College news, January 18, 1933

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VOL. XIX, No. 10

“BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933

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Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1932





Mr. Lipson Speaks on
Industrial Revolution



New. Consciousness of Labor
Class Follows Rise of
‘Factory System



3. REFORM PROGRAMS



Under the auspices of the Depart-
ment~-of History, Mr. Ephraim Lip-
son, Reader in Economic History at
Oxford, and Lowell Lecturer at Har-
vard, gave a talk January 14 on
The English Labor Movement in the
Nineteenth Century. The dominating
fact in the economic history of the
period, he,maintained, was the con-
flict of capital and labor, which. re-

“sulted fromthe Sudden development

of class consciotgness among workers.

The nineteenth/century, Mr. Lipson
remarked at the beginning of his lec-
ture, was the/germinal time of many
movements which have only recently





co-operative stores may all be traced
to this century; which was also the
formative period of socialistic thought
and ideas concerning the claims of
labor.

It has often been said that the
proletariat (a class possessing no
property, but subsisting entirely on
wages) was created by the Industrial
Revolution. Actually, however, a wage
earning class had existed in Europe
for centuries. Factories did not es-
tablish a ‘new relation between em-
ployer and employed, or suddenly
arouse the antagonism of. capital and
labor, which was already acute in the
eighteenth century, but the introduc-
tion.of machinery which necessitated
the. factory system, and the concen-
tration of many workers under a sin-
gle roof, made the workers of the
nineteenth century newly conscious of
their separate identity, and quick-

.ened- their sense of corporate inter-|_

est. The great wealth produced by
the machine was resentfully contrast-
ed with the striking inequalities of
distribution.

Conditions among the early indus-
trial workers weré certainly the nadir
of civilized barbarity. Poverty, inse-
curity, intemperance, bad housirfg, all
the ills inherent in a period of transi-
tion, were practically universal evils,

- in no way lessened by the moderating

influence of education — schools for

workers’ children were non-existent.

Out of a class thus demoralized the
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Number of Candidates
for Varsity Reduced



Candidates for the Varsity team
have already settled down for the
long grind in hopes of making the
permanent squad. The number has
been reduced to twenty-seven, with
the probability of a further cut this
week.

Faeth, Meirs and Baker are still ex-
cellent prospects for the left forward
position as Collier’s running mate. Al-
though Faeth is steady and accurate,
her passes are a bit slow and as a
result Collier, who depends on speed
and short passes to get her into scor-
ing position, is slowed up considér-
‘ably. Meirs is also a bit tardy about
passing, but plays the quick, short-
shot game for which Collier is fam-
ous. . Baker has turned out exceed-
ingly well in the -last«few ‘practices.
She combines quick, clever passwork
with an accuracy in long as well’ as
chip shots, which should give her
somewhat of a lead over her rivals
for the position.

Although Longacre and Remington

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News Tryouts

The College News announces -
that competiti is now open
for positions the Business
Board. -Members of the Junior,
Sophomore and _ Freshman
classes -are urged to try» out. .
See Mabel Meehan, Denbigh 64,
any day between 1.30 and 2.00...





Ht will speak in chapel, 7.30 P. M.

Noted Scientist Visits Bryn Mawr













PROF. AUGUST PICCARD (left), recent sunloest of the stratosphere, | dents, and, in consequence, two-thirty |

photographed with his twin brother,

Jean Felix Piccard, and the latter’s

wife, Mrs. Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (B. M. 1918), during his visit to Bryn

Mawr. last Monday.



Miss Park Indicts

Personal Dishonesty



Inaccuracy in Thought and
Language Prevails in

This Country



HONESTY: NEEDED



Miss Park, speaking on ‘“Per-
sonal Honesty” in chapel, January
18, stressed the need, in this country
particularly, for intellectual honesty
that does not admit inaccurate and
indistinct acting, thinking, and
speaking.

The English language as used in
America has lost considerably by a
disregard for the accuracy which is
a.large part, even nearly the whole,
of honesty in language. American
tradition has. no liking for accuracy
in. literature: the frontier humor
which is recognized as :characteristic-
ally American is based on exaggera-
tion and grotesque juxtaposition of
words and idéas. English is essen-
tially inexact compared with the in-
flected languages, but through disre-
gard our language jis getting even
more limited by the use of general
terms for specific words. Our col-
loquial language does not fit the mold
of thought and in consequence our
thought is “wrapped in cotton wool.”
Indeed, the pleasure of reading the
dialogue in Ernest Hemingway and
Ring’ Lardner lies in getting the
meaning behind the clumsy, inaccu-
rate speech.

This inaccuracy reaches beyond

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CALENDAR -

Wed., Jan. 18—Dr. Beebe

will speak*-on” Four-_Hundred

Fathoms Deep. Goodhart, 8.30.
Reserved seats. ,

Jan. 18—French Club

Wed.,
Tryouts for the Bourgeois
Gentilhomme.

Sun., Jan. 22—Chapel. Rev.
Dr. W. Brooke @tabler, of the
University__of Pennsylvania, .

Tues., Jan. 23—Thé Hampton
Quartet. Goodhart.

Wed., Jan. 24 — Industrial
Leagye Conference. Dr. Carl
de Schweinitz ‘will speak, Com-





the

“etapa

-friends, and. any outsiders interested

Exhibit of Gouaches by
Weber Will Open Here



Specially Contributed by Caroline
F. Berg)

An exhibit of twenty gouaches by
Max Weber will open this week in the
Common Room of Goodhart, and will
continue until the latter part of Feb-
ruary. These are loaned by the J. B.
Neumann Print Gallery, 40 East 49th
street, New “York City, and make up
the first showing held here this year.
It will be followed by a color print
exhibit and, it is hoped, by a com-
prehensive show.

Max Weber is a prominent painter

‘of the American Expressionist school,

which dates from the exhibition at
Photo-Seccession Gallery, the
famous #291” in New York, for which
Alfred Stieglitz is largely responsi-
ble. The first exhibition of Ameri-
can moderns was held in 1910, and
includéd Weber, Dove, Hartley’ and
Marin, who were already an import-
ant group. In 1911, Max Weber held
a one-man show. Like the other mem-
bers of the group, which later in-
cluded Walkowitz,/ Bluemner and
Georgia O’keeffe,“the development of
his art was effected by the person-
ality and photographic work of Steig-
litz.

Weber was an early Cezannist, one
of. the first American pioneers, with
a fine talent, if a little derivative at
times from Cezanne, Picasso, and
Rousseau. His special gift is for
organization. He came near to grasp-
ing that structural thing beyond even
Cezanne, which the German Expres-
sionists seek so feverishly. His gou-
aches are painted with opaque colors
that ‘have been ground in water and
mixed with a preparation--of--gum:

It is hoped that the college and

will take the opportunity of becoming
familiar with these lovely little paint-

ings during the coming month. A

number of. them are for sale, and will
be accompanied by a price list avail-
able to those considering a purchase.



Erratum -
The News very much regrets
an efratum in last week’s issue.
In announcing Miss Jane Brad-
ley’s engagement an error..was
made in the name of her fiance,
“who is Midshipman Wagstaff,
U. S. Naval Academy, ’33.









“mon Room, 7.30 P..M.



