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~~~ Vol. XVII; No. 23
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931
Price: 10 Cents
‘Margaret Shaughnessy Is Winner of the European Fellowship for 1931
Curtis Institute.
Described by Dean
' Scholarships Given bad. Ability;
-No Degrees and Diplomas
Are Conferred.
—,
an With the advent of commencement,
os tempted to consider everything
which it brings to an end. And we do not
mean the academic year only, but the
pleasures of the college season as well.
Not the least of these was the Bryn
' Mawr series, and as we look back, we
find that the concert by the Curtis Insti-
tute-.was one ofthe most enjoyable, and
especially interesting as representing the
work of .students like ourselves. Dean
Spofford some time ago was kind enough
to grant us an interview, for we as well
as many. others, were anxious to learn of
the workings of so great .an institution,
We were not a little surprised to find
ourselves opposite the Rittenhouse
Square; and confronted by four beautiful
buildings of white stone. But when we
~had*entered-we-were-taken—even--further
aback by the spacious room which
- _Sreeted us, to all appearances the liv-
‘ing room of a private home. And there
&
was not a sound to betray the musician].
at work, although -in-such surroundings,
he must be particularly inspired. The
appeal of craftsmanship through works of
art, also assists the institute in carrying
out its expressed purpose, which is} to
hand .down the tradition of the -past
through contemporary masters and _ to
teach students to build on this heritage
for the: future. °
The institute was founded in 1924 by
Continued on Page Six
. Tabane Urges
Sins Be Remitted
The Baccalaureate service was held on
, Sunday evening. “Dr. Johnston, rector
of St. John’s Church, ‘Washington, who
was the speaker, took.as his text: “Who
so sins ye remit they are remitted, and
who so sins ye retain they are retained.”
Dr. Johnston said that at the risk of
sentimentalizing an impression, he cold
not help remembering Bryn Mawr as
the sweetest, most wholesome and one of
the noblest places in the whole land.
Dr. Johnston declared that the ideal
of life which he was seeking: is one as-
oe sociated with the Christian religion. The
words of the text, although variously in-
terpreted, are not words of mystery; their
/ meaning is obvious and plain. Christ was
no lawgiver; He proclaimed ideals, which
He knew could and ought to be worked
e out in life.
These the Christians crystallized into
laws and, for the weak, they are helpful
and so legitimate ; they obviate the neces-
: sity for search, requiring nothing but
obedience. But “roads make wings un-
necessary,’ and if they give safety, they
give also prison.
The present text is the religious au-
thority for our “regular confession,”
‘which has been. too much a matter of
personal salvation. The Kingdom of
Christ heretofore hag been lost in other
worldliness. It is for us of the present
age -to- find-out~ what salvation means
more than the saving ef a soul, for our
Bt Ai a
Continued on Page Six
Varsity Players Elect
The committee of the Varsity
“The thing that strikes me,”
-|woman who
ELIZABETH BAER
Mrs. Barnes Urges
Creation ion By Youth
‘Only Real Equality~ “yf Sexes}
Found on‘Stage; Writer Has
Less Economic Pressure.
Mrs.
winner of the
best
Grace,”
07,
Pulitzer Prize for the
Margaret Ayer Barnes,
novel of the year, “Years of
is taking advantage of her
presence in the East both to attend her
class reunion and to receive the formal
award, of her prize in New York.
Mrs. Barnes insists that no one was
more surprised than she when she was
notified that she was a prize-winner,
and is inclined to look on. her entire
literary career, which has lasted for
about four years, with some incredulity.
she re-
peats, “is that I was very lucky, and
got all the breaks at the right time. I
really just drifted into writing.’ She
told how she began writing short
stories for the:pleasure it gave her, and
sent one to the Pictorial Review out
of idle curiosity. She received a check
a few days later and promptly had it
framed. Mrs. Barnes has since written
ten short stories, three plays and two
novels.
Mrs. Barnes says that she did not’
do anything important while in Bryn:
Mawr, except to major for four years
in English which she has always loved.
She feels that the greatest value of the
English courses of the time was the
enormous’ solid bulk reading which
they presented to the student. She ob-
tained no technical training in writing
at college and was left with the feeling
that the_creative end was submerged
in the critical. Since no impression
was given that literature is a: proces-
sion, the inference that the last word
in literature’ had been written offered
no stimulus. A firm foundation of the
classics is a virtue but youth should be
encouraged, not made to feel young
and inadequate. How the young au-
thors of today have obtained such a
mature point of view is a puzzle to Mrs.
Barnes, who has dlways said that she
could not have started writing earlier
than she did. because -she would not
have felt capable.
Mrs. Barnes does not think that 4
is trying to manage a
house and three sons can adopt regu-
lar habits of work. She is a slow writer
and makes constant revisions. Often
B. A.’s Conferred On
72 In Class of 31
M. A's and Ph. D.’s Also Given
At Close of The 46th
Academic Year.
MR CRAM IS. SPEAKER
The commencement exercises of the
forty-sixth academic year of Bryn Mawr
College held on June 3 combined the
distinguished~-work: The speaker, Mr.
Ralph Adams Cram, Litt.'D., LL.D., ‘of
Boston, chose “The Educational Value of
Beauty” as his subject.
consulting architect of Bryn Mawr,
Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and is
the author of many books on architecture,
Margaret Shaughnessy, of Framingham,
Mass., was awarded the European Fel-
iowship. The recipients of degrees and
certificates were then read:
The recipients of the Bachelor of Arts
Degree-are-as-foltows:—_—___—_—__——
Biology
Dorothy Wilemina Asher, cum laude
with distinction in biology.
Enid Appo Cook, cum laude.
Margaret Dean Findley, with dis-
tinction in biology.
Martha Jefferson Taylor, cum laude,
with distinction in bioldgy.
: Chemistry
Carolyn B&illock Beecher.
Helen “Louise Snyder, magna cum
laude with distinction in chemfstry.
Classical Archaeology
Kathleen Cone, with distinction
Classical Archaeology.
Barbara Kirk, cum laude.-
Ruth Levy.
Caroline Huston Thompson, magna
cum laude with distinction-in Classical
Archaeology.
in
Economics
Isabel Hamilton Benham,
tinction in Economics.
Virginia Burdick, cum
distinction in Economics.
Frances Haswell Robinson, with dis-
tinction in Economics.
Margaret Shaughnessy, magna cum
laude with distinction in Economics.
Ethel Picard’Sussman, with distine-
tion bi gti sabi
Economics and Politics
Katherine Wise Bowler.
Elizabeth Lawson Cook, cum laude,
with distinction in Economics.
Anne Beverley George.
Dorothy Susan Mead.
Celeste Walker Page.
English
Angelyn Louise Burrows, with dis-
tinction in English.
Celia Gause Darlington, magna cum
laude, with distinction in English.
Mary Polk Drake.
Bertha Brossman Faust, cum laude,
with dis-
laude, with
Continued on Page Five
usual ceremonies and speeches with the |
‘| announcement of the honors awarded for
Mr.-Cram--was}
-MARGARET SHAUGHNESSY
Theresa Helburn, ’
_ Grants Interview
Tellsof Her Career Both’ in|
College and is in the
Theatrical World.
Miss Theresa Helburn, '08, of the
Theater Guild Board of Managers, is
one Sf the most interesting of the alumnae
who have returned this year, not only
because of her importance on Broadway,
but because she- held almost every posi-
tion of importance while she was in’ col-
lege. In her’senior year, she was on
the basketball and hockey’ teams, was
on the Lantern Board, ran a somewhat
less literary .publication, the’ T’zw’p’ny-
\Bob, managed all the .plays which were
given, and carried several English
courses, all of which involved a great
deal of writing. The result was a break-
down. She’managed, however, to achieve
two prizes in that year; a gold watch in
a hunting case for the George W. Child’s
essay prize for a composition written
to complete. her English major, and a
set of Shakespeare which she received ‘as
the first holder of the: “Sunny Jim” award
for high courage, steadfastness, loyalty
and cheerfulness.
She was very interested in ew drama
at a time when contemporary plays were
not allowed on the college library
shelves, and scandalized the English de-
partment’ by writing her Sophomore es-
say on Arthur Wing Pinero. “I had to
go into the Philadelphia Library to get
any material on him,” she added. As an
actress she always played the low come-
dian in the Shakespeare plays or took
the part of the villain. In Miss Hel-
burn's college days, the tradition ‘of the
intellectual woman was cherished—one of
the symptoms was the Pedants’ Club,
which the present Mrs. Barnes founded.
“We were more serious in those days. I
understand that the younger generation
Continued on Page six
laboratory schedule next year,
afternoons,
will then meet on Monday and
in courses already arranged,
Schedule Changed
It has been decided to make a _ general.
so that the First Year Biology
_and First Year .Phxsics. sill. meet_on.Monday -andyhuesday
and the First Year Chemistry
Geology on Thursday and Friday.
Biology and Second Year Physics on Thursday and Friday.
