College news, October 11, 1933

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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEW

S, \1933





Miss Park Predicts

Basic Sogiat Change}.

Stresses Need for Elasticity, Per-|



sonal Adjustment, and
Tested Facts



ANNOUNCES NEW PLANS



At the opening chapel of the col-
lege- year, President Park spoke as
follows:

“T am glad to see you here today—
students who are returning and stu-
dents newly come, graduates and un-

dergraduates,, wardens, professors,
deans; and to welcome you to Bryn
Mawr at the beginning of its 48th
year. Those of us who came early
were ready to hear the ejaculations
of the returning .college and ‘the
trucks clattering up with the luggage.
The swimming moénlight of last eve-
ning, the summer gréen of the cam-

tree near the library—proof that this
is after all October—they really de-
mand an audience. Joe Graham said
to me last week, “Certain, it’s like
a graveyard with them gone”—and
he is really right.

The year begins well, bright weath-
er, a full college.

To the eye of the layman at least
the state of the world and of Amer-
ica looks no less confused and dark
than in June. Yet we are all aware
of an indefinable and still inexplica-
ble feeling of slowly coming confi-
dence, like the faint lightening of the
eastern sky on one of- these last misty
September mornings,—herald — who
knows?—of later clearing. This feel-
ing, if it can be called by so definite
a name, is reflected in our college
numbers. Individuals and’ families
as the summer went on ventured to
make plans for their daughters before
which spring had found them hesi-
tant. The college begins this morn-
ing with Wyndham open again, with
491 students, graduates and _ under-
graduates, as against 474 last: year,
and an entering class of 124, one of
the largest in the history of the col-
lege. The graduate school, always
slow to register, because many of its
number are teachers in the not yet

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College Bookshop Opens
Under New Management



The College Bookshop may not: be
under the omnipresent NRA, but it
is engineering a “new deal’ on its
own hook. The:part that should ap-
peal to the students is that this par-
ticular new deal is for the benefit of
the undergraduate body and has noth-
ing to do with a sliding wage scale
or shoddy manufacturers’ code. As
far as possible, prices are being kept
down to a competition-with-Liggett’s
basis and such profits as aecrue will
go to the Scholarship Fund.

There are several innovations which
should make the shop popular, in
addition to its price-appeal a lend-
ing library has been established with
new, good, and popular books (such
as the notable Autobiography of
Alice B. Toklas), which may be tak-
en out without deposit, and which
supplement the rather static New
Book Room books. Old books, which
include novels and textbooks, may be
bought at cost, and stock from last
year, perfume, stockings and other
articles, will also be sold at cost.
There are some unprecented bargains

in this wide collection. * amb

Although the shop is open from
9.45 to 12.00 in the morning and
from 2.00 to 3.00 in the afternoon

complete range of necessities, which
are open at announced times. They
are another extremely useful part of
the “‘new deal,” and their managers
will probably be willing to help cope
with any deficiency of. supplies, even
outside of hours.

Indeed, the administration should
be congratulated on having presented
the college with a new convenience
and a new way to economy—the Col-
lege Book Shop.



Hockey Veterans Limber Up







—Photo by Clark.
Reading from left to right: Susan Daniels, Barbara Bishop, Marion ian: Nancy Stevenson,

Josephine Taggart, Elizabeth Kent



Large Squad Chosen
for Varsity Hockey



5 Players Remain From. Last
Year’s Team; Freshmen
Show Promise



GOOD SEASON EXPECTED



Cloudless blue skies, crisply cool
days when even alumnae sniff the
wind and wish for the feel of a hockey
stick once more, multi-colored tunics
against the green background of a

freshly clipped field—the hockey sea-|}

son begins once more!

This year’s squad, of which only
five were on the 1932 Varsity, will try
to forget former defeats and.look for-
ward to what we hope will be a more
successful season.

On the forward line are Faeth,
Brown, Stevenson and Kent, who. has
been shifted from inner to center. for-
ward. Taggart, Carter, Simons, Boyd
and Perry are out to give:Brown and
Stevenson a run for the wing posi-
tions, while Cary, E. E. Smith, Har-
rington and Raynor are training for
the position as Faeth’s running mate
at inner. Ballard, a Varsity inner
from North Shore Country Day
School, is giving them keen competi-
sion. Kent’s position at center for-
ward is at present challenged by only
one other candidate, Bennett, who will
probably take up that place on the
second team.

Although Daniels is the only vet-
ran left in the backfield, that section
seems tozbe shaping up much more
quickly than the forward line. P.
Little and A. Van Vechten have both
had experience as substitute fullbacks
‘Sut Bucher, a newcomer to the squad,
has been showing excellent progress
in early practices.’ Bridgman, who
was on the Varsity second team last
year, has only one rival at center half,
Evans, a freshman and former Ger-
mantown Friends’ Varsity player. Al-
though Daniels is fairly certain of
keeping one of the halfback positions,
Gribbel, Hemphill, Morgan, Whitney
and Bright, a former Springside Var-

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CALENDAR

Fri., Oct. 183—Lantern Night
in the Cloisters at 8.30 P. M.

Sat., Oct. 14—French Oral.
Taylor Hall, 9.00-A.-M.

Sun., Oct. 15—Meeting of the
Women’s International League
in Goodhart Hall.

Mon., Oct. 16 — Miss Jane
Addams will deliver the first of
the lectures on International
Relations and _ International
Peace to be given under the
Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Foundation. The subject will
be “The Hopes We Inherit. de
Gocdhart, 8.20 P. M.







Mrs. Underhill Talks

on Mountaineering



Recent Guideless Expeditions in
Eastern Alps Required
Unusual Skill



DOLOMITES GIVE .THRILL



“The last two or three years I have
done mostly guideless climbing,”
said Mrs. Miriam O’Brien Underhill
last Friday evening, at the start of
her amusingly illustrated lecture on
“Mountain Climbing in the Eastern
Alps.” This sort of climbing, though
necessarily limited, gives a thrilling
feeling of independence.

Last summer, Mrs. Underhill, her
husband, and two friends, cruised
around Europe in a roadster, piled
high with boots and wet ropes. Mrs.
Underhill did the photography: ‘You
can always discover something to be
photographed, when a tire has to be
changed.” Her pictures reveal the
perils of layers of hairpin curves—
eighty on one of the thirty-five passes
they traversed—which her husband
took in high with a “rhythmic swing.”
“He missed the biggest thrill of Al-
pine driving: that of riding in the
rumble seat when he was at the
wheel,” ‘said one of his suffering pas-
sengers. Cows were “the chief ob-
stacle on the road. The only way
to get rid of them was to drive them
up the steep .roadbanks with an ice-

axe, and-pass on;-leaving—them to |!

wonder how to get down. When the
car boiled, because of the installation
of valves upside-down by a Swiss
mechanic, it was filled with ice-water
from the mountain brooks and roll-
ed backward down the mountains, un-
til. the engine - “warmed up enough to
start. The roadster was in most
cases driven ‘up to the base of the
mountain. The passengers then dis-
embarked, changed their shoes, and
began their climb.

Snow, encountered in climbing, dis-
pleased Mrs. Underhill. “Having .it
in my shorts for hours on end was

dom for all five days.

