College news, May 11, 1938

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VOL. za No. 25













BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11,;°1938

Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1938,

PRICE 10 CENTS





Modern Dancers
_Give Technique

Demonstration

ee 2
as Shows Background
-And Explains Purposes
Of the Forum








COLLEGE.GROUP DOES
C. WEIDMAN DANCE



Gymnasium, May 10.—The Dancers’
Club presented an informal lecture-
demonstration on the Modern Dance
under the direction of Ethel Mann, ’38.
Her short introduction which opened
the program was followed by demon-
strations of’ the Doris Humphrey
technique and the presentation of a
part of Affirmation, a dance composed
by Charles Weidman. The perform-
ance was enthusiastic and exciting,
and the dancing, though amateur in
form, showed interest and ability far
above anything expected from college
students.

In her outline, Ethel Mann referred
to the origins of modern dancing
which were found in the methods of
Isadore Duncan who freed this art of
its former artificiality. Miss Dun-
can’s aim was to develop “natural”
movement. which could express emo-
tional and mystical experience. Upon
this principle of expression the Mod-
ern Dance has been built.

Technique, she explained, is only
the way one does something, and no
two persons employ the same means.
It is, in a word, an individual’s point
of view. The three outstanding
schools of technique today are those
of Charles Weidman, Martha Graham,
and Doris Humphrey. The Bryn
Mawr dancers employed the methods
of Miss Humphrey. who has_ been

training them in her classes on the:

campus this year.
he technical foundation of Miss
Humphrey’s work is based upon the
natural body action in relation to
gravity. . Out of the altérnation of
unbalance and recovery, a rhythm
develops which is kinetic rather than
musical. The three structural ele-
ments of this dance are rhythm,
dynamism or intensity, and design.
The demonstration of technique, ac-
companied by the drum, included body
stretches, a study in opposition and
~*Continued on Page Six

‘east-acted this with skillful abandon.



Shaw Comedy and
‘Trifles’ Presented
~ By Players’

J. Harned ont E. gece he 40

Play in Glegelk > _
Of Mid-West

Goodhart, May 7.—The Players’
Club presented a socially non-signifi-
cant tragedy, Trifles, by Susan Glas-
pell, and a farce, Passion, Poison and
Petrifaction, by George Bernard Shaw.
Both are one-act plays; the first is
difficult because it is extremely subtle,
and the second: because it is just the
opposite. The Players’ Club handléd
its joint problems with remarkable
success. :

Susan Glaspel’s dreary midwestern
tragedy. opened the evening. The
slight plot concerns a sheriff and a
county attorney, who search the
Wright farm house to find clues to
prove that Mrs. Wright, now in the
village jail, has killed her husband.
From trifles, the women who accom-



pany them. piece together Mrs.
Wright’s sad history.
Eleanor Emery, ’40, and Julia

Harned, ’39, were the two women,
stiff and chary of speech. The looks
which they exchanged created a tense
atmosphere, which was communicated
to.the audience as a terrifying feeling
of suspense. Eleanor Emery’s acting
was particularly subtle-in its com-
plete restraint, which she emphasized
by occasional nervous. movements of
her hands. Julia Harned played a
more difficult part with understanding
simplicity.

Martha de Witt, ’41, struggling as
Hale, a farmer, under a heavy mono-
logue at the beginning of the play,
spoke slightly teo fast and without
sufficient emphasis. However, she
walked and carried herself like d@
man, unlike the sheriff, Thelma Deck,
’41, and the attorney, Barbara Black,
’41, who were somewhat too feminine
in their speech and gestures.

Passion, Poison and Petrifaction is
a farce, recognizably Shavian, about
a husband who poisons his rival and
feeds him lime as an antidote, only to
watch him turn: slowly into stone,
good for nothing but a statue in Tra-
falgar Square. The Players’ Club

Julia Follansbee, ’41, was excellent as

the melodramatic villain, , sneering
Continued on Page Four



_ Eight Bryn Mawr Folk

On New York to be in Spring Festival

omen

Dancers Descend



Four undergraduate couples, Miss

- Ethel Grant and Mrs. A. Basset, ’24,

went to New York on Saturday, April
17, to the spring festival of the Eng-
lish Folk Dance Society of America.
Mrs. Bassett took four students in her
car. En route she told anecdotes of
the days. when impoverished under-
graduates pledged 100 dollars to Good-
hart and then raised the money by
dress-making and waxing sweetpeas.
(These were Mrs. Bassett’s methods.
Others sat on Taylor steps and sold

-four cent strings of beads for a dol-
1688:

In New York, our first gesture was
the purchase of an ice packfor one
of our number who seemed to be de-
veloping appendicitis. The next was
lunch. Having consulted the police-
man on the corner of 67 Street and
Park Avenue, we started into a murky
little sandwich shop. “Alarmed by the
darkness and by the numbers of fur-
tive looking men at the counter, we
backed out again quickly. There-was
‘no other place in sight. At length,

‘on the advice of a nearby doorman, we
. gathered courage and went all the

way in. From the inside it looked
like a cross between the bookshop
with its lights off and a soda fountain.
_ The Folk Dance festival, which is
backed by many imposing people,
headed ‘by Mrs. Roosevelt, is given in

‘\\the armory én East 66 Street. By the
_ time we arrived most of the dancers

were already there, but a good many
ladies in bright cotton dresses still
crowded in the door: We followed in
the wake of two elderly green ones



‘but most had on ordinary trousers.



and reached an enormous iiok room
where we changed shoes, surrounded
by mothers tweaking their little, girls’
braids, schools in all stages of undress,
and. grandmothers preparing to dance
themselves. .

The room in which we danced had
enough floor space~to’ accommodate
eight tennis courts and was propor-
tionately high. All around the sides
there were elevated boxes bearing ‘

a shield the names of the groups sit-
ting in them. We shared our box with
the Child Welfare Foundation Train-
ing School, which was se a in
brown and blue.

Every one seemed to be in group
costume but ourselves; there was a
contingent of brilliant pink women
from Boston, green women from New
York, pink children and blue children
herded by a girl in white from the
Staten Island Academy, and a whole
seraglio of yellow ladies clustered
around one long-waisted middle-aged
gentleman. The men all wore white; |.
some were in tight Morris breeches,

Like the women, they ranged in ages
from six to 65. Some of’ them were.
covered with the insignia of folk danc-
ing, each rosette indicating a type of
dance mastered.

The program ‘began—on time—with
the Horn Dance given here last Big
May Day. It was danced entirely by.
men, and included, besides. those who
carried antlers, a clown, a hobby
horse and a small boy carrying a green’
branch. The steps were slow and

Club} |



Continued on Page Four .

been postponed’ ‘until Monday,

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ANNA HIETANEN



Anna Hietanen Joins
Geology Department



Special’ Appointments Include
Two Men Candidates for
Ph. D. Degree



The Mary Paul Collins Scholarship
for Foreign Women, to be held for
1938-39 in the department of Geology,
has been awarded to Miss Anna Hie-
tanen, of Finland. A canvass of all
the institutions in the world where
women of advanced graduate rank in
geology are available showed only

eight or ten eligible for the scholar-

ship. The department believes. Miss
Hietanen is the best qualified of these
to participate in the work planned.

Born in Isokyro, Finland, in 1909,
Miss Hietanen will receive her Ph. D.
this year. She was trained under
Professor Pentti Eskola of the Uni-
versity of Helsingfors (Helsinki) , who
has done extensive field work in the
metamorphosed igneous rocks of Fin-
land. These rocks present problems
very similar in petrology and strati-
graphy to the complicated Piedmont
Province around Bryn Mawr, on
which the department will concentrate
next year.

