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May Day has left in its wake an exhausted group of students on
a sleepy campus in the process of pulling itself back into normal routine
after what may be truly termed its quadrenniel spree. Outside critics
and visitors have sung its praises and convinced us that 1936 equalled

if not excelled 1932 and that the entire production was magnificent.

At the present moment, if ever, criticism and discouraging protest
against May Day as a “project” here, would come from those who threw
themselves into the excitement of preparation and now find the grim
prospect of final examinations only a week away. Yet over the entire
campus only a few dissenting voices are heard in the hum that» May
Day is definitely worthwhile, that it is one of the most exciting events
of a college career, and that the universal enthusiasm and relief from
scholastic instruction which it brings, are unparalleled. The faculty in
general seem to think that this year there was less interference with
study than before and that the students carried their double duties
adequately. és

On the other side there are those who feel strongly that the time
and effort required are unnecessarily great, that May Day is far too
disrupting a production for any college to attempt. Midway between
lie the opinions of those who feel that May Day should under no ecir-
cumstances be foregone, yet that it should in no aspect be enlarged.
Suggestions have come forth that four years hence in view of the com-
prehensives a definite curtailment take plaee. Notable and general
among the students is the opinion that the two long plays, Old Wives’
Tale and Gammer Gurton’s Needle, be cut even further—to the length
of the shorter plays if possible. The shifting of the audiences to the
former at the end of the shorter plays proved disturbing to the actors
and the auditors alike. The time-taking requirements of costume
stitching and property carrying also proved distressing to many.

The students generally seem to feel that rehearsals began too early
and continued too long, until often the sharp edge of enjoyment had
worn off and the parts had become automatic. Classes could be dropped
entirely May Day week for intensive last minute rehearsing and an
additional week of classes plus reading period added to the end of
the year. If the whole preparation were shortened, there could be
no dragging of spontaneity, and if the period of study at the end were
extended there would be even less loss of acatlemie work.



Bugaboo
So the Orals are over for another season. The sheep have been
divided from the goats, and the goats have been led to slaughfer. But
next year a new flock of unfortunates will be forced to endure the same
process of sorting, and year after year the torture will be repeated,
always with a few victims who do not endure, but fail.

It is easy enough to pass the Oral examination in the language
which We presented for our college entrance requirements, but to pass
the Oral in the tongue we must here learn for the first time is another
matter. If we are not particularly brilliant in our work for “baby”
French or German, we are not ready “by the end of the course even to
take the Oral, let alone make the proper grade. We must postpone
the trial and in the meantime prepare for it by summer study, by
private reading, by final hectic tutoring with the inevitable Mrs. Spil-
lane. When at last we approach the actual test, we are so muddled by
our varied training, so flustered by the long suspense and the tales of
horror recounted by former sufferers, that we are rendered incapable
of intelligent work.

. On the other hand, those of us who enter the fast divisions of the
by” courses are required to do such an inordinate amount of work
that all our other subjects suffer badly. By grim determination we do
struggle through the-thirty-page reading assignments, and by cram-
ming we do pass the Oral, but these triumphs, we protest, are not
worth the effort. The neglect our other courses must endure disturbs

our study for the rest of the year and often damages our final grades
‘to no a degree. Nor have we a lasting knowledge of the German

h language to compensate us for these present losses ge: its



in it who barely knows her grammar.

oy consideration of the facts that an acquaintance with French
and German is undeniably advantageous and that most of the ‘difficulty
in regard to the Orals seems to arise from the abnormal excitement and
the frenzied, last-minute labor attendant upon them, we offer this sug-
gestion: let the actual Orals as they now exist be abolished. Instead,
let the requirements for the Bryn Mawr degree be the passing of. nor-
mal elementary courses in. both’ languages or the. passing of tests
equivalent to the final examinations in these courses for which prepara-
tion might be private if so desired. Even those who flunk the Oral
now can succeed in passing the final examination in that language,
although the final-is no whit an easier obstacle. They sué¢ceed because
they are coping with something not removed from the usual course of
events, something far different from the traditional _awesdieness of
the Orals.

These suggestions, we realize, are vague and inadequate, yet we
beleve that they form at least an outline of an answer to a very
pressing problem. If the students and the faculty would meditate on
the question during the summer months and offer remedies of their
own, by a collaboration some solution might be reached which would do
away with the disasters of the present system and preserve its benefits
in tranquillity.



