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VOL, XXI, No. 20

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935—

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COLLEGE NEWS, 1935
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Monte Cassino Was
Center of Culture
In Southern Italy



Dr. Willard Depicts Restoration]

of Benedictine Abbey Built

In Middle Ages ,



- POLITICS AND RELIGION

Deanery, April 11.—Dr: Henry M.
Willard, speaking on The Abbey of
Monte Cassino and: the Mediaeval
Culture of Southern Italy, described
with the help of lantern slides a re-
construction of the abbey as it was
during the height of its influence in
the late eleventh century, and explain-
ed the abbey’s important position in
the art, architecture, fine manuscript
writing, and general culture of the
Middle Ages. The mother-monastery
of the Benedictine order, founded
about the year 1540 by Saint Bene-
dict on the site of a great temple of
Apollo atop a low ridge of the Abruz-
zi mountains midway. between Naples
and Rome, has preserved even until



Oriental influence. At the present
time only buildings of the Baroque
period of the sixteenth and_ seven-
teenth centuries are to be seen, but a
careful comparison of the present cen-
tury buildings, and church architec-
ture of the period in the surrounding
country, presents a good idea of. the
monastery in the days of its greatest
abbot, Desiderius. As long as monks
of the order continue ‘to live on*the
site, the usual archaeological investi-
gations cannot be carried out, for this
abbey is one of the few monasteries
permittted in Italy and harbours about
forty monks.

The site of the Monte Cassino abbey
has ‘been in use ever since prehistoric
times. Its impregnable situation high
on the mountain above the rich and
fertile plain of the river Lirus at-
tracted early peoples to the spot, as
is shown by the remains of a fifth cen-
tury B.C, Etruscan wall circuiting
the present monastery walls. In
heathen days the site was a great
walled acropolis, and the sacred foun-
der tore down an altar of the god
Apollo to erect an oratory to Saint
Martin. “In the temple of Apollo, the
Saint meditated upon his human and



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Famous Mathematician,

Dr. Emmy Noether, Dies



The College was shocked and griev-
ed to hear that Dr. Emmy Noether,

one of the most eminent modern

mathematicians, and visiting lecturer
in mathematics at. Bryn Mawr, died
on April 14 after undergoing a seri-
ous operation.

Dr. Noether was born at Erlangen
in 1882, the university at, which her
father, Dr. Max Noether, was a pro-
fessor of mathematics of great. note.
Dr. Emmy Noether received the de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy from Er-
langen in 1907. She was Privatdozent
and Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Gd6ttingen. Some of
the most distinguished German stu-
dents. of mathematics have been her
pupils. The Rockefeller Foundation
and the Emergency Committee in Aid
of Displaced German Scholars made it
possible for the Department of Mathe-
matics to invite her to Bryn Mawr.
Her special field was modern algebra,
in which she solved difficult problems
of calculus, and about which she wrote
in many German mathematical peri-
odicals.

Dr. Noether came to Bryn Mawr in
the fall of 1938. Last year she gave

‘a, course in Modern Algebra to four

graduate students, and this year three
research fellows with unusual previ-
ous records were especially invited to
work with her. Miss Stauffer has just
completed the thesis on which she was
working with Dr. Noether. Miss Mon-
roe is the only undergraduate who
has studied with her.



Fathers Suggest Undergraduate Appeals,

Many Small Gifts

to Raise $20,000.Quota



Deanery, April 14.—The Under-
graduate Drive Committee had a most
enjoyable and profitable meeting with
some of the fathers of members of the
Committee who were kind enough to
give some words of wisdom about how
we should go about raising our quota
of $20,000.

