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VOL. XI, No. 8
« BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934
Jopyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1934
PRICE 10 CENTS
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M. de Chateaubriand
Was Miserable With
Brilliant, Witty Wife
M. Paul ‘Haxard Describes Love
of Power and Remoteness
of Romanticist
Goodhart, December 10.
The theme of M. Paul Hazard’s lec-
ture: “La. Femme d’un Grand
Homme, Madame de Chateaubriand,”
was “He, She, and then He and. She
together.” M. Hazard gave us a pic-
ture of René and Céleste de Chateau-
briand as separate people, who re-
mained quite definitely separate all
their lives, and finally advised us nev-
er to marry a man who was a genius.
_ René de Chateaubriand was a Bre-
ton nobleman, not quite so tall as he
wished to be, but /handsome, with a
magnificent constitution and a beau-
tiful voice, which he thoroughly en-
joyed using, especially to read his own
works aloud. He had a remarkable
creative intelligence, and a penetrat-
ing understanding of people. His ca-
pacity for enjoying life was tremen-
dous, and so was his foolhardiness.
When he went to America, he had
himself tied to the mast to watch a
storm, and was lowered by pulleys into
a sea full of sharks, so that he might
not forego any exciting experiences.
Chateaubriand a Dissatisfied Lover
M. de Chateaubriand was a great
lover: of Pauline de Beaumont, of La
‘Comtesse de Mouchine, and of Madame
Récamier, whose salon he made his
own. He loved power, though he want-
ed to be rid of it as soon as it bored
him; he loved money; and wasted it
prodigiously; he loved politics and the
monarchy for which he fought, was
wounded, and exiled. So deep was his
devotion to it that he could not bear
the idea of Louis Philippe’s being
king, and left the house of peers for-
ever at his accession.
With all his enthusiasm, Chateau-
briand found that when he had every-
thing he hoped for in the world, sud-
denly everything turned to dust and
Continued on Page Three
Principals of Cymbeline
Seated, left to right: Letitia Brown, ’37, as‘Cymbeline; Isabel
Seltzer, 37, as the Queen.
Standing, left to right:
Ruth Woodward, ’37, as Posthumous Leonatus; Margaret
Veeder, ’36, as Cloten; Sally Park, ’36, as Pisanio; and Edith
Rose, ’37, as Iachimo. —
Adeline Furness, 735, as Imogen;
Romeo and Juliet
A Special Performance of
Katherine Cornell’s production
of Romeo and Juliet is sched-
uled for Friday, December 21,
at the Martin Beck Theatre, for
the Benefit of the David Mannes
Music School.
Bernheimer Lecture Is Coming
Mr. Charles L. Bernheimer is going
to give an illustrated lecture on The
Search for the Earliest American
Civilization on Sunday, December 16,
at 5\o’clock in the Deanery. Mr. Bern-
heimer has discovered hitherto un-
known cliff ruins and dinosaur tracks
which the American Museum of Nat-
ural History has pronounced the most
perfect specimens ever found.
“I Calls It Spinach and I Yells for More”
Is Rallying Cry of Hungry Horde at Tea
“Let’s go over to the Inn for tea
and have some spinach,” would seem
to be a favorite remark at Bryn
Mawr. When we first heard it, we
thought it so incongruous that we
rushed to the smoking room in high
glee to tell of our amusing discovery.
And were looked upon with patroniz-
ing scorn by all the inhabitants. “Of
course—the ,Inn’s spinach is wonder-
ful—it makes a grand tea! Haven’t
you ever eaten it there?” As a result
of this amazing answer, we set out to
find out more about the feeding hab-
its of the Bryn Mawr undergradu-
ate.
Naturally, the first place we went
was the College Inn. Truly enough,
spinach is a favorite dish. Some
girls come in quite regularly about
four o’clock for their spinach with
poached egg. Others, who prefer a
bit of variety, choose a vegetable, plat-
ter. And with almost everyone, spin-
ach is the preferred vegetable for sup-
per. For those of us who are not
quite such health children, however,
the regular tea, consisting of a ham-
burger: or frankfurter sandwich, a
pecan bun, or toast, and tea or coffee,
is the usual thing. We don’t go in
for desserts, but make up for our lack
of a sweet tooth by consuming coffee
-on €very possible occasion.
At the Greek’s, or, more formally,
the Bryn Mawr Confectionery, quanti-
ties of toasted cheese and toasted egg-
‘and-olive sandwiches are consumed
nightly, with coca-cola, beer, coffee,
and chocolate frosteds as supplements,
‘To those who cannot join the parade,
--and must remain at college, large bags
-of the same foods are carried by their
more fortunate friends. Fudge and
fresh fruit sundaes are among the
Our preferences in college food are
stated loudly and often. Orange juice
is the favorite fruit at breakfast: if
we are served whole oranges, instead
of the juice, we squeeze our own at the
table. We definitely don’t like apples,
and are only mildly fond of grapes
and prunes.
In spite of all our reducing diets,
we manage to consume almost eight
hundred pounds of potatoes and two
hundred forty quarts of ice cream a
week, besides our daily portion of milk
per day, which amounts to something
like one hundred seventy-nine quarts.
Crackers, too, break down our resist-
ance. (It has always been a. fact
that it is the people on non-starch diets
who eat up all the crackers.) One
meal that continues in preferment is
that which consists of brown bread,
potatoes, and baked beans, although
we complain bitterly of the color
scheme. —
For salad and dessert, lettuce and
fruit cup, respectively have first
places. Other salads have been tried,
but none have had the popularity that
is accorded plain lettuce, so that has.
been adopted as the constant. ut
thirty-two dozen heads of iceberg let-
Cad
tuce are ordered weeklx.-. For coffee,
“cays prefer the after-dinner va-
riety to that served at breakfast, even
though we have been informed time
and time again that they ate the same
brand made in the same way.
The college bookshop supplies the
college with even more food, as well
as the very necessary cigarettes, chew-
ing gum, tomato juice, et al. Noctur-
nal pilgrimages to the hall-bookshops
are usual Occurrences; from these we
return, laden with edibles and bev-
erages to last until the small hours.
both Miss Johnson and Mrs.
About|}
ae o ana
Teachers Must Have
Psychology, Sympathy
Miss Johnson, Mrs. Appel State
Development of Initiative Is
Basis of Teaching
TACT IS AN ESSENTIAL
Common Room, December 11.
At the vocational tea on teaching,
Appel
stressed the fact that in modern edu-
cation, the teachers should put their
greatest effort into, arousing the chil-
dren’s interest. The object of teach-
ing is to open a child’s mind to new
experiences, to induce concentration
and observation, and to make the child
use his mental resources to the best
of his ability.
Mrs. Appel spoke first, on the nurs-
ery school and its goals. There is the
intellectual goal, for which the teaciier
must study the individual development
of each child and be ready to help at
the essential moment. In _ nursery
school, a child must learn to explore
and to combine the things he has learn-
ed. In a modern nursery school, the
teacher is‘no longer the center of at-
tention; learning is left up to the
child’s initiative, tempted by sand-
piles, blocks, easels, jungle gyms, and
such simple things as packing cases
and boards. The school organizes ex-
peditions so that the children . may
have experiences that they will re-
member. Some children do not con-
centrate or see the possibilities in their
material, and need the teacher to help
them.
Another goal of the nursery school
is emotional growth. The school is
usually the child’s first attempt at
self-reliance, and must encourage a
z Continued on Page Five
College Calendar
Friday, December 14. Dr.
Karl K. Darrow on Waves and
Crystals. -Goodhart. 8.20 P. M.
Sunday, December 16. Mr.
Charles L. Bernheimer on The
Search for the Earliest Ameri-
can Civilization. Deanery. 5.00
P.M. a ean
Christmas Carol Service and ~
address by Bishop Creighton.
