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VOL. beesusiah No. 18
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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1939
BRYN MAWR
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
COLLEGE, 1939 PRICE 10 CENTS
Hears: Opinions.
On Big MV May Day
Academic _ Disorganization
Results From Intensive |
Rehearsals
CAMPUS IS-UNIFIED _
~ BY GROUP EFFORT
Goodhart,(May 11.—Last; March it
was decided that a mass meeting
should be held to present the problem
cussed. and decided upon later in hall
meetings. Three aspects of this‘ prob-
lem were dealt with at Chapel by
Eleanor *Taft, ’39, Margaret Otis, ’39;
and Miss Rosmond Cross, acting
head of Baldwin School and an alum-|
na of Bryn Mawr= They spoke’on the
history and. significance of the May
Day tradition to the faculty and the
undergraduates, the ‘administration
and organization of May Day, and its
effect on the academic life of the col-
lege. :
It is not a question of the abolition
of May Day, but of whether to have
it in. 1940 or not, said Miss Taft. The
decision is entirely in the hands of
the undergraduates. Nor‘is it a mat-
ter of the right or wrong of May
Day, but of individual opinion as to
whether it is worth the inevitable
academic disorganization and the loss
of freedom for extra curricular activi-
ties -during the greater part of a year.
Days, the first being given in the
spring of 1900 as a means of raising
funds for a building project. This
first May Day, said Miss Cross, was
not require large finaricial backing.
It included eight plays and a pageant
The undergraduates who organized it
agreed not to cut classes or to let it
interfere in any way with their work.
Since then the proportions of May
Day have changed considerably.
Speaking from the point of view of
an alumna, Miss Cross favored the
co-operation of faculty, students and
alumnae which May Day necessitates,
the chance it gives to Bryn Mawr
graduates to’ show their families the
college in full action, and the: “good
it does the children in the village
who take part in the pageant.”
The burden of May Day falls chiefly
on the administrators, the President
of Undergraduate Association, the
President of Players’ Club and a few
Continued on Page Six
resolutions
Mr, Haile to Address
Peace Day Assembly
Sanctions Demanded by Y.C.L.,
While Peace Group Urges
. Conciliation
(Especially contributed by Helen
Cobb, ’40.)
Pennington Haile, of the League of
_|Nations Association, will address the
‘College at the third Student Assem-
bly, to’ be held Friday, April 20, in-
tercollegiate Student*~ Peace Day.
Following the address, Peace Council
resolutions will be’ presented. Dis-
agreement is obvious among the six
student ‘groups which have suggested
to the Peace Council:
A campus questionnaire will have to
be taken before a truly representa-
tive statement of college“6pinion can}}'
be drawn up. |
At one extreme, the Young Com-
fact that Fascism is the war-making
force,” and advocates’ sanctions
against aggressors, loans to China, in-
creased armaments and cooperation
with the U.S. S. R. At the other
extreme, the Peace Group opposes the
“Stop Hitler” movement and suggests
conciliatory economic offerings to him
“in exchange for stopping persecution
of the J ve and ending territorial ex-
pansion.”
The A. S. U. tubes a fairly strong
stand for “sufficient armaments” and
revision of our neutrality laws by the
Thomas Amendment allowing the
President to discriminate, in. the ap-
plication of the act, against those na-
_ There_havebeen_eight big May }tions-who_have_broken-a treaty—(e--g:
the Kellogg Pact, the Nine Power
Pact) to which the United States is
a signatory. A group of students in
‘Radnor takes an even stronger stand
than ua A: 8. U. iw fever of -“s
concerted program of rearmament,”
the Thomas Amendment, and also
“that we cooperate with the Western
Democracies and Russia in an effort
to combat the spread of Fascist ag-
gressior.”... The Good Neighbor _ pol-
icy toward South America was the one
issue on which all parties agreed.
A minority -in the Radnor group
Continued on Page Four
Art Club Exhibitions
The last of the Art Club series.
of exhibitions of prints will open
in the Common Room on Sun-
day, April 16, with a showing of
reproductions of the works of
Cézanne. “Mr. Sloane, associate
professor of history of art, is to
Speak, and tea will be Served at
4.30. ‘
March ‘Lantern’ Weakened by Scarcity
Of Contributions; Avtides Are Desincd
In the March issue, the Lantern!
editors have tried to meet the criticism
so' often made against them, that only
articles by the board sppear, and
have produced an issue for which out-
side contributors wrote nearly all
the material. But though the quality
of the writing presented may be up to
the Lantern’s standards, the quantity
is. scanty enough to prove that the
Lantern board cannot rely solely on
outside contributors, but must, them-
“selves write for the magazine.
The - “prize story, A Day in the
Meadow, while. handled - well -in- the:
first part, ends weakly and in doing so
expresses in part the scantiness in
quality as well as in quantity present)
‘in the March issue. The description
-of the countey, the naturalness of the
children and-their play, is convine-
ingly simple and direct. The soldiert
seems a bit,exaggerated though still}.
a fairly realistic character.
The ending is dramatically worked].
‘up, but has an effect of triteness and
falsity. The horror of war has been
shown many times. by the reaction on
the “young and innocent” and this
ending is nothing new. A more seri-
ous fault than this-is the fact that
there seems little reason for the air-
only the children and the deserter
can be seen and which lies near no
important section of the country. Be-
be strong or effective. i
The prize article, American Litera-
ture: Pro, deserves a higher grade
than the prize story. It is excellently
written in a clear, direct and compact
style. The viewpoint is.a balanced
one—it does-not laud Ameriean litera-
ture to the sky and yet it shows
that too often we-overlook our own
literature to worship that of older
ridtions. ~ The’ distinction» bétween sub-
jects that can be, self-taught and those
that must be taught is clearly made.
writing. “i
The other article, JJ Duce and Plato,
attempts a comparison of Fascist and
Platoriic ideas of the state, its policies
and organization. For the nature of
its subject the article is eomplex, but
in 1 spite of the wide range of material
covered, the comparison has been well
handled and is ‘as direct as’ perhaps
was possible under the conditions. Its
method of showing the similarity of
the two philosophies by contrasting
them with a third, ‘such as socialism
or democracy, makes the writer's argu-
planes to bomb the field im which
ey
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Oe rea ee
Pe ne NET ANE
munist League bases its policy on “the lf,
cause of this ending the story fails to| -
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 12.—Third
lecture in symposium on art;
Archaeological A h to Art,
by Mr. Carpenter. Music Room,
8.15 p. m.
‘Thursday,’ April 18. —Peace
Council Tea to debate -resolu-
tions, Common Room, 4.15. A. ,
S. U.. Meeting, Mr. Fenwick .
speaking on Neutrality, om-
mon Room, 8.30.
- Friday, April 14.—Murder in
Rehearsal, by the maids and
porters. Goodhart Hall, 8.30
p. m.
Sunday, April 16.-—Art Club -
tea and exhibition’ Common
Room, 4.30 p, m. Bryn Mawr
League Musicale, Music Room,
8.00 p. m.
Monday, April 17.—Fourth
lecture in the symposium. of art,
Problems inthe Psychology of
Art, by Dr. Kurt Koffka. Mu-
sic Room, 8.1§.p. m.
Tuesday, April 18. —Gurrent
Events, by Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday, April 19.—Fifth
lecture in the symposium on art,
Problems in the Psychology of
Art, by Dr. Kurt Koffka. Mu-
sic Room, 8.15 p. m.
Fifty Amateurs Win
Prizes With Clowning
Honors Divided Between Judges,
Miss Henderson and Wild
Dance by Rehrig
~
-Goodhart Hall, April 6.—The judges | sion is introduced, representative con-
at Amateur Night reached the best
possible decision in giving prizes to
all the performers. The emphasis was
ratwer on clowning than on virtuos
finish, but the resulting program was|-
the most hilarious since the Fresh-
man Show.
The judges should have had prizes,
too,°for their reaction to the 50 ama-
teurs made a show in itself. Mlle.
Brée was expert in coping with ‘un-
ruly contestants, _particularly the
notorious problem--¢child, Péggy Otis,
39. Mr. Anderson defended his ,jhonor
from the wiles of designing enchaht-
resses. with practiced skill. High
point of the evening was the en-
trance of curvaceous Madame Guiton,
related, it is said, to a member of
the French department.
To Miss Henderson, for her sus-
tained and appropriate patter as’ mis-
tress of ceremonies, went a yellow
calla ‘lily, largely obscured in a pur-
ple bow. Her chief difficulty was a
program that led her to announce sev-
eral phantoms who did not appear
until later, already: had performed, or
never came to light at all.
A pink striped thought in 4 green
shade opened the program in a blue
light as Mr. Sprague and Fifi Garbat,
’41, revived an act from the Tragical
Continued on Page Five
Questionnaire Results
Favor New Gymnasium
Further Athlétic Accommodation
Urged in A. A. Meeting ~
;
On March 21, the Athletic Asso-:
ciation called a meeting in the ‘gym
to discuss the hitherto privately de-
bated “squash courts”’ Since that
time, questionnaires have been dis-
‘tributed to discover student opinion as
to the specific requirements for the
| proposed building.
| archaeology departments with two
|-MRS. CARL AKELEY
ernment, therefore, permits the’ na-
Four Sided Symposium Opened
By Bernheimer and Carpenter
Representation in Art Covers
Relation of Society to Artist;
Archaeological Approach to Art Traces
Cyclical: Development
SUBLEVELS IN WORK
OF ART DELINEATED
Music Room, April 3 and 5.—Rich-
ard ‘Bernheimer, assistant professor in
history of art, opened the Symposium
sponsored by the art, philosophy and
lectures on: Representation in Art. The
first lecture explained: the necessity
of representation in establishing an
his.audience. The second discussed
different aspects: of representation in
the work of art, tracing the logical
stratification’ of the esthetic object
through the sub-levels of sign, image,
and_symbol.
