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Primitive Siberian
: Art is Important

In Race Migration
os
Dr. Salmony Shows Similarity
In Art Motifs Throughout
Europe and Asia

STONE AGE CREATIONS





DISCOVERED IN _ 1928|]



The Deanery, December 13.—The
politically insignificant region of
Siberia is of vast importance in the
development of art and the spread of
culture, said Dr. Alfred Salmony in

his talk on The Ancient Art of Siberia,
and Its Influence on Chinese and
European Art. Dr. Salmony, who is
Visiting’ Lecturer in the Oriental
Arts at Mills College, California, is
Executive Secretary of the Friends
of Far Eastern Art and an authority
on the art of Siberia.

From the earliest beginnings of art
in the Old Stone Age until the great
Islamic Wave of about 1000 A.D.,
there is throughout Europe and Asia
an amazing similarity in art motifs
which proves the constant interrela-
tionship of the ancient world. Recent
discoveries of primitive art in Siberia
show that this country, hitherto of
little interest to the archaeologist
and anthropologist, is an invaluable
factor in determining racial migra-
tions and influences.

Even in Paleolithic timés, central
Siberian steppe peoples were artistic-
ally active. In 1928 the discovery of
Old Stone Age, or “Aurignacian” art
near Lake Baikal added a new ex-
tension to the so-called “cradle of art-
creating man” in northern Spain and
southern France. At this site, or
“station,” were found small bone
“fertility goddesses,” similar in type
to 11 known stone figurines found at
different European stations and dat-
ing from the same period.

In the Neolithic Period following
the Ice Age there arose in the south-
eastern Mediterranean a painted pot-
tery’ art which extended to the Indus
valley and China, but not to Siberia.
Pottery remains unearthed in China
show the same designs as those found
in the Mediterranean region, a fact
which proves that art motifs must
have traveled. Although a painted
pottery civilization did not arise in
Siberia, a simple, naturalistic animal
art developed, similar to that seen in
northern Europe during the Neolithic
Age. Thé Siberian bone-carvings of
this period are of the same type of
naturalism as the amber animals of
northern Germany and the work of
the Swiss pile-dwellers.

With the dawn of the Copper Age
and the subsequent rise of Egyptian,
Cretan and Mesopotamian civiliza-
tions, there were migrations from
these countries into Russia and _ Si-
beria, as archaeological remains show.
That a people dependent on Crete and
Mycenae inhabited the Kiev district
in Russia about 1500 B. C. is proved
by the presence of ceremonial axes of
exactly the same type as that found

omitted this in chapel, she asked to

\yepular examination.



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COLLEGE CALENDAR
_ Thursday, December 17. —.
Christmas parties in the halls.
6.30 p. m. Carol singing by the
choir begins at 8 p. m. :

Friday, December 18:—Christ-
mas vacation begins. 12.45
p. m.

Monday, January 4.—Christ-
mas vacation ends. 9 a. m.

Tuesday, January 5.—Voca-
tional tea. Common Room. 4.30
p.m. ‘ Bu ebaciraree | SA

Saturday, January 9.—Dr.
Kurt Goldstein will speak in-
formally. Deanery. 8.30 p. m.

Sunday, January 10.—Dra-
matic recital of Die Meister-
singer by Florence’ Fraser.
Deanery. 5 p. m.

Tuesday, January. 12.—Non-
resident tea.







Mrs. Manning Outlines
“Senior Quiz” Details



Plan Allows More Time to Study
For Comprehensive Exam

Music Room, December 11.—Speak-
ing on comprehensives, Mrs. Manning
first outlined their general purpose
and plan and then discussed in detail
arrangements made for examinations,
or rather “senior quizzes,’’ in subjects
n which the senior is not taking com-
prehensives.

The comprehensives at Bryn Mawr
have entailed a change in the arrange-
ment of work for all students during
their senior year. In most colleges
the comprehensive is “just set on top
of other work,” but here the work
done during the year is considered
more important than the examina-
tion, so that time has been taken out
of the senior year to allow for study
in the field of the comprehensive.
There is time for a reading period at
midyears, since all the “senior quiz-
zes* will be over by the first day of
examinations.

The general plan is to allow more
time for the Comprehensive examina-
tion, and also to make it possible for
seniors to carry an elective course in
which the weekly routine rather than
the examination is to be stressed. In
required courses it will be necessary
to do all the assignments of the
course, and, although Mrs. Manning

have.it particularly stressed that even
in elective courses, if any student is
not doing satisfactory work, her pro-
fessor may require her to take the

A schedule has been arranged for
“senior quizzes” for these midyears
in first year, second year and elective
courses. In advanced courses the last
meeting of the class before mid-years
will be given up to the quiz. The
quizzes in the first and second year
and elective courses will come on the
afternoons of Tuesday, January 12,
Thursday, January 14, on both morn-
ing and afternoon of Friday the 15th,
on the morning of Saturday the 16th
and on the morning or afternoon of
Monday the 18th. There will be no
more than one quiz a day, and if this
is not satisfactory, the students are
asked to give suggestions.



Santa Claus Rolls in Window to Distribute
Presents at League Christmas Party



Common Room, December 15.—
Bedlam reigned in Goodhart when
twenty-three children from South
...-Philadelphia---doffed—their--eoats--and-
hats and waited for something to hap-
pen. Soon each was clutching a small
cake and a dixie cup of ice cream.
These had hardly been. disposed of
before songs of Santa Claus and the
Eensy Weensy Spider were echoing
through the halls. There was more
eating and more singing and even a
touch of London Bridge, then Santa,
who had been lurking in the under-
brush in a frigid state, rolled in the
window. The Christmas tree was
laid bare amid squeals of delight and
shouts of scorn as one or two yelled,
“That ain’t Santa!”
he was Santa or not he did his duty
in disposing of the crayons and toy
‘-gutidbiles. Vee
Paper bags were latef procured and

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Well, whether |

filled with tangarines, oranges and
apples, and candy canes were given
to everyone. While the children were
-milling~-around—excitedly--just-after-
Santa’s dramatic exit, a perfectly in-
nocent student had the misfortune of
appearing on the scene, whereupon
she was accused of being Santa Claus.
Of course the real* Santa had curly
hair and a beard, but that didn’t make
any difference. This newcomer,
beardless and with the straightest of
straight hair, had been Santa Claus
and there was no getting out of it.

Just an hour after they had ar-
rived the children, Florence, Salvatore
and all the rest, were packed away in
cars again and headed toward the big
city, where someone’s grandmother,
had hurt her foot and had to have it
in a “casket,’”’ and where someone else
was asking Santa to bring him a baby
sister for Christmas.





Election at Midyears
Suggested by Council



Short College Year Prevents
Change in Cut Rules; Longer
Year Proposed

“REQUIREDS” CRITICIZED

College Inn, December 9.—Mrs.
Manning announced to the College





|'Gouncil that, most of the confusion

being over, the work for the final ex-
amination has been planned during
the last month, and that definite dates
will probably bé set by each depart-
ment for the termination of new work
and the concentration on review. Miss
Park pointed out that the short Bryn
Mawr college year of thirty-three
weeks prevents a change in the fac-
ulty rule on cutting the last class be-
fore and the first class after vacation,
and the council discussed the ad-
vantages of a longer college year.
Most members favored the proposal
for changing student offices at mid-
years and agreed to bring to the next
meeting a plan for changing offices
and committees suitable to their own
organizations. A general warning and
strict penalties were advocated for
students who mark up library books,
and a student assessment to clean up
the books was approved.

