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VOL. XXIV, No"9" ”’
"BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1937
BRYN MAWR
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
COLLEGE, 1937 PRICE 10 CENTS
In "Spanish Survey
Joseph Lash ‘Cites
Loyalist Advantage
A. S. U. Speaker Traces Efforts
Of the People to Organize
Military Forces
ANTI-FASCIST FORCES
NOW WELL INTEGRATED
_ Common Room, December 7.—The
Spanish government, due to the atti-
tude“of-its people, is’ not-in such a
precarious position as is commonly
thqught, said Joseph Lash, Executive
Secretary of the American Students’
Union at an open meeting of the Bryn
Mawr chapter. In spite of its original
basic lacks, as opposed to the advan-'
tages on the rebel’ side, the govern-
ment since July, 1936, has resolved
the oppositions within. itself, and to-
day its army of 550,000 trained men
is well organized and efficient.
The basic difficulties that the Span-
ish government has met laid in the re-
lations among the Spanish-people, al-
though bound together ‘in opposition
to Fascism. There were both sec-
tional and political clashes within
the Loyalist populations: Catalonia
and the Basque country claimed au-
tonomy and separated from the gov-
ernment, three provinces’ broke off
economic relations; and one town
within the would-be autonomous Ara-
gon attempted to split off from’ both
Aragon and the government. The po-
litical oppositions among the Loyal-
ists have been mainly between the
Anarchists, the Trotskyites and. those
supporting Spanish Democracy in and
for itself. ;
Mr. Lash feels that his optimism is
supported by the fact that the Popu-|. .
lar Front has not only overcome these
inherent oppositions, but has also
built up its army against the extra-
ordinary advantages of the Rebel
Army. Franco has had the support
of the landed aristocracy, of big in-
dustry, and of Germany and Italy.
Into his ranks poured the’ managers
and technicians of industry, ‘the agri-
cultural exptrts and the civil servants.
This “decapitation” of the govern-
ment forces left the Loyalists with no
system of justice, no police system, no
centralization, and very little knowl-
edge of military science. It was the
ninger, 39, in a.meeting of the Phil-
lerated by being. and living as such.
Continued on Page Six
Constance Renninger
Interprets Aquinas
In Process ‘of Intellection Lies
Mait’s Perfection
~Common Room, November 30.—
Man’s comprehension is essentially
homogeneous, said Constance Ren-
osophy Club. This is in the sense that
concepts are assigned varied connota-
tions by the mind when. an image of
that concept cannot be formed. _ From
this we can conclude, with Descartes,
that a difference exists. between
imagination and _ intellection.
Intellection, as imageless, “is man’s
most completely personal kind .of
awareness. Individual being is homo-
geneous.” Similarly, personal iden-
tity, as immediate sensation, cannot
be qualified except as'a feéling of life;
this aspect, common to every percep-
tual act, unifies an individual’s experi-
ence and is distinct from whatever
properties the objects of sensation
may have. This unity is ‘always gen-
Feeling is not solely applicable to
emotional functions: “both emotion
and intellection have the same imag-
inative kind of being in man.” Feel-
ing, in other words, is involved in
all activity whether of sensation or
of intellection. This unity of feeling
is each man’s truth for himself—his
truth of being as well as his standard
for the truth of external things. ©
Infinite concepts are evolved by in-
tellection, not by the imaginative fac-
ulty. “It is in the underlying process
of all living, that of intellection, that
superlative can really be thought.”
For instance, ‘Empty, unlimited space
is the nearest approximation to an
. . imaginative conception of God.”
And whereas God is most easily imag-
ined as “light,’”’ so man, as corporeal
and internal “is more easily imagined
as a dark space.” ... That is, for the
imagination, corporeality and incor-
poreality, as internal and external re-
spectively, are naturally imagined as
“dark? and “light.”
“Thomas Aquinas’ cosmological
proof of the existence: of God shows
... he thought of his individual unity
as a light spirit and as a dependent
one,” presupposing at the same time
an absolute relation of cause and effect
in. the. universe. The cosmological
Continued on Page Three
“Yale Man’s Guide Book’ Prepares Readers
For Football; Wimmin and New York
Dr. Phelps Supposes That 200
Of B. M.’s Senior Class
Have Been Abroad
There has lately come into our
hands a copy of the Yale Man’s
(1987-38) Guide Book. This is an il-
lustrated brochure of 36 pages which
should be of interest to our readers
chiefly because it includes an article
on Bryn Mawr, interpreting a week-
end here to the uninformed Yale man.
On: closer examination it reveals much
about Yale to the uninformed Bryn
Mawrter. ie
The booklet begins with five pages
on athletics interspersed with various
portraits of earnest looking gentle-
men concerned with sport. These
pages looked tedious, so we did not
read them. Then, comes the University
Calendar which we also skipped; this,
however, is followed by a few words
by Professor William Lyon Phelps
loosely entitled The College Year,
' “to which we devoted much study.
We can confidently say that this con-
tains no new material valuable to the
Yale freshman or any freshman. It
begins by asserting that America has
the best weather of any eountry in the
world; -itsgueson U7 Sy aie hegebe
students are widely traveled; and -it-
winds up wft tement that the
most interesting and valuable side of
college is the academic. There is one
interesting. sidelight on Dr.~ Phelps’
opinion, which is that he supposes in
the present. Bryn. Mawr senior class
there are 200 students who have been
Europe. _. 3.
to pe pe ae
On pages 12 and 13 we have two
more athletics articles, which this
time we read. The first is by Richard
Vidmer of the New York Herald
Tribune, and is a puerile little piece
on the ancient theme of the, feminine
guest at a football game who does not
understand or appreciate football. The
second is called Football, A Game by
Larry Kelley (of Everybody There
Saw Kelley fame). Football, A Game
(Mr. Kelley seems to have a genius
for. titles) is a panegyric on football
which is summed up in-the last para-
graph, quote: “It’s still a game of
twenty-two boys on a field a hundred
Career as Barrister
Planned by Panofsky
Led by"Wedst vield of Art,|
Attained Ph.D., Grimm Prize
At Age of 21
CAME TO AMERICA IN ’31
Professor Ernest Panofsky, in an
interview following the last Flexner
lecture, outlined briefly a remarkable
career. His accomplishments repre-
sent not only a series of events spec-
tacular in themselves, but also a
record of sustained triumphs occa-
sioned by an unusual ability.
After the
training in a “humanistic gymnas-
ium,” Professor Panofsky entered the
university at Berlin with the firm in-
tention of becoming a barrister, as his
father and grandfather had been, be-|.
fore him. However, during one of his
early terms, while he was studying
at Freiburg (for it: was the. custom
in Germany for college students to
move about freely from one university
to another), he met a man named
Voege, a teacher of art history.
Panofsky felt his influence so strongly
then and later that he was persuaded
their interests lay along similar lines.
Therefore, he worked in history of
art for a few years, and when he was
still only 21, wrote a paper on The
Art Theory of Direr, which won for
him not only the coveted Grimm prize,
but also his doctor’s degree. (It is of
interest to American students. that
the doctorate is the first and only de-
gree given in German universities.)
After several years of independent
work, Professor Panofsky became as-
sociated with the University of Ham-
burg, and there worked in co-opera-
tion with the Harburg Institute, now
located in London, which is devoted
to showing the revival and survival of
classical ideas in art and science. Be-
cause of his fine work in this field,
Professor .Panofsky was invited in
1931 :to lecture at New York Uni-
versity. Of America, he said it was
a_case of “love at first sight; he had
a “marvelous time” in New York.
During his second lecture trip here
he received word that, with Hitler’s
accession to power, he would no longer
be permitted to teach in Germany, and
he decided to remain permanently. in
America. The telegraph operator
who received the message from Ger-
many,-not being a*Bryn Mawr gradu-
ate who could “read French and Ger-
man at baal cheerfully pasted on
the cablegram a bright green sticker
bearing the words “Happy Easter!”
