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College news, February 12, 1930
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930
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Balzac’s Life in 1835
Described by Bouteron
ee lecture entitled “Une Annee de la|’
Vie Tues-
day evening, February 4,
de Balzac” was given on
in Goodhart
Music Room by Monsieur Marcel’ Bort
Chevatier. de la Legion d’Hon-
Monsieur Bouteron is the head
of the» Institute of France,
‘and’ Balzac editor’ and scholar. The
lecture was in French, and illustrated
With lantern-slides. Monsieur Bouter-
on was introduced by Monsieur Jean
Canu. :
Monsieur Bouteron took as his topic
the year 1835, and described the
crowded sequence of events ‘that. filled
it, stressing Balzac’s visit to. Vienna,
and:its influence upon him. Pictures
of the places with which Balzac was
neur.
- Balzac himself, portraits of his friends,
and _ iacsimilies of his manuscripts. were
shown as slides. M. Bouteron opened
ehis talk with a detailed description of
novelist’s Parisian apartment, and
went on to tell of Balzac’s appearance,
his habits of work, -his inability to keep
himself as a man of small estate, and
his pretentions to nobility. M. Bou-
teron léd up to the eventful year with
mention of Balzac’s travels abroad ‘in
Russia, ‘Switzerland and Italy, during
which time he was nevertheless always
t,’ and “Le Recherche de !’ Absolu.”
On_his return to Paris he led a gay
social life_in_the salons, but in_order
to escape from. the Garde Nationale,
he was finally compelled to joe ep
the name of Mme. Veuve Durand,
a magnificent apartment, later sical
by him if “La Fille aux Yeux d’Or.”
While he was in retreat ‘the Ambassa-
_dor of Austria sought him out, and a
‘somewhat ironical interview was given
him*by Balzac. Balzac was invited by
the Ambassador to visit Vienna, and
he-soon yielded to the inducement as
he_felt-that—he—must—travel—somewhere:
When he arrived in Vienna he received |
a tremendous popular ovation as a
great: novelist, and was also enter-
tained by the cream of Vienna society.
during his trip was obtained by Balzac
from his visit to the Napoleonic battle
grounds and monument; in one of his
later works, Balzac pictured the battle
with a remarkable simplicity. and .mel-
ancholy. The most historic moment of
3alzac’s Viennese experiences was his
interview. with Chancellor Metternich,
the conqueror of Napoleon and the
founder of the Holy League; Metter-
nich insisted that he had read ‘none of
Continned on Page Three
Odyssey Movies Shown
~On Thursday, February 6, at
o'clock, Mr, B. D. MacDonald: showed
moying pictures of the Odyssey cruise
to a small group of students in the
Auditorium of Goodhart Hall. The
Odyssey cruisé offers acquaintance
with the small and historic islands of
the Ionian and Aegean..Seas.. which
"latge cruisers are forced to omit.
Starting at Venice and boarding the
Odvssey at Ragusa, the members are
carried to Corfu, Corinth, Athens,
Crete and Rhodes, up the cost of
Turkey and through the Sea of Mar-
mora to Constantinople. The return
trip follows the northern coast of the
Aegean back to Athens, the Gulf of
‘Corinth and Venice. Many inland
trips to historic: spots such as Delphi,
Knossus and Troy are included, and
the 1930 Odyssey for young women
and adults arranges for a trip up the
Danube and on to Oberammergau for
the Passion Play:
- The good felowship of the cruise was
stressed as- well as the unusual educa-
“tional” offerings of its itinerary. Swim-
ming is-a favorite sport, and one of the+
interesting feats is to'cross the Helles-
pont. The membership of the trip is
limited to fifty, with twelve carefully
selected young men. The Odyssey
Mrs.
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Three-Period Year Idea
Open For Discussion
In chapel Tuesday, February 4, Act-
ing-President Manning spoke concern-
ing further investigations being made
by the Curriculum Committee. Presi-
dent ae before leaving for Egypt,
suggested. that the committee consider
doing away with mid-year examina-
tions... The Bryn Mawr: year is as
short as that of any institution.im the
country, and the curriculum would be
so revised in order to lengthen the col-
lege year, and to give time for a read-
ing period in preparatign for final ex-
aminations and also for papers and
reports; the period between the end of
Chrié8tmas vacation and the present
schedule of mid-year examinations is a
poor time for preparation. The main
disadvantage of such a change, as ap-
parent to the Ungergraduate Curricu-
lum Comntittee, would be the necessity
to remember’ a course for more thait
one semester, a necessity that might
be thought an advantage by the Fac-
ulty.. Mrs. Manning hopes that the
change might improve the character
of the examinations, d make them
more general comprehensive.
