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Museurh Job Demands
Specialized Education



Miss Mongan ‘States Applicants
Should Have Background
In Fine Arts



INCOME IS NOT LARGE



Common Room, January 11.—Per-

" sistance and training are the primary

needs of the would-be museum worker,
‘according to Miss Agnes Mongan, Di-
rector of Drawings at the Fogg Mu-
seum in Cambridge, Mass. In a field
already crowded there. is nevertheless
room fof the person who has a spe-
cialty and concentrates on it.

In choosing a subject for speciali-
zation, the student should have an eye
to the branches of museum work which
contain the greatest opportunity for
women. The publicity, education and
financial departments and the library
staff offer possibilities, as well as the
technical end, which includes: chem-
istry, photography and other lines of
special training. Administrative jobs
are also available to women, but ow-
ing to the small number of posts there
are few chances of getting one.

~—-m A student, whether or not she has

chosen a definite field for research,
should include certain essential sub-
jects in her training. In addition to
a fine arts background, she should
have as many languages as, possible,
French, German, Italian, perhaps
Latin and Greek, and if she is very
enterprising and has a particular in-
terest for future ‘study, Sanskrit,
Arabic or Chinese. The Fogg Mu-
seum and the Newark Museum now
give one-year graduate courses in mu-
seum work, which discuss the routine
jobs and details of the field. In 1936
the Carnegie Institute offered a series
of interne fellowships at the Brooklyn
Museum which eventually led to per-
manent positions. Abroad _ special
training can be Kad at the Courtauld
Institute, a branch of the University
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FOUR ARTS CQMBINED
IN WAGNERIAN OPERA





Deanery, January 10.—“An opera,
for Wagner, ‘was a single organic
unity,” said Miss Florence Fraser in
-an introduction to her dramatic re-
cital of Die Meistersinger Sunday
afternoon. It was'a unity made up
of four arts: literature in the libretto
sculpture in the gestures and poses of
the actors; architecture in the scen-
ery, and music as the main quality
which blends in with the other three
to form a perfect whole.

With this opening comment Miss
Fraser renewed for her audience the

delightful setting of sixteenth century | :

Niiremberg with its guilds, its bottle-
glass windows and -happy festivals.
Then, fitting the principal characters
into the setting, she played the leit
motifs which were characteristic of
them and which were to appear again
arid again in the progression of the
opera. She played the spirited song
of the Meistersingers, the light, airy
theme of. David, the young shoemak-
er’s apprentice, and the more sedate
‘theme-of the poet-philosopher, Hans
Sachs: With her real feeling for the
music, she made the audience actu-
. ally see the characters living in the
enchanting German village.

While she played the music ‘she ex-
plained the story iri her own words,
re-creating the humor and the beauty
of each part of the well-known opera.
In a little over an,hour she placed
the whole meaning of the opera be-
fore her audience. Her ability’ to
play the piano with precision and ex-
pression, as well as her imagination
in describing the characters, the scen-
ery and the plot, made the recital not
only informative. but very real. To
make an audience appreciate an opera
without a stage and actors is a great
achievement: which Miss Fraser suc-

- ceeded jn accomplishing. sr “

Miss Fraser will give the same re-

“cital at the Cosmopolitan’ Club in
“* Philadelphia, and it is highly recom-.

“mended to those who missed the op-
portunity of meee her in the Dean-
ery. ~M. H.

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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday; January 14.—A. S:

U. Tea.. Common Room. 4.80

p.m.

Friday, January 15.—T. 8.
Eliot ‘recordings will be played.
Music Room. 5 p. m.

Monday, January 18.—Mid-

. year examinations begin.

Dr. Robert 'M. Ogden will
speak on Naive Geometry in Art.
Deanery. 4.15 p. ‘m.

Friday, January 29.—Midyear
examinations end.

Tuesday, Febreary 2.—The
second semester begins. 9 a. m.

Wednesday, February 3.—In-
dustrial Group Supper. Com-
mon room. 6.30 p. m. .

Thursday, February 4.—Shan- ‘
Kar and his Hindu Ballet. Good-
hart... 8.30 p,m.

Saturday, February 6.—Rad-

nor dance. Common Room. ° 9 ~
p. m.
Sunday, February 7.—Dr.

John W. Suter will conduct
chapel service.

Monday, February 8.— The
first of a series of lectures on
The Nature of Man. Dr. Hel-

son. 7.30 p. m.