“Representation in. art is ultimately
inevitable,”’?. said Mr.» Bernheimer in
his first lecture, “for art is the total
human response to reality in its en-~
tirety.” Abstract art has descended
into empty formalism in attempting
to make various patterns of form and
color its only end; rather, the artist
must use form and color as the agents
for his content—mood, experience, or
metaphySical truth.
Purely abstract art, continued Mr.
Bernheimer, offers an extremely_ nar-
row field for expression in that it
must confirte itself to two dimensional
forms. As soon as the third dimen-
understanding between the artist and |
CARPENTER DISCUSSES
“CHANGES IN STYLES
Music Room, April 10.—‘Art styles
reference to individual talent,” said
Rhys Carpenter, professor of classical
archaeology and Greek in his discus-
sion of the Archaeological Approach
to. Art, the third leéture in the Art
Symposium. The artist is necessarily
conditioned by the technical era in
which he is born and according to his
talents will make use of his resources.
The cycle _of artistic stages from
the Romanesque through Gothic, Re-
naissance, and Modern art had ‘its
sculptor’ who developed from the
crude stone-cutter of the early archaic
to the technically perfect artisan of
the Hellenistic. Starting: with a two
dimensional conception of the human
figure the sculptor gradually learned
to manipulate solid forms and to em-
phasize surfaces and planes rather
than lines.
Sculpture should be, according to
Mr. Carpenter, the “externalization
of sensually apprehended units of
spatial organization.” The*sculptor’s
task is far more difficult than the
painter’s for although he perceives ob-
jects two dimensionally he must’ re-
run through phases without apparent ~
parallel 2000 years: ago in the Greek |
notations ‘are inevitably attached to
Cortinued on Page Two
DESCRIBES AFRICAN
WILD ANIMAL HUNT
Goodhart, April 14.—Supplement-
ing her text with movies and lantern
slides, Mrs. Carl Akeley described
Carl Akeley’s last expedition to Africa
to collect the great groups for the
African Hall of the Museum of* Nat-
ural History in New York. With
two assistant taxidermists and two
artists, she and her husband spent
eight months in 1926 assembling speci-
mens.
The expedition established itself at
a house in Nairobi and returned to
it after individual hunt. After
six weeks collecting cliff-springers or
small rock-gazelles, they started north
in search of giraffe and other animals
for the Northern Group. As a hunt-
ing-ground they chose a high plain
where the water-holes were so° far
apart that Europeans had never been
tempted to stay there or hunt game.
It took 16 days to discover a per-
fect bull giraffe, 16 feet tall, with a
young female giraffe and a_ baby.
Mr. Akeley also collected a buffalo,
antelope, wildebeest, and their accom-
panying zebra. Here, too, Mr. Mar-
tin Johnson joined the expedition, and
he and Mr. Akeley made a movie of
a native lion-hunt. Lions, Mrs. Ake-
Jey explained, live only on game when
young, but if old and feeble, are likely
to attack domestic herds. The gov-
tives te carry spears and hunt the
lions with them.
From the veldt; the expedition
traveled to central Africa on a mis-
sion from King Albert .of Belgium.
In 1905, a great region of “wildeyness,
with all the zones of climate from
jungle to mountain, had been set aside
9
tS.
Manning emphasized the absoltite ne-
cessity, because of the expansion of
the college, for another athletic build-|
ing. She pointed out that the singu-
larly poor climate around Bryn Mawr
prevented extensive outside athletics.
“Moreover,” she added, “I have be-
come convinced that the human..race
wre primarily for intel-
_ She concluded with
eae a concrete plan
‘so that interest in the
project might be aroused ‘more easily
outside the college. |
Continued on Page Three
as a wild animal sanctuary and christ
ened the Pare Albert,...Mr..and..Mrs..
Akeley were commissioned to collect
animals there, especially gorillas. ”
Here, Mr. and Mrs. Akeley suc-
ceeded in taking the only movies ever
made of wild gorillas in the forest.
They were dangerous, she explained,
only if followed too long, awakened
suddenly, or accompanied by mothers
and their young. Their ferocious
chest-thumping is a gesture of sur-
prise, not of anger, and occurs very
seldom. Mr. Akeley saw it happen
produce them as solid forms. Since,
as psychologists have proved, he pro-
jects naturally only flat silhouettes and
contours,. when first working in the
round he relied on memory images
and cut back the outlines on his block
of stone or wood so that often only
four views of the figure resulted.
no solid actuality and are reduced to
mere surface drawings. Opportuni-
ties for improvement: lay in the elab-
oration and technical advance of the
execution. This phase of art whigh
developed primarily
analysis is the archaic, and when an
Continued on Page Five
The details of the early figures have
into decorative ~
College Overwhelmed
By Psychologists
At one o’clock on Thursday night,
March 30, psychologists were still
arriving at Bryn Mawr. By dawn
350 had been accommodated, 75 more
than expected. Further statistics, re-
ported by Miss Howe, show that a
total of 655 psychologists registered
at the conference, while 400; nearly
half of them unexpected, were fed
regularly.
Headquarters were in the Deanery,
with Mr. Helson and Mr. McKinnon
in charge. In Rhoads, Pembroke, and
finally in Merion and Denbigh as well,
hall managers maintained calm ex-
teriors while they received the guests.
Simultaneously they directed frantic
activity, cleaning, making fires..and
arranging meals, aided only by the
usual force-of maids and porters.
“Miss Park voiced her astonishment
at seeing the campus. covered with
men, while others noted that all 655
“psychologists kept off the grass and
were complimentary about the food.
One ‘visitor even remarked to Miss
Hait that the meals were ‘so’ much
better than at Bennington.”
she papchalogiain sxpaemned intense ©
inte
imhabitanta of thefi dae cite the:
hall managers for detailed ‘deseri ——
tions. They responded in gratifying
numbers to thé .messages left for
them. To the girl who left them per-
mission to use her victrola they prom-
ised new records, and in Rockefeller
they also enjoyed the bjcycles.
Even on the day. tha psychologists
were to leave, the managers had fur-'
ther problems.
of men was still in earnest discus-
sion on the second floor, and several
only once.“ teat
he
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women were taking baths.
At six o’clock a. group . ~
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Try Out Phenomena
We have been known to criticize the lethargy which lies around
on our campus, but for once we will have to eat our words. In fact,
we have been literally eating words all week in the shape of three
articles apiece from.some twenty News tryouts. This number in ‘itself
is phenomenal. More important, we think the present group, as a
whole, has handed in the best set of tryouts that have been received
in the past ‘two years. No matter who, or how many, are finally
selected to the editorial board, the News wishes. to declare its amazed
appreciation at the total group energy displayed. :
The chief evidence of constructive interest lay in the criticisms
of the News which racer of the tryouts handed in. . Without wishing
0 he-secretive;we-are—not-going to present-them here, but after a.
period of cross-tabulation and eaten, next week we will MO ce
summary of the main ideas. Also, because we always like to belie
that those who try out are.not our whole publicy there will be one of.
the familiar tear-out-and- ohable questionnaires. We hope that everyone
will tear out and check. — sal
Look Well, O Wolves
There are some people who know what to major im from the begi
ning and never change their minds. Too often it is good luck rather
than wisdom that determines their happy: choice. Within the next
few weeks, students will have to register their courses for next year
with the Dean’s office, and hope that they have chosen well. “
The best way to find out what the advanced work in a department
would involve, is to ask the seniors whovare in it. The departments
are reticent about displaying their offerings, and the accounts printed
Jeanette MacDonald.
ES Shi 3 erlock Holmes story” starring” Basil}
ae
3 -« Keith’s: Three Smart Gils Grow
Raye and Bob Hope.
_ Martin and Gloria Stuart.
In the second floor corridor of the
East wing of the Library is an ex-
hibition of photographs taken by
Miss Robbins and Mr. Herben on a
trip, through Arizona, Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and
South Dakota. For the benefit of the
photographically-minded observer a
small notice at the beginning of the
exhibit gives the film, filters, camera
and degree of exposure used, but the
lack of precise information under each
example gives the hy that photo-
graphic perfection in itself was not
the only aim in view.: To quote Miss
Robbins, she and Mr. Herben took
the pictures with a view to showing
the beauty of that part of America,
just to the East of the Rockies, which
so many Americans fail to appreci-
ate.
The photographs are roughly divis-
ible into three groups: those with an
archaeological import; compositional
details; and pure scenery. The ~ar-
chaeological’ subjects include pueblos,
the ruins of a circular Indian village
and ancient ‘cliff dwellings, barely
distinguishable in the eroded canyon
walls. Among the group, classed, for
want of agbttter name, under “com-
position details,” are closeups of dry
writhing greasewood trunks, the spiky
rosette of a yucca, an “active geyser
and a wall of quaking asp stems dap-
pled with sun and shadow.
The scenic examples have caught
the extreme beauty of the vast stark
landscape that they portray. The
Colorado rivge canyon appears several
times at sunset. Once the river is
shown flowing in a narrow, deep
gorge with the black shadow of the
westerly wall falling half across the
sluggish: stream. In another print,
the canyon widens out, with the river
lying in gleaming loops on the half
lit floor, while the mesas above are
still in sunlight. The difference of
light values and texture in the latter
photograph is amazing.
rc Bocders oon dis{/ Still others show scenes “of moun-
‘covered, under hypnosis, that SchizNiain Jakes in the evening light, the
(No. 4) suffered morbid Victorianism.|}.q- lands, the Tetons across a flat
In that phase she had been unable to/feld of shocked wheat and the harshly
xesist the possibilities offered by th beautiful silhouette and shadow of the
deserted showcase, and had red Hféw, steel bridge across the Colorado.
the Victorian arene to its logital Probably the best of all, both from
extreme. a photographic and an aesthetic. point
The psychologists, in answer to Miss| of view, shows a rain squall and sun-
Park’s letters, denied all responsibil- light. over the Grand Canyon, framed
ity. She wasn’t theirs, they said,!by the’ silhouetted curve of a tree
‘and.they-hadnh’t-been_in the least sur-|trunk.
prised by her behavior. They thought] © Black and white photography is
she was one of the students, left by gradually céiming to: be accepted as
the college to complete their hospital- an art in itself, and Miss Robbins’
ity. and Mr. Herben’s exhibit proves that
in its best form it #s peculiarly adapt-
able to representing the space and
uncompromising dignity of the West-
ern landscape. It succeeds where the
Introducing Schizi
The psychologists were not in the
least surprised. They had seen Thur-
ber’s cartoon. To be*sure, this girl
never attended any of their meetings,
and she was twice seen coniing out
of Merion, which was closed for. va-
cation. * They saw this as no cause
for alarm, for she joined
feller corridors with the rest.