PROFESSOR AUGUST PICCARD AND
BROTHER PAY BRIEF VISIT TO.
BRYN MAWR SCIENCE LABORATORY

Famous Scientist Explored Stratosphere to Height of 10.3 Miles
From Point in Switzerland in Free Balloon
With Scientific Instruments





DOES NOT ASSUME HEROIC POSE FOR HIS FEAT



Professor August Piccard, famed rived at Dalton about two-thirty and
explorer of the stratosphere, came and; Were immediately pounced upon by
went at Bryn Mawr so swiftly last | PPeSS photographers. , He obligingly
Monday that scarcely anyone not in| Posed for photographs, together with
Dalton at the time realized .that he! Mr. and: Mrs. Jean Piccard and Pres-
was here. It is to Mrs. Jean Piccard | jident Park, and then took several
(Jeannette Ridlon, Bryn Mawr, 1918) | | snapshots for himself before going on
that we owe the visit of the scientist, | ‘his inspection tour of the laborator-
for she-was-anxious for-him-to- see! ies. Informed of his waiting audi-
the campus and get a first Hand im-|°?°® Professor Piecard~ laughingly
pression of an American women’s: ' apologized for his lack of English and
college. Accompanied by his twin| said that he was afraid that he was
brother, Jean, and hik wife, who | not properly dressed up to face such
have established their residence in'® distinguished gathering. — However;
Marshallton, just outside of Wilming-' | he consented to put in an appearance
ton, Professor _ Piccard _ motored! ‘although his iron-clad contract with
from Wilmington in the morning, had | |@ Lecture Booking Bureau prevented
lunch with President Parlé and then| his saying anything beyond that he
peid a brief and very informal visit | W2° glad of an opportunity to visit
to Dalton. The reporters from the! Bryn Mawr, and thanked us for the -
Philadelphia papers knew of the in-| fine weather we had “commande”
tended visit long before the college | (“managed”’ obligingly volunteered
did, and were storming the publicity by his comtbined brother-and interpre-
office for information long before| ter) ‘for his” stop-over.
pee ee) ave gs ae Pena are A ae closed Professor Piccard’s “lecture”
wis wnlee end kat tones |and the audience, all optimistically
persuaded to say a few words to pro- equipped with glasses, pencils; and

| paper, clapped vigorously. /

| fessors graduates, and science stu- /
: : The scientist then visited the lab-



With that ~

found the Biology lecture room jam-|
med with a highly expectant audience.
Professor Piccard and his party ar-|

| oratories, which he considered “well
| equipped, ” gave numerous signatures
| to excited. undergraduates, laughing-

ily side-stepped the News reporter,
| and departed, mot however without
‘leaving the eollege with a distinctly



New Lantern Editors



| charming / ‘memory of one of. the

Are Competent Writers world’s “greatest scientists and ex-
| plorers.

: Professor Piecard consistently re-

Sound, Unpretentious Work fuses to accept the role of a hero as

Commendable for Freedom
From Stiffness -

fa result of ‘his ascent to a height of
| 10.3.-miles into the stratosphere ina
| free balloon, accomplished last sum-
POEMS SURPASS PROSE, mer from a starting point in Swit-
lzerland. The flight was not danger-
(Specially Contributed by Miss Gle n) | ous, he said, and could have been
The Lantern starts/the year with | #¢complished by any one of the mil-
|lions inhabiting the globe. In fact,
| “It was so easy that it is surprising
torial board several people whom the | no one has thought of doing it be-
present reviewer knows to be compe-/ fore.” The preparations for the flight
tent writers and judges of writing: | sae comparatively simple and the
this implies no reflection on the com-' flight itself uneventful. There is no
peteénce of past boards, for (this is | motion to speak of in a free balloon,
true, though disgraceful) it is the! and no danger of seasickness, and
first time that it has occurred to the} also Professor Piccard was too,,busy
reviewer to read the names set forth| with his scientific instruments to no-
on the first page. itice how he felt. Sinee his flight,

The chief editor’s witty and dis- | and in’ spite of a popular account of
coursive preface speaks modestly of} it. published by Professor Piccard in
the aims and still more modestly of the Italy, he has been deluged with ques-
attainments of college magazines. She | tions concerning “what he saw” at
asks for informal essays and plays! the altitude of 10.3 miles, and how
as well as stories and poems; we!he felt, — one little girl writing to
should like to see also reviews of cur-| know if he saw any angels. The an-
rent books and plays, and of college|swer to all these questions is simply
plays—there have been good reviews) that he neither saw nor felt anything,
in the Lantern in the past—more nar-| which more or less disposed of us.





its new editors; there are on the edi-'!

narrative; and we do not think that

Fative of all kinds, experiments in!



the Lantern would fall from its high}

He does not plan another journey into
the -upper regions, feeling that it is
someone’s else turn to “have fun.”

place if it occassionally included arti-| He is highly interested in aviation,
cles on topically interesting subjects.|and asked his audience in the Biology

This issue contains sound, unpre- | laboratory if any of them had been
tentious writing and is, on the whole, up in a balloon. One brave individ-
commendably free from stiff, self-con-| ual: answered in the affirmative, but
scious, and too-ambitious work. The! her adventure had been in a dirigible,
poetry reaches a higher level than|which, according to the professor,
the prose does. The best of the poems | was vey different from a free bal-
is Miss Thompson’s rather..ambitious lo — ctl
“Crescent- Scythe”; it is strong and. Professor Piccard arrived 1 in “Amer
sincere and good | writing.. The rect ica only a few days ago to be-met



-Tof the poems are ‘easily written; those | in quarantine by a bevy of reporters,

that have a pleasant lightness of! who wanted to know his impressions
purpose are best; “Phaeton” somehow | of America long before he had. put
misses its point, and the point of. foot on our shores. He plans to
“Resurrexit” is stifled by repetition. | remain | about three months, during

In prose, there is a story. vaguely | which time he will lecture through-
in the early Kipling manner and an | out the/country. Those. students wish-
informal essay, both slight but pleas-' ing to ‘hear him should watch for the

joyable to read. because the writing
is effortlessly mature; Miss Burnett’s
essay is a good precedent

There is a gratifying number of
Freshman contributors to this issue;
we hope there, will be many more. con-
tributors, of all years, to the next.



antly written; the “Sea Beast’ is ~ announcement of his Philadelphia en-

gagement.

At 3.30 the scientist, whom every-
one in the world except himself cred-
its with very important discoveries
and experjments, departed for ‘ Wil-
mington with, we “hope, as pleasant a
memory of us as we have of him.

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Under Fire

As we write everyone is saying, “Oh, ah, two weeks ago to-night.”
They say_it futilely, then gaze into space and think of reports and dare
An outsider would say,
It is pathetic, the relaxation of moral
fibre after holidays and before examinations, a giving-way which occurs
Miss Park suggests that we remain healthy and unafraid.
Our opinion is that health is a purely personal idiosyneracy, but the
dearth of moral fibre is directly due to mass fearon the campus.

The thought that we, presumably educated and self-controlled un-
dergraduates, should surrender to mob panic is humiliating.
at this time, has a certain proportion of work still in the raw, but the
ratio of work done and work to do changes as one contemplates it.
unfinished section of an assignment assumes the size of a Blatant Beast.
To meet the monster, we must turn into a-regiment of Red Cross

.not think of mid-years.
the outsider would be right.

annually.

Knights and cultivate moral fibre.

nor the spirit, we suggest resort to the methods of Dr. Coue of post-war
Tell yourself that you are undoubtedly
don’t allow the self-deception to become permanent.

fame.

“How pathetic!” and

Everyone,

The

If the word is not to your liking,

very intelligent, but



To be Dasinil

—And now we are faced by the question of when and where con.

versation. shall thrive. Few people

conversation is an art, and the cultivation of it essential to a well-
but we also believe that there are limits of place
To the people who do not observe these limitsewe address

rounded personality ;
and time.
our editorial.

The smoking-room is dedicated to noise and frolic from the hours
of eight, or\ perhaps nine, in the morning to eleven at night.
it is given over -to-neise and gloom.
made by intemperate conversationalists, and, consequently, some of the

gloom of another class.

