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VOL. XXIII, No. 7

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936

PRICE 10 CENTS





College Council
Deals First With
“Finals” in Majors

Consider Students’ Request for
Room for Entertaining ~

Of Friends

SPECIAL -COLLECTIONS .
FOR NEW BOOK ROOM







Miss Park’s House, November 11.—
A general request for clarification on
the exact nature of the work to be
done for the final examinations in the
major subjects occupied the greater
part of the second meeting of the

College Council. The new policy of
the New Book Room Committee in
placing on the shelves books drawn
from the stacks on special subjects
such as Spain, dancing or similar
topics of general interest, was an-
nounced by Miss Park. Esther Har-
denbergh voiced students’ request for
a room in which to entertain groups
of friends. Barbara Colbron an-
nounced that the Self Government
rules were being revised, and Miss
Petts suggested that classes in ball-
room dancing might be given this
winter. :

Referring to the examinations as
“finals” rather than as “comprehen-
sives,” Mrs. Manning pointed out that
this year there is necessarily great
uncertainty in working out the new
system, but that she would speak to
large numbers of seniors in order to
find out where their difficulties lie.
Whether the work for the examination
should include new material or con-
sist only of review was a debated is-
sue, but the understanding of students
and administration is that the work
shall vary with the needs of each de-
partment, including in general, new
material on a more mature basis in
a correlation of the background ob-
tained in the previous years’ major
work. Mrs. Manning said that she
will make every effort through con-
ferences to iron out any misunder-
standings of objectives between de-
partment faculties and their major
students. Each department, however,
has given such an examination before
and has worked with each student be-
fore, so that there should be few dif-
ficulties. =

The question of mid-year examina-
tions in major courses which end at
mid-years was ‘raised. Many students
and faculty have felt the need for
such an examination, but this might

Continued on Page Four



Wednesday, November 18.—
M. Paul Hazard will speak on
Un Pré-Romantique de 1730—

VAbbé Prévost. Goodhart. 8.15
p. m.
Thursday, November 19.—

Varsity hockey game versus
University of Pennsylvania.
Lower Hockey Field: 4 p. m.

Dr. Alice Salomon will speak
on Social Workers I Have
Known. Miss Kingsbury’s house.
8 p. m.

Thursday, November 19.—
Philosophy Club meeting. Com-
mon Room. 8.30 p. m.

Friday, November 20.—One-
act plays. Goodhart. 8.30 p. m.

Saturday, November 21. —
Varsity hockey game _ versus
Merion. Lower Hockey Field.
10 a. m.

Sunday, November 22.—The
Reverend Henry P. Van Dusen
will conduct Chapel service.
Music Room. 7.380 p. m.

Monday, November 23.—Var-
sity hockey game versus. the
Faculty. Lower Hockey Field.
4 p.m

Tuesday, November 24.—Cur-
rent Events, The United Front
in European Labor, by Mrs.
Smith. Common Room. 7.30
p. m.

Wednesday, November 25.—
Thanksgiving vacation begins.
12.45 p. m.

Monday, November 80.—
Thanksgiving vacation ends. 9
a. m.

Tuesday, December 1.—Cur-
rent Events, The New Russian
Constitution, by Mr. Miller.
Common Room. 7.30 p. m.

Wednesday, December 2.—
Sylvanus Morley will speak on
New Mayan Excavations. Good-
hart. 8 p. m?

NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST
WILL SPEAK ON MAYA









Mr. Sylvanus Morley, fioted Ameri-
can archaeologist, will speak in the
auditorium of Goodhart Hall at 8 p.
m. Wednesday, December 2. His sub-
ject will be New Mayan Excavations.

Mr. Morley since his graduation
from Harvard in 1907 has done work
in the field of Central American
archaeology and is now one of the
foremost authorities on Mayan hiero-
glyphics. From 1909 to 1914 he did
field. work in Central America and
Mexico for the American School of
Archaeology and in 1924 was associ-



ated with the Cichen Itza project.



Feline Dragon Guards Hole in Pem West

Wall; Has Been

a Resident Five Years



Attack of Scotties Results in
Howling Pursuit of Cat
After Aggressors



Occasionally, while walking past
Penn West to the Lib, we have noticed
two or three little kittens playing on
the grass. Our curiosity piqve. by
these sudden feline appearances. we
decided to make some inquiries. First
questions drew a blank, but we finally
made up our minds to pester Miss
Ferguson, manager of Pem West.
From her we learned much. Miss
Walsh is reported to be the guardian
of the cats. Every time a stranger
draws near their domain, she calls
out warningly, “No!”

The mother cat appeared five years
ago. How, or under what circum-
stances, no one knows. She just “ap-
peared.” Since then, periodically,
broods of kittens have “appeared.”
The family lives in the cellar-est part
of the Pem West cellar, a part into
which the desecrating foot of man
rarely goes. Any approach on the

~ part of workmen repairing the venti-.

lator fans often results in an attack
from the irate mother.

Food is left for them in the cellar
by the maids. But never have the
cats called for their dinner when any-
one was around. . Although their pres-

.ence“is known, rarely are they seen.

Attempts to bring them. out by not

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! giving them food for several days
| have been unsuccessfu In previous
years, the mother or some of her
brood have been known to come up
the steps into the kitchen. The cook
heard her one night; and on another
night, an unsuspecting student in the
pantry was badly frightened by an
animal jumping past her. She thought
it was a mouse, but it proved to be
one of the kittens. Now, however,
there are screen doors on the steps,
and there is no more promenading
in the kitchen.

Last year the mother decided to
follow the Bryn Mawr custom and
take her children up on the roof for
a sunbath. But one unfortunate kitty
fell between the walls. Workmen
were needed to break the plaster to
rescue him. No longer do the kit-
tens sun on the roof. Instead, after
the campus dogs had left last spring,
they sunned on the lawn. But this
fall the dogs have again discovered
the cats’ bailiwick, and no more do
they play on the Pem West lawn.

What happens to these siccessive
generations of kittens when they
grow up? No one knows. Do they
hunt cross-country, hitch-hike on
Montgomery Pike, seek adoption by
adoring children, or may there be
some truth in the report that the
intellectual. stratum of the village
feline society is Bryn Mawr born?
It is all very puzzling. :





COLLEGE CALENDAR’ ||Action Necessary

To Maintain Peace



Miss Park Sees Peace as ‘Best
Method of Solving Human
Difficulties



IDEAS CONTRADICTORY



Music Room, November 11.—Speak-
ing in chapel last Wednesday on peace
and war, Miss Park said that “before
man is life and death and whichever
he liketh shall be given unto him.”
A decisive action for peace is impera-
tive, she believes, because only through
it can the same solution be reached
for those problems which govern
human survival.

Miss Park said that she was not
discussing war and peace as a series
of events or defining them as passive
things—war, the breaking of peace,
or peace, the absence of war. She
was speaking of them rather as al-
ternative methods of dealing with
great human difficulties, economic, po-
litical, religious—alternative . devices
to put control in the right hands. Up
to the present, war has taken first
place as a method of settling problems
and as a method is still hardly shaken
in the world.

War and peace go along with defi-
nite and unlike ideas and opinions held
by individuals, by groups, small or
large. These unlike and contradictory
ideas are also present simultaneously
in our own minds. Miss Park then
Stopped to identify those ideas which
connect themselves readily with the
two alternative beliefs for action: that
difficulties can best be settled by war
or that they can be settled peaceably.

Those convictions which tie up with
war are: (1) That the individual
commands little respect per se, that
respect is called out only with regard
to his power; (2) that an individual
group or nation is important to the
exclusion of other individuals or
groups or nations, and that this sig-
nificance must be recognized by others
and privileged; and (3) that the truth
reached by the mind is not the final
authority, this conviction accompanied
by a distrust of the use of mind and
an admiration of power as the highest
thing.

