College news, February 28, 1934

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VOL. XX, No. 15

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDA

Y, FEBRUARY 238, 1934

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Vienna Choir Gives

Delightful Concert

—_—_,
‘Passionless Clarity, Sweetness,
Precision and Flexibility

Mark Singing



DIRECTOR IS ARTIST



(Especially Contributed by
Mr. Alwyne)
On Thursday last a very delightful

concert was given by the famous Wie-
ner Sangerknaben who have been

>making a very extended tour of the

United States. This was the last Con-
cert of a tour which has included fifty-
five cities and taken them from coast

to coast. The Choir, which consists of

18 boys of from 10 to 13 years of age,|

must surély have aroused much envy

in the breasts of countless small boys
when it is
travels have taken them, not only
across the American Continent, but
also» through Scandinavia, France,
Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria,
Italy and Greece.

The boys, far from being fatigued
with their travels (and all their jour-
neys in this country have been made
in a huge motor coach), expressed
themselves as, being only regretful
that they had not had thé opportunity
to see still mére of America. They
may look like some of Raphaels cre-
ations when they are on the stage, de-
murely attired in their cassocks and
surplices, but they are real boys just
the same, as anyone would~have dis-
covered who happened to see them
after the Concert indulging in a snow
fight with some of the Freshmen re-
turning froma rehearsal for Fresh-
man show, or playing every conceiv-
able kind of prank while donning
their wigs and costumes for the Opera
which constituted the second part of
the program.

The Viennese choir was founded in
the same decade which saw the dis-
covery of America, and was attached
to the Imperial Chapel adjacent to
the Royal Residence in Vienna. Since
the war the boys have been housed
in the Imperial Palace itself. The
Choir has a wonderful tradition be-
“hind it, having had as members both
Haydn and Schubert and, in modern

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Miss Park Gives Plans
‘ . \For New Residence Hall





In ‘Chapel on Thursday morning,
Miss Park discussed plans for a new
dormitory for 150 students and for the
addition of 100 students to the stu-
dent body. This increase in the num-
ber of students seems the only possi-
ble way to add to the college income
the $60,000 needed to make the faculty
salaries and the range of subjects of-
fered more in keeping with what they
should be in a college of the type that
Bryn Mawr is. The advantage of a
small college would scarcely be lost by
the addition of twenty-five more stu-
dents to each class. The freshman
year is the, point at which this addi-
tion would be most marked. The pres-
ent freshman class and the present
junior class varied in number by as
many as twenty-five students on en-
trance to college. It would be possi-
ble and beneficial to divide the addi-
tional twenty-five students among the
twenty departments, and would serve
to make the small advanced classes
more interesting.

There is no more room for students |

either in “Dalton or in Taylor hall,

so any increase in the number of stu-
dents would have to be preceded by
the erection of the new Science build-
ing and of the new Library wings.
When these are completed, the mathe-
matics classes will move from Taylor
into the new Science building and the
art and archaeology classes from
Taylor and their present Library
quarters into the new Library wings.

Since the view from Merion Green
is too beautiful to be spoiled and the
Jand in the hollows is too wet for
building construction, the space oppo-
site Rockefeller Hall—known as the

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News Try-Outs
The College News wishes’ to
announce the opening of the
competition for positions on the
Editorial Board for next year.

There will be a meeting for
those wishing to try out, in the
News office, Thursday evening
at six o’clock.



remembered that their’.





Mr. Warburg Shows



Art Education Should’ Teach
Cooperation of Collectors
With Artists



IS

PUBLIC INSINCERE



After coping with>clubwomen and
collectors..of. Italian primitives... who
still are ever ready with a question
about the purpose and meaning of
modern art, Mr. Edward M. M. War-
burg returned to Bryn Mawr Sun-
day afternoon to speak about “The
Artist in the World Today.” He dis-
cussed the artist’s work from the
varying points-of-view of the scholar,
the critic, the dealer, and the public,
and, in this connection, pointed out
the necessity for a system of art edu-
cation whereby the better artist might
be appreciated by his contemporaries,
and not relegated to an attic to starve.

The best artists are the most mis-
erably treated because they are not
enticed: by the public to look down.
If an artist be original, he creates
something that is non-existent and
consequently difficult for the public to
grasp without effort. His followers,
may, on the other hand, get direct
backing from the public, because they
make their master’s idea more palat-
able. This lack of appreciation, and
interest, upon the part of the general
public has forced several other lines
of defense for the artist: there are,
in the first place, dealers who buy the
works of art they know they can sell;
museums, headed by.-scholars, design-
ed to present works of art ‘to~-seri-
ous students; and private: collectors.

All of these agencies encounter dif-
ficulties, however. Most dealers are
not situated financially so that they
cif be patrons of art: if they are to
be patronized by a swank public, they
must carry the overhead needed to
maintain a swank place with a gal-
lery for public exhibition and they
must pay for a stream of publicity.
The dealer’s opinion is necessarily
biased; he must make sales to com-
pensate for these expenses. He must
sell at least one large and expensive
work of art per year, and after that
his main consideration is getting an
artist to work for him regularly with
or on a commission basis or for a
set salary.

The private collector is likely either
to exercise his personal judgment or,
with an interest more in preservation
than in possession, to assemble a
group of collectors to make a collec-
tion for the community. ‘In the for-
mer case, the collection is frequently
an expression of his desire for an ar-
tistic element in the larger unit of
the home, ahd as such it reflects his
likes and dislikes to no further pur-
pose. Otherwise these small private
collections become merely smal] mus-
eum galleries of works of art collected
for their quality and exhibited in
such a way that there the student may
find a laboratory in which to study
art.

The museum is, of course, the most
ambitious organization for the exhi-
pition and study of -art:~~it aims to
be unbiased so that it may secure. the
public’s appreciation and its backing,
so that it may exhibit the finest art
and at the same time, help the artist
out of his economic troubles. The
main difficulty museum directors and
workers encounter lies in the trus-
tees’ proneness to consider mainly the
number of people who have been in-|d
side the museum doors, and to dis-
count the fact that very few of these
have come to work or to study.

Of course, there is a small group
of scholars, who might well have pre-
pared the exhibition themselves had

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Public Debt to Artist



CALENDAR
Thurs., March 1. Dean Man-
ning will speak in Chapel.

Goodhart at 8.40 A. M.

Fri., March 2. Class swim-
ming meet. .Gym at 4.00 P. M.

Sat., Mar. 3. ‘Varsity bas-
ketball vs. Mt. Joseph’s. First
and second teams. Gym at 10.00
A. M.

Sun., March 4, The Rev. John
Suter, Jr., will speak in Chapel.
Music Room at 7.30 P. M.

* Mon., March 5. Mr. Reginald
Pole will speak on The Theatre
of the Future and the Signposts
‘of Today. Deanery at 5.00 P. M.

Mon., March 5. Mr. Horace

Alwynne, F.R.M.C.M., will give

a piano recital. Goodhart: at
8.20.2. o.
Tues., March 6. Summer

School meeting. Deanery at 8,
PM,

Thurs., March 8. Clayton
Hamilton will speak on'The Yel-
low Jacket. Deanery at 4.30







PM:
Faculty Formulates
Compreherisives Plan



Object of Exams Will be to Test
Students’ Ability to Ap-
ply Knowledge



60 IS PASSING GRADE



The Faculty at a special meeting “n
March will probably be discussing a
plan for a final examination in the
major subject, of which the ens
is a brief: outline.

I—Nature of the Examination

The final examination in the major
subject is not to be a test of general
information in the’ student’s major
field. Its purpose will be to test the
student’s intelligence in the discussion
of broad questions of development or
principle. Although it goes without
saying that every: question would re-
quire ‘definite and concrete knowledge
on certain points, the effort will be
made to ensure that the preparation
should not consist in the memorizing
of too many specific details. The ex-
amination would not be on all the work
covered by any department but would
be limited to certain fields within the
subject which have been clearly indi-
eated to the student. It might also
include questions on work done in al-
lied subjects. There would be a wide
choice of questions on every paper in
order to enable each student -to dis-
cuss those aspects of the subject oti
which she has concentrated.

II—Scheduling and Grading of the
Examination

The examination will’ be held in
the first week of the final examina-
tion period and will consist of three
three-hour papers, probably set for
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
When departments prefer a different
type of examination with access to
books and formulae, the schedule may
be arranged to meet these needs pro-
vided that the examination is of ap-
proximately the same difficulty as the
one given by the departments.

The passing mark of the examina-
tion will be 60. By failing to pass
the examination a student will forfeit
her degree for the year, but may pre-
sent herself for re-examination.

I1I—Preparation for the
Examination

In order to provide time for ade-
quate preparation for the final exami-
nation the following changes in the

present plan of work. have been sug-

gested:

The work of the last two years for
the A.B. degree is to be separated ds
far as credits are concerned from the
work of the first two years. The re-
quirement for the first two years will
be a minimum of 7% units.

The course requirement for the last
two years (except for honors stu-

dents) will be 7 units; the normal ar-
rangement for the work of the last
two years—4 units in the junior year,
3 units and preparation for the final
examination in the senior year.

The. requirement for the major and
allied sugjects will he 6 units plus

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Freshman Show Glorifies Bustle Era, Wins
Enthusiastic Praise of Uncritical Audience





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Producers of Melodious Melodrama Emphasize Local Color—
Costuming and Scenery Are True to Period—Plot Is
Background of Song and Dance



o

SOPHOMORES FAIL TO DISCOVER CLASS ANIMAL



Last *Saturday evening the 1937
Freshman Show burst upon us in all
its glory of bustles and peg-topped
trousers, and even the most cynical
gphomore would be forced to admit
that Never Darken My Door
had much to recommend it.

Again
It has
always been our contention that the
Freshman Show is-a thing apart in
the theatre-unique in that it should
be praised for its merits rather than
criticized. for its-shortcomings.

The one and only object of the
freshmen is to amuse—not to afford
the audience a glimpse into’ theatrical
Utopia—and no one who was present
in Goodhart on Saturday could deny
that the freshmen were admirably
successful in achieving their object-
ive. The success which rewarded
their efforts is even more remarkable
in the light of the facts that they had
one show already in rehearsal when
the powers-that-be decided otherwise
on the subject, and that two members
of the cast were forced at the last
minute to withdraw.

Written by Edith Rose and Letitia
Brown; ‘the ‘melodious melodrama”’
concerned the adventures of Little
Nell at Bryn Mawr, whither she went
at the behest of True Blue Harold,
who loved her with: a_ pure
flame,
cation would do her no harm. To col-
lege..she went, with the consent of no
one except Harold.
ivied walls she fell afoul of one Ma-
licious Montague, a “sneak from the
Greeks,” who found her father was
rich and, would have _ perpetrated
dark deeds to get a spot of that cash,
if Harold had not been--on- the~spot
to rescue Little Nell from the viper,
and marry her without further ado.

It all came out beautifully in-the
end, with Little Nell returning to her

home and fireside with the class ani-.

mal as a present from Harold (who

never forgot anything). When she
entered the scene. with the animal
carefully wrapped in swaddling:

clothes, the audience thought for one)

‘terrible moment that she and Harold —

had gotten slightly ahead of them-
selves, and the unveiling of an innoc-
ous green turtle took a great load
off everyone’s mind.

