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- A GENEROUS GIFT, GENER-
OUSLY GIVEN

Any gift to the college,"whether
it adds to buildings, or to equip-
ment.or to endowment, is a source
of pleasure to undergraduates and
faculty alike. But perhaps the
best kind of a gift to an educa-
tional institution is one which

. adds to the salaries of its profes-

sors, without whom, after all;
buildings and equipment would be
of little use. It is therefore with
great delight that we hear the an-

_,nouncement._that_.a—new—gift- “of Ht

"$50,000 to Bryn Mawr College
has been presented by Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Goldman, of New
York City. The announcement is
made in the following words:

“In order'to enable Bryn Mawr
College to maintain the high
standard of its teaching, we here-
by give to Bryn Mawr College
the sum of $50,000, to be held by
the trustees of the college, the in-
come of the fund to be used as
+ follows:

“To increase gersiaties of the
head professors "In: the various de-
partments “by adding. such .an
amount to the salaries of the -re-
spective professors which the col-
lege is now paying, as the presi-
dent of the college, may, from
time to time, determine.”

This formula makes it possible
for the gift to be used with the
utmost freedom and the fore-
thought and generosity of Mr. and
Mrs. Goldman are such as_ to
arouse our deepest gratitude.

A DARTMOUTH STUDENT
GOES THOREAU

A Dartmouth undergraduate,
says the New Student, has aban-
doned society, sin and civilization,
and gone back to the heart. of na-
‘ture. He is going to live the. clean,



~life-of a-rabbrt-or-a @etrirrel in the

White.Mountains, “and _ “business

peas vatrd balls; Cities” ‘and inen will be

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-as nothing to him,

“Goodby, Dartmouth,”
in a letter published in the college
paper.

sy the time‘ you read this I
shall be aboard a train speedine
‘to northern wilds, where I intend
to prepare myself for a higher life
than college leads to; the life de-
scribed by Thoreau in Walden.

“T have existe in your civiliza-

tion now \for 20 vears. I have ex-
isted meyely as a spectator. You
have fdrced me to do certain
things, and I have done them—
reluctantly, always inwardly re-
belling. Now, I have ‘decided to
give expression to my wild na-
ture, and to try whether it is pos-
‘sible to live humanly.”

‘Mr. Curtis H. Glover is not the
only one who has felt that way.
It is a mood. that comes over us
all at times. Probably schedule
quizzes were coming on, if they
have them at Dartmouth. We
wonder if he is really going to

_ live on nuts: and berries, -v ithout }
a frying pan or a match. In any

case. he should not have- se
northward on a train. He cage
“to. have gone more romantically,

by aniiging



Fear -ence of the beasts.
fhe| escape injustice and

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off a birch tree. or atl"



ture must be a little complex for
| the unspoiled and care-free exist-
He. may

ve
But we bet he'll be. awfully bored

TIN ‘PAN PARADE .

‘Winter: is upon ‘us again. *In-
stead of’ coming in as a lion in its
usual fashion, with biting winds
and. a dusty, whirling’ of dead



‘leaves, it cane in as a soft; little,

white lamb. . And. overnight Bryn

winter sports. Sleds and the to-
0} boggan have been exhumed. from
the depths of coal bins; our cham-
pion* skims gallantly across the
‘campus on her prize-winning skis.

-But these are the aristocratic.
‘Alf*cannot have sleds arid~ skis.
-More than five cannot squeeze on
‘to the toboggan. .The humbler
sporting element has not hung
back. Inspired. by the week-end
snow they have invented a new
}winter sport. Now on the slope
towards Yarrow may be seen an
eager line. Each person carries
her tray under her arm. As her

| turn. comes she sits on it, flings

arms and legs wide as balancing
wings, antl slides. Skidding, gy-
rating, ‘often somersaulting, the
bottom is reached.

We congratulate the. humble
elément. We have often. shud-
dered on ‘contemplating the col-
lege, blase and dead. to simple
pleasures, at the tender collective
age of 21. The new winter sport
seems to indicate a touch of youth
still flaming, a suspicion of joie de
vivre. -And we also congratulate
03 hitherto. despised tin tray on

glorious translation to “the
sptiere of winged flight. We feel
considerably cheered up and our
only hope is that by the time we
appear. ih print the snow will not
have melted, and the trays have
returned to their full duty of bear-



ing mediocre food to sharpen
merit minds.
Communications

- (The editors of ,the College News are
not responsible for: the opinions expressed
in this'.column.) °
To the Editor of the CoLtice News:
The editorial in the last: issue. of the
News‘ entitled “Knitting Again” opens
the way for us to reveal a unique oppor-
tunity for service.. To those who were
unable to give to the League Drive ‘as
generously as they wished, to those
whgse public spirit is still unsatisfied, and
finally to ‘those whose zest for knitting
see.ns greater than the demarfd for their
products, we make our appeal.

