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VOL. XXIII, No. 25

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MAY 12, 1937 BRYN MAWR

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Lasting Peace is.
Basic to Forecast

Of Emerging Order



Economic Structure and View
Toward Problems. Altered,
Says Mrs. Wootton

CHANGE IS NECESSARY
IN DEMOCRATIC IDEA





Goodhart, May 10.—Basing her pre-
dietions-on-an-assumption.of_a_period
of lasting peace, Mrs. Barbara Woot-
ton discussed the Emerging Social
Order in the last of the Shaw lec-
tures. “Without the assumption - of
the period of peace,” said Mrs. Woot-
ton, “there is no forecast to offer; all
will become uncertain and futile.”
Two great changes have occurred in
the twentieth century: first, a change
in the economic structure regarding
industries and occupations of people;
the staple industries of the nineteenth
century have been superseded by new
products and business; secgnd, there
has appeared a“new attitute regard-
ing economic problems.

Adaptation to.change in the eco-
nomic structure depends on technique
and scientific: advance, wherein lies
the future development of industry.
Looking back, one can see how the
dour prophecy of Thomas Malthus

nique. The decline of staple indus-
tries is only temporary, and not the
beginning of the end of Great Brit-
ain in the economic. sefise.

The second great change is mani-
fest in the attitude that it is the busi-
ness of* the government to defend
what is, rather than to create what
might be. Industries that might have
been--out-competed.in-'the- nineteenth
century survive in the twentieth be-
cause of governmental aid; a resist-
ance to change has appeared and the
elasticity due to ruthlessness has di-
minished. In this attitude lies dan-
ger. If the government’s responsibil-
ity_is to vested interests there will be
a retarding of progress without com-
pensation, and discouragement togen-
terprise.

However, beyond this discouraging
aspect spreads a field of experimenta-
tion, change and expansion. The germ
of a rising social consciousness, and a
responsibility. toward the ordering of
life have appeared. . The shifting of
the social structure is in spite of
the artificially restricted. economic
changes. As accomplishments in the
‘social field, one can observe social
service, pensions, allowances to the
sick and unemployed, the rise of a
strong trade union movement and a
labor party with a strong socialist
program. But what of the future,
what. policies of the past have been
most effective, asks Mrs. Wootton.

Most important is the failure to cre-

ther progress the classobstacle must
be overcome, for though the rigid
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League Elections

The Bryn Mawr League takes
pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing elections to its’ board for
next year: .

Chairman of Blind School,
Christie Solter, ’39.

Chairman of Haverford Com-
munity Center, Jane Braucher,
39.

Assistant Chairman of Hav-
erford Community Center,’ Mar-
ian Gill; ’39.

Chairman of Maids’ Vespers,
Martha Van Hoesen, ’39.

Chairman of Maids’ Commit-
tee, Barbara Steel, ’40.

Assistant Chairman of Maids’
Committee, M. Tyrrell Ritchie,
89.

Publicity Chairman,
Morley, 740.

The Chairman for Americani-.

_ zation. and the assistants for
Summer Camp arid Summer
School will be announced later.

Miss Walsh Addresses
Philosophy Club Group

Louise









Says the Essence of Poetry Lies
In Linguistic Precision



‘The Common Room, May 4.—“The
essence of poetry is linguistic preci-
sion,” stated Miss Walsh in her address
to the Philosophy Club on The Poetie
Use of Language. Poetry, she said,
is the only form of expression that
says what it means and means ex-
actly what it says. The so-called
“precise” languages of science, logic
and philosophy are not precise, but

rare intentionally ambiguous.

Science is not precise because its
technical terms are generalized de-
scriptions used to characterize empir-
ical events, with the specific event
carefully unspecified. In order to read
these incompleted statements. correct-
ly, the scientist has to supply the ap-
propriate values for these variables.

Logie is not linguistically precise
because it must either rest upon ideas
that are truly indefinable and can only
intuitively be understood, ‘or upon
ideas that are undefined--and have to
be completed by metaphysical specu-
lation. When logicians have tried to
impose a pattern of consistently _or-
dered symbols upon the confusion of
language, it has ceased to be lan-
guage.

Philosophy is not precise because it
is intentionally suggestive. Words can
never explain the “total concrete real-
ity” that the philosopher seeks. He
has to imply more than he says, and
his true meaning must always tran+
scend his expressed ‘meaning.

But the poet, unlike the scientist
and the philosopher, is interested in
language ‘as itself, rather than as a
means of expressing reality. It is not
what happens that is important to
him, but what is said about what hap-
pens.: No separation can be-made be-

tween what is said and how it is said.

No reexpression is, possible.



Doris Turner’s Inferno

Draws Comment

At First Exhibit of Nucleus Camera Club



Mr. Herben’s Work Shows Skill
In Composition; Faculty Row
Is in Evidence



% Common Room, May 7, 8, 9.—The
Nucleus Camera Club held an ex-
hibition . of ‘photographs, some of
which. were strikingly executed and
showed genuine pictorial quality, in
the Common Room over the weekend.
Many pictures of campus life—May
Day, The Mi and Faculty Row
were shown. Mr. Stephen J. Herben
took the two blue. .ribbons.. for...first
place among the faculty for his photo-
scat FIRE Bn nae

Doris ‘Turner, 39, Elizabeth Bin-

‘were the chief undergraduate winners,
‘though no single first- award. was
given. An Inferno by Doris Turner,
composed of translucent. fiery ef-
‘fects, recalls. the Rackham _illus-
trations of. Grimm’s (in reality a

which was immersed in too-hot water
in developing). Mr. Ernest Blanchard
centributed -a composite picture, Bi-
ology, showing Dalton, a laboratory
worker, the well-known rabbit, and
microscopic pictures. .

The many snapshots of people and
buildings on campus were clear and
life-like. In-fact, all the photograph-
ers have achieved great clarity and de-
tail in their pictures. Mile. Germaine
Brée and. Mr. Richmond Lattimore
both exhibited a number of charming
foreign landscapes.

Karnak, by be: Herben, shows
great skill in compostiion. Two old
eglumits_ slant’ up from: one corner to.
a clouded sky. A piece of broken
brick wall frames the picture on one
side and balances the slanting col-
umns, while two black outlines in the
top’ corners focus additional atten-
tion on-the center. This framing and
unity in a picture is one quality which
most of the other exhibitors might



picture of Mr. A Lindo Faeren)

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“Kipling was ,a scrapper.



E. A. Ballard Gives
Lecture on Kipling



Life and Character of Author
Diggussed in Light of Books
Owned by Speaker

RARE WORKS EXHIBITED



Deanery, May 9.—In a lecture full |
of delightful “extra-curricular’’ facts

about Rudyard Kipling and his writ-
nigs, Mr. Ellis Ames Ballard, Phila-
delphia lawyer, not only related some-

thing of the history of his own col-J

lection of the poet’s works, one of the
largest _private collectidns in the
United States, but ‘also discussed the
life of Kipling in the light of. the
rare and: interesting books which he
He illustrated the lecture with
manuscripts and books of special in-»
terest to Kipling lovers, including such
valuable specimens as his mother’s

OwhS.

copy of his first work, with “Ruddy’s |'

Poems”

leather cover, and Kipling’s own copy,
with the following —— written
on it:

“It’s nice to see one’s namé in print;

A book’s a book, although there's
nothing in’t.”

