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VOL. XVI, NO. 16

Medieval Jewish :
Philosophy Traced



‘Husik Reveals Complex Move-|

ments and Also
Origins.
GREEK INFLUENCE GREAT



Dr. Isaac Husik spoke on ‘Mediaeval
in “the Commons
Room, Tuesday evening, March 4.

The ..subject is avery large one.
Only. part of mediaeval philosophy in
general. There were three philosophies
in the Middle Ages, as a matter < of fact,
which were parallel and we read about
them in three languages: Those were the
Latin, the Arabic and. the Hebrew, and
they were correspondingly Mohammeden-
ism, and Jewish philosophy.

What are the characteristics of me-
diaeval philosophy? Treat” it histor-
ically. One characteristic which: differen-
tiates. mediaeval philosophy generally
from ancient and modern philosophy is
an epistemological dualism. The ‘ancient
philosopher knew apparently in the. clas-
sical period of only one source of truth
—within himself: sensation, perception,
logical, inference or intuition. But all
those depend upon the individual him-



BRYN MAWR (AND W: WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930

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Flower Humanizes :
7 * ~ Shakespeare



learned point of view, Sir Archibald
Flower, chairman of the Board of Gov-
ernors of the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre, believes,
peare unpopular, that we must try, to
pull him from his pedestal, and realize
what a very human being he was. Sir
Archibald F lower gave a talk on
Shakespeare in Taylor Hall, Wednes-.
day morning at 9:45. It was Sir Arch-.
ibald’s own experience as a school boy:
to have been bored ‘and puzzled over’
Shakespeare,/ but when. coming back
to his*native town‘of -Avon.he got the,
.chance..to. see. the, plays. well-acted,;, he
begat to ‘realize much more about.
Shakespeare. Shakespeare was: “de-
voted to the countryside, ‘and what was
particularly pleasant to-an English boy,
devoted to horses. In his famous de-
scription of a horse not a single salient
point is missed; no one: but a consum-
mate judge of a horse could have writ-
tén it. No matter what you are going
to do, if you get to know Shakespeare
better, he will help you. Shakespeare
has so crept into our language : that
people do not know when they are

So miuch has been done. by the!

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Victorianism

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Present Mechanical
> Literature.



INSPIRATION LACKING



“A general survey of the books being
written today does not reveal a very
inspiring whole,” said Mrs. Margaret
Fleisher Sloss, executive secretary of

first of a series of talks on the “Litera-
ture of the Machine Age” given in the
Commons Room on. Wednesday after-
noon, March 5. “They.show deftness
of execution’ and éXcéllent craftsnian-
ship; combined with an obvious’ lack
of inspiration. Among the finer books
under the head of biography might be
put. Fay’s. “Franklin”,
“King. Spider.”
tion of books about the war ‘could be

listed Aldington’s “Death of a Hero,”

and... Lewis’

the Foreign Policy Association, in the.

Under...the.classifica-+-

PRICE, 10 CENTS





Memorial Service Held
For William H. Taft
A service in memory of former Pres-
ident Taft was held in Goodhart audi-

torium, Tuesday morning, March 11.
It was lead by Professor Rufus Jones,



|president of the board of directors.

The service was opened by the hymn

an arrahgement..of ‘the Twenty-third
Psalm, sung by the choir. Professor
Jones read a passage from Ecclesiasti-
cus, “Praise of Famous Men,” in in-
troduction to. his address. . President
Emeritus M. Carey Thomas attended the
service. ,

“Tt is. most fitting ‘that we at Bryn
Mawr should meet to show our rev-
erence and respect for the memory and
the life of ex-President Taft.

“Next to his own beloved Alma
Mater at New Haven,.I think he loved
this ‘institution best. He chose it for
his daughter, and so learned. to. know it
intimately. ~
as President he came here to give one
of the most inspiring commencement

quoting. and “A Farewell’to Arms.” _ Dividing | 44dresses in — history, and he has
The interesting problem is: how did|other fiction into two classes, the Se te a — Shakespeare always come to say the “Sophisticates” and _ the Sensitives,” iteod te es ee
He was ’ lof the college during these later years.



existence. -And, I imagine, the modern,
philosopher has ‘the sameé notion: ~"On
the basis of experience, or experimental,
or logical inference, they believe truth
is ‘derived. But, .in--the--first—place, I
do not know whether mysticism is classed
as modern philosophy: or not. But me-
diaeval philosophers, whether Jews,
Christians or Mohanimedans, always in-
sisted upon two sole sources of truth:
the source residing in the individual him-
self, and the external source that’comes
from without in an authoritative manner,
and that is revelation.

Hence, in seeking the origin of the
mediaeval point of view in matters philo-
sophic, it is well to go back to the place
where matters’ began to be treated in
that way. That place is. Alexandria in
the second century, B. C. It-is not a
mediaeval origin at all, but you find the
mediaeval point of view beginning right
there.

If you have got twa sources of truth
you cannot just keep, them apart.
might conflict. So which comes first?

Does reason come first? Does revela-
tion come first? Reason says: The
world is eternal. Revelation says: The.
_-world was created in six days. The

solution they all gave to this problem.

~in the Middle Ages” is “about “the same.

_ are embodied in sacred writings.

It is.a very optimistic one. Inasmuch as
both sources are valid, they can’t con-
flict, and, therefore, do not. But, ap-
parently, they do conflict. The world
was created in six days Vs. the world is
-eternal. “There is the conflict. What’

are you going to do about it? The solu-

tion was that. these conflicts are only
apparent. So that if you are absolutely
certain about your reasoning, if you
can’t possibly suspect any error or fal-
lacy in your reasoning,’ then you must
“go to the documents of revelation which
They
are always open to interpretation. There-
fore, if you are quite certain about. your
reason, what you do then is to go to
your documents on revelation and see if
you cannot interpret them in a “way
‘which will agree with reason.

If that were impogsible and the docu-
‘ments of revelation were absolutely cer-
tain and you can not -interpret them
away, then ‘the alternative was to go,
‘back to your Reason and see ‘if .what,
_-you thought was the demand of Reason,
cannot be interpreted in another way.

This solution of the problem was com-
mon to all the three philosophies of
Middle Ages.

They |

Tight thing in the Tight way?

but he was fortunate itr getting a very
good education—some people deny this
but denial is nonsense. The same old
school was, up: to a few years ago, ade-
quate for the needs of Stratford; the
boys are learning their lessons in ex-
actly the room as those of three hun-
dred years ago. Shakespeare is often
thought of as a ready-made poet; one
should try? and vizualize him as a
schoolboy—an attractive boy, thickset,
not very tall, with auburn hair and

|hazel eyes, full of fun and chaffing

everybody. Shakespeare was prob-
ably thinking of himself when he wrote
“the schoolboy, with shining morning
face, creeping like snail, unwillingly to
school.” But Shakespeare ‘made use

learn Latin, and French, and had some
very good masters—the headmaster at
the Stratford school was paid ‘more
than the headmaster at Eton.
Shakespeare had the power of draw-
ing nations together; the world agrees
only in ad tion of Shakespeare, no
matter what creed or nation. How
does it happen? His father was mayor
of Stratford, and when players visited,
the town a private performance was.
given before the mayor-and the alder-
men to pay a compliment to the patron
of the troupe. We can picture William
as a boy. of six coming to see the
players; we can picture him thinking, |

las he grew older, “I could have done,

something. better,” and so in his boy-
hood the first germ of playwriting.
came into his mind. When he grew up
he entered his father’s business: and

Continued on Foge Five

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| Rosemont Victorious

Over Varsity



On Saturday, March 9, the Varsity
basketball--téam was disastrously de-.
feated; 41 to 19, by Rosemont. Even
excluding the star forwards,’“who
could elude any guards, Rosemont’s
team far surpassed Bryn Mawr _ in|
every respect. Their centers regularly

got the jump and forwarded the ball,
and their guards messed the passing
and_ shooting of Engle and Totten.
whenever the ball strayed to Bebooke at:
end.

Outplayed:a as Varsity was, ~ thelt poor
passing was particularly glaring. The
zi across center frequently re-

of his opportunities; he was able to,

Maurois’ “Atmosphere of, Love,” un-
der the se¢ond “Wolf Solent.” There
are three pre-eminent authors, Thomas

Mann, D. Ho Lawrence and Marcel

Proust; ariciae perceptions are ex-

tremely sensitive and who, with the

world as their onion, peel off layer

after layer of sensations not ordinarily
apprehended. These men may be
called the international ambassadors
of the mind of man—others are the
authors of contemporary literature.

