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: THE COLLEGE NEWS







| THE COLLEGE NEWS .

(Founded in 1914).

Published aa. during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.









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Editors
Crara Frances GRANT, '34
SALLIE Jones, "34
Mo tty Nicnots, °34

Leta Crews, °33
Janet MarsHa.t, 733

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Mo.iy Atmore, °32

Subscription Manager
Yvonne. CAMERON, 732

Assistants
ELEANOR YEAKEL, 733

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Kamerad!
As Easter vacation draws nearer we cannot help considering the amount
of work to be done in the next three weeks. For most of us the prospect
is terrifying. On the recommendation of the administration, all reports

‘are to be finished before Easter, and all scheduled quizzes are included in

the pre-Easter period. This means for most of us four quizzes and at least
two reports. Last semester's Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period, dedicated
entirely to reports, is only a pleasant memory. ~~~

' We understand the necessity for having extra time after Easter to work
for May Day. We wonder, however, if there will be anything left of us
to work after carrying out the strenuous program just ahead. There will

' be more students than usual, certainly, | who will find it extremely difficult

to do well: what is required of them in each class when-demands are being

‘| my. little lass, and, you to quote all

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The Pillar
of Salt







It being spring, we have felt it
might perhaps be apropos and ex-
tremely convenient for the editors
who have just as many reports and
paper flowers on their minds as you,

the poetry we know anent the season;
follows all we and our more intimate
friends can cull.

Er—§$pring—(this is English, verry.)

Er—spring—you perfectly priceless
old thing;

There’s a twang. in the air,
know what I mean,

And the grass, as it were,

_ frightfully green.

There’s’a trend towards burgeoning,
seen ’mongst the leaves—

The bally old sap in the topping old

if you

is’ .So

News of New York Theatres



Texas Guinan, having tried all il-
legitimate rackets, is going to try her
hand at legitimate, or something re-
sembling legitimate, acting. She will

‘make her bow as Aimie Semple Mc-

Pherson in Charles Hopkins’ “Sister
Aimie.” The play deals with the
religious racketeer’s life, and Helen
Rowland will be Aimie the child.
Edith Barrett will portray Aimie the
girl, and then Texas (“Give the Little
Girl a Hand’’) Gifinan will lurch on
as Aimie the woman. This ought to
be good.

Eugene O’Neill, after viewing the
success of “Mourning Becomes Elec-
tra,” has set to work on fhree new
plays covering periods of American
life from 1776 to the present. The
first will open with the Revolution,
the second will deal with the ’40’s,
and the third will be modern. Unless
Mr. O’Neill reforms the morals of
‘his familfes, we doubt if the line will
be extant by the third period,

Robert Sparks’ production of Sam



trees— .
The ripping old lilac and that sort:
of rot,
Well, it rather well cheers a chap wp,|
does. it not? :
We shall soon see the jolly old a
‘on the wing,
Er—spring.

And then it is always cibout sthis

Janney’s detective comedy “Monkey”
| has had its title changed to “Inspector
Henderson.” .The titles are said to
-be synonymous.

The opening of “The Warrior’s
Husband” -has been delayed until
March 14, which is a sign that some-
thing is wrong somewhere. ~The
trotuble seems to be connected with

time of year that the Biolofy students the fact that the lines have a tendency
(and we always manage to have sev- | t© €mulate the back pages of Bally-
eral friends among the Biology stu-' hoo. Some respectable sightseers at-
dents) begin to sit in seats apart at} ‘tended a rehearsal and left in a fury
the table, slink around corners and _—the play is now being fumigated
bathe thoroughly in Ltaterine in the in order to make.a bid for the trade

made upon them by every course at the same time.

likely to result.

Mental panic is hac

We are not suggesting a general plan for the students te get-away wie

‘as little work as possible until Easter.
We hope they will realize that the pressure

gestion lies with our professors.

The solution of this academic con-

of quizzes and reports due simultaneously is extraordinary, and that they

will make:some allowances.

We prophesy that any unfinished work can

be completed in the time between May Day and the beginning of exams,
with more leisure and more chance, of success.

