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VOL. XIX, No. 13

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS









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Mrs. Sackville-West COLLEGE CALENDAR || Jitney Players Make | Neus Trace Sophomores Win
. S Thurs.—Saks, Fashion Show, | The College News announces : :
Speaks in Bryn Mawr)! common Room, 2.00600.” ||F1uge Success.of Drama} tha: ‘competition is now open {| Class Swimming Meet



Eminent Novelist Lectures on||

Virginia Woolf and
D. H. Lawrence



TWO ARE _ DISSIMILAR



Thursday night in .Goodhart, Vic-
toria Sackville-West* talked, not on
James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, as

. announced, but on Virginia Woolf

and D. H. Lawrence. She said that
it was through a mistake of her
agent that James Joyce had been -put
on her lecture list and that she did
not intend to read his books for the
sole purpose of: rectifying it.

, Of the two authors on whom she
was to lecture,-Mrs. Sackville-West
said, “I have been wondering how
possibly to effect a marriage between
these two modern geniuses. There
have been many definitions of the
word ‘genius;’ none worse than ‘an
infinite capacity for taking pains;’
‘leaping before you look’ is a prefer-
able definition; but the best is that
‘genius is the power of seeing life
with your own individual vision.’ ”
These two writers possess genius of
the last type; that is the main point
in which they are similar, and that
also is what makes them an acquired
taste—like oysters. Mrs. Sackville-
West confessed that she did not like
novels, but added that she has not
missed one by Virginia Woolf or D.
H. Lawrence since acquiring the taste
for their styles.

Although the genius of each is alike
in being individual, their differences
are more striking than their similar
ties. Some might explain away these
divergences on the ground of sex,
supposing the masculine brain to be
coldly intellectual and the feminine
compounded of sensibility and emo-
tion. The reverse is true in this case,
as Lawrence is emotional and Vir-
ginia Woolf restrainedly intellectual.
The cause may instead be sought in
the environments of the two.

Lawrence’ was the son of a col-
lier, who spent most of his life un-
derground. The great superiority of
his mother provided him with a driv-
ing power which sent him through
the State schools and then to a high
school at Nottingham on scholarship.
An atmosphere violently contrasting
with the grey life of Lawrence sur-
Since her
father was Sir Leslie Stephen, she
grew up in a circle where all the talk
was of books, art, and music.

“I never knew Lawrence; I wish
I had, for: all,that I know of him is
hearsay. He could be almost child-
ishly gay in his more charming
moods. He was a very restless spir-
it, constantly moving about as _ if
trying’ to find peace in some corner
of the world. Lawrence had a tal-
ent for uprooting himself, his few
belongings, and his wife; but was at

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Rules for Freshman Animal

The following rules have been
agreed to by representatives of the
Freshman and Sophomore classes and
apply to all members of those classes
this week:

(1) Animal must be on campus
within twenty-four hours preceding
the show. bad

(2) Animal tune cannot be orig-
(3) Two-thirds of the class‘or the
entire cast must know the animal
song.

(4) There must be at least one
rehearsal of the animal song before
the show. The rehearsal niust take
place on campus.

(5) Sophomores are permitted to
search anywhere except. top-bureau
drawers. :

(6) Activities by Sophomores stop
when the curtain goes’ up on the first
act.

(7) Sophomores and Freshmen
are requested to be moderate and to
refrain from physica] violence.

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Fri-—Dr. Rhys ‘Carpenter
will speak on “When the Greeks
Began To Write.” Goodhart,
S20 Fs M.

Sat.—Freshman Show, Heav-
enly ' Bodies. Goodhart, ~8.20'
P.M,







Bryn Mawr Defeats
Cricket Club Team

Varsity Wins 41-35 in Close,
Hard-Fought Game Against
Experienced Team





SECOND TEAM WINS, 31-27



The Bryn Mawr Varsity defeated
the Philadelphia Cricket Club in a
close-fought game by the score of 41-
35. Dunn was high scorer of the
game with a total of 25 points, while
Collier was next with 22. The game
as a whole was well-played, very close
throughout, and, as a result, extreme-
ly interesting to watch.

