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VOL. XXII, No. 2
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS,
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WR PRICE 10 CENTS
Bryn Mawr, Princeton
To Present ‘‘Messiah”’
Combined Glee Club, Choirs Will
Sing In Princeton Dec. 15,
Goodhart Dec. 16
WILL REPLACE CONCERT
The combined Choir and Glee Club
of Bryn Mawr College, under the di-
rection.of Mr. Willoughby, will tread
new paths of glory in the performance
of Hiandel’s Messiah next month with
the Princeton University Chapel
Choir. Two perforntances are sched-
uled, one on the night of Sunday, De-
cember 15, in the Princeton Chapel,
- the second on Monday, December 16,
in Goodhart Hall. For many. years
the choir has aspiréd to sing the
Messiah,. but has been unable to find
a suitable male chorus with which to
combine on any of the possible dates.
The choir is indeed fortunate to find
at this time such a well-trained col-
laborator from such a similar institu-
tion as Princeton.
Because of the magnitude of the
undertaking and the proximity of date
and purpose the Messiah will this year
replace the usual Christmas Carol
Service, and also the concert usually
given by the Glee Club during May
Day years, instead of a Gilbert and
Sullivan production, The twenty-two
choruses of the great oratorio are en-
tirely new work for the choir and
glee club. In: so far as those in
charge have been able to ascertain,
the production in Goodhart on Decem-
ber 16 will be the first full-length
concert performance of the Messiah
ever to be given on.the Main Line.
The members of the Princeton tenor
and bass choruses: will number ap-
proximately sixty,,and the number
of Bryn Mawr first and second so-
prano voices will be approximately
eighty. Mr. Ralph W. Downes, Or-
‘ ganist and Director of the Princeton
Chapel Choir, will be the conductor
at Princeton, and Mr. Ernest Wil-
loughby will conduct the performance
here. Thirty-five members of the
Philadelphia Orchestra will play for
the occasions. There will be, in addi-
tion to the two collegiate choruses,
four professional soloists whose names
will be announced later. -Financial
backing and arrangements have not
yet been completed, but will also be
announced later. ’
Rehearsals were begun here a, week
ago and are proceeding extremely
well. ' The interest and enthusiasm of
the singers themselves have. riseh to
unprecedented heights and promise the
most triumphant success in the history
of the Glee Club.
College Calendar
Thursday, October 24: Mass-
Meeting of Self-Government.
Goodhart, 1.30 P. M.
Friday, October Bs: “Faculty”
performance . of Cymbeline,
Goodhart Hall, 8.20 P.M.
Saturday, October 25: Var-
sity Hockey vs. Ursinus, 10
A. M. .
Sunday, October 27: Dr. John ~
W. Suter, Jr., will speak in
Chapel in the Music Room,,7. 30
P. M.
Monday, October 28: Second
Varsity hockey game vs. Ger-
mantown C, C., 4 P. M.
Lantern Night Ritual
Is Oldest Tradition
The Cloisters, October 18.—Tonight
Bryn Mawvr’s fifty-first class received
its lanterns of learning from the col-
lege. Yet the college, in giving, re-
ceived in turn a gift from its fresh-
men. It gained a confirmation of its
oldest tradition. The ceremony of
Lantern Night, although long. spoken
of. as traditional, earned its first right
to that name tonight when the latest
of fifty-one consecutive classes shared
in its rites, performed for the fiftieth
time. There is a hoary-and-ancestral
dignity about half a century of ex-
istence which not even forty-nine
years can claim or merit. Forty-nine
is still growing; fifty is old.
But however old the custom, it was
new to the freshmen who filed silently
into the pitch-black cloisters. Only.
wonder and excitement at a strange
experience could have kept them so
breathlessly quiet as they formed an
unbroken black crescent about the
courtyard pool. Even when the
sophomores entered, carrying lanterns
and singing “Pallas Athene,” the cres-
cent never moved to show that it could
hear. Of the sophomores, nothing
could be seen except a line of green
lanterns moving slowly from both ends
of the cloisters. The voices of the two
lines were not quite in unison, but the
echoes and undertones caused by this
fault were lovelier than faultlessness
could have been.
In the center of the cloister walk,
the two files met and advanced to-
gether out across the lawn to where
the-freshmen stood. Making a semi-
circle within the motionless. semi-
circle already «there, they finished
their hymn, then turned to give their
lanterns to the waiting line behind
them and fled. They clustered togeth-
er again in a corner of the cloisters
to give one last verse of their song;
and there they waited while the fresh-
Continued on Page Four
Musical Rocking Chairs, Laughing Oceans
Are Unearthed by Imaginative Linguists
Every year, twice a year, there come
those grim milestones in the life of
Bryn Mawr undergraduates, ‘the
“Orals.” Students flock to the é&ami-
nations, scattering in their wakes tiny
slips of paper with “Holzgerechtig-
keit” on one side, and “free supply of
wood” or some such touching senti-
ment on the other side. The Oral sea-
son is a sad one generally; but every
now and then there occur some happy
fruits of those little slips of paper
which serve to cheer a professor weary
of marking blue-books.
In the German Oral, the following
statements appeared: “Many times
a pair of gulls leave a forgotten island
in the vicinity, born of a wild desire
for water. (“Manchmal lassen ein
paar Méwen Land in der Nahe ver-
muten, irgendeine vergessene Insel;
die hinter einer. Wildnis von Wasser
verborgen ist;”) For: “Der Stille
Ozean ist unbestandig und unzuver-
—lassig wie die Menschenseele,” ‘The
Southern Ocean is as unfathomable as
Southérn men”; for: “Lammerwoélk-
chen stehen am Horizont und nehmen
beim Sonnenuntergang seltsame For-
men an; man glaubt, ein hoher Gebir-
gszug baue sich auf, “Little people
stand on the horizon at sunset—and
one thinks he is climbing a high moun-
tain.” “Nirgends ioe Dampfers
freundlicher Rauch— neve two
ae
zu der
desolate descriptions: “Never the
friendly smell of a vapor,’ and
“Never the friendly roar of a steam-
boat.” “The sea is happy and laughs,”
is one translation of “Das Meer ist
glatt und leuchtet.” One student
warns: “And one should not put out
on a strange sea in such stillness,”—
(—“Und in nie geahnter® Stille fahrt
man auf einem Zaubersee.”) Quite a
homely botanical note was introduced
into the paper which translated
“_mit den Beziehungen der Pflanzen
sie umgebenden . Natur,”
“__with the connections of plants to
Mother Nature, to whom they bow.”