As is quite obvious, the plot of
Never Darken My Door Again was
entirely unimportant, and served sim-
ply as a framework for the songs and!
choruses. The dialogue had its high|
moments, especially when the villain
was at work, and it wandered far
away into the blue occasionally as
when, for some reason which is still
obscure to us, we were introduced to

white,
but still felt that a little edu-.

Once within the,

‘chorus,

| longer need alarm clockse

| proaches,

bits of stage mechanism that make
the Freshman Show a delight to be-
hold—Convention and the school of
the drama* mean nothing to ’the class
of 1937, and they do better than most
dramatists to whom it is the law of
the prophets.

The music was mainly the work of
Ruth Woodward, and it
with the choruses,
belle Seltzer,
‘the performance which has been sad-

combined

trained by_ Isa-

to lend a distinetion to

ly lacking in many shows of the past.

Miss Woodward showed a versatility
in her composition which betrayed an
advanced knowledge of her medium,
and produced_.in Lovely Lady a waltz
in the best tradition; and then turned
_to the modern school for her inspira-
tion for The Dance of the Cats.

The latter was, in our opinion, the
high point of the performance, when
the five cats appeared on the rail of
the orchestra pit, and led by Miss
Seltzer, presented us with an impres-
sionistie picture of cats playing in
the moonlight. It is a long time since
such an ambitious bit of dancing has
been undertaken by freshmen, and the
success with which it was executed
is sufficient proof of the ability of
Miss Seltzer as a dancer and director.
Her four fellow cats. had’ a_ better
understanding of rhythm then we
knew existed in our midst. We were
definitely impressed.

The Flora Dora Sextette was in
definite contrast to the cat element,
needless to say, but it was character-
ized by the same excellence, and was
a definite pleasure to gaze upon. The
men in grey trousers, tail coats and
pearl grey-toppers were as fascinated
by the very fancy Flora Dora Girls
as our fathers were reputed to have
been in their day. The bar room
which was done in the best

tradition, was thoroughly

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Bowery



When Will Bryn Mawr Be
Officially Snowed-In?



week, for the early hours of the morn-

‘ing are no longer rendered hideous by

the caterwauling of alarm c¢jécks.
There is an excellent reason for this
departure from the accustomed; we no

jnot a girl in the college who, with
true pioneer spirit, does not leap from
her warm bed.as the grey dawn ap-
in order to peer curiously
from the window and determine for
herself the burning question of the
ages: is the snow at last deep enough



a broken Dresden Sheperdess who fell

then was heard of no more,

Again at the end of the first act it
evidently occurred to the authors that |
a few more people were necessary on
the stage for the rendition of the final
chorus, so into the drawing room
rushed an unidentified small boy, a'|
cook, and a nurse complete with babe
in arms.. Having sung the chorus
lustily the curtaingfell on them and
they were all@wed to remove their
make-up and join the audience. Again
there were- too” many characters’ on
the stage in the second act to suit the
plans of the authors, so they introduc-
ed a mouse and drove all but the nec-
essary two ladies from the scene in
terror, and the stage was cleared for
‘action. It is the employment of such



Summer School |

The faculty, the graduate |

school, and the undergraduate

body are cordially invited to the

Summer School meeting in the

Deanery, Tuesday, March 6, at
8PM. >









ifor Bryn Mawr
off a table to the horror of all and | cially snowed in?

to be declared offi-

At present we lie unofficially bur-

| ied beneath a blanket of -some four

feet of snow; the blanket, however,
is not all; there still remain the snow
drifts to be considered, and the snow
drifts are really something to con-
sider. Their innocent whiteness, their
unrevealed depths, tell us nothing of
their contents, and we shudder to
think of the missing classmates those
depths -are probably concealing.
Every morning. fewer and fewer
people struggle exhaustedly to the
breakfast-table; every evening vacant,
darkened rooms speak significantly of
the appalling toll the snow is taking;
groups of weeping girls, clustered to-
gether for warmth, whisper dire tales
of a hapless sister disappearing with
horrible gurgles into the clutches of

the snow as ghe staggered bravely

home from Taylor, while her friends

| stood helplessly calling messages
of cheer and listeried. anxiously for

the ever-fainter Teplies. At last, an
ominous silence brooded over the inno-
cent-seeming snowdrift and &



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A curious phenomenon has _mani- —
/fested itself at Bryn Mawr in the last

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mune with her from Athos. Already
I anticipate the ecstatic moment of
‘psychic communication.

And, dear Hatter, let her be faith-

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9 :
Will Bryn Mawr Burn?

During the past week Vassar not only dedicated a new gymnasium,
but also took another step in the direction of removing the paternalisti¢
supervision which has been maintained over its students. Vassar girls
are now allowed to smoke in the dormitories and with this new ruling
the students have assumed the responsibility for any fires which may
occur in the halls through careless exercise of ‘the new privilege. The
college has recognized the requests of the students that they be allowed
to smoke where they like, and it has manifested faith in the reliability
of the student body in general by this new and liberal ruling.

The question of smoking in the halls has been raised many times
but it has never received much atten-

in their rooms would be to invite the immediate destruction of: the
college by fire. However, Vassar seems to feel that the average student
is sufficiently trustworthy to be granted a desirable privilege on the
condition that she assume a’ certain for her
There is no need to go into the many advantages which smoking in
one’s room has for the students. There are many
in the smoking rooms due to the noise, and who occasionally feel the
need for a cigarette to return the mind-to its normal state. There
are many times when cigarettes are a great help to the Christian
student, apocryphal as that statement may seem to the Victorians in
our midst. On the other hand, there is the pressing danger of fire, and

responsibility actions.

who cannot study

itis a danger which cannot be dismissed with a fervent hope that it

will never crop up. However, if the students were granted the privi-
lege of smoking in their rooms we feel sure that they would ‘recognize
the_responsibility which automatically would become theirs, and we
feel that the danger from fire would be much less than-the authorities
at present suppose. Where there is smoking under conditions
there is the accompanying danger of fire, and if the lone student is
more liable to ignite the college than she is when in a group, the
smoking rooms would have flamed skyw ard during exam periods in
the early hours of the morning long before. this.

We realize also that-a-consideration in framing smoking rules

any

must of necessity be the insurance on the buildings. and the premiums

on that insurance. That is a subject which has too’ many ramifications
to allow for a discussion at this point. We wish merely to call the
attention of the authorities to the fact that Vassar has evidently found
some satisfactory means of dealing with the problem, ‘and to suggest
that it would not be impossible for Bryn Mawr to investigate the
conditions of that solution and follow in the footsteps of our Pough-
keepsie fellow institution.



Another Language

We of Bryn Mawr are endowed with all the culture that a liberal
education can give us: before us we have the rainbow prospect of
emerging upon a world floundering in ignorance and stupidity. Al-
ready we can see ourselves happily disillusioning those poor benighted
souls who still believe that the best works in the field of arts and letters
are those that command the highest prices, and that, being the best
paid, they are, ipso facto, the best. We are ready to replace. all those
solid citizens who still read the daily newspaper and the Saturday
Evening Post and trust that governments should be:run on material-
istic bases by men who are elected to office because of their qualities
of leadership and not their intelligence or knowledge. We have pre-
pared ourselves to confound the rabble mightily: why, we have all
the theories, and trends, and developments at our finger tips. The
new world, which will date from our Commencement, will be estab-
lished upon an ideal political and economic system. Every man will

_have. complete liberty, and will, of course, live unhampered by eco-

nomic difficulties : every one will be equal (except, of course, that we,
in order to carry out our plans, must live with the luxuries and the
opportunities for culture to which we have accustomed ourselves).
The future-holds for us a golden age of art and literature: we are fore-
armed with the precepts of such eminent critics as Aristotle, Pater,
Ruskin, and T. 8. Eliot. That alone is good reason for our fostering

a renaissance of all that is at once romantic, classic, and ‘vet new and

different in a modern vein.

It is a charming prsinect—won't the old folks be surprised? Yet
some day one of those stupid people who read the tabloids is going to
To what political

a ge Wyncie King give up going |

ful to me, O Mad Hatter!—and I to
MORTAL SHIVER her. Yes?
I don’t want my sins
Washed white as snow;
To a lake of fire

I want to go.

I want to sit

And fry my limbs

And let the Eskimos
Sing hymns.

I want to go

To the hindmost lair
And be a devil

In red underwear.

—Bube in the Cold.

Youth in Athos.

‘Dear kindred soul of Athos, there
is no one who will deny our love-
longing. There is a soul mate for
you—a ravishing maid instructed in
hemming and basting. She is enrap-
tured at your amorous expression,
and each day-climbs the spire of Tay-
lor to look out over the Yandscape to
the East to you with prayerful

paeans of everlasting love.
: it eg:

ROOT-I-TOOT-TOOT FORA’ MUTE
The drums beat bass

THE OLD FASHIONED SALOON |And the drums beat snare

If it’s risky to drink whiskey ‘|And the trombones whinny
At our harmless modern “speaks,” | 4d the bugles. blare.

Think what- care, ill, woe and peril __| And the zithers shiver

Lurked for maidens at “the Greeks.” | From high to low—
From the big bass tuba

To the piccolo.

And the tabors rattle
And the triangles smash,
And the oboes oboe

And the cymbals clash,
And the triangles tinkle
And the catguts whine, |

| As they thump their way
To.the-final_Fine.~





There the Floradora wore a
Pair of insufficient pants

And the barmen were alarmin’
With their forward utterance.

By the cuspidor, a whore,:a—
Rayed in spangles, sang a song:
Both her gestures and-her-vestures~







Proved she’d gone most awfully And helping along the tim-
wrong. | pani traps
; The last man’s foot in the audience
Not each maiden, led astray, then, taps. :
Had a Harold true and blue | —Con Expressione.
Who. could save her from the favor |
Of Malicious Montague. BI BI BLUES
—Antisaloon. | Come away to the garden and cut up
worms,
LENTEN RESOLUTIONS, WHERE- We'll — up lobsters and catch
astoderms;

BY THE COLLEGE MAY RAISE! ;
MONEY FOR THE SUPPORT OF ‘We'll skin ’em and scrape ’em and

serve ’em up raw,
BATES HOUSE
t f
1. Let Miss Park give up her break- | j Along with ‘the bits that eome out o

fast t Chapel their maw.
en eee es Wel hook little dogfish that swim in
: the water,
2 ae sgl give up Fréd-! Phat colibbia wai hae UH
3. Let Mrs. Chadwick-Collins give ocled hauteur.

; And then when we’ve cut ’em up front

up the Princeton Glee Club. and up side,

4. Se Herben give up his dress- We'll drown all ourselves in formalde-
hyde.
5. ‘Let Dr. Chew give up taking the ied ~ Waveai. Vik
Delineator. :



6. Let Nicholas give up his artes

milk and graham crackers. | FATE

Der Yokel
War vocal—
Er sang;

__.to Freshman Show. |
8. Let Miss Terrien give up ae
mailing-list.
9. Let the students give up lettuce: |
10. Let these resolutions be printed |
on a broadside and hawked pub-!
licly for five cents near the Li-'
brary, at the Sign of the Lady:
with the Duck, by the Silly Sen-'
ior who wrote them.

Und ein Gang
Kam.—Er schlumpht
Und war off-bumpt!

—One of the Wanton, Boys.



BRIGHT SAYING

“Mama, mama,
What is drama?”

