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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA:, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934

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Class of 1938 Unanimously Confirms sy.
Acclimatizing Value of Freshmen Week



Interviews, Receptions, Parties, Teas and .Wyridham Picnic
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Accustom Freshmen to Encountering Difficulties

of Beginning College

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SUBTRACTION OF ONE

DAY SPEEDS WEEK UP



The real and practical. object of
‘Freshman Week-is to give the new-
comers a chance to get settled, ‘and,
at the same time, to keep them from
getting bored. Whether this object
is achieved or not is a matter of per-
sonal opinion. This year, however,
Freshman Week was a complete suc-
cess. That is to say, the upper-class-
men who were back had a glorious
time and lost their hearts to the class
of 1938. Now only this disturbing
question remains: did the freshmen
enjoy meeting the various members of
{ the upper classes, the college authori-

ties, and attending the teas, and other

welcoming functions?

Alveady the new arrivals have been
accosted with such questions as, “How
did you like Freshman Week?” or
“Didn’t the time drag dreadfully?”
The answers to these questions were
surprisingly enthusiastic and all in
favor of Freshman Week. .It may
have been that the freshmen were too
polite to admit the dreadful truth, but
that seems improbable.

The most general opinion the fresh-
men expressed was that the week did
not drag. That they felt this way is
probably because the college decided
this year to shorten Freshman Week
by twenty-four hours and to begin it
on Thursday. This was done in re-
sponse to the criticisms of other
classes, particularly of the Sophomore
Class, who feel that their week of get-
ting settled seemed unnecessarily long.
Apparently the subtraction of one day
has solved the problem. Many of this
year’s freshmen said they would not
have had the week one hour shorter.

The busiest place was Taylor Hall.

There, every day and all day, Dean
Manning and President Park received
the freshmen and sometimes their
parents. Since we do not know what
went on in these two sancta sanctorum,
we can only describe the happenings
on the outer side of the doors. To
begin witk,;-some member of the yel-
low-ribbon-committee, composed of the

heads of the Self-Government Associ-,



Dean Manning Speaks
On Changing Courses



“After President Park opens the
college, welcomes the students, and
gives the principles of the college
year, I follow with the dry details
of registration,” said Dean Manning
in chapel on October third. But
these details, she explained, are nec-

_., essary for the functioning of our
rinciples. The exceedingly short
ear at Bryn Mawr makes it imperd-
tive that work begin at once with a
ush which probably dismays the

“‘reshmen. Classes cannot proceed,
however, until the number of students
enrolled in each has been definitely
settled. Because of the large num-
bers of Sophomores and Freshmen,
and of their tendency to get through
the required courses as quickly as
possible, these courses are greatly
overcrowded and enrollment is espec-
ially difficult this year. As it.is now
too late to spend much time in dis-

| ¢ussing course changes, Mrs. Mann-
ing urged that only necessary altera-

“tions be madé, and that these be

made. at once.

Some changes cannot be avoided, of

course, on account of changes in

_ schedules or in courses made by the
faculty fen the summer. Thus,

Pd

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Dr. Herben is giving a course in Old
English instead_of Literature of the
‘Middle | Ages, Since Miss Glen has







tury Literature, and abandoning



on criticism. Such developments
st alter the plans of a few stu-

eli Mrs. Kirk is giving
~Glen’s course in Seventeenth)

ation, the Undergraduate Association,
Athletics, and choir, was stationed at

all times outside‘each office to talk to
the freshmen and introduce them to
Miss Park or Mrs, Manning. Though
this job involved a lot of waiting
around on benches, it seldom became
tedious because conversation always
flourished. After asking and forget-
ting each other’s names several times,
the Upperclassman and the Freshman
would soon begin comparing notes on
anything from their reactions to music
to their most embarrassing moments.

Besides the numerous appointments,
each day contained some kind of enter-
tainment. The first night every hall
had a party for the freshmen. These
hall parties were rather sketchy af-
fairs, involving tepid ginger-ale and
pretzels, The freshmen stood up one
by one and rapidly said their names.
It was all rather delightful, however,
because everyone was beginning to be-
come friends with everyone else. - The
other teas given by Mrs. Manning,
Mrs. Collins, and Miss Park were on
a larger scale, both as to food and as
to people.

One of the pleasantest occasions
during Freshman Week was the picnic
at Wyndham, which came on Saturday
night., After a delectable meal of
chickest¥ealad, coffee, and buttered
rolls, the freshmen assembled in the
sitting room to be taught the college
songs. As a reward for their efforts,
they had the privilege of hearing the
upper-classmen sing the Freshman
Lantern Hymn, cantabile con senti-
mento. After the music came a series
of speeches by Dr. Leary, Mrs, Col-
lins, the President of the Undergrad-
uate Association, and the President of
the Athletic Association. The eve-
ning ended with everyone, Freshmen
included, singing “Thou Gracious
Inspiration.” .

Of all the days of Freshmen Week, |
Sunday was most inclined to drag, but
that is mainly because all the fresh-
men were looking forward to Miss
|Park’s reception, which came late in
‘the afternoon. Here again there was
‘food. But also there were two
speeches, by Miss Park and Mrs. Man-
|ning, which made this gathering dif-
‘feernt and apart from the others. A
little was explAined about the history
of Bryn Mawr and the splendid Quak-
jer traditions of self-sufficiency and
itolerance. Sunday ended with the
'Freshman Chapel Service, which was
conducted this year by Dr. Andrew
i Mutch.

When the upperclassmen returned
on Monday, Freshman Week ended
with rather a bump. The smoking-

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Flexner Lecturer

Mr. John Livingstone Lowes,
who last spring accepted the in-
vitation of the college to deliver
the Mary Flexner lectures this
year, has been obliged to with-
draw his acceptance because of
illness. He has written the
president—“It is to me a bitter-
ly disappointing situation. . . .
I mean to go on with John .
Keats; I couldn’t drop him now.
And if, later on,-you-still-wish
me to come and I can-be ready,
I_ shall welcome the opportun-
ity.”

The public lectures and con-
ferences are a demanding task
and for the lecturer of every
year an invitation well in ad-
vance of the actual dates has
been necessary in order to al-
low time both for preparation
and for the readjustments of
academic and other engage-
ments to fit a six weeks’ resi-
dence at Bryn Mawr. For these
reasons it will probably be im-
possible for the college to name
lecturer this year.

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College Officers for 1934-35





Mawr League; Susan Morse, 35
and Peggy Little, ’35, President of the Undergraduate Association,

Reading from left to right: Betty Faeth, ’35, President of the
Athletic Association; Joan Hopkinson, °35, President of the Bryn

, President of Self-Government ;



in its Requirements



Chances for Individual Work in
Special Field Are Given
to Able Student



Honors work as“interpreted by the
different departments’ varies slightly
in each case, but in general’ this type
of work may be defined as a means
of removing the more capable stu-
dents out of routine work and giving
them a chance to work individually
jn a somewhat more spedialized field. |
The student in all cases gathers ma-,
terial herself and is aided according
to her needs by conferences with her
professor.

Honoxs work changes more or less
in each department from year to year.
according to the desires and capabil-,
ities of the students. In Philosophy,
for instance, for the last few years,
the custom in honors work has been,
for students to work in a field on)
Philosophy that is connected with,
some other branch ‘of learning, as, |
Logic and Mathematics, or Aesthetics |
and Art. This'year the only honors |
student in Philosophy is not working!
in one of these border-line subjects, |
but in Metaphysics, in the very heart ;
of philosophy itself. In any case, |
this work offers an opportunity to!
students to do more intensive and!
more specialized work in her field, ac- |
cording to interests and abilities.

When the History department first |
started to give honors work, an at-|
tempt was made to have all the stu-
dents work in the same field. This!
method was found unsatisfactory, and!
was changed until now the choice of
period and professor is entirely up|
to the student herself. She is ex-|
pected to make reports, and is exam-|
ined, not on the whole province of |
History, but on several specific. per-|
iods, including her own. |

Honors work in Economics offers |
the. student a chance to work indi-
vidually along the lines in which she
is interested and to escape from rou-
tine work. Some students take this
work as a preparation for their later)
careers; others take: it as a hobby,
trying to get all they can from some-
thing that is of great interest to
them. The choice of the kind of hon-
or depends entirely upon the inclina-
tion of the student. Some have chosen
Finance, others, as has occurred this
year, have chosen Russia for its con-
temporary interest. -

The Latin‘ department considers
honors’ work a means of taking stu- |
dents who have been. proved more ca-
pable out of the ordinary routine and
regular three-hour grind in order to
let them do more specialized and in-
dependent work according to their
ability. This is also the purpose of
the new comprehensive system. The
type of Latin honors varies with the
students’ interests and talents: some
years the general trend is toward a



Honors Work Varied |

\their nature, causes,

: (ps
|parrots under the microscope.

Dr. O. Leary Becomes
New College Physician



Dy. Olga Cushing Leary, who suc-
ceeds Dr. Wagoner as Acting, Physi-
cian of Bryn Mawr College, gradu-
ated with honors from Smith College
in the class of 1926. Dr. Leary, whose
home was originally in Boston, then
attend Tuft’s College Medical School
in Boston, where she graduated mag-
na cum laude. After taking her de-
gree from that college in 1930, Dr.
Leary became an interne in the Phil-
adelphia General Hospital. In 1932,
she was made Assistant Chief Resi-
dent Physician in chargeof , the
Nurses’ Infirmary at the Philadelphia
General Hospital, and’ continued in
this capacity for one year. Taking
care of the health of the 600 nurses
at the hospital. wa¥ work very simi-
lar to Dr, Leary’s present job at Bryn
Mawr College, because the nurses
were, for the most part, young. There
was more sickness among them, how-
ever, than there is at the college. They
had more reason to be sick because,
said Dr. Leary, they were much hard-
er worked. After twelve hours a day
on t
very anxious to go out and take a
walk. Consequently, they had much
less opportunity to be in the fresh air
than the average college student.

Last winter, Dr. Leary worked at
the University of Pennsylvania as a
volunteer assistant in the Pathology
Department, doing research, on smooth
muscle tumors. Pathology, we have
discovered with the aid of Webster,
is the science which treats of diseases,
progress, and
symptoms.

Dr. Leary worked lastspring in the
Philadelphia zoo, doing histological
work on arterio-sclerosis. This entail-
ed studying the aorta of monkeys and
Pa-
thology, however, is Dr. Leary’s chief
interest, and it is her ambition to re-
tire from active practice some day in
order to study it. at leisure.



College Calendar

Thursday, Oct. 11. Dress
Show, sponsored by the Barclay
Shop. Common Room, 4.00 to
6.00 P. M.

