hundred years,
up to the present time, the traditions
of this organization have been kept
intact and their ideals inviolate. The
members of the Saengerknaben live
today, as always, in the ancient im-
perial castle, the Vienna Hofburg,
which was built in the eleventh cen-
tury, and in whose chambers once
lived the nobility of the Hapsburg
dynasty.

Eligibility to membership in the
Saengerknaben is subject to strict
standards. Applicants must not only
show marked.vocal and musical abili-
ties, but must manifest high qualities
of character. Only forty of them are
housed in the castle, after rigid com-
petitive examinations... At a recent
election when only three places in the
choir were vacant, more than six hun-
dred boys clamored for admittance.
Boys are rigidly investigated before
they are admitted to this venerable
organization. Social position of par-
ents is neither a recommendation nor
a detriment. Mozart, Schubert and
Haydn. were once members of the
Saengerknaben, and it is the dream
of countless thousands of Austrian
boys to be invited to join. The aver-
age age of the boys is twelve years.
When their voices begin to change
and grow husky they are assigned to
clerical] institutions and their, main-
tenance paid for a period of three
years. They are paid nothing dur-
ing the period of their membership,

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Miss Park Discusses Plans
for New Science Building



President Park described the three
great needs of Bryn Mawr, in Chapel
last Thursday morning. Bryn Mawr
needs facilities for work which will
permit of more work and which will
be. of ‘greater assistance in the kind
of work now being done; she needs
more space for books; and she needs
more money, so that the professors’
salaries can be increased:

President Park discussed only the
first of .the needs last Thursday; the
two others will be explained in later
chapels. A new Science Building is
needed because Dalton is so badly
overcrowded that students cannot be

ly, and because it is inadequate in
space and apparatus for any form of
advanced work. Bryn Mawr’s two
long suits have always been science,
and art, and archaeology, and the fac-
ulty wishes especially to encourage
advanced work in science.

Dalton could not be rebuilt on the
same site, because the space is too
limited. Accordingly, the plan is to
‘divide the sciences, and rebuild Dal-



CALENDAR.

Wed., Feb. 14. Mr. Shane
Leslie, noted British ‘literary
and historical authority will
speak on Swift. Goodhart Hall
Roi Fe Ml

Thurs., Feb. 1u. There will
bean. exhibition of the .works
of Georges Braque and Jean
Lurgat in the Common Room of
Goodhart at 4.30 P.. M. Miss
G. G. King will speak on Ger-
tiude Stein and Modern French
Painters.

Sat., Feb. 17. Basketball.
First and second Bryn Mawr
Varsity vs. Philadelphia Crick-
et Club first and second team.
Gym at 10.00 A. M,

Sat., Feb. 17. The Red Gate
Shadow Puppets will be pre-
sented at the Deanery at 10.30
A. M. and 3.00 P.M. The af-
ternoon program’ is for adults

_and tea will be served for $0.25
per person. For the benefit of
the Bryn Mawr Chinese Schol-
arship Fund.

Sat., Feb. 17. Buffet supper
for Princeton Glee Club. Dean-
éry at 7.00 P. M. The charge
will be $0.75 per person. At
8.30 P. M. the Glee Club will
give a concert in Goodhart Hall

‘and a dance will follow in the

~-Gym—until-2.00--A.—M,

Sun., Feb. 18. Chapel. The
Rev. John W. Suter, Jr., will
conduct a short service. Music
Room at 7.30 P. M.

Mon., Feb. 19. The Oxford
University Press will hold an
exhibition of old books and
manuscripts illustrative of the
history of printing. Deanery
at 4.00 P.-M.- Dr. Herben will
speak.

Varsity Basketball
Takes First Games









Bryn Mawr. Effectively Utilizes
Direct Passes to Combat
Ursinus’ Speed



GOOD SEASON INDICATED



On Saturday morning, the Varsity
basketball took their first
games of the season against the Ur-
sinus contingents, 31-16 and 40-25.

In the first team
had the advantaye of height, a factor

teams

game, Varsity
which proved to be of great help in
breaking up the superior passwork
On the whole,

the few passes directly from the cen-
ters to the forwards were much more
effective than "the roundabout way
used by Ursinus to get the ball into
sccring position.

Inthe second half, however, when
the toss-in system was used, the Bryn
Mawr centers had difficulty in getting
the ball to their forwards, and, in-
stead of trying shorter ‘passes, they
continually passed the ball under the
basket, where it was usually inter-
cepted by the opposing guards who
by that time had got on to the sys-
tem. In spite of their splendid work,
however, height remained a decided

and speed of Ursinus.

yadvantage and Ursinus ended the

game on the short end of the score.

The Bryn Mawr guards stood up
splendidly against the opposing for-
wards’ rapid passing and juggling of
the ball and succeeded in breaking up
many of their attempts to score.. We
did notice, however, that out-of-bound
plays were t@ken much too slowly by
the team as a whole and that a great
deal of defense passing was done
directly across the basket.

A shifting of players in the last
few practices has resulted in a team
which should go through the season
undefeated. Boyd and Faeth have the
regular forward positions, Jones and
Larned occupy the center, and Bridg-
man and Kent the guard berths. A
strong defense, combined with a fair-
ly accurate offense, should provide
sufficient opposition for future oppon-

ton for biology and geology, while|ents and enough- excitement for the

putting physics and chemistry, which |

gallery.
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Fellowes Tells ‘Story
of Flight Over Everest



Expedition Required Special Ap-
paratus for Heat and
Oxygen Supply

MOVIES SHOW SCENERY

Air Commodore P, F. M. Fellowes
by his explanation und by the pictures





he showed in Goodhart, the evening
of February 7, described the purpose,
the difficulties and the achievements
of the Houston-Mount' Everest Flight.
The adventure was undertaken not so
much for the sake of the. thrill of
conquering the highest mountain” in
the world, although the spirit of ad-
venture moved them incidentally, but
for scientific investigation in and
about the only important geographi-
cal objective still unattained- in 19383.

In view of this scientific purpose
the expedition involved careful plan-
ning against possible risks, discom-
forts and adventures. The mountain,
discovered to be the highest in the
world only in 1852, and then by sci-
entific computation, has been shroud-
ed in mystery and glamor ever since
the first attempts to scale it. The
Indian natives, for one thing, have
always regarded Everest as the home
of their gods, aS is shown by their
calling it the “Goddess Mother of
Mountains” and by their proverb “if
a bird flies so high it becomes blind.”

It is because of this Indian super-
stition that the natives attribute their
recent earthquakes to the flights in
che vicinity of the mountain. The
prevalence of such supersition from
the first necessitated going through
many technicalities with the govern-
meyt concerning the flight through
Nepal, and allowance for guards to
keep the equipment from the hands of
Indian agitdtors, even after the or-
ganizers of the expedition had gained
the financial support of Lady Houston
and the sympathy of Enziish authori-
ties. .

The next difficulty the sponsors in-
curred lay in the climatic disturbances
of the particular season, of the region
around the Himalayas, and of the
altitude at which they needs must fly
to clear the summit of Mount Everest.
The men had only obtained the need-
ed money by November 16, and the
job had to be completed by April 15;
the equipment had to be bought, ex-
nerimental training had to be provid-
od for the members of the expedition,
all the equipment had to be taken to
India and there reassembled before
the. actual flight.

When the members arrived there
they realized the anxious wait for
favorable atmospheric conditions that
was in store for them. For days
clouds would obscure,the mountains,
thus preventing the extensive photog-
raphy demanded in the interests of
the expedition, and when these coluds
cleared away the velocity rose to 70-
80 miles per hour, a speed much too
high to allow the plane’s ready pas-
sage in the face of the wind without
its carrying an enormous fuel sup-
ply.

Even allowing for their luck so
far as the weather was concerned,
however, they had to take innumerable
precautions for men and equipment to
work at that high altitude. Everest
is 29,141 feet high, and at the height
of only 26,000 feet a man dies from
lack of oxygen. The lack of oxygen
causes a very. queer sensation, uncon-

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Musical Events

In Chapel Tuesday morning,
President Park announced. that
‘Mr. Alwynne has consented to
give a piano recital this year;
and that it is scheduled to come
within the next three weeks, A
series of concerts of chamber
music will also begiven in Good-
hart some time in the near fu-
ture through the gift of Mrs.
Coolidge, a well-known patron-
ess of music.









Elections

Varsity Dramatics. announces
the election of M. Kidder, 36,
as President of the Board, and 4
N. Robinsoft, ’35, as Business
Manager. These elections were
held in pursuance of the new,
policy of electing officers at
Midyears instead of in the





Spring.



Riisicsien Glee Club to Sing
for Its Supper—Then Dance



No less than sixty of the cream
of Princeton University, Princeton,
N. J., are to be on hand for the. dance
which is to follow the concert of the
Glee Club of that prominent institu-
tion on Saturday, February 17, in the
Gym. The concert will be given in
Goodhart Hall at 8.30 P. M., follow-
ing a buffet supper for the Glee Club,
which is to be held in the Deanery
at 7.30 P. M., and which Mrs. Ched-
wick-Collins.... beseeches...all Bryn
Mawr maidens possessed of $0.75 and
an evening dress to attend. The tick-
ets for the coneert and dance com-
bined are $1 for stag and $2.50 for a
couple.

