College news, April 14, 1937

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VOL, XXIII, No. 21

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937

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- Economic Reforms

Found in English

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Mrs. Wootton Finds Extremes
Of Wealth or Poverty Still

Prevalent

“SALARIAT” FOR}RSRINEW
DIVISION OF SOCIETY

Goodhart ‘Hall, April 12.—Under
the official title of Standards of Liv-
ing and Social Habits,-Mrs. Barbara
Wootton, in the second Shaw lecture,
attempted to dispel the gloom evoked
by her previous talk. It was a picture
of achievement, greater for the ob-
stacles it overcame, painted against a
somber economic background. She
spoke on contemporary England, a
country which is finding its industries
and occupations hard hit, its trade
diminishing and its coal and textile
industries declining.

* After 150 years,*the present eco-
nomic-system has reached a ripe mid-
dle age; and still presents unsolved
problems in industrial society. The
system has its admirers, those’ who
believe it capable of infinite expan-
sion; and its opposition, those, like
Marx. and Engel, who believe. it: pre-
destined to afi early decline. Increas-





_ing misery of the poor; and. the

gradual extinction of the middle class,
the buffer between the two extreme
classes, are the heralds of this decline.

Taking the long term view, Mrs.
Wootton proceeded to analyse the
trends in the English Social economic
system in the light of the opposition.
In the distribution of wealth we still
find great. extremes of riches and
poverty. Distribution itself may be
regarded from several angles, namely,
the differences between kinds of ac-
tivities, between persons, and most

_ realistically, between families.

The difference between the income
received as manual labor wages, and

- that received from. the.community in

other ways has been the same over a
long period. Since 1911, there have
been two cycles of prosperity and de-
pression, a major war,. all kinds_of
political government and great tech-
nilogical change. Yet, 39 per cent of
the national income ‘was paid out in
wages in 1911 and /40% per cent in
1935.

As for distribution by persons:
England has her very rich, rather
poor and very poor. One-fourth of
the national income is absorbed by the
1% per cent of the population who
are the élite. The official aristocracy
is relatively impoverished. The aris-
tocracy of wealth, however, remains
unshaken.

Concerning distribution by family,
Mrs. Wootton’s statistics were most
enlightening. One of every seven of
the population live in a family where
the income per head is less than ten
shillings or $2.50 a week, “After
one hundred and fifty years of capi-

_talism,” repeated Mrs. Wootton, “this

is not a good achievement.: The ex-
tremes of poverty and wealth are one

of ‘thegreatest failures of the sys-|

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Capitalist System||





KEEP OFF THE GRASS
The Undergraduate. Associa-
tion reminds everyone pleage’ to.

keep off the grass.







Newly-Formed Council ce
To Promote Peace Day



Campus Organizations Combine in
Pek (0 Movement _.

Rumors of Readce Day Which have
been permeating the campus for. the
past few weeks have at Jast been
realized. On April ‘22, at 11 o'clock,
academic activities will be suspended
for one hour while a meeting will be

held in Goodhart Auditorium in the}

interests of peace. This. year the
demonstration Will be under the di-

rection of an entirely different body.
Speage wij recruited both from
the stu body and -from outside.

Early in March, at the suggestion of
the Emergency Peace Campaign that
campus supporters of the Peace move-
ment unite to form a single body, the
Peace Council was formed. It ‘is
composed of represeritatives of cam-

pus organizations interested in the

The - committee consists
of: Esther Hardenbergh, ’37, chair-
man (Undergraduate Associatidn) ;
Elizabeth Lyle, ’387 (Lantern); Janet
Thom, ’38 (News); Eleanor Sayre,
38, and Eleanor Taft, 39 (Interna-
tional Club); Doris Turner, ’39 (Cam-
éra Club); Margaret LaFoy (Gradu-
ate), Letitia Brown, ’37, and Louise
Morley, 40 (Bryn Mawr. League) ;
Mary Hinckley Hutchings, ’37 (French
Club) ; Mary Lee Powell, ’87 (German

movement.

Club); Gertrude Leighton, ’388 (Var-|-

sity Players Club); Hodee Waldstein
and Sylvia Wright, ’38 (A. S. U.).
Its purpose is the coordination of
campus activities towards peace.

This-group has planned the pro-
gram of Peace Day, has chosen the
undergraduate speaker and is consid-
ering the names of several well-
known speakers prominent in the
Peace Movement, from whom one will
be selected to head the program.
Letitia Brown, ’37, chosen to repre-
sent the students, will speak on the
outcome of the peace ballots as a pre-
liminary to the. main speaker. °

As. an expression of the work and
purpose of the council, Peace Day is
all the more effective because the

;movement is prominent as a national

student affair not only at Bryn Mawr,





but all over the United States. The
fact that most of the big whiversities
and colleges have dedica this par-

ticular hour to the promotion of peace
places especialy emphasis on the meet-
ing. In the case of Bryn wr, the
cooperation and support of the fac-
ulty and administration in this mat-
ter is to be appreciated both by those
who are already attracted by the
question of peace and those whom the
meeting will interest.

The demonstration will continue
under a more official aspect with a
meeting sponsored by the Philadelphia
Committee of the Emergency Peace
Campaign: at 8_0’clock the same eve-
ning in the Philadepthia Convention
Hall.

It is hoped that the Peace Council
will continue as a — body.

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‘Wild Animals Are Rampant i in Pease.

In Movies Shown by C. Emerson Brown



icles April 11.—Mr. C. Emer-
son Brown, who was for _ eighteen
years head of the Philadelphia Zo-
ological Garden, illustrated his*lecture
on My Animal Friends with vivid
movies.

The first reel ee a “the antics of
“Bamboo,” a young gorilla, and other
members of the ape family. “Little

Orphan Annie,” a baby orang from}
' Borneo, was seen readily drinking her

milk from a large gin bottle. ”
Tne a ee of the audien.—

squealed with delight at the first

“mention of elephants, and seemed to
_-find the pictures of “Lizzie” taking

her bath in the pool the most fasci-
nating of all.
explained, isa one-man. elephant, -and

it is dangerous for anyone but her
| regular keeper to li her,

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“Lizzie,” Mr. Brown

however, has no difficulty handling
her. with the help of a long hook,
though it is often hard to persuade
her to leave _her,bath. The reel also
showed a pigmy elephant, one of the
two in this country. This’ elephant
found the pool too deep, so. she now
takes her bath by means of a long
hose, with which she happily —
herself all over.

Mr. Brown concluded his me oR by
showing a short reel entitled The

se Hled by -a. mongoose.
The mongoose: teases its enemy, in-

| ducing the snake to strike again and},

again until it is quite worn out and

wishes to escape. As soon a8 the;

cobta turns aside, the mongoose grabs
‘it by. the head and hangs on until the

snake is quite | dead; finally carrying

it”home ‘to eat.



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COLLEGE CALENDAR

Wednesday, April 14.—Mr.
| Samuel Fleisher, will speak on
» Playgrounds.

Movies. » Music
Room, 8.30.
Thursday, April 15.— Non-
resident téa. Common. Room,,
4.30. o\

Thomas Tippett will speak at
a Summer School meeting... Com-
mon Room, 8.

Philosophy Club meeting. Jane
Fulton will read her: paper on
Absolute Knowledge in Plato.

Friday, April 16, and Satur-
day, April 17.—Geology Field
SID.

Sunday, April 18.—Hampton
Quartet will give a_ concert.
Deanery, 5.

Monday, April 19. — Anna
Howard Shaw ‘lecture by “Mrs.
Wootton. Goodhart, 8.20.

Tuesday, April 20.—Current
Events. Common Room, 7.30.>

Thursday, April, 22.— Peace
Meeting. Goodhart, 11.

' Friday, April 23, and Satur-
day, April 24.—Glee Club pro-
duction of The Mikado.

Saturday, Apt 24.—F rench
Oral.

Monday, April 25. — Anna
Howard Shaw lecture by Mrs.
Wootton.