It is hoped that this general shift will not result in any conflicts
change in the
and First Year
The Second Year Chemistry
Tuesday, and the Second Year
but if there should be any
¢| scribe the. latter.
| Economics Major Leads Class with Average of 89.075, Graduating Magna
| Foreign Bryn Mawr
<— Interviewed
"% "Beaad Between
Universities of Europe
and America.
Contrast
CO-EDUCATION FAVORED
“Why did you come to Bryn Mawr?
Are you glad that you did? ‘How do
you find it different from the university
you left?” These are the questions that
the News has been asking up and down
the halls of Radnor. The answers have
been illuminating and varied. On one
point-alone~-has~unanimity been found.
No one is sorry for having come.
Molly Allen came |here from the Lon-
don School of Economics, in England,
more or less by accident. Having heard
a good deal about Bryn Mawr’ from a
friend who had been here, she applied,
rather casually, for a fellowship and
promptly _ forgot all.about-.the matter.
The announcement of the award came as
a _v¢ry pleasant shock. It was celebrated
with a bottle of witie. Being
in America and at Bryn Mawr she has
found on the whole very pleasant.
Probably the best way to show the
differences between Bryn Mawr and the
London School of Economics is to de-
One myst remember
first of all that it is a specialized school
and not at all typical of English uni-
versities. It has about 2000 students
altogether, including graduates, day and
evening students, old and young, men
and girls. They cdme from about forty
different countries (a large number come
by the w vay, ¥
Continued on Page Four
Prof. Kingsbury Aids
Prohibition Research
On May 26, Tuesday a week... ago,
Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, of the
Department of Social Economy, Bryn
Mawr College, attended in Washington
the first meeting of the Prohibition Bu-
reau Advisory Research Council, a’
group formed by the Division of Re-
search and Public Information of the
Bureau of Prohibition in the Department
of Justice. Miss Kingsbury is the only
woman member of the council, which is
composed of representatives of ten grad-
uate schools of American universities.
The body will serve under the Federal ©
Department’ of Justice as an advisor to
the Bureau of Prohibition in its own
research and investigation, and secondly
it. will serve as a body to co-ordinate
research by the Bureau and research in
American graduate schools. In the words
of the Chief of the Division of Research
and Public Information, Mr. E._P. San-
ford, it will hope to adopt “a standard
plan of subjects of research to be fol-
lowed in universities.” “A number of
studies in one subject carried out in
various. localities and ultimately ‘sub-
mitted tagthe Bureau for co-ordination
and compilation will give a wider horizon
and larger background than can be se-
cured in any other way: ... It is to be
hoped that the Bureau may be able to
publish outstanding theses submitted--by----—
graduate students as an indication of
the Bureau’s appreciation of careful,
scholarly work . . . The ytmost ‘academic
freedom is to be given directors of re-
search and those graduate students who
elect to investigate the subjects suggested
by the Council. ,No_ special objective is
players has_elected_for_the—next
year’s board the following Execu-
tive Committee. “This committee
will, in the fall, select the members
of the Advisory Committee.
President ............ Betty Young, 1932
Business manager,
Polly Barnitz, 1933~
Executive. Committee Member,
: Janet Marshall, 1933
Executive Committee Member, .
Leta Clews, 1933
she spends froin breakfast-untik diner
at- her desk,’ or works after an eve-
-ning’s entertainmerit until daylight if
things are shaping as she wants them.
On other days she does no work at
all. Mrs. Barnes believes that women
heve a supreme advantage over men
in artistic lines because tey are rarely
in a position where it is necessary to
sacrifice their own standards to 'eco-
nomic necessities. A woman who is
settled and has financial support or is
the Dean’s Office. se
difficulties they. should be ‘reported as soon as possible to
For the year 1932-33 one change in the morning lecture
schedule has already been decided upon and should be noted
by all under-classmen. The First Year History and Apprecia-
tion of Music is to be moved from Group G to Group E, and
will. meet. Mondays, ..Wednesdays..and Thursdays at-eleven.
‘One or two. other changes in the morning lecture schedule
are being discussed, and if they are decided upon they will
be announced in the fall,.to take effect in 1932-33.
Continued on Page Six
asked for. It is facta that are wanted.”
The meeting in Washington lasted all
day. It discussed subjects and_-sfethods a
for college research work to discover
the social changes resulting from ‘pro-
hibition and the consumption of alcohol.
Each worker of the Council is to sug-
gest more subjects and -methods.~ About
thirty . unrepresented universities also
have already suggested topics. The work
may be done in college departments of
Social Economy, psychology, physiology,
Continued on Page Six
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JUNE 2, 1931
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Goodbye To 1931.
Perhaps the farewell Saltorier to the Seniors must be phrased tritely,
but looking back over the years we have known them, we find ourselves
not quite competent to express what we feel:
We remember them as Sophomores at Lantern Night, we even cat:
ish_memories of amicable (?) Freshman Night rows, and the. slightly
supercilious air which adorns every Sophomore class when a Freshman
hovers in the neighborhood. As Juniors, stepping into the hallowed and
somewhat awesome character of upperclassmen, their brows began to
show the furrows of new responsibilities, and we wondered at their
amazing ability to cope with Majors, Orals, and the Freshmen.
But when they became “the Seniors,” the friendship of two years
suddenly became something to hold on to. Commencement inevitably
draws near; three years ago we thought ’31 and *32 were probably fix-|
tures on the campus, but in-an incredibly-short-timewe-have-come to the
point where we are telling them goodbye, and séon we'll be joining them
as Alumnae ourselves.
—At—Commencement-—time—we—trealize_more-_clearly.alL.
means.- True, sentiment plays a big role, but why not? It’s
college |
pretty
genuine sentiment, and. the classes -that..are left behind are honestly |
regretting the Senior's departure. We have been good friends in the
months or the years that we’ve known them, and we hope that the college
friendships, proverbially lasting, formed in this time, will go on. At any
rate, goodbye and good luck.
To The Alumnae.
& The annual descent of the Alumnae upon the campus is always a
surprise to the Undergraduate—a pleasant and stimulating. one. Those
who are engaged in college living are likely to forget that they are also
being influenced by college life. The return of Alumnae who have
become aware of this contact, and value it so highly that they attempt
to recapture it during their reunions, makes. the_undergraduate adopt -a
more objective point of view for a moment. Many of the members of
the classes holding reunions this year have made names for themselves in
larger, more important communities than our,own. Many of the others
live less famous lives, but they too are. blessed with mature reflections.
All of them are worthy object lessons for the young student who desires to
live wisely, and to make her life reflect the lessons college has tried to
teach her. The yearly Alumnae reunions help to make the undergrad-
uate’s. relation to Bryn Mawr clear, and to give her a foundation upon:
which to base her. convictions.
Seniors Entertain
On Last Class Day
According to one of the customs
handed down to the seniors, they as-
sembled on the senior steps promptly at
a quarter past one, the last day of classes.
It is according to tradition for the
European fellow to speak at Taylor, and
since it has not been announced, Miss
Sullivan proved herself an able candidate
for the honor, by regaling the audience.
After her polite “Ladies, and Miss Gar-
vin” she proceeded to discuss not what
college means to her, but what she means
to the college. After some fine research,
‘she decided thatthe deed most beneficial
to Taylor, .itself, would be to take all
the statues and put them together, nak-
ing one big bust.
‘ At Dalton Miss Cone had the honor of
speaking since according to her own con-
fession she has taken more of the same
biology than anyone else in college, in
_ fact she found herself f majoring | in n_ minor | o}
~~ Biology.
After some peculiar disappearances,
IMiss Winship came forth from ithe gym
properly attired for her position, She
justified her costume and various ath-
‘Jetic accessories by enumerating the list,
of her accomplishments in that line, as-
Pembroke where the’ classes each sang
their goodbye songs and Miss Baer made
the final parting speech for the seniors.
Although théy have already seen Bryn
Mawr change with the addition of Good-
hart Hall, we hope that they will come
back to see it, perhaps entirely different,
in the future.
Seniors’ Freshmarr English!
A number of amusing and enlighten-
ig facts came to
present Seniors’ Freshman English
papers were exhumed and handed back.
The following comment on the paper
of a certain notorious Senior just goes
to show that either she has completely
changed or, instead, has fought her
way through college equipped only
with a colossal bluff. Either view taken
should be very encouraging—to
undergraduates. :
“The whole first part of this report
is about worthless as a scholarly piece
‘|of. work, You have simplsseparaphrased
and heightened any introduction to
Marlowe's plays,’ in a fashion some-
thing like Lytton Strachey’s or Mau-
rois’, without the authority or skill of
these writers. A great many of your
statements are highly questionable,
although some of your vital is
light when thes
ee
have been unwilling to pay the price
of excessive cutting. The cost, a mat-
ter of honor and independence, has not
been considered lightly. When there
was a definite penalty for absence it
was expected that the cutting would be
less ‘but it is worthy of special note
that there has been less this year when
students. Even the much-feared at-
tractions of spring have not disproved
the undergraduates’ ability to regulate
ttendance themselves. ‘They have
stood firm ‘for faithful. attendance and
have justified their promises.
