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VOL..XXVI, No. 11. -.

BRYN MAWR and ‘WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940

~ Gopyright, Trustees of
Bryn’-Mawr College, 1939

PRICE 10 CENTS





Recital Shows
Menuhin’s Art
More Mature



Brilliant Technique Proved
In Difficult Sonatas
Of Franck, Bach



By Terry Ferrer, 40
Goodhart Hall, December 20.—
As the third artist on the College
Entertainment Series, Yehudi Me-
nuhin made his only Philadelphia
appearance of the year. Brilliant
technique, combined with--2i5*_~
touch and good expression, insure
Mr. Menuhin an even greater place
among top-ranking violinists than
he has won before.
It is not often that, a child

prodigy so completely fulfills his
youthful promise. After each per-
iod of .study and rest since his
first concert at the age of seven,
Mr. Menuhin has shown heightened
ability and more mature grasp of
his music. It is not fair to-say
that his technique has improved
since his last visit to Philadelphia:
it was excellent then. But» in ex-
pression the whole approach is
more rounded, more sympathetic.

This advance in interpretation
stood out in the Cesar Franck So-
nata in A Major. The familiar
theme of the first movement was
extremely beautiful on Mr. Menu-
hin’s Stradivarius, and piano and
violin parts blended well through-
out. In the last movement the dif-

ficult notes of the upper register
Continued on Page Four

Paul Hasard Elected
To French Academy





Paul Hasard, who held the Flex-
ner Lectureship here in the autu
of 1930, has just been—-eleeted a
member. of the Academie Fran-
caise. M. Hasard is an eminent
authority on French literature.
Since he lectured here he dnd Mme.
Hasard have been most kind to
Bryn Mawr students in Paris. Ac-
cording to Dean Schenck, their
house has been practically “a Bryn
Mawr extension.” ;

The Flexner Lectureship is a
guest lectureship which lasts for
six weeks. A visiting professor
speaks once a week for a public
audience and gives a seminar for
graduate’ studeats. This year Ar-
turo Torres del Riozico will hold
the lectureship.

_|lengths, said Mr. Helson in his lec-

Science Club Hears
—Helson Define Color

Background and_ Selectivity
Of Illumination’ Found
Vital in Color Vision





Color is defined as a psychologi-
cal, experience which is aroused by
a small band of physical wave

ture on color td the Science Club.

\the, field, consisting of samples of
colored paper, and the eye are the
three essential factors in color ex-
perimentation. Because it intro-
duces tgo great a complication, the
ruraih excluded in calculations
and its influence is reduced to a

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Tolanthia

At today’s meeting of the
Glee Club it was announced
that Gilbert and Sullivan's
Tolanthia would be giverithis
year for their. annual light
owera production.





The source of light, the objects in||-



minimum by preventing the subject

in mathematical. terms, and _ to
make accurate predictions... The
tri-linear diagram is an equilateral
triangle with red, green and blue
in the apexesaphe x, y, and z speci-
fications whose sum equals one. «In,
the center is the point of equal en-

ergy, equal proportions may be
Continued on Page Six

IMR. WELLS SPEAKS
ON POLLS AS GAUGE





Common Room, January 9.—Mtr.
Wells, combining Current Events
with a meeting of the International
Relations Club, discussed, as his
final lecture of the series on propa-
ganda analysis, various methods of
determining public opinion by
means of polls.

The first experiment in gauging
public sentiment was begun in 1900
by the New York Herald, which
had a poll before the election of
that year. The practice spread to
many newspapers throughout the
country and in 1916 it was begun
by the Literary Digest magazine.
As the newspaper polls had per-
mitted ballot stuffing, the maga-
zine tried to get a.closer estimate
by mailing cards to a_ selected
group of people. This brought the
returns to within 30 or 40 electoral
votes of thé number received at the
actual election.

In 1936 their prediction was com-
pletely wrong, partly because they
were dealing with a political over-
turn and partly because their list
largely represented the upper
classes and not a real cross-section
of the voting public.

In 1935 Dr. Gallup founded the
Continued on Page Three





Hemolytic Streptococcus Promotes

Speculative Harangues on Antibodies



By Virginia Sherwood, ’41

Authoritative sources. indicated
here last week that hemolytic
streptococcus (scarlet fever) way
reported to have broken out among.
the students. The official commun-
iqué issued by high medical author-
ities stated that: “Ann Murray El-
licott of \the Class of 1942, has con-
tracted scarlet fever. Anyone who.

“has seen her at any time during
* the past three days must report to

the Infirmary at once.”

As the ominous red and white
notices were tacked up on doors
throughout the college, a low,

_ anxious murmur was set up and

grave concern was written on each
face. There was, however, no in-

_dication of* rioting or other un-.

pleasantness.
Later in the day discussion be-

: came more rife, and speculation

appeared to be running wild. Odds
of three to one were being offered

__on_ the — of sotatring

curly hair if and-when the disease
were contracted. One unreliable
source had it that a positive Dick
test would indicate the presence of
antibodies in which case almost
anything might happen. Appar-
ently not much credence was giver’
to this theory and the night passed
without further, disturbance.

Next . morning, queues formed
early outside the Infirmary and in

record time Dick tests were admin-
istered to an uyascertained number
of persons. It was a colorful and
moving spectacle, as young and old
mingled together in the cause of
science.

‘Later, when the tonal were
made known, some were sent home,

OF PUBLIC OPINION|

from knowing what he should see. |
The tri-linear mixture diagram |
has been devised to specify colors |

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Mozart, Beethoven

COLLEGE CALENDAR

Wednesday, January 17.—
Industrial Group Supper,
Ccmmon Room, 6.30.

Thursday,. January 18--
German Reading, Dr. Diez,
German House, 8.30.

Sunday, January 21.—Rev.

Grant Noble, Chapel, 7.30.
"ne Sunday, January 22% #9 Aysts

Club Tea, Common. Room,

4,30.
Thursday, February 8.—

Jcse Iturbi, piano recital,

Goodhart Hall,-8.50.

Saturday, February 10.—-
Bryn Mawr League Confer-
ence, Goodhart Hall.

Sunday, February 11.
Louis MacNeice, Deanery,
4.30.

Monday, Fikes 12,
Arturo Torres del Riozico,
first Flexner Lecture, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30.







. Sonatas Scheduled
For Iturbi Concert

Jose Iturbi will give-a piano re-
cital in Goodhart on Thursday,
February 8, at 8.30. Iturbi is

celebrated here and in Europe as
a truly great musician.

In 1929 he made his first ap-|o

pearance in America and has been
greeted enthusiastically each suc-
cessive season. He conducted for
the first time in Mexico City in
1983 and has. since led the New
York Philharmonic-Symphony Or-
chestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Los Angeles and Detroit Phil-
harmonics, and has’ been perma-
nent conductor of the Rochester
Philharmonic since the season of
1936-’37.