Considerable work on this region
has been done in the past, particularly
by members of the staff and students
of the college. Recently, interest has
been renewed because. of ‘changed

‘!methods of ‘age determination and

consequent new interpretations. The
Mary Paul Collins Research grant
provides two scholarships to American
graduate students, who will also work
an the Piedmont project. These have
been awarded to Miss Anna L. Dor-
sey, A.B., 1987, University of Mis-
souri, and Miss Natalie Carleton, A.B.,
1933, and M.S., 1936, University of
Vermont.

Dr. Elisabeth Sauer, of Munich,
Germany, who received her Ph.D. de-
gree summa._cum_ laude_in 1937, was
also seriously considered with Miss
Hietanen for the main scholarship.
It is now probable, the Dean’s office
of the graduate school announced, that
Dr. Sauer will be at Bryn Mawr as
German Exchange Teaching Fellow.

Four or five men are registered as
graduate students for next year, two
of them the first meén candidates for
the Ph.D. degree“in the history of the
college. In addition, the regular
graduate scholars will be Jane Arm-
strong, from’Smith College, and Kath-
ryn Dedman from Marietta College.

Next year athe Mary Paul Collins
Research grant will be awarded for
the fourth time. It was held first

* Continued on Page Five



Science Picnic Postponed
The Science Club picnic has

May 23, because of the Varsity-

Faculty -baseball game this
Thursday. Members should sign
on .the new lists posted in
the halls before Monday, May
16, and indicate whether they
will. bicycle or will require trans-_

_ portation. All available cars will
be gratefully welcomed.









Miss Meigs Reviews
the March ‘Lantern’



&y

The Gollege News; in a recent edi-
torial, states that the Lantern is hav-
ing an admittedly low period and that

iipic”” “ed-with ultimate death

"lunless further support is offered. The

News thus calls attention to a very
vital question among Bryn Mawr’s

jextra curricular activities.
It is the opinion of this member. of.

the faculty selected to review the last
number, that the cause of this low
period is not the fault of a group of
diligent and spirited editors, but is the
responsibility of certain more remote
figures, namely T. S. Eliot, Gertrude
Stein and, less directly, Chekov, Kath-
arine Mansfield and The New Yorker.
It is not suggested that imitation of
the work of the above named is the
source of the trouble. The fact is
that each of these, in his own way,
has helped to set up a literary fash-
ion which it is extremely difficult to
follow. Since .the educated taste of
a college audience responds to this
rather intricate and specialized work
to an unusual degree, it seems incum-
bent upon the college magazine to re-
flect that taste and produce something
of a similar sort.. More than one
magazine of the present day has
fallen into the rut of some such spe-
cialized tendency, has grown thinner
and thinner in actual content and
then, after temporary retirement, has
burst suddenly into the journalistic
ring with a “Here we are again,”
turning double somersaults and clad
in the violent motley of The Picture
Magazine of Popular Appeal. Such a

fate could never overtake the Lantern.

for the good taste of its constituency
will not abide it. But none the less,
it is the serious concern of everyone
interested in Bryn Mawr to-tonsider
the case of the magazine. That a
college of Bryn Mawr’s resourceful-
ness should have real difficulty in
maintaining an adequate literary
magazine is hardly to be believed.

At present, the editors must write
the contributions themselves, or must
select them from the casual and fugi-
tive pieces of work which students
may produce in their spare hours.
Such s hours are very few and
the people outside the Editorial Board
do not make work for the Lantern
part of their regular program of ex-
tra curricular activities. As a result,

thé “editors are—overworked—and—are

unable to offer their best efforts in
the magazine. Some new plan of

gathering material, a -much larger
Continued on Page Two

WASHINGTON LETTERS
FLOOD PEACE COUNCIL





After the Peace Demonstration of
April 27, the college Peace Council
distributed its resolutions to numerous
senators, congressmen, departments
and committees who might be inter-
ested... To “date, “Louise Morley” has
received ten letters. |The first was,
appropriately enough, from the War
Department, and is posted on the
Peaée Council bullétin’ board.” The
other nine lie in. the council secre-

|tary’s folder, where anyone may see

them on request.

Besides the War Department, the
following acknowledged with varying
degrees of gratitude the receipt of
the resolutions: The Department of
Labor, the United States Department
of the Interior (which has by far
the largest departmental letter head

and the only one specifying the coun-]

try), the Department of Commerce,
the Department of Agriculture, the
Navy Department, the Senate Com-
mittee on’ ‘Foreign Affairs; two Penn-
sylvania congressmen and one Penn-
sylvania senator.

By far. "the warmest letter came
from the senator, though the congress-
men were very nice; and the coolest
was’ from the Navy Department.
Senator James~Davis, after remark-
ing that he has our letter, and add-
ing that he appreciates our thought-
fulness, jotted down in his own hand
these words: “Do you know that Bryn
Mawr is Welsh: It is Big Hill. Mawr
is big—Bryn is Hill.” The Navy De-

Continued on Page Five :



Mereantilism
Final Flexner

‘Lecture Topic

en IK
Gay Sees Reflux in Modern

Times and Hopes for

Its Success

INDUSTRIAL CONTROL
BY STATE. DEVELOPS

Goodhart, May 9.—In his final lec-
ture on the Economic History of Eng-
land during the Renaissance (1485-
1640), Dr. Edwin R. Gay, Flexner
lecturer, spoke on Mercantilism and
the Rise of Free Enterprise. --He de-
scribed mercantilism as a restrictive
economic tendency in the period of
transition from mediaeval stability to
the mobility of modern capitalism.
Mercantilism is not a system, but
the haphazard comments and oppor-
tunistic legislation which followed the
changes in Renaissance economy.

This transition was accomplished
without serious disruption of the pub-
lic order. Dr. Gay quoted Whitehead
as saying that where there are the
two forces of permanence and flux,
the “art of progress” is in maintain-
ing change in order and order in
change. We are at present in reverse
transition from mobile to stable econ-
omy. Dr. Gay closed his series of lec-
tures with the hope. that the future
may accomplish its change as success-
fully.

In the confusion resulting from the
clash of persisting mediaeval institu-
tions with: new forces, the idea of
the powerful state as a supreme re-
stricting power came into being. The
legislation of the period was marked
by vacillating opportunism more
than by any determining policy. It
shows an aspiration rather than a
reasoned redress of the state of things.
From these efforts and the digcus-
sions they developed, arose the theories
of Hun and Adam Smith, our.-mod-
ern political economy, and the actu-
alities of modern free enterprise.

During the reign of Elizabeth, Lord
Burleigh was one of the greatest mer-
cantilists: in action. At—a—time—of
serious depressiop in 1587 he was
prepared to rescind the entire bulk of





restrictive legislation passed since the

beginning of the reign. The efforts
of a “pressure group” of London mer-

chants would perhaps have been in:
vain had not the Armada come, and

success in arms stopped economic re-
form.

Although government legislation in
this period was designed to restrain

the changes, it sought restraint in-

the interests of rationalism. The re-
sult was the gradual destruction of

the mediaeval system with the growth

of laissez faire and.individualism:
In this period the powerful state

was developed. to hold the same. con-
Continued on Page Five

COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, May 12.—Faculty
vs. Varsity baseball game. Hock- —

ey Field, 4. p. m.

Monday, May 16.—Final Ex- |
aminations begin.

Tuesday, May 17.—Concert by
‘Miss Mary Earp for the benefit
of the’ Bryn Mawr Hospital,
Deanery, 8.30.

Monday, May 23.—Science -
Club Picnic, 4.30.

Friday, May 27.—Final Ex-
amination end.

Sunday, May 29: —Baccalau-
reate Sermon by Dr. Robert
Russell Wicks. Goodhart, 8
p. m.



. Bonfire, Lower Hockey Field, 9
p.m. :
‘Tuesday, May 31. — Senior
a Party, Wyndham, 4-7 .

“Weanecdin, June 1—Com-
mencement. Address by ‘the
Hon. Francis B. Sayre, Good-
hart, 11.a. m.