European Dictatorships
Have Become Religious



Chapman Advises Definition
* of Democratic Liberties

Common Room, January 7.—Euro-
pean dictatorships as religious and
philisophical appeals to their peoples
were discussed by Mrs. Mildred Chap-
man, recently returned from study. in
Geneva, before guests. cf; Mrs.. [¥an-
ning, which included members of ‘the |°
International’ Club. Mrs. Chapman
urged that we learn to define to our-
selves exactly what our liberties mean
and that we prune our society of its
weakening aspects in order to preserve
it from the spiritual imprisonment
which many foreign countries are.suf-
fering. For them both the individual
and society have vanished and only
the. nation remains.

Propaganda in dictagorship, is in-
escapable, Mrs. Chapmé& ¢ saidss Mein
Kampf is the German bible. Books
and discussions in schools center about
the dictator. German children are lit-
erally taught to regard Hitler as a
“Jesus, in the love and self-sacrifice
he feels for his people.” Even sci-
ence and knowledge are no longer: for
human good. “We do not know or
recognize a truth for truth’s sake or
sctence’ for science’s sake,” announced
a German professor.

The Russians, according to a French
author to whom Mrs. Chapman re-
ferred, regard their government as
the victory of natural order over the

Mrs.

anarchy of capitalism, whose sin lies
in the exploitation of man by man.
Their dictatorship is regarded as a
period of purification; their class, the.
proleteriat, are the chosen people who
have the mission of spreading the
truth, and-_their- high priest-is—Stalin.
It is only this incentive which has
made bearable their suffering and the
completion of their five-year plan in
four years.

Italian nationalism is very like Ger-
man, but it emphasizes state rather

~|than racial unity. Mussolini believes

that victory comes to the spirited.
European nations, as a whole, are
lined up according to whether they
are “haves” or “have nots.” Consid-
eration of justified demands of these
“have nots” would be a move towards
peace, Mrs. Chapman feels.
the problem which faces democracies
of cooperating with Fascist nations

is difficult. because the latter have no

morality regarding treaties.



DR. GOLDSTEIN SPEAKS
Dr. Kurt Goldstein speaking in the
Deanery ort Saturday, January 9, on

‘in the frontal lobe of the brain.
After working with patients-in New

such lesions only allow concrete
thought. The sufferer. can do no
‘thinking - without a definite . object



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However,

€ortical Functions explained the lapse|
in abstract thinking as due~to lesions

‘York and Germany, he has found that



Hellenistic Influence
Found in Judaic Art

Choice of Oriental Types Shows
Assimilation May Have Begun
In Near -East





CULMINATED AT DURA



Music Room, Janudry 7.—Jewish,
art in Roman times employed Greek
motifs to give a new meaning to Ju-
daism, Dr. Erwin R. Goodenough said
in a talk on Jewish Art in the Roman
and Byzantine Periods. Dr. Good-
enough is Professor of the History of
Religion and a Fellow of Jonathan
Edwards*College at Yale University.

Within the last fifty years, Dr.
Goodenough stated, Hebrew art of the
early Christian age has been discov-
ered in Rome, Malta, North Africa,
Palestine and Dura that shows strong
Hellenistic influence and which seems
to indicate a new feeling not share
teristic of Judaism as we know it
In Roman catacombs, clearly
by the inscriptions, peacocks, co
in Hellenistic’ funeral art, winged
victories and cupids have -been co!
bined with the native Jewish desighs
of the seven-branched candlestick, the
Torah-shrineand—the—palm=tree.— In
Malta, besides the catacomb art, a
lamp has been found decorated with
an altar and two snakes, the symbol
for the Lares of a Roman house, and
the familiar Jewish candlé¢stick.




The Jewish assimilation. of Hel-
lenistic motifs probably began in the
East, because the pagan types of de-
sign. chosen are for the most part
oriental in origin. The eagle, com-
mon in the Jewish art of this period,
is an eastern symbol, as is the lion’s
mask, examples of which may be seen
on early statues of the sun-god of
Syvia. ( The zodiac‘ which Was widely
used in Babylonian art, also appears.

This art, which symbolizes the true
Judaism, culminates at~ Dura in’ the
synagogue built in 245 A. D. Here
Bacchic motifs anda picture of Or-
pheus with his lyre are combined with
Old Testament stories to form a
highly intellectualized and _ conven-
tionalized narrative. An interpreta-
tion of this narrative shows a new

mystic feeling in the Jewish religion | '

which explains the use of Greek art
forms. The pagan motifs, which are
completely abstract, are chosen be-
cause of some slight analogy to Jew-

ish stories, and are adapted to Jewish|

ideas no matter what their implica-
tions: For example, Orphic hymns
mention the “throne of God”; ac-«
cordingly, Orpheus with his lyre sym-
bolizes the dream of Moses about oc-
cupying God’s throne, without regard
to the polytheistic ¢onnotations of
Orpheus ‘himself.



