College news, December 7, 1938

Chowih of Nazi

mented and made more definite by the

* Anti-Semitism, and also anti-Slavism,

_the Players Club will present Arms

in the old ‘tradition. iC

Raina Petkoff...... Sarah Meigs, ’39
Catherine Petkoff.Eleanor Emery, ’40
Loukas ser ese ee os Phyllis Wright, ’41
‘Bluntschli.......Gove Hambidge, ’42

; Sergius....5<6. Wilfred Simmons, ’41
~—~Major Petkoff. . .....Lowell King, ’42
fo Seer Malcolm Smith, ’41
Officer . ee inven - Maurice sana "41

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Ideas Outlined
By | Wiskemann



National Socialism Existed
Before the Treaty
Of Versailles

—— oo

GERMAN INFLUENCE
IN EAST DISCUSSED

‘Music Room, Goodhart; December 1.
—Elizabeth Wiskemann gave the
Mallory Whiting Webster history lec-
ture for the year on the subject:
National Socialism in Central Europe.
After stating her belief that national
socialism is not as much a product
of the Treaty of Versailles as is com-
monly thought, she described the de-
velopment of this ideology in Austria,
not Germany, throughout the 19th cen-
tury. Miss Wiskemann then discussed
‘the influence of. national socialism in
the other middle European countries
at the present time. ‘.

“Hitler himself has contributed no
single fdea to national socialism,” said
Miss Wiskemann. Emphasis on the

racial and linguistic unity of the Ger-
man people was laid in the nationalist
revival of the early 19th century.
The desire for individual freedom,
, which was dominant in many other
countries at this time, was largely ab-
sent from the German government.

* Bismarck’s expulsion of Austria
from the empire in 1866 ‘sets the
actual beginning of national socialism.
The Germans in Austria, exiled from
their national home, developed a
strong racial feeling, which was aug-



industrial developments of the time.

were added to their ideology because
the great Austrian entrepreneurs were
Jewish, and because Slavic laborers
were willing to work for less than the
Germans. ¥

These principles were first enumer-
ated in ‘their present form by Schoe-
nerer, a deputy in the Austrian par-
liament. He also attacked the inter-
nationalism of the Hapsburg dynasty
ted the power of the Roman
hurch. Since the Germans







Players Club to Give
‘Arms and the Man’

On Saturday night, December 10,



and the Man, by Gegrge Bernard,
Shaw. Masculine parts will be taken
by members of the Cap|and Bells Club,
of Haverford. The play is a farce
laid in Bulgaria in the “eighties,”
amid the joyous atmosphere of mili-
tary heroes and romantic girls. In-
trigues, officers in ‘splendid uniforms
and bizarre Bulgarian wallpaper also
contribute their share to the general
effect.

Various problems have confronted
the property manager, Olivia Kahn,
41, who has had great difficulty in
securing such articles as @ Turkish
coffee pot, a hookah, and pistols. One
property problem was solved when
an undergraduate, entering the Kings’
house for a conference on Contempor-
ary Verse, spied two pistols in the
hall. :

The scenery manager,
Bell,

Margaret

ian and “Viennese, expressed; in one
, set, through violent shades of peacock
’ and purple. We also understand that
she had to build a Nuremberg stove

Gertrude Leighton, ’38, is directing,
assisted by Fifi Garbat, ’41. The cast
is as follows:

39, had to design sets which |
"would be a mixture of cheap Bulgar-

Jades of Ancient China
Discussed byDr.Salmony



Lecture Describes Development
Of Earlier Primitive Forms
Into ' True Naturalism



The Deanery, Nov. 30.—In his sec-
ond lecture, Dr. Alfred Salomy dis-
cussed the jades of ancient China,
Their historical and artistic develop-
ment parallels that of the bronzes he
described in his earlier lecture.

Almost the only way: of discovering
the style, symbolism and periods of
antique jades, he emphasized, is by
the comparison of inscriptions and
dated ‘material “from excavations.
Dated material is very rare, since
very few pieces have clearly defined
origins. Much collecting has _ been
done because of purely literary and
artistic enthusiasm.

The earliest pieces belong to neo-
lithic times and show the childish and
stammering naturalism common to all
primitive peoples. Later, during the
Chang period (1400-1100 B.C.), this
naturalism is organized and acquires
a-more formalistic character. The
period was not essentially opposed to
nature, but its ‘art was religious, ex-
pressing a complicated ritual of fe-
cundity and fertility. The objects
were so crowded with magic symbols
that naturalism was impossible.

After 1100, during the period of
early Western Chou dominance, the
elaborate Chang ritual lost signifi-
cance, and as a result the jade de-
signs became more realistic, with
fewer complications and magical pat-
terns. In the period of unrest. and
sub-division after 950, art became
still. more impoverished and less so-
phisticated. Features were simplified.
Pattern consisted largely of meanders
without significance. Most of the
complicated symbolism was gone: only
the elementary forms of-the tiger, bird
and demon were left. The bird repre-
sented light and the tiger darkness,
cosmological forces grouped about the

demon. All were standardized, with

Continued on Page Four
1?



Dean Believes America
Is Safe From Fascism



Race Consciousness is of Less
Significance. Over Here
ey

Music Room, November 1.—In com-
menting on fascism in America, Dean
Manning , was cenfident that the
fascist tendencies in this country
would never be a serious menace.

The chief causes of the growth of
fascism are the feaf of Communism

he cultivation of race hatred.
raph movements such as the Ku

KIW@x Klan and the form of Commu-

, nism manifested in the Cleveland sit-

down strike, have their place in
America, Such highly organized
movements as these are dangerous,
but will never attain importance as
they can only touch upon the griev-
ances of a very limited section of the
country. They are defeated because
of having only local and not national
significance.

America mote than any other coun-
try, has had to deal with the problems
connected with a.population of mixed
races, yet America has the least race
consciousness. The intense racial con-
flict in Europe is due to the constant
fear of the domination. of some other

race. -
Continued on Page Four



Bruegel Exhibition

The Art Club, in copnection
with the History of Art Depart-
ment, ,will present an exhibition .
of reproductions of the work of
Peter Bruegel, December 11, at .
4 p. m. in the Common Room.
Louise. Thompson, 739, — will
speak. Tea will be served and
it is hoped t students will
bring guests who might be in-
“terested. This exhibition is the
first in a series of prints and
originals which will be pre-
sented throughout the year. «: .