Archaeologist Speaks
On Finds at Heraeum



Paola Zancani-Montuoro’ Shows
Slides of Still Unpublished
Archaic Sculptures



EXCAVATION IS RECENT



Deanery, April. 7.—The rare. op-
portunity of seeing an important set
of archaic Greek metopes unearthed
in central Itgly, and as yet unpub-
lished, was given by Signora Paola
Zancani-Montuoro in a talk on Recent
Excavations. at the Heraeum -in Lu-
cama. The-lecture was sponsored by
the Philadelphia Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America.

‘The Heraeum, the excavation of
which Signora Zancani-Montuoro is
financing and directing herself, was a
Greek temple well known to the
ancients and is described by many
Roman writers, including Strabo and
Pliny the Elder. In spite of its fre-
quent mention in written records, no
actual digging had ever been done on
the. site until 1934, when Signora

tion. ._The site was found in its tra-
ditional location, easily distinguished
by blocks of limestone and broken roof
tiles lying; above ground. Excava-
tion reyealed first the remains of
Doric capitals and fluted columns and
eventually the foundations. of two
temples, one large, the other smaller
and more archaic. f

Of the large temple,, which is err
at about 500 B. C., on
tions remain, including three
of stone blocks and part of a
At the four corners are buttress
secure the building against the’ slid-
ing and settling of the ground. The
small temple is very much more
archaic than the large one and prob-
ably ‘dates back to-the~-early-sixth
century. The ruins show that its col-
umns were stuck directly into the
ground, a feature surviving from the
old wooden type of temple, which was
doubtless the first structure on the
site. a

Under the small temple 309 vases
of Corinthian ang Proto-Corinthian
style were found, showing habitation
of the place to have gone back to the
beginning of the seventh century. A
great many terra cotta statuettes were

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action. (A. C. P.)

Elections
'__ Pembroke East, ~ Pembroke |
West «and Rockefeller have
elected the following as_ hall’
presidents:
Pembroke East:
38, :
Acting President,
Leighton, ’38.
Pembroke West: Blanca Noel,
38.
Rockefeller:
38.

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Editorial in Lantern

Discussed at Chapel



Mrs, Manning Stresses Need for

Great Teachers

Music Room, April 9.—After pre-
liminary announcements about. the fa-
vorable progress. of the French and
German houses, Mrs. Manning turned
to the main topic of her chapel, the
educational theories’ in the March is-
sue of The Lantern. These, she indi-
cated, represent a completely different
point of view from that of educators,
because they state for what siudenis
are reaching. Educators; on the other
hand, must consider how to get the
maximum number of “great” teachers
on the faculty: teachers who will make
their classes interesting and inspire
their students’ imagination. ~~

“You can’t train a great teacher
any more than you can train a great
musician, actor or preacher.” A
“really great teacher” has certain
characteristics of genius, a human
quality which comes rarely. It is this
type of personality which all educa-
tors hope to place upon their faculties.

As to the extent to which school and
college education will prepare us for
the world we are to live in, Mrs. Man-
ning said, “How can any one assume
that a: lot of middle-aged people
brought up in an jndividualistic world
can teach you to live in a collectivist
world? One cannot guess into the fu-
ture and adapt education for some-
thing--to come.” —Education_ must be
broadened and made to include differ-
ent points of view.

The Lantern editorial said that edu-
cation followed traditional lines too
much. “This,” said Mrs. Manning,
“ig not true. ._ Educators have too lit-
tle a patternto fit education into.” |
There is a lack of unity and integra-|
tion, due not to conventionality, but
to the attempt to present a great
wealth of material? twenty-five times
as much as a few years ago. This
large amount of material makes it
hard to, formulate a philosophy of
education.

The real question facing educators
today was made popular by Professor
Dewey. Is education. too bookish?
This is important since ‘we are de-
pendent on college board examina-
tions and high school courses, and
therefore we ‘are--tied up with the
education of a very large part of the
whole population. There is doubt
whether, from the ages of 14 to 18,
one-third of the population is neces-
sarily at a point where a “bookish”

It is true that we have gotten away
from stress on accuracy, and verbal
memory, because of the tremendous
flow of material since ‘the classical
scheme was abandoned. Undoubtedly |
we are losing something because of
the present sketchy patterzn. In the
first place, we lose the power of. dis-
cussion as a group. Others have facts
right in their fingers and can express
ready points of view. Moreover, we
may develop the power of, criticism
of other people, but we are not more
able to handle our own_ individual
problems. Therefore it is «now *the
problem of education to make people
more sure of the exact ground they
are absorbing and to make them more
able to handle their material.



In Providence, R. I., Professor C.
H. MclIlwain of. Harvard; charged the
P jémbeys Sf the Aimerican
Historieal—Association_with allowing
‘their work- to edge too close to the



back from their self-imposed task of
rewriting history to brikg it into dine
with modern modes of thought and

_| students.

Peace Ballots Are’ ,
-Endeavor to Find_-.
Current Opinions



Peace Council is Cooperating
With National, International
-~Movements



TRYING TO STIMULATE
GENERAL DISCUSSIONS



The College Peace Council, repre-
senting all organizations interested in
promoting world peace, has during
thg past week distributed World
¥outh.-Congress Peace Ballots to all
The purpose of the sheets,
which are to be filled out by Friday,
is two-fold: to determine ~ campus
opinion on questions. of peace, and to
cooperate with national and interna-
tional peace movements.

The Council was started this year
by a group: of undergraduates who
wished to unite along lines suggested
by Mr. Philip Jacobs, a. member of
the Emergency Peace Campaign who
spoke at college earlier this year.
Esther Hardenbergh, ’37, president:
of the Undergraduate Association, is
chairman of the council; the Inter-
national Club, the American Students’

-|Union,- the Bryn Mawr League, the

Graduate Club’ in Radnor, Varsity
Players’ Club, French Club, The Lan-
tern-and: The Gollege News, are regu-
larly represented in the Council. -
The World Youth Congress, Peace
Ballot was chosen as a_ suitable
method to call general student atten-
tion to pertinent questions and to the
work which the Council is doing. The
World Youth Congress is also com-
paratively recent. First held in
Geneva last summer, it had delegates
from thirty-six countries. The Con-
gress is continuing its work by try-
ing to keep in the closest possible
contact with current student opinion.

By formally soliciting votes, the
Bryn Mawr Peace Council hopes to
stimulate discussion on questions cov-
ered in the ballot: the -course the
United States should follow ~in re-
gard to foreign wars, either threat-
ened or actual; the reaction of the
American should his country be in-
volved in war; effective methods of

ing world problems; the questions
of military and naval budgets. The
votes are to be handed in on Friday
before dinner, and the final results
are to be announced at the peace
meeting April 22.

The Council posts articles of in-
terest to the peace movement on the
bulletin board outside of Room E in
Taylor. .



George Lyman Kittredge :
To Speak in Goodhart



Shakespeare’s- Villains is Subject: of .

* Professor’s*Lecture

The-Anne-Sheble Memorial Lecture
in English Literature will be. given
by Mr. George Lyman Kittredge on
Shakespeare’s Villains, April 29, in
Goodhart Hall. Mr. Kittredge was
Gurney Professor of English Litera-
ture at Harvard from 1894 until his
retirement. last September.- Gradu-

re)

ated-in 1882, he returned six years * _

‘later. as an instructor.

At Harvard" he conducted
famous advanced course in Shak-
espeare, laconically known as English
2. His stimulating teaching, his wing
collars and pearl gray suits, and his
outbursts against coughing in lecture.
halls, have made him a legendary fig-
ure among the students. ”

Professor Kittredge is a prominent
member of many learned societies and
is the foremost living Shakespearian
scholar. He is also an authority on
Chaucer and other early English and
Scottish poets. Among his books. on
literary subjects is Shakespeare: An
Address, and last year he edited the
poet's: ceémplete works..