Saturday, Oct. 13. French
Oral. 9.00 to 10.80 A. M., Tay-
lor Hall. L

-Varsity Hockey . Game _ vs.
Germantown Cricket Club. 10.30
po

Sunday, Oct. 14. Sunday
Evening Service, conducted by

Dr. John W. Suter. 7.30 P. M.,
Music Room.
Monday, Oct. 15. Memorial

Service for Dr. Marjorie Jef-
feries Wagoner. 5.00 P. M.,
Music Room.
Tuesday, Oct. 16. Current
Events lecture by Dr. Fenwick.
7.30 P. M., Common Room.
Thursday, Oct. 18. Dr. Velt-
man on “Materialism: Ancient
and Modern.” 4.30 P. M., Com-

heir feet, they were not usually-



mon Room.







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50th Academic Year
of College Is Begun



Miss Park in Opening Address
Says Belief in Liberty Is
Basic Policy



INTELLIGENCE RESPECTED



“In its almost fifty years of exist-
ence, Bryn Mawr has consistently rest-’
ed its academic policies and its train-
ing of students as members of society
and as citizéns on two things: The
first is a genuine confidence in and a
respect for the human _ intelligence.
The second is a belief in liberty and a
conviction that life carried on in an
atmosphere of liberty is fruitful and
equally that life carried on in an at-
mosphere of réstraint is sterile,’ Pres-
ident Park stated in her opening ad-
dress on Tuesday, October 15, at the
beginning of the fiftieth academic
year of the College. Yet, neverthe-
less, outside our little world we see
those things for which we stand be-
ing seriously challenged by both con-
servatives and radicals: alike.: A
strange similarity between the views
of these two groups is found in the
fact that both groups wish to draw
us “into their worlds of propaganda,
of deliberate violence, of the autocrat-
ic rule of the small group complement-
ed by the obedience of the majority.”

Miss Park went: on to say that the
traditions which we represent are
those of most American colleges, and
that for all of us there is the same
duty. We must show ourselves to be
active fighters for a practical creed,
not passive and academic believers in
a pretentious one. Political liberal-
ism, the political outgrowth of helief
in human intelligence and human free-

they themselves are not. One cannot
keep opinion forcibly unified when
courage is dead. We may find no lead-
er for our own party, but we can
support everywhere men and policies
which bear the liberal stamp. We
must understand clearly that when
the use of intelligence and the right
to liberty in America is challenged,
we ourselves are attacked. No mat-
ter whether we can be of service of-
fensively or defensively, we must ap-
pear. For under a dictatorship an
endowed liberal arts college for wom-
tions to be closed.

In order to thus defend ourselves
we must look to our curricula and see
whether they are suited to the changed
conditions. As far as Bryn Mawr it-
self is concerned, the permanence of
the essentials of the college has been
implicit and the core of its character

Continued on Page Four



Awful Truth Revealed
About Merion Roof



The new roof on Merion may not

comes to visit us, nor even astonish
the sightseer who comes to us on his
way from viewing the splendors of
Independence Hall and the Betsy Ross
House. But it is a constant source of
wonder and delight to those of us who

‘dwelt in these halls when a roof on

Merion was not taken for granted at
all.
to the Great Flood, when Merion had
only a part of a roof to its credit.
Two years ago, to be more specific,
the wrath of God was vented upon the
building—and its inhabitants. With

as had never been seen before by Bryn

the path to the hockey fields were
shattered and blown to bits. The col-
lege at large, which was caught sin-
fully sunning on the green, ran for
shelter. But for.Mer@onites there was
no asylum. As they, cowered in their
rooms, one of the chimneys collapsed
and let water gush through the roof
in a great shower through the build-
ing. The fourth floor was filled with

was deluged; the second floor was very
wet; the first floor was damp. All of
Merion rushed screaming from one
floor to another, moving pieces of fur-
niture, two by two, to dry spots. And

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dom may well be dead, but certainly

dazzle the eye of the cosmopolite who

There was a time, dating back _ .

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Bryn Mawz"College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. Fige old spinsters, one without a
OST ae : tooth,
| Sitting in a circle, telling of their
| _«* youth, ,

|They are grey and wrinkled as the
bare winter earth;

Like frozen winter twigs snaps the
shrilling of their’ mirth.

They haven’t had a husband nor a
work well done,

But only empty tea-cups and the
remnant of a bun.

—Ironic Irene.



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BARBARA Cary, 736

LAMENT FOR THE EXQUISITE

Flippant child with fuzzy head,
Pretty maid, neat and new,

Joy of the ¢ampus, belle of the’ ball,
Pray, what shop fashioned you?

Peck and Peck or Best and Co.,
Macy’s or. Marshall Field,
Was it there that they knit your cash-
mere top?
Did Blum’s your tweed skirt yield?

Ah, maid, that sheen will soon wear

off,
, Your clothes will sag to mould

IN PHILADELPHIA.



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‘of its Philadelphia run, which consti-
tutes an achievement for any play. It
is the famous “bundling” comedy of
a Hessian laddie and a Puritan maid
that enlivened Broadway all last win-
‘ter; .and. is worth seeing after the
‘Orals or at any other time.
Erlanger:
tation of Mrs. Quincy Hollis, with



Themselves to a studious atmosphere, 4!m@ Kruger and Staino Braggiotti,

Ages and ages old.

Sweaters of orange and yellow will
fade,

‘appears to be an other Freudian af-
‘fair with sex repressions bursting out
|into the night and breaking up fami-
‘lies right and left, as sex repressions

Broad: The Pursuit. of Happiness
‘strikes merrily into the fourth week .

Ernest Truex’s presen-

jn our young lives. The only lower moment occurred the first day the

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Whom the Gods Destroy

Ilow well do we remember those extremely uncomfortable mo-
ments of our first appearance upon the scene of these hallowed cloisters !
The first night that we spent in Bryn Mawr, torn from the bosoms of
our loving families and thrust into a mob of strange females who one and
all inquired of us what our name was, where we had gone to school, |
where we lived, and then left us to our own devices, was a low moment |

NY TIME

Dearest Abbie,

I always write you when I feel ex-
alted, when I feel the sap of life rush-
ing torrent-like through me and mak-
\ing me quiver like an aspen. Sun
makes me feel that way; also sleek
\roadsters and thick cream. You see
so’ little really thick cream nowadays
—the kind that slithers and oozes over
your baked apple. Why, my dear, I’ve
taken ta café au lait in desperation.

But, Abbie, I must tell you why
I have renewed interest in life. There
is the most dashing postman that
brings the mail to the hall every
day. I literally curdle inside of me
when he (sweeps the letters into his
mail-bag all in one gesture. . Imagine
it! And such a gesture, Abbie! Just
like a musketeer sweeping off his
hat; kind of makes a swish, you know.



He must have some old French stock

upper-classmen returned and fell enthusiastically into each others’ arms|in him, And I’ve cut my hair, Ab-
with raucous cries of glee, while we observed this charmingly girlish | bie; It’s in a Wind-Blown. It feels
spectacle scornfully from a eorner. Within a week we were embroiled oe exciting on wild. autumn days.

‘ : : on’t you think Postie (that’s. what
in what seemed to be an endless whirl of nothing but work: the moment}; oan him to an soil aa

assignments were made wa& rushed in terror to do them,. while trying |charmed? He will say, “There is a
to do the daily work for Freshman English, Latin and other courses | girl with verve and spirit!” Gracious,

with daily assignments all at the same time; and it was not long before |! feel like the heroine in a plot. I
: \ought to be called Tess or Natasha or

As the autumn leaves iver brown; | have been wont to do ever since Freud

Your tweedish skirt wilf pale to grey, dragged them from their peaceful ob- |

|Scurity. We had hoped that war
‘babies and Austrian lovers had passed
into oblivion, but it would seem that
they are forever to be with us,
Music
Orchestra Program ,
Friday, October 12, at 3 P. M.

‘Brahms. .Symphony No. 8 in F Major

When on it the grey walls frown.

Woe, woe for the moulded curls,
Woe for complexions, too!

Woe for the figure, toast of the town;
Woe, child, woe is you!

—Bird Fabia





THE BATTLE | Wagner eee ee ...“‘Liebesnacht”
She sat at a library desk. It was' (Tristan und Isolde)
the first time she had ever sat at one, VA8NET ....-- +s eeeeeeeees Excerpts

- Third Act of Parsifal

and she felt very much like the dog!. ;
Leopold Stokowski conducting.

in the manger. Should she lean for-|
ward into the stall-like compartment, Movies

all the better to see and concentrate,| Boyd: Don’t miss The Barretts
or should she recline backward with! of Wimpole Street, playing only until
her nose. pointed at the ceiling in the Friday. Norma Shearer, Fredric
attitude of a big business man.
tried the first course after several mo- Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning,
ments of pencil chewing and spread-|and Mr. Barrett, respectively, and the
ing out books and papers in store-like movie is just as good as the play,
array before her. But soon she felt|which is saying a lot. Friday, Out-
shut in like a horse with blinders on.| cast Lady begins, with Constance Ben-
The green lamp seemed to crane down |nett, Herbert Marshall, and Mrs. Pat-
in the most inquisitive way at the! rick Campbell, and sounds as though
tentative scratchings she had made it should be swell.

on the bare white page. It was no; Aldine: George Arliss in a very
use. She pushed with her feet, and! amusing comedy, The Last Gentleman,
her chair turned back with alarming | with Edma May Oliver, Janet Beech-

She | March, and Charles Laughton are

we felt (a) that we could never get through all that work, (b) that |
going to college was practically an impossible undertaking, while |
vraduating at some remote point was well beyond the realms of proba-
bility, and (c) that we did not particularly want to stay here and do;
all that work anyway. ,

Having lived.and thrived through what. will soon be four years”
of college, and having just succeeded in passing the worst of all bar-|
riers that threatened our degree, the German Oral, we wish to make al |
few remarks to the Freshmen gleaned from our own rather doubtful |
experience. In the first place, it is amazing how our work got done at:



‘the necessary time by the simple expedient of doing whatever: was,

most pressing at the moment. In reading courses, such as Minor Tis=|
tory, which have reading quizzes every two or three weeks, we concen- |
trated violently on our history when the time for the quizzes came
and temporarily let our daily work go. Cuts are an extremely helpful |

means df avoiding classes when. it becomes imperative to do so, and |you feel), so good night, duckie,

. eae ahs . . |
were provided by a wise administrative policy for that very purpose. |

No one can possibly do all of her work all the time, andthe difference | MIRANDA.

between college and school is that at college the undergraduates are |
not expected to be prepared for every single class they attend all | bilities that our only aim is to become individualists.

winter, There is no disgrace attached. tg saying occasionally that you

are not prepared when called on, although a consistent pursual of this |

policy will undoubtedly bring down the wrath of the gods upon the
shoulders of the most innocent,and unsuspecting.

In the second place, those Freshmen who will take it upon them-
selves to frequent the smoking rooms when possible and speak kindly
to the upper-classmen in their midst will soon find themselves fully
fledged members of the college. The good old days of violent class
spirit and cool treatment of all Freshmen. that used to prevail in most
American colleges, are, we believe, a thing of the past everywhere; and
all timid Freshmen should please remember that the shy and shrinking
upper-classmen live in mortal terror of your slightest frown,

In the third place, you will find quite seriously that you will grad-
ually grow to understand the policies of Bryn Mawr, the meaning,
purpose, and results of the education it is giving you, and the way in
which it has developed out of its traditions. When you do under-
stand all this, and when you gather what it means in the eyes of the
Alumnae to have a Bryn Mawr degree, you will be in a position to
decide exactly how much you like Bryn Mawr. No one can judge a
place whose roots are so much in the past and whose ever-growing
aims are so much in the future as are Bryn Mawr’s by seeing two
weeks of its present.