. Contemporary must be taken in its
modern sense as dealing with things
spanning very little more than a week,
since everything is. now jazzed up.
Literature, as-Carlyle said, is not alone
a report of past civilizations but also

new world is
First there

The literature of the
affected by three things.

| is the war, which created in the mind
of those who took part a sense of.

futility and a loss of ‘authority and self-
esteem. The past and future are not
important, only ‘the. present, counts;
since there is no planning ahead, the
result is a flat literature with no depth
of perspective. Such a book is “A
Farewell to Arms.’ Then there is the
influence of Dr. Freud and the psycho-
analysts; The point of view of analysis
has penetrated literature with ifs sense
of -an unconscious life rgsponsible for
many conscious acts...This is best il-
lustrated in. the works-of May Sin-
clair and Rebecca West. Finally we
are living in a new scientific world.
EinStein’s phrase, “the crumbling. of
$pace,” represents this new world with

"| time accelerated and. distance elimi-|’
Vnated.. There has. been a change in the.
fundamental. substance of the world.

from the politely inert world mass of
the Victorian school. Now the world

S. Eddington in his stimulating “The
Nature of the Physical World” makes
very ‘clear, giving a sense of the size
and speed of the universe.

We are. living. in» ax. sastinalestty>

board the ideals and hypocracies of the
past. Smartness is our. new idéal in

stituted for curves. European stand-
ards of sophistication have been
brought here” ‘and altered to machine-
made; we have accepted imperturb-
ability and _hardboiledness, speed and

one. might include “under the. first class|_

a sensitized ‘record of our own times.

is a seething mass of electrons,.as A.

minded world which -has throwr-over-|-

place of beauty, angles have been sub-|-.

in the United States. He has held the
two highest and most responsible of-
fices this nation has to offer, and he
is the only person who has ever held
them both.

“He was the champion of many
great causes. Besides his great serv-
ices to the nation at home and abroad,
he was a noble and a notable citizen.
He has always had a sense of honor,
a brave wisdom of sincerity, a spirit of
fidelity and rugged honesty. His char-
acter was unsullied and his name is
untouched by any suspicion of low mo-
tives. His. whole ‘public career has
been marked by unselfish devotion, un-
wearied devotion, unwearied industry
and purity of purpose. . There was a
unique quality of distinction to his

imous disinterestedness.

“He has borne a clear testimony that
truth is the highest thing a man may
keep. He has been tender and sensi-
tive for the rights and privileges of
the most humble ‘persons in the land.
He has been, with all his other distinc-
tions, one of the foremost. American
leaders of ‘education for colored people.
One can imagine what is> happening
this morning at Hampton Institute.

“None of us who knew him can ever
forget his humor. No other President,

fund of it. His smile, his chuckle and
his radiance were an inherent part of
his, personality.

“I should. like to—apprdpriate for
him the words that George Fox used
for one of his noblest friends: ‘He was
faithful to God, and the immortal seed
of life is his crown.’”



Calendar

Sunday evening, March 16: Mus-
ical service of the Bryn Mawr
League,

Monday. evening, March 17: The
Graduate Club of Bryn Mawr
will give Barrie’s one-act play, —

. Shall. We Join. the. Ladies? in.

’ Goodhart Hall, at 8:20,

_ Tuesday evening, March 18—

_ The Dance Club and the danc-
ing classes of the undergradu-
ates will’ give a recital. of nat-

.. ural dancing in the gymnasium |
at 8:15.

| Wednesday afternoon, March 19:







Where do you find that in that par-
ticular form, in the past? . ‘Not in Greek

philosophy or in the Stojcs, but in, Alex-
andi eee



side center and showed
although |

sulted in loss rather than gain, and the
forwards did much of their playing’ on,
top ‘of each other. The only: glimmer,
of hope appeared in Remington, who
}} executed occasional pretty~ Plays as}

her ‘efforts to “divert
mont were as futile’



impersonality, as our ideals. It is in-

adora Duncan’s “My Life.” Perhaps
that “‘fiterature had-some.effect on. our |

teresting to compare the .bést' sellers.|.
of 1914, among which were “Stella |.
Maris” and “Pollyana” with last year’s |.
best sellers, “The Bridge of San Luis}
Rey, ” “Point and. Counterpoint” and Is-|-



Mrs. Margaret Fleisher Sloss
will give the second of -her
series .of talks on contempo-
rary litergture in. the Commons
Room. The subject. of this:talk
‘will be. “The .Sophisticates” ;
‘tea will be served: befor¢ the -
_ talk, at.4: 15, in. oe: Commons
“Room. ~



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“O God, our Help in Ages Past,” and].

In the’ midst’ of his duties

“He -was,-l think, the-_best loved man4

patriotism, and his long service to the|
}country was characterized by magnan-

except” Lincoln, has had~ such~a-rich|—



~}- | ehaosing. one’s Major. _



Sandburg’s Rhythms
Delight Audience

Culture Is the Conception of
What' Is Worth Seeing
_and Listening To.





SINGS | FROM SONGBAG

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On Tiel evening, March 10, inthe
Auditorium of Goodhart Hall, Miss Don-
nelly, as the head of the English De-
partment, introduced Carl Sandburg, the
speaker on ‘the Ann Elizabeth Sheble
Memorial Lectureship in English Lit-
erature. To thdse with the rough chal-
lenge of Onion Days and Clean C urtains
twanging in their ears, the quiet dignity
and fine humour of Mr. Sandburg were
a pleasant surprise. Where an apostle
of the masses had been expected, startling
us out of our placid after-dinner content
with crude jargon of the stockyards, we
found a man acutely sensitive to the fin-
est subtleties of feeling and sound, “en-



Veloping his work with the rhythms and_.

cadences of a rich musical voice.

Previous to his readings, Mr. Sand-
burg, referring to the. cfiticism evoked
by his innovations in verse form and con-
text, discussed the matter of personal
taste in art. If we fail to respond to a
work of art, it is probablybecause—it—is

not for-us.__No-one-person-ean-hepe-dur-——

ing his life time to. put himself in “syin-
pathy with all the works of art,
should he-strive for this:
masterpieces,
and shadow,” and springing from pro-
found experience,- should be known and
communed with until their depths be-
come -a part of us.

Here we touch the problem of “What
is art?” and the afiswer lies in the reply-
ing to two simple questions, “What is
worth seeing?” and “What is worth lis-
tening to?” The: reply for any one

nation or people is the key to its cul-
ture.

mentals of action.

nor
Three or four

A war arises not

“shot through with light

And culture involves the funda-.

chiefly from economic unrest, but rather _

from deep-rooted differences in culture.
The Civil War, our “intestinal struggle,”
resulted from the firm convictions: of
“the gentlemen of Massachusetts and the
gentlemen of Virginia” of the superiority
of their respective cultures. Culture,
the conception of “What is worth see-
ing?” and “What is warth listening to?”
is the basic factor operating in_ strife

‘at all times. :

This same” force is working’. today.
* Continiied on Page Six

Miss Carey Tells
of New Senate Rule

(Submitted in News competition:
Slight changes in the standard of work
for the future were discussed by Miss



‘Carey in Chapel, Tuesday, March 4, In

the first place people taking condition
or deferred examinations may be ex-
cused from quizzes and laboratory work
during the week of the examinations.
Arrangements may ~be made with the
Instructor to make up this work.

The most important change concerned
double failures and the ‘merit rule in
connection with Major work. If a stu-
dent has more than five hours of double
failure and can not offer enough hours
of advanced standing to make them up,

or if an extra semester would be neces- _

sary to average one hundred and. twenty«

hours, she. is liable to:-expulsion. This
rule, which will be put into effect this
spring if need be, is quite just, as so
many people are trying to come in that
the college does not want ae
poor people.

Two years ago, the . wile for Major
work required ‘twenty honour points, or

a Merit average in the first two years _

of -Major work.

ow, however, the —

present Sophomore and Freshman classes —
must have at. least Merit, anda Credit-

must make up for a Pass. This will not
be rigidly enforced in individual cases,

illness will be taken into considera-
tion; but it will gradually become so,
and. must.be-taken into account when

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‘ REQUIEM

The death of William Howard
Taft. is indeed a loss to the country ;
however, the «holder of the two
greatest -honors which the nation

can bestow was also the Father of
the Acting President of Bryn
Mawr, and it is with a truly. per-
sonal sorrow that we express the

_... deep regret and sympathy of. the.

College. We cart hardly take it
upon ourselves to euldgize | one
whose name is already so deeply
graven on the hearts and memories
of all who knew his notable career.
We do quote from the Proclamation
of President Hoover, which.so well
expresses a nation’s appreciation of
the works of a great man: “Mr.
Taft’s service to~our-country~-has
been of rare distinction and «was
marked by a purity of. patriotism, a
lofty disinterestedness, and a devo-
tion to the best interests of the na-

_tion that deservé and will ever

command the grateful memory of
his countrymen.” His was a_ fine
life, and his passing has brought
sorrow to the people of America. ‘

SH-H-H

A very strange and unpleasant
thing has just come to our notice
—strange because we are surprised
that it did not strike us before and
unpleasant because it casts such a
slur upon the otherwise unobnox-
ious manners and upbringing of the
college student. Perhaps it is par-
ticularly noticeable on Mondays and



> Fridays, but even on Wednesdays



_ ness.

*Ywith which we are concerned.

P sewer pene clve.

