College news, March 22, 1933

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VOL. XIX, No. 16

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 22, 1933

Copyright -BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS





Art Comment Aroused

by Frank Lloyd Wright

Noted Pe eeu Fol-

lowing Dictates of Mod-
ern Times

USES NEW MATERIALS

(Especially Contributed by
Edward M. M. Warburg)

Hoping for the day when bath-
‘rooms and kitchens would no longer
be the only modern units in contem-
porary building, and when we would
give up the safe and sound practice
of retiring into the forms and fash-
ions of “the good old days,” Frank
Lloyd Wright struck the keynote of
his address on “The Future of Archi-
tecture,” delivered under the auspices
of the Undergraduate Association,
Tuesday night, March 14, in Good--
hart Hall.

Seldom: has there been a lecture
given at Bryn Mawr which has caus-
ed so much comment. Not that this
lecture added much new material to
our knowledge on architecture, or
even supplemented Frank Lloyd
Wright’s own writings, but it was an
event in. which one of America’s few
pioneers in art explained his philoso-
phy, a philosophy which, as he him-

- self stated, was very close to that of
Spinoza, and in terms of that philos-
ophy, explained how architecture

“played its part.

As Mr. Wright came into the Good-
hart auditorium he murmured,
“Heavens, a Church!” and perhaps
that remark, coupled with his sense
of fitness, caused him to give a self-
admitted sermon. . He chose for his
text a passage from “The Prophet,”
by Kahlil Gibran, referring to the
true meaning of a home in modern
civilization, to mankind as a “child
of space,—restless in space.”’. With
that as a starting point, Frank Lloyd
Wright went on into a discussion of
the meaning of organic architecture.
In order to define it more clearly,
he divided architectural tradition

(Contipued oh Page Five)





Full Schedule Arranged
for Bryn Mawr Fencers



(Especially Contributed by
M. Gateson, ’34.)

Though the list of Bryn Mawr
fencers is not long this year, the
schedule ahead of them is a full one.
Already a good start has been made:
Bryn Mawr won second and third
places in the Novice Individual Tour-
nament of the Philadelphia division
of the A. F. L, A., and second place
in the Junior Individual Meet. . The
Varsity team has been invited to
fence for the Junior Team champion-
ship on April 11, and while the other
meets’ have not yet been definitely
arranged, it is hoped that the Fenc-
ers’ Club of New York, the Sword
Club of Philadelphia, and our own
alumnae will send teams to meet us.
The Junior team will have a match
against Shipley School in April; and
in May, as usual, ladders will be
fenced to determine the Senior and
Junior Champions of the College.

But, above all, this year is to be
regarded as one of training. Most
of the meets will be on the round-
robin plan so that more fencers may
take part and add to their practice
and experience. At present all of
the fencers are in the three lower
classes and are therefore to be look-
ed on as material for the future. M.
M. Coxe is designing-a new insignia,
which ‘will be awarded for the first
time this season to the Varsity
fencers. o

Fencing at Bryn Mawf labors un-
der the"disadvantage of costing five
dollars a month, which at once puts
it on a plane of its own. - We want,
if possible, to break down the idea
that it is a luxury, and to increase
the number of people who take it, em-
-phasizing, along with the enthusiasm
of its devotees for “all the cant of
the honorable fencing mystery,” its
value as a thoroughly strenuous ex-
ercise and a regular college sport.

—



_ CALENDAR

Thurs., March’ 23 — Miss |!
Tousley will speak on Junior j¢)
Month. 4.30, Common “oom.

Fri., March 24—Fellowship = ||

, Chapel. 8.40 A. M., Goodhart. |

Swarthmore swimming meet. |!
Gym, 4.00. |
* Sun.,. March 26.— Chapel. ||
Rev. Malcolm E. Peabody, Rec- |
tor of St. Paul’s Church, Chest- |

nut Hill. 7.30 P. M., Music ||
. ‘Room. ’

Tues., March 28—Dance Fes-
tival in gym at 5.00.

Dr.. Salo Finkelstein will
demonstrate and lecture on
Rapid Calculations, 8.20 .P, M.,
in Goodhart.

Wed., March 29—Mr. Horace
Alwynne, R.F.M.C.M., will give
a piano recital. Goodhart. at
8.20 P. M. A

oa



-we must also mention especially Miss





French Club Play Re-
sempbles Court Masque)

Splendid Acting Surpasses High
Standards Set in Past by
French Club





MLLE. M. REY DIRECTS



In. their presentation of Le Bour-
geois Gentilhomme last Friday night
in Goodhart, the French Club sur-
passed even the high standards that

it has set in the past. In the first
place the choice of the play was espe- |
cially good this year; Moliere is 4l-|
ways popular and is well-suited both



to the limitations and to the powers
of. a college group. In the second |
place the treatment of the play by'|
the director, Mlle. Maud Rey, seemed |

to us unusually fine.

Miss Park Announces
Changes in Faculty



Anna Howard Shaw Lectures in

Social Sciences to Start
: Next Fall



BUDGET REDUCED AGAIN



“It is about this time in the year
that we start to spring over the sum-
mer and think about next fall,’ said
Miss Park in Chapel Friday morning.

‘The administration must concern it-

self with faculty appointments for
next year, and must make out the
budget. The present financial situ-
ation of the college is very satisfac-
tory in view of the Depression.
year the budget was cut, greatly, no
appropriations having been made to
take care of the property of the col-
lege, namely, the buildings, the lawns,
etc., every spare dollar having: been
put into the Scholarship Fund, Bryn
Mawr now finds itself with a very
surprising surplus, “false surplus,”
though it is, having resulted from a
slash in expenses which the adminis-
tration did not like to make. The bud-
get which has just been made out
falls again well inside the expected
income, which consists in the tuition
of the students and the interest from
investments. This year the cut has
been made jin académic salaries and
in the appropriations for the library
and the laboratories, with a hope that
this cut will not be noticeable to the
students. The year after next Bryn
Mawr ought to be able to resume
the old standards, which is a trib-
ute to. the conservatism of the in-
vestors of the college’s securities.

A number of changes in the fac-
ulty have been necessitated, due to the
retirement of Dr. Leuba, Dr. Crandall

There was aland Dr. Wright. -As no one could be
fairy-tale atmosphere about the, per-|

found to carry on Dr. Crandall’s

formance that made it easier for the | work, the English Department has

audience to bridge over the gaps in|
in men’s!

reality—such as women

been slightly rearranged. ‘Mrs. Clara
Marburg Kirk, a graduate of* Vas-

parts and youth playing old age—' sar, who received her Ph.D. from the

and to believe the more quickly in |

University of Chicago, and has been

what it saw and heard before it. This | Assistant Professor of English at
atmosphere was created in part by! Vassar for five years, is coming to

the manner in which the individual | Bryn. Mawr next fall. Mrs. Kirk will

a’ sort! have charge of Freshman English,
and will teach a small section her.’
stantly won the spectator to them;| self.

actors attacked their’ parts:
of enthusiastic informality which in-

and in part by the pageantry of the |
whole thing, the gorgeous costumes of |
“more than Oriental splendor,” the!
charming musicians and their music,
the stately dancing, arid the durious
fun of the Turkish ceremony, all mix- |
ed together until the thing seemed |
like a formal play and more a court!
nlasque, which was as much a social,
function as an artistic effort, and in’
which the actors entertained them-|
selves even before they entertained |
others. |