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I! Dance in the gymnasium till 2

) girls.



COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, December 8—Art
Club exhibition and tea. Com-
mon Room, 4.30. William Dun-
can Strong will speak on Early
Man in the New World. Dean-
ery, 8.30.
- Friday, December 9.— Dress
rehearsal for Arms and the
Man. Goodhart, 8.30. Peace
Council Spain and China Party
_ and Faculty-Student Skit. Gym-
nasium, 8.30. =
Saturday, December 10.—Tea
Dance. Rhoads, 4.30. Arms
and the Man. Goodhart, 8.30.

a. m.
Sunday, December 11.—

Christmas Service. Goodhart,

7.45.

- Monday, December 12:—Ruth

Draper. Goodhart, 8.30.

Tuesday, December 13.—Phil-
osophy Club meeting. Common
Room, 4.30. .Current Events.
Miss de Laguna will speak on
The Federal Government’s -In-
dian. “Policy. Common Room,
7.30. German Club Play. Com-
mon Room, 8.30. Maids’ carol
singing, 9 p. m.

Wednesday, December lben
International Club meeting.
Common Room, 7.30: '

Friday, December 16.—Vaca-
tion begins, 12.45.

Marriage Council Holds
Philadelphia Session

Possibility of Giving Marriage
Courses in More Colleges
Is Discussed











The First Conference of the Phila-
delphia Marriage Council. was held on
November 16, in Philadelphia... This
meeting is of particular interest to
Bryn Mawr since the question of a
marriage course to be given here has
lately come up before the curriculum
committee. The latter feels that be-
fore anything definite can be done,

‘Campus opinion as to the desirability

of such a course and the field it should
cover must be expressed. The class
in statistics may attempt to get this
information through questionnaires of
some sort or other.

The morning session of the Mar-
riage Council’s meeting consisted of
various. speeches on the work done in
Philadelphia through courts, schools,
radio, etc., on the topic of prépara-
tion for marriage. In the afternoon
there were four sessions by the Youth,
Educational (for which Dr. Leary
spoke), Medical and Religious groups.

In the Educational Group discussion

six aspects of a marriage course were
Cgntinued on ease Four

INDUSTRIAL GROUP
HEARS ABOUT C. I. O.

German House, December 2.—At its
second meeting this year, the. Indus-
trial Group discussed and compared
the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. There
were no formal speakers, but the
large number of students present kept
the discussion up both by asking ques-
tions and by contributing information.
Owing to conflicts with union meet-
ings, fewer industrial girls were
presgnt than usual.

The discussion centered around
three topics: the history of the C. I,
O. and why and how it separated from
the A. F. of L., the differences be-
tween the two and the possibilities of
uniting.

The meeting was notable for. its
lack. of bias and violent argument,





|and for the amount of information

given by both students and industrial

social economy department, answered
questions and’ joined in the discussion,
as did Beatri¢e Sachs;’41, and Helen
Resor, ’42, who had been asked ‘to
look up material on the A. F. of L.,
and Emily. Cheney, ’40, who had been
asked to study the C. I. 0. :

The next meeting will be held
JSnufry 6, on the subject of the







at | French labor. situation. _

_ | haustible material for light- hearted

Miss Mildred Fairchild,cof the |/

Paul Hazard § peaks
On. French Authors

Visiting Professor Discusses La
Fontaine and Giraudoux

And Their Works

Goodhart, December 5.—In_intro-
ducing his lecture, M. Paul Hazard,
of ‘the Collége de France, announced
that he would: follow a simple plan:
Jean de La Fontaine—et Jean Girau-
doux—et Jean de La Fontaine et Jean
Giraudoux.

Jean de La Fontaine: is above all
a familiar poet: children -first learn
his fables by heart, then analyze them
at school, only to fully appreciate
their wisdom when they reread them
later on. As a poet he is fresh, wise
and colorful, presenting all aspects of
humanity in simple, pleasant scenes.
In much the same way his whole life
appears as a series of agreeable pic-
tures. |
’ A Frenchman -jn the purest sense,
he was born of a bourgeois, farming
family at Chateau-Thierry. Legends
attesting absent-mindedness immedi-
ately began to grow up about him. As
a young man he became attached to
the household of Fouquet, an_ inter-
esting position at a time when ‘teven-
teenth century France was beginning
to form itself. He is perhaps most
likable of all as ‘an old man, wise,
philosophic, but not without regrets.

Jean Giraudoux has the appearance
and vitality of. a tall, lanky adolescent.
He has had a varied career, giving
up professorial ambitions after at-
tempting an agrégation in German
to go into the foreign service where
he held numerous positions. His first
book; Amica America, came ‘out in
1909; a novel Suzanne et le Pacifique
appeared shortly after the war. A
still greater success in the theatre
followed with Siegfries et: le Limousin
Amphitryon and La Guerre de Troic
r-aura pas Lieu. His last play, Can-
tiques des Cantiques, was recently pro-
duced by the Comédie’ Francaise.

Giraudoux likes to play with words,
Continued on Page Two

All-Star Faculty Cast
To Present Our Village









Wilder’s Play Furnishes Basis for
Bryn Mawr Parody



The main feature of the ‘Peace

Chest Party on Friday night will be :

or, more intimately,
Your Campus. -It has borrowed a few
obvious characteristics, from Mr.
Wilder’s well-known play: a modicum
of scenery, a Néw England Stage’
Manager (Barbara Bigelow, ’39), and
two ladders. Otherwise it is indebted
to Bryn Mawr, which supplies inex-

Our Village,

satire. a

The cast of Our Village is steddes
with faculty luminaries. Mrs. Man-
ning plays the part of Mrs. Manning,
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins of Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins. Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Lat-
timore, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Watson,
Mr. Weiss, Miss Cary, Miss Hender-
son, Miss Terrien and Mrs. Woodrow
all play themselves. The exception
who proves the rule is.Miss Linn, in
the role of Miss Frances -Perkins.