Miss Park opened ,the proceedings
with a welcoming talk which not only
admirably summed up the purpose of
the gathering, but also helped to make
the fathers completely at home. After
luncheon Mrs. Slade told of the prog-
ress of the Drive’to .date, reporting
that if we should have to stop. now
we would be able to report that $250,-
000 is definitely promised. Many peo-
ple were and are extremely skeptical
about Bryn Mawr’s chances of success
in this campaign, but certainly no one
can fail to be impressed by the prog-
ress so far. The problem now at hand
is how to get the rest, and in par-
ticular, how: the undergraduates are
to raise their quota. This was the

a
basketball games and the Faculty
Show, the square dances, and _ the
Greek play. About $8,800 has been
achieved through these: measures and
through the ‘pledges of students; but
that leaves nearly $12,000 still to be
obtained, most of which will probably
have to come from outside the Col-
lege. Dr. Crenshaw, of the Chemistry
Department, revealed the plans for
integrating the work of the various de-
partments which a new Science Build-
ing will make possible.

Mr. Grover Whalen, former, Com-
missioner of Police-in New York City,
then told his impressions of Bryn
Mawr’s Drive and encouraged every-
one greatly by expressing his belief
that the impossible could be achieved,
and reported that he personally was
going to do all that he could to help
put it over. Mr. C. Reed Cary next
gave some useful ideas about points to
stress in approaching people and about

methods of meeting them. He sounde

a note which several subsequent speak



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problem about which we wished’ to
consult the group of fathers who had
come to the Deanery luncheon.

Mrs. Slade announced that each one
of the fathers.nresent would tell some-_
thing about what he thought best for
us to do to bring our part of the Drive
to a successful close. Before any of

‘the fathers spoke, Maynard Riggs,

vice-president of the Undergraduate
Association, reviewed the various ac-
tivities of the students which are de-
signed to raise part of our total gift.
These included: the giving up of des-
serts, the Bookshop tax, sales of



oranges, cookies and cakes, the faculty

ers emphasized, stating his belief that
the appeal of students themselves was
perhaps the most successful way jof
breaking down the resistance of the
verson being interviewed. Mr. Charles

‘Edwin Fox also discussed the value

of this kind of contact and impressed
those. present. greatly by his casual
remark that he had participated in five
campaigns of this sort in the past few

months. His ideas certainly ried
the weight of past experience hind |
them, equalled, perhaps, by no one else

; Fox
ended his talk by telling us that a
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except. Mrs. Slade herself. th

‘Voorhees, chairman of the



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Visiting Leaders Note :
Lenient College Rules

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Bryn Mawr was hostess this week-
end to the heads of the college or-
ganizations for 1934-35 and 1935-36
at Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, and
Wellesley. The representatives from
Mt. Holyoke were Drew Mathews, re-
tiring chairman. of Community; Har-
riet Williams, new chaixman, and Jane
Lester, chairman of the Judicial
Board. Elizabeth Gamble and Mar-
garet Whittem, old and new heads of
Student Government, and Evelyn
Judicial
Board, were representing Smith. Vas-
sar sent Ann Oliver and Peggy Pren-
tiss, retiring and new presidents :of
the student: Association, and Rosarina
Robbins, Chief Justice. Nancy Ellen
and Marian Blake Schoenfuss, old and
new presidents of College Govern-
ment, came from Wellesley. They
were entertained by Susan Morse and
Marion Bridgman, retiring and new
presidents of the Self Government As-
sociation. The principle questions-un-
der discussion were smoking and social
regulations, which are much more libé
eral here than in other colleges.

As regards smoking Smith has the
same regulations as Bryn Mawr/ ex-
cept that, at Smith, students sthoke
only at specified hours. The risk of
fire is considered so great that those
smoking in their rooms. must go up
before the president of the ¢ollege as
well as the president of Student Gov-
ernment. The colleges in which smok-
ing is allowed in Students’ rooms have
fire-proof buildings.

Bryn Mawr seems to be more lenient
than most colleges jin dealing with
latenesses, since at /Mt. Holyoke a
$1.00 fine is charged for a-one to five
minute lateness, and the fine for thir-
ty minute lateness is $5.00. At Smith
those ‘even one oh late are cam-



pused for a week, while any lateness
in returning after an overnight ab-
sence is penalized by the removal of
one of the nights of leave, of* which
seven are allowed a semester.