Dean Manning Announces
Academic Arrangement



In. Chapel last Thursday morning
Dean Manning made a number of im.
portant announcements in regard to
courses for this year. All Sophomores

were notified that there. will be no
course in Hygiene given this semes-
ter.- Those who will be unable to
take it in the second semester are
urged to see the Dean as soon as pos-
sible, because arrangements are be-
ing made whereby Biology students
may be allowed to work up the Hy-
giene course by themselves.

A Homer course, which will be of
interest to all Greek enthusiasts, is
being offered. Dr. Dulles is giving
an advanced course in Finance at her
office in Philadelphia, which ‘is open
only to those who have had several
years of Economics.

The Biology Department oe found
it necessary to reduce the number
of students enrolled in the First Year
course because of the inadequacy of
the taser discs to provide for them
all. Several years ago the Science
Department expanded to its capac-
ity, and it will be necessary to limit
the” numbers’ taking laboratory
courses until the proposed new Sci-
ence Building has become an, actual
fact.

The large number of siedenhe who
enrolled for the Modern Novel course,

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Duncan Based Style on
Coherent Philosophy



Her Dancing is. Not Natural,
Interpretive, Greek, or
Wholly Romantic



TECHNIQUE IS AMERICAN



(Especially contributed by Janet
_ Barber)

It is astonishing that we are so
rarely ,conscious of our lessons as
lessons in a way of creating :—wit-
ness most of our melancholy infant
musical efforts and, for the purpose
of this article, witness the Duncan
dancing at college. It is too seldom
remembered that this dancing is bas-
ed upon a definite technique created
out of the coherent philosophy of a
single woman .(whom, .after all,
might not have. liked); that she had
reasons for choosing the movements
that she chose, and reason for choos-
ing; that Miss Cooper has a definite
and conscious relationship to this se-
lection, and that we have or should

have such a relationship also. For to

learn a technique sensibly, one should
always be sympathetically aware of
the immortal and intimate problems

of artist, materia] and expression

which are solved-by or still implicit

in that technique. If one accepts as
dogma one does not accept creative-
ly, and it seems rather dull to dance
for exercise when we are complaining
of the lack of an “American dance.”

The usual misconceptions of Dun-
can dancing arise from too romantic
an interpretation of Isadora’s accom-
plishment. Unfortunately this inter-
pretation is almost forced upon us.
In the first place there is her sadly.
heroic autobiography which, unless
read with a knowledge of her danc-
ing as a sympathetic guide, is mis-
leading; it is natural that those who
read the book unguided should con-
fuse the active application of: her
philosophy, distorted finally to a lone-
ly romanticism by her disappoint-
ments, with its abstract application,
in the aesthetic of her classic danc-
ing. Secondly, if the little dances. of
Isadora’s which Miss Cooper presents
so exquisitely seem on the surface a
trifle “sentimental,” “not of our
idiom,’‘Un-American,” we must re-
member that although Isadora helped
form this generation, she was not of
it, but a contemporary of Rodin and
Scriabin, a Victorian rebel with a
nineteenth-century romantic’s. vocab-
ulary. Thirdly, most of us have an

”



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Reporter’s Curiosity About Freshman. Week

Proves Inconsistent With Senior Dignity —



The opinions of Freshman Week
expressed to this inquiring reporter
ranged from rapt encomium to tact-
ful silence about the whole thing. We
were assured by one freshman that

Bryn Mawr was the answer to a long,
hearty prayer and Freshman; Week
just a banquet of delights, by another
one that she suffered from acute bore-
After both in-
terviews we put our tongue in our
cheek and hurried busily away in an-
other direction. From several very
attractive and creditable sources we
learned that approximately a ton of
reading matter had been lugged to
college by the class of ’37 as a pro-
tection against ennui during the first
week, (N. B. Perhaps the Freshman
Handbook had better take this matter
up and insert a clause about the Bryn:
Mawr library fac#lities, cramped
though they -be.) Curious as to
whether the books had really been
used, we pressed our inquiry and
learned that they had remained shut.
“Birth of a bad habit,” we wrote in
our notebook.

The next advances made to the ma-



triculating class were not definitely|

repulsed, rather, regarded with ap-



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of our pursuit.

athy—“Freshman Week is sort of te-
dious, especially when you’ve gone to
school in Bryn Mawr. I suppose the
new girls .. .” af@WeTé we stopped.
A brand new girl became the object
We waited until din-
ner, then sauntered over to the fresh-
man table, trying to look as uncon-
cerned as possible. As luck would
have it, we sat next to the warden and
so didn’t feel entirely forlorn. A few
superior glances were cast in our di-
rection which served to convince us
that we were a case of mistaken iden-
tity, that we were being labeled as
the freshman from the Union of

South Africa who couldn’t quite get

here on time. Appalled by the idea
that in a moment we would have to
answer questions about the veldt and
how to trek, we started a loud conver-
sation with our friend, the warden,
about the advantages of Freshman
Week. No one seemed electrified by
this attempt, no one except one very
sweet young thing who leaned across
the table and asked us sympatheti-
cally why we hadn’t got to college on
time. Somehow, after that, we
couldn’t go on, just mumbled some-
thing about. every week being Fresh-
man Week to us and fled.

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Coditis

For some two\ months the battle ery of the working man and

woman has been shouted in-the name-of-the- New Deal,and-all-around.

us we hear how the emancipation of labor has at last been effected, and
how the nation will no. longer withhold recognition from the forces
which have been responsible for the building of the country. The
cause of the waitress, the stenographer, the chorus girl, the clerk, and
the professional worker has been championed by our representative in
the White House; who seems to find time for even the lowliest of his
following. ‘But, although we have searched the papers from cover to
cover we have not been: able to discover a. code for the greatest labor
unit in Ameriea—the college students—notably those of Bryn Mawr,
who may be few in number, but in point of work accomplished and
stones laid in the foundation of the civilization to come, stand above
their more numerous sisters. Can it be that the president has for-
gotten us, or has he classed us among those who carry on enterprizes
for self-aggrandizement? Whichever may be the case we find our-
selves swinging into the long grind unprotected by the strong arm of
the government and thrown upon our own resources, which are
- evidently’ supposed to be~enormous. We have seen around us the
downfall of, all who have chosen to march under a banner other than
the Blue Eagle, and yet we have had no invitation to enlist in the
great army of the New Deal.

‘Sinee a policy of “watehful w aiting” has little to commend it in
the light of past history we feel that the time has come for us to draw
up a code for ourselves and the college, and march to glory under

it. Therefore, we have formulated the code and we hereby present it
for the approval of the several parties involved. There would seem
to be two such parties—the college and the student body. The former
is composed of all those mechanical or human devices calculated to

instill in the minds of the young the idea that we are living at but a
moment in the history of the world, ahd that much has gone on before
our day and that much will go on after it—all of which we must for
our own good explore and absorb in a period of four years. The stu-
dent body is composed of all those who are here in the capacity of

worshippers at a shrine and who can, and do, kneel at said shrine|

from nine in 'the morning until one, at which time they retire to pre-
pare themselves by prayer and fasting for the next.

