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" Collége Moving Picture
‘Fo be Ready Next Fall

Seen

May be \Exhibited in Unfinished
Stat by Next Spring



Especially contributed by Barbara
Cary.)

The camera men, moving picture:
apparatus’ and floodlights, seen .last
week on the campus, were here to take
the indoor scenes for the college mov-
ing picture. The plans f ye. pic~
ture were announced early e faly
after discussion with the college coun-
cil. The film is being made under the
supervision of the Publicity Office
with the assistance of an undergradu-

ate committee .whose members -are

Cornelia
"40, and Fifi
The Ap is in full color both indoors
and_ outdoors and will be about eight
hundred feet in length on: standard
sixteen millimeter film. It will take
about forty mind to “show. #“Mr.
Richard Hattje and his assistant, Mr.
Tally,..of the National Bureau of
Private, Schools in New York City,

“489, -Jane-.Nichols,
arbat, ‘at, “ * s. be «

are doing the. photography. The Na-

tional- Bureau has had wide experi-
ence taking school and college films
and has doné succéssful work recently

for. Rutgers University, Wilson Col-

lege and: Vassar College...

The Bryn Mawr picture will not be
entirely completed until next fall; but
we are hoping to have it sufficiently
finished to show to students and
others interested . during , Commence-
ment Week. This is not at all cer-
tain, however. The collége plans/ to
have one copy ‘made.from the original,
which will be-kept at Bryn Mawr.‘The
film is for use in schools to give pre-

. college girls a glimpse of Bryn Mawr

students on the campus and in the
classroom.



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Taylor.







Salerno Was Center

Of Medieval Cures

Continued from Page One

books, such as the Codex Salernicanus,
on the translations of Constantine.

Internal-medicine-was-taken partly
frdém Constantine, partly from Byzan-
tium, and was based entirely upon the
doctrine of the four humors: blood,
phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
Health.was supposed to depend on
the alternation of these humors.
Sickness arose from too much or too
little of one or: another, and medicine
was devoted to.finding out the condi-
tion and corrécting it. For excess of
blood, bleeding was used; in other
cases, drugs, cathartics, or special
diets. In Salerno, at least, this sys-
tem was remarkably free from vulgar
superstition, and medication was sen-
sible and not too Violent.

Surgery was taken chiefly from
classical Greek teaching. There was
much military surgery, especially for
removing arrows and healing frac-
tures: of the skull. The skull was
drilled, and the depressed area lifted.
Operations on the eyes were also com-
mon, particularly for cataract and
ophthalmia. Tumors were removed if
they were sufficiently evident, but
there was no abdominal surgery,
although the physicians knew -how to
treat abdominal wounds and even her-
mia. They could also - manipulate
common dislocations, such as that of
the shoulder, an@, deal with simple, or
sometimes even compound, fractures.
In this, however, their treatment never
came up to the level of the ancient
» 'Greeks. © ” = “ aia » .

Cautery was derived froth the pure
bic, and was used for metlaviog such
i nesses As



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Dr. Kennedy Demonstrates
Folk Songs and Dances



English Ballads Sung Humorously,
Audience Joins Dancing



Gymnasium, February 16. — Dr.
Kennedy, of London, head of the Eng-
lish Folk Dancing and Song Society,
gave a demonstration of songs and
dances, in the gymnasium, to a large
group comprised of folk dancing en-
thusiasts from schools and clubs in
vac” vivanty,

Five songs sung in Dr. Kennedy’s
= ‘and original manner were

applauded. The first, J Gave
My Love a Cherry, was sent to him.
from Virginia during thé war to
cheer him up. It is a version of an
English song.

He sang next a song in Yorkshire
dialect about a man who went out on
Ulklamoor without his hat, caught a
cold and died. Men came ‘and buried
him on the moor, and the worms came
and ate him up, and the ducks came
and ate the worms, and the men came
and ate the ducks. ’

The ballad of Lord Randal was the
only sad song of the evening. The
dialogue of a mother and her son
who has been poisoned by his sweet-
heart..