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Something Burning to Be Said

To everyone, most especially to those who are trying out for The News:

Now that you have heard all the shining platitudes about the. good
things which come from being on The News, we have an admission to make
that is not so dazzling, but much more practicgh,

Gray days come when the doubtful glories of our editorship seem 1: small
beside the tine and drudgery of attéhding, with our notebook, some lecture
on a subject unknown and ‘uninspiring to us, for we have never gone to

lectures, having had by lunch time enough for the day.

Strangely and

contrarily, we have never failed to listen to, enjoy and draw conclusions

from the hated lecture.

However unknown, it has always taught us some-

thing; however uninspiring, it has always stimulated an idea_or_two. ; If
we grudge The News the time it consumes out of our curriculum, we find
ourselves much wiser at the end of the time, with a wisdom which we admit
(to our shame) we would never have sought without coercion.

You know all the fair promises of The News and what you can get
from them; this is its bad one and what you get from it.



Dr. om Traces New
Testament’s Evolution

(Continued from Page , One)

and now resides at Oxford. By means
of this manuscript, reconstruction is
now being done by the Benedictines
in Rome. The original text has been
changed twice, onee by Sixtus V in
1590, whose translation the College of
Cardinals refused to ratify.
Jerome, in reconstructing his text,
had cértain things on which to go.
His three main manuscripts were the
current Latin text of-the 5th century,



“whith added to the interest of the

revision but not to its clearness, and
which was the ‘basis of his version;

_ older Latin vefsions made in Africa;

and the regtlar Greek text of the
day. Jereme took them, compared
them, and produced “the most beau-
tiful monument of late Latin,” the

- Vulgate. The history of the Greek

text begins with the Reformation,
when Erasmus first began to print
Greek texts, all of which were after-
ward rewritten. From all these num-
erous copies, up to the 19th century,
we have had only one, the “Textus
Receptus,” which is that of Erasmus
with a few variations.

Bentley, the great English classic-
ist, helped to arouse the iriterest of
the people, and a generation arose
which went out to look for new man-
uscripts.
three thousand, from which we can
reconstruct and trace those very steps
by which our text became the Revised

-_ Version. ‘From | the beginning, how-

‘ever, ‘it was obvious that the oldest

8 ~-manuseripts: differed in text from that

of Erasmus. Tischendorff found at

As a result, we now have’



-| Alexandrian and the Western, the
x component — of ‘the ethas Re-
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‘| lecting,- Tischendorff was unable to

carry on the work of editing, a task

which was finally entrusted to three.

Englishmen: Wescott, the philoso-
pher of the group; Halt, the pure
scholar, and Lightfoot, the historian.
They analyzed the Codex and con-
cluded from it that both it and the
Fextus Receptus were a combination
of earlier texts and the Western
Text.

_ At the énd of the last century, two
active English ladies, Mrs. Gibson and
Mrs. Lewis, found a Syriac: manu-
scriptand* discovered that it con-
sisted of two texts, one written over
the erasure of another. They photo-
graphed some of the pages and
brought them to Oxford, where the
form was found to be even older than
that of the text in the British Mus-
eum,

~ At the end of the lecture, Dr. Lake
gave a summary of his own work on
reconstruction. In his first text of
the New Testament, he stated that a
certain group of manuscripts might
be Caesarean, but, urable to prove
his theory, he finally dropped the idea.
A manuscript found some months lat-
er at Tiflis, Georgia, confirmed the
supposition. This Georgian version
was worked on by him in collabora-
tion with Blake and Streeter, and the
result was a treatise on the Caesar-
ean text. On November 19, 1981,
Sir Frederick Kenyon announced that
‘a papyrus of the 3rd century, contain-
ing a Caesarean text of the Gospel
of St. Mark, has been found. ’ “We
are planning now,” concluded Dr.
Lake, “a reconstruction, of the very
earliest text from a comparison of
grouped manuscripts: the Caesarean,

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privacy of the wee small hours. Once |
in our early and’ not too inspired |
youth, we can remember having been |
moved to song-on this theme. It went |
something like this: (the tune was |
a merry thing about dreamers, aren’!
we all?) es |

I’m a dog fish, aren’t we all?
Embryonic, mean and small.
In the lab, cruel children jab
With glee; at science’s call.
They’re so hardened; strong, and tall, |
Still my ghost will haunt them alls
When I’m gone, my scent will linger |
on \
I’m a ‘dog-fish, aren’t we all?
(and many of us wondered).

