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VOL. XXV, No, 22
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, ‘1939
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1939
- PRICE 10 CENTS
Bragg Shows
~ Soap Crystal
In Color Film
Latest Sack on Mcliciles
_ Structure Illustrated
In New Movie .
_ EMINENT SCIENTIST
TALKS IN OWN FIELD
Goodhart Hall,
May 4.—Sir Wil-
Jiam Bragg, president of the Royal
ture on the Structure of Organic
Crystals with a motion picture dis-
play of the brilliant interference col-
ors on soap film. With the aid of
‘this picture, slides, blackboard dia-
grams, and ‘a second. motion picture
of ice crystals, Sr. William discussed
, -the structure of organic “molecules.
. He dealt chiefly with the long-chain
soap molecules, which are in many
‘ways ‘similar to those that compose
nerve and muséle tissue and plant
- fiber.
The picture was made in the Davy-
‘Faraday laboratories only six weeks
ago, in connection With the intensive
research work now in progress on the
properties of thin films. The audi-
ence, largely composed of outside phys-
‘icists from as far away as New York
‘and Washington, was privileged in
seeing this recent development. The| B
color camera, said Sir William, had
made a “remarkably faithful” repro-
duction of the actual colors, and made
it possible to study and keep perma-
nent record of the behaviour of the
‘soap molecules.
The most important constituent of
‘organic substance is, Sir William said,
the carbon atom.
which carbon combines itself with
other atoms are firm. The forces be-
tween molecules so formed are slight
compared with these interior forces.
In the pliability of organic matter
- ‘Continued on Page Five
O’Daniel- Discusses
Position of Women
In Field of Politics
Common Room, May 1.—In the last)
of the series of vocational léctures,
Eileen O’Daniel, speaking on The
Great Game of Politics, declared that
political work for women is not only
a possible, but a highly important
field. As secretary to John D. Ham-
ilton, chairman of the Republican Na-
‘tional Committee, Miss O’Daniel has
been working in Washington in the
past few years and has also-had ex-
perience in local politics.
Those who wish to enter the field
of politics may start with part-time
- volunteer| work in their local precincts,
the speaker said. Good humor and
patience are major requisites for such
work. Applicants should first write
to the head of the local woman’s divi-
“sion of their party for the name of
‘their local precinct leader. It is es-
sential to. have experience in one’s
own precinct as local issues are most}
important. to the majority of people
and usually determine national elec-
tions, :
From her local district the volun-
teer cak advance through state poli-
_tics to the National Committee in
Washington. The 1940 elections pre-
sent-srso0rtunities to women to engage
in national politics. All. such work
“affords “associations” with ‘many kinds}
of people, a new perspective on one ’s
own town, and a career adaptable, to
_all surroundings. |
‘Many educated people believe poli-
tics is “dirty, magical or glamorous.”
‘To them politics implies graft, an op-|
‘portunity for meeting fascinating
‘people, or for. uncontested campaigns.
-“‘But,’t said| Miss O’Daniel, “we have
a.
as representative a Congress as we}
\ deserve.” “The balancing of the two
‘main parties is indispensable to de-
,moecracy. Therefore these parties
‘have been part of the legal
structure of ——
The bonds with] ”
Musicians Contribute ‘|
To Scholarship Fund
Curtis String Quartet Presents
Program of Little Known
Compositions
Goodhart, May 8. — The Curtis
String Quartet, four excellent mu-
instruments
Refugee Students. Two of the three!
compositions offered were written by
contemporary composers, leading one
to expect less pleasure from them
than from better-known works. They
proved, however, extremely easy for
the ear to follow and a happy de-
parture from the classics.
_ Beautiful ensemble work, mastery
of technique, and restrained, well-
bred interpretation marked their play-
ing as a group. In solos, each instru-
ment seemed lovelier than the preced-
ing one, an effect due not only to the
player’s ability, but also to the instru-
ment itself. Mr. Brodsky and Mr,
Jaffe both played Stradivarius violins,
Mr. Aronoff an Amati viola, and Mr,
Cole a Montagnana cello.
The Beethoven -Quactet, Op. 18 No.
2, a delightful, comparatively early
work of the master, opened the pro-
gram. Its hap mood ae
through four movements: a briNiant,
Continued on Page Six
perimental Drama
"Skillfully Produced
Garbat’s Direction Nets Honors
Of ‘Hiawatha Pullman’;
Lewis, Crosby ‘Praised
Reaching a new high in dramatic
enterprise, the Varsity- Players col-
laborated with the Haverford Cap and
Bells -Club to- present -Thoernton Wil-
der’s Pullman Car Hiawatha. Chief
honors for the success of the play
should go to the director, Fifi Gar-
bat, ’41, who was able to synchronize
the action and speaking 6f some 30
completely independent characters to
produce the required impression of a
random group of Pullman passengers
caught in a particular space and time,
Pullman Car Hiawatha purports to
give the “geographical, cosmological,
and theological” position of a train
traveling between New York and Chi-
cago. One of the chief weaknesses
inherent in the play itself was its
attempt to give this broad cosmic pic-
ture in the space of 20 minutes. No
clear idea of the underlying forces or
ideas which may have been in Mr.
Wilder’s mind emerged from the rath-
er incidental philosophies which he put
into the mouths of the hours and, plan-
ets. The production as a whole was
remarkably. successful. in overcoming
the diversity of the characters, which
Would, under less able handling, have
destroyed the realization of a unified
picture. ;
The many actors realized that co-
ordination was more important a
the creation of any single dominating
personality. The individuality of
Jeaech: passenger, place; and time, was
quickly and definitely established, but
was never allowed to distract atten-
tion from the ‘presence of the other
forces.
The otherworldly atmosphere so
necessary to the play was supplied
by. this coordination,.and also height-
ened by the lack of scenery. . Use of
the spotlight on each character. in
{turn served to emphasize their com-
plete independence of one another, and
also. to indicate that, after establish-
ing an individuality, the character be-
came again merely a contributor. to
the whole scene.
In the difficult part of the. stage
\ Continued on Page Six *,
“’ Jonathan Weiss —
The College Néws wishes to
congratulate Mr. and _Mrs.
\Weiss on the birth of. a son,
Jonathan, on ee May 1; ",
107). mo eis
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sicians playing on four ofthe finest |
in the world, gave a}
highly enjoyable program of chamber |
music to the benefit of the fund for}
n director. *
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Priday;/ May 12.—Industrial
Group Picnic outside Goodhart,
_ 6.30. A. S. U. business meeting
for the election of officers, Com-
mon Room, 7.30. Jpint Meeting
of the Industrial Group and the
A. S. U. on the National Labor
Relations Act. Miss Fairchild
will speak, Common Room, 8.30.
Tuesday, May 16.—Current
Events, Mr...Fenwick, Common
Room, 7. 30.
Auden ilosie
Nature of Man
And Poet’s Aim
Deanery, May 2.—The English poet
and playwright, W. H. Auden, speak-
ing on the poet’s position in modern
society, began. by examining the na-
ture of man. The purpose of the
artist is the elucidation of this nature,
which,. although it may be distorted,
can never be changed. He cannot,
therefore, escape into a_ personal
ivory Tower, or bétorie the. spokes-|
man for any single social class. Poetry|
is one means’ of making us aware of
ourselves and our relationships, and
this understanding is necessary, if
we are to become free.
Salvation lies, the speaker said, in
Monism, the only true philosophy,
which holds good to be activity, and
evil, that which limits activity. Blake,
Jgsus, Goethe, Voltaire, . Montesquieu
and ‘Marx are monistic in their doc-
trines. The dualist, on the other hand,
separates the body from the mind,
making action evil, reason alone good.
According to Mr. Auden any. belief
which supports social classes as pre-
ordained, or believes in the rule of
the few over the many, it dualistic
philosophy, and therefore false.
Man of all animals is the most in-
telligent, because he is the most af-
feétionate. Yet our so-called civiliza-
tion is based upon dualistic standards
of hatred—and:- fear. _Inan ingras
ingly complicated world, faced) with
problems too difficult for him to solve,
the human being began to act dualis-
tically, or negatively. All co-opera-
tion is monistic action, free from
hatred.