The convictions which lead to a use
of peace as the best method of deal-
ing with human difficulties are: (1)
that variety and difference are good
and rigidity and monotony bad _ in
individual groups, that an individ-
ual commands respect per se; (2)
that there should be an equality of
opportunity, that the individual should
be limited .as little as possible (3)
that creativeness is the cutting edge
of civilization, and that this cannot
continue when human life is regi-
mented; and (4) that difficulties over
differences of ideas are best met by
the thought of single individuals or
by interchange of thoughts between
individuals.

If peace is not only an absence of
war and not an emotional reaction,
but rather a method of solving human
problems associated with certain con-
victions, Miss Park said we must in-
quire into the character of these con-
victions. They are connected with the
biological development of the human
race, with the slow forward move-
ment. They are connected, Miss Park
thinks, with what is fruitful in art,
with what trains and sharpens the
inquisitive spirit of man and with the
groping of human beings towards each
other which makes credible the final
organization of human life.



League Grateful for College Support
Dear Editor:

The League wishes to thank the col-
lege for its generous response to the
drive. Because the pledging among
our undergraduates was both univer-
sal and liberal we raised $1300.

This sum represents a return to
normal after two difficult years. The
results show that the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp can continue because
the undergraduates are willing to make
its finances their responsibility. We
are more than grateful for this re-
newed assurance of college support.

LETITIA BROWN.







Speaks on Realignments



James G. MacDonald



Desperate Conditions
In Cuba Are Revealed

Aid for



March Solicits Students’
Political Freedom



Common Room, November 12.—
Under the auspices of the A. S. U.,
Carlos March spoke in behalf of the
Cuban student movement, of which
he is a leader. In a_ semi-fascist
country where only 20,000 of forty
million inhabitants voted in the last
elections, and where secondary schools
and the university have been closed
for the past six years, the educated
individual’s responsibility. is signifi-
cant.

The present crisis has culminated
from twelve years of depression, di-
rectly arising when the sugar market
narrowed after the close of the World
War and the allies began to raise their
own supplies again. American banks,
who own the sugar fields which almost
exclusively form the source of liveli-
hood for the Cubans, immediately re-
duced wages when prices catapulted
and even today a laborer must pick
2500 pounds of sugar a day to earn
40 cents. The C. F. L., to which all
professional people as well as _ labor-
ers belong, is attempting to have a
one dollar minimum wage law ac-
cepted by these monopolies.

In 1933 the populace overthrew the
Machado regime, which had granted
itself new leases of power simply by
its own authority, and set up their
own government under a former uni-
versity professor, Martine. America
failed to recognize this new govern-
ment and by a blockade on sugar so
intervened in Cuban affairs that the
people’s government was paralyzed
and eventually fell.

Continued on Page Five



MR. FENWICK WRITES
FROM ABOARD SHIP



November 7
Aboard American Legion
Sailing New York
Dear College News:

It is mean of me to send you.a line
from the boat, rousing all sorts of
jealousies, but so far we have met
only fog and chill, no sunny seas to
be envious of. I thought the students
would be interested to hear that I
was met at the boat by a student dele-
gation, the head of which, a young
woman from Columbia, exhorted me
on to high purposes, to stop the sense-
less slaughter of youth by their fel-
low youth. I replied in kind, promis-
ing to do my best, etc.—not to bring
back a mere paper treaty, but a real
change of purpose. All the while I
was remembering my own student
days when I made similar addresses,
but not to delegates who had them-
selves been students—that is the
change that has taken place and a
very heartening one. The goal is not
out-of reach, it is really attainable if
we are only ready to work for it as
the youth of today seem to be.

Sorry you all can’t be along—First
Year Pol. on the upper deck. ,

2 > xe ever,
CHARLES G. FENWICK.

e

Mr. McDonald Sees
Imminence of War
Within Few Years

Great Britain’s Evasive Stand

May Encourage a Dangerous
Venture From Mid-Europe

U. S. POLICY DOES NOT
INSURE NEUTRALITY







-The Deanery, November 15.—Re-
alignments in Europe today are so
dangerously similar to those of. 1914
that war is viewed as an imminent

| possibility by James G. McDonald,

who spoke upon the new alliances of
foreign nations. England’s feverish
rush to create a powerful air corps

is one example of rearmament among
the nations because of the complete
failure of any action of the League
of Nations or application of the Four-
teen Points.

Disarmament has served only as a
means for the victors of the last war
to disarm the vanquished and keep
the lid down upon the status quo until
it blows off. The main reason for
the present state of affairs is that Wil-
son’s famous Article 19, which pro-
vided for flexibility in the revision of
treaties, has in fact never been seri-
ously invoked. As a result Germany
has rearmed in spite of all limita-
tions placed upon her and has with-
drawn from the Disarmament Confer-
ence and the League of Nations.

The first blow which precipitated
the downfall of the League occurred
in the spring of 1932, when no action
was taken to prevent Japan from
practically making Manchuria its own
possession. This display of weakness
opened the way for Italy’s violation
of the League, which today is no
longer a reliable political instrument.

With this decline in power other
countries have launched upon an
armament race, the full measure of
which is seen in Britain’s frantic ef-
forts to prepare herself for air at-
tacks. In order to complete these
operations as_ swiftly as_ possible,
Great Britain is buying planes and

Continued on Page Four



Aspiring Directresses
To Give One-Act Plays

Vehicles Are “Barbara’s Wedding”
And “The Open Window”





Two one-act plays will gladden the
hearts of quiz-surrounded students on
Friday evening, November 20th.
The first is classified by its directors
as a curtain-raiser, but it promises
to be very interesting. It is a drama-
tization of a story by “Saki,” entitled
The Open Window. Anne _ Good-
man, Dorothea Peck and Janet Thom
will present it, with the following
cast: pteick
Vera.... ..Winifred Safford, ’37
Framton Nuttell

Elizabeth Washburn, ’37
Florence Sappleton -

Jeanne Quistgaard, '38
Herbert Sappleton, Dorothea Peck, ’39
Honus, «3 bi cs Betty Lou Davis, ’37
....Anne Goodman, ’38

The dramatization was done by
Anne Goodman and Janet Thom, who
are also directing the production.
Properties are in charge’ of Anne
Wyld, ’38, and lights will be handled
by Janet Thom and Margaret How-
son, 38.

The second play, Barbara’s Wed-
ding, by Sir James Barrie, will be
presented by Jane Braucher and
Myrtle Niccolls, both of the class of
1939. They are handling the direct-
ing and the scenery, while Nancy

Toll, 39, is in charge of lights. The
all-sophomore cast is as follows:

Pee COOMEl. ccs ss Jean Hoagland
Ellef, his wife......... Julia: Harned
a eer ears Caroline Shine
ie ake .. Jean Rauh
eS SOT TE er Grace Dolowitz
BO i wa vncnscens Laura Estabrook

Both plays will have been in re-
hearsal only one week before the pro-
duction.













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The Mind to Live

No one who heard Mr. MeDonald’s lecture on Sunday can help
recalling the words of Miss Park more than a year ago that definite
action must be taken for peace “lest we, like the dinosaur, be buried in
the sand.” Mr. McDonald’s evidences for the imminence of war were
overwhelming. It left his audience definitely sobered. Yet we who
- must fight and pay for this coming war cannot accept his final position
of hopelessness. There is an innate repugnance against such acquies-
cence, which at bottom is undoubtedly our demand for survival.

Mr. MeDonald affirmed again the tragic paradox that no one in
the world wants war, but no one is willing to pay what he must to
secure peace. Instead, in frantic fear, the great nationalist states
are rearming at top speed so that another nation will not dare to strike.
We, the great masses-who watch this, try to pretend that it is not so or
else we adopt the defeatist doctrine of enjoying what we can while we
ean. But neither of these views is foreed upon us. And neither can
be accepted if we wish to satisfy the fundamental demand for survival.