Kipling’s talent developed early.
When he was 15 years old; his father
collected a group of his poems ‘and
published them in a little volume un-
der the title of Schoolboy Lyrics. It
is difficult to realize that so young a
boy: could have attained the percep>
tion evident in thése poems: The

in gold letters .on a white

| Seven Days of Creation is one of the

best, with such pawerful passages as:

“Alone, afar, at noon-tide Eblis
watched,

Jealous of God, the alls Sustainer’s
work—

Saw great darkness rent in twain and
lit

With Sun and Moon and Stars—be-
held. the Earth

Heaven upward from beneath the
Waters, green

-And trampled by the Cattle—watched

the Sea

Foam with the children of the waters
—heard

The voices of the Children of the
Woods

Across the: branches.
and feared,

And _ stxove throughout those Seven
Nights of Sin

=O: mar with evil toil God’s handi-
* work.”

Kipling, said Mr. Ballard, faced
realities. His idea of the artist’s
heaven was a place where he might
draw things as he saw them for the
“God of things as. they are,” and he
strove always to write for this God.
He was the apostle of work: the
people he describes in his stories and
poems are not the political leaders, or
the \military heroes, but the Sons of
Martha—those members of the labor-
ing classes upon whose shoulders the
Lord has laid the world’s burdens.
He was
afraid of nothing: If hé found wick-
edness in high places he exposed it.”

During the first years when he was
becoming widely known, Kipling had
several occasions to form a rather
scornful opinion of the American peo-
ple. He voiced this in his celebrated
Curse on America, which was in-
spired by the discovery of some
pirated poems in the Seaside Library.
A little later he gave it more particu
lar utterance in an open contest with
the American publisher Harper, in
which both sides hurled invectives at
each other without any noticeable re-
sult. At one time, however, the fight
became so heated that Harper felt it
necessary to call in reinforcements.
Hardy and two-other eminent English
poets published a statement favoring
American publishers.’ Kipling replied |
with his poem The Three Captains, in|
which the names of these. three -writ-
ers are actually given—though in a
form not easily recognizable to; those
who were not aware of the events
provoking it.

At _one time Kipling would ‘really

Contintied on Fage Five

Saw and heard





COLLEGE CALENDAR

Thursday, May 13.—Concours
Oratotwe, Common-Room, 4.30
p. m.

Friday, May' a4 .— Last Day of
Classes.

Saturday, May 15.—Confer-
ence of Summer School Faculty
all day Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday, May 16.—Outdoor
Service in. the Deanery Garden
7.380 p. m,

Monday, May 17,—Beginning
of Collegiate Examinations.
| . Sunday, May 23,—Violin Re-

cital by Henry Cykman-

COMMENCEMENT WEEK

Saturday, May 29 and Sun-
day, May 30.—Alumnae Reunion
Weekend.

Sunday, May 30.—Alumnae
Luncheon. . Baccalaureate Serv-
icé with address by President
John Edgar Park of Wheaton,
Goodhart, 8 p. Mm.

Monday,» May .81.—Senior tea
given by the alumnae of the
neighborhood. Miss Park’s sup-
per for the seniors. Senior Bon-

e.

Tuesday, “June 1.—Garden
party, followed by step singing.

Wednesday, June
mencement Program, 11 a. m.







The Maids and Porters
Put on Mystery Play



The. Cat and the Canary Offers

Humor and Horrors



Goodhart, May 9.—The Cat and the
Canary was chosen by the maids and
porters for their second dramatic ven-
ture. A well-worn play, it has also
Worn well, and proved a wise selection
on the part of Huldah-GCheek...’38,..its
director, for it is one of those very
playable.thrillers which has a sense of
humor. Far from neutralizing. each
other, these two elements were mutu-

ally intensified by contrast. We were
all the more ready to laugh after a
scene of horror, all the more keyed
up after a comedy scene, and so, con-
tinually twitching in pleasurable
cycles of nervous excitement. If the
audience may.have shown greater ap-
preciation of the comedy, it was cer-
tainly not unmoved by the intra-mural
mysteries of the ghostly house. The
device of claw-like hands appearing
through slowly sliding panels was
treated with great effect, both as to
seene-building and actual mechanics.

A sense of approaching doom, sug-
gested at the outset by an ominous
voodoo maid, Minnie Newton, an el-
derly lawyer, Richard Blackwell and
two quarrelsome male relatives, Em-
met Brown and Nellie Davis, was re-
lieved by the fluttering entrance of
two female relatives, Doris Davis and
Mabel Ross, and by the magnificent
bluster of the asylum guard, John
McKnight. Hilda Green, attractive and
gssured as an heiress imperill@d by un-
known danger and inconvenienced by
the peculiarities of her many relatives,
aroused our sympathy at once, and
her male lead, the irresolute garage-
mati, kept interest running at a high
level. In this part John Whittaker,
the campus Coward, gave a confident
and polished performance. Sparing
of gesture and calni of voice, he was

Continued on Page Four



Summer Camp Staff Chosen

The undergraduates who will com-
prise the staff of the Bryn Mawr
Camp have been chosen, The first
group serving from June 5 to 19 is as
follows: Marian Gill, 40; Mary Ma-
comber, ’40 ;, Susan Miller, ’40; Louise
Morley, ’40; Barbara Steel, 40; Mary
Whalen, 38; Mary Wood, ’39. The
second group will attend ‘the Camp
from-June-20 to July 6-and:t* ~~ > ~

DA De
lows: Annette Beasley, ’40; Laura

“Estabrook, °39; "Dorothy “Hood; "37;

Margaret Howson, ’38; Sarah Lud-
wig, '38; | Virginia Pfeil, ’39. The
third group which serves from\July
6 to 20 is ‘as follows: Gretchen Collie,|
38; Marian Diehl, ’39; Martha Eaton,
39; Allison Raymond, os a Elizabeth

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John Mason Brown
Comments Wittily
On Season’s Plays



Dramatic Tradition of ‘Hamlet
Reviewed; Howard Called
“Frozen Liability”



HIGH TOR, TOVARICH,
RICHARD II PRAISED

Goodhart Hall, May 6.—As an in-



season on Broadway, Mr.-John Mason
Brown pointed out that all acting is
not of one kind. There is a cleavage
as great as that which separates prose
\and poetry, distinguishing the Leslie
Howard school of acting from‘ the
romantie tradition to which’ John
Gielgud
long.

Evans
The essence of poignant un-
derstatement, Leslie Howard leaves
women in his audience undecided as

and Maurice

he is seen to great disadvantage as a
In the filrn of

||romantic character.
2.—Com- N&omeo) and Juliet, chiefly marked by

a total absence of gender, he not only
made his dislike of the part mani-
fest but contagious, and his Hamlet,
hardly more than a beguiling young
Englishman. who had mistaken Elsi-
nore for the gas station in The Petri-
fied Forest, was-a “frozen liability.”

John Gielgud? trained in the heroic

tradition, acted Hamlet with his en-
tire body. The script was suddenly

lightning, and the play seemed to be
newly written. He possessed the mind
and spirit of Hamlet.

When Elsinore was~still-a twilight
realm: for the Gladstonian type of
actor, Mr. Brown saw Sir Johnston
Forbes-Robertson, Whose creaking
knee-joints in the play within a play
scene conveyed an _acute—melancholia,.
Walter.Hampden, on the other hand,
was young enough when he first at-
tempted the role, and fine enough in
mind, for the new kind of Hamlet,
though his performance has become
inereasingly “Ph. D.” with age. John
Barrymore, when his talent for ignit-
ing his emotions was confined behind
the footlights, was the-best Hamlet of
the contemporary stage. Basil Sidney’s
production in modern dress illustrated
how little the play depends on the
conventional stage trappings.