Reserve Room. Book |
Clean-Up Under Way

Princeton and Yale Addresses

~-Printed in Economics Book

Through the combined efforts of the
Library Staff, students ‘and. high
school girls, over three hundred books
in the Reserve
cleaned.

Work started on Tuesday, January
5, and it is hoped all .the books. on
reserve will be finished before the
semester is over so that those of the
second semester may be done as soon
as they come up from the stacks.

The workers are chiefly, girls from
Radnor,: Lower Merion High School
and Shipley School, who are here six
days a week for about three hours:
The money_# pay them is coming out
of the student assessment of fifty
cents per person.

The girls have started to look over



\the books in alphabetical order- and

are now on the English _— which
are the worst of all.

Each book is gone through page by
page and checked when) finished, so

that any new markings |may be de-|.

tected at once. Some have so much
writing that it is impossible to erase
it and the book must be discarded.

‘However, only five or six of these have
As the girls go}}...
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been found | so far.

Room hdve beent+



NEW HISTORY COURSE $$‘

Miss Robbins is giving an advanced
course in Modern” English His¥ory
next semester, probably meeting Mon-
days, ‘Tueadips and: Wednesdays at
nine, The°hour can be changed _ if
it does not suit students who vish to

‘take it.



PRICELESS VOLUMES
ON VIEW IN LIBRARY



. A valuable exhibition of the Li-
brary’s rare books. are now on view
in the New Book Room. Many of
them date from the middle eighteenth
century and are priceless in value,
being irreplaceable.

All the books have been waxed ac-
cording to a method obtained direct
from the British-Museum and are in
a special book-case and on the table.

A few years ago plans were drawn
up for a special book-case to house
these precious books which would
grant maximum visibility and great-
est protection from dust and moisture.
Such a case in the New Book Room
would guarantee the: continual and
permanent showing of the Incunabula
with perfect safety. ‘However, as
there are no funds available at pres-
ent, this. necessary addition to the
Library must be- postponed.



Social Economy Major

Supported by A. S. U.

Clothing, Food to be Collected for
Spanish Loyalists





Common Room, January 8.—Fash-
ionable as it is to exist glumly in pre-
exam weeks, A: S. U. members an-
nounce the introduction of a comic
(as well as a humane) spurt in cam-
pus affairs, Next Thursday faculty
and undergraduates are invited to tea
in the Common Room, provided that
they come equipped with one piece of
old clothing or one-article of canned
goods. The collection is for the
Spanish government.

- It was also decided that the chapter

would evidence its support of the
movement for a social economy major
by writing a letter to the Cutrieorom
Committee.

Announcement was made of a dance
to be held in Philadelphia by local
A. S. U. groups on February‘5. Tick-
ets may be obtained from Mary
Dimock, 4 Pembroke’ West.

Bertha Goldstein, ’88; Helen Hamil-
ton, ’39, and Agnes Spencer, ’39, re-
ported on the National A. S. U. con-
ference which they attended in Chi-
cago. Miss Spencer emphasized the
aim of the A. S: U.,' that “it shall
be as broad as possible—a liberal or-
ganization spread throughout schools

_fand colleges,” supporting “democracy
jand peace.”

She further stressed the need for
solidarity with organized labor which
is a force responsible’ for public

|schools and many other progressive

measures. - In~ this connection She

urged affiliation with relief work and;

the realization of the-evils of “scab-
bing” during strikes.

Miss Hamilton -presented peace
measures which were discussed, such
as the improvement of the Peace
demonstration in the spring and the
continueds attack on R. O. T. C.
through the Nye-Kvale bill which is
shortly to come up_before Congress.

A more*detailed report of the con-
ference will be found in last week’s
News. 4



References for “Man” Lectures

Referenée books for the series of
lectures on “The Nature of Man,”
which. will be begun by Mr. Helson
on Monday, February 8, at 7.30 P. M.
are being placed in the Carola Woeris-
hoffer Room.



The Linguistic _ Discussion
Group -will not meet this week
but will hold its next meeting
_ Tuesday, January 19, in the
Deanery. ‘Miss Fiesel will speak
on Some: Probleme of Transla-

tion.







Miss Fiesel to Spevk Jan. 19 4

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Ballet Shows Césmos



Uday Shan-Kar Brings Dancers
To. Goodhart After Triumph
Here and Abroad



ALTERED REPERTOIRE

After. ‘a triumphant procession
through Europe and Asia,-Uday Shan-
Kar and his Hindu Ballet have re-
turned to America .in a new reper-
toire of solo an@ group numbers,
which they: will present in the Audi-
torium of Goodhart Hall on Thursday
evening, February 4.