Mr. Iturbi will offer the follow-
ing program ‘on February 8:

I.
Sonata in F major, K. 332
Mozart
Allegro

Adagio
Allegro assai

Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appas-
BiONGtA) Hi be a es Beethoven
Allegro assai
Andante con moto
Allegro ma non troppo
Intermission
i
Fantasie-Impromptu)

Scherzo, B-flat minor). ....Chopin
Sérénade a la poupée ....Debussy

TOU COR isc tess oN eae Ravel
Dance of Terror)
Ritual Fire Dance)

from “El Amor Brujo” .DeFalla



B. M., Alumnae
Win Public Notice

Pauline, Relyea Anderson,
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1937, has
been awarded the Beer. Prize
for this year for her pub=
lished dissertation, The Back-
ground of Anti-English Feel-
ing in Germany, 1890-1902,

' written under the supervision
of Professor Gray. The Beer

Dr. Martha Tracy (Bryn

\..Mawr, 1898), Dean of the





|some.caught..more cold and Man-
ning, Dean was listed as a double
plus. No further developments
have taken \place, beyond an uncon-



firmed report that the victim has
begun to lose her hair and is grow-

oman’s Medical College in’
_ Philadelphia, has been ap- -|
pointed Assistant Director of
Health for the City of Phila-





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Singewald ¢ Outlines
Economic Geography



Goodhart, January ‘12. Mr. John
Singewald, head of the department
of Economic Geology at Johns Hop-
kins, spoke on the economic geog-
raphy of South Ameiica in a lee
ture preliminary ‘to the Flexner
Mr.
Eineoln Ellswérth on

series. Singewald, who ac-

companied

‘+an. expedition ‘to South America

gave an account of the climate,

population and resources of the
ten South American countries.
His talk was illustrated by slides.

The South American countries
vary widely as to development and
geographical characteristics. The
average population is about 12
persons per ‘square thile and Brazil
is the most densely populated. The
white inhabitants are predomi-
nately Spanish, with a smattering
of immigrants from Germany and

Italy.
Continued on Page Three



|s. LADD PROGRAM

MARKED BY WIDE
- VARIETY OF SKITS



Schuyler Ladd presented a pro-
gram of monologues and_ short
skits as the fourth offering of the
College Entertainment series. The
sketches treated a variety of sub-
jects ranging from the life of
ephen Foster to the love affairs
Louis XIV, and from A Vignette
of Old China to a scene in a small
American town.

It is difficult for a monologist to
hold the attention of his audience
for an entire evening. Mr. Ladd
was at an additional disadvantage
because his material was thin and
fairly uninteresting. The Chinese
scene was amusing, but the Ste-
phen Foster sketches were awk-
ward and on the whole the evening
was probably as uncomfortable for
Mr. Ladd as it was for his audi-
ence. s ‘

League Plans Next

Semester Outlined





By Louise Morley, ’40

President of Bryn Mawr League

In the interests of .its ardent
supporters and of its ardent sup-
porters-to-be among the class of
1943, the Bryn Mawr League has
developed an expanded program
for the spring. semester. This is
to help people fill the void left by
the absence of Big May Day from
our plans.

First of all there will be a con-
ference on social work on Satur-.
day, February 10. The conference
is sponsored by the Undergraduate |
Vocational Committee as well as
the Bryn Mawr League and will
treat both social work as it can
be done with the Bryn Mawr
League: and social work as a ¢ca-
reer after college. Saturday after-
noon there will be a speech on the’
conditions in the Philadelphia area
warranting the work which the
League attempts to do, and then}
separate discussions in comnijs-
sions on the various phases of
Léague activity: Child welfare,
adult education,’ refugee work,
blind school work, and finally the

PUBLIC FLEXNER LECTURE
TITLES ARE ANNOUNCED

Dr. ’ Torres Riosecd
To Cover Literature
Of Spanish America

The six Flexner lectures on the
Literature’ of Spanish America,



Torres-Rioseco, are the first series
to be devoted to a field not offered
undergraduates at Bryn Mawr.
The speaker is professor of Span-
ish-American literature at the Uni-
versity of California and was Vis-
iting Lecturer at Columbia Uni-
versity, Semester 1, 1939-40.

The first lecture, on February
12, will cover Colonial Culture and
Literature in the 16th Century; the
second,-on February 19, Colonial
Culture and Literature in the 17th
Century; the third, on, Bebruary
26, The Revolutionary Spirit and
Romantic Literature; the fourth,
on March 4, The National Move-
ment and Gaucho Literature; the
fifth, on March 11, The Cosmopoli-
tans: Rubén Dario and Modernism;
the sixth, on March: 18, Social
Trends in the Spanish-American
Novel.

Besides the preliminary lecture
on the- economic geography of
South America, a second lecture
on South American Archeology will
be offered in conjunction with the
series on February 16. The speaker
will be Dr. Wendell C. Bennett,
professor of anthropology at. the
University of Wisconsin.

Wells Advocates
Local Participation
in U.S. Government





By Janet “Meyer, 42
Mr. Wells, in his recent subi:
cation, American Local Govern-
ment, concentrates his analysis not
on local government as a distinct

tangled pattern in which. state and
federal authorities are equally in-
volved. His book was published
in December, 1939, as one of the
McGraw Hill series of studies in
political science. s

“American governmental ‘struc-
ture like all Gaul is divided into
three parts, the federal govern-
ment, the 48 states, and lastly, as
a tertium quid, local government.”
This “tertium quid” is itself di-
vided into rural and urban govern-
ment. Because of industrial de-
velopment and the mobility of the
American people, urban govern-
ment controls the preponderant
part of the population.

This migratory impulse has fre-

quently uprooted the foundations of
Continued on Page Five



Industrial Group
To Discuss Health



The Industrial Group sup-,
per this week ‘at 6.30 Wed-*
nesday, January 17, in the
Common Room, will be for
“the purpose. of. - discussing
health problems in Philadel- —
phia. This will be the second
discussion on the general
theme of public health, the
first one having covered the
problem. of public, health . in

_ the nation. Miss Gertrude
Landesser, of the Visiting
‘Nurses’ Association, will



‘| possibility~-of* -clinie-work:-Clinic

work .is-rapidly developing into a
real possibility and no longer re-
mains in that category of an un-

|| fulfilled figment of the imagina-
| tion; for it seems that the Com-

“speak on public health and
Miss Ellis will discuss the
question of what happens .
when sickness strikes a low
income family.







Continued on Page Four et



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Seminar and Lecture in Action

St. John’s as a liberal arts
problems as Bryn Mawr.
fers from ours in its brodder pri

college, faces many of the same

Although their educational system dif-

inciples, two of their five methods

of instruction are well worth a closer scrutiny. Their use of semi-

nar and lectures would seem to

eliminate two probelms found in

most liberal arts colleges: lack of integration and the enervating

effect of unrelieved lectures.

Seminars at St. John’s consist of 10 to 20 students mad are]

based on the principles underlyi

ing the Platonic dialogues. The

books previously prepared are clarified by discussion and ideas
suggested by them are then'explored more deeply. The discussion
is further supplemented by knowledge relevant to the subject but
acquired in other fields. Thus upon a basis of individual reading

the student is given the opportu

nity not only to comprehend and

build on the original subject but also to coordinate with it apart

of his previously acquired material.

of an integrated well rounded e

“wee

_ facts divided into isolated categories.

Ultimately he is in possession
ducation instead of a mélange of
The St. John Seminar

would seem to-meet all the requirements of the ideal “discussion

_ classes.”

