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THE COLLEGE NEWS





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)



Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest ot
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Editor-in-Chief
“BARBARA CARY, ’36

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HELEN FISHER, ’37

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‘ SyLvia H. Evans, '37
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2 Extra! Extra!

We recently read in the papers that Harvard University undergraduates
conduct their own school of journalism through the agency of their three
campus publications. We began to have.a fellow feeling with our northern)
neighbors until we discovered that the writer of the article not only con-
sidered this a very unique system of training, but also felt that it was of
unusual merit, in-that it needed no theoretical course to supplement it.

With all due respect for Harvard we wish to remark that from our
own experiences we — the merit is not so unusual; there is room for
betterment, at least ss“far as Bryn Mawr is concerned. For many: years
‘our publications have been carried on entirely by the students themselves.
We heartily approve of the independence which is accorded us and we
regard the principle of a self-perpetuating board as absolutely essential to
the efficiency of our editorial efforts. There is one matter, however, which
we think is open to improvement and that is.the preparation for newspaper
and literary work which we receive.

Each year a new group of students has to be trained to take over the|
positions of responsibility on the News and Lantern. They can learn the|
intricacies of journalistic writing only by gleaning information from those
who have gone before and by witnessing their own successes and failures.
But although experience is undoubtedly the most versatile of teachers, its
instruction is sometimes slow and expensive. A course in the elements of
journalism would be a most welcome addition to the curriculum from every
point of view. Not only would it train those who are interested, in this
kind of writing, but would be of great value to anyone who desires to know
how to write clearly, concisely and accurately. The technique of journal-
istic writing is completely different from ordinary literary or~critical-com~
position and requires a special training. Modern American writing is tend-|
ing more and more to be influenced by the style of writing used by leading
newspapers and weekly magazines and many of the most prominent authors
are former newspapermen. Bryn Mawr needs a course in journalism both
to complete the group of writing courses which are now available to stu-
dents, and to provide their very foundation. i

‘ Watch Your Steps!

The tradition that Taylor tower steps are used only by the members
of the two upper classes is one of the few older and more informal customs
which have weathered the changing ranks of undergraduates, and it is
with great sorrow that we see it disappearing under the hasty tread of
sophomores and freshmen. Undoubtedly rain and anxiety to see the May
Day bulletin board make the longer route to Library or Pembroke seem
an unnecessary delay, but the tradition had @ practical origin as a traffic
device to turn aside half of the onrushing crpwd and thus to make that
corridor in Taylor passable. There was nevet“a time when that hallawy
needed such trafic regulations more than in a busy May Day year. But
of far greater importance is the fact that using the tower steps is to many
juniors and seniors a sign that they have successfully served two years’
apprenticeship and have at last come to the dignity of upperclassmen. Haz-
ing is unknown here and distinctions have never been strictly drawn between
classes, but pleasant traditions are rare. The freshmen and sophomores are
only destroying their own thrill in future years and that of the upperclass-
men today by carelessly rushing up and down the tower steps.



Petrified Forest, Road to Rome and
Reunion in Vienna) is the, author.
Moreover, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred

Lunt play the main roles-in a manner
which is rumored to be their most
frisky.

News of the

New York Theatres
S. R. Behrman has bden described
as the wittiest Ameri playwright
and his latest comedy now running in

New York continues the tradition. It
is called End of Summer and the stars
are Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins.
Doris Dudley, a young actress who
plays Miss Claire’s daughter, is mak-
ing her debut in a succesful play, al-
though she has played in one or two
flops. It is our opinion (re-inforced
‘by that of one or two real critics)
that Miss Dudley will come to some-
- thing important in the theatre.

Idiot’s Delight is another excellent



can Tragedy theme. cite eae z

For those who are interested in the
new drama, there is a more or less
successful theatrical experiment being
presented by the Group Theatre called
Case of Clyde Griffiths. Erwin Pisca-
tor, the playwright, is a Communist
who has been experimenting in the
Russian theatre where drama is really
new, and planned as well. The suc-
cessful aspect of the play is its half-
realistic, half-symbolic presentation
which must be seen to be appreciated;
while the less satisfactory, aspect is
the far-fetched economic interpreta-
tion of Theodore: Dreiser’s old Ameri-

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. | ne of the greatest men his Race had

| the New York stage are Love on the

Dole, an English importation with the |

“elfin” Wendy Hiller, Russet Mantle,
| with John Beal as youth on the
|rampage, and Call.It.a.Day, with
/Gladys Cooper and Philip. Meri-
‘vale. Of course it is impossible to
forget Saint Joan done in the Cornell
| style.



