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The Early Bird

Today we are broaching a subject which ‘will grace these columns
May Day
undoubtedly seems veiled in the far distant future to most of the under-







innumerable times in the course of the next few months.

graduates and perhaps some of them would favor allowing it to remain in
the realm of the undiscovered for some time longer; but we feel that the
hour has come when certain phases of it should be given consideration.
There are a few definite steps in preparation for May Day which can-
not be taken too soon. One of the most important of these is the matter
of choosing the plays which are to be presented: Most of the students seem
Such,

- however, is not the case, for each May Day a committee of the students

to be under the impression that certain plays are regularly given.

selects the «plays from a list of ten or twelve possibilities. Here is some-
thing which we could be doing now while there is still time for mature
consideration of the merits of each play.

' The experience of the last May Day brought home one point very

definitely: the training for the folk and Morris dancing cannot begin toal

soon. In 1932 active work was not begun until February, with the conse-
quence that the training had to be quite intensive and the practices very
frequent. -Perhaps this year it would be better to start earlier and have a
longer time to learn the dances. This would have the double advantage of
being easier on both teachers and pupils and of resulting in a more finished
production because of the longer period of training. The Physical Educa-
tion Department favors some such plan and expects to institute a system
whereby the dancing for May Day will be part of the required work for
freshmen and sophomores.



How About It?

We recently heard of an erstwhile Bryn Mawr custom that could well
afford to be revived. We refer to the faculty’s practice of composing two
types of questionnaires for students, one to test general information and
the other to test literary knowledge. The quizzes were by no means com-
pulsory: on the contrary, devised by a board of professors and taken only
by those undergraduates who so desired, they were for the sake of amuse
ment alone. They were really contests; and like all good contests produced
a cash prize for the winner. Each member of the faculty committee com-
posed a certain number of questions; and no one member could ask a
question that the other members of the board were unable to answer.
Thus, too erudite and too obscure questions were eliminated. The popu-
larity of the questionnaires, judged by the numbers of students who used
to take them, was enormous.

The incentive of a ptize is necessary in contests of this sort; and the
prizes could easily be offered, if, for example, fifty students would each
contribute ten cents towards a general pool, thereby making up a five-
dollar prize. Everybody likes questionnaires—witness the popularity of
‘such games as “Culture” and “Ask Me Another”; and we believe that
all who intended to take them would be willing to contribute toward a
prize. Such a/system of campus quizzes would be a wholesale game of
“How Much /Do You Know,” with the added spur of a numismatic prize
and no dire/consequences for the runners-up.

We feel sure that a revival of the questionnaire custom would meet
with camnpus approval and applause. We think that the fundamental
questignnaire-urge inherent in everyone would send vast numbers of under-
graduates to take a quiz which would involve. no preparation and much
f If a sufficient number of students would be interested in such a

» doubtless a group of faculty members would consent to form a

Ccammnietee and help to disinter a practice which is far too lively to remain
/ buried.



Local Movies Warne:

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Ardmore: Thursday, Special Agent,

“~“with Bette Davis; Friday and Satur-

day, Joan Crawford in I Live My
Life; Monday and Tuesday, The Last
Days of Pompei; Wednesday, Ship-
mates Forever.
“Seville: Thursday, Clark Gable in
| The Call of the Wild; Friday and Sat-
urday, The Bishop Misbehaves; Sun-
day, Monday and Tuesday, Top Hat;
Ww Wednesday, Clive Brook in Dressed to



Buddy Rogers in Old Man Rhythm.



Thursday and Friday, Top
Hat; Saturday, Lionel @arrymore in
The Return of Peter Grimm; Sunday
and Monday, Nino Martini in Here’s
to Romance; Tuesday and Wednesday,



Hygiene Boners

To produce heat, glucose is burned
and this becomes corpus luteum.

The lungs consist of smooth muscle

and take in oxygen and exhale hydro-



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REDS, TAKE HEED!
The following letter was recently
received on the campus:
“In writing this letter to you per-

sonaly, I though there may be a ‘pos-
sibility that I may be of ‘service to



‘| you at your institution in the way-of

taking care of investigations, pertain-
ing to your personal staff, student-
body or any other businesses that re-
quire some scrutiny in some manner
or other.

“T am quite certain that with my
past unlimited experience as a private
detective for the past twelve years
and at the present time I hold a license
granted me by the Courts of the Com-
monwealth of Penna.

“My experience in investigations
have covered every branch, personal,
criminal and commercial.

“T have also acted in the capacity
as personal body-guard for some of
well-known residents in and around
Philadelphia,

“It was my thought that the institu-
tion may be in a position to consider
organizing their own intelligence
bureau the same as large industrial
enterprises have found it essential
to do, in order to.carry out their busi-
ness economically and successfull. In
your particular institution an under-
cover system would cover every. phase
of activity, with the possibility of
lowering your cost of operating the in-
stitution by eliminating those,who are
undesirable, non-producers and imme-
diately eliminate agitators, etc.