For the past several years, Profes-
sor Panofsky has been associated with
the Institute for Ad ed Study at
Princeton, but sti##gives\ one, lecture
course at New York University, for
old time’s sake. . es
Although he is little concerned with
modern art, Professor Panofsky said
that it was closely related to Medi-
aeval art in that both are seeking an
escape from reality, the latter in the
use of visible symbols of a higher
life, the former in representations of
the subconscious or deeper life. In
other words, he said, surrealism may
develop into “Mediaeval art with an
inverted sign.” ee —
yards long, some of them not so good eee Mawr, Professor Panofsky
at Latin perhaps, but still very de
termined to get a certain oval-s
pigskin ball over a white
having a darn good time
Unquote. :
Now we come to the pith of the
brochure, viz, four articles called re-
spectively Weekend at Vassar, Week-
end at Smith, Weekend at Wellesley,
Weekend at Bryn Mawr. These are
not arranged in alphabetical order ob-
viously, but, presumably, in order of
preference. Vassar dnd Wellesley, to
our jaundiced eye, sound exactly the
an ‘hey both boast of quiet coun-
try, shore sports, and describe in
plowing “detail “the “glory of their
“proms.” Smith’s article is written
in particularly.coy language beginning
with exhortations to “my _beamish
estly assures their readers that any-
one who sends a girl one small green
orchid with lilies of the valley is “the
me Continued on Page Four '
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boys;” ‘and whereas Wellesley mod-
aid he was quite impressed by the
genuine learning of many members of
our faculty, und by an unusually un-
constrained but serious attitude of
“sincere interest in work” on the part
of the students.
As a parting thought, Professor
Panofsky mentioned with charming
fatherly pride his’two sons at Prince-
ton, both seniors, neither of whom is
at all interested in history of art,—for
which he says he is “very thankful.”
- Skiing Folders on View
Miss Petts has_folders_fram..-
Sky Top, Pecketts of Sugar
Hill, and the Lake Placid Club,
and all information about rates,
-vailroad fares, ete., which - she
will be glad to show to anyone ~
interested in skiing. Reductions
in regular expenses will be made
to large groups.
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Saturday, December 11. Hall
dances in Merion and Rocke-
feller.
Sunday, December 12. Christ-
mas Carol service, Goodhart
Hall, 7.45 -p. m.
Monday, December 13. Deanx
ery party; 7 p. m.
Tuesday, December 14. Sum-
mer Camp. party, Common
Room, 4-6 p, m. German ‘play,
Common Room, 8.30-9 ‘p. m.
Maid’s Carols in halls,.8 p.m. .
Wednesday, December. 15.°
Maid’s Dance, Gym,:9 p. m. Mr.
Crenshaw will address Science
Club, Common Room, 8 p. m.
Thursday, December. 16.
' Christmas parties in the halls.
Herbert Miller Speaks
On “Racial Minorities”
Russia Alone Has Harmonized Small
Groups Successfully
Common Room, November. 30.—Mr.
Herbert Miller, speaking to the Inter-
national Club on “Racial Minorities in
Europe,” showed how Germany’s im-
perialistic antagonism to her~Polish
subjects and her consequent increase
of armaments did a great deal to pre-
cipitate the World War. He consid-
Players’ Club Gives
Technically’ Sound -
‘Bill of Divorcement’
Both “Helpless and Powerful”
Portrayal Given by Smith,
Princeton, 738
REITLER, °40, PLAYS
SYDNEY CONVINCINGLY
«
Goodhart Hall, December 3. The
opening night performance of A Bill
of Divorcement, given by the Players’
Club and members of Princeton Uni-
versity, was, unlike some amateur pro-
ductions, technically flawless. That is;
the pictures stayed on the walls, the
sound was effective at the correct time,
and in spite of fears expressed by
members of the back-stage crewWy no-
body in blue jeans walked thought-
lessly past the .French windows of
Acts I and III. It it seems a back-
ward process to praise first the unseen
army that works .for the production
of a play, one must only remember
how disconcerting the waver of a wall,
or the ‘misplacement of painted
shadows can be. If the scenery is
solid and convincing, the actors are
apt to live up to their milieu.
Unfortunately, be an amateur pro
ered Russia the one country which has
successfully dealt with the supposedly |
“insoluble problem” of™harmonizing |
small and scattered national groups’
in Europe. Russia’s treatment of
more than 40 different racial factions
within her borders, said Mr. Miller,
is exemplary.
Mr. Miller defined that class which
opposes the attempt of a ruler to crush
out all but one language, religion, or
set of customs, in a country, as a mi-
nority. In Europe, the situation is
serious because such groups are in-
evitable and exist within the boun- |
daries of every country. Even the,
formation of “new “secession” states
has not eliminated the’ problem for
each includes a number of parti-racial
residents. :
In certain cases the government of,
such countries has led to difficulties.
in international diplomacy. Germany,
Poland-and Hungary’permit only their
own language to be spoken by their
residents. The natural. result has
been that. these nationalistic move-
ments have effected immediate opposi-
tion, and a revival of interest in their
own language by a people who other-
wise would not have. considered it.
_Russia’s plan has eliminated’ this
automatic, psychological resistance as
well as diplomatic disputes with the |
mother-nations of the minorities. The
Russian program comprises a uniform
economic system and a complete local
cultural auténomy. With the reten-
tion—-of its own culture by each na-
tional group, the desire to. oppose the
government disappears and, as Mr.
Miller said, “the language which the
Continued on Page Four
PEACE COUNCIL PLANS
JAPANESE BOYCOTT
Pembroke West, December 2.—At a
meeting of, the Emergency Peace
Council, plans. were made and a com-
mittee appointed for a campaign for
the economic boycott of Japanese
goods, particularly raw silk used for
stockings. The committee, chosen by
the representatives of most of the
clubs on campus, consists of Louise
Métley, ’40, chairman;\ Ethel Mann,
88; Sylvia Wright, ’38; Helen Ham-
ilton, ’39, and Florence Scott, ’38.
The committee plans a meeting: on
December 13, at--which-speakers.will
present the various aspects of such a
boycott, its economic effects upon in-
dustry, on the hosiery workers, and,
on ‘the international-situation. These
for discussion.
The purpose of the Council in tak-
ing this action is to stimulate discus-
sion of the boycott on campus and to
favor it as a means of checking the
Japanese aggression in China. Later
‘an attempt will be made to poll stu-
duction ever so professional, the audi-
ence has unaccountable instincts, one
of which is to laugh when there is
nothing funny. There is hardly ever
any reason for this except a state of
nerves produced by the tense feeling
that something untoward is about to
happen, and relief because it has not
happened already. To the average
person in such a state, the line about
horses in- Act I is -eause for emotion
of some sort, and since it is Act I and
the tears have not yet begun to well,
the only way out is by laughter.
Heaven forfend the actors from think-
ing their serious lines were . being
taken lightly.
If only one serious line provokes
mirth, however, the actors may as-
sume that they have, so to speak, put
themselves over. A Bill-of—Divoree-
ment is not comic, in any sense; even
nineteenth Century Aunt Hester only
stamps it with a deeper impress of
tragedy, and brave, unmelodramatic, ..
dumb tragedy that tries to hide itself
behind a comic mask is food for ex-
perience. It is not sophomoric, so one
can wonder at Frances Reitler’s
surprisingly mature performance as
Sydney. The part of Sydney has
launched’ more than one successful
actress, but this does not prove that
it is easy. It is what one makes of it,
but it happens to be the kind of part
that is more suited to the talents of
Continued on Page Three
Embryo Fire Attacks
' . New Scientific Building
Swirling Students Pour From Hall
Windows to Watch
December 6.—A minor fire in the
incompleted Science building brought
two fire engines, a’ police car, most
of Bryn Mawr’s male (and some of -
its escaped female) population to the
lower campus. Equally great was the
excitement aroused among those un-
happily confined in the halls.
At 10.30 the power-house siren went
off in a rising crescendo, and in-
stantly halls not already locked were
vacated as their inmates dashed out
under various hazy impressions as to”
the fire’s location. A growing crowd,
collected at the lower end of Senior
Row; found only a small blaze which
was extinguished by the porters and
men from the village before the fire
apparatus arrived.
