College news, January 13, 1932

ollege News





Vol. XVIII, No. 10

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13,.1932

Price, 10 Cents





Picasso Paintings on

View in Goodhart)

Abstraction Versus Realism Is
Discussed by Mr,
Warburg.

(Specially contributed by Mr. Warburg)

Throughout all art and all time the
artist-creator has had one great eoin-
He has had before
‘him an object and he has had within

promise to make.

. him an idea. The union of these two

on a canvas or in any’ other medium

demands a compromise. In order that
the result might be art, the artist had
to win out. As a matter of fact he
could not do otherwise, for the original
inspiration could not be made to re-
_exist-under-the-same~natural-elements
of gravity, light and texture, once’ it
had been transferred into a new
medium—it could only exist in illu-
sion. The building of that. illusion has

occupied many painters and sculptors;

~but it is rare that the illusion, no mat-
‘ter how interestingly put together, has
been worthy of its original in nature.
‘We need only go to Madame Tussaud’s
to see the futility of expecting art from
a reproduction of nature attempted in
necessarily unequivalent materials.
But more often the artist realizes the
futility of aiming at reproducing the
visual world. He then begins to com-
“pose with" this ‘world-as ‘his* keyboard,
and his purpose turns from the recording
of order -into “a creation of order.

Into this composition or organism: he

may bring-anything he-chooses}_it-may
come. from the elements in the out-
side... world, it may ‘come. from his
dreams, or it may even be taken from
the forms of pure geometry. No mat-
ter from what source, its importance,
from the art standpoint, lies in its
ordered correlation and in the interest
and personality of that order.

One cannot find, however, ai art in
which the artist’s personality does not
intrude somewhere. Still we can
classify the various arts according to
whether they. deal in representative or
abstract elements in order to express
their intrinsic order. Architecture,
music (except program music), and

Continued on Page Four

Miss Ely Tells of Shaw
on Tour Through Russia





On Tuesday, January 5, Miss Ger-
trude Ely spoke on her trip to Russia
“ with Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor
and her husband. Miss Ely pointed
out that when people become indig-
nant at everything Shaw says about
Russia, they are not giving him credit
for ever having done anything in his
life, nor for being able to think any-
thing out for himself. When Shaw
was asked why he wanted to go ‘to
Russia, he replied that_he-had=always
_said=the~systém in Russia was right,
and he realized if he were going to
support that theory he had better go
there and be able to base his state-
ment on first-hand authority. As far
back as the “Fabian Essays” Shaw
stood for tolerance, and in 1918 he
sent Lenin a book inscribed to him
but never heard of it again. ;
In Moscow the party was met by
“great crowds, and -Shaw “threw-out
his chest and turned up his beard to
meet the photographers.” They were
put in the charge of the government
and. nevér during their visit
watched or suspected. The=first thing
Shaw asked to see was Lenin’s tomb.
ey went early before the great

@. Last Saturday evening the Depart-

| Age.

Culture of Greece in
Bronze Age Discussed



ment of Classical Archaeology pre-
sented Dr. Hetty Goldman,
Mawr graduate, who spoke on
and Her Neighbors
” Dr. Goldman has been working

a. Bryn
“Greece

in the Bronze
in Greece on the ‘problem of the out-
side influences on. Grecian culture dur-
ing the Bronze, or Helladic Age. At
the beginning of her talk Dr. Goldman
divided the period into nine small divi-
sions, which she treated in groups of
three, as the early Helladic, the mid-
dle or Minoan and the late, or My-
cenean. It has long been thought the
Brotize Age people migrated from
Asia Minor through Northern Greece
and on down the peninsula, early in
the—first Helladic—period;—but—recent:
discoveries in which Dr. Goldman has
participated, have proved that the earli-
est migrations reached the mainland
by way of the Cyclades.
from the north is not discernible until
the third period of the early Helladic.
Between the large divisions of the early
and middle Helladic there are evidences
of a.great revolution in the culture of
the mainland, and a slight resultant de-
cline. ‘Definite signs of intercourse
with Crete are found in this period:
some decoration of the Minoan pottery
showing influences of the contemporary
Minoan period of Cretan art. Theories
as-to~how~ this “influence reached the
mainland are many and varied: Some
students of the subject (iticluding Miss
‘Goldman) ‘think that the earthquake
which ‘destroyed the Labyrinth of
Knossus may have sent a horde of
Cretan artesans north to seek work
from their more prosperous “neighbors.
The final division, Dr. Goldman said,

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Continued on Page Three

Dr. Stebbing Refutes
Metaphysical Physicists

2.
Denies





New Abstractness of
Physical Science Supports

Idealism.