The skjt has'such a slight plot that
it would be useless describe it. It
adheres mildly to Mr. Wilder’s central
boy-meets-girl theme, but this never
threatens for a moment to run away
with it. On the other hand, it is full
of social significance and is bolstered
up by numerous songs and a dance,
in which the -whole cast takes part.
One of the songs will be sung by Mrs.
Manning and Mr. Crenshaw, whose
vocal talents are said to have brought
down many houses.
If Our Village shows signs of pall-
ing, the members of its cast will make
allowances for anyone who -would
rather look at the drawings by Span-
ish children or consume cider and
doughnuts in’ the gymnasium anti-
chamber. Officially, both will be avail-
able after the main performance. Any
intermissions in Our Village will be
unintentional and will not call for a

College Hears

Kreisler Play
- In Goodhart

Varied Program .Comprises
Both Classical and
Modern Works

PLAYING COMBINES
FEELING AND TONE







Goodhart, December 1.—The .col-
lege was privileged last Thursday
evening to hear Fritz Kreisler, most
beloved and, in the opinion of many,
the greatest violinist of our time, in
a program for the benefit of the Tar-
sus dig. He was greeted with an en-
thusiasm rarely heard here; and nois-
ily applauded after each number, par-
ticularly by the balcony. He asked
afterwards who-was up there, and said
simply, learning it was students: “I
played to them.”~ Goodhart, he -
thought, was the most beautiful place
in which he had ever appeared. Mu-
tual enthusiasm of audience and per-
former led As the: addition of four en-
cores to an already generous program
of classical and modern compositions
for violin and piano.

He played first the well-known Dev-
il’s Trill, which Tartini wrote some
two hundred years ago, supposedly in
recollection of a dream in which the
devil played to him; The opening sec-
tion was wonderfully full and even in
tone, but the violin part grew more
and more virtuosic, demanding trills
and double stops in such profusion
that it seemed’ there must be more ,
than one instrument there. The Bach
Chaconne for violin alone gave Mr.
Kreisler an opportunity to prove his
famed musicianship. Through all the
complicated embroidery he kept the
theme clearly defined and never let its
dignity become secondary to technical
considerations. Depth of feeling and
beauty of tone in legato and staccato
alike made this rendering memorable.

The next.:selection, Viotti’s twenty-
second Concerto, is seldom played apd
cannot be called one of the great com-
positions for violin. It seems to be

uncommonly well suited to the instru-
Continued on Page Three

Ruth Draper to Make
Goodhart Appearance





On Monday, December 12, Ruth
Draper will give a performance in
Goodhart for the first time. Miss
Draper’s reputation as a diseuse out-
ranks that*of any other artist in her
field. She has appeared abroad in-
numerable times, and her monologues .
are a great-success in all countries,
although the majority of them are in
English. Occasionally she gives mono-
logues in a kind of gibberish intended
to give the effect of a strange lan-
guage, but not intended to mean any-
thing literally. It seems that once a
foreigner in the audience reproved her
after such a performance, intimating
that her language was definitely off
color. . Last year she made a tour of
India, Australia and: New Zealand,
where she was enormously appre-
ciated. ,

Miss’ Draper’s exact program for
Monday night is not yet known, but
it will doubtless contain examples of
the various types of monologue. in
which ‘she © excels.

logue where she characterizes a Maine
woman; sometimes as many..as three,
as_in the “Three Generations,” where

‘she represents a grandmother, mother :

and daughter in a Court of Family

a shawl. The atmosphere that Miss
Draper creatés. varies from the intense _
drama of “Three Generations” through’
calmer true-to-life studies, as the one .
where she compares three married
couples of different ages at breakfast.
Throughout. them all her pantomime.
is so vivid that she makes imaginary





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“ In“ these she is —
sometimes one person, as in the mono- -—

Relations, and shifts her identity with

scenes and props almost visible to the —
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Peace Chest Party

be

On Friday night the Peace Council,-members of the faculty and
undergraduates are co-operating in a party for the benefit of the Peace

_Chest. ,
children, a faculty-student skit calle

cider served at convenient intervals.

The party combines an exhibition of drawings by Spanish

d Our Village, and doughnuts and

the Friends Service Committee, will be used to provide for Spanish

refugee children, and for Chinese students.

The money is to be used

for Chinese students primarily because their existence is vital to the
future of China, but this does not mean that needier refugees will be

neglected. All organizations for th

e aid of the Spanish and Chinese

eo are in communication with each other, help each other out, and

nate any extra money to the Red

‘At Bryn Mawr we are heckled
sure used in money-raising, but as
needs we have a wide variety/of cho
ally between one need, and afother,
need at the Axpense ofan
must be a)
rational.
mass




ersonal estimate.

Cross...

as much as anywhere by the pres-
a result of being surrounded by
ices. We are not choosing editori-

or stressing the value of a distant} -
mmediate one; we realize that any choice
It. is true that when money-giving is

ther than emotional, that is, when it is not preceded by
ressions of sympathy or anger, it involves no moral obligation.

n the other hand, whenever it is on an emotional basis, and whenever

‘a group of people has expressed i

ndignation, they must turn their

indignation into practical channels if they mean it to be anything but

vacuous and futile.

The Peace Chest Party is the solution for those who want to act in

_ accordance with their feelings’ -We

have shown that we believe in this

principle by. responding to the appeal for the Refugee Scholarship
Fund. The Peace Chest is so closely related to this that its appeal

should evoke a ‘parallel response. : PA



In Philadelphia
Aldine: The Cowboy and the Lady,
comedy with Gary Cooper, Merle
Oberon and Patsy Kelly.

Areadia: The Great, Waltz, Johann
Strauss musical with Fernand Gravet,
Luise Rainer.

Boyd: Spring Madness Maureen
O’Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Burgess Mere-
dith star in this comedy-romance.

Earle: Up The River with Preston
Foster, Arthur Treacher, Tony Mar-
tin.

Fox: Angels With Dirty Faces, The
Dead End Kids in another melodrama
with James Cagney, Pat O’Brien.

_Karlton: Adventures of Robin
Hood revival of this technicolor film
with Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havil-

Stanley: Out West With the Hardys
with Mickey epsnesich ’



Theatres

Erlanger: A Successful Calamity—
comedy starring Walter Hampden.

Walnut: One Third of a Nation
Federal Theatre’s production of hous-
ing conditions in Philadelphia.

Suburban Movies

Wayne: Tonight, Peter Lorre in
The Mysterious Mr. Moto. Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Deanna. Durbin in
That Certain Age.

Suburban; Wednesday, Thursday,
Katharine Hepburn. and Franchot
Tone in Quality Street. Friday, Sat-
urday, ‘Sunday, Monday, The Dionne
Quintupléts in Five of a Kind.

