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HE COLLEGE
VOL. XXIV, No. 24
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1938°
PRICE 10 CENTS
is Well
‘Patience’
Directed by Alwyne,
But Choruses Weak
Principals Carry Performance
With Farcical Overacting,
Clear Voices
ANNE KIDDER PROVES
A NATURAL PATIENCE
Goodhart, April 30. — Patience,
the Glee Club’s Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta for this year, given for the
benefit of the record library, played
to an audience of nearly 1000. The
performance was distinguished by the
acting of its leading characters, who
triumphed over the generally uneven
singing of the other 45 supporting
players.
Under Mr. Alwyne’s direction the
acting was excellent in: spots, espé<|
cially sprightly in the second act. The :
brilliant costumes of the drooping
maidens in the finale proved to be a
welcome change and climax.
Best remembered twenty years from
now will probably be Terry Ferrer,
40, the Mikado’s Lord High Execu-
tioner, as Bunthorne. In his green
velvet suit and pancake hat, with
drooping lily and disjointed gait, the
implausible Bunthorne dominated all
his scenes. His singing and speaking
were so clear and distinct that he
could be heard even in the last rows
of the balcony. Bunthorne and Lady
Jane rated two, encores from the Sat-
urday evening audience, who wanted
more of their tripping and verbal
_. parries.
Camilla Riggs, ’40, as the ‘“‘massive”
Lady Jane, also sang clearly and pow-
erfully. Her characterization was
ridiculously farcical, her bass viol solo
was pathetic—but the look she gave
the orchestra member who forgot to
bow his instrument when she did was
in a class all by itself.
Although her voice was not strong,
Cornelia Kellogg, °39, was~a~ most
successful and beautiful Grosvenor.
Very picturesque in black, she added
smug faces and graceful gestures to
her skillful acting of a character,
which she describes mildly as “soupy.”
She made her transition into a check-
ered suit and short hair so profession-
ally, that at first we felt she was a
different person. re
Because Patience is simple and un-
affected, she could not have been
more appropriately portrayed than she
was by Anne. Kidder, ’41. With her
yellow hair in pigtails, she was a
naive, bewildered maiden with just
the right shade of awkwardness in
her feet. “My shoes and stockings
Continued on Page Five
Duncanites’ Withdrawal. —
Postpones Dance Forum
Modern Group Plans to Feature
Weidman mene usd 10
> \ ey. TS y ¥
Because of the last-minute with-
drawal of the Duncan dancers from
the Dancers Club Forum, the date has
been advanced to Tuesday, May 10.
The added rehearsal time will give the
Modern group a chance to lengthen
their program and add the technique
of. other modern schools, particularly
that of Charles Weidman.
The group is planning to conclude
- their program with Affirmation which
is the final movement of the dance,
Quest, written for the Weidman group.
This movement interprets the end of
a search for new technique and eman-
cipation from the older and ‘moré con-
fining forms of the dance.
This dance is difficult in its execu-
tion as two groups dance continually
in contrapuntal rhythm with the em-
phasis shifting from one group to the
other. It is an ambitious work for a
group as inexperienced as this, but
will give ample evidence of both Miss
Doris Humphrey’s ability as a teacher
and the persistent training of Ethel
Mann. It is possible that Mr. Charles
Weidman himself will attend some of
the rehearsals. L. J. a
Terry Ferrer, ’40, ‘and Anne Kidder, ’41
Qamilla Riggs, ’40
Gay Traces Growth
Of Modern Industry
Commerce Becomes Centralized
And Individualistic; Cyclical
Waves Begin
HOME TRADE MOST VITAL
Goodhart, May 2.—In his fifth lec-
ture, Dr. Edwin Gay discussed the
expansion of English commerce dur-
ing the sixteenth and seventeenth cen-
turies. He dealt particularly with
the changes in foreign and-domestic
trade.
The growth of foreign trade was
the most brilliant and spectacular of
the two. It was caused, first, by the
discoveries of new lands with fresh
stores of precious metals. Because
of the rise of prices throughout the
period, _England needed. gold and
silver. Consequently, many of the
great tr g companies of the time
were oryginally founded to search for
new territories with new sources of
supply.
The second reason forthe expan-
sion_of foreign commerce was the
lure of trade. There was a great de-
mand for tropical products; spices,
silks, rugs, 1 ee and drugs. It was
in an effort-to supplement supplies of
such luxuries that the English first
tried to obtain colonies in the new
world. When France and Spain had
occupied all the more suitable terri-
tories, attempts were even made to
raise silkworms in the northern tem-
perate regions and to grow figs as far
north as New Haven.
The displacement of Antwerp as the
dominating European market was the
third cause of the rise. of foreign
trade. Antwerp had been ruined by
the Spanish invasions and by the
crisis that followed the wild specula-
tion of 1565. This gave the English
merchants an opportunity to force
their way into the German trade that
had formerly been controlled by the
Hanseatic League. London, not Ant-
werp, became the financjal center of|-
the western world. The government,
no ‘longer able. to. fall back on, Eu-
ropean resources, had to build up this
new financial power inorder to meet
its own needs.
This influx of wealth was followed
by waves of speculation. The profits
Continued on Page Six
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, May 5—Dr. Donald
Adams of Duke University will
speak on The Nature of Explan- .
ation in Psychology. Music
Room, 4.30.
. Friday; May 6—P. , Poi-
son and Petrifaction{ and. Tri-
fles to be given by the Players’
Club. Goodhart, 8.30. ]
Sunday, May 8 —~Hamptc=-
- Quartet. Deanery, 5 p. m. Dr.
Donald’ Aldrich will speak in
Chapel. Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, May 9—Sixth Flex-
ner Lecture by Dr. Edwin Gay.
-Goodhart, 8.20. .. -
Tuesday, May 10—Interna-
tional Relations Club meeting.
- Common Room, 7.30. ~ Dance
Forum. ‘Gymuasicfm, 8.30.
Oe
Physics and Chemistry
~Majors Describe Work
Advanced Research is Reported at
Science Club Meeting
Common Room, May 2—At its last
formal meeting of the year, the Sci-
ence Club heard four of its own mem-
bers speak. Gene Irish, ’39, sharer of
the Charles S. Hinchman prize for
1938-39, explained the work she has
begun with monomolecular films for
her honors in physics. Elizabeth Web-
388, described her research in
organic chemistry. - Eleanor Benditt,
39, reported on the Intercollegiate
Students’ Chemist Convention, ahd
Helen Hamilton, ’39, gave demonstra-
tions of filtering in connection with
her construction of an amplifier.
Gene Irish is working with Mr. Wal-
ter C. Michels
films in order to test their electrical
conductivity. She described the meth-
ods in forming these films which have
been developed by Katherine Blodgett
at the General Electric laboratories.
The molecule of barium stearate is
large and complex. One end has an
affinity for water (hydrophilic) and
the other is hydrophobic.In the prep-
aration of films a drop of barium
stearate is floated on pure water in a
special trough, An enclosing string
serves as a badrier around the area
in which this Arop spreads. Outside
the string is a film of castor oil which
maintains a-pressure on the string so
that the coating of barium stearate
will be uniform.
This film is a single molecule thick
and they are arranged with their hy-
drophobic tails perpendicular-to~ the
water. The heads of the molecules, will
adhere to a glass slide raised sideways
through the film so that a layer comes
off on the slide. This delicate pro-
cedure can.be continued to build films
of any desired thickness.
Optical methods are used in study-
Gene Irish showed an
ster,
on monomolecular
ing these films.
example of, .°7: Feceede vena Benn Hes ne
structive interterence of figdt ‘in an{1
air film. As a beam of light was re-
fracted from a thin layer of air be-
tween. two blocks of glass, it showed
bands of dark and light which became
wider as, by pressing on the blocks,
the film was made thinner.
’ Elizabeth Webster has been working
on the preparation of azines. These
are organic compounds which are ex-
pensive to buy, and the hydrazine
which is necessary for their prepara-
tion decomposes freely. Under Mr.
Arthur C. Cope, the students are de-
Continued on Page’ four
Dean Schenck Honored
Salas “.Egnice Morgan’ Schenck, F
Dean of the Graduate School,
has been elected to the Council
of the American Association of
University Professors. She at-
tended meetings held over the
week-end of April’ 23, and was
also elected one of the seven
‘members of the executive com-
mittee. There are only two other -
“women on the council.
cd
College Skips to the Maypole Before .
Chapel Announcement of Scholarships
Gene Irish and Grace Dolowitz, ’39, Win Hinchman Award
For Promise in Major Field; Virginia Grace, Ph.D.,
Given Guggenheim Fellowship’
*
DAWN .WAKES SENIORS
TO RITES OF MAY DAY
“At 5.45 a. m., May 2, there was a
terrible awakening for the sophomore
class. Struggling from their beds into
a literal “gray dawn,’ they irritably
grabbed May baskets and stomped: up
and down singing mournfully. The
ditty began Headaches, headaches, and
the gloom was intensified by the nox-
ious tune, Heigho.
They were ostensibly cheered, how-
ever, by the suffering of the seniors
whom they stirred slowly and pain-
fully one by one. While the seniors
dressed, the conscientious sophomores
made coffee. That is one or two did,
others played rummy and slept. The
two French House sophomores - had
an especially trying time singing a
duet to the four resident seniors.
Fortified with tepid coffee and
equally tepid doughnuts, the Class of
1938 hastened off to Rockefeller Tow-
er to sing. From below only a frantic
black arm keeping time was visible
in the rising sun. When they descend-
ed, diminutive Mary Sands, president
of the Senior class received her regal
wreath and an embrace from Louise
Sharp, sophomore president.