The fire was discovered by two Den-
bighites walking down Senior Row,
who*noticéd a red glare reflected on
the walls of the new building. A
hasty glance over the high fence
showed flames licking the scaffolding
and the lower part of a wooden stair-
case. The two students ran to get
help at the power house and at Rad- —
nor, where an efficient fire lieutenant
instantly produced six nickels and be-
Continued on Page Five
ent opinion on the matter.
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Thanksgiving,
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Music Correspondent: PATRICIA R. Rosinson, ’39
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Teapot Talk
- As we hear the teapots whistle
once again in tea-pantries, we find
ourselves explicably depressed. For the low whispers from smoking-
room arm-chai:
ate the base accompaniment to the themes conducted
in individual rooms. And by low and base, we mean low and base.
Some survey-conscious magazine said last year, that the three col-
lege conversation topics are politics, religion and sex. Perhaps this is
true in the survey-viinerable, less intellectual universities.
Bryn
Mawr’s three topics are you and you and you.
Normally impressionable people are becoming hyper-conscious of
normal characteristics of others as marmured about by the biased;
prejudices and tastes pass for ultimata; innuendos excite attention out
of proportion to their. objects.
This situation, plausible in boarding-
school, becomes disgusting in any adult group. More serious than the
puerile aspect of such behavior is
those who become the object of thoughtless personal criticism. There
the positive harm it can cause to
happen to be in society today certain standards of right and wrong
behavior. It would seem also that
there -is:a peculiar satisfaction in
pointing out others than oneself.as exemplifications of wrong behavior.
However transient conventions existing today may ultimately be, the
fact remains that any person who wrongly becomes the victim of cur-
rent gossip can be made to undergo so, great a personal unhappiness
that even though the gossip as such is refuted, bh relationships will
never be quite the same.
We feel that any community which respects broadmindedness
should maintain a severe attitude of intolerance for, this most petty
kind of diserimination.
co.
ALICE SHURCLIFF, ’38,
WINS 50 CENT PRIZE
(Since this is the only poem entered
in the College News contest it gives
the editors great pleasure to award
the 50 cents to Alice Shureliff, ’38)
Fable for Fifty Cents
a Gent:
b Sought her .
, Went
b ‘Caught her
a Aomt-.
b | Bought her
b A’ Daughter
b Taught her
b She hadn’t ought’er
e<: He could not
c -», »» Would not
b . Support her
d This ‘
a Meant
b Slaughter
¥} s mae Sc ey ote a
ge Shot
a Gent
b Self and daughter
c Moral: Hot, hot
oe , Sizzles Hell |
e- _»— ~ Ring the knell
Free (Aléxandrine)
_ For these immortal three and give
me 50c.
ies Probes ‘Wage Abuse
Madison, Wis.—(ACP)—Agitation
over * n wages” paid to stu-j°
dents . Peg “restaurants for
_their board has broken out at. the
‘University of Wisconsin. In a copy-
7) In Philadelphia
Movies
Aldine: Nothing Sacred, a free-for-
all comedy, with Carole Lombard and
Fredric March.
Boyd: Pll Take Romance, a musical
romance about an a star, with
“Grace Moore.
Europa: Mayerling, the great royal
romance, with Charles Boyer.
Stanley: Ebb Tide, an adaptation of
Robert Louis Stevenson’s romance
about the South Seas, with Ray Mil-
land and Frances Farmer.
Locust St.: The Hurricane, from the
famous novel by Nordhoff and Hall,
with Jon Hall and Mary Astor.
Arcadia: Conquest, the Napoleonic
romance, with Greta Garbo and
Charles Boyer. Beginning Friday:
Music for. Madame, a musical comedy,
with Nino Martini.
_ Fox: The Last Gangster, not so
deep as Séarface, or so wide as Lit-
tle Caesar, with Edward G. Robinson.
Beginning Friday: Manhattan Merry-
Go-Round, a musical comedy, with
Leo Carillo.
Stanton: Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry,
a tremulous and saccharine story that
should appeal to audiences that are
not thoroughbred, with Mickey Roon-
ey. Beginning Friday: Nightclub
Scandal, a. minor melodedma, with
John Barrymore.
Earle: Big Town Girl, a musico-ra-
dio romance, with Claire Trevor. Be-
_| ginning Friday: She Married An Art-'
ist, with John Boles.
Karlton: Submarine D-1, underseas
adventure, with Wayne Morris.
~Keith’s: A Damsel In Distress, P.
G. Wodehouse interpreted: ed Fred As-
taire.
Theater: .
Chestnut St.: Three Waltzes, a mu-
| sical by the three Strausses. -
‘| ‘Forrest: Richard ass Las Mae i
tury B. C.
Resignation
The College News tegrets . to
announce the resignation of
Eleanor Bailenson, ’39, from the ~
Editorial Board.
tiene a © ecli de tnthe
ABROAD AT HOME
-The: room, in the Planetarium is
small with a vaulted ceiling. An un-
naturally swift dusk transforms the
pale blue arch into a firmament with
myriads of stars appearing almost im-
perceptibly one after the other until
the very walls of the room and the
girl sitting next to us are obscured
by a feeling of immensity and dis-
tanee. The Christmas sky as we see
it today, in the twentieth century A. D.
in Philadelphia suddenly gives place
to a strange heaven, seen by the shep-
herds and wise men in the sixth cen-
in. Palestine.
The three shepherds see the stars as
we do, and discover'a great omen.
Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are coming
together in the constellation of the
Fishes. It is a léegitirnate phenonm-
éhon, but the nearnéss of. these three
planets to each: other seem to fore-
tell a wonderful event. Wise men
afid astrologers point excitedly. There
ig & g@feat. light in the’ sky, which
could almost bé ealled a star, and a
voice is saying, “For unto us a child
is born, unto us @ son is given: and
the governmént shall be upon his
shouldérs: and his narne shall be
éaHed Wonderful, Counsellor, The
Mighty God, The Everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.”
A tableau, emerging slowly from
the bla¢k background, shows Mary
and Joseph and Child in the stable
while a choir sings Unto us a Son is
given. The wise men have finally ar-
rived. The voiees continue with
|Hark, the Herald Angels Sing and
Silent Night.
Gradually the stars disappear, and
the picture has ae into the back-
ground. The incandescent lamps are
brilliant and we see for the first time
a miniature Philadelphia sky-line sil-
houetted around the edge of the ceil-
ing. The vaulted room is a section
of the Franklin Institute set npart for
the Fels Planetarium.
On..December 1, the Planetarium
opened its third annual demonstration
of the Christmas Skies, supplemented
for the first time by appropriate mu-
sic and tableatix%. The performances
*| will-be-held-throughout December; on
weekdays at 3 and 8.30 p. m.;. on Sat-
urdays at noon, 3, 4, and 8.30 p. m.;
on Sundays and holidays at 8, 4, and
8.30 p. m. Admission is 25 cents per
person. The entrance to the Plane-
tarium is on the Parkway between
Twentieth and Twenty-first streets,
within easy walking distance of the
Broad Street Suburban Station. Each
demonstration takes approximately an
hour.
dinile
ony in G Minor; Bach: Prelude and
Fugue in E. Minor; Unknown Com-
poser: Two Traditional Liturgical
Melodies; Palestrina: Adoremus Te;
Byrd: Pavan and Gigg; Frescobaldi:
Gagliarda; Bach: Passacaglia.
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday, Sophie Lang
Goes. West, with Gertrude Michael;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Double Wedding, with William Pow-
ell and Myrna Loy.
Seville: Thursday: Wild Money,
with Edward Everett Hotton; Friday
and Saturday, The Bride Wore Red,
with Joan Crawford; Sunday and
Monday, Danger—Love At Work, with
Ann Sothern; Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Dangerously Yours, with Cesar
Romero.
Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Heidi, with Shirley Temple;
Sunday and Monday, The Life of
Emile, Zola, with Paul Muni; Tues-
day and Wednesday, The Bride Wore
Red, with Joan Crawford.
Suburban: Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Heidi, with
Shirley Tettipte.