Imagination and a dry disdain
marked the translations of the French
Oral. “La musique berceuse” became
“the musical rocking-chair.” “Tis
prennent la grace au pied de la lettre”
appeared to mean: “They swallow
whole the politeness at the end-of-a
letter.” “Tout ce qui ne pouvait pas
se dire semblait étre de trop dans
lame”. pointed out the fact that:
“Everyone who could not express
himself seemed to be too much of a
fool.” The list of French Oral Clas-
sics concluded with the rather start-
ling news that: “Ils considerent le
charme de l’expression comme un en-
gagement pour la conduite” meant
“They consider cham?” of -expréssior’
Anniversary Program ty
Formal Celebration of Founding,
Thomas Award Presentation
Occupy Saturday
~. Goodhart Hall, October 10.—Miss
Park reported in Chapel the final
plans for the celebration of Bryn
Mawr’s Fiftieth Anniversary, which
will take place on Friday and Satur-
day, November 1 and 2. The Anni-
| versary will be celebrated in four for-
mal programs, though there will be
several teas and other social func-
tions. On Friday evening, November
1, Historical Sketches will be present-
ed. These on the whole will have to
do with the College’s fifty-year career.
Cornelia Otis Skinner will give a
monologue portraying the girl of the
eighties, and Margaret Ayre Barnes
mediaeval period.” On Saturday
morning there will be formal exercises
commemorating the founding of the
college. Several leading educators
will speak. Saturday afternoon will
see the presentation of the M. Carey
Thomas Award of $5000 to Dr..Flor-
ence. Rena. Sabin...There will be a
repetition of the Historical Sketches
on Saturday night.
Because of the many official dele-
gates the undergraduates are not in-
vited to the first two parts of the pro-
gram. There will, however, be no re-
served seats on Saturday afternoon
and students will be welcome. On
Saturday evening students and alum-
nae will be Miss Park’s guests. The
invitation cards must be kept as tick-
ets of admission, and all those plan-
ning to attend the performance, be-
ginning at nine o’clock, should be
prompt if they wish good seats. _
Many distinguished people have
been invited to the Fiftieth’ Anniver-
sary celebration.
dents of colleges and universities east
of the Mississippi, presidents of
learned societies, the faculty and staff
of Bryn Mawr, College, headmistresses
of the schools that have prepared five
or more students for Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, large donors to the 1920, 1925
tatives of the alurhnae, graduate stu-
dents and undergraduates as well as
the Board of Directors of the college.
There will be also two representatives
of each class in college and two from
the graduate school. They will march
in the procession on Saturday morn-
ing together with two representatives
from each of the classes from 1885
on and. two representatives of the
M. A.’s and Ph. D.’s. The represen-
Continued on Yage Five
Freshman Week Biggest
Success Of Any Year
With Miss Park and Miss. Ward
to support us, we can say flatly that
this year’s Freshman Week was the
best that has been known since the
practice was established! It was a
triumph for the Entertainment Com-
mittee which always has a Herculean
task before it. To meet one hundred
and twenty-five odd freshmen, com-
fort the lonely and the lost, supply
them all with the wherewithal to
occupy their minds and bodies, as-
sort them’ into categories for future
reference, is the business of twelve
upperclassmen who give up a week
of summer inorder that the fresh-
men may feel at home on the Bryn
Mawr campus by the time the int
vasion of the “hoi polloi” begins.
Continued on Page Four
Notice to Subscribers
THE COLLEGE NEWS wishes to |
announce that the issue on Oc-/
' tober 16 did not appear because/
publication was suspended while
sufficient. subscriptions were
- being obtained to enable THE
News to continue to-be printed.
We are glad to say that the re-
sults were good and. THE News
can appear as usual. every
Plans. Are Completed}
SKETCHES IN’ EVENINGS
will give something illustrating “the.
They include presi-.
and 1985 endowment funds, represen- |
Wins Thomas Award
ve
DR. FLORENCE SABIN:
Mysterious Production
Scheduled for Friday
The enterprising members of the
faculty, not wishing to cast any dis-
paraging criticism -on last year’s
efforts of Varsity Dramatics, never-
theless feel that it is their duty, as
instructors of the young. mind, to
refresh our jaded thespian enthusi-
asm. With this in mind they have
undertaken to turn their dazzling
histrionic talents from the ridiculous
—those inimitable productions Re-
straint Necessary and Much Ado But
Not For Nothing—to the sublime—
Cymbeline.
Dr. Chew has kindly consented to
direct the performance, assisted by
the resourceful Samuel Arthur King.
There has been great difficulty in
selecting a cast from the plethora of
dramatic ability’ that characterizes
our professors. However, Mr. King
and Dr. Chew, working night and
day, have at last decided upon the
following cast, many of whom will
be remembered for their stellar roles
in the past.
CVMmbeline 660.4 a 6s Dr. Bernheimer
Posthumous Leonatus..... Dr. Miiller
POlIATINS 605 caw Mr. Willoughby
AYVITAGUS 6. ew ieee Miss Fisher
CRAROIING 66 tac Miss Ward
LCIUS: csi cere ees Dr. Ernst Diez
SOPNGHUG 6. ironies be S. A. King
TG ANOND pg aed acing ee tos Dr. Weiss
RM ONG 4 52s khiot thee cS ve Dr. Gray
INURE ae oak Cee Dr. Helson
BGntNOGVGP fa ivi cc cee. Miss Petts
The Queen ........ ..Miss Park
Mrs. Manning
ber OUN Wa cae Miss Donnelly
Mrs. Collins
he first rehearsal will take place
Friday night at 8.20 P. M. in the
auditorium of Goodhart Hall. The
faculty, with customary generosity
has offered to admit the student body
to this rehearsal at the moderate fee
of thirty-five cents. This will con-
stitute a benefit performance for the
ryn Mawr Summer Camp.
Owing to the congested fall sched:
ule it is doubtful if the finished pro-
uction will ever be presented in its
‘éntirety; therefore it is urged that
he afore-mentioned student body
hould avail itself of this phenomenal
opportunity on Friday night, to see
even a rough draft of this unusual
spectacle. ‘
Dirndlmadchen Singing
Wins Prize for Drive
-
October 21.—Bryn Mawr tied with
‘tthe University of Delaware for first
place in the program competition
which formed part of the celebration
of German Day held by the German
Societies of Delaware at the German
Hall in Wilmington. Since it had been
planned to give first, second, and
third prizes of fifty, thirty, and
twenty dollars, representatives of the
two institutions drew lots. The Uni-
versity won, and Bryn Mawr re-
ceived second prize. This has been
given to the Drive in the name of the
German Department. Washington
College, at..Chestertown, Maryland,
wor third prize. Haverford was
es > night. “ee. —
like an engagement for a prostitute!” | —
the fourr-sauewe: tepresented.
_ Continued on Page Six
2 es
| Thomas Award Goes
To Doctor F. R. Sabin
Celebrated Scientist Is First
Woman To Enter Rockefeller
Medical Institute
ORIGINAL WORK FAMOUS
The third recipient of the M. Carey
Thomas Award was announced on
Sunday, October 13, after weeks of
discussion by a carefully chosen com-
mittee and much speculation by the
interested undergraduates. The honor
is to be conferred on Dr. Florence
Rena Sabin, of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute for Medical Research at’a cere-
mony to be held in Goodhart Hall Sat-
urday afternoon, November 2, as part
of the commemoration of the Fiftieth
Anniversary of Bryn-Mawr’s found-
ing. . Re
Dr. Sabin’s distinguished career be-
gan as a member of the faculty of
Johns Hopkins University in 1902,
She served there in Various capacities,
eventually becoming professor of his-
tology. She held this position until
1925, when she resigned in order to
join the staff of the Rockefeller In-
stitute. As a result of her signifi-
cant research activities she was hon-
ored in 1925 by election to. life mem-
bership in the National Academy of
Sciences.