‘For the benefit of those who are

‘staying at college for the next week,
{we note that Sailor Beware, Three
| Men On a Horse and Winterset will
remain in Philadelphia until this Sat-
urday night, while Tobacco Road re-
turns for another two weeks.
_ For the benefit of those who are
| planning to hunt in the (figuratively)
| greener theatrical fields of New York
City, the Néws travels (also, alas, fig-
uratively) to that city for the latest
news of the stage.

| In Philadelphia ‘
|



Campus Note
Professor Alwyne will give a piano-
forte recital at Rollins College, Wint-
er Park, Florida, on Tuesday next,
March 31. This will be his third re-
cital at Rollins.- The program will
include. works. of. Bach, Couperin,

| Haydn, Brahms, Liszt and eeentanbe

noft.







THE CAREER GIRL |

Mary Marjorie Addapearl
Happened to be an only girl,
So the Addapearl’s claim to fame and)
glory
Was vested entirely in little asians
Though never bright, from the day |
of her birth
She’ was always known for her ster-!

ling worth.

What Marjorie began she’d be sure to}
* finach; |

Her favourite foods were prunes and,
spinach; |

She loved her parents and native|
land;

She could chin herself with either
hand;
But, weep for Marjorie, one affliction
Stood in the way of her life’s am-



bition.

She never completely mastered the
art

Of telling her right and her left
apart.

One couldn’t really hold it against her |
And at first it just inconvenienc®d her, |
But at last, 1930 and 6 was the year, |
It put an end to her whole career. |
At a woman’s college, Bryn Mawr,
Pa., :
They celebrate the coming May |
With plays and masques, but mostly
with dance
And she was attending Bryn Mawr
by chance.
Bi-weekly at eight for a half an hour
She danced with her utmost zeal and

power, :
But her progress, if anything, was
slight
As she couldn’t tell her left from her
right

And had no possible way of deciding

Which arm for arming or side for
siding.

Frantic, unhappy, hot, shamed, and
red,

She tried to do what the others said,

But in vain. At last came the fatal
day.

She was asked not to dance on the
first of May.

When he heard of the blot on his
name, overnight

Mr. Addapearl’s hair turned white.

His wife, who was practical, heaved

a sigh

And cancelled the rooms they had
booked nearby.

They’ve retired since to the south of
France

To drown their sorrow in strong ab-
sinthes-

And as for Marjorie? She now graces
The sports department of R. H.
Macy’s.



The Personal Peregrinations
of Algernon Swinburne
Stapleton-Smith
or

Lost in a London Fog



b
CHAPTER THE FIRST—

In the little, sleepy, old village of
Scuffle-on-the-Bustle, Pants, Hants,
Bucks, England, was born a lad of
gentle blood ‘who was destined to be





| News Elections

The College News announces
the following eléctions: Editor-
'| in-Chief, Helen Fisher, ’373_
-Gopy Editor, Anne Marbury,
| ae ’87; Editors: Eleanor Bailenson, -
39, Margery Hartman, 38,
Margaret Howson, ’38, Abbie
Ingalls, ’88, Jean Morrill, ’39,
and Margaret Otis, ’39.







colonial, descended from a good fam-
ily of ancient lineage; and his father
| was a member of the Illustrious Bucks
| family Smith who had married into
the Campbells of Argyle. They. had
met in London on the embankment
one foggy night and had fallen in
Hove at first sight. At that time, his
mother was a young maiden going
through a stage of intense intellectual-
ism, but all the fervor of her ardent
and intense nature was soon trans-
' ferred into a deep and lasting affec-





‘tion for her future husband, Leften-

{ant the Honorable Jeffrey Leslie
Rampant Smith, D. S. O.

| They had not been married long
|when Leftenant the Honorable J. L.
| Smith was called back to India to his
| regiment, the 42 Bengal Lancers (Go

| it, J. L.!). Because Mrs. Smith had

only just got over a malignant at-
|taque of Cholera, it. was thought ad-

| visable to leave her in England for a

WIT’sS re D | while. Shortly after Leftenant Smith

reached his post at the treacherous

|Mahama Rahka Pass, he received the
| following cable from army headquar-
ters:

“The Brave Little Mother has
just received a Precious Little Bundle.

| Weight % stone.”

Thus was his father’ made aware of
the advent of Algernon Swinburne
Stapleton-Smith.

(To be continued next week)



To thumb through college calendars
Was formerly a source of woe

I could not bear to read about
Those courses that I must forego.

For there are only four short years

That one can go to Bryn Mawr col-
lege;

And only sixteen courses here

Must constitute our college knowledge.

What joy! What bliss! is now my
lot:

I am a student monitor

And gather pearls of ‘wisdom now

' As I proceed from door to door.

[_ know a_bit-of_calculus,

Have picked up Greek and ‘history,
too—

I’ll reach the peak of scholarship

Before my college course is through!

Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.



