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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!
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Joint Christmas Carol _
Service to be Dec. 12

B. M. and Church of Redeemer
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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:
O Come All Ye Faithful
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Good Christian Men Rejoice
While Shepherds Watched * Their

Flocks
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Silent Night, Holy Night
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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. <

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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

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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-
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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-





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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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