In spite of changes wrought by both



retained. the exotic beauty and ex-
treme delicacy which characterized
its former presentation in the United
States.. The’opening Sunday in New
York-was attended by a capacity audi-
ence which was loud and insistent in
its demonstrations of approval.

company since its last. engagement in
America, -.adds% according to John
Martin, o e Times, a “vital kind
of nervous energy and an earthier
temperament,” to the “subtlety, no-
bility and serenity of Shan-Kar.”’
The dances themselves contain the
core of the cosmos as perceived by
the Hindu for thousands of years.
They deal with love, the. gods, reli-
gious ritual and the soil, and are pre-
sented against the rich pageantry of
traditional. costumes and orchestral
music.
Tickets for the performance are:
For the College—Front ~ section,
$1.50., Back, $1.25. ‘
Outside—Front section; $2.00. Back,
$1.50. ey
bulcJny (unreserved and for
lege only), $1.00.

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SYSTEM OF REQUIREDS
IS APPROVED BY DEAN



Music Room, January 7.—The tra-
ditional system of required courses in
as small a college as Bryn Mawr is
a distinct advantage, Mrs. Manning
stated in chapel as her personal re-
action to the current controversy on
required courses. Most people will
agree, she. feels, that the requireds, as

and alumnae certain common angles
of approach.

The best kind of required course is
obviously one of general interest. A
science, for instance, gives. the stu-
dent,an idea of the scientific method

as a whole arid of deductive reason- |

ing. Its second requisite is that it
should leave some kind of permanent
impression. Little is remembered of
a general history course unless
branches of it are later studied in
detail. On the other hand, literature
is retained more accurately without
being followed up because it often has
a personal emotional coloring at-
tached to it. For,this reason require-
ments in literature have an advantage.
Finally a required course should have
freshness and give the student a. new
milieu in which to move. The charm
of first-year philosophy, which is
rarely studied in school; consists in
its novelty. English literature is in-
cluded in the preparatory school cur-~

in college, is not as fresh a subject
as philosophy. Yet there is: reason
to believe that in time English litera-
ture as a required course can be given
with new angles.



MR. FENWICK RETURNS
FROM .BUENOS AIRES



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Mr. Fenwick returned on January

8 from. South America, where he has
been attending the Peace Conference
as a delegate. On his return trip he
flew from Buenos Aires across to the
hve and then

up the crest of Andes.

‘Mr. Fenwick: hopes to be able to give

Ja talk like a “Current. Events” either

this week or next about this flight





and about the. work. of the conferences

As Seen by Hindus

they stand now, give yndergraduates |

riculum and, though given more fully .

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time and intent,-the performance has |

Madhavan, a dancer new to the

’

The flight ~
took five days, and was “thrilling.” —







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: | Time to Change ~
The new final examinations seem never to exhaust’ their house-
cleaning effect upon all the details of college life. The unsatisfactory
system of changing student officers late in the spring is the latest out-
worn gas jet unearthed in the campus household. Officially students
and administration approve or “view with interest” the proposal to
move the time of change up to midyears, but the students at large have
as.yet shown no reaction.

Against the present arrangement of turning over offices in April
opponents urge that new officers have no time at the short end of the
_year to initiate policies and action, ‘Those weeks are entirely wasted,
the heads.of two major organizations reported to the Council. Juniors:
do not begin to assume their responsibilities m the college community
soon enough under the existing plan. With seniors in office until
almost the bitter end, they tend to hold back their abilities.” The most
cogent argument is that seniors preparing for their examinations and
devoting all energies to what they and the faculty trust is fairly mature
work, do*not want the routine burdens of office occupying more valu-
able time. With the final exams almost a reality, the need for an abso-
lutely clear path for seniors in their second semester has become obvious.

Some -seniors oppose the new. proposal because they feel that if
they. did relinquish offices at midyears they would feel retired. from
-active college life’ before their time had come. Juniors*regard the idea

with distrust because they realize that under the watchful eyes of an
experienced senior innovations would be difficult and mistakes over-
emphasized. These are, however, objections frop custom and need not
necessarily be’ felt after the new plan had been working for. two.or three
\ years.
. ~ If juniors did take over-the-major-offices_at_midyears, they would
require a certain period in which to learn the technicalities of the new
job and a certain amount of guidance from the retiring officer on mis-
takes not to be made, To meet this objeetion the compromise proposal
has come up that there be a month’s lag between the elections and. the
actual turnover of office, in which the retiring senior as a kind of
honorary chief could. advise in case of need. Whether this proposal
- meets the demand for counsel without opening up confusing duplication
of work and unfair intrusion by the seniors is a point tidleciged , by
campus opinion.