Of the departments in which there
has been the most confusion about the
final examination, the difficulties in
the work in Archaeology, Biology and
Chemistry have been straightened out.
The assignments for English, where
there is the greatest amount of new
reading, have been divided into
smaller groups for conference. Sen-
iors in required courses will have to
take the final course examinations at
the normal times in the schedule. At
midyears only” seniors reported un-
satisfactory will have to take exami-
nations in these subjects. :

A general request was made to urge
students to pass off their requireds be-
fore senior year. This is particu-
larly difficult in the case of students
spending their junior year abroad
unless that student takes little but
French and requireds for the first two
years. A freshman year composed
only of required courses is inadvis-

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Bryn Mawr Club in N. Y.
Hopes for New House





Tea to be Held December 29 to
Stimulate Interest

The Bryn Mawr Club in New York
has been little more than a name to
most undergraduates, but the Board
of Governors, consisting of recent
graduates, is anxious to make it more
than that. The dues have been re-
duced so that almost everyone can
afford membership and the Club offers
to anyone who is spending a few days
in New York a splendid place for
headquarters. It is housed at pres-
ent in the University Club, although
plans are under way for a grand new
building, which will include the clubs
of the famous “Seven Colleges”: Bar-
nard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke,
Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley.

The dues for undergraduates are
five dollars, and for this sum one has
the privilegés of using the Club rooms
at 106 East 52nd Street, of staying
at the University Club, with dining-
room service, and of using the squash
courts of the
These privileges also include the han-
dling of messages and mail. Tea and
cocktails are served in the Bryn Mawr
Club rooms.

Invitations have been sent to all
indergraduates in New York and the

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Smokers; Take Warning!

_ A metal container for ciga-
rette butts has been placed by
Taylor steps to be used by be-
tween-class smokers. The co-
operation of both students and’
faculty is urgently requested in
this much needed step toward a
less littered and more presént- -





Cosmopolitan “Club.



able campus.





Scribblers Forfeit!

At a mass meeting of the Un-
dergraduate Association held
after chapel on Tuesday, it was
voted to assess each undergradu-
ate 50 cents on February pay
day in order to pay for the
cleaning of damaged Library





books.

Law and Church Force
Edward’s_ _Abdication

Miss Robbins Porésees Change in
Solidarity of Empire







Common Room, December 14.—In
viewing the present English crisis it
is important to determine just what
has happened, what has been changed,
and if anything like it has hap-
pened before, stated Miss Robbins be-
fore the International Club.

England had been accustomed to
regard the King as a “wise old man
acquainted with public affairs.” The
popular and glamorous Edward rep-
resented a character and position
which differed from this point of
view. He was apt to take a more
definite stand, and as a result, his
popularity did not include the friend-
ship of the Non-Conformists and the
strict Anglicans.

The interest aroused in Edward
since ‘his accession to the throne
centered mainly around the fact that
the King is: also subject to the law.
In ‘this case, the King’s Proctor was
at liberty to stop the divorce decree
of Mrs. Simpson if evidence of a col-
lusion were found. Secondly, if the
divorce were granted, an arrange-
ment for a morganatic marriage has
never existed in English law.

In addition to the legal aspect and
the disapproval of the Church and
the King’s other opponents, Mr. Bald-
win had the support of the Dominions
in forcing the situation to an open
crisis. There was also the possibil-
ity that the King disliked his position
and abdication offered him a release
from a burden.

With the proclamation of a new
King over the British Empire, Ire-
land, in acknowledging the ruler’s
imperial position, noticeably strength-
ened her bond with England. The
success of the moral issue also in-
creased the prestige of the English
Church.

Miss Robbins expressed her opin-
ion that further changes may be pos-
sible in the future. There can be a
change in the people’s feeling or
adulation of the monarch to one of
“loyalty tempered with reason.”
There can also be an increase in the
prestige of Parliament and the soli-
darity of the Empire which looks to
the crown as a symbol for union sur-
passing national and political rela-
tions.

No exact precedents of this situa-|

tion can be found in English history.
James II’s abdication was the nearest
approach to this crisis, but then he
was suspected merely of arbitrary
rule. :

At this time the title of King was
established by law and a curtailment
of the King’s powers followed. The
difference between legal and actual
prerogatives was defined and the re-
ligion of the monarch was strictly
ruled upon, thus establishing the in-
fluence of the Church over royal
marriages.

FEELING TRADITIONAL |
AT THE > KRIPPENSPIEL





The Krippenspiel, written by Jos-
eph Lenke and given by the German
Club on Tuesday in the Deanery, was
an exceedingly pleasant addition to
the traditional Christmas festivities.
Presenting a simple nativity scene in-
terwoven with folk carols, the play
combined with unusual success the
naiveté and sincere feeling character-
istic of a German Christmas.

Mary, Joseph, Shepherds, Wisemen
were all costumed simply in colors
which blended well with the back-

ground formed of dark screens cov-|

|\ered with pine branches:”

The carols included the German ver-
sions of Silent. Night and Adeste

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Miss Park Calls
A Special Chapel
On Marking Books

Any Curtailment of ‘Finances
For Purchase of .Books
Is Serious

NAMES OF DEFACERS
WILL BE ANNOUNCED







Goodhart, December 15.—At a spe
cial chapel called as a result of dis-
cussion in the College Council, Miss
Park pointed out the tremendous loss
suffered by the students through the
defacement of books in the Library.
As in Stuart Chase’s Rich Land Poor
Land, the question is one of restoring
the value of our own property, and
protecting it.

The marking of books, which is an
old though not an honorable tradi-
tion, is both annoying and destruc-
tive. Not only do the vigorous un-
derlinings and exhaustive comments
hinder one who is trying to think
independently, but they tear the pages
and obliterate their content so that
the book must be removed from the
shelves and,a new copy bought. A
three volume book costing 18 dollars
had to be replaced recently because
one volume had been marked until it
was no longer useful.

The large number of replacements
necessary each year make it impossi-
ble to buy new books which would be
of invaluable aid. Each department
must withdraw the money to replace
its damaged books from the general
sum alloted to it in the budget, and
when a considerable amount -is_ so
withdrawn the department is greatly
restricted in its purchases. One of
the Science departments had only 30
dollars to spend for new books, after
repairs and subscriptions to scientific
journals were paid for.

The part Miss Park will play in
putting an end to this situation is to
require every student who marks in a
book to replace that book, no matter
what the cost or how little she has
done to deface it. The names of’
those who must replace books will be
read in chapel, in addition to the
comments made by them, if these seem
to warrant such a public recitation.



DANCERS’ RECITAL IS
MODERN IN FEELING



The Christmas performance of the
Dancers’ Club, which was presented
before the college on Saturday night,
reflected a fund of talent and origin-
ality in the participants. A stylized
and dramatic account of the story of
the birth of Christ, it was visually
Renaissance, but modern in feeling.

The entire performance was di-
vided into three parts, Unenlighten-
ment, The Story and Exultation by
unusual and effective lighting ar-
rangements. The stage was divided
by a thin gauze curtain. During Un-
enlightenment, the first scene, the
stage was dimly lit and only the
somber characters in the foreground
were visible. At the end of this scene
a bright light was thrown upon a
tableau of the Annunciation behind
the curtain, and it gradually spread
so that the foreground of the stage
was blotted out of view and a misty
aura surrounded the dancers: at the
back of the stage. Throughout The
Story the Virgin, who was beautifully
eostumed_in blue and dull rose, re-
mained fixed in two poses.

