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College news, December 7, 1932
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1932-12-07
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Weekly
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 19, No. 07
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
M. Canu Describes His
Impressions of America
(Continued from Page One)
found it quite hard to get used to the.
anglicized French. At the frontier
they had tried speaking French to the
douanier, but they had been told that
~ just be¢ause they had studied it in
school, they needn’t try to show off.
From Quebec they went. to Niagara
Falls, but were more impressed by
the number of tourists than by the
Falls itself. Oa
As they went on westward, they got
to Cleveland, wheye banners of wel-
come were hung across every street.
They were very modest, but pleased
with this show of hospitality at their
coming. The inhabitants were all
dressed: as Persians or Turks with
turbans and fezzes on their heads, but
they; thought that it was perhaps a
They had got
quite used to queer American customs
by now. At one intersection, their
car was stopped and a number of
these queer people jumped on the run-
ning board and ordered them to get
out.. They were on the point of obey-
ing when someone said, “It’s all
right, they, are the guys from Colo-
rado.” Every time they were stopped
they used the magic words, but soon
the density of the crowd forced them
to stop. Someone told them to “hur-
ry and get dressed,” as they-had been
keeping the banquet for them. They
could not disappoint these people, and
a banquet sounded good, sq they let
themselves be turbaned, too. After a
parade through the streets, they came
to the banquet, where, M. Canu con-
fessed, the Eighteenth Amendment
was not very well observed. To their
horror the chairman announced that
the honor delegation from Colorado
would give the first speech. M. Canu,
as spokesman, was expected to give a
speech! - But he had to go through
with it, so he stood up and began. As
he went on, the fdces around grew
more and more suspicious and he felt
an atmosphere of hostility; suddenly
he had a brilliant idea. He told the
assembly that his section of Colorado
had: been settled by Frenchmen and
that-ever since the Knights Templar
of that district. had spoken English
with a French accent in honor of
those pioneers. Thunders of applause
cut him short and the chairman sug-
gested that every State should look
up its ancestors and do them honor
likewise if—they-happened tobe
French.
They left hospitable Cleveland hur-
riedly the nextday, as they were
afraid the real delegation might come.
Their itinerary included Yellowstone
Park, Seattle, San Francisco, the
Grand Canyon, New Orleans and back
to New York, an inclusive-view of the
United States. If M. Canu said that
he were not living in Bryn Mawr, he
would choose San Francisco as the
city in America that pleased him
most.
In conclusion, M. Canu said that}
he found nearly all parts of America
alike; the same language altered nat-
urally according to the region, but
not like the sharply different dialects
of/ the French provinces. He found
that every city had the same type of
stores; even that certain parts of New
England reminded him of France, ex-
cept for the billboards and “chiens
chauds” stands, “institutions Ameri-
caines.”’
Such a comprehensive view of the
United States in three months has af-
forded him only a glimpse of the vari-
‘ous sections, but even so, he probably
knows it a whole lot better than many
Americans.
‘ From North Dakota State we learn
that a survey conducted at the Col-
lege of Emporia shows that the stu-
dent body is ‘more intelligent than the
faculty, that they stay at home more,
and devote more time to their work
than do their pedagogues.—(NSFA.)
GREEN HILL FARMS
City Line and Lancaster Ave.
Overbrook-Philadelphia
Luncheon’
Dinner
Shore Dinner every Friday :
$1.50
No increase in price on Sundays
' _, or holidays
The Princes#Marries the Page
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Princess Marries the Page is a
surprise for those who, having been
disappointed by Fatal Interview, are
wondering fearfully whether Millay
regains her wonted excellence of style
in this new book. The Princess Mar-
ries the Page is not new. It was writ-
ten while Millay was an undergradu-
ate at Vassar College, and has been
produced four times, twice with the
author playing the principal part.
Che manuscript was lost for thirteen
years and has only just come to light
again. In her preface Millay says of
it, “On reading over to myself The
Princess Marries the Page, I found
expected. It was unmistakably a
youthful work, ahd very slight, but
| thought it rather pretty. And I
had a desire to see it among my pub-
lished books. So here it is.”
The story of the play is that of a
princess who hides a page from pur-
suing soldiers. The page is suppos-
edly the son of an enemy king acting
in the capacity of a spy. While the
princess is defending him by saying
she must marry him, a letter is found
on his person proclaiming that he is
an undutiful son to his father; and
at~the-same~time~his~ fathers’ death
is. announced. The page then is a
king in his own right and is allowed
to marry the princess.
