College news, December 17, 1930

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VoL. XVII, No. 9



WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930

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Hlogtaphy and Novel
Discussed b; y Maurois

Utility of Novel did Biography
Isto Help. Us to .
Know Ourselves.

BIOGRAPHY IS ‘POPULAR

(Specially edanribited by Gertrude
Mucatee, °31.)

There are several: questions that are
brought up by the study of the novel
and biography; ‘why Gne reads novels
_ and biographies; why one writes them,



and “whether the methods of writing
them are the same for both.

One of the answers to the first ques-
tion is that our life does not satisfy
*ysv~- Our- primitive ancestors had a

much’ fuller existence. They had
stronger emotions because of the forces

of fear and hunger, more adventures in
real life. In time of war, novels and

‘ographies are scarcely’ ever written

because, then, life is full of excitement.

We are avid for adventure, but we are

creatures of society, and therefore we

fear them. We are not courageous
enough to face the consequences of
them. We turn for our adventure to
hovels and biography. Their charac-
ters substitute for us with their own."

One-of-the-useftrl-sides- of novels-and

biography is that thcy give us_ the

adventure refused us in real life.

Another answer to the, question is
that life is-difficult.and complex. When
we are young, we are. disturbed by
pur own emotions. We fiéed to know
that others, have been like us, have

“felt the {same things. Older friends
‘who might tell-us de not dare to~ex-
pose their feelings on the subject. One
hever" entirely knows even one’s best
friends, one’s parents, one’s thhusband
or wife. It is only the novelist who
dares to say everything, because he
thinks that, in speaking through ~ his
characters, he is not revealing himself.

It is the- same thing-for the-biographer.

In their works the readers: seek them-

selves. The utility of novels and biog-

taphies is to give us. the power of
knowing ourselves. :

Time, while we are living in it, is
lost. The only means of) recovering
time, of fixing it so that,we may look
at it, is art. This is the third reason
for the existence of novels and biog-
raphies.

Relative Importance of Novel and

Biography

Which is the more important and the
more useful, the novel or the biog-
raphy? Since the war, biographies
have become more widely read. There

- Was been a mass production of them.
A new group of readers has spring up,
to whom history is new. We are pass-
ing through a period of disturbance;
the questions of the day are how to
avoid another war or attother revolu-
tion.
how others have solved Wt in the past.

History. and. biography answer this for.
oe

Biography is a form of history which:
emphasizes the importance of the re-
markable individual. We have need of
this; because of the progress of indus-
iry and s¢ience we have come to con-
sider men only as parts of a great ma-
chine. The individual is the iiiiportant
thing,gand biography has restored the
value of the individual.

But there are also
jayor of the novel. It is clearer than
the biography. The subject of a biog-
raphy isea real and complex person;
one thinks one understands his char-
acter and suddenly he has slipped away.
The characters. of a novel do not slip
away; they are simpler:than in real life
because-the author construets-them.
In the field of the novel they have be-

arguments in





come more and more cor but still
~ remai in simpler than peopl in real life. . |
-Another advantage of the novel” vig,

that it can study the depths of

human

To solve this question we ask



thought, the subconscious i, wee og

¥

-of consciousness meth
in biography.



* Therefore though sioasanliie have

become popular recently, the novel is

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COMRiUTRD- ON- Rls THIRD ‘PaGe



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Lewis Browne tq Speak
Mr. Lewis’ Browne will .lec-
ture under the auspices of the
Undergraduate Association on
Tuesday evening, January 6. Mr. |
become — widely
the publication of
his. on comparative re-
ligions, “This Believing: World,”
which was published in 1926. A
book published the year before,
“Stranger Than Fietion,” a his-
tory of the Jews, also entitles him
to recognition as an author and
a religious authority, since it has
been accepted as a classic in its

has
singe
volume

srowne
known

field. In 1927 “That Man ‘
~—FHeine.” W splendid biography of 7

the German poet, came out. His
latest “The Graphic
Bible,” which has. been running
serially in newspapers through-
out-the.country.--The-great suc. |
cess of all these books may be
accounted for by the accuracy
of the scholarship which they re-
.veal, by the humanity of insight
with which problems are ‘probed
and explained and “by the in-
cisive clearness and brilliance of
their language.

The subject of Mr. Browne's
lecture in Goodhart will be “A
Morality for the Intelligent,” in
which ‘the contemporary revolu-

tion in- morality is to be dis-

‘cussed in respect to its ‘origins,
historical parallels;, and possible -
consequences. Radical and: con-

servative theories on the subject

‘will be introduced and an at-

tempt will be made to indicate a

way out of ‘the ethical chaos of

ie our, time.

book is







Report of Curriculum
Committee Outlined

English, Science and Philosophy
ot Psychology Recommended
As New Requireds.

EXAM PERIOD TOO BRIEF

(Specially contributed by Margaret
McKelvy, °31, chairman of the Under-
graduate Curriculum Committee.)

The Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee is composed of ten mem-
bers, appointed by the Student Council

and the old and new chairmen, In
most cases the vice president of the
Undergraduate Association. acts as

chairman of the cothmittee, while the
president holds an ex-dfficio, position.
This year the committee is made up of:
Chairman: Margaret McKelvy.
Ex-officio: Helen Bell.
1931: Caroline Thompson, Dorothea
Jenkins, Elizabeth Baer, Sydney Sulli-
van.

1932: Virginia Butterworth, Gertrude
Woodward, Elizabeth Pleasants.-

1933: Hester Fay, Anna Walcott.

1934: To be appointed after Christ-
mas.

The report handed in to the Faculty
Curriculunr Committee this fall is:sum-
marized as follows: ~

The committee secommended that
the number of -required units be re-
duced from five to three-—that is, First
Year English, Science and a choice
between Philosophy and Psychology.
No change in the language require-
iments was suggested. :

It was recommended -that we return
to the old mid-year schedule, as the
present one was felt to be too short,
since extra work will be given in those
courses that do not have examinations,
and the schedule allows for only one
day of preparation. beforehand; in place

CONTINUED ON HR FOURTH pace

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1 tion:

Undergraduate Immaturity
Responsible for Overwork

The question of overwork, said Mrs.
Manning speaking in Chapel last Thurs-
day morning, December 11, is a peren-
Two factors she
it difficult for

to this

nially interesting one.

believes make faculty
students

first, the

and agree °on ques-

constant pressure in
this country to be doing many thfngs at
secondly, the

American college student.

once, and,
the

Many
lege

immaturity ,of

their col-
consider.

students subordinate
work’ to something they

more—important;—for—example,—‘coming

out,” hockey, or football. To accommo-
date them some of the men’s colleges give
what are commonly “gentle-
men’s courses.”
~The immaturity of the average college
freshman is the result of the limitations
of the American preparatory school. His
background is not as complete as that of
the..English.and continental student nor
is he familiar, as they are, with books
written for adults. Perhaps he is as
ready to think for himself but obviously
not as ready to cover ground.
Neverftheless much ground must be cov-
ered; the college must give him-a proper
perspective before specialized research
work can be sanely done.
Stories ‘of students studying

known as

he is

eighty

hours a week and of Biology students |

who read chapter one but were quizzed
on chapter two wrung her heart, Mrs.
Manning said., Practical suggestions for
alleviating the strain of quizzes and re-
ports will be. welcomed by the faculty,
shegadded. The fornier, although a necés-
sary part of college work,-might without
disastrous effect bé reduced in number.
The undergraduate curriculum committee
s making a: study of the comparative
time spent on various courses and will
be glad of data from students as to the
proportion ‘of-their studying time .taken
up by each of their courses. Evidence
that would seem to show that work was
more evenly distributed this year,. how-
ever, than before is ‘the fact that com-
plaints of overwork were made _ before
Thawkegiving, a strange phenomenon
this. —
Dean nals concluded by giving
practical. advice to those who complain
of too much reading. If you can’t get
through the reading do as much as you
can but make an effort to read faster.
The ideal plan is to draw up a working
schedule allowing’ plenty of time for
study, sleep and exercise and then to stick
to it. One must learn to use judgment.
In planning ore’s time so as to get the
work done and yet not. wear oneself out:
One should learn, if one’s schedule is too
heavy, to’ choose what are the most im-
portant things to be done. The graduate
students it seems have learned this les-
son for they never complain of, overwork.
It is an evidence’ of immaturity in the
undergraduates that. they do not know
how to plan their work for themselves.



