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College news, November 29, 1939
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 26, No. 07
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Dewey, McNutt Favored for Presidency .
— In Survey of College Students’ Opinion
[Dowling Wins Prize
In French ‘Concours’
Austin, Texas, November 23.—
4 Thomas E. Dewey, youthful New
York district attorney, is first
) choice for’ the United States presi-
dency among the nation’s college
' and university students, less than a
third of whom want Franklin D.
Roosevelt to run again.
Six months ago the Student
Opinion Surveys of America, sound-
ing board of U. S. college youth,
found in its first poll on presiden-
tial possibilities that Paul V. Mc-
Nutt, Democrat, held the lead with
a popularity of 17.7 per cent, only
2:1 per cent over Dewey. Today
the racket-busting Republican has
climbed ahead! and has with him
over a third of those collegians who
declare they have made up their
minds on a candidate for 1940.. Mc-
Nutt has dropped to second place,
Vice-president John N. Garner fol-
lowing a close third. , :
The poll represents the opinions
of students without including Presi-
dent Roosevelt as a possible candi-
date. Staff interviewers also asked
a cross-section of students includ-
ing all age, sex, geographical, and
political groups, “Would you like
to see Roosevelt run for a third
®
term?”
Only 31.8 per cent said yes. But
since last January the President
has increased his third-term ap-
proval among collegians from 28.2
per cent, the continuing polls of the
Student Opinion Surveys show. The|°f the annual Concours @Mratoire
Surveys are published by student! awarded to Janet Dowling, ’42, the
newspapers the nation over, includ-' gold medal, and to Francenia Fox,
ing the College News, which coop- '43, the complete works of Racine,
erates by conducting local inter-
views that are mailed to the head-
quarters at the University of Texas : ;
for tabulatfon. contestants, including Jean Small,
To the question, “If Roosevelt is "40, spoke in French on the subject,
not a° candidate in. 1940, whom Factne, before the judges, their
would you like to see elected presi- wives, the dean, professors, and a
dont?” these amawere were given: considerable number of students as-
Mav ’89 TODAY Sembled in the Music Room. Their
1. Dewey (R) .. Tey 33.8% Speeches were judged by M. Daudon
2. McNutt (D) .. 19.7% 11.0% of the University of Pennsylvania,
3. Garner (D) .. 9.7% 9.4% Miss Nancy Wood, and M. Blan-
4. Vandenberg (R) 3.8% 8.39% CTO0S, Haverford professor, form-
7.9% erly a graduate student at Bryn
Judges Award Book to Fox;
Contestants Take Racine
As Oral Topic”
Wyndham, November 20.—Jydges
inscribed Don du gouvernement de
la Republique Francaise. The three
5. Hull (D) 8.8% sont
ALL: Othera:... 6.6.65. me er on
The answers above represent anet. Dowling ‘confine a
opinions only of those students who_ marks to the one play, Androm-
F ; . ache ribi ine’s aim
have decided on a possible candi- » describing Racine’s aims and
date. There is a large number—
methods in adapting Euripides’ ver-
shout 4 out-of every 10who say | 20m to the dramatic requirements
they do not yet have any particular |°" nis day. She P raised the real
suedes dignity of the heroine, Andromache,
eae iwhose fidelity, even after her hus-
Modern Dance Gives
, Satire, Pantomines.
‘ : Continued from Page One
can dance style, built on themes
peculiarly American. Their inter-
pretation of current dance steps, of
Commedia and Spectacle, aswell as
their caricature of Tradition, all
have a characteristic. national: fla~
vor. sic ted
Their most characteristic number
was choreographed by Charles
Weidman, and esented the ty-
ranny of habitual conventions.
Weidman, with Jose Limon and
William Archibald, danced it, re-
peating one stylized and trivial mo-
tion which symbolized rooted tradi-
tion. An opposing movement, a
revolutionary force, breaks away
from this conventionalized pattern,
and after a struggle, firidlly defeats
it. From*the death of- the old tra-
dition, a new one arises, and evol-
ves from its first free movement to
a second trivial one, as rigid and
dictatorial as the original. °
Doris Humphrey did the choreo-
graphy for a dance interpretation
of Bach’s Passacaglia in. C. Minor.
