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Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1934

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Marriner Discusses
Classical Spirit in
Haydn and. Mozart

Artistry & Craftsmanship. Show
Intellectual Features in °
Form and Technique _.





HARMONIC REPLACES
POLYPHONIC STYLE



“We are dealing with the Classical
spirit in form and technique. You
will recall that the Classical Spirit is
embodied in the impersonal, intellec-
tual, the abstract, and that its domi-
nant features are artistry and crafts-
manship,” said Mr. Guy Marriner in
Tuesday in the
Deanery, the second in a series on
piano music of the last three cen-
turies. Hadyn, Mozart, and the so-
nata form were the other subjects dis-
cussed and illustrated during the af-
ternoon.

Francois Couperin perfected the
suite form and with his two contem-
poraries, Rameau and Loeillet, domi-
nated the French School and its devel-
opment of an elegant and ornament-
ed harpischord style. Haydn and Mo-
zart broke away from the polyphonic
and. fugal style of Bach and Handel
and initiated the harmonic style.
Haydn, born in Austria in 1732, died
in Vienna in 1809, and during his long
life became a world-wide success. He
is called ““Papa” Haydn or the “Fath-
er of the Symphony” because he com-
posed among his prodigous output 125
symphonies.

He recognized the new liberalism in
music and believed the music af the
future would be far greater than that
of the past, and that Music’s possibili-
ties were unlimited. His music is gay
and spirited and contains Croatian
folksongs from his native Slavonic dis-
trict, introducing a new note of na-
tionalistic music later to be developed

Continued on Page Six



M. Fiems Demonstrates
Techniques of Fencing



(Especially contributed by
E. Smith, ’87)

“Fencing is not easy to learn or to
do well,” said M. Joseph Fiems, who
has coached this sport for three years
at Bryn Mawr, at the Shipley School,
and at the Sword Club in Philadel-
phia. This stafement was made
Thursday, November 1, in the Gym.
Before fencing in a way which seemed
to belie his words, M. Fiems explained
to the audience of undergraduates the
use of the foil, épée and sabre. He il-
lustrated his definition of the various
attacks and parries by giving extreme-
ly simple demonstrations with Miss
Joan Brill and Miss Lucy Douglas, of
the Sword Club.

These preliminary expositions were
most helpful to those, uninitiated into
the art of fencing. M. Fiems and Mr.
Robert Agnew, also of the Sword
Club, bouted with the épée and the
sabre. The latter is very different in
technique from épée, as it it consists
mostly in slashing.. The épée or duel-
ling sword bout is the most spectacular
to watch, as the match consists of
the best two out of three touches,
which may be made anywhere from
the head to the foot. Miss Brill, Miss
Douglas and Pauline Manship bouted
with foils, a weapon used by men and
women, and which is like épée in tech-
‘nique.

Here at Bryn’ Mawr, daniing has a
definite place. Last year, for the first
time, Bryn Mawr won the Philadel-

“phia Team Championship. Of that

. ) team, Marianne Gateson and Maria

4

Coxe have graduated, leaving Pauline
Manship, Margot Berolzheimer, Bet-
ty Barnard and Eleanor Smith from
last year’s squad. Miss Manship, who
on the second team as well as
Varsity last year, is sure of a po-

on the Varsity this year. Julia

a it and ‘Huldah Cheek seem the

of

most promising candidates for Varsity
new fencers. The chances of

the championship again this
- year do not seem very strong because

{jet the inexperience of ‘host of the

squad.





College Calendar

Wednesday, November 7.
Movie: Zasu Pitts and Will
Rogers in Mr. Skitch. Goodhart.
8.00 P. M.

Thursday, November 8. Dr.
Veltmann. Common Room. 5.00
Pr. i ‘

Conference with Mrs. Dean,
Deanery. 8.30 P. M.

Saturday, November 10. Var-
sity Hockey’ vs. Philadelphia
Cricket Club. 10.00 A.

Student one-act plays.
hart. 8.15 P. M.

Sunday, November 11. Violin
and Piano Sonata Recital. Dean-
ery. 5.00 P. M.

Sunday Evening Service con-
ducted by Dr. Suter. Music
Room. 7.30 P. M.

Monday, November 12. Sec-
ond team hockey game _ with,’
Blacks. 4.00 P. M.

Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean on
Europe: Peace or War. Good-
hart. 8.30 P. M.

Tuesday, November 13. Guy
Marriner. Beethoven the Ti-
tan; lecture on Tonal Art, the
Sonata, Phrases and Character-.
istics. Deanery. 5.00 P. M.

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Dr. Veltmann Explains
Fallacies in Complex



Atoms Combine Only by Chance
But All Combinations May
Possibly Occur



CONFUSION IN POSSIBLE



The Atomists, when confronted
with complex material structures,
made the mistake of trying “to explain
the actual in terms of the possible.”
Dr. Veltmann, speaking in the Com-
mon Room on Thursday, November 1,
began his lecture by pointing out the

nature of their problem as well as the.
fallacy in their way of solving it.

The Atomistic world has no plan or
purpose. because the independent
atoms come together only by chance.
Therefore the ancient Materialists
had to find some explanation for such
phenomena as the apparently teleolog-
ical organization of living beings and
their ability to adapt themselves to
their environment. They met this
problem by stating that every possible
arrangement of atoms could take
place somewhere and at some time.
Chance, together with spatial and tem-
poral infinity, was capable of produc-
ing anything. The Atomists, when
they used this ingenious argument to
explain the occurrence of improbable
events in nature, did not realize that
they were limited by the fundamental
concepts of their system.

The universe, just because of the
two infinite elements of space and
time, does not include potentially every
possibility of existence. For instance,
imagine an infinite space occupied at
regular intervals by point particles,
and assume that these point particles
are moving in one direction at the
same rate of speed. Though space
and time are infinite, these particles
will always hold the same relation to
each other. The’ Atomistic world,
more complex than this but still lim-
ited in its material, cannot exhaust
the possibilities of creation by “suc-
cessive flurries of Atomistic dusts.”

The Atomists confused the concept
of an infinite series of possibilities
with the concept of absolute possibil-
ity. The difference between the two
can be illustrated by two number se-
quences: four, eight, twelve, and the-
prime numbers, one, three, five. Both
these series are infinite, but they have
no members in common. Neither se-
quence has unlimited possibility. Thus
even with infinite space and_ time,
there still remain limitations in the
Atomistie world which prevent the as-
sumption of an infinite possibility .of
existence.

The cosmology of the ancient Ma-
terialists is based on the principle of
Democritus that like always tends to
unite with like. This principle does

not imply any law of attraction simi-
lar to gravitation, but simply means
: Continued. on Page Five



One Act Plays’ ‘Gain

Praise of Audience



12 Pound Look ‘Well Played;

Pitch in Riders to the Sea
Tragic, Sustained



A. M. GRAVES APPLAUDED



No higher praise can possibly be
given to the producers™and players
that gave ‘Riders to the Sea and The
Twelve-Pound Look on November 1

than the attentiveness and applause}:



* Medical Aptitude Test

The Medical Aptitude. Test,
which is one of the normal re-
quirements for admission *to a
medical school, will.be given De-
cember 7, for anyone who plans
to enter medical school in the
fall of 1935.- Application should
be made to Miss Lanman at
once. A fee of one dollar will
be collected from those who ac-
tually take the test. Applica-
tion is not binding, and any one
who withdraws will not be oblig-
ed to pay this fee.







of the audience, unless we add the|~ —

fact that both plays went over despite
a collapse in the stage scenery, a sick
cat in the audience, and the apprehen-
sive frame of mind with which we
greet the rehashing of Messrs. Synge
and Barrie, both of whom we were
educated to regard as master minds
in Freshman English. Beforehand,
the question was widespread as_ to
whether masterpieces of drama should
be sacrificed to the furtherance of am-
ateur college dramatics. We bolstered
ourselves with college spirit and an
absorbing interest in the lesser forms
of the drhma;, however, and went. Our
attitude was unfortunate: thereby we
missed the proper retribution for a
hypocritical attitude. The first play,
The Twelve-Pound Look, was defi-
nitely amusing; the second, Riders to
the Sea, was so finished a perform-
ance that we were caught up the mood
of it to the point where we complete-
ly forgot ourselves, Goodhart, and The
Players’ Club, which sponsored the
two presentations.

