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* that forced us to be healthy. *

“and Walter Abe

at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office





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time.

more hours.of exercise for credit.
afternoon hockey player limping to

who has ever run the length of a hockey field knows how tiring it is,

and we cannot imagine being fresh

it is that people practice in the hall corridors, even, after playing goal-

guard.

Everybody likes-the modern dance so much, however, that they
prefer complete exhaustion to not taking it at all, and the real value
of exercise is thus destroyed. By itself, however, modern dancing is as
beneficial as any form of athletics,
pose of giving credit for exercise is health, and since modern d
is exercise, by a logical process, credit should be given for modern
daneing. The Department of Physical Education can no longer be
deterred by its experimental aspect; the class has become too big and
Its members say that even if Miss Humphrey

too firmly established.

does not return next year, they will continue somehow.
with or without Miss Hutphrey, we think that an hour of dancing

ckey, folk dancing, or any of the other
It is unfortunate that the modern dancers

should count with an hour of
major or minor sports.
should have had to exercise double

_of such official encouragement.

7 Doris Humphrey for Credit

We have always thought that the purpose of compulsory athletics
at Bryn Mawr was to send the circulation\coursing through us until
we got to be juniors, and then to let us wind down gradually to the}
adult athletic norm. As freshmen and sophomores, we cheerfully toiled
on the hockey fields and tennis courts, and were thankful for a rule
We were also thankful because there
were innumerable ways of being healthy and getting credit at the same
The only definite'specification was the number of hours a-week ;
the exercise ranged from walking, to fencing, which fencers claim to
‘be the most complete exercise in the realm of sport,

The beauty of this arrangement was upset by the coming of Miss
Doris Humphrey; an event of unprecedented importance.
we heard the low beginnings of discontent from enthusiastic modern
dancers who danced four hours a weekfor love, and took two or three
A common sight was the Thursday

In October

the gym at five o’clock, Anybody

for the backward fall, or whatever

even Duncanism. Since the pur-
cing

If they- do,

time this year because of the lack



In Philadelphia



Movies
Boyd: The Girl of the Golden West,
from the famous Western play about
the girl ranch owner and the outlaw,
with Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson
Eddy.

Fox: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, }

a considerably altered -version of the

childhood classic, with Shirley” Tem- —

le. v
4 Erlanger: In Old Chicago, the life
and loves of the pioneer O’Learys,
with Alice Brady, Tyron Power, and
Don Ameche.

. y, Aldine: The. Divorce of Lady X,.an} >

English comedy featuring Merle Ober-
on-and Laurence Olivier.

Stanley: Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, Walt Disney’s Technicolor in-
terpretation of the Grimm fairy tale.

Stanton; The First Hundred Years,
a minor comedy. about divorce, with
Robert Montgomery and Virginia
Bruce. Beginning Saturday: Walking
Down Broadway, a romance, with
Claire Trevor and Michael Whalen. -

Earle: Love, Honor and Behave, a

‘story about the troubles of a good)

loser, with Wayne Morris and Priscilla
Lane. Beginning Friday: Dangerous
To Know, a melodrama, with Akim

- Tamiroff and Gail Patrick.

Europa: Dawn Over. Ireland, the
first all-Irish film produced in Kil-

- larney,; with Brian Sullivan.

Arcadia: The Big Broadcast of
1938, a comedy with muSic, starring

—W. C.. Fields, Martha Raye, and Kir-

, Wiagene, Beginning Friday:
a On Trial, a medodrama about a
wroinaai lawyer, with Frieda Inescourt

Brngieg Up Baby, the ad-
S

WET

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ventures of Katharine Hepburn as a
temperamental ‘heiress, and Cary
Grant as an earnest scientist.
Karlton: Sally, Irene, and Mary, a

musical comedy with Fred Allen. Be-
ginning Friday: The Westtahd Case,
a mystery, with Preston Foster and
Carol Hughes. —

Theater.
Locust Street: Room Service, a com-
edy about the problem of producing a
play on a shoestring, with Roy Rob-

erts.

Forrest: Yes, My Darling Daugh«
ter, in‘its fourth and final week; with
Lucile Watson, ace

* Chesthut? Beginning Abtil 4>
Henry IV, Part I, with Maurice
Evans,





Music
Philadelphia . Orchestra: Aa
Ormandy conducting—Ravel Memorial
Concert: “Le Tombeau de Couperin”;
Piano Concerto in G, (Eugene List,
Soloist); “Rhapsodie Espagnole” ; “La
Valse;” “Alborado del Gracioso;” Bo-
lero, .



Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day: Radio City Revels, with Bob
Burns; Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday... Sn Oa
eric March; Tuesday, Penitentiary,
with Walter Connelly and John How-
ard; Wednesday: A Yank at Ozford,
with Robert Taylor.