Fortified once more, the seniors, led
by the village band and Julia Grant,
president of Undergraduate “Associa-
tion, skipped up from Rockefeller to
Merion Green where the other classes
joined them. Although Julia Grant’s
position ‘naturally emphasized her
May skip, it was in itself interesting
and unique.
The Maypole dancers from each
class took up their ribbons at their re-
spective poles and began to act, as a
member of the Science faculty neatly
put it, like composite electrons. All
It not only defied the laws of physics,
but got into the most awful tangle
possible in a given length of time.
Miss Park next presented a_neck-
lace of Florentine silver to Mary
Sands, which, she said, was an ex-
pression of emotional esteem. After
thanking Miss Park with a “fine
Florentine fourteenth century frenzy”
the 19388 president made what she
termed a “nightmare speech.” Chanted
in part and sung to tunes vaguely
reminiscent of Patience, it was an as-
tute comment-on the ways and mean:
ing of May Day:
“To the Maypole let us on
Straight to Miss Park’s here we go
To leave a basket at her front do’,”
Prophecy, as*is common in dreams,
played an important. part:
“89 lovesick maidens we,
Rolling" Hoops-down Senior Hill,
20 years hence will we be
89 lovesick maidens still.”
After the ceremony. on the Green,
was held in Goodhart. The hoop
rolling race which followed was won
by Blanea Noel, ’38. .
INTERIOR DECORATING
BEGINS IN NEW HALLS
EE
According to the latest bulletins
on building progress, the new science
building is now complete with roof,
floors, walls and doors. Painters were
scheduled to begin work on the inter-
ior the first of this week. The install-
ment of scientific equipment, which is
being done by a separate contracting
company, will begin soon.after the in-
terior is completed.
Both wihgs of Rhoads hall will be
entirely finished by the beginning of
next year. Prospective inmates need
not fear that they will be harassed by
finiahing touches with hammer and
drill.in southerly portions. With the
roof of the building already more than
plaster the walls in about two weeks.
Next, the floors will be laid. The large
amount of difficult stone-carving work
required on the arch is now the main
factor delaying progress.
went well except the graduate pole-/
‘| elected. Helen Cobb,
half completed, workers will begin to}.
ELIZABETH DODGE, ’41,
WINS ENGLISH PRIZE
Goodhart Hall, May 2—In May Day
Chapel President’ Park announced the
awards of graduate and undergradu-
ate scholarships and prizes for 1938-
39. In .explaining the faith shown by
the Gellege,:nat only in these special
scholars, but in every student, Miss
Park asserted that “the trained mind
is’ the: cutting edge of civilization.”
Endowment. pays "half the actual
cost of. undergraduate and five sev-
enths of graduate tuition. For return
on the investment the only expecta-
tion is the contribution each student
may make in the furtherance of civil-
ization. A .confidence that educated
minds are desirable has prompted the
following awards.
Gene Irish, ’389, and Grace Seles
witz, ’39, were awarded the Charles
S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship
for greatest ability in the major sub-
jects. The papers submitted to the fac-
ulty committee by both students were,
said Miss’Park, exceptionally mature
in their treatment and_ technically
suitable for publication..As the mem-
ber of the junior class with the high-
est average, Grace Dolowitz also re-
ceived the Maria L. Eastman Brooke
Hall Memorial Scholarship.
Among the graduate appointments,
Miss Park announced that a Guggen-
heim Fellowship. had been awarded
to Virginia Grace, who graduated
from Bryn Mawr in 1922 and received
her Ph. D. here in 1934. Frances
Blank, graduate’ scholar in Latin
at Bryn Mawr during the past year,
received the highly competitive schol-
arship for two years study at the
American Academy in Rome.
A Law School Research Grant at
Harvard University for next year has
been. awarded to Bertha Haven Put-
nam, Bryn Mawr, ’93. This is the first
time such a grant has ever been given
to a woman.
Miss Park alsg announced five new-
ly established awards. The Edwin
Gould Foundation has endowed three
scholarships to continue for the four
years: of undergraduate study. Mem-
bers of the Class of 1935 have given
the Cary Page Memorial Scholarship,
while’ a prize for excellence in Eco-
nomics was donated in memory of
Margaret Jeanne von Rehling Quist-
gaard by the class of 1937.
Continued on Page Four
Helen S. Cobb is New :
Peace Council Head
Members to Solicit Funds for World
Youth Congress
Pembroke West; April 28—At the
last meeting of the» Peace Council for
this year, the officers for ’38-’389 were
40, will be the
new president and Lucile Sauder, ’39,
the secretary-treasurer. Following the
election, Louise Morley, ’40, retiring
president, . presented the remaining
business of the year.
Boxes for the collection of funds for
the Philadelphia Peace Chest will be
placed in every hall. The drive is be-
ing sponsored by the Womens’ Inter-
national League for Peace and Free-
dom. Individual members of the Coun-
cil will solicit both signatures and
contributions to help finance. the
World Youth Congress to be held at
Vassar in August. The signatures will
be placed in a-general book-of wel-
come to the delegates from 48 coun-
tries. Sums as low as.ten cents will be
gladly received.
‘The report on the Philadelphia
Peace Council was read, but’it was de-
cided to delay the question of affilia-.
tion until next year. Mary Hager, ’41,
and Agnes Chen, graduate, announced.
that they had collected 60 dollars for
Chinese relief from their sales in the
halls. 2
. Page Two
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ELIZABETH POPE, ’40
LUCILLE SAUDER, 39
Sports Correspondents
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an!
Let There be Light
A eollege as-small as. Bryn Mawr will never have large audiences. |
In addition to a full program of studies most students have at least one
extra-curricular activity which fills up their spare moments, leaving
them no opportunity to watch others shine. However, itsis our belief
(and we hope that we do not sound too much like Pollyanna), that the
value of these activities lies in doing them and not in seeing them done.
For this reason we stand firm in the idea that the Lantern should
not die, and next year unless it receives wider support, it stands in grave
danger of becoming, like public-hoop presentation, a dead tradition.
The work of the small group of dependable contributors has become
dulled by repetition. Their writing lacks spirit and originality—an
inevitable result of indifference. They cannot continue to supply
worthwhile material without stimulus and without competition.
The fact that we have an. organ for literary publication means a
great deal. It means that if we write, we have a place to submit our
efforts and to learn by mutual comparison and outside criticism. To
every person who has any creative or critical ability, and there must
be many on campus, it should be a spur to more ii ae and more
mature writing.
The Lantern is having an admittedly low period. The quantity
and quality of Bryn Mawr literary production is sunk in a little regres-
sion all its own. But abolishing the organ which sponsors such produc-
tion would be as conducive of improvement as Ss bombing Wall Street to
create a stock rise. sig ay
Energy and organization, a wider point of view and-a -moderately
interested student body are needed. If every college in village and
hamlet can sponsor a lively, if not literary, publication, what is the
matter with our highly cultivated intelligentsia? A severe attack of
inertia, nothing more.
Oh, Come All Ye Faithful
On Friday night, the Players’ Club is giving two. one-act. plays,
Passion, Poison and Petrifaction and Trifles, for the benefit of the
Theatre Workshop, producing them with the utmost simplicity to cur-
tail expenses. They were chosen last year after painstaking thought,
but due to various vicissitudes, have been in embryonic form until now.
’ It is generally admitted that the Players’ Club is most successful in its
informal, almost impromptu undertakings, where there is a spirit of
camaraderie between audience and actors. Prominent in this hereditary
line are The Faculty Rehearses for Cymbeline, and this year’s Hamlet,
“which was produced by a series of spontaneous combustions. Passion,
Poison and Petrifaction and Trifles are in the same tradition, even
though they were not written, so to speak, within the gates.
There seems to be a feeling that because of the absence of scenery
in the two plays, there should be a corresponding reduction in prices.
We deny the fact that scenery has anything to do with priées. Artistic-
ally, the Players’ Club has a precedent in drama from its very begin-
nings, and audiences in the past have always been able to create mental
backgrounds and to enjoy this imaginative stimulus. Practically, there
is an even better reason. The Players’ Club is giving a benefit per-
formance, and hopes that people who are interested in the Theater
Workshop will consider this a pleasant opportunity to contribute to it.
The fact is that we are very blatantly trying to drum up trade. The
casual glance at a poster, the ina¢tive expression of approval, is not)
enough, This kind of simple amateur activity is our white hope; it
should be the most flourishing plant in our somewhat barren dramatic
‘ soil. But like any plant, it thrives on encouragement, and wilts very
quickly without proper care. ©
fs os an
bert, Gary Cooper i. E. |}
Horton, Coming FridaysT Was a Cap-
tive of Nazi Germany, a documentary
film of Isobel Lillian Steele’s exper-
iences.
"In Philadelphia |
Movies
Aldine: Beloved Brat, with Bonita
Granville as the poor little rich girl,
who gets others into trouble. With
‘ Dolores. d Crisp and
__ Natalie Moor! Coming: Return of
pe
Arcadia: ‘Bluebeard’s Eighth ‘Wife,
t ee ae ee
Boyd: Four Men and a Prayer, four.
brothers set out to avenge the honor)
of their soldier father, C. Aubrey
Smith. Engaging British Richard
|Greene makes his. Anierican début in)
this, with. Loretta. Young. Coming:
There’s Always a Woman, mystery ay
LWIT?s END
DON JUAN
(Canto XVII continued)
Well, to get back to things academic,
' More liberally artistic, so to speak,
For Dr. Grate may teach you how to|_
mimic
The voice of President Riiwevelt or
A the squeak 2 piesa:
Of Mickey Mouse,—but still it’s mat-
ters Chemic,
Physical, Biological and Greek
That count, things that go on in Labs
and Libs.
