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The College News
(Founded in 1914) thes

_ Published weekly during the College Year
in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the
Maguire. Building, Wayne, Pa. and Bryn
Mawr Collese.

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CORNELIA B. ROSE, '28 ~

F. McKELVEY, ‘28
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C. R. M. SMITH, '28 E. RICE, '30
K. BALCH, ’29 M. RACE, 29
C. HOWE, '30 4
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REALIZATION

Another college year is ended.
‘It seems rather too bad to have to
leave just as the campus is at its
loveliest. And it really ig lovely.
We feel it most of all during this
week. Usually we are too busy
bustling and “bellering” to feel
the beauty and the charm which:
- lies about us. This last strangely
peaceful week has given many of
us a chance to gather our impres-
sions together and feel things for
the first time. No sooner do we
achieve this realization than we
have to leave. The gathering to-
gether of loose ends into a whole
consciousness of our surroundings
hardly has time to sink into our
minds, a swift feeling of unity
with the college, -of wholeness
within ourselves, and then we go.







FOR THE CHILDREN’S
WARD

Is there nothing new under the

sun? One of the most interesting
new things that has happened
vlately, after. Lindbergh’s feat, is
the competition held. in all the
New York Public Schools, for de-
signs for the Children’s ward. in
‘the Washington Heights Hospi-
tal, The prize winning designs, all
the work of children from 10 to
15 years old, were judged on two
grounds ; first, they had to pass
before artists, then before doctors.
This resulted in ruling out a rep-
resentation of Miss’ Muffet, be-
cause that young lady looks too
realistically frightened to be
soothing; and ruling in one of
Alice in Wonderland and_ the
card chorus, which, while it may
not be art, is certainly pleasant to
look upon.

The most impressive thing
about the competition, according
to the judges, was the high level
of excellence in the entries; they
all show interesting and effective
treatment. The children have a
natural feeling for composition
and color, combined with a re-
freshing/simplicity of treatment,
which Made 1000 of the drawings
submitted worthy of preservation.

The whole competition came
about because one enterprising
public school teacher had i imagina-
tion enough to use the new build-
ing as an inspiration for her class.
She had them design a window
for the hospital. “To make little
sick children forget that they were
sick.” These sketches, brought to
the architects, provided a convinc-
ing enough argument so that the
project was launched. The results
of this teacher’s inspiration will
make the Washington Heights
_ Hospital a unique and tremen-
deusly interesting place for a
_ ertat pany. years to come..

OURS BUT TO HUE OR DYE
__ We should think that the re-
cent. epidemic of yellow shirts on
campus would have caused consid-
rable worry to the American Le-
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coming.to? Who knows but what
we may be wearing pigtails next!



Commhnications

(The College News is not responsible
for opinions expressed in this ¢glumn.).
To the¢Editor of the Conese News:

Nothing seeffis to ;be, more impossible
for an Alumna than: to agcept with any
degree of resignation the fact that the
College refuses to remain at the exact
stage. with which she is familiar. No
matter how broad-minded she may or-
dinarily ‘be, when she enters Pembroke
arch, she bristles with apprehensiveness.
She sniffs: suspiciously outside all the
smoking Yagooms—she probably smokes
herself, but that makes no difference—;
she eyes with disgust the latest ‘campus
costume ; ‘she eats at the Inn with ill-
concealed scorn fdr the loud-voiced
throng who sit playing bridge and
- |slandering the college while they wait
for their costly, suppers. Even we our-
selves, who are ‘slightly complacent
about .our adaptability, have been roused
to passionate indignation at the simple
sight of an orchid in a May basket; and
have pitied a college generation which
could find no pleasure in gamboling on
the green. .

Why’ do Alumnae behave in_ this
fashion? We have no explanation to
offer. Yet—we suspect that the very
Freshmen who find so little at Bryn
Mawr to please their exquisite palates
will in 10 years be writing letters to the
NEws about the outrageous antics of the
Class of 1940.

Mort ALUMNAE.