The dance was effectively staged,
working from a-pyramid formation
of the entire company, fantasti-
cally costumed, and varying its
grouping according to the mood of
the music. Although the dance was
not an attempt to follow the pre-
cise movements of the music, the
pattern of the composition was
maintained by the interweaving of
the dancers.
The characteristic: humor of the
Humphrey-Weidman group was ex-
pressed in Square Dances, an inter-
pretation of contempory popular
dance steps in which the Big Apple
and the Shag, as well as the Tango
and shottische, were related to
their folk-lore source. Their ridi-
. cule and mimicry was most success-
fully adapted in Exhibition Piece, a
satire on the ballet, romantic and
ultra-modern periods:
The spirit of comedy was per-
sonified in Opus 51, “a ballet evol-
ved in terms of: movement instead
of drama.” Commedia enters and
actually clowns through a series of
- antics including a shower bath be-
- ,neath the twinkling fingers of a
“girl straddling’ somebody’s shoul-
“ders, a housewife wielding a broom
and a variety of monkey-like ges-
_ tures. Following Commedia, Solo
and Duet quiet the atmosphere for
the arrival of Spectacle, who, in the
manner of a circus ring manager,
proudly announces and praises
some spectacular acrobatics. _
With all its pantomime and mim-
icry, the dancing of Doris Humph-
: rey and Charles Weidman did not
_.. gaerifice _ technique. The — control,
!
See —
Reet coer ney ee
band’s death, set her apart from all
oe the other characters of the play.
Musicians and Mutes Francenia Fox took for her topic
Climb Bandwagon ‘the dominating passion in Racine’s
works, love. She pointed out his
deliberate contrast of Nero and Bri-
Five minutes after that, Kristi|tannicus, the two rivals in Britan-
produced Believe Me, If All Those ricus, and noted his differentiation
Endearing Young Charms. Kristi, between the pure love of Andro-
is a wonder bug. She does them ™ache and the selfish love of Her-
‘all by ear. The next was Good:mione in Andromache. As an ex-
King Wenceslas. By now, the @mple of Racine’s power to create
others had caught on, and songs/4 Passionate personality, pervading
were produced in multiplicity and/@ Whole play without speaking
abundance. many lines, she chose Athalie.
Their largest body of music is| Jean Small contended: that..since
hymns (someone brought in several | Racine is not primarily intellectual
copies of the Mission Hymnal) and but simply emotional and moving,
Christmas carols. Right now, they|he will always be understood,
are stuck on The Londonderry Air.|though artificial staging can spoil
Great things lie in the future for |¢Ven his greatest effects. After an
our quintet. We heard something | ®laborately staged performance of
about their going around with the|4thalie at the Comedie Francaise a
carollers, come Christmas time. (Spectator near her rose and said,
In conclusion let us say that we|‘I didn’t feel anything,” thus _con-
feel that the presence of the re-|demning a lack of simplicity which
corders on the Bryn Mawr campus |W@S. contrary to the spirit of Ra-
is indicative of many things. It can CMe.
be interpreted as an uncovering, Miss Small drew parallels be-
by means of free association, of ajtween Racine and several portray;
neurosis resulting from the ers of overruling passions in the
pressed, or shall we say suppressed, 1900’s, showing how his type of
desire for a music major at Bryn | analysis of passion continues in
Mawr. But more important than|™odern, times. :
that, it seems to us, that in aj After the serious speeches, De-
larger sense this sudden outburst, borah Calkins and Caroline Garnett
of music—this nest of singing, S@ve talks “hors concours,” also on
birds, “if I may coin a phrase’—/the subject, Racine, addressing the
is documentary of the year 1939-at Sathering as the “cercle intime.”,
Bryn Mawr. These recorders, and! By way of illustration to her talk
we cannot be too emphatic. about' Miss Garnett, with a disarming
this point, mean something beyond , Smile, passed banal pictures/of Ra-
Continued from Page One
re-
ae
music. They indicate an under-| Speaking of ‘the dominating pas-
current of life and thought in the|Ssion in Racine, Miss Calkins said,
20th century that is now being
brought to the surface.
