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VOL. XXV, No. 20°

_* ‘BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939



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"BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1939

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‘Griffin Probes
Hitler’ s Action
In the Ukraine

Germany’s “Posters March
May Meet Opposition -
By ‘ Ruthenia



_ Deanery, April 23.—“If Hitler gets
the Ukraine there will be nothing’ t6
‘stop his wildest dreams from coming

thority on Central Europe, in his lec-
ture on Hitler and the Ukraine. The

source of food-for Germany, but will
enable Hitler “to dictate to the world.”

The “stumbling block’® in Hitler’s
march eastward may. ‘be the Ruthen-
ians in the Carpatho-Ukrainian re-
gion. While their state lasted, the
Czechs set an example of good gov-
ernment in the Carpatho-Ukraine.
The Ruthenians will be quick to de-
mand the same of Germany.

The Ukraine is a country “on an
Today it produces
70 per cent of the U. §. S. R.’s sugar,
60 per cent of its iron, 50, per cent
of its coal, and 25 per cent of its
wheat. It has the largest electric
power station in Europe, and acrdss
its borders are the oil wells of the
Caucasus. With a population of about
40 million people, the Ukrainian
group now form “the largest nation

in Europe without a al

Hitler’s policy toward the Ukraine
dominate international politics, an
attitude whieh does not render him
amenable to Chamberlain’s policy of

appeasement. Mr. Griffin does not-be-
lieve that Hitler will expand neces-

he will try to gain the Ukraine by,
military conquest. So far Hitler has
accomplished his. ends “by. a special
kind of persuasion”; the. stirring up
of nationalist feeling and the fear of

After-the collapse of the Austrian
Empire.and Russia in 1918, the Rus-
sian Ukrainians “made a_ separate
peace at Brest-Litovsk and set up a
puppet government under the Entente.
In 1919, a republic was founded which
was incorporated into the Soviet in
1923. For ten. years good feeling
prevailed between’ the Russians and
the Ukrainians, until discord was pro-
voked by Polish agitation. Recently
the dominant policy has been one of
Russianizing the Ukraine, with purges}.
and executions returned by sabotage
and the growth of a stubborn young
nationalism.

Poland, after the war, got Eastern
Galicia with from four to seven and a
half million Ukrainians. The govern-

} teers.”

H. Goodman Discusses
Anatolian Civilization



Basis for Later Talks Deri
Chronological Development
Of Hittite Art

Music Room, April 25.—The first
of three lectures by Miss, Hetty Gold-
man, director of the Bryn Mawr “dig”
at Tarsus, dealt with a genéral back-
ground for the rest of her talks on
Aspects of Early Anatolian Civiliza-
tion.~

Miss Goldman began by describing
the inadequacy ;of archaeological
knowledge concerning Anatolia, and
the lack of any comparative study of
what was known.” Before the 20th
century the bulk of the data came
from the excavations of Schleimann
at Troy. Since then. Trojan data of
that period has been considerably sup-
plemented by discoveries in _, other
parts of Anatolia, as:'at Tarsus, and
by a more careful excavation of Troy
itself. In the series of lectures Miss
Goldman hopes*to present a synthesis
of the finds, and’a study,of their im-
portance in establishing a chronology
of early Anatolian civilization.

In order. to clarify the develop-
ment of her subject Miss Goldman
began by a brief outline of its chron-
ology. ,She explained the difficulty of
establishing the origins of the Hit-
tites among the earlier inhabitants of
Anatolia. Many contemporary schol-
ars are linking them with the Hur-
rians, a newly discovered people. who
inhabited the southeastern part of the
country in prehistoric times. They
have even gone so far as to say that

Hittite-art—indieates—a—direct—deriva-
Continued on Page Five

O’DANIEL TO SPEAK
ON JOB PROSPECTS
| IN POLITICAL FIELD

The Game of Politics will be the
subject of a vocational lecture by Ei-
leen O’Daniel, on Monday, May 1, at
4.45 p. m., in the Common Room. A
secretary to John D. Hamilton of the
Republican National Committee, Miss
O’Daniel has been working in Wash-
ington for the past few years. Her
lecture, she writes in advance, will be
“strictly impartial.”

Miss O’Daniel, who graduated from
Smith College in 1932, will speak on
the organization of political parties,
the work which can be: done locally,
directing her attention mainly to con-
crete ways of entering the field. She
is extremely interested in the possi-
bility of finding people to go into poli-
tics as either paid workers or volun-
In particular, she will give
a list of women influential in the dif-
ferent parties of several states, to









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ment, there carried out two. contradic-
Continued on Page Three :

whom those interested could go to
‘ees possible jobs.



Pacey Ripple Spurs ‘Gondoliers’ Hielisareal
With Pet Names and Personal Examples



The Bryn Mawr Glee Club is giv-
ing The Gondoliers this weekend, or
did you) know? We happened to hear
a vagte rumor to that effect several
weeks ago and, to confirm it, attended
a rehearsal. :

When we first went in, Pacey Rip-
ple, who is directing the operetta, was
giving instructions for the scenery of
the second act. This was undeniably

“in the embryo stage, consisting only
_ of a couple of pale blue flats. Manoeu-

vefing Atound backstage, however, it
was discovered that the scenery for
‘the first act was almost.complete, and
gorgeous, There were signs of hard
labor everywhere, much paint and
many woodshavings.

Suddenly the performance. began.
' They went through it twice. The first

time we watched from the orthodox}.

seats, the second from the rafters.
Both | « ffects were fascinating. We
é at the basso profundo voices
of our classmates and we thrilled to
their delicate dancing, but we stood
_ spellbound and breathless in the pres-
ence ence of Mr. “Ripple. He scapes

“the ona (as he called it) as a

nd nails and knives, Addressing
them as “dearie” and “darling” he
set them into action. If words failed
he acted himself and the cast re-
sponded like an: echo.

The difference between the sexes
has been successfully defined by re-
quiring skirts on all cantadine and
some sort of trouser for the gondo-
lieri. The cachuca already appears as

castanets punctuate the music with]
authentic clatter, thanks, regrettably,

bunches of newspaper that were waved
at. an earlier rehearsal have disap-
peared, so it, is not. known whether
they represented fans or what.

There has been an audience at.
every rehearsal. Faculty members
and wistful mutes have wandered vin
occasionally. Mr. Willoughby’s dog
has been seen, also. The er
camp has made a fortune in ice cream
ead



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agnet controls scissors and needles].

to midnight prev 2. te the thelie.¢ Phety~hia



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COLLEGE CALENDAR

Wednesday, April 26.—Indus-
trial Group Supper, Common
Room, 6.30. )

Friday, April 28.— Opening
Glee Club production of The
Gondoliers, Goodhart Hall, 8.20.

Saturday, April 29.—Second
Glee Club production~of ‘the
Gondoliers, Goodhart, 8.20, fol-
lowed by Undergraduate Asso-
ciation dance, Gymnasium, 11
p. m, to 2 a. m. a

Sunday, April 30. — Susan
Metcalfe Casals, Song Recital,
Music Room, ‘4.30. Tea, Com-
mon Room, 4 p.m. Chapel, Rev.
John Crocker, Music Room, 7.30.

Monday, May 1.—May Day
Assembly, Goodhart, 9 a. m.
Vocational lecture, Eileen
O’Daniel on The Game of Poli-
tics, Common Room, 4.45. Mr.
Samuel Chew on Time and For-
tune in the Elizabethan Imagi-
nation, Goodbart Hall, 8.20.

Tuesday? May “9:—Dr. Hetty
Goldman on Southern: Anatolia,
Music Room, 4.30.. Mr. Fen-
wick, Current Events, Common
Room, 7.30. Meeting for in-
formal discussion with W. H.
Auden, Deanery, 8.30.

Nahm Speaks |
On Art’s Form
And Function









Art Strives to Establish
Mood of Contemplation
And Feeling



Common Room, April 24.—Speak-
ifg for the philosophy department,
Mr. Nahm contributeg to the current
art symposium ‘with two lectures on
Form and Function in Art. In the
first, he demonstrated the importance
of purpose in a work of art; form, he

saidy- was ‘only ‘hecessary. inthe sense]:

of unity.