On Suwhday, that was the second,
she took a bath, and refused to come
out, although the other psychologists
had*left.’ At noon, When persuasion
failed, Miss Hait, who is an excellent
shot, bombarded her with all the soap
and brushes from the lockers, throw-
ing them in over the top. When these
had filled the tub, to overflowing, the
creature slipped out under the door;
tore down a shower curtain and dis-
appeared up the hall. The wet -foot-
prints stopped abruptly in the tele-
phone booth.
At, four-thirty, she was seen again
by the first arrival, dressed as the
Boy David in an old hat and. a
sword, period, sliding up and down the
empty corridors of Rhoads North in
rope-soled espadrilles.
She was already deep in a sofa
when they came down after supper to
the smoking room, and, since they
were kind to her, she stayed. Her
name, she-said? was Schizi (to rhyme
with ritzy) Phrenia.’ One of thet
psychologists had brought her as a
sample problem child. She had sev-
enteen known distinct personalities
and was always having more.
It was on that-same evening that
a shocked Rhoads learned the news
from the upper world_of the Merion
phenomena. Schizi- joined the relief
expedition, still wearing the shower
curtain as a sarong.
The sight of -the maroons’ had a
marked effect upon Schizi.. She. ap-
peared restless. Psychiatrists brought.
from Pembroke and Denbigh soon dis
”
HAVERFORD TO GIVE
“THE DEVIL PASSES”
anew ve
League Elections
The Bryn ‘Mawr League will
hold an open meeting to elect
the chairmen of the various
committees for next year, on
April 17, at 5.30 P. M., in Room
F, Taylor. All ‘those who have
been interested in League work
this -winter are invited to be
present.
Sublevels in Work
Of Art Delineated
Continued from Page One
the forms, and the art is no longer
abstract,
Visual art today has become sharply
divided into two classes. The naive
observer finds recognizable content
only in movies, “funnies,” and re-
.cently, in the work of some P. W. A.
scene in America. ‘At the other ex-
treme, the initiate demands a pure
“art for the artist,” liberated from
limitations such as subject matter.
Reintegration of the two groups,
of the artist to the observer, “is one
of the outstanding cultural wants of
our time,’ stated Mr. Bernheimer.
By trying to employ only objective
forms the artist-is isolating himself
from cummunication with his fellow
human beings. Denied an established
esoteric and problematic. ’
“The insistence on a definite sub-
ject matter is a sign of the inclusion
of the artist in a secure social posi-
tion,” said Mr. Bernheimer in tracing
the history of representation in gt.
The medieval artist was an artisan
whose subject matter and methods
were chosen for. him by ecclesiastical
authorities, and whose work empha-
sized allegorical and mystical quali-
ties rather than representation.
In the early Renaissance, predomi-
nant interest came to center upon
sgientific detail, delineation of the ob-
ject for its own sake. Not until the
sixteenth century, under the influence
of—neo-platonic philosophy, was the
artist recognized as a creative genius
for his own purposes, to express a
higher beauty of which the real world
was only an imitation.
It is popularly assumed, Mr. Bern-
heimer explained in beginning his sec-
ond lecture, that the representation is
similar to the thing represented. How-
ever, the relationship between them is
not a simple one, for a work of -art
is composed of the“sub-levels of sign,
image, and symbol, each. of which
must be analyzed separately and in —
its connection with the final produc-
tion.
ships is illustrated by the eagle on a
quarter, which is an image of a bird,
a_symbol of national power, and a
in the college calendar can give little idea of the day by day work.
The kind of reading or experimenting or, writing that is done in the
course should be realized in detail. It does not necessarily follow that
every one who enjoys a first year course will find the advanced work
in the subject equally congenial. Personal idiosyncrasies should be
considered as well as the work in the field, and self discipline for a
vague goal should be avoided. To promofexsuch analyses, the News is
starting this week a series of articles to survey the major work i in the
departments. :
In Philadelphia Saturday evening, April 15.
3 Overture to Donna Diana... Reznicek
, Movies : Symphony No. 6 in C major. Schubert
Aldine: Midnight. Claudette -Col-!nouy German Dances........ Mozart
bert as a stranded American show- A Boil Scene
girl in gay Paree.
Arcadia: Let Freedom Ring, with
Nelson Eddy in a patriotic story.
‘Boyd: Broadway Serenade, with
Mayseder-Hellmesberger
Overture to
Der-Waldmeister “eh
Der Waldmeister \.. Johann Strauss
Perpetum Mobile
Pizzicato. Polka
nenaereet laenge’ Waltz
. Josef Strauss
Blue Danube Waltz. .Johann praus at
Suburban Movies
Ardinore: . . .Wednesday, Thursday,
‘Friday, Saturday: Leslie Howard’ in
Pygmalion. Sunday, Monday, Tues-,
day: Yes, My Darling Doughter, with |
Priscilla . and. Jeffrey Lynn.
Serie: HHRa Norma Shearer
and Clark Gable in Idiot’s Delight.
Friday and-Saturday: Wings of the
Navy, with George Brent and Olivia
de Havilland. —
Suburban: Thursday, Friday, Sat-
urday: Ballerina, starring Mia Sla-
venska of the Ballet Russe. .
Wayne: Thursday: John Garfield in
They- Made Me~a Criminal.~ Friday
and Saturday: Tailspin, with Alice
Faye, e Bennett,
Earle: Oklahoma Kid. Two-gun
James Cagney in a western.
Fays: Woman Doctor. Marriage
vs.'a meédical-career. Frieda Ines-
court, Henry: Wilcoxon. :
Fox: East Side of Heaven.~
Crosby in a comedy-romance. _
Bing
Up, with Deanna Durbin.
Karlton: Hound of the Baskervilles.
hbone...
Palace: Never ‘Say Die. Martha
Stanley: Dodge City. Errol Flynn
as the law of a Kansas cattle town.
Olivia de Havilland.
Stanton: Winner Take All. ‘Tony
Studio: ‘Two revivals. The Thirty-
more conventionally accepted arts
would lose the feeling of the country
in the complexity of representation.
“as oe
(Specially contributed by J. Tinnon,
39.)
Haverford College, April 11.—“The
Devil Passes,” spring production of
Haverford’s Cap and Bells Club with
the co-operation of the Bryn Mawr
Players Club, is now undergoing final
rehearsals in preparation for the per-
formance on Friday, April 21, in
Roberts Hall. Prominent in the. cast
are Helen
argaret Perkins, all ’42. ~”
As was done last autumn, transpor-
tation to Haverford will be provided
for those desiring to attend the. -per-
formance. Student tickets, priced at
$.75 and $.60, will shortly be placed
on sale through the Players Club.
Teaching Responsibility
Discussed-by Dr. Field
Stability and Common Sense Cited
As Important Qualities
Common: Room, April 10. — Dr.
Helen A. Field, of the University of
Pennsylvania, described ‘the responsi-
bilities which teaching entails. In
guiding people, the , Porton helps
them choose worthwhile things to do.
“The Devil Passes” develops an: un-#She teaches children to control them-
derlying theme of distinct ethical sig-|selves, and to think straight.. She
nificance in a. manner entirely modern| helps people to form the habit of com-
and sophisticated.. Each of the cast|pleting what they start. When these
of ‘self-avowed blackguards is faced| responsibilities are-met, said Dr. Field,
with a situation in which he may|something worthwhile has been ac-
achieve that which he wants most of | complished.
life, but. to do so must sacrifice others} The necessary characteristics for
dependent on him. Paul Robinson,|a good teacher include an interest in
played by Miss Wade, is “sked to cast| people, stability, common sense, and
aside D.| C, Magniis, to find fulfill-}an abilify to grow as.a person. She
ment in her fiercer love for the slightly | must also have a philosophy fitting the
ominous Reverend Nicholas Lucy.|time and the place, and a determina-
Miss—Perkins as the “successful _ac-| tion to learn the art-of teaching.
tress, Dorothy Lister, is asked to let}—-Dr. Field advisesstudents not. to
down those working on a play written|go into teaching if they want money
especially for her to take a role in anjor fame. In addition, they ‘must be
important revival of Shakespeare without sentimentality — or narrow
which would add to her: reputation. | prejudices.
To teach is to have a wonderful
opportunity to do something for some-
one else. It is a long, hard road, Dr.
Field concluded, but it is an interest-
ing and worthwhile one..
In the cast from Haverford are
Rex King, David Chambliss, W. L.
Simmons, Bruce Anderton and Chafles
| Swift.King and Simmons appeared
in the production of Arms and the
Man by the Players Club last fall.
Crosby ‘Lewis, who ‘directed Night
Must Fall is — the aren
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sign of actual monetary value.
A great work of -art-is symbolic,
said Mr. Bernheimer, but its symbol-
ism is not attained by association of
mental similarities,, but by symbolic
value inherent: in the. artistic form.
The way in which the eagle is drawn
gives it symbolic value, there being
no necessary association between the
bird itself and national power.
The symbol is a means of concen-
tration and images used symbolically
possess qualities which may serve as
substitutes for a number of abstracts.
The image of a lion is a symbol of
power, but around such an abstract
meaning is a cluster of symbols which
may have several connotations. ‘Man
has a fundamental synesthetic qual-
ity,” the lecturer added, “which trans-
lates his impulses, feelings and de-
sires into symbols.” .
Signs are an inartistic mode of ex-
pression having no value in them-
eye from one item to the next with a
minimum of intellectual delay. The
shift of a- sign to an image and so
the degeneration of an. image is a
shift downward from ‘the pictorial to
the grammatical...
