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“THe COLLEGE NEWS





“VOL. XXVI, No. 17

Copyright,

Bryn Mawr College, 1940

Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS



BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 20, 1940



College Elects
Hutchins as *41
Under Grad Head

“Oh, dear,” said Steve soon after
she was informed that she had
been elected President of Under-
grad, “now I won’t be able to wear
these old sweaters anymore. It
wouldn’t look right.” The. chief
duties of the President of Under-
grad axe.to see that al] the undér-
graduate
smoothly, to act as a member of
the College Council, and to act as a
representative of college activities.

One_ of the--important—aims—of
next year is to make the college
curriculum committee and enter-
tainment committee conscious, and
to keep these organizations effici-
ent_and_ effective... Until this year
it has been the job of the Presi-
dent to go to all the committee
meetings, but with her other duties
this proved too much and the job
has been relayed to the Vice-presi-
dent. The Undergrad Association
takes care of the money collected
for the Activities Drive, the Thea-

_ tre Workshop and similar projects,
and pays the various monitors.
Steve was treasurer of the Associ-
ation her sophomore vear and sec-
retary this year. She says that all

she has done is write other colleges
to the effect that ‘““We-don’t- have a
debate council.” It seems that all
colleges except Bryn Mawr go on
debating tours. When interviewed
Steve had just received her official
Continued on Page Three

Political Poll

The Republican and Demo-
cratic clubs announce a poll
to be held this week to find
out the political affiliations
of students and faculty. The
forms will ask the party ties
of each student, and of their
parents, and also who they
favor for presidential candi-
dates. The object of the poll
is to arouse interest in the
coming election and to try to
see that all students who are
eligible vote next year.



organizations run











By Olivia Kahn, *4
Goodhart, March 16.—It has al-
ways seemed strange that the
maids and porters who sing so
beautifully every Christmas should
content themselves with such sec-

productions.
proven what most of us have sus-
pected, that they. have some of the
ablest_ performers on campus, and
that given the proper script and a
good director they can turn out an
astounding production. The, late
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
provided them with a powerful
springboard but the beauty and
strength of the production last
Saturday night grew out of the co-
operation and talent of those who
adapted it for Bryn Mawr.

To Fifi Garbat, ’41, should go
first mention because it was Miss
Garbat who had sufficient insight
to realize that Porgy was not be-
yond the maids and porters, and
who untiringly rehearsed them for
several months. Partly ‘because of
her direction and partly because of
the skill of the players, Porgy and
Bess achieved dramatic dignity

ond rate material in their stage}
This year they have}.

“Porgy and Bess” gives Maids, Porters

yee! to show Dramatic Skill Virginia Nichol

rarely found on the Bryn Mawr
stage.’ Players’ Club had best look
to its laurels.

The unity and suggestiveness of
the original was firmly caught, es-
pecially in such difficult scenes as
the one in. which Crown comes
back to reclaim Bess, and that in
which she is persuaded to go to
New York by Sporting Life. The
group scenes were effectively han-

dled, both the variegated crowd in|



Catfish row and the more stylized
swaying of hands and bodies in
Serena’s room.
Carl--Smith,--notedfor his -ap-
pearances in the quartet, was a
magnificent Sporting -bife, swag-
gering with complete ease out on
the stage and carrying himself
with professional aplomb. His It
Ain’t Necessarily So won him an
encore, but there were those.in the
audience, myself among them, who
Continued on Page Three



League to Offer
Student Talent, Tea
For Activities Drive



On Sunday afternoon. at 4.30,
March 24, the Bryn Mawr League
will present a musical program in
the Music Room. Tea will be
served at four o’clock. The League
wishes to consider this as their
the Activities
so no admission will be

contribution to
Drive,

follows:
Bach: Suite in D Major.;....... Ensemble
Air
Gavotte
Bounée
Gigue
Gluck: Gavotte from
“Tphiginia in Aulis’......... 4 Sprague
Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu...R. Sprague

Bach: Sonatina from
Cantata Number 106.......... Ensemble
Duet from The Messiah
Louise Allen and A. Updegraff

Handel: Third Flute Sonata..... A. Jacobs

Hayden: ‘
Ouartes, =. 20, Number 4..... Quartet

Aliegro di Molto

Adagio

Minuetto





Lattimore Comments on ‘Lantern’ Issue; _
Poems Interesting, Contents Balanced



‘ By Richmond Lattimore
Assistant Professor of Greek

In the editorial which opens this
issue of The Lantern, the empha-
sis is laid on world affairs. This
is natural; and nobody can object
to the editor’s contention that writ-
ing is a significant mirror of con-
temporary thought, though one
may object to the corollary, so
often implied, that all significant
writing tends to be political. Actu-
ally, this number is well” balanced.
There aré two articles, three seri-
ous stories, two (I hope) stories
that are not serious, four lyrics
and two drawings.