CONDEMNS SCANT: TRAIN



“Nowadays everything a_ physical
scientist says is listened to with great
awe,’ ’ declared eS ugan Stebbing
Friday after noon in the Common Room
at Goodhart, ' “and,” she continued, set-
ting the tone of her lecture on ‘‘Physi-

cal Scientists in Philosophy,’ ‘they
feel they can throw caution to the
winds and use- language they don't
understand.” | .
Dr. Stebbing holds no brief for Sir
James Jeans, author of “The Mys-

terious Universe”; on the contrafy, she
seemed disposed to_agree-with iis own
staterient that philosopher
“neither by training nor by. inclina-
tion.” » With Eddington, author of “The
Nature of the Physical World,” he
maintains that recent discoveries in
physics establish an idealistic idea of
the universe. Eddington assumes two
premises which, more serious though
no moré valid, hold that physics is in-
creasingly abstract, and recognize the
“principle of indeterminacy.”

-On-the basis of increasing abstract-

he is a

Influence }

~



Yehudi Menuhin



Menuhin to Give 7
Concert at Academy



Boy Violinist — Stages Benefit
for Bryn Mawr Chinese
Scholarship Fund.



Yehudi Menuhin, the boy violinist,
will give a recital at. the Academy’ of
Music on Wednesday afternoon, Janu-
ary 27, under the auspices of the Bryn

Mawr Chinese Scholarship Committee,

which, ‘started fifteen yeafs.. ago. by
some+ Bryn Mawr Alumnae, aims to
proniote. understanding between the

East and the West by bringing: Chinese
students to the college. The theory
on—which—the—conimittee—was—founded
has been more than justified by the
five students they have given Bryn
Mawr. Besides supporting the scholar-
ship,.the-comniittee also providés-for
its lectures and exhibitions
on various aspects, cultural well
as political, of China.

Yehudi, who will be fifteen two days
before his «New York appearance on
January 24, is returning from an amaz-
ingly suecéssful tour of the great music
centres of Europe. At Mannheim,
where, with the Philharmonic, Rosen-
stock conducting, he played three great
concertos—by Bach, Bruch, and Beeth-
oven—he was recalled: twenty times.
In Rome he enjoyed the distinction
of working with Respighi, and he has
collaborated with such artists as Alfred
Cortot .and’ Georges Enesco, ,with
"whom .in..a gala Paris _coficert -he
played Bach’s Double Concerto, while
the great Pierre Monteaux conducted
the orchestra.

Although Yehudi made public
appearance at the age of as
soloist with the San Francisco Or-
chestra, he has been very carefully
guarded from the dangers which may
overtake a child prodigy; -he spends
six months of every year in absolute

members

as

his
seven,

4.retirenrent-with his family near Parts,

where he studies. Last summer, how-
ever, he traveled six thousand milés,
including a trip to the Riviera, where
he could swim, and to Salzburg, where
he could hear the music of Mozart.
The critics have been unstinted. in
their praise. Perhaps the greatest com-
pliment one can pay him, however, is
to say, with the Washington Star (Feb-
ruary 14, 1931) thate calling Yehudi
Menuhin a prodigy is “no longer fair.
He is infinitely more:than that. He is
one of the: greatest violinists of _this



ness and: of the argument ofthe Cave



felt |

Jeans declares that there is “abundant
evidence that God is the:pure mathe-
matician, and the universe his thoughts;
but later he says, “The universe is
God’s thinking.” These cannot both
be quite the same,thing and Dr. Steb-
bing commented, “Tn. my opinion it, is

[ day.”

His program on January 27 will be
as follows:
I; Sonata in D Minor, opus 121,
Schumann

‘the spring

election. of the May Queen

College Authorities and Undergrad President

‘Express Views on Decision to Hold May Day _



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Majority Pleased That Undergraduates Resolved to Carry on
Traditional Celebration in Face of Depression;
Enthusiastic Co-operation Urged.



BUDGET REDUCED BY

LEADERS’ GENEROSITY



By.a vote of 268 to 67, the under-
graduate body indicated its desire to
Day
spite of all murmurs to the contrary.
that

have Big May: this spring in

Thirty-three people said they
would not be in it if it were given.
These figures were the result of the
hall vote, taken, because enough opinion

was not represented at the meeting of

the Undergraduate Association held
for that purpose.
Harriet Moore, presiding at this

meeting on January 6, pointed out that
Only two objections could be made to
May Day: one based on the depression
and the other on the work involved.
The budget for this year has been
fixed. at $13,000- with- $4200. returnable.
This reduced’ budget, less than that for
1920, has not been cut on the side of the
pageant. It was made
cutting the printing jobs, but princi-
pally beéause Mrs. Collins, Mr. King,
Miss Petts, Miss Kitzelman
alumnae who are coming back as
helpers--have-refused to: accept: salaries
for their work. The
schools,- which ~ usually
groups of students,
about attending this year.

possible. by

and

preparatory
send” large

are enthusiastic

~The minimun: amount-of work for

those participating will-be two periods
a week of dancing. Mr. King will give
fhe three traditional plays; and the
plays in the cloister and on the greens
will be done by the students. Students
will a'so find opportunities for work on
the costumes or on the various com-
mittees.