The casting this year was excellent. |
Many of the actress@S have appeared |
in French Club performances in the|
past, but seldom to better advantage. |
Miss Jarrett, for instance, who play-|
ed the title role, gave an- excellent,
performance of Dr. Knock last year, |
but as the Bourgeois she was much
more effective. Her talent for com-
edy had a better opportunity to dis- |
play itself, and she managed to make,
the part at once ridiculous, irritating, |
and lovable. Especial mention must
be made of two other members of the!
cast, Miss Anita Fouilhoux and Miss:
Lena Mandell. In a whole series of |
excellent performances, among which



Bill’s, they stood out amazingly. Miss
Fouilhoux to some extent, because of
her person and voice (but to a great-
er extent because of her fine presence
and characterization) dominated the
scene whenever she chose. She was
extraordinarily sympathetic as a
character.in as brittle a comedy as
this, and She was certainly striking
both in her carriage and her use of
‘her voice. MiSs Mandell’s talent is

for another type of comedy, but it is
no less outstanding a talént. As the
maid, Nicole, she made one of the
most remarkable entrances we have
ever seen, putting across with great
‘success the difficult task of starting



| to laugh on a cold stage and continu-



She will probably give an ad-
vanced course in writing, possibly in
criticism. Bryn Mawr alumnae’ who
teach at Vassar. recommend Mrs.
Kirk very highly. Miss Meigs is to
retain ‘her Freshman section, and to
give a course in the writing of fic-
tion, both short stories and novels.
Hortense Flexner King will give
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Schools and Colleges —

Plan Conference Here
cr

A conference between the repre-
sentatives of the preparatory schools
and the women’s colleges will be held
at Bryn Mawr on March 24th and
25th to discuss admission problems.
The members of the conference will
include the admissions secretaries
from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Radcliffe,
Wheaton, Wellesley, and Wells col-
leges and a committee of the National
Association of Principals of Girls’
Schools. The president of the Na-
tional. Association of Principals of
Girls’ Schools is Miss Mary Raymond,
of the Hathaway-Brown School in
Cleveland, and the chairman of the
conference committee is. Miss Sarah
Converse, of the Summit Schoo] in
St. Paul.

The other representatives of the
schools are Miss L. Gertrude Angell,



Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, New
York; Miss Eloise Tremain, Ferry
Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois; Miss

Edna F. Lake, Laurel School, Cleve-
land, Ohio; Miss Marjorie Hiscox,
Louisville Collegiate School, Louis-
ville, Kentucky; Miss Elizabeth Sin-
gleton, Girls’ Latin School, of Chi-
cago, Chicago, Illinois; Miss Dorothy
M. Bement, Northampton School For
Girls, Northampton, Massachusetts;
Mrs. David L. Wing, The Madeira
School, Greenway, Virginia.

Last*

»eppeared to the Committee on





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Ry., West Shore R. R.—are is-
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tickets for use over the spring
vacation at a price for return
trip of a single fare and one-
ninth. An identification cer-
tificate with the name of the
applicant and countersigned by
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins must be
presented at the railroad sta-
tion to obtain a ticket at this
reduction.

The offer is open to faculty,
students and personnel.

The certificates may be ob-
tained at the Publication Office.







College Council Dis- .

cusses Noise at Meals



Questionnaire Concerning Nu-
merical Marks to be
Circulated



QUOTA DEBATED AGAIN



In the last meeting of the College
Council, held March 8, several mat-
ters brought up recently in the News
were discussed, and recommendations
handed down.

The question of the Quota as it
the
Quota, was. discussed in last week’s
.ssue. However, there seem to have
developed several misunderstandings
concerning the statement that “with-
in the year the Quota shall remain
set.” The “year” referred to is not
the calendar year, but the college
year,-so-that- students -dropping out
during the summer would not create
a vacancy in their hall, although they
would create one if they left at any
time after the college opened in Octo-
ber. There is one exception to even
this rule, however, for if a hall is
over quota for any class, students will
not be allowed to fill vacancies oc-
curring in that hall, until the num-
ber of her class in the hall has been
reduced to Quota requirements.

The ever-present question of nu-
merical marking, and the public post-
ing of marks was the next subject
discussed. Miss Park reported a plan
presented by Miss King, which calls
for a double list of marks; the first
column to contain block marks of
merit, credit, etc., and to be display-
ed; the inner column to contain the
exact’ numerical marks, not to be

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Recital to be Given :
by Mr. Horace Alwyne



President Park and the directors of
the college are inviting the faculty,
staff and student body of the college
and special outside guests to be pres-
ent at a piano recital given by Mr.
Horace Alwyne, in Goodhart Auditor-
ium on Wednesday, March 29, at 8.20
o’clock. This recit'al is a gift of Mr.
Alwyne to the college and the direc-
tors are very’trateful to him for his
generosity. “Little needs to be said
about the value of the opportunity
that is offered, for the whole co ege

knows. Mr. Alwyne in one or anothe#]

of his capacities, and most of the
student body have heard him perform
already on one or more occasions. To
those who have not, it need only be
said that Mr. Alwyne is one of the
most) gifted pianists in America, and
that We are fortunate to have him
here in the Music Department, and
even more fortunate ‘to be able to
hear him play in public. The entire
right front section is to be reserved
for students of the college and they
can obtain reserved seats by calling
for them at the Publications office.







| After Bryn Mawr had made

Bryn Mawr Defeated
Swarthmore, 32-15



Varsity Played Fast Game
Marked by Accuracy and
* . Co-Operation



SECOND GAME WAS SLOW



On Saturday, March 18, Swarth-
more bowed once again to Bryn Mawr
by the scores of 32-15 and 31-19.
Faeth opened the scoring with a pret-
ty shot from directly beneath the bas-
ket on an overhead pass from Collier.
six
points in rapid succession, Swarth-
more called time out to formulate a
plan of defense which, however,
proved to be practically futile. The
whistle blew for time in; Longacre

| won the tip-off and passed to Rem-

ington, who .got.the.ball. tothe for-
wards; and a series of clock-work
passes Fésulted in two more points for
Varsity.

A great deal of credit should go_
to the guards who kept the Swarth-
more forwards to a total of seven
baskets. Kent, besides being an
excellent jumper, stuck closely to her.
forward, while Bridgman was unusu-
ally good at intercepting passes and
almost invariably successful in break-
ing up dribbles.

Swarthmore was extremely slow in
getting started and their low score
was due mainly to their inability to
! find the range of the basket. On the
other hand, we were glad to notice
the pacsing of the Bryn Mawr team
was very fast and yet on the whole ©
accurate, and the co-operation was
most encouraging.

The line-up was as follows:

Swarthmore Bryn Mawr
SUMS. sew ness bee ee Ss Faeth
Metesite. 3.5... tae oe Collier
Volkmar ....). Sei Longacre
O'Neill i en Remington
So Mee eRe Sai Kent
Longshore ..... Re eg ie Bridgman

Points—Swarthmore: Stubbs, 7;
Metcalfe, 8 Bryn Mawr: Collier,
19; Faeth, 13.



The Second Varsity game was a
bit disappointing after the speed)
and excitement of the first team”
game, The forwards — especially
should note the excellent teamwork
and..clever out-of-bounds plays which
the Varsity forwards used so effect-
ively. Baker takes far too many
chances on long shots and her tend-
ency to dribble in rather than to pass
often results in her being called for
charging. Meirs is often blocked be-

Heause she hesitates at the end of a

dribble instead of shooting immedi-
ately. Raynor went in for Baker in.
‘the second half, but the combination
did not work out as well ‘as the first
because of_her. slow passes.