Mr. Nahm bégan by tracing the
difficult problem ‘of\form in actual
objects of art, as attacked by Plato
and Kant. Although these two phi-
losophers differed in their first con-
cepts. of aesthetic limitation, they
agreed in unity as the supreme limi-
tation. Mr. Nahm went on to show
that a work of art might have beauty
but no meaning.
fore, is necessary, even though it be
Continued on Page Six

MAJORITY OF ‘NEWS’
VOTERS IN BALLOT
BACK INNOVATIONS

News ballot_.returns showed vir-

tual unanimity in support of a Forum
column.’ Thereafter, votes were more
evenly divided between the Yes’s and
the No’s plus the , Indifferent’s,
although on suggestions for the future
the majority affirmed, possibly indi-
cating a belief that what you haven’t
seen can’t hurt you.
The question of fuller reports on
Philadelphia events drew several re-
quests for notice of art exhibits, and
little interest in more data on movies
and plays, “More advances of college
speakers and “less on what they did
say after it’s too late to go” was sug-
gested by one, while another requires
more in quantity, including. notice of
radio broadcasts. ee cane

A large majority avowed that they





the “wildest of dances,” while. the} reg: teeture.. write-ups, though one

limits herself to the times when: “my
professor requires mé to attend: and
ve’ cut. In. this, case the. News
does service as a kind of cribbing
bureau.” The inquiry on book reviews
produced requests for more important

books and notice of the new book

room. Merion united—nine strong—
in a hate on Schitzi, new occupant of
Wit’s End. The full full results are as

follows:
Forum: Yes, 93; beaut 2; Indifter-
ent, 2. on ae
Reports of club ‘nsithions
Comtinued on Two







| Poet of America

&

Chants and Yates



Carl _Sandburyy Presents Jokes
~ Philosophy, ‘The People--Yes’ :
And Folk Songs

Goodhart Hall, April 20.—Carl|
Sandburg, the “poet of- America” and
the Chicago fog, presented a program
of reflections, jokes, readings from
his own works, and folksongs chanted

to the accompaniment of his own gui-
tar. The sum total was uninforma-
tive but entertaining, especially the
songs drawled in an exaggerated cow-
boy-Chicago accent



“Some time ago,” Mr

i 23 _ sanbor
|sa#d in his short talk, “I heard a

brakeman ask his friend, ‘What d’ya
know tdday, fur sure?’ The friend
replied, ‘Not a damn thing.’ And

|that is about the way I feel when I

look at-the European — situation.”
Citing anecdotes from the Civil War
political scene, he pointed out that
then; as row, few of the-people knew
or could know. what was actually go-
ing on. Today, however, Mr. Sand-

‘burg feels, America is trying to get

at the truth behind the propaganda.

Mr. Sandburg supplemented his ad-
dress with little known details from
the life of Abraham Lincoln. The
poet has recently completed a long bio-
graphy of the former president now
in the press.

The poems read were taken from
his latest book, The People—Yes, pic-
tures of American life in the Whit-
man tradition. The author’s dramatic
skill was effective in putting over the
conversational idiom in which he
writes,-and the selections were repre-
sentative of his work, good and in-
different. A typical poem trying to
express everyman’s wisdom in the lan-
guage 6f everyman, is number 43:

“Eggs offered as plain and ordin-
Continued on Page Two



AUDEN TO, DISCUSS
SUBJECT OF VERSE
IN INFORMAL TALK

W. H. Auden, British poet, drama-
tist and-Jecturer, will give an informal
talk on Tuesday, May 2, at 8.30 p..m.,
in the Deanery. Mr. Auden is ex-
pected to deal with the general sub-
ject of theuse of contemporary ma-
terial in poetry.

In addition to two volumes of’ po-
etry, Collected Poems, and « Look,
Stranger, Mr. Auden has also pub-
lished Letters from Iceland with Louis
MacNiece, and two plays with Chris-
toper Isherwood. The first of these,
Dog Beneath the ‘Skitgsi
on the contemporary political scene,
while. Ascent of F-6, also satiric, em-
ploys a radio broadcast as the device
of presentation.





Haile and Axon
Address Peace
Day Assembly



U. S._Neutrality Act ef 35
Proven Encouragement
To Aggression

RESULTS OF PEACE -
BALLOTS REPORTED —

Goodhart, Auditorium, April 20.—
The Student Peace Assembly, held to-
day in unison with others all over the
country, was_addressed by Mr. Pen-
nington Haile, Assistant Director of
the League of Nations, and by Anne |

Louise Axon, ’40, President of the Un-
dergraduate Association, who reported
the results of the college ‘ballot of
Peace Day resolutions, on which
almost 300 students had voted. |

Campus opinion was found to agree
vigorously with Mr. Haile’s conviction
that the United States must abandon
its present policy of isolation and pre-
pare to oppose aggression by legisla-
tion providing for economic discrim-
ination between aggressor nations and
their victims. It was moved and car-
ried that stuident opinions on the prin-
cipal questions, on the basis of a
two-to-one majority, should: be sent to
President Roosevelt, to the Chairman
of the Foreign Relations Committee,
and to the Pennsylvania Senators.

The responsibility of the United
States in the present crisis is immense,
Mr. Haile asserted, since our foreign
policy of isolation and non-interven-
tion, under. the Neutrality Act of 1935,
has done more to cause world disorder
than any other. single factor, except
the designs of the dissatisfied nations
themselves. It has been a. direct .in-
centive to aggression. As a signifi-
cant indicator, Mr. Haile pointed out
that Italy invaded Ethiopia only six
weeks after the passage of the Neu-
trality Act.
~ Two definite policies must be pur-
sued, said: Mr. Haile. Aggression
must be opposed; and economic jus-
tice must be established among all
nations. “Merely opposing aggression
with no attempt to solve the economic
conditions, does not build a static
peace and law-and order.” If we
adopt both measures, we will be able
to warn aggressive nations that we
will suppert with our resources all
those who oppose aggression; and we
can at the same time declare to those
opposing nations that our support is
rdependent upon their willingness to .
promote economic justice between na-
tions.

Today “the forces of the younger,

aggressive nations are nearly in equil-
lb Continuea on Page Four







Geology Expedition Upsets Mining ‘Toes

But Offers Amusement for Inhabitants



Friday morning a caravan of three
cars and a Greyhound bus left Pem
Arch at nine o "clock on the first-year

Geology Field Trip. Forty-three first-
year students, six’ graduates, A. Lin-
coln Dryden, Edward Watson, Lois
Schoonover, and Dorothy Benedict
made up a total of 53 geologists..
According to..custom, the popular
garb was’\blue~ jeans, though light
blue slacks were a close runner-up.

which made sliging over the cliff on
-Godfrey’s sRidge’ a,’ bad : chmainens for
their wearers.

The effort to get.up for early break-
fast. Friday was undoubtedly ° the
cause of the pall of Sunday morning
slumber which pervaded the bus for
the first few hours on the way to
Stroudsburg. The success of the trip
for many began when they hitched a
ride down the mountainside off a cou-
had justbeen cleaning out a lake. —

hw ese noting the formation of the
> Water Gap, geology for the



Two si@ts were in evidence also,/

pulled up at the side entrance of the
Penn-Stroud Hotel while the good
people of Stroudsburg looked askance
at our blue jeang.and our dirt.

Baths and finery were in order for
the $1.00 Bryn Mawr Special in the.
hotel dining room... Movie excursions
to Love Affair or Midnight followed
for most, though two erstwhile geolo-
gists went to a square dance up the
road a piece in East Stroudsburg.

- We were roused by telephone at
seven the next morning to spend the
day hammering for fossils and riding
down synclines and up anticlines in |
freezing cold all the way to Tamaqua,
that-.mining town .covered with coal __
dust whose entrance is. marked. with. -
the ad: “Clean Fires. Clean Homes.

Use Anthracite Coal.”

We were put up at the Hotel Ma--
jestic, next door to the Majestic Thea-
tre where a prim little woman looked
‘at our bare legs and said, “Hm, I’ve —
seen iiae™before.” —The comment-of-
the elevator man in the hotel was, “I.
ain’t meer been in a girls’ dormitory —
before.”



first day was concluded when the bus

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Lantern — By Whom?

As the time for the next Lantern deadline approaches, we return

to the editorial of the March issue.

to the idea that wit the«coming of spring, the Lantern declares

The-college has become pert

intention of dying. Actually, it never does, because the Lantern—
meaning’ simply the college literary publication—will not collapse
until the campus wants nothing further to do with literary publica-

tions.

We do not believe that this is likely in the near ffiture.

More-

over, the present Lantern will not collapke) unless greater college sup-

port is given to a rival publication,

for the present editors are perma-

nently and critically interested in writing.
Ideally, we wish that any group with a clear idea of what the

magazine should be would: organize

and-produce-a_rival_next_year, but

from the monetary angle, we doubt if the college and available adver-

tisers could support two magazines.