In--primitive -thought signs were
identical with what they represented
and the image was-intimately identi-
became symbols of certain ideas and *
an artistic level was reached. How-
a the “relation of the symbol and
aesthetic experience” and it is this
deterioration which | causes the cycles.
éf development or. degeneration of
art from age to age. <
artists who seek to portray the living -
position in society, he has become °
who could utilize objects and colors ~
The variety of possible relation- .
selves, but are intended to lead the ~
to a sythbol is an upward shift, while .
fied with its prototype. Later images -:
at it symbolizes tends to produce a :
dialectic tension which devaluates the
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Victorias Furnishings
Rejuvenate Showcase
Traditional Atmosphere of Merion
Contrasts With Rhoads
This rejuvenation of Merion show-
ecasé is a step in the right direction
and we hope the results will encour-
age others. Mrs. Anne Hatfield, of
New York, did not tamper with Mer-
ion’s traditional atmosphere, but its
scattered look has been conquered and
the Victorian factors of the showcase
aré} now organized in accord with
modern taste. The old chair rail was
removed to simplify the walls. The
intérest of the room is centered in
the bay window, outlined with off-
white looped drapes, and indirect
lighting from urns makes; 4 unique
‘combination of the old and the new.
The thrift used in this room is
commendable. The best of the former
furnishings were retained, or redone
to harmonize with the room. The
dominant color is dark red. It appears
in the Victorian pattern of the wall
paper, in the upholstery of the win-
dow seats and in the plain color rug.
There is a striped sofa of a shape
that might have been seen in Merion
on the day it was opened, besides a
pair of venerable green sofas and an
. antique table. “The room is so pleasant
and liveable now that it is seldom un-
are heard
everywhere saying, “you must come
.see our showcase,” and the presence
of two.styles ‘of interior decoration on
the campus stimulates argument be-
tween Rhoads and Merion admirers.
The entrance hall to Merion has
gray walls now, which are a suitable
frame to the color in the showcase.
The. corners are softened by striped
‘seats so that visitors no longer have
the chilliness of an empty room be-
fore them when they enter Merion.
‘The delapidated condition of the-other
halls is more obvious than ever.
The editor welcomes letters. on!
timely topics from its subscribers—
“or others. :
| Questionnaire . Results
Favor New Gymnasium
Continued from Page One °
Discussion followed concerning sug-
gestions for such. a building. It was
pointed out that the squash courts
would be the most expensive item, and
that it would cost less towhave the
ceiling of the largest room supported
by pillars, rather than made avail-
able for basketball.
Questionnaires . were distributed
throughout the college. From the 210
replies reeeived, 105 people voted that
provision. for a basketball court
should be made in spite of the cost.)
Many of these were influenced by the
faet that the present court is not
of standard dimensions.
Ninety-seven held that the basket-
ball: court was unnecessary, but were
generally in favor of having the large
room, also to be used for dancing and
fencing, contain at least four badmin-
ton courts. 82 voted for squash
courts, usually stipulating one or two,
143 urged that the Athletic Common
Room be included, and 157 felt that
locker rooms equipped with showers
were necessary.
In answer to the question “Should
we make definite efforts to raise
money by benefit performances?” 159
answered that all efforts should be
postponed until next year, while 80
voted to have them begin this year.
It was brought out in discussion
that. Mrs. Collins thought that simul-
taneous drives for different projects
attracted “the interest of a wider
range of people and, therefore, were
often more suceessful. Nevertheless
many urged that no action be taken
until sufficient funds be raised for the
Theatre Workshop.
Under “Additional Comments” there
were 27 requests for a new swimming
pool. Several also asked for bowling
alleys, and it has been discovered that
the present pool, if boarded over,
could be used in this way.
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Changes “Initiated -
In Requirements
For English Exams
Second Year Advanced Courses
Offer Student Wide Choice
In Major Field
This series of surveys can logically
begin with the English department,
both because it is one of the largest
departments, and because certain
changes are being made in the require-
ments this spring. Of the three com-
prehensive examinations, one will
deal, as* heretofore, with general cri-
tical problems, and the second, as be-
fore, with three specific periods of
literature. Starting this spring, the
third comprehensive will cover a sin-
gle period, leaving the time formerly
allotted to a second period free for
work in some field allied with the
student’s specialty.
The entering student already com-
prehends the framework of English
literature, from high school courses
and as part of her own cultural heri-
tage. The major work serves to en-
rich this outline. In this respect Eng-
lish differs radically from the sci-
ences, where one must start from the
beginning to develop wholly new skills,
and differs even from the literature
of other nations, where the language
must first be mastered.
There is an increasing tendency to
allow students who have already had
a survey course in sehool, to omit the
first year course, starting as ‘sopho-
mores with major work in one of. the
second-year courses. The real dis-
tinetion between second year and ad-
vanced tourses is not wholly apparent
in their titles. Some periods are es-
sentially more difficult and the cri-
tical ideas that are considered in con-
nection with the reading must be more
mature. e
Next year, Miss Koller will give a
second year course in the Eighteenth
Century. This will join Victorians
as a probable choice for non-majors
q = *
who are exempted from Sophomore
Literature. Because of Mr, Chew’s
leave of absence in the first semester,
students taking his course in Roman-
ticism will do a half unit of super-
vised reading in their chosen specialty
until his return, and the coursé will
‘be given as a.half unit’ in the secénd
semester. _
The requirements: for the English
major imelude three second year
courses, or two and the survey course,
one advanced course and a unit of
comprehensive reading. _ Seniors who
have avoided the survey often find
that much of their reading must be
devoted to supplying a historical view
of the entire field. Middle English
(Chaucer) is taken by almost alb-ma-
jors.. -Those taking most of their
courses in the modern, post-Renais-
sance: periods, are required to take
one course in the earlier periods,
while those specializing in the older
field must take one modern course.
Occasionally a student may substitute
Old English, and in” some cases a
knowledge of medieval plays contained
in Mr. Chew’s course, Drama to 1642..
The advanced courses, which are the
most probable choices for senior spe-
cialization, include Spenser to Donne,
Shakespeare, to be given next year by
.Mr. Sprague, Old English and Seven-
teenth Century. Instead of choosing
an ally outside the department for
the extra unit, seniors may choose
among numerous electives. These in-
clude the second semester course in
History of the English Language,
Literary History of the Bible, Modern
English Drama, Contemporary Verse,
and the new course in American
Literature to be given next year by
Miss Mefgs. Courses are also offered
in advanced composition, and next
year Miss Latham wilkgive her course
in Playwriting.
The invitation to study for honors
in English comes, of course, from the
department and is based not only on
the excellence of the student’s formal
record, but upon the general impres-
sion her instructors hold of her origi-
nality and capacity for independent
work. The senior English majors
GOUCHER- SPONSORS *
GERMAN FESTIVITIES
ee
The Intercollegiate German Day,
held last spring at Bryn Mawr,. is
being sponsored this year by Goucker »
College, in Baltimore: The date has
*
been set for April 15 and the Bryn :
Mawr German Club is preparing to
present a short comedy, Guten Mor-
gen, Herr Fischer, in collaboration
with Haverford. Dr. Harry Pfund,
of that. college, is directing... Ethel
Clift, 41; Connie Lang, ’41, and Ruth
Fiesel, ’42, play the feminine roles.
Further entertainment for the eve-
ning will’ include a puppet show, by
Delaware, with other plays, and sing-
ing, while a tea dance and. dinner
for visiting German clubs, will take
place beforehand. A special bus leaves
here at nine’in the morning and re-
turns the same night. See Juliana.
Day, -Merion, if you. wish to go.
have conferences-as a group with one
or another member of the department,
although attendance is not obligatory.
Besides this there are individual con-
ferences with the instructor in the-
field of intensive work.
A variety of combinations can be
arranged for this senior concentra-
tion. Any one of the courses in
Renaissance literature could combine
with Mr. Gray’s History of the Renais-
sance, or with History of Art. Eng-
lish of the Middle Ages would profit
well from the Italian course’in Dante.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
English have parallels in French
courses, and the study of Goethe in
first year German literature would
develop an important influence for
Romanticism.
Several years ago one senior special-
ize@ in medieval literature. With Old
English and Middle English she com-
bined medieval Latin and a unit of
honors work with Mr. Herben.
From these courses, the senior de-
rives her general critical ideas for the
first comprehensive. Three periods
undergo more specific examination for
the second. For the third, she offers.
her chosen -field of specialized. work.
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Whitaker and* Dim Dim Blue Lighting
Feature in Melodrama
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_ Murder in Rehearsal,.a mahaie
»farce by Austin Goetz, will. be-pre-
sented next Friday night by the maids
and porters of the college. The play,
directed by Fifi Garbat, ’41, stars sev-
eral of last year’s leading actors, no-
tably Denbigh’s John Whitaker. °~
Every hall except Rhoads is repre-
sented in the production, but Denbigh
has stolen the honors by filling seven
of the 13: roles with its dramatic
talent. The cast follows:
Sheriff....John Whitaker
Trilby Forbes
Pearl Edmonds
Chubby , Forbes
Doris Davis
Claudia Warren
Hilda Green
Sheila Burnett -
Mabel Ross
Marge Penny..Ann White
’ Bunky Simms_
Louise Simms (Wyndham )
Jack Ellery. .Robert Bryan (Denbigh)
Morton Hill
John Warren (Pembroke)
Mrs. Fiske Warren
Frances Ward (Rockefeller)
Daffy Carmichael
Carl Smith (Pembroke).
Stack Hilton
Amy Harper (Pembroke)
Aarold Knight
John Henry MacKnight (Merion)
No scenery will be used and the
lighting will be dim and blue as the
action takes place at night. Miss
Garbat promises: some vivid melo-
drama and especially recommends the
scene when John Henry MacKnight,
‘Merion porter, races down the middle
aisle and back to the stage in what
is probably record time.
Mr. Haile to Address
Peace Day Assembly
———— ;
Continued from Page One
advocates the Pittman. Bill, allowing
freedom of trade with all belligerents
on a C&Sh-and-carry basis. Six. stu-
dents in Pem East have petitioned for
the Ludlow Amendment to the U. S.