The dance committee hopes more
fervently than it will admit that the
majority of the college will
to the dance in solitary splendor, as

{the sixty” Tigers” will present a con-

siderable housing and maintainance
problem if there are not enough Main
Line sophisticates to go around, It
is hardly. necessary/to extol the infi-
nite charms and attractions of this
breath-taking group, as their repu-
tation has preceded them wherever
they have gone for many years. If
further information is sought by timid
individuals they may either write or
go in person to any member of the
undergraduate dance committee or
Mrs, Chadwick-Collins’ own commit-
tee. | Tickets for the various events
to be run off by the contestants on
Saturday, February 17, may be ob-
tained in the Publication Office any
day after 2 P. M. The chairman of
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’ committée is
Polly Barnitz, Pem West. The Un-
dergraduate Dance Committee, of
which ‘Betty Perry, Rock, is chair-
man, is composed of Rosanne Ben-
nett, Florence Cluett, Adeline Fur-
ness, and Marion Mitchell.

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Archeological Project

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Discussed at Chapel "1



Bryn Mawr Alumna Will Head
Excavations at Promising
Cilician Site



COLLEGE IS HONORED



Tue:day morning in Chapel, Dr.
Swindler gave an account of the pro-
jected Bryn Mawr Excavation in
Asia Minor. For some time Bryn
Mawr has-been longing to have an
excayation; but the idea had always
been to excavate in Crete, in the Ho-
meric city of Cydonia. . Later devel-
opments have, however, led the De-
partment of Archaeology to believe
that excavation.in Cilicia’ in South-
eastern Turkey will be more fruitful
of results.

Not long/ago, the President of the
Archaeological Institute of Ameriea
made Bryn Mawr the proposal of join-
ing in an expedition; and the Insti-
tute voted its approval on December
27. Since the Institute co-operates
only with the best. universities, “This
honor which has come to Bryn Mawr
places us in a class in which we like
to be placed.”

Not only does Bry. Mawr have

the-honorand pleasure of joining
with the Institute in an excavation,
but a Bryn Mawr alumna, has been
chosen to head the expedition. Miss
Hetty Goldman, ’03, Field Director
for the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard
University, will head the expedition;
a choice extremely acceptable to the
Institute. It is an especially excel-
lent idea to have Miss Goldman as
head of the expedition, since she is,
besides being an excavator of great
experience, a woman who will pub-
lish it scientifically. and give the ex-
cavation ‘the: publicity it deserves.
The question of the site has been
as Satisfactorily solved.as the ques-
tion of the directorship of the expedi-
tion. The spot that has been chosen
in Cilicia has attracted much atten-
tion lately, through the findings of

‘English and Swedish archaelogoists.

Mounds have been discovered in that
region in which Mycenaean has been
found. This circumstance leads to

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Read as You’re Walking, Read When Riding;
But Ever Try to Escape from the Siding



(Miss Park very kindly contribut-
ed the following pieces written for her
while she was teaching school in
C&orado.)

Narrow Escapes

Escapes sometimes, that very
narow indeed. A narrow escape is
at the point of danger, such is, there
are one like being on the track as
a cow or horse and the train is very
near, why, their escape is very nar-
row indeed.

Escapes are awful to think of, but
it can’t be help, as it is over with, and
can’t be help, it is awful to think of,
and, another thing, a person is at
the point of death and he has went
the wrong way, it is to late, but it
can’t be helpt when it is to late.

One evening, there were people,
out riding, and the train came, the
horse got frightened, and it was just
at the end of the bridge and if it
wasn’t a narrow escape. There is
such an awful escape that is to say,
a house on fire, and is 7 or 8 stories
high and people is boarding or room-
ing and they are in the very highest
part and they haft to jump or give
up their lives, and that is something
terrible to haft to speak about let
alone having an awful thing happen.
There is such another as drowning
and it is terrible too, There was at
a time three at a time all in the same
family and one in another and just
to think about it, is enough, but hav-
‘ing it happen would just set a person
crazy or wild. Like going to school
there is such a narrow escape as if
you have the chance you ought to go
but not stay back or anything of that
kind but go.’ If you don’t you will
see where: you narrow escapes.

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Reading =

I should say there is nobody whe
has not anything by which he will be
What they are interest-
There are

interested.
ed in is not same thing.
one may say

several kinds—some

sports; another excursions or music,
ete. ; '

If. let me say about it, I shall not
hesitate to offer “reading books”—-
New, so-called reading books make us
have more knowledge and feel so in-
teresting that I cannot state here. We
must, however, notice that there are
various kinds of book to read. I should
not ‘say*to read such a hateful book
as to injure our moral character.
Read ‘the books which make us.more
noble or give us more knowledge, I
dare say. To read books, however,
there is a way. If it is the way to
read only attention to them) it would
be far better to read something like
joke. When we read books, we must
be understood clearly the real idea
ofits author. If -physical science
have to be pried its reason. If moral
action must practice it, and then, we
would be able to get the efficacy and
its pleasure. Here, I shall intro-
duce that though it is very useful
thing in using right way, if we use
it in wrong way, we would fee] no
convenience with it. This.is true in
any time at anywhere. Now the rea-
son which I like to read books is just
this point. I should advice the men
who wish to be interested by reading

books; “Don’t fail its right way, then .

you may taste its real idea.” Read
books, read books, whenever you have
time, then you will get more knowl-

—_ and more pleasure.

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Ae. few among them possessed of even normal college intelligence.

‘indicated that the keynote of the faculty
be one of sympathy with the problems of adjustment which confront
amie



In Flanders Fields

It is seldom that a college publication considers it either necessary

or advisable to employ its éditorial prerogative in defense of the Fresh»

men, but we feel that the time has come to offer assistance.to,the present
crop before they are exterminated by the civilization into which they
have been plunged through no fault of their own. A thoughtful con-
sideration df the marks given as a result of the set of exams just
completed cannot but result in the conviction that as it stands the
system of marking the various courses is flagrantly unfair. The marks
which were given the Freshmen in the courses which they are required
to take were so uniformly low as to convey the impression that there
On
the other hand the marks posted for Certain lective’ wourses=would
indicate that the students in those courses, while they are in many
instances no more specialists in the fields than the Freshnien. are in
theirs are possessed of. an intelligence which is nothing short of
phenomenal. There is something sadly wrong with the system of
marking when the average of Freshmen marks is as low in a course as
in some last semester, while in second year electives more than half the
class is in the high eredit column ; and there are those individuals who
are conversant with every detail of the course if we are to assume that
perfection and perfection only deserves the mark of one hundred.

It is an established fact that Freshmen do a greater percentage of
the work assigned in a course than any other class, and that the effert
which they expend in a course surpasses that of the average upper-
classman. They realize that they must work to maintain a satisfactory
average and' on the whole they resort less to the weapons of chiseling
and bluffing than any other group in the college. That their intelli-
gence is not so highly developed. as that of the more advanced students
is also an accepted fact, but it does not follow that they should be
graded on a standard of excellence which would apply in the case of
an upperclassman under the same circumstances. Freshmen should
be graded on the basis of freshman work, and Seniors on the basis of
senior work, The same standard of excellence cannot be expected to
apply to all students regardless of their class. The marks which fell
to the majority of Freshmen in the courses which they are required
to take were so low as to indicate that the faculty have been far from
lenient in their judgment of their work and that they have failed to
consider the fact that a Freshman has a great deal to learn about
college work which is not contained within the covers of a text book.
Many Freshmen have never before been exposed to--a lecture course
in which discussion is lacking; under the new admission plan it is
possible for a Freshman to ‘gain entrance without having acquired a
familiarity with the collegiate type of examination; and every entering
student is forced to adapt herself to work which differs in nature from
that to which she was accustomed in preparatory school.

Granted. that Freshmen have certain adjustments to make, that
they are not capable of brilliant work if judged by an arbitrary stand-
ard of collegiate excellence it does not follow that they should be
marked with a severity which relegates the majority of the class to
the lower registers of passing marks. It is during freshman year that
a student makes up her mind as to what she wishes to make of her
college career and that she acquires the intellectual stability which is
to/stand her in such good stead during the three years to come. It is
the formative period for any. student and one in which she should be
encouraged by her professors. The marks which have been given the
Freshmen are a reward for the work of last semester could not by the
greatest stretch of the imagination be termed encouraging. They have
is severity when it should

In contrast to the severe “marks Ww which “have been the ‘lot of ‘the
Freshmen, we have the avalanche of high eredits which have fallen
to the fortunate lot of advanced students in certain elective courses.
Many-students take elective courses which are outside their major field

and in which they have no interest other than a casual desire to
_ broaden their course.

These students have enjoyed the pleasant exper-

ience of being marked on a seale which precluded the possibility of other
than an honor rating. They have found an easy and painless method
of raising their averages by the expenditure of scant effort while the
‘sincere student who sticks to courses in which she has to expend much
more effort for less reward finds herself faced by only average marks.
If the honor ratings conferred at graduation are to be anything more

Bee Sear, eifonianenst ill bare to by Sale in the marie

us selection of electives it will be possible

Schools, and this, we



If I claim that Latin dictionary |
To be my ball and chain.