As regards the actual dancing, the
movements of the angels seemed a lit-
tle weak and unsatisfying compared
to the vitality and vigor of the daric-
ing in Unenlightenment and Exulta-
tion, led by Ethel Manne, who took
the part of the Angel Gabriel. It was
unfortunate that the musical back-
ground did not seem to synchronize
perfectly with the dancing at the end
of the last scene. M. O.

Fideles as well as O Du Frohliche and
other well. known Christmas songs
written originally in German, The
latter was sung by both audience and
cast at the conclusion of the perform-
ance.



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What Price Peace?

Two major points of view about nationalism are typical of the two
large groups of people best described as those who have and those who
have not. This is a dull and trite observation, but perhaps it is the
basis of an understanding of the student point of view about war.

Those people who have carefully regulated their personal lives to a
successful system, and whose national system conforms to their own
convenience, have a philosophy of property which is easy to understand.
They honestly believe that the most successful people are the most
worthy of success, fittest to be the fathers of the new: generations. The
property of these elect, these successful people who worked for what
they own, is therefore their just and only reward, a fitting heritage for
their children. In protecting property, the adherents of this broad
philosophy protect their own way of life. They are obviously the
fathers of the specific traditions of the nations in which they live, and
their national happiness as such corresponds roughly to their individ-
ual happiness. If their country is powerful they want only to protect
this situation; if their country lacks advantages they want to get
them. They have no international spirit because they understand their
own nations best, having protected them economically and territorially,
and they expect thejr governments to protect them in the same way.
These people obviously react differently to the idea of war—most often
they want to avoid it if possible. In the case of some nations it is a
means to’ some end: possessions or position.

Then those who have not these traditions, experiences, or proper-
ties believe just as firmly in the ultimate disaster of any kind of a war.
This is the beginning of their philosophy, perhaps because they have no,
more personal prejudices. They may regard themselves vaguely as
inheritors of our whole civilization, and feel that this would never
survive another war. For the sake of peace, most of them are willing

_to sacrifice much of what they hold in common with the other party:

old {

national wealth, trade advantages, high standards of living, opportu-
nities to build up great wealth, national or private. For the sake of
protecting their civilization, they must take such a broad-minded atti-
tude of cooperation with the whole world that international differ-
ences of rank and power will become virtually nothing. This demands
a sacrifice of personal ambitions for many people, but this they must
make if they believe that power and wealth cannot prevent a uni-
versally disastrous war. They must sacrifice whatever dreams they
may have had of distinguished futures in order to insure themselves of
any kind of a future at all. é

As students, and being young, many of us do not feel the pull of
the traditions of those Who have, often our own parents. If we hate
war wholeheartedly enough to put every other consideration aside, we
must make up our minds that, if a state of international equilibrium
can be reached, we, personally, shall have given up some part of our
inheritance or position. And to live in accordance with this ideal at
the present time, we would take, for example, some sort of governmen-
tal or private organization positions with small pay, accepting a new,
non-financial eriterion of success, and working earnestly so that the
whole world.may some day feel an economie and political security
worthy of the protection of peace.



Stubs and Grounds

A Self-Gov. rule has at last taken visible and tangible form. At

the. same.time.a-Self-Gov.-rule-has-proved- itself-to--be-intended-not-for-
~ moral discipline, but for aesthetic enjoyment.

In brief—a large green
cay has been placed in front of Taylor for the stubs of smokers between
classes. Its open mouth is a symbol of faith to the eternal optimists
who hope for a reform of human nature in student and professor. If
henceforth no cigarétte butts clutter up the gravel road in front of
Taylor, there is a chance that smoking may be allowed generally on the
campus.

Only two doubts mar our joy at the thought that no more puffing
broods need retire from Taylor before the advancing clucks of Self-
Goy. members. The new “receptacle” is not the sole property of the
students; any smuker may at least aim at it. This information may
help dispel the old prejudice that stubs from beneath learned or visit-
ing heels leave less mark ee faylor. steps than those trodden W. less
favored footgear.

Secondly, by actual count we have found that stubs, matches and

es are scarcely more numerous in front of Taylor than they
are in the Cloisters, by the Lib tree, by the tennis courts, by the hockey

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. Movies in Philadelphia

Aldine: Rembrandt continues.

Arcadia: The Life of King Edward,
a screen biography of the British ex-
King, and Love in Exile, with Clive
Brook. . .

Earle: The Jungle Princess con-
tinues. Saturday, Rainbow on the
River, musical, with Charles Butter-
worth.

Europa: A Greater Promise, So-
viet film.
Boyd: Winterset, with Burgess

Meredith: Quoted from The Inquirer:
“By compromising between prose and
poetry Mr. Veiller has been vastly
more successful in transcribing Ander-
son to the screen than was Mr. Nich-
ols (director of Mary of Scotland).

- Don’t . . . smeer in advance at
the knowledge that scenarist Veiller
has brought about a happy ending to
the Anderson play... . Veiller has
played fair. He has introduced noth-
ing not already at hand with which

‘to save the young lovers from Trock’s

sharp-shooting henchmen with their
sub-machine guns,

Stanley: Banjo on My Knee, mu-
sical southern drama, with Barbara
Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.

Local Movies

Seville: Thursday, Walking on Air,
with Gene Raymond and Anne Soth-
ern. Friday and Saturday, Pigskin
Parade, with Patsy Kelly and Stuart
Erwin. Sunday and Monday, Craig’s
Wife, with Rosalind Russell and John
Boles. Tuesday and Wednesday,
Under Your Spell, with Lawrence
Tibbett. Thursday, The Man Who
Lived Twice, with Ralph Bellamy.

Wayne: Thursday and Friday,
Libeled Lady, with William Powell,
Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. Sun-
day and Monday, -The Legion of: Ter-
ror, with Bruce Cabot. Tuesday and
Wednesday, 15 Maiden Lane. Thurs-
day, Reunion, with the Dionne Quin-
tuplets.

Ardmore: Thursday, Cain and
Mabel, with Clark Gable and Marion
Davies. Friday, Wives Never Know,
with Mary Boland and Charles Rug-
gles. Saturday, Rose Bowl, with Tom
Brown. Sunday and Monday, The
Gay Desperado, with Nino Martini.
Tuesday and Wednesday, A Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream. .Thursday, Tar-
zan Escapes, with.;Johnny Weiss-

muller.
Concert Program
Weber: Overture Der Freischutz.
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 for piano

and orchestra. McDonald: Three
poems for orchestra in Traditional
Aramic and Hebraic Themes. Ravel:
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2.



THE WOMEN SUCCEEDS
AS MAN-LESS COMEDY



The Women, by Clare Booth, pro-
duced by Max Gordon.