Dr. Sabin was the first woman mem-
ber of the Rockefeller Institute, which
she joined as director of the depart-
ment devoted to the study of blood
disease and tuberculosis. ‘She was
also the first woman to be ‘elected to
the National Academy in the sixty-
two years of its existence.
The M. Carey Thomas Award was
first given in 1922 to Miss Thomas
herself upon the occasion of her re-
tirement from the office of President
of the College. The second person to
receive the award was Jane Addams,
the founder of Hull House in Chicago
and a leader in the Women’s Inter-
national League for Peace and Free-
dom. The award is given periodically
from interest derived from a $25,000
fund established in 1925 by the Alum-
nae Association and amounts to $5000.
It is particularly significant that
the choice this year falls on an emi-
nent scientist, in view of the Million
Dollar Drive being conducted by the
college. One of the main aims of the
drive is the securing of funds with
which to build a new science building
with all the modern equipment neces-
Continued on Page Five
Mass Meeting Solicits
Backing for Dramatics
October 22.—At a mass-meeting or-
ganized by members of Players Club,
and heralded by posters drawn by
Wyncie King, Edith Rose, president
of the club, called the attention of
the students to the fact that Varsity
Dramatics is not limited to govern-
ment of a few autocratic individuals.
It is an open democratic system. The
Dramatics Board will take care of the
production of the plays which the col-
lege wants to give. The object of the
meeting was to determine whether the
college really knows what it wants,
and is willing to voice an opinion, or
whether it is disinterested.
Mr. Samuel Arthur King evinced
great interest in the demonstration.
He was pleased to see steps being
taken toward an improved dramatic
association. Although Bryn Mawr is
not a dramatic college, it should not
be without some definite organization,
such as Players Club, was his , opin-
ion. “It is a vital part of education,
of the development of a spirit of co-
éperation, and should be supported
whole-heartedly by the undergraduate
body.” He went on to say that it was
unfortunate we had insufficient finan-
cial backing to sustain an experienced
director, yet since we could devote
only a comparatively small part of
our time to dramatics,.we should at
least have the benefit of interested co-
éperation from the college.
The-meeting dissolved after a show |
of hands in favor of a comedy for the
fall play to be given with » Maventinn
Cap and Bells. ,
®page Two he “ |
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The Community and the Individual
When in the year 1892 the students or Bryn Mawr College organized
themselves into an association for the purpose of self-government, certain
fundamental rights and certain corresponding duties were placed upon them.
These same basic principles still hold today. A proper understanding of
them is essential to any discussion of self-government. ;
Section 1 of Article IV states that “In accordance with the provisions
of the Charter granted by the Trustees of the College,.the Association shall
have the power to deal with all those matters concerning the conduct of the’
members in their College life which do not fall under the jurisdiction of the
authorities of the College, or of the mistresses of the halls.” Nearly every-
one who is familiar with the history of self-government organizations through-
out the country knows that such a wide grant of powers to the students
themselves in the matter of the regulation of their own conduct was not
only extremely liberal in 1892, but also that even today there are few col-
leges where such great privileges are enjoyed. The grant of such rights
implies a corresponding duty to carry out provisions of the Charter.
Self-Government has, during the forty-three years of its career, been
faced with many difficult problems and it has settled them on the whole
in an eminently satisfactory manner. The Association has been able to do
this because it has had behind it a body of fellow-students who have under-
stood that it does not exist merely as a policeman and a judge to prosecute
offenders of the rules which have been found necessary, but rather that it
exists as the representative of the opinion of the student body as a whole
on matters relating to the conduct of individual members. When large
groups of people live together in a small community it is impossible to have
complete freedom of action for the individual; for were that to be the case
there would be anarchy. The group has a right to control in a general way
the conduct of particular members, and self-government has always taken
the part of the representative of the whole group of students.
Self-Government has never been an autocratic body dealing with of-
fenders in a high-handed, partial way. Its officers are elected by their
fellow-students to exercise powers delegated by the Trustees to the Associa-
tion and by it to the officers and the Executive Board. Each case is treated
individually and decisions are reached not entirely on the basis of past
precedents but on the merits of the particular case. Appeal is always pos-
sible from the decision of the Executive Board to the Association itself. In
all important matters coming under its jurisdiction, the Association has al-
ways enjoyed the codperation and the support of the college administration.
The Self-Government Association is the only organization on the campus
which has the right to regulate the conduct of the students. That is its
particular sphere of action just as the control of academic matters is the
province of the college administration. The Self-Government ‘Associa-
tion must be upheld by the general body of its members in its efforts to
oversee their conduct if we are to have a happy, united and well-organized
community.
*Sea-Trout—No Bacon!”
“No eggs this morning; bacon oday, but no eggs.” When that news
first broke upon the ears of a sleepy student body a-breakfasting, everyone
thought somebody had ‘merely said something more about the war, and
closed her eyes again. It was quite true, however; there were no eggs that
morning. The next morning, baconless‘eggs adorned undergraduate plates.
By this time, word had somehow been bruited about that the unwedded
state of bacon and eggs was to continue until both netics of food should
drop in price.
Our confusion about the economic state of hens ail hogs will doubt-
less continue for several days, until we finally settle down to a churlish
acceptance of our breakfasts, and a new tradition will have come into being.
We are quite in sympathy-with the need for economy; and we don’t object
to traditions—on the contrary, we like quite a lot of traditions. Breakfast,
however, has no right to be traditional; it comes far too early in the morning
and ‘catches ws in far too unprepared. a state to be appreciative. There is
really no adequate reason why we should cling to a semi-tradition of “Good-
_ mornihg-toastandcoffee-andbaconandeggs, please.” We can eat just as cheaply
—even more $0“-if we cease -having bacon and eggs,’ save for, perhaps, one
day a week, On the other days, we could be served sausage—many kinds| _
—and ges seafoods, which, by actual figures, are proved to be far cheaper
than our f
meals. If we-would abandon the bacon and eggs idea
‘ Po. realize that one pound of sausag
gh to feed
ny be Aree for thirty-nine cents,—f,
|WIT?s END|
Senior Elections
At the senior class elections
held ‘in Denbigh smoking .room
on Wednesday, October 8, the
following: officers were elected:
There once was a climbing’ Bryn |
Mawrtyr President, Jane Mattison.
Who married a Knight of the Gawr- | Vice-President and Treasurer,
tyr. Antoinette Brown.
When given a ride *
‘For putting on side,
She said, “Poof! ' He’s orily a stawr-,
tyr,” |
Secretary, Ellen Scattergood.