Goodhart, 7.45 P. M.
Monday, December 17. League
party, 4.00-6.30 P. M. Common
Room. Meeting of International
Club and Dr. Gray’s lecture on
The New Republic in Spain.
Common Room. 8.00 P.M. . ~
Tuesday, December 18. Dr.
Miiller on Mexico. Music Room. °
5.00 P. M.
Maid’s Party. Gym. _
Wednesday, December 19.
Party in Deanery. Carol sing-
ing. - :
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Varsity Dramatics Censured for Choice
of Play and Mediocrity of Performance
Directors Receive Praise for Achieving Rapidity of Tempo
in. Production of Cymbeline, but Overcutting of Lines =
Prevents Emotional Acting 7
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ONE SET INGENIOUSLY USED THROUGHOUT PLAY
Goodhart, December 8.
The Varsity Dramatics performance
of The Tragedy of Cymbeline met with
our highest approval in that’ we re-
joiced mightily to think that a
Shakespearean play was for the first
time in our memory to grace the
boards of Goodhart. Cymbeline was,
to us at any rate, a totally unknown
quantity, and we were delighted at the
opportunity of seeing a play that is so
seldom produced.
We cannot but feel, however, now
that Cymbeline has come and gone
from our lives, that the choice of that
particular play was a poor one. It is
one of Shakespeare’s last efforts, and
while interesting historically for that
reason, is nevertheless not worth the
trouble of doing for its own peculiar
excellences. The mechanics of the
play are glaringly obvious, and it is
not motivated by the devastating pas-
sions that usually in Shakespeare’s
plays sweep the action before them.
None of the splendor and poetry of
line that makes Shakespeare’s earlier
plays so well worth the learning is
present in Cymbeline, and we think
that the time and painstaking effort
that were obviously spent on-this pro-
duction could have been more profit-
ably employed in doing, for instance,
Twelfth Night, or A Winters’ Tale.
We regret to have to state further
that the production of Cymbeline did
not even approach the usual level of
Varsity Dramatics performances. It
is, of course, infinitely more difficult
to do a finished performance of a
Shakespearean than of a later play,
and much may be forgiven the direc-
tors-on-the seore that this was their
first attempt to work in a medium
that requires highly skillful acting
and more expert directing than is usu-
ally necessary. The main point, how-
ever, in which the directors might
have been more successful than they
Tyrolean Atmosphere
Is Rampant at Dance
Gym, Wee Hours, December 8-9.
There was considerable looking at
us at the Christmas dance. We were
one of the most charming assem-
blages ever seen at a dance in the
Gym, and the Gym itself was a sight
to behold with sparkling eye even the
morning before. If we had spoken to
ourselves at the dance, we probably
would not have recognized ourselves;
our best friends found themselves un-
able to remember our names when the
cutting had gotten under way. The
gymnasium itself was an extraordi-
nary sight: spaghetti-like strips con-
cealed the baskets, and travel posters
and beer mugs and pretzels in silhou-
ette disguised the walls and bars. The
tables were covered with red and
white checked cloths and for center-
piece each table had a bottle (a beer,
a wine, or a whiskey one, doubtless
contributed by the college authorities)
with a candle in it. Bryn Mawr set
a new tableware fashion’ with the use
of glass mugs for the punch.
In this provocative atmosphere ac-
tion could not have been checked. As
it was, the dance became spirited, and
then-strenuous, with the.only rest per-
iods coming during the entertainment
provided by Shorty Atmore (Hay
ford, ’84), who induced group
ing, even, with a parodygel
bank Sign. By the end of
everyone was exhausted
chances are—everyong
humming or laughing
self. The scene wa
but the dance we
there was enoy
eryone’s feet
side, and en
Comparati
step into a
or tread ¢
A friey
were, lay in achieving that fusion be-
tween the acting and the play, that
absorption of the actresses in their
parts, those small shades of expression
built up in the lines, which have. so
often before given the Varsity plays
a professional finish.
In one sense the directors are to be
congratulated—in another, to be con-
demned—for their speeding up of the
tempo of the play. Throughout the
first three acts, the action was rapid
ahd smooth—more so than in any cut
Shakespeare play we have ever seen,
and we rise to sing” praises of the
judgment and feeling for tempo
shown there. In the fourth and fifth
acts, however, the delight of cutting
unnecessary lines and bits of action
appears to have run away with the
directors, and a confusing résumé of
the lines, a bare outline of the plot
that we suspect scarcely did it jus-
tice, and a lightning-like succession of
actors, each apparently bent on de-
parting the stage as soon as possible
after his arrival thereon, was the de-
plorable result.
In the fourth act, for no apparent
reason a group of soldiers suddenly
clambered over the peaks of the moun-
tains, clashed, and departed with an
expedition that was truly startling;
we looked upon the stage and there
were soldiers; we looked again upon
the stage and the soldiers were no
more! And the last scene of the last
act seemed to evince an alarming de-
sire on the part of the directors that
the play, too, should be no more, for
seldom have we witnessed a speedier
tying up of loose ends in a more ob-
vious spirit of “Let’s get it over with
quickly.” From an aesthetic and dra-
matic point of view, the rapidity with
which each actor stepped out, said his
little speech of one or two lines, and
dropped back into place, was really in-
excusable, and we regret that Iachi-
mo’s great opportunity for doing an
excellent bit of emotional acting
should have been so nearly wrested
from him by the speed at which the
scene was going.
A certain lack of judgment was
also shown by the directors in bring-
ing upon the stage the most hilarious-
ly funny stage property we have ever
had the good fortune to observe. We
never expect to forget the entrance of
the head of Cloten, dripping hideous-
ly with gore and held aloft with a
pleased smile by Guiderius; but, al-
though the head stopped the show for
a good ten minutes while the audience
literally rocked in their seats with
mirth, we feel that it was a trifle dis-
turbing to the unity of the play. The
Continued on Page Four
Non-Resident Students Entertain
There will be a non-resident tea on
Monday, December 16, at four-thirty
in the Common Room, to which each
non-resident student will bring two
guests. Miss Fernon, who is warden
of the non-resident students, will pour
tea.
On Thursday of next week the first
non-resident dinng
are three
year, he
stude
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Fear No More the Heat of the Sun
°The sight of Bryn Mawr decked out for campus festivity is an
infrequent and an extraordinary one.. Usually we are never seen in
our pretty clothes except when we are taking a final turn about the
smoking room before rushing out to the station taxi, or, on our return
from a week-end, when we drop all the accessories of civilization at the
threshold of the smoking room. Once per first semester we shake
the camphor flakes from our finery to outsparkle our sisters on the
home field, then, on the occasion of the autumn Varsity play and
dance. Life is a dizzy and dissipated whirl: we attend the play and
the dance and try to prove that we can be sweet and light-headed
young things.
Unfortunately, this past week-end’s festivity did not see the usual
whole-hearted enthusiasm for the program of play and dance. The
“audience at the play was very slim: and what there was of audience at
the play did not seem to catch the spirit of The Tragedy of Cymbeline.
The explanation of the slight attendance at the play is simple. The
Glee Club operettas are sold out every year, so that the explanation
is not-one_of financial stress; and frequently lectures in the middle
of the college week are better attended, so that there can have been
little pressure as to time. We may, be branded unadventurous or low-
brow for the admission, but we want to see either a very good play,
or an amusing play to start off a festive evening. We feel that for
this reason the choice of Cymbeline for Varsity production was
unfortunate.