We must act. Yes, but how?
common ground on which we can combat the fears and mad ambitions
of war. Yet to seek this common ground and until a sweeping move-
ment shall unite us, we can do three things. We can face the paradox
squarely and honestly. We can examine within our own social worlds
and as nations what we must give up if we are to have peace. Secondly,
having decided what we must give up we can make that knowledge
general. We can spread it wherever we go and we can make those
people more powerful than ourselves face the issue and take action to
pay that price. Thirdly, we can at all times in our everyday actions
prepare ourselves to pay that price willingly. Individually we can
face the issue, together we can force it upon those who lead us, indi-
vidually and together we can prepare in every way to pay what must
be paid if we today and our descendants tomorrow are to have the
fundamental right of survival.

Man among all animals can deliberately commit suicide. But he
has also the right not to commit suicide and to keep for himself and
to pass on to others his right to live.

LOUISE STTENGEL, ’37













A gain!
This has happened so often before and with so little result that the
- Editors believe that the following can alone produce results:
Dear Editor :

I want to make a suggestion for a subject to be taken up in your
weekly editorial. I do not know if library books here have. always
been treated as they are now, or if it is the freshmen that mark them
up. It seems that one cannot read a passage in any much-used book
without having one’s attention drawn to checks and comments in the
margin, or having the text almost obliterated by uneven underlinings,
often in ink. I find it necessary—and know that there are many others
who do the same—to go through the text assigned, erasing marks, in
order that I may do my own thinking as I read.

If you iind this subject worthy of the attention of the college,
and worth the space that it would take in your editorial, I sincerely
hope that you will give it due consideration, and remain,

Yours Sincerely,
RutH Mary PeEnriep, ’40.



The Yolk at Last

The ideal type of Bryn Mawr girl who spills egg on her skirt and
never bothers to remove it has been shattered. An over-whimsical outer
world has, for. years, superficially observed our pants and our tacky,
sat-out skirts. But at last a young college man from New Jersey has
pierced through physical appearances, cracked off the shell and the
/ white ‘of the egg to find the yolk.. The Bryn Mawr type has been
humanized. The magnanimous humanizer has evidently been investi-
gating types of females in different colleges and has compiled a set of
statistics called a Form Chart.* The information pertinent to Bryn
Mawr is of unique interest because we are thoroughly tired of our

wardrobe-commentary.
Our young sustainer mentions clothes first, but it has always been
to develop ideas from a status quo. His second point
sus as the heckhane:et the nation, the



For we are divided. There is no,





hed aan seas :
Ch ES



INEXPENSIVE REMEDY
SOUGHT FOR LIGHTING
To the Editors of the College News:
There is but one complaint I have
to offer concerning the editorial ap-
pearing in the October 21st issue of

'the News deprecating the poor light-

ing system at Bryn Mawr. It makes
coherent another of the traditional
grumblings of Bryn Mawr. Soon our
topics of conversation will be nil and.
there will be nothing to relieve the‘

strain of the pre-quiz rush.
But in the nes of intelligent

thinking I must overlook this removal
of a pet grouch. Most readers of this
paper are probably conscious of the
old proverb, “No girl leaves Bryn
Mawr without glasses.” Now this
might be considered praise of the
amount of reading we do, but on the
other hand malicious critics might
think it just another indication of
the impracticability of the academic
mind.

It also was with a touch of envy
and bitterness that many of the
less scientific minded undergraduates
watched the high-powered drive for
funds to build a modernly equipped
laboratory. We do not selfishly be-
grudge the research students “their
rightful equipment, but we wonder if
by the time those buildings are fin-
ished their eyes will be equal in
efficiency to the equipment. It is an
ironic paradox that while we are
building up one instrument of work
we are breaking down another.

But no complaint is really valid
without constructive criticism. Real-
izing that after the Fiftieth Anni-
versary Drive people are not in a
contributing mood (if I am wrong in
my ‘supposition not only I, but a legion
of others will humbly and thankfully
retract these words) the changes in
the system must be made as economic-
ally as possible. It probably is out
of the question to remove the central
chandeliers or to put in added floor
outlets. But I should think that the
power could be increased so that we
could use the new 100 watt student
reading lamps and a 60 watt center
light. I also feel that some arrange-
ment might be made whereby we could
use a double socket in both studies
and the bedrooms. Under the pres-
ent system, if one wants to use a
radio the light is cut’ down to 40
watts. I fully appreciate the danger
of fire caused by the use of double
sockets, but I think that the college
electrician could superintend the use
of these so as to eliminate this danger.
Some method also should be devised
whereby wires from standing lamps
can be extended up the wall and
across the ceiling to the center light
or some tall Bryn Mawrter is going to
meet death by hanging, because of the
prevalent custom of stretching low-
hanging wires across the room.

These are but a few suggestions of
a layman which I offer to the Editors
of the News to further aid and en-
courage the lighting campaign, even
though it costs me the loss of a valu-
able “hangdog muttering.”
Student Newly Fitted with Glasses.



ANONYMOUS LETTER.

The College News has: received an
anonymous letter correcting the quo-
tation in the article on the scavenger
hunt. Since the News cannot vouch
for the authenticity of the facts, it

The Students Speak



is unable to print the corrections. If
the author feels strongly enough to
divulge her name to the Editor, the
letter will be published.



ss oa ‘LIGHTING
AFFECTS WORK IN LAB.



To the Editor of the College News:..
Admiring the promptitude and pre-

cision with which the News presents

the important problems of the student

‘body, I wish to thank the Board for

taking up the issue of the lighting
system. Being obliged myself to wear
glasses a large part of the time, it
is with vigor that I protest against
the inadequacy of the present arrange-
ments.. The lack is, of course, pri-
marily felt in the students’ rooms, and
for those who study almost exclusively
there, this is a very serious defect.
However, not only the electrical ar-
rangements in the halls, but also those
in Dalton are markedly inefficient.
For the majors, whose lab periods last
until 6 o’clock, the lighting system
is a definite handicap, in actual visi-
bility as well as in such experiments
as entail electrical effects. For the
faculty and graduate students who
are in Dalton late in the evening these
conditions must be very trying.

I make this appeal with the realiza-
tion that the readjustment of the pres-
ent system, or the preferable alterna-
tive of installing alternating current
instead of the present direct current,
necessitates large expense. As the
college may not be in a position to
appropriate such a sum at present,
a gift for such a purpose from an
alumna, or friend of the college, who
does not wish to contribute to a gen-
eral fund, or feels no interest in the
new science building, would be an
ideal solution. Surely there is no
safer investment than the preserva-
tion of the students’ eyesight, which
is at present under definite strain due
to the insufficiency of proper light.
Whether the college feels it can bear
the expense of such readjustment as
is obviously necessary, or whether a
kind friend or alumna undertakes to
bestow on us a gift, whose beneficial
effect would extend over the entire
campus, a remedy for the. present.
system must be found, and found
promptly. 2 SENIOR.



In Philadelphia



Movies

Aldine: Come and Get It (quoted
from Howard Barnes). “Certainly
Come and Get It is a far more per-
suasive, unified and striking work as
it is projected ... than it was between
the covers of Edna Ferber’s novel .. .”

Arcadia: The Gay Desperado: mu-
sical comedy with Nino Martini.

Boyd: Love on the Run, with Joan
Crawford, Clarke Gable and Franchot
Tone.

Earle: Tarzan Escapes. This is the
second time and some of us may feel
that it is twice too many.

Stanton: 15 Maiden Lane, with
Claire Trevor. The complications of
a jewel robbery.

Europa: Nine Days a Queen, re-
viewed in a previous issue.

Theaters
Chestnut: Prelude to Exile, a play
based on the life of Wagner with
Wilfred Lawson in the leading role.
Eva La Gallienne plays the part of



unhistorical drama.

good housekeepers, if we’re not ‘going steady’ with the ‘fella’ back
home.” For this orchid: we extend thanks. Never before has an out-
sider realized that Bryn Mawr girls are housekeepers born with cook
book. They.did not know that many of us have made our “childhood
sweethearts” (not just our “fella”) happy in the knowledge that we
will return to him and the middle west. The fourth point concerns
the sort of men we entertain while at college. They are “first group
men who come here for an intellectual soirée or a taffy pull.” Nothing
could really be more heartily complimentary than having the public
realize that we entertain the brainy, athletic type. The fifth point is
perhaps the most generous of all. It is the author’s admonition to his
compatriots that they must use their very own judgment in selecting
from among us. This presupposes a slight perplexity which can easily
be dispelled. If it is a choice between brains and taffy, the two can be
pleasantly merged.