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when we are told our rhythm of
work is at its strongest, there are
evidences of this disturbing phe-
nomenon—the very obvious waves
of restlessness which spread over
all classes, large and small, at vari-
ous intervals.
pose are varied: lack of interest in
the subject, attempts to communi-
cate with some not-so-near neigh-

bor, interest in activities-in another

part of the room, or a general disin-
clination to work because of sleepi-
‘There is only one result—an
inexcusable cumulative rudeness
which might very well inspire any
instructor to throw down his books

and leave the class in disgust. |

Thete are in every class of course
particularly rude individuals who
are conscious that they are making|
lecturing and. teaching unpleasant
and are proud. of it. We cannot
allow them to penetrate our feelings
at all. It is only the general vague
stirrings, rustlings, and noises not
so gentle, of the class as a whole
We
have a suggestion to offer for the
benefit of those who find themselves
irresistably urged to devote their

- attention to something other than

the instructor. They. might find it
helpful and to others it would be a

“ blessing, if they would profit by ex-

in y Mechanics long

| enough to relax cout and ‘re-

lieve ‘the strain on themselves and

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Dunn to Speak at
_ Fellowship | Disha.

Professor Esther Cloudman Dunn, —
of the English Department at. Smith
College, will be the principal speaker
at the annual Fellowship Dinner to be



-| given in Radnor Hall, Friday evening,

March 21. The announcement was.
made at-a special meeting of the grad-
Wednesday evening,
Professor Dunn is a Bryn

uate students
March 5. °
Mawr graduate, and received the Rubel
Fellowship in 1921-22.

Katherine »;Robinson was. elected
toastmistress for the evening. She will
share the honors with the four Euro-
pean Fellows who are each -ta-give
short ‘after-dinner speeches: Anne-Lise

Stadt, Germany; Héléne Bourdy,
France;...Bertha Marti, Switzerland;
“Margaret Férguson, Scotland.

According to the plans of the Book
Committee, the showcase is to have a
loan-library. which will serve the triple
purpose of filling the empty bookcase,
providing a table. decoration (book-
ends have been donated), and furnish-
ing light reading material not only
for the graduates themselves, but also
for the unfortunate callers who get
tired of looking™at the pictures.



Communications
(The. News. is not. responsible for
Opinions expressed in this column.)
‘To the Editor of the Co_tecE News:

; ~ The Soundett.
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow
room,
And Herbens are contented with their
=-4 cells,
But students in their pensive citadels,
When cars upon the yellow highway
loom,
Sit “blithe and~ happy, “while the motors:
boom
Loud as the loudest peal of Taylor
bell,
Brief. pleasure in their self-inflicted
Hell.
In truth the prison unto which we doom.
Ourselves no prison is: and hence, for us
Against our will no fun ’tis to be bound
Within .the campus’ scanty plot of
ground.
We were once pleased if » some bright car
Would pass, flashing a glimpse of lib-
erty.
We found brief solace then, though cap’d
and gowned.. ~
—LAUREATE.

Au Cercle Francais de
Bryn Mawr College



Une Representation “d’Hernani”
(Notre abonne et ami de la premiere
heure, M. Louis Cons, professeur de lit-

terature francaise au C ‘ollege de Swarth-
more, a bien voulu ecrire pour le “Cour-
rier” le compte-rendu de la representation
“d’Hernani’ a Bryn Mawr | College.

Nos lecteurs lui seront reconnaissants de
Ss et delicat article.)

“HERNANI” A BRYN MAWR.”

En France meme, a Paris meme le
Centenaire de la grande bataille autour
“d’Hernani,” le 25 fevrier 1830, a-t-il ete
celebre avec autant d’eclat avec autant
de spirituel enthousiasme: qu’il le fut il y

permets d’en douter. C’etait em tout cas
pour un Francais convie fe 25 fevrier
dernier a Goodhart Haff! une impression
infiniment touchante ‘qhe cette fidelite
ameéricaine a un souvenir si francais et si
lointain.

En toute sincerite on doit louer presque
sans reserves. la facon dont les jeunes
filles du Cercle Francais et leurs guides
et inspiratricés ont compris leurs roles.
Le sens de la mesure, le gout et le tact
jusque dans le dechainement lyrique,
l’'absence de “charge” et en meme temps

pretive et .aussi le. gentil..heroisme avec
lequel elles recevaient sans flechir les

aient les Classiques exasperes, tout cela
enfin leur valaient plus que ma sympa-
thie: mon admiration.
de dire la douce et splendide beaute de
la Dona Sol que Miss Clarissa Compton
incarnait, la pure fierte de Miss Caro-
line Liloyd-Jones en Hernani, la majeste
guillerette de Miss Lena Lois Mandell en
Don Carlos ni le pathetique chevrotant
de ce pauvre et sinistre Don Ruy Gomez

souriante jeunesse.
‘- Dans la salle meme ou la bataille entre

chevelus faisait rage on pouvait admirer

ie ae verve rite“ cohortes: inspirees Be



a quelques jours a Bryn Mawr? Je me/

l’apparante conviction ‘dont elles faisaient |.

injures et les oranges que leur prodigu- |

Il est impossible |

pour lequel Miss Mary Duke Wight|
-|avait ¢onsenti a abdiquer sa grace et sa| .

| les Classiques chauves et les Romantiques |

Goodell.

Costumes et decors, jeux de scene et
effets de lumiere, tout etait d’un gout,
d’une verite dans la splendeur vraiment
exquis, et rares. ‘Dans l'ensemble on
sentait une incomparable “meneuse de
jeu’, qui etait, parait-il, Mademoiselle M.
Rey. Et on sentait aussi que l’inspiration
de l’erudite et.charmante doyenne -Miss
Eunice M. Schenck avait passe par la.

Lours Cons.

(Cet article a -paru dans “Le Courrier

de Philadelphie” du 8 mars, 1930.)



To.the-Editor : :

Orange peel? No, oranges!

At eight o’clock déscried,

Reposing sucked and spherical

Taylor steps beside:

We never do our deeds by halves,
Although we are not thoughtful calves.
SUCKER.



Bryn Mawr, Penna.,
February 26, ‘1930.
The Executive Committee,
Les Personnages d’Herndni,
et Sa -Claque, et Tous.

The writer is not given much to cor-
respondence of this order, but his en-

‘| joyment and that of his wife and guests,

of “L’Honneur Castillan” was such, last
evening, as to make it not inappropriate
to quote an overheard.remark, even if it
be not in the King’s. English.

“We certainly -will have to hand t to
the girls (sic) of Bryn Mawr College.”

Young women can do anything they
set out, in earnest, to do, so why not
make up your’ minds ‘to agitate an im-
provement of the architectural acoustics
of Goodhart Hall?

Your representation of Hernani could
easily fill that hall to overflowing several
times over, were the “acoustical: coeffi-
cient” improved.

(Signed) Extrotr Snow,
Rear Admiral, C: C., U. S. N.*

In Philadelphia:
The Theatre.

Broad: The Stratford-on-Avon Festi-.
val Company, in two weeks of Shakes-
pearean Repertory. The company as a
whole_is splendid, and their productions
are well worthy of the name they bear.

Chestnut: Libby Holman and Clifton
Webb do their stuff most admirably in
The Little Show; incidentally some of
the music is of the best,.as you probably
know.

Adelphi: The last week of The Matri-
arch—which:has-not- been highly praised,
although Constance Collier has the lead.

Forrest: -Don’t:.miss Criminal Gode,
even if stark realism and tragedy aren't
quite in your line. This play is fine, and

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Musical Service
On Sunday, March 16, there
will be a musical service in the
Music Room at 7:30 P. M.

The music by the choir will
consist of the following:
150th Psalm.............:.:0..-.
“The Lord Is My Shepherd,”

eee

ee Schubert
“O’er the Smooth. Enamelled
et Bach

The organ solos will be con-
fined to the English School, in-

“cluding “works~of— Purcell--and—_|





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Senate Ruling

The new rule of the Senate,’as
announced in Chapel, and as it will
go into effect this spring reads as
follows: A student who has re-
ceived the grade of Failed (FF)
in more than five hours of work,
and who in the opinion of the. Sen-
ate cannot offer enough Advanced
Standing or: take enough extra.
work to recéive her ‘degree in
eight “semesters, will probably ~ be
~sxcluded at_theend_of_her-Junior~
year. ‘ Exceptions_may-—-be—made—
by the Senate in the case. of stu-—
dents who have been prevented by
illness from making-up the defi-
ciency. ’



the: acting excellent, although the actual
playwrighting does sometimes squeak in
its obvious structure.

Garrick: Strange Interlude.

Keith’s: Oscar Strauss’ melodic. treat-
ment. of. Arms and the Man, in a fine
revival, The Chocolate Soldier.

Lyric: Ethel Barrymore in ‘The King-
dom of God, but we can’t“enthuse.

Shubert: Die Fledermaus, done in the
Reinhardt manner on a revolving stage,
is well worth an evening off; we highly
recommend the Shubert production, A
Wonderful Night.