The . discussion . following . Miss
Moore’s--analysis-of-the-factors enter:
ing into an opinion on-May Day cen-
tered chiefly on the question of the
amount of awork involved. The most
telling remarks made were those of
Virginia Hobart and: Helen Belt, both
of whom were in the last big May Day,
stressing the amount of fun which the
students have in being in May Day.

Mrs. Manning

I am very glad that the undergradu-
ates have decided to give May Day.
While I have no doubt that big May
Day performance results in ‘somewhat
less acadetfic work being*done between
vacation and the end of the
year than in ordinary yeats, my experi-
ence has been that the work for May
Day is. fairly well distributed. among
the student body and does not fall very
heavily on individuals. I know that the
experience of taking part in a_per-
formance of such real: beauty and his-
toric interest is one which no Bryn
Mawr alumna who had it: would be
willing to have missed, and I feel fairly
confident, therefore, that the ‘present
undergraduate body will be glad that
they. undertook it. It seems appropri-
ate in this year that the production of
May Day should be simpler than it has
been in the last two performances, and
I myself believe that the total effect
depends. more_on-thesenthusiastic_par-
ticipation and successful team play of
the whole student body than on any
other one factor.

Mrs. Collins

The questions on May Day for imme-
diate decision by the undergraduates after
mid-years are over are the number and
choice ef the plays to be given and the
In.1920 five

Mr. King
Mr. Samuel Arthur King is in charge
of the plays. He will give a detailed
interview to the News when his plans
are more completely organized..
Miss Petts
Since it is a Bryn Mawr tradition
to have May Day once every four years
1 am glad that the students believe in
carrying out in an emergency the nor-
mal schedule of events as far ‘as pos-
sible. I think we all agree that in
giving May Day there is one thing
that it will
be as befits charming and character-
istic of “Bryn Mawr's best efforts as
May Day always has been.

that-we must be sure of:

in its usual manner: that is, there will
be required classes for Freshmen. and
Sophomores, but the work in classes
will consist for the most part of danc-
ing. .Aside from. varsity swimming and
basketball and possibly tennis, lacrosse
and feneing will be the only sports reg-
ularly carried on.

consists of the procession which _ jn-
cludes the queen’s court, all dances,
players and village folk. The green is
the scene of the danciig, tumbling: and
booths for food.

H. Moore, ’32

In voting overwhelmingly in favor
of giving May Day the student body
has assumed the .r€sponsibility for
carrying it through. They-must-realize,
and I think they do, that the initiative
in this matter comes from them, They
are asking Mrs. Collins, Miss Petts and
Mr. King to help them, not vice versa.
Now it is their business to co-operate
inthe work the fullest of their
ability,.for the success of May Day
depends on each one doing her part,
no matter how small it may be, volun-
tarily and without waiting to be urged.

[ ani sure everyone realizes these
‘facts and everyone is eager to get
started on May Day.

Miss Park

May Day is always met, I take it,
with a somewhat divided*mind. The
work which must underlie that leisurely
procession,’ through Pembroke Arch
affects faculty or student,
who is hoarding time for some other
use, “and everyone~-but—a —gamrbler
cringes before the risk of having the
whole structure topple over through the
chance of a rainy day. But in the
succession of student votes the assets
of May Day have always outweighed
its liabilities in the end. The interest
and experience of preparing the great
pageant, and the final exciting beauty
of the performance reward even the
central committee. And as a by-prod-
uct, every four years the college has
repeated its® contribytion to the few
beautiful and distinguished spectacles.
“of America.

This year not only the usual pros and
cons stood ready for active service in
the discussions but the problem of the
advisability of such an enterprise in
such a year was added. This serious .
question made it necessary for the di-
rectors of the college to express their

to

everyone,

The work .
of the physical education department*
will be carried on as much as possible.