To burst asunder the cameo adage “Clothes make the man,” is
what we must do to remain humanized. This flaming and graphic






author leads the way to the stand which we may at last take before|/
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the woman who had a great influence
upon his life.:
“Erlanger: Tobacco Road,
hardy perennial, returns.
Forrest: New Faces continues.

that



News of the New York Theater

Thanksgiving is coming, and the
News, forehanded as usual, is ready
with a list of the theatrical prospects
for the vacation, considering that per-
haps those who couldn’t get . tickets
for Hamlet would like to know wae
else is going on.

And Stars Remain, Theatre Guila
semi-sociological comedy with Clifton
Webb, Helen Gahagan and others.
Mr. Webb lies on a sofa and delivers
witticisms, and audiences seem ta,
think this is worth the price of ad-
mission.

Boy Meets Girl, the very funny
farce about Hecht and MacArthur,
left over from last season, like most
good things this year.

Dead End. There may be some peo-
ple who feel they must see this one,
also of last winter. A gorgeous pro-
duction is its chief merit, and it tells
of the cradle of gangland.

Hamlet. Gielgud and Howard will
compete till about Christmas time,
they Hope. Mr. Gielgud’s performance
is considered stronger, but Mr. How-
ard’s production is admired.

Idiot’s Delight, with the Lunts,
written by Sherwood. It will also
come to Philadelphia whenever New
York offers it any cut-throat competi-
tion.

Night Must Fall, a horrid little
melodrama written by and for Emlyn
Williams, recommended for those who
enjoy being unpleasantly surprised
and want to be possessed by an idea.

Reflected Glory, which has been de-
scribed ad nauseam as a typical Tal-
lulah Bankhead play with Tallulah
Bankhead.

St. Helena, one of the few, perhaps
the only, really good play of the new
season. Maurice Evans portrays Na-
poleon’s last days very satisfactorily.

Stage Door. Margaret Sullavan
contributes that certain something
which always manages to be contrib-
uted to a typical Kaufman-Ferber
smart show, and which always (well,
almost always) makes it a success.

Swing Your Lady, the farce. New
York now has one of everything but
1 This is about a
lady blacksmith.

Three Men on a Horse, of the stuff
of which George Abbott’s silly suc-
cesses are made.

Tobacco Road.

Tovarich, something about Russian
aristocracy in the depths of a Paris
kitchen. Even, perhaps, more success-
ful than Stage Door. John Halliday
and Marta Abba are light comediens.

Victoria Regina, Gilbert Miller,
Lawrence Housman, Helen Hayes,
Vincent Price. Not a play, but an in-
teresting series of episodes with a cer-
tain sweep.

D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

On Your Toes, amusing and bril-
liant satire on the ballet with Ray
Bolger and Tamara Geva.

Red, Hot and Blue! Cole Porter’s
latest in the same old Anything Goes
tradition. Ethel Merman is perhaps
compensation for those who don’t like
Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope.

White Horse Inn at the Center The-
atre, which is enough to prove what
it is: Kitty Carlisle and William Gax-
ton in the Tyrol.

Ziegfeld Follis, with Fannie Brice,
Bobby Clark and Gypsy Rose Lee, the
burlesque girl.



“Negative” Mysteries Revealed

At the second afternoon lecture
meeting of the Nucleus, Doris Turner,
39, president, initiated the members
into the mysteries of printing nega-
tives. She illustrated her talk by
making several prints of pictures she
had taken recently on the campus,
pointing out the relative values of
dull and glossy paper and showing the
effects of different amounts of ex-
posure.

Over and under exposures will be
the subject of. discussion at the next
meeting of the club, to be held on De-
cember 1, at 5 o’clock, in the Under-
graduate Room. aah



Program for Victrola Concert
The program for the victrola

concert in the Common Room

Friday night at eight o’clock ‘is
as follows: Emperor Suite—

. Beethoven, Come Sweet Death—
~ Bach, and Sarabande—Bach.












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The. President—
Attended a meeting of the
Executive Board of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School, on -Fri-
day, November 13, and attended
the annual meeting of the Board —
' of Directors of the Bryn Mawr
Summer School on Saturday,
November 14, in New York City.









Faculty at Large



Miss Lograsso, of the Department
of Italian, has been appointed consul-
tant on nineteenth century Italian by
the Publications of Modern Language
Association of America.

Miss Lehr, of the Department of
Mathematics, spent a week-end in

Massachusetts, where she addressed
the New England Association of
Teachers of Mathematics on the
mathematical problems which arise
from everyday occurrences.

Miss Kingsbury, Professor Emeri-
tus of the Department of Social Econ-
omy, is returning from Europe this
week and is planning to resume her
old residence in Bryn Mawr. Miss
Kingsbury has accepted the presidency
of the Women’s University Club in
Philadelphia for the rest of the year.

Miss Fairchild, of the Department
of Social Economy, addressed the Na-
tional Council on Parent Education in
Chicago on November 11. Her subject
was The. Russian Family Today,
which was presented as part of the



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THE TEST

Straight down from 4 miles up— motor
roaring—struts screaming—Gehlbach tears
earthward like a bullet flashing from a re-
volver. At the bottom of the 2-mile drive
—a sharp pull-out wrenches plane and
pilot to the limit. Such tests make planes
safer. Anything can happen. A bump in the
air—a tiny flaw, and the plane can fly
to pieces as though dynamited while the
pilot takes to his parachute. But, as you
can see at the right, Lee Gehlbach eats
heartily and enjoys his food. Note the Camel
cigarette in his hand—one of the many —
Camels that Lee enjoys during and after
— meals. In his own words (above), he gives
you the reason why Camels are his cigarette.





day’s program devoted to a study of

the modern family. ~ ,

Mr. Miller, also of the Department
of Social. Economy, addressed the
students of the University of Pitts-
burgh on the afternoon of November
9. In the evening of tlte same day
he was interviewed in a radio broad-
cast on the general subject of inter-
national conditions, and foll6wing this
talk he made an address before the
Forum of Pittsburgh on the topic, A
Way Out for Nationalism. .On Armis-
tice Day Mr. Miller spoke before the
B’rith Sholom on Frontiers of War
and Peace,



Errata

Mr. Blanchard did.not work at Har-
vard University as was previously
statéd in the News, but was occupied
in research at Cold Spring Harbor.
--Mr..Tennent was not. working at the
main *Biological Laboratories of the
Carnegie Institute as stated in the is-
sue of October 7, but at the Marine
Biological Laboratories, Dry Tortugas
Keys.



Degas Exhibition
The greatest loan exhibition of the
works of the famous nineteenth cen-
tury French painter, Edgar Degas, is
being shown and will remain at the
Philadelphia Art Museum on the
Parkway until December 7. It in-
cludes many of his masterpieces and
is a definitive collection of his draw-
ings. Agnes Mongan, Bryn Mawr, ’27,
a member of the Fogg Art Museum
staff, wrote the introduction to the

catalogue for the collection.

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Book Review



Green Margins, by E. P. O’Donnel.
Houghton Mifflin and Co,

Upon winning the Houghton Mifflin
Fellowship, E. P. O’Donnel: took fifty
dollars of it and staked himself to
a one-room cabin and an orange grove
90 miles down Delta from New Or-
leans. There, steeped in the Cajun
atmosphere, he \wrote Green Mar-
gins. It is a’ “géil’” book, and good
reading, but not one to remain in one’s
mind as a masterpiece‘ or a classic.