In the near future much depends on
the professors. A timely reminder to
a particular class before and after cut-
ting, and’ appropriate reproof of in-
dividual. offenders are necessary to
strengthen the more general appeals
of the Undergraduate Association.
* *
Yvette Guilbert, well-known
French actress and concert/singer, will
give a song recital on the night of
Garden Party, May 31, in the Cloisters.
Usually an old English play is given.
Clayton “Hamilton, dramatic critic,
says of Madame Guilbert, “There is
no-word in. English for that medium of
art of which Yvette Guilbert is the
Supreme and perfect master. It is not
acting, it is not singing, it is not reci-
tation, yet it- combines the highest
beauties of all three.” .
*x* * *
As the abolishing of the daisy chain
by_ the recent undergraduate vote, an-
other foolish commencement. tradition
has been changed.’ The even classes,
hitherto. forced to—weary—both - them-
sing over one by one the songs handed
down to them. For 1916 has. voted: that
1918 should not repeat the songs -given
them this year. And once broken, a
useless custom will not be likely to
revive.
Curriculum Records...
Prove No Overwork
The Curriculum Committee distributed
blanks to all the students_on.-which they
were asked to keep a record of the time
they spent on each of their courses each
week. The -weeks for which records
were kept were February 16th to Febru-
ary 23d, March’16th to March 23d, and
the two weeks between April 20th and
May 4th. An *ttempt was made to dis-
tribute them so that-they would cover
the mid-semester quiz period as well as
the report periods and the times when
there was no particular stress or strain
in class work. During the first of these
weeks, there were a number of quizzes
in the courses for which there had been,
no midyear exam. In March, there were
more scheduled quizzes, and April con-
tained, besides the regular academic
work, a reasonably large dose of extra-
curricular things such as the production of
“The Enchanted April,” and fairly’ con-
tinuous rehearsing of the “Mikado.” Al-
though not: all of the college, by any
means, handed in their slips, there is, we
consider, a good cross section. In other
words, those who have worked twenty
hours a week have been just as willing
to let us know about it as those who
have. put in fifty or more hours of study.
According to the original plan, the
unit system assumed that there would
be spent on each unit 10 hours a week
including classes.- Thus, a student tak-
ing four units would spend .abouf? forty
hours a week on her work. If this is
a sound plan, then there is apparently
no cause for complaint about overwork,
judging from the information the slips
have produced.
In the week of February Pept
students worked an average of 45.5 hour
In the week of March 16th, 154 stu-
dents worked an average of 48.7 hours.
In the week of April 20th, 106 students
worked an average of 46.3 hours.
In_the week of April 27, 81 students
the matter was left entirely to thef
4 class of. 193],
the Faculty tea at Wyndham.
Commencement Week.
Brings Senior Frolic
Graduation from.college is nu simple
matter. "The end of four outstanding
years of one’s lifé must ‘be punctuated
in fitting manner. There are many
ways in which Seniors have been made,
dufing their college life, to feél the
has
brought new ‘privileges and prestige.
passage of time. * Each year
Each year tassels-of caps have swung
around caqynter clockwise another
quarter. The door to the “wide, wide
world” does not really begin to swing
open, however, until the end of ‘classes
in Senior year. This year on the evé
of May 14, the last day of classes; the
black-gowned, /green-
lanterned, stole about the campus, sang
sweetly in Greek, planted its’ ‘tree. Next
day, at Taylor, at the gymnasium, at:
Dalton, at the library, the class re-
iterated-its goodbyes. a
Last Saturday, after hearty sand-
wiches, punch and ice cream at the end
of Senior Row, Sophomores ‘and
Seniors rose and sang in turn at each
other. The océasion was the Sopho-
more picnic to the Seniors. Later in
the. evening came the Senior ..bonfire.
It-was preceded (as are practically all
Bryn Mawr events) by a procession.
This formed under Pembroke Arch—
Seniors, laden down with their own or
their neighbors’ unwanted class notes
or reports in the middle,.on either side
cap-and-gowned Sophomores bearing
red lanterns. Singing blatantly con-
ceited songs about themselves, the
Seniors passed on Taylor steps the
Alumnae, who rose and cheered, trav-
eled part way down Senior Row, cut.
across down over the-hill.to the hockey
field. There a-huge,-kerosene-smelling
-selves—and-their-audience-on- the -night| bonfire. awaited _them,-After—hurling}
of the Senior Bonfire, need no longer |
papers at it with more or less success
and dancing about it in a very calm
fashiop, the Seniors lined up to face
the Sophomores on one side of it and
conscientiously sang their way cians
their songbook,
Sunday, May 31, meant goodbye to
Faculty and to chapel. In the after-
noon the Seniors were entertained by
In the
‘evening they went to the Baccalaureate
service in Goodhart. Little can be said
about the afternoon affair except that
the flowers arrived late from the
Alumnae luncheon and that despite
the fact that-it was held on the porch
because of rain, it was a very pleasant
tea. It rained again for the Bacca-
laureate and the academic procession
could not be held outdoors. In stead,
it wound, in medieval splendor, about
Goodhart.
Eight-thirty Monday morning found
the’ Senior Class and many others re-
hearsing for commencement. The
proceedings were much enlivened, it is
reported, by the antics of one Molly
Gardner, dog. From 4:30 to 6:30 in
the afternoon, Seniors and Alumnae.
chatted in the Common Room at the
Alumnae tea. Dinner at 7 followed at
Miss Park’s and included aspic, open
fire, and lobster croquettes. A good
time, the News is informed on good
authority, was had by all. After din-
ner, Miss Ely entertained the class at
her charming home with conversation,
a talk on Woman’s League of Women
Voters, beer, and a Welsh rarebit.
Yesterday, Tuesday, was the day of
garden party. Today,: finally, is the
day of commencement itself, ninety-
seven (or is it 102?) sheepskins are
firmly grasped in ninety-seven (or is
it 102?) hands. Goodbyes (most of
them) are said, and the Seniors are at
last ‘out, out in«the wide, wide world.”
Ruth Page Dances in Cloisters
Ruth Page, the premiere danseuse
of the Metropolitan-Opera; gave’® con-
cert in the Cloister Garden, Tuesday
evening, June 2. We are sorry to be
unable to print a review of the per-
formance, but the News is forced to go
to press before that time.
Miss Page is said to delight her audi-
ence by her versatility in a variety of
“suring us that her enthusiasm—would
take her’ far from 4 physical training
course.
Miss Lord's most chetously true story
at the library would tend to prove that
at least one student in college had been
- jn the library more than once-in spite of
“wv the difficulties that beset such a feat. In
_ fact if some people obeyed the little sign
which - she exhibited. (Silerse—Keep
Out) pag more people would be
very nice
“The. analysis of ‘ka plays is rot
good because you never state clearly
what you are trying to show. I gather
that you feel Marlowe’s own personal-
ity is reflected in the characters, but
you give no clear proof of this. Your
approach is vague; your quotations are
not well used; the criticism of “the
separate plays is badly proportioned.
“Your style is shockingly bad; your
sentences are appalling; your use of
hyperbole and sentimental generaliza-
worked an average of 44.6 hours.
General average be work per week:
46.3 aria
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tion makes even your good Criticism
seem padded and ugeless.- The’ paper
has no structure or proportion, You
show no knowledge of punctuation,
and you. disregard every principle of
unity and coherence.”
N. B. The paper, we are sorry to
say, was flunked.
to “The Flapper and the Quarterback,”
and from “Romantic Etude” to “St.
Louis Blues.” The originiality of her
interpretations is thought to be outdone
only by an imagination which matches
her technique.
Those who have seen her are im-
pressed by her grace, beauty and engag-
ing stage personality. She has had a
career of amazing success, despite her
B. M. Fellow Wins French Trip
Miss Susannah P. Edmonson, fellow
in Romiance Languages at Bryn Mawr
College in 1930-31, and 1931-32, has
been awarded a trip to France for a
prize-winning essay on the influence of
French culture in the modern world.
Three such trips were offered, the win-
ners to sail on the Ile de France, June
1, under the ‘auspices of the American
Committee on International Colonies and
Overseas Exposition, as guests of the
French Government. The other winners
were James Névins Hyde, of Yale; and
Mrs. Sarah Rickard, of Winthrop Col-
lege, S. C.
Miss Edmonson plans to spend all of
her summer in Paris, with the excep-
tion of a month in August, studying in
the Bibliotheque National, under M. Paut
Hazarf. She is working on her doc- |
tor’s paper, which is to be-on: “Le Sen=
timent de 14 Mer en la Litterature Fran-
caise avant Chateaubriand.” During Au- -
gust she will work in Spain with the
University’ of Liverpool summer school,
as she is allying Spanish to her work- in
French. She intends to return in Sep-
tember to resume her work here.