Nichols was) fairly steady on the
tip-off, but her passes to the forwards
were often too high and many times
entirely out-of-bounds.- ‘Also, in this
case, unfortunately, the centers’ de-
fensive was not as good. as their of-
fensive play.

Although they started off well, the
guards were not up to their usual
standard. In the second half, they
were often left far behind or else they
passed the ball directly into the hands
of the forwards. Only the bad luck
which the Swarthmore forwards had
with their shots prevented them from
getting a higher score.

The large number of people at
both games was much appreciated

and. gave needed— encouragement “tek gees

“the players of both teams.
The line-up was as follows:

Swarthmore Bryn Mawr
OCG Ci sah vx A ebay Meirs
Spurrier =. ./:.. | arias Baker
WVGUNOR os ids re eee Nichols
«cai copuatrtanedllt 0, 1 ne Collins
OCOras isi. ck ee Bowditch
i TS ere enn Jackson

Substitutions—Swarthmore: Yard
for Sonneborne. Bryn Mawr: Ray-
nor for Baker. Points—Swarthmore:
Spurrier, 9; Geddes, 10. Bryn Mawr:



Baker, 11; Meirs, 16; Raynor, 4,






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Questionnaire on Honors
Complaints are frequently heard on any campus that college does
not satisfy, does not give fullest opportunity for development, does
not send forth really educated persons. Doubtless, the fault, in part,
lies not in our stars, nor anything so remote and immutable, but. in
ourselves. What do we want? what don’t we get? what do we do with
what we have already?

‘must be put, before any attempt to remedy defects can be made suc-

Such questions as these and their answers

In any such attempt the influence of that body of opinion
To
ascertain that opinion, to presént it clearly, to publish it abroad for all
to discuss, is the aim of a questionnaire on honors work, which is to be
distributed by the News at the end of, the week.

Such fundamentals as motives in working, expectation of reward
or penalty, and permanent achievements are brought forward in it.
The results will present bewildering complexities, but from them at
We hope that by
answering these questions you will help provide a fepresentative cross
section of cellege opinion.

to which we hope this publication caters, should be enormous.



Gifts of the Magi

There is a4 rumor current on the campus to the effect that some

‘of the courses and lectures offered this year as especial gifts of inter-

ested alumnae and friends may be discontinued next year, We feel
that before any vital decisions are made in this matter it would be well
to take occasion to express what we feel to be the attitude of the
“majority of students about the courses and lectures which are especial
gifts. Two excellent examples of especially endowed features of the
curriculum and lecture program are the lectureship which this year
will bring T. S. Eliot to speak at college and the endowment that has
brought Miss Minor White Latham, of Barnard and Columbia, here
as a, lecturer in a course on playwriting. This type of gift to the

* college, we feel sure, is-one of the most--valuable.of.all gifts, .and.cer-

tainly one of the most generally appreciated. Scholarship gifts and
endowments may be more worthy—if -indeed there can be a scale of
relative values placed on gifts to an institution—but scholarship gifts
touch directly only ‘one person. Gifts of lectureships touch everyone
who chooses to attend the lecture, and gifts of especial courses, all
those who take the courses.

We.do not know just what courses or lectures are involved in the
rumor, but we feel that it is as good a time as any to express the ap-
preciation and enthusiasm of the students who are taking the course
in playwriting. There has seldom, to our knowledge, been a course in
the college curriculum which has attracted so much attention from its
very commencement and so steadily maintained the enthusiasm which
it early created in its niembers. If (and it is not impossible) the
course in playwriting should produce some really able eraftsmen, who
should then be able to turn what knowledge their education and back-
ground had given them, into the theatre, where such new material is
greatly needed, then surely our unknown benefactor has accomplished
much. In the meantime, those students-who have benefited by the gift
are tremendously enthusiastic, and many of those who are not able to
take the course are anxious to do so next year.
have a chance to register for it feel that they have missed something,
and are extremely eager to take advantage “of thé privilege if it is
Those whose schedules prevented their taking it this
year, or ‘who have been fired too late with the general enthusiasm, are
just as eager. There will be much disappointment if the course is not

offered again.

“We have discussed this course at length because it is one of the
few that we know are given by outsiders. We wish to thank the dona-
tors.on behalf. of the members of that class and on behalf of the student
body as a whole. If we knew more definitely which other courses in
college were offered in the same way, we should like to express our
appreciation in the same manner. Since we do not, we can only say,
that we do thank these unknown friends of the college and that we do
appreciate in an unusually forceful manner their thought and their
gifts. We also can say only very vaguely, hoping that this editorial
may come to the right eyes, that on behalf of the student body we hope
very much that these gifts will not be discontinued, but that the privi-
~ leges which have been so deeply enjoyed by the present student body

wit be extended to those who have not yet enjoyed them and to incom-}

fa

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_scholarships,

Freshmen who did not].



-~LETTERS

(The. News..is.not..responsible. for
opinions expressed in this column.)

Editor’s Note: In answer to some
of the objections mentioned below,
the News. promises that if the pro-
posal for automatic subscriptions is
adopted, anyone who can prove her-
self unable to pay thirty-five cents
each pay day will be exempted from
the requirement.



To the Editor of the College News:

The proposed change in the financ-
ing of the College News presents
two definite sides, which must be con-
sidered separately if we are to avoid
éonfusion and sophistry. The col-
lection .of the money affects our fi-
nancial .well-being;° and its disposal
in the paper which is both our source
of entertainment and information,
and our representative to the outside
world, affects our sensibilities and
our pride. I shall first discuss the
more intimate problem that concerns
our pocket-books.

The argument for public subsidy of
the News as it affects the first prob-
lem is that the present system is un-
fair. All students, it is argued, profit

-equally by the News;-those who do

not” subscribe “read the copies of
others. In the interest of fairness,
then, all students should be made to
pay equally for the value received.
This makes an. immediate appeal to
our sense of justice. I wish to point
out that this apparently incontrovert-
ible argument is based"8h a false con-
ception of democracy, one which is
not exemplified in our national sys-
tem of government nor adhered to by
our college authorities in certain im-
portant matters.

We may pay for the privileges and
services we enjoy either according to
value received or according to abil-
ity to pay. The first. method is, in
my opinion, the primitive one and the
second the civilized one. In govern-
ment the first is enforced by flat-
rate taxes, and the second by taxes on
a sliding scale. Our own government
adheres to the first only in the single
small matter of the poll tax. The
large property owners, who supply
most of our government funds, do in-
deed have more to be protected; but
the greatest service of all, the pro-
tection of. public peace and life, is
free to all, so that the correlation of
taxes paid and value received is at
best very poor; the correlation with
abifity to pay is very high. To take
an example from college: who could
hold that the rooms for which we
pay $500 actually give us five times
the value of those for which we pay
$100? The prices of rooms, though
they vary with desirability, vary all
out of proportion to it. The system
is clearly designed so that the charges
may be approximately correlated with
ability to pay. The same principle
is exemplified in the assignment of
though here another
factor enters in.

Now let us compare the financing
of our government and of the major
facilities of our college with the pres-
ent method of financing undergradu-
ate organizations. Class and under-
graduate dues are always issued on
a flat rate basis. I have long advo-
cated (not without selfish motives, I
admit) that these should be collected
on a sliding scale varying with the
room-rent that individual students
pay. Failing the realization of this
Utopian dream, I can at least oppose
the addition of any further charges
to this mounting heap of flat rate
taxes.