The name of Clare Booth’s latest
play is an unfortunate one, leading
one to expect some sort. of propa-
ganda exposing labor conditions in
New York sweatshops or the organiza-
tion of women’s regiments in the new
adult front in some central European
country, while it is in reality intended
to be an ultra-sophisticated, frank
and penetrating comedy portraying
women of the New York social circles.
The Ladies, or Shall We Join the
Gentlemen? would be much more ap-
propriate titles. The action is laid
in such places as only feminine per-
sons frequent, for example: a beauty
parlor, an exercise salon, a fitting
room, a boudoir and a Reno hotel room;
and there are no men in the cast.
This absence is scarcely noted, how-
ever, since the pl illustrates the
thesis that it is malicious feminine

gossip-invoking-a- possessive pride--in-

which no married woman has a right
to indulge, which destroys many so-
ciety menages. Margalo Gillmore
plays the part of Mary Haines, whose
happiness is ended when her gossip-
ing friends inform her of her hus-
band’s relations with one Crystal
Allen, a salesgirl, played by Betty
Lawford. One friend in particular,
Sylvia Fowler (Ilka Chase), goads
Mary on to challenge her husband and
his mistress for having destroyed her

home and finally to get a divorce in: to enjoy a success.





ehtertainment on campus ‘must
see a member of the Planning
Committee before making defi-
nite arrangements. Under- |
graduate representatives of the
Planning Committee are Letitia
Brown, ’37; Barbara Colbron,
87; Sylvia Evans, ’37; Esther
Hardenbergh, ’87; Julia Grant,
88, and Eleanor Taft, ’39.

Mr. Miller Speaks Over Radio

Mr. Miller, of the Department of
Social Economy, spoke on The New
Russian Constitution under the auspi-
ces of the Emergency Peace Cam-
paign over station WIP on Decem-
ber 9.









SWING YOUR LADY IS
GOOD LUSTY COMEDY

Swing Your Lady is the first
return to Broadway of those lusty
authors, Kenyon Nicholson and
Charles. Robinson, since Sailor Be-
ware broke all records for funny
shows. Although their new offering
has a much better yarn to bolster the
raucous’ lines, no records will be
broken this time, for there are long
dull patches when you wonder why
on earth you came. But the’ good
scenes. are even funnier, your reyiewer
found, than Sailor Beware, and the
last scene should bring abdominal
strains to all but the dyed in the wool
aesthete. This is definitely low com-
edy and not for English majors, but
its better moments will leave the less
intellectualized playgoer just where
she wanted to be—in the aisle.

A big Greek wrestler from “Joisy,”
with his supported entourage, are
stranded without a cent or a match in,
of all places, Joplin, Missouri. When
the manager arranges a date for Joe
Skopolous to wrestle a lady black-
smith without telling Joe her sex, the
trouble begins.. When Joe before the
match meets Sadie and falls in love
with her, the fun begins. He will not
wrestle the woman he loves, but when
Noah Wulliver, the father of Sadie’s
third child, comes down off the moun-
tains there is a wrestling match to
end all grunt and grapple, tests.
Such, in brief, is the corking tale come
from Missouri and Eighth Avenue to
warm the heart of plotless Broadway.

John §S. Alexander is as blank a Joe
as any wrestling: fan could ask, and
Joe Laurie keeps up the pace as the
peppery half-pint manager. Hope
Emerson has not made the best of
Sadie, and those who rocked at her
lusty Queen of the Amazons in
Lysistrata, will be disappointed. The
rest of the cast are good, and Al
Ochs, Ziegfeld’s old “biggest man,” is
welcome home as the beardy Noah
Wulliver. :

In any case Swing Your Lady
should not be seen early in the season,
but it is the one prescribed cure for
aestheticitis contracted from two
Hamlets, nine Noel Cowards, three
polite and plotless comedies and two
hangovers of vignettes and Pulitzer
mutterings. In this year of culture
and anaemia it is the only play whose
authors allowed red blood and broad
lines to run freely: for this lone sur-
vival of what was once the fittest it
should be a must by February.

HF.





the hope of humiliating them both.
Nevertheless, Mary soon sees the er-
ror of this bluff, and finally wins her
Stephen back from his second wife,
who turns out to be a mere adventur-
ess. This neat little plot is undoubt-
edly based on a presumption of some
truth, but the particular denouement
makes the only sympathetic woman

-such..a.humble creature that she was

no doubt appreciated best by the men
in the audience.

The production was careful and im-
pressive, the scenes ended with black-
outs as clever and significant as those
of a musical.comedy routine, and
much of the dialogue was very amus-
ing. Critics are likely to condemn the
thesis as trite and unimportant.
Nevertheless, all the parts are well
acted, and if it survives the reception
of the Times, Tribune et al. it is likely
a. 7;



field and along the road by Goodhart. In view of this, those who wish
to chase away Mrs. Grundy and yet keep Beauty on the campus need
‘not focus their hopes or their efforts exclusively on Taylor’s gravel

promenade.

In the meantime, we congratulate Self-Gov. on substi-

tuting liberalism and, gypen. cans in place of stickling rules to reach

heir aesthetic goal.

gg ED

: “In Philadel ia ' # HIGH SILK HAT WINS |
THE COLLEGE. NEWS - . Hanning Committee Rule _ "BRAZILIAN APPLAUSE

§ Nov. 30.
Dear College News:

It would have been worth a week
of lectures (mine at any rate) if the

|| whole student body could have stood

on the side lines today and watched
the reception given to President
Roosevelt. The whole of Argentina
turned out, for I heard the Foreign
Minister of senile, Saavedra La-
mas, say that so many people were
pouring in from the provinces that
they did not know what to do with
them. Flags were flying everywhere,
the stars and stripes. alternating.-with--
the white and blue of Argentina. In
the parade my car happened to come
between two companies of cavalry and
my high silk hat was a signal for
cheers from those who had not quite
exhausted themselves on President.
Roosevelt, who was a block ahead. A.
few hours later, when the two Presi-

dents, Roosevelt and Justo, stood on
a balcony overlooking. the public
square the crowd simply went wild
and broke through the police cordon
and rushed over to the sidewalk under
the balcony. “Roosevelt is a true
democrat;” “we admire your demo-
cratic president,” I heard, and other
like indications that the enthusiasm
for Roosevelt was more than a mere
tribute to a foreign guest, but a spon-
taneous expression of admiration for
the American form of popular govern-
ment.
Dec. 1.

All the local papers refer to Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s address at the open-
ing of the Conference this afternoon
as an “historic occasion,” something
that will leave its mark on the his-
tory of the Western Hemisphere.
Delegates from the twenty-one Amer-
ican Republics were there in full re-
galia, the galleries were packed with
guests, bulbs flashed and cameras
clicked in true American fashion, and
after an introduction by President
Justo, Mr. Roosevelt spoke in a sim-
ple, straightforward and _ friendly
manner that seemed to win an imme-
diate response from the audience.
Probably more of the visitors in the
gallery understood him than delegates
on the floor; but the latter had what
is called here “a service of telephonic
interpretation” by which Spanish,
Portuguese and French-speaking dele-
gates could hear in their own lan-
guage what the President was saying
with only the delay of a single sen-
tence. The United States delegates
had to give the cue to the applause
at most points; but no cue was needed
when the President affirmed: “De-
mocracy is still the hope of the
world.” For the first time in our gen-
eration the liberal elements are on
our side. Uncle Sam is no longer
the symbol of imperialism.

Well, I wish I could tell you- in
detail about the grand banquet given
by the President of Argentina to
President Roosevelt after the opening
of the Conference. The entire diplo-
matic corps was present, most of them
loaded down with decorations and gold
braid, so that our distinction consisted
in thé lack of distinctions. Inciden-
tally, I might add that swallow-tails
and white tie with a black waistcoat
are one degree more formal than with
a white waistcoat. President Justo
spoke at the close of the dinner, in-
formally; and President Roosevelt an-
swered with equal informality. I sat
next to the Commander of the Indian-
apolis and the head of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, so my halting Spanish did
not putes a damper upon the conversa-
tion.”