Boston Censors

“After declaring a number of recent
novels to be violating the Massachusetts
law, prohibiting the distribution of ob-
scene and indecent books, just in time
to revive the rather waning sale of cer-
tain of these books, the district attor-
ney’s office informed the Booksellers’
Committee of Boston that the gentle-
men’s agreement which had existed for
a number of years concerning the en-
forcement of this law was at an end. By
this agreement the Booksellers’ Com-
mittee and members of the Watch and
Ward Society passed on books and the
police took no action on books approved.
Booksellers were warned of the books
not passed and had an opportunity to re-
move them from their shelves. The
bookseller must now attempt to decide
for himself what the district attorney
jor his reader will consider indecent. The
district attorney refused to give any
opinion on some 50 books submitted to
him for approval. This leaves the book-
seller in the enviable position of never
knowing when someone will consider
some book indecent and arrest him for
selling it. The booksellers have taken
no action in this case but have preferred
to await the publishers action. Har-.
court Brace and Boni and _ Liveright
seem preparing to make test cases in the
courts to clear the issue and determine
the basis for interpreting the law. The
whole situation seems more or. less ri-
diculous.

We do not mean to intimate that there
are no obscene books printed. Certain-
ly many receut novels are merely rot-
ten. Putting aside the question ° of
whether suppressing books is effective or
merely a form of gratuitous advertis-
ing, the absurdity of the situation lies in
the lack of system employed in select-
ing books for this occasionally appro-
priate stigma. The juxtaposition of
books on the last list was rather amus-
ing. One might as well couple Tess of
the d’Urbervilles with Michael Arlen’s
latest effort. After all with the lamen-
table scarcity of possible plots it is the
treatment of the theme which determines
its morality or immorality,

‘The question of censorship is one of
widespread interest in the country today.
Whatever the effect of censorship may
be, it ought at least to call attention to
the number of ‘rather sloppily biological
novels now on. the market. To range
ridicule on the side of these - books
would be unfortunate. If there must be
censorship let it at least be intelligent.
Surely some ere suitable group of
censors may ‘be imagined than several
rerias aa a district attorney who

take on the responsibility.”—The~ Blue
sub-|@"4 fev = —.











The Pillar
-* of Salt

The Seniors. have ben given back
their. Freshman themes—some of. them
are a revelation! + This particularly
sagacious bit of observation is the early
work of a/pProminent member of the
graduating class, ~

The Spirit of the Flapper
Just as the .train was about to start
two young girls entered breathlessly, and
took the seat in front of me. There was
obviously no other epithet to apply to
them but the well-worn and much- criti-
cized term “flapper.” wiles es

“My dear, was not the Phi Beta dance
last night just too wonderful! I have
never had more fun in my life!” as the
girl with the red hat drew forth ‘her
powder puff. .
“It was just superb, and what music !”
Fluffng ‘her red hair the girl with the
leopard-skin coat gave a_ happy little
sigh.
whether I like Tom Howard, or Jim
Hendicks best. I went with Tom Fri-
day night, and with Jim last night, and
I am still impartial.”

“It's a hard question. Tom certainly
is stunning-looking ; and, O, how he can
dance!”

“Yes, he is beautiful, but dumb. Jim
has such a good line | that you almost
forget that he cannot tango.”

“Well, I' have adopted a new policy.
I think it is better to have six or eight
boys play with you some of the time,
rather than to, have one steady swain.”
“That 16 a good idea, I think I wall







try it. By the way, I have to buy a
new evening dress. What color shall I
get?”

“You ought to wear green with your
red hair; and, of course, it is all the
rage now.”

The inspiring dialogue continued in
this fashion for so long that I began tc
wonder what the much-abused younger
generation was coming to. Then, sud-
denly, the conversation changed as thé}
little redhead pounced on a book her
companion was vainly trying to conceal.
“Why, Doris, I did not suppose you:
liked poetry. It is Shelley, too. He is
my. favorite, next to Keats.”

“I do just love it; but ‘of course I do
not let on that I like to read because
people would call me highbrow, and then
I would be a hopeless failure in society.”
“Well, here we are and since I dis-
covered your secret, I'll tell you mine:
I am going to the art exhibit; but please
do not tell anyone, because, as you say,
one just cannot. get the name of ‘high-
brow’ in society.”

T gave a.sigh of relief.
come out alright in the end.

They will



.One of the nicest things about having
the Alumnae back is the rise in the
quality of the college food that accom-
panies them.



