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No. 16
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940
Copyri
Bryn
ht, Trustees of
awr College, 1940
PRICE.10 CENTS
VOL. XXVI,
oC —
Rubin Dario
Leads Revolt
of Modernists
Dr. Torres-Rioseco 2
Cites Recent Trends
In Latin-American Poetry
Music Room, March 11. — Dr.
Arturo Torres-Rioseco, in the fifth
lecture of the Flexner series, dis-
cussed The -Cosmopolitans—Ruben
Dario and Modernism. The South
American poets moved from a ro-
mantic to a cosmopolitan and mod-
ernistic trend in. poetry, followed
after 1918 by a “post war” period.
‘The variety..of poetic interests re-
vealed the artistic expression of the
Latin-Americans, for, Dr. Torres-
Rioseco said, although material
wealth may decay, the countries
‘will never lose the splendid culture
inherited from sixteenth and seven-
tednth century Spain.
Therebellion against romanti-
cism which -was started by the
young poets in 1882 resulted from a
dissatisfaction with the over-exu-
berance and tropical nature of the
romantic poetry. The pioneers
sought new worlds and wanted,
above all, to be original. They had
for their fundamental aim “art for
art’s. sake” and, as their name
“‘modernists” suggests, veered away
from all traditional forms and con-
‘cepts of poetry. The French, who
had long been the “masters of aes-
thetic thought in Europe,” were in-
fluential, but with a cosmopolitan
outlook they also turned to Japan,
Scandinavian mythology, Pre - Ra-
phaelite England, Chinese symbol-
ism, and numerous other foreign
eultures, for their inspiration.
Ruben Dario, one of the leading
figures of the movement, turned
+ contemporary Spain to the
iddle ages, then to Victor Hugo,
Shakespeare, Whitman, Poe and
other sources for his poetic theme.
Later, in seeking the meaning of
Continued on Page Four
Self-Government
The Self-Government As- ©
sociation takes great pleas-
ure in announcing the elec-
tion of Virginia Nicholls for
president next year.
Reverend Stewart
Leads League Group
Man Must Seek to Approach
Ideals of Christian Life
In Non-Ideal World
Common Room, March 9.
“Christianity is dangerous,” stated
the Reverend Donald Stewart, rec-
tor of the First ,Presbyterian
Church, Chapel Hill, North Caro-
lina, in an informal talk opening
the Bryn Mawr League Confer-
ence. A picnic Sunday noon and a
chapel service completed the con-
ference.
Pointing out the idealism of
Christianity, Dr. Stewart demon-
strategie that we must make an
endless compromise between our
ideals and the conditions of a non-
ideal world. There is danger in
taking refuge in the tranquility of
the Christian faith.
The relation of the church to
the community is affected by the
nature of man. Man is not spirit
alone, but is subject to the needs
of the flesh. Within- him there is
a continual struggle between the
pride of .human knowledge and
power, and the fear of economic
insecurity. “Rugged individual-
ism usually results in ragged in-
dividuals,” for society is built on
man’s greed for power. The re-
sult is always an unequal distri-
Continued on Page Six
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, March 14.
Fannie Ratchford on The
Web of Childhood, Deanery,
4.30. Industrial Group Sup-
per, Common Room, 6.30.
Friday, March 15.—Maids
and Porters present Porgy
and Bess, Goodhart Hall,
- 8.80.
Saturday, March. 16. —
Basketball with Rosemont,
Gym,°10 a. m. Porgy and
Bess, Goodhart Hall, 8.30.
Dance for the maids and. por-
ters in the Common Room af-
ter the play. German House
supper before and dance af-
ter the play. Graduate dance,
Gym, 9-1.
Sunday, March 17, — Art.
Club tea and exhibition of
Francis B. Hall, Common
Room, 4.30. Chapel, music
service, Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, March 18.—Flex-
ner lecture, Dr. Torres-Rio-
seco on Social Trends in the
Spanish - American Novel,
Music Room, 8 p. m.
Tuesday March; 19.—Cur-
rent Events, Common Room,
7.30. Science Club, Mr. Pat-
terson on Crystal Structure,
Room III, Dalton, 8.15.
Wednesday, March 20. —
_ Biology department movies,
biology lecture room, Dalton,
7.45.
St. Augustine Fuses
Faith With Reason
Music Room, March 6.—In his
third_lecture, Augustine and_Greek
Thought, Mr.* Erich Frank traced
the origins of the conflict between
faith and reason to the philosophy
of Augustine. Faced with the prob-
lem of reconciling Greek reason
with the mysticism and revelation
of the Christian doctrine, Augus-
tine passed through many crises
before he was able to formulate
the philosophy which established
kim as the founder of Christian
metaphysics. ;
After Greek philosophy reached
its climax with Plato and Aristotle,
the various schools which arose
Continued on Page Five
Rosetta Stones on Taylor Desks Offer
Fragments Rich With Literary Thought
By Elizabeth Crozier, ’41
We have been presented with
the raw materials of literature on
the desks of Taylor where people
have given intimations of their
souls. These are the basic things.
Nothing can be done with any
reality or truth without them. And
the kind of person that can be
drawn from them depends entirely
on the kind of expressions put
down. Some will be better than
others because they contain that
ineffable quality that makes litera-
ture great-or a phrase unforget-
_ table, because it is piercing with
‘thought. Others will remain little
more than statements of fact.
Many things can be learned by
the student of literature from the
carvings on the desks in Taylor.
For instance, the passing —scefie
. and the moods caused by it can be
detected by the changes in verse.
‘There jis an aroma of the naive
past, an immaturity, in the follow-
ing lines of verse, recognizable to
the keen eye and mind as written
many years ago (even without the
_ external evidence : R. H. M. 1925):
I’ve found a friend
Oh, such a friend
I loved him ere I knew him.
Compare that then with the sharp
|neatness and suspence of this Ger-
man verse. The contrast is clear:
Heute nur heute -
Bin ich so schén .. .
(The rest of this was lost because
it was not cut deeply enough.)
Then there is the attempt to es-
tablish: spiritual communion § with
the. other incumbents of the same
seat. -At one desk, the attempt in-
cluded -the whole day. There has
spaces have been left for the dif-
ferent hours. After eight o’clock
K. Hepburn is written. From that
one line alone, we learn the vastly|
important fact that in the early
*twenties classes began at eight in-
stead of nine.
All these things are interesting
as indicative of many things, but}-
most provocative and interesting of
all are the inscriptions of people’s
names. The plain-names and noth-
ing more. They form landmarks
Continued on Page Three |
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| dialectic.
been. written, Who. sits here at, and].
Frank Traces Ideas of Faith,
Reason Through Middle Ages
Circle of Ph Philosophy
Drawn From Anselm,
Augustine to Hegel
Goodhart, March 12.—‘‘The con-
flict between faith and reason was
the main stimulus of medieval
philosophy and is still raging in
one of its most decisive phases to-
day,” declared Erich Frank in the
last of his series of four lectures.
Mr.. Frank traced the development
of the faith-reason problem from
Augustine to modern philosophy,
showing how belief in religion has
served to strengthen metaphysical
theory.
According to Augustine, we be-
lieve in order that we may under-
stand. The converse.-does_not-hold,
although understanding is neces-
sary for faith. Anselm, who lived
at the end of the 11th century, was
the most famous exponent of this
idea. His chief concern was an
ontological proof of the existence
of God, which he based on faith.