This ledds us, with some hesita-

. tion, to propose that if. there are any potential rival editors, they
should be given a chance to bid for next year’s Lantern. They could
collect any writing, done in the past year, wMich they consider “Lan-
tern material,” and have this material mimeographed apd circulated
so that a vote could be taken by the college. —

We propose this vote with hesitation because we do not wish to
imply that the college as a whole can or should exercise any control
over Lantern editorial policy. No magazine of any vitality will be
produced unless its editors’ have a clearly defined idea of what the
Magazine should be, and what kind of writing they wish to see” pub-
‘lished. .As a whole, the campus has no such defined policy.
| Rather, we suggest the vote only, in the hope that it may lessen
present incoherent attempts of the college to change the Lantern.
The board now has a defined policy, aiid should not be expected to

_ modify it against its own better judgment.

But because two maga-

Zines are financially impractical, and because there may be—a—clear
alternative policy with energetic backers, we think a vote could be

P . taken, though it should never be assumed that the elected board must
‘the future mold its particular selections only by reference to college

likes and dislikes.

The matter now hinges entirely on the ability of

some, rival group to concretize a new Lantern before next fall, when
the ae must be renewed. No vote can be taken on the present

board versus the campus.



n Philadelphia
Movies
Wuthering Heights. The
ith: Laurence

Aldine:
Emily Bronte classic, »
Olivier and Merle Ober
_ Arcadia: Peg. of Old ry, with
Anna Neagle and Sir Cedric Barts
wick,

Boyd: The Hardys Ride High) with
Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, and Ce-
cilia Parker.

Earle: Love Affair, with Irene
Dunne and Charles Boyer. -

Fox: The Lady’s From Kentucky,
with George Raft, Ellen Drew, Hugh
- Herbert and Zasu Pitts. :;
__ Karlton: Meeight. Claudette Col-

chert...

Keith’s: East Side of ‘Heaven, with
~ Bing” Crosby, ~Joan™ Blondell,
Auer

News: The Eajle and the Héwk,
with Frederick March, Carole Lom-
bas 4 oer Grant, and Jack Oakey.
ee i Say Can’t Get Away With

























and

Studio: The Story of a Cheat, with
Sacha Guitry.

. Local Movies

Anthony Wayne: April 26: Hono-
lulu, with Eleanor Powell and Rob-
ert Young... April 27, 28, 29: The
Little Princess, with Shirley Temple.

Ardmore: April 26: Let Freedom
Ring, with Nelson Eddy. April 27:
Spirit of Culver, with Freddie Bar-
\tholomew and Jackie Cooper. April

| 28, 29: Ice Follies of 1939, with Joan

Crawford and Jimmy Stewart.
Seville: Apiil 26, 27: Yes My Dar-

April 28, 29: Fast and Loose, with
Robert Montgomery and Rosalind

-/ Russell.

Suburban: “April 26, 27: ‘Wife, Hus-
band and Friend.--*+) -T-»o
and Warner Baxter, April 28,° 29:
Little Princess, with Shirley Temple.
Fi Academy. of Music: Philadelphia
Orchestra. Friday and Saturday.
Eugene Ormandy- ~will conduct an a
Richard Strauss A aaa as follo









and His Merry

d| Pranks, Mislahe de 6 ites te
















ling Daughter, with Priscilla Lane.

WIT?S END

Schizi sat on the Library lawn and
blew her whistle. It didn’t help. Still
the gingham girls with haggard eyes

ckered among the trees ‘of senior
row, each with her Brooks Brothers
tweed accompaniment.

“Why was I born allergic to tea?
And why do I alone think I can sing?
I hate charity. I hate peace. I even
hate lectures, so I can’t get on the
News. I look frightful in a dirndl,
and the Lantern’s ivory tower’ gives
me claustrophobia. .As for Haver-
ford, they work too ‘hard to keep me
busy. Will the night never come when







|my work is unfinished at 10? Conver-

sation isso dull after the first five
hours.”

Schizi arose with a final blast on
the whistle. One course alone was
oper!’ to her. These. extra curricular
girls, they had their jobs, and they

really In Love. This one course was
open to Schizi, and she did not falter.

Sewing a ruffle of old lace to her
sarong, she started out, The first
magazine salesman she met sold her
Life, but that was so easy that she
almost reported him to the warden.
The second sold her Time. But the
third, who was pretty as only a maga-
zine salesman can be, persuaded her
to buy Fortune. Then she knew she

© CF)

Now you may see, flickering among
the trees, another couple, white sarong
and Brooks Brothers tweed. She sells

g|magazines for him, after 10.80. Her

eyes are haggard now, and no one, té
look at her, would know she was not
President of the Interrelational Na-
tional . Committee, or co-ordinating
chairman of the interextra purcioulay
cell.-



Majority of ‘News’ Voters
In Ballot Back Innovations



Continued from Page One

Yes, 85; No, 27; Indifferent, 23. -.

Fuller reports of Philadelphia
events: Yes, 50; Yes—art exhibits, 7;
No, 8; Indifferent, 12,

Fuller agvance notices: Yes, 41; No,
17; Indifferent, 10.

More. news of other colleges:
46; No, 15; Ridifferent, 15.

Fuller reports of chapel sermons:
No, 35; Yes, 14; Indifferent, 22:

Those who now read—

Theatre Reviews; Yes, 48; No, 19;
Sometimes, 10.

Book Reviews:
Sometimes, 13.

Wits End: Yes, 88; No, 23; Anti-
Schitzi, 9; Sometimes, 17.

Lecture Write-Ups: Yes, 56; No, 7
Sometimes, 12.

Yes,

Xés,; 87; -No, 24;



MINERS’ SONS REBEL
AGAINST INSTABILITY
OF THEIR EXISTENCE

Common Room, April 22.—Students
from a West Virginia mining section
who. were’ entertained by the Indus-
trial Group, voted unanimously not
to go into mining, but to continue
their education as long as_ possible. |
Giving as their main reason the in-
security of a mining employment, they
reported that machinery has so speed-
ed up the miner’s rate of work that
today he is unemployable at 45. His
job is interrupted by frequent bank-
ruptices of the mining companies, and
he lives constantly in debt.

After the war the price of coal
rose as high as 17 dollars a ton, and
mines developed rapidly. 57 differ-



Virginia seeking high pay. But in
a few years came a slump from which
mining has never recovered. -

Conditions in the mines, as well as
the major topic of insecurity, was
discussed by the Morgantown students
with the Reverend ‘Klerr, | ‘a social |”
{Worker. Despite trade unions the
various \mines. differ considerably in
safety precautions, actual payment
of compensation, and the enforcement
of rules.

The group of about 15° high school
boys and girls are making their first
trip to Washington and New York



and Orchestra, with Joseph Bat-} |
ixrol|tista, Hin Heldenleben, and Waltzes}
pore. Hers avalior. ( [ehants. Patronize

to return a visit made last. -year by |ists
the Lincoln School. y

Gis nivertonss rv soli wer
> them.







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had their play, and they even did a’
little work. But none of them was

ent nationalities poured into West|:

History of Art Gives ..
Wide Cultural Outline



Second Comprehensi e to Deal

With Evolution of Style
And Subject.

a



Students who choose to major in
History of. Art are by no means con-
fined to those. who have practiced it
themselves in some form. Besides a
kfiawledge of painting from early to
modern times, the” major provides a-
rounded picture of the related arts
and, of the philosophy dnd religion
behind them.

Starting next year, every course in
the department will be given annually,
where previously alternates have been
given, with the recommendation hence-
forth that majoring students take the
whole series. This, with the required
course in first*year Classical Archae-
glogy, will present’ the whole sweep
of the history of art. The major’s
principal value. to the undergraduate
lies in its treatment of art as a whole
phase of man’s sociological ard hu-
manistic development. :

Next year, Mr. Alexander Coburn
Soper, III, M. F. A. of Princeton,
will join the department to teach Ori-
ental Art.“ An hour’s lecture each
week for the art majors will also be
added to first year . Archaeology.
These lectures will be given ‘by Mr.
Sloane and Mr. Muller, in’ ancient
architecture, to supplement the study
of ancient painting and_ sculpture

Changes will also take place in the
comprehensive requirement. The first
examination will be general as _be-
fore. The second will consider style
and: the evolution of cultural rela-
tions by an approach through periods.
There will be a single examination
on a specialized period, with as wide
a choice of subjects as was formerly
given in the two’ period comprehen-
sives. Honors work. remains un-
changed. The student does special
work with a professor in oriental,
mediaeval, “renaissance, or —modern
art. a

Three years of history of art de-
velop and require a powerful visual
memory., The student must learn to
know a monument by name after see-
ing it once in a slide and thereafter
on ‘the wall of the Library gallery.
She must acquire such a feeling for
style that she can distinguish -the
school and probable artist of an un-
known work of art. From this broad
knowledge of the plastic arts comes
an added insight into parallel devel-
opments in music and literature and
often philosophy.