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They First Make Mad

~ ~—~=“'§ the last undergraduate, we are the-flower of young womanhood:

We doubt if ever there was assembled such a large number of par-
ental, community, and school prides and joys as we present. We are

- quite sure of the fact. The more we look upon ourselves objectively,
tlie surer we become that we were always meant to be a decoration

to Life. We ffid ourselves charming company: we have the poise and

’

the ability to express ourselves with brilliance under any conditions,

- at breakfasts, at dances, at exams, at bull sessions. Yes, we are quite

beyond reach of the rabble : we keep late hours, we are healthy, wealthy

| and wise, and we are afraid of nothing, unless it be admitting our



superiority in so many words. We have had such a superior upbring-
that we know that such admissions are not proper. eee

Instead, we look at ourselves subjectively and observe what very

‘people we are. We are even more certain than our adinirers

ll go far by dint ‘of our brains and our beauty. [n addition,

muraged t cultivate our own particular pos





rapidity, emitting a prolonged screech, er, and Donald Meek; it is all about
as,it went, which echoed and re-echoed a crotchety millionaire, who copes
from one set of presidents’ portraits to with his grasping relatives in the most
the other. ‘‘Oooh!” breathed the girl, admirable manner. z

a little white in the face and short of; Earle: The Richest Girl in -the
wind. She looked furtively about her, World, with Miriam Hopkins and Joel
wondering who had seen her rather McCrea, Light romance and quite en-
perilous journey.. But nobody stirred tertaining.

from her book, Only one girl sat star-| Fox: Anna May: Wong and George
ing at a chandelier in search of the, Robey in a spectacular revue, entitled
Divine Light. She sighed relief. She Chu Chin Chow, which we understand
saw that people had their feet on their everyone is rushing to see with great
desks. _She did likewise, set her yel- despatch. It is, as might be suspected,
low pad determinedly on her knees, oriental, and very elaborately staged.
and poised her pencil ready for ac-| .Karlton: Wake Up and Dream,
tion. No action followed. The strain with Russ Columbo, June Knight and
on the calves of her legs took all the Roger Pryor. Another musical com-
concentration from her task. She edy croons its way into the arms of
shifted. Her spine had an unfriendly several million welcoming females.
meeting with wood. Again she wrig-| Stanton: Fhe Age of Innocence, the
‘screen version of Edith Wharton’s
‘famous novel, is expertly acted by
Perish the Irene Dunne and John Boles, under

, ee : |the direction of Philip Moeller, with
rept , ta ; saree Pee ’
thought, of course, that we should become rugged individualists ! NO, ' 7 sonel headll: ‘Halen “Waltlay. aan

we tet have complete freedom to-express ourselves in words and it paura Hope Crews in the supporting
‘actions; and, anything or any reason that does not fit into our pattern jeast. It is heavily recommended as
ean be avoided. We are certainly attractive enough and self-sufficient 'one of our better movies,,and charac-
enough to afford being thoroughly individualistic. : . oS
os ‘as F : ‘ *- . ° ever a .
Brasesetnts we think and do the right things, ‘and we associate with-a;-°"" wcare, : on a é i ay Dee
a . . |

‘chosen few who also do and think rightly. In college, we have a small | ocal Movies
: yer : : | Ardmore: Wed., Dick Powell and

}group of friends who constitute for us the people whom we should | ; :
‘Ie ee oS of ob Lacs ae doula ek ‘Ruby Keeler in Dames; Thurs. and
| know. ie first year course 0 our favorite department should defin- Pyi,” Housewife, with Bette Davis and
itely be a required course instead of ong or several of the stated George Brent; Sat., Dragon Murder
requirements, : | Case; Mon. and Tues., Diana Wyn
It is splendid that we are so satisfied with ourselves. as Bryn Mawr yore hood nbets cig Phe
‘ .. . |Thurs., Jean Harlow as the Girl From
|iudergraduates and that we think and act for ourselves. But it IS | Missouri
ivery bad that we sometimes are too satisfied and too conscious of OUT; Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Lesli
‘own individualism to think or act with consideration for others. Our,Howard in Of Human Bondage; Fri.
| view of life is too subjective for us to realize that the rest of the col-|and Sat., Treasure Island, with Wal-
lege, as the rest of the world, is interesting for the main and simple | lace Beery and Jackie Cooper; Mon.
| and Tues., George Bancroft and

| hoo A his . . o a ies : :
fact that ib does think and act in.a different way from us and ow ccecen. ack in Hlmer and lee

something glamorous like that. It
makes me quite languish with delight.

And Abbie, darling, I want to tell
you of my newest charity. I am now
giving ten per cent. of my allowance
to the Home for Decrepit .Deerhounds
and Patriarchal Pekingeses..who have
served their term in the lap of luxury
and redundance. Isn’t that splendid?
As you know, I am a lover of our
Dumb Friends.

Oh, Abbie, Abbie, life is so full of
heart throbs and wild sweet pangs!
I hope it is that way for you, too,
Abbe. Je suis un peu bouleversée, to-
night ‘(you know, there.is nothing like
a foreign language to express what

Rapturously,

Continued on Page Six











| particular clique, and that there is, for that reason, no virtue in CON Wed. and Thurs., Ann Sothern and _

seiously trying to be a great individualist. We have to live with each | Robert Armstrong in The Hell Cat.

‘other in college and probably shall have to live and work with a great | Wayne: Wed., The Defense Rests,
‘many people outside of college, who are even less like us, and it is With Jack Holt, Jean Arthur and Nat
only to our advantage to be able to appreciate their a eeeate and a tied in Phe-Gedle Powe ald
‘thereby get to understand their point of view, even if we cannot SY™-'and Tues. Take the Stand, with
.pathize with it, Sueh_a tolerant_interest need not-destroy our charm | Thelma Todd and Jack LaRue; Wed.
‘or our individuality in the least: the more people we know who are'and Thurs., Romance in the Rain,

different from us, the more is our fund of experience and knowledge With Roger Pryor and Heather Angel.

enriched. : : ' Haverford, Pa.—At Haverford Col-
We are certainly intelligent enough to understand other people and ‘lege a century back “when a student



ing enough ourselves to be at ease with most people. We can, if we) yond the prescribed limits, it is to be
choose to take our advantages, really be a decoration—and possibly an ‘istinetly understood that he is not
influence—in Life.
community if, as ruthless individualists, we want to live our own life
‘end have our own way. But we can go quite far if we learnto live
with all of the charming undergraduates that we first noticed, when
we looked about us more objectively. .We do not suggest, herewith a peti a ances the administra-
panacea, but we feel that we must think about our problem and recog- tion, They Were wise acted Sar
nize the consequences of our choice, if we are to enscohce ourselves in| yj
a rut of s individualism. ee easily

We cannot revolutionize even our own ‘college:
permission for that purpose.”







So, #e are indi: | terized in all the papers by at least .

Pendleton; Thurs., Fri, and Sat., Har- ©

'ta appreciate their more interesting characteristics, and we are interest- ‘obtains liberty to extend his walk be--
‘to enter or even go to any house what- |
\ever, unless he shall have obtained

Undergraduates were forbidden to i
enter the kitchen because of ice-box : 4



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Varsity Hockey Wins |
Victory Over Ursinus





In spite. of the usual downpour of
“fain and contrary to our expecta-
_ tions, the Varsity .hockey team’s
showing against Ursinus on. Satur-

~ day gave promise of a season more

, Successful than usual. Ursinus hand-
led the ball on the muddy field with
# much greater ease and accuracy than
' Bryn Mawr, but lacked the push to

score more than one goal. The Bryn

Mawr forward line was a bit ragged
F jn the beginning, but settled down to
play a more direct and intelligent
game than we have witnessed in sev-
} eral seasons. Play on the whole was
' slow, but with more practice and a
drier field, future games should be
less awkward and faster.

The defense, on+the other hand,
played a steady game .in the begin-
ag ning, but gave way toward the end,

allowing Ursinus several easy chances
{ to score.
made of Leighton’s work at.the goal
{ - guard position. Playing on Varsity
m4 her first year, and aided by the backs,
her defense of the cage was remark-
ably calm and steady. %

All in all, the future looks unusu-

\ ally bright and Saturday’s game with

the Philadelphia Country Club. will,

we hope, give us further proof for
f our first impression.

f URSINUS BRYN MAWR
] TOVREA cee 8s T, Wi saan: Taggart
TPOMAN ., 6000s ES EE ee Larned
| P PANCIG -. ss oss ES Cree Cary
Godshall--os<+ Mie eee Faeth
OOH: sivas lsW... Brown;C. GC.
POVEO! er. vs Poh. ee Bridgman
MOON. cay secs ae. A ee Kent
PPOCriUK oc, cee 1D bee Evans, S.
| SMONtON- 54% iss PO ia Bucher
PAGNOYO f65 66s LD vias Jackson
s—~Leighton <=... fas Bardeley

Score:—Ursinus 1, Bryn Mawr-4,
Goals:—Ursinus — Roach 1, Bryn
Mawr—Larned 2, Cary 1, Faeth 1.



In a game played on Monday af-
ternoon, October 8th, the second var-
sity vanquished Germantown Cricket
Club second team by the score of
13-0. Although the score was absurd-
ly high, the team showed the effect
of not very long practice as a unit.

_ There was too much following after
passes and too frequent interchang-
ing of positions with resultant lack
of co-ordination. On the other hand
the team had a most potent attack
which produced plenty of goals. Be-
fore the game was over every single
member of the forward. line had
scored at least once. During the sec-
ond half the team showed signs of
fatigue and took ten minutes to score
a single goal. They then launched
forth under the leadership 6f Gimbel
and Harrington to score seven goals
in ten minutes. Other members of the
team who played well were Hasse and
Bakewell, both Freshmen who show

. possibilities for future play on the
Varsity. Comment upon the Bryn
Mawr defense must be postponed un-

“ til a later date because today’s game

= gave them little chance to show what

' they can do in a really close contest.














3 Line-up

BRYN MAWR MANHEIM II
TEV ROD st cans Ri Weae vans V. Baker
: (B. M.)
me arrington .. Rich. os..i Farrar
(B. M.)
Ciel biases. Cc. F. ... Mrs, Bryce
4 Bakewell ..... A eae Geans

em MRSS 2... ia DeWeese
oP. Evans ..... R. H. .B. A. Stainton
(B. M.)
a Cc. H..... Mrs. Willis
. L. Hemphill .. L. H. .... E. Hearne
m7, oeltger ..i<. Ru Bees ile Gemmi
“E. Scattergood L. B. .. Zimmerman
: (Mrs.)
BIE ors ee Ges cio cries Lewis

.. Subs. Bryn Mawr—Pierce for Ray-
- for Seltzer; Seltzer for P. Evans.