Barrie’s The Twelve-Pound Look, al-
though well done, was not too convinc-
ing. In costume, setting, line, and sit-
uation it is almost too close to our
own mode of living’ to convince us of
reality if there is the slightest devia-
tion from reality of life as we know
it. When the tone of a play is mod-
ern, as it is in the case of Mr. Barrie’s
play, we demand an absolute repro-
duction of ourselves and of our sur-
roundings on the stage; and the finish-
ed excellence that must be found in
the presentation of such a play is
practically impossible for amateurs
to achieve in a limited time and with
limited resources for actual settings
and costumes. The setting and fhe
costumes in The Twelve-Pound Look
were very good, but they neither add-
ed to nor detracted from the develop-
ment of the tone in the presentation.
They were authentically and simply
modern. No more could have been
done to make them familiar and com-
monplace (as, indeed, they were meant
to be), but familiarity proved not so
much contemptible, as uninteresting.

Helen Fisher, “as Kate, played her
important role with the assurance that
the part demanded. Her poise and
her facility at inflecting her lines so
as to bring out at once her character
and the situation succeeded in bring-
ing to life the character of Kate, the
one role in the play which demands
and lends itself to interpretation at
all. The interpretation was not com-
pletely finished, however; her light,
deft touch in the scenes which lent
themselves to comedy was superb, but
her acting was not sure enough in
the serious and protracted conversa-
tion with Sir Harry Sims.

Sir Harry Sims, as portrayed by
Laura Musser, was — as he should
have beeri—a kind of idiot, full of
sound and fury signifying nothing.
“T’]] huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow
your house in” was his message as he
took his knightly exercise, striding
from one end of the stage to the
other. ,This excess movement Miss

Musser ‘succeeded in keeping up with-}-

out any outward sign either of fa-
tigue or of self-consciousness. She
played Sims as the typed character
that Barrie made him. The other play-
ers in The Twelve-Pound Look were
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Upperclass Tryout
The News wishes to announce
that there is a place.open to one

Any one wishing to” try out
_ should report to the News office
on Monday, November 12, at
5.45 P. M. :

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Alumnae Association

Will Debate Finances

Council: Meets This Week-End
in Nation-Wide Assemblage
at Bryn Mawr





DIVERSIONS PLANNED



The Council of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of Bryn Mawr College is
meeting at Bryn Mawr College on
must cover every page in detail. If
November 8th, 9th and 10th, when del-
egates from all over the United States
will ‘be present, to discuss with the
executive officers and _ councillors
questions pertaining to the finances
of the Alumnae Association and schol-
arships for the college. In addition
to the Alumnae delegates, President
Marion Edwards Park, Dean Helen
Taft Manning, Dean Eunice Morgan
Schenck of the Graduate School,
Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York,
and Mrs Learned Hand of ‘New
York, Directors of the College, will
be present.

The Council will open on Thursday
at half past twelve with a luncheon
at the Deanery, Bryn Mawr College,
for official members of the Council as
guests of Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark,
of Haverford, Pa., president of the
Alumnae Association, to be followed
by a meeting at which Mrs. Clark will
welcome the members and ‘open the
business session of the Council. The
afternoon session will include discus-
sion of financial problems, led by Miss
Bertha S. Ehlers, of Upper Darby,
Pa., treasurer, and Miss Virginia At-
more, of Wayne, chairman of the
Finance Committee and of the Alum-
nae Fund, and a report of the special
committee on alumnae relations with
the College by Mrs. Robert M. Lewis,

Continued on Page Five



Mrs. Dean Appraises
Dictatorship Policies
in Russia and Italy



Individual Liberty Subordinated
to State Welfare. Standard ©
of Living Lowes



PROLETARIAT, PROPERTY |

CLASS RULE NEW.ORDER



The peoples of all but a few Euro-
pean countries appear to have “ac-
cepted dictatorship as the form of gov-
ernment best adapted to provide them
with political. peace, econ6mic security
and fresh spiritual energy,”. stated
Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean in her dis-
cussioh of Dictatorship on Trial, the
second of the lectures given under the
Anna Howard Shaw Foundation. The
principal argument advanced in favor
of dictatorship is that it safeguards
the State against the vacillations and
delays inherent in parliamentary rule,
and enables the government to deal
promptly and efficiently with pressing
economic problems. Technical prob-
lems which cannot be properly under-
stood by the electorate are better left
to the discretion of a strong, and pre-
sumably wise, executive. This is pos-
sible because, it is argued, individuals
and groups do not resent the assump-
tion of dictatorial powers by the gov-
ernment.

Democracy is attacked for its politi-
cal inability to cope ‘with modern prob-
lems and for its identification in pop-
ular opinion with capitalism.
ics declare that democracy has not
succeeded in performing the funda-
mental task of all countries today—
that of ensuring ecOnomic security for
all,- while preserving a reasonable
measure of liberty for each.

Last year it was generally felt that
under parliamentary. rule no major re-
forms of the existing ‘system could
take place, and that only a dictator-
ship, armed with final authority and
free from responsibility to a popular
assembly could cope with the critical
situation. American industrialists ar-
gued that Fascism, American radicals
that Communism, had discovered the
only remedy for social crises. Closer

acquaintance with both systems has —

brought some measure of disillusion-
ment, and unquestioning faith has
yielded to a growing belief that dic-
tatorship, as well as democracy, is on
trial.

Continued on Page Four



New Instructor, Building, Equipment, Funds
Desired for History of Art Department



As Bryn Mawr reaches the fiftieth
anniversary of its opening, we pause
to appreciate how much each depart-
ment has meant to us, and how much
it will mean to our successors in the
future. Among the first that we con-
sider is the department of History of
Art, which shares with the depart-
ment of Archaeology the record of
giving some of the best graduate work
in art in the country. The depart-
ment now needs a new instructor, a
new btiilding, and a great deal of new
equipment. One of the plans for the
fiftieth anniversary is to provide funds
for _a new building, or wing of the li-
brary, for the departments of History
of Art and Archaeology. The Art
department has grown far faster
than the space provided for it; last
winter; it had five members and two
offices, three members of the depart-
ment in one office. This year there are
two in each office, and for the latest
reomer the department has annexed
the housemaid’s closet. The new wing
of the library should be exclusively for
Art and Archaeology and should have
an exhibition room, large lecture
rooms and conference rooms. Like
the Fogg Museum at Harvard, it
‘should be equipped with adequate
space to keep the slides, and ar-
rangements for filing, for storing, and
for consulting the photographs which
are harmed by constant rummaging:

The students ought to have a work-
room in the building where they could
go to practice painting, modelling, and
engraving, for which they should have
i special instructor and receive cred-



Italian primitives,



its as for a laboratory course. There
they could learn the. technique of the
the seventeenth
century Dutch masters, and the Im-
pressionist school, as these were stud-
ied in the major course. They should
have a chance to learn ink-painting,
an Oriental technique, in which Dr.
Ernst Diez is much interested. Dr.
Helson would be able and willing to
give help to students working on
color effects in painting. Especially
important and valuable would be the
instruction given in architectural and
topographical sketching.

