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VOL. XXVI, No. 23

BRYN,MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940.

Copyright, Trustees a PRICE 10 CENTS

Bryn Mawr College, 19





Peace Council

Presents Talk,

Movie on China



Modern Advances Receive
Impetus From Unifying
Effect of War

Goodhart, May 13.— The Four
Hundred Million, presented by the
Peace Council, was a movie depict-



ing the effects of the war on the
A discussion fol-

lowed conducted by Lucy Tou, a
graduate student.

Miss Tou said that there was a
side. to the ‘war which was both
hopeful and constructive. It is the
unifying effect of the common dis-
aster. -For many decades, edu-
cated men in China have realised
that modern improvements and _ in-
dustrial development were neces-
sary for the existence and growth
of their country, but a “‘push” was
needed from the outside to rouse
the Chinese people to action. They
have found. this. impetus in war
with Japan.

The movie illustrated Miss Tou’s
discussion by presenting a picture
of the constructive accomplish-
ments of the Chiang Kai-shek gov-
ernment as well as the ravages and|
pitiful scenes of the war. In addi-
tion it gave a rapid and sympa-
thetic resume -of the history of
China from the golden days of the
kings and philosophers, through
the “open-door” question and the
awakening of democratic China, to
the present undeclared war.

Chinese people.



Labor Administration
Discussed by Fleming



Common Room, May 3.—Colonel
Philip Fleming, administrator of
Wages and Hours, addressed the
Industrial Group on the provis-
ions and enforcement of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, which sets
a minimum number of hours that
employees may work, and a mini-
mum wage.

The act became effective in Oct-
ober, 1988, and set as the mini-
mum wage, 25 cents per hour.
This was in force “until October,
1939, when the amount became 30
In 1945, this sum
is to be raised to 40 cents per hour.

The first minimum for hours was
44 per week. In October, of 1939,
this was reduced to 42 hours per

week, to be effective-until-October
Continued on Page Three



Calendar

Friday, May 17.—

Last Day of Lectures.. Sen-
ior Speeches, 12.45 P.M.

Monday, ‘May 20.—

First Day of Collegiate
Examinations.

Wednesday, May 29.—
Science Club Picnic,
P.M,

Friday, May 31.— ,;
Last—Day of —Soleriate
Examinations.

Saturday, June 1.—
Junior Promenade,
9.00-2.00 A. M.

Sunday, June 2.—
Baccalaureate Sermon by
Reverend George Arthur

5.00

Gym,

Buttrick, Goodhart Hall,
8.00 P. M.

Monday, June 3.— -
Senior Bonfire, Lower

Hockey Field, 9.00 P. M.
Tuesday, June 4.—
‘Garden Party, Wyndham,
4.00-7.00 P.M.
Wednesday, June 5.—
Close of 55th Academic
Year. Commencement Ad-
dress... by....Dr,__Hu—.Shih,
Goodhart Hall, 11.00 A. M.

Albert McVitty Loans
Etchings, Lithographs
Exhibited by Art Club

Common Room, May 12.— The
original etchings and lithographs
lent to the Art Club, by Albert E.
MeVitty, of Princeton,
the last, and perhaps the best Com-
mon Room exhibition of the year.
The exhibition was opened by an
Art Club tea.

Of the works displayed, Branu-
emond’s_ etching of Erasmus —is
probably the most famous, but
there are typical examples of Dau-
mier, Millet, Degas, Matisse and
Meryon, as well. There is a lith-
ograph of a bather, by Degas, and
a reclining dancer, sprinkled with
decorative flowers, by Matisse. The
Daumiers are satires, the Millets
are peasant scenes, and the two
_Meryon etchings, studies of light,
and shade on architecture.

The largest etching is. by- Bes-
uard, of a girl sitting infront of
the fire, her face lit by the glow,
and the rest of her body in dark-
ness. Across the room from it, is
a little Matisse face, done in only

three_or four light lines,amazing-
ly impudent in comparison.









comprise





Noisy Seniors Plant Weeping Cherry. Tree;
me Blonde Tears Off Brute’s Disguise



By Agnes Mason, °42
Although the Seniors planted a
weeping cherry tree outside Rock
last Wednesday night, this tradi-
tional occasion was iff*#o" ‘Way. as

teary one. Rather, it was filled
with quip and jest, prank and wan-
ton wile. The company followed
route TRPMDRG and back to T,

~ “thé “only “disgruntling part of? the

evening being that not enough ex-
asperation at the terrible noise was
shown by the hall residents.
Three men accompanied the
chaste maidens on this ceremony
of beauty. One, an. attachment of
Jorinie Johnson’s, was carefully
garbed in cap and gown, but be-
cause of a well-grown mustache,
The.
brute was recognized and the cap
torn from his telltale head by a
brave blonde. Two men from the