PLAYERS REHEARSE
/ HIAWATHA PULLMAN

The Player’s Club will présent
Pullman _Car_ Hiawatha, a_play~ by.
Thornton Wilder, with Fifi Garbat,
’41, directing. The play will be given
on May 6, after only one week of re-
hearsal. The cast is.as follows: _

Stage Manager ....Hank Henderson
Insane Lady Helen Wade, ’42





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Second Attendant
Peggy Copeland, ’42
The Stage Manager who serves as
narrator, the dead heroine recalling
the details of her childhood home and
the absence of scenery are all sug-
gestive of Our Town. Most of the
action takes place in a pullman train,
with the passing landscapes partici-
pating as characters in ithe plot.

HAVEREORD APPOINTS
“GONDOLIERS’ PIANIST

Mr: Lindsay Lafford, who has ‘been
giving his services as-accompanist for
the production -of the “Gondoliers,”
has been appointed Instructor of Mu-
sic at Haverford College. Mr. Laf
ford will ‘have charge of the choral
work and will give a course in Theo-
retical Music. Mr. Lafford- is-a Fel-
low of the Royal College of Organ-

and was Assistant Organist at
Hereford Cathedral, England. For].
the last four years he has been Or-
Sanist gnd Director of the Chojr at





_|Hong Kong Cathedral, levees



ADLER SEES EXISTENT

BUT NOT EXPRESSIBLE
AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LOGIC
at eae : :



Common Room, April 23.—Morti-
mer Adler,: professor of law at Chi-
cago University, spoke on the Plu-
rality of Logics, at a lecture ‘sponsored
by the Philosophy Club. There is a

plurality of logics, Dr. Adler said,
which differ formally because they
differ materially, but there exists
simultaneously ‘one purely formal
logic which includes all of these, but
which is in itself inexpressible, since
to express it one would be forced to
use symbols. The art of logic is not
independent ‘of the arts of rhetoric
and. grammar because.no pure thought
exists.

There ‘are three distinct types of
logics known today: mathematical
logic, Dewey’s system, based on. mod-
ern science, and Aristotle’s logic which
supports his physics. These may be
reduced to two fundamental logics,
relational and predicational,

Predicational logic-differentiates be-
tween subject and predicate and em-
phasizes qualitative diversity. It has
few general rules, but those of infer-
ence. Relational logic is based on
terms “of relational complexity and
does not distinguish between subject
and predicate. This is the logic of

It postulates linear transitivity and
embraces the empirical sciences.

“The plurafity of logics is a phil-
osophical problem especially appro-
priate for our generation,” said Dr.
Adler. Not until the beginning of
this -century were philosophers seri-
ously concerned with a variety of
logics. Then Professor C. I. Lewis,
of Harvard University, announced a
system of multiple logics.

Today Dr. Adler believes symbolic
logic is only one system in.a plurality
of logics. Differentiations of sym-

trinsic. By examining previous logi-
cal systems Dr. Adler maintains ‘it is
possible to prove that since these sys-
tems have all been incomplete in cer-

‘ultimate logic is undefinable. ._

To support , this theory one may
study the*defects of the Aristotelian
logic which is unable to account for
mathematics, metaphysics, and histo-
rical inferences. Non-Aristotelian
logic is deficient in that although it
is successful in dealing with modern
sciences and mathematics, it fails in
respect to philosophic ‘knowledge,
theology and history.

“Logic is not merely a body of
knowledge like ‘the Jother sciences;
rather it treats these sciences as they
in turn treat material objects.
Logic, moreover, includes both science.
and art which are different from
methodology in that it is not a means

knowledge already -known.—-~-



Poet of America
Chants and Yarns



Continued from Page One

(2b OU a ea Sa Pennel_ Crosby, ’41 nary means-as ees they are not
WOE hs evel vGteu John Hadley he
Maiden Lady ...Julia Follansbee, ’41 { ee
Stout Aimiable Lady ; Broken eggs can never ‘be mended:
Mabel Richardson, 42 they go in a barrel by themselves.
Beauty Parlor Girls What ‘sort. of an egg are you??”
,
: Helen Sobol, Macs Finally, strumming the guitar
Louisa Horton, ’42/ fh he “brings with him out of
First ‘Attendant ....Vivi French, ’42

folksongs from his own collection,
American Songbag, and from Mr, Lo-
max’s American Songs and Ballads.
They included negro spirituals, pio-
neer and cowboy i, rea one brief
but pointed ditty hear

cleaning woman:

“Great God, I’m feeling awful bad,
I ain’t got the man I thought I had.”

“And that’s all,” Mr. om said
modestly.

If his audience expected some new
interpretation of contemporary politi-
cal or literary events, they were dis-
appointed.

sion; and perhaps that is as much as
we should demand of | any man, -—.
a poet.

‘sion which followed in the Comnion .

such discussions are dull and poorly
“Well,” he said, “this is
a wise “little: prayer-meeting we've.
had.”

I, A. T.







Room, the ‘speaker unknowingly af-
firmed many students’ opinion that —

mathematics, of orders and functions. -

bolic logics are grammatical, not in- .

tain respects one may assume—the——

of discovering truth, but deals with

habit,” Mr. Sandburg chanted several —

om a negro

If they wished to be -..
‘amused, they found agreeable diver--—

As he dipaietad ree the diaeta- .




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_ THE COLLEGE NEWS |

Page Three







MR. GRAY SHOW'S
HIS COLLECTION
‘OF MODERN ART

’

One rainy night a News‘ article had
to go over to Mr. Gray, professor of
history, for final survey, so two re-

porters went with it in hopes of see-
ing some of the famous paintings
exhibited in the Common Room Kast
year, They were cordially welcomed
into an eight-room. Yarrow apartment
and told to amuse themselves by look-
ing around while the article under-
went inspeetion. They looked but,
surprisingly, found only two (ils;
a study of nudes in an olive-green
setting, and a sombre but ‘forceful
landscape, both by Oudot.

» Shortly afterward, Mr. Gray joined
them and when they had praised the
two pictures, asked them if they
would like to see more. They would,
so he opened a closet door and began
to take them out, placing them one by
one on the mantelpieces. He kept the
canvases put away, Mr. Gray ex-
plained, and hung them singly so that
he could enjoy each to. its full extent,

First he brought out two garden
scenes by a French painter, Friesz.
The first was’ an exquisite picture of
an almond tree in bloom, reflecting its
pink shades in its own shadow and
on the garden nearby. THe second
‘was a lively Cézanne-esque landscape
in southern France.

The next two were by Utrillo and
Modigliani, a sunny street in Mont-
martre done with intricate brush
strokes to reproduce the effect of sun-
light on the white house walls, and
tan unusual portrait of a nude in
concentric circles. Painted in soft
grays against a background ~f cerise,
the Modigliani is, the owner said, his
best study in “pure” form.

More radical excursions were repre-
sented in a surrealistic blue land-
scape opening into nowhere, by Lur-
cat, and an Annenkoff abstraction
titled “Les Fraises.” These straw-
berries sit, vivid and plastic, in a









Elections
The Art Club takes pleasure
in announcing the re-election of
Marion Gill, ’40,.as president,
and the election of Adeline Mills,.





’41, as secretary-treasurer.





Tennis ‘Varsity of Bryn
Mawr Defeats Beaver



Severest Battles Fought by’ Lee,
Auchihcloss in Singles



Friday, April 21.—The Bryn Mawr
Tennis Varsity made a clean sweep
of the three singles and two doubles
matches with Beaver College in an
early season encounter on’the Bryn
Mawr courts. Despite the lack of
practice and the storm wind, the play-
ing was creditable. Lee, ’41, in the
first singles, and Auchincloss, ‘40/
(captain), in the second singles, had
the severest competition, but each out-
steadied her opponent in the exchange
of hard-hit balls. ; *

Summary of Match Scotres:

1st Singles: Lee defeated Gilling-
ham, 6-2, 7-5. 4

2nd _ singles: Auchincloss defeated
Wahler, 6-4, 6-4.