Monday,, May _20.—Senior_}_.




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MARGARET MacG, OTIS,

Ass’t Copy Editor
IsoTa:A, TUCKER, ’40

’ News Editor.
ANNE LOUISE AXON, '40_

Ass’t News Editor
EMILY CHENEY, "40

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Name: Patience, Grade: Merit

For one reason or another nearly everybody has objected to the
pusillanimous attitude of the News towards Patience, in general because
our criticism was not sound enough in any direction. Whether or not
people are aware of it, there is an aura of sacredness about Glee Club
performances which prevents critics from saying what they think, and
leads them to make allowances. Usually they are misled by the elabo-
rateness of production, the hours of time spent on it, and the difficulty
soprano voices have in singing tenor parts. We feel, however, that even
if the productions of the last two years are judged on such a sliding
scale, they, come out in the same positions in relation to each other.
According to our familiar marking system, The Mikado would get a
high credit and Patience would fall somewhere in the great middle
__obseurityof merits.

We have several reasons for this decision., Patience does not carry
itself as well as The Mikado, Except in the superb dragoons’ chorus,
there was evidence of a lack of the training which should have counter-
‘balanced this. Perhaps the D’Oyly Carte Company was too far away
to provide the inspiration which it certainly gave last year. We noticed
that the Glee Club omitted one or two of its precedents and failed to
supply anything better, Another reason is that the voices of the leads
were not as sure as those of The Mikado. We admit that they made up
in charm for what they lacked in quality, but in an operetta, quality of
tone is the last thing that should be subordinated.

Glee Club, unlike big May Day, is not the kind of undertaking
that is likely to grow bigger and bigger until it collapses under its own
weight, It does not-have-to be better every year than it was the year
before. But it is under an obligation to itself to try to equal its best
performance, to be consistently good from year to year. * This is an
almiost unrealizable ideal, but we do not think that its late downward
step can be excused by any application of the laws of averages. The
Glee ht atin anes score” is too mga to atlow for such aberrations.



Do-As-¥ ou-Would. Be-Done-By

The most dangerous criminal is always hardest to find; this is an
axiom which applies even to as mild an institution as Bryn Mawr. We
refer to those who abuse written and unwritten Library rules by taking
books bodily, slips and all, from the Reserve Room to read at their
pleasure, and return them slyly when no one is there. Similarly we
suspect people of purloining™books from the stacks, because it is so
much easier, and because Miss Terrien reports that over 300 are lost
~ @ year.

Now that the examinations are creeping up on us, we feel par-
“ticularly vicious about Reserve’ Room rights. ‘We think that a plague
of prickles should visit whoever refuses to observe them. That is what
happened to Tom in The Water Babies-when he disobeyed Mrs. Do-As-
You-Would-Be-Done-By. The cireumstances as you see are somewhat
similar; our pious hope is that the conscientious prickles that grow
above sea-level will be twice as painful. \

In Philadelphia
Movies
Aldine: The Return of the Scarlet
Pimpernel, ’English film with Barrie;
Barnes.
Arcadia; I Was A Captive of Nasi
Germany, experiences of a young



-| Andy Devine. ‘Coming Friday: Ken-
‘tueky Moonshine, with Marjorie Wea-
ver, Tony Martin and the Ritz Broth-
ers.

Karlton: Joy of Living, with-Irene
Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Keith’s: In Old Chicago, starring
Don Ameche, Tyrone Power and Alice
Brady.



—————- Pasting alone’s not my idea of fun.”

CROP OF SPRAINS IS
AVERAGE THIS YEAR

Thirty . students have sustained
knee or ankle injuries, which neces-
-sitated their using crutches, canes, or
limps, during the past year. The ex-
act totals are: 1% sprains, 11 contu-
sions (bad bruises), one arein 1 and
oné dislocation.

Dr. Olga C. Leary, at the Infirm-
ary, remarked that the majority of

The President—

— Attended a meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School on Satur-
day, May 7, in New York.

Will speak at the Boston Bryn
Mawr Club on Saturday, May
14, and at the New Haven Bryn
Mawr Club on Monday, May 16,

Will speak at the Centennial
celebration of Greensboro Col-
lege, Greensboro, ,North Caro-
lina, on Saturday, May 21,





ae tts. 4imely, exuberance, and
not from activities which are. generally
considered dangerous, Deborah Calk-
ins, ’40, of the French house, leap-
ing down the hill on her way to col-
lege, fell and sprained both ankles.
Others have chosen to take off pre-
cipitately from the library steps, with
unfortunate results upon landing,

Among the more unusual cases are







WIT’S END

(Canto XVII continued)
O pudor! Juan walked home in a huff,



Calling himself an _ intellectual! ;ouise Thompson, ’39, who dropped
sham; an airplane “chock on her foot;and

Not that it mattered if he knew the) y.ota Tucker, ’40, whose foot went to
stuff— Pee sleep when she sat on it in class, with

To ve: the truth he didn’t give aj, sprain resulting when she stood up:

Skiing occasioned the largest num-
ber of ordinary injuries.

This year’s casualties do not seem
to be much above the average. ~The
score for 1936-37 was: 17 sprains,
18 contusions, and one dislocation.

But he, Don Juan, getting a rebuff
From the fair sex, from mulier,
woman, femme;
Ignored as if he were_a celibate.
“That pale face,” thought Don Juan,
“is my fate.”

yt
Then he arranged in categories (Kant
Couldn’t have done it better) every
lady
From occidental parts to the Levant,
Of reputation dubious or shady,
Adorned -by Spanish skirt or Turkish] °
pant,
That he had known, from Julia
down to Haydée;
Reviewed his baffled youth, his years



Miss Meigs Reviews
The March ‘Lantern’

Continued from Page One



contributing board perhaps, or a wider
policy in the variéty of material off-
ered and accepted would bring about
the new stimulus that is needed. For
the moment, the Lantern is stamped
with the idea of emphasis on a cer-

of sin, :
And feeling better, sauntered to the|‘t#!" manner, and, as the manner. of
Inn, ss the contributions becomes more pro-

nounced, the matter becomes slighter,
to the despair of the editors long be-
fore it is the disappointment of the
reading public.

In considering the number actually
under review, it might be generally
characterized as containing very good
writing for the most part, but with a
proportion of it in too stylized a field.
There is an able editorial, which sets
forth, with clearness and continuity
of argument, certain ideas about voca-
tional courses and courses in applied
arts, as not being completely appro-
priate for the academic curriculum.
It is hardly possible to pass over this
without offering the argument, fot
considered in the editorial, that such

He sat outside, fanned by a balmy
breeze.
Waiting for lunch, he watched the
world go by,
Sometimes in ones, more often twos
and threes.
“Where is my fate?” he queried
with a sigh,

“T wish she’d come and have a toasted
- cheese —
Sandwich with me.