The philosophy of Abelard was
based wholly on reason. Because
he attempted to understand faith
in a pagan way, comparing the
trinity to the conceptions of Plato,
his philosophy was resolved into
At this time, Mr. Frank
Continued on Page Six
HEALTH PROBLEM
TO BE DISCUSSED
BY DR. HAMILTON
Dr. Alice- Hamilton will speak
on Health in ‘Industry at an indus-
trial group supper Thursday night,
March 14. Having engaged in an
extended survey of industrial pot-
sons between the years 1910 and
1921 for the United States Depart-
ment of Labor and having been
assistant. professor of industrial
medicine
School, Dr. Hamilton is particu-
larly able to speak on this subject.
| She is in addition the author\of a
book on Jane Addams and several
others on industrial conditions.
at _Harvard-—-Medical}}-
College Entertainment
Discussed in Assembly
Advisory Committee
.
Elected by Students
Suggested as Cure for ‘a
Overlapping of Lectures
Goodhart Hall, March 13.—In
the assembly entitled Time .and
| Variety, Barbara Auchincloss, ’40;
Virginia Nichols, ’41; Virginia
Sherwood, ’41; Pennell Crosby, ’41;
and Sheila Gamble,.’42; discussed
the general dissatisfaction and
problems relating to college enter-
-tainment
ber of events was not considered
BRYN MAWRTERS
MARK HIGH SPOTS
OF NMU EXCURSION
National Maritime Union’s Phil-
adelphia local found its weekly:
meeting invaded by ten landlubbers |
from Bryn Mawr last Monday
night.
but of capitalistic appearance,
were looked on with some suspicion '
at No. 7 South Street, until Kristi
Putnam, ’40, flashed a Philadel-
phia_C. I. O. Industrial Council
membership card.
Gathered in a prominent huddle
on the front benches of the smoky
hall, the Bryn Mawrters were, by
acclamation, allowed to ‘listen—
without ‘voice or vote.” The main
issue of the evening, a problem
involving N.M.U. investigation of
west coast union strife, left the
college representation somewhat
lost, until the chairman personally
clarified. the situation for them
after the meeting.
Most impressive feature of the
meeting was the strict parliamen-
tary procedure, which was not
simply imposed by the chairman,
but known and followed by the
whole membership. Winding up
the meeting, the chairman retailed
the prize “beef” of the week:
Bos’n Johnnie, carrying over 200
pounds and measuring five feet 11
inches, refused a berth with a U.
S. Fruit Liner because the one
offered was five foot six long and
26 inches wide.
Author to Discuss
Brontes’ Childhood!
Miss Fannie. Ratchford will
speak on The Web of Childhood in
the Deanery on Thursday at five
o’clock. The lecture shows how the
game of Branwell’s wooden soldiers
grew into Charlotte and Emily
Bronte’s dream world out of which.
came their novels. The talk)
will be illustrated by manuscripts
loaned by Mrs. Henry H. Bonnell,
of Chestnut Hill. Miss Ratchford is
is the librarian of the Wrenn Li-
brary of Texas University, and is
the author of Legends of Angria
and Two Poems by Emily Bronte.
Tea will be served at 4.30.
Biological “Flicks” -
“Phe biology department ©
will present three moving pic-
ture films in the biology lec-
ture room, Dalton, next Wed-
nesday, March 20. The pic-
tures show: Invertebrates
of a coral reef, Invertebrates
of the Gulf of Maine, and
squid. All members of the
college community who are.
come.
.~ Despite. the ae
tendance at recent events, the num-
The group, mainly A.S.U.|
in the |
‘interested are invited to ||»
too great. The speakers suggested
the institution of a-:small effective
entertainment committee. Such a éo-
ordinating and advisory group
could improve scheduling, and see
that the places on the campus are
put to better use and that better
publicity is arranged for non-Good-
hart entertainment. |
Virginia Nichols, speaking on
the choice of entertainments, sug-
|gested that there be a better rep-
* resentation of student opinion. She
proposed a committee to consist
of five members consisting of one
sophomore, one junior, two seniors
and one graduate student. The
| president of the Undergraduate
| Association should be on the board,
{but should not act as chairman.
| This group should bear more re- _
sponsibility than does the présent
entertainment committee. Its chief
function would lie in its advisory
and correlating capacities. As an
advisor, it would help to gauge
student reaction to speakers and
entertainments proposed by any
individuals, clubs, or departments.
The final decision would not rest
with this committee, because of the
mechanics of bringing a speaker to
the campus and because of the lack
of college funds for entertainment.
_It would also act to correlate pro-
grams of clubs, vocational commit-
tees and entertainment series.
“The problem is not so much to
augment or decrease the present
amount of entertainment,” said
Virginia Sherwood, in her. discus-
sion of the variety and extent in
the present program, “but rather
to create a balance.” In the past
Continued on Page Six
Ping-Pong Balls
To Help Science:
On Tuesday, March 19,
there will be a Science Club
meeting at 8.15, in Room ITI,
Dalton. Mr. Patterson will
talk on Crystal Structure.
He plans to illustrate his
talk with some #«welve dozen
~ ping-pong balls.
Mr. © Patterson’s __ special
field is X-ray analysis of
crystals, but his lecture will
cover the more general as-
pects of crystal structure.
Members of the Science Club
are asked to remain after the
meeting for elections.
Art Club to Exhibit
Hall’s Campus Views
On Sunday, March 17, the Art
Club will hold an exhibition of
paintings by Mr. Francis B. Hall.
Tea will be served. These pic-
tures should be of interest to the
college because the content is en-
tirely campus views and affairs.
Mr. Hall, who has long had.con-"
nections with the college, has ~
painted every building on the
campus and such events as the
May Day procession and Parade
Night. One particularly. interest-
ing picture represents a night
scene of two girls walking through
Rock Arch with the Lantern —
Mr. Hall held an exhibition in
Philadelphia two weeks ago at the
Business Men’s Art Club. He is
rofessionally a tailor of English
triding clothes, but as a hobby, he
e a magician and an artist.
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With “Requireds —
Along side of the valuable criticisms of the required English lit.
and philosophy courses which have been offered in the past few weeks,
we believe a general revaluation of the required course idea is in order.
The system has been backed chiefly on the grounds that it enforces
a discipline in important, but often
unfamiliar, methods of thought, or
that it gives a basic background with which every educated person
should be familiar. In passing,
we would like to assért the opposing,
if unoriginal, argument that neither a method nor a subject matter
can be successfully taught a student whose interests lie elsewhere.
But the main reason for abolition of the required system lies in
the possibilities that. would be opened for a more systematic—and
pleasanter—planning of each student's courses.
The three units left
free (we proposeto keep- Freshmen English) would give play for
closer integration of a student’s major with allied courses, and of her
specialized work as a whole with the general four-year product.
The actual changes involved might run something like this:
1. A preliminary decision as to a general major field would
have to be made by each student
at the end of her freshman year.
This would probably be a good idea anyway, and certainly should
offer no great difficulty, or undue restriction, if the freshman had had
more of her first year free to explore major possibilities.
2. In the light of the student’s expressed interest, she should,
with a member of the faculty, plan what elective and allied courses
would best fill out her background for major work. Since many
freshmen are’ completely unknown to the heads of the departments
in which they are interested, the Freshmen English instructors might
be best qualified to advise at this point.
