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"Recovery From Cymbeline Program”

The presentation of The Swan last week-end demonstrated .conclusively
to the few who saw it that the reorganization of Players Club has not been
in vain. Many members of the “new blood” distinguished themselves in
acting roles and also in the equally difficult functions of staging, costuming
and business management. The offices were distributed more widely and
equably than in the recent past and the entire production was vastly
improved by the presence of a professional acting director.

. Unfortunately the entire “Recovery from Cymbeline Program” could
not be accomplished in a single production. The appeal to the college at
large in the choice of the play was very laudable and democratic in spirit
but not very wise theatrically. The average student does not have sufficient
knowledge of the requirements of the stage to choose intelligently nor does
she have time enough to acquaint herself with the plays.open to voting. In
the future the Varsity Dramatics Board might adopt a course midway
between the extremes of arbitrary selection and open plebiscite. By circu-
lating widely among all the undergraduates for a week or two, the members
could uncover the tastes or. preferences of the college at large, but could
retain the ultimate selection in their own more competent hands.

The employment of a professional director vastly improved the general
level and finesse of the entire production, but the suggestion may be proffered
that in future the director’s duties be extended to include all'the technical
details as well as the acting. The codrdination of all the committees is a
difficult but necessary task which requires a clear delineation of duties and
authority to produce a uniform production.

_ Codperation with Haverford proved itself successful and pleasant for
all “concerned. The minor difficulties were on the whole adequately over’
come and the presence of good men amateur actors on Goodhart stage was
sufficient reason alone for future dramatic efforts with our neighbor. The
“presence of Haverford, however, was doubly good in its effect, for while it
improved: the production and added realism to many roles, it added to the
conviviality and entertainment of the evenings which are, after all, the |
principal purposes of their being.



The Writing on the Wall

The recently completed quiz period gave the first opportunity to stu:
dents and faculty to see how the arrangements for shortening the mid-
semester examination period and decreasing the number of quizzes worked
out. On the whole the plan was successful, for not only were a number
of unnecessary quizzes eliminated with the complete approval of the students
and instructors involved, but also the length of time occupied by the exam-
inations was reduced to three weeks, with a few exceptions.

There remains one important problem which is caused.by the manner
in which many of the professors present quizzes to their classes. This |
year the difficulty has been even more pronounced, perhaps because of the
contrast between this situation, and the satisfaction so widely felt about
the changes made in the organization of the quizzes in other respects. In
a great many cases the professors come to the class at the hour of the quiz
and write the questions on the board. If there are more than one or two
questions, the actual copying on the blackboard takes quite a few minutes
This amounts to a serious loss of time to students who have only one hour
in which to answer the questions set. Confusion frequently results, too,
when the class is told that certain questions must be selected from various
groups. This méans that they must wait until all the questions are on the
board before they begin to write.

To end this condition, individual students should be provided with
written copies of the questions as is done in the case of mid-year and final
examinations. This would obviate misunderstandings about which questions
are to be answered and would prevent mistakes caused by inability to read
what is on the blackboard. The faculty members are busy people and
perhaps this is asking too much of thtm; but since the college mimeographs
_examination papers for finals, it might arrange to do quiz papers for those
professors who do not have the time to make copies of the questions for

their classes. ,



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prisoners enrolled have had only one
or two years of high school training,

Minneapolis, _Minn.—Prisone at
innesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary

Editorials Praise Work

of; President Thomas||



Reprinted from the New York
Herald-Tribune, Wednesday, Decem-
ber 4, 1935.

Brilliance and grit are not a usual
combination. More often than not the
sensitivity of the brilliant person dis-
qualifies him for the rough and tum-
ble of pioneer: effort. It was not so
in the case of Miss M. Carey Thomas.
She, more than any other woman in
her generation, was responsible for
the social acceptance.of higher educa-
tion for her sex. Bryn Mawr College
is her monument, the peer today of

i any under-graduate institution in ‘the

Mand, ‘

The extraordinary spirit which gal-
vanized her purely feminine personal-
ity became manifest in her, teens when
she began storming the academic cita-
del, then almost exclusively the pre-
serve of the male. She-contrived first
to enter Cornell University from which
she was graduated with honors at the
age of twenty. By a special vote of
the trustees she was admitted the next
year to Johns Hopkins, where she was
permitted to attefid lectures behind a
screen. Undaunted;~she began sam-
pling the universities of Europe,
fighting gamely for her deserts as a
scholar and finally attaining them in
the form of a Ph. D. degree, summa
cum laude, from the University of
Zurich. Bright girls of today who
look upon a- college education, and
whatever duties beyond that they
wish to pursue, as a natural sequence
of their record in school may well
pause in veneration of this daring lady
who broke the ice for them only fifty
years ago.