Miss Edmonson comes from Montgom-
ery, Ala. She graduated from Randolph
Macon. Women’s College in 1929, Phi
Beta Kappa, and with honors, having
spent her junior year in France with
the University of Delaware foreign study
group. She received her M. A. in 1930,
at the University of Wisconsin, after a
year of teaching there, and has since
being doing ‘graduate work here. Her
essay had as its subject: French Influ-
ences in Civil and Cultural Life - in
America. It was — purely historical,
limited’ to 1500 words, due March’ 1, and
announced~as. the first prize May 1. Miss
Edmonson declared_herself-highly pleased
Bryn Mawr’s graduate school, and in-
tends to. finish -her-graduate -work~ here.
as
By All Means Say It
As you probably know, it’s the tradi-
tion for the Lord High Executioner to
make a little list of his own of people
and things life would be pleasanter with-
out to supplement the one supplied by
Gilbert and Sullivan. In fact it’s one
of the things which makes Koko’s part
so much to be envied. We recall
our parents wheeling us in a baby car-
riage to the Mikado when it was given
in the gym about five’ years ago—pre-
sumably to imbue us_with_an—insanede-
sire for a college education—and all we
remember of it was the fact that Taylor
Tower was put on the list. We liked
that. This year Koko didn’t have time
to state his own personal grievances and
we think they deserve public attention.
All those who in backgammon are in-
‘cessantly imbedded,
I’ve got ’em on the list
They never would be missed.
All those who say, “My dear, I flunked,”
and come out with high credit,
I’ve got ’em on the list, etc.
All those who think Bryn Mawr Girls
are a lot of- greasy grinds,
And by shunning College” women thus
display their prewar minds;
All devotees of chewing gum who pop
it in the lib; *
Those who claim they’ve washed the
tub, but the ring reveals the fib;
Those who smugly leave for week-ends in
the middle of the week;
The girls in beach pajamas whose figures
make us shriek.
But it really doesn’t matter whom you
put upon the list!
Thorne School Gives Play |
The Phebe Anna Thorne School pre-
sented “The Spirit of the Fountain,”
a Moorish play, and a program of
danees in Goodhart Hall-Monday eve-
ning; June-t.--Fhe play Was. written’
by two of the students with the help
of an instructor and finally planned by
the entire cast, in which Eloise Chad-
wick-Collins appeared as a guard. It
was based on Washington Irving’s
“Legend of the Three Beautiful Prin-
cesses.” In the dances which fol-
with the facilities and atmosphere of -
ions, ranging from “‘Japartese Print” |/owed, Monna,-de--Montolit- appeared
as the soloist, finishing with an excel-
lent Spanish tango. The program was
followed by.a reception for the Seniors’
parents and friends.
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America; she has been premiere dan-
seuse--of -several -opera companies and
ballets, has toured the Orient, and danced
in, Russia, the only. American ever with
the Diaghileff Ballet. Bryn Mawr is,
youth. She studied in the Pavlowa~Bal-
let, and travéled with them’ in South|
| very fortunate to obtain. her services in
honor: of the bacco d Class.
_...__. Louise. Snyder-will-attendthe_Allegany.
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_ June 2, 1931
Seniors and Faculty
Reveal Summer Plans
Dorothy Asher has a scholarship’ in
physiological chemistry in the Medical
School of the University of Pennsylvania.
‘Elisabeth Baer does not know what she
will do.
Carol Beecher is tutoring this summer
and looking for a job for next winter.
Virgina Burdick will work in New
’ York next winter.
Anne Cole ‘is teaching summer school
this summer.
Elizabeth Cook is going to John’s Hop-
kins next falk
Enid Cook has no definite plans for the
near -future.
Celia Darlington is going abroad with
four other Bryn Mawr girls and motor
through’ Europe in Frances Frenaye’s car.
Marie Dixon is going to Europe.
Bertha Faust does not know what she |.
will do. ms segs
Mary Frothingham has a position as
assistant secretary at the Windsor
School, Boston.
Louise Howland will go abroad. :
Miriam Humrichouse does not know
where she will be.
Barbara Kirk is going to study sculp- |
ture.
Elisabeth Mongan does not kngw.
_ Alwine Moore will attend the London
School of Economics. :
Margaret Nuckols is not sure what she
will do. i
Elizabeth Overton hopes to go to
Europe. ‘
Dorothy Pizor does not know what she
will do.
Margaret Shaughnessy will
Radcliffe next year.
Virgima Smith is. going to Hawaii
&
attend
this summer. Next year she will work in|
a bank.
School of Natural History, Allegany
-~-Street’ Park, New. York State; this“ sum=
mer. Next winter she will enter John’s
Hopkins. 2a
Ethel Sussman. will be in Atlantic
City this summer. and looking for a posi-
tion. i
Frances Tatnall does not know. what
she will do. -
Martha Taylor will go. absoad- this
summer.
Eleanor Totten will, go abroad this
summer and expects to teach Latin next
winter.
Marian .Turner intends to’ take a busi-_
ness course and get a job.
Ruth Unangst will return here with a
scholarship in philosophy.
Blanche Worthington is not sure what
she will ‘do.
Isabel Benham hopes to- get a job in
New. York. for the coming summer and
winter. .
Kathleen Cone is spending this summer
at North Cape, and will probably study in
New York next winter.
Elisabeth Doak does not really know
what she is going to do, but hopes to go
abroad this summer. —
Mary Drake has no idea at all for the
near future.
Ethel Dyer is looking for a job on the
stage, and maybe will go abroad in the
“meanwhile.
Elisabeth Gow is going home to|—
Butte,. Montana for the summer; and is
to be married in September, when she
will take up her future abode in Hender-
son, North Carolina.
Julia Harris is going south for a sum- |
mer on an Alabama cotton plantation.
NéXt winter she is going to work in her
father’s office in the Senate, and take
courses at the Red Cross Building in
Washington.
Mary Joy Johnson ‘is going to South
France with Sydney Sullivan for the
summer and hopes to find a job that will
keep her abroad next winter.
Ann-Marie. Kennedy is dividifig her
____‘ summer _between-Omaha,--Nebraska,—and
buying a trousseau in New York, where
she will live after her marriage in Sep-
tember. ~
Gertrude Macatee is marrying Mr.
Randolph Butler in June and departing
for Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Mignon Sherley is spending half her
summer in Kentucky and half in Canada. |.
—
graduate work here in English next
winter. ;
Caroline Thompson is going this sum-
mer to ‘the Geneva School of ‘Inter-
national Studies on a scholarship of the
Students’ International Union. Next
winter she will be in Washington, D. C.
Lois Thurston is taking her choice next
summer of California, a Wyoming ranch,
Europe, or breeding dogs. In the winter
ee to travel somewhere. ;
Evalyn Waples does not really know
what she is doing but hopes to get a job
for the summer and to get married next
winter.
Dorothy Wright is studying “art this
summer in Chester Springs, and next
winter she is studying illustrating at
the Philadelphia Academy of Art.
- Margaret .McKelv¥ -is spending the
summer in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and
is studying in New York next winter
with Kathleen Cone.
Coming back next year: Bachofer,
Hobart, Bell, Winship. ) ee
Marion Batley will be in Philadelphia
this summer and hopes to find a job next
winter.
Angelyn Burrows has a tutoring posi-
tion for the summer but nothing for next
winter yet.
Clarisse Dubreuil will be in Cuba for
some time.
Margaret-Findley will be at home this
“summer, but wants a biology laboratory
job for next winter. :
Anne Beverly George will come out in
Richmond next fall.
Jane Low is going to.France this sum-
mer with Frances Frenaye. She will be a
graduate student here next winter.
Sylvia “Markley will be back as a
graduate student next year.
Mary Oakford is uncertain what she
will do.
Frances Robinson is going to Europe.
Virginia Shryock does not know what
shew
Esther Thomas is spending thd sum-
mer-at~-Cape Cod: She will teach in the
Lower School of the Episcopal Academy,
Overbrook, next winter.’ :
Mary Webster will be in Europe for
awhile. ~
Sheema Zeben has a fellowship for
Germany next winter.
Ruth Levy is uncertain what she will
do. ‘ ,
Faculty Plans.
Dr. Huff will be at home in Bryn
Mawr this summer.
Dr, Barnes is uncertain... because_ his
interest in his position for next year in-
terferes with any definite plans.
Dr. Chew will be in this country.
Dr. Guillet will be on his farm in New
Jersey.
GAG GG EGE SHE «
picture actor.
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Dr. and Mrs. Dietz will be at home
here this summer.
Dr. Canu will be in France.”
Dr. Dorothea Smith will be in New
Hampshire for the summer.
Dr. Gardiner will be here until July,
when she will leave for Europe.
Dr. Cadbury will be at the Summer
‘School at Pendal Wallingford Hill, and
the Institute of International Relations,
at Haverford and Back Log Camp at
different parts of the summer.
Dr. Watson will be working on the
stuff he got from Mexico.
Miss Blake will be in Vermont.
Miss Fairman will be here.
Miss Marti intends to go to Switzer-
land.