_ aniline dye

Egyptian thing with multi-colored

layers,

Mysterious as a novel by Miss Sayers,

Perhaps an

Would suit her better, or.a pecan bun

Dripping with raisins.” Juan’s|courses may, and do, deal with the
reverie . whole subject of the art, but through

Was rudely shattered by a frightful|the approach of the creative taste of
pun, the student, In the present writing

“You look jejuan;* come and sit| courses, all of them, modern literature
with me. and _ its. trends are studied, but from

the point of view of the person whose

Juan looked up and was surprised | general interest is in writing rather

2

to see than in research.
His friend, K. Lavender, applying} To go on to the fiction in the cur-
pressure, rent number, we do find that certain
Assisted—by~—a—grin—not broad but |of the contributions present this spe-
Cheshire.\ cialization of certain literary fashion,

that of making effects with sounds
and shapes of words, rather than off-.
ering continuity of narrative or
study of character. There are pass-
ages where this achievement is good,
such as, “the cat rippled and humped,”
rand “the. cat~museles™ arced’ (in
Incident) and “the box bushes dark
green, silvered with cobw-y@z’/and the
inexorable voice®’or~ Subway,
“Break it, shake it, break it down”
(from Pocahontas Grieves—). Fire
Thought with its angular conception

Special Robin Hood Dell benefit con-|°f the picture before the fireplace,
cert on May 23, Ormandy conducting. wives @ stimulating ‘and striking
Shubert theatre: Columbia Grand| thrust into one’s imagination, but its
Opera Company of New York pre-|arrative goes rather far afield and
sents tonight Faust; Thursday, La|Teturns with difficulty, so that, the
Boheme; Friday, Carmen: Saturday, | Visible effect of the story is

Rigoletto, Saturday matinee, Hansel| than its continuity. Descripti
und Gretel. ages in The Rain Makers, are good;

- — tthe story is so well told that the
Suburban Movies y.

rather violently dramatic theme , ob-
‘Ardmore: Robert Montgomery and

: K : c scures some of its excellence, Case
Virginia Bruce in The First Hundred|'no, 39, for the very fact.that it is an

*This was probably unintentional.
(To be continued)



Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish in
The Star Wagon, for two weeks,

Locust: You Can’t Take It With]
You,..with Aldrich’ Bowker’ and Eva
Condon. ~

Walnut: My Malkele, Yiddish Op-
eretta, with Molly Picon and Aaron
Lebedoff.

' Music



sre

the irfuries seem to result from nat-|}

r vakia.
wants the country to give up her alli- -



a | 'Priday: Go Chase Yourself, with Joe
ant Lucille Ball and June Travis.|

ist,
3s Always a Woman,

American. .,

Boyd: They

‘mystery py with Melvyn Douglas
and Joan Blondell; Coming Thurs-

day:- Stolen Heaven, comedy, with
‘Gene Raymond, Glenda Farell and

_ Olympe Bradna.
Earle; The Adventures of Marco}

Polo, starring Gary Cooper, Coming

ina Teacup, Eng-







Jaffe. — next aS ey

Stanley: Test Pilot, air drama, with
Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer)
Tracy. Coming Friday: The Adven-
tures of Robin Hood, with Errol
Flynn, Basil Rathbone and Olivia de
Havilland,

. Stantén; Law of the Underworld,
melodrama, with Chester Morris and
Anne Shirley.

——

_. Theatre ea

Erlanger: Tobaceo ee with John
Barton.

‘Forrest; Last Last, week of fd Doll’s

‘House, with Ruth Gordon and Sam

Years, a comedy of job versus hus-

easier exercise, falls into fewer pit-

May and Charlie

band. Friday to next Thursday:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,

Seville: The Adventures of Ton
Sawyer, with Tommy Kelly and ]
Robson, ~-Coming ~Flitrsuuy.—2 ly
We Live, with Constance Bennett and
Brian Aherne,

Suburban: For eleven more days,
Rebecea of Sunnybrook Farm, with’
Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott.

Wayne; Will Rogers in County
n, Beginning tomorrow: The
Goldwyn Follies, starring Adolphe
|Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Rey 3 Baker

McCarthy.

falls; it is graphic and moving, a little
too long drawn out in some portions,
faintly uncertain at. the end, but
aY| vividly shown to the last minte. Snow
White and the Dwarfs, the concluding
Piece of non-fiction, shows good cri-
ticism, the impact of vigorous and
‘discerning taste upon the cinema ve-
hicle designed to please the million.
The poetry makes its effects sig-
nally well; there is pictorial beauty
in Gulls and in the more deeply
thoughtful Cry in the Wilderness.







ns pagent ed

There is variety and grace in Cloud}
| Danee; there: te-signifenmt and ot





League Elections
The Bryn Mawr League takes
great pleasure in announcing
the following elections for next

year: Blind School Head—E.”
Tuckerman,’ ’40; Assistant—H.
~ Hunt, "41; Industrial Group

Head—E. Aiken, ’39; Assistant
—H. Cobb, 40; Publicity Mana-
ger—F. Levison, 241; Haverford
Community Canter Head—J.
Braucher, ’39; Assistant—R.
Sprague,,’41/-Maids’ Committee
Head—aA. Spillers, ’40.







L. Estabrook New Head

Of International Club ©



J. Brackett Lewis, President of Czech
Y. M. C. A., Speaks



The Common Room, May 10.—‘Hit-
ler will probably next invade Hun-
gary, bot Czechoslovakia,” stated Mr.
J. Brackett Lewis, National Head of
the Czechoslovakian Y. M. C. A., in
an address to the International Rela-
tions Club. His opinion is based upon
the fact that Hungary is nearer Ger-
many than Czechoslovakia, and weak-
er. It has neither miljtary alliances,
mutual assistance pacts, nor a large

“army with which to defend its Aus-

trian boundary. This boundary lies
in a broad flat plain which at present
has no fortifications. Hungary is
necessary to Germany because her
chief crop is wheat, which the Reich
must have.

Mr. Lewis believes that Hitler
could not enter Czechoslovakia with-
out provoking France and Russia into
war. “But,” the speaker said,
Prague government will make every
possible concession to the Nazi party
to prevent losing territory to Ger-
many.”

The Sudeten-deutsch party demands
a one-man, one-party government for
the 8,250,000 Germans in Czechoslo-
Henlein, the Nazi leader,

ances with the Little Entente, Russia
and France, which will place her en-
tirely under German domination. The
Nazis insist upon a strict language
boundary between Czechs and Ger-
mans. According to Mr. Lewis, the
fairest line that could possibly be
drawn between Bohemia and Czecho-
slovakia would still exclude 750,000
Germans from Bohemia, and include a
half-million Czechs.

The 18 percent German popula-
tion in Czechoslovakia already has
four political parties, proportional
representation in the government,
4,000 German schools. Political rights
are guaranteed them by a provision
in the constitution forbidding dena-

tionalization of national groups by -

any discriminatory legislation.
Laura Estabrook, .’389, was elected
new president of the International Re-

lations Club; Joy Rosenheim, ’40,
secretary; and “Betty Cohen, °39, *
treasurer. :



ual unfolding of ideas in Sisyphus.
The faculty contributors will be for-
giving, surely, of the fact that lack of
space makes the discussion of their
share rather brief. Who is this

writer; -after~ all, too~offer~ judgment ~~

on the work of her peers? There is no
need to comment on the amusing qual-
ities of both conception and narrative
in the tale of the magnate of Worlds
Shirts. A busy instructor who has
not had time to follow in detail the
previous adventures of A. Stapleton-
Smith could not give final crificism on
the fine points of this entertaining ad-
dition to the record.

The poetry is of high quality, offer-
ing more and more food for thought
and vision as-one rereads it, whether
it is “the pure football of pattern and

continuity” of Pedestrian Life, the .

“windy clairvoyance” of Radio, or the
bird, “chipping and shaving a “sound
like a rubbed seed,” amongst the small
and great who are Waiting on History.
The engaging numbers of Hortense
Flexner King and the harsh but
friendly portraiture by her husband
addumnech_fAr,,.2hih.. “Epaygeoaleeply
grateful. Dr. Anderson’s review of
the Folklore of Caffitalism is an able
justification of his criticisms of the
book, and a firm and sensible warning
not to helieve all you see on the blurb.

3 Engagement
Frances Reitler, ’40, to Fred-
erick Asher, Dartmouth, ’37, of.









“the ”






. THE COLLEGE NEWS



Page Three







Adams _ Discusses
Theories of Explanation

Dr.



Names Physical, Psycho - Physical,
And Psychological Approaches
—:

Music Room, May 5.—Mr. Donald
Adams, professor at Duke University,
editor of the Monograph series, and
Guggenheim fellow at Swarthmore
College, Croutend Theories of Expla-
x _ wefined the
ultimate ina of any theory as ade-
quacy and simplicity, and discussed
the relative merits of the physical,
psycho-physical and _ psychological
systems.