Harold Bauer to :
Be Pianoforte Soloist

Che third concert in the Bryn Mawr
Series will be a pianoforte recital by
the famous: master pianist, Harold
Bauer. Born near London in 1873, of
German-English parentage, Mr. Bauer

first entered the musical profession as

a violinist, until, at the age of nineteen,
he turned to the piano, which hence-
forth was his chosen jnstrument.

He first came to the United States
in 1900, being the first pianist who
sought. to popularize Brahms’ piano
music in this country.

He is one of the few musicians to
be decorated by the French Govern-
ment, who have made him successively
an officer of the French Agademy, an
Officer of Public Instruction and a
member of the Legion of Honor. He
has edited and revised some important



. I the | rating of the der aot
96 last year in Nancy, ao:
in %







ae i || plished ensemble player.
{he has always been noted. for. his won-|

works, and, besides standing in the first |
rank as a soloist, he is a highly accom-
As a ‘pianist

derfully sympathetic interpretation of
the. music: of: avrohms, a and





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Varsity Players id Cap and Bells Present
Uneven Performance of Mediocre Shaw Play



Sensitive and Intelligent Designing of Sets and Brilliant Work of
Ethel Dyer Are Otstanding Features of Joint Production.
Competent Acting in Minor Parts.



CNpectally contributed by be Ste phen
: J. Herben)
The innovation. of jeint dramatic

productions took place two wintérs ago,
so there was no element of novelty in
“The> Devil's “Disciple,”
which opened Friday
hart Hall.

a standard of judgment which had been
established by the two earlier perform-
ances.. In one way, this was a mis-
fortune to the company, for their ef-
forts were inevitably to be compared
with the splendid production of “The
Constant Nymph” and therefore with
work of unusual excellence. Any such
comparison would be -unfavorable. to
this year’s play, but the conclusions
would be completely just.

the casting” of
night in Good-

On the contrary, thete was

hicle, “The Devil’s Disciple,”
the best; indeed, in many ways it is a
very bad play. The absurdities of the
rlast-scene-of Act THT need not be em-
phasized.. It would require ‘more: than
genius to make those mutations con-'
vineing, nor would much be gained by
the labor. Though the plot be hack-
neyed and stupid enough, many of the
Hines are surpassing in their bathos
and outworn jesting. Surely irony at
tlhe expense of the general staff and
the—war —office--is—hardly—worth— per-=
petuating. What the play does possess
is @ Wealth Of individual scenes vir-
tually made to: order for the major ac-
tors, and upon them the success of the
production depends. i
The-sets_contributed—no—little

was not

part



Choie-Gives Vasied
Christmas Program

Carols and a Spiritual Contbined
with Bach and
Handel.

siNGING ENTHUSIASTIC

The Carol Service of the Bryn Mawr
League was held on Sunday evening, De-
cember 14, in the Music Room. Prayers
were led by the Reverend N. B. Groton,
and selections of Christmas music were
sung by the choir under the direction of
Ernest Willoughby.

The program united the spirit of won-
der that characterizes both the “English
Traditional Carol” and the “the Negro
Spiritual,” with the grandeur_of Handel’s
Messiah and Bach's Christmas. Oratorio.
But the simple balladry- of the.carol. may.

‘charm, where an equally skillful inter-

pretation of classical music fails to sat-
isfy. So it was that the choir’s har-
monization of the carols, though imper-
fect at moments, seemed delightful and
altogether fitting, but the shouts of exul-
tation in the excerpts from~ the two
Oratorios seemed harsh and unrestrained
rather than rich in tonal quality. The
choir met with difficulties in the Handel.
and Bach not only because of the con-
trapuntal technicalities, but because an
Oratorio is intended for a full.chorus of
men’s as well-as women’s voices. Also
the introduction of both the piano and the
organ in the last. Chorale of the selections
from’ the Christmas, Oratorio only de-
fracted from the total effect.

The solo: part in The: iherelordahine
Carol was rendered quietly and with clar-

‘ity, but the soloist, J. E. Polachek, ’34,

did not seem quite sure of herself. The
Recitative from The Messiah, sung by|
S. Zezen, “31, was brilliant but over-
exclamatory, As soloist in There's a
Star in the ‘Bast. Miss Zeben skillfutty |
re tal tls a setliaalaaas rai
spiritual. ©

The chdir may have faildd. on certain



UNPLEASANT EFFECT CREAT

In the first. place, the choice—of—ve--}-








BY SHOUTING

the audience and
helped to COMPRAR e for some of the
They were de-

to the impressions

grosser inep

| signed with sensitivity and understand -

ing, forming excellent backgrounds for
the grouping of The
handling of the cast on the stage, par

the players.

ensemble scenes, was
beyond criticism. Visually, the
formance was a delight. Cs

But why should the ears of an audi-
ence, which was already predisposed
toward the company, have been af-

flicted with the incessant and offensive

ticularly in the

per-

act? Seldom have the rightly abused
acoustics of Goodhart been forced to
respond to such tasteless shouting and
mouthing of lines: Where the respon-
sibility for this lies; one can but sur-
mise, but it lies heavily. Miss Zeben,
we know, possesses an unusually lovely

of shock that one heard her forcing it
into an unintelligible roar. Similarly
the aftocious delivery of Mr. Edgar
at the end of Act II and of Mr. Fields
in Act IT should. not have survived

of a high order, -Mr. Gray in the title
role—made—the—most—of-his~ part; and
any lack of conviction may be charged
to Mr. Shaw rather than to him, Mr.
Edgar. as the Reverend Anthony An-
derson distinctly overplayed his biggest
scene at the end of Act Il, but ¢om-
pensated for this in the rest of his

acting. The less important parts were
well cast and well done, Perhaps
those of General Burgoyne, the Ser-

geant and the simplest member of the
Dudgeon family will remain longest in
the memory Of the audience.

The most impressive work was that
of Miss Dyer as Judith Anderson. It

|has been a pleasant privilege to see

her performances * through three sea-
sons and to watch her acting develop-
ing in maturity and competence. As
Judith, she got every bit out of. the
part, playing the role with restraint
and vet with all the warmth that it
needed. Similarly Miss Hobart as
Essie made the most of her role, but
it was one that offered small, eOppor-
tunity for individual effort. .

The whole performance, in retro-
spect, was well set, competently
handled by the technical staff and dis-

indeed, sustained passages of thor-
oughly satisfying playing - interrupted
by equally disappoititing episodes. It
wassan indifferent play unevenly. pro-
duced. It is to be hoped that there

the Cap and Bells Club. of Haverford
ind that greater success will reward
the work of the two groups.