Barrymore was unusually success-
ful in explaining his relationship with
the “theatre’s problem child,’ Ophelia,
“the most irretrievably moronic” . of
all tragic heroines. Most Hamlets
fall in love with Ophelia after she is
dead; Mr. Barrymore showed by his
hands, “those amorous antennae,” that
he was “‘willing to abdicate in the fair ,
maiden’ s behalf, long before the third -

Continued on Page _—

EMPLOYMENT REPORTS





(From a press release of the Bu-
reau of Industrial Service, Inc.)

Friday, April 380.— Employment .
prospects of this year’s college gradi.
ating classes are
favorable than those of the 1929
graduates, and substantially better —
than the June, 1936, classes experi-
enced. This evidence of continued em-
ployment improvement is revealed in
an announcement today of the results
of a survey just completed by Inves-
tors Syndicate, of Minneapolis.

Engineering, business administra-
tion, teaching and general business’
classifications are offering employment
in greatest volume, according to J. R.
Ridgway, president of Investors Syn-

“Law, journalism and in-
vestment~banking- are near the “foot
of the list, he said.

These conclusions are ‘emia: upon __
analysis of questionnaires returned by ©
218 leading colleges and universities
which account for nearly half of the
total enrollment of male and conde
cational institutions.



Washburn, 37.



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troduction to his review of. the past

be- -

whether to marry or mother him, but °

revealed as if by blinding flashes of |

FAVOR ’37 GRADUATES .

ly a little less |

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O Tempora, O Mores!

There are iconoclasts 4among the intelligentsia on this campus who
regard our quaint Elizabethan and Victorian traditions» Little May
Day, Senior Tree Planting, Last Day of Classes /and the like, as mean-
ingless and silly affectations, calculated to warm up sentiment about
dear old Bryn Mawe-and fill us with nostalgia/about the Happiest Days
They are welcomé to their point of, view, and if they
feel silly one-two-three hopping, or having hoops hung around their
necks, they are privileged to stay away from the festivities.
even see their point about being waked up at five-thirty on May first by
the heavy tread of singing Sophomores.
not go so far with them as to agree that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
would be more fittingly chanted on/ Rockefeller Tower than the Mag-
dalen College Latin Hymn; they may set up their rival May Day if

of Our Lives.

they like, but we will have jo part

There are one or two traditions, however, that,

should die a peaceful death. (The
man Night. Some halls inform us

it is well known that last year a lackadaiscal tug-of-war was substi-
tuted for the customary fight over the steps which ended in, a fiasco
Nevertheless, experience teaches us that rampages
on Freshman Night are likely to crop up not all over the campus at
r**“onee, but by halls, depending on the ‘internal situation any particular
In Merion two years ago, some Freshmen were so violent in
general wrecking rooms that, they actually precipitated a Class War,
and not only was all peace destroyed on Friday night, but reverbera-

the Spring of 1935.

year.

tions of feeling continued for days.

men’s exchanging for Friday dinner or the Juniors being forced to
learn the May Pole Song, or answering the telephone or serving coffee
- if: it will amuse the Freshman, but we are dé
in any form whatsoever, and especially in the week\before Comprehen-
es. If Freshman Night is indeed dying a naturai\ death, we wish to
be the first to raise our voice in a requiem. ‘

sives.

“We can

- On the other hand, we can

of it.

‘like oral Orals,
most important of these is Fresh-
that Freshman Night is dead; and

We see no harm in the upper class-




itely against sabotage



fd

Book Review _..

' The Years, by Virginia Woolf.
~ This is a novel which critics say
_ has no plot; it is merely a very selec-

_ tive sketch of the growth of a family,
-the Pargiters of London, from 1880 to

the. present. What makes it less of a

- story than any of the other family

sagas which exist in plenty, we are
Perhaps it is because
it has no moral and almost no ai
of view.

The meaning of The Years is in an

accurate portrayal of the passing of.

time. Miss Woolf thinks that time is
nothing but change, or concerning a
person, experience. In a certain sense
experience is what gives a person in-

- dividuality, makes him grow differ-

ently from others. And after the
passage of many years a person’s life
can become ‘almost cut off from the
rest of the world, because of the va-
riety of experiences in terms of which
he understands his life. Elegnor, the
» character whom we see most often in
The: Years, is-an old lady when we
reach the present, and she no longer
sees the rest of her family clearly at
one stage in their lives, but has an al-
most realistic view of them as they.
have been. —

_ The incidents related are a number
“ of very vivid, but not especially sig-
nificant, incidents from the life of sev-
‘eral of the people in the family, and
we never understand character



| just-as he recognizes their wara~-—* By

a rebel-|and she is incomprehensible, being only |

PY See

The President—
Attended the Mount Holyoke
Centenary as a delegate from
Bryn Mawr.
Monday, May 10, spoke to the
New Haven Bryn — Club
at luncheon.









tin, her brother, can never cease think-
ing of her as a little child, when she
cut her,own arm in anger at him.
Eleanor remembers them both best as
children, when she was the eldest sis-
ter.

Every recollection is. introduced by
the description of the*weather: sum-
mer, winter and spring rain, summer
and winter sun and London fog.
These passages, among the most beau-
tifully written in the book, define the
separate moods and divide the narra-
tive. On the whole the writing is as
polished’ and more varied than it has
ever been in a book by Virginia Woolf.
The dialogue is never a part of the
narrative, since we see the characters’
emotions so exactly that we cannot un-
derstand what they say. And this is
because they have no way of making
themselves understoed_ to each other
after the passage of years. x

The reader does not have the per-
spective: which the author demands.:
He cannot make himself see the char-
acters as a whole, but only as they
have been described last. .Neverthe-
less he recognizes the change in them;

they are- -without- knowing.
‘when they were said before.. There is
only one character who doesn’t change,

|widow of the fabulously rich late

: Weve and after

Julia,
Mawgliam’s latest novel, is an ex-
emely well-balanced character, to-

Algae
The Personal Peregrinations of Al-
gernon Swinburne - Stapleton-Smith,

or Lost in a London Fog. .

Algae came out of his stupor, in-
duced by the nasty fall which he took
from ‘his mare, only rrowly to
escape fainting agairi whenhe found
that his head was resting on the lap
of a beautiful young French woman
who was, in turn,. sitting on a marble
bench in a. seventeenth-century for-
mal garden, as we explained in our
last issue.

“Tiens, tiens,” he exclaimed, suming that she didn’t speak English.
* “You are surprise’, hein mon petit?”
she replied, smiling: faintly.

“Well naturellement, Mademoiselle,”
Algae murmured modestly, wondering
what Mary Ann Linsey-Woolsey would
think about the whole thing.