The physical educa-
tion department has charge of ,the
-pageant—and-the-greens.—-The.-pageant.....p.



every afternoon to go through the:
tomb between seven and nine. These
people take a very natural attitude
towards it rather than a worshipful one.
Lenin’s body lies in a glass c¢ coffin i in
the centre of the building, clothed in
khaki and. covered with a_ blanket.
-Shaw remarked on the inbred-aristoc-
racy which showed so plainly in him.
Shaw, not the government, decided
where the party was to go. -They vis-



atrical set-ups, day-nurseries, and anti-
Continued on Page ‘Three



“Rest, the-|-that- modern physics. show that-a uni-|



i quite clear that mathematical expres-
sions or facts are what the mathema-
tician thinks about, not his thoughts in
the sense of thinking.’ ‘Finally, he
stresses the urgency of getting rid of
anthropomorphic notions, yet making
God a mathematical colleague is the

most._anthropomorphic conception ever |.

put forth, and one totally unsustained
by evidence.
“» Eddington, though he too supposes,

~~ mind may Plausibly be inferred,

2. Sonata for violin alone in. A
NOE assssveincionsinesi saiwanit J. S. Bach

3. Concerto in G Minor, opus 26,
‘ Bruch
the Eaghaplenne —scescscxscsesseapeetascecenaacss Ravel
Guitarte -©.. La Ronde des Lutins............ Bazzint
Caprice AAV sissies Paganini



Professor De Laguna Honored |

~Professor Grace A: De Laguna was,
at the Christmas meeting, unanimously
elected vice-president of the Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical
Association, for the Coming year. Pro-
fessor Whitehead, of Harvard, is the



retiring president of the association.

| masques were given.



plays, two short ones and two
In 1924 six longer
plays (one by Alumnae), two short plays
and one masque were given while in 1928
only five longer. plays (one by the Thorne
School) and two short plays were given.
This reduction in the number of plays.
proved very satisfactory. The one longer
play which has been given at every May
Day and without which May Day_can-
not be imagined is Robin Hood. The

was written by-Elizabeth T. Daly, |
Ip gwhoylieeted the May Days of 1910

Getiowt sa roae two

longer

judgment first, for the financial respon-
sibility goes back to them; they must

the preliminary expenses, but also, as
in any other college enterprise where
our good name ik involved, meet any
deficit.

May Day has pete. paid for itself, ,
and twice, in 1920 and again in 1928,
it contributed its relatively large sur-
plus—in the first year,to the endow-



student activities. The directors of the

Continued on Page Two



not only advance the sum needed for »



Lment-fund,and-in-the second to various





“taken to-mean-that_the majority ‘of
produce and participating in May Day far out-
which will be made on their time.

As a result we can now-deftnitely assure inquirers that we will have
We can also be sure that a great majority of the college
the success of May Day. The experiment of

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The Decision of the Student Body

Last week saw important decisions on the part of the administration

and of the student body.. On the one hand, the final word on the con-

tinuation of a Bryn Mawr tradition was left to the students, and, on the

- other, the students proved their attachment to this tradition by voting
for its continuation. The meeting of the trustees before Christmas, after

deciding that to have May Day this year was Tiot only a feasible~but-a

wise plan, as far as college policy was concerned, ‘concluded with a sig-

nificant statement : “The trustees will abide by the decision of the student

body,” Granted that it is the studerits who do most of the work for May

all fairness. be consulted as to the dis-

Day ; granted that they should in

posal of their.time in the spring: such a statement is,
important reassertion of administrative faith in the reason and respon-

sibility of the student body.

_ A second vote of the students regarding

in spite of the favorable expression

Objections were voiced: this fall, based principally on the-advisability of
- The decision of the trustees was the

argument which convinced most of

. Association discussion hinged, not on the points of wisdom
amount of work involved. The result of the

vote to determine the strength of the negative feeling may safely be

but on the question of the
tages of co-operating to
weigh the extra demands

Big May Day.
will be working with us for

devoting only the second semester to May Day
us in an effort to heighten the co-ordination and efficiency of its con-
duct in the future.” Two charges*then rest upon ts next semester: to do
in_one semester what other’ student bodies have done in two, and to

justify the responsibility which the t
by our. decision.

nevertheless, an

May Day was taken because,
of opinion last spring, a good many

The Undergraduate
and policy,

the waverers.

the students believe that the advan-

practice is being tried on

rustees gave us in agreeing to abide



We Point with Pride

The announcement: by Miss Park in Chapel before Christmas vaca-
tion that students were to be allowed to have radios in their rooms was
received with pleasure by a large majority of the college. A few have
taken advantage of it to buy radios during the vacation. This: question,
discussed frequently among the students, was brought up publicly in two
letters to the News asking for permission to-have radios or victrolas.
The question was immediately discussed, in a News editorial, and subse-
quenily brought up in the College Council.
radios was made and announced shortly afterwards.’ We feel that the

_ effecting of this close co-operation between the students and the adminis-
tration is one of the most valuable contributions which the News has to

make to the college and we are proud

obtaining for the students their reasonable desires.

