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“Ferdinand” Phobia
Frustrates Future .

Finesse of Fencers'



(Especially contributed by Jane

Harper, 41.)
The fencing team has undertaken
no outside matches as yet, but plans

to fence Swarthmore and the Penn-
sylvania Women’s Team again this
Last year’s team, consisting
of Lucy Smith, ’40, Jane Harper,
’41, Ann Harrington, ’41, and Ethel
Clift, ’41 “foiled” all. Since fenc-
ing has now been made a major
sport which may be taken without
buying equipment, a larger squad
is expected this year.

The college is fortunate in hav-
ing the A. F..L. of A. Women’s Foil
Championship Match scheduled here
for March 18. Among those enter-
ing from Bryn Mawr will be Janet
Dowling, who has a smooth hand,
Jane Nichols, who has excellent
timing, Jane Harper, who is all
right if it happens to be her good
day; Ann Harrington, who is also
all right, Lucy Smith who has too
much work; ‘Ethel Clift, who man-
ages the team and Margaret,
(“Ferdinand”) who loves fencing
but doesn’t like to fight.





°43 STRENGTHENS
SWIMMING SQUAD



Team Still Incomplete
‘But Practice. Started



With the addition. of a likely
bunch of Freshmen willing to risk
permanent waves to obtain the
speed of fishes, the Varsity Squad
shows promise of a successful sea-
son. Last year saw two defeats by
Swarthmore College and Baldwin
School, and an encouraging win
over University’ of Pennsylvania.
With Morfoot, Baldwin ’39, now
Bryn Mawr ’43, the team is appre-
ciably strengthened. Although div-
ing tryouts have not. been held, and
the Squad has not been completed
practice officially begins this week.
The Tentative Squad is as follows:
(Cap’t) Link ’40, Williams ’42,
Paige ’42, Penfield ’40, Miller ’40,
Jacobs ’48, McClellan ’42; Boal ’42,
Rambo ’43, Reggie *48, Morfoot ’43,
Jones ’41 and Gaud ’41.

Swimming Schedule

Interclass — Tuesday, January
10—4.00 o’clock.

Baldwin — Friday, February 16
—4.00 o’clock.

Swarthmore—Tuesday, February



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By Barbara Cooley, ’42

Sometimes writers can create
only one masterpiece; . sometimes
every new effort is greater than
the last. The public always greets
a new novel by an_ outstanding
writer eagerly. In the case of
Christmas. Holiday the ‘critics were
loud and lengthy in their praise.
The eager public. rushed to buy
first editions. For the most part,
they were disappointed.

Christmas Holiday does not mea-
sure up to the standard of Of Hu-
man Bondage. Charley Madon, a
typical young Englishman of a typ-
ical well-to-do English family,
spends his Christmas holiday in
Paris—a typical idea of the way in
which he can have a last fling be-
fore he settles. down to become a
typical English business man like
his father. Through the medium
of Charley’s “adventures,” Mr.
Maugham would have us realize
that there is no such thing as a
shady Bohemian life. Lydia, who
dances in a cafe under the guise of

“rink









27—4.00 o’clock.

)U. of P. (At Penn) — Tuesday,

March 12—4.00 o’clock. .

" Interclass — Thursday, March 14
—4.00 o’clock.

Varsity Interclass — Tuesday,
March 19—4.00 o’clock.

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a’ Russian -princess, is in reality the

| wife of a notorious murderer who

is serving time on Devil’s Island.
When Charley offers to let her live

‘in his apartment, ne finds her as

moral and as devotedly loyal. to her
husband as the finest English
women in his own class. Simon
Fenimore, a friend of his at Cam-
bridge, has become a violent radi-
cal—not a stirring ardent idealist,
but a bitter, illagical, personally
dirty and even boring rebel.

The book ends: ‘Patsy had asked
him if he had had “adventures in
Paris, and he had truthfully’ an-
swered no. It was a fact that he
had done nothing; only one thing
had happened to him; it was rather
curious when you came to think of
ite and he didn’t just then quite
know what to do about it; the bot-
tom had fallen out of his world.”
Mr. Maugham intends us to realize,
I suppose, that for some people life
is more vital, more intense than we,
the Charley Madons of the world,
had realized. If this ‘is his inten-
tion it is a noble one, but somehow
I realized only that every one is
pretty" much alike. As the first
work of a young novelist this could
be praised; as a mature novel how-
ever it falls far too short of Mr.
Maugham’s earlier standard.

!

PENN SERENADES
MUTE BRYN MAWR

Choir Sings Hail Penn
And Good Night Ladies

Saturday night the Bryn Mawe
mutes were saying that a good





voice wasn’t everything and that

it would be grim to arrive at
Princeton tagged as one of the
Bryn Mawr group. The _ mutes
were thinking how weary, stale,
flat and unprofitable this college
life seems.

But the mountain comes: at mid-
night voices were heard. harmon-
izing Nearer My. God To Thee.
The Bryn Mawr voiceless were be-
ing serenaded.

The choir of the University of
Penn. had given a concert with
Harcum Saturday night. Surplus
energy, pity for Bryn Mawr, or de-
fiance of Princeton’s art spurred
Penn to try this campus.

First they serenaded Rockefeller
with Dartmouth Winter Song and
Good Night Ladies. . Proceeding to
Pembroke Arch, the choir was in-
terrupted by two late students and
the wardén. | After all were within,











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| Hail Pennsylvania.

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