Whether exceptions should be made in the plan, if it senead
unworkable in certain organizations such as the League, remains to be
discussed by the Council. . The advisibility of making this change of
office at midyears applies to all college offices except class officers is
another uncertain. aspect of the éase. It would, however, confuse the
internal organization of the entire college to limit the field. The great-
est benefits of the new plan would come from its rearrangement of the
four years in college to one half year of adjustment, three years of
active community work, and a half year of concentrated study and
lesisurely enjoyment of what each girl has liked most in college. The
whole prospect of senjor year has become more adult with the advent
of comprehensives; relieving the last part of the year of managerial
duties would complete the matter in a way profitable to si



New M ajor

~ ‘When the Social Economy ‘Department was first inaugurated under
the Carola Woerishoffer fund, Miss Thomas and Miss Kingsbury
believed ‘that, only students with maturity and previous training would
be capable of undertaking the work, and it. was therefore placed in the

Graduate School. Today, however, social problems fascinate younger minds as well
as older ones. Other colleges’ recognize this change of thought and
~~ offer their students under; luate major courses in social studies.
Bryn Mawr as yet has no such course, although she has realized the
‘importance of the study in economics and has met the demands of

changing trends in education by placing this course before. the students. |
2 Af Bryn Mawr yielded to this demand for new fields of learning, it is
essential that she carry the process one step further.

Inthe past, pupils interested in sgcial economy I have had to major
either in economics or psychology and take minor courses in the social
studies. hie vise het. trove! wseesitegiery, boston 5 Sannele Ss

Public Opinion | ,

[Editor's Note: The News regrets
that the letter sent by campus mail
over six weeks ago was never received.
Rr. Diez very kindly euppied a carbon

copy. |
To the Editor of College News:

The- requirement ofa reading
knowledge of French and German is
dictated -by the Faculty of Bryn Mawr
College, and the “merits and weak-
nesses of such a requiremnt are~not
a matter for the German Department
to defend. Your invitation to express
ourselves, however, we gladly accept.
. Our duty, as we see it, is to help
students with this requirement. We
find it an arduous task; but we think
we are making fairly good progress.
‘I well remember that in the year when
I came to Bryn Mawr, over fifty stu-
dents out of eighty who took the ex-
amination in May failed. I remem-
ber it because it was a- severe blow
to my pride as a teacher, for I was
the unfortunate who had been trying
to teach students a reading knowledge
of German, and there was never a
failing .student...who- was -more—de-
pressed’ than I was that spring. To
be sure, it was teaching under ‘dif-
ficulties, for the course was a so-called
“rapid-reading” course, in which great
quantities of fiction were assigned and
conferences held once a fortnight on
this reading. It was very thoroughly
extra-curricular: not only did the stu-
dents receive no credit for it, but they
had received no credit for the three-
hour elementary course that had pre-
ceded it, and their attendance in either
was purely voluntary.

Compared with those days, our pres-
ent “extra-curricular reading _ course
seems to be doing a fairly good job;
certainly not more than ten per cent
of the students who took if in the last
two years have failed. In addition to
that, during the last two years, some-
what more than thirty per cent of our
students have succeeded in passing the
examination after only one year of
elementary German (for which the
Faculty has~conceded one unit of
credit), and we expect to improve on
this record in the future, for we have
not ceased working on the problem.
There has been no weakening in the
standard of the examination, rather
the opposite. I have been the constant
member on the German Committee for
ten years and I have noted the ten-
dency to tighten up as the students
improve.

Now as to the question of “lasting
knowledge” in language work: such a
thing does not exist. And I am glad
of this opportunity to repeat here
what I never fail to bring to the at-
tention of my students: Neglect your



vanish away from you. The entire
investment of time and energy is lost
to the student who does not form the
habit of reading in the foreign lan-
guage. And the method of acquisition
—whether by a course or by cramming
(and our elementary course is cram-
ming), makes vary little difference in
this sad truth. I have seen immi-
grants forgetting even their mother
tongue in less than a decade where
there was not opportunity to use it.
You cannot put your language pro-
ficiency\in storage. It must be used,
or it will be gone in a short time, and
that is why the Faculty rules that
students shall show such—proficiency
at the time when they are about to
begin their advanced work, in which
they are éxpected to use their foreign
languages, namely, in their. junior
year.