Probably the Varsity Players have never, in the history of Bryn
Mawr, chosen a play that met with the complete approval of all of
the undergraduates. But even the much disparaged presentation of
recent Broadway successes at Bryn Mawr has met with more enthusi-
astic support than Cymbeline was given. If we want to get, away from
doing pieces second-hand from Broadway we still might revive Broad-
way successes from, say, fifteen years ago, when we were as yet not
going to the theatre ourselves. If we want to do period plays to get
the advantages of period costume and scenery to offset the oddity of
ryn Mawr playing the male roles, it still seems to us that we need
not play only Elizabethan dramas. There isjmueh to be said for our
producing Shakespeare, but, again, we do not want to see one of the
dramatist’s poorest plays. We want to see a good play, and we want
a play with some popular appeal. So many good plays have been
written that it seems to-ws.a pity that we should give one with so little
appeal as The Tragedy of Cymbeline.
We make these suggestions here because as ordinary undergradu-
ates we do not know, nor do we pretend to know as many plays or as
much about play production as the Varsity Players. We place full
confidence in that organization’s ability to choose and produce plays
suited to our histrionic talents and appropriate to the festive occasion
which a play and a dance provide. ' We trust that Varsity Dramatics
will, this coming spring, choose a play that Bryn Mawr will sincerely
want to see.
‘Our Torch Divine’
As the dramatic season at Bryn. Mawr gets under way with a
flourish and becomes. the subject of violent discussion in the wee
hours of every night, one need that has been occurring to us this
many a year now returns to our minds with an ever-new foree. There
is a constantly growing interest on campus in the construction of
_ ace lighting, and it is the burning desire of a sur-
of students to experiment with the possibili-
no of art.
ake these experiments on the occasion
¢ although even this risk has been
enterprising Varsity Dramatics
wider opportunity and more
safety, if we were the
J be marked out and
d sets, any amount
res of a few inter-
Leo out just how
i] looked in
ed to the
applaud-
ved in
any part of a building}.
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CAMOUFLAGE
Is this a dance
We’ve embarked upon?
Or an artistically disguised
Marathon
—Dying Duck,
Calling All Stars)
“Just strictly between us
You’re cuter than Venus,
And what’s more, you've
arms.”
got
It’s enough to put ideas into our
head. Like the following:
1. O don’t bear me malice
As if you -were Pallas
Full armed a priori with fore-
; thought.
2. The infantile Cupid
Could not be called stupid—
But you’re bigger and brighter,
my brute!
Now you: try some. We can have
a song-fest.
VOLGA BOAT SONG
We’ve danced, and we've danced
‘Till our feet are sore.
Would you have us collapse
And roll on the floor?
“What’s your name?’ What’s your
College and who brought you,
please?”
Has been screamed in our ears
In varying keys. :
We’ve pushed and we’ve pulled,
We’ve been trod on and led,
Our spirits are broken,
We’re ready for bed.
—Lone Goose.
THE BIG PARADE
Oh, for the life
Of a Bryn Mawr
War-den.
She meets so many
Attractive men.
—Lazy Loon.
(Can be sung to the tune of Love
Will Last: This procedure is not advis-
ed, however.)
The damsels were shrieking on every
side,
“May. I cut,”
Their look and word their thought
belied
Truly—but
Yonder all over the’ slippery floor
Within and out of the dancehall
door
The raging rabble continued to roar,
“May I cut.”
“NATURE-LOVER
Fresh air? Fresh air? say, not for me,
Nor open spaces, sky and sea.
I find that all the Great Outdoors
Is filled with unattractive bores,
And even when quite close to home,
Mom Nature thinks to romp and roam,
I do not like pets made for laps,
Nor pests to rustle during naps,
Be Kind to Beasts? I’d rather not,
And—pigeons in the gutter?—Gott!
GETTING OUT A PAPER
“Getting out this paper’s no picnic.
“If we print jokes, folks say we are
silly.
“If we don’t print jokes, they say
we are too serious.
“If we publish things from other
papers, we are said to be lazy.
“Tf we publish original matter, they
say we lack variety.
“If we stay on the job, we ought to
be out rustling news!
“Tf we are out rustling news, we
are not on the job!
“If we work on the paper, they say
we are neglecting our school work!
“Tf we work on our school work,
they say we are neglecting the paper!
Tf we don’t print contributions, we
don’t show proper appreciation!
“If we do print contributions, the
paper is filled over with junk!
“Like as not some fellow will say
we swiped this from an exchange.
“Or that we swiped this from a re-
print.
“So we did!”
a DOMESTICITY
I can open a can
There’s a new-popular song (from):
| And: boil hot water,
| And wash a pan;
I’m a model daughter.
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Also, fen make soup—
| Campbell’s alphabet ;
Lemonade for the croup:
I’ll be a wife yet. ‘
I learned in college
To make compotes,
Along with a knowledge
Of antidotes.
APOSTROPHE TO A
* TYPEWRITER
O lovely things with stops and caps,
You make a:lovely clatter—
It rings and crunches, yes, and taps
Out lovely printed matter.
We herewith suggest a new game
for professors: Cherchez la théme!
Cheerio—
THE MAD HATTER.
Theatre Review
Life Begins at 8.40 has been so thor-
oughly condemned by the great Broad-
‘way critics that it is with some timid-
ity we raise our weak voice in its de-
fense. Nevertheless, we enjoyed it
completely and we openly recommend
it to all weary Bryn Mawrters with
the price of a ticket or an escort with
ithe price of one, who wish to see a
good, although not a dazzlingly bril-
liant, revue. Everything in the show
—the music, humor, dancing, staging
—was excellent, and once it was un-
der way the show never let down.
Probably its biggest defect was that
there was too much of a good thing,
and the good thing lasted too long.
You have probably heaxd and tired
of the music long before this, but it
is still good music. Yow’re a Builder
‘Upper and Let’s Take a Walk Around
the Block are the hits of the show and
of the season, but several other hu-
j|morous songs and also What Can You
\Say in a Love Song? are very pleas-
lant.
Ray Bolger steals the show, but he
does it with such an unassuming air
that you love it. His dancing is the
‘prightest spot in our life since Fred
| Astaire left our happy hunting ground
| for Hollywood. But his antics do not
|stop with mere dancing; he _ sings,
‘acts, and smiles beautifully, and as
the window dresser going to bed is
screamingly funny. Bert Lahr is
quieter than usual, but still funny,
and in She Loyes Me, a riotous take-
off on last season’s success, shows
signs of the Bert Lahr we used to
know. Frances Williams has less to
do than usual, which is just as well,
[for more of her might be too much.
\Luella Gear is her old self, which
‘should be enough said, but she quite
ioutdoes her usual brand of humor in
the two skits, My Paramount-Publix-
Roxy-Rose and I Couldn’t Hold My
Man. The latter takes a few delight-
ful pokes at the great appeal to wom-
‘en in recent advertising. The support-
ing cast and the juveniles were, on the
whole, very good, although not bril-
‘liant.
| There were so many good things in
‘Life Begins at 8.40 that it is difficult
‘to pick out the brightest spots. One
of the choicer bits: is the Quartet E'ro-#
tica, where Rabelais, Boccaccio, de
Maupassant, and: Balzac bemoan to
music the trite childishness of their
works when compared to the modern
bedtime story, and in the meantime
pay their respects to the movies, the
radio, and the pulps. Shoein’ the Mare
is an unusual dance number, which
adds new interest after the rumba and
carioca craze and should appeal to all
who happen to like the Weidman danc-
ers and to many who do not. Chin Up,
about thé Englishman who “must
dress” in the face of several suicides
to save the family honor, is old stuff,
but so well done by Mr. Lahr and his
mates that the audience quite forgets
the fact. C’Est La Vie, too, is not a
new idea, but Messrs. Bolger and Lahr
jumble their French and English so
enchantingly as the two.suicide-bound-
lovers who push the lady into the
Seine and go off hand in hand, that
again you forget how many times
you’ve seen this thing done worse.