Miss Sweeney will be in Lawrence for
the summer and early next fall she: will
leave for Spain. to spend. the winter.
Miss Brady will be in Cincinnati.
Miss Seeley and Miss Petts are going
to the Elizabeth Duncan School in Salte-
burg, Austria, to study dancing.
Dr. Orr and Mr. Carlson will be at
Woods ‘Hole for the summer.
Miss Grant will be at the Mid-West
Hockey Camp.
Dr. Gray is spending this summer in
America to work on his book on Parlia-
mentary Government in England in the
-fifteenth_century.-
Miss Robbins is traveling abroad this
summer, ending up in London to work on
her paper in Clarendon.
Miss King is starting at Bremen and
going through Germany, watching both
landscape and museums. She is going to
Baroque, to galleries in Prague, Buda-
pest and Vienna. In Italy she will stay
with Mrs. Gilesy-who is making a learned
study of Sard literature. Finally she is
coming through ¥rance”’ to Cherbourg,
visiting the cathedrals on the way with
a special interest in the windows.
+—_Miss—Kirk—isgoing—abroad with her
sister to travel in France and settle some-
where—in.Switzerland—to—work»--She—is
taking a year’s leave from her Greek
classés at Bryn Mawr, and she has turned
the Kirk School over to Miss Mary
Brewster Thompson, who has been as-
sistant-principal for four years.
Indian remains in New Mexico, or go
abroad to Germany and Oxford.
(The News regrets that these statistics
are incomplete.)
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Athletic Awards for.
Year Are Announced
The Athletic Association submits the
following report for the year 1930-31:
Blazer awards, 1931—College In-
signid: Baer, Frothingham, Totten.
Class Benham, Hobart,
Tatnall, H., Thompson,
Waples.
Class Blazer: Cone, Findley.
1932—College Blazer: McCully,
Watts.
Class Blazer: Engle, Field, Franchot,
Graton, Mitchell, Reinhardt, Sanborn,
Stonifigton.
1932—Class Insignia: Bernheimer,
Engle, Hardenbergh, Paxson, Ralston,
Woods, J., Woods, M., Woodward.
1933-+Class. Blazer: Bronson, Col-
lins, Harriman, Le Saulnier, . Leidy,
Longacre;~-Parker, Ullom, Torrance,
Wood.
Class Insignia: Bowditch, Collier,
Colliris, Jackson, Longacre, Reming-
‘ton.
1934—-Class Blazer: Bishop, Daniels,
Jarrett. ‘
Senior Awards.
H. S.- Adams, class blazer. :
Asher, class, blazer.
Baer, class blazer and insignia, col-
lege blazer and insignia. :
Insignia:
Thomas *
Benham, class blazer and insignia.
Blanchard, class blazer and insignia.
Burrows, class blazer and insignia.
Cone, class blazer.
Dixon, class blazer.
Doak, class blazer.
Findley, class: blazer.
Frothingham, class blazer and in-
signia, college blazer and insignia.
Hobart, class blazer and insignia.
Humphreys, class blazer.
Tatnall, class blazer and insignia.
E. S. Thomas, class blazer and in-
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* Thurston, class blazer.
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college blazer and insignia.
Turner, class blazer.
Waples, class blazer and insignia.
Varsity Teams.
Hockey: 1. w., Sanborn; 1. i, Moore;
c., Remington; r. i, Longacre; r. w.,
Totten, E.; 1. h.,. Woodward; @ h,,
Collier; r, h., Ullom; |. f., Baer, (capt.);
Rothermel; g., Thomas, E. Subs with
letters, Collins, Harriman.
Basketball: c., Baer, (capt.); s. ¢.,
Remington;.f., Totten, E.; Collier; g.,
Moore; McCully. Subs: Engle, Long-
acre.
‘Tennis: Haskell, Hardenbergh,
(capt.); Collier, Bowditch, Allen.
Swimming: Daniels, Totten, P.,,
Mitchell, M., Jarrett, Torrance, Bern-
heimer, Jackson, Bowditch, Bickell,’
Frothingham, (capt.) Sub: Landreth.
Fencing: Brice, Cone, Engle, Swiftj
(capt.); Watts, Young, —
Archery: Paxson,
Graton, Bishop.
Signed, M. FrotHincHam,— Pres.
(capt.); Foley,
Nautical Boy Flunks
Not all, the weird answers to quiz
questions are made by college or high
school students. .
Somewhere in .the navy a- bluejacket
is still drawing $36 monthly as a second-
class seaman, instead of the $54 given
one of first-class rating, as a result of
a poor grade-on an examination. he
took recently. —
Here are some of his definitions of
nautical terms the Navy Press Relations
Bureau made public:
Capstan—the commanding officer.
Gaff—ship small talk.
Scupper—a utensil used for drinking;
hence the expression a scupper of coffee.
Hatch—a_box .where eggs are. kept.
Halyafds—a nautical name for impish-
Bea a
Tiller—officer in’ charge of the payroll,
sometimes called the paying teller.
‘1 Tack—to handle the boat diplomati-
cally.
Sextant—one who officiates at funerals
at sea.
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Hilda Thomas will be abroad for the
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Continued from Page One
from India) and from all classes of
society. The college is practically of the
Strand, It is nonresidential; most of its
students live in. Bloomsbury. The work
is far more independent than it is here ;
no lectures are compulsory; there is
hardly any assigned work; examinations
are on large fields of work and come
only every two years or so. When they
do come they are an ordeal; one may
have ten ‘papers of three hours each in
one week. The tutorial system is largcly
used.
As for extracurricular activities there
are athletics and the activities of the
Students’ Union, an organization some-
thing like our Undergraduate Associa-
tion. There are tennis and netball and
swimming in town and things like track
and hockey outside the city. The Stu-
dents’ Union’ holds dances, gets speakers
every Wednesday, holds debates and a
spirited Mock Parliament. Student
branches of the political parties are an
active part of student life. Altogether
there is far more interest in politics than-
there is here.
Martha Bohme.
Martha Friedal Bohme is from Ger-
many. ~ There she~studied—in--Munich,
Vienna and Cologne. She applied to
the German Government for an exchange
scholarship to the United States because
she wished to study business administra-
tion and industrial management in this
country. She first heard of Bryn Mawr
when she heard that it had accepted her.
She likes both the College and America
immensely and will gladly stay if the
quota permits. Life is a great deal easier
here and the people are much less pessi-
mistic and reserved than in Germany,
_._.more..clfildlike.-Here—at— college excel=}
a
lent books are available and there is a
chance’ to visit big concerns regularly.
“Phese- things “arid freedom from domestic
detail facilitate study immensely.
The American College and the German
university are very different. In the
German university there is no dormitory
life. One is entirely on one’s own. There
are no restrictions on cutting classes and
there are no assignments. German uni-
versities are coeducational also. Students
come from the gymnasia at about 20 and,
if they are .to teach, study until they
are about 25. A far greater proportion
of students do graduate work in Gérmany
than in America. Although there are no
State scholarships for the gymnasia,
large :numbers go to them.__They are
much cheaper than the American Junior
College and there is free tuition for the
very. poor. The Socialists and Com-
munists give scholarships to their t papi
also.
Flora Hurst.
Flora Hurst was here last = year and
will be here next as 1esearch assistant
to Professor Kingsbury, in the Social
Economy Department. She .comes from
the University of British Columbia, which
is situated, so she says, on the “most
beautiful site for a College in America.”
“Here at Bryn Mawr,” said Miss Hurst,
“T have*leakned that I must be practical.
I have developed an ideal of living and
working such that I feel now I could
_ go almost anywhere if it was to do a
piece of work of social value. Working
in the Social Economy department has
taught me the impossibility of living in
splendid isolation. And living in the
United States has given me an apprecia-
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She missed the informality, the outdoor
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The Wniversity of British Columbia is
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organize one’s. own work than there is
here. ‘Perhaps the most pleasing thing
‘about the college is its nearness to both
city and real country.
Diederika Liesvald.
Diederika Liesvald came here from the
University of Amsterdam, in Holland;
because her major is English and she
wanted to come to an English-speaking
country. The award of a Bryn Mawr
fellowship brought her to Fo id and
to Bryn Mawr.
“Yes, 1-likebeing-here- very.- much,”
Miss Liesvald said.. Bryn Mawr because
of its dignity and its stress on work is
one of the most European of American
Colleges...For this reason it is probably
the one most easy for Europeans to
adjust themselves to. Even at Bryn
Mawr, however, America seems very dif-
ferent from Europe. The country, the
trees and ‘birds are different. The great
the
large-distances,-the--embryonic..condition |...
of socialism, the high quality of the food,
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In Holland there is no difference between
undergraduate and.graduate..student.All
university students do specialized, inde-
pendent work. There are no- seminars,
classes are cut freely, and one- decides
with one’s professor when to have an ex-
amination. The students are altogether
more independent and more mature than
they are in this country. The-first two
years at the American College are com-
parablé to the last two years of the gym-
nasia, the preparatory schools in which
studies are general, not specialized.