(And mama said:)
“A little bit ghostly,
| And phantom-life mostly,
| Psychology ghastly,
‘And spirit-worlds lastly—
| All ever inutile,
| And characters futile,
|All slightly immoral,
| With lines scarcely floral.
| And when, dearie me,
, When cultured you be,

Dear Mad Hatter—
‘ You will have a deep pash
One day one of my friends smug- |For the symbols that clash.”

gled a journalistic sheet into our se- | (Said the child, aged 2:)

lect and cloistered group. In it I saw |‘ « !

an account of your beautiful college io ee

and ever since I have been perishing ; 2

for love of those pretty female crea- piaiclicaidle lie
tures that gambol about the green-
sward and float lilylike upon the lit-
tle lakes of Bryn Mawr.

Will you not choose one of the love-
ly maidens devoted to Pallas Athene
and whisper my love to her in her
prenuptial chamber? I shall com-



IRONY |
It’s really a shame *
That the show was so tame
With costumes and jokes of the
purest:
It managed to mock
Much more than to shock
The gate-crashing caricaturist.

—Curses.





The idea recommends itself that we
should institute smoking in our rooms
and burn up the college as soon as
possible.

Cheeyo,
THE MAD HATTER.





artist or writer do we think is really good?. Well, if the truth be told,
we don’t think any of them is really very good. And the man won't
understand us because he is-all for the Democrats; democracy, and the
Daily News, while we are thinking about Plato’s Republic and the
Poettes.

If ever we are to accomplish anything we must establish some
contact between ourselves and those, whom we should be able to direct
intelligently. We are, indeed, impartial in our views, but Our academic
tolerance becomes an intolerance when through indifference or laziness
we do not trouble ourselves to supplement theory with fact. The reason
for our lack lies partly in the inevitably inadequate organization of
courses for formal study, but we cannot rest blameless so long as we
bring so little intelligent interest and observation to our social studies
that we cannot contribute as much fresh material to discussion as the
uneducated man of the street. We must Jearn to live with the rest of
the world, and we must learn to speak their language, even at the risk





of appearing pnacademic, not to say uncultured.





Letters

( The News is ae vaboonsibte tee

opinions expressed in this column.)
February 19, 1933.

To the Editor of The College News:

In regard to the editorial in last
week’s issue, entitled “Sodom and Go-
morrah,” we have an opinion to ex-
press, which is more to the point »now
than the refutation of several of your
generalizations. Your suggestion that
“Bryn Mawr have a compulsory .ex-
amination over the style and content
of the Bible, to be administered at
some point in the Freshman or Sopho-
more years” is impracticable and un-
wise. In the first place there is cer-
tainly no time durjng the two. years
mentioned which gd be used for the
necessary prep¥ration, nor is there
time for .a course to be given to those
who failed it. Diction, body mechan-
ics, hygiene, sports, and extra-cur-
ricular activities, to say nothing of
courses, fill these two years to the
brim.







We heartily agree that “the Bible

is the major source for most of the

literature, art, and philosophy of our”

Western Civilization,” but instruction
in its style and contents belongs to
the Sunday Schools and preparatory
schools, not to, the college. Besides
these places it does have a place in
the culture, or at least exists in the
libraries of more than ten per cent.
of the homes we come from. Your
statement that: “the Bible is a closed
book to ninety per cent. of the un-
dergraduate body” is erroneous, For
the entire student body is required to
take first year philosophy, and those
who you say derive satisfaction from
being “unlike the stupid and bour-
geois” or “unlike the religious element
on campus” in seareely knowing what
the tnside of the Bible looks like, most
assuredly become aware of its great-
ness and. its place in the culture of
civilization. Moreover, the Bible is used
as much as any encyclopedia for such
courses as History of Art; History of
Prints; Archaeology; English Litera-
ture, ete. Those who appreciate and
know the Bible are at an advantage.

‘| Let those who do not, look after them-

selves!) There are a number of Bibles
on campus;
Biblical Literature ‘scheduled for
those who desire a more scholarly
knowledge of it.

Your idea does not seem feasible
for lack of time, nor suitable to the
non-sectarian stand which Bryn Mawr
has always. taken.
upon promulgating it and if you suc-
ceed in convincing the administration
that it is a good idea, may we sug-
gest that the proposed required course

|in Bible become a required course in

World Religion, in which Buddhism,
Confuscianism, the Koran and the
Bible are all considered. An appre-
ciation of all the old humanities might
be the means of better understanding
our present humanity and help to-
ward world peace.

Sincerely yours,

ESTHER JANE PARSONS,

Merion Hall.



IN PHILADELPHIA



Theatres

Erlanger: Rollo Peters and Mabel
Taliaferro in the whimsical travesty
—Autumn Crocus. The play depends
for its appeal on the charm of the
actors and this particular cast lacks
that little item completely.

Broad: Last year’s successful com-
edy, Goodbye Again, with Conrad Na-
gel and Lora Baxter. A very amus-
ing thing about a reformed lecturer
and the past that caught up with him
when he least expected it.

Coming—March 5

Garrick: A revival of the Chinese
work—The Yellow Jacket—with Mr.
and Mrs. Coburn in the stellar.roles. Is
something not quite like anything else

to be seenvon the stage and very di--

verting. Absolutely no blood and thun-
der, but a great deal of charm.
Erlanger: The farce about “one

of those dancers” and-her three ille-.

gitimate children, who are very’ dif-
ferent and very funny. It is entitled
Three In One and has Jacqueline Lo-
gan, the film star, and numerous
others of the same ilk. Would be
good with a good cast, but as it is—?
Academy of Music

But if you insist

there is also a course in *

Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri. after- —

noon, March 2, at 2.30 P. M., and Sat.
evening, March 38, at 8.30 P.M. Jose
(Continued on Page Hight)










Freestyle















‘Boost Bryn Mawr bravely.







THE COLLEGE NEWS



Page Three







_Class Swimming Meet'
Is Hotly Contested



Record Is_ Broken;
Time for Backstroke Tied;
Sophomores Win



DANIELS PLACES FIRST



On Friday afternoon, the Sopho-
mores swept into the lead with, 30
points to their.predit in the first inter-
class swimming meet of the. season.
1934 took second place with 23 points
and 1 65 third with 12.

The 40-yard back stroke, the most
exciting of the events, was. run off
in two heats.. In the first, Mitchell
led Porcher at the turn, but faded
out to lose by a few inches to her
steadier opponent. In the second
heat, Woodward came in first. by a
length to win third place in the event:
Porcher’s time, 32.1 seconds, equalled
the college record.

In the 80-yard freestyle, Daniels
had the lead all the way to break the
college record of 60 seconds by clock-
ing 59 flat. Van Vechten took second

_and.Waldemeyer-third-place-in-a-close

struggle for the lead on the turn.

In the side stroke for form, Bill
took first place with an easy stroke
and 22.5 points in her favor. The
event was very close and the form
shown by those who placed varied
only slightly. Hemphill took second
honors with 22.5 points, and Porcher
tied with Bishop for third place with
21 points. Mitchell led the field in the
crawl for form, with Whiting and Bill
taking second and third places, re-
spectively.

Stokes nosed out Wylie, last year’s
winner of the 40-yard freestyle, with
a time of 27 seconds in a fast finish
with her rival close on her heels.

The diving, always awaited with
great impatience, did not prove to
be quite so spectacular as usual be-
cause of a poor board. Daniels, as
usual, led with a total of 40.6 points,
but Stokes, who has been improving
all year, gave her a close run with
38.2 points, beating her on the run-
ning front, and was only one point be-
hind Daniels’ half gaynor with her one-
and-a-half on the difficulty dive. Most
of the diving practice has been on
the Baldwin School board in prepa-
ration for the Swarthmore meet,
where we hope to see Bryn Mawr
make an excellent showing.

The relay, always the climax of

‘the meet, went to 1936, with 1934 and

1937 taking second and third places.

Daniels led the meet for individual |

points with 45.6 points, with Stokes
a close second with 43.2 points.

Next Friday, the second interclass
meet takes place when class and in-
dividual honors will be awarded and
the Varsity will be chosen for the
Swarthmore meet at Swarthmore on
March 16.

The events were as follows:

40-Yard Back Stroke — Porcher,
1st; Mitchell, 2nd; Woodward, 3rd.

80-yard Freestyle — Daniels, 1st;
Van Vechten, 2nd; Waldemeyer, 3rd.

40-Yard Freestyle — Stokes, 1st;
Wylie, 2nd; Meneely, 8rd.

Crawl for Form—Mitchell,
ing, Bill.

Side Stroke for Form—Bill, ssid
hill, Porcher and Bishop.

Diving — Daniels, Stokes, Walde-
meyer.

Relay — 1936 (Wylie, Bridgman,
Whiting, Cohen), 1934 (Daniels, Me-

Whit-

neely, Mitchell, ..Landreth), 1937
(Duncan, Gimbel, Jackson, Wood-
ward).

Totals—1934, 30; 1936, 23; 1985,
12; 1987, 2.

Those taking part in the meet were:

1934—Bishop, Brown, H.; Daniels,
Mitchell, Meneely, Landreth.

1935—Waldemeyer, Faeth, Bucher,
Hemphill, Munroe, Bill,. Lord, Mc-
Curdy.

1936—A. Van Vechten, Porcher, Co-
hen, Wylie, Stokes, Whiting, Bridg-
man.

1937—Evans, Duncan, Woodward,
Jackson, Jacoby, ‘Seltzer, Kimberly,
Fulton, Gimbel. ue



Voting in student elections has be-
come compulsory at Temple Univer-
sity. The new system was inaugurat-
ed at the beginning of the’second sem-
ester and a vote from each student as-
sured by preventing him from com-
pleting registration until he had cast
his ballot—(N, S. F. A.) .



ADS




Vienna Choir Gives



Continued from Page One
times, Felix Mottl, famous conductor
of Bayreuth fame, and Clemens
Kraus, conductor formerly in Frank-

fort and now in Viehina, who was also
guest conductor with the Philadelphia
Orchestra a few seasons ago.

The first part of last Thursday’s
program was devoted to contrapuntal
Church Music of the 16th Century, in-
cluding Motets by representative com-
posers of the Italian, Netherland and
German Schools. Of these the Motet,
O Rex gloriae,by Palestrina (for some
obscure reason Latinized into ‘‘Prae-
nestinus” on the Program) was per-
haps the best sung. The quality of
the Soprano Voices was good, having
that pure passionless clarity and
sweetness which always reminds one
héw immeasurbly superior — boys’
voices are to women’s for this type
of music, but the Alto voices were dis-
tinetly not so pleasing, having on oc-
casion a rather harsh effect and par-
ticularly when, as seemed to be rather
too often the case, they were appar-
ently being forced in the forte pass-
ages. There was also occasionally, a
lack of clearness in the weaving of
parts in the middle voices which may
however have been partly due to the
acoustic properties of the Hall, as I
am told that this was not so apparent
to listeners when the choir sang over
the radio a day or two later.

As an encore an arrangement for
solo voice and accompanying chorus
of Mozart’s exquisite little solo-song,
“Schlafe mein Prinzchen,” was given
with irresistible charm and finish. The
solo voice was of beautiful quality
and a high C was. reached with ap-

~ Delightful” Concert



choral arrangement é by Leichthal of
“Heilige —Naeht,””-

the... well-known.
which contained some very interesting
and unusual chordal progressions,
having a flavor of the old tenth and
eleventh century Organum in modern
guise as to tonality.