The pantomimes and tableaux in the
opening number in What Can You Say
in a Love Song? and A Quiet Eve-
ning At Home -should provide col-
and its types, should especially de-
light all fellow students. The New
Deal Ladies should entrance everyone
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our midst might progress hieratically to grace the boards of a Broad-
way theatre, and reflect the glory upon Bryn Mawr that we have long
been waiting and hoping to settle upon her. XN
.| tire of humor.
‘}hopes to be ready to give a college
who has followed the meteor career of
or and the picturesque for those who
And if you do not lit-
erally rock in the aisles with laughter
at Sound Phenomena, you are too old
a hand at this sort of thing to have
gone to the show in the first place.
Robert Wildhack, as a professor dis-
coursing. on the gentle art of snoring
our first lady, and too much cannot’
be said for the above-mentioned She
Loves Me or A Day at the Brokers, in
both of which Bert Lahr rises to his
old heights.
The show moves at a pace that al-
lows no breathing spells and this, com-
bined with the fact that most of the
show’s appeal lies in its humor, often
leaves the audience so confused that
the effect of some of the more beau-
tifully staged skits is marred. Often
these very picturesque scenes are ef-
fectively broken with humor, as when
at the end of the dance showing the
modern: lovers, the young man com-
pletely ignores the exotic creature
stretched. across his knees by placing
his elbow neatly on her abdomen and
scowling off into the distance. Little
touches like this heighten the key of
the show all the way through. The
entire performance is kept up to a
high standard, and even those skits
which have been seen before are so well
done that they go over. If you want
to sée a revue that you know will be
good, if not the best, entertainment,
you can do ‘little better some bright
evening in New York than go to the
Winter Garden and enjoy for yourself
what they have to offer.
H. F.
IN PHILADELPHIA
Theatres
Broad: We scarcely dare to men-
tion it for fear it might not come
true after all, but we think (and hope)
this is the last week for The Pursuit
of Happiness!
Chestnut: Dennis King playing a
straight role for the first time in a
new comedy, Petticoat Fever. Mark
Reed has made the life of a telegraph
operator in an isolated station in Lab-
rador funny; also, we believe, for the
first time.
Erlanger: An _ hilariously funny
farce about prize fighters and milk
bottles, The Milky Way, with Cecil
Lean and Cleo Mayfield.
Forrest: Eddie Dowling’s new mu-
sical, Thumbs Up. Ray Dolley, Clark
and McCullough, Hal Leroy, and the
Pickens Sisters are also in it. We can’t
decide whether we’d rather not see the
Pickens Sisters or see Eddie Dowling.
Garrick: The Theatre Union’s suc-
cess of last season, Stevedore, a highly
dramatic account of labor troubles on
the New Orleans waterfront.
Walnut: Slightly Delirious, the
farcical account of love in a “better
known” family, is still hanging on.
Not very good—in fact, no good.
Orchestra Program
I CO. Mass in B Minor
Leopold Stokowski conducting.
Continued on Page Four
New Material, Teacher
Acquired by Art Club
. The Art Club, which meets every
Saturday morning from 9.45 to 11.45
in the basement of the gymnasium, has
taken on renewed life this year. About
sixteen students attend regularly to
sketch or to model from college mod-
els under the direction of Miss Agnes
Yarnall. Miss Yarnall, who has her
own studio in Philadelphia and re-
cently gave an exhibition of her own
sculpture at Baldwin School, has prov-
ed to be a sympathetic and a compe-
tent instructor.
The Club has this year acquired the
proper equipment for its work for the
first time since it was organized.
Members have at their disposal several
hundred pounds of modelling clay,
eight to ten stands for sculpture and
a dozen wire supports for statuettes
in addition to the regular materials
for-sketching--Most of the members~
of the Art Club are new to the work
in clay: in consequence their work is
still experimental, although extreme-
ly interesting. 'They have tried both
the head and the whole human figu:
in’ the course of this autumn’s activ
ity, but most of the modellers ar¢
now doing statuettes to get the line
and balance of the body before try-
ing the finer work that must go into
the modelling of the head. The Club
exhibit in the near future. ~
Ellen Stone, ’36, is president, and
Margaret Laird, ’35, is secretary of
the Club. ;
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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All-Philadelphia Team
‘Defeats Varsity, 4-1
Varsity Defensive Game Good,
Keeps Score Down Lowest.
In Many Years (
FIELD SLOWS UP GAME
Bryn Mawr, December 8,
The All-Philadelphia hockey team
defeated Varsity, 4-1, in numbing
weather on a frozen field, which pre-
vented the Philadelphia stars from us-
ing many of their trick tactics.
Although the opponents snapped
into an immediate offense, Varsity,
playing one of the best games of the
season, offered an unusually strong
backfield in combination with a de-
fensive forward line which prevented
any scoring during the first part of
- the half. After steady pushing, how-
ever, Kitty Wiener, with the able as-
sistance of the rest of her forward
line, tallied, and, after another march
‘down the field, scored again before the
close of the half.
In the second half, the Philadelphia
team, five of whom are All-Americans,
warmed up sufficiently to put its fam-
ous passing and goal charging tactics
into play and scored two goals. Bryn
Mawr then shifted the forward line to
a momentary strong offense and broke
through with Brown tallying over the
prostrate form of Elliott after a mess-
up in front of the cage. Shortly af-
ter, the whistle blew and Varsity was
saved from a complete blanketing,
In spite of the fact that All-Phila-
delphia was slowed down considerably
because of the hard field, the uncer-
tainties of a fast ball, and unsure
footing, Varsity played a beautiful de-
fensive game, which was instrumental,
aside from weather conditions, in
keeping the Philadelphia team down to
the lowest score in many seasons.
The line-up was as follows:
All-Philadelphia Bryn Mawr
MOTORS 6. 065s 60s OES CONGR a Faeth
Oty et Wt. Larned
WA BNOR i sevcark saan OO coeres Cary
M. Howe 2.0.0.0. Js a Bakewell
Vanderbeck ..... Woe Brown
MEOTtON.., 5... SoM sik. Bridgman
MOwnsend ...... Com, wa... Kent
UPEDEIN 2.0.5.5 eos eck tees Evans
'PAURBIO > $05 05 To. Jackson
|g 2 oe a eee jon 0 eet Sees Gratwick
WTOC ee oe Leighton
Goals — Wiener, 2; Strebeigh, M.
Howe, Brown.
Umpires—Mrs. Krumbaar and Miss
Morgan.
Time of Halves—25 minutes.
Mme. de Chateaubriand
Acrimonious, Stingy
Continued from Page One
dead .sea apples when he tasted _ it.
Three things kept him from despair
and destruction: honor; beauty of
nature, of man, and of phrase; and re-
ligion, to which he clung because it
was beautiful and good, and he wanted
it to be true.
Chateaubriand thought himself al-
ways alone. Spiritually he lived on an
island, remote from
locked his soul away, and this attitude
did not make him an ideal husband.
Mme. de Chateaubriand a Great Wit
Céleste de la Buisson was also born
in Brittany, of the lesser nobility. She
had charm, but not beauty, and be-
eause she refused to eat and lived on
herb tea, she was weak and sickly.
She loved to stay home, and avoided
social life and ambassadorial gather-
ings. were
She was very well educated and read
incessantly, She saw things as they
were, and commented on them with a
fine, sarcastic wit. She wrote letters
in a graceful, witty style.- Her chief
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faults seem to have been that she was
acrimonious and stingy.
René de Chateaubriand married
Céleste in 1792 mainly because she had
money. They weht to Paris, in the
midst of the Revolution; he joined the
monarchist army and ended by giving
French lessons in London. Céleste
was imprisoned for over a year and
finally went to live at Fougéres, in
great poverty.