Throughout the game, the passing
of both teams was excellent and fast,
Faeth
started the game with three beautiful
shots and followed them with two
The . Philadel-
phia team took many chances at first

and the baskets neatly made.

perfect free-throws.

and missed many goals which might
| have been made with the chip-shot.
| Collier was a bit slow in getting
started because of the height of her
guard, but came up in second half. to

lead the scoring. Faeth and Collier
played well together, as usual, while
Longacre and Remington in the cen-
tral court positions were a deciding
factor in the final socre.

The guards had rather a hard time
against their more experienced for-
wards, especially as Kent-was-missing®”
from the line-up. Bridgman and Bow-
ditch, however, played fairly well to-
gether, but the Kent-Bridgman com-
bination has proved to be the most
advantageous, since Longacre has
come back to the center position.

The remaining scheduled games
should provide excellent competition
and plenty of exciting moments. Come
to see them!

The line-up was as follows:

Pr. 0. C. B.. M.
J. Crawford ..... Reh visi Collier
monn oe, ss Lh cevens Faeth
Mi. Ceawiond ... 0; 2. cc, Longacre
euseie Fs. S. C. ....Remington
Donahue ..i... hi Gy ane Bowditch
WtOn 6 ik. L. G. ....Bridgman

Score—P. C.'C.: Crawford, 10;
Dunn, 25. B. M.: Collier, 22; Faeth,
19. Referee—Miss Perkins.



The second varsity defeated the
Philadelphia. Cricket Club _ second
team by the close score of 31-27. Only
once in the third quarter, when Anne
VanVechten was lost because of a
strained knee, did the visitors get a
slight lead on the Bryn Mawr team,
and that was soon lost. :

Throughout the first half, both
teams had many chances to tally, but
were either entirely inaccurate or else
seriously hampered by the. guards.
VanVechten’s close guarding kept E!-
liott to one lone basket in the first
half. McCormick was often wide
of the rim, and took far too many
chances on long shots. Baker had a
-pood -guard, but- managed~-to~ make
many pretty shots. |

In the second half, Raynor wag sub-
stituted for McCormick and therefore
the passes were much quicker and
there was less bunching beneath the
basket. Raynor should have more
confidence, however, because she is

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Resignation

The College News regrets to
announce the resignation of
Leta Clews, ’33, from the Edi-
torial Board.





| have ever seen in that hall.

for positions on the Editorial
Board. Juniors, Sophomores,
| and Freshmen are urged to try
out.. Those wishing to compete
should see Sallie Jones, Pem
West. 8-12, .any day in the
week.



|
Murder in the Red Barn is Well!
Presented; Entre-Acts °

Are Hilarious



DIRECTING IS PERFECT)
|

Last. Tuesday evening the Jitney |
Players presented in Goodhart Hall
their famous melodrama of the 1840
period, Murder in the Red Barn. The |
Bryn Mawr audience received it with
the greatest enthusiasm which we









College to Test Methods
of Progressive Schools



In chapel February 21 President
Park announced that Bryn Mawr has
decided to co-operate with the pro-

It was, |

| Sressive schools in an experiment
of ee part of the a that! to test definitely the adequacy of pro-
the villain should be hissed and the | pressive methods in preparation for

héroine applauded, but there. was | college. During a five-year period

nothing that compelled the eapamtd beginning in 1935, a small quota of
to writhe in their seats with almost | = 7 t : ok di
painful hilarity or to encore the en-| * cn ee nah ade ia .
tre-act selections time after time. It| "ty entrance requirements will be
was really a_ tremendonsly sincere | admitted from a selected list of sec-
and spontaneous enthusiasm that! ondary, schools.
swept the group, and for this the; Bryn Mawr, Miss Park said, has
credit may go to the excellent direc- | Seog bined: pubisind sith i
tion and talented performances of | ibieonets + Seow mie aac. °
the production. | type of student it has attracted, and,
The play itself was a gem of its | like most of the Eastern colleges, per-
kind, typical of the melodrama of| haps because of an antipathy for the
its day, but with just enough novelty “lunatic of
of plot to keep up the interest of the |