In “Holland one lives a simpler life
than in “America. One has less social
contacts, not so many meaningless ones.
Students at the universities.dress simply
and_more uniformly than _we-do—here;
they practically never wear elaborate eve-
ning dress as we do for Goodhart, or
very shabby clothes as we do on the
campus.
One’s contact with men and girls is
pretty well confined to people in one’s
own department, for there is no dormi-
tory life. If one is not wealthy, one
has ‘practically no social life. There
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are, however, music and theatres and all
the attractions of a big town. Education
is not a general thing.. Holland’s biggest
university has only 1700 students. The
University of Amsterdam has no campus.
work house.
and more dignified than those here. There
are few foreign studentg.and these are
mostly from Dutch colonies in -South
Africa. A number of ple are trying,
however, to get an exchange office for
foreign students.
Marthe Miskolczy.
Marthe Miskolezy (Mrs. Ernest Mis-
kolezy ) came to Bryn Mawr to-do work
in its industrial department. Coming
from thy University of Budapest, in
Hungafy, she finds Bryn Mawr “en-
tirely different.” There one attends the
gymnasium up to the age of eighteen and
then the university. The professors at
the universities are far more important
than they are here. There are less of
them and they are more experienced.
Some professors ta achieve their posi-
tions have served a twelve-year assist-
anceship without pay. Since the war
Hungary has been very poor, but the
younger students still travel about some-
what from one university. to another,
especially in Hungary. There are Gov-
ernment fellowships also to send students
to other countries. s
Mrs. Miskolezy has. enjoyed, she said,
being over here very much. After keep-
ing house and holding a number of re-
sponsible positions in Hungary, she finds
the irresponsibility of dormitory life de-
lightfully restful. She is. highly _ im-
pressed by the brilliance of the other
graduate students. She thinks that it is
a pity that there is. so little contact of
foreign fellows and undergraduates:-
Odette Thireau
“Odette Thireau_ comes. frofp. France.
where she attended the Universities of
utime, ten |
| years ago, ‘when she first saw an an-|
nouncement-of the -Bryn’Mawr féllow-—
ships she has had the idea of coming
Her major_is chemis-
She likes being. here, she says,
The French universities are very dif-
ferent from the American woman’s
college. In France one goes to the
colleges or lyceés' up to the age of
eighteen, then to a technical school. or
a part of a university. The University
It has only one old-building, formerly 4
The professors are all older.
of Paris is in five sections, Literature
and Languages,: Science, Law (which
includes the study of Economics and
Politics), Medicine, and Pharmacy.
There ‘one spends two or three years
to. get-a degree and two or three years
more to get a:doctor’s degree. One’ is
absolutely independent: One need not
go to classes. Laboratory work, how-
ever, ntust be done. Most students live
at home or at boarding houses, Out-
side of Paris there are, in addition,
special boarding places for students of
different nationalities built by *their
countries. The rooms in them are ex-
changeable; for example, a Frenchman
may exchange his room in the French
house for the room of an American in
the American house.
Much of the student fighting that
goes on in Paris is taken part in by the
students of law. Many of them ‘are
rich and royalist, dull, noisy and highly
unpopular. At one time there was a
small group of Fascists in the univer-
sity but this group has died out. Some
students ‘still feel very bitter against
the Germans. Feeling against theyEng-
lish and Americans was high when the
rate of exchange was very unfavorable
to France.. Many of them came to live
cheaply in France.
Mildred Osterhout
Flora Hurst and Mildred Osterhout
‘yare scarcely foreigners for they come
from_no: farther than Canada, where
they studied at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia. If they are foreign at
all it is not so much because they live
north of us as because they live very
far west. The contrast between their
point of view and the point of-view-of
the Europeans was very interesting,
Where the Europeans, coming from |
town universities, found us .countrified, |
they find us stuffy and suburban. -They
miss. the wildness andthe spaciousness:
of the west:
tem is “practically unknown. in Europe,
rat the - University of British Columbia
the only reason for awlack of dormi-
tories is that there have not been time
and money..enough to build them. In
the. European university, cuts “may be
freely taken but at the University. of
British Columbia cuts are only slightly
freer than at Bryn Mawr. -Both the
‘European university and the Univer-
sity of British Columbia, however, are
co-educational and both are poorer
than Bryn Mawr.:
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While the dormitory_sys~
Miss Osterhout, like Miss Hurst, is
working in the social economy depart-
ment. She came here, after six years
of teaching, “for a ‘change and. for
background.” “Being a progressive,”
she says, “I wanted to discover the
value of the past on which the future
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Being at Radnor has given
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approachés to a realization of life”’ In
Radnor and in her contact with colleges
she has. visited she has found European
culture. and “an international atmos-
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Whére the West is free and experi-
mented the East is bound by tradition
and “set in its ways.” The extremes
of wealth and poverty: here in the
East, Miss Osterhout finds “appatting.
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formal: and less
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West. The people are more reserved
but they also have more superficial
social contacts, In the West it is pos-
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nature and there is “a deeper searching
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Miss Osterhout, as did every other stu-°
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Alumnae Luncheon
Is Great Success
Theatre Is Topic of After-
Dinner Speeches by Well-
Known Alumnae.
MISS PARK IS SPEAKER
The Gymnasium Saturday was the
scene of the’ Alumnae Luncheon,
which Miss . Theresa . Helburn,
manager of the Theatre Guild;
_ Margaret Ayres Barnes, '07, author of
the Pulitzer -Prizewinner, “Years of
Grace”; Mrs. -Conger and Miss Ethel
Chouteau Dyer, '31, spoke, The general
topic of the speeches was the theatre,
frorh the point of view of the producer,
the novelist, the layman and the
undergraduate actress and producer.
Theresa"Helburn, ’08
Although Miss Helburn declared
that she had not come back to talk
about. the theatre, but for reunion, and
with the sneaking hope of some tennis,
she related a number of amusing anec-
dotes.and- incidents of the profession,
and discussed several of the problems
which face the. theatre today.
One of the most grave dangers. is
connected with sending companies on
tour. It is interesting to find out the
varied fand_ individual reactions of
audiences in different. cities, especially
in those where the New York press
comments have not reached them, but
the. legitimate theatre by expanding
at
08,
Mrs.
thus is taking money. away from the}
motion picture industry, and it is
almost impossible to get road booking. |
The censorship problem has not
abated, but has increaged since th
——“encroachment of the *movies.’ Where-
as the theatre used to be the prime
amusement interest, it is now only
second~or- third. It is not” possible to
wipe it out, but a certain field can
and must be kept. for its own. The
pictures are produced for the masses,
and standardized down to the mass
‘mind; consequently, censorship is
necessary. The theatre, on the other
hand, is growing smaller, ‘and there
will soon be two kinds: The adjunct
to the motion picture, as publicity, and
the theatre for the intelligent. Most
successful plays are now of sonie merit,
but the .“high-brow” films are-only-a
gesture, and do not play i the small
towns. :
The motion pictures cannot touch
ideas or satire, it is “just the human
love story that counts.” In. the
“Theatre of Ideas and Free Thought”
it is to be hoped'that politics will come
back, and that musical satire and
burlesque will occupy a higher place
‘than they do now. As to the possibility
of acting as an art, there is not now
much of an art of acting. The audience
is not.so interested in that as it is in
the projection of. personality, and the
type of casting developed is bad for
acting as an-art..
Ethel Dyer, ’31
Miss’ Dyer spokt next’ on the work
in dramatics which the College has
been doing in the past four years, and
declared that it may be marked dis-
tinctly off from the old by the posses-
sion of Goodhart, which allows for
bigger and more audiences, and for
more ambitious undertakings. She also
paid tribute to Barrett Clarke, who
gave
Bellaires was. the first effort of
weight, but was, Miss Dyer confesses,
“an absolute’ flop,” its . sparse. and
meagre comedy filled in only by the
usual sort -of amateuf. accidenta
smouldering cigarette, which started a
blaze put out by a gloomy understudy
with Lily, cups.
_ The spring of {928-20 ctr .doogs were,
.@ffigially opened to young mep imMWita-
tions to collaborate were sent Ao Prince-
ton, and a new interest in ‘dramatics
sprouted all over the campus. It was
decided this time to do something more
dependable, and “The Admirable Crich-
ton” was given with great success be-
fore a_packed house.
rs.
All scenery was desigped and. executed
by the undergraduates. _
This year “The Devil’s Disciple” was
given with Haverford, and though it does
not ‘reflect tipon them, it was .another
flop,-but- in. the-spring,-“The- Enchanted.
April” was given with more sutcess.
May Day next year will, of course,
swamp dramatics of this sort; but the
college is becoming’ more theatrically
minded, and though we cannot do any-
thing so much as. building and giving
Goodhart, we can continue to contribute
in a way worthy of.tpe Alumnae.
Margaret Ayres Barnes, ’07.