Song Mistress, Maryallis Mor- ,
gan. :
‘lehtah fact definitely puts it in the
I thought I saw a Freshman hit class. It is Jubilee, of course,
Come down the Senior Stairs. ‘the musical written by Moss Hart
I looked again and saw
it, was
: s and, Cole Porter .on their greatly
The Dalton cats in pairs” eat ‘
; ] h Id. Th
“You'd better beat it quick,”. I said, Srueiey trip seownd sewers z
Site 55 story. was a cause of great anxiety
It’s time to say. your prayers. .{to loyal Britons, who feared that it
was a satire on George V’s celebra-
tion of last spring. To dispel such
rumors, the authors obligingly de-
bearded their. king, and made other
minor changes in make-up.
The royal family is depicted on a
sort of wish-fulfillment binge (in-
cognito of course), when each of
them courts his favorite public hero
or heroine. The queen for example,
yearns for a Johnny Weissmuller, the
princess for a Noel Coward. But
the story is only a»wery small part
of the entertainment. The costumes
and sets are perfected to-the last de-
gree; a special product was invented
by one of the duPont corporations to
create the effect in one scene. The
chorus was carefully selected from
large crowds of applicants, and the
dances were designed to be as simple
and as striking as possible.
Mary Boland, Melville Cooper, and
June Knight head the list of players.
The latter has as one of her numbers,
the successor to “You’re the Top,”
called “A Picture of Me Without
You.” Other musical numbers which
promise to be hits are “Marie and
Me” and “What a Nice Municipal
Park.” Tickets are now being sold
several weeks in advance.
I thought I saw a field trip
All over Merion Green.
I looked again and saw it was
Two puppies of the Dean. .
“If they were only goats,” I said,
“They’d eat the place quite clean.’
I thought I saw all Haverford
Upon the hockey field.
I looked again and saw it was
A package.that. was sealed.
“If Molly is inside,” I said,
“The fact should be révealed.”
I thought I saw a French Word List
A floating in the pool.
I looked again and saw it was
An undernourished mule.
“You haven’t got a badge,” I said,
“I guess you know the rule!”
Cheerio,
THE Map HATTER.
News of the New York Theatres
Dramatic critics seem to enjoy
making predictions—and_ especially
early fall predictions—as to the like-
ly winner of. the Pulitzer Prize. This
fall, at least a few of them seem to
have their eyes on Remember the
Day by Phik Dunning and Philo Hig-
ley. This is a “kid” play, but a
good one, designed to delight nostal- |
gic adults. One of its co-authors, |
Phil Dunning, admitted in an inter-
view lately that to him there is
“something sweet’ about the whole
idea of livingMover one’s childhood,
and that-is what inspired him to
write and produce Remember the
Largest.,Class Since’ ’29
Fills All-Available Room
Goodhart, October 15 and 17.—This
year’s freshman’ class is the. largest
since 1929, Miss Ward announced in
Chapel. Besides being very numerous,
Day. the class of 1939 is also extremely
The thing that impresses most! young, and has lowered the average
people about the entire production is
its whole-hearted sincerity, the writ-
ing, and the acting by _Frankie
Thomas and Francesca Bruning in
the parts of a fourteen-year-old boy
and his adored teacher. The boy
cherishes a passion for the ocean
and boats, and his teacher is the
only one in the middle-western com-
munity in which he lives who under-
stands this interest of his. Of course
he had always believed before he got
to know this teacher, that he should
make a teacher’s life as miser-
able as possible; and in that opinion
he was joined by all of his class-
mates. The athletic coach is another
great idol of the boy, and the tragedy
comes when he learns of the coach’s
romance with his teacher.
Some people criticise the play be-
cause it is not well-constructed. They
say that the sympathy does not rest
entirely with the boy, his teacher or
the coach. The interest is divided
between the romance and the boy’s
struggles with his affections. .’,Some
also object to the epilogue showing a
age of entering classes. The fresh-’
man. statistics, however, are substan-
tially the same as in previous years.
Miss Ward announced the arrival of
a new contrivance whereby averages
of the incoming class may be partially
predicted.
The predicted score is an interesting
new device which has been used this
year for the first time. The College
Entrance Board Examinations and the
Scholastic Aptitude Test of a student
have ‘been “weighed carefully and
worked up into a formula which will
predict, supposedly, within three
points, a student’s average in college.”
Dr. Michaels, of the Physics Depart-
ment, worked on the formula all sum-
mer and has, with a variation of about
three points, successfully predicted the
averages of the three upper classes in
college. Very important items which
the predicted score does not include
and which are difficult to put down in
figures are the character—and per-
sonality of a student. The table of
predicted averages is as follows:
Percentage
later meeting between the boy and 1934 19385 19384 19385
his teacher: they declare that it de-! 96-100... 0 0 0 0
stroys the illusions created so ex-{ 91-95 ... 2 4 2% 3%
pertly by the plot and acting. S690... 6 Tk 6% 9%
The cast includes children of many]: 81-85 ... 17 17-16% 14%
prominent actors and actresses, whose _- -_
acting is delightfully natural and Total.. 25 /82,..24% -26%
unstudied. In fact, the whole play
seems to be perfectly cast, and what-
ever small faults in construction it
may have seem to be adequately com-
pensated for by its beautifully sus-
tained mood.
The most ballyhooed show of tlhe
year opened on Broadway on Satur-
day, the twelfth of October. Strangely
enough,
Both Miss Ward and‘ Dr. Michaels
feel that the predicted score is obvi-
ously too high and if able students
drop out, the formula will have to
be changed.
During - the course ‘of ae. ‘summier;|
the. Committee on Admissions grew
nervous :about the size of- the incoming
class.» By September. they - wondered
it almost seems to live up|where rooms could be found: for 125
pound. Bloaters at ies cents apiece, and. gufficient to feel four people,
could be varied with sea-trout at ten cents a ‘pound; and both: of these
commodities cost considerably less than eggs at from thirty- ‘two: to forty-
seven cents a dozen. bas
_ If we adopted such a program, we. should be. ‘killing ‘two anfmals with
an un-mossy stone: first, we shquld-be tossing. lightly away a custom that is
| merely: lethargic, and neither picturesque nor necessary; and second, we
shouldbe eating at less expense and with the slightly “daring” feeling that
comes of innovating something. Let us, then, march to breakfast with a
oe ee cry of: “Sea-trout, no bacon!”
Freshmen, 10 more than they had
counted on and the largest entering.
class since 1929; but by hook or by
crook all of them have been given
rooms. Twenty-nine of the class are
daughters of Bryn Mawr Alum-
nae, the largest number in the history
of the college. This year, as last year,
the freshmen are to be congratulated
|for the high percentage of college-
trained parents, 25% of whom have
college or university degrees and only
15% of, whom have had no college
training at all. Of the men’s colleges,
nineteen fathers come from, Harvard,
fourteen from Yale, twelve from the
University of Pennsylvania, and six:
from Cornell.
The class of 1939 has changed the
average agé of the entering students
to seventeen years and ten months.
From 1921-32 the average age was
eighteen years and two months. Since
then the average have been decreas-
ing and this year 55% of the fresh-
men are under eighteen.
The deckease in average age has
not hindered the entering class from
obtaining a brilliant record in the col-
lege board examinations. Four stu-
dents have averages of ninety or above
which surpasses all previous years.