With such a background of trium-
phant struggle and scholarly training
it is not to be wondered at that Miss
Thomas should build Bryn Mawr into
the institution it has become. As its
co-organizer and dean for nine years,
and as its president for twenty-eight,
she molded it to her will, adding to its
undergraduate department a_ post-
graduate curriculum leading to a
Ph. D. and holding the whole to the
highest standards. Thus Bryn Mawr
is not simply a girl’s college, however
competent to its purpose, but a dis-
tinguished theatre of learning.

Typically enough, Miss Thomas,
while president, was known to her fac-
ulty and to the whole academic world
as among the most rigid of disciplin-
arians. But she was equally’ ‘famous
for her selection and encouragement
of talented young teachers and espe-
cially young men teachers, for she
never carried her strong feministic
leanings to the point of discrimination
against the male. Equality was her
goal and she had the wisdom to see
that in attaining it for her students
she. must enlist the best brains in their
service regardless of sex.

And yet, she was the first head of
a woman’s college to come out pub-
licly for woman suffrage—as long ago
as 1896—and for sixteen years there-
after she was president of the Na-
tional Collegiate Equal Suffrage
League. In 1898, as a condition of a
gift to its endowment, she forced the
Johns Hopkins Medical School to ad-
mit women on equal terms with men.
A great champion she was, but with a
perspective which made her a person
even greater than her cause. We can
think of no higher tribute.



Reprinted from Philadelphia Eve-
ning Bulletin, Tuesday, December 3,
1935.

Womankind—particularly the wom-
en of the United States—owe .an in-
calculable debt to M. Carey Thomas.
Dean of Bryn-Mawr at 26, coming
direct from her studies abroad, at
Leipsic, at Goettingen, at Zurich and
finally at The Sorbonne; ten years
later she was made president of that
institution, elected to the Board of
Trustees in 1908, and president-emeri-
tus since 1922; much of the develop-
ment of that now noted College for
Women was.of--her making. and the
widespread influence of the school
traces back to her genius and her de-
votion. And farther reaching ever
than that, or at least in channels

-|other than that, in every movement

that has been worth while in the ad-
-vancement of the women’s opportunity

‘and in’ the broadening of women’s

who are enrolled in University of
Minnesota extension courses have a
higher scholastic ‘average than day
students - the same courses.

_ Although the panes number of the

their grades show that 70 per cent sphere of activity during more than

B, with the subjects studied falling

‘|about half and half between -urtiver-

sity and high school courses, —
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her influence have had a part.

Equality of Intellect In Women
There is significant interest in recol-







lecting ‘that she was one of me ‘iret





News Resignation
The' News regrets to announce —
“the resignation. of Lucy Kim-
: berly, sports editor, from the
Editorial Board.







young women students to enter Cor-
nell, from which she was graduated
in 1877; that from there she went to
Johns Hopkins, where she was the
eniy woman permitted to enter the
class in Greek; that she went to-the
University of Leipsic and completed
its course in three years, only to be
denied her degree “on account of her
sex”; that she went to Goettingen and
found her ‘opportunity similarly cir-
cumscribed, and thence went to Zu-
rich, where there had been precedent
in the recognition of women’s intellec-
tual ability, and received the “summa
cum laude” which she had earned.
And then after.a year at The Sorbon-
ne she came back home. to take the
position of dean of Bryn Mawr, and
largely to organize and to build a
college for women. And thirty-nine
years later, as she was retiring from
the active presidency of that college
to continue on the Board of Trustees
and as president-emeritus until her
death, she said: *

One of the biggest things ‘ac-
complished in the struggle of
women for higher education is
the revelation to the world that
the minds of men and women
are the same, not,.different; that
they require and can assimilate
the same intellectual food; that
there is no sex in intellect, and
that, tested in any way that col-
leges and universities can devise, «
women do, at least, as well as
men.

That sevaiion was her-mission in
the world, and she devoted her life to
its service. When, in co-operation
with her intimate friend, Mary E.
Garrett, of Baltimore, she was a lead-
ing factor in raising a fund adequate
for the opening of Johns Hopkins
Medical School, it has been said (by
Dr. Florence Rena Sabin) that “while
the money for this fund was in the
main contributed by Miss Garrett, far
more important than the actual gift
of money were the conditions under
which the fund was given and accept-
ed. Miss Thomas laid down the con-
ditions which were to be met, a college
degree or its equivalent, a knowledge
of physics, chemistry and biology, pro-
ficiency in foreign languages and the
admission of women on the same
terms as men.”

Bryn Mawr and its achievements
constitute the exemplification of her
ideals, a
Hope and Aim In Work of Bryn Mawr

Miss Thomas was an intimate friend
of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and a
pioneer in the advancement of the
movement for the exténsion of the
suffrage to women, wk€n its vision
was in the far distance. For eight
years she was the president of the
National College Equal Suffrage As-
sociation.

