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Geology Should Appeal
To the Feminine Eye



Mr. Collins Finds Girls in Field
More Thorough Than Boys



(This is the sixth of a series of in-
terviews with new members of the
faculty.)

“If the feminine eye is as sensitive
as we should have believed, women
would logicallyJbe attracted to geol-
ogy,” Mr. R. -Lee Collins, lecturer in
geology, said. Not only the rare
colors found in mineralogy, but the
decorative forms found in fossil re-
mains should make them enthusiastic.

Mr. Collins’ interest in geology was
not evoked visually.’ When he was a
boy, the eastern shore of Maryland,
where he was reared, seemed “flat and
featureless to him.” Perhaps it was
this dull sameness which one day pro-
voked him to fling a stone to the ground
with such violence that it split. In-
side was a small petrified animal
whose shell-like form had, been im-
pressed on the halves of the rock.
Mr. Collins’ curiosity led him to dis-
cover that this was a Brachiopod.

When Mr. Collins entered Johns
Hopkins University, he intended to
become a chemist. However, the old
fascination which geology had for
him reasserted itself, and he received
his Ph.D. in this subject in 1928. For
the last six years he has been at

| Johns Hopkins as an instructor in

paleontology.

Although Mr. Collins’ interest is

_ pledged to invertebrate paleontology,

it is swinging to the vertebrate prob-
lems of the subject. “The general
ground plan,” which invertebrates
lack, makes modifications clearer in
vertebrate study, he finds.

Last. summer he studied vertebrate
remains in the marine beds of South-
ern Maryland. He expects to con-
tinue his investigations there under
a grant assigned to him by the Geo-
logical Society of America. Rhin-
oceros teeth, pig, elephant, porpoise
and bird remains have already been

’ unearthed, and Mr. Collins hopes that

further discoveries will enable him to
link these marine deposits with con-
tinental beds in the “West.

He has already published several
monographs on invertebrates and is
now writing on vertebrate paleontol-
ogy.

Surprisingly enough, Mr. Collins
finds that girls, once lured into geol-
ogy, are more thorough than boys,
who often maintain a discouraging
“so what?” air. In addition to sin-
cere students the Geology Department
has an excellent collection of fossil
remains. Mr. Collins is attempting to
add to its paleontological section.



Cultural Olympics
Philadelphia, Pa.—“Cultural Olym-
pics” for the purpose of discovering
and encouraging hidden talent of chil-
dren and adults in the fields of art and
literature are being inaugurated by
the University of Pennsylvania’s
school of education.

The aim of the “cultural Olympics”
is to promote the cultural interests
of people and communities. At pres-
ent the movement is limited to Phila-



Unclaimed Piano Benches

The Players’ Club announces
that there are several unclaimed
piano benches among the bor-:
rowed properties. If the own-
.ers will claim them they will be
returned immediately.







Civilization of Mayans
Describeq' as_ Brilliant

Continued from Pye One

which is sculptured, contains 20,000
pieces of cut stone. The use of the
dividing medial cornice is common in
New Empire buildings, and sculpture,
if it appears at all, is always in the
upper part. The sculpture often em-
ploys as a motif the feathered ser-
pent, the symbol of the supreme crea-
tor-god.

The most important excavations
and restorations now being done are
at Chicen Itza, also a New Empire
city. Since 1924 the Carnegie Insti-
tute has been at work there. At this
time the restored or partly restored
building include: the Principal Tem-
ple, dedicated to the feathered ser-
pent; the Temple of the Warriors; the
Ball-court; the Astronomical Observa-
tory; the Vapor Bath; the Palace;
and the Court of the 1000 Columns.

Of the many buildings the Ball-
court is the most interesting. In this
court a game resembling basketball
was played. The court is enclosed by
two long walls, 92 feet apart; high in
the center of each wall is placed a
stone ring: The object of the game
was to. drive a hard rubber ball
through one of the rings with the
wrist, elbow or hip. The first Euro-
pean notice of rubber was in connec-
tion with this game at the court of
Montezuma in 1519.

Another interesting building is that
used for vapor baths. Restoration of
this, though not complete, is well un-
der way. Beyond a central doorway
is a small chamber where the bathers
rested and whgre vapor was produced
by pouring water over heated stones.

The Principal Temple, a ‘pyramid
and temple built over an earlier simi-
lar structure, has brought to light
some of the most important monu-
ments of the Mayan Civilization. Last
summer there was found in an inner
chamber the statue of a jaguar, four
feet long,three feet high and two feet
wide. Its body was painted a brilliant
mandarin red and it was spotted with
73 insets of apple-green jade. The
eyes were half-spheres of jade and
its wide-open mouth displayed a splen-
did set of bone teeth. On its back
was a turquoise mosaic plaque. It is
undoubtedly one of the original jaguar
thrones which are pictured in Mayan
reliefs, and is the most magnificent
specimen ever found in situ in Central
America.



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“Holiday” Given New
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this change.