Seville: Tonight, Speed to Burn
with Michael Whalen. Thursday; Fri-
day, Saturday, Norma Shearer, Ty-
rone Power in Marie Antoinette. oP

Ardmore: Wednesday — Saturday,
You Can’t Take it With You with
Lionel Barrymore. and Jean. Arthur,

.Then froze in horror.

The Peace Chest, affiliated with]



. “a German Clabre. arinual
Z ook Play ;will be given _
in the ‘Common Room on Tues- |

‘day, December. 13, at 8.30. Wy
ter the play the German Housé
‘-will hold open house’ with carol
singing and hot cider punch.

“As before, the play will con-
--atat chiefly of well known Gef-.
_ man earols, sung by Shepherds,

- Angels and Townspeople. The

| Christmas story in the Second -
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German Play: ae

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Spinning Foss
“Walter C. Michels of the
physics department will speak ©
on Spinning Tops in Dalton
Wednesday night at 7.30. The. |
subject was chosen because of
a the particularly spectacular ex-
periments that can bé used for
emonstration. Most members
of the Science Club: will have~
dinner in Denbigh with Mr.
and Mrs. Michels and Mr. and
rs. Patterson. Everyone is in-
ted to come to the lecture-

eaten ORS

=

&

“German Open-House
Das Deutsche Haus ladt Sie ein,
sein Gast am Dienstag Ahend

zu sein.
‘ In Goodhart zuerst ein Krip-
penspiel, ~
dann gibts zu essen, gut und
viel.’ *.

Sie werden bestimmt ‘auf die
Kosten ‘kommen,

Absagen werden nicht angenom-
men.

Eintritt—nulle, nulle.





WIT?S END

DON JUAN







, (Canto XVII. continued)

“Ha!” said Don Juan, “I will not b¢
frust-.
Rated again.”
hall,

He strode along the

Not a single
bust

Stared. at him from the newly-
painted wall.
Yet he could see their faces, grey
with dust...
“Oh, cruel,” he cried. A voice said,
“not at all.”
It was Miss Parka beaming.
busts for me
Have had a very real utility.”

“The

Juan evinced surprise.
he said,
“They would be mouldering on the
topmost floor.”
“This summer when our funds were
limited,” :
Resumed Miss Parka,
was no more :
Limestone (or shist) for Rhoads.
Our able Head
Of.the Building and Graynds Com-
ittee, hunted for
And found, in ancient annals, many
precedents
For using marble in our halls of
residence.”

sie 5 thought,”

“we saw there

“Of course,’ Don Juan said in ad-
miration,
“When I was last in Turkey and
in Greece,
Some time ago,—picture my conster-
nation;
I_liked to_sketch ‘the ruins (faire
une esquisse),
There in the middle of a crenelation
Was a pre-Hellenistic masterpiece,
A bust of Venus.” Miss Parka said,
“Well, you know
The Deanery parking-space was made
with Juno.”
Juan was thunderstruck; without a
word,
He bowed, and made his way to-
wards room E.
No sooner was he in it than he heard
The bearded member of the faculty
I’ve mentioned, say, “Miss Dither, you
demurred,
Yesterday. Now, who-is -Melpo-
mene?
You still don’t know?
would it be very
Out of the way to consult a diction:
ary?”

Miss Dither,

Od

“Come on,” he said to Juan, “we can

go

And get some milk.”
laughed (ha, ha),
“What can I do with people who don’t

She
“

And then he

know
The Apocalypse from the —
crypha, a
Who’ve never, -hedrd of the nine
Muses?” “Jo!” s
Juan was shocked. “ The Legenda
Aurea — :

Is as.dark to them as it is: plain. to me

"§ That .. Chaucer wrote. pretty swell

poetry.”

“Speaking of poetry, I often read
The sonnets of that Mighty Man,

- Shakespeare,”
‘Said ‘Juan in, reply. _ “They: do rot:
need i
- Titles because they’re always crystal
clear;

For instance, 119; are we agreed

It can be understood, and by al

mere Ri ee
Student?” “Of course, but why do
you speak of Him?”



























Drawings by Spanish.
“Children Are Exhibited

Mr. Bernheimer to Talk Thursday
In the Common Room





. An exhibition of pictures Aeuine by
Spanish children. between. the ages of
six and 14 will be shown in the Com-
mon Room this week. They were col-
lected from refugee centers in Spain
and France by Miss Margaret Pal-
mer, representative of the Carnegie
Institute in Spain, and by Mr. José
Weissberger. On Thursday, Decem-
ber eighth, at 4.30 p. m., the Art Club
and the Peace Council are giving a
tea at which Mr. Richard Bernheimer
will speak on the drawings.

Thé pictures are interesting, in one
sense, for the proof they offer that
Spanish children are not lacking in
artistic talent. Mr. Weissberger, who
is brother of the collector and who
brought the pictures to Bryn Mawr,
pointed out that many, of them are
also valuable historical and psycho-
logical documents showing ‘the effect
of | the war on Spanish children of
both sides. They depict subjects
such as the evacuation from burned
cities, the bombing of towns, - and
fights between airplanes and anti-air-
eraft guns. | ae

The Cleveland and Los Angeles
museums have already exhibited the
pictures which have been highly
praised by art critics. Reproductions

_|are now available in a book called

They Still Draw Pictures, which was
sponsored by the American Friends
Senvice Committee, and has an intro-
duction by Alous Huxley. :
The drawings range in price from
two to 35 dollars, but a reduction. of
one-third of the price will be given
to any students who wish-to buy a pic-
ture and donate it to the college. Afr.
Weissberger emphasized the import-
ance of keeping some of these draw-
ings in public collections in colleges
and museums because of their docu-
mentary significance. The _ book,
They Still.Draw Pictures, and some
of the pictures, will also be on sale
at the Peace Chest Party, Friday
night, December ninth. The. proceeds
of both sales are to go to the Peace
Chest, for aid in China and Spain.



Paul Hazard 'S peaks
On French Authors

Continued from Page One



abhors the commonplace and has a
talent for paradox. His writing shows
originality, fantasy, hidden culture, a
certain préciosité and, at times, a
sense of poetry. While not the most
forceful, he is the most original genius
of his generatien and his capricious
grouping of ideas and his force of
metaphor often contain hidden feel-
ing—feeling which, as Mauriac
notices, becomes virulence and rancour
in his theatre.