Suburban: Wednesday through Sat-
urday: Happy Landing, with Sonja
Henie;~ Sunday through — Saturday:
The Life and Loves of Beethoven, with
Harold Bauer. —

Wayne: Wednesdays I Met a) Love

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WIT’S EN D
SPRING, 1938
NIHILIST SPRING SONG
There are birds about us singin’,
To the soft wind notes a-flingin’,
From each nest domestic wingin’,

In their ways to us are bringin’—
The ‘all too lurid look of ——



A young man stands before our win-
, dow,

You may wonder what he kin do,

Wondering, too, we watched spring
love ;

Throw nickels at the room above.

When open window breathes the moan
Of recorded saxophone—

When happiness creeps up the hill

And voice assumes a lilting trill—

On with program, out with knife,
We despise the merry life.

When we see each opening flower
We sink into.a sour hour.

Now that lilacs are in bloom,
There are no lilacs in our room,
But vast unmitigated gloom:

Nearer to exams are we—

Nearer than we wish to be.

While yet the gruesome mid-semester
Banishes our spring fiesta.

When we see this spritely gushin’
How we love the soulful Russian,

On his steppe so sadly sittin’
Readin’ what the stars have written.

His is not to educate

Or ’twixt two doctrines vacillate,
But polishing his scimitar

He sees our lives for what they are.
Go your way upon the earth

Joyous over each year’s birth.

But like the Russian we will live—
One timeless blob of negative.



FRAILTY

There’s a scientific affinity
Between spring predicted for 1.43,
And the yellow buds on the hawthorn
tree,
And a human mountain
Around the fountain,
And discardings of wintry modesty.

We’re aghast at nature’s weak admis-
sion
Of the truth of a human-made tradi-
tion,
The arbitrarily placed position
Of spring’s renascence.
This base obeissance
Shows that nature’s a sycophant, not
a magician.

By a neat little trick of necromancy
The coming of spring is no longer
chancy,
Nature’s prompt, and we humans fol>)
low our fancy.
The fountain’s not running, |
But even more stunning,
Dr. Chew’s forgotten his button-hole
pansy.



Again, with Henry Fonda and Joan
Bennett; Thursday through Saturday:
Happy Landing, with Sonja Henie;
Sunday —through—-Tuesday:—
quin, with Joan Crawford; Wednes-
day: Love Is a Headache, with Gladys
George and Franchot Tone.

Seville: Wednesday: Hollywood Ho-
tel, with Benny Goodman and Dick
1 Bowell; sThursday :) Love Is? a Head-
Il ache, with Gladys George and Fran-
chot Tone; Friday and Saturday:
Paradise for Three, with Florence
Rice and Frank Morgan; Sunday and
Monday: You're a Sweetheart, with
Alice Faye.



Lecturer Discusses
_ Philosophy of India

Continued from Page One



a pentecostal flame, dissolving the
ego.” This force is turned back to
the depths from which it: came and
rises again from there, enriched by a
consciousness of the high and dow
‘poles it-has visited. :
Because there is such a strong oscil-
lation between the opposite poles of
intellectual abstrattion and animal

‘| sensuousness taking place in “the in-

nermost feelings of their life,” the

people of India hdve never needed to]

realize it in their history. Thus Mr.
Spiegelberg feels that equanimity
rather than resignation is the keynote

of India.





.Jacross a verse by one of your parents

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all obvious in the verse.

Manne-|-

Resignation
The College News announces
with regret the resignation of
Mary Dimock, ’89, from the edi-
torial board. i

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BOOK REVIEW

Cap and Gown, Second Series, L.
C. Page and Co., 1897.

This little volume bound in dull
dun cloth and hidden on one of the
back shelves of the library, is inter-
"abi for a number of reasons, First,

ecause of the frontispiece which
shows a college girl complete with
choker, switch,.Cap, and Gown, play-
ing listlessly on a banjo. Second, be-
cause you may at any moment come









which they gave to the college maga-
zine in a moment.of literary excite-
ment. And third, because the content
is, in the light of our modern eyes,
strange, and at times overwhelmingly
obscure,

The-explanatory preface of the sec-
ond series by Frederic ‘Lawrence
Knowles explains that these verses
were selected from college periodicals]
and grouped together under the com-
prehensive headings of Love and Sen-
timent, Comedy, College and Campus,
Nature, and In Serious Mood. In re-
gard to collegiate poetry he says,
“Light, graceful, humorous, sparkling
—this it should be for the most; seri-
ous sometimes, it is true—for young
men and women are at heart by no)
means frivolous, but touching the
note. of grief, if at all, almost as
though by accident.”

Analysis of. this crjteria on third
reading would indicate that there is
no sorrow in the souls of the authors.
ight, grace, humor and sparkle are
But deeper
emotions are there for those who seek,
the cry of a brave young heart, a pre-
Huxley heart, weeping amid a vale
of tears:

“Joy that shines through sorrow’s
sadness,
Sorrow mingling joy with. gladness.”

Love and Sentiment is treated sym-
bolically, almost every poem contain-
ing lone rose, two eyes, three tresses
and varying numbers of kisses. Smith
and Vassar students average between
four and five, Mount Holyoke seven to
eight and Yale, Trinity and Harvard
an_.unlimited collection. However,
Bryn Mawr usually substitutes death
instead or the
“Town where man can have his fling,
Can drink the dregs of—everything.”