3rd singles: Waples, ’42, defeated
Turner, 6-0, 6-1. ois

1st doubles;. Lazo, ’41, and Meyer,
42, defeated Land and Newcomer,
6-2, 6-0. om

2nd’ doubles:. MacIntosh, 41, and
Martin, ’40, defeated Lewis and Har-
matz, 6-2, 6-3. —



plate on a table by a. glass, all of
which are fading into nothingness. It
is, the reporters were told, an effort
to show how concentration on a cer-
tain object or objects forces their sur-
roundings into unimportance.
Lastly, a rich, exciting Riviera land-
scape by a young artist, Mgnkes, was
placed on the mantle. “That Medi-
terranean looks good enough to swim
in,” one, observer remarked, “Well,”
Mr. Gray admitted, “it is a lively, in-
teresting picture.” SES TP



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Varsity Dinners Close

Winter Sports Season



Helen Link Rechosen Swimming
Captain; Martin Elected
For Basketball



With the respective dinners of the
and Swimming Varsity
Squads ‘the winter athletic program
came to an official close. \

The basketball squad gathered in
the Common Room on Monday, April
17, and agreed that with Judy Mar-

tin, ’40, as newly-elected captain and}

Charlotte. Hutchins, ’41, as new man-
ager, they would try to make the next
season as fine as this year’s had
been under Sarah Meigs, 39, and
Mary Whitmer, ’39. Varsity awards
were given to: M. Meigs, ’39, T. Fer-
rer, 40, Martin, ’40, Ligon; ’40, Nor-
ris, 40, Squibb, ’41, and Waples, ’42.
Although it is safe to say that. the
members of the swimming squad had
no better time’at their dinner, Thurs-
day, April 20, their program *was
more impressive. Helen Stuart Link,
’40, was presented with the cup:for
the best All-Around swimmer given
on the basis of earned points through-
out the season. First honorable men-
tion was given to Ligon, ’40, and sec-
ond honorable mention to Herron. and
Renninger, ’39. ‘The non-varsity in-
dividual cup was awarded .to Peggy
McEwan; ’39;’for the most number of
pdints won in the non-varsity meets.
First honorable mention went to Ax-
on, ’40, second honorable to Kerr, ’42,
and Coburn, ’39.
McEwan received the non-varsity
diving cup while Howard, °41, gained
first honorable mention. Second hon-
orable mention was given Axon, ’40,
and\McCampbell, 40. The last cup
award went to the class of ’40 as hav-
ing. the highest score of the four
classes. Link was unanimously re-
elected while Paige, ’42, replaces
Wight,’ ’39, as manager. :
Varsity. emblems were given to:
Boal, 742, Gamble; ’42, Gaud, ’40, Her-
is



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Support Wanted!
The varsity baseball squad
will swing bats against the
faculty nine at 2.30 p. mi, Sun-
day, April $0. Cheerers} are
needed for‘both teams.



LENDING LIBRARY



The Adventure of Chitstopher
Columin





Griffin Cites German

Activities in Ukybiine



Continued from Page One
*

tory policies: externally, they . pro-
voked’nationalistic feeling among the

Ukrainians, as in the Soviet; inter-

nally, even against autonomy as prom-
ised by treaty and. by law, they. car-}'
ried on a strenuous and brutal policy
Ukrainian
party in defense has become a “means
of life’ with its own codp stores and

of Polandization. The

banks and even a hidden university.
Today, however, with Hitler in
Czechoslovakia, there is “an. armed
truce,” with the Polish Ukrainians
willing to accept anyone’s help to free
themselves, even that of Hitler.

Rumania ‘holds another group of

Ukrainians in Bucovina and Bessara-
bia. The outcome of the Carpatho-
Ukraine was decided by Ruthenian
emigrants to the United States, who
joined’ Masaryk’s Central European
conference and voted for Ruthenia to
join the Czechoslovakian.state. This
meant a vital change for Ruthenia,
one of the .most-backward spots in
Europe and devastated .by four years
of war. Extensive heglth measures

by Sylvia’ Thompson
In recent literary supplements, you
may have seen an advertisement
drawing of a man in swimming trunks
and a diving-helmet, supporting a
lifesize statue of Venus in his arms.

results of running away from his
stupid home and silly, unfaithful wife,
and going off alone to discover Europe.
_ This theme of self-assertion is not
a new one in literature; the charm
and originality of, The Adventure of
Christopher Columin lie rather in the
way it is handled. The plot could
have lent itself with almost fatal ease
to all sorts of .incongruities and ex-
cesses, and might very well have end-
ed as a sort of secondhand Topper
Takes_a Trip. Instead, it becomes
something that Jane Austen might
very well have written; a delicately
satiric description of decent and
pleasant characters, in an exquisitely
described setting.



since the eighteenth century. Sylvia
Thompson: has Jane Austen’s™ Ability
to appreciate the objects of her ridi-:
cule, and she has also caught her trick
of suddenly inserting detached and
coolly bitter little observations. ‘The
extent of --Jean’s knowledge, at

were taken by the Czéchs to “prevent! sighteen, started Christopher thinking

the population from dying wholesale,”
agrarian reforms including the redis-

tribution of land were passed, and

education was broadened. The Czechs
set a standard which the Ruthenians

will not soon forget.



ron, ’39, Jacobs, ’41, Kirk, ’41, Ligon,

’40, Link, ’40, J. McClellan, ’40, K.
McCellan, ’42, Miller, ’40, Paige, ’42,
Renninger, ’39, L. Smith, ’40, Turner,

’39,.Waples, ’42, Whiteley, ’41, Wight,

39, and Williams, 742, :

about French and American . educa-
tion. (The Americans spelled it with
a capital E. ° The French just worked
hard at school.)” .

In an age when most satirists hav
finally given themselves up to the
blind and furious savageries of social
conflict, The Adventures of Christopher
Columin is at once refreshing and de-
lightful. It will not hasten the revo-
lution by a single day, but it will cer-
tainly give the harried reader a good
home with nice people.



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‘?p. Cope sland Triumphs
In Cap and Bells. Play

Lewis Takes Directing Honors
In The Devil Passes, Given
By Haverford

Haverford, Aprit 21 2 eas and
Bells of Haverford College presented
_ The Devil. Passes Friday night with)
the success they expected and well de-
served. The effect and illusion they
* achieved, however, was not due to play
or acting, but mainly to good dirett-
ing.

The play itself was difficult for
amateurs to give. Aside from being
a psychological study, it was not
well written. The Devil Passes is the

- story of the conversion of seven peo-
ple to the will of God by the devil,
personified as. Rev. Nicholas Lucy.
The play tried to be more profound
than it really was, and consequently
the actors were not able fully to real-
ize the type of persons they were por-
traying. For -this..reason the play
lapsed into’a boring reading perform-

“ance at times, especially throughout
‘the prologue and almost tothe end
of the first act. Then fortunately
all the characters leaped to an un-
derstanding of themselves, and for an
instant the play and the acting. rose
to the highest peak it attained dur-
ing the evening.

The Devil Passes as a play also
lacked all the element of suspense.
At the end of the first act, when the
curiosity of the audience should. have
been aroused, it was perfectly clear
exactly what was going to happen.







The prologue in itself resembled a|‘

badly written one-act play. The

whole play was saved fortunately by

rather witty dialogue which at times
was almost brilliant.

The finest piece of acting was con-
tributed by Peggy Copeland, ’42, who,
as Beatrice Messiter, appeared to be
the only one who fully uriderstood her
character. She added a certain spar-
kle- tothe “plain Mrs. Messiter that
she transmitted to the audience bet-
ter than any other actress or actor in

— the play.

~ walked on the stage in the middle of
the second act until she walked out
of the lives of the artists.and writ-
ers and Mr. Lucy, she held the cen-
ter- of the stage through Ker ‘under-
standing of every line, of every change
of mind of the old-fashioned minis-
ter’s wife. ie

Bruce Anderson, as the Rev. Her-
bert Messiter, seemed to undérstand
the disturbed apostle of God, although
he:slipped out of. character ‘at. the

‘ end of almost .every speech. Hé
achieved his moment of glory at the
end of the second act, when he had

a nervous breakdown very. convincing-

ly in the middle of the stage. A chill

of horror ranover the audience at
his shrieks and nee laughter.

This. one scene “would e been .the

best in the play had “ge char-
- acters played up to-him sufficient to

maintain this feeling of terror

throughout the rest of the scene. 4

< Margaret Perkins, ’42, played Doro-
thy Lister, the actress, very well in-
’ deed, aided considerably by her glam-
orous hair and clothes. Satisfying
the main requirement of the part—
an ability to posé—she appeared to
stay in character every minute she
was on the stage. :

Wilfrid Lee Simmons, the bad
writer who had_no confidence in him-
self, and Charles Swift, the bad

painter, created god impressions ‘as
casual men with discouraged ambi-
tions. Being casua] was comparative-
ly simple, since, it consisted only of
lighting a cigarette with little effort,
slumping in comfortable chairs, , and
_ being unnecessarily nice to everyone.
It..was easy to see why both of them
never would become good artists.