_At this season the smoking-room after eleven o'clock is thronged
They have no other place to go unless they

with would-be authors.
wish to die of cold, and they do not

a good talk before going to bed at two, three, or four o'clock, according
as the report in hand is ten, twenty, or thirty pages long.
known that authors are touchy people whose ereative processes are
Nightly the distraction is furnished by
groups of two and three who stray into the smoking-room,
We do not think our plea will touch their
hearts because they must, by now, be hardened against, all the common
What we want is a rising, starting among the
‘ report proletariat, and calculated to shake the

retarded by any distraction.
and making conversation.
feelings of humanity.

idle and stiff-necked aristocracy.
“United we stand;

divided we go insane!”

believe more strongly than we that

After that
We wish to eliminate the noise

assemble for the purpose of having

It is well

giggling

very foundations of the

Union is the remedy—remember,

wee



Philosophers in Pembroke

It is a secret sorrow in not a few
breasts at this moment that the
American Philosophical Society came
and went without our catching so
much as a glimpse of any of them.
Their visit in these parts is covered
with a veil of mystery that is tanta-
lizing, to say the least. We left the
campus one Friday—most of us—and
arrived on a Tuesday, some twd
weeks later. In the interim we know
that a great aggregation of the best
minds in America inhabited our hal-
lowed halls, but for all the traces they
. left, the. thing might have been a
dream. The few exceptions to this
make the thing even more tantaliz-
ing and some of the favored few in
Pembroke in whose rooms traces of
the ‘occupation remained, unti] Tues-
day are intrigued, to say the least.

There was ore fortunate pair, who,
bitten by curiosity even before the
event and perhaps better hostesses
than most, left notes for their guests
and on their return were greeted by
extremely nice replies and a box of
candy and the new Lawrence trans-
lation of the Odyssey. Other guests



left © other tokens of gratitude” for

: :
poe teers ce

| There are—thank God—no baby_pic-

-

delightfyl than these, unless it be
the following poem which we reprint,
hoping that its gifted author has not
yet copyrighted it, and with the kind
permission of its recipient, Polly
Cooke. It is typewritten on the sta-
tionery of the American Philosoph-
ical Axssociation, Eastern — Division;
Harold A. Larrabee, Secretary-Treas-
urer. Miss Cooke explains the eighth
line by the fact that a plaster cast
of a hand and a foot grace her man-
tle.
To the Rightful Occupant of
_P. E. 14-16
If you find your room a wreck (1)
’Tis coz (2) your tenant was ye Sec.,
Who, like the often absent linnet, (3)
Was almost never, never (4) in it.
He’s glad you go upon vacations,
Liking your taste in decorations—
No sniffishness his larynx throttles
On seeing hands (5) and feet in
bottles.
Another thing escapes his strictures—

tures! (6)
Philosophers are queer gazooks (7)
As sure as eyes belong in hooks; (8)
Among them count the Cooke's fair

-daughter—

Wires END|

TECHNOCRATS AT SCHOOL

Technocracy! How many of us came
back to college brimful of this new
spirit of 1933, only to find that at
college we are “not up-to-date and
proud of it. Our little unit of civi-
lization is singularly askew. The
supply and demand in this traffic in
knowledge is all out of proportion



‘ani Bryn Mawr is rocking on its grey

foundations over the very thought of
mid-years. It would. seem that. only
a whole change of policy could right
us again and why not take our lesson
from the Technocrats? They at
least sound impressive.

Technocracy formulated a policy to
co-ordinate production and consump-
tion, and to do away with .wasted en-
ergy. It suggests payment in terms
of the Energy Dollar and it prom-
ises general prosperity. , Doesn’t
that seem rosy?

Lately we often stop and wonder,
right in the midst of a hand of bridge,
“Why not a college Technocracy?”
We are all too, too aware of the prob-
lem of supply and demand. To be
sure, .we differ from economic society
in that here the demand far exceeds
the production. But over-demand is
even more depressing than over-pro-
duction, and the problem needs solv-
ing. Are we cowards?

College Technocracy would immedi-
ately ‘take into consideration the en-
ergy we expend in production, which
we have always felt with bitterness
was overlooked. Imagine a. course
card filled out with so many. energy
Units per semester, returned to us af-
ter exams with marks in credits ener-
zy! Everyone would he happy, feel-
ing that .the problem in production
was at last solved. Those grueling
hours spent looking for books that
we found the professor had taken out
the night before, would be brought to
the attention of the faculty, and at
last our. reasons for feeling slighted
in past payments
would be vindicated. And who
wouldn’t be glad to see those infuriat-
ing college capitalists brought to trial
—those members of our social group
who prepare for exams in a comfort-
able chair with a Cosmopolitan and
a package of Chesterfields, whose low-
cost. product brings in untold profit.
The elimination of wasted energy
would soon see the flight of these rats
who have gnawed through the hull of
the good ship Bryn Mawr—and profit
would at last be distributed fairly.

And Technocracy promises us lei-
sure! Ah, leisure! With a_ short
working day, every Bryn Mawr girl
could assure far better use of those
leisure hours than the great Ameri-
can public promises Technocracy ex-
perts: We have already spent days,
months, in planning and dreaming of
the first moment of leisure that our
government would give us.. And col-
lege Technocracy, my friends,. prom-
ises the early realization of those
dreams.

Technocracy is new, but let no one
pass it by as a mere fad, like Night
and Day. It’s our way out—the for-
mer, I mean—and why not let Bryn

|| Mawr be the first to prove that the

technocrats are right? And if they’re
not right we can prove that they’re
wrong.

—The Robot.



IMPOSSIBLE INTERVIEW
NO. A-1;,
Pres. Stark and the Budding Re-
porter. :
Pres,—Good morning, Miss Pfiffle.
We are going to have a directors’
meeting, but what can I do for you?

Pf.—Pres. Stark, I want to lodge

‘1a petition.

Pres. (raising eyebrows) — You
know I am always delighted to hear
any complaint.

Pf.—There is strong sentiment in
the student body for the abolition of
reports, and once feeling is aroused
many arguments can be adduced in
favor of such a step.

Pres.—I am always glad to listen
to reason, however unreasonable.

Pf.—In the first place there are too
many reports; my roommate has thir-
teen. They should be done away with

|to remove temptation from the fac-

ulty..
Pres.—That would involve ». low-
éring of standards. _







Pf.—If there were no reports, we

s

for production:

couldn’t talk about them, and we
would be compelled to discover new
topics of conversation; think of the
traifting for our powers of conversa-
tion!

Pres.—The idea has: possibilities!

Pf.—Just think — abolish reports,
and there would be no more reports of
committees, no more -reports: of the
treasurer, no more reports of the
president.

Pres.—No more reports to the
Board of Directors! I will add my
‘name to your petition at once and
present it to the trustees. They dis-
‘fike income tax reports, and Will be
most sympathetic. No more bad news-
paper reports, either!

Pf.—I knew yodu’d understand.

Pres.—You are a\young woman of
ideas, Miss Pfiffle; they should carry
you far.



Some girls long for evening dress .
With daring decollete;

Some for shorts that are detested
By the faculty.

Some want furs, while some would go
With less on than a Hindoo;
But I want clothes especially made
For climbing in a window.
—Pitter-Patter:



-You-and- we, the sun-and moon, are
heavenly. .powers—

We cede to you the day, the évening’ s
ours.

The toll of seven finds your work
begun;

When Dalton’s doors are locked, our
work is done.
—Adamant Eve.



Working on the four-hour day of
the technocrats we find we have no
time for a last line — reports, you
know.

Cheero—

THE MAD HATTER.



News of the New York: Theatres

Gilbert Miller has just bought
a new play from R. C. Sheriff, who
\wrote Journey’s End, and will pro-
‘duce it -in London with Cedric Hard-
wicke as the lead. If it’s a success,
Broadway will see it next season. The
ideabeing that if-a-play goes well
in London, Americans” will eat it up.
That’s a good rule for comedies and
farces, but we are not convinced of
its applicability to more serious
drama. As an example, take -Au-
tumn Crocus, which stood London on
its ear, and owes its minute Broad-
way success solely to Francis Lederer.