Now for the second problem of the
disposal of the money received. If
the new system results in greater fi-
nancial stability of the News, it will
enable it (provided it is not actually.
approaching financial embarrassment,
a possibility already eliminated by
statements from the Board) to give
us a “bigger and better” paper.
Greater financial resources would un-
Questionably enable it to be bigger.
The excellence of: the News depends
on other factors; the quantity of in-
teresting subject matter, which is
definitely limited, and the amount of
time its staff is able to devote to its
production—this, too, is unfortunate-
ly limited, as we all realize. Since
interest and excellence cannot be
much increased, I question the advis-
ability of having a bigger News.

I am not sufficiently optimistic to
hope for ahy great improvement of
Mise News by- adoption of monetary

Regus



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measures; and I find no fault with

the present system of support ac-

‘cording to willingness~ ¢(which-I-con-

sider a very good indication of abil-

ity) to-pay. — ohn
. ALICE BRUES.



To the Editor of the College News:
We, the undersigned, being in favor
of automatic subscription to the News
and feeling that through much dis-
cussion the issues in question . have
become confused, wish to make clear
what we feel and the main issues in-
volved and our stand upon them:

(1) The News, in one or more of
its functions, renders a service to the
great majority of the student body,
in much the same way that Under-
graduate and Self - Government
Boards render a service, although we
admit that the fields: are widely dif-
ferent. Feeling this we believe that
the News should be put upon the
same basis as they are: Also as the
News stands now, it is in reality the
organ of the undergraduate body, but

‘legally the organ of the administra-

tion and of the small group that own
it. We feel that it should be recog-
nized legally as the organ.of the un-
dergraduate. body.

(2.) - We: feel that two-injustices
are being done under the present
system.

“(a) An injustice to the News,
since it is read by many and sub-
scribed to by compartively few.

(b) An injustice to those who do
subscribe, since the smallness of their
numbers make the price they pay
higher. In other words, if everyone
who read the News paid for it, it
would cost each of them a good deal
less. Since it is not possible to en-
force the payment of all who read it,
without making it fairly general, and
for the above reasons, we feel that
subscription should be made auto-
matie.

Signed:

MARION MITCHELL, 34,
ANITA FOUILHOUX, 734,
ELIZABETH S. EDWARDS, ’338.
ELEANOR PINKERTON, ’33.
MOLLY B. NICHOLS, ’34.
MARGARET F. COLLIER,
BEULAH ‘PARKER, ’33.
MARGARET M. RIGHTER, ’34.

33.



To the Editor of the College News:

The undergraduates have been
asked to consider the advisability of
making compulsory the subscription
to the College News. As we see it,
this involves a more important ques-
tion, that of the management of the
News. There are three possibilities:.
(a.) continued independence of the
News as a private concern, with vol-
untary ‘subscription; (b.) the contin-
ued independence of the News, with
compulsory subscription; (c.) the
publication of the News as an official
college organ under the auspices of
the Undergraduate Association, with
automatic subscription. In the dis-
cussion of. the question, it seems to us
that no adequate distinction hag been
made between the last two possibili-
ties.

Although we believe that it would
be legitimate to enforce subscription
if the News were an official Under-
graduate publication, we feel that* it
is unjust to comman My support for a
private enterprise. In all cases of
private monopoly, the individual has
the right to refuse the services of-
fered. The only monopolies that he
cannot refuse to support are neces-
sary governmental monopolies, such
as fire and police protection; and he
has, theoretically, some part in the
control of these. It is to the princi-
ple of arbitrary compulsion that we
object. There is a tendency in mod-
ern politics to approve of arbitrary
measures in cases of- emergency and
where these measures are proved
necessary to the well-being of the
whole community. In our smaller so-
ciety we flatter ourselves that greater
flexibility_is possible. Even in Big

be: i] an objective .record of cam-

pus activities (and this, we feel, is :
its least important function); 2. a ~
critic, independent and constructiyes!~

of all that concerns our interests;
and 8. a forum for ‘discussion, in
which the News, as conscientious
critic, can take a leading part. We
feel that the chief virtue of a céflege

paper is its critical independence;

that its power. lies in a just use of its
editorial prerogatives and in its lack |
of responsibility to the majority
opinion. :

We believe that in becoming offi-
cially responsible to the .student
body, the News would lose the right
to its chief function, and would be-
come a community conscience, dis-
creetly impersonal and dull, or as
painfully battered as .the individual
conscience. For a really representa-
tive paper, other than a purely offi-
cial bulletin, is patently unworkable.
At Bryn Mawr, moreover, an official
bulletin‘is not necessary, as it is in
larger colleges, where it serves ad-
ministrative purposes, fulfilled here
by hall announcements, chapel, and
undergraduate committees.

The alleged advantages of putting.
the News under Undergraduate con-
trol are, as we understand them:

1. That general subscription would

give the paper increased financial sta- _

bility at the beginning of each year.
Although the necessity of operating
on credit is undesirable, it is a neces-
sity which many business concerns
must face. This temporary difficulty
might be overcome if subscriptions
were taken in the spring of the pre-
ceding year, or if provision were
made for this period from reserve
capital. At present, 210 undergradu-
ates subscribe to the News, paying
$2.50 a year; this makes a total of
$525. If subscription were made
compulsory and the price of the News
decreased, approximately 350 under-
graduates would subscribe, paying
$2.00 a year; this makes a total of
$700. This increase of $175 seems
relatively small, when one considers
that each issue of the News costs
approximately $110. Although ‘we
realize that the increase of circula-
tion might give the News a more ad-
vantageous advertising rate, we do
not feel that this minor contribution
to the stability of the News warrants
a sacrifice of the minority.

2. That with added financial back-

‘ing, the News could be expanded and

improved. We feel that the News is
now as large a paper as the college
can support, since both subject mat-
ter, and the time which the editors
may devote to its publication, are
necessarily limited. Any further ex-
pansion would be purely technical and
not, we feel, relevant to the real im-
provement of the News.

38. “That we would be following
other colleges,’ in making- subscrip-
tion compulsory. This is, ag we see it,
hardly pertinent.

4. That the unfair practice of non-
subscribers who read the News would
be eliminated, We believe that this
is neither so widespread nor so ne-
farious a practice as it is represented
to be. Since 210 undergraduates sub-
scribe, we believe that -this repre-
sents those who are really interested
in the News and those who can afford
it. We see no reason “why several ,
people should not share: the expense.;
of one subscription.

5. That this action would stimulate
a “spirit of college co-operation with
the News.” We doubt that compulsion
would increase this “spirit.”” The sup-
port of the college as a whole must
be, won by the intrinsic interest of
the matter and the vitality of the
criticism which the News. offers.

These questioned advantages to the
News do not compensate for the cor-
relative disadvantages to the minor-
ity. At the present time, when it is
essential for everyone to cut expenses,
and when at least one-third of the col-



May Day, which is the largest and
most cooperative extra-curricular un-
dertaking of the college, participation
is mot compulsory. Therefore, it
seems to us, that if the subscription is
made compulsory, the News should,
in all justice, become an official. Un-
dergraduate paper. ©

The objections to the Undergradu-
ate control of the News take a dif-
ferent form and concern primarily
the advantages and the disadvantages
of this new responsibility to the News
itself. We’ believe that it is the ideal
function of a college newspaper to





lege is receiving financial aid, any
arbitrary. increase in personal ex-
pense should be regarded as undesir-
able, unless it is absolutely neces-
sary. Many members of the minor-
ity are those whose allowances have
been cut to an incredible minimum;

they are being asked to make very
Others are .

real personal sacrifices,
those who are sincerely not interest-
ed in any college publication; and
others disapprove of the proposed ac-
tion on ethical grounds. (We’d say,
“ethico-political,” but we’re afraid
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crawl event.