‘Pde on ‘Sele
all the events of the coming
“year, and plenty of space for
_ notes, will go on sale in the book-
shops. The proceeds go to the —
Tenge and the price cont
_|derstandings that pre
|| miration. Distorted, - vulgarized, the
EXCERPT S From EXILE
PUBLIC OPINION
The, muffled, unsatisfactory explo-
sion produced when an Anglo-Saxon
mentality edmes into contact with an
esprit gaulots is probably due to their
opposed conceptions of the pleasures
of. verbal jntercourse. The Anglo-
Saxoti, whq basks happily in the re-
flected light of his 6wn ideas, agrees
with his friends out of courtesy. He
is consequently surprised ahd discour-
aged when the Gaulois deliberately re-
futes his every statement, not redliz-
ing that the latter is equally surprised
and discouraged at the absence of any
firm. basis of opposition on which he
inay fest his arguments. There is,
however, some hope that the Anglo-
Saxon, renowned for intellectual, if
not instinctive tolerance, may under-
stand the ‘spirit of contradiction even
though he does not sympathize with it.
An analytical examination based on
authentic and Well-known examples is
in order.
Let us refet to one of the earliest
French mants¢ripts' known to exist,
Ia Chavison de Roland. “Rotaid,
tion vcompagnon, sonnezx votré oli-
phant!” eriés Oliver. “Ne plaise &
Dieu,” the former answers, “qu’il soit
jamais dit par nul homme vivant que
pour des paiens j’aie sonne mon cor!”
So fat s0 good, but presently Roland
suggests, “Je sonnerai l’oliphant,” and
Olivet replies, “Ce serait pour tous
vos parents un grand déshonneur et
un opprobre et cétte honte sérait sur
eus toute leur viel” This is probably
one of the purest examples of the dis-
interestéd spirit of contradiction that
characterizes Vesprit gauloig. The un-
expeéted reversal of opinion is partly
dué to an instinctive impulse towards
contrariness and partly to the intel-
lectual need of verbal combat to which
is attached, at option, thé corollary of
invective. The auithor, Tutoldus, does
not describe the two-hour afgument
that undoubtedly ensued. This omis-
sion is easily attributed to lack of,
space; afterwards we can itnagine the
two heroes readily abandoning the
fun of. fose-splitting and horse-slic-
ing for the more enduring joys of
argumentation.
Today, the concierge embodies the
emotional element in the spirit of con-
tradiction. If she is quite sure that
she has séen you leave the apartment,
she hasily delivers the mail. But if,
lured by the glimpse of an American
postage stamp, you creep up to ‘the
mail-box, she will rush out’of her lair
to interpose herself between you and
‘the expected letter, aly denying that
the mail has been delivered. This is
a rude manifestation) of “l’esprit
gaulois. To reach a higher plane,
the element of doubt must be intro-
duced. Thus, it appears to a foreign-
er that ‘Parisians deliberately culti-
vate ignorance in order to leave room
for imaginative ne
“Your professors de in advance
what courses they expect to give,” an
ancienne éléve of the Sorbonne told
mé with withering scorn. “Ours never
decide until the classes start and some-
times -not--even-then.”.. When I
thought of the long succession. .of
arguments, fights and general misun-
ed these be-
lated decisions, I understood the
gratitude that she must. feel for their
authors. Again, many Parisians do
not read, or do not admit that they
read, newspapers thoroughly. They
explain that it is a waste of time be-
cause journalists always distort the
truth, but it is possible that another
factor plays an portant, part .in
their attitude. Too detailed a mass of
information, whether true or false,
would necessarily restrict the field of
argument,
Supplementary invective is not a
necessary part of a gallic disagree-
ment.’ The mentality of a concierge
is generally too pedestrian, that of a
scholar, too courteous, to indulge free-
ly in a combat of abuse. We must
go-outinto the streets to~find—sub-
stantial material. Two taxis collide;
two furious chauffeurs burst out in-
stantaneously. “Eh ‘bien! ‘tu ne pou-
vais pas. sonner ton klaxon par exem-
ple?” The crowd gathers as the ex-
cited contestamts-wara. —-. * anaes, ARS
the unanswerable insults of the other;
the abusive fire-works become increas-
ingly brilliant; the crowd gasps in ad-
argument is still recognizable as a
ig 8 gong A
te
To the Editor of the News:
A chapter of the American Stu-
dent’s Union has existed on the Bryn
Mawr campus for almost three years,
but the majority of the student body
has not had an opportunity to find
out its program and purpose, This
has been the fault of the leadership
if the chapter. We would like to
remedy. the situation as soon as we
ean,
The American Students’ Union
stands, broadly speaking, for four
things: peace, increased educational
facilities, aeadémi¢e freedom and equal
rights for all races. Specifically this
means that the A. S. U. opposes mili-
tarism in education (in particular the
R. O: T. C.). Tt fights the war
preparations of .the United States
government because it believes that
this money could be better spent on
education, and because it feels that
the only war in which this country
is likely to be involved will be one for
Colonial possessions. The A. S: U. —
has gone on record in the past as
supporting the Oxford pledge. This
will be one of the most important
points of discussion at the national
convention: in. Deeémber. ;
Coneretely, in the struggle to make
khiowh the désire of the students for
peace, the A: 8. U. organized the first
student demonstration for peace on
April 22, 1936.. In the second strike,
in 1937, a million students took part.
The A. §. U. has campaigned for
legislation to maké R. O. T. C. op-
tional in colleges. It has always sup-
ported the governments of Spain and
China, feeling that in these struggles
against fascist aggression the peace
of the world is at stake.
The A. S. U. stands for extension
of educational facilities. To this end
it conducts every year a “pilgrimage”
to Washington, to ask for extension
of present N. Y. A. benefits, which
are entirely inadequate “to help all
who deserve high school and: college
education.
The A. S. U. believes that the social
problems of the day can only be
solved if they aré courageously faced
by both students and faculty in
schools and colleges. Therefore, the
A. §. U. stands opposed to all at-
tempts to limit academic discussion,
or the free expression of opinion by
students and faculty.
The A. S. U., since it is in favor
of equal educational opportunity for
all, is opposed to racial discrimina-
tion. In the United States the Jew-
igh race, and especially the Negro
race, are the most conspicuous victims
of discrimination. The A. S. U. has
consistently tried to help students of
these races to get equal privileges on
the campus.
The A. §. UJ. believes that the issues
for which the students are working
are the same as those for which labor
is working. The fact that- the A.S.
U. tationally and locally has felt its
interests close to those of labor, and
has therefore helped in strikes, does
not imply an -uncritical endorsement
of every strike, but when support
follows investigation, it is legitimate
and carries weight. «
In conclusion: mo member of the
A. S..U. is obliged to support any .
action taken locally or nationally of
which he or she does not approve.
The A. S. U. was founded in the hope
that it would prove an organization
where progressives of every political
opinion could meet on common ground |
and work together for whatever aims .
they might have in common. The A.
S. U. is not affiliated with any po-
litical party, and it is not its policy to
take—sides—in—political_controversies.
It should be noted that, this’ pro-
gram has been inadequately carried
out on this campus—a matter which
will be more fully discussed in an-
other article. (This summary of ‘the
-probrém is ee
‘complete. An excellent gresentation
|of it is to be found in full in the A.
S. U. Handbook, or in the pamphlet
“Toward a: Closed Shop on_ the
Campus,” both of which are on re-
serve in the New Book Room.) —
AGNES SPENCER,
{eet the: Executive Committee of the
Bryn Mawr Chapter, A..S. Ue
a ae
partments
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Page Threc
vos
Miss Petts Will Teach
- At Austrian Mozarteum
To
Give Course Next Summer
~ On “Good Movement”
(Especially contributed by. Donnie
Allen, ’38.)
It has, just been announced that
Miss Josephine Petts, Director of
Physical Education, will teach next
summer at the .International Mo-
zarteum Foundation in Salzburg; Aus-
tria. Loo
As a member of the davapietent. cd
dancing Miss Petts will givé a special
course, “Good Movement Through
Dancing and Proper Coordination.”
