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“We Acknowledge With Pride—”

To nearly every person who was so fortunate as to witness any part
of the many informal gatherings, private receptions and public ceremonies
which marked the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Bryn Mawr
College, there must have come a feeling of unrestrained pride in the tributes
paid to the college, its founders, its administrators and its alumnae, by the
many dignitaries who attended and spoke at the birthday ceremonies.

Perhaps the most impressive moment in the. whole occasion occurred
when the academic procession moved slowly down the center of Goodhart
in all the splendor of its colorful academic gowns and its distinguished
delegates and guests. Preceding them came the representatives of all the
classes who have ever graduated from the college, taken advanced. degrees
or attend at the present moment. As the long column passed by it seemed
as if the years, too, were rolling back to the first days of the college's found-
ing. -At'the end of this long and animated procession came the two figures
who personify to us most closely Bryn Mawr College. The great crowd
of guests, deeply moved, .rose to honor the President-emeritus and the Presi-
dent of the college and peals of applause resounded back and forth across
the huge expanse of Goodhart Hall. After the three ‘noted college presi-
dents had addressed the gathering, the climax came when Miss Thomas
herself came to the front of the platform and was able only after some
effort to stop the enthusiastic applause of the audience ‘and make her
address.

The thrilling moment of the presentation of the Alumnae gift to the
college will perhaps never be equalled, when Mrs. Slade announced that
the amazing total of $750,000 had been achieved after the most prodigious
work by alumnae everywhere. Great was the excitement when it was
announced that District V and the Philadelphia district had passed their
quotas. The indefatigable alumnae announced that the Drive will continue
until the Million Dollar Minimum is achieved. We know that they will
acquire that sum and at the same time we know that it will not be because
of chance or good luck. Hard work and tedious routine drudgery, which
is unspectacular but absolutely essential to the success of any big effort to
raise money, is the key to the victory of the Alumnae Drive. Mrs. Slade
for the third time heads a Bryn Mawr Drive and under her competent
leadership the goal is in sight. But behind the scenes moves another import-
ant figure whose contribution to the success of the Drive and to the organi-
zation of the anniversary celebration was invaluable. Without Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins the wheels would not have run so smoothly as they did, and
without her inspiration much that was achieved would not have been
accomplished. We, as undergraduates, perhaps more than any other group
have seen her working day ‘and night week in and week out, cheering us
on in our struggle to achieve our quota and dispatching advice and_sugges-
tions to the Alumnae in their efforts to raise money. We trust that a
well-earned rest awaits her and her staff before they undertake the task of
organizing Big May Day.

With a renewed sense of the importance of our four years at Bryn
Mawr we return to the normal Course of life. What we have seen has
demonstrated to us even more clearly than any other event in our lives
the responsibility which our privilege of attendance here imposes on us not
only in regard to our Alma Mater itself, but to the community of which
it is a part. Oe



Fitting Memorials

~The announcement by Mrs. Slade last Saturday of two new memorial
gifts and of the recent naming of the Library after Miss. Thomas brings
home to us-once more the fitness of such action. There can be no better
way of commemorating those-who have given of themselves to Bryn Mawr
or those who have drawn their happiness from it than thus reminding
future generations of their lives and work. ‘Most of the scholarships and
annual lecture series are named after alumnae, yet only two buildings bear

the founder, and. Marjorie Walter Goodhart Hall after an alumna. Of all
the buildings on campus the library is the one closest to the heart of the
college. It is rightly named after our great President-emeritus. That the
library of the new science building should always recall the years of devo-

| tion of Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner is also fitting. And the Quita Wood-|
a8 ae PF ee ct the mon’ moving. setodery on Oey

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The Medias came -down like a hoard
on the fold;

Their gowns were all gleaming” with
‘purple and gold;

And the slant of their caps as they
formed a black sea .

At once elevated the, college esprit.

Like the: crowd about Fenwick Whe
speaks in ‘the e’en,,

The groups all distinct: With their
numerals were seen,

Like the rout. that leave’glasses when
milk lunch is on,

The host of the. morfew had packed
up and gone.

With unwonted glory our fair cam-
pus stood

Ablaze with the splendor of cap, gown,
* and hood.

The foundations of learning from near

‘ and from far

Had contributed chieftains to be at
Bryn Mawr.

They sang it in.song, and they told
it in story

That the days of our youth were the
days of our glory.

They praised womanhood as they sel-
dom will do,

Then quickly rushed off to catch the
choo-choo, -

From this gathering of magnates, in-
spired, we return

With firmest of intentions to work
hard and to learn;

That. when Bryn Mawr is a hundred
and Undergrads may see

A glorious procession and their hearts
will fill with glee.

The Great A. & P. B. Company.
Cheerio,

THE MAD HATTER.