The second part of the Program

was a performance by the entire Choir |

in costume of an amusing little comic
Opera Die Opersnprobe, by Lortzing,
the nineteenth century German com-

same thing is true of the arrange-

which was given as an encore, al-
though here the excellent effect of the
slight anticipation of the second beat
of the measure, common to the real
| Viennese waltz interpretation, and the
wonderful rhythmic swing, maintain-
ed throughout, gave the piece the ef-
‘fect of real orchestral playing. An-
other delicious arrangement of an old
Viennese tune, “Meine Mutter war

poser of the better known opera, The ‘eine Wienerin,” by Grube, given as
Emperor and the Carpenter (which;®" encore, was one ‘of the most de-
sounds rather “Alice’”-y, but isn’t!). | lightful successes of the evening.

The music of this work is charming, if ;
undistinguished, and was delightfully |
sung; but the outstanding feature of |

the performance was the extraordi-
nary. aplomb and easefulness of the
youthful actors which had a quite pro-

fessional touch without the usual con-:

comitant ‘of objectionable precocity
which one might have been led to ex-
pect from players of such a tender
age. The Lortzing*dpera was substi-
tuted at the last moment for Der
Apotheker, of ,Haydn, owing to the

sudden development of a severe cold’

by the youngster .cast for: the leading
role.

The last. part..of..the-program-—eon-
tained three very pleasing choral |
songs by modern German: composers,
Stehet auf! by Rosenberger; Wiegen-.
lied, by Burkhart, and Nun will der
Lenz uns grussen, and a delightful:
arrangement of a Waltz from Johann

Strauss’ comic opera, Die Feedermaus.
In these, owing to the more harmonic |
style and music, the lack of clarity |
noticeable in the first part of the pro-'

gram was entirely absent and they

were sung with great freshness and)
charm, although a tendency towards

explosive accentuation was at: times
a little disconcerting and detracted





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The Family will want to know
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One of the most marked characteris-
tics of the entire performance was the
excellent precision and flexibility of
the singing, which enabled the Direc-
tor, Herr Hans von Urbanek, to con-
trol every effect. of dynamics or tempo
with the slightest movement of a fin-
ger or a look, and the very apparent
‘eagerness and enthusiasm of each boy
to give of his utmost as a young art-
ist. The fine musicianship of the Di-
rector both in his conducting and in
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an artist of the highest attainments
and the unremitting patience and de-

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The concert began with the Star-|
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English and ie densa of
+the-word “Dixie” sent-the audience
into gales of laughter. '



Gleanings

The McGill Daily, student publica-
tion of McGill University in Mon-
treal, comments that 1,500,000 grad-
uates were turned out by American
colleges and universities in 1933, only
15 per cent. of which have so far suc-
ceeded in finding jobs, and goes on to
show how Canada puts out college
graduates in the ratio of one in one
thousand, while its neighbor to the
south graduates twenty. The Canad-
ian editor is slightly skeptical con-
cerning extreme liberality of Ameri-
can education, and suggests that the
more conservative view on education
on his side of the line is perhaps the
safer course.—(N. S. F. A.)



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Regular course work is, in the last Faculty Formulates New Requirements-Fixed-~





_ plan has been somewhat lacking. At

or quizzes?

_ need to have their marks bolstered up
~ by: supplementary marks.

_ Q. Why do we not use the Har-
_vard plan of taking comprehensives
_ in May, with the opportunity of taking

Meets with Faculty



Faculty Answers Objections to
Plan for Comprehensive
Examinations

CRITICISMS ARE WEAK





Although the proposed comprehen-
sive system has been under considera-
tion. of the undergraduates for three
‘months, informed opinion about the

the joint meeting of the Faculty and
Undergraduate Curriculum Commit-
tees, opportunity was offered to the
undergraduates to present their objec-
tions and offer suggestions for im-
provement of the plan. The obvious
conclusion to be drawn from the joint
discussion is that the undergraduate
arguments against the plan are not
serious and that constructive sug-
gestions’for alteration are wanting.
Those’ who have been doubtful
about certain points of the plan or
who have formed unsound. ideas as to
its-general intent may be interested

to read the following questions asked |:

by their Curriculum Committee rep-
resentatives and answered by the fac-
ulty:

Q. Would not the plan result in
segregation of classes, with only
freshmen and sophomores in first
year courses? ;

A. There is no basis for the segre-
gation theory; it is hoped that upper-
‘¢lassmen may continue to take first
year courses under the comprehensive
system. ‘-The final examination. for
seniors in elective and allied courses





analysis, more important than _ex- ~--Comprehensives Plan For Scholarship: Students
aminations and cannot be sacrificed 5 | | ie
to them. Continued from Page One | ‘Speaking in Chapel last Wednesday

Q. Would it be possible to allow|tne final examination. The require-/0n requirements for scholarships,
access to notes and books for those | ment for the major subject will be 3 Dean Manning emphasized the point
taking comprehensives in the Science ‘to 4 units plus the final examination, | that no one who needed financial help
department? Neier . , {leaving a possible 3 units for allied to remain in college should be deter-

A. The idea has been discussed | work One Advanced course would Ted from asking for it because the col-
and the science department may Blve | still be a part of the major require- lege funds set aside for that purpose
two of the three examinations on this |, ent’.and the minimum requirement :are limited. The college believes,
basis. The attempts will always obi f)- second Year work would there-| however, that many people are in a
to give a sensible, reasonable, and in- fore be reduced to one unit. slightly better financial condition this
teresting examination, with the ob-| mp. midyear examination period |Ye4r than last year, and is, accord-
ject of summing up the work, not! i be. reserved as a reading period ingly, making an innovation in its re-
of baffling the student by surprise ¢,). seniors. _|quirements of applicants, For the first
questions. Perhaps an original prob-: Wi intiatliwe Will nol be aahodule q! time, financial references. are asked

. it ;for, and each applicant must be pre-

lem might be set, not only in the sci-|, ~ ‘Ad 4 Sores Dutta be-ar-
ence department, but in others, which! - eee J y 'pared to give information of an exact
kind concerning her family’s yearly

each student could work out as she | Tanged wid ? ence . ene _
thought best. ‘courses. Seniors will also be excuse

The comprehensives : ~~ ue aga ‘budget.
should be examinations which could /{7°™ ©x@minations in Wrrst and roca No appeal has been made‘ to the
Be Taced Without to Bisel anxiety jond Year and Elective courses agegand Fomor oa Tha ae ‘es a
on the part of faculty or student; and | their work ‘during’ the — has F r aie tai i * rs "hie
which would afterwards give a teak: Died Aiestntatary, When ABAEGtOrY | the Atiee io ae? os on in h
ing of security: concerning the work |™2Y require them to take the regular yd ; eee sin underta ed the
done ahd the khowledde’ gained tu the Course examinations. Provisions for ay os. ere € new science
testing the knowledge and. progress Building, and since the college does
ee aig d th tamales ‘of seniors in these courses is made as "Ot wish to make a large general ap-
ps aed for tiaitante, ‘ast we exami_| follows: STS , pre owe wou ot ci in
nation. which would integrate the dif- | Tf the course is = we Major or Bl Financial aap ak salina sahad
ferent courses given? ,lied subjects, yee A . ny pe for because Bryn Mawr is nie onl
A. The undergraduates underesti- | mcluded bil ay er SSR RNION Feollege that i not done so in the
mate the ingenuity of the faculty; yet the Major subject. past, and it has. been found difficult
|the mathematics department seems to| A long paper in each semester may ‘¢, aay student to estimate how her
be conscious of need for further inte- be substituted for the course examina- | necds compare with thosé of other
gration of courses and contemplates , tion. In scheduling these veer in-| students and difficult for the college
assigning reading to that end. structors should take into account that ‘to compare ‘the varying needs ‘from

Q. Will the faculty, blinded by en-'the student’s time during the mid-4,, answers of students. and their

thusiasm, pile on an_ exorbitant Year examination period is left FICE Savailios.
amount of work? ‘for general reading in the fields in’.

A. Any undue enthusiasm in the; Which she‘is preparing for the final |
faculty will be restrained by the com-/¢*@mination in the major subject, and
prehensive system, itself, which wil] that-the end of the second semester is
not allow them time to overwork their. also devoted to this examination,
students. There will be no separate: Two extra quizzes may be set for



This new policy, however, does not
mean that the college wishes to with-
hold help from people who need it.
In a college as small as Bryn Mawr,



will be avoided by setting an extra

quiz or a long paper and basing the; thought better to have the more ex- courses, one during the last week of
mark on such substitutions. The stu- | perienced teachers on the faculty pre- leetures in the first semester, and one
dent will, on the other hand, not be pare their major group for the com- in the second week of the spring ex-
able, as now,.to drop her major course | prehensive;
in the. senior year; and the general| the professors of reading reports and like ‘the scheduled quizzes, be one-
| quizzes, thus giving the latter time hour papers; they shall test the stu-

tendency will be to push required
work into the first two years, leaving
the last two free for major and allied
courses. It has been suggested that
an exception be made to the general
plan for requireds in the case.of phil-
osophy, which might be left until jun-
ior year. That exception would leave
only three required courses for the
first two years and thus the schedule
of these two years would mot be cram-
med with requireds as’ some people
seem to think. There has never been
any intention of making rigid rules
concerning the required or first year
courses.

body of tutors because it has been S¢niors in the First and Second Year

making contributions, academic or

instructors will relieve 2mination period. These quizzes shall,

to devote to major students, dent’s knowledge of the ground cov-

é i : -d b he scheduled iz and
a re WUt the pian. go’ inte Sree OShween the schepuicd quiz a ments that students are developing or



Summer: School-Students Are |



(Especially Contributed by Esther
Smith, Chairman of the Summer
School Committee)

Most of the undergraduates know
there is such a thing as the Summer
School. It is however so different
from any educational movement we
have experienced that it can be said
safely that very few of us have a con-
crete idea of what really goes on at
Summer School.

We-know .that thirteen years ago
President-Emeritus Thomas, while
riding on a camel in the Sahara des-
ert, had a vision of the campus open
in the summer with industrial work-
ers enjoying its beauty. We also
know that there is a Bryn Mawr grad-
uate, named Hilda W. Smith, at the
head of Summer School—but here in
the majority of cases our concrete
ideas stop.
have indeed been to Summer School
meetings and heard Miss Smith and
former Summer School students talk,
but they are, unfortunately, in tlie
minority.

Every summer one undergraduate
is chosen to go to Summer School to
help by doing odd jobs; and it is a
most fascinating and thrilling experi-
ence to watch what goes on on the
campus. All day long on the open-
ing date the students arrive from
every point of the compass. They en-
ter looking scared and shy—many
different nationalities—no two _ politi-
cal views identical—extent of previ-
ous education varying greatly — as
heterogenous a mass as could be im-
agined, yet with similar-desires. The

the worst possible: disaster is to lose|0Ne big desire that binds them all to-
good students or students who are £¢ether is the thirst for knowledge.

Dealing with such a mixed crowd in

otherwise, ‘to the college. Scholarships | #¢ademic classes would be impossible,
are usually given to the brilliant stu-|COMSequently a very different
dents, but they are also distributed|™ore effective form of education is _
with regard to financial need and not |US€4, that of discussion.
necessarily on the basis of numerical|#?¢ all based on the workers’ own
marks. Both scholarships and grants |PTOblems, and they contribute from
are given on the evidence of depart- | their personal: experiences. Each of

and
The classes
from

the six undergraduates (five

Some undergraduates -

effect?