Among the Seniors on the Varsity
Squad are Faeth, Little, Bucher,
Hemphill, Fairbanks, and Kent, Cap-
tain for 1934. Harrington, M. Mor-
gan, Wright, Raynor, C. C. Brown,
M. Bridgman, Scattergood, Taggart,
Bennett and B. Cary, Manager, are
the Juniors. The following are the
Sophomores: Jackson, Seltzer, S.
J Evans,.E, Smith, Colbron, Ballard,
Gimbel, Harfenburg, Pierce, and
§ Larned. ~ The list of Freshmen is
i) ~probably not yet complete, but among
the players are Bakewell, Hasse, Car-
Petroff, Leighton, and P.

re el

q eh |

Special mention should be



News, of the New York Theatres Not, which is called, for obvious rea-
It is with a cry of joy and several Sons, College Sinners. ‘Here we have

| blithe shouts that we once again seize’ four charming laddies being English
the opportunity of holding forth at and very Oxonian from morning-to

length about the New York theatre, night in the peaceful setting of their
The season in New York has gotten Oxford “digs.” But at an early mo-

off to’a roaring start, plays are blos- ment in the play, sex rears its ugly’

soming forth in long-dark theatres all head, and from then on, the setting
over the place, and, in fact, not only could scarcely be called peaceful, al-
blossoming forth, but maturing into|though everyone remains both English
hardy perennials that augur well for|#d Oxonian. There is a very hilari-
a /flourisHing Back-to-the-Theatre |OUS moment when the most attractive
movement among those’ who claim | of the four boys is discovered by an
that the theatre died with Jowrney’s|4Mxious; proctor considerably | entan-
End. gled in the wiles of a beautiful blonde.

In what we hope will be contemptu- The boy’ 1 filled with very English
ous scorn of. the sheeplike critics, who | ©onsternation and nobility and the girl
bleated loudly at their discomfort in ayant es
being exposed to the great open spaces the audience is, to put it. mildly, filled
of Radio City in exchange for the|With mirth. This is a very poor play
comfortable throngs milling around g and nothing of any great merit should
two-by-four bar, The Great Waltz jg|be expected from it. But since the
holding the bridge across which the |2udience and the actors both realize
renegade play-goers are wapidly re-| this fact from the beginning, everyone
turning to the fold. It is unquestion-|S¢ttles down — ee
ably the most beautiful operetta that | 800d time is had by all. In fact, a
we have ever seen. All the music is, 2004 time is had by all in almost every

composed of the . original Strauss theatre on Broadway just now, so that

waltzes, the singing is well worthy | Ve feel the season promises to be a
of the music, the actors are exceed-|@PPY one.

ingly attractive and able, and the cos- |
tuming includes everything from sol-|
diers replete in gorgeous red, pink,’
gold and blue uniforms escorting'|
maidens in Viennese



Honors Work



Continued from Page One

attired in all the glory for which Vi- ary aspect. The system of honors
enna was once famous. But the;work in English is much the same.
greatest achievement of all, the chef A student who displays special abil-
d’oeuvre, the coup d’état of The Great ‘ity should not be held down by class
Waltz, is indubitably the peculiar be-'youtine. Various periods are chosen

havior of the scenery. Apparently by the students, and are studied by
stable and secure sets vanish into thin 'them vith as much or as little guid-

air on the slightest provocation, while ance from the professors as they, in-

more or less bewildered actors dash qividually, require.
madly about the stage trying ses haps A student taking honors work in
on a fleeting Bush and get a ride. This, | F :

F . : 'French does two things: first, she
however, is not all!) The best is yet! .

’ . igains a broad general knowledge of
fo_come, At the grand snd_ glorious! ++ whole—field—-of—Hreueh—Hteratur
moment of the ¢limax, when the Blue : _
Danube is thrilling the audience, when
young Johann Strauss is seen in the)
very act of becoming famous, wher
the whole cast is waltzing violently
around the stage, before the audience’s
startled eyes slowly but surely the th
orchestra emerges from its accustom-' Wt as many.or.as. few conferences
ed place in the pit, and with all flags ®S @”¢ necessary for her.

tail one man or a group of men, chos-

professors. She studies the back-

Danube, it rolls up, out and over and|"* soi
settles itself in the very back of that literature, so that when it is in ef-
stage which once it had admired from fect, the latter will be modified.

below. There is something terrifying, | Honors work in Archaeology serves
yet withal edifying, about this loose;somewhat the same purpose as
behavior on the part of the scenery,|French honors, in that it gives the

but The Great Waltz is’ well worth! student the opportunity_to—study—an-

seeing if only to watch the world dis-'extremely specialized province, and
integrate and recompose itself before also to gain a knowledge of the whole
your very eyes. ‘field. The specialized work would

We have also with us a soon to be tend to be narrowing, were it not for
famous successor to Of Thee I Sing, the fact that the students are exam-
which bears the somewhat deceptive ti- ined on the whole subject, not merely

tle of Merrily We Roll Along. It might on their own province. Some gradu-.
be assumed that this title would indi- ates go into museum work, others go.
cate a fully-fledged musical comedy, right into the field, but most of them |
or, at least, a satirical revue, but such need extra training, before entering’
is not the case. The play is a deeply Archaeology as their life work. Col-,
ironic study in the non-realization of lege does not give vocational training, |
youthful hopes, and begins when its but the student receives a basis on,

characters are middle-aged and more which to work.
or less degenerate. From that sordid,

to their college days, showing the loss jects is suggested from which the stu-
of a few ideals and a consequent ad- gent chooses one on which to write.
vance in disintegration at every stage. Ryen a criticism may become crea-
The climax at the end, when the only tive, if new explanations are worked

member of the group with any real out, and new facts brought to light.

talent, and the one who was to be- By honors work students are re-
come the most thoroughly disillusioned | jo, 564 from the field of lectures so
of them all, ends his Valedictory ad-' shat they oan study for themselves,

dress at college by quoting a few OF | with conferences and guidance from

Polonius’ lines from Hamlet, begin- |the professors as necessary.
ning with “To thine own self be true,” a ob admlited toh
is unbearably ironic in the light of| Students are not admitted to hon-

the audience’s knowledge of his later °°S work in Mathematics unless they
life \have completed at least two units of

cs sid ts eek ean evenings, #dvanced work, and have a command
on the New York stage is provided by Pf French and German. Mrs. Wheel-

: nae er considers that the most important
the English edition of She Loves oe saieannent of at Ge ck ctan a ale

ident taking only one-half unit of
honors work must study something
with a variety of sources which have
‘to be correlated and qualified by the
student. The requirements for hon-
ors in this subject are very rigid by
nature of the subject itself. Being
one of the oldest fields of learning,
its aspects are interdependent.
elementary work and the advanced
are divided by such a sharp line that
the ordinary honors requirements are
not enough to admit a student to this
|type of work. In addition to qualify-
ing for these, the student and the pro-
fessor together decide whether the
student is capable of gathering her
material and handling the -great



Memorial Service
A memorial service will be
’-held for Dr. Marjorie Jefferies
Wagoner, Bryn Mawr College
physician for the past ten years,
on Monday, October 15, at five
o’clock in the Music Room. Pres-
ident Park is to preside, and the
speakers include the following:
Dean Manning, Dr. Earl D.
ond, Professor of Psychiatry,
sae the University of Pennsyl-
vania School of Medicine and
Graduate School of Medicine;and
Dr. David Riesman, Emeritus
Professor of Clinical Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania, and
Professor of Medical History,
Graduate School of Arts and

Sciences. . ° ‘

is found true, the student takes hon-
ors work. She is then entirely on
her own, reading, getting material

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'with true feminine indignation, while

embroidered study of Roman Philosophy; in oth-'
skirts and blouses, to grand duchesses ‘ers, almost entirely toward the liter- |

‘and second, she studies in great de-|

,|en by her from a list of representative |
and interesting men offered by the

‘ground of these men, working alone,
The com-|

flying and all hands playing the Blue | Prehensive system will offer the same |
‘idea of the general study of French |

Jess The honors work in History of Art.
point it goes back through the years jg largely creative. A variety of sub-.

The |

amount of reading by herself. If this |-

from a great many sources, foreign
‘and English, and writing with as
little guidance as she can have. Hon-
ors~in* Mathematics give the student
a chance to take graduate work here,
and to be prepared for it elsewhere.

The honors work in the Sciences ‘is
usually individual’ research. In
Chemistry, the students do extra
work. In Physics, the purpose of
‘honors work is to make capable stu-
dents do. work which can be done, on-
ly by independent research, and can-
not be learned in the classroom. Ori-
ginal experiments are performed and
papers written. In this way, a broad-
ler knowledge of Physics is gained.
In Biology, Honors work gives a
chance for students to learn the
method of research and to produce
original work for publication. All
ithe students are not expected to. be-
‘come independent investigators, but
to learn ‘how to do research.
| Although the kind of work -done
varies widely ,in the many fields in
‘which it is given, the fundamental
principle is the same in all depart-
‘ments, namely, taking the more cap-
able students from the stereotyped
'work and giving them an opportunity
‘to do independent work in the field
which interests them most.



Sun spots, the storms on the sun
‘that wax and wane through eleven-
‘year cycles, and three elements of
| weather on earth—temperature, rain-
‘fall and atmospheric pressure—seem
closely connected, according to studies
‘recently reported to the American
‘Meteorological Society.—(IP).

|



| In Peru, Dr. Julio C. Tello, arch-
aeoldgist, has discovered a_ perfectly
‘preserved portion of an Indian build-
‘ing, which he says belonged. to the
ancient Chavin civilization.— (IP)

Radio Concert
On the radio, at 8 to 9 P. M., each

| Sunday evening on the-N,-B:-C;-net=~

work, will be broadcast a series of

eral Motors featuring the most emi-
nent conductors and soloists of the
world. Among the conductors will be
Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the

New York Philharmonic-Symphony;
Leopold Stokowski, of the Philadelphia
Orchestra; Otto Klemperer, of the
New York Philharmonie-Symphony;
Igor Stravinski, Dr. Walter
rosch, Nikolai Sokoloff, of the New
York Orchestra; Werner Janssen, of
the New York Philharmonic-Sym-
phony; Artur Rodzinski, of the Cleve-
land Symphony Orchestra; Artur Bo-
danzky, of the Metropolitan Opera
Company; Bruno Walter, of the New
York Philharmonic-Symphony Orches-
tra; Karl Krueger, of the Kansas City
Philharmonic Orchestra; Eugene
Goossens, of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra. At each concert a fam-
ous soloist will be: heard. Among
thesé will be Grace Moore, Geraldine
Farrar, Lily Pons, Lucrazia_ Bori,
Myra Hess, Maria Jeritza, Richard
Crooks, ‘Lawrence Tibbett, Feodor
Chaliapin, John Charles Thomas, Tito
Schipa, Jascha, Heifetz, Albert Spal-
ding, Ruggiero Ricci, Yehudi Menu-
hin, Artur Schnabel, Josef Hofmann,
Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz, and
"Harold Bauer. Any music lovers will
find this series an opportunity that
should not be missed.