Mr. Adams stated that psycholo-
gists are often reproached. by | out-
siders for their disagreements as to
the nature of explanation. Actually,
there isa verbal agreement, but in
experimentation each investigator
seems to have different beliefs.

In an attempt to obtain reasonable
and correct explanation, each pre-
sumes that if the implications of his
hypothesis are empirically confirmed,
his hypothesis is proven. But Mr.
Adams does not believe this accom-
plishes anything. It is when the pre-
dictions are tested and do not come
out correctly that the scientist learns
and progresses, for he then knows defi-
nitely that his hypothesis is wrong
and reasons from its error.

Through comparison of these hypo-
thesis, explanatory systems arise. The
greater the range of phenomena ex-
plained by one single system, the more
adequate it is; the greater the paucity
of undefined terms and independent
postulates, the simpler is the system.
Psychologists, working under these
various criteria, emphasize different
‘ rules and thus obtain different views.

Some scientists attempt to make
psychological explanation in physical
terms. Behaviorism is an example.
The fault here lies in the desire to
“homogenize the universe” without be-
ing careful to demonstrate the at-
tempted consistency. It lacks ade-

quacy.

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Leading growers —
tell their preference
in cigarettes =
it’s Camel!



LCOPPER BEECH PLANTED

AS SENIOR ‘CLASS TREE



On Wednesday night, May 4, the
seniors held their annua] tree-plant-
ing ceremony. Clad ir caps and
gowns and carrying lighted lanterns
they assembled with more or less sec-
recy at 12 p. m.,and paraded to the
brow of the hill opposite Miss Park’s
house where the planting took place.
The tree this year was a small, well-
strapped weeping copper beech.

Mary Sands, president of the sen-
ior elass, began digging the hole for
the planting with a huge shovel. Into
this hole the students of each hall
in turn tossed a penny. The tree was

en lowered into place.

hen the earth had. been well
paeked about its roots the dark figures
began to dance, sing and gesture wild-
ly about in a circle. This continued
for some time until they re-formed
their ranks and marched off to sing
a traditional farewell song in front of
each of the halls.

As they disappeared several skulk-
ers who had been attending unnoticed,
arose and returned home. . The next
day both the location and the species
of the tree were made public.



Psycho-physical explanations show
more awareness of adequacy, and ex-
clude less than the physical system,
but are “irresponsible,” said Mr.
Adams. “The psycho-physical analyst
uses physical terms until complica-
tions arise, then jumps to psychic
terms until more complications arise,
and then turns back to physical.” The
purely psychological is as exclusive
as the purely’ physical. It cannot
make a complete story, and also lacks
adequacy.

Many theorists may or may not be-
lieve that these explanations will ulti-
mately converge. Mr. Adams feels
that such doubt is good, for if they
are sufficiently skéeptical of the laws
governing each explanation, the con-
vergence may be eventuated. The
psycho-physical cannot do it, for it
does not require. a comprehensive,
eonsistent explanation.

STEEL MILLS, dams, skyscrapers, subways (as above)
—appeal to Margaret Bourke-White. She’s gone all
over the United States. Her photographs are famous.
They're different! Miss Bourke-White made that
same remark about Camels to Ralph Martin at the
New York World’s Fair grounds (right).

ene
COSTLIER

aAccos

TORR Ts |

ONE SMOKER
TELLS ANOTHER



better tobaccos. Last crop
they took my finest grades.

League Makes Yearly
Report of Activities



Two Typing Classes for Maids

Planned for 1938-39



(Especially contributed by Jane Jones,
3 °40)

At the final meeting of the Bryn
Mawr League on: May 5, reports of
the year’s work were presented., The
Blind School Committee reported that
the reading done by the undergradu-
ates has been more than satisfactory.
Since the work of this committee is

standard from year to year, there are|

no changes to be made.

The Industrial Group expressed a
hope ‘that students will continue to
visit union meetings, and plans a
study of workers’ education. The
Summer School drive fér this year
was quite successful... The American-
ization Committee hopes-to have stand-
ard text books for next year’s. work
to eliminate confusion and inconveni-
ence. They also plan to keep.definite
records of each pupil’s progress.

The Haverford Community Center
group has been very active. This
year’s innovations included a basket-
ball team for high school girls and a
girls’ club which met each week. The
Chapel Committee has distributed
their annual questionnaires, and their
plans for next year will depend upon
the majority opinions on the various



In the psychological system it does
not matter what .terms one begins
with, as long as they prosecute the
method responsibly. A certain free-
dom is allowed in regard to the terms
left undefined. Professor Hull, of
Yale, is the most ardent advocate of
this consistency and clarity in the
prosecution of explanation. But he
sacrifices other criteria and adequacy
is overwhelmed in the emphasis on
clarity.

Mr. Adams believes that the scien-
tist can confine himself to one line of
psychological explanation, and by
formulating broad enough concepts
and terms in order to give an adequate



CHORAL SERVICE PLANNED

On Sunday, May. 22, at-11.00 a. m.,
the College Choir will sing at. the
Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr.
The service will be fully choral and
will include an address by Canon Er-
nest C. Earp. The program is as fol-
lows:

The Venite Festal Responses (chant

COCANYS ea Thomas Tallis
Introit Anthem, God be in my head

Walford Davies

The Lord is my Shepherd. ..Schubert

Festival Te Deum......... Stanford

How ow is Thy dwelling place
Brahms

Faculty and ‘students are cordially
invited to attend the service. The
choirs will be under the direction of
Ernest Willoughby, Organist and
Choirmaster of the Church of the Re-
deemer and Director of the Bryn
Mawr College Choir.



questions. The Summer Camp Com-
mittee’s work has just begun, but
they are looking forward to a success-
ful season at Stone Harbor.

The Maids’ Committee is. planning a
much more érganized program for the
coming year. Next fall the maids in
each hall will elect one representative
who will keep them in touch with the
various activities of the year. The
representatives will form a council
which will work with the head of the
Maids’ Committee. This stronger or-
ganization will create more interest in
the program. Next year there will be
also a student representative in each
hall to help the maids with the knit;
ting Which they do for the summer
camp. Two typing classes will be
held instead of one—an advanced class
for the maids who. began this year
and a beginner’s class. Instead of
having weekly Vespers, there will he
two big meetings with outside speak-



explanation, will ultimately be forced
to the “right explanation that should
unify all scientific explanations.”

The actual process of unification
will only oceur when each system is
whole, and when the _ psychol
ceases to jump from one system to
another.

Vassar Bows to Tennis _
Team in Grielling Match

Bryn Mawr soha's 4-2 to Take Five
\ iad Fournament



May 8.—The Vassar Tennis Team
taxied down to Bryn Mawr and played
a series of matches lasting from 10.45
until four o’clock. The Bryn Mawr
players won with the score of 4-2.

The first singles match was an ex-
hibition of almost errorléss tennis.
Lee, ’41, defeated Thorne, 3-6, 6-4,
8-6. The Vassar player’s net game,
particularly her handling of overhead
shots, was superior to. Lee’s, but Lee
was able to tire and defeat her. op-
ponent by more accurate placements.

Vassar won the second singles as
Armstrong defeated Auchincloss, .’40,
6-1, 6-4. Bryn Mawr defeated Vas-
sar in both the third and the fourth
singles, Whitmer, ’39, winning from
Beattie, 6-2, 6-3. Lazo, ’41, lost the
first set to Firestone, of Vassar, 1-6,.-
but steadied her game admirably in”
the second and third sets which she
won, 6-4, 6-3.