The aim should be to select
a fairly broad background course of study on which to base, or often
to choose,-the particular field for specialized major work.
3, It would probably be-necessary to require-each student~to
take at least two courses completely outside her major or allied field.
Undoubtedly the present three required courses, Science, Philosophy,
and English Literature, are of genuine value to many students—and
to many who might never have taken them if they had not been
required. The student's responsibility to select at least two real
electives should not be lost sight of in a general rush toward speciali-
zation.
In Philadelphia
THEATRES
ERLANGER: Tobacco Road
with John Barton and Mary Perry.
FORREST: Katherine Cornell
and Francis Lederer in No Time
For Comedy.
LOCUST: Margin For Error
with Doris wt and Sheldon
onto
ALDINE: The , fi Dr. Ehr-
lich’s Magic Bullet with Edward G.
Robinson, Ruth Gordon, and Otto
- Kruger.
ARCADIA: Fred Astaire and
_ Eleanor Powell in Broadway Mel-
ody of 1940.
BOYD: Raymond Massey and
Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Illi-
EARLE: Gone With The Wind,
FOX: Grapes of Wrath with
—
story, Seventeen, with Jackie Coo-
per, Betty Field, and Otto Kruger.
KEITH’S: Northwest Passage,
with Spencer Tracy and Robert
Young.
NEWS: The Princess Comes
Across with Carole Lombard and
Fred MacMurray.
PALACE: Carole Lombard and
Brian Aherne in Vigil in the Night.
STANLEY: Strange Cargo with
Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian
Hunter and Peter Lorre. _
STANTON: The Night of
Nights with Olympe Bradna, Pat
O’Brien and Roland Young.
STUDIO: Yvonne Printemps
and Pierre Lips in Three
‘SUBURBAN
ARDMORE: Thursday:
Brother Rat and the Baby, with
Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
|Monday: Joan Bennett and Doug-
KARLTON: Booth Tarkington’s
Opinion
News Editorial Overlooks
Recent Russian-Nazi
Relationship
To the Editors of
The College News:
As a subscriber to the News may
I point out something that was
torial against aid to Finland, and
seems also to have been generally
omitted from the campus meetings
on that subject? This is the
change in Russian-German rela-
tions beginning ‘with the Pact of
last summer.
There may be much more _in-
volved in this than Russian aban-}.
donment of “collective security.”
It is one thing for Russia to aban-
don the idea of working’ with the
political democracies, England and
France. It is another thing for
Russia to move towards the side of
Nazi Germany, even if only to a
limited degree.
The future of Russian-German
agreements cannot be known now,
and any interpretation of their
significance must be open-to doubt
and uncertainty.. But this Com-
munist-Nazi relationship is im-
portant in the minds of many cri-
tics of Russian foreign policy.
Conclusions that avoid.or obscure
it seem inadequate and unpérsua-
sive to me.
The possibility of war between
England and Russia has been prop-
erly pointed out. Have the people
who do not wish to be “linked in
any way to the side of England” in
this eventuality faced the further
possibility,—that they may find
themselves indirectly “linked’’ to
Germany and hoping for the vic-
tory of Nazism over a _ political
democracy?
BETTINA LINN.
las Fairbanks Jr. in Green Hell.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Deanna
Durbin, Jackie Cooper and Melvyn
Douglas in That Certain Age.
NARBERTH: Thursday:
Rulers—of—the—Sea,-with— Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret
Lockwood. Friday and Saturday:
Shop Around the Corner, with
James Stewart and Margaret Sul-
lavan.
SEVILLE: Thursday, Friday
and Saturday: Charles Laughton
Jin The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Sunday: Double feature, Private
Detective and Beware Spooks.
Monday and Tuesday: Joel Mc-
Crea and Nancy Kelly in He Mar-
‘ried His Wife. Wednesday: Allan
Jones, Mary Martin and Walter
Connolly in The Great Victor Her-
bert.
SUBURBAN:
through Wednesday:
Victor Herbert.
WAYNE: Thursday, Friday
and Saturday: The Great Victor
Herbert.
ART
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Local
Haverford College will hold an
exhibition of American artists’
prints over Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of this week, in Found-
er’s Hall.
Harcum Junior College is show-
ing, until March 29, the unusual
glass painting of Clinton Beagary.
He has not given a local one-man
show for several years, while he
has been experimenting in the tech-
‘nique. Emotional oil paintings of
imaginative jungle scenes, also by
Beagary, form a large part of the
exhibit. *,Treetop People, Adven-
Thursday
The Great
vasses,
At the Bryn Mawr Art Center,
Haverford and Polo roads, Henry
Lindenmeyer’s paintings i“ be
seen until March 21.
In Philadelphia
The current exhibition of the
much-talked-of Russian sculptor,
Alexander Archipenko, at the Art
rather obscured in last week’s: edi~
ture and Tabu, are among the cans lis
ov Michels
The college wishes to ex-
tend its sincere sympathy to
Mr. Walter C. Michels on the
death of his wife, Lorraine *
E. Michels, on March 7.
Student Praises Required
Course in Philosophy
As Stimulating
To the Editor of the College News:
I should like to defend the Re-
quired Philosophy Course as it now
exists. Not that I feel that the
suggestion made by J. M. B. is
without foundation; for there are
many students who would like’ this
type of course. But, on the other
hand, there are many who have
benefited or who are benefiting,
from the course at present for the
‘very reason that she sees for
changing the course.
During the controversy over the
course in First Year English Liter-
ature A. L. A. wrote a letter to the
News in which she remarked that
there is a certain inherent pleas-
ure and satisfaction involved in
doing one’s own correlating as be-
tween courses. And there are
many of us-who prefer to have
the professor give a course in
whatever way he chooses within
the outlines laid down by his de-
partment, in order that we may
get out of it what we choose.
Courses which are intended to cor-
relate and think for the student
are dangerous. We have come to
college to learn to think; our
thinking processes, therefore, are
not inéapable of discovering and
fixing in our minds the connec-
tions that there are between his-
tory and literature, or the litera-
tures of different countries, or be-
tween philosophy, science, and
politics, or whatever one likes. The
relationships remain more firmly
fixed in one’s mind when the indi-
vidual’s explorative curiosity has
sought them out.
The Philosophy Department at
Bryn Mawr is well-known for the
divergent teaching methods of its
members. Smoking-room bull ses-
sions establish, however, not only
these divergencies, but divergen-
cies of opinion or feeling obtained
by each participant in the course
‘as a result of her background or
her intellectual interests as com-
pared with those of somebody else.
This, if nothing else, proves the
value of such a course. The pro-
fessor puts into it what he will;
the student correlates it with. what-
ever other course she takes in her
major field or otherwise. A course
designed to do the correlation fof
the individual would be impossible.
We are fortunate in having an
educational system which enables
us to use our mental powers to
whatever slight extent we may be
able to, gaining perhaps less grasp
in many cases of the infinite con-
nections a field like philosophy has
with other fields, but knowing at
least that we have taught our-
selves to utilize the information
that we have and that we do not
need somebody to do it for us.