As the headstone for our code we take the forty-hour week, which
has been made the standard for all labor throughout the country. We
have been promised by our employers that if we give freely and
ungrudgingly of our time to this extent we ‘will accomplish all. that
is asked and find our place in the sun. The truth of this statement
depends upon how much work we are given to accomplish, and we
hereby rise to remind all and sundry that the maximum for a unit
_ course is ten hours a week, and that for a half-unit five. It is also a
fact well supported by experiment that the average reading’ speed of
a normal undergraduate is forty pages an hour at the outside, and
that is without time allowed for the taking .of copious notes. There-
fore, if we are to do our part in all this movement down the lanes of
time we cannot read more than normal undergraduates.

We further ask that we be fed and that right generously during
this period of labor, for our minds. must have fuel. We have risen
from time to time to remark that the problem of forage at college has
periodically become rather acute, and it is a well-known fact that the
hen roosts and gardens—of nearby inhabitants have been seriously
threatened by the condition of the student body. There have been
cases of marauding parties which were on the point of starting out
into the dark night in search of food for the starving denizens of the
library, but always someone has given a tea just in time and the *dis-
grace has been momentarily averted. But we cannot»afford to take
a continual chance on teas, for they are, as everyone knows, movable
feasts, and also to make them really worthwhile in point of food
obtained takes a good deal of experience and initiative. Therefore we
“suggest that we be guaranteed food “that is serious, complete and—of
a certain magnitude.”

- In return for these concessions we, the student body; would prom-
~ 4se not to abuse the food or the lodgings, and to behave in a manner
befitting the inhabitants of an enlightened state We have no need
‘to comment on the appearance of the student body for the arrival of
some one hundred and twenty freshmen ‘all outfitted to the ears in
“the proper -elothes for college” by such reliable houses’as Best, Frank-
Jin Simon, Macy; Saks, and all the others, in shiny new sweaters, skirts,
. ac teaee, Wit Aiie oneh 0 Nits he Quip above iteelf and hal ita

WITS END |

FAR INTO THE NIGHT .

It was an upperclassman
At dinner stopped she me,

Her lettuce cracked as it she whacked
With great asperity.

And with her glittering fork upheld
"Tween thumb and fingers inked
From long reports of varied sorts,

She talked in terms succinct,

“QO yes! it was one Freshman Week
I took the Pennsy local,
And came,” she quoth, “though I was
loth

And vehemently vocal
&

Against all learning processes
And thought of College Boards
behind
(O! how I prepped! Oh! how I wept)
I planned to turn the greasy grind.
But hear me, green one, now un-
knowing,
Yea: . hear my tale and by it
profit :
There is a dean, there is a door,
That ope to one the flames of
Tophet.
: &
I trotted through a little Latin,
I took a lit. course all in French,
[ took a romp in English comp:
They took me for a lazy wench!

+ And -as*my--first year terminated -

I found me much too much sur-

rounded
With notes too few and quizbooks
blue J .
That thick with blank white sheets
abounded.”

Plied she her antique napkin ring
And,her napkin forthwith rolled,
I felt that thopgh dead, that some
word, unsaid
Would remain that she meant to
have told.

There was no escape but to grimace
agape;
I heard Taylor bell strike the hour,
The hour that I. meant, to have
'. properly spent,
Developing linguistic power.

She spake as she gripped me to —
me to coffe
She cornered me\there with an
over-filled cup,
And gassed me with smoke and hyp-
notically spoke,
But I feared to declare the jig up.

“Yea, with all my debunking I still
shone at flunking,
And say! Did I learn about life?
One doesn’t need sleep, let the late
coffee steep.
However did such rules get rife?

It was fun in the spring, not to do
anything
But to sun up on top of the gym,
T.and all of my friends burnt us up
at both ends
With our future delightfully dim.

And then came a day in the middle
of May,
The lengthiest day in the year,
In which we did much to condition
our Dutch
And stood sobbing with full baleful
tear.

And here was the college, but where
was our knowledge?
Over there stood the lib. with its
stacks,
And yet we were lying, and most of
us dying,

Felled, fallen, and balked: in gur
__ tracks.”

Dropped she he hand, ar< a ase she
her head,
Dropped she her spectacled eyes:
“You’ve heard my whole story, with
end grim and gory,
Now: I must get to work, I sur-
mise.”

And then*when she left, my deep
thought. was cleft:
I knew I was greatly improved;
And to.that novel kind of thought in
my mind
» “Much” peace, rest, and quiet be-

¥ ‘*hooved.

°

I sat up late and solitary;
Would all had. seen the morrow,’

| The day broke bright, I: was a sight,

All day I gaped my sorrow.

Now yon wise, wary, elder friend —
Has gone, but broken-hearted,
To tell the tale, of how to fail,
And how from here she*once de-
parted.
—Snoop-on-the-Loose.



The Mad Hatter is in a grimy mood
tonight, just sits and turns his hat
between his knees, looking for all the
world like a subway.. specimen.-__His
trouble is, that the family forced him
to come back to college to take hon-
ors in..hat-initialing. Although he
hasn’t begun to worry about the com-
prehensive yet (and won’t because

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News of the New’ York Theatres

Here we are at the beginning of an-
other season of life and the theatre
and all the indications seem to sup-
port the theory that we are entering
upon a period in which the brighter
side of life is to peep forth from be-
hind the footlights and Electra, Car-
rie Nation, reformatories, and the
depression are to carry on bravely,
but only *within the pages of those
books read by confirmed antiquarians.
It is about time that we got rid of
the plague of bad plays; for the con-
dition of the critics was becoming
quite -serious—they had practically
done themselves in shouting, “How
long, oh Lord, how long.”

At present the great star in the
firmament is As Thousands Cheer,
the Irving Berlin-Moss Hart chal-
lenge to the collected senses of humor
of the nation. Taking as its foun-
dation the headlines and _ headline
hunters of*the daily sheets (where,
oh where is big May Day?), this re-
vue presents a sophisticated, tuneful,
intelligent, and original razzing to
the international gentlemen and gen-
tlewomen. Clifton Webb is superb,
although spiritually without a danc-
ing partner; Helen Broderick is her
old self; Ethel Waters has grown no
more well-behaved, and Marilyn Mil-
ler has emerged from cold storage,
not without scars. (Which reminds
us, where is Marion Talley?) Mr.
Webb impersonates John D., Sr.;
Miss Broderick, Queen Mary; Miss
Waters, Josephine Baker, and Miss
Miller, Lynn Fontanne.

Then there. is Courtney Burr, the
unfortunate producer who fathered
The New Yorkers, Hamlet, and Walk
A Little Faster, coming out without
any warning with a definite hit in
Sailor, Beware. There is not anyone
amazing in the cast, but it is good,
bawdy, seagoing fun, and apparent-
ly has so pleased the Navy clientele
that Riverside Drive is practically de-
serted these’ days and nights, The
piece was put on while the entire or-
ganization was in the throes of des-
peration and the New Deal and there
was a grim look on the faces of all
that meant that something was go-
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new and exciting air. We can onl

y hope that the upperclassmen will

be corrupted into maintaining an equally attractive appearance.

There is also the element of n

oise within the confines of the halis



of learning, prayer and fasting. .If the college gives us all the material
advantages and promotes the worship of the mind we should make
every. attempt.to take advantage of the fact. Furthermore, if those
members of the student body who cannot negotiate the distance between
their rooms and those of their friends, but must needs scream their
thoughts from the distance, would adopt a system of signal flags, or
better yet move out onto Merion Green and establish an encampment,
the cause of learning would be greatly- benefited.