At the banquet. given us by the
Government of Brazil in the beauti-
ful hall of the Foreign Office at Rio,
I sat next to a lady who didn’t take
to my French any better than I took
to her Portuguese. Before long, how-
ever, I discovered that she had some
phonograph records put out by the
“Cortina Method” and she thereugn
asked me if I had seen her: grand-
mother’s hat in the garden of her
aunt’s husband, so we had a good
laugh and I told her that I had not
seen her grandmother’s hat but that
I had an uncle who had been in the
garden of his wife’s sister,—and thus
we cemented the friendship of Brazil
and the U. S. A.

Best wishes,



CHARLES G. FENWICK.






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‘Income Distribution

Explained by Chart

Two Speakers Explain Theory,
Function of Consumers —
Cooperatives





EMPHASIZES CONSUMER

we i

Common Room, December 9.—That
the Consumers Cooperatives, mer-
chandising organization for the bene-
fit of purchasers, is the best method
for. a more equal distribution of in-
come was stated by Miss Hazel Taylor
of the Social Science department of
Gratz High School, at a dinner of the
Industrial Group. .Miss Taylor is on
the Educational Committee of the
Great Consumers Cooperatives. The
actual function and organization of
the Cooperatives were discussed by
Mr. Warner Clark, President of the
Germantown Cooperative Society.

“Five-fiftieths of the population re-
ceive one-fiftieth of the National in-
come,” said Miss Taylor, illustrating
her words with a chart of income
distribution entitled “Uncle Sam’s
Dinner Table.” In 1929, seven people
out of 100 were receiving 10 dollars a
week.

The basic theory of the Consumers
Cooperatives is that the emphasis
must be laid on the consumer and
not the producer. Profits, in the form
of “patronage dividends,” go to the
buyer, not the stockholder, and are
apportioned according to the amount





of money spent in purchases. “The
more you spend, the more you save.”
Stockholders have only one vote, re-
ceive five or six per cent interest, and
that is all.

Miss Taylor reviewed briefly the
history of the Consumers Coopera-
tives from their inception in the man-
ufacturing town of Rochdale, Eng-
land, in 1844 to their present ever-
increasing strength all over the world.

With a. better distribution of in-
come, she believes, people will feel
more secure about obtaining th2ir
wants, thus eliminating the necd to
fight: Security does away with arma-
ments and makes for cultural ad-
vantages.

Mr. Clark, also by m2ans of graphs,
showed the great increase. in, coopera-
tives in the United States over a
period of years and illustrated the
closer relationship between producer
and consumer. Under the Coopera-
tive plan, the consumer is in the posi-
tion. to dictate to the producer, and
if the producer objects he loses a cus-
tomer. “In this manner the consumer
can indirectly affect the factory con-
ditions under which his intended pur-
chase is made. If they do not suit
him, again the producer loses.

“The Consumers Cooperatives is
voluntary,” he said, “the N. R. A. in
its codes was coercion. The coopera-
tive is more permanent, evolves from
the bottom, rather than by coercion
from the top.”’ A Consumer-Coopera-
tive is a consumer-controlled monop-
oly. Its wealth is in its shares of
stock, and its income is in “patronage



dividends.”

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visit to New York enter the Third
Annual College Essay Contest of the
Panhellenic Houge Association to win
the. first prize of a hundred dollars
and a two weeks’ stay in’ New York,
plus entertainment, with all expenses
paid as a guest of the association.
Second and third prizes will include
cash awards of twenty-five and fifteen
dollars, respectively, and a one-week
stay in New York with all expenses
paid. In addition, fifteen honorable-
ention awards will be published.

The Panhellenic House Association
conducts this contest among college
undergraduates. who. are interested..in
literary achievement and a _ possible
career in a large city. To give value
to the award from the standpoint of
literary merit, the following commit-
tee of judges has been chosen: ~ Fan-
nie Hurst, Mary Colum, associate edi-
tor of Forum; Lyman Beecher Stowe,
Kenyon Nicholson, author of Sailor
Beware; Helen Worden, nationally
syndicated columnist; Hans V. Kalten-
born, radio columnist, and Lila Bell
Acheson, co-editor of the Reader’s Di-
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Internationally minded young men
and women will shortly carry a mes-
sage of international good will around
the world, according to a plan now
being completed by a committee of
university leaders. According to the
statement..of..the..committee, the tour
will start from some South Amer-
ican country, a group of delegates
will be taken on at San Francisco,
and the group will increase as dele-
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courage are needed from the leaders
of all countries to cooperate in the
consummation. of this idea. They
know that a United States of the
World must ultimately become a fact
if humanity is not to sink into a state
of savagery.” Among those on the
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3 Midyear Elections
. Suggested by Council



Continued from Page One

able, Miss Park remarked. Student
members voiced a criticism of the two
units of required English, a disap-
proval of the pace and regimenta-
tion in the survey course and a de-
sire for a choice of two or three other
courses, including nineteenth century,
..for students who have had a school
survey course, and possibly minor his-
ory. Whatever action is taken must
originate in the undergraduate cur-
riculum committee, Miss Park said,
since the faculty committee has con-
sidered the question in the past and
is now completely occupied with the

_ final’ examination.

Each organization presents a differ-
ent problem in its changing of offices,
but except for the League none
seemed to offer great difficulties in
the proposed shift of the time.to mid-
years, to allow seniors a free half-
year and to push up the underclass-
men to office sooner. In general the
council concurred with Miss Park that
the juniors would benefit from taking
over the responsibilities earlier while
there were still seniors from whom
information could be obtained, . but
possible awkwardness among the
‘juniors was feared. Miss Harden-
bergh and Miss Colbron felt that the
term from April on was too short to
initiate any new movements and that
the longer stretch from midyears on
would give the new officers greater
scope. Miss Ritter suggested a com-
promise: to hold the elections at mid-
years and postpone the actual taking
over of office a month, so that the new
board could learn the duties and the
routine. All agreed to bring definite
which
would agree with the internal needs
of each organization.

Miss Park and Mrs. Manning ex-
plained that the proposal for triple
cuts penalty for cutting the first and
last classes at vacation is not prac-
ticable because the short college year,
eighteen days shorter than Harvard’s,
requires that every class count. Any
perceptible percentage missing in
class means a wasted hour for both
faculty and students. The suggested
scheme would mean that two days
were sacrificed every vacation. The
question of traveling time for stu-
dents from the Pacific Coast~is an-
other problem.» Council | members
seemed to feel that a year a week
longer would reduce the pressure of
covering in thirty-three weeks with no
Saturday classes the same ground that
Harvard does in thirty-six weeks with
Saturday classes.

The Council agreed that a student
assessment to clean up the books in
the Library as well as a general cam-
paign to build public opinion against
the practice were the best ways to
curb the present marking of books.
Once the books were cleaned up, any
student finding markings in a book
should then report the fact immedi-

_ ately to the reserve room or circu-
lation librarian, who could probably
track down the offénder. In all cases
‘bills for the cost of new books should
be sent to the girl or to her parents,
Miss Park urged.

That the unduly long process of
electing students to office should be
reduced was unanimously urged. In
condemning the present system of
electing class representatives to the
Self-Government. and Undergraduate
boards, Council members urged final
elections by the freshman and sopho-
more classes, because the college at
large does not as a rule know the can-
didates.

