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THE COLLEGE’ NEWS

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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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‘in connection with Bryn Mawr,
_ tion because of the inevitable reply that to allow the students to smoke

. ask us a straightforward question about our views.
-party do we belong? We are disdainful and impartisan. What kind

of "gia ae ive like ? We wax storm nd ia cree What}

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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
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