Talking for credit’s worse than Kath-
erine Gibbs.
That’s what Don Juan thought, and so
one: matin
After ascending two long flights,
no less,
Summoning all his courage up, he sat
in
A room whose door was simply la-
beled S.
He didn’t know that this was first
year Latin,
And he was dreadfully startled, I
confess, |
When a strange voice said coolly, “Mr.
John,
Horace is old to you, will you go on?”
“Dulce et decorumst pro patria mori.”
John would have given a dollar or
a dime *
For a short lesson with Professor
Shorey. °
(Procrastination is the thief of
time.)
When he was young it was the same
old story—
He hated Latin prose and Latin
rhyme.
“Dulce means sweet, caveats means,
—oh, bother!
Decorous it is to tarry for one’s
father.” -
The expression on the face of Miss
/ Lagoon
Was a mélange of humor, horror,
pain.
“T think you spoke a little bit .too
soon,”
She murmured faintly.
try again?”
Juan pulled out a dusty Lorna Doone*
From his vest pocket, broke it into
twain.
“Have--some,” ‘he said,
I simply worship.
Anyone with the middle name of
Kirshop.”
“Will you
“You know,
“Kirsop,” said Miss Lagoon, “the usu-
al spelling
Omits the ‘h’. In my opinion, you
Had better trot along to where your
dwelling
We’re translating, aren’t we,
Epode two?
Before you, start,
mind telling
Everyone here, this line has meant
the su-
Icide of countless men who had the
effrontery
To think it sweet to perish for their
country.”
(to be continued)
*A biscuit, nota book.
Is.
Jones, I don’t
and Joan Blondell.
Earle: Nurse from ‘Brooklyn, dull
murders occur, with;Sally Eilers and
Paul Kelly. Coming Friday: The Ad-
ventures of Marco Polo, Hollywood
embellishes the original story wit
Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone and Sig-
rid Gurie.-
Europa: Storm in a Teacup, com-
plications arise ‘about a dog’s license
in a charming British comedy featur-
ing Sara Allgood, Cecil Parker and
| Vivien Leigh. Coming: Kathleen, an
rish film.
Fox: Her Jungle Love, “the sarong
star” on another tropical island. Dor-
othy Lamour and Ray Milland.
Coming: Dr. Rhythm, Bea Lillie’s
first American film, Also Bing Cros-
by, Andy: ‘Devirie and Mary Carlisle.
Karlton: Monastery, showing the
lives of the St. Bernard monks and)
the French Trappists. ¢
-. Theater
Chestnut: Last week of Pins and
Needles, the effective political satire’
of the United Ladies’ Garments Work-
ers’ Union amateurs.
Erlanger: Another return engage-
ment. of Tobacco Road. begins next
Monday with John Barton as. Jeeter
4
e 7h Man, — — _—
i
|four star mystery with
|}las and Virginia Bruce.
ag NOTICE
LOST—A gold watch on the
' stage or.dressing room of
Goodhart Saturday night. If
picked up by mistake or found
please communicate with Mary
Alston, Merion, or MHuldah
Cheek, Rock.
PUBLIC OPINION
To the Editor of the College News:
Are Bryn Mawr College students
and faculty aware that a concert was
given by one of Europe’s leading mus-
icians? And, lastly, are they aware
that the behavior of the audience was
the finest exhibition this writer has
witnessed of how not to behave at a
concert? It is extremely doubtful that
they would know this, for there were
only about four (4) students and. lit-
tle more faculty present at the concert
given by Nadia Boulanger and three
singers. Perhaps this is an example
of the blasé attitude Bryn Mawr stu-
dents sometimes assume; or perhaps
it is just indifference to the music of
Schiitz, too rarely heard, (and which
Swarthmore College is now record-
ing), of Bach, or of Frangais, (who
is being acclaimed in London, Paris
and Rome; as one of the most ‘:promis-
ing contemporary composers). There
was, however, nothing indifferent
about the audience; they knitted, car-
ried on quite intelligible conversations,
arrived late, left early, and found the
room most pleasant to wander around
in. Then, not to be forgotten, were the
two old ladies, much too old to have
ventured out on such an early spring
day, spring days are for tea drinkers
who never take cream but become real-
ly hilarious over one lump of sugar.
Look out-of your windows, (gradu-
ates included,) and if you look long
and hard enough, you may see the
Baldwin school, where the same con-
cert was performed two nights before;
there, the girls are young, and they
have good taste. Look out of your
-| windows, (graduates included).
BARBARA SAUL,
Rose Valley, Pa.
acting version with Ruth Gordon as
Nora and Sam Jaffe as Krogstad in
the Jed Harris production. Coming
May 16: The Star Wagon, Maxwell
Anderson’s. latest, with Lillian Gish
and Burgess Meredith.
Locust: Third week of You Can’t
Take It With You, Pulitzer Prize
farce about the crazy Sycamore fam-
il
"Walnut: The Brothers Ashkenazi,
industrialism in Poland, presented by
Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish
Art Theatre, in its final week in Phil-
adelphia.
Suburban Movies
Ardmore: Jeannette MacDonald
and Nelson Eddy in The Girl of the
Golden West. With Walter Pidgeon
and Leo Carillo, Sunday: Dangerous
to Know, Edgar Wallace thriller, with
‘Gail Patrick, Akim Tamiroff, Anna
May Wong and Lloyd Nolan. Monday
and Tuesday: Divorce of Lady X; mis-
taken identity in technicolor. An Eng-
lish hit with Metle Oberon, Laurence
Olivier and.Binnie Barnes. Wednesday
and Thursday: The First 100 Years,
wife-with-a-job comedy, starring Rob-
ert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce.
Seville: No Time to Marry, grade
B comedy, with Richard Arlen and
Mary Astor. Thursday to Saturday:
The Goldwyy Follies, a swper-collossal
technicolor picture that J$ not too bad.
With Charlie McCarthy> ‘Helen Jep-
son, Adolphe. Menjou, Andrea Leeds
and Zorina. Sunday and Monday: Sal-
ly, Irene and Mary, indifferent musi-
cal comedy,. with Fred Allen, Alice
Faye, Tony Martin, etc. Tuesday and
Wednesday: The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, “Mark Twain’s beloved clas-
sic now in glorious technicolor,” no
longer beloved, with Tommy Kelly and
May Robson.
Suburban: Rebecca of peter oe
Farm, with Shirley Temple, Jack
Haley and Bill Robinson. If you cher-
ish memories of the book, do not go.
Wayne:-Arséne Lupin Returns, a
n Doug-
Beginning
Thursday: Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm, becomes Rebecca of the air
waves, with Shirley Temple, Bill Rob-
inson and Jack Haley. Sunday to
Tuesday: The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, Hollywood. does unpleasant
things to the ‘Mississippi story. Wed-
nesday: will Rogers in County one i
man.
"Forrest: A Doll’s House, in a new|n
Williams, Taft, Attend
* Five-College Assembly
Wellesley Group Questions Value
Of N. S. F. A. Membership
(Especially contributed by Suzanne
Williams, ’38.)
Northhampton, Mass., April 23 —
The contribution of the National Stu- -
dents Federation of America to the
eastern women’s colleges was the chief
topic of discussion at the annual Five-
College Conference, held this year at.
Smith. Suzanne Williams, ’38, retir-
ing president of the Self-Government
Association, and #leanor Taft, ’39,
president of the Undergraduate As-
sociation, attended the conference, to
which Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and
Mount Holyoke also sent delegates.
The N. S. F.: A. prdblem was
brought up at the 1937 Conference by
Wellesley, who had dropped member-
ship in the organization, feeling it to
be of no value. After some discussion,’
the other four colleges. voted to ob-
serve the N. S. F. A. activities for a
year and to come to a decision about
membership at the 1938 Conference.
At the recent meeting all felt that,
although the .N. S. F. A. had offered
little directly to them, the importance
of membership lay in advising less
well organized colleges on problems
of student government. It was decided,
therefore, to retain membership and
to take a more effective part in N. S.
F.. A. activities, pethaps through a
system of sister colleges in order to
have direct communication between
the five colleges and smaller, less
established ones. It was decided fur-
ther t all political action at N. S.
F. A. conferences should be relegated
to a sub-committee in the belief, that
student government organizations
should limit themselves to the dis-
cussion of problems within their own
jurisdiction and not enter’ actively in-
to politics.
Wellesley brought up the problem
of an inefficient point system and an
overcrowded social schedule. These
have resulted in faculty complaints
and a falling-off of academic work.
It was suggested that the point sys- -
tems of the other colleges bevreferred
to and that a central bureau be or-
ganized through which all social
events should be arranged. Wellesley
also requested information about sys-
tems of election of hall-presidents and
of registration for absence from col-
lege.
Vassar brought up the question of
mid-year examination systems in con-
nection with a new plan which has
gone into effect there this year. The
plan does away with mid-year exams
in one year courses in an attempt to
integrate the year’s work more thor-
oughly. As the system stands now,
however, professors desiring to give
mid-years can do so, although no
exam period is provided. The under-
graduates feel that this is unfair and
that either the exams should be com-
pletely abolished or sqme provision be
made for the few given. The system
of reading periods was also discussed,
especially the new plan at Smith
which provides for a reading period in
the middle of each semester.
Wellesley asked the other colleges
about the use of petitions to the fac-
ulty. Smith feels that their faculty is
antagonistic to petitions, but all the
colleges agreed that petitions sent
through: the student council rather
than directly from students to faculty
were more effective. By this means
many unimportant matters are elimin-
ated.
The problem of the A. S. U. varied
in importance on different, campuses.
For colleges such as Vassar where it
is particularly active, it was suggested
that the student. government associa-
tions cooperate with it as far as pos- -
sible in an effort to eliminate its
working at cross purposes with other
campus organizations.