The decision in™favor of

that it has worked so successfully in



In Big May Day year it is especially necessary that the grass be

green and somewhat upright. The
May Day contribution to concentrate

L 4

students are urged as part of their
on keeping to the walks.



bee

Contribution . Acknowledged
by Unemployment Relief



January 4, 1931.

My dear Mrs. Chadwick-Collins:

On behalf of Mr. Cyrus H. K.- Cur-
tis and the Board of Managers of the
United Campaign, may I express to

_ you, and through you to all who con-

“tributed, ‘our tremendous appreciation
of the fine gilt made to the campaign.
by the faculty and staff, the under-
graduates, and house employees of
Bryn Mawr College.

The spirit which actuated this splen-
did. contribution was. what made our
Undertaking so singularly successful.
_In its early stages we had considerable



doyit as to whether the cri :
the situation could be brought home to
the community with sufficient emphasis
to make possible the realization of our
.goal. For a time, the response lagged.
But as we neared the end of the cam-

paign, the pledges piled in in such

_ fiterally tremendous volume as com-

pletely to swamp our recording force



push this important element of the
work through with dispatch, or to hew
to our’ policy of maximum economy,
and chance that our contributors would
not only assume the conditions to be
as I have indicated them but also ap-
prove our effort to keep costs down,

I hope you have the means, and will
adopt them, of conveying. our hearty
appreciation to all who participated in
the generosity of Bryn Mawr College.
I would not présume to single out any
group for particular thanks; but I am4
bound to say that the spirit shown by
the undergraduates is especially ap-
pealing. .

It is understood that the one thou-
sand three hundred and eighty dollars
collected by Mr. Vaux and sent directly

to Bryn Mawr College, and that the
‘total amount is therefore three thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-two
dollars and seventy-four cents. This
will be noted. The cards were, at the
time, turned over to us by Mr. Vaux
as so many individual contributi

‘We shall, however, be pleased to-re-
gard the total contribution of your in-

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+te—United-Campaign_is_to_be credited |



The Piller
of Salt

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Overheard in the Shower (not to be
confused with eavesdropping).

A: Isn’t it just too thr-rilling about
May Day? I’m sure I shan’t be able
to sleep a wink.

B: Well, frahkly, there are lots of
things I’d rather do than trip around
a green - indefinitely.

A: Why, that’s why I came fo col-
lege. To me, Bryn Mawr is May
Day.’ Oh, I can hardly wait.

B (wearily): Have these three years
seemed so awfully long?

A (not hearing): And what fun it
will be to’ knit daisy-chains!

" B (gloomy but resigned): I'll prob-
ably be on the properties and have to
get the oxen,

A (to sound of splashing): It was
so nice of those gentlemen to say we
could have it.

C: Well, it. wasn’t the financial sit-
uation which worried me anyway. But
I'm afraid for my work.

A: But haven’t.you heard? (Tri-
umphantly). All the professors have
promised to lighten up. Maybe we
won't even have any examinations.

4. C- (earnestly): But do-—we--want to

sacrifice our work? That, it seems to

me, is the question.

A: Don’t you see? The college
can’t afford to lose the publicity. Why,
people, come thousands of miles to see
May Day. (another thought) And -if
we let it gd, somedne would snap it
right tp. Then what would we do?

B: Rest on our laurels, no doubt.

C: Well, I voted against it, but of
course I said I'd do.a minimum amount
of work for it.

B (chinning self on shower rail): I
voted for it, because I. had a féeling
we'd have it anyway. Still, they might
let me be the dragon...



Disarmament Discussed at
Foreign Policy Luncheon



The Foreign Policy Association of
Philadelphia held its forty-eighth lunch-
eon-discussion Saturday at the Bellevue-
Stratford Hotel. The speakers of the
day, Sir Norman ‘Angell, author of The
Great Illusion and The Money Game, and
Mr. Joseph T. Cashman, National
President of the Civil Legion, had as
their subject-the problems of the Dis-
armament Conference. Sir Norman
opened his speech with the premise
that one object of national defense was
to protect trade, commerce, and eco-
nomic independence, and in thisthe
accepted policies of modern nations
have lamentably failed. War is inevi-
tably fatal to these interests both for
the victor and the conquered. The old
policy of armaments was to keep one-
self so much stronger than one’s neigh-
bors that they would not dare to at-
tack, Obviously by this method the
security of one nation means the
weakness of another. Parity is as im-
possible_a Solution as absolute equality
inv military force is impossible to meas-
ure,

The solution suggested by Sir Nor-
man is the creation of a Strong arbi-
trating power: “to do for the society
of nations what we have done for the
‘society of individuals,” that is, to cre-
ate a police force and a judge.