The famous summer Salzburg Fes-
tival is the direct result of the Mo-
zarteum established in 1841 and sup-
ported by the Mozart legacy. Its de-
include instruction in a
great variety of musical instruments,
voice, opera, drama, dancing, stage di-
rection, ‘acting, scenery, costuming,
French and German. The institute’s
faculty is international.
In addition to the opportunities for
study at the Mozarteum there is the
rare pleasure of living in the city of
Salzburg—a city of. very special
charm.
Miss Petts knows Salzburg. very
well, having spent“.many. summers
there as student and_later as teacher
of. dancing at the Elizabeth Duncan
School which had its summer résidence
at Schloss Klessheim, just outside the
city.
Constance Renninger
Interprets Aquinas
Continued from Page One
proof also involves, for Thomas Aqui-
nas, “the gradation found in things
and his belief in the different degrees
of being”; this presupposes a stand-
ard of perfections which need not
necessarily be accepted without ques-
tion.
“Saint Thomas believes that the in-
tellectual has actual existence outside
| NAUTICAL DANCE HELD
IN GYM AFTER PLAY
The Gymnasium, December 4.—The
Undergraduate Association offered
very successful dance for Br
Mawrters to frolic at after the play.
It was all definitely nautical, from the
strings of flags which looped, from bal-
cony.to balcony to the fishnet effect,
adorning the walls. We deduced that
this back to the sea movement orig:
inated in the clam chowder. This un-:
usual form of “refreshment” wags
“Taiven free, eithér Campbell or Heinz
doing a little unobtrusive advertising,
Jerry Connor’s orchestra was good
and those who could whipped the floor
at a spanking pace. We saw ‘no one
fall down or pass out or do anything
very amazing, though all seemed gen.
erally happy. The addition of various
Intime Princetonians added a sophisti-
cated note to the familiar diet of Hav-:
erford.
of man, because he identifies this prin-
ciple with being.” The intellectual
is thought of as independent of mat-
ter. Matter, deriving its individuality
from God, is potential, not actual.
But “being is really in matter, be-
cause that which cannot feel does not
really exist, as perception is a feeling.
It is impossible to separate being from
matter.”
“In intellection is man’s perfec-
tion. Infinity, perfection, eternity, es-
sence,—all these: qualities which one
believes exist in God are conceptions
of this faculty.” At the same time,
“the knowledge of infinite things and
perfection does not transcend the
senses, but is unity, within. matter:
Perfection for man is this infinity
within his finite destiny.” It is in
this sense that Thomag, Aquinas can
say that actuality, as existence, en-
tails perfection. More thaiithis, ex-
istence for man entails consciousness
or feeling.
This perfection of matter is not to
be thought of as involving division in
time as opposed to God outside of time,
but as unification, coalescence through-
out time.
o
Players’ Club Gives
“Bill of Divorcement
b
Continued from Page One
young actress than, say, that of
argaret. Miss Reitler made it her
own and kept it without a false note,
never -making one feel for a moment
the uncomfortable embarassment that
comes when an actor’s emotion simply
fails to register, or is overplayed; as
far as we were concerned, she was
Sydney.
Mary Sands’ part as Margaret was
more difficult because it took her’ out
of herself, that is, from youth to age,
a transition which she did not quite
make effective. One can disguise
youth by “old” clothes, one can paint
innumerable wrinkles on a young
face, but it must be camouflaged from
the inside out.. James Smith as
Hilary, and Mary Reisman as Aunt
Hester, were the only ones who man-
aged this peculiar i Bi efface-
ment. Sanford Etherington (Gray)
looked like an earnest, pugnacious
football star with powder in his hair;
William Larson’s (Dr. Alliot’s) voice
sounded singularly boyish even though
one was momentarily hoodwinked by
his haggard fifty year old face.
Harold Norton, on the other hand,
made the Rev. Pumphrey into a char-
acter part, an eccentric Peter Pannish
gentleman, who has never been young
and thus becomes static in appear-
ance from the hour of his birth. At
any rate, he looked old enough to ex-
plain the presence of young Kit
(Clyde Hubbard) and both together
very successfully turned their rela-
tionship, aside-from age, into a kind
of paradox,.though narrow-minded
fathers -have been known to have
broad-minded.'sons.’. In this case, Mr.
Hubbard, the broad-minded son, was
something other than a. .Princeton
senior, just.as Miss Reitler: more or
less transcended her’ own identity.
Kit’s part had a good many objection-
able . possibilities, and Mr.’ Hubbard
bit at none of them.
As we have said, Mary Reisman
James. Smith, as: Aunt Hester
Hilary, overstepped. the limits
and
and
im-
| JANE’ BRAUCHER, °39,
HOLDS GRENFELL SALE
The Grenfell Shop, which comes an-
nually to Bryn Mawr, under the spon.
sorship of the Bryn Mawr -League,
will be open this week and next in
Jane Braucher’s room, 54-57 Pem-
broke East. All articles sold are ob-
tained from the Grenfell Labrador In-
dustries Shop which is maintained
for the benefit of Dr. Grenfell’s con-
structive work in Labrador, where
there have been established “five hos-
pitals, six nursing stations, four or-
phanage-boarding schools, hospital
ships, industrial stations, clothing dis-
tribution centers, agricultural efforts,
and other means to induce a better
civilization.”
The stock of the Bryn Mawr Gren-
fell Shop includes gay-colored woolen
socks, sashes, and :mittens, bars of
maple sugar, Christmas cards, calen-
dars, seals, witidow wedges, letter
openers, napkin rings, curtain pulls,
and ever-popular winter parkas; all
sorts of excellent Christmas gifts.
Purchases benefit both Labrador in-
dustries and the Bryn Mawr. League,
which receives a commission from the
sale that helps it to carry on its nu-
merous activities.
posed on them by time, and trans-
forméd themselves respectively, into
a nasty old maid, and a man who has
been through a kaleidascopic hell for
more than fifteen years. Miss Reis-
man achieved this partly by affecting
a pursed-lipped, weary-eyed snappish-
ness, partly by the inside-out process
mentioned above. Mr. Smith’s tense
characterization was entirely inside
out and many-sided: groping and
tenacious, helpless and powerful, all
at once, and»particularly moving when
contrasted with Sydney’s strength.
The last part to consider is that of
Bassett, played by Janet Gregory. It
is hard to say anything about the
inevitable maid except that Miss
Gregory was as*good a one as we
could have wished for, with none of
the fripperies that some maids assume
when. they .want to make their pres-
ences felt.
Haverford Defeats B. M.
In Un-Hockey Game, 1-0
Visitors’ Idea of Rules is Vague
But Power Undeniable
November 30.—Only a faulty, one
might even say non-existant, knowl-
edge of the rules of field hockey pre-
vented the Haverford soccer team
from defeating the Bryn Mawr var-
sity by more than a mere 1-0 score.
Time and again Haverford swept
down the field, only to be stopped
short by a whistle for “‘off-side,” or
“turning” by a referee undaunted by.
yells of.“‘Robber!”
In the cheering section. Haverford
outnumbered Bryn Mawr, and strong
masculine: voices drowned any femi-
nine support. A_ misdirected shot
brought a grunt of pain from a Bryn
Mawr back, and cat-calls from the
gallery: “Hit the ball,” “Dirty play-
er!”. and ungallantly “Knock ’em
down if they get in your way.” The
game was not hockey, but as a mild
type of free-for-all it proved satisfac-
tory to players and spectators alike.
Line-up:
BRYN MAwr. HAVERFORD.
BG, OCs 6 igesscs Di Wes clink dca
Chatfield Taylor.r.i........ Welbourn
he a a a Dies cece: Lewis
ct
MEUHD ties Lv... 2 eee
MOIUEAR. Css i545 Pi Mieics cs Goldmark
MOVAYIN 6 cis 4 os SS ees So
ee a
CEP Ore ft ES Whittier
Willems, .... 6. ced Morris ~
MOOS Posi ce cc eee & cee DeWeese
Goals: Lewis.
Substitutions: Norris for Seltzer.
‘Referees: Grant, Sharpe.