' Of the other three parts in the cast,
David Chambliss, as D. C. Magnus,
held the honors despite the. disadvan-
tage of his youth. He kept in mind
his supreme ideal in life, to be com-
___ fortable, and carried off his witty re-
“marks well. If D. C. Magnus ‘had
been a young. man, Mr. Chambliss
would have wndoabtedly stolen the
play.
Helen Wade, "42, as Paul Robinson,

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Geology Expedition



Continued from Page One
Though most of the field-trippers
had their good, time in Stroudsburg,
\the metropolisof the»trip, the wiser
ones had their fun in Tamaqua, that

| dirty mining town, full of houses, peo-

rple, and slanting streets, with train
bells ringing all through the night.
shift. Those who bad a hamburger
in the lunchroom got their stories of
the town and mines from the pro-
prietor and his helper, and an hour
later those same people were regaled
by the jokes of the “soda dispenser”
at 19 Centre Street.

These Bryn Mawrters paid for their
entertainment in kind. Half the city
were convulsed with mirth at the
spectacle of a sophomore dressed in
plaid skirt and jacket bouncing on
the maple bed in the window of an
open-all-night- furniture store win-
dow. That same sophomore’ had ear-
lier: been pushed around the Self-
Service Store in oneof those grocery
carriers which says ‘You may push
your baby in this at your own risk.”
The climax of the week-end was
reached on Sunday morning when we
looked at the coal strippings in an
open cut on Summit Hill. Miners
standing around told stories of. the
mine which has been burning since
1859. Another miner, telling of the
cave-in of the overlying rock which
resulted’ in the burial of a steam
shovel, explained how he had a nerv-
ous collapse watching it from above on
the ridge.

The lunch hour was livened up by’
Frannie Lewis who, having gone to
sleep on a diving board, fell into the
pool. “I was pushed in by a pussy-
willow,” said Miss Lewis. One po-
tential geology major has become:a
little dubious about her ability to iden-
tify fossils... Pronouncing her prize
find in the fossil fields as a well-pre-
served crinoid. she was taken aback
when the geology, department after
close serutiny, revealed its true iden-
tity. It was-a screw. .

The trip-home— was-marked by sing-
ing so awful that Mr. Dryden, who
had suffered in silence, finally left the
bus: when he could stand it.no longer,
making Mr. Watson come -in and
listen to it until five o’clock and the
welcome sight of Pembroke Arch.

The bus driver this year didn’t hit
the jackpot at Tamaqua or go to the
-miners’ dance, but he made one re-
vealing statement instead: “I’m the
only bus driver who hadn’t been on
one of these trips before. The others
‘wouldn’t go agaiX,"and I’m not going
next year.’ E..C.



and Lowell King, as the Rev. Nicho-
las Lucy, both came to misfortune
since neither of them appeared to
have any idea of what ‘they were do-
ing: Helen Wade began badly by
telling. her life history and ambitions
in a far too sophisticated manner.
Because of this she never carried off
the last scene of the play which
should rightly have been hers. . Rev.
Nicholas Lucy created his best’ im-
pression when silent. — monoto-
nous pitch of his. voice, sul ed to the
first act, tended to drag the play down
in the successive scenes.

Crosby Lewis’ must be commended
‘Sor his directing, 4. ~~) was the*bal-
ance of the stage, the effective move-
ment, and the proper timing. of the
dialogue that saved ‘the play. The
colorful scenery also set off the char-
acters and lent a‘cheery atmosphere

to the whole performance: °
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Upsets Mining Town

~IMRS.~ CASALS GSFERS

ets SONG RECITAL

Mrs. Casali, wife of Publo’ Casals;
famous Spanish cellist, will give a
song recital in the Music Room on
Sunday, April 30, at 4.30 p. m. Her
extremely varied .program will include
old French and Italian songs, Schu-
bert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, de
Fallia, and Gravados. Miss Ethel
Hayden will accompany her at the
piano.

Mrs. Casals has lived abroad and
speaks five languages fluently. She is
at present adding Russian songs to
her already. wide repertoire.

‘There will be .a college tea in the
Common Room apt four o’clock, before
the concert.

Haile, Axon Addews
Peace Day Assembly





Continued from Page One

ibrium with those of the countries who
will defend their traditional lands and
rights.” Contrary to popular opin-
ion, Mr. Haile believes that this bal-
ance is productive of crises and wars.
When forces are not in equilibrium,
the weaker side.will be forced to re-
main inactive...

Mr. Haile enthusiastically support-
ed the Thomas Amendment, which
gives the President power of discrim-
ination against aggressor nations, and
was confident that “a return to inter-
national law and order would follow
if it was passed.” College opinion
opposed the Pittman Bill, which al-
lows trade to nations at war on.a
cash-and-earry basis; and, in particu-
lar, advocated the use of boycotts and
embargoes against aggressors, with
tariff concessions and loans to victims
of aggression. Conciliatory tariffs
and trade agreements with dissatisfied
nations were advised, but by only 4
small majority.

The ballots showed the belief that
the power of declaring war should re-
main with Congress, discarding the
Ludlow Amendment which provides
for a national referendum before a
declaration of war. The Frazier
Amendment, making war illegal, was
also opposed. One girl, said Miss
Axon, had added: “Why illegal? Isn’t
there enough the imatter with it
already?”

The college voted wholeheartedly
for the new Rearmament program and
for the Administration’s policy of cul-
tural, economic and military coopera-
tion with South America. It also sup-
ported the ballot’s various educational
and’ sedition-suppressing provisions
for “strengthening Democracy,” and
approved, with great majorities, the
measures for the “emancipation” of
Puerto Rico.

Helen Cobb, President of the Peace
Council, took over the meeting from
Miss Axon and read the resolution,
suggested by the A. S. U. after the
ballot had been drawn up, which reg-
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Roosevelt’s peace appeal to Hitler and
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One of the most impressive themes
a playwright can use is that of: in-
fimacy with the great. He knows
he has the audience on the edge of
their seats when one of his characters
casually remarks, “Here comes. Abe
priow.”* If he wishes he can build up
his hero; but this is usually super-
fluous. A famous historic figure is
already sufficiently well established.

Obviously, therefore, Lenore Coffee
and William Joyce Cowen had the
audience enraptured from the first
moment they mentioned Jesus’s name.
Jesus is the unseen subject of Family
Portrait, Margaret Webster’s latest
directorial triumph which is quietly
packing houses at the Morosco The-
atre. The Founder of Christianity is
shown*through’ the eyes of His rela-
tives who, with the exception of His
mother, think of Him only as an ex-
cellént carpenter and the black sheep
fanatic of the family.

The authors have made the most of
the opportunities the theme affords.
The curtain of the first act is. par-
ticularly effective. Mary meets the
man destined to be her Son’s disciple
and betrayer and her faith in Jesus
is strengthened because Judas declares
he would sacrifice his life for Him.
His identity is revealed as the ecur-
tain falls. Even more dramatic is the
second scene of the third act which
takes place just after the Last Sup-
per. The set is taken directly from
Leonardo’s famous painting, but the
chairs are empty, the candles half
burnt. “ The audience knows without
having to be told what tragedy is
ensuing, why: Judas left the banquet
early, and what is taking place in the
Garden of Gethsemane.

One of the weakest parts of the
play comes at the end of the second
act when Jesus’s youngest and hither-
to favorite brother turns against Him.
The melodrama here is nerve-;wrack-
ing and a little nauseating, but -for-
tunately for all concerned Judith An-
derson, as the Virgin Mary, preserves
the dignity of the play. Nor is this
the only scene Which Miss Anderson
dominates by the splendor and maj-
esty of her performance. Her’s is the
most difficult role in the play because
she is the only holy character on the
stage and seems to represent her Son
as well as herself. In the early scenes
she acts simply and beautifully. Later,
as the tension of the play increases,
she appears to be guided by a great
force and wears a sweeping Madonna
cape during the most impressive
scenes, although otherwise she is cos-
umed as an ordinary peasant woman.
She has a great responsibility and
fulfils it with uncanny restraint amd
exaltation.
Margaret Webster, who-has done,
as one might expect, a superb job in
directing the produttion, also appears
on the stage in the role of “Mary of
Magdala.





She alone gives a perform-|.