For

All of which btings us to those
Wyndham songs—for it was at Wynd-.;
ham that the little gem above was |
conceived. There was the famous rat
siege, when they died in ,the walls of
the telephone booth, and served to cut
very short all conversations, long-dis-
tance and otherwise. Failing-to rout
us completely, one large and feeble
old rodent, dragged himself into Lib-
by’s bathtub, and breathed his last,
just for spite, curled around the
drain. Oh, the lyrics that burst forth’
after this! The favorite is included

below. |



The Perilous Plumber
(Words Without Song)

Adown the dark and desperate drain,
The perilous plumber ‘peeps in ‘vain
For some rodential remains. od
'And the mild maiden mincing goes, |
Holding her kerchief to her nose.
You need not tell her, for she knows.
’Tis—_plain,—you—ratshave= not peer
trying
To mind old Taylor’s edifying
Tract on the art of Holy Dying.
Else you would quit this life of need
Upon some green and pleasant mead, |
That would be-very nice indeed.
But if you needs must lie in state, |
All creatures do it,.soon or late,
Westminster Abbey, Poet’s Wing,
Was made for just that sort of thing.

|

We think that one more ought to|
just about fill this column, and we
have saved our favorite for the end.
This piece is of unknown origin (we
will, probably be sued for plagiar-
ism), and is sung to a tune, of equal-
ly obscure beginnings.

I’m a simple uni-cellular amoeba:
Compared to me the oyster’d be ,
The queen of Sheba,

And jelly-fishes pass,

As a very brainy class,

And I fear I’ll never hear

: ~ Chorus
I’m a simple uni-cellular niin,
Just an object of, derision,

And nobody’s very kind, —



The words “ich. liebe.” Ah



| of ‘the-W. C, T. U.

“The Terrible Turk,” a play about
|New York and the life of sin the
theatres back;-is now in the hands
of the producers. Jed Harris is the

terrible Turk and is reported to be

pretty pleased with the impression he
has managed to make.
Feeling that what the American

| Chentes needs is- interesting charac-
ters, A. H. Woods-has included in the

' east of “Inside Story” the all-power-
ful monarch of crime; his satellites,
tough and smooth; two reporters, one
who is good and the other who is just
a reporter; a weak Governor; an even
weaker District Attorney; a swindling
political boss; a baby girl, origin un-
known; a heroine, all of’ whose past
is not as an open book. The result
is charming and full of murder, as
might be expected: «



By means of a device perfected by
Frederick G. Ludwig, photographer
for the Sterling Memorial Library at
Yale, photostatic copies of rare books
and manuscripts can now be made on
standard motionpicture film, provid-

‘ing readily available facsimiles for

scholars and small libraries. The
camera used in the apparatus makes
one exposure of each page of the
books to be copied, and 200 feet of
film will record 3200 pages. The com-
|pleted copies are viewed by means

‘of a small projector.

* *

“The record low standard of lan-
guage,” says Dr. Rufus von Klein-
Smid, president of the University of
| Southern California, “has. been reach-
ied on the college campus.” In a re-

cent_address,-D1;-Von-KleinSmid said
that of the 500 to 600 words with

which.common laborers are presumed

to be endowed, about half make up
the college freshman’s vocabulary.

\““The word ‘swell’ alone,” he said, “is

used to describe 4972 situations.”

. * * F 2

The Interfraternity Council at Min-
nesota University recently passed a
resolution requiring a $2 fee of fresh-
men accepting dates during the regu-

jlar winter quarter rushing week. The

measure was designed to help frater-
nities defray the cost of rushees’
meals and to eliminate the entertain-
ment of freshmen who might accept
dates with no intention of becoming
a member of any fraternity.



‘That I only propagate by sub-divi-
sion.

I should like to have a sex,

Gentle misses, .

And what’s more, to explore | gh

Conubial blisses. ‘

And of this famous “it,”

T should like a tiny bit,

And to sweet my bitter cup

+e like some Hanes. :

“And chen ‘the chorus; ad infinitum,







In Philadelphia

Forrest: Queenie Smith in “The
Little Racketeer”—a musical about a
little girl-and a big racket. Has
many good points—very amusing and
nice music.