Mrs. Conger, as a layman, related
amusingly the trials and tribulations of
procuring seats to see a performance,
and Mrs. Barnes next described the
novelist’s experience with the theatre
and the vicissitudes of peddling manu-
scripts on Broadway. She began writ-
ing plays very casually by trying to
dramatize “The Age of Innocence” as
an exercise in dialogue and-with no
experience beyond that obtained in a
course in Elizabethan Drama in Bryn
Mawr.
Producing takes a great deal of time,
as well as “peddling to the Broadway
Boys,” and during rehearsals, Mrs.
Barnes always’ stayed in New York at
the “virginal retreat” of the Bryn
Mawr Club. “Play producing,” said
Mrs. Barnes, “made me want to write
a book, for playwriting is never en-
tirely your own affair. The theatre,
however, is. a valuable experience;
everything is emergency work, and it
is the best training in the world. Also,
every.sentence that can should be cut
in a play and ideally in a novel. I
believe,” concluded Mrs. Barnes, “in
writing what you want to write, but
/after it is off the PEW artery “in be=|
amine a business..woman.’
Miss Park.
Miss Park, to the distress of the
: A
Alumnae, spoke only a few words, say-
ing that she had “nothing to- say about
education or raising money, or any
other of thé problems, but, as in Mrs.
oF &
Barnés’ ‘Years of Grace,’ she would be
‘beautiful,.a:smart girl, but dumb,’ ”
B. A.’s Conferred on
72 in Class of 1931
Continued from-Page One
with distinction in English.
Miriam Frances Hyman.
Robin Kreutzberg, with distinction
in English, :
Margaret Lee McKelvy.
Margaret Ould Nuckols.
Mary Oakford.
Dorothy Pizor, cum laude, with dis-
tinction in. English.
Virginia: Florence Shryock, with dis-
tinction in English.
Hilda Vall—Spinosa Thomas,
Lois Mather Ghurston.
Marion Humes Turner, with distine-
tion in English.
French
»
Louise Howland, cum laude.
Ann Stockton Humrichouse.
Marianna Duncan © Jenkins,
laude with distinction in French.
Mary Elizabeth Johnston.
Ann-Marie Kennedy.
Anne Kirkham Lord.
Gertrude Pacton Macatee; niagna
cum laude, with distinction in French.
Sylvia Moss Markley, magna cum
laude, with distinction in French.
Mignon Sherley.
Katherine Lenn Sixt.
Virginia Everett Smith.
_Evelyn Alsworth Waples.
ti.
PS HeeHia Syivie- Zeben, ‘cunt laude.
Greek,
cum
Mary Graham Webster.
Mary Eliot Frothingham, cum laude.
History
Elizabeth Baer.
Mary Bertolet.
Marie Coffman Dixon, cum laude.
Elizabeth Doak, cum. laude. *
Ethel Chouteau_ Dyer.
Elizabeth Purviance Gow, cum laude.
Frances Swift Tatnall, magna cum
laude, with distinction in History.
Blanche Worthington, magna cum
laude with distinction in History.
History of Art
Elizabeth Bradford Fetter.
Elizabeth Mary Mongan with dis-
tinction in History of Art.
Betty Thomson Overton;
Sydney. Buchanan Sullivan.
Dorothy Miller hae? aces
Latin
Marion Elizabeth Bailey, magna cum
laude with distinction in Latin,
Anne Morris Cole with distinction in
Latin.
Elinor Alice Totten.
Physics
Margaret Ruth Uangst, cum daude.
Politics
Julia Wheeler Harris.
Clara Dorothea Jenkins, magna cum
Jaude with distinction in Politics.
Esther Evans Thomas.
Psychology —* are
Alwine Jane Moore. —
Margaret Bride Scott,
laude.
‘The degree of Master of Arts was
awarded to:
Elizabeth Conrad Allen, Norristown,
Pa.; Faith Baldwin, Hinesburg, Vt.;
Ruth Baymiller, Buhl, Idaho; Dorothy
Anne Buchanan;--GlenRidge, N. J.;
Julia Cincottii.New York City; Mar-
garet Mary ‘Cook, Reading, Pa.; Mir-
iam —Fasster, Brooklyn,_N.-¥;—Eliza-
beth_ Goebel, Fort. Wayne, Ind.;--Char-
lote Elizabeth Goodfellow, Coatesville,
Pa.; Flora Elizabeth Hurst, Vancou-
magna cum.
vee B, C.; Agnes Kirsopp Lake, Cam-
bridge, Mass.; Honor Cecilia McCus-
ker, Providence, R. L.; Dorothy
Kathryn Miller, Bound Brook, N. J.;
Marthe A; -C.-Miskolezy;
Anne Lea. Nicholson, _Moorestown,
N. J.; Olive Stafford: Niles,
ton,
Hungary}
Benning-
Vt.; Ruth Margaret Peters, New
Pa.3 ry
Oskaloosa, Ia.; Marie Hd
Schneiders, New York: ‘City;
Georgia Stafford, Lancaster, Pa.; Mar-
jorie Ann Stuff, Lincoln, Neb.; Dor-
othy Ethel Thompson, of Bridgeville,
*Pa.;. Elizabeth. Braddock Weber,
Bridgeton, N. J.; Mrs. Roger Hewes
Wells, of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Allegra
Woodworth, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy
was conferred‘ upon:
Dorothy Burr, Louise Kingsley, of
Binghamton, N. Y.; Rosamond: Tuve,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Lawrence
Doolittle; Springfield, Mass.
Certificates in the Carola Woeris-
hoffer Graduate Department of Social
Economy and#Social. Research:
Two-Year Certificate
Elizabeth Ross Foley, Hamilton,
N. Y.; Flora Elizabeth Hurst, Van-
couver, B..C.; Rosalie Williams, Berke-
ley, Calif.
One-Year Certificate
Friedal Bohme, Dresden-Neust, Ger-
many; Anne McGarry, Laddonia, Mo.;
Mildred Osterhout, Vancouver, B. C.;
Charleta Taylor, Lombard, IIl.; Helen
Potter Trent, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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an endowment of Mrs. Mary Louise
Curtis Bok. The first undertaking was
in connection’ with the settlement Music
School, where music. was taught as a
means of welding nationalities. But Mrs.
Bok had observed that often students
were obliged to drop out because of lack
of time or money to prepare themselves
fully.
And ‘so she conceived the idea. ” a
national school of Music, where the only
qualifications would be merit. The Curtis
Institute, whose endowment is .now
$12,500,000, given entirely by Mrs. Bok,
trains those who are greatly gifted, and
every student is a scholarship holder ; the
tuition is free, and, moreover, financial
aid is given if. needed.
We were“especially interested to know
how the students are selected. Dean Spof-
ford told us that from the filling. in of the
information blanks by the applicants, a
certain ‘number of them are chosen for
hearing; when they will have to take an
examination, .for those. who play the
piano for instance, the requirements are
a three-part invention or a prelude and
@ fugue from the well-tempered
Clavichord; a Beethoven sonata com-
two selections—one slow and one
' brilliant—from the’ works of Chopin
(preferably) or Schumann.
_ Evidence-of-talent,-rather than degree
of advancement, determines the final de-
cision as to the suitability of a student.
By competitive elimination, those are
chosen whose natural musical talent gives
promise of ‘development ‘toa poift of
Since achievement
degrees or diplomas and the number of
vacancies Naries each year, the time spent
at the institute being relative, ta eagh-stu=]
dent. gee
There is an age limit iwc varies ac-
cording to the subject, as for: example,
‘twenty for the piano, and thirty for the
viola. There seems, however, to be none
in the other direction. Some of the stu-
dents are as young as_nine, for in special
cases the State allows children to be
taken out. of school, since the institute
gives the equivalent of that education.
And with the older students, their train-
ing is by no means limited to one subject.
All major work has supplementary
courses and some academic work, while
the nine-year olds are learning reading,
writing, and arithmetic, their older con-
fereres may be taking courses in English
literature, languages, history, science, or
“psychology, as a general background for
their musical work. The student of sing-
ing, for example, in addition to vocal les-
sons and supplementary piano, takes
solpege or harmony, three hours a week;
diction, taught by Mr. Samuel Arthur
King, three hours; English, one hour;
French, two hours; German or Italian,
two hdurs, and one hour of an academic
subject.
It is also a part of the student’s edu-
cation to attend concerts of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, operas and other
musical performances.
We were shown a very fine library,
tion to the twenty-five concerts, a season
‘in Casimir Hall, the concert auditorium
of the instittue, others are given before
clubs, civic organizations, and colleges,
as, we know from experience. Last year
in eighteen performances by the Philadel-
phia Opera Company, twenty-four of the
solo parts were taken by students of the
institute who filled no less than ninety
roles of varied importance. There are
20 radio programs during the school
year, and a series of five chamber music
concerts is given free of charge at the
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, where five
thousand people have been known to at-
tend.