The beautiful lady hastened to ex-
plain that: she was not single, but the

Comte de Rambeau-Rinseau.* Later,
Algae gathered a brief resumé of her
career. . She had been born the daugh-
ter of an Alsatian cordelier: During
the first ten years of her life“she
achieved a great popularity because
of her diminutiveness. and right
t, during her ado-
lescence, when She shdt up amazingly
fast, she was much envied among the
French -because she was bdtie comme
un cheval.
the international society of the Riviera,
where she arrived, nobody knows how,
and stayed as a house guest at the
various and sundry villas until she
called everybody by his, first name,
and they were all extremely obligated
to her for being a perfect guest. She
married the Comte, who was very old
and rather decayed, and now she was
enjoying the period of his decease.
She had achieved a marvelous reputa-
tioneas a bountiful hostess, noted espe-
cially for her philanthropic caprice.
She explained that in this case she
had been driving through the Bois in

him lying in the midst of the green
sward surrounded by a little knot of
curious yokels. She saw that he was
a young and appealing-looking man,
so she had him picked up and conveyed
to her Southern chateau, under the.
surveillance of her private physician.



- Book Review

Theater, by Somerset Maugham.
the heroine of Somerset

tally selfish, totally unscrupulous, but
extremely honest and far from dull.
The exposition of her love affair with
a London pip-squeak, is supposed to
be a brilliant analysis of feminine
character, and as such is undoubtedly
intended to be devastatingly uncom-
plimentary. But the fact remains that
all of the men in Theater are so much
less attractive than she that this slur
on femininity doesn’t come: off.

Julia is an extremely talented
actress of the ‘London stage, aged. 46;
and married to a handsome but un-
distinguished actor - manager. She
makes untold sums of money for her-
self, and almost as much for him.
Tom Fennell is a clerk in an ac-
countant’s firm whom Julia and Mich-
ael invite to lunch one day as a ges-
ture to their public, with the result
that Toft, a@ young man of unprepos-
sessing appearance but erotic tenden- |
cies, is infatuated with Julia: From
then on their connection becomes more
and more painful, until she finally
manages to break off the relationship
and to submerge her love in a senti-
ment of triumph over another actress
whom Tom admires. This action is
undoubtedly selfish, but entirely un-
derstandable, since Tom and the other
actress are. both patently. worthless.
Michael,.Julia’s: husband, is a fatuous
and thick-skinned man of 50, and her
son, Roger, is callow and humorless.
Therefore, we reiterate, Julia stands.
out ‘as-a pleasant and diverting per-
sonality.

Most of the psychological analysis
is rather ordinary and obvious, but

with brilliance, and interest in Julia’s
adventure never flags. The early

_eemmgiy describing. the youth of
‘and Julia is told concisely.
and with vividness, forming, to our

mind, the best section of the book.
At times Maugham’s ‘clever tricks “Of |







She made a rapid rise in,

her open brougham when she noticed) >

some of the shorter incidents are told |

Bryn Mawr Tennis Team
' Defeated at Vassar

Ledlie sLauatdiie is Only ‘Winner;
“Matches Well Fought





(Especially comtritated by Mary
Whitmer, ’39.)

Vassar College, May 8.—After play-

ing five well-fought matches, the Bryn
Mawr tennis team was overwhelmed
by Vassar’s by a score of 4-1. Friday
was Vassar’s Sport Day, and the |
matches were the main event of the.
morning.
® Barbara Auchineloss, ’40, playing in
our number one position, was beaten
in Some of the best. tennis of the day,
6-4, 6-0, by Helen Grawn. Margaret
Jackson, ’37, our number two player,
was beaten by Mary-Armstrong in a

Miss “Armstrong is the present fresh-
man champion. at Vassar. She spec-
ializes in baffling chop shots which-are,
usually well-played deep into ‘the
court. Together, Helen Grawn and
Mary Armstrong defeated Barbara’
Auchincloss and Margaret Jackson in
the only doubles match of the day.
Miss Auchincloss played a beautiful
net game and her serve was the best
in evidence. Elizabeth Campbell of
Vassar defeated Mary Whitmer, ’39,
in a long, evenly played first set, and
a shorter, second set: 8-6, 6-3. Ledlie
Laughlin, ’40, was the only winner of
the day, defeating Peggy Davis; 6-3,
6-1, in a short and decisive game.

In Philadelphia





Movies y

a

Aldine: A .Star. Is. Born, the ro-
mance of an actress, with Fredric
March and Janet Gaynor.

Arcadia: Maytime, a musical, with
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
- Boyd: The Woman I Love, a drama
of the World War, with Paul Muni

Miriam Hopkins.

Earle: Nobody’s Baby, with Patsy
Kelly.

Europa: The Eternal Mask, about a
man’s growing insanity.

Fox: .Mountain Justice, a_back-
woods melodrama, with . Josephine
Hutchinson and George Brent.

Keith’s: Wake Up and‘ Live, with
Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie ase
ing themselves. ~—

Karlton: The Hit Pari, with ra-
dio stars, and Frances Langford.
Locust: Captains Courageous, from
Kipling’s sea-story, with Freddie
Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy.
Stanely: Shall We Dance? a mu-
sical comedy, with Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers.

Stanton: Midnight Taxi, gangsters
and G-men, with Brian Donlevy.



Theater

Forrest: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, The Wingless Victory, by Max-
well Anderson, with Katharine Cor-
nell.

Hedgerow: Thursday, The. Plough
and the Stars, by O’Casey; Friday and

and Tuesday, Saint Joan, by Shaw;
Wednesday, Wife To A Famous Man,
by Sierra.

\



Local Movies

chemin Performances: 7-P. M. and
9.P. M.)

Seville: Thursday, A Doctor’s
Diary, with John Trent; Friday, Sat-
urday, and Sunday, Seventh Heaven,
with James Stewart and Simone Si-
mon; Monday, Mutiny on the Bounty,
with Charles Laughton, Clark~Gable
and Franchot Tone; Tuesday ‘ and
Wednesday, Head Over Heels In Love,
with Jessie Matthews.

Wayne: Thursday, Friday, and Sat-_|
urday, When You’re In Love, with
Grace Moore; Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday, Swing High, Swing Low,
with Fred MacMurray and Carole
Lombard; Wednesday, Outcast, with
Warren Williams.

- Ardmore: Thursday, Once a Doc-
tor, with Donald Woods; Friday, Sin-

‘\ner Take All, with Bruce Cabot; Sat-

urday, Men In Exile,

Joan Blondell and Pardinand Gravet;

Wednesday and Thursday, The Sea-|.
Devils, with Victor a



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long. three-set match:, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

Saturday, Noah, by Obey; Monday |

—







ABROAD AT HOME



Geology students are no doubt tired
of hearing about the Wissahickon and
its controversial schist. So are we.
We are, however, non-geologicall
speaking, continually impressed with
|the vacational qualities of this region.
It is a park within a park, its en-
closure within Fairmount @ark giving
it protection from nearby Philadel-
phia. Cars have never trespassed be-
yond. the stone gateway. A wide dirt
road leads all comers to Valley Green,
where horses can be hired and food
obtained: A myriad of smaller cinder
paths which scale the hills with mis-
leading facility lead off - from, this

main c It is only after breath-
bed fenping tink one gains a rocky
which affords a view over the trees
into the surrounding countryside.

Go on foot or on horse-back. But
L#6rthose of us who don’t ride—take
this from an 1852 publication: “Riding
by horse-back, both for ladies and gen-
tlemen, is in these days one of the
requisites of a polite education.”

The only retort we can make, Mr.

Eli Bowen (the author we quoted) is
that the man who uses his own feet

rest at frequent intervals where rustic
initialed benches: have
awaiting him.