Accent on Youth.
We have made bold to christen our
column with a borrowed name, be-
cause it fits so exactly our pur-
poses and resolutions. We intend to
place an accent on youth in the
books we review. This does not
mean that we shall offer previews or
even that we shall report on volumes

‘still wet from the ink of the press.

But it does mean that we shall try
to deal with books before the pic-
ture of their author in the New York
Times literary section has faded
from all memories except his’ own
fond recollection.

People will remember Lucy ‘Guy
heart for many months to come be-
cause Willa Cather wrote it.- When
read with the pleasant thought of
her other books in mind, it is per-
haps reminiscent of the beautifully
restrained vitality that was theirs.
In its own merit, Lucy Gayheart is
still beautiful, but it is not’ suffi-
ciently vital. The landscape of. this
story is painted with exquisite de-
scription, and too like the landscape
Lucy Gayheart herself is painted, in
delicate pastel shades. She is not,
of course, similarly static, yet she
does remain a plane surface, scarcely
ever assuming the three dimensions
of a living form. As for ‘her lover,
Sebastian the singer, he cannot even
be seen. When Lucy first hears his
voice, she is steeped in a sad, fatal
mood, and this mood is all that is
ever revealed of him. In each of
them, there is an aspect of reality,
but never enough to give them life.

The bare plot itself is very simple.
Its sparse outline must be filled in
with emotion if the book is to be com-
plete. It is not complete. Where
the feeling is still, like that per-
meating a countryside lying in the
sunset; where it is to be sketched
quickly or faintly as among the mi-
nor characters, it is indeed perfectly
rendered. Where it should be swift
and powerful, however, where it
should flood the mechanical situation
with spiritual energy, it is given
only the slow and noiseless motion of
a dream. The book is like a curtain
with pictures painted on it. The air
shines through; it has no solid sub-
stance.

There is, we feel sure, very solid
substance in T. S. Eliot’s new play,
Murder in the Cathedral. What that
pogo is we nevertheless hesitate







Freshman - Elections
The results of the elections
of the class ut 1939 are as fol-
lows:

President, Gisenalia Kallen.
Vice- -President and Treasurer,

Lydia Lyman. +

Secretary, Elizabeth Gladding.







dral is a poetic dramatization of the
murder: and ‘martyrdom of Thomas
a. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
It is somewhat in the manner of''a
Greek tragedy: there is a chorus
which forebodes the Archbishop’s fate
and the sorrow’ it will bring to them,
but unlike a Greek chorus, it never
comprehends the nature of the strug-
gle leading’ up to the catastrophe.

the old unities of time and place, but
there is an episode which breaks an
unspecified unity—the unity of mood.
The four murderers of the Arch-
bishop advance to the front of the
stage after their bloody deed and
plead their case in a“ parliamentary
prose which suddenly turns the cathe-
dral into a modern court of law.
Since this transformation is useful
for Mr. Eliot’s ultimate ends, it is
more justifiable that at first it ap-
pears. The contrast of this govern-
mental legality with the spiritual
truth enacted by the Archbishop is
just what Mr. Eliot wishes to em-
phasize. Because of the incompati-
bility of these two elements, Thomas
& Becket chose martyrdom.

Although clearer than some of Mr.
Eliot’s earlier poetry, the verse of
this play is. less lovely. There are
little word-patterns in single lines
and phrases and larger patterns of
recurring lines and rhythms through
whole speeches and throughout the
entire play; but there is hardly any
color in the words, or any. beautifully
precise metaphor. Nevertheless, an
intense earnestness pervading chorus,
characters, symbols, and poetry lifts
them all above the commonplace, and
now and again raises them to exal-
tation.



College Editors Favor Roosevelt

Editors of college newspapers,
magazines and yearbooks favor the
reélection of President Roosevelt, ac-
cording to the results of a poll re-
cently conducted by Pulse of the
Nation, a monthly magazine of opin-
ion edited by Albert J. Beveridge, Jr.
The complete returns, announced No-
vember 1, gave Roosevelt 408 votes,
Borah, 52; Frank Knox, 26; Herbert
Hoover, 23; Norman Thomas, 23;
Governor Alfred Landon, 22, and
other candidates from “I to 8.

The separate poll for parties
showed: Democrats, 386; Republi-
cans, 183; Socialists, 45; Independ-
ents, 20, and Communists, 10. The
Democratic party led in all sections
of the country except New England,
where the Republican party was
ahead. Complete returns are listed in
the November issue of Pulse.