Mr..O’Donnel has made the most of
a strange, romantic, almost primitive
setting. His people are Slovaks, Cre-
oles, Negroes, whites, itinerant
rivermen and. blasé New Yorkers.
They grow oranges to ship to the
east, keep oyster beds for the luxuri-
ous tables of the rich, labor in can-
ning factories, paint pictures, fight
hurricanes and the shifting soil of the
Mississippi.

There is “Sister,” fighting for her-
self, sensitive, yet “hard as a nut,”
and the most attractive girl on the
Margin; Mitch Holt, young, blonde
smuggler who was sent up the river,
and came back to be a leader; René,
the painter, seeking native art, and
bringing the world of sophistication
to Sister; ““Grampaw,” an ex-Austrian
cavalry man, keeper of the finest oys-
ter bed on the Delta and owner of
a library containing Marx, Shake-
speare, Poe, anthropology and art.
There is a rich variety of character,
plenty of action, and incident after
incident. The people are concerned





* @AMELS set me right!” Gehlbach says.“ You know,
C chance is only 10% of my business. Keeping alert
and in fine condition is the other 90%. I smoke Camels
with my meals, and afterward, for digestion’s sake.
And when I say Camels don’t get on my nerves, it
means a lot.”
Good digestion and healthy nerves are important
for everyone in this wide-awake era. Camels at meal-
time and after speed up the flow of digestive fluids
—increase alkalinity —help bring a sense of well-
being. So make Camel your cigarette— for digestion’s
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with the primary needs and desires of
life. Their precarious mode of living
makes them that way; they have to
live completely, as quickly as possible.

There is no definite plot. The story

is almost biographical, concerned
chiefly with Sister’s life. Accordingly,
the subject matter and method of
presentation synthesize into a swift
pace, a pace further accelerated by
the- smooth flowing- style of -Mr.
O’Donnel. His sentences are polished,
lush, similar to the verdant Cajun
land. An atmosphere of suspense is
always present. But in the final
analysis, “Green Margins” becomes
an excellent book for a lazy afternoon
or the train en route for a week-end.
L. J. S.



- Students Join Redeemer Choir

Mr. Willoughby has obtained per-

mission from Miss Park to allow the
following students to sing in the choir
of the Church of the Redeemer:
Esther Hearne, ’38; Barbara Long-
cope, ’88; Jeanne Macomber, ’37; Doris
Russel, ’$8; Helen Hartman, ’38, and
Lorna Pottberg, ’39. :

The choir work offers unusual ad-
vantages in church singing because
of the male voices which carry the
bass and tenor and Mr. Willoughby
hopes that more Bryn Mawr girls can

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College Writing Contest

The New Republic announces a
prize of $25 for the best 300-word
letter by an undergraduate in any
recognized American college or uni-
versity declining the Republican Presi-
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Manuscripts must be typewritten,
on one side of the paper only. No
entries will be considered that are
postmarked later than Sunday mid-
night, December 6.

The editors will be the judges. No
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Split in A. F. of L.
Explained b by Rheiner

W.P. A. Member ow ol Educational
Department Analyzes Union

Organization |

SHOWS INNER. CONFLICT

(Especially contributed by Elizabeth
Lyle, *37.)

Common Room, November 11,—The
split in the A. F. of L., what it means
and how it has come about, were the
questions which Mr. Conrad Rheiner,
a member of the Educational Depart-
ment of,the W. P. A., discussed with
the Industrial Group at their meeting
this evening. Taking the situation in
theaters in
Philadelphia as an example, he showed
how labor is divided against itself.
Because these theaters have elimi-
aated orchestras from their program,
depending instead upon mechanical
music, one union is picketing their
doors’ in protest. Inside, however,
members of another union are work-
ing. Since the two unions are not
coordinated, Warner Brothers can
function without difficulty and the
protest of the picket line is futile.

Yet it is not accurate to speak of
craft unions, for there really are none,
unless it be the Horseshoe Makers’
Union. Most of the organizations so
called consist of different crafts re-
lated to one trade. The very names
of the unions reveal that they are
not composed on purely craft lines.
The Carpenters and Joiners’ Union
shows a fusion of two separate, al-
though similar, types of work. In the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the
word “Amalgamated” indicates that
various crafts have come together
on an industrial rather than a craft
basis. And such a coming together
is the logical development of union-
ism. When, after the enacting of the
N. L. R. A., workers began to prove
their right to organize by forming
many new unions, the A. F. ef L.
took care of these new growths by
giving them the status of federal
unions, which supposedly include all
workers of all sorts in a recently or-
ganized area. In districts where
much mass production was being car-
ried on, as in the region of automo-
bile manufacturing, these federal
unions tended to consist mainly of
the laborers in one industry.

But the trade unions of the A. F. of
L., being proud of their independent
jurisdiction, immediately wanted to
divide the federal unions according to
trade, the carpenters taking their
share, the plumbers theirs, and so on.
They wanted to produce unions with
different interests that would act just
as the unions in the Warner Brothers’
theaters are acting. Semi-industrial
unions and real industrial organiza-
tions such as the United Mine Work-
ers of America rebelled. In the A. F.
of L. convention in Atlantic City last
year, the question, which had _ been
brought up without success at previ-
ous. conventions, was brought up
again with an even larger group
supporting it. The convention denied
industrial unionism. It was after this
that Lewis, President of the United
Mine Workers, decided that regard-
fess of the A. F. of L., the right of
industrial unionism should be estab-
fished, and the mass production in-
dustries that apparently could be or-
ganized in no other way should no
longer be neglected. Under his chair-

manship, ten unions banded together
for this cause in a committee known
as the C. I. O., the Committee for
Industrial Organization. These ten
unions have now been temporarily
suspended from the A. F. of L. If
they do not send delegates to the con-
vention being held in Tampa, the rest
of the A. F. of L., which is conserva-
tive and favorable to crafts, will
probably expel them definitely. Even
if they do send delegates, the creden-
tials committee of the convention will
do its best to keep them out. Just
what the outcome of the Tampa meet-
ing will be is uncertain, but what-
ever it is, it will be exciting and

vastly significant.
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**Final” Exam Work
Is First Concern

Continued from Page One

defeat the purpose of abolishing mid-
year exams for seniors to clear those
weeks for reading.

Whether the requirements for grad-
uation shall be 14 or 15 units plus the
unit of review is still a debatable
question; « Fourteen units leaves very
little room for elective work, Miss

Park believes, but Mrs. Manning
pointed out the work involved in re-
ducing the content of each unit to
make the total of 15 possible. In any
event, the améunt of reading for the
final examination will be reduced if
it is occupying more than one-fourth
of the students’ time.

The proposal was raised and _dis-
cussion postponed until the next meet-
ing, of student offices in extra-eurricu-
lar activities changing hands at mid-
years in order to leave the last half of
the year entirely clear for seniors. It
may prove possible in some cases but
inadvisable in others.

An easing of the regulation that
sttidents without their merits cannot
take part in extracurricular activities
was proposed by Mrs. Manning in
cases where a sophomore or junior is
doing entirely satisfactory work, but
is handicapped by a bad freshman
record.

The invested funds for the New
Book Room are yielding less return
than before and therefore fewer books
can be purchased. This year, there-
fore, the committee is placing groups
of twenty books from the stacks on
the shelves for periods of a month. At
present, a selection by Mr. Herben on
Spain is there, and next month the
seniors in Merion will select a group
to be put up. Winifred Safford, stu-
dent member of the committee, re-
quests that all suggestions for topics
of interest be made to her. Miss
Schenck suggested that twentieth cen-
tury continental poets be given a
permanent resting place on the shelves
beside the American and British poets
of the period. Books purchased’ for
the room remain there five years be-
fore they are removed to the stacks,
but each year a set is usually pur-
chased, such as Shaw and Galsworthy,
which remain there permanently. A
new policy was inaugurated two years
ago of purchasing picture books of
lasting value.

The inadequacy of the show cases
and the Common Room for entertain-
ing guests has been apparent for some
time, but where to find the room re-
mains the question. The Art Club is
at present installed in the May Day
Room, and must have a permanent
abode. It has long been the aim of
the college to have a permanent work-
shop for laboratory work in art. In
the meantime, the club needs a room
of its.own.