Mr. Cashman spoke next and chose
as his topic an attack on radical
pacifism, It is cP€a¥, he said, that the
United States must continue to work
toward the establishment of an inter-
‘national amity and understanding as
she has done in the past: The ques-
tion is shall we go as far or farther
than she has in past conferences. He
pointed out that the powers of Great
Britain and Japan have increased forty
per cent. and eighty per cent. over the
United States in the relative armament
standings since the establishments of
the Vincent Bill ten-year program. ”
survey of world affairs at this time
shows a vefy dangerous situation fac-
ing any nation which attempts to set
an example in disarming. War in
hina and Japan, revolt in India, seri-
ous economic depression all over
Europe and America are a definite
barrier to any such gesture on our
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and 1914, Every year requests are re-
ceived for the “Bryn Mawr version of
Robin Hood,” however as Miss Daly
has never had it published Bryn Mawr
has the privilege of being the only place
where it is produced. Other longer plays
which have been given are the Lady of
the May, given in 1900 and 1924 ; Pyra-
mus and Thisbe in 1900 and 1906, the

‘Arraignment of Paris in 1900 and 1928;
the Hue and Cry After Cupid in 1906,
1910 and 1920; a Midsummer Night's
‘Dream, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1924 and 1928;
the Old Wives’ Tale, 1910, 1914, 1920,
1924 and 1928; Noah’s Flood, in 1914;
the Nice Wanton, in 1920; the XI Pagean
of Jepthe, 1920; Alexander and Cam-
paspe, 1914 and 1924; the Woman in the
Moon, 1928; the Masque of Flowers,
1906, 1910, 1920 and 1924. The short
play which has been given at every May
Day is St. George and the Dragon.
Immediately after the plays are chosen
tryouts will be held. Any student who
has her merits and who has not been con-
ditioned in. the last semester may try
out for any part she wishes.

The May Queen is selected by vote
of the undergraduates and should be
chosen before March first.

Dean Devotes Chapel
to Job-Seeking Seniors

Even Those Not Immediately
« ~-Interested Advised
to Register.







Mrs. Manning’s chapel last Tuesday
was of particular interest to the sen-
iors and the graduate students who
are planning to get jobs upon leaving
college this spring. “I want to urge
| those students who are not returning
to college to begin making plans for
next year,’ said: Mrs, Manning. Any
girl who is planning to try to get a

with Mrs,. Crenshaw who has charge
lof the Bureau of Recommendations.
Of course you ‘cannot expect positions
to fall into your lap these days, but
very often interesting things will turn
up at this time of year and if you have
registered at| the Dean’s office you
have just. that much more chance of
getting the job. You need not even
be wholly dec in exactly what you
want to do to register but if you let
the office know what you have in mind
and then put] down the names of one
or two of the faculty who would best
be able to: give you a recommendation
there will be less delay when the ref-
erences come in next summer. It is
impossible fot Mrs. Manning’s secre-
tary to give an adéquate answer to the
personal ‘questions that always appear
on these reference blanks, and unless
there is some way of having the de-
sired information filed at the office
there may easily be a delay dangerous
to you in securing the position. This,
of course, applies to any students ap-
plying for any kind of job.

“The situation of the college grad-
uate trying to get a job,’ went on
Mrs. Manning, “is much less -advan-
tageous now than it was a few years
ago.” ‘There are many trained workers
applying and the criticism that often
comes back to a college is that it-does
not equip a-girl for any kind of spe-
cialization in a technical or a profes-
sional’ line. Professional proficienc’,
of course, requires more training after
the general background of college and
there are two main difficulties to giving
any sort of a technical training at col-
lege. In the first place technique is
only acquired by strentoug and con-
tinued repetition and as soon as you
let up on this rigorous practice you
lose what little proficiency you have
acquired, so theoretically it would be
only the last term of your senior year
which would be of benefit-to the stu-
det entering directly into business.
The second difficulty is that ‘it is really
impossible to learn two techniques at
once and the purpose of college is to
subjects, therefore you cannot expect
it to be the kind of training that will
put you ahead as soon as you enter
business.

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Academy of Music
Thursday, January 14, at 8:15, the
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CONTINUED FROM, ‘PAGE OND
college at their meeting in December
after much talk, on the whole agreed
that the Bryn Mawr: May Day was in
the category: of valuable recreations,

that the final decision should be as
always in the hands of the students,
but that for their part they preferred
to see it kept in its place in the four-
year program of Bryn Mawr: Most of
the directors felt that a postponement
or cancellation of the pageant would be
a mistake, not only for the college it-
self, but for the friends of the students
who .take part, the schools and the
many people from near and far who
look forwatd to its rare but regular
appearance. They went on to vote
the usual sums needed for preliminary
expenses. These they advised should
be kept to a lower figure by cuts pro-
posed which would not affect the stand-
ards of the past.