At St. John’s, formal lectures with compulsory attendance are
delivered oncé a week to.the entire student body. The class-room

lecture is “discouraged” and pra

ctically non-existent. The theory

is that no professor can maintain his greatest proficiency as a
speaker under pressure of three lectures a week. They provide
that no: member: of the faculty shall give more than three formal

‘lectures a year and those are de
not before a class. By this sche

livered before an “audience” and
fe St. John’s hopes to revive the

art of lecturing which slowly but surély is being worked to death.



Trippingly on the Tongue
At Oxford University, we are told, there is a long standing
tradition that it is the height of vulgarity to brood over one’s
work or ever to admit that one is doing any work at all. At Bryn
Mawr, we have discovered for ourselves, there is an equally fixed
tradition that it is ill-bred merely to contemplate the possibility

of getting even a low 60 in any
_ing for the next two weeks the a

saying enthusiastically, “Oh, I’m

examination. After every morn-
ir will be thick with girlish voices

“T don’t see how anyone could have answered the last five ques-

tions.” The loudtst’and cleares

. aad

t voice of all belongs, we fear, to

the undergraduate who has a 99 average.

These self-deprecatory remarks are as a matter of fact
extremely useful: if the mark is bad; ‘she knew it ‘all along; if

good, it comes as a happy surprise to her modest nature. Either |

way, you can’t lose.





CAPITOL: South of the Border,
Cemitnnd Gane Autry.





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FORREST:

Mamba’s Damghters;:

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Ethel Waters ‘in

FOX: ‘Bile, with Seinen
Eddy, Tlona Massey and Charlie

sire I failed that one,” and|



Contest!
Find a sharp and inclusive
"- title of not more than three
words for the adjoining col-
umn on other -colleges. whic’
is this week entitled “?.” All —
entries should be in the News |
office .on Thursday, February
g, A prize of $1.09will be
‘ given if, in the sole and un-"
alterable opinion of the
board, a satisfactory title is
submitted.

St. John’s Invaded
By B. M. Stydents
Modified Medieval Education

Revived With Success
Visitors Report “











By Olivia Kahn, ’41

Up to last Friday the progres-
sively ‘minded students of St; John’s
College, Annapolis, Maryland, had
never been subject to the ignominy
of fémal@ Viow. | ° oth~boys
and faculty greeted the arrival of a
group from Bryn Mawr with ap-
prehension. Anne Louise Axon,
’40, Jerdi MacCampbell, ’40, Ruth
Lehr, ’41, and I, under the guidance

‘of Mr. Weiss, were responsible for

the break in St. John’s tradition.
This tradition is only three years
old, for although St. John’s is the
third oldest college in the country,

its ¢losed door policy began only | «

when the new system was started.

After struggling through Balti-
more we arrived at our destination
in time for supper, and despite the
dubious welcome we were led to ex-
pect, we were greeted with south-
ern hospitality by. inhabitants of
the college and the town. Dean
Scott Buchanan met’ us at eight
o’clock and invited us to attend the
evening seminars, one on John
Locke, Mr. Buchanan presiding, the
other, on Greek drama, led by Rich-
ard Scofield.

These seminars are for all under-'
graduates, present total 125, and
form an important part tf the new
program. Under’ this plan each
student reads 100 classics during
his :four college years, covering
mathematical and scientific treat-
ises as well as history, philosophy,
and most of the other subjects of-
fered in the regular college curri-
culum. The books range. from
Homer and Plato through the writ-
ers of the scholastic period up to
the works of Freud and Bertram
Russell. Presumably the student
graduating from St. John’s will
have a general conception of the
entire scope of western civilization.
In addition to these books each stu-
dent has five hours of mathematics

‘| and five hours of languages a week,

Greek freshman year, followed by
Latin, French and.German. During
his first two years he spends three
hours a week in laboratory, supple-
mented by an extra three hours
junior and senior years. One or
two lectures a week complete this
program.

In the seminars students discuss
the material they have been read-

Continued on Page Six

That

-after college.

By Isabel Martin, ’42

(This is the first in a series of
articles on current developments in
colleges throughout the country.
Their purpose is. to acquaint Bryn
Mawr with pertinent undergradu-
ate activities and problems. Sug-
gestions for topic will be very wel-
come.)

Th2 students of Vassar College,
stirred by a not too recent study of
Southern problems and by Ruby
Turner Norris’ of the Economics
‘Department, | decided . about ‘the
middle of November.-that.their col-
lege should offer special scholar-
ships to Negro girls with a high
academic standing.

Mrs. Norris in her letter to the
Vasstr Miscellany News reminded
them that the policy of the college
“is to admit students solely on the
basis.of merit, regardless of race,
nationality, retigich and other ex-
traneous criteria.” She also ap-
pealed pyielt loyalty by. Stating.

ere had been Negro stu-
dents in Vassar in the past, and
that “every year Wellesley . and
Smith have a small group of Ne-
groes who complete adequately
their college course.”

Vassarites began to be much in-
terested. The Miscellany News im-

mediately wrote, an editorial,
stressing the fact that Dr. Kline-
burg of Columbia suggested:

races are essentially equal in po-
tential ability and entitled to equal
opportunity.” Their pride was also
hurt when they learned that other
colleges had something which they
did not. eae

Much controversy arose among
the students, and, for a month fol-
lowing, letters poured into the
Miscellany News’ office. A junior,
who evidently comes from Memphis,
wrote that race prejudice was
founded on personal ignorance, and
considered the step an education
not only for the Negro girl but
also for the Vassar student body.
Three weeks later another junior
answered with a letter, which, we |
are told, just about hits the nail
on the head as far as most of the
undergraduates are concerned. She
replied with some fervor that the
purpose of creating Negro scholar-
ships was “to aid Negroes as a
group, and not to provide a scape-
goat to cure our prejudices.” This
student wondered if the Negro
girl would not be better aided to
help her community if she at-
tended a Negro college, for: from
Vassar she would have no social
group to which she would belong
Would it not be bet-
ter, this undergraduate asked, to
create scholarships in Negro col-
le where they can be most effec-
tive?

At the time when this letter was
being written, the Community
Church invited the Reverend
James H. Robinson to talk on The
Negro Student at College. A few
days later Mr. Robinson argued
that the Negro who has graduated
from a “predominantly white col-
lege comes back to his people with
a greater sense of objectivity for



fwith William Powell and Myrna

Loy.

STANLEY: The Great Victor
Herbert, with Walter Connolly and
Mary Martin.

STANTON: “Melvin ‘Douglas
and Joan Blondell in The, Amazing
Mr. Williams.

STUDIO: Harvest; with Orane

Demazio and Gabriel Gabrio._

3 SUBURBAN.
>-ARBMORE :: Thurségy-and-
day Dispited Passage, with Doro-
thy. Lamour and John Howard.
Saturday: Allegheny Uprising,

‘|with Claire Trevor and John

vives, with | Wayne.. Sunday and’ Monday: Kay
e and/ Kyser and Adolphe Menjou in





; oe Right, Yow’re Wrong. Tues-





Laurel and Hardy in The

through Saturday: The Cisco Kid
and The Lady.