: ; | schools, and a natural tendenc }.
audience in that part of it. The fact | aban ea Ravnen’ dendsney to £0

that our heroine did hot come outon low trodden paths, has hitherto kept
the top of the heap in this life, but | aloof from radical innovations in the
rather found her reward in heaven! policy of admission.



fringe’”’ progressive

| FRESHMEN





Wiley Breaks College Record for
Yard Craw! Event;
locks 24.4 Seconds

WIN RELAY



The Class swimming meet came to
an. exciting climax on .Eriday after-
noon with the sophomores winning
Wiley, ’36, in her first
meet, broke a college record of many

years’ standing when she clocked 24.4
seconds in the forty-yard crawl, .4
seconds less than the previous record
of 24.8.

Waldemeyer, ’35, came in first in
the 20-yard dash in 13.2 seconds, with
Bronson, ’33, in the-second place, ana
Taylor, ’35,.and Whiting, ’36, tying
for third place. Torrance, ’33, took
first place in'the side-stroke for form
with the freshmen representatives,
VanVechten and M. Goldwasser, tak-
ing second and third places, respect-
ively. Meneely, ’34, won the crawl
for form with 25 points, but B. Gold-
wasser came in a close second with
24.5 points. Wiley was the highlight
of the 40-yard crawl, winning by 2.2
seconds over her nearest rival, Bron-
son, °33. As was to be expected,
Daniels, 734, won the diving with a
total of 39.65 points. Her running
front was average and she lost to

by one point.

The frankly | Messimer, ’35, in the jack and tied

after a most brutal and hair-raising | progressive schools have, however,| With Butler, ’34, for the back dive.

murder, was in itself.a welcome! been impatient for a long time with!

change. The same might have been the refusal of the colleges to allow
said for the character of the vindic- | them to experiment ,in their upper
tive gypsy whose daughter had been! grates, and a number of them have,
wronged by the dastardly William,) recently, united to win a hearing.
and who in order to complete his; At a special meeting of represen-
novel revenge stood by and even abet-! tatives from various colleges, the
ted William in his vile designs on the] schools pointed out that they could,
innocent young daughter of the land-: if allowed to follow out their own
lord: watched and aided in William’, |ideas in secondary education, send
fall, deep and irretrievable, into the even better students to college than
lowest depths of crime; told fortunes! the excellent ones they have sent in
that enticed the innocent victim for | the past. This argument proved so
William; provided_subtle_and—viru-} convincing that-a_number-of-colleges
lent poisons at the proper moment; | agreed to co-operate with the schools
and witnessed our heroine’s innocent | for a five-year period beginning in
murder of her child—all, all with a| 1935 and fi t students prepared
noble purpose of revenge in his heart,! as_ the irortsiv schools. believe
as he called heaven to witness. they should Be prepared. The plans
The staging was hardly a great! for instruction were to be submitted

success. The Jitney Players are, of | for approval to a joint committee of

course, famous for their outdoor pro-| school and college authorities, on
}

ductions, given in the summer on a' which Miss Park serves as the only |

small stage in their own truck. The! woman, and with the Princeton Di-
equipment they carry with them is) rector of Admissions, the sole repre-
very compact, for they must carry sentative of the extreme right wing.
all the necessities for their complete | Harvard, Yale and Princeton refus-
repertory in one comparatively small| ed to. agree to these proposals, but
truck. Hence the scenery, which! fiye women’s colleges have accepted
might well have filled a smaller stage,’ with the reservations that they will
was inadequate for the large expanse! require all candidates to take the
of the stage in Goodhart. Its crude-j Scholastic Aptitude Test, -that every
ness was in a way part of its charm,| gir] will be admitted: on the basis of
and since it was intentional, can only | her school records, that only a defi-

be criticize by the individual as it| nite quota of experimental students’.

appeals to him. Personally we were} be permitted to enter, and that the
sur rised at the effectiveness of the! number of schools included in the
stmfeer produced in those scenes! plan be limited to twenty: Because
which depended on atmosphere, and) of the small size of the freshman

we were not at all disturbed by the
deficiencies, even of the gibbet which
collapsed as the curtain was falling
on the final tableau.