Freshmen Place First:
‘in Swimming Contest



Jane Bronson Has Highest In-
dividual Score With
Porcher Second



DANIELS WINS DIVING



The second Interclass) swimming

meet came to an uproarious close,
with the Freshmen in first place with
a total score of. 44 points and the
Seniors in, second with 35 points. The
individual cup went to Bronson, 33,
with 13 points. She received first
place in the 40-yard free style, sec-
ond place in the 20-yard free style,
and a first in the crawl for form.
Second honors went to.Porcher, ’36,
with first in the side stroke :for form
and the 40-yard back crawl. On the
basis of the last meet, the diving cup
went to Daniels, ’34, who received a
score of 39.65, with Parker, ’33, a
close second with 36.75 points, An-
other college record was broken when
Waldemeyer, ’85, surpassed her own
time of .18.2 seconds by winning
the 20-yard free style in 11 seconds,
while ‘Porcher-equalled“Mitchell’s-rec-
ord of 33 seconds for the ‘40-Yard

was disqualified, so that the points
went.to 1936, which came in second
in 1 and 38-5 minutes.

The events and their winners were
as follows:

. 20-Yard Free Style Waldeneper,
35, 11 seconds; Bronson, 33, 12.3
seconds; Bridgman, ’36, 13 seconds.

40-Yard Free Style—Bronson, ’33,
26.2 seconds; Daniels, ’34, and Wylie,
36, 26.4 seconds; Goldwasser, 734,
28.8 seconds.

40-Yard Back Crawl—Porcher, ’36,
33 seconds; Taylor, ’35, 33.2 seconds;

Bucher, ’85, and Stokes, 736, 34 sec-
onds.

Side Stroke For Form—Porcher,
36, 25.5 points; Butler, °34, 22

points; Bowditch, ’33, 21.5 points.
Crawl For Form—Bronson, ’33, 25
points; Whiting, ’86, 24.5 points;
Parker, ’33, 24 points.
Diving—Parker, 33, 36.75 points;
Daniels, 34, and Stokes, ’36, 36.25

_ points; Wylie, ’36; 34.6 points.

Relay—1936, 1 and 3-5 minutes.

Total Points For Both Meets —
1936, 44;°1933, 35; 1934, 30; 1935,
28.

Others taking part in the meet
were: e

1933: Noguchi, Bowditch, Jack-
sop; 1934: Meneeley; 1935: P. Lit-
tle, Messimer, Taylor, Cole, Bill, Mon-
roe; 1936, M. Goldwasser, Scott.



Literary Opportunity

‘The following letter from Creative
Arts Service, 12 Bast 54th street,
New York City, is ‘printed in the be-
lief that the services offered’ may: be
of interest to our readers:

Dear Editor:

Being literary agents—principally
literary, but also interested in selling
for composers, scenario writers and
playwrights—we find to our infinite
despair and woe that there is actu-
ally a dearth of literate writers. We
are familiar with many college and
university publications and are thor-
oughly convinced: that much valuable
material appears in them.

We are therefore desirous of reach-
ing the “young blood: element,” and
should be extremely grateful if you
would, through the pages of your
paper, acquaint your readers with
our service, thereby, we think, doing
us both a good turn.

We began and have always worked
with an especial interest in the young
author, ,in beginners and in new writ-
ers. As we are located right in the
market and have excellent publishing
connections, pretty good taste, much
determination, superb footwork, we
think we are singularly well equip-
ped to handle any deserving material
that may come in.

We are not after reading fees or
charges for criticism. We simply
want to get our hands on some of
the stuff that college people are turn-
ing out and do something about sell-
ing it for them.



Students at Stanford who are fined
for speeding but who plead “no
money,” are being required to wash

- the windows and generally clean up

the Palo Alto jail and court house
in lieu of fines.



1935 won the relay, but | §

“ Three hours of hard
‘work pays a fivefdollar fjne.



IN PHILADELPHIA
‘Forrest: Glenn Anders and. Dor-
othy Stickney in the comedy drama
success, ‘Another Language. The
younger and older generations have

trouble in settling on a common
tongue. Excellent.
Chestnut Street: When Ladies

Meet, done: with all of Rachel Croth-
ers’ usual cleverness; is very amus-
ing. The tale centers around two
women and. one man, and it’s not the
eternal sort of. tripe.

69th Street Playhouse: A really
presentable stock company doing The
Family Upstairs—a very funny com-
edy, that is like its title.

Coming—March 27

Broad: A new play by Jessica:
Ball, laid in the appealing locale of
the lonely pine barrens of Florida
and entitled Strange Gods. wy

Academy of Music

Saturday, March 25, at 2.30 P.,.M.
Fritz Kreisler will give a violin con-
cert.

Philadelphia Orchestra: Friday,
March 24, at 2.30 P. M., and Satur-
day, March 25,-at 8.20 P. M., and
Monday, March 27, at 8.20 P, M. Eu-
gene Ormandy will conduct. Pro-
gram:

Wagner. -cocires Overture Die Feen}

Berlioz ..... Symphonie Fantastique
ee ti ees Prairie, |«
Poem for Orchestra
D6 PONG ae ee ie Suite,
The Three- Cornered Hat
Movies

Boyd: Mae West as a Bowery sa-
loonkeeper of twenty-five years ago
in She Done Him Wrong. A very
snappy tale with swell songs; and a
general trend that must have missed
the famous Pennsylvania censors.

Karlton: Air Hostess, with Eve-
lyn Knapp and James Murray. A
“howdy-do-girl” in a passenger plane



makes all the guests feel at home.
Bad. :

Keith’s: Anita Page and Charles,
Starrett in Jungle Bride—the fer-'
ment of the tropics hurls together a
girl and a man who is believed to,
have murdered her brother. Seldom
do they come as bad.

Locust: Final week of Cavalcade,
with Clive Brook, Diana Wynward
aind Beryl Mercer.

Stanley: Forty-second Street, or
the melodious and amusing saga: of
the growth and attendant troubles of
a Broadway revue. Excellent. |

Stanton: The same old pair back}
at it as sailors — The Cohens and
Kelleys in Trouble.
them before, you will again.
didn’t. e

Europa: Official goverriment films
of the World War—The Big Drive.
Very interesting to any dyed-in-the-|
wool militarist.

Earle: What, No Beer? "Jimmy |
Durante and Buster Keaton go roar-|
ing around in a definitely asinine,
fahion in what is called a “satire on|
beer.”

Fox: Sailor’s Luck—James Dunn'!
and Sally Eilers bill and coo as the|
great romantic team adrift in the)
navy. We don’t Jike them, but then |
we’re bitter.