Walnut: Bert Lytell plays the parts of
twins in this melodrama, Brothers.

The Movies.

Mastbaum: Olive Borden and Lloyd
Hughes in Hello, Sister. Also Winnie
Lightner in person.

Earle: Small Town scandal, edapted

‘lfrom Octavus Roy Cohen—Billie Dove in
‘The Other Tomorrow.

Stanton: George Arliss in his. second
talkie of a stage success, The Green
Goddess.

Hollywood (ex-Film Guild Cinema) :
Charles Bickford in Hell’s« Heroes.

Boyd: Greta Garbo acts splendidly in
Anna Christie.

Fox: A typical movie revue with a
most. impressive cast and: very little plot
—Happy Days.

Stanley: Richard Barthelmess in Son
of the Gods.

Erlanger: A powerful film version of
the popular novel, The Case of Sergeant
Grischa.

Aldine: Dennis King in The Vagabond
King.

Little: At the South Pole;.an authen-

tic record of cere Scott’ s_ Antarctic

expedition:
The Orchestra.

On: Friday afternoon, Mafch 14, and
Saturday evening, March 15, the Phila-
delphia Orchestra will play the following
program:. Emil Mlynarski, who con-
ducted the Curtis Institute concert in the
Auditorium of Goodhart, dats direct these
concerts :

» Haydn—Symphony in C minor, No. 9
(“Fifth Londoner”).

Strauss—“Tod und Verklarung.”

Liadow—The Enchanted Lake.

Rimsky-Korsakow — Introduction and
Cortege de Noces from “Le Coq d’Or.”

_Tschaikowsky—“Romeo and Juliet.”

We wish to call attention to the fact!

that the concert programs are now being
posted on the new music Bulletin Board,
in Goodhart, and that Mr. Alwyne stars

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Dr. Faustus Presented

Those who went to the production
of the Haverford English Club on Fri-
day expecting to see the superman
Faustus cementing a bond. with the
gpowers of darkness, and,in the full-
ness of time reaping his just deserts,
were startled to find Mephistopheles
rather than Faustus the center of the
stage. A most engaging devil, scarlet
from the end. of his horns to the tip
of his tail, he won the audience with
a contagious “Heh, heh,’ which even
Faustus caught by the last scene;
Whether he was panting with rage
until the red buttons down his chest
heaved, jesting cynically with Faustus
on the subject of women, or artfully
tempting him with conjuring, he nat-
urally. slipped into this -interjection,
which was far more eloquent than all
the lofty poetry of Faustus on hell or
heaven. In fact, even a gown with a
fur. hood and an advisory body of
‘angels failed to brighten the study
where Faustus, with a skull, a. Bible
and a Justinian for company, carried
on his soliloquies. But given the same
study with a sullen Mephistopheles
arriving hot from hell and it was full
indeed.

\

Perhaps the charms of Mephistoph-
eles lay in his ability to cause inter-
esting events. ‘Enter Mephastophilis
with dieuls” at a tremendous bound,
ed tails flying. “Enter Mephastophilis
with a chafer of coles” which immedi-
ately burst into flame. “Enter Meph-
astophilis” and “Helen passeth over the
stage.” She may require a good deal
of conjuring and “patience,” but she
arrives presently in a white nightgown
with, a royal purple cape and golden
curls which would ptt the real Helen
to shame. The tango bend with which

. Helen draped herself over the arm of
the learned Dr. Faustus was worthy
close study by a body mechanics
class, but it scarcely blended with our
conception of either, of the famous
parsonages involved. |

And-finally,—on-one—great—occasion,
“Enter Mephastophilis” with dark Lu-
¢ifer,, adorned with a bristling red
beard, horns like a crescent moon, and
claws long -eneugh to be a _ serious
handicap. The result of this double
visitation was a pageant of the Seven
Deadly Sins: Pride, cold in white and:
blue; Covetousness, meanly clad in
burlap and wildly clutching a miser’s
bag; Wrath, terrible in a red straw
turban and a purple cape; Envy, green
to his complexion; Gluttony, round-
bellied and red-faced, munching an ap-
ple; Sloth in a white nightshirt; and
Lechery, triumph of triumphs, with
yellow dress, red face an a tempting
eye.

Mephistopheles pervaded the Papal
scene, although the chief credit here
belongs to the friars. The rising cyr-
tain\ disclosed a-spacious room with
two real windows in the background,
-beyond one of which the branches of
a pine tree waved. in the rain. Be-
yond the other, as-Mephistopheles in-
formed., Faustus, was. the “Citie
(which) stands upon “seven hills.”
Under -a ‘largé’ cross and flanked by
two lighted*candelabra stood the dais
of the Pope, where in devilish un-
concern sat Mephistopheles, swinging
one_leg. irreverently.’ The Pope en-
tered—in-lomg~ white flowing (?) robes
—followed by»three worthy friars who
brought him the Sacrament and then
fled in holy terror to the accompani-
ment of Faustus’ mocking voice and
the fire works of . Mephistopheles.
They returned in solemn array, and,
led by a lean brother with a sancti-
monious air, sang a lusty dirge, until
Faustus and ~- Mephistopheles drove
them from the room and _ returned,
shaking with laughter, to echo their
“‘Maledicat dominus.”

The successful .production of, the
supernatural elements to -the
shadowing of Faustus was perhaps un-
avoidable in-an amateur “performance.
Marlowe’s Faustus is a tragic char-
acter and a superman, while Mephis-

“topheles is tempered. with humor and

may be played in a very. human man-
‘ner. The cutting was done, however,
to emphasize the character of Faus-
fis; and the middle part of the play,
which is so poorly written, was
moulded to form a natural develop-
ment from the agreement of Faustus
to-sell his soul,.so the final scene where
the price is exacted. By reducing
Wagner, who was a jolly clown,, and
the disconnected feats of magic to a
minimum, a series of struggles of con-
science remained, brought to a climax
in the misery occasioned Faustus by
the virtuous old man. ~

If we came away. less moved by

_-tragie“truths” than amused at the un-|

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Variety Dramatics

Varsity Dramatics wishes to an-
nounee that it will present “The
Constant Nymph” with Princeton
the tenth and eleventh of April.
Books will be placed on reserve
this Wednesday, and the tryouts,
which will be held at the end of
this week, will be announced in
the halls. A paper will be posted
‘on the bulletin board in Taylor on
Wednesday for all those interested
in working at construction, cos-
tumes, and _ properties to sign.
Signing: up for this technical work
will not prevent one from trying-
out or receiving a part.

Because of the need for ready
cash with which to transact such
business: as is nece$sary before the
play, the Board is urging everyone
who is interested to make them a
loan of one-dollar. This will not
be ‘considered a contribution, but
will be repaid as soon as possible.
There will be a: representative in
each hall to-collect these loans.



gilded neck of the ‘Chorus, neverthe-
less, we owe to Haverford our heart-
iest thanks for an opportunity to ap-
preciate more fully the wonderful color
and drama latent in Marlowe’s Dr.

~——

Bureau of Recommendations

Recently the Bureau of Recommend-
ations has received a letter from a de-
partment store in Baltimore which
reads, in part, as follows: “For some
years, large department. stores. have
been offering to college students a
course in store background for the
purpose:.of..developing-potential-execti-
tives. I should like to present the pos-
sibilities of future. positions for some
of the members of this year’s graduat-
ing class who may be interested.

The department sfore “special train-
ing course” trains the college student
in all branches of the organization
Over a period of-six moriths to one
year. During that time special abili-
ties reveal themselves and preferences
are expressed, due to contacts with
every phase. of the business...In our
present organization, executive posi-
tions in Personnel, Advertising, Com-
parison Shopping, Tea Room work,
Office work, Buying and Merchandis-
ing have been filled from the college
training group. :

I feel that the opportunities. for
women in the business field have not
been presented to the college graduate
up until _recent-years.

I am‘ interested in this not only from
the point of view of the~store~but
from the point of view of the splendid
opportunities in business for a college
graduate.

In. this connection, one might’ also
mention the New York University
School of Retailing, which offers schol-
arships and fellowships to college grad-
uates interested. in
work as a career.

Another organization in which stu-
‘dents may be interested is’ the Child
Education Foundation at 66-70- East
92d Street, New York City. . This
Foundation, a pioneer in the field of
child education in this country, was
the first organization to. prepare teach-
ers for work with children of nursery
age. It-has three departments and a
training school for teachers, ‘a Chil-
dren’ Home School,..and an Advisory
Service, A recent. letter from. .the
Foundation says, “Among the most
worth while of the professions, the
nursery school field holds forth almost
unlimited possibilities. The demand
for our teachers is far greater than
our supply and is constantly growing.
We are, theerfore, always on the look-
out for the right type of young woman
to prepare for this vital work.

“If any of your teachers or students
would like to visit the children’s
schools’ affiliated with us and see the
actual work being done with the chil-
dren of this age, we should*be glad
to make appointments for them. As
these schools include children of all
nationalities, creeds and colors in day
nurseries, missions and settlements as
well‘as the private school, we should



like to know each visitor’s preference |,

when: making arrangements.”