Auchincloss .and Lee lost, the first
doubles .mateh to Armstrong and
Thorne, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. Whitmer and
Boyd, ’41, defeated Beattie and,
Adams, 6-4, 8-6, 8-6. Despite the
length of this match, the superiority
in stroking and teamwork of the Bryn
Mawr players was apparent from the
start. °



f ers—one in the fall and the other in
the spring. A maids’ play will be
given again next year.

In the fall thee League hopes to
have a large meeting at which speak-
ers will give accounts of the various
activities of the League. At the same
time they will discuss methods of car-
rying on these activities in relation to
the social problems involved and the
principles of group work.

The League wishes to thank all
those who have helped in any way

st | with its work for this year and hopes

that everyone will share its enthusi-



asm for the plans for next year.







What Margaret Bourke-White, famous photographer, said when
Ralph Martin asked if she found a difference in cigarettes

“Cigarettes seem
pretty much alike
to me. Do you find
some difference be-
tween Camels and
the others, Miss
Bourke-White ?”



Ca

“We smoke Camels { emake Camsle=I know there’s-no sub- Breer Te
because we know tobacco,” _ stitute for expensive tobaccos. Most tobaccos in Camels. That’s one mighty ame PST,
planters favor Camels.” i good reason why my cigarette is Camel.”

.

of my last crop — paid
“3 morefor my best tobacco.
Sol rae ro use finer, more expensive

“P’ve found that Camels are very,

very different, Mr. Martin—
not just in one way, but in

a ot of ways.
nervés must

worthy as a steeple jack’s.
Camels don’t jangle my nerves.
They taste extra-mild-and deli- —
cate too. Camels never leave
an unpleasant after-taste, and
they’re so gentle to the throat.
In fact, Camels agree with me

For example, my
be just as trust-



in every way! I think that’s

what counts

most—how your ©

cigarette agrees with you!”










-

“I’m a tobaceo at “I’ve been planting to- Check up on your time for hearin ng
says Vertner Hatton, who bacco for twenty years,” E-D-D-I-E C-A-N-T-O-R!
has grown tobacco for 25 says Harry C. King. America’s great fan-maker and personali

years. “The Camel folks “The..Camel people Ssh by Camel cigarettes, everyMonday vishtonee
pay a sight more for our bought the choice lots Columbia Network. See local newspaper for Ae

Every Tuesday,



Also BENNY GOODMAN’S BAND
- Hear the great Goodman Swing Band“ “goto town.”

y, night at 8:30 pm E. S.T. (9:
30
7:30 pm CS.T., 6:30 pm M.S.T., 5:30
+ over Columbia Network.

stn CAME AMELS AGREE Warn Me!’











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Page Four

*

»

_ THE COLLEGE NEWS







PUBLIC OPINION /

To the Editors of the College News:

In the issue of May 4 under ‘he ar-
ticle on Bryn Mawr fencing, certain
facts were omitted which I feel ought
to be included. Caroline duPont was
captain of the team this year. Denise
Debry has been elected captain. for
1938-39. Frances Keller and Denise
Debry placed in the Amateur Fencers
League of America meets held at
Mary Lyon School at Swarthmore
and at Bryn Mawr. The team’ for
next year will be determined accord-
ing to the results of the Bryn Mawr
championship: This year’s team was
composed of C. ‘duPont, D. Debry, D.
Smith and’ F. Keller. E. Dana was
substitute.

These/omissions may be due to in-
adequate information, but I should







appreciate it if this information could}

be added in your next issue of the
News. :
The fencers are very glad that the
News was able to write up the sport,
and welcome any occasion to make
their activities better known to the
_ rest of the college. ‘We are-all anxious
to create a fresh interest in a sport
that has been so long neglected at
Bryn Mawr. .
Sincerely,
DoROTHEA DUNLAP SMITH,
Manager of Fencing, 1938-39.



HAMPTON GRADUATES

SING. NEGRO SPIRITUALS

The Deanery, May 8.—The familiar
Hampton Singers returned to Bryn
Mawr to present three groups of negro
spirituals, sung without accompani-
ment. This year, the singers were
Jeremiah Thomas, William . Byrd,
Gregory Kiah, and two brothers,
George and Robert Hamilton. All are
graduates of Hampton Institute.
Although obviously .missing John
Wainwright who retired last year, the
présent singers did extremely well,
particularly the basses; Because of
this, the most impressive selections
were the deep-toned We Are Climbin’
Jacob’s Ladder, Go Down, Moses,
Deep River, and two of the encores,
Were You There When They Cruci-
fied My Lord? and He:Never Said a
lin’ Word. The singers, how-
evér, carefully lightened the rather
heavy effect of these numbers by
grouping each with two familiar and
popular spirituals, and one humorous
one. The humorous songs were espec-
ially well rendered, particularly the
contagious There’s No Hiding Place
and the naive Keep a Inchin’ Along
like a Po’ Inch Worm.

In the intermissions, John Hamil-

ton explaitied the history and the pur-

pose of Hampton Institute. It was
founded after the Civil War, by Gen-
eral Charles Hampton Armstrong, to

May 8, 4938. Massist the freed slaves in obtaining

Dear Editor:

~best-Saturday night--the—Players’
Club presented two one-act plays.
They were advertised as informal and
as the result of a spontaneous desire
to act, and they had the reputation
of the club’s previous presentation of
Hamlet to insure their entertainment
value.

Except for rather high admission
charges (because of the desire to raise
funds for the Mrs. Otis Skinner Thea-
tre Workshop), there was no reason
at all for the small attendence of un-
dergraduates. It seems that Bryn
Mawr students are neither moved by
a desire to forward undergraduate
activities by showing a little interest
in them, nor are they moved by the
promise of truly amusing entertain-
ment. Such indifference must be very
discouraging to energetic groups who
wish :to enliven the campus. The
French Play and the fine musical en-
tertainments of the Deanery were al-
most entirely ignored by the college
students.

Such an attitude is deeply rooted
at Bryn Mawr. The activity and en-
thusiasm which should normally
characterize a group of young women
is allocated to a very small portion
who struggle against overwhelming
odds. If we do not arouse ourselves
from our self-absorbtion: and take an
interest in campus projects we will
eventually be overcome by our own
lethargy. We will become self-con-
tained, but dull people within a dull
institution.

Sincerely; —
Mary KATE WHEELER.



(The following comment is an ex-
tract from a letter received by Martha
Van Hoesen, ’39, president of the Bryn
Mawr League, from John F. Reich, of

_ the Spanish Child Feeding Mission.)
Dear Friends: ne :

On my return from Europe I learned
of the continued interest of Bryn
Mawr Alumnae and Students in the
children’s hospitals we operate in

Seventy-Fourth Year

or Founded 1865,
BUSINESS TRAINING
Business Administra-
tion and Secretarial
Science courses for
young women.

One, Two and Three Years
Summer Session July 5
Fall Term September 6
Forinformation, address

E SCHOO





_PEIRC

' Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc.

an education. - Built in 1868 near
Williamsburg on the Virginia Penin-
sula, it is now attended by over a
thousand colored students.



Southeastern Spain. It is needless to
say that we greatly appreciate your
sustained support. All that I have
seen and heard makes me realize that
these“ hospitals are the brightest spots
in the entire relief program. Al-
though they have only 150 beds, they
are the only hospitals to serve 20,000
refugee childvén. They are both places
for the cure of desperate illnesses, and
havens for children who otherwise
could not adjust themselves to the
hurly-burly of refugee conditions.
To date our.records show that the
Bryn Mawr Committee has contributed
$1056.10. In addition to this, $225.00
has been received from an individual
alumna and friend of Bryn Mawr. I
am sure she would want her contribu-
tion to be credited to your committee,
since I know of her great interest in
it. -
_If you wish, I would be glad to write
an article for your college publica-
tion describing life in these children’s
hospitals. I believe you have received
a series of photographs of the work,
one or two of which might be pub-
lished in connection with the article.
Very sincerely yours,
JOHN F, REICH,

Secretary, Committee on Spain.
P. S.—We are now conducting a
spring campaign for clothing which
will be distributed to refugees in the

“|fall. Students probably will be dis- ||"

carding clothes when packing at the
end of the school year. Would it be
possible for a collection to be made?
Both summer and winter clothes are
appreciated.

||, JEANNETTE’S



Flowers for All Occasions
823 Lancaster Avenue



4 Bryn Mawr 570



Zadora and Steuermann
Give Duets and Solos



Selections From Busoni Played With
Great Enthusiasm



Goodhart, May 3.—Michael Zadora
and Eduard Steuermann presented a
brilliant recital of piano compositions
by Ferruccio Busoni. The program
consisted of three selections for two
pianos, and four piano solos.