Vassar explained its newly-organ-
ized Student Welfare Committee
which has had amazing success in pro-
moting cooperation between the medi-
cal staff andthe... _Faiietes.. It
‘is made up of 12 people, mostly pre-
medical students, a chairman, appoint- |
ed by the head of the Student.Council,-
and a college physician as adviser. Its
activities include taking .suggestions ,
and criticisms from the students to
the medical staff and vice-versa, cam-
paigning against noise, working for
better lighting and consulting with
the Curriculum Committee about the
es of academic work.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Estelle Dennis Gives_
~ Varied Dance Recital
Modern Techniques, Classical
Modes Combined to Form
New Art Style.
At the Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Estelle Dennis and her group pre-
sented a dance recital on April 27.
Miss Dennis calls herself a modern
dramatic dancer. She tries to incor-
porate in her technique the strength
and vitality of the «contemporary
dance without sacrificing the lyrical
quality or classical and ballet training.
It is an effort to blend the charac-
teristics of the conservative classicist
with the radical modernist. Unfortu-
nately, the aim is not achieved. The
modern danice suffers from the in-
fusion of the classic; the classic is
weak, and the onlooker sighs with
relief when Miss Dennis relaxes into
a semi-comic number where her own
excellent ability is unhampered by
compromise.
Miss Dennis moves gracefully and
clearly, bringing out delicate shades of
meaning ‘in her performance. How-
ever, she seems to lack strength, and is
at her best in “frothy” compositions.
Perpetual Motion is an example. It
concerns a dancer who, attempting to
find herself, sees the comic side of art-
Modern, Ballet, Interpretive. Finally,
while depicting an old man with the
‘gout trying the minuet, she gets a
kink herself.
A set of Mexican dances proved to
be the least interesting of the pro-
gram. Here, Miss Dennis portrayed
a peasant,.a rich woman, an old mar-
ket woman, and an American girl
doing the Sandungo for the first time.
The last, called a satire, was danger-
ously near an imitation of her own
troupe, who, unfortunately, do not
have their teacher’s terpsichorean
ability.
The last number on the varied pro-
gram was Classical Symphony in four
movements. Each movement. illus-
trated a different form of~the dance,
ca
BENEFIT FOR THEATRE
WORKSHOP ARRANGED
To add to the 5000 dollars already
collected for the construction of the
Workshop, friends of Mrs. Skinner on
and off the stage have collaborated to
give a benefit entertainment. The per-
formance will be at the Ambassador
Theatre, New York City, Thursday
evening, May 8. Orchestra seats cost
five dollars, the first five balcony
rows three dollars and 50 cents, and
the other balcony seats one dollar and
50 cents.
Mrs. Frances Rogers will open -the
program with a reading of Charles
Hanson Towne’s poem T'o the Memory
of Mrs. Otis Skinner. The program
will also include Sara Allgood and
Dudley Digges in The Whiteheaded
Boy, by..Lennox. Robinson;. Gertrude
Lawrence, Edith Atwater, Fred Les-
lie, and Paul McGrath in Inaudibility,
from the Original Charlot Review, and
the drugstore scene from Our*Town,
with Frank Craven, Martha Scott and
John Craven. Norman Cordon will
sing, and following an intermission,
Cornelia Otis Skinner will give The
Empress, Eugénie.
Ballet, Interpretive, Modern, and the
dance of the future.
Although this sort of composition is
becoming. the stock-in-trade of every
modern dancer, it has a certain value.
A ‘danced comparison of three forms
of art can be a more eloquent plea for
the futuré forms of dancing than a
hundred/lectures or books.
The weakest point in Miss Dennis’
school of dancing is the lack of fusion
among the various dance forms she
professes to incorporate. One can
pick out a Weidman leap here, a Wig-
man movement there, the neck move-
ment of Shan-Kar and the arm-flow
of the Duncanites. As a result the
group lacks vitality and freshness.
Miss Dennis also designed the cos-
tumes with the exception of the Mexi-
can ones. Contrasting colors were
used, but often the costumes in stress-
ing dramatic presentation, hampered
the best interests of movement.
SEES
—<$_—
a
Science Club Picnic
Members of the Science Club
who wish to go on the pienic
planned for Thursday, May 12,
should sign on the lists posted
in the halls or in Dalton before
Monday, May 9.
Swan Led Expedition
To Record Folk Songs
Russian Music European
Korenko Sings Lyrics
Says
The Deanery, May 1—Professor Al-
fred J. Swan, director of music at
Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges,
lectured on Russian folk music in the
Baltic countries. Mme. Maria Kerenko,
a lyric soprano, accompanied him, and
recordings of Russian peasant song's
illustrated the lecture.
In 1936 Professor Swan, an author-
ity on this type of peasant music, led
an expedition to Pscov, an outpost of
Russian culture, in order to record
Russian melodies, previously unwrit-
ten and unheard of outside the vicin-
ity. Pscov, a far village on the Gulf of
Finland, is the site of a monastery
known for its sixteenth century music
manuscripts. Among these are treat-
ises important because they “furnish
clues to the transcription of medieval
songs. c
Contrary to general opinion, de-
clared Professor Swan, Russian folk
songs are like other European peasant
songs, proving that Russian tradition
is European, not Asiatic. These melo-
dies are based on a natural scale, with
harmonizing variants on the same
theme. The natural scale, progressive
fifths and a strange rhythm give the
songs a fantastic sound, unique to the
Russian peoples. To illustrate these
peculiar features of Russian peasant
music, Professor Swan played parts of
a peasant marriage ceremony, never
before recorded. Mme. Korenko’s sing-
ing illustrated typical Russian themes,
accompanied on the piano by Professor
Swan.
GAY CIRCUS’ POSTERS
LEND COLOR TO DANCE
Gymnasium, April 30.—The hordes
attending the dance after Patience
were pleasantly surprised to find the
Gymn looking less like itself than
usual. “As they came on the floor they
were confronted on all sides by post-
ers advertising “The Greatest Show
on Earth.”
with a strong resemblance to King-
A man-eating -gorilla
Kong glared with gnashing teeth from
the north wall, while opposite the
Ringling Bros.’ herd of pigmy ele-
phants was depicted in all its glory.
Scores of smaller animals cut out of
beaverboard gambolled upon the wall-
bars until they were seized as sou-
venirs.
The posters, it appeared, were quite
genuine and had been secured gratis
from an advertising agency by a mem-
ber of the committee, as the result of
a slight adventure. She found the
agency wide open on Saturday after-
noon, but nobody home. After wait-
ing for a while she calmly rummaged
the desk until she found the name
and telephone number of the owner.
That gentleman was rudely surprised
to hear that someone was at that
moment sitting in his office, and his
first reaction was, “But the money’s all
in the safe!” Assured that his client
was an honest Bryn Mawr girl, he
promised to rush over immediately,
and upon his arrival was only too
glad to grant her every wish.
This little ‘episode produced most
of the decorations which gave the
dance a true circus atmosphere. The
theme was carried out. in the refresh-
ments, which included ice cream cones,
peanuts, and punch which was as near
as possible to pink lemonade without
being undrinkable.
Mrs, Chadwick-Collins received with
Emily Tuckerman, chairman of the
Dance Committee, and Eleanor Taft,
head of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion. Graham and Eichorn’s Seren-
aders supplied the music. |
Fencers Competing for
College Championship
Miniature Gold Foils
+ Swords to be Awarded
Monsieur Marcel Pasche, fencing
instructor at Bryn Mawr, is sponsor-
ing a tournament for his classes. It is
to be a round robin consisting of 150
bouts, and twenty bouts will be played
off each session, There are eighteen
contestants who are competing for the
title of fencing champion of Bryn
Mawr and for the prizes that M.
Pasche is offering.
In order to give the girls who have
never fenced before a fair chance,
there will be a first and second prize
for both the Junior and Senior fenc-
ers. The competition ends on May 15.
Monsieur Pasche stated that the
fencing is progressing well and that
he hopes for larger classes, longer
hours, and more sessions next year.
The fencers plan to have at least
five meets next season,’ since there has
been a great deal of interest shown
in this sport.
Insignia were given to the fencing
team for the first time this year. Al-
though the team lost to Swarthmore,
5-4, Dana, 89, and D. Smith, 740,
placed in’ the Amateur Fencer’s
League of America meet which was
held here at Bryn Mawr. Dorothea
Smith, ’40, is manager of the Bryn
Mawr fencers.
ALLEN, CONVERSE TO DANCE
On May 12, Bonnie Allen, ’38, and
Betty Converse, 732, will dance at a
dinner given for 1500 members by the
Garden Club of America. They were
chosen by Mrs. J. Stogdell Stokes, a
member of the Garden Party Com-
mittee.
when she discovered Miss Allen and
Miss Converse in Miss Pett’s advanced
class. Miss Converse graduated from
Bryn Mawr in ’32 and is now an as-
sistant to Miss Petts. They will do a
number of original dances on steps
and landing's.
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~ MEL KOONTZ—FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL TAMER—WRESTLES A FULL-GROWN LION!
shows himself complete master of
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CAMELS
FOR OUR OWN
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often’ wondered
if Camels aré
different . from
other kinds?”
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of tobacco used
for making vari-
ous cigarettes,’’
says Mr. Beckham
Wright, who has
spent 19 years
growing tobacco,
knows it from the ground up.’
“Camel got my choice grades last
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to PENN PHILLIPS
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are a lot of angles to consider in smoking.