This time of year canoes are being

short, languid’ journeys down the
Creek to the falls. How the attend-

-lants smile when they ‘help, a ydung

couple to launch a green or fiery red
canoe.

ning. Or you can get tea, etc., from
Valley Green, although there is usually
a lot of commotion. You may go wad-
ing if you wish, but don’t mind if some
little boys & la nude come splashing
into the water a few feet away.

More than this episodic view of the
Wissahickon we can give you nothing.
It speaks for itself. If you don’t have
time to spend an afternoon there this
spring, you may look forward: next
year not only to a horse back ride, but
also to a sleigh ride with its accom-
panying merriment to pass away a
winter evening.

To get to it by car, cross the City
Line bridge, turn left immediately and
follow the road straight across a big
intersection. Keep on this road for a
couple of miles until you see a park-
ing space on the left hand side of the
road. The rest is up to you. A bus

promontory ‘or a scraggly open field.

repainted and reconditioned for their

Picnic lunches. should now be begin-'

“=

has the pleasure of giving them a.

long been

going from 30th Street to German-~

-}town will probably drop you off on the

PEACE PROJECTS

(From a Press Report of the
Emergency Peace Campaign.)

Dr. Hornell Hart, professor of So-
cial Ethics at Hartford Theological
Seminary, Hartford, Conn., is one of
a score_of promident educators who
will serve this summer at five Insti-
tutes of International Relations,. be-
ing conducted bythe Emergency.
Peace Campaign.

The purpose of the’ Institutes is to
train young “Peace Volunteers,”

way.



whom. the Emergency. Peace Cam-_,

paign is sending out into the rural

summer months, “to make articulate
and effective,” thé aill of the Amer-
ican people to stay out of war.

The Institutes are located at the
following places: Duke Institute,
Durham, N. C.; Midwest Institute,
Naperville, Ill.; Eastern Insti
Cheyney, . Pa.; Mills Institute, Oak-
land, Calif.;: and Whittier Institute,
Whittier, Calif.

Dr. Hart is the author of several ,
books on social progress, and in 1981,
he was appointéd investigator in
charge of measuring, changes a social
mission on Social Trends.

Dr. Hart’s two daughters served
last “summer with the. Emergency
Peace Campaign by trouping with an
anti-war marionette show of their own
making threugh the Squth and East.

_ Faculty Attend Centenary
Among the faculty who attended



ns with June’ coogi e_Mount Holyoke Centenary, May.
wae Rag coves Mace st and 8, were. Dian Manning, Miss

Wheeler. Mrs. Manning, who was the
only one present for both days, repre-
sented Bryn Mawr, while Miss Rob-
bins attended as a delegate of the



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Partisan Umpires ' Fail





to Save Student

Ball Team From 21-9 Rout by Faculty



May 7.—In spite of all efforts of
distinctly partisan umpires, the fac-
ulty baseball team defeated the stu-
dent nine with the overwhelming score
of 21-9. The faculty, their team with
one exception male and brawny, was
at an advantage both in hitting and
fielding.

Mr. J. Stogdell Stokes, a member
of the Board of Directors, officiated
for the first four innings. - As an
umpire Mr. Stokes won the approval
of student spectators, for whenever
a called strike delivered by Dryden

crossed the plate and left the batter! pacuity AJ asuity she became realistically and tragically |this season. The least good of these x wast, Ween er oie a
gasping, he discreetly “didn’t see/pichard ...... c. ....../.. Brady demented, as the original script de-|is Wingless Victory, which was so as a ' - oo Ps prea? sad
that one.” ~When Mr, Stokes departed ET Le Hutchison |™@nds. Conversely, Pamela Stanley,|overgrown with verbiage that it re- a ace “! cal iy one & noises
it took the combined efforts of Mrs.| anderson ..... ist b. ..... Webster |°f Leslie Howard’s company, was as|minds one of a Madame Butterfly as - = rpg sale rel , os se ey re }
Anderson and Mrs. ‘Diez-to keep the tine. a RE Gill 8004-88 Miss-Gish--was -bad-during | Warren G. Harding might have writ- , rag sy i rp wou
faculty score within reasonable|ioqiung ..... : 8rd b. ...... Coburn | the first three acts but failed to work/|ten it: The Masque of Kings, second ; pa sna send yr eWO FORTS
bounds. « Neaaehtin is; ‘Sys Martin |UP to any climax in the mad scene.|in merit had a “backstairs” flavor OF COURTS. WOES DOLLS . RETR.
The faculty._led off with their a ev ee Riges Mr. Brown thought that both pro-| which was. particularly appealing to
heaviest hitters. Blanchard hit. deep l=" See Soeers aS a ductions: would have been improved | Mr.. Brown, and was a felicitous dis-}|Brown ranks Evans as the greatest
to center field and landed safely on Substitutes: Beasley, ‘Miller, C. by an exchange of settings and cast; | tortion of history for the sake of dra-|actor of the ‘contemporary. English-

second, and hits by Dryden and An-
derson brought him home, The fac-
ulty chalked up six runs_ before
Hutchison managed to strike out
Broughton for the first out of >the
game. Guiton and Ufford were put
out at first to retire the side.

The varsity managed to secure two
runs before Dryden, pitching for the
faculty, struck out Coburn and Mar-
tin, and threw Bridgman out at first.
Until the fifth inning, when the stu-
dents rallied briefly to score four runs,










In

vain ‘spectators pleaded “Bear down
on him. Here’s an easy out!” ‘The
fielders grew leg-weary chasing flies
and almost gave up in despair when
Blanchard hit a home run into the
hedge behind the far goal posts.
Hutchison and Martin starred for
the losing team. The former pitched
a fast, if somewhat erratic, ball. In
spite of the one-sided score, the var-
sity enjoyed the game and left the
field vowing to secure revenge in a
return match.
Line-up:

the game was a complete rout.

Hemphill, McEwan.



Graduate Elections

The following officers have
been elected by the Graduate
Club:

President: Peggy LaFoy.

Vice-president: Marion
Greenebaum.

Social,chairman: Sara Ander-
son.














High Tor, Tovedich,
Richard II Praised

b
Continued from Page One



act.” (He had just appeared in Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and perfécted the

Barrymore hand-wiggle.) “There is a
certain ritual for the handling of
Ophelia; she is pale and colorless,
and even in the mad scene she leaves
out the more questionable verses of
her song. Lillian Gish, who played
opposite Gielgud, has developed her
acting ability since the time of her
movie career, when she used to go
from tree to tree, defending her hon-
or, and while her characterization, up
to the mad scene, was commonplace

because Geilgud’s Hamlet was _ too
cramped in the seventeenth century
sets, while Howard’s was lost in vast
Viking Elsinore: He considered the
king, Laertes, and Horatio in the
Howard production the better, but
both queens “were the most arrant
commoners who ever sat upon a
grease-paint throne.” The two Ham-

lets demonstrated more clearly than
anything elise the fundamental differ-
ence between romantic and realistic
drama. = i

value on

__#

The finest realistic actor on the
mddern stage, Walter. Huston was

none the less incapable of playing
Othello, whose rapid motivation makes
him one of the most difficult” charac-
ters in all of Shakespeare. The fact
that he, consistently fails to realize
that Iago is-a villain seents merely to
be a poignant example of arrested de-
velopment. The importance of the part
lies in the -dramatic .and emotional
power of his lines. Thus, Walter Hus-
ton failed completely because, lacking
an “orchestrated” voice, he failed to
do justice to the poetry.