“T have had experience along these
lines . . . in large industrial concerns.
I am available at this time to con-
sider and it would be desirable on: my
part if a permanent opportunity pre-
sented itself, as I know my services
would pay for itself in many ways.

“It so happens that I conduct and
operate another business during the
summer months when. your school is
closed and this would naturally fit in
with your operations and reduce the
cost of my services.”

—A good idea. We want a body-
guard.



Left on the door of one of the
Rockefeller student’s rooms:
Anonymity:
Thanks now
Fair nymph
Who-e’er you be
For leaving
Your boudoir
For such as me!
' Amity.
November ‘2, 1985.



Up the slippery. campus
Down to Goodhart Hall,
Flee the shrinking students,
Wrapped in gown or shawl.
Everyone has hat or cap
To guard her from the weather,—
Tyrolian or Mexican, }
Ornate with cord and\ feather.



You can’t be too careful these days.
We heard that when preparations
were being made in Rockefeller for
the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration,
a cut card was accidentally left on
the door of one of the visitors. In
perusing the same hastily, the visitor
noticed that it bade one come to the
Dean’s. office within three days.
Thinking it must concern the festivi-
ties, she set out to find the Dean!
Not until she ‘met an undergraduate
on the welcoming committee did she
finally realize that the command was
not for her.

Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.



Book Review

Whether There Be Knowledge, by
Robert Henderson (J. B. Lippincott
Company, Philadelphia), is the first
novel of an ambitious young English
instructor at the University of IIli-
nois. It is the story of the senior
year of a boy called Donnie Trevett,
an ambitious young English major in
some middle-western university who
sets-out to right the wrongs of the
world through the medium of the cam-
pus daily paper. He is also an inter-
ested participator in and spectator of
the, college rows, riots and rough-

: | Houses, and seems more interested in
-;effating the wrongs done to the stu-

dents than those done by them.
_ There is reason to believe that the
author and his publishers look upon

In this’





|Madge Haas

opinion they are deluded. Few, if any,|

of the particular problems of a large
middle-western co-educatianal institu-
tion, menace the campus of a small
eastern woman’s college such as this
one, but it is safe to guess that Mr.
Henderson understands the conditions
about which he writes, and that hej
writes. about them honestly”’as well.’
Nevertheless, his book has no message,
it calls forth no crusade, nor does it
even point a moral. It is badly con-
ceived, badly united and, above all,
badly written,

Probably because it is salt about
a slightly muddle-headed youth,
Whether There Be Knowledge gives
the impression of being confused, de-
ploring in turn campus politics, na-
tional politics, campus snobbishness
and campus and national immorality.
It gives ho suggestion, even in the
mind of its central character, for bet-
tering any of these unfortunate con-
ditions. This lack of a solution of its
difficulties could be forgiven if other
authors had not made the same sort

of a report so many times, and in so}

much better language. The style of
Mr. Henderson’s novel is characterized
by a studied ineptitude, designed, no
doubt, to portray the general state of
its hero’s thoughts. Much of the nar-
rative is interspersed with short,

choppy phrases denoting informality ,

and modernity of style.

-In- all, there is only one sentence |

which tells the reader anything about
the author’s purpose in writing his
book, and that is this one: “He went
back to finish his last year of school,
and... he did not know... how
little different he would be at the end
of it. ...” This statement, coupled
with the fact that the author hardly
mentions academic work at all, save to
say that Donnie could quote part of
Tintern Abbey, would seem to indi-
cate that the burden of his book is
the futility of education. But on con-
sideration of the fact that he is a col-
lege instructor, one is aware that Mr.
Henderson must. have had some other
idea. J.T.



Public Opinion







To the Editor of The College News:

Having witnessed the celebration of
Bryn Mawr’s Fiftieth Anniversary in
the last few days, it has been stir-
ringly brought home to us that tradi-
tion possesses inestimable worth. But
through observation of present-day
campus events, we have become con-
vinced that all traditions are not good
traditions, and we can see no reason
for maintaining what are now out-

‘worn rites solely because they were

performed by our college ancestors.
We refer in, particular to the “Big

Scare” ‘perpetrated every four years
by the seniors of Merion. The cele-
bration of this tradition last Thurs-
day night took a form which we con-
sider devoid of both humor and com-
mon sense. Hazing has always been
barred from Bryn Mawr as an amuse-
ment unworthy of intelligent college
students. That. the last demonstra-
tion was not entertaining, but was
actually injurious, is proved by the
fact that three freshmen of Merion
were so thoroughly frightened that
they spent the day in bed in a state
bordering on hysteria. When a col-
lege tradition becomes not only an un-
worthy amusement, but also a danger,
we feel strongly that it should be
abolished.

B. HOLLANDER, ’36,

A. F. WHITING, ’36,

J. C, HORSBURGH, ’36,

B. GREENWALD, ’36,

P. SCHWABLE, ’36,

V. H. Sats, ’36,



PUBLIC OPINION
November 10, 1935.