We feel that if the few points mentioned were given some slight
consideration by the parties involved that the -present ‘college year
would be a happier one ‘for us all, and perhaps the results would be
such’ as to encourage the ‘president to take official notice of us and
enroll us bereaal the B Blue



IN PHILADELPHIA



Theatres
Chestnut Street Opera House:
The team of Roland Young and
Laura Hope Crews in a new and very
funny comedy, Her Master’s Voice,
by Clare Kummer. It is exactly what

‘it sounds like and the gentleman in-

volved is superb.

Walnut: The Curtain Rises, a ro-
mantic comedy taken from the Vien-
nese, with the rather blank Jean Ar-
thur, who has never been sufficiently
ahve to be romantic for us. She is
supported by Kenneth Harlan and
Donald Foster.
Ernest Truex is responsible for. the
staging. \

Broad: ‘One of our favorite ani-
mals in the world, a mystery, Jnspec-
tor Charlie Chan, with William. Har-
rigan, who gets as much fun out of
it as we do. If you have an affection
for the type see it.

Garrick: The ever- -pleasing Music
in the Air, which goes on being both
gay and romantic in its second sea-
son. If you have not seen it before
we recommend it above all others.

Coming—October 16 -

Chestnut Street Opera House:
Ina Claire in the highly amusing ad-
ventures of a lady of wandering af-
fections. Biography, by S. N. Behr-
man, has much to commend it from
the standpoint of pure gaiety.

Walnut: Blanche Yurka comes
back to us in Spring in Autumn, a
new comedy, reputed to be modern,
by Martinez-Sierra. We cannot help
but wonder what her association with
Lucrece did for her technique.

Broad: Edith Barrett tries out a
new deal in Give Us This Day, a new
play by Howard Koch, of which we
have heard little and expect an equal
amount. :

Philadelphia Orchestra

Friday, Oct, 13, at 2.30 P. M.; Sat-
urday, Oct. 14, at 8.20 P. M., and
Monday, Oct. 16, at 2.30 P. M. “Leo-
pold Stokowski will conduct.

Program:
COLOMOANE 3) kta ask Sakuntula
wosten—..255.. Concerto Sacro No. 1
GONG) ei teers Yablochko
Tschaikowsky,
Symphony No. 4.in F Minor .
Thursday, October 12. Concert

for youth, with Mr. Stokowski con-

ducting. Begins promptly at 8.20
PM. “
: Movies

Keith’s: Will Rogers does more

human interest stuff in the story of
a country doctor—Doctor Bull — if
this sort of nonsense amuses you it’s
fine. The second chapter of Tarzan
the Fearless, with Buster Crabbe, is
also there and it is very poor indeed.

Stanley: The movies again do
right by the stage and reproduce all
the charm and appeal that One Sun-
day Afternoon had on the stage. The
story of a man who married the
wrong woman—so he thought. Gary
Cooper, Fay Wray, and Frances Ful-
ler are excellent.

Boyd: The much discussed version ,
of Ann Vickers comes to us slightly
mutilated by Will Hayes, but given
excellent treatment by a cast headed
by Irene Dunne.

Earle: Herbert Marshall is his
debonaire and attractive self in a
very garbled piece about jewel thieves,
dope fiends, and stool pigeons. The
Solitaire Man has little to recom-
mend it beyond Mr. Marshall and the
perpetually villainous Lionel Atwill.

Stanton: Wild Boys of the Road
—the saga of the untamed youngsters
who are the nearest we can come to
the wild children of Russia. Frank

(Continued on Page Six)



The Lantern

Material for the first issue of
the Lantern should be submit-
ted by November 1. We are
anxious ‘to have the magazine
representative of the whole col-
lege. Everyone, __ especially
freshmen, is urged to contrib-
ute. Material may be handed
~ in to any of the following mem-
bers of the editorial board:

C. Bredt—Pembroke West.

E.. Thompson — Pembroke
East.

G. Franchot — Pembroke
West.

.C. Bill—Pembroke East.

G. Rhoads—Merion.

M. Coxe—Rockefeller.

M. Kidder—Pembroke East.





E. Wyckoff—Rockefeller.





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?



Interest in Athletics

Promises Good Year



Competent Athletic | Faculty
Working With New Ma-
terial is Optimistic



A. A. AWARDS LISTED



(Especially. contributed by Susan
Daniels, President of the Ath-
_letic Assqciation)

This year shows signs, we may
confidently assert, of being one of
the best for athletic activity that we
have had in some time. In the first
place the large Freshman class is add-
ing a great deal of new life and en-
thusiasm to an already active group
of upperclassmen. Their enthusiasm,
we hope, will be the “push over the
top” which is hoped for this year in
the Varsity Hockey Team and _ the
Varsity teams for the rest of the
season.

Our whole system is utilitarian, in
that it is designed to give the great-
est amount ‘of pleasure and goad to
the greatest number of students, but
more than that, it is a system for
the development’ of proficiency in a
sport which will be of use to each
girl after she has left college. For
this reason, we are very fortunate in
having one of the best possible ath-
letic faculties to coach us and some
of the best equipment of any girls’
college.

In the, competitive sports, among
them, hockey,: we have _ excellent
coaches who are only too anxious to
help us if we do our part. Miss
Grant is an experienced coach, fitted
by many years of teaching and play-
ing to produce champion teams. Miss
Collier, who graduated from Bryn
Mawr last year, is here this year to
help Miss Grant. She is one of the
best players around this: part of the
country and is an able coach. We
are sure that our season will be very
successful under ‘their leadership.
The Varsity has always had to cope
with some of the best teams. in the
country, as Philadelphia is a famous
hockey center. We play teams many
of whose members are on the All-
Philadelphia team and on the All-
American team. Although last year
we were quarantined for a long time,
there were signs that with a little
more team practice we could defeat
many of these teams. This year with
the prompt starting of activities we
are looking forward to a good show-
ing. }

Everyone is anticipating already

the. famous interclass hockey games .

when the poor old seniors get them-
selves out and try to wallop their
younger and friskier opponents, usu-
ally, I may say, with very little suc-
cess. There’s a certain something
about the seniors which the other
classes seem to enjoy knocking out of
them. If the truth must be told, the
underclassman make up for any in-
feriority which they may feel outside
in these ‘class games. Several of
this year’s busiest: seniors have con-
sented to come out and take on any
other class m hockey and defeat them
—or at least make them work for
their goals.

Dancing, which is treated else-
where in this issue -by J. Barber, is
an important part of the athletic cur-
riculum. With the dancing of Miss
Isabelle Cooper to inspire them, at

least fifty members. of the college}

slave away, enjoying themselves tre-
mendously, and learning to dance as
we all would like to be able to. We
are very fortunate in having Miss
Cooper, as she has given recitals all
over Europe and our country. The
new..members of the classes have spe-
cial care until they. become accus-
tomed to their new medium of ex-
pression, while the older pupils go
on to more advanced stages.

We are just as fortunate in our
fencing coach as in our other athletic
directors. Mr. Fiems is a champion
fencer, who. has..ably directed the
fencing team to victory after victory

and makes his pupilé love their sport-

better than any other.

