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College news, March 9, 1927
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1927-03-09
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 13, No. 18
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
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‘prize of $100 offered by The Nation for
the best account by an American college
studént of summer work in industry or
“agriculture has beer awarded’ to Sol
| Auerbach, of. Philadelphia, a senidr in
the University of Pennsylvania. The
prize-winning “essay, “Tayi, Mister?” is
printed in the current issue of The Na-
tion, (dated March 9). Alfhild, John-
son, of Oberlin, was awarded the sec-
ond prize for an account of her éx-
perience in a hardware factory and Wil-
liam C. Putnam, ‘of Stanford University,
received a third prize for his essay,“Serfs
of te Ga": *."
The jidges in the contest were Jerome
Davis, head of the Department of
Social Service. at Yale, Pierrepont B
Noyes, president of the Oneida Com’
munity, eo Wolman, head of the Re-
search Department of: the Amalgamated
- Clothing Workers of America; Wlorerice
Kelley, general secretary of the National
Consumers’ League, and Oswald Garri-
son Villard, editor of Phe Nation.
Students from Yale, Harvard, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, * Johhs* Hopkins, Bryn
Mawr Oberlin, North Dakota, Nor.h-
western, Stanford and the University of
Pennsylvania took part in the contest.
Railroading, mining, tanning, dyeing and
printing were soime of the industries in
which the students wed Several
were employed by the Fowl Motor Com-
pany.
iMr. Auerbach, who drove a taxi for
the Yellow Cab Company of Philadel-
phia, says that during his three months
of work he has learned as much as in
his three years of college and that he is
“tickled to death when a page of The
History of Aesthetics ‘catches on a cal-
lous.”
Cement Mixer.
“They gave me what was officially
_known as an 03 cab, The drivers called
them ‘boilers’ or ‘cement mixers.’ The
cab is clumsy and difficult to steer. The
gears are as hard to shift as those of a
five-ton truck. The car cafnot go up
the slightest grade on high. It has no
self-starter, and since we were not al-
lowed to leave the motor rtififing, our
hands from cranking became. as_ cal-
loused as a pine cone.
Sesqui Helped.
“We were paid on a purely commis-
sion basis of 331-3 per cent. The cab
people had the Sesquicentennial hysteria.
There were twice’as many Yellow Cabs
on the street as in a normal summer.
The average pay was about $20 a week
to. which can be added $10 in tips.
“When I received. my first few tips I
felt uncomfortable. It is an awkward
moment when you are counting out the
change with the question in your mind,
‘What will he give me? Shall I give
him a quarter, two dimes and a nickel, or
ae :
jgive you a cheap cigar or 10 cents.
‘kinds of people.
‘two quarters?” . The .passenger at the
same ‘moment asks himself, ‘What shall
1 give eS eee Wo Is coMfit-
inf the Olanee with an idea.’ Sooner or
later the awkward moment becomes a
part of the ‘racket, Tips are figured in
as part of the earnings and the driver
looks upon them as his rightful wages.
A. quarter is a satisfactory tip. More
‘often we got, 10 or 15 cents, and many}
times we were ‘left: flat.’
Biggest Tippers Gangsters.
“Gangsters and gamblers are the most
liberal tippers.
class, are very liberal. The usual ‘run of j
Stratford and the Ritz ride short and
Once:
I got a $5 tip from a man out of one of
the big hotels—and he wasn’t drunk.
That is called a lucky break. It is.a
lifetime.
Things a Cab-Driver Must. Not See.
“People who, have used cabs tell me
that a cab-driver looks so unapproach-
ab‘'e and strdight-faced that phey are
afraid to speak to him. To look that
way is a part of his business. There are
many things that a cab-driver must not
see. Strange happenings in the back of
his cab, Mysterious night journeys. All
.But those very people
should hear their straight-laced, eyes-
front driver talk to his buddies ‘in his.
moments of idle waiting. He has seen
everything. And there is hardly any-
thing new that happens. One runs the
whole: gamut of such affairs in a few
weeks’ time.”
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N.S. F. A.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
At the Michigan Congress six stand-
ing committees were appointed which
may be described briefly as follows:
1. International Relations. The sec-
retary for International Relations car-
1ies on all correspondence with foreign
|student bodies, such as the Confedera-
tion Internationale des Etudiants, the
individual National Unions of Stu-
dents, and the National Unions of
Latin’ America, Canada and Soviet
Russia and also with interested for-
jeigners who wish to get in touch with
he -N. S. F. A.