Dr. Herbert A. Miller, noted sociolo-
gist, who was ousted two years ago
from Ohio State University for his
advanced social theories, has been ap-
pointed professor. of political and so-
cial economy at Bryn Mawr _ Col-



lege.— (IP)



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"¥f it amuses you,” replies Sam, calm-

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Miss Flirt Reprinted
__ from Old Tipyn o’

. of all sensations in her life,

THE COLLEGE NEWS _

shies RNa









with glee and they immediately went|time. This year there will be twenty-
jthere. They walked beside a great two students holding Fellowships trom
ob Pond on whose glassy surface were} Bryn Mawr. itself and..twenty-eight

ed the silhouettes of the old! ‘
lpr wits a | working as Scholars. Among these is

received honors this past



\pilgrims are enraptured at the beau-| Etta Albrecht, the Earlham College
‘tiful leafy vault above them and at | Scholar, A particularly noteworthy
ithe flying birds which dart about. And 8roup is to be found in the Mathemat-
|as the girl, stumbling over the neg | Gh 5 ‘of a tree, is about to fall, Sam Thomp- have the privilege of the teaching of|ican Literature for children.”
“ee 99 i ’ ? . eg
ALL RIGHT” PET TERM 1 holds her up with his eager arm | Dr. Emmy Noether, Visiting» P rofes- | book which won the award was Invine-
‘and an “Excuse me, Miss,” full of S0Y, Whose stay at Bryn Mawr is made |jb/e Louisa.
, Miss, of |

Translation of French Article
- from Revue Bleue of 1903
Is Amusing

most significant contribution to Amer-



Fragments translated, for the gen-
eral enlightenment of the American
public, from a French article upon
the American Girl, which appeared in
the Revue Bleue of Sept. 5, 1903. The
words in Italics were originally in
English. et

Miss Maud Stanley 1s eighteen years
old and for the last year she has been
the possessor of a flirt of which she|
is well satisfied. Sam Thompson is an
accomplished young bachelor with

-blue-gray eyes of a size most advan-
tageous for a frank and daring ex-
pression. With an aesthetic pleasure
Miss Maud notices the contrast in
their appearance that makes them
such a handsome couple. Positively
this flirt has completed the excellence

Sodas |

' sipped together have a better taste,

well-known walks in Boston seem quite
new. Together alone at the theatre,
at a restaurant or a music-hall—ac-
cording to the custom of young Yan-
kees—they understand each other in
half-spoken phrases, and the outbursts
on the stage move their feelings in the
Same way.

“Tsn’t it nice?”

“Very nice indeed.”

Often they go off for the day on
pleasure steamers which ply to dif-
ferent beaches and which are floating
‘paradises. The comfort in them is
perfect; vast drawing rooms with pan-
els of precious woods, high crystal
mirors, deep arm chairs of a severe
luxury. At the slightest want elec-
tric buttons call up negro servants,
silent and ceremonious like the men-
ials of Haroun-al-Raschid. When they
start, the passengers, idly stretched

- out on wicker steam chairs, have a

~~ poetical upholder of all beliefs, even lowship, and Adelaide Davidson has

ide oy

.







fairy-like scene unrolled before them.
The sea is like opal silk with tinges
of blue and of gold. They see the
water and the sky only, and they feel
the cordial of the fresh salt breeze.

“You are exquisite,’ murmurs Sam
Thompson.

“And you a very charming fellow,”
replies the determined and self-posses- |
sed voice of the girl, as she slowly lets
the gaze of.her seal-skin pupils linger
on his blue eyes. . . .

Finally the day is over, and the
young people give each other a vigor-

tact and discretion. | possible by a joint award from the

: |
“Miss Maud, your mamma wants)
you in the parlor.” It is thus that.

Lizzie, the colored soubrette, performs}

Mrs, Stanley’s commission.
“All right, Lizzie, I am coming.”
“How are you, mamma?”
“Very well, my dear. I do not see
very much of you.”
“T have had a lot to do; I have been
on some very lovely excursions.”
“With your flirt?”

‘jare Dr. Olga Taussky, of the Univer-'

Committee on Displaced * German:
Scholars and the Rockefeller Founda-
i Among those awarded fellow-
ships or scholarships in mathematics |
sity of Vienna, as Foreign Scholar;
Dr. Caroline Grace Shover, of Ohio
State University, as Emmy Noether
Fellow; * Miss Madeline Levin, A.B.,
Hunter College, and M.A., Bryn
Mawr, as Fellow in Mathematics; Dr.



“Of course.”

“All right, dearie, but I must tell’ A ;

, ‘Research Fellowship at the University
ou that ll be t may
Ne een ce. ny SPC © Chicago, 1928-80, sa Hany Noeth-

that you have lived the life. of a!
young girl long enough!
suitable match has presented itself; |

A perfectly |

Mr. Van der Welt, the banker, asks;
for your hand for his son. He has ten!
millions and you only have six. There!
is no possible reason for hesitation.”

Maud remains pensive for two or
three minutes, and her poetical com-
plexion becomes slightly pale.

Finally she answers “All right.”

Sam and Maud are again in Brook-
line seated beneath a sassafras tree.
They are more silent than usual, after
the first questions are asked.

“How is your dear health,
Maud?”

“Excellent, Mister Sam, and yours?”

Again.an embarrassing silence.
Then Maud rather annoyed:

“See here, Sam Thompson, I am en-
gaged; I am going to marry Sir Van
der Welt.”

“All right; I congratulate you,
Miss Stanley, it is a finé match; I
myself am going to marry my cousin.
The young lady I showed you the other |
evening at the Opera House.”

“ Ah y? af

“Yes, but do you know one thing, |
Miss Maud?”

“What is that?”

“It is that I shall never forget our
delightful flirt.’

“Nor shall I, Sam Thompson.”

Translated by N. F., ’05.

Miss



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‘er Scholar; and Caroline Ruth Stauf-
ifer, A.B., Swarthmore College, and
'M.A., Bryn Mawr, as Scholar of the
| Society of Pennsylvania Women

[1932 European Fellow, is in Russia.

Marie Johanna Weiss, of Stanford
University, and holder of a National

in
New York.

Of great interest to the college are
the varied places of study and re-
search in which holders of the Euro-
pean Fellowships find themselves. Ann
Hoskin, Workman Fellow of 1933, is
in Cyprus, studying its prehistoric
pottery in relation to the pottery frag-
ments found in Cilicia by herself and
Dr. Hetty Goldman, who is the head
of the joint Bryn Mawr and American
Institute of Archaeology expedition.
The 1934 Workman _ Fellow, Maud
Frame, is abroad doing the informal
sightseeing in the Continental gal-
leries and museums necessary for her
thesis and will later go to Oxford
for more formal work. Elizabeth
Mackenzie, European Fellow of the
Class of 1934, will work at Newnham
College, Cambridge, in the field of
17th Century Literature. The Gar-
rett Fellow, Emma Hope Broome, will
also work at Newnham College: on a
problem of Syriac Texts of the New
Testament. Last year’s Fellow in Ger-
man, Mary Chalmers, has left for Vi-
enna on an Austro-American Ex-
change Scholarship for the year at
the University, and Harriet Moore,

The freshman class starting off this
years is not only of large size, but also
of particular interest, for no class has
ever entered Bryn Mawr so variously
prepared. Many of them are here with

Lr

| the aid of scholarships given by the
cannot be altered. Two changes of College or by 1-< Alumnae Regional



As far as material things are con-

Merion has a new roof, paid for by
the College, and that Goodhart has
several new additions given by a
friend. There are new lanterns along
the driveway, and a fire escape for
the, Music. Room, both the work of
Mr, Samuel Yellin, a_ distinguished
wotker in wrought iron; there is also
a garden in the court outside the Mu-
sic and Common Room entrance, Rad-
nor has been given a soundproof ceil-
ing for its dining room, something all
the halls need badly. Last among the
gifts is a portrait of the President of
the College, which is hung in the
Reading Room of.the Library. The
work was executed by Charles Hop-
kinson and donated by the Class of
1898, Miss Park’s own class.



Years and Years Ago

The NEWS seems so inevitable and
necessary a partof college life — at
least;-we hope it does—that it scarce-
ly occurs to the Bryn Mawr student
of today to wonder when and in what
form this paper that appears so con-
veniently at her door each week, had
its beginning. When one does. begin
to consider the subject, in a slightly
bored fashion, one is apt to think that
the NEWS, or its progenitor, must have
been a pretty dull and musty affair,
full of a heavy sense of its duty to
enlighten and uplift. At least, that is
what we thought. In consequence, we
suffered a distinct shock when we cast
our first dull-eyed glance upon “The
Fortnightly Philistine.”

This paper, the earliest forbear, of
the NEws, first saw the light | in
March of the year 1895, It was com-
posed of four sheets, and bore proudly
the motto, “Donec virenti canities
abest morosa.” We don’t quite know
what that means, but it sounds cheer-
ful. The whole paper is cheerful, even
flippant, and seems to have no serious
purpose, not even that of writing up
current lectures. The columns bear

—

‘Many Happ}

an er

,has been struck and Bryn Mawr is the

The ' triumphant birthplace of the anaepes-

tic six-foot sonnet. It is not easy to
foretell exactly where this will lead,

form of the Sonnet will not stop here.
If we have six-foot sonnets, why not
seven and even eight? If the octave
can be in Alexandrines, why not in
|blank verse? or unrhymed hexame-
ter?” The experimental sonnet fol-

recommend this form of sonnet, as it
conveys a considerably larger quantity

in question give a good enough idea
\of the whole:

“You may think that ’tis Hermes in-
spires our song, but it’s no such
thing.

“That deity’s now very much out of
date tho’ he once had _ his
LE ed

Perhaps the merry spirit of the
Philistine is best to be found in its
Books’ Notices—(The Teamster, by
Raise Cain, is a good illustration of
these), and, above all, in the Adver-
tisements which appear in very large
print on the back page. Examples of
these works of art are: “Dropped.

“Lost. My lace in Milton. A suitable
reward will be offered and no ques-
tions asked.” “Lost. By February
Freshmen, 36 hours, in attempts to
understand the Group System as set
forth by the Program.” “Found. A
lucid passage in ‘Lord Ormont.’ If
not called for within 2 days, it will
be returned to Mr. Meredith for Cor-
rection,” and so on, until the convic-
tion steals over us that college humor
forty. years ago was pretty much the
same as it is today.