At preserit the poet is regarded as
peculiar and isolated by the world,
which is consciofis of its distorted na-
ture. If poetry is to be popular and
successful, it must accept the dual-
istic standards of modern society. If
not, it Becomes segregated’ from popu-
Continued on Page Two
H. GOLDMAN DENIES
TFARSUS WAS ONCE
MYCENEAN CAPITOL
Music Room, May 24—The second
lecture in the series on Early Aspects
of Anatolian. Civilization by Miss
Hetty Goldman dealt with the exca-
vation at Tarsus of which she is the
The dig was originally un-
dertaken to determine the validity. of
a rumor suggesting it as a possible
center for the so-called Achaean Em-
pire mentioned in Hittite records.
This. empire is commonly called
Mycenean' and is connected with
Tirynes and Mycenae, but whether or
not. its center was actually on the
terested archaeologists for some years.
Rhodes, Cyprus and other islands, and
also Pamphilia and the region of
Silicia about Tarsus (in Asia Minor),
have ‘been suggested at various times
as. alternative centers. Miss Gold-
nian devoted a considerable part of
her’ lecture to proving that the
Achaean Empire could not ‘possibly
have been centered at Tarsus because
an investigation of the Mycenean
level of the city shows the period to
have been a weak one. The Mycenean
pottery found was probably imported
via Egypt by the remnants of the
civilization fleeing from northern in-
vaders.
{n- addition Miss Goldman described
earlier levels ‘reached by the excava-
Continued on Page Three
main land is a question that has in-,
S.C. Chew Analyses
_ Elizabethan Imagery
Concept of Time gnd Fortune
Recombined Many Earlier
Abstractions
es
is, generally concerned
Goodhart Hall, May 1.—
an tragedy
of Fortune’s: wheel,” said Samuel C.
Chew, professor of English, in his
leeture, Time and Fortune in _ the
Elizabethan Imagination. The .con-
ception of Fortune in the literature
of this period was interwoven with
abstractions and attributes popular in
preceding generations, such as_ the
fates, justice, and occasion. ‘
Time hineelf sometimes is pictured
turfiing the wheel of Fortune. In
bringing together the iconography of
many centuries, Mr. Chew said, the
spinning wheel of the fates and hence
of Fortune comes to be associated
with the web of Destiny, and Time
is conceived as-spinning the web.
Fortune was usually senate det: to
be a malignant and untrustworthy
spirit. A slightly different variant of
‘this theme may be found in the Mir-
ror of Magistrates, the precursor of
Elizabethan tragedy, which »shows
Fortune with no real existence of her
own. Man, according to this interpre-
tation, is the author of his own woe.
Continued on Page Three |
Rufus Jones Defines
Mystical Experience
Reality of Intuitive “Perception
Of Higher Truth Defended
By Noted Quaker
‘ Common Room, May 3,—At an open
meeting of the Philosophy Club Mr.
Rufus Jones spoke on the Nature of
the Mystical Experience. Mr. Jones
defined “religious mysticism” as mean-
ing, roughly, immediate intuitive con-
sciousness of transcendent reality, al-
though he admitted that abstract
words were inadequate to express such
human revelation. 5
As. evidence for the existence of the
mystjcal experience, Mr. Jones cited
a number of cases where persons of
character and veracity had | indubft-
ably undergone a deep emotional ex-
perience, coupled with intimations of
-he super-natural. The event seems
as real to the mystic as physical ex-
»e ience, and enables him to triumph
ver the universe. “Such mystics
ave charted the course of history and
e'ped to build the world. In this,
he intimations of the transcendent
ve b.come a major faecor in the
urse ‘of human events.”
‘Such great figures as Moses, St.
Paul, St. Thomas Aquinas, Juneid of
Baghdad and St. Theresa were mys-
ics. All found that the effect of mys-
tical experience was- primarily a
deepening fof Jife. They attained
serenity fof mind by. being able to
Continued on Page Two
College To Advinse
Funds for Workshop
To enable undergraduates to make
their pledges for the Theatre Work-
shop run over 1939-40 paydays, the
college has agreed to advance the total’
‘amount pledged, if the Undergradu-
ate Association will. underwrite, or
sary because pledge cards are not
considered “legally collectible” unless
they: are underwritten. by one person
or organization. Work cannot be
started on the Workshop until all the
money is actually. received or legally
collectible.
In underwriting the pledges, the
Undergraduate Association promises
to make good any defaults by assess-
ments on its members. This assess-
ment, if necessary at all, will be very
small for any one person, but the
consent of the undergraduates is nec-
essary before work can p A
vote will be taken after /lunch, on
Thursday,- May 11.
with the fall of kings front the top|!
guarantee, the sum, This is hneces-|
_| seabs.
{Dean Manning
Battles With
C. G, Fenwick
Experts Repeat Testimony
Given Before Senate
On Neutrality
DEBATE-INSTIGATES
HEATED DISCUSSION
Common Room, May 9.—At an open
meeting of the International Relations
Club, Dean Manning and Mr. Fen-
wick supported their respective views
as presented at the Senate Investiga-
tion Committee on Neutrality. Dean
Manning spoke before the Senate as a
representative of the Woman’s Inter-
national League for -Peace and -Free-
dom, upholding the present Neutrality
Act, while Mr. Fenwick supported the
newly proposed Thomas Amendment,
now under diseussion in the Senate.
Dean Manning believes that there’
need be no further legislation; the
present Neutrality Act is an adequate
policy for the United States in deal-
ing with warring foreign powers. It
is because this act has not been prop-
erly enforced in the case of either
Japan or Spain that the supporters of
the Thofmas Amendment feel it to be
insufficient:
In presenting this view, Dean Man-
ning further stated that the Women’s
International League for Peace and
Freedom favors an amendment to the
act, providing for deliberation and
referendum on the part of the Amer-
ican people in the case of imminent
war. “I, cannot believe that the
American people would deliberately,
atthe present time, with so many of
our own political problems crying for
solution, embark upon a course which
will call fora complete reorganiza-
Continued on Page Six
Organizer Explains
Position of Union
In Maritime Strike
«The Labor Committee of the A. S.
U. interviewed Mr, J. J. Smith of the
National Maritime Union last Satur-
day, May 6, on the subject of the
union’s present strike against oil con-
cerns which refused to comply with
its demands for preferential hiring.
The unidn is picketing all Standard
Oil gas stations and is holding up oil
shipments by. delaying sailings. ©
Although the union is ‘also striking
for higher wages its primary objec-
tive is to strengthen its position and
to safeguard its members by establish-
ing a union employment agency which
would control the hiring of crews on
a rotary system of waiting lists.
system of preferential hiring amounts
to a closed shop since hiring would
be in union hands. In already estab-
lished. union agencies, records of the
applicants are kept on file, and the
‘| union is privileged to transfer an ap-
plicant’s card to the bottom of the
waiting list, if he should miss more
than two union meetings..
Mr. Smith continued that the Na-
tional Maritime Union has had. to
~*~
This —
struggle against company unions, and ©
against concerns ‘who register under
foreign flags, employing foreign labor
which undercut the American wage
level. Also, such companies have used
a system of farcical medical examina-
union men whom they could not openly
refuse to employ,
The strike.affects companies operat-
ing over.a hundred oil carrying ves- -
sels and has been called at a strategic
time since this coal strike fuel short- ~
tions to eliminate perfectly able-bodied _
age will be heightened by a tie-up of .
oil.. So far it has been fairly success-
ful, according to Mr. Smith, though
the outcome is still uncertain. Several
concerns such as Gulf Oil have al-
ready the acquiesced to the union’s de- -
mands, and the Department of Com-—
merce ‘has prohibited companies from
distributing seaman’s. certificates. ieee
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The most persistent objections to News reviews are that they do
not express public opinion, or reflect the general atmosphere and aim:
of the production or take account
of the players. Although some individual reviews may have been poor
by anyone’s standard, we think our own criteria of what a review
should do are worth stating.
That the News should merely reflect campus opinion of a produc-
tion by its members contains two fallacies.
-News review adds no helpful criticism which is not already
secondly, such a. collective judgment is usually a vague, general-
ized impression and not a critical opinion.
view, therefore, should hinge on whether this opinion is adequately
proved, not on whether the opinion is that generally held.