The best piece of acting was done
by L. Crosby Lewis, Jr., who took the
part of Ned, Linda’s brother. He was
the only character in the play who
had the rare power, not always seen
on the professional stage, of never
giving the impression that he was act-
ing at all. -Every line that he spoke
and every movement that he made
came spontaneously from within him-
self and was unquestionably right.
His part, that of a boy with too much
money who just missed being. a fine
person, might have easily been stereo-
typed, unpleasant and dull. But Lewis
handled it with imagination, playing
especially well a_ difficult drunken
scene which balanced precariously be-
tween comedy and pathos and might
easily have become either farcical or
sentimental.

As Johnny Case, the leading man,
William Clark was likeable enough,
but his characterization lacked the
self-confidence. and force which it
would seem natural for him to have
had as a self-made man who put his
ideals before convention, money or
even love. Edith Rose as Julia, Lin-
da’s sister, was at her best during
the first two acts, during which her
gayety changed to irritability. The
feeling of tension which she had to
put across in the third act was less
successfully sustained. ,

Tillman Kulp Saylor and Olga
Mueller were excellent as Nick and
Susan Potter. Saylor, who had some
of the funniest lines in the play,
talked along quite naturally, making
no attempt to strain his part beyond
its limits, and was extremely enter-
taining at all times. Mary Hinckley
Hutchings and Daniel Gledden Santer
were smug and stupid as the socially
prominent Seton Crams, affording a
delightful butt for the witticisms of
Linda and the Potters. Amos Patten
Leib was deliberately mechanical as
Linda’s father, but while his stiff man-
ner was in keeping with the part, his
speaking voice did not sound real.

Of the two sets, the nursery on the
top floor was the most impressive and
both were successfully designed by
Olga Miiller, 37, and executed by
Anne Wyld, ’38, and George Norris,
Jr., Haverford, ’37. M. O.

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Der worry about
where to find your friends during the
college holidays, and where to meet
congenial men and girls...they’ll
all be at Pinehurst! You'll find, too,
America’s finest golf, on Donald Ross
courses with velvet grass greens, ten-
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Dramatics Important
In the Summer School



English, Economics and Science Are
Offered Students



The Deanery, December 8.—At a
tea for undergraduates interested in
the Bryn Mawr Summer School for
Workers, Elizabeth Lyle, ’37,
Sylvia Wright, ’38, spoke informally
about the school’s purpose, its.present
organization and its activities. Last
Summer Miss Lyle and Miss Wright

‘were undergraduate assistants at the

fifteenth session of. the school held at
the college.

The purpose of the school, as de-
fined by Miss Wright, is to give the
students.a pattern into which they
may fit the facts which they know.
By translating their own experience
into terms that aré intercurrent with
the whole of knowledge, they learn
the extent of their problem, and see
its relation to the social and eco-
nomic structure. There is a realiza-
tion of the common qualities in
widely divergent experience, as well
as ‘individual clarification of import-
ant issues.

English, economics and science are
the regular courses offered. Classes
are one and one-half hours long, sci-
ence Yitgetings twice a week, English
and economics every day. The Eng-
lish course covers the fundamentals
of oral and written expression,- pro-
viding both instruction and practice
in the rules of grammer, spelling and
parliamentary procedure. ‘Science’
is a general survey of the fields of
geology, biology, chemistry and phy-
sics, approached from the common
phenomena of everyday life, and re-
lated to the fields of history and eco-
nomics. The scientific method is. dis-
cussed as a tool effective in society as
well as in science. The course in
economics draws its material from the
problems of the students, and at-
tempts to explain them in terms of
some logical and coherent structure.

Dramatics play an important part
in the extra-curricular activity of the
school. Last summer, in addition to

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Dancers to Give Story of Christ

Final rehearsals are now under
way for the Dancers’ Club Christmas
performance to be given December 12
at 8.30, in the Gym. The perform-
ance, in the words of Miss Josephine
Petts, director of the dancing, is an
attempt to interpret in contemporary
terms, the story of the Annunciation
and Nativity.

Ethel Mann, ’38, is the originator
of a number of the dances, and is also
in charge of the lighting effects, as-
sisted by Dewilda Naramore, ’38,
secretary of the club. Mary Whalen,
38, president of the club, is in charge
of costumes, and will take the part of
the Madonna. Patricia Robinson,
39, heads the Property Committee.

The music for the dances which has
been especially composed by Mr. Hans
Schumann embodies as does the danc-
ing the customary Christmas tone,
together with the modern influence.



several informal entertainments, a
Trade Party and an International
Peace Festival were given. The Peace
Festival, described by Miss Lyle,
showed, on a small scale, the tre-
mendous force of a group whose di-
verse interests have been fused to-
gether in. the interests of mutual
security and peace.

The job of those undergraduates
interested in the Summer School, said
Miss Wright, is to make its activities
and progress known to the college as
a whole. In this way the summer
and winter student’ groups may be
brought more closely together than
they are at present.

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