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Practical, Pleasant



Continued from Page One

rooms became filled with old-timers,
to whom for a while greeting old



such suggestive headings as College
Kerosene “It smelleth of the lamp,”’ |
The Playgoer, Jocosa Lyra, and Local |
Color, which was, in two later issues,
printed in bold red type to express, !
so far as we can gather, the blood-

emphasis, however, seem to be clearly |Committees, or at the cost of no little) thirsty spirit of the class of 1897. The
indicated. The student who is certain sacrifice and financial adjustment by) gitorial. board started out in a big
to meet new and unexpected oncaeid becom! families. It is to be hoped ee and hilarious way with five editors-in-
train going from: Boston to Washing-| tions must be trained not—only to be! these people will be especially deter-| chief. ten mab-editors and five bisihess
ton. Seated opposite each other in clear and logical, but to be alert and mined to get and to give the best | cditors. The confusion that must have
comfortable chairs they slip off into a|inventive. The college must also “do| measure of results.

| A °
: : ‘resulted, we leave to your imagina-
reverie. something more to make her under- | The new faculty changes of the | 4; on. Anoatently only the fittest sur-

The regular motion of the train stand the ways and causes of human | year are already known, but we must vived, for the board simmered rap-
gives a musical suggestion and brings action so that she can work effectively jagain yepeat our welcome to Profes- | idly and silently down to five members.
up to his mind tunes that they. have with other people oe. and it should ‘sor Rogers, of the Education Depart. The Philistine apologizes for its ex-
heard together, but all have new /try to strengthen in her and not ment, after a two years’ absence ; to | istence in an editorial addressed to the
words singing the praises of Miss; Weaken the qualities of persistance Professor Gilman, after a semester in| class of 98%. “We are in very much
Maud Stanley. Suddenly startled by and courage.” | Paris; and to Professor Hedlund, back | tne same predicament as you, 9814.

the ringing of bells at a station the | The college starts the year with a from a year at Princeton as National | w, have our debut to make, and we
youhg man leans forward. full enrollment of 388 Undergradu-'! Research Fellow in Mathematics. |

“Are you well, my dearling; are|tes, three more than last year. The Three of the new faculty members|
Al

ous shake-hand before saying good-
bye.
Once they happen to be on the same



are rather overawed by the momen-
tousness of the occasion. We feel ex-

you warm?” iGraduate School has 89 students, of come directly from Harvard—Dr. "| asperatingly juvenile, and we have an
“Thank you, Sam Thompson, I am; Whom only 30.are non-residents; this fred Cope to the. Chemistry Depart- 5 yprehensive notion that we are going
well.” lis perhaps an indication that there is ment, Dr. Carl Anderson to the Eco- ¢4 be sent packages of metophorical
“All right!” ‘more regular employment and less en-' nomics Department, and Mr. Harold hairpins as a.reproach. to our journal-

“All right” is an extremely Ameri-| forced leisure in the vicinity. Return-
can word with’ many different mean- |ing this year to the Graduate School
ings. are the Workman Fellow of 1932-33,

Spring and summer passed like a/ Elizabeth Foley, who is to complete

dream for Maud and Sam, with happy |her work for the doctor’s degree, and
days together and long talks. Sam|Margaret Hastings and Irmgard tor in English comes Miss Margaret! ,¢ the Lantern’s sublime refulgence.
Thompson, in his third year at the | Wirth Taylor, the Garrett and Otten- Palfrey, of Smith College, and more | . «« In short, 98%, we are all of us
law, is delighted to discuss with such|4orfer Fellows of, last year, respect-' recently of the Branson School. Pro-
a clever and quick opponent as Maud |ively. An earlier scholar and fellow fessor Helson, of the Psychology De-
Stanley. Sometimes, while they are |in English at Bryn Mawr, Honor Mc-) partment, will not take his leave of
sitting in a candy store slowly eat- Cuskor, comes back as scholar with| absence as planned, but will carry out |
ing ice cream from a little pasteboard ;@"_ “M.A. with distinction”—an unus-|his work as usual. Miss Glen is to be.
box, the tourney enters the ground of ,val achievenient—from the Universityin England recuperating from her ill- |
metaphysics. The man, as he should,°f London. Constance Hyslop, Mount|ness of last spring. Miss Laurence
be, is the

champion of pure reason and | Holyoke, 1928, comes to the Graduate | Stapleton, A.B., Smith College, 1932, |
of scientific authority; the girl is the

Wethey to the Department of History jctic pigtails.

of Art. Dr, Howard Brinton, of the; «uy, are, moreover, sadly aware
Mills College Faculty, and Acting that our unpretentious spark of wit
Head of Pendle Hill, gives the course i, pyt a blush upon the chaste brow
in History of Religions. As Instruc-' 4¢ oyr modest muse at contemplation

we. We have our reputation to make
and our permanency to ensure—and
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_The Great Waltz.

“It is with considerable joy that we

_ take the opportunity of recommending

as highly as is humanly possible the

most beautiful operetta, bar none, that

we have ever seen, The Great Waltz.
In fact, we take great pleasure in
setting up our Ieepie yuagment against
the august authority of the majority
of the New York critics, who seem to
have suffered in acute misery. when
turned loose in the wide open spaces
of the Radio City Center Theatre.
We admit that there is a certain feel-
ing of vast and overpowering space
when first entering upon the premises,
but we managed to survive it without
undue difficulty and were lost in con-
templation of the-stage the second the
curtain rose.

The enchanting beauty of the roll-
ing, melodic music, completely com-
posed of the original Strauss waltzes
and presenting an interesting contrast
between those written by the father

._ and those written by the son, is com-

bined with a complete unity of mood,
rhythm and setting. There is, it is
true, very little plot, but in the first
place there is also a debatable ques-
tion about just exactly how much plot
is necessary for an operetta, and in
the second place the slow, leisurely
pace of what action there is, is exact-
ly suited to the mood and tempo of
the music. .

The story concerns the jealousy
that the older Strauss, who is recog-
nized as the “waltz. king,” feels to-
ward his son, the’ brilliant young Jo-
hann Strauss, Jr., whose waltzes
would certainly sweep the country if
his father would permit them to be
played. Through politics in the world
of music and by playing on his son’s
lack of. self-confidence, his father pre-
vents him from taking any positions
as director of an orchestra or from
attempting to have his waltzes play-
ed.. The young Johann, however, is
taken under the protection of the royal

‘ |noeuvres, keeps Johann,



from

Sr.,;
taking a personal appearance which

| he was. scheduled-to.make,.and- has

young Johann take‘his tather’s place
and lead the orchestra into the sweep-
ing rhythms. of his immortal “Blue
Danube.” There is, of course, a love
motif also complicating young Jo-
hann’s ‘life, but that is straightened

out hagpily with the sweeping suc-
cess 0. s “Blue Danube.” ‘There is
someth¥g completely iforting in

the audience’s knowledge, through all
of Johann, Jr.’s, tribulations, that all
will inevitably turn out well in the
end when the “Blue Danube” succeeds
in being played; and when the long-
awaited climax finally comes, the audi-
ence is almost irresistibly impelled to
rise to its feet and cheer lustily to

show its approval,

But the most unusual feature of
The Great Waltz is the beauty of cos-
tuming, settings, and” interpretative
dancing, all of which are perfectly cal-
culated to carry out the romantic
beauty of the music. The curtain
rises on a scene in Old Vienna, which
expresses. in its color and-in the con-
struction of the surrounding houses
all the jollity and charm for which
Old Vienna was apparently deservedly
famed. The choruses are costumed in
Viennese embroidered dresses and ut-
terly respendent military uniforms,
and really exhibit a gaiety and charm
that sets the tone for the operetta in-
stantly.. One chorus follows another,
each more beautifully costumed than
the last, and leads into a climax in
which one of the Strauss waltzes is
interpreted by a ballet as well as any
musi¢e could possibly be interpreted, it
seemed to us, by classic dancing.

The distinctive and remarkable use
of Radio City’s modern equipment in
the way of scenery is an intriguing
but slightly disturbing side of the pro-
duction.
rise on one scene, apparently firmly
settled in the midst of the stage, than
the scene suddenly begins to make a
rapid exit from the midst of the ac-
tors, who walk about during this phe-

No sooner does the curtain,



chaos of vanishing’ scenery resolves

itself into another apparently firmly
esvablished..and beautiful..set, but nat,
The producers appear to! that never again can we look upon

tor long.

have gone on the theory that a change |

of- scene is good for the best of us,
and the audience is kept actually on
the edge of its seats trying to orient
itself to the literally passing scene,
for in no case is a set either repeat-
ed or allowed to stay before the audi-
ence long enough to be more than cas-
ually observed. The great moment of
the play, the climax, when the “Blue
Danube” is practically sweeping ‘all
before it on a flood.of exuberant emo-
tion, is not permitted to pass without
an equally -triumphant _— technical
achievement. The orchestra, from
which not a peep in the way of any
kinetic action has been heard through-
out the evening, suddenly emerges into
the action of the play in an unpre-
cedented manner. Before the eyes of
an incredulous and marvelling audi-
ence, which begins to suspect that per-
haps its pre-theatrical, refreshment is
having a deleterious effect, the entire
world appears to waver, and so- slowly
as to be awfully disturbing, the or-
chestra begins to rise from its lair,
sweeps up and across the stage, and
settles itself in a commanding position
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trolled behavior on the part of the or-
chestra_is ,but..to..explain our. feeling

an orchestra with the comforting cer-
tainty that no matter what else may
happen, the orchestga at least will re-
main comparatively sedentary. We
somehow fee] that such unexpected
scenic behavior on the part of the
scenery detracts from the aesthetic
unity of any play, but perhaps we
will become used to the Radio City
phenomenon. by the time the producers
get ready to transport the entire audi-
ence up to the stage and make them
literally part of the play.

We cannot end without a word of
praise for the acting and singing that
enhances this operetta. Guy Robert-
son, as Johann Strauss, Jr., gives ex-
actly the correct note of hesitancy and
lack of self-confidence that we feel is
appropriate to a real but as yet un-
successful genius. H. Reeves Smith,
as Johann Strauss, Sr., imparts to a
very unsympathetic role a plausible
humanity that makes the audience un-
derstand, if not approve, his jealousy
of his music. And Marion Claire, the
heroine, not only acts but sings with
a sincerity and ability that adds much
to the operetta. All in all, the actors,

the famous music, the costuming, and



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~ Honors Are Asiandhd |

to European Fellows



Especially Distinguished Work

Done in Fields of Science
and _ Classics

‘MISS PARK WAS FELLOW



As Bryn Mawr opens its fiftieth

- year of classes, we become historical-

ly minded and begin to wonder what
famous people have started on their
careers from the College in the last
fifty years. The most-obvious list to
turn to is that of the European Fel-
lows, each of whom in her turn proved
to the College that-she was the mem-
ber of her class whom the college was
delighted to honor and to send to a

foreign country as its representative.