WAYNE: Wednesday and
Thursday: The Cisco Kid and The
Lady. Friday’ and ie tad Ja=

maica Inn. nis

' ART
A rare collection of works by
the. best French artists is now at
the Philadelphia Museum from the|
New York World’s.Fair French,

Fri-| Pavilion... The exhibition gives a

complete | survey of the important
artists and trends in the history
of French painting. Ingres’s
heroic size portrait of Napoleon in
coronation. robes is .perhaps the |
‘most: impressive. ‘There is a ver-|
sion- of Rodin’s celebrated portrait
‘of Balzac in-a dramatic cloak, and
some busts: sent from his home
near Paris. Among the work of

day sity ode ere Peay





WIT’S END

Gone with a Williams Man
or The Birth of a Notion









This is Bryn Mawr, as far as you
can see, a relic of the middle ages,
a civilization soon to: disappear.
Let the scene before your eyes
carry your thoughts back to a time
when Bryn Mawr was the frontier
of a civilizaiton soon to be gone. |
Bryn Mawr the Beautiful . . .
Watch out, you lug, don’t tread on
me:

As goes Bryn Mawr so goes the
~nation.

Mahomet to the mountain, Sher-
man to the ‘sea,

Which needless to say, suh, left a
nasty situation,

This civilization which is so soon
to be gone is going as it were, and
before our very eyes, too. In fact
it’s the end. Nothing remains but
the dregs of a fine old wine. S@*a
health to the civilization that is

dead, and we mean dead, already,

and here’s to the next one to die.
‘Dash the glass against the fire-

place, Fotheringay, and shoot the

Sherbert to me Sherman. Bryn
Mawr may be gone with the north
wind but it will not be gone by a
week from last Friday which is
when it would have to be gone by
to save me from that fate. than
which only death is worse than.
The Armageddon is in short at end.



their problems.” He further de-
clared that he doubted the neces-
sity of a scholarship, if the ad-
ministration would make a strong
statement that Negroes were wel-
come at Vassar.

Still the controversy goes on,
and, as far as we have heard, no
satisfactory answer to the ques-
tion has been found. .A few days
ago we received a letter from a
Vassar sophomore who stated the
still unsolved problem rather well.
“The whole point of the question,”
she said, “seems to be that we must
realize what coming to Vassar (or
Bryn Mawr) would mean to the
Negro girl, rather than what it
would do for our reputation for
liberality, democracy, etc. If the
Negro girl would be more fitted to
give something back to her com-
munity after having _been here,
then we have no objections to hav-
ing Negroes. But if she would go
back as a misfit, it isn’t fair to
her or her community to have her
here as an example for our ideas
and reputation.”

The majority of Vassar students
will probably do all in their power
to bring Negro girls to the college,
and we doubt that the administra- -
tion committee will stand in their
way. But the real answer to the
problem cannot be found, no mat-
ter how hard they try, until the ex-
periment has been followed through
some years hence.



typical Delacroix, then a number
of impressionist paintings, among
which is. a particularly beautiful
Renoir girl, a fine Signac land-
scape, and numerous moderns, in-
cluding Picasso.

John Sloan’s work since the be-
ginning of the century, including
scenes of an earlier day in New
York and Philadelphia, is in Wana-
maker’s art gallery, fifth floor.

The’ New -Hope artist group is,
having two showings simultane-
ously in Philadelphia, one at the
Newman Galleries and one at the
Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street.
|Their pictures illustrate practic-
ally all of. the. modern moyements,
The Art Alliance is also showing
landscapes and scenes from Vene-
zuela and the Gaspé Peninsula.

The famous book designer, Rich-
ard Ellis, has an exhibit at the Art
Alliance, showing the assembling
of his books from the first sketches
to the finished masterpieces.
has done Boswell’s Journal of the
Tour to the Hebrides, Dryden’s
|Georgies of Virgil, and ‘the: Divine
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FASHION CAREERS
FOR WOMEN CITED
BY MISS BURROWS

January: 9.—



Common - Room,

Good taste, tact, a liking for the

field, an ability to meet people, and
a knowledge of fashion are the
prerequisites for work in the fash-
ion field, said Miss Alice Bur-
rows, editor of. Vogue’s Merchan-
dising Service, in her talk on Op-
portunities in Fashion for Women.

The still largely unexploited field

of fashion presents many oppor-
tunities on magazines, /newspapers
or trade journals. R uiringyonly
an ability to put words-“together
interestingly and amusingly, fash-

- ion writing is easily entered by the

beginner.

Entrée into the field of fashion
advertising, requiring an ability to
sketch as well as to write, may be

_ gained through work on a news-

paper, in a stofe, or in. an adver-
tising agency. Advertising agency

‘work demands a definite flair for

copywriting, besides involving a
great deal of “leg work” in check-
ing up on merchandise, department
stores, and the fabric background
of the finished product.. Depart-
ment store training is excellent ex-
perience for the job of manufac-
turer advertising, which requires
that the individual know not only
advertising, but also the product
as well.

The fashion reporter, who must
keep an eye on what smart women
are wearing and must go the
rounds of the market daily to
gather facts for her report, need
not necessarily know how to write,
but must have a capacity for ob-
servation and clarity.

Fashion art, unlike fashion writ-
ing, definitely does require real
talent, study and background even
before any experience may be
sought. Then for oné who has had
the necessary experience ina small

way at home, there are opportuni-:

ties on magazines, newspapers, in

; department stores, national adver-

tising or advertising agencies.
Fashion design, also, requires real
talent and technical knowledge be-

_ fore any actual work is done.

Fabric designing, including not
only goods by the yard, but also
handkerchiefs and wallpaper, is a
large field because all fabric man-
ufacturers buy their patterns on
the outside. Designing home fur-
nishings is another important field,
while industrial design, “which in-
cludes everything from trains to
offers the largest
openings of all the different classes.
Package designing and design in
the new medium of plastics are
fields which have scarcely been
touched.

Besides these large divisions, the
field of fashion includes many un-
usual or odd jobs, such as staging
fashion shows. Styling, or work-
ing with the manufacturer, the
store and the magazines, to make
the merchandise more appetizing
and saleable to the public, is “the
kind of job you slide into” as the
result of presenting an original
constructive idea.

Showmanship and a feeling for
the dramatic equip an_ individual
for fashion promotion, the job of
selling “the right thing to the right
person at the right time and in
the right manner.” ~







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‘Judged One of Best
Of the Season” —

By Olivia Kahn, ’41
In this season of mediocre and
bad plays it is consoling to find
one written with the freshness and
charm of William Saroyan’s The