Miss Petts asked for the Council’s
opinion on a course in ballroom danc-
ing during the winter. Such a course,
she believes, ‘would teach the tech-
nique of thé’dance and of movement
as well as. provide exercise. At least
25 members would be necessary for
the class to be instituted at a cost of
a $1 a lesson. The Council suggested
that the proposal be made public in
order to see what interest there is on
campus in such an addition to the
winter athletic curriculum.





German Clubs Hold Saengerfest

The newly organized German Club
opened its career with an informal
Saengerfest, given in the Deanery for
the memhers of the German Club at
Haverford.

Thirty undergraduates, members of
the group who participated in the
Deutscher Tag at Wilmington, and
fifteen Haverford students joined in
the singing and then partook of the
coffee and sandwiches provided after-
ward as a resucitative measure.

Mr. and Mrs. Max Diez, Mr. and
Mrs. Pfund and Mr. Kelly, of Haver-

ford, were present. _ RE RCN NERS

Mr. McDonald Sees

War as Imminent



Continued from Page One
models in the American market to
supplement her own efforts, which are

further hastened by the dread of im-
mediate. conflict combined with the
dread of the peculiarly awful form
which experts prediet will character-
ize modern warfare.

As is proven by these signs of fever-
isi rearmament, England’s character-
istic evasive stand is similar to the
situatiéh in 1914 when the British
adopted the “policy of hoping to stap
out of war, knowing they could not,
and desperately preparing to come in.”
It is this uncertainty about the English
policy which might encourage some
dangerous venture from middle Eu-
rope where, true to Mr. McDonald’s
belief that governmental policies do
not change, the alignments of 1914 are
rapidly being reformed.

“These policies of state respond to
certain things deeper and more pene-
trating than the seeretaries who are at
the head of the states,” and therefore
Hitler plays a game of foreign policy
in a manner of which the Kaiser would
not have disapproved. Consequently
the attachment between Germany and
the dynamic, brutal and frank policy
xf Mussolini becomes closer, but just
how close these two countries are no
one can tell, for “Mussolini and Hit-
ler love each other as much as they
trust each other.”

Similarly, Germany without friction
is steadily assimilating the régime of
Austria into its own and also con-
tinues to extend its influence to the
east and south of Europe. As a re-
sult, Russia, although that country is
more interested in building itself into
an imperalist national state, finds. it-
self closely allied to France in just
the same relationship as before the
World War.

The United States adopts the policy
of the good neighbor and maintains
that war profiteers shall not be per-
mitted tc draw this country into an-
other war. This country has, how-
ever, spent 905 million dollars in war
preparations which, it is believed, are
carried on mainly because of a pos-
sible conflict with Japan. In reality
“there is nothing in the presidential
program or the public opinion of this
country to assure that America will
stay out of a struggle comparable to
that of 1917,” when the Americans
cheered President Wilson on to war.

Also to be considered is the fact that
the peace settlement which President
Wilson suggested was never really
tried because “it never came into being.
Wilson envisaged a flexible world with
freedom of movement,” but this ideal
state never existed.

Dictatorships are examples of the
rigid forces which increase the chance
of war. They are a menace to peace
because they are apt to become vic-
tims of the very forces which they
put into movement by the destruction
of youth and the conscription of chil-
dren who, upon maturity, become mere
automatons in a militaristic machine.
In addition, there exists an inade-
quacy of capable political leaders to
marshal the forces of peace.

There are, however, certain deter-
rents to the imminence of war be-

alignment of such countries as Poland
and Jugoslavia. It is.also evident
that no staff of government would
wish to enter,upon war unless it could
be fairly certain of success, because

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it is doubtful if any government or
social régime which goes to war can
survive the conflict. In addition, the
general will of the masses is for peace,

of the world it is problematical if any
nation is prepared to pay the price of
peace.

“Mr. MeDonald, in reply to a sur-
prise question proposed by Mrs. Wil-
liam Smith, who introduced the
speaker, added that it is difficult to
make a program suggesting what this
price would be. To do this it is neces-
sary for the world to appreciate what
the situation is and analyze why the
program of 1919 and 1920 has failed.
This much can be said, that as yet
no country has taken the necessary
step of imposing sacrifice of privilege,
control and monopolies upon itself in
order to preserve peace.



Notes on League Work

Americanization.

This section of the League is now
sending two students every Tuesday
and Thursday to Americanization.
Many more people are needed because
eight to ten Italians attend each of
these sessions and with only two stu-
dents nothing like individual atten-
tion can be given. There are also
among these ten, one er two who know
no English whatever and these re-
quire individual work, so that one girl
is often left to handle a class of as
many as nine.

Haverford Community Center.

One student per afternoon is now
attending the Center. They play or-
ganized games with the children, and
help with knitting and craft work such
as drawing and painting. The work
has not been completely organized
yet, as it only began last week, and
the attendance may have to be cut to
only three afternoons a week due to
the scarcity of people.

Maids’ Classes.

Classes in knitting and gymnasium
have been started for the Maids. A
play has been planned for sometime
later in the winter, and the maid’s
Christmas singing is again in re-
hearsal. Irené Ferrer has accepted
with pleasure the direction of the
singing again this year. They are to
sing, besides the usual Christmas
carols, five new spirituals: Look
Down; Go Down, Moses; ’Zekiel Saw
the Wheel; Little David; Play on Your
Harp and ’Tis Me, O Lord. Ethel
Sheldon will again sing some of the
solo parts, including Couldn’t Hear
Nobody Pray. The group of singers
is unusually large this year and there
are new additions in the men’s chorus.
Sunday Evening Services.



‘is progressing well.

ocean

Henry P. Van Dusen, dean of the stu-

will speak. Rev. Van Dusen is an
extremely forceful speaker and his
chapels are provocative of discussions.

Anyone wishing to eat with the
speakers before chapels or wishing to

son Raymond know. Suggestions for
subjeets for the speakers are also
welcome.
Seleetion of Work from the Grenfell
Mission,

Selections of Labrador ee are on
sale in Grace Fales’ room, 29 Den-
bigh, after lunch and after dinner
daily. Twenty per cent of the sales
go to the League:The selections make
very attractive Christmas presents.
There are parkas, stamp boxes (in the
shapes of ducks), gloves and_ socks,
writing paper (good and also cheap),
and rugs and mats.

Blind School.

This section of the League work
It is sending
three students every night of the week
except Friday to the school in Over-
brook. No freshmen are going as
yet; most of the students attending
are sophomores. The work has been
suspended this week because of quiz-
zes. ?



Rochester, N. Y. — (ACP).— Soon
many medical schools will discard the
present system of demonstrating sur-

one.

In the laboratory classes it is diffi-
cult for students far removed from
the operating table to see the actual
work from the viewpoint of the sur-
geon. Hereafter color motion pic-
tures will be employed in some schools
to show technique of the surgeon.
How can the process be filmed?
Simple. Dr. R. Plato Schwarts, of
the University of Rochester, explains
that the photographer, by using color
film sensitized to artificial light and
by using a telephoto lens, can now
take pictures over the surgeon’s shoul-
der—pictures that will reproduce the
operation in true color and, also es-
sential, in the right size and perspec-
tive.

Dr. Schwarts anticipates universal
use of this novel teaching method
within a short time. One of the ad-
vantages, he points out, is that un-
usual surgical cases can be projected
many times for instructing, lecture
purposes and case histories.



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Second Team Wins Title of Local League
By 3-0 Victory Over Rosemont Varsity



November 16.—Braving bitter winds
‘which discouraged all spectators, the
Bryn Mawr second team defeated the

Rosemont Varsity, 3-0, to capture first
place in the Second Team i
«which consists of the two college
teams, the Merion Cricket Club sec-
onds, and the combined forces of the
Philadelphia and Germantown Cricket
Clubs. These four teams play each
other, holding two matches with each
opponent. The Bryn Mawr second
varsity has won all of its games ex-
: cept one, which was a tie, and well
deserves the title clinclied by today’s
victory.