L. B. M., 740.
Alliance, 251 South 18th street, has
called forth a good deal of enthusi-
asm from-the critics. His forms
are graceful and suggestive ab-
stractions in many varied materi-
als, some tinted, It has been said
that his technique combines sculp-
ture and painting as one art. His
works have a lively quality, that
might be called plastic inner life,
which differentiates them from
4more commonly seen modernist ec-
centricities. The exhibit will re-
main until March 17.
irds, in very original drawings
an i s, 1810 Walnut street, all
this month. Another out-of-the-or-}-
dinary March exhibit is called
“London Transport.” It consists
of British advertising posters by
such artists as Dame Laura Knight,
Frank Brangwyn, E. McKnight
Kaufer, and is on view at the
Franklin Institute.
Conrad Roland, can be-seen. at}.
Cat : 7
Dr. Torres-Rioseco, the Flexner
; lecturer, spoke on Pan-American-
ism, its history and the prospects.
for its future development. Con-
sidering the European conflict, he.
believes the necessity for mutual
understanding between the United
States -and Latin-America is
greater than ever. Toward this
end, he suggested more intelligent.
cultural and economic co-opera-
tion, the only basis on which a
stable and friendly political rela-
tionship can be founded.
Dr. Torres-Rioseco outlined some-
of the steps which must be taken
if Pan-Americanism is to progress.
A cultural exchange should be de-
veloped. Spanish should be re--
quired in our schools as is English
inthe schools of Latin-America,
where it is fast replacing French
as the language of culture. Inter=
American relations should be con-
ducted on an equal basis, especially
in economic fields where the ten--
dency has been for U. S. industrial
concerns to look upon South
America as a gold mine to be ex-
ploited to its fullest extent, while
the republics on the other hand
have tended to regard the United
States simply as a rich uncle, the
source of unlimited loans. He
praised the equalitarianism of the.
reciprocal trade agreements, which
opes -will be so developed as
ake the place of South Amer--
ica’s trade with Europe, particu-
larly that conducted under the
barter system of the Nazis.
There are four reasons which ac-
count for European trade suc--
cesses in South America: The bar-
ter agreements, cheaper produc-
tion methods, a better understand-
ing of the customer’s psychology,
and a willingness to leave South
American" politics alone. The
United States’ most sipnat fail-
ures have been on the last two
scores. We must try to produce
for the needs of South America in-
stead of using it as.a dumping
ground for our unwanted sur-
plusses, and we must learn the
diplomatic approach. The “high-
pressure salesman” is a failure
when dealing with Latin-Ameri-
cans. Our representatives should
speak the language and understand
the culture of the men with whom
they are dealing.
Dr. Torres-Rioseco also briefly
traced the development of” Pan-
Americanism. During the years
when the Platt Amendment was in
force and marines were sent to
protect United States’ interests in
Central America, Pan-American-
ism was a farce, but with the con-
ference at Montevideo the dream
of the great South American pa-
triot, Simon Bolivar, began to
take shape. Dr. Torres-Rioseco
called Franklin Roosevelt and Hull
the first North American states-
men ever to understand Bolivar
and, therefore, the sits of Latin-
America. -
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Taylor Desks Provide
Source for Scholars
Continued from Page One
and preclude all anonymity. Nor
is it pure blatant egotism on the
individual’s part that leads her to
inscribe her namie on the desks of
Taylor. Rather, these are memen-
toes of each individual’s shoal of
time here, in the great ocean of
eternity. Most of. the writers of
them have gone on—where, we do
not. know, but their names are left
with us forever, or at least until
the desks are scraped again. There
_ are N.. Stevenson; N. Perera; Syl-
via Knox (written many times) ;
Grant, her desk;*Cynthia Duncan;
I. Tucker; R. Knight; and “and
St. Patrick took up the ring and
the crozier,” which we happen to
know is a quotation from a book.
,4 These names are very interesting
and very important, in a historical
sense. The bricklayer can be seen
laying his bricks. But there is
another group of inscriptions more
fascinating and more challenging
to the interpreter of man and the
builder-up of literature. Timeless
in their eternity, universal in their
applicability, though paradoxically
the most individual of all, are the
ones that indeed reveal the human
soul, the intangible mind of the
person, her capacity for feeling
something and her reaction to her
reaction to life. One of these will
remain forever tantalizing — the
Room E. Fragment: In fact, we
suggest it as a subject for a doc-
tor’s thesis:
“And she came all the way for this
And parted at last without a kiss
The fair hills of holy Ireland.”
And another that has lost its pow-
er because of illegibility is one
which begins “Who lingers in the
morning that at night . . .”
And then the strangely preg-
nant lecture of that day:
They called him Ed
He was so dead
That’s what he said.
It would be difficult in most cases
to say that the particular inscrip-
tion was forced out. of the writer’s
soul by the class she was in, but
only the frustrated despair caused
by Freshman English could have
produced “Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad,” and
“The mills of the gods grind slow
and exceeding small.”
There is something very appeal-
ing about the mind that would pro-
duce holy sauce, and why Oysters
was written on a history of art
desk remains inexplicable. _ There
is a little-child perverseness in the
one word Cant’ written in sprawl-
ing letters—or is this a moving
soul realizing perhaps with the bit-
terness of the first time its limita-
tions? And it could only have
been a person fascinated with put-
ting words together to form an
~ idea—the conscious artist — that
wrote “the torn look of spring.”
A tolerantly bored attitude
which presages the divine sense of
humor is evident in:
“The darkness of November drench
Descends on elementary French.”
A quality which should belong
to more of ‘the gods and all of
men shines through the limerick:
“Greek went to Taylor
Taylor said Euripides
Greek said Eumenides
Taylor said Achilles you
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J. Petts to Direct
School of Dancing
The Berkshire School of Danc-
ing will open this summer at}
Lenox, ‘ Massachusetts, under the
direction of Miss Josephine Petts.
She will teach dancing and also
a special course for teachers.
Mr. Hans Schumann will be the
Director of Music. Mr. Schumann
who has taught at the ‘University
of Pennsylvania and who is. known
as’ a lecturer, composer, .and con-
cert artist, will also give a course
in music composition in relation to
dancing and a series of lectures on
the concerts of the Berkshire Mu-
sic Festival.
Miss Petts will be assisted by
Harriette Lapp, of Agnes Scott
College, by Janet Seeley, Bryn
Mawr, ’27, assistant professor of
Physical Education at William
Smith College, and by/ Lydia Ly-
man, ’38, of Bryn Mawr. The six
weeks’ program of the school open-
ing July 8, will include dancing,
gymnastics, and swimming, with
instruction in riding, piano, French
and Germany, if desired, as well as
the Teaching Course.
4
Oh, what a Calamachus!”
But probably the most moving
and penetrating of all the inscrip-)
tions in its very long suffering is
the imprecation, “How long, O
Lord?” The idea of time was very
frequently expressed, each time
with a_ different manifestation.
The Rhoads telephone booth offers:
“Time staggers on
And so do I
I won’t stagger quite as long as
time
“Ss But Til try.”
which someone else a entitled
Who Cares?
“God, I am tired of higher edu-
cation in this squeaky seat” prob-
ably epitomises Taylor in all its
manifestations. Nor ‘is all the
boredom on one side. On a pro-
fessor’s-desk there is:‘what appears
to be a game of aughts-and-
crosses in full swing. However,
this may be too bold an interpreta-
tion of these symbols. The text-
book considers this in the light of
neolithic pot inscriptions, perhaps
parallelled by the meanders
brought by the Danubian peoples
circa the protogeometric period.
