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Vol. XVII, No. 17

‘ — . WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931

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Price: 10 Cents



~collége de jeunes filtes.



Paul Hazard, Mary Flexner Lecturer This
Year, Gives His Impressions of Bryn Mawr



__ News Reprints Article Taken From Revue des Deux Mondes in

Which Well-Known Critic Describes College

Traditions. .and_ Activities. \.

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ARTICLE, IN FRENCH, WILL RUN FOR TWO ISSUES



Aujourd’hui, tout est a l’aigreur; quel
En
rentrant 4 Paris, je m’apercois que pour

pays en aime vraiment un autre?

étre a la mode, il faut dire du mal de
l’Amérique; pour étre a la mode, it-fallait
l’exalter sans mesure, il y a trois ou
quatre ans, Le vent a tourné; si cela
continue, it n’y aura plus de fripier de
village, égorgeant son cochon dans sa
cour, quine parle avec mépris des abat-
toirs de Chicago.

Pour ma part, je raconterai.ce que j’ai
vu, dans mon petit coin.
4 Philadelphie;
prenez un train local, et vous descendez

Vous arrivez vous

a Bryn Mawr, qui, des temps anciens
de la colonie, a gardé son nom gallois.
Bryn Mawr“ a ses garages, son cenéma,
son-golf- miniature et son bazar a cing
sous. Mais ce qui fait sa gloirg, c’est son
Ef tout de suite,
évoquez un ensemble trés différent de ce
que te mot représente d’ordinaire a notre
esprit. Point de cléture ni de grilles;
point de porte verrouillée, ne s’ouvrant
que pour la promenade du dimanche, triste
A voir. Point de ces vieux batiments
‘monastiques, ou de ces ,patiments a bon
marché qui, tout neufs, sont décrépits.
Imaginez, bien plutot, un immense espace
vallonné, des gazoris, des pelouses, des
massifs, des bouquets-d’arbres; et dis-
persés \dans la verdure, des pavillons
recouverts de leur robe de lierre, et dont
le seul aspect est seigneurial. Imaginez,
en pleine nature, toute une cité dédiée aux
études et au ‘bonheur.
Dédiée-au bonheur; j’enstiis sur, meme



Interesting Lectures

Promised for April

Maurice Hindus Will Discuss
Russia; Liberal Club Has
Norman Thomas.

ANGNA ENTERS COMING





On Tuesday, April 7, Maurice Hin-
dus, the brilliant young Russian and
author —of——‘‘Humanity-.; Uprooted,”
“Earth” and “Red Bread,” will lecture
on Russia and the World. Mr. Hin-
dus was born in a Russian village and
came to America at the age of fourteen.
He has visited Russia annually since
1923, wandering about the cities and
villages of Siberia and the Caucasus,
the Volga region, the Ukraine, the
Crimea and the Far North. Of Rus-
sia Mr. Hindus says: “For good or for
evil; Russia—has—plucked up *the old
world by its very roots and the party:
in power is glad to-see those roots wilt
and turn into.dust. Hardly an institu-
tion—property, religion, morality, fam-
ily, love—has escaped the blasts of the
Revolution.” Mr. Hindus is presented
by the Pennsylvania League of Wom-
en Voters, and the proceeds. of the
lecture will be used to further the pro-

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Elections

The NEws:, announces , its new
boards for 1931-32:

avant d’avoir pris contact avec celles. qui

seront, demain, mes étudiantes. Sur les

murs du cloitre gothique qui régne- der-
riére la bibliothéque, je lis des inscrip-

tions. |Reconnaissante, cette ancienne

éléve a fondé un chaire; cette autre a

donné des bourses d’études pour aider ses
camarades de l'avenir; cette autre encore
a voulu qu’elles eussent des jardins plus

vastes, des edifices plus beaux. Toutes

ces pierres se sont élevées, tous ces en-

seignements.,se sont établis, toute cette

vie s’entretient grace a l’initiative privée.
Une sorte de piété se méle au souvenir
des années que les étudiantes ont~ ici

vécues; il n’en est aucune qui ne cherche

a rendre au collége, en générosité, ce

qu’elle a regu en bonheur.