Well, come into. the basement, then,
And witness my | debasement when
I’m hitched to ball and chain:

WIT?S END |
WILL YOU BE MINE? —
You gush and frill about your hearts
and flowers—
Pansies and marble immor-
telles. in bowers,
Ventricles cracked™ and murmuring

valves that leak;
Of azure eyes and golden hair you



It can’t be moved—it’s stationary.
It would keep me from vacationary—

That cursed ball and chain!
—The Sensitive Plant.

Yeah?

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LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION

speak:
You’ve optical illusions — tats all NEAR MIDYEARS
bosh, When the term’s. last exam has been

suffered,
And the pens are blunted and dry,”
And the final report is indited
And handed in with a sigh,
Shall we rest? for faith, we shall
need it, ;
Lie down a semester or two?
Nay, our tireless army of mentors
Will put us to work anew.
(with due apologies)
—Griffin.

And as for curlylocks,—I use a wash!
Come: on! Bring on an anodyne:
It’s done. I'll be your Valentine.
—Wicked- Wit.
vorrei ;

Dear Mad Hatter,

According to the report of the com»
mittee. on the comprehensive exam,
the trouble with us benighted stu-
dents is that we take higher learning
too much as a matter of courses.

Yours for better comprehension,

—Griffin.

Yes, those and table conversation—
the Wit and Humor of the Courses:

Soup (pepper variety): ‘Have
you done your History of Art?
Weren’t the colors in that slide just
like the soup?”

Butter! Hey! Roll!

Meat, potatoes, et al (Friday piece
de resistance): “Goody! That re-
minds me. We’ve just finished the
worm. We’re going to get the lobster
next, and after that the dogfish!”

Dressing?

Dessert (Neapolitan extravagan-
za): “Oh, yes. I was reading Blake be-
fore dinner, I think the symbolism is
simply..divine!”’

Demi-Tasse: “I ought to- go study.”



MENACE IN DALTON? OR
HEAVY, HEAVY, WHAT HANGS
OVER?

Geology has lots of rocks,

But. gravity it gaily mocks,

And takes no heed of stress and
strain,

Young’s modulus held-in disdain;

So rafters sag and beams are cracked

Above Miss Lanman, for a fact.

Now, Chemistry extides bad stenches
No counter-smell entirely quenches.
No floor escapes the visitation,

To everybody’s consteruation.

But odors rise, and heights do hunt—
Geology thus. bears the brunt.

Biology has many trials

Combatting overflowing Niles

Precipitated from above,

From Chemistry, with lots of love.

But Bi in turn drips down below
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THE PRISONER’S SONG
You’ll probably think it’s fictionary





to obtain an average of custom built dimensions.

With the marks given students in their major subjects we haye no
quarrel to pick, for there it is a matter of concrete Knowledge and the
professor has every right to expect and demand a high standard of
work and to mark that work on a severe basis. However, with the
marks ‘given in Freshmen.courses and those given in electives we
quarrel. on the grounds that they constitute gross unfairness to the
Freshmen and to the students in major fields who take difficult courses
and get marked on a more severe basis. If-fewer-high credits were
given in isolated electives and fewer sixties given to the Freshmen the
resulting class averages would bear more relation to the effort and
intelligence of the students involved.

(The editors feel that, out of respect to the integrity of this! col-
umn, it must be admitted that the usual unanimity of opinion did not
prevail among the members of the board concerning this editorial.
There are those, who, to put it mildly, disagree with the sentiments
contained therein, But, wnfortunately, the majority prevailed.)



Sodom and Gomorrah

So many stupid generalizations have been made about the Younger
Generation that it may seem very rash of us to add one more to the
great glut; yet, in spite of the fact that the generalization we are about7
to make may seem stupid and rather sedative, it is none the less true:
and it is, that none of us know our Bible. Although it has been the
fashion for several decades to label every sweeping statement as false
and to pick flaws in any obvious dictum with a wise sneer, we think
our estimate that the Bible is a closed book to ninety percent of the
undergraduate body will meet with no denials. In fact, there will be.
a certain smugness in the air with which the “accusation” is accepted.
A goodly number of our community actually derive a slight degree of
satisfaction from “the thought that, unlike the stupid and bourgeois
members of a former generation, and unlike the religious element,on
campus, they seareely know what the inside of a Bible looks like. Such
ignoranee has a desirable semblance of smartness.

Not as a foe of smartness, but as an advocate of the well-rounded
and nicely filled-out education, we wish to sponsor a departure in the
Bryn Mawr curriculum. If the Bible is, as we have always been taught,
the major source for most of the literature, art and philosophy of our
Western civilization, why is the propagation of the Gospel left to
chance and the Sunday Schools? Why doesn’t the college do something
about our benighted condition? No one will deny that a knowledge of
the Bible is necessary for an appreciation of almost every writer and
philosopher up to the twentieth century, and of some few since then;
and for an understanding of the subject-matter and spiritual siuifl
cance of a large portion of Western art; but also no one, at least in
Bryn Mawr, will see to it that the narrow and myopic Younger Gen-.
eration is endowed with the traditional knowledge of past: generations.

To remedy the yawning gap in our background, it will probably
be necessary to take rather unpleasant measures. We do not wish to
make ourselves more unpopular than we have to date (and we have
suffered from opprobrium in our time); yet we wish to suggest that
Bryn Mawr should have a compulsory examination over the style and
content of the Bible, to be administered at some point in the Freshman
or Sophomore years. Something should be done to add to the sugared-
down,- inane concept of the Bible which is taught in the Sunday
; ae only Sane th to do it, Posing a com-







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“Theatres: ‘
Erlanger: Dangerous Corner, the
|combination mystery, melodrama,

comedy, and farce, by J. B. Priestley, ~
with Herbert Rawlinson and Beverly
Bayne. - It is one of last year’s bet-
ter plays and very good entertain-
ment indeed.

Garrick: Walter Huston; Fay
‘Bainter, and Nan Sunderland in Sin-
clair Lewis’s Dodsworth, which has
been dramatized by Sidney Howard.
We have unburdened ourselves on this
subject elsewhere in the shéet.

Broad: . Pauline Frederick comes
back to the stage again in Her
Majesty, The Widow, a new comedy,
which has very little to recommend it
in spite of, or perhaps because of,
Miss Frederick. It concerns a widow
—no less.

Chestnut: The Theatre Guild of-
fers its very excellent presentation of
Moliere’s School For Husbands, with
Osgood Perkins and June Walker. It:
is a musical, adaptation and has been
modernized enough to make it less
Moliere and more fun.

Arch: Maurice Schwartz in Yoshe
Kalb, I. J. Singer’s version.of the
Yiddish legend. It is a performance
which no one sincerely interested in
the theatre should miss. It is done in
Yiddish, but_an English synopsis_is
furnished. Recommended.

Coming, February 19

Broad: Rollo Peters and Mabel
Taliaferro in Autumn Crocus, the
| whimsical whatnot in which the

American woman first spied Francis
Lederer. With this cast it should be
fairly awful. :
Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra. Friday af-
ternoon, Feb. 16, at 2.30 P. M., and
Saturday evening, Feb. 17, at 8.30

P. M. Issay Dobrowen will conduct.
Program:
Smetana,

Overture to “The Bartefed Bride”
Mendelssohn,

Symphony No. 4 (Italian), A Major
Debussy es Cos hve nets Nocturnes
1 70 ee Tod und Verklarung

Monday, February 19, at 8.20 P. M.
Walter Gieseking will give a piano
concert.

Movies

Earle: This theatre maintains its
tradition of having the worst films
possible with Hight Girls in a Boat,
which is Hollywood’s idea of a suc-
cessor in a fashion to Maedchen in

Uniform. Should be avoided at all
cost.
Karlton: Nils Asther and Fay

Wray contribute to the return of the
spy theme in Madame Spy, a roman-
tic drama. It is second rate in the
extreme and has been done better
many times.

Fox: John Boles, Victor Jory and
the new-comer, Rosemary Ames, in
I Believe in You, a melodrama that

t#s reasonably sure to be bad.

Stanley: The one and only Greta
Garbo in Queen Christina, with John
Gilbert ‘and Lewis Stone. , Ou
orite movie in the world at the mo-
ment and she is our favorite person.
See it, even if it means leaving a bed
of pain. S

Boyd: Kay Francis in Mandalay,
—a romantic opus concerning one
Tanya, who is resscued from the
perils of Russia. by a racketeer, and
then falls in with a young surgeon in

Burma. With Ricardo Cortez and
Lyle Talbot. Not at all bad. -
Aldine: Constance Bennett as

two of herself in Moulin Rouge. A
comedy with music, in which Miss
Bennett is both the faithful wife of
an unfaithful husband, and the music
hall queen with whom he is unfaith-
ful. Franchot Tone and Tullio Car-
minati lend a hand, and the result is
very amusing.

Stanton: Mary Brian and Bruce
Cabot in the novel story about a mur-
dered racketeer whose sister is in love
with the son of a police chief.-Known*:
as Shadows of Sing Sing; and it is
miraculously bad.

Karlton: The lovely Dorothea
Wieck, of .Maedchen in Uniform and

The Cradle Song, appears in Miss’

Fane’s Baby Is Stolen, with Alice
Brady and Baby LeRoy. The tale
concerns the abduction of the infant
of a movie star, and the cast deserves
a better story.