The new approach to the visible
arts: would involve buying many books
and photographs, through which the
work of art is considered from the
side of the maker. eet

Besides funds for a building, and
the salary of another instructor, the
department needs money for fellow-
ships and_scholarships,..grgduate and
undergraduate. Many people now are
advised that the study of. History of
Art. is valuable in assuring them a
job. These people must be seen
through college and through at least
a year of graduate work to get an
M.A. There is also a tremendous and
very evidefit need for scholarships for
foreign study.

The department of History of Art
has grown up from a very small be~
ginning. The study of Art and Archae-
ology began in Miss King’s undergrad-
uate days. under Professor Richard
Norton, the son of Ruskin’s ‘friend,
Charles Eliot Norton.

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so apt a symbol for its sacred beast as the Bryn Mawr owl.

Ay, There’s the Rub
There is scarcely a higher institution of learning that has picked
Every

time we see our owl, our hearts thrill with pride at the thought that
our alma mater has outdone herself in fostering and elaborating upon

, the American college traditions of night life.

Student night. life has

~ always been a matter of so much song and story that we rise to this
occasion to tell the glories of our highly-developed nocturnal festivity.

and the merry woman (Solitaire Shark).

le bas bleu (Girl of the Stacks)
Both are obviously nocturnal

We are divided into two groups:

creatures with great shining eyes, and.a tendency to lethargy in the

day time.

It is both cruel and unavailing to attempt to awaken them

* jn full daylight, so that a study of a Bryn Mawr girl is extremely

difficult to make.

Only by lying low and quiet until the girls come

out at night, can even we, the servants of public.opinion, observe them

in their truly natural habitat.

After a long wait in the first dark

stretches of night, however, a slight rustle of papers and the unearthly
sound of shuffling cards greets the watcher.

The awakening of the college is an eerie business in itself, but

more phenomenal still is thé established fact that it occurs in regular
daily cycles, and always begins between 10:00 P. M. and 10:30. Never,
however, has any observer been able to determine at what hour approxi-

mately the girls’ activity ceases.

No investigator has ever outlasted

the bustl@ and stir; but several have hazarded the guess that the stu-
dents’ activity continues throughout the night, until dawn comes, and
blinds them, leaving them to sleep until the next 10:00 P. M.

* seribable rustling starts.

* Almost on the stroke of ten, as we have said before, this inde-
Seores of students creep out. of the stacks

and from behind the concealing screens of smoke in the eee sitting

rooms.
than the average student:

The denizens of the stacks have been found to be les& gregarious
they bear their sheafs of ‘papers and piles

of books to individual rooms and there raise solitary glee to the tune
of their touch typewriting. This genus, the Girl from the Stacks, may
« be easily identfied by the amateur from the peculiar nocturnal call of

the type: it is a series of sixty or more short rapping sounds, the ring
of a bell, and a dull thud.

The more lively denizen, the merry woman, is gregarious and is
comparable to the sheep in her imitative tendencies. She is usually
very active at night, and frequently plays such instructive and health-
ful games as leap frog or “Give a cheer for our college” as the night
waxes and wanes. In her case there is no one typical call by which to
recognize the species: suffice it to say, however, that it varies from a
short, but high and piercing giggle to the choric rendition of Pallas
Athene, entire, and although it is repeated throughout the night, it is
not, like the call of the stack species, continuous.

Both species have. been found to’ be very intelligent and really
cunning. The only worry of investigators concerning them is the
fear that the species may over exert itself and consequently become
extinet. There is an organization—the Infirmary—which has. taken
up the problem and keeps several students in captivity all of the time
io try to preserve the race, but the institutional atmosphere seems to
disagree with the captives. They either range about all day and all
night seeking escape or become low and futile of mind and sleep day
and night.

Right now, conservationist authorities are trying to remedy the
situation by instigating a reform movement among the students them-
selves to lessen the risk of extinction. We sincerely hope that the pro-
ject turns out to be successful, so that the night life tradition will be

perpetuated.



Come Out of Your Parlor

~-For years we have beer iiscarding ‘antimacassats’ 2nd dust-collect=}
ing what-nots and have been priding ourselves on metal furniture. But
strangely enough, we still cling to the most old- fashioned methods of
‘absorbing education.

In the far-off, benighted days of Queen Victoria, it was te cus-
‘40m among respectable and God-fearing people to set off one room in
their houses as ‘a sanctum sanctorum. No one but the timid parlor-

‘maid entered this room in the daily course of events.

and education from our r minds. Even in colleges, where this barbarie

ie

away with such fetishes. But not quite.
we go about a more difficult task and hermetically seal a part ofsour
minds i in a chureh-pew atmosphere never disturbed, except on the most

The sane twentieth century, everyone firmly believes, has done
With our scientific methods,

oeceasions. In this heathen fashion we cruelly banish culture

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THE VERSATILITY oF THE:
ART SEM
Italian we learn in the Art Sem,
The German is taught well there,
too os uae
And Fren PW uputdance, they have
it,
But English is scarce, it is true.





Ancient Egypt and Primitive
Spaniards,
And Greece, whose praise we have
sung,
And even the good Masolino
Need Ph.D.’s in foreign tongue.

This histories of Renaissance Paint-
ing,
Of Medieval and Modern Art
Are not only courses aesthetic,
But are also linguistic at heart,

And Spanish comes in with El] Greco;
That makes a round four you must
learn
For Kunstwissenschaft to obtain,
dears,
With polyglot tongue, else you burn.

' Die Studentin auf Malerie.



Dearest Violet,

There are things in this life which
like me not, as Robert Frost says of
the wall. You know Robert Frost of
Boston, don’t you? Maybe he was a
little too far north for-you. I hope
I meet him before he dies. But I
may die first, Violet. That is the way
with the world. It is very sad to
think one works so hard to die. But
look, I’m being ungrateful on a Sun-
day. How wretched, indeed, though
there is-a greyness out like March,
only without any hope in it. Taylor
looks like a temple of. darkness where
fate lowers from the windows, and
even the leaves and the grass droop
with a flat despondency and the trees
look like distraught old women with
wisps of hair sticking out. Yes, I ad-
mit it’s rather sorrowful. In fact all
my spirit, my usual verve, Violet,—
all that has crept out. of me and left
me contemplating indescribably stupid
notes. One page has only these
words: ‘Foamy-necked,”’ “. thanes,”
and under that, “Grendel’s Dam, the
Brine-Wolf.” And all this comes right
after Caedmon. Why are Grendel’s
Dam, Caedmon, thanes and foamy-
necked ‘together. It’s quite inconceiv-
able. Caedmon had visions and the
other things are Beowulfian. It’s all
very unhinging to the mind. Maybe
the translators got mixed. Of course,
I might have mixed them, but I take
very fine notes as a rule. I think,
though, I had swallowed my gum in-
advertantly, when I was on that page.
It’s rather frightening. You think of
your esophagus slowly being drawn
together and sticking like sealing wax
till you become gaunt and spindly and
fade to a‘ pale transparency. How
morbid! I felt quite faint, you know,
sort of as if things were reeling in-
side.

Well, dearest Vi, the weather’s
clearing and I’ve found that “foamy-

thane is a child of Abraham, so I

necked” refers to Noah’s Ark and a!



shall cease my sadness. -You don’t
mind, Violet, when; unburden all my
black passions, do you? Of course not.
j Dees Vi!

Introspectively, Your Friend, ;
; MIRANDA.