The question of finances was alsé
discussed. /Smith has an efficient sys-
tem,—namely, a blanket tax, which
covers class dues, A. A. dues, Chris-
tian Assocation dues, the college pa-
per, dramatics and debating club ex-»
penses./ The entire tax is only $7.00
a yeay, and the Judicial Board enal-
izes those who do not pay. The finance
manager is a student officer.? This
san system of blanket payment exists
at Vassar, but her board of trustees
gives $3,000.00 for all such organiza-|
tions. Pay day comes once a year, in
tHe fall, and covers dues for the small-

clubs and other similar expenses.
he position of treasurer is a paid

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College Calendar
Wednesday, April 17: Indus-
trial Group Supper. Common

Faculty Show, Hilarious Series

of Skits,

Achieves Undreamed Heights of Comedy



Hysterical Audience Shouts Approval and Clamors For More
. of “Much Ado But Not For Nothing” As_ Professors

Parody College

To Help Drive



BALLET, FRESHMAN WEEK RIVAL SONGS AS HITS



Much Ado But Not For Nothing was
an overwhelmingly hilarious, stperbly
arranged series of the most entertain-
ing and hysterical skits ever collected
tegether for one evening’s entertain-
ment! The faculty show reached a

| hitherto almost unimagined heigtit-of

comedy. The members of the audi-
ence cried, clamored and clapped for
more of everything; they rolled in
their seats with laughter;, and when
the final curtains closed they burst
forth in shrieks and yells of uncon-
trolled and abounding enthusiasm. The
faculty show was an event of £vents;
it was an all-time top perforrnance.
The evening started merrrly just as
soon as numerous individuals had pur-
chased balloons from a yery swarthy,
Italian-looking vendor



Bryn Mawr Rallies To
Support Peace Drive

Miss Ely and’Mrs. M. S. Olmsted



Point Out Encroachment
Of Militarism
WAR WILL DRAFT WOMEN



Pier en Hall, -April12:; "==" The
cause of peace was presented to the
members of college in a mass meeting,
and enthusiastically supported by both
students and outside speakers. Miss

Gertrude Ely and Mrs. Mildred Scott
O

Imsted were the guest speakers,
while Caroline-C. Brown and Barbara
Cary represented the college.

Miss Brown,.in opening, explained
the international importance of this
demonstration, pointing out that simi-
lar gatherings were being held simul-
taneously by student bodies all over
the United States and in France, Italy,
England, Germany, and Spain. Bryn
Mawr, by adding the weight of her
support to this widespread movement,
has shown an intelligent attitude to-
wards peace and has thereby taken a
step towards removing the cause for
accusations of lethargy on this sub-
ject which have not infrequently been
raised against her in the past. This
movement, organizing students into
anti-war committees, should gf¥e those
of us participating a sense of our own
power.

Miss Gertrude Ely, Vice-President
of the League of Women Voters, gave
her hearty approval,to our entrance
into this students’” peace movement.
We are fortunate, she said, to be im
college with people courageous enough
to think out the peace problem, de-
termined that there shall not be an-
other war. This is a very different
attitude. from that of the majority of
older people. Our attitude should be-
come a contagion carried by youth all
over the United States. Certainly we

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To the Editors of

The College News :—

News of the sudden death of
Dr. Noether came to the Com-
mittee in charge of the Faculty
Show late Sunday afternoon. In
view of the fact that many tick-
ets had been sold to persons out-
side the College community,
some of whom had already come
here from a-distance, and of the

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Room, 6.00 P. M.
Wednesday, April 17: Open-
ing of exhibition of original
prints by Miss Henrietta Huff
prints in the Art Seminary.
Thursday, April 18: Dr. J.
H.- Williams, of Harvard, will
speak to Economics students on
The International Monetary
Position. Common Room, 8.30
P.. M.
Tuesday, April 23: Mr. Horace ~
Alwyne will give a recital. Good-
‘hart, 8.20 P. M.