There is dissension in our ranks. You
wouldn’t believe how much commotion
has been caused by the fact that the
News will have an office of its own next
year. The great problem is: What color
scheme shall we have? Green is a nice
conservative color, while if we have red,
our policy will immediately become radi-:
cal,“so you see what a serious problem
it is. The only disadvantage we have
yet discovered about having the office is
that Cissy Centipede will have to be
banned from it; she may visit us in our
room, but not at the office—in a nice new
building like Goodhart Hall, she would
be distinctly out of place.



All Hail! twenty-seven! that radical

“You know, I never can decide |’

Street, the last of the class plays;
are F, Thayer and E. Parker, very love-

Class, we can only lament!
to show them to our friends,—they will
surely make caustic comments.
each senior had to approve of her pic-
ture before it was put in,
27 must have a very low opinion of its
personal
them on their consistent humility.

1927’s_ class

Cheshire

: ay:
other humble

and Lion.

Polyp and

and
flappers are very finished work.

serves high praise. Not perhaps

ried out with grace and wit.

masculine element. of the faculty

strongly ;

what they have meant to '27.

We like particularly the page devoted
to the Porcuping and Lovely Leiler,—
we wish there had been more of them.
since most of the other features showed
a deplorable lack of wit and originality.
We don’t like to be critical, but some of
the things were totally incomprehensible,

and” others evoked only ‘a: weak smile.
That our criticism may not be entirely
destructive, we suggest that ’28 study the
less good ‘parts with an eye to the fu-
ture.

The ‘photographs in the first part of
the book were interesting, reminding: us
presently of past pleasures; there is May
Day, to spur us on; there is Quality
there

ly under the Japanese cherry. But when
we come? to the pictures of the Senior
We tremble
Since
we feel that

pulchritude! We congratulate

After perusing the class book we won-

der ;—does_ the college at large really
know as little as ’27 as it would seem,
or is it unfair representation ?
they are less cryptic, and better looking
than their class book shows them.

We hope



Chapel Plan Announced

The Christian Association has an-

nounced that the Sunday evening Chapel
arrangement
There will be two speakers a month,
alternating with musical services.
the months in which we have four Sun-
days at college, there will be three speak-
ers.

has been decided upon.

On

*

Sometime ago a vote was taken in the

halls on four possible-arrangements that
might be made for Chapel next year. The
four were:

I, The present system.
IT, Abolish Chapel altogether.
III. Two speakers and two musical
services,
IV. Three speakers and one musical
service a month.
The argument, was that two musical

services a month would exhaust: the
choir.
will be busy enough as it is.
posed arrangement seems to provide a
happy compromise in the eyes of the
Christian Association officers. +

Next year, being May Day year,
The pro-



Scholarship in Acting
The Gloucester School of the Little

in °27's "Thin Class-Book
book, dedicated to ° Dr.
Prokosch, and resplendent in its green
cover, with red and gold’ shield on the
lower right hand corner, has arrived!
We open the cover to find the Woo- |.
zy, on one side supércilious, above the |of the theory that it is no loager possible
Mouse, on the
before the Dodo, Cockatoo
From this point ‘on there is at
least 10 minutes worth of entertainment.

The original drawings, especially those
by Jan Seeley and Grace Hayes are de-
lightful. Jan’s quaint. big-headed ,people
charming animals ‘have ' distinction
and’ character; and Gracie’s collegiate
es
special features the Hall of Fame” de-
an
original conception, yet it has been car-
We aré
interested to discover that ’27 €avors the
so
and we suppose that profes-
sors will be interested in finding out

last

ip yon Mosieaverl eee age

_| But there’s one tradition

class!
Changing the mode’s their del

Jim, too, must pass—

are right.)

ae

their way,
ma foi!

this May,

to bust,



ight.