Such changes in ystem, however,
would have to be accomplished by a
more careful regulation and schedule of
quizzes; there might be under the new
system an arrangement to break the
year-into-three-parts instead of two.
The Curriculesn” Committee is
scarcely beginning to discuss the sub-
ject, but: there is no- reason why the
‘undergraduates should not know that a
change has been suggested so as to
have the opportunity of discussing the
‘possibility themselves. The investiga-
tion will be continued by the Curricu-
lum Committee during the second se-
mester.as a part of their general Pro- | cerned.
gram,
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Exercise Enlivens the
Minds of the Lazy
In chapel. Thursday, February 6,
Miss Josephine Petts announced the
new chafiges in the system of the
Physical Education Department. Miss
Petts prefaced the announcement with
explanation of the part physical
education plays’ in college activities.
Physical education in almost all col-
leges requires four periods of exercise
a week for four years; the plan at Bryh
Mawr, however, is different—only two
periods of required exercise for two
years, The object of. an exercise _re-
quirement is the essential building. up
of vitality; the department wishes to
feel that when students graduate. their
trained minds are supported by agile
ercise. In.most colleges gymnastics
are required during the first two years;
and-the exercise of the last two years
is left to the students’ choice; here the
activities are absolutely elective from
the beginning. The department. be-
lieves that no gymnastic system is ap-
plicable to the problem of the college
student, although there are certain
good gymnastic exercises—such as
those to be used on getting up—that
Bs and an established habit of ex-
8
rthe individual:may be interested in.
Exercise, possibly “more than any-
thing else, contributes to aliveness.
The department has worked out the.
schedule so that it may be enjoyable,
for exercise is wasted if it is not en-
joyed. Further, the reasons for the
requirement of only two years, are
that in two years students should at-
tain skill in oné activity. and that the
only way to impress the essentiality of
exercise upon the students is to let
them learn by experience, so that in
the Junior year will come a-slump, but
in the Senior year a returh to the fold.
Even as early as Ovid it was said: “See
how: idleness the lazy body destroys,
How water in the lake without move-
ment spoils.” .
Having arranged the minimum of re-
quirement, the department holds the
students to “strict accountability” for
the attendance of classes; people - who
| reconstruction,
Co-Ordination Is ‘
Cause of Revolt
Against
Y
Middle «Ages Re
- Plato and Progre
Modifying.
-PERSUASION OVER FORCE
Professor Whitehead in his second lec-
ture under the Flexner Foundation
began :
“We will glafice at accessory causes
and criticize the humanitarian ideal gath-
ering ‘strength since_the nineteenth cen-
tury. And we. will include the sketch
of a reply to this criticism.
“The growth of technology about the
seventeenth century is the greatest of
accessory causes weakening the success
of slavery. The organization of a well-
fixed. order. of. society. ina -well-man-
aged feudal system must not be con-
fused witlt slavery. The adjustment of
big business in modern finance involves
a closer analogy to feudalism
feudalism to slavery. Individualists and
socialists are: debating the details of a
neo-feudalism which modern industry re-
quires. The problem of social life is
the problem of co-ordination of activities.
Thanks to the growth of technology con-
currently with the advance of. civiliza-
tion; the Etirépean— races have—avoided-
slavery. The economic movement of the
eighteenth century with the growing
sense of the kinship of man, urged _civ-
ilized governmerits to’ extirpate slavery
from the world. Before and during the
‘nineteenth century several strands of
thought opposed the humanitarian idea.
“Throughout the eighteenth century, the
intelectual life of England was negligible
so far as intellectual originality was con-
But after. 1790 there was a
of England’s »intellectual
influence on the rest the .world.
Whereas in the seventeenth century
France looked to__England,_where— the
great men were Bacon, Locke and New-
ton, yet it is France in the eighteenth
century who carried the white man’s
burden of advance.
of
Continued on. Page Three
Seniors-_Urged to File
- Vocational Interests
One_usually thinks. of..an .employ-
ment or appointment byreau “as an
agency which definitely takes the initia-
tive in seeking positions for those who
register with it. For various reasons,
the Buréau. of Recojnmendations at
Bryn Mawr is not equipped for this
kind of service. What we can do,
however; "to secure’ information
about your academic record, collect
your recommendations, and: have these
facts in shape to give out, if and when
you are interested in .securing a posi-
tion. Our object is really 'two-fold—
first, to be of some service to Bryn
Mawr graduates who are looking for
positions, and second, to have more
names in our files to suggest for what
is
is sometimes—an embarrassingly large]
number of calls.