The reason perhaps may be found in
the fact that the examinations ‘of
Plan C are divided in two groups and
may make it easier to attain a higher
average. Incidentally the College En-
trance Examination Board has
changed its system of marking to one
‘of relative rank.‘ The new system
makes high grades higher and low
grades lower. Nevertheless twenty-
two of the class have an average of
eighty or above. Of these, two entered
on Plan A, eight on Plan B, and
twelve on Plan C. The greater flexi-
bility in entrance requirements also
allows applicants to enter on Plan D,
which demands high scholastic stand-
ing in the preparatory school and on
Regents Examinations, the marks of
which are lowered fifteen points for
low marks and twenty points for high
marks. Transfer students are not re-
quired to take entfance examinations.
The grades of the Scholastic Aptitude
Tests are ranked in divisions of A,
B, C, D, in both the verbal and mathe-
matical sections. Twenty girls have
A scores on the verbal section this
year and nine on the mathematical;
four had A on both. sections, a better
record than that of last year. .
(To Be Continued Next Week)
In Philadelphia
Broad: Awake and Sing and
Waiting for Lefty, Clifford Odets’ hit
plays, continue.
Erlanger: Ah Wilderness. George
M. Cohan, in a return visit of Eu-
gene O’Neill’s famous comedy.
Forrest: Romeo and Juliet with
Katharine Cornell, Florence Reed,
and Maurice Evans,’ which opened
October 21 for a two weeks’ stay.
Movies
Aldine: Barbary Coast with Mir-
iam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson,
and Joel McCrea.
Arcadia: Walter Connelly in The
Bishop Misbehaves, a mystery story.
Boyd: The pleasant Fred McMur-
ray and Carole Lombarde in. Hands
Across the Table, about a manicurist
with the hiccoughs who picks up a
Park Avenue boy in a beauty shop,
Really supposed to be pretty funny.
Earle: It’s in the Air with Jack
Benny, Una Merkel, and Jack. Haley,
Europa: Peasants, a film of Soviet
Russia.
Fox: Way Down East, Henry Fon-
da as another homespun hero, but
good notwithstanding.
Karlton: Dark Angel.
Keith: Broadway Melody of 1986.
Stanley: Shipmates Forever.
Stanton: Dr. Socrates, a gangster
picture, with Paul Muni,
Local Movies
Ardmore: Thursday, Here Comes
ithe. ‘Band with Ted Lewis and Vir-
' ginia-, ,Bruce;.. Friday, Elissa Landi in
:Without Regret; Saturday, Kay
Francis and George Brent in The
Goose and the Gander; Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, Clark
Gable in Call of the Wild.
Seville: Thursday and Friday,
Warner Oland in Charlie Chan in
Egypt; Saturday, She Gets Her Man
with Zasu Pitts; Monday and Tues-
day, Anna Karenina; Wednesday,
The Gay Deception with Francis
Lederer and Frances Dee.
Wayne: Thursday, Anna Karen-
ina; Friday and Saturday, Laurel
and Hardy in Bonnie Scotland; Mon-
day and Tuesday, The Gay Deception;
| Wédnesday, She Married Her Boss.
ail.
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Varsity Wins First, —
Loses Second Game
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Uneven Play, Lack:of Teamwork
Are Overcome to Conquer
West Jersey, 2-1
BEAVER: IS VICTOR, 3-2
October 12.—The Varsity hockey
team started the season in good form
by winning its first game, whieh was
played’on Saturday against the “West
Jersey team. The final score was, 2-1,
with Bakewell scoring for Varsity.
Although each player on the team
played a fast game on her own, there
was a definite lack of the team-work
and codrdination which we are accus-
tomed to see in the First Varsity
games. ~This was no doubt due to the
fact that it was the first game of. the
season and the players were not yet
accustomed to each other. We hope
that as the season progresses we will
find more of this codperation so neces-
sary to a good team,
The playing in the first half started
off slowly and with hesitation, as each
player seemed to be-testing out her
opponent before deciding her method
of attack; but as the game progressed
the Varsity players picked up speed
and went after the ball with every-
thing they had. Bakewell scored the
goal in-the first half on a cross-field
pass from Hasse.
Although the team seemed to tire
early in the second period, they kept
trying until the final whistle. Cary
scored a shot early in the half after
several tries following long runs
from the other end of the field....The
West Jersey goalguard had too good
an eye to allow these long, straight
hits to reach their. goal, and so the
Varsity scoring had to be made. on
quick, angular hits from the side.
Bar Cary,: this year’s captain,
played an even, steady game, and the
directions which she shouted to her
team-mates were a great help in di-
recting the passes. Bakewell and
Hasse, both newcomers to regular
Varsity play, played diffidently but
carefully in the inside positions, and
carried out Cary’s directions when
she called for their passes or sent
them after the ball. Brown and Tag-
gart played in the wing positions, and
although they are veterans of Varsity
play they failed to come up to their
usually good standards. Taggart
seemed unsure of the ball and her
passes were weak; and Brown was
slow in picking up passes from the
center ofthe field.
Peg Evans, another newcomer to
regular. Varsity play, started out very
hesitantly in the difficult position of
center half, but it was not long be-
fore she was playing an excellent
game. She intercepted the opponents’
passes and followed up her own shots
in a way that promises even better
playing as the season continues:
Bridgman and Syd Evans, playing
right and left halfbacks, repeated
their good work of last season.
Bridgman’s spectacular lunges and
interceptions were particularly effec-
tive in keeping the West Jersey team
away from the Bryn Mawr goal.
Jackson, playing in her old position
of.right back, was successful in inter-
cepting her opponents’ shots, but it
was not until the second half that
she remembered to follow her shots
out and take.the ball up to the for-
wards. Louisa Bright, who has been}
absent from the Varsity for a year,
has returned to play in the left back-
field. Her remarkable speed was a
bright spot in the game and her passes
up the field to Bakewell and Brown
were steady and well placed. Leigh-
ton played in the goal and her sure
eye, saved many shots from her net.
Individually each girl on the team
played well, but as a team Varsity
failed to come up to scratch. Never-
theless, we congratulate them on win-
ning their first game and hope tc find
{
them, showing more teamwork in the
next games.
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WEST JERSEY BryYyN MAwr
MOM OUs 5 seas. Wie kgs Whee Taggart
RAG oe i Decks a cs eae, Hasse
| Batton.......... Dei ak ea en: Cary
ETON ER TE Te EE OOS Bakewell
Schileberg...... lw. ....C. C. Brown
Gupeant aos Ree Bridgman
i ee ae i ree P, Evans
Blanchard...... Ee lake S. Evans
Mattison...... ae Ceomance ner Jackson
Chambers,..... l. b. ...... 2 Bright
PION 55% Siu peels [EEE Leighton
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October 19.—The. Varsity hockey
team lost its second game of the sea-
son to Beaver College with a score of
3-2. The Bryn Mawr players ‘were
completely surprised when they found
themselves up against a very good
team. The Beaver team picked up the
ball from the first bully and carried
it off down the field. They passed
the Yellow backs who offered them
little resistence and entered the shoot-
ing circle, but the goal guard saved
thé*shot this time and the ball started
back up the ‘field. From this time on
the Bryn Mawr players did not seem
able to collect themselves and the play
remained almost entirely at their
own end of. the field. The Varsity
backs were seldom able to get the ball
away from the shooting circle, and
their play became sloppier as it grew
more excited. The forwards crowded
down upon their backs and so were not
ready to pick up a pass when one was
sent to them. Instead, the ball rolled
on down to the opposing backs before
the Yellow forwards could pick it up..