In swimming, which in the winter
months is one of the most popular of
all sports, we are coached by Miss
Brady, who has coached all the swim-
ming for several years here. The
schedule of meets is not: a large one,
but much interest is taken in the two
interclass meets held late in Febru-'
ary and the big meet of the year held



Engagements Parade Night is Revived

Quite _as-it Used to.Be

The following engagements
lave been announced:

Margaret Marsh, ’34, to Shel-
don Luce, Yale, ’33.

Greta Swenson, ’33, to Kim-
berly Cheney, Yale Law School.

Grace Dewes, ’33, to George
S. Oran.



The band, the bonfire; red flares in
| the dark, all that makes Parade
' Night, seemed doubly exciting on
| Tuesday night because it was missed
‘last year. Juniors and freshmen
| gathered under Pembroke ar ‘1. he
| village band burst into the ai Me
“The Old Grey Mare,” the Parade
in March with Swarthmore. This’ | Song, ‘and the freshmen, flanked hy
year for the first time in the history | | the juniors, waving red flares, march-
of the college we are allowed to visit} ed across the campus to. the lower
another college. for a meet, and|tennis courts. The sdphomores were
Swarthmore being old oldest, and} waiting around their huge bonfire, a
usually our only, rival the meet will | dark ring outlined against the flares
probably be held there. | until the freshmen raced across the
Miss Grant coaches: the basketball; hockey field. and tried to break
team which last year was undefeated | | through tg the fire. The struggle was
except by the faculty and by Prince- | short but spirited, while the milling
ton (which had a very difficult time | crowd resolved itself into: a ring of
of.it). The interclass games here are
of major interest and each class has
a return battle with the others, Thus
each class is given the opportunity| Song. But the “snooping sophs”
of a comeback (often a very ‘consol-; needed no smelling salts. They im-
ing thing). | mediately broke into a parody and
There is beginning tennis this fall, the freshmen found that a certain
coached by Miss Brady. In the) >rave member vf 1936 had, literally,
spring, tennis is divided into three|€@vesdropped from a Wyndham roof.
parts—like all Gaul—the beginners, | The band, still playing the parade
the intermediates and the’ advanced; tune with great gusto, marched back
— the latter including the Varsity| through Pembroke and the four
squad and the advanced’ players. The! classes had senior singing under the
advanced section is coached by Mr. | Arch,
White, of the Merion Cricket Club. |
One has to try out before one can
make this select group of about
thirty.







of sophomores around them. Then
1937 triumphantly sang its Parade



The sophomores heartily regretted
that they had missed the celebration
in their freshman year, but, by all
accounts, they considered it a great

We have had to discontinue la-| success. However good or bad may
crosse and baseball because there was} be the idea that freshman and soph-
so little demand for them. However, | omore are natural enemies, Parade
any number of girls who want to! Night furnishes the whole college
practice these sports may do so.| with interest and excitement. The
Archery is another sport for which | beauty of the torchlight procession
ther |and the sophomores around the high
Brady says that she will “have the gamaoe: the sporting spirit it arouses
targets set up for those who wish to! and last, but not least, the roll of the
practice on the upper hockey field | village band makes Parade Night a
just below Radnor. ‘memorable occasion.

Finally, I would like to give a list |
of awards made in athletics by the! | Lea
Athletic Association, so that each |
person may have a permanent copy|
for her own satisfaction.

1,000 Points — Stripe for blazer |









gue Names Speakers



| (Especially contributed by Polly

Barnitz, ’34, and Sarah E.

pocket. | ot
2,000 Points — Class. insignia for] ——
pocket. This fall Sunday Evening Services

4,000 Points—Yellow ailese blazer. | are going to follow a rather different

5,000 Points—College insignia, | Plan. There is to be a general topic

For all First Varsity teams —“The Place of the Christian Church
Major Sports, 500 points. jin the World Today” or “The Church’s

Subs. for Varsity teams, 475| Attitude Toward the Problems of
points. | Modern Life.”

Second Varsity, 450 points. | The Freshman service during
Subs. for Second Varsity,

425; Freshman Week was conducted by
points.

in|

| Father Lander, of the Church of the

Varsity Squad getis same points|Good Shepherd, in Rosemont. The
as First Class teams, 375 points. ; second speaker, Mrs. Harper Sibley,

Subs., 25 fewer points, ete. ie member of the ‘“‘Laymen’s Mission-

Blessed with good equipment, new| ary Inquiry,” the organization that
material, and a wealth of enthusiasm, | ‘studied conditions in the Orient, was
we ought to make and break innum-| here Sunday, October 8. Her sub-
erable records this year. | ject was “A Venture in Understand-
| ing,” and she drew a most vivid pic-

The growth of research work py ture of the problems facing Indian
college men and women in the Unit-| women. The next service, on Octo-
ed States’ is evidenced by the fact) ber 23, will be led by the Rev. Frank
that in the last year at least 1,000! Gavin, who will be in Philadelphia
papers on vitamins alone have been|for a meeting of the Anglo-Catholic
published in the United States. | Church of England and the Episco-

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Miss Park Predicts ‘-
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(Continued from Page One)’

opened schools of the neighborhood,
or erudite mothers of Main Line fam-
ilies, has at the moment,_105 registra-
tions. Among them are first and
foremost the 23 resident fellows. of
the college and 33 scholars whose
names and academic pedigree were
announced last May Day and whg,
now come in flesh and blood to begifr’
their demanding work. ‘The college
welcomes back especially Esther Met-
zenthin, who returns from her year
at the University of Berlin as Otten-
dorfer Fellow; Virginia Grace, the
holder of the Workman Fellowship in
1930-81, and Agnes Lake, returning’
from two years at Rome, holder of
the Fellowship at the American
School. Still numbered among grad-
uate students of Bryn Mawr, though
far from the sound of Taylor bell,

are Ann Hoskin, the Workman Fel-}:

low of this year, who is on her way
to Greece via the continental mus-
eums; Margaret Hastings, the Gar-
rett Fellow of the year, at work-in
the Public Record Office, in London,
like many Bryn Mawr students of
history ,before her, and Irmgard
Wirth ®, ylor; the--Ottendorfer- Fel-
low, whose first letter from the Uni-
versity of Berlin has just reached
me. The Bryn Mawr European Fel-
low of 1931, Margaret Shaughnessy,
after two years’ work at Radcliffe,
spends this winter studying econom-
ics at the University of London, and
Harriet Moore, European Fellow of
1932, after a year in the office of the
Institute of Pacific Relations in New
York and a summer preparing for!
and acting,as secretary of the Instl-
tute’s conference in Banff, goes to
London in the middle of the winter.
The graduate school has this year
only one of its usual five foreign
scholars. Almost fortunately for us, |
Jeanne Laumain, who was named}
scholar for last year, had to postpone |
her coming to America and arrives| ,
now when we should otherwise be en- |
tirely without the vistors always so
interesting and-so profitable to our
own students.
er year it may be possible to re-es-
tablish our scholarships for European |
students and renew these pleasant:
invitations.

After a rapid fire of’ cables,
heard yesterday that we are to have
a most distinguished foreign visitor, |
however, in the faculty for the year,_|
Dr. Emmy Noéther, a member of the
mathematical faculty of the Univer-|
sity of Gottingen. Dr. Noether is the
most eminent woman in mathematics,
in Europe and has had more students |
at Gottingen than anyone else in the |
department.