Time of Your Life, which the Thea-
tre Guild and Eddie Dowling are
currently presenting at the Booth
Theatre. The theatrical critics
and public have finally given Mr.
Saroyan the acclamation he de-
served last year for his beautiful
My Heart’s in The Highlands, and
in his latest offering and first full
Jength play he has established him-
self as one of the most talented
playwrights of the day..
_The Time of Your Life is not
based on the traditional plot struc-
ture. It is focussed on ‘a.warm,
affectionate aspect of life, a simple
philosophy which the author be-
lieves is common to all men. It
appears difficult for him to create
a, disagreeable character, and only
one such person is brought into
the play, the unpleasant leader of
the vice squad whose speeches: fall
with a metallic clatter in the soft
atmosphere. Mr. Saroyan’s char-
acters, although financially and so-
cially humble, have the power to
achieve and to hold happiness, for
themselves as well as for others.
No one questions the actions of
his neighbor unless they are harm-
ful, and if such questions do arise,
they are ignored. Joe, the central
figure of the play, is asked where
he gets the money which enables
him to stay perpetually drunk on
champagne, but he waves the ques-
tion aside. Too many people ar
concerned with-means; Mr. Saro-
yan tares only for the ends.
“There are a few spots in the
play which are not so good as the
rest and which seem to have been
wyitten too hastily, even for Mr.
Saroyan, who can turn out a play
in a couple of hours. The most
obvious of these is the scene in
which Elsie, a loquaciéus trained
nurse, hurries onstage, delivers a
garbled and rather badly written
speech about love, and bustles off
again. On the other hand, several
portions are exquisitely done, like
the scene between Mary (Celeste
Holmes) and Joe (played by pro-
ducer Eddie Dowling). A _ touch-
ing mood is created in a very few
words, for although Miss Holmes’
role is small she and the author
have made it distinguished. _
Eddie Dowling is a sensitive and
introspective Joe. More than any
other character in the play he
catches the gently lilting quality
of the lines and provides a. quiet
bulwark around which the rest of
the action revolves. To a lesser
extent the spirit of the play is
fathered by Charles de Sheim, who
makes an excellent bartender. Kit
Carson “Have you ever been in
love with a midget weighing thirty-
nine pounds?”’) is colorfully played
by Jack Hartley, and Edward An-
drews lends able support in the
role. of Joe’s big, dumb friend
whose heart is much bigger than



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Singewald Outlines
Economic Geography



Cont‘nued from Page One

Transportation from the east to
the west coast is impeded by
the Andes Mountains, so that it is
necessary to travel by water
through the Panama Canal to
reach the coastal ports of Peru
and Chili. The greater part of
Peru is. rainless desert, and the

only water available in some of

these arid lands is obtained from
the condensed steam of oil refinery

boilers.. The principal industry is

mining. Copper, silver and petrol-
eum’ are exported. The native
Indian peons inhabit primitive
towns and make thejr living by
serving as porters. By stuffing
their cheeks with leaves containing
cocaine, they are able to go in-
credible distances under heavy
loads without apparently feeling
cold, hunger, or fatigue.

Chili, although Andean, has a
more varied climate. In its deserts,
soluble nitrates are stored. in roof-
less vats, so remote is the possi-
bility of rain, while grapes and
wine are raised in more temperate
regions. Chili’s exports. include
copper, iron ore, sheep’s wool and
nitrates.

The east coast is more. Euro-
pean, more industrial and: has a
larger proportion of white popula-
tion, than the west. © Southeast
Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro its
principal city, has a pleasant cli-
mate, raises coffee and mines gold,
diamonds and iron manganese.
Brazil has lost its rubber trade to
foreign competition. :

Mr. Singewald described his
journey up the Amazon River,
eastward to the Andes. He traveled
for 25 thousand miles in an ocean
going vessel, then continued up the
tributaries of the Amazon in wood-
burning boats and canoes. Natives
along the inhabited parts of the
river live in simple walless huts
raised on stilts to withstand floods.
Supply boats trade with the na-
tives, with barter as the only basis
of exchange. The region of the
upper river is-inhabited by primi-
tive tribes,, including the head-
hunters.

Of the northern countries, Vene-
zuela is a large petroleum pro-
ducer, while Colombia’s leading in-
dustries include coffee, gold, petrol-
eum, bandanas and platinum. The
three European Guianas are physi-
ologically alike, producing bauxite,
gold, petroleum and _ diamonds.
British Guiana is the most highly
developed; French Guiana is used
as a penal colony. Ecuador’s chief
export is panama hats.



bit parts were very well done and
really deserve special mention.
This play is one of the few now on
Broadway that should be seen by
every one and must be seen by
those who love the theatre.



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By Rebecca Robbins, ’42



1937 was a banner year for
Philadelphia; a reform bill was
passed. The practice reformed
(or shall we say the practice which
Council thought--passing an act
would reform) was that of having
unclaimed fees which lay in the
sheriff’s office pocketed by the
sheriff.

Unclaimed fees happen this way:
The sheriff estimates the amount
of fees that will be required -in
mortgage foreclosures, other pro-
cedures, and for advertising in
sheriff’s sales. The individual in-
volved pays in advance. Usually
(by chance, of course) the esti-
mated fee exceeds by 10. dollars or
so the actual eost. The attorney
‘or the individual in the particular
case can go to the sheriff’s office
and claim the 10 dollars. But in a
big city like Philadelphia, the du-
ties of government are complex, so
naturally things move slowly. And
after all, city employees are under-
paid and overworked, so that one
can’t blame them, if, careless, they

of the claim, and one must file
another, and another. The excess
fees are seldom claimed.
For years it was,very pleasant
to be sheriff in Philadelphia. But

law that the money was to be taken
care of by the city comptroller,
whence, if unclaimed, it should go
into the city treasury.

Sheriff Cunningham, and later,
Sheriff Weglein, says the city, did
not comply with this requirement.
The explanation is simple. Should
they keep 176,000 dollars and 145,-
000 dollars (respectively), or obey
a Philadelphia law? There’s no
question at all.

But the. city government raised
its weak voice. And: Common-
wealth v. Cunningham’s estate.
Commonwealth v. Weglein. The
cases went to the Supreme Court.
The question was, “Who shall
profit, the individual sheriff, or the
eity?” The Supreme Couyrt’s an-
swer: ‘The sheriff.”

lose the first formal presentations |,

in’1937 City Council declared by.



REV. NOBLE GIVES
SERMON IN CHAPEL



Music Room, January 14. Dr.
A. Grant Noble chose The Funda-
mental Laws of Life and Living as
the subject for two consecutive
sermons. He took his text from
Mark XII, “Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all

thy mind, and’ with all thy
strength” and “Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.” His first

talk dealt with these fundamental
laws from the theoretical stand-
point. Next. week he will discuss
them as applied to life.

According to Dr. Noble, most of
the unhappiness of the modern
world is caused by man’s departure
from the fundamental laws.. The
new “generation trains its minds
and bodies, but neglects its souls,
and therefore suffers just as it
would ‘by ignoring any other phase
of human nature. .Man’s undeni-
able dependence on God is a source
of strength and .not of weakness.



Public Opinion Gauge -
Discussed by Wells

Continued from Page One »



American Institute of Public Opin-
ion and Fortune began to take a
straw vote. Both established a

baaeeed
more accurate system than the

Literary Digest. Their returns
from each state were in proportion
to the remainder as the votérs of
each state to the rest of the nation.

They also divided the public into
rural. and urban sections, the lat-
ter partitioned to represent the
different income groups’ in their
proper proportion. Age, sex, and
political affiliations were consid-
ered; Fortune registered the in-
tensity of opinion by questions such
as: Would Roosevelt’s election be.
the worst thing that could happen?

Gallup’s questions may some-
times be criticized because of am-
biguity of meaning. A question
biased to obtain a certain answer,
said Mr. Wells, is a subtle form of
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Student Opinion Surveys of America
Reports on Dies Committee and,R. O. T. C.



Majority Students Declare
Dies Committée Should
Be Continued



By Student Opinion
Surveys of America

Austin, Texas, January 12.—The
“Dies Committee for investigating
un-American activities,’ which has
included some of the nation’s col-
leges in its inquiries, should be
continued, a majority of U. §. stu-
dents believes.