# The second objection, that the News reviews fail to consider the
aims of the production, is in reality purely a question of degree, for it
is obvious that some recognition of
what critical standard may be followed. We agree that t
be_sympathetic with the producers to a certain extent
understand and judge the problems attempted and the results obtained,
and that there must be differentiation between the plays of the Player’s
Club, the Freshman Show, and the Gilbert and Sullivan. This differ-
entiation, however, does not mean that acting in the Gilbert and Sulli- :
van, or finish in the Freshman Show cannot be criticised as well as the
singing and humor, but merely that the focus of the review should be
the central aim of the production,
difficult to tell when a reviewer flatly misunderstands the aims of a
production and when, quite rightly, she refuses to pass lightly over
difficulties which could have been
views may occasionally have completely misinterpreted the situation,
but a blanket policy that all reviews should criticize only .within the}:
limits of the recognized difficulties of a production would eliminate
the possibility of any real criticism.
As to the enthusiasm and work that has gone into the production,
this the News considers to be an accepted fact.
circumstances” criticism can never help to raise the general level of
dramatic production. We do not
operettas, etc., to be such a tender
honest reviewer..and_certainly praise given only where praise is due
“has a much more profound effect
easy to excuse the bad acting of one’s friends, but if. the’ latter’ are
serious in their attempts it is only fair to them to ‘admit their
weaknesses. ~=
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of any. review is its. general
Writing which is in itself bubbling with enthusiasm seems to us
equally to be avoided with an exhibition of satire or boredom at the
, expense of the play. Neither one constitutes criticism, but only indi-
. cates a. previous prejudice for or against. The News has never intended
style.
to dampen dramatic activity by
approach. We do expect the reviews to contain adverse criticisms
where the critic. finds them deserved, but this, in itself, should never
"sadam further ot secretarial
Liberties”
of the hard work and enthusiasm
First, by doing so the
n, and
Criticism of the News re-
the purpose is necessary no matter
critic must
in order to
In practice it is, of course, often
surmounted. Individual News re-
Moreover, “under the
believe the enthusiasm for plays,
flower as to be crushed by a single
than indiscriminate eulogy. It is
a disinterested or satiric general
=
¢ Obérson, Laurence Oliver, Da-
vid Niven. .
Boyd: Dark Victory, with Bette]
Davis.
Fox: Man of Conquest, a biography
of Samuel Houston, with Richard
Dix and. Gail Patrick.
eee to Hack Ope:
~ Theatres
see I Married An Angel, the
Rodgers and Hart music comedy with
Vera Zorina and Dennis King. .
_ Erlanger: Rocket. to the Moon, the
Gtoup Theatre Production of Clif-
ford Odets’s play, the New York cast.
Suburban Movies
Anthony Wayne: Wednesday and
Thursday: Stagecoach, with Claire
Trevor.’ Thursday, Friday and Sat-
hurday : Let Freedom Ring, with Nelson
Eddy.
Ardmore: Wetnmdny and Thurs-|
Extremely Literal Translation Of
- Horace, Book I; Ode 1:,
(by one who must need glasses.)
¢
1. Maecenas, son and grandson of a
doughty D. A. R.,
Sweet splendour of my humble
life, protector, guiding star,
It pleases some in six-day ’cycle.
races to take part,
And graze the wheels of other
bikes to give the fans a start.
5. To win the gold-plate tyre-pump
is for each a special thrill,
But for another type of man
there’s something better still.
With promises and free cigars the
crowd , yhe’d: captivate
Until they make him President,
é then.find him out too late.
And yet another man gains satis-
faction from his gold
Stored. up- incase the pensions
. should be gone before he’s old.
The man who loves to hoe his
father’s fields: on terra’ firm,
You can’t persuade to join ‘a ship
and serve a sailor’s term,
For home-grown corn is more di-
gestible than bully beef.
From stormy seas. the trader
sometimes gains desired relief
10.
15. In sprees at home, but such de-
lights demand an _ income
steep,
So he must send his battered
ships again upon the deep.
I know one man, Maecenas, who
is not above a drop
Of Scotch in office hours, and who
thinks it wise to stop :
His work in time to fish for trout
by some small waterfall
20. Where there is shady peace and
probably: no trout: at all.
This pastime is distasteful to the
many who love war;
) The bugle-calls (except reveille)
are apt to please them more.
' They disregard the weeping moth-
er when they take a life,
As often -as the hunter is unmind-
ful of his wife
When winter comes, and he’s al-
lowed to shoot the mamma
deer,
Or when (in India) he finds pig-
sticking full of cheer.
‘But me, the public praise of my
_ small poems fills with pride,
And me, the joyful sights from
less poetic souls divide
Of nymphs and satyrs dancing in
a kind of Highland fling
To bagpipes of Euterpe and that
other muse of swing.
If you, Maecenas, would rank me
with Eliot and Nash,
I know my swelling head against
high héaven’s stars would
crash,
NOTES
(Not by Shorey)
It is not known whether this title
was affixed to the poem when it was
written, or at some later date.
line 1—D. A. R—a decadent out-
growth of the Vestal Virgins,’
thought to be Bacchanalian in
character.
(authority, Dr. Sprenger.)
line 8—The ‘cycle races (also called
interchangeably the bike
* races) were the most famous
of the national : festival of
America. They were held
every fourth month at the
Garden, a structure compara-
ble, it is believed, to the ear-
Continuea on Page Four
25.
80.
on
Saturday: Love Affair, with Irene
Dunne and Charles Boyer.
Seville: Wednesday and Thursday:
Oklahoma Kid, with ‘James Cagney.
Friday and Saturday: Ice Follies of
1939, with Joan Crawford and iene
Stewart. rege
Suburban: ‘Wednesday and Thurs-
-|day: Topper Takes a Trip, with Con-
stance Bennett and Roland Young.
Friday and Saturday: Winner Take
All.
Art Exhibits
The Annual Exhibition of the
Philadelphia Watercolor Club will be
at the Art Alliance, 251 South 18th
street, May 10 to 28. The club. was
street, May 10 to 28.
' The Bryn. Mawr Art Center, Polo
and. Haverford roads, announces an
outdoor painting course by Maulsby
Kimball, to which students may ‘come
for four Saturday mornings, from
9-12, beginning this, week. The change
will be why urmeaiacll
| day: King if te Fe “Friday: ooh
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| PUBLIC OPINION
: ‘Gondoliers’ ‘Review Termed
‘Harsh,’ ‘Unintelligent’
And ‘Amateur’
The criticism of the performance of
the Gondoliers was in my opinion, and
in the opinions of many others, not
only unnecessarily harsh, but quite
unintelligent in-its application of good
and bad criticism alike. It was ‘so
obviously written by a critic who
could not appreciate any Gilbert and
Sullivan -production even at its best,
that it hardly merits attention, much
less a reply. Nevertheless, it has
caused sufficient displeasure to, be
called severely to attention.
In the first place, thé criticism was
decidedly unbalanced in it’ over-em-
phasis of the performances of in-
dividuals’ whose chief virtue lay in
their relation to the groups in which
they acted. Secofidly, in dealing with
both Miss Emery and Miss Weadock,
the writer seemed bothered over that
quality on which the D’Oyly Cartes
themselves lay little or no stress: their
lack of particular vocal talent. And
while Mr. Willoughby may appreciate
the charming condescension in her
praise of his “blending of twenty-nine
voices,” the fact remains that the
blending of twenty-nine voices was an
absurdly small part of his actual
achievement; by mentioning that alene
she again shows her crying need for
comprehension of her subject.
A person who criticizes such a pro-
duction needs more than the ability
to criticize a drama. She needs an
appreciation of the rather unique
quality of Gilbert and Sullivan, and
a constant awareness that this was
an amateur production being observed
by a de¢ide y amateur critic. It is
obvious that in her sterner moments
phraseology of our better New York
critics: At the same time we recom-
mend to her notice that their caustic
fluency is used only as a means of
communication, not ds a form of pure
exhibitionism. ~
LUCILE SAUDER, ’39.
Auden Relates Nature
Of Man and Poets’ Aim
Continued from Page One
lar thought, and from this division
arises the belief that popular art is
bad art.