_Professor Kittredge holds honorary e
degrees: from Brown, Harvard, Johns _ :

Hopkins; MeGill, Oxford, University -

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of Chicago, Yale: He is a Fellow of

the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and an honorary Fellow of ~



Jesus College, Cambridge.:

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In view of the fact that almost
to be more or less interested in the

that there are so many peace organizations of all deseri
active support and working funds.

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th Street
everyone in the college world seems
question of peace, it is unfortunate
tions lacking
Those who ‘have wished to back

“the cause” must have been confused by their number, their similarities

of aim, and their different political

affiliations. We have often wished

there could be some way of, becoming active in the peace movement
without being committed to the policies of any one comparatively small
group. Therefore we have recently learned to our great encourage-
ment, that many of these groups work together in intermittent. co-opera-
tion, realizing the fundamental urgency of their common aim.

There is an office building in New York City, on 40th Street, just off

Fifth Avenue, where several of t

hem have their. headquarters, and

where their administrative staffs are housed together in a situation sym-

bolie of their association. Among

these are the Foreign Policy Asso-

ciation, the League of Nations Association, the National Peace Council

and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

There the

World Youth Congress Committee holds many of its meetings Attended
by representatives from the other organizations, ‘and,’ since it is strictly
a federation, all its information and facilities are extended to the mem-

ber organizations.

These are so heterogeneous as to include such fac-

tions as the Girl Scouts, the Young Conimunists’ Leagte, the National

Student Federation . (conservative),

me A, BS. Ut WwW, CO. A. the

Emergency Peace Campaign and the Abyssinian Baptist, Church.

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The American Committee of the World Youth Congress has per-

haps the most single-minded purpose of ‘any of the organizations at 8

WW. 40 Street.
all the student peace movements in

Its aim is to act as the national representative body for

America -and to cooperate with the

World Youth Congress representing such niovements in thirty-six

nations.
In fact, a serious consideration in t

_It has a very large membership and a very small treasury.

he preparation of their peace ballot

was-from where the postage’ to distribute it was coming. But they
wanted to prepare the first complete’ national classification of student

. Opinion.on the question of peace,

to aid in the formulating of their

own active program,and to be available to their member organizations

~as well.

If every college student will fill in one of these ballots, the

whole peace movement will have access to-information which will serve

as a basis for intelligent and well

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Algae

The Personal Peregrinations of Al-
gernon Swinburne Stapleton-Smith,
or Lost in a London Uy

Algae in Paris.

After the devastating scandal of
Princess Ina Rockpruf when Algae’s
mother was forced to take in an extra
amount of fancy“work to bail him out
of Old Bailey, Algae felt that he could
not face the withering scorn of Lon-
don’s Smart Mayfair Set or London’s
Smart Bloomsbury Set or even the.

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~gentlé_pity_mixed: with the polite re-|

gret of Mary Anne Linsey-Woolsey;
so he was constrained to accept Regi-
_ nald’s kind invitation to join him in
Paris for a little while.
It-was April in Paris and the horse
chestnuts were in bloom (they do not
bloom in London till early May), but
Algae did not notice. He did not no-
tice the gay awnings of the sidewalk
. eafés, or the gay uniforms of the Zou-
aves or of the regular Foreign Legion,
or the Moorish Legions. He did not
notice anything; he was preoccupied
with his own shame. Every day: he
went riding on the Avenues Des Aca-
; _ clas, but: Reggie could not persuade

3 mhore frequently in =~*-;
é loved to feel the rhythm or

trot of the spirited animal and he
always gave his mare her head, and |







larly brown study, and paying no at-
tention whatsoever to what the horse
was doing, she suddenly shied and
precipitated Algae into, the midst of
the Bois.

He struck his head agairiSt a stone
and lost consciousnes§ immediately.:
When he came to his senses he found
his head resting in the lap of a strange
and beautiful woman, who-was sitting
on a marble bench in a charming sev-
enteenth century formal garden in
the Midi.

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Roberta Cramer Speaks on Peace

Common Room, April 7.—Following
the Industrial Group supper, Roberta
Cramer, of the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom, spoke
on Peace and-Its Relation to Labor.
Mrs. Cramer discussed particularly
the dangerous:nature of the Hill Shep-
pard Bill now before the Senate. This
so-called peace act if ratified will take
all power from the hands of labor in
time of emergency and nullify’ the
rights for which ae has fought in
‘the past.

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HH LASH TO SPEAK
| __On Sunday, Apftl 16, Joseph —
Lash, national chairman of the
te will speak in the Com-- |
‘mon: Room. He:- will discuss

Peace Day and peace action in

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BOOK REVIEW







(PRESENT INDICATIVE BY
NOEL COWARD,~-COUNTRY
LIFE PRESS.)

While the sales value of Noel Cow-
ard’s autobiography . depends largely
upon a much-publicized legend of the
play-boy and playwright, it-is_of_little
consequence whether the individual
reader is sympathetic or allergic to
this figure. ~The reading value of
Present Indicative is derived from a
different and far more _ personal
source. If this is a success story, it
is success at a price above anything
that most people would be willing to
‘pay.

Noel Coward at the hands of Noel
Coward is exposed with more delicacy
than ruthlessness and the unknown
and rather unhappy side of his na-
ture is illumined with deftness and
understanding. This works out -into
exciting and well-balanced reading, a
history of his relation to the theater
which is crammed with events, people
and places. Starting with a bump-
tious and touchingly eager childhood,
Mr. Coward traces a-spasmodic de-
velopment through bit parts, unpro-
duced plays, gengrous’ friends, good
parts, failures and success—at least
outward manifestations of success.
It is-his somewhat obstinate philos-;
ophy—for which we cannot blame him
t—to be most tender to himself when
the crowd is jeering and most severe
when it is roaring its approval; so
it is typical of his autobiography that
he should be a-little. wary of the tri-
umphant note upon which:it ends, and
laugh a little incredulously at the
“tin-pot glory” of Cavalcade.

With the sentimentalist’s flair for
powerful details and the dramatist’s
sense of significant bits of geés-
ture. and dialogue, Mr. Coward ‘is
able to project his mood very strongly.
The first success of The Vortex and
the riotous failure of Siroco are writ-
ten with the nervous energy and the
double pulse beat of back-stage. His
use of words,.is generally excellent—
witty, strong and sparing, as in his
description of the “S. S. Cedric,” which
was “old and slow, and watlowed
through the sea like a fat swimmer
past her prime, doing a _ perpetual
breaststroke,” or the twins he met in
Ghina-who.could_fight_with each other
in_six_different languages, or the first

school prose virtuoso.

scriptions are all little, metaphorical
tors force, abounding in heroic
pastoral + and epic similes con-

ours and memorable terms.
and Richard are not so real, although
their presence makes the environment
of Anna and Stephen more comprehen-
sible,

(Communism), but: constructed quite
loosely. It is the story of four young
people, Anna Charteris, Stephen, her
husband, and Richard and Evelyn
Crane, rich and sophisticated brother
and sister. During the course of the
narrative Anna meets the Crane fam-
ily and Stephen, falls in love and is
married. The first three-quarters of
the story is told from her point of
view, and her character is revealed as
developing quite definitely-and- rapidly
from a'state of confused and sensitive
adolescence to a rather idealised con-
dition of decision. _

The reviews of The Friendly Tree
which have — lately in maga-
zines and magazine supplements have
mentioned ‘the opinion that Mr. Day-
Lewis describes the psychology and
reactions of a nineteen-year-old girl
with remarkable fidelity and delicacy.
As a nineteen-year-old girl ourselves,
we venture to disagree with these re-
viewers, who. are .all’ men. Her
thoughts are all described logically,
with obvious discrimination, but they
are not the sort of reactions which
we experience normally. For one
thing, Antia h&d-a tendency, which
she fortunately outgrew later, to take
all her trotibles to a certain tree on®
a certain hill, the solidity of which
inspired her with confidence in her
little world.