But she did not beliewe that equal-
ity was something to be conferred
upon women by statute, whether in
the extension of the franchise or
otherwise. She believed that there
was inherent equality in women and
that those who had the higher endow-
ments of mind were as fully entitled
as any man to every opportunity and
means for its development. Her hope
for Bryn Mawr, in her own words.
was “that it shall become more and
more a college producing women who
may best serve their generation, a col-
lege that may attract more and more
the A and A-plus girls.” It was her
desire and purpose that the educa-
tional opportunity for women should
stand parallel with the educational
opportunity for, men, confident that
in the competition, if it were to be that
rather than a joint endeavor, women
would justify every anticipation.

Today, that truth generally is ree-

ognized, although old prejudice has
not altogether disappeared. Women
in the practice of medicine and in the
laboratories as well, women in the law,
at the bar, occasionally on the bench;

women in the pulpit,-in the service
of the press; women in science, in all
branches; women in business, often as
executives; women in political equal-
ity, as voters, in elective and appoint-

ive offices, as administrators, as lead-|

ers.

The slogan “equality of sex,” glibly
spoken today, when so much has been
ere it is* but commonplace,



does not compare in the richness of
thought and idealism, with the equality
of.opportunity for education and ad-
vancement to which M. Carey .Thomas
dedicated hersélf more than fifty years
ago fhen she deciared that there is
no sex in intellect and that it is
woman’s inherent right to improve the
talent with which she was endowed.



Tributes will. be paid to her emi-
nence as an eduéator, to her particu-
lar achievements at Bryn Mawr. But
the inspiration to that paramount
field of service was her. ideal - of
woman, of woman’s capacity for
achievement, and her right to full op-
portunity ‘for the development of that
capacity. To quote her own words
again, Bryn Mawr’s mission was “to
produce women who may best serve
their generation.” ai



In Philadelphia

Broad: Kind Lady, with Lucy Beau-
mont, distinguishes itself as well in
Philadelphia as-it did at the end of
last season in New York when Grace
George played the lead.

Chestnut: Gilbert Miller’s produc-



‘Ition of Libel, with Colin Clive, seems

to disappoint the Philadelphia critics

| somewhat, although its producer still

has faith in its success when it opens
in New York.

Forrest: Eva Le Gallienne opens
her repertory next Monday night for
one week only. Rosmersholm and
Camille will be the principal attrac-
tions, although it is rumoréd vaguely
that Miss Le Gallienne will do “‘two
Spanish plays” as well.

Garrick: Personal Appearance, in
its third week, is definitely established
asa hit.

Academy of Music: The Philadel-
phia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold
Stokowski, will play the following:
Borodin’s. On the Steppes in Central
Asia, the Rhapsodie on a Theme of
Pagnini of Rachmaninov, and Tcheh-
kovsky’s Symphony Number Five. in
E Minor. Rachmaninov will be the
soloist.

Movies

Aldine: Crime and Punishment un-
doubtedly suffers from being released
at approximately the same time as
the French film Crime et Chatiment,
but the critics have not been able to
agree which is really the better movie.
This American version of Dostoiev-
skys’ novel is especially notable for
the fine, sustained performance of
Peter Lorre.

' Areadia: Mutiny on the Bounty,
about which everything has been said.
With Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
and Franchot Tone.

Boyd: George Arliss in a minor
success called Mr. Hobo. Starts Fri-
day: Whipsaw, with Myrna Loy and
Spencer Tracy, a most singular team
of players, one might. remark, in an
opus which has so fay. been a Holly-
wood secret. It is fervently to be
hoped that it is not very similar to
Riptide. :

Earle: Stars Over Broadway, a mu-
sical comedy featuring Jane Froman
and James Melton, a new star re-
cruited from radio; who also suffers
from the facial contours of Mr. Law-
rence Tibbett. Friday: One-Way
Ticket, with Peggy Conklin, star of
the stage production of The Petrified
Forest.

Europa: La Maternelle continues.
This is a popular French film about
some waifs and their nursery school
nurses.

Fox: Thanks a Million, with Fred
Allen and Dick Powell. Friday: The
Man Who Broke the Bank At Monte
Carlo will open at this theatre. Ron-
ald Colman stars.

Karlton: Splendor, in which Miriam
Hopkins is sacrificed for the sake of
Joel McCrea’s inhuman family.
Keith’s: A Night At the Opera, the
Marx Brothers’ latest.

Palace: Peter Ibbetson, with Gary
Cooper and Ann Harding.

Stanley: Annie Oakley, a movie
about the girl who became a synonym
for a free ticket, with Barbara Stan-
wyck in the title role. Saturday : ,/ J
John Howard gets his first real chance
in a vehicle by the name of Millions
in the Air.
Stanton: James Cagney in Frisco
Kid, and, startit'g Saturday, Rochelle
Hudson in a lively gangster film
called (by the Will Hayes ‘ office)
Show Them No Mercy. ~—

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