With quotations from Blake, Shel-
ley, Rimbaud and Rilke, who, he be-
lieves, are the best poets of the last
two centuries, Mr. Auden attempted
to present the poet’s definition of his
own position. They all shared a be-
lief that poetry is not the expression
of particular theories, or of particu-
lar experience, but the essential ex-
form of the senses. Blake defined it,
“Art is the tree of life. Empires
follow it.”
Three temptations beset the modern
poet. First, he may direct his search
for the common in all men toward the
unconscious, which ends in such forms
as surrealism and in failure to com-
municate. Secondly, he may take up
a class struggle without connection
with or knowledge of the people in-
volved, which leads to “fashionable”
art, expressive of a small group.
‘Lastly, and most commonly, he may
accept for himself the dualistic stand-
ards of the modern world. . Such
poetry expresses only the distortion of
man’s nature, and gains in popularity
at the expense of intelligence and in-
tegrity,,
The social Sethi is correct in
criticizing the poet’s aloofness from
the masses, not because the masses
are always right, but because they are
more truly human. Isolation is a
form of dementia praecox, a way of
escaping, into. a dream world. The
poet is equally mistaken, however,
when he endeavors to speak for the
= workers, for; unless he limits him-
self to the expression of their single
viewpoint, he will be no more popu-
lar with them than with his own class.
“Progress is a fact,” the poet con-
cluded,'“due to the integrated human
peing’s revealing his true nature, un-
conscious of good and evil.” Progress
cannot stop, but can only be limited
| by ignorance or increased with under-|
standing, and poetry is one way of
making us conscious of our true
nature.
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she imitated very successfully the.
pression of all ideas through every |.
In Rounded Treatment —
of Production
To the Editor of the News:
First let me say that I heartily
approve the endeavor of the drama
critical of the dramatic efforts made
by the Glee Club and the Players
Club. during the year. It seems to
me, however, that there is a fault if
their criticism which is ‘the result of
the fact that they are unable to criti-
cize anything but the actual play as
it appedrs on the stage on the open-
ing night. Apparently they have not
sensed the part which those who do
not actually appear on the stage have
played in the final result. The most
recent criticism of The Gondoliers, for
example, , entirely ignores any com-
ment on direction.; If the critic had
attended one or two of the rehearsals
it would have been apparent to her
that the direction was limited to des-
ignating a_course of action to the
chorus or the principals. Mr. Ripple
did not have time to help the prin-
cipals with the actual conception of
their characters and as amateurs, who
for the most part lay no claim to
dramatic inclinations, they could hard-
ly be expected to work it out by them-
selves. Of course there were those
who did manage to work out some-
thing, either through imitation/ or a .
natural leaning towards “the drama,”
but it seems unjust to criticize those
who did not. It may be said that a
conception of character is hardly nec-
essary for Gilbert and Sullivan, but
it seems to me that every part must
of personality that will help the actor
to lese his self-consciousness. It might
have been easier for the critic to be
sympathetic and constructive in this
to see the rehearsals.
One further example of criticism
which seemed unqualified and there-
fore unconstructive was the criticism
of a New School of Wives. The fault
in this experiment was not so much
in the actors themselves as in the
play. The director should have been
criticized for her choice which gave
the actors very little scope, and per-
haps discouraged the people who. are
most interested in drama from trying
out at all. If it was tried on the
assumption that it gave a chance to
say a great many lines, it failed be-
cause the lines said nothing that de-
manded any very imaginative response
on the part of the actors and they
were not actually ~~ to any test at
all.
Continued ‘on Page Four
Rufus Jones Defines
M ystical Experience
Subitinels from Page One
bridge the gap between this world
and one of higher reality, and
achieved a dynamic’ force’ great
enough to convince and lead others.
One difficulty in believing the valid-
ity of the mystical experience, said
Mr. Jones, is that its manifestations
can so easily be attributed to hysteria
disproved, inh is opinion, by numerous
instances of renewed health and nor-
mality following the experience, which
could not result from a destructive
emotionality or an unsound mind. '
‘A second misinterpfetation is the
attitude of the empirical psychologist
who regards the visions of the mystic
as purely subjective. Mr. Jones at-
tations to physiological phenomena,
and his lack of a sound philosophic
basis for the world of objective ex-
perience. He himself believes in an
existing transcendental “anity of self-
consciousness Lar ase sense-percep-
tion. -
Errata
The editors regret the omis-
sion of Olivia Kahn’s initials
from the review of the Gondo-
liers. Because of the nature of
}
quently discount them as proof-
zeaie en
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(Dramatic Criticism Lacking
crities of this year to be frankly
be grounded on a few basic principles _
case if she had, as I say, been able’
a rather large group of people to
or some form of insanity. This is .
tributes this to the psychologist’s limi- -
~ these~initials, the printers fre- | —
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Page Three
Committee Heads Give
«: Report of Lea
Summer School ‘Moved to Hudson
Outstanding Innovation,
WruLn
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League Room, May 4.—League work
-has increased and several new plans
‘for the coming year have been made,
accordit to the annual reports of the
various League committees, Janet
Russell, ’40, as head of the Chapel
Committee, reported a suggestion that
chapel: be made compulsory for fresh-
men for a number of services at the
beginning of the year. A plan was
also submitted to have some services
conducted entirely by the students. ~
The Summer Camp, under Susan
Miller, ’40, has raised money by the
sale of Southern Highlander articles,
sandwiches, square dances and contri-
butions for cups. The group reported
that Miss Newbold’s lectures on camp
work were most instructive, as she
drew up a program for them and dis-
cussed their various problems..
Martha Van Hoesen, ’’39, reporting
for the. Summer School, stated that
the high point of the year was the
transfer of the Summer School to the
Hudson, where the school hopes even-
tually to run all year. Speaking for
the Industrial Group, Elizabeth Aiken,
39, said that next year they hoped
to’ coordinate their plans with those
of the Labor Committee of the A. S.
U., since at present the two overlap.
The discussions, instead of being gen-
eral, will tend to cover the worker’s
specific problems. The Maids’ Com-
mittee, under,Ann Spillers, ’40, has
formed a council, with representatives
from the various halls, and together
they have started a campus survey of
the maids’ working conditions.
The group interested in the Com-
munity Center, led by Jane Braucher,
89, has met with the Center’s staff.
They made a plea for the seniors’
class tunics for the Center’s basket-
ball team. Emily Tuckerman, ’40,
speaking for the Blind School, report-
ed only two nights missed out of the
clearly differentiated.
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1S. C. Chew Analyzes
areca. wt A,
Elizabethan Imagery
Continued from Page One °
The figure of Fortune was shown
in countless pictures of the: time, and
the artists used a variety of sym-
bols. to indicate her nature: In one
design,’for-example, one-half her face
is fair, the other black. -She is con-
stantly associated"Wwith the sea or the
tides, and
standing with one foot on dry land,
the other on the shifting water. Her
most common symbol is the wheel,
which may appear with or without
the goddess -herself. Often figures
are ‘set around the rim of the wheel
indicating the cycle of fortune, or, in
some cases, the cycle of life.
Diirer depicts Fortune with a bit in
her mouth, the reins held in a hand
reaching down from the _ heavens.
Thus, explained Mr. Chew, although
everything on earth is subject to the
whims of Fortune, she herself is con-
trolled by God. There are allusions
to Fortune’s distaff, indicating a con-
fusion of this abstraction with the
three fates of classical mythology.
Shakespeare and Middleton both re-
‘fer to Fortune as a housewife.
Fortune and Occasion are usually
However, Oc-
casion, carrying a white wand to sym-
bolize her haste, is thought of as :pro-
viding the opportunity for misfortune.
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and
Friar Bungay makes use of this con-
ception. In this, all the elaborate
black magic Friar Bacon has pre-
pared proves worthless hecause ‘the
proper’ moment for action is’ not
seized.
whole year, including exams, in go-
ing to Overbrook. Next year they
hope to work with the Campfire group
on making Braille books.
The Americanization Group report,
made by Elizabeth Aiken, stated that
it had been occupied chiefly with Ger-
man refugees, helping individuals
with English, American history, edu-
cation and music. :
is occasionally depicted]
Miss Georgiana King
Dies in California
Origindtor of Bryn’ Mawr Art
Department Taught Here
- Thirty Years
Miss Georgina Goddard King, pro-
fessor .emeritus of history of art at
Mawr, died on May 4, 1939, in
Hollywood, California, where she had
lived since 1935.