Two Were Miserable Together
In 1802, when he had nearly mar-
rie ‘English Minister’s daughter,
Chateaubriand returned to Céleste for
six days.*.He went back to her for
good only after Pauline de Beaumont’s
death. He did not love his wife so
much as his. liberty; and made the
ministry refuse her a passport to Eng-
land when he was ambassador there.
She annoyed him because she was too
clever, because she was nervous and
made everyone else nervous. He often
asked his friends to dinner in order’
not to have to stay home alone with
his wife. If they had had enough
money, they could have lived separate-
ly and been happy; but since they
were poor, they had to live together
and be disagreeable.
Madame de Chateaubriand was giv-
en a great welcome in Rome when her
husband was ambassador there. Her
salon was cold and stiff and she car:
ried on her family warfare in front
of strangers. She was ambitious for
her husband, and even intrigued for
him at court.
Chateaubriand was a_ constant
source--of worry and pain to his
wife. She suffered when. he was
sick or absent, and when, as always,
he was in love with other women.
She was always sef} aside by her hus-
band or by herself.
Both Were Unhappy in Old Age
In later life, Madame de Chateau-
briand founded and ran-the Infirmerie
Marie Thérése on the Rue de |’Enfer.
It was for retired priests and poor
noble women. She spent all her time
collecting money for it, attending to
it, and bossing the people ‘in it. She
lavished on it the affection Chateau-
briand had not wanted, until she final-
ly faded away and died in 1847.
Chateaubriand grew old much more
unhappily than his wife. His friends
were dying around him, his liberty dis-
appearing because of physical weak-
made him suffer intensely, in spite of
his outward gaiety. He died, dramat-
ically, a year after his wife. The story
makes us wonder who had been hap-
pier: she, who loved but was not loved
in return; or he, who did not really
love at all and felt the disappointment
of it.
ness, and his dreams fading. All this |
Carol Service -
A Christmas Carol Service will be
held in Goodhart Hall on Sunday, De-
cember 16, at.7.45 P. M. The College
-|Choir, under the direction of Ernest
Willoughby, A.R.C.M., Associate — in
Music at the College, will sing English,
German and Czech Carols and various
arrangements of other well-known
Carols... Miss Mary Earp will be,the
soloist and will join the Choir in/ se-
lections from Handel’s Messiah. n
address will be given by The Right
Rev, Frank Creighton, D.DS Suffra-
gan Bishop of Long Island’ and former
Missionary Bishop of Mexico.
The service is open to the public.
“The program is as follows:
From The Messiah : (Handel),
Chorus, “And the Glory of the Lord;”
Recitative, Aria and Chorus, “O Thou
that*tellest good tidings to Zion;
English Carols, “Here we come awas-
sailing,” -‘‘A Babe in Bethlehem’s
Czech Carols, “Now the rarest day”
and “Sleep, Baby, Sleep;” Bach,
“O Jesu, so sweet;” Vaughn Williams,
“On Christmas Night;” Somervell,
“The Grasmere Carol;” Shaw, “How
far is it to-Bethlehem;” Praetorius,
“Today is born Immanuel.”
“IT Calls It Spinach
and I Yells for More”
Continued from Page One
Peanut butter, soup, Steero, much tea
and chocolate, as well as animal crack-
ers and nuts, are among the steady
favorites. This fall, many gallons of
cider were consumed. There has been
a great demand for Cracks, too, this
year, and this is attributed to the fact
that most of the undergraduates spent
the summer in Bar Harbor.
At the bookshop, a dozen boxes of
Fig Newtons are ordered weekly,
mostly for one individual. . Another
individual seems to exist entirely on
tomato juice. There has been a great
run on apples recently. Early in,the
fall, the freshmen in Roc took a wild
flair for olives, then suddenly stopped
buying them. The sardine market has
likewise dropped. The only two jars
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they’re
by Station to
quite mistaken
Many people think it’s
expensive to telephone far
away friends. Actually few
pleasures cost as little. You
can call 100 miles for 35
~—cents; 300 miles for 80 cents;
1,000 miles for $2.00
Night Rates (effective after
8:30 P. M. Standard Time).
Station
of -caviare purchased. this fall-have
been successfully sold.- There is a
steady demand for cheése.’’Dates and
figs go along in a healthy way.
Among the candies, butterscotch and
Hershey bars are still extremely pop-
ular, although. “the big swing has been
to fudge.” One-cent candies are es-
pecially popular among those who are
reducing, and salve their consciences
by buying only a few. at a time. Lots
of liquorice and Tootsie-rolls have
been sold. There is a steady demand
for chocolate peppermints, menthol
cough dr&ps, and Milky Ways.
When one considers the amount of
chewing ‘gum bought, it is surprising
that the whole of Bryn Mawr College
does not move to a steady rhythm of
guppy-ish jaws. Five dozen boxes of
Wrigley’s, P. K.’s, two boxes each of
Adams peppermint and spearmint and
two boxes of spearmint Beechies have
been ordered since the beginning of}
the year. Doublemint and spearmint
are the most popular flavors.
Hand in hand with the chewers go
the denizens of the smoking room:
their demands. are enormous. Chester-
fields are the most popular brand, ten
cartons, thirty flat fifties, and twenty
round tins being ordered weekly.
Camels are a close second,. with the
same number of cartons and about
twenty-five flat'fifties. It is the round
tins of Chesterfields which go “fffft”
so charmingly that carry the balance.
Of the other brands, Lucky Strikes,
Kools, Marlboros, Tarytons, Old
Golds, Philip Morris, Spuds_ (cork
tip), and Raleighs two or three car-
tons are ordered weekly. As long as
we can picture the furiously inhaling
undergraduates, madly opening and
smoking the contents of tins, cartons
and packs, faster and faster, until, at
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conveniences! The suites (one
and two rooms) are large and
alry, with Pullman kitchen and
bright bath. You will have fo
see them to appreciate them.
Of course, rentals are
not beyond your budget.
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Managing Director
two-or three o’clock in the morning,
the college breathes forth into the
night its full quota of smoke, we are
no longer at a loss to account for the
foggy atmosphere that has prevailed
of late.
Somewhat weakly we récline and
consider the results of our investiga-
tion. :They leave us a bit aghast, and
rather in need of sustenance—thank
you, we’d love some .
\ Ten years ago a football player’s
outfit weighed 22 pounds. Today it
averages eight and a half pounds.
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you came to school this Fall, the
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GOING TO SCHOOL
Rail Fares
Reduced
The railroads appreciate the enthusiastic responses of students
and faculty to the ‘College Special’’ fares which combine econ-
omy with the great advantages of rail travel—safety, speed, com-
If you bought one of the reduced fare round-trip tickets when
Holiday, be sure to take advantage of this one and one-thitd fare
ticket, the purchase date io which has been extended to January
16.. Diagram below shows going and return dates.
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When coming back after the
Round-trip ticket may be
purchased at Home Sta-
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lare considered an.extra totich of. ele-
gance; flowing silk ties are very chic.
“Tan colored stockings with paler
spots have been seen with a blue eve-
ning gown, but it,is hoped that this
quently so cut that the actress could
not put very much emotion into the
We feel that the
main trouble with the production, lay,
however, not so much with the acting
Years and Years Ago ‘
‘The Alumnae Menioria of the Phil-
astine, November.4, 1898, contained the
jnews that Marion E. Park, Bryn
Mawr European Fellow, 1898-99, (and
a Varsity Play Censured
4 * for Poor Production few lines left to her.
League Party :
The Bryn Mawr League is
giving a Christmas party on
Monday, December 17, from
Continued from Page Une
a
actors in that scene are to be highly
praised for keeping their composure,
although Guiderius is. to blame for
nor with the directing, as with the
choice of that particular play. It offer-
ed little opportunity for the kind of
studying at Bryn Mawr.
a former editor of the Philistine) , was |
four to six-thirty o’clock, in the
Common :Room. * The children
who went to the Bryn Mawr
;costume will not become universal.”