Chamberlain Brown is opening a
new play soon, whose only remark-
able feature is its title, The Hope of
a Tree.’ Our guess is—to be let alone
by the theatre—what’s yours?

All the theatres have finally: caught
on to the existence of the depression
and prices for almost all shows are
down. It’s about time that the pro-
ducers saw the writing on the wall
and stopped asking $4.40. a seat when
everyone of any importance is too
broke to buy a hot dog. The shows
concerned in the drop are Walk a Lit-
tle Faster, The Gay Divorce, Another
Language, and Foolscap.

We heard a story about Radio City

ed us. Roxy brought three white
horses on the stage, and three women
in the baleony screamed and fainted
on account of they were afraid of
mice. Neat, but not gaudy, in our
opinion.

Hope Williams has at last aed
of ‘having Vogue and Spur take her
picture on a Western pony in God’s
country and. has returned to .New
York and the theatre. As soon as
Jimmy Durante gets his nose out of
Hollywood she is to join him in re-
hearsals for Strike Me Pink, the Lew
Brown-Ray Henderson musical, which
is to open in March.’ After the dandy
nose dives put on by her last two
vehicles, The Passing Present and
Too True to Be Good, Miss Williams
has evidently ‘fled back to the New
Yorker school, where one can be fee-
ble, but get -by on noise and some-
one’s else humor.

Hospitals,again pop up as settings
for plays with the appearance of
Crisis, which is now in rehearsal.* If
the play is as apt as the title we are
promised a slice of realism and life
as it really is, or shouldn’t be.”

Ursula Jeans, a very lovely and
accomplished creature fromm London,
made her initial American appear-
ance bosaad ‘week in Late One Evening;

De a on Page Six)



and its several cow barns that amus-4.



IN PHILADELPHIA

Theatres
Forrest: The darky version of
what goes on in Heaven—-The Green
Pastures. Still worth an evening any
time.

Garrick: Henry Hull in Springtime —

For Henry, a healthy comedy farce,
which many like and many do not.
We did.

Coming, January 23
Garrick: Dorothy Hall and Ken-
neth7MacKenna in a romantic inter-
lude entitled A Story of Love. Sounds
atrocious, but we'll wait till it opens,
out of generosity.



Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri.
ternoon, Jan. 20, at 2.30, and Sat.

af-

Eve., Jan. 21, at 8.20. Issay Do-'
browen will conduct.

Program:
Schumann ..... “Manfred” Overture
Bach,

Brandenburg Concerto, No. 5 in

D Major, for piano, violin, flute,

and strings.
Prokofieff Classic Symphony
Scriabine Poeme de L’Extase

Philharmonic Symphony Society of
New York. Bruno Walter will con-
duct. Lotte Lehman is to be the solo-
ist. Mon. Eve., Jan. 23, at 8.15. Pro-
gram:
Strauss

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Tone-poem, “Don Juan’
Aria from “Alceste”
Aria from “Oberon”

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Schubert,
Symphony in C Major, No. 7



Movies

Boyd: Cynara, with Ronald Col-
man and Kay Francis. The tragedy
of a mouse (barrister), who played
(shop girl) while the cat (wife) was
away. . Very good movie.

Stanton: - Love and life on the is-
land of Bali or Goona Goona. If this
sort of advertising goes on any long-
er it will create migratory problems.
A good movie if you like love and life
in Bali. ;

Fox: ~Edmund Lowe, Victor Mc-
Laglen, Lupe Velez, and El Brendel
in a New York night life comedy, Hot

Pepper. We’ve seen this game before.
Earle: Carol Lombard in No More
Orchids. We hope she findg a suit-

able substitute! Along with this high-
geared romance at the bottom of the
box are the Boswell Sisters on the

stage. 2
Europa: Virgins of Bali continue
to do nicely.
Keith’s: An outboard motor boat

racing story, Speed Demon. Sounds
a little like the studio is cutting down
on production costs. The next thing
we'll have pony races, and electric
train wrecks. Also, too much vaude-
ville completes the program.
Karlton: . Secrets of the French
Police—in the. first place the French
can’t keep a secret, but they try~for

Hollywood. Murders, women, police
and all the scenery.
Stanley: Kid From Spain, or Ed-

“prety girls, music
Funny.

die Cantor plus
and bull fights.”



Local Movies
Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., John
arrymore and Katherine Hepburn in
ll of Divorcement; Fri., Heritage
of the-BDesert, with Randolph Scott.
and Sally Blane; Sat., Me and My

Gal, with Spencer Tracy and Joan °

Bennett;.Mon. and Tues, Irene Dunne’
in The Thirteenth Woman; Wed. and
Thurs., James Dunn and Boots Mal-
lory in Handle With Care.

Seville: Wed., Kongo, with Walter
Huston and Lupe Velez; Thurs., Fri.
and Sat., Polly Moran and Marie
Dressler in Prosperity; Mon. and
Tues., Clara Bow in Call Me Savage;
Wed. and Thurs., Scarlet Dawn, with
Doug. Fairbanks, Jr., and Nancy Car-
roll. :

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Paul
Muni in J Am A Fugitive; Fri.”
Sat., Air Mail, with Ralph Bellamy
and Pat O’Brien; Mon. and Tues.
and Wed., Prosperity, with Marie
Dressler‘and Polly Moran.



and

An imposter claiming to be the '

famous Bert Metzger, all-American
guard at Notre Dame three years ago,
visited the University of North Caro-
lina campus recently and before being
identified as a fake, was “wined and
dined” by scores of admiring students.
His disappearance was as mysteri-
ous as his arrival, and sports authori-
ties h are still trying to find his
real i “ie bP Saloeakan )-

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More Money Needed
to Open Bates House



Poor Children: Have . Drastic
Need of Fresh Air and Good
Food This Year



CO-OPERATION ASKED



(Especially Gontributed by Marjorie
Lee)

The Bryn Mawr League wishes to
express its thanks to all those who
have ‘contributed so generously in the
Batés House Drive. Realizing that
those who gave would probably like
to know how much was made, and
where the bulk offthe money goes, the
League takes this opportunity to pre-
sent a brief statement of its finan-
cial situation and to make a plea for
further support. So far the pledges
made amount to $1,180.48; expenses
have been estimated at $80.00. (in-
cluding Maid’s Party, Xmas Carol
Party, printing and other incident-
als); leaving $1,100.48 as balance
to be given to Bates House for its
running expenses during the coming
summer. $300.00 was left over from
last year’s running expenses, which,
added to the $121.00 made so far on
sandwiches, and to the $30.00 on the
calendars, makes a total balance of
$1,631.48. The minimum amount
necessary to open Bates House at all
is $2,200.00, which leaves a deficit: of
$568.52 to be made up between now
and the end of May. , :



The League is most anxious to se-
cure co-operation in making up this
deficit as soon as possible, for it feels
very strongly that it would be most
unfortunate to abandon Bates House
this year of all years, when its bene-
fits dre most needed. |

Almost 100 children from the hot,
cramped streets of the slums of WY>w
York and Philadelphia come in: Jfine
and July to Bates House for a few
weeks of healthy sea air and sun-
shine. -They come down in groups of
30 or so, for a period of two weeks,
to play in the sand and to rest, away
from the tense atmosphere of homes
depressed by unemployment condi-
tions. Milk and good food—a change
from their perpetual home diet of
bread and macaroni—frequent naps,

and long days of sunshine build up

these undernourished children in a
surprisingly short time.
them go home several pounds heavier,
with new color in their cheeks and a
healthy sunburn—all of them better
prepared to meet the demands of the
long hard months ahead.