Let’s Have a Bonfire

The confidence of the college in its knowledge and ability to turn
off with a flick of the hand any “snap” quiz offered should be somewhat
shaken by the fact that the highest score registered in the recent current
events contest was nine points below that required for a free subscrip-
tion to Time in addition to other prizes. The quiz had undoubtedly
bad features, not the least of which was the factual choice and the fre-
quent occurrence of ambiguous questions. The general average is mean-
ingless since many were recruited at the last minute, yet the fact that the
majority of the prize winners were politics, history and economics
majors and that their average was only 78 out of 105 questions, speaks
poorly for the current interest of even the most currently-interested
students here.

sooner or later facts are convenient. With 142 subscriptions to daily
newspapers on campus and their articles the most popular of conversa-
tion. topics, something seems amiss. . Just what all this newsprint is
used for would be an interesting field of research. An entire New York
Times solely to shield one from one’s neighbor’s grapefruit is a wild
extravagance at $8.81 a year. Perhaps people are saving up for a big
fire; certainly they are not.preparing for a thorough knowledge of
what goes on in the world.

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a book in that tongue with no greater ease than a one-week’s studetit |

town exchange,
‘would be fine for French: trade, but

Problem questions may in the end be the only ones of value, yet









Current Events

The French Left is in favor of de-
valuating the france to the walue of
three or four cents. If this devalu-
ation were put.into effect, the French
people would all be discouraged ‘from
buying in foreign countries where the
currency would have its normal
worth, and foreigners, on the other
hand, would all be encouraged to buy
in France, where the prices would be
marvelously low in- relation to. théir
Such a_ procedure .



disastroys for other nations, and
would have a tendency to make them
devaluate their currency likewise. If
France had more gold and we had
less, such a situation would not arise,
nor would it arise if it were realized

jthat it is not gold which constitutes

the wealth of a country, but ‘its pro-
duce and its exchange of produce.

What will Italy do with Ethiopia?
In order to develop it, she needs
money. Her only solution is to black-
mail England. Just as she kept up
a bluff throughout the process of win-
ning Ethiopia which kept England
from interfering, so she will continue
to bluff. With a continuance of this
air force threat and with the ,addi-
tional fact that the source of the Nile
lies in Ethiopia now under Italian
control so that the water could be
diverted and Egypt reduced to star-
vation; Realy will probably be able to
keep England quiet and even to bor-
row money from her.

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WITS EXD

The Personal Peregrinations
of Algernon Swinburne

Stapleton-Smith





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CHAPTER THE SIXTH
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

When Algae returned from Rugby
for his first vacation, he encountered
a most unusual sight. His mother,
the honourable Mrs. Stapleton-Smith,
was sitting cross-legged on the with-
drawing room floor. twisting wire
about little clusters of crépe paper
petals.

“Why Mater!” exclaimed Algae in
astonishment, “whatever might you
be doing?”

PIQUE CAPS

His mother explained that she had WHITE
volunteered to be executive-director of
the septienniel Abbot’s Bottom Folk PINK
Dancing Festival, and that she was
at the moment engaged in making LIGHT BLUE

pink and yellow paper roses to dec-
orate the Maypoles.

“I say, how utterly topping!” asied
Algae, and, turning up his trouser
cuffs, he sat down to help. Several
days later he accompanied his mother
to the historical old Abbot’s Bottom
to witness the féte, which he wouldn’t
have missed for the world. He found
the spirit and verve irresistible, and
joined in the dances as the band be-
gan to play. Never,had he seen a
prettier sight. Suddenly he noticed a
fair young girl in the set in front of
him, who moved with an exquisite
grace. Little did he know that their
paths were fated to be crossed, and
that she, too, like himself, was half
American. It was Mary Ann Linsey-
Woolsey. After a moment he lost
sight of her, but in the next dance,
as they formed circles for Sellinger’s
Round (Queen Elizabeth’s favorite
folk-dance), he saw her next to him
as his partner. She looked up at him
with her deep blue eyes, and a spark
leapt through him. He drew in his
breath.

“Tsay,” he murmured, setting. 4
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