The. children whose vacation at Bates
‘s made possible by the college do not as
a rule possess sweaters; and sweaters
are an obvious necessity for children in
the country, even in midsummer, — Little
‘ummies and chests frequently need to be
protected: fron: cool sea breezes; and
hillmess, as everyone knows, is apt to
follow after ba‘hing, par.icularly when
he-bather is not also. a. swimmer.
theses rangeszfirom=4=-to=40"
styles and colors are acceptable ; and
sleeves are not-indispensable: ~All-we ask
is that the doubly generous knitter supply
her own wool, of which very little. is.
needed for one sweater,

. he season js at hand when Christmas
pre-ents will be all completed and socks
will be worn only by the hardiest. Let
us resolve that knitting shall not perish
from the campus; let us give it renewed
life through its use in a worthy cause!

EDITH S. BAXTER.
To the Editors of the News:

We wish through your generozus
columns to call the attention of that |
glorious company, the edi‘ors of the
Lantern, to the fact that they too have
been reared in the .stern necessity for
scholarly accuracy which we should ‘not
be here forced to add, has hitherto been
the fuel which fed the fires of Bryn
Mawr learning. Already we feel that the
foundations of our traditions of sound
scholarship have begun to sway. Much
as we dislike - the .setting of imitations
upon the infinite capacity of “the genius
of the Lantern’s artist, such a task is
evidently to be ours. Else how.are we
otherwise to account for her failure to
consult in the original such sources as
Seneca, Lucian,. Diogenes Laertius, Plu-
tarch, Arian; Cicero, Valerius Maximus
and Epictetus, before confronting ° us|
with the spectacle of Diogenes shivering
it the icy waters of his Samper





n. morality we are striying to reconcile our | |.
‘| former conception of Diogenes ‘with his’

recently adopted role as the seductive ||
‘|holder of tete-a-tetes with certain guile-

Mawr has become a center for}

| iMusionment was most welcome,” fie said.

1H

pipes of thrypollege. plumbing.
As enrolled members of the,.New- Im-

less membefis of the Lantern’s Board.

fe cannot But believe however that, had
the full force of all the classical knowl-
edge of the Self-Government Board been
brought to bear*upon this matter, they
would have realized that the undeniahle
circumstances of Diogenes’*edrly life
scarcely’ allow’ such procedure. Once
more we see the distressing results which
may arise from insufficient historical data.

Finally, since it is always our earnest
‘desire to give, voice to. the inarticulate,
we..wish.on the behalf..of one of our
humbler’ friends td issue a second warn-
ing. Who knows what awful fate may
be visited ‘upon us now that the toy bird
with which, Diogenes makes merry in his
tub has been identified as the classical
interpretation of that gay cdmrade of our
own weekly revels—the centipede.

TWO VESTAL VIRGINS.



I, M. Tuesday Lunch, Dec. 11

Cherries for dessert—ah! a whiff of the
bold old days of Spring,

When the balls of buff tinged with blush,

Pickled in their own juice,

Accompanied by faithful Oreos,

Came on. Not so today, Tuesday, Dec.
11.

Cover the bowl; mine eyes dazzle;. she
must have died young, for they are in
purple—

O deadly nightshade !

“fT, Deborah Dye-hard, leave. to the trus-
tees of Bryn Mawr. College

Ten thousand boxes of Tintex,. _

To raise the morale. of the Halls of Resi-
dence.”

O menu of pastelled perfection.‘

Consomme mulberry,

Bifteck powder blue,

Tomatoes’ liquefiees au pain batik—

O. passage to India.

De la couleur avant toute chose !

For all the rest is parsimony.
A.
F;

A.
F.

H.

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News From Other Colleges



Harvard has an aviation club of fifty:
students with headquarters: at the air-
port in East Boston. R. .B. Bell, of New
York. City, is president of these embry-
onic “Lindys.’ ’—The Red and Black.

We have also heard the rumor that the’
“1928-29 Wellesley_- Handbook forbids
students of that. college to fly without a
written permission an their parents.—
The Arrow,

Non-Collegiate Haryard . ::

Harvard is not collegiate, according to
John Maud, Davidson scholar from Ox-
ford, a student .at the university this
year.