To the Editor of the College News:

No radio works satisfactorily on the
present D. C, current in the halls be-
cause of the constant interference of
the powerhouse, A great many people
who are forced at present to listen to
concerts and lectures over small in-
adequate radios would appreciate a
good new instrument. The old D. C.
radio in the Common Room is prac-
tically useless. Therefore, last year
Miss Park had the current theie
changed from D. C. to A. C. If every-
one would contribute 25 cents a new
radio, working on the new A. °C. cur-
rent, coyld be purchased. We feel
that there is need of* a godd radio
which would be available to every-

one.
Whether There Be Knowledge as a\.
|sort of 1935 Plastic Age.

Signed, |
age Frank —

‘Mary Howe de Wolf





News Elections
The News announces the elec-
tion of the followaing to the edi-
torial board: Jane’ Simpson,
37, and Suzanne Williams, ’38.

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{Elizabeth Webster A. Fotbes

| Naomi Coplin M. Lacy:
Katherine Kniskern D. Hartwell
Polly Sechwable Molly Meyer
Emma Scott . G. Fales
Alicia Stewart C. Ransom
Sally Todd Julia Watkins
Anne Keay M. L. Eddy

G. Grosvenor V. Hessing

M. E. Read Esther Hearne

Julia Harned
E. Gladding
Josephine Ham

Esther Bassoe

Mary Riesman

Polly Wiggin Agnes Spencer
Elizabeth Bingham Leonora Myers
Jane Fulton Eleanor Sayre -
Hope Wickersham Flora Lewis
Alexandra Grange ° Alice Shurcliff
M. Halstead Dorothea Seelye
Agnes Halsey E. Coburn
Eleanore Tobin ___ E. Harrington
Sylvia Wright « *A.E. Kremer
Leigh Steinhardt Anne Woodward
H. Cotton L. Russell

Jean Cluett Ann Wright



In Philadelphia

Theatres

Broad: For Valor, with Frank
Craven and June WalRer, opened_
Monday night for a week’s run. This
is a two-act comedy whose setting is a
little American town, with two flash-
backs to wartime Europe.

Chestnut: Love Is Not So Simple
continues. its two-week engagement.
The stars are Dennis King.and Ina
Claire. The Theatre Guild will pre-
sent this comedy in New York next
week.

Garrick: First Lady, a_ political
satire by George Kaufman and Kath-
erine Dayton, and starring Jane Cowl.

Opening Monday:

Broad: Boy Meets Girl, a comedy
about the film colony in Hollywood,
with Joyce Arling and James Mac-
Coll.



Chestnut: Room Service, a farce
about the hectic life of an hotel man-
ager.

Erlanger: Donald Brian stars in ‘a

new play about the divorce problem
called Fly Away Home.

Forrest: Anything Goes _ starts
its tour after a fifty-two-week run in
New York. Victor Moore and William
Gaxton continue in their original roles,
both giving as good comedy perform-
ances as anyone could desire.

Academy of Music

The Monte Carlo Ballet Russe will
give two more performances besides

‘its appearances with the Philadelphia

Orchestra on Friday afternoon and
Saturday night. Friday night, Auw-
rora’s Wedding, Les Presages, both
with music by Tchaikovsky, and The
Midnight Sun, with music by Rimsky-
Korsakoff. Saturday afternoon, The
Good-Humored Ladies, music by Scar-
lotti; Scheherezade, by Rimsky-Kor-

sakoff, and Le Beau Danube, by
Strauss.
Movies
Aldine: Red Salute, a comedy de-

signed to make revolution seem ridicu-
lous, which is not so funny as one
would like it to be. The stars are

Robert “Montgomery and _- Barbara
Stanwyck.
Areadia: Hands Across the Table,

Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard
in the tale of a manicurist’s affections.

Boyd: I Found Stella Parish, with
Kay Francis and mother-love.

Earle: Wheeler and Woolsey in
Rainmakers. Personal Maid’s Sec-
ret, starring Anita Louisa, starts Fri-
day.

Fox: Lawrence Tibbett’s best movie
to date, Metropolitan, co-starring Vir-
ginia Bruce. Will Rogers’ last movie,
In Old Kentucky, starts Friday.

Keith’s: Ship Café, with Carl Bris-
son, the dimpled Austrian. A singing
stoker becomes. a singing waiter and
eventually a singing gigolo,

Karlton: The Three Musketeers,
with Walter Abel as D’Artagnan...The
current adaptation seéms to have suf-
fered little from the shades of Doug-
las Fairbanks which might have
haunted it.

Stanley: Mutiny On the Bovrnty.

Stanton: Transatlantic Tunnel is a
rather good imaginative and futuristic
picture produced by a British com-
pany. Beginning Saturday night, Re-
member Last Night, starring Con-
stance Cummings and Robert Young,
comes to this theatre.