Whenever the play did get within the
region of the Beaver goal, the for-
wards crowded in upon each other and
messed. up the play in the shooting
circle, 9
The lack of team-work which was
so evident in the game last week was
repeated this week to an even greater
degree. None of. the players seemed
to think two steps ahead of what she
was doing at the moment. The backs
made no effort to see that their passes
would be picked up by the forwards,
but instead sent their balls down the
field with no thought as to their ulti-
mate destination. Each forward, when
she got the ball, tried to take it down
the field on her own stick instead of
passing to another forward when she
was met by an opposing back. Besides
this lack of team-work, another great
fault of Varsity’s play lay in the
players’ inability to pickup —a_ball,
even when it was headed directly
toward them. Varsity would perhaps
do well to profit by the example which
the Beaver team set with their excel-
lent technique in handling the ball and
good codperation between the players.
Line-up: :
BEAVER BRYN MAWR
MAGE cs 3 es TOW 6656 As . -Seckel
DENIM sec ccse cs Tel cis heweas Hasse
HOGG. c ees ess Cie Cary
Bdwards....... eas eee . Wilson
‘A; Armstrong,, l. w. ....C.C. Brown
MURR GRG 5 sé. 6.6 608 Poe ceca Bridgman
OPP ees CON iia P. Evans
MM. Armstrong. bod... 40s: S. Evans
POW scr os PU, wea Jackson
GG? isc ces WoO cere L. Bright
Wortman...<-. 3. ee E. Smith
Goals—Beaver, Edge, 1; Edwards,
2. Bryn Mawr, Cary, 2.
Substitutes—Beaver, McCormick for
Brown, Berger for Miller, Thomas for
Jenkin. Bryn Mawr, Leighton for
Smith, Seltzer for Wilson, Carpenter
for Seltzer.
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To make it clear to those for whom
the rules of the cut system still seem
‘slightly vague, the main points of
the system which: should be noticed
and be understood by every student
are listed below:
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cuts per semester as- she has regular
scheduled hours of recitation per
week, This gives. an average of
about fourteen cuts per seméster.
Unit courses which are held three
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unit courses held twice a week give
two cuts. First. and second year
sciences give five. cuts, not seven,
since each laboratory hour counts as
one-third of a cut. Two cuts are
given for hygiene and one-half a cut
for diction. Students who are doing
honors work are allowed unlimited
cuts within reason. Auditors. get
counted for cuts, but visitors do not.
Students who are on the verge of
overcutting are warned of the fact.
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end of the month of the number of
cuts she has taken during the course
of the month, so that overcutting
need never be a result of lack of
information-so far as the student is
concerned. The penalties for over-
cutting are as follows:
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cuts are deducted from the stu-
dent’s allowance for the next
semester, and she is put on Stu-
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Senate Probation if she. takes
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Campus Notes
Dr. Weiss’ ‘paper, A Memorandum
for a System of Philosophy, will be
published in the next week or so in
The Symposium of* American Phi-
losophy Today and Tomorrow, as one
of twenty-five credos of non-profes-
sional and professional philosophers,
under fifty years of\age, whose views
now dominate or are expected to
dominate the American scene.
Dr. Diez’s book of German.grammar
exercises,, A Page A Day, will be
published during the course of this
year by Edwards Brothers,\Ann Ar-
bor, Michigan. The book, ‘in litho-
printed form, is now being used by
the elementary German classes.
Dr. Smith’s work on Indian politi-
cal reforms, which is being com-
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Bryn Mawr, Monday, October 21—
Bryn Mawr’s second Varsity team
went down to defeat today at the
hands of the Merion Cricket Club
second team to the ‘lively score of
3-2. . Though the critical observer on
the sidelines could pick out’ many
points of weakness in the team, to-
day’s play was markedly better than
that displayed two weeks ago. The
old chronic illness flared up again:
that of not being able to,make a
goal when the ball had once reached
the circle.
In the first half Bryn Mawr was
threatening the Cricket Club goal the
greater part of the time. The threat,
however, was but a weak one, for all
the punch’ seemed to leave the for-
wards when they were in shooting
range of the goal. Again and again
Merion’s excellent backfield managed
to clear the ball when we had felt
that a goal was inevitable.
Fairly early in the first half-Alice
Marsh, of Merion, dodged neatly past
the fullback and snapped the ball
into the goal with a flick that was
- almost too fast to see. After this
the tide of play surged up and down
almost évenly. In one of Merion’s
attacks a wicked ball hot off the stick
of Libby Toulman, Merion’s star
center-half, whizzed through the
maze of feet in the circle to lodge
neatly in the goal, tallying Merion’s
second seore of the day.
In the second half Bryn Mawr
tightened up, making her attacks a
real threat. Twice our _ hearts
pounded and then sank again as
Bryn Mawr. came within an ace of
tallying. The third time, however,
Dave Bakewell caught a rebound
from the goalie’s pads and shoved it
into the cage with a snappy follow-
in. The play then centered around
the other end for awhile. But sud-
denly Dave, coming to the fore again,
brought .the bal, from a scrimmage,
made a beautiful pass to Ann Fer-
guson on the left wing, who picked
it up to make an equally neat center.
Dave hit it with that right-hand
drive that we have learned to ad-
mire so much, and Bryn Mawr was
on her upward way.
By this time Merion was on her
mettle. Before long the Cricket Club
had earned a third point’ from a
* scrimmage in the circle, and the final
whistle blew before Bryn Mawr had
time to retaliate.
Line-up:
BRYN MAWR MERION:
WOME Shek ccs ie eee ee Strohbar
Barrington... Ass A. Marsh
Carpenter..... Cone spears MacCoy
Bakewell...... Vee 5 cas English
Ferguson...... i ekives Roberts
Morvan......; te a RES Foulke
je) ee oP « eee ar Toulman
a EN 1k. os sits Starr
'Stoddard...... eR. iw Sa Carry
1 ee Oe Scan P. Marsh
FIGHING co cae ak Wetherill
Subs: Bryn Mawr, Clark for Belin,
Belin for Harrington, Scattergood for
Stoddard, Stoddard for Morgan.
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the National Youth Administra-
tion that assistance will be avail-
able to enable the College to give
employment to.a limited number
of undergraduate . students . on
a part-time basis. Work has
‘already been ‘arranged» for in
Dalton Hall for the various de-
partments, in the Psychological
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in order to enable them’to meet
their college expenses this year
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Players Club Elections,
Plans Are Announced
The reorganization of Varsity Dra-
matics and Players Club, announced
last spring, has already gone into ef-
fect with the recent elections of offi-
cers and new members. There is now
only one organization, Players Club,
whose officers compose the Varsity
Dramatic Board. Edith Rose, ’37,
was elected president at the recent
meeting and Julia Grant, ’38, business
manager. Other members of the
board, which is to decide all issues
after consultation with the club as a
whole, are: acting, Gertrude Leigh-
ton, ’88; dancing, Ethel Mann, ’38;
construction, Sylvia Evans, ’37; light-
ing, Barbara Colbron, ’387; scenery,
Olga Muller, ’37, and costumes, Isabel
Seltzer, 737.