The cast was as follows:
Mis. Ditdg@eoit...i...csciecce Sheema Zeften
aie wictecmcminerreneneins Virginia Hobart
Christy Dudgeon....Herbert Clough, Jr-

Mr. Brudenell,’ the chaplain,
J. B. LaDue, Jr.
Dudgeon Retativar: Miriam Dodge,
Paxson, Eleanor Stonington;
Emily Smith, Mabel Meehan, J. T.

Golding and E. G. Lipsitz.
British Officers: T. '§. Brown, E.G.



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rant and yelling that marked every |

voice and_it_was—with-a-distinet-sense——

rehearsal.
The ‘Devil's Disciple’ ideas Most of
Part ‘
ln other. respects, the acting .was_-

turbingly acted. There were moments, :

will be further joint productions with’

Rev. Anthony Anderson,

George B. Edgar .
Judith Anderson WE oan Ethel C. Dyer
Lawyer Hawkins,

Ge. Lockhart: Ammerman
Titus Dudgeon............ Hyde W. Ballard
William ‘Dudgeon............ R. W. Colomy
Richard Dudgeon......John H. Gray, Jr.
I oracrcctocssseccoess Philip E. Truex
| Major Swindon.............0.00 Harry Fields
|General Burgoyne... a W. M. Maier










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.. Jingle Bells

The recent cold blasts through the cracks. in the smoking-room
windows, baffling the thermostat ‘and crowding the four square feet
before the fireplace, remind us that Christmas is almost here. Tht final
mad rush of report-writing reminds us that Christmas is almost here, the
intermittant clatter of typewriters being always at this season a collegiate
reproduction of the “jingle bells.” “The fat mail bag three times a day
yields constant reminders that our shopping has hardly begun. Darkness
falls early and a restlessness hangs in the air—a restlessness for these last
‘few days to fly quickly and leave us, breathless and bright-eyed at our own
thresholds. _ :

But on the street corners the dreary clang of the Salvation Army
bell penetrates the mist; a poor ragged devil offers us an apple for five
cents. His eyes are bleary with cold. ~The papers, the niovies, posters,
electric signs scream. “Give! Give’ is what they all say. We pass them

Frances Rosinron, ’31
Yvonne Cameron, ’32











IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM

Goodbye to Western Culture, by Nor-
man Douglas. Harper and Bros.
Another author has joined the ranks
of those who are»proteeting India from
the so-called slanders made the fashion
in Katherine Mayo’s “Mother India.”
For a while it seemed that, Norman
Douglas’s book on the subject, “Good-
bye to Western Gylture,” might well con-
tain the last word, Will Durant has put
an end'to the fancy with “The Case for
India,” but the Douglas book has lost
none. of its zést by being pushed to a
temporal second place.

The plan of “Gooubye to Western Cul-
tire’ is a simple one, if not conducive
to logical thought. According to the au-
thor’s explanation, notes which he scrib-
bled on the margins of “Mother India’s”
pages have been expanded into a volume
of thoughts on the East and West. The
West comes out far behind. The indict-
ments include Christianity, the treatment

|of women of all classes, social customs,
| government, laws, .mentality, and ,moral-

ity. ‘For every criticism which Miss
Mayo brings against the East, Mr. Doug-
las gives illustrations of similar-or more
outrageous guilt on the part of the West.
Although he admits that the East is
something less than Utopia, he considers

than in the West.

Those who seek in this book the sort
of satisfaction to be found in “South
Wind” will bé very disappointed at first,
and may. be unable to make the change in
mood necessary to appreciate such vigo-
rous and vital oratory. The gentle, de-

earlier book have completely disappeared
—the tempo and atmosphere are unrecog-
nizable. There will be no lazy chewing
and slow, pleasant digesting of words and
sentences and thoughts whose~virtues “lie

tin -their-restrained\ satire. and dynamic

passivity. “Goodbye to Western Cul-



of us here

tainly not very seriously—by this terrible depression — :

country. Few of us have anything but a vague impression of the tragic

suffering about us. Perhaps we are even beginning to be bored with the

floods of propaganda to “aid the neediest one hundred cases” and “help
the unemployed.” ea patty | ;

: Yet, after all, there is little we can do. ~“It's too depressing,” we say
and force it from our minds. THe News does not wish to dampen thts
advent of a happy holiday. But when we wish you a Merry Christmas,
we cainot but add our plea to the thousands of others: drop your penny
in the pot and then, Donner und Blitzen, Happy New Year!

. Many Thanks

One of the pleasant and exciting pheriomena of the year is the sudden
descent of the Christmas spirit upon the campus. By this we do not
refer_to the present buying mania which begins on our return fron



Thanksgiving and accounts for a goodly portion of our ten-trip tickets. ;

Nor do we refer to the Christmas-in-preparation which enslaves the choir

and the skit committees days in advance. We speak rather of the full-!
fledged community of spirit which springs into being on the first oppor- |}

tunity for caroling and rises superigt, to reports awd scheduled quizzes
throughout the’ last week before: our exodus. This year, we owe our
annual awakehing to the service of the Bryn Mawr League on Sunday
night, or- rather, to our humble servants the choir, whose charming pro-
gram had a noteworthy postscript in the spontaneous hymning of the
departing audience. We extend hearty thanks to Mr. Willoughby and
the choir. ‘

But having begun to thank, we should not cease until we have ex-
tended to the League our gratit(te for the Carol Party, an innovation
bringing greatest satisfaction to the students. For Christmas is an irre-
sistable season, and even the mutes among us vie with the choir in the
vigor, and enthusiasm—we shall not say aesthetic effect—of songs, and
desire full play for their Christmas spirit, though they restrain themselves
quite willingly at other seasons.

Surely we common people at Christmas time thank all—League,
choir, maids, actors, and musicians, for all their carefully executed pro-
ductions and for their tender solicitude for our untrained enthusiasms.



o - College Committees :

Current campus comment and criticism is often the result of an
inadequate knowledge of facts.
lent discussions intelligent, and with no intention of increasing the num-
ber of such discussions, that the News offers a series of articles written
by members of various college committees on the activities-of these com-
mittees. The first article, by the chairman of the Undergraduate Cur-

+ riculum Committee, avill be found on the first page of this News. acer

The Devil’s Disciple
We regret the unauspicious results of the first joint production of
Varsity Dramatics and the Cap and Bells Society of Haverford College.
In general’ we missed the depth and sympathy of interpretation that
marked the Constant Nymph, and. although. we -realize that the Devil's
Disciple degenerates. from serious drama to farce in the course of three
acts, we feel that the acting overemphasized this fault. The choice ‘of a
less temperamental play and a certain moderation of the acting should
make another effort of the joint clubs more successful.
#Reformers may be interested to know that there is a pot of intoxi-
cating beverage in the second floor tea pantry of Merion. A. rather
watery plum preserve was |eft to itself with alcoholic etfect.







___ The clock in the Lib continues to.be sanctified. But isn't the halo a
bit askew ? Mato a



Taylor Tower we note, is falling in (or should we say’out?) Such,



~. The snusually long stream .of late comers at the Devil's Disciple
rings ta mind our previous remarks on clocks. If the performance was

at Bryn Mawr are affected—cer- |

lis always full of gusto.