A graduate of the college, Miss
King served actively on the faculty
for ‘over 30 years, from 1906 until
1937. When she entered Bryn Mawr
as an undergraduate in 1892, her
original plan was to major in Greek,
but this was soon changed in favor
ef English and, as & second major,
economics. She also did a consider-
able amount of work in philosophy,
which was always one of her great-
est interests. It was only at the con-
clusion of her undergraduate career,
and after two years of graduate
work, that Miss*°King began an in-
tensive study of Renaissance painting
in the galleries and libraries of Italy.
Returning to Bryn Mawr in 1906 as
an English reader, she was soon
asked by Miss Thomas to give elec-
tive courses in Gothic and Spanish
art, and later also in Medieval -and
Renaissance ayt. Within a few years,
she had perdi Thomas to
allow a course in modern art, a field
in which Miss King was always par-
ticularly interested. :
When history of art became a full
department in 1913, Miss King insist-
ed on adding oriental art to the cur-
riculum—although both Harvard and
Princeton are reported to have stated
that it could not be taught to under-
graduates. In 1916, she became a
full professor in history of art and
held that position , until her retire-
ment.
Miss King was the author of The
Way of Saint James—a history of
travel,’ architecture, art, religious
Bryn
Goldman Diesies Tarsus
Continued from Page One
tors. The traces of Hittite influence
are strong and include a sealing that
identifies Tarsus with the ancient city
of Kizwatna. The levels of earlier
periods seem to indicate: that the city
was at’ its most powerful and pros-
perous before the second millenium.
Traces of destruction .by earthquake
are frequent and the debris of fallen
buildings were not cleared away be-
fore new ones were rebuilt over them.
This feature, Miss Goldman explained,
makes. differentiation of the various
levels . very. difficult, but parallels
have been found in-house construction
at other sites in various periods.
The city was particularly powerful
in the early bronze age.
Spain, and also of Brief Account of
the Military Orders of Spain, and of
Mudejar. Her editing of Street’s
Gothie Architecture in Spain has been
widely acclaimed. ;
| Although Miss King had _ studied
all branches of southern art, her par-
‘ticular interest was Romanesque
architecture -in Spain and Portugal,
on which she was ‘considered an
authority. She was the only» woman
member of the two learned societies
in Spain, and she was also an active
member of the Hispanic Society of
America. In an interview to the News
“T am a real Hispanophile—I came
there last, and it has not yet become
a part of the general scheme of things
as Siena, for instance, has.”
' At Miss.King’s resignation in 1937,
the Alumnae Association passed a
resolution saying that “the College is
losing a teacher whose outstanding
ability has made h hing note-
worthy, not only In our Department
of the History of Art, but in her en-
tire field. Her enthusiasm and high
scholarship and the inspiration of her
own personality will long continue to
keep the high level of achievement in
feeling, folk lore, and iconography in
—e
her field of work.”
Was Mycenean Capitol
MISS SKINNER WRITES
BRIEF(AUZ 27 9GRAPHY
In a witty monologue, Well, Here 1
Am, in the Herald Tribune last Sun-
day, Cornélia ‘Otis Skinner gave a
brief sketch of her life. She admitted
that this was her first attempt at
autobiography and expressed regret
that she had no really spectacular de-
tails to-include.. As.she put it: “I
am not the unacknowledged child of a
Grand Duke and an opera star; I was
never stolen by gypsies; Belasco never
found me singing on a street corner
and offered me a contract; no crowned
heads have ever flung jewelry at my
feet.”
Born in Chicago, because her father
was playing thére at the time, Miss
Skinner spent a large part of her
early life in a market basket in her
mother’s dressing room. Her career
‘in the town of Bryn Mawr began
when her mother decided that a trunk
was no place in which to bring up a
child, and looked-around for a Place
to settle down. She chose Bryn
Mawr for the simple reason that it
contained several schools and a col-
lege.
Miss Skinner put the educational
facilities of Bryn Mawr to full use by
attending, successively, the Baldwin
School and the college. It was at the
fatter that she made her dramatic
debut as Mustard-seed (ifi'a drab yel-
several years ago, Miss King sajfi+t)w and brown costume) in the May
Day festival.
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Dramatic Criticism Lacking
In Rounded Treatment
“Continued from Page Two
I hope that. the drama critics who
tontribute to the College News will
never be discouraged from criticizing
as honestly as they feel like doing,
but I also hope that the criticism will
be as thorough as it is honest. The
amateur critic can hardly see all sides
@f the picture at one glance and it
seems to mé that she should be fairly
familiar with what she is criticizing
before she submits her final opinion.
At the same time I feel that it should
be recognized that the college produc-
tions have only one write-up and that
therefore there is a demand that the
critic “see all sides of the picture
with as much sympathy as possible.
Professional people have two or three
“notices” at least and the sympathies
of critics are apt to vary enough so
that one critic likes one thing, another
‘another. The Gilbert and Sullivan is
perhaps the most obvious example of
a college production with different
“angles.” Some people like it because
of the music, others because of the
acting and except perhaps in the case
of the four leads this year the two
qualities are rarely combined. It is
the business of the fiow harassed
News critic to see what the people
have to contribute in the way of dra-
matic or musical talent and criticize
' them’on those grounds. If:they were
cast because of their musical ability
-and failed there, it is just to criticize
and the case is obviously the same con-
¢erning dramatic ability. The fact
that they lacked dramatic or musical
. ability and so did not completely ful-
fill the demands made upon them
should ‘certainly be made clear, but
. it should also be made clear how far
they managed to -fulfill the expecta-
tions implied at the casting. If they
manage to combine the. two qualities,
then they. should have unqualified
oie Manele the director’s job
“must be kept in mind and the actors
given credit for what they have been
able to do in the light of what he
has done with them. Production, too,
should be given recognition (as it cer-
tainly has been in the past!) and all
in all the job might be described
ideally as a rather time-and-thought-
consuming responsibility! I am not
sure whether on not it .would be pos-
sible to have & special critic like the
music critic for this sort of thing,
but if it could be arranged, it seems
to me that’ it might be worthwhile.
Very sincerely,
E. 8, E., '40.
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Luiz and Casilda Praised
For Interpretations
Of Their Part
Dear Editor: .
I am writing the following (my
first letter to the News!) because I
not only differ with much of the write-
up of this year’s Gondoliers, but be-
cause I should like to voice a plea for
a more wholesomely positive attitude
in criticism in general. Let’s be con-
structive and not patronizing.
- To.my mind this year’s productio
was particularly distinguished by its| -
balanced excellence and perfect cast-
ing. And the word “casting” brings
me directly to Luiz and Casilda. What
demands must. they fulfill? Luiz must
be handsome and must keep stiffly in
the background. Casilda must be
‘dignified, must act prissy and snob-
bish. Both filled all these! require-
ments to a T. Then as to voices,
there are probably not many students
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“All letters. handed’ in to ‘the “T
News must bear the full name ~
of the. writer. In printing, the
News will substitute initials if
desired.
at Bryn Mawr who could attempt
those roles at all from that angle, let
alone carry them through so pleas-
antly, yes, so charmingly. Not many
students have as fine and strong a
voice as the Duchess, who also acted
very well. She was pompous and
stiff as her part required. I am de-
lighted that the Duchess was ap-
preciated, but it seems hard to under-
stand .why she should be ‘praised for
the same acting for which others are
censured It is, I believe, generally
known that it is far more difficult to
be correctly and pleasantly. inactive
on a stage than to cavort gaily about.
Then, too, is it fair to mention as
a criticism of the Glee Club that Gil-
bert and Sullivan were less rollicking
and ingenious in the second part of
Act I than in the rest of this delight-
ful operetta?
- I had a wonderful time at the Gon-
doliers, almost_ags_ much fun as the
tain that my enjoyment was shared
by many as I have never heard such
glowing and unanimous praise .from
college and outsiders as followed this|-
year’s performances of Fhe Gondo-
liers. ;
To the complete cast, to the very
excellent choruses, to Mr. Willoughby,
Delia Marshall, Mr. Ripple and the
entire staff a great big BRAVO!