The Council agreed with Miss Petts

that a wider choice in required ath- :

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CHOIR SINGS FOLK CAROLS

Goodhart Hall, December 13.—The
choir’s Christmas Carol service was
movingly sung and beautifully framed
in fir trees and yellow light. Mr. Wil-
loughby conducted the singing and
instilled spirit and uniform enthusi-
asm in the choir, which found its in-
spiration in the melodies of Bach and
in folk carols, universal favorites in
the Christian world. The choir sang
in unison with the audience five of the
most familiar of all carols: O Come
All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald
Angels Sing, While Shepherds
Watched Their Flocks by Night, God
Rest You, Merry Gentlemen and The
First Nowell. The program of the
other carols, sung in parts by the
choir alone, was as follows:

Here. We Come A-wassailing
Traditional

A Babe in Bethlehem’s Manger

Traditional
On Christmas Night
Vaughan Williams
O Jesu So Sweet Bach
Shepherds Shake off. Your Drowsy
Sleep Besancon Carol
Within Yon Gloomy Manger Bach
Sleep, Baby, Sleep Czech Carol
Now the Rarest Day of All Days
Czech Carol
With Au Thy Hosts O Lord We Sing
Bach
How Far Is It to Bethlehem?
Geoffrey Shaw
King Herod and the Cock Traditional
The. Grasmere Carol
Arthur Somerville



Bryn Manr Club in N. Y.
Hopes for New House



Continued from Page One

vicinity for a tea on December 29.
The members of the Board hope that
any others who are in or near New
York at that time will come, even
though they have not received formal
invitations. "

The prices for rooms at the Uni-
versity Club under the auspices of
Bryn Mawr begin at $1.99 for room
without bath and $3.25 to $4 for a
room with bath. The meals in the
University Club dining-room are very
reasonable and there is a lending li-
brary for the use of the members.
The Bryn Mawr Club bedroom is also
available for members at $2.50 a night
or $14 a week for two weeks, and
longer if it is not. in demand. The
price for two people is $3 a night.



letics is desirable, and that for the
winter term winter sports, to include.
both skating and skiing, should be in-
augurated if the new rink on Bryn
Mawr Avenue is completed next year.
Arrangements have been completed
for transportation to Mr. W. S. Ellis’
hill on Bryn Mawr Avenue for extra-
curricular skiing and skating this
winter. The Department of Physical
Education announces that the list of
required dress for athletics has been
reduced and that the total cost of
those at present required is $6.75.



Gleaning:—Esther Hardenbergh, of
Rockefeller Hall received a letter ad-
dressed to Vanderbilt Hall. Some-
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Siberian Art I mbortant
In Race Migration

Continued from Page One



in the second level of the city of
Troy.

In the early Bronze Age in about
1000 B. C. a new wave of geometric
art spread over Europe from Greece
and Italy. In. this development
primitive naturalism in animal forms
was replaced by schematization. This
style was of world-wide distribution
and is found from the golden treas-
ures of the Halstatt civilization ‘in
Germany to the bronze works of the
Kuban region in the Caucasus. In
Siberia at Minusinsk, a center of
metal production at this time, similar
animal treatment is seen in bronzes in
a less developed” form.
likely that the people of the begin-
ning...Bronze Age in Minusinsk bor-
rowed from the more mature Bronze
civilization of the Caucasus and of
China.

The seventh century B. C. marks
the appearance on the Black Sea of
the Scythians, a nomadic northern
race whose art had a profound in-
fluence in the rest of the world.
Scythian art has three unfailing}.
characteristics: (1) the use of near-
Eastern forms; (2) the use of Greek
forms; and (8) the use of original
motifs, the most important of which
were the combination of natural and
schematized animal forms and the in-
organic union of different animal ele-
ments, such as a bird’s head on a
lion’s tail. The Scythians also used
the contorted animal body and the
“flying gallop” convention, which are
previously seen only in Cretan paint-
ing 2000 years before.

The Scythians extended their cul-
ture into the Ural Mountains and
gave to the Russians~many of their
motifs, especially the curled and con-
torted animal design. In the fourth
century, however, their power came
to an end and they were succeeded by
the Salmatians, a new race, who re-
tained many of the elements of Scy-
thian art. Objects from the Salma-
tian Period are found through Siberia
from the Black Sea even as far as
China. In a Mongolian grave, for
example, there was found a Chinese
felt carpet dating from the year 2
B. C. and decorated with Salmatian
designs.

In the period from 500 to 800 A. D.
the old animal forms developed into
human. representations protected by
deities, a motif which is
doubtless an ancestor of the totem-
pole art of the American Indians.
The animal designs were not forgot-
tenseven in the seventh century when
the Turkish Wave created new art
forms in Siberia, and they endured
until the Islamic invasion of 1000
A. D. swept away all Siberian art,
except small stone female figurines, or
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Graduate students and others who
are interested in general problems of’
linguistics are invited to join a dis-
cussion group which is being organ-
ized by Dr. Fiesel and Professor de
Laguna. It is hoped that the group’
may include members from a number
of different departments who may be
interested in different aspects of lin-
guistic theory.. A preliminary meet-
ing will be held at the Deanery, Tues-



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SRENCHMAN COMMENTS
ON U. S. COLLEGE LIFE





New York.—Jean Pierre Le Mee,
who sailed from New York on the
Normandie on November 25, takes
back a report to the French Govern-
ment which describes the social life
of American colleges as both new and
amazing. Le Mee visited a number
of leading institutions between the
east and west coast with the purpose |
of fulfilling the commission given him
by his government of analyzing Amer- !
ican institutions with a view toward
improving conditions in French
schools, in which, as Le -Mee itted, |
everything is “work, work, work.”
The Le Mee report shies from recom-
mending the social freedom granted
in the United States, advocates in
French universities larger playing
fields, fraternities and clubs, large
dining rooms where students can eat
together, the hanging of good repro-
ductions of great works of art
throughout college buildings, the
establishment of university theatres
and the publishing of college maga-
zines and newspapers.—(NSFA)



“Without warning to their member-
ship, the national commanders of the
‘Veterans of Future Wars’ have
abruptly revoked the charters of 500
of their local posts and announced
that the organization is dead—at least
for the present. The joke is over, say
the national commanders.

“Anticipating widespread opposition
to this move, American Student Union
leaders are contemplating the calling
of a convention of the V. F. W.
groups, none of which sanctioned the
decision to disband.

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‘Princeton, N. J.—Developments in
both government and business are cre-
ating wider opportunities for college
and university graduates with a back-
ground of broad training, Professor
De Witt Clinton Poole; director of the
School of Public and International Af-
fairs at Princeton University, told the
advisory board of the school in his an-
nual report.

“The concrete need which has pre-
sented itself insistently at the present
juncture is to establish for the gov-
/ernment service a reservoir of univer-
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been made at beginning salaries which
range from $1,620 to $1,800.

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summer and some 26,000 papers await
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Page Five





Modern Art ‘Lantern’
Mature and Critical

Critic Finds M. Mesier’s Essay
Original, Modern; J. Lamson’s
Study Authoritative



UNITYIN PLAN OF WHOLE



(Especially contributed by Mar-
garet Palfrey Woodrow.)

The present Lantern is more inter-
esting than the November issue not
because of its subject, Modern Art,
but because the undergraduates ap-
parently know more about it than
they did about politics, have more to
say, and are better qualified to say
“it.""Here is no attempted survey, but
something more mature and critical.