Des différences psychologiques qui nous
séparent des. Américains, ‘celle-ci__ est
assurément._l’une- des plus marquées.
Nous avons beau alléger nos programmes,
nos jeunes filles, nos jeunes gens restent
surchargés; ils n’ont: pas le temps de
vivre, tant ils sont occupés a se préparer
a la vie.- Jé connais une gamine de dix
ans qui est alourdie de devoirs a faire
quand elle ‘rentre de la classe, et qui
veille en peinant sur ses, cahiers. Et
qu’est-ce que sa vie .d’écoliére, sinon la
fatigante succession des heures de cours?
Comment, lorsqu’elle aura fini ses études,
emporterait-elle un souvenir heureux?
La-bas, on écoute mieux cet appel au
bonheur, qui est comme la vocation
spontanée de l’enfance et de la jeunesse.
Libres,-installés dans leur république, que
les ainés ont le devoir d’entretenir, mais
qu’ils n’ont pas le droit d’opprimer, les
adolescents vivent par eux-mémes et pour
eux-mémes. Une éducation serait man-
quée, qui ne laisserait’ pas aprés elle
l'image, éclatante d’une ile fortunée dont
le rayonnement se prolonge sur toute
l’existence. Les ndtres sont plus savants,
ceux-la sont-plas heureux.

“ LA RUCHE

5 octobre 1930.—Cela ne veut pas dire
-qu’on néglige le travail, ici.

Certes, les jeunes filles de Bryn Mawr
sont libres de leurs mouvements; elles
vont et viennent a leur guise; il faut
seulement, qu’elles' soient rentrées a. dix
heures °et demie; marge généreuse, dans
un pays ou l’on dine deux heures plus
tot que chez nous. Elles habitent cha-
cune leur chambre; elles la meublent, elles
la parent a leur fantaisie: et ce n’est
pas une petite affaire. Elles pratiquent
le sport, elles se divertissent. -Bien plus,

Continued on Page Fotir



Angna Enters Coming on April 11



: A; M. Findley,

Editor-in-Chief, Rose Hatfield,
32; Business Manager, Molly
Atmore, ’32; Copy Editor, Susan
Noble, °32; Subscription Mana-
ger, Yvonne Cameron, ’32.

34; -and~— S:
Jones, ’34, have been elected to
' the editorial board, and C. Berg,,
33; M. Meehan,’ 33, and-J. Han-
nan, 34, have been elected to the

business board...









Library Open Sundays

Word. has been received from
the Board of Directors that after
Easter the reading room and the
reserve book room will be open
on Sunday mornings. Ifthe ex-
periment is a success during the
rest of this year, the arrange-
‘ments will be made’ permanent.

(Signed) :
Secretary of the College Council.







College Council Revises
Curriculum Committee



Old Body, Because Unyielding,
Is Discarded for One More

Representative.



HALLS ELECT MEMBERS

1 (Contributed by Curyiculum Committee)



At a recent. of the College
Council Miss Park“thd Mrs.

suggested that the Curriculum Com-
mittee be revised. As it now stands,
it is inadequate insmany respects. Be-
cause of its large size it is impossible
to get unity-of-epinion—and-action,.and.
it is-too.unwieldy to make discussions
with the Faculty Curriculum Commit-
tee easy or useful. . Besides, as Miss
Park pointed out, it would be very
helpful if there were a small commit-
tee to which she could turn for actual
information on student opinion. From
the point of view of the sttidents, it is
weak in that it-does-not actually _rep-
resent the widest cross section of un-
dergraduate opinion. This is because
when the committee was first formed
it was suggested that the members. be
chosen for “the value of their opinions
upon academic matters.rather than as
a.representative group.” It has become
generally recognized throughout the
college, however, that the committee—
though it is desirable that it should be

Manning

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Dance Club Recital
Delights Audience

Naivete and Spontaneity Mark
Performances—Unity of

Rhythm Obtained.





ATMOSPHERE INFORMAL



The annual recital« of the Dance
Club- and the #Dancing Classes was
held, in the gymnasium on March 17.
Although it would seem that natural
dancing exists primarily for the per-
former himself, it also appears that it
may give pleasure in an entirely objec-
tive fashion, as the large audience of
Tuesday evening may. testify. The in-
formality of the atmosphere was well
in accordance with.the= natureoof the
recital, and the simple though effective
lighting and the background of grey
for the kaleidoscopic dancers was espe-
cially appropriate to. their technique, if
one may ‘speak paradoxically, fof*'this
technique seems to consist in the very
lack of it as it is commonly understood
in dancing. There was no pointing of
toes, or drooping of hands-or other
grace-imparting formulae; these belong
to a later atid more artificial stage in
the evolution of the dance. Hence the
simplicity, almost naivete, (of the
dances themselves as well as of *tk€ in-

Graduate Fellowships for Study Next Year
in Europe Are Announced by Miss Park



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New Faculty Appointments, Seniors in Line for Degrees With
Honor, and Recommendations for Junior Year in
France Are Also Revealed.



REPRESENT B. M.’S EFFORTS TO KNOW EUROPE-MORE



Left to Right—Edna Caroline

Marie Helene Schneiders.