THE LAY OF THE LAST
MINSTREL
I am a modern -Trouvére,
I roam and I do not know where;
I sing where I will *e
When my spirits do spill,

|And now they have’ risen so high,

. that the hill
Is but mole-mound, and I am a giant
Who roars all defiant
At winds that would shrivel
The souls of the poor that do snivel
Because, they have so much to do.
I tell you
I feel free! I can hurl
My lessons; the books can curl
With age on their shelves
Till the elves
Come and use them for fire-wood.
Much good
They will do me, a child
Who finds the world small—not wild
Enough for one who will seek
The song of the ocean, .and a peek
Over the rim of the sun;
For I’m done with dust
Of dead men for the moment... I must
Sweep my mind
With new air, and find.
A small, young rill
Happy as I, before winter’s chill
Binds us straight and fast ©
To a long work, at last.

The Glad Young Thing.



Someone ought to write a collective '

biography of all the dogs that dot the
campus. Thre are the Mannnigs’
traditional Jill, and her honorable off-
spring, Han,
There is Tosh, the wilful and shaggy
Scotsman, who leads Merion a mad
meander at the end of his lasso.
There’s Molly, the noble guardian of
Dalton, who in Autumn takes on the
tawny shade of the leaves among
which she sits, and learns biology with
the rest of us. ~She uses the greatest
discrimination in choosing the points
to which she will listen, and _ then
leaves to ruminate upon them among
her blessed leaves. You never know:
Molly is around until she playfully
charges you when you are sprinting |
for a class. There is the red setter—

habitat-Lib—who comes gliding win-
somely around and about the stacks,

when you are least expecting canine |

attentions, and you wonder whether
your zoological treatise on lions has
suddenly come to life. There is Miss
Ely’s abundant clan of Highlanders,

of which we are very fond, especially |

the one with the incorrigibly wavy |
tail and ears. There is the pair of)
Sealyhams, vagrant gypsies that they |
are, so seldom clean, but so very inde-
pendent.
Styx, dog of Midnight, and Nicholas,
bounding, enormous and _ irresistible,
who has listed to all our literary woes.
These, we hope, will be back again to
grace the lawns and conferences, and '
with them, their respective owners.

This was just a helpfully statistical
suggestion for those who have not yet
written their long Herben paper.

Cheerio,

THE MAD HATTER.

*



practice should have been completely suppressed, learning is locked in

‘the parlor between classes and sessions at the library.

of. valuable mental power, and it
culture,

Quite without thinking about
presenting Riders to the Sea, and

effort toward opening the parlor of education.

This is a waste
is a violation of the purpose of

it probably, the.Players’ Club, tn}~ —

The Twelve-Pound Look, made an
They took two plays

labeled classics, and instead of using them for-an exhibition of the
principles of diction, they acted them with all the life and sympathy |2ation’ is not what Americans have

they could give.

They worked not for the sake of a perfect produe-

tion, but for the sake of something more vital to both players and

audience,

If all learning could be approached as were these two plays, with-|. .
out ceremony, without fear, and could be made a part of life as these
were, then the last traces of the partor era Would be eradicated.

“Just

Shem and Japheth..

And last, but not least, are,



because a book is on a required reading list, it is not dead. Required
readers could band themselves together for a worthy cause and pri-
vately dramatise, read, or illustrate, or somehow enliven the literature
prescribed for them. Such a procedure would be pleasant as well as
profitable, and the results would be effective and lasting. Now, of
course, Shakespeare societies are out of date, but none of us know
Lear or Othello so thoroughly or enjoy them so much as the old-fash-
ioned people, who met together now and then to recite Shakespeare
just for the fun of it. Edueation that cannot be vitalized is not educa-
tion at all, and education that we ourselves have had a hand in creating
is the truest and best. Play in the Players’ Club, support it, or follow
its method in other things, but at all events, open the parlors in your

‘minds, air them out, and live in them.

IN PHILADELPHIA

Theatres

Broad: And-yet again The Pursuit
of Happiness!

Academy :
you have doubtless gathered by now.
Thursday evening’s program is. Bou-
tique Fantasque, Aurora’s Wedding,
and Danube. ne

Erlanger: ' Lovel Out the Window,
a tender idyl of love’ shyly pursued
in Austria by a mysterious individual
called a “dental mechanic.”

Forrest: A fast musical comedy,
Revenge with Music, by Howard Dietz



Winninger, Libby Holman, and
es Metaxa. Another revue for

w York’s dinner parties to be late
for.

Dorothy Gish has another golden op-
portunity to be temperamental
throughout three acts.
Walnut:. She Loves Me Not is still
; accelerating considerably America’s
pa on the carefree years of college
e

Orchestra Program

WG eed as es bc Carmen
Alexander Smallens conducting.
Movies
Aldine: Transatlantic Merry-Go-

Round. Continued from last week.

Arcadia: Norma Shearer, Fredric
March, and Charles Laughton in The
Barretts of Wimpole Street. Almost
as good as the play, which is saying
an awful lot.
| Boyd: The Merry Widow, with
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Mac-
Donald. A truly super movie. Jean-
ette dancing the Merry Widow waltz
with Maurice is a romantic moment
even in the lives of the spectators.

Earle: One Exciting Adventure.
Continued from last week.

Fox: Gambling, with George M.
Cohan. Detective plot from stage play
of same name.

Karlton: One Night of Gave;
tinued from last week. —

Locust Street: Little Friend, with
Nova Pilbeam, is held over for a sec-
ond week. The life of the baffled
child comes in for excellent psycholog-
|ical treatment.
| Stanley: The Gay Divorcee.

other centinued engagement of a pop-
ular film: ”

Stanton: Kansas .City Princess.
;Comedy with Joan Blondell and Glen-
da Farrell,

Local Movies
| Ardmore: Wed., Bing Crosby in
‘She Loves Me Not; Thurs., Fri., and
Sat., Chained, with Clark Gable and
| Joan Crawford; Mon. and Tues., Rob-
ert Young and Madge Evans in Death
lon the Diamond; Wed. and Thurs.,
|Have a Heart, with Jean Parker and
James Dunn.
| Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Zasu
| Pitts and Slim Summerville in Their
| Big Moment; Fri. and Sat., There’s
‘Always Tomorrow, with Binnie
Barnes and Frank Morgan; Mon. and
|Tues., Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
|in London; Wed., The Dude Stranger,
with George O’Brien and Irene Her-
vey.
| Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., One
|More River, with Diana Wynyard and
Colin Clive; Fri. and Sat., Warner
Oland in Charlie Chan in London;
Mon., Tues., and Wed., Anna May
Wong in Chu Chu Chow.

Con-





High Praise for Miss Robbins’

Brother

D. W. Ellsworth, writing on “The
Business Outlook” in the current num-
‘ber of The Annalist, says: .,
What the President means by ‘atabili-

been accustomed to derive from that
word. . ... What the President means

. is not stabilization of the domes-
tic price level. . . Irving Fisher,
. in his latest book, Stable Money
(Adelphi), practically says.so. Sir
Chatles Morgan-Webb, in his recent=
book on The Rise and Fall of the Gold |
Standard (Macmillan) practically
says so. But for a crystal-clear ex- |
planation of what this is likely to
mean to the future of world trade and
hence to internal business conditions |

means read what is probably the mosét
lucid exposition of world econojmic
problems yet published, The Great
Depression (Macmillan), by Lionet
Robbins, Professor of Economics i
the University of London.”
Professor Robbins is the brother
‘Dr. Caroline Robbins, Associate in
History in Bryn Mawr College.