Europa: Forgotten Men, a film se-
cured from the secret records of the
fourteen nations who participated in
the world War. Pretty powerful
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Full Fencing Schedule.
_ Arranged for ‘Season



Exhibition, Four Major Meets
Planned After Semester of
Hard Practice



SQUAD NUMBERS 20



~A full fencing schedule is being
arranged fér the coming season, the
first semester having been spent as
usta] in practice. There will be meets
with Shipley, the Sword Club, New
York, and Alumnae, as well as the
junior and senior college champion-
ships with exhibition fencing at the
end of the term. Bryn Mawr fencers
will also compete ‘in the A. F. L. A.
tournaments, two of which have tak-
en place already.

Of the last year’s senior team, only
two members, Gateson, ’34, and Coxe,
’34, have returned to college. Both
have been prominent fencers since
freshman year, when they ranked
first and second, respectively, among
the junior members. Gateson was
senior champion last year, and is cap-
taining the team for the second sea-
son in suceession. Coxe ranked third
last year on the senior team. In the
A.-F,- L.A. tournament_on February
8, Gateson placed second, and Coxe,
third.

Junior fencers of last year are now
cligible for the positions on the sen-
ior team left vacant when Douglas
and Hayes did not return to college.
Manship, ’86, who won the junior
championship, and has been fencing
steadily better this season, offers a
likely prospect. Nicoll, ’36, the junior
runner-up, was not able to come out
regularly last semester, and is there-
fore not at- her best form at present.
Berolzheimer, 35, has been working
with great spirit, and entered in the
A. F. L. A. Novice Tournament on
January 30, in which she took fourth
place.

Among the new fencers of the year,
of whom nine are freshmen, E. Smith,
37, deserves mention. A member of
the Philadelphia Sword Club before
she entered college, Smith is an ex-
perienced and skillfull fencer, with
quick lunging-power and an excep-
tionally long reach. She may well
contest a place on the senior team.

A ladder may be fenced off before
March 15, to decide the senior team
which will represent the college in the
Women’s Team Foils Championship
of the Philadelphia Division of the
A. F. L. A., to be held on that date.
With a squad of twenty members, a
junior college team, in the nature of
a second varsity, is being considered,
also to be decided from the general
ladder. The squad at present is as
follows: Barnard, Berolzheimer,
Boyd, Brown, M.; Bullitt, Coxe, Dun-
can, Edwards, Gateson, Goodhart,
Hoyt, B.; Hoyt, R.; Lamson, Mac-
‘kenzie, Manship, Nicoll, Smith, Stern,
Walker, Woodward.



Miss Park Discusses Plans
for New Science Building



Continued from Page One

need a building as far removed as
possible from any form of traffic rev-
erberations, into a new building to
be erected at the end of Senior Row.
The new building will balance Pem-
broke, sighting past Taylor as an axis,
and will be long and low so that
only the second floor of it will*be seen
from Taylor. The two physics lec-
ture rooms will be in the basement and
will be excellently lighted. as the
ground drops toward the rear. The
building will have two wings, with a
connecting building in which a Sci-
ence Library will be housed on the
first floor and the Department of
Mathematics lecture rooms on - the
second.

The alumnae had hoped that the
General Education Board would give
the $500,000 necessary for the new
Science Building, so that they could
turn their contributions toward build-
ing an addition to the Library. Since
this plan has failed, the alumnae will
now probably turn at once to build-
ing the new science buildings.



China is unsafe for students who
adhere to the philosophy of Marx.|¢
The usual procedure is a brief trial
and execution. Chinese students say
that it isn’t safe even to mention the
word “communism.”

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Announcement
The engagement of Josephine
Gr-ton, ’32;to Philip Chase has
been anatunced,



Handforth’s Prints Are
Inspired by Wanderings



(Especially Contributed by Mrs.
William Potter) er"

Thomas Handforth, whose: etchings
and lithographs are on _ exhibition
in the Library February 12 to Feb-
ruary 24, has enjoyed a rieh and
varied existence. Born in Tacoma
and a student of English at the Uni-
versity of Washington, he soon aban-
doned a literary career for painting;
and, after study in New York and
Provincetown went to France. There
he divided his time between winters
at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sum-
mers in Auvergne and Brittany.

By nature a wanderer, he felt the

need of seeking inspiration further
afield and during the years 1925 to
1929 spent three seasons in the north
of Africa. The careful study which
he made of native life during these
prolonged visits is reflected in many
scenes of Algiers and Morocco includ-
ed in the present exhibition. In 1930
he spent a summer in Mexico-and in
that year received an appointment
to the Guggenheim Fellowship for
study in the Orient.
In treating the subjects from Chi-
nese life.Mr, Handforth has felt the
need of a broader and’ more forceful
medium. And turning from etching
to lithography he exhibits in his lat-
est prints not only a change in med-
ium, but a difference in style. Vigor
and breadth of treatment replace the
delicacy and decorative qualities of
the etchings. Prints .ranging from
the years in France to the latest of
the oriental series are included in
the group now being shown.



News of the New York Theatres
During the past four weeks while
we paid the wages of sin on the bat-
tlefields of Taylor the world has not
stood still holding its breath as one
would naturally expect. Indeed there
has been more activity on Broadway
than in many a moon, if one reckons
in terms of shows opened and closed
per minute. The phenomenal success
enjoyed by the early plays is respon-
sible for the current slaughter of the
innocents by an uninterested public
and demanding critics. Everyone who
has had a play (about everything
from, the antique business in the
Berkshires to the better bad houses
of Washington’in the good, old days
when Senators were Senators) tucked
away in the bottom drawer of grand-
mother’s chest of drawers has brought
it forth, found an angel who still be-
lieves in Santa Claus, and set out to
astound the world in a modest way,
after which achievement they intend
to retire to some quiet spot in West-
chester and write the great American
epic. Unfortunately, most of these
visionaries have been arrested in their
mad course to fame and fortune by
dire necessity and are now working
out the bills for their folly by manual
labor cleaning the snow-laden streets.
But as it is always best to let by-
gones be bygones we shall speak only
of the living in our little brain child,
Sophie Kerr and Anna Steese Rich-
ardson have combined to produce
probably the most awful whatnot that
we have been exposed to for some
time, and just to make sure that it
would be the most awful production
of the season they persuaded Eddie
Dowling to play the lead. He did
his worst, and to the intense horror
of the thinking world out came Mrs.
Vineent Astor the next day with a
telegram to Mr. Dowling (the Astors
don’t write—they telegraph), saying
“Have just seen Big Hearted Herbert.
Enjoyed it. tremendously. Congratu-
ations.” And then she had the nerve
to get up at the Philharmonic Or-
chestra last Sunday and make an im-
passioned plea to the nation to help
save. the nation’s culture by, contribut-
ing to the orchestra fund. Speaking
of your female Dr. Jekyl and “Mr,

Hyde. Incidentally count the words
in the telegram—ten! count ’em—
ten!

Katherine Hepburn closed in The
Lake, and without much fanfare an-
nounced that she would take herself
to Europe to lick her wounds and
think about how she can amaze the
public in general and startle them
back into their appreciative senses

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Varsity Basketball
~ . Takes First..Games



( continued from Page One

The-line-up_was_as follows: _
Ursinus Bryp “Mawr
Prencis 5.5 .. 3 Nee Pear reter a eer Faeth
Godshal...-...+ | Ra AE A McCormick
BONUON 53 cies Co. Jones
DONMGK a Be ea Larned
Blew acc CAREY FO Sa a NS Kent
Oug sri rie ek ee. Bridgman
Substitutions — Ursinus: Keyser
for -Francis, Fenton for Keyser,

Roach for Fenton, Pfahler for Ouder-
kirk. ,

Scores—Urainudt Francis, 4; God-
shal, 12. Bryn Mawr: Faeth, 11;
McCormick, «20.



In the second team game, as well
as in the first, height was distinctly
an advantage and, although Ursinus
has almost the fastest and the best
teamwork of any of Varsity’s oppon-
ents, their passing often became so
fast and complicated that the ball got
out of control and could eventually
be intercepted by the guards.

The co-operation of the centers was
fairly good, but their passes to the
forwards were much too high and the
defense work when the toss-in system
was used could’ -have - been-- much
tighter.

The forwards, once they had-relax-
ed a bit, did some nice shooting, but
co-operation was far from being up
to the mark. Fewer passes and drib-
bles would save time and give many
more opportunities to score.

On the whole, the second team game
proceeded much more smoothly and
there was more consistently good
playing than was shown in the first
team game. :

Under the able direction of Miss
Grant and Miss Collier, both teams
should go through the season’ with
an even better record than last year.
In concluding may we offer our con-
gratulations to the many spectators
who appeared to root for Varsity in
the first game. Keep it up!

The line-up was as follows:

Is

Ursinus Bryn Mawr
RICNAva os cos. Po of ee Peirce
Hrameann | ...- lees a Baker
Peterman ...... Ore yeaa Miers
DVGP es S07 i Rothermel
PIMONDUNO 5 4D Re een Washburn
WPI NG seca vs bole aan Bishop

Substitutions —- Ursinus: Francis
for Richards, Pfahler for Eisenburg.

Scores — Ursinus: Richard, 2;
Francis, 10; Erdmann, 10; Keyser,

3. Bryn Mawr:

Pierce, 23; Baker,
iT.