Camel is the cigarette I know really agrees with
me.on all counts. My hat’s off to’em for real,
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Improved Composition ~
Seen in Camera Show
Bowles, °40, Tekes: Fist Award: fort:
Unusiial Night Scene
The Nucleus Camera Cfab has again
proved to the college that it makes an
important contribution to the artistic
side of extra-curricular activities. The
Second Annual Exhibit being held in
the Common Room this week, shows
progress in technical and artistic abil-
ity since last year.
The exhibit i¢ divided into two sec-
tions, one for undergraduates and one
for faculty, alumnae, and others con-
nected with the. college. The club
awarded ribbons in each division, and
a grand prize of a roll of colored film,
which was won by Fairchild Bowler,
40, with her photograph, Night. This
picture shows a: remarkable feeling
for composition and lighting effects,
as well as a technical skill. which
enabled the photographer to catch the
dreary mood of a rainy night without
sacrificing clarity of detail.
A blue ribbon went to Thomas Coop-
er Tatman, of Haverford College, for
his spirited snap of a group of young
people in a German railway carriege.
Here again excellent composition in
light and shade makes an everyday
scene the subject of an extremply in-
teresting’ picture.
Carolyn Shine, ’89, took a second
and third award for two pictures tak-
en in Mexico. The most unusual is
photographed from above and shows a
band of donkeys‘ crossing an open
square on the way to market.
Of the undergraduate photograph-
ers, Doris Turner, ’389, proves herself
the most versatile. Her pictures in-
clude several landscapes, action pic-
tures of Patience and an interesting
study entitled Girders. Although the
subject, riveters working on steel gir-
ders outlined against the sky, is hack-
neyed and slightly reminiscent of ad-
vertisements in.Fortune, her treat-
ment is fresh, and by bringing out
the diagonal lines makes a satisfying
composition.
In the faculty section, Miss Caro-
line Robbins’ Palmetto Bark is inter-
esting because it shows the texture of
the bark se®beautifully, and uses the
diamond pattern of the overlapping
slabs to advantage. The same fine
texture is seen in another of Miss
Robbins’ entries called Rain. Over
Northumberland, where the details of
waying grass in the foreground set
‘off the héavy clouds above.
Mr. Stephen J. Herben’s Deep South
might have been taken from You Have
Seen Their Faces, by Erskine Cald-
' well and Margaret Bourke-White, it
is so convincing in the utter misery, it
depicts. Mr. Herben always expresses
a definite idea in his photographs. In
' Pennsylvania the Beautiful he” be-
comes effectively ironic.
An unusual exhilft of color photo-
graphs mounted as slides and viewed
in a special frame with light behind
won special mention for Martha Kent,
41. Although of miniature camera
size the pictures showed brilliant col-
or, fine detail and beautiful: cloud
effects.
‘It is unfortunate that the Camera,
Club does not try more portrait work.
With the exception of small snapshots
of actors in Patience, only one picture,
of Sarah Meigs as Hamlet, was of this
type.
. The Art,.Club, also has, its work on
exhibit in the Common Room this
week.. Helen Cobb, ’40, has contributed
an interesting water-color, in which
she handles this difficult medium with
sureness and an eye for color. Most of
\the other~works~are~life-stud 2: ‘one
in charcoal with varying degrees of
skill. Among these Jane Harper’s
drawings, though rough, show a prom-
ising talent.
The Art Club drawings and wat
- colors will be sold for the benefit of |
the Theater Workshop.
EXCERPTS from EXILE
Nous Avons Fait un Beau Voyage
Yesterday our arrival at the Gare
de Lyon was like coming out of the
blinding sun into a Victoxzian back
hallway. Polliwog-like,. the P. L. M.
(Paris, Lyon, Méditerrannée) had left
a tail of tiled roofs, out-door stair-
ways, grilled windows, pines and cy-
presses, far behind; skies and color
had turned into drizzling airlessness,
south had metamorphosed into north;
the vacation was over.
Two weeks before the process was
reversed. After 10 hours in the train,
a bristling purple island in the dis-
tance suddenly came into focus. We
had arrived at Avignon: the Palais
des Papes, a glistening piece of ivory
soap in the daytime, a thédtre roman-
tique ‘décor in the moonlight; the
place, a musical comedy setting
flanked with cafés, animated by the
continual va et vient of beautiful Mo-
rocean soldiers in bright blues and
reds, overwhelming numbers of girls
fitted out in their Sunday best, nuns,
priests and tourists; the houses\ bar-
nacle-roofed little shells left in hollow
slopes. The country is dry, twisted
Van Gogh saw it. The trees are wrung
out like laundry, the fields are burned
grey, but the cypresses are deep green,
the poppies like flames of color, and
the olive trees, a constant shifting of
green and silver. And. the skies! I
used up the best blue in my paint-box
the second day out.
Aix-en-Provence, only an hour and
a half away in the bus, is a different
country: a circumference of purple
mountains, a juxtaposition, of differ-
ent greens, and red earth. Van Gogh
gives way to Cézanne. The town itself
has the deceptive appearance of a
musty relic of the eighteenth century:
court-yards, . grilled’: windows, “en-
trahices” rathér than doors, balconies,
statuary, souvenirs of Mme. de Sé-
vigné, and a fountain always within
hearing if not in sight. But the pre-
sence of a fairly large university fills
the streets and cafés with students, a
near-by caserne provides soldiers, and
every afternoon at four o’clock the
thermal establishment expells volleys
of its obese and aging clientéle, who
ride up and down the main arteries of
the town in shining fiacres, getting up
an appetite before dining at the Ca-
sino; Here they nightly undo all: the
good of the day’s baths. Meanwhile
“the natives of the town, gay, friendly,
liberal in their compliments and bless-
ed with an extraordinary capacity for
doing nothing at all, play boules in the
streets, converse in the cafés and
sometimes just stand in their door-
ways watching the world wag. ~
It is a contagious point of view. For
ten days{we lay in the sun, ate and
painted. Fhe colors give you such a
punch -in the eye that painting is
hardly mare than a reflex action. The
shadow and light are so distinct that
pine trees become patches of black
and emerald, shot through with par-
allel bars of light; the sky through
their branches is like Chartres glass,
all’the bluer for the heavy black pe-
tween the panes, and the mountains,
dominated by St. Victoire, form a con-
stant back-ground of cream and violet.
saw the world better than when he
was shut up in the ark. This is my
foremost consolation. Shivering in an
unheated apartment, glittering visions
of the south rise before me, probably
shortlived. When the Paris sun decides
to stop sulking in his tent, when the
outdoor cafés are repopulated, when it
becomes warm enough to wear my new
suit, memories and regrets will evap-
orate unmourned.
MARGARET McG, OTIs.
E. Foster Hammond
Incorporated
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829 Lancaster Ave.
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Miss Park Announces
Scholarships, Prizes
Continued from Page One
; PRIZES
Charles’ S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship—Grace Dolowitz, ’39, and
Gene Irish, ’39, for greatest ability in
the major subject.
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship—Grace — Dolo-
witz,.’39, for the member of the junior
class with the highest average.
Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in
Foreign Languages—Emily Doak, ’39,
for excellence in a foreign language.
Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholar-
ship—Mary Meigs, ’39, for the best
work in Advanced English,
Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Scholar-
ship—Doris Ray, ’39, for excellence in
American History.
Elizabeth S: Shippen Scholarship in
Science—Catherine Eide, ’39, for ex-
cellence iggscience.
Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholar-
ship—Elizabeth Dodge, ’41, for the
best written work in Required Eng-
lish Composition. Honorable Mention
to Mary Alston and to, Martha, Kent.
Jeanne Quistgaard Economics Mem-
orial Prize—Alice John, ’38.
Undergraduate Scholarships
Mary Anna Longstreth Memorial Scholar-
ship and First Alice Ferree Hayt Memorial
Award—Emily Doak, ’38.
Elizabeth Wilson White Memorial Scholar-
ship—Dorothy Peck, ’38.
Thomas H. Powers Memorial Scholarship—
Dorothy Heyl, ’38,
_Lila M. Wright Memorial
Elizabeth Gehman, ’38.
Anna M. Powers Memorial
Margaret Harvey, ’38.
Amelia Richards
Bourne, '38.
James E. Rhoads Memorial Junior Scholar-
ship and the Second Alice Ferree Hayt Mem-
orial Award—Anne Axon, ’40,
Scholarship—
Scholarship—
Scholarship — Frances
Second Amelia Richards Scholarship—
Louise Morley, ’40.
Anna Hallowell Memorial Scholarship—
Jane. Klein, 740.
‘ Evelyn Hunt Scholarship—Helen Link, 740.
Abby ‘Slade Brayton Durfee Scholarship—
Ellen Matteson, ’40,
Mary EE, Stevens
Parker, 40,
Cary Page Award—Deborah Calkins, ’40.
Constance Lewis Memorial Scholarship—
Lois Overiser, ’40.
Book Shop Scholarship—Barbara Steel, ’40;
Margaret Eppler, ’40, and Rozanne Peters, 740.
George Bates Hopkins Memorial Scholarship
—Lettie Hooker, ’40,
Susan Shober Carey Award—Susan Miller,
’40.
Maria Hopper Scholarship—Alice Jones, 41.
James E. Rhoads Memorial Sophomore Schol-
arship—Bojan Hamlin, 741.
The Misses Kirk’s Scholarship—Elizabeth
Alexander, ’41.
Anna Powers Memorial Scholarship—Emma
Cadbury, Jr., ’41.
Book ‘Shop Scholarship—Betty-Rose Crozier,
41,
Evelyn
41,
Alumnae Regional Scholarships
New England—Martha Van Hoesen, ’39;
Julia Harned, ’°39; Emily Cheney, ’40; Ellen
Matteson, ’40; Anne Sioussat, ’40; Mary Ma-
comber, ’40; Mary Lewis, ’41; Elizabeth Row-
land, ’41.