Looking back over the years, one is
aware that the Players’ Club has sur-
passed itself, perhaps because of its
direction by Mrs. Marquerite Mc-
Aneny, perhaps because of its new
collaborators. Fortunately, it has
not, like big May Day, set itself any
hard and fast standards of perfec-
tion, and there is no limit to the
records it can break. Da. tt Des
Seen em
DO AMERICAS FLIERS APPRECIATE THE
— COSTLIER TOBACCOS |
OU bet they do! In aviation is one of the most dis-
criminating groups of smokers in the country. The fa-
mous record holder, Col. Roscoe Turner, smokes Camels. So
do test-pilot Lee Gehlbach, Capt. Frank Hawks, and TWA’s
chief pilot Hal Snead—to mention only afew. As Col. Turner
puts it: “I guess you’ve noticed that men in aviation are
great smokers. And, from what I see, most fliers share my
regard for Camels. They need healthy nerves. That’s one big
reason why so many of us stick to Camels.”
And many millions of Americans — more people than smoke any
_ other cigarette in the world — give a hearty o-kay to Camels!
ARTHUR
Senior in
ment often
long hours
“they never
Camel
spends MILLIONS
“Working out a tough assign-
tuckered out. The second I feel
myself getting tired, I like to get
a ‘lift?’ with a Camel.”
WINIFRED CASTLE works
— smokes a lot, She says: “I
* think there’s ‘hothing like Cari=
els for mildness. I can smoke as
many Camels as I please and
WALDO, JR. is a
College. He says:
can make me feel all
at her editorial desk
get on my nerves.”
‘MORE FOR COSTLIER.
TOBACCOS! Camels
are a matchless blend
of finer — MORE
EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS
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PETER KILLIAN is a news
photographer. His slant: “Camels
are always in the picture with
me—on the job—at home—and
especially at the table. Camels
help my digestion to keep click-
ing day after day.”
EDWARD HURLEY, a success-
ful, busy architect, says: ““To my
way of thinking, a man doesn’t
teally kriow what honest-t6-good-
ness natural flavor means until
he ‘smokes Camels. ‘I’d walk a
mile for a Camel!’ ”
ED GRAFFE, gym in-
structor, says: “Yes sir,
I can smoke Camels all
I please without getting
jangled nerves..No mat- °
ter how much I dig into —
a pack of Camels, they
‘don't tire my taste.”
MARIE DRISCOLL,
business girl, speaks for
lots of stenographers
‘ when she says: “Camels
‘eertainly have every-
thing I like a cigarette
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THE COLLEGE NEWS’
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Alumnae Comment
On the Days of Yore
A Return to Beautiful, Good
And .True Fires Erstwhile
Undergraduates
COLLEGE JUST THE SAME
Although the Alumnae Weekend
was as long ago as Lantern Night,
the alumnae’s undeleted impressions
have only recently been immortalized
in prose in-the December issue of the
Alumnae Bulletin. But thanks to the
charms of faculty, students, and cam-
pus, and frantic efforts on the part
of all the three to retain the old spirit
and at the same time to reflect a feel-
ing of change, the alumnae had a
rollicking, fine, darn good time, to use
their own words. One (1902) even
went so far as to entitle her article
Paradise Regained.
Opinion through the years could be
compared to a graph of the move-
ments of the New York Stock Ex-
It covers a period of 41
years, with bursts of enthusiasm re-
curring like depressions,” and a cer-
tain wave of cynicism yisible around
1933. 1933 is still in the ugly duck-
“ling stage, half dust, half deity, it is
fearful to return to a college, which
_might not recognize* it... 1856 is too
“old to care. 1937, the happiest of
all alumnae, has not yet felt the cold
shroud of forgetfulneg$, and being
by now a quarter-dgity can be duly
superior.
Whatever the natures of the alum-,
nae before their arrival, they all went
home in a thoroughly rosy humor.
Everything had been idyllic; one con-
fessed that the general effect of the
week-end, of Bryn Mawr in fact, was
_- renewal of ideals and a restora-
on to “faith, the good, the true, and
beautiful.”
All the undergraduates were good,
true, and beautiful except the College
News reporter, who appeared
slacks (“her hair was faultless, how-
ever”) ; and 1896 seemed to think that
the seniors’ showed extraordinary re-
straint. Instead of bursting into in-
credulous guffaws, “not an eyelash ||
moved when they learned that one or
two of us took our degrees in the last
century.” In the good old days of
Victorian inhibitions there would have
been a batting of eyelashes. equal in
volume to a sudden flight of part-
ridges. Change for the better; not
onlyare--we~ good comrades (1896),
but we are more natural, less sophisti-
cated, and can sing the College Cheer
with unselfconscious gusto (1929—
another rather natural era of cynic-
ism).
In spite of changes that have come,
presumably with the final emancipa-
tion. of woman, sensations remain the
same.
its peculiarly romantic character, even
though it is no longer given on Den- * ;
bigh Green; people still brew after-}.
noon tea, though we could swear that;
the whistling kettle was not inyented
before 1933. All kinds of new “puild-
ings are popping ‘up, but the Library
smells the way it did in 1929... Bryn
Mawr is always kept : from: being. any-
thing but Bryn Mawr," “because ‘its!’
turnover is so gradual. It may be “po
ing forward again to yet another new
day,” but the new day is not going
to surprise anyone, even if we come
back for an Alumnae Weekend in
1978.
There is one thing that we think
-might-surprise “1929, though. “Pric-
tically invisible,” she says, “are the
staked-out premises of the new dormi-
tory.” Time marches on!
M. R. M.
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Joint Christmas Carol _
Service to be Dec. 12
B. M. and Church of Redeemer
Will Sing in Goodhart
On Sunday, December 12, at 7.45
p. m., in Goddhart Hall, the combined
choirs of Bryn Mawr College and the
Church of ‘the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr,
will give a Christmas Carol Service.
There aré some 60 members of the
Bryn Mawr undergraduate choir, 30
of the’ Church of the’ Redeemer, a
mixed choir of men’s and women’s
voices, making a total of ninety.
Ernest Willoughby, Director of the
Bryn Mawr College Choir, and also
organist and choirmaster of the
Church of the Redeemer, will direct.
Recognized as an authority on choral
music and its presentation, he has de-
veloped these-choirs to a high level
artistically and to a very definite mu-
sical authority. :
The speaker will be the Reverend
Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., LL.D.,
President of the. Union Theological
Seminary, New York City.
‘The program is as follows:
The Holly and the Ivy. :..Traditional
Christmas Day Gustav Holst
(A Choral Fantasy on Old Carols)
Wassail Song Vaughan Williams
Born Today (Five part» Motet)
Sweelinck
Lo, How-a-Rose E’re Blooming
- Preatorius
Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
William Byrd
(Church of the Redeemer Choir)
Sleep Baby Sleep Czech Carol
(Bryn Mawr College Choir)
Carols for Congregation and Choir:
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Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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LEAGUE CHRISTMAS PARTY |:
The Bryn Mawr League Summer
Camp Committee wishes to announce
that there will be a-Christmas party
for the children of the second group
at the camp last summer, in the Com-
mon Room, Tuesday afternoon, Decem-
ber 14. This group is the one which
was sponsored by the-Main Line. Fed-
eration of Churches through which the] -
camp committee’ is planning to ar-
range summer vacations for three
groups of children next summer. All
groups of children next summer. <
Herbert Miller S peaks
On “Racial Minorities”
Continued from Page One
people want_is the language of instruc-
tion.” Discrimination against any
race or speech.in Russia is prohibited
by strictly enforced laws. —
The problem is even more serious
in central Europe, where geographic
racial mixtures predominate. The
minority situation of three million
Germans in a country of fifteen mill-
ion Slavs has evoked difficulties be-
tween Germany and Czechoslovakia.
The formation of new states is of
little avail, merely reversing the po-
sition of the exploiters and the ex-
ploited. Imperialism is another source
of trouble, as it involves the taking
over of an alien group by a foreign
government. Russia seems to hold the
only solution, and even with the gen-
‘eral application of her plan it will
be many generations before the prob-
lem can finally be solved. bes
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PERMANENT WAVING
Beauty Craft in all its Branches
Varsity*Faculty ‘Hockey Game
December 2.—The Varsity-Faculty
hockey game cam hardl¥ be called a
hockey game, and the faculty team
hardly a faculty team—it consisted of
six faculty and five. student substi-
tutes. The score was 4-0, in favor
of the varsity. We need say no more.