These two men are brought together
in the group of lectures by Giraudoux
called Les Cinq Tentations de Jean de
La Fortaine. This study has youth
and vitality; it contains many quick,
penetrating ideas. .The main thesis
contends that while all outside in-
fluences stood in the way of his writ-
ing fables, La Fontaine nevertheless
wrote fables; Giraudoux, showing a
tendency to ruw counter to general
opinion, also maintains that La Fon-
taine had no taste for nature or for
poetry or for philosophical thought.

It would seem that Giraudoux is
seeing himself in the person of La
Fontaine. His contention that La
Fontaine’s inspiration came_ solely
from within himself: is primarily an
explanation of his own inspiration. It
is an illustration of his own theory
that the creative artist is directed by a
fatality, within chimself and* that hg
must Yeniain unconscious of outside in-|

fluences.

Giraudoux is apparently too strong
a personality to be a. good critic, but
this, is no reason to condemn the
writer. We should read both La Fon-
taine and Giraudoux, and, by learning
to love their works, develép a judg-

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PUBLIC OPINION

To the College Weis:

To M. R. M. whom I unwittingly
have given something to think about,
I present the /fdllowing, realizing
that even it may contaitr ambiguities
I know not of.

May I add thxt this was written-
before reading M>R. M.’s Guess What
and hence is not about M. R. M.
-(For this construction, see Cohen and
Nagel or any reliable elementary
Logie text book.) — ‘

May I also add that M. R. 4M. has
so convincingly argued, in her review
of. the Lantern, that I agree with her
completely on the subject of’ titles. I
have always felt I would understand
Shakespeare’s ‘sonnet, so arbitrarily
entitled “119,”- if he had called it
Nude Descending the Stairs.*

My poem follows:

Alabama 1918
Speech is a symbol,
And writing is verse
For the mentally nimble,
The mentally terse:







When he who is clever
Attempts to be clear,
He forfeits forever
Cela va.sans dire.
(Signed) M. D.
*Staircase. Ed.

Lantern Bards and News Reviewers
You think we have to be abstract,
But that is really not/the fact.
Although a few of them are buried,
Our talents: really are quite varied.
It isn’t even hard for us
To be extremely obvious.

So I shall tell what’s plain to me
In your straight-forward parody:

First, your form grew not from mean-
ing,
Your thoughts towards ‘words that
_ rhyme are leaning,
And what for cleverness was meant
Is mostly happy accident.

Second, if you know so much,

Why don’t you favor us with such

As you think your better serious
verses _

Instead of mere facetious curses?

We doubt not they are most concrete,

Limpidly expressed in regular feet.

And then we shall try our hand

At inability to understand.

We shall vie with ready wit

In belittling and deriding it.

Thus we shall join the happy choir

Of complacent angels of satire.

(On the other hand, it seems to me
Your prose has an air of authority.
And I detect a certain stench

Of allusiveness and borrowed French.)

When just appraiser stops to snicker
She finds that she defeats her ends.
Unbiased critics do not bicker—
We hear a creak when shd unbends. .
Scintillating wit begins to flicker
‘When to heavy prose its light it
lends,

In her, two foes attempt to dieker—
Critic withy cynic she badly blends.

H. ASC.



ment supple enough to appreciate both
past and present. In short, M. Haz-
ard concluded, “Faites vos humani-
tés.

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The Committee on Selections for
Oxford of the American “Association
of University Women is now receiv-
ing applications for admission to Ox-
ford University in October, 1939, from
women graduates of approved Ameri-
ean colleges and universities. The
women’s colleges at Oxford accept a
few American women each year as
senior students, on- the recommenda-__
tion of this Comgmittee on ‘Selections.
These women must plan.to remain for
at least two years, working toward an
Honours B.A. or toward a higher de-
gree if they have sufficient reagarch’
training.

- Since so few Americans women can
be admitted thus without examina--
tions, the Committee on Selections
hopes to send each year those who
will represent the best in American
education by their training and per-
sonal qualifications as well as by their
intellectual capacity.

Applications will be accepted until
March first,” 1939, and all inquiries
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Party for Camp Children

There is to be a Christmas
party for the Bryn Mawr Camp
children on Moriday, December
12, at 4.80 in the Common Room.
Everyone interested is cordially
invited to come and see the fun.

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PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editor -of the News:

I am. appalled to read that Bryn
Mawr students contemplate the ex-
penditure of 20,000 dollars for squash
courts. After some meditation I can
hardly think of any project on cam-
pus less deserving of such an outlay.
In the face of the present world situa-
tion and the urgent. need for funds
..in Spain, China and German refugee
work, 20,000 dollars for squash courts
seems disproportionate.

There are also far more pressing
local needs—the summer school, the
library wing, theatre workshop, fac-
ulty salaries, etc. We already ~sup-
port so many worthy causes that every
pay’ day leaves us_ in a financial
stupor.

As for the entertaining- men-angle—
since when have there been enough
men around’ Bryn Mawr to justify
such an expenditure for their benefit?
Though the present men are remark-
able more for their quality than their
quantity, we should hate to experi-
ence a flood of squash court slickers.
That type is already amply provided
for at: Vassar.

What percentage of the Bryn Mawr
campus plays squash or has time to
learn? Over half the college never
heard of this squash court plan till
they read about it in last week’s
News. Such a drive should have the
backing of a majority of the college
before it is put into execution..

BARBARA BIGELOW,







39.