The Russian Ballet, as

and Arthur Schwartz, with Charles’

An- |

Garrick: Brittle Heaven, in which ~

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three |





Varsity Team Loses

, Game for First Time

Merion Cricket Club Wins 4-2;
Germantown vs. 2nd Team

Is Tied, 5-5





PLAY LACKS IN DRIVE



On Saturday morning, the Varsity
hockey team went down to its first
defeat of the season, bowing to the
Merion Cricket Club, 2-4.

Merion had. Bryn Mawr on the de-| :

fensive throughout the first half and
scored’ three goals on straight drives
down the field. Varsity seemed . to
lack all its usual punch and co-opera-
tion; the passing was short and usu-
ally ineffectual; few rushes were
made and the backfield rarely tackled
until the opponents had the’ball with-
in striking distance of the goal. Sev-
eral opportunities to score were off-
ered on corners, but the free shot- was
either missed entirely or easily
blocked by the Merion line. Other
attempts to score were either way
wide of the mark or stopped by the
excellent playing of Miss Page, the

- great center of the Merion defense,

who seemed to. be able to anticipate
Varsity’s every move. .

Varsity came back with a vengeance
in the second half, with Cary leading
the attack and scoring the two goals.

’ The defense stiffened up considerably,

worked better with the forwards and
allowed Merion to score only one
more goal. The forwards, however,
faded out again, several pretty shots
from the wing dribbling across the
field only inches from the goal, but
with no one there to give them a
crack into the cage. Have we only
a phantom forward line after all, or
is it that the team missed the driving
spirit of Kent at center half, for cer-



tainly something was sadly lacking
in Saturday’s play?

The. lineup was as follows:

Merion Pos. Bryn Mawr
OWNS (6k Bi We basa Gimbel
Thayer. ......-.-.-. ae ee nn
BPOWD cic is ss Ge eo Cary
MMDUOPOOCLK : 6i5—ded Ser ccs ee Faeth
SUCUG sta Wi es Brown
SOY acs cass r. h. .... Bridgman
MOR 5c ag wre ad any FV) |
Williams ..... ee ee « Perera S, Evans
POCnOT Mele. Be De kc ee ks Jackson
OUIMIN «3.55, TOR acs Gratwick
Rodman .:....3 Brock ea nd Smith

Substitutions: ‘Bryn Mawr} Bake-

well for Faeth, Faeth for Gimbel.

Goals: Merion—Brown, 2; Van-
derbeck, 1; Tuttle, 1. Bryn Mawr—
Cary, 2. é



In a fast-moving, high-scoring sec-
ond team hockey game against Ger-
mantown Cricket Club II on Monday,
the Bryn Mawr Reserves were held to
a 5-5 stalemate, The game was hard
fought, and there were numerous at-
tacks by both sides which gave the
sidelines many thrills. German-
town brought an improved team to
avenge its earlier overwhelming de-
feat several weeks ago. They start-
ed out vigorously and soon poked a
shot past goalie Leighton. Soon af-
ter Bryn Mawr rallied when a few
minutes later, Jo Taggart sent in a
beautiful shot from her position at
right wing. The play swung back
and forth for the next few moments
until Germantown launched an in-
spired attack which netted them two
points by Dot Sigel and a firm grasp
on the lead at half time. Starting
with the first minute of the final per-
iod the Bryn Mawr combination
snapped out of their earlier sluggish-
ness and goals by Rosie Bennett and
Taggart enabled us to tie the score.
Germantown, however, retaliated with
a pretty shot by the right inner



Ginns and wrested the lead away once
more. After much aimless running
about, characterized by a noticeable
lack of co-operation between the de-
fense and the forwards, Hope Gimbel

rushed_through-to-put the tying shot |

past Lewis. A few minutes later
Varsity reserves took the lead on a
pretty drive of Bennett’s. This lead
was held tenaciously by the rapidly
tiring Bryn Mawr defense, as the
states pyf ~*~ Segan to descend
over the hockey field. But with
scarcely 15 seconds of play remain-
ing, Kitty- McLean sent a drive into
the goal cage despite Leighton’s fran-
tic efforts to save it. Before play
could be resumed the whistle blew

for the end of the game.

Line-up aa

B. M. II Pes. Ger. C.C. II

POMGart 545%. r. w. .: P. C.Garrett
Bennett ...... Pile cies R. Ginns
GiMmbel? oo os cscs OG iiiccus Chaffee
WRMEPTNOTL ove te be ccc ceaccn Sigel
Se ne l. w. ..... Cadbury
Hemphill ..... ee ait. Brown
BUUIG soa cs OO ci McLean
aed ee EEE Re a Bryce
Scattergood ... r. bo ...0%. Johnson
Seltzer ....... l. b. ... Zimmerman
Leighton 0.36.5 Ee ree Lewis

Subs.: Pitroff for Scattergood.
Umpires: Smyth and P. Flannery.
Time of halves: 25 minutes.



Social Service Work
Needs New Traditions



“I think the traditions of public
service in this country need to be
made over,” said Miss Kahn, speaking
in the Common Room Friday. Miss
Kahn, who has been for the past two
years in charge of Philadelphia Emer-
gency Relief Work, went on to say
that Americans always think of oblig-
atory public service in connection with
foreign countries, such as England,
where it is the obligation of all

‘tions vitally need the





Smoking in Library
Smoking is not allowed in the
Cloister of the Library. The
«rule for the upper campus—ap-
plies to the Cloister as well.







thoughtful citizens.

At the present time when the coun-
try is full of Emergency Relief or-
ganizations which are”"manty—_, ~
cial Workers, and many of which a.
under Civjl Service; opportunities in
this branch of. work are many and
their number will be continually ex-
panded. These vast numbers of posi-
ability, the
training, and the quality of intellect
that colleges aim to produce. Only the
sort of person who has objectively con-
sidered economic principles can fill
these jobs.

Government positions will in the
future be more and more under’ Civil
Service. No local social work and
very few of such positions are under
Civil Service now. Miss Kahn and
her staff have been experimenting for
some time with examinations which
will soon become formal and routine
for most of the positions open in So-
cial Service. These examinations are
both written and oral. Miss Kahn and
her colleagues insisted upon a college
degree as a prerequisite to these ex-
aminations, although the State want-
ed them to offer the examinations to
anyone who had had even a little col-
lege training. In the future some spe-
cial college courses may be required
for the candidates. Preference is giv-
en, in filling vacancies, to college grad-
uates who have also had some profes-
sional training. The Philadelphia
Board has given employment to well-
qualified workers who do not live in
Philadelphia County or even in Penn-
sylvania, for they go on the theory
that these relief organizations are na-




tional, not local. Very few Bryn Mawr



graduates have taken the examina-
tions in the past. Miss Kahn hopes
that more will do so in the future.

y

After the workers have passed their .

examinations they enter-upon-what is

coming to be the probationary period,
as Junior Visitors, beginning with sal-
aries of $80 to $100 a month. An at-
tempt is being made to raise this scale
of wages in proportion to the individ-
ual candidate’s preparation. A plan

“*-~nsing the State employment. agen-

“ues as training fields for social work
is under consideration, since there is

a great deal of interviewing to be ©

done in these agencies.

Each Junior Visitor handles from
one hundred to one hundred twenty-
five families. The visitor’s primary
responsibility is to determine the eligi-
bility of each family for relief, to dis-
cover other problems the family may
have, and to refer’it for the allevia-

tion of these problems to other facili- .

ties and resources of the community.
The workers must get at all sorts of
information, such as. the employabil-

ity of the various members of the fam- :

ilies. Therefore the State’s whole

knowledge of a family depends on the |

visitor’s estimate of it.