Frederick, Ruth, M. Collins and



“From Bryn Mawr’s Victorian days
up to 1931 the college has made steady

and deliberate efforts to induce its stu-

declared President Park in open-
hing her Friday,
‘March 20, in which she announced the

ters,”

address in chapel,

Graduate European Fellowships and

Faculty changes for next year.
Fo-this-end-many- of its faculty have

either been Europeans themselves or

have completed their training abroad.

Again, since 1892, there have always,

been European scholars studying at

Bryn Mawr on fellowships. provided
But

the most definite step the college has
taken toward its objective is the official
sending of its own students abroad for
study. Four graduate students and
onessenior are chosen each March by
the faculty to live outside America, to
work in Europe’s libraries and mu-
seums_ and to become acquainted with
modern civilization other than our own.
From. now. on, the Senior European
Fellow will not be announced until
commencement in order to give the
faculty more time to form an estimate
of the student’s ability. This change
brings with it the abolition of two age-
old undergraduate traditions, that of
attempting to intercept the _faculty
mail, and that, of the President's at-
tempting to prolong her announcement
to the length of a Senatorial filibuster.
The Helene and Cecil Rubel Foun-
dation’ Fellowship to the value of $1500
is.to be given for the last time this |
year. The generous terms of its award,
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for that» purpose by the~college.

it is to be used anywhere ‘in any intel-
lectual pursuit, have. made it one of the
fellowships
women in America. It is awarded this
year to Ruth Mulford Collins, of Pied-
mont, Calif.,-M.A., Bryn Mawr,. 1930,
Fellow and Instructor in English. She
will work in England on the poetry of
Charles Doughty, the author) of Arabia
Deserta, on. manuscripts placed. at— her
disposal by his wife.

most interesting open to

—_—-—

dents to know Europe at close quar-'



holds the Fellowship in Latin at Bryn
her
History, .

Mawr, and principal subject is

Roman her thesis subject,

“The Spread of Roman Citizenship in

Empires.” She plans to study in’

Munich, Rome and Greece.

Miss Nicholson received her A.B. at
Mawr,
M.A. this year.

the University of Copenhagen i in Phys-s
ical Chemistry. -

The Mary E. Gasets European Fel-
lowship to the value of $1000, awarded
sannually to a student still in residence
who has completed at least three
semesters of graduate studies at Bryn
Mawr, is to be applied towards the ex-
penses.of one year’s study and resi-
dence at some foreign university. The
Fellowship has been awarded consist-
ently since 1894, and is being given this
year in French. It goes to Edna Caro-

3ryn 1930, and is getting her

She plans to work at

line Frederick,-of South Hadley Falls,
Mass., M.A., Bryn Mawr, 1930, and
Paul Hazard Scholar in French, 1931.

Miss Frederick has chosen as a thesis ~
subject the development of the plot in
between Moliere and Beau-
marchais, in which she is promised the
friendly guidance of Monsieur Hazard.
The Anna’ M. QOttendorfer Fellow- ~
ship in Teutonic Philology, to be held
at a German university, has ‘been
awarded to Marie Helene Schnieders,
candidate for M. A. Bryn this
year,’ part instructor in .German,.and
graduate student, 1928-29, aad Fellow

comedy

Mawr,

| in German, 1931.

The Helen Schaeffer Huf Fellow-

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Calendar
FRIDAY, . MARCH ~—27—Spring
" Vacation begins at 12:45 P. M.
TUESDAY, APRIL
Vacation ends at 9:00 A. M.
8:15—Maurice Hindus lectures
and the World /in

7—Spring

on Russia
Goodhart.
THURSDAY, APRIL’ 9—Noar-
man Thomas will speak at 8:00
in Goodhart, under the auspices







Self-Government Board for 1931-
32. The results of the other elec- _
tions are not yet complete, but f
—will:be announced_tlater,













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ee The Fanny Bullock W grkiman Fel- of the Liberal Club, on Sogtalism
ee a ta lowship, also t tothe value of $1500, im America.

Continued on Page Three was founded five veafs ago by a be- FRIDAY, APRIL 10—Dr./ Harald

quest of Mrs. Workman, herself an J. Laski will lecture jon The

. eminent scholar, to be used “by a stu- Future: of Parliamentary Gov-

Self-Gor. President dent of proved ability who is working erument in England at 8:15. in

Alice” L.* Hardenbergh -has for a Ph.D: and: who= could’ not-have SGoodhart.

been elected President of the the advantages of such a year without SATURDAY, APRIL’ 1!—Mon=

assistance. After long agonies 6f in-
decision, it has been awarded to Char-
lotte E. Goodfellow, of Coatesville, Pa.,
and-to Anne Leigh Nicholson, of Mores-





_ Miss Goodfellow now

day classes will be held.
8:20—Angna Enters will give a
program in Goodhart Altdito-
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