In fact, all of Anna’s thoughts were
poetic to a degree, and even Stephen
displays somewhat the ‘same sort of
imagination. Mr. Day-Lewis writes
of their experience in a lyric style at
times exhibiting the quick and real
perceptions which: distinguish the best
of his poetry, and at times ‘reminding
one of the manner of a typical high
His nature de-

nected by nothing more definite than
the poets: favorite “emotional asso-

ciation.”

The author makes the characters of
Anna and Stephen quite recognizable
and presents their emotions in vigor-
Evelyn

and the evolution of Anna’s

character more real. The story of

their relationship, which is only, hinted
at, at’ times sounds more absorbing

than the story of Anna and Stephen.
Pee



night of The Vortex, “The stage was
reached by a special iron staircase;

‘ABROAD AT HOME





I can feel fhe ring of it now~under
my feet as I went up, my heart
pounding, to see that everything was
in order and to listen with a sort of
dead resignation to the snufflings and
murmurings of ‘the audience at the
other side of the curtain. . . . George
Carr glanced at his watch and said
‘Clear, please,” very softly, as if he
were scared ‘that we might all rush
madly out into the street. Gladys
gave one hopeless look at the set. We
all cleared to the other side of the
stage and amid _a sickening silence
the curtain rose on the first act.’

Very occasionally he-does allow him-
self to become entangled in intricate
masses of unnecessary verbiage which
bear the mark of “sparkling dialogue’
and are excessively annoying. And
the: word nostalgia—while its gentle
Peter Ibbetson flavor is well suited to
theatrical reminiscense—is weakened
by consistent use.

These irritants, however, detract
very slightly from the whole. The
Noel Coward found here is far more
agreeable, honest and ‘entertaining
than the Noel Coward of stage, screen
and_inntimerable newspaper articles,
and unless he publishes a sequel to
Present, Indicative some time in the
future and bares a series of unworthy
and ulterior motives behind the at-
tractive frankness which appeared in
the previous volume, I think we have
here as fair a criticism of himself and
of his work as we could wish. .M. O.



The Friendly Tree, by Cecil ~Dhy-
Lewis.

This book is the first novel of Cecil
Day-Lewis, the spokesman of. the trio
of young English Communist poets,
which includes Stephen Spender and
William H. Auden. His work up to
ae és 4 middling quan-

wey aE ttt poetry showing
mount of promise, |
and a small amount of criticism mani-
festing good literary taste dnd slightly,
confused thinking on questions of



Like most of his other works, his.







On Locust Street at Juniper stands

the red-brick Victorian building which
houses the oldest library in America,

the Library Company of Philadelphia.
It grew, in 1731, out of the intellectual
curiosity of’ the members of a small
club called* the Junto (or more gen-
teelly, “the Leathern Apron Club”),
which conducted debates, literary and
scientific, under the leaderghip of Ben-
jamin Franklin, every Friday night.
When the Junto was first founded the
members lent their own books to one
another, but this soon led to dissatis-
faction because of bad treatment.
There was a need. for some common
collection. Franklin therefore en-
listed the aid of one James Logan,
who advised him on the purchase of
books.. A complete list of the first
books ordered, March 81, 1782, chiefly
consists of dictionaries, grammars,
histories. Now in the possession of
the Library Company.is a copy of
Richard Frame’s. A Short Description
of Pennsylvania, printed in 1692, the
only existing copy of the first poem
‘written and printed in the State. .
‘The Library Company has moved
several times during its century of
existence. It outgrew its first home,
Pewter Platter Hall, in 1740, and re-
moved to the upper floor of what is
now Independence H where - it
served as the library for the Provin-
cial Assembly. In 1771 the Assembly
denied the company the right to build
their own building, so in 1773 they
moved to rooms in Carpenter’s Hall,

American Revolution. During 1777,
when the British occupied Philadel-
phia, the soldiers made great use of
the Library. There were, on the
wheln- few lost. ‘There’ was a
cortuix MARS Trent, however, who
took out Crantz’s History of Green-
land and forgot to return it. “Ninety-

iously returned from England. Its in-
tervening adventures are a perfect





eae

_ In 1789 the pompany got its first |
nie * me * é : A,

where they stayed throughout the



real home on Fifth Street below:
Chestnut. Over its .door stood a
statue of Ben‘ Franklin. From. that
time the company flourished until: in-
1869 it. began a long struggle which

company took over the Ridgway
Branch Library on Broad Street. “The
debate over the possible site of the
branch had resulted from the fact.
that the conditions of the will of Dr.
James’ Rush providing for the estab-
lishment’ of such a branch were, in the
minds of the directors, rather dificult
to ‘meet.

In 1880 the Library Company moved
to its ypresent,. location on Locust
Strest“at Juniper. Benjamin Frank- .
lin’s statue again occupies a _niche-
over the door, from which, so the
legend goes, he descends every night
to walk around the library and then
“sit-on a fire-plug and drink a mug
of beer.” (Viz. The First American
Library, Gray, 1936.)

Many of the library’s books have
come through bequests. Hugh Breck-
enridge, author of Modern Chivalry,
which is often called the first Ameri-
can novel, presented a copy of it to
the . company. Charles Brockden
Brown sealed up his Autobiography,
sent it to the library with full, in-
structions not to open it until 30
days after his death, and then pro-
ceeded to go to Kentucky to kill him-
self. Many French writers took ad-
vantage of the company and in re-
turn gave it books. Among these
were Jean-Pierre Brissot, Volney,
Talleyrand, du Pont de Nemours: and
Moreau de St. Mery.

In Philadelphia








Boyer. and Jean
Arcadia: «ome,
Norma Shearer and eslie Howard.
Boyd: Maytime, from Sigmund
Romberg’s operetta, with Nelson Eddy
and Jeannette MacDonald.
Erlanger: Lost Horizon, dramatiza-
tion of James Hilton’s novel, with
Ronald Colman.
Earle: Murder Goes to College.
Europa: Lucrezia Borgia, inter-
preted by members of the Comedie
Frangaise. ©
Fox: Marked Woman, the gang- /
ster’s lady :and the district attorney,’
with Bette Davis.
Kariton: Head Over Heels in Sool
Keith’s: Seventh Heaven,
Locust:. The Good Earth.
Stanley: Waikiki Wedding, a/mu-
sical comedy laid in Hawaii, with
Bing Crosby and Bob Burns.
Stanton: Parole Racket.

Concert
Byrd, Pavan and Gigg; Bach,
Fugue in C Minor, Es ist Vollbracht
and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor;
Stravinsky, Petroushka; , Wagner,
Love Music from “Tristan und Isolde.”

Theater

Forrest: Susan and /God, a comedy
by Rachel Crothers, with Gertrude
Lawrence. Bre,

Chestnut: Boy Meets Girl, a farce-
comedy about Hollywood, with Joyce
Arling, Clinton Sundberg and Don-
ald MacDonald. A

Hedgerow: Thursday, Androcles
and the Lion and The Dark Lady of
the Sonnets; Friday, Twelfth Night;
Saturday, The Emperor Jones and No
’Count Boy.

Local Movies

(Night showings: 7 p.m. and 9 p. m.)

Seville: Wednesday, The Plough and
the Stars, with Barbara Stanwyck
and Preston Foster; Thursday and
Friday, Champagne Waltz, -with Fred
MacMurray; Saturday, Jungle Prin-
cess, with Ray Milland and Dorothy
Lamour; Sunday and Monday, Women
of Glamour, with Virginia Bruce;
Tuesday and Wednesday, We Who
Are About to Die, with John-Beal.

Ardmore: Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, The Last of
Mrs. Cheney, with Joan Crawford,
Robert Montgomery and William
Powell; Sunday -and Monday, John
Meade’s Woman, with Edward Arn-
old; Tuesday and Wednesday, Maid of
Salem, with Claudette Colbert and
Fred MacMurray.