There are a great many executive
and administrative jobs
with: Emergency Relief organizations
(about 1,300 in Philadelphia Emer-

gency Relief alone), for which college

training would prove useful. The de-

connected .

Ps)

cisions that must be made in such ”

work require more background .-and
imagination than the average clerk
possesses. If unemployment insurance
or even compulsory registration of un-
employed comes into practice, there
will be a great increase in the num-

ber of visiting jobs open, similar to

those in Emergency Relief with simi-
lar opportunities for intreviewing and
field contacts. If a study of unem-
ployment statistics is begun, there will
be many openings for research
workers.





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Dean Gives Advice —

On Organizing Work

Trends Emphasized
In Studying Rather Than
~ Small Details

QUIZZES ARE NECESSARY



“Keep your heads clear and take

your time when it comes to taking an
examination,” said Mrs. Manning,
speaking in Chapel on November 1.
_An almost unbelievable number of stu-
dents who have failed an examination
give the excuse that, because they
stayed up all night studying, ‘they
could not read nor even see the exami-
nation paper in the morning. Most
of the poor papers that are writ-
ten are poor in every part.. They con-
sist merely of scattered facts thrown
upon the paper and not thought out in
advance. As on the entrance examina-
tions, if a student has chosen the
most difficult questions to cope with,
and has understood what she is talk-
ing about, she is given credit for her
efforts even if her mark is low. It
is better to show that one understands
one-half or one-third of one’s subject
than to discuss the whole field vague-
ly and at random.

Consequently, the college student
must learn how to organize her’ stud-
ies. College work differs in speed or
tempo from that of the lower grades
in school. The object of most good
schools, in the lower grades at least,
is to give technique, or a firm grasp
on certain general principles. If a
child has not learned how to write or
spell, all sorts of unpleasant surprises
await him in his future scholastic
work. In college, however, as in fu-
ture life, one must “get things togeth-
er for one’s self.”

The difficulty most students have in
reading and in getting over the ground
prescribed in their subjects, is not that
they do not finish, but that they never
even begin. They are so discouraged
after one look at their assignments
that they do not try to cope with what

they can do. “Do what you can,” said |

Mrs. Manning, “in the best way for
you, and don’t worry about the rest.”
The faculty do not usually expect that
the work they give out shall be done
in detail. Most of the students go
over their work too slowly. They
must learn to hasten over some para-
graphs, asking themselves what the
general trend or gist is. They must
study with the thought of organiza-
tion, of learning general facts and
concrete examples to illustrate them,
but not with the thought that they
must cover every page in detail. if
the student cannot get through her
work in the time she has set for her-
self, she must stop at the end of the
time and let the rest of the work go.



New Instructor, Building,
Equipment, Funds Desired



Continued from Page One

At the same time, Miss Gwinn (now
Mrs. Hodder) set up in the students’
parlor of Merion the Braun photo-
graphs illustrating Peter’s Renais-
gance as she came to it each year
when teaching her Major English
course. . The work went on under a
single instructor who was always an
archaeologist and frequently _indif-

.. ferent to the Renaissance. When Miss

King came back in the English de-
partment, she was allowed to give, al-
ternately: Renaissance Painting and
Gothic Architecture.

When Mr. Carpenter became a
member of the faculty, the department
was divided, giving him plenty of room
for antiquity, and giving Miss King

- a chance at the Middle Ages, the Ren-

aissance, and all art since then. As

__ the work grew, the Demonstrator be-| scribes matters not at all: The Novel

gan taking classes to meet the stu-

en amen
After there had been an excursus on

_ Oriental art in the middlé of Sienese'|
_ painting, the College found George
\ Rowley at Princeton, who undertook
to teach Art of the Far East the fol-
) lowing autumn. This was in the teeth

3 protest and laughter at Princeton
wa made that Oriental Art could not
m has never stopped teaching it.

the Department very nearly had|}

rygowski as one of its members, but
seemed so near the retiring age

Harvard, where the declaration |
ght to undergraduates. Bryn||

he decided to send instead his|i!



| Book Review



Lust For Life is a rare book in
ithe sense that it actually, is all that
it-pretends tobe. That alone is coni-
mendable, and peculiarly. satisfying to
the reader who resents any superior-
ity complex about art and literature
that he thinks he detects in the au-
;thor. Irving Stone subtitles his book
iThe Novel of Vincent Van Gogh; he
states that he based the book on the
available information concerning Van
Gogh’s life, fitting in suitable dialogue
and filling thé. Ae a ae
dents that might well have been part
of Van Gogh’s life.

Lust For Life is a first-rate novel:
the characters are interesting and
well-developed, the plot is clever, al-
most gripping (Van Gogh led an in-
teresting life) ; the style is not distin-
guished in the sense either that it is
highly literary or that it is highly per-
sonal, The book is an objective analy-
sis of the period of mental growth and

|



Mrs. Dean Appraises

Dictatorship Policies



Continued from Page One

Three principal _questions..may--be
raised in developing the comparison
between Fascist and Communist sys-
tems, Have these dictatorships proved
more successful than democracies in
providing their peoples with good gov-
ernment? Have they succeeded in solv-
ing the economic problems of the mod-
ern age? And in accomplishing their
ends, have they provided the individ-
ual with a fuller opportunity for spir-
itual development?

The manifestations of Fascism and:

Communism are determined by the
history, political traditions. and eco-
nomic conditions of the countries in
which they hold sway. Communism
enjoys one distinct advantage over
Fascism: in a country whose reser-
voirs of natural: resources have as
yet been barely explored, the govern-
ment may safely promise material



artistic apprenticeship of Vincent Van |
Gogh. Compared, for example, with |
Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a|
Young Mam, a novel without direct |
biographical basis, it seems primarily |
fictional in content, in treatment ex- |
traordinarily impersonal,

Vincent Van Gogh seems on casual
reading to be what is usually called “a
well-rounded, three-dimensional char-
acter”’—-the “‘red-blooded he-man” of
literary jargon. In his emotional de-
velopment we have his tender feeling
for his brother, Theo, a more gentle,
sympathetic and orderly Van Gogh,
his difficulties with his family, his first
absorbing love and his keen feeling of
disappointment and sense of ineffect-
uality on his ill-suecess in love. Mean-
while, Van Gogh’s mind is also in a
state of transition: he is young
‘enough and idealistic enough to aban-
don the sordid business of selding pic-
tures to wealthy people, for the God-
given task of ministering to the poor
and the oppressed in one of the worst
mining districts in France. He short-
ly finds that his ministry is fruitless
/and loses his belief in God altogether.
| With this loss of all conventional
religious feeling, begins his appren-
ticeship to art. His striving to obtain ;
a medium for expression and his diffi-
culties in getting the right line, the
right materials and the right colors,
occupy the central and most nbeorbing:
part of Lust For Life. Even for the}
layman in art, the climax of the book |
lies in the analysis of Van Gogh in|
his maturity, working out his tech-
nique in Arles. The fiery Arlesian!
sun and the demoniac mistral seem|
together to have given Van Gogh a
crucible in which to fuse the emo-
tional and mental and physical com- |
| ponents of his art. His mental agony |
|and its expression in his violent physi- |
'eal self-torture, and the emotional
pitch of his Maya vision are throw-
backs from the high fever of artistic
| composition.
| This point marks, perhaps, the
‘height of the novel, the height of the;
|life that is the biographical basis of
'Lust For Life. It marks, too, the be-|
ginning of a more scientific mode of |







benefits to the population; but the
Fascists must carefully husband the
limited resources of a relatively poor
country, and can look to no great im-
provement in Italy’s economic situa-
tion, unless they succeed in obtaining
additional territory. Therefore, Com-
munism is essentially dynamic, and
can speak boldly in the future tense,
with the boastfulness and aggressive-
ness of boisterous youth. Fascism is
also dynamic in quality, but the
Fascists can promise no millenium;
at best they can merely order their
resources so as to assure more equal
distribution among the various classes
of the population.