Maxwell Anderson, the only contem-
porary playwright who is interested
in the theatrical value of language it-
self, has had three plays produced

matic validity. High Tor reestablish-
es the debased form of fantasy, which
has been suggestive lately of such
things as birdies, Winnie the Pooh,
Land “little people” crawling out of the
wood-work. -Andersor admits that his
Palisade, a symbol of the past, must
be sacrificed to modern progress.

In spite of Mr. Anderson’s individ-
ual achievement, this has been an act-
or’s season; given particular distinc-
tion by Maurice Evans’ appearance
in both two historical dramas. Mr.



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START DIPLOMATS’ SCHOOLS
By MARVIN Cox. _
(Associated Collegiate Press-Cor-
respondent) ~
Washington, D. C.—A _ National
Academy of Public Affairs to trair\
Young men and women-for diplomatic
and administrative service in the gov-
ernment as West Point and Annapolis
trains officers for the army and navy
is proposed in a bill introduced by
‘Representative Disney, of Oklahoma.
Under the terms of the bill each
Congressional district would have one
student- at the academy appointed by
the Representative of the district; two
students from each state at large
would be named by the Senators, and



speaking stage, in whose di¥erse char-
acterizations the only repetition is
that of excellence. It was Evans’ act-
ing which made Richard II probably
the most ‘notable theatrical event of
this year. Other good performanges
were for the greater part in a lighter
vein. Pleasant, inconsequential com-
edies recurred most often among the
winter’s productions. As Mr. Brown
remarked, “the American theatre is
like a soda fountain that once in a
long while serves champagne.”



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Mid - Year Beams
Abolished at Vassar



_ Measures Are Adopted to Give

Greater Continuity to Year,
To Lessen Strain



CONFERENCES APPROVED
—

Poughkéepsie, N. Y.—Sigh of re-
lief can be heard in any corner of
sar College campus. Mid-
year examinations have been abolished
in order to give greater continuity
to the academic schedule. A state-
ment concerning the changes says:
“In order to develop the academic
year as a whole, with the breaks oc-
curring normally at the two vacations,

- and to lessen the pressure of work

‘upon both the faculty and students,

from the completion of semester pa-
pers and semester examinations at
one time the following measures are
adopted:

“1. At the end of the first svianates
such examinations as may be required
by departments will be held in the
regular scheduled hours of each.
course, and need not come at the final
sessions of the terms. The last two
Saturdays of the first semester may
be used by departments for scheduled
examinations in courses of the 100
grade.

“2. Departments shall have the
right to excuse from the final exami-

* nation in courses ending at the first

semester students who continue in
semester courses in the same depart-
ments. For: such students questions
of a comprehensive nature will be
added in the final examination at the
end of the second semester.

“3. There will be no break between
the first and second semesters. The
term will be continuous from Christ-.
mas vacation to Spring vacation.
Reading periods (periods without the
requirement of a class attendance for
anytime up to two weeks) may be
arranged in any course at any time
according to the needs of the course.

“4, Marks for courses ending at

—===the-first-semester_for-students leaving



year courses at the end of the -first
semester may be reported at any time
up to March 1. é

“5. Provisional marks for
freshmen shall be reported to the re-
corder and transmitted to students a
week before Christmas vacation. and
a week before Spring vacation. .

“6,

be made known béth to the recorder
and the student herself by the instruc-
tor prior to March 1 following the
end of the first semester.

“7, ‘For students above the fresh-
man year, probation is abolished, The
faculty affirms as a general principle
the desirability of conferences be-
tween teacher and students:

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Colgate Starts Dictator Course
Hamilton, N. Y.—How dictators
establish themselves and retain power
over subjects is going to be studied
next fall in a new course, “Dictators
and Dictatorships,” at Colgate Uni-
versity. In announcing the new sub-
ject, Dr. Rodney L., Mott, director of
the university’s School of Social Sci-
ences, explains that “an attempt will
be made to show that dictatorships
have come from writings of intellec-
tuals who influence public opinion
from economic factors or from psy-
chological. post-war attitudes and mili-
tary factors.

“In the later stages of the course
the students will take up the factual
operations of a government under a
dictator with such subjects as the new
constitution in dictator-controlled na-
tions, the relation of the state and
industry, religign, civil liberties and
propaganda considered as points for
study. “Dictators are here to stay,
for a while at least,” concluded Dr.
Mott, “and the students might just
as well’ know how they work. It will
‘be a part of their education.”— (ACP)

The Maids and Porters
Put on. Mystery Play



Continued from Page One

from first to last a never-failing
source of spontaneous humor, and his
uncertain proposal in the. last act,
with the cat-maniac expected at any
moment, was gne of the high spots of
the play.

Though not entirely untainted by
such faults as are common in ama-
teur performances, most noticeably a
slight: .super-abundance of arm- and
footwork and occasional disaccord be-
tween the action of switching on a
light and the actual electric effect,
The Cat and The Canary was a live-
ly and appealing performance, reflect-
ing very favorably both the _ well-
planned direction and the good-will,
talent and energy,.of the performers.
Eleanor Taft, ’89, assisted - Pe
directing.

Haverford, Bryn Mawr
Lead German Evening



Temple, Penn and « Swarthmore
Contribute to Program



Roberts Hall, Haverford , College,
May 8.—Universitaét von Pennsylvan-
ien, Tempel-Universitaét, Haverford,
Swarthmore, und Bryn Mawr (col-
leges) celebrated Deutscher Abend to-
night. -Certain parts of the program
were warmly applauded by the audi-
ence, and the evening, although it did
not meet the expéctations of some,
was on the whole a success.

The Haverford College string Quar-
tett in Es-dur by Schumann began
the program. It featured H. H. Krue-
ner, an excellent pianist, T. A. Wer-
time, H. Mason, and S. L:; Bortgn, Jr.
Following this. were recitations—-
Gedichten—presented by Swarthmore
College. Pennsylvania Glee Club mem-
bers later sang, hindered, perhaps,
by their lack of familiarity with the
Haverford Auditorium, The latter
half of Swarthmore’s contribution to
the program was distinguished by
Marie Osland-Hills’ recitation of
Goethe’s' Prometheus.

Gemeinsames : Singen preceded an

versity presented the Hans Sachs play,
Der Bés Rauch. The program began
to be decidedly more interesting at
this point, and the little three-char-
acter sketch was well-received by an
audience fully appreciative of the
imaginary scenery and the Baum rep-
resented by a _hat-tree.

The University of Pennsylvania was
then represented by Fraulein Mildred
Harlow whose solo, Die Lotosblume, by
Schuman, was the best of their part
in the program. The ‘real climax
of. the evening followed: the Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr play, Die Klein-
en Verwandten. Mary Lee Powell, ’37,
shared laurels with Ruth Lilienthal,
40, and Wiliam H. Clark, Jr., Henry
B. Cox, de Lancey Cowl, ’39, and
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Graduate Club Gives Dance
~Common Room, May 1.—About 45)

Dance which was preceded by a tea
for the hostesses and their guests on
Radnor green. The hall was deco-
rated with spring flowers«and an
excellent orchestra furnished the mu-
sic. Miss Lillie Ross Taylor was the
patroness and Vivian Ryan served as
chairman of arrangements:



dialectical glibness was convincingly
German, and whose excellent acting
brought forth bursts of laughter at
the proper moments—a triumph, since
many of the audience did not under-
stand the language.