Modern Religious Service
Must Stimulate Meditation



“God is everything,” said the Rev.
John W. Suter, Jr., in Chapel on Sun-
day night, “or nothing.” To answer
fully the question, ‘‘Can one be re-
ligious, can one be a Christian in the
modern world?” one must consider
first what being religious means and
not merely describe the modern
world. In fact, “modern” is exag-
gerated. Relatively speaking, we are
at the dawn of history, with only
7,000 years behind us, and Jeans ae
dicts a thousand, thousand million
years ahead. Every age has asked
the same questions of religion, and we
are modern only if we meet our prob-
lems with more skill or insight than
other generations, if we have gained
in sensitivity.

Being religious begins with the fact
of God, which is not a proposition,
-but if true, the fact of facts. God
is that in which we all live and move
and -have our being, and the earth

a particle of the milky way, which
is merely a blur in space. Yet God
is that in which the universe lives,
and has its being. We can give our
assent to.being religious only by an
act of meditation. Thus the Old Tes-
tament, in’ spite of its moral archa-
isms and inaccuracies of physical fact,
vibrates with awareness of God. The
real scientists say that they know
nothing, but laboratories are as holy
ground as that around the burning
bush which Moses saw. There is no
secular truth. If there is truth it is
all one and the search is really to find
God. We have no external point of
reference to God. This vibrant and
curiously unstable fact we call the
universe is merely the signature of
God. One cannot speak in the pres-
ence of ultimate majesty and beauty.
The gulf between us is nad ee

~lereator and created.



““)Mawr-students:

is only a suburb in one solar system, |





' ~ Campus I Notes
\The current. issue of the Student

-pduternationalist, dealing with the gen-

eral topic of’ youth movements, con‘
tains two contributions by Bryn

cle, Carmen Duany, 734, discusses stu-
dent political activity in other coun-
tries, particularly Latin America, and
asserts that the American movement,
consisting of an attempt to under-
stand modern problems, is preferable.
Barbara Cary, ’36, writes an article
on the significance of lynch law.

The Student Internationalist is a
bi-monthly magazine edited by stu-
dents of Bryn Mawr, Connecticut,
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar; and
Wellesley.



Mrs. de Laguna’s paper on “Ap-
peararice and Orientation,” which she
read before the meeting of the Amer-
ican Philosophical Association at Am-
herst, during Christmas vacation, is
included in the February issue of the
Sy of Philosophy. {

Ar article by the late Professor
Theodore de Laguna, entitled “Bur-
nett’s Socrates,” has been published
in the January number of Mind, the
leading English philosophical periodi-
cal,

Dr. Weiss’ paper on “Alternative
Logics” is discussed by C. I. Lewis
in the January issue of the Philosoph-
ical Review.

-In-theteading—arti-

*President Conant, of Harvard, once
declared that conyérsation is ah ex-
cellent means of education. ' Students
in Pembroke are putting this theory’
into practice, by occasionally arrang- -
Ling atable at which only French is_
spoken, |



IN PHILADELPHIA _



(Continued from Rage Two)
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« Ardmore:. Wed. and Thurs., Lio-
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Should Ladies Behave? Fri. and Sat.,
Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and
Fred Astaire in Danéing Lady. Mon.,
Tues., Wed., and Thurs., Katherine
Hepburn. in Little Women, with
Douglas Montgomery and Paul Lukas,

Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Day of
Reckoning, with Richard Dix, Madge
Evans and Conway Tearle. Fri. and
Sat., The Chief, with Ed Wynn. ‘Mon.
and Tues., Constance Bennett and
rilbert Roland in After Tonight.
Wed. and Thurs., The Girl Without
A Room, with Charles Farrell, Mar-
garet Churchill and Charles Ruggles.

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Advice
to the Lovelorn, with Lee Tragy. Fri.
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Viennese Choir Boys
to Sing in Goodhart



«Continued from Page One)

for they have dedicated their boyhood
to music.

The Saengerknaben is under the
protection of, and is maintained by,
the state. The boys pursue their mu-
sica] studies the year around, eating
and sleeping if the castle, with aca-
demic tutors to provide them with
secular education, and with a rich
tradition of. muStea]l, achievement that
goes back five hundred years. Dur-
ing July and August of each year the

entire body: of boy singers migrate |

to a mountain resortin the Tyrol
with their spiritual guide and direc-
tor, where a. magnificent alpine home,
the Saengerknaben Hotel, has been
erected for them. Here they enjoy
‘sports and fresh air, preparing their
bodies for the rigors of what often
is a strenuous winter. ~

Their eason for being is to sing
fine. musical works, — choral,
eratic and religious,—without profes-
sionalism or a need for glory. Famed
throughout the musical society of Eu-
rope for their guileless presence and
their bell-like, boyish voices, they will
present a “repertoire that includes
arias and choruses of Wagner, Schu-

_bert, and. Mozart, selections from op-
eratic works of Humperdinck, Haydn
and Mozart, as well as national chor-
uses and Christmas songs. In all of
the operas they perform, they appear
in full costume, and play all of the
adult and feminine roles. ! Full cos-
tume occasionally means powdered
wigs, hoop skirts and high heels. Of-
ten they appear dressed as fine gen-
tlemen of the Roccoco period, or as
ladies with curly chignons and slip-
pers. -Off the stage, their traditional
costume is a sailor suit with an in-
signia on their nautical caps.

It is their custom, when departing.
on a journey from Vienna, to sing a
farewell chorus for their admiring
followers in the rajlway station. They
are accompanied om this American
tour by their rector, a musical direc-
tor, and a nurse; only twenty-two of
the boys came on the trip.. There is
no organization in the world quite
comparable to that unique company of
boys, the Vienna Saeugerknaben, in
regard to their origin, their tradi-
tions, and their type of music. Every-
one is urged not to miss this oppor-
tunity to hear them; ind those who
heard and enjoyed their performance
at Villanova in December, should per-
suade others to attend their perform-
anee at Bryn Mawr on February 22.

PROGRAM
I,

“ANNUM SANCTUM:

In Adventu Canite tuba in Sion,

C. Porta
In Nativitate Domini: Pueri
GCONCIVIGE ing ci creas J. Handl
In Hebdomada Sancta: Adoremus
08 viii os oo SO. Laseus
In festo Ascensionis: O Rex
WIOTION. ce cas \.....Praenestinus
In festo Pentecostes: Vitute
MACHO i ee Cc; Porte

“The Apothecary” (Comic Opera in
one Act) Josef Haydn
Entire Ensemble (in costume)
III. :
Stehet auf! (Arise) Otto Rosenberger
Wiegenlied (Lullaby),
Franz Burkhart
Nun will der Lenz uns gruessen
(Now Spring has come to greet
us) Karl Pfleger
Bruederlein und Schwesterlein
Waltz from “Die Fledermaus”’),
Johann Strauss

ie WAN ee Pe Se



Dr. George Barton Cutton recently
presented to his students at Colgate
University the possibility of chang-
ing the time of the college vacation
to the winter months between De-
cember_and April... Dr. Cutton ‘ex-
plained that the change in time of
the college vacation would be espe-
cially practicable at Colgate because
of the cold, unpopular winters which
are experienced at Hamilton. The
present school year is merely fol-
lowed through tradition, said Dr. Cut-
ton, and there really is no serious
reason why the year should not be
mapped out so that the students
could attend classes during the pleas-
antest weather.—(N. S. F. A.)



Students at’ Connecticut State Col-
lege demand half royalties on exam-
ination papers which are sold to hu-

_ mor publications—(N. S. F. A.)



op--

‘just leave him alone a. second.



News of the New York Theatres



‘ (Continued from Page Three)

by her coming role in Bernard Shaw’s
Saint Joan. “Before that picture ‘sees

the light of day, however, we are to

be treated to a thing about a little
mountain girl (surely you saw all the
pictures of Hepburn between shots
lying bucolically in the middle of a
field of mountain flowers). This
piece is, or at least was, when last
neard from, entitled Trigger. And
speaking of the movies, Marlene Die-
crich certainly got her thunder stol-
en when the English production unit
brought oyt Catherine the Great, with
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and some
supposedly superlative lass known as
Elizabeth. Bergner. Alexander Kor-
da, who directed Henry VIII, with
Charles Laughton,.js at the bottom
of the whole thing and it bodes evil
for La Diétrich.- In a frantic at-
tempt to save their skins the Holly-
wood. boys have changed their title to
The Scarlet Empress, and wil] prob-
ably introduce a few shots of the
Dietrich legs to call the wandering
public back to the fold.

The funniest. news of the month is
that which informs us that Dennis
King is to be Richard in Richard of
Bordeaux, the historical drama which
was sucha success in London, with
John Gielgud in the title role. Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were at one
time slated to play the leads, but they
are still captivating London in Re-
union in Vienna. Mr. King, who
made his name by climbing in win-
dows and singing sweetly to elab-
orately costumed ladies in his very
best voice, is about as far removed
f.om the ideal Richard as Al Jolson.
His acting, even when tempered by
sweet sounds, has always had some-
thing of the ham about it, and we
can’t wait to-see the new adjectives
which the critics will coin in the wee
small hours of Wednesday night.