Plans for this winter were discussed
at the meeting when it was proposed
and voted that Players Club should
collaborate with the Cap and Bells of
Haverford College in the production
of a three-act play to be given, if
possible, the first week-end in De-
cember in Goodhart. More definite
plans will be announced later. It was
further proposed that, in order to
consolidate the work of the organiza-
tion better than before, a regular
meeting should be planned for at least.
once each month,
New menfbers who have been elect-
ed this: autumn include: Huldah
Cheek, ’38; Louise Dickey, 87; Ann
Fred, ’88; Julia Grant, ’38; Fanny
| Hoxton,’ ’88; Gertrude Leighton, ’38;
Ethel Mann, ’38; Mary Sands, ’38;
Alice’ Shurckff, 38, and Sylvia
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Freshman Week Biggest
Success Of Any Year
Continued from Page One
The program this year was much
the same as it hasbeen previously.
For the last two years the time has
been shortened by a day—a system
which has proved much more. satis-
factory. The non-resident freshmen
are asked to come for their inter-
views on Wednesday, and ‘the halls
are open Thursday. That night,
when everything is still very strange
and hectic, parties are given in each
hall. On Friday begin the momentous
interviews, with the long waits out-
side Miss Park’s and Mrs. Manning’s
offices. Choosing one’s courses is al-
ways risky, chiefly because one al-
most invariably walks into the Dean’s
office with one list’.in mind and out
again with a totally different list
on paper. ‘
The Self-Government meeting on
Friday evening leads to that frantic
studying from the little blue books
which is observed later by pitying
upperclassmen. Thus. responsibilities
are soon impressed on the freshmen,
who appear to benefit greatly.
The high spot of the week is the
picnic supper in Wyndham on Sat-
urday night, when excellent food is
served and the freshmen are royally
entertained by Mrs. Collins, Miss
Petts, and the heads of the four un-
dergraduate organizations.
Miss, Park’s tea on Sunday is an-
other red-letter hour, according to the
freshmen. By that time they have
realized that the other “hundred and
twenty-four freshmen are individuals
and may even recognize a few, which
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Week seems to be unanimous. The
introduction this year of some form.
of organized athletics during’ the
week* was a very happy thought
the more organized form: of enter-
tainment, the better. It is hard, in-
deed, if one’s trunk of room furnish-
ings are delayed, to wander about,
watching others. “settling - in”. and
have nothing to do oneself but wait.
The greatest difficulty is always to
arrange to have the freshmen meet
each other, and the large meetings
are. rather unsatisfactory in that re-
spect. Perhaps smaller gatherings
of freshmen, indiscriminately mixed,
might help the bewildered feeling |
that comes from beholding every: day
so many unidentified faces!
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Lantern Night Ritual
Is Oldest Tradition
Continued from Page One
men, breaking their long silence, be-
gan to sing “Sophias Philai Paromen.”
Still singing, these marched with their
new lanterns into the cloisters and out
into the Library. After them ran the
sophomores, waiting only until they,
too, were outside of the darkened
Library before they were shouting
“Sophias Philai” as lustily as the
freshmen.
Under Pembroke Arch, all four
classes gathered to make more music;
formance is no
of the complete Lantern Night cere-
mony than the careless, unpremedi-
tated singing at Pembroke Arch. All.
elements of Lantern Night, the delib-
erate and the’ spontaneous, became
tradition tonight.
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more forcibly than’ melodiously—were
obviously not any result of the train-
ing which had made the singing in
the cloisters so fine. -Through the
care and planning of Mr. Willoughby,
who directed both freshmen and
sophomores, and through the efforts
0 j an, ’36, the director
e So , and Ifené Ferrer,
87, the director of the freshmen, the
two solemn Lantern Night hymns
were given precise, clear tone and sen-
sitive expression, But this formal per-
ore. integral a part
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Page Five
Relation of Students
To Self-Gov Explained
Late last spring, Miss Park spoke
to the students about her understand-
ing of the relation, of Self-Govern-
ment to the student body as a whole.
Her remarks were-so pertinent that
they are reprinted below so that all
the students, but more especially the
freshmen, may profit thereby.
“At intervals F hear either from
those who come under Self-Govern-
ment regulations or from officers
elected to carry out those regulations
or from the great. mass who are
neither culprits nor officers_a kind of
comment on the regulations which
makes them seem the all-important
part of the system of government at
Bryn Mawr, or rather that they are
the«only part of the system visible
to the naked eye of the senior as well
as the |freshman. -The regulations
allow us to stay out until such a
train or until such a time; to change
or not change a registration; to
smoke in such a place and not in
another. These are all useful facts
for the citizen of Bryn Mawr to re-
member. It is useful for the young
professional woman at business—
which you are—to keep in mind the
day and hour of an examination, the
number of credits which are neces-
sary for a-degree or for a major, and
length of assignments. Both kinds of
regulations are conspicuous in daily
routine and if you stumble against
them by accident or carelessness’ you
bark your shins on them and tend
to give them a good kick in return.
“But beyond momentary irritation
you probably understand in general
that the second set doesn’t exist
merely to annoy—they have gradu-
ally grown up to insure your getting
what you came here for—an educa-
tion: that they are part of an
economical method of assisting an
individual to cope with the perplexi-
ties of complex knowledge. They
are only method, not the knowledge
itself and if they are superfluous
and cumberous they in time disap-
pear. But less often and less suc-
cessfully, I think, you look behind
2
the Self-Government regulations to
see what is the real thing which is
there. I should like to say to you
what I think it is briefly.
“When you bring up your children ||
you will proceed something like this—
I take it. You will be more or less
—more at first and less afterward—
in control.of your children’s way: of
living. You will want each child to
have the necessary development for
his age at each period of. his life.
You will see what. a baby of six
months needs as a background for
his activity, and for his development.
He needs, say, féedings, regular or
of certain amounts, he needs increas-
ing variety, he needs so much sleep
in.the daytime and so much at night.
If he-is-sick he gets another routine.
All your arrangements for him could
be called, if you. care to, regulations.
You don’t call:them that; you merely
think of them as insuring the best
chance for the important develop-
ment. which he must make. You
don’t trust to chance nor to the baby.
For your three-year-old you have
arranged another mode of life appro-
priate to his different activities. For
your six-year-old, or adolescent. still
another, for- the child traveling or
in school or on a holiday. Your
arrangements ‘and your. regulations
merely mark out the important thing:
they are not the important thing
itself.
“When President Thomas turned
over to the students of Bryn Mawr in
1891 the management of their own
affairs, the object was not to have
them draw up a list of rules, punish
the people who broke them and elect
the office those who kept them. It was
to allow them to be both parent and
child and to think out and arrange
for themselves the kind of life most
practical for the thing they came to
Bryn Mawr to do. What were its
conditions?