fact that no later convenient
date was open to which the/per-
formance’could be postponed, it
was decided to give the Show as
scheduled. President Park and®
Professor Wheeler withdrew
from their parts. We wish the
College to know that/the decision
not to follow our first impulse

and postpopg: the performance
was reached only after serious
consideration. /

SAMUEL C. CHEW,
For the Committee.









public as Df. Charles G. Fenwick.
Some riotous person in the audience
gave her/balloon a little pat; it flew
over thé heads of several undergrad-
uates /and landed in the lap of an
elderly gentleman. He, evidently in-
spired by the occasion, proceeded to
bat the balloon himself. The game

spread with new players joining at

every moment. Fortunately for a few
of the fairly serious people, who did
not like balloons in their hair, a loud
blast of trumpets brought to an end
all such extemporaneous_ entertain-
ment. Next came a mock May Day
procession. Down the aisle from the
back Miss Walsh rode a foreign-look-
ing, four-legged animal, led by Miss
Lake. Following this spectacle came
the one-man band: Mr. Willoughby
swirled about from traps to organ, and
set up a din which turned the mock
ceremony into a real parade. In the
rest of the procession there were Dr.
Chew, the master-of-ceremonies and
general director, dressed in. a com-
pletely outlandish garb; Miss Terrien,
who bounced along as a_ sprightly
Queen Elizabeth, preceded and follow-
ed by numerous men clothed in black

|robes and carrying rapiers so held as

to make an arch; Dean Schenck, wear-
ing enough sparkling diamonds to run
Mae West close competition, and a
large group of wreathed and rouged
young ladies, headed gaily toward the
spot where the crowning of ‘the May
Queen was to take place. The girl
chosen to be thus honored was par-
ticularly well suited for her part; she
was a statuesque beauty, who wore
her hair in long, flowing locks; she
tripped beautifully and gracefully up
to the stage. It was only when she
was obvious to everyone in the audi
ence, that Dr. Metzger’s true beauty
was appreciated by all. He was *\
huge success: as Queen of the May!

After the crowning of the /Queen
on the stage, the Tabloid of Muchado
was presented. Faculty members
danced in a chorus and sang their in-
troductory song. Mr. Willoughby was
the star performer; he not only di-
rected the singing and did the solo
dancing, but he also turned out to be
a quick change artist/ The lights
dimmed a moment, and when they
came up again, Uncle Sam’s Navy
was on hand to do /a Sailors’ Horn-
pipe. Such agility on the part of our
staid professors again started the hys-
terical laughter of the audience. Dr.
Chew’s comments between scenes did
not give anyone a chance to stop gig-
gling or to catch his breath.

Miss Robbins came on the stage
next. She Avas dressed in perfect

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Dance Symphony to be Performed
On April 30 at 8.45 P. M., Estelle
Dennis/ and twelve of her concert
dance group will present a recital of
modern dances in Goodhart Hall. Miss
Dennis is the founder of the Dennis
Theatre in Baltimore, which was be-
gun with the purpose of giving young
dancers an opportunity to appear in
concerts. She is Mrs. Edward Watson,
wife of Dr. Watson, of the Geology
department at Bryn Mawr. The re-
cital will be given for the benefit of
the Fiftieth Anniversary Fund.
Miss Dennis’ group was organized .
five or six years ago. It was founded
with the idea that the more compli-
cated movements of group dancing are
to the art of the dance what the sym-
phony is to the art of music. The pat-
terns in group dancing are woven
‘about a number of ‘danggrs, or_about :
a solo dancer a
The Dennis Theatre permits dancers
to: appear in programs before the pub-
lic in a proper setting and without
incurring large overhead expenses. It
has had a successful season of per-
formances, and has even had to re-
peat performances sold out a week or

ten days in advance,



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