Wayne: Sopa emeets pone the.
People, with Juscp.. ; rs-
day, Friday and Saturday, On the.



dot,~wzith Freddie Bartholomew and
Tyrone Power; Wednesday, Danger-
ous Number, ceeenametticenm iam .

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Avenue, with Dick Powell; Sunday,
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THIRD ORAL CONCOURS
WILL BE HELD’ MAY 13



The third annual concours oratoire
for a medal awarded by~the Comité
France-Amérique will be held in the
Common Room on Thursday, May, 18,
at 4.30. Mademoiselle Brée will be
in charge of the coneours for 1937,
and the French Department announces
the following regujations: ./

1. The concours is .open to- all
undergraduate students, Avhether in
the French Department/or not, and
to all graduate students who received

- the A. B. degree in 1936.

2. The discours shall be not less
than ten and not more than fifteen
minutes in length. / The discours may.
not be read, but/brief notes may be
referred to if necessary. The subject
of the discours/in 1987 is: Les nou-
velles salles d’art frangais du Musée
de Philadelphie. It is understood that
competitors/ shall - have no. advance
criticism of their discours and no
coaching.

8. Each competitor shall speak her
discouts at a concours préliminaire on
Wednesday, May 5, at 7.30 p. m. be
fore /the French Department. _T
Department will choose those discowrs

_ which it considers the best for the

Goncours Oratoire itself. a

‘/ 4, Students wishing to take part in

the competition shall give their names
to Mademoiselle Brée before April 25.
A written copy of the discours, as the
competitor proposes to deliver it, shall
be handed to Mademoiselle Brée on the

“day of the “concours préliminaire.





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Sophomore Dance is Success
Common , Room, April 10.—The
Sophomore dance; which even the most

hopeful expected would dismally flop,

surprised every one by turning out to
be a definite success.. Late comers
added to the scanty number of couples

who arrived promptly at nine, and al}

fair-sized«stag line stood: waiting to
cut after each of the program dances.
Several Paul Jones numbers added in-
formality.

Walter Howson’s Orchestra ™ pro-
vided the music, which was lively but
not too loud. Mr. and Mrs. Max Diez
and Miss Lake were the faculty sie
present. ~



CAMERA CLUB

The Nucleus Camera Club an-
nounces an exhibition of photographs
to be held the weekend of May.7 in
the Common, Room. There will be
four main classes of pictures: pic-
torial, portraits, candid camera work
and miscellaneous.

The exhibition is not limited to the
work of club members’ Any one in
college may submit pictures, prefer-
ably enlargements about 5-x 7, which

e|Should be handed in before Wednes-

day, April 28.



Gleaning

To help the alumnus expand on the
knowledge that earned him a degree,
Harvard University is preparing a
“hobby study” plan, stated Dr. James
B. Conant, president of Harvard Uni-
versity, if his annual report to. the
board of overseers.— (ACP)











PUBLIC OPINION





To the Editor of The College News:

The Bryn Mawr Glee Club has al-
ways felt very keenly the importance
of maintaining, in every. Gilbert and
Sullivan performance, the tradition
which makes for the success of these
operettas. It is well known to every
one who is at all familiar with Gil-
bert and Sullivan that this tradition
has been preserved in every detail by
the D’Oyle Carte Company. It would
therefore seem evident that to ensure
a good performance it is better to fol-
low the acknowledged best than to
substitute a poor original.

The Glee Club has always taken the
D’Oyle Carte for its model and hav-
ing its sets similar to theirs is hardly
setting a precedent. The students
themselves feel that their “creative
genius” is put to far greater ad-
vantage in producing scenery which
is up to the standard of the rest of
the performance, than merely for the

ake of originality—to break a tra-
dition which has been a policy of the
Glee Club since it was founded.
- Sincerely yours,
IRENE FERRER,
President of the Glee Club.



To the Editor of The College News:
In the last few issues’the News has
devoted a considerable amount of
space to the combined activities of
Mr. Wyckoff’s stagecraft course and
the Players Club. It has given
these - two organizations encourage-
ment which has been much appreci-

ated. For this reason, as well as for
the sake of general college interest, I
feel it necéssary to make’ public: cer-
tain difficulties which make it impos-
sible to carry out the program of one-
act plays this. spring as originally in-
tended. The members of Mr. Wyckoff’s
class, including the Players Club, find
that through lack of time and inade-
quate facilities they are forced to
choose between plans of action. Either
$hey ‘must discontinue the stagecraft
class and put through the program of
plays, or, continuing the stagecraft
class, they must abandon the actual
production of the plays. If the first
plan were followed, the whole pur-
pose and value of Mr. Wyckoff’s

performance would be no different
from the usual products of our un-
trained abilities. In addition to this,
some of those most interested in stage-
craft would be unable to help with
the production. The plays, therefore,
would be: produ¢ed without the help
of those whose aid is most needed.
,Not only would the .contributions of
these people be lost, but they them-
selves in ‘not having the stagecraft
course, would lose an opportunity to
gain knowledge which would benefit
enormously any future efforts of the
Players Club.

The second plan, then, has been de-
cided upon as being the most prac-
ticable and most beneficial under the
circumstances. The Players Club will
give The Open Door, Trifles and Pas-
sion, Poison and Petrefaction in Oc-
tober of next semester instead of i
May of this semester. The interven-



course would be lost and the resultant/



Committee Disciisses New. Blaice

In reference to the proposed Social
Economy-major for undergraduates,
the Curriculum Committee has made
a poll of those seniors and juniors who
would have majored in the course if
it had beenavailable-to them and
those freshmen=and~sophomores who
desire to take up such a major. Any

|one who would like to find out more

about the course should speak to some
member of the Curriculum Committee.



for these plays, both practically and -
in regard to theory, under the direc-.
tion of Mr. Wyckoff.

It is quite apparent, however, that
the choice between these two plans
would have been unnecessary if, Mr.
Wyckoff and the Players Club had
had a proper place in which to work.
The progress of Mr. Wyckoff’s class
has been greatly hindered by cramped
conditions on Goodhart stage. If
adequate facilities had been provided,
theélass would now be sufficiently ad-
vanced in the course to undertake im-
mediate production. And this, I be-
lieve, would have not made any great
additional demands on the time and
energy of those inYolved. .I feel that
no. real and memorable ‘dramatic
achievements (sith the exception of
Big: May Day),.experimental or other-
wise, will be made at Bryn Mawr until
a properly equipped theater workshop
is at the disposal of the students.
Until then the Players Club can only

make the best of. whatever fortune
chances its way.
GERTRUDE LEIGHTON, ’38,

President of the Varsity Players



ing time will be spent in preparing !.

Club.



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WAITING for the gun—when
nervous tension reaches the
crest. Because he prizes healthy
nerves, Glenn Hardin smokes
Camels. “They don’t get on
my nerves,” he says.





SAILING over a low hurdle—
Glenn’s strained face shows how
the race drains tremendous phys-
ical and nervous energy.

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Tobacco Co,, Winston-Salem, N. C.

WORKS HARD on
all five college courses,
“Rege” Kennedy, ’40,;
sayS: “I smoke Camels
pretty steadily —they
ease the tension of
long, hard concentrat-
ing. Camels don’t






jangle my nerves.”

TOPPING a high
hurdle — superb
form helped Glenn
win 2 Olympics—
set the world’s rec-
ord. His time for
the 400-meter hur-
dles was sensational
— 50.6 seconds!

SPRINTING to
the finish—Glenn
calls on all his re-
serve energy. And
after the finish,
he lights a Camel.
“Camels give me
te : a‘lift’andeasethe
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AS SPOKESMAN |
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my nerves.”










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THE COLLEGE NEWS





Marguerite HicAneny
Calls Stage a Gamble

Assistant in English Beings Wide
Professional Experience to
Playwriting Course





BEGAN WORK AT COLLEGE



It is particularly exciting that Mrs.
. Marguerite Loud McAneny, Assistant
in English, should bring to her semi-
’ practical field, playwriting, more than
arn academic: experience. Besides
studying the drama, here and abroad,
she has been a_ professional play-
reader, a technical director, has fos-
tered such successes as Journey’s End
and Berkeley Square and has soothed
and enjoyed such genii of the stage
as Guthrie McClintic, Katharine Cor-
nell and Leslie Howard.