MARTHA M. DIEz.
Thoughts Occasioned by the
Indignation Provoked
by a Review in the
College News
It needs a weighty, occasion, yea, and
solemn 7
For me to dare the Public Pinion
Column.
Pinions have always been remédiless,
E’en on the son of soaring Daedylus;
So when we poetasters once relax,
The wings of Pegasus,* constrained
by wax,
Feeling the warmth of languor, fee-
bly flutter,
And fall apart, as if the wax were
butter.
It is a sign of temper parasitic
For anyone to-criticize_a_critic;
Yet struggle though I may, I can’t
help wishin’
To swell the mighty roar of opposi-
tion.
However, I am dumb; for. issues
deaden. s
The Glee Club’s always been an
Armageddon.
A week from now no one will give a
filbert
For wanton Sullivan or—giddy—Gil-
bert; ;
And all our little trials and tribula-
tions
Will -vanish as they vanished after
Patience.
What is the object of this furtive
flurry?
To soothe your cares and palliate
your worry.
For I can see that someone somehow
ought ter
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Group Damns Faint Praise
Given ‘Gondoljers’
To the Editor of the News:
‘Bryn, Mawr news writers seem to
confuse. criticism with
Standards of ¢riticism are not upheld
by mere damning with.faint praise or
praising with faint damns. Astute-
ness in criticism is surely measured
by the writer’s ability to appreciate.
According to general opinion this
performance of Gondoliers was the
best Gilbert and Sullivan in many
years. The campus is> proud of it.
The extraordinary voices, acting, and
direction in the operetta should in our
opinion».have been characterized by; was intended as a helpful hint for
words less deflating than ‘traditional
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care and elaborate preparation,” “ade-
quate,” and “filled ‘the requirements
of their roles.” And why imply that
the audience would need to be “shak-
en” out of any “lethargy?”
However, more important than any
specific choice of -words, is the fac
that the news critic entirely failed to
catch the spirit of the>show’and the
prevailing ease and joy with which
the performance went, off. :
MARTHA VAN HOESEN
BARBARA BIGELOW
ELEANOR K,.. TAFT
' HELEN J. Coss
ETHEL §. DANA’
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JANE BRAUCHER
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Hemphill Criticizes Kahn’s
‘Gondoliers’ Review
To the Editor of the College News:
It is too bad that the News did not
take the letter of J. M., ’42, to heart
before printing the review of The
Gondoliers in the last issue. I agree
with her that “I do not advocate su-
perficiality”in the—eriticisms “but—be-
lieve that emphasis could fairly be
laid on the successes rather than the
failures.” The write-up reflects none
of the enthusiasm shown by cast and
audiences, and ignores the fact that
the production is generally considered
the best Gilbert and Sullivan in the
It seems impossible
that anyone could have enjoyed her-
self as little as your- reviewer ob-;
viously did. Many students and fac-
ulty went to three ‘and four rehear-
sals as well’as to the actual perform-|
ances, just for the fun of it. I should|
like to protest that the badly-balanced|
tand@ unenthusiastic review does not’
represent true campus opinion. I do’
not like to believe that the article
represents the opinion of the whole)
News board,-as was indicated by the
fact that the article-was-unsigned.
Kitty HEMPHILL, ’39.
Feature, on ‘Science Termed
Shallow, Pointless
To the News:
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line 8—The Presidentship was ar-
rived at first by Ward Leader,
Decision Vital for Science - Majors,”
future science majors, or whether to
interest and inform those concerned
with alien fields, it seems equally un-
fortunate to give such a shallow and
uneven
offered by the Department of Science.
The range of opportunities for ad-
vanced study is amazing and diverse,
and includes many more exciting ex-
periences than using “beautiful new
apparatus” or “riding in diminishing
circles.” But fundamental to any
appreciation. of the advanced courses
are the second-year courses, stepping-
stones between the state of taking a
science as a requirement and being a
full-fledged “major.” It is significant
that the second-year courses in both
Biology and Chemistry are being
offered in revised form next .year;
until now each has covered an amount
of material offered by two separate
one-year courses at Smith and Vas-
sar.
We realize that it would be im-
practical for the writers.ofthe News
articles thoroughly to investigate their
subject-matter each week; we appreci-
ate the personal approach in hitting
the “high spots” of a topic and neg-
lecting certain other aspects. But the
article just mentioned seems, to a
loyal and much-interestedreader, to
be superficial to the degree of becom-
ing pointless.
M. T. R., ’89.
Advt.
Lost: A black looseleaf note-
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size about seven by eight inches.
“Ht contains notes on the history
of science. Reward if returned
to L. Stapleton.
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then successively Lawyer,
Grafter, and Governor—
». . terms not met with, outside of
political history.
line 10—gold: stored up would indi»
cate that this poem was writ-
ten before 1933 A. D., were
it not for the following ref-
erence to the Social Security
Act of a few years later.
Some authorities believe that
pensions refers to the allot-
soldiers of the Second Puny
War, in which case, the poem
might after all- have been
composed at an earlier date.
line 12—sailor’s term—poetic phrase
for Naval bondage.
line 183—Note the pun intended in the
word, bully, which means: |
(a) the flesh of a bull, (b) a
_ particular food fed to sailors,
(c) an expression of appreci-
ation.
line 15—sprees—an . expression found
Péssibly formed from the
French word, .prees or price,
meaning expense.
line 16—the deep—poetic - equivalent
for ocean.
line 18—a drop of Scotch—expression
obscure. The Scotch were a
race of barbaric Amazons
wearing ‘short, colored togas
and: burrs. -
line 22—reveille—obscure word with
an Etruscan root.
line 25—mamma deer—deer with chil-
dren. The accent is on the
syllable of mamma.
—form of lyric poetry.
Nash—Nash was
one of
of the Bakelite age. He was
unsurpassed’ for metrical -pre-
cision and perfection. Eliot
has been mentioned in- only
one other work, an elegy by
Edgar Guest. No fragments
of his work are extant.
line 832—proverbial; cf. Ov. Met. 7.
61, wvertice sidera tangam.
Swelling is found to be more
common as the noun, swell,
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"Page Five :
) Sir William Bragg Shows
Film of Soap Crystals
Continued from Page One
this freedom to move is evident.
The chain molecule, in which the
atoms are arranged in a line, is a
“popular form in nature,” and ap-
pears, as a logical structural unit, in
substances with pronounced orienta-
tion, as along the lines of growth in
plants and muscles. X-ray pi€tures
probable picture of these molecules.
In soap, the molecule has a long tail,
made up of a chain of carbon atoms.
These have hydrogen atoms hooked
along the outside making a coating
repellent’ to water and not easily at-
tracted to other neighboring tails.
The heads, however, submerge them-
selves in any available water, so that,|.
in a soap film, the molecules stand on
end, “like corn in a field.” The ranked
tails present an outer surface of hy-
drogen atoms, which make. a protec-
Young Communists Take
To Baseball and Picnics
Lomax Entertains Joint League
Meeting by Accordion
May 7.—The combined Young Com-
munist Leagues of Bryn Mawr, Tem-
ple, and the University of Pennsylva-
nia, held a picnic on the lower hockey
field, Sunday afternoon, from 4.30 to
8.30. Many non-Communist guests at-
tended and enjoyed excellent food and
our exciting and exceptionally “error-
studded” ball game. The group as-
sembled on. Merion Green and then ad-
journed to the.hockey field, armed
with. bats and gloves. Sides - were
chosen - immediately, and three. in-
nings of hilarious ball followed, end-
ing with the score tied at nine all.
At the sound of Bess Lomax’s ac-
cordion, Mr. Miller came down from
his back porch and joined the group.
Hunger stopped the ball game, and the
feast, provided by Eddie Dana was
tive covering. This protection ‘ex- | spread—ham, ‘cheese,"and egg sand-
plains how two soap. bubbles.can col-
lide “withqut breaking.