One proof of successful choice of Eu-
ropean Fellows is that Miss Park was
made Fellow the year she graduated,
and in 1922 was elected President of
the College. Bryn Mawr has chosen
most of the European Fellows in the
fields of classics and science; English,
Economics, and History have come
forward only in the last few years.
Most of the Fellows have done several
years of graduate work, usually at
Bryn Mawr, and twelve have the de-
gree of Ph.D. Many of them have
worked at Johns Hopkins or Columbia,
and in Europe at the Sorbonne, the
College de France, Leipsic, Munich,
Zurich, and a few at Oxford and Cam-
bridge. Twenty-nine have gone in for
teaching, nineteen are married, and
five are married to Professors. Four-
teen have’ written and publishé# at
least one book, the latest. of which is
Mrs. Jarrett’s (Cora ‘Hardy, ’99)
Night Over Fitch’s Pond. The earlier
European Fellows were particularly
active; of late, several record that
they are housewives or have no occu-
pation.

The first European Fellow, Miss
Emily Green Balch, ’89, came here
last year with Miss Jane Addams,
with whom she has worked for a long
time, to preside over the conferences
held during the weeks of the Anna
Howard Shaw lectures. Miss Balch
took her degree in Latin and Greek
and did graduate work in the Con-
servatoire des Arts et des Metiers
in Paris, and in Berlin. She publish-
ed the results of her work in France
in 1893; Public Assistance of the Poor
in France. She has done work on
children’s welfare and city planning
in Boston. From 1896 to 1913 she

“was a member of the Department of
!}Economies at Wellesley,

and from
1913 to 1916, Professor there of Eco-
nomics, Politics, and Social Science.
In_ 1915 she went with Miss Jane
Addams to the International Congress
of Women at The Hague, and after-
wards published an account of it with
Miss Addams, antdh,was sent as envoy
by the Congress to the governments of
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Rus-
sia. Miss Balch’s other literary work
consists of having been for a year on
the editorial staff of the Nation and
of having published in 1910 Our Slavic
Fellow-Citizens, and in 1927 Occupy-
ing Haiti, a disinterested report favor-
ing the renewal of Haiti’s independ-
ence. Since 1919, Miss Balch has
been, first, Secretary-Treasurer, and
then President of the Women’s Inter-
national League for Peace and Free-
dom. :

Several of the European Fellows
have done graduate work and gone
into scientific research and teaching.

Sampson, ’91) worked at Zurich and
has published Unusual Forms of
Breeding and Development Among
Anura, 1900,-and A Contribution to
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‘with her husban@ in California.
Miss Mary Bidwell Breed, ’94, stud-
ied as a post-graduate student at
‘Bryn Mawr, Heidelberg, Paris, and
in Italy, and published her thesis on
the Polybasic Acids of Mesitylene. She
held teaching and executive positions
at the Pennsylvania College for Wom-
/en, Indiana University, University of
‘Missouri, and has recently retired as



| Dean of the Margaret Morrison Car-'

negie” School; Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Pittsburgh.

| Helen Tredway Graham, ’11, became
/an assistant in pharmacology at Johns
Hopkins Medical School, after doing

=

|a story of Garibaldi called The Thou-
sand March, which was printed in

'1930 by Little, Brown, |

Bryn. Mawr can boast'.of many of ||

‘its European Fellows being interested
‘in Literature. Mrs, Allinson (Anne
‘Emery, ’92), after being professor
and dean at Wisconsin and. Brown,
became a writer, lecturer, and editor
of the Women’s page of the Provi-
dence Evening Bulletin. The Library
has four of her, books: her disserta-
‘tion, Historical forgeent in early Lat-
in; Greek Lands~“and Letters, 1909;
Roads from Rome, 1913; and Selected
Essays, 1938.

graduate work at Gottingen and Chi-; Florence Leftwich Ravenel, ’95,
cago. She is now’ Assistant Professor | worked abroad in Paris and Zurich in
of Pharmacology at Washington Uni-|Latin and Old French and published
versity Medical School, St. Louis. jin 1906: La Vie de Saint Edmund le
Norah Cam, ’12, did graduate work’ Roi, an Anglo-Norman poem, by Den-

taught in several schools. During the|the French Tradition. .
War she-worked-inl aeroplane factories}; Two of Bryn Mawr’s European Fel-
in England and Scotland. She is now/lows are full professors: Miss Ellen
in the Physics Department of McGill| D, Ellis, °01, of History and Politics
University. -at Mt. Holyoke, and Miss Emily Ledy-
Katharine Dodd, ’14, is now a phy- ard Shields, 05, at Smith. Miss
sician and Associate Professor
Pediatrics at Vanderbilt Medical’ Cults of Lesbos, and in 1926 pub-
School, Nashville, Tennessee. ‘lished Juno, a study in early Roman
Marguerite Darkow, ’15, has taught! Religion.
in various schools and colleges and}
worked for some time as an assistant!
in the Leander McCormick Observa-|
tory. at the University of Virginia.’



Awful Truth Revealed



Continued fromm Page One

in Bryn Mawr and in Rome and jis Piramus; and in 1918: Women and

of! Shields wrote her dissertation on The |'

Marie Paula Litzinger, ’20, is assist: |
ant professor of Mathematics at Mt.
Holyoke.

Sylva Thurlow Harrison, ’22, a very
brilliant student in the opinion of her

bridge. She is now a research work-
er on cancer with her husband in the
University of Sheffield and has work-
ed on Glutathione (cell-respiration)
with Sir Frederick Garland Hopkins.
She has published in the Biochemical
Journal: Secondary oxidation of some
substances of ‘physiological interest;
The Effect of CH, ICO.H on lactic acid
production by cancer tissue; The In-
hibition of lactic acid formation in
cancer and muscle; and (in collabora-
tion with H. H. Bunzell, of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania) The Effec
of acids on tooth tissue. :

department, took her Ph.D. at Cam-'

| then, when the waters spread and
jrose higher as they leaked down to
leach succeeding floor, Merion rose to
|the emergency with basins and ga-
‘loshes and moved the furniture: still
farther from the scene of the dis-
aster. |

Finally the storm subsided, and the
relief workers came into the breach,
lending dry clothes and sitting space
to the refugees. Meanwhile, as is al-
ways the case in the event of great
tragedies, sightseers swarmed to see
the wreckage. They came breaking
into the building and stole into the
upper rooms. The President of the
Senior Class, and European Fellow,
as well as a number of the other stu-
dents, exiled by the flood, were dis-
covered in deshabille, and a general
panie ensued, in which a number of



Philosophy Lectures

The Department of Philoso-
phy announces that Dr. Désiré
Velbman, Ph.D.,° of Yale Uni-
versity, and instructor in Phil-°
osophy -at Princeton, has been
appointed. Research Associate in
the department. Dr, Veltman
will give five informa] lectures
on Ancient and Modern Mate-
rialism, in the Common Room,
beginning on Thursday, October
16; at 4.380; all students are in-
vited to come. Dr. Veltman is
the first member of the Faculty
to. be engaged purely in re-
search, During the first semes-
ter, he will give no . formal
course, but will. continue work-
ing on his book on the philoso- °
phy of science. The department
has been enabled to choose Dr.
Veltman to be in residence at
Bryn Mawr through a fund giv-
en “because Bryn Mawr knows
how to appreciate and encour-
age originality.”







students were injured by shock and
exposure. Other spectators, who were
unable to force their way into the hall
itself, stayed outside and contented
themselves with picking up parts of
the chimney that had fallen to the
ground, and pocketing them as souve-
nirs. Some of the more archaeological
among the investigators examined the
crumbled ruins and tried to recon-
struct in their minds the chimney in
the authentic baroque style, which pre-
vailed in the beginning (of Bryn
Mawr). Finally the debris was roped
off so that vandals could not com-
pletely demolish the remains, and Mer-
ion, ready for convalescence, wrapped
itself in a damp and deep night.

This is the true story of the late
Merion roof. Do not begrudge a roof
to Merion.

, Wit’s End



Continued from Page Two

gled and’ the ~ chair attempted a
screech, Down went the feet with an
angry thump. She gathered up her
array, snapped off the light and
charged out into the free spaces of
the night. :

‘< —The Voice of Experience.



The vanished laughter has returned
and is again shaking the woodwork
and the leaves, after their fairly re-
cuperative suimmer. The Freshmen
are trying to memorize the college
and it in turn is trying to memorize
them; and finally everyone is begin-
ning to take root in the firm, green
sod of Bryn Mawr. All J say is on-
ward, Mawrters, onward, and my ad-
miration to those who have passed
their oral, and my mogt profound sym-
pathy, you who have been mown down
by its dire onslaught., I giving you
a Consolation ik sherk! and I will
take you on a tolir of inspection of
the Merion Showers, which, I -may
say, are one of the very satisfactory
and admirable achievements of this
college.

Cheerio,

THE MAD HATTER.



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University were routed from their
beds early one morning last week
when fire practically destroyed Mans-
field Hall, oldest women’s dormitory
on the campus. Some twenty of the
girls lost all their belongings.—(IP)



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Miss Taylor is settled at the Amer-
ican Academy, with a beautiful view
over Rome, after traveling ‘for six
weeks in England and Scotland. The
Academy opened officially on Septem-
ber 15. .

Dr. and Mrs, Leuba will be at
Bryn Mawr visiting Mrs. de Laguna
at the end of October.

Dr. Theodore de Laguna’s Notes on
Plato, edited by Mrs. ‘de Laguna, ap-
peared in the September issue of the
Philosophical Review. Another arti-
cle, on Burnet’s Sotrates, was print-
ed last spring.

Miss..Swindler went on the Odyssey
cruise to Greece and the Aegean Is-
lands, Palestine, Asia Minor, and
Egypt, and flew to Petra.

Dr. Tennent has published in Cyto-
logy a paper on Chromosomal
Changes during Oogenesis in Mes-
spilia.

The department of Geology is busy
preparing for the meeting of. the So-
ciety of Pennsylvania: Geologists,
which includes most of the geologists
of the eastern seaboard, in the: spring
of 1935. The department is writing
a guidebook of the area around Phila-
delphia, and Dr. Watson is chairman
of the’ committee in charge.

Dr. David worked on his edition, :

with translation and introduction, of
the Ms. record of a maritime crusade
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stronghold of Silves, capital of Moor-| search of beautiful scenery and Baro- of International Law published by 0.

ish Algarve, near the south coast of |
Portugal. During ‘the first two |
months of the’ summer, Dr. David.
worked on photostats of the Ms.; in|
August, he went to Portugal to See |
the site and the ruins of Silves and
then travelled to Turin to collate the
Ms.

‘Dr. Blanchard spent the summer
in the Biological laboratory at Cold
Spring Harbor, assisting in a course
of experimental surgery and contin-
uing his research on the function, of
the adrenal. cortex. A_ preliminary
report of his work done in collabora-
tion with Dr. Erie Ponder is now
being printed in the Proceedings of
the Society for Experimental Biol-
ogy and Medicine. ion

Dr. and Mrs. Smith sa@jied to Aus-
tralia from Vancouver, going to Ha-
waii and the Fiji Islands on the way; |
the trip took almost a month and
they arrived in Australia in the mid-
dle of winter. They travelled there
for five weeks and went to all the
States except Western Australia, and |
met most of the high officials. of the |
government in the exciting times just |
before elections. They took the trip’
to Tasmania, four days from the |
mainland, and later went for a three
weeks’ motor trip in New Zealand,
getting as far south as the Franz-
Josef glacier. They came home from
Wellington, N. Z., stopping at Rara-
tonga in the Cook Islands and at
Tahiti.