“OQ mill, O mill, I envy thee,
Another club raised its ugly head
in ’98—the Golf Club, this time. We
have a dreary feeling that it did not
having continued to wave the head
about triumphantly before the fasci-
nated gaze of the audience. It might,
work in studying and differentiating
lines and emotions that constitutes the
true value of putting on a Shakespear-
Thou grindest on so steadily,
I grind on, too, but woe is me,
I can’t grind on eternally.”
Camp last summer at Avalon
are coming, and are to give an
entertainment for the students.
we feel, have been possible to have |oan play. : pad peas be mors s hoc Thee sill be-Carcl stneiaa at-
. omitted the dripping gore, ‘or, at D. T-S . condadgieroeiadth terwards. All students are cor- The Collegiate Review
‘ * \the others. The Philistine, however, ‘ e Collegiate Kevie
least, to have kept it partly concealed
from the audience.
Miss Furness and Miss Woodward,
as the young husband and wife, Imo-
‘gen and Posthumous, were fairly
good, although not inspired, in their
parts. They both delivered their lines’
with a certain degree of oratory and
without much differentiation, but
Miss Furness injected a nice amount
of emotion into the scene with what
she supposes to be the dead body of
; her husband. Miss Rose, as Iachimo,
Ԥ did by far the best bit of acting in
: the play, and was not at all hampered
by the necessity of playing a rather
difficult and unpleasant role. The
one really moving bit of emotion in the
play was her convincing grief in the
4 last scene over the mischief she had
* caused, and she is all the more to be
: congratulated that she kept her head
and played it slowly against a’ very
rapid tempo.
' Miss Brown, as Cymbeline, strug-
gled with a part that had obviously
been so cut as to be almost: purely
mechanical, but she completely missed
her one opportunity to play an emo-
tional scene over the loss of her daugh-
ter. Her acting was wooden and imma-
ture, and entirely unworthy of Miss
-Brown’s usual talented performances.
Miss Seltzer, as the Queen, however,
portrayed a regal and powerful wom-
an, with a majesty of bearing and
speech that was truly excellent; but
her flitting and weaving through the
ghost scene were a pseudo-aesthetic
feature that might well Have been
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dially invited, and those who |
may be planning to work as vol-
unteers, next summer at the
Camp are particularly urged to
come.
A five-day school week with no Sat-
lurday classes is being petitioned for
‘by University of Georgia undergrad-
‘uates,
The Harvard University graduate
school of business administration has
opened a course which is designed to
jtrain students for “brain truster”
; ‘- jeareers,
Hygeia—Your father 1s a doctor,
you ‘say. Why not give him your Bi- Despite the fact that beer 18 avail-
ology Lab. book in tree calf with jable on the University of ‘ Inots eT
“Compliments of the Author” pus, soft drinks are sold in quantities
letters on the title page? nine times as great as the amount of
attic + aus.gorey to say I cad beer consumed by students. on the
think of no way°for you to utilize mapsarey. teenie : : are
your gymnasium suit as a Christmas| Columbia University has buildings
gift, ° jand grounds valued. at $55,000,000,
1902—If you know the “Hall Rules” | While Harvard University is worth
by heart, have them frame a ta Spano $185,000,000 and Yale Univer-
ish oak, with a gold mat, and you will a about $10,000,000,
havé a dainty present for any one at | The University of Montana has sd
naan: iclassroom that covers approximately
1,600 acres—it’s the forestry school’s
“She had some spots upon her floor, | boratory in Pate Canyon. ee
University gridiron
All green and brown and blue; | Notre Dame :
Acodl one. shen Macking, one. wen ‘teams won 105 games, lost 12, and tied
pees |5 while Knute Rockne was their coach.
r ‘5 | The 1936 Olympics will see basket-
The other one was glue. rthall admitted as a contesting sport,
Fashion Notes ‘give us-a prett vice | With 18 or 20 teams expected to enter
8 peer 2 tive competition for the world’s cham-
ture of the well-dressed student Whit~| tanshtp :
ty-seven years ago. ‘Tam o’shanters |
are not mentioned here, though. They | An aggregate of more than $30,000,-
must not be forgotten for they figure | 00° a year in scholarships is doled out
very largely in the sketches ‘by 125 colleges and universities in the
CHAU |e.
adorn the Philistine. ae States.
“No woman considers herself well}
dressed without a wired bow in her}
hair. More than two strings are need- |
welcomed its appearance with digni-
fied words of praise. Indeed the Phil-
istine, we hate to inform our read-
ers, has. become very literary. - By
1898, it has turned into a magazine
with a conventional magazine cover,
dark green and slightly Greek in in-
IN PHILADELPHIA
Continued from Page Two *4
Movies ‘
Aldine:. Kid Millions, with Eddie
Cantor, plus a new iidcay thous com-|G4F* &
edy, continues. until Saturday, when spiration. The tone of the contents
Douglas Fairbanks in The Private|i8 Subdued, even repressed. The Phil-
Life of Don Juan begins. We foresee |1stine, in_brief, is just another scho-
that great opportunity will arise for lastic publication.
Doug’s singular facility at exiting We find the explanation for this in
from second floor windows to the town '|an editorial in the issue for November
a mile away in a single leap. \18: “The Philistine has created quite
Arcadia: « Anna Stein and Fredric |? stir this fall and his helpless, flat
March in We Live Again, which is | little self has been sat upon by a dig-
: haat wee | nified committee and by the whole Un-
still a dramatization of Tolstoi’e Res-' v
urrection, is popping up again. We |dergraduate Association. The result
didn’t think much of it the first time.|i8 that a board of two censors has
o, .,, (been elected, which is to take the place
Boyd: Anne of Green Gables, with | of Miss Thomas in suppressing any
ge agg Haga oS 0. \ objectionable articles in all undergrad-
your cousin who is interested in litera-
ture.
in red;
the kiddies—we were afraid of this. re SS a
it!
oo ee a a ee allowed to be objectionable ‘and
: ‘ lif it took advantage of its rights). It
hon and Guy Kibbee. Aline McMahon, appears that the whole Philistine
en a ni a8 ges gs prong j board of editors had resigned and had
8 Fea Roonson with Wuaien La . ‘been unanimously re-elected. Speaking
ee Song, yn “AY©-\'trom a purely impersonal point of
After Bittersweet, we wouldn’t miss).
ibvelyn Laye: view, we would say that there was as
Seas, daa ekead Welk ate coe eee fo She precede
la Garbo, is turning up at last. ee Philistine as there is in one of the
we spent a fruitless week-end search- Acila shepane i igi Hi acies aa
ing for it in all the devious byways of ieee Coen eee ns ce ails abies Pa
Philadelphia. . of its periodic waves of reformation
Steiley ‘at that time.
Father Brown, Detective, | Oo :
with Walter Connolly and Paul Lakag,| Cl*eraistinctions were very import-
Freshmen were, it seems,
and based on the novel by G.' K. Ckes- vant then,
y ~-'a meek and humble tribe, constantly
i eliminated. terton. A village priest runs into|” . : 'Y Jed to one bow. The more voluminous |
4 Miss Veeder, playing the part of the |some little difficulty with a notorious |"eProved and held = check by their |and bristling bows are the more sought |
a —Queeh’s son, Cloten, acted the part of |gem thief, who invades the peace and Ia gah There is no mention of up-|after, Those of home manufacture |
=
a conceited youth filled with airs and
mannerisms, with a true flair for com-
edy and a ridiculousness that was
never overdone. Miss Park, however,
as Pisanio, played even the emotional
quiet of the typical English village
and finds it not quite so typical as he
had hoped.