In Sir’ William’s laboratory, a wire
ring was lowered into a soap solu-
tion (sodium oleate) and the circu-
lar film was suspended vertically.
wiches, lemonade, olives, apples,
oranges and bananas. Singing fol-
lowed—Old Abe Lincoln; Dave Dor-
an; Kevin Barry; and Bess Lomax’s
rendition of Priscilla Picket-Line in
swing-time. After the singing, a very
This film was made up of two sur-| short League meeting was held.
faces. of . these
with water between them. As the
water drained towards the rims and
the bottom, the film tapered in thick-
ness.
faces, also collected at the bottom.
Light was directed onto the film at
an oblique angle, and as it was re-
flected from the front and back: sur-
faces into the camera lens, the varia-
tion in.the distance between the sur-
faces produced a pattern of different
When the film
was undisturbed, the colors were ar-
ranged in orderly bands from the top
colors by diffraction.
to the bottom.
These colors blended somewhat at
lined-up molecules,
The surplus molecules, beyond
those that.made up the ordered sur-
The baseball game was’ then con-
tinued, with Mr. Miller drafted as un»
pire. “He was excellent, though his
only tangible reward was a resound-
ing blow on the shin by a sharp single
off a Young Communist’s bat. This
second ball game (called at: the end
of the sixth because of darkness) was
better played than the first and more
exhilarating for close decisions.
CAMERA CLUB AWARDS,
The Nucleus Camera Club takes
great pleasure in announcing the éol-
lowing elections:
the borders, except where a sharp dis-|-President, Ethel Clift, °41 :
tinction appeared between the upper-
most colored ‘band-and the ‘black re-
gion at the top of the film. Here the
than any wave
lengths of visible light, so that the
light that fell upon this part con-
tinued through the film and none was
film was thinner
reflected into the camera.
The structure of this black region
is apparently different from the rest.
The submerged heads of the two sur-
intervening
water has drained off, and become
*Jocked into a stable configuration.
whee jet of air stirs the accumu-
lated@Miower molecules. upwards, they
Sir William explained, to
faces’ meet, since the
move over the surface of the black
film, which remains unchanged un-
derneath. “
The explanation for. the sharp divi-
sion between the black and the first
colored band can best be made, Sir
_ William said, by thinking of the black
formation as a closed zipper. Where
there is water between the two sur-
faces, they separate abruptly, al-
though-the molecules are still per-
pendicular to their own surfaces.
The colored picture showed all these
properties with remarkable clarity
and beauty. Work on the nature of
. these molecular films has been catried
on in the Davy-Faraday laboratories
Sir William showed
a slide of Sir James Dewer, a former
director of these laboratories, admir-
for many years.
ing a bubble he had made half again
as large as his own head.
After showing slides of the models
of some other forms of organic mole-
cules, Sir William showed a motion
picture of Tyndall’s ice-flowers. The
hexagonal structure of ice crystals
was demonstrated by the six-pointed/.
flower formations that” developed in
* the interior of the ice as heat was
directed upon it. When Sir William
performed: this same experiment he
only ice - that: would
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Secretary, Catherine McClellan, ’42
-Treasurer, Lilli Schwenk, ’42
In the current exhibition in the
to Mr. and Mrs. Michels, for a dra-
matic study of a pond lily. , :
The two special awards, one for the
best photograph by a professional
photographer, and ‘one for outstanding
undergraduate work, went. respe¢tive-
ly to Robert Haas, for his portrait of
his shadow study of Si Simmons.
The judges of the exhibit were Ed-
ward Pennington, of the Main Line
Camera Club, Philip Livingston and
Elizabeth Pierce, of Wynnewood.
ELECTIONS ANNOUNCED
Common Room, the third award went
a.woman, and to Gove Hambridge, for
SHOWS AL
’ The Philosophy Department is mak-
ing certain minor changes in Second
Year, Elective, and Gormen -coupses.
PHILOSOPHY COURSE
RATIONS
Ethics, Logic, and Germdn Idealism
will. gontinue to be Sécond Year
Victorious Faculty ;
‘Down Tennis Varsity
Professors Perform Brilliantly;
Undermine Student Morale
= By Coca-Colas
Varsity. Courts, May 7.—Although
rumor has it that the ‘Faculty were
able to force the contents of enough
Coca-Colas down Varsity throats to
make their. opponents less effective,
it must be-said that the Faculty’ were
on their toes and deserved their 4-3
victory on the ground of superior
playing.
Miss Rice, who holds one of. the
top positions on the women’s first ten-
nis team at the Merion Cricket Club,
defeated Auchincloss, ’40, earlier in
the week. Lee, ’41; Whitmer, ’39, and
Walton, ’42, were the Varsity winners
in singles matches which required
Steady stroking and the ability to
cover the court. Mrs. Woodrow,
showing the effects of recent’ badmin-
ton, could have been more. accurate
in her returns to Lee, while Whitmer
defeated Mr. Broughtgn when she ral-
lied to win the third set.
Meyer, ’42, put up a good, defense
against Mr. Lattimore’s fast, aggres-
sive game, but .it was not ‘enough.
Lee and Auchincloss found themselves
in’much the same situation, and were
unable to cope with the excellent court
manoeuvering of Miss Rice and Mrs.
Woodrow, while Mr. Lattimore and
Mr. Broughton defeated Meyer and
Whitmer.
Summary
Singles: 1st, Miss Rice defeated
Auchincloss, 6-1, 6-1; 2nd, Lee defeat-
ed Mrs. Woodrow, 8-6, 7-5; 3rd, Mr.
Lattimore deféated Meyer, 7-5, 6-3;
4th, Whitmer defeated Mr. Brough-
ton, 8-6, 2-6, 6-3; 5th, Walton defeated
Mr. Cameron, 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles: 1st, Miss Rice and Mrs.
Woodrow defeated Lee and Auchin-
closs, 6-1, 6-1; 2nd, Mr. Lattimore
and Mr. Broughton defeated Meyer
and Whitmer, 7-5, 6-3,
courses. Next year Mr. Weiss will
offer to advanced students. Man and
Society the first- semester, and Mr.
Veltman will follow in the second
semester with a course in Metaphysics.
These courses are open only to stu-
dents who have completed .some of the
Second: Year. work.
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courses, required of all philosophy
majors, but open to students who have
completed the Required Course.
Changes are to be made, however, in
the scheduling: Logic will -not be
given during both semesters, but will
follow after the first semester Ethics,
as German Idealism has done/previ-
ously. German Idealism will be
shifted to the place of Logic qgnd run
throughout the year as a half-unit
course. It will be given next year by
Mr. Veltman, instead of Mrs. de La-
guna, and Mrs. de Laguna will have
charge of the conferences with sen-
iors on their reading for the final -ex-
amination. Pray
The department .plans to offer a
special..clertive.. half-unit..cov"je eac
year. This year Mr. Weiss conducted
such a course in the Metaphysics of
the State. Next year Mr. Nahm will
This change in the electiwe will ‘cor-
respond to a change in the advanced
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The Bryn Mawr Tennis Varsity
continued its good playing of the sea-
son, to win from the Philadelphia
Cricket Club team on May 2, and the
Radnor Hunt Club on May 65, with-
out the loss of an individual match.
Bryn Mawr, however, is playing only
in the Second Division,of the Women’s
Inter-Club Tennis Association of
Philadelphia, and meets with teams
who have little time to practise.
Should the Varsity head their division
at the close of the season, they will
meet with the ranking players of
Philadelphia in the first league next
year.
Tuesday, May 2, at Bryn Mawr
Philadelphia C. C. versus
Bryn Mawr
Singles:
1. Lee, ’41, defeated Mrs. McDowell,
6-2; 6-0.
2. Auchincloss, ’40,
Jackson, 6-1; 6-1.
defeated Mrs.
12-10; 3-6; 8-6.
4, Whitmer, 39, defeated Mrs. Stull,
6-2; 6-4.
5. Meyer, ’42, defeated Wallace, 6-1;
6-4.
Doubles:
1. Lee and Auchincloss defeated Jack-
son and McDowell, 6-0; 6-3.
2. Whitmer and Meyer defeated Wal-
lace and Stull, 8-6; 6-1.