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Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-|
day, Clark Gable and Carole Lom- |
bard in No Man of Her Own; Fri-|
day, Goona-Goona; Saturday, Fred-
eric March and Claudette Colbert in|
Tonight Is Ours; Monday, Tuesday, |
and Wednesday, State Fair, with Will
Rogers and Janet Gaynor.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Hot Pepper, with Victor McLaglen
and Edmund Lowe; Friday and Sat-
urday, Edmund Lowe and Wynne
Gibson in The Devil Is Driving; Mon-









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day and Tuesday, The Death Kiss, | at present, that late students should
with Bela Lugosi, David Manners,| not be admitted at all or with a

and Adrienne Ames; Wednesday. and
Thursday, A Farewell, To
with Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper

Wayne: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant
in Hot Saturday; Friday and Satur-
day, The Bitter Tea of General Yen,
with Barbara Stanwyck and Nils As-
ther; Monday and Tuesday, Man;
Against, Woman,

Arms, |
| missed. Miss Park felt that the con-
‘fusion would be considerably reduced



with. Jack Holt; | at dinner.

charge, and that they should not be
served any of the courses they had

if heads of organizations would re-
frain from transacting their business

iduring meals, and if all but the an-

nouncements pertaining to the eve-
ning’s activities were to be omitted
However, if any improve-

Wednesday and Thursday, Zasu Pitts | ments are to be made in the atmo-

and Slim Summerville in They Just
Had To Get Married,



If you iked| College Council. Dis- *

cusses Noise at Meals



(Continued from Page One)

shown¥ but to be used by. the college
in computing standings and fellow-
ships. This plan assumes that stu-
dents desire to know. their marks as
soon as possible, and that they do not
object to public posting. However,
it was decided not to take any definite

| action until the systems of other col-

leges have been investigated, and un-
til there has been a definite expres-
sion of opinion by the students them-
selves as to what system of marking
they prefér, The News plans_to_cir-
culate a questionnaire dealing with
the ‘subject within the’ next few
weeks.

Some attempt was also made to find
means of raising the tone of the eve-
ning meal] in the halls to a more civi-
lized level. It was suggested that
one of the chief causes of confusion
and of delayed service is the entrance
of students: during the meal, which
necessitates serving different courses
at the same time It was suggested
as a possible remedy that the doors
should be closed sooner than they are



sphere of the dinner hour, they: must
be made in co-operation with the stu-
dents, and the Council hopes~ that
the suggestions it has made will be

‘taken into consideration by students.

There is no desire to formalize din-
ner, but the meal could be made infi-
nitely more pleasant if there were
less noise and tardiness.

The last matter brought before the
Council concerned a plan for putting
the News under the ~ Undergraduate
Association, and making subscription
to it automatic among the students.
The organization and form of the
paper would remain unchanged, but
it would become an undergraduate in-
stead of an individual project. A
plan was formulated whereby the sub-
scription could be reduced at least to
.two dollars, and the editors put on a
definite salary. The question is now
before the Undergraduate Associa-
tion, and will be voted on this week.



Commonwealth College at Mena,
Arkansas, is dedicated to the teach-
ing of future labor leaders, and stu-
dents are taught all the details of
carrying on successful strikes. The
teachers did their work so well that
two-thirds of the student body was
able to take control of the campus
in a strike for more student repre-
sentation on the board of control.



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a strong, rank cigarette; you
don’t want one that’s tasteless. —
You want one that lets you
know that you are smoking, but
you don’t want one that’s bitey.

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you’d laugh.)

as well as of principle.
under

subscription

are forced to. Support it;



ciation.

3.. The Undergraduate Association
should be responsible for any deficits

incurred.

4. Finally, we feel that the edi-
tor-in-chief must be elected by the
Undergraduates from a. straw ballot

of the editorial board.

Unless the Undergradutes are giv-
unless the News re-
linquishes its privileges as a private
business concern; unless it becomes
the official college organ, sacrificing
its editorial and critical responsibil-
ity, and losing its salutary force as
an organization..outside the Under
there
justification for compulsory subscrip-

- en this control;

graduate Asociation;.

tion.
JANET BARTON
ANNE BURNETT.



To the Editor of the College News:
It seems to 'me that the present is-
sue of the News demonstrates a pos-
sible function of the News hitherto
undeveloped: namely, the presenta-
tion in symposium of the pros and
cons of a campus issue which is to
be voted upon by the student body.

-Impromptu discussion in meetings
is, necessarily, from: its very extem-
poraneous nature, likely to wander
from the main issues and become con-
whereas thoughtfully--written
arguments can be logically developed
expressed,
making more obvious the really telling
Writing down
an argument does much to eliminate
Fallacies
valid points become more clearly dis-
tinguishable upon the printed. page,
and further, the voter is able to weigh
the arguments more accurately when
she has them all before her.

This number of the News will.show
that the. News
can be of immense value to the cam-
pus, not-only in its information-dis-
seminating capacity; but also as a
vehicle for presenting to the students
those arguments for both sidés of a
question, with which they should be
familiar in order to vote intelligently.
If subscription to the News does be-
its~value for this
purpose will be increased,

fused,
and _ accurately
points for either side.

_muddled thinking.

particularly, I think,

come automatic,

larger audience can

through its pages than by any other

means.



To the Editor of the College News:

In the meeting of the Undergradu-

_ ate Association on Thursday the edi-
+ tor said that the News is financially
~ gound, and, as I understood, her ap-
peal was for moral rather than finan-
cial support. That is, she thought
that the college owes a debt to thé
News, and that, although the issue

.| was, as alleged, not financial, the debt

Even if the minority
were smaller or its opinions ill-con-
sidered, it should command particu-
lar consideration in this matter, since
the sacrifice involved is one of money

But finally, and on this point we
feel most strongly, if the majorit
convinced that it is just to enforce
these
stances, we believe that the News
should be as directly as possible re-

! result of compulsory subscriptions—
sponsible to’ the Undergraduates who

1. The present financial position
of the News should be explained, in
order that we may have some idea
of the responsibility the Undergradu-
ate Assoc:ation is incurring.

2. Salcries should be determined
: by the Undergraduate Board from
recommendations by the News staff,
and all pzofits, above the8@" salaries
and the running expenses, should be
returned to the Undergraduate Asso-

This is, of course, only one point
among a number, but I think it serves
to refute the claim that the opinion
element of the News is not valuable
or representative and that the main-
tenance of an organ which presents
opinions should not be an undergrad-
uate activity for that reason.

A News in the hands of everyone
should make for a morg.enlightened
‘campus and a better oe:

ELIZABETH MONROE,



















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would be payable by an enforced, ‘“‘au-
tomatic” subscription to the News.
Prior to this explanation, the editor
had said that the uncertainty of sub-
scription has made the publication of
the News during the early weeks of
the college year “dangerous,” and a
“gamble.” From this point of view
compulsory subscriptions’, would af-
ford a certain peace of mind to the
board. Further, there was:a promise,
which seemed to me sufficiently vague
to require particularization, that the
News itself. would be improved as a

that there would be “more pictures
and things.” Again, an appeal was
made to our sense of fairness; was it
fait that for every one person who
subscribed to the’ News six should
read it?

These were the four points that
were emphasized in the argument for
compulsory subscriptions, and they
seem to me to lack logical connection.
In the confusion of the meeting it is
conceivable that a point should have
been lost which would have resolved
this apparent incompatibility. Since
the majority at the meeting approved
the argument of the appeal as sound,
it is up to a protesting minority to
show in what respects it seems to
them unsound.

In. the first place, there is the
question of the debt which the under-
graduate body owes to the News, and
the medium in which this debt ought
to be paid. It should be fairly obvi-
ous that financially no one is indebt-
ed to ‘the News, unless she has sub-
scribed and has failed to pay her bill;
this debt is one that no one would
attempt to deny. The moral obliga-
tion is quite another matter. ‘The
benefits that the individual derives
from reading the News, and the me-
dium and extent of her acknowledge-
ment are not subject to any but indi-
vidual definition. No one who is not
aware of that obligation can be forced
into awareness by the more sensitive
consciences of others; nor should she
be forced to pay a debt the existence
of which she denies. The fact that
this enforced payment is to consist
of money lends additional weight to
the protest of the ungrateful indi-
vidual. In general, whether the na-
tional condition be one of prosperity
or depression, everyone has the right
to decide how he shall spend the
money~-which—is-his- beyond-his~ per=
sonal debts and his debts to the State.
When he does not buy something it
is because he does not want it, or
because he does not think he can af-
ford it; in neither case should he be
forced to pay for it, unless it can be
proved that his money is absolutely
required for the good.of the-commun-
ity. In the present matter I have
not been convinced of this necessity.