As to-substituting the requirement
of a course in German literature for
the examination, that would not: only
put considerable restrictions on the
student who, under the present plan,
is atleast free to get her reading
knowledge wherever and in whatever
way she pleases, but it would, on the
other hand, not answer the purpose of
the Faculty ‘as well, as may be seen
from the fact that even students who
have passed First Year German and
sometimes also Second Year German

French or German, and it will surely |

Resignation cane
The College News regrets to
announce the resignation - of
Mary Whalen, ’37, as assistant
on the Business Board.







have failed the ak The lan-
guage of German poetry and even

‘German prose fiction is very different
from that of scholars, not only in
vocabulary, but also and especially in
sentence structure, and so a student
who wants to read scientific, historical
or philosophical texts must see that
she gets some training in this kind
of reading.

Finally, as to the confession of stu-
dents that they cannot read German
or French after they have passed the
oral4, we are aware that our examina-
tion of ninety minutes is not a perfect
instrument, and that a few ‘slip
through who ought not to pass (just
as some few fail who really read well
enough), still my impression is that,
on the whole, it works fairly well, and
that to get more perfect. results: a
very much more time-consuming test
would have to be devised. And when
I hear these confessions, as they are
made from time-to-time to other mem-
bers, of the Faculty, who,,are offer-
ing foreign language reading, I often
wonder how many*of these students
have really made a sincere and willing
effort, mindful of the fact that in any
foreign author, with whose style the
reader is not yet. familiar, the first
five pages will require about as much
effort as the next fifty, and these fifty
as’ much as the next five hundred,
mindful also that we cannot expect to
read a language on which we have
spent a part of our time for twelve
months with: anything like the ease
with which we read our mother tongue
which we have used for twelve long
years. Reading French and German
does require effort, and when a thing
requires effort, it is very easy to pér-
suade one’s self that one cannot do it.
I must confess to a slight suspicion
that some of these students may be—
not shirking, but just following the
path of less resistance. If I am wrong
in this, I want to be set right, and I
shall appreciate a word from each and
every student now in this college who
has passed her orals and subsequently
failed in a genuine and earnest effort
to read a German book. And if she
will further tell me what book and
what the circumstances, we may pos-
sibly be able to find the remedy.

Max DIEz.

In Philadelphia





Theaters
Erlanger: Dead End, through Sat-
urday.
~ Chestnut Street: Fulton of Oak
Falls, starting Monday with George:
Cohan.

Locust: Tobacco Road, starting
Monday. | oe

Locust (inet It Can’t Happen
Here.

Forrest: D’Oyly Carte Company,

Thursday, Cox and Box and Pinafore;
Friday, Patience; Saturday matinee
and evening, The Gondoliers.

’ Starting Monday, Frederika, mu-

sical comedy by Franz Lekar with
Dennis King.

‘Concert

certo in A minor for Piano and

Orchestra; Schoenberg: Verklaerte
Nacht; Sonzogno: Tango.
Movies

Aldine: Beloved Enemy, with Mevle
Oberon and Brian Aherne:

Boyd: Camille, with Greta Garbo
and Robert Taylér. -, 9.

Earle: The Smartest Girl in Town,
‘with Anne Sothern ‘and Gene Ray-
‘mond.

Fox: College Holiday.

Karlton: The Beloved Vagabond,
with Maurice Chevalier.

Keith’s: One in a Million, swith
Sonja Henie.

Palace: Penniesfrom Heaven, with
Bing Crosby. “

Stanley: The Plainsman, with Gary
Cooper and Jean Arthur.





The department itself can organize





e student -body must be obtained to carry the|
ere as published in the News will)

When such a condition of dissatisfaction arises, it is the duty of||
the students to gather their forces behind the movement for extending
the Social-Eeonomy Department as a major course to ‘undergraduates. |

a scholarly and worthwhile plan of

study to be added to the curriculum. Any suggestions the faculty may
have to offer will be welcomed by all those interested in social studies. |} _



}| with Lee Tracy.

Stanton: Wanted: Jane

Victoria: Winterset, with Burgess

opinions of crities in general, this de-
partment feels that the movie version
has lost much,of the power of the
‘stage version’ by discarding both
unities of time and place. ‘This theory
may sound academic, but the play
gained greatly by the-dramatic value_
of the gradual conivergence of all
characters implicated in the tragedy
to one spot.
movie.