The first number on the program
was Fantasia Contrappuntistica. This
music was strong and vigorous with
pronounced accent. However, it was
not ‘particularly: melodious and the
repetition of its themes made it mo-
notonous and heavy. In arranging
this composition Busoni seemed to
have been painfully conscious that he
was dealing with two pianos. ti
Carmen Phantasy, the second selec-
tion, was far more) melodious.
Although he was successful in devel-
oping his themes, Busoni did not have
the gift of melody. As a result the
most interesting numbers on the pro-
gram were his variations on. themes
by a The arrangement
of Carmen s delightful, having
both movement and vigor unencum-
bered by the desperate attempt for
originality which marks Fantasia
Contrappintistica. Paganinesco was
also: interesting though not quite as
spirited. Both these solos were
played by Mr. Zadora. All ’Italia and
Turandot, solos by Mr. Steuermann,
were light and rhythmical.

The last two selections on the pro-
gram, played in duet by the two pian-
ists, were Phantasy for a Clockwork
and Duettino Concertante, adapted
from Mozart by Busoni. Both selec-
tions were charming. Here Busoni
used his medium instinctively and un-
consciously so that the orchestration
did not interfere with the music and
the composition flowed freely.

Mr. Zadora and Mr. Steuermann
played magnificently all evening with
flawless technique. They ‘seemed to
have enormous enthusiasm for the
music and tried throughout to convey
this feeling to their audience.

Oo. &



Players’ Club Gives
‘Trifles,’ Short Farce

Continued from Page One



nastily, turning green and red (with
the aid of cannily managed lights),
and professing love for his wife in
passionately unconvincing terms. His
lawful wedded wife, Lady Magnesia

reclined with well-affected languor
upon her campbed, and just as lan-
guorously watched her loyer’s dying
contortions as she offeréd to renew
her love for her husband. Virginia







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RE THE LATIN PLAY
May 9*—At a meeting of studénts
interested in the Latin Play, Miss
Agnes K. Lake announced the choice
for next fall. Rudens or the Rope; by
T. M. Plautus, will be given on Oc-
tober 5. In tryouts for translations,
to be decided before commencement,
the competitors will interpret the
atin and the literal trot in modern
American.

FACULTY TENNIS TEAM
DEFEATS VARSITY, 3-2





May 7.—The Varsity Tennis Team
yielded to the Faculty Team with the
score of 3-2. The Faculty -won the
three singles matches and the Varsity
won both, the doubles.

Auchincloss, ’40, was defeated by
Mr. Richard Lattimore, 6-2, 6-1. In
the second singles Mrs. Charles Wood-
row won ‘the first set, 6-4, but lost
the second to Whitmer, ’39, 4-6. In
the third set which she won, 6-2, Mrs.
Woodrow’s drives were hard: and ac-
curate, and Whitmer was unable’ to
continue the placements she had man-
aged: so effectively in the preceding
set. Mr. Thomas Broughton defeated
Lazo, ’41, 6-8, 2-6, 6-1.

Auchincloss and. Whitmer defeated
Mrs. Woodrow and Mr. Lattimore in
the first doubles, 6-3, 6-2. Lazo and
Boyd, ’41, won. from Mr. Broughton
and Mr. Arthur Cope in the second
doubles, 6-2, 7-5.

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Nichols, 41, was a beautifully digni-
fied and naive lover, up to the point
where physical difficulties forced her
to unbend. Her rendition of indiges-
tion, caused by a surfeit of insidious
poison and plaster bun, was paintyl,
but very convincing. '

We cannot dwell long enough or
fondly enough upon Abbie Ingalls,
38, as the devoted maid, dressed in
curlers and a blue silk and lace night-
gown that put her mistress’ housecoat
to shame. Her most engaging char-
acteristic was a cheerful indifference
to the cruder aspects of life, and a
fluttery equanimity which was quite
equal to the menial task of sweeping
up three corpses (M. A. Sturdevant,
’40, Priscilla Curtis, ’40, and Susan
Miller, ’40), with a fan.

Every now and then she and the
rest of the cast were assisted by the
celestial ehoir, coming in. with
heavenly accuracy and singing Oh,
Won’t .You Come Home, Bill Bailey?
in an earthly off-key. The whole back-
stage sound effects department is to

be congratulated for its stark realism.
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stately. . One fiddler played the music,
a heart-breaking tune that silenced
even the little children.

‘Bryn Mawr’s first dance was Sellen-
ger’s Round, danced in concentric cir-
cles around the jack, a gentleman
wrapped up in a tower-shaped cage
covered with greenery. (It was a re-
latively new jack, because ene of the
old ones wrote a best seller, The Run-
ning of the Deer, and left the busi-
ness.) We felt rather self-conscious
because of our lack of costumes. To
add to our confusion, the last figure
was danced in a different way which
we could not follow.
Our appendicitis victim joined in
everything, going back to her ice pack
when the music stopped. We danced,
in all, ten dances and made only two
mistakes, the first one unconsciously.
The second was during the hey in
Picking Up Sticks. We were ashamed,
but we kept on dancing and found
consolation in the set on our left. In
spite of loud hisses of “Slip steps;
slip stéps!”? from an old gentleman, it
became ¢iopelessly ‘muddled. On our
right some of the Bostonians were
asking if this wasn’t where we sat
down. It was not.
By far the most exciting part of
the program was the Morris dances.
The largest and best group of these
dancers were the New York men, who
had been attending classes throughout
the year. Most of them were profes-
sional people, lawyers, bankers and
doctors, who take Morris in their
spare time. The Morris step is a light
springy one; a good dancer looks as
though he touched the ground only to
keep off it. We did no Morris dancing
this year, but Miss Grant hopes to
take a Morris group to the next spring
festival.
Thanks to the most detailed plan-
ning by Miss Gadd, festival director,
every set found its position for each
dance without delay or difficulty. The
program ehded‘as promptly as it be-
gan. Just before we left, Mrs. Choate,
the festival chairman, thanked each
group for coming. ;
Exhausted, we slept on the return
trip all the way to Doylestown, reach-
ing Bryn Mawr at 9.15.

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Final Flexner ‘Lecture
Expounds Mercantilism



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trol over the larger world of trade
that the mediaeval town had exerted
over its earlier smaller sphere. From
this prominence of the State, with its
need for a centralizing bureaucracy
and strong military forces, came the
heightened interest in the nature and
sources of money.

The econoniic opinions that were de-
rived from observation trends were loosely reasoned. and con-
tradictory. The popular theories for
the balance of trade and money advo-
cated that the export of commodities
should “exceed their import in order
to acquire a remainder in the form
of bullion. :

The principle of balance of trade
had wide reaching effect upon Euro-
pean industry. Since the export of
raw materials would encourage the
growth of factories abroad in the rival
trading countries, the best exports
were manufactured goods. A growth
in the production of luxuries followed.

Much of the mediaeval structure
persisted, however. Where the idea
of the universal church and the par-
ticularist structure of the early towns
had given way, the old principle of
the subsistence guarantee as an obli-
Zation of the government persisted.
The open field system was upheld by
the government as it clashed with the
enclosure movement. No legislation
was enacted against the craft gilds so
that they have continued, through
change, to the present time.