“There are prevalent three ways of
regarding modern art,” begins the
editorial. The editor proceeds to es-
timate these attitudes, and to discuss
the difference which ‘seems to exist
between the “newness” of modern
man and the different sort of newness
which is modern art. Miss Lamson’s
article on ‘Misunderstanding Mod-
ern Art’ is a more elaborate study of
this difference. Her analysis of the
Situation is intelligent. She concludes
with a plea for an approach to art
“with a perception free from conven-
tionalized treatment of form.” This
essay is not strikingly original, but it
is authoritative, thoughtful and ma-
ture. Miss Lamson is obviously at
home in the world of modern art. She
has set the stage for Miss Arnold’s
“Time and Art,” a series of concise
and often illuminating philosophical
assertions. The goal of art today is
what it has always been: to express
perfectly the absolute in the concrete.
But art cannot be static. Although
it moves in cycles and seemingly. re-
peats itself, the repetition is not a true
one. “A work of art is the expression
of a particular man in a particular
age which has some definite place in
our temporal progression.” Miss Ar-
nold refers specifically to poetry,
painting and music. More vigorously
than Miss Lamson she attacks the con-
demnation of modern art on the basis
of its strangeness: “To do this has
been the retreat of an embarrassed
public. in all cases where they did
not want to accept the onus of being
stupid.”

From the general to the particular:
Miss Rose’s discussion of three paint-
ings, Miss Wright’s book review, and
Miss Mesier’s essay on Shakespeare’s
Romances. ~ Miss Rose’s essay is
chiefly descriptive: she makes little
attempt to theorize or to criticize. I
like what she has done, however. It
is a detailed account, appreciative,
matter-of-fact. She writes in terms
of the medium, as one should of paint-
ing (though more awkwardly than
anyone should). As a result, the
paintings come alive. Miss Wright’s
book review is good. In my opinion
she has done justice to ‘“New Direc-
tions.” Her distinctions and _ selec-
tions are intelligent; her attitude of
sympathetic restraint should satisfy
Miss Lamson and Miss Arnold, and
she-is to be forgiven for refusing
finally to estimate the book as a
whole.

Miss Mesier’s essay on “Time in
Shakespeare’s Romances” is the long-
est and most original contribution. It
is remarkable, in spite of the fact
that it is often repetitious and over-
written. At its best, Miss Mesier’s
analysis is as penetrating and ima-
ginative as her thesis. The essay de-
serves a place in this issue of the
Lantern, however, not merely because
of its merit. It is essentially the cri-
ticism of a modern student. Whéther
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meeting discussed the question of
changing the required sports uniferm,
and decided to make. everything ex-
cept the tunic and bloomers optional.
There has been much complaint
among students who ordered the com-
plete uniform and have not had occa-
sion to wear it. Many of them were
required to buy blouses and socks
which differed only slightly ‘from
those they wore at school, and this
seemed a waste of money. The new
requirements reduce ‘the cost of tHe
outfit to $6.75. This price does not
include the bathing suits, which all
students planning to take swimming
must have.



SPIRITUALS, CAROLS

ON MAIDS’ PROGRAM



The repertoire for the Maids’
Carolling on Tuesday night consisted
of the usual Christmas carols and
Spirituals. Here We Come A’was-
sailing was sung at the approach of
every hall. The carols included: O
Come All Ye Faithful, Joy to the
World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing,
O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent

Night, The First Nowell, God Rest Ye

Merry Gentlemen, When the Crimson
Sun Has Set. The ‘Spirituals were:
Deep River, Steal Away, Swing Low
Sweet Chariot, I Couldn’t Hear No-
body Pray, Study War No More, Look

‘Down, Go Down Moses, ’Zechiel Saw

the Wheel, Little David, ’Tis Me O
Lord, I Got Shoes, Nobody Knows the
Trouble I Seen and The Bells of Saint
Mary’s.

The Carolling was conducted by
Renée Ferrer, assisted by Jean
Macomber.



Eliot and Joyce, her attitude toward
time belongs to the twentieth century.
The application of this attitude to
the plays of Shakespeare is obviously
valuable in the editors’ general plan.
Nearly all the contributions have to
do with time in one way or another.
The specimens of creative writing are
no. exceptions,

Miss Fox’s sketch and the three
poems, two by Miss Lyle and one by
Miss Simpson, are more interesting
as complements than as creations.
Miss Simpson is the only one of the
three who is at all modern and ex-
perimental in style. Her poem is in-
teresting, though in my opinion not
quite successful. Miss Lyle more
nearly accomplishes what she sets
out to do. I find her rhythm too
mechanical, but commend her work-
manship. “Miss Fox’s “Farewell” to
her childhood in Maine is imagina-
tive and well written but too slight as
it stands. As an introduction to a
longer piece of work it would have
more value.

What finally interested me as much
as any single piece of work in the
Lantern was the pattern of the whole.
The collective attitude which it pre-
sents is varied, positive, and often
penetrating. Both editors and con-
tributors have realized that art can-
not be considered in a void. The re-
sult is both suggestive and unified; it
thoroughly justifi¢és the new interest



VARSITY BASKETBALL -
IS TWO.COURT GAME



Few experienced players remain on
the Varsity basketball squad, which
faces a heavy schedule this year. The

success or failure of the teams this | yy;

season depends greatly upon the abi
ity of candidates from the sopho
and freshman classes.

Regular varsity practice was
held last year because of May Day.
No one of the 1934-35 varsity team
is left, and of the second team only
E. Washburn, S. Evans, P. Jackson,
and E. Smith, all of whom will gradu-
ate this spring. This gives a splen-
did opportunity to new players to
make Varsity. Among the freshmen
who.. have shown promise are S. Nor-
ris, -—E. Hooker, J. Martin, EE.” Beck
and C. De Chadenédes.

Basketball at Bryn Mawr has been
changed this year from the three-
court to the newer two-court game.
The court is divided into two zones,
and in place of the center and side-
center another forward and guard
have been added to each team. The
ball is put into play by a toss-in to
the center forward of each team in
turn.



BALL-ROOM DANCERS
LEARN “NEW YORKER”



A series of ten lessons in ball-room
dancing, taught by Mr. Herbert Ware,
an instructor from the Arthur Mur-
ray. school in New York, has been
inaugurated by the Department of
Physical Education. Tickets for the
whole course cost $10 and are trans-
ferable, but students are not supposed
to buy tickets for single lessons.
exception is made for.those in choir
because rehearsals make attendance
every week impossible. :

At the first regular class on Tues-
day, December 15, attended by thirty-
one students, Mr. Ware demonstrated
three fundamental steps: the ‘‘New
Yorker,’”’ which is the familiar box-
step; the “Westchester Conversa-
tion,” a walking step, and the Corté,
or dip. The class practiced these in-
dividually, then chose partners and
danced: to music provided by a vic-
trola, while Mr. Ware gave individual
criticism. The class will meet every
Tuesday at 7.30 p. m. in the Gymna-
sium, and will last for two hours. The
first hour will be given to practicing
steps and the second to general danc-
ing and _ instruction.



ie |

Mrs. Gilbreth Addresses Freshmen

A variety of interests, adaptability,
and always looking one’s best were a
few. of the job-hunting assets told the
freshman by Mrs. Gilbreth at coffee
in the Common Room on December
10. Members of the class having ap-
pointments with Mrs. Gilbreth re-
ceived invitations. All others were
admitted after notifying Mrs. Man-
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BOOK REVIEW
An American Doctor’s Odyssy—Dr.
Victor Heisen, \¥ . W. Norton & Co.,
Inc., 1936. ie
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e narration of his travels and serv-
es, has contributed materially to the

‘stock ‘of good «contemporary books.