News of the New York Theatres

Pride and Prejudice, which opened
in New York Monday night, is one
of those rare plays to which the ad-
jective “delightful” can accurately be
applied. It is an adroit and faithful
adaptation of the Jane Austen novel
of the same name by Helen Jerome,
presented by Max Gordon. Every de-
tail is carried out with the utmost
care: the Jo Mielziner sets are
charming, the costumes are quaint and
colorful, and the casting is very near
perfect,

That excellent actress, Miss Adri-
anne Allen, late of The Shining Hour,
plays Elizabeth in a live and charm-
ing manner. It is Miss Lizzie, you
remember, who. furnished the preju-
dice in the story, while the hero, the
artistocratic Mr. Darcy (played by
Colin Keith-Johnson) ovided the
pride. These two. characteristics




standings, tending to sepakate Miss

(played in a masterly fashion by Lu-
cille Watson) is convinced that Liz-

force her into a marriage with a re-
volting clergyman-cousin.

Mrs. Bennet by.no means confines
her - ‘matchmaking efforts to. Miss
| Elizabeth, but also occupies hersel
very much with her two younger
daughters, Jane and.Lydia. Miss Jane
is played by Helen Chandler, who| \
of | manages to be very, very sweet and
still very likeable. Her romantic



There is no serious deviation from

1| day and Wednesday, The Dark Angel.
[Seville Thursday, Claudette Col-

make for a great many \misunder-}

zie will be an old maid and tries to



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attention of the audience as do those
of her sister. Although it is definitely
out of date for a young girl to go ‘into
a physical decline because of an un-
requitted affection, one sympathizes

her Charles goes away to London.

One finds oneself becoming posi-
tively maudlin with sympathy for
poor Mr.,Darcy when Elizabeth turns
him down in the second act, although
everyone knows very. well that not
only he, but every eligible character
in the play will find himself attached
to th¢ object of his affections by the
time the final curtain descends. It
is a tribute to the fine, acting of the
company that the audience is sincerely
moved by this old-fashioned story. So
we are sure that, unless New York is
much.less. sentimental than we think
it is, Pride and Prejudice, will be a
real hit.



In Philadelphia

Theatres

Chestnut Street Opera House: Love
Is Not So Simple, a Theatre Guild
comedy with Ipa Claire and Dennis
King, in Philadelphia for two ‘weeks,
beginning last Monday evening.

Forrest: Rose Marie, one of Amer-
ica’s most famous operettas, started
its two-week run Monday night. A
special matinee of Noel Coward’s Bit-
ter Sweet is scheduled at this theatre
for Armistice Day, next Monday
afternoon.

Garrick: Alla Nazimova, Ona Mun-
son, McKay Morris and others in a
revival of Ibsen’s Ghosts, opened
Tuesday night and will run till Satur-
day. Monday night George Kaufman
and Katherine Dayton open their play,
First Lady, at this theatre for a two
weeks’ run. First Lady is reputed to
be a political satire and stars Jane
Cowl.

\Metropolitan: The last week of per-
formances of The Great Waltz, which
ran fof almost a full season in New
York last winter. -

Broad: Opening next Monday, No-
vember NM, Frank Craven and June
Walker in\For Valor, a modern com-
edy.



and John Halliday.

Arcadia: O’Shaunessy’s Boy, a sad,
sad comedy, with Jackie Cooper and
Wallace Beery.

Boyd: A new version of The Three
Musketeers, with Walter Abel and
Heather Angel. aS
Two-Fisted. Roscoe Karns

Earle:
and Lee Tracy
Europa: The Legend of \William

Tell, Conrad Veidt

Fox: Metropolitan. The critics say
that Lawrence Tibbet is at his\ best
-Karlton: Little America, or \the
Rover Boys With Admiral Byrd \in
the South Seas.

Keith: Barbary Coast. Miriam
Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Edward G.
Robinson

Stanley: She Couldn’t Take It, a
melodrama, with George Raft menac-
ing Joan Bennett.

Stanton: The Last Outpost. Gary
Cooper in a pith helmet, Claude Rains

Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Top Hat; Friday, Dolores Del
Rio in I Live for Love; Saturday,
Tom Brown and Richard Cromwell in
Annapolis Farewell; Monday, Tues-

bert in She Married Her Boss; Fri-
day, Naughty Marietta; Saturday,
Nancy Carroll in After the Dance;
Monday and Tuesday, Nino Martini in
Here’s to Romance; Wednesday, Call
of the Wild, with Clark Gable.
Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Call of the Wild; Monday and
Tuesday, The Bishop Misbehaves.



Dr. Loir, of Le Havre, France: “If
rats could be given intelligence tests
they would rate higher than the ave-
rage man.”

Dr. Gilhousek of the University of
Southern California: “There is abso-
lutely no basis for comparison between
rats and human beings.”

Dr. Loir: “Rats outwit humans at
every turn. The best trapping meth-
ods merely encourage polygamous hab-
its, since traps catch the males that
roam while the females stay with the
* bacon ss
(We give you “this in icioiiaaen
with our policy of keeping strict. at-
count of what the best minds are
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x Movies
Aldine: The\Melody Lingers On, a
musical, with Josephine Hutchinson °







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