A. If the comprehensive system is
approved by the faculty — and the
first full faculty meeting to discuss it
will be held.in the first week of March

the end of the semester.

The reading or other preparation
recommended for the final examina-
tion will be outlined in printed lists,
or syllabi, which ought to be avail-|

‘improving along certain lines or are|°ther colleges) belong to respective
contributing in any way to the col-|UNits, as the classes are called, each

(of which deals with a different prob-

lege. :
[lem (such as Trade Unions, govern-

If any student is in doubt about ment). It is certainly first hand in-

—it will go into effect for the present @ble for students after the beginning applying for aid, she is asked to con-

sophomore class. Yet even if it is
passed in its- present form, provision
will be made for change in detail as
such change becgmes necessary. The
system will not be rigid and the de-
partments will be allowed to vary it
to a certain extent for their own par-



[XS

Q. Will not the shift from fiftven to
fifteen and a half units required be a
hardship for the person who has fail- |
ed or had to drop courses because of |
sickness?

A. The opposite state of affairs
prevails under the fifteen point sys-
tem. Students pile up so large a
number of units by senior year that
‘they have to take very. few units
then.

Q. Will not the requirement of
five points in the major field lead to
over-specialization?

A. The minimum number of units
to be required of each student in her
major course is still undecided. Three
and one-half, four and one-half with
‘the unit for comprehensive reading,
unlike the advanced courses or hon-
ors, will broaden the major field; and
the unit assigned for reading will be
used to solidify and integrate knowl-
edge of the major subject.

Q. ~ What effect will the compre-
hensiye system have on honors work?

ticular needs.

In concluding the discussion, Miss
Park said, “Individualism will be en-
couraged by the new plan, but also a
firmer basis will be supplied. The
student will, it is hoped, gain a power
of combining and organizing which
has heretofore been conspicuously
lacking.”



An astonishing reflection of the
jingoistic teaching in American ele-
mentary schools is found in the re-
port of a test given 370 American
school children in a survey being
-made by two professors at Teachers’
College,, Columbia University, Fifty-
eight per cent. thought that most for-
eigners are less intelligent than Amer-
icans. More than a third saw danger
of the United States being attacked
by some other country within a year.
About half believed that the United
States should not lead in attempts to
reduce armies and navies; half held.
that all American soldiers and sailors



A.. Honors work will be kept fairly

are well behaved. One-third held that

separate ‘from comprehensive read- | the greatest honor would be to wear

ing; but it may be included in the
comprehensive examinations, perhaps
by means of special questions or pa-
pers set for honors students.

Q. Is it not rather hard to have to |

stand or fall on the results of one set
of examinations without the benefit
of supplementary marks on reports

A. Few people in the major work

sumed that a student should know
enough about her major subject to
be able to pass an examination in
it. =

egular course examinations later if
the comprehensive marks are unsatis-

The Bryn Mawr ener: into!

It is“ as=}~

|the uniform of the army or navy.
Forty-six per cent. believed every boy
should have army training, and seven-
ty-one per cent, thought that every
park should have a cannon or a mili-
| tary statue to glorify past wars and
heroes. The same; children—aged 10
to 15—had no knowledge concerning
the “agencies for world peace. A
third thought the Kellogg peace pact
manufactured breakfast food.
——(N;-8.-F A;



“The quicker students get into poli-
ties the better,” declared Mayor Fio-
rello H. LaGuardia, of New York,
in a recent interview with a Prince-
tonian reporter. ‘Professional poli-
ticians are keeping a large part of
students out of politics when they are
just the ones we need. They should
take a more active. part, furnish a
supply of energy, and progres-











of the junior year and which will be sult the Dean, -and if it .is possible
given to all students in the spring that she may be able to pay for her-
of the junior -year-at-conferences held Self, she is_asked_not-to-apply fora
by the departments. Conferences for scholarship but to tell the Degen that
seniors will be scheduled by all depart- she may need money. There is a
ments, to be held during the first two Summer emergency fund planned to
weeks of the college year. take care of students who find they
Individual, or group conferences need to apply after the regular schol-
with seniors will also be scheduled by arships and grants have been awarded.
departments at regular intervals dur-
ing the year, but stress should be laid Cut System Is Explained
‘on the fact that students are them- | = For Students’ Benefit
selves responsible for the reading. .
IV—Regulations Governing the Work (Especially Contributed
of Honors Students
Students who are candidates for
the degree with distinction will in gen- ;
eral ‘be required to take six COUTSCS ' ings last semester, the Cut Commit-
in the junior and senior years and tO | tee feela that again it must explain
devote at least a quarter of their time ' the-rules of the Cit-syaten, Ik isu
in the senior year to special honors-
work on selected topics. ' . |
Such Students will not receive the
degree with distinction unless they re-
ceive the grade of 80 or above in the
final examination in the major sub-
ject:
A certain number of questions rela-





by Joan
Hopkinson, Chairman of the
Cut Committee)
Because of repeated misunderstand-

detailed forth every year in the News
and explained to the Freshmen, Jun-
‘iors and even Seniors continue to over-
cut with abandon. For the most part,
those who overcut last semester did so
| because they were under a delusion
/as to the number allowed them. Very

tive to the special fields studied in hon-| ; ‘

vt Pepa bem ‘bean 4 ve com-/1°™ the Committee feels, deliberately
prehensive papers for honors students, | Vereut. Therefore ‘onee again the
but long written: reports may be ac. | more important of the rules are here-

cecnteds toy. dasesealite ‘ha opementing | Oe set down. Will all those whose
adequately the results of the honors} mores ae Bee pene. teen Tee
work. Where such a report is consid- | /°lowing by heart?
ered an adequate summation of the. 1. A student is allowed «as many
work in one field of study it may even | Cuts per semester as she has classes

| be accepted in place of one of the three per week. This means all the classes
hour papers in the final examination. Tégistered on the schedule and in the
Dean’s Office.

People who “never go to the mov-| 2. First and second year Science
ies” are helping break attendance rec-' courses give one five cuts, not seven.
ords everywhere for “Little Women,”, 3, Hygiene gives two cuts and~Dic-
the sweetest, most beautiful story/tion one.
ever filmed. The east, which includes 4
Katharine Hepburn, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege graduate, gives an excellent per-
formance of Louisa May Alcott’s’ im-
mortal story. of the lives of four New
England girls and their mother in
Civil War times. It is at the Egyp-
tian Theatre in Cynwyd four days,
ending this Saturday.



Extra classes in any subject,
imposed by the Professor, do not give
an extra cut. For example, a certain

week, but in. the Deans’ Office and
on the schedule it is listed as meeting
only three times a week. Therefore
it gives one only three cuts.

5. Psychology gives one only three
cuts, ‘in spite of its laboratory*hours.

We hope all the misunderstandings
will cease, if the above points are ob-
served. The Dean’s Office or the
Chairman of the Cut Committee will
be glad to answer any further ques-



Planned as a training medium for
a new kind of politician whose creed
.will be intelligent public leadership,
a new course in classical humanities
has been instituted at the University
a











marvel that, although the system is.

|
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1

‘formation in the true sense.

Besides these classes there are two

| workshops—the social science and the

1

1
|
i
|
|
|
|

science workshop. In the former the
students make charts which help vis-
ualize .whatever problem they are
working on. In the science workshop

;simple exhibits and chemical experi-

ments are set up, showing at a glance

|why water, for instance, is H:O!
|. Athletics is another favorite activ-

j

i ity.

Archaeology class meets four times a|'





the floor. They teach tennis and
swimming and help with baseball.

At the beginning of the summer
the air is full of currents of hostil-
ity. ~ Soon, however, the students learn
to listen to the point of view of others
and a real spirit of tolerance is devel-
oped. The girls that leave are brav-
er and, we hope, happier.

It seems all around the best of ex-
periments. Here are these workers in
industry so eager for more education
that they take a chance on losing their
jobs—their means of livelihood—just
to come to Bryn Mawr. It must be
worth it and it is, because present at
Summer School is a cross section of
industry, girls chosen who will go back
to their friends and tell them what
they have learned, who will spread
what knowledge they have acquired.
It is made an even more valuable ex-
perience because of Miss Smith, who
was dean under President Thomas,
and of whom President Park has said,
“Bryn Mawr. has justified itself, if
only in producing ‘Jane’ Smith!”











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THE COLLEGE NEWS

\-

Page Five







: ‘Margaret Ayer Barnes
Recalls Writing Career



Development of Technique in
Short Stories and Novels
is Discussed.



TRANSITION IMPORTANT



Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, speak-
ing in the Deanery, Monday, Febru-
ary 26, directed a sort of symposium
for the members of the college inter-
ested in writing. She told how she
started to write and indicated the va-
rious stages in her development of the
technique of the short story, the play,
and the novel. :

Mrs. Barnes did no! start writing
until seven years ago, when she broke
her back and was confined for a year
in a plaster cast. It was then .that
she wrote some short stories and was
encouraged to publish them by
friends. She took the manuscripts
to Helen Walker, of the Pictorial Re-
view. They were accepted, much to
her surprise, and that. of her family,
who were so astounded that they
made her have the check photograph-
ed before she cashed it. For some
time thereafter she tried sending her
stories to magazines with some suc-
cess, when finally she procured an
agent for her material. ‘es



ing the plot in’ spite of--any -precon-

ceived plan the writer may have had.

Mrs. Barnes” found playwriting
very valuable as discipline, because
the form of a play is so stylized. In
plays, as in short stories, there is no
elbow room in which the writer can
make many mistakes, but the author
must mainly exercise his pwers of

emphasis and suppression té/cut out

all irrelevancies. The corrett use of
emphasis and suppression, along with
the ability to make transitions are the
first things for the beginner to learn.



Edward*Warburg Shows.
Public Debt. to Artist



Continued from Page One

they not been occupied with other
things—but Mr. Warburg estimates
that there are no more than ‘thirty
such men in New York City. And
there is a class of business men who
are open to suggestion and influence,
who may really do something to fur-
ther art education — provided, of
i. that the plans are ‘easy to
realize. The third group of museum
visitors is composed of collectors of
wealth and social position who must
be neither discouraged nor antagon-
ized: they are the patrons of art,
as they are also the patrons of let-
ters and medicine.

The rest of the muscum goers be-
;long to the masses, three millions

Having taken up writing seriously|0f whom came to the Museum of
she decided to’ develop her technique| Modern Art to see Whistler’s “Moth-

in’ writing dialogue in fiction

by |**:

”

The famous painting. had, been

dramatizing Edith Wharton’s Age of Put in the exhibit so that the art stu-

Innocence.
of the play she sent it toa playwright-|
friend of hers.
suddenly received a telegram:
cabled Wharton for rights.
the other two acts.”
play, and. then peddled it around the

Write

forties and fifties of New York until |
|many to come see it, and more
;clamor that it should go on ‘the road.
| People want to come to art galleries.

Katherine Cornell took it over.