Eastern Pennsylvania—Dorothea Heyl,
Louise Sharp, 40; Ruth Lehr, 741,
Ohio—Carolyn Shine; 739; ;
New Jersey—Elizabeth Gehman, °39; Betty-
Rose Crozier, *41; Elizabeth Hoffman, 741.
New York—Lorna Pottberg, ’39;. Adeline
Mills, ’41; Anna Taylor, ’41.
Washingt D. C.—Ruth
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Colorado—Anne Toll, ’39. *
California—Deborah Calkins, ’40.
Illinois—Jean Small, ’40;
’40; Elizabeth Alexander, ’41.
Western Pennsylvania—Eleanore Wood, 741.
Scholarships Awarded by the College
At Entrance to be Held for
Four Years
Foundation Scholarship—Agnes Spencer, 739,
and Alice Williams, ’41.
Frances Marion Simpson Scholarship—Con-
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The League of American Writers,
in cooperation with the Americarf Stu-
dent. Union and the Abraham Lincoln
Battalion’ are awarding $1000 in
prizes to college and secondary school
students for “the best essays, stories,
poetry, film and radio scripts on the
antifascist struggle in Spain.” The
first. prize will be 500 dollars and
there will be four additional prizes of
250, 125, 75 and 50 dollars.
The contest will be judged by El-
liot Paul, Jean Starr Untermeyer,
Donald Ogden. Stewart, H. V. Kalten-
‘born, Clifford Odets and Genevieve
Taggard. All entries must be sub-
mitted by July 4. The rules and a list
of the suggested reading will be posted
on the A. S. U. bulletin board in aad
lor.
stance Renninger, °39; Lenore Rankin, ’41,
and Jeanne Marie Beck, 740.
Trustees’. Scholarship—Eleanor — Bailenson,
*39; Marie Wurster, ’40, and Lois Johnson, ’40.
Chinese Scholarship—May Chow, ’39.
Lower Merion High School Scholarship—
Doris Turner,, ’39.
Radnor Township High School Scholarship—-
Elizabeth Taylor, ’40,
Leila Houghteling Memorial " Scholarship—
Kathleen Kirk, ’41.
Additional Scholarships Not in the
Award of the College
Lidie Bower Saul Scholarship — Marie
Wurster, 740.
Edwin Gould Foundation Scholarship—Hes-
ter Corner,,’41; Margaret Squibb, *41; Mar-
garet Shorfidge, "41,
Pennsylvania Scholarship—Sally Norris, ’40;
Leonore Rankin, ’41.
Exchange Scholars
German—Elizabeth’' Sauer, Dr.
versity of Munich, 1937,
Spanish—Arsenia Arroyo, Lictenciada_ en
Ciencias Quimicas, University of Madrid, 1936.
Exchange scholar from Spain, Bryn Mawr
College, 1937-38. x
Bryn Mawr to Germany—Louise. Dickey,
Scholar of the Society of Pennsylvania
Women, 1937-38.
Bryn Mawr to France—Marjorie Houghton,
Scholar in Spanish, Bryn Mawr, 1937-38.
Resident Fellowships
Biology—Jane Frankston, B. S. University
of Pittsburgh 1934 and M.S. 1936. Graduate
Student in Biology, Bryn Mawr College, 1936-
37 and Scholar in Biology, 1937-38.
Chemistry—Elizabeth Osman, /B.S. Univer-
sity of Illinois 1937; M.S. to be conferred
1938.
Classical Archaeology—Cleta Olmstead, A.B.
University of Chicago 1935 and M.A. 1936.
Economics and Politics—Edith Hyslop, A.B.
Mount Holyoke College 1937; M.A. to be con-
ferred, Columbia University, 1938.
Education—Georgiana Stephens,
versity of California 1937; M.A.
ferred, Mills College, ‘1938.
English—Edith Humphrey, A.B. Stanford
University 1937 and candidate for M.A. 1938.
German—Elizabeth Edrop, A.B, Wellesley
College 1936; candidate for M.A. Bryn Mawr
College 1938, : Fellow in German, Bryn Mawr,
1937-38.
Greek—Elizabeth Wyckoff, A.B. Bryn Mawr
College 1936. Bryn Mawr European Fellow
studying ‘at “Cambridge University, 1936-37,
and student, -Cambridge University, 1937-38.
History—Grace Hennigan, A.B. Mount Holy-
Continue@ on Page Five
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Physics and Chemistry
Majors Describe Work
Continued from Page One
vising a cheaper method to produce
these compounds, and by the end of
the year, they hope to have completed
their research in this preparation. An
earlier method has been modified by
the substitution of sodium carbonate
for hydroxide as a reagent. In their
experiments with various nitrogen de-
rivatives, they have obtained as much
as 80 per gent of the theoretical yield.
Eleanor Benditt was sent as a rep-
resentative of the Science Club to the
Students’ Chemist Convention at the
University of Delaware, April 30. She
criticized the reports that were read
in the four hours of meetings. for their
lack of original student work. They
were mainly accounts of articles that
had appeared in scientific journals.
Such reports as those of Elizabeth
Webster’ and Gene Irish of their own
research would make the convention
more interesting.....It..was suggested
that the Science Club send a reépre-
sentative next year who would read
such a paper.
Helen Hamilton played gramaphone
records which showed the effects of
overloading and filtering upon the
tone of instruments. When the ampli-
fier is overloaded, the sound is blur-
red. The distinctive tones of a piano,
cello and French horn were shown to
depend upon their overtones. Filtering
out all vibrations except the funda-
mental note makes the three sounds
almost™iMdistinguishable. As increas-
ingly more of the overtones are. al-
lowed to be heard, the. characteristic
sounds are again audible. -In the
French horn, which depends more
than the other two on its higher over-
tones, the distinction was noticeable
between the free sound and one in
which only all above the seventeenth.
overtone were cut out.
This opportunity to organize their
research was as much appreciated by
the advanced students who made the
speeches as by their audience. Eliza-
beth Webster, after the meeting, ex-
‘pressed her approval of this new idea
for the Science Club and suggested
it as a means of helping lower class-
men gain an idea of what majoring in _
the various sciences would imply.
The Science Club will have a supper
picnic on May 12. The students have
challenged the Science faculty to a
baseball game at the picnic.
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Miss Park Announces
Scholarships, Prizes
Continued from Page Four
oke College 1936 and M.A.
1938. :
History of Art—Hope Wickersham, A.B.
Bryn Mawr College 1936; M.A. Mills College
1937.
Latin—Elizabeth Ash, A.B.
1935;>°
1937-38.
Mathematics—Dorothy Maharam, B.S. Car-
to be conferred
Vassar College
Fellow in Latin, Bryn Mawr College,
negie Institute of Technology, 1937; candidate
- mona my
for M.A,, Bryn Mawr College, 1938. Scholar
in Mathematics, Bryn Mawr, 1937-38.
Philosophy—Mary .M. D. Stewart, A.B. Po-
1937; candidate for M.A., Uni-
versity of Michigan, 1938.
Physics—Martha Cox, A.B. Cornell. Uni-
versity 1929; M.A. Bryn Mawr College 1936.
Demonstrator in Physics, Bryn Mawr, 1934-36.
Psychology—Myrtle Corliss, -A.B.. Swarth-
more College 1937; candidate for M.A., Bryn
Mawr: College, 1938. Scholar in Psychology,
Bryn Mawr, 1937-38,
Romance Languages—Catherine Fehrer, AB.
Vassar College 1934; M.A. Bryn Mawr 1935.
Scholjar in French, Bryn Mawr, 193436;
Franco-American Exchange Scholar, France,
1936-37; Reid Hall Scholar, University. of
Paris, 1937-38.
Grazia Avitabile, A.B. Smith College 19373
M.A. to be conferred 1938.
Social Economy—Carola Woerishoffer Fel-
lowships: Daphne Hughes, A:B. University of
Oregon 1931. Y. W. C. A’ Fellow in Social
Economy, Bryn Mawr, 1935-37; .Research As-
sistant, Department of Social Economy, Bryn
Mawr, 1937-38.
Harriet Goldberg, LL.B. University of Min-
nesota 1930 and A‘B. 1932. Carola Woeris-
hoffer Scholar in Social Economy, Bryn Mawr,
1932-33.
Helen Schaéffer Huff Memorial Research
Fellow—Katharine Way, B.S. Columbia Uni-
versity 1933; Ph.D, University of North Caro-
lina 1937,
’ Graduate Scholarships
Biokogy—Nancy Angell, A.B. to be
ferred, Bryn Mawr College, 1938.
Chemistry—Bernice Thomas, A.B, to be con-
ferred, Mount Holyoke College, 1938.
Elizabeth Hardy, B.Sc, to be conferred, Mc-
Gill University, 1938.
Non-Resident—Marguerite
University of Pennsylvania 1937.
Student in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr
1937-38.
Classical Archaeology—Eleanor Weston, A.B.
con-
Twaddell, A.B.
Graduate
College,
Vassar College 1936; candidate for M.A.,
Bryn Mawr College, 1938. Special Scholar in
Classical, Archaeology, Bryn Mawr, 1936-37
and Scholar in Classical Archaeology, 1937-38.
Economics and Politics—Agnes Chen, A.B.
Yenching Universify 1935. Graduate Student,
Yenching University, 1935-36; Chinese Gradu-
ate Scholar, Bryn Mawr College? 1936-38.
(Also Chinese Graduate Scholar for 1938-39.)
Mary Van Brunt, A.B. to be conferred,
Hunter College, 1938.
Fellow by Courtesy—Margaret La Foy, A.B.
New Jersey College for Women 1936; candi-
date for M.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1938.