This is not nor cannot hope to be
an exhaustive study of all the in-
scriptions in Taylor. We feel that
the task should be placed in more
competent hands. Nor has the task
cause of the fragmentary state of
many of the remains. Bad and
unscientific restoration of the
desks in Taylor has deleted many
things which would serve not only
as time-markers, but also as: clues
to the literary values of the age.
The student must consider the
problem of the names: Are they
truly the famous people we have
mentioned er was it the fifth or
sixth king of Crete or Michael Ire-
land? Who wrote Hepburn’s name
on that desk anyway?
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g| Loses Y ankee Dislike
Backs Pan-American Policy
Of Free Intercourse
In Trade, Culture
Dr. Arturo Torres-Rioseco, the
Flexner Lecturer for 1940, has
been inthe United States almost
constantly since his college days.
In an interview to the News he ad-
mitted that he had a ‘preconceived
unfavorable impression of this
country when he went north as an
instructor at Williams College.
Brought up in the South American
tradition, he came to the college
with an inbred disapproval of Yan-
kee ways. Twenty years of con-
tact. with the people of North
America have destroyed this illu-
sion. Williams was partially re-
sponsible, but Dr. Torres-Rioseco
said that his education was ob-
tained equally from outside read-
ing and associations.
In his youth, Dr. Torres-Rioseco
said, he would have scoffed at the
idea of adopting the role of pro-
| moter of Pan-American. relations,
and yet in recent years he has
held many posts which have furth-
ered an inter-American good neigh-
bor policy. From Williams he
passed into the middle west, receiv-
ing his doctorate at the University
of Minnesota, where he afterwards
became professor of romance lan-
res. As a professor at the
University of California, Columbia
University and then as Flexner
Lecturer at Bryn Mawr he has
taught the literature of South
America. :
Dr. Torres-Rioseco has not lim-
ited his activities to the academic
world. As a director of the Insti-
tuto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana and as president of
the Comisién de Intercambio y
Cooperaci6n he and several other
professors of Latin-American af-
fairs have encouraged cultural in-
tercourse between the two conti-
nents. The Instituto was created
two years ago, at which time it
met in Mexico City. Its supporters
hope, by suggesting methods of
teaching Latin-American affairs
and- by the exchange of students,
to be able to foster interest in the
United States. Besides this, Dr.
Torres is a member of the Mexican
Academy of Arts and Sciences, of
the Hispanic Society of America,
and representative in the
United States of the Association
for Intellectual Co-operation of the
Chilean government.
When asked the best way to pro-
mote friendly relations between the
two continents, Dr. Torres-Rioseco
took a firm stand. He said this
could be done on a cultural basis
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The Reverend Donald Stewart,
rector of the First Presbyterian
Church of Chapel.Hill, N. C., spoke
in chapel on “the Christian com-
promise.” The. only -way to over-
as it exists today is by honest re-
exposure of ourselves to the im-
pacts which our civilization entails.
The Christian is forced to com-
promise without being rigorously
idealistic or completely acquie-
pecent to the status quo. Orthodoxy
emphasizes the rational too much
without reaching those depths of
the Christian religion.
The Reverend Stewart pointed
out that Christianity entered the
world as a “sacrament of disturb-
ance” and that Christ both shocked
and convinced the age and culture
in which He lived. His contempo-
raries discerned in Him that which
would make it impossible for hu-
man, passions ‘to continue’ un-
-bridled and undisciplined.
far sooner than on a political one.
However, he was warm in his sup-
port of Roosevelt and his Pan-
American good neighbor policy.
He commended the President’s and
Mr. Hull’s interest in South Amer-
ican cultural - advancement, aside
from their commercial arrange-
*|ments. He pointed out as an_ex-
ample of their diplomacy the posi-
tion they took in the Mexican oil
situation, adding that Theodore
Roosevelt’s attitude would have
been quite different.
But there are numerous _hin-
drances to close political and eco-
nomic relations between the two
continents. South America fears
and rightly so, Dr. Torres-Rioseco
says, that numefous commercial
agreements would result in North
America’s absorption of her “good
neighbor.” Consequently, more
emphasis should be laid on the cul-
tural aspect. In the last year the
state department has promoted
this idea and for three years’ the
University of California has been
Urged by Stewart}
come the anemia of Christianity-
German Melodrama
Followed by Wild
Wearing Waltzing
By Margaret Magrath, ’42
Last Friday night the aesthetic
calrti of the Music Room was shat-
tered by bursts of applause. Emil
and his detectives held the Bryn
Mawr and Haverford audience
spellbound as they tracked.the rob-
ber in his sinister black. bowler
through the streets of Berlin. The
German dialogue jangled harshly
on some ears but occasional Eng-
lish titles and the liyely expressive
faces of the actors put the story
across. At the end the little town
of Neustadt turned out with brass
band and cheers to welcome the re-
turning heroes and the audience
was left with a comfortable glow
that carried over to the waltzing
party which followed in the Com-
mon Room.
There the lights were dim and
the floor crowded with . couples
swinging to the Strauss waltzes
which the victrola poured forth.
For a while the battle was fierce,
and the timid and wise fled to the
edges of the room to avoid being
winged or trodden by more ener-
getic souls. Then punch and cook-
ies in the May Day Room began to
exert their attraction and the
steady stream which headed up-
stairs, mopping their brows and
murmuring “water, water,” eased
the strain upon the dance floor. The
waltzes were perhaps more popular
with Bryn Mawr than Haverford
because an occasional, manly voice
was heard pitifully begging for
something else, something slow.
The general feeling, however, was
that many more parties of this in-
formal kind should be given.
negotiating a system of student
exchange. In this way, Dr. Tor-
res-Rioseco explained, misunder-
standings which exist among the
people of both continents may be
removed — misunderstandings due
to mutual ignorance of each other’s
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Maids, Grads, Deutch|
Plan Gala Week-End
The week end of March 15 will
be one of widespread entertain-
ment. On both Friday and Satur-
day nights there will be perform-
ances of George Gershwin’s Porgy
and Bess. The production, which
has been directed by Fifi Garbat,
41, is the most ambitious that has
ever been presented by the..maids
and porters. Tickets are seventy-
five cents and‘one dollar. After
the Saturday night performance,
there will be a dance given for the
cast in the Common Room.
On March 16, the gym, cleverly
disguised by a St. Patrick’s Day
motif, will be the scene of a pro-
gram dance to be given by the
graduate students. The dance will
last from nine to one and there will
be no cutting. On the committee
in charge of the proceedings are
Muriel. Albigese, LaVerne Loch-
moeller, and Dorothea Peirs, with
Jane Bellows in charge of the dec-
orations. es
The German House, on the same
Saturday evening, will give a sup-
per followed later in the evening
by a dance. This party is to be
very exclusive with “just enough
men” and the music will consist of
waltzes, waltzes and waltzes.
Recent Poetry Trends
Cited in Latin America
Continued from Page One
the new world, ‘Dario dealt with
contemporary issues as well as
purely poetic themes. In the ca-
pacity of a civic bard he wrote
Salutation of the Optimist and -a
song, To Roosevelt.
In his poetry Dario revealed the
three dominant characteristics of
modernistic poetry: native sensi-
bility, a similarity in artistic forms,
and a growing consciousness of ra-
cial values. Chocano, one of his
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same ideas, but also had an inter-
est in the universal theme, a predi-
lection for the magnificent. Dr.