She started writing Years of Grace,
her first novel, in Statler hotel bed-
rooms she occupied while her
were on tour. The novel, Mrs. Barnes
declared, is not autobiographical, ex-

cept in so far as the characters in it|
| artist.

are the kind she knew in ‘her early
years. She says that she cannot imag-
ine actually putting real people into
books because they are so unwieldy
that they cannot be adapted to the

action conceived in the author’s mind. |

While the author is in the process of
writing, the characters grow and take
on a life of their own, thereby mold-







She finished the |

plays | ©
| times sincere, too often insincere.
|should be propagandized so that the



After writing the first act | de nt might see that it did not com-

pare with some of Whistler’s other}

Three days later she| works, much less with thany of the |
“Have| paintings by other less famous paint-
But an account of the amount)

ers.
of -insurance upon
Mother influenced

to

cult of America”

They come in a certain mood—some-
Art

public may appreciate-andhelp the

By a har eh method of analy-





CECELIA’ S YARN
SHOP
Seville Arcade
BRYN MAWR

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it demanded by |
‘the Louvre leaked out, and “the great |

-sis-we-should.-get-.a- more accurate
juggment of what modern works of
art-should-and_awvill last... The scholar,
like the artist, must be idealistic: he
must look not merely for workman-
ship, but for that spark of genius
which will make a work stand apart
from contemporary pieces, adequate
but dull, and last for future genera-
tions, as genius has lasted and been
handed down to us from previous
generations.

Thus alone can the scholar foster
art. By no means whatever can he
affect the emotional opinion of the
public. Fortunes are spent on “works
of art,” but little of the money helps
the good artist to bring into existence
really good art. This state of affairs
must be brought to the attention of
the class that has money, but so aften
lack culture. The pupose of art ed-
ucation,,then, must be to establish a
class that. is not dependent upon per-
sonal opinion alone, but can also rec-
ognize the opinion of the scholar, and
acquire a vision of real art—art of
good workmanship combined with the
genius that makes it grefit.



FIFTEEN YEARS. AGO



Everyone may now heave‘ a great



sigh of relief upon hearing that in
'February of 1919 the period of pro-
digious Red-Cross knitting was
brought to a_ close,—that period of
seventeen months in which, accord-
ing to the New Yorker e timates,

helmets
d out.

flers, and wiistlets

| turn:

were



the Red Cross
“stack ncedles”

more of knitting, for
| issued ordets to

as



hrernieY”

JEANNETT’S
BRYN MAWR FLOWER
SHOP, Inc.

N.S. T.-Grammer
$23 Lancaster Avenue
BRYN MAWR PA

Mrs.





Meet your friends at the
Bryn Mawr Confectionery
(Next to Seville Theater Bldg.)
The Rendezvous of the College Girls

Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes,
Superior. Soda Service
Music-—-Dancing for girls onlv











some 10,000,000 swe aters, socks, muf- |

This means that virtual- |

|
ily every man in the army must have
received at least one article knit by |

“the tireless fingers of the. women |
| who chose this way of aiding to win
|the war.” We will soon hear no



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At
| {i Luncheon 40c - 50c - 7
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soon as the wool supply was exhaust- | enly Peter, to wander about the cam-
ed. We wonder what it must have ' |.pus these days he would undoubtedly ©
felt. to have been one of those sweat-' meet many relatives. At classes, in
ers which was apparently ordered to ‘the village, and, above all, at dinner
go through life minus one sleeve or he could not fail to recognize his lit-
a back. With the end of knitting, | tle sister, telling her even from afar
however, the War work was not over, | | off by: her fuzzy wig and “glorious
for comfort-kits were given out to! | emancipation from the conventional
be filled. ‘hook and eye.

It was apparently in February of | “Whether, by temperament or by
this same year that the News start- | physique, she is an athlete par excel-
ed its now traditional policy of com- | lence, and loves to dress ini character,
ing out on Wednesday instead of on} refusing: to abandon even at dinner
Thursday. All the previous readers | the costume of her kind, Especially
of this &lumin will be delighted to | does she cling to the kindly gym shoe,
learn that the Junk Committee, men- delighting in the soft scuffling sound
tioned before, made $3.08 by selling | it makes in Taylor and along the vil-
670 pounds of newspaper, rubber and lage asphalt. Of all-articles of dress,
scrap-paper, which huge sum is @!| however, a_ battle-scarred middy-
part of their yearly contribution of | blouse is the favorite, though now ser-
$20 to the Chinese Scholarship at St. | 'iously rivalled by the T-shirt for eve-
Hilda’s School in Wuchang, China. | ‘ning wear.

(No, the items in this paragraph are| “Jt may be that Slovenly Peter dur-
not in the slightest degree connected ing his recent years in the army has
with each other.) Signaler Thomas | been forced to depart somewhat from
Skeyhill at a tea given in his honor! the ways of his youth. If so he will
by the History Club recalled the ver- | probably be grateful to his little sis-,

dict pronounced on Bryn Mawr by |ter for keeping up the family tradi-
Colonét Roosevelt. Skeyhill had en- tions.”

gaged in a. discussion. of the colleges ;

for women with Roosevelt on a train,

and upon asking him which one he
Distinctive Sportswear
Stetson Hats for Women

considered the greatest, Roosevelt re-
ARDMORE



plied, “Why, Bryn Mawr, of course.” |
The foll-wing roprinted editorial |)
will doubtless be of interest to tho e

















who rememb-r the great “Bryn Maw: ae me seed }
scandal” of last year in regard to
dress on-camjus, Note c specially the Fe
similarities in the sentim nts exprcss- ‘GREEN HILL FARMS
ee in this to tho-e expressed last City Line and Lancaster Ave. &
| year, Overbrook-Philadelphia
“Were our childhood friend, Slov-
we — A reminder that we would like to
PHILIP HARRISON STORE r | take care of your ‘arents and
bRYN MAWR. PA | friends, whenever they come to

visit you.
Cothany Cold Strip: ?
Silk Hosiery, $1.00 \ ,
Bist Quality Shoes L: B.. METCALF,

in Bryn Mam Manager.

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Page Six

THE COLLEGE NEWS









sagioil Team Wins
__- Over Drexel, 49-15

BOOK REVIEW





Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis
(This book was obtained from the
Bookshop)



Pass Work Needs Inipeotement;
Faeth and Boyd Score 28
In First Half



the structural formula of an authen-
tie Ga Greek tragedy, but satirically |
| transposed into the mediocrity of mod-
ern life and ambitions. The hero,
Myron Weagle, is a small-town New
Englander, dominated by an ambition
to such an extent that it fills and
controls his entire life; just at the
glorious moment when this ambition

SECOND TEAM ERRATIC



On Saturday “morning Bryn. ‘sips
defeated Drexel basketball teams, 49-
15 and 52-7.

During the first quarter, the Drexel
forwards found opportunities to try
their skill at shooting, as the guards
kept the ball constantly in mid or
in -the forward court. Faeth and
Boyd, however, ran up a score of 28
points in the first half against Drex-
el’s 6, but were slowed down consider-
ably in the second half when the
guards got on to their system of pass-|
ing. |

The centers had the strongest op-|
ponents, especially during the first
half, when the toss in was used, as_
it is almost impossible to work out a
definite defense for this type of play.
In the jsecond half, although Jones
got the tip-off fairly consistently, |
Larned’s opponent got the ball

completely ruins the realization. The |

obvious with Mr, Lewis’

hotel-keeper.

+



the American Hotel at Black Thread |
Center, Connecticut.
'a ne’er-do-well, and Myron became |

boyhood. He learned the business

al times on the top thrdugh her| 2 poetic dream of the perfect hotel,|by the employment of the novel con- | fire,” and we discovered from the but-
sted | which grew and grew as he heard

and clever footwork.

On the whole, passing was better
than usual, but ig still much too slow
On Saturday comes the Mount St.
, Joseph team with its fast passes and |
“clever handling of the ball, and Bryn!
‘Mawr will probably be on the defense |
more than usual, unless height or
some other factor enters in. This is
one of our better and more eeting|
games, so we hope everyone will come |
out to see it.

The line-up was as follows:.

other itinerant guests
‘brother, Ora,

His younger |

dream of his coming glory.

is fully realized; fate intervenes and |

| ing Work of Art, as of reading many
of Mr. Lewis’ books, is the feeling, '
\“What’s the use of living anyway?” |

ible, since it is difficult to imagine |
just what ¢ mandolin player would |
have to offer that she hasn’t. Per- |

When Will Bryn Mawr Be



| Mr. Lewis” ‘peculiar technique of im-

‘parting to the reader the feeling, of
‘restlessness and boredom; which his
| characters, are enduring by describing

Mr. Sinclaie Lewis’ latest novel, | countless small and sordid details, is | ex-husband ‘of the ex-mistress is. ex-
Work of Art, is a tragedy embodying | 4%a1n the predominant characteristic | cellent in the role of one who finds |

jof his style, but he occasionally makes |
surprisingly clever generalities about
people as a whole, which are often
irrelevant but very pleasant as a re-
lief to the suffocating pettiness of
the monotonous atmospheres he loves
ito create—D. T. S.





No More Ladies
In Mr. A. O. Thomas’s new comedy,
'No More Ladies, now playing at the |

mediocrity of modern life is rendered | |Booth Theatre, we are treated to an| | grandmother Townsend; who shrank |
bitterest | | ‘intimate glimpse of what happens | from neither strong drink,
satire, by the fact that: this dominat- | ‘in the “smart set”? when a desire to language nor the facts of life, with |
ing ambition of Myron’s is to be an take pleasure where it can be found | energy and the determination to star-'
‘invades the masculine heart and car-

Myron was born to the hotel busi- ries the action outside the confining | delivered a long speech on the -vir-'
ness, for his mother and father kept walls of the home and into the marts | tues of libertines, which was too com-

'of love for sale. The comedy con-

His father was; cerns a bright young thing of the! got the idea that she approved highly

present Southampton vintage, who

-the-man~ofthe-family~in~ his~small+}decides-to-put~her-hand in that ofa; daughter in the arms of the South-'

charming rake in order to indulge in!

nev | from the ground up, and developed ia variation on their usual activities|ments to “My God!

|

vention of marriage. They have no

istories of famous hotels and perfect | | hopes for the permanency of such an} retiring to bed at three after a party |
‘service from traveling salesmen and | arrangement, but they are at least. -at the country club had been to wake |

‘prepared to try anything once. He,

also had an ambition; | promises to call her “darling” only | of the May. It seemed to us at times |
he wanted to be a poet; but Ora’s| when under extreme and sincere emo- | that Miss Watson was getting slight-"
‘methods of attaining his end con- ‘tional stress and strain, and with | ily ahead of herself as she would un-
|sisted of convincing his family that | | that assurance they begin life as one. 'doubtedly have gone to an oe if they wish, they may rig up a
he was their intellectual superior and'In less time than it takes to tell; grave had she consumed as much al- |} coches buoy between Taylor and
uuld do no disagreeable work, so’ they become two again, or even three, | cohol, cigarette smoke, and uttered | penne hall and pull in their students
int he had ample time to lie and/if you count the night club mandolin (as many slyly licentious remarks all | 4, pest they can, or else they may at

,

|player, who constitutes. directors’ |

The main portion of the novel in mnectan for the wandering consort.

Officially Snowed- In?



haps the answer is to be found in the s
things which she has that the mando-

jlin player lacks, but, that is for you |
|to decide. Mr. Rex O’Malley as the

Continued: trowi. ‘Page Orie.



' friends perforce abandoned her to her
fate and returned, bereaved, to their
|cheerless halls.