To the Editors of the College News:

The U.S. Committee of the Inter-
national Student Service, upon the
réquest of Dr. J. U. Ly, chairman of

the ‘National Student Relief Commit-|~

tee in China, appeals to the colleges

, in America for a sum of $50,000 to

aid 35 colleges in China for the year
1938-1939. To this appeal the Bryn
Mawr College Peace Council has re-
sponded with its vote of co-operation.
~ The $50,000 are urgently needed by
the 85 colleges which have been de-
stroyed in the invasion and whose
students have moved or are moving
into the interior of China. In the
mass migration of civilian’ popula-
- tion, 70..per cent of China’s students
participate. By foot, ox-cart- and
sampan they have traveled more than
one thousand miles, amidst torrid
heat and severe cold, and through a
war-harrassed country often visited
by bombing planes, in order to reach
the western frontier of China, where
they may hope to settle down to study
in bomb-proof caves. One group has
reached Kunming after a continuous
march of 67 days. 1

Most of these studgnts have lost
their own means of supply, and need
food and clothing to keep them from
collapse under the strain. American
friends and fellow-students can help
to keep them alive and can strengthen
their morale. Mr. J. Michael, who
has been sent by the International
: ~Student Service to visit .these stu-

et ~<.ad? inspect the administra-

tiorof last year’s fund of which $18,-
000 were contributed by America,
wrote from Chengtu, Szechuen, “In
the midst of world forces of astound-
ing proportions which are dividing
the world into mutually antagonistic
‘groups, the Fund is strengthening

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Common Room, December 2.—At a
Christmas party, 40 members of the
Bryn Mawr German Club danced and
sang with 30 Princetonians. The plan
had been to dine together as well, but
hospitality had succumbed to hunger

well before 7.30, when Princeton ar-
rived; and was fed separately. Their
bus, in search of Bryn~Mawr, had
taken them first to Baldwin.

A Bavarian orchestra consisting,
together with the piano, of an’ unusu-
ally small violin and large bass vidl,
played for songs ranging from Ein
Prosit to: Stille Nacht, and dancing
from the Blue Danube Waltz to the
Virginia Reel. In the prevailing spir-
it of Gemiitlichkeit feminine cutting
was reasonably effective. Chief handi-
cap to dancing was the quantity of
people. per cubic foot of Commor.
Room. :

There was less singing than at other
German parties. A German’ quintet
opened the program with harmonized
selections, notably Siiss Adelein. Oth.
erwise the singing was chiefly. im-
promptu aspirations of one group or
another during the periods in which
‘the orchestra was recuperating from
the latest effort.

For the decorations, Frau Frank
and the German House members had
suspended evergreen wreaths horizon-
tally from the Common Room ‘chande-
liers, and trimmed them with red rib-
bons and candles to. give a geriuinely
German effect.

f The Diezes said “It»is the nicest
party ever given on the Bryn Mawr
campus.”



the bond of international student soli-
darity across the Pacific.”

Because of the low standard of
living in China and the favorable rate
of exchange, even a small of
American money can do a good deal
for the students in China. Here are
a few examples: :

5 cts.—3 meals for a Chinese stu-

dent.

15 cts.—1 week’s shelter.

student. —
$20 —room and board for 1 year.
$800 —a dormitory providing de-

cent living quarters for

several hundred students.

Last year, out of a poverty dinner

and private contributions, the college

contributed $100 to the Chinese Em-

bassy Refugee Fund® It is +hoped

that this year’s effort will yield a
much greater return.

AGNES CH’EN.

50 cts.—winter clothing for one,
{centres which are’ in Loyalist Spain



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PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editors of the College News:
Through the non-partisan Spanish
Child Feeding Mission of the Ameri-
can Friends’ Service Committee, stu-







dents, alumnae, faculty and staff of
Bryn Mawr last year contributed over
a thousand dollars for relief in Spain.

This is a larger sum than was raised
at any other college. This year the
need of food has increased to such pro-
portions that the Friends have se-
cured from the American Government
60,000,,barrels of flour. A dispatch
from Herbert Matthews to the New
York Times on November 29 tells of
the first distribution of féod in the
schools of Barcelona: “For those who
wanted a vivid impression of war’s be-
hind the lines horrors, there is no

better. method than to go around’

these schools when the bread is given
out. For the first time in Spain the
smallest children are getting rickets.
Last winter they still had reserve
strength to carry them through, but
this is the second bad winter and _ it
is much worse than last.”

The Friends are taking charge of
the shipment of the flour and are try-
ing to secure from the Government
additional flour to feed a million and
a half people. For the shipment. of
food alone they need at least $5000 a
month. They are also making ship-
ments of clothes both to Loyalist and
to Nationalist Spain. The Friends
are also maintaining the three chil-
dren’s clinics and hospitals at Murcia,
Alicante and Almeria, which they
took over last year. At Alicante a
milk clinic has been continued in the
city, but because of air raids the hos-
pital has been moved to the neigh;
boring town of Polops. For a similar
reason the hospital in Almeria has
been given up, but a milk clinic is still
in existence. The more important
hospital of Murcia‘continues to func-
tion, and Professor Gillet has lately
heard from one of the Friends’ work-
ers that there have been as many as
nine thousand refugee children in the
city. It is to the support of these
hospitals and clinics that: the funds
raised. at Bryn Mawr were applied
last year, and the sum which we raised
was sufficient to maintain all three
of them for a month. Like all other
relief administered. by the Friends,
medical treatment and food at these

are provided on a strictly non-parti-
san basis.
Liny Ross TAYLOR,
AGNES CH’EN,
HELEN Coss, 40,
BETSY DIMOCK, ’41y,..
HELEN Bacon, ’40.



The editor = welcomes letters on
timely topics ero it8 subscribers—
or others.



Fritz Kreisler Gives

Recital in Goodhart

eungeilags
Continued from Page One

ment’s scope but has musically no

Though the themes are

pleasing, they show little originality in

The first move-

in a conventional

great value.,

form or development.
ment progresses

manner, gives considerable opportun-
ity for effective technique in its ca-
denza. The second movement expands
on. a gentle lyrical theme, and also
has a cadenza which is the most beau-
tiful part of the concerto. Mr. Kreis-
ler’s muted violin produced lovely rip-
pling tones in the rich key of E ma-
jor. The finale was played vigorously
and with a good deal of humor.
The.last group on the program con-
sisted of shorter compositions of ex-
tremely varied. nature. Beethoven’s
Romance in F major was notable for
its smooth line of melody, and deli-
cate as well as more emotional pass-
ages. .The G-Major Rondo, by Mo-
zart, presented a lively mood, light

Tspiccato, contrasting delightfully with

a flowing minor section. More mod-
ern, full of Russian color, was Rim-
sky-Korsakov’s Hymn to the Sun. Mr.
Kreisler’s beautiful tones in the vio-
lin’s lower register, his pure harmon-
ics came out in this. Simply, but
most effectively, he played next De-
bussy’s chaste musical portrait of the
Girl With the Flaxen Hair, tran-
scribed from a piano scoring into vio-
lin by Hartmann. Last was-a Span-
ishwDance by De Falla, which Mr.
Kreisler transcribed with the obvious

It abounded in amazing combinations
of flying. staccato and pizzicato and all
the fireworks which a virtuoso leves.