Guide Book Prepares
Yalemen for Gay Life
Continued from Page One
white-haired boy,” Smith haughtily
warns them that if they don’t come
across with six green orchids they are
heels.
It pains us to admit that the Bryn
Mawr article is also coyly phrased,
and college festivities are unfortu-
nately described as “cozy affairs.”
Embarrassed for lack of dazzling
“proms,” the writer fell back on
ecstatic recommendations of the Ar-
a tone of worldly-wiseness which the
other, more collegiate articles, lack.
Most fittingly, therefore, the account
of a Bryn Mawr weekend is followed
by an article on New York At Night
by Sherman Billingsley, the managing
director of the Stork Club. This is
merely a comprehensive lists of
“‘don’ts” for the undergraduate night-
cadia and the Barclay thus imparting)
Christmas~Party
“at the Deanery on Monday,
December 13
Supper served at seven
Christmas Carols by _ the
Maids and Porters, Tap Danc-
ing, and a Short Skit by certain
members of the Faculty and Ad-
ministration, entitled The Marxo
Lecture or Mrs. Swinbu
Comes to Town, by Miss Lap-
rence Stapleton. Roger H. Wells
is the stage manager and Wal-
ter C. Michels is in charge of
the lighting.
Admission including’ supper
$1.25. After 8.00 p. m. $0.50.
For Supper R. S. V. P. to the
Deanery before December 11.
clubber, a typical one being—“Dont_
make a date with*a girl in the chorus
of a night club until you have a
ehance to’see her in her streét clothes
without make-up.” (How?—Ed.)
One or two handy guides to night
life, and mileage charts to interesting
points complete the little book’s con-
tents; and we feel it necessary to add
only that the proof reading has been
extremely desultory and that the -sys-
tem of continuations is so complicated
that it leaves us enervated.
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CURRENT EVENTS
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick)
The Supreme Court, reputed never
to have reversed its decisions, now
seems on the point of doing so. - To-
day it announced that a contractor
receiving a salary for the construc-
tion of a féderal dam is liable to taxa-
tion by the state in which the work
is done. This suggests that the court
may consider reversing its decision
held since 1819 that not only is the
Federal government exempt. from
state taxation, but that the officers
. of the state neéd not pay federal
taxes,
It was pointed out that approxi-
mately a million and a half officers
capable of paying taxes are exempt.
Furthermore, billions of dollars of
federal, state and municipal bonds
would become procurable. Chances of
@ constitutional amendment changin
this state of affairs is not likely as
few tax-free congressmen will sca
tax themselves. /
An editorial appeared in the ‘New
York Times of November 30 Jament-
‘ing™the fact that the United States
has lost its influence in world af-/
fairs. The world knows America will
not fight, and therefore ignores any
position it takes. Although the edi-
torial did not arouse much comment
here, it caused a great stir abroad.
Both Italy, and Germany stated that
it was none of our business to meddle
in foreign affairs./ They feel we are
perfectly right to follow the admoni-
tions of George Washingter’ and stay
out of entangling ances.
Would we on the side of the
democraties?/ England and France
are the only big democracies. Should
Germany, /Italy and Japan, already
closely allied, take over. Austria and
Poland, /and eventually all Europe,
and then conquer Great Britain,
would/we fight? There would not be
much point in opposing the tri-
umphant Fascist states. Should the
three big powers then turn to South
America, would we fight? At that
point we probably would, but against
'_/terrific odds without the hope of aid.
Such a prospect is depressing, but a
.good foreign policy is necessary to
avoid the catastrophe. The present
policy of isolation and increased arma-
ments is not the way to safety.
If some of the money for appro-
priations were. given to silk workers
suffering from the boycott, and if the
boycott were then pressed to the ut-
most, all imports and exports stopped,
Japan would be brought to her knees
in three months. Without government
action, it wiN take six months. By
then, Japan will have accomplished
her objectives. Japan’s taking over
the collection of customs at Shanghai
and Tientsien evoked a sharp note
from the United States, as the collec-
tions are pledged to Great Britain and
this country as payment of debts.
Following Lord -Halifax’s-visit to
» Berlin and the French delegation to
London, M. Delbos has been visiting
the capitols of Southeastern Europe.
He is dttempting to re-establish and
strengthen the Petite Entente which
aims ‘to restrain Germany. ‘At the
same time, Baron von Neurath, of
Germany, told..M. Francois-Poncet
that his country would not relax on
the colonial issue, but would- discuss
Central Europe. France, in turn, is
willing to concede to Germany, but
her concessions must be part of a gen-
eral settlement. She will not give
up colonies if itis only to further Ger-
‘ many’s unappeasable appetite. Ger-
-many does not want a: general, settle-
ment: She wants her colonies back
and is prepared to use force if neces-
sary:
~ Soviet Russia is having the first
national election of its life Sunday,
December 12. There are 1143 election
districts, but the ballots in 1119 of
them: only contain. one name. Yet,
the Soviet propaganda department. de-
clares the USSR to be the most demo-
cratic country in the world.
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1475 Pine Street Phila., Pa.
Workers’ education.
g| preliminary struggle with less liberal
gan telephoning.
Frances Walker Praises.
Work of Summer School
Article Says Democratic’ Outlook
Is Secret of S
ummer School
The Quarterly,
An article on the
in the autuimn issue
publi¢ation of Con
Women, answers
attack on the school. Frances Walker,
88, editor of the magazine, was one
of the sent aide here last summer.
Her article, entitled Bryn Mawr Co-
operates With Labour, is a sympa-
thétic, vivid portrayal of the Indus-
trial Session.
She Speaks of Miss Thomas’ fore
thought ‘and consideration in desiring
to make some use of the college
grounds during the summer months
d her decision to use them for
She' tells of the
trustees, and of the suspicious hesi-
tancy of the first working girls to the
seemingly-capitalistic college sur-
rundings. But from that first class
came some of the industrial leaders
of today, and now, 16 years later, girls
bending over complicated machinery
work ‘harder to win a chance for six
weeks at Bryn Mawr.
Miss Walker then describes the in-
formal. conducting of classes, the
manner in which problems relative to
the girls are presented, the intensity
with which these vital questions are
attacked. Each girl is studying the
composition of the society in which
she lives and of her life itself.
The author in concluding her article
stresses the high degree of democracy
in the full sense of the word that
characterizes all the activities of the
school. No side of a question is over-
looked, no group is forgotten, every-
one must have representation, the
author finds. This strict adherence to
fairness is almost feverish in its at-
tempts. But it is this particular qual-
ity that is the unifying force in the
school and ensures its continued ex-
istence and success. L. 7. 8,
MAIDS AND PORTERS
TO SING TWO NIGHTS
On Monday, December. 14, the maids
and porters will sing Christmas
carols and spirituals at the Deanery
party, the following night they will
go around the campus singing. Those
who have heard them in previous
years will remember a beautiful per-
formance, and the rehearsals this year
show great promise. Camilla Riggs,
40, and Terry Ferrer, ’40, are direct-
ing the singing. Among the numbers
that will be sung are: Here We Come
A-Wassailing, O Mountain Pine, Si-
lent Night, The Twelve Days of
Christmas, I Got Shoes, Study War
No More, Deep River, Nobody Knows
the Trouble I’ve Seen, I Couldn’t Hear
Nobody Pray, Swing Low Sweet
Chariot, Little David Play on Your
Harp, Ezekial Saw the Wheel. The
program will finish with the negro
| national anthem, Lift Every Voice and
Sing.
Embryo Fire Attacks
New Scientific Building
Continued from Page One
n the meantime Joe
Graham, the night watchman, had
seen the fire and arrived on the scene
as the siren began shrieking.
The blaze originated in the base-
ment of the building when “salaman-
ders”. (buckets of. burning ¢goke). used
to keep fresh-laid cement from freez-
ing, set fire to tarpaulins covering
the windows.