The meeting of the students which
acted on the questioaw of giving the
May Day pageant had this solid
ground, therefore, under its feet.

I believe the question of the interrup-
tion in the college work in general and
in the work of the advanced and honor
students in particular can be carried to
the door of the dean’s office and left
there safely. Our attitude toward the
college work will be very tender, for,
to speak seriously, no one can doubt
where the great interest of.us all lies;
but if it is safe to judge from past ex-
perience, the work of preparation is
heavy only for a few people, and the
rush season is a short. one. There is
one: general gain for the. students this
year. Without increasing the burden
of any individual I think it- will be
possible, and indeed necessary, for the
students to take on more of the more
interesting parts of the preparation for
the pageant, because more nearly then
in any’May Day since the first one it
will be a purely-college product. If we
can decréase the liabilities of May Day
and increase its assets we shall all re-
joice that the students voted last week
to-add 1932 to the May Day dates of
the past. i

Miss O’Brien Talks on
Skiing and Rock-Climbing

Miss Miriam Eliot O’Brien, who
graduated from Bryn Mawr, spoke on
Friday, the 8th of January, on “In the
Alps with Ropes and Skis,” and illus-
trated her lecture with slides. She first
spoke: about climbing one of the eight
peaks of Monti Rosa, fifteen thousand
feet high. She climbed this one spring
with a guide and a porter to the Mar-
gherita Hut, which is the highest sleep-
ing place. in Europe. They started
early in the morning, which is easy
enough to do, since the huts are too
uncomfortable for much sleep, on skis.
Sealskin strips fastened to the bottom
act as brakes against sliding back-
ward, and scarfs tied over their berets
and formed protection
against the wind. Earlier travelers to
the Margherita Hut had: broken in the
door and left a hole through which the
snow had piled two-thirds of the way
up the hut, -Although making beds
was difficult, water for the soup was
piled up conveniently beside the stove.
During the season} July to September,
each hut-has-a-keeper...The altitude. of
the Margherita Hut requires that it
have three keepers to take.turns staying
there.

Miss O’Brien told attout rope-skiing,
the difficulties of keeping constant dis-
tances betweén two people, of both
turning at the same time, and of steer-
ing between crevasses in the glaciers.
In the summer the glaciers are openly
broken up but in winter the breaks
are snowed over... One can usually get
over crevasses if one is going fast
enough. 5
_ Miss O'Brien ended with a talk and
pictures “of rock-climbing, going up
cracks by wedging the right elbow into
a crack and drawing the right foot up
to a foothold, while the left hand ‘is
“clinging to slight discolorations on
one holds the rope high, leans wide
and runs *down, -but on ice it is less
simple because the rope is fastened to
a knob cut in the ice and is likely to
slip off. One of Miss O’Brien’s climbs
was made by her for the first time in
one day, and had never been done by
a woman before,, although Gertrude
Bell and two guides had tried but been
caught in a storm and forced down
after being roped together for fifty-





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‘Dr. W. P. Remington Gives
Interpretation of Religion



The Bryn Mawr League was fortu-
nate enough to secure the Right Rev-
erend William P, Remington, Bishop
of eastern Oregon, for the address in
chapel last Sunday evening. The sub-
ject of the address was in the fact
that we do not realize what religion is
Dr. Rem-
ington pointed out that the doctrines of
Christ are more modern than we are

in this day and generation.

ourselves and that in following him we
are leading a hfe of High adventure
and of Love that is the foundation of
a man’s happiness.
“Do we understand what religion
is?” began Dr. Remington. -Have we
not thought of ‘it as a vindication of
rightéousness and a justification of
wrongdoing? ‘There is that quotation
‘that “the righteous shall flourish like
a green bay tree,” but you will find
that it is all “bunk.” It is not easy
to do the harder right and it is the
people who get by with the easier
. wrong who get the plums in this Tife.
The fact that the innocent suffer and
that they are meant to suffer is shown
in the book of Job. As a. modern
author pointed out in his recent book,
“The Pathways .to Certainty,” there
are four distinct means of getting at
the many-sided truth. The first of
these is through’ authority, second, in-
tuition, third, reasoning, and fourth,
experiment. The most noble creed for
a-human being would certainly be to
“seek the truth come whence it may
and cost what it will.”