The Charity Organization Society in
New. York City has vacancies for visit-
or-in-training positions,’ and for hold-
ers of fellowships in the New York
School of Social Work; in both cases
a small salary is paid while the individ-
ual; is receiving special training. —~

Students who are-interested in any
of these types of work may get more
detailed information. from Miss ‘Crane,

department store.

> =
Mrs. Sloss Suggests

Mrs. Margaret Fleisher Sloss will give
her second talk on Contemporary Litera-
ture in the Commons Room, on Wednes-
day, March 19, The subject’ of the lec-
ture will be “The Sophisticates.” Mrs.
Sloss has given the News a list of the
books she plans to discuss, For those
who have the time at least to look over
these novels, the talk will be increased

of the first of the series, The novels on
the list are as follows:

That Capri Air—Douglas.

I Thought of Daisy—Wilson.

Inyocent Voyage—Hughes.

Harriet Hume—West.

The Man. Who Lost Himself—Sitwell.

Forty-second Parallel—Dos Passos.

As before the first talk -of this series,
given under the auspices of the Speakers’
Committee, tea will be served in the.

which Mrs. Sloss will speak.



Radio Program *
Our radio news for this week includes
a varied and interesting series of pro-
grams: y;

Thursday, March 13, 7:15 P. M.—Rep-
resentative Ruth Hanna McCormick,
speaking. on “Women’s Influence on
Community Life,” over WJZ.

7:30 P. M.—Richard Washburn Child,
speaking on “America’s: Need of
Staunch Nationalism,” over WEAF.

8:00 P. M.—Vallee Orchestra, over
WEAF.

8:15 P. M.—Reports from the London
Naval Conference, rebroadcast from
London, over WABC.

Friday, .March 14, 6:45 P.
Gibbons on “Prohibition
News,” over WJZ.

Saturday,- March 15, 1:45 P. M.—For-
eign Policy Association discussion on
“What Is. Happening in London?”
Speakers to be Edward P. Warnek,
James T. Shotwell, and Henry Cabot

__ Lodge; over. WEAF. See :
7:00 PB. M.—Puccini’s “Turandot,” |

with Chamlee, Alda, and ‘others, over

WEAF.

M.—Floyd
Poll , and

Monday,. March 17,-7:15 P. M.—“Suc-
cess or Failure at London’; over’
WEAF.

in| value and interest even beyond that |.

Commons. Room, at four-fifteen, after ;

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A Sample

“Preen. (communing with, him-
self). I feel I am not my old
bright self. -(Sips.) ‘I can’t be-
lieve for a moment that it was my
wife. (Sips.) - And yet—(sips)—
that fainting, you know. (Sips.)
I should go.away for a bit until
it blew over. (Sips.) I don't
think I should. ever marry again.
(Sips_and sips, and becomes per-
haps a little more like his old
bright self.)”

Just an amusing interlude in the:
rather harrowing mystery play,
“Shall We Join the Ladies?” to
be given by the Graduate Club,
Monday evening, March .17, at
eight-twenty o'clock. Tickets may
be charged on Pay Day.



-. Economic Conference

The, Conference on “Changes in Our
Economic Order” will ‘take place on
Saturday, March 22, beginning at 9:30
in the morning, and lasting until tea
time. All those who wish to attend
the conference must have paid a fee -
of $1, and registered with a member of
the Liberal Club by March 15. Reg-
istratian will take place in each hall
all this week. Checks may be put on
pay day, or made out now to Annamae
Grant. Tentative arrangements are as
follows:

Radnor—R:=Shatticross-—

Merion—J. Barber.

Rockefeller—F. Robinson.

Pembroke. West—V. Butterworth.

Pembroke East—H. Seligman.

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Scores: -f931=Tathall, 122; Turner, 277

‘games,

_ some. diagnosis. of. this. attitude.

’ which. will destroy

- column there are the

~ great part of the population _

‘ gation are ruining civilization.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS





*31 Leading
On Wednesday, March 5, the Fresh-
defeated the Seniors, the
Juniors defeated the Sophomores in
class basketball.

men and

In the first round of
completed on Wednesday, the
class of ’31-has two victories and one
tied score, the class of '33 comes next
with two victories and. one defeat,
while ’30 has one victory.\The Senior-
Freshman game was — by the
excellence of the Freshmar

Alsop and Candee, who are the de-
The Junior-
Sophomore game was close and excit-
ing, ending witH the lowest scores thus
far, 13-9 in favor of ’31.. Dixon, as side
center, and Cameron, as_ forward,
played pretty games. ’32’s second team
defeated that of ’30 on the same after-
noon, Burnett doing most of the scor-
ing for the Sophomores, while Herb
was an asset to the Seniors.

The line-ups were: ;
1930-1933 FIRST TEAMS

forwards,

spair of any opposition.

1930 1935
+ Ne eben reponse MPa ck oh PROD
Parkhurst.;.....:::.::: | Fp eae ae reer Candee
Gordon..........4:.:.. iligag cidliensiniees White
Seligman ......ic0:;..;.. oF ere Leidy
LAGOB can ae eg Edwards
Sullivan. ies: .ca. Ey A ti ee Lefferts
Substitutes: 1930 — Littlehale for
Loomis, Longstreth’ for Littlehale.
Scores: 1930—Zalesky, 2222; Park-
hurst; 222222. 1933—Alsop, 2222222221;
Candee, 222222212. ‘Total: 1933, 36;
1930, 20.
1931-32. FIRST TEAMS
1931 eS. 1932
Jip: |. hepa ean rts Be Bovihinsahiiks Saper
Ce ees | HE | sn Cameron
Deane eG aes. ‘Dewes
Dixon. ene > nce Reinhardt
Frothingham..........R.G . Woodward
Moore. ccc Giese - Mesotler
Substitutes: 1931—Thomas for Tur-
ner. 1932—Davidson . for Mueller.

Thomas, 222. 1932—Cameron, 22122.



Total: 1931, 13; 1932, 9. as
1930-1932 SECOND AMS

1930 1932
Bat: iscsi PRES ° ES Rs . Sanborn
kat; Burnett
SOON. sseccscoteciisy cas Cn ne Galladet
Herb te 7, Sore 3ernheimer
Gant: eatin Dickerman.....5:.- his a Cs ee Brown

Substitutes: 4030—Herb for Davis,
Ferrer, for Grant. 1932—Coleman for
Sanborn. Scores:. 1930—Ban, 222;
Herb, 22. 1932—Burnett, 11222222;
Sanborn, 22; Coleman, 2, fotat: 1932,
20; 1930, 10.
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Continued from Page One

day literature deals with a mechanistic
world, the war, and the relations of
men and women to each other. Ac-
cording to the Hemingways and the
Huxleys, “Life is a tale told by an
idiot,” but modern literature \contains
One
point of view is that man by develop-
ing the machine has: created a\ force’
him. Another is
that man thas destroyed fundamental-
ism and must find as a substitute some

. new religion or spiritual satisfaction.

The physical: bases of the problem
are dealt with by Stuart Chase in his
“Men and Machines.” He comes ~to
the ‘conclusion that the machine
capable .of. incredible treachery, and in

is

a’ very systematic balance sheet puts |.

to its credit longer life and higher
standards of living, while in the debit
present. waste-
-fulness of natural products and _ ig-
norancé of mechanics. Also. there is
the danger from the next war which
would be’ over in a few hours with a
wiped
from the face of the earth. The book
shows, however, that. Mr.Chase has a
real gusto for living and has some
amusing passages on—the standardiza-
tion of ideas, on sex, education and all
things in general. “This Ugly Civili-
zation,” by Ralph Borsodi, is a study
of the quest for comfort, and concludes |*
that it is the factory that harms, us,
not the machines. Edward O’Brien
in his “Dance of the Machines,” de-
cides the mechanization and. standardi-
JW,

contains a challenging chapter on the
romantic_—love, _. which,

_often-a supreme privilege. He is sure
that if love continues to be regarded as
merely a physical desire; mysticism
—— be aot The poate eeney

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‘state does not matter.



necessity to find a new God. Edding-
ton, in speaking of free will, asserts that
religion, the mystical feeling for God,
cannot be subjected to critical scientific
analysis.