The second point led some people
to understand the purpose of the ap-
peal for compulsory subscriptions to
be financial relief, and this conclu-
sion, if erroneous, is at least com-
prehensible; the point was sufficient-
ly emphasized in the editor’s intro-
ductory speech. It Was clear to me,
at least, that the cloud of financia)
insecurity which hangs over the first
several issues of the News has been
a source of acute discomfort to the
board. Two means of removing this
anxiety have suggested themselves.
On the assumption that the News is
a paying enterprise (the editor de-
clared that not only is the News fi-
‘nancially sound, but that its editor-
ial board now earn higher salaries
than they would, if the News were
taken over by the Undergradu-
ate Association) why could there not
be deducted from the year’s profits
a ‘sum of money sufficient to cover



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the first few issues of the following
year? Or, if this is not a practical
suggestion, would it be possible for
the News to get an estimate of the
number of subscriptions some time
during the first week of the academic
year by passing papers around in the
halls at meal times for subscribers
to sign? In this way the board would
know what financial backing it had
for the critical issues of the first few
weeks. The increase. or decrease of
subscriptions after this period would,
of course, depend on the subscrib-
ers’ opinion of the value of the Neivs.

As to the promise of improvement
in the News,,as I said before, details
are lackings or, if “pictures and
things’ is a comprehensive descrip-
tion, I do not consider them neces-
sarily an improvement. If the criti-
cism made by some that the News is
not entirely adequate a newspaper
be true, improvement some sort
would seem, to be desjfable. But if
the News is to become a weekly bul-
letin of events “published by the Un-
dergraduate Association, such an im-
provement would, of course, not be
relevant. In any case, it would not
be a matter of money, but of editor-
ial management. Just what improve-
ment the editor implied should be
stated, and how necessary this im-
provement is to the good of the col-
lege, before*unbelievers are forced to
spend their money for it.

The fourth and last point I do not
consider relevant as an argument for
compulsory subscriptions. | There
have always been people who read the
News without subscribing to it, and
probably, although it would be diffi-
cult to get statistics to. prove the
point, some of these people have been
able to afford their own copies. It
would appear that this condition has
recently been aggravated, and a rea-
sonable conclusion would be that the
financial depression has been a fac-
tor. If this be admitted, it must be
remembered that in forcing everyone
to take the News we should be noi
only punishing the parasites, but also
extracting money from those who ac-
tually cannot afford it. As. for the ar-
gument that it is, strictly speaking,
possible for everyone in the college to
pay the “two dollars or under,” again
this is a question which each: person
must be permitted to decide for her-
self, and, so long as there is one per-
son who thinks she cannot afford it,
she should not be compelled to pay it.

E. R. GRACE.



To the Editor of the College News:

Partisanship has been fierce this
past week over the problem of the
News becoming an Undergraduate
concern. It seems to me we can best
come. to-an- understanding with each
other, if each side will clarify its
opinion. This letter is an attempt
to state dispassionately the point of
view of the minority:

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great deal of misunderstanding con-

‘cerning ‘the letters published in last

week’s News. It is regrettable that
these letters were written at the ex-
act time they were. They have had a
tendency to cloud ‘the issue, and in-
troduce the ever-to-be-avoided note of
personalities. The letters referred to
the management of the News as a
private enterprise; whether or not
they were justified, or what brought
them forth is quite aside from the
question in discussion.

The issue, as I see it, is much larg-
er, and does not concern only the
present News board, nor the present
college. generation alone. The ques-
tion is can a college paper be repre-
sentative? If not, is it fair to make
subscription thereto compulsory?

Anyone -who has been an under-
graduate for even one year must real-
ize how impossible it is to generalize
about student opinion. A college, in|
spite of its cloistered reputation, is
made up of as diversified groups as
any community. To refer every edi-
torial to a student vote would, of
course, be absurd, yet failing this,
in order to have a representative pa-
per, it would be necessary to have all
controversial material signed, and
printed in the letter column.

Of-—course,;-no one wants this. ‘The
News, as it stands, whether it is con-

sidered an approximation of student

opinion or a gadfly to the Athenians,
makes a very real contribution to col-
lege life. The criticisms which it has
to undergo should be taken, not as a



sign of an uncooperative spirit, but

of alerfness and interest on campus,
If the College News is made com-

pulsory, the editorial board must for-

feit its literary and financial liberty.

If it does not and subscription be-
comes automatic, the “two dollars or
less” becomes a tax, and “taxation
without representation” is still a
worthy, if hackneyed, battle-cry.

It is for these reasons that the
minority cannot waive its feeble priv-
ilege, and must go on fighting, grim-
ly, if reluctantly, what now looks like
a losing battle.

Yours. sincerely, ,

LOUISE JACKSON ESTERLY.



To the Editor of the News:

The object of. having the College

News under Undergrad., as I see it,
is first, to bring financial security
to the paper at the beginning of the
year, and ‘second, to have a college
project in’ which all the students co-
operate. This latter is, of course, a
good ideal. But compulsory co-opera-
tion is not co-operation; for it will
be compulsory if the motion is pass-
ed. The News should be able from
subscriptions gotten in May to take
in enough to establish security in the
fall.

“That there is a financial question
for quite -a*few cannot be denied.
Forced payment for something not
wanted should not be made. As it
is, undergraduate and class dues are
heavy enough and, therefore, this is

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“Art Comat Aroised.
by Frank Lloyd Wright





(Continuea trom Page One»
into, first: . Organic Architecture,
and second: Ecleectric Architecture.

His definition of an eclectic was a| questioners, rather than answering! any time.

| architects would be delighted’ to ac- |
cept this program and to say that
it was this program, in fact, along

answers to questions were brilliant,
sarcastic, but often ridiculed the



A lecture such as thisacsn_be criti-]

i cized from mahy angles, but certainly

it has harmed no ore to have expos-

| which they had worked. Mr. Wright’s| ed again the ideas and ideals of a
| true architect.

What M.. Wright
stated applies to any architecture at
It is the only sound basis

man “who, seeing something that he! them. But, it must be said ‘that his | on which architecture of both the past
likes, takes it ready-made and puts it| real answer to all questions lies in | and present can be judged. We have
where it would’ be nice to have it. r | the architecture that he has already | | a tendency to think of architecture

This is nothing but a form of ‘selective
taste, and ‘while it may be‘most suit- |
able to the public of today, the pur-|
pose- of Mr. Wright’s lecture was to,

create a public and“educate it suffi-)|
ciently to realize the unprogressive- |
ness and lack of vitality of such a;

point of view.

To use an example, Thomas Jeffer-
son brought over to this. country his
version ‘the Italian, French, Eng-
lish, and/ Dutch Georgian style; and |
combined them in his very pleasant |
and appropriate way in the famous
‘buildings of the University of Vir-
ginia and in his own home, Monti-
cello, in Charlottesville, Va: Mr.
Wright did not criticize these build-}
ings, but only regretted that we have}

seen fit to “adopt and adapt” this; and for the traditional in order to beq

._ already “adopted: and adapted” style
all over the whole country irrespect-
ive of climate, general geographical
situation, or condition of life. :

He referred to our afchitects who

“continue in this tradition as
table pall-bearer at Jefferson’s grave
and made a very excellent point in
reference to this type of architect—
that any architecture,no matter how
good in the. past, if really understood,
would not be copied by any _intelli-
gent person today.