1

With other members of !

to resign from the University in the
spring. To our great satisfaction the
Institute of International Education
and the Rockefeller Foundation have
united in giving to the college a gen-
erous grant, which makes it possible
for the Department of Mathematics
to invite her here for two years, Her
general field is Algebra and _ the
Theory of Numbers. Dr. Noether
does not, I understand, speak English
well enough to conduct a séminary
at once, but she will be’ available for
consultation by the graduate stu-
dents and later, I trust, can herself
give a course. I need not say that I
am delighted that Bryn Mawr Col-
lege is one of many American insti-
tutions to welcome the scholars whose
own country has rejected them. For
the time only, we must believe, Ger-
many has set aside a great tradition
of reverence for the scholar and for
learning. I am glad also that the
_college can entertain so distinguished
a woman and that the students in
mathematics can profit by her bril-
. liant teaching.

' Of our own faculty, Professor Hen.
ry Cadbury returns from a sabbat-
ical year, divided between England
and Palestine, to his work at Bryn
Mawr. As I announced last year
Professor Cadbury accepted a call to
become Hollins professor of Divinity
at Harvard, to take effect a year from
now. I am proud that for eight years
his name and fame have shed lustre

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table to return to Bryn Mawr for the

4
courses for a semester longer so that

}that Miss Rogers herself may be able

bate and graduate,

| Other undergraduate college organi-







e
on us and grateful to him for pro-
posing to return for a year before

he goes to his Cambridge work. Pro-; _

fessor Agnes Rogers, who has been in
England and. Scotland on sabbatical
leave, is unfortunately unwell and un-

first semester. Dr. Lelah Crabbs,
who was lecturer in education last
year has—at, I fear, a good deal of
inconvenience to herself—consented
to return and to carry Miss Rogers’

the continuity of work in thé -de-
partment may be unbroken. I hope

to resume her courses, undergradu-
in February. I
spoke last year to the students of the
new appointments for this winter—
Dr. Ernst Diez, a returned wander-
er; Associate Professor of History of
Art; Dr. Clara Marburg Kirk, as
Associate Professor of English Com-
position; Dr. Donald MacKinnon, as
Associate in Psychology; Dr. Her-
bert A. Miller, as Lecturer in Social
Economy; Dr. Richard Bernheimer,
as Lecturer in History of Art, and
Dr. Florence Whyte, as Instructor in
Spanish. Mrs. Hortense Flexner
King will teach-this year, in addition
to her course in modern poetry, 2
division. of Freshman English.

Freshman! The ‘very word is: like
a knell and calls me back to the class
which has passed in review before
me since Wednesday noon. Each
class, as it appears and_ saunters
through my office on its way to busi-
nesslike .appointments with Dean
Manning, Dr. Wagoner, and Mr. Wil-
loughby, seems to me beautiful, in-
telligent and virtuous. In the case
of this one—partly perhaps because



it took more time to make its impres-
sion—my ordinary feeling is surpass-
ed and becomes extraordinary. When |
I report to you the freshman statistics |
sometime within the next ten days I!
shall -be ready to give you-a reason}
|for the faith that is in me. I can,
however, drop two remarks about
‘them at once— that the class has in|
it for the first time the grandaugh- |

| Taylor, of the Class of 1889, and that:
one member of the class had an ex-



| dlatarioine the second of 89. 77 held: movement are one.’

: Lucy Sanborn, of the Class of |
9382.:

I have spoken of the fellows and.
scholars in the graduate school.
| Many of you know and _ all of you,
can guess that many kinds of people |
have been interested in sending girls!
back to college or making it possible |
for them to come for the first time. |
As everywhere the undergraduate |
‘ber of holders

of scholarships. !

the faculty, Dr. Noether was asked ‘zations, parents of students, alumnae, |

members of the faculty, friends of one |
or other of us have given the col-|
lege a remarkable number of schol-|
arships.‘ They ~-have made ’their
gifts so that you ‘need not begin at}
once to try to earn a living at a time
when places are few and you are un-|
skilled, or worse still, sit idle at:
home. They. have made it possible |
for us to say again that no good stu-,
dent has ever left Bryn Mawr be-
cause her family could not at the mo-
ment pay her way. And I do not
need to remind you that the students
who hold scholarships, the largest
of which does not pay full expenses,
and many other. students, too, are
here because Spartan families have
decided to devote a part of a small
family income or savings, labelled
earlier for some other end, to sending
to college a daughter whose future
seems to them dependent on or hap-
pier for academic training, «&

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unfortunate first impression of what
we take to be her genre via her un-
disciplined imitators, the “yard of
cheesecloth for expression” damsels
who adopt the easy romantie vocab-
ulary only; by them our expectations
are prejudiced. Fourthly, the formal
content of her dancing, which thesé
derivative school§ do not know, the
exquisite .movement captured in her
technique, is usually entirely over-
looked because it is neither the arch-
aic nor baroque which appeal to us
so easily nowadays in our cult of ac-
cent, but a less demanding classic.

These are a few of the factors which
inspire a romantic interpretation of
a dance that is essentially far more|
classic than the ballet.

It is a great pity that Isadora took
in good faith the advice to leave out
of her biography references to her
dancing, and that her essays are so
fragmentary and confusing. Natur-
ally her philosophic notions are not
letter-cénsistent; she was self-school-
ed, for one thing, and exactitude was
not. her temper. - One might»call her

_|a pantheistic idealist(if-such—is—pos-
‘| sible).

There is, for her, a progres-
sive Nature of which we are an ill-
adjusted part; its way is more salut-
ary than the convention of the haste
of fear and unreligion. A return ad-
justment is possible through . active
philosophy, through arts that must
become social again; through the elim-
ination of the superficial and vestig-
ial in all things as well as.in move-
ment; through a surrender to what
is naively apparent.

She writes that her “thoughts of
art have no relation to what she
‘terms her will,” and further that
“the dance is the natural gravitation
\of the will of the individual, which
is in the end nothing but a human
translation of the gravitation of the
universe” (“natural gravitation” be-
ing, of course, the-antitheses of the

Seo of a Bryn Mawr graduate, Anne | self-conscious, imaginative act of the

‘will, these statements are supplemen-

| tary): Another. belief often, reit-
| erated, clarifies the first: “Form and

‘Specific expres-
sion of this identity, which is the

‘“natural gravitation of the will” in|
the case of the dance is also, then, |

; the expression of a macrocosmic truth

of relations. But that is .not all;
the macrocosm and the microcosm
have progressive ways; there is an-
other element, evolution. And Isa-
‘dora does not mean the evolution of |
symbol and institution of Eliot and |

| body has this year an unusual num- | Newman, but (and this is perhaps a

limitation): almost simply physical

‘evolution, and the evolution of the ra-

cial imagination. The dancer’s pur-
pose may now be defined: it is to
find the movement that corresponds
to her form, her type form and that

| of her -period and fancy. This may

all seem very simple and Rousseau-
esque: the extraordinary thing is
that Isadora applied so _ simple ‘an
aesthetic with success.