The direction, we have said,
was,the great triumph of the play
proper (for nothing could be said
to approach the entre-act divertisse-
ments), and by direction we mean the
handling of the typed characters so as
to give to them all of the conviction
that they had for the generation that
first applauded them, and yet to make
them supremely comic to the present

audience. They. could easily have:

been overplayed. It was the fine re-
straint of the director, we believe,
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Fashion Show

On Wednesday, March 2,
Saks Fifth Avenue will hold a
fashion show of spring clothes
- in the Common Room at 3
o’clock. ~The clothes will be
modeled by undergraduates,
and orders will be taken for
‘immediate delivery. The- top
price on all models is to be $25.













class, the Bryn Mawr quota is likely
to be very small.

Although neither the names of the
schools undertaking the experiment
nor the plans for. instruction have-
been definitely settled, the proposals
of the schools interested seem to tend
toward either an emphasis on the in-
dividual, or an elimination of the
barriers between related courses. The
experiment, President Park thinks,
may or may not prove a success.
It seems to offer the student little
preparation for the hard _ steady
attach undue importance to the stu-
dent’s momentary interest. If, how-
ever, the freshmen admitted from the
progressive schools prove unusually
desirable college students, the experi-
ment may be far-reaching in its ef-
fect on even the most coriservative
schools.
nificance may be diminshed‘ by the
possibility that before the plan goes
into effect, the decrease in the num-
ber of students who are financially

greater elasticityyin the whole sys-

-work-done in college,-and-seems to}

On the other hand, its sig-|

able to attend college may compel a}





tem of college*entrance requirements.

Her half-gaynor,’ however,. was ex-
cellent and gave her 16.15 points, to
lead Waldemeyer by more than five
points in the final score. The meet
came to a thrilling close with the
freshmen winning the relay in 59.4
seconds.

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French Club to Present
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme



On Friday, March 17, at 8.20, the
French—C€lub—will present Le Bour-
geois Gentilhomme in Goodhart Hall.
This play is one of Molieres’s most
hilarious comedies, satirizing the so-
cial climbing “of a “nouveau-riche.”
The pivot of action and the unity of
interest center in the vanity of Mon-
sieur Jourdain, who strives to imi-
tate his social superiors. °

The play was written at the com-...
mand of Louis XIV, who wanted
merely a framework for the Turkish
ceremony, which burlesqued an em-
bassy of Turks to the French court.
This ballet-aspect was of more im-
portance in the opinion of the court
than the comedy, but Moliere so
modified the material which he was
given, that the Turkish ceremony be-
comes the climax to Monsieur Jour-
dain’s vanity.

The French Club is using the orig-
inal music written for the ballet by
Jean-Baptiste Lulli.

A modern adaptation of the“tsual
classic stage set will be used. In -the
classic setting the entrances are from
the back of the stage, but in this mod
ern set, the entrances are from the
side. There will be three.steps, the
width of the stage, leading up to a

‘platform, on which most of the action

will take place.
The roles are as follows
Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois,
Olivia‘ Jarrett
Madame Jourdain, sa femme,
. Anita Fouilhoux
Lucile, fille de M. Jourdain,
Alettia Avery

-Cleente;-amoureux de -Lueile,

Betsy Pillsbury
Dorimene, marquise...... Jane Fields
Dorante, aimant de Dorimene,
. Caroline Lloyd-Jones
Nicole, servante de M. Jourdain,
Lee Mandell.
Covielle, valet de Cleonte,
Catherine Bill
Maitre de musique..Margaret Tylea
Maitre d’armes....... --Marie Hayes
Maitre a danser...... Mary Skeats ©
Maitre de Philosophie. Alicia Stewart
Mademoiselle Rey is directing the -
play, as she hag done so competently
for the last three years. “ |