Constitution which. provides that a
referendum be taken before the Gov-
ernment institutes any act of war.
The International Relations Club sub-
mitted questions for consideration.
The controversy on the campus only
reflects the larger struggle involving
the whole American Peace Movement.
The Senate and House of Representa-
tives are both holding hearings on
revision of the Neutrality Act. Mr.
Fenwick, who was chairman of the
committee to. draw up the Thomas
Amendment, testified before both this
week,
Following ‘are the texts of the main
resolutions:
PEACE GROUP: We are not in favor|a
of the United States’ joining the
“Stop-Hitler” movement, on the
‘grounds that it would not lead to
_eventual peace and understanding,
but increased hatred, misunderstand-
ing, fear and anger on all sides.
We advocate instead conciliatory
offerings (of lowered tariffs and sat-
isfactory trade agreements) in ex-
change for stopping persecution of the
Jews and ending territorial expansion.
We believe a far more sécure and last-
ing peace will be obtained by quiet-
ing fears and prejudices at this point,
and by assisting the German people
to build a healthy nation, than by
joining an armed union against them.
We believe a democratic form of
government is possible only in a na-
tion free from,fear and prejudice; and
that meeting Fascism with force will
only increase the fear, and prejudice
of the German People, without wiping
out Fascism.
YounG COMMUNIST LEAGUE: . The
present peace policy of the Y. G.I.
- igs based on the fact that Fascism is
the war-making force in the. modern
world.
eo. MIKA: position of complete neutral-
ity. on the part of a disinterested
country works for the more powerful
of ~ warring nations. | Since 1930
oa es
(Denbigh)
( Denbigh)
(Denbigh)
(Denbigh)
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(Denbigh)
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the
aided Fascist aggression. Economic
way whereby a nation unwilling to
fight can influence the outcome of a
war. *
(2) If a nation is to be powerful
enough to discourage aggression on
the part of the growing Fascist coun-
tries, it must be a nation unweakened
by internal Fascist propaganda, by
unemployment, and by poverty.
(83) The efficiency of the Rome-
Berlin-Tokio axis has shown that the
democratic nations must cooperate
with each other: to resist and over-
come Fascism.
(4) The democratic countries must
continue to increase armaments. But
the increase must be accompanied by
action to assure that if these arms
must be used, they will be used in
opposing Fascism.
I. Therefore we support the Thom-
as Amendment as a step .towards a
corrective positive peace policy. We
oppose the Ludlow Amendment for a
nation-wide referendum as not hav-
ing defined the phase “act of war,”
leaving. the proposed amendment such
that. a nation-wide vote could be
such as embargoes or recalling am-
bassadors. We favor large scale
loans to China and embargoes on Fas-
cist nations.
II. We oppose the W. P. A. cuts;
we support the Federal Education
and Housing Bills. .We urge the dis-
continuance of the Dies Committee be-
cause it has not investigated Fascist
activities.» We urge further appro-
priations for the LaFollette Civil Lib-
erties Committee. We urge labor
unity. We condemn the recent dis-
crimination a
seen in the activities of the German-
American Bund, of Father Coughlin,
and of the World’s Fair Administra-
tion, which has debarred Jews and em-
ployed only a few Negroes.
III. We support the Good Neigh-
bor Policy of the present administra-
tion and urge cooperation with the U.
S. 8. R. We support Soviet Russia’s
proposal of a Six Power Pact and,
Fascism that France and England
may make, although we consider such
sporadic separate ~alliances inade-
quate..
IV. We urge that every effort’ bé
made to educate U. S. citizens to
maintain an administration, through
the 1940 elections, which will, in. the
event of war, use armaments’ against
Pascist aggression. We urge -any
educative measures which will demo-
cratize the army; we believe that the
R. O. T..C. should be optional and
apart from the army- '
‘RADNOR GROUP: Resolved: ~
That we endorse the attempt to
modify the present neutrality a
lation so as to permit this nation’
resources, short of military man-
power, to be ranged with one group
of participants in a foreign war
against the other.
1. By means of the Thomas Amend-
ment
or
2. By means of the Pittman Bill
(vote was 7 to 3’in favor of the
Thomas Amendment as opposed to the
Pittman Bill).
That the recent course of events. in
Europe has made it necessary for ‘the
United States to embark on a con-
certed program of rearmament and
defense preparations, Careful atten-
tion should be paid to the uses to
and the effect such an arms program
would have on the domestic political
and economic situation.
That certain economic weapons,
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Graduate Appointments
lata Fellowahips, ‘1939-40
BIOLOGY: Elizabeth Ufford, A.B. Bryn
Mawr College 1929; M.A. 1934.
CHEMISTRY: Corvis Hofmann, B.S. Uni-
versity of Illinois 1937. Graduate Student,
Bryn. Mawr College, 1937-39.
CLASSICAL, ARCHAEOLOGY: Alva. El-
ford, B.A. ‘Victbria’’College, University of
Toronto 1932 and M.A. 1938. Graduate Stu-
dent, Johns Hopkins. University, 1938-39.
‘ECONOMICS & ‘POLITICS: Margaret éLa-
Foy, A.B. New Jersey College for Women
1936; M.A. Bryn Mawr College 1938.
Scholar in Economics & Politics,
College, 1936-37 and Fellow 1937-38,
ENGLISH: Vivian. Ryan, A.B. Oberlin Col-
lege 1934; M.A. Bryn Mawr College 1937.
Assistant in English, Ohio State University,
1937-39,
GERMAN: Wilma ‘Lippert,
University 1937, and M.A.
1939,*
HISTORY: Barbara Bradfield, A.B. Uni-
versity of -Michigan 1938 and M.A. to be
conferred 1939.
HISTORY OF ART: Mary Leis Shimer,
A.B. Radcliffe College 1936; M.A. Bryn Mawr
College. 1938. Scholar in Hist@ry of Art,
Bryn Mawr, 1937-39.
LATIN: Clara Brice, A.B. Vassar College
1938. Scholar in Latin, Bryn Mawr College,
1938-39.
MATHEMATICS: Ruth Crucet, A.B, Bar-
nard College 1937; M.A. to be conferred Co-
lumbia University 1939.
PHILOSOPHY: Harriet..Griffiths, A.B. Mt.
Holyoke 1938 and M.A. to be conferred 1939.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
French: Barbara Craig, B.A. Queens Uni-
versity 1937 and M.A. to bé conferred 1939.
Spanish: Méry Elizabeth Fox, A.B. James
Millikan College 1925;, B.S. Colorado State
College 1926; M,A. Middlebury College 1931.
Scholar in Spanish, Bryn Mawr, 1928-29;
A.A:U.W. Fellow, 1937-38.
SOCIAL s;ECONOMY
Carola Woerishioffer Fellowships: Harriet L.
Goldberg, A.B. University of Minnesota. 1932
and LL.B: 1930. Bryn Mawr College 1932-33
and Susan M. Kingsbury Research Assistant,
Bryn. Mawr, 1938-39. Sophia. Cambria, A.B.
Barnard College 1937; M.A. Bryn Mawr Col-
lege 1938.
Graduate Scholarships, 1939-40
BIOLOGY: Mary Parrish, A.B. to je con-
ferred, University of Missouri, 1939,
CHEMISTRY: Kathryn Hoyle; A.B. Uni-
versity of« Pennsylvania 1938. Non-Resident
Scholar ‘in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr, 1938-39.
Jean Lamont, B.S. to be conferred, New
Jersey College for Women, 1939.
Non-Resident: Mary Elizabeth . Wright,
A.B. to:be conferred, Barnard College, 1939.
CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Margaret
Koons, A.B; Wooster College 1938; M.A. to
be conferred, Oberlin College, 1939.
ECONOMICS & POLITICS; Betty Bock,
A.B. Bryn. Mawr College 1936; M.A. 1937.
Carola Woerishoffer -Scholar in Social Econ-
omy, Bryn Mawr, 1936-37; Graduate Student,
University of Buffalo, 1937-38; Graduate Stu-
A.B. Indiana
to bé conferred
Bryn Mawr}
Agnes |
Gradu-
dent, University of Chicago, 1938- 39.
Chen, A.B. Yenching University 1935.
ate Student, Yenching. University,
Chinese Graduate Scholar, Bryn Ma
lege, 1936-39; Scholar in Economics & Po
1938-39.
EDUCATION: Gwan-Yen Li, A.B. Ginlin
College 1931; M.A. , to_ he conferred, Smith
College, 1939.:
ENGLISH: Helen Corsa, A.B, Mount Holy-
oke College 1938. Scholar in English, Bryn
Mawr, 1938739. Betty Mignon, A.B. to. be
conferred, Mills College, 1939.
Special Scholar: Virginia Peterson, . A.B.
Mills College 1938. Scholar in* English, Bryn
Mawr, 1938-39,
FRENCH: Grace Dolowitz, A.B. to be con-
ferred, Bryn ,Mawr, 1939. Muriel Dinger,
A.B. to be conferred, Smith College, 1939.
GEOLOGY: Jane Bell, A.B. to be con-
ferred, Barnard College, 1939.
Special Scholar: Muriel Albigese, A.B.
Barnard Nc Peey 5 February 1939.
GERMAN li to be
izabeth Deardon, A.B.
conferred,’ Smith College, 1939. ‘
Non-Resident: Louisa Fox, A:B. Smith
College 1937. and M.A., 1938. »Non-Resident
Scholar in German, Bryn Mawr, 1938-39.
GREEK: Mabel Lang, A.B. to be conferred,
Cornell University, 1939, Regina Conley,
A.B: to be conferred, University of California,
1939, "don
HISTORY: Grace Hennigan, Xz. Mount
Holyoke College 1936 and M.A, 1938. Fel-
low in History, Bryn Mawr, 1938-39. Mary
Fowler, A.B. to. be conferred, Mount Holyoke
College, 1939. i
ITALIAN: Grazia Avitabile, A.B. Smith
College 1937 and M.A, 1938. Fellow ip Ro-
mance Languages, Bryn Mawr, 1938-39.