It is with the aim of making the preva- |






Goodhart clock, it began at twenty-four minutes past
» Taylor. clock {and our editorial of last week )},-the



ture” explodes a bomb. which will make
2-slee

that “they manage things better in India’:

tached cynicism and sophistication of the |

_jump.in_amazement.or_anger,-

THE COLLEGE NEWS



: Calendar i

Friday, December. 19: Christmas

vacation begins at 12:45 P. M.

«, Menday,. January > 5: “ Christmas
vacation ends at 9:00 A. M.

Tuesday, January 6: Lecture by

“Mr. Lewis Browne on “A Mor-

‘ality for the Intelligent,” in

Goodhart Hall at 8:30.

. Wednesday; January 14: Piano-

forte Recital by Harold Bauer

at 8:20 in Goodhart Audito-

rium.







with strung popcorn and colored lights;
holly and mistletoe were everywhere.
Many of the Faculty were present,
Among* them. “Mrs,; Manning, Dr.
Gardiner, Dr. and
Mrs. Orr, Miss Norton and Mr, Carl-

In the “evening the Bryn Mawr
League gave in the May Day room of
Goodhart a carol singing party, the
first of. a traditional succession we
hope. Between gulps of cocoa and
mouthfuls” of. apples, ‘cookies and
toasted marshmallows the guests sang
loud and clear. A good time was had
by all, as they say:

Most of the celebrations in the sepa-
rate halls of the coming of Christmas
are yet to come. They will be this
Thursday, Hurried preparation is now
being made for the widely. different
activities of the different halls. Each
has-its-own traditions. to which at. must
or at least does adhere. In Radnor
the ‘Thursday performance is a media-
eval affair. There is much pageantry
including the ceremony of the bring-
ing in of the boar’s head.. A few mem-
bers of the Faculty are invited. Rocke-
feller similarly reverts to ancient cus-
toms. A lord and lady of the manor
preside in.splendor at dinner. Before
them will come this year Sally Jones as
a superciliows knight in quest of a fair

Broughton, Miss

son,

and may cause the habitually wideawake+}inaicens;—coached—and—led_by_S._Cor-

to. regret that Mr. Douglas has resorted
to pyrotechnics that are childish in na-
ture. The author may consider that he
has effectually cleared himself of all
charges of that effeminancy which he de-
plores in the West by employing language
which is at times stark and brutal, and
Such language
does induce thought and feeling—even
resentment—but its use indicates a descent
from the peaks of ‘brilliance and polish
which were revealed in “South Wind.”

The general effect of the book is
startling, and undeniably. stimulating.
Champions of Western culturé should be
able to find holes in the blasting state-
ments which Mr, Douglas hurls. forth,
one after anothét, but they: will have to
exert themselves to withstand his on-
slaught. It is amusing’ to play with the
idea that “Goodbye to Western Culture”
may have the samé effect in the Orient as
“Mother India” had in the West. If
the East were to arouse its hordes in an
effort. to civilize the West, Mr. Douglas
would surely be in the van—if only to
demonstrate his own virility.

OK i



NEW BOOKS

The Mysterious Universe, ;
Sir James Jeans
Fhe Second Twenty Years at Hull
House Jane Addams
The Conquest of Happiness,
f Bertrand Russell
Mad. Man S! DAU ici Lynd Ward
On Forsyte, ‘Change... John Galsworthy
The Deepening Stream Dorothy Canfield
Staying with Relations .... Rose..Macaulay

Christmas Festivities of
the Past and P

sent
It is pléasant in these holffay times
to notice the various manifestations of
the Christmas spirit here and there and
everywhere about the campus. Even
the last-minute rush of
quizzes has fot been able to crush it.
It first appeared last Sunday evening
in the Music Hall of Goodhart where
literally throngs of people might have
been discovered singing carols lustily
themselves or listening to the less un-
tutored voices of the choir. The next
night another ‘chéir sang, that of the
maids; starting at Radnor they made
the rounds of the halls singing carols
or stopping for the more earthly pleas-
ure of eating.
On Tuesday afternoon and evening
the Christmas: spirit was again com-

inevitable

| bined with food to good effect. In the

afternoon a Christmas tea was held in

served and received much praise; the

Christmas tree, Denbigh’s. pride and.
[ioy. was decorated by the Sophomores

Denbeigh..Hall, The decorations. de-

nish. He will choose .a maiden, not
necessarily ‘one of these. »Totten will
sing, B. Peterson will be court jester,
and during the dinner the maids will
give a tap dance. Rockerfellians re-
member with pleasure the comic, in-
dividual presents from last year’s

hymns at the bottom of the main stairs.

In Denbigh it is the custom for evety

class but the senior to give a skit. It
is rumored that this year the Fresh-
men are taking off the Juniors and the
Sophomeres going in for red-blooded
melodrama.
‘In Merion and the Pembrokes
dances will be given as well-as skits.
The Merion dance is a tea-dance given
by the Sophomores in the dining room,
which has first been decorated by the
Freshmen.. Each student in the hall
may invite one guest. This dance is
followed by a buffet supper, to which
the Sophomores invite five or six mem-
bers of the Faculfy, and by skits by
the Freshmen and the Sophomores.
2 % ;
These usually take off upper classmen.
In the Pembrokés the Freshmen as a
rule give a skit on:the Thursday before
the -holidays in. Wyndam. The big
event, however, is the dance after din-
ner in the dining room. All the col-
lege comés to this and in dts most ex-
otic conceptions of fancy dress. But
perhaps we should -say all the college
students but those in the choir. These
only come late and then in the caps
and gowns and warm white dresses in
whch, bearing lanterns, they have pre“
viously carolled over the rolling Bryn
Mawr-campus.

This evening of carols is one of the
principal pleasures of being in the
choir. It sings on Faculty Row, to
the especially appreciative audience at
Low Buildings, at the Deanery, at the
‘College Inn, all over the campus. Here
and there its members are invited in
and generously “refreshed.” The con-
sequence is that when the evening is
over they do not know whether they
are more hoarse, more content, or more
supremely well fed. Food -and the
Christmas spirit, we find, mix well.

Athletics

The prospects /are’ good for a suc-
cessful season in basketball this year.
With Varsity back in toto as well as a,
large number of last year’s squad, the
teams should be able to pick up their
game where they left it last year and
soar to few. intricacies of teamtwork
and passing. Practices have been go-
ing ow since Thanksgiving under the,
direction of Miss Ethel Grant, and the
match games will begin after Christ-
mids. We wish Miss Baer and her
‘téam a‘splendid season. So





tady——Before—hinm--witt‘dance——sixf

Christmas tree; and the acting out-of}:








2 “Cissy,” I said tenderly after I had













Last Saturday morning I saw Cissy

writhing along in front of the library.

“Cissy,” I said sternly, “what are you
doing?” ;

“Pm having an idea,” replied. Cissy,
“and I think I'll take it to Radnor.”
Just then she did a peculiar flop, and
I saw. countless volumes of the P. M.

L. A.,.each one tucked neatly away.

under her various. Centipede append-
ages.

“Cissy!” I exclaimed. “You'll never
get to Radnor with those books.” But
she was on her way; so there was noth-
ing to'do but to follow. her. ee

“If you've noticed,’sne cailed, “I’ve
cut every undergraduate I’ve met since
I left the library. My personality is
undergoing a change.” With that, she
came im contact with the crop of apples

on Merion Green, one apple after an-.

other in rapid succession.