Glenn Takes Chafiea
Text From | Cartoon



Music Room, April 23.—C. Leslie
Glenn, Rector of Christ’s Church,
Cambridge, spoke at Chapel Service,
taking for his text the caption of a‘
Thurber Yrawing in the New Yorker,
in which an amorphous lady points to
a man, who is obviously deeply preoc-
cupied and snorts: “The Thinker! He
doesn’t believe in anything ‘€xce
facts!” ‘

Death is for everyone«a fact, a
factvto be ignored as long as. pos-
sible and utterly feared-when it must
be faced: One reason for this fear
is the realization that there are other
facts to be met before death will seem “A
inevitable. But if one truly and pro-
foundly believes that these other ene-
mies can be destroyed, the last and
greatest, the fear of death, will also
be utterly vanquished. y



ance comparable to Miss Anderson’s.
Although she does not appear on the

stage until the. second scene of the

last act, so electrifying is her inter-
pretation that in retrospeet_one feels ;
she has been spiritually present
throughout the first two acts. Miss
Webster’s only other appearance as
an actress on Broadway was in the
Lunt .production of The Seagull last |
year, but there can be no doubt she
is one of the most talented yotn
women working in the theatre today.
There are several regretable omis-
sions in’ Family Portrait. The authors
have prepared a well-written script,
but they had nothing to gain by re-
wording Christ’s preaching. More ma-
terial taken from the Bible would
have greatly enhanced the produc-
tion. Also, at times the audience may
be excused if it becomes impatient
with the persistent non-appearance of
Jesus. He is described faithfully to
us, but when one considers how, de-
pending primarily on pantomime, Ju-
dith Anderson gives extraordinary re-—
ligious significance to the part of
Mary, it is understandable why Jesus
should seem too shadowy and unreal,
a curious, impersonal shade waiting
outside the stage door. It .is- not
necessary for us to see Him, but we
should feel: His spiritual greatness
more than we do. Oo. &.

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14 Rue des Buis
Geneva, Switzerland

March 28, 1988
It ‘seems funny to think that we
are just through with our exams and
I am pasking in the pleasurable feel-
ing that for the first time since last

July we are having a real vacation.
We had a few days in October and a
week or so at Christmas, but every-
thing really stops around here at Eas-
Most of the group have
gene to Italy, but flitting from one
Italian city to another was not my
idea of a vacation, so I am staying
here in a French family for a couple
of weeks to revive my French. Then
several of us are going up to Poitiers
to a-conference on. “The State, the
Community, and the Individual.” It
is an International Student Service
conference and there will be repre-
Sentatives from nine or ten countries#

4

_ It should prove very interesting, some-

thing to replace the Model. League
at any rate.

In* the meantime I am trying des-
perately to get a little work done at
. the League library. But our French
family lives a good half hour’s bike
ride away and I am getting lazy. It
is fatal, too, trying to get any work
done there now that we are begin-
ning really to know our way around
and to resent the red tape. Several

. weeks ago twenty-four carloads of

_us take our usual shortcuts.

famous’ Spanish paintings arrived.
They stored as many as they could
in the Library and the rest under the

‘Assembly building. Then they began

to get nervous about having them
there. ,So they have them guarded

“night and day.. No one is allowed to

go into the Library b e front door,
and you can’t smok place in
the building. To add to our ‘woes
once they started clamping down they
couldn’t stop, so students are no long-
er allowed to go to the tea room for
a-cup-_of_coffee,a_regulation we don’t
.understand. The ultimate result of

“all this is that we waste lots of time

trying to get around the rules,. smil-
ing at the huissiers and talking with
them until wé persuade them to let
When
the director of the -Library is not
there we take pleasure in smoking
cigarettes wherever they have left
an ashtray, despite the-big sign that
says DEFENSE DE FUMER. Everyone
is agreed, except the dictator who
makes the rules, that they are stupid
and a sign of the League’s decline.
We who don’t like to~ believe the
League is décliring refuse to abide
by them. But the world is in a sad
state and we are only too conscious
of it here: The taking of Czechoslo-
vakia hit everyone pretty badly and
the war scare still hangs. overhead,
despite the relatively calm aspect of
Mussolini’s speech.

It is quite distressing to find that
people who have been working here
for a long time are sending things
home in fear of confiscation in case
Hitler decides that Switzerland must’
go next. There was a_ relatively

. small finaricial panic here the day

that Czechoslovakia went, with people
rushing to change their money from
Swiss WBS pounds sterling, even
though the exchange rate was most
unfavorable. “De were in the middle
of exams, which had a soothing effect
upon our emotional equilibrium. I
must admit it was rather a strange
sensation to, be sitting reading an
article by Pitman Potter on “The
Present Crisis in International Or-
ganization” when I heard an extra
being shouted in the streets.

There is one thing to be learned
from living abroad, and that is how
little the individual can do in a situa-
tion of this sort except keep one’s

wits about one and remain calm. One

hasn’t ‘responsibilities towards one’s

government or. towards. recommending

‘a possible form of national action. |

It is like being in an earthquake, near|_

enough to be-in the middle of “it but
too far removed from a source of con-
_trol to do anything about it. Under
the circumstances one is always pre-
pared to leave immediately in case of

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Music’ Bion: psp 1 é-In his sec-
ond talk on.Some Problems in the Psy-
of Art, Dr. Koffka discussed
the work of art asa problem with a
certain “requiredness” for both the
creative artist and the observer. The
artist has to submit.to the demands
of the problem of creating a work of
art. The “requiredness” of the com-
pleted work is fulfilled when the ob-
ject can produce a force within the
observer similar to that power which
motivated the artist to create it.

Since the artist is forced to submit
to the demands of the problems of
creating, the ego becomes subservient
to the requiredness of the problem.
The ego, however, is important in
bringing the problem to completion,
for it forces the artist to struggle un-
til the requiredness has been satisfied.
Thereafter, this object which the ar-
tist wants to create excludes his ego
as much as possible. “The artist
creates to externalize and _ eternalize
a section of his own world and his
position within it,” Dr. Koffka stated.
If a greater emphasis is placed upon
the ego, then the work of art will only
compel the ego more strongly.

chao

The woyk of art creates'a new ex-
perience the spectator each time
he sees it. Whereas the creation of

art suppresses the ego in the’ fulfill-
ment of requirements of the object,
true appreciation of art by the. spec-
tator can be felt only by complete in-
volvement of the ego. The puritanical
emnity toward art is based upoh this
recognition that the requiredness~ of
ego involvement on the part of the
spectator forces him into specific ways
of behavior, and therefore the Puri-
tans considered the artist as a seducer.

“Art is. real if it can be demong
strated to produce an effect,” said Dr.
Koffka. Facing the reality of the
work of art is. different from facing
the reality of practical life. The
world is seen as containing mere facts
and requiredness, while the work of
art has both contingent and requtired
aspects:. In. art, however; the con-
tingent characteristics are aubsee¥icntl
to.the intrinsic ones, while factuality
is, in turn, subservient to requiredness.

Purity ‘of art is found when no de-
mands reach the observer fromfactors
outside of the work of art. / Bad art
uses_entirely extraneous appeals. and
becomes sensational. Some _ people
have considered all art/to be a form’
of propaganda. Dr. Koffka feels that
if propaganda means creating a rela-
tionship between the object dnd .hu-
man beings, then the opinion is justi-
fied. When, however, it becomes the
duty of the artist to put art into the
service of the ideals of a particular
cause which will, not be enduring,
there all/art is certainly not propa-
ganda.

“Art, psychologically considered, is
not an idle play on the emotions,”
concluded Dr. Koffka. “Emotions are
often closer to requiredness than is in-
tellectual activity. The job of the
psychology of art is to say in scien-
tific medium what the work of art says
in its own language.”



trouble, but that is all. Everyone re-
sents those who get overexcited in face
of emergency.

Life in Geneva can be quite a lot
of fun over vacation. I find my
French family a little dull as all ex-
citing topics such as politics are ta-
boo: at the table, being of an indi-
gestible nature. This is Swiss neu-
trality personified, I presume. Any-
way, the result has been that this is
the: first evening I have spent at
home since vacation began. ;

I only wish the whole college could
be here, too. If it were, though, no
one would learn any French, so it’s
just as well! .

Nancy Howard:Gives Her All foe H :
Red Cross Divulges Art of Bath in Bed

ygiene;



A summons from the Tiicinaty was
received early Monday morning by
Nancy Howard, ’41, Merion, request-
ing her appearance in the Gym for
the 11 o’clock Hygiene Lecture, itt pa-
jamas., This was the result of her
rash offer to play the victim in a
Home Nursing Demonstration for Dr.
Leary. Nancy accordingly chose a
pair of bright pajamas frém a
friend’s wardrobe, the better to show
off the bandages, and presented her-
self at the Gym at 11.05.

She found a small amphitheater in-
stead of a basketball court, with a
hospital bed planted under the eager
gazé of half a balcony full of inter-
ested students. A smiling, mild Red
Cross nurse escorted her to.the cen-
ter of the stage and tucked her in,
depositing her wounded ankle on a
pad with tender precaution.

The nurse informed the assembled
audience that this was to be not a
bandaging act, but a bath in bed,
given with only the usual home ap-
pliances. A glass of water, two empty
and sterilized sardine cans, and a
pile of newspapers and towels on a
bedside table showed the Red Cross’s
conception of What Every Well-
Equipped Home Should “Have. A
hanging waste-basket was improvised

with folded newspapers, a wash basin
for.the brushing of teeth was pro-
vided by a shiny sardine can.