The story is an old one. The play
is indeed slight, but more than “rath-
er pretty.” Such lines as these:
“Is there not some maiden,
Some golden-headed herder of white
geese,
Some shepherdess, some dark-eyed vio-
let-vendor,
That holds you dear?”
or
“Melt not my tears for you that for
myself
Lie like a pool frozen i’ the breast.’
have the delicate beauty of Millay’s
later work. Some lines, as for in-
stance:
“Why does a-man who is doomed to
Hell for ever
Climb into heaven for a day,”
and '
“None goes so lonely to his death but
thousands
Pass through the door with him.”
vive momentary flashes of that' inner
meaning and power of suggestion that
is the life breath of poetry. But these
are fragmentary; the theme itself
lacks profundity. It is lovely like a
piece of thin china, but is to be tak-
en as seriously as one would take the
fence of paper streamers in Aria da
Capo if that did not have its deep un-
dereurrent of tragic meaning.
he a! >
The apple-vending machines at Bos-
ton University have sold approximate-
ly 20,500 apples to students during
the last five school months. Accord-
ing to theories advanced by health ex-
perts, the regular eating of apples is
a short-cut to easy reducing. Per-
haps this accounts for the fact that
C.'L. A., with a large percentage of
co-eds among the enrolled students,
has sold over 11,000 apples, and C.
B. A., with a majority of men stu-
dents, has sold only - 9,500 ° apples.
Although the machines hold seventy-
two apples each, they have to be re-
filled at an average of three times
in two days.—(NSFA.)
that I liked it much better than I had |
MRS. RICHARD
PATTON’S SHOP
DRESSES LINGERIE
Sizes
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10 ARDMORE ARCADE
PHONE 1725 ARDMORE, PA.
Katherine Hepburn Fought
Way to Successful Career
(Reprinted. from The. Philadelphia
® Inquirer, Sunday, November 27.)
Although she hungered during’ sev-
eral seasons as one of the unknowns
of Broadway, Katharine Hepburn
never had to starve :in a W. 47th
street boarding house. As a matter
of fact, Katharine Hepburn has liv-
ed always in comfortable, even ele-
gant, circumstances. Her hunger was
that of**ambition, a hunger which
gnaws just like the physical sort.
After experiencing the conventional
four years among Merion, Rockefel-
\ler and the other halls of elite Bryn
Mawr, Katharine Hepburn set out
to crash the glamorous realm of pro-
fessional histrionics.. Today, thanks
to her work in “A Bill of Divorce-
ment,” starring John Barrymore,
which is the feature screen offering
at the Mastbaum Theatre, they have
pressed upon her a five-year contract
with RKO-Radio Pictures. But in
|the intervening years—not many, to
be sure—Katharine Hepburn “was
bounced—around Broadway, only —to
come back for more. It wasn’t easy.
Four days out of college she had
a job in a stock company in Balti-
more. Baltimore may remember her,
but there is no Katharine Hepburn
Theatre there to keep alive that mem-
ory. After the Maryland engagement
began the jolly good fun of getting a
job in New York.
“Miss uh-Helburn?”
“Hepburn. I
casting a new play.”
“Oh, yeah? Where’d ya hear that?”
“Well, as a matter. of fact it was
in the paper this morning. It’s in
the afternoon papers, too; and I also
heard it from some people.”
“Well, I am casting, but I’m-sorry,
Miss Helburn, but you just aren’t the
type. Leave your name with the girl
outside, and—”
“And if anything comes up you'll
call me? | Thank you.”
“Okay, Miss Helburn.”
That was one type of meeting
which the eager young actress ex-
perienced day in, day. out. Finally
she managed to get herself cast in
“The Big Pond.” Came tryout night
in Great Neck, L. I. Miss Hepburn
was informed after the performance
that it might be a good idea for her
to take up social science, or open
an art shoppe in Hartford, Conn., her
home town;—or go abroad for—a—rest.
In fact, she was told the world is full
of. things for a girl to do who has
charm and intelligence, but who can-
not act.
Yet, as it happened, Arthur Hop-
kins was in the Great Neck audi-
erice that night. As a consequence
young Miss Hepburn was given a
walk-on in “Holiday.”
Student anti-Japanese demonstra-
tions in Shanghai, which were tem-
porarily put down, have been for-
mally revived with plans for a large
student demonstration to voice a for-
mal protest against the Lytton report
to the League of Nations before dis-
cussion starts at Geneva Monday.