Torres-Rioseco quoted him saying,
“Walt Whitman has the north, but
I have the south.” Calling himself
the “poet of America,” his subjects
extended from the days of the con-
quest to the present.
Other modernists were two Mex-
icans, Nervo, who had in his poetry
a..tvague tone of Mexican pla-
teaus,” and Gonzalez Martinez,
who wrote Wring the Neck of the
Swan. In this poem, Mexican in
its simplicity and yet unexpected
subtlety, the swan as a symbol is
replaced by the owl, .“interpreting
the mystery of night.”
After the World War, the mod-
ernistic and cosmopolitan influences
in poetry subsided, and there arose
a “literary anarchy”® in’ which
every poet represented his own
school. In the period of this “post
war” poetry, Pablo Neruda ap-
peared as one of the leading poets
of the Spanish language. In such
poems as the Residence on Earth,
he produced a melodious effect by
a combination of endless repetitions
and unbridled imagination.
Women, always important in the
life of Spanish countries, have re-
vealed their literary capabilities
during this period. Gabriela Mis-
tral made her poetry a mirror for
her intense and tragic life, while
the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou,
the poet laureate of South Ameri-
ca, was permeated with a “healthy
paganism” and a supreme interest
in love. Alfonsina Storni in such
poems as Running Water had an
almost classic perfection.
followers, laid emphasis on the.
Kent Discusses Arts
Relation to World,
In Philosophy Club
March 7.
“There aré two main functions in
Common Room,
|the field of aesthetics, contempla-
tion and action,” declared Martha
Kent, ’41, in her paper on the
Metaphysics of the Artist, which
she. read to members of the Phil-
osophy Club. Miss Kent discussed
the problem of the artist’s rela-
tion to the world about him and
also dealt with the problem of
practical and fine art as_ pro-
pounded by John Dewey.
The artist stands between im-
manent mysticism and pantheism:
while in the act: of creating he
identifies himself with ‘the object.
Completely occupied with this
world, he has no need of strong
religious convictions, but allows all
his‘ immediate emotions to run
their course even when they cause
him pain. ‘
With selective intensity, he mag-
him, as dispassionately as a scien-
tist. This quality is not to be
found in all men, and thus to some
extent the artist is born and not
made.
“Here Miss Kent’s views differ
from those held by Dewey, who-be-
lieves that the distinction between
the artist and other men is purely
artificial. All human activity is
classified as art by Dewey and
the only difference between the ar-
tist, the scientist, and the philoso-
pher are their modes of expression.
To prove this point he goes back
to the art of primitive peoples
when the distinction between ar-
tistic and utilitarian objects was
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Thoyght is an integral part of a
work of. art, Miss Kent stated.
Naturally the work of art will
meet popular approval when the
thought behind it is familiar, and
therefore paintings dealing with
religious subjects were most widely
appreciated when the power of the
church was at its peak. Unfortu-
nately, the genius who gees ahead
of his period runs the risk of
being ignored by the public of his
own time, and thus William Blake
and Vincent Van Gogh did not re-
ceive the recognition due them un-
til years after their deaths.
Art is not necessarily relatéd to
the period in which it originates,
but should have a ‘message for
peoples of all times and countries.
*Art, moreover, should suggest
more than it portrays. As evi-
dence for this Miss Kent turned to
a portrait by Romney which ap-
pears superficial to our eyes today
because its author put in the work
all he felt or knew about his sub-
ject. Miss -Kent then referred to
the “infinite magnitude” of Teon-
ardo da Vinci who has provided
nifies. the objects he observes about}/spiration for later centuries be-
achievement.”
The subject matter of the artis
may be ugly, Miss Kent observed,
but it will be acceptable to the ob-
server if the artist has commented
upon it, in this way suggesting a
context. In a _ natural object
beauty implies the approximation
of an ideal, differing here from
ethics in that the ethical ideal
must have intrinsic moral value.
cause he aimed at a “goal at
Bryn Mawr Seconds
Lose to Hoopsters
From Beaver 20-18
Monday, March 11. — Bryn
Mawvr’s. second basketball team lost
to Beaver in a close game which
ended with a 20-18 score. At one
point the almost
equal teams
locked themselves in a stalemate.
The tendency of both sides toward
defense instead of offense made
this equality more agonizing than
spectacular.
From the beginning both teams
fought hard and furiously, but
neither had the accuracy to break
through the clinging guards and
score neatly, Passes fell short and
openings were few. Beaver’s more
successful guard-to-forward pass-
ing and_ occasional long-range
shooting by Lewis gave them their
two-point advantage. Even a great
many changes of Bryn Mawr play-
ers failed to pull the game out of
its slump and our second team just
couldn’t “hit its stride.”
BRYN MAWR BEAVER
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Hardenbergh ...... Sas Sree Koehler
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Substitutions
Bryn Mawr: Bechtold, f.; Finger, f.;
Jacob, g.; Auchincloss, g.
Points-Scored
Bryn Mawr: Martin, 7; Hardenbergh, 8;
Matthai, 3.
Beaver: Lewis, 14; Koehler, 6.
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Student: Jobs
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and in most men’s colleges, stu-
dent employment bureaus have
been established to make it possible
for the poorer student to pay his
necessary college expenses. The
directors of universities welcome
these ageneies, since they cut down
the scholarship demand and enable
more-students to attend college.
The amount paid out by these
agencies and the amount earned by
students through other campus jébs
astounds the undergraduate_/who
flies through college with no great
financial care. For instance, in
Williams College last year 400 stu-
dents earned 68 thousand dollars
in 676 jobs on campus, represent-
ing 99 different ways of earning
money. Undergraduates there, as
well as at other colleges, also work
over the summer to’help make ends
meet in the winter. In the summer
+ member not, Lord, Purcell; Come
| both ’42, will sing solos from Han>
CHAPEL FEATURES
The Choir on Sunday next will
give the following program: Re-
dearest Lord, Bach; Nune. Dimittis,
Tallis; O bone Jesu and Cruci-
fixus,, Palestrina; and Look down,
O Lord, Byrde.
Louise Allen and Ann Updegraff,
del’s Messiah, and Mendelssohn’s
Praise thou the Lord willbe sung
by five members of the Choir. Miss
Helen. Rice, -Athleen Jacobs, and
Harriet Case’ will be heard in a
trio for violin, flute and piano and
will play the Andante from the
E flat Sonata of Bach. ;
coHege expenses through agencies.
A manager of’a laundry or food
agency’ can earn. anywhere. from
900 to.1000 dollars a year, while a
salesman of one agency may earn
anywhere from 40 to 200 dollars a
year by salary and commissions.
According to a poll .taken at
Swarthmore, a coeducational col-
lege, students are financed chiefly
by parents, scholarships, and sum-
Page Five
Varsity Basketball :
Overcomes Beaver
Ligon and Squibb Skyrocket
Score as Opponents Fail -
To Block Passes
Monday, March 11.—The Var-
sity pulled out of a preliminary
slump to win against Beaver Col-
lege, 47-25. Beaver’s game was
marked by an incredible number of
fouls, by frequent shooting and by
less accurate passing than Bryn
Mawr has: heretofore encountered.
The Varsity found it hard at first
to adjust to their tactics and were
not sure of.each other’s positions.