LATIN:. Hester Gruber, A.B, Indiana Uni-
versity 1937 and M.A, to. be conferred, 1939.
Florence Raanes, A.B, Hunter College Janu-
ary’ 1939.”
MATHEMATICS: "Dorothy Maharam, B.S.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1937.
Scholar in Mathematics, .Bryn Mawr, 1937-38
and Fellow 1938-39. Louise Comer, A.B. to be
conferred, Barnard College, 1939.
PHILOSOPHY: Anita Dunlevy, A.B. to be
conferred, Smith -College, 1939. Sarah Ives,
A.B. Barnard College 1938. -
’ Non-Resident: Betty Seymour, AB. Bryn
Mawr College 1935.
PHYSICS: Doris Holtoner, A.B. to be con-
ferred, Hunter College, A939. Marjory Graff,
A.B. Hunter College, ifeuary 1939,
Non-Resident Scholar and Fellow by
Courtesy: Selma Blazer, A.B. New York Uni-
versity 1934; M.A. University of Virginia
1935. Demonstrator in Physics, Bryn Mawr,
1935-36 and 1937-39. '
SOCIAL ECONOMY
Carola Woerishoffer Scholars: Regina Feiner,
A.B. to be conferred, University of Wiscon-
sin, 1939. Gertrude Lucas, A.B. West’ Vir-
ginia University 1937. Carola Woerishoffer
Scholar in Social Economy, Bryn Mawr,
1938-39.
SPANISH: Dorothye Nepper,
College 1935 and M.A. 1937.
A.B. Smith
Bessie Stan-
COLLEGE MUSICIANS |
TO HOLD CONCERT
A concert for the benefit of the
’'} Bryn Mawr League will be held on
‘}Sunday, April 16, at 7.30 P. M., in
Sea Teens Petes by. Gorton
gram, fea ig > ; by. Gordon
Grosvenor, ’39; Eleanor: Benditt, ’89;
Christine Waples, ’42; Helen Garth,
ensemble, will be.as follows: ‘ /
I Serenade—“‘Eine kleine Nachtmu-
sik” Mozart
Bryn Mawr College ensemble un-
der the direction of Miss Helen
ee
Rice
WEE CIMUNUED 6.4 iss csc Murschhauser .
Sarabande ‘ Murschhauser
BONNIE. Co ck bc i wens Handel
Helen Garth—recorder.
J#Mary Jane Cook accompanying on
the piano.
III Concerto in E | flat for violin and
oboe
(played on the flute)
Eleanor Benditt—violin
Christine Waples—flute_
eee e eer e we eeeeee eens
a
Mary Jane Cook accompanying
on the piano.
IV Concetto No. 1 in G flat major for
flute Mozart
Christine Waples—flute
"Bernice Schultz, ’40, accompany-
ing on the piano. .
V Etude Heroique
Mephisto Waltz Liszt-Busoni
Gordon Grosvenor—piano
VI Quintet in G minor «..... Mozart
Eleanor Benditt—first violin
Helen. Rice—second’ violin
Louise Herron, ’39—first viola
Helen Bacon, ’40—second viola
Naomi Coplin—cello
VII Concerto No. 2 in C minor for
oor e eer er weer eee eens
jp WE ceed nes Rachmaninoff
First Movement
lL Gordon Grosvenor
Stafford Newhall—second piano.
The admission will be 35 cents.
\
ford, A.B, University. of Rochester 1938-%md-+4wall show the sali of pottery-mak-
M.A. to be conferred, 1939.
AGGRESSIVE LIBRARY -.
TRIUMPHS OVER TREE
“Strange things have been happen-
ing lately to the magnolia tree be-
tween Rockefeller Hall and the Li-
brary. Four men have been digging
it-up and tying it.in burlap, as if
threaténing t6 take it away.
Actually, though, the tree is merely
undergoing a minor operation. Its
position is in the way of the new
library wing to be built soon, accord-
ing tothe foreman. Thus the block
and fall, the stakes, and all of the
apparatus. are only serving to move
it fifteen feet. This will not prevent
Lit from blooming this spring.
cessions or discrimination be used
judiciously to give concrete’ embodi-
ment to the attitude of the United
States toward aggressor nations.
That we favor the Administration’s
policy of strengthening diplomatic,
economic and military ties with Latin
America, as exemplified in the recent
Brazilian agreement.
That we cooperate with the west-
ern democracies and Russia in an ef-
fort to combat the spread of fascist
aggression.
(The A. S. U. and the ineernesional
ae Club have requested ig
their resolutians be not printed
a .quorum was not present
meetings which drew ‘them wp.)
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POTTERY ASSEMBLED
‘BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS
A study collection in Prehistoric
European and American Archaeology
is being assembled for the course. in
Anthropology, and is gradually being
installed in two glass-fronted book-
cases in Room V on the top/floor of
Taylor. The Department of Geology
has generously given a fine collection
of Acheulian hand-axes, ‘made by
ancient Britons in the ~sécond and
third interglacial periods, and a rich
assortment of arrowheads, knives,
scrapers, soapstone pots; and grooved
axes made by-:. our pre-Columbian
predecessors in* Pennsylvania. —
Laans. from the University of Penn-
sylvania and’ a few. specimens ‘gath-
ered. from the Danish shell-heaps by
| Miss de Laguna, of the’ Anthropology
Department, have been used _ to
demonstrate the development of stone
work in northern Europe from the
first questionable Eoliths to the begin-
ning of the Bronze age. Three large
ing in the American Southwest from
the late Basket-Makers to the modern ._
Pueblo Indians, the latest acquisition
of pottery types from the Valley of
Mexico. Half of these, including
some fine Toltec and Aztec figurines,
were collected and donated by Mrs.
Dryden.
Dr. George Valliant, of the Amer-
ican Museum pf Natural History,
identified these pieces and has very
generously contributed a supplemen-
tary collection so that the whole series
represents the main types of ,pottery
from the beginnings of the Archaic
Period (100 B. C.) to the Conquest
inId A, Dy.
timely topics from its subscribers—
or others. -
Secretary to Playwright
Typing and ability to take initiative
for research required. Knowledge of
Spanish (Colloquial Mexican) helpful
but not requisite. Mail qualifications
Soa picture to Box DA, the College
ews.
sheets of three-ply wood along the
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THE BELL TELEPHONE
and two numbers by the college string.
Leschetizky .
beinga—fine—representative collection.
The editor welcomes letters on_
History of Tom Thumb. Never, in
‘amazing black bloomers she flopped
‘ not exceptionally difficult, but the ef-
' teenth century print entitled Inno-
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
Fifty Amateurs Win |
_ PUBLIC OPINION
Prizes With Clowning
Continued from Pate One
recent years, has such melodious bom-
bast rolléd on -t
The sense was le
sounded well.
Geraldine Rehrig, ’42, won first
prize with her disjointed can-can in
political
| To the Editor of the College News:
In view of the earnest concern for
“minorities” so often ex-
Goodhart stage.|Pressed on the campus; I»believe itis
apparent, but it!timely that I should open to discus-
sion the fate of two million of my
countrymen,
American flag as loyal American citi-
who live under the
the Raggedy Ann mood. Displaying| zens, but who have no voice nor vote
a shocking need of orthodenture and|in Federal legislation and in “treaties”
about on the verge of collapse.
A touching picture of Art among
the ruins was given by the up-coun-
try musicians, Miss Rice and Louise
Herron, ’39. With a single violin and
bow between them, cooperative effort
resulted in The Turkey in the Straw,
and then, interchanging functions,
they played a lullaby. They say it is
fect won them second prize.
.As Martha Graham, Miss Koller
was almost. too finished to he funny;
except for the villainous parody of
patriotism provided by Miss Linn, as
the Interlocutor. The prize, a nine-
cence, will add the final touch to the
English basement.
er), who is allowed to sit in the House,
but who.cannot raise his voice in
fense of the island’s interests: except
by unanimous consent of all members,
and then he has no power to vote
even:-on measures concerning the
island itself.
as sugar,
that. have very adversely affected
their modes of living and their eco-
nomical and political status.
Puerto--Rico,;,my native land, came
undér the folds of the Star Spangled
Banner as a result of the Spanish-
American War.
elapsed and still Puerto Rico has but
one. sole and silent representative in
the Congress of the United States
- Forty years have
(the so-called Resident Commission-
e-
Puerto Rico’s main industries, such
tobacco and needlework,
have been subjected by the New Deal
graduate, understands and promotes
the sincere demands f Puerto Rico
for a more dem and fair tfeat-
ment. He is at present in Washing-
ton to ask for reforms and to urge
the congressional and éxecutive action
that will save American good. will ‘in
Puerto Rico. Let us-help in-this task
by learning more about Puerto Rico
and .by writing to. our .congressmen
on behalf of Puerto Rico.
Recently a general economic con-
gress of all Puerto Rican “live forces”
met at San Juan to formulate de-
mands of reforms and to protest
against the political “discriminations
and the economic penalties which!
Puerto Rico now suffers. The Insular
Legislature has also presented tH@se
grave questions to the, Washington
authorities and to Congress in the
most solemn and respectful manner.
Puerto Rico, “the link of the Ameri-
cas,” a most beautiful tropical island
called “the Switzerland of America”
by the great Theodore Roosevelt, is
on the point of being more properly
compared to “tragic Czechoslovakia.”
But happily Puerto Rico’s fate is still
in the hands of the people of America
and (alas!) we can all contribute to
prevent its economic destruction and
its. political subjugation by advocat-
ing justice and democratic co-opera-
tion towards my native land. Ameri-
Carpenter Discusses
Changes in Styles
Continued from aus One
art has reached this stage its only
means for further growth is to lead
away fr8m the linear into a more
severe style. Egyptian art never
progressed from this crucial state, but
‘Chinese and Greek art did. .