The nurse took ‘the sardine can
away and bared the patient’s ‘neck.
She proceeded, carbolic soap in hand.
She washed to the waist, stopped, be-
gan again at the feet—“wash between
every toe’2—-and proceeded upwards.
Then followed a quiescent period for
Nancy while the procedure of wash-
ing a patient’s hair in bed was ex-
plained, with gestures only.

Rest‘ had almost merged into sleep.

Nancy suddenly out from the’ protec-
tive covers and held her suspended
over the edge of the bed while sheets
and blankets flapped and unfolded.
She gratefully slid back into the
newly made bed, only to hear the
clang of the 12 o’clock bell. A loud
round of applause broke, but the nurse
swung Nancy down to the floor again,
and the Home Nursing Demonstration
was over.

Nancy’s only regret was the ab-
sence of imposing bandages. Dr.
Leary has promised ‘her that next
week, if she is a‘good girl and comes
back again in pajamas, she will have
all the bandages she -wants..

N. E.





CURRENT EVENTS
Mr. Fenwick

The State Department has made a
“right about face” in its trade policy.
Mx. Hull, who has opposed all forms
id bariatiny: for the last five years,
has just entered into a barter agree-
ment with Great Britain in which we
receive tin. and rubber in exchange
for wheat and cotton. Among other
items of domestic news, Mr. Fenwick
mentioned that several anti-alien bills,
have recently been introduced into
Congress.

After stating that the Neutrality
hearings had reached a “status” quo
and that although everyone wants
peace it has been’ impossible. to agree
wae practical policy, Mr. Renwick
went on to discuss thepresent Eu-
ropean situation. Everyone is wait-
ing expectantly for Hitler’s speech on
Friday in answer to Mr. Roosevelt’s
letter to the axis powers. Meanwhile
each of the_ thirty-three countries
mentioned in the letter (Poland ex-
ceptéd) has received a questionnaire
from the German Government asking
whether they felt threatened by the
Reich. Mr. Fenwick illustrated their.
replies by giving as an example the
story of the man with a gun in his
ribs.

Mussolini has denounced Mr. Roose-
velt’s action as putting the axis gov-
ernments in the “seat of the accused.”
He rejected the idea of a conference,
but —denied—that_ Italy wanted war,
offering as a proof the plans..for a
world’s fair to be held at Rome in
1942. Greece, despite these. avowed
intentions, is worried by Italy’s posi-
tion in Albania.

Turkey has become an taportant





‘issue in the controversy for she con-

trols the Dardannelles, which, during
a large part of the year, is Russia’s
only outlet to the sea. Realizing the
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Russia’s position is still uncer-
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Republicans and Democrats have split
on the issue, and a new group is now
backing Mr. Roosevelt. In his foreign
poner he—is-supported—_by “big busi-
ness”. and the little men have de-
serted’ him.

Another important news item this
week was the order for the riavy to
returh to the-Pacific. This is a di-
rect warning to Japan. She has lately
been looking toward Siberia as a con-
venient place for expansion as well as
an honorable excuse for abandoning
the conquest of China. Should Ger-
many and Italy strike at England,
France, and Russia,
tack on Siberia would be made easy
and would: prove ~very dangerous to
the allied powers.



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Fear of. European War This Year
Baseless, Says Reynolds





Princeton, . April 22.—The fourth
annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton con-
ference. on world affairs, held Yast
Friday and Saturday,’ drew student
and faculty delegates from the three
universities, and prominent represen-
tatives of government, industry, and.
the press. Opening the sessions was
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of North
Carolina, who asserted that “There
swill be no war in Europe this year.”
Following his colleague, Senator Mil-
lard. E. Tydings, of Maryland, dis-
cussed, the influence of lobbying o-,
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The conference was divided up into
five round table groups of ‘approxi- _
mately 25 members, each meeting
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H. Goldman Discusses
Anatolian Civilization



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various parts of Anatolia, including
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Nahm Speaks, on Form
And Function in Art
the

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art for its own sake, beautiful in its
self. —

If form is the sole qualification,
abstract art will be only a delinea-
tion. According to Plato, this is ac-
tually impossible, since matter and
“form are inseparable in the material
“world. Concrete art cannot be abso-
lutely and formally beautiful, for the
perfect proportion or mathematical
canon of the human form’ does not

exist. It is evident then, said Mr.

Nahm, that the ‘beauty of the whole

must include a common purpose as

well'as a unified formal means.
Plato, asking what the element
might be that would “make a thing
beautiful regardless of time, space,
_ or audience, decided on the afiswer:
form. Art must have dimensions; it
may have an aesthetic or moral end.

But it must first have an essence of

its own, in order to, be absolutely

beautiful, and could never be ‘Tepresen-
tative or imitative.

Kant, too, denied abaclute beauty
_in_ representative art, and eyen in
mathematical, abstract forms. This
would seem to leave very few objects
to fit these aesthetic conditions of art.

The world does contain, however, a

few subjects which Kantian or Pla-

tonic artists may use.
allow geometric figures or pure tones
jn music for these produce unmixed
pleasure. In Kant’s opinion, mathe-
matical objects are boring, and there-
fore, it is aesthetic objects.that must
be judged—by taste. And these -may
be found in the natural world, in the
unified -forms of birds, shwlls or
foliage.
Art Must Establish Mood

Music Room, April 25.—“The_ end
of art is the establishment of a mood,

a term adopted becausé it Ymplies a

proper combination of contemplation

and feding,” said Mr. Nahm, conclud-
ing his analysis of the reasons for
allowing to a work of art a place in

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The artist, he explained, offers the
-spectator a stimulus, basically sensu-
ous, but calling forth tentative or in-
cipiert action, or “empathy.” In the
profoundest art, all practical action is
ruled out. The artist asks for no
action in the spectator’s experience of
his creation except the contemplative
one of awareness of his work.

.. This incipient action, needing only Ht

contemplation for its completion,
makes the spectator aware of the
progress he has made to achieve his
present state and leads to an exalta-



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In Memoriam

Margaret Martin Bright,. ex
39, April 19, 1939.



tion and inspiration to further action
which transcends the art object itself.
The creative freedom of the imagina-
tion ‘is carried over into new situa-
tions-and images and art become the
greatest energizers of man,

This “mood” is achieved when the
artist emphasizes the sensuous ele-
ments of his material in sucha way
that they will affect the “life of feel-
ing.” This must be his aim rather
than the fulfillment of*any incidental
although ~it
has been maintained that a work of
art can be fully*defined in terms of
purely non-aesthetic factors.

Supporters of this last view con-
tend that objects of art have no unique
aesthetic function, but are wholly ex-
plicable in terms of such non-aes-
thetic ends' as truth, communication,
social values, or morality. In recent
times, this theory has been strength-
efied by anthropological and ethno-
logical research. Primitive art, it is
asserted, was directed solely to non-
aesthetic ends. Harvest goddesses
were made fat to insure fertility for
the ‘fields; night chants were sung
simply to ward off death.

Mr: Nahm, do not. appear to realize
that some works of art are bi-func-
‘ional, with a form and function over
and above practical purpose. Whilt,
‘ P ee

art has a non-aesthetic function as
well as- an nth one, the aes-
thetic is not reducible to the non-aes-
thetic. Ai
The finest art is that which can
free the spectator from the nop-aes-
thetic interest.» Primitive, art itself
shows aesthetic qualities unaffected
by the purpose of the object and in-
dependent of its function. These,
moreover, cannot be explained simply
as accidental distortions imposed by
the medium, since primitive artists

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|rehearsal showed the performance in

good condition, with two dress ,re-
hearsals still to go. The scenery is
imaginative and, say those who know,
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able to last year’s Eskimo pies, which
were unpleasant to walk in when
dropped.

Interviewed, Mr. Ripple said that
the company was eager and more alert
than professionals because
fewer outside interests. “Euclid and

the equivalent’ he considered pecul-
iarly beneficial as a background for

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was very pleased with the rehearsals,
thought that the “leads” were excel-
lent, and that teh more days’ ‘hard

work would.produce a good play. Hej]}
said that -“all girl babies are
actresses.”

Mr. Ripple was an assistant diree-
tor to Mr. Gilbert and has sung in
and directed innumerable Gilbert and
Sullivan operettas with the d’Oyly/f
Carte Company. He is now directing
the Savoy Opera Company’in Phila-
delphia. A. M.





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tion, favoring a council rhade up
of different interests. A meet-
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will be held on Thursday, April
27, at 1.30 p. m.









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