Stanton:
bage Patch.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab-
Another. movie that ap-
per-classmen being terrified by- fresh-
imen, yet we have known this to hap-
pen in our time. Perhaps we are be-
‘coming decadent.
| «The athletic field has been turned
are most. worn. . Surely every ingeni- |
ous girl should be able to collect one:
from among the various odds and ends
that invariably frequent a top bureau
drawer.
“The balcony style of hair-dressing
Christmas Gifts
FS scene in which'she refuses to kill Imo-|pears to be doing a regular Garboish|into the skating pond, the gravel Sweaters Blouses
gen with an over-emphasis of the bur-|migration around the town. |paths are paved with unstable board-|is much seen. Rolls, lady-locks and Gloves Scarfs
lesque, which, while amusing, was not walks, the Seniors wear gloves to lec-|bows are the most popular forms. :
in keeping with the character as writ- Local Movies tures. In short, winter: is upon us.”|When there is a tightly braided knot Belts Socks Stockings
ten. She, too, shows a flair for com-| Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Helen Cracker-and-jam feasts in Radnor|at the neck and an irregular parting Jackets
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edy and burlesque that wWeahope to see
_ utilized in another play ‘as’ soon as
possible.
The conception of the, scenery is
very highly to be prai We know
ed, and the use of lighting, as in the
prison scene, to change the set is an
idea which we believe Bryn Mawr has
never tried before, and which we hope
will be frequently adopted. The re-
Hayes in What Every Woman Knows;
Fri., Age of Innocence, with Irene
Dunne and John Boles; Sat., Ran-
dolph Scott in Wagon Wheels; Mon.
and Tues., Dolores Del Rio in Madame
Sat., One Night of Love, with Grace
Moore; Mon. and Tues., Gambling,
with George M. Cohan; Wed. and
Thurs., 365. Nights in Hollywood, with
and fudge parties in Pembroke con-
tinued to warm the inner woman, in
spite of the blizzards of ’98. The col-
lege was then suffering from ants.
“The ants have gained politeness, and
came readily to the sluggards, glad of
The Philistine suggests Christmas
gifts for those who have been deprived
of imagination by excessive toil.
Boadicea—A series of sight papers
tastefully bound in white and gold for
in front the style is called “The In-
tellectual Coiffure,” and is more cop-
ied than admired.
“The masculine form of dress is
much affected. Tailor gowns are very
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James Dunn and Alice Faye.
Wayne:. Wed., Jackie «Cooper in
Peck’s Bad Boy; Thurs., Fri. and
Sat., The Barretts of Wimpole Street;
Mon. and Tues., Lady Is Willing, with
Leslie Howard and Binnie Barnes;
Wed. and Thurs., Constance Bennett
in Outcast Lady.
turn to the idea of using the same set
a throughout the play, as was the cus-
tom in Shakespeare’s time, was most
\jinteresting, and we thought the ar-"
rangement of that particular set to be
adaptable to everything from court to
mountain scenes-was very well thought
out. The costuming was uniformly
good, and in cases such as Miss Selt-
zer’s, Furness’ and Woodward’s,
dresses and tunic, really beautiful.
The play as a whole has the merit
of offering parts for a large number
of people, although the parts were fre-
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Teachers Must Have
Psychology, Sympathy
Continued from Page One
healthy independence of adults. The
children are taught to overcome their
difficulties by themselves and not to de-
mand too much separate attention.
The social goal is still an experiment
in nursery schools. There is one p!il-
osophy which says that children are
little animals and should be allowed
to be physically aggressive. The cther
philosophy says that the ° nursery
school has a great opportunity to teach
co-operation and consideration to hil-
dren at a very early age.
Children must be handled as _ peo-
ple. The preparation for teaching in
a nursery school demands, beside sym-
pathy and understanding, without sen-
timentality, a knowledge of the phil-
osophy’ of education, of child psychol-
ogy, of arts and crafts, diet, and gym-
nasium, It. also needs tact, in order
to handle not only the child, but his
family. Courses in nursery school
teaching are given at Temple, Cc lum-
bia, the Merrill Palmer School in De-
troit, and elsewhere.
Miss Johnson pointed out that the
essential thing to remember when
starting to teach is that one’s center
of interest should suddenly be, mot
one’s self, but other people. A téach-
er must be interested in co-opérating
with young people and releasing their
powers. She must watch/for every
spark of interest shown And catch it,
and she must know how to arouse it.
A teacher must, ‘have the abil-
ity to work hard and not be discour-
aged, which is the occupational. dis-
ease of teaching. She must teach
something’ which is’ of. value either
now or in the future, or both.
It has been found that sound teach-
ing within departments in a school is
essential.
daily with a good scholar is inspiring
to students of any age. The good
teacher should be trained and also have
sufficient imagination not to block her
students’ powers, nor make their work
too easy: School children have a right
to difficulties, to extra work if they
are advanced, and to the discussion
of .abstract and controversial prob-
lems. r
Preparation for teaching in a sec-
ondary school should be Alevoted to
specialization in one of preferably
more fields, but with /some interest
taken in the fact that,one-is going to
teach. It is a mistitke to. go into
teaching with abSolutely no knowledge
of psychdlogy or education. During
ithe first year of teaching, a college
graduate Mas to learn to be a leader,
companion, and teacher to students
not yéry much younger than herself.
In order to help the new teacher ad-
just herself, and to give her the neces-
Ysary knowledge of psycholoy, she is
made an apprentice, and can _ both
watch experienced teachers and teach
herself without having the full respon-
sibility of the course. :
Medicine and engineering are the
most popular of. the courses chosen by
Brown University (Providence, R. I.)
freshmen.
The experience of meeting
‘erford’ pond.
Voice of Bryn Mawr
To the Editor of the News:
With winter bursting upon us just
after we have: flunked the third suc-
cessive period of sports, we are seized
with a vreatdesire to exercise at all
sports that are not required. And
there is now excellent skating at Hav-
But this means. prep-
arations for a walk, at least twenty
minutes to reach the pond, battling
‘while on the ice with all of Haverford
in great red sweaters on sharp and
speedy skates, who mercilessly. sweep
aside anything so paltry as a feeble
Bryn Mawr girl trying to stand on her
two sagging ankles, and then a long
and ‘cold walk back to the halls. All
this takes so long and ig so much
bother that many of ‘dS“who would
really like to skate and get a bit of
the exercise that our Gym department
is continually harping on, cannot
spend so long away from the library
and the smoking room. We, the skat-
ers of Bryn Mawr, petition, therefore,
for the right and the rink to skate on
at our own time and with ourselves.
The two hockey fields, the two sets of
three tennis courts, and even the fac-
ulty court behind Merion offer plenty
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of room for skating, if the authorities
of the college would just permit the
Fire Department free play on any onc
of them. It may be argued that flood-
ing and freezing a tennis court ruins
the ground, but why then does. Ship-
ley.School freeze its. excellent courts
late each winter? If the cost of freez-
ing is too much to be carried by the
Athletic Association, each skater could
pay the nominal sum of five or ten
cents for the right to use the rink.
But what we do want and feel justi-
fied in requesting is a frozen rink on
campus, which Will be available to all
who wish to snatch a bit of exercise
at any odd hour of the day.
Signatures:
STERN R. WooDWARD
HAWKS COLBRON
KREMER WYLIE “
MAREAN MORSE
HIRSHBURG CRENSHAW
LANE CHAMBERLYNE
NOBLE M. LEWIS
EDDY R, BALDWIN
CARY S. HEMPHILL
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SIMS SANDERS
CANADAY GOLDWASSER
SIMPSON A. GRAVES
FISHER ol; BROWN
DUNCAN E. ROSE
A poll of the class of 1919 of the
New York University school of com-
merce, accounts and finance, revealed
that the average member voted for
Hoover in 1928 and 1932, but that they
will vote for Roosevelt in 1936.