2. Travel. It has its headquarters at
2 West Forty-sixth street, New York
City. The plans for the summer of
1927 are the following: the C.. I. E.
Department of the N. S. F. A. Travel
Committee is sending 100 students as
a special delegation to the C. I. E. in
Europe. Through the Open Road,
Inc., 2 West Forty-sixth street, New
York, the Travel Committee is send-
ing 600 students, grouped according to
colleges,: to Europe ‘to the Interna-
tional Student Hospitality Association.
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in the fragrant lend of
dress, blossom-trimmed.
ning. No wonder its
/ \ _ SPEND A GAY SPRING
VACATION IN PINEHURST
acon during gage at Pinehurst. Sports
leafed pines ature
mpanionship.
pleasures attract eyer-increasing numbers of
in her ha ope
Gayety, day and eve-
young men and women for their Spring vacations.
me aot
rifle ch es lcavaieatne,
45, 16. The Horseshow
d 4-5,
: 3), April il, 12,
cig from everywhere will be at Pinehurst with their
on oe famous 18-hole courses, designed and
J. Ross; tennis, archery, riding,
e races and other sports.
Spring tournaments for women include the Twenty-
|. United North and South Amateur Golf Championship
24, 25, 26, 28, 29; the Ninth Annual United
ourna-
It is also,
ss 3 c~ A
The Committee looks fotward. to
prospects
South Africa in December, 1927,
_to the ‘Orient and to South America in
of sending students
the summer of 1928.
in
people that we pick out of the Bellevue- |,
cabmaf’s dream andghappens once in a
in
changes in their
3. The Foreign Student in America.
Questions
and the reception of foreign students
of
immigration,
America are being investigated.
4, The
News: Bureau,. ‘a
5. The Speakers Bureau. ”
. The Curriculum,
which * students have
all the colleges of the country.
interpretaiion of
took entire advantage of the opportunity
offered for
the
full of an artistic bravado, they played
with the necessary precision;
THIRD CONCERT
CONTINUED..FROM.. PAGE J
-the- musicians.
rich, full,
eir stringed instruments
singing tones o1
Te Scherzo,
the
molto with effortless facility.
Melody,
The second selection’ was .4n Irish
by Frank Bridge.
through the ‘Open” | Road,
sending about 60. ‘students- to Russia.
to
and
housing
bureau
which distributes news of the Federa-
A workingman with his. tion as well as general articles ‘by emi-
family of six once a- month follows atnent men to the student papers of the
close second. Jews, no matter of what! country.
a committee in-
Ghat Pies the methods and manner
effected
rricula and is plac-
ing this informatfon at the service of
They
Allegro
This is a
1Wely orchestration of the Londonderry’
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the: ridiculous speed, the |*
ing pizzicato,
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tributed to its extreme gaiety.
The audience now demanded an encore.
Beethoven was again honored ‘with an
"exquisite performance of his Minuet,
always a welcome choice.
Minor concluded the program. Mr. Al-
wyne’s playing in this was excellent. His
control of the pedal and his powerful
chords were particularly to be ‘com-
mended. And in, the second movement,
Lento, con molto sentimento, the first
violin outdid himself in smoothness of
finish. The passages wheré the tempo
the appropriate suspense and energy.
Then the peaceful aftermath, quieting the
feelings. so masterfully’ roused,. .was
played with confidence and power.
{ SEVILLE THEATRE
is said to have been inspired by verge BRYN MAWR
well scene @f Romeo and Juliet ih the
tomb. This dramatic inspiration re- Programme
flected in t'e music was stressed by the Week of Maych 7
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday -
| “The Flaming Forest”
WITH ,
Antonio Moreno ‘and. Renee Adore.
Thursday and ‘Friday
; “West of Broadway”
WITH
Priscilla Dean, Arneld Grey and
Air, which is played in full only at the Majel Coleman
very end. Starting out qtrietly enough, Saturday
the Irish Melody ris€§ to a climax of “
familiar Air is a fitting conclusion. The WITH
artistic handling of the different voices
makes.of it a beautiful piece of work.
Rudolph Schildkraut and
' Marguerite De La Motte
Selected Comedy ‘Current News
LLL
THE TWICKENHAM
BOOK SHOP
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The King’s Henchman, $2.00
Louis Untermeyer
Modern British Poetry, $2. 50
CRICKET AVENUE, ARDMORE-
Two Doors From Lancaster Pike
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THE BLUE BOTTLE
SHOP:
| Lancaster ‘Ave.
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