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Bryn Mawr 570°
From the basement the
PEACE COLUMN |
(Especially contributed by Eleanor
Taft, ’39.)
The Peace Council, representing
every group on the campus, exempli-
fies an effort to organize; educate, and
act upon college peace opinion. -It is
a subsidiary of the Emergency Peace
-| Campaign, which was initiated by the
American Friends’ Service Committee
on April 21, 1986, as the crystalliza-
tion of nation-wide pacifist opinion. It
has promoted a national coopera-
tive drive to achieve world peace by:
“(1) Strengthening _ pacific alterna-
tives ‘to armed .conflict; (2) bringing
about such political and economic
changes as are essential to a just and
peaceable world order; (3) recruiting
and uniting in a dynamic movement
all organizations and individuals who
are determined not to approve of, or
participate in, war; (4) acquainting
peace-minded people ‘with the. pro-
grams and policies of the member
organizations of the National Peace
Conference in other peace groups.”
It is cooperating actively with the
National Peace Conference in_ their
program of world economic coopera-
tion,
During the past 18 months it has
established a tremendous machinery
of popular support: Local peace com-
mittees. in.1200 cities. and on 400 col-
lege campuses; good working contacts
in 600 other communities; prospects.
among campus, fatm, and labor
groups; and finally a large group of
able speakers. There are no limits to
this vigorous organization whose es-
tablishment in the midst of so many
active “peace” organizations is justi-
fied by a two-year intensification of
the work these other groups are car-
rying out, They emphasize the neces-
sity of individual contributions
through thought, legislative pressure,
publicity in local papers, and discus-
sion. This fall they suggest a “day
to day policy” of non-participation and
non-cooperation. in war which starts
by the irivocation of neutrality law, | ~
evacuation of American citizens from
China, the setting of an official date
removing protection from American
lives, and withdrawal of our naval
and military forces.
Special student groups, prepared by
one .of three Institutes of Interna-
tional Relations set up 11 years ago
by the American Friends’ Service
Committee, are sent into rural areas
in all parts of the country to-carry
the cry of the Emergency Peace Cam-
paign. Three hundred and eighty-five
students have gone out in the last two
years to visit 29 states, and left 65
peace councils’or committees to con-
tinue their work? With the same
spirit of the Peace Caravans they urge
us to heed their daily challenge of
“Why not wage peace?”
fire spread to the scaffolding at ground
level.
The damage is estimated at under
250 dollars, which is covered by the
contractor’s insurance. No delay in
construction is expected as a, result of
the fire.
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education teacher among its faculty
Style Changes Shown in College Athletics;
Swedish Gym Replaced by Modern Dance.
Ah! for the good old days when
ladies were ladies—and Bryn Mawr-
ters trooped decorously into their ex-
ercise classes clad, as was befittingy
modest young women, in woolen
blouses, voluminous bloomers, and
ankle-length corduroy skirts! Thus
attired and armed with dumb-bells
these precursours of the modern Ath-
letic College Girl spent several hours
each week at “Sargent’s exercises,”
designed to develop their weaker
parts.
Bryn Mawr had made provision for
physical education at the outset when
it included a gymnasium among its
first buildings, and a full-time physital
members. After the first. few. years,
the value of individual development
of body parts began to be doubted,
and Swedish gymnastics, whose pur-
pose was bodily co-ordination, replaced:
the old system (1889).
Sports were included as extra-cur-
ricular activities and in 1891 the Ath-
letic Association was founded for the
purpose of keeping up athletic equip-
ment and running tennis tournaments.
It has since, in its day, made sev-
éral momentous decisions, , For ex-
ample, in 1894, it decreed:
“1, That in all sports requiring
short skirts leggings shall be worn;
“2. That the length of the skirt
shall be left to the discretion of the
captains of the teams.
“3. That in no athletic sports shal
sweaters be worn.”
But in 1898 it adopted as the offi-
cial uniform the flannel blouse and
corduroy skirt (with under-bloomers,
of course} which were used with little
Much like No Draft
olks take such things
add Knee-Action, the
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modification until the lent 15 years
or so.
The use of flannel shirts presented
some problems. For example, it was
found that the difficulty and general
infrequency of laundering them neces-
sitated a stringent rule that only clean
exercise shirts might be worn to meals,
and by clean, it was explained, was
meant “net previously worn.” But,
inconvenient as the corduroy-flannel
combination seems to us, there were
undoubtedly some advantages to it.
In hockey, it is said, balls could quite
easily be stopped and caught in the
folds of the skirt with just a slight ©
bending of the knees. The conserva-
tion of energy must have been enor-
mous!
In 1894, the swimming pool had
been built/ and swimming became part
of the > dl although it was not
until 1907 in the supervised curricu-
lum.
In 1910 a new gymnasium was
built over the swimming pool, and
gave impetus to the physical educa-
tion program. Aside from that, how-
ever, few innovatiofis” were made for
the next several years. But the war
evidently served as an inspiration to
the youth of our college, and in 1919
Bryn. Mawr students turned out in,
great numbers to participate in com-
pany drills and community singing.
Hockey was the favorite sport of the
college for many years—during Miss
Appleby’s régime—and_ during this
ime the college athletic spirit reached
its*peak.. But the universal modern
swing away from team sports to those
individual activities which can be
used after college has resulted in a
rather regrettable diminution of the
old fierce enthusiasm.
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Wards off chill wittls from heel to head;
In which respect its chief vocation’s
Ventilation’s.
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DANCERS’ CLUB PLANS
SYMPOSIUM, RECITALS
Pem. West Showcase, December 7.
Plans for the coming winter months
constituted the chief business at the
last meeting of the Dancers’ Club
at the same time, Frances. Levinson,
’41, and Alice Lee, ’41, were elected
to membership.
The club has been invited to par-
ticipate in a dance symposium at
Temple University some time. in
March, and will start work. on the
composition of a. short number after
the Christmas holidays.- The. club
itself hopes to present a symposium
-on the three types of dancing; Ballet,
Duncan, and Modern on the campus
A ‘demonstration
by a Humphrey group is also planned.
For the remainder of the semester,
members of the club will observe both
the Beginning Duncan class and the
Humphrey class in order to select
new members. Final elections will be
announced at the beginning of bru-
ary.
International Brigade
No Longer Necessary
Continuéd from Page One
only deep opposition to Fascism that
enabled the Loyalists to: makeup these
deficiencies.
The disorganization of the Loyalist
forces was remedied in the. sudden
crystallization...of. the Battalions of
It was further..decided to make
semi-monthly business meetings a
policy of the club. The next meeting
will be an important tea on the fourth
of January. At that time the speak-
ers at the symposium will be -an-
nounced.
were physically fit, and who were
Steel and the: 5th Regiment., The
Battalions were.made up of those peo-
ple of any faction who- would agree
to accept discipline, who had some
knowledge of military science, who
guaranteed by reliable groups to be
anti-Fascists. .The Fifth Regiment,
the first large scale military grgani-
zation, indispensable in the defense of
Madrid, was important towards: gen-
eral government efficiency in enforc-
ing decrees, for its body was largely
made up of 30,000 to 40,000 Anarch-
ists, willing to be disciplined.
The aid of the International Bri-
gade is no longer necessary. Its main
function was that of a shock troop, a
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group which could communicate - its
knowledge of military science, today
mainly made up of Americans.
The main ‘factor that explains
Franco’s dependerice on foreign troops
in spite of containing the cream of
our Spanish economic society, is that
the peasants as a unified group of
50,000 sympathize with and love the
government.: This support first be-
came manifest when .the Popular
Front government was elected due to
the peasant body. Since then it has
been strengthened by the policies of
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All purchases may be gift-wrapped \and sent direct
the government as affecting the land-—
owners: First forcing the sale of land
to the government for peasant coloni-
zation, and afterward taking land for
redistribution from any owner impli-
cated in rebellion.
Mr. Lash is wary of predicting re-
sults of the war or general hypothetic
results. But he is sure that if the
government does win, there is no
chance of the former landowners get-
ting back their land, or of Catholic-
ism recovering its full economic and
political power in Spain.
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