This year the Bureau is making.a
special effort to have on file some rec-
ord- of each Senior's present. interest
and probablé tendencies, before ‘she.
leaves’ college, even though not all
Seniors expect to go into some kind of
work immediately: “It is_particularly-
important, for the best interests of the
Bureau and the individual, that we
secure recommendations from your
professors while you are still fresh in
their minds, and before they have. left
the college for sabbatical years or for
more protracted absences. We hope,
therefore, that every Senior will fill
Out the cards which may .be obtained
from the Bureau of Recommendations
or from the wardens, and hand them
in to the Bureau as soon as possible.
Ait those who are seriously interested
in positions in the near future are
asked to see Miss Crane in the Bu-
reau, which is. located in the Dean's
‘office.
The largest_ number. _of _calis_ are
_ Byrtene-G>Andet ~The address is’
52 Vanderbilt Aeaiee at 45th Street,
_New. York City. Tae:
do fiot comie, do not learn anything; a
‘perfect -progression- ~must- ibe “gore |
erg a
“nyt
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usually for teachers ‘in_the. _secondary
‘schools, . - However, during the: past
on Continued on-
than.
-
Thrilling Portrayal of _
Alaskan Expedition Given
On Friday evening, February 7, and
Saturday February 8, Mr.
Harry Whitney spoke and showed mo-
afternoon,
tion pictures in Goodhart ‘Auditorium
for the benefit of the League of Wom-
Mr, Whit-
ney was with the Peary Polar Expedi-
1908 and published a book on
his studies of the Eskimos. In 1910
he returned to Greenland to bring back
In 1928
and 1929 he was back in Alaska get-
Pailadelphia
Academy. of Natural Sciences. i
Mr. Whitney’s pictures were a rec-
‘ord of his most recent trip in Alaska
in which he succeeded in getting splen-
did specimens of the caribou, the
grizzly bear, and especially of the little
known Dall white mountain sheep,
Much of the photography was excel-
‘lent, and included beautiful views of
the Alaskan and Yukon landscape as
en Voters in Philadelphia,
tion 1
animals for the Bronx Zoo,
ting animals for the
well as some remarkably interesting |*
and artistic shots of the animals which
he was hunting. Very fantastic re-
sults were obtained when Mr. Whitney
was photographing the sea” lions on
Seal Rock from a small boat on rough
water. The lions obliged him- with
fierce —*and-—continual’—anties~—-which
amused and roused the admiration of
the audience. Several sympathetic
Studies of huskies, ‘which will soon
give way to the airplane as mail car-
riers, and of bear cubs were shown.
Then the trip to the Yukon was made
to procure specimens of the numerous
caribou, which travel alniost entirely
in herds. When the migration of the
international herd begins it takes two
or three weeks for some million cari-.
bou to swim the Yukon River. Many
views cf these large, but graceful ani-
mals swimming in groups were pre-
sented. :
Mr.. Whitney and his guide then
went up. the Nanna River to the great
mountainous sheep country to locate
the Dall white mountain sheep of
| which he attained extremely beautiful
pictures at the expense of a great deal
of difficulty. The handsome white crea-
tures with their dignified horns and
solemn gait are a splendid sight against
their barren, almost. inaccessible. back-
ground. The cleaning and preparing
of the skins and bones to be brought
back to the museum was also strange.
and _ interesting. >
Mr. Whitney's last trip’ was into the
Kenai Peninsula,’ the greatest moose
country in the world, where he hunted
moose on the: shores of Lake Tustu-
Continued on Page Three
Palpitating Pinafores!
It generally the consensus
opinion that pinafores are unsophis-
ticated garments, with none of the
glamour and romance which surrounds
various othgr feminine raiment, cir-
cumspectly known as. “undies.” Any-
one who thinks this has a lot learn!
But it can be learned enjoyably, for
the Freshmen are going to teach you.
In the Freshman show Saturday night
you will see PALPITATING PINA-
FORES, which will open your eyes
and make you gasp. PALPITATING
PINAFORES! Don’t you thrill to
the name,.and in it the possibilities of
a bewitching revue? Doesnt your
own heart palpitate at the prospect?