As you know, with their going, Sunny

(And we're sure, in their way, they

These great legend-smashers go- fearless
hed the things ine accomplished
Not a cent will be ‘spent upon flowers
(Not even for chou chat de bois.)

we'd like them
syPetore they depart with rush—








Theater is again offering free scholar-

'|ships to two undergraduates of Ameri-

jcan colleges and universities, one to a
woman and one to a man.
This is the eighth successful season
of the Gloucester School, which has come
to be known as a sort of summer work-
shop for college students interested in
acting or in production, and which al-
ready-counts among-its graduates sev-
eral who are on the professional stage.
Candidates for these scholarships
should have: ee
(a) Normal voice and posture.
(b) Dramatic abliity. or ability in
seme branch of production.
(c) They must “present references as.
to character..
All applicants for the scticiaiidhain
send for further information be-
ee ee ee
"Mies Florence Cunningham. co-direc-
tor, Gloucester School of the Little



_| Theater, Sia Sharm ett, ete, Mane

| fellowing story is told.

| causing t

George Brandes, Critic
When George. Brandes, the British
critic, died recently, The Nation tarried
he following appraisal of him and his
work.
Georg Brandes was a living “refutation

for a_ single man to take all literary

In an age

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knowledge as his province.
of particular specialization he refused to
confine himself withih the limits. of a
Be-
ginning 60 years ago at Copenhagen as

bd . .
period, a-school, or a nationality,

a. student of French aesthetics,
half a dozen years he had’ published his
“Main Current¢4in 'Nineteenth-Century

Literature,” a monumental work: which
dealt with, far broader subjects than aes-
thetics—it was in fact an attempt at a
history of European thought and emo-
tion during half of a great century.
Thenceforth his output, at least ‘on its.
literary side, was to consist of ‘a long
line of monographs, critiques, and ex-
tended biographical studies. It is safe to
say that no critic has applied himself on

within

such a scale and at the same time with
such intensity. We in England = or
America think of his . “Shakespeare,”

France thinks of his “Anatole France”
and his studies in Voltaire, Germany of
his- “Goethe”—all ambitious works, and
all valuable. In Scandinavia he will be
remembered not only for these but for
his many volumes elucidating and eval-
uating Northern literature. He dis-
cussed Tegner. and Holberg as well as
modern authors; he was Ibsen’s* pioneer
defender both at home and in Germany.
The parallel, incidentally, between his
stand on, Ibsen and that of Bernard
Shaw had a sequel during the war, when

‘Both men conspicuously .kept _ their
heads. :
Like Ibsen he lived for many years

away from his native country, making
himself the center” of intellectual’ activi-
ty in whatever capital he chose for his.
temporary home; and like Ibsen he bat

considered. and proved literature to be a
thing of enormous impdrtance. He was
a fighter for liberty, reason and nature,
who only by chance, perhaps, found his
issues on the field of literature. Even
then he by no means found them in,
belles-lettres merely. The storm which

preceded his being refused the profes-

sorship of aesthetics at the University of

Copenhagen in 1872 was raised over the

ideas he had been insinuating into his

lectitfes. He was of course a Jew; and

it became known quickly enough that he

entertained modern, naturalistic notions

of morality and art.

Doubtless it was well that he aban-

doned academic life and became for

years a wanderer. As a glorified free-

lance he came upon bigger game than he

would ever have aimed at in the lecture

hall; in search of ideas he learned that

ideas have every sort of application—

political, social, and practical as well as

metaphysical. One of his first tasks had

been a translation into Danish of John

Stuart Mill’s “The Subjection of

Women”; he was -to write books about

Disraeli and Ferdinand Lassalle; during

the war, in a brilliant controversy with

Clemenceau, he stood above the battle,

serving with Romain Rolland as spokes-

man of the European spirit; and in his

essay he sought to interpret the

Jesus “myth.” Doubtless at his death he

seemed no longer .radical to the’ most ad-

vanced Danes, and indeed there had long

been a rather futile movement to dis-

lodge. him from his eminence as leader. '
He will stand as a critic whose courage

and scope demonstrated what always

needs to be demonstrated, the exciting

significance of the imagination. His
faith ins America sg of West-
ern civilization gives him peculiar signi-

ficance for us.

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The University of Texas reports that
for the first time in twenty years a
woman has been given permission to en-
roll in the civil engineering department.
Two reasons for the scarcity of women in
this department are the clothing worn by
the women and the bashfulness of the in-
structors. As an explanation of this, the

girls’ were enrolled in the department.
While on a surveying trip it was ob-—
served that instruments would not work
correctly when the girls were near them.
The professor said that he had heard
that girls had. some. magnetism about
them, but surely not enough to affect the _
compass neédle. Further investigation
caused the instructor blushingly to inforr:
the. girls | :



The girls in, 1927 do not have any
effect on the compass.



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