Also, one ofsthe quintet told me,
playing a recorder teaches the
player to sing, as well. Even if
hardly conventional.”
sage of Racine,” she maintained,
“is femme soyez femme!”
modern woman with her clubwork,
the mere rendering of a piece of |cine at various ages to th ‘judges. |
“love can make a woman do things |
“The mes-|
But the}
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_ Next Summer
All those interested in ap-
plying for the volunteer. job
of undergraduate ‘assistant at
the Hudson Shore Labor
School next summer should
speak to Helen Cobb, ’40,
Rhoads North, if they have
not already done so. a
o. :
May Day Cancelled
By Undergraduate Vote
Continued from Page One
being whether or not the campus as
a whole wanted May Day. At this
Council meeting, there was also de-
termined, the need of more than:a
bare majority before asking the di-
rectors to reconsider their sugges-
tion. =
In behalf of May Day, the argu-
ments emphasized the benefits of
cooperation, of publicity for the col-
lege and of the enjoyment to be had
from the work itself.
At the hall meetings reasons were
brought. out explaining the large
negative vote. Although May Day
admittedly encourages cooperation,
so do the present activities such as
the Living Newspaper play and the
joint meetings of the A. S. U., the
Industrial Group and the Interna-
tional Relations Club. These cam-
pus activities ‘act’also as spurs to
individual initiative. while May
Day, many argued, kills out such
independent experimentation.
Many felt that.May Day, this
year especially, was a very expen-
sive production without much signi-
ficance. Besides, if it were stopped
altogether for a few years, many
doubted that the college would be
harmed by the lack of publicity.
Another argument advanced was
the widespread inertia to a large
cooperative movement,
Rajui Petel Addresses
A.S.U. on India and War
Continued from Page One
should at least make needed re-
forms in the present government of
India. England has given no satis-
factory answer to this manifesto.
A government is judged;-said Ra-
jui Petel, by the amount of interest
it has in the welfare of its people.
The people of India, with an aver-
age income.of 12 dollars a year, are
the poorest people in the world.
There is a high percentage of illi-
teracy. This poverty and_illite-
racy, claimed Mr. Petel, is caused
by Britain’s exploitation of. the
country for its wealth and commer-
cial produce.
In the struggle for world democ-
racy and peace, two weapons are
Robert M. Hutchins
Voices. Need of New
_ University Finance
“What Good Are Endowments?”
demands Robert Maynard Hutch-
ins, president of the University of
Chicago in the Saturday Evening
Post of November 11, 1939. De-*
claring that the endowments of pri- ¢
vate universities have declined rap-
idly and Will continue to do so i"
the future, Dr. Hutchins details thé
methods by which universities must**
set about putting. their fipances in
order.
He concludes with fhe statemerit”.
that private universities have. thé’
taining their right to lead eduda-’
tional innovations, regardless of the’
passing. fancies of the public, thefr™
alumni, or parents of students." In_
this function they are leaders’ for”
the state universities, who, at pres”
ent, cannot achiéve ” independence
because of their dependence on™
funds from the legislature. Te" ig
almost fair to say,”.Dr. Hutchins”
adds, “that the endowed universf-’
ties exist for the sake of the state
universities.” a
To set their finances in order, Dr.
students, the co-operation of uni-*
versities, and, if possible, the cori-.
solidation .of. institutions as the
remedies for the wasteful duplica-.
tion we see all about us.” Secondly;
instead of the current scramble for
more and more students and great-*
er tuition funds, Dr.. Hutchins sug-"
gests use of actual capital, at least
during crises, and dependence on
annual popular contributions to,
operating expenses, oe
necessary: knowledge and action.
Being supplied with, proper know-)
ledge and understanding, ,the stur
jdents af the world will be able toy
take united action toward the build,
ing of a new and better order jin
the world. ar ee ;
Rajui Petel, a personal friend of
the Indian leader Nehru, and him-
self active ih the work of the Indiam
National Congress, is. at. present
secretary. of the. Indian
Federation of Great Britain. ._He
graduated from Cambridge Univex-:
sity and took the degree of Barria-
ter at Law: at Middle Temple, ‘Lon+
don. He is now on his.way home te’
India from. Europe. Hara
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