Significantly enough, her experience
with dramatics began with an exten-
sion course of Miss MinorgLatham’s
taken while she was at Barnard, from
which shedfvas graduated in 1923.
The next year, as Etiropean Fellow,
she ‘sampled French scholarship at
the Sorbonne, where a year’s Shakes-
peare course was devoted to the ew-
plication of each word of the first half
of Henry the Fourth. On her return
to Columbia she studied under Miss.
Latham, who suggested that’she make
professional contact with the stage.

Affiliated with Gilbert Miller as his
playreader for four years and tech-
nical director for two,- Mrs. MeAneny
has aided such personages as Marc
Connelly and Leslie Howard develop
such a play as. Berkeley Square; she
has spent a summer sorting actual
from pseudo English accents for seven
road companies of Jowrney’s End (for-
tunately the play to’ which she is the
most attached):

In connection with these experiences
Mrs. MéAneny believes that the sum-
mer theater is valuable for its versa-
tile training as well as for the build-
ing of receptive audiences. The stage
as a whole, Mrs. McAneny believes,
“is a gamble,” dependent on the di-
rector’s mood and the parts open, and
it requires work that is often startling
and. difficult.

Despite this and the time which her
three children and teaching demand,
Mrs. McAneny is still active in the
theater. At the moment she is Work-
ing with the Community Players of
Princeton, where she lives.



C. L. Glenn is Speaking
On Church Ceremonies



Marriage Service to be Subject of
April 18 Sermon

Reverend C. Leslie Glenn will be
here to conduct two more chapel seér-
vices in which he will continue his
series of sermons on the three church
ceremonies: Burial, Marriage and the
Holy Communion, the first of which
was discussed last Sunday. On April
18 he will talk about the ‘marriage
service.

Mr. Glenn,' who at first studied to
be an engineer, finally decided to go
into the ministry and was graduaated
from the Virginia Theological Semi-
nary in Alexandria. He is now rector
of Christ Church, Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, and also teaches a class in
preaching at the Episcopal Theological
School in Cambridge. -

In the summer he attends the North-
field and other conferencés, Where-he:
is always one of the most popular
leaders. He has a parish in Dark
Haxbor, Maine. :

He belongs to a group of ministers
of which Drs. Zabriskie, Suter and
Vani Dusen are already well known
to us, who_retreat.in the summer into
the country to think and_ to discuss
their problems. He is the son-in-law
. of Mrs. Harper Sibley, who recently
spoke at the college.

Ji M. CLUETT, ’37.

In Williamabure, Va., New -York
University’s Dr. Carleton Brown,
speaking before the Modern Lan-
' guage Association of America, made a
sharp attack | on what he called efforts
to tear down established teaching
methods, on which, he said, “the
RES Aliscernible.”

— Cc. 5)







Mrs. MARGUERITE LOUD M¢CANENY
Students Are Invited
To Dutch Celebration





Hosts to Entertain Americans at

Camp in: Friesland
(From-a press. release of the. Neth-
erland-America Foundation, Inc.)

American college students are cor-
dially invited by the Senate: of the
University of Amsterdam to partici-
pate in the-celebration of the sixty-
first Lustrum of the University, dur-
ing the period June 28 to July 2, 1937.

One feature of the invitation is the
offer of the hospitality of their homes
by Amster ‘dam students to their Amer-
ican visitors. ;

At the conclusion of the Amsterdam
celebrations (July 2) the American
students will be taken to, the lake dis-
trict in Friesland until July 7, where
five days will be spent at a camp
(sailing, swimming, yachting, etc.).

A complete and interesting program

has been worked out, copy’ of which
will gladly be mailed to any American
student interestéd in the offer.
There are, of course, expenses to
be met that cannot be expected. to: be
defrayed by .the Amsterdam hosts,
such as railroad fares, automobile
tour through Amsterdam. and to The
Hague, dinner at the famous reéstau-
rant Meerrust near Leyden, trip to
Muiden, five days at. the camp in
Friesland, etc. These are provision-
ally estimated to amount to 60 florins
(about $33), but a more accurate and
definite estimate will
shortly.

Finally it may be stated that the
Holland-America Line has been ap-
proached on the subject of a reduc-
tion of the regular fare from New
York to Rotterdam and return. No
decision has as yet been made, but
one should be available within the
next week or two.



STUDENTS TO DISCUSS
COLLEGE LITERATURE

The first conference of college
undergraduates-who are interested in
creative literature will’ be held at
Princeton on the 23 and 24 of
April. It will attempt to analyze
undergraduate writing as a whole and
to compare the work of the. different
colleges.



Prominent authors, critics and
teachers will attend the conference
and address the delegates. The for-
mal speeches will, however, be fol-
lowed by round-table discussions at
which =the delegates may ask ques-
tions and share their own opinions.
Three delegates from Bryn Mawr’have
been selected to attend the conference.

They are: Agnes Allinson, ’37; Janet
Thom, —’88,—-and—Gonstance—--Ren-
ninger, ’39.

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Future War Veterans
Dissolve Officially

Failure, to Get Bonus and Lack



_ of Funds for Lobbying Brings

Movement to End



HAD 60,000 MEMBERSHIP



Princéton, N.S, Aprit—ti=The
Veterans of Future Wars movement,
started a year ago by Princeton Uni-
versity students to satirize the Harri-
son Bonus Bill, is officially ended.
Word of the dissolution of this or-
ganization, which last April claimed
60,000 members under thirty-six years
of age and~534 chartered posts; comes
from a bulletin issued by Robert. G.
Barnes, ’387, and Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
37, joint commanders. The purpose
of. the bulletin is to answer the ques-
tion, “Whatware the Veterans of Fu-
ture Wars doing today?” recently
raised. Activities in the spherg of
politics were suspended during last
fall’s Presidential campaign, explained
the: Princeton seniors.

“Since that time it has been found
financially ,impossible to resume’ ac-
tivities on avscale that the American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars deserve, and since there is no
point in doing a half-hearted job, we
are stopping the organization alto-
gether. We suffered in that. we never
got our bonus from the last Congress
and have not the funds to pour into
lobbying that our rival,vgteran groups
possess. , Now from the looks of bills
before Congress, the. Veterans of
Foreign Wars will soon have every-
thing but the cobblestones down Penn-
sylvania Avenue, and there will be

nothing left with which Congress can

pay our bonus demands.”—(ACP)

CAMERA CLUB PLANS
FIRST | EXHIBITION





Taylor Basement, April 9.—The
Nucleus Camera Club intends.to give
a. tea with their first exhibition on
May 6 if they can obtain the neces-
sary funds. Means for raising this
money was discussed at the meeting.
Some members will take passport pic-
tures and senior portraits suitable for
employment applications.’ Catherine
Hemphill, ’39, and, Doris Turner, ’39,
will give further information on this
service.

Many members are attempting en-
largements of their pictures for the
exhibition. A darkroom for this work
will be constructed out of old stage
sets and erected in the clubroom.



In Cambridge, Mass., Physicist P.
W. Bridgman of Harvard, amazed the
nation’s leading philosophers attend-

ing the American Philosphical Society

conclave by bluntly asserting that
their system of logic was at best in-
complete and virtually meaningless.
(A. OP.)