Krnest Truex, who has taken up
whistling in a serious way these days,
is to be with us again in Sing and
Whistle, a new comedy, in which he
will be assisted by Silvia Field. The
next notable opening will be Max
Gordon’s production of The Shining
Hour, a play. by Keith Winter, which
has Raymond Massey, Adrienne Al-
len, and Gladys Cooper in the leads.
These three have long been the fav-
orites of England and the least we
can do is be nice to them, especially
since Queen Mary requested that
Claire Luce dance for her, and since
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., has upset
Lord and Lady Ashley’s married life
so abruptly. But that’s our Doug
for you—-he may wear. glen plaid
slacks and lounge on the rails of
transatlantic steamers like the black

‘panther of the silent films, but when

he wants something he just takes
it in the best tradition of Hollywood.
And Young Doug has plenty to apol-
ogize for on his own account, having
jumped in where Britishers fear to
tread and jostled Noel Coward around
in the affections of Gertrude Law-
ronce. She is currently appearing in
Nymph Evrrvant, the comedy for which
Cole Porter wrote “How Could We
Be Wrong,’ “Experiment,” ‘The
Physiciay,” and “Casanova,” all of
which are on sale at the Liberty Mu-
sic Store in New York, with Ger-
trude doing the singing and Ray
Noble the other work. Mr. Coward
is at present busy with his new pro-
duction in London entitled Conversa-
tién Piece, in which Romney Brent
will hold forth. All in all, we should
go to The Shining Hour for more or
less the same reason that Queen Mary;
had the tariff lowered to South Amer#
ica (if you remember As Thousands
Cheer). : $5

The soul is still safe in“the theatre
due to the untiring efforts of Eugene
O’Neill and_ Philip Barry, who have
written Days Without End and The
Joyous Season, respectively. They
both deal with the power of mind over
matter, stress the spiritual in pref-
erence to the physical, and have been
thoroughly disliked by all to the in-
tense irritation of the individuals in-
volved.
are treated to the struggle between
the good and evil self of a poor un-
fortunate who would be only too glad
to go to hell if Mr. O’Neill would
In
the end he is compelled against, his
better judgment to be saved. In The
Joyous Season George Jean Nathan’s
little sunshine, Lillian Gish, holds
forth as a Mother Superior, who not
only does not, elope with a monk from

In Days Without End we

Siberia, but comes into a wrangling
Boston: family spreading the most
odious sert of sweetness and light,
and solves all the little troubles of
the characters. with her- gentle :ways
and homespun philosophy. It is sick-
ening. And as if one Gish wasn’t
‘enough, the other one is hanging
around in By Your Leave.



Archeological Project
Discussed at Chapel



(Continued from Page One)

the conclusion that the. Bryn Mawr
Excavation will write a new chapter
in the history of that Mycenaean Em-
pire which formerly existed on the
shores of. the Mediterranean. r4

Dr. Forrer, a German archaeolo-
gist of prominence, now at Johns Hop-:

kins, has given the expedition the
benefit of his advice and encourage-
ment, and is. confident that the’ site
is of. importance for the Mycenaean
Empire. He will accompany the ex-
pedition as adviser. In certain Hit-
tite tablets discovered and deciphered
by him a short while ago, he found
mention of a Mycenaean Empire on
the shores of Asia Minor and believes
that the Hittite city of Purunda is
the best place to excavate. This site
the expedition has chosen and all in-
dications seem promising.

The Bryn Mawr Expedition hopes
also to, excavate in northern Syria as
an auxiliary project. It is expected
that the excavation -will get a foot-
hold in Asia Minor and be able to
stay there for about five years. The
sum of $7,500 is needed to finance
the scheme, of which one-half has al-
ready been raised. The alumnae are
helping to raise the rest by means
of bridge-parties and like benefits,
but more money will be needed to back
the project and it is hoped that every-
one interested in the advancement of
archaeology will contribute to the
cause.

The Bryn Mawr Expedition is, as
Dr. Swindler emphasized, an import-
ant move for the college, and espe-
cially for the Department of Archae-
ology. It has always been an ideal

{o have excavations progressing side‘

by side with the theoretical work of
the Department, and now the ideal is
an exciting reality. “It is rather in-
teresting that the Amazons of Bryn
Mawr should return to the country
of the Amazons.”



Undergraduate Opinions Are

Requested on Curriculum



Monday evening, February 19, the
Faculty Curriculum Committee will
hold a joint meeting with the Under-
graduate Committee to gather in the
opinions that have so far been ex-
pressed by the undergraduates on the
projected comprehensive system. “Ac-
cording to the Undergraduate Com-
mittee, little discussion has _ been
aroused by the new .plan, and they

| await word from the campus as to

what it thinks of having comprehen-
sives. The deadline to express one’s
feelings is ‘dinngy-time next Monday
and it is hoped that some coherent
opinion will have formed by then.

If the Curriculum Committee is to
be able to present the considered deci-
sion of the undergraduates at this
meeting, they must be given. somesgnk-
ling of how the campus as a whole
reacts to the plan. Some of the points
on which discussion might be valu-
able are: whether one approves of
taking all the Required Courses in the
Airst two years and all first year
c@arses before senior year; whether it
ig’ desirable to have only under-class-
men in First Year courses; whether
the plan will cause segregation of
classes—freshmen and sophomores in
required and First Year courses;
juniors and seniors in the specialized
fields of ‘their majors; and whether
one prefers independent reading to
class-room instruction.

All these questions and any others
that occur to the wideawake young un-
dergraduate should be discussed with
the following members of the Under-
graduate Committee:

Denbigh—Hawks, Brown, C.

Merion—Bowen, Bowie, Landreth,
Parsons.

Pembroke—Bill, Hannan, Hopkin-
son, Nichols, Watson, J.
Rockefeller—Scott.
Wyndham—Wilder.



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Movie Review
. Moulin Rouge concerns. “a two-sid-
We might adapt the
style of the newspaper. blurbs. to..ex-
plain how this occurs: For example
—Wife turns Blonde to test’ Hus-
band’s Love! Will He be Faithful to
Her in the Teeth of the French Vam-
pire? In short, the beautiful Connie,
brunette wife of Franchot Tone, a
young Revue manager, is fired with
theatrical ambitions. She used to be
a member of a sister-act, with another
girl who has now gone wildly blonde
and French, renamed herself Raquel,
and married a Parliament member
“wit much wheeskers.” Franchot. is
set against wifie’s entering the revue
in which Raquel is to star. Wife, in
a fury,:changes places with Raquel,
Franchot falls in love with what he
thinks is Raquel, and the rest follows
according to ritual. We neyer for
a moment doubted that:Miss Bennett.
was not just another Little Woman
under the skin. Virtue, in every
movie, is bound to score a touchdown

ed triangle.”

in the last minute of play.

The plot, in the airy musical: com-
edy tradition, creaks. It-seems ex-
traordinary that -any. man is incap-
able of recognizing the wife- whom he
has gazed upon for five long years,
Mr. Tone must either have been sin-

.gularly detached or in need of a

good pair of glasses. + Also, the wife,
who apparently has never spoken a
word of French, slips in five minutes
into one of the most complete French
accents it has ever been our dubious
pleasure to hear.

But there are good touches: the
uneasy song-writers in the ladies’
lounge, who help the film off to a fly-
ing start; the doorman -who thinks
he’ll “have to try that number him-
self some time” after seeing Miss Ben-
nett, Mr. Tone, and Mr. Carminati,



respectively, dive into taxis loudly
shouting out the same’ address; the
honest American. maid’s reaction to
being called Fifi; Miss Bennett’s in-
effably mournful wail: “Yes, I’m_
happy,” when she realizes her husband
is betraying her, even if the other
woman in the case is herself. The
songs in the revue are excellent. Our
jazz-jaded ear was refreshed by Miss
Bennett’s rendition of “The Street of
Broken Dreams.” —_,

We liked—and always have. liked
—-Mr. Tone. There is a grim deter-
mination in the way he kisses the
pseudo-Raquel, because she is “a great
artist” even if he does not, so. he says,
like her as a woman, and in the dazed
way in which he attempts to play
John Alden for-Mr. Carminati which
wins our admiration... He holds his
own even beside the charming Carmi-
nati, whose continental sophistication
is very welcome in an all-American
production.

We might note in passing that Miss
Bennett is a bit too bony’to wear the
new frontless evening dresses; that
Mr. Carminati’s face while singing
deserves a place among the seven won-
ders of the world; that chorus girls
dressed in gingham and hair-ribbons
have. passed beyond the wearisome
and entered the nauseating stage;
that the Boswell Sisters are among
the most. peculiarly objectionable
creatures that we have ever seen;
and that Ross Columbo is ‘only sur-
passed by Bing Crosby in his resem-
blance to a dying codfish gasping for
air. In spite of all this, we enjoyed
Moulin Rouge. It is, as the Movie
Magazines would put it, a bit of
froth; but even froth has a ‘level and
Moulin Rouge rises to it.