Friday, May 5, at the Radnor Hunt
Club
Radnor Hunt Club versus Bryn. Mawr
Singles:
1. Default. to Lee.
2. Waples, ’42, defeated Mrs. Davis,
6-0; 6-4:
8. Auchincloss defeated Neilson, 6-0;
6-4,
3. Walton; ’42, defeated Mrs. Bole,
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“WINS FINAL ‘MATCH
The.,Bryn Mawr Fencing team re-
cently concludedaits season with a vic-
torious match with the Pennsylvania
Women’s Fencing team by a score of
six bouts to three. Directed by M.
Pasche,’ who, has_ trained Olympic
champions, the Bryn Mawr fencers
have alsg, met Swarthmore this year,
and competed in the Junior Foil
Matches of the Philadelphia division
of the Amateur Fencers’ League of
America. They hope next year to
fence with more outside teams.’ —
The members of the present team
are: Jane Harper, ’41, ¢aptain; Ethel
Clift, ’41, manager, and Anne Har-
rington, 41.
”
4, Default to Bryn. Mawr.
5. Meyer defeated Mrs. Halcomb, 6-0;
6-1.
Doubles:
1. Auchincloss and Waples ‘defeated
Davis and Neilson, 6-1; 6-2.
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Experimental Drama
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manager, who has nio'set function or
actions assigned to him as most char-
acters do, Mr. Lewis succeeded re-
markably well in justifying his posi-
tion on the stage.
~ At times, Mr. Lewis’ mixture of
brusqueness and casualness gave the
impression that he was exhibiting,
rather than explaining Sympathetical-
ly, the characters over whom he pre-
-~pided. As a specific; if minor, illus-
tration, Mr. Lewis’ dismissal of the
negro porter, with the words “nice
fellow,” . seemed patronizing rather
than sincere. ‘Comparison with Frank
Craven’s performance in an almost
identical part in Our Town is ines-
eapable. Mr. Craven gave an ‘appeal-
‘ing and universal characterization of
the part: which justified more fully
Mr. Wilder’s use of the stage mana-
as as a dramatic device.
‘By far the most ticklish part. in
the play was-that of Harriet, played
by Pennell Grosby, ’41. Miss Cros-
by deserves an outsized bouquet for
acting an embarrassing part unflinch-
ingly, It takes a great deal of poise
and perception to bid good-bye to so
very many people and things without
once making the audiénce.cringe. Miss
Crosby sustained her long disjointed
speech exceedingly well and: overcame
Mr. Wilder’s initial faults with pro-
fessional assurance.
The smaller parts, “too numerous
to mention,” were all .well handled,
considering the jerkiness of the play’s
action and the lack of a stabilizing
continuity. Helen Wade, ’42, per-
formed the almost impossible feat of
playing the stereotyped madwoman’s
part #ith real and compelling conVic-
tion. Helen Sobol, ’41, and Louisa
Horton, ’42; were completely at ease
as Maisie and Trixie respectively.
For the rest we were particularly par-
tial to the Field and the Weatherman,
played by Lewis Greer and Paul Har-
rison with cosmic simplicity.
‘The only blanket criticism which
might be offered is that some of the
actors seemed baffled at times as to
the meaning of their lines. We can-
not, in all honesty, blame them for
this, as we were rather baffled our-
selves,
¥..G &.
E. C.
The canary bird has more. bones Cl
its neck than the giraffe, but smaller.
Book Sale _
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brary of Bryn Mawy will ‘hold
a book sale on Tuesday, May 16,
for the benefit of the public
library. They request students
to bring in their old books and
to come to the sale themselves,
—
Dean ‘Manning. Battles
With Charles Fenwick
Continued from Page One
tion of aur national life.”
Mr. Fenwick upheld the Thomas
Amendment, advocating absolutely no
trade with nations breaking such “sa-
cred treaties” As the Nine Power
Pact, which guarantees the integrity
of China, and the Kellogg Pact, which
renounces war as an instrument of na-
tional policy. According to the
Amen nt, the embargo laid on both
warring nations at the outset may be
lifted wholly or in part from that
nation which has not broken a treaty
signed by the United States. While
trade might jsuffer slightly from’ the
detrimental effect of embargoes | on
American exports, the losses incurred
would be infinitesimal compared with
those resulting from the devastation
in the warring countries.
One source of disagreement_is the
extent of the sanctions to be placed
on the nations involved in the conflict.
Mrs. Manning supports an embargo
only on raw materials used in the
manufacture of munitions, for she
feels that a complete embargo might
involve the United States ine a war
with the aggressor nation, Japan in
particular. On the other hand, Mr.
Fenwick’ believes that such an em-
bargo ,would serve both to punish the
treaty-breaking nation and minimize
the chances of our participation in a
foreign conflict.
The moral of the invasion of China
was also discussed. Mrs. Manning be-
lieves that Europe has done more
harm to China than any Far-Eastern
Nation, and that the Chinese have
always assimilated former invaders.
Mr. Fenwick retorted that such as-
similation might prove difficult in the
case of attacks from the air.
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‘the: actual teaching of Christ, who
Hxpetimentation Seen
. Necessary to. Religion
Service in Deanery Garden
Deanery Garden, May 7.—Mr. Hor-
nell Hart, of Duke University, con-
ducted»a chapel service in the Dean-
ery Garden, Mr. Hart~ discussed the
ever-present problem of the position
of religion in the modern world. In
order to suit the needs of a growing
race. and: changing world, religion
must, above all, be dynamic. Using
the development of metallurgy as an
example, Mr. Hart pointed out that the
course of man’s discoveries: has been
a progressive one. | i
‘Religion, asserted Mr. Hart, need
not be excluded from this fundamen-
tal motivating force of the human
race. There is no reason to assume
that our religion, whose basis’ was
laid nineteen hundred years ago,
should be blindly adhered to or im-
mune to change. It should be opera-
tional and experimental according to
said: ‘Seek, and ye shall find .
Knock, and it shall be opened unto
you.” :
Only through such experimentation,
cancluded Mr. Hart, can réligion be
of tangible, workable value to each
of us. today. Only by testing and
proving the teachings of Christ can
the Brotherhood of Man be established
in the world.
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Continued from Page One
clear-cut Allegro, a lovely Minuet, an
each. instrument voice its peculiar
Hornell Hart ‘Leads Final Chapel
Andante with* variations which let}
tossed its playful theme from one part
to the other. .The players did full
justice to ‘subtle -changes of mood as
well as light, quick passages.
Their next offering was a_ short
piece entitled La Oracion del Torero
by the Spaniard Turina. Far from
being wild and unbfidled, it surprised
with its lyricism, obviously describing
the prayer of the toreador. The ex-
cited mood of the first few bars with
tremolo, éffect of castanets and dance
rhythms, quickly igave-way to a most
eXpressive invocation on the first vio-
lin supported by rich harmonies which.
reminded one of the French Schooh
The Dohnanyi Quartet; Opus 15 in
D flat major, was particularly inter-
esting for its construction. Its Hun-
garian composer adheres to classical
tradition rather than to the nation-
alist school, and this quartet showed
a lucid plan with definite development
of concrete ideas. The three opening
movements were followed by a slow
movement which repeated all the ma-
terial presented earlier. In the first
movement,; with ‘the exception of a
lovely viola solo, the first violin had
the most important music. The cello’s
.| wietd staccato theme held the interest
‘ina vigorous Scherzo, and then again
-he first violin in the mournful, shift-
ing harmonies of the Adagio, part of
which was strongly reminiscent of
Brahms. The viola and cello literally
stole the show.in the last movement,
bringing together and reconciling the
various themes. The composition
called for a more emotional, free type
of playing in which..the. Quartet
demonstrated its remarkable coher-
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Life and Works of Richard Wagner
Material for Course
Beginning next year, First Year
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mediate course, opén to all students
who have passed Elementary German.
The course will be entitled The Life
will be devoted to the literary side of
|. Wagner’s activity. The texts of his
music dramas will be studied in re-
lation to their sources, with supple-
mentary readings from Wagner’s au-
tobiography, letters anid critical works.
The conduct of the course will make
a gradual transition from English to
German, training students to under-
stand lectures in German. There will
be incidental practice in the trans-
lation. of German prose.into English
for students who -are preparing for
the..Qrals. The course will be given’
by Mrs.*Diez, (and a second section by
Mr. Diez if there are enough regis-
trations), meeting three hours a
week.
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