; - Helen Cobb’s . article on collec-
» tive security and ‘Finland — con-
siders an issue which died vio-
lently a few days ago; it is still

interesting as the expression of al

point of view, and it is neatly
': stated. There is no space here to
dispute particular

“Miss Cobb offers none but negative
~Her arguments im-
“ply that our present duty is to do
exactly nothing at all about Eu-
rope until the war is over, and
perhaps then to soa in and build

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contentions;
. granting their truth in this case,

any other positive conclusion is
drawn and the article is the less
trenchant for its appearance of
balking before the final issue.

Bess Lomax on. the American

Youth Congress presents a well-
written, if somewhat _ tendencious,
summary. Her reporting of the
President’s speech shows that it
was objectionable in manner rather
than. in matter; the last para-
graph, on what was done and dis-
covered by the delegates, is the
most interesting, and makes one
wish for more at greater length.
.. Barbara Sage’s story of a Ger-
man refugee teacher in service is
wetl. done, but perhaps overloaded
with exposition for such an ex-
tremely brief sketch. Isota Tuck-
er’s story of a child’s escape from
a house is well conceived and at
Htimes sensitively told; but it is
marred by patches of unnatural

struct the attempted resolution in-
to a child’s simplicity. Joan Gross
tells her story well and easily ex-
cept for what appears: to be an at-



be. cusses on Page Four

charged. . The program will be as

for the future; but neither this nor,

stiffness, which contradict and ob-|}.

Proletarian Novel

Is Topic of Torres



Flexner Lecturer Describes
Abusive Social Conditions
Of Latin-Americans



Music Room, March 18.—In the
last of the Flexner lectures, Dr
Arturo Torres- Rioseco described
the Latin American novels-of the
soil and their beginnings.

Literature, Dr. Torres said, has
the same predominant part in Lat-

in American culture that industry
and economics have in North
America. The novelists today are
a great force for social reform. No

longer held to aristocratic and!

bourgeois -subjects they expose the
abuses of the lowest strata of soci-
ety and draw realistic pictures of
the sufferings of Indians, rubber
workers, peasants and plantation
workers, poor fishermen along the
coast, and prostitutes, - jailbirds,
and factory workers in the cities.
Their realism is a far cry from

that of Blest Gana, the “American/}+

Balzac” in the last century, be-
cause they are completely original
and American. Moreover, what
little European influence is found
in Latin American literature today
comes no longer from France but
from~Russia and, ‘Marxism.
- The first stirring*’social novels
caused a sensation.from one end
of America to the other. Santa,
a Mexican story depicting the suf-
ferings of women in prostitution,
was such a one. Many new walks
of life were explored—meat pack-
ing houses, jails and sailors’ homes.

The new field of.-social subjects
was broadened even further, in the
early twentieth century, by~ the
North American menace. The

sight of the United States Paateas
Continued on Page:Six ,

The Cinema!

Movies come to Bryn
Mawr, opening with Crime
and Punishment, presented
by the A.’S. U. in Goodhart,
Thursday night at 8 p. m.
The film is the French ver-
sion, with subtitles, of Dos-
toevsky’s novel. Admission
is 40 cents and may be put on.
payday.











"| Mareh 28, at which Graduate Fel-

Frederick Keppel
To Address College

On Educational Issue



Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, the
president of the Carnegie Cor-

poration, is to be the speaker for
the college assembly Thursday,

lowships are to be.. announced. His
subject is American Philanthropy
and the Advancement of Learning.