However, Bryn Mawr led 2-16 at
the start of the second half and
with, sharp shooting both Ligon,
40, and Squibb, ’41, sent the score
skyward. Our passes were good
and: the forwards noticeably quick
to tackle back on their guards.
With the Rosemont College game
looming ahead as the last stepping
stone to an undefeated season,. it
is a comfortable feeling to know
that although the Beaver game
was lacking in vitality, it provides
firm footing for_the last leap to
-grew
Frank Discusses Greek
And Christian Thought
Continued from Pare ay)
skeptical of visibl¥ phe-
nomena and became primarily in-
terested in the human soul. Its
firmness, calmness,’ and serenity
became their ultimate aim. The
growth of mystic cults met the
general demand for salvation and
agnosticism attempted to reconcile
mysticism with the rationalism of
early Greek philosophy. Mr.
Frank pointed out that- men who
had come within the Greek or Ro-
man orbit were thus prepared for
the Christian faith. - Augustine
himself passed through all the
phases of Greek philosophy before
finding peace in the Christian doc-
trine.
For Augustine, the principle of
reason sufficed so long as_ this
world existed as the sole object
of understanding. When-~ man
could no longer find the ultimate
aim of life in this world, then rea-
son, “thrown back on its own re-
sources,” led, of necessity, to a
skeptical despair ‘of attaining any
solution. ;
To the early philosophers, God
the Christian faith. “The human
mind, when transgressing the lim-
its of reality, needs a practical
faith upon which to base its pre-
suppositions.” To Augustine faith
prevails over reason, but reason is:
indispensable to faith.
Although Augustine accepted the
truth of Greek rational thinking,
he infused into it a new conscious-
ness of the form of reality. Also
the idea of creation out of noth-
ingness as opposed to Plato’s idea
of creation out of chaos necessi-
tates a new concept of the soul.
Augustine conceived the soul or
ego as a Christian one elucidated
by reason. Since the individual
soul springs from the creative will
.of God, its essence remains an in-
comprehensible mystery to Augus-
tine. :
The Augustinian conception of
personality is correlative to the
conception of moral will. The evil
in man does not result from his ~
body but from his will: he is free
to make his own decisions. Free-
dom of will is a serious danger to
man, but it is at the same time the
presupposition of his personality.
Augustine’s conceptions of time
and history were entirely new and
are listed among the. greatest
is ‘ victory! was easily understood through rea-| achievements of philosophy.: He
of ’38, about half the Williams men|mer jobs. Here stydent-managed BRYN MAWR BEAVER | Son. But as soon as He is placed| held that the past and the future
who worked reported that alto- projects are comparatively unim- Ligon teerereyaey , DERE rar ne Patten beyond this world we cannot know] exist solely in the consciousness of
gether they earned almost 26 thou-} portant. Six students- reported that Squibb trite poise yetisten | atm: Augustine found his answer} the ego. ~The history- of -individ-
sand ‘dollars. The college bureau} they were financially independent, | Martin (c.) ....... tierce. “arin | to this problemi in the teachings] ual life in which everything is new ‘
found that the total earning power) the money being obtained from’jobs| Meyer ....... Pine sepag Hill | of St. Paul: “We are always con-| and never before created -is there- t)
of the student body for a whole} outside college. The summer earn- Bryn Saws: Uaon, 34: Norris, 9; | fident for we walk by faith and|fore fraught with metaphysical
year was more than 100 thousand|ings for girls average 125 dollars | Squibb, 14. not by sight.” We can believe in| meaning. In the first attempt at a
dollars. Besides this money earned,
Williams college gave almost 55
thousand dollars in scholarships,
endowment loans and annual gifts.
In a larger university, such as
Princeton, about_one third of the
student body earns part of their
LLL La!
THEY’RE OFF! Streaking down the mile-long icy trough of the
Mt. Van Hoevenberg run at Lake Placid, N. Y. with “Bucky” Wells
driving. Fifteen breath-taking turns to go. Fifteen chances to taste
the supreme thrills of speed. But in smoking it’s different, very
, different. “It’s slow burning that makes a cigarette tick with me,”
' “Bucky” Wells says. And he means what he says, because slow-burn-
ing Camels have been his cigarette for ten years.
per person, though one girl re-
ported clearing 700 dollars running’)
a beach stand. For men, the aver-
age summer wage is 140 dollars,
obtained by working as anything
from a ditchdigger to a ship’s pur-
ser.
Beaver: Patten, 4; Williston, 21,
es women’s colleges, the demand
for financial aid is so much less
than in men’s that tne employment
bureau is a rare thing. In most
women’s colleges there is a self-
Continued on Page Six
FOR THE THRILLS
EXTRA MILDONESS
EXTRA COOLNESS
AND EXTRAS IN SMOKING —
EXTRA FLAVOR
the love of God only if we act in
accordance with it.
In this doctrine of a faith which
works through love alone, Augus-
tine found the metaphysical basis
of reason. For him the task. of
reason was to élucidate and clarify
general philosophy of history, he
maintained that the real subject
of history was mankind and the
comprehension of it as a_ unity.
The ultimate aim of history is the
realization of the kingdom of God
on earth.
come
«ee CAMEL
AND EXTRA SMOKING—I PICK
THE SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE aa
F you want to know how it feels to go
80 miles an hour on a racing bob-sled,
“Bucky” Wells of Keene Valley, N. Y.
can tell you. He’s done it plenty of times.
He likes those. speed-thrills on a racing
bob. But when it comes to cigarettes,
“Bucky” Wells is on the slow side...the
slow-burning side. That means Camels!
“I’ve smoked Camels for years, and I
know they burn slower,” “Bucky” says.
“There’s cool comfort in a Camel. Mild-
ness — more flavor. And — slow burning
means extra smoking. Yes, penny for
penny, Camels are the best cigarette buy.
‘I’d walk a mile for a Camel!’”
Why would anybody feel that way
about his cigarette? Try a Camel and see.
Camels are a matchless blend of costlier
tobaccos...slow-burning. They give more
pleasure per puff, more puffs per pack.
SS
In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS
burned 25% slower than the average of %
the 15 other of the largest-selling brands
tested—slower than any of them. That
means, on the average, a smoking plus
“ONE-TWO-BOB! ONE-TWO-BOB!” And, as the crew bobs,
“Bucky” picks up speed ...60—70—80 miles an hour, driving high on
the glassy wall of ice as he swings the quarter-ton steel sled around
the curve. But in the field of cigarettes, this daring speedster gives
the laurels to the quality of ‘slow burning that he finds in Camels.
You can tell by their mild, mellow taste that Camels burn cooler,
slower~and scientists have confirmed this. (See panel, right.)
suppress Aristotle’s metaphysics,
Page Six
%
THE COLLEGE NEWS
betel” l
de in
Philosophy Outlined ~~ |
_From Anselm to Hegel
Continued from Page One
said, philosophy was no longer en-
gaged in a search for truth, and
faith was forced to take refuge in
mysticism. The founder of medie-
val mysticism was St. Bernard,
who opposed the doctrine of Abel-
ard. St. Bernard united Chris-
tianity and made no distinction be-
tween faith and reason or soul and.
body.