Scholar in Economics and Politics. © Bryn
Mawr, 1936-37; Fellow iti “Economics and
Politics, 1937-38. De
English—Helen Corsa, A.B. to be conferred,
Mount Holyoke College, 1938. :
Virginia Peterson, A.B. to be conferred;
Mills College, 1938.
Isabel Maurer, A.B.
broke College, 1938.
French, Fellows by Courtesy — Marion
Monaco, A.B. New Jersey College for Women
to be conferred, Pem-
1935; M.A. Bryn Mawr College 1936. Voor-
hees Fellow from New Jersey College for
Women, Bryn Mawr College, 1935-37; Mary
Elizabeth Garrett European Fellow, University
of Paris, 1937-38.
Isabelle Gonon, A.B. Mount Holyoke Col-
lege 1924; M.A. Smith College 1926, Fellow
in Romance Languages, Bryn Mawr College,
1937-38.
Geology—Jane Armstrong, A.B. to be con-
ferred, Smith College, 1938. ©
Kathryn Dedman, A-B. to be conferred,
Marietta College, 1938.
Special _.Scholars—Natalie Carleton,
University of Vermont 1933 and M.S. 1936.
Anna L. Dorsey; A:B. University. of Mis-
souri 1937. Graduate Student, University of
Missouri, 1937-38.
German—Louisa Fox, A.B. Smith College
1937; M.A. to be conferred, 1938.
Greek—Nicolitie Samson, A.B. to be con-
ferred, University of California 1938.
Katherine Lever, A.B. Swarthmore College,
1936; M.A. Bryn Mawr College 1937. Scholar
in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1936-38. (Also
holds the Scholarship of the Society of Penn-
sylvania Women in New York for next year.)
Lula Margetis, A.B. University of Wiscon-
sin 1937; M.A. to be conferred, 1938.
History—Elizabeth Meirs, A.B. Bryn Mawr
College 1935.
History of Art—Mary Henry Shimer, A.B.
Radcliffe College 1936; candidate, for M.A.,
Bryn Mawr College, 1938. Scholar in History
of Art, Bryn Mawr College, 1937-38.
Latin—Clara Brice, A.B, to be confefred,
Vassar College, 1938.
Julia Billings, B.A. to be conferred, Wilson
College, 1938.
Mathematics—Natalie Krauss, A.B. Hunter
College; January 1938.
Philosophy—Joy. Margaret Mickel, A,B. Uni-
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NINE INNING BALL GAME
WON BY VASSAR 31 - 30
May 1—The Vassar base-ball team
defeated Bryn Mawr, 31-30, in an
exciting game which lasted two extra
innings. At the end of the seventh in-
ning, the score was tied at 22-22, so
the managers decided to play out the
full nine. The largest crowd seen at
any game this year came to cheer
and help the teams with expert ad-
vice: from the side-lines.
Bryn Mawr made 37 hits to Vas-
21, but had 14 more errors, for
whichNthe infielders were chiefly re-
sponsible. Peggy Squibb, ’41, in left
field caught two long flies and showed
remarkable consistancy in the field
and at bat. Dave Bakewell, 38, proved
herself a steady and dependable first
baseman,
Bryr# Mawr used three pitchers.
Hutchinson, ’40, started and later was
replaced by deWolf, ’88, and Bridge-
man, ’89. She: came in again in the
ninth innifig, but was too late to save
the game. Ogden pitched the entire
game for Vassar, using a side-arm
throw which put a baffling spin on
the ball. She was credited with eight
strike-outs.
Bryn Mawr will play Haverford on
Sunday, May 8, at 2 p. m. on the upper
hockey field. Haverford will pitch un-
derhand.
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versity of Nebraska 1935; M.A. 1937, — Scholar’
in Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1937-38.
Physics—Margaret Jameson, A,B,. Barnard
College, February 1938.
Social Economy, Carola Woerishoffer Schol-
arships—Margaret Kunz, A.B. to be conferred,
University of Illinois, 1938,
Esther Williams, A.B. to be conferred, Ober-
lin College, 1938.
Bertha Goldstein, A.B.
Bryn Mawr College, 1938.
Medieval Studies—Jean Holzworth, A.B.
Bryn. Mawr College 1936; M.A, 1937. Scholar
in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1936-37; Student,
American Academy in Rome, 1937-38.
to be conferred,
Women in New York—Katherine Lever (see
above as Scholar in Greek).
Chinese Gwaduate Scholar—Agnes Chen (see
above as Scholar in Economics and Politics).
Mary Paul Collins Foreign Scholar in
Geology—Anna Heitanen, candidate for Ph.D.,
University of Helsingfors, 1938.
Outside Appointments
Jane Armstrong, A.B. to be conferréd, “Smith
College, 1938, whe is to be Scholar in Geology
at Bryn Mawr next year, has also been awarded
a_scholarship-from- Smith College which she
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she remarked
ne, because
feeling of
are a little too large,”
afterwards, “but that’s
they give me the prope
“milkmaidishness.” ~- Clear
though not strong, her voice
pleasant.
The chorus of 28 rapturpus Bryn
Mawr maidens with their coyness and
droopiness was in direct contrast to
Patience. They never stepped out of
character, and their languishing looks
were enhanced by their pale, indeci-
sive costumes. which theybelieved to
be Early English. As the leader of
the band, Mary Newberry, ’40, was
the delightfully “inconsistent and in-
constant Angela, with golden harp
and brown curls.
’ However sad the maidens’ costumes,
the stage sets did not suffer from its
usual ailment of paleness. Margaret
Bell, ’39, designed the scenery, bright
in its modern, unusual treatment of
trees and leaves.
downstage during the first act brought
out the shadows of the woods, con-
trasting sharply with the costumes.
The backgrounds harmonized well
with the red, yellow and white cos-
tumes of the dragoons. . Well-drilled
and keeping their white-gloved hands
stifly pointed down, the officers were
almost unrecognizable in their mus-
taches, helmets and makeup.
The Colonel, Major and the Duke
were utterly silly, a little too fatuous
to be convincing. We have seldom
seen a better bantam Duke than Mary
Wickham, 740, nox a lankier, more
loose-jointed Colonel than Ruth Stod-
dard: Yet it was the roly-poly Major
(Ellen Matteson, ’40, plus two and a
half towels), that captured our heart
as she danced clumsily, stiff and
dimpled in her:tight»beige suit.
Unfortunately, there were | not
enough good singers in the cast to
4] produce a really excellent operetta.
It was here that the orchestra, com-
posed of members and former members
of the Philadelphia Symphony Or-
chestra, showed its skill under Mr.
Willoughby’s direction, in not playing
too loudly or too swiftly to drown out
the voices.
Although an amateur performance,
Patience’ was beautifully directed and
efficiently managed by Huldah Cheek,
"38, And whatever its deficiencies, it
was wholly adequate andi hilariously
‘amusing.
will use here.
Frances Blank, Scholar in Latin this year,
has been awarded a competitive scholarship to
the American Academy in Rome for two years’
study there.
Marion Daughaday, Scholar in History this
year, has-been awarded a Fellowship in History
at Radcliffe College for next year.
Madeleine Ellis, Scholar in French this
year, has been awarded an open Fellowship in
French at the University of Toronto. .
Virginia Grace, Ph.D. 1934, has been awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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By Sunbathing Passage
e
Phenomenal Confusion, Utter
Despair, Revealed in Oral
Starting with the premise that “the
head is sorhething dangerous in a’sun
bath, sometimes’ even. in the shade,”
one unfortunate victim of the latest
German oral went on to admit that,
as a matter of fact, “the head is some-
what removed in sunbathing.”
The head, however, was not her
only stumbling block, for later the
same Germanophobe reaches the dark
and enigmatical conclusion that “they
often exchange the legs in the sun-
bath,”
The explanation for this seeming
confusion about natural phenomena
may lie in the inadequate conceptions
of metaphysics and ethics which the
subject seems to have formed. For
instance, she asserts, “so common is
it that modern man becomes again. a
child of the sun, so itnportant is it
that, as always and forever in life,
supremacy is sought in sunbathing.’”
Other incidental information about
sunbathing, its means and effects,
dicts. Although “the white heat is
very dangerous,” nevertheless “you
often take off the clothes (wechsle die
Lage) in sunbathing.” . Failing this,
“if you do not want to lie in the shade,
then you must go out for a sunbath
in the clouds and the rains.”
With apologies to The New Yorker,
the following can only be consigned
sion: “Dr. Meyer could stand pat to
all children, who suffer by increase of
pains, and incident to the approach-
ing kindling in the legs.”
‘Trifles’ and Shaw Farce
Are to Use No Scenery
Prop Managers Seek Bird Cage and
a Fatal ‘ Gazogene
One dollar, 75 cents, and 50 cents
are the admission prices to Passion,
Poison and Petrifaction and Trifles,
to be presented by the Players’ Club
on Friday evening at 8.30, for the
benefit of the Mrs. Otis Skinner Thea-
tre Workshop. The first eight rows
of the auditorium are one dollar, the
next ‘ten are 75 cents, the rest 50
cents.
has now replaced
Vifginia Sherwood, as the Sheriff
in Trifles. Sarah Meigs, ’39, the act-
ing president of the Players’ Club, is
directing Passion, Poison and Petri-
faction, and Fifi Garbat, ’41, director
of the freshman show, is. directing
Susan Glaspell’s Trifles.