This is the result of a poll ¢ taken |-
by the Student Opinion Surveys of
America shortly before Congress
convened again. But it should be
pointed out that although 56 per
cent say that money should be ap-
propriated for the committee to go
on with its work, this study of
campus sentiment is not to be in-
terpreted as an approval of all the

legislator from Texas and his as-
sociates have done.

Students often voiced their dis-
satisfaction with the methods and
results of the committee, it was
reported by the national staff of
interviewers that the Surveys use.

Asked, “Do you think the gov-
ernment should provide money. to
continue the Dies Committee for
another year?”. students every-
where answered, YES, 56 per cent,
NO, 26 per cent. There was a
large number, 17 per cent, who
had no opinion, many admitting
they had never heard of the com-
mittee. The Surveys find that out
of nearly three dozen subjects it
has used in its polls this is one of
the least known. A majority of
those who did know about it, how-
ever, believe that the investiga-
‘tion of isms in this country is de-
sirable and necessary.

‘The committee recently made
news again when its members dis-
agreed on the nature of its-report
to Congress, one of: the points in
controversy being the American
Student Union and its alleged con-
nections with communism. A year
ago the Surveys found that only
one out of every ten students be-
lieved thére had been any attempt
to influence him with fascist, so-
cialist, or communist propaganda
on his campus. .

By sections, those wishing the
Dies Committee continued were:

New England ..........+. 44 per cent
Middle Atlantic ......,..: 59 per cent
WOME OOOTIETAL. Chiccocc cet et 54 per cent
WH CBU SOGPUIEL «k's o oes canes 56 per cent
MOUS S666 che eV es ies cue on 56 per cent
Far West ... 60 per cent



(Reprinted from Allentown Press)

Burlesque Stripper
Teases Bryn. Mawr



By The United Press
Philadelphia, January 10.

- $trip-tease dancer Margie Hart an-
nounced today her establishment
of an annual scholarship to exclu-
sive Bryn Mawr College for the
burlesque chorus {girl with the
widest “practical”
men.

The burlesque queen said the]

purpose of the award was for the
‘student to “have an opportunity to
learn about men in theory.”

» She planned to ask Tommie Mans-
ville,“ Dale Carnegie and Mickey
Rooney to be judges in the~‘nude

stude” contest.
Officials at Bryn Mawr made . no
comment. :

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| dissenters—one-fifth in “each case—

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College R. O. T. C. Training
Backed by 86% Nation’s
. Undergraduates



‘By Joe Belden, Editor
Student Opinion Surveys of America
é Copyright,.. 1940

In the most extensive research
poll the Surveys have yet at-
tempted, interviewers from coast



to coast were assigned to ask this
question of a mathematical cross
section of collegians representing

every institution of higher learn-
ing in the nation, “Do you believe
R. O. T. C. military training—
either compulsory or voluntary—
should betayght in colleges and
universities—or dO you believe it
should not be taught at all?” The
Surveys found approval every-
where, with these variations:

1. Although a good majority are
the of

country, largest , number



was found in the East Central and |
West Central states.

2. Only 4 per cent more women
than men aré opposed to the R. O.
ts 0)

3. Military training is most
popular in schools where it is vol-
untary, least where it is not taught
at all.

4. Of students who approve,
well over half believe it should be
voluntary only.

The national tabulations are as

follows:
OF ALL STUDENTS, *THESE:

: Men Women Both
POOTOVE 4i5ick i 87% 83% 86%
Disapprove... 13 17 14

OF THOSE APPROVING,
THESE SPECIFY:
It should be voluntary.......... 58
It should be compulsory........ 13

Roe. TOL: RHOOIY ies vs oy Cdn es ce
THESE APPROVE:

In schools where it is voluntary 96
In schools where it is compulsory 92
In schools where it is not taught 82

It should be noted that this poll
was taken after war broke out.
Surveys figures show that since
the start of hostilities abroad there
has been a marked increase’ of ap-
proval of all matters.that have to
do with national defense.



| League Plans Next

Semester Outlined



Continued from Page One:
munity Civic and Health League
sponsors a better baby clinic in

‘Bryn Mawr on Friday afternoons

and would like six volunteers to
help them. This is the opportunity
that many students have been look-
ing for under the League and we
are pleased to say that first plans
will be drawn up at the confer-
ence.

In the evening there will be an-
other speech on social work as a
career. It will follow logically
from the afternoon’s session show-
ing the types of volunteer training
which the undergraduate can at-
quire Along. with her academic ca-
reer.

The program for the second se-
mester will also include a religious
conference Saturday morning,
March 9, and Sunday, March 10.
It will be led by Dr. Donald Stew-
art, of Chapel Hill, North Caro-
lina, who has conducted similar
conferences on other campuses.
The League will also give its usual’
annual concert where the musical
talents of the undergraduates will
be demonstrated. Jane Gamble,
’40, was elected chairman. of the
Concert Committe, with Ann Camp-
bell, ’42, as her assistant. The
musical talents of the maids and
porters are being put to good use
in thé production of Porgy and
Bess planned for this springy Un-
der the direction of Fifi Garbat,
’41, assisted by Meg Wadsworth,
’41, the cast has already begun its
rehearsals.

An enlarged program naturally
needs an enlarged interest and we
are dependent on the support of
every single person who has the
slightest degree of interest in our
work to make every feature on the
program. a success. And _ those
seniors in the League who realize
with only too necessary trepida-
tion that commencement and com-
prehensives are not far off are
looking to the underclassmen to
start now and take over our pet
projects, making them what we
may not have time to make them
ourselves or even something big-

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Art Now More Mature

Continued from Page One



nevar sounded harsh or thin. The
assurance with which the sonata

was played showed complete.mas-
tery of expression and technique.

The .Bach Sonata No. 1 in G
Minor for violin alone closed the
first half of the program. The
most remarkable feat of this se-
lection was the three-part fugue of
the second movement. Mr. Menu-
hin kept all three voices going sep-
arately and distinctly, and ‘gave
the impression of -several instru-
ments playing at the same time.
The graceful Siciliano and brilliant
Presto following were each played
with completely different mood set-
tings; the. one in romantic, lilting
style, the other with rapid tech-
nique.

The concert continued after an
intermission with the Concerto in
F. Sharp Minor, Opus 14, by Wie-
niawski. A virtuoso himself, the
composer included many difficult
jumps and high notes in 'this piece.
Mr. Menuhin rendered it without
a flaw.

In his doane group, Mr. Menu-
hin combined technical display. with
emotional appeal. The pizzicato in
the left hand against bowing in the
right was very effective in the
Caprice Basque, by Sarasate, and
in Bazzini’s La Ronde des Lutins.
The Spanish color of the Habanera,
also by Sarasate, offset the delicate
Debussy selection, La Fille aux

|Editors of Vi ogue

Plan Photo Contest
‘With Career Prizes

New York, January 5. The Edi-



Nast publication, have just ‘an-

nounced a Photographic Contest for
seniors in American colleges and
universities.