The Freshmen hate to keep you in
suspense for three whole days.
your. enjoyment will be all the greater
when on Saturday, the fifteenth, you
at last will see this superb LITTLE
SHOW of Bryn Mawr and other
places of interest to you. The tickets
are only a dollar, and the hour is 8:15
is of
But]
——s
‘Call, Violin and _
Piano in Concert
Beatrice Harrison Interprets
Number Composed For
Her by Delius.
SERIES FOURTH EVENT
In Goodhart Hall on Wednesday eye-
ning a concert was given by Beatrice
Harrison, ‘cellist; Boris Koutzen, violin-
ist, and Horace Alwyne, pianist, as the
fourth event in the’ Bryn’ Mawr Series.
Miss Mr. * Alwyne
opened the the
Long, deep-sounding
Harrison and
program with Brahms’
Sonata in E’Sninor.
notes characterize
bass the first. move-
ment of this composition; in the second
the lighter dance measures of an Alle-
gretto quasi Minuetto relieve this elegiac
‘intonation; and with’ the gladsome mood
carefully sustained the Sonata closes in
1. Allegro movement.
There followed a Hungarian Sonata
written expressly for Miss Harrison by °
Kodaly. This *composition is unique Ah
that it is entirely unaccompanied. In
dition Kodaly has put many new tech-
nical ideas into the formation of the’
piece,—and_.the’cello—is—strained—to—its—
utmost musical capacity. Miss Harrison
gave a superb rendition of this difficult
composition, while in her happy choice
of an encore she connteracted. the daz-
zling technicalities.of the Sonata with an
antidote of pure melody.
The third and fifth numbers in the
program were. written by Delius, a com-
poser | little recognized in America, al-
though he is very well known in. Ger-
many and in. England, where recently a
whole week: was set apart for a music
festival in honor of his works. As Mr.
Alwyne explained,:Delius is one of the
most—_tragic —_figures-—of contemporary
music, since he now paralyzed and
quite blind. His works have a certain
distinguishing wistful quality’ and aloof-
ness which is well brought out in the
is
Sonata No. 2 in C. This composition is
written in -ohe---continuous. movement
(con moto—l¢gnto—yvivace). for. the violin
and piane.% Mr. Koutzen, who began
somewhat stiffly, gave a creditable per-
formance.
The moody ‘thoughtfulness of Delius
was expressed by Miss Harrison and Mr.
Alwyne in the Sonata; which the com-
poser had dedicated to Miss Harrison
in whose garden he often wrote. It is
a composition with an impassioned theme
well adapted to the ‘cello. Of this same
vibrant: sonority Elegie by Faure,
which. Miss Harrison played assisted by
Vernon Hammond’s accompaniment ;
while in direct .contrast to such deep-
woven harmony is—Scott’s Pastorale and -.
Reel, where the ‘cello becomes a more*
frivolous instrument and sings perhaps of
a hundred shepherds competing in a bag-
pipe playing contest. Indeed, under Miss
Harrison's skillful hands the violoncello
became a most astonishingly versatile in-
strument, at times almost aS gay as a
piccolo and at. other times as plaintive
as a violin.
The program was as follows:
Violoncello ‘and Pianoforte: Sonata
in E minor, Op. 38, Brahms; Allegro
Allegretto quasi Minuetto,
1S
non troppo,
Allegro, -
Violoncello: Hungariarr Sonata for
‘cello alone, Kodaly (written for Miss
Harrison); Adagio (espressione), Al-
legro molto vivace.
Violin and Pianoforte: Sonata No. 2
in €; Delius; Con moto—Lento=Vi-
vace (in oné continuous movement).
Violoncello: (a) Elegie, Faure; (b)
Pastorale and Reel, Scott.
Violoncello and Pianoforte: Sonata
(Dedicated to Miss Harrison), Defius;
Allegro non troppo—Lento—Allegro
P. M. No effort is being spared to
make sini a clever, melodious, spec- (in one continuous movement).
tacular and interesting revue. ACR ee
The class “of °33 extends’ a most Calendar
hearty invitation to all the readers~of Wednesday eveiing, Pebresry-12=
the News. to..be present.in Goodhart Curtis Institute Orchestra:
Auditorium. Saturday. night at. 8: 15 to} Pet ts
witness its fascinating, N “ Palpitating Pinaforea The
presentation, PALPITATING PIN- Fetahawan Show.
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