The cynical spirit of humor is not
lacking in all this light, grace and
sparkle, It usually comes from an
acid-tipped masculine pen and takes
the form of a pun, “deadly weapon,”
However, it is advisable to omit these
sections since more up-to-date versions
can be found in the Log or the Prince-
ton Tiger.

A psychologist will find many sub-
jects for study, as for instance .a
young Williams man who-summed up
an acute frustration in 10 short lines:
Our. Wrongs
‘When girls are only babies,

Their mammas quite insist
- That they by us—
Against our wills—

Be kissed—kissed—kissed.

‘But when these girls

Are sweet eighteen,

Their mammas say we sha’n’t,

And though we’d like to
“We can’t—cah’t—can't.

In this unconscious outpouring wel
find the germs of modern disillusion.
Perhaps this very. poem fathered
Sweeney Agonistes or the same Among
the Nightingales,

It is also important to remember
that it might be your own uncle eAl-
bert in the throes of this frustration
or your own aunt Angela “drinking
the dregs of—everything.” The
signs of the future lie buried in the
past, the college poet of yesterday is
the chaperone of today, With this
in mind we advise you to go to these
poems and study them toward.a bet-
ter understandifig of that earlier gen-
eration. How otherwise can we, who!
write of telegraph wires and noth-
ingness sympathize with those souls
who spent their college days:
~ “Quaffikg -port and sherry,

Jolly roaring blades,
Making yay and merry
With the giddy maids’? -
. Besides, if Spain goes on blowing

any good sherry anymore, anyway.
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- | hoops.

Kiss them, E |

itself up, rio one will be able-to buy}

PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editor of The News:

The freshman class seems to object
to the tradition of handing down





ion, the objections are that the tra-
dition. is ‘“sentimental,” “repulsive,”
nauseating,” that it “hurts feelings,”

makes for competition and false mod-
esty,’”’-and finally, that it is “futile.”
Of all people, why should the fresh-
men take up this question with such
vehemence—when they have never
been subjected to hoops.
seem in a position to feel other than

questioningly on the subject. Let
them wait. Selah.
Contrariwise, they do object. They

object to sentimentality. Why? Some
people even like “Music, when soft
voices die,—” or “What-was he doing,
the great god Pan?” Probably the
people who like these are rare, but is
there not a certain virtue in rarity.
(Hmm).

Hoops (dearie) are neither “repul-
sive’. or “nauseating”; they
merely round, wooden things, while
the abstract traditien is materially in-
-nocuous. —

Perhaps this tradition may hurt
somebody’s feelings. Sissies. What
reasoning person is going to let a
pleasant custom “ruin her life’!
Shouldn’t one, by the time one is in
college, have developed a sense of hu-
mor, and a self-respect at least equal
to this mild occasion? . And if not,
why not? “The question is,” said
Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be mas-
ter—that’s all.”

are.



As gleaned from Public Opin-~

“proves nothing about the relationship ~
_| between the people involved,” that “it

They hardly .

‘Possibly hoops prove nothing about ; —

relationships. Possibly they were
never meant to. “I know what you’re
thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum,
“but_it isn’t so no how.”

“Contrariwise,’’ continued Tweedle-
dee, “if it was so, it might be; and
if it were so it would be; but as it
isn’t, it aint. That’s logic.”

As for the competitive aspects, com-
petition may be a good thing. Look
at the Italian baby race. And what if
it does induce “false modesty”—false
modesty is better than none. —

But why, after all these excellent
arguments, does the freshman say that
hoops are futile?) They seem, suffic-
iently to cause a number of Ends; but
why end the Ends so brutally?

The attributes applied to the tradi-
tion are self contradictory. There-
fore they cannot inhere in the tradi-
tion. If not in the tradition, then
they must be divided among the stu-
dents. “The fault, dear Brutus, is
not in our hoops but in ourselves, that
we are underlings.”

(Signed) FouR MEMBERS OF
THE UPPER CLASSES



To the Editors of The College News:

We want to preserve hoops, but. it
seems to us that some other method
would be better for passing them on
to the underclassmen. We suggest
that the seniors carry a single hoop
merely to roll on May Day morning.
The seniors can then pass on this hoop
and their other possessions between
May Day and commencement. This
would do away with the ostentation of
preference or neglect... We would in
this way preserve the friendly tradi-
tion without its accompanying evils.”

Mary Woop, ’39,
Oe LY R¥LERS 39, *
The Euitor of The News:

While I agree with you that. the
present system of giving hoops on Lit-
tle May Day may cause much unnec-
essary anguish, I think it would be a
crime to destroy them! They may be
sentimental but surely this is a de-
lightful form of sentimentality. What
can compare with a “Hepburn Hoop,”
or a hoop dating from 189—? Would
‘you wantonly condemn these to the
flames? Why not solve the problem
by letting’ each senior roll one hoop
on May Day and then at a later and
less public time give her collection to



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