The entire problem .of life/in the
world today is dealt with in Walter
He
attempts to solve the problems of those

Lippman’s “A Preface to Morals.”

who have abandoned fundamentalism
in religion, politics and ‘sex. The first
part of the book deals with the loss
of authority, and the second and third
with the liberal position and solution
of the problems, which lies in human-

isms or the adult adaptation to life.
The humanist’s interest is in human
nature; he desires to become fixed out-

side of himself and to disentangle his

intelligence,/from his emotion. Lipp-
man discusses the question of love with
its changed standards—woman has at-

\tained new sex freedom along with

politicak freedom, the automobile, and
birth control. Russell, in ‘Marriage
and Morals,” advances the opinion that
love is a personal matter in which the
He feels that
the only obligation exists after having
children, and the most important at-
titude is’ one of co-operation in reat-
ing these children. Lippman believes

that mates. who are not lovers will not.

co-operate well and that thosé who are
lovers alone will soon be bored; a man
and woman who are Starting life to-
gether niay at least expect to live to-
gether permanently. ° “Dynamo,” Eu-
gene O'Neill's vivid and dramatic play,
is the first of trilogy -digging at the
death of the old gods and the failure
of science and materialism to give a
new one. The’ conception of the ma-
chine-mother is introduced here as in
MacKnight Black’s “Machinery.”
Mrs. Sloss concluded with a proph-

ecy that the pendulum of literature
v

will Swing back, just. as the fashions |

fiave, to greater reticence, gentility,
and something ‘very like--Victorianism.
In-summary-~she-defined contemporary
literature as, in form and _ substance,
the result of futility, acknowledging the
operation of a hidden unconscious, and
illustrative of an age dominated by
dynamos. But the prospect is exceed-
ingly hopeful for. we have come to the
end of donation by the machine and
are becoming humanists.



News From Other Colleges

The ‘Queer’ Undergraduate

A. college undergraduate is observed
by his fellows in the act of reading Scho-
penhauer, Nietzsche, Kant—and, marvel
of-marvels, he admits that he is doing it
not because some professor is prodding
him on. with the whiplash of scholastic
requirement, but because he is fascinated
by the clear logic, the philosophical the-
ories of the men. Immediately he is
dubbed a freak, is regarded with sus-
picion for the rest of his college days.

Another declines to go: to ,the miovies
with. his: associates, explaining pis re-
fusal on the ground that “I can’t afford
it, and even if I could I ‘haven't the time
to spare.” Instead he expends what is
to the average utidergraduate a consid-
erable sum for the Fifth Symphony, goes
to his fraternity house late at night,
when the Rudy Vallee and Helen Kane
enthusiasts have departed from the chap-
ter room, and listens to the phonograph
rendition of Beethoven's: composition for
hours. He is “queer,” a “goof.”



for Shelley and Poe. That alone is not
so unusual; many of his fellows ostenta-
tiously proclaim that they have had
courses in which the works of these writ-

ers were taken up, and that “I don’t]

think they are so bad myself.” Very.
probably these men secretly regard Shel-
ley as_a composer of, dull, incomprehen-
sible mush and Poe as a mentally de-
ranged, whisky-guzzling ope fiend who
wrote silly insane rhymes. But this
particular student continues to read Shel-

ley and Poe after he has completed the | .

course. covering their work, even pur-
chases volunies of their : pewy- He ‘is
‘a goof.”

Most college students expect to re-
ceive an education in predigested form.
‘They are mentally. lazy, unwilling to dig
down into a subject, secure They essen-
tials and think about them until they
have made them their own. And they
exhibit ill-concealed contempt for the
exceptional man ,who. is. willing to_per-
form the hard labor and_has-the-capacity
for’the thinking which is a requisite to
the securing of real education. Respect
for scholastic achievement is almost un-
known on. the en. campus.—McGul

s,* e é . - . . rs
Still another professes an admiration



Second Varsity Wins

Before’ Varsity’s gloomy debut with
Rosemont, the Bryn Mawr_ second
team played a pretty game of its own
with the Saturday Morning Club’ on
Saturday, March 8, in the gym. ‘Their
team work was excellent, their passing
quick and sure, and their whole game
clean and fast. It was a hard fight
in the first half, and Jackson and Bow-
ditch did some beautiful, effective work
as’ guards. The forwards on both
sides failed ‘to score much, and the
‘play was largely between guards and
centers.

The second half started with an 8-3
score in favor of the second team. By
this time the forwards had warmed up,
and the ball, directed by the excellent
playing of Longacre and Rasch, stayed
at Bryn Mawr’s end. Hardenburg did
some spectacular scoring, which put
second Varsity well beyond their op-
ponents. Except for occasional quick
sallies up the field and long shots for
baskets, the Saturday Morning Club
were ineffective in the second half.
The final score was 26 to 16.

The. line-up was:

Saturday Morning Club = 2d_:s ‘Varsity
She io : 2 nee Hirschberg
MEV BPE Gata Leet Rea Hardenburgh
Rominicktas ss Cases Ralston
SGALOO. sos ccs SC inn Rasch
BOE ac. oy Bowditch
COHSON iis Dike en Jackson

Substitutes: Saturday Morning Club

—Sharf for Allen,. Myers for Romin-
icki, Lightcap for Myers, Farson for
Gunsen, Gunsen for Farson, Romiti-
icki for Scarpa, Scarpa for Myers,
Waters. ‘for Sharp... Second Varsity—
Longacre for Ralston, LeSaulnier for
Jackson. Scores: Second Varsity—
Hirschberg, 1222; Hardenburg 2221-
2222211. Saturday Morning Club—Al-
len, ‘2ezectl; Lightday, 112. Total:
Second Varsity, 26; Saturday Morning
Club, 16.



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popularity of the new College

The Habit that sends Col-
_ lege Men to the telephone
(pretty regularly, too), there to. com-
mune .. . actually, not just in spirit
. .. with the folks at home.

‘It’s a grand custom and we'd like
very much to claim it as our own
idea; but-we can’t.

seemed to take its course!

Chapel

Continued from Page One

In closing, Miss Carey recited a
parody, written by herself and Miss Gar-
diner in- deference to wardens, alumnae,
and all admirers of the college:



“The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking to their meal;

They wept like’ everything to see
Such heaps of orange peel, :

‘If this were cleared away,’ they said,
‘How elegant we'd feel.’

“If seven men with seven rakes
Poked at the sordid pile,

Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,
‘That it would be worth while?’

‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter
And gave a bitter smile.

“Oh, students, come and walk with us,’
The Walrus sadly. cried,
‘I doubt if you have ever seen @
Two souls so sorely tried.
Forcigarettes and wrappers too
Are scattered far and wide.’
“The Carpenter moaned, ‘There
sights
I really do abhor:
Banana skins and orange peels,
The apple's rotting ‘core:
And thick and fast they come at last

And more, and more, and more.

are

“*The campus is not closed, you know,
To all the people outside.

Alumnae and Directors
Have all these horrors spied.

“What vandal students have we here?”
They've often to us cried.’

“The Walrus and the Carpenter
Went slowly to their meal.

And could: you apprehend. their: woe,
Such pity you would feel,

That quietly you would remove
Your nasty orange: peel.”





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Varsity



Continued from Page One

_In spite of the ardent cheers of a
balcony crowded with Bryn Mawr en-
thusiasts, Rosemont continued’ to soar
until a merciful whistle called a halt
at a score of 41.

The line-up was:

" Rosemont Varsity
M. Bonniwell.:..: RiP isc. E. Totten
KR; Durekte Sa ious P, Engle
AE ES, RE te Week ietcastoy OP E. Baer
K. Creamer...:...... DGS. ics: E. Remington
P, Pah etevinerisass Rs GRE W. McCully
J. Nyemetz.......... GE 6 eee S H. Moore

Substitutes: Rosemont—Williamson

for Durkin, Hamilton
Creamer for Nyemetz, Nyemetz for
Paden. Varsity—Longacre for Baer,
Baer for Longacre. Scores: Rosemont
—Bonniwell, 22122222211; Dutkin, 22;
Williamson, 2222122221. Varsity—To-
ten, 121222111; Engle, 222. Total:
Rosemont, 41; binictcnl 19.

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The theme of John Cowper Powys’
novel, ‘Wolf. Solent, is a common one
‘One would

/think that little remains to be said about

’ a woman’s body.

the twitchings and turnings of an: intro-
vert, and yet Mr. Powys has found.
enough material in this well-worn stib-
ject to fill two rather formidable vol-
umes.

Wolf Solent is a young man extremely
vulnerable to sensuous delights, the acrid
smell of rain-beaten earth, meadows
burning in the hot sun, the burble of
cool streams over rocks, the curves of
But an ‘ever-present
opposition prohibits his full enjoyment
of these things of the senses. He is bur-
deried’ with‘a soul and not only a com-
mon, ordinary soul, but one tortured
by the constant and ruthless questions
of a morbid mind. He. returns from the
city .to his. native home.in.the country,
Dorsetshire, to escape from the machin-
ery of work-a-day life. Here he is en-
gaged in the writing of a history of the
village, compiled by Urquhart, his em-
ployer. Again senses meet in clash with

-mind, for Solent finds that he-has been

concentrating his. entire--creative. ability
and has~ been injecting the full ar-
tistry\.of his soul into a book composed
mainly of “lewd preciosities.” The
hideous realization of his “primordial
dualism” is still further forced upon him
by the vagrancies of his heart. Gerda,
a country girl of extraordinary beauty,
through .the. singular flawlessness and
supple, voluptuousness of her ‘body has
completely captivated him. But his soul
is just as completely ensnared by the
elusive, elfin beauty of Christie Malakite.