The Carnegie Corporation, es-
tablished in 1911, seeks to accom-
plish the advancement of knowl-
edge in the United States by giv-
ing financial aid to various educa-
tional institutions. It supplied
funds to Bryn Mawr for a project
| in the joint teaching of science
which went into effect upon the
opening of the New Science Build-
ing and the remodelling of Dalton.

Dr. Keppel’s speech upon this
|-eeasion is expected to be of par-
| icular interest in connection with
his recent statement made in an
annual report on the Carnegie Cor-
poration of which he has_ been
president since 1923. Dr. Keppel,

Continued on Page Five

A. Howard Unveiled
As Head of League

“] don't knew what my plat-
form will be,” declared Nannie
Howard, new president of the Bryn
Mawr League. “I wasn’t elected
until three o’clock this afternoon.”
Nannie, however, volunteered some
imperishable truths about herself.

She describes herself as looking
“kind of obvious,” set off from the
common herd by “two big eyes
and a mass. of fuzz on top.” In ad-
dition she points out her false
tooth -which swas missing during
the first part of this year. “Tt’s|
nice to have it home again,”
asserted. -

Although Nannie describes her
college career as uninteresting, she
is renowned as a champion of la-
crosse and managed the sophomore
swimming team last year. She
passes this off lightly with “you
know how bad the junior class is
at that ‘kind of thing.”

Nannie intends to devote much of
next year to work with the maids
andthe development of the Better





Self-soy Head
for 1941 to be



Virginia Nichols, president-elect
of Self-Gov., was prepared for all
emergencies by eleven years at the
Brearley School in New York. Her

| college career so far has involved

three years on the Self-Govern-
ment board, the presidency of the-
Peace Council, participation in the
Activities Drive Committee and
Sophomore vice-president. Last
spring -she was awarded the
Jeanne Hislop Memorial Scholar-
ship.

Her childhood seems to have
been an unruffled one, save for an
inopportune attack of measles in
Constantinople at an age when she
was too young to know any better.
She is majoring in biology and
whiles away many a pleasant af-
ternoon over frogs’ legs-in Dalton
and bromides in the New Science
Building. She is a stalwart fencer
and is gently pleased at the pros-
pect of receiving a triple Bryn
Mawr owl for having fought on the
team.

Her roommate is quoted as say-
ing that Ginny is coolly efficient at
double-drowning rescues in Life
saving. Recently she had the mis-
fortune to appear in the Sunday
Times, surrounded by a glamorous
welter of snow and skis, and is still
trying to live it down. She may be
found at any time during the com-
ing spring assembling costumes
for Iolanthe and adding a pleasing
and mellifluous voice to the peers’
chorus.

Reading of Poetry
By Frost Scheduled

A-talk-by-Robert-F rost, the fa-
mous American poet, Monday
night, March 25, is to complete the
Entertainment Series. Winner of
thé Pulitzer prize for poetry in
1924, 1930 and 1937, Mr. Frost is
considered one of the foremost
poets of the day. Among his books
of poetry are A Boy’s Will, North
of Boston, Mountain Interval,
West-running Brook, A. Lone
Striker, A Further Range, and
From Snow to Snow.

Mrs. King of the English De-
partment, when: asked- about Mr.
Frost, said, “Robert Frost has re-
mained a ‘modern poet’ in spite of
all that has happened in the poetic
world since the publication of his
great book, North of Boston. Theo-
ries and ‘schools’ have not touched
his fame, although in the passing
years many of his contemporaries
have been ‘dated’ and forgotten.
Both the symbolist and imagist
schools have washed over him and
left him unchanged in his method
of work and in the opinion of his
readers.

“Robert Frost is always contem-
Continued on Page Five







set

College Calendar |
Thursday, March 21.—
French movie, Crime and
Punishment, presented by the
A. S. U. Goodhart, 8 p. m.
Sunday, March 24.—League
"Musicale, Music Room, 4.30. .}
Monday, March 25.—Voca-
tional tea for seniors, Wini-
fred McCully speaking. Com-
mon Room, 4.30. Entertain-
ment Series, Robert Frost.
Goodhart, 8.30.
Tuesday, March 26 —Cur-
_rent Events, Miss Reid. Com-
mon Room, 7.30. Interna-
tional Club meeting, Penn-
Tulane debate on Isolation







Baby Clinic in Bryn Mawr. |

policy. Common Room, 8.00.