“Young women, between 17 and 22,
are living away from home and in
fairly large numbers together, in a
conservative .community and in a
city suburb. They want to be able
to work at a professional job stead-
ily and at definite hours, a rather
Fencing Election
The Fene:ng Team announces
the election of Julia Grant, ’38,
as Captain for this year.
demanding routine, not physical so
much as mental. They had to con-
sider two units, as all democracies
do: the individual must have the-
maximum of liberty, the community
the minimum of friction. A com-
promise between the two always had
to be reached. To be specific, cer-
tain obvious problems have to be
met: every one can suffer if there is
too much disturbancé’ and. confusion
in, the -place where , she “lives - or
works; every one can suffer from
disagreeable gossip (or truth) about
the place with*which she is con-
nected: the young and: the foolish
suffer from the many dances inter-
spersed in their quizzes. The college
itself suffers if it is interpreted by
its lunatic fringe, not by its intel-
ligensia.
“The interesting thing about Bryn}
Continued on Page Six
Anniversary Program
Plans Are Completed
Continued from Page One
tatives of the undergraduate classes
will be the President and the Vice-
President of each class. From the
undergraduates there will be twelve
marshals who will include the Presi-
dent of the Self Government and
Undergraduate Associations, the Bryn
Mawr League and the Athletic Asso-
ciation and two marshals from each
class, who haye been. appointed by
the Faculty Committee in charge of
the academic procession. In addition,
sixteen undergraduates will act as
ushers. It is possible that the Choir
may take part in the Historical
Sketches. The Saturday morning
celebration will be broadcast from
eleven-thirty until twelve-thirty or
possibly one o’clock and arrangements
are being made for the undergradu-
ates to hear the broadcast in the
Common Room or at President Park’s.
Miss Park’s committee for the selec-
tion of the recipient of the award in-
cluded three distinguished . persons
haVing no connection with, the college
in addition to the four. representatives
of the Alumnae Association. - Mrs.
August Belmont, Miss Rosamund Gild-
er, of New York, and Mrs. Dwight W.
Morrow, of Englewood,. New Jersey,
were the members of the former group;
and Miss Park, Miss Thomas, Mrs.
C. Townsend Ludington, of Ardmore,
Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Herbert L.
Clark, of Haverford, represented the
Alumnae.
Thomas Award Goes. . _
_ To Doctor F. R. Sabin
Continued from Page One
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entific work.
Dr. Sabin’s original contributions
to medical science include discovery
of the origin of the lymphaties, studies
of the brain and of the development
of the red and white corpuscles, and
discoveries, concerning the functions
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Relation of Students. =
To Self-Gov Explained
4 Continued from Page Five
Mawr Self-Government is that earlier
than anywhere else at the time, and
more completely than is ustal even
now, a group of young persons were
given a chance to devise for them-
selves and for the whole community
of which each was a member the way.
in which they could best live in order
to do most effectively what they ‘had
to do. Parents, boarding schools
opped out of the picture and the
young woman herself filled it com-
pletely.
“What are the relations of the
regulations to the living thing be-
hind them? Just what your nice
and effective rules for your baby
‘are to his development. The prob-
lems of your way of living are put
into words by the regulations of the
day and the year, but the regula-
tions are not the Self-Government.
The way of living which the regula-
tions define must be a common de-
nominator for many individuals, 40
per cent of whom are under 18—and
those of you who are 22 know that
much is learned in that interval. You
come with various social usages, with
various powers of self-control when
excited, with various abilities to take
responsibility. For 44 years a work-
ing plan has been made and carried
out. It has been most successful and
most illuminating to the individual
later when the majority has seen
clearly what it was trying to do:
that its regulations were only sign
| posts placed here and there to point
the principle of ‘private and com-
munity responsibility which is the
real, the important thipg. Responsi-’
bility can't be set down in a thous-
and definite rules,. but the lack of
it can. be spotted very definitely, I
think. Such a complete’ system of
Self-Government: as that at Bryn
Mawr can’t carry many irresponsi-
ble people. It can manage a few
forgetters and non-thinkers and for
them its regulations are printed in
a book. -It needs an intelligent pub-
lic and a few careful officers and
committees to act not for their own
advantage certainly’ but- for the pub-
lic—in ‘short, ‘what the American
state needs. Above all it needs to
understand its own nature and its
own purpose. I hope it will get what
it needs through the thoughtful con-
sideration of you all.”
3
Dirndlmadchen Singing
Wins Prize for Drive
Cortinued from Page One
Bryn Mawr was the first of the
four colleges to appear. Its program
consisted of six German folk-songs,
and Mary L. Powell, ’37, a German
major, announced them. The entire
group appeared in the costumes of
Dirndlmiidchen. Mrs. Wells, who had
taught them the songs, accompanied
them. To her and to Mr. Willoughby,
who kindly met the group four. times
and gave them many helpful sugges-
tions, goes the credit for Bryn Mawr’s
performance. Dr. and Mrs. Diez, Mrs.
Jessen, and Dr. Wells ‘also: helped
make arrangements for the group,
and were present at the celebration.
The University of Delaware entex
tained with some Bavarian folk-danc-
ing, with dancers wearing authentic
costumes.- They were accompanied on
an accordian by a co-ed, who also gave
several solos. Two girls from Wash-
ington College recited poems, one by
Storm and one by Goethe, and a col-
lege quartet sang two songs. The
Haverford students had not prepared
a program, but Professor Harry
Pfund recited Uhfand’s ballad, Des
Sdngers Fluch.
The German Day celebration was
planned to commemorate the landing
of the first settlers in Germantown
under the leadership of Francis Jos-
eph Pastorius. Mr. Paul Hessler,
who had offered the prizes and invit-| ;
ed the participating colleges to dinner | |
at the Hotel DuPont, was chairman
of the gathering. Besides the pro-
grams of the four colleges, there were
musfe and several speeches. Dr. Max
Diez discussed the Contributions of
German civilization to America and
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the necessity’ for’ an, appreciation of
the culture of other lands than’ the
*Vaterland” in this their new home.
Richard Steinke, president of the
Delaware Siangerbund, gave a speech
of welcome. «
After the program was over, the
performers went downstairs and heard
a , Bavarian band~ playing German
tunes, and enjoyed a glass of beer as
a reward for their labors. Many Ger-
man residents of Delaware were pres-
ent and joined heartily in the informal
singinf and dancing afterward.
The Bryn Mawr students who took
part in the program were as follows:
Mary Askins, Ruth Atkiss, Kate Bing-
ham, Caroline Brown, Alice Chase,
deLancey Cowl, Louise Dickey, Amelia
Forbes, Anne Fultz, Anne Funkhaus-
er, Beatrice Greenwald, Evelyn Han-
sell, Phyllis Hasse, Bertha Hollander,
Janet Horsburgh, Dorothea Huy],
Ingeborg Jessen, Emily Johnson, Delia
Marshall, Mary Powell, Virginia Sale,
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