Still the college goes heartiessly on;
himself in danger of being compro- | plays and Bryn Mawr must go on. for-
j mised by all the women present at the |¢Vver, through fires, and heat, and ex-
‘same moment. His light banter and |@minations, and blizzards, and it would,
humorous persiflage out-Southamp- | Seem that the faculty, the brave and
toned Southampton from start'to fin- | hardy faculty, will be the last to no-'
‘ish, and, but for the fact that he tice our absence when we are all dead
| could not remember what’ went on 27d gone into the snow.
during the evening he spent with | Therefore, for the benefit of our
Miss Weston, he was never found. ‘buried sisters, who are undoubtedly
'wanting in any sense. |piling up cuts while they sojourn be-
: : neath, the unofficial blanket of the
aise Lae WOR Pisyed: te ‘blizzard, we wish to suggest that
| classes should henceforth be held un-
‘der the snow. If our classmates can-
not come to their classes, let their
classes go to them. We will take our
courage in our hands, students and
faculty. together, and leap blithely into
the snowdrifts, bearing the torch of
inated for us to understand, but we kndiolédite to Shona who ‘went Hravely
forth into the snow in quest of it and
| wandered from the path.on_f rozen, but
unwilling, feet... We will tunnel our
| way from drift to drift, while our pro-
| fessors strive to* break the physical
‘path as they have so long striven to
break the mental one, and we will
‘hold our classes wherever we find two
-or three gathered together perishing
for lack of knowledge.
If the faculty should by any strange
\chance find this plan unfeasible, eith-
ier of two courses is open to them:



strong

tle everyone, including herself. She

of them. When she found her grand-

ampton Terror, she confined her com-
The ship’s on

‘ler that her last instructions, before |

her up early as she was to be Queen |

i her life as she did in the time of the |

last declare the anxiously-awaited
: play.

| verdict that Bryn Mawr is officially









a

Drexel Bryn Mawr | devoted to the story of Myron’s prog: | Unfortunately for the peace of | isnowed in and thus save what few
ee ee Sa Boyd | lress after he grew up, from job to! mind of the wife, who is played with | 'B. M. League Plans Camp | young lives will survive this sorry
Rite Bo, ee eee Fa eth Job in one hotel after another, each | great charm by Miss Ruth Weston, | to Replace Bates House day.

Sloe ies hay oo es Tata job more responsible than the last |love has fluttered in on the summer | |

ee ee Lavheal !and each teaching him a-different side | breezes, and she finds her heart | | (Especially contributed by Marga-: Miss Park Gives Plans

Bee eo Kent | | of the hotel business. When he be-; thumping loudly at the thoughts of ret Marsh, Chairman of the Commit- | For New Residence Hall
ee eee ee i Bridgman} °2™° the New York Manager of one | anyone enjoying the charms of her tee for the Bryn Mawr Camp.) ¢ |

Sihatitntians .' Yivexel: Anglada| lof America’s greatest hotel chains, |lawful playmate (Mr. Melvyn Doug: ; The Bryn Mawr Camp is to enter | Continued from Page One

for Saylor, P. Brooks for Koch. Bryn

Mawr: McCormick for Faeth, Faeth}
for McCormick.

Scores—Drexel: P. Brooks, 12; H.;
Brooks, 3. Bryn Mawr:
Faeth, 24; McCormick, 2.

Referees — Miss Smith
Perkins.

and Miss



The second team game was, as the
score indicates, almost a complete,
walk-away for Bryn Mawr. The first
half was a succession of baskets tried |

and made with monotonous regularity,

Baker scoring 26 points and McCor-
mick, 12, while Kuch scored the only
basket for the opponents.

In the second half, however, the
team seemed to lose interest and the
play was decidedly messy and ex-
tremely erratic. Even the guards re-
laxed and permitted their forwards
to make a basket. Evidently encour-
aged, they managed to score three
more points before the game ended.
In the second half, the Taggart-Bak-
er combination was tried out, but did
not seem to be as successful as the old
partnership.

The line-up was-as follows:

Drexel Bryn Mawr
Se Poa er Te Bese Baker
Me kk l. f, ....MeCormick
ARO. sie Coot acees es Meirs
Jackson ........s. c. ....Rothermel
Oe ee 1, oo as Bishop
ere |e eee Jarrett

Substitutions — Drexel: Pearce

for Riggs, Kuch for Walsh, Tiffany

for Pearce. Bryn Mawr:
McOormick, Taggart
Washburn for Bishop.

Scores—Drexel: Riggs, 1; Kuch,
6. Bryn Mawr: McCormick, 14;
Baker, 30; Taggart, 8.

Baker for
for* Baker,



A system of referring all proposed
legislation to a committee before it
can. be put to a vote has been insti-

“tuted by ‘the Student-Faculty Con-

gress at Bucknell. The reason given
for the action is that “the members
of the Congress were wont to spring
motions, and, after a brief discussion,
ask for a vote on the question,” and
that “ften these motions were either
unworthy of Congressional considera-
tion or so poorly worded that confus-
ion on the floor resulted.”
—(N. S. F. A.)-



Boyd, 23;

8 Geet. ow go stupidly and blindly on
ng, and

ihe married a girl from Black Thread
, Center, but neither his wife nor-their
json ever distracted Myron’s primary
‘attention from his work. Ora had
‘also come to New York and was mak-
|ing a shady living as a ghost writer,
'and requiring considerable financial
| assistance from Myron.
| Through the years Myron’s ideal
| of his Perfect Hotel had grown larger
|and more perfect, until at last, in
| 1926, he- found himself in a position
to realize it. He built the Ideal Week-
‘end Resort Hotel, with sound-proof
radio lounges, sun parlors, winter and
summer sports, and a trained corps of
expertly-drilled servants; all the de-
tails were calculatedly perfect. The
hotel opened in 1927 with every: room
filled. The New England Brass In-
dustries Convention, the press, and
many prominent guests were assem-
bled to start it off with a flourish, and
the opening dinner dance was most
auspicious. At three o’clock that
morning, a notorious murder occur-
red in one of the bedrooms, and every
tabloid in the country featured the
hotel as the Murder Tavern.
Instead of bowing to fate in the
approved manner of a Greek hero,
Myron made the modern mistake of
trying to recoup his fortunes. He
failed to save the hotel, was given
poorer and poorer jobs throughout the
.country, dnd ended by trying to start
the Ideal Tourist €amp in partner-
ship with his son. The modern and
mediocre aspect of Myron is that his
Ideal changed as his luck broke, be-
coming lower and lower until the
reader is left with the uncomfortable
suspicion that Myron, sometime man-
ager of the country’s greatest ho-
tels, the Poet-Seer of The Perfect
Hotel, was quite content with plan-
ning his. perfect/ Mid-Western tourist
camp. Ora, however, had struck sud-
den success with a play and having
for years tried every scheme to avoid
working towards his ambition, was

highly successful.

The bitter irony of this book leaves
the reader feeling very uncomfortable.
Mr. Lewis seems to be declaring that
even if modern people are sufficiently
visionary and sensitive to have an
ideal and to work towards it, they
have not the courage and the nobility
to recognize and admit defeat. In-



sink unconsciously to

left in the end famous, wealthy, and



las—but recently saved from the dan- |
gers of Hollywood). Being a woman
of action she immediately composes
a most extraordinary house party,
composed of the mandolin player, an
indigént English lord, now married
to one of Mr. Douglas’ ex-mistresses,
theex-husbandof that ex-mistress, ;
and herself — ndt to, mention her
grandmother, who is a most remark-
able example of the older generation
who has kept pace with the times—
being at times slightly in advance of
them. Needless to say, Mr. Douglas
is a bit confused at the whole busi-
ness and very annoyed when it comes
out that the present Lady Moulton
addressed him as Petty Wetty when
their passion was at a white heat in
the dim past. To complete his an-
noyance Miss Weston stays out hap-
pily beyond ‘the time when all faith-
ful’ wives should be in bed and picks
as her companion in crime the ex-
husband of the ex-mistress. This
manifestation of independence and
women’s rights so upsets Mr. Douglas
that he regains his senses, feels once
more the lure of the home, and ex-
periences a wild desire to call Miss
Weston “darling,” which he does with
a success that graphically illustrates
the inherent weakmindedness of all
women.

“The play is more or less a celebra-
tion of the return of the era of joy
and good feeling inaugurated under
Mr. Roosevelt, and as such it admir-
ably fulfills its destiny. There is
nothing either sincere or significant
about it, but it is amusing and ab-
sorbing in the manner of all plays,
which mean little or nothing to any-
one, not even the actors. Having
been treated in the theatre for the
past few years to moving protests
against the injustices and cruelties of
life, it isa great relief to laugh heart-
ily at the antics of the overbred mem-
bers of society who strugle laborious-
ly to lack all manners, morals, a
merit. Mr. Douglas as the young
man who values his reputation as a
wrecker of commandments and a dan-
gerous character more than he does
his life, is suave, abandoned, sulky,
foiled, and passionate in the correct
order and with the correct enthusi-
asm, It is not difficult to imagine the
effects of his company, as he affects
carefully all the characteristics of a
whirlwind lover, even toward the
grandmother of his wife.



;upon its first season in June and Ely Meadows—has been chosen in pref-
| July of this year. It replaces,our old | grence to the lot opposite Pembroke
arrangement, kfiown as Bates House, | East as the best location for the new
and is to be different in many re- ‘hall. The hall is to be built in three
spects. It is to become a place where | |sections, each section containing its
Bryn Mawr undergraduates can get|own small dining room. There is to
constructive training .in working with | be a single kitchen. Many more ‘pub-
children and learn how to keep ther ‘lie rooms are provided than in the
amused, what to do with intractable | other halls, which were constructed at
ones, and so on. As formerly, there la time when rooms for general use
will be a trained head-worker, who! were not considered necessary. The
will have first responsibility and the | students’ rooms, in response to a gen-
workers will get their training under ‘eral demand, are to be almost entire-
her direction. The house we are ‘ly single. There will be innumerable
planning to use for the camp is i: | ‘bathrooms.
Avalon, N. J. It is directly on the 2 | Wyndham is to be converted into a
beach, with a recreation center for | President’s house so the sixteen girls
the children at our very door, a lo‘a-|now housed there will move into the
tion ideal for the “teachers,” as well! new hall. In addition five or six girls
as for the children. | will move from each of the other halls
We are being forced, naturally |so that the maids can be better ac-
enough, to cut in half the number cf | commodated in the halls than they
children we are able to take. This | are at present.
means twenty will come in each bi-| The new building will be placed di-
weekly group, and these we have de- | agonally on the lot. It is hoped that
cided to choose only from Philadel- |; about fifty more feet from the gar-
phia now that the camp is a purely |den in the rear of the Ely field can
Bryn Mawr institution. Even though ibe purchased so that the building-can
we are taking only twenty in each |be surrounded by a small grass-plot.
group, we still have a financial gap | ‘Since the college owns the property
to fill. Cotbeds, blankets, towels and | | from Rockefeller to Dalton, applica-
similar supplies must be bought and | ‘tion will be made to Lower Merion
the committee would greatly appre-' ‘Township to convert the road into a
ciate information as to the possibility private one, where an impressive en-
of borrowing or purchasing any of | trance gate is to be built.
these supplies second-hand. As the |
situation now stands, we have in our
coffers “$1,551. By the first of June
we will need $550 more. Not more
than $150 can be raised by the sale
of sandwiches, and, in addition, an
indefinite sum on the puppet show
we are giving in the Deanery garden
this spring. The Bryn Mawr Camp
belongs to the undergraduates, and,
although the alumnae help as they
feel able, it is really outside their
provinee. -The Camp must, in- the
final analysis, depend. on undergrad-
uate support. Catherine Bill and I
will be glad to give anyone who may
be interested more information about
the work we hope to do. | ‘



Seven Ohio State University stu-
dents were suspended recently for
refusing to take military training.
They will be automatically reinstat-
ed when they agree to conform to the
military training rule, according to
the University authorities. Which. re-
calls the recent incident at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota where one stu-
dent, objecting on _ conscientious
grounds, was excused from military
training. —(N.-S.-F.-A.)—



The Catalogue, published’ by the
Oklahoma A. & M. College, lists a
course, “Nut Culture,” with this ex-
planation, “study of pecans, walnuts,
etc., not maniacs.’