Especial credit for the success of
the play should be given to the back-
stage cast, T. C. Tatman, E. H. Morse,
P. P. Rodman and W. E. Prindle,
whose scenery and staging were essen-
tial features. Ruth Lilientlal’s hair
(gold medal to M. Lee Powell), the
two &8fd-fashioned pictures, and the
very well-chosen costumes high-light-
ed the performance.

The general singing which con-
cluded the program was at first a bit
too formal, with the audience accord-
ingly unresponsive. When Haverford
and Bryn Mawr took the lead, how-
ever, songs became lively and the
evening was ended with fitting Ger-

couples attended the Graduate Club)

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(Especially

The last. chapel service of the cur-
rent year will:be held in the Deanery
garden next Sunday evening, at 7.30
p.- m. Everyone’ will be warmly wel-
comed. The garden is particularly at-
tractive in the evening, as those who
have: been to former outdoor Sg
will remember. It will be even more\” \
informal than usual, and the commit-
tee recommends. bringing cushions!

The service will be conducted by Dr,

John W. Suter, a well-known figure on
the campus.



Judges. of Concours Announced

The: judges of the Concours Ora-
toiré, to be held in the Common Room
on Thursday, May 18, at 4.30, are:
M. Mauyee Faivre d’Arcior, French
vice-consul in Philadelphia, Mrs. J.
Stogdell Stokes and Professor Edwin
C. Byam of the University of Dela-
ware.

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French Department at’a-preliminary.
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Anna Louise Strong
_ Gives Talk on Spain



Progressives and Republicans,
Leftists and Communists
Unified in Action



OPTIMISM IS PREVALENT



(Especially contributed by Jeanne
Quistgaard, ’38.)

May 6.—A large group of students
and-faculty and a number of outsiders
' gathered for tea in Miss Mildred Fair-
child’s house to hear Dr. Anna Louise

Strong give a graphic and sympa-.

thetic description of Loyalist. Spain
about which she has recently written
a book. Miss Strong felicitously in-
troduced her informal talk by telling
of the “first impact of the beauty”
of Spain which she felt when flying
over the Pyrenees-at sun-rise. The
tone of the speech stressed the cour-
age, optimism and happiness pre-
vailing among the Loyalists. Traveling
down the east coast, not yet within
the war zone, she met with comrade-
ship, generosity, even gayety among
the country people. Life outside’ war
districts is conditioned only by eco-
nomic change which the people know
to be in their favor,

Miss Strong reviewed therécent his-
tory of .Spain, enumerated the re-
forms necessary to a modern indus-
trial and»agricultyral.society and de-
, Scribed progress madé by the Repub-
lican-United Front government, show-
ing that ‘in part the present situa-
tion’ is defined as Spanish people
fighting against foreign, German and
Italian, ‘invaders. In giving a picture
of Barcelona and Madrid, Miss Strong
emphasized the initial spontaneous na-
ture of the People’s Front defense and
the acute need for organization and
integration among the Progressive,
Republican, and Left parties “which
include the four great national trade
union federations and the small busi-
ness men, the last being supporters
of the Communists. All these were
bound together in sentiment but not
unified in action. Now they have ad-
vanced rapidly toward united com-
mand.

Miss Strong told of the way in
which the inhabitants‘ of.Madrid built
their defense and set about regain-
ing and renewing where disaster had
struck. The government continues to
effect progressive measures, has sub-
sidised farmers and workers, and or-
ganized cooperatives. This movement
has had enormous popularity. She
next visited the Front proper, outside
Madrid, and explained that although
the city was unassailable, it might
conceivably’ be besieged. She -told of
the youth and vigor among the sol-
diers, who talked long and familiarly
with her. She was impressed by their
sense of humor which was not bit-
ter but gay. They find time to equip
and attend an underground school-
room in the dugout, a typical exam-
ple of the wide-spread sense of per-
manent future value to be gained by
their victory.

In mentioning the recent anarchist
uprising in Barcelona, she estimated
that it was instigated by an isolated
group of anarchists, led by a “gang-
ster” who was fired to gain local
control. She did not attach national
importance to it, judging from her

experience with these groups when in.

Spain.

Miss “Strong’s interpretation of the
experiences and acquaintances in
Spain are particularly interesting in
conveying ‘the courage and hope
among the Loyalists in fighting to pre-
serve that which they feel will de-
‘termine the future, not only of Spain,
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structure has been somewhat eased,
class still exists. The class: structure
in America is not far different from
that in Great Britain; ther¢ is a wider
range of the superficial forms of com-
munication and a greatér class mobil-
ity here, but a wide and unbridged
gulf remains between the classes. If

there is still elasticity and power of

expansion in the economic system, one
can ‘go on, one can lift the bottom
levels and yet keep the top far away.
But more should be done that effects
the fundamental nature of. the social

structure. The building of democratic

and social institutions depends upon
the strength of democratic tradition,
which

harmony or disharmony in the com-
munity.

This fundamental harmony requires

common consent of the people as to
what should be done.
can. be too easily defeatists about
their achievements and possibilities of
survival. There is in their midst, a
definitely anti-political group, the Fas-
cists, who have not gotten far, but
being present, may not’ be ignored.

However, democracy has not lost any |’

single citadel wherever it was firmly
entrenched, nor is the number of peo-
ple under’ democracy today far
changed from that of the pre-war

period. But the paradox of all demo:.

cratic government is that the highly-
prized rights it grants are only grant-
ed when there is a tacit agreement
among the people not to criticize the
fundamental form of the government
itself. There is a question in England
as to whether people want to make
fundamental changes or criticisms of

democracy, whether they want to over-’

throw\the political machine, and as to
democraty’s changes.safely to effect or

to forego radical, social and economic

change.

The chance of achieving a class-

less community depends on convert-
ing or liquidating the class opposed
to such a change. The situation must
be mitigated or democracy must be
abandoned; and those who advocate
the second are assuming a grave re-
sponsibility. Many who feel that the
radical change on the part of the Eng-
lish democratic government will be
met with opposition, are prepared to
meet force with: force. What one
would like to see is change without

the price of forceful upheaval.

Some of the accomplishments of the
past that might be considered are:

universal political franchise, the build-

ing up of various social services, in-
come tax, socialization of public utili-

ties, and municipal social enterprises.

All these changes have been accom-
plished by conservative governments
as the result of laity propaganda; all
are-to be viewed as the result of
political philosophy. They are the
outcome of nineteenth century radical
liberalism, and they have contributed



against Fascism. It is the sense, of
the universal importance and extent
of the struggle which inspires the
Spaniards and the foreign volunteers.
At the end of her talk Miss Strong
discussed the thousands of homeless
children for whom the government is
attempting to care. She said that
she hoped to be able to. start a drive
over here to help in their housing
and immunization against disease.

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in ‘turn depends. upon the
democratic tradition and the basic

The English,

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the idea that in the last resort, the
individual is the final judge of the
wisdom or foolishness of social poli-
cies.

The liberal ideals of the nineteenth
century are still unfulfilled in two
respects: one, the idea of the possibil-
ity and ‘achievement of happiness and
welfare for all human beings has
been crudely shattered, and two, the
conception of “everybody” as being:
“everybody like us” has been aban-
doned. These liberals’ conceived of
social change fitting their own concept
of “everybody.” They believed in de-
mocracy, but forgot the wage-earners.