“Oxford is tremerdously amused at
the so-called American college spirit. |
had come over here expecting to find Har-
vard.a hot-bed of collegiatism, My dis-

Mrs Mand-feelsthat-the Harvard stu- -
dents..are .much--busier* than. those’ at
Oxfords —Heexplains that in English
coileges meals are social’events, while
here they. appear to be mere interrup-
tions in the day’s work. English col-
lege men saunter to classes, Harvard
men tush to them at the last minute,

“They dress much differently, here than
we do. Everyone at Oxford wears a
well-cut coat and flannel trousers; here
most men make no effort to present a
smart appearance.”

“In England, outside activities are
necessary to some extent, but they do
not encroach upon the primary motive
of our college life, studies."—The Tech.



Dr. Hart Personally Conducts

The Social Activities Department of
the Bryn Mawr League and the Sociology
class announce a joint field trip under
the supervision of Dr. Hart, to Sleighton
Farms) on. Thursday, December 13.

This trip will give you. an unusal op-
portunity’ to’ see how.:a ‘modern delin-
quent “school is run, how the girls live,
and how they are educated to wah stand-
ards of living,”

The group -will leave Pembosie hich
at 2 P. M. promptly in automobiles, and
return between five and six. Everyone
interested is invited, including Freshmen.
The number is limited so let K. Collins,
Rock, know Pearl or _saty







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‘The Pillar”
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And now we fegin to Christmas shop.
Father says the great decision is not
“wht shall I give them for Christmas ?”
but “What shall I ask for myself?” The,
ciate ote tha hs elvk. says “he
bitterly, is all decided months ahead with:
“T saw an awfully nice silver coffee-pot
today. I think it would be a lovely thing
for you to give it to me for a Christmas
present”; or “I just bought a rather ex-
pensive new dress that I don’t really
need. You can give it to me for Christ-

”

mas,

No, says he, the real problem is what
can they give me? He thinks he has.
no, wants: put, says mothe, follow ‘him
around : and when you see him spill an
ash; ma him an ash tray. When you
see him looking hungry, .buy him a box
of Urieeda biscuits, - Thus the problem ‘is
solved.

For ourselves, we have another sys-
tem—a very good one, if you are on an
allowance. ‘When you see something on
sale, get it. The application will come
later. But an awful thing happened last
week. We bought some lovely woolen
socks, red and blue, and reduced to al-
most nothing; being in a. hurry, we
charged them .to father, and had them
sent; but we thought they would make
a lovely gift, Alas, a few days later,
imagine our surprise! Father came
down to -breakfast in those self-same
socks; and we-didn’t dare ae him they
were his #Christmas present !..°

Phere isonly one true way out.
all your shopping at the five-and-ten; and
say soulfully, as you go- through the
ceremony of presentation: “Its the spirit
that counts.”

Progress and Prophecy

We were touched, and a.little terrified,
to receive an engraved invitation from
our bank, inviting us to a party. The
marble halls’ are complete at last; and
we are bidden to the opening, on Satur-
day, from two to nine. ‘The painful
probiem arises—what to wear?’ And
what is the etiquette of a reception at a
bank? --Do large accounts take prece-
dence over small? And if so, what ‘is
the status, of one..whose account is
liabitually overdrawn? Shall we go in
silks, and be held for. payment? Or in’

.| rags, and lose our credit?

The grand opening ° is a symbol of
what is going on all around this neigh-
borhood. ' Four -years ago, when we were
a,freshman, Bryn Mawr seemed really
rural. . Gulph road was only fit for cows
and rubber boots, the sewer was a wood-
land stream, and we thought it pure.
The hill across from; Yarrow was a wild
slope where we lay out under the stars
and wondered immaturely about life and

death... Now it is a real estate develop-
ment, flowering with bungalows and
streets that-lead nowhere: "We are fast

being engulfed by civilization. “The violet
by the mossy bank “gives p'ace to the
rubber plant “by the Bryn Mawr Trust

|Co.and the trees turn_ _into_. telephone.

poles: The class of “1950 will have to
take to their aeroplanes. to. reach then,
picn’c_places, and our green grass and
out cherry trees will’ be but a small oasis
in a smoking city.