The greater part of the teaching Dean
Spofford said is in the form of individual
lessons: The faculty .is composed. of
artists of renown, for they find no ob-
jection to teaching in a school where the
payment of a fee is not a consideration.
| Joseph Hofmann, who is the director of
the institute,. also. heads the piano de-
partment. Mme. Marcella Sembrick,
Efrem Zimbalist, Emilio de Gogorza,
Felix Salmond, Carlos Salzedo, and
Rosario Scalero are some of the other
noted musicians who make up the faculty.
Fritz Reiner will take Emil Mlynarski’s
place as the director of the orchestra for
the next year, and Germani will replace
Lynwood Farnham, who was _ probably
the greatest Bach organist of the world.
His death isa loss not Si to be re-
paired.
Among the 250 students of. the insti-
tute, thirty-eight States are represented
and ten foreign countries. Yet, despite the
yarying personalities and the individual
instruction necessitated by these, there
‘seems to be singleness of purpose and
zeal for-study- which “makes one reflect
upon the value of an organization such
as the Curtis Institute. The choosing of
students-for their ability alone promotes
a seriousness. _of _purpese-and=an venjoy=
rfrent of their studies which can be
equalled it in: 1 nio-othier Way
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Mrs. Barnes Urges
Creation By Youth
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Continued from Page One
only self-supporting can afford to make
good in her. awn way and to insist]
that her wishes'be observed. This, of
course, is evened up on the whole by
the fact that men make greater suc-
cesses, financially) and otherwise, in
most cases. “The only place in the
world,”. was Mrs. Barnes’ conclusion,
“where there is perfect equality of the
sexes is not on the campus of a wom-
an’s college but in the théater. There
a woman star is as good as a man. In
the managing end a woman’s opinion
gets as much deference as a man’s.
This is true in spite of the impression
one is given that sex is predominant
in the theater.”
Mrs. Barnes has just finished an-
other novel called “Westward Pas-
sage,” in which the entire action takes
place in a single week, The seven
chapters are each nafmed for a day of
the week. The handling of the time
element, in contrast to the life-span of
“Years of Grace,” has been especially
_and__being allowed to_.go through. the+fiterestingto..Mrs...Barnes,and—she
streets, were atnazed at the great num-
bers of source-book and scores, all
ordered in the most convenient fashion
possible. We learned that the students
are still further equipped by the loan of
instruments which the institute possesses :
as, for example, a Stradivarius,
to the best students.
It seems that in every way the insti-
tute provides a full life for the studetits,
socially as well as academically, for
virtually they live there. In the restaurant
at lunch time they have the opportunity
to meet their professors informally, and
Mr. Zimbalist among others, can often
be at a table with half a dozen violin
students; it is the time “to talk of-many
is lent
gs things”.
Actually, the students live within easy
—~ distance” of the —schootand the manage- |
ment seeks to provide wholesome ac-
commodations, according to individual
needs and means. The health of the stu-
dents is carefully watched by the consult-
ing physician. There are ' classes in danc-
themselves: of the ‘Y. M. sok “A> ‘for ex-
plish because of the necessity for com-
pression. She prefers the novel of a
life, and has about twenty-five favorite
books of this type which she rereads
constantly in order to improve her own
technique in the novel. Tolstoy’s
“War..and Peace,” Bennett’s “Old
Wive's Tale” and Henry James’ works
are included in this group of favorites.
Mrs. ‘Barnes is'a great admirer of Er-
nest Hemingway and considers Willa
Cather the best writer in America to-
day. :
Mrs. Barnes laid emphasis on the
luck she “has had and on the encour-
agement lrer husband and three+sons’
“have given her. When reporters were
clamoring for a statement after the
award had -been announced, her hus-
band suggested’ that she say, in the
words’ of Rear-Admiral Byrd after
reaching the South Pole, “I could not
considers it a harder thing to accom- |
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have done this without my men.”
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Dr. Johnston Urges
Sin Bé Remitted
Continued from Page One
condition is not the result of an. individ-
ual, but of corporate conduct. Our busi-
ness then, is to remove corporate sins,
which have résulted.
Virtue is impossible in some places,
in parts of our city life, for example.
Brotherhood also is impossible “if there
is always in the foreground an appeal to
force.” Disease and “injustice are: also
sins, as is poverty, where it retards de-
velopment and narrows. Ignorance and
prejudice, too, are corrupting and blight-
ing.
And so we, who have received in-
tellectual and spiritual baptism here, have
a duty ;-we must be-co-redeemers of the
world; we must go out and remove these
evils. We must go out into slums, into
schools and colleges, into State, into dark
places, to China, if we will, to Europe,
bringing comfort, and to the vast spaces
of Amierica driving out our “superficial
sentimentality.’ to remit or retain sins.
The. service was, as usual, a very im-
pressive one. The academic procession
was distinguished by many_— different
tokens of leartiing in varied styles and
colors.
The choir is to be ‘wales upon
the selection and finished execution of a
chorale from the cantata, “Jesu nahm zu
sich die Zwolfe’ and “How Lovely Is
Thy Dwelling Place,” from the Brahms’
“Requiem,” ~and ~~ Palestrina’s © “Gloria
Patri.” It was under the direction of Mr.
Willoughby, who also conducted the or-
chestra, which; besides accompanying the
singing, “provided a_very. fine _preludé to.
‘the -service- with. its interpretation” Of ay
Prelude .by* Liadow, a Handel Minuet
“Cirom “Berenice” ~and-a~ Bach—Sara-}-
bande.
Interview From: Miss
Kingbury on Council
Continued from Page One
politics, economics and so on. Such sub-
jects as the effect of prohibition and
alcohol on amusements, juvenile delinq-
uency, crime, et cetera, will probably
be studied.
The Council has no time limit to its
work. It will probably hold only afew
meetings through the year. It is not, as
the News incorrectly stated in its last
issue, a council to do research, but rather
one to co-ordinate and perhaps supervise
it. The other colleges and universities
besides Bryn Mawr represented on the
Council are- Harvard, Columbia, Prince-
ton, the University of Michigan, Louisi-
ana State University, Western Reserve
University, Stanford -University, the
University of Pennsylvania and _ the
University of California. bac
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Dean Spofford said that last year cight
students were accepted for the Philadel-
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many others’ achieve success in their re-
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Interview with Miss Helburn
Continued from Page, One
.is very frivolous.” But the gleam in
she said it.
After Miss Helburn’s. graduation, she
studied at Harvard for awhile, although
she had not completely recovered from
the effects of the breakdown. Later she
started doing work, in drama and poetry,
but discovered that it was too easy. Im-
mediately she cut it out and began writ-
ing plays. -In 1919 she began her con-
nection with the embryonic
Guild, on what she expected to be a
temporary job, in what was supposed to
be an advisory capacity. A crisis came
in the managing end, and Miss Helburn
rushed into the breach. She has _ held
her commanding position: ever since, and
has written no more plays, although orfe
which she finished the day before taking
with Alice Brady as the star.
Miss Helburn, although unfamiliar
with the dramatic work which has “been
done at Bryn: Mawr, finds. the greatest
value of college dramatics in the fact
that they create intelligent audiences who
are capable of appreciating the technical
problems of the stage. Interest in the
drama_must _be_stimulated,.because. the}
movies have done so much to close the
theaters of the-small towns to legitimate
productions, For this reason the majority
of people are losing contact with the stage
and an aristocracy of the theater is grow-
ing up. Miss Helburn believes that
New York is the greatest producing
center im’ the world.- Much of the‘stimu=
lation which the drama feels there she
attributes , to the fact that the large for-
eign eleiment in the audiences take the
European: attitude toward. the theater,—in
which because it is a part of their edu-
cation and a. part of their lives, they are
interested because
“T would be willing to have the theater
and the. movies wiped oft completely for
a generation. People would inevitably
come to the art of drama again, and it
would gain .more vitality by the rest.”
Miss Helburn has, by the energy and
intelligence which she brings to every-
Miss Helburn’s eye was a giveaway as
Theater”
the Guild job has since been produced y
the mental content. |
thing she does and says, done much to
give vitality to the theater again.
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versities in the United States are served
by daily papers, issued and controlled by
students.. Sixty colleges have papers
which are issued twice or three times
a week, while more than four hundred
are served by weeklies, sccording to a
recent survey. Nop
The thirty-eight college dailies claim a
circulation of one. hundred and eighty-two
thousand four hundred and seventeen or °
an average of four thousand eight hun-
dred copies each, but this means little
as two have circulations of less than a
thousand, and one: distributes as many
as fifteen thousand. The dailies are pub-
lished mainly at institutions having large
enrollments, although “three colleges
maintaining dailies have less than two
thousand students. The only girls’ col-
lege to be served by a daily is Radcliffe.
In the East the general size is from
four to eight pages, while in the Mid-
West and West the average number of.
pages is greater. Many of the dailies
use some kind of wire service, even
though it be only a pony service. On
the other hand, there.are—rhany “dailies
which “devote “their columns solely to
campus affairs. ,
Practically every daily, as is true of the
less frequently issued college publications,
affords some financial compensation to |
one or more members of the staff. In
general the compensation of the dailies
takes the form of salaries,
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