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Mr. Currie Lectures
on Collecting Classics



Deanery Speaker Finds Few Old
Books Containing Much
Wit and Humor



BIBLIOPHILES LISTED



“Nothing in print has much of a
laugh in it after one hundred years,”
said Mr. Barton Currie in the course
of his lecture Sunday afternoon at
the Deanery, on ‘Collecting the Jolly
Old Classics.” Mr. Currie has failed
in his attempt to find some really
jolly classics. The Canterbury Tales
are only funny to a 33rd degree Chau-
cerian. Even if all wit is supposed
to be hidden in Shakespeare no mod-
ern redder would fall off his chair
laughing at it. “Humor is out-of vogue
now.” The brand of wit found in
the New Yorker and Ballyhoo has
taken its place. Mr. Currie agrees
with the opinions presented him in
typewritten form. fifteen years ago
by Mr. George Ade. It was Mr. Ade
who advised Mr. Currie to drop
everything else and devote himself to

collecting the works of Louisa Al-'

cott. “In concurrence’ with his wishes,
Mr. Currie purchased a first edition
of -her Flower Fables (republished
under the name of Little Lulws Li-
brary), which appeared _ thirteen
years before Little Women.

Mr. Ade calls Mark Twain “our
humorist” and terms the most satis-





——
fying humor ‘of recent years that of
Harry Leon Wilson in his Ruggles
of Red Gap, that of Booth Tarking-
ton’s “pictures of raw kidhood,” and
that found in. Irvin Cobb. P. G.
‘Wodehouse, also, seems to him deli-
ciously clever.

The only classic that almost made
Mr. Currie laugh was the Philobiblon
of Richard de Bury, Edward III’s
tutor, later Archbishop of Durham.
All his. life, de Bury traveled on gov-
ernment commissions, always with a
large retinue whom he employed in
gathering up everywhere the ponder-
ous manuscripts which made up books
two hundred years before Gutenberg.
The Philobiblon is a biting attack
on the current misuses of books, for,
says de Bury “truly next to the vest-
ments of the Lord, holy books deserve
to be most reverently handled by the
clergy. It is necessary that
a book be more carefully preserved
than a shoe.”

Five hundreds years Ree the Phil-
obiblon was written, ~ however, the
Durham Cathedral choir-boys were
given full permission to Grangerize
in the Durham Library. James Gran-
ger in 1769 had published a Biograph-
ical History of England, leaving
pages blank to be filled up by il-
luminated initials, prints and other
illustrations. Grangerizing became
the fad,—chiefly .among women, who
“would much rather mutilate than
collect and preserve books”—and con-
tined until the middle of the last
century.







Grangerizing is largely responsible



for the destruction of many’ priceless'
manuscripts., The palimpsest system
also played an enormous part in this
loss, Original manuscripts were not
saved by the monks who copied them
in the Middle Ages, but were scrub-
bed and ‘writtei over. We might
have had samples of Caesar’s or Hor-
ace’s own handwriting, if this eco-
nomical custom had not prevailed.
Perhaps the greatest romance of
book-collecting .was the discovery of
the Codex Sinaiticus,- copied in the
fourth century, which, with the Co-
dex Vaticanus, is the nearest _ap-
proach we have to the original Bible.
Dr. Tischendorf, a Russian roaming
Europe, stopped for the night at the
monastery of St. Catherine’s, at the
foot of Mt, Sinai. In the main hall
of the monastery, he saw a heap of
old Greek manuscripts, piled in a bas-
ket,. and about to be burned. He
gained the monks’ permission to look
through them, and found some of the
famous codes. His ill-concealed joy
aroused the monks’ suspicions, and
he was only allowed to take forty-
four manuscripts away with him.
When he returned seven years later,
he found no furthér trace of the
documents. He appealed to the Czar
—and, permitted’to search the mon-
ostery, he found the remaining manu-
scripts, including the long-lost Epis-
tle of Barnabas, in a monk’s cell. He
promptly went into transports of en-
thusiasm and made a gift of his find
to the Czar. Only the change of re-
ligious feeling after the Red Revo-
lution made it possible for the Brit-

ish nation to purchase this manu-
seript—which is worth

thirty Gutenberg Bibles

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pounds.

There have--been famous

ook-collectors, although they have

been hampered until three centuries
ago by lack of economical independ-
ence, and of the masculine instinct for
hoarding and gambling. Queen Ead-
burga, in 800; Margaret, Countess
of Richmond ‘(the mother of Henry
VII); Catherine Parr, who survived
Henry VIII and backed Caxton, and
Queen Elizabeth, whose copy of St.
Paul’s ‘Epistles, beautifully embroid-
ered by her own hand, is still to be
seen in the Bodleian Library, are
worthy of mention in this connection.
But greater than any queen as a book
collector was Mrs. John Rylands, who
lived in Manchester, England, in the
’90’s. In memory of her husband,
who had been interested only in Bi-
bles, which, Gideon-like, he had sprin-
kled all over England and Europe,
Mrs. Rylands founded a great memo-
rial Library. Her principal acquisi-
tion came at the beginning of her ca-
reer when she bought the world-fam-
ous Althorpe collection of the Ear!
of Spencer, for one and a fourth mil-
lion dollars. This included incuna-
bula, Mayence Bibles, many Caxtons,
gorgeous Italian classics, and a great
deal of vellum.

Samuel Pepys is Mr. Currie’s
“ideal of all the book-collectors that
have ever lived,” because his collec-
tion had the human touch. Since he
was.a poor man he had to get his



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bodks”by scrimping, and saving until
he could afford’ them, or, occasion-
ally, by borrowing a book from a
great-man-and waiting until he’ for-
got about it—as he did in the case
of an English. Admiral’s priceless
diary. When Pepys died, he left his
3,000 books ‘to. Magdalen. College, by
his nephew, who was to index and
catalogue them until he died. If the
college added or subtracted a_ book,
or if it violated the clause that only
the master of the College could take
the books out—and he, only so far
as his lodge,—Trinity College, on the
presentation of adequate proof, could
take the books away. It is not pos-
sible now to visit the library unless
one presents a letter from some high-
er-up, such as the Prince of Wales.
The single librarian, a grim old soul
with a high sense of duty, follows
each visitor about from case to case.
Pepys: was even determined enough
to send-his own little commission,
when he. was rich enough, to the Va-
tican at Rome, where Henry VIII's
love ‘letters to Anne Boleyn were
locked up.- Pepys got a copy of every
one:

Mr. Currie calls book-collecting in-
sanity, but admits that “there. will
always be a host of us.’”’ His own col-
lection dates back to a 14th century
Dante. On the same shelf he has a
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ales
For the first time within ne mem-

ory of the present generation the
“theatre critics of the Philadelphia pa-
pers actually weakened to the point
of declaring a sneaking liking for a
play last week. The reason for this
unheard of departure from all that
constitutes Quaker tradition was the
performance of Walter Huston in the
title role of Sidney Howard’s drama-

s Dodsworth, and it is not difficuft
sympathize with their weakness—



The play concerns a successful auto-
mobile magnate fiom Zenith (no less)
who succumbs to the pleas of his friv-
olous wife, who dreads growing old
before her time under the shadow of
smoke ‘stacks, and takes himself off
to Europe to s.. the b.ight side of
life at her s.ce.- It goes badly from
the first; as he is interested -in the
Tower of London, the British Mus-
eum, and an occasional noggin of
American whisky, while she becomes
more English than the English and
professes a great scorn for al] but
social: activities, week-ends at coun-
try estates-of the gentry, plum_pud-
ding, tweeds, and The Mayfair, Her
London efforts to be sophisticated
having ended by an English clothes
horse making a successful pass at her
she flees to Paris, dragging Dods-
worth with her.

Once there she becomes embroiled
with an international financier, and
the bright. people of Paris who bored
Dodsworth only slightly more than
they did us. He promptly returned
to Zenith in despair, she became the
mistress of the gold standard, and a

* year elapsed, whereupon Dodsworth
came back to confront them with their
sins and take his wife off to begin

. life anew with forgiveness the key-
word, In Berlin we were shocked
and hurt to find Mrs. Dodsworth
hard at it again, this time with an
impecunious Baron, but the world
changes and this time it was mar-

™ riage that was’ suggested. Sceing
eternal youth in a marriage to the
lad of some twenty summers, Mrs.
Dodsworth dispatched her husband
to find his pleasures where he might
in single state. He did just that in
Italy with a Mrs, Cortright (played
by Nan Sunderland—Mrs. Huston in
the home) and just as life was open-
ing out for him anew in the first un-
selfish love that he had ever known,
the mother of the Berlin prospect
stepped in and told Mrs. Dodsworth
che was too old for her ‘son and sent
her packing (to use the Zenith
phrase). She immediately summoned
Dodsworth to her side with no thought,
for the pain and unhappiness she
had caused him in the days when
he loved her with every ounce of his
energy, and, although she got him
as far as the boat by a combination
of hysterics and helplessness, there
he began to cast backward glances
at the shore of Europe and to think
about Miss Sunderland, and, finally
with a sudden burst of independence
and the best wishes of the audience
he sent for his bags and left his dear
little woman to face the music back
in Zenith while he made up his lost
happiness with Miss Sunderland.