Versatile A. A. President
Was Baby. Hockey Star

M. Bakewell, ’38, is Biology Major
And Cut Committee Head ~ ‘scattered throughout the site dating
Mildred Bakewell, ’38, head-to-be’of.|from very primitive representations
the Athletic Association, was a war lof the goddess Hera to developed Hel-
baby, born in New Haven, Connecti- ; Tenistic heads and figures of the third
cut, in 1917. -Her career between century. An interesting feature of
June of that year and September of | the temples in later times was a series
1932 is somewhat obscure. It is well|of. boxes for the safe deposition. of
known, however, that at the age.of |terra cottas. A Roman coin found in
three she dribbled a minute hockey | | these boxes dates them at the end of
ball with a minute hockey stick ex- | ‘the third century B. €. ;
pertly around the dining-room table.; The most interesting and signifi-
At the Ethel Walker School from ee finds of the Heraeum excavations
’32 to ’34 she fulfilled her early lean- | were a remarkably well-preserved ser-
ings toward le Sport. .Modestly she jies of. metopes from both the. large
admitted to being on the Athletic | and the small temples. These meto-
Board. We: learned from other|pes, which are still unpublished, are
sources that she made every varsity | of the utmost importance in the de-
team, won the highest athletic award | velopment of archaic Greek art be-
arid was -presented with the Cary | cause of their very early date, which
Page Memorial Cup for the most)compares only with the metopes from
versatile senior. Her versatility was the Sikyonian Treasury and _ those
proved by the accomplishments men- | from Temple C at Selinus in Greece.
tioned, 90 averages in physics dnd a|The earliest metopes can be dated at
part ir? Jolanthe. | about 560 B. C. and are executed in
Unfortunately (she says), her voice |a flat, extremely archaic manner with *
changed -when she came™ to - Bryn | the background cut away. All the
Mawr. But this has limited only |metopes represent mythological scenes
activities in the Glee Club. Otherwise | with special attention to the Herakles
her Walker’s record has been paral- stories. The slightly later metopes of
lelled ‘by making three varsity teams, bene small temple are rendered in a
by being secretary of the A. A. in| different technique with great plastic-
’35-’36 and vice-president in ’36- af} ity and good modeling, ‘while the latest
by having a Cum Laude average. In [ones are in the style of the Selinus
her sophomore year she was treasurer | metopes of 540.B. C. Like the Selinus
of Self-Government and this year has |méetopes, they are done in very high
headed the Cut Conimittee. relief, but show greater realism in the
She is majoring in biology, has |overlapping of legs and the attempt to
vague regrets about archaeology and |represent more difficult poses. All the
possibly (just possibly) sees. for her- 'metopes show Ionic influence, especi-
self et scientific future. _jally i in the treatment of the heads with
their characteristic Ionian smile, | al-
| mond- shaped eyes and soft technique.

Archaeologist: S peaks -.
On Finds at Heraeum





Continued from Page One





REID HALL ASSISTS

| The metopes of the great temple are
STUDENTS IN PARIS) gated at about 500 B. C. and show a

‘tremendous development over those of
the small temple. They represent
idan neing figures, a favorite Ionian
motif, and reveal many Ionian ele-
ments in their execution. In the fig-
ures there is an amazingly beautiful
lrendition of drapery and. of the
| anatomy beneath it, which seems later
ithan the treatment of the heads, which
ihave archaic hair and full-front eyes
in profile. faces.



Deanery, April 12.—Miss Dorothy
Leet, who has just returned from |
France, gave an informal talk this
afternoon on the subject of Reid Hall
in Paris, of which:she is the director,
and described the opportunities it of |
fers to foreign students who have had |
two years: in college for study inj
Paris. It is an old French house, dat-|
ing from the eighteenth century, |.
which Mrs. Whitelaw Reid gave to!
the group in 1922. Students who join |
the group can use «the studios, library |
and dining room, anda limited num-'|,
ber can reside in the hall. They meet
many French and English girls, aa Mr. Metzger, of the German Depart
well as students from other countries, |ment, has published *n this year’s edi-
can hear French speakers, such as | tion of the Zeitschrift fiir vergleich-
Paul Hazard, the Abbé Dimnet and .ende Sprachforschung an article about
others prominent in governmental, | some special forms of verbum sub-
literary and scientific circles. jatanbteoun in Gothic and Old English.





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Music—Dancing for girls only

Permanent jobs fox college gradu-
ates are now being offeted in greater
numbers than in the prosperous years
of ’28 and ’29, says Herbert “H.. Wil-
liams, director of the placement ‘but
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Movie. Review

- good eight months have killed
the once lively issue of Romeo and
Juliet on the silver. screen, but the
comparatively recent event of its ,ar-
rival at a low-price theater provides
a reason, which is at all events prac-
for bringing the. subject up
again.

In opposition to in feelings of the
leading critics of. last faH,-we were
continually. conscious of the fact that

our enjoyment of its many good quali- |.

ties was dampened by a gradually
mounting resentment of Hollywood.
Hollywood has been conscientious; it
has read the play earnestly, with ‘the
result that shades of meaning are
neatly plucked from their context and
hurled meaningfully at the audience,
while others fall in a sea of accurate
detail and atmosphere. We resented
the twitterings of actual birds before
Juliet’s:
It is not yet
near day.” We resented the actual
bow and arrow which she aimed in the
direction of Paris when she spoke the
lines:
“But no more deep will I endart.. my
eye
Than your consent gives strength to
make it fly.”

On the other hand, we.resented the
sudden breaking up of.a long speech
by loud bursts of carnival, and we
wished that during Mercutio’s Queen
Mab speech the camera had nat wan-

dered over the faces of his enthusi- |’

astic ‘friends. (As a matter of fact,
we think: John Barrymore dismally
miscast as Mercutio, whom he played
as a slightly unbalanced roué who
hopped around spryly enough and cast
lewd ‘glances at the women-folk in a
wistful effort to recapture his youth.)

We are not objecting to these tricks
in themselves; they are all a perfectly
legitimate part of movie~technique.
But there is a confusion of two
mediums . here—the stage and_ the
screen—which results in over-empha-
sis and redundancy.

After this stream of abuse we are
glad that we went to the movie, pri-
marily because- of Leslie Howard’s
Romeo. He was young, impulsive, and
his restraint was in no way related
to coldness. His voice was unusually
pleasant, and while he spoke his lines
with feeling, he allowed them to carry
the burden of their own meaning. It
is not easy to make an attractive per-
son out of Romeo, and he*managed to
accomplish_this.

_Norma Shearer’s Juliet was charm-
ing and, for the most part, beautifully
played, but one does feel that under-
current of direction through her per-
formance.. Every now and then a
stray gesture—wrist to brow, for in-
stance—recalls endless ranks of film
actresses striking their wrists to their
foreheads. Most of the smaller parts,
particularly Edna May Oliver as the
nurse, were excellently handled.

‘M. O.



TUTORIAL SYSTEM ALTERED
Cambridge, Mass.—A change in tu-

' torial instruction for Harvard Col-

q

lege undergraduates, which may be a

forerunner to the establishment of a
double-degree system, was announced
by Dean A. C. Hanford. The’ change,
to become effective next fall, is being
made “in recognition of the general
opinion that all students are not
equally capable or desirous of profit-
ing by tutorial instruction: as. com-
pared. with course instruction.” Un-
der a plan adoptéd.by the faculty
council in, departments ‘‘where the
situation warrants it,”.-thetutorial
system will be modified so that, jun-
iors and seniors may either . pursue
the present plan or receive a less
intensive form of instruction.
Harvard was the first institution
of. higher learning in the country to
adopt the tutorial system. That the
experiment, in its present form, is
not considered satisfactory is indi-
cated by the announcement of altera-
tion: In the opinion of some Harvard

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Music Room, April 12. rs. Lil-
lian Gilbreth, speaking in cKapel this
morning, declared that under present
improved business condition’ .oppor-
tunities for the use of new inventions

and fresh ideas are constantly arising: |,

Many fields offer chances to work out
ideas: which have been brought for-
ward -by former investigation but
stored away during the depression,
and to close the gap. between research

and its application to immediate prob--

lems. &



officials, the modification may be the
forerunner of a move by President
James B,’ Conant to establish a double-
degree system.—(ACP)

On New Opportunities!