Both directors are vociferous in. de-
claring that, although: these plays are
being produced without scenery, in
order to keep down expenses, that
does not mean that they: are being
produced without props. A formidible
prop list includes: Miss Marti’s camp
bed, which she uses for sunbathing;
a siphon of Dr. Herben’s (he also
contributed the answer to “What is
a gazogene?”’); a black fan used in
the Mikado, and belonging to Cornelia
Kellogg, 39; three suits belonging to
the brother of Margaret Howson, ’38;
a bird cage from the Bryn Mawr Hos-
pital; a nineteenth century ew ith
embossed blue flowers, from th@@Dean-
ery.
Betty Lee Belt, ’41, and Janet
Gregory, ’40, are still trying to find a
dirty roller towel, dirty dishes, sevy-
eral broken jars of. preserved cherries,
and some boots to thnew-at the ceiling
‘so that the plaster, will fall down.
The sound effects-man has solved the
problem of thunder by kicking the
Aventilator, the rain problem by drop-
ping tacks into a dissecting tray, but
the problem of lightning is still up in
the air.
Marian Lossing, Scholar in
year, has been awarded the Penfield Fellow-
ship in English at New York University.
Elizabeth Monroe, A.B. 1935 and Bryn
Mawr European Fellow,’ has been ‘awarded an
A.A.U.W. Fellowship.
Dorothy Schierer, M.A. 1934, has ‘been
awarded a Fellowship for study at the Ameri-
can School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Elizabeth Lloyd White, Scholar in Biology
this year, has been awarded the Moore Fellow-|
ship in the Department of Zoology at the Uni-
versity of. Pennsylvania. i
Bertha Haven Putnam, 1893, Professor
Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke College,
Mallory Whiting Webster Lecturer at Bryn
Mawr this year, has been awarded a 'Law
School Research Grant at Harvard University.
One of these grants has never before been
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Gay Traces Growth
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on privateering. or trading-ventures
were enormous; Drake is reported to
of 4,7000%. On the other hand, the
uncontrolled English — privateering,
broke the normal balance of trade, and
interrupted the flow of supplies, while
the undeclared war with Spain made
the risks or loss very great. Under
such circurmstances, commerce inevi-
tably became highly speculative. This
caused such a feeling of insecurity
that the government was forced to in-
tervene and try to stabilize conditions,
thus resulting in trade and industrial
monopolies.
“But interesting as this foreign
trade is,” said Dr. Gay, “the humdrum
domestic ‘trade. was vastly more im-
portant.” Regional specialization was
just beginning, and from this time on,
goods -were sent to London from more
and more distant fields. This meant
the end of self-sufficient little local
centers. London was becoming more
and more the metropolitan center and
the national market. Provincial towns
resented this, but could not prevent. it.
During this period, the coal trade
developed greatly. In Durham and
Northumberland, which supplied Lon-
don, there was a 14-18 fold increase
between 1550 and 1580; in the Mid-
lands, for the samie length of time,
a 15 fold increase. \ The iron industry,
however, was retarded because / no
process had been discovered by which
coal could be used to smelt iron ore.
The-metal manufacturing trade, it is
fue, increased, but used iron im-
ported from Scandanavia or Spain.
In 1624, the government tried to
encourage invention by granting a
temporary monopoly on/.new indus-
tries. But although ‘many patents
were taken out, most /were fantastic
and useless. Glassymaking, “arma-
ments and chemical-manufacture were
the only industries that made any real
advances. On thé other hand, the
opening of new /lands proved most
‘come to them. Like modern: doctors,
a
Undergrad Elections
The, Undergraduate Associa-
tion takes great pleasure,in an-
nouncing the election of L. D.
Smith, ’40, as first Junior mem-
ber and chairman of the: Cut
Committee; E. Tuckerman, ’40,
as second Junior member and
chairman ‘of the Dance Commit-
tee; and E. Durning, ’41, as
sophmore member. E. Durning
was elected the Undergraduate
member of the Peace Council.
and in the first half of the seven-
teenth century, colonization of Ireland
and America was undertaken. This col-
onization was especially backed and
encouraged by the mercantile inter-
ests, anxious for new markets and |
sources of supply.
Throughout thé period, these mer-
cantile interests also were all moving
gradually from the medieval point of
view to the modern idea of individual-
ism. The /first trading companies
greatly resembled the older guilds.
Their members did not go out seeking
customers; their customerg Mad to
they were not supposed to take each
others’ clients or try to capture each
othérs’ trade. Above all, they -were
conservative, and unwilling to look
for new fields.
However, there was another,
younger group of traders, who refused
to obey the guild-companies or be
bound by their” regulations. They
were the independent wandering
merchants, who first took their goods
to Germany or the provincial subsi-
diary: bodies of the great companies,
and who first refused to maintain
the professional exclusion of the mid-
dleman. The. two parties came into
conflict, the rebel merchants were de-
manding “free trade,” in the cause
of ‘open trading opportunity, while the
guild-companies defended an orderly.
system. Public opinion wavered be-
tween the two, and the conflict was
not settled in favor of individual
trade expansion until the laws against
it began to be rescinded by Parlia-
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Tennis Team Breaks
Jinx; Defeats Merion
Scores 3-2 in Second Match Over
Germantown
April 30.—The Bryn Mawr tennis
team scored its first victory in two
years, by defeating the Merion Cricket
Club, three to two.
Lee, ’41, played a consistently steady
game to win from Mrs. Bass, 4-6, 6-2,
6-4. In the first doubles Lee combined
with Auchincloss, ’40, and defeated
Mrs. Bass and Miss Strougbhar, 9-7, |,
6-3., The Merion second doubles team,
Mrs. Mecaskey and Mrs. Daly, yielded¢
to Whitmer, 39, and Laughlin, ’40,
with the score, 9-7, 5-7, 6-3.
Merion won its two points on the
second and° third singles matches.
Whitmer was defeated by Miss
Strougbhar, 6-2, 6-8, and. Auchincloss
by Mrs. Mecaskey, 6-3, 7-5. The three
victories were all hard won and show
that the Bryn Mawr players have
managed to steady their games suc-
cessfully.
On Tuesday, May 3, the tennis team
won its second victory of the season,
beating the Germantown Cricket Club,
3-2.
Lee,’’41, was again the outstanding
Bryn Mawr player. Playing number
one she defeated Miss Snyder, 6-3,
6-2. _The second singles match _ be-
tween Whitmer, ’39, and Mrs. Connell
went to Germantown. Whitmer won
the first set, 8-6, but was forced into
a defensive position in the second and
third sets which she lost, 6-1, 6-2.
Auchincloss, ’40, won the third singles
from Mrs. Kerbaugh, 6-3, 6-3.
In a contest lasting two and one-
half hours Lee and Auchincloss, the
first doubles team, managed to wear
down Miss SnydeX& and Miss Gilling-
ham, the final score being 10-8, 6-8,
7-5.. Laughlin, ’40, and Lazo, ’41, lost
the second doubles match to Mrs. Ker-
baugh and Mrs, Connell,’6-0, 8-6.
The Bryn Mawr players’ inability
to execute real forcing shots is their
chief fault. Though the players have
acquired a certain degree of steadi-
ess, they are often unable to apply
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Pa
Graduate Fellowship
Margaret La Foy, fellow by
Courtesy at the Graduate
School, has been awarded ‘the
Yardley Foundation Fellowship
for next year at the Graduate
Institute of International Stu-
dies at Geneva. Awarded a Bryn
Mawr scholarship in Politics and
Economics, Miss La Foy won
this through the American As-
sociation of University Women,
for her ‘‘ability to do graduate
work, and the promise she gives
of distinction.” a.
A. S. U. ELECTIONS
The American Student Unien takes
yreat pleasure in announcing the fol-
{uwing election:
Ixecutive Secretary...E. Dimock,
Peace ‘Committee. ..J. Rosenheim,
Labor Committee A. Spencer,
Student Problems and Education
"41
"40
’39
E. Doak, ’39
BBDUG, occa eek ces J. Harper, 741
SDGAKCTS. 3 as Ceeyve B. Cohen, ’39
SOCPOUATY ois cco vp en 050 6% E. Pope, ’40
WRORSULCD . sisrecdess M. Squibb, ’41
The new head of the campus A. S.
U., Elizabeth Dimock, declared this
evening, “A. S. U. wants to work
along with the Peace Council, the In-
ternational Relations Club and the In-
that the four organizations can work
| together and support each other in
| promoting peace.”
any extra pressure at critical mo-
ments.
Breakfast Lunch
willl give you MORE PLEASURE
_ than any cigarette you ever smoked .
Majority .of Students :;
Back Collective Action
‘Demonstrations on Peace ‘Day Lack
_Former -Disorders
A majority of the Peace Day
\demonstrations. staged last Wednes-
day, April 27, took place without dis-
orderly parades or riots. The reso-
lutions adopted in various. colleges
and schools also show a new trend
away from -isolatiornism toward’ col-
lective security and economic pressure
upon aggressors.
Mrs. Dean, speaking at Bryn Mawr,
characterized the present policies of
European democracies as attempts at
“international dictatorship.” Repre-
senting a contrary point of view taken
by many speakers, Bryon N. Scott,
California Congressman, who spoke
at Temple University, asserted that
‘we should put economic pressure
under the Kellogg-Briand pact on
Italy, Germany and Japan. This
would bring about the fall of the,"
Chamberlain Government, the acces-
sion of Anthony Eden to power, and
cooperation by England to preserve
world peace.”
Attacks on émotional pacificism
and submission to propaganda were
made by several speakers besides Mrs.
dustrial Group to make the campus Dean. Margaret Delahanty, ’39, presi-
‘an active force for peace.’ We feel gant of -the Wellesley Forum, dé-
, manded an “analytic approach in fac-
ing the war of tomorrow.” Many
colleges joined with Bryn Mawr in
protest against the New England
at
The Bryn Mawr College Tea Room
for a :
SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION
Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P. M.
Tea
Dinner
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