' Chestnut: “If Booth Had Missed”—
what would have happened if Lincoln
had lived to try his hand at recon-
struction. Well done, but definitely”
serious. eee a3

Coming ‘

Forrest: March 14, Katherine Cor-
nell in “The Barretts of Wimpole
Street.” This needs no introduction—
unreservedly recommended.

Academy of Music:

» Philadelphia Grand Opera Company
presents “Elektra” Thursday evening,
March 3, at 8.15. Mmes. Roselle,
Matzenauer, Boerner, Edel, Eustis,



- Bampton, Kendrick, Diamond, Jepson;

Mm. Korell, Eddy, Vassar,
Robofsky. Conductor, Reiner.

Philadelphia Orchestra, Bernardino
Molinari conducting, Friday after-
noon, March 4, at 2.30, and Saturday
evening, March 5, at 8.30. Program:

Healy,

Over ere re Suite from Opus 5
Respighi. . Metamorphose ou modi XII
aM RRR pray emmerereL RSE aR ATE La Mer
co maeleree attra prem Till Eulenspiegel

‘New York Philharmonic Symphony
Society Monday evening, March 7, at

8.15, Sir Thomas Beecham,...conduc-
tor. ; :
Movies
Mastbaum: Joe E. Brown in “Fire-

man, Save My Child.” The comedian
is a small-town hero who is assistant
fire chief and star pitcher of the local
baseball team—his romantic adven-
tures supply the plot. Well done and
full of swell laughs.

Earle: Local-talent vaudeville is
enough to keep one and all far from
“X Marks the Spot,” with Lew Cody—
the story of a tattling columnist who
gets himself mixed up with murder.

Keith’s: “Ladies*of the Jury,” with
Edna May Oliver and Roscoe Ates.
The tale of a half-and-half. jury that

can’t agree. Very amusing.

Eur ope: Marlene Dietrich in “Three
Loves”—a very upsetting picture be-
cause La Dietrich is not too smooth.
We lost a lot of swell illusions about
beauty being beauty under any cir-
cumstances,

Fox: Thomas Mcihan and Char-
lotte Greenwood in “Cheaters at
Play”—all about a steamer, jewels,
thieves and love. .Not much.

Karlton:» “Tomorrow and Tomor-
row.” Ruth Chatterton is disappoint-
ing as the woman who ignores éoh-
vention for “true love,” played by
Paul Lukas. Not much of a theme,
and true love loses, as usual.

Stanley: “Broken Lullaby,’ with:
‘Lionel Barrymore and Phillips Holmes
—once called “The Man I Killed.”
The story of a.soldier’s post-war re-
morse over killing a German. Very
well done and really moving.

Boyd: George Arliss in “The Man
Who Played God”—a personal tri-
umph for Mr. Arliss, who plays a
famous pianist embittered by deaf-
ness.

Stanton: Bela Lingo in “Murders
in the Rue Morgue”’—just one horror
after another—just the thing to cure
insomnia.

Stanley: Wallace Beery and Clark
Gable “as the’ navy fliers in “Hell
Divers.” Excellent flying, but a good
deal of maudlin sentimentality.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Fredric March and Miriam Hop-
kins in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;”
Friday, Lil Dagover: in “The Woman
From Monte Carlo;” Saturday, “Char-
lie Chan’s Chance;” Monday and
Tuesday, “Ladies of the Big House,”
with Sylvia Sidney; Wednesday, Wil-
liam Powell in “High Pressure.”

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
“The Secret _Witness;” Friday and
Saturday, Eddie Quillan in “The-Tip-
off;” Monday and Tuesday, “This
Modern Age,” with Joan Crawford;
Wednesday, “The Speckled Band,”
with Raymond Massey.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Wheeler and Woolsey in “Peach
o’ Reno;”. Friday and Saturday, Greta
Garbo -in “Mata Hari;” Monday ,and
Tuesday, “Under Eighteen,” with
Marian Marsh; Wednesday and

| Thursday, “Dance Team,” with James

Dunn and Sally Eilers.



Professor John Q. Stewart, of
Princeton University believes that
the first trip to the moon will be.
made within the next century.