When the Bolshevists came into
power in Russia, Lenin was too acute
a student of Russian conditions to be-
lieve that Marxist principles, devised
for al highly industrialized economy,
could be applied in their original form
to a country primarily agrarian, He
realized that a community of interests
had to be created between individualist
peasants clamoring for private owner-

‘Ship of land and organized workers

“who had nothing to lose but their
chains,”
government to conciliate the peasants
and win their collaboration in the task
of building an industrialized socialist
state has occasioned many of its diffi-
culties since 1927.

Fascism represented a reaction on
the part of the young generation ‘of
1922 against the defeatism of the So-
cialists, the impotence of Italy’s post-
war parliament, and the results of
the World War. It satisfied the de-

means.
The failure of the Soviet:

classes, but espouses the interests of
one or more groups against thé others,
In Russia it has, beéme a dictatorship
of the proletariat, in.Italy of the prop-
ertied classes.~ “~*~ :

Above all, Fascism ana Communism
are one-party governments, for politi-
cal control is vested in the hands of a
single party, which alone is legal, and
which governs in the name and for
the benefit of the people as a whole.
The task of governing devolves on a
small group selected, not by popular
suffrage, but by self-appointment from
within the ranks of the party. Both
ruling groups assure their self-perpet-
uation in power by controlling the po-
litical institutions, the press and the
right of . association, thus effectively
blocking change by peaceful means.
Any attempt at their overthrow would
necessitate destruction of the entire
social fabric—a risk which many of
their opponents would hesitate to.
take:

Dictatorship by the party is dupli-
cated by dictatorship within the party.
In both Russia and Italy the govern-
ing pafty®is a “monolithic” unity,
whose members are held together by
rigid control from the top. Deviation
from the party line formulated by
the acknowledged leader—Mussolini
or Stalin—is -considered not merely as
an intra-party conflict but as treason
against the state,

We may well ask whether govern-
ment under Fascism and Communism
constitutes good government—good at
least to the extent of being preferable
to democracy. The Fascists and Com-
munists would reply that repression
and coercion are necessary until a new
and better social order is established,
in which all individuals will regard
work as a social service, and the ma-
chinery of the state will become un-
necessary and will gradually “wither
away.” Although the machinery
shows no signs of withering away
either in Russia or Italy, the use of
coercion is defended by Fascists and
Communists on the ground that their
ends can be achieved only by the use
of force, and that the end justifies the
We must immediately ask
what ends and by whom determined?
It is answered that these dictatorships
endeavor to solve modern economic
problems by so organizing national
economy as to assure a more equal
distribution of goods, terminate the
class struggle and prevent the para-
dox of want in the midst of plenty.

Has Fascism or commun solved

these problems? The Soviet govern-



scale attempt in the world to estab-
lish planned economy, but Soviet plan-

mand of the middle class for social | ning is not a harmonious process un-
order and stability, and today the|der which each plan sweeps to its
Fascists regard the preservation of appointed goal without hitch or delay.
social order in post-war Italy as one|The concentration of production in the

of their outstanding achievements.

heavy instead of the light industries

Both Fascism and Communism are!explains the apparent paradox that,

|more than merely a political or eco-| while the Soviet authorities report

nomic system; they ere an all-embrac-|constant industrial progress, the pop-

ing philosophy, a v.ay of life.. Both ulation continues to
‘have the characteristics of fanatical shortage of many necessities of life.

religious movements: unquestioning

experience a

The program of agricultural collect-

acceptance of a doctrine, intolerance jvization inaugurated in 1928 did not
of all other political faiths, and a de-'take into account the facts that the
sire to gain converts by persuasion if | production of agricultural machinery
possible, by force if necessary. The} and manufactured goods would be in-

| dogmatic character of Fascism and sufficient to meet the demands of the

interpretation on Mr. Stone’s part: ,Communism is the principal source of | peasants, and that the transportation

jthe last tragic chapters

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Gogh’s life are in a sense parts of a ‘weaknesses: it maintains unity in the|

| east study. All of the

painter’s
Strength has been dissipated, and he
_lives on as a type of highly-strung
artist. His months*‘in the insane asy- |
‘lum leave him dormant artistically for |
‘long peridds, raging at his impotence |
and at the realization that he has no!
| control at all over his epileptic seiz- |
, ures. am |

| The first part of: the book is inter-

‘artist, the last of it is fascinating for
its study of an artist who is become
‘a man of the most earthbound sort.
_Whether the whole of Lust For Life
}is true in the sense that Van Gogh

‘really lived the life Mr. Stone de-

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ranks of the party, but it may also|

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ment has inaugurated the first large-

Planned economy has not yet creat-
ed economic equality nor. materially
improved the standard of living. A
new social hierarchy, with Soviet of-
ficials and factory workers at the top,
peasants and intellectuals at the bot-
tom has arisen. The standard of liv-
ing has fallen, for, although money
wages have risen, real wages have de-
creased because of the depreciation of
the currency and the rise in the cost
‘of food. ;

: Fascism, unlike Communism, recog-
nizes private initiative, in industry,
trade and agriculture, but it demands
that private initiative shall serve the
interests of the state. It insists that
all conflicts between capital and labor
shall be adjusted by peaceful means:
strikes and lockouts are prohibited,
and the workers can form no inde-
pendent trade unions, the employers
no independent trade associations. The
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crease Italy’s dependence on import-
ing such indispensable products as
wheat and coal, and to expand the ex-
port industries. But the increase in
home-produced wheat and coal has not
kept pace with the increase in the pop-
ulation and in the demands of expand-
ed industry. The-revaluing of the lira
in 1927 at a point too high for the po-
tentialities of Italian economy offset
what gains had been made.

Fascists and Communists say that
these economic hardships are offset by
the new spiritual atmosphere and in-
spiration which Fascism and Com-
munism afford. Both philosophies pro-
pound the belief. that the individual
finds his best fulfillment in subordina-
tion to the aims and interests of socie-
ty as a whole, for the life of the in-
dividual is brief, but the life of the
state is eternal. If the individual de-
sires more liberty than this concep-
tion affords, the Fascists and Com-
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masses are more important than those
of the individual, that the masses are
little concerned with abstract emo-
tions or liberties, but demand a mini-
mum of collective experience. The
poet, the musician, the painter, and
even the scientist, must voice not indi-
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of New Haven, Conn. There will-be a
hockey match at four o’clock to which
the Council members are invited. Tea
will be served at the president’s
house, where the official members of
the Council will have the opportunity
to meet members of the Faculty and
instructing staff. In the evening Miss

” Elizabeth Y. Maguire, of 3813 Spruce

street, Philadelphia, chairman of the
Scholarships and Loan Fund Commit-
tee, will entertain the district coun-
cillors at dinner, followed by a con-
ference on scholarships, while~other
members: of the Council will be en-

tertained at dinner in Wyndham At/%,
hajlf-past eight o’clock the Council

members are invited to attend a con-

‘ference of students and faculty under
the auspices of the Department of Pol-
itics led by Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean
of the Foreign Policy Association, co-
author of New Governments in Eu-
rope, Visiting Lecturer at Bryn Mawr
College under the Anna Howard
Shaw Memorial Foundation.