“Cissy,” I cried in horror, “what can
I do for you?” -

“Nothing at all,” roared Cissy in a
deep basso profundo that alarmed me
far more than her peculiar humpings. up

and down over the innumerable apples.

“It’s just like an ocean crossing.” And

then she discovered that, by giving.

several peculiar wriggles, she could sit

on top of the apples and travel ‘very.
rapidly so that she was at the door of,

Radnor and inside before I could catch
up to her.
I crossed the threshold of Radnor and

beheld: Cissy surrounded. by graduate ,
She was,
perched precariously on a_high plat-,

students all drinking milk!

form of P. M. L.. A.’s and, with’ a

|mighty sweep of all her arms, she bel-

lowed:

needs Silence.

fertilizing:
—if I could give up my past!” Silence.

cumstances.
she said. «““Those people,” with a lqok
of infinite scorn in the direction of the
milk drinkers, “must be M. A. candi-
dates. They are so—’ By the time
she reached the top step, she managed
to come out with “materialistic,” but
the effect was lost on the group below.
Cissy surveyed the upstairs situatign.
She seemed quite downcast at the spec-
tacle of four people playing bridge al-
though, as she explained later, it might

not have been bridge but some kind of |
spiritualistic seance. Then, she beamed

with joy and I feared for the worst.
“Do you see those three melancholy
souls sitting on the sofa?” she whis-

pered and, before I could answer,: she

had. confronted them.

“IT have an idea,’ she announced
brazenly.

“Go on,” sneered the’ first person
blowing rings. at the fire hose on. the
wall opposite. a teas

“You're young!” said the second.
“In fact,” she muttered, peering at her
near-sightedly, ,;“I think you have an
undergraduate mind-” :

“No, no,” _ Cissy defended herself:
“I’ve been an undergraduate for so
many years that—”

“Tf [I were you,” interrupted the
third, “I’d throw .it away and_ start
collecting facts. What cin you do
with an idea?” : :

-pAt that Cissy looked thoughtful and |
finally she replied: “Well, I give up.-
Now T'ltvask you one: what can you~

do with a fact?” |
“Oh,” said the second, “you can keep
it. three years.”

“Why three years?” asked Cissy. “I
might even keep it longer. Once there

”

was a fact.-
“We're not interested in your private
life,”
“You've got to publish eventually.”
“Publish?” asked. Cissy brightly.
hadn’t thought"of* that!”
“Then you are an undergraduate,”
all three shouted in unison, and poor
Cissy crept away. I noticed -with alarm
that she appeared interested in a group,
of people who had gone into a huddle
in front of. the Victrola, but by the

time I-reached her.’ I realized: that the
unhappy Centipede was only trying to



hide her tears from tl
dents in the*halt. agi

Ie ‘graduate stu-

CONTINUED ON THE eel ‘PAGB

‘ “Sado. sie . Es mm . .
‘ : ae

z yeertsncyesee ie s-ercen-ceaneenians menconteates

Imagine my horror when ,

“Ladies!” Impressive pause. a &
have an idea and fe most ideas it
Cissy ©

(somewhat desperately): “I might-even |
consider becoming a graduate student |
Cissy turned to me with dignity and’
poise truly remarkable under the cir-.
“T think I'll go upstairs,”

interrupted the third crossly. |

on f
gor ey



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page §







More Than 4 4 Million Laborers
Laid Off, Owing to Improv-
ment of Technology.

——

PROMPT RELIEF NEEDED

(Specially contributed by Virginia But-
terworth, ’32.)

Miss Grant opened the meeting of
the Liberal Club on Tuesday, Decem-
ber 9, with the announcement that the
League for Industrial Democracy in-
vites all students to a conference on
unemployment, to be held during vaca-
tion in New York. She also asked
for support in the coming student cam-
paign against compulsory military
training in the schools and colleges.

Dr. Fairchild began the discussion
with ‘a. brief: outline. of . the. situation,
The Departtrrent* of* Contmerce” placed
the number of unemployed at three
and a half million,a month ago, and
there has been a decided increase since
then. The last figures of the Ameri-
can ‘Federation of Labor were four
million, and since this estimate is based
on skilled labor (of which twenty-two
per cent. has been laid off) the total
“amount is probably even larggr. The
situation will be no better, if not worse,
as the winter goes on.

The causes of this predicament a
first, the business depression. In the
“last ten years there has heen a second
industrial revolution; by new machines.
and, new operation procedures the effi-
ciency of laborers has been increased
twenty-five to forty per cent. There-
fore it has been necessary to. lay off
workers. The only way this ‘surplus
has been kept is through an expansion
of industry, especially “thé luxury
--trades, which- has-.absorbed many of
them. But all during the last ten years
there has been a growing number, ap-
proximating a million, of workers suf-
fering from this technological unem-
ployment. Then expanding industry
reached a point where it had produced
far more than it could sell at a‘ profi-
table price, and while it waits for those
goods. to be. consumed there is dé-:
pression and a great laying off of
workers. The- usual fall seasonal un-
employment was -heightened, the
figures rising one. per cent. insNovem-
ber. .

Something must be doné to cure
permanently this acute condition. Paul
Douglas says we need. stabilization,
planning of productiqn to prevent these
unregulated . expansions ‘ and depres-/
sions. It must be on a world basis
and will necessitate a.central bank with
gold reserves.\. While . this is being
achieved we aaa! insurance to relieve
the immediate distress.

For unemployment insurance there
are three agents possible. One is in-
dustry. Miss Gruener stated that of
. the two hundred thousand industries in
this country only. twelve have unem-
ployment insurance that works at all.
Therefore it’seems that industry alone
will not go far. The second is the
trade union, which has been able to
provide for few of ‘the many. suffering
from the present troubles... The third
possible agent is the state.’ We have
a horror in this country of the English
dole. We think it undermines the self-
respect of the worker,. though, we da
not object to’ charity—indeed, we can-
not, when thousands of new cases are
pouring in to the relief agencies every
day. . The English workman takes out
his insurance for unemployment, as we
_ do for death or fire, and the employer
“and the state help him: somewhat.
‘tuch the same system has long been
followed in Germany. Dr. Douglas
recommends that the.amount required
from an employer be proportionate to
the chance of unemployment in his in-
dustry. .This insurance would not only
be the greatest help to the worker by
removing the terrible sense of insé-
curity in good times and relieving ‘his
want in bad, but would also help busi-
‘hess by assuring buying power in time
of depression.

Various. other suggestions were
made. Higher wages ‘and lower ‘sal-
aries and dividends -would make for
more evenly distributed wealth, greater
buying power, and less new investment
and therefore é€xpansion in industry.
Dr. Fenwick asked why the ‘govern-
ment does not start the project dis-
cussed after the war of putting the
unemployed on small individual farms,
where they could at least make a tliv-
ing. It was suggested that the. De-
partment of Agriculture says the aver-
age farm — year. made, ~ counting



because. of mortgages. The public
works and construction programs were
praised, especially since the construc-
tion industries not only pro¥ide jobs
but also require so’ many ‘materials
that they start up other industries as
well.

As for what we ourselyes should do:
in the immediate situation: We must
do what we can towards immediate re-
lief in money. and clothes. We must
support the unemployment bills — in
Congress, and the Wagner bill provid-
ing for public labor exchanges, good
labor statistics, and long-range plan-
ning of public works. And we must
put our most careful thought: én what
we are going to do to prevent these
increasingly serious entanglements
from occurring in the future.