Now perhaps an examination: of her
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and Frank Lloyd Wright are surely
our two greatest artists; fortunately



alike in many, ways,—unfortunately,
in the fact of their being better ap-
preciated abroad than here. z

Isadora was born in 1878 in Oak- |
land, California, of pioneer stock. Her
parents were divorced, and her mu-!
sician mother weaned her on the athe-
istic pamphlets of. Bob Ingersoll. She
was for the most part self-educated |
(haying rejected her ballet training |
as “unnatural” at the age of seven!) | |
and fed on a mixed diet of music, |
philosophy, poetry and Marx. Per-
haps because she had no ‘fixed place
in it, she distrusted society as she
found it, but knew the power in her
to change it-and, with-her naive-log-
ic, felt that it owed her a living in
the interim, even after the first two
years of rebuff and starvation in-Chi-
cago and New York. She was, then, |
without pre-conception and the un-
critical training of class tradition;
she was free to have a deep sense of
the idealist tradition of Democracy.
It was in this tradition that she
wished her dancing to place. It was
to be a dance “for the America of
Lincoln and Walt Whitman,” a dance
for the strong American build, to in-
spire a great school of American
sculpture. She counted its origins in
the jigs of her grandmother, the
stories of the prairie crossing in
American folk tunes.

As was inevitable, she retreated to
Europe for a sort of confirmation of

the new in the old, and, incidentally,





transmigration in their enthusiasms .
from style to style, era to era. That, —
too, was inevitable. These wonderful
and slightly indiscriminate .enthusi-
asms of a self-educated provincial are
characteristic.’ But’ if they were in-
discriminate it was not through a
lack of discernment, but rather be-

; cause of a too sympathetic reading-in
|of her own understanding.

In Lon-
don it was, for example, the Pre-
Raphaelites as. well as the Vases in
the British Museum and the reading
of Winckelmann on park benches; in
Paris, Carriere, Rodin, Maurice-Sul-
ley as well as the Louvre, the Cluny
Museum, music in the Opera Library;
in Italy, Ellen Terry, Gordon Craig,
D’Annunzio, as well as days before |
the Botticellis; in Greéce, “going na-
tive,” but also an active appreciation:
of the form of the Greek Theatre, of
Byzantine Church Music; in Ger-
many, Throde as well as Wagner,
Nietzche, Kant; and in Russia, mar-
riage to Sergie Essenin, as well as
friendship with Stanislavsky and
hopes for a dancing proletariat in the
New World. Ellen Terry, Carpeau,
Henry James, Henri—we must expect

‘her dancing to be of their flavor, for-

she. was .of their generation, while
we remember that she felt-herself an
American of the great tradition.
Here is her own definition; as her
philosophers Rousseau, Whitman,
Nietzche, with Darwin and Haeckle
for councillors. Her three precursors
who prepared the dance of our cen-
tury, Beethoven, Wagner, and Neitz-
che, the “dancing philosopher” (and
they would find the American dance
in Mexico!) A vigorous company,
and we should judge her by what’ she

felt in common with them, not by the







for financial support. Gertrude| Victorianism of her vocabulary, the

Stein, in the “Autobiography,” is] wreath, the softness and the flowers.

amused to mention the Duncans’ (To Be Continued Next Week)

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Wit’s End



(Continued from Page Two)

ting feeble with melancholia over his
News column.

The history of the case 1s interest-
ing. Hatter came.to Bryn Mawr
because he had been assured since in-!
fancy that there were droves oi
Wicked Wits all over its campus.
Wicked Wits, he decided, were ‘his
meat. He would start a’ column in
the New, that would rival the New
Yorker’s “Talk of the Town.” -When|
he approached the News editor, she
seemed very sanguine (I think she
must have been a bad case of ration-
alizing) and applauded until. her
hands were sore. Said she, “What
the Wicked Wits need is an outléf, a
release. They’ve been looking in-
hibited lately.” So the column start-
ed off under favorable auspices, but
only ostensibly. The first week there
was one contribution: on “The Im-
portance of Fast Laying Hens.”
Everyone said how amusing it was,
and ‘how could the Wicked Wits have
written it so seriously, and why
weren’t there more Wicked Wits like;
her, and*who was she. The mystery
was_not cleared wp until the next_is-
sue when the column contained noth-
ing but a short, abject apology from
the Mad Hatter. The hen article had
been cribbed from a poultry journal

is getting out of hand and that we
are in the midst of a period of change
and unrest we have Eugene O’Neill
leaving the world to sin in compara-

tive peace and quiet- while he goes to.
the dogs in his own way by writing,

a comedy for the Guild entitled Ah,
Wilderness
Rubyiat, but we.can’t remember the
rest of the quotation). It is a tale
of a sixteen-year-old: who wandered
about the forpidden paths in his
youth, but who awoke just in time

to thwart a poisonous blonde who

(title taken from The:



was on his trail and turn out a good
and honest man. It is dedicated to

“Mr. George Jean Nathan, who ajAo,

once upon a time ih peg-topped trous-

“ers; wert-the-pace that -kills upon the

road to ruin.”’ Our bet is that :Mr.
Nathan now spends all his spare time
explaining to. Lillian Gish. Anyway,

.the play-is not a good one and owes

what measure of vitalit~ it possesses
to George M. Cohan, who has brought
all of his many talents to the role of
the father of* the problem child.

There are many who have been sing-

©

ing his candidacy for the title of
first. gentleman of our theatre to the

than helpful circumstances goes far
to..prove-the_-wisdom—of--their—ehoiee:
Mr. O’Neill, however, is in his right
mind once more and ready with a
dirge about life today, entitled Days
Without End.

Those who pine for the romance of
the operating room should see Men
in White, a serious and sincere pic-
ture of the joys and sorrows of the

men who labor to keep many less wor-



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thy souls on this planet. In it are
Alexander Kirkland and our own
Margaret Barker, who has been true

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to fill up space. Everyone said how
dreadfully commercial.

Things: went on like that all year, |
from bad to unspeakable. Finally, in
desperation, Hatter decided to write
hig own stuff for the column,.but the
strain told, and all his marks. for the
last ‘semester were high H-C’s. I,
as his sister, was and still am wor-
ried, since I know that this year he
must. get. all P’s or break our fam-
ily’s heart. °

And in this pretty pass, I take the
liberty of appealing to’ the great big
beautiful Wicked Wits who infest the
smoking-rooms, there wasting the
phrases that might make all the dif-
ference in the world to Hatter. They
don’t realize that if the News gets
its: three hundred subscriptions, Hat-
ter is prepared to do away with him-
self by bathtub drowning. I hope
the announcement of his intention
will strike terror into the souls of
those who have so far been indiffer-
ent, for Hatter’s ghost will haunt
your tubs, pulling out stoppers and
raising hell generally until it will no
longer be safe to take a bath in col-
lege. Then, I suppose, when all is
over and you are condemned to dirt,
you will turn to writing the funny
stories you kept to yourselves during
Hatter’s short, sad span on earth, All
I can offer him is an unreasoning
devotion.

—Madeleine Hatter.



Goody! The “great big happy fam-
ily” myth is materializing.
Cheero—
THE MAD HATTER.





(Continued from Page Two)

ing to come out of it, if only a few
corpses. They called in ensigns of
the Navy to help put marine back-
wash in the dialogue-and then had to
remember that it was only a play
and that there still. exist censors;
like such other flora and fauna as the
W. C. T. U. and the Stage Hands’
Union.