As Bates’ House is supported en-
tirely by Bryn Mawr, it is most urg-
ent that everyone give her support in
raising the money necessary to make
this summer’s work possible. Any con-
tributions, however small, will be
greatly appreciated, and may be sent
to Helen Leidy, Merion.



“The craving for superiority and
its attendant disappointments are
the bases for most of our mental
problems,” says Dr. Andrew Woods.

Most of:



Miss Park Indicts , :
Personal Dishonesty



(Continued from Page One)

languag¥ to influence even our way
of thinking. The difficulty of sum-
marizing and _ political
speeches may be traced to the lack
of accurate thought as a framework
for public speaking. Again, we find
a marked inaccuracy in the distortion
of emphasis in newspaper headlines.

When we return from this inac-
curacy of language and of everyday
literature to dishonesty, there is a
common round of a blurred kind of
thinking and acting..Dhat there is a
general American tolerance of this is
evinced in the endurance of municipal
government. “The great’ numbers of
the population affected by the corrup-
tion work only. intermittently at best
for reform: the atmosphere of dis-
honesty is tolerated with no attempt
to break it down.

Even in our college circle this blur-
red thinking is shown in two situa-
tions, both involving inaccuracy and
actual dishonesty. There is a gen-
eral carelessness about common prop-
erty, about things belonging to no one
in particular, such as books and col-
lege furniture. And the\ impossibility
of leaving articles for sale in the halls
is proof that this carelessness ‘comes
both into a blurred form of thinking
and into actual dishonesty itself. A
second field in which intellectual dis-
honesty is present. is evident in con-

sermons

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one’s own — whether the borrowed
ideas are those of some writer or some
neighbor.

“No person who likes things order-
ed or patterned :can be aesthetically
dishonest”: Turning from aesthetic
and intelligent flaws in honesty we
must develop a system of thought,
of philosophy, resting on a clearly

‘defined ground of what is intelligent-

ly, aesthetically right. If language
represents thought accurately then
conduct should represent our philoso-
phy of life, and that way of living
determines our honesty—which is per-
sonal only for a short time, after
which it is moved out of temporary
situations and becomes what. this
country needs so much: pure honesty.



European College. Gives '
Both Travel and Study



“Identified with the progressive edu-
cation movement the American Peo-
ples College in Europe is offering
American studénts.an interesting com-
bination of travel and study.

Short summer courses, which in-
clude travel in eight European coun-
tries, and longer courses up to those
of fifteen months in length have been

made possible at a minimum cost!

through the co-operation-of foreign
governments, youth movement centers,
and~ educational organizations. Three
months of study and travel under the
auspices of the college may be had
for $390, including round-trip steamer
fare, and a whole year in Europe for
$860.



The advisory committee sponsoring
the college, which is but three years
old, includes such leading American
educators as Dr. John Dewey, of Co-
lumbia University, chairman; Dr. Jay
B. Nash, head of health and physical
education at New York University;
Dr. William H. Kirkpatrick, of Co-
lumbia University; Dr. Harry A.
Overstreet, of the College of the City
of New York; Dr. Robert Morse Lov-
ett, of the University of Chicago, and
Dr. George S. Counts, of the Inter-
national Institute.

The ‘new college has its informal
headquarters in Oetz, in the Tyrol, a
picturesque town high in the Austrian
Alps, and the students live in attract-
ive pensions in the village. There are.
no set entrance requirements, no for-
mal courses; text ‘books or examina-
tions, but each group of Americans
going over, whether it be for nine
weeks, three months, six months, or a
year, spends some time at the college
to which European as well as Ameri-
can leaders of thought are giving gen-
erously of their time. Here informal
lectures on world conditions are given
which, followed by group discussions,
provide an intelligent background for
the European trips which follow. —

For those who desire credit, ar-
rangements. have been made for study
at several continental universities;
through--which~-credit-may~be—obtain=
ed and transferred. Dr. Jay B. Nash,
of New York University, is chairman
of the admissions committee, which
has its American headquarters at 55
West 42nd street, New York City.





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smoke more; and when I smoke

more, I usually work harder—and that’s
why I want a cigarette that’s milder.”

We use in Chesterfield Cigarettes
mild, ripe Domestic and Turkish tobac-
cos which have been aged and 're-aged.

These good tobaccos in Chesterfield
are used in the right proportions—that’s
a very important matter.

These good tobaccos in Chesterfield
are blended and cross-blended—welded
together; that, too, helps to: make a
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_Mr. Lipson Speaks on —

Industrial Revolution



(Continued from Page One)

early ‘reformers strove to build up a

strong: labor movement, the..backbone
of which proved to be, not the fam-
ished hand loom weavers, but the rela-
tively well-paid factory operators,
who wanted security above everything
else. As Carlyle pointed out, the best
paid workers complained most because
they. were the dnes who could, literal-
ly, afford \to eomplain.

If one does not idealize the age
before the Industrial Revolution, it
must be admitted that ‘the machine
has undoubtedly been-beneficial in its
ultimate effects, and has improved the
conditions of the workers, but the evils
of the new system of production were
more evident to contemporaries than
the advantages. There was a com-
plete breakdown. of the old. English
institutions designed by the state to
protect. workers. The _ increasing
amounts of capital needed to purchase
machinery meant the loss of oppor-
tunities for wage earners to attain
mastership and economic independ-
ence. The growth of* an ‘industrial
population with no traditions to give
it stability, and the mingling in large
towns of such diverse social elements
as skilled craftsmen, agricultural la-

borers, and Irish immigrants with low

standards of* living, give thoughtful
people a feeling. of chaos and insta-
bility.

Society seemed to be breaking up
into new classes which were really
opposite camps—employers and em-
ployed, whose hostility after the in-
troduction of large scale production,
was. no. longer lessened by personal
contact. A clash of interests between
the two was inevitable, and arouséd
grave fears of social revolution. The
governing class, mistrustful of labor
aspirations, adopted a policy of in-
timidation and repression and only
consented to give labor a share of
political power after their’ suspicions
had been allayed.

What possible solutions could be
found for these pressing social prob-
In the decades following the
Napoleonic Wars, Englishmen tried to
anwer this question wisely. The man-
ufacturers demanded the- repeal of
the Corn Laws, and world-wide free
trade to promote the exchange of for-
eign wheat for English manufactures.
The Malthusian economists attributed
the existence of poverty to the pres-
sure of population on natural re-
sources, and suggested the diminish-
ing of population by emigration and
by stringent administration- of the
poor laws. The great Robert Owen

was, however, unsympathetic and
said, “Mankind will always be able.

, to produce as much food ag _ neces-

sary.” Another proposed remedy way
inflation, or the amendment of the
currency. Economic stagnatiofi was
attributed to the shortage of gold to
serve as a medium of exchange; Tho-
mas Atwood, a bankér’s son, propos-
ed the issue of paper money~to_bal-
ance production with productive de-
mand. A group of Tory Democrats,
among whom were Coleridge, Southey,
Michael Sadler and Richard Osler,
based their philosophy 6n the pres-
ervation of the existing fabric of so-
ciety, but postulated the obligation of
privileged classes to justify their
wealth and power through public
service.

The workers also had their own
programs of reform. The Socialists
hoped to establish voluntary co-op-

erative enterprises by which labor.

could direct its own economic salva-
tion. This was distinct from State
ocialism, which provides for govern-
ment ownership and control of the
instruments of production. The Char-
tists wanted to capture the govern-
ment and establish the ascendancy of
The
tiadé unionists, recognizing the neces-
sity of capitalists as a factor in pro-
duction, or at least considering them
too powerful to be eliminated, sought,
instead, to obtain the demands of la-
bor by collective bargaining.