Fer encores he chose more ingrati-
ating numbers, first. his own Liebe-
sleid, then the Londonderry Air, and
lastly his extremely popular Schon
Rosmarin and Libesfreud; of which he
is also the author. Without excep-
tion his interpretations were received
with unbounded admiration. The ac-
companist, Carl Lamson, did a credit-
able piece of work but had no real
chance to prove his ability. Mr. Kreis-
ler’s personality was undoubtedly a
‘considerable factor in his success; he
is one of those fortunate musicians
who magnetize attention through fine
dignity rather than temperamental
excesses. That, in addition to an un-
equalled beauty of tone* made the pro-
gram one of the college’s truly great
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(Gleaned from Mr. Gillet)

North America dags not know South
America and it is difficult for the
two countries to know each other.
However, there are certain agencies
in this country employed in issuing
propaganda to make South America
known to us. The oldest of these is
the Pan-American Union which w
‘organized nearly fifty years up
They have published a handbobk
which states the questions left un-—
finished at the Buenos Aires confer- ©
ence, of 1936, telling what was ac-
complished and how much remains to
be done.

There are several private organiza-_
tions in the~Argentine attempting to
promote better undérstanding between
the two continents. The Argentine-
‘North America Institutesand the Bra-
zil-U. -S. Institute are two of. the
most prominent. There. have been
some inter-American conferences on
education, science and on an active
exchange between the Americas and
among the 21 republics of South
America.

The question of copyright is*a very
live one, as South American writers -
have no protection for their intel- ©
lectual rights. Secretary Hull is in-
vestigating this and also the question
of how U. S. publishers can make
our books available to South America
at cheaper prices. If they could
know our literature, they would feel
more friendly and appreciate us more.

Another agéncy is a division in the
State Department on cultural co-op-
eration under the direction of -Dr.
Cherrington. Exchange of professors
and students, formulation and dis-
tribution of libraries and a general’
broadening of our scope of cultural
relations with other countries is the
aim of the organization.

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yet is now discovering that some
of the republics are far advanced in
their social and economic life. The
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Growth of Nazi Ideas
Outlined by Wiskemann

ew

Continued from Page One



4
of these beliefs were orily a very small
minority in Austria, they soon realized

that, they could only get power de-
stroying democracy. Sa CRs
In 1894 the Pan-German union Wes]

formed, at first having little connec-
tion with the, Schoenerer gfovp in
Austria” However, the two sogn , be-
gan to work together, and a custorn’s
union was made to cover the whole
territory. At the same time the.racial
ideal began to take hold in Germany,
and during the war all the tendencies
toward unity.-were strengthened.

The Salzburg Pan-German Congress
of 1920 finally brought together all
of the groups which had supported
the national socialist ideology and pre-
pared them to seize the apparatus of
government. Hitler has contributed
his great technical ability, and, has
given the moventent a somewhat more
definite program—a part of which is

In’ discussing national socialism in
central European countries, Miss
Wiskemann commented ‘on the seem-
ing incongruity of these countries’ ac-
cepting an ideology which is primarily
racial and anti-Slav. In seeking to
establish their influence, national so-|

tion; instead, they try to get the sup-
port of the peasants in middle Euro-
pean countriés by magnifying the ex-

holding up Hitler as the potential de-
liverer from these conditions. They
have also tried to elevate German
minorities, however small and non-po-
litically minded, above the rest of the
population by giving them better edu-
cational facilities.

Hungary has been most easily influ-

lation is already anti-Slavic, and since,
like Germany, it has fairly justified
claims to treaty revision. The short-
lived communist movement in 1920
could also be enlarged upon as a
rising menace by national socialists.
A strong Catholic nationalist move-
ment hindered the infiltration of Ger-
man propaganda in Czechoslovakia un-
il the death of the party’s leadery
Father Hlinka, shortly before the Su-
Nazis then adopted
and strengthened the ideal of national-
ism, but entirely disregarded Catholic-
ism, which had been a vital part of
Hlinka’s program. a
Penetration into Rumania has
always been particularly desired by
the Nazis, who wish to control the oil
resources, and also to secure a path
toward the Ukraine. German agents
have tried to capitalize upon the pov-
erty stricken condition of the peasants,
but King Carol has opposed the move-
ment and imprisoned its leader, Co-
dreanu. This opposition is, Miss
Wiskemann belieygs, a ho eful sign,
since it may check the advance of na-
tidwal socialism toward the Ukraine.



Dean. Believes America
Is Safe From Fascism



Continued from Page One

The psychological reason for our
comparative lack of prejudice lies in
the fact that America was originally
~ Younded on:-a basis of freedom’ from’
hatred. The communities of biased
feelings were speedily broken up by
the westward migrations. America

built up. .an_ enlightened policy. of |

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Praise is Unreserved

For ‘N ight Must Fall’

Five Bryn Mawr Students Join
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Roberts Hall,.Haverford, December
2.—The Cap and Bell§ production of
Enlyn Williams’ Night Must Fall has
gone far to show that amateurs can
revive Broadway and even ‘Hollywood
without their tasting warmed-over.
The usual allowances due need not be
made in ranking this play as a suc-
cess. With an undergraduate direc-
tor and a limited stage, they yet man-
aged to transcend any need for com-
parison. Furthermore the interior
that remained throughout the play
was’ the most pleasing used at Bryn
Mawr or Haverford in recent years.

A poor production of the play could
have provided a hair-raising evening
of melodrama. Dan, the homicidal
bell-boy, appears in the first act hav-
ing just strangled one woman; by the
final curtain he has smothered another
and is only prevented from dispatch-
ing a third by the arrival of Scotland
Yard.. Behind these tabloid head-
lines, it. is in athe character of Dan,
driven by the furies of his egomania,
that the play has its strength.

Mrs. Bramson, whom Dan smothers
for her money, is an elderly hypochon-
driac in.an unnecessary wheel chair.
Her despotism, exerted over the other
members of her household maintains
a tension of surface bickering and
deep hatred. In this setting her re-
pressed niece develops a fascination
for the: machinery of a murderer’s
psychology, as Dan, having ingrati-
ated himself into Mrs. Branson’s serv-
ice, follows his irresistible compulsion
to crime. This study of a murderer
becomes so convincing and piteous
that the play cannot be dismissed as
tabloid excitement.