In spite of the decisive score, the
play. was even throughout most of
the game. Several times Rosemont
seemed sure to score, but each time
the Bryn Mawr defense managed to
turn them back .in time. The only
goal in the first half was made by
E. S. Ballard, after a sharp tussle on
the goal-line. In the second half the
team showed much_ improvement,
using more passes to the wings to
get the ball up the field, and were
able to keep the play in Rosemont
territory much of the time. A last-
minute drive resulted in two more
goals, the last shot in just before the
final whistle.

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Goals: E. S. Ballard (2), Bakewell.

Substitutions: Bryn Mawr: Hooker
for Toll, Bakewell for S. Ballard, S.
Ballard for Hoagland, Hoagland for
Clark, Clark for Bakewell.

Referees: -‘Turman and Chariott.



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Performances will be at 8.30 p. m. on
November 20 and 10.30 a. m. on No-
vember 21. Tickets, which may be
obtained at 1701 Locust street, vary
in price from 35 cents to a dollar and
a half, with a reductions in those
bought in blocks of 25.

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duced under the direction of the late
James H. Breasted, noted Egyptolo-
gist and founder and first director of
the Oriental Institute. It is a history
of man’s development from savagry
to civilization, illustrated by arch-
aeological remains in the lands where
civilization first arose—Egypt, Pales-
tine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq and Persia.
The picture carries the audience by
airplane over the Temple of Karnak,
the Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad,
and other important excavations. In
eight cases the sites are observed in
the actual process of “digging.” The
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(Especially contributed by Ruth
Woodward, ’37.)

The following have been chosen for
the 1936-1937 swimming squad: Wood-
ward, manager; Simpson, captain;
Goodman, assistant-manager; Duncan,

Evans, Jackson, Muller, Westcott,
Renninger, Turner, Wight, Herron,
Yarnellé, Irish, Gaud, Sturdevant,
Emery, Steel, Link, Brereton, Cheney

d Miller.

Class Representatives:
oza, ’387; Webster, ’38;
Link, ’40.

This fall when the old members met

to elect the officers and representa-
tives, they found they numbered but
six: Simpson, specializing in diving
and crawl; Evans in trudgeon and
side; Geodman and Jackson for crawl;
Woodward and Duncan for crawl and
back. Luckily, there were many ready
to fill the empty places, for forty en-
thusiasts came to the tryouts. To
keep up the interest of those who did
not make the squad this year, Miss
Brady thought of ‘excluding the var-
sity from the class meets in the hope
that more outside meets could be ar-
ranged for the former.
is more definite, a vote will be taken
to see how the swimmers feel about
the matter.
_ For the present Miss Brady and the
old members wish to welcome the
new members and give them encour-
agement to try and break such rec-
ords for 40 yards as 24% seconds
(crawl); 31% seconds (back); 32
seconds (breast).

Practice begins immediately after
Thanksgiving and will be held on
Monday at 4, and on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 5.30 p. m. Naturally
this does not prevent anyone from
“warming up” beforehand. In fact,
the sooner started the better.

Vall-Spin-
Irish, ’39;



Desperate Conditions
In Cuba Are Revealed

Continued from Page One



As a result a virtual dictatorship
still exists in Cuba. A mercenary
army stamps out any public expres-
sions; thousands of Cubans have been
murdered; many more have died in
jails of fantastically revolting living
conditions; torture is universal; spe-
cial courts sentence prisoners on
“moral conviction”; secondary schools
and the university are closed.

Cubans clamor for social legisla-
tion. Political freedom in this case,
Mr. March feels, must precede eco-
nomic. Accordingly there is no de-
sire to remove monetary control from
American hands. There is simply a
desire to eliminate wages which are
in all respects degrading to the popu-
lace.

Cuban students do not solicit arms
from us; they merely urge that we in-
fluence the cessation of American capi-
talistic maneuverings in Cuban af-
fairs. “Two hundred years ago,” Mr.
March observed, “you revolted against
tyranny and I notice you are proud

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An undergraduate committee
has recently been appointed to
assist in the selection of mod-
ern English and American plays
to be added to the library. Will
anyone with suggestions as to
individual plays or collected
works of playwrights not repre-
sented in the library at present,
tell F. Hoxton, ’38, G. Leighton,
38, or A. Marbury, ’37.

i Outing Club Committee





WIT’S END

The Personal Peregrinations of Al-
gernon Swinburne Stapleton-Smfth,
or Lost in a London Fog.

Chapter the-tenth.

Introducing Besstead.

Before it was time for Algae and
his mother to leave the baronial castle
of Reginald Fayrwetherhaugh Rain-
beau, Lord Mounteverest, Reggie
planned a little soirée such as he had
been accustomed to give in London in
his snug digs in the mews. Of course
most of the literati and his other
friends did not happen to be in Ire-
land at the time, but Reggie really
had a wealth of acquaintances there,
and the party, which was most in-
formal, turned out to be quite a crush.
Algae and Reggie received with Reg-
gie’s old friend Besstead from the
South African wilds. Besstead was
an astonishing fellow. He was quite
a’ globe-trotter, and Algae had never
seen him before, because whenever he







| was in England, he spent: most of his

time in the British Museum. He was
amazingly resourceful, a tall, strap-
ping, bearded fellow, half Boer and
half British. His family owned a dia-
mond mine and for months after each
visit home Besstead was likely to find
diamond chips in his beard every time
he combed it. Algae found Besstead’s
gusty good humor a blessed relief
after the stilted formality of Virgil
Elwelle’s society. Imagine his dis-
taste, then, upon obsefving Virgil in
a far corner of the room, surrounded
by attractive women and holding his
English horn under his arm. This de-
velopment quite spoiled the evening
for Algae; so instead of mingling
with the group he sought out Bes-
stead.

The latter was entertaining a little
Irish lass, with black hair and smil-
ing blue eyes, who greeted Algae
pleasantly enough, but soon slipped
away into the crowd, leaving the two
men alone. Algae was contrite. He
was. sure she had been frightened
away by his interruption.

“Not at all,” said Beestead, “I was
just going to leave her anyway. |
like her well enough, but she’s a dull
little thing. I suppose it’s too much
to expect a little intellectual compan-
ionship from an attractive woman.”

Algae sighed his agreement, think-
ing of Mary Anne.

“Frailty, thy name is woman,” ex-
claimed Besstead resonantly, “as one
W. Shakespeare would say.”

”



New Marinated Salad Bowls

A new innovation in salad
bowls proved so successful when
first used to serve marinated
salad in Rockefeller Hall last
Saturday night that wooden
bowls’ were purchased for use
in all the other halls.

















Makes Winter Plans

Horseback Trips, Skiing Near Home
Listed as Possibilities





Gymnasium, November 16.—A com-
mittee, consisting of one member from
each hall, met Monday night in Miss
Petts’ office to discuss further plans
for the Outing Club. It was decided
that Mr. Woolman, founder of the
Horseshoe Trail beyond Valley Forge,
would be invited to speak in the Com-
mon Room on Monday, November 23,
at 8 o’clock, to tell the students about
the trail’s riding and hiking possibili-
ties. The committee hopes that Mr.
Woolman’s talk will create enough in-
terest to make possible a week-end at
the hostels before the Christmas va-
cation.

The trail is ideal for riding and
horses may be had for as little as
$5 a day. A charge of 75 cents is
made at each hostel for boarding the
horse. The list of stables where
horses may be hired, as well as all
other information about the trail and
the hostels will be available by the
beginning of next week. News re-
lating to the Outing Club will be
posted on the Athletic Bulletin Board
in Taylor, and there will be a list
posted each week to be signed by any-
one who would like to go the next
week-end. It was suggested that girls
planning to stay at college over
Thanksgiving might like to spend at
least part of the week-end hosteling.