During the archaic period, incised
lines were used for decoration. The
artist, unable to simulate the plastic
world without detail, yet searching for
a plastic means of expression, turned
to raised lines and ridges. -He was
successful because “a néw sense of
life is inevitable when positive actu-.
alities are substituted for negative
indications.”
The raised line now began to serve
a double purpose. Not only was it
decorative but it achieved the power
to model“the figure and thus gave rise
to’the classical line which had the
formal function of indicating the
shapes of the surfaces. As a further
development transparent drapety was|
introduced, ridges: applied to accur-
ately modeled. nudes.
Not content with this limitation
the sculptor created a new type of
drapery: designed to suggest move-
ment. The resulting swirling lines
CURRENT EVENTS
" Mr. Miller
The latest political news seems to
indicate that Chamberlain has, made
another appeasement with - Mussolini
the time. It is also probable that Il
Duce has promised to remove all of
Italy’s troops from Spaiy as quickly
as he can, or at least by the end of the
month.
present European situation, it is im-
portant to compare what inevitably
makes for war in Europe and -what
makes for. democracy in. the United
States. The W&T conditions ‘in “Eu-
rope are due to the divisions of that
continent into a large number of
smafl sovereign states. Each one of
these. stafes is unified by a national
consciousness of land, of language, of
history, and of biological’ continuity.
Every European is born into one race
or another—and can never change his
nationality.
’ The United States is for the most
part composed of these very Euro-
pean nationalities, but although they
maintain their identities, they all be-
come Americans, The population of
our country is not bound together by
men a
and the’ crisis may be postponed for ~
Mr. Miller said that in view of the”
The most surprising offering came
from Helen Garth. In solemn panto-
mime she had the judges clear their
table and carry it to the center of
. the stage.. While the audience grew
embarrassed at the prospect. ofa se-
a particular race, or division land,
but by an ideal—an ideal of liberty
and democracy. Since there is’ no
majority, or even minority of a single
kind of people who are real Ameri-
cans, there is no danger of one group
can democracy, here is your chance!
CARMEN PIZA, ’41.
to severe restrictive laws and execu-
tive measures which will result in
Puerto Rico’s economic ruin and which
have produced helpless unemployment
to hundreds of thousands of American
Our “quota”
echoed the archaic in that hoth were
independent of plastic form. Later,
drapery became solidified and line,
giving way to an intensified use of
light and shadow, came to have more
Editor of the College News:
Bryn Mawr College has been criti-
rious piece from her recorder, she
arranged her music with care. Then
she played two measures and was
through. Mr. Anderson later capped
citizens in Puerto Rico.
to raise sugar has been reduced to
about half of our potential capacity
tu produce, with the result that over
the climax by presenting her with
the table as her prize.
As Miss Robbins and Edna St. Vin-
cent Millay respectively, Sarah Meigs,
39, and Julie Follansbee, ’41, per-
The
introduced as an argu-|
formed notably clever parody. ’
Horn Dance,
ment ‘for May Day, was sufficiently
one hundred thousand of our sugar
workmen have been forced into. hope-
less and permanent unemployment.
Even then our curtailed sugar pro-
duction must be shipped to the United
States mostly in the raw state to be
‘refined in American refineries, ‘as our
efforts to establish refineries in Puerto
cized by some of the undergraduates
for permitting communism, socialism]
and atheism to thrive within her por-
tals. The critics say that they regard
with shame such fostering of anti-}|
social and un- -American activity by
theifAlma Mater. In defense I say
the shame is not Bryn Mawr’s. This
criticism reflects not upon the school
authorities-for permitting such activi-
ties or even upon the participants
for engaging in such activities; it is
plastic coherence.
“The development of Greek art is
purely factual, not speculative,” said
Mr. Carpenter. Undoubtedly such an
becoming so powerful as to form a
totalitarian dictatorship, for there is
no nucleus around which to form such ©
a state.
jevolution must have a social and eco-
nomic background, but the outstand-
ing Greek political events did not af-
fect Greek art. If it were true that
art depends on such factors, why is
it that the “crucial manifestos” of
Modern art were written before the
World War, and the war itself pro-
our cultural heritage? “Is the mean-
ing .of education merely to be that
of extensive schooling and subjection
tu instruction in conformity which is
conducive to nothing but mental stag-
nation? r are we to have education
‘ ; Rico in order to export the finished/rather a reflection upon the critics 9 ‘
A ge A . pig with wate. product and thus provide employment| themselves’ who, by are pre Sto duced no new art? in’ the enlightened “meaning of the
is colnet a ma tall ‘ony been ‘prohibited by the Federal Gov- ‘|freedom. It-is indeed distressing to|is infallible and thercfore any opinion | aah 3 spam ae a cakes oe
3 ment was offered by the Merion tum- SERIIEHY. 2 AGES cise mata nave picags me that the right of intellectual and|which is authoritatively “suppressed | anon, bul ihe priviines Bak te ae ,
{ Dleva, who acém already sufficiently. ex- applied while the sugar “quotas” of| academic freedom need be defended|may possibly be true. agp te ss atataae ae aera
¥ other foreign nations have been great-|¢3 anyone.at a liberal, democratic! But even if certainty could be at-|%0 ©*@mne all opin :
3 Md a ~. are. .yv_a|ly increased by “commercial treaties.” | girls’ college. tained as to the validity of-an opinion, favorable light, academic freedom
Peggy peter, in'her sissy ¢ The recent minimum salary laws It is not a question of whether or| academic censorship would still be un- whirh is a sign of intellectual hon-
— ee inadvertently were made to include|not the propagation of falsehood or|feasible. It is only under conditions esty? ; ~
ee st e inet ga Puerto Rico. The result has been that| untruth should be allowed at Bryn/of complete liberty of contradiction HELEN HOWnEN, ‘4,
rae. alin a lua. ‘ae extremely cheap Chinese and vores: Mawr. I assume that the critics agree that we are justified in assuming that GLAMOUR & FUN
ce aa. audios Senin be Willy guese labor, allowed by other “com-|with me in holding the belief that/an opinion is a truth which can be
Ww +: ok a chi e's mercial treaties” to supply the Ameri- Bryn Mawr should be devoted to truth.) used as a principle of action and on Under Summer’s Sun
ie sisal uae shee . can - needlework needs from _ their/It then becomes a question of whom|no other terms can:a ‘rational being : rae
hour ata _western family party. = — . : = : Exclusive summer school on
bd pes : . foreign sources,.have practically para-|the critics judge to be competent in|have any ‘assurance: of being right. North-Shore. ~Fashion mod:
Peasy One dit nut ning segue eee lyzed Puerto Rico’s needlework indus-| deciding what theories, opinions and|Furthermore, if a truth is not fully, ling, figure _conditioning,
i te sa rican S te argamant try to the point of imminent ruin and| beliefs shall be suppressed at Bryn|frequently and fearlessly discussed, it Fo itee. Teesited/ Refer. cp
Wi Mie sNdges WI © Dadiel AAWES have caused unemployment and hun-| Mawr. To vest any authority with! will be held as a dead dogma. The ences, Cat. C.
doll. bd . .._,,.|ger (yes, hunger) to nearly a hundred| power to decide What shall be sup-|truth thus held is just another preju- e
After & talee’. alarm, Denbighs thousand other workers. Similar re-| pressed is to: assume. infallibility for|dice, another superstition which acci- d
Weetatat vous three other porters Te-) suits have affected Puerto Rico’s to-| that authority, an assumption which|dentally enunciates a truth. a mie
vived the Stop that Band of their baeco and all other industries. would be unwarranted. To give an| The question now becomes specifi- re) erne |
‘ Christmas program, ang added two! It seems that the Government of|jndividual or group the power to re-|cally: are we at Bryn Mawr to be
ennorde_.A._.. Marion.s.trle plays d the United States, which by thel fuse a hearing to an opinion because] indoctrinated and catéchised’ in the|| 7° ner AVE.
uf French horn, trumpet and. violin. Treaty of Paris took over the island|they are sure that it is false is to|conventional beliefs and opinions of .
From Rockefeller the “Three Sisters’
came in.the best amateur night style.
Sara Glick, ’42, aired the Scarlett
O’Hara problem. as
ELECTIONS
Self-Government Association
Vice-President.
Josephine McClellan, ’40
of Puerto Rico and made of it an
American “insular possession,” does
not realize that this act involved a
grave responsibility before the world,
not to discriminate politically or eco-
nomically against the welfare and the
happiness of the people of Puerto
Rico. I believe that the decision to
“possess” Puerto Rico, made at that]
fateful moment, implies the duty to
assume that their centainty is the}
same thing as so Se a Aa All
silencing of discussion is an assump-. |
tion of infallibiftty. Again I pre-
sume that the critics would agree
with me that no individual or group
‘LAST CHANCE TO ENTER
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Virginia Nichols, 41; Nancy
Howard, ’41; Alison Stokes, ’41
-. Undergraduate Association .
Vice-President..... Camilla Riggs, ’40
Secretary....Charlotte Hutchins, 41
Treasurer...... Christine Waples, ’42
Athletic Association
believe that they have not yet lost
the high hopes that in their hearts
were born when the American. flag
followed the conquest of the island in
1898.
A very able and noble American,
the Hon. Blanton Winship, Governor
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March ‘Lantern’ Weakened
By Scarcity of Contributions
Continued from Page One
ment necessarily indirect, yet strength-
ens her point by- putting both princi-
ples over a common denominator: No
criticism: of fascism is presented, but
this’ cannot be called a weakness, since
the purpose was to show the similari-
ties and differences in the Fascist and
‘‘ Platonic ideals of the state. This pur-
pose of pure analysis is well carried
out, and the treatment of the subject
just.
The story Bane of the Tyrant falls, :
really, in the article division and is an
exceHent piece of writing—original,
strong and clegr. Due to the article’s
compactness and keenness, an old fact,
the blind prejudice of the Fascist and
the Communist, is made strikingly ap-
parent.
_~\, Judging by these articles and those
ue
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in the other two issues, this year’s
Lantern board deserves a great deal)
of credit for its encouragement of
such a type of writing. Much could
be said about the use of the article
in modern writing, but in a review of
the Lantern it is enough to point out
that this magazine now does accept
articles and, what is more, is getting
as good writing of this sort as in the
poems and stories which it has al-
ways published.