Mr. Wright urged that the archi-
tect of today go back to the: sources
of architecture. .In these sources he
hoped for an understanding of Tra-
dition “with a capital T,” in contrast
with traditions “with a smal] t.’”? He
felt that the true architect of today,

”

in order to. be part of today, could:

not look to' the past except for prin-
ciples, and must build according to
the dictates of our times. He hoped
for the day when bathrooms and

kitchens would no longer be the only!

modern things in our homes,
where people would consider their’
homes in terms of true self-expression |

instead of retirements into the fash-! .

ions and forms of the
days.”

The architect should be employed |
as a portrait painter. He must be a)

“good old

man able to understand the life and |

ideals of his patron and, above all,
able to express these ideals in terms

of the medium best suited to that |

person and to his surroundings. The
modern architect has at his disposal
many more media in terms df steel,
concrete, glass, etc., but these should
only be his instruments and he should
not, as some architects are today, be
mastered by them. Each house there-
fore is a particular solution of a par-
ticular problem, and to be appreciated
not from any absolute standard, but
rather as to how well it solves the
problems involved.

In general, these were the points
brought out by Frank Lloyd Wright.
He then asked for questions and it
was remarkable to see how many peo-
ple, after a certain amount of goad-
ing, wished to challenge this point of
view. Actually I felt that what Mr.
‘Wright stated was completely unat-
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“veri-}

and |

| designed. ‘,
| when asked whether there were any
| buildings of organic architecture as

yet built in our times, that he him- |

self had built 145.

On that point perhaps there are
many ‘who might like to challenge
him. One cannot help but be amused
and amazed that there were still those
| willing to advocate; even after such

a brilliant. explanation. as *Mr.
Wright’s the use of “old-styled archi-
henctalie,” in life today. I took occa-
ison to ask him whether there were

not a group of people who wished a
| quite naturally and honestly “styled”
form of architecture. Mre Wright
answered that of course today people
| were searching for the fashionable



safe. These, by way of definition,
were “non-creative” people,.and for
them there would always be the ne-
‘cessity of building traditionally safe
and sound non-creative homes, but it
was his hope—perhaps through lec-
{tures such as these—to create more
and more a group who would realize
that the architecture of today, to ad-
vance at all, must involve growth—a
growth not just aiming at novelty,
but soundly built on the organic prin-
ciples inherent in the problems at
hand, including the life of our times
'and the media at our disposal. Such
architecture was only for the people
who were actually living in our times
and not in memories.

“Wright’s

In fact, he himself said | in terms of a picture; how it fits

into its surroundings; is it pictur-
esque. We fail, however, to take
into our study and appreciation the
real meaning of a building which is
a result of an organic solution of the
hundred complexities of life and
standards of living.

There are some who feel that’ Mr.
lecture was not specific
enough, Certainly his works them-
selves are the answer, and. it must
be recalled that no. specific answer
could be given -unless the complete
problem is stated. Whetler one
should build in steel, glass, stone, brick
or plaster are not questions that can
be answered without knowing where
and for whom one is building. All
these things must remain flexible and
an attempt to pin’an architect down
to such generalities would be auto-
matically forcing him into the dogmas
which, if he were truly creative and
truly sincere, he could not himself
support. °



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ing until, through the sheer force of |
her personality, she had the entire |
audience laughing with her. She |
constantly broke through a thin crust |
of stiffness which some of the minor |
characters tended to create, and while |
she was guilty of some over-playing, |
she was what is called “good for a’
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different. sort of a comedian, almost;
in her spontaneity |
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We have already.: mentioned Miss |
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we should like to mention a few |
others. - Miss Avery’s voice was espe- |
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gled out for especial honors. Miss
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especially unusual. And finally Miss
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did what. we. considered _a small but
very fine bit of character acting.

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Tate-Smith, was very good. The set
was very pleasant to look upon and
the tapestry at the back a real work
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LETTERS

(Continued from Page Four)



not the time to make them heavier.
I do not wish to argue about the fi-
nancial question, but I-do think. it a
considerable point for some of us. My
chief argument is against making
someone who has no interest in ‘the
News subscribe. The News is one
of many college activities.. True, it

is the only thing which reflects all

the other. activities,- but many _ stu-

| dents who concentrate their efforts on

other things have no interest in the
News. The reasons for ghis lack of
interest do not really matter; the
fact is. that it exists. I am there-
fore against forcing one hundred per
cent subséription, as I do not think
it will bring about the desired effects.
Subscription should ‘be a matter of
personal] decision.

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Miss Park Announces
r Changes in Faculty



‘(Continued from Page One)

Modern Poetry, and Miss Latham will
probably stay and keep her class in
playwriting. Bryn Mawr is proud
to have so many people who are real-
ly writers themselves to give instruc-
tion in writing. '

The Psychology Department is for-
tunate to be able to: announce the ac-
quisition of Dr. Donald MacKinnon,
who received his Ph.D. from Harvard,
and ‘has been an instructor at Har-
vard and Radcliffe for three years.
His work has been in a field which
has aroused great interest in the last
few years, namely, normal psychol-
ogy, and its relation to abnormal.
That area in which things usual and
ewpected pass over gradually into
those abnormal is his specialty. He
has achieved a new point of view
which ought to make his courses of
great interest to the psychology stu-
dents.

Dr. Rhys Carpenter, present head
of the Archaeology Department, and
a distinguished classical scholar, will
give the Greek courses in place of
Dr. Wright. He will give an Under-
graduate-course in~ Greek; and will
also hold a seminar open to the stu-



This doubling up on Dr. Carpenter’s ;

part will enable the college to keep
Dr. Muller for. several years longer.

Ernst Diez, moreover, is returning
from Western Reserve in Cleveland.
He was for a long time Associate Pro-
fessor in the Department of Moham-
medan Art in the University of Ber-
lin, and had a professorship. at the
University of Vienna. He has trav-
eled and has done a breat deal of
personal research. Oriental Art is
his specialty, and he will give courses
in it again at Bryn Mawr, next year.

A new plan is being tried out in
the Graduate School for the Mathe-
matics students. Joint courses are
to be given to Bryn Mawr and to the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Wheeler will lecture in town and Dr.
Howard Hawks Mitchell will come
out: here.

Perhaps’ the most ineresting event
on next year’s calendar is the Dr.



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given a sum of money in memory
of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who was
a remarkable woman, interested in
government and international affairs;
with the requirement that the: money
be put away, and used at some later
date for a series of lectures connected
with the Departments: of the Social
Sciences. This bequest is similar to
that which gives Bryn Mawr the
Flexner lectures in the Humanities.
Mis. Slade and Mrs. Thomas have
been in charge of choosing the sub-
jects and the speakers for next year.
There are to be six lectures on the
general topic of International Peace.
Miss Jane Addams is to be the first
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Micheles Dean, a member of the For-
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A.B. and Ph.D. at Radcliffe. She is
an able and distinguished speaker,
whose special interest is Central Eu-
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form. A young woman climbs into the box. Head,
hands and feet protrude, and are held by specta-
tors while the magician takes a crosscut saw and,
with the help of an assistant, saws through the
center of the box and apparently through the wo-
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EXPLANATION:

There are many explanations for this illusion. One
method of performing this illusion requires the
presence of ¢wo girls in the box. One girl curls up
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