The inevitable catastrophe is effected
by the crashing collapse of Wolf's de-
fensive mechanism, his “mythology.”

“This ‘sinking into his. soul’—the sen-

sation. which he called ‘mythology’—con-

“sisted of a certain summoning-up, to the

—

- seller; Jason, the fanatical poet ;



surface of his mind, of a subconscious
magnetic power which from those early
Weymouth days, as he watched the glit-
ter of sun and moon upon the waters
from that bow-window, had seemed pre-
pared to answer such a summons.

“This secret practice was always ac-

companied by an arrogant mental idea—.,

the idea, namely, that he was taking part
in some occult cosmic struggle—some
struggle between what he liked to think
of as ‘good’ and what he liked to think
of-as—evil-in-those-remote depths.” *

Solent’s spiritual defeat at the hands
of Urquhart and the lewd book’ meant
loss of pride. And loss of pride meant
the downfall of his mythology. Without
it, he was left naked, left with no pro-
tective armor to face reality, the “real
reality” of which he knew nothing. Until
the death of his secret, he’ had always
been able to escape reality, to escape the
cruel truths of a’ machine-world.

“Outward things were to him like. the
faintly lined images in a mirror, “the
true. reality of which lay all the while
in his mind—in these hushed: expanding
leaves*vin this — secret vegetation—the
roots of ‘whose being hid themselves be-
seath the cane waters of his conscious-
ness.” : %

The scene of, the novel'is setin the
English countryside, giving ‘Mr. ..Powys
the opportunity. for liberal des¢riptions
of country life. But the author has an
evident predilection for mysterious char-
acters, perverted in one direction «or
another. Malakite, the incestuous book-
lascivi-
ous Urquhart; wheezey Valley, the
clergyman; Serena Gault, the spinster
obsessed with love; for Solent’s dead
father—these ,are the people inhabiting,
incongruously; a simple English village:
They are well drawn, and one feels that
Mr. Powys chose each word carefully
and with precision, exhibiting’an almost
passionate desire for exact and vivid pic-
tues

His descriptions: of the countryside it-
self evidence this same precision, al-
though the. author. often ‘gets caught up

in the flow of words, while he. indulges |

his fancy for particularly sensuous and
unpleasant phrases. In his effort to at-
tain realism, he ‘has. stressed the ugly
side so heavily’ that his words are unduly
strong for the scene described.
ae walk .to _Blacksod that \early
oon was one long orgy of amorous
gam ort ‘He skirted the town in such
an absérbed tran¢e that he found himself
in the:,riyegameadow\ before he realized
that he’d left the streets behind... :
Past poplars and willows, yast_ muddy
ditches and wooden dams, :past deserted
cow-sheds and old decrepit “bargés half-
Esai in _water, past * ta

-ehiete “hedges, me ‘scarcely sely b ied
Psat ese Aensa lenge dod

“

‘let to their victory enthusiasm.





with shiny red hidés and enormous horns,
past tender, melancholy cattle with liquid
eyes and silky brown and. white flanks,
he made his way through those pleasant
pastures.”

The construction of the novel is poor.
Wolf Solent is himself a weak character,
and it is on his reactions that the story
is‘ based. Mr. Powys has chosen the
subsidiary characters so well and. de-
fined them so strongly. that they takes
the situation into their own hands and
lift the novel from the’ hands of the
author. One is forced to follow Wolf
down all the muddy byways.of his mind,
and still, when the book is finished, Wolf
of all the persons is the most hazy. He
is uninteresting because his introspection
jis monotonous; his writhings are end-
less and obvious. Each time he strides
forth in the evening over the meadows,
and there are many such times, one
knows that the entrance to his tortured
mind is once more to be probed. ©

“He had never been quite in the mood
in which. he struggled now. The thought
of Christie’s invitation® to him, the tone
of her voice as she uttered the words

| about her father, the expression of her

face as she described what she had been
writing—all these things fermented in
his veins like drops from the sap “Of a
deadly upastree. To die without ever
having slept with Christie. No!
He couldn’t submit to: such a destiny!

His heart beat fast as he. gathered up

his forces for this challenge to the gods.
Between the bare branches of rain-
soaked elms and the wet leaves of gleam-
ing holly he strode along. like a centaur
maddened by juniper-berries! And yet all
the while below this recklessness, lay a
furtive, troubled, ghastly dread. Did not
his ‘mythology’ depend upon: his inmost
life-illusion—upon his taking the side of
Good against Evil in the great occult
struggle?”

Perhaps had Mr. Powys been as eclec-

tic_in_his choice-of -events-and- thoughts -atorious company.-but as he was not}

as_he was in-hischdice -of--words, -he
would have created a more lucid por-
trait. Had Wolf Solent been less fas-
cinating tothe author, he- would have
been more interesting to the reader.
DR;



Riots With a Cause

Three thousand students marched
down the streets of Shanghai protesting
against foreign oppression and_ control.
Guns sprayed bullet fire into their ranks.
Five students crumpled to the—ground:
They stood their ground, defying the
British rifles. That was the May Inci-
dent of 1925.

A mob of students forced its way into
a theatre following a basketball. victory
in. Michigan. The police took the of-
fenders to jail. Hundreds of their fel-
lows crashed the jail to free them. Tear
bombs attacked these defenders. They
retaliated by attacking ‘the patrol wag-
ons. That was the student riot in Michi-

‘gan in February, 1930.

The Chinese students were rioting for
a cause; the Americans were rioting for
a free. :show. . Since 1919 the: students
of China have led several boycotts
against foreign goods, a national strike
against a traitor government, and many

| minor protests, against foreign domina-

tion and injustice. They offered them-
selves. for. arrest on one occasion until
the jails were filled, and crowds of them
stood outside still protesting. Hundreds
of students have died jin their cause.
No doubt they were olen over-excited
about. their causes; no doubt a little
over-demonstrative. But their sincerity
and. high purpose has never been ques-
tioned.

The riot in Michigan was staged by
students who had the price: of admission
to the show, and merely desired an out-
They
becanie incensed to the extent of destroy-
ing property, when they were refused
admittance to the theatre. One won-
ders if American_students will ever be-

a

come incensed over injustice and cor-
ruption. Or whether we are.still in the
“mad”. if we're
LD ae.

child-age when we get
deprived of our candy ?—N.
News Service.

Students Hold Model 3
League Assemblies

The problem’ of Racial Minorities was
tthe chief subject for discussion at the
Model Assembly of the League of Na-
tions which met in session on February
22-23 at the University of Toronto, Can-

ada. As in all such intercollegiate Model
Assemblies, each college represented and
spoke for a particular country. On this
occasion, among the delegates was a
Jewish student representing the Arabs.

The League of Nations Association
announces that eight other intercollegiate
Model Assemblies. are being planned by
students. They will be held at Univer-
sity of Denver, Colorado, in March;
University of Texas, Dallas, March 28;
University of Chicago, Illinois, in April;
University of Cincinnati, April 11-12;
Western State Teachers’ College, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan,- April 18; Lafayette





25; Yale University, New Haven, Con-
necticut, April 25-26.—N. S. F. A. News
Service.



FLOWER



Centinued from Page One

was stupidly married; Stratford was a
dull place and he decided that he must
go off to London and make some
money. He probably walked the hun-

there, far from home, his first thought
was of “those play-acting fellowes,”
whom. he had known; the actors un-
doubtedly welcomed him, for he was

an.actor, gave’him a job as a prompter;
later he came to fill in small parts.
Then as time went on, Shakespeare be-
lived ‘that he could improve’ certain
points in the plays, and taking some
play that had been going on for years,
he picked it to pieces and put it to-
gether again, infusing into it his knowl-
edge of human nature, and his power
of description. The company took the
revised play, put it on, and the people
came tumbling over themselves to see
it,_Se—year—after-year went on. with
Shakespeare doctoring up plays, or
writing new ones. He was also a wise
business man, and when he had “made
his pile’ he came back to Stratford,
bought the great house of the town
and settled down. to enjoy life.

It was fortunate that he was poor;
it was also fortunate that his. father
was mayor. If Shakespeare had not
been- poor, he probably would have
satisfied himself with writing sonnets.
He considered his plays his pot-boilers,

means to~make money, though he
could-not help infusing into them what
was bubbling up insidé of him. If he
had written sonnets alone, not one in
a million people would know Shakes-
pear; his plays, however, have grip-
ped the world, and that is the reason
why they are. concentrated upon at
Stratford. Shakespeare used the stage
as his medium, and through the stage
one can get to understand.and—love
Shakespeare., The best thing is to
play Shakespeare yourselves; the next
best. way is to see the plays. finely
acted. In Stratford, at night when
you come back from seeing all the his-
torical spots connected with Shakes-
peare, you can go to the theatre, and
in-one week see no less than eight
different plays, -given bya fine cast of
actors—the best that can be secured.
You can follow the same people
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he never thought of them except as a

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PHILOSOPHY

Continued from Page One

the Greek thought and civilization from

their surroundings, and, in fact, began

to speak Greek instead of Hebrew to

such an extent that in the course of time

* they forgot their own language; and not

to forget or, become unable to use the
Bible or the New Testament, had it
written in Greek.: -All the translations
came out alike, which ‘showed that it
‘was a inspired ‘translation !