“An American Doctor’s Odyssey” is
excellent reading, taking one _ into
country after country, and from inci-
dent to incident, with only an occa-
sional slump.

" The Johnstown Flood (in which he
lost his family), Immigration inspec-
tion, knife-throwing Italians in
Naples, lepers__in...the...Philippines,
Haile Selassie, Rabindrana Tagore,
the ghats of India are only a sample
of the man’s activity, presented in his
autobiography. Occasionally, he gets
wordy, and his stories of cleaning up
a place sound like Microbe Hunters
without the de Kruif exhuberance.
But on the whole, he writes fluently,
smoothly, and to the point.

Much of his work was done under
the benevolent auspices of the Rocke-
feller Foundation. By virture of
their backing, he was able to reform
the Royal Medical School of Siam,
open the Abbysinian leprosorium, and
get samples of yellow fever blood and
malaria in the most remote places of
the earth.

Probably the anecdote most appeal-
ing to readers now, is that ofthe
Duke of Windsor, then, in 1922, the
Prince of Wales. While in the Philip-
pines, the Prince took part in a polo
game, during which he was struck in

_| the head bya ball severing an artery.

Dr. Heiser attending him felt he
ought to give his patient an anti-te-
tanus injection, but the serum had
been proving extremely virulent. He
was in a quandary. Either was
possible death. To quote him, “I had
in my hands the most valuable asset
possessed by the British Empire; his
life might be in my keeping.” ’Tis an
anti-climax to say that the serum was
given, and merely gave the Prince a
royal case of hives.



Journal Club Observes
Date of Erasmus’ Death



His Writings and Associations
Discussed by Speakers

The Deanery, December 15.—Under
the auspices of the Historical Journal
Society, four speakers discussed vari-
ous aspects of Erasmus, whose death
occurred 300 years ago. Mrs. Wil-
liam Smith introduced the lecturers:
Mr. Rufus Jones, Miss Caroline Rob-
bins, Mr. William Smith and Mr.
Howard Gray.

In treating Erasmus’ religious in-
fluence, Mr. Jones declared that the
purpose of his life was to have the
church return to primitive Christian-
ity and to accomplish...reform--from-
within the church.

Miss Robbins explained the friend-
ship and final disagreement between
Luther and Erasmus which became
public in 1521 when Luther attacked
the Pope. Basically, however, as
Erasmus admitted, his teachings were
the same as Luther’s except that they
lacked the violence of the latter.

The influence of Erasmus’ “friends,
patrons and publishers” on his career
was discussed by Mr. Smith. The
Bishop of Cambray, to whom Erasmus
was secretary, was his patron from
youth and sent him to the University
of Paris; but John Colet, Dean of St.
Paul’s, who may have been the first
person to draw Erasmus’ attention to
the study of Greek, was the most im-
portant individual influence in his life.

Dr. Gray spoke of Erasmus’ writ-
ings. Among the most unique of these
was The Addagia which started as a.
Latin dictionary with descriptive
plrrases after each term. In its later
editions, however, these explanations
were expanded into short essays which
followed each word.
translated the Bible from

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THE COLLEGE NEWS





Miss Henderson Values :
Small, Active Campus

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College Model Sounding-Board for
Our Initiative



(This is the seventh of a series of
interviews with new members of the
faculty.)

College should prove itself to be a
responsive sounding-board for our
initiative, Mary Henderson, instruc-
tor in English, believes. This is pe-
culiarly true of Bryn Mawr because
of two unusual advantages.

Intercourse is readily achieved on
our small campus where classes are
also limited to size. Because of this
freshmen.‘ should--be.particularly..en-
thusiastic, for not only are they
spared any drop-in-the-ocean depres-
sion which they might experience, but
they are actually urged to withstand
“college consciousness” and to re-
spond as individuals.

Especially stimulating, since at this
time when the average student is at-





tempting “to look through things”
rather than to provide herself with a
few facts, is our seclusion from a
city. While not completely detached
from the world, we are not living in
it, but rather in one of our own in
which we can effectively train our
energies.

Campus management is only one
of the actions Miss Henderson sug-
gests. Correlation of extra-curricular
activities with work, and the fusion
of such hobbies as dramatics, danc-
ing, art and music would inevitably
be more valuable than the individual
puttering of these organizations.

The recent dramatic production on
the campus, Miss Henderson consid-
ers “antithetical to Bryn Mawr” and
its forward attitude. Original plays,

certainly faulty, but expressive of

contemporary attitude, modern ex-
periments, or the foreign~ theatre
would provide more vital material.
Typically enough, Miss Henderson’s
interest in English is superseded by
her feeling for “American,” the de-
velopment of which she feels sure

—meoer - —



holds something more than slang and
“Winchellisms.” In our spelling, use
and coining of words we can, with
proper awareness of their importance,
develop a speech which reflects our
wit and. tempo.

Since Miss Henderson was gradu-
ated from the University of Colorado
in 1927, her career has been interest-
ingly varied. In the two years fol-
lowing graduation she was principal
of a school in Santa Fe. From 1930-
32 she was associated with the Eliza-
beth Marbury Literary Agency and
for the past year has been affiliated
with the English Department of
Barnard College.



Miss O’Kane Foresees



Calls “Regional Autonomies” Basic
Spanish Fault _

(This is the eighth ofa series of

\interviews with new members of the

faculty.)

A two-year affiliation with the



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graduate school two years ago didn’t
prepare Eleanor O’Kane, instructor
in Spanish, for the Bryn Mawr un-
dergraduate with whom she has come
in contact. We are “more akin to
other students—less academic, gayer
and less of a set type” than she had
been led to expect. ©

Contemporary events, too, hold a
peculiar significance for Miss O’Kane
because of her foreign residences.
The three years following her gradu-
ation from Trinity College in ’27 she
taught English in Puerto Rico. The
natives, Miss O’Kane feels, have been
raised to an American standard of
living which, if they were independ-
ent, they ,would be unable to main-
tain......Next..yéar__there...is..to...be...a
plebiscite which will decide whether
or not Puerto Rico is to have such
freedom. “It is up to the United
States in the remaining time” to prove
their sincere good will to the Puerto
Ricans. The present conference at
Buenos Aires is such “a real attempt
to understand the Latin temperament”



and Miss O’Kane hopes for the main-
tenance of such a spirit. ;

Humor punctuated the grimness of
the Spanish revolution for Miss
O’Kane when she with five compa-
triots, two of them former Bryn
Mawrters, flew.an American flag .out-
side of their dormitory in Madrid.
Cheerful pajamas served the Betsy
Rosses for materials.

Recent reports in the newspapers
have finally treated what Miss O’Kane
regards as one of Spain’s basic prob-
lems, her various “internal regional
autonomies which compromise the
Spanish heterogeneous population.” It
is this factional feeling between differ-
ent sections of the country which
force both Loyalists and Rebels to ad-

nit....that..-reorganization;~-allowing”’a

certain amount of independence to the
different parts of the country will be
necessary. Regardless of the out-
come of the war, Miss O’Kane believes
that the new government will be
neither Fascistic nor Communistic, but
rather on the order of a democratic
republic.





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