Lectures on “Franklin

The Franklin Instituté, in accofdance
with its practice established some five
years ago, Will again this year present
a series of lectures for young people, ;t
to be given on the James Mapes
Dodge Lecture Foundation. The lec-
turer will bé Dr. E. E.. Free, of New
York City, a scientist and newspaper
writer of. distinction. His subject will
be “The Scientific Work of Benjamin
Franklin.” He has divided his mate-
rial in such a way as to give a series
of three lectures, to be held at three
o'clock on the afternoons of Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, December
29, 30 and 31.

It will readily be seen that the field
is a vast one. -It is felt that the subject
will be of especial interest this year, in
of the fact that Philadelphia is
at this very»moment engaged in plan-
ning the erection of'a superb monu-
ment to Benjamin Franklin the
Parkway.

It is hoped that the young people
of Philadelphia will take advantage of
this unique opportunity to become ac-
quainted with, the scientific activities
of one of America’s eet men.

view

on

Spring Siutidas 3 in Dishiniisia.
Described by Miss Park

sia President--Park
narrative of her travels
with a talkwon “Spring Holiday in Dal-
matia,” a title chosen, Miss Park ex-
plained, because the country, when she
visited it, was filled with:
students, and German and Austrian
families on their spring vacations. Dal-
matia, Miss Park feels, has a kind of
freshness that the more familiar-Euro-
pean countries .do not have; the Mid-
dle Ages still seem to reign there.

One gets to Dalmatia in various
ways—by train from Vienna, by boat
from Italy, bit Miss Park herself set
sail from Patras, the magnificent door-
way of Greece, formed by the Arcadian
mountains and the gulf of Corinth.
The tiny boat was more like a yacht
than a boat, and, Miss Park added, it
acted like a yacht later on. The voy-
age took her the Tonian
Islands, up past Corfu, the most beau-
tiful of them all, and along the coast
of Dalmatia, whose rocky hills grow
higher and higher. until ‘the stone
mountains rise right from the coast
line making it bleak, stupendous and
fearfully dangerous.

The boat landed at Split, the most
prosperous town on the whole coast;
it actually lies within the waJls of a
palace built as a retreat by the
peror Diocletian. Just outside Split is
the still olderstown of Salona,-a place
that makes one feel. the: devastating
power of the invasions from.the north.
Six hundred sarcophagi are to be seen
on the hillside, each one Smashed in by
invaders wanted to get at
riches inside. All Dalmatian towns are
both interesting and picturesque.

The coast is a terrific barrier of high,
treeless, niountains, through
which break great rivers, each its
gorge. Above the gorges, one
comes upow a plateau, like a landscape
in fhe moon, with no break in the stone
floor except where a hollow worn by a
stream of water holds a little pool of

In- Tuesday
continued the

Viennese

among

Em-

who the

rocky
inl
own

grass. This plateau, goes on for miles
and niles. Jeyond is the highland
country, with lovely woods, swift
green rivers and little villages, with]
cherry trees in blossom.

Dalmatia is without the much,
talked of “smudge of civilization.”

-Each~- village. has its own costumes,
both Christian and Moslem. — Every-
where there is the brightest color, and
the embroideries. associated with the
Balkans.
out froni Roumania, looking just as



what was used fot \ food, $1025, and
‘|that many farms are being taken over



Danville Strikers +
The College recently made a

generous reply to the appeal for
old clothes to be sent to the fam-
ilies of the-4000. Danville strikers.
In’ case that the coming Christ-
mas vacation renews the excess
supply of campus clothes,
tributions should be sent to

Miss Matilda Lindsay
Care: United Textile Workers

Danville, Va.

con-







they should—seductive young girls, en-
ji Se Buryooy usu ‘uaippiyos Suyueyos
they would cut your throat for a penny,
and old. witches. And at this time “%f
year one feels as if one were
the -whole region and

first time.

seeing

alone for the

|French Club Present In-

formal Dramatic Events

The French Club ‘this year has under-
taken. an ambitious program of dramatics
consisting the presentation
every fortnight of various
plays or scenes from plays by the great
French masters. Although. this plan is
carried out merely for the enjoyment and
enlightenment the members of the
French Club themselves, it. is a\ cheerful
sign for the rest of us who look back
with such pleasure to the presentation
last year of Hernani and, in view of its
phenomenal success, anticipate further de-
lights for the spring. It is yet doubtful
just what play will be jormally presented
then, but that there will be seems
certain if anything can be judged from
the present activities of the club. -We
wish them—every success in their under-
takings and prophesy great things for the
spring.

of informal

( "neg VOUY

of

one

ANDRE _MAUROIS SPEAKS

CONTINUED FROM THE FIRST PAGE

not dying out; novels will always be

necessary. Both bring us an enhance
jand an explanation of life.

Making a Biography

Offe- writes because-one> feels -an—im-
pulsion to write. I have chosen char-
acters such as Byron, Shelley and Dis-
racli, because | One
choose certain one
tests them,

loved them. can

men because de-

as Lytton-Strachy has done.

of the subject; the seeming difficulty
impels the writer. to seek its solution.
Sometimes one writes on a certain
person’ because one feels that there is
a-‘correspondence between one’s own
personality and that of the character.
One cannot write on anything at all:
one must have an impassioned interest
in the subject.

The subject once chosen, the next
tion. A ver¥ serious work of erudition
is necessary; published and unpublished
documents must be studied. The biog-
rapher must interview witnesses who
are often disappointing. Very
few people ktiow haw to observe; often
they are interested.in themselves
that they remember what they ‘said,
\but not what the great’man said, Vari-
ous testimonies are contradictory;
necessary to weigh them, to compare
them. It necessary to travel in
order to see the places where the great

man has lived; one understands better

very

so

is



One meets gypsies starting’

taan what -his life may, have +been
| there. All this is extremely interesting
and an immense pleasure because little
by little the charaeter of the great/man
takes: form and relives /before one.

After all that, the biographer. must
realize that he may be mistaken; it is
impossible to avoid error in history.
It is difficult to seize the truth; some-

nes one makes a mistake because one
does not know enough, sometimes one
can produce documents which prove
either side of the question. . One never
knows whether one is right or wrong.

Methods Much the Same

The last thing is to-.construct the
book. One cannot merely publish all
one’s notes in any kind of order... The
iistorian must also be “an artist; he
must be able to arrange his material in
the order that is best for the clear -un-
derstanding -of his. subject.

The method of: the novelist is very
much the same. Both feel the need of

J expression, ~The novetist gives -himself+
expression . through” his characters;

either they supply a lack in himself or |
resemble his personatity.
of a subject for a noyel ¢émes into
the mind of the novelist with a sort
of shock. The point of departure is



| judge them.

In making a biography, the first
question is to choose a subject; one
does not pick on anyone at random.

One can be tempted by the coinplexity

step is to put in order the documenta-

it isy

The choice restaurant.

:
often very small and unimportant:

Ince this shock has revealed the sub-
ject ‘to the author he gradually be¢omes

more interested in it.’ Then he begins
his documentation. He makes use first
ef. all his character in’ sub-
dividing himself He takes small bits
of “his passions and; with them makes
characters. He.makes use of people
around -him all the time. He takes.
careful notes while observing .them.
He should take. like the. biog-
rapher, in. order to realize the influenc€
of places on his character.