In Alexandria then was the beginning
of the cultivation of Greek philosophy
and culture by the Jews and that is why
ly between the
two came up. The Jews wanted to learn
all they could of Greek philosophy. They
absorbed it all. It appéaled to them.
It was very important. and_ interesting,
and enriched. their intellectual life.

-So-that:the-cultured. Jews of the time

found themselves confronted by two dif-|

ferent cultures and they were not. ready
to reject either. One was their own.
_ They had inherited it. The other fas-
It was very interesting.
There was no agreement in a large way,

between the two. They were disparate.
"Phere was dificulty-right-there,-in-the+-

difference between the two” points - of
view. The Jews had to cast about for
some method of unifying them so that
’ they would not lose either one. And
hence the solution I mentioned.

It became generally believed that, of
course, the Hebrew Bible was inspired
and .contained really everything, includ-
ing all that the Greek philosophers chad
taught. Plato and Aristotleswere really
revealed in Moses. There is a hidden
meaning below the surface that you can
only get by applying this method which
came to be knowti as the “allegorical | in-
terpretation: things were not what they
seemed. Adam and Eve were not sim-

Reason and Eve, Sensation. And “you
can easily find. Parmenides any Heracli-
tus in all, this.

The whdle point. is’ that. ‘by means. of
this allegorization. you can read anything
you: like into any"part of the» Seriptures.
And this. made ‘it :possible for the Jews.
in Alexandria to believe that; as a mat-
ter of fact, the. Bible, ;being older than
any of the: ‘earliest books of the Greeks,
really containéd all the ideas that Plato
and Aristotle originatéd “afterwards.

Well, that made thitigs“Very easy. It
was possible for a Jew. without. rejecting
his own belief to assimilate as much as
he pleased of Greek philosophy.
first, or, rather, the. most important ex-.
ponent of- that “kind of combination of
the two philosophies was rome —
of Alexandria. he y

Philo’s philosophical doctrine is ieanor:
tant for the idea of the “Logos found
there. Philo accepts the Platonic notion
of the ideal world as a model of this
physical world; but he modifies it’ some-
what and speaks of the ideal world as
representing God's plan or thought of
the world. God took chaotic material
and then gave it form. His idea is this
“Logos, or God's ;Reason. .

Philo personifies this ‘Logos, ‘treating
it as if it were.a super-ordinary. per-
sonality, not quite a deity, but almost.
He calls it the Son of God, or God in
the act of thinking. If there is anything

original with Philo, it is this idea of}
the Logos, made up of notions from}

‘Horaclitus, Plato and the Stoics. This
Logos was treated by all the mediaeval
Fathers and scholars as Reason, or Wis-
dom. And that, no: doubt, goes back
to the Logos of Philo.

’ That Alexandrian period ends with
- the beginning of the Christian era.

The Jewish colony'in Alexandria dwin-
died in the coufse of time and Philo
exerted very. slight influence on sub-
sequent Jewish thought. Clement calls
Philo one ‘of the Christian writers.
. The Jews dropped him. . They thought
it better to..ignore and neglect him.
The Alexandrian period was an epi-
_sode which soon ceased as a. centre
of Jewish population.
Babylon were where was to be found
the main body of Jewish philosophy
after that. ©
_The mediaeval philosophic move-
ment among the Jews begins all over
again, with no connection with Philo,
about the 9th century, in Mesbpo-

‘tamia, in and around Babylon. “The;

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go back to Greek philosophy. Both
are really due to Greek influences.

But the two movements of Jewish
philosophy which I have mentioned
have nothing to do with each other.
The second movement, in the Middle
Ages, goes back to the Arabs, and
they go back to Syria, and that goes
back to Greek thought.

The Syrian Christians between the
5th and 9th centuries, began to culti-
vate Greek philosophy and science.
Then with the advent. ‘of Mohammedan-
ism in the 7th century aid the coming
into power of the dynasty of the Abas-
sids in the middle of the 8th century,
the Mohammedan caliphs ‘used Syrian
physicians as ‘their court physicians
and, through them, came to, know
that there was such a.thing as Greek

jmedicine, science, ‘philosophy, astron-

omy and mathematics. cs

This movement tan from the 8th to
the 12th century. It ‘decreased then
because a dynasty of fanatic caliphs
arose who persecuted all scientists and
philosophers. Those Jews living in
Mohammedan countries adopted Arabic
as their language. And, in the same
way, as earlier, began to follow the
Arabic culture, as ‘they had done in
Alexandria.

The Arabs got their culture in the
Christians of the 5th and 6th centuries,
and this culture they transmitted to the
Jews who lived in their midst.

The Jews, in. turh, ‘and also the
Arabs, towards the ¢nd of the philo-
sophic period among the Arabs and
Jéws, transmitted a great part of this
philosophy to the Christian scholastics.
So that mediaeval philosophy. among
the Christians ‘came later than it did
among the Arabs and the Jews.

Mediaeval philosophy in the Latin
countries, in the Christian Countries,
divides itself into :two periods. _ First,
the early scholastic period, beginning
about the 8th or 9th ceritury and last-
ing until about the end of the 12th
century. And. second. (the more im-
portant periods, beginning: at the end
of the 12th century and lasting until
the Renaissance.

These two periods are widely differ-
entiated, The early period suffers
from a great poverty of ideas; they
knew very little about Greek. phil-
osophy.

ticism was the Golden Era. It w
entirely different,- not because a”
gradual intellectual development from
the early period, but by reason of new
material that came to the scholastics.
They now had many more of the
writings of Aristole, and also some of
the mathematical and astronomical
writers of the Greeks. The original
contribution to the history of thought
by the Middle Ages was the idea of
harmonizing the two sources of truth.
Whether or not that is a valid or val-
uable contribution I won't discuss now.
But, to me,-it-is-original..
weren't troubled by two sources of
truth. :

As to specific doctrines in Jewish
philosophy, you will find that the main
doctrines came from the Greek. Purely
philosophical doctrines were not cre-
ated by. the mediaeval writers, birt
taken over from the Greek writers.

The, Middle Ages. were very much
interested in God. ~The ‘doctrine of
divine attributes plays avery impor-
tant part in mediaeval philosophy.
You find more of it there than in the
writings of Aristotle. But, apart from

this, you will scarcely find, then, any
absolutely. new. and original problems
among the mediaeval writers.

You. will find the same succession of

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Many of us, in the conviction of our
superiority of outlook, attempt to férce
our culture on others. Now Guizot, in
his History of Civilization, in striving to
establish a criterion for the presence of
civilization, arrives at the conclusion that
diversity of opinion constitutes the best
proof. Similarly, a dead level of opinion
points to a low state of civilization. We
should encourage a diversity, then, and
guard against imposing our own stand-
ards on others. For any one of us, what
we find in a work of art wal] depend on
our own answers to the questions, “What
is worth seeing,” “What is worth listen-
mg to?’—on the personal equation.

Mr. Sandburg first read several of his
thirty-eight definitions of poetry, elabo-
rating on them in his penetrating, whim-
sical manner, and casting the spell of
his lyrical drawl even deeper over his
hearers. He stressed the twenty-eighth:
“Poetry is a pack-sack of invisible keep-
sakes,” speaking of the silence of a per-
son deeply moved and feeling his ex-
‘perience a challenge “To introduce
certain harmonies into their lives.” The
“biological — definition,” number _ ten,
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal,
living on land, wanting to fly~the”air;’
was particularly happy.

The readings from the poems proper
were selected largely from Good Morn-
ing America and book not yet pub-
lished, Potato Face. The harsh realism
which shrieks from Smoke. and Steel,
uncircumscribed by the discipline of
rhyme, stripping life until its-very heart
lies bare and quivering, has given way in
Cood Morning” America to a mellower
beauty, throbbing with
from nature and swelling with a deep
human sympathy. The pure music of
Mr... S.ndburg’s voice was a perfect
médium for the capricious ‘Maybe, and
the silver “lattice work” of Timber Moon
and the “bright vocabularies” of Precious
Moments; while in the strange juxta-
position of images. in Hells or Heavens;
it lent itself to dry humour.
of Sliphorn. Jazs,

“Are you happy? It’s the
only way to be, kid,”

| was’ the finest bit of the evening. Mr.

Sandburg became the confidential, .ab-
isurdly worldly-wise adviser of the “kid,”
and caught up by the broken character of
the lines the wild; exotic rhythms of
jazz.

Potato Face deals with a blind man
who sits before a cottage door, playing
on an accordion and letting drop words
of wisdom. In Fog Wisp, the maiden
stops to talk with the Potato Face, and
they exchange views on the nature of
things.
the “‘Snookses,” who keep the winds and
are very ordinary and very wise. “Only
a. Snooks knows. what it is to be a
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