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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB

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was too large to be completely illus-
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systems of this period. It is interesting

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mainland and throughout the islands
and Asia Minor, none is found in the
extreme north, near the Black Sea, thus
proving conclusively that the lines of
intercourse during this time passed
from Gteece to Asia Minor by way of
the Aegean Islands rather than through
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Dr. Stebbing Refutes ,
Metaphysical Physicists



CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

recognizes that good and evil are not
relative to physics and hence~fails to

use the term God. Eddington draws

from his interpretations the conclusion

that physics based on determinism

meaning causation imust be given up,
and that caprice is a characteristic of

physical happenings. From this point

of Dr. Stebbing
physics becomes itnpossiblé

Miliken, the American scientist, takes
exactly the opposite view, and rightly
stresses. the fact that science cannot
get on without postulating the reign of
law. It is curious that Eddington
cannot see, as Miliken did, the incon-
sistency of a totally free universe with
his own scientific work. |

Dr. Stebbing herself does not accept
e.y that everything in the
universe is fundamentally mental facts,
She finds it a curious and interesting
fact that the majority of physicists are
idealistic and ascribes it to their in-
creasing tendency to discuss time and
place which inevitably lead to
physical considerations, though

view, suggested,

meta-
they



are not themselves atways aware of

the dividing line. Nor does -she find

any evidence for or against a “deter-

ministic-scheme™ or.what.is the point

at issue. Roughly, determinism would
mean that given S has the property P
now, then S is a member of a system
such: that if everything else remained
unchanged, S has the property. P now.

“It does not follow,” concluded Dr.
Stebbing, “from the fact that they are
all considerable. scientists that what
they say in idle moments is worth lis-
tening to. If Jeans had had the least
training in metaphysics, he would see

that metaphysics differs from all other |

sciences in that there is ao test—all that
is required is to think.clearly, and this
clearness is obtainable only by analysis.



Miss Ely on Shaw

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE



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party found the criminals living with
their families in a settlement resem-
bling a village, working, feeling it no
disgrace to be there, and though there
were few guards and no bars the pris-
oners. were too content to run away
and many of them stayed on after
Shaw had inter-
The
former was very quiet and smiled sel-
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had religious ideas in back of his char-
acters but Gorky denied this. Stalin
granted them a fong interview of two

their term was up.
views with Gorky and Stalin.

. hours and twenty minutes, was very

quiet, discussed England with under-
standing, and when Lady Astor asked
him when he was going to stop killing
people, he answered when it is possible.



Picasso Exhibit Explained
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

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are typical

* abstract arts, while literature, painting

(except for a few forms such as cub-
The former
arts create through an illusion an or-
dered paralle] to nature. The abstract
arts do not make use of nature in that
way. They’simply aim at making a
new order, perhaps unrelated in appear-

vance to nature, which will-not act-as a

substitute for reality, but co-exist with
it.

In the two paintings by Pablo Picas-
so now inthe Common Room of Good-
hart Hall -we have two excellent ex-
amples of this struggle between the
representative and creative powers of
the artist. Both create. to a certain
degree;-but. in one, —the attempt to

- create through the means of a study

of a young boy has limited the artist,
while in the other the forms might all
well be fictitious. Actually for a pic-

ture of the latter-sort-Picasso—usually-
built an interesting platform out. of.
. cardboard and

then pasted different
shaped flaps of cardboard projecting
from this flat surface. Thus, by using
different light sources on different
parts of the composition he was able
to record in paint the creation in card-
board and light which was before him.

In any case the pictures are there to
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be judged by the character of the thing
they portray but by their own char-
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whether you like the character as
whether you respect it for being strong.
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“family are the invalid mother, a good-

for-nothing” uncle, Robert, an even
more good-for-nothing son, Will, and
two sympathetic but helpless” sisters,
Geraldine and Evelyn; and these are
trying to keep up the fast rotting plan-
tation. The only spark of life and
energy is the tenant girl, Patsy Tate,
who, with her father, dreams of what
she could do with all the land that is
going to waste. She makes Will fall
in love with her and together they
start the farm. going again. The fam-
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tenant girl, try to marry Will to a rich
Charleston girl. Although they fail in
this, they do. manage to separate the
two by filling Will’s mind with dis-
trust. Having removed the one influ-
ence that could have saved their house,
for the sake of its name, they go from
bad to worse. Uncle Robert commits



suicide, Mrs. Connelly dies of the shock
and Will, seeing. light at last in the
brings
back Patsy Tate as his wife. The sis-
ters, still clinging blindly to a name
not justified by circumstances, leave the
house rather than share it with the
tenant. girl. Tht tragic note. is hinted
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stuck. in the mockery of the Christmas
dinner in the second scene, and carried
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find. they have driven Evelyn and
Geraldine from their home. The end
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Connelly has escaped near. dissolu-
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