It is impossible to consider the act-
ing of Samuel Withers as separate
from the part itself. The possibility
of distinguishing between a role and
its player necessarily implies some
incompleteness of interpretation. Here
the product of the evening was the
knowledge of a feelingless egoist who
showed sincerity only in the anguished
realization of defeat.

As Mrs. Branson, Mary Alice Stur-
devant deserves sincere commendation
for her illusion of age, Particularly
effective in creating this difficult effect
was her voice, which had the harsh
querulous edge of an old tyrant. De
Lancey Cowl made the part of Olivia
hold the conflict between her culti-
vated revulsion from crime on one
hand, and on the other her fascina-
‘tion for the character of Danny.

The minor parts were as carefully
acted as the rest. Julia Harned made
a fine variant of the stock common
sense cook. Caroline Shine was the
comfortable type of visiting nurse that
calls everyone “dearie.” Inspector
Belsize, played by Timothy Haworth,
and Dora Parkoe, played by Mary
Morrison, did justice to unimportant
parts. James Stewart-Gordon ito-
mized the Bore as Olivia’s unsuccess-
ful suitor, Hubert Laurie. Here the
one question of overacting might be
raised. The audience seized the relief
of laughing at his buffoonery, but was
slackened unnecessarily in several im-
po scenes.

Crosby Lewis had the introductory
role of’ Lord Chief Justice. He
achieved a voice appropriate to the
part that was matched only by the
Welsh accent of Dan. A major prob-
lem in college dramatics seems to be
in this necessity of heterogenous ac-
cents. When the play is laid in Eng-





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The Christmas Carol rvice will
be. giyen in Goodhart Hall on Sunday,
December 11, at 7.45 p. m. The com-
bined choirs of the College and the
Church of the Redeemer, Bryn. Mawr,
will sing at the above service. The
program is as follows:

Selection from the Messiah, Han-
del; Chorus, And. the Glory of -the
Lord; Recitation Solo and Chorus, O
Thou That Tellest; Recitation and
Chorus, There Were Shepherds and
Glory to God in the Highest; Sleep
Baby Sleep (Czech Carol) ; On Christ-
mas Day, Vaughan Williams; O. Jesus
so Sweet, Bach; Wassail Song,
Vaughan Williams; The Holly and the
Ivy (Traditional) ; Joseph Went Seek-
ing (words by the Reverend Ernest
C. Earp—music by Ernest Willough-
by) specially written for this service.
A group of well-known carols will
also be included. :

The speaker will be the Rev. Ernest
C. Earp, Rector of the Church of the
Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, and the solo-
ists, Miss Mary Earp and Mrs. Mar-
garet Whitcroft (members of the
Church Choir), and Margot Delthier,
"42, member of the College Choir.

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simple geometrical: features.
After 600 a new art of iieeeaved
ornament appeared. It was, however,
decorative rather than ritualistic. It
still used animal symbolism, but its
menagerie was small—only the
dragon, tiger, bird, snake and human
—and this menagerie represented the
creature of fairy tales rather than
cosmological conceptions of ommipo-
tent forces. This was the period of
late Eastern Chou, which lasted from
600 to 200 B.C.

From 200 to 200 A.D., art became
naturalistic without inhibition. The
workmanship is still delicate but there
is no connection with. cult: or ritual.
Animal figures are largely used for
merely regional symbolism, such as
“the White Tiger of the West.” It
was an art that could he playful,
used without meaning or creative
power.



land, and the majority are, this dis-
crepancy is particularly striking.

It is as director of the play that
Crosby Lewis deserves congratula-
tions. There is nothing to prevent an
undergraduate directgr from equaling
a professional, but it rarely happens.
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On board Santa Clara; Nov. 28.

Dear College News:

’ We are passing the easternmost
point of Cuba and its rugged hills
and mountain peaks are very sug-
gestive of the coast line of Morocco
as seen passing through the Straits
of Gibraltar. Looking east I can
see the shore of Haiti which, like. that
of Cuba, rises sharply from the sea.
Both coasts, lying sleepily in the
warm sunshine, suggest the land of
the Lotus Eaters where it is always
afternoon. One can understand what
a thrill it must have given Columbus
and the first navigators to have seen.
these mountains rising from: waters
as deep blue as their own Medi-
terranean.

We held our first Delegation Con-
ference this morning, and the chief
business was-the assignment of com-
mittee functions. My assignment in-
cludes the Committee on the Organi-
zation of Peace and the Committee on
International Law, the former deal-
ing with such problems as the co-
ordination of existing peace treaties,
the creation of an Inter-American
Court of Justice, and the formation
of some sort of American As%ocia-
tion of States; the latter dealing
with such technical subjects as the
codification of international law,

~| pecuniary claims, nationality and the

status of public merchant vessels in
foreign ports. “I am also on the com-
mittee on “intellectual co-operation
and moral. disarmament,” as if the
first two committees were not enough
to keep me busy.

Just how I am to spend the days,
as my friends back home expect me
to spend them,—lying in the sunshine
with occasional dips in the salt pool,

committee meetings that are being
scheduled in complete disregard of
sunshine and sea, I have not yet
worked out. With a little diplomacy

»At Mt. Holyoke a course is given in

and at the same time attend all the}

| Marriage Council Holds
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proposed.
included anatomy and physiology par-'
ticularly as related to sex and sits
functions, psychological aspects, and
the importance of the emotions. The
other five dealt with the background
of marriage, courtship, marriage and
its psychological adjustments and
practical problems, divorce, and the
future of marriage and the family in
the United States.

Marriage courses of varied types

are now included in the curricula
of several colleges. At Vassar a
course was begun in 1937 open to
all students but not for credit. The
material presented was of a practical
nature in contrast to that given at
Haverford by the Sociology Depart-
ment in which the subject is treated
primarily as a sociological phenomena.

The first, human beings,

alternate years and deals, as at Vas-
sar, with the biological, social, spir-
itual and- economic aspects.

The Bryn Mawr curriculum commit-
tee is not at all definite as to what
aspect of marriage would interest the
campus or even if theeeampus wants
any such course. It is probable that
the subject would be given through
the sociology department and _ the
question of its tjme . must also be
considered.



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