GREEN HILL FARMS
City Line and Lancaster Ave.
Overbrook-Philadelphia
A reminder that we would like to
take care of your parents and
friends, whenever they come ‘to
visit you.
L. E. METCALF,
Manager.
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Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c
Dinner -85c - $1.25
Meals a la carte and table d’hote
Dail? and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M.
Afternoon Teas
BRIDGE, DINNER PARTIES AND TEAS MAY BE ARRANGED
MEALS SERVED ON THE TERRACE WHEN WEATHER PERMITS
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386
Miss Sarah Davis, Manager
BUSINESS GIRL. Eve Mil-
ler, New York department-
store executive, says: “I
smoke Camels because I
appreciate mildness and
delicacy of flavor. And
Camels give mea ‘lif? .
when my energy is low—
and never upset my nerves.”
LEAF-TOBACCO
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MANNING SMITH, ’35 — Student of
Journalism. Newspaper work calls for the
active type of person with plenty of natural,
vibrant energy, as Manning Smith, journal-
ism ‘student, well knows. He says: “You’ve
got to be a hustler in the newspaper game!
There’s lots of ‘leg work’ and head work,
too—and both use.up plenty of energy.
When I’m feeling kind of ‘low’ generally, I
smoke a Camel, and the right words come
to me more easily. I can think faster. When
I smoke steadily during long sessions at my
typewriter, Camels never jangle my nerves.”
finer, More Expensive
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Physical -Exams Reveal
Freshmen Smoke Little
The Freshmen, when they entered
collegé this fall, were, on the average,
.48 inches shorter and 2.04 pounds
heavier than the members of the pres-
ent Sophomore class as Freshmen.
It would seem that the progress of
the species has not been in the past
year very rapid, either in a vertical or
in a lateral direction. The average
height of the class of 1938 is 65.27 in.;
that of the class of 1937, in Septem-
ber, 1933, was 65.7 inches. The aver-
age Freshman, this year weighed
127.54 pounds; last year she weighed
125.5 pounds. Only nine of the pres-
ent Freshmen were decidedly over-
weight and thirteen underweight.
The members of both classeg are
then of a very appreciable size and of
surprising height. Women. have al-
ways been fat enough, but they have
not always been so tall.
Of the 117 Freshmen, 6 received the
rating of A in their physical examina-
tions. Ninety-five were rated A—, 13
were in B class, and 3 received C rat-
ing.
Seventeen of the 117 are puritanical
and smoke less than one cigarette a
day. Thirteen smoke from one to five
tigarettes per’ diem, twenty-four from
6-10 of the filthy weeds, and 9 from
11 to 20—a very expensive pastiime,
we would suppose. One hardy soul
smokes more than 20 every day. We
picture her half visible in a cicudy
smoking room corner puffing away on
her tin of Camels as Alice’s Caterpil-
lar did on his hookah.
“The funniest thing that we have
seen in the United States was a col-
lege newspaper reporter at Emory
College,” says John Gripps, a member
of the Oxford University debating
team now touring the United States.
Student Experiments Mark °
; . Work in Psychology
The advanced Experimental - Pay:
chology course ‘at Bryn Mawr is car-
rying on some-very interesting experi-
ments this year. Each of the three
members of the class is working at her
own individual problem and using her
classmates as her subjects. ,
Eleanor Cheney, ’35, is investigat-
ing the effect of low degrees of illum-
ination on the perception of various
types of geometric forms. These geo-
metric forms are illuminated for short
periods of time, one-tenth of a second,
and after each illumination the sub-
ject tries to dravy, what she has seen,
until she finally féproduces the cor-
rect figure. The errors made are clas-
sified and studied, and thus the accur-
acy of vision under certain conditions
is tested, as well as the way in which
forms change under these conditions.
Sometimes the most amazing results
are obtained, for the subject often
draws forms that are not there at all.
Marian Chapman, ’36, is ‘trying to
find out if the chief types of skin. sen-
sation have different chronaxies. A
chronaxie, it appears for the benefit
of all the ignorant, is the least time
necessary to excite an organ when
twice the amount of current necessary
to excite the organ at all is used. It
also appears that this is a very new
field, and that the human body can
feel a current of one-thousandth of
an ampere in one-ten thousandth of a
second, which quite increases our ap-
preciation of our sensitivities.
Marjorie Goldwasser, ’386, is work-
ing on a very mysterious subject which
cannot be revealed because that might
ruin her subjects, but which seems to
be an investigation of certain changes
in the skin which follow various types
of stimulation. We are completely fas-
cinated at the idea of this and can
scarcely wait for the end of the ex-
periment and its results.
3 Freshmen Attend Exhibition
A most interesting experiment was
conducted recently in Mrs, Kirk’s sec-
tion of: the Freshman English course.
In an attempt to correlate the pur-
poses of Modern Literature and Mod-
ern Art, the Freshmen read Art criti-
cisms by John Livingston Lowes and
Gertrude Stein, and were then sent to
the Cézanne exhibition at the Fair-
mount Museum of Art.
The basic idea underlying both mod-
ern writing and modern painting was
found to be the same. Both arts have
departed from the tradition of repre-
senting objects as they actually are,
and are trying.to reveal to te reader
or spectator what the artist sees in the
object. 4
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—That the fac-
ulty of Vassar College is more radical
than its students was revealed here
recently in a poll conducted by the
Vassar Political Association. Results
from the poll indicated that 12 per
cent. of the faculty considered them-
selves radicals, while only 9 per cent.
of the seniors, 5 per cent. of the fresh-
men, and 8 per cent. of the juniors
and sophomores included themselves in
that group.
A 19338 survey of 531 leading col-
leges and universities disclosed that
315 of them maintained employment
offices of some sort for their gradu-
ates. Of the 400,000 enrolled in these
institutions at the time the survey was
made, 16,298 students were placed as
teachers and 5,692 in other occupa-
tions.
Last year 30,757 students borrowed
$3,418,000. from loan funds maintain-
ed in 581 colleges and universities.
Freedom of the collegiate press
means nothing to Senator Huey. Long,
when the freedom of Huey Long is
called into question. Issuing a state-
ment upon his recent censorship of
the Louisiana State paper, Huey said,
“This is my university and I’ll throw
anybody out who utters a word against
it. There’ll be a new editor of that
paper tomorrow if they print any-
thing against Huey Long.” ~—
Madison, Wis. — That college and
university presidents and student
newspaper editors are in the majority
supporters of President Roosevelt and
the New Deal was proven.by the over-
whelming “vote of confidence” given
Democratic leaders and policies in .a
poll of 200 -editors and presidents
made here by the Associated Collegi-
ate Press and Céllegiate Digest.
_.This year approximately 33,000 stu-
dents will receive some $6,000,000 in
scholarships, while a smaller group
will receive nearly a million in gradu-
ate fellowships.
The favorite bit of reminiscence. for
a Minnesota professor-concerned his
early days, when hé once ended a lec-
ture by asking for questions from the
students. There was no response, so
he waited, growing more and more
nervous. Finally he offered a cigaret
to the first one asking an intelligent
question. Another long silence. Final-
ly a -boy’s hand went up: :
“What kind of a cigaret?” he said.
New York City—One of the high-
est architectural awards in the world,
the University Medal of the Groupe
Americain de la Societe des Archi- '
tectres Diplomes par le Gouvernment
Francais, has been awarded to the
department of architecture of New
York University for the high quality
work it has done during the past year,
it. was announced here recently.
The Budapest University has pur-
chased an oak tree that is thought to
be 1,500 years old. It weighs 20 tons,
and will be used for experimental
purposes.
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