Europa: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,

chosen by ‘the New York: film critics
as the best motion picture of 1936.
In Howard. Barnes’ opinion it is “a
beautifully wrought and brilliantly
acted photoplay, moving as well as
humorous, and. setting a magnificent
pattern for film comedy in a year
noted for its harliquinades. It had a
definite purpose, if no ringing mes-
sage, and it achiéved its objectives
superbly.”
‘Local Movies

Seville: Wednesday, Vuliant is the-
Word for Carrie, with Gladys George;
Thursday, -Wedding Present, with
Joan Bennett and Cary Grant; Frie
day and Saturday, Theodore Goes
Wild, ‘with Irene Dunne; Sunday,
Wives Never Know, with Mary Boland
and Charles Ruggles; Monday, Tues-
day and Wednesday, Love on the Run,

Franchot Tone; Thursday, Sitting’ on
the Moon, with Grace Bradley and
Roger Pryor. }
Wayne: Wednesday, Love in Exile,
with Clive Brook and Helen Vinson;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Love
on the Run, with Joan Crawford,
‘Clark Gable and Franchot- Tone; Sun-
day, Wedding Present, ’ with Joan
Bennett: ‘and | ‘Cary Grant; Monday
and Tuesday, Valiant is the Word. for
Carrie, with Gladys George; Wednes-
day, Gentleman From Louisiana, with
Charles Henry; Thursday, Friday and .
Saturday, Born to Dance, with Elea-
rior Powell.
Ardmore:

Wednesday, Thursday,

kFriday and Saturday, Born to Dance,

with Eleanor Powell; Sunday, Ad-
venture in -Manhattan, with Jean
Arthur and Joel McCrea; Monday,
Higegjoay . Girl, with Martha Raye;
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
The Garden of Allah, with Marlene
Dietrich and Charles Boyer.



FACULTY: AT LARGE





Mr. Sprague, of the English De-
partment, has been elected to the Play-
ers’ Club of New York City.

Miss Lograsso, of the Italian De-
partment, attended a meeting of the
Modern. Language Association - of
America ifi Richmond, Va., during the
Christmas vacation, presiding as
chairman of the Discussion Group in
Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Literature.

Miss. Lehr, of the Department of
Mathematics, was present at Duke
University and the University of
North Carolina, where meetings of the
American Mathematical Society and
the Mathematical Association of
America were held. |
Shortly before the Christmas holi-

' |days Mr. Helson, of the Psychology
Serly: Symphony; Schumann: Con-.

Department, gave a lecture to a group

Standards on the topic, Specification
of Film and:Surface Colors. He also
attended meetings in Atlantic City. of
the Psychology Section of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science and recently lectured be-
fore the Artists’ Union in Philadel-
phia.
Mr. MacKinnon, also of the Psy-
chology Department, read a paper be-
fore a meeting of the Topological Pey-
chologists in Cambridge.

Miss Kraus is conducting an In-

Pennsylvania State _ Conference of
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Curriculum Committee .

Asks for Opinions



Réquired English Probtem~Under}-

Discussion ‘at Present

The "Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee publishes below a list of
its members. They have been chosen
to represent the various departments
as well as to express the feeling of
their several halls on. the subjects to
be discussed by the committee. It-is
hoped that students will take note ‘of
the members who are most accessible
to them and’to whom they can offer
their opinions most easily. The meet-
ing of the committee and the sub-

Bigger urider discussion will be an-

nounced: in time to give those in-
terested: an opportunity to convey
At
present the committee is anxious to
stimulate intelligent controversy on
the matter of Required Courses, espe-
cially Required Sophomore English.

But the..committee will also welcome |:

suggestions on any subject connected
with the curriculum and will be glad
to hold a meeting at any time to dis-
cuss such suggestions.

Denbigh: Margaret Lacy, ’87
(chairman), Latin; E. Welbourne, ’38,
Politics; M. Flanders, ’37, Philosophy.
_ Merion: iL Brown, ’37, History;
W. Safford, ’87; History; R. Baldwjn,
37, Economics. :

Rockefeller: R. Raymond, ’37, Eng-
lish; R. Levi, ’87, Sociology, Phy-
chology, Education; E, Hardenbergh,
87 (ex officio), Biology and Chem-
istry.

and consulting service of his organi-

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DR. WELLS ‘COMPLETES
FIELD TRIP’ ARTICLE|



In:.addition.-to the: field trips de-"
scribed in‘ last week’s. College News,
the. course in Public Administration
makes use of such features. During
the past.semester thé class visited the
offices of the Pennsylvania Economic,
Council, where the director, Mr. .Rob-«4
ert D. Dripps, explained the research

zation, the aim of which is to im-
prove state and_ local government in
Pennsylvania. The class also went
through the national headquarters of



Pembroke East: H. Cotton, ’87,
English; C. Leighton, ’38, History of
Art and Archaeology; L. Herron, ’39,
German; M. Hauck, ’37, French; E.
Huebner, ’37, Economics.