Cheerfulness returned ‘with Lord
Nelson’s Praise, a hearty sea song,
whose tune serves for a jig, and for
the hymn Mississippi as well.

Hares on the Mountains, the last
‘song, was a series of similes compar-
‘ing young womén to hares -on the
‘mountains, ducks on the water, birds
in the bushes, and advising the young
men howW to capture them.

In the second part of his program
Dr. Kennedy first did an Oxfordshire
medicine dance that is part of the
spring festival at Easter time. It is
strenuous, since the dancers are sup-
posed to warm. the earth.

The dances Dr. Kennedy taught
were Hunting the Squirrel, a slow
figure-dance; Bonnets so Blue, a fast

tempo increased constantly.

The repertoire of English: -folk
dancers, Dr. Kennedy ‘explained, is
made up. of old seventeenth century
dances belonging to the many races
of English, modern folk dances, and
popular forms like the Virginia Reel
brought from other countries.

Most English dances come midway
between hot, fast Spanish dances and
the slow movement ina circle with
which the Scandanavians accompany
their singing. They have figures like
the Northern chain dances, called
“carols,” and quick hopping steps like
the German “‘tanzen.”



The treatment for insanity} -on- the
other hand, was. incredibly. super-
stitious. It consisted of trepanning
the brain so that the evil spirits said
te cause madness might escape.

The midwives and nurses of Salerno
were particularly skillful, and from
this fact arose the tradition that there
were women physicians in Salerno.
Actually, only one feminine name ap-
pears on all the records kept from the
Middle Ages, and there is no evidence
that the legend in general was true.



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Shows ‘Decadence



Continued from Page One

Miss Counselman’s poem, Idea for
Action, a philosophical poem on the
relative merits of isolation and con-
tact, is another thesis-like work, kept
from being poetic by such bare words
as aspects, extension, and such lines
as, ong 4

“The synthesis of both is. unity.”
However, the poem has a point and
in parts conveys very truly what emo-
tion is involved in the problem, I
fail to see the connection between her
subject and the quotation from Hart
Crane. ,

Mr. Jackson’s Tune, by .Joan Gross,
is simply. a description of a man with
a tuneringing in™ his ears. “Miss
Gross has a good style and one wishes
that she had something more signifi-
«cant to say, or could somehow indicate
the significance of what she does say.

Marion Kirk’s' The Job is written
so imaginatively that the actually
meager subject has its maximum im-
portance. I like especially ‘the de-
scription of the skating-rink, in which
Miss Kirk’s metaphors are clever and
her picture clearly made.

Elizabeth Pope’s Landscape in Win-
ter, before storm,. has as a theme the
panic-striking fatefulness’ of a storm;}——-
|into which she has woven the possible

powerful onslaught. Her words are
strong, and her rhythm and rhyme-
scheme well-knit with her subject.

I feel myself unprecedently sympa-
thetic with the “interminable Lantern
critics” in attempting to criticize Miss
Renninger’s poem. It is perfectly in-
telligible, but, at the cost of a great
deal of thought of the kind one does
in handling a geometric proof. Her
words eventually do convey a struc-
tural picture, but that picture bears
no. relation to the significance of what
she is saying. The inflexible, tiring
quality of the thought-process, which
never can result in complete knowing,
is described = analogy and directly,

To Miss sea go the ai of
this issue, and also the most pro-

found criticism. Her story, The Ele-f

ment of Beauty, is extraordinarily
well-written. There is no break in the
forward movement. She seems to
have her characters so clearly created
before her that she has only to watch
them and there is no chance of her
introducing an extraneous element.
But her subject is unworthy of the
color and Beauty that she reads into
it. In attempting to give the. deca-
dence she describes a vast significance,
she has hung her characters on an
abstract theme which the story in no
way evidences. Miss Tucker’s ob-
servation of and insight into detail
should be extended to everything that
confronts her, instead of being limited
in scope and value to worthless: as-
pects of the world. Of her poem I
say the same, that- its “eolor and
beauty are out of all proportion to
its meaning. Her writing deals with
nothing which is strong or important,
and therefore takes on some of the
decadence of her subject matter.