The contest offers two career
prizes—one for men, one. for
women—consisting of a six months’
apprenticeship, with salary, in the
Condé Nast Studios in New York—
with the possibility of a permanent
position on completion of the period
of apprenticeship. In _ addition,
eight cash prizes and honorable
mentions will be awarded.

The ‘contest: will be ‘composed of
a series of eight photographic prob-

zine. These will cover a_ wide
range. of topics, including outdoor
and-indeor shots, action, still life,
etc. Winners of the contest will
join Vogue’s New York staff on or
about June 15. For furtherin-
formation write to: Condé Nast
News Service, 420 Lexington Ave-
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cheveux de lin, arranged by Hart-
mann. Mr. Menuhin, with his ac-
companist, Hendrik Endt, gave
three encores, Kreisler’s Caprice
Viennois, Dvorak’s Songs My
Mother Taught Me, and Schubert’s
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vee e ’ material for a moving incident, re- stems from the fact that a large ‘
Review of Lantern counted with restraint. The other Badminton Fiends number of them regard local ad- Engagements
Praises Longevity EERE ree, SN Form Sports Club ministration with indifference. This Miss Jane Matteson to
fz ’ condition has been partially reme- David Love.






this ‘erat review of the “Lantern,”
a professor of English at

Swarthmore College. He gives a

general course on American_liter-
ature. and also conducts honors
seminars in Social Criticism and in
Problems of Literary Study.

The problem of the college liter-
ary magazine is a real one, and
The Lantern is to be congratulated
first upon entering its nineteenth
year? Mere survival for so long a
timé’ is cause for pride, because
undergraduates as a rule do not
care to read—or at least to pay
for—the literary efforts ,of their
fellows. The normal college. stu-
dent, when he takes to paper, is

‘likely to produce a morbid effusion

on death or unrequited love or a
pseudo-sophisticated bit of chatter
in prose or verse. His fellows are
usually normal enough to reject
the \product.

The Lantern, Fall Number, 1939,
is practically free of both evils.
Straightforward expression on the
level of college thought and feeling
gives this issue as a whole a sense
of authenticity and worth. There
is almost no ‘straining for effect,
grappling with experience beyond
reach, or brittle unripened humor.
Particularly notable are the three
very short stories. Two of them
deal with the war, but with aspects
of it which young Americans could
be expected to understand and
evaluate. In each story the theme
of inability to participate fully in
the sorrows of others furnishes

Normal Attitude



tion (the most legitimate of all
material because distant enough
for the perspective necessary to

art), and it too convinces by re-
straint.

Among the poems, “Pastoral”
has the same directness, and sim-
plicity as the stories and succeeds
in the rhythmic and pictorial val-
ues which one expects from poetry. |
The two more ambitious poems
seem to fall somewhat short of
pure expression and_ inevitable
phrasing. When form makes com-
paratively little demand, the need
for inner dis@ipline is the greater.
Of the’article on pacifism, all that
can be said is that it expresses
with obvious sincerity a_ spirit
which is all too rare—so rare in |
fact that it seems the voice of a
different world from that in which
the human race is now (perhaps
temporarily) living.

But the feature of the issue is|
saved for the end. The experi-
ment of robbing the college mail
is a grand success—for the recipi-
ents of the letters and their public
if not for the unsuspecting friends
and would-be friends who opened
their hearts. There will.come a
time when one of these double-
crossed victims will see a copy, of
The Lantern, Then the storm will
break. But meanwhile we should
enjoy to the fullest an unusual op- |
portunity te see life as it really is.

Rows 3 of\advice to the girl who
h



ws the boy from Lehigh: You
ve something there.° Hold on to
it, but don’t push the scientific rea-
soning too far.)
RoBeERT E. SPILLER,
Professor of English.
Swarthmore College



While the rest of the winter
sports programs continue as usual,
the Badminton contingent, full 70
strong, has been stepping out and
promises to make their game a ma-
jor sport before the close of the
season.

Every one playing adeafabin be-
longs to the club, Dues are neces-
sary to pay for birds. The group
has. also chosen a varsity squad
(listed in alphabetical order): Beck
’40, Boal ’42, L. Lewis ’42, Matthai
43, H. Martin ’42, Murphey ’42,
Perkins ’42, Perry ’42, Resor ’42,
Schapiro ’42, C. Thompson ’41, and
Wellman ’42. The two lowest on
the ladder on the bulletin board
in. Taylor may be challenged by
}any one. They have also elected a
Captain, Perkins ’42, a Manager,
H. Martin ’42,-and a Treasurer;
Boal ’42. Two games have been
scheduled: with Drexel on Friday,
March 1, and with Swarthmore, on
March 5, at Swarthmore.



Mr. R. Wells Analyzes
U. S. Local Government



Co-tinued from Page One

local self-government, particularly
in rural districts where it is “often
a mere shadow.” If local govern-
ment is to exist as an. important
part of our national structure, a
certain amount of interest in it
must be shown, for only then can
autonomy be preserved.
Autonomy, Mr. Wells explains,
depends largely on the attitude of
the citizens. . Investigation has
shown that many adult citizens are
not registered voters and that this



died in recent years by public re-
porting, political campaigns, news-
papers and local forums.

Local autonomy further depends
on constitutional provisions and
the legislative methods of the
states. Certain states allow al-
most unlimited “local discretion,”
while others regulate the adminis-
tration, and control the local per-
sonnel. The latter is justified only
where there are “multiplex and
outmoded forms, and areas from
which the living substance is gone.’’|

The federal-local relationships,
Mr. Wells explains, have always
been undisputed because “from the

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In conclusion, Mr. Wells points
out that in a democratic country
municipal institutions are, as de
Tocqueville says, “the strength of
the nation” if (he quotes John Stu-
art Mill) there “Is “the greatest
dissemination of power consistent
with ~ efficiency, “but the greatest
possible centralization of informa-
tion and diffusion of it from the
center.”





beginning the federal courts have
upheld the federal constitution and
laws against local ordinances and
actions.” Besides this, various
temporary measures’ of the federal

lic health, debt adjustment and
child welfare, have resulted in per-
manent organizations. The appro-
priations are made by both the fed-
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ing. Jerdi and I‘ joined the twénty

Fenwick P aints Portrait ‘freshmen who were tussling with

Of Caribbean



; January 8, ’A0.
Dear College News:

»

The trip across the Caribbean
today was so wonderfully beautiful
that I must tell you about it, in
spite of arousing. a bit of envy
from those who are campus-bound.

We left: Miami at daybreak and
the plane took off an hour later
just as a pale sun broke through
a bank of clouds, sending shafts
of light b-fore it. I thought’ of
Kipling’s—“And the dawn a
up like thunder, from China ’crass
the bay.” Then for an hour
sailed above white-capped waters
now deep blue, now. light green
as we crossed the coral reefs, then
almost purple as we came to the
coast of Cuba.. Crossing Wind-
ward Passage east of Cuba, fam-
ous in pirate history, being the
outlet from the Caribbean to the
Atlantic, we came to the moun-
tains of Haiti; with high cumulus
masses of cloud casting shadows
on the inland bay as we alighted
Then across Haiti to the Domini-
can Republic, passing the old city
of Santa Domingo which the dicta-
tor has now named after himself,
Cindad Trujillo. Then, most spec-
tacular of all, as we crossed the
Mona Passage, the clouds gathered
beneath us and the setting sun
flashed across them and made
them glow as I have seen the high
Alps at sunset. Then Puerto Rico,
neat and trim and orderly under
American management — making
one wonder whether American gen-
erosity has not made up in part

' for the loss of our national temper

at the time we went so needlessly
to war against Spain.