The history of these three groups
of workers is really the story of the
labor movement to the present day.
The era of revolutionary fervor and

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New Gospel of Christ Will

Rise Above Materialism



“There are only’two possible philos-
ophies,” said. the Rev. Dr. George
Wood in Chapel Sunday night, “from
which to choose a guide for life, here
and hereafter,—one is that of mate-
rialism, which teaches that men are
chips on the mysterious set of the
cosmos, believing in nothing but time;
and space, and the Second is that of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

The quality of one’s life depends

entirely upon this schoice, for the lat- |

ter only, in this 20th Century, can
give a complete, wWell- -rounded exist-
ence. Before the War everyone was
told, and believed, that art, culture
and science, as dispensed by first- rate
universities, could build a happy race,
but that “bubble burst in 1914, and
Americans are now commonly desig-
nated as a thoroughly. disillusioned
people.” The depression has shown

them how fallible are their politicians’

and their self-made business men.
What other alternative can be ac-
cepted now to displace that of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ,—the dead tra-
dition of the past upheld by the orth-
odox Christians, or a modern humani-
tarianism,. a “hail-fellow-well-met”
positivism, which preaches “ad ‘infi-
nitum and ad nauseam” such copy-
book--maxims~as~-Emerson’s “Hitch
your wagon to a star?”

The Gospel, as it is now taught,
is new, and is based on findings rela-
tive to the personality of Christ and
the early religious beliefs. “One can
know Jesus better now than in any
generation since that which contained
the original Twelve Disciples, be-
cause for the last fifty years more
scientific scholarship and _ technical
analysis than ever has been expend-
ed in documentary criticism of the
early Hebraic writings.”’ In fact only
those having specialized in that sub-
ject ought to be permitted to write
on it. The Rev. Dr. Wood delivered
an indictment upon modern colleges
because .no courses ‘in scientific criti-
cism of the Biblical nd@rratives are
ever given. The botanist and the
physicist are not capable of explain-
ing the phenomenon of Christ, or of
rating His value to humanity, Mod-
ern investigation has shown Christ
as a being who emerged twenty cen-
turies ago in the. backwater of the
Roman Empire and who taught the
fundamentals of religion for about
eighteen months until he encountered
the opposition of age-old superstitions.
To all questions concerning who He
was He answered, “I am the Son of
Man,” which term meant ‘‘the center |
of the spiritual kingdom and_ the}
judge of humanity.” “It is ortho-

dox, pon-scientific and static non-!

sense to talk of Christ as the man)
who in the Bible coddled children and |
smelled lilies, for that man is merely |
a myth. The Gospel of today pre-
sents Christ as the master-technician
of human life,—one who knows all
the joys and sorrows of its ‘process.
The Gospel of today shows one how
to achieve eternal life by becoming,
in a genuine spiritual sense, ‘bone of |
the bone, and flesh of the flesh’ with:
Christ. This creed may be summar-:
ized by the text: ‘Come unto. me;
all ye who are heavy laden.’ ”’



intense social unrest which seemed to
threaten the disintegration of society

‘was followed at the middle of the

century by a contrasting period of
calm, during which labor was the ally
or the handmaid of*tiberalism, and
became trained to constitutionalism
while Parliament abandoned! laissez-
faire and made concession to labor.
This change was the result of the
widespread prosperity which England
enjoyed, and the workers» quietly de-
voted their energy to organizing trade
unions and establishing co-operative
stores. When-seven /years of econom-
ic distress followed the years of plen-
ty, revolutionary sentimegegs*again ap-
peared, and the labor movement was
reborn.












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Farewell to Arms

In A. Farewell to Arms, now play-
ing at the Paramount Theatre in
New York, after a run of several
‘weeks at the Criterion, the screen
once more handles a popular. novel
with consummate skill. Possibly a war
story is especially adaptable; we recall
the success of the screen version of
All Quiet on the Western Front. At
any rate, A Farewell to Arms should
jin no way disappoint Mr. Heming-
way’s admirers. |As for us, it was a
pleasant surprise.

There are probably few people who
{do not know, at least from hearsay,
the romance of the little English
nurse and ‘the American soldier, who,
with cannons to ‘the right of them,
cannons to the left of them, are so
drawn to each other that, as Cather-
ine assures us at the ‘end, even death
doth not part. The producers are to
be congratulated on having resisted
the temptation of the “happy ending,”
which eyen the screen authors of
Maedchen in Uniform could not with-
stand. As a matter of fact, Mr.
Hemingway has been closely follow-
ed, except in the case of the first
meeting of the lovers, which, occur-
ring in the picture during an air
‘raid, is anything but. casual.

From the point of viéw of writing,
then, the film has the same faults
as~-the-book,-the-greatest-of—which is
perhaps the failure to make its point;
whatever else we may lay to the fault
of the war, we cannot see that it was
responsible for the tragedy of these
particular lovers. Certainly it is not
only in war-time: that women die in
child-birth. Nor does the war even
keep the lovers apart; wounded, the
man is nursed back to health by none

when quite restored, he deserts. Fur-
thermore, bringing them together in
the first place, the war could not but
add zést to what, in peace, might
have been a completely prosaic af-
fair; the din of battle must surely
heighten one’s emotions.

On the other. -hand, and contrary
to our’ expectations, on becoming vis-
ible, Mr. Hemingway’s characters lost
much of their sentimentality. To the
sincerity of Gary: Gooper’s perform-
ance and to the conviction which Hel-
en Hayes brought to her part is due
the fact that we are quite swept
along by the story, and that, coming
‘to scoff, we remain almost to weep,
evert or perhaps we should say espe-
cially when Mr. Cooper cries into his
| coffee. He is,.of course, extremely
| presentable, as well as sincere, and
!Miss Hayes, though far from Eng-
lish, is as piquant as ever. Adolphe
| Menjou, in the part of Rinaldi, is also
| excellently cast, though his perform-
i ance, like the others, is characterized
| by its restraint, a restraint which
seems far less forced than it does on
paper.

Again, only once did we want to
cry, “Please, Mr. Hemingway;” the
unpleasant details of the book are
comparatively absent from the film.
| With regard to the sets, however, we
should: not have minded a little more
‘realism, except. for the war scenes,
‘which were intentionally impression-
| istic. But then, perhaps ‘Italian
| mountains really do look expensive;
| nature may be grand after all.

Another feature of the .picture,
which, it seems to us, was out of
keeping with a tone of simplicity, was
the music; Catherine passed gently
, away to the strains of nothing less
than the Liebestod.

On the whole, however, in the opin-
ion of this column at least, it is in
the movies, and not in the book or the
play, which was unsuccessful despite
the acting, ‘that A Farewell to Arms
appears to best advantage —L, C.







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.pher Morley calls it “a masterpiece

other than Catherine herself, and |



Current Book News
The Country Book Shop of Bryn
Mawr sends us the following book
news:

Nobody likes to wade through cat-
alogs. So, for your convenience, we’re
listing the high spots in Janyary
books.

Ann Vickers, by Sinclair Lewis,
and H. G. Wells’ The Bulpington of
Biup promise interesting reading. For
light:entertainment—E. M. DWlafield’s
Provincial Lady in London.

If the depression doesn’t keep you
awake evenings, these will. Before
the Fact, by Francis Islis. Christo-

of: cruelty and wit.” Or you might
prefer S. S. VanDine’s The Kennel
Murder Case. Speaking of Morley,
have you read his Human Being?

And.for theatregoers here’s a new
play opening shortly in New York—
Design For Living, by Noel- Coward.

Harold Nicolson’s brilliant novel,
Public Faces, might interest you. You
know he lectured recently in Phila-
delphia with his wife. V. Sackville-
West, author of Family History.

For the January jitters or Febru-
ary fog, you can’t go wrong with the
hilarious new Soglo book, Every-
thing’s Rosy or Going Somewhere—
a twentieth century Alice in Wonder-
land, by Max Ewing.