—(NSFA.)
understand you’re+
MEN AGAINST DEATH—PAUL
DEKRUIF
“Another book” by the author of
Microbe Hunters is almost a suffi-
cient characterization for Men
Against Death. Another tale of the
battle waging between science and
disease, ‘it is imbued with Paul de
Kruif’s essentially vigorous, vivid
style. Its forcefulness makes of a
succession of scientific exploits, an ex-
ceptionally fast-moving, thrilling tale
of human warfare against death.
The death fighters are made full-
blooded heroes of the front and their
(leeds become adventures into the
grim, menacing No Man’s Land of
unexplored science under de Kruif’s
pen. There is Semmelweis, a fanatic
on proper methods of sterilization, a
fighter-to-the-death against child-bed
fever. ‘For diabetics Banting pro-
vides immeasurable hope by his dis-
covery and production of ‘insulin; now
there is no limit save the natural
bounds of human life for those pa-
tients who have formerly used up
their own tissues in their extremity
in a kind of duto-cannibalism. Minot,
although. he was of a family with a
scientific tradition, had enough innate
sagacity to discard the technicalities
of: science for his remarkably prac-
tical_treatment—of-pernicious-anemia.
Again, we have a romance of the
Rocky ‘Mountains—Spencer’s fantas-
tic fight against spotted fever. Miss
McCoy’s work with parrot fever,
Schaudinn’s discovery of the small
ecork-secrew microbe lying at the root
of that pale horror, syphilis, Bordet’s
precise investigations of the nature
of this bacillus, his perfection of the
blood test and his eventual discovery
of a method of combating these dan-
gerous spirochetes marks another step
in the progress of our warfare against
death. Then in more recent tactics
against disease we have “machine
medicine,” the use of electric machines
by Wagner-Juregg to fever paresis
and Finsen’s first use of electricity as
a substitute for sunlight.
Here is a magnificent tale of war
against the most inexorable and prob-
ably the most thrilling enemy of man.
It is so gripping that the reader be-
gins insensibly to finish each chapter
with a sotto voce—‘And another mi-
ecrobe bit the dust!” In retrospect, an
analysis of style shows it to be slight-
ly melodramatic:
“It is morning. Life is good. Hope
surges. I think of the strange power
in my—lifestuff,_in—all_protoplasm
to remake itself, at least partially, af-
ter it’s been damaged, of its power
to adapt itself to this or that danger.”
Occasionally, as here, the form
seems to be distinct from the sub-
stance, and we have a singularly in-
congruous result. These infrequent
(laws give us momentary glimpses of
the real difficulty of portraying this
superhuman struggle, this drama, so
vital that it lapses into melodrama.
Qur heroes are “men against death”
and the very recounting of their epic
deeds is, suitably enough, a challenge
to the philosophy that “Death is the
inevitable consequence of all life.”
—G. R
(Loaned by courtesy Country Day
Book Shop.)
DON’T MISS
The Exhibition and Sale of
HAND-MADE LINGERIE
Made by Crippled Girls
Thursday, December 8th | ,
: at the
College Inn
Sponsored by the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania
American Philosophi-
cal Society Meets Here
(Continued from Page One)
‘Relational Absolutes,
HELEN H. PARKHURST
The Relation of the Moral to the
Aesthetic Standard in Plato,
KATHERINE GILBERT
The Right and the Good, Method-
ology in Ethics. SARAH H. BROWN
Reality and “the real’ in Bradley,
RUDOLF KAGEY
2.00 P. -M., *Annual Business Meet-
Wis Taylor Hall, Room F
CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS
2.30 P. M., Division I,
: Aristotle’s Analytic Method,
ABRAHAM EDEL
(Introduced by F. J. E. Woodbridge)
The Theory of Logical Continuity,
Lewis S. FEUER
(Introduced by Morris R. Cohen)
The Identity of Formal and Mate-
rial Truth in Rational Thinking,
Kurt E. ROSINGER
(Introduced by A. N. Whitehead)
On Tiaith ...... JOHN SOMERVILLE
(Introduced by H. W. Schneider)
2.30 P. M., Division II,
DISCUSSION ON ETHICS AND
-_SOcIAL.. PHILOSOPHY.
(Each speaker limited to five
minutes)
* Indicates open only to members of
the Association and specially invited
guests. _
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