Joe Cook had merely to open his
mouth and Hold Your Horses was a-
smash _ hit. It isa sort of kaleide-
scopic view of the “elegantly tough”
days which followed on the heels: of
the gay nineties, and there is a cloud
of bustles in view at alf times. Broad-
way Joe was a cabby who, with the
aid of his marvelous horse, Magnolia,
worked up through the byways and

saloons to the position of Mayor of|°

New York, thus preparing the way

for our own Mr. Walker and his own|~

Miss Compton. The show is full of
“gags” and inventions that. some peo-
ple nearly kill themselves over, and
then there age many good moments,
chief among” which. are those dedi-
cated to Harriet Hoctotr and the bal-
let. The last time we can remember
her was in The Three Musketeers,
when before our bulging prep-school
eyes she did a swell something in
the bedroom of the lady of the piece,
while D’Artagnan threatened at any
moment to come in and help, ay

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THE COLLEGE NEWS





Large Squad Chosen
for Varsity Hockey



Continued from Page One

sity fullback, are all possible candi-
dates. S. Jones and Fairbanks are
trying for goal with two freshmen,
Colbron of Madeira and E. Smith of
the Agnes Irwin School, as excellent
prospects,

All in all, considering the unusually
large number of candidates, both up-
perclassmen and freshmen, out for
Varsity positions, we’ feel greatly en-
couraged as to the outcome of the
season. a



On Monday afternoon, a tentative
second Varsity team played the Main
Line Second team and were defeated
to the tune of 3 to 1.

The forward line was, on the whole,
more aggressive than usual, but was
not particularly fast and, as a result,
the ball was very often overshot. Also,
the forwards have not yet adjusted
themselves to each other, so that while
the ball was often in shooting posi-
tion, rushes consisted mainly in nu-
merous ineffectual hacks.

The backfield seemed solid enough,
but was also a little slow on the de-
fense,—the goal especially was rattled
on the opponent’s rushes and all too
willing to go out of her.cage to meet
the ball. Sinte this game was pre-
liminary and not a fair test of future
strength, we can still hope that fur-
ther practice will lead to happier
days.

The lineup was as follows:

MAIN LINE BRYN MAWR-
Stevenson

nn ine Food. oy e-ee-3-+--COky
Bikeltens: ca s<%, REE, Sane ae Bennett
Kanager ....... he Ris aa oy Ballard
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6 | eR Se Gribbel
Anderson ...... sida oat wae aca Evans
cia ss cs Te Se Hemphill
DOOROR ii 6 6a pe era Jackson
POE ou cbvies l. f.... Van Vechten
EDMAN vgs bars i cans E. Smith
Goals—Main Line: Kanager, 2;

Skeltens, 1. Bryn Mawr: Cary, 1

Substitutes — Main Line: Ruston.
Bryn Mawr: Morgan, Little, Whitney,
Perry, Gimbel.



IN PHILADELPHIA



(Continued from Page Two)

Darro is the “find” the studios are
touting in this rather unnecessary
mediocrity.

Karlton: May Robson turns from
an. apple lady into a bonafide product
with the aid of her friends in Lady
For A Day. She is aided an@ abet-
ted in this bit of whimsy by Warren
William, Glenda Farrell, and Ned
Sparks.

Europa: Les Deux Orphelines, a
French film, based on the old story of
the two-girls who started out to find
a doctor to cure the blindness of one
of them, and of Sas subsequent’ ad-
ventures.

. Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Wil-
liam Powell and Ann Harding in
Double Harness. Fri., Spencer Tracy
and Fay Wray in Shanghai Madness,
Sat., Clive Brook, George Raft, and



Alison Skipworth in Midnight Club.














Mon. and Tues., Kay Francis and
Nils’ Asther in Storm At Daybreak.
Wed. and Thurs, and Fri., Wallace
Bcery and Marie. Dressler-in-Tugbeat
Annie.

Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Ches-
ter Morris and Vivienne Osborne in
Tomorrow At Seven. Fri. and Sat.,
Mama Loves Papa, with Charles
Ruggles and Mary Boland. Mon. and
Tues., Captured, with Leslie Howard,
Paul Lukas, and Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr, Wed., Thurs., Fri. and. Sat.,
Paddy, The Next Best Thing, “with
Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter.

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Mid-
night Mary, with Loretta Young and
Franchot Tone. Fri. and Sat.,Moon-
‘ight and Pretzels, with Mary Brian.
Mon., Tues. an Wed., Paddy, The
Next Best Thing, with Janet Gaynor
and: Warner Baxter.



Mrs. Underhill Talks

on Mountain Climbing



Continued from Page One

distinctly refreshing.” —First-class
quarters in the German-Alpine Moun.
tain Club’s huts included sheets that

had been washed, but were pony
Mare

3
undried avue amaue

aration for bed in one ingtance | was
to put’on.her mittens.

The best time for climbing Alps is
before dawn, when the sun has not
as yet warmed the ice sufficiently to
loosen rocks. A _ flashlight--is* held in
the mouth, sometimes for two hours
at a time. In the more difficult rock
climbs, the mountaineer has to push
himself up chimneys, pass around
projecting ledges with his “center of

W aes we ances









gravity well over space,” heap crev-
ices, and even propel himself Between
peaks on rappels or double ropes,

-‘Rock-climbing; Mrs. Uniderhill’s spe-

cialty, proved most thrilling in the
oddly shaped Dolomites. In the
Alps, Mrs, Underhill and her party
climbed peaks that had been occupied
by troops during the World War.
These men lived cosily in ice-tunnels
and lost many more lives making
first ascents and hauling cannons
high up the mountaing than in actu-
ally fighting.

‘Contrary to the words of the Ital-
ian priest, who said, “Ladies, being
flowers, should be left at the limit of
the flowers/’ Mrs. Underhill, in 1931,
with t other women, manless scal-
ed thé Matterhorn. This was no
easy job in spite of the fixed ropes.
The party made four attempts before
they encountered good enough weath-
er to risk ascending to the very top.
The account of the details. of the
actual trip is amusing: — the inn-
keeper, who conspired to help them
off to an early start, by delaying hot
water for the other climbers’ tea, the
enormous breakfast. on the summit
of the mountain,. the patience of
‘Mrs. Underhill’s mother, who, all
day long, watched her adventurous
daughter through the telescope on the
inn porch,—all this is included in the!
story. On one of the unsuccessful
attempts, when, faced by a thunder-
storm, the three women at. length
turned back, every other climber on

the mountains—they were all men—
retreated also. Manly pride had pre-
vented them from giving up before
the women.



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which is being given by Mrs. Kirk,
testifies to the prevalent interest in
current literature, and fully justifies
the demands which have _ recently
been made that the college curricu-
lum should contain a course of this
nature.

The Dean's Office has ‘been very
pleased with the results obtained by
summer correspondence concerning
undergraduate changes in courses, as
there seems to have been less con-
fusion this year along. those lines
than formerly. However, as possible
conflicts in hours cannot always be
foreseen in the spring dr during the
summer, and ag there are, occasion-
ly, alternate courses to be definitely
decided. upon, the Dean’s Office wil)
hold appointments for upperclassmen
on Saturday mornings. If there is
any radical] change in a_ student’s
major course or in allied subjects,
she is urged to see the head of her
department before consulting the
Dean.

Divisions for all the classes hav-
ing large enrollments have heen xost--

enrollments have been post
ed, and all students are requested to
attend the class to’ which they have
been assigned. In drawing up these
divisions, individual preference was
considered as much as possible, but
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