[he great difference between the
methiod of.a novelist and'-of a’ biog-
rapher begins with the construction of
conti The novelist has the right

invent, to group, to transpose emo-
tions or words from one character to
another. The biographer is ‘oliifged to
be faithful to truth even if it does not
his public. «He. can only ar-
range the facts in a clear order. The
novelist sees his character grow up in
him if. spontaneously; — the
rapher sees his person, grow only as a
result of his The novel
makes itself within the mind of the}
author; ’ the characters living
people to him. A great novelist: like
believe: more the
existence of the people in his novels
than in that of réal ones. The biog-
rapher also, is obliged to let his char-
acter grow in him. .Little by little he
comes to understand the character bet-
ter. He puts into it something of him-
self. At both
novelist and biographer are very closely
related. |

Moralist Passes Judgment

Neither one or the other must pass
judgment upon the things of which he |
writes; that is left to the moralist.. An
artist tell “not what ;
should His to descpibe
things, \and it is the readef/ to
Art unified and a
The goal-of—art/is—to

of own

trips,

please

as biog-
researches.
become
in

Balzac comes to



bottom the methods of



what is,
duty
up

Miust us

be. is
to

isa

unique thing,
give clearness,
life. The aim of novelist and
apher is the same. We seek in any
work of art the truth about man. A
great novelist or\biographer does us the
service ey helping us to understand
human ‘nature and to avoid misinterpre-
tation of other people. It is through
great that understand the
world-better_that-the nations are drawn
closer together.

The only’ thing that the
novelist or biographer, discouraged by
he fact that he cannot be sure that he
has grasped the truth, comes when he
realizes that he aided real
person to understand himself and other
men. nm

Bryn Mawr Club |

Announces Rates|

biog-

artists we

\

supports

has ,same



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City. . Reservations for rooms Should
bes made-in advance, if possible, espe-
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Moembiar Maurois Charms

With Comments At Tea

Monsieur Andre Meukols was the
guest of honor at a delightful tea given
on Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. ‘Cliad-
wick-Collins. In conversations with
Mon-

interesting views on the literatures and

ccirures of France, England cand
Am@ica. His first comment was ex-
’*tremely flattering to Americans who,

he said, go on the assumption that a
thing ora person is right unless proved

wrong, whereas in France the first re-|

action is one of distrust. Another
point of contrast between the
countries lies in the matter of friend-
ships. While we in America, young
and old, attend-a ash number of par-
ties where the give, ‘and take of con-
‘ versation betwéen many ‘people,
frietidshius in France are- more likely
to flourish along lines of private con-
versations, where cach person learns
to know the other intimately. Of course
chances are a neccesary addition to this
tete-a-tete: method. But far from gen-
eralizing as-to the impressions- he has
from America, Monsieur
Maurois stressed his belief that a uni-
tary America which ‘can be. grasped
from experience and summed up in an
essay does not exist: He believes that
the nearést approach to truthful por-
trayal of American life is to be reached

is

‘through a novel which shell select a

limited number of real people in Amer-
ica and follow, their thoughts and ac-
tions in detail, and only by a series of
such novels on the various phases of
our. life can/we hope to get a.true pic-

ture of Amierica as a whole..

As to American literature,. Monsieur
Maurois /finds that the psychological
novel, which Marcel Proust is so
great a-imaster-in--France,—has~barely
made its beginnings here. But he finds
great /pronuise, especially in the younger
group of writers, and expects. much
America after have had
in’ which enjoy the
table with its at-
into the minds of
others. American literature he con-
siders worthy recognition, and Ane
holdsthe award of the Nobel prize to
Sinclair Lewis, as a citizen of the
United States, a correct move. © That
the’ prize should be given to Sinclair
Lewis-instead of to Willa Cather, for
cc anaaak is traceable in part to the
fact that the former is known in Eu-
rope through translgtions, while Willa
Cather is not. Monsieur Andre spoke
of the great difficulty which, a _Frengch-,
man who has not been in America
finds in leartiing the phrases and
idioms-*of our language: His own in-
terest in the English and American
novels was. promoted by his association

ot

we
twenty vears to
leisure of the tea

t¢ndant probings

of

‘with Englishmen during the four
years of the war.
Princeton students, Monsieur Mau-

‘ois finds decidedly frank in their re-

actions to his novel course, even find-
ing some of the reading utterly boring.
The young women in his courses to
whom the New Yorker attributed such
a lamentable understanditig of his lec-
tures maintain the absurdity of the
accusation. Interested as he is in
Woodrow.: Wilson’s place in history,

* Monsieur Maurois finds Princeton an
‘exciting place to live in.

Occasionally,
he says, a point may be discovered on
which opponents have much the same
to say, and then he is reasonably sure
of a truth. But the discussion is still

_SO_heated that he was..offered OD seated etd aati hawaii llaletetdlbadics ol 'Sersthrdi bende
= heated tat ae. a a “the balance women, “It-has beety said|;

“Wi Ison and an anti-Wilson ditiner to
assure him of amicable aid in his char-
acter researches!

CURRICULUM REPORT



CONTINUED FROM THE FIRST PAGE

of two. .
F inally, the report voiced the opinion
that many professors, especially in the
departments of Art, History, Econom-
ics and English, have increased the
amount of work entirely out of propor-
tion to the increase in hours allowed
them.

The faculty has already considetes
he reduction in requireds and will

-, make its final decision in January. Any



digsentors~ from: the report of the Un-

derx raduate: ‘Committee are urged to|

CAPR 5S their opinions in the’ News.



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600 West 122nd Street, New York City.

Day Sessions (Unless otherwise spesitedy Anion Theological Seminary,



‘Siinday —December. 28
2:15 P. M. Registration of Dele-
gates and Guests, L“I. D. office,
112 East Nineteenth Street.

Monday—December 29
A. M.—Registration
conference.

A. M.—Extent
Unemployment.
; Marsh, Executive Director” of
People’s Lobby, Washington,
D. C. ,Clinch Calkins, author
of “Some Folks Won't Work.”
Chairman, Howard Westwood,
Columbia.

P. M—Types
Unemployment.

1 :30-

9:00 for winter
and. Effects of
senjamin

10:00

and Causes of
A. J. Muste,
Chairman Faculty, . Brook-
wood Labor College. Colston E.
Warne, Professor of Economics,
Amherst College. | Chairman,
Charlotte Tuttle, Vassar.
P.. M.—Supper
home of Norman

2:00

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for delegates at
Thomas.

6: 30

8:30 P. M—Dance for delegates and
guests. Entertainment by Vqs-
sar L. J. D., 54 Irving Place.

Tuesday—December 30 ;
10:00 A. M—Immediate..Remedies. for
Unemployment. Charlotte E.

ai

Carr, - Industrial Consultant,
‘Charities Organization Society.
Parry .W. Laidler, Executive
Director, League for Industrial
Democracy... Chairman, Joel
Seidinan, Johns ,Hopkins.
2:00 P. M.—Building a New Society
Where Economic Security Is
Assured. Paul Blanshard, writer,
Executive Director of City Af-
fairs Committee of New York.
Harriot Stanton Blatch, writer
and lecturer. Student speakers:
William Melish and Riva Stock-
er. Chairman, Martha Stanley,
Smith,
P. M—8:00 P. M. — Supper
meeting of delegates to discuss
organization of callege groups
and what they can’ do in this
crisis. 54 Irving Place. Chair-
man, Peter Nehemkis, President
Intercollegiate’ Student Council.
Wednesday—Deceniber 31
Excursions for students to Co-opera-
tive Houses built by the Amalgamated
Union or to the Municipal Lodging
House.
Students are cordially invited to all
sessions of the twenty-fifth anniversary
celebration, Sunday, December 28.