The poems of this issue‘ are scanty.
Of the two by Martha Kent, Ar-
raignment seems the best. Its images
are poetic as: .
“Only roofs, weathered and distant
Sprawling to hillward in haste
From the city.”
This poem also has unity as a whole, |
is skillfully handled, and expresses
poetically an idea of tnipertalice. The
writer’s other poem, Lookers On, is
expressed in the same tone and has
some equally effective images like the
“rain torn in sheets across the village
streets.” It seems less sincere, how-
ever, and gives the feeling that the
poet is being melodramatic and forc-
_ ing her emotions.
The Lake ‘handine smectiondy a very
: auetins experiment in pure
imagery. The conception of the lake,
the vividness of the. description..and
the amazingly natural weaving-in of
color make this poem most -effective
as well as original. Poem by Frances
Lewis gives the March issue its one
spark of humor. Perhaps this suc-
cessful attempt will make the campus
less intent on being deeply intelligent,
less scared of being humorous and
courageous enough to contribute to
the Lantern more of this much-needed
humor.
"The Bad Coin; the only other story
>
besides the prize one, I do not find |
particularly -eonvincing. The dia-
logue’ is good and the man’s character
well drawn and consistent. The weak-
~-ness lies in the girl: her change pf
thought at the end of the story seems
unnatural. Why should She admire
him for being able to believe only
what he wishes when she despised
him for the neatness of his emotions
arising from this very ability to make-
believe? The whole story appears’!
seriously weakenéd by the negative
and inconsistent character of the girl.
The book review of Maule’s Curse
seems an excellent piece of criticism
besides being a well-written article.
Reviewing the material as a whole,
I would say the articles deserve the
most credit while the poems and stor-
* ies apparently suffer from scanty ma-
terial. Though generalities are dan-
gerous, I think it is plain that the
stories in this issue are not of as
good quality as those in the last issue
and that the poems are of a different
type from those of the midewinter
Lantern, regardless of the style pre-
ferred. In the winter issue there was
little pure ‘imagery, while in the Lake
_ there is nothing else and in Miss
Kent’s poems this imagery makes. yp
the best and strongest quality. By
turning to the imagist school the par-
peur. ee of, tone for whieh
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Pat
For Special Parties,
'_ MEET ‘YOUR FRIENDS
‘The Bryn Mawr College Tea | Room
fora ~
_ SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION’
: | ‘Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P.M.
POLICE HOLD SUSPECT _
OF DENBIGH THEFTS
Denbigh Hall, April 11.—A colored
woman who gave her name as Bea
Johnson, 26, was turned over to the
pofice this morning. She had “on a
green coat thought to be, the same
(worn by an unidentified woman seen
in the hall#on two former occasions.
Both times thefts were reported by
the residents, one two weeks, the
‘other a month ago.
_A_ previous unsuccessful. attempt
was made to hold the suspect when
she was discovered in the building.
Today she said she was looking for
a joby and Miss Jones, hall manager,
kept her itfher: office on pretense of
nae
til the police arrived. “
Opinions on May Day
_ Discussed in Assembly
@nttnuea from Page One x
students. The director is chosen -in
December and work begins immedi-
ately on casting the plays. —
In January the “May.-Queen is
chosen, rehearsals begin, and work is
started on ‘making flowers, sewing
scales on dragons and other equally
diverse tasks. From February on un-
dergraduates spend two or... three
dancing, and four hours a-week are
centrated labor, and little academic
work is done. Classes stop altogether
two days before May Day. An extra
week is added at the end of the college
year to help make up for the lost
time.
Miss Otis, speaking of hér experi-
ences in the May Day of -three years
ago, brought out the difference in the
}problem which will have to be faced
next year, Comprehensjves need to be
considered in the mat Some may
regard May Day as. only glorified
pageantry, but the regimentation
| neeessary-for—perfeetion should be re-|
membered. Five dollar fines -and
other “Fascist:regime tendencies” are
unpleasant to say the least, but danc-
ing on the green in the early morning
can be surprisingly pleasant. But,
said Miss Otis, “there is a great deal
to be got out of it and nothing to be
lost.” There was great interest in
the plays, as most of them, exsept for
A Midsummer’s Night Dream, are sel-
dom given. Everyone felt the sense
of recreating the past, whether as a
milkmaid, a tumbler, or just a plain
fool.
—
the Lantern has often been justly cri-
ticized is done away with; but don’t
the imagist poems provide as narrow,
if not narrower, limits to the ideas
and spirit which poetry can express?
As shown in this Lantern, it-seems to
me that although imagists may pro-
duce poetic phrases, they very easily
become lost in words and forget
thought.
Thus I think the scarcity of ma-
terial has hindered the Lantern from
meeting fully its standards of qual-
ity. If only a few are interested in
writing, I see little reason against
their turning out their own magazine.
.The only possible objection would be
that such a group has a tendency to
become closed to outsiders. As long
as..the Lantern board continues to
put -eontributions up against their
standards as fairly as they have, how-
ever, there should be no criticism for
the fact that their articles are pre-
dominant in the magazine. The cri-
ticism for this rests now on the in-
difference of the college at large.
ng
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interviewing her about references un- |.
hours a -week perfecting their~ folk-|}
spent on play ee |
two weeks of April are spent if ton-
[Bryn Mawr Delegates
To Represent Rumania
Model League to ‘Hold Discussion
we On Covenant Revision
Bryn Mawr is to represent Ru-
mania at the Model League” Assem-
bly which will be held this. year on
April 13, 14 and. 15, at Bucknell Uni-
versity, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
The delggates are Lillian Seidler, ’40;
Anne Spillers, 40; Joy Rosenheim,
"40; Ernestine Galucci, ’41; Margaret
Magrath, ’42; Janet Meyer 42, and
Rebecca Robbins, ’42. Approximately
80. other colleges are also Partiphpat-
ing. Se
The principal discussion of the
meeting will be revision of the Cove-
nant of the League.in general, for
which three commissions have been
selected to work on functions, meth-
ods and composition.. Joy Rosenheim
is rapporteur for the’ functions com-
mission.
On April 6 the Rumanian delega-
tion entertained Great Britain (Tem-
ple University),-and France (Hav-
erford), at tea in the Common Room,
combining social and diplomatic dis-
cussion as does the Model League it-
self.
St
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»
IN THE BOOKSHOP
LENDING. LIBRARY
; 4.
Three Harbors
by F. van Wyck Mason
Recent historical novels on the
veloping into one distinct and easily
recognizable type. They all tell much
the same story, furnished with’ much
the same cast of. characters.
The hero of these books is a strong
American ‘Revolution appear to be de-].
In Memoriam
Dr. Tenney Frank, associate
* and full professor of Latin at
‘Bryn Mawr from 1904 to 1919, .
died on April 3, 1939, at Oxford,
England: Miss Taylor, Mr.
Broughton, and Miss. Park, fe- .
ceived their doctorates under —
Dr. Frank.
\
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man who dislikes Parliament, but
does not wish to be drawn into a war
with England. At the beginning he
is usually in love with a beautiful
Tory aristocrat, until they are parted
by her unbearable family and super-
cilious ideals. In such cases he finishes
by marrying a spirited and liberty-
loving British noblewoman, who usu-
ally’ arrives in the country disguised
as an indentured servant. (Less fre-
quently, he starts by adoring.a mys-|
terious and exquisite English lady,
but discovers her to be a spy in time
to repudiate her and marry the brave
and simple patriot girl whom he has
unconsciously loved all the time.)
The hero does not fight in every
major battle of the entire war, as he
did in older romances. Usually- he
goes through one campaign ending in
a single climactic action, like the
storming of Quebec or the battle of
\
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but amiable and peace-loving young
|PAUL-WHITEMAN
buying Chesterfields at
famous Gasparilla Ball
~. in Tampa, Florida.
vowpisten.to. him,’
évery Wednesday night
All C. B.S. Stations -
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—
Saratoga. This climactic action is in-
variably described’ with painful | his-
torical i et and perhaps an over-
abundance of ‘trealistic” detail.
‘here that. the hero’s brother or best
friend,-a gay, unregenerate dog, finds -
‘that he.has a soul, and dies heroically.
Three Harbors, by F. van Wyck |
Mason, keeps to* thé exact center of ”
this fairly well-beaten path. For pur-
poses of identification, the hero’s name
is’ Robert Ashton, a pane Hee
Norfolk. His unregenerate br
David, who dies heroically at Bunker
Hill. The Tory sweetheart is Peggy,
Robert’s first wife, and the English
noblewoman is called the Honorable
Andrea Grenville.
The book can also be distinguished“
from the work of Kenneth Roberts
and Neil Swanson by its author’s in-
ability to handle eighteenth century
language. Every so. often he throws
in a feeble “La, sir!” or a “Zwounds!”,
but most of the tiie his conversa-
‘tions are frankly conducted in twenti-
eth century slang.
—_—E
To Simplify Your
Life
We have appointed Mimi Boal at
Wyndham our Bryn atewr Repre-
sentative for
HUARACHES—
Ten different models,
leather soled.
*Our exclusive design.
MARGARET PAUL
PUERTA DE MEXICO
69 St. James Place
Ardmore, Pa.
A
rope* or
.. as our band travels asbiowerts i ol
country I ‘find that Chesterfield is the
ALL-AMERICAN CHOICE for more
smoking pleasure!”
It’s a fact... millions from nae to coast are
_ turning to Chesterfields for what they want in a
cigarette. They’find Chesterfields have a better
taste and a more pleasing aroma. Chesterfields -
show them what real mildness means in a cigarette.
... the RIGHT COMBINATION of the
world’s best cigarette tobaccos
“pv. they’re MILDER and TASTE BETTER
When you try them you'll.
~ know why Chesterfields give
men and women everywhere
more smoking pleasure—why
Chesterfields SATISFY
?
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College news, April 12, 1939
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