“Tf ‘my flight stimulated women’s
interest in flying, even though it did
not really aid aviation, I believe it
was completely justified,” said
Amelia Earhart in a recent lecture at
the Institute of Arts and Sciences.
“You are much safer going over fifty
miles an hour in an aeroplane than
in an automobile. When you do your
travelling by air, sometime within the
next two years, remember that I told
you so.”—(NSFA.)



Number of Candidates
for Varsity Reduced



(Continued*from Page One)

have both been absent from the last
few practices, they will probably keep
their old positions at center and side-
center. In the meantime, Miss Grant
has placed Nichols and Rothermel
against Horsberg and Engle in the
center court, with James and Collins
as alternates at side-center.

Miss Grant will have an especially
hard task in selecting the guards, be-
cause of the unusual number of-ex-
cellent Varsity material. Jackson,
Bowditch, Bishop and Kent are, vet- .
erans of last years’ team, but Bridg-
man has a way of breaking up passes
and dribbles which places her in the
first rank.

The present squad is as follows:
Collier, McCoemick, Faeth, Daniels,
Baker, Raynor, Howe, Simmons,
Longacre, Meirs, Nichols, Horsberg,
Monroe, Stone, Remington, Collins,
James, Rothermel, Engle, Bowditch,
Jackson, Kent, Bishop, Bridgman,
Little, Van Vechten, Fabyan.

Fabyan, ’35, was the only one to be
promoted to squad practice this week.
Watch the progress of your favor-
ites in our next installment.



The Phi Beta Kappa.can—expect
to live two years longer than the ma-
jor letterman, according to statistics
based on the life of 38,269 graduates
of eastern colleges, and compiled by
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Fencers’ League Holds

Novice Tournament



Bryn Mawr Takes Second and
Third Places Against
Philadelphia





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A novice tournament of the Ama-

teur Fencers’ League of America was
held in the May-Day room on Tues-
day, January 10. Three of the eight
contestants were from Bryn Mawr:

Marie Hayes. Gurney Fuguet, Helen
Lane, Annette Mink and Helen Page
represented the Sword Club of Phila-
delphia, and Ray Williams the Ship-

Each fencer was required to, stand
every one of her seven opponents, and
there were no less than twenty-eight
matches. The contest raged for three
hours, at the end of which time Mink
was still undefeated. To her went
the medal for first place. Hayes rank-
ed second, having lost only two bouts.
Gateson was third. Like Lane, she
lost three bouts, but she had against
her only twenty-one touches, whereas
Lane had twenty-nine.

The—-two--most~interesting~—~bouts
were Mink vs. Gateson, and Lane vs.
Williams. Mink fences with a very
low guard. Her attack is unusually
swift, and her parries very good. She
defeated Gateson, 5-4. Gateson,
though fencing very well at the be-
ginning of the contest, seemed to tire
toward the end, when she lost the
three matches. The Lane-Williams
bout, which Lane won, 5-4, was per-
haps the most careful, and brought
out a number of technical points; the
fencers seemed to be fencing “by
rule” rather than for points alone.

Several of the contestants were in-
deed novices. Fuguet, who ranked
fifth, has only been fencing since Oc-
tober, and Hayes, only for a year and
a half. Throughout, the latter gave
a good performance. Her attacks,
however, are better than her parries.

If we may judge by the other eve-
ning, in fencing upsets are frequent.
For example, Coxe defeated Gateson
and lost to Williams, 5-0, although
the latter had been defeated by Gate-
son, 5-0... Nor is it difficult to see

delicate movements, the slightest men-
tal jar will be disastrous.

' The meet was directed by Mrsw
Knight, of the American Olympic
fencing team. The judges were Lucy
Douglas, ’35, last year’s winner; Mr.
Brille, of the Sword Club, and Rob-
ert Agnew, a director of the club.
Mon. Fimes was present, and for the
first part of the evening a pretty good
audience attended. Unfortunately,
the meet had to be held in the May-
Day room, and quarters were slightly
cramped; in her bout with Gateson

a window, thus providing much merri-
ment. _Moreover, the mat on which
the battle was waged refused to be
held down, even by a desk, table and
piano, to say nothing of the
spectators. .



When a professor at Muhlenberg
College declared that the human body
is worth approximately ninety-seven
cents, another member of the faculty
went to work to prove that it is worth
infinitely more than that in terms of
energy. Since matter and radiation
are equivalent, he argued, then if the
body of a man weighing 150 pounds
should completely .disappear, enough
energy would be released to l#rht-the
football field . for 5,000,000 years.
Figuring out the cost of all those

lots of brawny half-backs would be
millionaires—dead. However, the
catch is that science has as. yet been
unable to unsnare this released
energy.— (NSFA.)



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Peking Picnic, by Ann Bridge.

It has often been noted that more
can happen to change one’s life and
character in a few eventful days than
in.months. of quiet-routine. So it was
fox.the little group of Europeans who
went to spend a spring week-end at
the Chinese temple of Chieh T’ae Ssu.
Pearl Buck has @troused a wide sym-
pathetic interest in China; now Ann

Biidge in Peking Picnic, the new At-
lantic $10,000 prize novel, describes
European diplomatic life against the
background of Chinese landscape, and
Chinese wars.

Perhaps it was the intoxicating
Peking air which created so many
emotional crises in three short days,
or possibly the beauty of thé temple,
with the fruit trees in bloom and the
immense Peking plain Spread out be-
low the terraced hill; certainly the ex-
perience of facing death together at
the hands of bandits left its mark
on each of the captured guests.

For the party which set off so gaily
for the Western Hills found the trip
unexpectedly eventful. _ Derek, the ir-
responsible philanderer, was sobered
by his love for a young singer; Lit-
tle Annette provedunequal-to—the
rigors of a strange climate; the re-
served professor of psychology dis-
covered the wisdom of folly; and a
well-known novelist, whose mind was
like nothing but a notebook, lost some
of her most cherished ideas. These
characters and others equally delight-
ful are well drawn, but they assume
significance only as seen through the
eyes of Laura Leroy, an arresting,
vital figure.

As Kipling pointed out, the life of
Westerners living in the midst of an
Oriental civilization in which they. can-
not take root, and constantly turning
their thoughts toward friends at
home; is a dual existence. Mrs. Le-
roy felt this keenly; her divided in-
terests made her lonely, and never
perfectly contented, either in England
or in China. Her remark, that “wom:
en ’round about forty tend to go in

for....lovers or detachment,’ was
very true in her own case. She and
une = professor found themselves

strongly drawn to one another, and
yet she retained an aloof point of
view, and made some profound gen-
eralizations.

Miss Bridge tells her story in a very
capable fashion, even though at the

~fbeginning the emphasis on local color

and the profusion of Chinese phrases
seem to betoken an anxiety to estab-
lish at all costs her first hand knowl-
edge of the East. There are minor
unevennesses in the style, such as un-
necessary is, aha of words in close
juxtaposition, Sut in the end the au-
thor proves herself a masterly land-
scape painter, and a clever writer of
dialogue. Her greatest achievment,
however, is the skill with which, by
combining emphasis on_ the little
things ‘of daily life with the exotic
beauty of the Forbidden City, and
penetrating analysis of emotion with
the swift action of an adventure
among bandits, she has made a funda-
mentdfly subjective story not only in-
teresting, but exciting.—E. N. H.

(This book was loaned by courtesy
of the Country Book Shop.)



Nicodemus, by E. A. Robinson.

The “latest book” of any poet is
opened fearfully by those who ven-
erate him. One is always half-afraid
to encounter within the waning power
of the poet who has written too much.
Nicode mus, a collection of recent
poems b¥ Edward Arlington Robin-
son, is a reassurance’ that the power
of this poet is still in full flight.