On Friday morning the Council will
visit classes and laboratories ynder
the guidance of a committee ot ac
ty and students. Luncheon ‘at the
Deanery as guests of Mrs.. Howard
Phipps, of New York City, Council-
lor for District II, will follow. The
afternoon session will be given over
to reports from the district council-
lors and chairmen of standing com-
mittees. In the evening President



Park will speak on the college at al

dinner to be given at the Acorn Club.

_ On Saturday-morning--various -as-
pects of the College will-be discussed.
“The Undergraduate Point of View”
will be presented by Miss Polly Bar-|
nitz, of Bryn Mawr, member of the}
Class of 1934 and Miss Peggy Little, |
of Boston, member of the Class of |
1985. Miss Dorothy Burwash, of On-|
tario, Canada, resident fellow in his-
tory, will speak on the Graduate}
School. Mrs. Robert W. Claiborne, of
New York City, senior Alumnae Di-

rector, will speak on the Board of Di-| .

rectors and Dean Helen Taft Man-
ning, Professor Marion’ Parris Smith
and Professor Samuel Claggett Chew
will represent the Faculty. This|
meeting marks the formal adjourn-
ent of the Council.

Various forms of entertainment |
have been planned for the members |
of the Council who. will remain at)
Bryn Mawr over the week-end. Thej
unveiling of the Anna Howard Shaw:
Memorial Tablet in the Library Clois-|

ters will take place at three o’clock



on Saturday, when President-emeri- |
tus M:- Carey Thomas will speak. The |{

Bryn Mawr Players will present. in-

formal plays in the evening in Good-||

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Dr. Veltmann Explains

Atomistic Fallacies



Continued from Page One

that different entities interact in so
far as they are the same. Moreover,
action can only take place through di-
rect physical contacts such as blows
or pressure. Because the Atomists de-
nied that any action could take place
at a distance, the possibility of an im-
material power was definitely ruled
out of their system.
The genesis of the material world
has two interpretations, The first, at-
tributed to Democritus and Leucippus,




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begins with the assumption that atoms
‘falling at random in space occur in

They move toward the center accord-
ing to their various weights. As the
larger atoms work their way in, they
strike the smaller atoms on the side
and drive them out. This action pro-
duces lateral motions that cause vor-
tices. The continued activity of these
whirling masses of atoms creates
many worlds. The division of the ele-
ments arises from the sifting of the
atoms in layers according to the prin-
ciple that like combines with like. The
earth, composed’ of heavy coarse
atoms, occupies the center and is sur-
rounded by water. The two outer lay-
ers are first air and then fire.

The second interpretation of .the
genesis is probably the invention of
Epicurus and Lucretius. A modifica-
tion of the original system was
thought necessary because of Aris-
totle’s devastating criticism of vor-
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Unfortunately, in his efforts to cor-
rect one mistake, he contradicted the
most fundamental principle of~ the
Atomistic system.

Epicurus decided that the genesis
of the universe started with a rain of
atoms in space. The first lateral mo-
tion was caused by an inexplicable
deviation of one of the atoms. Such
an action could only be explained by
the existence of a free will.. Thus an
element of arbitrariness was introduc-
ed into nature. This interpretation,
ignoring the necessity of cause and -
allowing something to come out of
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One Act a Gain

“aan _._Praise_of Audience

Continued from Page Une

Amelia Wright, as
languishing
and clinging lady to perfection, and
Amelia Forbes, in the role of the But-
ler, said her few lines in the most
diverting and established tradition of
Sterling Holloway.

‘

Our praise for the direction of The
Twelve-Pound Look goés to Mary
Hinckley Hutchings. The stage han-

€ dling.was nice, the interpretations: of

the four characters were adroitly
managed so as:to gain a contrast in
effect.

The production of Riders to the
Sea was the highpoint of the evening.
Costumes, setting, acting and direc-
tion were much more than adequate:
in each case, the producers and play-
ers used to the full the opportunities
for heightening and sustaining the
tone of the play. The contrast of col-
ors in set and costumes were handled
effectively to set the tone of the piece
from the outset. All of the players
were exceedingly well cast: all of the
women had lyric voices suited to the
temper of the piece and Bartley’s
voice was lyric, but just enough deep-

er to provide realism without destroy-.

ing the unity of this musical effect.
Maurya, played by Alice’ Mary
Graves, was realistically done. Miss

‘Graves did the best piece of acting in

the play: her accent was convincingly
Irish, her manner was that of an old
and broken woman, and she conveyed
the tragic import of her lines with
admirable success. Both of the
daughters, Kathleen and Nora, done
by Sophie Hemphill and Edith Rose,
were played with the right degree of
pathos; even more commendable is the
fact that both actresses showed



ence of mind, and continued the ac- |

tion; when the peat-loft began falling
about them. A
Bartley, was excellent: as the living
Bartley, she showed an amazing com-
mand of Irish dialect; as the corpse,
she filled her entire audience with the

proper degree of terror.

The real test of the direction came
in the last scene, when the entire cast

4 was on the stage, and when the audi-

ence was so keyed up to the tragic

‘|pitch of the play that the slightest

mistake would have precipitated gales
of laughter. Yet the keening, which’
so easily might have been made ri-
diculous, was touching and eerie. The
men and women were grouped on the
stage so as not to impede the action
and so as to form a beautiful tableau.
And Maurya’s prayer was done with
the necessary simplicity, yet intensity
of. feeling. The curtain came down
before a tense and silent audience that
took several minutes to get out of the
mood that had been so well created
by the play. Certainly, a great meas-
ure of praise is deserved by Edith,
Rose, who directed Riders to the Sea.
, Credit for the. sets of both plays
must go to Olga Mueller, who used
the flats so that the same general
background could be used for both
plays, with a shift only in properties
and pieces of furniture. G.° Ee R:

Allinson, _as |

ptimes, alternating with

Marriner Discusses Music

Continued froin Page One

by Liszt. His chief interest was in
the symphony and the string quartet, |

‘but his 35 piano sonatas, although sur-

passed technically by his contempor-
ary, Clementi, reveal
sprightly wit and humor, exquisite fin-
ish, and refreshing melody.

The sonata is similar to the sym-
phony in structure.. The first and
most important of its three or four
movements is divided into three main
sections: the exposition, the develop-
ment, and the restatement or recapit-
ulation, added to which i is a-coda, The
second movement is usually a slow,
song-like piece with two themes; It
can be written in the same form as
the first movement.or in the episodical
form, consisting of a statement, con-
trast, and restatement. The third
movement is a minuet,’ with a con-
trasting trio added, while the fourth
movement is a rondo whosé principal
theme must be heard at least three
contrasting
episodes and a final entry of the main
theme. For its unity it depends on de-
velopment and harmonic inter-rela-



tions of a single theme.



“of Haydir and’ Mozart:

. three he began learning music, at five

a flowing:

Mozart, born in 1756 in Salzburg,
was the world’s greatest _prodigy.¥ At

he composed his first composition, a
minuet, and was playing in public,
while at seven he began the tours of
Europe that ruined his health and
| caused his early death at the age of
35. At 14 he composed like an adult.
In Vienna he led a terrible existence,
beset with every possible difficulty, and
ignored by a public who adored Haydn
and Gluck. Haydn, however, recogniz-
ed genius and his gréat knowledge of
the art of composition. But with his
masterly composition Mozart preserv-
ed a Raphael-like serenity, beauty, and
refinement, as well as pure harmony
and delight in his composition.

Mozart surpasses Haydn in his pi-
ano sonatas, and is the founder of the
classic concerts and a daring experi-
menter in chromatic effects. He rev-
elled in the sheer beauty of melody, in
whose spontaneity and charm an Ital-
ian influence can be seen. Mozart’s
music is difficult to play becausé of



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