Pembroke West: M. Bakewell, ’38,
Biology; J. Irish, ’389, Mathematics and

Physics.
Non-resident: D. Hood, ’37.
Executive Committee: M. Lacy, ’873

V. Safford, ’°37; A. Raymond, ’38.
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Players’ Club Eléctions
The Playefs’ Club announces
the’ election of Gertrude. Leigh-
ton, ’88, as president, and Hul-

. dah Cheek, ’38, vice-president.







the Census af Business in Philadel-
This is an undertaking carried
Yon by the United States Bureau of the
Census and one that employs hundreds
of WPA workers. The elaborate fabu-

lating and computing machines were

especially interesting. Other off-cam-
pus events of the course were a lec-
ture by Miss Gertrude Ely, state di-
dector for Pennsylvania of women’s
and professional activities tinder the
WPA; and.a session of the American
Academy of Political and Social Sci-
ence on Public Personnel “Problems.
Mrs. George Gellhorn, a distinguished
Bryn Mawr alumna and chairman of
the Personnel Campaign Committee of
the National League of Women Vot-
ers, was one of the speakers.
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part of the Sorbonne in Paris; -and
under certain scholars in Vienna. For
the graduate student who has chosen
her field for specialization Smith, Rad-

excellent courses.

The girl who plans to enter museum
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the vocation. She must content her-
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must give her opinions when. called
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must be prepared to liye on a small
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Current Events.

Common. Room, Jaruary 12.—The’
monetary policies’ of the European
countries can be divided into three
groups: the “sterling group,’ which
includes England and _ the Scandan-
‘avian nations which maintain stability
among themselves; the group led by
Germany, which have only the ap-
pearance of stability; and finally, the
“gold bloc,” led by France.

Last fall the United States, Great

Britain and France, in a_ tri-party
agreement, issued a statement ‘of their
intention to fix an_ international
monetary standard to create stability.





}Philosophy Club Hears
“a : Mathematical Lecture



Incompatibility - of — Math, — Logic
Discussed by Helmer-

At the last meeting of the Philoso-

phy Club, before the Philosophy .and

Mathematics Departments, Dr. Olaf

Helmer, formerly of Berlin and’Cam-
bridge, England, spoke on the logical
foundations of mathematics.
»Mathematicians for a long*time con-
sidered. themselves superior to logici-
ans and thought that mathematics
could, never be attacked as to its con-
sisten¢y’ by logic. However, taking
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‘[he question is; how far are these
Prange prepared. to go to maintain
\atfixed rate of exchange? There are

two reasons ‘why such a standard
would not be kept: first, because the
international standard would: con-
flict with the nationalistic policies of
countries like Grmany; second, be-
cause by abandoning international
standards greater internal prosperity
of the countries directly concerned
would be made possible.

The real importance of the recent
developments. in currency stabiliza-
' “tion lies.in the fact that devaluation
brought the different currencies into
relations which can perhaps be main-
tained.



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proposition, Dr. Helmer proved logic-
ally the ability of. logic to challenge
mathematics.

Bertrand Russell first attempted to
solve this incompatibility of logic and
mathematics by logica. He failed be-
cause certain mathematical symbols
had no counterpart. in logic. A sec-
ond.attempt was made by Brouwer by
Intuitionism. But he restricted the
seope-of-mathematics too radically by
excluding all indirect mathematical
proofs.

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“the initial material,” the “formation
rules” and the “transformation rules.”

| By these ‘Hilbert attemped to show

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this rule. While giving a course in
Hilbert’s Formalism a British logician
came” across~-the--paper..by..Gadel, a
Vienese now at the Institute of Ad-
vanced Learning at Princeton, which
refuted Hilbert. He announced to his
class that he would not“continue the
course.in Formalism, but that the rest
of the year would be spent in a study
of its refutation. Godel’s paper starts
with the~proposition that “mathemat-
ics is consistent,” and translating this
into arithmetical symbols, he has been
able to show, that the truth of thi
proposition is undecidable. ;

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Clean-Up Under.Way

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through the books they-note the pages
that are torn or on which there are

ink blots. ~ These will be gone ‘over
again. from the girls’ notes. Some
boéks have amazing markings. One

economics text: was found to have
girls’ faces drawn over the printed
page. Another had Princeton and
Yale printed all over it and was com-
plete with addresses! :
Miss Terrien is supervising the
cleaning and Miss Reed is supphying
the actual cleaning materials.
Members of the Library. Staff and
students dn duty on the Reserve Room
have also helped in cleaning the books.

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