Few things in life so pleasant are

A's eating-on a dining-car.

| While landscapes past the windows float

You. travel down the*tab‘e d’hote: |
Observing those across the’ table,
And looking unconcerned—if. able.
Vary thé messy little. boy

With the brown fields of Illinois;
And listen with an inward smile
To people’s talk—and eat the while.
And if the coffee spills, what then? ~
You'll never see them all again?

— re

Well, it’s a. girl after all! And we
are an aunt. We have two weeks to
study the part, and then we must go/
home ‘agg play it. Wh
do? There ought to be a cor
course in\it. Our own used to combine
very good stories, with strictures on our,
behavior and upbringing. The inference
was that she could have.done a lot better:



‘What would we all be like if we had

been raised by our aunts? Well, you
never know. $

' “Lives of great. men all sada ts,”

they say; and yet a general ignorance

seems to prevail hereabouts concerning
the lives of a certain class of the great:

namely, the saints. To remedy this evil.
we have decided to begin a series of brief

aphies of famous saints. We begin,
Tecan ee with St. Simon

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Seen at Heard at the —

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(To take a hint from the New Yorker.)
Miss Park opening Goodhart again.
: *. The girl who knitted straight
through the concert, stopping only to gaze
rapidly at Mr. Stokowski while he spoke.”
. The girl who completely. redid

her hair during the Lohengrin Prelude.
The two girls (this constant
repetition of. the feminine casts & terrible
reflection om our sex!) who started a dis-
cussion of someone’s wedding plans im-

with-an Oh-that-reminds-me. . The
girl who asked if perhaps the plumbers,
carpenters, painters and diggers were also
present so that they too could rise and be
appladed. e should have liked the
elcome with applause the
always lends. us matches).
The girls who stamped on the
floor in a completely unPhiladelphian
manner’at the end’ of the‘ concert.
The huge truck backed up to the eeunit
door of Goodhart—*we had a vivid mental
vision of the drummer trundling~ the





porter

barrow into the truck.

In Philadelphia
Theaters _
Broad—Dracula; the’
says “honest, it is a whale -of a play.”
Chestnut—A* new musical
cailed “Hello, Daddy.”
Forrest—The last week of Music in
May.
Garrick--Marco Milkons is especially
recommended by President Park.
Keith’s—The Trial of Mary Dugan
ought to speak for. itself by this time. ‘

‘Lyric—Only one week of Moissi in
Max Reinhardt’s, production of Redemp-
tion.

Shubert—Luckee Girl boasts one of ‘hs
song hits of the season,

Walnut—Edward Clark: in
his own play.



comedy

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Movies

from Moscow, with Pla Negri and Nor-
man Kerry. —

Fox—Blindfold ; George O’Brien and
Lois Moran. ;

Karlton—A lot of. stars among whom
are Marion Davies and. William Haines
in Show People.

» Little—Not a foreign picture this time,
but, Richard Barthelmess in Tolable
David,

. Stanley—John Gilbert .and Eva Von
Berne in The Masks of the Devil.

Stanton—Phyllis . Haver, Jean Her-
sholt, Belle Bennett and Don Alvarado
in The Battle of the Sexes.

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Calendar
Wednesday, December 12,
~ Hall at. 8.15 New York String Quartet.
Thursday, December 18, in the Music
Room at 415 Mrs, Jackson Fleming on
“Soviet Collectivism.”’ a
Saturday, December 15, in Goodhart Hall
* at 8.15 “Bellairs.” i

at 7.30 Christmas Mitsical Service.
Wednesday, December 19, in Goodhart
ie wt 9 en sd es tind Lecture,
Bond. .
Thursday” evening, ‘December 20," Christ=
mas Parties.
Fridayafternoon, Tyecsiabes 21, in Good-
hart Hall. Thorne School Play.
ous hela 21, to Monday, Janu-

ary. 6, Christmas. Vacation,
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‘Men think butyof sin and siller
think things would be a dam
sight eas—
ler living on top of a pillar.
So he/found him an old ruined temple in
/ Greece,
And they hoisted him up by a rope;
barr wasn’t much room for his elbows
or knees,
But he wasn’t the kind to mope.
He: folded his arms and_ he. _crossed_ his
legs, *
And the thought of a fried potato;
Or a succulent platter of ham, and eggs
Meant as little to him as ‘to Plato.

out end,
scorn.

descend :
He will sit tif the ultimate morn.
Next week: Santa Fina.
Poor Coolidge looked all cut up com-
ing home from a quail -hunt without any
quail, didn’t he? It must have been the
hat that scared then all away. Never




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