Gervin Hotel trailed along brazen-

The singing was commendable,
particularly outside of Goodhart,
when. .all--the -mutes__restrained
themselves. The calm of the eve-
oping was broken into pieces only

once when a fierce b “battle ensued}:
between Rhoads and Pembroke
seniors. Rhoads insisted on sing-
ing Rah, rah, rah, Upper Darby
has the ball; but Pembroke’ was

‘adamant-- and’ “thought= May Day'|}

songs more fitting. Luckily, a com-
promise was reached with Onward
Christian Soldiers. —

_ As the troupe passed Rhoads,
‘Marion. Kirk was called to -the
télephone and the halls resounded
with a beautiful ‘solo, Sophias Phila
Paromen. Repercussions of the

Camilla Riggs, Janet Russell and
Mary Newberry were accused of
having crept out in the dead of
night and dug up the pennies from
around the weeping cherry.



5 ly in tuxedos.

id

celebration occurred at the Wynd-}.
ham picnic next evening -when|}~



Bach Festival
Offers Annual

Religious Mass



1940 Marks Thirty-third

Performance B Minors;
Many Cantatas Listed



The 1940 Bach Festival, given
in. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will
be held Friday and Saturday, May
17 and 18. The recitals will be
given in the Parker Memorial
Chapel, of Lehigh University. Since
seating space in the Chapel is lim-
ited, the music will be transmitted
to the Auditorium of Packard Lab-
oratory, where seats may be ob-
tained.
around the Chapel afford an oppor-|
tunity to enjoy the music in the|
open air. Preceding each session,
the Moravian Trombone Choir. will
play chorales from the Chapel.

The Bach Choir was founded in|
1898 by Mr. Fred Wolle, who wa s|
inspired by Bach’s religious music!
and who wished to encourage an
appreciation of it in America. The}
Festival as performed in Bethle-
hem is therefore of a purely reli-
gious nature. The Mass in B Mi- |
nor was first given in 1900 after}
fourteen months of rehearsal. The}
great difficulties of instructing an!
amateur choir to sing such an elab-!
orate composition were overcome
and this year marks the thirty-
third performance of the Mass.





The program is as follows:
Friday, May 17th
ap; MM,
Cantata ... Now Praised Be Thou
Continued on Page Three



Secretary’s Protest

Causes Rift in LS.S.

On May first, a rupture occurred |
in the International Student Serv-
ice organization to which the Bryn
Mawr Peace Council contributed.
Dr. Clyde Eagleton, Chairman of
the United States Committee of|
that organization requested the!
resignation of Harper W. Poulson, |







In_addition, the. grounds}.

Dennis Group’ s Program Features

‘Peter and the

Deydens Win Prize

A prize of 300 dollars had
been awarded to Mr. and
Mrs. A. Lincoln Dryden by
the Geological Society of
America. The prize was
awarded for the Drydens’
-joint—research*on the —Sedi=
ments of the Triassic and At-







lantic Coastal Plain.



Texts of Symposium
Lecture Published

In Monograph Series



The “successful” symposium “on
art, which was_ presented last
spring at Bryn Mawr, has recently
been published under the .auspices
of the college. Mr. Rhys Carpen-
ter edited the volume, with the as-
sistance of Mr. Milton C. Nahm.

Art: A Symposium, Volume IX
the Bryn Mawr Monograph
Sucina: contains an introduction by
Mr. Carpenter. The lectures pre-
sent four different approaches to
art. Mr. Richard Bernheimer
spoke as an art-historian, Mr. Car-
ipenter as an archaeologist. "The
philosopher’s point of view was
{represented by Mr. Nahm, and Mr.
|Kurt Koffka of Smith College dis-
cussed psychology in art.

Two lectures were delivered by
Mr. Bernheimer, /n Defense of
Representation, and Concerning
Symbols. Mr. Carpenter spoke on
The Archaeological Approach, the
Evolution of Modern Painting, and
concluded with Further Comment.

Problems in the Psychology of Art!

is the title of Mr. Koffka’s discus-
sion. Form in Art and The Funce-
tion of Art were presented by Mr.
Nahm.

Advance copies of the book will
be_on sale on or about May 15 at
the office of the Editor of Publica-
tion and at the College Bookshop.

| Students may leave further orders

to be filled during the summer.

'The price is two dollars and a half.

| dance style.

Wolf, : ‘Synchore’

— Show Synthesis
Of Ballet and Modern
Dance Technique





By Joan Gross, °42

Goodhart, May 14.—Estelle Den-
ed dance program including the
of Prokofieff and Synchore, a sym-
bolic dance, in which the. conflict
between nations was represented
by two opposing dance techniques,
Ballet and Modern.

Synchore was perhaps the most
representative of Miss Dennis’
Her fin4l synthesis of
Modern and Ballet techniques re-
sults in “an unconfined movement,
which retains more of the classiéal
style. than the. disciplined control
and economy of movement empha-
sized by the Modern school.