It is too soon to say anything
about the work of the Inter-Ameri-
can Neutrality Committee, except

that we are asked to codify the|

laws of neutrality for the. twenty-
one American Republics and to
find ways and means for getting
the Declaration of Panama ob-
served. I’m for. the Declaration
and I believe we can make it. work
with a little give and take on both
sides.

Sincerely yours,

CHARLES G. FENWICK.



Longsuffering Parents
Honored by Poem

To the Editor of The News:

I am enclosing a poem clipped
from a New York paper which
ought to be dedicated to all im-
patient and bewildered parents in
the hectic aftermath of vacation.

Bi ha Ts, °4e

College Daughter

She comes for the week end, with
toothbrush and comb!

Then, loudly proclaiming it’s grand
‘vo be home,

Retires to make _ phone
emerging to state

We mustn’t wait.up, as she’s sure
to be late!

On Saturday. morning she break-
fasts in bed

Then Teaps down the stairs to go
skating with Ted,

She’s back for a hair-do, a change
and a showér

And off for a dance in the space of
an hour!

On Sunday we lower our voices,
and creep,

(Our daughter, exhausted, is grab-
bing some sleep). 5



calls,

At three; in’a ‘Panic; pedals fora

- snack,
Her boy-friend is ‘due .
» he’s driving her back!
En route to the doorway, she gives
us a hug, .
Then, settling herself in the car
and the rug,
She waves us good-by with her
toothbrush and comb
And shrieks it’s been perfectly
swell to be home! ©
NoraH SMARIDGE.

. and

Euripides and Sophocles, and felt
| that we had much to learn from the

| way in which the discussion was

handled. Mr. Scofield opened the
discussion with a quotation from
Aristotle’s Poetics and there was
scarcely a break in the conversa-
tion for the next. two hours.
seminar was beautifully, but not
obviously, controlled.

Later we met the other members
of our group and had coffee in the
college cafeteria with Dean Bu-
chanan and Jacob Klein, another
member of the faculty. We spent
the night as guests of St. John’s

e|at the Blue Lantern Inn in Anna-

polis. The only other visible resi-
told us about the historical back-
ground of Missouri at breakfast.
On our return to the campus we
were asked if we wouldn’t’ rather
look over the college buildings than
attend classes. Two boys were as-
signed’ to .introduce us to the
charms of St. John’s. . They led us
through the snow from the library
to the dining hall, and from the
music building to the laboratories.
An army of Il’fe photographers
was covering the same ground,
clicking cameras as they went and
upsetting classes almost as much
as we had.

The group was invited to lunch
at the college dining hall and, sat
at the ladies table, usually occupied
by the dietician and nurse. We
left Annapolis in the afternoon.
Again we had a little trouble with
the route signs of Baltimore but,
as we struck out for home armed
with St. John’s pamphlets, we were
cheered by the memory that we’d
finally been asked to come down
and visit again.

Art Club Displays
Work of G. Biddle

The Art Club has hung an ex-
hibition of George Biddle’s origi-
nal paintings, lithographs and pen
and ink drawings in the Common
Room, to remain until January 39.
On January 28, from four to six,
there «will. be an Art Club tea in
the Common Room, for the purpose
of viewing the pictures.

A small picture of buffalo, and
a lithograph of Mexico called
Woodchoppers, are pleasing and
technically interesting. There is
a very amusing mule over the man-
tel, and, also among the black and
white group, a study, brilliantly
don2, of a negro woman’s head in
four. different positions. Some of
the oils, however, are very strange,
particularly the Mother and Child,
whose faces are half cut off by the
frame.

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Helson Define Colgr

Continued from Page One



plotted on this diagram, and there-
by it is possible to find exact com-
plementary colors, as well as the |
of the

sample in question. She dominant
waye length is outlined by drawing
a line from the equal energy point
;through the plot of the sample to
the plot of the spectrum.

. However, this specification is not
adequate, said Mr. Helson. A color
may change in appearance without
changing its plot on the tri-linear
diagram. To illustrate this, Mr.
Helson showed the effect of a selec-
tive red light on a yellow-orange
filament which was held in front of
a white cardboard in a darkened
room. Under these conditions, the

‘dominant wave length

hue of the “illuminant,” a green.
Also, Mr. Helson showed that iden-
tical color samples, mounted on
black and white backgrounds ap-
peared entirely different in color. |

From this type of observation,
experimentors in the field of color:
have concluded that the effect of
both background and the selectivity
of the illumination are of para-
mount importance in color vision.
One must weigh the total effect of
the areas of all objects in the field,
including the sample, to determine
the reasons for the changed ap-
pearance of colors in different situ-
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The amount of color in the field

changes the “adaptation level” of

the eye. In a given illumination,

samples above the adaptation level

tend to take on the color of the
illuminant and below the adaptation
level, the samples tend to take’on
the color complementary to the il-
luminant.” Colors at the same level
become mud-grey.

Mr. Helson showed graphically
the functioning of the eye that
makes the adaptation level a factor
in color vision by seAL Sri the
retina ag a square mass of doughy
material in which the impact of
light makes little depressions and
elevations. Theleveling effect either
above or below the normal is an-
alogous to the changing of the
adaptation level of the eye.

Mr. Helson, and some of his col-
leagues have devised a set of for-
mulae to predict the effects of
background and illuminations in
color vision. .With these formulae,
they have been able to predict some
of the most complicated color phe-
nomena.

In conclusion, Mr. Helson con-
cluded that a red light must give a
grey shadow on a_ white., back-
ground. Conversely, a green light
will give a red shadow in the same.
situation. This phenomena . he
called “colored shadows.” These
can be gotten only with strong
chromatic illumination.

Miami ‘Dalveniity tests haye
proven that men have more rhythm

than women.



Flexner Lecturer ,
Noted for -Talents
In Diversified Fields

“A serene. fighter” is Federico
de Onis’s description of Arturo
Torres-Rioseco, . Flexner, lecturfr
for 1940. -Also a poet, a critfe,
a scholar and a leader in the ve-
ment to promote unity and~good
feeling between North and South
America, Dr. Torres-Rioseco is
probably better qualified than any-
one else to introduce Bryn Mawr
to Spanish-American literature.

Born at Talco, Chile, in 1897,
he attended the Liceo of Talca,
1909-1915, and the Pedagogical In-
stitute of the University of Chile,
1915-1918. He did graduate work
and took his Ph.D. at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, where he was
made instructor in Romance Lan-
guages, In 1932-33 he was a Gug-

genheim Scholar and held the post
of Visiting Lecturer at Columbia, |
Semester 1, 1939-40. Since 1928
he has been professor of Spanish-
American literature at the Uni-
versity of California.

An ardent Pan-American, Dr.
Torres-Rioseco is a member of the
Board of the Instituto Interna-
cional de Literatura Iberoameri-
cana and is president of the Co-
misién de Intercambio y Coopera-
cién. He has_ published two
volumes of poetry Ausencia (1982),
and En el.encantamiento (1921),
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