6:00



Phi Beta Kappa Possesses
Illustrious Membership

Phi Betta Riwpas national honorary
scholastic érganization, was founded at
the College of William and Mary in
Va., on December 5,
The society was first established
secret organization aiid had an

1776.

as a

first Greek letter organization in the
United States.

John Heath was the founder of the

organization. Names such as John
Marshall, first. Chief Justice. of the
United States Supreme Court; Bush-

rod. Washington ‘and William Short,
stand out among the list of the ten
charter members of the fraternity. The

others were Archibald Stuart,—Daniel
Carroll Brent, Richard Bland Lee,
Peyton Short, Spencer Roane and

John Brown. -

The next three oldest chapters, of the
society were at Yale, established in
1780, at Harvard, established. in 1781,
and at Dartmouth, established in 1787.
At the present time there are 107 chap-
ters situated in the various colleges
‘of the country.

Secrecy was abandoned in 1830, and
Women were permitted~to enter the
society in 1875. Originally men alone
were eligible to membership but with
the growth of co-education a change in
policy was necessitated. ‘Today prac-
tically all chapters admit women on an
equal basis.

It was‘ not until September 5, 1883,
that the various chapters throughout
the country banded together to form /a
national organization called the United
Chapters of Phi Beta. The present
officers of the national chapter /are
Clark S. Northup, president; Ellen F.
Pendleton, vice-president; Oscar M.
Voorhées, secretary, and David Ley-
ton, treasurer. The national chapter
has headquarters-at 145 West Ffty-fifth
Street, New York City.

Today the total membership of the
organization numbers something over
55,000, about three-fifths beihg men and |

>that
listed in

over one-sixth of /the persons
“Who’s Who” /are members
-of this fraternity. ~The list of its fa-
mous members will filt-columns, A
few of the famous living persons who
claim membership to/ the organization
are Calvin Coolidg¢, Charles Evans
Hughes, Elihu Root, Richard Byrd,

Charles A. Beard, Owen D. Young

adopted Greek motto,.thus being. the |.

,December issue.



and Helen Wills Moody.
Eleven Presidents of the initea ||
The list begins with John Quincy |
dams, and includes Theodore
velt, William H. Taft
W socal tld Daily.

Roose-
and. Woodrow

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helped her/down the stairs and on top

“I'd
love to hear your idea.”

“That's the trouble,” sobbed Cissy.
“Radnor. scared me so that I’ve for-
gotten it.” ‘And then the little creature
said bravely: “But perliaps I’ve been

Choir Gives Vatied
Christmas Program

CONTINUED FROM THE FIRST PAGE

technical points; nevertheless it did suc-
ceed in rousing the spirits of its crowd
of listeners, and the Christmgs hymns
were sung with unusual enthusiasm.
CAROL SERVICE °
Processional Hymn—"O- ‘Come,
Faithful” |
Carols— #
The Wassail Song.E datigh Traditional
The Herefordshire -Carol,
. English Traditional
Solo by J. E. Polachek, ’34, arr.
Vaughan- Williams
The Christmas Oratorio...
Chorale (a/cappella)
Chorale (a-cappella)
Chorus
Chorale /
Scripture Reading
Hymn—“Hark, the Herald ‘Angels Sing”
Organ—The Pastorale Symphony (from
The Messiah)
Recitative/and Chorus—From The Mes-

“All Ye

...Bach

From

Sigh, Woe, 14°15 and 16.\....... Handel
Solo by S. Zeben, ’30
Prayers . i
Choir

Carol,
English Traditional
‘There’ s-a Star in the East,
Negro Spiritual
Solo by: S. Zeben, ’30
The Babe in Bethle’m’s Manger,
. English Traditional
Hymn—“The First Noel”
The Blessing
Stainer Sevenfold Amen

Thé Coventry

d

More About These Men

1900 Versus 1930

A_ significant chaitge*
come over colleg
ern colleges far
or fifteen years, states
Hyde in her article,
Colleges,”



to have
e life,in the large Tfast-
women in the past’ ten

Rogers
Women’s
which appeared in Harper's
The author was aston-
ished to find on visiting her college fat
the vocational. training..was. inthe hands.
Of the students: and, secondly, that there
was a definite concentration on one voca-
tion—-heing popular ‘with men.

We Americans today. esteem practi-
cality highly. Women have always been
practical but, “in other countries and at
other times, they. have preferred to con-
ceal it. The daughter ‘of Victorian times
was wont toe trap the unwary male with
a very practical -time-honored
helplessness.

seenis

Agnes
“Men in

weapon

day. Except for dinner parties, the mod-

States have beet Phi Beta: Kappas. [ern American woman no longer sighs in

admiration at ‘man’ Ss competence, strength,
and general glory. She admits openly
that man is a very useful animal, and that
she proceeds to get what she can out of
him. Young .women it, the most
satisfactory working—arrahgement—is—to
admit that society is still ordered accord-
dng to man’s demands and that they must
see how mueh they”can get out of it.

“fo the girls who were in college some .
“| fourteen years ago, it was not fashionable |:

to be’ concerned with meth. Nothing was
ever said about them and what a girl
‘thought about them was kept” to herself.
The girls were not abnormal. To them



seeing Life!”



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-| lege should be made more like the outside

We scorn this attitude to-:

THE COLLEGE NEWS



stan h nner nog

a



of peculiar’ and extreme happiness. A

world but it had very little effect on
.the majority of the undergraduates.

ME celebrity in college today—the girl
as is active in college affairs—is no
longer the fashionable figure she once
was. The fashionable figure now is one
who lives “in a flood of telegrams, long-
distance telephone : calls, ‘letters—prefer-
ably special delivery—and visitors.” The
girls do not believe. in love as woman's
whole existence, ora Strong arm to lean
upon, noble man to cherish and
serye. They aré after men for what they
can get out of them, which seems to mean
a certain amount of excitement politely
called “good times” and the acclaim of

or a



their fellow- students. »

—from Monday to Friday—jfor the week-
end seems to be the point about
which college life revolves for them.
Whereas the graduate of fourteen years
ago could not apply’ her education” for’
any immediate use, the girl today knows
just what kind of life she wants. With
little practical equipment, the members
‘of the author’s class did have courage,
eagerness, and self-reliance.
believes that college system
tained a better preparation for
life- than does the
College. News.

focal

The author
her con-
enjoying

present.—Connecticut

Horace Alwyne will appear as: solo-]

with the Philadelphia Chamber
String Simfonietta ‘at their concert on
Janyary 7 in the ballroom of the Bellg-
vue-Stratford, He will play the Bach
D Minor Clavier Concerto and also the

ist

piano ’part in a’ modern work of the
Italian comiposer, Pilati. Mr. Alwyne
gave a lecture last Friday «morning to

the Modern Club of Philadelphia at. the
Ritz-Carlton on TDR. at ano_ andthe

Orchestra; their precursors and -evolu-

electrolas and theirvengineers specially

for this occasion, using an exact fac-

simile of the very large loud speaker

which Mr. Stokowski has introduced
into the Philadelphia Orchestra. This
Was -the-second-of-a-sertesof three
lecture-recitals which Mr. Alwyne is
giving to the Modern Clab,. the

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