There are many things open to
criticism in the play, but on the
whole it is as satisfactory a produc-
tion of the novel as one could hope
for. The action wanders all over Zen-
ith, the Atlantic Ocean, England,
France, Germany, and Italy, and the
result of Mr. Howard’s attempt to go
the pace that kills is a play in three

* acts and seventeen scenes which lacks
the unity which goes to give the play-
goer a feeling of inclusion in the ac-

Qs

tion of the work. One finds oneself |.

hurrying continually to catch up with
the action, and the constant introduc-
tion of new characters in every scene
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scmbling the Grand Central Station.
Outside of the central characters Mr.
Howard has confined: his- characteri-

zation to the creation of types rather
than people. The casual passengers
on the boat are too patently women
Lourists, Jewish cloak and suit men,
and in bsiated youngsters; the high
pressure automobile salesman wha
.~oks efter the Dodsworths in London,
wheie he has been living for two
years, is a little too much like the
comics; an incidental] French countes
has/lived already in every book which
sng a dissolute tigress who look-
at life through half-closed eyes;
the financier lacked all moral sense
and possessed all the possible charms
in exactly the same way that such
chaiacters have done since the first
lover flickered across the silver screen,
and so it went with all the characters
with the exception of the Doisworths
and Mrs. Coitright.
Walt:cr Huston gave a sincere and
moving pcrformance as -the eteinally
faithful Dodsworth who lived twenty
years with a woman he adored only
to find that his life had been built on
i foun'‘ation of false -happiness. He
displayed none of the tendency of_re-
turncd. movie actors to overact, and
his -restraint and emotional control
made his performance the most sig-
nificant we have seen in some time.
The part is not necessarily a sympa-
thetic one as that sympathy provoked
by Dodsworth’s generous forgiveness
of his wife for her first defection is
only too easily changed to exaspera-
tion when he shows’signs of returning
again and again to the fire which
burned him. Dodsworth lacks the
vitality of character and the emotion-
al instability to make him immediate-
ly the darling of the gods of the audi-
ence. There is nothing more boring
than the eternally faithful and pa-
tient husband, and it is a tribute to
Mr. Huston’s art that he was able to
hold the interest of the audience dur-
‘ng two acts in which he did nothing
but be the perfect husband the for-
gotten man all rolled into one. In the
third act when he gained his freedom.
and found a companion who was will-
ing not only to share his emotional
experiences, but also to follow his
hopes and ambitions with an intcrest
inspired by understanding and af-
fection he became an entirely differ-
ent character. We have no quarrel
with anything that Mr. Huston saw
fit to do during the entire three acts,
although we had a great many faults
to find in the task which Mr. Lewis
and Mr. Howard placed before him
in the line and outline of character.
Fay Bainter as Fran Dodsworth
annoyed us more than we can say,
not beéause of her assumed character,
but because of the maner in which
she assumed it. We went to.the play
with pleasant expectations as regard-
ed Miss Bainter and when we took
ourselves home we were left with the
painful suspicion that we must have
been thinking of someone else. As the
selfish, self-centered, vain, stupid wo-
man who is not content to grow old
gracefully secure in the love of her
husband, and in the friendliness of
the life she has led, but who must
needs step out and make a fool of her-
self in no less than four countries and
on the high seas Miss Bainter confines
her histrionic activities to clutching
her rapidly aging throat, stamping
her feet, and extending one arm to
signify desire, annoyance, passion, in-
decision, and all other minor and, ma-
jor emotions, meanwhile bleating
steadily. She did only two things
well in our opinion—she wore beauti-
ful clothes very well and she put: cold
cream on her face and acted through
it with more success than without it.

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imately two hundred modern German

mcn Room, for a period of ten days,
beginning February 22: Dr. and Mrs.
Max Diez will preside over the open-
ing, at five o’clock next Thursday,
and will point out the significant feat-
ures of the collection.

The Carl Schurz Memorial Foun-

tion was organized five. years ago
to develop cultural relations between
the United States and German speak-
ing countries. Its exhibit, which -is
now on display at Haverford, does not
pretend to be an all-inclusive selec-
tion of “German iiterature, but it il-
lustrates German achievements in fine
pr.nting and bookbinding, and. con-
iains a good many typical and out-
tanding publications by representa-
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As for the scene when she called
Dodsworth up after the fiasco with
the Austrian had occured, we can only
say that she reminded us of a third
rate vaudeville actress doing-an imi-
tation of someone being done in slow-

yy by a stiff shot of a lingering
poison.
For Nan Sunderland we resume

once more our phraseology reserved
for those who take their theatre’ seri-
ously and sincerely, and who value re-
straint as a medium of expression
above the loud-and-long method. Miss
Sundcrland played the more or less
conventional divorcee whose heart had
been broken to the point of forcing
her into a life of travel and loneli-
ness with a sincerity and practiced
technique which gave her character
far more significance than was allot-
ted to it by the script. From the
noment we saw her on the boat going
to Europe we hoped that Dodsworth
would have the good sense to recognize
in-her the solution for all his woes
and afflictions, and there was no doubt
in our minds. where he would spend
the rest of his life if he had any sense
by the end of the first scene between
th m. Miss Sunderiand belongs to
the school of actresses who value stage
poise and presence sufficiently to move
well, and deliver the lines allotted
them with feeling rather than power.
Without once clutching her throat
when Dodsworth had his back turned
‘she managed to convey her feelings
for him long before they were ob-
served by the fortunate male, and
when he left her to go back to his
wife she made his return inevitable
by refraining from either Miss Bain-
ter’s hysterics act or her slow sink-
ing onto the floor to convey an im-
pression of emotional turmoil.

In other words, we cannot recom-
mend Dodsworth without serious res-
ervations, but we can guarantee the
professional competence of the Stage
Family Huston, and we can promise
you that a visit to the Garrick would
leave you with the feeling that some
actors deserve far better plays than
they get.—S. J.



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at Princeton, N. J., opened October 2
for its firss year of work. The In-
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Wit’s ‘End



(Continued from Page Two)
On’ Physics, to their utter woe.

But Physics find it sweet revenging
To run a diabolic engine

Causing the floor above to shake,
And all the microscopes to quake,
So who can look with equanimity
On specimens at close proximity?

Correction:



Wake, the freezing morn returning
Sunless lights the clouded sky,
And the snow-clad halls of learning
Pierce thes mist dejectedly.

Up, lass, up, ’t. is late for lying,

Hear the shrill alarm clocks play,
And the empty classrooms crying:
“Who will overcut today?”

Work and breakfast woo together,
Muflins beacon, elasses call;
Monitors, immune to weather,
Take the roll in spite of all.

Bide;-until-yours~has~-departed;
Cuts are wares that will not: keep.
Up lass, when the lecture’s started
There’ll be time enough for sleep.
—Bugler.



No proud department claims me as an
honor student,
So I am not allowed a desk reserved

priority.

Hence when I seek the lib to do re-
quired reading,

which to sit,

And oh, the agony to find the right

“surroundings,
That studious attitude of mind to
me permit.

I do not seek proximity to door or
fireplace,

Nor view of cloak, nor access to
reserve room shelf,

I cannot say I need to be surrounded |

By friends, lest I feel lost and,
lonely by myself.

crowds attract me
my heart?
blotter,

Both mpadorned by any form of art.
—Adamant Eve.



LOVELORN

Biology never drips
in Physics. M. S. G.
: —Adamant: Eve.:
a
REVEILLE

With Apologies to A. E. Housman

NO ART, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE |

for me inot understanding this because we
Within the lib; nor do I take a year’s aren’t feeding her any more and I
possession know she hasn’t eaten anything to

Of one by squatter’s right of mere

I have to hunt myself a place al.

Nor does a corner far from ovine:
What then is the chief objective of

I only ask for woodwork and a virgin

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uny problems ‘expressed in this col-
umn.)
| Dear Mad Hatter—

f-go-to college. “My one anibitior
is to be a poetess. But there is some-
thing that discourages me. I think
'one must live that one may write.
I want to be in love, but the one man
on whom I fastened any ties of affec-
tion just left Philadelphia and went
to Borneo. Why do you suppose he
did that? What shall I do?

Please answer soon, because life is
very futile and I may become a (0!
do not utterly despise and desert me)
—a teacher! 6B

Stuppho.

We should all he- very shew for
Sappho. Dear Sappho, you must not
be an introvert. (Do you know what
that is?) There is a place for you
to’fill in this world. But you prob-
;ably need a.rést. You might go to
|scme island and live like a savage.
Beng take care to cut off all contact
with other human beings. It’is best,
| my dear Sappho, that you communi-
leate with no one. That alone. will
prevent madness. Think of the peace
|that will result, dearest Sappho,





|
|Dcar Mad Hatter—

Here-I am writing you a letter on
my new stationery which my brother
gave me. I am sorry not to have
| written oftener, but, dear Mad Hat-
| ter, what with the baby cutting all his
teeth I have had trouble keeping the
house: intact.

The cat, however. That was what
I was writing about. She—we call |
her Snuggums (’Ums for short)—
| has been getting awfully fat. I do

|

|make her look so unhappy. I think
the arch between her front and hind
legs is falling, what is more. Tell me
all.

| Perplexed.
The situation is a delicate one. Take
‘her out—be firm, gentle and politic.
Do not under any conditions be em-
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‘one of our little bulletins under sepa-
‘rate cover, unmarked. However, I
thought your problem an interesting
condition.





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‘PROBLEMS? Are you not some-
‘times: at your wit’s end? Send them
in. We will be glad, nay, delighted,
to answer them.
Cheero—

THE MAD HATTER.



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