Nicodemus, the title poem, reveals
in a few moments’ conversation be-
tween Caiaphas and Nicodemus;the
whole faith of that little band who
followed the carpenter’s son of Naz-
areth, and the equally strong faith of
the triumphant churchmen in Jerusa-
lem. Nicodemus
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With dark humility that composed

itself

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And ate alive today, who do not care

Profoundly about that.”



and Caiaphas complacently answers;

“Our laws and Caesars’ are enough,
God knows,



our God,

‘Who chastened Moses when he fal-
tered,

And held him out of Canaan. Am I
“right? :

Why surely I am right. I am alwaya
right.

If I were wrong I should not be a

priest.” |

In words that are brief and clear,
yet set in poetic order, Robinson con-
veys to our understanding the two
sides of that struggle which, in a
great deal more time and space, others
have not. made so clear for us;

Sisera and Toussaint L’Ouverture
are not so pleasing because in his
haste and desire to tell the narrative
of Sisera’s rout and assassination,
and the conclusions of the unfortu-
fate _prisoner,-Robinson has lost sight
of the artistic and poetic background
which should encompass his facts.

The short poems contain another on
Annandale and the old How Annan-
dale Went Out reprinted, Hector
Kane, The Prodigal Son, The Spirit
Speaking, and Young Gideon, all but
the last in rhyme. They are all, ex-
cepting The Spirit Speaking, bits of
character sketch that remind one. of
Miniver Cheevy and The Master.

Ponce de Leon is again character
revealed through conversation and is
one of the best poems in this book.
It presents a very new picture of the
Spanish explorer and leader, not
proud of his ,deeds, but haunted on
his death bed by thd conviction of his
whole life has beef a wrong,

“Who sees more fates with his name
over them

In blood now than in gold.”

Dying he says, ae

“___“There-is no gratitude

Awaiting me, nor silent thanks, I
fear,

Save in my house, where they may

well be silent

I only hope



When I am out of this I shall not

hear

Some ¢ries, and other sounds, that
I have heard

Above the music my renown has
made :

For my magnificence.’ ”

The last poem, The March of the
Cameron Men, is by far the best poem
in the books, A story out of. the im-
agination, it ig the most emotional,
the most musical, and the most artis-
tically perfect of the poems. The
setting on a lonely lake inhabited by
loons, and near a house where lies
the body of a dead man; and the char-
acters, a man come back after years
to the woman he loves, are in them-
selves poetic. “The underlying theme
of the song within a song, “The
March of the Cameron Men,” bases
the poem on a definite melody and by
its recurrence creates unity. The mel-
ancholy of place and situation recalls
Matthias At the Door, the house with
its dead suggests Cavender’s House,
the words of the man are as beauti-
ful a love song as Robinson has ever
written. At first, triumphantly he
says,



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——‘I was an army,

And you the-banners that were over
me.’ ”

and later,

‘‘With a short road before me, I
have followed

Trails that have ended only. in *the
long,

Forlorn way of return;——

There’s more of me,

Be sure, than a man asking for a
woman.’



The unearthly ululation of a loon

Tore the slow twilight with a mortal
yell

Of madness, till again there was a
silence.

““T saw you on my journey, in my
arms,

At the long journeys’ “end, a saw
you, smiling;

Was it all shadows then, before and
after,

And all the time?
playing

For me when I came back there in
the starlight?

Was it a shadow that inveigled me

To serve as agent of a weariness

That—owns—no—purpose—and~has “no
remorse?”

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“The highest praise one can give
to Nicodemus is to say that it dis-
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poems. Its most important @@ntri-
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getting it back any time before nine
the next morning. Their imagination
does not reach far enough to picture
‘the student who gets over to theli-,
‘bray -by eight expressly to read the
book in question. They take books out
before 9.30 at night, not realizing that
it is a concession for them to be

- (18) : Write your own exegesis of

| ard’s “Design for Living” at the Han-
| this,

na Theatre last evening, with Alfred
Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Coward
jointly starred, was one of the,most
{notable events that has transpired;
|in the local theatre during the last
twenty years.

Philosophers in Pembroke





(Continued from: Page “Two)

—H. A. L.

(Continued from Page Two)



and all did not go as well as might
be expected. All the critics thought
che was deserving of great praise,
but there, their plaudits ended, al-
though without insult. Which all

For proof, consult the lady’s blot-
ter! (9)

Now at the final parting hour (10)

He flees—amid a misty shower, (11)

Tossing a greeting short and snappy,

Helpful Hints for Grads
A college papér provides this much-
needed list of practical uses for Cap

and Gown: “Here is Noel Coward delivering his

May your New Year be bright and; Cap: goes to prove that one face cannot| message to the people of the time in allowed to take hooks out at 9.30.

happy! (12) 1 With proper motioh of the head, | carry a play, and that all critics can-| which he lives; and he makes them | They keep books three and four hours,
Or in other words: tassel makes handy fly-swisher. not ignore a face. If a less remark-|laugh at themselves. instead of two; then in an effort not
Polly! 2. May-be ustd as fish bowl with| able face had appeared probably the| “His story is the same eternal tri- to. be caught, put the books back

themselves—on the wrong reserve.

Hardest of all to forget, they take
out, a-book on the eve of an exami-
nation without signing for it, leav-
ing their classmates who had reserved
the volume vainly searching the re-_
serve shelves, reflecting bitterly on the
baceness of student-kind.

morning papers would have carried
the usual damning, but under the cir-
cumstances the critics said that Miss
Jeans was lovely and that they all
had a good time. The play got no
mention. All is apparently not lost
when a critic’s soul is concerned, and

Golly! (13) angle; but it is a strangely different
triangle, with a wavering hypotenuse
and two curved sides; yet in the sum
total, as inevitably must be true, the
squares of that hypotenuse are exact-
;ly equal to the squares of the other
two sides.”

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Footnotes:

(1). Maybe they do clean up?

(2) “Bulgarian for “It is because.”

(3) What are linnets anyhow, and
' are they absent? I wonder?





(4) Well; he got a few hours’| 1. May be used ay pon-wiper in cynics like Mr. Sirovich should take
sleep. Make it “hardly ever.” exams. heart, write bad plays, put charming In the Library _ All of which probably goes to show
(5) Is it sculpture or just plain; 2. For rain-coat; with detachable | actresses in them, and be content. (Reprint From The College News, |that human nature doesn’t change



January 22, 1919) ses
In these days of stress many are
doubtless unbalanced by a frantic de-

much from generation to generation,
which may be a valuable thought, but
is hardly an encouraging one. If the

fur scarf, as evening wrap.
38. As winding-sheet.
4. As.disguise.

morbidity?
(6) Asin P. E. end-of the-hall.
(7) You don’t know the half of it.

Design for Living, the. Noel Cow-
ard comedy, starring Alfred Lunt,

[ (8) They used to; maybe this is| 5. To conceal excess poundage. (If| Lynn Fontanne, and Noel Coward,| sire to pass their examinations at any| human race is to progress it might
: obsolete. this doesn’t work, reduce.) opene’. most au piciously in Cleve-|cost. Nothing else, we assume, could just as well start in small things like
(9) ' “Life is one big phlop!” as (Ni Sic FA.) land last Wednesday, January -4. The| account for the depravity of a class this. We strongly recommend it as

lay come: to. the Ethel Barrymore | who, in the common verdict, “deserve | 4n achievement that this group. of



Schopenhauer also remarked.



(10) 8 P. M. Eastern Standard} According to mid-term reports po-t- ) atve January 23, for a run lim-|to be branded.” students might add to their other
Time. ed at the registrar’s office recently, | ‘97 to twelve weeks.’ The following} Their offense is that of keeping ji-! distinctions.

(11) Does it always rain here? |.1460 University of North Carolina] -»vrint is made from the Cleveland brary books from their fellow ‘stu-

(12) Pretty conventional thought,| students are failing their work thus | “‘ews’ review of the opening night: dents. If they take a.book out over-|. Advertisrrs in this paper are relia-





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