Miss Dennis’ choreography in
Synchore, was effective, although
conventional. As Arbito to the
became’ professor of philosophy at
Peking National University in

1917 and later dean of the depart-
Continued on Page Two

Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese
Ambassador, To Speak

On Commencement Day





Dr. Hu Shih, the Chinese am-
bassador to America, will be the
Commencement speaker this year.
Dr. Hu is an eminent philosopher,
scholar and poet. His ideas of a
radical reform in Chinese litera-
ture effected the “Literary Revo-
lution” in China, and as a. poet
he was responsible for the growth
of a school of Chinese “Vulgate
Poets” who write exclusively in the
spoken language.

In 1910 Dr. Hu was sent to Cor-
nell University by the Chinese
government, and after graduation
spent three years doing graduate

work there and at Columbia. He
Continued on Page Six





its secretary. Dr. Eagleton charged

that Poulson had “sabotaged” the Critic Accuses “The Lantern’ of Overrating

Variation When Confronted With Shortage

“humanitarian relief effort” of the!
I. S. S., and was using the plight’
of Spanish student refugees in;
France as a political weapon. The!
United States Committee backed
the decision of Dr. Eagleton.
Poulson, as well as two other
staff members, Catherine Deeny,
and Ann Shroyer, resigned, from|
the I. S. S. on May 4, 1940, pro-
testing that “the I. S. S., nation-
ally and internationally, is no long-
er interested in furthering strictly
non-partisan, non-political relief,
but has rather become an adult at-
tempt to frustrate the expressed
desire of Ameriean studénts to
keep the United States out of the
European war.”’They-said_that in
January, the I. S..S. had initiated;

the _ European . Student’
-Wertinued-on- Page Threw ee



Science Club Picnic
.. The annual Science. Club_
picnic,.will .pe.-held Wednes-
‘day, May 29, for all Science ©
Club members. Only faculty
and undergraduates are be-
‘ing invited, as last year’s pic-
nic was- too large. The us-’
ual faculty-student baseball
> game will be played in ‘the
afternoon before supper. All
club members who would like
to_go. should see Ingeborg...
Hinck, in Pembroke. East,
Judy Bregman in Wyndham,
or Kathleen Kirk in Pem-
broke West.









even.

|serious consideration,

Service
Dodge's s M fe PhoZeecd 4s;



Specially contributed by
Mrs. Woodrow
This issue of The Lantern is un-
It contains three short sto-
ries and two poems which: deserve
a brief and
sensible editorial, and it is enliv-
ened by two drawings. The other
three contributions, however, have
far less value and are interesting
chiefly for the editorial problem.
they raise. They were undoubtedly
fun to write, but I question the
wisdom of printing them.
The three stories are interesting

‘to compare: they seem to represent

three stages of development. Miss
noting my.
opinion, convinéing. She has tried
to tell her story too briefly. Nei-
ther the narrator’s character nor

her:,relations with. Joe are clearly.
enough: established before the -cli-
|max.

Consequently her quiet” ac-
count of the murder, as if the
shooting were done (with amazing
accuracy!) by someone else, is less
effective than it should be. What

{might be the logical outeome of a
‘}longer story is merely surprising:

here and hard to believe.
The subject of Diamond Street

| Café. is more ‘plausible, and _inter-

esting, and Miss Tucker has han-
dled it well. On the whole the dia-
logue is good, the Café really. ex-
ists, the flow of events is convinc-



ing, and the-story has form .and

significance. Occasionally the ex-
position is mechanical (Ginger
Lee’s explanatory thoughts in her
dressing room seem awkward), and
I think Miss Tucker has not made
the most of the Vassar girl and her
two young men—amusing as _ they
are. We may feel that more can
be done with the situation, but
Miss Tucker convinces us that she
has expressed the essentials.

The Finish, by Miss Strong, is
the longest of the three stories and
the most complete. A few details
confuse me (the somewhat myste-

nis-and-her-group-presented-a-vari=

programistic Peter and the Wolf,’

rious behavior~-of--Mr:—J-udd;—for————___—.

instance) but the story’s main ele-

sous ne-boy’s-ferhing for thaytwco
horses, his predicament, and the
excitement of the race, are all de-

veloped vigorously and naturally.

Miss Kent’s poem, Fo. Choose of
Bondage, . seems- > less”
than her others have been this
year. The language is not specific,
and as a result both the occasion
and the emotion have a generalized
quality. The images, related though
they are, appear disconnected:
they fail to illuminate one another,
or the subject. The effect, there-
fore, is of something being said in
pieces, too slowly.

Miss Pope’s poem, De Revolu-

Sata

Bika

Suecessful fs

tionibus, is interesting and skillful. ~~

Her rhythm and phrasing are more
derivative, less her own, than Miss
Continued on rage Six