After St. Bernard, men were no
longer inclinéd to search for truth
in reality, but at the turn of the
13th century Aristotle’s philosophy
of nature was rediscovered andjing public movies. On
ae Ps cw
ASU Hots Blections
Plan Public Movies
‘At the regular meeting of the
American Student Union on March
7, plans for the spring Peace Drive
were passed and elections were
held. The Peace Drive plans in-
clude a Living Newspaper play to
be given on April 12, with Barbara
Atchincloss, ’40, as Chairman. All
those interested in taking part
should notify her. On April 27,
there will be a square dance in the
gym, with Aunt’ Molly Jackson of
Kentucky calling the numbers. The
ASU also adopted the plan of giv-
either
the position of reason re-estab-| March 21 or 28, the French version
lished. The church attempted to
but was forced to incorporate them
into the church dogma. Thomas
Aquinas synthesized. the Christian
doctrines with the works of Aris-
totle, but his synthesis was not|
comparable to that reached by Au-
of Crime and Punishment will be
given in Goodhart.
The results of the election of of-
ficers for next year were E. Cro-
zier, ’41, Chairman; L. Schwenk,
’41, Secretary; M. Squibb, ’41,
Treasurer; Committees: Member-
ship, B. Lomax, ’41; Publicity, J.
gustine. He’ separated philosophy
from faith and therefore failed to
solve the Augustinian problem of,
transforming “traditional philoso-|
phy to comply with Christian con-
science.”
Later’ philosophers objected to
this interpretgtion and again em-
phasized the primacy of will. Mor-
ality was for them concerned with
the will, not the intellect. The
scientists of the 17th century went
back to Plato and Pythagoras, mak-
ing mathematics rather than for-
mal logic the basis of their work.
This trend was echoed in the work
of Descartes, who dealt with the
ego of the abstract mathematician
cut off from the objective world.
Kant’s ideas are closer to those
of Augustine, for he holds that pure
reason becomes merely dialetical
when it transgresses nature. His
follower, Hegel, interpreted faith
through reason and thus, accord-
ing to Mr. Frank, is guilty of in-
tellectual dishonesty.
ay
) 4]
Gis .
NE
RICHARD STOCKTON
EASTER GIFTS
BOOKS NOVELTIES
Follansbee, ’41; Education, H. So-
bol, ’41; Labor, R. Robbins, '42;
Legislation, E. Durning, ’41; and
Peace, V. Nichols, ’41.
Undergraduates Earn
Expenses and Tuition
Continued from Page Five
help house in which girls may do
their own work and thus deduct a
small sum from their board and
tuition. The student wage earnings
total the most in the midwestern
and western universities. Over the
whole country, 47 percent of. the
students work to pay all or part of
their college expenses.
YALE UNIVERSITY
School of Nursing
A Profession for the
College Woman
An intensive and basic ex-
perience in the various
branches of nursing is off-
ered during the thirty-two
months’ “course “which leads
to the degree of
MASTER OF NURSING
A Bachelor’s degree in
arts, science or philosophy
from a college of approved
standing is required for ad-
mission. %
For catalogue and information
address
THE DEAN
YALE SCHOOL OF
NURSING
New Haven, Connecticut
DY HOW To
feminine.”
AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES
By Dalea Dorothy Clix
Dear Miss Clix: The instructor who teaches Poetry 3-A at
our college is a wondegfally handsome young bachelor with
a divine Harvard accént, who’expresses beautiful thoughts.
I’ve fallen in love with him—but though I sit in the front
row, he doesn’t even seem toé*know I’m in the room. My par-
ents, who are wealthy but provincial, taught me never to use
cosmetics, yet—in class today !—My Poet said: “Only through
artifice is the merely female transmuted into the ravishingly
WIN BOY-FRIENDS
IN A DILEMMA
Dear “In a Dilemma’’:
If your parents are
wealthy they probably hate
being provincial, or they
wouldn’t. have sent you to
college. My guess is that if
you can snaffle a-perfectly
good Harvard poet they’ll
be proud to show off their
new son-in-law to the
neighbors. They'll forgive
you the cosmetics. Don’t
forget that poets are ex-
tremely susceptible to
beautiful hands — the
Swinburne influence. So,
transmute! — make your
fingernails ravishing.
AND Now, Dear, Xf
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Assembly Suggests
Entertainment Board
Continuea from Page One
there has been pronounced over-
lapping of lectures and little op-
portunity to focus demand for topi-
cal speakers. For instance, the
college often overlooks, and the
small clubs cannot afford, well-
known and timely lecturers such
as Alfred Duff Cooper and Vincent
Sheean.
Miss Sherwood also pointed out
the failure of the campus to realize
the problems of an entertainment
series. To pay a well-known artist
like Menuhin, every seat in Good-
hart would have to be sold and
all tickets priced at two dollars.
A series can offer famous enter-
tainers at a reduced rate, but must
include less renowned talent.
Pennell Crosby argued the ne-
cessity of a more thoughtful sched-
ule. - “We all waste time,” she
said, “and I certainly hope we will
Display at College Inn
Tuesday, March 19th
_ Spring Suits—Coats
Cotton Dresses & Play.
Suits for Your Vacation
G2.
KITTY McLEAN
’ Bryn Mawr
continue to do so.”
De Sees 5
Still, the gen-
eral feeling of oppression and the
crowding of the calendar could be
lessened. The rise of..clubs has
added to this confusion. ‘She sug-
gested that the time of day could
be adjusted to the particular sub-
ject.
With intelligent planning, special-
ized lectures on different subjects
might well be given simultaneously.
She suggested that . week-ends
could be “resurrected,” since more
Bryn Mawr girls spend week-ends
right here than is generally ad-
Sheila Gamble advised the fur-
ther exploitation of places on cam-
pus such as the Theatre Workshop
and the Deanery. She emphasized
the value of an appropriate set-
ting and the use of the proposed
committee to determine the allot-
ment of places.
In the open discussion follow-
ing the speeches, the question was
raised as to the possibility of plan-
sen ore oe a .
Rev. Donald Stewart ..
Continued from Page One
bution of wealth.
Christianity must overcome the
element of greed by emphasizing
man’s spiritual capacities. Indi-
vidual order alone can result in
an ordered society. We must con-
tinually strive to emphasize the
Godlike in us and to free ourselves
from the limitations of nature.
There is no absolute Christianity,
but we must try to approach it in
‘every decision of life.
oe
prices instead of a series. The
importance of co-operation between
clubs was emphasized. The plausi-
bility of a campus vote on the
choice of subjects and speakers
was also discussed. This and re-
lated questions are to be put be-
fore the campus in the form of a
ning a few formal events at high
questionnaire.
MAISON ADOLPHE
NEW PERMANENT WAVES
FOR THIS MONTH
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a
Copyright 1940,
LicceTt & Myers *
Tosacco Co.
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ina cigarette...Chesterfield has them.
COOLNESS...Chesterfields are Cooler
VIVIAN BOSWELL, operator
at the busy switchboardof
Chicago’s Stevens Hotel,
largest in the world, takes
time out to enjoy a Chest-
erfield.
CHESTERFIELD is America’s
Busiest Cigarette because
it’s Cooler-Smoking, Bet-
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Milder.
ASK FOR CHESTERFIELD
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od things you want
tx
MILDNESS ... Chesterfields are Definitely Milder
"TASTE... Chesterfields Tasfe Better
In size, in shape, in the way they
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makes it the cigarette that satisfies. You
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College news, March 13, 1940
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