Students in an English class “at
Oklahoma A. & M. College are .fined
one cent every time they misspell a
word. The fund derived from this
source is used to pay for an annual
enauet of the class.—(N. S. F. A.)

An announcement on a_ bulletin
board at Drake University reads:
“Come up some time—any time—to
the Christian Endeavor Society meet-
ing.”





A survey in an eastern university
showed that 60 per cent. of the stu-

nee recent report ‘submitted in pro-|
test by Wisconsin Teachers states that





‘Miss Weston as Sip wits is almost



State Charwomen are paid a higher| dents sleep through at least three

, teachers —(N. § Pe A.)








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y

Page Seven







Freshiinan Show Wins

Enthusiastic Comments



Continued from Page One
bawdy, and we know of one member
of the audience who definitely enjoy-
ed himself. ,

As to the cast—it was on the whole
excellent, and understood’ the spirit

of the play and stayed in it through-
out. Winifred Safford was a perfect
heroine from the time the curtain
rose to surprise her engaged in sing-



cheery than it does today. They set
a standard of behavior which makes
the conduct of their modern proto-
types look definitely shabby.

The scene in the Greeks was by far
the best scene in the play, probably
because there were more people on
the stage, and it was kept alive by
the casual movements of the men at
the bar. Betty Stainton availed her-
self of the setting to deliver from the
bottom of her heart a mournful torch
song to the effect that There Ain’t
No Good in Men, and by the time she

~

ing hymns in quite the flattest voice; finished we were fairly well persuaded
heard ‘since Lantern Night, to the! to her point of view.

final moment when she gazed up into
the handsome’ countenance of True
Blue Harold (Helen Harvey) and be-
gan to make plans for the future.
Harold combined for us all the ster-
ling qualities of the man who not only
eats Wheaties every morning for
breakfast, and uses Life Buoy Soap
religiously, but who sees his dentist
not twice, but three times a year.
Miss Harvey recalled Tom Mix and
our childhood days when she burst
into the Greeks and snatched Little
Nell from the brink of destruction as
though it were all in a day’s work.
Letitia. Brown wore her. black.frock
coat and twirled her mustache in the
manner of the best erlemy of women
and civilization in general. As Mali-

cious Montague she set the tone for,
leered |
through a window in the first act and| Elizabeth Washburn
uttered a laugh which made it look| Wright, as the parents of- Little Nell,'a great desire to forget it-all,
Together with; were all that Louisa M. Aleott and

her performance when she

bad for Little Nell.



Miss Stainton also deserves a great
deal of credit for the lyrics to the
songs which she composed, and into
which she: managed to inject a cer-
tain amount of sense. Modern lyric-
ists might. copy her to their profit.
The casual inhabitant of thé Greeks
who appealed to us most was the very
innocous alcoholic created by Eliza-
beth Davis, but the other bar flies
were very much at home with their
feet on the brass rail. We may say
that the ease with which the most
upstanding members of the class of
1987 were converted into gentlemen
of..lowcharacter.alarmedus_a_ bit.
They were a little too good.

As for those who took the parts
of the more genteel] members of. the
group created by the authors, they
were -on the whole very satisfactory.
and Amelia

from the Greeks” she made that cele-|The mother was such a perfect help- |

brated establishment look far more

mate that we

z %
screaming at times, But the urgé pass-
ed off fortunately.

The dear Bryn Mawr girls were

that will express our feelings on the
subject of the personalities which flit-
ted about in high shoes through our
hallowed halls in the dim, dark days.
Helen Taft (M. Lee Powell) appear-
ed before our startled eyes and sang a
touching ditty to the effect that she
wanted to marry Freddy and he want-
ed to marry her, and did it with spirit,
to say the least. Her rendition of
the ballad deserves great praise as
she was called into the play at the
last moment and had never rehearsed
with the cast before the big moment.

Elizabeth Lyle created a Marion
Park, who had as good a disposition
then as she has now, although she
hardly commanded the instant atten-
tion ofthe students in meetings which
is hers today. One feature of: the
scene in Taylor Hall which attracted
us was Miss Seltzer’s €ance—done in
high-buttoned shoes, above the tops
| of which gleamed the bare legs of :the
modern intellectuals:

In general, then, the cast perform-
ed its duties well and moved: about
competently. within. the limits. set by
the authors. There were times when
the stage was on the verge of a lin-
gering death, speeches were delivered
from behind pillars, posts, and dur- |
|ing exits out back doors,



charming—there isn’t any other word



in dirty white ducks and grimy sweat
shirts, we can only say. that they did
their work well, and the gods will re-

ward them in the future if the world
does not at the moment. Edith Rose
directed the play as a unit, and’ she
gave it a certain spirit and atmosphere
which contributed materially to its
success. Helen Fisher shouldered the
thankless job of stage manager, and
the speed with which the sets -were
changed was evidence of her efficiency.
Not once did the curtain rise on a
stage hand in. a compromising posi-

tion and that is a tribute to. Miss’

Fisher and her assistants,

Olga Muller was head of the com-
mittee on construction, and she built
an excellent set for the scene in the
Greeks, and utilized the brown cyc
to create a very effective interior for
the home of the heroine. The scen-
ery had a certain vitality about it,
which helped to make up for the fact
that Varsity Dramat’s best paint buck-
et held the glue which was responsi-
ble for a connection here and there. °

Mary Harwood seems to us to have
done the most difficult work of all
with the greatest degree of success.!
She was in charge of costumes, and
no one could deny: that the play was
costumed effectively and more or less
in period, which is more than can be
said for any Freshman Show we have
ever seen. Every effort was made to,

and the| put the characters on the stage look-

actors were occasionally overcome by | ing like what they were supposed to

but represent, and there was no doubt in



these were minor points in the per- jour minds as to what we were looking |
the gentlemen: known as the “sneaks|her school would have us think them. formance.

jat, as there has’ been#in past years.

As for. those members of the class ‘The costumes, which were rented, were

'

were on the verge of ; who-spent the week before the show intelligently chosen;) and those which
i

ed the

were made were intelligently made.
Than that we know of ponte more
10 say ——

Lucille Faweett; besides being a
drunken lady in the Greeks, provided
the properties and at the crucial mo-
ment her efficiency stood the test.
When the time came True Blue Har-
old had his revolver with which to
shoot Malicious Montague, and the
Herald Tribune was in Little Nell’s
house when the time came for her
father to read of the death of that
same Montague.

Lights were done by Letitia Brown,
and were welt handled. She did not
give way to the impressionistic frenzy
which has driven some freshman
light chairman to stage the entire
show. in complete darkness, and we
were duly thankful. Each of these
chairmen had their committees, which
worked well and honestly, and we can
only say that the time will come,
when the world is communistic, that
they will be glad they had the experj-
ence.

Sophie Hemphill and Margaret
Jackson, as heads of publicity and of
business, managed to collect a good-
ly audience for the performance, and

they must have heaved a sigh of re-

lief when they found by the end of
the first act that they had not deceiv-
public when they persuaded
them that they could not afford: to
‘miss Never Darken My Door Again.
The class of 1937 distinguished itself
honorably, and in addition kept its
little, green turtle all to itself. Merits
may.come and go, but if the Fresh-
man Show is any indication, the class
of 1937 will go on forever.—S. J.



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Iturbi will conduct. Program:
Mozart....Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Schumann,

Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish), E Flat

SS enn Ba Mer
Granados. Intermezzo from “Goyescas:”
De Falla,

8 Dances, “Three Cornered Hat”
‘March 7 and 8-Ballet Russe will give
two public performances only. On
Wednesday afternoon, March 7, and
Thursday evening, March 8. There will
not be a performance on Wednesday
evening. ‘
-. March 7. John Charles Thomas,



i

nesday evening at 8.30 P. M.
Movies

- Aldine: The “alluring,” “world-

ly,” “sophisticated,” etc., Anna Sten

bursts into our midst in the much pub-
licized Nana; It is the story, of a
lady of the streets who had pretty
much her own way with the male ele-
ment after a hard life to begin with.
A period production of the Zola novel.

Keith’s: James Dunn and Claire
Trevor in Hold That’ Girl.
type of movie that has made Mr. Dunn
loved by so many and loathed by us.
Very harmless. ae

Earle. Bert Wheeler and Bob
Woolsey in their new madhouse mov-
ie—Hips; Hips, Hooray. Some peo-
ple evidently think these two are a
scream as they crack aged puns, and

It’s the



’ ]
admire the legs of their chorus girls,

but why they think so is beyond us.

Karlton; May Robson in You Can’t
Buy Everything — meaning Happi-
ness. She has Lewis Stone to help
her in this sentimental animal that
reduces one to tears while having a
fairly good time watching the life
story of a kindly lady.

Stanley: A very amusing tale about
a runaway heiress and a tough news-
paper man on a transcontinental bus,
It Happened One Night. Clark Gable
and Claudette Colbert play their roles
well enough to make this. very good
entertainment indeed.

Stanton: Joan Blondell in I’ve
Got Your Number, the story about
the girl - with - the - voice - like-a-
smile. Glenda Farrell communicates



with departed spirits by tapping the
wires.. Not very good.

Boyd: The Cat. and the Fiddle,
with Ramon Navarro~-and-Jdeanette
Macdonald. The musical story of the
love and enmity of two musicians.
Was better as Jerome Kern’s operetta
that was well done on Broadway.

Europa: We continue to be sub-
jected to a very horrifying war film—
Forgotten Men. The films of the coun-
tries that participated in the conflict.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., By
Candlelight, with Elissa Landi and
Paul Lukas. Fri. and. Sat., Flying
Down To Rio, with Dolores del Rio,
Fred Astaire and Gene Raymond.
Mon. and Tues., Convention City, with
Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou.



Wed. and Thurs., Frederic March,
Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in
Design For Living.

Seville: Wed.,_Joan.__Crawford,
Clark Gable. and Franchot Tone in
Dancing Lady. Thurs. and Fri., Lone
Cowboy, with Jackie Cooper and Lila
Lee. Sat., Sleepers East, with Pres-
ton Foster and Wynne Gibson. Mon.
and Tues., White Woman, with Carol
Lombard and Charles-Laughton. Wed.
and Thurs., Goodbye; Love, ‘with
Charlie Ruggles and Vera Teasdale.

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Women
in His Life; with Otto Kruger. Fri.
and Sat., The House on 56th Street,
with Kay Francis and Ricardo Cor-
tez. Mon.,, Tues.,,.and Wed., Lionel
Barrymore and Janet Gaynor in Caro-
lina.



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