Plans for skiing this winter were
also discussed by the committee, and
the Buckhill Falls plan was abandoned
as a group project because of expense,
since a week-erid there would cost
about $15. To take the place of this
opportunity for skiing plans are being
made to run a bus on snowy week-ends
to ‘Foxfields,” the William S. Ellis
place on Bryn Mawr Avenue, where
there is a steep hill providing plenty
of thrills for good skiiers, as well as
a more gentle slope for beginners.

At the committee meeting A. J.
Clark, ’389, was elected chairman.
Anyone desiring more information
aboyt the hostels or the skiing can
get from her or from their hall
representative. They are:

Rockefeller, E. Hardenbergh; Pem-
broke West, P. Jackson; Pembroke
East, A. J. Clark and M. Wood; Den-
bigh, K. Hemphill; Merion, E.Wash-
burn; Radnor, E. Simon.



BODY MECHANICS’ MEETING

About 40 teachers of Body Me-
chanics in women’s colleges south of
New York will attend the conference
to be held at Bryn Mawr this next
week-end. Their program includes
a dinner given by Miss Park at the
Deanery, Friday, and lectures and
discussion on different aspects of the
subject of Body Mechanics. Talks
will be given by Dr. Anne Tomkins
Gibson on Dancing and Gynecology,
by Dr. George Wagoner on Pain in
Relation to Poor Posture, and by Miss
Petts on The Body Mechanics Pro-
gram at Bryn Mawr. Miss Ellen
Duval will lead a round-table discus-
sion on current problems in teaching
Body Mechanics in women’s colleges.

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clustered around Wanamaker’s eagle
in an effort to cast an appraising eye
on the Christmas decorations, we still
found a little time ‘to notice a few
gadgets on the counters that might
interest the potential Christmas
buyer.

Such things as smoking accessories,
which are always useful, caught our
eye, and among them especially a
cigarette lighter which will appeal to
the air-minded. It is in the form of
an airplane. You close the cockpit,
turn the propeller and behold, you
have a flame. You may find this,
along with other more conservative
lighters, near the. elevators at the
Market Street entrance on the main
floor. Cheap enough at $2.95.

On the middle aisle, nearer Chest-
nut Street, are found novelty cigarette
boxes and an elongated dachsund
which will hold one package of cig-
arettes in his back. While in the
window of the Men’s Store on Broad
Street we saw a “hurricane pipe.”
After being lit, it is covered by a
small hinged lid which contains sev-
eral holes in order to let the tobacco
burn, but which are not big. enough
to allow the wind to put it out.

Back on the first floor of the main
store we find the “Electric Jump
Clock,” which is handless and looks
like a calendar. It is called a “jump”
clock because after the second indi-
cator has smoothly completed one
cycle, which indicates the passage of
one minute, the part of the clock de-
noting hours and minutes registers
the passage of that minute by a jerk
or a “jump”—something on the order
of the loud jerk made by the Lib
clock when it advances from one min-
ute to the next. $14.95 in price.

For the hurried, flustered, agitated
shopper who is always hunting for
small change in the depths of a cav-
ernous pocketbook, the “mad money
purse” would be a blessing. It costs
only one dollar, and opens in such a
way that the whole content of the
purse is revealed at a glance, because
the floor of the purse is flat and fold-
less.

Cheap at 35 or 50 cents, yet at-
tractive, are the woodén pins which
are in the shape of dogs. They should
look nice on wool dresses or sweaters.

Since last Saturday, when Wana-
maker’s officially opened its Christ-
mas campaign, the store has been
conveniently divided into specialty
shops so that you needn’t run all over
the store trying to find where things
are. Instead of wandering around on
the ground floor, as we did in our
ignorance, it would be to your advan-
tage to hunt up the gadget shop on
the second floor, where you will find
everything in.one place.

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Current Events

(Gleaned from: Mr. Gillef’s speech)

“Common Rooms, November 17—
The theory that Spain has not yet
wholely joined the other European
nations in spirit was advanced by Dr.
Joseph Gillet at Current Events in
the Common Room tonight. Spain has
been sleeping since her glorious six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries. She
received her first shock from the war
with the United States in 1908 at
which time she lost her sole remain-

ew. The World War gave her
another shock.

Much of her present condition is
a direct outcome of the war. With
the other nations fighting, Spain be-
came highly industrialized. Her
northern towns grew enormously and
accumulated great amounts of: capi-
tal. After the war, with many idle,
the “conservative class was feeling
its oats.” The Spaniards felt them
had been slighted, they needed a good
fight. Consequently they attacked
Abdul Krim, but made a fiasco of it
and the French were needed to finish
the job.

In order to clarify the present situ-
ation, Dr. Gillet reviewed briefly
Spain’s history from the First Span-
ish Republic in ’73 up to the present
day. He then explained the line-up
of political parties at the outbreak
of the revolution. At that time there
was a Popular Front composed of the
Leftist parties but their policies were
“surprisingly mild and reasonable.”
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. The direct cause of the actual fight-

ing was the addition of two anarch-
ists to the ministry. Along with their
ideal of the minimum amount of
authority by means of the Syndicate.
They brought the “creative impulse’
to fight for it, to lay down their lives,
and to kill others. Accordingly, to
Dr. Gillet, a good revolver is the ulti-
mate in human possession, and a
machine gun, God-given.

The Rebels, the Fascist members of
the Right Wing are led by General
Franco. He, in the opinion of the
speaker, is one of the more energetic,
cautious members of the army, in-

spired with true leadership. He will;

probably be the next dictator should
he win. Franco says he has not yet
won the popular support. Had the
military men timed their affairs bet-
ter, Madrid and Barcelona would
have fallen long ago. What will be
the outcome, no one knows.

After Dr. Gillet’s speech, Miss
O’Kane, of the Spanish Department,
gave the audience her’ impressions of
the Spanish: people. She stressed their
courtesy and adherence to a principle
in the face of all danger, and con-

cluded with a plea to sympathize with |

the people, and to rationalize the war
‘orrors as reported in the American
newspapers.



Recent Political Stir
Amazing to Mile. Bree

(This is the fifth of a series of inter-
views with new members of the fac-
ulty.)- ;

Although she feels as if she “had
stepped right back,” Miss Germaine
Brée’s position in Bryn Mawr is ex-
actly opposite to what it was. when

she was previously here as French
Scholar in 1931. Instead of being af-
filiated withthe Graduate School, she
is now substituting as lecturer in
French for Miss Madeleine Soubeiran,
who is spending her sabbatical year
in France.

Armed with an agrégation, received
from the University of Paris in 1932,
M'ss Brée went to Oran, Algeria, to
teach English. Tremendous as edu-
cational and hygienic improvements
are there, Miss Brée stated, move-
ments are hardly apparent under the
welter of conditions which must still
be corrected. Europeans living there,
however, are definitely isolated from
this native life.

A four years’ stay in Algeria has
| evidently merely whetted Miss Brée’s
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in the past. Born in France, of
French and English parents, Miss
Brée spent ten years of her childhood
in England and since then has di-
vided her time in Europe equally be-
tween the two countries. In addition
she has traveled in Canada and other
parts of Europe. .

The late emotional-intellectual flurry
which disturbed the campus was very
much in keeping with one of Miss
Brée’s chief concerns, politics. The
suddenly achieved pitch of excitement
and its abrupt disappearance amazed
her. In France there is a more vital
contact between citizen and govern-
ment and one hears politics being
mulled over everywhere—“in café—
in ,villages—it is a manie.”

Despite electric conditions abroad
and France’s private complications of
many political factions, Miss Brée ex-
pects that the current trend of gov-
ernment will continue there.



INVITE YOUR FAMILY or FRIENDS
TO

DR. SALOMON TO GIVE
ADDRESS TO STUDENTS

Dr. Alice Salomon will speak on
Some Social Workers I Have Known
at the home of Miss Fairchild, 219
Roberts road, Thursday, November
19, at 8 p. m. Dr. Salomon, founder
and former director of the School of
Social Work in Berlin, is making a
lecture tour of this. country, speaking
on social and economic problems in
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