Current Events

(Gleaned:. from Dr. Fenwick)

Common Room, March 23.—“There’s
not much to be done constitutionally
about the floods,” sadly announced Dr.
Fenwick, “yet something must be
done.” The only way to prevent fu-
ture inundations along such rivers as
the Ohio that rise far in the moun-
tains where the frozen ground cannot
absorb quick thaws and rains is to
build a series of dams all the way up
the stream. Since the Ohio flows
through several states, however, it is
difficult for any united action to be
taken, unless the Federal Government
assumes the task. Yet such a task
may be declared unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court; undoubtedly it
will be, if corporations are taxed to
support it as they were taxed to sup-
port the AAA. The only way is to
go quietly ahead and build the dams,
then tax without saying why—just
levy taxes. Thus the disapproval of
the Supreme Court may be avoided
and the floods certainly stopped.

Although taxes ‘are a sore subject
to American business men right now,
the Government is elated because the
returns’frem the income tax filed on
March 15 were much higher than
had been anticipated. This fortunate
event occurred because of the gen-
eral increase of incomes this year
while the tax rate remained the same
as last year. As a result, some of
the heavy appropriations may be cut,
‘and the proposed corporation tax may
be affected. Directors indeed will be
relieved therefore,-:ot the stockhold-
ers who await the distribution of divi-
‘dends to avoid the tax will be disap-
‘pointed. If they can thus increase
‘their wealth, however, they will have





bs

‘as the Chamber of Deputies.

to pay larger taxes to the Gevern-
ment, and so the end will be the same:
the Government will have the money.

Corporations in Americ: , cven when
taxed, are well off when compared to
those in Italy. For Mus.uvlini, *cele-
brating today the seventeenth birth-
day of Fascism, has abunshed the
large industries of his country, as well
Pre-
viously, this Chamber has been a mere
sounding-board for him, but at least.
it has been a semblance of democracy.
Instead he has now established a
Council of Guilds representing twenty-
two business and professional bodies.
A Guild in Italy consists in a anion
of both employers and employes.
Thus the economical affairs of Italy
will be politically controlled. Since
the country is faced with a war for
its future, a war brought on by fate,.
as Mussolini innocently points out, it
is necessary that large industries vital
to the nation and to the carrying on
of war should be subjected to the
nation. Only medium and small busi-
nesses can be left intact.

In Germany..another dictator has
recently taken a drastic step. Now
Hitler, having sent his troops into the
Rhineland and.. broken. the. Locarno.
Treaty, is holding an, election on Sun-
day to seek justification from the peo-
‘ple. The Nazis have been ordered to
get out a solid 100 per cent vote, and
they will very nearly accomplish their
mark. All but the sick and dying will
be brought to the poles and presented

ler. If another name is written in,
the ballot becomes void. The vote is
either for Hitler or for no one. Under
these conditions, Hitler will doubtless
receive a tremendous endorsement.

Hitler stands in need of an endorse-
ment from his people, since the rep-
resentative he sent to London to meet.
the Council of the League of Nations,
has not been so favorably received.
This representative, Von Ribbentrop,
presented the argument that since
France has already broken the Lo-
carno Treaty by the Franco-Soviet
Pact, Hitler has committed no viola-
tion by his pact. With a vote of
eleven to nothing it was decided that
Hitler had violated the Treaty.
Whether or not the Franco-Soviet Pact
had likewise trespassed on the Locar-
no Treaty, was a question which the
council offered to submit to the World
Court. Since this Treaty and the Pact
were drawn up within the provisions
of the League, it is already evident
that France has not broken the Treaty
and that Germany therefore most un-
deniably has.

Nevertheless, in an effort to evade
war, the League has proposed a con-
ference of the Locarno Powers to draw
up a peace plan. In the purposes set
down for this conference it is at last
recognized that the League must be
more than an instrument for maintain-
ing the status quo in Europe; it must
be an instrument of justice. The
peace plan to be drawn up must pro-
vide for a “re-establishment of eco-
nomic relations on a healthy basis.”
The mal-distribution of raw materials
and markets must be adjusted, and
the economic barriers between coun-
tries must be relaxed. By revising the
boundary lines on a map no harmoni-
ous condition can ever be established.
The boundaries must be made to mean
less, they must be made to signify
no more than the line between New
York and Connecticut. Then there
will be as little thought of fighting
about the limit as New York thinks
af fighting its New England neighbor.
This is the only possible basis for
peace.



Bryn Mawr Club Lowers

Price on- New Bedroom

Continued from Page One

chaperoned.

All Bryn Mawr students and gradu-
ates are welcome to drop in at the club
whenever they are in New York. Guest
cards may be obtained from the sec-
retary in attendance, who will be glad
to show visitors around the rooms,
answer questions and explain the rou-
tine of obtaining guest cards for
friends.

Dues for undergraduate members
are $5.00 annually. Non-resident
graduate dues are $10.00. Graduate
resident dues for those out of ‘college
less than three years are $10.00. Non-
resident and undergraduate members
may have all club privileges except
those of voting and holding office. Ap-
plication-for membership may be made



‘by writing tothe club. sss

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with a ballot bearing one name—Hit- .

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