The efforts to maintain mediaeval
practices by legislation failed. The
English administration system was
not sufficiently organized to enforce
elaborate restrictions. The justices of
the peace were not all venal, but their
time and equipment was limited. The
gild idea of upholding the quality of
exports was swiftly corroded — hy
graft. Similarly the provisions for
a regulated food supply were abused
for private gain.

Mercantilism was amoral, turning
its back upon the ethical teachings of
the Church. Sir Francis Bacon, in
his discussion of the reasons against
usury, condemned it upon seven scores,
all of them economic, whereas. 25
years earlier a writer had taken a
similar stand simply because usury
was against the will of God.

In the writings of the day pessi-
mism was manifest in the retreat
from these mediaeval concepts. In
the Middle Ages the doctrine had been,
if you see sin, stamp it out. The new

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CURRENT EVENTS

(Gleaned from Dr. Fenwick)

The significant’ event of last week
was Hitler’s arrival in Rome to swear
eternal and _ everlasting friendship
with Italy. Rome’ was festooned in
all its splendor to prove to Hitler
that her ancient glory is only sur-
passed by the glory of modern Italy.

Saturday evening Hitler declared
that Germany now recognizes the
Brenner pass as the natural: bound-
ary between Italy and Germany.
Italians~are not so sanguine about
these German words of faith. The
situation is best described by a cur-
rent cartoon showing Hitler and Mus-
soliniembtacing with knives held be-
hind each others backs.

This firm Rome-Berlin axis indi-
cates a retrogression toward nine-
teenth century diplomacy and its bal-
ance of power. International experts
today see no hope in maintaining
peace through such artificial bargain-
ing. It accelerates arming it@elf-de-
fense and creates a condition of sus-
picion and mutual insecurity.

Today is the nadir of international
organization. We can only stave off
calamity by building another com-
munity of nations, stronger than any
one power, a protagonist of economic
and social justice as well as enforced
peace. That is the lesson of the last
year.

‘At the end of his speech, Mr, Fen-
wick was presented by the Under-
graduate Association with The Politi-
cos and Labor on the March.









mercantilist felt that reform was
hopeless; the sinful man should be
turned to the es the state, for he

was at least tax le.

letter “has been referred to this office

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partment writes in the person of O.
M. Hustvedt, Captain, U. S..Navy,
Central Division’ He says: that a

with the request that I a¢knowledge
its receipt.
Sincerely yours,”
etc.

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model was followed with effect that
destroyed much of its mediaeval prece-
dent. The “regulated companies”
were preferred for a long time, but
the joint stock enterprises increased.
With the transferability of stock
shares came an end of control over
the participating members. This was
a beginning of capitalism. :
Within this changing scheme. the
status of the individual was also
changing. Large population . was
urged, not, as hitherto, for efficient
armies, but to provide a mass of in-
dustrious and cheap labor. The hu-
man being became more and more an
instrument to an end. Simultaneously
Kant’s exaltation of the human being
as an end in himself appeared. _
In this period old morality opRosed
change and the government had to en-
force safe ‘conservative measures.

Outside of this tradition,-with the}:

widening market and the increasing
population, a new group was growing.
Little touched by the mercantilistic
views, these rising classes preferred
novelty, invention and risk. The cap-
italists and the workers were evolv-
ing their own new form of economic
life.



Between 1663 ‘and 16738,, however,
a tremendous change took place.
Hitherto economic policy had _ been
controlled by prohibitive penalties
upon exports. In the wheat trade the
government had tried to insure ade-
quate supply by forbidding the -sale
of any grain abroad. In a single dec-
ade these duties were abolished, im-
ports were taxed instead and boun-
ties were distributed for large ex-
ports. Accordingly, the production of
wheat increased well beyond the na-
tional needs. ,



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pleasure in. announcing the fol-~
lowing elections for ‘next year:
President, Doris -Turner, ’39;
Vice-President, Ethel Clift, ’41;
Secretary - Treasurgr, Fairchild .
Bowler, ’40; Peace Council Mem-
ber, Mary ‘Mason, 741.







_lonly two letters which did not: thank

Two departments, Commerce and
War, have our resolutions filed. Mr.

M. Kerlin, “Administrative Assistant”
to Secretary Roper, tells us that our
resolutions will be placed on file “for
future reference when such matters
come up for consideration.”
“~ Unfortunately, J. William Ditter, of
Ambler, Pennsylvania, is confined to
the hospital, but Mr.. Haller, his sec-
retary, assures us that “this. matter
will receive appropriate attention from
the representative.” _ i
The second letter we received was
from Congressman James Wolfenden.
Astonished and not quite daring to. be-
lieve the honor of a personal signa-
ture, a member of the Peace Council
cautiously smeared the signature with
a. wet thumb. It was real.









Anna Hietanen Joins
Geology Department



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(1935-36) by the Biology department;
second, in Archaeology; and in 1937-
38,.by the Latin and Greek depart-°
ments. It was to have been held this
year in Geology, but the department
preferred to postpone it to next year;
when the new science building will
be finished. Two large museum class
rooms, with glass and steel cases for
minerals and fossils, will then be
available for teaching.



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- Modern Dance Grou p - |GROUND TO BE BROKEN adequate a medium for the expression | cheers rose from lethargic Bryn Mawr | special praise should.be given for her
ives Diemonsivaiion FOR NEW LIBRARY WING of contemporary life. throats. The Dancers’ Club needs no|diligence and- perseverance in carry-

Tremendous applause followed the|'reassurance. Their reception spoke| ing on this training class.

The breaking of ground for the|conclysion of the program, and actual| for itself. To Ethel Mann, however,| -
Quita Woodward Memorial Wing of

the library will take place on*Monday,
May 30, at 12 o’clock.

President Park,. Mr. Rhoads, Mr.
Martin, the president of the Alumnae
‘Association and the president of the
class of 1932 and Dr. Woodward will
take part in the ceremony by turning
a shovelfull of earth. President Park
will make a short speech and it’.is
hoped that A. Lee Hardenbergh, presi-
dent of the class of 1932 in which
Quita Woodward graduated, will also
speak,









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succession, elevation and springing
exercises in preparation for walking,
and running, and a study in breath
a - phrases which illustrated rise, fall
and recovery. These exercises in fall-
ing were particularly interesting.
Beginning with backward, forward or
spiral plunges, they completed the
moyement throughout. the entire. body.
Such action requires a maximum of
flexibility and muscular control. The
group of dancers, selected from. Miss

Humphrey’s: classes, performed with
admirable accuracy.

Ethel ‘Mann also gave two solo
studies, Pendulum Swings, and a|companied by pianoyand drum, it
Rhythm Study by Miss Humphrey.|created an interesting and continu-





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‘acting in relation to the motion of. the

The first illustrated centrifugal rota-
tion of the upper part of the. body

legs. The second:was marked by stac-
cato, almost jazz rhythm, and swift
direct leaps on accents contrasted to
those of the music. Both required ex-
quisite balance and professional train-
ing. Throughout her dancing was
powerful and imaginative, and at the
same time technically exact.
Affirmation, which closed the . pro-
gram, is an expression of the modern
artist’s search for a place in the com-
temporary world. ‘His goal is reached
in a realization of group cooperation.



Danced in two counter-groups and ac-

_ ti a NaS e terse

ously changing design. The motions
were wide, often circular and sweeping
in form,

Costumes for this dance were vari-
ously yellow with white and white
with red. Lighting was used effec-
tively in the last section, flashing
from bright amber to deep lavender
as the groups combined in a concluding
advance towards the audience.

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whole performance. It is this power
both in technique and form, which
overwhelms with sheer force the more
artificial and mechanical approach of
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