Miss King spent the summer in
Dalmatia and Italy, traveling: in





que churches, .

Miss Donnelly spent several weeks
in Northern Italy, and Dr. and Mrs.
Chew travelled through Italy to Tur-
in, Courmayeur, . Verona, Venice,
Rome and the Abrizzi.

Dr. Weiss’ paper: Metaphysics—
The Domain of Ignorance, which he
read last year at the meeting of the
Philosophical Association in Chicago
was’printed in the July Philosophical
Review.

The October 3rd issue of the New
Republic contains Dr. Weiss’ book re-
view of Wolfson’s Philosophy of
Spinoza.

The Dictionary of American Bio-
graphy contains an account of Dr.
Weiss’ life of “that strange and erra-
tic genius: Charles Sanders Pierce.”

The whole department of Psycho-
logy attended the meeting of the
American Psychological Association.
Dr. McKinnon read a paper on the
Personality Differences between Viola-
tors and Non-violators of a Prohibi-
tion. He also gave a course in Ab-
normal Psychology at the Harvard
Summer school. oe

Dr. Helson has just published
What We See in the Blind Spot,
in the Journal of Experimental Psy-
chology.

Dr. Fenwick spent the summer
writing his new book: Cases on In-
ternational Law intended for law-
school students. It is a collection of
decisions of arbitration courts, mixed-
claims commissions, and British and
American courts. The new book will
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| Dr. and Mrs. Nahm spent the sum-
mer in England, where Dr. Nahm
| was working on his edition of The
'Cheats, a popular seventeenth cen-
|tury comedy by John Wilson. The
present edition is based on the unique
playhouse copy, the Ms. of which is
in ‘Worchester College, bearing the
date 1662. Following the Ms., the
edition inéludes the cues for the ac-
tors, the ‘names of the players of the
principal roles and the deletions made
by Sir Henry Herbert, master of the
revels. Included also are the changes
made in the play in the quartos, a
study of the conditions under which
The Cheats was produced and a bio-
graphy of John Wilson based upon
hitherto unused Ms. material found
in England and Ireland.

Mrs. Chadwick-Collins had a de-
lightful vacation in the Southwest
and returned full of enthusiasm for
the scenery of New Mexico and Ari-
zona,

Dr. Miiller went to Mexico City,
Cuerna Vaca and many other places
looking at ruiued pyramids and Span-
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Miss Gillman spent her sabbatical
leave working in Paris on her book
on Baudelaire, and then travelled for
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Oct. 20—West Jersey,

Oct. 27—Rosemont.

Nov. 8—Merion Cricket Club.

Nov. 10 — Philadelphia Cricket
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Nov. 17—Swarthmore.

Nov. 21—All-Philadelphia.

Nov. 24—Saturday Morning Club. *

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Nov.. 12—Philadelphia C. C. Blacks.

Nov. 19—Germantown Friends Al-
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conversations between children and
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Movie Review
To say that The Barretts of Wim-

ture is A gross understatement. The
film is something completely unique
on the American screen: a combina-
tion of excellent acting, writing, and
production. It has often been claimed
by well-fed movie magnates that mov-
ing pictures are an art, a new sort
of art—but art just the same. This
smug sentiment has been dinned into
our ears so many times that we con-
sider it just another evidence of Hol-
lywood vulgarity. We go to the mov-
ies with a slightly superior Air, and
chatter glibly, on.our way out, of the
superiority gf stage over screen,
watching the milling plebeians about
us to see if they are impressed. One
is inclined, however, to chatter very
little after seeing the Barretts. Here
one instinctively feels, all indefinable
and intangible, is the quality, the
breathing essence of art. Here is
life, brought close to us, closer than
is possible in the theatre, for in the
movies emotion can be seen and its
development traced on the faces of the
actors, atmosphere can be created in
a diversified and realistic way, even
the slightest nuances in voice and in
“action can be clearly shown. Any mov-
ie, it is true, can create a version
of life by employing all these mechan-
‘ical devices. It is something else be-
sides the very clever and elaborately
accurate staging and costuming of the
Barretts that makes it great.

We are not being strikingly original
when we hold that this something is
Charles Laughton’s magnificent acting
in the role of Elizabeth Barrett’s fath-
er. An interpretation of such breadth
and.depth is hard to match on stage
or screen. By implication, never by
direct self-explanation, Laughton cre-
ates the unforgettable figure of this
tyrant who ruled his large and adult
family by a mixture of terrifying



{tractively wan and suffers rather nicé-

harshness and deadly appeal to the
strongly developed Victorian sense of
duty. We realized with 4 peculiarly
unpleasant shock how far from pure-
ly paternal was Barretts’ love for his
daughter, Elizabeth.

Then Norma Shearer does one of
her best bits of acting. when, after
ner last harrowing interview with her
father, she says desperately to her
maid that she must get away immedi-
ately for she can bear no more of
this. Malevolent and strange, Bar-
rett’s marked personality dominates
the dark house on Wimpole Street like
an evil spirit. The scene in which
Moulton Barrett kisses his silly young
niece, that in which his voice, heard
from the bottom of the stairs, dis-
courages Elizabeth in her first noble
effort to climb them without help, and
the dreadful moments when he pray
by the side of his shrinking daugh-
ter’s invalid couch that Heaven may
soon release her from her mortal suf-
ferings—all of these Laughton causes
to live and burn in our memory.

When he is not actually present on
the screen, the film inevitably lags a
little. One grows a bit tired of see-
ing Norma Shearer turn away her
face in silent agony, of hearing Fred-
ric March declaim in an all too Amer-
ican voice. Miss Shearer on occasion
does very well in her role, as in the
scene in which she forces down the
porter that her father makes her
drink. On the whole she looks at-

ly.
Some of the smaller roles are ad-
mirably played, in particular that of
the devoted maid, Wilson, and that of
the young army officer who falls in
love with Elizabeth Barrett’s rebel-
lious young sister. Flush is a little
too soporific to be very attractive. The
settings cannot be too highly recom-
mended—that of the park on a gay
sunshiny day creates an almost un-





cannily real illusion of Victorian. ng
land,

“The Barret ar Wimpote Stréét in-
troduces a new. screen technique for
it lays stress throughout on words
more than on action. Well-written

dialogue comes for the first time into
its own on the screen. There is none
of the typical movie blood and thun-
der; all the tragic loneliness and fu-
tility of Elizabeth Barrett’s life finds
expression in the scene, in which after
her maid has extinguished the lights
and left her, she gazes at the moon
shining through the window of the
room to which she has been so long
confined, and then, buries her face in
the cushions of the couch and weeps
alone in the dark.



FP, Cc. V. K.



Not Out of the Stacks -
After a non-literary summer, so
spent as to make us friend #o the fur-
red and feathered creatures and to
make us forget what print looks like,
we took off our rosy sun glasses and

found that all of the publishers had

sneaked into circulation a great many
books that. we must read, all at once
and immediately. Our first thought
was to acclimate ourselves gradually
by trying a picture book, so we read
O. Soglow’s Wasn’t The Depression
Terrible?, but it proved to be so good
that we didn’t feel adequate to criti-
cize it, and it contained no literary
influence or allusion for us to dwell
upon in our very scholarly fashion:
So we decided to omit all mention‘ of
it for our publics’ especial benefit and
to read Now in November and My
Shadow as I Pass instead.

Now in November, by Josephine
Johnson (Simon and Schuster), is so
good as to be somewhat of a literary
find, because in it is to be found such
a strange combination of qualities
that it cannot be arbitrarily classified
as belonging to any set time or school.



The plot is bad if we judge it accord-
ing to the canons of present literary

flaw worthy of notice because the han-
dling of it is so expert that it does
not detract in the least from the ef-
fectiveriess of the book. We must tell
you a little about it: We find our-
selves becoming involved in a bloody
and thunderoys melodrama that takes
in the tragic lives and loves of the
Forgotten Farmer (who is very down-
trodden by society and taxes, A. D.
1934). There is a long drouth, there
is a mortgage on the farm, and there
is no food, there is no money. . The
heroine: is ‘disappointed in her deep
love for the Hero, the hired man. The
whole -prospect is not vile, but very
deptessing, and comes to a climax
with one gory suicide accompanied by
Mother’s being burned. Mother lin-
gers on, and then dies; the Hero passes
out of the family’s lives; then Father
dies. It begins to look as if they will
all die off and only the Mortgage will
remain, But no. Enough survive and
live ever afterwards to tell the story.
The strange thing about Now in
November is that, even with this plot,
it is- not classifiable as melodrama.
The tone of the novel, sustained by
the style in which it is written, is such
that the plot does not obtrude in the
least, and merely serves as a conveni-
ent and suitable framework for the
novel. The plot is as conventional
and as ugly as the bare foundation of
a building, and lends a certain amount
of strength to the beautiful, but more
delicately patterned superstructure.
The style of the novel is gracious and
dignified despite the superficial
naivete of the actual language and the
straightforward, hard, modern ring of
its short and frequently incomplete
sentences.
Sylvia Bolitho’s My Shadow ,As I
Pass (Viking Press) is similar to
Now in November in some of these re-
spects.



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thoughts and reactions, But the
interest which My Shadow As IT Pa 8
shares with Miss Johnson’snovel lies
in the fact that Mrs. Bolitho’s book
shows the same sort of handling of
material more clearly because it

autobiographical. Mrs,

Bolitho’s |

book, written as a novel, is a portrait-—

ure of her husband, the journalist,

which is done entirely through the ex- —

pression of her reactions to him and.

her knowledge of him. This serigs of
impressions, recorded after the jour-
nalist’s sudden and shocking death,
are recorded-as they come to her mind
through things |
bring associations of him to her.
life is entirely absorbed in that of



and thoughts that A
Her \

her husband and therefore it assumes |

the proportions of the whole of life, a

larger fréer life than that of the over- |

populated, bustling world. Conse-
quently, although the bare content- of
the novel is trivial and only mildly in-
teresting, all of life and reality is fo-
cussed in the life of Bolitho by her
sincerity and sensitivity.

All of the events in My Shadow As
I Pass are recorded with almost tor-
turing sensitivity: the strength of the

work lies in the culminating effect of |

the great number of close reactions

and the weakness of it in the triviality |

of the reactions, detailed by a Prous-
tian method of remembrance by asso-
ciation. . Thus, taken as a whole, My
Shadow As I Pass is a dramatic work

of considerable strength, despite the |

fact that almost any passage, singled |

out for analysis, would seem melodra- |

matic, crude and somewhat inartistic.
Both books we think are worth read-
ing, and we might put them on a re-

'\quired reading list of best sellers if
we weren’t sure that such disposal ©
would ultimately mean their molder- |
ing away completely unknown and un- | \J
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