‘|gressive publie, schools men. are. re-

People are beginning to realize,
Mrs: Gilbreth said, that research
should keep ahead of practice, and.
often a fresh point of view on a cer-
tain problem may be gained by some
one with experience in an entirely
different field.:

One of the big new fields recently
opened in major industries is the study
of the consumer’s needs. This re-
search, formerly carried on: by: un--
trained workers, is now being” turned
over to ¢college-trained -men and
women. More opportunities*“are also |
presenting themselves in compara-
tively new industries, such as avi-
ation.

While women aré getting jobs which
have been open only to men, Mrs. Gi

freth warned that’ mén are also inet

vading fields formerly filled almost
solely by women.’ This is especially
true in education, where in the pro-

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explain why. folks every-

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rf. aman write a re book, preach a better sermon, ot make a better meainan than bis neighbor, tho bé
build bis house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to bis door.’’—RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
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of 5000 Christian defenders—
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barbaric horde of 250,000
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nee fine tobaccos, ~after
‘proper ‘aging and mellowing,
are then given the benefit of
that Lucky Strike purifying
process, described by the
words—‘‘It’s toasted”. That’s
why folks in every city, town
and hamlet say that Luckies
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CURRENT EVENTS



(Gleaned from-Dr. Fenwiek)

Last Monday the Supreme Court re-
versed a traditional stand and _vali-
dated the Wagner Act.
rectly, Mr. Justice Roberts changed
his opinion,” The issue of the casc
was: Can Congress regulate produr-
tion..of...goods..which when uced
will enter interstate commerce?. Thi
includes the question of Congress’
power to require employers to bargain
collectively.
latter is a legal obligation will doubt-
less-Have important. effects on the sit-
down, strike problem.

The reversal has: caused renewed
controversy on Court reform. Op-
ponents of the President’s plan claim

that the decision proves the Court does:

keep in step ‘with the times. Backers
say that the one-man change, legaliz- |

ing activities’ condempgd for years,

merely illustrates the arbitrary power
of a single Justice’s opinion.

There are ‘several courses open to
the United States if.a war-breaks. out. |
The policy of selling munitions and
war materials to all countries im-

More cor-|.

The decision that_ this.

Recent Elections
The followihg elections have
been announced: Athletic Asso-

ciation: Vice-President, A. J.
if Clark,,. ’39; Treasurer, Cath-
erine Hemphill, -’39. Self-Gov-

err ment Association: Secretary,
Mery ‘Meigs, ’39; Treasurer,
Janz Jones, *40. Undergradu-
ate Association: First Junior
Member, Eleanor Taft, ’39;
Second” Junior Member, Delia
Marshall, 739. .







partially was followed in 1914, but it
finally embroiled’ the country in war.
Thé prohibition of all such commerce
is the opposite possibility and is now
being considered in Congress under
the Pittman and McReynolds propos-
als. Some side issues of this course
are the “cash-and-carry” policy, and
‘mandatory. vs. discretionary embar-
| Zoes. A third suggestion is that the
United States trade with »attacked
nations only,

| A show of hands was taken infor-
‘mally on each of the points in the
‘World Youth Congress Peace Ballot.
The absolute pacifists seemed to _be
|_m numerous.





Bryn Mawr Averages One ’Phone Call
Every Two Days Per Individual Student

(.



According. to an estimate gleaned
from the various maids who answer
the hall phones, each girl in Bryn
Mawr averages a telephone call every
two days. Of these more than half
are from masculine admirers and
about one-third of these from either
Princeton, Harvard or Yale, except
in Denbigh, which favors Colgate.
Williams is now a-runner-up in both
Pembroke East and West, although it
has not yet attained the time-honored
popularity of the- big three. Merion
rates Haverford above Penn, and
Rockefeller concentrates on Prince-

ton. my
“It was difficult to get Venus of
Pembroke West to talk about her ex-
‘periences, \
that she cof
voices which call regularly.

the qualities of ‘good husbands.

». Hilda of Denbigh says she has it
down to a system and can tell for

aaa ape eall %vill be every time.
There are three or four popular girls
in the hall and when she picks up the
receiver she knows it is for one of
them. Denbigh has*the first number
listed in the phone book under Bryn
Mawr College. “We are just like an
information booth,” Hilda ‘dealared.
“Everybody calls here first no matter
who they want.”

Pembroke East is the only hall on
the campus which gets a majority of
calls from Harvard. Thése expensive
long-distance messages were very im-
pressive until one young gentleman
|tried to reverse the charges. Beryl
of this hall is disiNusionéd about Hav-
erford. Should they phone a girl who

finally she confessed is out, they just run through their list
“recognize many of the ‘until they find some one, at home.
She has |
even been asked at various times
which of the callers she thinks have

If there are any daily calls, none
of the guardians of the phone booths
would admit it. However, all of them
‘confessed that they had more (and
better) stories whichtould not be told
for a long time. ,









Economic Reforms Found
In English Capitalist System

Continiied from Page One



”

tem.” But,-:although the contrast has
not been eliminated, a greater sensi-
tivity to the situation has been in-
duced. “Standards cheerfully ac-
cepted by those who need not live
them are‘now given serious considera-
tion.”

This sensitivity_. is, shown. - most
clearly in a concern for proper nutri-
tion... At all times most people have
been. underfed. But the well fed have
»ot thought: of them at all times. In

-England, definite studies of the prob-

lem have been made under govern-
ment supervision and, cooperation
with the British Medical Association.
Together they have considered what
people. ought to éat and their pros-
pects of getting it. Statistics show

that one-third to one-half of the popu-|

lation is underfed. Twenty-three out
of every 1000 school children «are
suffering from malnutrition.

The second herald of .impending
capitalistic doom according td the
Marxian concept is that the buffer
middle class will be absorbed into
‘he other classes and eventually, there
will evolye the capitalist class a
working class. “But ‘who -are t
working classes?” asks Mrs. Woot-

ton. ‘The title ‘worker’ is not claimed
by many.” Furthermore, the top is
the middle. It has become bad form

to speak of the upper classes, and
only six out of one hundred claim to
be persons working on their own
account.

_The proletarianization of the middle
class has gone a long way. .But the
middle class is not at home in the
proletariat. In the past thirty years,
it has assumed..the position of an
upper class, and coined the word
salariat. Workers earning a wage in-
come have taken on managerial, tech-

nical positions for a salary, the only }

true difference being the longer length
of time between payments of the
latter.

Thus the prophecy of Marx has
come true, and the middle class has

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become proletarianized on good terms.
It secures the more advantageous
means of employment, has the largest
take of income, and is less heavily
taxed than the classes above’ and be-
low it.

In spite of Marx and the gloomy

forecasters, England has accom-
plished a number of things. She has
a slight increase in leisure. A one

in. labor has been
affected, here, for the _ proletariat
rather—than—the—middle.class..... This
new leisure has beeh used to import
American forms of entertainment, to
inject the people at home with British
sportsmanship, and in safer forms of
gambling than are practiced here.
However, leisure is an unknown com-
modity to most people, said- Mrs.
Wootton, and.they must learn to use
it.

‘Furthermore, the most -wide-spread

poverty have been elimi-
cording to a London inquiry,
today are suffering
from other. causé at of /local
income, Usually it is due t mis-
fortunes of human life, unemploy-
ment, illness or death of the principal
breadwinner. The worst cause in
the over-large family. As the size of
the family grows, so grows the possi-
bility of falling into the lower income
brackets. Taxation of the plutocracy

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Lastly, the British people have de-_

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the'standards of living. They do not
know of The Depression. For them,
it has been short rations ever since
the war. Unemployment was not

their big spectre, but the possibility

of the stoppage of wages.

Although the capitalistic system is
middle aged,.it-has..been—able_to-live
on its fat. It is regrettable that that
which has been accomplished should
be badly distributed. Although a
great capacity to produce has been
shown, little progress has been made
toward a more satisfactory distribu-
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