Bryn Mawr Loses

Twice to Ursinus



Varsity and Second Teams Defeated
35-15, 50-33



Gymnasium, February 18—Bryn
Mawr’s basketball team lost the game
tc Ursinus on. Saturday, the score be-
ing 35-15. Ursinus displayed strength
in -shooting, guarding and passing.
Their short passes were.accurate and
effective. The concerted baskets of B.
Har rg oP orward,ac-
counted for 28 of the victors’ points.
C. Norris, ’40, was high scorer for
Bryn Mawr. The second team score
was 50-33, in Urginus’ favor.

Bryn Mawr Ursinus
INOPTIS ys oe. esd fell een - Claflin
Squibb ... ies . Von Kleck
Ligon .. ae . Harshaw
Ferrer ..... + Bai . Dougherty
Meigs, M. oi. ici Rive ieae Snyder
Meyer ...... ears 6 ow Shoemaker

Substitutions: Ursinus: Mattis. for

Claflin, Hogeland for’ Von Kleck,
Schultz for Dougherty.
Points: Bryn Mawr: Norris, 8;
Squibb, 5; Ligon, 2. Total 15, Ur-
sinus: Harshaw, 28; Von Kleck, 6;
Claflin, 1
Referee:
Mrs. Brown.

Mrs. McKinnon; Umpire,



Animal Neurosis
Produced in Rats



Continued from Page One

symptoms reappeared immediately.
When subjected to the test twice in
the same day the convulsions were
intensified the second time.

This “no escape” situation was led
up to by a process of training. The
rat was set upon a perch such that
if it knocked over one of two cards
with its nose it could obtain food.
One card was fixed and the other left
free. A pattern discrimination. was
soon learned between the markings on
the two cards. The rat always chose
the same card, in whichever ordey the
—ttwo-were—placed:

A second discPimination habit was
induced to supplant this by a random
arrangement of which card should be
fixed.. The rat learned to. jump. in
one direction consistently, assuming
that this would ultimately prove suc-
cessful. One rat jumped 200 times in
a fixed direction, although without
success. One persisted in a habit of
direction discrimination, although the
other card was already opened to the
food.

Rats thus trained are then present- |:

ed to a single window. If the card
is the pattern preference it may jump,
but if, both direction and pattern dis-
crimin&tions are negative, it refuses
to move. Here is a “no solution”
situation. It does not move until a
blast of air forces it to. The first





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Continued from Page’ One

When Jeremiah;* hearing of Isabel- -

la’s imminent death, rushes to her
bedside, Isabella: faints and is carried
out by Dr. Ashburton, who. then mar-
ries her. Jeremiah appears, begs for-
giveness and asks Isabella to marry
him. She refuses on the-grounds that

|she does not want to be a bigamist

twice.”

The situatidn was fendi although
conversation sometimes seemed stilted
and. unnatural, even for the eighteenth
century. Dr. Ashburton was as off-
hand as any Princeton man in contrast
to Isabella, who was coy in the ap-
proved fashion and a “girl of spirit’’
as well. Peggy Schultz turned in a
very good performance as one of the
sweetly sympathetic’ and
cousins who came daily to inquire for
dear Isabella.

A hilarious audience fully appreci-.

ated the novelty of an unwed maiden
claiming bigamy to get rid_of—a-fian-
cée ahd to outwit a father who thought
he knew best.

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rat shown in this situation did not
become neurotic since it invented a
different mode of escape, by jumping
off.

It was necessary to make the ani-

mal face the problem without an alter-
native of getting out of the field of
repulsive forces, so the platform was
enclosed. The rat was now in a thor-
oughly negative situation. For a
while it displayed passive resistance.
Then all of a sudden it began to have
convulsions.





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