It may appear that_ history is

written in terms of self-interest, but
this cannot. be the sole motive fotce.
Certainly one cannot believe that the
radical children of well-to-do parents
have become converted in the name-ef
self-interest.
Observing that social science is
quick to find fault, Mrs. Wootton
stated that~she desired to end on a
constructive note, and suggested sev-
eral general measures designed to im-
prove the social and economic form
of society. She stated her belief in
the necessity for a common conscious-
ness of the need for radical social
change. To achieve this, the myth of
the so-called English ruling class
should be examined, its powers de-
termined, how it rules and how it is
recruited should be understood. Sec-
ondly we must advocate educational
reform. In addition, business classes
seeking the support of the state should
be forced to assume some of its re-
sponsibilities.

There should also be an attempt
to see the democratic systém acclimate
itself to social conditions, and taxa-
tion is a tremendous instrument for
equalization if the community should
be employed. There must be a new
organization of ideas of those desiring
a classless community. Recently a
negativistic attitude has sprung up;
people no longer advocate real social
improvement. Lastly, the importance
of ordinary people must -be stressed.
The rehabilitation in public opinion of
the dignity of human labor is im-
portant; a statement of claim must
be made regarding. the undeniable
rights of decent living, and tlie rela-
tionship of income with contribution
to the public good. Respect for those
who do no work and take money for
no work must be transferred to those
who go out and labor. “

If radical social change meets op-
position then common consent is lack-
ing and there is civil war. We can-
not prophecy unless we first have
tried, Adl. communities rest on ton-
sent ultimately. If change is ahead
of consent, then they must.slip back,
but first, they must explore the possi-
bilities of radical pense in the demo-
cratic idea.

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jof-their country are stationed. '/Also
{the consular service is not efficiently

International Club
Holds Last Meeting



_Discusses. Extra-territoriality

In China



L. MORLEY ALSO SPEAKS



Common Room, May 10.—At the
last International Club meeting of the
year, Agnes Chen, graduate student,
spoke on Extra-territoriality in China,
and Louise Morley, ’40, on The Model
League of Nations Through Bryn
Mawr’s Danish Eyes. The election of
the new officers was postponed until
next fall. The present‘ president,
Eleanor Sayre, ’38, will appoint a com-
mittee to look up the club’s constitu-
tion and to start activities next year.

Extra-territoriality’ is the system
whereby foreigners in China are en-
tirely under the legal ‘jurisdiction of
their own country. The disadvantages
of this arrangement, both to China
and to foreign countries, are evident.

Foreigners in China can only go into
the'30 odd large cities where consuls

organized to try cxjiminal casés or to
catch offenders, which is one of their
major duties.

Foreign business corporations en-
counter complicated obstacles: they
are registered under the laws of their
own country; organizations of citizens
of different countries are therefote un-
der various, often conflicting, regula-
tions; if they are .involved in law-
®uits, the case has to be transferred
at times to the higher courts of their
own country—an extremely expensive
proceeding. /The point is an even
greater disadvantage to the Chinese
who try to fight law-suits with for-
eigners: ‘They can seldom afford to
transfer’ cases and so are forced -to
yield.

The powers have assumed. that. ex-,
tra-territoriality also includes the
right to send over military forces to
protect their citizens and administer
the law. This is exceedingly expen-
sive and may be an active danger to
the Chinese. For instance Japanese
penetration and practical annexation
of Manchuria was effected under the
guise of protection of- Japanese citi-
zens and interests.

To the Chinese, extra-territoriality
is sometimes an injustice. Foreign
criminals in China frequently escape
trial because they cannot be arrested
by native policemen who witness the
crime, but must be reported to the
consul, who’ then takes steps to have
the offender caught. Since Chinese
retainers of foreigners are also under
extra-territorial rights, native crim-
inals can get under the protection of
some government, and then escape ap-



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his poem The Widow at Windsor / so
offended Queen Victoria that neither
she nor any of her successors ever
granted him thathonor. Knowing
this, Kipling refused to take any fa-
vors from the crown, and when: a

later king offered him @ lordship for

his services during the war, rebuked

him publicly in a/poem, The Last

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prehension’ for their offenses because
of the slow consular service.
Extra-territoriality was originally
demanded because the “Powers”
claimed that the Chinese judicial sys-
tent was. corrupt, and that punish-
ments were harsh and prisons unsani-
tary... Now, however, the judiciary
has been reformed and the Chinese,

be fatally unsanitary for westerners,
would agree to confine foreigners in
new model prisons.. They are also
willing to employ foreign officials,
especially judges, so long as these

service and under their regulations:

Louise Morley’s title, The Model
League Through Bryn Mawr’s Danish
Eyes, is explained by the fact that in
the league Bryn Mawr represented
Denmark, though the delegates inevit-
ably retained their general interna-
tional attitude as did most of the
representatives. The main problem
discussed was How Can Peaceful
Change Be. Attained? Three com-
missions were set up to discuss this
problem. The first decided that a
permanent committee to carry ‘out re-
vision of treaties should. be formed,
so that Article 19 of the Covenant
would not: be neglected. It also advo-
cated a permanent commission to ad-
vise on minority problems.

The second commission, on Trade
Agreements, recommended bi-lateral,
and most favored nation, treaties.

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aggressors. The greater accomplish-
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PUBLIC OPINION





To the,Wditor of the News:

The Bryn Mawr. League
wishes to ‘thank the college for
its enthusiastic support of the
Maids’ Play and to express its
deep appreciation to Huldah
Cheek for the tinie- and work
which she so whole-heartedly
gave. !

Thanks are also due to Elea-
nor Taft, Alice Low, Anne
Goodman, Dorothy Richardson,
Mary Wood and _ Catherine
Hemphill for their able assist-
ance in. the production.

Sincerely ha
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President of the League.





To the Editér of the College News:

The American Friends’ Service
Committee is planning to begin work
on child relief in Spain—entailing the
establishment and support of colonies
where the. children’s welfare can re-
ceive ‘attention.

The expense of one colony (15,600

Pesetas), at a normal exchange,
comes to about 2,000 dollars a month.
For foreigners, whose purchasing

power is increased by the present ex-
change,-the.cost is 625 dollars. , It is
precisely because we get such good
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dent’s plan for reform of the Supreme
Court, desirable or not, at least should
relieve the minds of the American
people of the fear that the President
might assume any form of dictator-
ship. There can never be a dictator-
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freedom of the press, of speech, and
of assembly remain.

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in spite of the fact that it followed
an enviable record of thirty-five At-
lantic crossings, definitely proved the
impossibility of Germany’s continuing
to use hydrogen filled dirigibles. This
presents a difficulty, for although the
United States has completely aban-
doned the plan of using dirigibles in
warfare, it still retains a monopoly
on helium (which is the only possible
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moreover, is absolutely non-explosive)
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future instrument of warfare cannot
at present be determined.

The greatest tragedy resulting from
the Spanish war is the. recent bomb-
ing of the Basque.church of Guernica
by German members of the _ rebel
army, said to have been acting under
the direction of General Franco. At
the time of the air raid some 800
women and children were praying’ in
an open square in the city; many
were killed or wounded. The Ger-
man ambassador
the spirit of modern theories of war-
fare when he justififd” this attack,
Future wars will not be fought mainly

in the trenches, but will seek to strike

at the homes and the cities which
shelter non-combatants, in an attempt
to break the morale of the enemy.
Ireland has delivered. tothe new
English king a direct slap in the face
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